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It's just one anecdote, but this jibes with my personal experience. I hated algebra (high school algebra) because it was endless tedious, mechanical manipulations and there didn't seem to be any real elegance or beauty to it. It was just memorizing "stuff" like the quadratic formula, how to rationalize denominators, blah, blah, blah. But high-school geometry was actually interesting. Seeing how the various proofs were formed and built up from pieces, and how one thing followed logically from another, that was fun.

Needless to say, my geometry grade was much better than my algebra grade.

Then, in college, taking pre-calc/Trig, it was back to a lot of boring repetition (except trig, that was actually interesting). But then in Calc I, it was fun again. The idea behind derivatives was actually interesting, and hooked me early on in Calc I.

Anyway, I always found that, other than tedium, the biggest challenge I had with math was being put off by cryptic notation. I tend to want to read things to myself in my head as I look at them on a page, and when I'm looking at (new/unfamiliar) math notation, and I don't know how to "pronounce" it to myself, my mind wants to just blank out and skip it.
Ok, so how do i explain in two sentences to my mom if she is actually on her bank or not?

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Wasn't that why Michael Abrash was hired by id way back when?
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that's unfair. Have you seen Thaumcraft? What exactly does a mod have to do for you to consider it completed? Stop development?
> Gif lags on mobile internet, and MP4 requires that we explicitly hit the play button on mobile browsers.

Wouldn't the more obvious choice be simply adding an option in browsers to not require hitting the play button (perhaps for MP4 that has no sound)?

Even with browser support for BPG, MP4 has the huge advantage of hardware acceleration in almost all modern devices[1].

[1] In theory, BPG may be able to take advantage of similar hardware acceleration, but why not just fix the user experience around an existing format rather than implement yet another format?
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MP4 to BPG conversion. What else did you expect?

We're essentially converting from one frequency-domain format to another in order to accommodate an entirely new inter-frame compression format. There definitely needs to be a frequency-domain to spatial-domain conversion, which that, in itself, is lossy, then it goes back to frequency-domain when re-encoding.

Give OP a break.
Yes, they typically under report their calorie intake, not over report it. Its not really socially acceptable to eat like 10 chocolate bars a day and hardly anything else so why say you do when you really don't?
you can't pronounce BPG like GIF, so I can't see a future for it.
Market leaders tend to push proprietary stacks (because they can). While underdogs push open stacks (because they must). If the open standard is better it can win. This is how nvidia gained the upper hand over 3dfx by pushing opengl and directx alongside ATI. They surged ahead and glide died along with 3dfx.

Behold, history repeats itself.

I'm hoping that Vulcan will be that new competitive standard moving forward. I don't have much hope for open hardware and open drivers from market leaders (who are too concerned with losing their edge to competitors) but I would be happy with an open API that leads in performance across vendors.
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and static analyzers would yell at you for one or two of them, too
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Calling actions and decisions of humans "the times" does not make them a force of nature.
Exactly what I was about to say, but less cynical than I would have put it. Thank you for sparing us all from my snarky remarks.

OP: Don't degrade your accomplishment by comparing it to Pinterest. The super smooth scrolling makes this feel way better than Pinterest!
> Kids disengage from math for many different reasons. There is no single pattern to it.

I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but not this. The pattern is depressingly clear. People are taught math by teachers who don't really understand it and didn't like it themselves; most of the students wind up in the same place, and so each generation poisons the next. Elementary school teachers especially tend to be drawn from the subset of the population that doesn't like math.

And it starts with the idea that math is all about rote memorization. I would go farther than Marvin did with the flash cards. I would say, for each fact, let's work it out by the standard algorithm, then see if we can find two or three more ways to arrive at it: by distributing multiplication over addition (e.g. 7 × 6 = (6 + 1) × 6 = 6 × 6 + 6 = 36 + 6) or by factoring one multiplicand and reassociating (e.g. 7 × 6 = 7 × 2 × 3 = (7 × 3) × 2 = 21 × 2, which is easy because you can double both digits of 21 without generating a number bigger than 10).

So when I read the reply of the "traditional teacher" to the 6-year-old who had a novel way of computing 15 + 15 -- "Your answer is right but your method was wrong" -- I think that if this was a real anecdote, the teacher should have been fired on the spot, for not understanding the first thing about mathematics! But sadly, no one could probably have been found to replace this teacher who wouldn't have suffered from the same fundamental misconception. It's not about knowing the "right" way: it's about knowing many ways.
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You can read the answers from mojang_tommo here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/3ff2dy/minecraft...
I tried this a few years ago as an experiment and built a site around it - www.routeviewer.com - the cycling is disabled

A video is available at -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujA9AqCs0Ok

I initially connect up an arduino, but then moved to ant+ protocol over a dongle. . The biggest problem is the refresh rates arent good enough on Streetview for proper cycling - plus the usage on google maps was high - so i ditched it
Who said anything about ignoring it? It is a tangential question.
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For one, Microsoft actually makes and sells games and consoles. It's always been a big part of their DNA.
Burning your poop isn't necessary, but yes, weighing your food is a good idea. Want to know how much you're really absorbing from food? Calculate your real TDEE: https://www.reddit.com/r/leangains/comments/2rv09z/this_is_h...

No matter what conditions you may have (or think you have) the above method will tell you exactly how much your total daily energy expenditure is, including what passes through you that you don't absorb, so you can know how much you need to eat to lose, maintain or gain.
Especially given that Asimov said he stopped understanding Calculus when he got stuck on the Quotient Rule (i.e., couldn't be bothered to learn the proof)
One of my favourite youtube channels is BigClivedotcom's, where he takes apart a bunch of cheap gadgets.

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Maybe a nitpick, but I think this section could be clearer:

"Except HTTPS traffic won't show up on Malory's screen: things encrypted with a website's public key can only be decrypted with the website's private key. Because the website's private key is (hopefully) only available to the website, Malory can't decrypt the traffic."

I know it's just an overview, but this explanation seems a bit confusing. I mean, it's true that the trust is anchored on the private key but that's only one part of it.

My (simple) understanding of TLS is that basically, the public/private keys are used to secure the shared secrets used to derive the symmetric session keys OR to authenticate something like a DH key exchange that's used to derive the session keys. In the first case, the client would generated a shared secret, encrypt with the public key, and then send to the server. In the second case, the authenticated DH key exchange allows both client/server to arrive at the shared secrets.

In either case, it's these symmetric session keys which are used to encrypt/decrypt the traffic.

My understanding is that even if you capture the encrypted traffic and then later on, you obtain the private key, you wouldn't be able to decrypt the traffic if the parties used something like a DH key exchange. (This would be (perfect) forward secrecy?) Of course if you have the private key and no one knows yet, then you could impersonate the server and MiTM future connections, I think.

Someone with better knowledge could explain this better.
Assuming one hit in the entire fellowship program, at which point:

1.5e6/2e4 = 75 fellowships

So each 100MM 'hit' funds 75 fellows. Would be hard to imagine they expect to do much better than that in terms of hit rate, so naively, the program seems to mostly be revenue neutral.
And the fork called Voxelands: http://www.voxelands.com/about.html
If it's a fantastic tool, does it matter if it's abandonware? Is nobody working on it because it does what it's supposed to do, is reasonably bug-free, and so it needs no work?
Yes. We have added a .NET certified stack for use in workspaces. C# syntax highlighting is tested. The product has ASP.NET examples out of the box.

We are working on some other things for Microsoft related to how to integrate with foundation services repos & MSFT oAuth for security purposes. It was mid-motion but not quite done for the beta.
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Poke around the site and look at the code on Github, with what looks like ISC/BSD licenses.
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Except it doesn't in the realm of weight gain/loss. People's metabolisms vary by a wide margin, we could both eat exactly the same and I could lose weight, while you gain.
A few options:

- The SNI extension can tell you the hostname you're connecting to even over SSL, just like the Host: http header they're already using. This is visible in the clear during the SSL handshake. SSL connections do not mask what you're connecting to at all, nor do they attempt to.

- They selectively pick the video service's CDN IPs and slow them down
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> Your quote concludes with an attempt to completely sever ties with Oculus.

While technically true, that again makes it sound dramatic for no apparent reason. Choosing to not work with a company because you're uninterested in being associated with what they do is not something beyond the pale, even if many others have no problem with that thing.

To take a topical example, did Jonathan Blow "completely sever ties" with Microsoft because he has The Witness on PS4 and not the Xbox One because Sony actually cared about indie developers at the time he was looking at consoles to develop on? I guess you could say that if you wanted some click bait (and I'm sure more than a few gaming blogs did), but don't pretend that it's somehow getting to the "nature of the underlying action".
So I could slightly change those scenarios: in scenario A, you do the lobbying and political organization yourself. In scenario B, you donate all your extra money to a PAC or some sort of lobbying organization, which ideally has been doing this sort of thing for years or even decades and has deep political connections.
> why it was not fair for Oculus to sell if it was fair for him to sell.

It probably felt unfair to him because Oculus was kickstarted by gamers (like Notch), and Minecraft was self-funded.

Since the backers (gamers) felt like they were stakeholders on Oculus, they probably were disappointed that Oculus was bought by Facebook, rather than Bethsida or Valve.
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The article agues that while they serve different purposes, there is still only so much free time each person has in a day. Both, Twitter and Facebook, are in competition for this free time and from that perspective you can compare them directly.
things move forward; like it or not. Some people spend their entire lives trying to live the same moment over and over because that's what they know. The factory you worked at shutdown; you need to move on, and if that means moving to another town to find work, then do that. Don't just hunker down and demand everyone help you. (unless you are asking for help to move and find a job.)
The terms were interchangeable back in the Cold War, everywhere outside academia; and there are interesting continuities between the Tsars and the Soviets. "Glasnost" and "perestroika" were first used in reference to Peter the Great's policies, and Great Russia (Russia proper) was known as Red Russia as far back as, I think, the 1400s.

Also: _The Structures of Everyday Life_ and _Simplicius Simplicissimus_ both touch on Russia, in ways that suggest that the country (post-Mongol-conquest) always did have a certain amount of proto-Sovietness to it -- alcohol sales as a state monopoly, for example, or arms always coming from royal treasuries.
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For things like this SELinux really comes in handy.
Absolutely, I go on Facebook to keep in touch with people I know personally. I go on Twitter to get updates from people I don't know personally, like bands, celebrities, comedians, authors, etc. Two different audiences and purposes.
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This is fantastic. Great work! How long have you guys been working on this?
The problem with the hobbyist approach (and this is coming from someone who owns multiple Raspberry Pis) is that you most hobbyist don't really have the resources to tackle every engineering aspect of building a reliable camera. We have people dedicated to fine tuning the WiFi drivers in the device, writing scalable and secure video storage/streaming services, figuring out the thermal profile of every component in the cameras, minimizing noise in the camera CMOS and the WiFi antennas, making embedded software that will reliably reboot itself after a catastrophic crash... etc, etc, etc.

Don't get me wrong, every one of those aspects is a lot of fun to tackle on your own, but ultimately would you trust your home to something you can throw together in a few weekends? After seeing the amount of work these guys put, I probably wouldn't.
The most important modification being the editorializing, which is most of the value to be found in reading this version. :-)
No they can't.

While it's true that people's metabolisms vary widely, and the amount of calories for one individual to maintain weight might make another gain, it's not true that the weight gain is outside of their control. They have control over how much food they eat.

If you're gaining weight, it means you're eating more than your body can burn, so you need to eat less.

This is not as attractive an answer as "i just have the wrong gut microbiota" but it's far more accurate.
This resonates very strongly with my experience helping my two kids (11,13) with their math work. Their teachers have not always been as helpful as they might in this respect, for example marking test solutions as entirely incorrect when the student has made a stupid arithmetic mistake in the working but otherwise demonstrated a proper understanding of how to solve the problem. I'm not arguing that incorrect answers should be rewarded, but it does seem to demotivate the student when they are punished for a mistake performing a task that no adult would need to perform (we use computers and calculators for our arithmetic, and have done since I was my kids age in the 1970s).
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This looks cool, but seems to have too many issues for me to go all in right now.
plus it is very good leadgen for core

plus it helps to avoid that people run into very bad decisions at early stage

plus it keeps yc interesting for early stage startups even though core expects more and more advanced startups
It is something less than a force of nature, but not with moving with the times is still stupid and unadaptable.

If you feel strongly about defending the people who were left behind, you can get to work supporting the candlemaker's guild. (Or you could buy me a sailboat! Practicing obsolete methods of transportation is a ton of fun.)
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Because people won't let go of their heuristics, and also the shame and judgement they put on people for being overweight (most of the time, originating in how people treat themselves when overweight).
I keep hearing pundits try to explain why lower pump prices haven't turned directly into consumer spending.

My crazy theory, and IANAE, is that it's because consumers are now finally trying to fix their balance sheets, like banks and corporations have been doing for the last few years.

People are just now starting to dig out, fix their retirements or emergency funds.

And maybe this is a totally spurious correlation, but look at inflation-adjusted home prices over the last 100 years, and compare it to per capita savings over the last 100 years. You'll see some similar inverted pivots. Real home prices start to tick up in the mid-70s, after a few decades decline, and per capita savings reverses, suddenly starts dropping. Maybe people were leaning heavy on their real estate as savings while it was appreciating, and they're now reevaluating that, trying to build up a lot of cash as well.

(On the other hand, a lot of other things affected savings rates at that time, like the rise of preapproved simple credit, so I might be way off.)

tl;dr Money saved from lower pump prices is going right into savings. Might lead to higher consumer spending down the line, we'll see.
If a company "graduates" from YC Fellowship to YC Core, will YC be taking the standard YC Core equity on top of the 1.5%, or will it be some different number?
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That's cool... but Sublime is already like using Sublime.
Thank you! :)
First demo was built in the mid November and then we did a soft launch on December 7.
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For me, that is fine; the way the "world has moved" happens to be in a direction that fits well with my natural talents. But your assumption is that every person is more or less equally trainable for more or less any job, and that is obviously untrue. If the "world moved" in a direction that didn't happen to fit well with what I can successfully train myself at, I'd hope not to be thrown under the bus by my country.

For example, if some day computers program themselves and the jobs are all in looking beautiful and performing in public, I'd be doing a lot less well. Globalization only seems inevitable if it happens to be moving the globe your way.
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To be fair, he gets to do things he is really into, compared to mentioned 100 average programmers that probably works on some less stellar projects, often bogged down with red-tape and middle management o-plenty
Haha okay I'm done. You've very obviously a troll. All you want to do is try to (falsely) redirect the conversation far, far away from your hyperbolic claims that you have still yet to source (and you obviously never will). You're sitting here arguing over the intent of a statement made by someone not even in this argument simply because I stated I thought it was sarcasm but then went on the explain how it didn't even matter if it was sarcasm and why.

Go back to reddit and have run arguing with yourself.
My question was in regards to fundamental basis and not the abstractions built on top of that basis.
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The caloric content of olive oil is not virtually nil, and you can in fact consume a whole bottle of olive oil. Does "thermodynamics" dictate that you'll gain several pounds of fat after you do that?

Your answer, of course, is "no". So just to move the conversation forwards: do you think if 3 random people consumed a bottle of olive oil, they would necessarily gain an equivalent amount of weight? Why or why not?
That's still unclear from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10975187 I'd guess yes but perhaps Kevin can ring in.
I don't know if you mean daily dietary changes but I feel very different mentally when on a strict keto diet.
When it gets to a chemical bank hooked up to an mister so that you can get the right smells, then I'll know it has gone too far :-)
I agree. The problem is that "boring" won't make money and "great" is too expensive. So "boring" has to be cheap (read: crappy) to work for the manufacturer.

Unrelated, but I had a similar issue when trying to find a "dumb" TV: most of the high-end screens come attached to crappy software that you know will stop receiving updates 2 years down the road, and the cheap ones were super low quality. I got lucky in the end, but it took a few weeks of research to find the right balance.
The reality is that people who are less well-off often do not have the "liquidity" to rebalance their assets (educational, experiential, financial, etc.) to take advantage of changes in the global economy.

On a macro level, society benefits from globalization, but on a micro level, there are often very high personal costs. If you have spent all of your life developing skills in one area, and that suddenly falls apart, it's going to be very difficult to drop everything and start over.

As a society, we have the capability to use some of the gains to smooth out the costs for the people that lose out here, whether it's through basic income and welfare, or education and retraining.
Except it's not because anything that doesn't align with the worldview of the SO elitists that hang out on meta gets trounced.

The saving grace of meta, is it gives those guys a place to blow off their steam rather than taking it out on regular SO users.
So the state should be forced to support you because you are unwilling to learn a new trade?