skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the bigger picture of the species, death and birth are what prevents stagnation and enables the next generation tackle new challenges. We are imperfect copying machines, both at biological and intelectual level. Stop the renewal cycle and not enough copy errors happen anymore, leading to the ultimate failure of the species in front of the fast pace of change in the surrounding environment.
For basic GUI interaction, there's also cocoaDialog:

http://mstratman.github.com/cocoadialog/
Just bought it. As a new full time freelancer, I really appreciate your effort to take time and write this book. Thanks.
In Hollywood there are only a handful of studios. In sports, there are only a handful of pro teams. In software, there are too many companies for an agent to develop a relationship with or tout your services to in the same manner. And the best programmers don't need an agent.
Mac OS and iOS do not have a unified UI.
Mac has a desktop UI, with windows and menus. iOS has a touch UI.
Blockbuster actor salary > developer salary

10-15% means a lot more in one place than the other.

That's why the Ari Golds aren't scrambling to get you (or any other dev) on their rosters.
Pedantry: The title of the flick is GATTACA; it's a play on those being the four bases in DNA.

Quite agree with the rest of your comment, though.
NASA doesn't strike me as a particularly "ad-hoc" kind of place.
Apple isn't successful because they have a crapload of patents, they are successful because they build a great product, a great brand and a great ecosystem. This Apple win helps Apple marginally and hurts the consumer significantly. To be honest, I'm not sure why fanboys even like this - Apple products improve when there is competition, and all innovation is iterative.
I've been less involved with music for the past few years. It's still a hobby that I have great affection for, but I'm lucky if I find the time to record something once a year lately. Too many things to do, not enough hours in a day.

As for acoustics, I agree. The acoustics of the room you record in is the #2 factor (only behind the skill of the musician). Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of AD/DA converters, pre amps, and microphones aren't going to fix crappy acoustics.

I've seen some great pseudo-science from audiophiles. I remember the site for a recording studio advertising that they suspended their computers in the air because of something to do with vibrations from the floor hurting the audio quality of burned CD's or some such nonsense. It was the best example of Poe's Law I've ever encountered (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law).

I've read a few issues of TapeOp, but it was a number of years ago.
> Some of Samsung's products will even fit in 3rd party Apple addons that make use of the 30 pin dock.

In this particular point, Samsung is 100% in the right. Interoperability is one of the explicit justifications for copying. Vendor lock-in is nor protected by law, and is one of Apple's borderline-illegal monolopy-protecting tactics.
As a long long time user of Yahoo services like Mail, and Groups, I have a ton of ideas that I wish I could offer. But, alas I am not an employee, just an old fart coder dog and business owner. After 32+ years in the biz what could I possibly know?
Actually I think the submitter blew it, they should have submitted the link on that page: http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html which does a good job of showing why at least some of the patents Apple asserted in this case should not be upheld.
I find this (apparently fake) story interesting for the reaction that it created. I found it surprising (disturbing?) that anyone (even a fictional character) would equate losing a lawsuit for patent infringement with having an identical product. I was even for surprised reading through to comments on g+ to see how many were simply along the lines of "haha stoopid iPeons". As if they are dumb for having purchased an iProduct in the first place instead of the obviously identical but cheaper product from Samsung. Wat? I don't doubt the authors conjecture that some customers may have this odd reaction to the lawsuit, but why do so many people seem to think that it is a natural reaction to have?
I don't understand why more tech recruiters don't ruthlessly specialize and laser-focus on building a deep understanding of a particular niche when matching candidates and employers.

I'm CTO of a web and mobile development shop with about 20 employees. Finding good frontend developers is REALLY hard - to be a great frontend guy these days, working on modern web apps, you need to have strong engineering chops, with knowledge of the html5 apis, css3 and serious JS experience, including an understanding of memory and performance management in large frontend-heavy apps; ideally have worked on a couple of medium size apps with 5-7 person teams; probably have at least some exposure to the current JS framework scene; ideally (for our stack) have experience with preprocessors like sass or stylus and coffeescript; have good design sense and the ability to work in a collaborative feedback loop with a designer, etc etc. It's a really cross-functional role. There's a lot more people who "know HTML and CSS" but have never worked on serious apps, or have solid JS chops but can't produce design with reasonable fidelity to save their lives.

A relationship with a recruiter who understood this "candidate profile" and could bring me people who would be a good fit, not just resumes with "HTML", "CSS", "Javascript" and "5 years of experience" on them, would be worth its weight in gold.
> > Samsung filed counter-claims against Apple too.

Samsung also holds patents.
hmm.. there is really a limit of possible combination for the App Store system: user (multiple), credit card (multiple), location (multiple), devices (multiple), authorized computer (multiple) -- times X amount of actions (add/remove/edit/assign/etc)

Time to time a rather rare combination of the above makes the system clusterf*ck and the the post like this one pops up. This makes me believe that Apple engineers are too lazy to... use the UML ??
Buzz Aldrin’s Official Statement on the Passing of Neil Armstrong
Or they knew about him and made a bet that he would taint the decision and get the case dismissed on appeal in front of a judge, who understands and appplies law better than civilians.
What I am seeing is a large number of developers that have been using platform from before iOS was released growing more and more tired of what is happening from Apple.

I also know the a large percentage of business and developers that have relied on Apple consider Apple a risk, or have been bitten in the past and are actively moving away.

Would give examples. but my business can't afford to upset Apple either.
If it's compatible, it's open-and-shut for NON-infringement, since copying for compatibility purposes is protected by law.
That sounds nice and tidy in the abstract. Make it more concrete: do you, personally, want to die to fulfill some perceived evolutionary imperative? If so, feel free. I don't, ever.
I think the author make this stuff up.

Also after a few months it tricks me into G+ again, nope, still no value for me.
I thought Panasonic's Full page Ad on 16D (big yellow ad) was pretty touching. Who does that now-a-days?
What weird naming conventions? There's only one symbol in each plugin the application knows about, the init_<pluginname> function, but at least one symbol is usually necessary.

Do you mean the plugins calling PluginManager functions to register hooks? I just wanted to present a simple method without a lot of code. Using structs is an alternative, more convenient in some cases. One problem with it is that it imposes an ABI, while one registration function per hook does not.

Anyhow, this was just a basic example showing how plugins can work. I do plan to explore alternatives in the future, and specifically looking at existing pluggable applications (Apache, for instance)
Adobe apps are the only reason that I stay on the platform right now.
"if you’ve got 5 years of experience with C++, you are the same as anyone else who has five years of experience with C++"

I would agree that your "5 years" is equally as meaningless as anyone else's generic 5 years. On the other hand, I would like to think that a quick look at your GitHub profile could make a huge distinction between you and another programmer.
Show HN: My first project after college & as Javascript newbie
10^3 range of wavelengths sounds pretty damn scalable to me.

Metamaterials for visible light wavelengths do exist. One that got note in the press a few years ago has a negative index of refraction.

Panchromaticity could be accomplished via a color array scheme similar to what is already common in lithographic optic devices.

This not being your area is precisely why you should extend the researches some respect, rather than immediately pouncing on any plausible rhetorical trick to make yourself seem expert when you are not.
Consumer rights in Sweden are a joke.
No. That's the separate "it's impossible to merge accounts" point. (I have four separate Apple IDs for two countries.)

A lot of the bizarro stuff going on here, I think, is because accounts with different histories (e.g., what service they originated with) are still handled differently behind the scenes. It makes no sense, but things really do seem to be path-dependent.
As far as I have read so far they use Exchange internally.
The payment for jury duty is "the rights and privileges of US citizenship". It's a civic duty, not a work-for-hire.
The headline is accurate (unless hacker-news had one that has one that has now been edited away).

If you had read the article you would know precisely what wavelengths the device is applicable to (3rd paragraph even), and why it's an exciting research development.
Press the space bar to restart / start the game :)
It's a lot easier than the original post says (and it's mentioned in the comments). Just rename your shell script to end in `.command` and you can have it execute via a double click (or launch it with launchbar/quicksilver). I have this in my .zshrc to automatically create a new .command file for the current directory so I can easily open it up in MacVim:

https://gist.github.com/3474341
Samsung's best 1 Billion Dollar ad-campaign
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem
A programmer's skill in programming is unrelated to their ability to communicate said skill. So the programmer may or may end up better off paying an agent >=14% of their salary to try and increase their net income.
Pinch-to-zoom video (1988)
Thanks, that page has a lot of very interesting history, including a picture of an early cell phone with a touch-screen based keyboard that was manufactured by IBM and Bell South in 1992.
Even though you are being honest and straight forward about the creators of the game and the copyright they have does not mean you can infringe on it. You still need to ask for permission. I would suggest doing so before you release any more code or updates to this page as you could incur severe legal penalties.

That said, nice work. Hopefully the authors of this game don't mind and will support your efforts or work with you on an HTML5 version of this game. Good luck.
Everyone keeps quoting this acting like it validates the sense of entitlement everyone feels they have to all of Twitter's data.
This is all by design, and you're surely right about Apple doing more with code signing in the future. In the past, signatures have mostly only been checked in very specific circumstances (e.g., designated requirements for two programs to be considered equivalent by Keychain and the firewall), though the architecture is fairly general, so third parties have been free to cook up their own applications. Still are, though there is no alternative to Developer ID for the Gatekeeper checks, which seems sensible from a KISS perspective, so long as reasonable workarounds exist for developers unwilling or unable to sign with a Developer ID (certainly true today).
Looks really good. I had high hopes for Bespin, but I haven't heard anything about that in some time, so I suppose I'll start watching this project instead.

I know it's based heavily on GDocs, but my workflow is based around Dropbox. Maybe something could be rigged up there.
All it would take for this to start is a few highly-motivated salesperson/agent types to team up with a handful of highly-desirable engineer types. And let's face it, it will probably need to be the agent types to make the first move. Surely there's a few guys (or gals) like that reading HN right now.
I love that they managed to fail to fit 5-letter section titles without ellipsis, preferring to have part of the work in a giant find and to save room for vast tracts of empty space.
There is, although via iTunes and it is a little subtle. It may also depend on your country (but Australia and Peru work).

1. In iTunes, go to your account (iTune Stores, then click on top right login name assuming you're logged in).
2. Edit your Payment information
3. Choose CC type of "None"
4. Save

It is a desirable thing to do if you expect children will be using your iDevices -- the password doesn't stop them buying more $$ stuff after you've just authorised them buying something for free. And I'm assuming you didn't type your password in front of them...
Someone post a TL;DR; on this one. I want to click it out of curiosity but I hate these titles.
The author mentions that in his surveys there was no real difference based on the average age of the attendees.
"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." - Steve Jobs; Triumph of the Nerds.
That answer and its question have got to be the most value-added comments in this thread.
No excuse to not switch when 2010 rolled around, especially when mobile became one of Yahoo's top priorities.
He specifically mentions the fact that even average, B actors have agents. These are guys who make less than many developers do. Yes, the Ari Golds are not representing them, but some agents are, and they presumably find them jobs.
I do know some NASA engineers, my impression was that teams get formed much like they do in a large corporation where a project manager seeks out various people in the organization with the skills needed and recruits them to be on the team.

In that case the team is pulled from existing employees, so there isn't an externalized negotiation that goes on, at least not directly.

From the disruption point of view you would need some sort of loose conglomerate which sort of re-defined 'agile' development, a company with a small cadre of full time 'producers' and 'project managers' but not engineers. They might come up with some sort of concept and then hire an 'architect' (the moral equivalent of the director) and then working with that person perhaps the 5 to 15 core engineers. Then a bunch of 'extras' in the form of new engineers who aren't yet 'stars.' Between the architect, the producer, and the product manager roles would be doled out and extras added as needed.

If you really did this like a Hollywood movie there would be a period of 'pre-production' where most of the overall design decisions would be made, the architect person would work with a designer ( the equivalent of a script writer in our analogy) who would layout the pieces and how they would fit together. Then you'd go into 'location' and spend 3 - 6 months of really long days getting the whole thing put together, and dump that over to QA / post production team who would go through and clean up the loose ends. Then blam you ship it, collect revenues and go to work on the next one.

Not surprisingly that is somewhat similar to the 'game studio' model. Games being programs that have a limited lifetime. Game programmers don't float from studio to studio though.
I work for big tech company. I reply to recruiters that I'm having too much of a great time where I'm at (true), but they seem like an effective tech recruiter and would they be interested in joining [big tech company]?

Most say no, though one did toy with the idea but it didn't happen. The no's seem to get a kick out of the unique response though.
Doesn't your Neil Armstrong argument kind of undermine itself given that Armstrong did live long, did decry private space venture, and yet private space ventures are happening anyways?

I don't follow your point.
I tend to agree with you overall. I think society would move much slower if people lived to 250, and I think it would be a net negative.

However, some of the concepts you're talking about were based on flawed studies done decades ago. Old people's thinking and learning abilities do not diminish nearly as much as we used to believe.
https://twitter.com/SolitaryDesigns/status/23958498854111232... (17562)
I wonder why people think they have all these obvious super slam dunk arguments that Samsung's large, professional and highly paid legal staff somehow never thought of.

I wonder if people know that the light bulb was invented over 120 years ago and yet there are still being patents issued on light bulbs.
Change is good. Has to happen sometime. Can be difficult to get used to but thats not a reason to avoid change, just to think about how to smooth transitions.
Death is so scary because so little of our conscience self is passed onto the next generation. All of our experiences, memories, and feelings cease to exist. Only a fraction of our heritage is passed onto the next generation. That is all that survives of our mind.

Compare this to our genetic code. Approximately half of our genetic code is passed down in each offspring. Death only partially erases our genetic makeup, and so no one is scared of their genes being lost when they die.

Death is scary because we have no means to pass on our memories and experiences to the next generation. It is as if we were meant to be scared of death, so that we fight against it.
Authors have agents as well, and writing may be more analogous to software than acting.

Also the vast majority of authors are paid less (usually much less) than the average software developer.
Are you saying you don't ever want to die at all?
That's interesting because there are some people who feel very strongly that they should die, and there are those who feel that they would never want to and should not need to.

Some people faced with certain death will go to very extreme lengths to prolong their lives by the tiniest amount. Others will accept it.

There's a sort of "natural way of things" mentality that is very pervasive. People believe that we are meant to die. I think this is another very difficult barrier that the SENS community faces.
You might find this study fun too: Slime Mold Grows Network Just Like Tokyo Rail System

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-n...

Original article: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5964/439.abstract
Minor quibble on your 3rd paragraph. People can be sexually active without being fertile. Menopause, vasectomies, etc.
Unbelievable. I've seen people struggling with Macs based on this sort of thing. The only Mac I own is pre-OSX, from the the good ole days. I'm aware the hoop jumping has worsened, but this is ridiculous.

I like freedom. I never used my old Mac for internet and I would not want to use a newer Mac (or iPad or iPhone) for that either.

For internet related usage I can get the same performance, and in fact much better performance, as anyone would from an Apple computer using BSD/Linux/Plan9.

If I want to do something that is heavily graphics intensive and requires a Mac (e.g. audio/video production), then I just switch to the Mac. I consider that "special purpose" computing.

But these days Apple is really aiming for the "general purpose" computer users, not just creative professionals.

No way would I agree to jump through hoops to do general purpose computing (email, web, multimedia playback, etc.). The old Macs were terribly slow and clumsy for agile internet usage and the new ones are no different. And now you have all these ridiculous anticompetitive hoops to jump through... just to run software!

Nothing beats freedom and flexibility. It's funny because those sound like Steve Jobs/aging hippie-type "ideals" (or "values", right Mr Cook?). But that old Apple, the one that told us to "Think different" and made interesting computers for creative professionals, seems long gone.

And it all started with a silly little MP3 player.

They ditched Motorola for Intel and now they sue their Asian suppliers in fear of competition. Competition for the general purpose computer user who just wants a computer that works. The one who shops on price. Sad.

Apple is the antithesis of creativity. They try to commoditise and control programmers, they try to prevent people from learning about programming and tinkering and they keep trying to pwn your music collection. Why the f- can't someone just have a drive full of sound files without Apple trying to assert control over it?

Apple will soon be shifting everything over to ARM. This is the future. But I think the creative people will already be building their own ARM computers by then. Screw Apple. They've lost the plot.
The OP (tanousjm) posted the same thing 2 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4425673

I'm relatively new to HN, but I believe the first comment on tanousjm's original submission is noteworthy (especially since tanousjm posted the same thing twice in as many days).
You make some good points, but I think I prefer all of those problems to dying before I've even lived for my first century. :-)

> If we are given the capability to remain sexually active for hundreds of years, then one person will be capable of multiplying into far more new people, rapidly increasing population growth.

People can be sexually active without being able to have children. Ask anybody who's infertile, or uses contraception.

> Any disease we are unable to cure with the potential to permanently affect people will instantly become far more terrifying. Non-fatal sexually transmitted diseases, loss of limbs or appendages, and debilitating mental diseases will be far, far more damaging given the greater lifespan that they will affect.

That is as it should be. Horrible things are horrible; that they are overshadowed by worse things does not make them any nicer.

> Medical care will still, presumably, be as expensive and challenging as ever; however, we will have more people who need it and more reasons that those people need it.

While it's possible that medical care will continue to cost the same amount for the next few hundred years, it seems kind of unlikely. A lot can happen in a century.
This seems more cumbersome than opening AppleScript Editor, writing the following, and saving the script as an app.

do shell script "my script"

Despite being an obnoxious language, AppleScript is pretty handy for distributing shell scripts onto non-technical users' machines.
They'll never give up. Better patch the meatspace bug and write a software workaround.
Ah yes, the handiest excuse ever. There are problems right here on the ground. Careful reasoning about genuine utility, as if that's how a society ever made a decision about anything.

It's a damn good thing the Wright Brothers didn't say the same thing. There were a lot of problems right down on the ground when they built their aircraft too. They should have been working on something with genuine utility!

It's about dreams. It's about stretching the boundaries. It's about reaching for more, not merely shuffling the pieces we already have.

Here's an alternate way to look at it- When's the right time to start a startup? When all your personal problems are solved? When will that be, exactly?