skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gakai isn't what I'm talking about tho - that's just hosting your gaming PC in the cloud.

Server side rendering would exploit the fact that all of your clients are using the same resources to render the game - so you only need to keep 1 instance of mesh x in memory and you can render it for all clients.

As I said below if you have shared instance worlds like MMO you can do much more sharing, you can have shared effects just like you have a shared simulation for clients - the effects can then be optimized for techniques that might not be viable on consumer hardware - for eg. you might have some sort of world space global illumination technique - like radiance transfer. These techniques aren't usually used because you need a lot of memory + processing power - but you can get server GPUs with >10 GB of memory and more in the future you could have one dedicated GPU that would just compute global illumination and then feed view specific data to each client view rendering thread.

It would completely change the way you render games - right now most effects are done screen space because it's faster (eg. deferred shading) but if you could share world scene state you could get a lot more fancy with world space effects. Also the rendering pipeline would need to be a lot more asynchronous to avoid latency (eg. global illumination could be a separate process that would sync occasionally and not every frame to avoid extra latency in a trade-off for lighting latency).
To be fair, my Nexus mostly does streaming video and some light emailing and surfing, these days. The display is small but high quality. Netflix keeps prompting me to sign in again, but that seems to be Netflix.

There were some hiccups with the upgrades to 5.x, but I didn't get caught by those. News reports taught me to be a bit conservative, in exercising a bit of delay before applying OS updates if there was no looming security fiasco.

Compared to my parents' contemporary and more expensive Samsung tablet, with Verizon LTE (and thus, Verizon as well as Samsung in the middle), that is still stuck on 4.4.1 or 4.4.2, the last I looked... And with some crappy third party calendar app as the default that had my mother confused for a while...

Well, via that comparison and others, I'm agreeing with the other commenter that if you can go straight Nexus, that seems to be a better way to go WRT the Android platform.

I'm hitting "tired"; otherwise, I might be able to think of some of the software concerns I've had that are not OS / updates specific.

Oh, I remember the time I added some photos to Keep, to learn that there was no way to keep them from syncing while on the cell connection as opposed to WiFi.

And, I could lament the whole "fish around on the web for random articles, for your documentation" approach, these days.

Anyway, I'm mostly responding to show a bit of support, despite our differing satisfaction levels / experiences. When something doesn't work, too often the environment/app leaves us feeling SOL. They got my money, so f--- me! ;-)
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I think we are on the same page now.
I've actually gotten into trouble because I spent more than 5 minutes doing a code review of a pull request. I had to code review for 3 junior devs and one senior; the junior devs all knew little Python so only I could review their code while the other senior dev was busy. It took hours to wade through and double-check their code. I always suggested to them to look up some Python libraries or to work on puzzles to practice or to review the code as well or talk to each other about the next piece of work. There's so many other things to do than to keep coding.
> People often express opinions like yours when talking about any subject that has to do with the government. Where does this inherent distrust come from?

It comes from the fact that until two years before he was hired this permit review, by his department, of Nestle's resource-extraction operation was kept in a state of suspended animation. That's where the distrust comes from.
I'm not getting how this is a hack and any different to just using LI's targeted ads as they are intended. Last time I checked the minimum was 1000 people.
Yes this seems what like the thing I'm talking about - true cloud rendering - not just sticking PC games on to VMs.
Yes, if you get access to my account and get it banned I'm SoL except if it were through some fault of their own. Same with items. [1]

They've reversed several waves of bans, with a number listed here [2] that you can follow the links through on if you feel like doing so. It's very rare but it happens.

[1]: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6633-TAN...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Anti-Cheat#False-positiv...
I wish we lived in a world as optimistic as that world back then :(
This AT&T Bell Labs documentary about the anti-ballistic missile defense program is eye-opening. The program roots are in the Nike anti-bomber defense program. The complexity of radar and digital signal processing technology in the 1960-70s is incredible (they even had stylus touch-screen interfaces).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARx2-wRn9-Y
The "scroll to change" view (or whatever this devil spawn is called) is the new blink and marquee tag. Couldn't do squat on this page.
Not sure if mods changed the title, but this is not just Part I. The post is divided into IV parts with a conclusion.
>Can't they use that time to review someone else's code or to work on something else in a separate branch or, heaven forbid, learn or train themselves?

Yes, but context-switches are expensive, particularly when you have several reviews in progress across several projects.
> We know that terrorist attacks on US soil stopped

Except they didn't. At most, they shifted from organized plots (like that of 9/11) to less-organized events (like that of the Boston Marathon bombing).
That comes with the RSE it uses for performance enhancement. The flushrs requirement, etc were mentioned here:

Microsoft on RSE (2002)
https://web.archive.org/web/20021018050724/http://portals.de...

Smotherman's notes (2002)
http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/subroutines/itanium.html

USENIX presentation on Itanium (2005)
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix05/tech/general/g...

I could see how you wouldn't expect it coming from another ISA and they could be a bit more explicit. It was weird. It was documented, though, by different people building on Itanium. Different workloads use it in a different way for efficiency.
>How do we not know that Loe and Earney didn't attempt to sabotage Nestle's legal extraction of groundwater as quid pro quo for a post-retirement gig as an activist?

Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?
>> Good luck guys! I'm incredibly excited. This feels like a modern day Apollo launch.

Lol. So you are saying that Apollo Moon landing was as fake as this ;)
Do you want to pay experts to not work for industry?

Or do you not want experts to ever work for government?

Those are the outcomes I see if you start making a lot of rules about what government employees can do next.
Not doing it fully during a procedure call is an optimization. I responded to the comment with links from 2002 and 2005 that showed this along with proper way to save everything to memory. Shouldn't have been a surprise to someone reading up on it.
China has an agenda of aggressively pursuing Free Trade agreements that remove/reduce foreign investment restrictions. We should see Chinese investment skyrocket as a result.
You don't have any evidence that he gave the company preferential treatment.
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I think everyone here who's pointing out that this is equivalent to a link shortener is missing something: the majority of QR codes in existence right now... are encodings of link-shortener URLs.
There was such a case with an Indian woman who was a diplomat, actually. It didn't go over well, politically.

http://world.time.com/2013/12/17/indian-diplomats-arrest-in-...
The White House has NASAMS on nearby buildings, which is a pretty decent upgrade in capability over Stingers.

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/americas-capitol-is-guarded...
> Sure, I'd prefer Haskell, ML, or even a decently typed
Scheme, but they've already lost.

That's... an interesting take.

I think he's not saying that Haskell won't grow. I think he's saying that Haskell will never take over the world in the C/C++/Java way. He also seems to be at least assuming that Go will.

And he seems to be saying that this will happen, not because Go has better ideas, but because it lets you write more stylish code, and because it has more clout behind it. I'm not sure that I agree. C took over the world, but not because it had so much clout behind it (it had AT&T/Bell Labs, but they didn't do much to promote it). Was C stylish? Perhaps, especially compared to the alternatives for doing the same thing.

But that was a long time ago. Java was heavily backed by Sun. C# of course was heavily backed by the clout of Microsoft. Can a language these days take over the world without massive backing behind it?
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I'll do :) As soon as my editor is advanced enough to show.
Anyone can order stuff from Amazon or Alibaba or wherever and have it delivered, and build reputation, and so on - how does Ethereum improve on that?
That makes the assumption you can correctly all identify all those places. And maybe I'm too chicken, and you actually can - but I'd personally still prefer pre-commit. I'm a belt-and-suspenders gal :)

But I'm really curious - if you can talk about it, that is - why devs push on average almost 4 changes per day & dev, but a review takes 2 days roundtrip.
You made the choice, now you suffer the consequences. Burritos till i die.
Any article about corporate consumption of public water in California feels a little silly without reference to San Francisco's $30k/year right to Hetch Hetchy. Yosemite Valley's neighboring valley, on a national park that every American pays for, is flooded and destroyed and San Francisco doesn't even pay enough to even cover the human maintenance of the land, let alone the benefit they get from the water.
Thank you for the reply. I am beginning to understand what you mean about how there is not enough research to make general statements about side effects or medical efficacy, because there are just so many potential factors that could have an influence on how cannabis affects an individual.

I can see why one would hesitate to make recommendations, especially as a doctor, when it's simply uncertain if a user would get medical benefits, or whether they would have negative side-effects. As unlikely as side effects may be on average, for people with specific conditions a negative effect might be predictable if that condition and its interaction with cannabis was isolated in a study.
'activist' is almost certainly a volunteer or close to it position. Consultant for a large corporation is not a pro bono position.
Those are some really well organised maps, kudos to them.
Indeed. Minimum wage is a hack on labor that barely worked 60 years ago when full employment was some sort of reasonable goal. It's a ludicrous superstition now - better to just institute a basic income, abolish minimum wage entirely, and let employers pay people whatever they want.
I've seen longer classes in the corporate world too. Such code was always buggy and hard to maintain.
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So you think there is no possible middle-ground? That it is fundamentally impossible to determine whether someone is exploiting their position for personal gain or simply being rewarded for their expertise on incidental matters?

>do you not want experts to ever work for government?

Do you think the government can't offer anything? Give someone a free education and pay them well. It doesn't matter if they can't work in the industry afterward; let them retire and live off their retirement.

This is just one option among many. Corruption is a hard problem, but it doesn't do any good at all to pretend it can't be effectively mitigated.
So they used a securely designed component and got bit anyway.
Recently, my bank (Australia) was hacked and data stolen. How do I know ? Because, every day I get a spam email ( From @mybank.com ) which has my account numbers , the stocks I have traded and some other personal info that only my bank has and asks me to change my password. It also contains a link that goes to the third party website with a phishing page.

The big 4 banks here are very insecure and any one with even a mediocre knowledge of sysadmin can get into them. Alas, even after having billions in revenue they don'e have a bug bounty. Shame they take our money but do not take our privacy seriously.
> You assume we are already paying everyone fairly for the value they create.

No, they are assuming that some employees are generate less than $15 of value per hour. They could be 'worth' $14 and currently paid $9.
I started using Outlook Tasks. Combined with the calendar this is a very efficient system if you stay disciplined and take the extra couple seconds to manage this. Part of this is keeping a clean inbox but rather than doing everything as it comes through I use this criteria:

-Do it

-Decide When

-Delegate It

-Delete

Everything email gets responded, forwarded, allocated to a task with dates or placed in the calendar with time booked. I try and limit this review to the morning/lunch and afternoon. Otherwise I turn of all email notifications (with a few VIP's set up) and crack on with the day.
I'm surprised at the reactions in the comments. Both OnLive and Gaikai were doing this around 2008 and nobody seemed to give a shit.
yeah guys, Nestle just acquihired the U.S. Forest Service, what's the big deal?
What I never understood: once you freeze the burritos, isn't the freshness advantage essentially moot? You might as well just ship them in trucks to the frozen-foods aisles of NYC grocery stores.
HN is not an academic paper. If you have an issue with the information in the articles, then please put forth some criticisms rather than weak appeals to authority.

Im also quite sure dogs did not evolve to eat canned dog food laden with broken beaks, brain, spinal cord tissue, bones, lungs, intestinal tracts from slaughterhouse wastes of dead, dying, diseased or disabled animals

It's funny you say that, because dogs/wolves are considered scavengers. So... yeah, they kind of did. (Though apparently, the domesticated dog has a better ability to process starch - helps when you're living with humans who use it as a staple)

The whole thing about cats being strict or obligate carnivores is because they've lost the ability to, for example, synthesize vitamin A from beta carotene. They can't process carbs as well because they have little to no need to do so. Their digestive tract is short, and their gut fauna isn't meant to process plant matter, so most of it goes through untouched.

What I'm getting at is, forcing your personal choices on a pet is a pretty awful thing to do, shelter work, supplements, or otherwise. Your friends might be nice people who mean well and love their pets, but they are dangerously uneducated in this matter.
It would be tons more dangerous to hire an unqualified person, not to mention probably easier to bribe and fool them as well as they aren't experienced in the political dirty tricks governments and large companies engage in.

I'd rather have a "stooge" as HN and reddit called Tom Wheeler for a very long time at the FCC, than some random idiot who, say, watches Fox News all day or reads HuffPost all day and completely lacks any sophistication in how government works.

The very same people who want outsiders also don't understand why third party candidates they often support end up being racists or fascists or communists. There's real value in the mainstream - that's why its the mainstream. I wish more young people understood that.
To clarify, Ethereum isn't a marketplace or a reputation system. It's just a good platform for building those things.

Ordering from Amazon or Alibaba means paying them for the privilege. Systems that connect producers directly to consumers will have lower costs because there's no middleman that needs to skim profits. If such systems become popular, it will be a transfer of wealth from the Amazons of the world to everyone else. I find that desirable.

In general, Ethereum gives us powerful tools to coordinate human interactions. That means there will be more human interactions, and you'll be able to interact with people you don't have much personal history with. You will buy your USB drives directly from the factory in Shenzhen with a good reputation score and low prices. You'll get your loan directly from the person who wants to earn returns on their savings.
That leads to an interesting security question: How is Apple's iMessage lookup service protected?
How can you stick to the substance if drawing on other examples is out of bounds?
One way to hide all of the zeroes is to rename (reclassify) the currency denominations. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_peng%C5%91
This story was introduced to me in high school to illustrate historiography, so I get what you mean.
His informant on the secrets of the family shrine is clearly from a perilously lax sect.
I don't understand. Can't you just... not read them?
Yes, obviously profit is a prime motivator.

The question I'm posing is if the profit is worth the image-hit the greater Thai culture/brand is taking.

It's certainly possible to have both, there are other countries that have legalized the sex industry without tarnishing the greater cultural brand. See Netherlands, Germany, etc. The sex trade in these countries also seems more heavily regulated... for example you never hear about child molestors flocking to Amsterdam.... (I can buy why this is the case in Cambodia, etc. but Thai is a relatively developed and modernized country...)

Thailand's sex industry is also distinct in that it heavily markets itself to foreign sex tourism. This is in contrast to other Asian countries where the sex trade is basically locals-only (see Korea, Japan, etc.).

I'm surprised I had to clarify my post for you. Perhaps english and common sense are not native to you. :P
I hope they eventually reach the same conclusion about the horrific monstrosity Google Maps has become.
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>> How's that? Clearer?

Not at all. We have been storing programs, building games etc for some 40 or 50 or 70 years now, without Ethereum. So, how does Ethereum does it better/cheaper than the existing solutions, is what people above are asking.
I know you said "more or less" and I know I'm nitpicking - but the only way to actually inoculate against advertising is to be dead :)
Define "regressive" because when I google it I get "(of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes". Are you talking about the wealthy having greater ability to find tax loopholes or do define "regressive" as everyone paying the same proportion of their income?
> So what will an open letter do to stop it?

Probably not much.
If you frequently replace devices, maybe. If you're one of those poor suckers that bought Verizon's version of the Galaxy Nexus, you know that the promise of consistent updates for eighteen months is inadequate.
Indiana is a very strange case. I had a business meeting there once where we met at the guys house. Coming down from Michigan I looked up the city hall just to make certain the time zone.

Well it turns out this particular guys subdivision was on a different time zone. He explained that the subdivision, being technically outside the city, voted to adopt the another time zone because the majority worked in a county with a differing time zone.
Let's not forget about the habitable epoch of the early universe [1]. There's a good 7 million years near the beginning of the universe that in principle was inhabitable to Earth-like life. None can say if the physicists of that epoch (if there were any) had enough observational evidence to foresee their quickly approaching end.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613

* do actually I believe there was early-epoch life sophisticated enough to think up physical theories? No, but what does that matter?
Even if that is the goal (which is likely), it does not explain the need to force me to create accounts for applications I don't want, like Gmail. That's like going to a car dealership, buying a sedan and the dealership forces you to take five crates of crab apples with you at gunpoint.
In my experience with acquihires the employees usually end up with a pretty nice package of RSUs, while the VCs take a huge loss. They don't make money on the exit, but they do well.
Well contrast that with Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner's $100m initiative to search for alien life[1], and I'd say that we're still pretty optimistic about that. We're basically searching for aliens who would've had the same idea as we had with Voyager :) almost naive now that I think of it...

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-hawking-russian-billiona...
> “[brain/consciousness uploading is] pure speculation that has no basis in fact whatsoever,” Russell says. “It’s nonsense.”

On what grounds would it be nonsense? Such an approach would "simply" (in quotes because - while the theory is simple - we're a long ways away from a simple implementation) require saving the current execution state of a brain to some sort of medium and recreating that state in another system. I reckon this to be conceptually similar to the concept of "hibernation" in modern computers; during hibernation, the operating system saves the contents of its virtual memory (physical plus any swapped/paged memory) to non-volatile storage, then reloads that saved state on the next boot.

We're obviously a long way from having nearly enough understanding of the brain to be able to pull this off, but I have a hard time equating it to "nonsense" or "pure speculation" when a conceptual analogue exists. Remarks like that of Stuart Russell tend to be grounded on some assumption that humans are somehow distinct from other computing machines in how they operate. I generally take that assumption with a sufficiently-large grain of salt to pull itself into hydrostatic equilibrium, clear its orbital neighborhood, and be declared by the IAU to be a planet.
I found this exploit a while back; when I checked more recently, the minimum number of people that you need to target in order for an ad to be accepted is closer to 1000. So it's harder to replicate.

similarly, with the facebook thing. I saw that Facebook is rolling back usage of the facebook.com email addresses, so I'm not sure how long that will keep working.
I have hiked up in these mountains and seen some of the springs Arrowhead uses to get its water from. The ones I have seen are small pipes running from small springs, taking a small amount of the spring water. The San Bernardino mountains are next to LA. I am not an expert, but I don't think a large amount of water is used by anyone from these mountains. The US Forest Service probably just thinks it is an insignificant amount of the total water supply to pay tons of money to experts to come up with the required bureaucratic report. It really wasn't until the media starting referring to Arrowhead Mountain water company as "Nestle" that it started getting any coverage.
I agree - great article, although I was expecting something on relativity or maybe the recent attempts to remodel physics with only events and not rates (e.g. exploring the possible non-existence of time).

But I did love the blog title - always nice to find a fellow Terry Pratchett fan, RIP.
Thanks for the good read, although most of the objections seem to be based on an unwillingness to change.
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