skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here.

It's approximation of subsurface scattering, modeled by combination of multiple Gaussian blurs done in texture space (there are 4 blur layers plus original normal mapped Blinn-Phong layer).

If you are interested in details, it's basically a simplified implementation of Nvidia's advanced skin rendering presented at GDC 2007:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/presentations/2007/gdc/...
>>I have work I need done now that I just do not have time for. I also know finding someone to do that job for what I'm willing to pay is very hard since people seem to get by without working via means I do not fully understand.<<

People don't just need any job they can get. They need a job that will pay bills for a reasonable amount of time in the future. They need to save money to live on during the next job search. Temporary low paid jobs just leave the employee stressed out and barely above water before they need to search again. I don't think many people enjoy looking for work.
If getting a job at wages you are willing to pay means that the person will still not be able to meet any of its monetary obligations it pretty much means that the person is , for all practical purposes, still unemployed. Why work for slave wages if the outcome is the same. Better stay home and not be taken advantage off. How do this people live with no income? Most likely family or government assistance.
How is it any better when prices keep going up? Imagine you're, gasp, a saver, and one day you decide to buy that hamburger, but now you need five or ten times the money to make the purchase as you did, when you stashed it away twenty years ago.
GoDaddy is the worst company ever. Earlier this year I finally took the step to transfer all of my domains to a different company, and I haven't looked back. Instead of transitioning slowly over time, I just decided to pay the money and transfer everything - it felt a lot better to just be free of them. Imagine a company so awful your customers are willing to pay extra to not be a customer!

One painful part of the transfer experience is that their "DomainsByProxy" service is entirely separate, even though it is sold alongside their domains as an add-on. My problem was that I had originally signed up with it years and years ago, and they do not keep your email or password in sync with your GoDaddy account. So I couldn't "release" the domains from DBP to be transferred without going through this crazy process of sending in forms and a copy of my drivers license to reset the account info. It was awful.
Total Music Industry Worth $168 Billion according to IFPI
Actually, after posting this I found an article that said that GoDaddy is selectively denying DNS requests, so they are now being crappy with DNS as well. I guess I need to move to a new registrar and DNS host.
500,000+ Articles (6% of JSTOR Holdings) Now Free to Anyone in World
Well, mc is already a quite powerful file manager, but a GUI variant won't hurt of course.
Excellent quote. I cannot unfortunately pull up citations but there was this great New Yorker piece on the prison system which talked about how ever since privatization of prisons began, vocational rehabilitation programs were severely cut and with the vast increase in non-violent offenders being subject to terrible living conditions it is no surprise that recidivism is so high.

There is definitely something primal and emotional about a strong deterrent to crimes (violent or otherwise) but in the vast majority of cases, it is society and circumstance that turns people criminal, something that can be corrected in the long term with a healthier outlook on what it means to punish someone for a crime and reform the prison system.
Unconfirmed, that doesn't amount to much. And if true and they said 'no' they must have had their reasons, it all depends on the total package, not just on the amount. It most likely wasn't 80 million in cash, no strings attached.
Thanks for sharing this, whether or not either of them actually said these things verbatim (which has been questioned elsewhere in this thread). These guys got what capitalism is all about: providing goods, services, and jobs that make people's lives better.
30 Brilliantly Textured Web Designs for Your Inspiration 
At various points in the web’s history, it’s been seen as fashionable to see just how much of a web design you can create with just HTML and CSS — including images in the design only where absolutely needed, such as icons. It’s a great exercise for honing your skills: how far can I go with just code? But in the real world, some of the most gorgeous sites are created with multiple layers of textures, requiring the inclusion of many images by necessity.
The pics themselves are not very telling. What's Sampa? Where is Farecast?
H2O - DrinkMoreWater
Completely agree. The easier it is for someone to cut and paste your code to try it out, the quicker folks will start building on top of it and drive adoption. Great job.
I've never seen convincing evidence that inflation is a good thing (to be honest I haven't spent my life searching for it).

It is however pretty easy to see why inflation is good for people in power, in particular governments; it's a hidden tax. And yes it does encourage people to spend, in fact it encourages people to borrow and then spend. Even borrow so much that it crashes the system.

So as far as I'm concerned the fixed money supply is about the only good property of Bitcoin. Other than that it's a ponzi scheme and it's a lot more cumbersome than electronically traded gold.
I picked this app up, it seems pretty slick. Can anyone compare this with multifl0w?
This is a fantastic idea. It's like the 100-in-1 electronics kit of the embedded world. The compatibility with existing popular embedded boards is just icing on the cake.
Facebook's ad platform is still relatively immature, especially when it comes to long tail advertisers. Hence they have much more potential for growth than say eBay which is a much more mature product.

There are standard advertising features such as day-parting and A/B testing that don't exist on Facebook but would significantly increase conversion rates. They're also choosing at the present not to offer targeting on high-value demographic information (for example by job title - linkedin's CPM is 10x that of Facebook on job title targeted ads) which again would allow them to significantly increase revenue.
Clickable: http://lookingbackaretrospective.posterous.com
Swimmers Ear Symptoms & Treatment
The HP Way
From the comments on the blog post :

"you will not lose the ability to put the physical machine to sleep when the Windows Hypervisor is running in Windows 8."

"During sleep, the VMs VPs are descheduled and effectively the VMs are suspended in memory when Windows goes through it's normal sleep processing. On machine resume, the VMs are in memory and we just start rescheduling the VPs to get the VMs running again."
Classic Barware Re-Introductions from Alessi of Italy
It will be interesting once there are no jobs for humans left because robots will be better at everything than humans. In theory, everybody could have a robot that provides them with everything they need.
Four Ways To Spot Markets Ripe For Disruption
The music school could really use the money! Hail to Pitt :)
I enjoyed the original $99 one-day conference, I thought it was a great idea. Really didn't care about the crappy wifi, food, or coffee.
Great now let's have the rest accessible to the general public.
Empresas de energía renovables
Compre productos de Energía y medio ambiente (Energías renovables) en SoloStocks Argentina, portal de compra venta entre empresas. Business to Business
Personally, I think github is trying to become that simpler interface. We'll see how they do, but so far it is promising.
Stevskin06
I found some data on this here: http://www.bls.gov/fls/china.htm

It has a table of cost per hour of Chinese manufacturing workers from 2002 to 2008. They went from $0.57 (2.1% of US wages) to $1.36 (4.2% of US wages) over that time.

If this is in fact what he's talking about, then wages in China are still incredibly low. Does anyone know what wages in Vietnam or Africa are like?
He should have added a link to this alltime classic - a good macroeconomics, deflation 101 tutorial: http://www.slate.com/id/1937/
Suppose there was a wall or other obstacle between you and the destination. Then you might have to go "back" to find a way around. Vanilla A* can't "know" whether this is the case, so it searches outwards in all directions, using the heuristic to weight the search towards paths that are getting us closer to the destination.
Your comment reminded me of this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/a-jobs-p...
Top of Chinese wealthy's wish list? To leave China
I get that Yahoo could stay afloat a while longer by riding the coattails of Netflix, but what could Netflix possibly gain by the merger?

If Netflix ever proposed such an atrocity it would have to go down as one of the most boneheaded decisions in the history of business. Worse than AOL-TW. At least back then AOL still appeared to be a viable company. I think Yahoo's ship has sailed.
My theory from before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906769

- In 20 years, 80% of the people in will be kept alive by welfare, supplemented by their hourly job. Enough to get a small apartment, utilities, cell phone, cheap but unhealthy food, and shopping at the dollar store. And free tv/movie/music/book/sports entertainment via the internet.

- 15% will be the middlemen, extracting value from the others via service or thievery. They will be the new middle class. They can afford the sometimes luxury.

- the other 5.5% will be specialized knowledge workers. They will be the one maintaining the software/hardware to make sure nothing goes wrong. They can afford lots of luxury, but will be taxed heavily, as they are the only workhorse left in the society.

- 0.1% will be entertainers. They will make sure that people are entertained well enough not to riot.

- and the 0.4% will rule everyone.
That's what they told me too, but I have every (non-spam) email I've ever gotten going back to 1998, including the emails when I bought these accounts, and there is nothing from DomainsByProxy at all in there.

It's possible these emails got sucked up by the spam filter and are therefore lost to history. However, looking at how it works, and after talking with "both" companies, I'm inclined to feel and believe that they were intentionally deceptive.
Not all of the companies are banks, but even if they were, it is nonetheless a shocking degree of centralized control. It isn't just that these companies have large stakes in other companies, but that they all have large stakes in each other. Consequently, there is a lack of effective oversight by independent shareholders, not to mention the obvious opportunity and incentives for anti-competitive collusion. And the study wasn't conducted by wild-eyed conspiracy theorists, but by a group of Swiss economists. For a more scientific take on the study, see http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333389/title/Fina... .
Except those people wouldn't be burdened by having a "job" because in Rushkoff's world "food and shelter are basic human rights."

That's where people will get tripped up; in our current economic system we don't believe such an idea is true.
Bartz Leaves With $10.4 Million Severance
Patent Overhaul Nears (in the US)
I personally though this was quite hilarious:

"But unless you touch-type, you are neither awesome, nor you are in a position to judge the qualities of the world as an oyster or any James Cameron movies."

Thoroughly enjoyable read I must say.
Does a large endowment incentivize murder?
I agree with almost everything except point 1. A Minimum Viable Product is exactly that-- the smallest possible product that will be viable in the marketplace. Some startups and developers may take this thinking overboard and put products on the market that are so stripped down as to not be viable, but I think that the concept of a true MVP sums up the entire purpose and challenge of Product Management.

A true MVP must strike the balance between feature bloat and watered down junk, driven by a vision of what users need as opposed to what they think they need. Such vision requires a lot of insight and a lot of courage. Imagine being the PM that decided the iPhone was ready to ship without support for copy and paste. Is copy and paste an important feature for a mobile phone? Obviously. Was it necessary for the product to be viable in the marketplace? Clearly, it wasn't, and that is why determining a feature set for and MVP is such a challenge.
I will definitely look into that one.
I think what Jello implies is wrong. People have the inherent ability to do bad things and treat eachother differently, regardless of whatever property system you have in place.

Unemployment and undereducation will not be eliminated by the removal of private property.

You don't have to be a property owner to be a self-absorbed dick that doesn't care about other people. If people want to make sure everybody has a living stipend (which is the logical conclusion of the goal of zero unemployment), they can pass a law creating that while still maintaining a system of property owners and private property.
That would be true if owning bitcoins had intrinsic value, but they only have value in terms of the things they can purchase, so no. Bitcoin maturity will actually cause bitcoins to decrease in value as inflation in the rest of the economy outpaces the rate of new bitcoin creation.
This is going to sound like a dumb question, but how did you do that? I figured URLs would automatically be hyper-linked, but I suppose not...

Is there a series of HN meta tags that I can use to make that work?
GOOG engineer admits to "strong indication that it is likely" he copied Sun code
What a bunch of hippy bullshit.
I wish I had written your first line!
Bob Metcalfe (ethernet inventor) shares his Startup Success Tips
Unfortunately you have to support not only people who are just going through some tough times, but those who just want to leech off society. Plus those people who go out and have kids, then waste the money they are given to feed them on crap so their child is either starving or lives off a terrible diet.

It's really not an easy problem to solve. Ideally everyone should be guaranteed that they get enough food and a place to live, with anything extra being their own responsibility. But this is hard to implement in practice.
Most people work to get money to spend on stuff people are making.

Full employment 40+ hours a week is obsolete. Consumerism is obsolete. We should all be working 10hrs/week or less and have/consume 1/10 to 1/4 of what we have/consume today.

That's not gonna happen easily, but it's gonna happen. Perhaps not in my lifetime.

I'm making guess that space exploitation will not ramp up in time, it might though.
A lot of that overborrowing was to buy homes, a commodity which (according to conevtual wisdom) always increases in value.

So yes, a lot of that overborrowing was for investment.
What they are offering with this solution is a service much more than a product.

Some comments are projecting the potential success of this idea based on their recent handling of hardware and software products. Services however are an entirely different beast and how a company with roots in hardware products will develop toward a services direction will be interesting to see.

I wouldn't discount this from the start. This is all about execution.
I don't mean to sound condescending (although I'm sure I will), but your theory about the future has already happened, and collapsed, in other countries: USSR and China being two prominent recent examples.
Inflation encourages the savers to put their money to work (by investing in the stock market, for example) so that the amount of money that they have increases in proportion to the growth of the overall economy. This is a benefit.
I use three spaces. From left to right, browsing space, then Xcode space and finally gimp and inkscape space.

Control and an arrow key moves me to either of the other two. Sadly, Lion doesn't seem to wrap around, so this isn't supported.

It's been a while since I tried Lion, maybe I should give it another shot.
The thriving middle age Europe stuff is really misinformed. Almost all the people at that time worked in agriculture, and most of them (this varied by place, but in general) worked for somebody else: The landlord. They were usually free to organize the work, but a percentage of the produce was for the lord. And the land was his, not theirs.
Or that there's no way the win64 calling conventions weren't influenced by win32.

But in fact their 64bit abi on x86_64 was in fact derived from their 32bit calling conventions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4429398/why-does-windows6...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is an exact case of where 32bit windows on x86 directly influenced 64bit. This is what I'm talking about when I talk about other 64bit platforms may not behave the way Microsoft expects. And this directly influences c/c++ register allocation.

Though I will state, what Microsoft did for its fastcall on 32bit windows and 64bit is rather ingenious in that the same call can work on both platforms.
Brentwood Real Estate for sale
I think you need to read more about bitcoin. First, having a centralized bitcoin bank defeats the purpose of a peer-to-peer system entirely. Your identity is no longer anonymous.

Second, providing interest to those that hold their bit coins in this bank must provide some facility for the bank to be able to give out bit-coins they didn't previously have (fractional reserve banking). Due to the mining nature of bit-coins which is not regulated by the fed but limited to an absolute supply, interest can not always be guaranteed to the holders, and there would be a run on the accounts to pull out.

What you've described is the system we have- BitCoin is an experiment on something different.
I see a reason of why yahoo's share rose 81 cents during the after-hours of the CEO fired news.
I had this happen to me as well. I gave them a call and they redacted it and refunded me the money. I consider it pretty suspicious activity, considering every email I got from them was telling me it would expire. But just give them a call and they'll set it straight.
I am not convinced that facebook's advertising can ever be as effective as adsense. In fact, i think these numbers represent the revenues from game developers switching to facebook credits (facebook made it mandatory in july, but most developers started earlier).
Scala for the Intrigued
I think you bring up some really good points, but I think we've solved those with some things we've been adding in. I see you do social media strategy stuff from your blog; if you want to chat about how we can help you do your job with this tool, feel free to email (username at gmail).

We're trying to tailor this to how people will actually use it. :)
That's 101%

Not 100% sure I agree with you, but if this scenario did happen, the ruling class would probably be closer to 0.01% or less.
The Only Agile Tools You’ll Ever Need
So? That's not a reason to use it or a reason that they're any less scummy than they are. They have flashy commercial and people use them to save 50cents on a $7 purchase. Quite frankly, it's pathetic that people give them their business.

Oh, and if anyone uses GoDaddy for hosting, just leave your username after the beep so I can permanently ignore you.
Fascinating - I never noticed that.
Many public libraries offer FREE, remote access to a lot more of the database. All you need is a library card and you can access 24x7x36 from any web accessible computer.
Malware poses to be Microsoft Utility
Thanks - I think I've actually had someone remind me of that before as well. Damn embarrassing.
Hackerspaces: Book that documents where the movement was in 2008
Http://www.dodddesignandbuild.co.uk/
Dodd Design and Build can take care of all your building requirements. Our expertise covers anything from a new build, refurbishment, house extension or loft conversion to painting and decorating and kitchen and bathroom refits. We also do general house maintenance and our professional team would be happy to repair your roof, or lay your new wooden floor.

Our team consists of only qualified builders operating in Jersey and we can take on all labour and supply all materials needed for any project. Our prices are very competitive and we have a proven success rate of keeping within our client’s budgets.
People have a horrible misunderstanding of libertarianism. Libertarians believe people should be absolutely free to do what they want with their money. Libertarianism is not a fancy word for narcissistic hedonism. From a philosophical standpoint, libertarians should welcome charity/philanthropy as it is a free market solution to dealing with society's problems. They are merely against forced charity (i.e. welfare, medicaid, etc.). Mr. Dietrich's donation fits perfectly within a libertarian framework. Sorry to ruin the joke, but there's no hidden juxtaposition there.
I wish the author would've explained the motivation to move from SVN to Git, other than 'it was winning over the web'. Was SVN just not working for them, for some reason? Are there things that he and him company wanted to do that wasn't possible with SVN, but was with Git?
Right. Well the attacks (and emergency revocations) go back at least to March with Comodo. Vasco/Diginotar had auditors and outside security consultants in June. Maybe not CAB Forum per se, but I'm not so sure I believe that no one was notified of anything. There are likely some serious contractual disclosure obligations there, perhaps even criminal WRT the Dutch government.
The problem is that a wage-to-wage comparison with their export markets isn't important. China's advantage is stacking low wages + large staff against high wages + machines.
What happened to common decency in the hiring process?
I have applied to a few places in the Valley, as have many of my friends. And I hear nothing but horror stories in terms of how rude recruiters and hiring managers are.

I'm not talking about simply not hiring me or my friends. I'm happy with not getting a job I interviewed for, no one owes anyone a job. And I'm not talking about getting template rejection letters, or "Thanks for contacting us, we'll keep your resume on file." Those are great.

I'm talking about emailing candidates about scheduling phone interviews and then not responding back to emails. Not calling them when they have a scheduled phone interview. Bringing people to onsite interviews, and then not contacting people back to give them the results, or responding to emails asking about the results of the onsite interview.

I assume that no contact means a rejection, but what happened to common decency and not leaving people hanging?

I've found that the hiring process has gotten ruder and ruder over the course of time, where hiring managers feel no need to tell interviewees that they were rejected. It's appalling.

I expect it from headhunters, but internal recruiters for the company are doing themselves no service. And this pertains not just to startups, but big companies as well. Startlingly, Google has improved drastically in this department, but all the other companies are simply terrible.

Have other people experienced this as well?
Yours is a widespread feeling. The following is a blackspot to GoDaddy, from December last year, that tells a similar impression: http://www.spottiness.com/spots/PDJ5K3WR
Parse (YC S11) – A Simple Back End for Mobile Applications
The quote, which is incredibly apt, does not blame crime on property law, but rather, short-sightedness and greed.