skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Invisible armies and swarm by Jon Evans looks like a good match for what you seek. The authors page about the first book: http://www.rezendi.com/invisibleArmies.htm
Reamde is good, but far too long. It should have been two thirds.
According to the wiki pages you cite, serendipity is a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise" and synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related . So I'd say that neither apply here. In my opinion the appropriate word is "coincidence".
Why not use Geonames: http://www.geonames.org/ ?
4) and 7) were certainly factors in Korea becoming a developed nation too - lots of detail about this style of development in 'Bad Samaritans' by Ha-Joon Chang: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Samaritans-Secret-History-Capitali...
You seem to assume the incentives are always correctly
aligned, and agreed on concepts of "better" are
immutable. They're not.

No, I agree with you. I'm not very confident futarchy would work out in practice. I can theorize about how you need to set up your metrics so your country doesn't get exploited by others, but getting the metrics right is very important and they're going to be constantly under attacks to separate them from what they're actually trying to measure.
You can also download all the zip-codes for many countries from them: http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/
Special cases do exist, but for the vast majority of people who want to be developing games, they need to be treating it like a business, not like art.

You can always make a profitable game first, then use that money to make your 2nd artsy game.
I have used alpha threshold trick to achieve metaballs for my fluid simulation[1][2]. I wonder how efficient Marching Squares method is.

[1]https://jsexperiments.herokuapp.com/sph/
[2]https://github.com/asadlionpk/SPHjs
It was bad for me as I was already listening to spotify, so the two songs mixed quite horrendously
Ah, the lovely slant of the article. It's an evil tool used by pedophiles. It's an evil tool used by drug addicts. Oh, a few activists and stuff use it, but it's used by the terrorists hiding under your bed. The BBC logo may be red, but the journalism is out and out yellow.
> Repeatedly verified statistics from good samples gathered as a result of experiments with controls.

Many parts of sexism are day-to-day personal interactions, those kind of things are hard to measure.

> There is a tendency for certain personality types to lump every petty slight and personal disappointment together under "sexism", without any sort of critical reflection.

I'm going to need some repeatedly verified statistics from good samples gathered as a result of experiments with controls for that claim.
I hope the same thing about the West (replacing "censorship" with "draconian anti-piracy laws").
Maybe it's CISC vs RISC all over again. That said I don't want to serialize subtree into linear strings to be able to insert/delete a few things. It's information loss to me. I envision something like subtree derivations to "fork" the current code block into a new one and substitute some tokens (not strings). Basically interactive tree rewrite.

Derive tests on the fly, add some visual cues (diffs, types, errors). Be creative, use a layout abstraction like DOM or even higher to experiment freely.
Ermmm well we all learn by observing other codes out there many times and rest of it troubleshooting isnt it?

If it works, it works. Why bother re-writing it anyway? Unless its refactoring.

If its me, Ill confront him and ask him about his insecurities and if theres any issues.

But thats just me.
and speaking of rights to property - that's not a right, it's a privilege. The only rights a human has is the same as what any animal would have in the wild - the right to kill or be killed.

Human society exists to grant those privileges so that it allows more people to live - an evolutionary advantage. People have been brainwashed, or deluded into thinking that those "rights" they enjoy is somehow divine and inalienable.
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Hence why Isotretinoin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotretinoin) is a restricted drug in many countries, although it is a vitamin A-like chemical that is used to clear up very severe acne. Women who are prescribed the drug in the UK have to provide proof that they are on a reliable form of contraception and are not pregnant when they collect each month's worth of pills. It causes severe birth defects.
Changing currents in the Atlantic Ocean key to global-warming pause
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What if Amazon are building delivery AI not only for drones, but something else (cars?)
Yeah, they say drones, but it's way too expensive project (people involved, locations, offices, etc ) to be for single purpose.
Maybe they're just building something bigger.
100% agree. But my point is that if you want to talk finances, don't talk about it like it's an art project.

You can always make a game that makes money first, then make your artsy game later. That's our plan.
I want to pay taxes and receive good benefits =)

For me, living in Germany instead of the US while founding my startup was a dream come true. I got very affordable health care, health insurance, and child care when we weren't making any money. I never had to stress out about how to pay for those things while we worked for a year without getting paid.

Now that we are making money, I'm happy to pay more for those things.

And, it's nice to know that if we went bankrupt tomorrow, I could continue to get those social services at a price I can always afford.
A chemist friend once told me:

Cancer/dna-mutations happen all the time. They're triggered by the energy from cosmic rays, free radicals etc.

A lot of those reactions involve the oxygen we inhale, so one of the reasons for cancer and death is actually that we're slowly being burned in our hazardous atmosphere.
Badly-titled interview with Tor Project executive director
OFF TOPIC RANT

Just have to register my frustration with the cliched "[x] considered harmful" headline in the IT world. It devalues the proposition instead of lending it authority.

EDIT:
"Betteridge's law of headlines" also applies here (Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.) Since it's an opinion piece, state your opinion in the headline, and stick with it. The question mark suggests even the author's not sure he agrees with the premise, which makes me think the article is not worth reading.
I can myself attest to the fact that Twitter has plenty of false positives. I use a custom url shortener url and on several occasions I have been flagged for spam.

What I'd really like to see is the option to submit a report for the false positive. I'm sure the data mining is picking up on not only my initial submission, but also reattempts with altered content to try and bypass their greedy algos.

Needless to say it's a bit of a bummer when you curate a tweet only to be denied sending. I think they have it out for .CO url shorteners :)
A comment from someone on the team further up the page mentions that ElasticSearch is 'leveraged' inside the service, so I'd say there should be some mention of the Apache 2 license to represent the use of ElasticSearch.

https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch
As a Scot, I was pleasantly surprised to see Robert Burns on the list, but digging around it looks like Burns was a keen supporter of the American Revolution and even wrote a "A Toast for George Washington":

http://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/a-toast-for-george-washington-...
That's what happened in Israel which now gets a significant percent of municipal water from desalination, (a bit of marketing here [0] but the facts seem correct)

[0] http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059994202
This article is worthless; they took two sentences out of the full interview[1] and blew it up into a whole article. The actual interview is much better, but even then someone at the BBC couldn't resist putting a stupid title on it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8211566
Couldn't agree more. You can see them trying their damnedest to minimise the use of activists make of Tor, every point about an activist is bracketed with the evil paedophiles and drug dealers.

Everybody hide!
The BBC is probably one of the worst news sources there is. I'm not sure where they got their reputation from...

Always get your news from multiple sources.
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Blender has 3d metaballs, if you want to play around with them without too much fuss.
Maybe in the long term, but for now I'm concentrating on other things (like adding typeable text)
I'm still in Warsaw, Poland, Europe. ;)
It seems like a new trend to re-use established names. For example a lot of frameworks on "Show HN" use common names. There are now two programming languages named Swift. A downside is that it makes the web search experience a bit worse.

The vote buttons on HN are too small and next to each other on mobile devices. And it would be better IMHO if the lowest downvote value would be 1 (and only admins could lower the vote-value below).
If you've already done it before it should take almost zero time because you just re-use your previous code!
>Chinese banks are not banks; they are cash distribution pipelines, generally controlled or heavily influenced by the government. Selective industries are fed loans, based on the flavor of the week, on terms dictated from above. When the pipelines are empty (as they are now), the government just inserts more money into the other end.

This is the single most different aspect of the Chinese system. Banks operate as partially privatized central planning. The government prints its own money and hands it out to the banks whenever they lend badly to favored government entities. Corruption in banking is dealt with severely to prevent the bad behavior that the moral hazard would entail. There is such deep denial of the corrupt nature of private money creation in banks in the west that most analysts overlook this as a key advantage of the Chinese system. How many years have we had predictions that the Chinese economy was going to bust any day now?
So, does anybody actually think this has some validity? Do we think that there are people within the TLA's secretly helping the Tor project?
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FoundationDB https://foundationdb.com/

Quite an amazing piece of technology, check how they test cluster failures, there is a blog post about it :)
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You think 1909 was the high point of human civilisation?
Yeah for some specific cancers the progress has been incredible. But the dream that 'cancer' is one thing that can be cured has gone away. The point I wanted to stress was that our progress has been much more modest than many people imagine, given the amount of talk about revolutionary treatment and the power of modern medicine.
"The structural reasons for China’s subsequent decline and the empire’s demise have been much discussed. Some point to what..."

To me it is very clear. It is the Invention of the Guttemberg mobile type printing press and the sharing of knowledge it created.
Latin has over 70 different writing symbols(Upper and lower case plus numbers), Chinese has thousands.

Printing a book in Chinese was orders of magnitude more work(and expensive). Remember that at the time it took years to copy a book.
Chinese already knew about printing presses, but Guttemberg discovered the way to make it in metal, and making new Glyphs from molds is very inexpensive thanks to latin.

After Guttemberg it took years to copy a book, but once you have it you could make thousands of copies. Chinese could not, because the plates deteriorated fast and was very expensive to recreate them.
The Japanese identified the problem and created a vocalic language from Chinese, the kana. The reason Japanese stated running circles around Chinese and humiliated them.(Chinese and Japanese hate each other so much)

The fact that Chinese today consider Confucius the "greatest philosopher of all time" is the evidence of Chinese lag.

Imagine Europeans considering only Aristotle or Plato, with no mention of Descartes, Kant, Nietze, Ortega and dozens of other brilliant philosophers.

Renaissance and science were the result of the printing press. Everybody could buy a Bible, and discuss it, without having intermediaries.

Before that a Bible or any other book was priced as years of the salary of a worker.
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That "just" in your last sentence is doing a lot of work.
I doubt it. I imagine the information goes one way - from the outside world into GCHQ.

They only just (within the past few years) released work that Turing did. It's unlikely they'd be releasing information about tor.

I'd think they'd have their own fork of tor.

Having said that, GCHQ do fund crypto research and they do have various math collaborations so who knows.
I wonder how these rules came to be known as "bots" within Twitter. It has an nice symmetry to it though: use bots to fight bots.
Given that you can define your own custom method dispatch mechanisms in CLOS I'm pretty sure you could do something like this - you'd have to define the return type of each method somehow (can you use ftype with CLOS methods?) and have a way of specifying the return type you want back - but none of that sounds hugely difficult.

Mind you - its 20 years since I was paid to write Lisp/CLOS so take this with a grain of salt :-)
Archive.org has many out-of-copyright books, but there is little support for discovery of "related books" or "all books in a multi-volume series". Sorting by download count within categories is a start, for example:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3A%22texts%22... will lead to The Cambridge History of ___ (geography or topic, e.g. Literature, India) and The Cambridge ___ History (time or topic, e.g. Ancient, Medieval, Natural). Each of these titles are several volumes, 500-1000 pages per volume, covering centuries of events from a British perspective.

German Classics, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22German%20l...

Eastern Classics, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Oriental%2...
I think the idea is cool, actually I once worked on something similar in Go, very small code base. And adding flushing, caching and thread-safety is no black art. The charming thing here is that, once severe Data errors happen, one can easily recover from them using a simple Editor.

Imagine how to fix low-level data corruption on your <Insert your DBMS name> Server.
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I this is a bit of legacy ( like the Stanford Bunny ). One of the seminal work of lighting was Photon mapping by Henrik Jensen , and he used Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's structure as an example ( http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/animations/jensen-the_light... ). Keep in mind this was done 14 years ago! It was a genuine wow moment for me back then!
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Does Sacramento have water meters yet?
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In the UK, you will go to jail for encryption, or for astronomical noise (2012)
I guess you can solve that with some kind of (adapted) glasses, put a UV filter there and it should be ok.
The Client APIs are kind of free: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/master/LI...
What about the changing angle of light incidence in this fast-forward scene?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOkJ1-vnh-s

It somehow looks like it would be dynamic diffuse indirect lighting. Wouldn’t that need to be pre-rendered for each position of the sun then? Or it’s just really good use of shadow maps, ambient occlusion and screen-space specular reflection:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/Po...

Edit: This particular scene uses light propagation volumes, in the other scenes it’s UE’s pre-computed (hence static) Lightmass GI, as parent comment said.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/Li...

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/Li...
The Turing stuff was officially released the implication in the article is that the info coming from gchq is unofficial.
And yet the soviets got wind of it when they saw that at some point there wasn't any american research about nuclear decay published anymore.
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I use IFTTT and Pocket to read my favs, I assume you want to create a magazine.
I'm a part time indie developer. For my last game, Antigen, (http://antigengame.com) I got to do the following:

Work with procedural graphics algorithms. I invented several original techniques which I don't think have been used before. That was immensely satisfying. (for example, check out how I made the sprites: http://richardjdare.com/blog/2013/03/toxin-advanced-sprite-t... Or watch the trailer video to the end and try and figure out how I did the title screen animation!)

I learned a ton of algorithms and mathematical techniques I didn't know about before. AI, collision detection, geometry etc. All of these things being beyond the skills of an ultra low-end programmer I think :)

I learned how to do sound design, how synthesisers work etc. In previous games I used someone else's effects but in Antigen I did every noise myself from scratch.

Now, at my day job writing Java web-apps, the most complicated thing I do is calculate VAT, or figure out in what order I should call the functions of someone else's API! I often feel detached from the work, like I am just doing it as a favour. But when I work on my games I feel like I am doing what I became a programmer for; I am completely in the zone, surfing the edge of my knowledge and creativity. It lets me satisfy my love of the arts and sciences at the same time.
Cause of global warming hiatus found deep in the Atlantic Ocean
A fantastic book to read on this topic is "A world lit only by fire" by William Manchester. He also makes the case that Europe emerged from superstition because the Pope declared the world to be flat just as Magellan circumnavigated the globe, and the printing press permitted millions to learn about it. The age of myth and superstition was rapidly replaced by the Enlightenment.

Update: as has been pointed out below, Manchester overstated his case. It was still an enjoyable read some 16 years ago, and I still agree with the idea that the printing press - by disseminating news and knowledge at speed - undermined the prevailing authority of the day.
It’s official. Yale physicists have chilled the world’s coolest molecules
It should still be fairly easy to check for an API Key in the header if not found in the request parameters. This way there would be no disruption for old apps, and it would benefit new apps.

I also think that both this and HTTPS are mandatory, but since it's on your roadmap that's good enough.
I tried a lot and use RequireJS + Gulp now (same Gulpfile on every project). Works for me, I don't see a compelling reason to change something.

My Gulpfile has 200 lines and does everything from asset-manifests to css minification, js-reloading etc.
Do you really think spontaneous remission is a random miracle? A scientist actually looked at the data and wrote this book: http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Remission-Surviving-Cancer-Aga...

Typically there is a lot of work involved in "spontaneous" remission.

But yes, it's likely we can't eliminate cells' mistakes, just prevent, detect and fix them better in the future.
Copy of a comment I made in a previous submission, a few hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8207152

Well, the data is very noisy. The main problem is that this data doesn't have a before/after comparison. Is the 850nm light visible now or it was always visible???

It's also very difficult to make a fair comparison. The room must be the same, the light sources must be the same (a new coffeepot with a small led can ruin the experiment, removing a coffeepot because it has recently broken can ruin the experiment).

For a preliminary experiment, the before-after comparison is enough. For a serious experiment you need many voluntaries, compare the before-after signals of them all at the same time in the same experimental conditions, and double blind testing.

There is a small possibility that they are measuring "excitement" instead of light. The subject hears that they are now going to test with very near infrared light. He got exited. They measure that. Perhaps the flash makes a slight sound, perhaps the light operator makes a slight sound. (Perhaps the 850nm flash makes a sound that the other flashes don't make?)
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>I don't consider the microprocessor in my smart phone with its billions of transistors, and the ever-faster global internet and wireless systems that enable nearly instant (certainly to human perception it's nearly instant) global communication to billions of people at any time, to be low hanging fruit.

BUt it is, proof is that even after we invested tens of billions in funding basic research in cancer and other areas of biology we still know so little of practical value. Even the simplest organism is infinitely more complex than the most intricate human made object (which might very well be the microprocessor). We solved the fast computing and global communication problems first because they're way easier, and there's no denying it.
With water conserving aquaponics.
>For every act of production, there must be an equal and opposite act of consumption.

The key thing is, the production and consumption need not occur simultaneously. Say I dig up a really spiky plant. I could immediately consume it. Or, I could use it to bludgeon an ox to death that I couldn't otherwise kill. The latter use is a form of investment: the plant is turned into a tool that increases my productivity, allowing me to obtain more food (the ox) than without it.

A similar decision applies in some way to everything that's produced. It can be consumed sooner, or it can be invested and consumed later, in a manner than increases overall ability to produce/consume.

Take a look at http://faculty.lebow.drexel.edu/lainczc/cal38/Growth/Levine_..., a metastudy that identifies "a positive, robust correlation between growth and the share of investment in GDP"; more investment leads to more growth.

>Trying to classify people into "productive" and "nonproductive" is very nearly impossible even within small groups who perform that same basic work in the same building.

By unproductive I was speaking of the stereotypical welfare-dependent individual to which the conversation I was replying to seemed to be referring. If somebody does not work or study, just sits around receiving money for doing nothing, most people would not consider that productive.
Yeah, it just occurred to me I used it backwards. I meant biologists/labs aren't fungible.
"Designing and coding layouts that work well across all these screens is hugely challenging."
Says who ?
Unknown screen size is something Android has embraced since day 1 and each time, writing that it is an huge issue just shows me that the writer does not know what he is writing about.

There are issues risen by the wealth of Android devices, but screen sizes is not one of them.
Try a secondhand book site: I like abebooks.com, and there's also alibris.com. I'm slowly assembling a set of the Oxford Charles Dickens; every few months I pick a title I haven't got and search for a copy that's called "fine" or "very fine". ("Fair" copies are readable but may have markings, highlighting, etc., or be a battered ex-library copy.)
Yes, my reading of the article was that it was coming from anonymous sources. Who knows, it could be from another couple of Snowdens or could even be another sneaky beaky plot to degrade Tor's anonymity.
Jesus, people have an awful taste in music.