skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing from the down-votes that folks have taken my "Perl sucks" comment at face value. (Or maybe they just don't think I'm funny, which puts them in good company; my girlfriend doesn't think I'm very funny either.)

I suppose the joke would have been more obvious if I had added something along the lines of Python FTW SUCKAS! ;) :D ;).
The bug has to do with loading 5+ year old Flash 7/8 swfs.

A better analogy would be he's making a stink about a Carbon bug for obsolete OS 8/9 apps. Carbon still ships with OSX and serves the same purpose as AVM1 in Flash Player: basic (but not perfect) backwards-compatibility for legacy code.
Except clay tablets and this: http://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/
To be fair, Gmail's express setup is somewhat unsanctioned. Gmail's documentation explicitly advises against the use of that express setup button:

What if I tap 'Gmail' instead?
Archiving and deleting messages will work differently. Our instructions ensure Gmail works as designed.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
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Thank you everyone for the suggestions, that gives me a solid range. I am not in sales so there is no commission. I do solely business development and marketing.
My problem with your conjecture is that exclusives create an artificial scarcity of information, which I don't count as real value creation. Further, for the general reader, there is the added cost of having to subscribe, or at the very least check, more news sources to get the same amount of information as you would in a world without exclusives. There is also the delay before other publications start picking up the story and we get competing points of view. To me as a consumer, it looks like an overall decrease in value. I understand that it doesn't look that way to a publisher.

About my second sentence - I was imagining a story with little newsworthiness, as this is one extreme of your "only criteria". If a publisher is more likely to publish this story because of an exclusive, which is what you seem to be saying, then newsworthiness isn't the only criteria.

I did not mean to be combative or demand an answer from you - my apologies if I came off that way. I just don't agree with or don't understand your point of view, and said so. Apparently 10 other people thought that it stands on its own merits well enough to deserve an upvote. If you don't agree, that's fine, but the snark is uncalled for. If you don't think a post is worthy of a reply, then don't.
I remember when people were calling bs on Techcrunch for writing about Google releasing its own phone. I think we know how that turned out.

This article is about Paul not working on an email platform and not about Facebook.
Anybody hiring in India/South East Asia??

On a separate note - maybe we should start a thread for startups outside the US looking for devs.
Where else do manufacturers decide on the price of the good and not the retailer? I know lots of items come with MSRPs, but they're just suggestions.

Also, what about resale price maintenance? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resale_price_maintenance I just stumbled upon that page from the MSRP page.

Edit: fixed typo
Seems to me that the opposite is true. With an exclusive, a publisher knows they can spend more time on a story, and publish it later. Without an exclusive, publishers are running the risk of being scooped, so they rush it more.
NREC (CMU's Robotics Institute applied research arm) is generally looking for people with robotics background (perception, planning, positioning) and good C++/Linux development skills. We write software to automate anything from tanks to haul trucks. If you've worked with cameras, lidars, GPS receivers, inertial sensors, are a machine learning expert, or hacked your Roomba to vacuum better than your mother, let us know!
I'm surprised that more priority hasn't been put into fixing it though. A bug that crashes the browser out in the wild for a year and a half? Someone malicious could do some pretty obnoxious things with it.

Incidentally this use case isn't completely unheard of. There is still a lot of AS2 content out there that companies haven't bothered to migrate to AS3 yet (for whatever reason).
A never-released (3d space mmorpg wing-commander-esque) game my friends worked on for a while used this for texturing their worlds: http://www.cocommand.com/
Exactly. You can tell a meme is exhausted when it becomes a parody of itself.
I confirmed the crash on iCab 5.0.7 Mac, Firefox 3.6 Mac, Safari 4.0.4 Mac and Firefox 3.5.7 under Ubuntu 9.10 in Virtual Box 3.1.2. (Using latest updated Snow Leopard)
Opps that was iCab 4.0.7
I don't think massive multicore is a good idea for many applications

But hey now, that's the problem of the applications, isn't it? There's probably quite a bit of exciting potential with what you can do with massive multicore architecture - slide 6 of the presentation you linked to being a very convincing reason why.
C++ is really an expert's language. It should be something you learn after several other languages.

If you don't know Python, learn it. Then learn plain C, then perhaps Java, and only C++ after at least those 3.
I don't get this argument. If Flash would draw developers away from Cocoa Touch and the App Store, why wouldn't HTML5? Apple's pushing HTML5.

Further, if your server is set up to deliver streaming music or video in a standard format, you can already use HTML5 to deliver that instead of the App Store. It's easier, since you don't have to go through the approval process. The App Store just carries a better chance of visibility and a much easier way of monetizing.
"Why can't Flash make use of Quicktime?"

Then you'd have to do version-checks, if you're actually delivering content to audiences. Fewer people have it, fewer people use the current version. Most codecs on content sites are H.264 or On2 VP6 (successor to Theora). Easier to solicit Apple to open up their acceleration APIs to plugins.

<em>"The simple fact remains that Flash is so resource-hungry that it is undeniably badly written."</em>

You're quite incorrect.
Yes, Wingify (Delhi based) is looking for software engineers to work on online marketing technology. http://www.wingify.com/
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The dog creeps me out.

This looks like interesting research:
http://www.squicky.org/work/sca07gtw/

Anyone know much about motion capture? Is it something that is now doable at any sort of homebrew budget levels nowadays?
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It's not a metro place, the cost of living is pretty low actually.
Neither am I.
Microwave radiation is too low energy to cause DNA mutation, so it can't be a direct cause of cancer. Besides, wouldn't we see ear cancer more than brain cancer ?
> "The majority of OS X crash reports are due to crashing plugins.

Indeterminate. The logs show that Flash made a call. It didn't show where that call went when it failed. (I usually run Safari and Firefox in parallel on my Mac because both have stability problems, despite using a Flash blocker.) Most of the Player code is the same across OS, only the outer wrappers and connecting APIs differ.

On the happy side, there has recently been some increased cooperation with the Safari team, and when combined with the mobile optimizations you can expect to see some of the gains described by Kevin Lynch:
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/02/open_access_to_...
I've just heard a lot about stock options for employees and seen the math for it and how it really isn't a path to being rich and isn't that lucrative for a normal exit over so many years. I'd just rather not sacrifice salary at this point of my life for that.
The dog creeps you out, but the "I am actually a deadly robot sent from the year 2748 to kill you!!" you are okay with?
> "Or, to state it without shilling:"

We don't know that you're not shilling.
Wow, 2 Ken Perlin related posts in an hour! I met Ken Perlin once very briefly and randomly and was a bit in shock when I realized who I was talking to. He was in shock that I was in shock. Nice (and very smart) guy.
Actually it's really simple to understand. Last time I checked, Google had a trademark on the word Android. An integral part of trying to assert a trademark is enforcing certain usages. Otherwise people start calling all similar products by your product's name (e.g., paper tissues become Kleenex) and you lose that trademark.

From Google themselves (http://www.google.com/permissions/guidelines.html):

"One of the conditions for all uses is that you can't mess around with our marks. Only we get to do that. Don’t remove, distort or alter any element of a Google Brand Feature. That includes modifying a Google trademark, for example, through hyphenation, combination or abbreviation, such as: Googliscious, Googlyoogly, GaGooglemania. Do not shorten, abbreviate, or create acronyms out of Google trademarks"

...

"Don’t incorporate Google Brand Features into your own product name, service names, trademarks, logos, or company names."

My money is on either Apple's lawyers or Google's lawyers coming up with this policy. I know it's en vogue to jump on Google as the knight in shining armour and Apple as the villain, but let's not jump to conclusions here.
It's crashing for me with Snow Leopard 10.5.2 on a Core Duo (32 bit obviously) and Safari
Version: 4.0.4 (6531.21.10)
Build Info: WebBrowser-65312110~2
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [157]

PlugIn Path: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Flash Player
PlugIn Identifier: com.macromedia.Flash Player.plugin
PlugIn Version: 10.0.42 (1.0.4f348472)

Date/Time: 2010-02-05 22:06:52.926 -0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
That makes the bug older than some of the script kiddies trying to exploit it!
> I understand that this is the future and hate Flash as
> much as the next guy, but I just don't understand why
> we're just suddenly bashing Adobe.

I've been wondering about the recent change myself. Considering that it's not election season, it seems prudent to wonder about the sudden flood of unverifiable identities in discussion forums. Hard to tell, but necessary to wonder.
Version checks on Mac OS X are not necessary: The system requirements for Flash 10.0 on OS X state that OS X 10.4 or later is required. Mac OS X 10.4 and later ship with QuickTime 7, which includes h.264 support. Quicktime 7 cannot be removed from the operating system. Thus, exactly everybody who can run the latest stable release of Flash for Mac already has an OS-provided h.264 decoder that has proven to be much more efficient than the one that is in Flash. Not using Quicktime on OS X is like not using DirectX 10 on Windows Vista and 7.

As to the current performance of the latest Flash beta, what is your justification for Flash requiring five times the computational resources of other video players? What is Flash doing that is not only more intensive than h.264 decoding, but four times more intensive?
I'm not sure that's really a general difference in approaches. After Canada banned BPA in baby bottles, people started going crazy about it in the US, and eventually the FDA decided to change its stance. Meanwhile in Europe, nearly all countries concluded no further research was necessary and that BPA was fine.

My European friends that I asked about this claimed that it was because "European governments are much more easily influenced by companies". Not the response I was expecting.

If you read the section on government regulations in the Wikipedia article on BPA, you'll get an interesting perspective on one issue, at least in terms of precautionary principle vs. safe till proven otherwise.
Actually, the job section is only for YC companies. Also, I apologize for the repeat. I didn't notice the others.
OTOH, the Google founders - or rather, the company they founded - is working on a new search engine:

http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/google-caffeine/
Thanks. I didn't the others.
Anything, including corrupt files, that can crash it is relevant because it is also a security vulnerability.
You are right. OTOH, anything that breaks is not likely to survive contact with the rest of the web.
This sounds a bit fishy to me. Of course Flash can be run from multiple processes simultaneously since it naturally runs inside of multiple browsers simultaneously, and I assume Chrome has some internal (socket based?) IPC that they're using anyway...
There are a couple of alternative app stores for Android (I'm not sure what would make them "open", they're certainly more open than the Apple one, but that goes for the official Google Market, too. Here are the ones that I know of for android:

* http://slideme.org/

* http://mikandi.com/ [adult]

* http://www.handango.com/

* http://onlyandroid.mobihand.com/
There's now so much follow-on coverage of the memorable commercials -- making them read-about and viewed elsewhere. Recent years, at least, deserve an adjustment for this extra audience.
I disagree. It was talk like this that convinced me to learn a couple of other languages when I was a kid before jumping in to C++, and I regret not going straight for it. C++ is not difficult to learn, but once you have it down you'll have a better understanding and appreciation of all the higher level languages that abstract the hard stuff away for you but sometimes perform like crud.
This made the rounds on Reddit (and probably other sites). Looks like its successful at getting attention, which is more than can be said about most CV/resumé pages..
Somewhat counterintuitively, raising the capital gains rate actually tends to decrease overall capital gains receipts. This is mostly due to the fact that capital gains realizations are some of the easiest to time, and if advantageous, defer.

This is a natural consequence of a convoluted system with complicated rules that encourage schemes. Another sad consequence of this system is that, as with our managed health care system, it creates a massive amount of regulatory and managerial overhead.

The engineer in me would love to see a flat tax, and the resultant elimination of layers of bureaucracy, like the chopping out of so many lines of unnecessary code. Dare to dream...
"Actually, the job section is only for YC companies. Also, I apologize for the repeat. I didn't notice the others"

So will you be deleting this then?
Hi jd. I applaud your willingness to ask tough questions like 'who are these (unspecified) unverifiable identities posting (unspecified) things about Flash on (unspecified) forums who only started posting (unspecified) days ago?'. If you ask me this smacks of a sweeping anti-Adobe conspiracy, no doubt orchestrated by (malicious Apple fanboys|the Moonlight development team|those sneaky swedes).

The current outpouring of negativity over Flash is in no way a continuation of past trends and does not represent any sort of culmination of widespread customer anguish over Adobe's (perceived or real) failure to address paying and nonpaying customers' needs for a stable, performant, secure way to create interactive media.

The comparatively rapid progress of <canvas>, <video> and <audio> in the past few years versus the rest of Flash's lifespan should in no way be interpreted as a sign that people have become fed up with being dependent on a badly engineered, unreliable, overpriced piece of technology from a self-sabotaging software juggernaut.
Ebooks should cost whatever the seller charges for them. The publisher's only influence over that should be the amount the publisher charges for wholesale copies.
I read this review and I think, "can you review some of the dodgy companies I've worked for? In the same tone? Please?"

:-)
As someone who currently has an iPhone, you made the right decision. I love my iPhone, but sometimes it feels too much like Apple's iPhone rather than my iPhone. Android for me next.
Aren't there places in the world with low levels of education and knowledge and so on right now that we could test some of these ideas of jump starting educated civilisation?

If it works, well we don't regard educating people as a bad thing so that's no qualm. We have controls already - we wouldn't hobble them but carrying on as we do now should be OK.

If the attempts fail for social, governmental, language, etc. reasons that's no excuse - all those things could happen in a real post-apocalyptic future. And if the attempts succeed then they might help avoid said future.
I really like this idea! I would also like a column for location, as I think it's key to be able to meet a mentor/advisor in person.
looks like MSFT would benefit from conflicts between apple/adobe, apple/google etc.
Opera and Internet Explorer 8 display the page without crashing.
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The only reason Hulu doesn't work on the iPhone is that Hulu videos are delivered in a proprietary Flash-based container instead of in a standard (like h264) or open (like Theora) format. The iPhone does a perfectly good job of playing video content delivered in non-proprietary formats, as demonstrated by the fact that you can watch Youtube videos on it (once they are freed from their Flash containers).

But you probably knew that already.
And here's the lexer for a Python-ish language I'm working on:

http://github.com/nostrademons/eve-language/blob/master/boot...

That's 52 lines of rules. 68 lines of boilerplate code that was copied verbatim out of the Alex manual and changed a bit to work in a different monad. About 70 lines of code to add the indent/dedent/newline tokens for whitespace sensitivity. Note that that's with whitespace rules that are more permissive than just about any language out there (you can break lines without a continuation character between any pair of matched delimiters, as well as before or after any infix operator).

Yes, hand-writing a lexer is easy. Writing one with a lexer generator is even easier (and would be easier still if Alex had an easier API to work with).
"The author charitably attributes the inability for such a system to be energy neutral to "engineering problems," but I think it's pretty clear that there are also physical laws that make this impossible."

Why not just use a electromagnetic system? Electons with mass down, and em-waves without mass up? Then it's not impossible, just very small forces and superconductors.

Failing that why not use quantum teleportation?

There are several ways to move a subatomic particle in a massless way, and then return it to having mass at a distance.

EDIT My point is to say that the specifics of the enginerring aren't the real question. The real question is "Why doesn't the essential CONCEPT work"?
Great idea, i'll add it
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They're modding you down because they're perl advocates. :)
The Python and Ruby communities deserve better.
It's kind of a comforting thought - if there are deadly robots being sent back from the year 2748, that means the human race survived global warming and was able to invent time travel!
Alright, you actually had me interested. A plausible demonstration of SSB (single strand breakage) or DSB (double strand breakage) after exposure to the type of RF that cell phones emit would be huge. And to his credit, that's exactly what Lai's results indicated (H Lai, NP Singh - Int J Radiat Biol, 1996).

Specifically, Lai found DNA breakage in the brain tissues of rats immediately after a 2hr exposure to a 2450MHz CW (continuous wave) signal, but not immediately after exposure to a 2450MHz PW (pulsed wave) signal. DNA breakage was only found 4hr after exposure to the PW signal ended. Lai didn't provide any temperature information, so we can't know if that was a factor.

Here's my problem: Lai's experiment was reproduced at least once, and found no significant difference in SSBs between the irradiated group and the controls (http://bit.ly/9qr2Hm).

This is on top of numerous other studies that have failed to confirm DNA damage from RF exposure (http://bit.ly/c9H4MR). I'm not saying that RF-induced DNA damage couldn't possibly happen, but the evidence for it seems weak or non-existent at best.
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Well, clever enough, but does the world really need more rape jokes?
Ask HN: Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP?
(a.k.a. I'm cheap when it comes to hosting my hobby sites; I'd like to use Rails, but PHP on shared hosting is much cheaper and less work; suggestions?)

I've recently been working on a small, "hobby" web app - http://yoyocase.net. It's been a chance for me to scratch an itch (I want to show off my collection) as well as to learn Rails.

Finding hosting for my app has been challenging, though. I don't plan on monetizing this, so I really can't justify "expensive" web hosting. Nor do I want to go with a VPS - I don't want to play sysadmin in my spare time.

So, I've also been porting my code to PHP (not raw; CodeIgniter!), and plan to put it on my shared hosting account. Am I shooting myself in the foot?

Alternatively, do any of you know where I could find relatively cheap "shared" Rails hosting - a place where I wouldn't have to setup my own virtual server(s), keep all the software/packages up to date, etc.?
Reminds me of the Long Now Foundation's Rosetta disk: http://www.rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/

I do like the fact that Perlin's idea doesn't require a laser-etched plate and could conceivably be produced on any home printer, although Long Now's device is probably going to last longer.
This isn't really a new idea. Pixel fonts have been around about as long as graph paper, I suspect.

Here's something similar, for example:

http://www.dafont.com/wendy.font
Combined with out-sourcing their core development it may mean they view programmers as code monkeys, which would be a big red flag for a technology startup.

If their executives are paid market rate (or better), and the rest of the employees are paid below, that would also be a red flag.
>My money is on either Apple's lawyers or Google's lawyers coming up with this policy. I know it's en vogue to jump on Google as the knight in shining armour and Apple as the villain, but let's not jump to conclusions here.

Absurd. Do you really believe Apple's lawyers and appstore inspectors are there to protect the developers from potential trademark infringement lawsuits? It's not Apple that is violating any trademark here, it's the developer. This is just pettiness on the part of Apple. They certainly have a right to ban any mention of competitor products and thats exactly what they've done.
Why are Flash's bugs only a problem when when Steve Jobs mentions it? Is Flash really a problem or are we just overcome by Job's reality distortion field?

Flash does stuff that HTML cannot currently do. In this respect hackers should thank Adobe as Flash helped move applications off the desktop and onto the web. When HTML5 has matured, the gaps in HTML will be filled and unless Flash has something new to offer, it will be time for give it a heartfelt goodbye.

Adobe's saving grace is that it released FABridge - you can use Flash for things its good at Ajax for everything else. Then when HTML5 has matured you wont have to rewrite everything.
I'm not convinced - if you read the email, the word trademark isn't mentioned once (I've had an app rejected for trademark infringement
). Not being allowed to mention being a finalist in a competition? Come on...

The funny thing is, even as a trademark thing this doesn't make sense, strategically. Let Google sue for something like this, and they look like the bad guys, not Apple.

Ah well... mysterious are the ways of Apple.
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I thought that my response was an implicit agreement that I was wrong and missed the actual title of the article. Instead I get an intellectually disingenuous response implying that I 'noticed' the <title> of the page because I decided to look at the HTML source for some strange reason.