skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the country that this article was referring to was the US, do you really think that Barton Gellman would let a scoop go like that?

I'm sure the first response will be something alluding to the US government secretly threatening the author if he revealed this, to which I would preemptively point out that this is the same man who has yet to receive any legal indictment and continues to walk the streets freely after revealing the PRISM program last year.
Oh, but it's introduced plenty of quirks of its own, which will have to be painfully removed down the line. Odersky himself is trying to redo and simplify the type system with his Dotty project.
There are enough people on earth, and the global population is increasing. You don't need to personally replace yourself; immigration can handle that task. It's only when you don't allow much immigration that you have to start getting worried (such as with Japan)
We are truly sorry that you cannot use our free software to build proprietary software. Guile is a GNU project, thus it shares the mission of creating a fully free operating system.
It's a gag meant to get attention and poke fun at Spotify's royalty scheme. If anything, it's to other musicians' benefit because it makes a point: Spotify is of so little value to individual musicians that they're willing to thumb their noses at it for publicity.
British intelligence watchdog is like Yes Prime Minister
As someone who has been first working alongside and later as overseeing engineer for my fiancee (both as programmers over the last few years), this saddens me a little bit. Not to suggest that I don't see why things like this might cause problems, but that for me (and for my boss, who is a researcher along side his wife) it's been an overwhelmingly positive and productive experience.
Sony reveals Project Morpheus, its VR headset for PS4
The real factor is whether or not your spouse takes care of the children completely. Or if you have your parents at home taking care of the kids.

Because from my own experience, taking care of a newborn with the two spouses both working demanding jobs is extremely, extremely hard. It's just about the hardest thing I've ever done, and my wife agrees. We are both exhausted every day, weekends are even harder than the weekdays, and time to ourselves is the most precious commodity we have and the thing we have the least of.

If you can't have your parents take care of the kid during the day, or if you can't afford a nanny, then the issues related to day care compound the situation a great deal.

If one of the spouses agrees to completely take care of the kid, it makes it a lot easier to spend the extra energy, because it gives you the flexibility required to do things that startups need. The thing that is the most limiting is time and schedule flexibility, and energy. Without that flexibility, the ability to go beyond what is expected is extremely hard, in my own experience.
Any idea how this works? I don't think we have reached technology level to cram CPU+memory+battery+GPS to do all that in standalone watch. So my guess is that the watch has bluetooth that connects to your phone and uses its horsepower. It probably pings phone in your pocket every 1-5 seconds. This then bags question if it is compatible with only Android phones and how far can it be from phone.

It also appears that the watch has color LCD that would display analog faceplate. It would be pretty expensive to run color LCD full time though. Another alternative could be color E-Ink but unless there have been any recent advancement that was still experimental.
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Satellite Image of Missing Plane Uploaded to CNN
Maybe, but also Ivan Boesky, to whom the Greed is good quote is attributed.
Have you ridden in a taxi recently? Are you at all familiar with the taxi medallion racket (and why millionaire medallion owners are the only ones who benefit from this)? Have you ever tried to get a taxi to pick you up during rush hour or outside of a taxi hot spot?
>> Mithril allows developers to support browsers all the way back to IE6 and Blackberry.
> Wow! This should IMO be on the home page.

Agreed! I'm in!
This sounds somewhat wrong. Ray tracing is just another term for path tracing, as paths are made up of traced rays. A naive camera-to-light witting ray tracer is still a sampling path tracer but has bias towards a specific subset of paths, namely those which follow specular bounces from the eye to the light or those which have one diffuse bounce.

Much of the progress in photorealistic rendering has come from improving the techniques used to sample paths. Bi-directional path tracing samples paths by tracing paths from both the light and the eye and performing a technique called multi-importance sampling in order to weight them appropriately. This allows the algorithm to pick up more light paths that would otherwise be hard to reach, such as those which form caustic reflections.

One of the more recent developments on this front is the use of the "specular manifold", which allows a path sampler to "walk" in path-space that allows capturing of even more partially-specular paths. (See Wenzel 2013.) This technique allows efficient sampling of the main light transport paths in scenes where a specular transparent surface surrounds a light source, ex a light bulb casing.

Edit: for this specific hardware, it sounds like they are using a hybrid approach so may very well be doing a basic eye-to-light ray tracing algorithm and then using raster for diffuse surface shading.
He's talking about sex!
People will look back upon this date with utter lament because the world of lambdas has been unleashed upon a much more dangerous and wider world of programmers.
> the fact that one can happen without your knowledge makes it the preferable option from both an intelligence standpoint and maybe philosophically a rights infringing standpoint. I.E. it is the intelligence version of the tree falling in the woods. Are my rights infringed if the infringement has no impact on any of my other rights or my life in general

Seizure is the wrong tack. The 4th Amendment also covers searches. SCOTUS has ruled in Katz that a reasonable expectation of privacy triggers 4th Amendment protections (clarified in additional rulings).
Washington Post launches national subscription partnership
I've lived in Saskatchewan, Canada for most of my life and some of my best friends moved here through the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program. Saskatchewan's economy is going crazy, so there are many jobs. Consequently, if you decide to move forward with moving to Canada, you may entertain the thought of moving here or to a similar province.

However, before you agree to move to any city, spend two weeks there in January. Depending on where you move, Canada can be hip and cosmopolitan, or culturally barren and frigid. Please choose cities very carefully!!

If I were in your shoes, I'd likely confine my search to cities like Vancouver, Victoria, and possibly Nanaimo. You might also like Toronto, or Montreal.

If you have any questions, or want any local knowledge, my email is on my profile. Good luck, my friend!
Hacker News: where you can find a 40+ comment thread debating the use of generic vs specific device names.
I'd wager that the current rasterising pipeline is more flexible than one based on raytracing - capable of generating a range of styles, not just photorealistic ones. And therefore having an extra dedicated chip for raytracing seems uneconomical.

The comparison examples given in the article were slightly ridiculous. How does a non-reflective car represents 'traditional' rendering? Look at any great AAA game and you'll see reflections, refractions, radiosity, etc., that are all pretty amazing. I don't think that general demand will be there for alternative rendering hardware for quite a while.
He shouldn't have used the word "stable". Orbits from 1.5x the horizon radius to 3x the horizon radius exist, but they are unstable, like a pencil balanced on its point; any small perturbation will cause the orbiting object to either fall into the black hole, or fly off to infinity. Orbits at 3x the horizon radius or larger are stable in the sense that small perturbations do not do this; the object will just tend to adopt a slightly different orbit.

Since the post I was responding to used the word "safe", I was not including the orbits from 1.5x to 3x the horizon radius, since they are not, IMO, "safe"; you'll need rocket power continuously available to avoid falling into the hole or flying off to infinity due to small perturbations.

(A link to the askscience thread would be nice, btw.)
It seems I am wrong with the definition, or rather am using an uncommon variant of the term. Still, living with extended family has been pretty common before the age of pensions.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Scientist-debunks-missing-plane-satel...
I always thought it was funny: On the old http://www.volokh.com/ site, most blog posts would have a lively debate in the comments. But every post by Stewart Baker had comments turned off.

It's nice that The Volokh Conspiracy is now on the Washington Post because now Stewart Baker can't disable comments and people can point out the elementary flaws in his reasoning.
They do exist ( http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/smartpen/ ) but I have no idea if they're any good. You have to use their pen and their paper… I like my Field Notes and Lamy.
Dinner. With over 50 startups a batch (75 in the current one), we have to feed almost 200 people every week. Hence, lots of crock pots.
Of all the ducks, I think the number of doors on the car isn't that high on the priority list :P

Have you ever tried to put an infant car seat in the back of a 1994 Mazda MX-6 coupe? It might change your priority list.
> First, Wall Street's role in capital markets towers over Silicon Valley.

True, but what's the delta? Where are the sources of new power (and subsequently wealth) being generated? Why, for that matter, are you a former investment banker and now a tech-cofounder and coder? As I'm sure you know, you're not the only one who's made that (smart) move.

What moving around money was to the 19XXs, moving around information is to the 20XXs. That's the crux of "software is eating the world".

AUM doesn't seem a useful metric for power, in fact it's debt and so it all depends on what you do with it. What % of those assets are depreciating? How fast are the % of assets that are appreciating doing so?

I know little about capital markets, but these seem like the obvious begged questions, don't they?
Agreed, though it's never been absurdly uncommon.
The slippery slope is obvious. More and more people today are put on drugs to deal with problems that used to be dealt with naturally and without side effect. Secondly, more and more average people who don't really need these medications still get on them because they enhance their concentration and productivity. They give them abilities (an edge) that only a few in the general populace naturally have. Why is this bad? because these are mind altering drugs that people will take every day forever.

This type of behavior modification has always had (and always will) consequences.
Regarding #3, isn't 150 active drivers at one time, rather than 150 per TNC?
Pretty much this. any smart watch with current battery tech is going to be on the charger a lot. My gps/hrm watch needs to be charged at least once a week, and that is annoying, I can only imagine what a "smart watch" is going to need in terms of charge cycles.
Why not if it can be done well? Also, I thought the same thing about my smart phone years ago.
It's all anecdotal because no sane company would allow stats on giving the pager to the single person because it won't disturb someone's kids.

I have worked at a place where I got the support pager on a holiday because I was single. I have also had to do support in the middle of the night because the person with children didn't answer because he set the volume low (so as not to disturb his wife) and didn't wake-up.
> U.S. foreign policy didn't have to punish Japan for it's Manchurian expansion, but it resulted in Pearl Harbor. Japan absolutely completely had to be destroyed brick by brick for that nation to yield. No Japanese terrorists since. Other incidences of unprovoked and unchallenged acts: see Crimea and Nazi annexations.

That's an insane conclusion. There have been plenty of border skirmishes that haven't resulted in greater aggression. Those are cherry picked data points.
This is great. I'm all for something that gets people into assembly. It seems to be a lost art these days.
When laws are passed, there are often little errors in wording or phrasing that might cause undesirable side effects. So the Congress often passes "technical fix" bills that do nothing to change the substance of the law, but simply adjust wording to better achieve the intended effect.

I propose that it's time for a technical fix to the 4th Amendment: the addition of one word, one comma, and one space.

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, ++data, ++ and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
There are hundreds of theories. There is nothing that makes this one any better than the others.
> Let's not forget about type-erasure generics.

Type-erasure generics are a fortuitous platform decision, because its what enables languages on the platform to have a good interop story while still having a more robust type system than Java does -- case in point, Scala, and why the .NET version died.
I think the real underlying problem is the jobs situation. I don't think this would be so much of an issue if jobs weren't so much of an issue.

The concern that many people have is that technological disruption is replacing old industries that employed more people with new industries that -- while preferable to the consumer -- employ less... and that those jobs will not be replaced since the same thing is happening all across the economy.

Who then will be the consumer to whom these new industries are preferable?
I had my browser window docked to 50% and saw nothing. It's a responsive design that hides content beyond some threshold.
lots of votes, but no emails yet...
Changing Journalism
I doubt anyone would mistake the OP for being original or even clever. Anyone can stretch something until it sounds preposterous.
I just shared the actual evidence -- my experience of several years. Do you have a reading comprehension problem?
Well, it depends on the device used and whether you left it on just for the music.

Let's say you left a Macbook Air (2011) on playing the album. It has a 50 watt-hour battery, which lasts 7 hours, so it uses ~0.12 watt-hour/minute. Since the album has ten tracks of around 30s, that's 5 minutes * 0.12 Wh/m, so ~0.6 watt-hour in total.

The average price of residential electricity in the US is 11.72c/kWh (Dec. 2013), so that ends up at around $0.00007/album.

Since he says he gets $0.005/listen, or $0.025/album, that's still significantly profitable.

If you're one of those people who leaves the smartphone on anyway, the cost would probably be negligible.

Of course, it probably wouldn't matter anyway since the fixed transaction costs would make it unreasonable to send so small donations.
> Its syntax is stunningly verbose (e.g., no map literals; only now adding lambda literals; no type synonyms; no operator overloading).

I can see both side of this. My favorite language to work in is Perl, which is loaded with all kinds of little context sensitive literals. But Java "the language" is pretty quick to pick up and get working with if you're already familiar with another Algol family language, and you can usually read other people's code without too much fuss because the language doesn't support all sorts of ways of writing something.

But on the other hand, you do end up with lots of lines to do something that should be relatively few lines if a more context specific syntax was supported. For example, the last time I worked with Java, code was littered with a half dozen lines of Iterator mess every time you wanted to go through some collection, the new for syntax is very very nice...but there's still little hard corners it's not that well supported in, like maps, because the underlying structure of the map means I have to build some temporary object to handle an item on the map in the loop...even though the map collection I'm using is in the standard library and should be part of the language via some syntactic sugar.

I'm still stunned that operator overloading isn't supported, I have a few use-cases already where that would be very helpful.
That plane belong to the basemap, months/years old. NOT MH370. The map (zoomed out) shows fresh footprints. Fresh data here: https://www.mapbox.com/labs/blackbridge/flight-mh370/

[Source: We host those maps. ]
You only have to refresh the an HH:MM clock every minute

I feel like not having color is a price I'm willing to pay to not have to charge my watch every day
Hashtag Digital Democracy
> First, Wall Street's role in capital markets towers over Silicon Valley. Venture Capital Assets Under Management is approximately $200 billion. Blackrock, the world's largest fund, has $4.3 trillion AUM.

This isn't really an apples to apples comparison. Most of the money managed by the big players like Blackrock is in funds that are tied to specific benchmarks and have very restrictive mandates. Relatively little of it can be redirected towards funding new companies.
"There a few cases where that's not socially desirable"

There are tons of examples where that's not socially desirable. Piracy is one easy example -- people don't want to pay for stuff, and will love a product to death if it enables piracy.

Said another way: what consumers like is orthogonal to what makes society better.
Why would he be refunding someone for a free trial? ...
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this was a great watch. thanks for that.

It helped me focus a lot of things I have been feeling innately for a while.
Julia Vs Python for sorting
Right, fraudsters should be allowed to keep their ill-gotten gains.
Losing Sleep Could Kill Brain Cells
Had to try, I know a few people like what I described.

Do not be afraid to look for fun job. Worst case happens you go there people hate you and fire you during probation. You are good you will find something else. Best part part you are not going to feel what if.. I am not saying put all your savings into building and AI startup or new Facebook lol. Love your life and you and your kid will be happier for it
Ask HN: Marketing for startups?
Are there any start-ups that specialize in helping other start-ups with their marketing needs? Maybe a start-up running based on a Marketing as a Service (MaaS) model?
Those reflections and refractions and such rely on raytracing though so better ray-tracing hardware will help improve traditional pipelines as well (which are increasingly getting physically based).

Also, there is nothing intrinsic about the rasterization pipeline that makes it more or less flexible that a ray-tracing one. In a physically based engine, I'd imagine you would be able to inject shader code on every bounce (for bump mapping, BRDF behavior, subsurface scattering, etc) as well as when the ray hits the lens. A good system would allow you to spawn more rays as need be or modify geometry like the current tesselation and geometry shaders.

I think the important thing is that a physically based model would be amazing to work with from a graphics engineer perspective. No more crazy floating point hacks or occlusion tricks to get the desired effect. I'd rather the hacks be at the hardware level than the software level.
I respect Sam a lot. I had the good fortune of meeting with him a few times and he invested in my company. I found him to be very smart, honest, and real. If I had to capture one of his strengths, I'd say he understands how systems operate (technology, people, and cultural systems).

I'd have to disagree with you on lack of concrete achievements. He has a lot of concrete achievements that you can point to. Starting and selling a company that was before its time. Also, helping many startups succeed. Either one of these alone would count, in my book, as being significant. I think the fact that other people perceive him so positively is a good indication that perhaps he is considerably more talented than even his current concrete achievements suggest. Think about it. Thiel, Graham, etc. These guys evaluate the best of the best on a regular basis. Having been through YC and seeing the deliberate and enormous amount of analysis that they put into each founder, I can't even begin to think through all the thought that they have put into asking Sam to be President of YC.
couldn't this argument be transposed to all touchscreen applications?
Thinknum Wants To Democratize Financial Analysis
Whenever I hear a story about someone being "underhanded" and "of low character" I always see what the other side of the story is. Usually, the truth isn't so straightforward.

It appears that TWA owed him money so he negotiated the cheap ticket as a form of payment...[1] How convenient that Marc left that out of his blog post...

In the interim, Icahn negotiated for airline vouchers from the company in lieu of the $190 million that TWA owed him. As the deal included the provision that he could not sell these tickets through travel agents, Icahn founded LowestFare.com, where he both sold the tickets and created a revolution in the travel industry.

[1]http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/08/car...
It's exactly capitalism. Carl Icahn, capitalist, used capital to establish control over TWA and, having done so, exercised his property rights in a way to maximize profit and return.
The screenshots in this article are deceptive. What the meta tag does is make Safari always look how it normally looks when you scroll down from the top of a web page. So, in portrait mode, there will be a small top bar showing the website URL. In landscape mode, there will be no top bar at all. Here's a screenshot from the other commenter's website on my iPhone:

http://i.imgur.com/Y1rojH9.png
Live blog of the announcement here:
http://www.roadtovr.com/gdc-2014-sony-computer-entertainment...
Wait a sec, are they saying the Unity5 webgl exporter will only work in firefox?
> If there's anyone not using python3 in production now, I'd be wary of that team.

I'd imagine the majority of teams are using python2 in production. Especially when LTS OSs ship with python 2.7. Things like Anaconda make it a lot easier to install python3 along side of python2.7 and move individual projects to 3.
Imagine you were an artist trying to light an indoor room. Would you rather have to place hundreds of small lights everywhere and experiment for days or weeks to get the correct ambient glow? Or would you rather stick a big sun outside and call it quits?

There's a reason Pixar is using physically based lighting to construct all their scenes.
He's Rex Rolling you...
>Society will inevitably return to its nuclear family origins, as the fun loving singles will not provide offspring in quality and quantity to compete with these traditional families.

On two conditions only. Much of our false wealth must be shed (which will happen within the next 10-20 years) and we must stop enabling/encouraging non-nuclear family population growth. There has to be real consequences to fatherless children and women with 5 kids from 5 daddies. Now we just give unwed mothers money, free stuff and moral permission to do it again and again.
Rewriting the Buildbox Agent in Go
7 Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People
Right. That's what rhetorical authority is.

But we're talking about this guy named Stewart Baker, who just so happens to have authority as a senior officer of the executive branch of the United States Government.

This is also a type of authority. It is not the relevant type of authority when discussing whether or not a statement is an ad hominem.