skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the input.

Re: Price - This was just a quick and dirty attempt to gauge interest before investing a ton of time figuring out exactly how much it would cost. Didn't see much of a point in figuring out the exact cost if nobody expressed any interest. I suspect that many HN readers understand that setting up this type of structure is likely a plus expected value play (assuming you have sufficient income to protect) given the fact that many major companies (apple, google, fb, twitter) have successfully implemented the Double Irish Arrangement.

Also, I'll shoot you an email about this later today. Interested in hearing more of your thoughts on this matter.
His reasoning can be applied to all free social media, which is a valid reason, and why smart people should avoid the step back in time to a central AOL-esque media hub. He has his own domain, what more does he need? Why feed the social media black hole (all things enter - nothing escapes)?
This is great. I want to use this. Some improvements are needed:

- When searching Florida to Florida (so as to find roundtrip cruises) the cruises just says Miami Round Trip w/o giving any ideas of where it is going to stop, what region, etc. (see: http://cruisesheet.com/?from=Florida&to=Florida)

- No way to search within a time frame. Say I want to leave after November 18th but before December 12th. There is no way to do this search and sort by price.

- Clicking custom search goes nowhere

- I have not once been able to get the low price you list
Shading isn't terribly hard and you could probably afford to be a little sloppy in this case. I would suspect that you'll end up spending about 2 times as long on each animation than you would have before.

BUT, with that 2x effort, you're getting a significant improvement in visual quality. The alternative would be the Donkey Kong Country option: model the character in 3D (easily 10x more effort than flat 2D animation, with a much more expensive work force and software), bake in the lighting, and generate gigantic animation sheets. Your asset library will explode in size. The games that have done this have tended to employ significant compression on the images, which can negatively impact visual quality.
Here's how it works. The techies create something. The legals come along and say, OK, to release that in the wild it needs some T&Cs that cover our arses for everything and then some, because people keep sueing us.

In practice, would Google ever dare invoke this on a large scale? No, you know that. Yes, there should be some transparent process that is undertaken if yours were revoked, but Google only like stuff that scales, manual processes like that don't.

And really, if the ability to revoke your URL at any time wasn't in the T&Cs, do you really think it would make any difference to the revoke rate?

Sure, nobody in their right mind would depend on such a URL sticking around, but this post isn't "Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL", it's "Why I won't use a Google+ Custom URL as the primary mechanism to link to myself online". I don't see much argument against just claiming one, if you're already a g+ user.
Notice the color shift from pain-red to yellow/purple on the bricks where they're better-lit.

As far as I can tell, it is indeed a simple radial gradient--but then the results of the layer-multiplication are put through some sort of palette-lookup function. I imagine it'd work sort of like palette-based animations (http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/), but with the luminosity of the "light" at that pixel-position serving as the "frame number" of the palette.
I was looking for a BuyWithOneClick button and Prime delivery, instant credit approval. It would be awesome to buy cars that way, too bad dealer laws are so screwed up in so many states.
i've gotten useful info via !yt comments, as well as had meaningful interactions.

the entire push to "use my real name" vis a vis my gmail account instead of my historical youtube account name, of which this new comments action is a part, bothers me.

also, it smells of an attempt out of desperation to beef up content on g+.
> As fixubuntu.com doesn't sell any goods or services, there is no trademark infringement.

If this rule actually existed, anyone could set up an Apple-branded site dedicated to ranting about Jewish conspiracies. Do you actually believe that sort of false endorsement would fly?
Brilliant. But this is dangerous stuff in the wrong hands. If the NSA gets hold of it, BANG!, everything is metadata. Even you are coded in many codes many times along any expansion of pi... You can now be considered metadata.
Stolen in full from http://imgur.com/a/2BpKA
I really really wish someone takes the car dealer out as a mandatory part of the equation, I understand many people rely on them but there are people like me who may be better off doing all by themselves
Consider the domain and the comparable.

For a limited subdomain (data anlytics, content distribution, Internet routing), I think it can be true that startups that are focusing on those areas are started by, or attract, world experts in those areas. Not because their brains are bigger than the random startup geek but because they have experienced frustrations in the space, have seen the history and evolution, and wake up thinking about solving problems in a particular space.

Also, the comparable. An environment where people can protoype, implement, test on customers, and then flesh it out will be > 10 x cheaper and 10 x faster than a 9-5 environment where you have 10 engineering and ops groups to convince and add headcount to to do anything, and often non-technical product managers in the way who need to be educated and can block or at least massively slow down GSD.
Try rotating this :)
http://mxfh.github.io/d3canvasglobes/#GRL
I'm not really trying to contradict you, so much as I'm a little humored by some of your suggestions, not because they are naive, but because they are common.

> Things like, progressive enhancement rendering

This is a very common option in a huge number of renderers. Particularly physically-based renderers It particularly useful when you want interactive feedback, less so for 'final' renders.

> Massively parallelized rendering pipelines.

Rendering is one of the original problems that generally fit into the "embarrassingly parallel" category, hence why render farms are even a things. There are very many existing offline renderers that take great advantage of GPU computation. Paired with progressive enhancement, certain renderers use this particularly well for interactive editing. But it's also used in very many a render farm.

> Static scene analysis/dynamic compositing ... let the computer algorithmically break down a scene and maximize rendering speed

This has been done since likely the day rendering was invented (not actually). The artist only thinks about layering and composting when the artist wants specific composting control in post. And there is no way you could do that as an automated process, just as you can't do the rest of the art as an automated process.

> Perhaps it will eventually be determined to not be cost effective

What won't be cost effective? Those techniques? They already are! Or cloud-computing for offline rendering? It already is as well! Some of the first clouds as a service were and are put to great use for offline rendering from the very start. And a 'render farm' is really just a 'private cloud' for rendering.

> after being relatively unchanged for the past 20.

This is confusing to me. Rendering is a field with one of the most progress every year. You only have to go to Siggraph once to see that as self-evident.

Anyways, I'd love to talk more or answer any other questions you have. Rendering has been a passion of mine for over half my life. And anything that has the ability to transform how we do things is very interesting. Just as Clara.io very much is.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fire-carnival-cruis...

Oh god, that sounds nightmarish.
Actually that kind of listing can't be made without Amazon creating it. So it's a mixture of the two companies and most likely there was an exchange of advertising dollars involved.
Photos: Shopping Malls in the 1980s
how? what's the process?
That's a weird, conceptual argument (and program output is not strongly typed). I just want "program --help | less" to work, especially when there's a lot of options.
Due to Dealership laws this will never truely happen that way it should :( Tesla has been fighting this crap tooth and nail. Maybe one day I can click and confirm a car online and have it delivered to my house at a specific day/time that is NOT a 10 hour window like most cable providers
He says room service is "free", which suggests that he's not tipping. Someone pointed out down thread that this guy's a pickup artist (http://www.pualingo.com/pua-profiles/herbal-tynan/), which is empirically correlated with "asshole", which in turn is correlated with "does not tip".
There are a few fast-casual restaurants around Denver that I specifically go to knowing that I could read the Onion while eating a meal, it's sort of a shame to lose that. There are local papers too like Westword that I've fallen back on but the Onion was always top of the list.
http://macdevelopertips.com often has some crossover as well.
Wide-spread gastro-intestinal illnesses -
google "cruise" and "norovirus"

http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/gilist.htm

It is important to distinguish among cruise outcomes -
I'd rather experience a 24-36 hour power outage than
a fire that resulted in passengers at sea in lifeboats,
but there appear to be some narratives that conflate
"our honeymoon was not what I had dreamed of" with
"captured, burned, sunk, and destroyed" without
any points on a scale in between.

Third party advice I'd heard on cruising:

avoid the very cheapest lines

choose an operator with a generally nordic background
(not flag/registration, more company origin).
I'm really impressed with Angular.

I've previously worked with Backbone.js, and found that many things in Backbone where I've had to manually develop are readily available in Angular.

Moving from Backbone to Angular has made the code much cleaner, and smaller in size. Whereas in Backbone, the code slowly became a mess with all the event listening and event triggering (probably my fault), in Angular, that has all been abstracted for the most part.

Great work guys!
Just use http://www.isup.me/facebook.com instead of complaining on HN.
My preference, as a (long-time) startup CTO, is to always hire generalists. The work at a startup tends to be varied and require people with lots of flexibility. I can't imagine anyone would hire any other way.
Essentially yes. But I guess they simply kept their virtualization code from pre-hardware virtualization times around. 286 shouldn't require much maintenance :-)
Drawing lighting profiles seems much simpler than drawing normal maps, and more flexible than drawing height-maps. I had access to the Sprite Lamp alpha, and was able to come up with these images [1][2] in a short amount of time. I am enthusiastic about the future of pixel art games that use sprites that have more information encoded in them (lighting, material, physics).

1. http://bp.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/hospital2.gif
2. http://bp.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_Preview.gif
It's interesting how your framing of the strategy by the use of the weasel metaphor seems to result in the conclusion that this is somehow inappropriate. I wonder if you would reach the same conclusion if you framed it as simply a smart way of legally reducing your tax burden by using a deep understanding of the tax code, which itself is a product of the same government that you're paying your taxes to.
45 large U.S. cities ranked by percentage of bicycle commuting
They released a giant wave of "everyone gets custom URLs" recently. It was announced somewhere or other. I thought I was special until I saw that.
Reading the Security Tea Leaves - The Story from 50 million Vulnerabilities
Slides from Ed Bellis and Matt Jay's webinar "Reading the Security Tea Leaves - The Story from 50 Million Vulns."
It seems like the main use case is exporting the normal/depth/ambient occlusion maps, which you'd probably end up dropping into your engine of choice rather than using Sprite Lamp itself in your game (Sprite Lamp would generate the assets, but the game engine would display them).

If you have the maps, there's no hard limit to the number of lights you can have in your scene, or colors, etc; it just depends how many lights your engine can support with decent performance.

Think of Sprite Lamp more like Blender than like Unity — Sprite Lamp is a way to create assets.
The bigger the file, the lower the probability of finding an equivalent number (in pi) in this lifetime.
http://inessential.com has some good stuff posted.
I don't see anything funny in it, but maybe your sense of humor is different. In any case, it is a fact - a quick Google search would produce ample confirmation that it did really happen if you doubt my words. In any case by changing the topic I assume you concede the initial point.
very cool! But I think the globally unique app names will feel inconvenient as you get more users. You could silently add the Orchard user id to give it a namespace.
Adventure.lua
Does speaking at conferences help your business?
I fuckin love this guy.
Inflight Texting and Calling
Child’s Play is expanding (with Game Kiosk's for Victimized Youths)
Great timing, I'm starting the new version of an angular web app. Having a production version of 1.2 on day one is great!
Two things jumped out at me. The first is that the PM had no substantive complaint and was basically being a bully. Some people do that. Since you had been really interested in this job, you might have done the second thing, which is to take your complaint upstairs. I would have told the story to someone above the bully before resigning. They might have backed up the bully, to their discredit. But they might decided they can't afford the kind of turnover this a-hole creates. If this feels like going outside of channels, it is, but tech isn't big on channels in my experience. You might have saved an interesting job. At the least, it would have been an entertaining thing to do.
Get a haircut. Shave the ironic mustache. Take off that fedora. And don't give me that "actually, it's a trillby" bullshit.

And for the last time, GET OFF MY LAWN.
My session expired and had to log in again, and there was a form. I didn't apply or anything like that.

As I said it felt a little bit buggy ("we'll review your request", and then it was approved straight away), may be Google has refined the process.
For not reading the article before commenting.
As you know in C++ you can do things the C++ way or the C way. That's why I like C++. If you want O(1) for size() of a collection you can use std::vector<> Of course, it doesn't suit every situation.
No, you just have to store the offset as well. And the offset for the offset. Then you just have to keep track of the number of offset cycles you've gone through - and you can store this as well.

Keep doing this until you have a number that is smaller than your file...

might take a while, but it would be very elegant.
In the off-season, quite cheap, can rent an apartment for 300-500 euros per month, with high speed internet.

Finding that apartment is the tricky bit, you have to dig around on the net -- odd given that there are great swaths of empty apartments everywhere down there in the winter, which is of course the best time to be there, 16-18C, warm-ish water, etc.
Agreed. I simply do not own a cellphone so a custom URL isn't possible.
That reminds me of the ending of the novel/movie "Contact" by Carl Sagan. When calculating pi in base 11, there was an implausibly long run of 0's and 1's, which made a pretty picture when you plotted it in two dimensions. So if you entered that picture as your file, the file system would make a major discovery :-).

Someone actually wrote a paper on the properties of these numbers:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2348

This is the second time in a week I'm mentioning Carl Sagan in a comment. I'll stop doing that now.
I asked you a straight forward question and you side stepped it with some ridicules notion that Israel is appeasing Palestine.
Does this mean Pi contains copyrighted material ? Good luck DMCA !
I'd forgotten I'd installed the XKCD substation extension (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6695895). "Amazon is selling Cats" is a much more shocking title.
I can see selling replacements.

Like you don't want to see the Red Sox, maybe the yankees pay to replace all things red socks.
I very much doubt that the secrecy is at the behest of the DRM lobby unless the treaty turns out to be about IP issues and nothing else, in which case I'll gladly eat my words. This belief seems to be a rather mypoic view and I think IT activists are in danger of making it into a bogeyman and thus sidelining themselves.

Why? Because IP and DRM are ultimately a small part of the trade puzzle, dwarfed by issues like agricultural trade barriers (eg Japan's 777.7% tariff on imported rice, in a country of ~120m, most of whom eat rice daily, which amounts to billions a year in deadweight loss on a single commodity - see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/business/global/12yen.html... for background).

Personally I think the secrecy has a lot to do with preventing interference by China, which is conspicuously not part of the treaty negotiations. You may recall the administration is trying to effect a 'strategic pivot' towards Asia to counter China's expanding foreign policy influence. Thanks to the oil & natural gas boom, the US is well on the road to energy independence and thus the Middle East is no longer the nation's major strategic focus.
Wow, this is a pretty strong attack, for something that is likely just a miswording. Cruise passengers pay an automatic gratuity at the end of a trip. Much of this goes to your room attendant. So it's "free" in the sense that it's essentially included in the total price.
I know, but Gentoo is by far the most interesting. - The others feel like a downgrade/hassle from Ubuntu (I love unity, 'pretty okay' is not good enough). Tried Debian (which we use for servers) but had problems with my labtop, Suse I used before Debian, Fedora/CentOS ok but has the 'wrong packet manager', Mint, mmh, another fork). Maybe Ubuntu does some compromises but I don't see pits.
PrestoDB from Facebook
Note the &tag, someone is making 4% off of this purchase.
It's not just booting a computer though. Hypothetically, if Silicon Valley is wiped from the planet tomorrow at the same time as a massive EMP killing all electronics on earth simultaneously (extreme), its assumed we could get most of that data back. I'm guessing we'd lose a significant amount of information though.

The real loss would be the engineers -- without people manning these systems I'm not sure we're getting that data back very quickly. What if you lose the key players -- the people who have the passwords, the knowledge, and control over these systems? It's losing the combination to the worlds most valuable vault, but the vault is digital and restoring it takes privileged information.
Its easy to have a positive brand image if you're bleeding money. See Youtube, before the advertizements. The real trick is capturing a positive brand image while still making the company money.

The XBox One tried to refocus itself as a more profit-oriented machine. Why is it "always online" ??? Because XBox Live subscriptions and Ad-revenue were the #1 source of revenue for XBox.

Why is the XBox One weaker than the PS4?? Because XBox never made money off of games. In fact, Microsoft lost money as far as games themselves are concerned.

Microsoft made a decision: they decided to attempt to make the next generation XBox One profitable at all. Those decisions have cost the XBox One its reputation... but were probably necessary so that the XBox division actually could make money.

When you have a part of your company that is continuously bleeding money, with an inability to actually monetize your brand... you need to spin it off. Its basic business strategy. The other possibility is if they could find a way for XBox One to make money while still keeping a positive brand image.

At the end of the day, Microsoft needs to make money, but the XBox isn't doing that for them.
Isn't your conclusion a bit of a stretch? Anyone who is a pickup artist is an asshole, and every asshole doesn't tip? Tynan is actually a pretty nice guy if you meet him in person.

If I found an asshole that does tip, would that destroy your theory?
I'm giving Nemo a try. It's nice to be able to open files as root. And it seems a bit lighter than Nautilus.
What I did before I got mine, was redirected mydomain.com/+ to my Google+ profile, it's shorter, and more importantly, I control it.
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It really isn't that bad if you're in an area with a few dealers. Call each and say "This is what I want, this is the price I know it can be sold at. I don't have time for other options, and if you try to sell me any or haggle on price I'll go somewhere else. When can you have this model with these options available for me to come pickup?" Took me five dealers and I had to drive 45 minutes to get the car from the non-asshole dealer. Easy!
math has a funny way of revealing all kinds of flaws
Damn! Canonical just made another good point why 'the Debian derivative from Canonical' should not be used any more ...
How many cells have to be penetrated to create a fire?

Just the one: 'if crush or penetration occurs perpendicular to electrode edges, that deformation is likely to result in high impedance shorting between electrode layers and initiate cell thermal runaway.'[1]

This is an incredibly thorough piece of research:

[1] Celina Mikolajczak et all, (2011), Lithium-Ion Batteries Hazard and Use Assessment (p. 57, paragraph 5)

Retreived from: http://www.nfpa.org/~/media/Files/Research/Research%20Founda...
is there a road map for future things that want to be added to angular?
First note in the small print:

"1. All prices are Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). MSRP excludes destination and handling charges, tax, title, license and options. Dealer sets actual price."

Dealer sets actual price. So it's still sold via a dealership. What a crazy country with crazy laws.
If you don't use it, why don't you just ignore it, like 99% of most YouTube uploaders?

All of these recent Google+ changes, aside from "Real Names," only affect people with a large YouTube following.

I absolutely support you deleting your YouTube account in protest of the ever-increasing Google+ requirements. But at least call it what it is--deleting your account in protest.
High motivation + high specialization. Any competent team that dives really hard into a specialization can very often become the best in the world at it. That's not because other people couldn't do better, it's just that they haven't put in the effort to do so.
Signed up for the free credit to check it out. Works as advertised. Cool.
Also, I have to admit that I used to be wayyyy too stoked on scripting languages until I did a thought exercise realizing that the most interesting thing I could then ever do in the web-world is make an RPC to a far more interesting service.

Do you know about Facebook's architecture? I'll give you a hint which was brought to my attention a couple weeks. PHP is sitting on their front end, but trust me it is NOT doing any heavy lifting...

Lately I feel much more like "everything has its place" and I'm not so invested in hack hype. Java I'm seeing is a great language because it's kindof nestled between C++ and the web scripting/framework world. Lots of possibility for unique, almost C++ desktop-software-level but many strong frameworks and libraries for the web as well. And there are a lot of JVM languages that tie neatly together, so there is kindof a well-knit multi-lingual toolkit that is slightly less daunting than working with alien PHP-to-C++ RPCs (though this may be all psychological).