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The definitive guide to how the Atari vector system worked was written by Jed Margolin (ex-Atari engineer). It's amazingly detailed but incredibly easy to read:

http://www.jmargolin.com/vgens/vgens.htm

The secret is very precise (and expensive) DACs. The vector generator actually did all the hard work in Asteroids. The main CPU (a 1.5 MHz 6502) just created vector lists for the AVG to draw.
They will not give you a vasectomy in the US as a young childless man. Something about 'changing your mind later'. It's very patronizing.
A year ago, I started open sourcing my unused logo designs to developers
Brings back lots of memories - had it permanently open in my browser when I wrote a P2P file transfer / messenger app for a project about 10 years ago. Socket programming is so much fun :-)
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> I'm not keen on being forced to give up my British citizenship as a result. Being British is a core part of my identity.

I hear you.

I have two nationalities (German and Italian). If Germany would force me to choose between them, I'd probably remain German for practical reasons -- but at the same time, it would greatly alienate me from the German state. As opposed to what politicians claim: that it would strengthen my integration into German society.

Being part of two nations, two peoples, is just fundamentally who I am, and I insist on governments acknowledging it.

Fun fact: my children have three nationalities.
Reminds me of Facebook's arguments in support of Free Basics.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35197062
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No, the GBA has some (a?) mode where a memory mapped frame buffer is mapped rather directly to the screen, while also offering tile/sprite based modes.
Yes, humans are inclined to form tribes and to fear the other, just like our primitive ancestors. It's little reason to justify such division today, and especially not to participate in mass murder to achieve it.
At the risk of self promotion I made http://fetching.io to solve exactly this problem across all the browsers I use.
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> which will include higher prices, lower employment and probably lower standards for UK workers

I often see this kind of sweeping statement here on HN as if the consequences of Brexit are an already an established fact. How do you substantiate these predicitons? Are you aware of the term "project fear"[0]?

0:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Fear_(British_politics...
This describes the target of hiring at all levels in the Bay Area. Everyone wants A class talent for their B or C class CRUD. A major contributor to this is that the industry is relatively immature with respect to engineering practices.
The name "flex" itself was based on the name of the original Unix lexer-generator "lex", just like its sibling parser generator "bison" was a play on words of lex's parser generator sibling "yacc" (which stands for "yet another compiler compiler"). Fun fact: one of the original authors of lex was Eric Schmidt, now executive chairman of Alphabet.
How do I apply for the job ? What is your email.
I subscribe to some newsletters that aggregate weekly articles around some category or topic. This is a lot easier for me as I do not have to continually scan sources for new articles.

I also try to read a book or article on something new I want to learn. My most recent book I started reading is called the Mom Test. Its about doing customer development, and it touches on the subject of what type of questions you should be asking.
why do you care? why cant the information exist, maybe be hidden by default, and shown after clicking an expand button.
> That might be true if you're running a pizza joint but it couldn't be farther from the truth building a software company, or making a movie.

Or starting a medical practice

Or starting a hedge fund

Or starting a law firm

It might be the most important thing for any new venture, across history. There is a good reason that the start of the story about Jason and the Golden Fleece describes assembling his crew of Argonauts.
How would they know what kind of ad to show if they don't know anything about you?
Whale brains are absolutely enormous but I don't see them doing quantum field theory.
Re your final sentence, there's a possible third option (though your second has merits): coming up with both rules (law) and guidance (rights, ethics, morality) based on what improves the overall common weal.

Another archaic concept, I fear, most days.
As a counter-anecdote, I know a mentally ill person (mostly functional, luckily, but he gets paranoid delusions during the worst times). His family pressed the doctors hard to have him involuntarily committed one time since he refused to go. From what I can tell, the primary effect of that is that he now has an intense distrust of doctors and those family members, and it would be a lot harder for doctors to help him now, even if they tried to approach him with more empathy.

The only people now who can sometimes talk him down when he's having problems are me and a couple of other family members that did not participate in pushing for involuntary committal.
It's amusing to read all these calls for a more democratic EU, specially when comparisons with the USA are made.

EU membership is voluntary, you can leave if you want. What would happen if an USA state decided to leave? Check the history books.

Truly democratic nations respect self-determination principles. In this sense, USA is closer to the authoritarianism of Spain than to democracies like Canada or the UK itself.
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I definitely believe that there must be people who enjoy this, in fact they are probably in the majority. It's just that some of us don't, and these are who startups should be pursuing.
EDIT: 100 subscribers! Thank you guys! :)
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Nature doesn't deal everyone the same hand. Society says we should all be treated equally. The laws of nature are absolute. The laws of society are made up, and exist only in our minds. The mentally ill and chronically homeless really bring out the dissonance between these two systems. We can exasperate ourselves and flounder about helplessly. We can leave these broken people on the street. We can round them up and put them in a junkyard, out of sight and out of mind. Or we can pretend we can fix them up and get them working again, even though we can't. About once a week or so the solutionists of HN go through this routine.
Oops! You're correct. Apple is indeed the 'great artist' here. I am aware Steve Jobs popularised the quote; hence why it was relevant.

Thanks for pointing out the flaw in my metaphor. Perhaps a better analogy would've been David v Goliath, but that is so intensely overused these days...
> To be honest, when I have a lot of money, I want to build housing for homeless people...

based on that plan, i expect you'll spend most of your money on lawyers, dealing with all of the legal / zoning / HR / irs red tape involved in employing people on that sort of basis, while tying it to their housing, which sounds like the sort of thing that's been banned in most cities for decades.
I decided I wasn't rolling the dice on build quality and reliability enough so I got a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT. :) So far Ive been pretty lucky with its reliability, and parts/service are orders of magnitude cheaper.
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Economic growth in the US: A tale of two countries
Checked the spectrum, it's a range from 6300K (cool white) down to 1700K (very warm white, could probably call it amber). I measured it at three points: the ends of the range and a point eyeballed in the middle of the UI slider, which may or may not have been quite at 50%.

Points on black body curve in CIE 1931 colorspace: http://i.imgur.com/FCsdxZW.png

That's the curve where we define "white" light, based on the perceived color of a black body object heated to various temperatures. The naming convention is a bit strange; "warm white" refers to the orange end with relatively cool temperatures, while "cool white" refers to the blue end with relatively high temperatures.

Relative spectral distributions, each normalized with the peak wavelength at 1: http://i.imgur.com/3Bw6ltt.png

The "cool" spectrum is pretty typical of a phosphor converted white LED, where you get a strong peak in blue and then a smooth curve across the upper end of the spectrum produced by the phosphor.

The "warm" spectrum has two peaks, dominated by red around 630nm and a smaller green peak around 530nm.

You can tell just from the black body curve that they've used more than the two-channel LED mixing that I guessed in my parent post. With just two LEDs, you're basically making linear combinations of the two colors and can only move in a straight line between them. If it were only the cool white and red LEDs, the color would move along this path between 6300K white and 630nm saturated red: http://i.imgur.com/d2W3sb4.png

Having a 3rd channel green LED allows them to pull it back up to the black body curve. Interesting to see that they're apparently doing a 3-channel color adjustment with cool white / red / green, rather than the RGB system that people are so used to.
Fair enough, I suppose I overstated that!

The USA was, at least at first, divided on the issue and didn't exactly come swingeing down on the British side - many members of the Reagan administration thought that aiding the UK would hamper their anti-communist efforts in South America generally and I guess as hegemon they just wanted the whole inconvenient problem between two US allies to go away.

Later when it became clear that the UK was going to war, that was that. They did support the British position but didn't get entangled publicly for their own reasons, not least there's no point getting involved if your ally can take care of it anyway.
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Saddens me how plutocratic the patent system is...
Regardless of the likelihood of a collapse, it is a possibility. No plan is a plan for failure. What's fascinating for me about this video is that it shows how the DPRK citizens have a hard time with capitalism (implying that it isn't "natural" as the capitalism marketing machine would have us think). Usually stories on the DPRK focus on the problems inside that country without turning the same eye on our systems.
Is there any data on resumes accepted vs. rejected for the interview?

I would love to go one step further with efficacy feedback.
I was vegetarian for a while back after college.

Now, I just try to eat healthy. I tried the book Vegan before 6, which I thought was a nice way to move into that lifestyle.

I also am working on a side project to help me find vegetarian / vegan dishes at restaurants in a location. I still want that healthy option when I am eating out.
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> I'm not sure why I'm getting down-voted over this.

Because you first expressed a misunderstanding about what unions are and then expressed a misunderstanding about how this site works.
Nah, sex is for pleasure or for children (and pleasure), depending on how you practice it. Self-control is still very much valued (at least in my society). The self-control bit is using the available contraceptives when you're only having sex for pleasure.
Recent events in my country (the US) have shown that visas don't really mean much of anything - here one day, gone the next. Most times they will be fine, but you can't trust them.
My response has always been that a universal basic income would certainly guarantee a few good soldiers.
Have you tried? I got one fairly easily at the age of 22. I was actually armed to the teeth with debates and arguments for my doctor, but when I asked him to perform it, he shrugged and said "Okay, I can fit you in two weeks from now"
I'm not really sure why this is on the front page of HN, but I'll add my thoughts because it is.

> To make your meetings successful, follow up on action items

This is it. Back when I was doing consulting, the only thing that mattered when I came out of the meeting was action items. Often, even if the agenda is X, something unexpected will have happened (often the reason why the meeting was called), and you'll actually spend the bulk of the time talking about Y. You should still have an agenda, but I found that clients appreciated most when I drilled at the action items. This also makes it really easy to wrap up meetings. When you get toward the end, you say something like: "We're starting to get short on time, here are the action items that I have from this meeting; x, y, z. Did I miss anything?"

Talking about stuff is pointless unless it leads to some action.
Are you trolling?

Many people do not want a family. We have a sizeable population problem and many unwanted children are already born into poor conditions.

Safe sex is important, but "self-control", implying denying oneself sex, is a choice you can make, but certainly most would not. The "tradition" in the past was (still is in many places) patriarchal oppression and to expect or TAKE sex, forcefully if necessary. Colour me unimpressed by tradition.
Sure society hasn't collapsed, but we've lost a lot all in the name of "progress".
I would even go as far to suppose that most of the cases of persistent homelessness are cases like this. Many of the less extreme cases are being successfully treated to some degree. I'm speaking as someone with personal experience, as I have several friends at different points along this spectrum.
The original decision by the various states to join together was not at all accomplished by armed conquest.
It's probably a dolphin or porpoise. Not only do they have some of the highest EQ of non-primates, they're also the right weight range:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetacean_species#Famil...

You may think of bottlenose dolphins as representative of the whole family, but they actually are much larger than most of their brethren.
Let me know when Ford autopilot is available on the street. They did buy Argo, but current Ford projections are saying 2021..

"whether Tesla is the next Ford or the next Delorean" Tesla is neither of these because it is more than a car company. It is vertical integration that incumbents can't match at this point.

? Yes, of course. You must not own an electric car.
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Some kind of cetacean.
I'd love to stake applicants. But this is a anonymous account and I can't answer that question without giving it away. I wish you the best of luck, though.
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To be fair, some of the EU leaders have made it clear that they intend to make the brexit so costly on britain that no one else dare leave. So, it remains to be seen how voluntary EU membership is.
We're actually only running some of it in k8s, the edge nodes are ansible managed bare metal. We do however, work really really well with k8s apps.

Our apps are all k8s deployments. We have a user facing dashboard, a marketing app, and a backend administrative dashboard. Sidecar pods would work fine for our agents, but we actually bundle them with the apps ... this lets our edges detect release version, branch info, etc (that stuff is easy to read from git, hard to detect from a sidecar). Those agents connect to the nearest edge to setup a tunnel, then we use very fast backhaul between edges to connect users back to apps.

We actually started by running the edges as k8s nodes, and even toyed around with federated clusters. It was a bit unwieldy and had a few too many layers of indirection between visitors and our proxies so we simplified.
Electric cars are far from perfect, but the simple fact that they have less moving parts than an ICE vehicle. No fanbelts to stretch, no flywheels to break, no fuel injection pump, etc, etc.

Other than normal wear and tear, there should be massively less maintenance required for electric vehicles.
No. You cannot make that argument. Not in the slightest. It is an appalling and abhorrent argument. Suppose after having the children, one partner turned abusive. You would have them stay in that relationship. You would say it was a choice. And for that, you are deplorable.
Boulder isn't that bad, isn't it only a 10-30% cut off base salary? The good strat is to get hired in MTV and then transfer to Boulder, your GSUs will still stay the same size. The better strat is to get hired in Zurich and then transfer, even bigger bonus!
My system for notes is very simple, and similar to what was outlined in this article.

Before the meeting:

Other than daily stand-ups, no meeting invite goes out without an agenda. We have a policy that anyone can freely decline a meeting without an agenda. (If I'm really in a rush, I'll limit the agenda to just a one-sentence purpose statement about why we are having the meeting.)

Meeting notes look like this:

# Meeting Date

Wednesday March 29th, 2017 @ 10 AM

# Attending

* Dave Dawson (Dave.Dawson@company.com)

* Sally Smith (Sally@Smith@company.com)

* Joe Jackson (Joe.Jackson@company.com)

# Invited

* Bob Billings (Bob.Billings@company.com)

# Meeting Notes

* (Copy and paste agenda here, then make minor edits over the course of the meeting to track updates / changes, and any action items people take on. I like bullets for readability.)

After the meeting:

I write a quick summary of the meeting notes and any action items, "Joe, Sally, and Dave spoke about XYZ. Joe will take care of a few additional action items, after speaking with Bob and The Client, and we will all regroup in a week. Bob was out sick and couldn't attend." This goes at the top so anyone with a short attention span can skim it.

Then I email everyone who was on the Attending / Invited list (or anyone mentioned in the meeting) with all the notes, and / or post it to the public meeting note storage location in Asana / Confluence / Whatever. Finally I create any followup meetings as needed. (If I'm feeling exceptionally anal, I'll create or update GitHub / Asana / Whatever tickets with the pertinent action items.)
>I believe social mobility comes from opportunity - and we live in a society with more opportunity than ever.

Actually social mobility is on the decline in America. It's also lower than in a lot of more redistributive states like the nordic countries, france, canada, etc. Is opportunity on the decline in America? Maybe if we did welfare like those states it would go back up.

>The failure to leverage that opportunity will not be meaningfully improved by redistribution

This is just not true.

Could you please read this short blogpost? It distills some economic research down and should give you a better understanding of why I believe what I believe.

http://glineq.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-schumpeter-hotel-inco...
As long as startups refuse to hire unless they find a young white/asian guy who's good on the spot/whiteboard with trivia questions you'll have a hard time hiring---google or not.

I've twenty years experience and couldn't get hired last year, so gave up and joined a freelancer site. Getting lots of work now, no questions asked, and guess what? Five star reviews, and work from home. I'm not interested in games and prefer to get work done.
wow, give me something i very much don't want while taking away something i very much want. Sounds more like corporate rights than civil rights.
I really do not trust that line of thinking.
Interesting article, it reads like they are trying to rehabilitate the tantalum capacitor market.

Back when NetApp was got a deal to provide filers for IBM to re-label the word came from IBM that all Tantalum capacitors had to be designed out of the system. There was an interesting project in engineering to purge the designs of all tantalum capacitors. IBM's reasoning was that they had been the source of fires as I recall.

As a result I find myself always hesitating to use one (even in silly one-offs) and other engineers I've met have similar habits.
Flex hours aren't really the same as cutting the work week by 8 hours. It also requires you do not just expect people to make up the lost day by putting in 10-12 hour days on the regular. It's a deeply cultural thing and requires top-down executive and mgmt buy in.
With this kind of optimisation, Watson (and many of us) needs a BS score for each sentence...
Which is part of a reasonable benefits package. So you're arguing that, in addition to underpaying base comp, they also want to bypass a competitive benefits package--but that may not be obvious to young people who don't think they need insurance.
Most of your Australian countrymen want to get rid of ranked voting.

http://scorevoting.net/WhatVotersWant

Maybe they think it's too complicated.
What all have we lost due to birth control?
As a binational person, I can tell you that this is a much more emotional issue than you believe.

Being asked to leave your citizenship behind isn't just some paperwork, it's a very big blow to your identity. In my case, it would have almost no practical effect (I'm European either way), but it would be a huge issue.

It's kinda like marrying. You may claim that it's just paperwork (and I'm sure some people really feel that way), but I felt there was something more about it. Sure, I had been with my now-wife for eight years at that point, but being the act of marrying made it much more Serious (yes, capital S). If you've ever been married, maybe you can relate to that feeling.
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Not sure about Google but other large/well-known tech firms seem to pay their UK engineers on par with their US ones based on speaking to my UK friends who work for SF-based tech companies.

I hear contracting for day rates in London is the route to ££ in the tech field over there (or working for a US-based company), but the salaries/equity on offer in the US even for non-rockstar positions dwarf what UK employers are able or willing to provide.

The UK massively undervalues and under-compensates its technical talent, it's a big part of why I left the country.
Does the class A talent describe their education or their work ethic?

I've been on projects with incredibly knowledgeable and talented people that just couldn't stay on track, and I've been on projects with people that weren't the best and brightest but they were focused and put in a lot of work. You need both kinds.
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The problem is there's no way to know how true the promises are. What do "flex hours" mean to them? Is it conditional, if so, on what? How far does their trust really go?

Compensation doesn't have this problem. You can't offer me $160k and then pay me $120k six months down the road. I mean, you can, but not with a straight face.

The soft benefits you described are one CTO/manager/investor change, or engineer bus accident, away from vanishing and it's not looked at the same way as cutting pay, furloughs, and things of that nature.

While I want to take one of these "work to live" jobs, I always end up taking the salary. I have a much easier time carving out a bastion of sanity in a given company that doesn't advertise the benefits, than to take a significant pay cut along with the risk I just described.
Agree. But much easier to know we should follow-up than to actually do it Especially for the more technical minded people (me included). Wish there was an AI that can automate it!

For me though, number of meetings you get pulled into without Agenda or need is the number one time killer!
Google Maps does do this in "Earth" mode (formerly "Satellite").
They rolled back the FCC's privacy rules. They did not restore the FTC's privacy rules. Best to pay attention to the things they do rather than the things they say.