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The film is making waves because of the innovative use of augmented reality throughout the filming. I think the development of ground-breaking techniques for combining animation and live acting qualifies for hacker news.
i think it suits reddit better. i think it is a bit out of topic for hn.
Not likely. I'm a big advocate of rolling your own framework that meets your (and only your) needs.

The thing we use at Expat is incredibly fast and turns out really good code. It's the reason we can move so fast, and it's a competitive advantage. But I wouldn't release it to the world.

It just has too many optimizations for the way we like to do things. And there's still the matter of the order-of-magnitude gap in level of effort between something you use in house and something you can release as a product.

Right now, this guy has something stripped down to the bare essentials to do what his shop does. Ideally, he's shed all the useless garbage that naturally accumulates in any commercial framework the size of django. And as a result, the final product probably isn't of any use to anybody outside his team.
Wouldn't it be more like giving away the recipe and then taking it back?

The philosophy of DVCS is that people should have copies of the recipe anyways.
Regarding "Unix: small and hacked together, success."

My favorite part was:

"He allocated one week each to the four core components of operating system, shell, editor and assembler."

Now that is a productive four weeks!

Maybe the lesson is, if you don't have a working prototype after four weeks, you're doing it wrong. At least when it comes to software. I mean, if that's what it takes for one guy to bang out the first draft of Unix...
I know, but he pins it on _why and uses it as an excuse to call him a filthy, awful Nihilist.

I agreed with Resig's eulogy, actually: It seems like _why would view his role in those terms. So what happens is, all of us see only _why disappearing and taking everything with him. In that context, he's being a nihilist. But from _why's perspective, he changed the community he was in for the better, and has chosen to go on. So he has left things behind - the salvaged programs, the Guide - and has himself moved on to something. We don't know what that something is. It's nihilist if you assume that his point was to disappear and destroy, but if he's moving on by using the things he's learned as _why, then it's a transformation and a celebration in just the way Resig described.
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More than NM, we want to make sure if everything is ok with NickB.
Right, did you read the article?

In it did say anything technical at all? All there was a couple of crappy paragraphs on the plot.
Besides recommending "Programming Erlang" which is a well written book, this article offers nothing new.
certainly, thats pretty high on the list of things I want for the site
I agree. That's all dumb. I didn't think people were being serious about that.

Hell, if there's one thing we do know it's that we didn't get to see _why in his early developing years. When he joined the community, he was already a bright, talented guy with an assortment of interests. It's harder to look at somebody and figure out what they were thinking if you've only ever seen them when they were fairly mature.
A single user that constantly gets attacked by hackers would provide a great opportunity to detect and fix security holes.

Assuming that they want to fix the holes, which AT&T probably doesn't. They may be using the "infinite bugs" model, in which fixing one bug does not improve security because there are always other bugs the attackers can find.
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Right. I disagree, but I'm going to stop contributing to this thread. Apparently you get down-modded for speaking ill of the dead.
This is the kicker:

I got to write half of it in Scheme, which probably means that I deployed more Scheme runtime than anybody else on the planet.
He's talking about health care spending. It doesn't cost money to not smoke, to select certain more healthful food options or to walk five blocks instead of driving. All of these can and should be considered health care, but aren't usually measured in studies of health care spending or availability of health care.
It's strange that no one mentions those sections when they mention the book.
I'm going to keep tilting at the windmill, here. Why are you downvoting these comments? How is Zed Shaw not simply trying to insert himself in the debate with base presumptions about _why and his motivations or the cause of his disappearance?
It's a combination of everything:

a) The advertising isn't effective anymore, especially with digital alternatives. So very little value meaning less revenues.
b) Their staffs are bloated beyond belief.
c) By the time the paper is released the next morning, they have been scooped.
d) There are costs you can not get rid of ie- big news rooms and printing dead trees.
Oh come on. When was the last time you heard about someone getting their stuff deleted in China over something so trivial as copyright infringement?
Can we stop discussing this? The more you say, the more it diminishes the effect and the aura of his leaving.
You're entirely right. As it happens, _why's email address was pretty well-known; furthermore, judging somebody so quickly after something's happened is brash and impertinent.

Even if you were wrong, you're making well-reasoned points, and it's irritating that people are downvoting you and upvoting snark.
As he says, you have the right do do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean that people won't think that you're a dick for it.

http://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/3412630996
I'm betting they're downvoting you because your comment was kind of douchey. It's okay not to be concerned about Why's abrupt disappearance from online-ness, but slamming other people for being concerned about it? And "good riddance?" Really?
"Who are you to say what he needs? Obviously by your values, the cigarettes aren't "correct", but it's really not your life to live."

I'm not moralizing. Godin was talking specifically of getting further ahead financially, rather than falling further behind. There are many things that people want to spend money on that actually put them further behind.

To get further ahead financially, you either need to save your money now, or spend it on something that will pay off +ve, later (while not experiencing bad enough cash flow that you die before the expected benefit). This is simple arithmetic.

Many, many projects or expenditures fail to live up to their initially expected benefit. Beyond that, at any moment, we're not aware of all the investments we could make, nor are we certain of their outcomes. So, it's foolish to write, as Godin does:

"When someone in poverty buys a device that improves productivity, the device pays for itself (if it didn’t, they wouldn’t buy it.)"

I like the rest of the piece, I was just pointing out the obvious flaw in his uncritical, simplistic, free-market claims.

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You seem to be reacting emotionally to the smoking issue. What about this example instead?

Suppose someone offers to sell some poor sod a supposedly productivity-enhancing perpetual motion machine, and the potential buyer believes it will work.

Is it incorrect for me, as a third party, to say that this would be a foolish investment (from the perspective of increased finances/productivity)? After all, it's not my life to live. Who am I to interfere?
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If you create Open Source Software you are putting a contribution in to the community. That contribution is often derived from or utilises other OSS.

I think of OSS as a movement. Publicly nuking your (popular) repositories is a step back for that movement.

Any developer has every right to do it. However, for those of us who are trying to get large enterprises to embrace and contribute to OSS, our task is a little harder this week than it was last week.
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Doing both would be great, but often doing both is impossible. Code is one of those things.

Don't ever code as smart as you can because debugging is twice as hard as coding. If you write the smartest code you can, you will not be able to debug it.

I imagine origami code as this kind of brilliant and amazing puzzle solution that brings a smile to your face when you grok it. And that's exactly the kind of thing I would not want to maintain for a living. Write it, sure. But not maintain/extend/debug it etc.
Making a good lens for these small sensor cameras is much easier compared to film or even APSC sized sensors (most DSLRs)
I'm assuming _why kept the free stuff up, but took down the stuff he had to pay for? I'd probably do that as well. Monthly hosting fee's and domain name uptake can be a PITA, and a money sink.
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I'm looking for a co-founder, or really a partner, because my company is already founded.

My product is currently in Beta and I should be releasing V1 soon.

You can download a copy of my product here:

http://www.transactor.com

If you are interested, please send mail to:

cofounder@transactor.com

I'm looking for an engineer who can help start work on V2 of the product.

The basic qualifications that I'm looking for are:

1. You have to be willing work with out pay (in return for a big chunk of equity), until we start generating revenue.

2. You have to be ready to make a firm commitment to the business.

3. You have to be a hacker.

4. You have to have at least 7, but preferable 10 years of programming experience. This doesn't mean you have to be 10 years out of school. If you are 23, just graduated from college, but have been programming since you were 13, that would qualify as 10 years of programming experience. This is pretty firm. I need to know that you will be able to work independently, at a high level, from the "get-go". If you can't hit the ground running then it isn't worth the cost of brining you on board.

5. Your experience should have some significance. If your 10 years of experience is really 1 year of experience 10 times over, then it doesn't count. It can be stuff you did on your own, or in school. However, you should have a list of impressive projects that demonstrate you are a top notch programmer. For example, in the course of getting a BS in Computer Science, I was able to accomplish the following projects:

a. I wrote a compiler

b. I converted a Java data flow analysis framework that worked over source, to also work over byte code

c. I wrote an implementation of the genetic algorithm

d. I wrote a library that added method injection (before and after methods) to C#

Plus I worked full time as a programmer while going to school full time.

6. You can't be a snob. If you are the type of person that thinks "all Windows Programmers are idiots", then I don't want you. Transactor makes tools for programmers. Windows programmers are the largest segment of the developer market.

7. You have to be interested in building a business, not in career advancement. You aren't going to get promoted. If we succeed, you may get wealthy. That has to be enough. If you want to build a business, so that when it grows you career will advance, and you can fulfill your life long dream of being a middle manager, I don't want you. Transactor eschews "career thinking".

8. I don't care where you work from. However, you have to be willing to fly out to Seattle to do an in-person technical interview.
I agree. The advantage here is that his contributions aren't gone. The only thing I know of that's seemingly gone for good is TryRuby.

As for getting enterprises to embrace OSS: Wouldn't you say that the ability for people to do what _why did is a disadvantage? Commercial apps don't do things like that. I'm not knocking OSS, but that's certainly something to take into consideration.
I read that as showing how he actually cared about _why? as a person, rather than as his persona. He doesn't really care about _why?'s code, he cares that everything is okay with him.
The truly limiting aspect of this article is the author's assumption that a person can be typed as believing anything philosophically simply because of what he does or what he has or has not achieved.

This incorrectly assumes that one's belief in something being true cannot vary from a particular life perspective.

Can a student be a libertarian even though he has yet to accomplish much in life? Can a wealthy mogul believe in communism even though he is positively dripping in filthy lucre? Not according to the author's (implied) premise and yet we know that in both cases the answer is yes. It is the premise that is false.

Thus, the author basically answers his critics by slipping in, sub silento, an ad hominem attack to the effect that only an unthinking person who happens to have gotten quick financial success in life can possibly be a libertarian. The unexpressed corollary to this is that no one could otherwise possibly be so stupid as to believe in a libertarian philosophy.

I am not defending any particular philosophy in saying this; just noting the below-the-belt mode of argumentation. I think this is why it can rub people wrong even if points made along the way might otherwise be interesting to consider.
He did delete his Twitter and his GitHub, so it wasn't just paid for things.
Reading my comment over, I realize that I wasn't so clear.

There are two almost unrelated issues:

AT&T has poor security - agreed.

Security through obscurity is a universal evil - not so fast. Quick example - you have ciphertext where you don't know the key vs. the same ciphertext where you don't know the key AND you don't know the algorithm. The latter is more secure, because it's harder to brute force.

The reason security through obscurity is usually bad is because it causes people to make poor assumptions - "He'll never guess I encrypted it with rot-15 instead of rot-13," but for a given secure system, adding obscurity will make it harder to break. But it's the poor assumptions that do you in, not an inherent flaw in adding obscurity.

The reason you use widely published encryption algorithms is because they've been vetted for poor assumptions. They need to be open to be vetted, not to be secure, and we've found that's always been a good tradeoff.
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It's as much as a response to the people responding to him on Twitter as anything else.
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I'm looking for a co-founder in Seattle. I have product ideas involving voice-to-text, automatic speech recognition, and mechanical turk, but would love to discuss other ideas as well. I'm an experienced Python/Django developer and Linux server admin, created Browsershots in 2005. Email is on my profile.
Zed will never understand _why and his simplistic depiction (not understanding) of Buddhism is a testament to this. Moreover he doesn't recognize _why as an artist. He does this in numerous ways but the most obvious and most gauche is the refusal to call _why by his name, which is _why, not Jonathan. In doing so, Zed pulls why out of his world and into his own, which is not an artist's world, and then judges _why. This is unfair to _why in the extreme.

It reminds me of an essay by Henry Miller called "Creative Death" which may help explain _why to those of us who can't understand the state of mind and the motivation of an artist like _why. Here are some excerpts, which run to the end of this post:

For the artist in man is the undying symbol of the union between his warring selves. Live has to be given meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. Something has to be created, as a healing and goading intervention, between life and death…

The process is a long and devious one. It is all a conquest of fear…

His war with reality is a reflection of the war within himself…

The ideas which germinate in the artist are unique and must be lived out. He is the sign of Fate itself, the very symbol of destiny. For when, by living out his dream logic, he fulfills himself through the destruction of his own ego, he is incarnating for humanity the drama of individual life which, to be tasted and experienced, must embrace dissolution…

It is what Nietzche described as the fusion in one being of two divergent streams–the Apollonian dreamer type and the ecstatic Dionysian…
It's not inconsistent. It's enlightened. I know this quote has been used already in Zed's defense, but I'll post it again in response to this particular comment.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire

Please note: By arguing that Zed is being internally consistent, do not jump to the conclusion I am personally making a judgment on _why.
I can't find that "August 19th shall be known as _why Fawkes day" bit - where'd you see that?
But _why's name isn't Jonathan, Zed didn't know him in person, and in the one public conversation they had _why and Zed weren't on the same side of the argument.

We have no proof that _why is in any trouble at all, and this isn't the first time he's nuked things he created. There's nothing much about the person to be worried about, and the persona isn't real. Zed just likes ranting. (BTW, if you're worried about a person and how they're doing, you don't call them names.)
That article says you have the right to frame the discussion about what other people can and can't do with your code. Other people can't dictate what you promise them, but it's reasonable for them to expect you to be consistent about it.
It can't help that they employ a small army of people to hand the paper out to readers on the street. That must cost more than the journalism.
I wish it was standard practice to give patients access to this kind of awesome stuff.
He plainly justified an asymptote: "there must be some limit where humans can not run any faster". The exponential has this property and is simple. There also looks to be a good r^2.
All kidding aside, I think I'm going to be checking this out in more detail soon, maybe early next year. Seems like fun.
It is back up :D
Thelondonpaper is an afternoon/evening commuter freesheet, as is the London Lite; the Metro is the one that goes out in the morning.
You mean like Jott? ;-)
I'm with you on the hype tip. I think this is more about RB getting on trend, than a serious attempt to find great ideas.

If you're not into the whole brevity thing (quotes The Dude) I'd stick to the standard ways of getting your idea across. This just looks like a painfully difficult way of giving your next business away. 'scuse the cynicism.
Gotcha. Well, no harm in deleting your own Twitter account. It may be that he was on a paid plan at Github (personally, I'm on the $7/mo plan), and just deleted it instead of downgrading? You "can" downgrade accounts though, for what it's worth.
Maybe you and jcrocholl should touch base with each other.

Also: what platform are you developing on? Is this a C# application?
Some sources:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/07/cancer-among-i...
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/07/cancer-in-othe...
I was wondering what had happened to NM as well. Another vote for doorbelling, and good wishes.
But is it fast because Bing is hardly used?
The permanency is the major deterrent for me, too. I have to psychological problem, here, I've just made the rational calculation that my tastes are too likely to change eventually.
This is old news. Why is it being posted, save for the couple of Erlang submissions at the top?
What's fascinating is that these two, seemingly independent, brain lobes work in such beautiful unison. The up/down regulation of neurotransmitters and agonist sensitivity to compensate for and mask illnesses is wildly interesting.

Also, I think I would've enjoyed learning, about biology specifically, a lot more had the subject matter been designed so awesomely. Dull presentation (text, structure, etc) can really have an effect on the way you view the content.
Good article but your quote does not summarize it well at all - it's just a side point the author makes on the way to the main point.

Real Summary: The author eloquently argues that an emphasis on medical spending has caused health care resources to be misdirected to the point that such spending is generally counter-productive.
Oooh, what is that word again... mesmerizing
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I understand your point, but I disagree.

I don't think I've posted a job posting. I'm still being very broad in description. But I'm looking for a co-founder who is more experienced in backend technologies. I'm not looking for passionate startup person who is great in design, and have no experience in backend. I'm trying to compensate my skills.

About what the company is aiming to do - I can't write all the details openly and with everybody. My approach is to discuss the details with the right set of people - on one and one basis. Once someone shows any interest, then I'll discuss the details with him.
For what it's worth, this impacts me enough that I've looked, and I couldn't find it. If I had, I likely would have already been fast at work trying to put up a replacement, if only to have something to link to the people who are sure to ask me what happened to it.

My wife actually noticed yesterday that it was gone before I got around to reading all the comments on HN about Why's departure. I eventually told her that he was basically dead. Her response? "How am I going to learn Ruby now?"

I of course have installed a local interpreter, but she really liked the lessons.
I think it matters a great deal on the specifics. I'm not aware of anything out there so far that I would accept as a replacement.
would've said yes 9 months ago, then I moved to Boston :)
I'm guessing the submitter is making a suggestion to deal with the _why/Zed Shaw articles.
I do love that last line. Overall, a good post from what I find is an often stale blogger.
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use a proxy then ?

I tried the telnet trick and it works by simply typing
GET / HTTP/1.0

'G' doesn't do much normally, or did you mean that it disconnects you as soon as you type G ?

Is your DNS working properly ? This is the IP news.ycombinator.com should resolve to:

174.132.225.106
I would love to see a version with the motivational fortune cookies removed.
and his name is _why? What we are all asking right now!
To me, that’s fucked up, and something only an obnoxious Nihilist would do. A Nihilist who was just jerking people around and playing a long con on everyone.

If you think this is measured I would hate to see your definition of intemperate.
Yes, but for transcriptions of hour-long material like podcasts, interviews, speeches, essays, long emails. So it would be more like castingwords.com but faster and cheaper because of speech recognition.
Agreed.

And I like Erlang, but I'm a bit tired of that graph. It's very impressive, but I've seen so many articles parading it around as Exhibit A for why Erlang is great. Now they usually make other points with other evidence, but I think a lot of people stop at the graph and come out with a very shallow understanding (and are let down when Erlang doesn't turn out to be a panacea).

Also, it should be noted that the article is more than 2 years old.
Yeah, 'levels of health' is an awkward phrase. I would agree with you, and that's part of the point - we're debating issues that aren't closely coupled to what we're supposed to value.
There's a difference between all-else-equal and uber-alles when it comes to a positive thing. This is why the abortion debate has cute euphemisms that are both pro-something-the-other-side-is-also-in-favor-of.
I don't know what _why?'s name is, I have no idea if Zed knew him, or not. Just saying that that's how I read it initially.

Also, it might be poor form to call someone names, but just because you disagree with one of someone's actions, doesn't mean you don't like them.

You can say someone did a bad thing without thinking that they're a bad person.