skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The $99 adapter is necessary for dual-link DVI, which is necessary to drive a monitor that is over 1920x1200. I don't really know whether people using 8 monitors are typically using high-resolution monitors, or indeed whether the card in question can actually drive several high-resolution monitors, but the necessity of a more expensive adapter has already pissed off many gamers trying for a 3-way eyefinity setup.
I read that too, but that's way too recent. What I recall is maybe 3 or 6 years ago.
"blah blah blah, I am sure this is gonna go way over HN's head :-/"

Well, not everyone's head, at least. :-)
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The big appeal of C for me is that it's portable (as long as you know to avoid the non-portable parts, anyway). Sorry, but I won't be using any language extension that will only compile on mac.

I agree, but the compiler changes are open source, and I'm happy to use them on a Mac (where I'm already using ObjC anyway).

And anyway, function pointers aren't that hard to groc.

Function pointers aren't closures. "Groking" isn't the issue -- accomplishing more with less code and fewer bugs is.
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You can turn off the thumbnails in your preferences. Additionally, try the "compress the link display". Here's what I see when I go to reddit: http://imgur.com/angua . After one of the redesigns, where they introduced the thumbnails and expanded the whitespace, they introduced these options.
An awesome reply by a lawyer who understands computing. If I ever need a lawyer in the applicable area I want this guy.
If you are programming in Objective-C and for the Mac you might as well forget about portability. I hope they add more language extensions to Objective-C to make it more pleasant to program in than it is now. I'd like a better way to express lists and hashes please. And garbage collection too. :D
Sincerely, I advice Scheme. Perhaps PLT scheme using htdp.org or SICP.
I wish I could build this on OS X. I guess I'm writing a patch for it now.
A sedentary 90lb girl may well gain weight on that.
This is private disability insurance in a province of Canada? How does that interact with Canada's system of medical insurance?
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Well, I'd argue that 'of the decade' starts after midnight on 1 January 2000^, and Napster was just a smidgen too early for that. but upvoted anyway because I like your Joy Division comparison.

^ 2000, what a letdown eh? I'm still waiting for my atomic jetpack and frankly I'm running out of patience.
Read the parent comment. I was replying to the specific statement that one cannot download apps onto the device other than through the App Store, not addressing whether it is useful or not as a channel to distribute apps.

As to your other points, sign up for the Enterprise program.

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Gu...
Yeah, just about what I figured. Thanks for the reply.
have a look at dropbox. It's not an either/or decision. You can have both.
I took that too, which is also how I knew :)
YC currently does 2 funding cycles per year. Summer 2010 isn't that far away.
There is Jasspa's distribution available. Binaries for OS X are here: http://www.jasspa.com/downapple.html

(Delete key doesn't work as backspace, though :( I'd love to see your patch for Linus's version)
Read the parent comment. I was replying to the specific statement that one cannot download apps onto the device other than through the App Store, not addressing whether it is useful or not as a channel to distribute apps.

I can get out and push my car, but that doesn't make it a hybrid.

As to your other points, sign up for the Enterprise program.

The enterprise program does not allow for external distribution and is not useful (or even permitted) outside of large enterprise organizations.
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There are still private insurance companies that will cover things not normally covered by the provincial plans. Drugs would be another good example of something not universally covered (depending on drug). Drugs are, however, price controlled in many cases. My sister has asthma, and has to pay a lot for inhalers; thus, working somewhere with health coverage is still a big concern for her.

Quebec always tends to do things a little differently, but I'm surprised at this because in general they cover more things publicly, not less. I'm betting that the province would only cover "long term" disability.
$1M? Nice, that's about 12 weeks of cushion for everyone involved, enough time for them to look for work.

"As Om Malik reported, the company was hit with a copyright lawsuit by music publisher Orchard Enterprises (ORCD). Fighting the suit or settling it would require significant resources."

Yep, MySpace kicks and gets them while they're down.
Alain,

Thanks for organizing it.

Some people I talked and including myself are looking for prospective cofounders who share the same interests (e.g. local, cars, etc.)

I suggest providing any easier way for people to know that. Maybe add tags on the nameplate like (Danny R - sports, food, travel)
I bought it as a computer. It's my new, separate machine for using the Internet, as described here:

http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html
Garbage collection is already there in ObjC 2.0.
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See, iTunes never mattered that much to me when I first got a iPod. And I do actually like iTunes.

But everyone I know who ever got a iPod absolutely loathed iTunes. iTunes was not the reason, the hardware was. I have seen that change with the iPhone. Of course, no data, just anecdotes.
"Apple wants to be the best"

As an off-again on-again customer since the II, that's clearly never been the case. Assuming anyone can know what 'the best' is (apart from measurable technical performance). Every piece of Apple hardware I've owned/operated was measurably not the best. Including the $400 'super' floppy drive they were using to filter the air. If Jobs decides you don't need a serial port any more, it doesn't matter how many thousands you've got invested in serial gear.

Since the Mac advent, Apple is about proprietary everything. That's what they're 'best' at: they're control freaks. It's like joining the DAR. You had to join a club to program their computers.

If you don't like the Game, don't play. There are other options than being a dedicated follower of fashion.
To my knowledge, Apple hasn't submitted Blocks to any standards body, but that doesn't mean that they don't want it adopted by other systems. They've open-sourced libdispatch, which is most useful with Blocks, and it's been picked up for FreeBSD. Unfortunately, Blocks conflicts with the C++0x proposal for lambdas, which itself conflicts with the Objective-C message notation. However, it seems likely that there will soon (on the timescale of language standardization) be reconciliation and a standard notation for lambdas and closures for C and friends. Libdispatch will almost certainly be compatible with that notation, and be available on most *nix systems that are likely to adopt things like C++0x relatively quickly.

In light of that, one could see Blocks as Apple wanting to ensure that at least one closures-for-C implementation starts getting real-world exposure, much as OpenCL was their way of ensuring that there is at least one vendor-neutral GPGPU API, even if it isn't the best possible. If their methods do end up becoming de facto standards , Apple could gain a lot by being the preferred and most mature implementation. If not, there's no real harm to Apple, because their platform is already "different".
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It was a great deal for Reddit, but what did Conde Nast get out of it? Basically they get to foot the server bills for a community whose current #1 story is this: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/a64i6/and_the_big_mild....

They certainly aren't making any income on Reddit, and I doubt comments like this one: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/a64i6/and_the_big_mild... help their brand much.
Facebook couldn't fix it because they just licensed the old Java/ActiveX uploader from a company named Aurigma. Even though Aurigma would give you the source if you paid them enough, you didn't get any ownership over it. When Facebook first started, it was probably the right choice for them, because photo uploading wasn't their focus, but now that they are huge, the improved ability to iterate the design is probably worth it.
I'm not so sure about that. From an interview with Steve Jobs in the NY Times 1 Nov 2007:

“I don’t want people to think of this as a computer,” he said. “I think of it as reinventing the phone.”

"We define everything that is on the phone,” he said. “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are like computers.”

The iPhone, he insisted, would not look like the rest of the wireless industry.

“These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them,” he said. “That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.”
The most interesting part: She also doesn’t understand how Manulife accessed her photos because her Facebook profile is locked and only people she approves can look at what she posts. Assuming this is not a case of user error, I too wonder about that.

The insurance issue is interesting too, but the 'depression = disability?' question is rather too broad for HN.
Instead you just "lose" music on your ipod willy-nilly.

Amazon apologized; it's unlikely they'll delete books again. I trust them more.
No doubt that much legal writing becomes complex because of the subject matter. To that extent, complexity can be unavoidable. And, while this may render the writing obtuse owing to the complexity, this is different from obfuscation. Very frustrating, I know, but this is the nature of the subject.

Concerning rhetoric, classical resources are vast, ranging from works by Aristotle to Cicero to many others. An excellent modern resource is Edward P.J. Corbett, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (Oxford University Press 1965) (this work was updated later by editors who sought to make it "relevant" for the 1970s, and much diminished as a result - get the earlier edition through Abebooks if possible).
You can get paid sick leave for "depression" in Canada?

(You can't easily claim worker's comp for mental illness in the US without it being concomitant to a physical injury; I'm not making a statement about the seriousness of depression.)
Well, damn. Now the surprise is ruined.
Actually, I worked on my writing skills for years precisely because they were so deficient (at least in my own mind) many years ago - this was time well invested and, as a result, this skill set has been one of the most valuable assets I can offer to clients in my practice.
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"depression" is serious.
I would down vote you if I could.
Both stores are full of garbage. Comparing 100k to 10k is meaningless when 99% of the apps in both stores are code abortions. Android store just means fewer raw pieces of shit to wade through, but the gold is harder to find as well.

Using the App Store/Android Market as a selling point for either platform demonstrates a disconnect from reality and little more.
I use the JASSPA distribution on Windows, but placing this in your configuration might point you in the right direction.

global-bind-key backward-delete-char "delete"
Mainstream software: Skype

Coolest software generally has got to be Photosynth. The video demos just blow my mind:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_dem...
I'll be totally honest–I'm having a really hard time generating a fair opinion on this matter.

I'm not going to pretend to know how depression works, how often it strikes patients, or how much it disables a person. If you truly can't work, I get it.

OTOH, if you can go on vacation, it would seem to me that you could perhaps work part-time, try to attend vocational rehab, or something.

I know it's not popular to side with big insurance companies, but I can't blame them for at least investigating claims like this.
Because the default privacy setting for photo albums is "visible to everyone", and most people don't realize that it's independent from profile privacy. It's one of the many flaws of facebook's privacy (at least for an ordinary user who isn't web-savvy).

Also - even if she totally locked down her profile, the photos of her could have been uploaded by friends with more lenient privacy settings.
That metaphor is wrong. It isn't illegal to jailbreak an iPhone, it just voids the warrantee. You can run any software you like on an iPhone.

A company should have the right to control the user experience offered for a device that it designed and manufactured. That will mean denying a third party's right to bypass those controls.

The user has the right to do anything with the device once they've bought it.
found a couple posted here:

http://www.technixupdate.com/direct-download-links-for-unoff...
Great, some nice tips there, even for veteran developers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc

"Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, posits that depression is the most damaging disease that you can experience. Right now it is the number four cause of disability in the US and it is becoming more common. Sapolsky states that depression is as real of a biological disease as is diabetes."
This deserves its own thread.

(Quick feedback: put the screenshots on groupie.mobi. Screencasts are good too.)
I say popular filesharing in general, be it soulseek, dc++, bittorrent or whatever.
I believe that you actually missed the point of the article. The point was, quit whining because no one cares about your app.
Just like migraines and the flu, depression is a technical medical term that has a more precise meaning than the general population uses.
Jasspa's is pretty different from Petri Kutvonen's/Linus Torvald's microemacs, though. Much more features.
Unpopular platforms rarely have problems with third party software, regardless of any approval process.

It's possible that if Windows Mobile had been as popular as the iPhone, then the carriers _would_ have started to see a big problem with malware ruining their networks.
Linkbait? That seems overly harsh. Sure, it's a story of what happens. The facts may be simple but the particulars are illustrative.

"Founders leave, Reddit style" - really, that's different in kind and not degree?
"All my stuff in the cloud == EVIL as far I'm concerned."

How is storing data in a certain place EVIL?
I don't think he's in Silicon Valley. Possibly a big plus, or a big minus, depending.

Personally, I like to meet the people I'm investing in. Meeting your investors is probably good too. Network effect, etc etc etc.
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If a US software engineer would get $150 an hour with 10 years of experience in Java, what would a comparable Brazilian guy get? Any negotiation tips ? Any other tips on IP/licensing, biz culture, etc. would be much appreciated, like should I expect to be able to sell my code to someone else.
Something is amiss here:

"1,036 ratings 311 views"

How can a video have more ratings than views? is Google rigging this?
How difficult is it to surpass the failure of Vista?
openbsd has had a (still somewhat-actively-developed) tiny emacs-like editor in its tree called mg for quite a while.

http://pintday.org/hack/mg/

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mg/
I have trouble believing that even a professional, experienced psychiatrist or therapist can diagnose being cured from clinical depression based on a handful of facebook photos. I also have trouble believing that the decision at the insurance company was made with any involvement whatsoever from professional psychiatrists, much less her therapist in particular.

Dropping coverage is potentially dangerous, if they're on medication. Altering (or stopping) anti-depressent dosages requires professional oversight. And if you're getting worker's comp, I certainly hope you're on medications.
Nested virtualization, middleware recursion.
What OS am I running on again?
Not just a plugin, but a plugin that runs a local webserver ...
What shinier languages you checking out? Ruby/rails & scala/lift are still in my must learn bin
I'm on the verge of buying an Android phone over an iPhone because I can dial out with Google Voice on Android. I don't know when that will be available on iPhone.

So I'd say the app market can make a difference for some people.
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There are some diminishing returns to whining. Yes, we got a native SDK. Yes, we got them to hire more idiots. No, we haven't been able to get them to improve the current situation.

So its a bit like scaling a poorly written web app... you can throw money for a while, but you're only going to get so far. I contend that we have gone as far as whining will get us, now its time for something different.
Gold is dense.
They also just added an easier way for companies to purchase ad space. I'm curious about how often redditors actually click on ads (if they aren't using ad blocking software). My hunch is very rarely.
okcupid is doing science in the same way that Mythbusters is doing science.

Obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/397/
# run your code on server side in almost 40 programming languages
# and do it all with your own input data!
I have a copy and I rather like it to play with. Good for inspiration when doing naming.

For writing if I am stuck on a word, i'll just hit Google and go 'word' + thesaurus, because firing up the program is slower. I see they dealt with that by having a web/java version

My copy was a gift from a poet, who loved it very much.
CLIPS != CLisp
You could also just carry around a small foldable keyboard. I've been using this:
http://www.wetkeys.com/BlueTooth-keyboard-Flexible-HID-Inter...
I've used both; erlang more. You really can't go wrong from a learning perspective with either choice. You would need to post more on the types of things you want to build in order to get further opinion.
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I have a great MBP, but the Sun Ultra24 running Ubuntu 9.10 is just speedy. Add multiple 24" monitors and it's nice enough to get me to drive every day to it. (and yes, I (still) work for Sun.)
I really like reddit, and have wasted far too much time reading articles linked there. At least I have the right to downvote an article or comment. Here on HN, even with a karma score of 120, I am not allowed to downvote a comment or article, which pretty much removes any reason to come here and participate in the first place. With two years on reddit, as a casual user who is allowed to fully participate, my Karma score is nearly 2500.
These things are really easy to rig; I think it's more easy someone else is rigging it because it is fun for them to make Google look bad.
Okay, so I did some googling; and I'm not quite sure why someone would prefer this over regular GNU Emacs or XEmacs.

Any emacsen around that could shed some light on why you'd use this instead of a more "modern" emacs?
Guides:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

http://asciicasts.com/ (text versions of the railscasts mentioned below)

Screencasts:

http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts

http://railscasts.com/

Books:

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-...

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fr_arr/advanced-rails-recipes

And others in the Ruby and Ruby on Rails sections at prag progammers: http://www.pragprog.com/categories

The "pickaxe book" (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby) is often considered the standard Ruby reference, and there is a version for 1.9.

API:

http://railsapi.com/

http://api.rubyonrails.org/

http://www.gotapi.com/rubyrails

Conference presentations:

http://www.confreaks.com/events

Ruby and Rails projects are abundant on github, providing lots of example code.
TI calculators, not "TSI". And dupe as well.
The way to success as an everyday OS isn't through bad policy, it's through education and clarity. Put in the right policies but make them easy for the end user to understand and change. Commands like "restorecon" suck (as an everyday OS). But if, attached to a mv (or its gui equivalent) was a message: "the default permissions for this directory are to make the file available to X, Y, and Z. Would you like to make these files available, too?", it would work.

Even better is a mv -yes (& gui equivalent) which does it automatically.
You have to teach the culture you want to see.

My pet peeve is repeat submissions. I'd like to see a primary source focus.With news that's difficult as many outlets break the same story more or less simultaneously.

I get annoyed when I see something for the second or third time from different source, sometimes weeks later after it's made the rounds of the blog-o-sphere.
I don't think what you describe is really accurate for Apple in recent years. For starters, their laptops are objectively the best laptops that are actually portable. Apple has really only been excessively proprietary in a few instances, most notably with the App Store where they are acting out of the fear that an unfiltered marketplace could hurt their platform. (In this respect, they are very much like game console manufacturers.) However, most of their other oddities, including Firewire, AAC, Objective-C, GCD, launchd, and miniDisplayPort are at least as open as their primary competitors. The rest of what you perceive as being too proprietary is probably a combination of Apple's willingness to be different and their refusal to compete in many low-end low-margin markets.
I don't need $100 million. I need more like $100,000. That would be enough to pay off all my debts and let me walk away from my job and pursue what I really want to do full time. Building better lifestyles and spreading a different "culture"/ideas doesn't really take much money per se. And a better way of life/better way of thinking/better culture is the only thing you can build that scales well (with the current global population) and doesn't run into a brick wall concerning consumerism butting heads with ecological fragility.

But if I just had to spend $100 million, I think I'd go with distributed, green power.
My father is a V.A. Dentist. He routinely sees veterans who are collecting big benefit checks and receiving full medical (plus travel compensation) for PTSD. The the thing is, they never get "better". They live on the tax-payees dime perpetually. Most have never seen combat.

This is a lot like that.
Insects are capable of intelligent behaviours thought unique to larger animals.
Obviously none of us knows how the woman's therapist or other professional counseled her. But I can imagine a mental health professional telling someone "you should try to get out. Don't lock yourself at home. Go out with friends. Go to the beach. Just don't sit at home in the dark and stew."

So, you go out. You smile. You make progress. It's not "I'm cured," it's "this is one thing I'm doing to help myself."

For the insurance company to deny coverage based on that, is about the same as denying coverage for anti-depressants because you're taking anti-depressants.

Of course we can assume that they're just looking for a reason, any reason, to deny coverage. The worker who did this probably gets better performance reviews for more denials.

The closest to reasonable that this could have ever come, is for the insurance company to request consultation with her and her doctor. What actually happened is a non-qualified functionary made a potentially life-threatening decision. Probably just before lunch.
Unlike the flu, depression can be faked.
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