skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for elaborating a bit. I still have to disagree.

I find the argument that Snowden's actions didnt justify the consequences to our agents or relationships with other nations just short-sighted.

Although it may not feel like it to those of us immersed in tech as a culture and as an industry, we are still in the very early days of the Internet. We're still setting precedents that are going to be in place for lifetimes. That America has to patch some relationships, that a couple events may escape our gov'ts control, are small prices to pay to ensure that future generations are able to freely and safely explore and express themselves on the internet without fear of prosecution or persecution.

Sucks in the short term, but these are important issues to get resolved for the long term.
You don't win an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for Math.random()!
Time to post his website again http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

Needs to be ported to webgl some day
> He loved to be the way he was and pushed it.

So are you saying that you said this as a friendly jab, knowing he would probably love it himself?

> His comment about OOP (a rather different kind of thing at Xerox PARC than what the term means today) did not bother any of us at all

So he did actually say that quote about OOP? Do you happen to know the source?
If you're based in Miami, you could easily save $$ on the tax situation - even if you're not there FT.

I'm curious on these other similar nice cities to Miami you speak of.
This is great. I've also tried my hand at making video games in Clojure.

For me though, it was a weak attempt at a simple Bomberman clone that would be playable over the network, so that my kids could play it across our different family computers. It was even kid friendly, being about planting timed water balloons, and avoiding getting wet!

It seemed like Clojure would be ideal for this, because the JVM has excellent networking libs and GUI libs for simple 2d graphics.

But I severely underestimated how much time it would take though, so it never really even got to a playable single player state.

The main part I got stuck on was trying to settle on a data format, how to represent tiles and players and items and everything, in a form of immutable data that was easy to both analyze and transform.

The author's idea of mapping a giant 2d string to actual data is genius, although I suspect it wouldn't scale well for an RPG, and for my game it wouldn't have been very helpful since the terrain would be auto-generated (since needing to be somewhat randomized).

It's surprising to see the author here mention using Agents as the original primary building block of the game engine. I've never directly used Agents or found them helpful. To this day I really don't know what they're good for.
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This reef and the other reefs are fundamental to marine ecosystems. When the reefs die the oceans die.
Just in case, I'm reposting my message from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652940

On the workstation part, it recommends QubesOS.
Am I the only one who is skeptical about it?

From what I saw superficially reading their source code, there are some frightening stuff going on:

* tons of C code with nearly zero unit tests, same with the python code

* lots glue in form of bash or python scripts

* some not so beautiful stuff like:

- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/maste... (kill -9 on a daemon...)

- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/maste... (a daemon is a little bit more than an exe launched with '&'

- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/maste... (changing a config file in an init script, humm, weird...)

- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/maste... (starting a service inside the init of another service...)

- https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/maste... ("logging" with stderr redirection in a file)

And it's just the init scripts... I'm too lazy to take a look further inside the C or python stuff.
IMHO, as a proof of concept, it's interesting, as a finished, reliable and secure OS, it's frightening...
Since we're talking about whether there's a mass market for domestic robots, that quote supports my point more than yours. A robotic arm consisting of non-novel technology capable of doing nothing more than bagging chips according to a set program costs $35k.

As a householder, I don't need someone to bag chips for me 24/7. Having someone spend an hour cleaning my flat once a week would be quite useful. Unfortunately, the robot arm doesn't have enough moving parts or AI to do that, and even if it could, I could hire someone on a $15 minimum wage to do that on a weekly basis for 44 years for the same price as the robotic arm.
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It's sad that, the more I live off my Kindle, the less serendipity I let into my reading life. There's something about the experience of a bookstore -- thumbing through a commentary on Origen in the Strand's basement and feeling the subway rattle the walls, finding a classic dime-store noir novel at Kayo, happening upon a first edition of Nabakov at McMurtry's Booked Up -- that gives you the sense of finding something secret, knowledge hidden away in the mouse-eaten pages of a volume buried deep in the stacks; books too rare, too obscure to ever make it to the clean and spacious realm of digitization. Now I'm mostly likely to just check out the daily and monthly deals in the Kindle store and never set foot in an actual store. I think I'm the poorer for it.
I'm talking about modern games, meaning 2016, not 2011. Maybe you can play some lame (graphics wise) game at 4K 120Hz, but not the ones that are actually huge.
> disagreeing with a person is not trolling

The word troll has evolved to encompass any sort of dishonest internet activity that is designed to manipulate the response and attitude of the larger audience, but I agree: the right term would be astroturfing.

> it's like having a pit-bull in the corner that nobody loves because it defended them before in a savage way

That hilariously fails to describe Russia in any way most people would recognize.

> Realistically, with the exclusion of Crimea, Russia has done nothing that any other large country hasn't done with regards to borders

That's a pretty big exclusion, but concerns about its borders and the threat of annexation - as elevated as it is compared to any other country - is not the main concern here.
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I'll reply since you've specifically referenced me.

I don't think people are distinguishing between 'domestic' or 'foreign' spying. For most people, it's way too complex to have an understanding of domestic US laws on agencies spying powers. Also remember, it's not just the US either. Remember the UK is probably the most prolific gatherer (they have a much more strategic point on internet routing than the US does).

People reduce a complex and difficult to understand story into something they think they understand. In this case, Snowden is 'about spies' and 'spies track[/kill] terrorists' combined with 'I'm not a terrorist, so they won't be interested in tracking me' hence the whole story is irrelevant and only conspiracy nuts think the Government spies on them.

Any attempt to counter this and say, actually it is important because in 5, 10, 20 or more years, an agency can take a dislike to you (or some relative/connection) and then start to revisit things you have long since forgotten, and target you for some throw away comment, just sounds so far fetched as to be lunacy.

But, as the submitted article shows, it's exactly what is happening in other countries and there is no reason why 'our country' [insert name of wherever you live - not just the US] won't do the same. For domestic US readers, imagine a future President Trump issuing an executive order to track down those who insulted him, even in private personal e-mail conversations - it may be a crazy scenario, but the NSA database allows such a thing to happen.

The mass collection and storage of data is a real risk to any democratic society, because of the threat of misuse. Don't fool yourself that some official will say no when asked to carry out some heinous act made possible by access to the stored communications.

Getting tied up in whether Snowden is a traitor or a hero is missing the point. It's also where the NSA has focused on steering the conversation at every opportunity.
But it's not as though for example, people in Hillary's team don't have connections to the nomenklatura. So I don't think those connections are especially illustrative of anything extraordinary.
Yeah the spectrum is huge, however disease progression is also hard to predict, so a person with some very heavy relapses at onset might be relapse free for years afterwards and vice versa.

Iirc though there are some studies that showed that progression is in general more benign than initially estimated in most cases.
What's stopping you from ditching the kindle and finding a bookstore?
"Home schooling is a luxury. Small classes are a luxury"

Developed countries are assumed went thru a few decades of economic growth and productivity gains. I think they should be ready for some universal, commonplace luxuries.

I think children should be first to gain those.
Crimea. Georgia. Transnistria. It's become a pattern for Russia to use military force instead of diplomacy to resolve disputes.

The notion that "Russia has done nothing that any other large country hasn't done" is entirely wrong.
If you have a Root Cert installed on your system, and they are MITMing traffic to a HSTS site with that Cert then your browser will give no warnings (for HSTS or non-HSTS sites).
No, he likes him because they're both nationalists. Trump's view of the world is similar to his and Putin believes they can cooperate better. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, wants war with Russia.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/9/hillary-clint...
Given that the current level of CO2 in the atmosphere includes the output of over 100 years of industrial world-wide burning of petroleum and coal, then no I don't think the amonut of carbon that could be sequestered in current fuel inventories would make a significant difference. Unless you stockpile decades worth of fuel.
See also Simplex Noise, Perlin's 2001 replacement --- it extends to an arbitrary number of dimensions, and it's cheaper:

http://webstaff.itn.liu.se/~stegu/simplexnoise/simplexnoise....
> due to multiple threads trying to edit the world ref 50+ times per second.

Of course you get no benefit if you serialize the game through a single ref. Just because you have a fancy feature like agents doesn't mean you don't have to think about how your concurrent code is behaving.

I chose Clojure for the server side code of my MUD. It wasn't for the agents or STM, it was for immutability. Immutability gives me the ability to easily have a consistent snapshot of the world which I can use to perform some operation, such as saving, event propagation, or some AI calculations.
This reminds me of Realm of Racket.
That's one of the goals of HSTS itself, but preloading designed to allow secure-only communications when establishing a connection to a hitherto-unused site, so that MITM attacks can't simply provide their own certs on first connect.
Interesting that even autumnai/leaf has more activity, as I believe that it's in a state of limbo as the original authors are discontinuing work:

https://medium.com/@mjhirn/tensorflow-wins-89b78b29aafb#.cue...
"with the exclusion of Crimea, Russia has done nothing that any other large country hasn't done with regards to borders"

Haha that's an absurd exclusion. You don't get to pick and choose which criteria are valid when judging the behaviour of a government.
The Way It's Always Been Done
I’ve said this before (and got heavily downvoted) that the concept of Android Pay is stupid anyway.

Even worse than their version that works with a hardware secure enclave is the version which works without one.

How does that one work? By ensuring that the user didn’t modify the OS image.

That’s literally all security there is.

It’d be a lot better if they’d just build a security model that doesn’t have to rely on the device being secure, but instead rely on the banks’ servers being secure.
I mean pre-ad days.
An API based on machine learning and few other algorithms for better precision. Opened for public BETA 2 weeks ago, would appreciate an honest opinion of its inner workings.
NATO would never use military force to fix stuff, right?
If that's in a work environment, update your resume first.
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Declarative programming and magic – Part I
Jokes are usually frowned upon in Hacker News. It keeps the conversation focused and meaningful instead of derailing into chains of puns à la Reddit.

It's not that the community can't handle a joke, it's just trying to avoid the slippery slope. There are other places for more lighthearted discussion.

Mentioning downvotes is also frowned upon.

Disclaimer: I didn't downvote you, just explaining.
Hilary does not want war with Russia.

I mean, really. Sigh. This website.
I can concur. The Swedes have turned into an absolute disgrace. Constant late-coming, talking and other distracting behaviour. They have become a nation of low moral fibre, pure and simple. I say become, because I refuse to believe this was the modus operandi of the likes of Linnaeus, Arrhenius, Berzelius, Celsius, etc.

I'm going through the motions myself, at an institution that shall remain nameless, knowing how kindly they take to criticism here.
Russia occupied half of Europe, against the will of the countries occupied, for nearly 50 years.

Stop re-writing history.
I wonder if a 6 month Soylent-only diet would help with this.
Like stopping Muslims from being murdered in the Balkans?
Why can’t the Estonian president buy a song off iTunes for his Latvian wife?
The comment that I replied to was about using assertions instead of tests.
You can certainly write an assertion and test it after, but unless it is absolutely necessary I would prefer to avoid polluting the code with "documentation".
The right place for that is in the unit tests, not in the middle of production code.
So you exclude Crimea but what about Eastern Ukraine? I have no love lost for the scheming of Nuland and NATO and the rest of that cadre but Russia has some serious internal and foreign-facing issues.

And that man you quoted wasn't really all that wise since you have no need to make peace with your friends.
www counts as a subdomain?
To annex part of a country? I don't remember.
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Don't vote remotely.

https://roamingaroundatrandom.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/an-mp...
One reason that people are suspicious of Russia is that Putin and his state-controlled media have made clear his goal is to restore Russia, to the extent possible, to its former superpower geopolitical status, and there is no way that can be accomplished without a very aggressive foreign policy.

In addition, people in the West disapprove of Russia because of its highly oppressive human rights policies, including massive internet censorship, and also its fossil-fuels centered, crony-capitalism economics.

I feel sorry for the people of Russia. It seems to me that Putin has put them on a path that can't possibly succeed.
One Story used to be good for discovering different authors. It's no where near what you're describing, but it's a start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Story

I still buy a bunch of non-fiction by looking through charity shops (UK version of thrift stores, maybe).
It's entirely possible. They have a history of this kind of activity going right back to the 1920's. Survivors of a regime that routinely pulled stunts like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_of_Trotskyist_Anti-Soviet...

wouldn't even regard it as an unusual tactic.

An 'does this benefit Russia in any way' filter on a lot of internet reporting/commenting/activity over the last couple of years can be fairly illuminating. What tends to trip them up is any historical references pre-WW2, which have to paper over some horrible cracks.
> Needs to be ported to webgl some day

There are many shader implementations of continuous noise. Most should be WebGL compatible.

EDIT: https://github.com/ashima/webgl-noise there you go :) Includes classic noise (Perlin I guess?) and Simplex.
> In the end, school mostly teaches people to sit still and follow instructions.

And we all know that following instructions does not lead to fulfilling lives, and that sitting still for long periods of time is a sure predictor for a shorter lifespan.

Schools were institutionalized and were good for preparing cheap factory labor.

Our society no longer needs this.

So schools fail the economy and the kids. Preparing today's children for yesterday.

The very institutions that proclaim themselves as the beacon of knowledge and enlightenment act as the opposite.

Ironic.
You can easily do double tunneling, sure. Or even tunnel over DNS. Or over ping packets.
Folks, this was dismissed as misinformation to public by the city.
The video says that it uses his arms and legs. It looks like the operator is suspended from a harness, with his legs strapped into force-feedback pedal assemblies.
Which MUD?
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It's the smallest molecule there is. It's really difficult to contain. It will leak out of steel containers while embrittling the metal. However it's not necessary to use pure hydrogen as vehicle fuel. Alcohol or other hydrocarbons can be used directly in a fuel cell to produce electric power, or be burned in an more traditional combustion engine.
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I absolutely love this. I wish all my "read later" bookmarks were turned into an ebook at the end of the week.
Nice, for some reason I have a soft spot for interactive fiction engines! How does it compare to Twine?
I'm not an expert on the history of Russian foreign policy, but there are a lot of credible voices outside of the MSM that tell a different story than the U.S. administration does. For example:

1. http://johnpilger.com/articles/a-world-war-has-begun-break-t...

2. http://www.alternet.org/world/exclusive-interview-seymour-he...

Those focus largely on other topics, but both touch on how the attitude towards Russia (and others) has been manipulated by U.S. media.

Given the U.S. administrations' track records for deceit in manipulating foreign affairs, I'm not inclined to dismiss the alternative narratives easily. Western governments do their fair share of astroturfing and media manipulation as well (can give many sources on that, if necessary).
They might have to deploy their private key on the devices they maintain for their clients, perhaps relying on a secure keystore on-device to try to protect it from client sniffing (presuming quietly selling it to the client isn't part-and-parcel of the deal).

Others have suggested they could provide a cloud-type service to achieve the same result.
take a look at passopolis[0], a fork of Mitro[1] - which got acquihired by Twitter and later stopped supporting the project.

You can either use the free hosted service by passopolis, or host your own.

disclaimer: not affiliated with either of those, but was a happy Mitro user and then switched to Passopolis (and am still very happy to use and know the project lives on).

[0] https://passopolis.com / https://github.com/WeAreWizards/passopolis-server

[1] https://www.mitro.co/ (certificate expired)
I don't think so. /pol/ and Trump are made for each other.
This won't reduce atmospheric CO2.
Huh? You present that as something everyone knows, but I have never even heard anyone make the accusation.

I may be wrong, but I am guessing you are following a standard Russian troll tactic. This is when someone makes an accusation, accuse the West or someone in it of the same thing. For instance, when someone says the Russian government is immensely corrupt, say there is corruption in the West, too. The goal is not to make people think well of Russia, that is simply not possible, but to make everyone so cynical and discouraged they won't fight back.
What if the government required app store operators to run all of their software through this process?
Unsurprisingly so, yet the price point is way too high to go for an upgrade. I feel like upgrading when the 11XX (they are coming, right?) series come in is a much better idea.
I believe that these are his apps:

* Lending Club Order: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lendingclub-order/id1046114132?mt=8
* Prosper Invest: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prosper-invest/id1093002241?mt=8
You're half right. She wants war and doesn't care who with.
>> it's like having a pit-bull in the corner that nobody loves because it defended them before in a savage way

>That hilariously fails to describe Russia in any way most people would recognize.

I agree. And that's a shame, Russia has always vied for peace and used force where peace was impossible. That's a trend we see all thoughout history (especially in Britain). We can't exactly crucify them for it.

>That's a pretty big exclusion, but concerns about its borders and the threat of annexation - as elevated as it is compared to any other country - is not the main concern here.

Sure. It's not but I was preempting someone else bringing it up.

And while it's a big exemption you have to at least try to understand Russia's position. Not only is it a military base falling into enemy hands, it's control of a southern region, it's potential troubles for its populace that live there in addition and finally they held a refferendum which is certainly the democratically preferred method of agreeing or disagreeing with political change. Just because we didn't send EU troops (who for all russia knows are the same folk who caused destabilisation in the Ukrainian country) to conduct it doesn't mean it was definitely rigged.

It doesn't necessarily mean it was free of corruption either of course but I'm playing devils advocate. Because the devil seems to need one.
> Russia occupied half of Europe, against the will of the countries occupied, for nearly 50 years.

Good point. Seems like we forget this.
There's another cool WebGL simplex demo here: http://alteredqualia.com/three/examples/webgl_terrain_dynami...
Midrange card barely beats out enthusiast range card from last cycle.

Congratulations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo#Declaration_of_independ...
Russia's "Troll Army" probably doesn't speak Finnish.

We're talking about "Troll Special Task Force" at maximum.
Christopher Hitchens and the Christian conversion that wasn’t
Just fly to any country with a border with Brazil and you can get a visa there in a few days, its not cheaper as that's based on your country's reciprocity. My point is that if you are intending to head to SA anyway there is no reason to fly to LA or DC first.
Britain is also enacting censorship of its internet. Although pushed by the government on ISPs and only for 'indecent content', who decides what's indecent? The government of course.

I don't see Russia being different in this regard, we just don't understand them and we understand the British.
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Ack, I thought you were talking to me. Sorry!
oh please. no need to go all binary just because we work with computers.
"The mechanics have a surprising dexterity and finesse compared to compared to even modern machines that use hydraulics to allow humans to directly control the actuators (think JCB style backhoe digger)."

Backhoes with good haptic feedback have been built, but never became a product. That's surprising. There was one in the 1980s which was good enough that you could dig around a pipe by feel without breaking the pipe. Great for those jobs where you're working in a water and mud filled hole. Time to look at that problem again.
What are some examples of such languages? I can only think of two...