skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why would there be? they are content already. I think it's dangerous to bucket people in this way, i know plenty of people with $30k+ gear and use their iPhone most of the time. Those two categories you have are not mutually exclusive.

Autofocus in the iPhone is much faster than the majority of Canon (or Nikon) DSLRs, regardless of the number of focus points. Partly because it's a lot easier to focus a lens that has nearly infinite depth of field! Most photographers are also gear heads, which is another dangerous thing to say, just like saying (quite correctly) that most serial killers are keen photographers. which true, it doesn't necessarily add much to the conversation.

why we have this obsession with resolution is largely because of computers. In the "old days" I would make contact sheets and then prints, mainly 8x8" (from a Hasselblad, pre instagram-square-hipness), and they would (and do) look stunning, to use object oriented speak, a fiber print IS-A photograph, where as a digital print HAS-A photograph on the paper surface. They are different, when silver crystals are in (vs on) the medium it becomes something altogether different. In these modern enlightened times we put a photo up on a retina big screen and stare at it from 2' and of course we're going to see imperfections, this creates a cycle of obsession with sharpness. But of course it doesn't matter, would a painting be any better if it was created with a smaller brush? This is all a very classical philosophical debate, it's the medium is the message all over again.

From my perspective this work is impressive, does it make better photos? No, but it does make the photos more representative of what the taker was looking at. Over time we are subtracting the technology component from photography, eventually we will have the ability to record easily any visual experience we have. For me this comes from having enough experience in using equipment and eeking the most out of it, but in contrast my daughter is frustrated by cameras (both her Canon DSLR and her iPhone), she will see something like the solar eclipse and wonder why simply pointing the camera at it won't bring about a photo that looks the same as the one that the Mt Hamilton took on their 36" reflecting telescope, or why a photo at her friends candle lit birthday party didn't look how she remembered it. Her generation will grow up with sufficiently advanced technology that a lot of the inconvenience of photography's technical side has been automated. Just as I grew up in a time when emulsions were capable of exposing in a few hundredth's of a second rather than minutes.
I pointed you to a primary source for Apple. Here's a secondary source for Android: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/18.... Once they push the new release to the public git repository, I can give you a zeroary source by pointing you to the actual commit. You don't even have a secondary source to back up your fantastic claim.

I see I've interacted with you before with the same result. I'll give you the same ultimatum I gave you then. Provide a source now, or stop repeating this nonsense.
The server does it in a background thread every few seconds. It limits this to the stories that are in memory, but it also (on startup) makes sure that all recent stories are in memory.
I've been a VoiceStream, then T-Mobile customer for over 16 years. There's been ups and downs in the relationship over the years. The most notable "down" was the $800 international roaming charge they refused to remove from my bill a few years back. Even though I really wanted to leave them then, a thorough cost analysis of the competition showed they really were still cheaper...

More recently, the Simple Choice plan they introduced last year which includes "free" international data roaming has ensured I stick with them for even longer. I travel quite a bit, so that + the wifi calling which works pretty much anywhere in the world has been a great thing.
Would clojure fare better now?
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> I lived in the US (legally) for 5 years. In that time I held three jobs, opened a bank account, got a loan for a car, etc. The topic of my residency only came up once - at the airport on the day I arrived.

You didn't have to fill out a W-9 and/or I-9?
I assume they'll load their shares onto a secondary marketplace, and then sell off at set intervals during the day ;)
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I wrote this after spending way too much time on this problem earlier this year--nothing new, but is a fair chronology of my approach.

http://download.picturelife.com.s3.amazonaws.com/press-kits/...
Good on them.

Secondary sales are, anecdotally, getting more common these days, despite the fact that many VCs dislike them. They're so obviously in the best interests of founders and early employees, and the VC arguments against them are frankly odious, that I'd wager we see a realignment on how acceptable this term is seen to be.

The argument advanced against secondaries is, phrased to be maximally charitable to it, that having founders and employees in the same boat as having to wait for an exit to really reap the rewards of the company keeps everyone's interests aligned and avoids causing any bad blood at the company caused by founders getting a very happy outcome prior to employees having gotten one.

Phrased less charitably: rich people (VC partners) think paper-rich-cash-poor people should continue being cash-poor so that rich people have better negotiating leverage over them.
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Agreed.

(The problem in my case was just stupid spiders that were crawling my sites.)
Very impressive online tool. Looking forward to being able to use it on my cell one day.
Twenty plus 1-1s, means twenty plus direct reports.

No wonder the guy was burnt out. That number is simply not manageable in any worthwile way.

The rest of the article just reads like someone is CTO purely because when he joined.

The friction with the VP in terms of how the VP executed hints at someone a little out of there depth maybe.
It's not necessarily just you. I thought it was wrong when I first opened it. There may be something funny going on with the font - I think the "1" and "l" are switched.

Edit: Never mind, it copies/pastes correctly. The font is just different from what I'm used to.
I don't see it, the app works, but it's just a bunch of horrible filters a-la-instagram. They work fast but they are still nothing like Lightroom which does a lot more than ruin photos with filters. All the ones I tried degraded an image, not once did I see any improvement, it's either blowing out highlights, introducing color shifts, or expanding the range to lower contrast or compressing the range and crushing the contrast.

I guess it's cool that you can do this kind of thing, I'm sure Chromebook users will be happy, but photographically speaking, gag.
One place would be the Aspen web framework which puts Python code, templates and JSON in a same file with its simplates concept [1].

Each language stays in a separate section so no mixing of logic and presentation, but no reason to separate them either, out of HTTP request/response handling context. An editor supporting this could make it easier to develop web apps with both static HTML and JS enabled browser.

Apparently Eco also supports visualization and IPython in some way (according to project changelog)[2]. That is very interesting, actually.

[1] http://aspen.io/simplates/
[2] https://bitbucket.org/softdevteam/eco
The proposed solution: "societal pressure". That certainly seems innocuous enough. But online harassers are a tiny group already-marginalized people (asserting otherwise is willfully ignoring obvious numbers, and that should make anybody wary). Increasing the scorn is not going to change them! When this approach inevitably fails, then this same "societal pressure" will be parlayed into the newly-created common wisdom of outright censorship of the Internet.
Awesome comment.

TIFF is not officially supported now and so far we can only output 8bit JPEG in html canvas through downsampling.

The downsampling is process "the thinking" part is controlled to be not hurting the user experience and it's different depending on your machine. For faster machines we can remove the thinking part but it would take up more memory (right now the footprint during processing is less than 20mb, consider this is a web app)

I agree Adobe is doing better in interpolation (the harshness) and we are working to improve that.

What OS and browser you're using? The curves and split toning works well on Mac Desktops.

We only have two developers working on this right now. Do you know where we can get lens correction profiles, is it publicly licensed?
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SSL on the Arduino--usually a little 8-bit (!) chip--is a bit resource intensive, in both memory and processing time.
Nice write-up! Very interesting.
"Use (x-y)(x+y)" is part of the "folk wisdom." It's between "We even know some folk wisdom intended to avoid the dangers." and "or is it increasing magnitude?", where the last bit shows that perhaps these aren't the best solutions.
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Not unfair.

Also:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...
The team at Heroku (where I currently PM) is constantly trying to improve our communication and documentation. We're definitely sorry that this caused problems, and we'll work even harder to make sure that our communication calls out any potential issues. Again - thanks for reaching out to us, and let us know if we can help.
The Polarr Editor is great and is a already more useful than Lightroom. What is relly compelling as $1B company is the vision in https://www.polarr.co/box
Not really; data passing from the general internet onto the carrier's network (or any wired network) is much much cheaper than that data passing over the limited and contested cellular airwaves. Even if t-mobile has their own cdn servers for the streaming services, the data still has to make the much more expensive hop.

It's really just a marketing technique. Even though music streaming can use a significant amount of data, it's at a safely capped rate. It's probably a lot more effective to market "unlimited music streaming" to the general populace than "500mb more data".
> The reason conservatives want voter ID is to prevent voting under other peoples' identity. Without ID there's no way you can even know that's happening. Which, we suspect, is why the Democrats are fighting so hard against it.

The reason Republicans want voter ID is because the mathematical models show that Voter ID swings the vote Republican. The rest is speculation and post-hoc rationalization.

Care to enumerate the Republican proposals to make sure every legal voter in USA actually has a valid ID handy on election day, and arrives at the polls to cast a vote? Or is this a case of "market forces will incentivize the desired outcome, somehow"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression
A birth certificate doesn't prove citizenship. Someone born in the US could emigrate and become a citizen of another country, then re-enter the US on a visit. Conversely, someone born elsewhere could be a naturalized citizen.

A passport could prove citizenship (assuming the passport office checks properly before issuing it), but not everyone has a passport.
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If I was developing this, I would be stoked with this kind of feedback.
We already use huboard. It would be nice if this transition from huboard to ZenHub was more seamless. For now, I'm told that I need to create another board and I'm not entirely sure how this will affect our huboard setup..
> Do voter ID laws disenfranchise more legitimate votes than illegitimate ones?

Almost certainly.

Remember that voter ID laws only tackle one type of potential fraud: I go to the polls and impersonate someone else. That's it. Absentee overvoting, over-registration, ballot stuffing - these aren't addressed by requiring an ID.

So now, some numbers: in a paper put together by Justin Levitt, a con-law professor, he was able to find 31 instances of in-person vote fraud that would've been prevented by requiring ID at the polls.[1] Even if we assume we're undercounting dramatically, there's still no real evidence to indicate that requiring an ID would make a real impact.

DOJ estimates are that between 600,000-700,000 registered voters in Texas alone lack an ID[2].

So yeah, there's no real evidence that indicates requiring a registered voter to have a photo ID does anything but "place a burden on lots of registered voters that don't have IDs".

--

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/06/a...

[2]: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/how-vote...
Considering that there was no real name verification built into USENET at all, and no central authority, this is not an apt analogy.
thanks for making this page insufferable to read.
Any particular reason why you believe that? Sounds like a bit of a strong statement given our lack of knowledge about how consciousness works.
Where, in the United States, "Photo ID" is basically synonymous with "Drivers' license".

A strange state of affairs, indicative of our car-dependent society.
Sure! I would _not_ advise getting the Nexus 5. As noted below in other comments, the image quality and autofocusing speed has much to be desired. The Camera2 API that supports DNG is only available on Android 5.0 phones.

http://edward.io/raw_nexus_5.zip
Why would they remove the $800 international roaming charge?
>The bundle of nightmares that is the GamerGate movement, an amorphous collection of gamers largely focused on harassing feminist game developers and critics, managed to make the front page of The New York Times.

Why did I know this article had to do with #gamergate, can we get this shit out of here? This is a highly politicized and uninteresting topic.
Totally agree that my wife going gluten free is relatively anecdotal. I didn't wish to put her through too much torture trying to run empirical tests, but I do know that there are times when she has accidentally consumed regular versions of food that she has no problems with the gluten-free version, and she has bloated. Doesn't really bloat with gluten-free. Relatively anecdotal and not the strongest causation, but definite correlation.

My personal issues with spaghetti sauce however, I did control for as much as possible, purchasing enough ingredients to make multiple rounds of the rest of the meal, varying only spaghetti sauce. Basic outcome: Prego and some other local store brands from 10 years ago means diarrhea, Ragu does not. Same thing with nuts - eat peanuts, almonds, pistachios, wait an hour, diarrhea. Don't know if it's it's in my head or not, but since it happens, I try to avoid foods that make it happen.
Can you describe your Clojure hardware stack? Everything running on the AWS?

Besides, what libraries do you use for data analysis? Sadly this is an area where Clojure remains a bit stagnant, or at least people don't release what they use.
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We actually do give project members the ability to claim their code and make "verified" annotations -- we're just not doing the greatest job of surfacing that right now.

I'll add that to our to-do list. Thanks!
If only it could work on browsers that aren't Chrome...
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Like what? If you're learning a new technology, and you also happen to have a great helpful idea that you want to implement, that's fine, but usually you just want to implement something, so you pick up an idea and roll with it even if it doesn't benefit mankind.

I think people overestimate the number of useful project ideas floating around which don't require unusual expertise. Some "starter projects" might benefit mankind, but certainly they can't be expected to do so.
Outlook.com and Office 365.
To be honest the css property display:table isn't bad itself.

What we were reproaching to the <table> tag was to be wrong on the semantic side.

If you use divs and style them with display:table I see absolutely nothing wrong here, semantic is right, you infer the display behaviour through css.
It still doesn't appear that way.

Looking at the requirements for Texas (since they've been screaming about it quite loudly) you are required to provide the following documents for voter registration:

On the application, you must provide:

Your TX driver’s license number.
A personal identification number from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS).
OR
Your Social Security number.

As I non-citizen, I still have a SSN, so that's not a problem. Further on they have this:

If you DO NOT have one of these numbers, you will be required to show proof of identification at the polls. They then go on to list the appropriate documents -

Texas driver license issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)
Texas Election Identification Certificate issued by DPS
Texas personal identification card issued by DPS
Texas concealed handgun license issued by DPS
United States military identification card containing the person’s photograph
United States citizenship certificate containing the person’s photograph
United States passport

Several of those do not prove citizenship.
I'm a tech, I can suggest tech solutions. I have no idea how to deal with cartels.

Use batman?
Those are very fair points regarding UX.

I believe the mainstream Web services hold the key (no pun intended) to UX for web-of-trust key exchange. Their users have access to real time communication which would make subverting key exchange and key signing hard, and building a Web of trust convenient, including key replacement, etc. The secure specialty services don't have that capability, and so they remain privacy-for-wonks.

I'm certainly willing to consider that I could be wrong about that. But with trust in short supply, someone should be tempted to build products that say "Trust no central authority, trust this math and the open code that implements it."
Sorry, that's a bug. I'll make it less obtrusive.
ID is not proof of right to vote. The polling place has voter rolls, and being on that list is proof of right to vote. To get on that list requires registration.
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This buys into Titles and Big Company thinking. It even draws on advice from a non-technical VC's blog on "rockstars."

You're far better off just defining people's roles based on what they're capable of, and what the company needs. Having titles bestowed and then filled is backwards and leads to problems.
If they're going to insist on binding ID to account, it seems like the simplest way to do it would be just to submit the ID as an additional parameter in the login POST request and associate it as a single transaction, but again, using the ID at all is problematic.
If I had a human-level-AI capable machine delivered today to my basement, then it'd still take something like 5 years of training to bring it to a human-level intelligence.

Babies are born with all the hardware to have an adult-level intelligence, but converting that potential to actual skills requires months/years for each skill of active learning, experimentation and feedback, not only reading information from the web.
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This if sort of cool. I am guessing you are generating the questions via some kind of smart substitution?

One thing that would be good is a way to skip or dismiss the tutorial pop-ups tips you get when you first open the app. I didn't need them; it was pretty obvious what to do.
E.g. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G1FB36....

3 of the 5 reviews of this Dell 4K monitor are clearly using it on computers that can't drive 4k@60 HZ. The fourth is from someone who owns a completely different, non-4K Dell monitor. That leaves one reliable review, which provides very little information.

I wish I could say I were cherry-picking.
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Author here. Im still new to Go language and the way pgweb is structured is not the best, but it works for now. Pull requests are always welcome!
I think it's precisely because he is known directly to the engineers that this works. No idea how well it will scale for them -- I wish them well.

In most "big" organisations, the C-levels are practically celebrities, everyone wants to be "connected" some how to them, but hardly anybody works "with" them. Everybody works "for" them (and even those direct reports/workers are imbued with some special celebrity powers by just saying the name). The hierarchical relationship of everybody working "for" you causes plenty of insulation -- communication grinds to a halt besides the cordial banter.
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Ehh, just pointing out why it's not hoping to become a standard feature for entry level cloud storage. You can do it yourself, or pay ~3x as much for an integrated solution.
That looks cool, similar to https://www.jackdb.com/
Sounds good. But please email hn@ycombinator.com as well if you have findings you want to make sure we see. Replying in a comment is fine, of course; it's just hit-and-miss as far as bringing something to our attention goes.
He probably just means he was underground. Not the Transbay tube
One of the more simple litmus tests I use when evaluating a framework: Does it provide (and require you use) its own versions of data types already provided by the language (or the language's standard libraries)? If so, it's a big red flag. Not necessarily a reason to disqualify, but definitely cause to apply extra scrutiny.

The thought process is: If I have to spend precious development time converting all my std::strings to and from YourStrings, then I can bet that there is plenty more un-necessary cleverness and complexity waiting to bite me once your framework gets its claws into my code.
There's no problem, only people who feel entitled to have problems. Voting doesn't change a thing anyway. I thought they'd start to understand that with Obama, but apparently he failed to betray enough promises for the sheeple to wake up.