skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It came out at the wrong time - people didn't want to believe that the financial industry was screwed up. If it got re-released now (or if someone finally made a movie of it) people would probably be more receptive.

Pointless anecdote: went to see him give a talk a few years back in London. I bought his new book, got him to sign it, and then whipped out my first edition hardback of Bombardiers that I picked up in Oz years previously. He seemed surprised(/touched) to see it, we had a little chat, and then he wrote a genuinely nice message in the book.

He's totally a class act.
>>>I tried the beta on a laptop and a desktop,

It's labeled Beta because things don't work quite right yet. I find that waiting 3 days is usually enough to get a stable as hell release.

Of course, I'm going to a release party today and am upgrading, so no waiting for me.
> That's being a bit generous in favor of Adobe - the majority of the Flash development sphere is practically what one would consider "miscreant use".

The vast majority of websites in general are poor. It would be no surprise to see that the majority of Flash sites would also be poor. Both sides have exceptions, though.

> Videos/Audio: Easily replaced by HTML5, and better too. More readily hardware accelerated, behaves as part of the core browser instead of a hijacking addon (e.g., Ctrl+T while focused on a Flash applet = no new tab), and much better battery life on mobiles.

I don't disagree. I am grateful that HTML5 can handle this, but it took a "standards" committee several years to roll this into a questionably viable model. The immediate fanfare for the slow implementation raises my eyebrow a bit. We're all happy about having something we've needed for years. The company that created the fold so we could have sites like YouTube today? The devil.

> - Crappy restaurant websites and other crimes against humanity: These should just die, and HTML5 will hopefully inspire better design ethic than this.

It won't. Cheese is forever. If HTML5 can accomplish cheese, people will create cheese. We're all hopeful, but the human condition comes into play.
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He did. In the very next sentence:

> Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards.

Not too many words there between 'JavaScript' and 'low power'.
The real economics at work here are the economies of scale that comes with being the reserve currency of the world. Whoever owns the reserve currency holds the keys to the global economy - they're not backing anytime soon. Some say it could be 2022 when the Euro > Dollar.

PDF: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/econ/archive/wp2006-01.pdf
"Why would you want to start a data-driven startup?"

In our case (http://timetric.com) - it was at least in part due to having spent several years beavering away trying to build products for the management of scientific data, before discovering that outside of science:

a) there's lots of other interesting data can benefit from better management

b) people will pay for it :-)

The article's a very good overview of lots of the issues we've faced in building a business around data.
Good, I prefer those features not exist. It's bad for the Web to depend on anything not thoroughly designed enough to gracefully degrade and be usable on all the browsers you don't happen to care about.
I asked this same question of someone I know at TransUnion, and basically, the answer is yes. Although, considering companies have to pay a few cents to report the data, maybe there's a market for a company that allows free reporting and can somehow stay in business for long enough to provide relevant, recent (7-10 years) data. You wouldn't be able to provide the accounts in good standing that remain on the reports indefinitely, but it might be good enough.

Not that it's terrible relevant, but he told me TU has data on people going back to the 1920s.

edit: didn't read the article, but the same concept holds true for business CRAs.
But you don't appear to have pointed out any specific flaws in the argument against it. So you're not making an argument, just an unsupported assertion.
No — they don't have to use rollover. But the fact of the matter is, particularly with games but also to some extent websites (navigation), that many (perhaps the majority) do. Apple is speaking about the state of things as they are, not how they could possibly be if people so chose for them to be that way.
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Hover isn't used for navigation in Flash. Its used for controls in games, a lot of the time. You click to start, then move the mouse to play.

// note: Deleted this comment and readded it, since I originally replied to the wrong comment. Whoopsies.
"Dia" - sandbox an application or block of ruby code on Mac OSX
Not to sound too much like an ass, but I looked at their website:

1. Open source, but no public source repository?

2. No link to download a working release, even though their site claims one by March 2010 (it's almost May)?

3. A list of ambitious goals about what the project will do, but no working code?

Sounds like vaporware.
I would be surprised, if Adobe would be not on board during Google I/O announcement. It was announced that Google is going to tightly integrate Flash with Chrome, support Flash in Android and ChromeOS... so what they would get in exchange for that? VP8 support in Flash would be one thing.
The comment was a jab at the court's decision to move in the direction they have. I'm sorry that wasn't clear to you.

Beyond that, I find it incredibly silly that you find your intelligence so easily insulted. Perhaps it's time to take a chill pill.
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The very moment flash was not included in the iPhone, Steve Jobs had a vested interest in seeing Flash fail. If Flash expands, user satisfaction with the iPhone goes down. If Flash fails completely, one of the strongest negative components of the iPhone disappears.
It might help to be more specific - what kind of voltage are you looking to control? AC, DC, or both? High voltages or low voltages? High current or low current? Is the load reactive or resistive?
For me there is one single data point that shines brightly through all this noise: we are well into 2010 and nobody has Flash running well on a mobile device. Not even the mobile companies that want it.
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK;js...
http://www.libming.org/
http://www.swftools.org/
Pot Calling Kettle Black?

I don't see steve jobs allowing us to submit HTML5 apps to the appstore? They must be written in his closed proprietary format with a goal of locking you in to using their tools (xcode). Just like adobe wants to lock you into their proprietary format (flash).

His arguments sound good though. And it would be great for adobe to add HTML5 as a target but i don't think the spec is quite ready. Does webkit on the iphone expose all the devices to implement say chatroulette?

Flash is a great tool to develop cross platform apps until the html5 spec can expose enough of the underlying os.
This is Microsoft Research; I believe it's not really the Microsoft behind Windows and co.
Did I miss Apple removing Opera from the App Store?
Don't lose sight of the issue. 3.3.1 is the issue, not "Flash on the iPhone". By reframing the argument as "Flash on the iPhone", you are succumbing to misdirection.
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I'd like to know the TSA's success record in detecting threats to our safety. I'm not talking about some dude with a knife in his pocket, or a drug dealer with a vial of whatever in his underwear. I'm talking about some guy with the intent AND the means to do harm to an airplane or a passenger in an airplane. How many of those type people have the TSA stopped? A Google search returns very little in the way of results, so I'm lacking data in making a decent determination on their success/failure rate.

Are we even told about these events, if they occur?
I think it is probably upstream with a bunch of libraries used by Rhythmbox that, as far as I know, were experimental a few months when last I tried to get that to work (unsuccessfully).
>> Why you think so?

While China may have pegged it's exchange rate to the U.S. , it has the power to decouple at any time to adjust to changing market conditions.

Greece (and soon Portugal, Spain, & Italy) don't have that ability. What can they do? - beg for a bailout or exit the EURO and devalue their currency.

I guess there is a third option - dramatically cut SPENDING and entitlements.
Because that should be the developer's decision to make, not Apple's?
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That's because that's the misdirection. 3.3.1 is the clause that's important, but it's not about running Flash on mobile devices. It's about Apple being disintermediated and losing lock-in with their developers.
> It's time to reap the benefits of our technological advancements, by working shorter weeks, finding less expensive ways to build shelter (houses), and becoming more proficient in local food generation.

There's nothing stopping you from doing all those things right now. It'll take a little creativity, but they've all been done already in various places so you've got a blueprint on how to do it. For my part, I'm more interested in working lots of hours on really fascinating projects, taking shelter/housing in different places while staying mobile, and so I've got different goals. But you can go after yours right now - nothing is stopping you, in fact, they've all been done before so there's already a reasonable roadmap on how you can do it.
Look into some of the inventions by R. Buckminster Fuller. He invented a house that cost thousands, easily transported, made of aluminum, and sturdy, but it never caught on. Probably because he didn't spend time marketing it, but the mobile home and large home manufacturing companies did.

Or else it didn't catch on because people didn't like living in them. I assume you're talking about this:

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

Evolution contradicts the desire for smaller. Consider Peacock tails, the longer they are and the fuller they are, the more likely they are to mate, because peahens like them -- even though rationally, they increase the likelihood of death to predator.

This kind of crazy peacock behaviour is the exception rather than the rule among animals, though, which is why peacocks are so noteworthy. If pigeons had vast feathered tails too you might have a point.

Similarly, it takes a lot of "strength" to maintain a large expensive home and accumulate a lot of unnecessary stuff and the chicks dig it. A guy with a fast car, excessive spending, and flashy clothes will go home from the bar with a girl before the geek with meek clothes and spending way below his means -- even if he is 1000x smarter than the flashy guy.

You sound very convinced that intelligence is what women should be selecting for, rather than being one of many traits that is nice to have in a potential partner.

Personally I'd work hard to live in a big fancy house and drive a cool fast car even if there were no women in the world, because I just like 'em.
Quite true - which makes one wonder why these standards aren't more explicitly stated via a standard model in the contract - as opposed to relying on a supposedly "impartial" source.
You can download a Chrome extension/theme to match the Ubuntu one (it's called Ambiance if I recall) and have Chrome use the system window decoration (right click on a free spot in the tabs area). This way Chrome integrates perfectly.
More likely Apple reaches out to him because he is by far the most influential Apple website outside of Apple

I also think he is one of the most levelheaded apple-centric websites out there. Gruber talks a lot about premium products (not just apple) and their success in various markets -- DF is like a premium tech/apple/good taste blogzine and I imagine that his style appeals to a lot of people at Apple, whether they reach out to him or not (and "legally" or not)
Because it works better than the alternatives.
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Are you saying that Apple vs. Flash started with 3.3.1?
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It's not the cheese I object to - but that the Cheese breaks the internet in fundamental ways.

Example: We just wrapped up Restaurant Week here in Seattle where a bunch of local establishments offered up prix-fixe specials for a couple of weeks. The website for this event was done up all in Flash, and made it impossible to crawl for a search engine, or even to link or bookmark a particular restaurant for later retrieval.

What did we exchange for this cheese and gimmicky design? Everything.

There's no regulating for good taste - you're right, most websites in general are poor. They, however, are still accessible - neon green text on black background with an annoying MIDI track in the background is still information that:

- you can link to

- you can bookmark

- you can copy and paste

- you can search for in-browser (doubly important if the website fails at layout, e.g. most Flash sites!)

- you can search for on Google/Bing

Those are pretty important.
Wouldn't this apply more if Adobe was competing with Apple? Also if Apple had a monopoly on anything?
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This is probably one of the wilder hypothetical tangents I've read in awhile.
Second source???

These provisions of Dodd's bill have been discussed extensively on Hacker News: http://www.google.com/search?q=dodd+site%3Anews.ycombinator....

And I think you underestimate the significance of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal taking a strong position on this issue in a house editorial.
You're basing a lot of this off of current implementations of these websites. Which one of these could not be done (at least a large portion of it) in HTML5? Each of these seems like there is HTML5 functionality to enable most of the functions and features of these websites.
Some past posts on this issue:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/03/startups-get-hit-by-shrapnel...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-e-litan/proposed-protec...

I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up more on HN. I'm not against bank reform, but these provisions seem clearly detrimental to prospective founders without providing any actual protections to people who need them. Correct me if I'm wrong...
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I thought the UK evaluated the full-body scanners and found them ineffective.
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Apple's policy of banning Flash doesn't really bother me, but 3.3.1 really, really, does. Having Flash on the iPhone as a means of cross-developing apps is the most interesting way for Flash to be on the device, for me: it would mean a lot of creative and fun casual games would be more easily available for me to play.

Video, I think, is a red herring; it's easier for web sites to switch to a different, HTML5-compatible embedding scheme than it is to rewrite Flash games in Objective C.
To be fair... Zangief vs. Sagat is an abomination, but Zangief PLUS Sagat would cure world hunger.
I bought Pixelmator when it was released. It had a lot of issues in the early days and IIRC their interaction with the community was so poor that people repeatedly questioned whether it had been abandoned.

Fast forward to now and they're regularly putting out solid updates with good communication via the blog. I recommend the application.
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Actually, the native-exported apps are mentioned by Jobs in point 6. Of note: these apps were slower than native apps, consumed far more power than native apps, used more memory than native apps, and had little to no integration with the underlying platform, other than running in the first place.

Jobs' point talks about this; the issue is that if Flash CS5 supported what the iPhone can do today, who's to say when it will support what iPhone OS 4 can do tomorrow? Will they update Flash on Apple's schedule, or their own? Or at all?

For one example, look at GameCenter, Apple's new XBox Live-type service. Would Flash support it? Would Adobe go to the trouble of adding full support for GameCenter to their Flash runtime, so that games written in Flash could make use of that feature?

That wouldn't make any sense, because then people would have to write a different Flash app for the iPhone than for Android; either developers use GameCenter on iPhone and nothing on Android, or GameCenter on iPhone and their own solution on Android.

My suspicion is that Adobe wouldn't implement it (because it's a lot of work to just support one platform) or wouldn't implement it well (because they just don't really care), and that if it were available developers wouldn't use it (because it would only work on one platform anyway). This leads to a worsening of the overall experience, as the flood of quickly and cheaply ported Flash apps into the App Store dilutes the value that's there.

Perhaps Adobe would add GameCenter support, but that might be a new feature for CS6, which might come out (for example) August 2011, after Apple's released iPhone OS 5, with more new features Adobe hasn't had time to implement.

Developers using Flash would have a substandard environment, and would produce substandard apps, assuming they even cared at all about doing things right. That's what Apple's trying to prevent.

[Edit: typo, point 6, not point 5]
The look and feel is much improved. The default theme is great -- some of the reds/oranges could be tweaked, tasteful use of transparency (Win 7's is pretty gaudy, IMO), useful desktop effects (alt-tab, desktop switching, minimize/restore). My favorite improvement is all the stuff they did to get rid of the system tray and consolidate the "notification area". It looks better and is much more useful. Occasionally the battery icon disappears which is annoying but hopefully that's fixed in the final release.

Everything (almost) worked out of the box on my Thinkpad SL410. The mute and mic button on the keyboard don't work by default. Hibernate on lid-close, power saving, and all that jazz work perfectly. It cold boots incredibly fast. Noticeably faster than Windows 7.

I haven't figured out how to disable the track pad yet (it isn't in the mouse settings). :/

I've been using the RC for almost a week and had it crash once because of (I believe) Pulse Audio. shakes fist in air menacingly

Before I was using Arch and it never crashed (in a year) but I was using fewer programs and it was very utilitarian.
Thanks for the comments Evan; we are finalizing some details and will let everyone know how it works out.
This article leaves out that along with moving the net worth from 1 to 2.3 million for accredited investors, they are also not allowing primary residence to be counted anymore, which for many people is a large part of net worth.

The SEC filing for startups is insane. The last thing we need is further roadblocks and delays for early stage startups.

PG, would this affect y-combinator? YC is the first investment for companies in your portfolio. Would they have a 120 day delay? Four months is a long time in startup land. This would certainly give a head start to bootstrapped companies.
I wasn't aware Haskell had good multi-threaded support.

How is Haskell better at auto-parallelizing an algorithm compared to say, java's fork/join or .NET's equivalent?
It is admirable that Microsoft has a research department and that they are willing to publish their work. Not many companies can say the same.
Regardless of what Apple think is best for the users, I would still prefer to have Flash on my iPhone. Not only to be able to use websites made in Flash, but also so that developers have a way to develop software without going through the App Store.
> (1) I must close my lid twice in order for the OS to recognize that I want to go to sleep.

This is interesting. On 8.10 and 9.10, my laptop won't sleep unless I keep the laptop lid open until it's done.
The problem with a lot of REST framework implementations, like Rails, is that it acts as nothing more than a database record serializer/deserializer. A vanilla Rails resource looks something like this:

<post>
<id>1</id>
<title>This is a post</title>
<comments></comments>
<author_id>100</author_id>
</post>

When you consume this resource, you end up having to munging database foreign key IDs into an URL string. For example, if I want more data about the author of the post above, I'd have to grab <author_id/> and plug into another endpoint, like /authors/:author_id. Who knows if /authors is the correct endpoint? Even if it was, if that endpoint changes, it could break the URLs that I munged together.

These "RESTful" implementations should really look like is the following:

<post href="/posts/1">
<id>1</id>
<title>This is a post</title>
<comments href="/posts/1/comments"/>
<author href="/authors/100"/>
</post>

Given such a format, I don't have to guess what the endpoints are for associated resources; I just look at the href and grab the resource if I want it.

A collection could include dataset navigation information, such as:

<posts>
<link rel="prev" href="/posts/?start_id=51&items=50"/>
<link rel="next" href="/posts/?start_id=101&items=50"/>
<post href="/posts/1">
<id>1</id>
<title>This is a post</title>
<comments href="/posts/1/comments"/>
<author href="/authors/100"/>
</post>
<!-- more posts here... -->
</posts>

Now I can implement a less breakable client that doesn't need to munge URL endpoints with database foreign keys. Furthermore, I can navigate through datasets by following the <link rel/> tags.
> Well, one mobile phone that has Flash support period? No?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N900
Release Announcement:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-April...

Technical Overview:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004overview

Release Notes:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004
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> our paranoid idiot government that believes we're also paranoid idiots just like them

Actually I think they're correct about that. The general public doesn't seem to remember that they're at as much risk from random lightning strikes as from terrorism, and that the death toll from 9/11 was comparable to traffic accidents that month.
Yes you can.

The compiler is free and open (http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK).

That, an editor, and Bob's your uncle.

On Windows, there's also a nice open source IDE (http://flashdevelop.org).

The one thing that's not open source is the player, and that is free.