skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if your peers are in the same category, how are you "senior" to them?

10 years good experience + a boatload of talent + rock-solid theoretical knowledge is my minimum bar to call yourself "senior".
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I will sell you an '87 944S with no engine for $500 right now.
Well, but why does that work? Doesn't it rely on the opposite outcome of the race condition mentioned in the article?
My job involves "predicting stuff". There is however a difference between predicting outcomes and doing so with a high degree of accuracy.
This is epic, and I don't think everyone realizes what this means. Developers will be able to just... export. The revenue model for Flash games used to be: free + advertising. With this move, those same games can be released on the app store and actually charge money, or fall back to the advertising model. Its a simple way for developers to cash in. The funny thing, and this is what makes very little sense, is why did Adobe do this at all? There's no doubt that little feature cost them some serious cash, and for what? To make Apple rich?
The article is slanted so heavily I had to turn my laptop at a 45-degree angle just to read it.

Let's review: political speech is protected speech in the United States. That means speech about how government and the politicians work. That's sacred.

Once you move away from purely political speech, you don't have an iron-clad right any more. There are limits to what you can and cannot say.

I don't think you can make a case that this speech is purely political, even though it involves political protest. So all the "I thought this could only happen in X nation" comments are way off-base. Don't be manipulated by people writing quasi news articles that have an agenda.

I'm sure the government has made the case to the judge that this type of speech is enabling people to commit a crime. I have no idea if that argument is sound or not, IANAL, but I'm pretty certain that the free speech argument here is bogus. He could have tweeted all day long about his political opinions without a problem.

Having said all of that, as a libertarian I'm really concerned about governments trying to control communication around protests. This should be an instructive legal case for those people, like me, that don't understand where the lines are currently drawn.
Video here too. Binaries are available but kind of clunky, requires OpenCV library version 1.1: http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn:8080/cmm/?page_id=155
If it works on Google App Engine you can deploy it for free...
Concerning LBOs, the most interesting thing is not that the target firms investors may get hosed, but that these deals are profitable because they exploit the absurd vagaries in the US tax code. The fact that companies have to spend an enormous amount of time and money aligning their capital structure with business needs and tax constraints is not great.

Incentivized debt may be a problem in a country that seems to have problems with debt.
This article is not just totally off-topic. It's a poorly written article consisting of little more than one ad hominem argument after another. Not even clever ad hom attacks, either.
Crap... if you could develop a decent compression algorithm that tossed out all the sleeping, masturbating, eating, wandering around aimlessly, sitting there stoned out of my gourd, and posting stupid stuff to the internet, I bet you could compress my 30 some years into about five.
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That's a clever idea, but I think it paints the solution in broad strokes. I don't know how, for example, it solves for "I really like 'The Talisman' by Stephen King, but hate 'The Stand' (or almost anything else he's written" for example.
Trust me, the engineering institutions wouldn't touch 99% of software with a bargepole.

Software engineering to me has always meant the software part of an engineered system, e.g. the software flying on an airliner or controlling a power station.

There's nothing wrong with being a programmer, it's an honest trade. Certified Java Enterprise Solutions Architects, on the other hand...
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about re: concurrency. If mentioning cores repeatedly (and summing their clock rates) wasn't enough of a giveaway, proposing Hyperthreading in userspace is just hilarious.

The problem with flash is not that it's single-threaded -- it's because NSAPI plugins run in (and block) the main() thread!
One of the first apps written in Flash and cross-compiled to Objective-C native in the wild of the App Store:

http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2009/10/5/iphone-justl...
This is nothing but good. Let's see if Apple likes it. Didn't Apple dislike the iPhone apps made with .Net+Framework?
I fenced in school and enjoyed it, but as for being a workout I was always bothered by how it's so asymmetrical. I'm right handed and so it didn't work my left arm nearly as much.
Does anyone know what happened to newmogul.com?
http://www.newmogul.com/
Had they just run

/etc/init.d/mysql start

instead of "restart," their script would have worked fine. The spurious starts when mysqld was already started would have been ignored.
Ice hockey. (Hey, I'm a Minnesotan!) Besides that, I like baking, photography (especially sports photography), cycling, and making a really good cup of tea. Sailing was great when I lived in California, and snowboarding will be fun once there's some snow on the ground.
Ask HN: what do you look for in a resume?
As an engineer looking through resumes, do you want to see all the languages and tools we have used before, or just the primary ones? For example, I list Python, C/C++, and Java as my languages even though I have dabbled in Scheme, Ruby, PHP, etc.

I've seem some people put SVN as a skill, but isn't that assumed? I've seen VIM as a skill. Irrelevant?

I don't want to clutter up my resume, but I don't want them to think that I only can program in languages that the university teaches.
Private Equity is neither private nor equity. It used to be called LBO and then it was re-branded.

It is perfectly legitimate to take on leverage to exploit some opportunity. That's what every startup funded by a loan does. It is a bit more difficult to fund such opportunities in established businesses.

It's would be rare that the parts are greater then the whole or that management is provably so bad you're almost certain to gain a return on investment simply by changing management.

It happens, but it is quite unusual for the markets not to exploit situations like that very quickly, long before it gets to PE or LBO.

So that why are LBOs and PE so common?

For one debt is a multiplier, invest 10, get 12, profit 2. Invest 100, 10 of those equity, 90 leveraged, get 120, pay back 100, profit 10. 10 is way better then 2.

But that's not all. There's also regulation, regulation gives lenders seniority in the bankruptcy process. First common shares are wiped out, then senior shares, then debt, then senior debt. In other words, all the share holders could be wiped out, but the debt holders can still get their money back.

And then there's taxes, debt is often favored in taxed.

So why wouldn't you prefer debt over equity? Debt is almost always better, except when you lose. If you invest 10 and you lose half, you have 5 left. If you borrow 90 invest 100, lose half, you're wiped out and then some.

To improve things, perhaps we shouldn't treat debt so much better then equity when it comes to taxation, and other regulation.

We definitely should have real bankruptcy, not tax payer bailouts.

And we definitely should keep an eye out for situations when the people in charge don't have their own wealth on the line. If they win - big bonuses, if they lose - at worst no bonuses. That's not the correct incentive system, that's a guarantee for disaster.
A question for people who are more knowledgeable than me about Flash and Actionscript -- from whence do these performance problems originate? Is it primarily Macromedia/Adobe's poor technology causing the problem, or is it developers writing really bad Flash applications? Or is it some other bad integration layer between Flash, the browser, and the hardware?
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Trolls should be ignored.

Generally, people who consistently spew inflammatory and poorly reasoned garbage rarely yield edifying conversation. I'd rather not waste my time.
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nope. doesn't.
I'm sure Adobe's motivation is to make money selling licenses to software developers. If I remember it is about $700/seat for this software. In terms of their cost, it would make sense that Apple did some of the heavy lifting on this as part of an agreement to keep Flash off their devices. Unity is another example of a company doing this same thing and making money at it too.
Seems like a huge opportunity for folks who are fluent in Flash/AS3 and haven't had time to jump on the Objective-C bandwagon. It's likely that since it's compiled down, it'll run faster than interpreted Flash! Great move by Adobe! (I'm curious if Flex will work.)
What are you talking about?

I gave a link to Wikipedia (which lists the actual legal sources). I wasn't passing judgement, just saying that what he did seems to be illegal if you accept the fact that the protests were illegal.
>I got thinking about this as I tend to find that as I get older I tend to gravitate towards ideas and beliefs that reinforce what I already know to be true rather than challenge me

Interesting - I seem to be experiencing the opposite. When I was younger, I was afraid of ideas that challenged my worldview. As I get older, I'm more willing to admit uncertainty about how the world works, which has the effect of making me more open to ideas that challenge my assumptions.
I don't think I understand what you're objecting to. The way I read it, CSP is lock-down by default (if the header is sent across to opt into it), with the application developer being responsible for providing a whitelist of where code and data can be loaded from. How can you do something similar today without still taking care to escape all inputs, etc.?

http://people.mozilla.org/~bsterne/content-security-policy/d...
I'm calling it now: ECMAScript will be the most important language over the next three years.
You're right that software has a negligible marginal cost, but what you're forgetting is that it has high fixed costs. It takes significant time and skill to create quality software. And, since most custom software sells one unit, it's the fixed costs that matter.
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Most likely QT is doing hardware decoding of the HTML5 /h.264 embedded videos while Flash video is being software decoded using the on2 codec on the main CPU.
People have been arguing this for quite a while: I just read and posted about James Fallows' _Breaking the News_, (see http://jseliger.com/2009/10/04/breaking-the-news/ ), which was published in 1996 and yet still feels equally relevant today. Most of Gillmor's suggestions could have been derived from that book, which leads one to the question: why haven't things changed?
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Me too. All of the above. Still doing 1. :)
Breaking the News
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Adobe is using LLVM.

There is no runtime.

+1

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html
Windows flash sucks too. Hulu at 1920x1080 on my Tv uses 100% of one core to play back video that windows media player can do with 5 to 10 percent utilization on a single core.
For each language you choose to include, in descending order of importance:

- amount of work done (years, lines of code, # of programs)
- self-assessed level of expertise (expert, novice, 7 out of 10, etc.)
- how much you like it and why
- 1 or 2 major projects done in that language
People tend to see it as a free speech issue because he's simply re-sending out public data. Each individual person could have just as easily listened in on a scanner. It's a bit counter-intuitive.

The real issue is that scanner data isn't really public. You're allowed to listen to it, but not if you intend to commit a crime.
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Looks like it'll have all the AIR bits-and-pieces in it. So you'll get database/filesystem access, etc.
So, when you use library classes, you write each and every single import manually? As in type in the package name and class name? That alone would mean a 20% drop in productivity for me. Ctrl-space is my lifesafer.
It seems to me that they could have pretty easily hidden their location/who was carrying out the tweets with a few changes to how they setup the whole situation. That being said it was likely they were either being watched beforehand or were at least on someones radar prior to G20.
From the README:

The approach is surprisingly simple: for each line of code you enter, we compile a shared object in the background. If the compilation succeeds, the object is loaded into a child process via dlopen(). Parsing of C #includes uses gccxml. (Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to use gccxml to parse the user's input, and due to the complexity of parsing C the input parser is currently hacky and heuristic.)

While I agree that this may be an elegant (simple) way of doing things, how responsive is the compilation process for the RE portion of REPL? Even a one second wait time might seem tedious.
My Core 2 Duo (2.2 GHz) laptop on Vista does the same with an extra: increased fan speed and thus increased noise. Waiting for the holiday season to get new one on cheap (I hope) and I am hoping someone at Adobe can't sleep at nights over this!
Really? That's weird. I've used Hoefler Text in mockups before (though ultimately decided against it). Useful to know though!
MonoTouch (monotouch.net) is exactly the same approach for .NET instead of Flash.
Artfully tying people up. It's sometimes associated with nudity, which is probably why people have added disclaimers; although I can't imagine a workplace that'd penalize a simple google search for it while allowing HN.
Links to websites are probably the best thing you can include on a resume. They are nice checkboxes on paper, but playing with something you built is invaluable.
Really, you're a snowboarder?
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem with the term "polymath" -- too many people seem far too keen to apply it to themselves.

I think the best strategy at this stage in history is the "know everything about something and something about everything" strategy. Aside from making life more interesting, the more you know about fields outside your own specialty the more likely you are to have great ideas in your own field, since most "new ideas" in a field are really just of the form "hey, why don't we try this approach which they use in another field on this field?"
Japanese bondage, mostly with ropes. That's what Wikipedia says.
And I wasn't passing judgement on you. I figured that everyone hadn't seen his site, and that his own declared intent would help provide context to if he was aiding crime or not, since that's what he's being charged with.
The libraries people use to "escape all inputs, etc" are providing effectively the same functionality as CSP is, but that's not my real concern.

My real concern is, despite the fact that developers have the ability to set policies about what regions on the page can contain dynamic content, "policy" is generally too brittle to describe what people need to put on pages in real-world apps.
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It was them trying to play The Onion or Valleywag, except it seemed more like a tantrum related to the pushback on some of the previously contentious posts. It felt like a "we're better than you" play to me, and there had been too many posts like that in the weeks before.
When I tried to look, I found your previous comment!

I can't find it either.
In short: no Mac required for developing iPhone apps. flash games which are extremely easy/quick to develop can be ported into iphone apps.

Conclusion: iPhone app development prices will go down the drain for most of the apps. There will be millions of apps on the appstore. Prices of apps will go down further.

WOW!!!
Note that it was nickb's site, who disappeared from HN as well three months back:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb
Winemaking, electronics (somewhat HN related since I sometimes sell what I make and do consulting), machining metal, raising chickens, gardening, various forms of art, learning to play flute.

I guess baking could count as a hobby since I do enjoy it quite a bit, but the primary driver is hunger, not passing the time :-)
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my take:

your resume should be targeted to the job you are applying for. initially i dont care that you know scheme if i'm hiring you to do XYZ, but once we get further along, i do care. highlight what was important in the job posting and just tease that there is more.

please note that although i do hiring, i know from talking to others who do, i'm not nec. typical in how i go about it. ( as in, i often dont read resumes at all )
Will it work as well as Flash now works on OS X? If so, then thanks, but no thanks.
Adobe really needs to hyperthread their Grand Central dispatch cores with Erlang or they're not going to get anywhere.
Shopping in Oakland is generally more "village-centric" than the big-box Westfield mega-mall approach. I prefer the variety and experience you can get with the smaller stores, though it definitely lacks the convenience of one-stop shopping a large mall can provide.

I strongly disagree with your assessment of restaurants in Oakland. Oakland has a lot of amazing eateries, including many of what are regarded as the "top 50" of the bay area.

Piedmont Ave, Lakeshore, Uptown, Jack London, Oldtown, Rockridge, Temescal and Lake Merritt are all fantastic neighborhoods for eating (and shopping too). They're all close to each other (walking distance), relatively safe and just generally cool places to hang out.

I've been an East Bay resident for a long time and, before getting to know the city better, most of my experience was based on the bad press I had heard.

If you spend some time exploring some of the cities gems I think you'll be very surprised. I was.
I would expect Flex to work as well since it's basically an actionscript GUI library written on top of Flash. There is a mxml compiler that takes your Flex gui code and converts it to a SWF. And it sounds like LLVM takes a SWF and turns it into Obj-c code so I think it would work.
He's not being prosecuted for the speech, he's being prosecuted for the action. You can say whatever you want. You can't intentionally help people commit crimes.
That's about right: that's the main argument and not all that well supported. I don't think I'll rewrite the article, but here is a bit more support.

I hope I don't need to argue that 37s is a brand. They do sell basecamp and books. Forgetting basecamp for a second, Getting Real is a very opinionated book (and they just published another) and it has an implied "ideology": do less without investment, make it look nice and charge money. The only "supporting argument" for that is that it worked out for 37s.

They sell more books by promoting that ideology.

Now, this is unfounded, but I suspect it is true: people hoping to imitate 37s use basecamp and I'd venture that at least ~5-10% of their users are trying to imitate them. So, ideology -> sales.

I would like to be able to do these quantitatively to have a real founded argument, but that is out of the question. The whole thing is just my perception of the situation.
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By that definition though, those people wouldn't be in the top 100 would they? Regardless, don't you as a member of the community have the responsibility to down-mod trolls? By simply ignoring them, you don't alter the S to N ratio any...
Wow, so owning a Mac will no longer be a requirement for iPhone development, as Flash Professional supports Windows also. Even MonoTouch requires an Intel Mac.
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If you'd like, drop me a line and I can help you get connected w/ the music scene. Email address is in my profile.
This would be pretty great - but I'm not sure what Adobe has planned for signing the app (and if they can take any of the pain out of that process it would really make life a lot easier).
It can be challenging and instructive to fence off-handed. I don't know anyone who regularly swaps between handedness to keep it even, but now that you mention it, it's a pretty interesting idea...
I often use gdb as a C repl. You can't build a program that way of course. This OTOH is a nice hack :)
Learning Portuguese, studying physics for fun/knowledge, learning how to build an auto engine, and training for private pilot's certificate.
Depending on language restrictions, you may be able to implement read streams that make a pass through the file and create appropriate call-backs when hitting each section...
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Do you have a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement)? That is absolutely essential to protect you from someone just taking your idea and running with it. With IP (Intellectual Property) Law, intent is a very important aspect, and an NDA signifies intent.

There are numerous free resources on the Web which can help you develop a workable NDA. If you email me at tjkeller@inebraska.com, I will reply with a copy of the NDA I developed for my product idea.

As regards the development of your prototype, given the informatyion you have provided, it is going to be expensive using commercial services to get such a prototype fabricated. This is because you don't have a designed and tested circuit from which the engineers can product printed circuit boards (PCBs) and finshed product from.

Email me, we can talk further.

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tjkeller@inebraska.com
Playing with my son, windsurfing and playing electric guitar. I like to do many more things, but I don't always find the time or the place. I like chess, drawing, billiards, foosball, karate, reading, net games and going out on weekends (or everyday in the summer).
How far long are you on your license (and physics for that matter)? I took my break earlier this year right before stage 1 check, hoping to return soon.
Bernanke said it very well at last weeks' House Fin'l Svc's Cmt'e hearing - it shouldn't matter how company is structured or what industry it is considered to be a part of, it matters how big and interconnected firm is.

What if some VC/PE company becomes "too big to fail"?

Who would have have thought that GE and GM will become financial services companies at some point?
Polyhackers?

http://mattlydonwrites.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/the-price-we...
I have nothing against golf as a game, and I've played it a few times myself, but the idea that there's this much money floating around just in sticking logos on the shirts of guys who hit balls into holes to persuade other guys to buy new sticks with which to hit other balls into holes makes me feel like there's an awful lot of money being wasted.
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Steve Gillmore has an interesting and related point in his latest post, that can be found here:

http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/10/02/for-your-eyes-only/

"Since Twitter went mainstream in the last year, micromessaging threads have become the main carrier of realtime news. Trending topics may seem the fundamental index, but information at the actionable level is carried in a smaller stream managed largely by retweets and overlapping follow clouds. A cascading series of Likes in the Friendfeed/Facebook nomenclature is far more efficient than other mechanisms, including email newsletters and RSS syndication.

This new brand of news is more CNBC than MSNBC. It’s based on a “what’s in it for me” dynamic, which prioritizes the flow based on business implications first, followed by political and social impact."