skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really, multiply connected mazes are more interesting and more aesthetically pleasing.

A question, though. If, in 2D, having all walls in one piece is simply connected, and having some islands is multiply connected, what are the possible types of 3D maze (let's call it a cave). You can obviously have simply connected walls, or multiply connected walls (floating shells of rock) but what name would you give the type that has some looping paths but no floating rocks? Do we talk about genus?
I don't know why this was downvoted. A lot of this presentation is hard to take seriously for exactly the reasons vesche outlined, especially when the authors make howlers like praising Pond to the skies while the Pond author begs people not to make serious use of it.
Yes. As I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8938244, I'm an engineer on Google Compute Engine.

I talked about how my team at Google, specifically, handles this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941915
Docker on Windows Server: how will it work?
Hugard and Braue are, again, totally canonical. (Almost sort of analogous to Thompson & Ritchie's published works on C/Unix, but for cards...sort of ;) They're cheap and easy to come by for <$10 each, and I agree that pound-for-pound, you're going to get more effects from them than anywhere else.

I do think for a serious beginner right now, though, Giobbi is probably more appropriate. I would argue he offers considerably more detail on subtleties of handling and overall performance and in more accessible language which is important. It's kind of like you're getting the best of Erdnase, Hugard, Braue and so many of the greats who came after them in the 20th century distilled down to best practices with Giobbi's course. There's nothing wrong with taking it slow either. You don't have to get all the volumes at once. In fact, it would be better to spend a long time mastering each before buying and moving on to the next.
For those who don't get the reference in the name: http://vimeo.com/91715361
I would say the talk itself is a triumph of style over substance.
Nice summary thanks :-)
Exactly. Being a CS major is 90% fixing scoping issues with java to get your project to compile, whereas web developers don't even use java.
I find it especially amusing because "poop" and "butts" are my default "I need to enter some text here" strings.
I don't know.

You're ignoring all my other examples of censorship, though.

I knew it was going to be a hard issue so the downvotes are not unexpected.
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Out of curiosity, I wondered what sort of data my home county (Salt Lake County) kept and if I could get access to it.

It was easy to find... but apparently will cost me $1000 dollars to access it...

Perhaps I don't understand exactly how the Assessor's office works, but it seems pretty wrong that public data from an organization funded by taxpayers isn't freely available for download.

The article doesn't mention it, but it looks like LA County charges as well.
I was in GRiM around ~1992 and an iCE trial artist ~1993 ;-) But I'm probably not in any of these packs. I didn't make it into iCE though, I heard there was some kind of Canadian merger and the management changed.

I first discovered all these ansis on Sanctuary in 305. I never met Tempus Thales but I think we lived in the same neighborhood. I got enough positive feedback from my ansis that I went on to get a BFA in studio art.
Staying with the Star Wars theme here is a great quote:

On Mutation and Programming: Assignment leads to mutation. Mutation leads to pointers. Pointers lead to suffering!
- Anton van Straaten
This was great. If there's ever a "Gentle Primer, pt. II" I'd love to see a walkthrough on replacing the existing hardcoded password with a different string.
I recently was reading up on folding again. I thought, wouldn't it be great if people could manage to combine protein folding for a good cause with bitcoin mining. Cool idea.
I can absolutely recommend sheet.js. It opens an xlsx file in a browser and dumps the data out as json that you can chuck in to something like handsontable.js for the user to view or modify data, then just take the handsontable data and pass it to your backend. If you want to do automated checks you can very easily do that to the json that sheet.js outputs. It's exceptional.

There's an xsl parser too, but if you want to handle csv you'll need something like papaparse.js (which is sort of the grandparent of harb, which is the node.js csv parser sheet.js uses).
Eliminating the "Zionist regime" would require destroying Israel. What do you suggest Iran's plan for doing that is, other than killing vast numbers of Israelis?

When did I dismiss anything done by other countries? I didn't. You're not only misquoting me, but failing like so many others in this thread when it comes to logical separation. Because I say X, does not mean I also say Z or agree with Z or deny Z - if I say Iran is an oppressive theocracy, that does not mean I claim that Napoleon didn't do terrible things while invading Russia.

Iran supports lots of terrorist organizations. They backed and financed terrorism against US targets in Iraq as one obvious example, but they're active all around the world and have been implicated in supporting terrorism in numerous countries.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/30/feds-say-ira...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terror...

"In July 2012, The Times of India reported that New Delhi police have concluded that terrorists belonging to a branch of Iran’s military, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, were responsible for an attack on 13 February 2012, during which a bomb explosion targeted an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi, India, wounding one embassy staff member, a local employee, and two passers-by. According to the report, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards may have planned other attacks on Israeli targets around the world as well"

"Iran supplies political support and weapons to Hamas,[14] an organization classified by Israel, the United States, Canada, the European Union and Japan as a terrorist organization."

"Iranian proxies killed an estimated 1,100 US troops in Iraq.[35] In addition, insurgents supported by Iran reportedly committed acts of terrorism"

"Aggrey Adoli, Kenya's police chief in Kenya's coastal region, said on 22 June 2012 that two Iranians, Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad and Sayed Mansour Mousavi, believed to members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force,[39] were arrested and suspected of being involved in terrorism."

http://www.cfr.org/iran/state-sponsors-iran/p9362

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2013/11/21-iran-...

http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2012/209978.htm

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/html/pdf/Iran-Testimony-...
I'm not really disagreeing then, I'm just failing to see your point.

Iran is an oppressive theocracy. Saudi Arabia is an oppressive theocracy. Both of them support people/groups we would call terrorists. The only regard in which Iran is somehow worse than Saudi Arabia is that they have a more outspoken hate of Israel while the Saudis are clever enough to avoid speaking too badly about a country in their region that is a close ally to the countries they're so good at doing business with.

One country being worse than another doesn't make the other country any better. I'm not saying Iran is moderate. It's just a heck of a lot more moderate (in practice) than Saudi Arabia, a country that televises PSAs that women shouldn't drive and that you better don't skip on any of your prayers throughout the day because God will literally kill you if you do that.
Fake BTS Attacks of GSM System on Software Radio Platform [pdf] (2012)
Facebook Now Has 3B Video Views per Day
BitGold goes public. Reverse takeover of penny stock co. is easy way to IPO
The letter that left a little girl in tears
The underlying concept is the same. Zerocash is still on paper though last time I checked and needs a trusted party setup. This is something that can be used right now without trust. That's really the main difference between the two.
Why Women Are Ditching STEM Careers – And How to Change It
I don't really fear a non-open internet. VPNs are already usable by any motivated main-stream desktop user ... an effectively free an open internet is going to be accessible by motivated individuals, period.

This makes no sense. An ISP could block VPN traffic... and there are millions of people with access to only a single ISP.

I guess if "motivated individuals" means they have to uproot their lives and move to another part of the country to get a decent ISP.. then sure, I agree. I guess we all have plenty of choices then.
Yes, I think everyone understands Apple's secrecy by now. Here's my favorite expression of that: http://worrydream.com/Apple/

Anyway, it doesn't count until it ships. You haven't actually solved a problem until you've shipped a product that someone will pay for.
What was your handle?
It might be worth mentioning somewhere that the site/project is focused on the United States. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the impression I get when I look through the projects and filtering options.

It'd be nice to associate each agency with a country, so that you could filter on a particular country as well.
Is Aphex Twin Dropping Hours of Unreleased Music on SoundCloud?
Amount of data is mentioned: 10 million keys and 100 byte string values for each key
I'm about as far from a handyman as you can get, but I did manage to make one of these myself. The legs are only about 2" tall, but it sits snug with less than 1/8" wiggle room. While I don't use mine for bringing the laptop to the tub, it has been a delight for books and drinks.
I took it offline but I can enable it again.

What I would like to sell is the code base that interfaces with 6 APIs. The code base downloads and keeps refreshed a copy of the movie database, and it cross references each movie with Amazon Instant Video, iTunes and Netflix (no public API access anymore, but access could probably be obtained)

It also checks each movies IMDB rating and populates the DB with that.

The DB is searchable with elasticsearch.

Its a small code base in Python, with Flask for the search frontend and MongoDB for the data.

Its a streaming movie search engine, it tells you where you can find any movie online.

The links are affiliate links and you will earn whenever anyone that clicks through to Amazon buys anything on Amazon in the next 24 hours.

The sales I have gotten from Amazon were not even for movie purchases, but just other purchases people made. With traffic this would be a good revenue stream.

I am currently immersed in another project and hence haven't had time to continue with streamjoy, but my idea for the next pivot was to create Tinder for streaming movies.

I envision a Tinder like swipe interface for choosing a movie to watch. You would swipe right or left. This would let one quickly filter movies down to ones one is interested in.

The swipe rights would go into a maybe queue, and the swipe lefts wouldn't be seen again.

Picking a streaming movie to watch is a frustrating thing experienced by millions.

I would love for someone to make money from streamjoy. Email me at will@willholloway.net if you are interested.
A significant portion of it, yes
I doubt it, that shits cheap.
Very Nice. Writing glsl shaders is one area where live-reloading is a must.

glslify has me excited, I've mostly used Three.js when writing shaders (even fullscreen no-geometry shaders) simply because they have libraries for loading images. I'm hoping that stack.gl / glslify will tackle a minimal overhead asset loading solution for WebGL projects.

Edit:
Found stackgl texture library, now to go about building support for 3D cube/spherical maps.
https://github.com/stackgl/gl-texture2d
Let's be realistic here. The extent of that information is the users' profile, which currently consists of a 160 character bio, a human readable name (which can be anything) and any external links they choose to supply; their followership information; and whatever they choose to include in their posts.

Is there really enough salable information in there to make it worth the full time effort that would have to be put in working against the bot detection measures, the inevitable IP blocks and account suspensions? Is that really something you could base a business on?

I imagine the Ello social graph could be useful in an online anthropology study, but I can't see anyone getting much mileage out of it beyond that.

(Although to contradict myself, CircleCount.com does maintain a database of Ello user statistics. They did ask the Ello team nicely about this, and I imagine there is some kind of exception made here.)
Right. Good clarification.
Not developing additional features isn't the same thing as canceling a project.
You might also be interested in Duncan Watts' book "Everything is Obvious", which explores this tendency we have to assume that observed success equates to some skill. Its a nice read.
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Not really. If all you're doing is feeding hungry people then you're just creating more hungry people.
A friend suggested that a 3-way off switch might possess enough novelty to warrant a patent. I have no idea. I hope that it’s not actually patentable, because I just want to see that a product like this is made, but I actually have some concerns because of my situation that the government would take my idea and give it to a contractor, or patent it themselves and sit on the patent.

Congratulations! By publishing this article, you have established that you thought of this idea in early 2015. While you may decide to patent it yourself, you no longer need to fear someone else patenting it, because one must have a good claim to inventing a thing in order to obtain a patent on it.
Arts don't die.
Unfortunately Clojure start time is about the same regardless of build tool, and it's especially not good on the RPi.
-Z-Trasher

I was not into the warez scene but I had some classmates who were. I did ansis for Dragonworld and Asylum, and maybe Sanctuary. The ansi scene was separate but associated with the warez scene (I think the cracking groups paid to have ansis made) if that makes any sense.

I was the sysop of Zap! which was PD/Shareware files, message networks and door games. A BBS was a rudimentary CMS that was like a social network for your neighborhood. If you knew ansi you could customize the interface, especially if you had the source code. At one point I had the Telegard source code (Pascal) and made a lot of UI modifications to it.
Never trust a corporation to do a library's job
I've read some of your guides, and I don't really understand what the chained anonymity is getting you. Could you give some examples where complex chains are useful?

I can see limited circumstances where VPN/proxy->Tor, Tor->VPN/proxy, and VPN/proxy->Tor->VPN/proxy make sense, but no need for anything more complex than that.
Rust's high-level I/O definitely needs some optimization work. For example, the APIs which allocate a String for each line tend to be limited to about 25MB/s on my laptop. But if I use the low-level fill_buf and write APIs, I can get about 500MB/sec throughput: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/73770/61214

There are even lower-level APIs which would probably go faster, but above a half-GB per second, I/O is no longer a bottle-neck for my code.
My bet is that they are working with thrift for their transport layer. We're moving the same direction. I should be landing a bunch of diffs over the next week to the JS thrift libraries to support XHR and websockets in the nodejs thrift library (for use with browserify).
And the closest to solving this we seem to be at present is fuelled by deep learning, which is basically a big neural network with an absurdly vast amount of neurons (i.e., parameters for learning, like the brain). We can observe how this brute-force technique works, but unfortunately no-one can explain why (it's a black box model). The same story has been on for decades.

I would relate it to being a discriminative model, which is tailored to solving a specific task, in contract to generative models, which try to model and explain the world. Perhaps the brain is not meant to understand how the world works but how to do take advantage of it.
I think that's a poor definition.

I generally consider art to be an expression of ideas. A craft is an expression of skill.

Further "These are arts that have no audience, other than practitioners of the art itself. Another word for a craft is a hobby." This is patently false. Perhaps the archetypal craft is basket-weaving. It's a hobby for some, but for others (especially in certain regions) it's a profession. The "audience" is anyone that wants a basket. Perhaps some of that audience can appreciate the difference between a good basket and a bad one. That does not require that they be a practitioner of basket-weaving themselves.

In fact, of the terms art and craft, the latter is the one that is reasonably well defined. Things only get fuzzy when you get into whether or not a craft is art. Not because of the fuzzy definition of a craft, but because of the fuzzy definition of art.
Google Pledges $3M to Make Singularity University Graduate Studies Program Free
Of course it's no real controversy that the Islamic Republic is radical, it is a Revolution which always had radical aims and its power has always been founded on violence.

Bearing in mind that Hezbollah is a terrorist group according to the US State Department because it is engaged in military conflict with Israel, the Islamic Republic has many reasons to maintain its patronage of Hezbollah, most of which relate to Hezbollah's ability to make war whether or not we consider that terrorist.

Iranian national interest is not to try to cozy up to the US or Israel. Iranians legitimately fear reprises of the traumatic Iran-Iraq war. They have defense interests in the region. The US is not offering to defend Iran. The US can't defend anyone in the region even if it wanted to - look at what happened to poor Georgia and now Ukraine, which are not even majority Muslim countries. So we are asking Iran to cut off Hezbollah, but not replace it - there are no established alternatives. Who can offer them reliable allegiance, the bones of PLO?

The political class needs to maintain popular focus on external enemies to maintain the internal cohesion of Iran itself in spite of relatively brutal restrictions enforced with secret police and gulags. They need to feed their religious base, after all their whole legitimacy is based on religion. They also need concessions to Iranian nationalists who like to see Iran being a regional power. It also buys a certain amount of goodwill in the Ummah to make noise about helping Palestine fight Israel. When the majority of the Ummah is Sunni and a very large and important segment is Arab, that kind of goodwill is a little harder to buy for a Shiite theocracy dominated by ethnic Persians. Anyway, Iran is so entrenched in its proxy war with Israel that it can't really back out. So it needs Hezbollah.

If you are worried for Israel and you want Iran's threat to Israel to end, then Israel has to make good with Palestine with significant concessions, and then the Islamic Republic's position will be correspondingly eroded. Unfortunately it looks like Israel's political class has become dominated by an intransigent ultranationalist wing which decided to intentionally and permanently cut off any possible basis for conciliation by fragmenting any possible territory into a completely indivisible foam, which ultimately just feeds the Islamic Republic.
Zuckerberg is saying as little as possible on Oculus
Has anyone done the math to know if this is profitable in terms of power spent to mine vs mined coin value?
That's a five year old server. That's worthlessly depreciated in just about any organization.
I have to agree with the frustration of the apparent minority. We've been using HipChat corporate-wide, and the subset of users that have been using Screenhero aren't going to be able to change to Slack now (even if we wanted to).

And it seems that the wondering our remote development team has been doing about what happened to progress on Screenhero's video codec (pumping 800kb/s+ over my line when nothing is happening on screen is a bit excessive) is now answered with a resounding, "We've been trying to get acquired." Well, congrats on that.

Back to VNC and Skype with no cursor of my own, I guess. But at least it's free and has less chance of my ISP throttling my home connection due to saturating the pipes with Screenhero all day.
I wonder if this will result in more open source code available in China? Open source projects should have no trouble disclosing source code to anyone who asks, including the Chinese government.
> VidArc was a tiny store in a mini-mall, with barely room to squeeze past other customers, but it made up for its size with the percentage of rare and obscure titles that were available, and with the knowledge of the film-nut staff, notably the cinema-obsessed and mile-a-minute talker Quentin, whose low-budget life at the time has been explored in several books. Denise's card was number 1410, and when I made my trek from Oregon in the Orange Monster (my '72 Olds Cutlass), I became a customer as well, discovering the world of strange and disturbing cinema under the tutelage of Quentin, Rowland Wafford, Gerald "Big Jerry" Martinez, Stevo Polyi, Roger Avary, and the owner of VidArc, Lance Lawson.

http://toddmecklem.com/quentin.html
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My BBS: http://artpacks.org/1995/ice9507a.zip/MA-UNH1.ICE

I was never especially good at making art, but this was my favorite of the things I did make: http://artpacks.org/1995/fsn-0895.zip/CT-ASY.ANS

I feel bad for people who were born too late and missed out on the whole BBS scene. Those years were tons of fun, and nothing on the internet has ever been quite like that world.
Deep learning models definitely don't need an "absurdly vast amount of neurons" - for example, GoogLeNet (arguably the state of the art image classification model) has only ~6M parameters.
Will this layer be released as a separate project so that other projects like raynos/mercury [2] or elm [1] can target this interop layer?

mercury was fully decoupled from virtual-dom [0] (such that you can use virtual canvas or virtual-gl). Would be really nice if this stuff can be used by other libraries easily.

[0] https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom

[1] http://elm-lang.org/

[2] https://github.com/Raynos/mercury
When someone mentions Iran, what images leap into your mind? Ayatollahs, religious fanaticism, veiled women?

Having been friends for a time with an Iranian, the thing I think of is politeness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taarof

The second thing I think of is that Farsi is a genderless language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_genderless...

I knew this person well and I learned that Persian culture, unlike American culture, has concepts for sucking up to female authority figures as well as male. The expressions I learned were pretty sexually explicit and I don't know if I remember them well. But I was very struck by the fact that the culture had egalitarian qualities my own culture lacks. For me, it was a growth experience and provided much needed mental models for my own life.

No culture is a monolith. The modern government in Iran is being transposed over a culture that is thousands of years old. It is a rich culture and has many fine qualities.
There's at least one on there, but it isn't rendering. :(

I'll work on it tonight or tomorrow!