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> It is emissive.

Yes you're right; I wasn't arguing with you about that. I always feel like calling it additive rather than emissive. But just because you can represent additive colors in premult images doesn't mean you should, and I'd speculate wildly that it occurs less often in production than halo problems. Someone who writes lens flare and rainbow shaders is going to scold me for saying that though...

In the context of the OP's article, and of artists who paint images with transparency in them, worrying about emissive colors isn't really an issue. Artists very rarely paint pre-mult images, they can't work with premult images, generally speaking. No doubt a few people who know what they're doing do it, but I can't personally say I've ever seen an artist painted premult image with emissive colors, nor do I recall ever seeing a software rendered layer with emissive colors either. Is this common now? I've been out of film & games for a few years now.

I'm already familiar with everything you referenced; and I can vouch that it's all very good stuff so thanks for sharing, especially the Adobe thread. I hope others here benefit. It's amusing that an entire industry knows who Chris Cox is because of this thread, right? :P
More specifically, progress in physics has slowed dramatically.
For most people biometrics offer a better security posture than some of the alternatives.
The average user is at much greater risk of someone watching them enter a PIN/Password than having them capture and forge their biometrics.
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This is exactly what smaller e-tailers need in order to begin to be able to compete with Amazon -- most of them eventually learn that they have no chance if they try to actually rely on Amazon as their primary platform, but it's so hard to compete with that infrastructure without a service like this.
Nope. What about it?
Just felt sorry for the cows
basically softbank just purchased almost half of this company. nice payday for Andreesen Horowitz though
Could use a hardware LED to inform user key input is secure. Could also reserve part of the screen for OS messages.

This prevents hostile apps from stealing your root password, but doesn't stop them from tricking you into giving them root access (which is nearly as bad).
> This project has never been about EEE. It's not about controlling the user. It's the complete opposite. It's all about choice.

well, those are the first two 'E's of the picture, if this is the case. with the latest edition of Windows 10 (S, i think?), microsoft have already prepared the stage for the third.
Yarn package pages and search
you could do small android phones, install trinux or linux deploy on it, access X through VNC or X on Android - output or cast to display through wifi or cable
Unfair. Up until just a few years ago, genome sequencing cost thousands or hundreds of millions of dollars or was impossible. How was anyone going to check? The statement is almost entirely true (a few thousand changes out of 3 billion basepairs), anyway.
Freakonomics radio just broadcast an episode on Uber (and self-driving vehicles) last week. Pretty interesting analysis of the impact of Uber from an economic perspective.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-most-dangerous-machine/

Note: This is a rehash of 2 earlier podcasts.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3392
come on, there's no need to be disingenuous here - having the linux userspace run atop the windows kernel is much closer to docker than virtualization.
In theory if cows produce more meat, less cows will be killed.

(we can talk how immoral is kill a cow for feed ourself, but this is off-topic and everyone has different opinions)
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Yeah I avoid the "what do you do (for a living)?" Question too. I prefer to ask, what do you like to do for fun. So many people dont have an answer, its sad.
> I'm pro-free markets, and monopolists can do as much damage to them as the government can. Government intervention can be justified if it makes markets more free.

Every libertarians failure is to not recognize that left to their own devices the "free markets" naturally always consolidate into oligopolistic cartels or a monopoly with poorer outcomes for the consumer.

The supply and demand sides are not incentive compatible and should thus always be regulated (helps with accounting for the externalities as well)
https://goo.gl/lQ1Ayl or
http://github.com/RbkGh/WSDownloader
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We have a iStarUSA 12-drive unit in our server room. Instead of a sane color they used purple for the drive LED colors. It is clearly visible from outside and we have gotten a lot of positive comments since installing it. I guess flash sells. I am deeply tempted to rig up and LED display that is bright but informative.
"I honestly don't think people understand how important rachers are to the ecosystems, a thousand times more important than wolves."

All right I'll bite. Where in Arizona? Mogollon Rim? Arizona Strip? The Kaibab?

Aside from these above Arizona is desert. The desert is fragile. The cows destroy the desert. The American West (deserts) are mountains of cow shit. Every stream, every spring, every alcove is fouled if the cows can get in. The cows are the biggest destructive force in the desert I have ever seen.

The saddest part is that the open range ranching in desert Southwest is not even profitable without large subsidies and support by the taxpayer. These ranches are "pretend cowboys" making a living by other means. A handful of cows they own does not really help anyone and the costs of us all are huge.

Now, to the forested parts of Arizona. The Kaibab and the Arizona Strip are essentially a park land. If not for cows, it would be a pristine wilderness. This is all federal land. We do not need cows there either. 6 months ago I went on foot from Bryce to Nankoweap. The cows on Kaibab wreck havoc just like everywhere else. The Kaibab is dotted by swaths of open areas made by ranchers years ago for grazing, still nothing grows.

What is really important for any ecosystem I am aware of, is to NOT have cows and ranching. We have enough developed and rich land in other places. Please leave the West alone! Please go to Texas where all land is private and raise your livestock there.

This said, fewer cows and higher beef prices would help in general as well.
Hi Brandon-

I can't find good tables in the article or on your teams site. [edited]

I know you guys take your numbers seriously but I'd love to see anything allowed out pre-publication.

[edit]Thanks to poster below I see this is AUC. Thanks!
You'll find most most medical algorithms pretty disappointing. :)

For example, the algorithm in implantable cardioverter defibrillators generates unnecessary shocks in 1 in 6 patients. Its accuracy is getting worse over time:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-untimely-jolts-idUSTRE70O7...
I think that a one-word answer would be "epigenetics". Sections of genes are turned on and off by various chemical processes, so that the genes that are actively transcribed into proteins can change without the underlying DNA changing.

There was a brief mention of it at the bottom of the article.
No idea, I wasn't really being serious, but what inspired me was a real case of a woman who somehow got identified as pregnant by her supermarket long before she was willing to tell anybody (I don't remember reasons) and they sent her some coupons or something and her family found out. Needless to say, she didn't appreciate.
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I think I find the fattening more disturbing. It was a precursor to me becoming vegetarian though so ymmv
I honestly could not help but laugh at the Softbank for burning their money like this. But what do I know, I haven't raised that kind of funding before, maybe running boxes on aws with persistent storage is too difficult for most game developers.

$500MM though? The skeptic in me is saying they're going to write the majority of this down in 5 years.
Coming from a bioinformatics background this is really, really surprising to me. I knew there was always a chance of individual cells diverging from the shared genome but we always considered that a hallmark of cancerous, abnormal growth.

Thinking that you could have a trillion unique variations of the genome significantly ups the computational complexity of simulating an organism by a frightful order of magnitude. We are so much further from understanding biological systems than we ever thought.

That's been the main lesson from the modern era of sequencing, genomics, and bioinformatics - we haven't learned nearly as much as we have unlearned.
My guess is that the the developer's main intention was for the driver to react keystrokes , rather than malice. But they definitely should've avoided writing all the keystrokes to a log file located under the user's home directory.
i'm saying this now; POSIX will never be a first class citizen on windows - we might get shims in /proc and /dev, but windows will never run from POSIX. as long as Win32 exists (and lets face it, that's not going away for a long time), we're basically stuck with running a docker container with linux on it in windows.

and that might be all you need. but for many *nix people, this is no where near enough.
> But I’d rather see Apple make me enter the PIN if it’s idle for one hour.

Does this ever really happen though? It's rare for my phone to sit there for more than 15 minutes without me messing with it.
Using "resolver 127.0.0.1" is an effective mitigation against all issues I documented.
Really interesting.

I can see a potential milestone Windows 10 S on an Arm V8 based laptop with all day battery+. Sort of a Surface RT but without any excuses.

If Apple follows suit and creates a light weight, network centric laptop experience around iOS, then you'll have three contenders for the 'appliance' environment, ChromeOS, Windows 10 S, and iOS. Each with their own 'laptop' design ethic, Pixel, Surface, MacBook.
I find this a fascinating subject, it would seem our gut microbiota is a driving force of much of the bio-chemistry that we experience as consciousness, serotonin, adrenaline, dopamine, oxytocin are all influenced by the state of our gut microbiota and it's great to see so much research in this area, how we feel seems to have a lot to do with what we eat...
I know this is very tangential, but I hate the design decision to have the hamburger menu mixed in to the graveyard stuff at the top of the site. It reminds me of those hidden object puzzles. It very much prioritizes aesthetics over usability. With more thought, the aesthetics could be included without having to sacrifice usability.
Hi, What is your goal with this project? Your title is: travelers fit into new culture, but I can see that you offer only local schools and teachers.
Or you can over-provision with renewables (which are cheap and getting cheaper all the time), or have utility/grid/home power storage, or balance renewable generation from different parts of the country/globe - it's always windy/sunny somewhere. There are lots of options.
Multiple human errors. Once she was on the plane, she found (unsurprisingly) that her seat was taken. A steward on the plane looked at her boarding pass and found her another seat.
"Former employees are often biased by their job function."

Aggregating their reviews would cancel this effect out though.
Is it possible you're talking about blood oxygen saturation?
http://www.cultofmac.com/320322/apple-watch-sensors-are-capa...
That's pretty much what the current Persistent Universe Alpha is. An actual playable version of the Star Citizen MMO half, with the currently built technology.
Totally this. I lived with my aunt in the bay area back when webvan.com was hot, and I remember a time when the two of us saw a commercial of theirs. I remember saying how great of an idea it was, that it could really take off, and I distinctly remember my aunt -- not a very prolific internet user but not a luddite by any means -- saying that it was weird buying groceries online. That really stuck with me, because my aunt is/was the kind of person to try something like that, but even she wasn't comfortable with it.

Plus also webvan.com blew a billion dollars building a delivery infrastructure that they couldn't support.
Quickc ache doesn't seem like a good name.
What do people who dont trust science trust instead? Not the religious nuts who would prefer to pray away an illness than get treatment, but the rest, lol.
Congratulations on the release! Been waiting for this one :)

Requests to any Keybase devs reading this:

* UI to disable the macOS app from auto-launching on login (slightly user hostile not to be able to have this option, also asking permission before putting something in my Finder sidebar would be nice, useful though it may be!)

* Not sure if there's a technical reason for this, but it would be nice to be able to link accounts via OAUTH or similar without having to make a public post for all my e.g. Facebook contacts to see.
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i like the hubris it takes to assume you know exactly what to do in a situation you've clearly never experienced.
Well, DNA is kind of Big Data. And everyone who worked with Big Data knows that there will always be all kinds of inconsistencies and errors.

Personally, I was always skeptical that all non-sex human cells share the same DNA, it's just statistically unbelievable that billions of cells each having billions of DNA pairs would have then equal. I expected something like 1% of cells to have mutations.

Now they say that it's 100% for neurons. Exact 100% number is also pretty sketchy from statistical standpoint.
If everybody was issued a unique PIN, sure, but if the PINs are picked at random you need a much larger pool of numbers to make 1000 unique values likely.

If 1000 people chose a three digit PIN completely at random, the odds of any one person's choice being unique are about 36% ((999/1000)^999) - i.e., about 360 people will get a unique number, the rest will share theirs with at least one other person. In fact, it's almost certain (about 99.9%) that one of the 1000 possible PINs will be picked by five people (see https://math.stackexchange.com/a/25878). That formula estimates that there's even a 75% chance that your group of 1000 people contains one group of six who all picked the same PIN.

If you go up to five digits, for a pool of 100,000 possible PINs, then the odds that one of a thousand random PINs is unique go up to 99%, so you likely only have 10 or so people who share a PIN. Six digits, you get to 99.9%, which means about half the time 2 people have a PIN collision.

So no, capturing enough uniqueness from a fingerprint (given that you don't get to allocate the fingerprints, they get chosen for you at random) to reliably pick out one person from 1000 requires at least as much entropy as a six digit PIN - probably more.
Wow, that's a big jump from their last round a couple years ago with a16z that valued them probably somewhere around 60m-70m. I'm surprised since they don't seem to have real customers yet, just some demo games they partially funded. But it's quite possible the investors know something I don't.
Hi kengo, thank for your comment. Yes, right now we have a small side project to show in the map local schools and teachers. But our main goal is add some features such as:
- Show on the map the location of travelers and locals for being able to have a language exchange. - Bring together locals and travelers at local events created by the members of the community.
It will matter to the deaf in a good way, because the airport will be set up to ensure that all information is communicated without using audio.
If a Telecom like SoftBank has piles of money to spent gambling buying and selling international companies (ARM, Improbable, Supercell, and others), may be there is not enough competition in Japan. Do they have huge profits because of not having enough competition, or because they don't they have to return profits to the investors?
I have hunted and been an outdoors man all my life.

This is total nonsense, one shot and they would all be running. Wolves are deathly afraid of guns, and what predators fear is confrontation. Its easier to run away and go after something that isn't going to result in you dying.

They are animals, with a strong desire for self preservation, not a mindless army of killing machines out for human blood.

If it was truly this dangerous hundreds of people would be dying a year.

Your hyperbole adds nothing but disinformation to the conversation.
There's a reason their demo apps were pre-installed. The initial recompilation is cached so that running it the second time will be much quicker than the first.
Mogollon Rim is awfully big, but yeah. More specifically Apache-Sitgreaves/Gila national forest. I'm not talking about and don't know about the desert so those points are moot as are the ones about the strip and kaibab.

That's not to say you are wrong about them in particular, but our particular ecosystem it's different. However, the grazing on public land isn't all good. In chokepoints sometimes land destruction happens, for example.

That being said, the idea of leaving pristine wilderness that way for the sake of it fails the understand the bigger picture I am talking about here. For example, if we were to leave the pristine wilderness to do it's thing, we should let natural burns just do their thing. That's part of my original statement. The forest service was interfering with the natural process of burns in the forest and in the end caused more damage than benefit.

The livestock have helped keep underbrush down, and since the fires have helped to spread plant life and reinvograte the forest. The ranchers in tending the stock have also performed many of the duties that the forest service otherwise would do, and often don't have the time, manpower, or funding to get done. Honestly though I just happen to be a geek from the area, I don't know that much about the grazing system and I would have to ask the people who do know about it.

So to summarize, my list of good things are: reduced wildfire risk, increased plant diversity, invasive plant control, and reduction of public funds needed for land management (I've seen estimates at over $750m saved per year by public grazing programs nationally).

I have to say a response like yours is exactly what I'm talking about. The kind of knee-jerk "save the land" response without considering the pragmatic reality of the situation. Ranchers alone, if done properly, could keep the pristine wilderness more pristine than if it was all just walled off and no-one ever went there.
Ranchers are free to buy their own grazing land have their own rules there. On the federal land, the fed makes the rules.
"who cares? But what if multiple vaccinations (i.e. significant stress for the body to fight a disease) for for young kids actually turned out to be problematic in some circumstances?"

This is a trivial argument. The benefits of vaccination is both individual and that a large population of immunised individuals The idea of herd-immunity is a large percentage of the population is immunised the chances of disease spreading is minimised. [0]

Vaccinations are effective because individuals taking vaccinations develop immunity and if they come into contact with antigens again, anti-bodies are produced to fight. This is important for infants, who if exposed to an antigen, the time taken and effectiveness of response is weak. [1]

References

[0] http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/How-vaccines...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/howvpd.htm
Darkstore is another startup thats claiming to provide warehousing/delivery/fulfillment services utilizing unused spaces at malls, etc.
"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form." -- Vladimir Nabokov

I feel like I was born as a rebel.
Not sure why this _should_ be surprising, seeing as how multicellular organisms began as cooperative colonies of individuals.
The nature is not set on supporting our positivist "yes or no" theories.

Which means, for every theory that says "A is causes by X and not by Y", there will be a few cases where the inverse is true.

The solution is probably to stop making a religion out of knowing a few true yes/no theories, and understand the why's.
Yes, not necessarily. Progress, in my opinion, is increasing efficiency in the modes of operation. Scaling-out. Space programs are progress. Modern warfare is not progress, it is, at best, self-defence and status quo preservation.

I believe that intelligence rooted in biology is not the most efficient mode of operation.
With that I mean a function that can be optimized. If acceleration is about the unrelentless strive to higher forms of intelligence, technology, or general progress, it can be seen as some form of compression.

Or less general. A smarter AI is able to compress more facts or thruths about the world than a dumber AI does. A smarter universe henceforth is able to compress more facts or truths about itself than a dumber universe.
Ask HN: What do you wish the tech press covered more often?
Tech reporter here (and longtime HN user). At work I write for a general audience, but I also consider myself a part of the tech and startup communities. Part of my goal as a reporter is to serve those communities, and to communicate their concerns to a wider audience. I've written stories that I uncovered on Hacker News, for example: https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/amazon-counterfeits-no-starch.html

So that's why I'm asking. What do you think the tech press usually misses, and what could we do a better job of covering? I can't guarantee that I'll be able to change my approach based on your feedback, but hopefully I can incorporate any tips or concerns you have into my work. I can also share your responses with other reporters.

(if I get any responses, that is)
If a bison left the national park and rammed your car, you might fairly believe you were entitled to some compensation.

What, seriously? That sounds absurd. A bison is a wild animal; why would it ever be reasonable to expect any human or group of humans to take responsibility for its behavior?
In western states (like Utah) if you hit a cow on a highway you are going to pay for both, the car repairs and the cow. People die all the time: black cows, open road, after dark, the cows are invisible.
Thanks for the advice. That makes sense. I think I can structure something with upside for him like right of first refusal for the CTO role when funding hits.
Wear musicians' earplugs; they're great for airplanes, too.
Odd thought: the existence of an ARM Windows, makes it much simpler for Apple to ship ARM PCs.

The macOS development stack has been re-tooled to output LLVM bitcode within its "fat" binaries for a good while now. It'd be very simple for Apple to throw the switch on a compile farm ala the one Google has for Android APKs, and suddenly have ARM downloads for everything on the Mac App Store (without requiring any re-submissions.) Which means it wouldn't be hard at all for Apple to ship a "functional" ARM macOS computer... just, until now, such a machine wouldn't have had a very good Windows story. No Boot Camp, no cheap virtualization, etc.

Suddenly, that story is a solved problem.