skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could see it maybe being used to develop on set controllers. Things like programming of lights etc could potentially use it.

I also see it being commonly used for web servers that are also used by the film industry. Django is quite common so I suspect that's another area.

Unfortunately I think that's about it. The de facto tools that are used outside of VFX and animation each have their own APIs on other languages and I don't see them converging on any particular language.
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Hi awongh,

Have a look at the jobs boards for VFX companies.

For example: https://www.wetafx.co.nz/jobs

Web development is very much needed!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13099966
Torrenting involves uploading data, which is considered distributing content you don't own. So I think torrenting copyrighted content is illegal most places. A regular http download might be legal though more places.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tapes down the highway
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13100851
The only #FakeNews I saw this election cycle is all those fake polls by the mainstream media.
> So, is choosing the path that takes the shortest time like a standing wave?

Note that photons don't take the shortest path; they take a variationally stationary path (not necessarily the shortest one). My suspicion is that this is because all the possible photon states are coherent along and immediately nearby that path, whereas if the path is not variationally stationary then it interferes with nearby paths. I've done very little variationally physics, however, so take this with a grain of salt.
"If any corporation is corrupt, all others must be too"
Glad you found the breakdown of the stages interesting. It's a lot of moving pieces at one time.
Another good article http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture
I know a lot of people hate how the EPA stop them putting a monster V8 in their hot-rod, or a diesel in something-or-other.

Now that I've spent 6 months in West Africa, where 99% of vehicles belch black smoke 24x7, I have a new-found respect for the EPA.

Anyone that is against environmental regulations needs to live 6 months in a third world country to understand how important it is.
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You don't have to be so hard on yourself when "practising meditation" though. There's another piece on the front page of HN right now about using positive reinforcement to influence the behaviour of children.
The secular Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (Jon Kabat Zinn) and Mindfulness Self Compassion (Kristen Neff) approaches both take a curious approach to mind wandering. In meditation, every time you notice the mind wandering is a learning experience. Then you go back to focus on the breath or whatever you are doing, and repeat again and again without self criticism.
If meditation feels like torture my view is that you're doing it wrong.
A public stock market with common stock is very different than early funding with preferred stock. They are getting more than just at fraction of ownership; they are getting liquidation preferences and other perks that make the stake worth more than just the ownership percentage.
1991 saw tens of millions of people gain a liberty they'd never experienced before, as their countries became independent from the USSR. Ask them and I don't think they'll agree that 1991 was "pretty crappy".
Impressive. You are technically correct, with respect to the current screenwriting requirements.

Unfortunately, you come across as highly antagonistic to a screenwriter (a) whose script was almost immediately made into a brilliant, popular film [73] and (b) whose story was foundationally about the way language affects our thinking.

Your main argument is that people's scripts will get rejected if they don't chain them into a box and use peculiar little brass fasteners to hold them together. This inclines me to believe that you've not yet actually seen "Arrival."

Sometimes I think a little change in the film industry would be productive, if it meant we'd get more movies like "Arrival," even if it means breaking rules, and fewer movies like "Captain America: Civil War," who follow the rules but composite dozens of mismatched absurdities and are basically mass-market children's cartoons.

[73] Common knowledge. By the way, championing your knowledge of "how HN works" WRT references just sounds self-congratulatory.
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OP what type of Huawei dongle is it? If it's one of the old Hi Link modems, maybe this tutorial would work: https://hologram.io/docs/guide/connect/e303

Otherwise it could be a newer MS-2131i which requires a little more configuration.
It would have been a handy feature for this particular scriptwriter though, wouldn't it.
Nice, it's probably the only decent free RTS out there.
https://www.scribd.com/document/333110063/Apple-s-Comments-o...
Yep. Theres a big need for something like Firebase but with support for arbitrarily fancy queries.
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By that measure, I can guarantee you that they don't meet the standard. Banks are rather conservative.
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Solar power in the two double digit percentage can't come fast enough - for all of Africa.

I've seen some of the coal plants near Johannesburg from close - the pollution is real and and it's crazy. Also residents are burning coal, fields and whatever they can get in winter and those fires make the area hazy and smoggy.
I wouldn't consider that anything close to beginner-level C++ because, as you said, it bombards you with a ton of concepts all at the same time. It's the kind of thing that I'd want put into some library and not look at it.

All that I'm trying to advocate are things like smart pointers instead of raw pointers and relying on iterators so you can use range-based for loops. Avoid some of the classic problems like forgetting to de-allocate things, de-allocating twice, using out-of-range indexes, and all that.
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I was a little disappointed that they left variational physics out of the movie (which meant that the physicist character was basically useless in the movie). I understand that that's a lot harder to make accessible than basic linguistics, but (spoilers) when they discovered that the aliens only knew time-independent variational physics, that was one of the biggest "whoa dude" moments in the book.
Possibly bitmessage.

But adoption is even worse than pgp
Did you submit this because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13100910
I bought Fade In, which is compatible with Final Draft, and much cheaper. Works on all platforms.

http://www.fadeinpro.com/
I'll go ahead and update it. Thanks for the info!
Disappointed by these other answers.

Whether you should care comes down to your ideology. My view: I totally see the value in tracking your users, but I also believe there should always be an option to opt out. Tracking becomes insidious when you lose the right to not participate.

By choosing to opt out, you're showing Microsoft that there are people that genuinely care about being able to not be tracked, making it more likely for them to keep this option for the future.
Just to expand, lack of cipher status is a massive problem on every phone produced in the last decade. I've not had a warning on any smartphone I've used (Apple, HTC, Samsung, Microsoft etc) or for that matter on any feature phone I've used, including going back to things as old as the Nokia 3310, 6310, 8100 or as new as things like the Nokia 105 or E51.

Even on a handset that supports the indicator (the spec says all should) the spec also says this can be overridden by the SIM card and apparently most sim producers and macro operators disable the warning by default anyway.

It's also worth pointing out that I'm only aware of this being part of the GSM spec. I don't know what happens with CDMA (which I believe is prevalent in the USA) and 3G and 4G _can't_ run without encryption so it should (theoretically) be a non-issue there too.
My skeptic-sense is tingling!
How do you know you're not being taught 2+2=5. No one is close to figuring out a unifying field theory based on "The Standard Model" and Relativity, so in many ways it doesn't really make sense to obsess over these old models. Fermat's Last Theorem didn't take hundreds of years to postulate -- only to prove.

So... properties of the models you obsess over are kinda baseless: it hides the fact that the theories are still incomplete.

Seriously, what's the point in obsessing over incomplete theorems? Just to get the same grant money to write the same dribble over and over, so all new theories look the same: "promising" yet still missing the ultimate goal: a unifying field theorem.

The formulas are presented and coherently explained in both the lecture and the book. Yes, I have a BSEE, and yes I've always had issues with our current model, -- especially with dielectric materials; it's literally filled with holes.

So, yeah... quit the pretentious talk. I use to believe everything you're selling: institutions know everything; agree with authority and get your degree or grant money. Subquantum Kinetics might not be the answer, but it has an interesting approach that finally unifies fields.

There are plenty of videos on YouTube of people creating their own T.T. Brown experiments. The Model G is just a theory just like the Standard Model only it is literally more unified. Already it's a better theorem because both aren't quite proven -- they're still just theories; (again, properties of each theories are proven, but that doesn't ultimately prove the model is 100% correct or not), -- but the difference between the two models is Model G has a unified field theorem.

Again, I wish you luck; God bless!
> Iris scanners are the only sure way to recognize someone

For now.
You might dig lodash-bound – Enables chained lodash functions with ES bind (::) syntax

https://github.com/elado/lodash-bound
Using something like Shakespeare for Haskell makes it very difficult to write HTML that is incorrectly encoded without doing it on purpose: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shakespeare

More conventionally, even something like Go's html/template [1], though I believe it uses a technique that can ultimately be fooled, is much harder to write accidental encoding vulnerabilities into. If you do the natural thing in the templates, the templates do the right thing.

Business logic errors I don't expect to be prevented by, well, anything. Oh, you can do some work to prevent certain sorts of errors with type systems, but a lot of business logic errors often start in the requirements, or the translation of the requirements into the code. Nothing will ever stop us from taking fuzzy requirements and translating them into wrong code, even if we can at least ensure the wrong code doesn't crash, corrupt memory, expose encoding errors, or violate simple invariants.
Thanks, I think, and I totally don't mean to come across as antagonistic towards the author - I loved his film, he faced huge challenges, and understood how to break the formatting norms slightly while staying within them to get a very exceptional project made. My concern was more that on a place like HN we'd have a dozen smart folks start googling screenwriting software, discover a few open source projects, and become convinced their path to success as app developers was to ship the first screenwriting software with image embedding support included. That seems like a great idea on the surface and it's only when you go deeper into the surrounding infrastructure that you discover why it might actually not be such a great idea as one edge case customer report might suggest.

The bit about the footnote styles was more to help HN readers who are not screenplay experts validate an example from their world where formatting styles communicate in-group vs out-group status, because as you point out "everyone" knows footnote counters start at 0 on HN.
Please stop creating new accounts to break the HN guidelines with.

If you don't want to be banned from HN, the thing to do is email hn@ycombinator.com and convince us that you'll abide by the site rules in the future. That means posting civilly and substantively (or not at all), and not using HN primarily for political or ideological battle.
An example of how they use telemetry can be seen in their issue tracker.

Here is an example: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/707
Short answer is investors will question it (they may or may not ask these questions, they will be thinking them) "why did they raise from f/f and not institutions then" "what did those investors who presumably said no know that i didn't" "are they better now?"

but it's not a massive red flag unless there are scary answers to the above qs
> what are some of the names of the jobs that are programming based (as opposed to 3d artist based)?

We have a lot. A few of the top of my head:
* Render developer. It's less artist focused and more about the math and optimizations.
* Web infrastructure developer (we use oracle dbs, django, various RPC services etc)
* Computer Vision

A good example is Disney who do research in various fields: https://www.disneyresearch.com/publications/

> I am also very curious about what the breakdown is between people who write the pipeline code and those who write the stuff being put into and out of these pipelines- is the difference very big?

This depends on the studio a lot. At our studio, there's a wide variety of people. We never expect an artist (Animator, lighter, etc) to be able to program. They just need to know how to hit a button to open a publish UI and then hit publish in there.

But for the programmers we don't expect them to have an artistic background. They often just need to know how to develop.
That said the best people are the ones who can do both. Artists who understand the technical aspect often work faster, and developers who understand the artistic side often make better tools because they understand the mindset

> And what kinds of experience do they look for, and how would you say a regular old web dev programmer would go about getting that experience?

The experience really depends on the role to be honest.
If you're a web developer, studios often have dedicated web development teams for both backend and frontend web development who really don't need experience in the film industry.

The kinds of projects include:
* Our production tracking software is all web based. A similar project is: https://www.shotgunsoftware.com/

* Our payroll systems are all web based
* Similarly all our media management also has dedicated servers to fascilitate creation and acquisition of media.

There's always room to move departments too and many people have as well once they get more hands on in the studio.
Well Atom and VSCode are both electron based, but Atom already has a minimap-scrollbar implemented so it is possible.

https://atom.io/packages/minimap

Maybe it isn't as 'technically good', but it does the job and imo looks good. 3M+ downloads.

As for performance, they try to keep up with electron, which keeps up with Chrome, which is currently being retrofitted with a new blazing fast javascript engine (https://v8project.blogspot.com), so it will only get better :)
Completely agree. I live in Europe, am a part of the tech scene, and am sitting in the contitental craziness you speak of in Germany. This report is largely nonsense.

It talks about "top research institutions" are in Europe, neglecting the #1,#2,#4,#5, and #6 in the world are in the USA. [1]

Honestly, I have no idea why an investor would want to try to tackle this nightmare of 30+ target markets, especially when you have huge homogeneous markets in the USA and Asia.

1. http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/universit...
"living more fully in the moment means"

Does it help to list examples of the opposite, "tomorrow" or "manana" culture? Or aphorisms like never do tomorrow what you can do today?

This brings up time preference which the original article author carefully danced to avoid discussing. Uneducated or lower class thought patterns seem to yield instantaneous maximal values of happiness X. If your outlook on life is to achieve the highest value X, even if for a very short amount of time, then you won't like Stoicism due to having an extremely high time preference. On the other hand if you walk a difficult path, seemingly an unnatural unevolved superficially unemotional undramatic path, which the stoic philosophers seem to think takes a lot of training and education and generally higher class attributes like intelligence and wisdom, the resulting extremely low time preference will produce some superficially really weird and non-traditional attitudes (what does this say about tradition?) that regardless of how "weird" they are, result in a maximal value when value X representing happiness is integrated over an entire lifetime. But your super low time preference is going to result in nearly living on a different planet from people with extremely high time preference, those groups have severe difficulty communicating with each other, often totally opposing concepts of value and whats right. Basically a different culture.

Of course the stereotypes from people who don't really get it, start flowing and "naturally" its always the case that whatever is happy short term is the opposite long term or integrated over a long period, at least according to naturally grouchy people, for no apparent reason, or sometimes in defiance of reality, because it makes for dramatic philosophical texts. Of course reality has no obligation to make grouchy people consistent and happy, which is kind of funny in context. I guess I'm saying a crappy Stoic is a failure of a Stoic that wanted an excuse for being a grouchy "get off my lawn" guy, so spits out the grouchy answer off the cuff every time instead of the actual Stoic answer that might take some thought, unless its a really dumb question.
There's a lot of information developers could use for the benefit of their users, if they had access to it, some of only very mildly privacy invading, some of it extremely so.

Collecting call stacks from crashing threads or executables can be incredibly useful for fixing them.

Measuring what functionality gets used and what not can help direct feature development (should that checkbox be as visible as it is?)

Collecting statistics on Unicode code point usage may direct development of core data structures (UTF-16 might be the best choice for the basic character unit)

Collecting CPU/memory/disk stats similarly may direct development (if most of your users have gigabytes of free RAM, that change that takes 20% more memory but speeds up things may be useful; if they have plenty of idling CPU! But no memory, things are different)

Knowing what percentage of your users run on a 80386 may help making the decision to compile for at least a 80486.

Knowing internet connection speed and amount of free disk space may help make the decision to move all help online.

Knowing the default browser can help direct testing of the help system, if that system uses the default browser.

Knowing the locale of your users may give hints as to what spell checking languages or UI translations to support.

Having access to the custom dictionaries of all your users may be helpful in improving the ones you ship with the editor.

Having access to every edit made (we are deeply into 'extremely privacy invading' territory now) may also be helpful. For example, you may discover that most of your users don't seem to know about a shortcut that combines five other actions.

Etc, etc.
>Would you say "so says the cryptographer" to circumscribe something that `tptacek says about cryptography?

If there were differing opinions and results on some computer science subjects by different specialties (cryptography, data science, language design, algorithms, etc), then yes.
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Well, you got one of the three right.
Instinct is stronger than rationality.
Geographers provide new insight into commuter megaregions of the US
The truth is that we can't trust INTEL. Their CPU micro-code or ME (Management engine) can and does "phone home" to the internet, grab updates and update the CPU. They don't allow the customer to turn this OFF, which betray's the customer who purchased the CPU. Anyone who can sign the update and intercept the download channel can update your CPU with you having no ability to protect yourself. We can't trust intel.

Intel needs to allow 3rd parties to build a small piece of hardware for private key storage, generation, signing and encryption, with self-distruction upon tampering. Then customers need to be able to go to the store, pick which vendor they want, and they plug it into their motherboard. By selling them in the store when the customer can make a surprise purchase, then that prevents tampering upon shipping withe ecommerce deliverables.
> Don't use biometrics as a password; use them as a username

Even then people's faces change and through accidents fingerprints can also be changed / removed and then you're shit out of luck. I'm terrified I would store my important shit in something like that then get into a car accident or something and be no longer able to open it.
Sure, fine, but it'll still be an i128 somewhere, yeah? Like, you can put whatever abstraction you want on it, I still need to directly poke those bits and treat it in all ways as fundamentally the same thing as an integer, defined in those terms in order to use integral operations upon them, at the levels that somebody who's worrying about them has to care about. (Also, look at halomru's post for reasons one might intentionally add and subtract addresses from one another in the first place, which kind of holes this argument.)

That is a cool link though, I'm gonna give it a deeper read.
I have backspace on my left thumb:
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Highly recommended for Linux or Windows desktop computers if you have RSI trouble. A bit unwieldy for laptops though. I use both and switching isn't a big issue (unlike switching national keyboards, which drives me crazy). It doesn't quite have enough modifiers for Mac - can't have both left and right versions of shift, alt, ctrl and command.

Vi users have to swap the up-arrow and the down-arrow since they use the same fingers as j and k, but reversed. However, it's pretty easy to remap, and it happens in the keyboard so it works everywhere.
It's just one account though. Everyone is different and whilst some women might find it a problem, for other's it might not be one at all. Just like for some men it would be a problem not to be the breadwinner, whilst others might not care at all.

It's sunday and I have just enjoyed the day with my family. Whilst in the past I have often just spend my sundays coding, or catching up on the latest tech news, I _much_ prefer not to. Just do what makes you happy is what I'd say though :-)
This was not a good movie or story, so I don't care.
Genuinely surprised to not see this happen yet. I guess it's a good thing Apple and Google are the ones who typically store Fingerprints and not third party apps.
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