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Why couldn't you implement P2P in JavaScript? You'd have to work around browser sandboxing that prevents access to the disk, but you can do that by installing as an extension. I think a JS-based torrent client is reasonable.

"New features" is not a good answer; it might stave things off a bit longer, but the real problem in Flash is that Adobe is choking it to death and only really provides first-class support on Windows.

Only recently have they started taking even the Mac platform seriously, probably trying to prove to Apple that they should be included in the iOS devices. Support is still a complete mess on Linux (the basis of Android and countless other platforms and most new platforms, meaning that any day now a Linux-based platform could be the new hotness, supplanting the iPhone, and then we'll have to go through this whole song and dance again with Adobe pretending to take Linux seriously to try and trick people into letting Flash run on that platform with its 40% penetration), and their penguin.swf blog has nothing but excuses; sure, video on Linux may be less straightforward than video on Windows (because there is actual competition and you have to make a choice instead of taking whatever Microsoft decrees), but lots of people with far fewer resources have been able to deal with it, there's no reason Adobe can't.

That's the thing. Jobs says Flash has had its day because a few years ago Apple was the underdog that wasn't worth supporting. When Apple tried to work with Adobe, they were neglected and left to rot for "higher profile" projects. And now that Jobs and Apple have some real power, 10.1 magically gets filled with Mac-related fixes that should have been in at least half a decade earlier. And Jobs isn't buying it; in his mind, Adobe (correctly) is still the flippant and unresponsive bully who doesn't care about you until your market cap exceeds Microsoft's.

Nobody sane is going to hitch their star to Flash while Adobe lords over it. I understand, as do most of Adobe's recent customers, that Adobe is run by staunch old men who just don't get it, but someone really needs to help them get it, for the good of the web and the good of their company.
1) Practice doing job interviews. Your campus career center probably offers this. In the alternative, find an employed buddy to do it with you.

2) Have five good lines polished and ready to go prior to going into an interview. Attempt to steer the conversation such that you get to use at least three of them. For example, I always made it a point to research the company I was applying for, get one factoid into the interview, and say "I made it my business to know your business." (That line gets better reactions than almost any I've ever delivered.)
We sent out some tweets with links to this hacker news posts. So we are introducing some people to hacker news for the first time.

Notice the names on some of these "fake users" match authors on the slideshow :-). Why is it bad to comment on and be excited about something they've contributed to?
I disagree. You're not appreciating the values of serendipity, creativity, and culture that you gain from living in an exciting and dense place like NYC.

While seemingly intangible, I believe that these qualities lead to more exciting and innovative ideas in the long run. And NYC's dense and supportive startup community makes it more likely that people will connect over these ideas and form teams that would never have met each other otherwise.
I have decided to stop preparation at the least 1-2 days before the interview. However, I have attended only 2 interviews & I cannot say for sure that this did not help. Probably, I might do better in my next interview. Will have to just wait and watch.
If you have real trouble in interviews and you think this is a long-term issue that you can't address, you need to make your paperwork so strong that it is obvious to the interviewers that you are a poor interview performer rather than an ignoramus. I keep harping on about this, but one way of doing this is strengthening your open source or other easily verifiable credentials.

Secondly, try and apply for jobs (if you have this choice) to places that don't do "monkey trick" interviews but screen using other techniques, like code submissions. (This is one of the many reasons I prefer the latter to the former)

The point about power dynamics in the link below might also be helpful:

http://askamanager.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-can-i-stop-being...

[Later edit: Since you said elsewhere that this is a problem only during interviews, make sure your reference letters mention you are a good communicator or problem solver or whatever, to indicate that anything the interviewers see is not typical]
Yup, it's not very fancy, but in the end, serves its purpose and can really save your work.

the last part, about using an alias for rm is something that I've never thought about it and now I'm gonna use always on my servers.
Have you read The Virtue of Selfishness? I thought she did a decent job in justifying the first principles.

Considering that a lot of philosophers rely upon concepts like God, I think Rand's is a lot better developed than people give it credit for.

Rand's notion that humans have brains like animals have claws, and that brains are useful b/c they allow us reasoning, thus reasoning is good (to humans) like claws are good (to an animal)... I think that's a fairly persuasive claim, unless you would argue that human self-deception is more valuable than objectivity...
> There's a nice theory that this could be done with email, but the reality is that having meetings and reviewing documents via email tends to turn up different issues.

Why?

I have worked on developing technical review processes in more than one organisation, and spent many hours reading the books, studying the research and conducting practical trials. I have never encountered any evidence to suggest that everyone-sitting-there meetings are more productive than sending people copies of the material to check over in their own time and providing a sensible tool to record the findings.

On the contrary, my experience is that technical review processes often make fine examples of how to get meetings wrong. Calling a multi-hour, all-hands meeting every time something comes up for review seems to be as sure a guarantee as anything in life that your review process will fail and your staff will wind up with a permanent grudge against the very idea of reviews as a worthwhile use of their time.

That is because many issues raised during reviews are simple, and can be resolved simply and quickly between the reviewer who found the issue, the author of whatever is being reviewed, and possibly a small number of other reviewers who made the same or related observations. Making a wider group sit through dozens of typically short and bilateral discussions as you work down a list of every little point is enough to induce sleep even in the most dedicated and conscientious of participants.

Of course, there may be some issues that can't be resolved easily in this way. Perhaps discussion via e-mail/review tool/document comments/whatever is too inefficient for the number of reviewers/comments involved, or there are multiple people making related but subtly different points. This can lead to a productive meeting, but now you have both a specific point where a decision is needed and a clear list of interested parties to invite.
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So, no then? I'm pretty sure he didn't ask his question because he was unaware of the existence of flight. Your link initially led me to believe that there is actually some other conference called Hipmunk in the Midwest, but instead it was a LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com-style flight search page.

For those of you actually interested in events in the Midwest, I can tell you that we're doing some interesting things in Cleveland that I can scrounge up more information about. Nothing conference-level that I'm aware of, but events with founders and incubators are becoming more and more frequent.

Edit: Cleveland Startup Weekend is in November and there's some sort of kickoff party in a few days. http://cleveland.startupweekend.org/
Answer HN: Simplicity.
I would say that it's not that "unbelievable." Guy does business with shady third world factory, gets screwed over... It's long and ends 5 years ago with a cliffhanger.
I've only read passages.

I'm mostly concerned with the "Going Galt" bit, which I'm either understanding as originally conveyed or every summary I've read from both ends of the political spectrum was egregiously wrong. So if you'd like to correct me on what "Going Galt" means, please feel free. It looks to me like a total cop-out abdication of responsibility that would change precisely nothing - because everyone's replaceable.
Sorry about that :-). We also have a more readable PDF download for the people who don't like the html5 craziness.

http://ifiwouldhaveknownjustonething.com/If-I-would-have-kno...
I read this last night and this morning and still can't quite figure out what your app does. Focus your message, and provide some illustrations/scenarios of how this would matter to someone real, and it will help the communication aspect.
Pitch HN: World Travel-themed check-in service
In light of all the "location" hype, someone should license branding and data from STA/Lonely Planet and launch a World Travel-themed checkin service.

Think of it: "Eat Pray Love" badges -- check into each location of the book. Badges for each set of landmarks in the world, which are printed on pages of the Lonely Planet guide itself.

The technology is easily outsourcable(especially with the APIs these days), it's the licensing / product development that's worth thinking about.

Negatives: Involves knowing a lot of big-wigs.

Growth Model: Become a franchise representative for locations-based businesses. Partner with travel agencies, airlines, etc., and become a branding agency + coupon clearinghouse for multiple companies.
Yeah, my bad. Could have used more testing
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Most of them are Social Media Strategists. Draw your own conclusions...
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I remember hearing that a few of the people who run RubyConf had his real info, and found out that he's okay, just gone.

And so everyone is leaving him alone.
Yeah, and he learned a hell lot of important stuff. I think this experience shaped him to be a better entrepreneur.
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Why is java clearly out of the competition anyway?

I think this is a remnant from a time long gone, where applets were much worse than they are now. They have worse user experience than flash, but the difference isn't really that big anymore (e.g. http://www.pulpgames.net/milpa/).
That the process can and should be as awesome as the goal.
See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-09/msg00003.html.

Instruction scheduling of any kind doesn't really help on x86 anyway, and register pressure is usually surprisingly good already (since temporary values are moved close to their uses when combining instructions).
I think the most important thing missing thing is rematerialization - recalculating values instead of saving them on stack would save a lot of memory loads.
With Google pushing for NativeClient, P2P within the browser could very much be possible with a proper security model.

http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient
If that's the case, some simple relaxation exercises, and a lot of practice (fake interviews with friends, etc.) ought to do the trick.
Well, I don't know about the content of this article, but I'm glad it alerted me to the availability of flash. I just installed it, and while it's not ideal, it's adequate for practicing Chinese on skritter, which is exciting.
i'm sure it'll be workin like a dream by version 15
I would think the exact opposite of this. Gold, from my perspective, is at absolute peak hype. You have Glen Beck and a thousand infomercials selling gold to the most absolute novice of investors at this point. Everybody and their mom has heard about gold's rise in value recently and "safety" from every imaginable financial disaster.

Maybe I'm seeing things from a skewed view point, but from where I sit, gold is the absolute ultra-hyped fad investment right now.
It could be that much of the discussion regarding 1.2 has happened on the RCs that have come out of the last month or so?
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Migrating to open standards is the right thing for Adobe to do, but that's not how Adobe likes to do business.

Adobe is lazy. If there's a problem with their software, they'll blame it on somebody else, because talk is cheap. If that doesn't work, they'll wait until the last possible moment to actually put in the time and effort to improve their code. It's a pattern that is most evident with their Mac software:

CS5 (released April 2010) was the first version of the suite that was fully Mac OS X native. (Mac OS X was released March 2001). Prior to CS5, they were still using the Mac OS 9 GUI APIs, which, though they weren't officially totally deprecated until June 2007, were obviously always just a transitional compatibility environment. Even prior to the official deprecation of the Carbon UI APIs, Adobe had plenty of reasons to port to Cocoa. Number one was to provide a truly OS X native look-and-feel, which is pretty much impossible to emulate via Carbon.

Adobe's approach to dealing with Flash performance on OS X has been similar. When people complained that video playback was unreasonably slow (ie eating up 5x the CPU time that a standalone player would use), they blamed Apple for not providing them with direct low-level access to the video decoding hardware. When Apple called their bluff and gave them exactly what they asked for, Adobe released a flash player that used those APIs but wasn't noticeably faster for anybody, and introduced several new glitches that made it a step backwards for everybody who's Mac predates the NVidia 9400M chipset.

On the Windows side of things, Adobe's PDF reader has been such a long-standing resource hog that third-party PDF readers have garnered significant market share in spite of their lack of support for most of the recent advanced features of PDF. If Adobe would take better care of their PDF implementation, it would be good for the progress of the format overall.

Further back, Adobe kept their font format (PostScript Type 1) proprietary and expensive so long that Apple had to create TrueType, and Apple ended up licensing it to Microsoft. Several years later, Adobe abandoned Type 1 in favor of co-developing a TrueType-based successor (OpenType) that is finally re-unifying the font market.

Adobe seems to think they're playing it safe by being the last rat off each sinking ship, but one of these days, they'll be too slow.
Here was my thought process: I had attended AngelConf last year, and wanted to see if it was going to happen again. I checked that site, and it was still the old stuff, and the time was up. So I assumed AngelConf was a one-time thing.

Later on, I wondered about startup school and did the same thing: I checked the web site, and nothing new... So my brain recognized a pattern: you guys must be too busy this year to do those conferences. So I was convinced that startup school was not happening. Therefore I didn't even think of asking you. Until I met you and asked you why you were not doing it anymore, which proves how convinced I was that my brain was smart :-)

[apologies for the long and boring explanation, but now you know - next time, I suggest putting a small link saying it's coming again in 2010, and my brain won't make the wrong inferrence]
Last week I spent two solid days rebuilding from scratch my mom's PC from it's OEM Windows XP Home installation after some hostage type malware managed to defeat it's not quite state of the art defenses (e.g. AVG). You aren't doing anything sleazy at all assuming your stuff is really good (that includes your not working for AVG :-).
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fedoraproject.org would be a great place to start (i'm a fan) but there are lots of distros that are alive and launching new versions very often.
ubuntu.com is another...

once you have an account, you probably wanna talk to someone about the code... there mailists where developers talk about what they are doing.

hope I've helped a bit.
It isn't software at that point as you would normally think of it - it would be a dedicated hardware piece that simply cross-references signatures with a known detection library and reports to the Intel chip.

And you think end users have any grasp of how to implement "real" security measures? Oh hell no. Joe Schmoe at XYZ web design corp is inevitably gonna download that porn at work and get some worm.
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Sure, a few of them are. But what exactly are they selling? Shane sent out a call for content, got lots of responses, and picked the slides with the best advice. I helped put it together for fun, and because I think there's a lot of great advice and thoughts here that I'm not usually exposed to as a techie.
My husband was an early employee in a privately-held games company that was purchased for a similar amount. Only the founders and a couple of employees from day one were made rich, in the "FU money" sense. OTOH, it was a games company so no one went in expecting a payoff. The retention bonuses were also extremely generous.

The reality in almost every startup is that only the founders are going to see a payoff, no matter how big the acquisition is. Calibrate your behavior accordingly.
It also doesn't always work; some pages' flash content gets through.

I ended up just uninstalling Flash. The extra content it made available wasn't worth the hassle of the occasional flash ad getting through.
Thank you for your suggestions. Top companies are always looking to see how well potential employees perform under crunch situations. My gut feeling is that they expect to see employees perform calmly even under pressure. They would like to see employee solve problems logically, quickly and deliver the solution in a more coherent manner. I would expect the same if I am at the other end of the table. I would like to be able to be that kind of a performer.
And yes, true.

But for end-users that aren't behind a corp firewall / NAT / etc, this is an easy solution that they don't have to worry about.

Out of sight, out of mind (CPU cycles) sells, unfortunately.
You're taking the "Going Galt" concept out of context. In the context of the book it's at the end of a long dystopian spiral. The significance of it is that the characters have already been broken by the time they arrive there.

Frankly, the ending is a bit unsatisfactory on a few levels. First, it's not a prescription for how to run a society (it's a small utopian community in the mountains) and yet the book ends quickly at that point so we're left wondering how it turned out.

It was necessary as a plot element, but it's really the denouement rather than the climax of the book.

I recommend you buy the unabridged audio version of the book and give it a read while driving, commuting, etc. It has fairly good production quality and is a fairly effortless read on audio.

When I re-read it my reaction was that Rand uses some hyperbole in places where I (if I were the editor) would have recommended a slightly softer touch... but of course she is writing to the first time the reader encounters the story and she wants to be sure to lay down a solid plot foundation early so that the rest of the book can progress.

What I found remarkable about the book was that it's a pure novel of ideas. One can only imagine (while drooling) how amazing it would be if all the world's great thinkers had written a few books of quality fiction to help illustrate their ideas. So in my opinion Rand should get points added for the fiction work, not points subtracted.
I have had more success than the author. It should be important to note that Flash on a mobile device is not going to be as easy to use as it is on a PC because the device is not as easy to use as a PC. I love having Flash on my phone as it allows me to see Flash enhanced navigation, mapping sites and the occasional game.
Snap Gear was awesome. Used an SG565 for some research we were doing. Best wireless router/UTM I have ever owned.

Disclosure: Used to work for Secure Computing, but not the snapgear division.
use an alternative DNS that doesn't blacklist. Alternative DNS servers already exist, I'm sure there'll be someone who won't blacklist if they do implement this.
It works fine on default EXT3. The only thing journaled is meta-data. You snipped that part out. More from man shred

In the case of ext3 file systems, the above disclaimer applies (and shred is thus of limited effectiveness) only in data=journal mode, which journals file data in
addition to just metadata.

In both the data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes, shred works as usual.
Not if they're already dead.
Yes, once I figure out how to dub soundtracks...
It's been a while since I've had any responsibility over servers, but Debian has always treated me well.
its already far far too late for adobe, if they had open sourced 10 years ago, there wouldnt be a html5 video and canvas, flash would be the standard.

open sourcing it now will help them stay relevant for longer but it will be a band aid, proprietary tools will be replaced by web standards on the internet thats more obvious now than it ever was. flash can innovate by raising the limit on what you can do, but there is a roof on that functionality the gap between it and where web standards are now is getting smaller and smaller.
I wonder _why I wonder

I wonder _why I wonder _why

I wonder _why I wonder!

... with apologies to Richard Feynman, another jester.
I doubt that Google is tasting this at all. Probably only the unlucky companies who use Spamhaus and now have the unenviable task of going through and making sure they missed no emails from customers or partners.
I use Firefox on a Windows box.

Page 1: Looks interesting. Download or Start Reading? I'll Read. Click.

Page 2: Stop. Do something unexpected. Cool.
Okay, how do I go to the next page? Any arrows to click? None. Click somewhere randomly? Nothing happens.

Guess this is it? Cool message, short and to the point. Can't shake the nagging feeling that there's more, though.

It was not immediately obvious that I could use the arrow keys to move forward. I found out only after I opened the PDF to confirm that there's more pages.
Dave DeWalt, McAfee's CEO is an excellent salesman.
"Methinks you doth protest too much..."
The average IQ is 100.
If you haven't been around here, you may not have noticed that there aren't a whole lot of "Me too" or "First post!" type of comments.

Some of the comments on HN could pass for short essays with subsequent panel discussions. That's why we read it.
Ask HN: How to prepare for a future startup?
I plan to do a startup a year or so from now. What do you think I should be doing to prep for doing a startup in the future? I'd like any advice/anecdotes on skills to pick up, cities to move to etc. Keep in mind that I have no prior startup experience.
Looks nice. Best of luck.
because I am still struggling to understand normal git
Is this something we need to be discussing on HN? It's from '96, it's a hot-button topic, and it's wildly outside the focus topics for the site. I flagged it.
Huh. Good to know.