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The "plugin" missing icon on Safari doesn't link to anything.

So people actually have to search for Flash or go to Adobe's site directly. Or if the website use something like swfobject, click on the link it provides.
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So from what I read (thanks ot this submission) about terminally ill people killing themselves the consensus for people to kill themselves would be some kind of morphine/opiate overdose. Sounds like a decent way to go.

I always thought I should get a gun (Possession of firearms is largely illegal where I live so this would involve some shady dealings and a lot of money) if I am ever diagnosed with something painful and/or terminal.

As a programmer who is used to working with his mind I am horrified at the thought of staying physically alive but slowly losing my mind. Getting enough morphine to overdose should be easier than buying a gun from a criminal. Damned if I'll stay alive in constant pain just so some religious nuts can feel elevated.
Yes, it's another 'victimless crime', so I'm pro, too.

I've seen some relatives die slow, lingering deaths and others fairly quick ones. Neither is ideal though it's bloody obvious which way is less unpleasant.

Enough time to tick off everything on your bucket list and properly say goodbye to those you care about is the best we can hope for.
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A very interesting problem. How do we solve it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOMl68X2Amk

I am... speechless.
I started it, looked at it, went "huh?" and ended up not clicking on anything.
Hmmm. That is a headscratcher. The magazines really do depend on the reader information, and Apple really can't share it. If they do, everyone in all the other media will demand it.

Fun.
Thanks for the tip, I must admit I find both those places quite interesting, of course it turns out harder to live there completely independently off my freelance revenues, but as you say if the wages are higher getting a "real job" again might be an option. :)
Forgive my ignorance. But could anyone link to or provide a brief summary of what the general process is here? I'm not familiar with writing specifications, etc. Any information explaining the process would be appreciated.
Why are they so intent on throwing their hat into every battle? Shouldn't they understand their industry well enough to pick their battles sensibly?
i'd imagine not terribly long, since they did not develop the touchscreen hardware and the software to control one with high accuracy isn't terribly unique in any way.

i suspect the answer to this question is quite simple - it's cheaper.
That is interesting for two reasons.

1. The "insurance" aspect (which is good); and
2. Because Joel bothered to reply (within about an hour) to something on Meta.

If you listen to the SO podcasts Joel rarely visits Meta so I guess he was on the lookout for a reaction, which is understandable. But it's still interesting.
A while. Remember how nice the Newton's handwriting recognition was? Nobody ever matched it.
They're forced to depend on reader information because they just don't sell enough subscriptions and need to target to compensate for a weak readership. Apple is providing them with a readership. All these publishers need to do is focus on creating a quality product first, and who is buying it second.

If you think about it, the decision to not allow music companies access to that data seems like it could potentially encourage music companies to focus less on the targeting and more on the quality of the product. It's like Apple is giving a silent lesson in how to sell a product. The iTunes store has been a huge success. If I'm a betting man Apple will continue their string of successes with a winning ebook store. To wit, being afraid to gamble is what has been killing publishers these last few years.
I actually own an N900. Me and my iPhone wielding friends did a test where we compared the accuracy in drawing programs, and while they usually adamantly defend their iPhone, they easily admitted it's superior precision in touch. We were all able to draw more accurately on the N900.
I assume that this is a "comparison chart" issue. Consumers and review sites just look for things that can be compared with a checkbox, and that's what the hardware manufacturers pander to. "Touchscreen accuracy" is not a well-defined measurement like "number of megapixels", "screen brightness", "has hardware keyboard", "weight", "amount of RAM", "supported H.264 profiles", etc. When you are trying to optimize the things people that are going to use to determine whether or not to buy your widget, why worry about something nobody will notice?

(Now that someone's noticed, this may change.)
I'm a Russian (well, Ukrainian, but who cares) expat. I'm not a "big name", but I did gain a lot of valuable experience in the thirteen years I've lived in the U.S. No amount of financial incentives would convince me to start a business in Russia, even if they hand me a pile of no strings attached cash in the airport.

You see, I like being able to start a business, rent an office, pay bills, pass inspections (car, fire safety, whatever), file my taxes, get through the airport security, get a driver's license, go to a university, and send kids to school (if I had kids) without having to bribe a single soul. I like knowing that nobody else around me has the opportunity to drive drunk without fear of repercussions because they can give a cop $50 and drive on.

I like walking on the street, getting on a bus, and riding a subway without fear of being beaten or killed because someone doesn't like my ethnicity. Ok, so I'm a white male, but I also like that other people around me have the opportunity to do the same. I'm not even talking about being treated decently, I'm talking about basic safety. Black people in Russia are doomed to standing by tanning salons with a sign "I got my tan here" (yeah, this is real).

I'm not even talking about making any significant amount money. Heaven forbid you make money in Russia. Well, first of all, without having connections in the government, you can't. But even if you do establish such connections, good luck dealing with their IRS, the KGB that wants a piece of the pie (ok, so they renamed it, but it's all the same people), and the corrupt-beyond-belief court system.

I like grabbing coffee with rich people who want to meet me purely because they're happy to give advice, who didn't start out their career in organized crime, and who don't need three body guards and an armored SUV just to get around.

Boy, does this article touch a nerve. I know a ton of smart, driven, capable Russians who love their country and who want to change the world while living there. But they're all here, in the U.S., because back there they're doomed to a life of corruption they refuse to deal with. The idea of offering them financial incentive to go back is frankly insulting. They don't need financial incentive. They just need an opportunity to make an honest living. The rest, they'll do on their own.
It seems to be the users of OSX problem. Window's is much more flexible about allow the access to hardware.

I wasn't parroting talking points...I just have experience with video on linux unaccelerated and it is not fun at all. The direct acceleration of video decoding is relatively new but I'm sure the Android versions with use this feature.

Thanks for info. Chill on the paranoia .
Magic-1

"Made of ~200 low-scale chips, clock rate is up to 4Mhz. Have working Minux port, homebrewcpu.com site is served by this computer."

Man that is the very definition of coolness. Awesome. I wish I could build my own CPU, port *nix to it and serve a site about building it from it.
It would be nice if the guy could get his facts straight.

The infrastructure (hardware and bandwidth) is cheap (almost free) for Q&A. Stackoverflow.com hasn’t even gone to two Web server yet.

Let's count them, shall we? http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-network...

6 web servers and 2 database servers (the load balancers are virtual machined)

And about the money, there are labor costs.

Fog Creek has ~24 employees.

34 - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/14.html
Baltic countries(Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) is much better place for SV in that region. And forunately they are independent from Russia now.
Huh.

My mother (age 67) got breast cancer in 2007. She did all of the treatment for it and was basically free of it 12-18 months later.

Fuck yea.
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Government can stimulate all it wants, but the heart and soul of our success has always come from individual initiative.

Agreed. It would seem then that it would make the most sense for government to focus on minimizing the overhead for formalizing those "individual initiatives" into businesses, rather than inefficiently allocate capital through stimulus (save all of the issues of how much of that stimulus capital is dissipated to essentially non-productive ends).
It took me a full minute to realize that this was some sort of college dating service (I think). I originally thought that it was some sort of college match-making service for kids looking for a university.
i suppose the author recently read The Pragmatic Programmer?

as with the same argument presented in that book, i have a little trouble with this since i've been under the impression the broken windows hypothesis was discredited...
I'm quite probably wrong and I'm also playing devils advocate poorly. What I'm trying to say is we already have almost everything we need. While I can point to many aspects of my life that could be improved upon, I can't point to many where the improvement would result in more and better jobs.
If you do so, you would eventually be invited to huge corp :-)
Not to mention that reading certain books is apparently a crime these days.
Upvoted for deconstruction / psychoanalysis.
I think you are spot on. Watching 20 seasons of Law & Order gives one the impression that everyone in Manhattan has probably been murdered several times...
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I think a preferred option for many people in this situation would be to go to an assisted suicide clinic like Dignitas in Switzerland where you can choose to die at a time of your choosing, without pain, surrounded by your loved ones, with the 'operation' performed by a medical professional. A problem with trying to kill yourself is the risk of getting it wrong - shooting yourself in the head but not managing to kill yourself, not taking enough of your drug of choice - and leading to a possibly lengthy agonising death, or permanent coma etc.

The problem people in the UK have with going to somewhere like Dignitas is that the law around assisting someone with suicide is vague, so if someone's family goes with them to Dignitas, they risk arrest when returning to the UK. In practise I think prosecution has never happened, but people have certainly been arrested on returning to the country.

Personally I think assisted suicide should be legal (although not as something that can be a spur of the moment decision) so that people can choose to take their own life, without the risk of pain or error, and with the support of their families.
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Link to previous discussion on homebrewcpu:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743583
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It's worth pointing out that those servers are for the entire set of sites of which only SO is anywhere remotely close to capacity but yes there are three Web servers for SO.

And yes the hardware/bandwidth costs are (still) nothing. Read:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-arch...

(slightly outdated)

and you'll see how cheap the servers are: single CPU, relatively low RAM.

The 24 was a typo (now fixed). I updated the other too. Thanks for pointing that out.
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I think, but don't know, that that 95% is federal only. Load in state and local governments and the US might be competitive with the UK.
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When will people finally get that this is inevitable? Supply in the creative arts increased massively, so prices WILL come down. Photographers had iStockphoto happen to them, coders had their eLance moment, design had 99designs. Photography, coding & design survived. So why should I care about advertising? I you can't make your business lean enough to compete with the crowdsourcing world, you probably deserve a little beating-up. Oh, and coming from you, Mr. AdMan, it just sounds like whining: get over it, big media buys are over, it's all about metric-based advertising. Good luck anyway with your venture from a fellow Belgian
Adobe's excuse about not having a hardware acceleration API is a red herring, and a painfully obvious lie if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. There are several datapoints.

This is clearly demonstrated when you play a video "natively" through flash on OS X. Watch as the < SD resolution video immediately hogs an entire core of your CPU; in fact the lagging starts almost from the moment the flash object is initialized! Even a trivial operation like clicking fullscreen on a YouTube video locks up the entire host process and beachballs Safari for 5+ seconds as it sits there with it's thumbs stuck up it's arse, causing you to miss whatever was playing at the time.

Ok, so now try playing the same video through XP etc on VMWare or Parallels on the same machine. What's this? It's perfectly responsive and uses a small fraction of the CPU power? Apparently it is ≈5x less CPU intensive to emulate and deal with the overhead of virtualising an entire PC, it's CPU and associated operating system than it is to run the same thing natively on the host OS. *Note that due to limitations inherent in virtualisation, there is no access to any kind of video acceleration whatsoever, let alone assisted h.264 decoding. You have a framebuffer and that's about it (and even that highly abstracted, double buffered, composited and managed by Quartz as with every other window on the system)

My original MacBook which I still use has no hardware assist (GMA950) - yet QuickTime manages playback of fullscreen or windowed 1920x1080 h264 at around the same CPU usage playing a fucking YouTube video does!

Flash video on the mac has always been excruciatingly slow, even before h.264. I remember seeing iMac G3 600Mhz's struggling to maintain even 15fps with postage-stamp sized h.261 (which is what YouTube used to use) just 5 odd years ago. A G3 600 is several orders of magnitude more powerful than what is required to playback video of that complexity. A G4 867 can do 640x480 h264. Clearly something is very very rotten in flash, and getting more offensively pungent by the day.

Which now brings me to:

What in the everloving FUCK could their code possibly be doing?!?!

I think their programmers have quite clearly gone insane and subscribed to (or invented?) the Rube Goldberg school of software engineering - I don't see any other rational explanation.

I'm quite certain we could have cured cancer while making SETI look like the equivalent of someone with a funnel in their ear and aimed at the sky with the aggregate difference in CPU cycles of mac flash vs windows.

If Adobe can't even manage to lie effectively about the reasons why their own software is so utterly broken, well, I'm not holding my breath for a resolution. The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one, though if you ask them it's all Apple's fault.

To think that people want flash on the iPhone. God almighty, haven't we all suffered enough?
It is certainly not a strawman argument. The problem with conspiracy theories is that they often fail in a number of ways: Occam's Razor and falsifiability especially. One of the problems with the AGW conspiracy theory is that it supposes that academics all over the world are actively suppressing evidence to the contrary.

The other problem with your hot dog system is that it's not a conspiracy theory. It was quite likely that the actual arrangement happened entirely by accident. Once there, the manufacturers just decided it wasn't in their best interests (profit) to change. To make the same argument about AGW you would have to argue that there is a huge benefit to climatology supporting AGW -- enough to not only convince the academic departments of every major university to go along with it, but also some kind of silencing of the morally grounded climatologists. Instead it seems that disproving the AGW theory would prove quite a nice feather in the cap of any recently hired associate professor at a major university.

I'm not saying that all of this is impossible. What I am saying is that this requires extraordinary evidence for such an extraordinary claim.
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Yes, I'm thinking about setting up a page with some basic advice... TBC.
Don't use a gun. Human beings are really hard to kill, and messing up a gunshot suicide is reportedly very easy. You're liable to end up with a big chunk of cheek or jaw missing, but not dead. Unpleasant.

Someone also has to clean up your mess...
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The chances that someone will see a potential benefit in being exposed to information on a topic of interest for zero-investment cost is fairly high.

Stick to niche subjects and you'll get a niche audience. Everybody eats, most people cook to some capacity.

Start a twitter account about "The Archaeological Assessments of Classic Models of Sociopolitical Types in Oceania" and I guarantee it'll feel like a close-knit community for nigh onto infinity.
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A local startup is planning to get funding from state government on there idea of a portable toilet for villages.

These people want to get a operational prototypes (number:20) done for there project to show the value prior to reaching out to goverment. Getting this done in India locally is posing as a costing nightmare. Could you suggest good Chinese manufacturer, who these people can partner with? or lease what is the correct process for getting started with manufacturing from China.
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You're correct. I completely missed that; I don't know how. Here's the link:

http://labs.moto.com/diy-touchscreen-analysis/
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"got an email from pg for it...called me an asshole and said that he was embarrassed that such meanness was posted on HN"

Good on you, PG!
Hey chirag, do a search on alibaba.com for manufacturing and fabrication providers in the material you are looking for. If you contact the provider maybe he'll fill you in on the rest of the details, although 20 seems like very small order.
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More or less, it wasn't planned. It did have early government input. Silicon Valley was started by Stanford alumni, who got a lot of money from the DoD. The first tenants were defense and aerospace companies, and this transitioned to semiconductors and computers. The Silicon Valley we now know has taken 70 years to get here.

Basically, almost every government wants to incubate its own startup culture. Because they now recognize how much influence they contribute to the country and internationally. But it will take decades to know if their ideas have taken root. There is no shortcut to these things and most politicians aren't so patient.
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I think that it is okay. I definitely see some inconsistencies when it comes to the UI. For instance, you have the home screen which is the blocks, then the zune-linke text-based interface, then you get into the trunks (cant remember exactly what they were called, but the games is an example) area and it is kinda zune, but it is missing the heading tabs. One has to assume that there is content to the left or right of the current view.

Now the iphone isnt perfect, but at least the interface is consistent across its built-in apps allowing people to to easily use them. As a matter of fact, if you use a mac, the iphone is very familiar visually. the same cannot be said about this 7 series, and windows 7.

But that is an opinion based on just some pics and vids, i need to use the thing.
10 bucks says that its mashable doing it themself to get followers. A official google ad would want to get new users introduced to buzz, not follow mashable.