skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do develop software, which is why I understand why it wasn't possible to just change things under the hood. This was inevitable when you think about it, you can't change to a new codebase and expect to have any of the old features that don't exist in Chromium.
Are you sure FB doesn't rate limit the exposure of your likes to uninvolved parties? I am too stingy with likes, but have fantasized about going bananas.
My two-year-old son is mourning the loss of The Backyardigans. Time to buy the episodes on iTunes and fire up Requiem+pyTivo.
From what I gathered from John Carmack, ray tracing is done much more efficiently with voxels than with triangles, so hopefully this will push game engine companies to incorporate voxels sooner into their engines, too.
Love to get your thoughts on our about page. Does this make it seem less creepy? We want to de-creepyify this as much as possible!
This is a bit off topic, but I don't own a cellphone and the verify via SMS trend is starting to worry me. It would be better if it had an option where it called and used text to speech for the autogenerated pin, but I probably would not give my phone number to the vast majority of sites anyway.
Security Professional with hacker buddies who did TJ Maxx hack talking at length frankly about his prosecution under conspiracy charges by same prosecutor who prosecuted Aaron Swartz.

See http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/17/convicted-hacker-steven-wa... etc
I was surprised that ray tracing in Pixar
was historically a clunky, haphazard process.
I always thought of it as this smooth, polished
machine like something you would see at an Apple store.

Life inside the sausage factory never quite looks like what outsiders would expect.
Nice work. A clean, attractive look.
they are on S3/Cloudfront now. migrating the last of the assets such as fonts currently.
Sure, just like how a lot of terrible and uninteresting articles on Reddit have a high karma count. By and large, both systems do a fairly good job at sorting out the interesting from the uninteresting, though there are always mistakes
We're building verification ourselves but 5c seems expensive. If it's a consumer product (like WhatsApp) then 5c per user gets pricey quickly.
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Nor for me on OSX / Chrome 28.0.1500.20.
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yeah im putting the fonts on a CDN right now, one sec
Yeah, I forgot to mention https://leanpub.com/laravel-testing-decoded which is an oversight on my part! Laravel 4 is #1 and #2 on Leanpub for the past week, just because of today!
So a framework needs to update every 6 months just because that would make you feel better about it?

Also, your statement is factually incorrect. There was a single commit in the past year. If you had said that next month, you might have been correct.

The author is on twitter...
Depends on the issue.

For election integrity, it was a small group of us vs everyone else. I've testified opposite Mark Radke of Diebold, county auditors, county executives, election administrators, retired generals, people representing the disabled community, etc.

One time, our issue followed the kittens and puppies on the agenda. Something about a kennel. Council was PACKED. EVERYONE showed up for the puppies and kittens.

Whereas it was just me and my cohort representing the interests of democracy. Looking at the turnout for the puppies and kittens, I turned to my cohort and said "We're doing this wrong."

The times we "won", it was either because we packed the hearing or I had better (embarrassing) information.
Depends on the activity. For example, I'm working on my novel at the coffeeshop. That is a good open ended activity. If no one shows up while I work on my novel, well that's fine, because I still got some work done.

But running around the lake is not an open ended activity, because I don't want to wait around for people to show up.

Also add a button, "Leaving for the activity now", or "I'm here at X" would be helpful.
Too much awesome not to buy. Really like Thomas Was Alone.
you can do this. just click "Call me" instead of "Text me" on the demo on "How it works"
I was so disappointed that Twitter's TFA didn't choose to go with the mechanism you mentioned. Is there a compelling reason not to use it?
Sure, violence isn't usually directed at co-workers. I don't think I've ever seen that happen (it does happen of course but is fairly rare). I did have a couple that attacked a customer or two but that was after being provoked. In those cases, they didn't have any prior offenses so weren't convicted felons.

You can't stop thieves though. You never want to insure against that - you will always lose.
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"That is demonstrably false. Everywhere you look, throughout history, the more free a country is, the more economically prosperous it becomes. In fact, _every single example_ fits this pattern. There is not a single exception."

And your source is...? The eyeball test?
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Signup is broken.

When I try to sign up for an account I get an error "User already exists". This is the case for any email address I enter.
It's made with bootstrap css
Such an awesome framework, many great features, fills in voids left by it's predecessors.
Anybody knows how other companies like universal's animation department (ice age, despicable me, ...) stand technology-wise? From the visuals, i always assumed pixar is setting the standards but now knowing that they just start to use unified raytracing, the gap might not be that big...
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Direct link to the demo:
http://www.dzyngiri.com/demo/flat-ui-login-form/

Seriously? A form asking me to follow you on Twitter before showing me the demo...
So I guess the answer is no?
In my opinion this is a key missing part of the Ember framework. Angular includes similar functionality built-in. In my project we've been using jQuery methods to handle interacting with our REST API, but Ember-data would make those interactions much more seamless and automatic.
1st: the Facebook only login is a HUGE turnoff for many people.

2nd: Videos need HTML5 support.

If the Facebook issue is that you are wanting real people, then maybe you could create a "confidence" score for people to identify their trustworthiness, or maybe some kind of ratings system. Confirming a phone number or school email would also be a good alternative to the facebook requirement.
>I don't understand how people even get it into their heads to immediately ask potential users for direct access to my private information?

Either it's private to you, in which case this service is very likely not going to provide you a great deal of value, which puts you outside their market, or it isn't private, in which case you're in their market.

>Seriously, would anyone approach potential clients with that kind of attitude in real life?

This is real life. I don't like the implication that "it's an internet service" means "it isn't real life." This is a service that's trying to land you with real people, doing real things, in a personal way.

The attitude here is "you're looking to be social, so sign up with your social network." If you don't like that, then I'd warrant that you aren't the type of person this is aimed at.

It'd be nice to have alternatives -- others here have suggested a survey, for example -- but let's be honest: Facebook collates a lot of really useful information that is directly helpful to a service such as this. It's a no-brainer from their point of view.
LastPass handles it fine.
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thanks for letting me know, hang on.

EDIT: SIGN UP WORKING
Get a Google Voice number. They can accept SMS messages that are forwarded to your email address.
For those wanting to give it a quick try, you can easily fool around with a simplistic Ember.js app on Plunker: http://plnkr.co/edit/gist:5206526?p=preview

I would love to see more of the Ember community on Plunker!
"Fascism /ˈfæʃɪzəm/ is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism[1][2] that came to prominence in mid-20th century Europe. Fascists seek to unify their nation through a totalitarian state that promotes the mass mobilization of the national community,[3][4] relying on a vanguard party to initiate a revolution to organize the nation on fascist principles. Hostile to liberal democracy, socialism, and communism, fascist movements share certain common features, including the veneration of the state, a devotion to a strong leader, and an emphasis on ultranationalism, ethnocentrism, and militarism."

Yeah, Singapore is nothing like that. The fact that 20%+ of its population are immigrants, and how it embraces immigration, disproves your pet theory. Singaporeans don't have statues of their leaders in their homes, and they're not mobilizing anyone to fight some greater evil. Singaporeans are more devoted to their iPhones than their prime minister.

Using "fascism" loosely is just ignorance.
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Great work by Taylor and everyone else involved. PHP hasn't seen a framework quite like this before and it's refreshing using it.
congrats, L4 team!
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What I want to know is, why are these systems accessible from the public internet in the first place?
What sort of raytracing are they using?

Are they going all the way to an unbiased global light transport algorithm (like LuxRender) or just using basic raytracing (like PovRay)?

Are they using an existing renderer? If not, are they releasing their own like they did with RenderMan?

Are they rendering with CPUs or with GPUs?

How much time per frame does it take them with how many cores of what sort?
Would you go into more detail about how one "uses it properly"? Is there a good book or other resource that describes how to do this?
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Actually there's some incorrect information here, Pixar started using ray tracing in films as far back as A Bug's Life. I can't find a picture on line but you can see it in the scene with the glass bottle. That was done by integration with a separate render but since then RenderMan as added support for GI and other ray tracing features.

I'm sure this update is significant, and sounds like a ground up reworking of the engine, perhaps replacing REYES? But it's not at all accurate to say the Pixar is moving to raytracing. Pixar has been in that neighborhood for more then a decade.
At my bank I'm restricted to a 5 character password. When asked if they think that would be secure enough I was told that an attacker would also need the login name and that should be kept secret as well (default login name is account number or FirstnameLastname and I doubt many users will change that)
On the other hand, assuming everyone is an evil incompetent...
Steam won't install Linux versions of Dear Esther and Capsized. (The Steam keys imported okay, and those games now show up in my Steam library, just not as Linux games.)

Maybe they're just being slow getting them uploaded, but it's a disturbing trend. I think there are now 23 games in my Steam library that claim not to be available for Linux, even though Linux ports exist. Writing games is very hard. Porting games is hard. Uploading games is easy.
systemd can boot quite a bit faster than just 5 seconds. In any case, do you have any specific complaints? Your post is pretty long but lacks specifics.
If Oscar's Oasis ever goes off Netflix, my nephew will be very, very mad. That show is a serious addiction, not bad for grownups, and doesn't seem to be available for purchase.
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I use Google Voice where possible, and especially for SMS. Regular SMS to/from my phone costs 20c per message (usual US carrier nonsense). I've found that most places that claim to send SMS fail to send to Google Voice, and provide no diagnostics that they failed. Given SMS supports receipt notification that is a strange.
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Telling people to use passphrases is a great recommendation, but you still have to spend some time teaching them how to use passphrases effectively. In the article they list several passphrases that were cracked, such as "sleepingwithsirens", "gonewiththewind1", and "momof3g8kids". So if a user chooses "ijustbluemyself" thinking that it's a great choice they are likely to be disappointed if a skilled cracker gets access to their password hash.

My basic suggestions are to choose 4+ words that are not a common phrase, song name, quote, etc. And make sure you still use both lowercase and uppercase letters, plus throw in some symbols in non obvious places (e.g., don't convert your a's into @ signs). It doesn't need to be as random as a shorter password, but it still shouldn't look like a normal sentence.
Ice Age / Rio / Epic are Blue Sky, not Universal.
Even if it renders everything you ever saw.
I'm using Foundation on a project as well and I still find it a big pain to override the styles. I end up writing more CSS to override styles I don't want than I would if I just wrote everything from scratch.
> This sort of thing is why I'm tired of political news on HN.

Because someone interpreted information differently than you, or did not do the same research as you? I think you'll tire quickly of political discussion anywhere, in that case.

From my perspective, your reply to the parent's comment is exactly why HN works. Someone makes an assertion, and another person comes along and adds additional information to better round out the issue. (Thank you for that, btw.)
Do you really think BSD would replace their init system with something not BSD licensed? Seems like a pointless exercise to slow down progress just for theoretical usecase.
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Ironically Renderman has had global illumination and ray tracing for over ten years.

Having said that, what renderman is and what pixar animation do/use are rather orthogonal. For example pixar made heavy use of Subsurface scattering in the incredibles. Something that was at the time rather time intensive.

The title is a bit misleading as they've been using raytracing for years 1

[1]http://graphics.pixar.com/library/RayTracingCars/paper.pdf
At least historically, Pixar wasn't just a studio but also sold their renderer to others as software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RenderMan
H.264 / MPEG4 part 10 / AVC

Yes it is patented which is a definite disadvantage compared with a theoretical[4] patent free codec but it has some real advantages.

1) The standard is controlled and defined by a collective industry group under the auspices of ISO. [1]

2) Most of the major players in video technology at the time took part in the standardisation so are committed to FRAND patent licensing terms. [2]

3) In almost all cases and commercial business models (that do not involve Free software) the MPEG-LA H.264 patent license is really very reasonable and unlikely to cause problems to an otherwise healthy business. Note that the license Google has to the MPEG-LA pool of patents while free is NOT compatible with Free software.

4) Any companies not in the MPEG-LA pool that popped up now with demands really would trolls in the original sense that they have sat under the bridge for a long time waiting for a juicy opportunity rather than being upfront earlier. I don't think that this would help them in a legal case although there is no guarantee that they don't exist. [3]

5) H.264 is really quite good although the latest codecs are showing what can be done with further development and processing power.

6) H.264 decoding (and often encoding) is cooked into a massive amount of existing and deployed devices in ways that cannot be adapted to VP8/VP9 by a software update.

For now H.264 is the no brainer option for any commercial system although multi codec support may be worthwhile in some cases. If you want patent free I recommend MPEG1 as I believe any patents on it should now be expired or at least expiring very soon if they were granted a long time after filing. I'm glad that Firefox has backed down and will now use the OS codecs to allow playback of H.264.

[1] The OOXML case shows that this isn't foolproof but in my view it is a better option than the standard being controlled by a single company even if the controlling company publishes the source code. This applied to Microsoft when they offered VC-1 as a free alternative to H.264 (there is now an MPEG-LA pool) and to Google now with VP8 and VP9 now. Google is the new Microsoft and has fully learnt the lessons of "Embrace, extend and extinguish".

[2] Not Free software compatible but better than nothing. And even Google's license to the VP8 patents from the MPEG-LA pool does not seem to grant Free software compatible rights.

[3] There is a greater risk of people popping up with claims against VP8 or VP9 as they are newer and less prominent. The MPEG-LA's call for a pool of patents has helped draw out those patent owners and many have joined the pool and reached terms with Google (although Nokia and maybe others haven't.

[4] Realistically for patent free greater than 20 years old is the answer so it probably needs to be MPEG1.
noun
[mass noun]
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
(in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/fascism

Singapore is "partly free" (Freedom in the World) and has a "hybrid government" (meaning that it contains authoritarian and democratic elements, Democracy Index), so not flat-out authoritarian, and certainly not authoritarian in "social organisation". It is generally not considered "extreme right wing", and save for drugs and criticism of the government, isn't particularly intolerant - indeed, it goes to lengths to protect a multiracial, multi-religious society. Not a quality typically associated with dictionary-fascists. Caning is a cruel practise than can be said to be "intolerant", but it's a bit of a stretch.

noun
[mass noun]
government by a dictator:
the effects of forty years of dictatorship
[count noun] a country governed by a dictator.
absolute authority in any sphere.

https://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/dictatorsh...

Absolute mean unhindered by constitution and the law. Both exists (as it does in most dictatorships) but Singapore generally enjoys the rule of law. So not, actually not a dictionary-dictatorship.
BSD doesn't support a bunch of stuff. How would you deal with that concretely. How would you ensure that all those different code paths are tested?
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Wow! There's actually a huge difference! Not that I'm really surprised but still.
Why does it matter that much what technology is in the backend? You lead the industry with results, not with the means to get to those results.

If I can make my webapp better (however you define "better") than my competitors' using PHP and MySQL, while they're making theirs using Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, etc,etc. Does the tech stack in the background matter, aside from making a nice article?
Arte TV is a french-german Television that broadcasts movies in both languages and with both subtitles (unfortunately teletext subs and not DVB subs). I've seen it on sat (i think on Astra 19.2) but they should have something also online.

In this precise moment they have problem on their site: http://www.arte.tv/ lol

EDIT: it's a cultural channel so don't expect to see Mission Impossible, many movies are self produced etc..
Very glad to see this on the front page. This is by far the best PHP framework out there. It still blows me away what it is capable of.
> Facebook only login is a HUGE turnoff for many people.

... on hacker news. And in the rest of the populace? Not so sure.
> BarbaraTweetz Nov 21, 2012

> This article is absolutely ridiculous! I would like to suggest that people who are on social media sites CONSTANTLY are dangerously removed for REALITY.
As someone about to use EC2 for some heavy servers, I would appreciate if you could tell me:

a) How huge an EC2 instance do you have?

b) What tech are you serving from? Express, ASP, JSP, etc...
Sweet! I wasn't sure if this data was going to be public or not. It's a little odd that some stations are abbreviated "st." while some spell out "street"
Unless you plan on developing an app with less than 10 users, Duo Security seems like it would be a very expensive option for most apps.
Yeah, my son won't care. In the 30 minutes per night we allow him on the iPad, he binge watches like 8 different shows, and it doesn't matter which ones. He watches Dora, but probably won't notice it's missing. I'm going to say this is much worse for Viacom than Netflix.
Another layer of abstraction just results in more complicated code, more bugs, more difficulty testing the different code paths. Might be fine for a lot of projects, but this is just something to boot up your system.
Pixar's focus has always been on renderer efficiency for cinematic storytelling not really for accuracy or 'simulation'.

So while I'd say they are still way ahead in efficacy they are at par or behind with respect to light simulation.
> There are no helmet rules listed that apply to anyone over fourteen.

This is untrue; commercial cyclists must wear a helmet (see 412(p)(4)(v))
I'd opt for a 'post anonymously' button as staunch suggested.

The only reason is not everyone that uses throw away accounts are doing so to troll others. I've seen several submissions where a person posts something extremely personal (ie. problems with their current job to dealing with depression or contemplating suicide) and they would not post under their real account for obvious reasons but still seek the support of this community. It could be a bad idea to hinder the ability of these people to post situations like this anonymously and promptly.
I'd say that once you've mastered Angular concepts like services and factories, dependency injection, etc., it's far easier to build complex applications in it than in Ember. That's because the abstractions Angular introduces are focused around writing decoupled and reusable code.

If you want to build an app in an hour, I'd suggest knockout instead of either ember or angular.
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I'm not as opposed to the Facebook signin thing as a lot of people here seem to be, in that I don't consider Facebook "private". My default assumption is "if it's actually private, it doesn't get posted on Facebook". IOW, Facebook is mostly just a big online Rolodex to me.

BUT... I am opposed to having only Facebook login, just because it's not an open standard, and it isn't part of the Open Web. I'd argue for supporting, at a minimum, OpenID as an alternative.
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We need the web plugin of VLC for fleex with the windowless mode.
The plugin shipped with the 2.0.6 version of VLC works great on PC but have strong performance issues on the mac (in windowless mode).
The VideoLAN team is working on it and as soon as this problem is fixed, fleex player will also be available for iOS.
As for linux, we're just ignorant... We're looking for someone to package the app for us.
Is there a reason you care about Steam (social? something else?)? I mean in the spirit of free software, why do you want middleware to play your games through that just gets in your way and at times, could potentially prevent you from playing your games?

You don't need Steam to play these games.
They were doing GI before, but using an approximate point-based solution. The point-based stuff isn't as accurate but it's very fast and still looks pretty good.