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I think the app store would still be a big thing because it would still be the easiest distribution channel. Even if there was good flash support, there would still be the issue of developers trying to extract revenue from there apps. The app stores give people easy access and instills a quick impulse buy mentality which would be hard for someone developing for the iphone independent of the app store to achieve.

Performance for some graphics intensive apps I'd imagine would never be as good just because no matter how efficient flash becomes it would still be an extra layer things are being ran on.
$ astyle reddit.c
$ wc -l reddit.c
211
Ok, why not :)
Given professional workplace without a dress code/ uniform it is interesting to see the large variation in what people decide to wear. From shit pants and nice shoes down to t-shirt shorts and runners.
Are you sure that's in 3.6? My 3.6 build doesn't have the "dom.ipc.plugins.enabled" key in about:config.

I'm pretty sure it'll be landing in 3.7. Here's the tracking bug that shows what's left to fix on it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539055
No, it's for checking whether the compiler used to compile the compiler that produced the binaries on your system was compromised.

Intuitively, let's say I write a very early version of a (say) gcc, but insert code so that if the compiler detects that it's compiling a login program, it inserts logic into the binary so that "kt" can always login without a password. For this to survive beyond the next rebuild, the compiler also has to detect when it's compiling itself and insert the same logic. This 'Trojan horse' can survive as long as people keep compiling your compiler in itself, but is never detectable from looking at any later version of the source code.

So you need to trust each version of the compiler (assembler, linker, microcode) you are using all the way back in history. The claim of the PhD and the 2005 paper is that you can verify the integrity of a compiler using another compiler that you do trust, all the way back in history.

The apocryphal story is that Ken Thompson actually did this with an early Unix compiler. Here's his very short original paper:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Hilarious. The equivalent of someone putting "amazing attention to detial" on their resume.
IETF are an odd bunch. I went to a meeting a few years back and was warned that there might be a humming for consensus.

What is humming for consensus you ask? Well, rather than a show of hands, when deciding on measures and proposals they simply ask the room to hum in favor of a measure.

The reason is simply that even if you are sitting next to your boss it will still be possible for you to vote according to your conscience as it's virtually impossible to distinguish the direction of humming in a room of a hundred or so people. It is, however, easy to tell if a measure has the majority support of a group via humming.

It's very geeky and very smart. Very IETF.
The thing about the shadow inventory is ... it's houses that have trashed and had their wiring stripped by meth-heads. Yes, even our drug-addled friends can do their part to support the market. It might be a terrible waste of resources but letting unsold housing just die on the vine is another thing that may, just may, keep the expansion going another year or two...
c++ is legitimately a bad choice
-combination of python and c, or compiled safe languages like lisp/ocaml/haskell is better
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Apple's three large sources of revenue are selling Macs, selling iPods, and selling iPhones. Everything else--from music to TV shows to movies to iPhone apps--is a complementary product rather than a major revenue driver for Apple.
How would freeing Flash do anything to fix the problems with Creative Suite?
HN: Current job posting sites suck
I think a lot of use realize how inefficient job sites are. I'd like to form a group of people who are interested in discussing this problem and finding a solution. If you are interested please email me pjharrin [at] gmail d0t com and we can get the ball rolling.
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Tell HN: Amazon back to selling Macmillan books
Now available:

http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0805091742/

Reference:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1101659
Opera 10.10 WinXP doesn't crash :-)
App store would still be a relevant thing _now_ if apple were to allow flash. Simply because users have been accustomed to the concept of app store. An iphone without an app store wouldn't make sense.

But, if iphone had flash the first time it was released, I honestly believe it would make app store irrelevant or at the very least it would make some serious dent in to app store revenue.
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IE8 does not crash. Chrome handles the crash and shows a message. Firefox dies.
This seems to be the most reasonable to me. Likely more towards the lower end.

Despite the business the company is in, seems like real-world salaries apply to the other positions.
What city is the company in? More metro = higher cost of living.
Never saw this before. Thanks for sharing.
Funny, the startup I work for made three of his deadly strategic mistakes, and ended up doing very well. In fact, we believe that selling before the product was ready and not making it self-serve were essential to our success. Sometimes, there is just a lot of luck involved in finding product-market fit.
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I like this app. I was recently looking for a place to host a resume, and wish I had come across your site sooner.

As everyone else has already said, your messaging and initial pitch need to be cleaned up. Personally, I would stress the sub-resume's idea as that seems to be your best feature.

I'd also add an option to incorporate facebook/linkedin/twitter profiles to a resume. I did see the share buttons, but having a direct link to the persons profile would be a good feature as well.

Best of luck.
ClickToFlash for Safari/Webkit on Mac is one of the best add-ons I've found.

http://clicktoflash.com/
http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash
Would you mind explaining for those of us who are less knowledgeable about physics why you don't believe that there is no known physical mechanism for the supposed phenomena?
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.

What we hate about Flash (the annoying ads, the annoying preloaders), etc, isn't going away. It's being replaced with identical clones made with HTML5. That's not a victory for me.

I also find it extremely ironic that CPU usage is brought up when we still don't know how great HTML5 is with CPU as it's thoroughly untested.
Within fifteen seconds of Flash Crash crashing my Flash, my laptop's fan stopped for the first time today. I think I might just uninstall flash.
There was an interesting blog post about Apple shifting to make the app store more of a razor blade model, especially with the iPad coming soon.

http://www.marketspacetrading.com/the-latest/video-apples-st...
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There is vastly more radiation from sunlight than from using a cellphone. But in any case, I find that since I started wearing a tinfoil hat I'm much less affected by cellphone radiation.
The article explains the physical mechanism - or at least the area in which it applies:

At the vanguard of a new field of study that came to be known as bioelectromagnetics, he found what appeared to be grave nonthermal effects from microwave frequencies—the part of the spectrum that belongs not just to radar signals and microwave ovens but also, in the past fifteen years, to cell phones. (The only honest way to think of our cell phones is that they are tiny, low-power microwave ovens, without walls, that we hold against the sides of our heads.) Frey tested microwave radiation on frogs and other lab animals, targeting the eyes, the heart, and the brain, and in each case he found troubling results. In one study, he triggered heart arrhythmias. Then, using the right modulations of the frequency, he even stopped frog hearts with microwaves—stopped the hearts dead.

also how modulated microwaves assit in breaching the blood - brain barrier

In a study published in 1975 in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Frey reported that microwaves pulsed at certain modulations could induce "leakage" in the barrier between the circulatory system and the brain. Breaching the blood-brain barrier is a serious matter: It means the brain's environment, which needs to be extremely stable for nerve cells to function properly, can be perturbed in all kinds of dangerous ways. Frey's method was rather simple: He injected a fluorescent dye into the circulatory system of white rats, then swept the ­microwave frequencies across their bodies. In a matter of minutes, the dye had leached into the confines of the rats' brains.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I take all my health advice from fashion magazines. I shall discard my cellphone immediately.
"Even in these economically challenging times, we are incredibly pleased to report our best quarterly revenue and earnings in Apple history -- surpassing $10 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time ever."

"The company said strong music and video sales drove a record quarter for its iTunes Store. ITunes brought in its highest sales ever on Christmas Day and Christmas week." (Jan 2009)

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998905.html?categoryId=...
Worse - they found that the radiation CAN cause DNA damage.

The potential complications don't end there. In the mid-1990s, a biophysicist at the University of Washington named Henry Lai began to make profound discoveries about the effects of such frequencies not only on the blood-brain barrier but also on the actual structure of rat DNA. Lai found that modulated EM radiation could cause breaks in DNA strands—breaks that could then lead to genetic damage and mutations that would be passed on for generations. What surprised Lai was that the damage was accomplished in a single two-hour exposure.

In essence - even though the energy is not sufficient to ionize it is impacting the function of cells.

(this is why I posted the article)
$10 ebook debate - who should decide?
"iTunes and App Store are still running a bit over break-even." — Peter Oppenheimer (Apple CFO)

(via http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/25/apple-q1-2010-results/ )
The mechanism of banning apps is useful so that users can have a trusted place to get apps known to be free of malware.

The way to make sure that mechanism doesn't result in evil policy is to allow an alternate means of installing software. Google does this. Apple does not.
Next would be a bit.ly link :)

Liked the joke :), what in all these "n lines" codes is missing is lot of things like - filtering (bad words), scaling, backup, etc.
fucking fascists!
I Wardrive extensively. If this is true (and I don't think it is) then I'm too fucked to care.
The part about Adobe being slow to fix bugs had me laughing, I've seen apple take years to fix obvious annoying bugs that had developers banging their heads against their desks.

Apple is so annoying to work with with their insane secrecy and arrogance, if I was Adobe I'd pull Photoshop for OSX and talk Microsoft into pulling their Windows licenses for Parallels.
I'll take my chances.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100106-cell-...
So circumcision might help with HIV, but there are other facts which should not be taken out - check http://www.foreskin.org (NSFW)
Are ebooks a tangible artifact? I don't have the answer.

But, I think that ebooks should be cheaper than their paper counterpart. The paper version should be considered premium version.
About the circumcision - I've found this site to be generally useful explaining things we might know about the practice - http://www.foreskin.org

I've always thought that circumcision does not help against HIV, but the report proves otherwise.
What makes think they are?
Yes, but oddly it seems to circumvent Safari's protective spawning of Flash to a separate process when it does load. When I clicked the browser-crashing Flash app, it actually crashed Safari, and Activity Monitor never picks up the separate Flash process anymore.
Most, though some is now COTS, so C and others are employed as well.
ClozureCL (ccl) works on Windows.

There is just one issue - the 32-bit version works fine on 32-bit machines, but not on 64-bit ones (this is due to something int he CCL kernel, relying on the TLB settings, it's being done through undocumented Windows functions).

A 64-bit CCL works fine on 64-bit machine (Tested on my Vista 64 Business edition)
And a 32-bit one also works fine on a 32-bit machine (tested with XP Home edition)

I myself decide to stay more with Lispworks 6.0 for a while, because supporting more than one lisp seemed hard to me (this way I can totally use the Lispworks FLI, and not bother about CFFI and others). Later if the project seems worth anything, it could be ported.

A cool experiment, and rather bizzare one, is using the Cocotron (Cocoa on Windows and Linux) with CCL (I think the 32-bit one). But it's a bit tricky to get it working - you need to compile Foundation.dll and AppKit.dll and place them in the right folders.

The cool thing about CCL - is the people :) I actually donated $1000 for the CLL project (they were in $20000 to develop the GUI)
what's to say that the BeOS people wouldn't have done something comparable

Statistics. Lots of people have the resources, but very few do anything comparable to Jobs at Apple (Maybe Flip?). There's certainly no reason to think Apple would have gotten into Mp3 players and mobile phones.
I'd wager female genital mutilation also lowers the chances of getting aids--if only through decreased interest in sex.
I expect Hacker News has a similar consensus. Circumcision is not worse than slavery, but it is one of those relics of human barbarism that will be looked at with scorn and disdain in 50 years. The fact that HIV transmission is marginally reduced by circumcision is a terrible reason to advocate involuntary circumcision of infants.
I preffer it that way. I can easily copy + paste it, put in a comment in the source code. It's way easier to exchange.
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Thank George (really nice guy who tweets mostly in Portuguese): http://twitter.com/georgeguimaraes/statuses/8705110867

I never imagined IETF issued memos with dress code...
Time. The world receives the knowledge sooner, allowing us to use it sooner.
If you had a choice, which would it be: C++ or Java?
Hey Hackers, here is my quandary. I have to make a choice between C++ and Java as the next language I learn at school. If you were me, which would you select? Why?

My career interests are mainly in data analysis, with perhaps some financial applications later on. Which of these two languages would give me the most traction?
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This is just a simplistic description of Perlin Noise. However while implementing the algorithm this is not the way to go. Because it's very very slow -- the author has simply taken non-coherent noise and smoothened it and this is computationally very expensive.

And also Ken Perlin has made an improved version to his original with some speedups and a reference implementation in Java can be found here: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/noise/
Apple does have something of a weird relationship with Google at the moment...Gmail is one of the email providers on the iPhone with "express" setup, and they have pre-installed apps for Google Maps and Youtube. On the other hand, Android. Seems like a perfect opportunity for MSFT.
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It is interesting the approach taken in US vs Europe. Europe is taking more of precautionary approach, they are at least doing more research, they seem more skeptical. In US worrying about cellphone radiation is considered "conspiratorial" for some reason. Are these flak groups sponsored by large wireless telecom carriers?

I observed the same thing in regard to food and additives. FDA seems to need strong irrefutable proof of toxicity before they would ban an additive, Europeans seem to take more of a precautionary approach -- if the additive is thought to be harmful, they will be banned. Is it just me or have others noticed the same?
The linked bug report lists it as fixed in Flash Player 10 - 10_1_51_66, so that sounds right.
My gut feeling

Google vs Apple: Whoever wins, we lose.

But about android phones, it's more freer than iPhone anyway.
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It's always nice to see bugs are addressed quickly . . . which Is why I'm not really surprised, Adobe products have always had a clunky feel to me and Flash was genuinely a product destined for them.
It's hard to understand how an organization as savvy as Apple could do something like this. What do they really think they're going to get out of it, other than bad press? I'm not even saying that the tradeoffs aren't worth it, but that there's no upside at all. What possible benefit could this have?
I'm sorry, but what Apple _needs_ to do, is make sure they don't spend their time listening to armchair CEOs and linux developers who feel so entitled they decide that what a company which has made more money in the last 10 years than I can imagine _needs_ to do is cowtow to them in order to be successful.
Between C++ and Java? I would open a restaurant!

Seriously: of those 2 choices, I would tend towards C (more than C++). I would prefer more choice, of course. Current Lisp compilers are very efficient.
Where are the permutation numbers derived from?
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For those wondering, "There are those in the IETF who refuse to wear anything other than suits. Fortunately, they are well known (for other reasons) so they are forgiven this particular idiosyncrasy." is a reference to Vint Cerf. Though I did see Vint in a tracksuit once...
I wrote a Python extension based on the original Ken Perlin's algorithm. Just found it on my hard drive and uploaded it to github: http://github.com/ii/perlin
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FlashBlock for Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
They will free it, once it's too late and no one cares. Kind of like Java.
"... I first started to think seriously about procedural textures when I was working on TRON at MAGI in Elmsford, NY, in 1981. ..." ~ http://www.noisemachine.com/talk1/4.html

there is another site Perlin has explaining how, "Making Noise" ~ http://www.noisemachine.com/talk1/
Hey, it is their store ... whatever they want.
I like the ASCII text aspect for that reason, but does it really need the hard-coded headers and footers every 50 lines?
They are generated randomly. Ken Perlin has described it in his book Texturing, Modeling A Procedural Approach. If I remember correctly the numbers have to be such that every direction should have an equal chance. Even distribution I think.
It's been done, of course, although it has to be a bit more due to comments (at least #!/usr/bin/perl).

http://gist.github.com/295032
I came close to joining Eventvue last year and making the big move from SF to Boulder just because I liked these two so much, so I'm bummed to see their baby wind down and know they put a lot of heart into it. Closing their second round during the "RIP Good Times" winter of 2008 was pretty difficult and definitely impacted their ability to hire, among other things.

I'm happy to call Josh and Rob friends and am excited to see what they do next.
Y'all related to Exceptional? Have a similar name and that logo is practically identical. http://getexceptional.com/
You might find this interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation_and_h...

Basically, there are some studies that indicate that prolonged exposure to EM radiation has carcinogenic effects. Which is what the article is about. It is not understood, but I can see why many feel worried. People tend not to like being guinea pigs.

It seems, they be the ones demonstrating beyond any doubt that EM radiation is perfectly safe? Which is why more studies are need, especially long term.
My POV (I don't have any special insight):

Big users of C++ are more tech-oriented. These are the people that would use something better but they need the 2x speedup, because it's a major competitive advantage in a mature pure tech firm.

example: google.com

Big users of Java are more enterprise-oriented. They use it because it is proven, and they can hire programmers for it, and they can manage big projects with it.

example: SAP.com

IMO: chase the $$$, learn Java. But if you work hard you can learn the basics fast, and keep learning other languages. Once you know many languages and the paradigms behind them, any given language is just a point in "language space" and the details of the language are obvious, because they couldn't be any other way.
I've implemented 2D perlin noise for my final year project, but I think it has mistakes in it. Never got the time to verify. If anybody wants to take a look it's here: http://trac.assembla.com/terrainium/browser/TerrainiumLatest...

perlinNoise() is the function to look at. I implemented it based on http://web.archive.org/web/20070706003038/http://www.cs.cmu.... but the images are missing in the web archive :(
And much praise to the Opera team for just not crashing in the first place. I can zoom in the blue square, move around, etc. and the page is still fine after a minute or so leaving it open.
I am seriously bummed by my lack of choices. As always though, I want to make the best of it.

If I said that ultimately I wanted to use either language for distributed computing applications, which then?
Sorry, nothing happened. Firefox on OSX.

Prolly the worst [anti-Flash] troll post so far.
I happen to work for a company in the financial sector.

Our developers use Java (mostly).

Our research department uses whatever they are most comfortable with for research, but the result of their research is coded up in C++. If we had to do it over, we'd probably do everything in Java. Misc. notes:

Personally, I am WAY more productive in Java.

I supplement Java with Clojure.

I find the performance penalty for using Java is pretty-much negligible. It's always how you do it that matters more than what language you do it in. Don't use Java Generics for number crunching though... use a dedicated primitives collection library like Colt.

Java and C++ are quite similar in some respects. I would say though, that it's easier to go from C++ to Java, than from Java to C++.

Best C++ books:

Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo

Effective C++ by Scott Meyers (make sure you get the 3rd edition)

Best Java books:

Effective Java by Joshua Bloch

Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, and Joseph Bowbeer

If you have to use C++, start using the Boost C++ libraries early on. You can learn a great deal just by using the Boost libraries, and reading their documentation.
By promoting Ive, didn't Jobs actually affect a fairly large change in design talent? According to wikipedia:

"He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, aluminum and titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod, iPhone, and iPad"
For distributed computing: Java.