skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is little I miss about shooting large format. The huge print thing really doesn't work; an enormous high-quality inkjet print from a sufficiently large sensor (60-80MP medium formatback, or a 200MP multi-shot back if the subject is stationary) will usually look better subjectively. (Sensors are flat. So are glass plates. Film seldom is.)

There are two ways in which shooting film can give objectively better results than shooting digitally. The first is that a Zone System practitioner can wring an exacting exposure from deepest shadows to highest highlights in a single shot. That's especially true when using sheet film (with roll film, you're pretty much stuck with one development for the roll unless you're quick with scissors and can do development by inspection). There are no alignment problems, no interpolation, and no de-ghosting to perform, just a hell of a lot of dodging and burning, note-taking and test prints. Combining Zone System shooting on film with good scans and digital manipulation and printing is, in a sense, getting the best of all worlds for enlargements. And if you shoot colour, it's really the only practical way to use the Zone System, since reciprocity failure between channels meant that wild dodging and burning was always a bit of a science experiment with filters, etc.

The second is contact printing. We are a long, long way from being able to produce digital prints that are even in the same ballpark. Yes, they're tiny and jewel-like (unless you're shooting really large formats like 1114 or 16x20), but they repay a close look with an astonishing detail and depth. Not quite as much as a high quality direct positive (a good Daguerreotype is almost unbelievable, even if you forget that it's probably on the order of 150 years old and was made with a lens that is absolute garbage by modern standards), but more than a little impressive nonetheless. A contact print (assuming the picture has artistic merit at all) can still suck me in for an extended stay in a way that no enlargement, dye sub or giclée can. Who knows? We might even have been there* digitally, except that our printers became literally good enough for most purposes a few years back; only a fanatical devotion to ecstatic experiences with small prints by someone in a position to produce a printer is ever going to change that.
I also don't think a promise makes much sense, if we're talking about the same sort of widget. For a "selector", where the whole purpose is selecting a thing, I think that even better than that would be to use ng-model (or something similar). Which nearly comes back full circle to the original $emitting an event scenario, except instead the other side would $watch (rather than $on, and avoiding the emit/broadcast part on the directive's side totally).
In general, "search" or "optimization" is what we call machine learning that we've gotten pretty good at.
Halp the dinos – stop animal abuse 2k15
VLC reaches 2.1
This is blogspam, can we link instead to: http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/04/8566199...
What about geographic latency? Could user or regional preferences be an input into ranking?
A Mysterious Death at the South Pole (2009)
> much like the usual bullshit I hear about how if only I did more exercise it'd all be fixed

You could try pointing them to this, which shows that evidence is unclear whether exercise works or not to treat depression.

http://www.cochrane.org/CD004366/DEPRESSN_exercise-for-depre...

> When only high-quality trials were included, exercise had only a small effect on mood that was not statistically significant.
I've come to really appreciate Bloomberg Businessweek. However, I've always felt the The Economist was flawed. To me it has resembled the type of conversation I would imagine an economics 101 student having with a student further along in an economics curriculum.
Having access to the docker socket which runs as root seems equivalent.
Landlocked countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlocked_country

Some very small countries examples:
San Marino,
Liechtenstein,
Andorra.
> Which it seems to be doing. No?

Who knows? I don't really support the requirement that they make their algorithm public. But I would support requiring that they expose it to government auditors. Or maybe some kind of 3rd party testing that proves their results aren't biased without actually seeing the algorithm.

> Power could be wielded without corruption.

Yes that is possible. But I think a government is certainly within their rights to demand that with a certain level of power a company must prove that they are wielding that power responsibly.

For instance if I build a nuclear power plant, the government will of course require me to prove that it is safe. They won't wait until they have evidence that it is unsafe because the potential harm is too great.
I am curious why you said that?
> Regulation doesn't require proof of illegal behavior.

Sanctions under competition law do require proof of abuse of market power.

ISP-like regulation, which is a different beast, is usually being justified by the fact that ISPs are natural monopolies. [1]

> In my opinion we also shouldn't allow private citizens to control the internet.

What makes a search engine useful? The relevance of results. In my opinion, private companies (Google in particular) do a fairly good job at providing relevant results. I prefer that over a government-approved "neutral" algorithm, whatever that would even mean.

If you feel that Google's results aren't relevant, give a competitor a try. Nothing stops you. Do you run a web site that was blocked by Google without justification? Go ahead, complain. The mere possibility of abuse doesn't justify tight regulation.

> We don't allow private citizens to make weapons of mass destruction because the potential for harm is too great.

Yeah, should Google ever choose to sell WMD to my neighbor, switching to Bing wouldn't really help me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9400975
Reminder that the Cuomo campaign asked Sony for $50k.

There is a $5k campaign contribution limit to prevent corporate interests from ruling the political sphere.

They were aware of this limitation, so they used their corp email to ask employees to contribute to the goal, because Cuomo supports actions that benefit the company itself.

It is arguable whether this is legal or not, but it certainly is against the ideal behind the limitation.

https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/135225

https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/49813
The only way to learn Lisp, is to write a Lisp.
Reading the title, I thought you were looking for mentor(s) for your Startup! It would have been a different story.

For programming Mentors/Guides, if you're in Bangalore, Jaaga[1] (Richmond Road) has something or the other at all times. I've met quite a lot of awesome programmers there, hired developers whom I met there. Hasgeek[2] (Indiranagar) also has lots of interesting people in their rather open Office.

The other option is to intern at a Technology-led and/or focused Startup.

1. http://jaaga.in/

2. https://hasgeek.com/

@k__

It is confusing when you say the mentors didn't have time! I don't think you expect them to schedule out their time to _teach_ you. Do and then ask them to review your code or critique your code.

Recently, there was a nice article on HackerNews - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9396694
I agree with that. I find that looking at good B&W photos is similar to listening to acoustic instrumental music. Where the characteristics of the music are passed through an instrument without coloration by voice or by other instruments
Illegaly obtnaied data is kind of a silly thing. If it's out there and it's real does it really matter how it was obtained? Does it affect the data validity? Why wouldn't people be able to analyse it? Nobody could go to jail because of it, after all. To make it illegal to analyse it and disclose the findings is really silly.
Well, that was an interesting read. There are going to be a lot of children with attachment disorders in such libertarian countries.
H.L. Mencken’s Merry Days
Here's an article about test firing a Saturn V turbopump power plant:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/saturn-v-moon-rocket-...

Yes, the turbopump is run off its own rocket engine --- which drove a 40MW turbine, which ran a pump that could push three tonnes of rocket fuel a second.

Admittedly, the Saturn V was a little bit bigger than this rocket's going to be, and had special needs, but it goes to show that rocket fuel powered turbopumps are scary.

(Incidentally, SpaceX use a rocket fuel powered turbopump for the Falcon 9. I believe the scary-looking plume of flame that comes out sideways is the exhaust. It's a mere 2MW. Per engine.)
Somebody has added the year of the first publication of the article (2000) to the title. More interesting is the fact that this article has gone through a substantive revision and has been updated yesterday. For example, it now includes references to literature published after 2000. The year 2000 in the link title suggests that this is a 15 year old article that has not been changed ever since.
This is what happened with ADOX, they went from being a large manufacturer to scaling down to a small team of experts. They still develop mind you, like ADOX CMS 20 has a resolvable resolution of about 500 Megapixels... http://www.adox.de/Photo/adox-films-2/cms-20-ii-adotech-ii/
Analytiks for Google Analytics Comes to Android
A lot smaller, for starters.
Russian Hackers Exploiting Windows 0-day
Mentors are not just for knowledge, they provide connections, confidence and motivation based on what they know about you. The internet has lot of knowledge but it doesn't know you deep enough to tell you what is good for you.
Ah, the mythical better state, with blackjack and hookers.
There is one thing that Netapp does very well, which nobody else can really deliver:

A file server that can serve over NFS & CIFS, whilst simultaneously be able to serve block traffic over FC, SAS and 10/40gig ethernet. With snapshots, decent performance, and once setup, can be left for 3 years (at which point its either too small or needs a new maintenance contract.)

Nimble, they can do small, cheap and easy to configure. But they can't do fast(unless you are just doing small VMs), they can only do block storage, and FC is a beta product. No real HA.

Pure, Fast, but limited to 250tbs. No metrosync. Block only.

nutanix needs infrastructure upgrade to work at any decent speed. Limited to VM storage. (I think there is a licensing cost for that from VMware too. )

However that's not to say that netapp are the only show in town. They can be utterly shit for many tasks. More importantly, if you let them, they'll bleed you dry. Most people reading this, will never need a system that does block and file storage. But medium sized boring companies need them.

IBM with GPFS have an interesting product, its just marketed and supported by morons. Its fairly simple to create a global file system, with geographic data affinity, that scale linearly when you throw hardware at it. It seriously is amazing. If it wasn't so held back by IBM, you could have a simple globally shared filesystem across your entire cloud infrastructure, that's fast (unlike EBS/EFS/S3)

Object storage is another matter. Object storage is another way of saying that globally coherent fast posix file access is hard, so here's some thin layers over a keyvalue store, you do the rest.

Some people do it right (S3, cleversafe) A lot of people do it wrong. There are important tradeoffs, Like latency, data affinity, or mutability of data. Like a Netapp, no one system will do everything at the right price.
I don't know about in India...but in the US, if I were a senior in college, I would attend all the related meetups I can, in topics that interest me. Arrive early, stay late. Try to talk to people. Become genuine friends with those who have more experience than you. It won't happen in a month, but if you show up enough you'll be able to feel out who have the mentality to mentor. Not everyone wants to mentor, and not everyone can be a good mentor.
This is just a guess, but maybe because our CIOs all screen our web traffic and would be offended to learn they wasted so much money on these products?

Crap I left my VPN on!!!
Even if you were doing it for a living, "practicality" isn't really a consideration, either.

The wedding photographers shoot digital, because the market doesn't really want fine-art photos. They want whatever the current fashion is, and that's usually lots and lots of photos on a thumbdrive these days.

The fine art photographers are not only not shooting digital, they're shooting you-can't-even-buy-it analog. The only fine-art photographers I know who are actually making money selling their photography have all built their own cameras and are doing extremely niche stuff. They built the camera, they make the film, they do their own developing. The only thing they didn't make was the glass of the lens, practically.

Actually, scratch that, I just got tapped by one of them asking me if I knew anything about making lenses from scratch, so clearly the market is going there (I'm a sort of consulting scientist for people who know me).

And that's basically the art world in general. There are only two ways to make money from art: either mass-produce something that everyone can and will want to own, or make something so complex, so intricate, so massive that you can make your living for the year off of one sale. One is a monumental effort of production and marketing, the other is a monumental effort of production and marketing.

When anyone can be an artist, you have to go to extremes to set yourself apart.
So what do you do when you need fast local storage?
TCP Silly Window Syndrome
Personally I found someone more experienced (someone further up the corporate foodchain) that seemed friendly...chatted to them a bit. They seemed genuinely supportive, so I kept going to that person if I needed some wisdom. Was never formally designated as a mentor, but the effect is the same.
The article tries to massage some kind of connection between tax breaks and a re-election campaign. From the information provided, I don't see it. In particular, if you or I clocked up $26m in tax breaks for a tax year, that would suggest that you or I were investing (say) $50m into the state every year.

In that case, as the state, I would be very happy to dedicate an employee or two to making everything run as smoothly as possible, and yes, getting expected behaviour out of the tax system is part of that.

While I have sympathy for people who run tiny companies that have different experiences, it should be clear to the pragmatic that the people who have more money to spend should receive more attention.

For example, the person who wants to build a 150 floor skyscraper in New York will be talking to a different part of the zoning commission than the person who wants to convert a garage into a coffee shop, and that's a good thing.

Where is this anything other than sound commercial practice for New York? Is there any evidence that this wasn't the case for other companies in similar positions? I'd be suspicious if (say) the state used this as a bargaining tool, but it could easily be standard practice.

With the updated article link, sure, the whole thing looks fishy, but I still don't think this example is necessarily a case of it.
> I don't remember the main reason why we use that flag.

Troubling.
> I'm glad that someone is challenging what the author calls the 'medical "physical" theory of depression/anxiety',

What? Mainstream firstline treatment for depression is a talking therapy. This rejection of the physical basis is written into government provided guidance (see eg UK NHS guidance for depression and anxiety).
Michigan Terminal System Archive
depends on moderation algo, see HN
Bitcoin is unregulated

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country
Here's a great technical analysis I submitted the other day.

Rocket engine with electric pumps:
http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/73571-rocket-engine-with-...
Liberland. New country in Europe with no taxes and Bitcoin as official currency
Ken Kesey- the author of The Great American Novel- "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
Immortal Linux would probably get more installs - a package that prevents common malicious commands from working without first warning you of the consequences.
So successful Oracle keep missing their numbers and refuse to tell anyone how their divisions break down, leading analysts to assume it's because the hardware and OS division is a money sink.
So what is the theoretical population limit for a micron-nation?
> And there are industries that aren't natural monopolies that are strictly regulated.

Like pharmaceutical companies? Like those WMD manufacturers that you mention quite often? Lifes are at stake there. That's another good justification for regulation.

> Android market share could easily become high enough that Google could retain their monopoly even with inferior search technology.

You may not be able to switch the search provider of your Android phone's default home screen (but you can install a different home screen). The European Commission is investigating a potential abuse of market power re Android right now, but that's a different battleground.

As long as there is no indication of abuse concerning Google's algorithm, which is what we were talking about, I believe said algorithm isn't any government's business.
> People have to come to terms with each other without attacking each other or we end up in a civil war.

Are you talking about physical attacks or mere vigorous disagreement? If the former, I agree, but that seems off topic. If the latter, then could you please name some major societal changes that happened without disagreement so vigorous that people felt attacked?

I also think that for topics of social justice, your standard is one-sided. Historically oppressed groups are attacked, and not just verbally. Look at America's long history of lynching, for example. Or gay bashing, both physical and verbal. A standard that requires people pursuing social justice to be forever meek but doesn't as vigorously require that of those sustaining injustice is in effect a standard that helps maintain injustice.

> But now you're talking about generalities when we're dealing with individuals.

The article is about general patterns, so perhaps our best compromise is that we are talking about general patterns of individuals. If you want to talk about an individual case, we could certainly do that. But that would be a change of topic.

> Your counterargument seems

I was addressing the discussion here. If it appears to relate to one of the many points in that article, I apologize; that was not my intention.
I think one of the basic optimizations that Twitter could implement would be to implement opt-in real identity and filtering.

I use my real name on twitter. I also use my real face. If I could check a box that basically said 'filter out anyone not doing the same', Twitter would be a much kinder place from my perspective.

If not that, I would even take a filter that cut out all accounts less than a certain age (not user age, I'm talking about account creation date). Most of the trolls are on brand new accounts that are a few hours/days old, and have few followers.

"Don't feed the trolls" puts the onus on the victim to constrain their reactions after being trolled. But "don't give the trolls any attention" is very workable. If I don't hear/see the trolls, then they may as well not exist. I think knowing that you are not actually trolling anyone will reduce a lot of the trolling.
Different products for different things.

Netapp are not growing like they should, but its not cleversafe knicking the money.

What cleversafe do that is unique is create a global encrypted, highly available, redundant namespace. If you want a fast safe redundant backup system (and don't mind using API access) then cleversafe is your goto product.

Netapp doesn't do anything similar.
Oh how I love it to fetch a package via NPM, thinking it's gonna be JS-only and then being greeted by compiler errors because I don't have a C compiler setup on my Windows machine. Without falling on my face or reading the very end of the README, I would not know that I need C to run this Node package. Especially since the README says

> NebulaDB runs on a Node server.

I wish there was a way to declare non-Node dependencies in the package.json.
Zero-rating (also called toll-free data or sponsored data) is the practice of mobile network operators (MNO) and mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) to not charge end customers for a well defined volume of data by specific applications or internet services via the MNO's mobile network in limited or metered data plans and tariffs.[1] it allows customers to use data services like video streaming, which otherwise might result in significant charges depending on their data plans and volume caps. This has especially become an option to market 4G networks, but has also been used in the past for SMS or other content services.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating
[Fruit of the poisonous tree]
This comment comes around once every so often. Actively seeking a mentor might not be the right thing to do. Start doing something you care about, publicly, and people will find you.
You may contribute open source projects so that the main contributors review your code and you will get a chance to improve your programming skills. If you're looking career advice, I think the best bet is to get close to the people in companies when you're doing internship. You can get help from many people on the Internet but I think they have to know you in person or spend some time with you in order to give some accurate advices.
If there is no throttling, there could be a dozen requests, with different responses arriving in arbitrary order. Which one do you believe to determine the outcome of the operation? How long do you wait for responses? etc. etc. If your going to build all the machinery in the client to deal with this situation, it's much easier to just throttle.
Be a mentor to someone else. The best way to learn is to teach. After you've been mentoring for a while, you will know how to choose (carefully!) and pitch prospective role models and mentors.
How do I find a mentor? (for startup)
What are the best ways to get in touch with a mentor ?

For anybody who's about to rush into creating their own startup, or for those who have recently startup it, it's always a good idea to benefit from tips, experience, network, inspiration, encouragement, energy from someone who has been through kind of the same thing.

So how have you meet your mentor ?
That latter is a force to be reckoned with.
Anonymous users (nicknames) worked quite well for Reddit, this problem also depends on other factors I guess.
Thanks, we updated the link from http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2015/04/ny-state-fas....
Exactly. I did the most naive thing possible and only once for each version of true/truth. I was just bored/curious.