skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all really easy with Docker Compose. Preserving state is just a matter of mounting a volume.

https://docs.docker.com/compose/
https://docs.docker.com/reference/run/#logging-drivers-log-d...
Snow piles from November remain in city's vacant lots
odd to me that philosophers ideas which can seem to be so obviously and uselessly conflicted from where we stand now, also form the building blocks of modern thinking, even in spite of them, ie Leibniz acrobatic attempts to discount materialism yielding a prototype idea of AI, which would also seem to be the ultimate vindication of materialism.
>That only works for diffuse lighting.

You can add light ID list to the structure (eg. 1 or 2 ints with byte IDs or w/e) - essentially solving light occlusion problem in world space. You can then do view space specular and you do transparent objects as a separate pass just like you do with deferred.

>Things like specular reflections and refractions are entirely dependent on where the viewer is; and calculating lighting information for an entire scene is way less efficient than calculating it for a viewer (see: how deferred renderers work).

If you're rendering for a single view - my whole point is that if you're rendering for multiple clients then solving lighting world space makes that calculation shared just like gbuffer is an optimization for view space with it's own tradeoffs and workarounds.

>Huh? There's been decades of research into ray tracing and voxels. Believe me, people have put a lot of thought into how to optimize these things.

Compared to triangle rasterization it's nowhere near close - for eg. I've only seen a decent voxel skinning implementation a few years back - realtime is entirely based on it and it's baked in to the hardware pipeline.
Thanks for the feedback - we're working on our post-conference survey right now. Expect one soon.
Last time I was at a water park like this, a child was right next to his mom's tube and she didn't recognize that he was having trouble swimming. When his head went under with him struggling I rescued him, she was mostly unphazed.. :-/
I agree it is terrible. And I have to manually check the Chrome Web Stores developer panel to actually find out if anyone has left any user feedback which is annoying because if someone uses that to report an issue I won't know about it right away and will look bad as I am not replying fast.
You're missing my point. The world won't stop just because you decide to reflect on the situation and have small groups of people unilaterally decide what will someday maybe be standardized in some browsers. In the meantime the new features will get developed as non-standard features and you'll have even more proliferation of cruft, "polyfills" and whatever else PPK is complaining about.
It definitely looks like Galera (which is what powers both MySQL and MariaDB cluster implementations; it's a storage engine built atop InnoDB), but it's hard to say without more information. They mention a quorum write with automatic recovery across three nodes, but doesn't mention the method used - two phased commit, checking commits against pending transactions, etc.

It's a very complex thing to implement, and unless they have made leaps beyond what Galera has done, for some workloads it will be fast, but for others it will perform far worse than a standard MySQL instance.

Of course, I guess it could also be a cluster built upon NDB, but the lack of memory constraints on the size of the data makes that less likely.
The Sea-to-Seasaw: How to recognize your best startup ideas
There was some papers and a book (sorry can't remember anymore which one, there used to be more out there about TCL) I used but mostly looked at the expect source as an example.
So did they try to ask anyone at Uber other than customer support if the map is a "screen saver" or not?
By not interesting I mean a better version from some other company will be available.
That's pretty much what I came here to say. I travel frequently, use my credit card everywhere, both online and offline, and I have never had any fraudulent charges to my cards.

Only once have I canceled a credit card before it expired, and that was after finding out that a popular hostel booking site let the hostel managers look up all credit card details, including the CVV number, for all bookings. I talked to the manager at the place we stayed for a few nights in Lima, Peru, and he told me that the site would only show the details once (or for a limited period), so they would always print the page. Of course they kept the printouts in a binder in the common area of the hostel...

I really don't understand why USA has such a big problem with credit card fraud, and how that problem became big enough that people would actually avoid paying online, with the exception of major chains/processors (Amazon, Paypal, etc).

Although, come to think of it, Denmark is a bit of an outlier. We have a national credit card, Dankort, that was conceived and implemented sometime in the 1980s (I'm a bit too young to remember the details...). It was written into law, and part of the law was that transactions should incur no costs on the user, which resulted in massive adoption, to the benefit of both the banks (who were proponents of the Dankort before its introduction) and the consumers.
Centers of commerce will buy you more than population. Stunning correspondence between solar and data flows.
I'm sure you understood that I meant his administration prosecuted whistleblowers leading to sentencing. I was just quoting this article to make it easy for anyone who wanted to look it up:

http://econintersect.com/b2evolution/blog1.php/2015/01/26/ob...

If you'd like more detail, here's the first source linked in the article:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/leak-prosecutions-obama-takes-it-1...
Yep, it's entirely possible to do that. It's how I actually backup to them: rather than use scp or rsync, I mount via sshfs and just cp the data to the mount.
Yes, and Java can leak your real IP address and Flash can leak your real IP address.

If you attack scenario is trying to circumvent authoritative governments, don't use a web browser with extra features or plugins like WebRTC turned on.

"Hiding a users 's true IP at all costs who are using a VPN" is not a reasonable design expectation for mainstream browsers. They are fixing bugs and adding features. This is an extreme edge case at best for them.
This is the same writer, Ian Urbina, as the Sea Slaves story that also made the HN homepage yesterday. He's been writing a number of sea stories that look fascinating:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/u...

Looking further back into his archive, he also writes about tech, and racism.
Re this thread from a few days ago, calling someone or their comments "flamewar topics" and "not new": all such things break the guidelines that ask you to be civil and not to call names.

'"Lol guise guise hey guise guise guise but benghazi tho" on the other hand is the best comment on HN and shall be rewarded' - dang
The Emergence of IP Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy (2008) [pdf]
Ask HN: Have you bought prescription glasses online?
Optometrists feel (understandably?) threatened by the sale of glasses online, and have resorted to withholding pupillary distance (PD) measurements from their patients.
How do you feel about this? Have you had good results with glasses bought online? Any good tips or tricks for measuring your own pupillary distance?

I'm hoping the 'has bad eyesight / likes to buy everything online' Venn diagram will have a pretty big overlap here on HN
If you want avoid having your promotional submissions flagged as spam,
then you should do a "Show HN" post to indicate that you want feedback
on your project or startup. The "Show HN" submissions are listed under
the "show" link in the top menu and the rules for doing a "Show HN"
submissions are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> Genuine question: is it about time that we start thinking about banning (most) swimming pools?

You should really watch "Finding Nemo[1]". Unfortunately there's so much you can do, to protect a kid. Passed a certain point, if nothing happens life is not interesting anymore.

[1] http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Finding-Nemo/60027705?trkid=222...
DHI Group Planned Sale of Slashdot Media (Slashdot and SourceForge)
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961527
One annoying thing with cygwin's git is that it (cygwin) handles file permissions differently from how windows applications handles them, meaning you easily get permission changes inadvertantly included in your changesets unless you explicitly undo those changes from cygwin before staging and committing.

It definitely makes using git fell less seamless than it can be.
Even worse are the articles on subjects which few people other than a couple of authors actually care about at all (notably English language articles on political issues in non-English speaking countries and fringe issues which aren't quite fringe enough to get their pages deleted) There's no argument taking place, but that's why the content is so bad. A couple of UK politicians editing their articles hit the headlines in the election buildup, but I found an article on a more obscure MP which was almost entirely, and very openly and honestly, written by the politicians' partner.

Wikipedia is more successful than most people could have imagined in generating quantity, and better than most would have thought in suppressing outright vandalism, but quality is far behind what people are lead to believe from rather superficial studies comparing heavily-trafficked pages against only slightly better-written and more outdated conventional encyclopedias. But there was a time when encyclopedias were expected to be authoritative, as opposed to where Wikipedia has excelled, which is regularly being the first remotely useful result in Google.
I might as well plug #hackernews on Freenode here even though it's dead now.
Quite a few being... 8.
Thanks, I saw the original comment and thought, oh no I just bought some new water wings for my son, and now I can't use them. Luckily I bought the ones you linked and now I know they are coast guard approved. Thank goodness for a wife who is detail oriented.
This series is really good. The fact that the nytimes is bleeding money while still producing content of this quality is a sad state of affairs. Must be a better way to monetize this stuff.
A cynic would wonder if African startups only become interesting when they receive foreign investments. What would you say to that cynic?
I don't think the Chrome web store is something Google is actively moderating and developing.

We added a B2B app on there a few years ago. Generated lots of traffic, most of it crap. About a year or so ago the traffic started to die off.

My guess (although this is completely unsubstantiated) is that Google realised their Chrome Web Store was another free channel app developers could use to promote their products. There's little upside for Google, and they would much rather the developers use paid (Adwords!) channels instead. Just a theory...I could be way off the mark.
That would make for a pretty fucking boring pool, honestly. No flotation devices would mean that all I could do as a kid would be to stand around on my tiptoes.
In the Future Everyone Will Wear a Smartwatch
That's dangerous because it starts you down the road of thinking of colors as having a wavelength. A color is just the subjective sensation we get because of different balances of stimulation between our short, medium and long wave cones. Light of a specific frequency creates a specific color response, but it doesn't uniquely generate that response. The sensation of 'yellow' can be generated with light at a wavelength somewhere between medium and long, or light at both medium and long wavelengths with a gap between, or light with a broad spread of wavelengths from medium to long (just so long as there's not much short wave light in the mix). And there's no such thing as a 'purple' wavelength. You see purple when your long and short wavelength cones are stimulated, but the medium ones aren't, and that can't be accomplished with a single, narrow wavelength - only by a mixture of long and short wave light.
Don't listen to your users
bookmarked, will be going through these tutorial, especially since CSS has never been a strong point for me as I've always focused on the backend. It always filled me with envy when people seem to have the entire CSS memorized and can create sexy UI out of thin air.

now is flexbox supported widely or is this still ongoing thing?
Here's how to write hilarious release notes
I guess there must be a lot of opportunities in the SAP ecosystem (edit: or replacing said ecosystem), but I haven't seen it myself and it's VERY closed, there isn't even good reference material out there (and official training is quite expensive).

Though I just Googled and it doesn't seem to be that bade anymore, I found they lauched openSAP

https://open.sap.com/

though it doesn't seem to have any useful courses for beginners (I guess they don't want to kill their partners' cash cow)

and an Udemy course

https://www.udemy.com/learn-sap/

In my country learning SAP / ABAP is seen as a fast track to a good salary (if you can find one of the limited job opportunities). I've been passed over for a good opportunity for not knowing SAP basics.
"But the industry sure wants to convince us that scalability is the most important property of infrastructure, because then they can sell us complicated tech we don't need and support contracts to help us use it."

And lets not forget: replace any and all efforts at code optimization with "just throw another rack of blades at it".
If you can rescue a cinder block from a 10 ft lake, you can rescue a child. :-)

You dip them and punch them if you have to. Incredibly dangerous when they grab on to you.
For a speech centered on UK banks, I found this article surprisingly interesting. Especially two concepts it discussed: 1) The possibility of structuring CEO compensation to be aligned with debt-to-equity ratio instead of stock option grants, and 2) "proxy access" - granting longer-term shareholders more governance rights.
Your humorous view on an otherwise harrowing story brought a smile to my face. Glad you made it. My dad was a life-guard though I never asked him for any stories, I should do that.
Actually, if you're carrying extra weight, you're more likely to float-fat is less dense than water. If you're skin, bones and muscle, you may very well sink without a breath of air.
100% this. We sometimes have feedback in there for a week plus. Talk about setting you for failure!
Well said! I have a few apps on the store and completely agree. It's 2015! Why can't the platform email/notify me the moment a user leaves a feedback? I have to constantly login to the developer panel and check each app.

The stats don't make any sense and there's been a constant complaint in the forums about the difference between impressions and installations (don't forget if a user signs into multiple chrome devices/browsers those all count as separate installations).

In short, I agree with everything you've said. It's not enough just to have a place to list your app, having good store tools and user communication tools goes a long way to delivering a good product.
In general drowning is a poorly understood phenomenon among the general population. Portrayals in film and TV contribute much to many misconceptions. While there has been considerable attention paid to the fact that the act of drowning doesn't "look" like the film/TV stereotype, less focus has been placed on the sequalae of a drowning event. The alveoli, which are the functional units of our lungs where gas exchange occurs are quite delicate. Natural surfactants facilitate the work of the alveoli. Water and the contaminants it may hold disrupt these surfactants and can lead to short to intermediate term post "resuscitation" morbidity and mortality. Victims do not leap to their feet and return to saving the world as they do in the movies. Any drowning victim should be seen in the emergency department even if they are revived on scene.
They are short videos - you can watch them all or just reference the specific thing you need clarity on!
> > Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it.

> Has it? Has it really? Where's the proof of this?

While not a general decline in the companies values, or stock, there has been an international backlash against US Tech companies[1, 2]. To say that these companies don't provide for the security, financially, of our country is a crock of shit. As for how the people that protect our country and work day in and day out to protect it being affected- you really thing the CIA is going to post about how their personnel got caught, or detained, or anything at all? No. You won't. Granted, a lack of proof is not proof itself, but open your eyes a bit and think about it. Snowden revealed all sorts of information that he should not have.

> Hmm yes. All those civil libereties groups, charities, foreign businesses and allied politicians you spied on sure are dangerous. Got to keep them in check lest they attack America with their ball-point pens!

Keep your enemies close and your friends closer. Everything but the allies I agree with you on, but I don't think there is anything wrong with keeping tabs on the policies of allied countries.

1- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/24/edward-snowden-tech...
2- http://allthingsd.com/20131214/shareholder-suit-accuses-ibm-...
Twitter Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results [pdf]
Oh great, my son who's 7 years old and can barely swim, is going to a water park tomorrow as part of his summer camp, and I won't be there to watch over him. Just what I needed to see right now :) Of course there are lifeguards out there and there's the camp staff watching over the kids, but it's my child, I can't help being a little stressed about it. It's time for proper swimming lessons I guess.
Yeah, it seems like the issue is running unverified third-party javascript on your webpage. This is part of the reason why I use privacy badger because many sites seem to do this.

If you want to prevent data from being sent to servers about you, you pretty much have to disable javascript completely though.
The only gotcha is IE9 - but most people are either on IE8 or IE11 - so not really an issue anymore. In 6 months to a year, support will be wide spread - so now it's time to start learning!

That and React Native is using Flexbox to layout their apps too!
Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win
I work in a place which, in order to solve the dependency nightmares, had some highly paid people do magic tricks manually in order to save the day... every day. Every upgrade was hell. Yes, we have Director of Upgrades.

Simple tools (rpm + yum + docker) allowed us to replace these people with a simple shell script. Literally.

I agree with the article Docker is missing some things. Two that I would like to see:
- Auto cleanup
- Clean and easy proxying
Right. Going in is actually the last resort, for trained youth anyway. We were taught "Reach, throw, row, go" in order of preference. First, lay flat on the dock and stick out an arm or leg (reach). If its too far, then throw a line with a floatation device (throw past the victim, not at them, and reel the line in until they grab it). Third, take a boat out if available. Lastly, go out yourself if absolutely necessary.
Not of children under 14 - around 700 children under 14[1] die from drowning in swimming pools, lakes, etc (non-boating accidents). Also according to the CDC[2], around 400 children in the 0-14 age range[3] die per year from all firearm related incidents. This includes suicides, homicides, and unintentional shootings.

IIRC, when I was looking this up a few months ago, there's a sharp jump in homicides by handgun around age 17.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/water-safety/wa...
[2] http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_us.html
[3] http://i.imgur.com/AUTgq.png
Stripe raises new funding and partners with Visa
Why should they be in prison for screwing their customers? Is that illegal?
Omnibus does nothing to resolve the real issues behind dependency management, it just masks it by bundling everything in a single package. This approach is very bad because it burdens the developer with providing security fixes to bundled applications, and it burdens the user because they now depend on one or more third parties for security to updates to bundled software that could be duplicated in many such packages. The real solution is to use a package manager that doesn't install everything into a global /usr directory where only one version of any given piece of software can exist. I recommend exploring what GNU Guix and Nix do to solve the dependency isolation problem without introducing the harmful side-effects of bundling. They are general-purpose, fit for packaging any type of software, and offer additional features beyond dependency isolation such as atomic upgrades/rollbacks, unprivileged package management, and reproducible builds with a complete, precise dependency graph all the way down to the coreutils/gcc/etc. that bootstrapped it.
It's been done.

http://www.poseidonsaveslives.com/
I don't think he was talking political as in democrats and republicans.

The manufactured idea of partisanship in US politics is a very elaborate but worn out misdirection.
What are some examples besides Mill? To be honest, I am totally ignorant of what new ISAs are out there. The only things I can think of are AArch64 and RISC-V (not commercially relevant, but well-publicised) and they are both pretty standard.
The latest Mac Mini (2014) I saw had soldered RAM and a slow processor, so older used versions should be even more popular....
Amazon Partners with Startups to Sell Crowdfunded Products
I'd assume the missing link is the percentage of users of each platform that are willing to pay for apps. Given iOS has a higher entry cost, it'd make sense that more iOS users would pay for stuff.
Well, if u're not sarcastic here we sure will. Follow nod on Twitter - @yougotthenod
Simple JavaScript to get an ordered list of ProductHunt voters
It's been more than twenty years since I last wore a watch and I'm really happy with that situation. I see nothing a smartwatch can even theoretically do, which a smartphone can't, which would motivate me to start wearing one.

I completely disagree with the author's assertion that "we'd give anything for a bit more of either [health or safety]". If that were true, there would be a long list of lifestyle changes I would make first, before I would consider buying a fancy computer gadget and strapping it on my wrist every morning.

In fact, most people routinely make tradeoffs against health or safety in exchange for other things they want out of life. I see no reason smartwatches will be an exception.
I'm a little disconcerted by the fact that no-one involved in this is a mathematician, full stop. At least three of those involved seem to have joint appointments in math and philosophy (Antonelli, Arana, and Avigad). While the aim of the text to be suitable for non-mathematician philosophy majors means that a heavy bias towards philosophers is probably both inevitable and correct, I would like to see at least one just-mathematician to make sure that it really deserves its description as mathematical logic.

(Maybe I am being unfair to those jointly appointed. I am a mathematician, but not a logician, so I don't have a proper sense of what such an appointment means.)
Those roles can be outsourced offshore to cheaper labor markets or handed to cheaper (aka non-union) domestic talent markets, which is what I was hinting at. Wasn't really implying that computers can replace creatives. Basically the argument is when you level the geographic playing field, quality creative talent is a cheaper commodity.