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Wow. Gross. On x86-64, caller args hit callee functions via registers, not the stack like they do on i386. This is a performance win. But functions like printf that take variable numbers of arguments need to go through contortions, saving copies of register arguments and painstakingly calculating which args would be on the stack versus registers (and their offset into the register save area) to work the same way on x86-64 than i386.
Roger, but I'm talking about how it was announced months ago at Google IO, not this current announcement.
All of these things are evidence that democracy is not inherently adequate to create a free, just, and sane society. These systemic flaws are within our power to change, and yet we do not; many are in fact fought for tooth and nail by the populace.

Ultimately, cultural values are the root of any particular society, and the institutions of that society will grow to reflect those values. Hence: "Be the change you want to see in the world."
Clean, 'simple' and fast. The only part I'm not loving is how when you mouse over the product the arrow and description change, that feels unnatural. I do love how the design embraces the fact that users scroll down websites to read content. that part worked nicely. Lastly, what's the call to action, "visit the site" what good is that? What about "get started today"... something to worth AB testing.
Same here. I almost gave up on Firefox and went back to IE. I downloaded Chrome the day it was first released and have used it ever since. Chrome had some nasty bugs and shortcomings early on, and I almost gave up on it, too, but subsequent versions have kept me (mostly) satisfied.
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I use Evernote, Dropbox, Apple Mail, iTerm, Textmate, Tweeti and Skype the most.
While the final recursive solution is nice, it is trivial to split the string on spaces and recombine inserting newlines when the current line overflows. This is not as elegant of a solution, but it took far less time to build that than it did to read the article.
Here is a live demo, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b60OZhrTB6o
I am a little confused on the whole antitrust angle when their market share is so low?
Data binding! Finally. That is one of my favorite features of the Flex framework. I remember reading about Microsoft working on this with jQuery, but never knew when to expect it. Great news.
There's a lot of stuff missing on the Apple TV that will be in the Google TV. There's a reason Logitech's box will be twice that. Its also fairly clear that one of Apple's main reason for the Apple TV is for users to buy content through iTunes for their TV so its not that clear if they are really making much on the apple tv itself or looking to make that up in content purchases.

EDIT: I should note however that thats not necessarily a good thing for Google. Both AppleTV and Roku feel that the happy zone for an over the top box is around $100. I kind of agree with this, since over $200 you start getting very close to the price of a PS3 or Xbox 360...
In other words, you want other people to sacrifice their own outcomes to improve yours. Stop "lying" about the common good!!!
Great site, I'll be using this from now on! How do you plan to make money? Affiliate links? Membership fee? Ads?
Why I think you should go to a coderetreat
Something to look into: attempting to pay via paypal will incorrectly try to charge "$63 USD" instead of $42.
Thanks for putting this bundle together.
"Simply flag the post, don't bother bitching about it, that will only get you downvotes."

This isn't always true. I've bitched about submissions and gotten upvoted for it. :-)

Usually, it's something along the lines of "I'm tired of seeing this crap on the front page" though. Usually if it's "this is hacker news" or "N00b, this is a violation of the rules" it will get downvoted.

One other point to make, it's ok to point out that someone is breaking the rules if you're not bitching about it. I think comments saying "You might not realize this, but this will likely get downvoted/flagged because it breaks rule X" comments should be encouraged.
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You could always factor your receivables and let them chase in the event of non-payment. This takes you out of the accounting and finance game, but you do give up a percentage of the amount of the receivable. I know as few people who do it as they have no interest in running their accounting operations. The factor acts as an accounts payable department with the added benefit that you get your money up front and don't take the risk of non-payment. Now if the client is a high risk client it is usually reflected in the discount on the receivable that you must provide. Many non paying customers, become good paying customers when a factor is involved because they don't play games. Best part is you don't have to play bad guy, because you "sold" the receivable so it is not the actions or the responsibility of your company to enforce payment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_(finance)
Hulu's availability issues are entirely of its own making. The Hulu Plus strategy is explicitly about extending that reach, starting with iOS, Xbox, PS3, and the current-gen TiVo. They're already on TVs, in other words.
Nice plug, but it's just not blatant enough.

http://drupal.org/contribute/development

That's better.

Also, if you turn up in the appropriate #drupal IRC channel and claim to be looking for some code to fix, you should have your inbox overflowing in no time.
Google's CEO: "Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line"
Well, we still have monarchies and much of the wealth even in modern countries is concentrated in the hands of the heirs of the aristocracy, robber barons and various lineages tracing back to pirates, warlords or other coercive thieves.

Book? Cannot get too upset about that.
I was kind of surprised by this. Has Microsoft done this before (contributed to an Open Source project not of their own making) or is this new for them?
They're using antitrust statutes that restrict practices that restrain trade, but they aren't claiming that Amex is a monopoly. The DoJ may also lose.
I found the following tidbit of information somewhat interesting: "Use h.264 encoding for all video content. Avoid encoding your videos in h.263 or vp6.". This probably has to do with having an h.264 decoder on-board, but the fact that Google is not just not recommending it, but rather recommending avoiding it all together, is interesting.
Tau: is it worth switching?
Solution: Don't do fixed-width layouts.
In today's day and age, it's true that Google will likely lead you in the right direction. However there really is no more efficient way to get a mental lay of the programming land than a quality CS program. Dynamic programming algorithms for example, are something that very few will ever stumble into on their own. You might get lucky when Googling, but it's not the same as having a mental model of the breadth of CS fundamentals.
Not that I have any interest in this as a startup idea, but could the issues with Javascript be avoid by using Flash instead?
This reminds me of parrotsecrets.com, and the other ebook promo sites out there that bombard you with content to sell you something. Though, this is much more appealing visually.
Wow, this is a great bundle. I was planning on using some of these services in the next month, so the timing for me is perfect. Thanks for putting this bundle together Noah, Eric, and all the companies offering their services in the bundle.
I agree with you. I have been playing around with some mobile frameworks (phonegap, titanium and rhomobile) and I must say that coding a native app for different mobile platforms isnt too attractive to me. using any of the aforementioned frameworks, you can develop mobile apps that will run across most major mobile OS's like iOS, blackberry and Android, although you might not get a 100% native app, the pain of learning all the SDK's of each mobile platform is skipped. Its just like Java's once stated goal of "write once, run anywhere"
No, he uses an example XSS exploit to view Verizon FIOS router pages, but there are lots of ways to get MAC addresses.
My mother in law is an optometrist and I sent her the link - she doesn't seem too impressed:

"The immediate problem I see with this is that people can already see with their distance correction anything that is 33cm (83.82")(6.9 ') from their eyes to infinity. The problem that bifocals fix is the distance from 20" to the eyes or near vision! I don't know if this person is over 40 or not, but if so he should realize this. This type of technology is similar to what a progressive or "no-line" bifocal does at present."
> The only logical limit is conception.

The future will see zygotes as people? Hopefully that particular future won't be uniformly distributed around the planet...
Ask HN: Opinions about Globecharge?
Are they any good? Do they really support all of those obscure international payment gateways? If anyone has any experience with them, I'd love to know.
It was announced months ago so they was a window for developers to start building things.
I tried a couple of times to get startups that were actively recruiting me to pay me 3/5 the salary in exchange for working 3 days a week. I wanted to devote some more time to some side projects and to just generally do whatever I wanted with my time. Sounds similar to your situation.

Nobody was interested in this. They would offer me very, very generous packages, but only for full time work. This part time idea was a no-go.

Startups have this dream that every employee is in ALL THE WAY. They think it will be bad for morale if the other employees are working their asses off and you don't show up now and then.

In my opinion, this is silly. Either my services are valuable or they're not. If they are, then they are also valuable in part. But, perhaps not.
Wait, people actually believed this? I always thought it was just a joke.
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Whoa, really? I haven't seen that bug yet. Email me and I'll try to see what's going on. noah@appsumo
I think the fact The Pragmatic Programmer is a little less "crunchy", in terms of the technical content, than books like SICP and Code Complete probably has something to do with the fact it doesn't seem to get mentioned as much any longer. It's still one of the best programming-related books I've ever read, and I'm kind of disappointed that it does not seem to get mentioned as much as it once did (based on what I've seen).
Here's my answer on HOW to contribute to Open Source, if you're not a programmer:

http://www.granneman.com/techinfo/linux/contributewithoutcod...
Ask HN: Ruby on Rails or .NET?
I wondered if anyone out there knows of examples of startups that have developed web applications on a .NET framework? We have heard that Ruby on Rails is far quicker then trying to develop a web application on .NET but wondered if that is really true or if there are examples of companies that have just built on a .NET framework from the beginning? Thanks..
> ...high speed rail, which has its own problems

Oceans come to mind.
You're right. I should also have been more neutral/PC:

What about the spouse, kids, mortage and bills?

Clearly not practical advice for people with commitments.

Funny that reading the post, the younger me would've agreed without question.
Yeah, drugging kids to keep teacher-to-student ratios affordably low; I think there's a thing the future will judge harshly.
Uh, could we leave the religious wars to other sites, please?
All of their product pages feel busy and crowded to me and they still do with the redesign. Maybe it works for them, but to me it's a bit overwhelming.
A note about work visas would also be useful.
"Operation Barbarossa Saved the World" is one of the strangest and most interesting articles I've read about WWII. I don't buy the whole theory, per se, but it's methodical in listing German and Russian armaments, soldiers, aircraft, and positioning. It draws heavily from Suvorov and argues that the the Nazi pre-emptive invasion of the Soviet Union saved all of Western Europe from Soviet conquest.

The basic premise is that Stalin was geared up for a very fast sweep through German territory and following through immediately into Western Europe, but all plans had been made with first strike in mind. It was all first strike aircraft, shock troops, paratroopers, and offensive battleplans without defense or contingency. By violating the Molotov-Ribbontrop Pact first, Germany overran the forward positions of the Soviets quickly, destroying their first strike capability, many aircrafts, logistical details, depots, fuel supplies, and other things which the Soviets weren't prepared for. The author argues that if Germany didn't do that, Russia might've conquered all of Europe, and with the combined might of a Soviet Europe, conquered the world.

Interesting idea. I'm not sure I buy it, but it was a fascinating article.
This company is stupid x2 for wading into this: first, because it's easy to claim that refusing a dark-skinned candidate a job over dreads is a proxy for racial discrimination, and second because hair length is a genuine issue for major world religions, like Sikhs. Both are called out specifically by the Civil Rights Act.

We work in some of the most button-down corporate environments imaginable with people who wear dreads. It will not be hard for Woodson's lawyers to find examples of other companies dealing with this issue.

It's hard to even see a controversy here. Sorry, you don't get to not hire someone because they wear dreads.
Just noticed her math is off a bit!!! haha. I guess she applied 2.54 the wrong way - ~1 foot instead of 7 feet. (I hope she doesn't do that to her patients!) I wonder if that changes her opinion much. I guess 13 inches is close enough a distance to read from so maybe this is as awesome as it sounds afterall.
I have been working on this for few months now. It is a CR/FF/SF browser extension which should work with gmail/yahoomail/hotmail. Please get in touch with me if you like to be notified - skommoori (at) gmail.com

Recently, I have pitched the idea to few people both in angel community and some of my friends and tc disrupt visitor friends that I met. As few users have mentioned in the comments, it really boils down to people having awareness. People who are familiar with the encryption see the value immediately and people with no knowledge start to question why they need security. I have decided to go release the product. It is encouraging to see someone really cares about this stuff.

When I saw the gmail/china hacking fiasco, it is so much frustrating to see how dumb found we as users are left even though matured standards (rfc822, SMIME, OpenPGP)exist. Hopefully, what I am working would solve the exact issue we have been facing and no one is working on this non sexy item.

On the technical/details side, not just encrypting the text, it is more important to encrypt the whole message including attachments. Rightnow I have the prototype which works for text message and trying to expand it to cover attachments. The problem with FireGPG or few other things that I tried include how painful it is to setup and maintain - I also think, that being the reason for not getting popularity. There are already quite a few libraries for RSA, AES, HMAC(pick your language of choice). Implementing the plugin with Javascript has serious performance and security (good luck supporting OpenPGP). So core items need to be implemented in compiled language - for me they are in C/C++. I would love to share more details about the core crypto stuff if you want to.
Anti-trust is about anti-competitive behavior, size doesn't (or shouldn't) really matter. It just so happens that big entities have more incentives and capabilities to be anti-competitive which is why anti-trust charges are often brought against big companies by smaller rivals.
Well sure, but you seem to be scoping your statement down to recent events, in America, and only positive change. Before you were addressing any type of change in society as a whole, in the future. I was merely pointing out the vagaries of such over arching statements.

If we are to consider society as a whole, over time, i think things are moving in a positive direction for the liberties of children and the elderly. It's hard to predict what may or may not change in American legislation in the future, but I doubt it will be "nothing".
I don't care at all about the privacy and security of the already encrypted and signed blobs that I would be sending to webmail, in this hypothetical scenario. Why would I? They're already encrypted and signed.

The trick is getting encrypted webmail that's actually secure, without also being so hard to use that almost nobody actually does it.
IIRC they've contributed a few bits and pieces to Apache and the Linux kernel (drivers), though I think they've just been for interop with other MSFT stuff.
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Anything that is in the official FAQ I left because I don't feel like having the 'unofficial' one usurp the role of the official one.

Conversely if PG wants to crib any part of the unofficial one for inclusion in the official one I'll be happy and I'll remove that entry from the unofficial one.
So basically, you'd be taking all the security obstacles of browser Javascript, and adding to them: having two Javascript interpreters to worry about, having an additional set of interfaces to secure (between the browser and the plugin), and never being entirely sure of what the attack surface for the Flash plugin is, since it's closed-source.

No, probably not a win.
Totally situational. The guy is a mover, not a heart surgeon. I certainly think that as the "stuffy old guy" generation of management is slowly replaced with the "hip younger guy/girl" generation, more interesting/unusual styles will likely become more frequently acceptable. Still, it is situation and industry dependent.

When I worked in radio I had an orange mohawk for a while. Nobody cared. When I was an on-set medic however that would not have been ok.

It is sometimes a rather thin line between an individual's beliefs, style or values being impinged upon vs. a common professional expectation of conduct/appearance.
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Why Comcast can (but probably won't) read your e-mails, IMs
The Purposeful Use of Science
Yeah, I'll buy this, too. Our software will be like the rounded rocks used in the Stone Age; people will see it in museums and wonder how people could have been so naive.
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>Violence does not solve social problems.

This is a straw man. Violence can help with social problems sometimes, which is why we have policemen.

>Forcing people to feed unemployed people is violent.

Agreed.

>A future without forced "charity" does not mean people are left to starve.

Completely false. In a future _with_ forced charity, there will exist people left to starve because of difficulties in execution, distribution, public will, or a general lack of resources. Leaving this entirely to the discretion of individuals will destroy equality of protection, creating a patchwork (which will likely largely exclude historically discriminated against groups), and will tend to work against economies of scale.
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When you talk about "RSA, AES, HMAC", you leave me to wonder whether you're actually implementing a standard like PGP or S/MIME, or whether you've invented your own encryption scheme. I hope for your sake it's former, and not the latter. Know that most large companies do use encrypted mail, and have a standard that their partners must use.
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Agree with you but why even use Phonegap, Titanium or other frameworks since they are meant to covert a web app to native app.

Developing an app is only 50%. Rest is going thru app approval process. If app isn't approved, value of that app is ZERO.

Is it not a good idea to develop a web app and make money adopt subscription model to make money. We can straight away bring down the cost by 30% which goes to Apple otherwise.

What say?
Just ordered an Apple TV yesterday ...
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Oddly, the conventional argument--that the Soviets destroyed the bulk of the German army and hence saved Europe from German domination--shares with this theory the odd consequence that liberal democracy in the West was saved from brutal, absolute dictatorship by another brutal, absolute dictatorship.
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I suspect pg is looking for certain traits in your comments - maturity, technical knowledge and/or experience, and some insightfulness into your field. "Thoughtful" can comprise all three, and more.

If you have high karma, but most of your comments are noise, that can't help. Or if you have low karma and rarely post, but your posts are mostly "thoughtful", that probably helps.

I suspect it varies like that.
Probably depends most on what you and your team already know.
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Roku just recently announced they'll be officially supporting Hulu Plus in the near future. I'm curious as to why Hulu would work with Roku on a service offering, but not with Boxee.
I don't know why anyone would have downvoted this comment; clientside hashing is also bad, and CSRF isn't really the dealbreaker that XSS is, but it's a decent survey of the issues.
Hm. I suppose my use of "computer science" as the study and use of computers was sloppy; blame it on my having studied my computer science at an engineering school. Perhaps you'd be happier had I used the phrase "computing technology"?
That's even worse than the CS student (she had a bachelor's degree in CS, and was in the final year of her master's degree program in CS)... she actually attempted to delete an object in C++ by calling its destructor directly.

Needless to say, my company didn't try to keep her when Booz Allen Hamilton recruited her away from us.
Thanks! I should have searched before submitting. Sorry.
Great discussion in the last thread you linked.
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How does using javascript templating effect the SEO of my pages?

If I'm pulling the content in as json and using jquery to place it on the page. Will Google understand this or see my pages as content-less?
NewScientist and hard evidence are like cats and water. Every issue is filled with breathtaking discoveries that will revolutionize the way we do X.
Nukotoys Aims to be Silicon Valley's Toy Company - Already $1MM+ Revenue
Was wondering, thanks.
Yes. I am going to support OpenPGP. As you said, inventing own encryption is not a smart thing to do.
this post just shows the value of YC funding.

When techcrunch writes about your startup, not only do they give you a link for your company site, but they also give you a SEO specific link "email analytics" which will pay a lot of dividends in the future.
Eight months ago there were not any reviews about ChunkHost and I wanted to try them out. I think you could s/"cheaped out"/"experimented with a new vendor." Do you not shop around and try new things or did you not buy the iPhone or the Droid because you thought your Motorola Startac was still the only proven option?

And now I've written a review on my experience. I don't understand why you are so offended that I did so, but you're welcome.
Alimony too.