skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sort of onboard with this and sort of not. I certainly believe that actual face-to-face communication has a place, and that it should occur with some regular frequency. I also believe in short, fast, lightweight meetings ala what a daily Scrum meeting should be.

But, between the fact that a lot of these meetings devolve into something that is not short, fast or lightweight, and my observation over the years that daily is probably overly frequent for these meetings, I tend to mostly agree with the author of TFA.

Every team has it's unique needs, but for a lot of teams I'd go for a compromise with one, maybe two meatspace meetings per week (maybe Monday and Thursday) and then a technical solution using email or blogs or an enterprise social network or whatever, for a daily "standup".

It's not just "scrum" type meetings that could be replaced with a "no physical presence required" techie solution either... some companies have a culture of accountability (which is a good thing) taken to an extreme degree where half the company spends most of their time tied up in "status update" and "checkpoint" meetings. I've talked to people who say they can never schedule a real meeting (that is, a one off for attacking a specific problem) in their companies, because all of the participants are too over-committed with these status meetings! For these, I absolutely advocate finding a way to communicate most of thi status information electronically, and cut the frequency (and length) of the meatspace meetings back dramatically.
That professor is from Hope College, a private Christian college, so he's subsisting on taxpayer money only insofar as most other nonprofit employees are.

I thought the commentary was at least mildly interesting. When I was in the Valley I experienced a strong anti-suit attitude and many I met in the startup industry would vehemently protest any suggestion that dressing formally could be a good idea. It seems like common sense to me but clothing and appearance are just communication tools the same way body language, tone of voice, and diction are.
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It's gradually happening. The PAP hold fewer seats now than at any time in Singaporean history.
I'm not sure why you think that humanities professors at small liberal arts colleges subsist on tax-payer money. Even if they did, that certainly shouldn't prevent them from writing whimsical, entertaining and interesting pieces like this one – especially when they are English professors.
Claude Shannon was a physicist. He got paid to think about the big century-defining ideas. Engineers are supposed to think about the concrete here and now, that's our whole purpose.

Shannon was an extremely important person, a genius, and one of my heroes. But he didn't build the Bell Telephone System, engineers did.
Worry not, it renders horribly on Linux too (the fonts for sure) (or maybe our taste and the author's are very different)
Make large click areas for small elements
People wear all kinds of silly fashions here in Italy, which is pretty much the fashion capital of the world. Some of them may be well made, name-brand silly fashions, but they certainly look odd 5 years out from when they were 'in'.

I'm with Zuckerberg, and Jobs with his 'uniform' on this one: most of that junk is a complete waste of your time. The only winning move is not to play. You don't have to wear just sweatshirts and jeans, but pick stuff you like and get on with life and stop worrying about it.
I feel his point, he wants to work on things that matter to him, for the time frame he defines.

Yes, I get that that's his point--but he's not just saying he wants to do that himself, he's saying he wants to influence other people to do it. He's convinced it's so important that it's OK to skew the information he gives people in order to influence them. At least, that's what I read between the lines. (And btw, I'm not saying this is what he intended; I'm just saying that's how it comes across to me.)

Btw, as I said to ableal, thanks for discussing instead of downvoting. :-)
I see you're new to the internets. Sorry, that was cheap.

However, in your haste to patronizingly chastise me you're making multiple faulty assumptions.

a) I'm not new to HN. Just this account is.

b)"Please, f... off" was descriptive reflection of the way I would respond to the fictional analogous request which you have so conveniently omitted from this quote.

It was in no way intended to address the developer, but rather as a way to illustrate how I feel developers who use access to my personal information as the entry fee to their product treat me.

I think most people here got that.
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Yes, it makes a lot of difference.

There's the obvious render time, but actually render time isn't that important - studios are happy to wait up to 30 hours for a 4k frame on the farm if that's what it takes for a shot. But they don't want artists waiting around, so they want very quick iterations and previews of what the artists are doing, as it's the artists who cost money.

This is why global illumination has taken off over the last 5/6 years (thanks largely to SPI and Bluesky showing it could be done), as although the render times are slower, it means lighting the scene (by phyiscally-based shading) is much quicker and you don't need as many hacks as you did with PRMan (light maps, shadow maps, reflection maps, point caches, etc).
You can literally model scenes with lights as they are in the real world.

On top of this, there's how easy it is to do very complex shots and change just bits of it - tools like Katana allow hugely complex scenes to be managed and rendered very efficiently, with very little work from artists.
Studios who don't have similar tools often duplicate and waste a lot of time doing things that should be easy.

For example, Weta on IronMan 3 wasted a lot of time doing all the different suits, as they didn't have a decent asset-based pipeline that would have allowed them to re-use a lot of shaders, assets for each suit.
The 'new to the area' headline has a white text shadow on the already white text that makes the content blurry and hard to read. You probably want to turn off the text shadow there.
Do they tax the forgone rental income from owner occupied housing?

I know Switzerland does.
Haha.

Checked the source, and yes, it's bootstrap. Believe in your own product and everything :D
Pixar have a lot of technology, but they come from an animation tradition rather than a studio that is concerned with photoreal CGI. Renderman has always been a system for "painting" the scene you want - it's an artist's toolbox.

It's only recently that advances in processing power have made physically-based ray tracing practical for film production - particularly with the take-up of the Arnold renderer by various other studios. Suddenly lighting becomes a matter of placing lights and letting the computer do the work rather than needing to carefully set up the correct impression of light in the way a painter might. So it requires quite a bit of change of approach from the artist, and you can imagine why there'd be a bit of a cultural problem introducing this.
Ok, thanks. I get that it is more convenient, but be careful with this:

It's like the difference between distro packages and stuff you've compiled from release tarballs.

Steam collects information about you, and when Steam is down, there's a possibility that you won't be able to play your game. If you bypass steam you don't get these issues. Given this, that simile isn't apt.
Thanks! Figuring out a startups story is often the most difficult part of the entrepreneurial journey, and can take weeks, months or even years. With Burbn, they began with a very different story, but over time it changed into what became Instagram. Where the trouble lies is figuring out what features are most unique and compelling with your product, and focusing on those. In the next article I'm going to break this process down and I think it will answer your question on how an entrepreneur like Kevin could start with a product like Burbn, and wittle it down into a product like Instagram.
There will be a tipping point thought. Hopefully sooner rather than later, the major auto companies are going to have to jump on board with the electric vehicle industry and fully support EVs.

What year do you think the last ICE vehicle will be sold in the US? At some point, gas stations will stop selling gasoline. I honestly don't know if it'll be in 10 years or 50 years.
Scientists Refine Warp-Drive Concept Using Space-Time Distortion
Many of us are here because we like knowing how things work, not just their end result.
That's incredible. I've been trying all morning, and do not stop to amaze me.
What is it like to work at Quora?
Because you have a widely experienced team and you don't know who might have the answer.
Living in SF rendered my leather-soled AEs pretty much useless. Walking up Nob Hill wearing leather soles is pretty much a treadmill. On the casual end of things, backless sandals are equally iffy (despite the SF Birkenstock stereotype).
This article is like magic! By which I mean the exciting part is all misdirection.

In meetings, the time lost is obvious. Which is why people focus on doing them well. By moving it to email, you're not saving time; you're just hiding it. And, I'm sure, increasing it.

I'm a fast writer. I practice pretty much every day. But there is no way I could write my standup contributions as quickly as just saying them. I'd guess writing is 5-10x as long. In a stand-up, I can point at the board and say, "I'm done with this; it was easy. I'm still working on that; it got hairy." If somebody needs more, I can see it on their face and raise an eyebrow; they'll ask me what they need to know.

To write a decent status update, I have to guess at all the reasonable questions and head most of them off. It is much more work. And then to keep up, I have to check my email. And integrate each person's comments with everybody else's to try to form a coherent picture. And then to follow up on the mysterious bits. A giant waste. I try to keep email off my coding machines entirely; distraction is a productivity-killer.

This also ignores so much of what I get out of stand-ups. I can see who's happy and who's dragging. I get an easy opportunity to grab somebody for a quick discussion. I get information through tone of voice, posture, and expression. Information about relationships, about features, about code. I get charged up at the beginning of the day knowing that we are all diving in on the same thing.
2) can be useful for when you say you're about to do something and someone else in the team has added a helper or done something similar in that area.
Yeah, they're starting to use off-the-shelf software a lot more recently...
Thanks Chuck! I'm glad it was helpful and it was your tweet that really provided the thesis for the article.
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I just want to point out: Gabler writes about what he was trying to accomplish with the soundtrack as a whole and on a song-by-song basis on both of those soundtrack pages. Readers skimming this section who are interested in music, game design, or both would do well to give those summaries a read, as it gives some neat insights into why he made the game sound the way it does.
I think the worst part is the amount of man-hours it would take, not compute hours (but maybe that's what you meant?). If the change is as deep as it sounds like, the entire tooling support changed, so all scenes would have to be re-lit by artists, not-entirely-from-scratch but worse than you think.

REYES-rendered scenes that fake global illumination are pretty arcanely hacked together. Just making a legacy scene ray-traced would make it look worse, not better.
Looks like the link above is to /hn which then redirects to /login.
AFAIK it is physically possible to construct drives that cannot be backed up and that self destruct if you decrypt with the wrong key (using quantum magic).
i think it's James Cameron that sets the standards
Ask HN: How do you handle multiple, concurrent file uploads?
I maintain a Javascript plugin for handling ajax file uploads. I personally use it in a B2B SaaS app where there are often large uploads using older versions of IE.

As a result, the primary objectives for the plugin are:

1. Wide browser compatibility
2. Cross-browser progress support

In older browsers, progress updates are retrieved from the server during the upload.

I would like to add support for multiple, concurrent file uploads, with progress support for each individual upload.

I could probably hack together a solution just for my app, but I'd rather add this capability to my plugin so that it can be fairly easily implemented in other applications.

Any ideas or suggestions for how this can be accomplished?
Would that still be contempt of court? Or destruction of evidence, or whatever. Couldn't it be argued that it's a purposeful destruction of evidence if once they know they are going to court they stop putting in the code to keep the data from being destroyed?
Standups are about physically looking each other in the eye, figuring out where everybody is, and figuring out if you can help. It's not information, and it's really not discussion.

I don't know... for most "here's what I did yesterday, here's what I'm doing today, here are my blockers" type meetings, I don't see that "look 'em in the eye" is that critical and certainly not on a daily basis. At least that's been my experience. Maybe if you're trying to read body language to see if somebody is more afraid than they're letting on, or to try and pick up if somebody is sandbagging or something. But that's why I advocate for a compromise of cutting the meatspace meetings back a little in frequency (but not necessarily eliminating them) and replacing some of the meetings with a technology solution.

The standups do have a cost, even the ones that stick to the short and sweet "nobody talks more than 2 minutes and we're out of here in 15" ones. For example, they still force a context switch, and depending on when in the day they are scheduled, they can really f%!# with somebody's ability to get into - and stay in - "flow state".
Newest SoCs as in we are already on second generation with support? OMAP4 and Tegra2 supported it years back.

Today, almost all SoCs support it, from Exynos to Rockchip. Notable SoCs that do not support VP8 are Apple's Ax. Not that it is a surprise.
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I am trying to port hub (https://github.com/defunkt/hub) to Go (https://github.com/jingweno/gh), not by any chance better yet, but feel free to provide any feedback :)
Here's what it says in the "How I became a password cracker" article (http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/how-i-became-a-passw...) on Ars from March:

"Dan suggested that, in the interest of helping me get up to speed with password cracking, I start with one particular easy-to-use forum and that I begin with "unsalted" MD5-hashed passwords, which are straightforward to crack. And then he left me to my own devices. I picked a 15,000-password file called MD5.txt, downloaded it, and moved on to picking a password cracker."

My guess is that the forum he mentions was the insidepro.com web site, since it is a popular password hash sharing site. A quick search there found several attached files named MD5.txt, but none seemed to be the right size or have the right hashes. However, a search for hashes mentioned in the article found this file (http://forum.insidepro.com/download.php?id=12783&sid=160...), which contains 16,880 (instead of the 16,449 hashes listed in the Ars article) and at least 3 of the MD5 hashes specifically mentioned in the article.

There's a good chance this is the same file or close to it, but you'd have to try matching it with more of the hashes from the article to know for sure.
Yep, I was quite shocked (Yo Gabba Gabba is my daughter's favorite, gone as well). But it seems my kids have short memory, thanks to the new Jake and the pirates and Handy Manny and they seem to worry about it less than I do.
(And a part of me is kind of not-that-sorry that I won't have to hear "jumpy jump jump jump jump jump", and "there's a party in my tummy, so yummy" in the near future)

Yet still, I protest, and demand it back, no stability in this world, you can't put your trust in nothing anymore.

EDIT: Backyardigans also gone?? this is outrageous. I would have canceled my Netflix account if I had any control over it.
I was wondering what Toy Story would look like if they re-rendered it with today's technology. Well, it turns out they already did! It was part of the theatrical re-releases of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D.

http://www.bigscreenanimation.com/2008/09/toy-story-re-relea...

Were these re-rendered versions released in 2D on Blu-ray?
I'm just curious, what would be your concerns? Again, we're assuming they have the exact attributes you're looking for in a candidate. Do you think they'd be disruptive around the office by virtue of their past? Are you afraid they'd rape and pillage the workplace? I'd love to understand your rationale here.

Keep in mind, felonies include: DUI, Terrorist threats against a girlfriend or boyfriend,
Driving without the owner's consent, Embezzlement, etc. There are varying degrees of "seriousness" when it comes to crimes considered felonious.
Thanks for replying!

Yes, indeed, ideas are cheap.

But I have to point out one thing: implementation can also be cheap; get it working first, then think about scale. I know everyone aims for the hockey stick, but before you can get there, do something to monetize, even if it is small scale. For example, point 1 above, I am already doing it. I am already thinking how to make a simple document I can send to my students along with a link to your site that would make the learning experience worthwhile for them. Make that simple for me to do and you have a way to money. If you need to think about how to implement: to start, just put out ideas (use cases but in a simplified form that users can understand) of how people can use your service. Maybe throw up a couple of PDFs or blog posts with basic outlines of how teachers or students can use your service. Think of them as help files. Set up a forum where people can discuss what they are doing with your site and share ideas. Both of these ideas are simple to implement (simple PDF downloads/wordpress and a forum with simple moderation). From there you can gather data to move onto monetization (I hate that term, monetization, can anyone offer a better word?) I will email you via your contact form, but honestly, I want to compete with you!
Here is the plugin, btw:

https://github.com/LPology/Simple-Ajax-Uploader

I went into a little more detail about the issues here:

https://github.com/LPology/Simple-Ajax-Uploader/issues/5
Would you mind elaborating on #3? I would like to learn more about how abundant natural resources and a lack of freedom produce wealth.
To see if they can identify the victim and take protective action.
I would also love to see that happen... MongoDB is implementing really nice new features but I get the feeling that they are leaving behind some more important ones like what you just mentioned.
My team uses IFTTT for daily standup emails, and it's really been a huge help for us. Here's the recipe if anyone else wants to use it: https://ifttt.com/recipes/86294
>The government argued that because it had found “numerous files which constitute child pornography,” “detailed personal financial records and documents belonging to Feldman,” and “dozens of personal photographs of Feldman," Feldman therefore has “access to and control over” the set of drives.

So if the FBI puts my bank statements (PDF) and my photos in a drive along with "some files that constitute child pornography", am I guilty as well? "We found three safes. We opened one of them and found some illegal things in it. We swear we didn't put them there. We also found some financial records and photos belonging to this guy. We didn't put those there either. Pinky swear!"
Potentially huge performance difference.

For the 99% use case, the performance hit fo the ORM is not significant enough to matter. Most projects have many tables, but only one table that actually needs to have any speed optimizations. That one table can go in NoSQL and the rest can be handled by a ORM.
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I wish I can dress nicely in suits, but I don't do it for two reasons. No one dresses in suits in technology sector. Not even CEO. Only team that dress up in our company is legal, and even they are on the more informal side compared to what real formal is.

Good suits that look good are expensive. I don't want to wear daddy tier suits, but good looking suits I've seen run well over $500.
Meetings are synchronous, email is asynchronous. The feedback loop is tighter.

Standups get lots of bright minds in the same place at the same time.

Standups let you know what else is going on, which is indeed useful. I've never understood this thing about silos and belittling out-of-band communication. The only way to get the Big Picture is to hear what other people are working on, preferably in an unfiltered manner. Then again, a lot of developers seem to prefer their little heads-down silo, worrying that their little room is uncomfortably warm without knowing the house is on fire.
I wonder what happens in a case like this if the person is simply unable to remember the password.
Now, is this "possession" of child pronography crap images that ended up in a Content.IE5 directory, or in Mozilla's cache? Or perhaps, even deleted from those locations? Or are these images that were in C:/windows/fonts/child_porn hidden folder?

And that, why is child porn illegal? It is only a picture of a CRIME THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE. Yet, snuff films and other films and pictures that show active murder are completely legal. And considering there is no mens rea for this possession, I believe that it should not be a crime.

For the people whom nodded me down, please answer this: why is child porn illegal but videos/pictures of murder NOT illegal?
To write a decent status update, I have to guess at all the reasonable questions and head most of them off. It is much more work

I think the assumption here is that there is a very limited set of basic questions that apply to everybody and that become the default. For example: "What did you work on yesterday?" "What are you working on today?" "Do you have any blockers or concerns?" If you just got everybody to submit those three questions and their answers, it would go a long way.