skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few years ago I created http://www.newswebreader.com (still functioning) website which is the web frontend for USENET. It has NNTP server in the background connected to other NNTP servers, and it displays groups, headers and posts similar to three pane Thunderbird.
You can create an account and susbscribe groups, it remembers what messages you read.

Idea was in the end to make frontend to USENET that would look like Stack Overflow, with voting, and your replies would propagate back to USENET.
For productivity, I try to practice intense focus. I use small hacks/tips to keep me from getting distracted- such as, closing all the tabs. Chiefly, I just try to build this mental image of myself of being someone with exceptional focus. It helps me keep going (or just get started for the day). Basically, self-reinforcement. And, whenever I feel out of mood or jaded I just take a break, goof around, listen to minimalist electronic music (deadmau5 style^^). This helps me relax and refocus my brain on my stuff.

So tldr: Practice Focus and make sure you're goofing around/having fun when you're jaded/not in the mood. With practice you'd be able to have a good control over your mood and emotional state.
I actually wrote a book, specifically to teach "soft skills" to software developers.

In fact, my whole life and business is dedicated to that aim.

Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual (http://simpleprogrammer.com/softskills)
how does sorting rays following similar direction help?

They're probably alluding to Disney's Hyperion renderer[1]. Sorting rays helps with cache coherency.

[1] https://disney-animation.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/production...
Problem is, "disrupting" those will get you arrested immediately.
My grandfather constructed crossword puzzles for several magazines and newspapers, from 1955 until his death this year, 90 years old.

He was extremely knowledgeable, and kept a lucid mind until the very end. I don't doubt that his work was the main reason for this.
> How would you reinvent Usenet?

Already done, it's called reddit. And the main problem with Usenet was its replication architecture and not its identity/authentication.

reddit doesn't have any identity system in place and it has hundreds of millions of users.

reddit improved on Usenet by adding voting, which is something that at least one Usenet client tried to implement (gnus) but which should have been implemented in the architecture itself.
Bidirectional path tracing is one way of sampling paths (actually it combines many techniques for sampling paths and weights those using something called Multiple Importance Sampling). It's not the only way of doing it. Disney most likely uses path tracing with next event estimation. This means that they start a path as explained in the video and they end a path by sampling a point on a light and then connecting the start of the path with the point to form a full path. This is one the techniques used by bidirectional path tracing (bdpt), this technique uses n vertices on the camera path and 1 vertex on the light path, but bdpt also uses techniques with s vertices on the camera path and t vertices on the light path. This means that there are multiple ways to sample the same path, so these techniques need to be weighted using something called Multiple Importance Sampling.
Again, do you have evidence for your claims? I have no way of knowing if that's true.
In 2013, for 10.5KW plant I was quoted $40K+ and I ended up with 20 year leasing (paying entire amount upfront) for a notch less than $10K. Even adding all the credits the ownership would have cost me 25K+. That is a huge difference.

Of course the numbers vary a bit by state.
What it does matter if it's metered or not? I've got metered connection, it's 10TB / month included + 1€/TB for excess (outbound). I don't usually worry about little extra traffic.
I don't believe so. When someone says 'shifting risk to x and profit to management' they clearly are not suggesting what you're suggesting. No where do I see a general statement at all. You cannot be exempt from providing evidence when you make a claim like that.
Seems like the 'classic' C way to go about it would be to use scanf/printf-style format strings:

int mode = select("<%i | >%i", channel1, 42, channel2, &i);
switch(mode) {
case 0: foo(); break;
case 1: bar(i); break;
}
The UnTernet
There are many systems in the world that it should simply not be possible to connect to via the Internet. Consider for example nuclear control systems. There are many other examples of systems that simply cannot be accessed from the Internet.

What is needed is the UnTernet - a set of network technologies designed to be incompatible with Internet technologies.
The video was made for this article:

http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/innovations/hyperi...

If you want to learn more about rendering then here is some more info:

Stanford CS348b course notes:

http://candela.stanford.edu/cs348b/doku.php

Cornell CS6630 course notes:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Courses/cs6630/2012sp/schedule.stm

Eric Veach's Phd thesis:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/

Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys and Wenzel Jakob (book and open source implementation of a state of the art renderer):

http://pbrt.org/
I'm not trolling. This is one of those "nobody I know voted for Bush" situations.
I think if you look at anything on the scale of what Musk is doing, then you'd be hard pressed to find many for whom $100,000,000 isn't a drop in the bucket. Aerospace? Energy? Transportation? All of these have had extraordinary subsidies in terms of loans, grants, tax breaks, etc.

Did you have something specific in mind?
maintenance crews ... to be as cheap as economically possible

Already happening. How does $2/hr sound to you? US airlines are sending more and more of their heavy maintenance to third-world countries. http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/crsreports/crsdocument...

Welcome to the global race to the bottom.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this. But basically: Business won. They're getting their way and it's terrible for tech. It's going to be terrible for our industry, and it's going to be worse for our future.
Thanks, you just gave me a powerful way to think about a type system. And that final diabolical implementation was proof. Even before you told us how to interpret it I managed to use your set theory approach to break it down.
So, IPv6?
my theory: tom bombadil is the author.
Yeah, I was a bit disappointed that they started focusing on their own renderer instead of just explaining more of the basics of path tracing. Note that it isn't necessary at all to sort rays, although it can make things faster if done correctly. Also note that Disney isn't the first to consider sorting rays and tracing them at the same time, similar research was done in the 90s.
http://www.autistici.org/en/index.html
There was a wonderful story I read 15 or 20 years ago and unfortunately can't find a source for now, that went something like this: Some random entrepreneur had made a bunch of money by buying textile plants and streamlining them, eliminating inefficiencies, canning redundant workers, so on and so forth. Flush with success, he decided he wanted to branch out into other industries that weren't making enough money and needed to hear his gospel of efficiency, and bought a bunch of fiction publishing houses. He quickly discovered that he couldn't do shit with them, because publishing is a business with razor-edge margins, and the publishers that weren't run with machine-like precision had all gone out of business already.

If you want to "disrupt" the airline business, invent anti-gravity. Until you do that, all your clever business ideas aren't going to change the fact that air travel requires a fuckton of expensive fuel per passenger.
So, WebRTC?
This is ridiculous, air travel is expensive because planes are giant expensive machines, consume a significant amount of rare fossil fuel to fly, and can only be safely flown by highly trained experts. No kind of app is going to solve any of those problems.
What Really Happened in Area 51? (2011)
There were a few web interfaces, but apart from the hatred the old Usenet users had for web users, there were technical difficultiers that were never overcome.

The biggest one was probably charsets. Back then it wasn't really possible to detect the proper charset for what the user entered into your text field, as far as I was told.

But it was only so bad because users were unreasonable:
de.*, for example, really frowned upon UTF-8 and demanded Latin-1 or Latin-15. Minimal coding, of course, so if you used the Euro sign you had to use Latin-15, if there was no Euro sign in your posting, you had to use Latin-1.

And there were even extremists who declared everything apart from 7 bit ASCII illegal...
Wenzel Jakob's Mitsuba renderer is proper badass.
It's weird how they compare China's (hypothetical) desire for a naval military presence in the Atlantic to the USA's presence in the Pacific. Guys, the USA has coasts on the Atlantic and Pacific. No one can say we don't have a legitimate interest in defending our borders at least. I can't think of any reason for China to have carrier groups steaming around the Atlantic other than "lookin' for trouble."
What helped me was going full-time digital nomad for the last 2 years.

Mostly out of my desire to see specific places, I ended up going to cities very far away from all of my existing contacts and acquaintances. Getting incredibly lonely in a foreign city where I don't speak the language and have no friends or coworkers, I was forced out into the wild to get to know people through any means possible. It was important for me to learn to connect quickly and deeply with people to have meaningful relationships fast enough to provide me any value before I moved on from that city to the next (about 2-3 months).

I was terrible at it for the first 2 cities I went to, but by the 5th I was surprising myself.
Take a look at the actual paper rather than the press release. http://www.cell.com/cell-systems/pdfExtended/S2405-4712(15)0... .

From the paper: "Here, we survey variation and dynamics of active regulatory elements genome-wide using longitudinal
samples from human individuals. We applied Assay
of Transposase Accessible Chromatin with sequenc-
ing (ATAC-seq) to map chromatin accessibility in pri-
mary CD4+ T cells isolated from standard blood
draws from 12 healthy volunteers over time, from
cancer patients, and during T-cell activation. Over
4,000 predicted regulatory elements (7.2%) showed
reproducible variation in accessibility between indi-
viduals. Gender was the most significant attributable
source of variation."

A sample size of 12 is small, but makes sense since this is a new technique which enables researchers to identify personal variations in accessible chromatin landscape in
human T cells and trace their genetic, epigenetic, and disease associations. In exploratory experimental science of this sort, sample size is not really a relevant measure.

But, even with the small sample size, the results were interesting. In particular, this new technique demonstrates that there are significant differences in the genetic structure of the immune system, which appear to be sex linked. That is not a sexist statement, it is a fact.
Arab speaking countries/regions often go to war with one another (witness current and recent conflicts in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, etc).
Don't you think it makes it easier to deploy a "private cloud" though. It looks like it take away a lot of the tedium.
Screenshot :http://imgur.com/y8umgzQ
No worries. I nearly left it "unsigned", but my OCD kicked in. Too many 64-bit conversion warnings stain my psyche...
You can disable all of this on Windows 10 Home
Dang can we please auto penalise Vox? This stuff is way too common.
Small villages of one country were inside another country. Bangladesh had some Indian villages, India had some Bangladeshi villages. And they both acknowledged that.
I think it's pretty well-known, though, that game updates are delivered using P2P file-sharing. Like you, I'm definitely not a gamer (we've got a Nintendo Wii and an Xbox 360 but I've never played either of them and the last PC game I played was MS Flight Simulator for DOS, if memory serves) but even I'm aware of that -- and apparently you are too.

I think the bigger issue is not that they're using P2P to deliver updates (or the plethora of other things that Microsoft is doing with Windows 10), it's that it's all being done without the user's knowledge or -- more importantly -- their consent.
Five editors with Solar City only editing interests have edited that article, including one called "AvalonPRlosangeles". I put a notice on Wikipedia's conflict of interest noticeboard, which will start the process by which promotional edits are dealt with.
Most of the enclave people could not go to the mainland, effectively making it a prison. They did not have basic amenities like healthcare, education. Even not citizenship of any country.
In one specific case, India agreed to give corridor to a Bangladeshi enclave inside India, the Tin Bigha corridor, which were controlled by India. Initially it was open for a few hours a day, so that people can go from enclave to mainland. Later it was open 24x7
> After all, what wouldn’t China pay to see one of its naval fleets one day emerging from the Central American jungle right under America’s nose?

Not that the US Navy couldn't already shoot up entire fleets with missiles, but when a fleet passes through a tiny canal, well, it's a canal and a tiny nuke is enough to blow up the entire fleet with no way to escape...
That's also my favorite
Here is the detailed area containing the third order enclave on google maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/@26.1474499,88.7641825,16z
Just want to vigorously agree with the recommendation of "Becoming a Technical Leader".

That's even if you don't think a leader is what you want to become. One of the earliest points he makes is that leadership is something you do, not something you are - and if you're trying to persuade people, that's a leadership behaviour.
I don't recognize the bit about "dumb pipes". News is a service, not a pipe. Very few servers carry all groups. Some didn't even carry the alt groups, that wasn't fun.

The ISPs I worked at in the late 90s did not carry the binaries groups, becuase of the outrageous storage requirements. I think that was quite common.
> The landing fees alone would probably make it nonviable for small charters Lufthansa and American Airlines would probably pay smaller fees for landing a 747 than you would landing a 2 seater Cessna.

Not true at all. Landing fees are usually nominal, and FBO fees even for overnight rarely exceed ~$50, or less with the purchase of fuel.
A Bestseller Book That Didn't Exist
My 92 year old grandfather is still a full time practicing doctor. My father and my aunts have talked to him about retiring for a while now. Being a doctor is who he is - if he gives that up, I'm afraid of what will happen.
UPNP and/or port knocking typically aren't available in an enterprise network because they aren't needed or wanted. Neither of those is necessary for P2P delivery of updates, though. I think they turned it off by default for those customers because Microsoft knows the ass chewing they'd get if they didn't.

Besides, a typical large enterprise is already going to have a system in place to handle the delivery of updates (e.g., WSUS, SCCM, or whatever they're using/calling it nowadays) to PCs such that the bandwidth savings aren't going to as noticeable.
Ask HN: Where can I find smartphones with FOSS OS
I have to buy a new phone and I want to have full control (or at least full transparency) over it, ruling out basically all phones with a MS / Apple / Google OS.

However, it seems incredibly difficult to find such phones. Typically, sites refer you to low end phones (with Firefox OS) or the Oneplus phones (with OxygenOS).

Still, you cannot find any reasonable comparison between these from a security or usability perspective and the mid-tier phones are completely missing.

So what phones do you use or where do you look for this type of phones?
This is when you know a political view is really embedded in a society: when decisions made under it are assumed to be apolitical.

A "financial decision" is completely political. It's underlined by a view about who should bear costs and who should reap rewards.

Converting to financial terms means that supporting a certain format brings certain costs to the provider and provides certain benefits to the users (which can be charged). How do you decide if it's worth to implement it? Some organizations will maximize revenue, but that's definitively not the only option, and the choice is political.
Mostly the errors are expecting that a calculation is using signed arithmetic when it's not, and getting a large positive value where you expected a small negative value. It's easy to forget the signedness of a variable, but the biggest problem is probably C's unfortunate tendency to silently convert signed to unsigned when at least one unsigned value is involved in a calculation. This causes unsigned arithmetic to contaminate parts of your code that you thought were signed.
There's an app for that. There is a Solitare program with in-game purchases.[1]

[1] http://www.bigfishgames.com/blog/walkthrough/fairway-solitai...
>Many world-changing industries have not needed $10^8 loans or $5,000 per-unit consumer subsidies to take off.

Industries such as what?

If you don't throw subsidies at key industries (energy, automotive, aerospace, computers), some other countries will, and those countries will inevitably come to dominate.

Most countries that do this might try to hide it, but they still do it.
Note: "library" here refers to actual libraries with books, not the programming kind, and "collections" as in "museum collection".
They were doing that at least 5 years before that
That's great that it correctly detected your connection as metered but to think that it's going to do that perfectly every time is just naive.

Even if it only messed up and misidentified a connection as non-metered one time ever, you'd still be pissed off if it was you and it ended up costing you real money.
And you will stop doing what you like, at retirement age, if there is no pay for it?
Indeed, he is about to be tortured into a confession and then subjected to endless human rights violations for which there is no recourse.

https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/JAPAN953.PDF
For instance, at work we're putting an API into our product so that people can develop plugins. Is that political?

What's your motivation for people to be able to develop plugins?
That's why I wanted to keep it short, but still commented: it's a typo that is quite disturbing to the reader, especially non-native English speakers.
I have looked at feminism. It's not about equality, and not something I think of as a good thing. It's about closing down mens clubs and opening up women only clubs. It's hypocritical at its core.

People who have never done any programming? Attending some course and then getting programming jobs? I don't think this is a great idea.

There is absolutely no barrier to entry here. Learn to code, at home, on your own, like everyone else does. Make an OS. Make games. Publish them. Make open source projects.

If you're not already doing all of the above, chances are you'll make a terrible programmer, and the industry will get more bad programmers - as if it needs more.
If you zoom out far enough, everything can be viewed as a political/business issue. So why all the fuss about it?

Because what you plainly stated is often (usually?) not acknowledged, and pushed back against if pointed out.
BIND9 TKEY Remote Assert DoS PoC
here: http://hhvm.com/blog/2027/faster-and-cheaper-the-evolution-o...

http://hhvm.com/blog/431/on-garbage-collection

and some other stuff from page 6 forward: http://hhvm.com/blog/page/6
Everything you mentioned fits to https://uberspace.de, except the grand proclamation.
McAfee Application Control Bypass
Currently the people who block in-app ads are people who have taken the effort to root / jailbreak their device. I find it hard to believe that they would put up with the ads.
See, the thing is, something.com and www.something.com are different DNS records.

As far as dns is concerned, there is nothing special about www. You could say bob.something.com.

There is a cultural expectation (mostly from people who started using the internet after the late '90s) that www.something.com goes to the same place as something.com, but as far as DNS is concerned, the two are completely different records.

(in the late '90s, one of my tasks at my first programming job was to write a patch to mod_vhost_alias to implement company policy... e.g. to make www.ourcustomer.com go to the same place as ourcustomer.com the patch was required because www.ourcustomer.co.uk also needed to go to the same place as ourcustomer.co.uk, so I couldn't just take the rightmost three chunks)

The upshot is that people who have been around longer, and who like to be curmudgeonly about it will often configure www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com to go to different places, because they are different records. (of course, some would say that this is so they have a chance to explain this, and a chance to feel superior to those who need this explained.)
any plans to support stateful apps like Wordpress?
Banks are pretty much the only institution that's allowed to commingle client funds with their own funds, and they're subject to a whole bunch of extra regulations and scrutiny as a result. Indeed, I've seen people argue that being able to do this is basically what defines a bank.
Hopefully they learned from the NSA documents and are encrypting the "telemetry" they're sending back now -- though that will just make it that much harder to determine exactly what that "telemetry" contains.
This makes me sad for New Orleans. Is it really this bad? I wonder, while NOPDs force size may have been reducing whether the budget has dropped as well.
What it feel like to be the last generation to remember life before the internet
39.6% is the top federal income tax bracket. There are also state income taxes (in most states), local income taxes in a few places (e.g., NYC), payroll tax (social security, etc.), real estate taxes and sales taxes. Add up all the taxes and you can easily reach 45%.
> That would be exactly my own reaction if it would ever happen to me. But so far, unfortunately, it was always either Hipchat or Skype.

Both the IBM LTC and Intel OTC maintain internal IRC servers. They aren't used by the entire company, but they're used by those Open Source groups. (Company-wide IM is still Sametime and Lync, respectively, but both of those are usable from Linux with Pidgin.)
I don't believe this is true, can you provide a source? Tesla was running out of cash at the end of 2008 and private investors saved them. The government loan was in early 2010. I don't believe that there is any evidence that Tesla was running out of cash after the 2008 private investment.
The typical home PC was not bought with a tax credit.

If government-directed industrial policy were the deciding factor in a sector's success, we'd all be in awe of the massive, globally dominant Japanese software industry, or the French Minitel business.
Of course. Systemd is Red Hat's "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy. Just as Microsoft were once the plucky upstart who became their rival IBM, so Red Hat are becoming Microsoft.
Oh, I thought that was a joke. In Windows 10, Solitare has ads, and it costs $10/year to turn the ads off.[1]

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/30/windows-10-pa...
Windows 10 is spying on you, but there's a way out
And you can read about the defusal of its danger in the last paragraphs of the post. Nice clickbait!
A new business caters for London’s super-rich and super-wary
Potential death of the ad-supported web