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Gordon Lee[0] has made a ton of sophisticated SVGs for Wikipedia and its projects and recently presented at Wikimania. The Burj Khalifa[1] is one of my favorites. Inspired, I wrote this short script for fun that chops up a Blender file into PNGs[2] which I used to generate an animated SVG.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cmglee
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Burj_Kha...
[2] https://github.com/rndmem/ndice/blob/master/blend/d/render
Maybe I'll get slammed for saying this, but this is exactly why so many people have bad perceptions of Microsoft. I have tickets to this event and I could not be less excited to be there.

Most of the sessions seem so boring. My guess is that ignite is aimed at IT planners more than developers,but as a developer I don't find any of the black box,cloud platforms that the industry is turning into their bread and butter exciting in the least.
> They're white men with rich parents and Ivy League degrees and so on.

I think that's a very good point.

However, that doesn't mean that racism doesn't also exist and is not very prevalent. Endless research supports that it exists in many areas of society, it seems very unlikely that after centuries of overt, legalized racism it would disappear so quickly, and IMO it's unlikely to be coincidence that the excluded groups today are exactly those that that suffered overt, legalized discrimination until the civil rights era.

Sadly, my anecdotal experience is far too many white people expressing racist views in private, often grouping all blacks together and saying 'they' do X or Y. One, who holds a PhD, told me that Kenyan runners were faster because the harsh life of slaves caused natural selection to favor strength!

I would be interested in research on the relative social mobility of various excluded groupings (people who are black, Latino, Muslim, or women) and also of poor white people. Lots of people try to claim there is no difference, as a sort of political blow against people seeking to address race issues, but I've never seen data supporting it.
Pixel imperfections is a long-running problem with vector rendering engines. You can name "SVG" as a culprit, but any other format would suffer from the same problems because it is an implementation problem rather than a specification problem. The straightforward approach is "here's a buffer, let's think of the vector image as a series of drawing commands in that buffer", but that approach usually converts coverage to alpha at each step.

http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/73601/is-th...

There are some interesting thoughts from nVidia on throwing GPU hardware at the problem. The specialized hardware on a GPU can handle coverage in a much more coherent way without paying a premium in processing and memory.

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/gamedev/files/An...
I don't use too much Windows and Mono sucks from all my previous attempts at using it so that kind of kills F# from what I hear.

I tried OCaml (many) years ago, but it always seemed like a kitchen sink research language.

I like well designed languages. Ones with purpose when they start out. Ones I can see a path for. Languages of accretions (Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc) don't interests me as much unless they are languages of production value (Java). Java start off as a language of purpose (Write-One Run-Anywhere) but soon became a language of accretion. Nobody cares about WORA anymore, server side Java is where it is at now.

Maybe I'll just go back to my little corner of APL called KDB+/Q/K[1][2][3] and wait for a language that really piques my interest.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdb%2B

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_K...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
Wound up making https://github.com/globalcitizen/svg2love as a perl-based proof of concept then https://github.com/globalcitizen/svglover (fully fledged Lua library)
2, got a MS there, after a Bachelors in India. You must be thinking I fit the profile :-)
How does it work? Is it a Windows container implementation that got the "Docker" branding?
My point is that, while I agree with you that it's self-destructive, it is so prevalent that clearly many people don't agree with us and believe they can accurately judge people by their race.
Zerotier - https://www.zerotier.com/

Create a network with automatic IPv6 addresses and start the management access service (likely ssh) on the zt0 interface. then it "just works", regardless of NAT in between.

This is a completely userland solution however. You probably don't want to put real service traffic on it if you care about throughput. It's perfect for management however. (or just test it, maybe you can saturate your link anyway)

This works either by using the public servers for discovery, or you can set up your own dedicated endpoint(s). Either way, the traffic takes the direct route through the NATs, or within the local netowrk if possible.
A quick Wikipedia says 352 murders in 2015. So waaayyy less than 500.
Think of new perspectives of the passengers and owners.

What would you do if you had a robotic chauffeur to take you wherever you wanted? Would you go places that you would not normally go to now? Cars drop you off at your destination and park themselves (maybe call you to agree to whatever the lot or garage, recharge station is charging)

SD-Cars make the driver the passenger... who will now be able to look out and see the roses... listen to an interactive on-the-raod tour. Read the billboards, notice that fruit stand etc. Former drivers will be asking "are we there yet?" Parents can truly interact with their kids on the road.

People that didn't travel as much due to health or medical reasons may be traveling more.

A lot more day planners, maps, review sites, etc. will probably interact more with the vehicle...
Oh, that's probably it. I'm on Linux.
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Straw man. When was the last time you had to check the documentation for the parameter evaluation strategy of a C function call?

I don't think it is a controversial statement than a badly designed macro can do more damage than a badly designed function. I believe that this is true, even normalizing for bad macro systems. This is not a statement against macros, so much as it is a statement to consider when making tradeoffs.
Has anyone read anything that explains how Uber will detect a photo of a photo?
Wow this is flimsy;

In one example cited by the Labor Department, Palantir reviewed a pool of
more than 130 qualified applicants for the role of engineering intern.
About 73 percent of applicants were Asian. The lawsuit, which covers
Palantir's conduct between January 2010 and the present, said the company
hired 17 non-Asian applicants and four Asians.

"The likelihood that this result occurred according to chance is
approximately one in a billion," said the lawsuit, which was filed
with the department's Office of Administrative Law Judges.

I'm sorry, assuming what distribution? And hiring is not chance anyway. That statistic is mind-numbing. Perhaps it is true that... the likelihood that this result occurred according to chance, assuming applicants were selected randomly, is approximately one in a billion. But the applicants are far from randomly selected from a uniform distribution... The odds of choosing 4 Asians out of 21 interns baring racial discrimination do not sound that long to me considering actual educational dynamics and the population that is applying to US software intern jobs.
Is this something a layman hobbyist can get into or try?
Different organizations have different strategies. Looks like yours has a policy of "throwing plaster at the wall, and seeing what sticks".
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" Couldn't autistics just be in a sense extreme examples of a subtype of human that serves the purpose of disrupting group-think and introducing new ideas into the culture?"

Very well could be.
In lisp-like languages I am aware of two implementations of delimited continuations using call/cc (racket and cl-cont) but zero that use shift/reset.
"For a while I've been wondering what the DSM would look like if non-neurotypical people were in the majority. If we had a diganostic category for what we now call "normal" levels of sociality, selfishness, manipulation, violence, etc."

Interestingly, I think a good chunk of the diagnosis would be the autistic equivalent of what normal people call psychopaths. They'd be seen as irrational and dangerous, esp in groups.
I will have to look for mutual recursion support (or lack thereof) in clojure.

Clojure's loop/recur is a work-around for some issue with the JVM and lack of fine grained control over the stack. That said, It's not a simple loop, the keyword "loop" is effectively an anonymous function that gets called by the "recur" keyword, with parameters.

An example:

(loop [iter 1
acc 0]
(if (> iter 10)
(println acc)
(recur (inc iter) (+ acc iter))))

I don't know if that is any different than other lisps or not. In case it's less less than clear, the bracketed portion after the "loop" keyword is an initial binding form (setting iter to 1, and acc to 0), and thereafter iter and acc are just considered parameters.

For self recursion, that seems like a fair compromise. No help at all for mutual recursion though.
"OTOH, a world full of people with autism might never be able to come together and build large group projects. "

This was a problem for the Autreat conference. It was made by autistics for autistics. The coordination required to create it was a big problem. I wonder if things would get better if they were the norm. I'm not sure.
> You're right, but the irony here is that perfect price discrimination (where the producer can costlessly and effortlessly force rich customers to pay P2) is the best possible situation for the poor customers.

The poor consumer is agnostic to how much of the surplus is captured by the rich consumer vs. the producer. It's possible for that transaction to affect the poor consumer, e.g. if the producer gets it and spends it on R&D or the rich consumer gets it and spends it on some other public good, either of which could benefit the poor consumer. But either of them could also use it for something adverse to the poor consumer's interests, or just put the money in their pocket and walk away.

And just because the producer is extracting as much as possible from the rich consumer doesn't mean it isn't also extracting as much as possible from the poor consumer -- doing that is the definition of perfect price discrimination.
I'm not even in India, and there's no controversy even in western media (reading the other comments), there's nothing at all in this wsj article either.

What are you talking about? I'm genuinely curious?
Here's a direct link to the recording of the mentioned restoration: http://blogs.bl.uk/files/first-recorded-computer-music---cop...
True, but not all rhinos will be poached.

Edit: this also has the effect that poachers could kill treated rhinos so that untreated rhinos are easier to find
Found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBSJHMfwNL0

The mechanism they use in the video has no moving parts! It's just a matter of forcing water through opposing nozzles.
If you like racket modules, you should look at package-inferred-system in ASDF. Not quite as little boilerplate, but close.
Thanks! These must be where the website/blog got its name. I actually thought that was what you were referring to at first.
Also started with 61a in Scheme. How would you compare Scheme to Racket?
I had a student try to do an independent study research project using the BBB a couple of years ago. The experience wasn't good. We had a lot of trouble getting the thing to run with anything except the one kernel version that it came with. Porting over features from kernel modules done on earlier minor versions was a huge pain and not at all straightforward.
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[1] https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/3394713?hl=en
Why is the top comment on every story a negative one? Is nothing good anymore?
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> This is actually a massive benefit because dry milling malt is a major cause of infection in a brewery.

Don't mill in the same area you're brewing and this is pretty much handled. Lacto carries with dust, but just don't do anything post boil in that area and you're fine.

>This is on par with RIMS (most reports I've heard is that people can manage mid 90s efficiency), but of course rims has to maintain a temperature of about 65C (150F).

I sit in low 90s with a rather low tech HERMS setup.

>but my main worry about mashing at such a low temperature is the break down of larger proteins. They have a picture of frothy beer with a caption about foam stability, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Also, that picture shows a very hazy beer.

I'm curious about the lower temp mashes and getting enough longer chain sugars for those of us that spend a lot of time working with brett.

As for the haze... Maybe the like NEIPA? ;)
They bring that up in the document:

> It is true that this date is chosen by the CA and therefore WoSign/StartCom could back-date certificates to get around this restriction. And there is, as we have explained, evidence that they have done this in the past. However, many eyes are on the Web PKI and if such additional back-dating is discovered (by any means), Mozilla will immediately and permanently revoke trust in all WoSign and StartCom roots.
And there are a dozen third-party scripts injected into this article.
A fairly recent technique is to use perturbation theory to approximate the solution to the complex equation for points near a decently chosen starting point. The approximation massively reduces the amount of slow big decimal arithmetic needed for deep zooms, while retaining accuracy. Without getting into the actual math being perturbation theory, http://superfractalthing.co.nf/sft_maths.pdf is a good start for just dumping some calculations into your fractal viewer to get good results.
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I'm always suspicious of advice from organizations that would benefit from misinformation (e.g. "Cigarettes are good for you" - the Cigarette Industry or "Looking at screens isn't going to cause you to need more eye doctor services" - some eye doctors).
This is a symptom of quota system that many schools and companies use to achieve diversity. Unfortunately, as Asian American, I have experienced it firsthand. Asian Americans are some of highest achieving minority, but due to their smaller number there is not enough quotas allocated to them.

Many of my friends could not get into their first choice colleges or didn't get scholarships even with perfect grades, extracurricular activities, etc but some of my friends from other larger minority groups got full scholarships even with average GPAs. They laughed at us for working so hard, called us geeks, and then got scholarships because of only ethnicity.

I know this is controversial topic, hence, throwaway account. But this is open secret in Asian communities. Hopefully, this lawsuit will change this ridiculous discriminatory quota system.
Second this.
Yes, an A10 core is only 60% as fast as a single intel core. But the Intel part has a 91 watt TDP.

IMO 60% as fast is not "far away". Clearly if apple wanted to use more power and/or transistors they could improve the performance further.

Apple's so competitive in that space that intel's actually in retreat in the mobile space.

Sure Intel is much faster in multicore, but that's because it has much more power to work with. Intel's has tried to scale decent performance to lower power levels, it hasn't worked out particularly well so far.

The more interesting question is will Apple have better luck scaling 64-bit arms up than intel has had with scaling down.
Not bizarre.

Disney owns ABC and ESPN. Twitter is live-streaming games for the NFL (with numbers growing week over week) and the debates, with the real-time stream right there. I'd take Disney figuring out how to monetize Twitter's MAUs (and maybe even start to grow them again) over any other suitor.

Twitter is a media play. It only seems overvalued if you think of it solely from a narrow "online advertising" point of view, or by anchoring them to Facebook's metrics. Disney, or any competent media player, should be able to push the value of those MAUs (which are at a steep discount to Facebook's) higher than any tech buyer. It's the smartest fit out there if they're looking to sell, and if a bidding war emerges, we'll see who really wants to be a player in this emerging hybrid market.
The semi-standard solution is a VPN, e.g. OpenVPN or IPsec, to an external server.
I got out of that business - too much Chinese IP theft and copying. Wasn't even week #1 in business, I'd already had to file 2 DMCAs for crappy Chinese-made rip-off sites hosted in the USA trying to sell an inferior product.

You could probably find them from my old clients, if they're ever willing to part with the lights. I deal with minerals and mining, now. Maybe I'll get back into LEDs when Cree finally releases their 330+ l/w LED. Till then, there's really no point, LED tech is past HID tech as-is so unless you buy REALLY CHEAP you're pretty much guaranteed to get something that's quality (just watch out for bad power drivers. That's your biggest worry with LED units - they will advertise a 300w unit and it only draws 150 at the wall, and the drivers are under-specced and fail. The LED tech itself is so robust that I've taken cheap stuff like Nichia 219 LEDs or Epistar COBs, hit them with a hammer while they're in operation, pop the protective dome off and flatten the gold bonding wires to the die(s), and it's still lit.
I've got way more love for OpenVPN after learning that's how Tesla is having vehicles retrieve their firmware updates from the mothership.
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Who does Palantir think they are ?? The ivy league?? Geesh we all know only tier 1 colleges can discriminate against asians using the "diversity" card....
Ceramic glass is easier to make, diamagnetic (which means more magnetic flux kept towards the tubes for better efficiency,) and also easier to make white-colored so you have better reflection. Cheaper than using aluminum.
Ok, so there has to be a comedy plot in there where two guys trying to make beer with hydrodynamic cavitation end up discovering a viable cold fusion reaction but keep drinking the experiment results :-)

That said, I found their off hand mention of using it as an alternate to high temperature pasteurization as much more intriguing. Mostly because I detest the "cooked" taste of ultra-pasteurized cream but have been finding it harder and harder to find cream that hasn't been over pasteurized in this way. Find me some cream that is "cold pasteurized" and tastes like cream, I'll be really happy.
Don't forget the i7-6700 is the one with the lame graphics.

Try the i7-6770HQ if you want better graphics performance.
Agreed, a lightweight vector graphics format would certainly be welcome. However, the stuff SVG is capable of doing is not trivial but mostly just poorly understood.

I think the article below is a good read and I sometimes wonder if some of the (unconscious) negative perception around SVG is because of the slowness of its adoption:

http://blog.siliconpublishing.com/2015/12/the-fall-and-rise-...

Having said that, I personally find efforts to make SVG better understood (articles, books, tutorials etc) somewhat lacking, although that might just be a personal opinion.
As far as I know, they started allowing duplicate URLs to encourage people to give it another shot – but maybe I tried too many times.

I'm sorry to have offended you.
If you wanted the LED tech, you'd need to contact the parent UK company. See if FutureLED is still in operation, they have all my developed IP.
I don't quite understand what can be gotten from these slides... There does not appear to be any narrative, so without a "talk" to go with it this link isn't very useful?
Running from the USA would mean you run to another country which probably has the same proportion (or worse) of people that mindcrime is complaining about.
Who does Palantir think they are ?? The ivy league?? Geesh we all know only tier 1 colleges can discriminate against asians using the "diversity" card..
You could drive instead of taking the train.
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Eh, I had to write a DFS the other day at work.
> CNNs can be used to categorize other types of data too. The trick is, whatever data type you start with, to transform it to make it look like an image.

This is an interesting point, and I assume that 'make it look look like an image' means the same thing as 'think of it as an image'. Can others here who works with CNNs regularly or professionally, comment on whether the author's intuition is essentially correct (give or take some details of course)?
'Ultra-Sound Assisted Extraction' is now being applied to all foods. To Coffee, and of course our beer.

Sonic's can effect the germination of malting barley, and like in this article replace the milling/malting phase of the brewing process.

The question to ask is why? Why apply sonic's to germinating grains? So they may germinate quicker. Why apply sonic's to malted grains, to break them up ( mill ) and to extract the sugar ( mash ) to a higher efficiency?

Why would you want to do this? More efficient mashing? ( 3% ), and germination ( maybe save 6-12 hours ), because if you brewing 100,000 liters of piss-beer an hour this is real money to be made.

Currently BUDweiser only buys the best malt, & hops. A ultra-sonic system that improves efficiency say 3-5% allow a cheaper or lower quality product to be bought and fed into the system.

What does all this mean for the home-brewer? Nada

What are the health effects of ultra-sound on germination? Nobody knows and nobody cares. Chemically what does ultra-sound do to our food when the starches are converted to sugar? Again nobody cares, google it, you'll not find a mention anywhere.

What is the benefit of changing the modern ( 500 year old ) brewing process? Nada. Belgium Monks got it right a long time ago. Like we used to say in Unix back in the 1970's, "If it works, Don't Fix It".

Slow-Food, and Slow-Beer people. That is what's best in life.

LED lights were sold, over neon, over incandescent, now we find out LED is bad, when will they tell us the ultra-sonic processed foods are bad for our health? Probably only after the corpses are on laying on the streets.