skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that is a very long answer to the original question of pixels vs voxels. A pixel is a picture element (2d) and a voxel is a volume element (3d).

Also, it's not necessary to take the displayed path, i.e., triangulate a voxel-based representation then use vector-oriented rendering methods to get the displayed image. There have been lots of work rendering a 2d display by ray tracing through voxel space or even directly splatting voxels into display space.

A lot of research has been directed into efficient representations for large collections of voxels. One really cool sparse volume system, OpenVDB, was open sourced by DreamWorks: http://www.openvdb.org/. Nvidia has papers on sparse voxel octrees that work very well on GPUs: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/efficient-sparse-vox...
Been poking at Icewm for a similar reason.

And now i wonder about the state of Afterstep...
An incomplete prototype is ok. Obviously more is better, but we've funded companies with no prototype at all. You have little to lose by applying.
It goes beyond just catching bugs. Large code bases written in statically typed languages are easier to understand.

I've worked on large production codebases in the past, for servers written in both Java (at company [a]), and JavaScript with Node.js (at company [b]).

The Java codebase was much easier to read, understand, navigate around, and debug. If a function took an argument "SomeClass foo" I could look up "SomeClass" and know exactly what it was.

In the Node codebase, if have argument "foo", you're lost with no easy way to figure out exactly what this "foo" is. You would have to run the code, set a breakpoint, and inspect "foo".

In addition, JavaScript encouraged a lot of bad coding practices that almost made me want to cry.

In the Java server, we used a JSON library where you would annotate a class, and the library would construct an object for that class. This guaranteed the JSON was well-formed, among other things.

In the Node.js codebase, people would pull something out of Mongo, chuck it in a variable "data", and then do "data.foo.bar[1].qux". (Yes, the "[1]" is real.) It was terrible.

The company that used Node.js had far less reliable code overall, and their services (written in JavaScript) would crash frequently, most commonly due to type errors.

And this is just a tip of the iceberg. There were so many problems that attributable to the choice of JavaScript as the language for a large, complex back-end system, and the failure to use any tool for type checking (like Flow), in addition to bad coding practices.

[a] Amplify Education, Inc. https://www.amplify.com/

[b] Lifion, a division of ADP. http://www.lifion.com/
Sam, I have several pet projects, but I know YC loves teams severely committed to a single project. Is there a reasonable chance not just to get the interview, but to join the batch if I send multiple applications but most of them won't have this "three months of growth of KPI" kind of traction?
I don't know, probably it's the blender videos pushing the wider internet audience into it (so it's not all his fault).

While he's going good, and is launching rockets, but right now he's behind OldSpace in doing what he's actually doing - launching rockets.
If there is data, I try to decide with data.

If there is not data, I am very happy (probably too happy) to make the best guess I can.
>3) It turns out that it's harder than it sounds to capture the full value of a smaller market for a bunch of reasons, and so the failure rate is much higher than expected.

What kind of reasons? Direct me to some resources if there are too many to enumerate
This is either:

A) the most revolutionary venture of this century

B) the largest Ponzi scheme ever
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Have you seen Swift Playgrounds for iOS? I wonder, seriously, if that's not the start of Apple's attempt to put software dev on iOS. No, it's certainly not capable now, but in five years?
We've funded several cannabis companies. Some YC partners are customers.
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Reality check. EVERYONE who signs up to this will know the very real risks involved.
Exactly. And totally Lensman Arms Race. Although it takes on an interesting tone around Changes. Not enough to stop it from being a problem, but enough to keep things interesting until there's an inevitable solution (unless there isn't).

As for the TV series, I liked it, but I wish they'd kept some of the characters from the books: They significantly altered Bob's personality (although that's understandable), and totally cut Thomas, as well as Michael and the rest of the Carpenters. I also wish we'd been able to see Nick and The Nickelheads (I'm deliberately speaking in references, so as not to spoil), although the fact that we didn't is understandable.

But seriously, what happened to Thomas? As of Backup, I'd almost say he was my favorite character.
And thank you for the Playbook. This, along with cs183, is among main materials of my life so far.
At least where I live (and I imagine many other places), the law of parenthood isn't based on genetics. Where I live, the birth mother is legally the mother, and if she says X is the father, and he agrees with her statement–by both of them signing the birth registration paperwork–then X is legally the father. (In most cases; in some cases, if the birth mother is in a marriage or cohabiting relationship with a man, her male partner is legally the father even if the birth certificate names another man, and even if that other man is genetically the father – as in the case I mention below.)

Generally speaking, genetics only comes into the picture if someone launches a court case to dispute parentage – e.g. if the mother says X is the father but he refuses to accept that status. But, if a man signs the birth papers for the child, he is legally the father, even if it isn't genetically his offspring. And likewise, if the mother gives birth to the child, she is legally the mother even if the egg came from someone else.

Genetic parenthood by itself doesn't automatically make you a legal parent. At best, it creates the possibility for you to claim parenthood (if you want to), or for someone else to impose it on you (if they want to).

An interesting court case - http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FamCA/2009/691.html - found that the birth mother's cohabiting partner was legally the father, even though the genetic father was listed on the birth certificate. This wasn't what any of the people involved wanted – the birth mother was acting as surrogate for her daughter and son-in-law, who were the genetic parents – but was an undesired to all parties side effect of the lack of legal recognition of surrogacy at the time in that part of Australia. The remedy was the genetic parents had to legally adopt the child, even though they had been raising him as their child from the time of birth.
You'd be surprised how many people play live with 1/8" jacks. It's also a useful backup when someone spills beer on your RME Fireface.
Android is probably a good example of the update problem in action, but it's hard to blame Linux directly for this. Rather it is indeed the product cycle that seems to be driving the problem as you point out in #2 there. But then again, isn't it reasonable to expect some sort of deprecation or end of life for most products?

Also, even if manufacturers are held to account more, we will still see severe bugs, IMO, in Linux or even some hypothetically more secure, future OS.

As it's framed in this article at least, I think the automotive manufacturer metaphor falls down at some point (even if most cars now run Linux too). I think software is just vastly more complex and we are just now learning how to cope with that complexity.
Any tips/examples on trying to sell a product that provides ethical/moral benefits but very little/nothing financially?

Some friends and I were throwing around ideas on how to eliminate scalping, a practice we get bitten by. We came up with some solutions that might work, but they don't provide any financial gain for event organisers so I couldn't see them going for it.
Basically Scott Adams is trying to sell the idea that Trump is some kind of savant in the art of persuasion. And he's seeing all kinds of NLP and other strategies being put to use and so to the 'trained' eye Trump is an actual genius according to Adams.

Either Adams is trolling intentionally or in for a penny in for a pound with his theory on Trump. If the latter is true it is interesting to see how far intelligent people will go to see their narrative truth confirmed, even when it is clearly nonsensical. The funny thing is, even if Trump is a precision artist when it comes to persuading people, and there is no reason to believe he is, that doesn't make him anymore of a credible candidate.

Tony Schwartz has written the most illusive piece on Trump that I have read and after reading that the only conclusion a sane person should arrive at is that Trump is addicted to attention and his every activity is driven by a need to grow his stature, and he's really good at doing both. I'm not sure why any sane person would want these qualities in a presidential candidate.
Compared to reddit, you're 100% on the money. At least here, I'm looking at the news/writings I'd be looking at elsewhere, but the discussion is much closer to humane than some things I've seen elsewhere on this internet.

We'll all in this game together, learning how to be a single mind. Be nice to your fellow human-cells no matter their goal, if their goal is for the greater good. The thing is - we can save the dolphins && live on Mars, not mutually exclusive goals.

If somebody told Elon "don't go Mars, do something like cure cancers first" what would he say? Thye're missing the point altogether, right? People are curing cancer, saving dolphins, working on hunger. The reason Musk is so successful and iconic is because specifically he followed things that interested and mattered to him, i.e. energy and colonization.

If someone is following their passion and investing enough energy to be recognized on the level of these people, they're assuredly more cognizant of what's in the realm of reality in their scope than the average journalist/internet commentator. I can glean so much from just listening to the man react to the audience's question.. the one about the Funny or Die video, he's sending "you're wasting our time" body language... I get it, though, this is a pointed, focused thing they're working on; grandiose and monumental indeed, focused nonetheless.
I will have to watch these videos as I think the article did not do his analogy justice...
Everything's easy to sneer at if you've got enough of a lip.

It's not paint-by-numbers in the later books, it actually has effort put into it, and it's quite a fun read.

Then again, I liked Eragon when I read it. Then again, then again, I was in third grade at the time, so I think I've got an excuse.
You're right, I would be surprised.
I have applied again and again and have been rejected each time. I honestly don't mean to be vague but have found that it is very difficult to convey in words. It's a graphical technology that takes just a very brief chat for people to understand. It's a large horizontal departure with wide possibilities. That makes it difficult to explain as a single targeted product
The Android market share is >60% and rising, though. Not sure what you're talking about. https://bgr.com/2016/06/02/apples-mobile-market-share-sees-b...

You're right about the last part, though. You won't literally get a 100x increase in reach from just switching to React Native. Being able to develop on two platforms at once might help a little bit there, though, which is what I think the author was trying to say.
Yes, it's always bad to go over things with a critical eye, looking for a better approach that might exist.

Better to just stick with the status quo and not ask too many questions.
I almost thought you might reference 1/0.

Now that's a webcomic more people need to read: It's introspective, philosophical, sometimes quite clever, but also consistently funny.

/shameless-plug
Not sure how it could be seen as a Ponzi scheme. By definition a Ponzi scheme has to return money from its later investors to earlier investors and I don't see anything like that here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
Sustainable investigative journalism is most likely going to solve itself by technologies and access to information and so it makes little sense to want to focus on that as a business category IMO. Making it sustainable is a byproduct of the technologies, tools and legislative work we develop.

In fact one of the best tools is already here we are using it right now. It's never been as cheap to do as it is right now.

A good example:

https://medium.com/@danmunro/why-i-believe-my-theranos-blood...

People in general don't pay for investigative journalism and so it's never going to be a business category in itself and never have been.

The closest thing we have is something like WikiLeaks or what Snowden did.
No children bc you must be willing and able to face death.
Perhaps you should

Look at flask

It sucks less

Although it may take more effort.
> (I believe the Dock "app" also encompasses Mission Control, Spaces and all that sort of desktop interaction wizardry.)

It does. I think it also handles Cmd-Tab. I remember seeing a bug now and then in these things (task switching and desktop spaces etc.) which gets fixed by relaunching the Dock process.
There is a bug in his code in the `Unsafe initialisation` section. He tries to access variables that are not defined in that scope. A linter would have caught that.

Javascript is like democracy. It works best when:

- lots of people participate

- we understand its warts

- it's allowed to evolve

- the powerful aren't allowed to write the rules
I think attitudes are worth celebrating to an extent, as well as actions.
and parenting would be so much easier.

It's painful knowing they won't learn something until they do the same stupid thing themselves.
So basically attempting to do what UI's have always attempted to do. But as a 'metaphor'.
Oh, wow! I put the video in my watch-later-list, until then: What's the time frame, roughly? Are we talking 5 years or 20?
We recently redesigned a customer's website from an older, uglier custom format, to one that uses a Bootstrap Material style template (similar to the OP's).

User feedback was that the newer one was much easier to understand. Layout was somewhat the same, but we just used the Material specs to place and colour the buttons etc. It just made things more intuitive for non technical users.

I don't think I am a particular good front end designer, but I was able to get the screens to look reasonable while conforming to Material's design principles (note: some information blurred in these screenshots as it is live client data).

1 - https://flic.kr/p/MxrPbt
2 - https://flic.kr/p/MENUsv
3 - https://flic.kr/p/MxrPmi
mandatory xkcd reference:

https://xkcd.com/491/
You eliminate scalping by charging market prices, so there's no opportunity. Charging less is just a gift to the middlemen. (If you want to give that gift to the people who actually come, charge more and give a rebate inside the event, so scalpers can't collect it.)

Not sure how you're conceptualizing this that makes scalpers harmful, could you elaborate?
Both the "friends and family" and "events" arguments sound like something Facebook itself might say, in the course of its browbeating you with subtle fear-mongering. Take it from me, the impact might actually turn out to be much less than you think. In some cases (like mine), it's even a positive. For example, not going to every single "event" leaves more time for all sorts of productive activity. Not keeping up with what everybody else is doing, leaves more time for you to actually do something yourself. And a certain amount of distance from friends and (especially in my case) family is actually fucking GREAT.
I think you and your siblings misunderstand. I meant, in the bimodal distribution of the post I was responding to, where do the programmers who work for these companies fall? I am one of them, after all.
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It's not great prose, but it's an excellent phrase, especially in context.

Then again, that poem is not a great poem, but it works well in the context, and does its job suitably well.

I assume this isn't what you meant...
Basically, it is a click-to-deploy blockchain node to the cloud. Saves the time of having to set all that up for yourself when you are building blockchain apps.
Awesome. Thanks for the reply
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Behind on things like launching on time and not exploding, ahead on things like recovering hardware and being cheap.

In any case, it's not like he infused the whole thing with a "we are the best at space" attitude, so why does that even matter?
I'm skeptical for two reasons. Living on Mars won't be like living in California at all. And two, building a colony there will be very, very, even catastrophically costly, so yes it will hurt everyone else who chooses not to participate. There are only so many platinum mines. Resources should be focused here. Think about it: how much water and air have left Earth to date? A miniscule amount, all due to space exploration. This project would change that, and for the worse.
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There's work being done by groups like R3 and the Linux Foundation Hyperledger along these lines.
> The choice is a two-planet species versus a more prepared one-planet species.

That's not the choice. Those two options are not mutually exclusive.
Great article and nicely selected illustrations, super glad I read this. Nice trip down memory lane (Delta Force!), and also looking forward to some of these upcoming games.
Planet Money had a good episode about this: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/25/195641030/episo...
Bunch of folks in the city world keep asking me how your city stuff is going. How's the city stuff going?
Humanity would not have achieved much if we didn't try something because it was either expensive and/or risky.
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Also, if you do scripting a lot, at some point you might want to go straight to the Python Azure management SDK (pip install --pre azure).
I'm not really familiar with the whole blockchain topic for banks. Could anyone out there explain it to me or direct me to some resources? Thanks in advance.
Herb Sutter gave a really great talk on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfmTagWcqoE

He has 3 guidelines:

1. Prefer scoped lifetimes by default (local members)

2. Else prefer unique_ptr and containers

3. Else consider shared_ptr

His whole talk gives examples that show the flexibility of unique_ptr and how modern C++ can express ownership.

See slide 5 here:

https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2016/blob/master/Presentatio...
The fundamental problem seems to be that, when positioned against the same threat model as Bitcoin, all the PoW alternatives reduce to an obscured form of PoW. Put another way, a PoW alternative proposal must be designed such that participants can't increase profits expending more energy (for example, the fact that stake-grinding is profitable shows that Peercoin's PoS is really PoW-by-obscurity). As far as I know, this is still an open problem.

There's an interesting primer on the subject here: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
But, I mean, NATO must also make very similar decisions, right?

If a NATO nation gets 'attacked' by somewhat provoking a war, NATO must ultimately make some sort of decision about whether or not to jointly act (and foot the bill).
And yet Germany operates a massively well-funded federal security service that is conducting exactly that sort of mass surveillance today -- only now far more sophisticated than even Facebook, since they can surveil the entire Internet, in exactly the same manner as the NSA does. Other European countries are doing the same.

It's at best naive and at worst hypocritical to pretend that Europeans care so much more about personal privacy than Americans do while that is going on.
It's 100% efficient at turning electricity into heat... that's about all it's efficient at though.

If you need distributed state, use Paxos, raft or be OK with having a single point of failure.
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Actually, it does seem odd that grsecurity wasn't mentioned. It's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of "killing entire classes of bugs" in the Linux Kernel. Many of the "safety" features we have now in most operating systems started there.. ASLR for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomiza...
Youtube has been streaming HTML5 by default for around a year now [0].

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/27/youtube-goes-html5-flash-i...
>If you are not trained in persuasion, Trump look scary.

I don't really understand the point surrounding this statement. Most voters are not trained in persuasion, so how is it a good strategy to do something that makes you look scary? Most people don't want scary.
Version 0.0.1 looks much like an experiment in writing a working storage engine. It lacks a lot of critically important things. It's hard to say anything at this point about any real-world scenarios where this storage engine would be useful.

What concerned me a bit was absence of an interesting and promising general idea behind the implementation, the reason to implement a new engine. Maybe it is there, but the blog post does not say anything about it.
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Sure looks like it does.
I believe under discussion is a self-sustaining colony. The south pole runs on imports.
Great tip, thanks for the clear example :)
In terms of expansive universes, I would recommend the "Revelation Space" series, though it is much higher-level than the Mars trilogy. I am also a big fan of the action-oriented "Expanse" series (by James S.A. Corey), as well as the crowd favorites: "The Martian" and the "Foundation" series.
It sounds like you could benefit from technical friends in the space who have more experience with technical writing/documentation, etc. Another option would be to try and attend some of the office hours YC and other VCs hold. Ofc, they tend to be localized in the SF Bay Area.
Even if it doesn't need oxygen it will still need reaction mass. The engine won't produce thrust if there's nothing to shoot out the back.
The official documentation is actually pretty decent, but it takes a while to get a feel where all the things you need are. It's complicated by the fact that the documentation is split between the 68K family programmer's manual, which has more general info about the architecture across all CPUs in the family, and the 68000/68010 user's manual, which has info specific to those implementations.

Motorola's patents for the 68000 are also quite informative (see US patents 4,325,121, 4,296,469 and 4,307,445) if you're interested in the low level details of the implementation. The first of those actually contains a complete microcode/nanocode listing of a pre-release version of the CPU. For Genesis/Megadrive emulation generally, you should check out this thread [1] on SpritesMind. It contains links to other forum topics with useful info about the hardware (68K included) discovered by the community.

[1] http://gendev.spritesmind.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2227
That is a very fair characterization of the article - 70% of the article's content is about why JavaScript is bad.
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