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I think you misunderstood. The only reason I occasionally comment here at all is because i am just that horrified by some dude on HN saying a horrible thing yet again. I don't have very many comments that aren't "political" because i basically never engage with the comments. And i don't do that because the site is such an unwelcoming, horrible cesspit, whether it's a "political" topic or a "purely technical" (hah!) topic.

I have been working with computers and participating, intermittently, in networked/online spaces for longer than a lot of people on HN have been alive. (And note that i've been aware of HN, and an occasional peruser of the front page, since long before i actually bothered to make an account.) You'd think i'd be part of HN's core audience, right? And yet i'm not because i literally cannot read a comment thread on this site without seeing people saying things that make me sick that i have to share a planet with them.
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If I understand your question correctly, you're asking about "interpolating splines" as opposed to "approximating splines".

For example: http://www.moreprocess.com/computer-graphics/interpolation-a...

There are a bunch of interpolating splines.

But, since you mention a sequence of arcs, you may be interested to know that a very common usage of splines is to create a sequence of low-order splines, such as cubic. A cubic Bezier is a 4-point spline that you can think of as a curve defined by 2 end points and 2 tangents. Place a bunch of those back to back, and you can have an arbitrarily long curve where the effect of moving any point in the curve is localized to 2 segments of the chain, and none of the other segments will change.

Using a higher order spline where moving any point will affect the whole curve is pretty uncommon in practice, I think. At least for practice that includes modeling and animating in film & video games.
> It is also a zkp in case of a scheme with a challenge nonce

This is my point - it is not zk because as verifier you can show the transcript to a 3rd party and convince them that the thing to be proved is true, even if the thing to be proved can't let you successfully impersonate the prover thanks to a nonce. In a zkp scheme, the transcript proves nothing - it's as if you took the signing scheme transcript and made it so you couldn't determine which pubkey was being signed for: the 3rd party would have no reason to believe you hadn't faked the transcript.

In short, zkp transcripts must be fakeable, as counterintuitive as that sounds.
I just want to add. We provide instant feedback at my company too.

We just requite an immediate answer thought. We just tell the result and we send an offer letter the next day.
Court upholds warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens under Section 702
I am interested in everything - even 19th century Slovakian art movements.

I love talking to people who are interested in anything other than themselves - it really doesn't matter what as long as they are interested in something enough to have learnt and thought about the topic in some depth.

The real shame is so few people are interested in anything at all.
My largest annoyance after ads is autoplay html5 videos from news sites. CNN is especially bad. I wish Ublock could have an option to stop all html5 autoplay.

(yes, I've got the "Disable HTML5 Autoplay" in chrome, and no, it mostly doesn't work)
Android allows this under debugging, click on "allow mock locations".
iPhone 7 Has a New Nasty Surprise
Maybe, just maybe, if we filled the entirety of Northern Africa with solar farms and somehow found a way to prevent them all getting covered in sand, damaged by animals, crapped on by animals, stolen, shot at, sabotaged, and used as both a shelter and cooking utensil - we might be able to provide Sicily with a few hours of power each day. Great success!
So many book recommendations. Really suggest people to create the list of books they read in 2016 over at http://shelfjoy.com so that others can bookmark them and this thread is kept alive.
I feel certain that after gawking in horror at the trainwreck on this thread i will just go back to quietly pretending HN doesn't exist for another few months, because i cannot even. And i'll continue to warn literally every marginalized, subaltern, or otherwise vulnerable person in tech i know to stay the fuck away from here.
Yeah it was never turned on due to economic reasons. They are currently retrofitting it with updated pumps, membranes, pipes, etc, and increasing its capacity. They've definitely hit some interesting roadblocks along the way.
>If anything, a dissenting opinion (e.g. one in favor of Trump or the NSA) could add something new to the conversation but it would get down voted to hell and get ugly pretty fast.

I'll take the bait.

About a little of a year ago, when I worked in a lab, some of my colleagues routinely laughed and mocked Trump and boasted how he had no chance in hell (as well as fueling fire with continued patronage of sites and news that gave them more of the same "entertainment" [in their words]), and no amount of me pointing out to them the environment that enabled a such a persona to exist/rise to fame/power should be the topic of conversation rather than on the team $x circus ring leader de jour.

From where I stand, the problem with a ban on political discussion isn't really the content of it, just the intellectual naivety that one can shield themselves political discussion while ignoring all the not so hidden influences of such on ones culture, thought processes, and etc is laughable will only end in rude awakenings, because in reality such a ban can only be superficial, and never really cut to the heart of such issues that underpin political discussion.

Like another commentator said: "Talk is cheap and political discussion is especially cheap" and I'd add that superficial bans to hide or sideline political discussion, are can be incredibly expensive (filter bubbles, walled gardens, deep packet inspections, paid "moderators", "cultural fit" selectors) in the search of temporarily being in control, yet ultimately futile.
Seems like false sense of security. It only updates every 10 minutes or so. If you are really worried have them just call you and put their phone in their pocket. That way you can listen in and call 911 if needed.

Waiting 10 minutes for a GPS update doesn't seem to actually increase safety in any noticeable way.
> After review by a team of volunteer engineers, the recipients receive our heartfelt thanks and a small token of our appreciation.

I hadn't heard about this, good for Google. Just how small is the token?
Yeah. I would've rather had a dump of just the passwords -- no usernames, site names, service names, counts, deduplication, just 1.4 billion passwords, one password to a line.

I'd feed it into my bad-password-indexing program (https://github.com/robsheldon/bad-passwords-index) and it would spit out a file that could be used to improve password security in a not-entirely-stupid way somewhere.
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How is coding not staying sharp?
Or just turn off location services.
I'm not defending Apple's shitbox of a new Macbook Pro and the fact that the latest iPhone can't even be plugged into a computer the company released a just few weeks later is a bad sign.

But Macs are a tiny fraction of Apple. The Pro products within Mac are an even smaller percentage of that. And actual Professional users of these Pro products are an even smaller percentage of that. A tiny fraction.

If Apple is committed to being this single compatible secure platform (which obviously they are not doing a great job at right now) then devoting more resources to regular updates of their Pro line to include the latest hardware is just not going to happen when you compare the risks to the upside. That's not how their internal product cycles work. A corporate restructuring can't really help with this, it might even add to the risk.

Sucks for us few pro users. If this is such a pain point then start new hardware company, there's a market for it. Or is there?
How does it work when it is offline? Via SMS?
Silicon Valley's Most Popular Forum Bans Stories About Politics
Not mentioned in this article is Cpf1, another CRISPR enzyme which is unambiguously owned by the Broad Institute and may have less off-target activity compared to Cas9. It could easily be that this entire disagreement is over nothing.
It can take many hours to surmise that someone has been kidnapped. Getting people to pay direct attention to someone's whereabouts, without having to constantly nag the person, is a huge win.

Anyone who has ever expected an at-risk person to make contact at an estimated time can relate how worrying it is when that person is delayed.
Apparently you've never actually taken out a mortgage.
Not yet clear whether Marxist thought will be blocked as extremist.
>think you're taking these downvotes way too personally

Whether personal or no, submarining comments simply because people disagree with them has always struck me as an intellectually awful "feature". I mean, think about that. People are actively encouraged to effectively censor comments simply because they disagree. What else can that do but encourage a pernicious group-think?

In fact, we should be doing the opposite: if it's stimulating discussion we want, then people should be encouraged to upvote well-made points, even if they don't agree with them.

And, if there's a downvote at all, then it should be for poorly constructed arguments that don't contribute to the quality of the discussion.
Yes, authenticating a first one is required. However, if this bothers you, consider what we do currently on verifying nuclear warheads -- nothing.
Sure, just depends on whether or not there are other parties who will pay the Delta.
B.S. Detector highlights 'fake' news links and sites
There were never enough NAND capacity for SSD to replace HDD. And not likely until 2020 or later.

And with all the NAND manufacture consolidation you will expect NAND prices to raise all the way to 2018. Samsung, Toshiba, Sandisk/WD, Hynix combine have more then 90% market shares. i.e They pretty much control the market price.

Things will only get better once the Chinese have their Fabs up in 2018. They have poured 10s of billions in. These capital intensive business suit them well when they have no idea where to put their money.
Isn't my original blog post at least a little bit of evidence that I've put a good bit of time into thinking about that?

I mean, a "bad hire" with the consulting/open source shop where I did a lot of interviewing & hiring was something pretty specific. A bad hire where I am right now is something pretty specific.
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I think maybe a trial week of "agreement awareness" would be a fun exercise.

On these sorts of discussions, talking about what is actionable, what we can do to reach common goals.

Though there are pretty fundamental disagreements among people on these as well, and I'm not sure where the discussion can go (for example University quotas).

But trying to get HN to be more positive overall would be encouraging. I believe this was done for Show HN stuff, having it done overall seems like an interesting next step.

Even just a msg above the reply box like "Hey, you're talking to another human being! And probably agree on a lot of things"
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I'd be the second if they told me that. Places like that, with their "live to work" culture are always shitshows.
A quick test with strace on my machine shows that callocing and mallocing a 2GB buffer results in the exact same mmap system call for both. Neither use huge pages.
My random advice from the internet.

1. Getting paid to do something you like to do is nice work if you can get it.

2. It might be that as you unrust the pay may rise. With the demand for programmers, it might not even take much of a hit depending on how competitive your former employer was with the open market for programmers.

3. Don't sell your programming skills short. You probably know what production code looks like and understanding that context has value to experienced business people.

4. The background in corporate settings may make you attractive to consulting firms because you can probably be trusted with clients.

Of course all of that is tempered with a lack of knowledge about any family and financial obligations. But my major advice is to use this time to expand your pool of options by, if nothing more, contacting people that might have the job you really want.

Good luck.
I didn't think how it's achieved matters to the classification which is by the consequence of missing a deadline according to good ol' Wikipedia:

Hard – missing a deadline is a total system failure.

Firm – infrequent deadline misses are tolerable, but may degrade the system's quality of service. The usefulness of a result is zero after its deadline.

Soft – the usefulness of a result degrades after its deadline, thereby degrading the system's quality of service
> Political Detox Week

I don't understand how so many people have missed the word "week" in this sentence.

This is an experiment, and it's going to last a very short period of time; I support it. I oppose banning political articles & discussion on HN in the long-term, but that's not what this is. It seems the distinction has been missed in most of the comments.

One option I would like to suggest is an option whereby people can enable or disable a filter for political stories. This way if you just want to come and geek out about tech, you can do so, or if you want to follow political issues you have that option as well. I'd use both modes at different times depending on my mood.
Be careful running your own email server. Some domain hosts have terrible security (easily socially engineered).

I would love to know which DNS provider has the best security if anyone has done the research.
Show HN: My whole blog is a JSON file
10:00 start working...

10:30 or more likely, come in late to the office :D

10:30-11:00 free breakfast with a variety of drinks and patisserie. sync with other people

11:00-12:00 check emails & messages & chat & more sync

12:00-13:00 fix or improve whatever just broke, if anything. take a preemptive look at my hundreds of services. find stuff to do that is not too long because there is lunch soon.

13:00-14:00 free catered lunch

14:00-18:30 get stuff done... but nothing too major because it's peak traffic, hard changes in production should be in the morning.

18:30 leave early

18:30-19:xx or most likely, start reading HN and forget to leave early.
It's just an extra option, as I understand. It may also be because the hardware for USB charging in laptops is still emerging. Current chipsets seem to offer what they call 'USB-C charging', but not yet the higher power USB-PD spec. So perhaps in their judgment the offerings haven't developed enough for USB to be the sole mechanism.
...until you visit a site that gives you a blank page without javascript. speaking of which, i wouldn't be surprised if more and more sites start to require mandatory js to view their content.
Yeah! I agree! I asked that because I think it's hard to distinguish yourself by solving this general consumer entertainment problem. Seems that all game companies do that, even when thinking about small studios, it is hard to find differentiating factors that does not rely on the game itself.

I also agree that A/B testing is super important! We are following exactly what you have described here http://www.michaelseibel.com/blog/product-development-cycle-... but for a game, and the results are pretty interesting! Specially because we don't need a GDD (a document describing the game), all members of the team are involved in the creation process (and they feel more motivated to work - and believe me, this is big problem in indie studios) and is easier to propose changes and improvements to the game, since them just need to bring us closer to our goal with the game (for example: 20k ad visualizations / day). I'm anxious to get into this A/B testing phase! We haven't launched yet.

Thank you so much for sharing the knowledge! These posts were really valuable and helpful for me! And I think they are complementary!
Useless but interesting project for someone who's never made a SPA before (that's me)...
The don't realize the relationship is symbiotic though. Part of the value of big news sites like forbes is their influence. To an extent they are widely read because they are widely read, people read it to see what others are reading.
If you're referring to detox week, which explicitly supports flagging political submissions, you probably shouldn't be surprised if it does when you specifically call it out as Marxist.
Of course it doesn't help that I'm silly and left a bracket on the end of the URL and can't change it.
I am a hacker and a part of this community and have been for many years. My little family is gay and mixed race, and because I work for a non-profit relies on the government for health insurance. My in-laws are brown people living in a hostile part of the United States where vicious hate crimes are spiking.

Why don't I qualify as part of the community? Politics is now more and more bearing down on my family, oppressing us, threatening us. We are afraid and depressed every day, even while probably cowering from fully facing the gravity of the threat this administration poses. It is hard to code when you are terrified.

Why doesn't HN care about me? Why aren't its powerful, its brilliant, its wealthy, abandoning all other projects to protect me? Why? I need you to save my family. Please.
Chrome Web Store Malware of the Night
Just got called to help someone avoid installing this malicious extension. Chrome wouldn't allow the user to leave full screen or disable the popups which were preventing the user from closing the tab (the check box to prevent the site from creating more popups did not work at all). It constantly repeated "click add extension to leave this page". Thankfully, the person called me instead.

I've reported malicious extensions on the Chrome Web Store dozens of time before, and checked back and found it several months later. My hope is that submitting it here may gain human attention.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wwwsearch-privacyinfo/hbijangplmkecklhpefinbgopidcnkfg
This strikes me as yet another over-engineered workaround for a problem with society. In Japan, I rarely wait in line at a grocery store or convenience store. If I do, it's a short wait, and my interactions with the staff often brighten my day a little bit.

Why is Japan different? For one thing, they use a checkout system that is designed to move lines quickly. Two employees can work concurrently, one ringing up a customer and the other handling money exchange with another customer. Customers do their own bagging in a seperate area. The POS system takes cash in and spits out the correct change, and also handles IC cards, credit cards, Apple Pay, etc seamlessly and usually without requiring anything more than a PIN at most. And of course, customers can prepare exact change or get their cards out and place it on the tray while the cashier is still ringing them up. And the final, most important element is the people--polite, attentive, careful, and professional. Cashiers are trained to call out every item and price, and offer extras such as ice packs for cold items, dry ice for ice cream, utensils for ready to eat items, and so on. A quick, efficient, pleasant interaction that ends with a bow and a gracious thank you goes a long way toward encouraging everyone to treat each other well. And, by the way, the money that would be sunk into Amazon's infrastructure and inevitable support services goes to keeping people in jobs.
Personally, I wouldn't mind SOME ads feeding companies... Hell, I'll watch short videos to get ahead in some games I play...

the problem is massive ads, 3 line stories turning into multi page ad fests, "Around the Web" type crap, security risks injected via ad networks, etc...

It's not the ads per-se: it's the MASSIVE abuse of ads. it's why we can't have nice things.

Same can be said of TV shows and how it went from a minute of ads... t0o 10 minutes out of a 30 minute slot being ads.
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Hey! No politics!
Your resume will not get you any job you want. Finding a connection with a decision maker, however you can & then following their guidance on how to jump through their company hoops is infinitely more effective.
Paytm founder prepares for his next pivot, which could be the biggest yet
Certainly by having modes vim has great keyboard shortcuts and avoid having to press combination of keys. However, for redo you have to press Ctrl+R, so that would indicate that Ctrl is not forbidden in vim. In this particular case, I find more confortable to move a little my fingers to press Ctrl+C than having to move my whole hand to the upper top of the keyboard to press esc. Also, it is nice that this shortcut works everywhere without having to remap your Donglebook.
Same goes for directories, yeah. The linux approach can create some really bad user experiences and weird bugs. It's sysadmin-friendly but no good for regular people.
Fake news sites usually don't have paywalls

It's sad really
>Because Trusted Contacts works even if a phone is offline, Thelma requests Elliot’s location and in five minutes can see that his last known location was in the middle of the canyon.

The cynic in me thinks this whole use case is intended to normalize the idea of a company always knowing everywhere you go. See? Privacy is unsafe!
Just keep in mind that these aren't incredibly reliable across the board. Others have very low or arbitrary autoban or blacklist policies. I eventually caved and paid Twilio to hassle with SMS logistics for me, rather than deal with the weirdness.
Those feel like gotcha questions in a cross-examination, but let me try.

I'm not sure what you mean by "this policy". Do you mean this one-week experiment to try something for a week and see what happens? I wouldn't call that a policy. To me that word implies something intended to be permanent, which is precisely what we're not proposing.

Either way, though, the answer can only be "maybe", because any one of your descriptions could cover a huge range along the axis we're talking about (intellectual interest vs. political battle). So it would depend on the specific stories.

Since we've asked people to err on the side of flagging for just this week, obviously the odds of a story being flagged become higher, for just this week. That doesn't make those odds 100% on those topics. And since the way things normally work is erring on the side of not flagging them, it's hard for me to see this week as very significant. That's actually why we're doing it this way: a week should be enough to learn something and not enough to be that big a deal, even in the worst case.
Thanks! I'd start at the beginning of the issue with "They Breed Like Flies". It's the longest of the stories but it feels quick and sets a good mood for the rest of the stories.