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This is pretty cool.

4 years ago, I spent few days playing with colors to come up with an algo which allows us to automatically generate a set of colors for objects in our 3D scene. Some of the algos considered were to sort the colors in some way which includes the darker and lighter colors, and still allows us to choose n different colors from the whole range.

The result was good but not as great as we expected. The conclusion was that our algorithms are still not capable of replacing human chosen color themes.

Maybe if we had more time, or an intern with such an inclination for color selection, we might have gotten farther.
By the way, I was reading an old comment of yours[0] and although I can't answer there because it's too old, I do have an answer for you ...

You question was:

If it were possible to efficiently
solve a large NP-complete problem,
the solution to which real-world
problem would have the largest
positive impact?

As a single problem, graph three coloring is one that has an immediate impact in a genuine real-world problem. You give me a number to factor, and I can produce a graph such that if you 3-color it, I can read off the factors of the given number. Similarly I can solve the discrete log problem. It's not yet clear that I can do the same for elliptic-curve cryptography, but if you could graph three color efficiently, you've directly and practically broken most existing cryptosystems.

Email me if you want more details.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750542
Thank you for pointing that out. I've updated my post to reflect that.
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I wonder, does VeraCrypt plan to eventually do a major LibreSSL-style clean-up of their codebase, after most people have "converted" to their tool?
Yes, but especially controllability by the public at large and not only some designated institute.
"Most" as in the direct competition to the Model X. Yes, some manufacturers have large 8 seaters (Yukon, QX56, Pilot, Sequoia) but those are all massive vehicles and I don't think the Model X is competing with those. I think the competition is the smaller SUVs such as the Q7, SRX, MDX,GX, X5, GL550, and XC90, all of which are 7 seaters.
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Server-generated HTML or browser-generated HTML?

Spring Data REST makes a good HATEOAS JSON REST api for you, somewhat automatically.

Spring Data JPA alleviates the drudge of writing your DAO layer.

Spring 4.2 does websockets and server-sent events nicely.

PostgreSQL 9.5 (out soon). Regular JDBC driver for regular stuff, but try the pgjdbc-ng driver to listen to NOTIFYs.
Here's further reading on the effect. I didn't include it because this combination of effects (goo) has been around for a while now and it's boring regurgitating the same explanation over and over. http://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/03/10/creative-gooey-effect...
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeraCrypt#License_and_source_m...:

They didn't.

> VeraCrypt has been licensed under the Apache License 2.0 since 28 June 2015.

> VeraCrypt inherited a substantial amount of code from its TrueCrypt predecessor and thus is also subject to the terms of version 3.0 of the "TrueCrypt License" which is unique to the TrueCrypt software.
Yes, but this would specifically outlaw the organization recognizing donations only if the organization was also considered religious-affiliated (i.e. getting the particular tax breaks a church gets.) You could still donate to regular charities, companies, etc.

(And before you say "but then the religion would just create a separate charity for people to donate to, which would recognize people with some sort of token, and then the church could acknowledge people who have that token": creating a shell company to avoid a restriction on commerce like that is pretty much the definition of money laundering!)
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I think the situation is more nuanced than that: users may not know the terms to complain about JavaScript and stylesheets but they know when a page is slow or broken.

The discussion really should focus on how well apps degrade, which is really reaffirming that progressive enhancement is still the best approach to building web apps. While only a small percentage of users have intentionally disabled JavaScript entirely, it's effectively disabled for everyone while it's downloading and a larger percentage of users (particularly on mobile) will have errors which prevent those downloads entirely. If you build a rich application which still has the core functionality working, you've done a much better job than the people who make sites which take minutes or don't even render when their shiny framework hits a non-perfect network connection.
Just found this while searching for tutorials how to handle hexagonal grids in a game. Its an amazing collection of game programming knowledge. Especially how this tutorial was made is really great: http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
I'm not sure many Pilot buyers will also be Model X buyers ($30K vs $100K)
You read wikipedia to get a broad understanding; you then follow the cites and check that they say what wikipedia claims they say then you use those cites, not wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_use

http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=i...

"Don't use wikipedia as a source" is very different from "use buzzfeed as a source".

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia

> As with any source, especially one of unknown authorship, you should be wary and independently verify the accuracy of Wikipedia information if possible. For many purposes, but particularly in academia, Wikipedia may not be an acceptable source;[1] indeed, some professors and teachers may reject Wikipedia-sourced material completely.[2] This is especially true when it is used without corroboration. However, much of the content on Wikipedia is itself referenced, so an alternative is to cite the reliable source rather than the article itself.

> We advise special caution when using Wikipedia as a source for research projects. Normal academic usage of Wikipedia and other encyclopedias is for getting the general facts of a problem and to gather keywords, references and bibliographical pointers, but not as a source in itself. Remember that Wikipedia is a wiki, which means that anyone in the world can edit an article, deleting accurate information or adding false information, which the reader may not recognize.
The need for codegen to approach LINQ-level magic on the JVM is unfortunate, but jOOQ is killer compared to the JPA/ORM bloat that most folks can't seem to stop themselves from using.
ICE and Diesel engines are most efficient at full throttle. There have been some tests that show, in certain conditions, that using full throttle to get to speed and then maintaining speed is a more efficient way to drive than gradual acceleration.
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Once the plane is in the air a lot of the controls are automated. Also, even if it was the captain of the flight, they have a co-pilot.

Still annoying, I vaguely recall something similar on my last Delta flights, but I'm pretty sure those were by the flight crew and a follow-up to the safety briefing.
I'll definitely agree with you on the sugar consumption. Any benefits that may or may not exist are sure to be dampened/counteracted by excess sugar intake. It's kind of like eating salad to be healthy, but then drenching it in high calorie dressing.
I wonder if FB will buy them or build this in themselves. Given the shift to charging for any sort of significant organic reach, it seems natural for anyone marketing on FB to want to do this since the posts they are putting out there are essentially ads this point, and should be tested as such to the extent possible with the tools available.

Having a native tool to do this lets FB assure people that they are getting the most bang for their buck now that they need to pay to play.
>GP was pointing out that there are other possible reasons, including that they are of the considered opinion that what they are doing is not wrong.

And that would be sign of involvement in a cult, because that is how cults work.

There are no human activities immune to the proclivity towards so-called reasoned association with idealistic/authoritarian ideology as a means of life experience. And it is precisely because of this fact that we must not allow the intelligence apparatus to gain so much ground in terms of having control over society.

You might think that its okay to have spymasters, spying on everyone. But in a culture of effective, total secrecy between a people and its masters, who are actually supposed to be serving the people, there is much, much danger.

Offering those 'in the cult' a way to re-integrate with society is the very first door towards resolution. If those doors are closed, we have the conditions ripe for exploitation by those who are, in fact, masters of infiltration, usurpation and total control over any human group. This is the power that the NSA/GCHQ cult-members have today.
I haven't seen any randomly-named updates on my system - but I had earlier ripped out all the telemetry and Windows 10-related crap (KB2952664, KB3021917, KB3035583, KB3068708, KB3075249, and KB3080149) and marked them hidden. I've also set my update policy to notify-only.

Now the spy updates are not hidden, and marked as "Important." They're bound and determined to force this crap down our throats. Bastards.

"Because f*ck you, that's why." The rallying cry of the corporate world.
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That's a 2012 phone. I saw the Huawei G610 in 2013 and chose not to buy it at the time, due to very bad reviews concerning their software mainly, but also due to some hardware problems. I chose an LG G2 mini that had much more reliable hardware, but ironically their software was incredibly crappy (and some incredibly idiotic decisions like their volume keys on the back of the device).

Huawei are making their phones a LOT better these days, I have an Ascend P7 that's been working extremely well.
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My understanding: Yes, older men do see some increase in things like that. But it is a much bigger problem in women, for a long list of reasons. For example, women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. Sperm is produced "fresh." Also, the woman is the incubator.
Where's Microsoft on this? This is on two news outlets as well as HN. Microsoft PR needs to issue a statement in the next hour or two, even one that just says they're investigating the issue, or it will be on the evening TV news.
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It would be if I weren't talking about my own country. I'm saying 'our guys are worse than your guys and Snowden is actively aiding and abetting our guys'.
Not only "what's wrong with you", but I took his addiction to amphetamines as a response to his addiction to the instant gratification the Internet provides, which is 100% relevant today.

Now I want to read Neuromancer again. Great book.
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That's not how the chilling effect works, actually it's against the actual definition of the chilling effect.

Lets back up and use an analogy. Domestic abuse (aptly put I'd say). A man beats his wife, but only occasionally and when he has been drinking. He drinks in private though, so the wife has no way of knowing when he will become combative. The wife then begins to have a pervasive, long lasting fear over time that greatly affects the way she speaks and how she does things.

You are basically saying that it's the wife who creates the fear, not the abuser, and not only that, but you are saying the wife isn't in any more danger from washing the dishes than she is from talking to the husband about drinking, which I think is obviously false.

You then proceed to make some very strange logical leaps:

" Edward Snowden has done an interview with John Oliver, which presumably means everyone visiting any site hosting that interview is also on a permanent NSA watchlist."

No I don't think anyone has said that but you. An attempt at a straw man perhaps?

"Yet despite apparently almost everyone everywhere being under constant surveillance by the NSA at this point, there appears to be no global chilling effect"

You have provided no evidence to back up this claim, while there is plenty of evidence to support otherwise. For example, a recent high profile suit against the US by Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, and others.

"Don't let ... [this] cause you to act with more caution than necessary."

I would agree with this, as FDR said, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". That doesn't remove the fact that the chilling effect is real, is growing, and still affects people though, so stop pretending otherwise.
It better be something normal people can afford, because that's about the average price these days. Then again, you haven't defined "normal".
I'll be sure to tell my 60-something mother to make sure she reads all KBs before deciding to install the updates that Windows is telling her is super important.

I'm sure this won't increase my load as the family technical support person at all.
Streets alive moves around the city, not just on peachtree. Really cool project in my opinion.
I disagree. A hamburger you make at home is unlikely to contain the crap that is in a McDonald's burger. If you get actual meat, add a few veggies and a whole wheat bun then a burger can become an excellent meal.

It's even better if you skip the fries.
Obtaining those records would be just as illegal if you worked for the NSA as it would be if you worked for McDonald's.
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Wouldn't this have the effect of draining dissent from those agencies? Isnt objecting from within better than quitting, even if they don't seem to respond?
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Cars are local optima. In a 100% car city you need a lot of car infrastructure and there is pressure to keep building more. In a 25% car city the pressure switches to maximizing other modes of transit, but as long as 98% car city is worse it's really hard for cities to make that jump.

PS: It's really a lot like social networks, dropping G+ vs Facebook is really more a question of which your friends spend time on not which one has better software.
From the title, I assumed it allowed disk decryption.
Yeah. It's really kind of torturous to try to plan meals (no cheese, and the amount of packaged food we can eat goes waaaaay down), or figure out what she could possibly eat when we go out (especially if we are somewhere longer than planned and need to eat before getting home, that's terrible.).

There are informal milk swaps, but part of the deal is that the way the biology works, it's better for the baby to have their own mother's milk ( if you're giving another mother's milk, it's statistically not much different than formula [to anyone reading, I know this is a controversial statement simplifying a complex issue]).
Yup - I've been using it with the team for the past month or so. I like. I used to use it a few years ago (earlier iteration) with a different team but it never quite stuck, but the new version is pretty great.

There's only one feature I feel like it's missing -- the ability to write a "note" or other description of a project. Right now, you can create a project and give it a name, but there's no way to give it any details about what the project is, etc. You have to create a "task", which feels kinda like a hack.

Otherwise, thumbs-up so far...
This was caught by a spam filter but then unkilled when someone flagged it. That, of course, was a bug at our end. It should be fixed now.
When you're sufficiently old, disabled, or sleepy, driving isn't such a good idea either.
> Likely some portions of the system matter and some don't. ....... but I do think large swathes of software are completely immune because failure has no consequences

This is where software seems unique - this seems false to me. A common failure mode of software is code execution, which has nearly unlimited consequences.

E.g. my D&D utility could read and write files. But it might have a bug in the file reading code (Edit: or anywhere in the code), which someone could exploit with a properly crafted file to gain access to the user's computer. But you said this utility was immune to failure. It seems clear to me that it isn't.

There is no physical object analogy here that makes sense to me. It would be like - if you used your black and decker drill on a piece of wood someone gave you, it could electrocute you if there were a flaw in the drill bit. Or it could turn off your refrigerator. Or it could play a song to you. This makes no sense, but this is the world software lives in.

Edit: or do you mean no physical consequences, so only software controlling physical devices require the proper licensing?
The effectiveness of a UV lamp decreases with age, so they can stop being effective long before they actually burn out. There should be a manufacturer rating on the lamp, which will depend on its composition and other things.

As an example the lamps I use have a rating of ~8000hrs, about a year, but to the outside observer they'll still look functional until they blow after 2-3 years.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/nerves-rattled-by-hi...
For me it was:

1. a similar interface across all platforms with similar features and behavior (android vs desktop text editing is a very different experience)

2. tagging/enhanced search

3. hyperlinks to other nodes and the Internet. This is incredibly powerful to me for nodes that are relevant in multiple contexts. You can put copy/paste the URL of any node into any other and viola, workflowy symlinks!

4. FOCUS. I have ~15k lines of notes in workfowy, but am still able to "zoom in" and focus on the content of just one note. That is super powerful for my productivity. A text editor with 16 spaces of indent and squished text to the right just does not do that for me. In fact, that will probably stress me out more.
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Could you please elaborate on how you did that?
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem go car free eery Yom Kippur. Driving ends at sunset, and you can feel and smell the difference within the first hour.
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Over-saving? Domestic consumption would be lower since savings/investment are higher. Could lead to buildup of inventories, and make existing investment projects non-viable.

But I guess in Japan most of the portion of savings goes into international investments, which is good.
Square isn't public so I imagine that the private stakeholders either are OK with him taking the job or aren't able to stop him (if he owns enough stock).
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/3mvrw4/tamei_categori...
> because Buzzfeed is very explicit about what it is and what is not.

Are you sure about this assertion?

The site is full of neglecting to give credit where credit is due [0] [1] [2], spreading false rumors about important topics [3], and blatantly lying that their business does not rely solely on clickbait [4]

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/r8VBF
[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/7Ah53
[2] http://gawker.com/5922038/remix-everything-buzzfeed-and-the-...

[3] http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/07/buzzfeed-helped-spread-...

[4] http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/why-buzzfeed-doesnt-do-clic...

While you, an informed HN reader, would not take BF seriously, unfortunately very many people do.
I hope this code finds way into mainstream system information apps on App Store.
Here is the document of the Mangiamele opinion: http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/agc...
What are you on about? For any given type of fuel, fuel consumption is related exactly 1:1 proportionately to CO2 emission (as carbon particulate and CO emissions are microscopically small these days). That is basic chemistry - where else would the fuel go?

Therefore any claim about CO2 emissions equates to a claim about fuel consumption.
Fresh installs from what media though? "Pre-activated" Windows ISOs are freely available on any torrent search site with who-knows-what added.
I agree decision trees are more natural here, but even they are overkill, I think: all that needs to be learned is a function from the 8 neighbors to the center, which means from 8 bits to 2 bits, or in other words, there are just 256 values to be learned.

Literally any reasonable learning algorithm, even nearest neighbor, will learn that fairly quickly. The article had to use millions of samples, which is extremely excessive - a more efficient algorithm should only require thousands.

What might be interesting could be to see whether the neural network learns the underlying rule, that placement does not matter, only the sum matters, and that the crucial value is "3". That would be cool to see.
Approximately nothing installed via Windows Update will protect most people from most threats they might find on web sites.

It's far more important to keep your browser and plug-ins updated to guard against those threats. Personally I also block almost all ads and other third party content, primarily on security and privacy grounds, which also significantly reduces the risk of running into malware while browsing.

If IE or Edge is your browser of choice then of course updates for those are going to be a priority for the same reasons. But even then, if someone has managed to compromise sites like Google's or Microsoft's so you can't even do a ten second web search before installing a patch without getting hit by an exploit that patch would have blocked, we're all in pretty big trouble anyway.
This is like the software engineering equivalent of someone who only wears Nike clothes.
I was anticipating this to be "Learning (Programming at Scale)" but it's instead "(Learning Programming) at Scale". A slightly different challenge. :)
The way this is described is kind of confusing, especially since "dark posting" isn't really a thing anymore (i.e. unpublished posts are simply just ads). Basically how the manual process works:

1. Post several ads (which will show up in people's newsfeed's along with their friend's updates, Page post, etc) that mimics the exact phrase and imagery that you would otherwise put in your Page post.

2. Create like 5-10 of them with different creative, verbiage, etc.

3. Whichever ad gets the most engagement, you copy that ad to a Facebook post which does show up in a Page feed (and if you're lucky in people's newsfeeds). Hope it goes viral and you'll end up with clicks to your content.

Unless you have viral headlining and content ("30 things these 6 girls never thought was possible until now") this won't be that useful, as the cost/benefit of it probably isn't worth it.
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> Don't come to HN if you're expecting everything to be in layman's terms

That's not nice. Please don't do that.

I doubt that dpark is "expecting everything to be in layman's terms", but even if dpark were, many HN users would be happy to explain. And that's the kind of site we want.