skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might interest you to know that this is how women generally talk amongst themselves (not to other men). It's a skill and the Woz seems to be great at it. I feel he actually pushed the interviewer into this mode when he upped the emotional content to a very high level (not sticking to the usual male platitudes) and she was quite caught up by it. It was a moment of human connection. And I thoroughly enjoyed it too. Possibly most women would say this was an exciting interview and that a normal question answer thing would sound dull and boring to them in comparison.

I also wouldn't be surprised if the woman in the video felt a physical attraction to Woz and also felt a need to touch/hold him just to release the pressure of the emotions they were generating. I felt that too.
They're nonsense in that they are without ryhme or reason, but you should be following the community standard (curlies for one liners, do/end for everything else).

I'd honestly pass on an open source project not following the generally agreed upon ruby standard.
Ask HN: is there a technical reason Siri is not available on the iPhone 4?
Are Minds Computable?
Whatever... the first X paragraphs (I stopped reading your drivel) are dedicated entirely to saying "everybody copy me".
So you are saying that adhering to memory bounds and limits (and possibly SLAs) should be ignored in favor of having your software crash because its easier? Sure, I can see it as a possible strategy in some cases. But to go ahead and cite this as a rule is kind of short sighted and a disservice to people who put thought into their memory allocation strategies.
I have to recommend a cool book on this ... Why Geese Don't Get Obese. It delves into the biological systems of different animals and explains how they do some amazing things. For instance, there was a chapter on how fresh water fish and salt water fish differ in how they drink water.
I'm surprised I was never taught this before. Great post.
They have desalination plants in the middle east. The problem with those is that they are very energy intensive.
Siri is saving me from a lot of typing while driving.
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Having now actually used it, I've got to say it's pretty impressive, especially for location based searches ("Where's the best steak in town?" got me a load of steak restaurants, whether or not their the best is probably another matter, but I was impressed none the less).

Tell it, "I love you Siri". The response made me smile.
Evaporation would leave the salt (and most other minerals) behind.

I suppose there exist devices for re-capturing the condensed (=drinking) water out of sea water. I don't know why they're not common; my guess is they're just not economical/too hard on maintenance.
I see that there are -12 people connected...
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To me, the main shortcomings, at the moment, as a UK customer, are the male voice (seriously... I want the nicer american female voice... it subconsciously annoys me to think of "Siri" as a British male) and, perhaps more importantly, the fact that Siri won't connect to Yell/GMaps/etc in the UK yet, so I can't emerge out of the tube and ask "How do I get to 123 Some Street?" and be presented with a map. I'm not quite sure why that doesn't work in the UK - surely, the interfaces to Google Maps and even Yell don't differ by country.

Despite those, it is already very useful. I'm using the timer all the time ("Set a timer for 3 minutes", "Wake me up in 20 minutes", "Wake me up at 7am tomorrow"), and the weather ("What's the weather like tomorrow?"), and using it to set meetings ("Add event 'drinks with Enrico' at 6pm on Friday").

The real killer, imho, will be the integration with services. The voice recognition seems good enough, the "parsing what you mean" could be improved but is good enough. What makes or breaks Siri is the integration with services. The timer/reminders/calendar integration is extremely smooth and so it is great and a huge help. Bits that aren't integrated (e.g. Twitter) or less well integrated (e.g. sending SMS's), less so.

All in all, a great start, and useful from day one, though, like all new Apple products, there's plenty of room for improvement. I'm waiting to see where they take it - unlike some other companies, Apple do have a reputation for relentlessly pushing forward after releasing an initial, "it doesn't do much but it does it well" device.
Not really, and for the same reasons the combustion engine is still king: so far, there's almost always more economical alternatives. The biggest issue is the cost of energy.
There is some simple elegance to this approach. I'm making a note of it for the next time I get stuck.
DNA sequenced of woman who lived to 115
I wonder how well that one slide would have worked in the absence of the numerous previous conversations.
So I see you've updated the doc with a new hostname, but I still get an error, so there's something obviously wrong with my method:

msg=$(cat message)
curl -X POST "http://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/filter" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-v \
-d '{"email":"'"$msg"'", "options":"long"}'

* About to connect() to spamcheck.postmarkapp.com port 80 (#0)
* Trying 184.73.163.218... connected
* Connected to spamcheck.postmarkapp.com (184.73.163.218) port 80 (#0)
> POST /filter HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.7 OpenSSL/1.0.0e zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.22 libssh2/1.2.8 librtmp/2.3
> Host: spamcheck.postmarkapp.com
> Accept: application/json
> Content-Type: application/json
> Content-Length: 5229
> Expect: 100-continue
>
< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
< HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
< X-Powered-By: Express
< Content-Type: application/json
< Connection: keep-alive
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<
* Connection #0 to host spamcheck.postmarkapp.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
{"error":{}}

Wonder if you've got any pointers on how to do this at the shell...
Such things do exist, but they are so energy-intensive (water has to evaporate) that they're only used in extreme emergencies. Plus, doing it on a large scale would have effects on things we don't fully understand yet (sea levels etc).
The iphone4S seems more yellowish but it's more detailed when you look the book words. You can't barely read any on the Galaxy unlike on iphone4S.
Some ideas:

1. Pick something that you want to build

2. Pick something new that you have wanted to learn

3. Use 2 to build 1

4. Have a specific goal, and keep working X minutes a day - absolutely no matter what.

5. Ship

Time actually runs fast, and even if you spent just about 60 minutes a day, you will quickly realize that you can squeeze in almost a working day into a week.

It's quite powerful, and before you know it you would have racked up a lot of knowledge, and actually have stuff to show.
I haven't seen any indications anywhere that California provides funds to my insurance company. However, plans do cost different amounts in different states.
The pacific is worth mentioning too...Singapore in particular, and Australia increasingly so. A handful of southern US states are getting things ramped up too.
I think some good ant-trust regulatory lawyers would have a field day with this. But one would have to have deep enough pockets to pay the legal bills!
Define inexpensive.

A lady has just put up a group trip to row across the Caribbean Sea. 14 people will row a double-hull boat over more than a month. They'll definitely need to desalinate sea water.

http://globetrooper.com/caribbean-sea-row-2012-barbados-jama...

Katadyn does desalinators for civilians.

http://www.katadyn.com/usen/katadyn-products/products/katady...
Can you say realistically how quickly I can make a basic photo sharing app using your tutorial, if I know zero iOS programming, but am reasonably good at Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, JS?
This is a correct translation from Englishrussian :-)
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were do you look for health related matters?
Flash already runs on a host of Android devices as a web plugin. WebGL isn't available on any mobile browsers yet afaik.
Others have pretty much summarized my thoughts, but I will add one more to the list: information on rate limiting. The API, if it has rate limits should allow me to track that.
Anything you do is going to impact performance on your site. It sucks, I'm sorry.

If you go the .htaccess route, every single new connection will get pattern matched against the _deny from_ patterns. It's a bit better using CIDR notation, but still, every connection will take a slight hit as the pattern match is run. I assume that Drupal does a similar pattern matching scheme to block/permit access.

A determined adversary will realize that you’re blocking by IP addresses and resort to something like TOR or a VPN to crawl your site.

Another option is to use something like IPTables with some intelligence on your server site to dynamically block anyone slurping lots of data off the site (but be certain to whitelist Google/Bing/other "friendly" crawlers).

You could try something slightly bizarre: on detecting adversarial traffic from what you suspect is a Chinese client, return the complete works of the Dalai Lama, a history of tibet, possibly treatises on Falun Gong or the true history of Tiananmen square, and put the Great Firewall to use for you. Depending on the ISP and the day’s censorship regime, you might get the GFW to block your site from access from behind the GFW. You don't care, you don't want the traffic anyway, and from the GFW's perspective your site will be marked as a "dangerous" site with inappropriate content for consumption in China.
Funny how Android Instapaper (a 3rd party app) is infinitely better than the iPhone version (the official version) since it plugs right into the browser.
Why "aging programmers" and not just "C programmers"?
http://www.thewatercone.com/Index.html
I'd be curious to know this as well. I don't have much programming language experience but am good at HTML5/Js.
I love the lines: "I met Alex Ljung, founder/CEO of SoundCloud a number of times and each time he pitched me on his business. Each time I said no."

I love them because they show how perseverance pays off.
Why isn't all Internet traffic encrypted?
This is controversial, but Alain Bombard (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/obituaries/24bombard.html) sailed across the Atlantic, surviving on seawater, fluids from fish, and plankton.

Seems like you might be able to drink a little seawater, but not too much -- maybe a pint a day at the most. Natural History magazine has a great article on this:

http://naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/181950/thir...
Writing software is not the only kind of creation.
Yeah, they did not do that. But that's not the only way to be responsible (consciously or not) for killing smaller developers.

> authority on taste and acceptable content

I don't know about that. If I want something that Apple doesn't approve for their store - say Grooveshark, for plausible legal complications in the future - I get the Grooveshark app anyway, from some other store that's legal (hint: jailbreak).

Personally speaking:
I would rather have someone make sure (for free) that the app that I download isn't buggy, or crash-y, or other stuff. In practice, I've never missed something on the App Store (iPad 2 that I bought a few months ago) although I miss a lot of stuff on the Android Market (Nexus One that I own since a few years now). I got an Android before I got an iOS device going by such arguments from the couch. But I'm glad I can choose my phone, and it's going to be iPhone 4S when it launches here. I'm glad you can choose your phone, I presume that'll be an Android. That way, both of us can be happy.
Based on a solar still, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still, there is the Water Pyramid for villages, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Pyramid and the Water Cone for personal use: http://www.thewatercone.com/Index.html
Quake's Fast Inverse Square Root
Google Labs itself was an experiment? That's very meta.
If creating the backend isn't much of a problem for you, I think getting your hands dirty to code it out in a few days (and get used to Obj-C & the iOS model) seems realistic for a basic photo sharing app.
Code releases like this can still be very valuable to communities trying to open up the devices, often against the wishes of the device manufacturers. It's unfortunate if the OEMs only comply with the letter but not the spirit of the license, but it's still a lot better than completely proprietary code.
A French biologist Alain Bombard as proved with a 65 day trip across the Atlantic that one can drink sea water up to one liter per day if one can drink raining water and water extracted from fishes too. So, yes, you can drink sea water, but not too much. So, do not keep in mind that you absolutely cannot, as it can bring you an extra day of survival (if you do not have other source of water).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Bombard
Reddit Post Turns Into Warner Brothers Script
Eventually You Have To Stop Sucking At Selling
VCs have a fund (basically a big finite amount of cash). They can make X investments with that cash. They also have a very finite # of hours they can invest to help their companies. The best ones (like these guys) are literally buried in highly qualified deal flow. That means entrepreneurs coming in with great references, working in great markets, often with traction. They have no shortage of deal flow.

On the other side of the marketplace, there are literally zillions of entrepreneurs who want their money.

All that said, it'd be nice if they had an auto-responder on the site saying, "We try to look over all of these, but can't offer a reply unless something REALLY catches our eye," to set expectations accordingly.
Dizzying but invisible depth
while driving? It is saving your life as well I guess.
Seriously? No reason? They can build iPhones and iPads and grow their company to a multi billion dollar company, but they can't figure out how to update their homepage without shutting it down? Of course it's a marketing trick.
thanks for the info.
I created this for my project. It worked, so I open sourced this small chunk of code.

In HTML5 way, I need to do it first and then have to write a fallback mechanism. Kinda too long for me :) Instead, I chose what works perfectly now.
1 week, 2-3 hours per day?
Same here. Apple users baffle me time and time again. From his writings it appears as the only luxury items in his life are Apple products. I can understand the Apple "idea" working with people who have to buy "hipness" or just have enough to money to spend. But he seems to be definitely not "that" kind of person. Deeply fascinating fascinating a brand can reach such a level of devotion.
It is saving your potential victims from an early grave.
Anyone got a torrent? These cost way too much.
https://gist.github.com/1041a28fc150a2b6f6b4

Is the readme
Yes, that's definitely the cause here. The iPhone 4 Picture is much darker, meaning it was made with a higher shutter speed and therefore is much shaper when holding it by hand. If you have a good camera lying around you can try it out by playing with iso/aperture/shutter-speed: Make two pictures in a dark(ish) place, one with low speed and low iso, the other with high speed and high iso (but same aperture). Depending on how dark it actually is and how steady your hands are, you'll see a big difference in sharpness.

The other thing are the colors, which seem much better in Samsung's picture. This, too, has nothing per se to do with the quality of the camera but it's settings. This time it's the white balance that's different. This is one of the things, where camera automatics are still often wrong. A small change of the subject can cause big differences. Moving a few centimeters more to the left is enough...

Again, you can try that with a "real" camera. A DSLR will let you choose the color temperature, but even cheap digital cameras have sometimes different modi for "sunlight"/"cloudy"/"artificial light". I won't go into details here (see [1]), sufficient to say that this can greatly affect a picture.

Also note that the picture from the Galayx II and the one from the iPhone 4S have roughly the same brightness and sharpness. Judging from the noise and resolution, the two cameras seem quite similiar (and are maybe even produced by the same factory).

TL;DR
This comparison is not meaningful at all. For a professional result you would need to control the cameras completely manual and take a lot more pictures in different settings (light, reference colors, tripod, ...).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_balance

EDIT: He actually made more than these three: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer
I suppose the answer is that an used macbook lose very little value. Last time I checked my 2008 Macbook is still valued 75% of its original price.
> The "correct" place to put user data on iOS 5+ is any place that syncs with iCloud.

Um? My understanding is that Apple has forbidden developers from storing in cloud-sync areas anything that is re-downloadable or temporary. Instapaper pages are almost by definition re-downloadable; and there's no need for permanence or even synchronisation with the cloud, just a need for the system not to silently delete the files.

Is my understanding of Apple's policy flawed?
Thanks, I was just wishing that this article would have gone into that.

Presumably whales and other marine mammals can drink ocean water -- how else would that work? -- so it's not an inevitable design constraint that our internal salinity is less than that of the ocean. Presumably our ancestors evolved to drink low-salinity water (and eat separate sources of salts, and automatically mix the correct salts into the water in the correct proportions, and maintain those proportions at all costs -- lots of overhead!) because fresh water is what's plentiful in our habitat. In other words, it's because lakes, rivers, and springs yield fresh water that we've evolved all these mechanisms for tolerating fresh water.

Another nice poetic question is: why are we made of so much water? The answer is that life evolved in the ocean. We're built out of crucial parts that were developed in the ocean and that can't operate outside of a saltwater environment. So life colonized the land by evolving a way to carry its own ocean with it. ;) I'm a giant EVA unit for ocean-dwelling cells!
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This seems a little spendy for video tutorials (peepcode is a good benchmark). Have you considered breaking them up into smaller bits and selling the same $50 content for 5 blocks @ $10 apiece?

This would also obviate some of the risk for the buyer? I.e. if they buy the first one and hate it, they aren't out $50.

(btw, don't get me wrong- $50 is CHEAP if you guys do a good job-- I'm wearing my marketeer hat with this comment)
I think someone may be Javascript injecting our demo...I will admit that displaying the total number of connected users is not done in the best way possible.
The point (of GPL) is not that new community has to form around this released source, nor that the consumers having bought devices using GPL software would be able to recreate them with their own software modifications. The point is that for example Linux developers get to utilize possibly useful modifications made by product vendors, say bug fixes.
For those interested in watermakers, it's possible (and perhaps affordable) to build your own!

http://www.albin25.eu/our-a25ak-dido/34-dido-stories/60-dido...
Just bought the Complete Package, 99.70€ with the discount. I know Java, Scala, C, C++, Python, HTML5/CSS3 (Haml/Sass), Javascript/jQuery, C# and Unity3D but have never coded with Objective-C, let's see if I can really beat the learning curve with your videos!
Sounds reasonable enough. If you get stuck halfway, I don't mind helping you out (for free of course). Just drop me a line (email in profile).
Lok guys, objectiveC + iOS UI apis is somewhat harder than mobile java..know befoe you buy
Thanks for the feedback. I completely agree. The top part of the site is something we're trying to shrink. Especially since a good part of our audience have smaller resolution screens.
Are the courses progressive? Meaning, in order to do Premium is Basic required. Or can I buy Premium & learn everything in Basic?
well the video said up to 70 inches per second and there were 4 film recovery bays that would eject the pods of undeveloped film for a midair recovery by a plane.

Assuming the video is correct and that the article is wrong, that would be ~15 hours per roll of film for a total of around 60 hours of continuous shooting.

I would imagine that they only used it for short bursts of filming to get high value places of interest.
I see the videos are hosted in S3 ^^
Mostly no, I think, because most of Android source code is licensed under Apache license, so they don't need to publish their modifications.
I'm not interested in iOS development, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think it should provide a brief introduction for free to allow people to evaluate it. Also, I assume it's possible to upgrade packages by paying the difference?
Our company gives them money but the main thing is that we have a lot of small private projects that are more like prototypes and will never see the light of day. We are not permitted to open source them and probably wouldn't if we could because they'd be worthless to everyone but us. The pricing plans for additional private repos is pretty steep with github so we had to pay for a crappy repository hosting service to dump all of our second tier projects. GitLab would be pretty neat to allow us to store our second rate stuff on our own servers and the stuff we use every day on github.
That's a good point you have. We initially wanted to add it but feared it might complicate the buying process. We're definitely working on this though. Thanks for the feedback.
(Posting a separate comment because the other thread is taking too long to get reply links)

I'm guessing I need to buy the full package ($150) to learn about camera stuff for my photo sharing app. Or can I learn it with the cheaper options too?
Thanks for your support! Let me know how it goes.
What I'm trying to say is that people who are ultra-frugal are sometimes told (insofar they don't keep it secret) that their life sucks and they're not having fun or various things about their stuff. (See examples above.) This is followed by comments about building credit and some moralizing(?) that we should be cool and spend like everybody else.

The millionaire next door [there or to be] types---the silent majority?---may get caught in the crossfire.

However, having seen this recession coming from two years away and having tried to warn people about it only to be told by some/many that there's no problem and everything is fine, etc. I can't really sympathize that much, sorry. While it may not be someone's fault for being laid off or not being able to find a job, it certainly is their fault for not having the savings to cover two years of unemployment given the known 20% risk of it. I don't feel smug about it. I feel exasperated having told people who proceeded to do nothing. And now they want my sympathy?

The Cassandra complex comes to mind. Given how I come across to you, it indicates that I'm just a poor salesman when it comes to getting my point across to your demographic.
You should have stuck to the matters of substance. It is not necessary to go throwing nerd politics into every discussion, even if you believe someone else will.
Well he was right too when he said that Doom 3 was some kind of rupture with the previous titles. I can't remember the last game when I fought more than 10 enemies in one room