skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have built sky simulation for small spheroidal planet for a (now) very obscure game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjAyq2kmGT8 - I left at the time trailer was recorded, but effects like day of time are still look like my work (as are explosions, it seems).

As I haven't had enough experience then, I made your mistake - there was no difference between dusk and dawn. And, in fact, there is.

The dust that gives red color of the sky sets down before dawn (pun intended). Thus dawn glow is much less reddish and more like red gold.

(overall effects like intensity of light can be computed from cos(sun light angle to player's normal), subtle effects like change of glow's color can be computed from sin(sun light angle to player's normal), just in case)

In your simulation there's no anisotropy in color of the sky. And this is HUGE mistake. Sky's diffusion and reflection is very anisotropic and omitting this gives your simulation very unnatural feel.
Even for intentional messages, it's certainly conceivable that another civilization with sufficient power simply transmits the message in all direction continuously.

I think that scenario would imply a relative scarcity of intelligent life: after all, if a space-faring civilization needs to transmit powerful, omnidirectional signals in the blind, it must be pretty lonely. Maybe, just maybe, the fact that we're not seeing much is actually indicative of a fairly rich sea of life in the galaxy, communicating point-to-point with each other. Not so much to randomly overhear in that world.
> They lost a lot of business to Uber, because of the lower prices.

I assume this isn't true for everyone, but for me, price is quite a ways down the list of reasons I prefer Uber to traditional Taxi service. If I'm at an airport, big hotel, or somewhere else with a taxi line, I'll take a taxi. Everywhere else, Uber is just vastly more convenient.

I'm only an occasional Uber (or taxi) user, which I suspect makes me less price sensitive than some, but my perspective is that the reason Uber is eating the taxi industry's lunch does not have as much to do with pricing or regulation as people seem to think.
- My firefox get crashed
- My device driver get problem but self recovered later.
- Other applications get hung, too.

when i keep my mouse and drag around screen.
How can one JS application can make my computer dance ?
Great game.
Question: Let's say the USA and China get in a spat and things escalate to a trade war or a shooting war (unlikely, outside of Tom Clancy (RIP) novels). What happens to the huge amounts of property owned by Chinese nationals? Is there some precedent for seizing it?

I would guess that the historical examples would be WW2. Which is problematic, because we put people of Japanese descent in concentration camps, as opposed to nothing for German/Italian immigrants...
Patents and copyright are essentially regulatory capture, they didn't start out that way... but every time they start asking for more and more rights for longer periods of time or argue for rights of corporations rather than individuals who produced the works, they are in the territory of regulatory capture and rent seeking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

and rent seeking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
An appeal to authority is when you assert that because person X has significant knowledge on subject Y, that they're also therefore right about something in topic Z, where Y and Z are unrelated. For example, Steve is a researcher in bioengineering who's well regarded in his field. He says Stephen King is a poor writer. Stephen might be right or wrong, but we can't use his status as a scientist to back up his statements regarding literature. They're not related.

However, it's not an appeal to authority when someone is actually an authority on an established subject where it's possible to be an authority on that thing. Which is the case here.

Hope that helps!
In the general sense I am absolutely after a faster Ruby. I am also after a Ruby with better tooling, better error handling and all bells and whistles. I'm following your development on Ruby Truffle with a lot of excitement, but like most Ruby / Ruby on Rails developers, the only thing that I wish is that I can just switch the Ruby and have it work exactly the same, except faster/better/stronger.

From what I understand JRuby/Truffle is closing the gaps at a nice pace (your recent tweets on constant folding is even showing that you're aiming not only for feature parity but for feature parity AND MOAR and that's awesome), but with existing applications and associated gems and all the implication of having to switch my Ruby to another slightly more exotic one, the thought is currently a source of anguish (because a lot of the existing ecosystem is extremely tied and tailored to MRI for better of for worse). I'm simply waiting for the time where I can just replace a line in my Gemfile and reap the benefits.

That being said, I would like to thank you for all the efforts you're putting in this, the blog entries, the Ruby Bibliography and all its promising research on making the Ruby ecosystem better, the benchmarks and overall collaboration with the folks at JRuby and I hope we get to see lots of good things in the future from your end.
The purpose-built fitness trackers are also more accurate than an Apple Watch as confirmed by multiple tests. They're FAR cheaper: $60 for an entry level Fitbit vs $349 for the entry-level smaller Apple Watch. And Fitbit is outselling Apple Watch every week again now after the initial Apple Watch sales.
I've used Uber from Zone 1-3 for the last few weeks. Some good experiences but I've had drivers with broken GPS asking me for directions, drivers who ignored Ubers GPS and used their own - which took poorer routes, and a driver who failed to understand a clear diversion and drove the wrong way down a 1 way road. On the other hand I had issues with fares twice (driver took an awful 'shortcut' and another driver cancelled after 10 mins and then surge pricing was in effect) and both times Uber quickly provided a refund (within hours).
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> I wish someone would instead come up with a project to really capture the public's attention about space exploration.

The imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets has proceeded quickly [1] and in a not-too-distant future we may be able to roughly analyze the composition of the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Now, given that microbial life formed on earth pretty much right after the young planet had cooled down, it may not be too far fetched to hope to find a planet with oxygen in its atmosphere, signaling the presence of at least microbial life.

Now that would be something.

[1] http://www.pppl.gov/events/colloquium-adaptive-optics-imagin...
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Could be that, could be a troll, could be an actual Googler (355 Main Street is Google's address in Cambridge MA)
> Please tell me why you throwing reams of source code in my face is relevant.

Because the bind function implementation shows why it is so slow. If you read the spec like you imply, then reading one function shouldn't be difficult. You can write your own 'bind' function that skips a bunch of uncommon corner cases and get a huge boost in performance. Deal with the possible edge cases and performance tanks.

> Source? Or could it be, shock, that a library that exists for compatibility is targeting environments without a native .bind()?

It's not a matter of supporting older browsers. Babel target's IE9+ by default and has optional polyfills and transformers you must add if you want to support JS versions before ES5.1.

There was a discussion on Reddit about this very topic a few months ago. The poster got served by the Babel guys and deleted all their posts. Their claim was basically that `(foo) => this.foo` should translate into `function (foo) { return this.foo; }.bind(this)` and that Babel got it wrong. The response from sebmck was "There's no point in using bind when you can just remap all references to this which is significantly faster." [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/30wwgk/an_overview_...).

If you want to know more on the topic, I'd suggest making a github issue so one of their team members can clarify things for you.

> It's only surprising for people who have never tried, never read the spec, and don't understand bind(). The spec clearly states that a bound function cannot be overridden. It's really not that difficult. It would be nice if you could provide clear examples of your problems because you're starting to not make sense.

The spec is fairly obscure about thisArg vs [[BoundThis]] and a full understanding encompasses not only a half-dozen user and internal functions, but also requires the reading about environments. This gets even more opaque in the ES2015 spec. That said, 99.5% of JS programmers will never read the spec (the ES5.1 spec is ~300 pages of extremely technical reading while the ES6 spec is ~600 pages and even harder to understand).

Here's a made-up example

var obj1 = {foo: 3};
var obj2 = {foo: 4};

var add = function (n) { return n + this.foo; }.bind(obj1);

add.call(obj2, 3); //=> 6

This may be easier to see in this little example, but if that definition is somewhere in a library and you use a .call() with a `this` that matters, your function will fail. When you step through with the debugger, you will see that your object that you're passing as the `this` is what you expect. When you step into the function, it will have suddenly changed to a different object.

I assume the silent failure is because users may want to .apply() a function that is bound for the easy array destructuring, but I think that attempting to rebind the `this` too anything but null or undefined should yield an error of some kind.
Interestingly, this reminds me a lot of the view espoused by Bill Janeway in Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy [1], which, among many other things, studies the history of business cycles. It's a great book.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Capitalism-Innovation-Economy-Sp...
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Do you think I can guess where "United States" is in your country dropdown?

Oh, it's the sixth country, even though everything else is alphabetic order, but Sweden is on top because apparently you're based in Sweden and so is Denmark and Norway because apparently you have a lot of customers there.

But I'm supposed to know this while looking under U and seeing "United States minor islands"? It's really annoying, I just type United and it usually jumps to the correct thing (the first United it sees)
At the time of his death, the following 2 quotes were found on his blackboard:

"What I cannot create, I do not understand" and right beneath this "Know how to solve every problem that has been solved".
> abolished patents

> How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation?

I'm sorry, but you seem to have jumped from "patents" to "patenting combinations of spices" here. I don't think that you did this intentionally, but you replaced the topic in between; first, you formulate your thesis as "we should abolishing patents", and later, you seem to be proving it, but you really only prove a different thesis, "we should abolish patenting combination of spices".

Don't you see the difference between these two?
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> Does anyone know the current thinking of the odds that information could be able to travel faster than light, ie a wormhole?

An Einstein-Rosen Bridge is purely theoretical, and mostly a way to understand the equation of general relativity better. The equation requires you to set a few parameters that we have no way of determining currently, and that describe the structure of the universe. By setting those parameters just right, we can imagine really strange things, such as time travel or a wormhole.

But even if those parameters allowed a wormhole, having a traversable wormhole requires exotic matter with negative mass, another thing that we have no tangible proof exists.

In other words, general relativity is so general that it allows behaviour that can't exist in the real world. Computing the odds that information could go through a wormhole is like computing the odds that God exists.
I don't have problem with 'encourage and facilitate' - blame lies 100% on one committing adultery.

But they deserve being hunted down by lynch mob of defrauded cheaters for that removal fee extortion.
There was a proposal[1][2] for C++17 to allow:

for (e : c)

which would be equivalent to:

for (auto &&e : c)

Gcc implements this when compiling with -std=c++1z. My understanding is that it was rejected by the committee.

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n385...

[2] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n399...
The answer is No, per Betteridge's law of headlines.

The first thing article mentioned is lesser number of complaints in cab services. They present it as if Uber makes taxi better, but it can be that those who complained just switched to the Uber.

And complained there - who knows?
They did the same kind of thing in a Spanish TV program about how creative young people are beating the crisis by inventing new businesses.

One of their example was a team of 2 30-something living with their parents with a business like cleaning aquarium for cheap (a convenience particular could not afford before). They made less than 1000 EUR per month for them both. Don't remember if it was actually cleaning aquarium, what stuck with me is how if the media has to chose that kind of story in order to put a positive spin on the crisis, you know the situation is dire.
OTP is described thusly by "Learn You Some Erlang":

"OTP contains functions to safely spawn and initialize processes, send messages to them in a fault-tolerant manner and many other things."

Also, "supervisors are one of the most useful parts of OTP you'll get to use." And, "an OTP application specifically uses OTP behaviours for its processes, and then wraps them in a very specific structure that tells the VM how to set everything up and then tear it down."

Given that, I don't see how you could think Storm isn't at all related. (I never said it was equivalent, just very similar goals.)
Personally, I am willing to bet that all intelligent life will end up being quite lonely. Unless we find ways to bend space, there is little chance of us ever getting out of our local solar system, let alone galaxy or the local galactic cluster.

I am a big fan of science and science fiction, do not get me wrong. I do feel that technology evolves and will surprise even the most tech savvy, but to violate faster than light travel seems more far fetched than any theory out there to me.
OT but this is not the first comment to I don't think I am hijacking.

Page loads fine (Actually started reading the article) then goes to http://www.deccanherald.com/enable_javascript.html

How retro (Plus the fact that the page actually DOES work without JS...)
Err, this is called exemplification. It is a common rhetorical device. Really this could have done with any patent, which all need to go.
It's definitely not a requirement, it's just an example of how it could rapidly progress. Within the scope of the argument 1 hour is as plausible as 1 year - the main point is that it happens shockingly fast and continues to happen even faster.
For the longest time I have been wondering when a pharma would try to patent Neem for tooth/other medicinal uses. Little did I know that the patent application had already happened.

I am glad such a repository exists to handle prior art for Indian medicines. I am worried about African/other poor countries that are unable to protect their indigenous medicinal use cases since they may lack the repository. Perhaps they can piggy back on the Indian effort or may be a worthy premise for a socially oriented startup with some funding from the big and/or little names in VC.
Two points:

-In this specific context, I would think the large majority of people are flying with a party of 3 or less. So it should be less clicks for most.

-Thinking more broadly, just because you may need to click the stepper more I wouldnt necessarily say its more complex. The user should immediately understand that each increment is equivalent.

When I click a dropdown, there is a lot of thinking required. I can't see the options before clicking it. Maybe it starts at "0", maybe it starts at "1". Maybe its all text choices and I have to read them all in that tiny window. Maybe I over-spin. There is actually a good amount of dexterity involved.

Even if I have to hit the stepper 10 times, a user can do that incredibly quickly and without having to actively use their brain.
You have 1 year to get your copy, but once you have it, it is free forever. They don't charge you after you've had it for a year.
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I know there are more powerful CPUs available; the point is whether that CPU is sufficient for most of the things you're likely to use this laptop for. Is your Win8 tablet too slow, or does it do what you want with good performance?
Great job! Now, if we can procedural generate a Dwarf Fortress game with a graphically HTML5 procedural generated world. Think Elder Scrolls Morrowind in HTML5. No-Mans-Dungeon.
"Dalchini", BTW, is literally "lentil sugar". Put some in your lentils for added yum.
I'm not disputing that it's easier to save $30k if you earn $100k than if you earn $60k - that's just arithmetic. I'm saying that $30k is easily within the reach of a software engineer and also reasonably within the reach of a used care salesman earning far less (e.g., my brother), it just takes more time.

Also, $30k is easily enough to live on for 2 years, provided you are willing to reduce consumption. Among other things, there are lots of folks consumption below $15k/year (e.g., college students if you ignore the cost of college, some illegal immigrants in regions where they don't get welfare).

Most people simply aren't willing to reduce consumption to college student levels, but that's a matter of willingness rather than ability.
Depending on the length of the list, if you need to encourage correct spelling and have a list where the user knows the answer without needing to look at all the options (eg a country) then typeahead (autocomplete) functionality can work well here.
In the case of hover-based UIs is it more about common functionality? You can tap/click on both platforms, so is it easier to develop a single UI? One that uses the capabilities they have in common vs developing a unique interface for each device type?
I am thinking of buying a Gluglug, mostly as a political statement. Is it easy to replace the battery, memory, disk, etc. on the X200?

BTW, I appreciate the work you did in the Clojure community!
Eh, looks like your common unbranded OEM laptop ale PCSpec at about 50% premium price.

Also a "privacy" oriented laptop with Boot Guard disabled? hah? With how prevalent UEFI malware appears to be why would any one want to disable pretty much the only security measure against it?

Boot Guard allows you to perform block level or cryptographic verification of the BIOS and firmware.

And while a CPU fused to boot unsigned bios sounds nice and nifty virtually ever motherboard out there supports unlocking the signature validation using a hard or a soft jumper any how.

Disabling that is like disabling the file system integrity access checks on an encrypted hard drive it can only lead to a disaster....
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Maybe he meant 'uber XL' (which is the next step up on the slider), which are people carriers for more people/bigger items?
I remember my employer once tried to get a contract to build a new online store for a electronics retailer in the late 90's. They boasted they sold stuff at less than they paid for it and would someday make it up later. We lost the bid but they went out of business and never paid the winner, IBM.

If you charge less than you pay for you should go out of business, not raise more money. Giving money to a negative retailer is gambling not investment.
Not a bad idea, but I thought ASICs basically killed the profitability of mining on standard computer hardware? Still, if the electricity is free then at least it's something.
Just read your own quote earlier in this thread:

"By learning to code, my desire is to get to a stage where: a. I can converse with tech people who have been at this their whole live, b. gain the proficiency to build the mvp, c. become a team member with attributable skill set when company is formed, etc. Hiring someone is inevitable down the line, but I need to create the map for him/her to paint first."

Ignore that asinine article. Don't judge your success based on whether you started a startup or not. Base it on what you wrote above: Learning to code, having technical conversations, and being a better person than you ever thought possible.
It's a Thinkpad. I wish laptops (even newer Thinkpads) still had this rugged, function over style design.
So far so good for me. I had a little last minute concern about airport security but they didn't bat an eye. I think that blended families are common enough so that different last names aren't a big deal.
I think it does the opposite, The author wanted to send a structured document without presentation, with your tool of liking (I used Firefox's reader view) you can read comfortably without compromising the content of the article or it's features.

edit: I could have used curl, an html processor and a pager like less or more
I did google of course, and everything I found in English was either dead or so inactive as to be worthless (as in articles from 2013 on the front page).

> That was the point. You expect more from people who have a lot.

Do you really though? This seems awfully naive and idealistic. Humans are mostly the same everywhere. As much as Americans have, we're still very sexually repressed, and having a free-ish market for journalism, scandalous news generates a lot of clicks.
Meh, crocodile tears. If they shouldn't have to pay in the rare case that my site is down, then I shouldn't have to pay in the more-common-than-not case that there is no real person behind the click. And note that I have an incentive to keep my site up, whereas they apparently have no incentive to keep click-fraud down, evidenced by the fact that it's more than 50% of the case.
Have you been on there recently? I must admit that early on it was messy... but you know its a startup in beta...

However, I disagree on the price bit. Their selection isnt as large as amazon yet but I have found them to be 5%-15% cheaper on all items that they do have.
Insult golf sounds kinda fun. Try to come up with the most insulting thing possible in the least characters.

On a more serious note, I agree with you. There's some alarmist reactions to things like this, but in reality I don't think it's an issue at all. Sure, there might be bragging and such, but that's the point of something like this, isn't it? It's a game, not a serious discussion on optimization. Short code is more "fun" than superoptimized to my mind.