skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens with registered hotels and Expedia too. I had to be in Paris for a few days a couple of years ago so I chose a nice hotel on Expedia, and not very expensive as well. However, when I showed up, the hotel had no trace of the reservation. The manager didn't want to call Expedia because it would not change anything (no space left, he claimed). Instead, he very nicely called another hotel to find space for me. I even thanked him... However, the other hotel was the shittiest hotel I have ever stayed at and would probably not have survived a listing on the Internet. The manager there was crazy and the hotel was so bad they couldn't even manage to track which rooms were occupied by guests. And since it was a walk-in, I paid super high rates. While staying at that hotel, I heard multiple guests with the same story as me so it was not an isolated technical problem on the part of the local hotels (seems more than one hotel was in on it). When I complained to Expedia, it turned out the first hotel had cancelled the reservation right before I showed up so no foul for them (despite my never being told about it before showing up at the hotel). Expedia gave me a voucher in the end but the listing for that hotel stayed on the site.
> The only way to composite layers together is GL. (This will probably change when we support printing though.)

If not for the (very reasonable) expectation that things like "print to PDF" should produce vectors and selectable text rather than raster images of pages, you could render pages for printing using GL, too.
Thumbtack Raises $125M at a $1.3B Valuation
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> Moz2D is itself an abstraction layer over Cairo, Skia, Core Graphics, and Direct2D.

Out of curiosity, given that both Cairo and Skia run on all platforms Firefox does and have GPU-accelerated backends, why abstract over more than one of them rather than picking one and optimizing it for all platforms?
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All of this stuff is coming out of SAP Labs. They've got some truly awesome people doing great work there.

http://www.cdglabs.org
How could a meteor have launched from Mars and reached Earth? It stretches my mind to imagine a situation where a meteor drops down, picks up life, then drops it off on the next planet. Are there records of meteoric impacts like that?

The best situation I can think of is a catastrophic volcanic explosion which launches a chunk of the planet into space, but that still sounds far-fetched to me.
There's no client-side validation on the inputs.
We should do the same thing for software development. If an entrepreneur can afford the full cost of a top development shop, then fine. If he or she has no money, the shop's hourly rate would be radically reduced by law and ideally paid through programs designed to promote new business creation.

See how this works?
I don't know if it was what she was going for, but the faux-rust really makes it look cartoonish/surreal. I really like it.
Not the same case but Kayla Gissendaner is set to be executed tomorrow. http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/27/us/georgia-sets-execution/inde...
Unless the Georgia parole board changes its mind. She is guilty of having her husband killed. Guilt is not at doubt. The justice of her punishment is.

Her children suffered from her crime but they are pleading to keep her alive. She is the only parent they have. Killing their only remaining parent is victimizing them again. Their pleas here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8pgceAhqJo

Georgia parole board contact info: http://pap.georgia.gov/contact-us
Hmm I'm guessing the BBV is going to have an impact on code size and cache misses due to versioning. BBV sounds like a great mix with an effects system.
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Chevron (US) seems to agree that Climate change is man-made, though they aren't nearly so direct about it and certainly don't express support for a carbon tax. http://www.chevron.com/globalissues/climatechange/

Exxon (US) seems to take it as a given that human-emitted greenhouse gasses cause climate change and emphasizes the need to avoid needless cost in solutions. They explicitly support a carbon tax, offset by lowering other taxes: http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/current-issues/climate-po...

BP states that human GHG emissions cause climate change and supports putting a price on carbon, but one that is equal across sources. http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/sustainability/the-ene...

Total (France) touts some of initiatives for addressing carbon emissions but http://www.total.com/en/society-environment/environment/comb...
They also talk here about the role of methane flaring in greenhouse gas emissions http://www.total.com/en/media/news/press-releases/total-comm... I don't read French, so cant summarize their main page.

ConocoPhillips also recognizes human-emitted GHCs as the cause of climate change. http://www.conocophillips.com/sustainable-development/our-ap...

I've got to run, can someone else do Statoil, Rosneft, Petrobras, etc?
Big data can help US prisons decide whom to release
a prototype of the product can be found at http://demo.maaxmarket.com/app
A somewhat more well known Oregonian had his felony record expunged a while ago, but it's still on his Wikipedia page. I don't know if the whole escapade hurt him or helped him in terms of his career. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_Schwartz
Yes, but the problem isn't that the system isn't perfect. The problem is that the system is horribly broken and doesn't really administer justice.

When you have plea bargains and negations and hardball if one doesn't just plead guilty irrespective of guilt, the concept of justice has been irrevocably subverted. And that's where we are at. And it's why we can't have the death penalty anymore. Because the system isn't working like it should.

For the record, I'm not opposed to the death penalty. In fact, I think in an ideal system it would be used rapidly and impartially from time to time. Some people are probably not redeemable. Some people probably shouldn't live anymore. Death happens to all of us... I don't believe it to be the tragedy some consider. The problem is... right now we have a horribly broken system that has zero business killing anybody.
I have to wonder: before writing this essay, did pg read anything written by anyone on the opposite side of this case? For instance, this?

https://www.readfrontier.com/investigation/two-truths-and-a-...

If not, it seems like a pretty remarkable procedure to arrive at such a strong conclusion, with no other information besides a brief summary by advocates for the defense. Has pg ever served on a jury? If so, would he make his mind up this way?
Just saw this. If they indeed got it right then this could be groundbreaking ! However, I didn't see any working prototypes in the pitch. Clever idea though.
What evidence would you like? Embassy payroll documents annotated with "spy" and "not a spy"?

Given the privileged status of the embassy and the protections offered by diplomatic status (eg the diplomatic pouch) you'd be crazy not to staff your embassy with spies, at least in any country worth spying on. You'll probably get a few actual diplomats to do the actual diplomacy too, and the occasional low-level passport stamper, but the default assumption should be that they're pretty much all spies.
> Configuration files as infrastructure aren't particularly interesting to me.

How is this any different than a Dockerfile? Vagrantfile is certainly more abstract I guess.
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Unless that is exactly what has overwhelmed their ability to make sense of what's available: they ignore new drugs as a protection mechanism against marketing-driven information which is less correlated with efficacy and more correlated with money.
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That's interesting, we don't generally consider relativistic effects on computation.

There could be an interesting synthesis between Minkowski spacetime, lambda calculus, and Lamport clocks that will either a) show that the fundamental unifying element in the universe is functions (and really annoy at least one side in the disagreements over the Black Hole Information Paradox), or b) make for a terrific Greg Egan novel.
I once read an NSA employee manual which talked about how you should talk about your work. It said you should be truthful without making it sound exciting or mysterious.

If asked "where do you work" you say "the department of defense". If asked what branch you say "the NSA". If asked what you do, you say "research". And that's it, apparently.

No doubt there are other manuals for other types of employee, but they're not available on the Internet.
http://xkcd.com/1579/
Australia should follow the research and provide free universal childcare
Does Chris have an account on here?
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> The company doesn’t disclose revenue and is unprofitable.

Valuation to me doesn't mean much until the company is bringing in real money consistently.

Because soon or later you are going to run out of money and you will just wait for acquisition.

Also, I have never heard of Thumbtack since its debut (over six years)... that's just my opinion.
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I'm surprised to hear they produce lower quality output at small glyph sizes. Fragment shaders can do multiple texture samples and I've gotten very high quality results. You can even do ClearType-style subpixel rendering with a handful of samples. The case where signed distance fields don't work is for large glyph sizes. They often end up chopping off corners or not having the density to represent thin calligraphic strokes.
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I went there for a Go Meetup, and I couldn't easily understand what they did after talking to 5 employees. The private equity bubble is reaching its crescendo.
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The most expensive consumer software are AAA video games, which are supposed to be played on the biggest screen possible.

Most profitable consumer software are games as well, buty they are played on the smallest screens, cell phone.
For Cairo, it's basically for legacy reasons, as well as looking the same as GTK+ (which I don't think is particularly important, but reasonable people can differ). Direct2D, however, has historically been the best-of-breed vector graphics engine, outclassing the rest by large margins, so it's definitely worth it to use it on Windows where available. Skia-GL has caught up quite a bit with the Ganesh effort, but Direct2D has historically been so much more mature and continues to get better with every Windows release, so I think it makes sense to keep the abstraction layer around.
Yeah, I mainly mean PDF output here.
I like this variation:

"Both of these sentences are false. The sky is not blue."
Their revenue is strong, hence the valuation. They could also be profitable if they decided to, but are instead focusing on growth.
I've been using Mesos with Aurora in production for almost a year and while its very stable (zero downtime so far with loss of hosts a couple of times) the setup process was quite tedious and not something I'm looking forward to doing again. It also has a lot of moving parts - understand and setup zookeeper to get mesos up, understand and setup Aurora, use something for service discovery (I use AirBnB's Synapse for this). Plus I prefer to use tools I can choose to look under the hood of and perhaps make some contributions, which is a bit intimidating with both Mesos and Aurora (C/C++ and Scala). Because of this, I'm keen to try out Nomad mostly because of the promise of no-other-dependency/single binary plus the use of a single language across the stack - Golang
Yes and no. In Germany, universities are essentially free, even for foreign students[1] (experiments to charge higher "tuition" that's still ridiculously low by U.S. standards have largely failed), and low-income students can get loans to cover some of their living expenses while attending.

As far as I can tell, costs for educating one student average around 1/4th of U.S. levels[2], despite also having a very high administrator/educator ratio. We generally don't have lush campuses or dorms, university sports exist but are something completely different etc. My sister went to Stanford, so yes, U.S. unis are really nice. But maybe not all of that is strictly necessary.

It seems to me that you can get away with government funding if both sides are government-controlled. It's the "Public Private Partnership" angle where you combine the profit motive with effectively unlimited government funding that you get in trouble. "Privatize profits, socialize losses(/costs)".

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32821678

[2] http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/learning-curve/h...
I bought and read Snow Crash based on an earlier recommendation from HN. Just to give an alternate opinion, so no one wastes (my opinion) money like I did... I thought the book was absolutely horrible. I like fantasy, I like alternate reality, I like novel concepts... but the parts have to match up and make coherent sense. Snow Crash didn't. At all. The story was contrived, the characters unrealistic, the whole thing didn't really fit together in a way that made sense to the point it ruined it. Sorry for the negativity... but I didn't like the book at all.
Yeah, "smart data-structures, dumb algorithms." Mathematicians know this too: if you get the notation right, then the calculation is simple.
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FWIW, Thumbtack has been all the buzz for the past 18 months or so. I've seen their name frequently in the context of all things local services.
I think in this case that's less about the climate and more about the industry they're in. Thumbtack is a talent agency. But they want to sound like they're doing something new and clever to differentiate themselves. And since they're marketers, they spend a lot of time thinking about ways to get people's interest in them... without actually having to make clear what they do enough to conjure the negative associations.
They're Taskrabbit for skilled labor. If you need a headshot, a maid, a new door, etc, you post it and they match you with a professional.
Which makes it tempting to spend some money buying a few acres of land somewhere and hold it for a few decades in the hopes that a city will rebuild itself nearby.

I guess people are already doing this?
Maybe Antimony[1]?

[1]: http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/
http://www.opera.com/ might be a good Chromium based option. Not perfect, but a solid browser worth exploring, especially since you can use Chrome/Chromium extensions. I've been using it for several months now (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/xPcpRB...), and am mostly satisfied.
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It's the "the cloud can't activate a 40W cutting laser in your home by itself" button.

At least that's how it's explained more-or-less in one of the videos. Makes sense to ensure that the operator is in front of the machine and has everything properly loaded before firing the laser. Who knows how much of that is really intended as a security process...
The subject is different, but the point is the same:

It is hard to imagine technology restriction working, because we have to get past imagining this terribly powerful tool being wielded by our utterly incompetent and corrupt rulers. The same problem exists in contemplating effective protectionism. The most obvious outcomes of both these tools simply amount to featherbedding if not outright theft. As a result, protectionism has gained a bad name, and technology restriction is well outside the policy landscape. Yet in actual reality, the problem is not with the tool, but the wielder. Once we admit that USG isn't working and has to go, we can imagine replacing it with something that doesn't suck—and can actually wield such a tool.

—Mencius Moldbug, "Sam Altman is not a blithering idiot" (http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/03/sam-alt...)
i think there is a problem. Your site insists that "Your resume must be in the format PDF, DOC, DOCX, JSON, or ODT".
I tried for pdf and docx.
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From what I understand talking to some other people pursuing similar ventures, the point of services like Thumbtack isn't really whatever they start out as; the point is capturing the talent in a network and then selling that talent infrastructure.

Everyone from "startup banks", to payment-processors, to service marketplaces, to coworking spaces, are all running full-tilt toward this goal, and getting a company there first (and achieving a network effect from doing so) is what has the all the investors interested.
MS can 1) push win10 though windows updates(much like iOS) or 2) buy search keyword ads on Baidu. I fail to see how dropping Bing is a better choice, unless MS is getting paid a lot or forced upon by the gov.
Also this one which is amazing: http://aprt.us/editor/?load=doc/examples/Potted%20Plant.json
Certainly true with traditional optics. I think computational optics will change things though - there's been research into using camera arrays for simulating a large aperture, for example. I don't actually know if this is physically feasible, but maybe in lieu of a single large sensor we simulate one with a ton of smaller ones (cool gifs: http://www.mit.edu/~sysun/MAS531_lightfield.html)
As bad as this situation is, Internet mob justice has a terrible track record and is not the solution. Most recent example is Ahmed the 'inventor'.
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In your marketing copy you call yourselves experts, but then in the team section you mention that you are students in college.

I would suggest making it more clear what your qualifications are that make you consider yourselves experts. As it stands now, I would be skeptical about your service.
Steve Cooley -- and I believe he would agree with this characterization -- is enthusiastically for the death penalty in the right circumstances, and campaigned against Prop 34. In his own words [1]

There are some offenses that demand the ultimate sentence. We’ve got
individuals down in Los Angeles — for example, the Grim Sleeper case which
is pending — this gentleman killed 23 young women, in the most cruel,
inhumane way. Life without possibility of parole is not the appropriate
sentence for somebody who slaughters so many of his fellow citizens. Cop
killers, baby killers, serial killers — they deserve the death penalty. In
my county, we only seek the death penalty in 11 percent of the
special-circumstance cases, and they are well-selected and well-deserving of
the death penalty.

Kamala Harris is not a shining light, but she took no public position on Prop 34, and while she has supported a state appeal to defend the constitutionality of the death penalty [2], as sf da, she stated she would never charge the death penalty [3].

So the contrast is a full supporter on one hand, and someone who, at minimum, is conflicted about the use of the death penalty and widely acknowledges the racial disparity in its application.

I would call that a real difference, though in case it isn't clear, I would support banning the death penalty on both humane/equality and financial grounds.

NB: Prop 34 would have banned the death penalty in California. It lost by a couple percent [4]

[1] http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/10/11/two-district-a...

[2] http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-death-penalt...

[3] http://ballotpedia.org/Kamala_D._Harris

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_34_(201...
Maybe the solution for this problem is the same as my proposed solution for used car shopping. Eliminate the haggling. This is the salary for the position. No negotiation. If you do X,Y,Z you get so much bonus. If you get this review and meet these goals you get this raise. All numbers, no negotiation.

The best employees often aren't the best negotiators. In fact, outside of sales or management, I would say there is almost an inverse correlation. But it sure leaves a bad taste in a model employees mouth to find out Bob make more because he is a better haggler even though he does a worse job. Enough of a bad taste they may either do a much worse job or start looking for another place to work. But this is a problem with a simple solution.
Though Guy Steele's idea sounds contentious, that OO encourages "data-first" because code is encapsulated:

"Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than
the other way around."

This is especially true for object-oriented languages,
where data structures can be smart by virtue of the fact
that they can encapsulate the relevant snippets of "dumb
code." Big classes with little methods–that's the way to go!

Or maybe he is just encouraging OO programmers to think more in this vein?
God bless his soul.
John Carmack's thought on code inlining
Here's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite) an example how. Asteroid impact.
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What was the title before it was changed? Right now it says "	Servo WebRender Overview".
That sounds surprisingly bad. Are these considered good areas in San Francisco, or slightly iffy, or very dodgy?
What erikpukinskis said was mental gymnastics and provable lie used to dodge truth. In every discussion pinting out lies and falacies is not considered un-civil. I could have linked to articles of academics, speeches of high caliber progresives saying blacks can't be racist. An I would have been banned anyway.

Keep on being progressive HN. But please be honest (I know, progressives can't do that but why don't you try?) and stop calling people not supporting your narrative trols.
You could model it as a subsidy or a transfer instead of a price control. Then the shop wouldn't have to turn itself into a charity. (You'd have the opposite problem though. The shop would lobby for higher transfers.)
Yes, I am familiar with his blog and writings. I would love to see what comes of Loper OS. He has examples of what he does for his day job - Lisp and robotics for one thing. He certainly puts his money where his mouth is, a very productive guy.
I faced the same problem with JavaFX. .asScala calls everywhere!
As a developer/employee, is there any benefit to being at a company that has a super high valuation? Or being an early employee at a company that later gets one?

It doesn't necessarily mean a good exit, right? Though I suppose if you trust the valuation then it might imply the chances are higher...

(Had a phone call with a recruiter from here some months ago, never called them back to schedule an interview... vaguely wondering if I cost myself anything.)
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Does anyone else think that the form of life found on Mars would most likely be completely distinct from what is found here, down to the molecular and cell level?
Can you have a team of people, working less than 40 hours a week, and still pumping out something profitable? I don't that thats too crazy an idea, especially in this industry. But I think if the company answers to stockholders, the underlying purpose of the company leans naturally towards making someone else money, so you'd be less likely to see that kind of thing.

TL;DR: Yes, but not as long as profits and money are in charge.
Well, they're good for the ultimate munition.
The actual paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2627354
Why would you say that global state in a distributed system is not possible? The entire internet is a distributed system with global state. The state needs to be aware of the context and access, that's all.
They don't disclose revenue. Where are you getting that information?