skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The delivery aspects of waterfall usually means it is a rigid and structured organization with people in rigid and structured roles that have defined responsibilities.

This can drive bad behavior, pitting teams like requirements analysis, design, development and test against each other since they sometimes have competing interests.

In a larger organization, competing interests emerge since these teams are often managed by separate people who manage and measure their people with objectives that are for the role. People who write requirements get focused on common ways to document requirements, templates, etc.

A rigid organization using waterfall tends to have very structured, approval oriented deployment processes which leads to things like only having project launches 3 times per year. A weekend launch starting with a backup of the system on Friday in case they need to restore Sunday night if the long sequence of 300 deploy steps is somehow botched.

I went from organizations like above into one that uses a Continuous Delivery model. This means we deploy every day, multiple times a day if needed - to production. Small changes that are testable with builds being tested continuously, operations of the environment heavily monitored and developers own their changes into production.
> So either apple staff are under too much pressure that quality control has gone out the window

We will never know, but I'm guessing this is the reason.
Public good infrastructure orgs should get a pass IMHO.
If everyone was like me, they would have 0 customers left.

I started with switching to Android, and I'm now typing this on an Asus running elementary OS after a regretful MacBook Pro buy.

They're not going anywhere, but their product are really starting to suck, and with those price tags that's unacceptable (at least to me).
Hg (http://mercury.sexy/hg_sdf/) is a great resource. I'm not a fan of the non-commercial license. The intro on the top of the site has a lot of great links to resources outside of iq, including the pouet.net thread on Raymarching, John Hart's original sphere tracing paper, and enhanced sphere tracing, as well as the author's original talk from NVScene 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8nFqwOho-s). Definitely check out all of these resources.

If you're more interested in signed distance fields outside of the shadertoy\demo scene use cases there are a lot of interesting resources out there written by people using them in more complex contexts.
Alex Evans (Media Molecule) Dreams talk is awesome. You can see the talk here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KNtnCZDMI) and read the slides here (http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/AlexEvans_SIGGRA...).

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015455/Advanced-Procedural-Re... covers how to generate meshes. With modern hardware with ballot\shuffle there are probably more efficient ways to do this in a compute shader now, but the talk is still good.

Epic games siggraph presentation (http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/DynamicOcclusion...) is a good explanation of how UE4 uses signed distance fields for ambient occlusion and shadows.

Q-Games presentation (http://fumufumu.q-games.com/archives/TheTechnologyOfTomorrow...) on how the now defunct Game Tomorrow Children uses signed distance fields for dynamic world space reflections.

Voxel Quest (http://www.voxelquest.com/), a "failed" kickstarter project, has some good write ups of how he's built the engine over the years as well as source code.

Unbound.io gave a talk at GTC 2017 (http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2017/presentation/s7777...) that goes into some detail on their signed distance field VR sculpting app.

There are of course more resources than that, and just browsing shader toy and reading people's shaders can give you a ton of knowledge, but that's the short list of resources that I've found enlightening over the years.
I think in a round about way that "the public doing your job for you" is actually the fucking definition of journalism!

I don't know if I need to explain that further or if it makes sense on its own. But I'm thinking along the lines of -- Journalists report the story, they don't make the story. The public, by reading their story, does the "job" of turning hard-hitting reporting into justice. Not the news organization itself.
That didn't help. It's still unreadable, but the problem isn't the formatting.

I guess it depends on what we mean by faster. Certain kinds of interfaces were more responsive when they didn't have to deal with a lot of graphic overhead. If you were working on a DecWriter with a 300 baud connection to a mainframe, it wasn't that fast. Need data from the disk drive? Way slower. And of course, in 1983, no pc's had any kind of multi-tasking.
Not reviewing a movie based on a prescreeining isn't "bullying" by any stretch of the imagination.
Why? I grew up top posting (thanks to web mail clients), and personally I find having to scroll past tons of old messages in a thread to find the latest message is weird. Why is that preferred? I feel like I'm missing out on some big secret that top posting kills.

Edit: Ok, I found this: http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html

I'm convinced that 'bottom posting' is superior.
Hasn't been this always the case?

AFAIK airplane mode should kill all radio signals.
Indeed.

Also, the GC backlogs are more relevant to SV than the two other issues mentioned - travel ban and DACA. Yet SV leadership is way more vocal on travel ban and DACA than they are about GC backlogs.
Everybody talks about the advantages of immediate cashflow, while always ignoring these outcomes.

What did going public allow the company to do that it was unable to do prior to selling out? Did they just need the money to keep paying for bandwidth? Because that's the essence of the 1990s dot com game, with private venture capital being replaced by wall street investment firms.

Unreasonable demands for 'projected growth' is what always kills companies who otherwise, would be maintaining just fine.
Or just broken into 2+ tweets.
Can anyone explain to me what a Negative Accumulated Deficit means in a liability account?

As I understand it an Accumulated Deficit is the opposite of retained earning so a loss. But losses are positive values in liability accounts so we should invert it again and get back to an Accumulated Deficit. But instead of SnapChat adding this amount to their liabilities they're using it to reduce their it to reduce their equity.
I’ve done that but I feel like I’m still lacking some theoretical foundation. It might just be practice. Im aware of that project, it’s dope but I guess my question is how do I go from boxes to the insane shit lol.

E.g I’m not super comfortable creating my own sdfs that aren’t just a combination of the geometries from hg.
> You want to be on the cutting edge? This is what you get!

That's what betas are for.
What was the LA Times story that precipitated the blackout?
Do you have a favorite job board?

Obviously.

For my job as a snowboard instructor: Burton Process 157 Off-Axis Purepop Camber.

For my other jobs: Linkedin Easy Apply. It delivered.
Here's a couple:

Monads are so pervasive that multiple languages have determined that they deserve special syntax (see: Haskell's do-notation, OCaml's let-syntax). Those syntaxes play nicely with a ton of seemingly-different types, such as promises, options (maybes/nullables), lists, monadic error handling (either, or_error), etc.

On a similar note, recognizing the structure of monads has in the past allowed me to abstract things in an interesting way. For example, say I have a dict lookup function (takes a key, returns a value) and I want to build a bunch of useful functions on top of that. But we want to use them in many different contexts - the dict might be remote or locally in memory (promises vs. not) and we may or may not be in a test context (monadic vs exception-based error-handling). By recognizing that we can just abstract over monads, we can easily handle these 4 cases (promise, promise+error monad, error monad, unit monad).
that is a criminal offense and you can skip straight to police
Yes, large company executives have misjudged the impact of the Streisand effect countless times. But this time isn't just the result of internet network effects, the media has always had the power to push back on large organizations (and politicians) who attempt to bully them. And journalistic organizations have historically banded together in these moments.

The media has always been one of the best natural counter-balances in capitalism and democracy to poorly thought out power plays by insecure executives, without requiring direct intervention or oversight by a third party.

Hopefully this isn't shielded in the media as generically the fault of 'Disney', which is a large organization staffed by varied people, but the particular people behind this move. Because lets be honest, this will hardly hurt Disneys bottom line. No one is going to not see their big movies, considering the brands they own and their overall reach. But hopefully it filters back to whichever executive had a power trip over this.

Few power-players have survived attacking the media, unless the media was widely perceived to be wrong about something, which is not the case here.
Everything I hear about SQLite3 always suggests that, essentially, it is considered "done". It does what it is supposed to do with great performance. There is nothing major left to do. If it doesn't meet your needs, pick a different SQL database.

Which, while a totally alien concept in the modern software world, is actually a pretty cool thought.

(I'm sure under the hood bugs are getting fixed and all)
The newspapers band together to blackout Disney in response to Disney blacking out the LA Times

That is an accurate portrayal of the context, is it not? Would you have been happier if I wrote;

The newspapers band together to blackout Disney in response to Disney blacking out the LA Times in response to their hard hitting story about Disney.

It's a mouthful, and doesn't change at all my following statement as I see it.
I played Protoss, but my favourite thing was always being Zerg and just sending thousands of zerglings into the enemy base, gnawing at every building at once, like a flood of little cockroaches.
Elastalert if the ELK stack is set up
Huge credit to Alyssa Rosenberg from the Washington Post for being the first to stand up to Disney on this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/11/06/w...

Also for the curious this was the piece that got LA Times blacklisted: http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-disney-anaheim-deals/

From that article:
Even if the parking garage fills just half its spaces, it would still generate more than $35 million in annual revenue and easily hundreds of millions of dollars over the life of the structure.

That money all goes to Walt Disney Co. The city of Anaheim, which owns the garage and spent $108.2 million to build it, charges the company just $1 a year for the lease.
If they're just hashing the image then blocking images with identical hashes, sounds like a good way for "activist users" to block arbitrary images (perhaps even ads—wouldn't that be fun!)
Not funny, but still funny. We made a t-shirt with the now famous quote of devops199: "I accidentally killed it"

https://cryptoshirt.io/products/devops199-quote-i-accidental...

#ethereum #eth #ether #parity #devops199
The conversation about parenting is somewhat of a red herring here. This is not a ‘won’t somebody think of the children moral panic’, but a serious consideration of the unintended consequences of the systems we are building and what that means for us as a society.

YouTube videos for kids is a fairly lighthearted entry to the subject - we could be discussing news, porn, education, whatever, and the problems and implications would be the same.

The key issues raised here are:

* The ‘delamination’ of content and author and how that affects the awareness and trust of its source. If, for example, a scientific paper and a bunch of woo is presented in the same way who can tell which is more legitimate? ‘Just teach critical thinking’ is not an acceptable solution as by the time enough people have been taught to provide herd immunity we will have long since succumbed to this pandemic of bullshit.

* ‘...the impossibility of determining the degree of automation which is at work here’. If both humans and machines are creating content tailored for every possible niche, interest, fetish and keyword combination, and algorithmic personalisation makes it possible to exist entirely within our own personal tag clouds what does it mean for us as a society, which requires a basic set of shared values to function?

Junk content and pandering to base instincts is not new, but our ability now to automate the creation and dissemination of such content to pander to every possible interest and unlikely combination of interests at vast scale is new - and we do not yet have the cultural toolkit to deal with the sheer quantity of it.

I wonder whether in a few years time, once we’ve really felt the impact of all this, people will look on today’s enthusiasm for putting ‘social’ in everything with the contempt and horror we do with last century’s enthusiasm for putting radium in everything.
breaking news!! Oh wait, gotta report it next month
There is obviously an xkcd for that https://xkcd.com/1897/.
It is really more my perception that with a fixed standing desk, if I want to stop standing, I have to physically move a couple feet to my desk. Since there is no mechanical interlude involved with the desk undergoing a morphing, there is very low "switching cost". Also, I have a very nice desk that I'd still like to use.
From my understanding this is because the new projects use golang or java.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/3cak9z/why_does_goo...
Because that would likely mean slowing down a different scenario. It's usually a trade-off, not a "defect".

The array sorting is a great example where the length of the array chosen or the pre-sort ordering can affect which browser is faster. No single browser may be able to claim the fastest for every scenario.
Understand and I am very well aware having purchased over 20k ESP32 MCUs. However, the parent comment that I responded to is talking about opensource aspects and community of AVR microcontroller to which I responded that Espressif is not only cost competitive, but it beats AVR in every aspect (perhaps you can say it's not as mature of an ecosystem).
If we have self driving cars the roads in cities will get a lot wider as no side parking in many streets many 2 lane or 1 lane would become 3 or 4 lane streets as well. Would allow for dedicated bus lanes as well so traveling by bus could also become a lot faster.
I agree completely. You may have missed, from TFA:

On Tuesday, members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics denounced Disney’s blackout of The Los Angeles Times. Each group voted to disqualify Disney’s movies from year-end award consideration unless the blackout was “publicly rescinded.”

If I'm not mistaken, those awards are worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Disney. It seemed like a significant escalation to me!

EDIT: I was an order of magnitude off in the estimated value of winning a half dozen Academy Awards.
What about a parent who tells their kid they can't have dessert unless they eat their vegetables, is that extortion too?
It looks like paperjs is based out of Canvas whereas Snap.svg out of SVGs.
This is important, because with Snap.svg you can create your illustrations with a designer tool (i.e. Illustrator) and animate their different parts through JS.
Nope. Snapchat is almost unusable on Android right now.

Compared to instagram's stories, which loads up in an instant, Snapchat takes its own sweet time. They made the mistake of not paying enough attention to android in the beginning. And now they are trying to fix their mistake. It is a timesink; but they brought it upon themselves.
The link seems to be working :/
Can someone explain why I was given a negative point for stating this?
The Android app crashes frequently and freezes up even more often. Have you tried using the app for an extended period of time?

Instead of fixing each individual problem, they appear to have declared bankruptcy and are throwing out their old code.
I generally love Let's Encrypt and what they stand for, but the subjective measure of "public good" is a dangerously slippery slope.
*piqued
That list plays with numbers in very interesting ways that aren't very useful. Not counting digital sales (uniformly), you end up with stats from an arena that doesn't really apply anymore. Notice LoL isn't on the wiki or Kritika Online or any of the actual massive successes (active users or net profit or ARPU) in the industry.
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DNSSEC now available in Google Cloud DNS
How to Be a Great Product Manager with Facebook PM
Developer of some optimization mods for Minecraft, one of which became OptiFine.
CockroachDB has a good blog post[0] that describes how they implemented SQL. (CockroachDB is a key-value store.)

[0] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/sql-in-cockroachdb-mappin...
I will answer your question with another: what metric are you using to measure ROI?

Edit: When you say you know lots of "marketers and advertisers" that are making money from ads, are you referring to resellers and providers of ad inventory and/or analytics, or are you referring to people who actually sell goods and services other than marketing and advertising inventory?
Apologies, I misread what you wrote. I thought it was 6,000 blocks a week. I also misread that as 13 KB per block header, though that mistake didn't change the calculation.

If the average block size is 13 KB, then there should be 546 MB added per week (13 KB / block * 6000 blocks / day * 7 days / week).

I don't know enough about sharding to offer an informed opinion on it, though I imagine the security compromises are tolerable.

With regard to a snapshot, yes that is one way they're used. I was suggesting that archival nodes could even rely on snapshots to cap their storage requirements.
If we have self-driving cars that aren't parked the same way as human-driven cars, but instead drive unoccupied to park somewhere else, then the extra space from reduced roadside parking will largely be occupied by extra traffic lanes to accommodate the added deadhead traffic.
So your position is that the news organizations are Disney's parent and legal guardian - and just looking out for their health and well being?

Or less literally, you think the news organizations simply had to threaten Disney with potentially billions (nix that, it's actually just hundreds of millions) of dollars of lost revenue by being excluded from the awards ceremonies in order to restore LA Times access to pre-screenings. It doesn't concern you at all that they would collectively make that threat / wield that might?

And this is all going on the assumption that the original LA Times reporting on Disney shenanigans in Anaheim was rock-solid and beyond reproach. Which of course I'm sure it was.

Even still I remain suspicious when the MSM bands together to effectively threaten losses of hundreds of millions in revenue [1] to a company which they think is misbehaving.

P.S. I feel like I'm in a weird rhetorical bubble here... I'd actually love it for someone to tell me exactly why I'm wrong without lobbing logical fallacies at me!

[1] - http://www.businessinsider.com/oscarnomics-2013-how-much-is-...
Which definition are you using?
USPS didn't 'lose' money. They were railroaded into paying for pensions in an attempt to kill them off.
http://m.govexec.com/management/2017/09/usps-defaults-billio...

The postal service owns tons of valuable land and also could easily charge amazon, etc. competitive rates when abused for their last mile services.

I'd rather my postal service not be treated like another shitty wall street commodity. We all benefit from its continued existence, warts and all.
I feel there's an apples-to-bytes comparison in there, given that the marginal cost for another instance of the same software is negligible.

This is especially true when you're talking about the non-institutional "poor consumer", as opposed to a company having customized or proprietary software made just for them.
Well, to be fair, they do cry lots of tears for every other form of immigration except skilled one.
From a users standpoint - no it doesn't matter.

From a developers standpoint it does. From a "health of the web" standpoint it does also.
I am with you on this one. I tried to 'do it all' in the past, without really good results. Now I just try to work, practice my religion appropriately, and exercise a few times a week. Everything else is done whenever I feel the urge only. Seem to be getting more done, paradoxically
I wonder in what form they store what the article calls a hash. Certainly no simple file hash - I guess it's some kind of feature extraction that lets them match the image against others?

Facebook probably is even just reusing the same systems that flag child porn or other illegal images. One of their better and more user-friendly ideas for sure (if you are locked into their ecosystem anyway, you might as well use their surveillance expertise to control the content you spread there.)
A controller in a device manufactured by a large and dysfunctional corporation, where the different bits of the software are written by different teams who don't trust each other, and aren't trusted by the team which integrates the product?
iOS, Swift and the VIPER design pattern
Immediate mode UIs have been around forever, actually. They just need a bit of finesse to be made efficient.
You missed demand pricing
If you own one of those job boards, you should be up front about that when linking to it.
Yes that is exactly what I was trying to convey.

They are obviously not the same thing (as the comment about trying to pay rent, for example, tries to point out). But at the same time, a lot of companies try to pass them off as not meaningful which I don't think is helpful even if toxic may be too strong a term. (SNAP's figures do that literally, giving us NM for change % numbees affected by the stock compensation).
Have you seen the left as of late? They have just as many bigots if not more. They're universally completely intolerant that the person they didn't vote for won the election. They also have rather interesting opinions on white people on the country. If that's not bigotry I don't know what is.