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Maybe they just thought you were exaggerating, like many people do in reply to this insight by Kahneman. From the fact that Kahneman misjudged some studies in experimental psychology it doesn't follow that all of science is hopelessly lost, philosophical, or wrong.

To put it in another way, most people I've met who criticized science couldn't even explain how a toaster works if they had to and had no grasp of what they were criticizing. Hearing superficial criticisms by people who do not know anything about the methodology and maths can be very tiring, and these criticisms have become abundant in online forums. It can be easy to overcompensate and react needlessly aggressive to such general criticisms. At the same time, the critiques of science I've met so far (in academia, and all leftists, not that it matters) were all relying on the outcomes of obvious and constantly ongoing scientific progress on a daily basis. From lossy image compression over GPS over microchips to modern medicine and diagnostics.

Maybe in your case people overreacted and missed the fact that you're a smart mathematician and not some random dumbass who says "statistics lie" as if that was an argument for anything, and you felt butthurt about it. Still, they are right when they say that science is not a philosophy. I should know that, because I have a Ph.D. in philosophy, and the standards for our 'theories' are not even remotely as stringent as in natural science or mathematics. And maybe you're also overreacting a bit.

Contrary to what seems to have become fashionable - mostly in certain political circles outside of Europe to be honest - the scientific process continues to converge to the truth in almost all disciplines and we reap the benefits of science daily. (I say almost all because I'd like to exclude literary science and the like.)
Step 1: Create a bunch of simple primitives that represent a sculpture of your model. Generally speaking: squares and triangles.

Step 2: Add colors and textures to the model. Textures are 2d images mapped to the squares and triangles you made in step 1. With proper care, you can make triangles and squares look "smooth and circular" with proper shading effects.

Step 3: Simplify your model into "bones", which can deform the model with fewer control points. For example, you can create a "neck" bone which moves all of the polygons that represent the head. Bone modeling is itself a very intricate process that takes a lot of practice.

Step 4: Bone models are far easier to animate. Move bones around, instead of polygons. Instead of selecting the "head" each time, you simply select "the neck bone" to move things around.

Step 5: Lather, rinse, repeat for every object in the scene.
I also use both and I found that keybindings and interaction with text are so different that it almost does not hurt. What I found much harder is using vim-like modes in editors - they almost match the vim keybindings but not just quite, luring you into the sense of familiarity but betraying at the most critical moment.

The only thing I've had to do was to map <C-x><C-s> in vim to ":w".
For people on Mac, which plugins make Sublime better than current Textmate? I've never switched from it just because, but wouldn't mind switching or paying.
It reminds me that Atom still does have an official repository...
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There's also https://github.com/NeoVintageous/NeoVintageous, which is a maintained fork of Vintageous with some things cleaned up, and some bugs fixed.
I don't necessarily disagree, but little of that falls under the heading of "philosophical discussion". Medicine is romantic and salient to laymen, so of course journalists are going to write more biographies and whatnot for them on that topic. I almost never find such pieces philosophically insightful, and they aren't competing with Paul Graham essays.
What parts don't? The entire article is one technical digression after another, aimed solely to discredit the paper and its authors, without engaging on the one result that makes it notable.

That's, like, the textbook definition of "pedantry".
I thought the whole point was you don't need ethics or any of that old boring stuff, the contracts payout once they are filled. Or I guess, when computers have been sufficiently convinced the contracts were filled.

I think people need to decide- do you really want that? Do you really want the decentralized, machine-consensus-based decision making or do you want courts and banks? If the former, you had better make sure those computers will do what you expect them to. Because the computers just do what they're told. They can't read minds.
Well, I don't have any experience on Premiere, After Effects is only one I can use for this comparison. So.
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This is interesting. Would you say that engineers and mathematicians also suffer the same embarrassment? If so, could all of this be a side-effect of being in the world of precision vs being in the world of creative trial and error (where every attempt at writing is judged on the interpretive aspect of it)?

I am saying: I get nasty ineloquent on days I'm zoned into coding. Almost like I'd rather not say than say anything I judge to be imprecise.

Like this post.
Play is for Scala and Java too. Vaadin does much more than charts--although its wrapping of highcharts is pretty nice--and is quite pleasant if you'd rather write Java than HTML and its close relatives.

I guess from the Java perspective, Javascript does not look too sexy, as it is a small but dangerous / unhelpful language with an uncompetitive-to-Java library ecosystem. TypeScript is great however.
For front-end web development, OOTB VSCode is much better, in terms of features (though you could probably get ST to be that way with a number of plugins).

ST is still a lot faster, but now that VSCode has introduced multi-folder workspaces there aren't a lot of features I miss anymore.
Nice, but they still never implemented that 2014 pull request for adding OTR to Empathy. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891#c46
Excellent, excellent suggestion.
Is that specified somewhere? I mean, I see this in the EULA `READ IT CAREFULLY BEFORE COMPLETING THE INSTALLATION PROCESS AND USING OFFICIAL CADDY BINARIES AND RELATED SOFTWARE COMPONENTS ("Software").` But is there something that specifically says the EULA only applies to official binaries and not the source code or self compiled binaries?
They must be very angry and powerful to do that, because the common criminal rule is that you pay all debts of the person you killed. Otherwise it would be too easy to take money from the debitor/thief at the right moment and then send someone bury him in the basement without any consequence.
You guys actually have servers set up in Chinese ISP's? I bet there were a few hurdles to jump there.
While I know it might be a little hidden, I'd just like to say I'm really glad Will Bond of Package Control[0] was able to join[1] the Sublime Text team. Having first class support for Package Control in ST is definitely one of the features I value the most out of Sublime Text and IMHO one of the things that still keeps it very competitive with Atom other text editors.

I use packages from ST almost every day and plus I wouldn't have gotten my first job without Will (thanks for hiring me even after seeing all that terrible code I wrote), so I can actually say my life would be a lot different without his influence. I'm really happy he's officially part of the team.

[0] https://packagecontrol.io/

[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-bui...
Depends on the client. Some clients pay within 3 days and some delay the payment for weeks. Some companies even have policies to pay invoices only after the second reminder (for cash flow reasons...). For me, early payments are sign of reliability and trustworthiness. I get a bit nervous and stressed if I have to remind clients to pay my invoices. Clients who repeatedly forget or delay payments go way down my "want to work with again"-list and get sorted out this way sooner or later.
I'm just excited the GPU'S are getting faster in a mobile device. I really wanted Apple to have more pixel density in their iPhone X. 2000+ do would mean that we can wear an iPhone as a head set and have a descent VR experience.
Nuclear EMP would mean Nuclear war, which means there's not much sunlight getting through anyway
I usually get paid within 5, max 10 days.

I pay other contractors and basically any invoice instantly. There is no reason for me to wait 30 days to pay them. If they have the money the next day they are happy and will gladly work for me again.
To clarify, I didn't mean a generic "BTC is a bubble..." headline.

I meant this specific headline regarding Dimon's recent comments.
Guided Access?
I think Will Bond has a git plugin that's supposed to be pretty good. I don't like VCS plugins in my editor though, so I've never tried it.
> Startup is faster, opening files is faster, and scrolling is more efficient.

This is a big reason why I still use sublime over atom.
The opening scene, and Swissair flight number, gave me chills re-watching it recently.

Coincindence, but one hell of a doozey.

Great series as well.
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Touchbar support? Does it still sort files in the tree view with folders first on Mac?
I think HDR is going to be to most people what 4K is, only because it won't be commonly available at lower resolutions.

Similar to the hi res audio formats don't sound better because of the hi res, but because the studios chose to release better masters with higher dynamic range for the format.
I just updated my Sublime and switched to the new layout. Woa! Once again I'm happy I invested in this beautiful piece of software!
Anyone got a tl;dr about the motive behind all this? What does the US government gain by flooding the middle East with weapons?
jEdit was a seriously under rated text editor, I used the CRAP out of it in college.
Show HN: Playing with {lambda talk}
Hi you,

The {lambda way} project is a workshop built on a wiki, {lambda tank}, coming with a true functional programming language, {lambda talk}.

http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/
http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=oxford_slides

The archive is small (50kb) and easy to install in your local server or in any web account running PHP.

http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=download
http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=installation

You can try {lambda talk} in any modern web browser.

Your opinion is welcome

Alain Marty
What do you consider new, novel or innovative?

Face ID has been done, no home button has been done, big screen to the edges has been done. That notch thing is new, but ... doesn't seem interesting (it just obscures part of the screen).
WOOOHOOOOO! License system for the win! I am getting tired of everyone from Autodesk to Apple switching to subscription methods. Subscriptions enable the company to never push new features, buying the software outright introduces motive to add features.
I don't get your point and your focus on inherited wealth vs. entrepreneurial wealth. Even if most wealth in America is not inherited, a wealth tax wouldn't inhibit entrepreneurship.

If you have, say a $200K minimum threshold to start owing minimal annual tax, and a progressive scale after that, do you really think it would stop the next Bill Gates?
Did you think that mainstream media was on behalf of the people, folks? They are the paid workers of the government its just that they don't show it.
I bet the horse and buggy manufacturers had bad things to say about Ford as well. Thomas Edison devoted a fair chunk of his life to trying to discredit AC electricity.

The genesis block was timestamped with a headline about banks getting bailed out. Anyone who reads into Dimon's statements too much doesn't really get what crypto is about.
Best editor out there. Congrats!
Textures can create the illusion that certain small deformities exist. This is often used for scratches and things that are not always modeled.
https://www.marmoset.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/lenstextu...

Scratches like these could sometimes be painted directly onto the texture - or maybe sculpted onto a higher-resolution model and then "baked" down to the lower-resolution model. In this step lots of data from how light bounces off the high-resolution model can be imprinted to a texture and re-used in a lower-resolution model.

If you want to learn more the terms to be googling are "normal mapping" and "bump mapping"

In this article - If i was to guess; all the pictured spheres are perfectly spherical, and just textured differently. https://www.marmoset.co/posts/physically-based-rendering-and...

Also - heres an interactive model of the lens: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kl0A6
The "Layers View" button in top right gives you a neat view of the model with/without certain texture layers
> You can't quote him and generalize to all religion from that.

I'd argue you can generalize pretty much most organized religions from that, but not everything spiritual or peoples actual believes.

Imho religion is merely a institutionalized form of spirituality, enforced on a whole community trough dogma. But dogma is never a good thing especially not for the seeking traveler because by it's very nature it's unreasonable and incapable of change.

The human mind most certainly needs a place to channel it's fascinations for the unknown and unanswerable, I'm just not sure that institutionalized religion is really a healthy way to "fulfill" that need.
It's very tied to the react / facebook ecosystem.

Nuclide for atom was the official release by facebook for supporting flow + react, and now you have Atom-IDE which is optimized for react + immutable.js + flow.

Plus the facebook guys are avoiding VScode like the plague and focusing entirely on Atom. Which now also comes with the BSD+ licence.
How tech companies do engineering estimates (survey results)
Ask HN: What is the next big startup from Europe?
Who are the most interesting startups you have come across in Europe? Preferably early-stage or pre-VC funded
That would probably be a good middle ground. You will still get people saying "what the hell, mine take 3 seconds to start up with 10000 plugins and 20 1MB files open, but you say 350ms?" But, can't please everyone.
That really is crazy. And Jam Koum has already cashed out at least half his stocks. Billions cashed out. The amount of money between those two guys is insane.

Similarly it's crazy to see how high up people like Moskovitz are in billionaire lists. I've gotten used to Facebook being a $400B company (now they are a $500B company), so obviously stock owners like Moskovitz will be worth tens of billions, but it's still crazy nonetheless. Just checked. He's ranked 60th richest.
The same documents confirm the CIA has been arming Al Qaeda in Syria. Scroll down to the last map[1] which shows CIA weapons went directly to Idlib province (northwest section in green) and the Golan border region (south). Both of these areas were and continue to be occupied by Al Qaeda. Idlib specifically is where genocidal cleansing of religious minorities was confirmed to be conducted by Al Qaeda "rebels" directly assisted by CIA weapons.[2]

[1]https://www.occrp.org/assets/makingakilling/MapOfSyriaIraq.p...
[2]https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2016-01-19/ass...
You possibly vastly underestimate how important it is for people commiting "perfect" crimes to tell the world it was them. There's a lot of stories about forgers including subtle clues in their forgeries to be able to claim their "art" and prove they duped people.
1. Use key correctly

2. Manage shouldComponentUpdate

3. Extend PureComponent instead of Component

4. Build for production
I really need to buy a license and stop floating on the trial someday. I depend on sublime so much.
Have a look at https://sandstorm.io/
Facebook has become a yahoo. Too confusing and the ads are so "intrusive." A couple days ago, I clicked on what I thought was a photo which turned to be a daily-mail news story!!! It was confusing. I never used spapchat, but it kinda sounds like the old facebook which was fun and had a moderate amount of ads.
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Fictitious force
The best example is probably Ja Rule working at Fyre and Nas' VC fund which from what I hear is pretty much a paper company that generates PR.

This isn't new- Bono's Elevation Partners has been around for a while
Cool read. I don't use Kubernetes but I learned a few things from this blog post that are applicable to my ECS environment.

The NGINX config part is tricky and it didn't come to mind that many programs will try to be smart about machine resources and it won't work in the container world as expected. This was a good reminder. OP didn't mention what Linux distro he's using and what are all of the OS-level configs he changed in the end of the day; I'd like to see that (was there any config not mentioned in the post?).

It's awesome that OP had lots of monitoring to guide him through the problem discovery and experimentation. I need more of this in my ECS setup. I didn't hop on the Prometheus train yet, by the way.
You sound like a good guy to be around :)
The US is literally sponsoring Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Syria to fuel the proxy war against Russia and Iran and to hinder their fight against ISIS and other jihadi groups. It's 1980s all over again and a 16th anniversary of 9/11. No lessons learned.
insta has always been the status platform. the pictures are permanent. you only post your best pics and need a history of just the best. "this is who I am"

snapchat is fleeting. the quality can be lower. no one is gonna care. and the fact you have to take the picture then is more exciting than posting any old pic you found online. "this is what I'm doing"

I can snap you my beer, I'll insta the edited GoPro footage of me cliff jumping
Remember when Zynga clawed back options because "unimportant" employees were going to make money? Heck, remember Zynga?
>> Additionally there's a high risk that you will hurt yourself.

Probably a lower one than starvation, rape or a violent death in the hands of another desperate person.

>> And then there's the effect on the society: a society based on trust is more productive and safe than a society based on mistrust.

Nice one. What would happen, today--with all the infrastructure in place--if cops /soldiers stayed home for 36 hours? Now add starvation plus desperation and try again.
It's easy to write a PKGBUILD for Arch, and IDK RPM but writing a Debian package is not that hard too, I've written a .deb that installs all the software I use on Ubuntu Gnome and it's just a directory and two or three files. Its docs could use a bit of help though, the Debian handbook is sometimes very superficial.
Origin and context give extra meaning and weight to content. That seems trivially true to me. If Paul Graham writes this then that means the topic is on the mind of someone influential and important in our community, thus it is worthy of scrutiny and thought, thus worthy of an upvote.

Hacker News is not some game where people compete to create content with maximum merit. It is a source of new content relevant to this community.
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One thing that would enable that is cheaper cost to orbit, which would let us build heavier probes with more rugged hardware.
Matt, I really do appreciate the work you and others have put into Caddy - it's a fantastic piece of software which has served me well for the past year and a bit.

Having said that, this change has put me in a position where I have to invest either time or money into a solution for a problem which I didn't have yesterday, and switching to NGINX seems like the path least likely to cause issues in the future.

Having to build my own version of Caddy for every update is a cost I'm not willing to pay. Since I'm being forced to invest in something, it may as well be NGINX, and I suspect I'm not alone in this.
Thanks Matt, this is DESPERATELY needed for any reasonably sized rollouts(and even my own single personal rollout). Admins don't want to be manually installing software on machines like we're back in the days of compiling everything from source.

Can we at least get the base package sorted before? I really don't need custom with any plugins.
As a former paying user of Sublime, I find this interesting, because their pricing seems to be right on target all around.

If there was a subscription available that offered some amount of extra features, I probably wouldn't have purchased anything at all.
depends which state you choose to live in, presumably
Noone's stopping you from buying more licences, if you really want to support the dev. I think it's overpriced as it is (as another commenter mentioned, considering the competition is FOSS), but I might buy it one day, when I have more disposable money (assuming I won't have switched to VSCode or $hotNewThing by then). I really do like Sublime, and I'm happy 3 is out of beta, but seeing the userbase migrate to Atom/VSCode is worrisome, and makes me doubt $80 is worthwhile investment (I'm mostly worried about third party plugin devs, which was once Sublime's biggest strength).
"Import" was already decided to help the parser performing static analysis versus "require". Now "mjs" is introduced to make detecting if we are in front of a commonjs or module "faster". I'm sure the people who decided this are very bright, but the main goal was how to be nice with v8, and not how to be easy for developers.

Changing from js to ts is an inconvenience sufficiently big enough to adopt flowtype instead.
wow, congrats Jon and Will, this has been a long time coming. I can not think of more than maybe one other piece of software
I gladly pay for and look forward to new releases.

Also, Will: I apologize for being one of those assholes with a moderately popular plugin that still hasn't updated the thing to follow Package Control best practices.

I'm sure you guys have discussed it somewhere in the past, but would you comment on where you see Sublime heading feature wise now that there is, arguably, some competition in the same general editor market (vs code, atom, etc...)? I don't like comparing stuff and saying "why can you just do that" but some of those editors, even with all their shortcomings, have massively benefited from good debugger support (vs code), and a pretty well though out set of features to support plugin developers (dependency management, testing, etc...).
That's a delightfully clear explanation of the origin of that phrase.

However just using the word 'tulip' usually makes the writer's prejudices crystal clear. But if anybody also wants an explanation why the famous 'Tulip Mania' is 90% a myth and is therefore not a useful analogy for understanding 'Bitcoin Mania', then I will politely suggest this essay: https://stratechery.com/2017/tulips-myths-and-cryptocurrenci...

The very fact that an influential figure like Jamie Dimon is opposed to cryptocurrencies IS significant. However, Dimon's actual arguments against cryptocurrencies, which have remained unchanged for the past 4 years, seem very weak, (as least as long as he continues to base his objections on ill-informed slurs such as 'tulips')
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Also didn't focus on US. I'd wager most Americans haven't heard of it. Seems relevant.
that's like saying snails are fast by comparing them to a tree.

the wireless industry has large "natural" barriers to entry (like capital costs) on top of some regulatory and legal ones, which makes it tend toward oligopoly/monopoly. the government has done nothing to create a free and open market here. we shouldn't be patting them on their back, however lightly, for forking over shovel-fulls of cash to their cronies in the industry.