skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for expanding on my musings! Two thoughts to add:

1. Pretty much every 3-D graphics engine worth using supports importing and batch-rendering meshes that are actually made up of multiple sub-meshes. So you can fix the circular occlusion problem and the concave object problem with pretty much no performance loss by just subdividing those offending shapes during the art phase. This simplifies rendering because the engine doesn't need to do any dynamic mesh subdivision.

2. Pretty much every 3-D graphics engine worth using supports depth sorting for translucency, so you effectively get that for free too.

I should have clarified that "3-D" by itself doesn't necessarily get rid of your problem. However, there's very little reason to build your own graphics engine anyway, and modern 3-D graphics engines abstract away the occlusion problem for free.

I suppose I had a third point, a response to your last paragraph: it seems hardly worth it to basically implement your own software rasterizer with a RAM based Z-buffer if getting the dedicated hardware to do it is just a matter of pulling in a 3-D graphics engine. And doing it on dedicated hardware is going to be much faster. Granted you have to learn how to use the 3-D graphics engine and you'll have to do a bunch of work through shaders, but if you're doing graphics stuff, this is staple, bread and butter knowledge. Kind of like how web frontend developers would be expected to be able to write CSS and to be fluent in at least one JS framework.
I loved BeOS. I bought and ran versions 4.5 and 5.0 Pro. I also owned a copy of Scot Hacker's BeOS Bible; which I read front to end. I visited the BeNews and BeOS Tips websites almost everyday.

As for BeFS itself, it was a pretty awesome FS. I remember I used to use a utility called MP3 Army Knife, which could copy MP3 metadata to BeFS attributes. I then used Marco Nelissen's SoundPlay (shareware which I bought) to play them; basically using Tracker or BeFS queries to generate playlists.

I miss that OS.
It's not effective because I value my time so I don't work a full time job. You'd get me interested if your work day was 4 hours a day.
Not sure about the US, but in the UK which seems to be fairly culturally aligned, we're expected to put in an average of 7.5h of "logged in" work, with core hours being 09:30-16:30, and a mandatory 30m unpaid lunchbreak.

(I say average because you're expected to put in ~37.5h of work a week, and have the deficit/surplus at month end of +-5h)
This is legacy. Lunch is usually not included in the US so 8-5 if you take an hour lunch or 8:30 - 5 if you take a half hour lunch.
Depends on what you want to be building. At a big 5 firm you will likely be traveling fairly regularly if not weekly and you will be worked hard. You will also learn a ton and see so many varied things you will be come away even more valuable.

Me personally, I'd pick Sears. Doesn't sound sexy but I know a little about them and they generally are pretty good to work for and at least you will be building out products not just working on other peoples projecs. So you will get to see the impact more first hand.

In the end though I doubt either company is a bad choice, so it is more about how you want to spend the next few years and what is important to you. Don't overlook small things though, they can sometimes be more important then the money.

One last point. If Deloitte is that low compared to Sears, something is up. I'd really want to understand that more, as you really shouldn't see that big of a difference.
Thanks for advice. I do not know more about their culture. What would you suggest for me?
For the most part its pretty much the luck of the draw and I have been pull Aces for many years. Gaining trust is communicating it and backing it up with proof through good work, initiative, and intuitiveness. If those traits are not earning the trust you need then you are likely in a place where it won't matter what you do.

I had a long story written but figured it might reveal too much and give away where I am. I work in a corporate hq, multiple subsidiaries in the same site. The difference in how they are managed is striking, I am in one I describe above. I work more at home than work and most of my on site time is more for me to maintain friendships than anything else.

The difficult part is that by looking at the people in upper management someone coming off the street would mix the two groups up if you told them the stark differences. So its something you either are going to find out from friends who are there or have friends at a location or be willing to spend the time to find out yourself. Just saying, some of the more progressive appearing teams were the most repressive I have ever been around and the so called old school worked up from the field groups were more you earn it you have earned it.
> Social capabilities don't exist in the app. Inexplicably, it's most of what exists on the desktop product.

and thanks god for that!
If finding arithmetic ways to make 4! floats your boat you're going to love division. You might want to pace yourself though, there are quite a few of them.
... Only one of the cases he listed, the developmentally-challenged kid, would result in a lawsuit if he didn't accommodate.

That's one where you throw money at the problem. You hire a custom operator to handle ADA-requests (and similar) and you pay the price difference for someone who does manage this. Legal compliance issues, you often turn into a mega-expensive non-engineering one-offs.

Or you get slapped with a DoJ investigation, and lose the business.
I'm a PM at SoundCloud and want to let everyone know that this post is very, very old. I believe over 2 years. Difficult to tell from the site though.

That said, the feedback here in this thread is good feedback, so I do appreciate everyone taking the time to write it. Much of will be resolved soon, so keep on the lookout for future updates.

Let me know if you have any specific questions or input.
Again it's not a very useful to compare a (not purely athletic) competition in it's infancy a century ago with a sprint which people have been doing for thousands of years.

And again the analogy is poor because modern bodybuilders look radically different for multiple reasons that go beyond simply training, nutrition and knowledge.
Disable all window decorations (i.e. adjust for best performance) and it's back - not a big deal.
Yes, biology makes the most sense, as thats usually what gets "translated" to clickbait style headlines like "Quinoa cures cancer".
Sears will end in tears for you. It has been a failing company for at least 30 years, it is the definition of "lights on and nobody home"

To take an example of how they think, when I was a student they had a booth at my college where they were soliciting people to get Sears charge cards. I applied for one, and then they replied saying they would not give me a card because I lived in student housing.

Years later I went to Sears auto center to replace the tires on my car, the guy who was ringing me up insisted that I only pay for one tire instead of four tires, he argued with me for 15 minutes. It was dark, I had worked all day, walked two miles each way to work, wanted to get home, am I going to call the manager saying I want to pay another $300?

I also used a TV-B-Gone to turn off the TV sets at Sears, six months later the TV sets were still off.

Listen to me, do not take that job at Sears. If you do you are going to be tearing out your hair in six months and you'll be remembering that paul_houle told you not to do it. So don't.
That code is on GitHub for at least 7 years:
https://github.com/avtobiff/virtualagc/tree/master/Luminary0...
(and even longer on Virtual AGC website: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/)
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I created my hotmail.com email account before it was acquired by Microsoft and it has worked for me so far.

It seems that Microsoft finally has managed to broke it for me. After they switched me to the new version of Outlook, it has stopped to load the mailbox for me and I have not been able to properly access my mailbox since days.

Does somebody else experience this?

Edit: as a remainder, hotmail.com was founded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and was later acquired by Microsoft for $400 million.
New evidence supports Stephen Hawking's theory of shrinking black holes
To elaborate: Tensorflow is clever because it takes your flow graph and cuts it into pieces which it then executes on computational units. Any computational unit will do, really as long as you have a backend for it. This choice makes adaptation to new system much easier.

I believe Caffe and Theano uses the same model, but I didn't study it. There are also some similarity in the model to what OCaml does with the incremental library, though it is not for machine learning.
Perhaps I live with rose colored glasses, but I do not believe that anyone has ever be be banned from HN for making that quoted statement unless you have left out some essential detail. My guess would be that you made that statement, and subsequently you were banned for something else. Perhaps you could post a link to the thread in question?

Never mind, maybe I found it, or at least the account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039872. A little bristly, and I'm not sure if the assumptions are correct (Is it unequivocal that "Status is zero sum"?) but doesn't seem ban-worthy. But since it's a year before the account appears banned, maybe I'm missing a later comment with the exact quote?

Presuming this is the account you are referring to, it looks to have actually been banned for the similarly themed but much more aggressive comment "Sexual dimorphism is real. Your impotent rage and ridiculous ideologies will never change that fact. I will be greatly amused by your kind's zealous need to tilt at windmills." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11226294), which when challenged by Dan you defended by saying "I have a policy to return hostility in kind." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11227788).

I think this counts as leaving out an essential detail. The problem is not that discussing sexually dimorphism is off limits (others appear to have done so without being banned) but that taking "he did it first" is not a acceptable excuse for rude behavior here. Or maybe I have the timeline slightly off? It's hard to tell when some of the edits occurred.

In any case, I'm going to keep my rose colored glasses on for a bit longer. I'd encourage you to keep making scientifically accurate statements about sexual dimorphism from your new account, but given that some interpretations have sensitive implications, it would probably be wise to approach it as politely as possible.

In fact, I have a feeling I'll get banned for this comment.

No, I don't think you will. You can actually discuss many "controversial" topics here as long as you try to do so politely. Assuming I found the right thread, it looks like the ban wasn't because you raised a forbidden topic, but for your stated policy of returning hostility in kind. "Tit for tat" has it's place in game theory, but in real games (and communities) it has some serious defects if blindly applied.

The main defect in this context is that if all players adhere to the simplest version, it has a tendency to end in a "death spiral" of defection. Eventually, a poorly phrased response is interpreted as an insult, and after that it's a permanent race to the bottom. The strategy can be improved by adding some degree of "forgiveness" to allow both parties to reset to cooperation. Adjusting the trigger to require multiple offenses before retaliation ("tit for two tats") can also help to account for inevitable communication errors.

Welcome back.
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most people work 09:00 - 18:00 and take 45-60 minutes for lunch around noon or 13:00. however many people start or end earlier or later to avoid bad traffic.
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> from which InDesign took inspiration

Do you have a source? InDesign is much, much more than Latex, and certainly not just a derivative - though your post implies just that. Having spent many hobby-years in InDesign laying out newspaper spreads, magazines, covers, I'd argue that it has a fundamentally different, richer, use case, and is incomparable (unless you're just talking about technical documents).
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This is not the "work world of the future".

What we were promised is 30 maybe even 20 hours of work a week, the location hardly matters.

Instead we get to work even longer hours.
then he doesn't pay for both?
A bit, yes, because the actors are humans too. But the core of the issue is more game-theoretic - shareholders cannot all coordinate to avoid taking some "shortest paths" that end up with unwanted consequences. Tackling this, hard as it is, is still easier than rocket neurosurgery.
Airbus wants to make self-flying airborne taxis a real thing
You can now start a zone that's compatible with 64-bit Linux, or one that runs a "hardware" hypervisor, or mix and match the two. That sort of thing?
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Your hours are common in the U.S., except it would be a 1 hour lunch to keep to a 40 hour work week. 9-5 is just a shorthand.
Well of course exploration would help, but it's often very, very hard to get an opportunity to try something to any depth. Who's going to write a better job application, someone who already knows what the job is about, or a tourist?

The advice about keeping your options open is IMO basically advice to do a STEM degree. It is plausible that someone who studied science could read a lot and become a political consultant. It's a lot less plausible that someone who studied politics is going to pick up a book on fluid dynamics and work on formula one cars. Neither should logically be impossible (it's just books after all) but what will most employers' intuition be? Both are small industries where opportunities are limited.

What's needed is more transparency. Nothing throughout school or university showed me anything relevant about work. For instance, what salary can you get from various careers? I was left with some leaflets with rough estimates for finance and consultancy. And I had an offer in Engineering. But apart from that, no clue.

What would make sense would be if firms got some kind of incentive to let young people come in and have a look. And young people would be sent to do various things, not just the ones they (or their parents) think will be best. I remember one 18 year old intern who somehow knew she wanted to work in investment banking (what she was doing in quantitative finance is a good question).
I'm pretty sure most of them don't.

My resume is either still out there on some "jobs" web site somewhere or it's been sold/shared between recruiting firms as I still get one or two "cold" e-mails a week from a recruiter; I haven't been "looking" for 5+ years.

In mine, near the beginning, it says something to the effect of "If the responsibilities for your position include the words 'Microsoft' or 'Windows' anywhere, I am not interested in the position. Please do not contact me."

The last recruiter e-mail I received, two days ago, says:

> Your profile came up in my database as a possible candidate that might be qualified for a new Windows Systems Admin I received in my office this morning. My client is with the Department of Defense and is looking for someone with a MSCA [sic] or MCSE or higher for this role.

I believe the overwhelming majority of them don't look at them at all. They punch a keyword or two into their database, then, like spammers, blast the same form e-mail out to anyone whose name comes up.
And then that project half dies because of replacement XY which is sooo much better /s. Now you are stuck on a legacy platform, and if you have great sales people who included this system in the contract worth $10M+ and no replacement exists, you cant get rid off it. So someone has to manage the legacy platform, where all docs where lost and no one has the domain knowledge as everyone has left. Now guess what happens when the company finds out you setup the servers, "Hey, you setup these servers, so you are now responsible for the platform, congratulations!"....
The worst crisis ever
Thanks for advice. It might depend on their requirement and urgency of project and skills so they are offering me more.
I do not want to loose that huge money and also wanted to join Deloitte (I am also not sure I am right fit as I am very technical and introvert person).
I am really confused right now.
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Sears isn't really even a big name anymore.
Having worked 20 or 30 temp jobs in my time as well as perms, in the UK in the 2000s it used to be 37.5/37/35 hours per week for office and 40 for industrial or warehouse work, but it's increasingly common to see 40 for office.
I facilitated a class yesterday and I hammered on proper semantic html and only using WAI-ARIA where totally necessary like in tabs.

Glad to see its more or less a consensus.
The OA specified the software used and the way that the tools were chained together, and he mentioned the somewhat kludgy workround for getting the chapter headings vertically centred on the page.

I also found his other page linked from the OA about the actual writing process itself of interest. Specifically the way he 'reverse engineered' the plots of various popular novels by deciding on some common headings/categories and summarising each of the novels under those headings in a spreadsheet.

What 'useful information' do you find to be missing?
you are correct, just like the biggest PR stunt on CES 2016 the Ehang 184.
The way you would do this in practice would be:

1. Start with the abstraction that every shape is actually a group of one or more sub-shapes. (Well-understood and pretty much universally applied abstraction.)

2. Pre-process all of your geometry so that you won't get cycles of occlusion, which is the corner case the author mentioned. If you do have a cycle, then subdivide and group as mentioned in #1.

3. Use some fast but crude algorithm to preemptively reject non-visible shapes.

4. Apply painter's algorithm. to "probably visible" shapes.
Only because employees allow it. Work 20 hours and you'll get paid for 20 hours, but life hasn't gotten cheaper and wages haven't gone up as much, so you'll have to make some concessions.
Gartner dubs machine learning king of hype
dang, you're right, i should have thought of that earlier.
I don't know enough about VIM to really understand this. But are VIM proper trying to catch up with NeoVIM?
Think about which one will open more possibilities for you in the future when you are ready to move on. not sure where you are in your career but I'd suspect for most being a Deloitte alumn would have more potential upside.

Also, let Deloitte know you really want to work there but have an offer that is 50% more and give them the opportunity to improve their offer.
If you have a particular layout in mind, then InDesign takes about 1/10 of the time to learn as it would take to achieve mastery of e.g. the memoir package in TeX.

TeX's not the right tool if you need immediate, precise, flexible control over page layout.
"self published"
That wouldn't surprise me since they are selling almost entirely store brand / generic items. When I first got out of college, I largely shopped at Aldi's and it was certainly the cheapest way to buy food. I ultimately stopped because they sold very little fresh food. I think they're starting to sell a lot more now but I'm not sure how those prices compare.
But that's not really how it works. Sure, for lever pulling, no problem. For solving a hard problem, I think about it constantly for weeks on end. The 9-5 is just trying to hook you. if you can demonstrate you only need to show up for an hour, one time, and get hooked on my problem, that's pretty valuable. It's just hard to demonstrate you're hooked. Maybe you're thinking about my problem, maybe you're thinking about grape pop tarts. There's no way for me to know what's at the top of your stack.
I wonder who would buy them at such ridiculous prices. Most NOS nixies are in the $0.5 to $5 range, excluding delivery costs. Only exceptions are a few weird and rare ones.
Having pandas as a dependency?
9–5 is the standard British working day, which includes an hour for lunch.

As an example, my contract when I worked for the British government said, "You will normally be required to work a five-day week of 41 hours gross, Monday to Friday, including meal breaks".

The time allowed for lunch breaks was one hour per day, which led to a working time of 7h12m, and a total weekly working time of 36 hours.

I only notice now that this doesn't quite add up to 9–17h. That's probably because most people took about ¾ hour for lunch rather than the full hour, and left at 17:00 rather than 17:12.

(Or maybe I was doing it wrong.)
> And, truth be told, you probably don’t trust most of your colleagues
> or your boss, either.

From all the places I worked at as an employee or a freelancer in the last twenty years, in the US or in Germany, that was not true for about 2/3rd of them. And the remaining 1/3rd wasn't so much that I didn't trust my colleagues, the whole place was "lost". For example my 2nd job, in a startup with waaayyyyyy too much money and attention for its own good.

Even if I include the time of my apprenticeship in an East German (GDR) chemical factory of several thousand employees, even there the majority of people did a good job at work and were competent.

Even when I extend that to numerous summer jobs in a brewery, sausage factory, chocolate factory and a dozen others (non-food), I rarely had the impression that the sentence I quoted demonstrates.

That a job may be useless - okay, that happens a lot, but I can rarely attribute it to complete incompetence, most of it is much larger forces at work than an individual - even a CEO - can fight. And yes, sometimes people are in over their head, but that happens, so what. In the day to day operations I must have been incredibly lucky that my experiences are overall very positive? Hard to believe.

Since "trust" is the centerpiece of that article I question whether their entire premise is even true.
Is it inappropriate to point out that most likely there were a lot of closed source binary blobs involved in making his computer actually work?
Farming for yourself and your family, 'subsistence farming' is something humans have been doing for thousands of years;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture
Many of these scipy methods can cope with concave, noisy functions. There's a bit of skill/alchemy with selecting starting values and tolerance parameters. Interesting to see that your approach has superior performance in that case, but in many cases these free tools with no need for an api would be sufficient.
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Zuckerberg blames himself for having to spend $2B on Oculus
Wouldn't be wise to put lightweight solar panels on top of that? Seems like there is enough space to generate quite a good amount of electricity...
You're certainly not alone in this regard.
Thanks, I think IT branch is not responsible for that kind of issues. They are moving more to ecommerce areas so I think retail does not affect much.