skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Photographer, Daniel Stoupin took 150000 shots to make this little clip. Why so many?

Because macro photography involves shallow depth of field. To extend it, I used focus stacking. Each frame of the video is actually a stack that consists of 3-12 shots where in-focus areas are merged. Just the intro and last scene are regular real-time footage. One frame required about 10 minutes of processing time (raw conversion + stacking). Unfortunately, the success rate was very low due to copious technical challenges and I spent almost 9 long months just to learn how to make these kinds of videos and understand how to work with these delicate creatures.
nerds.
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Speaking of Unity + Android, our mobile game is seeing a huge increase in crashes on Android 4.4.2 (the latest) on Samsung GPUs (PowerVR). Apparently it's due to a bug in the driver. So, I guess the mantra of "don't crash Unity" doesn't always succeed =)
Those rulesets weren't written by mathematicians. What do they say about life & death disputes while scoring "after the game has ended"? I'm going to guess: Resume the game.

Humans agreeing on a score and outcome has little to do with what a program has to do to calculate this score.
My favorite are the typographical issues. My last name contains an I and I often hear L in its place from telemarketers. Makes hanging up on them even easier than it already is.
At any scale, git is probably not going to be your best bet. svn might actually be a better option as it allows you to checkout just the parts of the repository that you need.

More crucially, it doesn't keep the entire history locally (just working copy and a the latest(ish) version in the repository). This really starts to matter when you have 200mb PSDs.

There are probably even better options out there (though previous searches didn't reveal anything I particularly got on with) - there are certainly better options than git.

Ideally something based around the dropbox model (doing block level deduplication) would be wonderful. Maybe such a product exists?
I agree with pretty much everything, except designers using Git. Sadly, Git doesn't work for PSD files properly. Some of the PSD files I've worked with before (900mb+) for larger websites and applications would definitely not be a good fit for Git. Although I think the blame lies mostly on Photoshop's end not being the right tool for web design, but being used by designers anyway. I think whatever tool ends up replacing Photoshop as the de-facto standard (if it happens) should ideally have a visual re-visioning system built in a la Adobe Creative Cloud.

We aren't quite at that point where designers are saving out all of the assets for you, then that would be different. You can source control individual assets, but not a large PSD file properly. I've begun to train the designers at my work to save out assets for pretty much everything leaving me to solve the engineering problems like how everything is going to work and less time cutting out images from a PSD file, but we aren't quite there yet where this is a universal thing that designers just know and willing do.

Some people might disagree with point #6, but I wholeheartedly agree as someone who works for a company where designers design and developers develop. I think to be truly great at design, you need to devote at least 90% of your time (minimum) to bettering your design skills. If you're a developer, the opposite rings true. I think it is important for design/dev to have a mutual understanding of one another, but I don't think you can truly be a great designer and great developer in one. Having an understanding of the other perspective is important. You'll never meet a surgeon who specialises in brain and heart surgery, why should design and development be any different?

Fortunately, the employer I work for doesn't compartmentalise the teams from one another. There is nothing more horrible than working in a place where design and development teams are on separate sides of the office or even different floors with the only communicative layer being a project manager or team leaders. Designers and developers sit down and tackle problems together and educate one another in the process. This is something that happens through the whole process from wire-framing to prototyping to final build. I think designers and developers should work together at every step. I have met talented design/developers, but great ones of both fields are extremely rare.

PS. Joshua, if you're reading this comment, you might want to reconsider the 670kb background image on your site. I loaded your blog on my slow ADSL connection and it was painful.
The current government is in it's first term and didn't win the election, the other major party lost it. The current government's electoral platform was a naive "we oppose everything those other guys do", which included the FTTH internet.

Now in power, they've realised what a stupid platform they've run on, since anything they do is breaking a "we won't do that" promise they made earlier. Abandoning the NBN is a relatively minor pledge that they can keep so it doesn't look like a total rout. Their Communications minister certainly doesn't give the impression that he thinks it's the right thing to do.
Tools for Thought (part 1 of 4)
This post has a good list that the author intends to add-to as new sites become available:

https://medium.com/design-ux/62ae4bcbe01b
>stateless society

Sounds to me like a nicer way of saying failed state, which is what Somalia is.
NSA Reportedly Intercepts US-made Internet Routers to Install Spyware
I agree completely. Hardware has gotten orders of magnitude faster, yet the experience, as a user, hasn't changed nearly that much. You'll probably find this comparison interesting:
http://hallicino.hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_Dua...

I think the saying that programmer time is more expensive than machine time is, like the quote about premature optimisation, responsible for promoting an inherently wasteful culture in programming when people are taught to take them at face value; looking at it another way, power isn't free, and when machine time translates to user time, then the situation definitely changes. I always keep in mind that users are using the software I create to do work, and their time is just as valuable if not more so than my own, especially if there are more of them. To me, it's a question of balancing the tradeoffs --- it's not worth spending a day to optimise software that will save a few minutes across all its users over its lifetime, but it is very well worth it to spend a week to optimise something so that it may save a year or more of its users' time. Whenever a programmer complains about certain tools (e.g. compiler, IDE, etc.) being slow, I keep that in mind to mention the next time he/she flippantly dismisses a time-saving optimisation using the "my time is more expensive" excuse. Programmers are users too. :-)
I totally get 'workflow': draft, unpublished, approved, published etc, and 'roles': creators, editors, moderators, publishers etc. I also appreciate the idea of having some version control.

With the demo it wasn't intuitive how the above applied to the post, or the creation process. Order mattered, but it wasn't straight forward figuring out the required process. Resulting in frustration.

You speak of a staging area, or some such. But how is the user to know about your version control system, or how it works?

Surely hitting save should be as good a commit? Or the save implies or triggers a commit? If the commit is that important to the publishing process, emblazen it across the bottom with the Save button.

I really just wanted to see how my page looked as early as possible. And be able to see the page before it was published. You should be able to preview content, but make it clear that the status/workflow of the page you are viewing: You could add a banner across an unpublished page with the page status displayed.
The original link has a login screen.
Thanks - "Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway" makes a superb screen background!
Update (x2):
The link in the title is to the uncompressed version which is password protected. The correct link is http://glenngreenwald.net/pdf/NoPlaceToHide-Documents-Compre.... Or the link to the uncompressed version from the CDN: http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/greenwald/NoPl...

Original comment, now redundant:
Glenn has chosen to password protect this, yet it is accessible via Scribd. It would be ethical to have it removed from Scribd until Glenn decides to release this to the public.
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I love the Djqngo admin, and use it a lot at my day job, but it does seem to be a PITA to try and do non standard things with it (say add an extra button). And it always looks like the Django admin - its a great set of sensible defaults, but often you don't want that.

I am currently trying to learn the ins and outs of generic views with djang-extra-views, so that I can hopefully do as much, but without the restrictions of the admin.
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Is is searchable for random person from his home PC? If answer is no, than probably no.
Parts 2, 3, and 4 are here:

http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/michael/blog/1405/index....

http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/michael/blog/1405/index....

http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/michael/blog/1405/index....
Whereabouts are you -- name and your domain are Czech, I'll assume somewhere on the Mediterranean. Perama?
Some years back, I played a lot of Igowin on my home PC. At that time it was restricted to a 9x9 board.

I'm not a very good go player at all, but I actually had one game in which I gave it a 5 stone advantage and managed to beat it.

I should add that the current IOS Igowin seems to be decidedly better than I am, or than I was then.
So they change (and pay) interest in "points" rather than cash. But it's still there, and it works the same way (e.g. you get higher interest on an account where you need to give notice of withdrawals than you do on an account where you can withdraw immediately). I guess this is a clever wheeze to extract money from savers - rather than paying them money you pay them points that they may not cash in immediately or at all - but I don't see the advantage for the user.
Text messages are massive and overlooked
Stack Overflow now has super close-votes
When I was a fresh graduate, I swore I was never going to program in VB.

Now I've grown very used to the VB.NET syntax, and when I go back to other languages, I hate two things:

- case sensitivity and

- the semicolon (;)

I can live with curly braces ({}) :) though having each line be its own statement is very convenient.

There are several things to dislike about the VB.NET syntax (Dim being the most egregious), but I think many languages could adopt some of its benefits.

Groovy in particular did away with the semicolon, and I'm glad :)
Was that written by a script? The words make sense individually but not as a whole.
We're planing to create a Chrome plugin that will retrieve your watched history from Netflix. So it does not matter if you watch on ipad or tv or chrome, the plugin will still receive your complete watch history.
This would be another infraction :)

And the author is misdirecting the readers by providing a document not related to the claim he makes (TOS infringement vs «droit des marques» infringement).

EDIT/PS «nul ne peut se prévaloir de ses propres turpitudes» means that you cannot prevail your self of any wrongs if it is initially resulting from you not respecting the law. For instance if you build your company on a clearly fraudulent base (parasitism), you cannot claim for any reparation if you are shut down because it is a clear consequence of your actions.
As a result, for the lawyer «faisceau de présomption valant preuve» his credibility in front of any juridiction would be voided.
Classic. Still makes me spit coffee.
> This religion needs to be eradicated,

You mean religion of "tolerance", or "multiculturalism" ?

> It's that simple.

Nothing is ever "that simple" :)
The cite I'm missing at the moment is a multi-year study that catalogued all known operational transforms over text (there were many more than I imagined prior), along with proofs showing that certain combinations of concurrent operations simply could not be reconciled consistently.

Thanks for the other pointers, though!
> First, she is named after my grandmother who passed away shortly before she was born. I wonder if this is part of the reason the older names are popular again.

Yeah, naming after grandparents is a major reason for name cycles. As the article says, names drop in popularity once they become popular, as people want relatively unique names for their children. So as the third generation grows up, their grandparents' once-popular names are now rarely used and seem unique again. Add the sentimental meaning on top of that, and you've got a name cycle inspired by grandparents.

There's lots of sources for more information about the psychology of child naming. My main source was Steven (look at the popularity cycle of that name family in the chart!) Pinker's "The Stuff of Thought."
Victims is a pretty loaded term, but it's not an unreasonable accusation. The number of unique monthly users of disqus shouldn't be based on those who unwittingly use it.

Reading your comment again, I wonder what the true definition is. Is the number based on page views? Or is it the number of people who actively interact with the widget (say, posting a comment) after it has loaded? Sounds like you're assuming the later metric while the 'victims' comment is assuming the former.

Edit: thinking about it, 1 billion unique people, that sounds like the victim class to me.
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It's really a myth that banks fund their loans through the savings accounts of customers. The 'liquidity' section of the article is misleading. See the bank of England's explanation:

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
Hrm, guess I wont buy American any more.
sometimes, but not this time.
Why do search engines provide no context? That seems remarkably arbitrary.

This notion that it's right and proper for information to be theoretically available in some technical sense, but it's bad that it be actually findable and usable, is absurd.
Also do not forget government led censorship.
A remarkable engineer. My father nearly named me Isambard, but my mother got in first with "Jacques".
Maybe they have something more specific... but haven't we seen stuff like this every January for the past few years or more? I recall at least two major manufacturers demoing this.
I've posted plenty of questions in StackOverflow that have gone unanswered, some of them (in my opinion) pretty important. For instance, my last question has turned out to be a bug in Django. They however have no place here in HN because this is not that kind of site.

Anyways, everyone knows that the quality of the answers in SO has declined a lot in the last few years. It's not something strange.
"There is no profit"

I unbanked many years ago (a decade now?) and the only practical local difference between a bank and my credit union is the CU is non profit and unsurprisingly the related fees and interest rates are microscopically more consumer friendly, and arguably less of a "screw the customer to earn your paycheck" attitude exists so in a fluffy and subjective manner customer service seems a lot better. Thats it. They still pay and charge interest, just better rates than a for profit bank, etc. No fooling around with a fake currency of "points".

I have no idea why any locals do business with a for profit bank, other than maybe some conspicuous consumption thing to prove the can afford to make the bank shareholders richer. "In the old days" CUs had strict membership requirements like "military veteran" or "holder of teachers license" (no kidding). My local CU membership requirement is "mailing address at time of account opening within same county as CU branch". That's it.

There are two interesting aspects of "points". Not being legal currency I imagine the tax implications are bizarre, probably more of a pain than bitcoins. And the article didn't touch on "points" being inheritable or taxable. So assuming old people live in apartments and forfeit their point collection at death, that is an income stream situation that was not discussed.
I'm not a designer, so please enlighten me. What kind of data can be held in a single image for a PSD to be 900 megabytes? Is it a single PSD for hundreds of web pages or?
This other infraction is also clearly mentionned in the lawyer letter.
Email tracking program for sales..
Please can we stop referring to "experiences" when we are talking about operating a gadget? I can't see how the "experience" will differ much anyway. You sit in front of a TV and watch it. The only bit that Apple are likely to change is the navigation, which is interacting with the interface for a few seconds before watching the show you want.
C++ SG2 Module design draft now available
It is badly formatted with comic sans and clip art?
Just because something is non-trivial doesn't mean it's impossible or a bad idea. The reactor would be sealed in a way that isn't practical for submarines that have both space and serviceability constraints - so it would survive the ship sinking and remain sealed for eventual recovery. Also, putting a nuclear reactor on a submarine in the 1950s is a significantly different undertaking than putting a nuclear reactor on a transport ship in the 2020s.

The piracy concern isn't a big one, IMO. What would they do? The fissible material in a reactor isn't bomb grade, but might still be fun for a dirty bomb. However, it's incredibly difficult to get at without enjoying a quick and extremely painful death. Also, the reactor stays on the ship and the ship can't disappear into the desert, like hostages can.

All that said, obviously, there are a whole different set of issues to a nuclear commercial vessel, but I don't see that it's obviously out of the realm of the possible.
Another way to look at .au vs .so is .au is very sparsely populated other than coasts so "most people" will likely end up using wireless for everything, and copper only in unusual areas

Australia has a 90% urbanisation rate, which is one of the highest of all non-city-state nations[1], though our cities are quite spread out. It's a total myth that we're all comfortable in the Outback, one that most of us seem to believe ourselves. We're suburbanites and urbanites, as a rule of thumb.

Regarding the costs, laying new fiber is more expensive than not laying new copper, but the copper circuits we have are so old that maintenance costs are ballooning. There's not really a serious cost argument for or against the NBN, it's really about politics.

copper is for providing DSL to that cattle ranch 100 miles from civilization

DSL doesn't stretch that far, by an order of magnitude (perhaps two orders) :)

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_country
#6 is just semantics. Multi-purpose people are great. Rare and exceptional people are great. Designers who can code are great. What does it matter what you call them?
I only play two games most of the time: DotA2 and NBA2K14. I can say they have pretty impressive AI. For both games, I rarely beat the AI with the hardest difficulty. Unfortunately, the lack of intelligence of the team mates for both games gives me a disadvantage that also adds to its difficulty.
Tons and tons of layers, I mean literally hundreds.
Her style is definitely different, but after discovering her last year and reading a ton of posts, I find it energizing. I recognize that feeling of excitement she's capturing in her writing style! I should be experiencing it more than I do! She's an inspiring writer. The exact details aren't really the point--they can be gotten easily enough. The process and the discovery are what she's documenting so well.
http://leboncoin.fr

I did it! and they said I couldn't..
Besides the Jubilee, there was a 'release' every 7 years, where 'every creditor that lends unto his neighbour shall release it'.

In ancient Israel, real estate was forbidden to be permanently 'sold'. You could lease it out for 50 years, but at the Jubilee, it would return back to the family.
No need for it to be hypothetical - exactly this is happening in the Bitcoin world right now. Someone got elected to the board of the Bitcoin Foundation and once the election was over, people bothered to search for his name (oddly not before?) and discovered he has murky allegations that he was found in a house that had lots of child porn and guns, but it all happened a long time ago and there were no charges filed. So: exactly that situation. Now people are resigning from the Foundation because of that history.

The situation obviously really sucks for the guy in question, but is making that information hard to find really the fix? I doubt it - eventually someone would have discovered anyway, and then attempting to get it removed from search engines would merely "seal the deal" in the minds of some people. The problem is not access to information. It's that too many people in our society can't handle this new found power, to discover or read things people did long ago. Look at how people repeat things Mark Zuckerberg said a decade ago as if he couldn't possibly have changed since he was a university student. That's not a problem with search engines or the subjects: it's a problem with all of us.
> * the application isn't competitive, and there's no good way to say "you're in the bottom half of the applicant pool"

What's so bad about saying "there are several other applicants with much stronger qualifications than you"?

> * the reason for rejection is personal in nature, and there's no great way to say "we didn't like the Facebook photos of you launching bottle rockets from your backside"

Pretty please tell me you are only using looking at Facebook photos when hiring PR managers and other public facing positions. Otherwise why on earth would how someone wants to spend their free time have anything to do with their job performance?

> * there are simply too many applicants to reject, so a personal reason for each one simply isn't practical

An interview with a candidate takes one to two hours. Evaluating the applicant with colleagues maybe 30 minutes more. Formulating a written rejection takes at most 10 minutes. That's not a lot of overhead.
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When In Doubt, Build It Yourself (And Open Source The Code)
At least in Germany (no idea whether that follows from EU laws or whether there is a similar EU law) celebrities have somewhat lower privacy rights simply due to the fact of them being in focus of media and so on.
Think Like a Freak: joining the dots between hot dogs, Van Halen and David Cameron
It's not your data, just because it's about you.

In this case the article in question was published by a newspaper, in fact due to legal requirement. So the law here is totally messed up. It says the data must be published, but must not be findable. A farce.
Refocusing iOS Camera App: Adjust the focus of photos after you capture them
See CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol).

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-core-coap/
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I'm working on writing better specs in Rails. Constructive feedback welcome.