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I found the Adobe page to manage these settings[1] to be somewhat funny.

The notice underneath the Flash content says:

Note: The Settings Manager that you see above is not an image; it is the actual Settings Manager. Click the tabs to see different panels, and click the options in the panels to change your Adobe Flash Player settings

What's that say for the UI usability?

1: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...
I also found this article to very relevant to modern life here in America. As a young adult I am questioning things like this everyday and I am going to read flow now.
>I'm thinking that trading may be my best bet

if you had asked "how do I turn 1 million into 100K?" I think I'd agree with that statement.
Apple responds to iPhone 4 reception issues
I disagree. It may be too late for Myspace to be Facebook, but any business with an audience, no matter what size, has potential. Many struggling businesses would kill to have a fraction of Myspace's brand awareness; to make a left turn and have someone care.

Instead of losing hair wondering why people are leaving in droves, they should reverse their attitude and kick people out.

They should go very narrow, maybe create a premium service priced to almost insult people, and and play up the privacy angle.

Or, be what Facebook was and probably should have stayed; an easy to use student-only network.
That's not the point. The point is that Apple knows this and could schedule people in an efficient manor, not causing long lines.
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It wasn't bashing Apple products. There is nothing wrong with them. It was bashing peoples obsession with material goods and attempting to draw meaning from them.
True, it would limit page views, but don't forget that (for better or worse) there are laws about viewing pornography across most of the country and much of the world as well. At least some of that traffic is coming illegally, and it may be only a matter of time before porn peddlers are held legally liable for that traffic.

I think it makes a lot of practical business sense to be able to unequivocably categorize your business.
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I would be surprised if every site doesn't immediately get their .xxx out of nervousness. How long until someone puts laws saying porn must be hosted on .xxx "for the children"? Sites using .com could be accused of trying to hide instead of clearly marking their dangerous content.

Idiotic, yes. So how probable?
I can only imagine the reaction if a major Apple competitor had the same problem. Apple gets a pass on everything.
Or, alternatively, folks just like the damn phone?

These discussions almost always begin with a (unsubstantiated) assumption that material things are bad. That wanting material wealth is bad. It's the same sort of argument used against hedonists. That satisfaction is only temporary (which I would agree with), and therefore the pursuit of temporary satisfaction is futile and eventually leaves you unfulfilled (which I don't agree with). After all, the true hedonists I've known in my life rank as some of the happiest folks I've met.

My point is simple. There are a lot of ways to be happy and a lot of ways to be miserable. Standing in line for an iPhone may be one way that folks enjoy life. They just really like the phone.

*note: I did not wait in line for an iPhone.
I have a low priority work task to keep curent with FB's Open Graph (but mostly hacking Freebase). There is something to "like links" instead of URLs, but we will see how this plays out.

One thing that may be in FB's favor: even less than good ideas and algorithms can win big if you have enough data.
At root it seems you're essentially asking Amazon to replace all their datacenter servers every 18 months to keep up with processor technology.

I don't think the economics work out for that. There have been price cuts, and I bet there will be more as Amazon pays off the hardware. Once their investment is amortized and the infrastructure is paid for, at that point the only costs on the balance sheet are the operating costs and prices would bottom out.

Worth pointing out too is that Moore's law governs transistors/cm2/$, not CPU speed as such. Thus Amazon could take advantage of Moore's law simply to fit more instances on a given chip. They may not necessarily pass these lower costs onto the customer _as rate decreases_ if the current rates are competitive in the market, and at the moment they appear to be - why would Amazon bite into their own profit margins for no reason?

I have a pet theory (which I think leads to wrong conclusions at the moment, but hey) that once CPU becomes a utility, Jevons paradox will apply and prices will start to decrease more slowly as opposed to collapsing like it has to date. FWIW I wrote the thing up here: http://ianso.blogspot.com/2010/05/jevons-paradox-moores-law-...
Apple patents incredible shape-shifting 3D surface
My big question about the ability to remove apps from phones, is if a malicious party will be able to impersonate Google and send the "kill" signal?
There's a story by Vernor Vinge called The Long Shot you might want to look into.
W3C wants WHATWG to stop their separate HTML 5 Spec. Who should maintain spec?
A similar post with more information was sent to the W3C public-html mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0619.html
Seems simple to me. If they're asking you to get it, they should pay for it.
If a competitor's phone was as good as the iPhone 4 in all other areas, I suspect they'd get a little bit of a pass too.
Let me ask you a question, given your experience which is easier to bet on ..yourself or someone else?
Scott Ambler has conducted surveys that may interest you.

http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/
I wonder if this would sponsor any relevant legislation. US based sites being forced to this TLD in order to place Liability for Minors on parents.
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Good god I wish. Other then the apparent irony, it's still my utopia :)
I only saw the movie, in the book did they ever mention why 42 is the meaning of everything?
Lets assume you are correct. In that case, you should do the following:

Go buy shares at $1.01 during the buyback (people will sell to you rather than FictionCorp, since you are the best bidder), then sell them at $3.00 after the buyback is finished. This is a moneymaking opportunity whenever the share price is below $2.00.

Come back when you are rich and I'll believe you found an inefficiency in the market. Until then, I think you are wrong.
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A similar post with some more information was sent to the W3C public-html mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0619...
...and that's how the monopoly begins. Seriously, that type of thinking echos the same problem that Microsoft had. It's not our software, you just don't know how to use it.
Fail - fda.gov forgets to setup DNS entry.
"Trading" is not the answer. "Investing" is.

Read The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, both by Benjamin Graham; and F Wall Street by Joe Ponzio (His website fwallstreet.com also has a number of gems. Particularly, his post about how to value a business http://www.fwallstreet.com/article/25-calculating-the-value-... )

If you read those materials, you will learn how to invest and using the approaches set out in those books, I believe you can turn $100k to $1m.
I think the first comment says it all: "Agile doesn’t exist, therefore, I am “not a fan” and neither are you."

Agile/XP is a hodgepodge of methodologies and approaches to software development, plus the usual empty phrases any software engineering practice seems to carry with them (at least it’s not on a level with the ol’ Unified Process in this regard).

I could see some good scientific studies done on individual parts, e.g. TDD or pair programming, but anything else would be a rather blurry definition. (I remember some TDD studies been done, but if I remember correctly both the approach and the conclusions were a bit weird).
coming from China, yes we've heard stories of people totally sacrificed themselves to the communies state goal while feeling very happy about it. They are of a rare kind but the state loves them and keep telling stories at the time. Now no one gives a crap about the state goal any more.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Markov_chain#...
Yeah, Amazon. Cutting prices across the board at the low-medium end and adding new options at the high end. As I said in my original comment.
do they just telnet into it? anyone know the login?

seriously though, how do they go about accessing the system?
2*23-4 = 42
.xxx helps because it allows easier segmentation. xxx sites will be considered "good citizens" for moving over. Filters will block all of them, which is fine because people who'd be filtered significantly (kids) don't have money to spend on this stuff anyway. Others may be filtered only at work but frankly that's a job-saving idea so it keeps money coming in.

If you want porn, you know just how to get it; go to any xxx domain out there. If you don't want it, you know how to avoid a larger part of it; don't go to any xxx domain out there. Sounds like it works well to me!

No mandatory compliance would ever work, and there will always be porn littered all over these many internets, but .xxx domain will make at least part of it easier to access/avoid, according to the desires of the user and/or its guardians.
Looks like your trading experiments have not worked out so well. Probably because you seem to be a fan of market timing... good luck with that. I think you need to take a longer term view with your investments. I also think your friend is right - you should bet on yourself. I worked in the financial services industry and I know first hand how horrible 90pct of the software is in that space. It's a market full of poor quality or outdated software with roots in the 80s and I think it's ripe for a shakeup if you can figure out how to break in and sell.
That seems to be the idea. However, that's likely a strength for Facebook really. By creating a self-selecting index they're really removing a lot of cruft right up front.

IIRC Google tried something along these lines. You could (maybe still can?) sort of meta moderate search results letting Google know which ones you thought where 'best'. Same thing here, by liking a page you lend relevance to that page.

I believe OneRiot also does something like this. They have a widely installed toolbar that is out there collecting information about what users are looking at. It aggregates this information to figure out what is important at this particular moment. In other words, it determines relevance by attention. Facebook would be doing something similar here. The more attention (likes) a page receives, the more relevant it is.

I'm not sure if that actually delivers better results, or even meaningful ones at all. It's definitely an interesting move tho.
Ask HN: Alternative to svn diff?
Often I need to work on a remote machine via ssh for work. I have no problem using svn on the command line other than when I need to diff two revisions of a file.

I find the output hard to read and sometimes it just tells me that the entire old file was removed, and the entire new file was added, really giving me no information about what was actually changed.

It would be great if there was some command line tool that would give me a little bit nicer output (something that's easier to read than the traditional pluses and minuses).

Has anyone else encountered this problem and/or found a good solution?
Unless they implement trust. "Your friends [in this friend list] like these pages today."
I am going to move past the OP's face-value argument.

The point is that amazon pricing is fairly static. You get X for $Y. However as the years go by, the value of X decreases yet you are still charged $Y. So basically going to a hosted service I might get a significantly faster machine for my buck. Sure it won't scale as quickly but that might be a minor issue, pick your battles so to speak.

Amazon needs to take into account this, and instead of upgrading everything, just start deflating prices of the old and buying newer hardware every 2 years or so and charging full price for the new hardware. This keeps them well balanced with technology. In the end this just means that instead of buying 1 server, you will buy 2 for the same price outdated servers and vuala.

However thats not quite how servers work and its not like their cost-for-operations is going down with the years as well.
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We recently switched a C++ application from using a sorted std::vector and std::binary_search to using boost::unordered_set.

The performance improvement on large sets (millions) was dramatic. unordered_set really does average O(1) time complexity. However, it was slightly slower than binary_search on smaller sets, but not so much slower to matter.
RF energy is strange stuff. The coupling to your hand will change its radiation pattern and reception sensitivity. For any phone, where you put your hand changes its RF abilities. The engineers try to make it so common hand holds aren't too bad.

If you are old enough to remember analog TV and "rabbit ears" then you might remember the frustration of trying to adjust your rabbit ears to get good reception on a station. Sometimes it would be great while you were standing near the antenna, but bad when you walked away. Sometimes people would resort to distorting the patterns directly with aluminum foil tags on the rabbit ears.

The same thing happens to phones, though the distances are much smaller because of the frequencies.

If you want to experiment, remember that the direction to the current tower is also important in this system. There is no reason to believe your phone receives uniformly well in a polar pattern about your vertical axis.

Go someplace with less than full bars. Get a grip. Turn 360 degrees slowly enough for the bars to respond, record data at various angles. Try a different grip. Repeat.
Which aspects of the Agile Manifesto led to problems? And were the teams using sufficiently agile languages? (Say, Python or Lisp?)

Or was it more a matter of the teams saying "agile" and meaning "cowboy coding"?
I'd agree with your friend.

You obviously have some skills, or you wouldn't have been able to earn the 100K. So, given the recent windfall, there ought to be a way to use the 100K to magnify your income.

What's the bottleneck in your regular business? What is it that is keeping you from having a blockbuster year each year? Or, even better, having a double-the-blockbuster year?

Once you've identified the constraint, try to figure out how to use some (or all) of the 100K to lift it.

Then: rinse, lather, repeat.
A link to the app so we can have a look ?
It's "the answer to life, the universe, and everything", a result arrived at after a mind-bogglingly powerful computer thought for millennia. After revealing this result, it was soon discovered that the answer only made sense if one knew the question - which no one did. (If I'm recalling correctly.)

But now we know the question is "what is pi perent of leet, rounded to the nearest integer?"
I don't like that clicking on a link automatically opens in a new tab. Your audience is technical and likely already has mastered using different mouse buttons to open in the same tab or a new one. You've taken that option away from me.

Also, the ads are intrusive and unrelated to my search. My search for "arraylist" shows me ads for art above my results and even more on the side. The same search on Google gives me the correct JavaDoc as the first result, without any ads between what I typed and my first result.
Create generic game server product for turn based games. Start to sell it with insane price :D
Just about 42.0030938. Impressive.
Someone is going to see this guy: http://media.photobucket.com/image/robot%20devil/demonelite/...
Jesus Christ. Their product is straight out of every CIA/NSA/SecretGovernmentAgency movie of the last 20 years. All that 'magical' integration of news reports, signal and visual intelligence, financial records, military incidents, relationships and alliances, all kinds of intelligence, and making connections and performing analysis using a wide variety of really cool tools (that, judging by the videos, have incredible performance).

One can't help but think that the company started by some guy who was watching a bunch of spy movies and said "why don't we build that product and sell it to the government?"
this is interesting, how did the FSF determine that an iPhone app violated GPL?
Paolo sounds a bit like a fanboy but he makes a lot of interesting points. I work in a Clojure+Java shop yet I use Ruby whenever I can get away with it because it is the fastest language (for me) for getting stuff done. The article talks about Ruby's ecosystem, and that is key to Ruby productivity. That said, I think that Clojure will be super-awesome in a few years as its ecosystem continues to develop.
"how to avoid a larger part of it"

not true though; most of the existing porn will remain where it currently is. New sites might choose to start up with .xxx, existing big sites might buy the .xxx counterpart and keep their .com.

The end result is no reduction in non-.xxx porn, and some extra porn on .xxx. Totally pointless.
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42 was just a joke by Douglas Adams.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.douglas-adams/msg/d10...
I can identify with this article. My own experience makes me agree with it completely.

At the age of 7, I learned BASIC on Spectrum 48. At the age of 9, I wrote a program for my mom to use in her biology class. It's still the most awful spaghetti programming I can remember seeing in my life. It had some really toxic uses of GOTO, but I remember it also had a few uses of GOTO which were actually attempts at more structured programming (GOTO X simulating a switch/case).

Fast forward to the age of 12 and Oxford Pascal on Commodore 64. Programming without line numbers (or even memory addresses like in assembler) seemed like a novel approach, but I didn't have much trouble getting used to repeat..until and while..do, especially when I realized that I finally didn't have to worry about "renumbering".

Fast forward to today. At work I use Java and C and C++ and Python on a regular basis. As a hobby I use ActionScript 3 for game development. I've had fun writing an application in Common Lisp, fooling around in Haskell and messing around with Io.

I once heard a university professor say "If you've programmed in BASIC once, you're scarred for the rest of your life." I don't feel scarred. Honestly, if someone tried to teach me programming without GOTO at the age of 7, I'm not sure I would've grokked it. Sure, I might have, but my point is that even though that's not the way it happened, even though I've been exposed to GOTO for 5 years of my life, I'm not a bad programmer because of it.
Of course, there's nothing stopping the developer from releasing an update that makes the free app less functional/desirable.

As far as I know, the only way to tell what an update will be like without installing it is to look for App Market comments from disgruntled users who have installed the update. And you cannot return to a previous version of the application once an update is installed.

Several of the useful free apps that I have installed later became annoying, ad-supported ones.
I don't know this Mr. Moen, but the fallacy may not be where he believes it is.

When writing an exploit you need to know the kernel, libc and apache version to make your buffer overflow work, because memory layout is important - if it's a buffer overflow. There are so many apache builds, that makes things difficult for a worm (but not for a targeted exploit). Not impossible, but more difficult.

On Windows, the build is uniform.

Additionally, servers are less interesting targets since they are more monitored and operated by administrators. If your plan is to have as many zombies as possible, not a good idea.

Last but not least, a lot of virii and trojans use mail and the web as a channel. AFAIK you don't read mails and visit web pages on servers.

If the underlying argument is that there are less virii on Linux because it's more secure than Windows, this is wrong.

It's difficult to "measure" security and I really don't want to have a Linux vs Windows debate, but Windows cannot be considered as an insecure operating system anymore. User's behavior on the other hand, is still problematic.
In the OP it was even easier, the share price went down as more stock was bought back. They bought 25%, which is quite significant. More so when considering they had more cash in the bank than market cap.
Do you think the fact that I'm CTO implies that I should just ~already have it~?
In a later book, they also reveal the question...kinda.
So they built a more-mind-bogglingly powerful computer to compute the question. You really should read the book(s) to find out what happens next...
Learn to play poker and enter the world series, which is getting under way in a week. Analytical minds do well in poker, especially since most poker players are degenerate gamblers.
In case user deletes that flash cookie, but forgets to clean the http one!
Thanks. Do you have any experience with any of those products? Good / Bad ?
Ask HN: US business law books
Good day to all.
Can anyone recommend a book about the US business laws focusing on start-up problems (i.e. what to avoid, how to not get screwed over etc.)?
The problem with software development is it is just a very broad field. When someone talks about programming, he/she usually talk about some specific kind of programming. You see, there are many programming worlds, like system programming, middleware/framework programming, multimedia/game programming, embedded devices programming, business applications development and so on. These are very different and require different skill sets. One will have hard time transitioning from writing dating sites in PHP to writing high-performant web servers, from writing SQL queries to designing database engines.

I am convinced that Agile is implicitly related to business application development, and when someone is saying he/she is using Agile methodology, they most likely develop web applications for enterprises. And probably this is the most widespread niche today. But frankly speaking, I don't think this is not the most challenging work for programmers. Been there, done that.

But I am yet to see Agile evangelist who clearly states what kind of projects Agile is appropriate for. They all speak about software development in general without making distinction, as if Linux kernel or Java virtual machine or Ruby on Rails framework should be developed with their methodology. Certainly you can come up with many more examples of successfull hi-tech projects that didn't use Agile. Ironically, these projects is what makes Agile possible at all. Millions of man-haours were invested in development of operating systems, databases, virtual machines, libraries, middleware frameworks, programming languages, protocols and so on and on. Agile developers take all this as granted and try to teach everyone else how to do software development.

Or thise evangelists simply have too narrow scope, then this ignorance annoying. Does Agile work for software projects that require heavy engineering? I don't think so.
i would go for golang, python, d (learning golang at freetime right now)
Maybe it is "leet percent of pi", we will never know for sure :)
Take a look at

svn help diff

Specifically, you can pass arguments down to diff itself.