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There is much to be done, I'm only not sure how.

Even though Japan has enough resources, to borrow a phrase from Alan Kay, help is there but it is unevenly distributed.

When Brisbane got flooded earlier this year, there were a lot of friends and strangers who came around and volunteered their time to help my parents clean up. There were also people who volunteered their weekends to clean up street by street. Some people donated buses to ferry volunteers around, others trucks to carry waste to the dump.

One guy made sandwiches and gave them out to everyone on the street until power came back on about a week later.

The biggest problems a couple of weeks post-flood faced were:

1. electricity

2. heating

3. food refrigeration

4. cooking equipment

5. washing clothes

The minor ones were:

1. table for eating, writing

2. boxes to store clothes

Even if people are insured, insurance claims took about 8 weeks. (I just got my cheque last week for some minor flood damage). Then there is the long wait for builders to get started.

In the meantime, the supply chain is completely broken. Bakers don't have flour, people don't have work. Survivors are idle and need work to take their mind off their predicament, but these people will need to be organised and mobilized.

For areas that are not affected by flood, it was still another month before milk started reappearing on shelfs. I remembered that vegetables were difficult to come by, and my parents were thinking of making bean sprouts.

Even though I'm sure Japan can stand on its own, it is nice to have people help out because it helps you to realize you are not on your own, and a lot of people care about you.
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I love Austin, and spend three months out of the year there. But, I avoid it like the plague during SXSW, especially the tech portion. I spent part of the winter there, and will be arriving back in town in a couple of weeks, just in time for the SXSW people to be gone. SXSW brings nearly everything I don't like about Silicon Valley and Los Angeles and New York to a town that I love and is normally refreshingly free of those traits...and that makes me feel kinda ill.
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Got it. I forgot not to joke on HN!
It's a perfect example of the importance of execution. This isn't a new idea, but Dropbox was the first to make it dead simple & reliable.
It would be ironic if this therapy causes increased risk of cancer, for which chemotherapy then has little effect. Then again, if the resistance is temporary I imagine some workers in Fukushima might benefit from this once it's been demonstrated safe enough.
It still is a horrible term, as are most buzz words and hypes.

And secondly, like it or not, it is nothing new - not even a new concept. See e.g. grid computing and what Foster et al. describe as "utility computing" in their vision; it makes cloud computing look more like a sub-category.

I have the same feeling about "web 2.0" - it was merely "normal people" catching up with the tech savvy crowd on a large scale.
I like the new logo, but I didn't expect to see a logo change of the official Chrome that early. There are still a lot of advertisements showing the old logo around in my city.
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Nobody's saying that it can't be real because girls don't grok tech and 16-year-olds are stupid. They're saying it's unlikely to be realy because statistically, the number of 16-year-old girl hackers is very small (relative to 25-year-old male hackers), there's a huge history of fake personas in hacking (and especially around Anonymous), and a 16-year-old girl is a very useful persona to get attention.
> I guess it's very subjective

Yes it is ;-) There was a post on HN some time ago showing how old logos were in many cases so much better than new ones, and Pepsi was amongst them.

But, Google being Google, maybe they tested it? The problem with tests, I think, is that it favors bland versions because they upset the least; this new logo kind of smells of "design by committee", no?
Do you have any case law to assume otherwise?
I'm not a native speaker - care to explain? where is the "petrification" cited happening?
Glossy embossed days are far behind. Subtle gradients, trying to achive 3d in 2d space with less cluttered effects.
I would say very in tune with Apple's next design iteration. http://www.usabilitypost.com/2011/03/01/simpler-ui-in-lion/
There is a small group of dedicated programmers working on the Windows port, and it works. Not 100% parity with the other Operating Systems, but it passes most tests: http://godashboard.appspot.com/ (see the rightmost column)
Normally, spam is used to advertise shady products. If you work for Volkswagen, you're giving them a bad name with this stunt. Flagged.
How is throwing out IP laws completely going to get you those things? I don't see it. Who's going to bring drugs to market? Sure, government sponsors basic research, but to get there to the market is not exactly a walk in the park.
the giant picture of the author staring at me while i'm reading the page is kind of creeping me out.
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OpenBTS is already here:
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The point about Photoshop not supporting paletted transparent PNGs was new to me.
I only use Photoshop, so I actually believed that alpha channels were only available for 24-bit PNGs.

I wonder if Photoshop has planned future support for paletted, 8-bit alpha channel PNGs?
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I have github and bitbucket on my resume. It was only noticed and mentioned by a smaller "startup". So if you're applying for a job at a much larger company with your "average" (the ones who toot about this new CVS technology) manager, they might not even know what github is. YMMV
In the Shakespeare play quoted in the article.
I don't know about JPEG, but JPEG2000 definitely has a lossless mode.
Look up blog posts by Mark Guzdial. He's a very thoughtful, reflective CS educator who has written quite a bit about students learning to program.

I can't remember where he wrote about it, but apparently, 1) students can use other people's objects just fine, if they are simple (and so from that perspective, OO is fulfilling its general promise), but 2) new students have a nightmarish time trying to both solve new problems AND decompose problems into objects at the same time.

Which is to say, there is absolutely a reason not to introduce this to beginners. It makes them fail and quit.

Incidentally, the same argument could be made for the concepts of abstraction involved with composing new functions - new students can call existing functions just fine, but the skills involved with abstracting a problem, and replacing a pile of copy/paste with a parameterized solution, is apparently a more taxing set of skills than you might think.

Everything in it's right place.
Thank you for putting this together. Cashflow is brilliant.
I've always been looking for cashflow functionality in online personal finance apps like Mint/LoveMoney/WeSabe etc, but this app does exactly what i need it to do.

The best bit is, i always struggle to put my own spreadsheet together to workout the cashflow, so for people like me who need help with the underpinnings, this is a great solution.

Thanks again
Drudge's lead story right now is about the "radiation plume" that's due to hit the US any day now... so, yeah.

The network news in the US is a slightly-toned-down version of this hysteria.
I saw this yesterday and loved it. I'll spare you my critique - the logo new logo is great!
That's a very interesting article there. The thing that bothers me the most about OS X is how it looks so monochrome (and, by my definition, boring and less usable), like it's mentioned on the "Less color" section. I like to use color from icons to guide myself and by going monochrome I just can't do it. On the opposite side there's Google's sidebar which has so many colors mixed-up that it's as usable as Apple's monochromatic style.

One can easily argue that monochromatic UIs are less distracting though. But it does remind me of USSR architecture...
I think of the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy (from the 70s?): "Where men are real men, women are real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centori are real small furry creatures from Alpha Centori."

Which is presumably itself a parody, I'd guess of some standard line from a Western. But I couldn't pin it down to exactly where.
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Not just from this piece, I did a little more digging and my impression was that this person comes across as female (based on the sort of language used, areas of interest etc.).
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On that note, I like the parting words in Google's JavaScript Style Guide ( http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascript... ):

BE CONSISTENT.

If you're editing code, take a few minutes to look at the code around you and determine its style. If they use spaces around all their arithmetic operators, you should too. If their comments have little boxes of hash marks around them, make your comments have little boxes of hash marks around them too.

The point of having style guidelines is to have a common vocabulary of coding so people can concentrate on what you're saying rather than on how you're saying it. We present global style rules here so people know the vocabulary, but local style is also important. If code you add to a file looks drastically different from the existing code around it, it throws readers out of their rhythm when they go to read it. Avoid this.
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We have free beer at the office. I'm not sure which category it falls under.
Life is too short to drink crappy beer. I know I could buy a six pack for the amount of money I just spent on this "Rochefort 8", but the taste is worth every penny.
The C world has various reusable linked lists, but yes, there is occasionally a reason to implement one yourself: a {data, next} tuple usually fits in a single cache line, whereas some libraries only offer {data pointer, next} tuples, which requires loading in the memory that <data pointer> points to. The performance difference can matter.

That said, some more agreement on reusable code may be useful, especially for things that aren't as easy to implement as linked lists.
"Everything you actually could do is worthless to us, but please send all possible help for this scary thing that you don't understand and can't possibly actually assist with" is the opposite of "Don't Panic". It conveys helplessness and disempowers your readers.
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There's probably as much alcohol in your Rochefort 8 as there is in that entire six-pack too :-)
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The proposed solution uses JS to check what formats the browser reports support for, in order to tailor the <audio>'s src attribute:

if(!!(a.canPlayType &&
a.canPlayType('audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"')
.replace(/no/, '')))
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else if ...

Does anyone know if this is more successful than the standard HTML5 way, which is to include in the <audio> element multiple <source> elements pointing to different formats?
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that since the Arab League backed a no-fly zone over Libya there has been a “sea change” in international opinion toward favoring the action.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-16/clinton-says-arab-l...

"We are moving as rapidly as we can in New York to see whether we can get additional authorization for the international community to look at a broad range of actions, not just a no-fly zone but other actions as well," Clinton told reporters in Cairo.

http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFN161552872011031...

c.f. bahrain, yemen, shia/iranian actions and oil control, french, italians
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The new logo does not appear to have been designed with smaller icons in mind - the white circle around the blue center is too small (or shouldn't be there at all). In its present form, it looks pretty bad on my dock.
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An understandable indiscretion, but be sure not to repeat it.
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Like the big white arrow in the fedex logo.
All of this fuss is largely for IE6 and it's really time to stop fussing over IE6 so much.
Which is really and genuinely great, except the author is still releasing the code in essentially impossible-to-review code drops:
https://github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael/commit/164c349e...
> Glossy embossed days are far behind.

Could this really be happening? Could the universe be so kind?

Glossy might look good for five seconds, but when you spend eight hours staring at shiny windows flying across your screen you tend to get sick.
Visa's responsible for most of the reasons people hate PayPal.

- Visa's the reason PayPal holds sellers 100% liable for fraudulent payments.

- Visa's the reason PayPal holds funds for a minimum of 6 months if they freeze an account.

- Visa's the reason for PayPal denying an account to that "sell experiences" startup that complained on HN a week or two ago.

- Visa's the reason PayPal is so quick to freeze an account for anything resembling a risk, because Visa requires its processors stay under a ~1% chargeback ratio (in % of volume, which means far less than 1% of transactions since the fraudulent ones tend to be the bigger ones).

Sure PayPal shares some of the blame for their customer support issues, but the reasons people have to deal with support in the first place usually boil down to Visa operating regulations that PayPal's policies are built around.
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TBH, private fields are a stupid idea. It's just a cutesy concept that gives the newbie a false illusion of being in control. I've never seen a program where a private field was actually important to the integrity of the program.
Yeah. I wish he knew about "Commit early, commit often"...
> The information sought is part of a jurisdictional argument over whether Sony must sue Hotz in his home state of New Jersey rather than in San Francisco, where Sony would prefer.

He also accepted funds from France (hello!), but somehow I doubt they'd try him here. Is Sony actually allowed to do this?
(This is not -completely- a troll, I don't know US law and I'd be interested to know.)
I'd like to hear a lawyer's perspective on how the modern legal climate would have applied to historical events, especially Compaq's reverse engineering of the IBM PC BIOS which enabled them to create PC clones.
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Of an infinity of 69s! ;) My brain looped.
This reminded me of the 2008 Google Reader redesign, where some of the rounded borders and shadows were dropped.

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/12/square-is-new-round...

In the case of the simplified logo, "square is the new round" would seem to apply again.
If only they added anonymous code blocks.
Does the OP have a transcript or do I need to make one again?

Edit: n/m, spammer that isn't contributing to the conversation here. Flagged.
Life is too short to drink crappy beer. Therefore, I live in England.
Sometimes, people are tried in several states to get cummulative sentences, as I understand.

If there's a loophole, someone's going to use it. (And being lawyers and all ...)
This is such a clever and world changing idea. Forever services like blockbuster depended on your not being able to share your movie with everyone you know in the two days you rent it. But now that you can, companies like this one are sending a wake up call to producers holding new licenses and telling them that the old model just won't work. Maybe the music and book industries can take a hint (and much of everything else once we all have fabbers in our offices and studies). Maybe movies should only come out as downloadable non sharable files, for a third of the price. They'd need excellent security, but I can't imagine the world pointing in any other direction. I say, ditch the disks, and work on creating files that can only work on the computer which bought them. That, or bring back the VHS's.
You're being unreasonable, they're not exactly the same thing. Most popular sites are derivatives of similar ideas.
Seems to be down?
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Discussing about real-world objects makes it easier to grok what polymorphism is about - subtype polymorphism being almost equivalent to OOP, its most important property and the hardest to understand.

Exemplifying with a Duck that's also a type of Bird is good - many times you don't give a fuck that an object is a Duck, all you care about is if it can fly or not.

And to replace these examples, how awful they may be, you've got to find other alternatives.

So shoot me.
Excellent work Chime. Do you have any plans to try and generate income from your apps, or are they just a fun side project?
Or Python.
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And it almost certainly won't be the harbinger of any huge natural disaster.
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That's why some of use prefer a bottle of good wine.
I disagree. There are actual non-technical issues here that prevent streaming services from offering those options, that this company completely avoids. Language dubs and subtitle tracks are separately copyrighted works and the streaming services would have to negotiate separately for every possible combination. Sometimes the French dub of a movie is owned by a different company than the English one; the English subtitles for a Japanese TV series are owned by a different company than the Japanese one, etc. The DVD publisher already negotiated the rights for the language and subtitle tracks on the disc, so streaming a physical DVD gets you access to them, where Netflix might never be able to negotiate rights to the same combinations.
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Go to the second page

"Perhaps equally exciting, Dr. Isenberg and his team found that while his technique protected healthy cells from damage, it actually increased the effectiveness of radiation treatments on cancer cells."
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Did he mean it literally, or just that you can fiddle with compression until you don't notice any artefacts? At that point, it's as good as lossless for most uses, IMHO.
Better yet, use the help() function instead, which also displays the docstrings for said object and functions (assuming the programmer gave those, which fortunately holds for the entire stdlib).
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Please read carefully before making absurd accusations. I said: "even an infinite amount of unmoderated natural uranium cannot sustain a chain reaction". The nuclear excursion at Chernobyl occurred in a graphite-moderated reactor core.

I don't claim any special expertise in nuclear power but, as you don't seem to know the importance of moderation in criticality, I think you should refrain from accusing others of cluelessness in this topic.
I find his perspective really refreshing. Most articles that I encounter nowadays are very US-centric, or Europe-centric. They look at the consequences for a certain country or group within it, not the world at large, and are thus very polarized. Chomsky's reasoning feels truly international. And his comments about IP and medicine are appropriate as ever with the ACTA treaty (and sons) being pushed on us all by the US.

I wish there were more people with a clear vision such as his. It could make the world as a whole a better place.
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It's also difficult to contribute. Because of the one-commit-per-release strategy, Pull Requests aren't accepted (though the changes normally end up in the next release).
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Why would I need to know the implementation and how it processes data?

The entire point of pure functions is that you don't need to know. Referential transparency guarantees that a pure function given inputs X and Y always returns the same output Z. So if I just follow the interface specification about accepted inputs and accepted outputs I can switch in any arbitrary implementation of that function and have my code keep working.
Also, a ChangeLog would be great.

Or, for that matter, per-version documentation.
OOP is not a metaphor.

OOP is about (subtype) polymorphism, or more precisely about functions with polymorphic behavior in regards to the (implicit) parameter. Everything else is there to support and make it easier to apply this concept.

Of course you don't need OOP for every problem, because you don't need polymorphism for every problem. And applied improperly, every type of polymorphism (whether it's ad-hoc with early or late binding, or parametric) is broken, not to mention hard to explain.

And as an exercise, I want you to count the number of applications where you haven't used any type of polymorphism. The only ones I can count myself are the small exercises of the types I used to do in high-school.

See what I did there?
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