skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This person's experience is completely the opposite of what I've seen on my own N1, though to be honest I don't watch many flash videos on my phone.

Strongbad episodes and casual flash games run perfectly.
The small amount of video I have tried seems fine - Youtube via the inline flash player (not launching the separate application) and flash player video porn.

The argument that Jobs was right because flash video sucks on a phone seems silly - weren't we suspecting that flash games were what Apple were trying to keep off their ecosystem?
Such solutions as this is like you have a headache, and in order to cure the pain you cut your head...
If your idea is just Facebook without the privacy issues --- then it's not different enough for me. Diaspora got attention (and lots of funding) because their approach is radically different than Facebook's. While I agree that I don't see anyone's grandma configuring and hosting their own Diaspora "seed", I can very easily see paid seed hosts which will obfuscate this for the layperson. In fact, the paid seed could be how Diaspora makes money to keep development ongoing.
You forgot to compare to Actionscript which is the language that matters in this comparison.

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

Adobe's had a JIT Actionscript compiler for years and it's really quite fast.
That percent of people accessing gmail through the web, not of people using it to send email.
Love Erlang, very interested in CouchDB, but not too familiar with scoble. I think it is really cool he's covering them, but the camera work is hard to watch....
How do I start off getting involved in open source?
I am a mostly-self taught developer, trying to develop my skills and it seems quite clear that getting involved with open-source projects is probably the best way to go about doing that, but I am never really sure where to start. I have accounts on the major OSS hosting systems and have checked out the code for a few projects I like, but beyond that, I feel kind of lost. Most OSS projects appear to me to be either abandoned, barely maintained, or so complex that I'm never even sure where to start. Does anyone here have any pointers or advice for starting off with programming OSS?
In two years of AdSense on my blog I have accumulated $5.04. At this rate, some time in 2030 or so Google will cut me a $50 check.

I suspect I am near the median.
Nice things about the web
Except that shred is not guaranteed to work on many (most?) modern filesystems. From `man shred`:

CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that
the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way
to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this
assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred
is not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file sys‐
tem modes:

* log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with
AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)

* file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some
writes fail, such as RAID-based file systems

* file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS
server

* file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS version 3
clients
If mortgage paper was trading for much less than face value why not allow people to buy their debt back? Thereby creating increased demand for the "worthless assets"; at the very least it would have created a pretty solid floor for the value of these types of investments.

It also would've helped the freefalling house values because it would have given underwater homeowners a chance to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.

We all ended up buying the debt back anyway, we just used the federal government to do it.
What version of YUI did you use? What kinds of websites did you use it for (and what do you use jQuery for now)?

I find YUI 3's Node and NodeList interfaces, which allow you to manipulate and traverse the DOM using selectors, to be just as easy as (and often easier than) the jQuery equivalents.

I can't imagine why anyone would seriously describe YUI's modules as "monolithic", even in YUI 2. YUI 3 in particular has very granular modules, and provides developers with a lot of freedom in being able to load only exactly what they need to accomplish a particular task. I wouldn't describe the selection of modules as "random", either.

It seems especially contradictory to describe YUI, which is inherently modular, as monolithic in comparison to jQuery, which is the very definition of monolithic (everything in a single file, so you load it all even if you don't need it all).

YUI and jQuery are each awesome in many ways and flawed in others, but I don't think your criticisms are fair.

Standard disclaimer applies: I've been a YUI user for years and am now a member of the YUI team, so I clearly have a preference here.
One thing that bothers me is why job creation hasn't started up again. Only reason I could come up with is that companies don't need more employees, they manage with what they have. I'm guessing that productivity is increasing.
> Even Google seems to have backed off from this space recently - have you heard much mention of Chrome OS lately?

I hear about Chrome OS every single day, because I follow its development. Many hardware manufactures will be releasing Chrome OS netbooks in November / December of this year. Google doesn't generally hype things before they are available to consumers, so there's no reason to expect lots of Chrome OS discussion while it's still in development.

Google is still very hardcore about JavaScript/HTML5 development.
PIE 1.0 beta 2 released
Ask HN: How to defeat interview anxiety?
HNers, I have attended 2 interviews so far in the past 4 years & I have failed to get the job on both the interviews. I just get very anxious during in person interviews & I am not able to think straight at all. I could only give out answers to questions for which I knew the answers before hand. I am not good at deducing answers logically during interviews. For instance on my last interview, I was given a problem & I fumbled a lot & gave convoluted answers but when the interviewers left, I was able to think straight & arrived at a very simple solution to the problem. My success rate is 0% so far & I am worried that it is going to take some time before I could get a job. As of now, my strategy has been to prepare as well as possible before hand for the interview and for some reason this strategy does not seem to work. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Your iPhone's processor may have a larger number representing its clock, but your laptop's processor is likely much faster.

You can't compare different CPU architectures by the number of hz. Desktop (=laptop in this case) processors are out-of-order power-sucking beasts compared to the power sipping CPU in your phone and other devices.

Watts vs. milliwatts in comparison.
easiest way to kill flash - to offer it, but it should be slow, buggy and crash often. then everyone will think about flash as something bad and stop using it. So Android platform actually tries to kill flash =) Not just talking about is as jobs.
Reddit is hiring
Flash player gives Adobe a lot of power and keeps their not so good dev/design tooos safe from competition. From what I've seen the current strategy is to try to add features not available in HTML5, like P2P. That would allow youtube and company to roll out torrent-based players and save hugely on bandwidth.
What's up with all the spammy comments from fake users?
Right, which begs the question. How did he create it in the first place?
> but there are plenty of things Flash does that HTML5 does not.

Really? Can you mention any specifics? I do not think there are any things that Flash can do that HTML5 cannot.

Have you seen Or So They Say? http://xplsv.com/prods/demos/xplsv_orsotheysay/
Well, first off, yeah, so if you're born into the situation that I described above (which I was and I'm pretty most HNers were), I think it's pretty entitled and childish to pretend that your accomplishments are yours alone and you have no obligation to the society that produced you. But sure, technically, you don't legally owe anybody anything.

Second off -- if you're the boss, you take responsibility. Any CEO who wants to "go galt" can go right ahead -- they'll be replaced easily enough. There's a fundamental misunderstanding about capitalism -- someone's always ready to replace you. If you're the type of guy to whine about not being appreciated and "go galt" to teach people a lesson, you probably didn't deserve responsibility in the first place -- responsibility is all about being under appreciated.
I modeled the article after what I learned about Susan Polgar, the first woman to earn the title of Grandmaster. At least one of her sisters also earned the title after her.

She's particularly remarkable because her father believed "geniuses are made, not born" - and set out to train her himself. His methods are based on chunking, repetition, and study -- like I described. He wrote a book on it called "Bring Up Genius!"

Read:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3294892/Queen-takes-all.ht...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200506/the-grandmast...

Ta-da! You're right - my use of the feminine pronoun is hilarious!
What about a wiki for hot topics. Someone gave P!=NP as an example. Collecting everything we find on these subjects with some blurbs about them.
Just do not care. Or start to believe you do not care. It's more about psychology.

Or... Try do not think about how it will go and do not do any preparation for it. You afraid about something COULD happen. So just do not think about what COULD happen. If it will ever happen, then be afraid =)
I bought it and it seems to be good, though some of it is a little misleading.

The Crazy Egg offer claims to be worth $228 for a year, which would make you think that you're getting the $19/month plan, but it's actually a plan that's 1000 visits per month and only tracks one page (<5% of the $19/month plan).

The Clicky offer claims to be valid for both new and free users, but there's not a way to upgrade a free account with a discount code, and the Clicky guys haven't yet responded to my email. (I'll update here when they do.)

Clicky Update: They had to manually perform the upgrade. All's good.
Devise 1.1 is out and ready to rock with Rails 3
I'm not sure what to make of the dramatic upvotes for this item, and the lack of comments. Is it that many people are interested in Clojure, but haven't used it yet?
This would be true if the iPhone wasn't such an awesome video playback device.
IPS means that instruction scheduling is performed before register allocation, but with register allocation kept in mind to reduce register pressure.

There was some other stuff, but I cannot remember (I am actually glad to have been able to come up with IPS.)
Is there a boot-and-go distro that has the VDPAU drivers and XBMC on it?
You are correct. But I did want to mention that I'm running an old iPhone...two generations old by now. I imagine that the newer iOS and Andriod phones are indeed comparable in speed to a decent but not top-of-the-line laptop.

I see nothing wrong with assuming that your phone should be able to handle laptop-like web media functions, such as watching video and playing audio or games.
It's not really that suprising. Industrialization originated in the UK, and emerged gradually from the economic and cultural situation there without any intentional design. When the Germans began industrializing, the UK's industry was mature and well-developed, which provided a very detailed practical example to reference.

19th-century Germany and Japan and modern China have all had the ability to work directly toward a goal, rather than having to wait for industrialization to emerge naturally from within their own economies (although if they had, it would probably have produced a set of customs and practices much more suited to their own cultures and economic conditions).
I'm not asking this to be snide, or sarcastic, but...

Do you have a source for that? I'd be interested in seeing such a thing.
1. Practice interview with others. Even if they don't know what the hell you're talking about, rehearsing in front of live person will help you become more comfortable.

2. Xanax, or some other anti-anxiety med.
I'd say have less text, or at least split it up in bullets, and explain what the service is by giving examples of certain use cases.
Just curious, if you are Flash app developer, are you considering moving to HTML5? Is HTML5 and JavaScript mature enough for the job? Is there a tool/utility that helps convert/migrate Flash codes to HTML5/JavaScript?
Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal? (1996)
I have flash on my N1 too (froyo), but it's definitely noticeable when the webpage has flash on it -- even when it's a tiny flash ad somewhere. Scrolling the webpage becomes really choppy -- sometimes I wish I could disable all flash except for when it's used for video.
Decide what you like. Find OSS project about it. Work on it.

.. and follow rules in community.. prefix your questions with "Ask NH: ". =)
This is stuff the startup and hacker community could find useful. Exactly like the O'Reilly $9.99 deal mentioned above.
Going to have a separate film for that long-ass speech?
Emacspeak - Audio Desktop for the Blind
You missed or ignore a good portion of the book. No hero of the book was a crybaby; no one whined to their parents, friends, or authorities to get their way. Every hero of the book took it upon them self to better their own situation at the expense of no one else. They saw it was full of crybabies, and removed themselves by their own volition.

I can't see why anyone has a problem with someone else just asking to be left alone.
If Historical Events had Facebook Statuses
CrazyEgg is lifetime, not 1 year. That's why it's worth more:)

If you have any issues with Clicky please let me know.
Facebook Places Vs. The Location-Based World
Great article. I guess there would be an article about linking C++ code - now that's something that's hard to parallelize.

The IncrediBuild guys have some success there, but you have to link from the .obj files, not .lib (okay if your project is setup like that, but also it does not work always).

We have found that heavy templates usage creates lots of symbols that point to memory get coalesced later, and this also slows down the linker.
If you are worried about the performance hit caused by function calling through a function pointer you might want to give a look at http://sglib.sourceforge.net/.
Do you have more general problems with anxiety, or just during interviews?

There are a lot of techniques (meditation, cognitive therapy, etc.) that can help with anxiety, but which one is most appropriate is going to depend on the details of your situation.
Variables vs. Properties in JavaScript
You seem to think that someone whose passion is business (in the case of Atlas Shrugged mechanical engineering) should somehow feel a strong obligation to create on behalf of others.

Nobody expects this of painters, poets, or writers because it is understood that their creative acts are done with love and personal importance.

But creation is creation, whether it's an alloy or a painting or a poem. Rand's point was that it is the same driving force that moves humanity forward.

The question is whether you think of it as something that should be coveted and respected (like, say, the musings of a Poet) or if you simply look at the distribution of wealth and declare that all that is unimportant, that the creative person should care more about helping others than about pursuing his/her work.

The point of the book was not to suggest that people leave, but to show how the morality described in the book could stand alone as first principles of an improved society. The book is a novel of ideas and not (as you seem to have taken it) as a literal prescription for how individuals in society should act.
Every image is an independent event so the likelihood of a bird appearing in a specific image is unrelated to how long the camera is up. However the likelihood of the bird appearing in any of the images the camera has taken depends on the total number of images. So the analysis is sound.

However I do agree with the second half of you post, the probability of some bird clearly appearing in some shot from some webcam somewhere in the world is very likely near 1.
yeah, i figured that. but a 1280x800 display is hardly uncommon, seems a bit of a fail that it doesn't fit.
Glad to hear it! I don't think I've seen him come up but I'm very glad he does. I am a big Drucker fan.

You might also find Charles Handy to be interesting - he's sort of a business spiritualist.
Sorry my post was made in haste(I was running out the door), I thought you hadn't paid in 10 months.
You've seriously misunderstood the book if you have actually read it. Before I respond in detail I have to ask you bluntly if you've read Atlas Shrugged in full.
Steve's iPad Business Apps
I don't know whether this is a great option for the participating firms (and would LOVE to hear data on that if someone wants to share -- hint hint Paras), but for young startups it is absolutely incredible. I've used three of these. Focused application of A/B testing or the insights you get from CrazyEgg prints money. If it was the price keeping you from using them, buying this is a no-brainer.
This is the classic Dan Pink argument against Richard Florida's. Pink: "place doesn't matter, the internet is everywhere". Florida: "The internet is everywhere, but local culture is important."

"You can do this anywhere" is not at all true. I think we'd admit that being in at least a tier 2 city is a necessity or at least VERY advantageous. Outside support (your "seed money") and chance are a big deal, and you don't get that in Small Town, USA.

Yes, a lone programmer with the internet isn't an island, but a peninsula isn't awesome either.
Ach. Yeah. Oops. I was so concerned writing the working of the question, that I neglected the most important part :P
Yessss, it really is. I agree! It's one of my faves.

But I don't think I'd qualify it as a business book. Inspirational for sure, but it's not about DOING business exactly.
I know Erlang, Haskell, Scala, C++ and Java hackers with jobs in finance.

Not people who know them a little, true expert hackers.
Just during interviews
I'm already amazing and showing the world blah blah blah. So what?

I'm not allowed to feel sentimental for somebody you judge as not strong enough to "live" (persona-wise)? Best remove the plank from your own eye, etc.
Which comes first: parallel languages or parallel programming patterns?
Check the browser settings. Set "Enable plug-ins" to "On demand". It's basically the same as Flashblock.
uhm.. yes you can.. and i think that's the only thing to do when you want to have a decent webbrowsing and flash experience.
In the browser options you can disable plugins. You'll have to press the area of the plugin to make videos and games work, then. Disables all those flash ads, though.
I see where you are coming from. Rand tried to take the same path as Descartes in formulating that axiom. In objectivism it is "Existence exists" and in Descartes dialog it was "I think; I am."

/not an objectivist
Unscientific Python benchmark:

t1=time.time(); x=[i*i for i in xrange(1000000)]; time.time()-t1

On my 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo iMac, this runs in 0.47 seconds. On my Nexus One (using the Python executable from Scripting Layer for Android), it takes around 3.8 seconds. So the N1 is around an eighth of the speed of the iMac (ignoring the C2D's second core), which is actually pretty impressive.
This is a great question: I am working on getting you an answer from a derivatives expert.

I suspect the reason has to do with difficulty inherent to unbundling existing derivatives contracts in order to isolate "your" mortgage, but I'll circle back when I get an expert opinion.
I think you're misunderstanding me, email in your inbox.

j.
I hate to jump to conclusions without any proof, but it looks a lot like someone trying to "bump" up their own article by upping it and posting fake comments.
Thanks, I ordered my copy from amazon.de. :) Guess it will take about 30 years to get here!
That is a good point. I just wish that even 20% of those who praise or criticize the book had actually read it :)
Dell reports second-quarter profit of $545 million
Good job. Hope you can keep it updated! Also, try and get few influential people to contribute.
That's true. I actually had a very negative bias toward the book before I first read it and within an hour I could not put it down.
Said it before and I'll say it again: the only reason people wanted full desktop Flash on mobile devices was for the video. You can also s/video/porn if you're so inclined.

It's pretty telling that the first thing this guy tried out of the box was a bunch of video sites, not popcap or farmville.
With a damned good memory.
I had a very clear idea... I left extremely disappointed.
I have an original XBox still, which is used 98% for XBMC. It's fantastic for most uses. However, it's awful for H.264, doing as little as 1fps for some videos.

On the other hand, my ASUS EeePC 900, running Ubuntu with XBMC, is able to handle this at almost 30fps. The little thing is a pretty nice device all around, especially considering what it is and its price.
I doubt P2P could be used reliably for video streaming. There's a quality of service component of video streaming that P2P solutions can't currently provide effectively in the context of embedded web video streaming. Besides, YouTube probably doesn't cost very much bandwidth-wise. Google has dozens of datacenters placed at or near key peering locations where they can negotiate very low or zero tariff interconnects with major IP networks. At work on a Time-Warner fiber connection, I am 2 hops from Google's network.
Amazon patents location-based mobile search technology
Ask HN: Would it be possible to change how the HN RSS feed works?
Right now it links to the submitted site. But I think it's far more valuable to link to the HN discussion about the submission (with the link to the submission already there anyways). This would make using the feed in RSS readers like Google Reader quite a bit more useful.
On open source and government: An accidental manifesto
Agreed. Tons of scrappy startups on here that could use a deal like this on tools that could help them with company.

If it was some random groupon deal for a new restaurant in SF, thats a different story.