skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the parent poster, but basically, they dropped RGB subpixel rendering, and now use plain anti-aliasing for all font sizes. They may have changed hinting and anti-aliasing parameters, too. No difference on a HiDPI screen, since you don't need subpixels there, but on standard definition screens many find it looks a bit blurrier (me included).

Supposed benefits are that it is easier to render text on colored backgrounds (you can just render with alpha to a buffer and combine it with the background, with RGB subpixel rendering you have to consider the background while drawing), and you can scale text without color artifacts.

To be honest, we have plenty of computing power today, and our GPUs are underutilized most of the time anyway. I wonder why we can't just have RGB subpixel aware rendering of everything (not just text, but also lines and polygons) implemented as a kind of shader pass. Render everything at 3x horizontal resolution, and merge using an appropriate shader. And if you have a HiDPI screen, just drop the shader.
Exactly. And what I quoted says that if you account for that, then doctors do not die differently.
Regardless of whether its classified as a digital service or not, the spirit of these taxi and even rental laws and hotel laws (applicable to AirBNB) are grounded in protection of consumers and communities in general. While these laws need updating in many cases, Uber and AirBNB shouldn't be exempt from them especially when the price differences being offered by them are only possible due to them skirting the laws.

For what its worth, they did "disrupt" the economies in question and made the incumbents appreciate the consumer more, but also profited highly from it. Now its time to stop the free lunch and even the playing field.
why is that surprising? Pandora bought them out.
Like watching a baby learn to walk! We're truly in an exciting age for technology.
Consistent design guidelines coupled with cross platform libraries is what Google did right about Material design. It seems like both Apple and Microsoft have failed to properly build this before and I have always disliked iOS and Metro designs for this reason.
You need a few doses of https://twitter.com/respectfulmemes I think
Pretty cool to see a tool like this generate so much interest!

I work on NGINX Amplify and we have been playing with config analysis for a little while as a cloud-based reporting tool.

This hit my radar originally when they wrote their blog: https://habrahabr.ru/company/yandex/blog/327590/
(they referenced Amplify)
Jinjasql is meant for reporting use cases, so yes - it should be able to help you. However, when we made JinjaSQL, we didn't want to build a super-expressive reporting API. Instead, for every report/chart we wanted to make, we wrote a comparatively simpler query and used jinjasql to get it working.

If you have a single complex query that is generating all your reports based on database configuration - I'm guessing you need the full power of python. So while JinjaSQL could have save some effort, I'm not sure it'd save you a lot.

Hope that helps!
> how will any amount of fascism successfully prevent someone from getting into someone else's car?

I'm not sure how guidance - not even a ruling - that a company's classification should change from one that provide "digital services" to one that provides transportation is fascism.

To borrow a well-trod expression, I do not think that word means what you think it means.
I think a better way of framing confidence and overconfidence is your ability to feel impacted by other people around you. If someone has reached the point where other people's reactions, thoughts, feelings, seem to hit a kind of armor and gets ignored or shrugged off, he is acting like an asshole.

It is one thing to feel confident while at the same time, one feels the connection with other people. When someone uses the feeling of being "right" as a shield, it veers into asshole territory.
Anyone having any luck compiling libjpeg-turbo with instrumentation?
Right, that's the manifestation of their prejudice. In reality, there is a spectrum, not a dichotomy, and some humans can have better memories than some computers.
From that thread I learned all you have to do to get away with evil is get the technologists to argue over "logs" vs "code".
In the video it shows that the AI is only able to do one of three things: "go left", "go forward", and "go right". It can't choose to hover in place because that isn't an intent it can express. Although I don't know why it couldn't just keep going around in tight circles?

Funnily enough, if you've ever implemented a Pacman clone, this is also how the ghost AI works.
They're training on video so their simulator would have to produce thousands of hours of realistic video. On top of simulating the aerodynamics and performance of the done itself. All to produce something which is going to be inferior to real-world data.
I'm building an app I'd love to open source, but can't because that would make it's development unsustainable.

I've been thinking that I could open a patreon account, and then open source the code after I reach $5k/mo in monthly donations.

Do you think it's a good idea?
re: other languages: yes, there's a list of implementations in the typesafe config README
As much as you guys love to hate on Uber, do you honestly want to go back to a world without it?

Just in case it isn't clear, Uber is just the easy whipping boy because of bad PR -- the legal hurdles Uber is going through will crush Lyft just as quickly (probably faster because they have a smaller legal team).

Taxi unions aren't going to say "oh, but Lyft doesn't have as much sexual harassment in the workplace, we'll let them slide."

This is a reactionary kick by a protected industry, but if the legal framework ends up crushing hail-to-ride companies, those laws aren't going anywhere for a long, long time.

The change will only happen if it's not-explicitly-illegal and people are able to use the service to see the value; if one of those stops, we're going back to unavailable, dirty, unsafe, cabs with perpetually broken credit card readers.
Ethically, neither your consent or knowledge is required for someone to see you in public and remember that image. Why they do it isn't really relevant. If they use that image to do something unethical, like commit fraud, it is the fraud that is unethical, not the imaging.
Once it actually gets launched, also consider Snowdrift.
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I'm always dismayed at how easy it is to make an armchair dismissal of research in social sciences.
The best lack all conviction... kinda like YC Unicorns?
> Go to your local flight school and 99% of the time you'll just see a row of 1970s Cessnas/Pipers.

This neatly illustrates why: http://i.imgur.com/Un22IYK.png

It's not just certification, either. Product liability accounts for a large part of this increase: "Average cost of manufacturer's liability insurance for each airplane manufactured in the U.S. had risen from approximately $50 per plane in 1962 to $100,000 per plane in 1988." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Aviation_Revitalizatio...)
I think both groups want to get shit done. It's more a question of what each group can tolerate. Apple users can tolerate a lack of choice. Linux users can tolerate a constant struggle with flaky device drivers.
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This would be a lower level part of the control system, with some higher level part determining its target. I would assume it would be somewhere close to a PID loop being tuned to avoid flipping.
> You have to feel some level of empathy for the company's employees. Most of them probably came from other well paying jobs and were already counting their option payouts int heir heads.

I'm trying to, but as you said, a lot of it is self-inflicted. In fact, it's been extremely clear for many years now that Uber is a morally bankrupt company, so it's hard to say anything but "what goes around, comes around".
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have not seen comparable solutions other then metabase maybe ?
The market will find a way. Flywheel?
Alternatively, you could just use the AGPL:

http://www.dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2014/09/how-to-achieve-ven...
Any thoughts on the quote investigator?

That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/books/famous-misquotation...
Humans will get there too.

Stalking per se is mostly only illegal because it becomes harassment and bothers the victim. This kind of monitoring is entirely unobtrusive. As the response to the original tweet illustrates, most people aren't even aware that it is happening.
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Communicating functionality is just as important as functionality.
Human pilots also train using simulators first.
We hadn't thought about it honestly, mostly because we don't use MSSQL as much with Python. However, it shouldn't be too difficult to add support if we have the right drivers. I've created a ticket here to keep track of it -
https://github.com/hashedin/squealy/issues/223.
Is this a stupid question or a serious one?

Privately owned and operated runways do exist. Airports tend to be publicly funded because they're expensive, so pretty much from the outset those who want an airport go to the government to get one. The regulations that apply depend on what kind of flights happen. If they're exclusively FAR 91 and non-charter then it's a minimal regulatory environment. When there are charters, air taxi, or air carrier flights, it becomes increasingly government regulated.

And no you really can't ban the sovereign.
Office with only standing desks? Yay or nay?
I'm building an office at home, in the living room, with the space of 150 square feet.

It will include 5 to 7 desks. Each desk has 120cm x 60cm in size (47.24 in x 23.62 in)

To save space, I'm thinking of removing chairs altogether by using standing desks.

How do you think it would affect the startup's culture?
Exactly. BTW It is not the fonts makes me crazy. It is much broader than that. It is culture behind it. Lock people up, then you have freedom to what do you want to do.

If there was a serious competitor in desktop they wouldn't dare to ignore their current user in pursue of new users.
Have you explored taking links from Wikipedia and adding them into your visualization? It might be interesting considering most articles have resources at the bottom.
In the early systems and I think that has changed the PNR used to be the hash of physical memory location of the booking.

Even back in 2002 most of the software used to deal with reservations was written in Assembler. I don't know if that has changed.
It severely depends on the mood (even in long term). From 3-5 during bad weeks to 20+ for good ones.
There's a bit of plausible deniability if you give slightly bogus info, like transposing numbers. You could assert that there was a typo on the company's part.
By bulk account I mean making numerous accounts, each of which is used for a few comments and then discarded.

It's not in the guidelines yet but it will make it in there eventually. In the meantime, it's against the rules in the sense that we don't allow it, and ban accounts that do it, for the reason I explained above.
why? the peformance hit on VM's isn't that big, if you really care why don't you just run one? 7 hours or 27 isn't that huge of a difference in the grand scope of things . . .
See, that's the problem. If it isn't a full backup then it's basically useless, because now I don't even know what's missing. Maybe it's something I really need urgently but only once a month, so it might take me a while to even figure out it's gone.

And what about say my soft tokens for 2FA? Will those survive the backup? I'm kind of afraid to find out because if they don't then it's a huge pain to reset all of those.

I wish backing up a phone was as easy as backing up a computer. :(
It's hard to see what this is actually going to look like, but if it gives their UI back some more "definition" (or in UX jargon probably discoverability of affordances) I'm looking forward to it.

I know skeuomorphism (as in: imitating physical materials, not in: using metaphors from the physical world) is out, but considering we have these awesome hidpi, high contrast screens (and cameras and light and motion sensors), why can't we have convincing different materials in our UIs?

I was really disappointed that "Holo" didn't look like I imagined holograms, and "Material" doesn't look more like paper or any other material. I'm disappointed that the blur effect in macOS is so unphysical and illogical (sometimes blurring the background, sometimes the titlebar, ...).

I wish MS or any future UI would have different types of (subtle!) material effects. Frosted glass, thick refractive glass, reflective surfaces, matte paper... not just "flat" or "blurred". And if pulled of correctly, it would not look gaudy, it would be as convincing an illusion as force touch is on MacBooks. Making me tilt my phone or laptop because I can't believe that there is not actually a piece of paper beneath my screen!

Edit: Yay, it seems they are legitimizing the blur effect that is available as an undocumented API now as "acrylic", and more materials are to come! But oh no, it is the same as macOS vibrancy (also with potentially illogical background and foreground modes) https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/uwp/style/acrylic
> bad coders are still going to make a massively coupled mess even if you force them to use DI.

DI isn't mean to be silver bullet, and bad coders are going to make a mess, whatever technique you try to impose on them.
We aren't speaking lingua sciencia, we're speaking more casually to the general audience of our newspaper. In that case, it's completely acceptable to say "doctors don't die like the rest of us", especially when you write that in 2013. It's true, they don't. In 2016, when we know it's not the "doctor" part that matters but the "rich educated" part, it's still true to say "doctors don't die like the rest of us", as long as you make it clear why that's the case.

To specifically address your question, I phrased my sentence poorly. It is literally true that doctors don't die like the average American, no matter what you account for, but that's a misleading statement because doctors aren't average.
I don't use Taxi much, but my actual experience has been better with Taxi than Uber. Granted, I suspect many people feel differently, but other than the giant VC funded subsidy, which goes away at peak times, there does not seem to be much recommending Uber over calling a Cab.
Of course. Those of us who are actually old enough to remember it, do.
They're classified...if the guy who discovered they were publicly revealed on accident had actually provided them to the Intercept, he would certainly have lost his job, and likely ended up in prison.
I'm guessing Thomas thinks that only problems that supercomputers can, in fact, usefully attack should be mentioned as the likely targets of this computer. :-)

Although the experts quoted only mention 1024-bit keys as targets of attack, the particular paragraph that Thomas mentioned really seems to suggest that RSA in general may be within reach. The worst problem is the last two sentences:

> Luckily for those using encryption, the numbers in question are so long that they can only be factored down to their prime numbers with an extremely large amount of computing power. Unluckily for those using encryption, government agencies in the U.S., Norway, and around the globe are keenly interested in computers designed to excel at exactly this purpose.

This doesn't mention anything about key lengths, but in a sense key lengths are nearly the whole story with regard to the feasibility of brute-force attacks against RSA. Particularly, both sentences refer to "those using encryption" as an undifferentiated class put at risk by this sort of project, and that's one thing that particularly suggests that all of RSA is at risk.
It seems the human brain is hard wired not to think about its own death. For those that have loved ones dying the emotional pain is intense, but that isn't the same thing as contemplating our own demise.

I lost a close friend recently and another is terminally ill. The most we can do is be with them in the moment as much as possible, but it is curious to me how my mind doesn't want to go to thinking about myself in that state one day.
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> As much as you guys love to hate on Uber, do you honestly want to go back to a world without it?

As an European? Yes.

Things were evolving fine in Europe; from our POV, Uber isn't doing anything innovative - they're just a personal transportation company (we have those) with a cute app (we have those) that tries to outcompete everyone by unilaterally deciding that laws don't apply to them.

> Taxi unions aren't going to say "oh, but Lyft doesn't have as much sexual harassment in the workplace, we'll let them slide."

I wish this would stop; I get that sexual harassment is what media loves to write about, but this was not remotely the biggest or most wrong thing Uber has done. Their whole business model is antisocial.
Thanks!

The reports are all API driven. User specifies dimensions and metrics, as well as filters, etc. The API returns the JSON response.

I can't predict what users will want to visualize in the future, so dedicated templates for each of the visualizations are not practical for my use case.

The goal is to minimize dev work on the API and let front end config dictate what columns the API returns.
I would never, ever, work somewhere with only standing desks. You need a balance between both standing and sitting.
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

-- George Bernard Shaw

It's a bit eye-rolling whenever a PG essay makes the top page here, but a page of PG's favorite quotes on HN in days when the US slips into a novel blend of kleptocracy and autocracy, the NYT notes the top five tech firms are basically monopolies, and the most successful of the last decade's startups prove fiscally inept at best, ethically-challenged at worst... well, poop.
Marissa Mayer isn't doing anything right now...

Most of them probably came from other well paying jobs and were already counting their option payouts int heir heads.

Uber doesn't skimp on talent, so most of those employees will likely be able to get new, better jobs, elsewhere. Lyft, perhaps. And even before all of these scandals, it sounded like Uber mgmt. forged some bad golden handcuffs that would screw their employees' option payouts:

https://www.quora.com/Uber-in-2015-How-do-most-Uber-employee...
Just wanted to point out that he's pretty active on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/SmarterEveryDay/
Since when is vague heresay and speculation considered news?

"Some of the startup’s engineers are actively looking to get out of the company, according to multiple sources."

This could apply to any tech company, both successful and going through a rough patch.

This should only be news if the number of engineers looking to leave is significantly out of line with historical averages, and there is no proof of that here. Any journalist who cares to look will find disaffected engineers at every company.

It's crap journalism like this that has given the fake news meme any staying power.
It's the Slashdot effect reborn!
Its a pity that it was programmed to split for a decision only between left and right images. It could have avoided the chairs by flying higher if there were top and bottom images. Ideally, the number of decision-point images should be the area of the FOV divided by the drones forward surface area.
SGI used to have super cool systems like this. You knew you were getting $40K worth of value because your workstation looked like it was worth $40K. Look up SGI O2, Octane, Indy, etc.

Similar in the servers with the Onyx and Origin servers. They looked like you had gotten your moneys worth. And at the time, you did.
But humans are notoriously bad at picking up on details, and things like music and scenery can have a big impact on our perceptions. I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just saying that in the absence of any evidence to the contrary I don't think we can just assume that you're right.
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And I say NO to uber, simply because they "taxate" my countrymen with 20..30% of tax on their work, while UBER itself is paying (if any) taxes in different (heaven like) jurisdictions and none in my country.
I don't actually mind targeted cellphone checking at borders, but mindlessly ramping it up is a very bad sign.
I do link to wikipedia articles on nearly all nodes. I just expand it with more learning resources after. I think wikipedia is always a great starting point for learning about any subject. Or you meant something else?
Flywheel definitely improved the UX around getting a cab, but it still relies on an artificially limited supply of cabs.

Uber/Lyft's main innovation is creating a way to increase and decrease the supply of drivers when needed.
We can have enjoyable ride-hailing without it coming from a company that treats THE LAW like toilet paper. If Uber's countless poor decisions land it in this hot water, then it got what it deserved.

Blaming it on the entrenched taxi interests is a lazy and narrow narrative.
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The Intercept article says that they gave the documents to at least three (named) experts to review in their entirety, suggested that the Intercept does possess them but decided to publish only a small excerpt.
This did happen in Europe with a RyanAir and EasyJet. They used a system called OpenSkies that was far cheaper to operate. It lacked lots of the of connectivity that the old systems have to Travel Agents and other Airlines.
Firstly, I updated my comment to the word "regulation". Secondly, I am referring to the end-game: many places want Uber to be illegal, period. (Usually this is due to the taxi lobby.) It is completely impractical to make it illegal, since it would require the state to be able to prevent you from giving your friends a ride.

So that's why I say no amount of state intervention will successfully stifle it. It's ridiculous that the state has chosen to do so in many markets.

someone will just make a distributed version (like a torrent, or Tor, or bitcoin-operated one) that someone will end up operating like a fugitive, and people will end up using it. You can't prevent people from getting into each other's cars.

wherever you hear of Uber suffering a regulation set-back, those regulators and the lobbies that support them are on the wrong end of history. they will never succeed and crush all Uber-like apps. but they can hurt their constituents as they try. (Hence the original fascism comparison.)

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EDIT: Temporal wrote:

>Nobody is trying to micromanage people getting into other peoples' cars.

But this is a false statement. the taxi lobby is trying to, yes.