skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even with a static analysis tool, most of a Cocoa app is dynamic enough to easily get around them. I had an app which relied on a private API (one that was relatively stable, it had been available in Cocoa for years before iOS existed) by simply finding the selector at runtime. Function pointers would be no different.
While there's no channel dedicated to hackers, there are certainly shows out there geared towards us

Make TV comes to mind as one: http://makezine.tv/broadcast/
IIRC the minimum OS for a G3 was actually 8.something. (Apple generally doesn't/didn't support down-level OSes on their hardware.)

Also the settings would have only been preserved in Classic, but that's to be expected I guess.
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How about something that would become valuable, but is currently considered junk, eg an original IMac.
Cool. I've been waiting for this site to come back.
You will gain programming skill far more quickly if you have an idea you're trying to implement as you learn. Read tutorials and change them to try suit your needs. It will probably be horribly broken and ugly but you will learn a lot faster.
Oh, I noticed and I loled. Regardless, pretty interesting talk and at least he has a humor with his account names.

I'm glad the XP team fixed Doom 2.
But even he didn't sink to

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Other factors include things like larger components might use cheaper materials and factories need to be tooled up to produce newer components.
"No, but I'm waiting for it."

Keep waiting then, because it's not going to happen. I would never suggest anything of the sort. It's not nearly creative enough of a solution, for one thing.

"...that you've earned. I don't see a problem."

Just because you don't see a problem, doesn't mean that there isn't one.

So, say, a CEO who is hired to run a company and assumes no financial risk on their own for doing so has "earned" the right to 40x more salary than the people who actually make the products? Somehow that doesn't seem right. Do they work forty times harder? Forty times more? Neither is physically possible. Do they assume forty times as much risk? Having seen more than a few golden parachute deals, I think it's obvious that they don't.

"what was he willing to risk all of his time and money to run the business?"

Most business people are saavy enough to start their businesses with other people's money. See: Venture Capitalism.

"It sounds to me like he wants the same amount of profits as an owner, but none of the risks."

This is a gross misrepresentation of the author's position.

"If the engineer is under contract and using the resources, money, and lab of his employer to create this radical new process, he is getting paid a salary he agreed upon (which wasn't by force)."

He must agree to a salary somewhere if he wants to eat and have a place to live. This is not choice. It's not overt force either, but it does have something of coercion about it.

"If he is using all of his own equipment, under no contract, it can make him very rich."

Most people could not afford such equipment even if they are inclined to use it. They therefore have no choice but to work for someone else.

"I don't really see a problem with anything you are describing, except your sense of entitlement."

This is an ad hominem. I have not stated anywhere that I or anyone else are entitled to anything, nor would I ever.

"Do you actually think I believe there isn't anything new? I was merely pointing out that there are thousands of years of history and experience in the economic, finance, and politics department, which can show you what works and what doesn't (and if your idea is radically new or just a rehash of something old)."

This much is blatantly obvious. And?

"There are more important social issues to address than some guy that is whining about his life."

More ad hominem. Also the issues being addressed by the author are bigger than his own life. He states as much if you actually read it carefully.
I am wondering how they figured out where I lived? Geolocation API with common patterns?
Absurd, and extremely profitable for the vendor which provides it. IBM mainframes can run binaries that are nearly 45 years old for example.
Business plan. This is a document I use to collect my own plans for the business: generate roadmaps, take a hard look at competition and market, and how I want to structure my organization. Regardless of any external funding these exercises are valuable to the running of my business, whereas the pitch deck is entirely focused on selling your business. That said if your idea of a pitch deck is very product focused this can be an useful start for your sales approach.
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Thanks @thatusertwo. Mini-start-up is surely a great motivation and start! My present lame startup ideas are all in this category:)
yep. I'm still around. I live a quiet existence in not so sunny Hobart, Tasmania. Most unusual request - still thinking about it. Donations willingly accepted - just trying to think what kind of cool thing to provide in return for the generous donations.
Damn. Now I want to live in one of those cities... they're so cuteee!
Something similar is extremely common in Israel.

I think they evolved from lunch vouchers issued by companies to their employees and accepted by local restaurants. At this point they are basically currency accepted at at restaurants, supermarkets, clothes shops and issued by issuing companies.

I think it's driven by a combination of tax reasons and differentiation from cash.
There's another company eDushi created this kind of map in 2007 or earlier. The company is in Hangzhou. They cover more cities than o.cn. I've checked the details of architecture. Quite accurate. And there is a lot daily life related information hidden in the map.

Here's the map of Hangzhou.
http://hangzhou.edushi.com/
Wow, it is really refreshing to see intelligent discussion of education here after mostly seeing little more than vacuous bloviating about it on reddit.
Thank you, that's a great idea to talk to a lawyer. Seems really obvious in hindsight but it's not something I'm accustomed to or have ever had to do before.
Congrats on learning PHP and building something. But what about that HUGE percentage of users that don't have twitter accounts?
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At the end of this year I'll be finishing an engineering degree in Australia, and I'll be 17 years old. I'm considering what to do after
I graduate.

The complication is that my curiosity has shifted to physics and computer science. What can I do to solidify my interests and lead into research?
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Thanks @fooandbarify. Looks like I really need to get the coding engine going now! I certainly think I will have a lot of lessons from my foreseeable "startup" failures!
Non-sequitur. We're talking about features about the iPad 2 and suddenly you're asking about iPad 1 users? Improving a device every generation is common in tech. Everyone knows this.
Thanks @slysf. Yup, tutorials is what I need and code implementation too!
" 1. People aren't born developers, plumbers, etc., it's a career you choose"

I didn't imply that they are, but ignoring that people have innate abilities - and by extension, innate weaknesses - that shape their choices is simplistic.

"2. The technology that enables these things is not going to disappear, of that we can be pretty sure"

I didn't say it would. However, the economic conditions that make working in fields related to it probably eventually will.
Thanks @FirstHopSystems!
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You'll probably be waiting longer than that. One of the reasons China opted for the hand drawn approach is it lets them control what is and (more importantly) isn't shown.
Well, maybe you can work on some new iPad applications using the physics and the gyroscope for the new iPad (or iPhone).

The physics kit used for angry birds is Box2D: http://box2d.org/ perhaps you could build an app for fun at the intersection of your interests, on a mobile device. Best of luck.
This is an outgrowth of a previous site I made that was devoted to the album "All Day" by the mashup artist "Girl Talk".

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Same album annotated on the new site: http://readyrickshaw.com/toob/node/63

Feedback would be terrific. There's more info here: http://readyrickshaw.com/toob/node/98
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If it had 1GB I bet Jobs would have actually mentioned it.
Maybe not all of them but a large portion of them would have been scratching their own itch.
Not only can they build rendered cities at breakneck pace, they can do it for the real thing:

http://www.businessinsider.com/shanghai-1990-vs-2010-2010-6
Interestingly enough, this is not what the author was advocating.
Competitors’ tablets aren’t any thinner. That’s what you would expect if Apple had made the first iPad purposefully thicker than they could have done.

They probably didn’t spend much time optimizing the thickness the first time around. I would guess that they made a ton of dummy mockups, figured out some sort of maximum thickness to still get a compelling product and designed the first iPad with that goal in mind.

Could they have released a thinner iPad last year? Probably, but it might well have taken them a few months longer. It’s simply a matter of priorities. You can’t do everything.

I don’t for one second believe that they already had the design for a thinner iPad drawn up and added some thickness in the last minute just to make their job easier.
This is a good point. I'd imagine that if enough users cared about these sorts of privacy issues then traffic would end up declining enough that companies would have to either dismiss Facebook or Facebook would have to stop tracking users. I personally don't see that happening, except for maybe an uprising of a small minority of users. In which case we have to ask, does this stuff actually matter at all?

If most people don't care or are ignorant of whether they're being "tracked" then does it even matter?

I suppose that if this stuff matters to you, you'll have to just maintain a white-list of sites that you'll allow cookies for... hell, maybe it'll be up to the browser companies to bring this sort of issue to the forefront by touting the idea of cookies being disabled by default as a privacy feature.

Edit: Or maybe this issue is already being covered by some browser extensions a la Ghostery and the ilk. I guess it means that if you care enough about it, it's up to you to protect yourself.
I've done a lot of maintenance programming, and I think it's a horrible way to start and a difficult rut to get out of. Fixing someone else's bugs all day is demoralizing and creates all kinds of cognitive dissonance about whether or not you actually hate programming. Write your own code and learn from your own bugs. If you have to, get a non-programming day job and write code on the side. At least that's what I would do if I were starting over.

Why is it a difficult rut to get out of? Because when people build teams to build systems from scratch, they look for other people who have built things from scratch. Then when they need someone to maintain it, they look for someone who has maintained other piles of buggy crap.
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Hi guys,

Trying to build something including HN style voted comments using LAMP. I've been reading a lot and now have a pretty decent understanding of how to do the db schema (tree structure with a separate table that defines the parent/child relationships), but I can't figure out the proper way to iterate through it and apply the voting algorithm. I know how to iterate through a tree generally, but should I be doing it in SQL or in PHP? And once I'm actually at a node and reading its voting rank, how do I rearrange the tree to account for the new order (my algo is simple it just ranks by vote, no decay or anything yet). Has anyone seen a good tutorial on this or can give me a high level explanation? I've read a bunch of the stack overflow threads but they don't really account for the voting, only the threading.

Thanks
Sad to see this in relation to TED talks. The TED site has a great deal of integrity so seeing someone hack a person's twitter account is disheartening. No matter the cause, taking someone's account just to prove a silly point is wrong.
Lifehacker had this a few weeks ago, after FireSheep was big.
Replaced the MVA matrix with IPS.

Not sure what you mean - all iPads have been IPS.
"Why is it concentrated into a small group? Everyone seems to think the answer is to take the money by force from the people that earned it and give it to the people that "need" it."

Not 'everyone' thinks this. It's good to be cognizant of Marx and Smith et al., but sooner or later you have to stop thinking in dichotomies and take off the training wheels.

"Anybody can start a company and make money (and not work for anyone), but much fewer choose to go down this path. It's because it takes too much work. Sacrificing your free time for something that may or may not succeed isn't easy. I've been doing it for the past 5 years and I'm only now actually making a profit."

You do realize that you're contradicting yourself here? How can anyone start a company and make money, and yet it's hard work and may fail? How can anyone start a company when many people barely have the free time you talk of sacrificing?
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Just an idea, charge for the API. I can easily imagine this being very useful for a feed/content provider to automatically source an automatic image related to a news feed/ or product.
I've mentioned this before, but entering the "Chinese" internet (or internet of any foreign culture for that matter) is like entering a whole new world. It's amazing how the cultural aspects impacts small things like design sense and advertising colors.
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When people wonder why Windows is so big and seemingly complex, and why it still uses stupid things like a registry, this is why. Microsoft deserves accolades for maintaining compatibility on this scale, while still working on just about any combination of hardware under the sun. I'm sure they would have loved to be able to do what Apple did with OSX, but there are things you can pull off with 3% market share that are completely out of the question with 95%.
What a fantastic idea. Wikitravel may be a better source then just Wikipedia for this. I'd buy this app.
You're talking about the inventor of the shortest-path algorithm and the semaphore.
interesting idea, definitely a lot of value. I've seen many of the big telcos and large companies spend a lot of resources and $$ on this problem.
It's Chinese, which is a three-dimensional map of GuangZhou city, the labels are the names of places.
and as rywang mentioned above, there is a 3d map http://sh.o.cn/ for ShangHai too
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Link to the startup, not the blog post: http://www.sprixi.com
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Show of hands, who's surprised?
A couple of notes from a resident of Beijing:

I wonder how frequently this will be updated. I notice several skyscrapers built over the past few months that aren't displayed yet (they only show the construction huts). So it's at least several months out of date.

This clearly has the most detail for zooming and browsing that I've seen, but for my day-to-day use I'll still be using map.sogou.com, which already has pretty good building and landmark decomposition, but has the best path-finder / location search of everyone in the market by far. I just made several queries on bj.o.cn that fell flat. For really hard-to-find places, I suspect I'll do my searching on sogou first, then pull up the closest landmark on o.cn and scroll over to where I want to be for a good visual description of where I'm going.
>it's probably best to pick examples which don't rely on facts demonstrably not based in reality.

Which facts are "demonstrably not based in reality"?
They can't write because the education they have had from K - MBA hasn't required enough writing classes and these people haven't taken the time to practice.

Like with programming, writing requires practice and learning the rules to be a better technician. I disagree that creativity is a big part of it.

The most valuable college class I have ever taken was a technical writing class with an instructor armed with a wicked red marker. Interestingly, it was computer science and forestry (Montana) majors who were required to take it, not business people. A class like that takes care of the technical side (rules of grammer) of writing. Beyond that, you need lots of practice.
I think you're both right in different ways. The positions "if it can happen it has or will" versus "yes but there is no evidence so it probably hasn't or won't" both have merit and are not explicitly in conflict. But I'm reminded of that quote:

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there almost always is!"
Nothing David Brooks writes is worth reading nor taking seriously. He's a career pundit.
There's quite a lot of map companies offering similar "SimCity-style" maps:

Edushi (http://edushi.com/), as others have mentioned --- IIRC they were one of the first to market

Baidu rolled out their own offering in 2010 (go to http://maps.baidu.com/, pick a city from the menu on the right, and then click the "三维" button)

City8 (http://city8.com/) don't have 3D maps, but they have a Streetview equivalent which they've been working on since 2008 in Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities: http://en.city8.com/search/search.aspx

Couple of articles which may be interesting reading (in Chinese) --- touching on China-specific privacy, legal/data licensing issues, etc. surrounding these maps:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/internet/2008-03/14/content_778745...

http://finance.jrj.com.cn/2010/09/0315448095546.shtml
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We are a PHP shop, but make heavy use of MongoDB, Node.js, RabbitMQ, Solr, Haxe and any other technologies that are the new cool thing - but that also are indeed the right tool for the job. Other cool things we are playing with include the Kinect and RFID technology.

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I have to say that php-fpm does FCGI very nicely and works well with Lighttpd and Apache (even on the same host).

It basically sets up a separate instance that runs PHP and requests are shuttled to the backend. Unfortunately there is no way to talk to it directly like there would be with rails and django's built in Python servers.
It's made usability worse though, in one important respect: logging out requires two clicks, not one. :(
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Baidu has something similar as well: http://j.map.baidu.com/hg2l

Are they doing this to get around some restrictions on showing real images?
Huge congrats to the Square team on the milestone, though I suspect they've only scratched the surface.
Actually that's in fact possible. The models must be done by hand for landmarks, the rest may be repetitively. Similar efforts has been done by OSS games (http://wiki.openttd.org/City_Buildings_%28New_Graphics%29)
Thanks! We're working hard to build the product based on the latest research in the field.
Assets, yes. Pages, no. Query strings for cachebusting CSS/images is pretty standard.
I do like that idea. Being bootstrapped I needed to be a bit more direct with getting revenue from the majority of the traffic visiting us in the short term.

What do you think of our very lightweight freemium model? (Searching for dog or cat is free, other searches are behind the pay wall.)
Ad.ly delivers celebrity endorsements when they’re needed, in a very short time period. They don’t have contracts with celebrities; Ad.ly forges an on-demand relationship. They work with brands to help them advertise to scale...

Wow, it just sort of gave up on any semblance of journalism and became product placement/press release rehash right there.
I'd love to see demographics on that... like who is using square - breakdown of average transaction size, merchant size, etc.
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When my dad eventually succumbed to cancer (technically kidney failure), it wasn't until the last couple of weeks or so that he had energy and weakness issues. Even a month before, he was still out and about. With chemo, he was only weak for the day of, and fine the next day. I wouldn't say Job's apparent health can give any clues as to his health, aside from the fact he has at least another month left.
You assume that the primary role of the regular schools is to educate children, it may very well be that the primary role is to keep children busy so parents have time to work. Even if teaching as a role is replaced, there is still a cost for monitoring children while parents are working.
Sure. I used a TupleSpace for an impromptu map-reduce for some heavy duty number-crunching across multiple cores and physical machines.
Nice, I'd love to get into iphone apps sometime later on too. Yeah, I bet it is tough with a full-time job, which is why I'm so glad I'm taking time off to really focus on this while I still can at this age.

Keep it up!
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this is also very impressive. I like how they add small buses and signs to indicate bus stops. We can also see the name of big shopping centers
I've seen similar maps from 100+ years ago of my hometown in the UK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Birmingham_in_1886.jpg

And of London:

http://www.garwood-voigt.com/catalogues/H242051LondonBrewer....

It's amazing how our idea of what is unachievable by hand has been skewed by computer graphics!