skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The art in Skullgirls was done somewhat similar to the way the article describes in "Recoloring". Each frame was composed of three different images and each sprite had a palette along with it. The palette was a list of color gradients. The first image was the black and white line work. The second image was a solid color key layer whose value acted as an index into the palette (i.e. which gradient should be selected). The third image was a monochrome shading layer which acted as the position into that gradient that should be drawn. The gradients were rendered to textures at runtime, and the shader did all the work of actually composing the layers.

It did have some downsides, in particular that it was a bit unnatural for artists to work with, and memory was a constant struggle on console. Skullgirls characters could have well over 1000 frames of animation, and the game supports 3 on 3 fights. Mike did a handful of clever tricks to optimize memory usage, including breaking the images into smaller tiles and throwing out all the empty ones, and compressing the images even in memory. I'm a big fan of the final effect; I think the sprites look great, are high resolution, and allowed artists to create an extremely varied set of palettes for the game.
Also probably because some television sets can block wifi signals up close. I had a weak wifi connection on mine and a 3 ft hdmi extender fixed it (which was probably overkill).
Did they announce when Canadians can pre-order?
xfinity and hbogo are great too
Online music works nice as long as you're in a covered area (and the data traffic is of no concern). This is true for California highways but is often false for New York subway. This can also be an issue if you happen to travel abroad.
Oftentimes racism or sexism topics aren't flagged off the homepage, but subject to decreasing rank based on comment activity. Lots of comments -> likely flame wars, or so the argument goes.

Vouching won't change how those topics are treated. And to be honest, I don't know that I mind. HN has a problem discussing sexism in a nontoxic way. I accept the argument that sexism in particular should be a banned HN topic (the way politics is) for the sake of healthy discourse.

Now I think that the conversation on sexism in the tech industry is important, and I think 'healthy' discourse is an illusion used to mask certain political motives, and I have a generally low opinion of HN's moderation policies, implementation, and clarity.

That doesn't mean that banning sexism as a topic would be inconsistent. It would be too consistent: instead it's easier to just penalize quickly commented posts, which happens to frequently apply to topics on sexism.

I just wanted to point out that "interesting fodder for discussion" is not exactly a goal of the moderation team, at least not if it includes "racism or sexism in the tech community."
Fitting a $300 point and shoot (canon s130?) into a tiny space for $20 BOM would be amazing engineering. Bigger sensor, bigger, less rugged lens, ability to move elements. It is a testament to amazing software that camera phones are as good as they are.
For other things, like their solar power calculator, they actually serve up a 404, saying "that's all we know". Google does a terrible job with globalization.
I guess I need to comment more so I can at least get to 30. :)
> If they haven't cracked your European email provider...

The difference is that European email providers are not cooperating, because they aren't obliged by your laws, whereas US companies are not only obliged to comply with requests, but they are also coerced to keep it a secret.

> ... then they're not doing what we pay and order them to do

That's a good thing to know, plus this is reason enough to pressure our governments and companies to not buy into US products or services. And in case you haven't noticed, this has tangible effects already, as fear of industrial espionage is spreading in big companies like fire and I've noticed this first hand in the German companies I'm in contact with. On the negative side, the US is positioned as the steward of the Internet and because your government fucked things up so badly, this is the perfect opportunity for the other countries to balkanize the Internet, to build firewalls, etc.

So I hope you're happy about how your taxes are being spent.
FreedomWorks is the institutional wing of the Tea Party coalition. It isn't a YRO advocacy organization in any meaningful way.
You won't believe these ten tips for being a more effective journalist, #6 will blow your mind. Doctors hate him! Learn this one weird metric busting trick.

Yeah, i don't really know how people get stuff done. Metrics can be nice bumpers, to go see if someone needs help. But actual productivity is pretty nebulous. (to me anyway)
These are diff models.

The spot pool is amazons unused capacity vs their allotment of RIs.

RIs always get priority capacity over spot, and spot instances always have highest bidder priority.

If there are a ton of spot capacity one hour, then Netflix scales up in that zone to launch jobs on their RIs - the RIs get launched and spot instances get whacked with the message "capacity over subscribed".

The RI is a guarantee that when you choose to launch that instance, capacity exists. Period. (Unless your instance limit for that type/zone/region is hit)

So, no Amazon could never do that.

However, AFAIK, Netflix can do what it wants with the RIs...

Think of Heroku: millions of sub-leases on their RIs to user apps.... But Amazon cannot meddle with the availability of the RIs that Heroku has purchased
With a hole ?
Machine learning used to predict and model ISIS
Thanks! All the love should definitely get directed to https://github.com/emfree
this and M$ NTFS/xFAT patent extortion
i don't think that there are any that are this size.
Can Data Algebra Make Big Data Faster and Cheaper?
Honest question: how do you teach a corrupt society to start paying taxes? The economy there works with the assumption that your tax load is light, so things like rents and price of goods reflect that. It would be difficult for people to go from paying 10% tax to a Eurozone typical 44% tax overnight. The economy would collapse instantly.

I supposed you can slowly bring it in, but how? Who has the political capital? And if you do how long would it take to do this safely without hurting the already damaged economy? A decade perhaps? Two?

I don't envy the policy makers there right now. The people don't want to be responsible, at least a majority considering how easily Syriza keeps winning and more moderate parties keep losing. Ironically, if they want low taxes they should shoot for a low regulatory, small government, small social services US-style model instead of the welfare state Euro model they're aiming for. Yeah, Germany and France can get way with it because not only are these countries incredibly wealthy, but the people there actually pay their taxes. You can't have Somalian tax loads and French lifestyles.
I can't believe they don't show you any picture results at least.
> (except for worsening battery life of course)

Compliments of 5.0 Lollipop. It's sad they're going to leave the N4 with that abomination.
I'm still confused. Do they have the same camera?
I treat my smartphones like garbage and have only ever broken my iPhone 6 (shattered screen). I still have all of my Android phones since the original T-Mobile G1 and they all still work.

Now that Nexus has the fingerprint sensor I'm never getting another iPhone.
No, that wouldn't be better, but I have also never gotten such a call from a UPS driver. The UPS driver will just leave the box and go. There was absolutely no reason why this box of baby socks needed them to check with me before leaving it on my front steps.
Live feed from whiteboard
What technology will be best to use for developing a whiteboard which inputs live feed to the computer. I mean a person can write on an actual whiteboard (not digital) and the written text is recorded in the computer.
The FBI has no trouble spying on encrypted communications
Tesla – 620 Miles on a Single Charge AND Fully Autonomous – DONE
> Pretty insightful to compare this to Apple's recent release where they've introduced a brand-new input method

The stylus and touch long-press both predate Apple's usage by years.

All Apple contributed was marketing names.
Oh hey, my flag button is back! It had been gone so long I stopped looking for it.
Look further down the article. It talks about spying on Petrobras. There is other evidence of spying on French and German companies (see my other post in this thread).

I did misspeak on who the information was shared with. It was dissipated among several government agencies. I am not aware of any evidence about sharing it with private companies in the US.
How will I know if my comments have successfully been vouched for?
Cool. Any word on a responsive template for the site?
In NYC, they like to use A1 International. I'm literally 0/2 with them, as neither package handled by A1I ever arrived.
30 is the flag threshold and has been for years. I don't know how pg picked it. It works well, though, and we like that it isn't a high bar.

You'd be surprised at how different votes and flags are in effect. The upvoting system is a lot more broken than the flagging system is. People tend to upvote as a reflexive "me like" instead of a reflective "this is interesting". (That's not a criticism—it's simply the chemical reaction of the voting mechanism and human nature.) Flagging is much more reflective in practice. You can think of vouches as an experiment in seeing whether up-flagging can contribute as much value to HN as down-flagging has.
My argument is that not having a mobile stylesheet isn't keeping low quality users from showing up, it's mostly annoying the ones who are already here. As a way of holding back the Eternal September effect, bad mobile UX seems like a specious idea at best - which is why I doubt that has anything to do with the state of the mobile experience here.
Go 620 miles how? Different battery technology? More batteries? Reduced chassis weight? Lighter powertrain designed for a lower top speed?

A new 2x battery technology seems unlikely. There's nothing that good coming on line within three years. Panasonic is already setting up Tesla's battery cell plant, so that decision has been made. (Panasonic makes the cells, Tesla packages them; many of the employees at Tesla's "superfactory" work for Panasonic.)
Exactly. In 2015, even the small phones are huge.

I cannot believe there is not a (huge) market for small, portable phones that you could put in your pocket without altering the way you sit.
Waifu2X is a powerful upscaling algorithm based on deep convolutional neural networks, and specifically trained on anime.

Huh. I guess it goes to show what good solutions fan groups can come up with. That's fairly bleeding edge, with a well chosen training set and it produces great results. Really fascinating. I wonder how well it works on regular old line-art or if it really is dependent on working with anime-like artwork.
> 1) native folding of comments

This one seems like such an obvious improvement that I've been assuming there's some really principled reason I'm not aware of for why it isn't done.
Skype Alternatives, Part 2: Edward Snowden’s Recommendations
A supportive government would have weakened the currency and not pushed austerity on the Greeks. Also, the Eurozone is not a government, it's a monetary union [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone
I agree. The mobile apps for HN are terrible.
The first part matters a lot less now that the enemy has a copy of all the data the office of personel had collected (everything on everybody with a security clearence who were not CIA). If somebody has access to classified material as part of his/her work and is not on that list that person is CIA.
No HDMI passthrough is a real irritation for me. I hate the fact it hogs one of the two HDMI ports in my office screen, meaning I need a HDMI switch for the Logitech videoconf and the Apple TV.
Do you have any thoughts on the metrics you might use to evaluate the success or failure of the "vouch" feature?
I use http://hn.premii.com/ on mobile. Slick and compact.
Then they should really not charge me. In these cases, I just stop going to that business because not tipping will increase the chance of bad service. Personally I would like to see an end with all tipping, especially since there is an implicit threat associated with it (such as not tipping can get you spit in your food, which I consider a form of assault and battery).
Thanks for the "vouch" button. I think it should be also enabled for the posts which are flagged but still visible.
Kind of, it is a problem for the developers that write their own engines, instead of using middleware.

For the middleware companies, it isn't a problem to write multiple backends, as it is the reason why they exist in first place.

Also OpenGL never had much use in the consoles, for example.

However, it just goes to show that company X will do Y, because they sit in some Y organization isn't given.
This looks promising, and enticing. As an eager and willing novice in web-development, the pricing is a bit steep for me but for students or freelance remember that this is tax-writable.

Also Thoughtbot has a ton of great tools like Bourbon and the Paperclip gem among other things.

https://github.com/thoughtbot
Dan, speaking of experiments, can I pitch an idea?

Mix a random story from the New page into the front page on each page load.

This should get more eyeballs on new submissions, with more even exposure across HN populus and ultimately increase the overall appeal of the front page material. Should make the FP a bit more dynamic too.
Let me rephrase that as "There aren't enough 6'1 college-educated WASP men who look like football players and are charismatic and extroverted".
They also need to separate out links from the tweet, and into a separate piece of data.

And they really need to allow for editing typos.
Check out our IndieGoGo page - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/world-s-first-personal-ai...

We tried to describe our innovation there. It is a real challenge to make a device both small but powerful. We managed to do it thanks to a specially developed evaporative material.
> AirBnB wasn't reachable when I needed them the most. Sitting on the curb with my wife and 4yo at 10PM without a place to go.

There is literally no way I would trust some random schmo on a site that enables idiots to try to run hotels with the wellbeing of a child, much less a 4 year old. Book a real hotel, honestly. Even if it went well, the bad judgment on display here is slightly disturbing.
That's exactly the problem with Perl: cleverness -- especially other people's "cleverness" -- gets to be tedious, if not an outright pain to put up with and maintain, after a while.
Senator Bennett was also primaried out in Utah.
The 808 is also a big little architecture, with two A57 cores and four A53 cores. The A53 cores will likely carry the vast majority of every day use, and redouble the battery savings.

As a Nexus 5 user I'm pleased with most of the changes and non-changes. 2GB is fine for a smartphone, and an image sensor with more than double the light capture area per pixel is brilliant, and if it delivers the better photographs will be worth it right there. Losing OIS...I don't think that's a downgrade as OIS was always suspect to begin with (not least because OIS only helps for lateral movements. It does nothing for rotational movements, and of course make subjects stand still. It yielded a tonne of unusable photos).

The only thing I'm really displeased about is the removal of wireless charging. That was a really nice feature.

Between the Snapdragon 810 and 808, the only real items of concern is that the 808 does not have h265 hardware encoding (the 810 does), and its image processing DSP is 12-bit per pixel rather than the 14-bpp of the 810.
Yes, they pointed it out in the announcement, so it is intentional.
Go to San Francisco.
Awesomeness.

I think this is a great idea for the community. I applaud this decision because there are quite a few accelerators, but the special part about YC is HN. Being open enough to give it it's own editorial steering wheel is a great indication of goodwill to the community :)

Now that HN is it's own thing, maybe we'll see access(api?) for vote attribution?

Is that even remotely possible? Or, are the implicit privacy issues too much of a burden?
Did you read the article?

> Musk didn’t elaborate on whether someone would need to drive just as slowly to reach 620 miles in 2017. We’d guess that’s not what he had in mind, though.

He is saying that by 2017 he believes Tesla cars will be able to drive 620 miles under normal driving conditions.
Because Apple uses a version ratchet to force you to upgrade.

I essentially use only one app on my iPhone. It's a mobile banking app. On a regular basis, my mobile banking app stops working and requires me to upgrade. Sooner or later, to upgrade the banking app, I have to upgrade my iOS, which eventually forces me to upgrade iTunes, which eventually forces me to upgrade OS X.

Western civilization has been in decline ever since Snow Leopard was deprecated. I hung to that as long as I possibly could, but even I eventually had to upgrade to Mavericks. Mavericks is tolerable, but the writing on the wall is clear: to use Apple products, you will eventually have to surrender to the software update.
Don't tease. If that's true, it's fantastic news - battery life of less than a day, with fairly low use, is the biggest drawback of the N5.
Can't you streamcast to the apple tv, making the chromecast largely redundant? I'm genuinely curious; what do you get from the chromecast that you don't already have?
This seems possible by simply doubling the battery size, along with modest improvements to efficiency. Sure, it'd add another 1200 pounds, but that's still lighter than a pickup truck.

With a price drop due to the gigafactory, they might even be able to do it for the same cost of the current models.

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable could chime in about whether or not that'd be possible. It seems like there could be enough room for another layer of batteries, with only a modest change to the shape of the car.
> Why did Google bother with all of that work to fix SD storage

The changes they made could be useful for more than just SD cards.
Apple iOS 9 Causes VPN DNS Leaks on Mobile Devices
> This can also be an issue if you happen to travel abroad.

Data abroad is dirt cheap compared to North America. $1.40 for 150mb when I lived in Vietnam. $30 for 3GB in Mexico. Much faster than Canada too.
For whatever reason, I read this in Rodney Dangerfield's voice and it made it all that much better.

But I agree, this is a huge vote of confidence
On developers.google.com just like you'd expect. :) https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/downloads

I downloaded CastHelloVideo-chrome, put it on my webserver, opened the URL in Chrome, and it worked as advertised. Granted, it does require Chrome and the Google Cast extension, which is as far as I know proprietary.
Also by the Tea Party.
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Doesn't happen to me. Nor to anyone I know.

Now, there was a trend with OSX releases that, until about Lion or so, every new release was faster and more optimized than the previous one. We are used to expect just the opposite, specially from competing operating systems.

I have not seen signs of that trend in the more recent releases.
Tampons would have a high barter utility in a doomsday scenario. Alcohol and cigarettes would be in high demand too, I would imagine. Just think of household items people use on a daily/weekly/monthly basis that they couldnt live without.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PRISM_Collection_Det...
You are totally correct, but somehow Amazon couriers just opt for the maximum creep factor. UPS will call my apartment call box if I'm one of the people getting a package delivered, and they have the phrasing down. Amazon couriers will often call from their personal cell phone, and just say that it is Amazon and that they have my package. Given the callbox, the call is worthless anyway unless I'm home, but I never answer since it is a rando phone call! Their drivers just need training...
Also, the reason that you aren't getting the HTML5 player is because Firefox on Linux only supports MSE + WebM, not MSE + MP4. It has nothing to do with EME.
Chromecast Audio is being reported poorly. Many articles suggest it works with "most any home speakers" and "old school speakers" when it only works with powered speakers.
Probably both, as well as improved efficiency.
I'd love to see them copy/buy http://hn.premii.com for the mobile experience.
I read somewhere that most HDMI ports only support up to 55 mA, which isn't enough for most devices. For comparison, a raspberry Pi will run 500-1000 mA, depending on peripherals.

It would be nice if more TV manufacturers took full advantage of the 5V pin.
Except that app sandboxing excludes a lot of otherwise useful apps.
Another fun experiment you could try with a Monte Carlo simulation is the St. Petersburg paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
Cool update, I am happy to see Sam's vision for HN is the for it to be independent and a robust institution for the tech community. I think the vouch feature might be cool, but we'll see how it plays out since honestly I don't experience many incorrectly killed comments.
This feature existed 9 months ago, it worked on my Nexus 5.
For now, you still have to view the page logged-out. We're probably going to change this eventually. It's clear that better feedback mechanisms to let people know when they've violated the site guidelines—and when they haven't—could add a lot of value to HN.
Hey, appreciate your reply to my comment! And fair response, I'm glad to hear from scientists that are able to talk about open research, as opposed to trying to make a dogmatic point or conjecture without evidence.

I like the view that this is an open problem and an area of active research, much more than the more conventional, lay-person settling of the issue as "developed an ear for the language" and that's the end of it.

The impressive work of people like Steven Pinker and Chomsky (in his actual academic field) is to look very carefully at different ethnographic groups, and the larger cultures those groups are embedded in. By doing so, finding groups isolated enough or with a materially different context, such that they don't exhibit the same patterns.

The title of the article felt like a bait-and-switch, I guess. When I realized it was on betterexplained, it did make more sense that it was ultimately about mathematical reasoning. No worries!
Can I do it from my phone?
This is an interesting side effect of the capital controls. It reminds people once again that currency is really just a stand-in for goods and services produced in an economy. I particularly liked that generic barter (like time for time) was seen as problematic with this quote : "But many of those systems were plagued by inefficiencies. Time banks discovered that one unit of a doctor’s time was more valuable than a unit of a babysitter’s, complicating trades."

All of which just seems to highlight that Greece's monetary policy is out of whack, not its basic economy. It would be interesting to see a two currency economic model, where one currency was priced by durable goods and services, and the other by government services.

The exchange rate should give an interesting window into where the challenges are.
You're not going to vouch... becuase you're scared if you do, they'll take away your vouching rights... which you weren't using anyway out of fear.... so you're scared of something that wouldn't matter to you anyway?
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That includes the children of rich people. Your metric fails in both directions.