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Agreed, I really want n-1 of my screens to be virtual and 1 to be physical for sharing with coworkers (until they all get AR/VR headsets of their own which we can share virtually.
There is a point in counter protests, you show others that they have good people on their side.
They should have the original title. It's against the guidelines to editorialize titles.

> "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

You can find more details regarding submissions on the following link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You can contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer to get the title changed.
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> It is a sad day when politics must be paramount when contributing to a foss project

Politics have always been the reason for me. It depends on what you call politics though.

I got involved with FOSS initially because of the GPL. I then found a project whose aims I agreed with, and also had a welcoming environment.

I might contribute a one off patch here or there to some other projects, but the ones I stay are such as those.
Also, several members of their ruling committee left to make the fork. So it's not just a bunch of randoms, and they might be able to make some meaningful progress on their own.

That's easy enough to answer - look at the commit histories of those four.
The Oculus camera tracking system is not experimental, it's been in user's hands for years and you can safely assume the whole active install base has them without any risk...
That's not really likely to help. The main issue appears to be that since fontconfig (a lib used by GIMP) is only "native" to Linux, for it to know about the TTF files, it has to scan them all and build it's cache at startup. For people with hundreds of fonts installed it can be a real PITA.

I avoid it by being careful to not exit GIMP entirely (simply closing all the editing windows) until I am sure I won't need it again for awhile.
While i agree there's a lot of clickbait from cybersecurity that really has to stop because some of them are really ridiculous and causes the cry wolf syndrome. Like the ones where "Researchers can find out what you are thinking by just listening to scans of your brain from your wifi router!!1". Where they conveniently leave out the detail that they first require physical access to your wifi router to implant a special program, then a training set targeting exactly you built up over 10 years in a perfectly controlled environment, then the attack must be performed in this exact environment, they have just identified one type of thought and that they only managed to repeat the attack once where the result was more likely to be a fluke than deliberate.

But i don't think this looks one of them, they seem have a very easy and reproducible attack entry point open for everyone and the consequences are very tangible.
Eh, I don't think so. It's huge in the haunt industry right now. The real problem for home use is how much space it takes, and how expensive the entire experiences are. a short demo "game" is insanely expensive.
Thank you for the link to the paper, a much better source. I was hoping to find an article by Sunkist on how they were helping to restore damaged prarie or something with their waste rinds and pulp but alas their web site is silent on that topic as far as I can find.
Seems the left just burned too many bridges and lost the rust belt. I also don't think their identity politics garnered any affection.
Respectfully, there is plenty fish in the sea.

I would have validated the viability at the cost of losing one customer. I think most would be willing to take that loss.
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I'm quite positive this EXACT idea (pay people to watch ads) was implemented by more than one dot com fucked company around 2000. I hypothesize this scheme will be as successful.

It's kind of amazing to me how the current blockchain/ICO bubble is almost an exact repeat of the original .com bubble. Back then, it was anything and everything "on the internet", and now it's anything and everything "on the blockchain". Of course, some of today's biggest companies were birthed from that .com bubble, but the vast, vast majority of them crashed and burned. I suspect the same will be true of the blockchain bubble.
True. But the problem is that Democratic voters are overly focused on the Presidency and don't turn out in large enough numbers in off-year elections. The reason the GOP has a stranglehold on government (including being able to gerrymander and suppress votes) is because they won big in the 2010 Congressional elections.
I always used to wonder why Venmo exists, now this explanation covers it: There are people on HN who are adamant that they understand users needs.
If you figure out the exact app please do share.
>I don't think it's as easy as you think it is to cut emissions by that much, and it certainly wouldn't be humane.

No, seriously, it really is that easy. The average cost of a new car in the US is $30k, the model 3 is 35k. Every single passenger road vehicle could be replaced with an electric car for ~$1 trillion. It would cost even less to upgrade the grid to full battery-backed solar power and replace gas heating with electric. Over ten years thats 200 billion annually to eliminate 85% of the co2 released by the US and 50% of the methane.

In terms of threats to the country that barely registers as spending. The iraq war was 10+ trillion dollars, we shipped 12 billion in $100 bills on pallets and lost it. Renewable energy is near price parity to fossil fuels, even if you adopt it stupidly it still isnt that expensive.

You make china stop burning coal by buying them solar panels. Nobody says no to free electricity.
Honestly, US penal standards are so out of whack with those of the rest of at least the "western" world, that no country ought ever consider extradition as an option.
I find that hard to believe.

target: dependency
make_it_so

I have replaced many multi page build.sh/dev.sh scripts with a 20 line or less Makefile using nothing more than the syntax above.

Yes the tab thing is stupid, vim makes it not matter.
I am sure there are few players who are making money in the cryptocurrency market. It is hilarious to see how some people on HN downright reject the idea of investing in Crypto as if it is like throwing money to fire. To people who are making money and taking out profits from the market at same time will see these people living in denial.

Just for example, I bought few Ethereum when it was around $70 and sold half of it and took money out of market when it hit $300. Now I do not care if I loose my rest of money. I just invest in other cryptos for long run and watch where the market goes.
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Hello Anu.

Nice to see you here.

My question is - what do companies serving a market far flung from US (as India), get by going to YC. It is indeed a great achievement; but how does it help the company. I can see a direct advantage in being able to hire talent or approach a global pool of investors.

The other I can assume is that it would help going global and aiming to serve other markets. Is that the correct assumption too?

Congrats. Wishing luck.
For some subjective perspective, Tamil Nadu is basically a hardcore Hindu area. The people are positively fervent. It seems like Tamils sort of see themselves as protectors of ancient tradition (they are one of the oldest communities in India). It's really conservative: in the cities you rarely see women alone on the street. If you go there during election time the election posters are hilarious. Examples: https://goo.gl/photos/nLsD5XFYT3t2XVpu8 https://goo.gl/photos/AmZrD94WWBk3ddup8 https://goo.gl/photos/ETSdFDftX8fvcLVU8
> we have an election that was probably hacked by Trump and the Russians.

I'm sure you can provide evidence that the "election" was "hacked," since you seem so confident on the topic. What voting machines were hacked, when, by whom, and how do you know it happened?
It's probably difficult to prove that the human actually saw the ad. I would just have a script 'view' as many ads as possible and earn the $

Haven't read the paper to see if they solved that concern though.
In all honesty, I just got home from my (rather large) gaming group. At one end of the room they were playing Nobilis; I was teaching FATE Core to a group of new players. The worlds in the games are different, the rules are different... and yet I can't help but agree completely that there's a grand culture of cooperation, friendship, and acceptance among hardcore gamers.

If that's some kind of "fantasy world", where everyone works together, believes in each other, and where the arguments are resolved with a roll of the dice? Then I'm more than content to live in that fantasy; and work every day to make it closer to reality.

The author got in before I did (I started with the computer games based on 2E and moved up and down from there), but I can relate to everything he said. I can even relate to Gygax himself as the author says it:

"From which you could conclude, I guess, that games are everything for Gygax, or that everything is a game; but I don’t think that would be quite right. I think that he has found a way to live."

I want to keep fighting to find that way to live. Where someday, I might have a home with an open-door policy, where we can sit down and for those few hours reclaim something essential about the human existence, regardless of that world outside.
If you ever want to leverage your open source activities in the real world, you have no choice. How can you put it on your CV if your name's not on it? Or write a book or give talks at conferences or write a blog etc.
> Exposing it to JS and exposing it to web pages in a browser are two completely different things.

It would make little sense to expose Vulkan to JS and not to put those bindings in a Web browser.

> glDrawElements in vulkan is a couple hundred lines of API calls. I don't think you're fully grokking the orders of magnitude of verbosity that Vulkan brings.

> As for the transition cost there's varying levels of cheap, but at the end of the day it's not great. It's raw per-call overhead on an API designed around making an obscene amount of calls, and the overhead is significant. Jumping between these worlds is just not something you want to do very frequently if your goal is performance.

It doesn't matter whether it's a couple hundred calls or not. The overhead, which again is measured in nanoseconds, really does not matter. Vulkan's performance demands on API boundary transitions are no worse than that of the DOM, which has been optimized for decades.

> C++-builtins are a completely different class of problems as intrinsics get to play by their own compiler rules than regular JS -> native bindings.

No, they don't. They are one and the same in many JS engines. (I can't speak for all engines, but I'm familiar with SpiderMonkey, where a JSNative is a JSNative, whether a builtin or a DOM method.) SpiderMonkey nowadays even knows about things like purity of various DOM methods and will optimize accordingly. (bz used this to make Dromaeo really fast.)

> So simple pixel shaders are too complex, but vulkan is not?

Fragment shaders are too complex for CSS. They aren't too complex for programmatic manipulation in JS. The reason is simple: CSS is a high-level declarative language intended to be accessible to designers, while JS is an imperative language mainly used by programmers.

> Also it doesn't break batching at all, I have no idea what you're talking about there.

As you know, switching shader programs can only be done in between draw calls.

> A pixel shader is just a function with a set of inputs and a color output.

With hundreds of pages of specification describing how all the different operations that that function can perform must behave.
This can probably be implemented as an extension right now.
Its literally sulfuric acid and comes down as acid rain, with all the associated negatives of acid rain. Its bad when volcanoes do it too.
http://mtuner.net/doc/overview_whymtuner.html

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milostosic/MTuner/master/i...
So, let me get this straight: you'd rather have nuclear weapons become a normal weapon of war, as opposed to a deterrent, than have people complain about a war? Wow.
I'm a firm believer of people voting with their wallets. And their wallets point to an aversion to upfront payment.

And IAP != encouraging addictive behavior.

You're conflating mobile games that use IAP and very specific patterns with IAP.

IAP are also used for simple things like providing a "paid ad-free version" within a single app, or to unlock additional functionality. The trend of people having an aversion to paying up front applies to all mobile apps, not just games.
But that might damage the Amazon rain forest.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/35172/20150225/how-the-sah...
India has Immediate Payment Service ( IMPS ) which allows instant transfer. It's great for most of the transfers and works 365/24/7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediate_Payment_Service
The bitcoin threat is a motivator for these legacy systems to get up to speed. Even if bitcoin ends up not being universally used, I'd still consider it a success for causing this.
I hear this point thrown around a lot by the right "the left plays identity politics too much". Have you ever stopped to consider that Fox News, Breitbart and the Republican Party are playing the same identity game, they just restrict it to a single demographic?
Nuclear weapons were never seriously considered for use in Vietnam either during the French War or American war.

Saying your actions prevented something isn't that compelling if it was never likely in the first place.
I'm missing "specific list of which actions violated which clauses in this Code of Conduct", not the Code of Conduct itself.
That sounds romantic, except this whole Code of Conduct thing started with them being imposed on projects by outside activists literally to punish existing contributors for having the wrong politics. I'm not kidding. Look up Opalgate.
You forgot the biggest point to factor in. That is "time". Assuming you are lucky in every steps from 1 through 11 and each steps take few months that is few years. And for a product to be successful add few more. Not sure what is timeline for startup visa but if you are applying for green card based on H1b and you are from country such as India or China then add +5 or +8-10 years to your timeline. On becoming permanent resident you have to wait for another 5 years to apply for US citizenship. However you do not need to be US citizen to start a company. You can do that when you are a permanent resident.
Trucking can easily be electrified and the majority of transport related co2 including airplanes, trains, and cargo ships is from personal light road vehicles. Cargo ships are less than 2%, trains are less than 1%. Airplanes are around 7%. Around 30% is trucking. Construction vehicles are all electric/hydraulic already but more importantly are an insignificant source of co2.

Long distance semi tractors drive 500-800 miles a day. That doesnt require a huge battery.
> exposing fragment shader style functionality isn't a bad idea, if properly implemented.

I agree that functionality like fragment shaders is useful, as long as it's declarative and fits in with the rest of CSS. In fact, we already have it: the CSS filter property.
Except for the shift left that Clinton's platform made in the last couple mounts of the campaign? Bernie, even after losing, move the Overton window a couple notches. Unfortunately it was too late by then.
> causing deaths and disease from said pollution

Has that been proven? Serious question, I've not kept up with the ins and outs of the case.

UPDATE: I should clarify, I mean specifically the increased pollution these VWs created not just pollution in general.
The descriptions in about me look addressed in second person. Makes me hold back on my $$$
You think money is all that is for a comfortable life?
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There is literally no way for a non-active app on iOS to record without a red bar at the top of the screen. The only way that IG could possible get away with this is by somehow detecting that the phone screen was not visible and only recording then, but even then that recording would be imperfect, and somebody would have noticed. There is no way for the app to do what the author is describing.
I played D&D with the Gygax family almost every weekend as a teenager. They were fundamental to shaping my teenage years and beyond.

I will never forget randomly stumbling into The Game Guild in Lake Geneva on a school trip, meeting the group of people playing D&D in the back room filled with soda and pizza boxes, and then finding out that the DM and another player were actually Gary's sons, Ernie and Luke. I drove up every weekend to play for 2 years from that point, and every weekend when back from college.

It helped me come out of my shell and become more social, and caused me to start my own local D&D group. This eventually turned into me growing my own group of friends after having moved and not knowing anyone. I created another group in college with the same result. I also of course jumped at the chance to join one at work when a colleague started one up which has brought me closer to my co-workers.

It also taught me physics and math, because our entire party almost got incinerated due to a miscalculation of fireball volume. I'll also never forget casually mentioning a Mordenkainen spell, only to have one of the players make some joke indicating that he had created the spell. Turns out the original Mordenkainen was one of his characters. And someone else there was Bigby, and Tenser.

No real point to this point other than to thank the Gygax family for making my teenage years more memorable.
When someone lends you their robotic car wash for you to test a theory, generally you don't want to wreck their robotic car wash.
Yes it seems the DNC didn't expect the 'Blue Wall' of the Mid-West to crumble. But (while I'm not generally on board with a lot of identity politics as seen on social media) I don't really understand comments saying that Dems need to focus less on minority issues to win back working-class whites.

For example, a Democratic party chair from Ohio said of the national party, “While Trump is talking about trade and jobs, they’re still obsessing about which bathrooms people should be allowed to go into.”[1] But
when it comes to things like the Muslim ban, transgender bathroom bills, etc. it seems like the GOP is trying to use identity as a wedge--the Dems and the left in general are just responding. It would probably be a mistake for Dems to give up on civil rights issues and just focus on economic issues.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/democrats-are-still-...
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News of this has made mainstream tech news sites like El Reg. That's how I originally heard about it, I don't do much Github these days.
In a sense yes actually.

Take the Tet Offensive for example. From a purely military perspective it was a total disaster for the NVA. Casualties were incredibly in the favor of the SV and US forces for a fairly small amount of territory gained. What the NVA realized correctly though was the effect that the Tet Offensive would have on an already questioning American public. The media impact of the Tet Offensive along with the request for another 200k recruits did a major blow to the American public who really began to lose faith with the war. The NVA understood that they didn't have to beat the US Army, they just had to make the American public unwilling to fight.

Note that this isn't an argument that the War was worth fighting or not. Simply that protesters can and do have an effect on how the enemy fights and can assist the enemy intentionally or unintentionally. War in the modern era is no longer just calculated in how it affects the battlefield at hand, but also the media landscape. That was one of the major lessons of the Vietnam War.
Your comment equates cost with ease, and obviously that's not necessarily going to be the case. Eg something might be relatively cheap but politically difficult.
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Obligatory mention that D&D essentially spawned one of the greatest and oldest lineages of computer games: the roguelike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
Certainly a nuclear strike would have been a quicker ending with less casualties, no?
See linked Wikipedia article for explanation.
He's saying exactly the same thing that was, and still is, used in defense of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; that the human loss in ending the war quickly was far less than it would have been in continuing it. He is not saying anything about using them as normal weapons of war.

Whether or not you consider this a reasonable argument is up to you.
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It sounds absurd because Nixon was paranoid but he wasn't completely stupid. There would be no benefit to nuking North Vietnam. You'd enrage already pissed off citizenry, turn the world against you, maybe bring the Soviet Union into the war, and all for what, nuking Hanoi when the real problem was guerrilla warfare? It makes no sense.

we will be compelled – with great reluctance – to take measures of the greatest consequences

It seems like the author is interpreting this as "nuclear weapons", but it could very easily be political posturing, or an increase in conventional conflict. Disappointing if
it's exaggerated to make the author look better, and to see that statement made and accepted so uncritically.

Just googling, can't find any good sources suggesting nukes were seriously considered (as you said). Is there something more concrete than a favorable interpretation of that quote?

edit: this seems to be Duck Hook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Hook
It's already game over if we hit 5-6 degrees. See for instance http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2015/decem...
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I hit the chromecast icon in the upper-right corner of my chrome browser while streaming on my laptop.
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Most of them actually.
We can solve this by looking at the published latencies:

http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/index.h...

And indeed 32 bit integers and 32 bit floats are essentially the same, except for multiplication where it's fuzzy, but still quite fast.

Certainly modern GPUs are fast enough at integer ops that you shouldn't just assume your problem will be slow on the GPU just because it's integer based. Bitcoin mining (as much as I hate to bring it up) is an obvious counterexample, for instance.
Well yeah, thats why its in the subjuctive. To express that if we would collectively stop chewing our cuds, it would be cheap and simple to do those things. My intended point is about the simplicity of scaling production, the abundance of the necessary resources, and the low cost of existing technology.
No, it plays on all 4 devices. I said three of them played on my TV. Those three were the chromecast, fire tv and roku. Although I guess the laptop could display on my tv with an hdmi cable, so all 4 methods should work.
These arguments work against paying for music too!
Let's not forget the apps that store locally hundreds of megabytes of cached data (one of the reasons I removed the Facebook app) and those that refuse to store images and videos on an external SD card (WhatsApp)
It's not canon, but in Ted Chiang's short story about the tower of Babel. The tower was perpetually in construction, so a whole society eventually flourished in the tower.

Some people never even left the tower because it took too long to get down from the place they were born.