skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He doesn't dismiss the technique as dogma. He dismisses the author for being dogmatic - there is a difference. I think Silhouette supported his actual reasons for not liking the technique.

Further, I think he is part of the solution by engaging in rational discussion of the issue.
I think "trust" is actually the perfect word.

Apple seems determined to avoid depending on Photoshop and Final Cut Pro to sell hardware, to the point of curbing software offerings that might become the reason to own an Apple device.

They don't simply believe that "you can't count on third-party software to sell your device." They believe "if you let third-party software sell your device, you have made a deal with the devil that you will regret."
In NYC at least, they are number 1.
Banned (in 2008) from Apple's App Store, iBoobs finds refuge in Android Market
Ask HN: Caching in Ruby?
I know that there are a lot of experts in Ruby on Rails around here, so I was hoping someone could answer a quick question. As an interpreted language, Ruby clearly must be relatively slow. As a result, I would expect that for production systems, there should be some sort of bytecode caching. However, after searching Google, I could not find a conclusive article describing this process for Ruby. Coming from PHP background, I am used to installing APC on production systems. Is there something similar to be installed for systems running Ruby on Rails? Thanks for your answers!
I'd even argue that now there is greater brand recognition for the app that they SHOULD be advertising for it. There's still plenty of arbitrage in app advertising, trust me - otherwise, selling ads on iphone app review sites would not be a significant portion of our revenue (http://buysellads.com/buy/channel/id/22)
Humbling.
SeL4: formal verified kernel with a para-virtualised Linux
Really sad, it made me think that I'm going to die in some unknown day and circumstances...
To be fair, we British have pretty good form on doing terrible things to Afghanistan, and it wasn't exactly a source of pleasantness when we all went in this time round.

While I accept the original mission was justified for the US, I have absolutely no idea what we were doing in Iraq other than empire-building.
Maybe humans are not native to this planet. Maybe we came from one such meteorite. :)
Wireframy and not as smooth as the other (flash I suppose) version with latest Chromium on arch linux. Too bad.
This is why you need to hire full stack engineers, or have at least one on your team.
There is a better way: simply develop your site without hacking it up to work in IE 6, and users will notice the difference eventually.
For some reason I am reminded for Steve Jobs' Stanford graduation speech when he says "you will die one day." In the video, it seems to roll off the audience as a cliche. But, it seems to have tempered much of his career with fearlessness, and the willingness to take risks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
My first attempt of making web startup
> 12,588 up votes 10,018 down votes

That's a fascinating look at peoples' reactions to this. A reminder of mortality split right down the middle.
I love github as much as anyone. However, why is it that Git still drives non-technical people crazy? Why do those people prefer dropbox over Git?
Now let me share with you some info about the US:

More than 1 in 100 adults in the United States are in prison. The United States has less than 5% of the world's population and 23.4% of the world's prison population.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...)

The 2009 U.S. military budget accounts for approximately 40% of global arms spending and is over six times larger than the military budget of China. The United States and its close allies are responsible for two-thirds to three-quarters of the world's military spending (of which, in turn, the U.S. is responsible for the majority).

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S...)

From wars against the Mideast, healthcare, the environment, teachers, working class, democracy; and in favor of corporations, capitalism, etc... Many (maybe most, like myself) here are from the US, and I think the US's wealthy elites are a greater threat to the world than teachers unions and Venezuelans. So let's focus on not only what we're in a position to affect — as citizens with above-average power and privileges — but what matters too.
hg: unknown command 'histedit'
So DON'T USE THEM. Srsly, are we professionals or script kiddies here?

If you're going to provide an alternative to Facebook, you can damn well make something from appropriate technologies. pg doesn't even use a database for Hacker News, and while it has it's problems, it does quite well. That fact that 5 people agreed with you disappoints me.
Everything? Does BitBucket support git? I thought it was using Mercurial.

Mercurial is great, but it's not git. It's a hassle to have to learn two ways of doing everything. (Being intimately familiar with git's required these days, especially for Linux and Android programmers. Mercurial's not.)
The Makeing of Wild Turnip Rodeo
Why Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Returning Home
There are a variety of Ruby vms out there now. Each with their own performance characteristics. Instead of looking for bytecode or ast caching solutions, I would just look for articles on 'scaling rails' and 'ruby performance' and similar.
'Winning' was his priority, so Creighton found a way to win. Congratulations to him. Taking a risk like that in front of people you respect is tough, especially when it results in everyone in your industry remembering you as 'that guy'.

Edit:
Better mirror, courtesy of reddit user FunkyFreshFlow:
http://rorr.im/reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/fya4n/
Isn't that the whole point? If we can find a way to get rid of the "constant factor"-type problems, the students will have more time to concentrate on the overall quality rather than just handing in whatever they've been able to bodge into a working shape. Not only that, but it would get rid of the single most frustrating part of learning at a stroke.
That "splurge" was done by Margaret Thatcher's government in the 80s - which basically used the massive oil revenues to support the conversion of the UK from a dysfunctional socialistic state dominated by relations between large (often nationalized) industries and what was essentially an economy dominated by free enterprise with socialist support services.

Although I hated her in the 80s I have to admit that Thatcher, along with Reagan, actually got quite a lot right.
The Always Logged In Experience
That's another aspect of this I find fascinating; how this impacts people in an online world. What got me was when he said this was his way of getting out into the world and meeting people. Then there are hundreds of comments from people saying where they are in the world. That was an emotional gut punch for me though I can't really explain why.
I owe you an apology. One, for psychoanalyzing you based on little evidence, and two, for suggesting you've disengaged from politics. (I've been looking at your blog and Twitter feed and other such things.)

I'm still not sure where you fall on the technologist / writer spectrum. But it seems to me that the world needs good hybrids more than it needs one or the other.
It would be nice to see the real thing using a combo of Google Earth, photo synth and http://www.xrez.com/tech-and-services/gigapixel-panoramic-ph...
MSTest vs. NUnit with Visual Studio 2010 & TDD, Redux
the reddit admins have repeatedly stated, that these numbers are bogus. its a anti-spam measure to throw off bottting attempts.
#2 in Toronto

Guess they rank differently based on geographic location...?
Google are only obligated to respond to proper DMCA notices. They have safe harbor, they cannot be sued.

A proper DMCA notice requires certain information and must be sent to the Google registered DMCA agent.

http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/g/google.pdf

It amazes me that developers (who hold a lot of copyright) know so little about the federal law (DMCA) designed to protect it.
There are many bots that downvote in order to promote other submissions.

I'm glad they have that choice, and the ability to share their story. In perspective there are many people in this world who die "unknown" - PBS airs the pictures weekly of teenage American soldiers who died in Iraq or Afghanistan - then there are those who were killed while trying to non-violently protest their unjust government (China, Iran, etc.) - then there are those who are too young to speak yet who are dying of starvation in certain parts of the world today.

Not trying to judge or weigh who is more worthy of a voice, I can only say it's good this one person got to be heard.
Okey this is ridiculous!!!! First the guy who patches a software with Morse code and then this guy who would rather have a AMA with strange people before he dies. News flash people, there are actual human beings around you who you should talk to rather than computers or an anonymous crowd you do not know.
How to Stack Overflows :)
thebigsecurity.com
Watch an Apple Engineer Recreate a 2,000-Year-Old Computer Using Legos
I don't think we're going to be able to agree - but I think you're comparing Apples with Oranges.

Steam sell IP through digital channels .. Apple/Google sell IP digitally. Console manufacturers (historically) sell IP on physical media. Both involve markedly different business models - a comparison is ridiculous.
you could have as well said: "please sign up for the beta".
Hardly. They're fudged a bit as you say, but they're quite close to reality. Enough that I'd look at the proportion instead of the exact numbers, which is the meaning I was attempting to drive home.

The numbers are fudged by a very small amount in a certain direction, based on my observation. I observed this by refreshing one of my own submissions and watching it gain a vote or lose a vote, and I knew exactly how many people had voted on it because it was in a purpose-created subreddit. One of the admins that lurks Hacker News can probably set us straight on which is correct.

I love that whenever I make a comment here even loosely related to Reddit, someone takes it upon themselves to assume that I've never even been to the site and condescend based on what they think they know. My comment wasn't even remotely about Reddit, but thanks for the correction.
Can Security Questions be Subliminally Discriminatory?
hm, imho it is not as fun as offline
Men have a 1 in 2 chance of getting cancer and then 1 in 4 of dying from it.

Women 1 in 3 getting, 1 in 5 dying.

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerBasics/lifetime-probabili...

Make every day count!
Agree, but do you think that would make the signup conversion rate higher?
Just an FYI, there's several apps for IOS that can grab poscasts from the device itself with no need for an iTunes connection. I used Podcaster and it works pretty well.
I also strongly disagree with this.

Github is the perfect example of this strategy working today. It's a bit different than examples of yore, but certainly still quite lucrative.

I wrote a post about this sometime ago: http://marcgayle.com/githubs-brilliant-organic-traffic-acqui...

I can bet that if Github released their traffic data like Stack Overflow did, a large portion of their traffic would show that it comes from the long tail of many keywords associated with open-source repos from Google.
The application form is not working, that is if you manage to find the link in the first place.

Bootstrapping in Switzerland seems like an attractive proposition but does it make sense from a bootstrapper's point of view? Why not hop on a train and go to one of the cheaper countries next door?
jruby bytecode is heavily cached (on top of the caching done by the JVM)

http://blog.headius.com/2010/05/kicking-jruby-performance-up...
Crowd Sourcing for a Great Cause:Funding Shortfall for Female Entrepreneurs
Why change the title of the article from Intel's technology to Apple's?
They take your orders thru an Iphone. Sweet.
Cross platform Java, XPCOM, Eclipse
> I've been hit by your first point as well (not often, but often enough since I switch between resolutions frequently), and if you press the maximize button it will often (not always though) "raise" the lower portion up above the dock enough so you can resize. Not the most intuitive, but it works.

I'm not arguing with you here, just adding a data point about how unintuitive it is.

I certainly agree that you can do this—but, to my mind, you're then re-sizing the window in its maximised state; and, if you click again to ‘un-maximise’ it, then it'll be right back to the inaccessible position that it had before. I don't know if this is any sort of serious objection, in the sense that it can actually cause trouble, but it nags at my mind when I use it: “You don't really want that window maximised! Go back to its rest state!” I therefore usually wind up with the solution of “Find a big enough monitor and re-size there.”

(By the way, I love Mac OS, but definitely hate this behaviour.)
What amazes me about this comment is that you honestly do feel you are better to advise someone _how to best spend their time before they die_. This person has battled with cancer for 6 years, and has probably spent a countless amount of time thinking about this decision and how he chooses to spend his final time in the world. Do you not think he has a better educated and more heightened perspective on this issue?

And yet you still have the arrogant audacity to tell the world that what he feels is right is wrong.
- What are the benefits over a service like driver side?

- I get that everyone wants to add a social element to their site, but why share my notes on my car with my friends?
Launched by three students? What expertise and experience exactly do they bring to the table? Part of what makes YC so sight after is the guidance of PG & co.

Specifically to Switzerland, having lived there it has a problem more extreme than the US: it's very hard to work there. It's become easier for EU residents but harder for everyone else.

Switzerland is expensive but doesn't have the health insurance problems the US does (health insurance is mandatory and affordable) but labour laws are a bit of aroblem (in that it could be hard to fire someone).

The laws around company formation and financing I know nothing about there.

The cost of living is high but, in real terms, isn't that different to New York, even San Francisco.

If you compare Switzerland to its neighbors, Germany is much cheaper but far more restrictive on labour laws. France is expensive with similar problems. The UK is probably the freest in this sense but is expensive with huge infrastructure problems. Internet is probably cheapest in the UK (for Europe) and fastest to the US.
Democracy isn't a panacea. See also: South Africa, the crumbling rape-capital.
How does tcpflow compare with ngrep?
> Command+x is cut, same as ctrl+x on windows. Might be application specific as I only tried in Chrome and Textedit but I'm fairly certain it is OS wide.

As mdaniel (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294066) mentions, it bizarrely does not work in one very specific, and presumably intentional, place—the Finder.
Confession: I ran them through "recode latin1..utf8" before posting to simulate a website encoding problem. It's not the fault of the website or your browser or my browser. This time.
> If the answer is the first, nothing beats hours of hacking and curiosity to learn in their free time.

Why need that be true? There's nothing in the nature of the problem to prevent there being a method for improving skills at a rate faster than hours spent hacking would. I just don't know what it might look like.

It's definitely the case that small study groups can accelerate learning, but it's so dependent on the composition of the groups that I don't think it's generalisable reliably. Dedicated one-on-one tuition can be astonishingly effective, but it's highly dependent on the tutor and again, not generalisable until we can figure out how to efficiently train tutors.
"The United States has less than 5% of the world's population and 23.4% of the world's prison population."

Did you ever stop and think that if some of the other countries mentioned weren't so corrupt, they might also have a higher prison population? Our system is pretty, damn fair, even though once in awhile it fails and an innocent person goes to prison.

"The 2009 U.S. military budget accounts for approximately 40% of global arms spending and is over six times larger than the military budget of China. The United States and its close allies are responsible for two-thirds to three-quarters of the world's military spending (of which, in turn, the U.S. is responsible for the majority)."

The US has to babysit the world. I wish it wasn't the case, but most countries do not have their shit together.

"US's wealthy elites are a greater threat to the world than teachers unions and Venezuelans."

Teacher's unions directly threaten good education, which can lead to uneducated citizens and poverty. It's very difficult to get fired while you are in a teacher's union and there is no incentive to actually teach well. I've seen the same thing happen in the auto unions. It's like a mini example of why communism doesn't work (everybody is equal and since you not only get an automatic raise every year, and everybody in your department/position needs to get a raise if you do, it offers no reason to actually do better).

Capitalism isn't a bad thing. It's provided the best standard of living the world has ever seen. There may be some problems with it, but we shouldn't discount it as a whole.

I don't know how you can say the US is against the environment. If you mean global warming, then yes. Global warming isn't a religion. I need more evidence than what we have (which is based on falsified data) to prove that it's man-made. It's also become such a politicized issue, that if you are a scientist and go against it, you can lose funding from the government and respect from your peers. Nobody scientist would want to do this.
Just thought I should point out that RIM has now removed the notarization requirement entirely.

bq. Previously we required Individuals to provide us with a notarized document to validate their identity. While this is still an option, we will now begin accepting a scanned copy (front and back) of any official Government Issued Identification. This document must clearly show your Full Name and Date of Birth. bq.
"Why do ordinary thoughts gain such credibility just because their source is dying?"

I feel a bit guilty for thinking like this while reading the thread. Maybe a raw vision of mortality makes us emotional, less cynical, and we're more receptive as a result. Maybe we look to last words as an encapsulation of a person's life philosophy, as if they became wiser in the knowledge of imminent death. Or maybe an overly detached analysis is just another reaction to a reminder that we're going to die.
I too was bummed to get lesser money in my paycheck as an entry level engineer than as an intern in the same company. But then I realized that I get stocks, health insurance, travel and education fund, bonuses and get reimbursed for a lot of crap.
Pretty good job at first glance. It's got definite utility, though I do have doubts about it's potential users. Either way though, best of luck. You might want to check it at 1024x768 - the design is thin enough to fit on that resolution, but due to some padding on either side you end up with a horizontal scrollbar before you can actually see the page.
Wireshark's Follow TCP Stream capability does roughly the same thing. Wireshark isn't the prettiest on OS X, but it works, and the ability to do this after-the-fact with tcpdump-created dumps from a remote box is useful.

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChAdvFollowT...

Charles is also extraordinarily handy. I used it extensively while developing an iPhone app in the simulator, since figuring out what NSURLConnection is doing is hard.

http://www.charlesproxy.com/
Just some critical advice - you might want to redo your screencast. Not b/c it wasn't informative, but b/c it had no energy. I felt sort of like I watching a coding screencast and wasn't excited to take any action. Just a thought...
Those are interesting statistics, because I would guess that if you asked people about gender-specific cancers, the first thing that would pop into their head would be breast cancer, perhaps testicular cancer, then cervical cancer.
Songbird (http://www.getsongbird.com)?
Even though the idea seems a little crazy I think it`s possible to organize such a event.

There are couple of hey things that have to be taken care of:

-cheating ( by announcing a topic couple hours before event starts )

-getting media sponsors ( preferably startups with API' )

-presentations streamed ( justin.tv/ustream etc.)

-progress written up ( like http://www.travisglines.com/web-coding/lets-make-a-twitter-c...)

-possible prizes via AppSumo or similar venue

I`ve been actually thinking about putting together such a event in the next couple of weeks.

Since I`m launching a website in exactly that area soon, check it out in my profile.
The nice thing about networking in general, is that most people are trying to keep you from losing face. That's as uncomfortable for them as it is for you. This makes networking for someone who is open, considerate, and honest a very safe social activity to engage in. In fact, it's also true that people in networking situations are looking for help. They need something, otherwise, why are they networking?

Just do your best to be a nice person, and look for opportunities to create value for others.

If you have any skill with 2D game animation, I'm looking for some short pieces that have to be done with panache. Send me email at my HN username at gmail dot com, if you are interested.
I think it is a bad idea to create a throwaway account to ask for help. I would think you are hiding something from us?
In NOR Flash, if you overwrite data, the result is the AND (or the OR) of the old data and the new data; that is, you can write 0 bits, but not 1 bits. Erasing is a separate and much, much slower process, which is why it's done a sector at a time instead of a bit at a time.

In NAND flash, overwriting isn't even an option, although I don't understand why.
Someone on HN once suggested I do an AMAA on Reddit. I didn't get it. This post makes me want to do one.

I wish Lucidending well. My impetus has nothing to do with "rebutting" the idea of right to die. I got well in part because I stopped trying to live. At one time, my whole goal was to just hurt less. Suicide would have been gladly welcomed, so I understand why one would do that. I just think it's sad that this is what conventional medicine has to offer.

Of course, I completely suck at starting conversations and can't think of a Reddit handle to use.:-/ So this may never fly.
One thing I found, when I was in a similar situation, is that people with "nontraditional" CV's are rebuffed in a somewhat rougher manner than usual applicants. This can be pretty discouraging. This was decades ago for me, so I was doing a lot of phone calls as a part of my job search. It can be a bit brutal.
They are effective at conveying emotional state.
Indeed. I think that the king and The White Rabbit had a conversation that is appropriate:

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles.
'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked.
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely,
'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'

"The beginnging" is an appropriate place to begin, and most anybody reading this in this forum can likely find their own beginning, and start contributing there.

edit: for the unfamiliar, quotation is from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Way You Learned Math Is So Old School
Montreal ACCELERATES 2 Favorite Startups
- Benefits over DriverSide: web2 (i.e. social elements), better UI and mobile apps (soon)

- Well, maybe "friend" does not sound correct, let's say with interested people. Actually that's the opposite of following the other cars.