skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly believe that our analytic capabilities (as a species) have grown by orders of magnitude since we built the bomb.

My entire point was that the bomb wasn't a given in it's day (in spite of what the retrospective belief seems to be), just because something is out of our grasp now doesn't mean we won't reach it if we try.
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That's pretty harsh. If misinterpreting a comment on a forum is reason to dismiss a whole team then I don't think any of us would be qualified for anything.
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I'd love to hear a direct response, but here's[1] a quote from a few years ago (specifically mentioned Unity, not UE4, but I assume the sentiment is the same).

I can't find it, but I was also reading an article a few days ago about why that person would choose to write their own engine over a third-party one. In that article (maybe it was the comments), they specifically called out the game mechanics of the The Witness and Braid as example of things traditional engines don't do very well.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/282l0k/jonathan_blow...
> Those inside the national security apparatus often seem to have difficulty differentiating harm to national security apparatchiks from harm to the nation itself.

Are you an American? I think it's is relevant to this conversation. Because if you're not, I couldn't care less what you think about this. From a non-American's perspective, it's an internal matter. You don't like America spying on other nations? I have news for you: your nation does the same thing. Espionage is the second-oldest profession. If you don't like what the NSA does in foreign SIGINT, take the plank out of your own eye first. (And then enjoy the few years your nation has left before its newfound weakness allows it to be destroyed.)

If you are an American, then I implore you to cast off your leftist, anti-American shackles and think for yourself. No nation is perfect, and there are plenty of problems in our government--that's the whole point of America to begin with, to compartmentalize and restrain government so it can't abuse the People! But this idea that America is now the source of evil in the world is a false narrative; plainly, a lie.

It's unacceptable for the DNI to lie to the People and to Congress, and it's unacceptable for any agency of the government to violate the law, of which the Constitution is the highest. However, that does not change the fact that Snowden's actions did harm American interests abroad and endanger the lives of American men and women working in harm's way.

Even if there was a part of Snowden that thought he was whistleblowing on domestic violations (which looks increasingly unlikely, especially given that he didn't even try to use the existing whistleblower apparatus), his actions were not solely that. He has defected to Russia, which is posturing itself as an enemy of the U.S., and he is now cooperating with their intelligence agencies. Even if he did expose illegal domestic activities, he also committed treason.
Change your funnel to ask for zipcode instead of address and less people will leak out. Asking for name is fine.
I did that it said it can't link to my account. I have not checked yet (My Admin password is locked up at home), but I think my account might not be configured to allow it.
No, this is absolutely wrong. The housing crisis happened because people did not appropriately price risk and subprime mortgage bonds with poor underlying mortgages were rated highly and then leveraged 30:1 by banks like GS and BoA. An extra billion dollars in insurance exposure to the greater NY area will not precipitate the another financial crisis.
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Mate, take your attitude somewhere else.
> Concurrency is also not more efficient on a single core.

Concurrency can be more efficient even on a single core. When blocking synchronous I/O is involved, concurrency may help saturate the bandwidth with multiple in-flight requests.
Huh, I lost a lot of weight when I was under more stress and gained it back when that stress was lessened.
The difference between $60k and $60M, for a fund nearly a trillion dollars large, is worth it if that person worth $60M can eek out even a few extra basis points in returns. Despite what many people believe, there are those out there who have an eye for value, and _can_ pick stocks.
It is, actually. E.g. typically you can only shoot at one opponent at a time. Even in Doom, using cover effectively reduces the number of opponents who can shoot at you while you finish killing a single opponent.

In faster-paced shooters with more range of motion, moving randomly makes it harder to get hit.
If you invested at the worst time in the past century that would be bad. If you invested in T-bills or CDs you'd have gotten murdered by inflation in that period too. NYT piece you're referencing says the average annual return over 20 years is 4.1% net of taxes, fees, and inflation. Not too bad.
There are millions of investors. The chances of a few outliers getting a long streak of returns are pretty good, even if they picked stocks at random. It's impossible to tell in advance who those lucky parties will be. But their existence is very likely.
Mostly my goal is just "do the simplest thing that doesn't look bad". My naive approach is to just clamp the values to not exceed 1.0, but it occurs to me that it might be worth asking if there's something else I should be doing instead.

I'm more interested in the computational and algorithmic side of ray-tracing, so I care more about things like constructing optimal bounding volume hierarchies than getting all the physically-correct-rending details right to produce the absolute best possible output. I just don't want the output to be ugly for easily fixable reasons.
From the release notes [0]:

> Minor improvements to file load times

I didn't even realize there was room to squeeze out more performance here. Sublime Text is wicked-fast opening pretty much everything I throw at it.

[0]: https://www.sublimetext.com/3
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A study on human behavior has identified four basic personality types
Did anyone else think the first set of bars was linear not the second? I could not notice any difference between the leftmost three bars on the bottom section. Or does this relate to how iPad renders images or something? ed: Same issue on PC.
You're not getting trolled. No one is against you, you just don't understand business and the associated costs of things that might look little to you.

On the technical side you're right, we agree. On the business side things do not work like that. For the last time: This was a terrible decision, but the best course of action for Lenovo might not be as simple as it looks for a technical standpoint.

And please, keep it civil. There's no need to call me troll just because you don't understand business.
How do you police comments and keep them from turning into an open sewer? Shills for those threatened by the work being disruptive and sock puppets for involved parties already have a long and storied history.
Are you aware how much 0.25% of $800 billion dollars is? Now, go ahead and complain about a $60M compensation.
Probably most people working in an industry related to graphics have no idea about this and things mostly work. If you get a dark band around something you can tweak it until it looks right or is good enough.

I'm troubleshooting a problem right now where two separate applications blend images together and the result is different. Both results have been shipped to clients for years and fixing it is more of "tidying things up."

But doing it right the first time or being aware helps things look right more often and can enable you to do more complex things without constantly having to tweak the results.
I'm basing those numbers on this:

http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2015/09/23...

I'm obviously not making an argument that technology hasn't advanced since the 1950s. Don't be silly.
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> All of those other systems I've mentioned also have high functioning, efficient, non-corrupt versions

I can't readily think of an example of a high functioning authoritarian Communism, but maybe there's one out there like those other forms... but I'm not sure counterexamples would go very far anyway.

I maybe said "cause" earlier, but I'm thinking "cause" in the sense that smoking causes lung cancer. You can smoke and not get cancer, and you can get cancer without smoking, but we still say they're causally related.

> The fact that so many people implicitly believe they're linked is evidence of the century long propaganda campaign

Eh, I dunno. Mostly the smart people I know who have studied economics and 20th century history seem to think there's a strong relationship, and they can provide plausible theories to explain why Communism would be particularly prone to these sorts of disasters.

Namely feedback systems... in democracies, when things go horribly wrong, the officials tend to lose power. In capitalism, when there's horrible mismanagement, those responsible tend to lose most of their capital, reducing their influence in turn. They might not always lose proportionate to the damage they caused, but the feedback is comparatively sharper than under authoritarian communism.

There are some other bits about the theory of prices as an information system, but I think feedback systems are the main issue.

Maybe those people that I think are smart are really part of a global disinformation campaign, but it seems pretty unlikely. And if all my friends are loading me up with propaganda, I'm probably screwed anyway.
@gilsadis, in response to your request for information above:

As others related, this isn't a bug report. This is about the design of your conversion funnel and the appropriateness of what levels of information I will consent to offering while your site is attempting to build a relationship with me.

When you don't know me, you can have my zip code. Show me some awesome rates based on my zip code, and maybe then I'll give you my name or email address. I don't want to leave mouse droppings of personal information all over the internet unless I am intent on engaging with your company. Got it?

And here's the truth. I am in the process of examining and amending my insurance coverage because we are deleting a car. So you lost a qualified hot lead. So hand that data to your hippo.
It's terrible. I have a similar condition due to chronic pain. I get told I'm a lazy good for nothing all the time by my parents. I've just accepted that most people won't understand.
I have heard a suggestion that PHD eligibility should require a replication. This would not only help validate (or invalidate) studies but would also over time reinforce the importance of replication culturally.
Does Sublime still exist? With all the hubub about VSCode and Atom, I've sort of forgotten about it.
Source? Estimates I see for the Manhattan Project from a quick google range from .25% to .41% of GDP.

[0] https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34645.pdf

[1] http://mitchellhowe.blogspot.com/2006/02/want-manhattan-proj...

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.09054.pdf
I used a stack this summer, noopept, l-theanine, aceytl-l-carnitine (alcar), caffeine, taurine, huperzine-a, l-tyrosine, modafinil, DHEA. I did a year's worth of work in a month and a half. . . My employer benefited, became proficient in PowerShell in two weeks with little coding experience, worked 16 hour days (it was that busy), but lost out on life, although they offered me a development position after the project. Dropped out of road biking as I wasn't eating enough to do group rides, dropped 15 pounds in a month and a half (which isn't a terrible outcome).

At the end of the day, my employer could care less about the hours and outcomes of the project, it was a total waste of time. Stay normal, have good relationships in life, routine, exercise, diet. It didn't result in any net happiness gains, analytical mind took over and I became good at doing things for other people, but not living.
I agree, but I'm also glad they're still working at it.

Sublime Text is my go to text editor for files over 10MB, and it can get a little slow loading anything over 1GB. It's awesome to know that it'll be a little faster when I get into work tomorrow.
Many of the soap brands have both antibacterial and standard soaps available, including both Softsoap and store brands.

I'll also note that the reaction may not have been to triclosan or the like but to methylisothiazolinone, which is or has been used in a very wide variety of products and is often used with at least one other product also known for allergic contact dermatitis. I HIGHLY recommend checking your child's shampoo for this, the significant scalp and palm tingling I was encountering during showers disappeared with a change of shampoo and conditioner.

I will also note the irony of 'wipes' that cause an itchy tingling dermatitis reaction...
Out of curiosity, where would one find an explanation (potentially dry, long, and complicated) of the algos you mention here?

In other words - how did you get to know them?
> a menu entry to install Package Control

If Sublime is going to acknowledge Package Control, why not just ship with it? I'm sure the Package Control folks would be glad to move their repo upstream.
Breaking changes are to be expected. Breaking changes every six months are how you ruin an ecosystem.

React releases every 6 months or so, and puts deprecation warning on anything that is breaking in the next update, so you have a full year between any breaking features, and six months for everyone to update before they land.
The design of your website, and it's readability, is great! Good job
I really, really wish it was open source. I understand why it isn't, but with its main competitors being Atom and VSCode, it's hard to warrant using a closed source text editor even if it's so much faster and I'm used to it.
I disagree completely. Ackowledging that "good methods are penalised" would challenge the line generally taken by the Economist in its socio-political pieces: that if classical liberal economic models were applied to everything, everything would work better.

What's being described here is the consequence of the application of "business thinking" and market-driven funding of science, with all the unintended consequences of trying to apply quarterly metrics to pure research. Suggesting the problem is "not enough punishment" avoids having to ask philosophically hard questions.
Seems like that would make it harder to upgrade Package Control?
The commentary referenced in the article is far better than the article itself: http://bit.ly/2cWOXmj

[0] short url provided for insanely long paywall avoiding link in the nyt OP
Is it just the camera angle, or is the AI crouching the whole time?
There are other ways. Local storage, indexedDB, WebSQL, browser fingerprinting.
Why is PE binary support a bad thing? Wine gets us mostly there already. Very interesting...
You said "weak and cowardly", which is not supported by anything in that link.
Leading to Torvalds making a comment about Red Hat going down on MS no less...
Just clamping at 1.0 is fine. HDR tonemapping trying to emulate human vision is mostly bullshit and generally looks awful anyway.

As long as you're rendering in a linear space (which means simply that you've gamma-corrected all your inputs) and displaying with a display gamma applied, then you're fine.

Beyond that you might choose to emulate a "film look" by applying an S-curve to your image.

EDIT: also, you really don't want to be clamping at all when saving images - just write out a floating-point OpenEXR file.
Bloomberg has some of the best tech departments I've had the pleasure interviewing with. Besides being a media company, they also run a few exchanges, such as one of the largest bond exchanges in the world, and their tech people are on point. Totally to rate. I completely underestimated them until the recruiter I was working with set me up with them, and I was completely shocked at how good they were. Their top group at least was very very talented.
Or you could get a Mini Cooper today for around 16.000 pounds. In the 1960s you could get a Trabant for less than than the Mini too if you're comparing English vs Romanian cars.
And it's still improving quite a bit (syntax definition files seem much better than on the atom editors, etc)
Halt and Catch Fire - where ibm mainframes boot into dos, quality stuff
I really liked Daniel Spiewak article about it: http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/bloom-filters-in-scala
I can promise you that there are not ~$100 in taxes on a $5 item, "luxury" or not. There's something else at play there.
I've been working for Jon since January.

Part of the reason is allowing it to have a different release cadence, but also to not default to making outbound network connections without a user opting in.
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They hired the guy developing Package Control and I believe they're working on integrating it into Sublime, just a matter of time.
Ask HN: How will YC be helping Project Include?
Recently YC joined Project Include [1], are there any details on how this partnership will work?

[1] https://medium.com/projectinclude/agreeing-to-disagree-3571d0bb820
very cool

I was thinking, you could probably train a neural network to learn how to remove gridlines from the image also.
>Does Sublime still exist?

Did you even click the link? This is an update changelog...

Having said that, while competitors have popped up like Visual Studio Code which is pretty darn good, Sublime was one of the first text editors that I used years ago when the landscape was primarily dominated by Dreamweaver and TextMate. It was a step-up from Notepad++ which many open source lovers used, but lacked the finesse that ST brought to the table. When it comes to opening large files, especially large SQL dumps >1gb, Sublime Text is still the king in my opinion. I still occasionally need to do a find and replace on a large file and nothing beats Sublime Text (except maybe command line editors like Vi/Vim, which I can't use).

I primarily focus on front-end development nowadays, so I primarily use Webstorm, but if I need to write some Markdown, edit some PHP/Python or edit large files, Sublime is still my go-to. Such a shame people think you need to update something every day to keep using it, ST has been incredibly stable for years now. Even ST3 which was in beta for years has been quite stable.
Interesting. I do like that it's open-source hardware.

Note that you can build your own, with a raspberry pi and a GPS add-on board that sends a 1 pulse-per-second signal through the GPIO pins. Sample instructions here:

http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html

And the GPS board can be purchased here:

https://store.uputronics.com/index.php?route=product/product...
Lenovo's customer support is a bunch of script-readers.

To be fair, they've responded to my tweets, but only because I have nearly 10k followers.
> so your "of course" is illegitimate.

> that's basic arithmetic.

> That's a non sequitur motivated by observation.

Gotta say I'm unconvinced by your argument.
Hardware is end of life.
This is one of the most fascinating articles I've come across on HN, and so well explained, so thank you.

But I wonder about what the "right" way to blend gradients really is -- the article shows how linear blending of bright hues results in an arguably more natural transition.

Yet a linear blending from black to white would actually, perceptually, feel too light -- exactly what Fig. 1 looks like -- the whole point is that a black-to-white gradient looks more even if calculated in sRGB, and not linearly.

So for gradients intended to look good to human eyes, or more specifically that change at a perceptually constant rate, what is the right algorithm when color is taken into account?

I wonder if relying just on gamma (which maps only brightness) is not enough, but whether there are equivalent curves for hue and saturation? For example, looking at any circular HSV color picker, we've very sensitive to changes around blue, and much less so around green -- is there an equivalent perceptual "gamma" for hue? Should we take that into an account for even better gradients, and calculate gradients as linear transitions in HSV rather than RGB?
Definitely appreciate that, but couldn't it be a click-through prompt before making a connection? VLC does something similar on first install.
For Google, the web is the desktop. They have a Google Music desktop client: it's any standards compliant browser (yes, it has access to files and filesystem sync). And because it's the web, it supports Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Actually... the Government heavily subsidises food and water. They don't go further because that'd be socialism and scare people.
Random joe user should probably not be messing around with his bios or should at least be smart enough to know what he changed or at worst reset his bios to default.

If not use the tech support you pay for.
CIOs & CTOs make that in Australia as well - though in AU dollars. Some consultants I know make considerably more.
> Dear god, am I supposed to care about the shareholders now? People don't buy products out of empathy for shareholders.

No. People buy Lenovo because many reasons, but not because of empathy... or because their friendliness to Linux.

And, by the way, you still don't get it. You're not the one to decide on behalf of Lenovo what's reasonable for them to do, unless you're their CEO. You can say this or that is reasonable, but ultimately they are the ones responsible to decide what's best for the business (I.e. for the shareholders).

> I don't consider "higher support costs" to be a valid pretext for trying to obstruct me from configuring my property as I please.

Nobody cares what you consider valid, unless you share opinion with a majority. That's, unfortunately, how the world works.

And actually you can run Linux on it. You just have to write the driver, or pay someone to do it. Or use an external HD, or live boot...

Ask Intel about why there's no driver. Ask Lenovo why they've used Intel hardware (this second one might be easier to answer).

> The idea that people may cluelessly mess around in the BIOS and render the machine unbootable is not a particularly sensible basis to argue about the configurability of AHCI mode. It is always going to be possible to render a machine unbootable via changing the BIOS configuration. A BIOS setup menu cannot serve its purpose if it doesn't allow you to change settings which could render the machine unbootable. (Most directly, a boot password you immediately forget.) If machine manufacturers aren't willing to offer options that may render the machine unbootable, they may as well not offer BIOS setup menus at all.

1- The problem is not rendering your machine unbootable by messing with the BIOS settings. The potential issue is running the wrong drivers for your local storage.

2- Surely BIOS would become less and less configurable, just look at Apple's. Look at your smartphone. Can you run Linux on your iPhone? Can you run iOS or Windows on your Android? That's where we're going I'm afraid :-(

I'm here just trying to explain why this is not a black and white thing, why there are more factors than the technicals and why this is not a conspiracy but a disdain for the non-Windows market.

I'm not sure why some of you think I'm defending Lenovo and get angry at me. Do you guys get so angry at your teacher in history class? :-)
Whoa very nice new features! Now I need GoSublime to support them!