skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the book that won Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys and Pat Hanrahan an Academy Award

https://www.oscars.org/sci-tech/ceremonies/2014

>> To Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys and Pat Hanrahan for their formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind physically based rendering, as shared in their book Physically Based Rendering.

>> Physically based rendering has transformed computer graphics lighting by more accurately simulating materials and lights, allowing digital artists to focus on cinematography rather than the intricacies of rendering. First published in 2004, Physically Based Rendering is both a textbook and a complete source-code implementation that has provided a widely adopted practical roadmap for most physically based shading and lighting systems used in film production.
Look up "barcades" in your area. There is a big resurgence of them. It's old school arcades in a bar, basically.
This was a cool illustration of the Smalltalk programming language. I never found a use for Dabble (well, until recently when I went looking for it), but the demos were magical.
What was a live tile?

On a side note I do wish there were strong 3rd or 4th choices for a phone OS. A shame Blackberry is now just an Android flavor.
Well Twilio is "phone spam" when abused so I guess its a good match.
It's a great museum. I gotta say even as a 80's programmer kid, those old computers are extremely hard to get to do anything. It had tens of old working computers I had never seen before, many from decades before I was born still running. Pretty incredible.
It's by far my favorite museum. I always go every time I go to Seattle and there is always a new machine to play with.

You learn many things of how computers evolved by using them. Like seeing your terminal session printed and how the display is actually some sort of never-ending paper. Also making your own punch cards or hearing the noise of mainframes cooling systems.

Damn, it hurts to see Paul Allen go. Hope they keep the museum intact.
Is textile a mobile-only software? I can't really tell from the main page, there's nearly zero information on it ;)
Because of the damage the concept has done?
Studies show that something like 50% of men are like that when they know they won’t be caught. And the number goes way up for men who have consumed alcohol.
Same for me. I used to take all my notes in Ecco Pro, and I haven't found any outliner that comes close. A modern Ecco Pro with cloud-syncing would be awesome.
Lisp indeed doesn't live up to its admirable ideals. Parent comment is on the mark.
I would think he would sway toward VB ;)
It’s mostly useful for people whose social networks aren’t fully enfranchised in the U.S. financial system. For people within that system your analysis is correct.
Any gun control advocate who is already armed to the teeth, yes. That's the definition of pulling the ladder up behind yourself.
And on the seventh day, he set the version number to pi and declared all bugs to be features.
There was a good episode of the podcast Startup about the Grooveshark story. They didn't quite understand how strong the UX was. Too much of the episode's focus was on the exhaustive free library. But it was still cool to hear about it and made the loss sad again.
> They should be able to seek out relationships in their comfort zone without risk of formal censure. I assume there are a lot of women in a similar position.

People should not seek out relationships with those over whom they wield significant power professionally. That's a pretty decent and obvious rule most people live by.

While there are exceptions, if someone doesn't intuitively understand the reasons for the rule they should seriously consider dating outside of their professional environment.

This is especially true for people who are likely to make such advances to those under them through sheer ignorance of social norms. The set of people who make advances and badger others usually do so in bad faith and have practiced ways to hedge, mislead, and leverage the people around them to remain safely tolerated. That leaves the decent, socially inept people wide open to be made examples of by HR because they never thought to use their power or influence to threaten others. (Or, out of desperation they start to use that influence to save face.)

That may sound unfair to the socially inept. But the point is that there is no way to separate the wheat from the chaff-- people acting in bad faith who get caught almost always claim social ignorance, or harmless intentions, mis-communication, etc. There is no credible way to signal to an underling that a sexual advance comes without the threat of badgering or other more subtle repercussions. (And esp. no way to explain one's actions as harmless after the fact.)

And that's not even to mention situations where an underling says yes to an ostensibly "non-badgering" advance because a) they confused the wheat with the chaff and b) the power imbalance makes them think they have little choice. If the person making the advance is not particularly socially aware then it greatly increases the chances that they take the lack of error reporting as consent. Meanwhile, the underling is convinced that reporting an error would result in immediate or eventual termination. Not a particularly sound system for exploring romance IMO.

Anyway, those are just a few reasons why most people believe strongly in the rule I stated above. It's a field of social land mines. If one is socially inept then an entire class of problems vanishes simply by following the rule. (Besides, widely-available web dating services do exist.)
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It's a journalism startup much like ProPublica, i. e. taking on long-term projects with in-depth reporting.

And take your anti-semitism elsewhere.
I downvoted you mostly because I can. But also because this comment violates the rules.
Pixel 3 XL review–Google software deserves better than this hardware
I think they are still pretty good at atmospheric and I don’t think they were ever really that great at writing. It was just easier to enjoy when you were young, but a lot of bad writing is.

I do miss blizzard north though.
The exact phrase was, "experienced unwanted sexual overtures", not "unwanted sexual contact". If we consider asking someone out on a date to be a sexual overture, then asking someone out on a date and they decline is indeed an instance of "unwanted sexual overtures". Someone made a sexual overture, and it was not wanted.

Since YC has not provided how these terms were defined in the questionnaire, we're left to speculate - hence the confusion and contention exhibited in this thread.
Most of science at one point thought the world was flat.

Generally, none of science thought the Earth flat. Prehistoric creation stories lacked science altogether.

The flatness that some in Abrahamic traditions clung to was partially motivated by apparent conflict with scripture, such as explaining the stoppage of the sun miracle.
I'm not convinced this would've worked. It would've been too early. 56k modems were cutting edge then and you still needed a desktop. Amazon sold only books mostly for quite some time around then. Also, there was a lot of hype around the net and "www" was pretty awkward to get people to wrap their heads around. It would've been a lot of money about 10 years too early.
Yes. Yes it is. Your kickstarter commitment to this “worthy” cause is essentially saying you’ll be back with your $1.01 when we go live. And since $.99 was taken I had to go much higher.
I don't know how it works in Japan, but I do know how it works in some places in e.g. California.
A live tile in windows phone, 8, 10, etc is an app icon that contains realtime info like weather. I've never used the particular app mentioned, but live tiles are just a cool way to display info.
> Shall I tell my boss that I can't reply his email right now because I am counting back in sevens from 1000 or what???

Pretty much. You can turn Slack onto Do Not Disturb and establish a culture of deep focus where your coworkers understand you're in the middle of something and you're signaling that you're not going to get back to them right away because you're in the zone.

As with anything culture-building, it does take some conversations to discuss what you're trying to do and why you're doing it. And you don't do those in slack.
So every time you let your spouse take your car you do a DNA test to make sure they haven't been switched with a look-alike?

That's just a somewhat extreme illustration of how you, and everybody else, has to rely on heuristics to evaluate statements. It's impossible to even prove a tenth of percentage points of the facts you rely on daily from first principle.
Yay a small phone. Oh it's tied to only Verizon, and costs 350 dollars...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/palm-rises-from-the-...
Interesting. Can you expand on what you mean by "people whose social networks aren't full enfranchised in the U.S. financial system?" The phrase has me thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
Acknowledged and true that there is always someone with a contrarian pessimistic view. Chamath seems bent on "burning it down" after his own firm went through what objectively looks like a meltdown.

Also true that later stage companies have working business models (though they are typically not profitable a tradeoff they willingly make for growth). See the comment above on plenty of funding post SoftBank round. I've also observed that their valuation forces founders to do subsequent down rounds.

The Ponzi scheme argument (not perfect) is the gains are all paper valuations that are based on growth continuing or more investment being piled in. Once that stops the whole thing crumbles. After Softbank with a $100B fund, where else does the funding come from? IPO?
We need to punish judicial corruption with the death penalty. Judicial corruption endangers the entire basis of our courts, and is tantamount to treason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_text

Back in the day, to chat with a coworker you and him would connect into the same unix box and do `talk <username>`[0]. You didn't have to press Enter to send a message, the other person could see what you were typing on every keystroke. Like in Google Docs.

I probably only like this idea because it's different. The wikipedia article mentions that older versions of the ICQ messenger used to have this feature. I have no idea why they removed it but I'm guessing they it's because it was a useless source of complexity that no one was using. Another counterargument is that Google Docs actually stores all the information you need to play back the creation of a google doc[1] and no one really seems to use it besides teachers checking for plagiarism. This could just be because no one knows about it.

But it's still surprising to me that none of today's chat clients do this or even have it as an experimental option. You could use peer-to-peer UDP for real-time text and only provide delivery guarantees using your centralized service after the user hits enter.

It's difficult to describe, but I noticed chatting with people in this way leads to more abstract conversations, so you'd probably have a hard time adopting this with people that don't already trust each other. It's also frustrating to see how slow people type and everyone types slow because you're comparing it to speech.

It could be useful in situations where you need answers as fast as possible (think first responders), but it would be such a tiny improvement.

You could generalized this idea to any piece of human generated text. It would be cool if instead of just the finished text of a book we also had a list of every key stroke the author and editor typed and their associated timestamps. It would be like open sourcing a small part of their creative process. Such a fine grained revision history might let you clear up some ambiguities in the finished text. Beyond that, it's probably useless for creative writing since composing the book would become an artistic performance, which might take a toll on creativity. I still think about it from time to time. Storage is cheap, why not collect the data now and see if it becomes useful later.

We could have a Hacker News where you could watch me composing this comment, like in a Google Doc. And play it back after I had posted it. It wouldn't provide any value, but still, why not? We have the storage space. Why not have it as an option? For those who want to be a bit more "transparent" or just want to watch themselves type after they're done. I'd use it. Surely there's no drawback (besides performance/scalability and space) for simply giving people the option to not destroy information...

If you had this information for all the text you've ever written, you probably would want to keep it for at least a few files.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software) just do `apt install talk`. If you're on macOS, you have it installed already I think.

[1] http://draftback.com I don't know if it still works. I also don't know if Google stores absolute timestamps or just a history of edits.
For whatever reason I really enjoyed the Symbolics graphics and animations demo[0] linked in the article.

I was born in the 90s and have constantly heard the narrative that technological progress is getting faster and faster, and that we're currently at the forefront. And then I see something like this. They had basically photoshop before I was even alive!?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5obrYaogU
> One could say that the Saudis have moved on from spreading wahhabism and funding terrorists as well, regretted their mistakes spreading an intolerant ideology, and are now much nicer.

They executed an American permanent resident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, in one of their consulates on foreign soil within the last two weeks, and failed at the cover up [1].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15/middleeast/saudi-khashoggi-de...
Damn. If this becomes legal precedent will I be forced to read every page of books I buy?
Funny story, when he was trying to recruit me to change majors to Chem. E., the head of that program talked about how he reverse engineered how Orbitz was able to keep the balls suspended, using GC/MS and NMR and all these fancy tools.

The next booth over was Food Science. They laughed so hard at him and said "You could have asked us, it's xanthan gum"
In this specific usecase, if you're having trouble convincing, maybe doing analysis based on access logs (depending on your size, I guess, maybe you'd need to sample only a couple of days depending on how much access logs you store).

EDIT: I'm mostly suggesting this because it sounds like all you need is proof that your Google Analytics data might be incorrect.
They still exist, but they're incredibly niche nowadays. Arcades are split up into two categories: small stores that cater to niches, like classic American games or imported modern Japanese games [1][2], or huge chains that specialize in 'family entertainment' [3] that include bowling and food.

The arcade isn't dead yet - there's still plenty of enthusiasm for rhythm and fighting games, which I believe is actually growing. At least among my friend group, it's much more rewarding to face off in person than to be trashtalked by some anonymous gamer on an online console gaming service. Also, when the arcade closes, there's nothing better than just sitting around and chatting for a few hours. Arcades make a fantastic "third place" [4].

[1] http://freeplayrichardson.com/

[2] http://arcadeufo.com/ (disclaimer - owner of this place)

[3] https://www.round1usa.com/

[4] https://www.pps.org/article/roldenburg
Mailbox. I've missed it less since I discovered Spark, but Mailbox was the OG app that made me not hate email.
Friendfeed. The community [1] a small group of bioinformatics folks started there was just amazing. We were never able to recreate it.

1. http://cameronneylon.net/blog/friendfeed-for-scientists-what...
Is it not reasonable to ask for a study to include both men and women? At the very least it would be good as a point of comparison - if 20% of men also experience some type of harassment, the approach to solving the problem would likely be different than if very few men experienced harassment.

Also just because someone posts a particular opinion, doesn't mean that is their only response. The obvious response is "this is a bad thing", but that has been said several times in this thread already, and wouldn't contribute to discussion at all. If something is worth discussing, why not let people discuss it.
Eudora! Like, classic Eudora. The only good email client ever.
I had no idea this existed! I love that I can get a login to a real PDP/11!
Now you got me thinking about your body.
>I cannot expect a 20% increase in salary every couple of years for myself and at the same time blame society's demise on Zuckerberg, politicians, or the greedy, immoral bankers.

yes you can
As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. Up until deep into the 21st century were people finally convinced that online retail made sense. Back in the 80s and 90s people barely understood the internet let alone the idea of selling things on it.
people like Gore and Billy Nye are trying outreach

Which becomes part of the problem. When your role model is a guy who flies private jets from conference to conference and had a $17,000+ per year utility bill for his home (and not so much as one solar panel when in office), it doesn't convey urgency very well.
That, and ses attachment size limit is a joke.
Yes! Part of the fun was figuring out what random bodega carried it.
Actually it’s possible for any hacker to generate more Bitcoins if another bug like CVE-2018-17144 is discovered.

What Exactly Did the Bug Do?

The obvious worst part of this bug was the inflation exploit. An attack could create new bitcoins at will, exceeding the 21 million hard cap limit that is currently in place. This would absolutely destroy confidence in not only Bitcoin, but every cryptocurrency.

https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/cve-2018-17144-the-aftermath...
Sparrow Email Client (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_(email_client)) - Simple, fast, easy-to-use email client. As good as it gets!
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, died on October 15th, 2018
5 paragraph essay?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-paragraph_essay

> The five-paragraph essay is a format of essay having five paragraphs: one introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs with support and development, and one concluding paragraph. Because of this structure, it is also known as a hamburger essay, one three one, or a three-tier essay.

The digraph presented in the OP really is a great approach, IMHO:

## Introduction

## Related Work, System Model, Problem Statement

## Your Solution

## Analysis

## Simulation, Experimentation

## Conclusion

... "Elements of the scientific method" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#Elements_of_...
In addition to SICP, John Allen's "The Anatomy of Lisp" is also a great book to learn computing concepts through Lisp.
I suspect the parent poster is talking about spam sent from gmail to non-gmail accounts - such as my own self-hosted mail-server.

I receive 5-20 spam messages a day from @gmail addresses. Not a huge number, but some days it jumps to 50-100. (These messages really did get routed through google, rather than being faked.)
While each funding round typically results in the dilution of ownership percentages for existing investors, the need to sell a higher number of shares to meet financing requirements in a down round increases the dilutive effect. Due to the potential for drastically lower ownership percentages, raising capital in a down round is often a company’s last resort, but the new funding may represent the company’s only chance of staying in business.

Read more: Down Round https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/downround.asp#ixzz5U48D...
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You would think a person with 20 billion net worth would fund a couple hundred million a year net of institutes researching his particular disease, 'just in case'.
Assembly is too honest about what the program is doing to be the Devil's work. That would be C with undefined behavior kicking in on malicious input from the Devil's children.
>I wouldn't, but I don't see why it would be unacceptable.

If you don't see why it would be unacceptable, then why wouldn't you do it? You're admitting, whether you intended to or not, that you do in fact recognise that such behaviour would be inappropriate given the context – just like offering unwanted sexual advances to a subordinate in the workplace is clearly inappropriate.
Difference Between Comodo Positive SSL vs. Let’s Encrypt SSL
I'm fishing quite a lot, few years ago if I reeled cloth, old sock, or plastic bag from river bottom it was full of tiny shrimps and other tiny insects. When I reel it now it's just empty. Also I see significantly less chubs.
The Macbook Pro chassis before the OLED touchstrip. I'm a web developer and learned on MBPs. The touchpad was the right size, the keys had the right amount of travel, the form factor and weight were perfect.

Right now I'm considering moving to developing on a Galaga Pro and using Windows/WSL. I've got most things setup on my desktop how I like using HyperTerm (I had too much trouble with Cmder), VS Code, and ZSH. I can't seem to figure out how to install PHP 7.2 correctly to work on Laravel, nor get my GPG and SSH keys for Github working.

The bright side is if I move to Windows I wouldn't have to give up very many programs, or they have some rough but useable equivalents (Spectacle, Sequel Pro, Gifox, Bear).

I was tempted to go with Elementary on the Razer Blade Stealth, but I still want 32gb of RAM, and Propellerheads Reason doesn't work on Linux.
How are black/hispanic people different than 'us'? Aren't we just reinforcing racial stereotypes by presenting them as different? Don't we otherize 'them' when we do this?
My internet cut out last week for four hours while my phone was busted.

I spent an hour listening to this podcast I'd downloaded a week earlier: https://fs.blog/naval-ravikant/

And then spent a few hours thinking about what was said.

It was the most peaceful evening I've had all year.
It looks like the problem of unique digital addressing will only get harder as more and more people are introduced to the internet. I wonder what will come after IPv6...
place cells hippocampus
grid cell entorhinal cortex
is the usual way its put
Will they even be powerful enough? or will they end up bastardizing it in the name of performance?
Indeed. Assembly is the language of the nameless ancient horror that was there before the devil was born. The language of the devil is C and the languages of his demons are JavaScript and PHP.
Widget Workshop [1]

It was a electronics tinkering game where you had different components like timers, light bulbs, switches, gravity testers and what not, which you could connect with wires and build interesting things.

They had several demos that you could check out, like poem generators, dog barking sound generator machine and other interesting stuff.

As a kid, it really helped fuel my imagination to make new contraptions out of random things.

I haven't seen an alternate that works on modern systems or phones. The original version, I believe, worked only till Windows ME or so.

[1] https://youtu.be/Vc9F_QayL5s
Allen led an incredibly fortunate life and undertook many actions which made life worse for others -- as illustrated by this patent trolling history. While he's a fellow human being and we're all united by the certainty of death, canonizing him is not his divine right; revisiting the sordid aspects of his life is worthwhile reflection and will not even the ledger, not even close. Thank you.
Yeah you could flick open your phone and the live tile said the current Temperature. Or rotated your latest photos in the photo app (or favourite photos depending on config), showed the latest headline in news app.

I spent alot less time on my phone cos information was at a glance and I didn't need to open/close many apps all the time.