skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Five weeks of principal photography on a five million dollar budget (http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/07/20/atlas-s...).

Sounds like it's going to be hilariously bad.
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http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2010/8/12hague.html
Will you be posting videos from the Founder Conference online?
Right. All that C++ code for high frequency trading is written by "banking program" employees who cannot write a single line of code. What planet are you from ?
This doesn't answer the question of why Adobe doesn't do that, it lists the things that Adobe could step up to do. Yes, we know there is no ready-made IDE like Adobe's Flash IDE: fixing this problem is something Adobe can do, by providing a ready made HTML5 IDE. Why isn't Adobe doing that and leading the charge? There are distinct problems with HTML5 replacing Flash, and Adobe is in a unique position to partner, consult, contract, and contribute to that. For example, if everyone else's javascript VMs are crap and Adobe's Flash interpreter (which is close to javascript, isn't it?) is awesome, then Adobe can help contribute rather than taking a beating from industry leaders (Jobs) and be part of the solution rather than be viewed as part of the problem.
I read Atlas Shrugged and immediately followed it by (re)reading The Grapes of Wrath. Both are horribly doctrinaire (with opposing viewpoints), so it made for an interesting contrast. Steinbeck can at least put a sentence together.
I think the session should be live streamed or recorded and hosted somewhere for non valley people. pg?
No, this guy thought that 10.1 on Android would mean that desktop content could be seamlessly consumed on a mobile device, thus invalidating most of Steve's complaints. I don't think that he believed that Flash was "better" than HTML5.
I think that he is talking about the cases where you can use template to avoid function pointer in C.
How does mkdir() really work?
Not I. But then, those famous bloggers are famous for managing to do so, in part, right?

I think part of the idea is that you also earn money off of products that result from the blog, as well as the blog itself. If your articles roll nicely into books that can sell, for example. Or sell t-shirts. Or if you have a webcomic with characters you can sell as plushies. All the little things add up to a living when you use the blog properly.

If that's what you want to do, those really famous bloggers are worth looking into, at least the ones who earned their fame as bloggers, but the ones who earned fame then became bloggers will have to do the right things, too, to make blogging pay off enough to keep doing that, as opposed to earning money off their fame in some other way.
My Xbox360 spends most its life as a media playback device. The experience and interface, despite several updates, is still inferior to the experience I had with XBMC on my original Xbox 5 years ago.

I've considered building a small set-top PC, with XBMC running on linux booting off of a USB stick. The only reason I switched from my Xbox is that HD content didn't work very well.
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<rant>

Why is it that everyone is so concerned about where to start? Location is important, but having a product out, or at least a prototype available, is more important. You can do this anywhere, and when you get seed money or funding later, you can move to somewhere glamorous. It's like moving to Hollywood because you want to be an actor or writer.

If you're the coder--especially if you're the coding founder--you can make the basic prototype first. Show people the value of your code then move after you've convinced them it's golden. If you're not bringing money in or if you don't have a product yet, moving to another place will just burn up money. You want to build your product and maximize what you can do with it instead of facing money troubles the minute you move.

</rant>
Likely because the story ends in 2005
what is 4 rhombus?
Great stuff, very cool design too!
This shit is rockin.
http://hipmunk.com
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Keep it in cash! USD if you are in the US. In the bank or in T-Bills.

Any angel or VC would require you to do this. Basically all serious business do this.

If you have a solid business with even a small chance of requiring additional investment in the future, it is crazy to be screwing around in the markets.
I recently got an ASRock ION-330 for this purpose. XBMC on Linux with VDPAU drivers plays 1080p beautifully.
For the record, the article's comments are full of people saying that their experiences have been very different.
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Note that most people who aren't fans of Atlas Shrugged resort to making dumb, belittling jokes about it rather than articulating an argument.

The internet is full of parodies, etc., but there really aren't many people who dislike the book and are also capable of persuasively arguing against it without resorting to religious authority or mocking sneers (or both).

Why? Probably because most people haven't read the book. It's not the easiest read. There are great audio versions, but audiobooks are generally viewed with disdain by literary types...
can you convince my workplace to dump Symantec and start using MSE?
The only reason you calculated the probability is because you observed such an event. Person throws 10 dice and observes 4123532156. "Wow, what are the odds of that?!"
Ownership is grand, but it comes with a price: fear.
What are the typical gripes about this keyword behavior?

Once you understand how scope works and how to force scope, and what exactly constitutes an object.. it makes quite a bit of sense.
The message of Atlas Shrugged, that these people are 100% self-made and the world owes them something for their hard work...

As I understood it, the message of Atlas Shrugged is that no one owes anyone else anything except by voluntary agreement. The only people who owe Dagny anything are her passengers, and they owe her only train fare.

(The only exception being that everyone owes a small amount of tax money to pay for public goods, e.g. police protection.)

You should really read a book before criticizing it.
The director is also an actor who has to date only directed 12 episodes of the WB tv show he starred in.
Not sure where you're getting that.

Atlas Shrugged addresses the morality of capitalism. If you want to criticize it, you should be clear what you're criticizing. You seem to have an axe to grind with some subset of Americans, but I'm not sure how that relates to Atlas Shrugged.

In my opinion, legitimate criticism would take the form of an argument against capitalism or an argument that shows how some other economic system is actually far better from a moral standpoint (not just in intention but in results).
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Adobe is seriously doing it all wrong. They have to open-source the Flash Player and everything around it now. They can keep the IDE proprietary if that floats their boat, it's just a premium authoring tool, but the only way to save Flash is to open-source like NOW. HTML5 is still young enough that an open Flash Player and standard and protocol (RTMP) would effectively kill it.

Open-sourcing would open so many doors. Apple could modify Flash until it worked on iOS properly, Google could modify until it worked on Android. The reason this hasn't happened so far is that Adobe is a bottleneck nobody wants to deal with; they just consider basically impossible to get Flash Player on mobile because Adobe doesn't have the structure or the talent to do it correctly, and there is no other option except to let Adobe do it. An open Flash would open many doors, awesome adaptations, deployments, and uses that we can't yet think up would come out of it, and all the while Adobe would keep selling its IDE (probably selling more, actually, because Flash will then do cool stuff that everyone wants).

I don't know why they don't do this. Flash Player is already basically free, all of the money from Flash comes from the IDE Adobe sells. Keep the IDE locked up if you want, Adobe, but every second you keep the Player locked up you are killing Flash that much more, and when nobody uses Flash nobody is going to buy your IDE.

I know there are free software Flash players out there, but it's not the same. It's like saying nobody needs cooperation from nvidia because of nouveau. While a noble effort with meaningful results, vendor support still gets you much, much farther ahead.

If Adobe knows what's good for them they will be opening the Flash Player as quickly as they possibly can. They are going to be very sorry that they didn't. They probably will eventually take this route as a last-ditch effort when Flash content has dipped like 80% and been replaced by HTML5/JS, but that will be too late. This is Adobe's last chance, they must open it now if they expect any kind of future from it.

Flash is too big for Adobe alone, and if they don't want the whole thing to crash and burn totally and have that revenue dry up, they need to open ASAP. This should be the number one priority at Adobe.
Example of a particularly bad sentence? I'm curious b/c although I'm a native English speaker I was not put off by Rand's prose.
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Yep. For two years or so, my /personal/ blog was bringing in 2-5k a month on Adsense, with one month even almost hitting 10k. Now? A couple hundred bucks at best. Entirely luck.

Now, my programming blog makes enough through advertising and job listings to support me and my family, though I do have other revenue streams.
When I first read the book, I started looking for criticism to see if I'd been tricked, or if she'd played on my emotions to make me think something was reasonable or logical that wasn't.

I have found some obscure philosophical arguments that seemed to be based on a misunderstanding or different interpretation, or making a mountain out of what I think is a molehill. But those are in the minority.

Almost all the criticism I've found seems to take a very shallow, "soundbite" perspective. eg: to presume that the book opposes charity, advocates meanness or evil, etc.

Near as I can tell, there is a huge cult who hates Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged, and the reason seems to be that her book clearly and logically demolishes the philosophy they espouse.

They cannot address it honestly because that would bring up the actual issues in their philosophy and likely many people would see that Atlas Shrugged shows them to be fallacious.

So, instead, they attack her with ad hominem and derision and refuse to be honest about what the book actually said.
"even 'fast' JS VMs are still rather slow"

Compared to C, Java, OCaml, and so forth, perhaps.

Compared to Ruby, Python, and PHP - not so much. (take a look at the v8 entry. and this is from '09 - v8 has seen some performance improvements since then)

http://blog.gmarceau.qc.ca/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependabil...
Anyone heard from _why since?
Speed increases like those explained in http://www.tilander.org/aurora/2007/12/comparing-stdsort-and..., which compares qsort to std::sort.

Because templates are basically automated code copy-paste, the compiler can more easily inline at compile-time. Unfortunately, it also translates to lots more compiled code, which means slower compile times and fatter binaries. Still, writing something like the STL library in C with the same performance characteristics would be much more difficult, if not impossible.

I'm not a C++ expert, but that's my understanding of things, at least.
Out of curiosity, what would a `smart person' have to do to get all the domains back if this ever took root?
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Vonnegut is one of the few US satirists whose work translates pretty much universally outside the US borders. I kind of wish that this library had been placed in, say, Amsterdam.

If you love Kurt's work, then I heartily suggest Bo Fowler's Scepticism Inc. After reading, not only will you smirk when saying Kurt's, "So it goes", but have added, "Who knows?".
Yea it is. I helped coordinate the bundle. If you have any questions call me or email, 415 886 7866 / noah at appsumo dot com
From the Google style guide:

"The semantics of this can be tricky. At times it refers to the global object (in most places), the scope of the caller (in eval), a node in the DOM tree (when attached using an event handler HTML attribute), a newly created object (in a constructor), or some other object (if function was call()ed or apply()ed)."

The pragmatic answer is to limit its use except when absolutely required (as Google's guide suggests). The more problematic meta-problem, is that many people do think it's valuable and don't understand it and dig themselves into some subtle and insidious messes.
Vonnegut is one of the few US satirists whose work translates pretty much universally outside the US borders. I kind of wish that this library had been placed in, say, Amsterdam.

If you love Kurt's work, then I heartily suggest Bo Fowler's Scepticism Inc. After reading, not only will you smirk when saying Kurt's, "So it goes", but have added, "Who knows?".
If the file was on an ext3 filesystem, you can use ext3grep, written by Carlo Wood (http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html)

(Grepping your hard drive for file fragments is suggested in the ext3 FAQ - http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html)
Given that Andrei Alexandrescu, who is one of the best-known C++ programmers in the world, co-designed (with Walter Bright) the new version of D, I would say that there are at least some C++ programmers looking for a better language. I think there's also a lot of C programmers looking for a better language but unwilling to deal with C++ (I'm in that category myself). Garbage collection in D is optional.
Checking in, in terms of social interactions, is like a deconstructed form of interacting. I've been thinking about how we've deconstructed personal interactions, and how we've arrived at these one-button-click/automated communiques:

Meeting in person > talking on phone > sending an e-mail > sending an SMS > posting on someone's wall > creating a general friend-syndicated update > [<poke>, <like>, <check-in>]
This is wonderful stuff, great work guys.

Whether it works perfectly from the get-go is immaterial, StartMate, like their fundees, can launch and then iterate.

Excited to see the first round come through.
An clean version of the DNS lookup table, of some sort.

An IP will do.
WebKit and Chromium are as open source as Firefox.
It addresses the morality of crybabies. The major theme of the book is that these titans of industry were such a bunch of whiners who didn't get enough respect and love from people, so they peaced out to show the world who was really important.

Guess what? If you do that, I'll just take your job. 4 weeks of transition and we'll be rolling again.

That's called being the boss. You're accountable and the people who are smaller than you can snipe, you can be bigger than that or you can be one of them.

I find it hard to believe that anybody who's actually had any responsibility in their life would ever get behind taking your ball and going home to spite people.
Brian gave the student commencement address at RISD the year we graduated, it was a masterpiece, unrivaled in the annals of higher education. I have HIGH hopes for this talk.
nice design, kinda breaks on my 13" macbook + FF though :(
cant see the entirety of each slide, the top and the bottoms get chopped off.
Via `reiserfsck --rebuild-tree`, you can also do that for ReiserFS partitions. Have worked very reliable for me. Only problem is that it doesn't always recover the filename and/or the directory structure (depending on how long it is ago that you have deleted it).
@ikirigin Fourdiamond?
http://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/21598768075

@dcurtis 2 char is better than 3. Also, their logo is a diamond http://j.mp/bsF5F3 (◊ = option-shift-v)
http://twitter.com/ikirigin/status/21599774307
As of June 2009, the latest stat I found, Gmail has 5.51% share of email users, 1/3 of either hotmail or yahoo mail. Definitely not "tens of percentage points."

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/2839/email-client-p...
For a blog called "the geek's geek" it sure sounds like the guy needs some technical support because many others report a completely better experience.

Also, it's a fracking mobile phone you are holding in the palm of your hand and you want it to be as powerful as a desktop experience? Reality check!
It's actually a tribute to Ayn Rand that this long after the book was written, it still espouses such strong praise and such strong criticism.
This phenomenon isn't isolated to Ayn Rand/Objectivism. And it doesn't occur with Objectivism because Atlas Shrugged/The Fountainhead are hard reads.

Its because most people don't spend time objectively studying topics/philosophies they don't have a positive bias towards.
There's no need for any custom terminology: Your master branch isn't a pseudo-branch. It's just another branch that happens to live in your local repository and shares the same name as the remote repository's branch that it tracks.
It works on all systems where you have raw access to the disk. And it isn't really that fancy if you think about how it works and how file systems work.
I don't think so. As day pass, I'm losing hope we will ever see him again as _why. I think if he's still hacking, he's hacking under a new pseudonym.
On the other hand, many of her proponents probably haven't read the book either so it sort of evens out.
yes, about 18 paying subscribers so far, => $169/month revenue after paypal fees. zero paid traffic sent so far. when i did a dry-run with adwords, a diff domain & unbounce, the economics looked favorable too so hopefully paid traffic is like gasoline on the flames.
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True, though there is a perfectly good criticism to make - Rand is simply incorrect when she claims you can use reason to derive morality (either her specific kind, or any kind).

You can use reason to evaluate actions based on moral principles of low complexity, but you simply can't derive those principles. In terms of formal logic, you need at least one true statement about the morality predicate in order to derive other true statements about it, you can't start from nothing.
At least it's not "If I would of known just one thing".
Destined to become a meme.
Oh, it wasn't the four of diamonds?

I was afraid ♥ ♠ &clubs would get jealous.
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Use ctrl (cmd) -
Cheers, my bad.
The slideshow drives me up the wall. I'm not able to follow along as I read.
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excellent suggestion, easily implemented with our very own mark bao's supportbreeze
Going a bit further, when you create a branch, what you're specifying is a starting point for that branch which will be a commit. The commit may be referenced via a tag, as the head of a branch (when you give the branch name or the head of the current one by default), or by the commit itself.
Whether they're correlated at all is a valid question, but I don't think you can argue that mass industrialization of Germany caused the book boom, considering that the book boom started over a century before mass industrialization began in earnest.
Flash works fine on my android phone. At least as far as I know. I almost never have a reason to use it.
Could an alternate approach be to take the route that Dalvik did?

There's also a research paper about having a remote proxy to deal with Flash on mobile devices; it's something like a VNC viewer, but for Flash. That wouldn't violate any patents now, would it?

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gribble/papers/sys169-mos...
I wasn't aware that the sole reason for flash was to playback high-def video.

It's just a runtime. Make stuff that runs on the platform for that runtime. JavaME will choke on most Desktop Java apps as well.

The moral of the story is, do mobile things on mobile devices and desktop things on desktops.
Yeap - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/08/18/google-verizon-chrom...
>I can't imagine why javascript redirects add much value in a blog post. But everyone picks a different spot between features and security - and that's okay by me

There are a lot of people that have used blogspot as their host for a long time, but then decide to get their own domain and don't want to lose their readers. That's the motivation I've heard for allowing redirects in the past, though I don't know what the current policy is.

Blogspot is a lot more like a hosting service than an application in terms of what it allows, probably because it's one of the oldest.
I have a simple flash app Ive been excited to test out. Anyone here have the update on their Android? Could you help me out real quick? thnx
I strongly encourage you to bridge out beyond just "startup" media. It's not as if the idea of beginning a company from nothing is a new concept these past 5 years.
None of those comparisons really matter in this discussion, except Java, which is clearly out of the competition anyway. Why? Because unless you're suddenly running Ruby, Python, PHP, C or OCaml as a client-side script embedded in your browser, you're comparing apples to oranges.

It would be interesting, though, if someone could point me (and everyone else) to a reasonable, credible comparison of HTML5+JS vs. Flash vs. Silverlight.
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> Also, it's a fracking mobile phone you are holding in the palm of your hand and you want it to be as powerful as a desktop experience? Reality check!

My iPhone 3G's processor is faster than one of my laptops (that I used on a daily basis, but recently retired it due to buying a new Starling Netbook). You're damn right it better perform just as well!
Electric power plants are run by steam _turbines_ today (invented by sir Charles Parsons in 1884). I don't think there are any steam _engines_ in industrial operation.

Regarding the logistic curve, yes, your point is valid in general; however, the article cited makes it clear that Watt's patent dramatically slowed down the adoption rate by delaying essential improvements for 25 years. In particular, the adoption of high-pressure steam (an idea Watt simply disliked) proved essential for locomotives and for improving the fuel efficiency to a level where steam engines were practical in more than a small corner of the British economy.