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> Installing a plug-in as nearly the equivalent to jail
> time, a horrendous chore.

That's because that's what it generally has been, in the case of Flash. You may want to read http://blog.zpao.com/post/538816688/how-to-install-flash-on-... if you haven't had that particular "pleasure"...
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> An unofficial blog...

I subscribe to this blog rather than the official Google blogs for this reason. I get to hear about the interesting new features, but none of the marketing spin from Google themselves.
Same as above reply, but in my way. Google for:

intitle:"Idea Dump" OR inurl:"idea+dump" site:jacquesmattheij.com
I think it's just an old joke at this point. It's funny the first time you see it and the second time, but the 50th?
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This is a bit extreme for my case, but I do agree there lots of good use cases for privacy mode. My favorite one is when someone needs to borrow my computer: Giving them a browser in privacy mode means they don't have to log out of my gmail/facebook/etc to check theirs.
Bugged me too.
There are proposed alternatives to IP protections. For example, a society could decide to fund these as public goods. (Say, in a participatory bottom-up manner.)

Then you don't have the stick-filesharers-in-jail problem.
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There's gotta be more nerds in Tokyo than just us… I think they've all turned off their computers to save energy for the blackout. :-)
You don't need to use private browsing mode for this.

Just change the various setting to not store cookies permanently, not store history for more than 1 day, etc, etc. I assume you still want a disk cache? Private browsing disables that, but that has a detrimental effect on your browsing.

This is a terrible idea for most people though. Every time I go to my bank it needs to re-authenticate me? It doesn't remember the sites I go to frequently? I need to login again every time I go to HN?
round = function (num) {
return +num + (~~num === num) * .5;
};

What does ~~num do?
I read that snapshots will be introduced in OSX Lion, I don't know if they're somehow related to ZFS snapshots,
though the "we can do it better ourselves" sounds very microsofty.
ZFS addition in OSX by Apple itself would have been greatly appreciated.
Sadly I can't make it. Please have lots of fun, and see you all at one of the next events!
That's so completely besides the point that I feel I should be sending a quote with context to somebody compiling a rhetoritician's dictionary.

Let me help you, since you are being so pointedly blind to your own offensiveness. (Which only hurts your ability to be pithy and forceful, by the way.)

This is a conversation about tax breaks and municipalities, in this case, the subjects involve SF and some startups.

This particular thread was an aside about Australia, because of the name "Brisbane".

You derailed it into a micro-rant about a recent tragedy, and then threw in an even less relevant slam on the US.

I'm not the most popular person here on HN. I've gotten into it with Justin of Justin.tv before because I was calling out some of the more offensive startup hysteria/bullshit.

You are something else entirely. You're not an iconoclast.

You are the 25 year old whose parents died when he was 2 y/o and won't shut up about it at the bar.

Have yourself a coke, a smile, and shut the fuck up.
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From my understanding, Go doesn't make things possible that are not available in Java/C++, but it attempts to make them easier and less error-prone.

The big problem with parallel/concurrent/distributed programming is that it is very hard to do both correctly and efficiently and scalable with current languages (and at the same time, keep the code maintainable). It has been bolted on, so to say, in may different ways. OpenMP, OpenCL, IPP, the list goes on. All those abstractions serve a certain purpose, and are useful at a certain scale, but are less useful outside of that, and generally you need to worry about way too many low-level details.

OpenMP: loops are easily parallelized, but due to data sharing, writing code that scaled to a large number of cores is very hard. Supports some other primitives like task parallelism, but in a limited way. At least you don't need to manage threads manually.

OpenCL: designed for huge numbers of cores, but very much focused on GPU-based development, makes it very inflexible on general purpose CPUs.

IPP: Work queue primitives to automatically distribute load over multiple cores. This is the most advanced approach, but fits very clumsily into C++ using arcane template syntax, which quickly results in macaroni code.

A language that would truly support scalable high-performance parallelization without having callbacks all over the place would be great. I'm not sure how far Go delivers on this promise, but it's certainly a step in the right direction. Which is expected from a company like Google, which understands these problems.
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I've never been to HN Get-Together before, but seems interesting.
What do you guys do mostly?
I kinda use Hacker News as a news source.
In fact, this is the very first time I"ve commented.
This is also true for postgres, apples and feathers.
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I've been doing this for about a year (not "private browsing mode" specifically, but setting Firefox to delete all history, cookies etc when it closes, which amounts to roughly the same).

Honestly I haven't noticed a lot of difference to my user experience, except except every week or two I have to click the login buttons on a handful of favourite websites. Since FF is still remembering the passwords, I don't have to retype those.

Other useful extensions I'm using: NoScript and HTTPS-everywhere.
Amazon video on demand has the same restrictions, I think.
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I'd have to politely disagree; if your class has mutable state and you want to maintain some invariant relationships amongst the elements of your class then as far as I can see you really need to be able to specify that some operations can only be performed within the class. If your class is immutable then I'd agree that in most cases privacy offers you few benefits.
Paul, I'll probably go.

Damn, it's shaking right now. Big one.
I prefer the unhedged call option analogy: http://www.m3p.co.uk/blog/2010/07/23/bad-code-isnt-technical...

- Debt is predictable: if I know the price in the future, and the rate of interest, I know the price now. If I knew what the cost is going to be in future, I could come up with today's price for the bad code and make perfect decisions.

- Unhedged options either blow up (incur a large future cost) or they expire worthless (I escape without paying anything). I don't know in advance which outcome will happen, so in today's price, I have to consider both possibilities and factor in the uncertainty.
Also ClickToFlash.
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Research, outline, develop code samples and slides, repeat until satisfied.
Here is the original Sci Transl Med (2008) paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811586/?tool=pu...

And here is a follow-up paper in Am J Pathol (2008): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2543077/?tool=pu...

Both are freely available at the links provided.
> Every time I go to my bank it needs to re-authenticate me?
> I need to login again every time I go to HN?

To me those are features, not bugs.

> It doesn't remember the sites I go to frequently?

Since they are frequent I remember them. The browser doesn't need to.
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Functional Programming puts all the symbols
and problem-space in your head at one time

I feel like the natural response is "then you're doing it wrong", but I think that's too dismissive. My comments do not apply universally across so-called functional languages, but I think it holds as a point of note. That is, when thinking about a system functionally one tends to conceptualize the data in the system and how it gets from looking like one thing to looking like another. How it gets from point A to point B are matters of detail. So while I understand what you mean, I'm not sure that it's emblematic of how functional thinking is actually done. Functional thinking is less about functions than data.
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Has anyone actually measured the atmospheric radiation levels in the surrounding areas of Fukushima, particularly over the ocean? Perhaps this is not practical to measure, but I keep reading about "alleged" releases and bullshit "worst-case" scenarios. Articles like "Workers continuing in spite of Soaring Radiation Levels," cite no sources.
Chemotherapy is not rad therapy. Diff methods, both pretty effective in hurting healthy cells.
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it will round toward zero
Put faces to names, talk a wee bit of shop, make a few business contacts (found a client there), enjoy food and drink, etc. I've made nice friends there.
Lion still uses HFS+. They seem to be doing some trickery to save space (i.e. they don’t save complete copies) but it’s all still HFS+.
I always thought it looked a bit like a Pokemon ball.
I agree, the old logo wasn't without its problems, but the new one, while different, is not really an improvement. It looks very..."flacid" to me.
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The article doesn't mention it, but this would also seem like the solution for streaming outside the US. Services like iTunes and Netflix are only available to a small part of the internet (US + a few other countries), citing legal issues for not being available anywhere else. This would give Zediva a huge potential market to themselves.

I'm in Europe and signing up as soon as they'll let me to see if it works here. Perhaps, finally, video on demand for the rest of us.
That's the opposite of how I read that. I take it as a comfort that they're doing their best, and they're the best at what they're doing. If they needed food or money, I would gladly send it, but he's saying they don't. Great!
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Right? We announce our intention to drink and the ground moves. I think it's a sign. Hopefully we'll see you there. :-)
Wow this was very informative and I hope that people will actually take note and start to follow these standard more. The question I have is when should we stop building for certain versions of browsers for example ie7
UK beats the US to a tech-friendly Startup Visa

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/uk-beats-the-us-to-a-tec...

HN Thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2335645
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Do you not worry about viewers that still use IE?
As has become standard in science articles, this one too is highly sensationalistic and potentially misleading.

NO is, in low doses, a signaling molecule used by the body to facilitate intercellular communication. Similarly to ischemic attacks (as in strokes), what follows acute radiation exposure is a massive disruption of normal cell operations. There are, to use a bit of programmer lingo here, "checksums" in place to detect these kinds of disruptions and to shut down affected cells immediately. This is essentially like a segmentation fault or any other kind of fatal exception, and it's called apoptosis.

During normal conditions, apoptosis signaling pathways are essential to weed out cells that aren't functioning properly. During massive crisis, however, this mechanism kills people, because it is suddenly triggered in a large amount of cells. That's what kills stroke and heart attack victims (if they survive the incident itself). The body simply doesn't know that in this case it would be life-saving if it kept corrupted cells alive.

A similar thing happens with acute radiation poisoning: cells die en masse, usually the mucosae are affected the worst, leading to massive shock and internal bleeding. This particular research apparently focuses on halting these apoptosis pathways, so the body doesn't self destruct.

Yes, that's essential. However, there is a price to pay that the article almost completely ignores. While interfering with the cell death signal saves you from immediate death, it does nothing to repair damaged porteins and DNA.
can't make it, but will raise a glass of ebisu silk from down here in kyushu.
I never considered it when choosing my apartment, but living on the first floor has been quite advantageousness over the last week.
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Looked promising at first, but could use more depth. Multiprocessing doesn't even get interesting until well beyond what's covered in the article.
"Two identities = lack of integrity" is the kind of simplistic statement most often used by fascists, racists and other small minds. Unfortunately, this approach is often very persuasive for those who don't stop to think about what it really means.

Stop and look at some of the simple, dumb statements you see in a typical advertising or political campaign.
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Welcome to the conversation!

If you're in Tokyo, I highly recommend dropping by to the next event. It's a really interesting group of people doing lots of interesting projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose

Assange has your back.
Ghostery might be useful too, it blocks all kinds of analytics and tracking sites. And FlashBlock to block flash unless you approve.
What were the key decisions that Page & Brin made in the early days of Google?
Using html5 (or 4) the meta tag doesn't need to be closed. Personally I prefer to do close or self-close tags anyway as I entered the game with xhtml, whose syntax I still prefer.
Thank you for your work! I have used UWSGI for several months and found it great.
This could also be due to the fact that CD47 blockade allows preferential phagocytosis of cancer cells by macrophages [1,2] so it might not be solely radiation sensitivity that is leading to the clearance of the tumor cells.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19632179

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19632178
Yes. I think we're saying the same thing.

By "link" I specifically meant data, not functions. Because everything is potentially visible, FP requires you to keep track of data structures in your head -- sometimes complex data structures with non-trivial relationships to other data structures.

Of course, there are methods to keep it simple -- starting small and growing as needed comes to mind first -- but if you're writing FP in a legacy environment with lots of nasty complex data structures you have a big headache. This would not be true in the same data environment with a well-constructed OO tier. [insert discussion here about what makes a well-constructed OO tier]

Or maybe I missed it. If I did, please straighten me out.
I found it weird that they're also contemplating sign-language translation of the artists' gestures. Why is that needed? Are generic gestures made by hearing people in a different "language" from what deaf people would use?

Or is it the other way around, that since deaf people have a full language available using (intricate) gestures, they don't "need" (and therefore never learn) the more generic gestures used by hearing?
What if GPS was a commercial project?
I'm not an attorney yet (another year), but I can give you a little more insight to that question, specifically. Absent a patent on the technology, reverse engineering is a completely acceptable way to learn the underlying facts and algorithms used in a technology. This was particularly evidenced in Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. v. Connectix (http://web.archive.org/web/20070228070634/http://www.ca9.usc...), where Connectix created an emulator and Sony sued, alleging that the BIOS had been transiently copied (thus violating copyright law) in order for Connectix to emulate Sony's systems.

The key to this case was that Connectix had exhausted all other methods before resorting to reverse engineering; Connectix contended that direct disassembly was necessary, because they had no other way to learn the non-copyrightable facts and algorithms.

The holding in the case was that Sony's copyrighted material did not deserve as much protection, because it contained unprotected aspects that could not be examined without copying. This is why Sony's BIOS was accorded a lower degree of protection than more traditional literary/musical/creative works.

Keep in mind, Connectix was a 1999 case. DMCA implemented two 1996 WIPO treaties, and became effective in 1998. I've read through nearly all of the DMCA, and everything in the opinion comports with the sections of the US Code that the DMCA amended. This is probably the best case that illustrates reverse engineering.
I have the same with glossy screens, which have so become the fashion in the past years. Instead of the pixels, I see a mirror image of myself. I was in a big electronics shop yesterday and all laptops had glossy screens!
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No, a significant portion of it is due to Photoshop's buggy PNG implementation.

It's definitely not time to stop fussing over Photoshop; that's not going away anytime soon.
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~ is bitwise NOT. For a number it returns the ones complement: ~N = -(N+1)

So ~~num I think would return the original value. The only reason I can see would be to coerce it into some kind of number type.
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Well, the price is ridiculous in relation to the 24hr viewing period. $5 for a 5 day viewing window would be more reasonable.

Honestly, don't any of these people have children? Kids don't always go for something in one take.
I think I'm looking for a technical co-founder
The other day I finished up with my project, www.bulletinburst. However, after some feedback, there are quite a few things that new to change and be added to make it the success I'm sure it can be. In light of adennis4’s ‘looking for a tech co-founder’ thread -http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332349 - I’ve decided to bite the bullet (pardon the pun) and convince myself that I’m at the stage where I can’t work on this alone anymore.

What is it?

It's a lean online press office where companies can host their press releases in a streamlined environment that provides convenient, filtered access to the latest information to feature journalists, bloggers and interest readers. In essence, it’s a weapon in one’s digital marketing arsenal. Although it's not strictly innovative, the PR industry is not a zero-sum game. Because it’s not innovative, the product is market-validated, and there is certainly a lot of room for growth and revenue.

Biggest challenge:

Shortage of skills – the site was built using php and I’ve got my limitations with it. The core functionality was contractor made.

In full disclosure, I do have a sort-of partner (who’ll be building the analytics part of the product once we get to that stage), but he’s not in just yet.

What I’ll provide:

Obviously I’m the business guy. I could say that I’m not just that, because I know my way around CSS, HTML5, jquery scripts, some SQL, a touch of php here and there and non-relatedly, I’m familiar with a bit of Ruby and Rails, but you don’t want to use a hammer to drive in a screw. I’ll obviously keep a close tab and assist with deving where possible, up until the stage, where a better core version is ready, but at that stage I’d relinquish myself of the duties of that aspect.

My 9-5 is working as a digital media account manager in a massive digital media agency, so I know my way around the industry. I’ve got contacts in the right places, and I have a proper launch plan ready (By proper, I mean more than just a post on Hacker News, Facebook and Twitter hoping to get spotted – a solid launch plan).

The details:

I don’t care where you’re based. I’m in South Africa so I don’t expect much response from people around me. I do want someone with a firm grasp of English. I’ll be willing to give up a third equity to somebody that commits with full-on passion.

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I was more excited when I thought that this said Chrome LEGO.
Follow our RSS feed or watch HN and you'll see the announcements. Otherwise send Jason or me an email (jason or paul @ makeleaps) and... oh shaking now again... ok I think it stopped... and we'll put you on the mailing list.
Thanks for the inspiration to keep moving!
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Given the increasing number of applications you have to look at, wouldn't it make sense to omit questions whose answers barely register?
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