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Telo isn't new to this space. OpenCNAM has been around for nearly 5 years and EveryoneAPI was launched a year ago. We have just been doing some updates and now offer a free $0.50 trial.

Record availability probably would have been a better way to phrase it rather than speed. While I am not familiar with the latency of the FullContact API, I have experience a sort of fulfillment period (come back later) for records that require more sourcing efforts. That is unless that has changed. We focus on real-time responses that span nearly the entire NANPA dialing plan (US, Canada, Caribbean and part of Central America). In terms of the data-points and focus you are correct that our focus is on the data associated with the phone number query. We do plan to expand our phone coverage to international dialing plans outside of NANPA (NPA-NXX-XXXX) by the end of the year and will be offering a forward append service for name and address as well.
Oh yeah, sorry I didn't mean to dismiss that part as sarcasm. I've seen those articles too.
You develop asthma as a child.
Old people have osteoperosis.
It sounds like this drug is meant to prevent it developing so the patient populations don't really fit
And you're such an angry bitter person that you automatically assume everything is racist? What are the qualifications of the article's author? You must have an exhausting life seeing racism behind every tree.

What about the guys at Fuji film? Is their film anti-white and Asian biased?

This whole discussion is absurd. Next thing we'll hear is that swimming pools are racist.
The decision seems reasonable to me. One could use virtualenv (included in the VM) to spin up a virtual python 3 environment when necessary.
lamdu has some interesting features:http://peaker.github.io/lamdu/
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There was a little up vote triangle on issues, but it was really really long ago.
You can't auto-focus on a black bob. You need difference in lightness (also known as contrast) - pls see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDJ8g2qx5k
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It's called crying wolf. Some aspects of photography may be optimized for whites; that doesn't mean everything is designed to make life harder for blacks.

My camera apparently has the opposite problem. I can't autofocus on anything that's solid white. Did I accidentally buy the "black" model?
The buzzing sound of the deformer being in sync with the music is incredible.
An alternate view: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230060
> With the start of a new season of Game of Thrones, folks are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see what’s coming. Unlike the Khaleesi who seems to be going nowhere fast, Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) has made some moves recently.

Shots fired!

But really, excellent job on the release! Microsoft has been producing a lot lately, and that's awesome to see!
I would love Haskell (or ML) like syntax for Python and JavaScript!
> His response was understandable.

His response was childish. The sane thing for a middle-aged man in a semi-respected position to do would be to say nothing. But this is the Land of Drepper, so you may be right.
> And you're such an angry bitter person

Please don't express disagreement this way on Hacker News, regardless of how strongly you disagree.
Your contention that cameras have limited dynamic range because of racism is ludicrous.

See: http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/27643/why-dont-came...
>This whole discussion is absurd. Next thing we'll hear is that swimming pools are racist.

Um. For a long time they were. Public pools were subject to racial segregation.

Glad we have an expert on racism like yourself to help set us all straight here!
Such a complicated question. I think about the (very non-racist) ska skinheads I met in Europe, or Ian MacKaye's song "Guilty of Being White", which had a more nuanced back story than I understood when I first heard of it.
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The fact that the active ingredient in a drug may help to cure or remediate multiple conditions doesn't mean the medicine you take for one will have any effect on other conditions even if the drug is effective against them.

Drugs are very specific and dosage and application (delivery mechanism) are quite important.
For example clioquinol a drug used to treat fungal infections most commonly "Athlete's Foot" has now been proven to be very effective at slowing down and even reversing the neural degeneration in Alzheimer patients to a point in which persistent treatment might prevent the onset of dementia altogether.

And as you might guess it wasn't discovered when some one had both a fungal infection and Alzheimer and got "cured" simply because the topical application of clioquinol does absolutely squat in a case of Alzheimer and for the "drug" to become Alzheimer medicine an application method which allows it to breach the blood brain barrier is required, as well as a completely different dosage than one would find in a topical cream.
Yeah even the paper cited notes that it's a technical challenge to make multiple races in the same shot look good using either film or video cameras, and so in the past things were just optimized for the predominant racial category in the largest markets they sold to. But at the same time, they were always improving their ability to capture more. Kodak created different emulsion properties for the Asian/Japanese market since they weren't white, consistently improved the ability of their films to capture contrast and detail, and created test cards that featured multiple racial groups in one image. Obviously Fuji was not "optimizing for whiteness," since they uh, weren't white. Well, not exactly true. The paper mentions that there are widespread cross-cultural beauty preferences for lightness. Kodak improved their film to capture multiple races, and created test cards for multiple races. Imagine you're making film and you can capture 85-90% of people within the existing scope of technology. You do that and you sell it, and you work on improving it.

There was a ton of interesting history and information in the paper, but I didn't even think it totally supported their own thesis, I kind of thought it worked against it. Film and video weren't "optimized for whiteness" they were optimized for markets and huge parts of those markets weren't even white, so they optimized for non-white in those markets. They wanted to sell more, so they improved their film by spending time and money on technical innovation. These things aren't free, early cameras made everybody look like shit. They got better and still are.

edit: here's the paper: http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2196

And there was racism happening, I am not denying that, but it was overstated imo.
> We believe feature requests and issues should be treated differently.

If you want other people to use what you made, you may have to do what they want. :)

> In our vision, an issue refers to a bug in the software.

Overloading causes miscommunication, and can affect how we think! Github issues aren't about issues, as in bugs. It's a moldable concept to keep track important things. Lots of repos already use Github issues to track features, as well as many other things, why not help their lives?
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You're sugarcoating these numbers a bit calling them successful and describing signups as something that don't matter then exploring metrics that don't matter. It doesn't look like very effective marketing at all, maybe PH was ok but that's not very repeatable.

HN is a disaster, 0.5% conversion rate not 2.8%. At 3,100 visitors per per post you need 60 front page posts to get 1,000 registrations and probably several hundred to get 1,000 actual users!

TC looks really bad if you're pre-product, a mailing list is like a funnel on top of your registration funnel.

PH was a month ago so you can really pinpoint how effective that was - 705 registrations is some number of active users today.
Here are some projects that uses arduino, some of them are interesting:

http://m.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Projects/

I use arduino too, but it has been a while since I last used it.
>They act on calcium receptors to cause brief increases in plasma levels of parathyroid hormone in order to stimulate the growth of bone, which might be beneficial in the treatment of osteoporosis.

From what i read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parathyroid_hormone
the release of PTH causes release of calcium from bones into blood, it also causes increased absorption of calcium from intestine. So one can see how osteoporosis situation may become better or worse depending on a lot of other factors.

Anyway googling "asthma and calcium" brings articles as old as '83, so there seems to be long established connection as Ca ions regulate muscle contractions.
So is film racist or not? Do you have any science? Exposure tests? Test prints? Any proof at all? Or just a hatred of the 'man'?

With so much experience, you should have lots of evidence to prove the racism of film.

The simple fact is this, black Hollywood would have screamed about this long before now if there was even a remote chance that film was racist. There would have been academic debates, a long line of evidence and years of discussions among technical and critical circles. Not just some random internet article from a non-qualified source making a claim with no peer-review or any sort of intellectual authority.

We might be bankrupt as a community; yet here you are.
Currying is only one aspect of it. "Everything is an expression" (meaning custom control structures are a breeze), custom infix operators, custom operator precedence (like the silent application operator vs $), layout [1], ...

[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Indentation#Layout_in_a...
We won't know for several years, so in the meantime we'll all just worriedly try to reduce our general cognition through natural and artificial means.
Another important thing to note is that the A380 has, relative to its size, terrible cargo capacity, and using extra hold space to carry cargo in addition to a load of passengers has historically been a lucrative side business for passenger airlines. There are also doubts about whether it would even be possible, structurally, to do a freighter conversion of an A380, meaning that one of the traditional easy ways to squeeze that last bit of money out of a plane (by selling it off to a cargo airline when you no longer want the plane for passenger service) probably isn't an option with the A380. Meanwhile those 3-engine MD-11s and DC-10s are still up in the sky, having undergone freighter conversions to fly for FedEx and DHL and other cargo carriers.

That's also the reason why the 747-8F is the better-selling variant: cargo airlines love the 747 freighters (and from the beginning, the 747 was designed for this, in anticipation of them being retired out of passenger service and replaced by supersonic airliners that never really materialized), even if the passenger versions are no longer a good fit for the market.
I'm curious to know what the AUM of the account is, is this a one man shop trading over regular internet lines and how much is paid in commissions a day on average?
Those in the closest inner circles to get hired when they were coming up. It continues to pay to run in the right circles and know the right people.
I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for not being familiar with the terms. What I would blame people for is attacking Haskell's choice of terminology due to it not 'being like c++'. A generous interpretation of intent goes a long way, and if that is out of reach, at least do enough research to make sure you're not pointing out weaknesses based on a false premiss. Instead I commonly see people starting from "I don't find Haskell intuitive" and extrapolating to "Haskell's contributors are indoctrinated and people who defend its use of established terminology are arrogant". Maybe I should just ignore such points of view but they seem to be infectious.
GEDCOM is "good enough" to get out of the software for most things. I think you can export pretty much everything into some kind of readable format, but the multimedia aspects of it aren't necessarily captured by GEDCOM. You have all the pictures and things there as well, but I don't think every single link will wind up in the generated file. Maybe things have changed a little -- I just haven't had much need to export into GEDCOM.
Our current statement of support is that we support enough of C99 to unblock commonly used libraries. We support a large swath of C99 but it is correct that our support isn't complete yet as we prioritized C++ conformance. If there is a C99 library that you need to use that we don't work with, please let me know.
(I'm the VC++ dev manager)
If you're interested in Eff then Conor McBride's "Frank" ought to be worth checking into as well: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/slindley/papers/frankly-draft-...
In the end this is why I decided to quit WoW (~2007). I realised that I was not actually gaining anything from it, since the game requires such little skill to play (even in PvP and end game instances). Not to mention the massive time sink. With CS:GO you can play matches which are both smaller time commitments and more challenging.
FTA, the drug wasn't any good at treating osteoporosis, although it wasn't otherwise harmful
I think you messed up the quality.

http://i.imgur.com/RZzliBF.png

Compare to the original:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Bit...
It's entirely possible that knock on effects of the standards used for designing and calibrating film, color or non, have caused most mass-produced color film for generations to be better at capturing pale skin tones than at capturing dark ones. This article has done a terrible job of making this argument. That alone is not enough reason to dismiss the argument completely, as I find myself itching to do and many of the commenters before me have already done.

It's a sad statement on our state of news, or perhaps it has always been that way. I'd love to do a comparison of news article comparing the plight of the negro from the '60s or the debates over slavery from the abolitionist era to the modern race debate. I'm afraid we've not changed at all; That the color of skin is fundamentally divisive, and we won't get past it. In fact, the final line of the article seems to confirm it: "that the tools used to make film [and] the science of it, are not racially neutral". She is blaming the physical laws of nature for being racist. I don't get how we get post-racial if we're expected to change the unchangeable to suit.
Or he just knows about optics and physics.

Besides, where's the "racism" in the dominant financial caste optimizing a given piece of tech to their best interests? It's a commercial product, so you optimize it for your main market, which, for most of photography's life has been white.
Out of curiosity did the Safe Browsing people notice the DDOS at all while it was happening, or did you just use the news item as justification to poke through some historical data?
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Basically anyone who ever set foot in the U.S. is 99.9% guaranteed to be found electronically now. That will take you to where they came from and in most cases that original generation will be known. Since people did not travel much (as we know it today), chances are they are mostly from that place , wherever it is, for some time back. Thanks to Napoleon (you don't thank him much, do you?), standard records have been kept across at least Europe back to their inception in ~1810. Prior to that, records devolve into individual church parishes and are mostly in Latin. It is super easy to pick up the Napoleonic civil record format in any language. I never could quite grasp the hand-written ink-well pen Latin records of the late 1700s so I don't know how much further back I will be able to go.

I do have to give a special shout-out to the Polish national archives as well as the U.S. National Archives people in Maryland. I was able to deal with the Poles entirely online and request hundreds of records which they reproduced for a reasonable fee in a short time. The U.S. archives also went out of their way to help me. Hell, even the FBI FOIA process worked well and gave me a valuable dossier. The one awesome lead that let me down was the NYPD FOIL request I made. A relative many generations back ran with Al Capone when he was in Brooklyn and was gunned down. The NYPD never caught the killer and supposedly had a hat left at the scene and other evidence. Murder investigations are kept indefinitely so they should still have it in some warehouse somewhere, but they couldn't find it after searching for it manually. (Digitize all the things, people!)
Do you have any facts or relevant anecdotes to add to the discussion? I am very interested in other points of view. I don't claim to be right, I am only attempting to add to the discussion, providing a counterpoint to the claims made by the article. If you have some evidence supporting the article's premise, let's have it! I'd love to see more evidence about racism in photography.

It seems like your main goal is to affirm your closely held core beliefs that everything and everyone is racist. The world isn't so black and white. Not everything is a conspiracy against the black man. You also might realize that there is certainly an incentive to fan the fires of sanctimony. There's an entire industry of people who have a vested interest in finding racism under every rock.

Let's just allow for a second that film is racist. So what? What are you going to do about it? Maintaining your rage or perhaps doing something positive to actually make the world a better place? Look forward; Don't let your own hatred stunt your potential to do something positive! Chips on shoulders can be exhausting!
> If you want other people to use what you made, you may have to do what they want. :)

Exactly. First thing I did when visiting the comments here was see if someone had brought up this issue. Just some more feedback (to indicate a consensus): I won't consider using this tool unless it provides easy access back to GitHub.

An example of a successful project that does bi-directional linking is BountySource.
First, he worked with film (as did I). Did you? And what exactly makes the author of TFA an expert on the subject?

Second, film wasn't a technology solidified in the "beginning of the color era", color reproduction and emulsions changed all the time, and new films with different color repro and dynamic range were appearing frequently.
You've been able to do this with a phone for a while now as well.
Hexagonal packing is good but hexagonal packing into a hexagon appears to be leaving the edges of your search radius uncovered.

The packing density is about aligning on a hexagonal lattice, the points of which are a simple function of the inner circle's radius - the points in each row are 2r apart and every other row is horizontally offset by 2r * tan(60) (I hope that's right). Could you not build a row of circles out from the center to the right edge and copy it to the rows above, offsetting as required? The length of any given row is then half of the chord it sits on i.e. sqrt(r^2 - d^2) where d is the distance from the center, in this case 2r * row-index -- with this you can then filter out which circles are outside the containing circle for that row. This fills the top-right quarter segment of the circle, and the whole thing can be filled by flipping the coordinates along x to get the bottom right, and flipping all of that along y to get the other half, then dedup the cross that forms in the middle.

I think, in terms of coverage, this must always be at least as good as a hexagon built out from the center, but that should be a rare case and most of the time it'd be better.

Evidently I'm not a mathematician. Am I being stupid here?
And they're still effective. Skills determined what roles you could perform well, but not that you couldn't participate.

I personally loved flying support, and knowing that not many people wanted to (or could!) gave me a valuable niche that not only made me feel important, but made me valuable in the eyes of my fleet mates as well. Hearing the FC call out "Hey guys, we actually have a logi in our BS fleet tonight, so be sure to call for reps" was great.

Those "newb" roles often have their own perks. You'll hear many a veteran speak of how a new player gets to enjoy certain things a veteran can't. We quite enjoyed bringing a new player on and explaining to them that these first days were their best, for now that they were in a corp, their costs were taken care of. Loss in EVE is the biggest, most stressful thing to manage, and it's fantastic telling a new guy "Look, you're inexpensive, so just tackle anything you can, we'll pay for your clones, buy you a stack of frigates. Enjoy these days you're expendable, and have fun while you're waiting for your skills to train up."

Those guys come in at a couple of months and tackle some Vindicator, and get on a 3bil ISK killmail. Show me a WoW level 10 that does that.

Great times. =D
I think it should note that the X200s (and X200 or X201s?) can be found in 1440x900.
Just to give people an idea of the numbers we're working with here:

According to The Internets and Google (who know everything and are NEVER WRONG), Kodachrome's dynamic range was about 7.3 stops (so your whitest white is 2^(7.3) ~= 157 times brighter than your blackest black). Kodachrome was a color positive film (i.e. slides). Slide film is notorious for being tricky to expose right.

For comparison, a nice modern black-and-white negative film like Kodak Tri-X 400 has a range of about 13.5 stops (white is 11,585x brighter than black). It's also 2-8 times as sensitive overall as Kodachrome (which came from ISO 25 to ISO 200) and probably has comparable or smaller grain size.

(Of course, black and white is easier, and a better comparison would be Kodak Portra, but I couldn't Google up the numbers readily enough to present here.)
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There is a Dave Chapell skit just waiting to happen here..
> There’s no premium access, no expensive trading floor credentials. It’s totally open. I love that.

I completely understand this sentiment and agree for the most part. That said, for the specific case of co-location it would be better for the exchange to offer paid access.

The reason is that if the exchange doesn't offer it as a standardized option (and the exchange gets successful enough) being close to the exchange will become it's own pet industry. Only those "in the know" or with the ability to pay them will know the right places to host their bots and in the extreme cases only very rich players will have access as they buy up all the premium real estate.

This happened with the other exchanges, so we can only assume at some level of success it will happen with bitcoin exchanges.
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"I'm not sure what you mean by 'Compiler designers hate him!'?"

He/She (pnut) was just acknowledging the article author's humorous use of a spammy affiliate ad technique.

One weird trick [Person] uses to [do the impossible/improbable]. [People who (profit from/are jealous of) person] hate [him/her]

"One weird trick Jim uses to save millions on his grocery bill each month ... Grocers hate him"

"One weird trick Jill uses to save infinity on her house payments ... Bankers hate her"

I assumed (before his/her comment was flag killed [seriously?]) the second line "Did not click on principle" was a jab at all the people who publicly harrumph that they don't click web ads "on principle".

edit: clarification