skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A gentle introduction to Deferred Rendering
It's not wishful thinking, it's the ONLY right way of thinking.

Everything IS peachy. Fixing problems is the opposite of what life is about. It's fine as a hobby, albeit a rather dull one (I can think of a thousand other things I'd rather be doing, but hey, whatever rings your bells).
The problem with Bitmap fonts is that they assume both a pixel density (usually about 96ppi), and a font size. With unicode and smart phones (With up to 6" screens at 4K resolution), it would be impossible to store crisp glyphs for even a fraction of the Basic Multilingual Plane; phone makers still like producing 16GB SKUs! Sure this is one extreme but the benefits of vector fonts can be felt at any ppi with adjustable font sizes.

I'm not saying bitmap fonts don't have their place, but that place is typically old computers or small embedded devices where the complexity of rendering vector fonts is an actual unnecessary performance bottleneck. Vector fonts are easy to use and quick to render, they produce crisp glyphs at virtually (Besides extremely low) resolution and pixel density.

I have a 14" 1080p laptop and so I'm not constantly squinting I use 125% windows scaling and usually about 125% scaling in Google Chrome, although it varies from website to website. With vector fonts this just works, using bitmap fonts would be a lot of ~~software~~ complexity for very little value.
Really interesting, I wrote a logic puzzle solver in Prolog a long time ago while I was in uni, I just created a repo for anyone who wants to check it out. Unfortunately the documentation and comments are all in Spanish...

https://github.com/Anilm3/Logic-Puzzle-Solver
> underspecified, possibly unachievable "something else"

I think it's pretty well outlined what is that "something else". The implementation is not there (obviously), but the API exists, for example anti-immigration, [edit]pro-protectionism etc. Most people dismiss it as non-existent though, due to liberal reflexes.
ARM chip designer to be bought by Japan's Softbank for $31.4 billion
I didn't notice that this was a GSoC project, but I don't really think that makes much difference. If someone submits a bunch of code, and the only kind of comment on it they get is "there's no newline before this 'continue' statement", then that's bound to be frustrating and discouraging. It seems that the developers just didn't want this guy's contributions and were looking for an excuse to reject the code. I think that's certainly the impression that the Indian programmer got, which is what led to his defensive reaction. The whole interaction could have gone very differently if someone had thought to include a simple "thank you" in the comments. As it stands, this is just pointless and counterproductive hazing of a new contributor. It gives the maintainers of the project the chance to grandstand (which they appear to relish), but accomplishes absolutely nothing besides that.
Not the ST, which would be the competition we're talking about vs the C64, etc.
How We’ve Managed Growth Pains with Transparency and Communication
>I'm done reading books in long series that haven't been finished yet.

That was my main takeaway from the WoT thing too, and we were lucky he was able to pass on his notes to Sanderson and talk him through the "vision". I'm not going to set myself up for that risk again. Looking at you GoT.
All credit to the original author, https://while.io/
Same - recently switched from Linux to a Windows 10 laptop. Between the virtual desktops and resizable command prompt with clipboard support (along with git tools for Windows that allow ls grep etc in command prompt and along with AHK to implement decent workspace switching) it's almost caught up :)
Your error is here, equality is wrong: -1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ... = (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) ...

In first series, there are 2 different elements (1 and -1) and series can end at any one of them rendering the end result of the sum uncertain. On second one there is only one element - (-1 + 1) which is 0, so wherever you end it the result is always the same.
This article has now been deleted? Anyone grab a copy before it went down?
There is a chapter on WordStar in "In Search of Stupidity" by Merrill Chapman.

In it Chapman says that this was due to internal and external confusion and competition between WordStar and Wordstar2000.

The book is a great read by the way.
They basically merged with (took a controlling interest in?) Sprint a few years ago. That's when I found out who they were.
Boy were they unpopular though.

They built a machine to compete with the C64 at the time when Amiga was the new thing.
I think they had a dock and you could get really big items too. IIRC, the farmer I worked for picked up a giant generator on a flatbed at one of these places.

Not sure if that was a Sears purchase or not though.
Define "permanent" and "occupation". You mean like the way the U.S. still has troops in Europe after 75 years, and Korea after 60? Do those count as "occupations"?

There's a lot of room between keeping support troops on hand and a full-scale military occupation.
salty is slang for "envious"
Similarly, but for me it was Vista. I'm still on Win7 until MS comes up with "better 7", nothing so far...
This isn't meant to be snarky, but what ads do you want to see? If you don't care for ads in the first place, does it even matter what is advertised? NSFW and personal material withstanding of course.

Edit: To better explain, I also don't care for ads. Thus, I don't care if all my ads are from products that launched 5 years ago. Or for a new Hotmail account. Or a new PalmPilot. I would eventually notice, but I'd just shrug and continue browsing.
Some statistics. TL;DR Lepton indeed provides about 22% of size savings.

When running Lepton through JPEG photos downloaded from Flickr, I've got about 23.37% of size savings.

When running Lepton through JPEGs generated by mozjpeg (default settings: -quality 75, progressive) from JPEG photos download from Flickr, I've got 22.63% of size savings.

The mozjpeg output is about 3.83 times smaller than the original JPEG photo, on average.
>refuse to pay my cell phone bill and switch to one of the 3 competitors

You can't just "refuse to pay your cellphone bill" just like you can't just refuse to pay your credit card bill or refuse to pay your electric bill.
What sales? most of current installs come from underhanded malware infection.
He's at a European university on an EU grant via a British institution. It's hard to see how that would continue.

There was no rationale behind his leave vote other than the EU being the "empire of evil" that we must free ourselves from for freedom. Same applied to everyone else I spoke with that evening.
The Register, in the tradition of British rags, uses somewhat hyperbolic/clickbaity headlines. You'll note that torpedoing isn't used in the copy, just the heading.

I agree, though; for someone who (a) is a volunteer and (b) is doing it because he dislikes the direction of the organization, this is a remarkably civil disentangling.
My dad Bryce Bayer (Kodak Rochester) worked closely with Phil Powell (Kodak England) throughout this period. I don't know what Phil Powell specifically contributed to the 'Bayer filter'. I do know that my dad would have liked to have shared credit for all related work on digital photography, but that Kodak Rochester did not want to share credit with Kodak England. I'm also a mathematician, and I see how the details may be beside the point: When one grows a tree together, one wants to view all fruit of the tree as shared.
The feeling is mutual.
Kyte
This ought to be obvious, yet you're the only person on HN (or anywhere) who has ever agreed with me on this stuff. Where can I send you money?
The people you are talking about are either your coworkers or those you've met in a workplace related environment, correct? Management wants to do the best things as quickly and cheaply as possible, and anyone who speaks out about it publicly or to their coworkers would be doing harm to their career.

The same is true in any industry. On the factory floor, workers who complain loudly about immigrants working side by side them at the workplace will get them fired.

The same people who you think are all for globalization of the workforce, may also be part of the "trump/Bernie voting masses" behind closed doors.

As for the CEO jobs, there isn't a large group of voters that identify with candidates. I mean, this is getting kind of silly. Do I really need to explain why someone competing for a CEO job with an immigrant can't look to the political process to help them?

And anyway, even if I'm wrong and tech workers are for the race to the bottom, you are quibbling about minor things while ignoring my main point. Do you really think there is morality in denying the lower class a voice to help change the situation they are in? Are the laws shat out by our ancestors so great we cannot change them, even though the result turned out not to be so good? Is it like a board game, in that if you lose, it's unfair to complain because you should have been able to deduce what would happen from the beginning?

What, exactly, do you mean when you refer to the elite as "honest, moral and principled individuals" in your parent post?
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I wrote a similar (first) version on my Spectrum 48k. For some reason it initiated the same kind of colour cycle that you'd get when loading a program.
That's pretty much it. No time series just yet, just an existing Mongo set that I'm trying to wrap my head around, and that means picking it up ASAP.

I've messed around with Cassandra, but not in much depth. I ran into the way it treats NULL, and that all searchable fields must be indexed, and put it on the backburner for later.
I have read two of Sandersons books and just couldn't find myself caring about the characters; is there a specific one that you liked a lot?

With that said, you may want to check out" The Name of the wind" and any of hugh howys stuff (start with wool)...
It doesn't help there are 1st world influences mucking up the natural ecosystem there. For example, US attempting to overthrow Assad is not a natural process.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/world/middleeast/us-relies...
Yes but ARM shares are up since Brexit, more than offsetting the GBP loss.
Only one interruption? I assume you refer to the interregnum - but there were plenty of violent successions, imports of royalty from overseas to continue the crown, and changes in governance so fundamental it's hard to view it as the same state.

I mean, you don't consider yourself French, do you? If you view yourself as being a member of that "continuous" state, you should, for by that measure we are Normans.
>How about a message that everything is just peachy, for a change?

That should only happen when things are actually "just peachy". It might be a while before then. Several years at least.
Juno, a permissioned smart contracts ledger, built by two former JPM employees
Eliezer is one of LW's more controversial writers. After the Roko's Basilisk fiasco erupted in LW, it's been pretty hard to bring his name up in HN without people posting scathing critiques and attacks.
And a wheel of cheese.
Chrome feels faster, and speed matters.
Just drop a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon in Antarctic ice sheets. You'll drown the world. http://qz.com/651615/a-melting-antartica-might-make-the-seas...
I note the smillie but could you actually expand on that comment for someone who is only really familiar with relational databases?

I've recently become interested in using PouchDB (a CounchDB implementation) for syncing offline content between a user's browser and server where the content is based on a set of fixed documents. I believe that MongoDB can provide similar replication tricks. Once on the server I would expect to extract the data from the documents into a relational warehouse database (probably PostgreSQL as it's one of the databases I know best).

A document store _seems_ like the right tool for the job but could expand on why something like Mongo or Couch is a bad idea for situations where you're just storing/syncing documents?
A lot of people here mention Prolog as another tool to solve this problem. I wonder if there's a natural way to combine constraint solving with simulated annealing.
I don't quite get why video feed is such a problem. Can't it be recorded and then transmitted a few minutes later?
One way to survive international competition is to ship heavy bulk stuff. I clicked around Eastman's site and reading between the lines their revenue is about $9B and figure a buck per pound accurate to one sig fig so they're shipping maybe ten billion pounds of product annually.

Now China's entire export economy to the entire world is only thirty-something million TEU annually. Figure 50K pounds cargo per TEU and compare, and if I did the math right in my head, one obscure lube oil and plastic resin company sells about 1% of China's total worldwide export capacity.

(All of the above is accurate to about one sig fig, and if China has finally topped 40 megaTEU thats all very nice but doesn't fundamentally change the conclusion anyway)

I mean, that's not realistic to ship across the planet, just too much of it, too heavy, global shipping isn't "big enough" to eat low value product.

Now something high value per pound like photographic film, Kodak would be out of business today in the USA anyway even if film were still in business. Ready to use photo film has a high enough dollar per pound density to be worth shipping across the world.
The Mac folks understood a lot more about personal computers than the IBM folks. For instance, the graphics hardware on the Mac wasn't much to write home about, but the PC's graphics was unbelievable garbage that had no hope of performing well (it probably set back GUI development on the PC by five years). The Mac's sound wasn't great, but the PC had a speaker hooked to a TTL port, with the same engineering sophistication as the backup alarm on a garbage truck. Decent sound on the PC finally became real and relatively well adopted in the early 1990s.

On the PC there were a lot of fights about standard ways to do things that just worked on the Mac: Memory expansion (that was a whole industry right there), graphics, networking, mice. Even the CPU needed a turbo button to work correctly. Just about the only piece of the PC that universally worked and didn't beg for improvement was the keyboard.

So you can argue that the "crappy PC" spawned a bunch of industries to fix things, while the Mac, which was a lot closer to perfection, only spawned small businesses to satisfy niche needs. Apple nearly died in the 1990s because the alternatives finally caught up to them, a decade later, and Apple couldn't satisfy the computing industry alone. Still can't, doesn't try.

But I had a PC (256K, two floppies) and I had a Mac, and I sold the Mac because I couldn't develop software on it without going crazy (early Mac development was pretty painful; at one point I was seriously considering FORTH, and I hate FORTH).
Taming the events: How we regained petabyte-scale Hive query power
It's likely getting downvoted so badly because of the use of "crapware" to describe the product - which is a negative contribution to the discussion here.
Those clowns over at Dropwizard and the Play Framework can bite a rock
Well, we ran a billion queries per day on a 1.4TB system I was in charge of a couple years ago. Now we're building a 500+TB reporting system and probably putting it on Postgres-XL. Seems to scale fine to me. ;)
IIRC Trucks are the shape they are because of maximum length restrictions. (Making the 'nose' longer and more aerodynamic sacrifices cargo space.)

I believe that, in Europe at least, these restrictions are due to be relaxed, so we'll start seeing more aerodynamic trucks in the coming years.
Let's Run Lisp on a Microcontroller
That 1/2 instantly bothered me. Who decides that average of fluctuation between 2 values is their sum? I understand how it works out to call the sum 1/2, but only if the definition of "sum" is changed. More accurate description of number would be something like "convergence of average of sums of Nth element, where N is going to infinity" (call it X). And when looked at it like that, we see that other numbers, like 1/4 are understandable too. But the -1/12 is not even X. It is a number that we get by manipulating X of one series with X of a couple of other series by applying some arbitrary rules that doesn't necessarily make the number mean what the mathematician in the video thinks it means. I am sure the number can be made useful in certain problem, but to call it "sum of infinite series" is just plain wrong.
I feel like functional lenses have vastly improved upon this idea now by (a) being first class, (b) being completely composable, and (c) being general enough to include notions of access into sum types and having multiple targets.
So if it's an undrinkable mud you are still happy, code executed perfectly :)
SpaceX made a Pokémon Go joke
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Why are people complaining that the game is bad? Really? Can we see what you wrote in 1982? Games like this were quickly hacked together to show the capabilities of the machine. It was done in BASIC for owner's of those machines to play with. If this was a commercial product, it would be written in assembly.

If anything, this was likely a demo of Microsoft BASIC, let's not forget that Bill Gate's first product was not an OS, but rather a BASIC interpreter written in 1975 for the Altair 8800, written in assembly on paper tape, without the actual hardware! This was written a good 5-7 years later.

While some may not like Bill Gates, he was probably a better programmer than most of you in his youth and this was before the Internet where it's now easy to get access to books, screencasts and lots of sample code via github. Give the man his respect.
It looks like it's doable with a rooted device. See section "Setting Flags for Chrome on Android".

http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/run-chromium-with...

A successful experiment may be deserving of a blog post.
what events? It would be great if he spoke openly, so people not following tor very intensively would know what is so concerning. Yes, I am living under a rock.
Electric Pencil
Actually, check out this long exposure:

http://i.imgur.com/sy6cSDV.jpg

It shows all 5 burns, in one shot. From a /r/spacex comment [1], we have:

1 - The ascent burn of the 9 Merlin-1D engines: the long bright arc upwards,
2 - the single Merlin-1D-Vac second stage burn: the thin, short line starting after the short pause of MECO,
3 - the 3-engine 'boostback burn' of the first stage, the upwards arcing thin 'fish hook' part that is overlaid with the thin second stage arc - which sent the first stage on a return trajectory towards Landing Zone 1,
4 - the 3-engine 're-entry burn' of the first stage at an altitude of about 50 miles: the bright vertical line above the ascent arc,
5 - and the final 1-engine 'landing burn' of the first stage: the lowest bright vertical line ending at the landing pad!

It's a fantastic photo!

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4tdi30/heres_my_lon...
Diversity is a broken product in tech. FIX IT
Given the topic, curious if anyone knows anything about "Able Danger" operations:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Danger

Or the rapid decline of terrorism (80%) following the end of the Cold War:
https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
Why would this comment be voted down? Software that tries to mislead and nag the user into taking an action that damages their computer is malware. The only reason Microsoft doesn't forcibly apply the update to all Windows computers without permission is because that would undeniably be malware. But the net effect is the same - Windows 10 is installed without the owner's knowledge or consent. Windows 10 IS malware.
Being anti-immigration is protectionism, though. Especially for the services sector. The two things are in direct contradiction to one another. The specific motivation for objecting to immigration (other than straight racism) is "protecting jobs".
You're not a non power user who upgraded to Win 10 though.
It is Alliterative

Tor Torpedoes Tonga

Perhaps they could've even gone further

Top Torian Torpedoes Tonga Tech
Making fun of ColdFusion and then picking Java and Spring for a full rewrite :) Looks like they drank too much of their own product!
Microsft metrics were always a bit dubious, they used to claim sales for pirated Windows copies as well as any copies that were given away or claimed on MSDN. Anyway, monopoly is not a healthy state for any market and honestly in the near future the exclusivity of Apps will fade and the choice of OS should be based on personal preference. Or how much better they are, not because software is only built for platform X.
+1 thanks for the link! I feel much better about the acquisition now.
Einstein's Letter to President Roosevelt – 1939
There. Better now? Not triggering anyone?

(See this for context - IMNSHO a program which does this fully deserves its accolades, no matter if it's pushed by the OS vendor or not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11846198 )
It doesn't matter if it's true or not, it's tradition :) This kind of objection is like pointing out that the Royal family are German in origin and Prince Philip is an immigrant by marriage; it's true, but not in any way relevant to the kind of people who regard the monarchy as important.

All nations have a chunk of mythos holding them together. Brexit seems to be popular among people who think that Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples is good history.
You are thinking of hashes. Look up cryptographic signatures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature
Totally agree. I have to work on Windows, and if I could get it to render fonts the same as FreeType (freetype-freeworld-2.4.1 on Fedora 23, light hinting, subpixel smoothing), I would be a happy camper.
Empower Your Kids: Hack Lab in Bristol, UK
Who do you have in mind?

From a glance at the wikipedia page, the history looks intricate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saud
I think there is some confusion in this thread. The thread is about the plan to re-fly a recovered first-stage sometime in September of this year.

The top comment is, however, about today's launch which was a new rocket as you have commented. Your comment was positioned as a reply to a different top-level comment which was on the thread's topic and it doesn't make sense in that context.
That might be a cute joke, but a better indication would be VHS camera used in the first Back to the future movie - 1984 made in Japan JVC GR-C1. The cool innovative tech gizmo wasnt US made.