skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drool... Very impressive especially in a video game engine? I wish I knew more about the 3d world and could do stuff like this....
so, we have a political system whose goal is to maximise it's economic output - or at least this is one goal. but what about its people? aren't the government supposed to work for the people? at what point in history has there been a culture who have intentionally surrendered their freedoms on this level?

you might argue something along the lines of "well what does it matter? look at china", to which my response would be, so what? economics, businesses, money, etc. are all just abstract complicated notions run and managed by paper-clip maximisers. there are people who are suffering, and.. how can that be ignored?
I think he said only the lightmaps were pre-rendered and that took 10mins. The actual scene runs real-time at 50-60 fps on his gtx670.

(Prerendering lightmaps is typical for games for scenes with static lighting.)
What I'm missing the most is any concrete information on false positives. They state the want near zero false-positive, which is great, but what's the actual rate? and how is this measured?

It's easy to reduce spam by X% if you don't care about increasing your false-positives rate.

I'm also curious what ways users have to flag false-positives on twitter. It's easy to 'block or report', but is there a spam box to inspect and mark things that were wrongly classified? If there isn't an easy way, then it's going to be much harder to even measure false positive rates, let alone reduce it.
250ms is about what you get to most games from Perth, Australia.
I've been reading "Command and Control" after it was linked here a month or so ago [1]. It's fascinating to see just how lax the US was about nuclear safety for almost 2 decades before really researching how to make nuclear and hydrogen bombs safe (the book doesn't cover the Soviet side of the story, but it's my understanding they were just as risk prone if not more so).

Excellent read, highly recommended. First book I've had time to fit in in a long time and I'm really glad it's such a joy. There are many paragraphs that make you laugh quite unexpectedly.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/nukes-of-hazard
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It would be helpful to read about the vision behind this app, e.g. how it differs from iThoughts HD, MagicalPad HD, TheBrain, etc.
That's a completely different mechanism than is being proposed here.
The code is on github so you can host it on your own server fairly easily.

The website says that it's very lightweight (everything stored in memory) and currently running on a low cost server.

Download a copy now and save it just in case, if your business really depends on it then it would be better to host yourself anyways.
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Good advice from the article:

"This happens all the time on the funding and business side--where someone experienced in business helps two developers figure out a funding or revenue strategy, intros them to customers, etc. I haven't seen it done much on the technical side, but there's a huge opportunity out there to help promising ideas connect to the technical community."
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that's what makes this even more beautiful. you don't need to drive down to the balance sheets of each company you want to invest, he bought a representation of a basket of companies.

What's the likelihood of another market crash like the one in the 80s?

What's the likelihood of 2008 housing market crash?

I reckon that the latter is more predictable and omnious, while a sudden market crash without any signs like the one in the 1980s is less likely.

The theory that market is already efficient over a long stretch of time must be true. It reverts to its mean which is a continued bull as long as the economy can fit it.

However, this must be a tough concept to sell. "Hey I just lost 60% of your money because I bought in right at the peak recently, but please don't pull out your money yet, it will recover for sure in 5 years." Again, this example shows the difference between Bob and the average investor. Bob would've said okay, while the average investor would've taken his/her money out and getting ready to sue you for fraud, "but you promised 20% return on my money". "YES, you will get 20% compound interest on your money if you wait another 10 years, believe me the stock market always goes up".

But unlike Bob, you can definitely time your market entry.

1. Wait for market crash.

2. Buy.

3. Check in a couple of years.

And people who buy after a major market meltdown, when everybody shudders at the word 'stock', the wise ones buy in. When everybody is talking about it, you run. Contrarian investing.

You can also apply this bullish bias in markets outside of stocks. Forget daytrading noise, just buy & hold.

1. Buy Crude Oil mini futures.

2. Hold on to it.

3. Check back every few months instead of every few
minutes provided you still can meet the margin calls.

What a great article. This really have resparked my interest in investing and trading.
Very often ZIP code is used as alias for postal code even in international context. I see "zip code" more often than "postal code" on international address forms.
This is literally the first thing they explain in TFA, if you'd actually read it.

tl;dr: it's all public data, meaning spammers know everything they do about the corpus, and it can't add significant latency.
I wouldn't say infinitely easier. Not necessarily even slightly easier. They have lots of challenges that they did mention on the post. Primarily latency. And as the other poster mentioned, spammers can easily check if they got blocked or not, which they can't always so easily with email.
Agreed, After submitting and then going to read the paper (http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/sec14_android_activity_in...) it's clear the researchers never attempted this attack on anything other than Android, though they do imply that the attack might be possible in other OS.
Would 9/11 really need that many people to stage? The actual plot was executed by a fairly small number of people; surely faking it wouldn't take more than an order of magnitude more, especially when you control much of the process of investigation.

I don't believe it was a conspiracy, but I also don't think that there's a fundamental reason why it definitely couldn't have been.
I wrote this app first and foremost for myself, and intended it to be the sweet spot between a mind-mapping tool and an outliner. On the one hand you can quickly enter thoughts, drag them around and sort them visually (kind of like Scapple in that regard). On the other hand, you can zoom into an entry to focus on it and you get a new space for new entries (kind of like Workflowy in that regard).

Would love to hear any feedback or thoughts on future developments you'd all recommend. I'm currently planning on adding search, sync, and alarms for entries.

Direct App Store link for the lazy: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindscope/id901513028?ls=1&m...
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My little hometown has a mine-resistant vehicle. Those things are expensive to maintain. Now I know why the libraries and parks in such disrepair!
I dont understand why you're downvoted (I upvoted you just because of that). Your comments are valid, and your concern is genuine.
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Sure - just posted a little description above, but would love to answer any other specific questions. From the three apps you mention, it's probably most like TheBrain, but I like to describe it more as what would happen if Scapple and Workflowy created a love child. ;)
> I think a multi-stage filter complete with asynchronous post-processing jobs would be a bit much for your average Wordpress blog. People just starting out with (say, PHP) probably can't fathom a multiprocess deployment architecture. Not to say they couldn't, but the journey is a long one.

That's why he suggested an Akismet competitor - in case you haven't used it, Akismet is a SAAS solution that filters your comments on their servers, not on your own, so you don't have to worry about the architecture or deployment.
In terms of Wired's own classification of wired-tired-expired, I guess it's clear which bucket this falls into
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Thanks for pointing this out. I was under the assumption that the locale was the artist's own.
Would be interesting to see a tackle at animating the pavilion at night:
http://cdn3.vtourist.com/4/3600745-Barcelona_Pavilion_of_Mie...

Wondering what the complications would be...
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I recently read "Surely you're joking Mr Feyman" which had a number of anecdotes about the Manhattan Project's security from sneaking through fences to picking safes. It makes the whole project sound a little more human, even if the results weren't.

You can draw several analogies to computer systems and security products as well.
Summaries just give you the opinion of the person who did the summarizing.
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If you are into serious gaming and do not want to leave Linux behind, the GameOver 3.4 Edition of SparkyLinux is definitely a winning combination. It gives you all of the game playing software platforms and the emulators to run them.

Even if you are a recreational game player, this distro will let you play games at your own pace and do all of your everyday computing tasks from the same place. This is a win-win proposition.
How do you define democracy? By the institutions? By elections?

Turns out, lots of antidemocratic systems have elections, I would even argue a modern dictatorship should have as many elections and referendums as humanly possible.

One democratic and one antidemocratic nation might have very similar constitutions, and institutions.

Is it then about human rights and freedoms? Human rights are impossible to implement perfectly. There are always compromises. For example, if you want people not to hurt, kill and steal from each other, you better tax them to finance some kind of justice system. But taxation is a violation of the right to property, and policing restricts all sorts of freedoms. What we call "democratic countries" just have a "better" compromise than antidemocratic ones.

Democracy being an emergent property solves all sorts of conundrums. Freedoms, and the protection thereof are essential to enable free and fair elections. These free elections are necessary to maintain control of the state aparatus which is necessary to guarantee these freedoms.

An emergent property is hard to construct. We've seen how difficult it can be to establish a democratic system from the outside (Afghanistan), and how easy (Germany).

The necessary parts of a working democracy (and what are these, anyway?) seem to depend on the other parts to work.

But the general attitude is "Let's just have open elections, and everything is peachy!" And in a more subtle manner, in Europe people start to view "number of referendums" as the only measure to compare "democracticness".
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It might not be feasible, but why not if they might pay you money for it?
A one could indeed export its requires. However, my idea was was to stay close to the require caching system existing in Node.

As a personal taste, I by far prefer to configure my application in a JavaScript file rather than a JSON file. And I consider dependencies as a part of the configuration process. It agrees with the Duo philosophy which aims to simplify the building process from A to Z.
The Search API is pretty much for searching text, whereas this is a database.

Also the Search API is terrible.
If there are any archaelogists here one thing I would like to know is why haven't the main stone rings as they stand now been restored? Its a fantastic place to visit as it is, but why not repair it, raise the fallen stones and put it back to how it last was, it would be amazing.

If this was say Westminster Abbey that was half destroyed we would do this, why is it not considered it seems for Stonehenge?
> But taxation is a violation of the right to property, and policing restricts all sorts of freedoms.

That's true only if you are 'liberal' (to the extreme). Taxation is what gets you public health, schools, streets in places where you go once a year. It's what keeps remote villages connected to the mainland.

In a sense, it's what society is all about. Otherwise we would be still living in the jungle like monkeys.

So since your view is open to interpretation, better be cautious using strong terms like if you're talking about maths IMHO e.g. "[...]taxation is a violation of the right to property [..]"
I didn't compare the code, but maybe it's autogenerated from a more C-like language, making a bit awkward syntax for a language like Python?
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Actually, for much of the 20th century most Chinese were suffering a lot more from poverty than from individual rights. Even if they were able to overthrow their feudal masters, and later the government functionaries, there still wasn't enough wealth to alleviate their suffering (for example food shortages, violence, dangerous and damaging working conditions, no health care...).

Today in China this suffering is reduced more and more, despite a growing population. That in itself is a good thing. However, the Chinese don't have the amount of freedom we are enjoying. But how do you compare non-freedom versus material suffering?

I believe that eventually China will have to establish these freedoms to keep improving their economy. And we are already seeing signs of the limitations: Innovation in China is hard to come by, and corruption on any level is uncontrollable with citizens afraid to speak up.
"Yes it works fine on an iPad"

Understatement - it works really well on an iPad (even my ancient iPad 1).
Or better yet, what would have happened if he invested in inner-city property? Short of investing in Detroit that would probably go pretty well.
I would like to use it but of course I can't (iOS). You should really launch these kind of MVP in a normal website accessible to as many browsers to have maximum audience. Here you do the opposite and target a small percentage of the world that uses iphones.
This is the restored version. It was rebuilt at least three times in the 20th century. There's concrete under some of those stones, holding hem up.
The location of the rendering isn't the only difference here. The idea is to render multiple possible future outcomes, send them to the client, and only use the one that matches user input. The traditional way has been to predict player movement based on past movement.

Also, I don't see how the improbable trademark issue is relevant to the topic.
It took some google search terms tweaking[0] but I found it: http://imgur.com/owXEe41 (sfw).

> I have 20/11 vision with a mutation that causes me to see a lower-band of UV. It overstimulates my ocular processing and causes migraines. I wear amber glass eye glasses with +.02 diopiter lenses to help reduce this problem. Because of this, I have an absolute obsession and facination with purple objects.

I remember the original poster participated in the comment section but (sigh) I don't know how to get there.

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>there are people who are suffering, and.. how can that be ignored?

I think if I were a member of the Chinese ruling class I'd probably answer your question by comparing Indian and Chinese life expectancy and literacy since 1949, and their respective GDPs per capita since 1980. Democracy has been much, much less effective at reducing suffering in India than communism has been at the same goal in China. Democracy in China would probably have been more effective, faster but your question and phrasing are emotion, not argument.
Air sticks to the wings and thus it changes its direction w.r.t the aeroplane. Wing shape is such that it maximizes air deflection before air eventually detaches from the wing.

Deflection means momentum change. Add Newton's third law and you've got it.
Thanks for making this. I've always wanted one myself (just didn't have time to make it). You're awesome. Thanks!
The author questions the concept of an estimate in Software Development, and proposes four sub estimates. I'm not sure that replacing one estimate with four will do the trick...
Well, Spotify caches songs, so the streaming part is done for you. The problem is constrained to synchronizing playback. Yes, that might be really hard, but you're inventing problems.
My hope is that as a new generation grows up with the internet, censorship will become increasingly intolerable. They banned the big bang theory and everyone just pirates it now.

I believe that government is a reflection of culture, and as China's culture becomes more globalized its government may become more open.
Can you show me an example of an address form for non-US-based organization that exclusively uses the term "zip code"?

I'm not saying they don't exist, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one.

The US-based organizations using the term "zip code" for non-US addresses are doing so either out of ignorance or expediency, since fitting "zip/postal code" into a space is sometimes not possible.
That's pretty fascinating if you can see it. I just tried with three different remotes - and alas, I can't see a thing, no matter how hard I try.

All three give very bright flash when viewed via my Mac's camera (just launching Facetime with no call and pointing the remote to it).
If you read very closely, I said taxation and policing are necessary for a good compromise.

If a government takes away people's money, then their right to property is violated, in my (not that liberal) view. But I just require very good reasoning and solid participatory control over that "taking away".

Russia for example regularly expropriates some citizens, and always with an outwardly reasonable and legal justification. But in Russia there is no participatory control over the instutions doing this...
To add to that, the prerendering is done as part of the preparation of assets - if someone were to download and run this project then the assets are ready to go!
Could someone (OP?) explain what this is in less buzzy terms?
I've heard many times that syntax direction is too strict and break people flow. The article says it's suited to students, here that wouldn't be an issue. That said, I'm pretty sold on the structure/tree editors vs char buffers, but I think there's need and opportunity for ideas to make building syntactically and type correct programs without slowing too much the user stream of ideas that can be random and at temporarily incorrect.
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google ought to give this project more free quotas - it's an excellent showcase of a web-application.
No. And AWS isn't that reliable. The thing goes down a lot previously. I wasn't doing anything crazy scalable or needed all the features so I moved off of it due to all the downtime issues it had last year.
Huh. No, I can definitely see it. I just looked at my HTC One's IR transmitter for the first time, without knowing where the LED is. It's pretty clearly on the right side of the lock button, just under it.
My Grandparents live in Pembrokeshire, I seem to remember visiting some where which said that Stonehenge was "from" there.
China and USA are the same kind of democracy.
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I haven't tried the app yet, but four suggestions would be:

- dependency tracking between items (there are many use cases for this, anything from project management to social networks), inShort on iOS has an advanced implementation based on Theory of Constraints in industrial-scale manufacturing, http://www.shortki.com/inShort.html - something much simpler could still be useful

- multiple parents for a child node, NoteLynX has an implementation on Android: http://astrodean.blogspot.com/2011/10/outliner-hierarchical-...

- WebDav import/export for OPML or other formats, this allows sync to self-hosted storage

- interoperability with iOS apps which perform local encryption, e.g. ipgmail
those links are pretty cool!
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170 miles = 273.589 km ...

Duckduckgo 'distance from pembrokeshire to stonehenge' = 226.7 km

That's only an overall difference of approximately 17% in 'as the crow flies' distance.

(Without knowing the geography at all, in reality the difference is quite possibly even less, since the route is probably not straight and shares some of the same diversions. On the other hand, it could also be more, since Wales sounds (how scientific!) hillier than most places in the UK. Either way, it's still a bloody long way.)
The right to property is granted by the government. Your rights are the claims you can back with violence, and as long as you leave the violence to the police your rights will be defined by the government.
Thanks for the ideas! Especially 2 and 3 remind me of stuff I've been considering anyways.

Re: 1 - could you be more specific regarding "dependency tracking"? Each entry is currently simply a text entry that you can move around with your finger. You can also set up arrows between entries. How would you envision tracking dependencies? Could be you'll need to try the app out first and would have more thoughts then.

Thanks again for the feedback!
Is there something similar for UK postcodes?
I have to agree - I know this opinion is unpopular but there are some things for which computers are still ideally suited, and this seems like one of them. Would I want to restrict my audience to the 15% or so of people who use iOS? Why does this need to be an app at all, for that matter?
Yep, also missing on what collection sizes benchmarks are performed. If that's on a 1 doc, 10 docs or 10k docs collections the results are going to be very different. With these kidns of results I expect the dataset size to be quite small.

Also benchmarks should be runnable by users :)
I've seen it quite a bit in especially older e-commerce software, presumably developed for US use, then "internationalized" as a bit of an afterthought. I also think that many non-native-english-speakers assume zip code is the appropriate translation of postal code since it features rather prominently in (exported) US pop culture.

That doesn't make it correct, and I don't believe that some peoples unequivocally wrong usage of a term should oblige other people to qualify their correct and unambiguous usage of it.
This is completely different. Every networked multiplayer FPS since QuakeWorld uses QuakeWorld's player input client-side prediction algorithm. This speculative prediction is predicting player input before the player gives it, not predicting the server's response to given input.
Unfortunately, while the data definitely exists (and UK postal codes are much smaller), it's copyrighted by the Royal Mail.
I've been using TinyDB[1] on Python for a little project - it seems to offer similar functionality.

[1] http://tinydb.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html
You can render the images on the sides of a cube with 90° fov, put your viewpoint in the center and that's it. Once I programmed something like this and it works pretty well. I suppose that Google street view works in a similar way but I can't back this up.
> That's true only if you are 'liberal' (to the extreme)

No, it's quite literally true. Taxation is armed men taking your money by force. We've just agreed that it's worth it to violate property rights to some degree for the greater good.