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In my spare time:

Structural engineering software. Python-C++ mix. Wish I could say more, but can't. :)
NetBSD 5.0 released
Slides describing the improvements http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/
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Practical, yes.

I am going back to 5 year old notes on instruction scheduling and using the same code and algorithms to deliver targeted advertisement on the net.
Indeed. One of the merits of this WSJ article is that it doesn't contain ridiculous speculation.
Thanks for the crash course.
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For most people, I think it has less to do with audio quality and more to do with re-connecting with your music in a physical way.

There's something about listening to an LP--choosing one from the shelf, taking it out from the sleeve, putting it on the turntable, looking at large-format artwork--that will never be duplicated by an iPod. It's also more of a time investment; when I listen to a record I at least listen to a whole side. It's a very different experience from shuffling between various tracks and artists. Then there's the whole matter of rare and out-of-print recordings that that haven't yet been digitized.
Yes, that is exactly the reason. There is nothing inherently wrong with digital. 24 bit resolution audio formats improve upon the quality of CDs and vinyl.
Can you point us to some of this reading? Sounds worthwhile.
I am trying to keep online advertising fun by doing it in Lisp.

I "write" one web server a day, mostly customizing hunchentoot in some way. I have it malleable and obedient; nothing like having total mastery over your tools. I am at the point where I can look at a Lisp web app and I can see the cost of each form; thanks to weeks of disassembly, tweaking and benchmarking.
I was watching a show about a computer system that monitors the Internet and other traditional media and shows what words and phrases (all languages) are rising through the chatter. It could have been for the NSA or Wall Street, I forget, but it's very interesting to see how all that supposedly random noise can be sifted to show new trends.
Maybe this one: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=5326508
This makes some sense, although wouldn't producing custom designed chips (just for Apple) push the price up somewhat? Even with Apple's scale?
Zak, by classifier I hope you mean "categorizer". i.e. given a text and a list of categories, return which categories the text belongs to, along with a confidence number.

If so, I say chase that thought a bit. You might save me from actually messing with NLP.
It is also worth noting that historically hash functions have had the implicit requirement of being "fast" and "small". Because hashes are used on both encrypted and unencrypted data there is a pressure on hash designers and the people selecting from available hash options to factor speed and output hash size into the selection criteria. This inevitably leads to the selection of hash functions that compromise security for other (practical) considerations.

We could have moved from MD5 to Whirlpool a long time ago, but I and everyone else looked at doubling storage requirements and chopping throughput to a trickle and selected SHA1...
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4173

Is this it? Behind a paywall now, but you can probably get it somehow. I searched for human slavery across comments on searchyc.
I don't see that this study or analysis takes into account that a person with the swine flu also knows 290 people. So all 290 of them would answer yes.

Multiplying out 290 x the 290 people those people know to give some impressive number ignores the possibility you might actually need to be dividing.

My math and probability analysis may be dodgy, but I hope my point is made: simply knowing how many people know someone in a category doesn't give any meaningful data about how many people are in the category.
Though not realtime, Google's own Zeitgeist and Trends do that. For anything of that sort to be realtime it would have to do Deep Packet Inspection at every ISP, or maybe just at a few very fat pipes.
Absolutely. I generalized from one datum once, and hoooo boy. I'll never do that again.

I'm being funny, but with a purpose: if acting on one datum was always fallacious, you'd think it would be bred out of us by now. Sometimes you have to act on what you know, and different ages favor different personality types.

For instance, I believe that strong visual people have an advantage in our times. I suspect it's because visual people are able to explore (by quite literally visualizing) much larger solution spaces in shorter periods of time. Like the author I am skeptical of Galton's claim that people who cannot visualize are over-represented in math and science.
I wonder where these shanzhai guys are getting their firmware, because that's probably a lot more expensive than designing the hardware. Are they just bootlegging it?
What a flu pandemic could cost the world
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Was it about a book entitled "A Crime So Monstrous"?
Our web traffic for a free iPhone/Touch app suggestions quite the opposite. The device is already a PC in the most pockets of teenagers, it's only a matter of time really before screens get larger, and battery power is realized to its full potential.

I don't expect WSJ to suggest investment or visionary strategies, they just report the news. I could be wrong about where Apple is headed, but what makes Apple (and startups) exciting to follow from my perspective is speculation on what amazing thing they'll do next. Let's not be a negative nacy, slashdot is that way >>>
I see no reason to be overly concerned. Its mortality rate is low (according to WHO figures, not the crap the media is publishing) and the infection level is still low.

All Pandemic means is that it is now present in multiple countries. Some of these reporters are acting like its Captain Trips or something.

We have a flu pandemic every year, this one is just a little different so far. I'm going to wait for some real evidence before I start duct-taping the doors and windows closed.
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http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/05/hiphone-looks-mighty-fa...
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It's not that. People just know so little about designing good crypto hash functions. Basically right now nobody knows what they're doing.
I'm working on integrating the Windows 7 bootloader and some of its new functionalities with Linux and OS X as a part of EasyBCD 2.0

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
Apple already gets custom Apple-only chips from Samsung.
As a former compiler junkie that sounds interesting, can you elaborate?
I think this will be worse than normal flu season, mainly because this is a newer strain that people arent inoculated against.

However, I don't think it will reach anywhere near disaster levels. Annoyance levels? Yes. I'm already redirecting travel away from Mexico, and thousands of other people are too.

I heard from someone who works for a large important hospital that they are preparing for the worst, however, especially on Mexican border states like Texas and Southern Cal. They think a lot more people are infected than being reported becuase of widespread fear of quarantine / lack of money in the poorer districts of Mexico.
This is extremely inspirational. 9oliYQjP, I can't find any contact info for you. I'm currently looking into the mobile market right now, and would like to chat a bit. If you're open to this, can you email me at mark|at|markbao|dot|com?
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These chips are usually dirt cheap. I bet the radios cost more. Also, the iPhone already has significant retail price margin built in, so I doubt it would hurt them much.
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"Smell of books" people.

I love books. I love reading what's written good, and immersing in a stream of the author's ideas, as they flow in a fluid way, slowly unfurling and settling in with me; not necessarily to stay, but to be weighted, fondled and tinkered with -- definitely.

It is extremely unlikely that I would grow to appreciate books as I do now if I haven't been exposed to printed paper books in my being a small child.

Hate, unmoderated hate is what I have for those people. "Smell of books". Sheesh… A word is a word, and you can read it from a screen. It don't smell, it's indexable, searchable and resizable. It's translatable (mechanically), and you can store tons of them in your pocket.

You just need to recognize that it matters how you read it -- don't just skim, immersion is something you yourself do.

Back to the vinil topic -- CDs are mastered with a resolution (in time) and depth (in percision) that is nowhere anywhere near vinil. Some people are gifted in a way (I am, to some extent) to hear, feel and "see" a sound-scape emerging from a recording, and enjoy the music on many more levels then you'd think. If you can't -- don't generalize from your own experience, people and minds come in all shapes and forms.

I'm willing to not be fussy about them "smell of books" people, let them have their books, printing, bookcases, dust, more dust and the fabulously smelling rot. I won't like it, but hey, they might have something there, would any of them please explain how that works for them though? I'd love to know.

And you can master a digital recording (going beyond 44.1/16) to match what vinil does to audiophile's senses. It's just not something the "free market" will generally do.

Some records will never be digitized, and were mastered in an all-analog process to begin with.

But the whole time-space "handling" and "smelling" issue I don't get. I used to have a turntable, it was always a hassle to load it up, etc.

You own the immersion. Use it. You want to listen to the whole album? Listen to the whole album.

There is no one there to stop you. Unless you own a cellphone, hate them dreaded time-leaches.
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H1N1 Swine Flu Map
I'm working on improving eventlet: http://devel.ag-projects.com/~denis/eventlet/

Eventlet is a networking library that uses greenlet, Python implementation of
coroutines [http://codespeak.net/py/0.9.2/greenlet.html] to handle
asynchronous events in a synchronous way. Greenlet can be thought as an
analogue to Python's enhanced generator, however, without "yield" keyword
and the limitations it brings.

For the applications that are network-bounded it effectively brings Erlang-like
scalability in Python: you can spawn as many greenlets as you like (they're cheap)
(e.g. one or several per incoming connection), control their execution, etc.

If that sounds unclear, just look at the examples:

http://devel.ag-projects.com/~denis/cgi-bin/hgweb.cgi/file/t...
http://devel.ag-projects.com/~denis/cgi-bin/hgweb.cgi/file/t...
http://devel.ag-projects.com/~denis/cgi-bin/hgweb.cgi/file/t...

Compared to the original eventlet (home - http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Eventlet)
our branch has
- a number of bugs fixed and "onions" removed
- twisted integration - you can use any twisted reactor or twisted protocol or
any other feature you like (this part is heavily influenced by corotwine)
- proc module for advanced coroutine control (spawn, link, waitall, etc)
I have been looking for something on decorators for a while now. Thanks a lot :)
Deterrence is unlikely to have much effect (especially given the facts of this case) and if they lose, which I think they will despite my not being a lawyer, they will have shot themselves in the foot. So far they've picked on exactly the sort of people who could be bullied into a settlement. Lessig would love to make a test case out of this. the irony of picking on Lessig himself (as opposed to whoever mixed the muppets with Anime) is too rich for words.
Shareaholic v1.7 is here - More services, more options (would love your feedback)
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Usually bootlegging - many 'clone' phones use a re-themed and modified Windows Mobile 6.

What's interesting is that with Google Android, the phone OS is now an open game. However, Android requires significant CPU horsepower generally not found in Chinese phones.

This didn't stop the manufacturers of the 'Dream G2,' a phone designed to look like Android. But (unfortunately) it's not: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/15/dream-g2-doesnt-get-the-i...
Another Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&#...
Amongst numerous other additions & improvements, we’ve added the option to turn on the Shareaholic button in the URL bar right next to the orange RSS icon. We feel that this is a very natural place for the icon to live within the browser. What do you think? love it/hate it/indifferent?
Great map. Of course, it was great the other 3 times it was submitted.

Something about Google Maps makes it tough to grab a permalink. I'm using this in my weekly newsletter tomorrow and it took me a while to get it, and it's also making it difficult for HN's dupe system to detect.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578961

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580452

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582289
How is it determined that someone has this new flu, vs. just a standard flu, or something else? Whenever I've had flu like symptoms, it's always been a clinical diagnosis.
<i>All his copyright cases have either been dismissed, or else he lost.</i>

This is not true. Lessig recently had a huge victory with the Golan case...
Yeah, this is the one! Thanks :D
This is hilarious to read. It's like discovering you've BitTorrented the new Wolverine film with Spanish sub-titles and a Japanese dubbing. You can work out what's happening, but focussing on any specific sentence makes no sense.

Oh, also an interesting issue to watch.
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Wow. That's a smart move. I always thought Kindle is out-dated on arrival. People only like to lug only one brick if at all possible. And it seems a little odd that they would lug something as big as a Kindle, when they can do the same on their phone. I know I wouldn't bother with a Kindle.
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They test for the strain of virus itself. That most likely means either an antibody-based test, or a PCR-based test, but I don't know the particular protocol being used.

In any case, it's not something that's going to be done in your doctor's office -- or even at your everyday medical testing lab. Probably only a handful of virology centers can do the work.
Yes, I do. The usage is essentially identical to the Bayesian probability classifiers commonly used for spam detection. I compared several of the classifiers available in CRM114 and found hyperspace to be the most accurate as well as being much faster when checking a large number of categories.
Real-time search engine Collecta (pre-launch) has a demo of their tech for flu news
On the computer animation front, I am currently finishing up work with my group on our animation, Rumble in the Roses. We should have our final, rendered short done in a week or so.

http://cloud.cs.berkeley.edu/~cnm190/roses/
I am saying to friends that the swine flu is like the normal one, you have fever, headaches, sore throat, but one week later, you die.

And it's plausible description: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/parents.htm

What I don't know is if the swine flu has stronger symptoms. For example, more headache than you normally had with flu, or coughing more, etc... To me, so far from what I've read, you have a flu, then you're dead. Wish I knew if there was a couple things to look for, that would really raise the alarm.

But if the influenza really spreads, like dozens of people here in São Paulo are diagnosed, one sneeze and off I go to the hospital.
if you don't know it, Google Search Insights is much more powerful and gives better estimates
Found via CEO's blog: http://luckyrobot.com/2009/04/29/swine-flu-collecta-realtime...
What is music if not an experience? Music enjoyment has almost nothing to do with audio quality... it is an emotional response to noise.

Judging from your post, you would probably also say that we should stop having sex (way too much of a hassle) and instead just masturbate alone and use in-vitro fertilization for making babies... I mean whats the difference anyways right? "Smell of books" people probably also like having sex.
> This is because large applications have nontrivial object life cycles, and so you end up spending all of your time trying to figure out what exactly those life cycles are.

GC just abets to care less about memory management in applications.
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I have just discovered Prof. Ghrist's work:
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~ghrist/index_files/research.htm

I am profoundly enchanted by this stuff ;-)
I'm working on a blog (codeinput.com) and also a site to improve hackers discussions, it'll be about discussing only and not link sharing, I hope you all join it :D
One of the best startup retrospectives I have read. Especially the points about marketing and user acquisition are very relevant to what I what I am doing currently.
A tree-based forum visualization using js and canvas. It is intended to make it easier to follow longer discussions.

Link (using proggit as test data):
http://www.webnodes.org/reddit

Source:
http://github.com/csytan/webnodes/tree/master
The folks on this list are currently working on a startup of their own but are available for part-time work. Please DO NOT contact any of the people below unless you are interested in hiring them.

Hi. I'm a leaf node at a medium-sized tech company in the Seattle area. We're growing rapidly, hiring FTE positions, and quite probably willing to "roll on" temporary people during certain demand spikes. I assume I am or my manager is your target. The <H1> sized disclaimer at the top has me scared, so I have a few questions:

1) Is it ok to contact people on the list to solicit their willingness to go FTE with our company? If it's ok in principle, perhaps a dropdown with {please do not, unstated, please do} options regarding this preference could be offered so I can tell which ones are going to just get pissed at me.

2) I have a lot of work to do, but I can't assess fit through a short bio. Is it ok to contact people that sound like they may be a decent fit to "interview" them prior to having any particular task lined up for them? I am busy and am not going to walk the combinatorial explosion of each of these people and each of my tasks to decide before emailing someone if it might be worth "going on a date". However, calling with no task in hand walks the line of sleazy headhunterness if done wrong (which is going to be a problem either way next time the economy picks up). I want to follow the rules of your site.

Thanks.
[Edit: Sorry man, this is my bread and butter. Excitement got into my head and I barfed out a few things I should have left out.

I hope I don't come across as rude and evasive if I said "sorry, can't give any more info; just think hard about it" :-) ]
My project is InfoML (http://infoml.org/), a proposed standard for storing "chunks" of (human-readable) text and annotating it with various useful metadata, including tags and bibliographic information. I hope there will eventually be a community of developers who will find InfoML useful and will build a variety of software tools for manipulating data stored in this format.
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I found it quite impressive how far automatic translation has come, unlike the early babaelfish days you could in fact understand most of the text without trying to do a overly literal retranslation into the source language (I still fondly think back to the day when babalfish translated the german city name "Würzburg" as "peppering castle").
I hate to have to step in here, but I feel that I should now. The entire purpose of this blog post was to show how cool the WebKit profiler is, highlighting some of its new features that we all worked on together and at the same time teaching people how to better use a tool they probably weren't familiar with. However, the highest rated discussion here on news.yc is now quibbling over who deserves credit for what. The worst part is that no one seems to be arguing that the post itself was unfair, its simply the title of this particular News YC posting that is of such great concern.

If its that important to "set the record straight", then I have to say that the heavy view was indeed completely broken prior to this change. The heavy view used to completely miscalculate all child nodes, adding up there corresponding individual times instead of how much time the root node used. This is completely opposite to both the way gprof works as well as Shark. On top of this, as you mentioned, recursive times were counted several times over, never reporting them correctly and often resulting in profiling times of over 1000%. This is not a trivial matter since most of the major javascript libraries contain recursion or call cycles of some sort. The end result is that the heavy view could not be trusted at all when measuring a script's runtime. This is important because the heavy view is what is closest to Firebug's current behavior, so it was not feasible for someone to make the switch from using Firebug to WebKit before this point since they couldn't ask trivial questions like "which function is taking the longest" and expect a correct answer. Thus, the logic for this feature was completely rewritten and behaves 100% differently than before. True, most of it was done in JavaScript instead of C++, but it wasn't "simply display code". We actually investigated the implementations in gprof and asked our buddies over on the Shark team what the correct behavior should be and coded it up. The reason we chose to do this almost entirely in JavaScript instead of C++ was to make this code more accessible to existing JS people who might also want to pitch in. I think this is really key because a lot of people contribute to Firebug because its in a language they already know and are familiar with. JavaScript code should not immediately be assumed to be a "trivial" portion of a program.

All in all, I think boucher's reasoning behind this seemingly crucial title was to get people excited about the "enhanced" WebKit profiler, not to somehow imply the WebKit team has never done any work on this problem before or something. I'm not sure that many people would have cared that much if he'd written "minor/some bug fixes to safari profiler", especially if they had already encountered some of these bugs in the past and had been turned off by them initially, not to mention that the changes were indeed pretty significant.

Trust us, we know the frustration. We love WebKit at 280 North and are constantly saddened to hear that a lot of people don't even know about any of WebKit's truly great debugging facilities.
Amazing. This is pretty cool :-)

The thing is 100% statistical right? It doesn't know anything about the grammar of a natural language (say, English.) right?