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There is no question about the heritage of 8bit-style art, and whether you find modern renditions ugly or not is not really a concern here. But I would like to point out as someone who grew up in the eighties, people referred to those little atomic picture cells rendered on the display as "pixels", not as "my monitor's representation of a pixel".

It's also worth mentioning that for most of us today, graphics tastes have changed quite a lot, so emulating the original blur and smear of an NTSC display is perceived as far less of a generally acceptable aesthetic solution than rendering rectangular blocks is. Of course, opinions differ, but you can totally vote with your wallet on that.

You're talking about how art is designed with an expectation about the manner in which it is later consumed. To the degree this is even a realistic expectation, you would have to make the same concession to today's pixel artists who are creating works loosely based on an 8bit heritage, but which are often clearly and intentionally distanced from that heritage. You might personally object to viewing original games from the 8bit era on modern systems at all on the grounds of authenticity and distortion of artistic intent, but that's not an objection you can raise against modern pixel artists and their working premises.

Overall, I object to this notion that, say, the average 80s CRT pixel representation is somehow the canonical rendering of the ur-pixel and that we should strive to somehow emulate that. I think we should instead do whatever works for the modern context. You might counter that blocks don't meet this goal for your tastes, or that we should stop using recognizably blocky pixels altogether, but again that's a personal preference.

The actual argument above was not about personal preference at all, it was about what can rightfully be referred to as a pixel and what can't (and I do maintain that in this context linguistic pedantry does not yield any meaningful benefits).
Participate in what, though?

This outlook basically presupposes that society is a competition of everyone against everyone. Does it have to be? If it does, what does "losing" mean, and can we reduce its impact to the point where it stops mattering?
I'm actually working on a startup to provide medical/mental health benefit for startups, but I think we might be too early to apply to YC...we're doing a private beta right now...interesting to see this come up.
Any plans to include i386?
Those problems on earth stopped being engineering issues a long time ago. See the current US election.
And sometimes a circular area unit makes most sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_mil

The advantage of rectangles is that they generalize best to situations where the two dimensions are different types of quantities. For example, it wouldn’t make any sense to have a triangular joule or foot-pound.
We already have such pills, in effect. For example, someone who has depression (a very common ailment), but also has access to drugs that mitigate it, can easily be 10x better programmer relative to someone who has depression but no drugs.

Come to think of it, this goes for a lot of other things. Having a car is better than not having one, if only because you shorten commute times, and so have more free time - which translates to better rest and therefore higher productivity, or you could spend it learning new things, again, for higher productivity.

So basically anything that improves your quality of life in exchange for money is "performance enhancing" directly or indirectly.
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Google's contribution to the success of Python was really minimal. Most of the top stuff was not from Google at all.
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runit on void linux runs great. it's tiny, easy to understand and very fast. and it doesn't try to take everything over.
i had a friend stop talking to me because I made more money than him. Maybe its rare but his jealousy was insane and don't want to deal with again.
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UX were bad, it wasn't a marketing fault ( Although they did a poor job promoting it also ). User didn't understand what was going on, and therefore reluctant to use it.
Incidentally, I think the AEC said prior to the last election that you could effectively draw a cock and balls on your ballot, but if the intention of otherwise marking candidate preference was clear, the vote could count.
Exactly the reason why they are still the way they are.
I'd say India, but either would be exciting.
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at least their age of innovation is; at least from the outside.
To be pedantic, a 1px square does NOT properly rasterize as a single pixel. If you apply a low-pass filter (as you should, to avoid aliasing) – even an ideal one – those little squares blur and "ring" across several neighboring pixels.

Rather, it is only an infinitesimally small point (an "impulse" or Dirac delta) which, when grid-aligned and ideally filtered, can rasterize as a single pixel.
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yeah - hats off to them for getting in the IoT/wearable game. "snapholes"? :)
The value prop for private or consortium chains is significantly different than public blockchains.

The first point is that it's a shared database that allows organizations to co-operate, with a common view of the world meaning fewer integration points which are exponential as the number of participants grows.

The second point is that none of the individual parties has monopoly control of the "central" database meaning they can't extract excessive rent from the participants and exert political/corrupt influence on the network.

This is my favorite video explaining this and blockchains in general, and this aspect specifically which begins at 23:45 in. The sound is terrible, but definitely worth listening to.
https://vimeo.com/153600491
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Apple doesn't have anything like YouTube.

And Google Play which is Google's equivalent of Apple's iTunes does allow offline downloads and does take your money.
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How much investment money is simply "transferred" to local landlords in the bay area?

Any ideas how your 'YC cities' thing is going to look?
Eugenics is different in that it was an attempt to make these decisions in a centralized fashion, and imposed at the entire population. Basically, "we know better" with respect to reproductive freedom.

In that sense, laws regulating how parents may or may not change the genome of their kids are closer to the concept of eugenics than laissez-faire.

Note, I'm not saying that laissez-faire here is the right approach, necessarily. Some amount of regulation is necessary, at least, to prevent parents from knowingly imposing debilitating choices on their children. Which, again, is very reminiscent of eugenics, actually, except that they got carried away with what exactly was supposed to be undesirable, and eventually made it into all-encompassing social engineering approach.
I suppose what I'm asking is are there are enough resources to allow UBI right now with a major chunk of the labor force (and subsequently tax income) disappearing?
"What can we do to bring up the baseline and make the vast majority of our mass media better?"

I see Sequiturs (https://sequiturs.com) as taking this problem on pretty directly. It's a tool for crowdsourcing the strongest arguments on a given topic. These arguments are presented in a format that is easily digested and encourages iterative improvement. Sequiturs can 'bring up the baseline' by serving as a reference for discussions to turn to, to gain clarity and avoid reinventing the wheel when considering the in's and out's of an argument. This includes serving as a reference for journalists, in informing the articles they write and the questions they ask of those in power.

Disclosure: I'm the creator of Sequiturs--and would love to know what you think of it!
I doubt it will happen in 2019, and this is why.

Maduro has painted himself into a corner. He has very nakedly announced that he will do everything in his power to remain in power, even if it means crapping all over the constitution, and stripping the legislative branch of all its power.

He'll figure something out in 2019. He has all the guns, and he know that if he falls out of power, he'll be strung up on the nearest lamppost like Mussolini. He's doubling down because he really has nowhere else to go. Once you realize that, that he has to do everything he's doing to cement the military to his side, it all makes perfect sense.
A common failure young start-ups is arrogance, & waste.

Andy Grove (Intel) used to say "Only the paranoid survive", so true,

I used to be amazed that the first thing startup's did was try to imitate the god's with furniture and building's, and the trappings's of wealth. I think your first $10M gross you need to stay lean&mean, complacency is the opposite of paranoia.

In a interview with B-Gate he said his recurrent fear early on was making payroll, cash-flow is a real problem. Keeping the expenses low, and keeping lots of cash on hand to make that payroll in good & bad times is a key often missed, of course a few times the VC's may step in to make that payroll, but that's not really a startup, its more of a parent paying the bill's.

I think a key is getting all the employees to understand that their 24/7 task is to do activity's that bring in the money, when this is done the money flows. Money is the blood of politics and business, if you see a 'failed' biz, its because their revenue came to a halt.
During my Ph.D. I tried tracking down the reasoning behind a couple sets of assumptions made in non-uniform torsion of beams (e.g., twisting a beam with one end fixed). It turns out that they just kept the same assumptions from uniform torsion (just twisting the beam but with no ends fixed) without checking if they still held (they don't). All because nobody thought to check if the assumptions might be in conflict. The uniform torsion models go back to the mid 1800s, while the non-uniform torsion models are from the early to mid 20th century. So, it's been over 60 years people have been working with wrong assumptions.
Let me give one particularly chilling example.

Suppose that it is possible to make genetic alterations that cause 1) rapid aging, and 2) unavoidable self-induced death at some specific age well before the organism becomes old.

Now you can make clones of yourself, add these alterations, and harvest them for organs when they die. Since they die naturally by themselves, no murder is committed.
I kinda enjoy the anachronism too, but http://d2rormqr1qwzpz.cloudfront.net/uploads/0/5408/30085-ff... from the article really does look great.

All this reminds me of tge performance practice of old music.
> Any iMac or MacBook Pro from the last 5 years is sufficient for any pro audio workflow.

Just a few days ago, Pro Tools popped up the annoying "A CPU Overload Has Occurred" dialog box while I was working on a mix. Mid-2015 rMBP, 2.5 GHz.

It was a pretty simple session, too - nothing that breaks any rules, like reverbs on inserts. 12 or so tracks and three stereo effects (on their own busses).

I'm amazed every day at how much capability my MBP puts into my hands, but it is not without limitations. To say it's sufficient for any pro audio workflow is a bit of a stretch.
Shocked that it takes a fringe project to be promoting static linking and cleaning up the filesystem.

Would love to hear the linux grandfathers chime in...
Opens with how other articles on React Native haven't been comprehensive, goes on to fill most of it about JS short comings like we haven't been aware for a decade.

And the recommendation at the end for Flutter, which shares all attributes of RN (open source, free, cross platform, from a large tech company, but one known for killing projects), was strange. It made the argument essentially I want RN but not a dynamically typed language.
> I object to this notion that, say, the average 80s CRT pixel representation is somehow the _canonical_ rendering of the ur-pixel

You'd have to imagine it's closer to the original artist's end goals though.

The guy who drew Mario probably didn't intend for us to see a blocky representation of an Italian plumber, they just wanted us to see a plumber.

OTOH, Seurat was consciously making a point that you can represent a person with nothing but colored dots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism#/media/File:Seurat...

> people referred to those little atomic picture cells rendered on the display as "_pixels_"

'These aren't the pixels you're looking for'. As the article points out, the pixels on a CRT do not have a 1-to-1 correspondence with the pixels in RAM. If you understand a pixel as a sample, then the mental picture becomes clearer:

RAM pixels -> video card DAC converts to continuous signal -> CRT resamples again into monitor pixels -> your eye/brain reconverts into a continuous image
Not at all. A lot of people who gather at places like these don't seem to realise that ordinary people have much more pressing problems in life than running a phone OS they can tinker with.
Where are they higher, in the US?
It's hard to imagine paying more than that and still not getting free healthcare and 4 weeks min. vacation, as you would in Germany, for example.
This will have a lot of unintended and nasty consequences. I'm going to bet on evolution in the long run.
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You're comparing apples and oranges. Apple doesn't provide anything like YouTube. If they did, they would have similar issues - there are all sorts of legal and business constraints associated with that kind of service.

A more appropriate comparison would be comparing the iTunes movie and TV store with Google's equivalent (Google Play Movies & TV):

* Both have movie purchases in over 100 countries. Apple has TV purchases in 6 countries [1]. Google has them in 8 [2]

* Both allow offline download of purchased videos. Google also allows downloading purchases to SD cards (less relevant for Apple).

* Google has a web-based player for purchased videos. Apple doesn't, AFAIK.

* Apple has carrier billing in 6 countries [3]. Google has it in 45 [4]. Google also allows you to use PayPal in a number of countries.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204411

[2] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2843119?hl=en

[3] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205102

[4] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2651410?hl=en
but the algorithm also changes, so that could have also been part of it(or your competition made changes), if you dont control all the variables its flawed, IMO. Downvote all you want. I've seen 1000%+ increase without changes, so by that math, could I say that not changing anything at all can increase your CTR by that percentile?
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I understand that, which is why I don't worry about the future of GCP. However, the negative perception gained from some of those free b2c endeavors will still damage the reputation of unrelated Google products and services like GCP.
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I answered that in my comment above, but it was an edit so you probably didn't see it in time.

Expanding on that answer, I think you're making a case for DRM here. Mario wasn't supposed to be not-blurry so we shouldn't be allowed to see him like that. If that's your opinion, I disagree, but fair enough. It's an entirely different thing though to assert that modern artists should not be making new pixel/block art, because it seems to me that their intent has value, too.

So the question becomes whether you object to that art style, or just the commonly used name for that style. Personally, I think you're going to have a hard time with either one, especially given the fact that the common usage of the word "pixel" has always been blurry, and that you could simply avoid modern "pixel" games at no personal cost and still allow other people to make and enjoy them.
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Sam, thanks for taking the time to talk with us. I hope it's ok, but I've got a few questions about something not directly related to YC applications.

As a middle-aged developer, I've seen a lot in my lifetime, but I believe that right now, even though in some ways I'm much more hopeful for the future than I've ever been, I feel like there are many huge time-bombs out there in the world that make focusing on a startup just to have a chance to become financially successful a petty and, for some, a possibly futile ordeal.

For example: political divisiveness/change/chaos, scary world leaders and potential world leaders discussing/threatening/testing nuclear weapons, wars for and against religions involving terror, causing mass death, spawning racism and restricted freedoms, other random shootings/acts of violence, discord and violence between people that are racially targeted and those who want to serve the public to protect people regardless of their race, terrible diseases/epidemics some without cures or growing resistance to cures that we've long depended on, weather related natural disasters, economic troubles, etc. The list goes on and on.

Given the climate of the world today and all of our problems, what things do you want to see- not just in the startups that you and/or YC as a whole want to help, but across the board? And what do you say to those that think that just don't feel safe enough to invest the time, money, and effort on a startup which has a greater chance of failure than success when they could just be working a stable job to try to save enough to survive what is ahead?
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Here's a rundown on what "OldSpace" is doing right now: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/?type=current

They are in space, orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, driving around the surface of Mars, flying by Pluto and escaping the solar system. And that's just NASA.

While its true that they haven't landed a rocket on a barge, I'd say SpaceX is far, far, far behind.
I'm finding this quotations without referencing the source or using quotes a real annoying trend on HN atm.

It's a form of in-joke/group which is very Reddit and is used to get upvotes because everyone loves being in with the cool kids.

But not everyone has read or watched every classic and knows every famous person of countries X speeches, hence why you attribute the source or even just the speaker, fictional or not.
I never thought of that. Where did he say that?
When some place becomes a new popular migration destination, its politics usually change pretty fast.
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In my view (though I did not downvote you) I felt you brought little to a conversation about tools for professionals. Sure, Apple doesn't make good pro tools anymore, but the interesting part is the anymore. It used to be that they made incredible workstations with really interesting gear, capturing a sort of "pro consumer" market.

Maybe your point was that the financials are no longer there to support pro gear or creativity or even OS X as a whole because phones make them more money. If it was, though, you didn't express it.

And I agree with the fact that many people are buying them because they're simply status symbols, but many more people buy them because they see it as the easiest choice. Your (average, run-of-the-mill) grandma's not going to be able to choose one of many Android phones unless her grandson tells her which one to pick. At that point she might just walk into an Apple store and out with a new phone. If that was part of your point, you also didn't express that.

So I think you're losing points because your points aren't all too accurate or visible (at least from my point of view) and because, even if they were, they have very little to do about the deprecation of Apple's tooling for semi-/pro users.
Too bad.

Yammer was cool in that you could point normal people at it and they got it -- Facebook for work. My team unleashed it in a large organization and got like 90% of the users signed up without announcing it formally, and had a core user community of 20-25% of the workforce engaged for awhile. They self-organized some cool communities and we had less trouble than we thought that we would. Unfortunately, there were some procurement issues that prevented us from moving forward with it.

The O365 tooling around groups, social via Sharepoint, etc is a half-completed, inscrutable mess. Our IT kids have a 6 page manual for signing into Skype for business. All of their new, cool stuff is either just built on mail or is some sort of Sharepoint skin. The only good thing about it is that we don't need to try to run the thing on-prem anymore.
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May I suggest Matrix/Riot?
It's been posted on HN a few times and seems to be growing really nicely - I've gotten pretty into it over the past few days. Open source, federated, syncs between devices, interoperable with bridges to other protocols like IRC, web/Android/iOS clients, e2e encryption (similar algorithm to Signal) is being tested on web and is planned to arrive on mobile in a month or two.
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The problem with what you're asking is that it's one more course you're trying to fit into a curriculum. My engineering department already gutted their first year calculus course by making most of it (about 3/4) pre-calculus after finding out that a majority of students weren't prepared.

I was asked to tutor a first year engineering student in programming as she was failing. I ended up spending most of the time helping her conceptualize the problem and breaking it down into steps. Once she learnt that, she could manage the syntax aspects of C++. She ended up with a grade in the 60s which isn't bad considering she had a grade in the low 40s after the midterm.

When I was a TA for thermodynamics, I noticed that we would get a bimodal distribution on the midterm exam. Thermodynamics isn't hard once you understand it. We'd get the people who didn't understand with grades in the 40s, but the people who did had grades in the 70s and 80s. The prof said that was pretty common. The objective was to get as many people from the lower curve to the upper curve by the end of the term. You'd typically have around 3 to 5 of a class of 80 fail by the end. Those were the people who just didn't get it. I'm sure that thermo is one of many courses like this.
You're welcome to pool resources with like-minded individuals, purchase all property that has been developed or is planned to be developed in Colorado, and prevent it from being used by or sold to anyone else.

Until then, the entire state is not your backyard, thankfully.

And it should go without saying, but there's no natural right for things around you to remain exactly like they have always been. Although you do, of course, have a natural right to free speech to grumble about how they change.
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I don't think it's a contradiction. VR is not a big-impact technology, it is a geek-driven technology. What Apple does well is technologies that can be deployed to mainstream consumers in a way that has (or can be marketed as having) real world benefits to normal people.

VR might eventually become mainstream, but in the foreseeable future it will be a niche at best. Perhaps useful in a few narrow verticals (e.g, architecture, engineering and product design).
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