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One of the difficulties in creating novelty is in creating the "relationships between symbols" as you say.

Take a sword in an RPG for example. It can be a weapon, it can be sold, it can be used as a crutch for a wounded person. It can be used to signal to others by reflecting the sunlight off it. Each of these aspects add new systems of gameplay.

but these additional relationships don't seem like things you can predict without presupposing the existence of the whole sentient world. And we've said nothing about where the sword came from in the first place!

I agree with you on gameplay-significant procedural generation. After playing and loving Noctis and Frontier: Elite II, I wanted to create an arty space exploration game where you took control of a mysterious alien being who roamed the universe in search of "knowledge". You'd do this by exploring and scanning features of the universe with different tools that took skill to use.

For example, to scan a mountain range, you'd have to land several probes around it, maybe in difficult conditions. "Knowledge" would be things like "tallest mountain range","largest ocean","oxygen atmosphere","binary system with habitable planets". I thought this was a good way of having distinct goals, but remaining open ended and unpredictable. "biggest","tallest" etc being things which are easy to specify but could be anywhere in the universe.

I thought you could fly a "living ship" a bit like Moia in Farscape. This ship would develop according to how much knowledge you accumulated, along with resources you extract from the universe.

My goal was to make the procedural world itself as something of concern for the player, to encourage the player to actually get out there into the depths. Maybe I'll start on it someday, I don't know. Everyone seems to be making space games at the moment!
So, I've been learning C (through "Learn C The Hard Way") to be able to contribute to various projects (PHP being one), and build my own system tools, as well as learning it so that I can understand Vala and Nimrod's underlying architecture and functionality better (Vala's GObject system seems like a leaky abstraction at times, and I get stuck as I'm no good with C...).

For my projects and the like, the other stuff I want to play with, is it worth using libs like these? They seem to "bring C into 2013", if you will, in terms of the features possible without re-inventing the wheel.

Speaking of re-inventing the wheel, I wish I knew where to look to get specific libraries for C, something like Ruby's Gems, and PHP's Composer. For now, I've just been using Google. Is there a better way? And does anyone have a good resource for explaining how to set-up a project with dependencies that are both binary and need to be compiled? I know a little bit of Makefiles now (I love it, and use it across all my languages now for various automation tooling), but feel like I'm not sure when to "expect a .so in the system" vs, brining the dependency with my archive and compiling locally/statically or dynamically, etc. There's a lot behind it all, and I don't know where to start, so I've been winging it!
Once LCD monitors and TVs became popular and cheap, I expected to see a lot more "LCD underneath a glass coffee table" projects. Then again I haven't built one myself, either.

This project is interesting from the hack value of making your own display. If you're not doing it for the LED control experience, the price of cheap LCD monitors is so low its hard to justify. Most TVs have a perfectly good analog VGA input so drive it with a propeller microcontroller which has a perfectly good VGA library, or do yet another raspberry pi project.
I think you're misrepresenting this. In your example, the colour of both balls is fixed the whole time. In entanglement, it isn't fixed the whole time. It's not fixed until observed. We take them a light-year apart, and they don't have any value. When we look, one will be "up" and one will be "down," but until we look, it's not decided.

Then we look at one, and it is decided. If someone a second later looks at the other one, a light year away, it will be the opposite state. That has also been decided. Us looking at something over here caused a decision about what state something is in to be made over there, a light-year away. How did us doing something here affect a decision a light-year away? Two seconds ago the state of that particle a light year away was undecided; the "universe" had not given it a value. Then we did something here, and that particle a light year away had its value fixed. It did not have that value the whole time while we were moving the particles apart, but now it does.
Being a 19-year-old black software engineer, from a "current reality" POV, I can say that acadien's observation is definitely spot-on. However, I can also say that it seems things are getting much much better. Just a little under 3 years ago, I'd attend a conference with 300, 500, or even 500+ attendees, and would EASILY count the amount of black folks on a pair of hands (yes) and the ladies on 2-3 pair of hands. This isn't necessarily the case anymore (it's still kind of a problem though). Also, a majority of the "white men" programmers I know in the industry are very welcoming and helpful in this sense, so I wouldn't blame "white men" since that's just too general, and quite frankly, wrong, for the most part. Now that that's out of the way, THERE ARE those "white men" who are not so welcoming and aren't afraid to show it either. I couldn't even tell you the amount of times I've been offended by such folks. There's even one conference I went to where I was literally stopped on my way to grab lunch and randomly requested to go to security to be searched while EVERYONE ELSE was enjoying the sessions and meals. I was searched, I went to bathroom and cried for a while (yes, I admit it), and immediately headed home afterwards. Which conference ... well, I digress. The point I'm trying to make here is that we shouldn't be blaming folks in a general sense, but instead find those folks who do have such behavior and try to help them change.
It's like putting a red marble in one box, and a blue marble in another box, and shuffling them so you don't know which is which.

No, it is not like that at all. I've got other comments here explaining why, but suffice to say here; it's not like that at all.
>believes the bible is a load of trash anyway

Its hard to be a scientific minded person and not come to this conclusion.
yeah i actually have that installed, but when i enable it i get issues with clicks not registering sometimes, which is even more annoying when playing a game.. Dont know if its related to my mouse or something else though.
what is this considered image processing or 3d graphics? there seems to be a lot of math+physics involved which is great
100% agree. Get the info you want by being wrong. People simply cant wait to correct you. Its such a simple manipulation, its actually quite sad. Works all over, not just usenet.

Further, what it really depressing is that often, if you simply ask the question, many usenet replies will be "google it" (1) type answers. So, you go to a NG which is for a subject, you ask about that subject, and people there think you should already know the answer before going to the place meant to discuss it.

(1)Used to be "google is your friend", but oddly enough, I dont see that so much these days.
Reminds me a bit of Spore, but hopefully not so disappointing.
So what is your take on it?
LOL. I'm "black", but I had to upvote this comment.
There are a million ideas. Execution is everything. You need to find a technical partner. Very unlikely someone will pay just for the idea IMHO
I guess its because I've only ever seen external status pages.

For internal reporting, the high level overview that a typical status page gives seems pretty useless.
Maybe this is a silly question, but if you haven't looked at them, how do you know the decision hasn't been made?
I would really enjoy a blog post/series about what you're doing. I'm sure you think it's ordinary and slightly boring but you'd surprised how many -- even technical -- people have no idea how you can measure gravity over the breadth of a hair, and would be fascinated by it.
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Why did you limit this learning to PHP? For the motivated individual, mastery of any of the "enterprise frameworks" would do (i.e. Django, Rails, Java EE). I will admit that some job openings (or maybe companies) are much pickier, but when I see postings for a candidate with a BS but MS preferred that ask for a full-stack Java EE expert with 2-3 years of experience, I have to laugh.
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I like to think that Bitcoins are much more similar to gold than dollars, and yet everyone makes comparisons with modern currencies.
> We've heard this same claim so many times before.

Could you please list some examples?
The main focus of the Oracle case was copyright, not patents.
Thanks for that. A little more to slow burn in my understanding of instruments before I eventually learn one!
In case anyone is wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color
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There are two answers to that; both the same. One them is "simple" fact, the other one is the same with a whole lot of explanation and maths and all sorts that, to be honest, I wouldn't trust myself to get right even given a day to dig it all up and write it out, and ultimately it finishes in the same place anyway. So I'll just give you the "simple" fact version, without supporting documentation, I'm afraid.

Here it is; because that's how the universe works.

That decision doesn't get made until "something" checks it/depends on it/interacts with it (the English language, at heart a way of telling macroscopic monkeys about tigers and bananas, does struggle a bit here). If you go digging yourself, you'll be able to go as deep as you like. I apologise for not presenting a better answer, but I'd really be doing you a disservice.

Edit: It's really not a good answer at all. I'm digging through old reddit threads to see if RobotRollCall ever talked about this. Her explanations were generally very accessible.
>So what does this process of elemental elimination tell us about what makes a good currency? First off, it doesn't have to have any intrinsic value. A currency only has value because we, as a society, decide that it does. As we've seen, it also needs to be stable, portable and non-toxic. And it needs to be fairly rare - you might be surprised just how little gold there is in the world.

>The demand for gold can vary wildly - and with a fixed supply, that can lead to equally wild swings in its price. Most recently for example, the price has gone from $260 per troy ounce in 2001, to peak at $1,921.15 in September 2011, before falling back to $1,230 currently. That is hardly the behaviour of a stable store of value.

Basically describes what are and are not the problems with Bitcoin.
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This game has an incredible potential for broken promises. I predict bad review scores, howls of request for refunds, and the lead developer putting out blogs in the vein of "sorry, we should do better. Expect free updates that will fix everything soon!"
Ask HN: I have to write about HN in School. What topics should I cover?
I have to write short essay (1-3 pages) about HN for my class. I'm wondering what parts of HN should I write about?

Some titles/subtitles I'm thinking about: "History of HN", "Introduction to HN", "Who are the users?",... Can you please give me some topics I should touch in my essay?
And the North American version of the Moto G actually does support '1700mhz' AWS HSPA+ too (so it's 100% T-Mobile USA compatible everywhere they offer HSPA+)
If I'm too off-topic feel free to ignore this question. Isn't it more valuable to have knowledge and energy sources ?
Thanks for sharing. My history of technology professor at the University of Minnesota used to speak of the "precocious technology" of Medieval Europe, in which artisans often invented devices that could not be fully explained by the science of the time. Precocious technology is, of course, a worldwide phenomenon and a phenomenon from all eras (including our own). The astonishing artifact reported on here has very unclear provenance--it's not clear how it passed into the hands of the collector from whose collection it came into the Smithsonian museums. Moreover, the lack of writing in the culture of origin at the time the artifact is thought to have been made means there is no history (written records) to supplement archaeology for inferences about the cultural role of the artifact. But it is a thought-provoking find all the same, and an example of what else might be missing from the archaeological record.
The judge is bound by law and procedure during a court case - they can't just say "make this so" and it is so.

Judge Alsup will have authority to rule on the outcome of this case, and his judgment will stand (pending appeal), but he doesn't have the ability to say "The SSI rule is dumb, we're going to ignore it."
See the way I see it, that's asking the wrong question: who cares what civilization is doing 10,000 years from now, if it's lost sufficient record and technology to comprehend nuclear waste?

Even a language change, if accompanied by a technologically advanced civilization, would remember to change it's signs.

Whereas, it is much more likely that if we don't use nuclear power, we'll create catastrophes that lead to that problem to begin with. I'm much more concerned with what happens over the next 10,000 years then at the end of it.
" I think that the counselors want to maintain their college placement rates"

Not "want" but are paid to. When you get older you'll see a push toward metrics in a corporate world. The counselor trying to sell you a liberal arts degree is evaluated and paid based on some metric like "% of students after 5 years with a 4-year degree" and so forth.
Procedurally generated just means you can create lots of variety; not that you can't generate ahead of time, save it to disk, and even put potentially useful features in the database and then just pick from those when putting together a mission.
The problem is not with doing planning, the problem is with implementing tradeoffs after such planning - in democracy, you can't take actions that hurt you in this year but will benefit 10 years afterward, if it is not completely obvious to uninformed laymen. If you do, they get reversed after the next elections anyway.
The single-person question is an interesting one. My instinct is to say: "let's try it". Of course I begin by performing a mental simulation. And it then occurs to me that this might be expensive, time-consuming, very, very difficult (especially obtaining materials!) but most of all dangerous. I suddenly wonder how many people have been maimed or killed developing modern (manufacturing, especially) techniques. Even if it's possible for one person to do; what are the odds of survival?
> where to look to get specific libraries for C

http://ccodearchive.net/
The network scanner NMAP has appeared in a lot of movies before. Fyodor has a page on it: http://nmap.org/movies/ . Apparently it even made an appearance in a soft-porn movie...
A better definition would be: "This makes perfect sense, and it is easy to understand how it happened, but it is evil and intolerable."

How does a lawyer get to the point where they can defend something like this?
I made something similar a couple of weeks ago: http://www.bitcoinfyi.com

Although it doesn't have quite as much traction as yours :P
But this really just falls into the "no true Scottsman" fallacy, doesn't it? I mean, running a function called "slaughter_cow" that will only "mark that cow for slaughter" it is misnamed in some sense. Same for any function. Unless what you are doing is fully abstract in the first place, than any abstraction over it will in many senses be a lie.
Under the assumption that panzi's statement is correct (I'm no physicist) in the limited context of special relativity FTL travel is impossible. But general relativity considers a more general context.
You have a typo, "100 minutes of text".
now, it IS tweetable!
The videos are incredible. Unfortunately, no mac os version yet !! Damn...
I'm not going anywhere. Double-free is a known pitfall. People watch for it and a lot of standard libraries have safeguards against it.

On the other hand tfree() hangs if a prior call to talloc_set_parent() is passed certain arguments. Just more ammunition to shoot one's own foot. (p, p) might be a degenerate case, but real code will create cyclic references. In such case blaming programmer is the least productive way to handle it.
I don't know about any MOOC on writing, but there is one very popular course named Writers Bureau. Their web address is http://writersbureau.com
Now, if this is scalable as the authors claim, wouldn't this be a nice vehicle for a decentralized facebook? I can see at least an issue, which is that large files (i.e pictures, videos) can be transferred but they would have to be stored on the hard drive of anyone who wants to keep having access to it. What do you think?
I got a little sweat near a shuffle and the headphone port sucked it in and something shorted out. There was a big scorch mark visible.
I disagree with racism being an issue keeping blacks & latinos from open source / free software development and I don't understand why people keep talking about barriers to software development. These days computers are ubiquitous (in the developed world at least). You can be poor but still afford a computer, and all the knowledge and tools you need are available for free. The only potential barriers I see is having the skills required to make useful contributions to an established project (something at the level of the existing developers) and free time.

About myself: I didn't go to a great school; Didn't have friends or classmates who were interested in computers or programming; Didn't have a role model to inspire or guide me; Never went to a workshop or joined a user group; Never attended a computer science class until I was in college.

I got fascinated by computers by reading about them in a newspaper when I was a kid, and had to go on a hunger strike every night until my father caved in and bought one for the house. By the time I was 15 I worked together with 4 guys to build a popular website and we developed a file editor together. We collaborated over IRC and what's interesting is that we knew nothing about each other except our nicknames and where we lived (This was before social networks became popular). Nothing else mattered except our mutual interest and skill.

Oh, and I'm not white.
Eh, I think the more charitable reading is they meant a physical atom, but in the sense "not a single atom has been designed by hand."

It's like if you made some algorithmic music and claimed every nanosecond was generated automatically, even though we tend to think in terms of notes that are orders of magnitude larger.

If they really expect anyone in the gaming community to believe they're rendering each blade of grass with a few Octillion points or polygons, they're absolutely insane.
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You can jump right in and start writing some code.

Will it be deployed? I don't imagine the pay-off to be immediate, or self-correcting (teaching/mentoring). I can't imagine how open source is somehow a teaching/development code base for beginners.
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Yeah. Sorry. Copy pasted badly. The link was right though...

Speaking of which:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_general_relativity#...

Seems he had most of the concept nailed down by 1907 but was struggling with the math. So, he worked the module step-by-step only adding gravity in 1915 after learning about Riemannian manifolds.
This looks massively impressive. Wonder if they can deliver as much as the trailer promises?

This is the sort teaser which makes me want to try the game just because of the "subtle" Dune-reference. Is there an Arakis anywhere there for us to discover?
Actually I just read that paper properly and I see they did visualise the higher level layer weights too:

"For visualizing what units do on the 2nd and 3rd layer, we used the activation maxi-
mization technique described by Erhan et al. (2009)"[1]

So there you have it! You can visualise all of a neural network! But you have to implement some specific numerics to get the data out. Reading the first layer is trivial, and subsequent layers need some analysis.

[1] Erhan 2009 Visualizing higher layer features of a deep network

(good find, thanks for asking the right questions!)
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Often, or even mostly, DIY or hacking projects are not economically worth it. Which is why, often, economics is the last reason for doing it, especially when you factor in time and an hourly rate. Usually its fun, educational, or novelty, perhaps uniqueness. This project ticks all 4 of those boxes. Even back in the 70's when I first started making radios, better, cheaper ones could be bought in shops. I made radios because I thought it was amazing to actually make my own.

Mostly, projects like this are simply about a challenge or simply making something different. As you point out, these days a monkey could interface a cheap off the shelf screen and controller. Where is the challenge there? Whats the point? If this guy (or gal) wanted a screen....

Knocking it because its possible to do another way misses the point, and fun.
I think this is Google's long term plan, and its a pretty great one. You will literally be connected anywhere on the globe with Google Fiber based HetNet wireless, and wifi beamed down on the rest of the earth from Balloons.
Yes, but they don't operate well as exchange mediums.
Ever make a pull request and get some feedback on why not? Ever publish a package and respond to issues?
I happened to think that nuclear power is a good thing (or at least, that it can be). Many people agree with me. I'm at odds with people who think that nuclear power is evil. Is it unethical for me to write firmware for a nuclear power plant?

Frankly, these lists of things that engineers need to follow in order to behave ethically pop up every now and then, and it's clear to me that the authors of these lists have their own agendas. As I've said, I refuse to be used. I'll pick my own standards.

The lists appear to be so broad that they're useless (e.g., "Don't be evil") or so narrow that they are instruments of control ("Don't work on X or Y or Z").

So I think we're in agreement.

Finally, it's likely that the number of engineers who actually do evil is quite small, and of a character that, upon reading a code of ethics, they are rather unlikely to shake their heads, wake up and change their ways. (I'm thinking in particular about malware writers, but there are many other examples).
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"Most recently for example, the price has gone from $260 per troy ounce in 2001, to peak at $1,921.15 in September 2011, before falling back to $1,230 currently. That is hardly the behaviour of a stable store of value."

There are many who believe gold is somewhat of a proxy to the probability that at some point there will be complete lack of faith in fiat currencies (combined with the belief that it will be an acceptable substitute in such an eventuality). If that is the case, the price volatility of gold has in fact a lot to say about the viability of fiat currencies as a stable store of value.