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I haven't much sympathy for either consumers or content providers who use ads.

The delivery of the content has to be paid for by someone. Usually the consumer balks at that. People expect things on the internet to simply be free. But they aren't free, and ads are a way of signaling that.

That doesn't mean the current situation where ads are intrusive and irritating and a source of malware is good, and that's on the content providers and ad networks to address.
Thiel is possibly an actual vampire, or at least aspires to be one.
Well thankfully open discussion is a feature of Hacker News, not a bug.
Cool I will check that out. I do feel bad wiping the original OS though at least with Windows 10 there's no worry about serials, also I did use USB 3.0 as a "hard drive" For a bit, but the inability to sleep I think since it has to be constantly powered but I might be mistaken. I am using a USB 3.0 for a house web server, pretty cool. Thanks.
By the way, our startup is a machine learning startup. We are pre-profit because we're still in the midst of a parallel medical trial of our diagnostic classifier. We are on venture funding so do not pay market wages. Instead I tend to personally hire new grads and train them. I hire pricey ML experts only as short-term consultants when we need.

Our startup economics do not support wages above ~140k/yr which is why I go through all this trouble. But i'm honest -- it is because we cannot afford market wages, not because there is a shortage. Just because our budget cannot hire a market rate experienced hire.

I've enjoyed our discussion very much. I'd love to offer you a job for sub-market wages :-)
Forget to calculate the cost of rubbish TVE, the government does not allow it, even we pay for it.

How so? Their budgets are public[1]. It's a total of around 975M€/year, 920M€ of which come from direct and indirect taxes. There are about 18.35M households in Spain[2], so it costs ~50€/household/year.

[1] http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2016/07/21/actualidad/14...

[2] http://www.ine.es/inebaseDYN/ech30274/ech_inicio.htm
I thought about that, but some of the results I found on Google suggest that output from WebGL shaders is supposed to be in a linear color space [0] [1]. Then again, some of the comments here [2] suggest that you do have to do gamma correction manually.

Incidentally, I didn't know to do gamma correction until I came across [3], which explained why the output from my raytracers always looked a little off ;)

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10843321/should-webgl-sha...

[1] https://www.khronos.org/webgl/public-mailing-list/archives/1...

[2] https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Xdl3WM

[3] http://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-should...
I updated this post with some of the great feedback from the comments. Also I just ported the algo used by the last DIYRobocar race winner, CompoundEye. Here's that post: https://wroscoe.github.io/compound-eye-autopilot.html#compou...

Thanks!
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Walmart doesn't have a cash cow like AWS. It's like a free money printing press that Amazon can use to fuel its logistics expansion.
Interesting thing here is that is an example of why privatisation is bad (the people get scammed), but at the same time an example of government's administrative incompetence (which can be an argument for privatisation).

Personally, I'm tired of all this neoliberal bullshit and would rather just figure out a way to make our public institutions run extremely well.
I'm also talking about real conversations I've had with real people, from which I've drawn different conclusions than you. You seem to think (if I've read you right) that my ideas are derived from some academic political theory, which isn't the case.

There are lines being drawn and many decent people feel like they're being hated along with neo-nazis.

No doubt, but insofar as they choose not to acknowledge the existence of neo-nazis in the face of abundant evidence or the threat such neo-nazis pose towards people they don't like, then it's not surprising that people who feel threatened by neo-nazis are going to feel similarly annoyed with those who enable them.

To my mind, this is similar to someone in the Confederacy saying that slavery wasn't a big issue because they didn't personally own any slaves. While that would certainly make them less culpable than someone who did own slaves, declining to acknowledge the contentious nature of slavery isn't a neutral stance, but rather one of indifference to the plight of the enslaved.
This seems as likely as the buzzfeed peeing story.
uBlock Origin can block self-hosted ads. If you see non-blocked ads somewhere, just report the details to filter list maintainers. The tens of thousands of filters in those filter lists are the result of users reporting instances of non-blocked ads, for the benefit of all other users.
Gamma correction is achieved by raising the color to a power, the power being the gamma value. So sqrt is the same as gamma correction with gamma = 2.0; On typical monitors, gamma is 2.2 , so this is close and maybe faster if the GPU has optimizations for fast square root.

More info : http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch24.html
"5,000 daily unique users, 70,000 daily page views, earns about $5 per day."

If your traffic is mostly US/UK/EU, then you are doing something very very wrong to be only earning $5 per day.
Nah, you'd subtract your color from white in order to get negative. This would diminish original. Sqrt is there for poorman's gamma.
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I don't understand how if you turn off GPU, wouldn't your screen not work? I haven't heard of that before (not saying it's not true I just don't know)
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My copper went through the roof, and the worst of all is that you barely notice it going up. It slowly builds and you think that you are doing fine, although I had started noticing that I had trouble focusing and had bad temper, which I had never had before (and a million other symptoms). I'm quite confident the source is this diet. Copper overload is actually more common than it seems, but a lot of people that suffer it never get diagnosed, because it doesn't appear in the blood and more often than not people blame their job or the stress for those symptoms. I'm not blaming the diet, because I made that choice and I didn't read enough about the possible downsides, but I think people should be careful when switching to certain diets (keto, vegan, etc.). You get overloaded (pun intended) by information about meat, cancer, GMO, and all that crap going around that tries to convince you that what you are doing is wrong. I should have been more careful, but I learned my lesson.
Let me ask you a single question: How would you react if the advertisement your site distribute contains malware.

Will users be compensated and get repairs paid? Since its very costly and likely company threatening, would you pay a insurance which would cut into profits even more. What kind of risk mitigation do you employ to lower users risk and your own liability when deciding which ads runs on your site?
There's no paradox in Amazon. The antitrust law makes no sense. The people will decide collectively and distributedly (= the market, a p2p network) if they like Amazon or not. There is a conceptual error in the idea of needing the government to interfere the market with these antitrust laws.
> having it be broken with AdBlock turned on clues me in that something shady is going on

The "something shady" is AdBlock muscling their way into the ad revenue game using you as a way to bludgeon the sites serving the ads. Under no circumstance should an ad blocker prevent the site from working as expected; that's the purview of the site itself.
Can you define what the 'market' is?
I'm in the same boat, well aware of chrome option to switch accounts, but the simplicity of dual browsers wins when two people use the same login regularly.

Also I get to keep up to date with changes in firefox.
> subtextually

Translation: there is nothing actually in there about removing those regulations. You (and others, MSM outlets included) are attempting to manufacture outrage.
I'm kind of frustrated at this, heh. I'm on chrome 49 because I can't install anything newer on my linux mint machine. I can't install a newer one because of a dependency, which requires a newer kernel version.

So I'm stuck with an out dated version of Chrome due to my linux kernel version (which I don't feel like updating and alienating my virtualbox drivers). Chrome 49 isn't even that old, I think it is < 1 year.
I have absolutely no experience with WebGL, so I have no idea. Sqrt would diminish intensity in highlights, if nothing else. So, in that way it would seem to be an approximation of gamma correction. I'd have to see the result (can't on tablet).
I only recently discovered there was a name for what I experience. I was surprised to find it's pretty rare, but it helped me at least feel a lot more empathy towards people who make chewing noises!
Where, exactly, is that in this EO?
> Coke isn't served hot in China.

It depends on the province, the city, and generation of people. Sure this doesn't happen in Shanghai or even Beijing, but China isn't just Shanghai and Beijing.
Scaling factor should definitely be treated the same way as the screen resolution - and I will disagree with screen resolution not being a user preference.

The last point, while acknowledging the poor hardware's existence, assumes that a normal user would not use it. And that's just not true. I've connected to plenty monitors that had the wrong scaling factor by default, I installed Windows 10 on a 14 inch 1080p laptop that by default used a 175% factor, not to mention the screen resolution concerns.

I personally can resolve this with configuration files, but why should I, if every other OS I've used gives a slider that lets me adjust this in a matter of seconds? What about users that aren't as tech savvy as me? Plenty of people now know that they can adjust the screen resolution in settings - but how many can dig through config files without a reference? What if you find yourself wanting to present something on a projector, and it displayed everything at some ridiculous resolution or scale, would you have the 15 minutes to mess with configuration files in that scenario?
That's all just going the long way around. Why not just have the door (or Alexa) be able to talk Bluetooth to the watch to verify that it's there?
I suspect it would be difficult (impossible?) without relative position addressing modes and/or other tricks. A conventional stack would need some way to access an offset away from the base, but perhaps you could use self-modifying code. Perhaps relative from current position like brainfk.

All general computation needs either a direct or convoluted means of achieving conditions too. A tricky formula exploiting abs(x) could be used to produce {0, 1} but...
After repeated moves a red link appears next to the "Guess Draw" link. You have to click it to set the draw.
I'm also hyperaware (I call it hypersensitive). It's a good thing if you're a bodyguard, but otherwise it's absolutely a curse.

Noise cancelling headphones are a must. Also, music can be too distracting. I recommend white noise. YouTube has plenty 10 hour long videos with pure white noise.
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Or going on record that the mentally ill should be armed.

I honestly don't know how one can explain that sort of thing to his electorate, but clearly one can.
Microsoft is moving away from source depo to git it seems. I think its fantastic that a company like Microsoft is adapting git for its big king and queen projects such as office and windows. Also open sourcing the underlying magic tells a lot about the new Microsoft. They're really moving away from not-invented here syndrome
and within 80 years the entire solar system will be a rapidly expanding mass of Amazon employees asymptotically approaching the speed of light.
I took a similar class. I loved it. we started out with a project that would make leds perform a cylon style pattern [1]

For the final project we had to implement a multiplier (booths algorithm) using nothing except breadboards, wires, and a few very basic ICs that had Ands nors etc.

I loved that class and it really helped me understand how a processor actually works.

[1]https://68.media.tumblr.com/46f8f8a9ffd3f4bf900e1710c4e08fd0...
No, it does not. But such flagged comments lose their privilege of appearing high up in the thread.
Is that the same as Talking Sam on the C64? That was the first synthesized speech I ever got to play with.

I also had the speech module on my TI-99/4A. That was pretty sweet. That led to me buying a bunch of SPO256 chips from Radio Shack that I eventually wired to up to a little line-following robot that I made. I was the only one that could understand it.
He's assuming lighting is in linear space and doing gamma correction at the end of the shader. Sqrt is a faster approximation of pow(c,1.0/2.2).

I first saw this trick in writing in this article (by the co-creator of shader toy). http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/outdoorslighting/outd....

For reasons why linear space lighting is important read (http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch24.html) The gist of it is gamma space lighting tends to look unnatural and blown out, and it becomes more of a problem the more math you do in the lighting (adding specular, multiple lights, etc.)
Ask HN: What news/journalism/publications do you pay for?
I've seen reports of increasing subscriptions to publications such as the New York Times since the US presidential election in November. I also know that there are many people who do not like the typical ad-supported monetization approaches that are so common with many online publications.

I'm curious to know what publications HN users are actively paying for.
> The governments goal was more along the lines of trying to spur entrepreneurial activity - they got that

Virtually all the fund's investment went into one company (Xero). If Thiel had already decided to invest in that company anyway (a plausible scenario), then his deal with the NZ govt is equivalent to receiving a free call option (if I remember my Options Theory correctly). And no entrepreneurial activity would have been spurred.
That's a damn good question.
Hm...I like the concept of connecting on the technical level early on in the process. But, what reason do I have to submit to any of the companies available? Do they even have a position for my experience level? Are they using the technologies I am familiar with? It seems like available job titles or even descriptions would go a long way here for both the companies and the candidates.

Kudos on the project though, looking forward to see how you iterate through it!
I'm not saying they can't, I'm saying they all too often don't, based on my own experience of seeing them introduced (primarily ScalaZ). IIRC the FreeBSD proposal that the article seems to be supporting has the kind of issues I described.
> From silly to major issues of society, they are the convenient culprit to win over voters

What. What?

Okay the last 2 years of political history have been a major, successful backlash by white men. Donald Trump won the election largely by the white vote. Brexit is happening largely due to the British brand of white identity politics.

> Yet, such racial discrimination is accepted and normalized.

What the heck are you talking about? White people and in particular white men still dominate the capital of a very large portion of the world. They're still over-represented in every growth sector of the economy in the US. They're still receiving more leniancy for crimes than equivalent socioeconomic substitutes that are non-white.

Are you mad because people notice this and are frustrated with the pace of change in your Facebook feed? Are you mad because you're confusing that gentle pressure with an actual injustice?
Thanks for the terminology clarification. Still getting used to M so please bear with me here. I'm using GT.M-amd64-Linux/V6.3-000A.

Just in the research I've done so far, I'm looking at something along the lines of the below, but I would love to see more advanced and complete snippets.

;--
; New, define variables
;--

N cryptKey,derivedKey,cipher,plainText
S cryptKey="Private Encryption Key"
S derivedKey=$$zderiveKey(cryptKey,1,1)
S plainText'"Hello, Crypto World!"

;--
; Encrypt plainText
;--

S cipher=$$zaesenc(plainText,derivedKey)

;--
; Display decrypted text
;--

W #
W !,"Encrypted: ",cipher
W !!,"Decrypted: ",$$zaesdec(cipher,derivedKey)
Q

I'll look into the Foreign subroutine interface. Anything like Haskell's FFI?
You can with Guix(pkg mgr or GuixSD distro) or NixOS.
Actually, "sold-by-Amazon.com only" doesn't help avoid knock-offs.

"For Faster Shipping, Items Are Commingled at Warehouses, Opening the Door to Knockoffs" (https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-amazon-pooled-merchandise-op...).

Basically if a third party seller says it's a "Genuine Apple iPhone Charger" (whether it is or not) and the packaging looks real enough, it gets thrown in with all the other sellers (including Amazon) who have genuine chargers.

Thus "sold by Amazon.com" means just what it says - "sold" by. Not "sourced" by...
FWIW not exactly related, but check out Go-LINQ as well. https://github.com/ahmetalpbalkan/go-linq (disclaimer: my project). I will take a look at combining RxGo and Go-LINQ and probably will write a blog post soon.
Why do you think anyone would draw this line?

Because the line has been drawn. The government has told me that there's a short list of protected attributes. And my employer (and thus by extension my hiring and compensation decisions) is held accountable based on those and only those.

And in the discourse on the topic, we always hear "why aren't there enough blacks in tech" or "why do women get paid less", but not a peep about the achievement gap for punk rockers.
"he wiped a test machine that lacked relevant information" != "cache files for example are wiped as a basic fact of web browsing"
I'm not talking about destroying evidence. I'm talking destroying unrelated yet embarrassing or potentially incriminating stuff: porn collection, downloaded movies…
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> If OTOH your neighbour is a Christian and your cousin is married to a Christian, you're going to feel a whole lot more charitable towards Christians when push comes to shove.

FWIW, don't rely too much on it, at least as far as neighbors go. There are numerous examples to the contrary during Balkan wars, and various ethnic conflicts that happened when the USSR was collapsing. For example, during the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, which involved numerous ethnic cleanings by both sides, one thing that stood out from the surviving victims' reports was that it was often their neighbors, with whom they were on good terms, that led the marauding parties to their house to ransack it and drive them out or kill them. Similar reports have been heard from Kurds and Yazidi in areas of Iraq and Syria captured by ISIS.
> Love how the free market works!

1. it's not a free market. that was a thought experiment actually. there is no such thing as a free market, and even if there was, the U.S. economy isn't one.

2. market fundamentalism is unbecoming
This article misses the point. Alexa is interesting because it's a new user interface (voice + always listening), not because it's "an AI". Imo, it's the biggest UI jump since the touchscreen phone. The tech that enables the UI will continue to improve, but it doesn't need to be a general purpose conversational AI to be successful.
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Yeah, the working tree works well to have locally, and that's what's done with svn currently.

The problem is that I also want a fast log/blame for any file back to the beginning of time - but I'm ok with that requiring devs connecting to the server containing the history (as with svn).

I also haven't found a way to make git work smoothly in shallow mode as the default, e.g can I make checkout of a branch always remember it must be shallow? Can I make log use remote history when necessary etc? I don't want to fight the tool all the time because I'm using a nonstandard approach.
Although I am far, far from a chess expert, it seems like with so many moves left to play, unless you know whether one player is more skilled than the other, one's guess is as good as another's. Might as well guess a coin flip. Maybe if the state of the board was "later into the match" it would be possible to judge whether one side had an advantage and allow you to guess better. Then again, maybe I just suck at reading a chess board and the side with the advantage IS obvious here.
Well, a good point that there is no AI except for speech recognition, but, overlooks the utility of hands-free operation. In scenarios like cooking, in jacuzzi/bath/shower, or just when you are some distance from the device, it is useful to control listening to audio books, music, NPR radio, etc., my family owns two Echoes and get good use from them.
I'm curious why sites/blogs don't start hosting ad assets themselves and serving them from their own domain. My understanding is most ad blocking is done at the host level (maybe I'm wrong and the DOM is involved too).

I also think it'd be an interesting startup idea. I get that there would be some technical hurdles to overcome, especially with all the real-time bidding that goes on now. But I'm sure a couple smart people could come up with something. Could start with something as simple as a cron job, a WordPress plugin, or an nginx proxy.
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You'll normally get screened out by their automated filtering tools if you leave anything off.

That's why so many people lie about their experience on their resume, and I don't blame them.
All of my sites are fairly diverse. US is the largest region, but it only comes in around 15% of total users.
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This is most likely fake news.
This is a better answer to the question in the post I replied to. I was responding to CWuestefeld's faulty belief that people who want diversity in involuntary attributes don't care about diversity in others.
If you load a texture like from a JPEG and use that in a shader, the texture is converted to gamma space when loaded, so you need no correction. If you are generating colors in the shader, you will need to correct for gamma.

GL does have the capability to handle linear color space buffers correctly, but you have to enable SRGB, and initialize the framebuffer correctly with SRGB color space, and I'm not sure if GLES (WebGL) can do this.
Anyone know what jayajay means by "SPWs"? Neither article speaks of SPWs but both speak of "sharp waves" or "sharp wave ripples"(designated "SWRs").

Maybe jayajay needs a nap!8-))
As someone who physically lashed out on human beings making annoying sounds, regretting it and apologizing immediately after each time, I've developed only single coping mechanism for it that doesn't at the same time destroy my productivity and concentration (like most music that'd wash over such noise does) - rain sounds.
> There are only 3 options (plus shutting it down) 1) Native advertising/sponsored articles/affiliate revenue or whatever applies. 2) subscription/paywall. 3) Proper advertising (that isn't blocked).

Micropayments are another option; Brave has implemented them.
The mobile ad market is proof enough that the ad industry as a whole is terrible. Blocking ads on iOS and Android is harder for the average user than on Desktop, and it's abused to a ridiculous degree. Popups, redirects, trying to trick users into installing malicious apps, etc.

The ad industry had a second chance with mobile, and they showed they couldn't control themselves.
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