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> no I mean that flash is a proprietary runtime that can change at the whim of a company,

Are you very sure that if JS and HTML5 authoring tools became good enough (as Flash is) to threaten Apple's business in selling and fully controlling iPhone and iPad apps, that they wouldn't or couldn't change compatibility at a whim?

Running on iPhone is the one major advantage this has. (Not being an open platform... It's anything but an advantage when it won't even run on IE in the foreseeable future.)
Parsed charitably, he means that they aren't serial businesspeople — they ["don't want to", "won't", "can't"] start new independent businesses.

It's a variant of the lifestyle business epithet.
Haha, I know right :)

Coming from someone else it sounds even more ridiculous.. so funny.

Well, yes of course I've learned from this. But it's still scary because like I said, I never knew I could be like that. Who knows what other things I still don't know about me.
I'm a little disturbed that this is how the most talented people in my generation behave. It seems like most people her age are simply lazy, but a small minority are talented, hardworking, and desperate to undersell themselves.

If you've gone to a good school, gotten a good GPA, and been published, don't you dare compete on price! Figure out what the average entry-level college grad would make in a given position, and ask for 25% more. Tell them why it's a good deal.

If she says $12, she sounds like damaged goods. If she says "I'm a better deal at $60K than the last applicant was at $40K," she has another sentence or two to make her case--which she can do.
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oh the possibilities that you can come up with this tool, like this procedurally generated leaves for example http://bit.ly/arVgfS
I like the "blogsh" script I wrote for my blog: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research

MSR regularly does amazing stuff, of which a lot gets patented: http://www.google.com/search?q=MS+Research+patents

I'd say hiring lots of bright guys and girls and investing heavily in R&D ($9.5B according to 1) constitutes positive economic activity.

[1] http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3214217&...
There are a number of good static-site compilers for Ruby (for example): Webby, StaticMatic, Jekyll.

You can use your version control system of choice to deal with the source and then a simple rsync over ssh to push the pages up to your host.
99.99% of people that use Flash don't need 300K 3D particles rendered. Most people use it to design good looking websites. This tool lets you do the same thing, and:

- much faster to load (especially in Chrome)

- works out of the box in all modern browsers, including iPhone (even though it's slow as hell on the my iPhone 3G).

- doesn't mess up your SEO

Which in my opinion, makes it if not a total Flash-killer, a very viable competitor at least.
I'll be happy to accept $0.30/GB while you test restores to your heart's content. :-)
Ask HN: Why do threads die?
I'm wondering if anyone has an answer to my question. An example is currently on the news page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179711

I understand there are banned links, so those pages are automatically killed. However, I see this thread was killed without any reason- except for the author wrote the title and text without being very....proper?

Maybe we can start giving reasons (possibly) for closing threads?
British Residents do directly pay for the BBC, and not via normal taxes like the US's PBS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni...
I would absolutely love to do this! I'm just not sure where to start(browse github?) or how to approach a team (re: introvert). I hate to look like the sad-eyed puppy waiting for a bone...
The salesperson did say that there was only a single client...

“But we don’t need to change it for everyone,” Craig jumped in, “just one client. Surely, you can do that!”
I find this tool excels at drawing bacon.

http://i.imgur.com/3uDPO.png
if you just want something simple and secure, maybe you should consider jekyll (http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll) or another static site generator. this way there are no scripts running server-side, just plain and simple html.
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If you want identical results regardless of optimization level or machine characteristics, you should really be using fixed-point instead.
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What do I check if I use CSS 2 ?
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This appears to be meetup #2.
I sold a site at sitepoint (before they moved to flippa domain last year) for 25k. I set up the auction at night, went to sleep, woke up next morning with several bids and many PMs. Several of them offered me more than my BIN price. The site was sold is less than 24 hours. My investment: ~$25 to setup the auction.

Just a wordpress blog.

I think they changed some of the terms since moving to flippa and it is still ridiculously easy to sell a site through flippa.

Looking at this auction, I have my doubts. Something is not right. It is also possible that the buyer is an idiot with extra cash lying around.
"But the whole point is that two months is NOTHING."

Two months isn't NOTHING. It's just a lot less than it takes to become a world-class expert.

Karate Kid wasn't going up against a pro who'd been doing it for 20 years. He was going up against another high school kid in the "all valley championship". He had some karate background and a master trainer. It may not be totally realistic, but it's not off by such a huge amount as to be "indeed not possible".
Mozilla rips off Metalab, issue apparently resolved within the hour
I pointed the same thing out to a coworker. Then again, Apple doesn't really understand the web.

edit: I got down-voted I assume for saying Apple doesn't understand the web. I think it is a fair comment. They don't have many web properties and don't provide tools for web developers other than Web Objects (which isn't even on their list). I don't know many web devs that use xcode. So, does Apple really understand PHP and Ruby?
As long as the JS/HTML runtime can guarantee good performance, I can't see Apple complaining. Apple isn't going after Flash because it competes with their app store, Apple's going after Flash because it's a performance dog with near-impossible touchscreen usability and little to no ability for Apple to create a better runtime for.
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I click this link and see a wall of text. Bullet-y text to be sure, but text. I don't even think to scroll down to see the artwork below the fold. My eyes don't really read your text; they're just looking for some indication of something I can click on to actually see the thing. They find "browse"; I click that, and now I'm actually in your app, and I'm thinking "what-the-hell, why isn't this the first thing I see when I visit the site?"

Long story short: find another way to organize the front page of the site. You picked a niche where you get to put pretty pictures on your site. They need to be the first thing I see.
I imagine it was flagged multiple times, and tipped over the flag/vote weight. I'm personally in favour of this system on HN - it may be biased towards threads dying, but I would rather kill some good threads than have a bias that allows off-topic, link-bait etc rising to the top.

Of course, I have Show Dead on, so in effect dead threads are just an extra datapoint when I decide whether to read.
I had to think for a moment to realize that java is actually a "web technology". But, the applet tag does die in HTML5.
Maybe that was the breaking point for him?
Conferences are only worth it if you're going to network the hell out of them. It's kinda like business school, you're not going to learn a lot, but you will get pissed with some people who will become friends and help you later on in life. (Well, you can learn in b-school but that is debatable).

That being said, here's one thing that has worked for me, drop the conference organizer a note and ask them if they need volunteers, or help with organization (most conferences do) - the earlier you do it, the easier it is (obviously). Then you can get to attend for free.

Another way is to get a press pass. NY let's bloggers get one these days: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/04/bloggers-eligible-...
Having seen several of these postings, I agree with you - the $12/hr rate helps her stand out in a positive light.

I'm not as sure about the leverage stuff, but it definitely communicates that she's someone who's looking to break in anywhere she can, as opposed to a bratty kid who thinks their "reverse job posting" is just too clever.
One thing that particularly annoys me is when websites like LinkedIn and Facebook ask for your webmail password so they can suggest new contacts based on your email history. They promise they won't store your password, but it is shockingly insecure.
That's what persistence handles. It minimizes the effect of luck. What I mean't by the unpredictability of the universe is in fact the luck. To overcome luck, you simply persist. And no amount of intelligence can overcome the unpredictable (because it follows no rules). So that's why you need persistence, as well as intelligence.
When I first saw the tweet I thought it was just a backyard/bedroom operator doing it for free. It is open source after all. But when I read that they tendered for the project and were turned down, that makes me really angry.

I hope they reach an agreement where Metalab is reimbursed for the entire amount of their initial quote.
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This mindset always strikes me as questionable. I am a pretty middle class guy but I funded my entire undergrad with government student loans without problems and I don't understand why low income people can't do the same.
Hmm from the looks of it it doesn't seem like they're actually using the design anywhere? As far as I can tell the image from Metalab has been placed on a public wiki.
Who cares? The profile questions were probably written by some HR flack who doesn't know the details of the technology. Not really surprising, but not interesting, either.
No it takes both. A lot of persistence in the wrong direction will just leave you somewhere other than where you wanted to be. Intelligence points you in the right direction, and persistence gets you there.

Think about it this way: you can be smart and know how to solve a very defined problem. But even if the world is deterministic, we're not close to being able to control it through pure logic and reasoning alone. That is we don't have the computer power or mind power to identify all variables and make sure we always do the right thing. THIS is why we need to persist. Because luck and unpredictability force us to try the right methods over and over again. Even if they are right, they may not work all the time because of luck.
Really? A Permissions error with HTML 5? Let me in on your secret!!!!
And the actual musicians, save for rich nerds like Reznor or Timbaland, tend not to spend their money on $700 pro audio software — they pirate all of it.

That does lead to another aspirational pathology: it's not hard to download all of it, but it's very hard to even try a small fraction of it. Scarcity helps you focus on a set of tools.
Right theory, wrong cause.

Which theory and cause? That the world is ruined and the cause is the Karate Kid? You might have taken it a bit too literally.

Our whole society has [...]

Our whole society probably hasn't. Is your argument seriously "kids these days"? Because I don't think the author is really attempting to engage in a meaningful debate on whether the Rocky montage is or is not the driving factor in our poor ability to estimate effort required. It's just a bit of hyperbole.
I think we can all agree on what Avatar means.

Pocahontas. In space. In 3D.
Maybe there should be an unflag option?
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That's a false economy though. You'd have to learn something that you couldn't learn by watching videos for free online or reading books for the costs to justify themselves and the networking would have to be better than you'd be able to do at other paid or free events.
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For Mozilla's sake, I hope it was the design team they hired that did the knockoff rather than an inhouse designer. Although it's probably too early to jump to conclusions at this point.
See here for four more comps based on the same layout: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Jetpack/FlightDeck

This is pretty shameful. These were all posted by wiki user Dandonkulous (Daniel Buechner; @dandonkulous), who was Metalab's contact in the article. These may just be comps rather than a full product, but regardless, they demonstrate that significant effort has gone into producing a nearly identical copy of the original Metalab design. That's disappointing; if these allegations are correct, I'm very disappointed in Daniel and those involved at Mozilla in creating this product.

Update: Mozilla has removed the screenshots. Here are three of them:

- http://u.phoreo.com/gn.png

- http://u.phoreo.com/1x.png

- http://u.phoreo.com/gq.png
The Rubinius team should really be paying attention to the Google sponsored Python project Unladen Swallow and vice-versa. There is so much overlap in methodology they should really just be working together for half these things.
Has anyone tried using this with the Ruby OAuth gem? (found here: http://github.com/pelle/oauth-plugin)

OAuth is quite cool, but the documentation and tutorials seem to be all over the place.
" But no matter how much I practice, I'll never be able to play like Jimi Hendrix, because he had a very long finger spread. My hand just can't cover the same range."

FWIW, I bet Hendricks didn't get to be Hendricks by working to emulate some other player's style. And for all we know, he may have been pissed that his big old hands got in the way of playing some other style he really liked.

Knowing you are not going to play like Hendricks, it's maybe time to play like CWuestefeld.

(Also, Django Reinhardt had a damaged left hand, with limited mobility. He kicked ass, though.)
I'll read it, because I'm interested, but the concept that "if everyone knew what I knew, they'd get along / talk better" is ridiculous.
I only caught the double-entendre after reading your comment.
Sounds like a good implementation of Ray-Tracing. Lighting and animation are going to be major hurdles to overcome, followed by tools.
> You can't play hardball against somebody like that without feeling like a dick about it.

Don't assume that other people are like you, especially when negotiating.

This is awful advice.
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The problem in the USA though is that the bills passed by congress on the topic have not designated mandatory compliance:
http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Metric/lc1136a.cfm
I don't disagree that many of these inventions are novel, but would MSFT still have spent this money without the possibility of software patents?
Ah yes, I just applied a new design with the info and thumbnails side by side, hopefully solving this problem. A good lesson for me (I am just getting started with the web design and ui aspect of things). Thanks!
Actually, there are still available through the history of the document you linked to. In particular:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Labs/Jetpack/Flight...
Within minutes of your post, the screenshots were removed from that page. Looks like someone on the mozilla end is watching.

You can still see a screenshot at https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:FlightDeck_Editor.png as of this posting.

To the guys at mozilla: do the right thing. It's too late to bury this.
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If they did, how would they know which site to knock off? Unless it's either a bizarre coincidence, the Mozilla guys would have had to pass the mockups on to them. And they still had to upload them afterwards!
You might take a look at progit (http://progit.org/) -- it's authored in markdown (github: http://github.com/progit/progit/blob/master/en/01-introducti...) which can probably be converted into whatever ebook format you need.
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We need to talk about something more important here:

How they ruined the franchise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY8amUImEu0&feature=pyv&#...
I think this is a gross, misleading, and irresponsible reaction. The cited image is from the Mozilla wiki under a section entitled "Current mock-ups and screenshots". I cannot find any evidence that Mozilla has released a site or application with this UI. There is nothing anywhere to indicate that the design shown is "new", that it is in any way intended to be the final design, or that the stolen graphical elements will actually be used in the real product.
That joke actually reminds me of a more common counter-joke: when an economics professor sees money on the street, he doesn't pick it up, because it can't really be there
Or examples that defy the description?
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I mean in terms of steps and to make it easy for others to append their own content after yours.
He would have meant one client as in one company, not one user.
What app are they using to read their mail? It's purty
There's a difference between planning for any particular company buying your application and precluding it from happening (not that I have any idea about your first question).
was coming here to say the same thing.

incidentally, nvidia is starting to get into raytracing - http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3721&p=6

[edit: although the comment says the video says that it's not... watching the video now. hmmm. looks like they're exploiting fractals in some way? they seem to have some scale-free way of encoding the data that they use to generate the image?]
I really have to agree. "Functionality Mock-ups" don't even remotely equal launching a stolen design.
The point of concern for me in modern mythology is not the unrealistic amount of effort required to succeed, but the portrayal of risk. If the main character is likeable, good-hearted, and he gives it his all, he never fails. Things just work out for him.

Winston Churchill said, "It is no use saying 'we are doing our best'. You have got to succeed at doing what is necessary." And at the time he said it, it was an unremarkable sentiment echoed in literature. The modern rule seems to be more along the lines of, "If you're nice and put in a decent effort, things will work out."

Some examples: Modern little orphan Annie is met with success after success and kindness after kindness in response to her charm and ingenuity, encountering only minor setbacks; her counterpart in Dickens' Oliver Twist meets nothing but disappointment and injustice for a very long time. The slight justices in the story are only those which are achieved by the characters with a lot of work and risk -- and even they, they often fail. Titanic's Rose drifts into and out of a beautiful adventure, but Gone With The Wind's Scarlet toils and schemes endlessly to gain what she has, even after losing everything through no fault of her own. The central romance of Casablanca does not simply work out as a modern audience would be accustomed to expect; the characters focus on doing what is necessary to achieve their aims.

The older stories have it right. In order to achieve something, one must assess the cost. You can't just do your best and hope. Rather--in the mode of Churchill--you must do what is necessary. And failure is familiar even to those who do that and proceed with best effort and intentions. A generation raised on Disney happy endings is learning the wrong lessons about the necessity of planning and perseverence.
It's a current mockup of a UI that appears to be copy-pasted directly from the website of a UI design company that put in a bid on this very project and was rejected.

At best, this was a gross and irresponsible move by Mozilla. And if it's not planned to be in the final product, it's also misleading.
Is it just me, or does this only occur when someone has physical access to the hardware-RSA encryptor which has the private key inside it?

In which case, this is 1024-bit hardware RSA encryption being cracked... but it has nothing to do in particular with RSA (pook's linked article mentions it works well on other encryption algorithms), and everything to do with causing glitches in the encrypting hardware. Endlessly threatening / useful to hardware makers / hackers, and meaningless in terms of algorithmic security.

Alarmist title FTW.
It sounds a little to me like the old "once the polys get small enough, everythings a particle system" approach. Sure you save lots of GPU by essentially doing away with surfaces and textures (by making everything a floating colored dot) but you then have to contend with massive storage, manipulation, and filtering problems.

They might be at the stage where they say "we'll just make everything a point! this'll be cake! all our renderer will have to do is figure out which points to show." and not yet at the phase where a they come to realize that a room full of monsters will require 100 gig of ram.
"In reality, good meetings are good and bad meetings are not good".
Yeah, because we'd rather read a book of tautologies than some actual points.
Thanks for the tip, I got a few Canadian entrepreneurs whome this could be useful to, but as you said, if you are not canadian, this wont help much.
I believe what you're referring to is the image of the estimate. That's a screenshot of MetaLab's invoicing app, Ballpark.

http://getballpark.com/
I believe IE4 had Direct Animation support.
It's more likely the start of an effort to set the record straight rather than bury it. Or at least it should be.
Sure, but borrowing so liberally usually merits at least a credit to the original artists.

That's just common decency in the artistic world.
I can't believe Mozilla would do such a thing, but as a designer I am on Metalab's side, it is unacceptable that any company would do such a thing. Mozilla needs to issue an apology and pay for the design if the intend to clear in any way what they have done.
It is also sad that a talented team like mozilla's couldn't come up with an idea of their own or at least pay for it.
On another note, is there a way for Metalab to take legal actions towards Mozilla?
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Andrew Wilkinson is constantly freaking out over design similarities and rip offs. In some cases, the designs are not even close. In others, such as in this case, they are very close. In either case, I don't think that these constant public tantrums are ever effective at accomplishing anything positive.

What Andrew did accomplish in this case was that he ensured that Mozilla will likely not become one of their clients, even though it was clear Mozilla considered them to be a good firm, and would have possibly sent them work in the future.

The professional thing to do in this scenario would be to contact the parties involved to see what is going on and discuss the issue, including any concerns you have, directly and like adults. It's wrong to assume you understand someone's motivations when you haven't given them an opportunity to explain themselves, especially when you go on to type up a scathing blog post about them in which you publish private e-mail correspondence between yourself and the party that you are criticizing.