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So that's what you were getting at. I've never seen anything like what you describe. I suppose it would be a very tall order to pay the same attention to every detail in a high resolution voxel-image as in a high resolution pixel-image.

I think the most practical way out would be procedural generation, but then it's arguably not manual art anymore.

I guess it could be practical with the right kind of environment. If you had all the tools of a good pixler like Deluxe Paint extended to a voxel-painting program.
I've read various William Gibson books and generally enjoyed them, but I find his dense writing style exhausting sometimes. I think a comic written by him could work pretty well.
Also, TPTB don't really need to control or surveil everyone. Surveillance and control of the "radical" 5% who have a chance to push society in the "wrong" direction is enough.
Very insightful, never fully understand why pointers can't be cast to integers(not even to uintptr_r, intptr), what's the guidance here to avoid the casting?
For worse (or better, but not really), phones are a lot more customized than laptops. A Nexus 6P that uses a Snapdragon 810 might have it set up differently a HTC One M9. I remember some reviews were talking about how the 6P wasn't throttling as hard as other 810-powered phones.

An i7-6700K will be and perform the same as any other 6700K, save for poor cooling and aftermarket overclocking.

Unless the model does something special with the components (it shouldn't) then just typing out the components is what matters, not whether (or when) Acer, Apple, or ASUS designed the chassis.
I guess when one is considering to use a package they're supposed to read its README file. If they can't be bothered, well, that's their problem, even pages of notices won't help.
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I remember the '73 embargo vividly. Rationing was based on license plate, even or odd. My parent's two autos were one of each. Of course, a station wagon and pickup truck. So my dad would get up about 4:30, put the snub-nosed .38 under the seat, and go get in line. Those who waited until the station opened were too late. Stations had big signs up if they had no gas.

Gas was always pumped by the attendant. When you got to the pump, he would tell you how much gas you could have. Five gallons was common.

My parents were small business owners. The embargo put their business at the edge.
Wow, it isn't built on Objective-C? That's completely the reverse of my expectations. I'd picture an "Open Darwin" as a ground-up FOSS rewrite of Mach + XPC, followed by XNU + IOKit, followed by libobjc and CoreFoundation (and libdispatch), followed by most of Cocoa, then all the stuff like LaunchServices to rotate the userland around to an app-bundle-based perspective... and and then maybe getting to the Aqua stuff, sometime around when HURD is usable. You know, basically like the order Mono occurred in.

More to the point, I'd expect the first-milestone goal of an "OpenDarwin" project would be to be able to install and run OSX's Server.app and act as an OpenDirectory master, NetBoot Restore manager, etc. That proves compatibility, and is a useful thing all on its own (because, among other things, it would mean being able to manage OSX from non-Apple hardware†.) Doing a GUI first? Crazy talk!

† ...without spending weeks tearing your hair out trying to conform a Linux LDAP+Kerberos+whatever server to OSX's idea of what an OpenDirectory controller is supposed to look like. I tried, I tried so hard...
Also video player is one huge click-machine. Every major player allows you to pause by clicking on video player window, Facebook instead opens player in new "window" with suggested content. I bet this accounts for a lot plays as well. Same way Google was inflating Bing visits by adding dedicated, extremely sensitive search button to Windows mobiles.
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The plugin is managed by a Microsoft employee, but unlike other MS plugins, it has the author name instead of "Microsoft", which makes it even more suspicious.

The description was changed to reflect that it uses a web service at one point, but the change was reverted.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-spell-check/pull/30

So no, the post is not overdramatic at all.
How is it possible to sell U.S. Treasuries in secret or in a dark market while still providing an ostensibly transparent market for Treasuries? Those two things seems counter to each other.

A deal with this structure as a preference seem extremely misguided, and I'm not sure if the secrecy was requested by the Saudis or by the Nixon / Kissinger NSC / Cabinet which was prone to secrecy for no reason. Either way, one more crazed "feather" in their cap that greatly influenced the future of the country for better or worse.
You get over it.

I came to the artform later in life and found it a weird transition. It's definitely a different experience and you have to change your approach... it's no longer just about reading the words, but also about studying the panels, which take the place of a lot of typical written prose.
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google services are quite something... :)
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No one else has responded, so I'd like to contribute something, as you're clearly investing time in this.

Technical writing is often cold, fact-based writing. There is the need to be 100% correct and caveat explicitly where necessary.

Technical articles also should assume to require a user's attention, and popular articles deliver a quick fix.

Promoting the use-case for a product isn't technical writing, it's marketing, providing clearly linked outcomes to causes/problems/opportunities that an audience should be aware of (should be).

I had a quick look at your blog, for example 'Solve All Your Cryptography Problems in 3 Easy Steps'
* The title is popularist, implying a quick-fix for readers that need a quick thirst-quench. Not that business, as it isn't quantified. A bit like a 20 second page-view blog post.
* The content is not. It is long and quite detailed. But now I'm thinking, so who's the audience? If the audience is 'business' write to them with appropriate diagrams and do link to much more highly technical implementation and justification - using external references can help a lot here.
* If the audience is implementers, stroke the technical side. How it is not hard, exotic or difficult, but is interesting, well supported, and could also gain some credit if they used the material to bring a business case themselves.

Improve the quality of the writing: Split your audience into buckets of people with different needs, and address those needs.

About learning Photoshop: Forget that. If you want more diagrams, do them in PowerPoint, export as a PDF, then export from Acrobat as an image. Absolute zero learning curve.
The most surprising thing is the backdoor arrangements the Treasury and Federal Reserve handily created to keep Saudi bonds purchases off the books - through forty years!

I'm sure most people would not believe something like this could be done - that actual governing and federal dealing is so hidden, through changing administrations, in spite of apparent transparency, like annual reports, budgets, hearings, and so on. It really puts a big question mark on the U.S. democratic system, as if that wasn't tenuous enough already.

Oh, and if anyone was in doubt about the shift to Iran, this suddenly being publicized as much as anything tells you all you need to know. It's a big middle finger to Saudi Arabia.
How much do you read nowadays? What kind of stuff? (And have you got any recommendations in terms of fiction!?)
Cephalopods are reasonably smart and their intelligence evolved mostly idependently. That's reassuring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_intelligence
It's true though; not enough space for display, and not enough space for storage!
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Yeah, they refer to it as "portable", but then go on to show that they haven't tested it on anything except x64 and ARM32; not only that, but it also depends on what you use to compile it (kbuild, GNU make, etc.).
Nice comparison with Raspberry Pi 3 here:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/raspberry-pi-2-vs-bbc...

Their conclusion:

> As you can see, there really is no comparison between these two devices. If the Raspberry Pi 3 is a 'my first proper computer,' then the BBC Micro Bit teaches the raw building blocks of coding at the heart of it. It's even more fundamental.

> The Raspberry Pi 3 is a much more advanced and practically useful device, but if you or your kid is starting at the very beginning of your programming journey, the BBC Micro Bit looks hard to beat.
You can teach yourself to see polarised light using the naked eye by exploiting polarisation effects in the lens of your eyeball.

https://www.polarization.com/haidinger/haidinger.html

I've never seen this myself, however. Also, I don't know how useful this would be for direction finding. I can see that the effect would be useful for figuring out the direction of the sun on a cloudy day, but accounts indicate that the Haidinger's Brush effect is pretty small and easy to miss.

But if humans can see it, more or less by accident, it's not much of a stretch to imagine than animals are much more sensitive to it.
For Swerve http://swerve.playcanvas.com/ we designed the UI to be responsive for desktop and mobile. We're using HTML/CSS for this so it works well, but unfortunately you end up getting some stalls for browser layout and compositing.

For Swerve this is a problem because we're aiming for smooth 60fps but in a less twitch-based game this wouldn't be so much of an issue.
See "volume graphics" and "volume rendering". More common in radiography than in games ;)
Perhaps we should be demanding heads on pikes. This has very real implications for Hillary Clinton's election chances as well. The Clintons have been supporters of the Saudis for some time now and have accepted Saudi government money through the Clinton Foundation.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=%241...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/hillary-clinton-...

There is no reason the U.S. should be allies with the House of Saud. We have almost no aligned interests and very different views on human rights and Wahhabism. My hope is that the report is published.
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I did serve a company internal tool written in PHP/mysql from a white macbook. It was served to all our retail locations (under 100 DAUs).
It was a "but it works on my machine" - "back up your email, your machine is going into production" situation. It ended up taking almost two years to migrate the application away because it just worked.
Picture of said server macbook https://flic.kr/p/DY4k1U
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Wow I never knew that. I lived through it too - but on a farm. We were exempt from any sort of rationing. So I didn't get any notion that things were that tight. I thought the lines (on TV) were just panicky folks rushing to fill up, like they empty the grocery store every time a storm is coming.
Often times when I'm on Facebook I'm killing time somewhere it is inappropriate to have audio playing...
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Along with a number of other people I've been advocating bundling uBlock Origin by default in Tor Browser[1]. There were some fingerprinting and upstream support issues but most of these have been resolved, and some were philosophically opposed to including an ad blocker or breaking sites.

The main concern with adding uBlock Origin would be flipping bits that make your browser unique and stand out in the crowd. You can evaluate that risk based on your own operational profile.

[1] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2016-January/01...
"I would suggest re-naming "rmbdd()". I _assume_ that "dd" stands for "data dependent", but quite frankly, "rmbdd" looks like the standard IBM "we lost every vowel ever invented" kind of assembly lanaguage to me.

I'm sure that having programmed PPC assembly language, you find it very natural (IBM motto: "We found five vowels hiding in a corner, and we used them _all_ for the 'eieio' instruction so that we wouldn't have to use them anywhere else")."

-- Linus Torvalds, LKML (http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/linux.conf.au-2004-emails.txt)
You are right, that belief was wrong.
I recognize your work, Antoine :) Nice to see you on front page of HN
Anything you do like this to "customize" the default Tor Browser install can reduce your privacy instead, as it provides a factor by which you can be fingerprinted and differentiated from the larger base of users using the Tor Browser as-is.

Source: see the Tor Browser docs on why they enable JS by default (though NoScript is installed and can be configured to block all JS, if you know the risks) https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBJavaScriptEna...
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They're referring to application performance, specifically UI, not network latency.
Actually it's considerably faster, it's twice as fast as the 6700K in many applications that actually use multi-threading properly, this is a weird review, no blender, no encoding, nothing that uses the new instruction sets when comparing to the broadwell-E CPU's, really a poor review which is surprising considering the source.
That's ridiculous, I'm sure there is overlap, but not that much. I am sitting near many people that care about web best practices but have never run an adblocker. And I know many people that run adblockers and don't give 2 cents about web best practices. Besides it would be very easy to get the ad networks to change, it's call money.
While it's not manual art, but procedurally generated, this here should count as hight resolution voxel art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S530Vwa33G0
This is quite frustrating to read. You cannot write about this stuff without carefully defining the terms.

What does a video being watched mean? It could be 10s, 20s, scrolled to the end, ...

What does sound enabled mean? It could mean sound clicked, but right at the end of the video, it could mean 10s with sounds, 20s, etc...

Take articles that do not carefully define engagement metrics with a pinch of salt.
Good counter argument, I change my stance.

Also I can (theoretically) hire Dyson, since he is still alive.
Clicking any of the pieces gives me the WordPress "Error establishing a database connection" error. Not sure if it's just the hacker news hug of death, but it would be worth taking a look and seeing if your hosting is having trouble with the number of visitors you're getting.
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> We do have thousands of GPU cores

Those are more like ALUs, and very simple ones at that, than cores.
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Note: I have friends who claim to have read an similarly extraordinary number of books, although in their case it turns out they had actually been 'speed reading' them, which I wouldn't count as reading at all.[1] Some people would disagree with me, however...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading
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I think Voxel Quest is close to what you're thinking about: http://www.voxelquest.com/gallery.html
It may be only a 'tick' in performance, but it sure is a 'tock' in price! $1723 for a i7-6950X v. $999 for a i7-5960X?

That's even more than the Broadwell-EP Xeon equivalent:

> The recently released Xeon Broadwell-EP processor list includes the Xeon E5-2640 v4: a 10-core 2.4 GHz/3.4 GHz part that runs at 90W, and is priced at $939, which compares favorably to the i7-6950X and its 10-cores at a 3.0 GHz/3.5 GHz clockspeeds.
IIRC, a few years back http://iolanguage.org/ was hosted on an aging Macbook. I'm not sure if that's still the case.
No?

The link you posted is indeed a MITM proxy for SSL, but it will generate certificate errors, as my grandparent said. Users will know the MITM attack is going on (unless the website doesn't use HSTS and the attacker has stolen/bought a signing key from a CA registered in your device's trust store).
also, xeon.js, xeon github - 1 result
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I kind of wonder why no one just forks the (Libre/Open)Office spell-checker and design a plugin around that. Doesn't that work totally fine offline?
The Tor Browser Bundle doesn't ship the standard version of Firefox! Several privacy-enhancing patches are applied to the ESR release of Firefox for TBB releases. This is because the Mozilla Foundation refused to accept the Tor Project's commits to enhance privacy in the browser.

There are also tickets in Tor's TRAC issue tracker for Chrome. Once again, using Chrome securely would require several patches to source.
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Chaff? For a project where one has total control, yes. When one has to get approval and deal with a specific list of approved licenses (which may not include one's particular favourite, no matter how sensible it seems to oneself), then no. It is appreciated.
Shorter yes, but reversing the whole string and comparing it with the input value is actually slower/less efficent than the algorithm shown in the article. Sorry for my nitpicking ;)
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For context, R7RS is still in standardization [public review milestone for 2012 has not yet been met].
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The amazing thing was how Compaq beat IBM to market with a PC using the 386. Not surprising since they could move faster because they were a scrappy startup unlike IBM. Compaq also didn't come up with their own bus standards like MCA.
Hi Paul, this is not something which lawyer's will work on. This is something which the researchers have to think about. A lawyer doesn't know everything about an invention, an inventor knows. It's more about researcher and less about lawyers. Plus, I am totally confused regarding your argument where you said "If Stanford is beating the others it is because it encourages graduate students to walk out with the technology, build a company, and pay fees back to Stanford."
Looks like it was. https://developer.apple.com/standards/classicquicktime.html
While I might not agree with the GP that this should be an automatic failure, I do think it is very important to emphasize to students that when the code is working, they are not done. They still need to go back, re-format, clean things up, and possibly add tests.

Working is the lowest bar of quality.
Is there a specific tool you would recommend for doing this?
You sir, need a variac. Slowly apply that 110v/220v to your machine.
FYI Bitter Lake is probably the best thing I've watched in the last couple of years - not sure I completely agree with all of it, but the format and approach is breathtaking.
Preceding announcement of intent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571969
I work for a large organization and make and manage personal programs all the time with absolutely no relationship to or input from my parent organization. Occasionally I am allowed put them on the Org's Github if they're useful and relevant to the mission. It's a cool little perk because it can give personal projects more visibility.

I'm not saying it's not suspicious (I don't think it is though), but I don't think that a Microsoft employee creating their own plugin, even under Microsoft's Github, makes it suspicious.
Although I agree that having a business plan that's based on nothing more than a concept of "being disruptive" is not much of a plan at all, I feel that in some parts, he's picking a strawman and arguing against that.

He claims that "I’m sure what the presenter of the slide was getting at was Clayton Christensen’s definition of disruption from his classic book The Innovator’s Dilemma. ".

He then goes on to say (talking about Square and Uber) that "neither of these companies were disruptive in The Innovator’s Dilemma sense". However, I'd be surprised if the presenter wasn't thinking precisely of people like Uber and the type of "disruption" they've brought to the taxi industry.

So, if they are thinking of Uber, and if Uber's disruption isn't the sort being talked about in the Innovators dilemma, then I suspect they weren't thinking of Christensen’s definition at all.

I'm not sure why disruption has to be less functional - it just needs to be tackling the root problem (and often redefining what that root problem is) in a different way to the incumbent.
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Please describe what you do and how much you make. I'll post mine below.
Yes, look into point-clouds used by various 3d scene recreation technologies that take stereoscopic images and recreate 3d scenes with them.
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"The 60s" was more than a backdrop, especially in California -- and it was about a variety of things all at once, including: equal rights and race, the Vietnam War, and thoughts less in the same groove. The "counter culture" was all around Palo Alto and the rest of the Bay Area, and provided another set of contexts.

And I think it had indirect influence -- kind of a glow -- on other things that were going on, such as changes in technology and computing. But I would call most of the top people there at that time -- including most of the researchers at PARC -- quite straight with regard to drugs. PARC was much more of an older drinking culture than a drugs culture. However, other kinds of non-drug mind-altering practices were experimented with (many kinds of meditation, self-hypnosis, isolation tanks, etc.)

A little goes a long way, for many reasons.
I think there's reason to be optimistic. For example, social media and the internet have gave way to many new friendships and communities that simply wouldn't have been possible otherwise. While I understand and, too, struggle with the collective feeling of modern loneliness, I think ultimately there's more avenues than ever for people to bond over ideas.

However, you are right that even more increased demand for our headspace in exchange for moments of reflection and, as Louis CK[1] says it, "just being a person," are cause for concern.

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c
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Played around with panoramic QuickTime circa 2001-2002, after I got my first iBook. QuickTime was great on Mac, but man, (perhaps unless you spent a lot of money on photo-editing software) stitching those photos together was a bear.
Many years ago I attended a talk by Bernard Widrow (discovered/invented a precursor to the backpropagation algorithm; i.e. the least mean squares filter) [1]. He believed that long-term memories are stored in DNA [2]. At the time, I and others thought he was completely wrong.

Maybe it is not such a crazy idea. Code is data, after all (especially if our brains are written in LISP).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Widrow
[2] https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee373b/cognitive_memory2.pdf
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You might want to keep tabs on UbuntuBSD.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326457

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415985
I know, no analogy is perfect. I am saying that getting mugged or having your keystrokes sent somewhere is inherently bad as default and should be opt-in, not opt-out.
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Isn't generating and installing a dependencies tree one of the most basic tasks of a package manager, at least since apt and similar came about in the late 90s?