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That's great! I haven't put any real easter eggs into one of my games yet, but I definitely will with my next one. You never know who will play your game (well I guess you do if they tweet about it, but you get what I mean).
Absolutely, doing a deep dive into the material has been fascinating, you can see the approaches evolve as hardware got faster.

My math level isn't quite there for some of it but the problem had been studied hugely and there are some good 'field guide' level references out there.

Its made me consider going back into education to do maths though. I don't like that I don't grok everything and with practical applications I'm actually excited by the maths.
This is currently the wall I find myself staring at. I feel like I'm barely over the theshold, and I can't afford to keep doing it this way, I'll have to get permanent work soon.

I definitely can't afford to move to San Francisco.
> Naps at work can make you more productive. Maybe don’t be this obvious about it, though.

That image caption sums up the prevailing attitude for me, really: don't be obvious that you're being more productive, especially if it goes against the grain. Better to toe the line and be less productive. There are many examples of the same phenomenon, beyond just napping.
I am used to think in cost per square meter, 700,000/116 sqm makes 6,000 US$ per square meter (if you prefer 700,000/1,250 makes 560 US$ per square foot).

That is a very, very high unit cost, even if SF is costly (but the US$ 8,000 month of rent seems to me like "appropriate" and all in all in line with "common" market values).

There is no reference to the number of seats for the new restaurant that I could find, but judging from:

> In the end, the 24 burnt orange leather chairs, 13 wood sushi bar stools, and nine tables — finished with the Japanese wood burning shou sugi ban method — set him back $19,760.

It should be 24+9=33 seats, which makes it an extremely small restaurant.

More than 20,000 dollars per seat is more than "high" as I see it it borders to "crazy".
For your consumer value, sure, but it's still a quirk that you can ship something across the glove cheaper than across states. It's because you only pay China for shipping, not the US that has to deliver it inside the border.
The get lucky with a celebrity who likes to play your game part?
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A lot of real world computer vision is implemented on embedded devices with limited computational resources (ARMs, DSPs, etc.) so understanding how a lot of commonly used algorithms can be efficiently implemented in embedded systems is important. It is possibly a way for you to jump the gap from "embedded software developer" to "computer vision engineer". Also keep in mind that in many companies a "computer vision engineer" is fundamentally a different beast from a "software developer". A CV engineer creates software but the emphasis tends to be more on systems and is not 100% about software. This will vary a lot by company but if you're working with prototype hardware you will need to get at least a working knowledge of optics.

Fun and trendy though it may be, I would not focus on deep learning / convolutional neural networks to start off. Deep learning is a small subset of computer vision. I would focus more on understanding the basics of image processing, camera projection geometry, how to calibrate cameras, stereo vision, and machine learning in general (not just deep learning). Working with OpenCV is a good place to start for all of these topics. Set yourself a project with tangible goals and get to work.
That is not what springs to mind, more "why the fuck are you reimplementing DNS in init".

Like, this stuff was built tens of years ago and that code is crappy too but we have pretty much got rid of the most obvious security issues. Nobody wants to relive history so you can finally implement a broken DNS client.
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Equip it with Neural Net ML and it will find it's way to reach ground in no time for at least 10,000 times.
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This. It is much cheaper for me to hire a fresh masters in telecommunications and spend 6 months in training than to hire a 15+ year industry veteran with no college education.
You need a pretty good (tight) container though, or the water evaporates.

I intend to get one of those blowtorch attachments to sear afterwards, although I suspect griddle/thick base pan might do just as well.
I'm not an expert here, but I find this interesting enough to have done some recreational reading. What I know is that corvids and parrots have a different brain structure to mammals (they diverged about 300M years ago) but, in an example of convergent evolution, have developed areas that serve the same function as our neocortex. It's called the pallium, and has a very different organisation to our neocortex. Instead of the six layers in our neocortex they have clumps of neurons called nuclei. They also have much higher neuron density than mammals, allowing them to fit more smarts into their tiny heads :-)

A few links:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121001151953.h...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982205...

http://www.pnas.org/content/113/26/7255.full
It means cheap items (like small plastic items etc), where the cost of manufacture is very low, even if they can be manufactured at the same cost in the US can not beat the Chinese seller because they can't compete on price.

A small domestic package just costs more than one shipped from China. So yes, it's possible they can instead compete on delivery time, and they do.

But all else being equal, it seems dumb that they can't be given access to the same pricing as Chinese sellers if they conform to the same rules (drop off at shipping hubs, labeling standards etc).

http://thydzik.com/how-do-chinesehong-kong-sellers-make-mone...
He wrote an article 16 years ago about a subject related to his career, and it is still drawing attention to his site and his work 16 years later. Seems like a good investment to write that article to me.
I would not advise anyone to try to get into computer graphics directly with the Vulkan or DX12 APIs. Start with DX11, modern OpenGL and/or WebGL, and work through your computer graphics theory (and a lot of practice) using those. Geometry, illumination, shaders, tools and GPU computation will take a lot of time to master. When you decide you want to go into low level APIs, if you are comfortable with Apple systems, Metal will likely be easier than Vulkan/DX12.

A lot of the theory from classic books is still valid, so even a copy of Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice will look fine on your desk. "Real Time Rendering" by Moller/Haines and "Physically Based Rendering" by Pharr are excellent. "Game Engine Architecture" by Gregory and "Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics" by Lengyel will probably prove very useful and relevant to you as well.

Online resources, the free https://learnopengl.com/ and the $10 http://graphicscodex.com/ are both fantastic. Make sure to read https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-..., and also study the techniques used for the craziest entries in https://www.shadertoy.com/

And then, lots and lots of papers and presentations from the past 5 or 10 years of Game Developers Cconference and Siggraph.
Just as it is in the desktop: you have loads of languages, libraries and runtimes. I don't really see the problem with the same happening on the web. If there is openness to diversity, chances are higher that quicker evolution will happen over time.
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Reddit has a bot that summarizes articles. A browser extension that replaces each Buzz! Feed! Headline! with such a summary would be an interesting programming exercise.

Or maybe not Buzzfeed, since even the summary will cause brain cancer.
>There is no cost to avoiding casual drinking. You can still attend events, you can still hang with friends and you can still go to a bar (shocking).

No monetary cost. There is a fun and flavour cost. It seems that the fun factor never enters your calculations.

>Notice how you have no argument that can't be applied to say, heroin.

Except heroin is illegal and uncontrolled (can have any crap in it), so I wouldn't advice using it.

If we're talking about recreational drugs in general, they're also OK.

>You can't seriously think that alcohol is healthier than water

You can't seriously think that this is the be all end all comparison to settle the issue of whether one should drink alcohol.

>And yes the comparison is valid for a drink of alcohol is a potential drink of water.

First this is a false dichotomy, as large part of any alcoholic drink is water -- literally 90-95% of beer and wine for example.

Second, if I do drink my 2-3 litters of water recommended by the health authorities (and in pure water form), would that be enough to stop busting my balls and let me enjoy my beer/wine/etc? Or should I drink nothing but water, lest I miss this huge opportunity cost to drink more water?

Are juices allowed?

Now, here are two poems for you:

You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—
it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden
of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth,
you have to be continually drunk.

But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be
drunk.

And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green
grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room,
you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone,
ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock,
everything that is flying, everything that is groaning,
everything that is rolling, everything that is singing,
everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and
wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: “It is time
to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time,
be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on
virtue as you wish.”

Charles Baudelaire, 1821 - 1867

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and --sans End!

Omar Khayyam - 1120 A.C.E.

(And the second guy was even a medieval muslim...)
I have been fascinated with YC since the beginning and twice tracked batches for stories--W07 for Newsweek and W11 for Wired. So it was great to return in the Sam Altman (and large cast of others) era to see how YC has basically made the pivot from its focus on mainly helping the founders in its batches to the broader mission of spreading startups (and the mentality of founders) throughout the world. When I spoke to PG from his happy UK exile, he reminded me that he was thinking this from the start. It was also great spending time with Sam and many other partners, some of whom I've known for years. Thanks to Kat, Sharon, and all the other YC folks and founders who helped me on this.
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This has been my experience as well :). Deep learning is a lot of random guesswork, trial and error. I am almost always in the 'brute force' mode. However, in this course, you learn more about the fundamentals of convolutions and backprop. You have to implement your own backprop - not sure of what use that is, given that it's a one line code in TensorFlow
I've started learning to code when I was 26 and people told me I was too old and should stay with my shitty job.

Fast forward ten years and I'm a senior software engineer which gives trainings on Spring Boot and Microservices and helps companies implementing Continuous Delivery and Microservice architectures.

You may think I'm gifted but I'm actually not. I'm a very slow learner and bad at Math. I mostly program from 9 - 5 and only work on side projects when I'm feeling to (which sometimes means not doing any commits for months).

But I like what I'm doing and work hard to improve.
Ask HN: Anyone know of a resource with common API entity and field names?
Earlier today in work, a group of four of us had an argument about the naming of a specific field within an entity for a rest endpoint. Basically we had 4 slightly differing opinion on what exactly the field should be called. My question is - is there somewhere on the internet that has an example of common entities and their fields with example names. e.g a Person entity, with all the associated fields like age, weight , height , interests etc etc.
The geography is special and we're kind of the "Saudi Arabia" of world coal production. As the worlds best producer (or one of the best anyway) we should be the one place in the world still digging coal.

Kind of like how wheat is not quite as sexy as javascript frameworks. However, the midwest has the unique geological feature of being the "Saudi Arabia" of wheat production, so despite wheat not being as sexy as SV startups, we are one of the best places on the planet to grow it so you'd think we'd grow a heck of a lot of wheat compared to, say, Ecuador or Hawaii.

Imagine as a thought experiment that javascript frameworks were not cool and not the future, yet, SV remained the best spot on the entire planet to grow new javascript frameworks. If something (politics? regulation of programmers?) prevented SV from actually being the world capital of javascript frameworks, it would be a valid question to ask why and then fix it.

USA is a big country. We do all kinds of stuff, not just SV stuff. Also obviously 99.99% of the countries population isn't going to sit down and quietly die because they can't participate in SV tech scene, luckily they have plenty of economic activities to perform.
I spent so many hours playing the first game as a kid, decoding the alphabet (which I would later discover it tells you how to read in episode 2 or 3 anyway), trying to get every last item, etc.

My favourite bit was the dark, fiery secret tunnel underneath one of the larger levels (http://www.commander-keen.com/levelmaps/1/013.gif), which teleports you to the city on the right-hand side of the world map at the bottom of the level maps page, not really visible from the map screen when going between the main cities... but I no longer remember which of these maps is that city, alas

(or maybe not alas: I hope I've put some more currently useful information in that part of my brain instead. Thanks for the nostalgia!)
The most recent open issue is from 6 months ago and posits whether the project is still active. It definitely feels "experimental", but a bit outdated already.
Education in this country needs to be totally reformed. High school is basically day care in most places. No reason the average 4 year degree cannot be completed at ages 14-18. Then if people want to get a masters they can go ahead, but it shouldn't be expected like going off to college is.
Thanks a lot for the reply! Indeed I was thinking that the main use case that would make sense is the integration of your tool in other more complicated protocols, as a simple first step. As you mentioned, the Syncthing "device id" is 56 characters long that are pseudo-random and thus nigh impossible to remember. Having magic-wormhole as a first step in the handshake would make everything easier.

P.S.: some have mentioned that using apt to install dependencies and then pip to install Magic-Wormhole itself is complicated. You should probably replace these instructions for Debian by "sudo apt install magic-wormhole", as it is included in Debian as of Stretch (stable). It should be the recommended option anyway.
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If something fails for lack of maintenance, it doesn't work. It's kind've self-evident.
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On the other hand, it improves safety and security for many users.

Because on most distros, using unbound or BIND9 as local DNS server, they bind to all interfaces, publicly.

Which is the reason why DNS amplification DDoS even is possible.

I’ve seen it often enough happen, and basically every person who’s set up their own servers has made the mistake of leaving the defaults.
I am that guy who was always in women company (ever since 16, and I am 37 now) and almost never did hit on them. I was just much more interested in what women say, think and do -- compared to 99% of my male peers who were nothing more than testosterone-filled stupid machos.

My evidence is of course anecdotal, but from what I've seen, men have much less desire watching man-to-man action. It's related to many's fear of "turning gay without knowing it" (it's a funny concept but it's extremely common) and very often it's about them looking less manly if they don't show active interest in women... (A lot of men are really weird and kind of stupid in that regard.) That being said, me and many others who aren't ashamed of openly discussing sex are still not interested in gay action simply because it doesn't sexually appeal to us.

As for women, and when I asked them why do they watch gay men porn, many have told me that they believe only a man can know how to please a man to 100% and that they want to better educate themselves on how to be better in their sex life... and they might actually have a point; I've heard from several gay men that no woman's blowjob can ever hold a candle to one that a gay man can do -- I personally believe that to be an exaggeration but I think they're on to something there.

And finally, a lot of girls and women in my life have admitted to being interested in lesbian sex but are afraid due to social stigma and them being extremely vulnerable if they start actively looking for a woman sex partner. My own spouse openly admitted she'd f_ck a woman if she found one willing to do it. Strange thing is I wouldn't perceive that as cheating. I believe my S.O. is correct when she is saying that men think their girls cheat on them only if there's a penis involved.

That, plus hundreds of convos and experiences I've had in my life makes me think that women are innately bisexual while men are, most of the time, hetero-sexual.
Also modern cars produce orders of magnitude less emissions its actually somewhat difficult to kill yourself with one now, you essentially have to run a hose from the tailpipe to the cabin.
By the same logic Google could also abandon the EU market. But they most probably will not. So Google should stick with what they get.

Pure pragmatism.
Ask HN: What resources are there for a strong dev to learn computer science?
So I've been a developer for ~8 years now. I've got a great job in an awesome team working in the fintech space however I haven't got any degrees at all. I rely completely on what I have taught myself, and on the job learning from my peers (only really relevant in the last 3 years - I was all on my own before then).

I'm a strong developer and my team and manager echo that (though room to grow of course), but I worry what it will be like when I finally have to start looking for a new job. I don't think I would be all that good at the typical "whiteboard" interview (of which I've never had to do so far, luckily enough). Also, rather than learning how to interview, I am interested in filling any knowledge gaps that I do have in the computer science space. What are some good resources (self driven) that I can use (for an already strong developer) to get up to speed? Most of what I have seen already is starting from the basics, which I already have covered.
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Does this affect computers that did not ask for such packet (dns response)?
Does it use NLP (NER, etc) to categorize the news into topics?
Tried it out to see the easter egg... not only does it work, but the game is pretty awesome too
:) I think they've started being explicit about the conflict of interest: https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/06/27/the-washington-post...
> "why the fuck are you reimplementing DNS in init"

Because systemd
What field of CS is this, if you don't mind me asking?
Yep, we used to call them LARGE model airplanes.

Now, seriously, allow me to doubt that flying some 2 minutes a plane (model or not) that has (or has the possibility to carry) on board five days worth of fuel actually means that the engine is capable of reliably running 5 days no-stop.
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How plausible is it that someone/some group could rewrite/update this to be written in Rust? (Which would presumably solve a lot of the memory corruption issues if I understand Rust's memory safety correctly?).
That dream is one that many have tried to achieve but it's what I call the software paradox: any system or framework that is capable of doing everything is so complex to learn and configure that it's nearly always easier to build something bespoke from scratch
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Can you give some examples of how the maths teaching is archaic?

I teach undergraduate maths in NZ, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. I think the current approach is working, but could definitely be improved.
- As a starter Realtime Rendering [0]

- The siggraph courses on shading [1]. The 2017 course will be on 30th of July [2]. Current techniques from AAA engines.

- Papers from JCGT [3].

- Plus the paper collection from Ke-Sen Huang linking all graphics related conferences [4]

have fun reading

[0] http://www.realtimerendering.com/book.html

[1] http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2016-shading-course

[2] http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2017-shading-course...

[3] http://jcgt.org/read.html?reload=1

[4] http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/
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I feel disgusted after reading this. I wonder how many people applied the advices given by the original article because they made the bad decision to trust the official documentation by MS.
Indeed, I often catch myself swearing at the visual mess created by the use (and abuse) of parentheses (and all kinds of other brackets), the mess you have to deal with when coding in C++ - especially with lambdas, but also with any sort of nested code - classes, function calls, etc. At these moments, I can't help thinking that Lisp code would look cleaner and more readable, while the C++ syntax, by contrast, looks ad-hoc and inconsistent - especially with the growing context-dependency of the meaning of symbols like the ampersand, the asterisk, the square brackets, etc.
Let's face it: systemd is a bad design... The solution I found: FreeBSD and OpenBSD !
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Minor correction: there is no real interest on HECS debt but it is indexed by inflation every year.
Initially we used all Show HN posts pointing to github repos as training data and the tags that are available at github.com, but that did return pretty noisy data.
That could have more to do with our versatile anatomy than a difference in cognitive capabilities.
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Alcohol abuse in men can lead to testicular atrophy, so I'd say yes.
In addition to the other posts, if your developer is creating a capital asset (software/IP with a useful life beyond the current tax year), you may not be able to expense 100% of their cost.

It's just like if you hire a builder to make you a rental property. You can't deduct 100% of the costs of that house in the year it's built.
That's an interesting exchange!

Good points on both sides, but surely the correct decision by Bird would have been to delegate the font choice, to the head visual designer or some such.

Or maybe he already delegated, asked someone to make a shortlist of 5 fonts for him to choose from, and for some reason Verdana was the best on the list...