skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in financial / tax software it is possible to create an abstraction in which you can safely write English code and move all specific terms into some i18n module. Of course if you are not clever enough to do that it's not that bad to use /required/ language, but in this case we talk about strictly technical tool for database modeling, so no excuses - it definitely needs to be translated in order to be accessible for other GitHubbers.
My 7 days of sequestration with 11 other people and a bailiff arguing a difficult case were the worst 7 days of my life, and my case wasn't as heart wrenching as Jeff's. First world problem, but it's not an experience I would wish on any one.
I'd love it if the clerk(s) in question could explain how it isn't "obvious to a person 'skilled in the relevant art' applying reasonable diligence and effort."

One thing these characters could patent is a system and method of auto renewing and parking a domain they host if their site is used to check on it as it approaches expiry. I give GoDaddy a wide berth.
So, say I buy a domain from Register.com and then manually post it on my Facebook that I bought this, that isn't Register.com's fault right?

This seems pointless because you could still just encourage people to do it manually, in another part of the purchase flow, or maybe even a week or two after? It seems to me that the patent just blocks you from having an official Facebook share button or Tweet (or something like that) button on the checkout summary page.
Technically what you described is "reverse ray tracing" but yes, these days most people just call it ray tracing.
This is silly. They should have patented "announcing something on the internet"
Google set to blow open the tablet market later this year with $99 Nexus tablet
I assume this will only apply to companies in the US. Unless your name is Kim dotcom
Interesting tool. The concept of high entropy from passphrases rather than passwords will be very useful for deterministic Bitcoin wallets (see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet).
Looks like standard disclaimer to me.

What open source project would be bold enough to say he will be responsible for all loss due to using his tool.
Google breaks its November 2007 stock price record
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You are right. The author has absolutely no clue what he is writing about. Just like what you pointed out.

He also claims raytracing does not solve photorealism, but does not back this claim. No single argument why! [Edit: But he's right here, for photorealism you probably want a combination of methods, like ray tracing and radiosity or ray tracing and photon mapping]

Complexity: For raytracing, you can store the scene in very efficient data structures, so you do NOT have to search your "billions of triangles" for each ray. Also, you can make sure rays degrade quickly since you trace them from the camera backwards to the light source, as you have pointed out.

"How do you raytrace stars"? They are a light source at infinite distance. This is a solved problem in computer graphics - And a pretty simple one at that.

Materials, Physics, Content and AI have nothing to do with computer graphics AT ALL.
This is genius, announcing registrations on Facebook. I have never seen such a thing.
Yeah, honestly, I stopped reading at the argument of 20 to 30 bounces not being enough to render a kitchen. I mean, this is still around 19 to 29 times more than what traditional 3D methods are using for environmental mapping. But more importantly, I don't think it's common (even in a kitchen) to have more than a handful of "bounces" being visible - things tend to get small at that point (unless we're looking at two large, flat mirrors pointed at each other).
Well, the author has some strange views at the best of times, but not understanding the subject you're writing about is mighty tricky.

Apple sells content for it's devices, Amazon sells devices for it's content. In the content marketplace Apple has significantly less invested than Amazon, so really the article would be better suited there. And it'd still be a terrible article.
See my link for DbVisualizer.
Font is pretty well done, but it misses lots of unicode characters. One would argue that they are not needed, when writing source, but I'd like to disagree - I expect my editor to display as much different characters, as possible. I'm using Consolas with ST2. It displays almost everything.
Measuring Complexity Correctly
Patent trolls have had open season on engineers because the lawmakers and moneymen don't listen to us.

Going after marketers, however, will be their undoing.
This is my surprised face.

Other western countries do what is asked of them when the US comes calling.
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I work with UV-cure resins and I'll just comment that they are a bitch to work with. Remember, daylight is full of UV. Your interior lamps still emit some. So the moment you start working with this stuff in daylight, it starts curing. And once the process starts, you can't reverse it.

It's just not something that's consumer-friendly at this point.
AMD may be facing irrelevance
The past few times I've flown the agents have automatically redirected me to the regular metal detector rather than the backscatter machines. All you need to do is be holding an infant. If you don't have one of your own, maybe borrow one from a friend.
On how not to be evil
After all these years, the best one can say about Bing Maps is "it's come a long way"? That's enough info for me to always stick with Google Maps.
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I guess you could try blaming the rubber-stamping machine they're clearly running these applications through, sure.
Facebook Is Getting It Wrong: It's About Interactions, Not Eyeballs
Reading png files in Python at C speeds using Cython
This article seems to be being slated. I must admit, i've read a lot of guides and tips for unsuccessful interviews, as well as doing the mandatory preparation and study. This article seems to be saying things that i suspected were true, but was never in a position to confirm. I really like it.

But anyway, if this isn't up to everyone's standards, can people recommend other guides, tips, books etc etc. If it helps, i'd be looking for junior dev jobs.
It is amazing how this is a story that was caused by politician choices and the lack of supply and demand economics within a legislative body.
1.The shortage is projected for Europe, but the cause is blamed on American corn prices; this is not only due to the drought but also the allocation of corn to ethanol requirements. If one goes to the farming statistics kept by the U.S., (http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/feed-grains-database/) the amount of corn produced has been increasing. But, because of political motivations, we need to burn portions of it, thus driving up the price.
2. The cost of raising pigs, legally, has gone up. In Florida there was an amendment to ban a method of raising pigs, those facilities had to adopt a new method, thus driving costs up.
I find most people would call it raycasting (shooting rays from the screen/eye out into the world).
When Comes to Enterprise Software Markets Old and Hot is Better Than New and Hot
Redesigning the TV Remote (Concept)
Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)
I have JUST patented announcing the patent of announcing a domain name registration on a social website...

You all owe me £1m each ... (I also patented talking about it).
First mammal observed to be regenerating lost tissue
From the source:
Jeremy Brockes, who studies limb regeneration in newts at University College London, agrees that it should be possible to use this work to improve wound healing in people. “The genomic resources are so powerful now that one could easily identify some aspect of regeneration in mice that could be helpful for human health,” he says.
Thx, I hope this get pushed up to front page. And prove my comparative theory, Apple will know they happen to be good only because their competitors are bad.

I think we need some rethinking into the whole mess of sync. It is not easier, even for some technically minded individuals.

And may be someday Apple could charge $50 or more per iDevices and have iCloud Backup as standard. No more messing around with iTunes Sync. And my friends wont cry when her iPhone has been stolen and lost all the pucs she took over the years.
RIP Patent System...
How to Be a Millionaire, How to Be Ugly, Reading List, and More
Frankly, Even with tools costing thousands of Euros it would be incredible stupid to export models, or generated code into production environment.
Americans seem to be overly enthusiast for anything, so maybe when everything is supposed to be "fantastic" and "amazing", any criticism can be dismissed as hating.
In gmail, I filter every email from GoDaddy and apply label "change registrar", just so I'll remember when my domains expire. I'm not really liking most things I see from GoDaddy; perhaps with the exception of pricing.
Show HN: Wordsearch puzzle using KnockoutJS
Ah but New Zealand still doesn't let the US nuclear powered ships in their waters! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-free_zone#New_Zealand

Why should they fold to the US government who is basically being controlled by the media industry?

There is a process to get someone extradited it should be followed
You don't find it interesting that a phone is the best display when compared to desktops?
Storing triangles in a super efficient data structure is precisely what I mean by traversing the scene. Do you really think that's a free operation when you have billions of triangles inside a data structure that must be dynamic by nature? You hit all sorts of arcane memory issues. I hit the same thing just developing a basic kd-tree for 2D culling.

The approximation algorithms I pointed out are exactly how raytracing is done backwards, but actually still must use a combination of camera rays and light source rays in a stocastic method in order to determine a path from the camera to the light source. Brute force raytracing is, in fact, just shooting out rays from the light sources. That's obviously inefficient, which is why we have the backwards lighting attempts, as discussed in the article.

Raytracing stars is not as simply as you think, not when you can visit them. They can no longer be point sources at infinite distance because the object itself is not infinitely far away, so you therefore can only substitute an infinite light source in when its essentially a point, which gets really nasty when you are dealing with entire galaxies as light sources, and if it isn't you must deal with all the lighting effects in between.

Materials are the most important part of computer graphics. If you don't think this, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
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DDR4 memory: Twice the speed, less power
for the original post: there's not much more i can add other than what others are saying worked for me, too. Got sick of fundraising, moved to marketing. Got burned out of marketing, took up a side project (print-only diy zine) and then i discovered the startup scene and my love for marketing came back. im still at the same organization and love it.

for @hluska: im 27 but as of last year started experiencing the "aging is weird" phenomenon.

btw, i listened to kriss kross in 3rd grade, in high school became a straight-edge 70s revivalist (only listened to zeppelin, sabbath, doors and other typical gateway artists). oddly enough, i then went post-punk and partied my brains out. i love business and the startup community but still love dk, misfits, screamers (and canada had a killer music/movie scene in the 80s!)
in the next version
I've been on it for a week, and its not bothered me even in the slightest. Only 'quirk' I've thought about since the upgrade was when I noticed that "Brightness and Background" settings were merged ..
Robbed from 5 seconds of my time.
But what are you doing buying from Register.com? Yeesh.
I believe that in many cases they are.

http://www.macalester.edu/courses/geog261/Brown_Seoul/images...

Drive around a modern city in Asia and you'll likely see kilometer after kilometer of cookie cutter apartment buildings, with building plans so simple, they could almost be replaced with stacks of cargo containers and a central elevator shaft.

I may be wrong, but I'd be highly surprised if there wasn't a tremendous amount of prefab on display here.
Facebook Deleting Fake 'Likes'
I think 500W was for the 1/2 scale model and the final scale turbine would've been above 1kW. I still marvel at the thought of it all.
Expectation from Google's next Nexus
The patent system is like a bug in a software that all your clients rely upon and will never let you fix. I expect peace in the middle east to happen before the patent system gets scrapped.
Where did Apple flawlessness go?
Even scarier is their definition of social network. From the patent document:

"Social networking websites may comprise internet-based social networking services that focus on building and verifying online social networks for communities of people who may share interests and activities, wish to communicate with each other efficiently, and may be interested in exploring the interests and activities of others, and which necessitates the use of software applications".

In addition to Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn and Facebook they also list YouTube and Flickr as specific examples. This thing is pretty far reaching.
You can only archive incoming e-mails via autoforward, not drafts and not outgoing email (unless you use their mailservers, which is something completely different). If I want archiving for my e-mails, I have to give up my account credentials. You could actually do sufficient mischief with the archived e-mails, you don't need the account credentials in the first place. That sucks, but it's not their fault, this kind of service is inherently insecure.

Now, if you can demonstrate that this particular company has a particularly unsafe way of storing the passwords or the retrieved e-mails, then you're getting closer to having a valid point.
> We’ve seen that consumers are not scared of changing their behavior, as that’s what we do; we adapt. Vendors need to start delivering better software and hardware!

Uhm. This is a rather bold claim that certainly needs some kind of reference or proof. In my experience, this is quite the opposite, and people tend to be pretty loyal to electronic brands. I'm not saying that people never switch brands, but that they usually won't do it unless the alternative is significantly better.

Why is that so? Because when you're used to a certain technology, there's almost always a cost associated to change: time to setup a new workflow, getting used to a new ecosystem, incompatibility, or just plain time and hassle.

I'm taking my own case: I'm currently running Lion on my Mac, and I'm sure as hell not going to update anytime soon, regardless of wether Mountain Lion is a better OS. Why? Because I've a pretty complex setup (multiple programming environment, multiple libraries that require special installs and special versions, etc..), and I know that it would take me at least a month to completely transition (that is to catch all the incompatibilities, etc..). Why would I waste a month of productivity when my current setup works well?

Anyway, my point is that the claim: "consumers are not scared to change their behavior" needs some backing up, because it isn't obvious to me.
Agree with this.

From what I can think there will be two broad use cases:

1) Sibling pages within a section will often share RHS and header content. So makes sense to replace the inner area where the actual page content lives and leave the rest alone.

2) Cases where the above doesn't hold or it's too complicated to care about, so load in the whole body.

I'm sure DHH chose the #2 rule because #1 turns out to cause a can of worms?
This is a completely accurate and to scale representation of Earth orbit.
Reference: Seifert, A. W. et al. Nature 489, 561–565 (2012).
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11499
The same way we damn them for their poor customer support - impotent blog posts.
...that was just the first competitor example I could think of, I don't actually purchase my domains from there! :P Haha
Drop The Word “Platform”
Nearly true but I think the situations are really different - the rights packaged up and sold with exclusive deals didn't apply in a relevant way and there wasn't the same level of complexity.

Carriers were essentially indistinguishable from a customer viewpoint. There was no significantly different content depending on which carrier you used or at least nothing that you would care about if you had an iPhone. This does not apply between broadcast platforms. The exclusive deals any carriers had for content were small scale apps or information services not multi-billion deals for packages of content for particular countries.

Apple played divide and rule between the carriers brilliantly working with a single operator in each country. In some countries that might work for TV where there are well balanced alternative platforms but in others it won't work because there is a dominant player who won't give up control and the challengers are too weak to help Apple much.

In TV there are the content originators (movie studios, sports leagues, independent production companies), one level of aggregators that commission and purchase from the originators and bundle it into channels and another level of aggregation by the service/delivery/billing platforms (MSOs). And then it is sold to the customer. These divisions are not clear and ownerships ofter cross levels.

In mobile it was fairly simple with carriers being the clear centre of the business, buying and subsidising phones and running the infrastructure. There were a couple of platforms running across different phones such as BREW and JavaME but they were more feature tickboxes than major market players.

This doesn't mean it was easy for Apple but the fact they had at the time a truly revolutionary product and reality distorting leader AND there was level competition between the carriers meant that they could pull off an amazing industry changing deal. They had to pull off this deal once in each country not with dozens of different rights holding players (they don't need them all but one deal per country would only be enough with the dominant MSO and probably wouldn't be on good terms as the MSO would know that there is a risk that Apple would want to cut them out when they were big enough).

I also didn't say that it was impossible for Apple to break into the TV market in a massive way but I certainly don't think it is easy or that there is a clear route to massive success. I certainly don't believe it is possible at their current margin levels for either hardware or content but it will be interesting to watch.

I used to do what was really a Business Development and Product Planning role for Sony's European TV Business so I have met with many cable, and a few terrestrial and satellite operators in Europe to persuade them to make their content available over their networks to consumers TVs with CI+ (think European CableCard but not quite such a broken model). Later I worked with many channel operators to bring them onto Sony's Internet TV platform so I do have some understanding of the TV business.
Again... I am not commenting on Apple's ability to succeed in TV.
If you have any data on this, can you please link to any? From an iOS user POV, I always buy apps by browsing through the App Store. Starting to learn Chinese? - Download all free Chinese dictionaries and see what sticks. etc...

It's exactly like buying music - I have lots of friends who buy iOS apps, but no two of us have the same taste in apps, so everybody ends up browsing for themselves.
As a counter point, I think sometimes the meta comments get upvoted more than other comments because they spur the most discussion.
And it led to Microsoft producing IE6, which back then was the best web browser available. They won in part by being good at what they did.

Shame they fell so far behind, though.
> What open source project would be bold enough to say he will be responsible for all loss due to using his tool.

How many proprietary products would? Last time I checked a very popular one prohibited customers from even publishing their own benchmarks...
But that's just a small part of what the sites are doing these days, such as providing free renewal for the second year in case a user allows connecting its Facebook Account, and granting permission to the site to publish any promotion post on the wall of the user(which can be anything more than saying that user has registered an 'example.com' domain name on register.com).

They should have gone for a wider range of things.
Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web
I had to chuckle at how he nonchalantly just whips up a mill simulator or a Python script for the shape of the blade. Each of those alone would be worth digging into in detail.

Needless to say, this article is my motivator for the day.
There was a manga that specifically involves astronauts collecting space junks and that manga is Planetes.
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It will be interesting to see what kind of tradeoffs are required to go that low on the price - 2GB RAM, weaker GPU?
Apple iPad 2 As Fast As The Cray-2 Super Computer
Judge orders arrest of Google executive for Youtube video
I know this is purely anecdotal, but everyone I've seen recently who has bought a tablet, bought a laptop within 6 months or switched back to their old laptop and got rid of it.

I'm still not convinced by the tablet hype. The star trek wow factor wears off pretty quick for most people.

A $99 tablet may change that (temporarily as it's almost impulse buy pricing), but I'm not sure something of that price will have anything groundbreaking to add.
Good timing. I was in the car as the navigator two days ago, the driver handing me his iphone with iOS6. The maps app took a 15 minute trip across town and made it into an almost two-hour long journey.

I tried using Google Maps through Safari but it was so slow it was unusable.

As a joke I said "I know, let's use Bing maps!"
> Big content doesn't give a fuck about open ecosystems. They care about cash money and to a lesser extent they care about control. What they don't want is a Netflix decimating and dominating the market. They may be wary of Apple because of their dominance in iTunes, but if they can grow the market (which their app store model seems like it has a shot) then big content is happy to play ball with them.

From my experience the MSO's put the priority on control and know that with the control they will make money. They would probably feel at least as threatened by Apple as Netflix.

The content producers care about cash money but with the best content the best money is to be made from exclusive regional deals. This is a bidding war the MSO's are in position to win (and still make a profit) and new entrants don't have the scale to make a profit if they bid enough to win. Apple could win the bidding but until they get the scale it won't pay them back.