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Ask HN: Page flip effects on the web
Hi HN, I have recently been asked to build an online/e-magazine in the same vein as those done by issuu.com with a non-flash based page flip effect. From articles and comments on the web, I've noted many have a dislike of such superfluous animations. At least I consider them superfluous.

What are your reactions to page flip animations and do they interfere with the content?
Uses about 50% of my 2-year-old Macbook Pro's CPU on Google Chrome.
Wait a second, at one point it says the interns are unpaid, and then it says they'll withhold their paychecks? If SlideShare can't even be consistent with their story about whether or not their interns are paid how am I supposed to trust them with my most awesome bullet-point laden PowerPoint slides??
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> The top manifestations of that ability were Inquisition, Hitler, Stalin, etc...

You may consider them the "top manifestations". I don't think many other people would. For my part, I'd put Bach and Shakespeare and Newton and Gauss higher up than Hitler on a list of top manifestations of the capacity for abstract thought.

> whenever there is a patch of technological progress it is most visibly expressed through new technological means of violence.

And yet today the world -- especially the industrialized, wealthy parts of the world, which have benefited most from a sustained application of that ability for abstract thought -- is less violent and longer-lived than ever before.
The LLVM IR is too low level. It loses some context necessary to get the performance of the tailored JIT written by Mike Pall.

There is a separate effort to write a JIT complier for Lua on top of the LLVM, but the performance is not as good as LuaJIT, and reaching such a level will be very complex, (assuming it's possible).
Nabto’s nabs $1 million in funding for tiny web servers
Most current languages don't 'handle' floating point numbers themselves, they simply use the CPU instructions available to work with them.

The only way around that is to use a library that supports higher-precision floating point through emulation. Then agian, that still doesn't change the theoretical background in any way.
How many times would I care to read about yet another 'Facebook is evil!' 'Down with The Man!' 'We're sheep who are being lived by Big Corp' idiotic 'privacy' drivel? None, and yet they show up quite regularly here. I just accept that that's the price to pay to, you know, participating in a broader community where not everybodies ideas and interests are going to 100% overlap with mine, and I skip those articles. Or are you suggesting that any time you run across something that you do not want or are not interested in is somehow a symptom of a general decline in control of our lives, caused by technology?
You could build something like that with YQL?
Sounds like Google are trying the "Developers Developers Developers" stragegy from Microsoft.
> ... if the variance is low ...

Yes, thats a better way of putting it. The variance is so low that the tree always ended up very deep. I put a lot of effort into tuning bucket sizes etc but in the end it just didn't work out.

> ... you could represent you formulae as trees instead of strings ...

For some definitions of edit distance, the edit distance between two trees is equivalent to the Levenshtein distance between the in-order traversals of the trees. In any case, the tree structure of LaTeX itself tends to be quite flat and non-useful and the the tree structure of the equations themselves is hard to derive in general. ArXMLiv is working on this, among others, but its still a hard research problem. If I could get my hands on the tree structure I would be doing more sophisticated searches than edit distance, cf hoogle and uniquation.
4Chan Takes Down Mastercard Site In Support Of WikiLeaks
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Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08)  For $212 Million In Cash
WikiLeaks armors itself to survive cyberattacks
As its operations have come under increasing financial and political pressure, WikiLeaks has quietly bolstered its electronic defenses in an attempt to become more difficult to censor.
Then what's the point for it being a clock? :)
Do you have a link for reading the published papers from the varying groups. I'm interested in this also, thank you btw.
Nice,

could you compare it to these to projects please,

martin framework http://www.thegrubbsian.com/2009/07/02/martin-a-framework-in...
https://github.com/thegrubbsian/Martin

Manos de Mono
http://jacksonh.tumblr.com/post/1159500924/manos-de-mono-the...
https://github.com/jacksonh/manos

Thanks
I like (or rather, dislike, but find strange enjoyment in spotting yet another instance) how ignorance of popular culture is a status symbol in some circles, to be flashed as often as possible. It's exactly what is so greatly parodied in http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention..., down to the picture with the goatee of the typical person exhibiting this behavior.

Justin Bieber, just so you know, is a Canadian teenage singer who has over the last few year build a large mass of rather devoted fans. He makes very 'poppy' music ('mierzoet' as we'd say in Dutch, I'm not aware of an English term capturing the essence of that word) and is therefore widely reviled by those who consider their own musical interests more refined or otherwise better.

It's all described on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bieber, and no it's not just a US thing (although he has been popular there for longer, but he's also well known here in Europe, including here in the Netherlands; see http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bieber ).
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> Wait a second, at one point it says the interns are unpaid, and then it says they'll withhold their paychecks?

Why yes, haven't you ever heard people asking for their invitations to be refunded?
Doron Swade (the man who built the Difference Engine) joins Plan 28
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We hope the Apple tree farm will not infest the server room during this time nor an Android UFO landing. :) Great way to spin a planned server outage!
Biggest YC exit so far?
For instance jacquesm answer? It's way more informative, it contains the actual answer to the question, is not arrogantly witty. Enough?
I'm glad the Heroku guys got a well deserved exit like this. It also makes me more confident to develop on the platform.
How did they come up with 212 million valuation? Genuinely interested to know.
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pg hit the home run on this one
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Anyone know what this means for Heroku? I love their service and I'd really hate to see it depart from what it is.

I'm really happy for the Heroku guys, but I'm also kind of nervous because I can think of so many ways Salesforce can screw this up.
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It says something about these heroes that none are willing to brave Everest to recover (or even to cover) the body of Green Boots instead of pursuing their own self-actualisation on the summit. Never mind the matter of poor Sharp.
I like the approach in Scala: every function is an object, and every object which provide an apply() method can be used as a function.
There Is No Such Thing as Cloud Security
Doesn't Heroku use EC2? Would that change?
Ask HN: Do you work remotely in IT? Care to fill in my 1-minute survey?
As the title says, at the risk of greatly skewing the results, I'd love to get some feedback from anyone in the HN crowd who is a remote worker. You might work from home, a coffee shop, a co-working space, etc.

If you have a minute, would you mind dropping by here: http://bit.ly/gcFlDv and answering 3 or 4 simple questions? Any extra info you'd like to share beyond the required fields would be much appreciated.
Assange 'not responsible for security breaches' - Australian Foreign Minister
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Wow, I did not see that coming from Heroku. Congratulations all around!
It's surprising that it comes out of the blue like this. Had there been any rumor of a coming acquisition in the past few weeks?
The claim is that Assage is selling some of the secret documents on the side instead of making them public. Is there some proof to that?
Ask HN: Best book for learning Ruby On Rails
I want to start off with Ruby On Rails. I know fair bit of HTML/CSS and have done little programming (mostly copy/paste). I want to become proficient in one language/framework and RoR seems like popular choice. So please suggest a book, which goes easy on a beginner (i.e doesn't assume a lot) and has plenty of examples.
I am often frustrated when I talk to doctors because I want to know in more details what is going on, I want the results of tests explained and so on, Then I am not sure if they are just busy and think I am an asshole for asking annoying questions, or what I am more scared of, they don't actually know or care to know these things and just prescribe pills according to a textbook checklist of symptoms.

Someone who helped me enormously for a time was a former RN who later studied a lot of alternative medicine approaches. I took guaifenisen (sp?) for a time and was trying to figure out what it was doing that it helped. After an internet search failed to answer my questions, I asked her what it did in the body or if she could come up with some information online that might help me understand (she had a track record of coming up with stuff like that). She basically told me "I don't think anyone really knows that. That isn't how drug studies work. You are asking questions that the medical establishment cannot answer." So I suspect that in many cases your bigger fear is exactly what is going on.

I still don't know what gauifenisen really does to the body. It ended up being the last remaining drug I took for a time. I got off it some time in the summer of 2009 and have been drug free ever since.
Maybe because it is difficult to do so efficiently ? It is hard to get per-file information in git, so you would have to be pretty clever to get it working w.r.t. history.

Other bugtrackers which were based on svn had a lot of issues with git because of this.
The losing more oxygen than you can breathe part is only in the death zone, the last <3,000 feet, from what I can tell.

Apart from that, I'm less wondering about feeling warm and more wondering about avoiding severe frostbite (or is that already mostly a thing of the past?)
I'll grant it that the hero here is Bradley Manning, who should really receive more support.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974312

What's more, that link is direct to the article in question, whereas this link is to the main blog, whose front page will no doubt change over time, invalidating any discussion here.
Why do you assume Google only wants testers who already use the web for every application? They may seek feedback on the transition process, which many potential customers face. That is, unless this is targeted squarely at children.
“The next era of cloud computing is social, mobile and real-time. I call it Cloud 2,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com

I don't think we have anything to worry about...
Any animation like that simply slows me down. It's cute for the first 15 seconds, then it's just annoying.
If every Heroku employee would get an equal share from the restricted stock, that means ~ $1M in Salesforce shares per employee. Congrats!
No. I think this possibly the more useless explanation ever. shrug
JS performs "variable hoisting", so your example is interpreted as:

function(){ var i; … for(i=0; …

It has surprising side effects:

alert(i);
var i;

works and outputs "undefined", which is value of the variable i that is defined.

alert(k);
var i;

This is an error, and will fail to execute because of undefined variable.
Ask HN: Any experience teaching LOGO to children?
I would like to start teaching LOGO to my 7 year old daughter. My only and last experience with LOGO was 25 years ago reading the "Apple LOGO" book from Harold Abelson.

Do you know any good LOGO interpreter for Windows?

Have you tried to teach programming to kids?.

Thanks.
It appears wpplugins now take a 30% cut rather than the 10% mentioned in the article, which makes more sense. Plugin authors can also charge for a monthly support subscription. I'd be interested in knowing if that subscription dissuades many people from buying the plugins in the first place.
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Wow. Didn't expect that. Didn't they just do some more capital raising themselves?
Can you explain why, it makes you more confident? (genuinely interested)
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You appear to have taken me to a Google Docs something. If it were a web form I might've given you 2 minutes. As it is, you're asking me a favour, making it hard, and I don't have time.

If you want me to do a favour, you have to put in the time to make it easy for me.
I am so not musical (I appear to be tone deaf, though as I heal, my hearing has changed and I understand lyrics better than I used to). And a wind instrument would not likely fit into my lifestyle at the moment in terms of owning so very little and keeping everything germ-free. However, chest x-rays 4 years ago and the lack of pain in my left lung indicate that the hole I once had has closed up. I also generally have more stamina..etc.. I have a very long list of criteria for an ideal place to live and, somewhat to my annoyance, Cheyenne Wyoming is looking like it might be the next place I go (assuming I can arrange to go anywhere I want). It happens to be 6000 feet above sea level, which is likely a good thing.
They have a country field but no way to change the state. Fail.
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Oh! I'm sorry for causing confusion. "This" referred to the example I was giving, rather than the situation at hand.

I think that the NASA team is getting every bit they deserve. The only claim I dispute is the bit about their careers being ruined.
Good to see the lad's government finally come out and support him!
It's time the U.S. bore the entire responsiblity not some fall guy.
I remember seeing this article in the lecture notes of my Numerical Analysis class. Very cool read.
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It's a google docs webform. A few clicks, a submit, and you're done. Did you actually wait for it to load before passing judgement?
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The difference is that Wakefield committed fraud. There's a world of difference between slipshod work and just making things up.
I just did a search for Nine Inch Nails and got Rickrolled.
The racism/sexism analogy in the context of language reminded me of this:

A Person Paper on Purity in Language by
William Satire (alias Douglas R. Hofstadter)

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html

Incredibly well crafted satire.

"Most of the clamor,as you certainly know by now, revolves around the age-old usage of the noun "white" and words built from it, such as chairwhite, mailwhite, repairwhite, clergywhite, middlewhite, Frenchwhite, forewhite, whitepower, whiteslaughter, oneupuwhiteship, straw white, whitehandle, and so on. The negrists claim that using the word "white," either on its own or as a component, to talk about all the members of the human species is somehow degrading to blacks and reinforces racism. Therefore the libbers propose that we substitute "person" everywhere where "white" now occurs. Sensitive speakers of our secretary tongue of course find this preposterous. There is great beauty to a phrase such as "All whites are created equal." Our forebosses who framed the Declaration of Independence well understood the poetry of our language. Think how ugly it would be to say "All persons are created equal," or "All whites and blacks are created equal." Besides, as any schoolwhitey can tell you, such phrases are redundant. In most contexts, it is self-evident when "white" is being used in an inclusive sense, in which case it subsumes members of the darker race just as much as fairskins."
I'm glad I work in a world where the performance overhead of decimal (both SQL and Ruby's BigDecimal) isn't too high.

I still remember when every Rails-based example with an invoice in it stored dollar amounts in the DB as floats. Ahh bless.
I never claimed that it should be. I was just pointing out those cases that I am familiar with.

What they did (press-conferences, etc.) was in poor form.
Thanks for sharing. Your app works very well too and is more flexible.
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By an order of magnitude I think because 280 North was the last biggest one for $20M.
I do apologize however, they don't move any faster. Has SIP even been ratified yet? :-p
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Ha that's good. I personally restrict my LOL-speak to comments. In a way the dark art of variable naming may have some parallels to LOL-speak - shortening as much as possible without losing meaning.
Ask HN: Advice for self-publishing books
I have an idea for a short series of books and I have found a few ghostwriters to write them. Do you have any experience with the rest of the self-publishing process? Is it better to go with on-demand printing or order a conventional run? How much should I expect to pay for editing, design and layout? Is a Kindle/iBooks-only release a good measure of interest?
AFAIK Ycombinator invests about 15K for 6%. That 6% would now be 12 million. That's a 800x ROI. Nice :)
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I don't see why not. It isn't rocket surgery. I say, if you employ smart staff, they can learn new things and smart staff always provide more value than cheap staff.
I know for my clients they would just like the name recognition that it brings. Selling someone on something they are familiar with is a lot easier.
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Well, I'm grateful that I'm living in this century, which is flooded with various kinds of advance electronics devices... Seriously, thanks a lot to the advancement of technology, I'm able to do various kinds of "Magics"!! =D
http://kitcat-kittycat.blogspot.com/2010/12/cat-wallpaper-we...
I imagine YC's share will have been diluted quite a bit, but no doubt it's a great ROI.
I'm more interested by the versioning function. For book-size manuscripts i work chapter by chapter + annexes.
This is great news for Heroku and YC (congratulations folks!). That said, does anyone have any insights on why exactly SalesForce would buy Heroku? What is the business rationale?

"This is Salesforce’s fifth acquisition this year. Earlier purchases include Activa Live, Sitemasher and Jigsaw. Salesforce.com also spent $170 million to fully acquire its Japanese subsidiary, Salesforce Japan."

Anyone see a pattern? I don't, but then I am not that business savvy.
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The (and search) might solve that?
I would refuse to work with the software, then state that there are alternatives that could be used instead.

You say that Gimp isn't an alternative to Photoshop, but I used it for exactly that. It's probably not as efficient, but it definitely gets the job done. If you've really managed to get into a situation where only Photoshop will do the job, then they really, really need to shell out the money as they would have to be raking some in to have that need.

The only thing that I think you couldn't use an open source replacement for would be a copy of Windows for product testing. And possibly OSX, depending on your market.
heroku 94%

pg 6% (early 2008)

---

$3M Series A (mid 2008) Assuming a $2M pre-money:

heroku 37.6%

pg 2.4%

series A 60%

---

$10M Series B (2010) Assuming a $5M pre-money:

heroku 12.5%

pg 0.8%

series A 20%

series B 66.6%

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pg $1.7M

series A $42.4

series B $141.3

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series B $10M -> $141M // 14X in 1 year

pg $17K -> $1.7M // 100X in 3 years

All the pre-money valuations are guesstimates/fiction.
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I do think we have something to worry about when management type milks terms like "web 2.0" and now "Cloud 2.0" and "social".
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Good question ...

I'm not always logged in to Google, so it requires me to do that. My elderly web browser doesn't render stuff from Google well at the best of times, so I have to go to my other machine to see if it's a form I even want to complete.

In short I followed the link, got the Google login screen, then decided it was too much effort. Call me lazy if you will, but that's what happened, and I'm reporting it so people can either ignore me as too lazy, or decide that there is merit it making things easier for a wider range of people.
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They were seeing it as not sustainable, while we're actually seeing the first hiccups. As you may now know, finally the EIA admitted in its latest report that peak oil already occurred :

http://www.iea.org/w/bookshop/add.aspx?id=422

quote :"If governments put in place the energy and climate policies to which they have committed themselves, then our analysis suggests that crude oil production has probably already peaked."

Of course this didn't make the news. Keep on the denial, people.
60% dilution at Series A? I don't think so. Typical is 20-30%, afaik.
Ask HN: To try starting up again or?
I've been pursuing my web startup dreams since i graduated but for the past one and a half years, i've attempted twice and both times i ended up shutting down the websites.

I still want to try starting up again one more time but i'm facing financial difficulties for i haven't been earning much for the past year and half.

Should i just go all out to try once again? Get a regular job? Freelance and work on my startup at the same time?

I don't know. Any suggestions?
I really hate it when people to give arbitrary numbers to things like 'Cloud 2'.

It's still just cloud computing. 'Cloud 2' doesn't actually -mean- anything. It's not a standard. It's not like you can say something is or isn't Cloud 2 by any objective means.

It's marketing speak, and who exactly is he marketing it to? All developers see right through it and know it doesn't mean anything. All clients only care that their products work. What tech they're built on doesn't mean a thing.
Of course not. He knows almost all the buzz words. Although, he could have added something about game mechanics and location awareness.