skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What goes wrong if you just use Perlin noise for a height map and pick a "sea level" threshold? That also has the advantage of giving you an interesting seabed, if you have the ability to see underwater.

You'd still want various kinds of local mutation to create interesting features, though. For inspiration, you might look at how games like Angband and Crawl combine procedurally-generated overall level design with pre-constructed "vaults". A similar technique, with enough variations to avoid looking obvious, could work to embed more unusual features in an otherwise procedurally-generated set of continents.

Beyond that, you might also want a dedicated coastline-and-river generator, which picks appropriate high mountains, puts the top of a river there, and has it wend its way down altitude (eroding as needed) until it reaches the "ocean". Throw in some appropriate generation of beaches, riverbanks, and ocean cliffs.
Huh? You say you disagree, but then state that programmers can range from bad to okay to good to excellent? That isn't bimodal, and is precisely the authors point?
I wonder how long it's going to be before we see state-level actors exploit these kinds of security holes.

To be sure, there are already a lot of ways to incapacitate or hurt someone. But abusing software bugs in a person's medical devices might be a less traceable way to disrupt their activity.
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The abstract seems to deliberately construct a misrepresentation and uses it as motivation for the paper: "Common maxims about beauty suggest that attractiveness is not important in life." The authors go on to imply that those maxims are meant to assert that something "is the case" when they are obviously asserting a "should be the case". Kind of silly, no? Unless there really are maxims that assert "looks are not important in life at the current moment in time, you will never be judged by your attractiveness today" -- but I've never heard any of these.

The three maxims that the paper names are all either of the "should" form or not at all related to "importance" -- the first claims relativity from person to person, not importance, the second asserts a "should", and the third is totally unrelated to actual social conditions (the "life" in "attractiveness is not important in life"). So the paper seems to exist for its own strawman, but I'll have to read the whole thing...
On ubuntu, you can do something similar with

upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1 | grep capacity | awk '{print $2}'

You can see all of your power options with

upower -e
Wikipedia is not the review, not in the life sciences sense of the word.

A review, despite "reviewing" the literature, offers a unique perspective, and does have an argument, although one that is based solely on the aggregation of existing evidence and literature.

Wikipedia just describes parts of the field, reviews offer insight and perspective.
"In the early 80s, to these four "classic" bases of DNA was added a fifth: the methyl-cytosine (mC) derived from cytosine."

How come any biology course or book I've ever seen, whether high-school or top-university level, only teaches about four bases?
On Linux and ThinkPads you can use acpi_call to set these tresholds https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tp_smapi#2nd_Option (the old tp_smapi way ceased to work about four years ago).
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Vimeo videos don't have automatic captioning, unfortunately. If you are finding it hard to hear there may be a problem with your speakers or your hearing. Or possibly your soundcard - check that you're not using some sort of equalizer that's supposed to 'optimize' things for music or so using EQ curves.

If everything else sounds fine and it's only this one video, then I'm not sure what to say. The speaker has a distinctive English accent and a somewhat nasal voice (so it has a somewhat narrow frequency range) but is perfectly understandable for me.
In infinite generation, it's tricky to meaningfully do it. If you can constrain your space, I've had good luck with Voronoi generation and using those as continental plates. A little edge randomness, and I figure out what subducts, what separates, which plates are water and which plates aren't, and so on. Couple this with an iterative erosion mechanic and you can do some neat stuff.

("Look, this is Perlin noise" made this a disappointing article for me. It's the sort of thing you saw on GameDev.Net fifteen years ago...)
Was this an acquihire or is Google sincerely going to integrate these things into Calendar?

If they do, it would be really cool. But Google has also acquired a bunch of other little companies, and it seems like they just digest the teams and have them working on unrelated things.
> Later, he is shown to have presented portions of that code to his new firm.

If this is true, it's a pretty big smoking gun. You really do your argument a disservice with the squid thing.
No hehe, my experience is mostly C++ PC and console games, so a) let it crash is not viable, and b) performance precludes performing extensive validation (a debuggable but unresponsive game is not viable).

In games, messaging troubles are usually related to systems like character behaviour and AI that deal with multiple complex entities responding to the world state and interacting with each other. It's rarely a case of corrupt data and null pointers (those are easier): physically valid yet logically incorrect or unexpected data.
Where is the actual download link here? I feel as if I must be missing something.
As far as I can tell, the rules that are on the books for handling dangerous situations is not at issue, it's the complete disregard for those and any other rules. It's the rampant abuse of power that's the real problem.

There is no longer any accountability or consequence for a police officer committing the most heinous of crimes in the United States. At worst they'll get fired, then hired back onto the force in the next town over.
This seems amazing. It combines three things I've been meaning to learn for ages - Haskell, Music theory and Digital Music. THANK YOU so much for showing me this, OP.
tp_smapi still works fine on my T61?
The page says "The ebook (in PDF) is currently available at part of a promotion by Embarcadero Technologies.", but I don't see a link to a PDF file.
I agree. A large business that uses software for a core revenue-producing source, is capable of doing fantastic work on that source.

A software company providing that same product as a vendor, would be unlikely to have the motivation and focus to do it the same way.

Key for me, is the principal/agent distinction. If you are using something as principal, for revenue, your motivations are very strong. If you are producing it as agent, for someone else's revenue, trickier. By definition, less money for you to get it right as agent for someone else.

That said, there may be dozens to hundreds of ancillary software processes at a large business which are done very poorly, but any smart business of size will take great care of where the money comes from.
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Remote, remote, remote. My job is remote. I own a house in upstate New York, I will not work for a company that expects me to sell it and move to them in $BIG_CITY.

Also the thing I think is the dumbest is when a company won't shell out a couple thousand for decent hardware for the engineers. Like, you want us to be productive, right?
As if laws are never broken.

Downvoting me doesn't mean UK laws are always obeyed.
I can't select text? Blah
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I actually built this out of frustration with jq. I've been looking for something similar, but I wanted something that followed the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy and would play more nicely with other tools. jq on it's own is basically the end of the line since it gives you the same difficult-to-process format out the other end.

That being said, I can definitely see the two being used together. Pipe jq output into jsonf and you now have output that can be fed into other tools much more easily.
This is completely unacceptable. There really should be more pentesting of medical gear and industrial control systems in general.
I go to the Naval Academy, and am currently a plebe so I am in the first mandatory cyber course, this one, right now (and have my exam on Wednesday!). "Cyber" is truly a technology word you only hear in the gov't/military.

Chris Inglis -- former NSA deputy director -- is a member of the cyber department.
Trolls try to get people to commit suicide. Is that what you want to defend?
> The only reason printf needed to embed that extra type information was because the C programming language lacked variadic templates.

And to specify the format. If you want this function to print your integer as hexadecimal, for example, I guess you have to format it first.
From where I'm standing it looks like LightSail is more relevant to larger energy storage needs. Tesla makes a good argument about the importance of their form factor for the consumer market. It would be really cool if something similar could be done with compressed air.
Trolls are the ones trying to get people to kill themselves.
From a technical perspective, yeah, you probably should unplug your laptop at around 70-80%, since that's where the current battery tech is happiest. An even better option would be to use software to limit charge to 70% unless you manually tell it to fill up; this isn't universally available, though.

From a realistic perspective, though, I've found that (in my experience) to be marginally beneficial; the slight benefit to battery health it had afforded to me wasn't worth the hassle.
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I still don't see a concrete explanation of how this would work. Instead, I see you tossing off possible solutions that don't pass even a basic test of feasibility.

Is bug tracker activity a sign of a good paper? Or a poor paper?

The use-case I objected to, from the original article, is:

> A dependency graph would tell us, at a click, which of the pillars of scientific theory are truly load-bearing. And it would tell us, at a click, which other ideas are likely to get swept away with the rubble of a particular theory. An academic publisher worth their salt would, for instance, not only be able to flag articles that have been retracted—that this is not currently standard practice is, again, inexcusable—but would be able to flag articles that depend in some meaningful way on the results of retracted work.

How would structuring it "something like Wikipedia" make this use-case more feasible? It seems instead like you are talking about a completely different topic.
Market share. Target non-website customers into customers via an app marketplace.

If it's seamless, why not?
I used to, quite heavily. It was my go-to systems language when I didn't have any particular reason to use C or C++. But I think its time has likely gone at this point. It honestly just doesn't offer anything that interesting compared to other languages. As others have pointed out, C# is in many ways its spiritual successor. Go offers a much richer library collection, is similarly lightweight, but has a better resource cleanup story (both defer and garbage collection). Rust offers an even lighter weight runtime and throws in rich concurrency and safety guarantees. FreePascal offers...safer strings than C, I guess?

I honestly prefer FreePascal to C, but I just think that ship has sailed at this point.
Methylation and other base modifications (there are 20+ last I checked) are taught in upper-level biology courses. I guess the people who write biology texts consider this advanced material.
Nowadays, the police looks fearsome and threatening with their high tech automatic gear and offensive stance. They are not approachable. Why does policing require these military style weapons?
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They had one at 53k and another at 55k last week, but those went quick. If you're serious about going electric, keep tabs on that report. You should be able to snag a deal in your price range. The Model S checks off everything on your list except price, and it's just barely out of that range at that.
Was it really necessary to implement your own scrollbar? It's absurdly slow (and therefore annoying) on Firefox/Conkeror, and seems entirely redundant when the browser handles scrolling perfectly fine.
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The only thing "consistent" about LiIon prices is their relentless decrease. If you think battery technology is going to hit some plateau in the short run I think you need to seriously re-evaluate that assumption. The path we are taking is exactly the technological progress that you would expect to see and in fact is happening much faster than anyone expected 10 years ago.

The article was obviously part satire and baiting this kind of response but I'd encourage you to walk into a Tesla showroom and look at the marvelous simplicity of the vehicle construction and components. It certainly will revolutionize how cars are made and there's no question reliability and economics will eventually trounce ICE, and again a lot sooner than anyone would have expected.

Tesla has capitalized on the zeitgeist with this, and say what you want about Elon, but that's all irrelevant. Say what you want about the environmental externalities, but ultimately when it comes to mainstream adoption they are irrelevant as well. The economic argument is that cars will be safer, faster, more reliable, and cheaper to operate, in the long run, without an ICE in them.

Ultimately it's a good thing that this will play out over 50 years, since there's a hell of a lot of infrastructure that needs to be built and even more which will become obsolete.
I can't but help to think there might be some commercial potential here-- it looks incredibly fun to play with. Perhaps a free web-app where you can pay to have animations rendered at high resolution server-side and then placed in a Dropbox folder for download. Or something that makes music videos by using audio information to control some of the fractal parameters during an animation.
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http://www.teslamotors.com/findus#/bounds/42.023131,-87.5240...

Not in this city. The nearest one is an hourish away, depending on time of day and traffic. This is by the way, the third largest city in the country.

New York has only one in JFK, which as I understand it is an awful place to have to drive to.

Possible, yes, practical, no. "Slight less convenient" is a gross understatement in at least these two cities. LA, well.. the culture of "you just have to take an hour to get anywhere" seems to permeate anyway so maybe it works.
Wow. Pretty neat trick! Thanks for that :D
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I really like that article - in fact, it's what I followed, using the Voronoi polygons and everything. But when it comes time to draw the coastline, the author just says "there are many ways to do this," without specifying what those ways are (other than using a pizza box or another source).
I run Windows on mine and it runs fine (late 2010 13", 4GB model). Only use it when travelling though.
Why bother with medical devices? Just lock on their driver-side brakes when they're on the highway. Bonus: car accidents are common enough that it'd be unlikely to be noticed.
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Caller ID is what describes what I want, and the current methods for delivering caller ID info to the recipient of a call would not need to change. The telcos may have to invent a new term for how they handle things behind the scenes, but it would be transparent to me except that I'd now have a way to stop the robocalls.

I highly doubt that it would be hard for telcos to implement such a system. I have no doubt that they don't want to, as evidenced by their decision not to in the face of strong demand. I can certainly understand that they might have lots of businesses interested in preventing such a change, but I'm not aware of how legitimate businesses would be harmed. All they need to do is ensure that when they call me they deliver caller ID information that corresponds to a real number that can be used to identify them to the FTC when I file my complaints.
Not only that, but most people are utterly uninterested in programming. Talk to almost any teacher and they'll say that uninterested students don't learn well.
This is already on the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9486391
Great news. Their educational materials and Web IDE helped me to learn Haskell.
You can compile Thrust using a device target of OpenMP, so no need to rewrite it in OpenCL.
Could you image what things would look like with rogue "DNS" servers that mapped bankofamerica.phone to a phisher controlled endpoint? You could no longer trust that calling the "number" on the back of your credit card would actually get you in touch with the actual bank.
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It's surprising that the FDA doesn't require that as part of their certification procedure.
I do find it hard to believe they can have access to all of that military tech and not have some incentive to use it as often as possible.

Maybe it's "toys", maybe it's "budget" (the more expensive the equipment the higher their overall budget), but whatever it is, it's costly for taxpayers and dangerous for anyone the police interact with.
Wouldn't be better to just fix Cordova for this? Like adding support for those manifests
Voronoi polygons as plates is probably going to be the best way for me to go - rather than adding a circle, we can just add the distance from the nearest "land" polygon, and sum the noise with that. It doesn't get us interesting geology (which it sounds like you're doing brilliantly) but it will avoid the thousands of little rivers without oceans that we see with straight Perlin noise.
Perhaps you could seize the opportunity to train yourself not to look for a commercial value, or indeed, any value beyond it's inherent value.

To me it's obvious that this has value in itself; and frankly, I'm surprised you don't appreciate that.
If you want to stay on OSX:

Always 'Quit' open apps you don't use,
never, NEVER have 2 sessions open at the same time,
and try using lighter applications when you can (VLC instead of iTunes for music, Skim instead of Preview for PDFs, Preview instead of Photos for images, etc)

I have to use a 2012 MBP with Yosemite from time to time and if I follow these rules it is definitely bearable.
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Yeah I thought so too. The parent comment seemed to indicate otherwise.
I grew up in central MN, and I agree that strong support of public education is likely the driving factor.
> Most carrier backbones have been all-IP for years. Pretty sure end-to-end circuit switched calls are atypical nowadays, although I'm happy to be proven wrong.

That certainly depends on what network and where. If you're talking about someone like Level 3, they definitely use IP transport for phone calls. But there's a number of networks that don't. Verizon, for example, has a toll network based on the DMS-250 and DEX-600 switch platforms. Both of these are designed from the ground up to handle circuit switched traffic. There are a few routes that're IP, but they're pretty easy to pick out since there's a combination of comfort noise, significant latency and packet loss (!) on them.

AT&T, similarly has a toll network running on 4ESS, 5ESS and DMS-250s. There are a few IP trunks on there, but they're typically only used for destinations like San Francisco to Chicago.

Sprint has an all DMS-250 network at their disposal as well, as well as TDS Metrocom and the McleodUSA network that Windstream bought. Anyway, you get the idea.

On the local end, to get transport to the phone network, you have to order DSX trunks; there is no IP trunking to be had. Not to mention, there's typically quite a large number of circuit switches in any given market. Typically enough to outnumber the number of softswitches.
+1 to fixing the docs. It should not be hard to remove the one line, "Pony capabilities are completely new, no other language has them."
yeah, totally. there's now a method `embalm(&mut self)` run just before the binary data gets written. That and `exhume` would be great places to go to and from little-endian.
To the extent that 1) cities allow designating street parking for EV vehicles in residential areas, 2) that vehicles standardize on charging texhnology, 3) that the cost of building a charging station can be amortized over the useful life, I think that you will see on-street charging options for your EV.

With the right level of standardization and getting some of the costier components inside the car instead of at each outlet, I wonder how much it costs to embed an outlet in the asphalt right next to a parking space, if you were wiring say, 100,000 residential street parking spaces?
I see his point. What's true of scientific literature is true of all literature. But the solution doesn't match the ambition of the article's title. Charts and graphs, and all the high tech tools available are certainly potentially beneficial, but what's needed is a new product and center of culture, and that's a function of ethics. Those are always defined in terms of the challenge of their day. But tools with out ethics are dangerous indeed.
Oculus Rift plz?
There is a popular misunderstanding that having a top secret clearance means you automatically have access to all top secret information. When in fact it just means that it might not be illegal to give you access to particular documents.

Parent is getting at the fact that it is entirely possible to have a Top Secret clearance and never be granted access to any interesting information.
I'm on a desktop. My mouse has a scrollwheel. My scrolling is perfectly fine on pretty much every other website. Why should I be expected to know to "drag to scroll" as if I'm doing all my web browsing on a smartphone emulator?
My list is almost identical to yours, but I need range more in the 300-400 mile range, in short an electric mid size or large sedan - I drive a crown victoria now, and would be looking for something similar.
One of the problems with US police in general seems to be that levels and quality of training vary so wildly. You have some "world class" police training programs, while others seem to be almost akin to slapping a badge and a gun on the first person who walks in the door.

I have no idea if what I am about to suggest is even legal, but I'd like to see congress pass a reform bill which contains:

- A minimum level of training and minimum continuing education requirement for all levels of police (state, county, federal, etc). Similar to No Child Left Behind (but for cops).

- Civilian oversight of police complaints (akin to what other countries have). Or failing that federal oversight.

- Federal funding to develop better officer education programs (with goals including officer safety, de-escalation, alternatives to use of force, and ethics).

- Reform asset forfeiture. All funds now also have to go to local education, homeless shelters, or similar. Nothing officer benefiting can be funded. Also someone has to have actually committed and been prosecuted for a crime(!).
Not that this isn't a nasty security hole, but I should hope that this sort of equipment is firewalled at least.
It shouldn't, since the implementation breaks text selection and actual scrolling for desktop users.