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The description of the plot strongly reminds me of relationship of china with the industrialized nations in the 19th century - huge technology gap and threat of effective colonization from 'alien' barbarians. Is it popular because it's inspired by a historic national trauma or because it's actually good?
We couldn't even understand the language of one of the great empires (Egypt) until we found a rock containing translations into other known languages.
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I do not think that's correct. I think the rhetoric is, or has become, stronger than the reality.
For example the war on drugs, affordable housing, affirmative action, etc. The proposed intentions have overruled the disastrous results.
There are simple exercises to improve deconcentrations skills:

1) [Vision] Look at some point (try to avoid thinking about the point itself), then think about what you observe at top left corner, then (moving slowly, after 15-30 seconds) at top edge, top right corner, etc. When 360˚ are finished, start again but think about several parts of viewport at the same time. Then just try to relax and think about the WHOLE picture. It takes some time to achieve good results, but if you do this training several days you will see changes in your attention level – it's like you see nothing and everything at the same time and once something special (like mushroom or what you're looking for) arrives in your viewport – in this state of mind, you find it VERY fast, even if it's semi-hidden and is located on very periphery.

2) [Sounds] The same: relax and try to distinguish only one noise that is happening around you (like bird singing or smth). Then, after some time spent, proceed to the next noice (cars or wind or anything else). Then next and next. After several minutes you will wonder how many different sounds is around. Then try to relax more and combine all of them.

3) ["Internals", your body]. Try to concentrate only on one part of your body -- say, fingers on your left leg. Then on the right one. The upper, part of leg. Step by step, spending a dozen of seconds or so on one small part of your body, proceed upper. Dont forget to concentrate on inner body part, organs. Once all parts are done, relax more and observe entire body.

4) ["Externals", space]. Concentrate on what you have in front of you. Then behind you. On the left, on the right. Upper and lower. Imaging the building (or park or field or smth) where are you now. There is no need to see it, just imagine. Just reflect in your mind how it looks, feels. Then a block where your house is located (forest or county or smth), then your town/distrinct/city, then state/country and then - the Earth. Step by step imagine object with bigger volume. And don't stop -- Solar system and then Galaxy. Then relax and try to combine feeling ALL the objects surrounding you.

5) [Super-deconcentration] So, when you did all 4 exercises many times, spent many days practicing it – combine them. You have 4 dimensions: vision, sounds, your body and space around it (somebody would add smelling as well) – so you can do deconcentration in ALL of them achieving very special state of mind and body. It's interesting.

And this very thing helps you achieve better results in freediving. Or searching objects in wide areas.

That's what I've learned from Natalia Molchanova during her training courses.

The interesting part of it: once you achieve good results doing such techniques (first of all, #1 & #2 combined), you will be able to drive not slower as usually, but with better ability to notice any dangerous object.
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That works for simple deployments but when you start having to deal with signing, licensed components and stuff like ours (55 deployable packages) then it gets hairy. Also managing windows infrastructure is hell.
You went from fictional literature to "The scientific community in China is immature"? What?
A fun edge case is that .au domains are not registrable by any entity, except for the ones that exist just because.

http://csiro.au/
'The Three-Body Problem' ... shows an immature view to science by the Chinese.

This is a dangerous way to view another culture. Instead of accepting that an author is an independent creator and a work is an independent creation, you seem to be saying that any Chinese work can be interpreted as a slice of "what China is like".

There's no such thing as immutable "Chinese-ness" that would be inevitably expressed by Chinese authors. To think otherwise is basically Orientalism in the Edward Said meaning [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)
But we could distinguish it as a language from the background noise of the sand/Rock.

Finding a message would be hugely significant, even if we're too dumb to decode it.
I definitely agree that we'll always need people who think like programmers. We can develop tools in the vein of those you mention to significantly enhance the productivity of those people though. I haven't seen many tools like that that help in distributed systems or that allow one to easily visualize and understand an entire system.
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Where do you get them from? I use a HP workstation at work, and I'm going to be sad to leave it when I leave my current job.
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The science fiction genre is often so much about ideas that the difference becomes moot.

For example, Robert Heinlein's books are hardly "actually good" in any sense understood by conventional literal criticism, but they certainly have made a lasting impression by extrapolating upon some very American political ideas and national archetypes.
I think it's like watches, once you go above $100 dollars you are out of "I want a practical accessory" and into "I want to own something rare and/or unique".

I guess if you have the money it looks like a good deal, I can't imagine spending $15,000 on a hat but then I can't imagine spending it on much of anything (a car perhaps).
One of the dealbreakers for me with Kallithea at this point of time though is the lack of an issue tracker. I think their main reason for not having it was that they don't want to impose one when you could be using one already.

But I would like it all integrated nicely with the git web interface.
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When compiling, as specified on Github [1], I get a SIGSEV

[1] https://github.com/dalboris/vpaint#linux
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>Finding a message would be hugely significant, even if we're too dumb to decode it.

That is actually what the majority of my above mentioned His Master's Voice is about - is this relatively regularly appearing signal a message? Or is it just regularly looking noise from some physical object we haven't discovered yet?
I used to think there was meant to be a distinction between .org.au and .asn.au, but looking at AuDA, I don't really see it.

My favourite is, of course, .id.au.
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I think that for some genres of music (or perhaps anything "not electronic"), another problem lies in audio synthesis. Part of that "soul" lies not just in the notes played, the volume they are played at, and the duration they are played, but also in manipulation of timbre, the type of attack, and all the other expressive factors that a skillful player of an instrument can bring out. As a brass and wind instrument player, it's painfully obvious to me whenever a song uses fake trumpets or cheesy synthesized shakuhachi. Even for something like violins providing chords behind a melody, it's not hard to discern when they are real and when they are fake. So if we really wanted to make it double-blind, we'd need the actual sound produced to be at a level of a professional musician -- I'd imagine having musicians play back generated sheet music wouldn't work, as they would necessarily impart their own interpretation.

But as another commenter said, part of what makes human art interesting is the life experience that forms it. If you reduce music to merely sound, then yes, nothing prevents artifically-generated music from competing against human music. Perhaps we will discover that there is nothing which distinguishes between the two can be heard. But the story of human life that produces the sound of Lee Morgan vs Miles Davis, or hearing the influence of a mentor like Katsuya Yokoyama in a pupil like Tajima Tadashi performing songs others have also performed, is to me as interesting as the music they produce.

Ultimately, any algorithm will possess biases present from its original authorship by a human who has tuned it to to "sound right," which is shaped by their own life experiences... so can artificially generated music ever be considered purely artificially generated? (You could also go into things like, for music in non-equal temperament scales, why did the algorithm's author pick a particular tuning?)

Finally, one thing I'd like to add is that I could see cases where abstract music would actually be more challenging than structured western music. An algorithm that could compose a compelling shakuhachi honkyoku would be impressive.
You've probably never heard of it because it has 136 downloads in total. ;)

It's very thoroughly tested but it hasn't been used in any serious projects yet.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with the idiom "calling bullshit" but I'm pretty confident it doesn't mean what you think it means.

It is an old enough expression that an urban dictionary reference shouldn't be necessary, but here you go:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I+call+bullsh...
In order for DSLs not to evolve into a mess they must be made of high quality semantic components, which you simply mix together and alter syntax a bit in order to get a new DSL.

When you develop your DSLs this way the problems you're talking about are nearly impossible to run into.

Essentially, if you build DSLs on top of an elaborate hierarchy of DSLs, every single DSL adds only a tiny bit of functionality which makes it maintainable and protects from evolving into a pile of messy layers.

If you have any questions about technical details of this approach - feel free to ask.
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I cant seem to get into this idea. First if I were to ride this in NYC I would probably be on my face with the 2 inch wheels stuck in the subway grates or in a pot whole. Some may say "Well skate boards have small wheels" this devices wheels are smaller, and you don’t have the momentum from peddling to get you over the bumps. And also its plain awkward without being "cool", like an electric mountain board.
Thanks for the comments, I just added another motivating example right at the top of the README. Is it clearer now?
Author here.

The library currently doesn't employ any kind of fuzzing. I rely on multiple tests for every kind of input. I've found that is a pretty reliable way to test for "unknown unknowns", even if it's extremely time-consuming.

Adding testcase fuzzing is definitely something to consider though, because it would most likely have found the very issues this release fixes.
Maybe they spotted earth millions of years ago and wiped out the dominant dinosaur population mammals being unaffected? :]
It looks like Apaches loved killing. Kind of fitting they have a killing machine (helicopter) named after them.
As far as I could see, it's not a problem in the CSPRNG itself, but in how it is used. More specifically it seems like a lot of applications use more entropy bits per second than servers generate by normal use. I'd say this is the result of not understanding how CSPRNG works and how to use it safely. Adding more or better sources of entropy to your systems would solve this.
> Not only maintaining and growing a DSL is challenging but also designing it at first.

It's not that challenging if you do it the right way.

> DSLs are costly.

Plainly wrong. DSLs are the easiest and cheapest way of eliminating complexity. You simply have to follow a proper discipline and use the right tools.

When I build a DSL, it's rarely more than 100 lines of code including literate comments, and the resulting DSL is a proper optimising compiler with debugging support, and this new DSL is immediately supported by an IDE (at least with syntax highlighting, autoindentation and autocompletion).
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I always used AMD cpus on my dekstops, so that's probably why I didn't even notice it.

The last time I really looked into this stuff there was non-ECC, ECC and Rambus for servers.
"... the Trisolarans, are en route with a giant fleet of warships. It will take them 400 years to reach Earth, leaving our panic-stricken species in a state of fevered war preparation. From afar, the Trisolarans incapacitate our scientific research and monitor our communications. We can’t bridge the gap in technology, and the second we discuss anything, the enemy knows all about it ... "

Sounds like the author is tapping into the fear of being invaded by USA? with the NSA listening in on everything? and preparations for an inevitable war having to be made

I will pick up this book to read once I can find it on shelves, sounds like good sci-fi albeit its obvious who the "Trisolarans" are meant to be ;)
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> I actually find compilers for transformation of DSL AST to target languages much more costly then designing the DSL syntax.

Mind explaining why? What can be costly and complex in a chain of trivial transforms, each being very simple, flat and comprehensible?
Well, since you mentioned it... what is the other way? I'm curious. I promise I won't do it.
Interesting work, thanks for sharing.

The input field is subview of the keyboard’s window. This is likely undesirable, especially for chat applications.

I am curious as to why this is undesirable. It makes sense to me that something docked to the keyboard would be in the same window.
Ask HN: What are your non-technical non-fiction recommended reads?
Interested in seeing what books have helped people improve their lives or learn useful skills.

For me, 'Driven to Distraction' was a helpful book, though limited to ADHD. 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman has been helpful too. Logging three things I'm grateful for each day led to one of the happiest months of my life.
Then they have to worry about licensing and avoiding hacks, two problems they don't have today.
Is the Turkish case conversion working?

edit: it seems it is: https://bitbucket.org/knight666/utf8rewind/pull-requests/1/t...
The paper isn't linked from the article, here it is: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/isuelab/publications/pubs/gi2015_eug...

It's a neat trick: instead of trying to work with the (x,y) points of a gesture, and worrying about rescaling/translating to match, it resamples the template and gesture into n vectors each with the same length, and the comparison is then just the sum of the angle differences in corresponding vectors in the two lists.
> Writing a spec is HARD.

Chances are that you're severely over-engineering it. Just take the English specification for any particular problem your DSL is supposed to solve and slightly tweak it into looking like a formal language. That's it. Extremely easy with a bit of practice.
Is this really the kind of article we want here?

> A study found shortcomings in the generation of the random numbers used to scramble or encrypt data.

> The hard-to-guess numbers are vital to many security measures that prevent data theft.

> But the sources of data that some computers call on to generate these numbers often run dry.

> This, they warned, could mean random numbers are more susceptible to well-known attacks that leave personal data vulnerable.

I get that you have to simplify for the ordinary people but this looks like talking to a five-year-old.
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It may not be the implementation you referred to, but
https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/opendht

exist and is used by the Ring distributed communication platform along with SIP (ring.cx) to implement the account less, P2P and PKI encrypted communication.

(disclaimer, I have previously worked on Ring.cx)
Funny, I came to the comments to remark about how nice it was to see an article very clearly articulate the issue.

Yes, I generally understand these concepts, but I am not a security professional and found the explanation useful both for my own comprehension and for improving my ability to relay complex technical topics to non technical people.
> Attributing music to a computer explicitly would be purely marketing move and it doesn’t change the fact that author is always conscious being(s), which, unless we’re in singularity, a computer isn’t.

I don't know. I'm sympathetic to this view (and for the record, I wasn't going anywhere near a hard AI/singularity argument), but on the other hand, I think after enough iterations you won't be able to find where that human input actually comes in. When we finally get a NN that produces something actually great, will we be able to point to a specific line of code, or a specific input, or a specific programmer whose taste resulted in that? We already struggle to understand the inner workings of neural nets.

So you can argue the 'taste' step comes into the selection process. Somebody has to sift through the output of the NN to choose what's good and what isn't. But what if that's automated? A different output to a different member of the population, so then the NN can test itself, and it decides what is worthy of output on a larger scale? Then you can't point to any one individual either.

So it's a semantic point. I think you're right, fundamentally. But I think we can very quickly reach a point where we have to travel through a very long rabbit hole to get back to that key human influence.
Check the Anger. This is an academic exchange of ideas. If you are angry go to the gym it's better for you.

A. You have debunked nothing.

B. There are no lies here.

C. Just because some random guy on the internet tells me to do something, I am no obligation to do that.

D. "Access to treatment", could mean the moon is made of green cheese but it is unlikely.

E. Since you are angry about it, cite specifically the the formulary content of the NHS and compare it to available treatments at Sloan Kettering. Since your so convinced it's true, prove it. (two can play at that)

F. Support you assertion that novel treatments only extend life by "a few months" with multiple citations from peer reviewed journals, oh and make sure their recent.

G. As far as the legal mandates. I am sure that everything in the UK is done exactly to the letter of the law in all cases and that deadlines are never missed.

H. You're assertion that closing the two week gap between when the GP starts testing and the specialist would start testing would close the mortality gap between the UK and Europe strains credulity and common sense.

Oh and just because you are dead bone wrong, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11788507/NHS-accused-of-sham...

"A cancer drug hailed as one of the biggest breakthroughs since chemotherapy will not be made available on the NHS, despite research showing it doubles survival"

Can you here me now.
what helps even more is abundant fiber accessibility. if every tower in Kentucky had ten gigabit circuits for backhaul, you'd see 4TB for ~$50 be viable there too.
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I don't know much about watch culture (I have a $10 Casio) but I heard someone say that a $1,000 watch is expensive, but a $30,000 watch is an investment. Not sure if people really pay attention to watches but Google "investing in a watch" and there's plenty of articles about it.
The problem with this, and why I try willingly refuse to believe much of it, even knowing it is a solid science is that all these are circumstances outside our control. It is a chilling proposition that you are not really that much responsible for you success. It can become a crutch to explain your failure. Both cases, I don't like.So I read, understand and then try to forget.
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The one whoe gets c on the rocks and those into your blocks, wins this argument. A strange game where not to participate, is not a option, but a embraced necessity.

One can imagine a conquering civilisation though, that has peace enforced on the inside.
It's because the input field will always appear at window level above the level of key window. So, if you need to show overlay in key window, the input field will appear above the overlay. Example for such overlay could be a loading indicator.
I had never heard of Chapel and was looking for something along those lines.

What's interesting about it that makes it worth taking a look?
When I say DSL I mean external DSL, not a fluent interface.

So an example of the problem I deal with is a database migration. Let's say we have an entity with a value

entity SqlTable {
List<TableColumn> nestedTuple;
}

value TableColumn {
int i;
}

and if I change column type in value object to long I want my compilers to prepare a DB migration with the appropriate SQL statements for the specific DB I use. Of course, there is nothing too complex about it, but it's not trivial either (in this case you have to prepare a second field, unnest the whole hierarchy to get to the nested field, copy it to new type and compact the hierarchy back again).

I find it costly since there are gazillion of such features. And when they start interacting with each other things gets messy.
Thanks for sharing!

Looks interesting, though I think the word "experiment" is what's throwing people off, as it usually has a research/science connotation. As you've explained it here, your project is mostly a "commons" library for reducing regular boilerplate you've encountered in your area of work. As such, I would consider renaming it to something more suitable.

Also, these types of projects aren't really reusable by the general public, unless it fits your use case exactly. For example, I'd have no need for matplotlib or NumPy, and would want to output JSON logs (with something like [structlog][0]). That said, trying to accommodate everyone's use case is impossible, so as long as it solves your problem, mission accomplished.

[0]: http://www.structlog.org/en/stable/
Any chance of getting > 4 cores in a notebook with one of these chips? Would love a 6-core or 8-core MacBook Pro, even if it had to be run at lower frequency or aggressively throttled while on battery.
Washington Post is now a flagrant Amazon marketing machine.

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No, currently Turkish, Greek, Lithuanian and Azeri case mappings are not always grammatically correct. This is because utf8rewind currently does not take the system locale into account when case mapping. Fixing these issues is planned for a future release.