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With all due respect, no it's not.

This is exactly what people used to do to optimize drawing in intensive application. You only render the visible area. The entire post explains the supporting actions needed to accomplish this for the browser. Thats why at the end of the text they talk about exploring the use of the canvas.

Here's an application from ~2000 https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2214-vncthing

The actual VNC canvas was offscreen and it would only frequently display the entire thing. Which made it for a long time more efficient than modern vnc clients. I think 2010 it was still better than any other VNC client on macosx. It's by far not an uncommon technique, it's just a pain to do when your target is markup, which is what this post is all about.

Granted, it's more complex because a tile here is a chunk of markup rather than a piece of a pixmap, but still.
well i can tell this is turning into the bad kind of internet commenting. you are calling me insecure- thats a personal attack. is it wrong to call someone a snob for being snobby?
You generally do not want people mixing with your industrial equipment while the truck drives at 90-100 km/h.

He should let them ride with him in the cab up front, then.

It's the human thing to do - and in another universe (or if this universe were configured only slightly differently) they could be his own family, after all.
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The government is at least nominally controlled by the people. That's a helluva lot better than dictatorship by corporation.
Then ship Servo. It's getting annoying seeing the Servo devs constantly patting themselves on the back about how smart you are and insulting other engines that are actually serving users.
In the past we simply called this spamming, and it was pretty much universally reviled.

I find it somewhat ironic/interesting given my past that the current industry is effectively focused on spamming society to sell stuff. I find the e-mail spammers of old to be far more ethical than what is happening today backed by billions of dollars.
Definitely, we sure do love shortening words, while using an 'o' at the end. It was a bit of an adjustment moving to North America and using the full word, even in casual conversations. Small things like saying "gas/service station" instead of "servo" or "vehicle registration" instead of "rego". Us Aussie's must come across quite unprofessional at times with our slang and sayings like 'flat out like a lizard'.
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Gladly! Consider the line dropped.
Tbf, AWS can't do that inter-region well either which is effectively what we are talking about. They rely on DNS-based solutions and so do many CDNs.
I think it's actually more like the movie "Office Space". The characters in The Office seem to actually like each other deep down, whereas the Office Space setting has much fewer nice qualities.
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On the surface, this is a reasonable critique. But it conflates ethics with the law.

It's helpful to remember that we don't have a justice system. We have a legal system. That's a very important distinction, and it's why we see the law co-evolve with society.

If you're arguing that under no circumstances is it ethical to found a company that doesn't toe the letter of the law, then you've got a tough case. Are you sure it's ethical that you're not allowed to offer someone a ride in exchange for money?

This extends to other companies. Airbnb is a prime example. Aside from a few corner cases (one of the worst being SF), Airbnb has been a positive influence. And it never would've happened if they had been too shy to act.

You can argue it's unethical, but meanwhile the world rolls on. It's much more effective to accept it and to dominate the game. But you won't if you refuse to play.
Perhaps a rotating big and small blind on top of ante?
In this case, there's a lot to indicate that this initiative did in fact help.
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Isn't the web already inherently decentralized (of course we all know there are forces trying to create their own walled gardens)? In the end, you just have to make something better that requires decentralization, and then it will win. In this way, the "survival of the fittest" for memes holds.

What's a problem that only a decentralized web can solve?

- Privacy? (Most) People don't care. Irrelevant.

- Security? (Most) People don't care. Irrelevant.

etc.

Even Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies would be irrelevant if it were not for their volatility, resulting in speculation, creating a feedback loop.
> most clear understanding of the culture issues internally

Is it really clear internally? It's clear to me that they don't understand the issues otherwise it wouldn't have taken public furor for them to start fixing it
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Hi! Thank you for such great description of the process. In fact I know it well, I originate from the same domain - i was working for few years as FX TD :)

You can think of Luna just like about a general purpose programming language. You can define your own types and you can even define how to decode bits from binary files to your structures. The GUI runs in HTML, so you can utilize any html component to display output. Definitely, your use case is doeable, however the amount of libraries currently available is very, very low, so it will need some love :)

Did I answered your questions? :)
It's reasonably fulfilling. I build stuff, which is always good. I build stuff that people see and use and hopefully need and like. I occasionally solve interesting problems. And today I delivered my first pure Web Component after years of Angular.

It's not perfect, of course. I'd love to build games instead of banking websites. Or robots that do all the work so people don't have to work anymore. But compared to what most people do, my work is pretty good.
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If a contractor did it, the company isn't liable. It's precisely why Uber fights so hard to keep drivers classified as contractors rather than employees.
That’s unfair. It’s hardly “insulting” to talk about the benefits of a new approach. And as I understand it, Stylo will be shipping in Firefox this year.
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If you're into Naughty Dog games you should try Jak and Daxter at some point. It is, however, a platformer.
If you think about that these are only side gigs without much labor involved (mostly drop shipping) and made on a tight budget, even $10k would be good money.

Launch such a store every month and you have $120k MRR after 12 months.
> He would like to see pots, instead of hooks, introduced as a method for catching halibut

I'm wonder if other countries in the area (Japan, the Koreas, Russia) allow pots, or have regulators who look the other way when a boat has pots. Seems like the whales deserve a break considering the Japanese position on whaling.
I disliked it myself up until ES6 when it started to be "enjoyable" or..should I say less annoying. I program in 6 languages (it may not be much but enough to draw a conclusion from a sample) and I can't say I have one without it's list of wtf's.

By placing big keywords in your bio like "Serial enterpreneur, haskeller, programming languages design freak, former senior R&D technical director in the biggest film studios in Europe" + "hates java script" and keeping your flag up here makes it look very unprofessional. Of course, who are we to judge if not...your target audience for a "functional programming language", visual or not.

I remember when RoR came out and some [1] "cool dudes" decided to mock everything else on the planet. RoR vs php, RoR vs this and that. It made me feel sick even though RoR was a big step up from everything else back then. It took me 2 - 3 years to even consider it because of that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnnpbVW7Yb8
I think there is a trailing \ too much in the curl example.

I can't test it, because I'm in Germany, but did you implement any rate limiting? It does look like everyone could send lots of text messages over your API.
I don't see how comments about current work trying to improve this are "insulting" anyone.
We are right now finishing installers on all platforms, making examples and working on new website. I don't want to set a deadline, but we work hard to make it just "around the corner" and a you can see, we're almost there :)
Definitely true. I worked for a company that was generating millions of dollars a year from neural networks in the mid 90s (edit: to be clear I didn't work there in the 90s, I joined years after their initial buildouts). The Unreasonable Effectiveness™ of neural networks has been true for a long time. When I worked there I tried switching out some models with SVMs and they were less accurate and took 1-2 orders of magnitude more time to train.
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This isn't spamming though, by any definition.

Spamming is unsolicited contact. All contact on Tinder is solicited (and a good deal of the non-automated content is a lot more "scummy" than this).

I'm finding the sentiment on HN in response to this bizarre but I guess your reference to "industry" (and billions of dollars) may be a hint. US political campaigns are quite a different beast to elsewhere, and yes, a lot more comparable to campaigns of massive multinational corporations.
>> Ontario passed laws saying foreign buyers have to pay an additional 15% tax. And foreign buyers were a large chunk of sales. The latest numbers say sales are down something like 50% or more. Prices will start to sink soon.

If prices level off in the GTA (I don't think prices will sink), I think it will be because of the upcoming bylaws relating to AirBnB more than the foreign buyer tax.
"You had to manually partition the disk and setup swap space before you could even launch the installer."

You still do with Slackware ;)
For those who don't get it, the cryptogram "YXWX APRN LKW CRTLK DHPFW" decodes to the above.
Their dedicated machines are a good deal. The only application I ever had trouble with was the PageSpeed plugin for nginx which I was unable to compile on the ARM architecture. nginx ran fine. There is an inherent advantage to dedicated machines vs virtual.
In a way it is. We could design our society so people have to work much less than they currently do. That would require the super rich to share more of their profit, however. They do not have to work to earn a living, but they do need other people to work for them so they can actually live. Less inequality would mean they'd have to work more, and others would have to work less.
Looks fantastic. Do you have plans to support additional languages?

This would be particularly useful in open source.
Recently? How about the last 20+ years?
Looks like he does research in theoretical computer science, applied to cryptography. With his academic expertise, what kind of industry jobs would fit his skill sets? He wouldn't fit the typical tech security job.
I don't think this title is clickbait. It's true that it doesn't spell everything out, but HN has a tradition of allowing such titles as long as the submission delivers the goods in terms of substantiveness. I haven't read this article so am not sure if it's good, but at least it isn't obviously lame, which is the real clickbait scourge.

We don't want every title to be like that, of course, but it's good for HN's front page not to be trivially grokkable. It makes readers work a little, and that's a good thing. It's like dietary fiber.
I'd have to know more details to see y that's not a problem. Vastly superior code, or just a very lightweight system..
I dunno.
Ho. Lee. Shit. I'm in the satellite telecoms domain - this is incredible and will have far reaching consequences after a decade. Unfortunate that R&D and hardware lead times are so long in this industry.
No-one says doco for 'documentation', but they do all the time for 'documentary': "I saw a doco on sharks last night..."

We're definitely losing a lot of our colloquial terms, but not so much the way we speak. It's the nature of language after all, to change over time. I miss some of the terms, and a while back I intentionally started to use 'crikey' again (though that word itself is not hugely missed). Friends of mine, born and bred here, think it's hilariously quaint.
They did this to some of the star trek series. Some scenes you can see things that were not meant to be seen. E.g. here Kirk and Khan are arguing, and then suddenly two people dressed like them start fighting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=B_c...

I can't find it now, but I believe they even redid some of the early CG effects by just rerendering the old models with modern software. It's worth preserving that kind of stuff for future generations. One of my favorite video games was rereleased over a decade later with updated graphics. Sadly they had to recreate everything from scratch because the original files were lost. And the original models were very high detail. They just converted to 2d and down sampled a ton because of the limitations of PCs at the time.
Huh? It's spamming by every definition.

When I swipe right on Tinder, it's not to get a political message. It's to (presumably) get laid. Bots that send me a political or commercial message on a service that specifically denies such contact is the definition spamming.

It's the same thing as giving your e-mail address to play a cool new game, the game not existing, and now you're being spammed to death. Or messaging that interesting/hot girl from the AIM chatroom, only to find it's a bot advertising a commercial site.

I'd say this is exactly the same line of thought, something I know for a fact since in a past life I've worked for folks who "marketed" in such a manner. The thought patterns are absolutely identical, and I'd be surprised if this political company didn't actually hire a SEO/chat spam company to implement such a feature.

All you have to do is s/politics/penny stocks/ and this turns into an entirely different story. The content of the message doesn't matter, it's still abusing a service to send an unwanted political or commercial message.

Edit: Typos
Because the same number of truck operators can now drive 3 trucks at once.

Cost stay the same, but trucking capacity triples.
I had a feeling there might be physical limitations!
This response strikes me as either coming from a mindful person willing to show public vulnerability or someone who has studied such people & learned to mimic how they communicate. My own experiences with mindfulness suggests categorical thinking naturally goes hand-in-hand with (and may naturally emerge from) being in a mindful state, so I'm more inclined to think you're not a well-researched phony. I also prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt.

I'm feeling really inspired, hopeful, and happy when I read comments like these because I consider the lack of vulnerability in the startup world to be as sad as the lack of authenticity. Thank you! I hope you'll keep doing what you're doing.

Are you, by any chance, familiar with nonviolent communication?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
> @horse_js: JavaScript. It isn’t meant to be hand-written;

https://twitter.com/horse_js/status/872243719889616897

:p
As someone who really followed them closely (archer was HUGELY impactful ~10 years ago, and gotham set a bar in politics that has yet to be surpassed), this breakup really left a bad taste in my mouth that's prevented me from ever doing anything with Hoefler again.

So what it wasn't in writing. Hoefler led Frere on for decades, as he did his lifes work, and then dug a dagger into his back.

Glad to see Frere has been able to move on and remain productive after such a setback. Though I'd really like this to have a weight one thinner and one blacker, for that super intense contrast. That optionality is one of the things I really love about Gotham and Proxima Nova
Your confusion (which is understandable) points to the reason why I dislike the word "render": it's extremely overloaded. Rendering as defined by QuickDraw (which you alluded to in your above comment) or the VNC client you linked to is really painting, which browsers only do for areas that are on screen or close to being on screen. Browsers have performed this optimization for decades.

What Atom is referring to by "rendering" here seems to be applying styles to parts of lines. Styling is a higher level concept than vector graphics. Partial styling is something that browsers have wanted to be able to do for a while, but it's quite complex. I've never seen an implementation of partial styling in any UI library, and certainly not in QuickDraw or VNC, which have no CSS-like concept at all.
Also, hyperparameter optimization is a bit painful. Zoubin Ghahramani of Cambridge is a champion for Gaussian process models which are as flexible as SVM/SVC, but have more disciplined approach: via well-chosen priors (Bayesian structure) and single-step hyperparameter optimization.
Have you actually seen 4K in the cinema?
>[..] Since slaves did all the manual labor, the rich folks had plenty of time to contemplate their navels,
and to ponder about the meaning of life. Hence Western Philosophy, with its many pseudo-questions
was developed in the hands of Plato, Aristotle, and their buddies, and ‘Modern’ pure mathematics
was inaugurated in the hands of the gang of Euclid et. al.

Some call it "contemplating their navels", some other call it curiosity. I'm reminded of this other essay [1] that was discussed on HN a week ago:

>[..] throughout the whole history of science most of the really great discoveries which had ultimately proved to be beneficial to mankind had been made by men and women who were driven not by the desire to be useful but merely the desire to satisfy their curiosity.

Regarding the rest of the Zeilberger's essay ... while it is intuitively obvious that there something odd going with the assumptions in problems like the Zeno's paradox (that's why we call them paradoxes), it is certainly not intuitively obvious what that something exactly is, because it took us a good amount of principled application of curiosity (and quite while of time) to see why and how. What you'd call a mind that does not yearn to know the details but instead yells and lavishly prefers to drop "that's stupid" in boldface and with an exclamation point? I'm not sure, but "uninteresting" comes to mind.

In general, it's easy to see that ancient Greeks were mistaken on some issue or their ideas on some other ones were downright silly now that we have spent over two millenia improving on them and developing the ideas and tools such as "experimental science".

[1] Abraham Flexner, "Usefulness of Useless Knowledge", Harpers 179, 1939, https://library.ias.edu/files/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14558775
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Indeed. Expressiveness has not been a big focus in the past. We'd like to change that with Firefox. What kinds of tools would you like to see for solving visual design problems?
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What did you learn from those mistakes? Did you learn how to not make them again or possibly even something else beneficial?

I think you might have missed the point of the article. Excellence is not in avoiding mistakes, Excellence is learning from mistakes so you can do better next time.
I truly do not understand why anyone would want to "help" the LEOs of today. They are the enforcement arm of the ruling class seeking to take away whatever privacy we have left. It truly saddens me that Google is volunteering to help turn over data to them, for free, without a fight.

The current system is slow and inefficient, and that is wonderful. Think about it. Police could always legally follow you - it only became a problem for privacy when CCTV and hidden GPS trackers made it easy to "follow" everyone at once, cheaply and efficiently. Much like password hashing algorithms, some systems only work well if they are kept slow and inefficient on purpose, to ratelimit their use. This causes each use to be reviewed and considered carefully. I feel like turning over user data to anyone should be one of these processes.

Let them get warrants signed in triplicate, convince ten judges, file thousands of pages of papers, find out they lack jurisdiction, convince more judges, etc... Only then is there a chance that they will not go on a fishing expedition for everyone's data all at once.

Always remember these words of Richelieu: "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." You may be an honest man (/woman/child/etc), but your government is always on its way to becoming Richelieu
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Depending on how idealistic/cynical you are, a new feudal dystopia of renters vs rent seekers, a bloody revolution, or just a gradual increase of consumer inflation to match.

I mean, as a sorry Java jockey, I make around $5,000 per month. I frequent Reddit, a news aggregator with comments. Reddit is worth $1,700,000,000 dollars, according to the latest funding round.
I encourage them to try this. It will deliver amazing results - To republicans. It will virtually assure not just Trump 2020, but Schwarzenegger 2024; It will be a coup of epic proportions for the GOP.

Who are they targeting with this system? Angry young men. What have they identified as Angry Young Men's problem? Women won't have sex with them. What do they propose? Offer sex, then never deliver. If a chatbot delivers ridiculous political pandering, and gets in the way of the actual end goal (Sex) by delivering chaff and false-leads, where will the anger be concentrated? Certainly, fundamental attribution error will slough plenty of it off on women, further radicalizing them. But mostly, and correctly, their ire will fall towards the PACs who've set out to 'convince' them; By playing a game wrong and showing that they're untrustworthy, they'll become more jaded and resistant to whatever ideas they're proposing.

It's the evolutionarily correct response - Don't co-operate with those that are trying to trick you. The continued rise of cognitive science as a persuasion tactic, "gamification", and other means of non-subtle manipulation are significantly responsible for the national divide - It's not unreasonable to fight aggressively against those you believe are manipulating you. It's just that there are two camps to the manipulation, and it's much easier to see the manipulation in the other camp.
Thank you for your input! I wouldn't call it a feature request though, I'd say it's another tool. But, you are right, exploration of dynamicly analyzed code would also greatly benefit understanding.