skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For newbies personal blogs are a good place to start. However, if you want to get serious try something new and this time determine what most people find intersting to read.

http://lonesomedreamerinme.blogspot.com/
as with the 3 gorges dam, I have a bad feeling about any shortcuts or cost cutting methods taken...

seems that even with the threat of the death penalty for company officials, it still doesn't stop shady practices
Thanks. I'll give PC a read, and perhaps drop cperciva a line. I'm pretty fascinated by cryptography, and I like to be decently well-informed, but I don't see myself focusing on it anytime soon.
How does RSS help torrents?
This article is even more simplistic.

"This chart looks like this chart - therefore they are the same... The reason is because they are limited by some kind of resource, but I have no idea what that is"
> perhaps they are doing that already?

Not really - the one piece of the puzzle that Sun doesn't really have is services (aside from support).
I'm using Opera's built in client. It doesn't have many bells and whistles, but I rarely download torrents and it's already there.
It's more like an iPod without a headphone jack.
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> Still, since it's so large other major companies will be looking for a good platform to build upon if they can get into it, too.

Yup - And I don't think any of the big players have really "nailed it" by a long shot yet. Corps still spend a vast amount of time in packaging/testing.

Also, there is probably a neat open source niche there - take on a BaseShield style service, then simply pick up pre-packaged X-Y-Z, with all the updates/etc. Just as you would a mature distro.

I can see that being a really appealing model.
Pretty much the first thing I do these days is swap Caps Lock and Control on my keyboard layout. Emacs is the reason I started doing this, now I wonder how I ever lived without it.
I use emacs, and won't be switching to Vim anytime soon, but I'd like to say thanks for writing what seems like a really good book and releasing it for free.

The world needs more of this.
Maybe it's because Jobs has a firm policy of shutting off access to anyone who reports anything bad about them. Combine that with their continuously releasing hot new products and using a humongous (and well-spent) marketing budget to whip America into a fever over them, and you've got a situation where reporters have financial incentive to be biased toward Apple. People tend to follow their incentives, and Pogue is one of them.
This attack may be from Hindu terrorists masking as Islamic terrorists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Malegaon_blasts
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I don't think the hole for the singularity argument is necessarily that technological progress, measured by CPU speed or accessible memory or bandwidth or whatever, will necessarily slow.

I think that the hole is probably "We have virtually inexhaustible amounts of X and THIS MEANS MAGIC HAPPENS."

There are many resources for humans which were, in certain times and places, very, very finite. Let me give you a trivial example: drinking water that wouldn't kill you. The history of humanity up until quite recently was the history of drinking water.

However, most areas of major Western nations hit, effectively, the Drinking Water Singularity a long time ago: you can get what are (relative to historical needs and prices) infinite amounts for nothing. (Seriously: think of how much human labor it costs to draw one bucket of water from the well located several miles from your village. Mentally got an idea for how much? OK, now how much labor does it take a McDonalds employee to afford one bucket worth of tap water? What, maybe a quarter of a second, if that?)

The change from cholera outbreaks to no cholera outbreaks, which happened way the heck back on that curve, had PROFOUND consequences for civilization. The change from "I could fill up a swimming pool for a trivial amount of money" to "I could fill up TEN swimming pools for a trivial amount of money" had negligible consequences for civilization. All that water wealth, nothing of major consequence to spend it on.

(I know, I'm overlooking the fact that certain areas like the American Southwest are actually facing water crunchiness again, and large portions of the human population still fail to have their basic needs met. Ignore that for the purpose of simplification -- and incidentally, "You can have all the water you can drink but you can't water your lawn in the daytime" is still singularity-esque relative to "Send a woman to walk a mile to bring back a bucket of water".)

That is how I see the technology singularity coming about: what if I gave you all the CPU cycles you could want for nothing and you found, after a certain point, you had nothing of major consequence to spend them on? What are you going to do, calculate a new Mersenne Prime every second for eternity and call it the singularity?

[Edit: I originally said typhus, not cholera. Typhus is not caused by water quality issues. Sorry, it has been a long time since I played Oregon Trail.]
I don't think they did that. They haven't abandoned their standard product line, in fact they just released the Bold which may be the best of that paradigm.

They released the Storm to cater to the 75% of Americans who don't want to be on AT&T for whatever reason. When the iPhone was released, everyone said "Apple is going to make it about the device, not the carrier" but the reality is they haven't. A lot of people haven't purchased one simply because they prefer another carrier.

Blackberry is giving them an alternative with the Storm. I don't know if it's a good one (maybe not) but it's probably the best, and will probably sell decently just for that.
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At what price though? The cheapest plan authorized by Apple that works with an iPhone in the U.S. costs $70 a month.
I would imagine that one could use the RSS feed directly from utorrent either to automatically download torrents, or to choose torrents to download based on the incoming feed.
> by trying to create products to compete with the iPhone, blackberry has essentially conceded that their brand is inferior to the iPhone

Does this mean that Google, by creating GMail to compete with hotmail was conceding that their brand is inferior to hotmail?
I download all of the TV I watch that way. Tvrss.net is great.
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I tried it, back when I was doing a lot of assembly language programming in college. I lost to the compiler miserably every time.

SIMD is kind of a special case. The vast majority of code I've written in my life has not been SIMD'able. Heck, the vast majority of the code I've written hasn't even been for-loops.

I'm interested to see what kind of (non-SIMD) code can be done better in hand-coded assembly than from an optimizing compiler, for real programs.
In my personal tests, uTorrent running in Crossover on my Mac gets about 25%-50% higher transfer speeds than Transmission, and connects to peers faster.
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Yes, to say the least. But they are far more specialized, and more difficult to invite people to. And, you probably wouldn't be interested anyway.

However, What and Waffles are the largest and most content-oriented.
The difference is that we are probably nowhere near the Malthus limit in technology. The equivalent of the Malthus limit for technology would be when the universe was saturated with intelligent matter - intelligent matter that would probably make our current CPUs look like vacuum tubes. Even the most optimistic singularitarian wouldn't predict this would be happening any time soon. .
Hm. A sample size of one.
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What did you expect, a double blind test published in a peer reviewed journal?
I prefer Transmission's UI for 1, 2 or 3 torrents, but any more than that and the window becomes cluttered. uTorrent is unparalleled in number-of-torrents to memory-footprint ratio (at least, in Windows).
Don't forget that torrents are useless if an ISP blocks them, like Comcast did with BitTorrent (and is currently appealing).

Please remember to support the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008.
Nothing in nature has the power to actively manage its resources. Bacteria can't build a bigger petri dish or perhaps they wouldn't stop growing.

Humans could grow their food sources to match massive population growth (up to some maximum amount determined by the Earth's natural resources) our country did it. Many impoverished nations did not, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

If computers can just become intelligent enough to spread beyond Earth, given the energy they have available now (which clearly they can since we did) they would theoretically be limited only by the amount of energy in the universe, but the curve would stay vertical for so long as to be effectively infinite.
> The programming tools are stronger

Not really. Not outside of lisp. Vim makes for a fully capable ide.

> allows developers to create news readers, email clients, web browsers

And they're all silly wasted effort.
i am sorry.. i wasnt clear there.. you are right competing doesnt mean conceding defeat... but its the way you do it..

my only point was that the range of products that RIM brought out were more along "me too" line rather than ones of true innovation... here i was talking purely about the bold and the storm lines...

agree pearl is no way in direct competition with iphone or any where close but i was only referring to blackberry's response with its bold and storm lines...

but having said that it can be argued that if the market demands iPhone-like phones then creation of a new brand (ie with the storm and bold) may be an answer...
no, but gmail was (and is) a much superior product... it was essentially a redesign ground up..

with storm what is new? sure it has a 3.2 mp camera vs iphone's "paultry" 2 mp and a screen area that is 0.4" larger...

again my issue was with the copy-cat behaviour ... again should have worded that better... what RIM is doing with Storm and Bold is no different from MS's attempts with Zune...
I think the analogy here would be if Google had GMail, but then also decided to create another mail app that was similar to hotmail.
PS: the above 2 differences are not the only differences. Just examples :D
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More relevant for software developers that have already startedup but interesting input nevertheless: http://videolectures.net/kdd07_kohavi_pctce/
Looks good. That's interesting that you already have a few users for a niche app like that.
I truly would believe that some companies like this one really don't fit in with the fake pushing of deadlines. They believe that they really are the company to work for, nay, not just a company, but a movement. If you don't want to give it all up for the idea, then they don't want you. That's the kind of thing to stay away from, unless you really do believe in the idea, whether its your own or someone else's.
that's nice but nothing beats newsgroups + unison
Aaaand once again, author does not know what a "Singularity" is.

http://www.singinst.org/blog/2007/09/30/three-major-singular...
That's excellent. Yahoo's got a very fun sense of humor.
> God damn. That is disturbing.

You've made me nervous about watching it, but then my dopamine receptors took charge, so I've clicked the links ...
In the scientific computing world, the move away from Solaris was swift and comprehensive. It's not a question of what's better, but of what gives you the best bang for the buck at an acceptable level and Linux has more than delivered that.
You bastard. Now I'll be distracted for an hour!
Indian government requests twitter search page #mumbai be shut down
And the governement is also asking people to stop updating about terrorist attack in Mumbai @ twitter as it may interfere with their operations.

I don't understand their rationale. Do you? How does it interfere?
It reminds me:

the phrase direct observation sounds so much better than anecdotal evidence. </quote> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283746
I used to work on Frontpage and I had been trying to get a Pirate logo up. However they tend to only change the logo for major holidays or charities. The only charity I could find that did pirate day stuff are a cancer charity. Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness, that got vetoed for doing 2 cancer charity things too close together.

Ah well... I'm going to have another go for next year. I was thinking that yarhoo.com could be a pirate translation of your homepage.
We are not on Moore's law for batteries.
Stanford/MIT Venture Lab: http://www.vlab.org/article.html?aid=170
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Fair enough. I appreciate the honest analysis.
After pointing out that the author of the article is too biased in favor of Linux to do an honest comparison, you then base your substantive critique on the argument that Sun hardware really isn't more expensive than the X86 hardware web shops use to do the same job.

My question is, do you actually believe that?
I charge about that much. I've had to turn away a lot of smaller projects because I'm way overburdened at the moment.

It's amazing how coders don't actually know C anymore. It seems like a rare skill these days. I also have a ton of embedded development experience (Sony PSP, PS3, XBox 360) that transfers well.

I teach an iPhone Game Design course at the local polytechnic institute that has been good for marketing. And I bounce between 1st and 2nd when you Google "vancouver iphone developer".

I bet I could draw in more work if I advertised on CraigsList and LinkedIn.
By putting "Zones" in that list, you've given me the impression that you aren't really thinking this through, but rather are just parroting the Sun feature-function-benefit table.

Are you really arguing that Sun has Linux beat on virtualization and isolation?
In the 15 years I have been following Pogue, I have never felt him to be any sort of fanboy.
Apparently, rumors are there that terrorists are monitoring twitter
Very interesting; thanks for the thoughts, everyone. I will check out the Mac version.
I know very little about torrents, aside from having tried a client once or twice. Is there any aspect of the way the torrent-ing process deals with files that reduces the chance of also getting a virus with the download? It seems like "official" torrents of say intrepid ibex are probably fine, but is other random content just as risky as it was on kazaa, etc?
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I replied in the other thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378412
Well, duh, they have Yao Ming.
We have Comcast and I've found that if I limit the upload to less than 50% of the cap the system never reacts.
Based on previous "how do I compute what I'm worth as a consultant" discussions on forums like this, it seems to me that $125/week as a contractor is equivalent to roughly $100K/year as a salaried employee. That's not unreasonable considering (a) Cocoa developers are presumably in scarcer supply than, say, Java developers, and (b) the price is for "developers I know and trust", i.e., not folks who have just emerged from a "Teach Yourself To Be A Dummy In 21 Days" programming class.
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What did you use to teach yourself Python?
Damn, I should have put more thought into that before talking. I wish HN had an editing option, now: I feel kinda stupid.
I'm wouldn't agree that they were "just stupid". I would choose the phrase "blinded by greed".

Anyway, I was referring to the banks "investors/shareholders" that have been fleeced, not those the bank lent money to.
Byte of Python: http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python

Dive into Python: http://diveintopython.org/

Both great and free books.
Python tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html

And library reference: http://docs.python.org/library/index.html
actually my experience is not deep as yours.. ive been playing with it side by side with android... also your (ie my) iphone development is not as hard core as some of you guys when you are running osx on a non-mac (wont say which :( )..

i guess i have to get a mac sometime...
Any that might have reasonable amounts of non-Western classical music? Email me, please...
wow that is impressive... where do you live?? waht kinds of projects do you normally get?
It sounds like you've put together a balanced compensation structure. Is it possible for you to publish at least an outline of this? I think many of us struggle with coming up with meaningful equity arrangements for small and un-funded projects.
First, you download a small .torrent file. That small file contains the hash of the contents as well as a hash of each segment of the contents of the final data. If you trust the source of the .torrent file then it doesn't matter who you connect to to get any portion of the actual torrent. Each segment of the file you receive is checked against a hash and the entire final data is also checked against a hash.
If you had to make an educated guess, how long would it be until we can reanimate cryogenically frozen people? And what would the cost of freezing everyone who passes away until then be?
"This attack may be from Hindu terrorists masking as Islamic terrorists."

So when the bodies of teh dead terrorists are identified and/or the captured terrorists are interrogated, then what?

The wikipedia article you link to talks about a completely different type of attack - people leaving remote controlled bombs in crowded places and detonating them later. In such a scenario it is possible to pretend to be someone else.

Yes there are Hindu terrorists, though nothing like the worldwide jihadi networks. They have no motive to target Americans/ Britons.

This is a really dumb speculation along the lines of claiming the perpetrators of 9/11 were actually Jewish fanatics/ the Mossad.
How would you say they were fleeced? If you're talking about executive compensation, that runs through all industries, not just banking.

I do believe that most of the people making the decisions that led to this crisis had the standard capitalistic intentions of making money for themselves and their shareholders. I wouldn't say they were "ripping off" their shareholders, though they certainly did let them down.
No harm done. :) I guess what made me comment in the first place is that I have found your comments here very thoughtful and good.

I still this this statement is an unfair generalization based on your personal experience:

"...if you don't have a college degree or other qualifying credentials, you probably won't get hired there."
uTorrent is using 1% cpu and 14MB ram here on my MBP. rTorrent is using about the same on my server.
I think targeting Americans/Britons could be just to get wide spread attention than hate against any religion or nationality.

India currently is just a broken system - everybody having their bit of contribution to this whole mess including "aam aadmi" - common man who just sat quiet. Its just waste of time to get into blame game of pointing to political parties, religions, communities or anything.

India just has to get into a mass movement and fix itself. Or for the time being at least may be army should take over hoping it can't be worse.
That is a really good looking app. I like the color / value overlay and the simple, clean interface.

Don't let the low first day sales discourage you. I saw my biggest spike on the 2nd day of sales. I think it has to do with how long it takes to percolate through to all the international App Stores.

If you just released yesterday, you should go into iTunes Connect and tweak your release date to reflect that. Your app is on the 3rd page of your category already, and that is going to severely hamper you sales. (The pages are ordered by release date by default.) I've noticed my sales decline as my app slips further back into the deeper pages of my category. Once you hit about page 10 or so, consider doing a trivial update so you can land back on page 1 of your category.

Lastly, for what it's worth, I think it's a little overpriced for what you're selling. Most of the apps that compete with you in this niche are at the 0.99 price point. In fact, there's one that's very similar (but much uglier) for free.

At any rate, I bought it and left you a 5 star review, since it does exactly what you claim. I feel every independent iPhone developer should have a few people setting the bar high on the first few reviews. Best of luck!
Anybody irrespective of Jewish,Hindu,Christian,Muslim can BUY terrorists to plant bombs.
its not the cars, its the legacy.

Domestic cars are pretty much associated with crap by default. Detroit can come out with a car thats faster, better looking, more fuel efficient, more luxurious, more reliable and cheaper than a honda civic. And most people would still buy a civic over it.

Why? Because they either owned or know someone who owned a domestic product in the past that turned out to be crap.
Umm, and remember there's no convincing reason to believe cryogenics work. Sure, we've cooled down some animals and brought them back. But keeping a head near absolute zero for years, and expecting to revive a consciousness? No evidence for it. None.
I can't believe the author didn't suggest that you learn Obj-C yourself!?

He works for a publisher of books that help you learn by yourself and he says...

"If you believe in your iPhone application idea passionately, maybe, just maybe there is someone out there who will share your passion and that you can motivate to work under different terms than the going contract rate."

Someone == YOU! Learn iPhone dev yourself!
Life goes on :-)
Happy Thanksgiving!
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actually the "where do you live" question was more about the iphone-app demand inquiry rather than for stalking purposes :D
Parkinson's Law:
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
Nice unicode checkboxes. But dude, what are we running from?
Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. More than 100 killed.
Reverse engineering the iTunesDB File Format
I've got a Lenovo T61p that has been a tank for me so far.
For some classes of problems, Sun has a better, more robust solution in the form of Zones.

Sun also has Xen and VirtualBox (not as good as VMWare yet).

If you don't like Zones, fine. However many people are using them in a way that serves their needs - but perhaps not yours.
I would learn Python the same way as I learned any language. I had an idea which I HAD to build and I did it. Learning the language was almost secondary. Who learns a language from reading a book. I get about halfway through the table of contents and toss it. I use books as reference.
"Pramana, which means "proof of reality" in Hindi, is currently in "stealth" mode, and won't reveal much about its customers or just how it works. The company isn't just media-shy--it also wants to prevent bot creators from figuring out how to evade its analysis."

Sounds like security via obscurity to me.
We've got something similar in Ruby (we're not the first, and ours is nowhere nearly as mature as CorePy). We use it for building ad-hoc debuggers for reversing targets that don't support native debugging and tracing interfaces.

Ruby is an excellent language for this, because it gets out of the way. Here's a Rasm snippet:

@epilog ||= @prog.add {
push ebx
mov ebx, retv
mov [ebx], eax
pop ebx
xor eax, eax
ret
}

Obviously, that's all pure Ruby.

Once you have a class mapping for each of the instructions in your target ISA --- way easier than it sounds --- getting your code to jump into a runtime generated buffer is pretty easy.

We're starting to throw code onto Github; I've been thinking about publishing this, but didn't think it would be very interesting, except as a hack.