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I think by far the biggest problem Adobe has to deal with is that there are so many inexperienced software developers who have taken up writing Flash applications. These new developers' lack of knowledge is what causes these applications to have poor performance, not any particular inefficiencies in the Flash platform itself.

It probably stems from the fact that the development studio is designed more for artists than developers, allowing artists to toy with adding functionality to their creations but not really giving them the years of training it requires to understand performance implications.

Adobe can't really make this claim, even though they are fully aware of it, because it is never good to badmouth your customers. So they are left with taking the heat for them instead.

Contrast this to the native Android or iOS development environments which cater to experienced software developers.
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As you accelerate, time moves more slowly for you relative to a stationary (or slower moving) observer. Time speeds up for everything relative to you.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

There's also various experiments with atomic clocks proving this on an extremely small scale. Basically, as you move through space, you also distort time.
My gut says that desalination is a better option. The amount of energy need to drag around something that size could be better applied just desalinating the ocean water you already have.

Even if they can plan some route that will give them an adequate current all the way to their destination (which I doubt), what happens then? How will you keep the iceberg in place while it's consumed? Or will it roll around the coast tearing up other unrelated valuable bits of property/equipment.

You can use unreliable power sorces like ocean/air currents, but you had better make sure your system will fail-safe. Specially when you are talking about weights/inertias in the millions of tons.
Or that $1bn+ they've raised could have gone to this instead of cashing out the insiders...
Sue a bunch of people for re-enabling Linux and enabling homebrew on the PS3
6% of people in the world are using Safari, I'm estimating 0.001% of them read HN AND are bothered by the frequency of Bitcoin stories. Some things don't need to go on github.
Oh, I see this made it here already via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605578
Has anyone actually read the revealed code? Aside from the commented copyright text at the top, can you explain what the code does well enough to document Skype protocols? Is this in any way useful if you want to talk to Skype servers or clients?
I figured it was a scare tactic. "See those jets outside the window? Yea you're in that much trouble". Kind of like when you're picking on someone and their big bother shows up.
Just in case you really don't know, the various branches of Sony have demonstrated technological contempt for [their] customers for years. I'll omit their insistence on promoting their own products over other standards and general push for increased DRM, such as Minidisc/ATRAC, Blu-ray, etc. and focus on their actual attacks.

It started with the CD root kit fiasco, in which music CDs distributed by Sony infected Windows PCs with software designed to prevent the ripping of music CDs to the computer, which also contained exploitable holes used by malware to infect computers.

Sony then removed the Other OS (e.g. Linux) feature from the new version of its PS3 consoles. This wasn't too egregious, but next they retroactively removed Other OS from older consoles that originally supported it. That upset a lot of people.

Along came GeoHot, a reverse engineer determined to get Other OS back, and no doubt other less-outspoken hackers. So he and the others did, and along with it recovered Sony's private key used to sign PS3 software, allowing Linux to access all the hardware of the PS3, as well as running other homebrew software.

Less-scrupulous individuals, not including GeoHot himself, used the aforementioned work to run pirated software on the PS3. This upset Sony.

The straw that broke the camel's back, though, was Sony suing GeoHot into oblivion (I personally suspect they also astroturfed gaming sites to get GeoHot's hack associated with cheaters at Call of Duty, which it was not). This is the final event that triggered the misguided but potent onslaught of attacks against any and all Sony properties.

References:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/PlayStation_3...

[Edit: fixed botched pronoun after partial sentence rewrite]
I like the gusto, but maybe I'm dense, or shallow or whatever, but is BTC not also a fiat currency? I realize there's a limited amount, but its value is completely speculative, and it's not backed by hard assets. It's not even backed by a government, which makes it less like a fiat note and more like something I printed on my inkjet when I was twelve. The BIG "if" is whether it gains critical mass and is accepted as a note of value. If or when it does, we'll all saunter over and trade in our euros or yen or dollars for some, I assume. But before it's traded on forex it's gonna be a tough sell for average folk, which means it's not tempered or tested by real markets; just hopeful folks who aren't huge Ayn Rand fans, but have quick recall of pertinent passages in Atlas "just in case".
Not in the case of Reddit? As far as I know, Reddit's main issue is constant 502 errors/requests timing out, which to my knowledge would indicate they constantly hit the limits of their webservers or don't understand how to load balance.
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His entire argument for Flash is that you don't have to rewrite your app for different platforms.
It wasn't an ad hominem attack and I have nothing against jcr. I don't even disagree. I just felt it was important to advise people to check their sources since the parent comment seemed to be putting a lot of trust in a comment that could easily contain misinformation.

No offense intended. :)
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They did, just in a seperate file

http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/ghostbusters/photouplo...

http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/sownage_FILE%20CONTENTS.txt
Truly. We should disable JavaScript as well. Who knows what AJAX vulnerabilities might be in mobile Safari? Apple can't vet them all for malware. On that token, Apple can't vet all websites to make sure that their content doesn't misrepresent Apple as a company. They should probably just trash Mobile Safari altogether.
It's not about skill, it's about motivation.

Cracking big company stuff is more about persistence than about skill.

Skilled hackers are bored by SQL injection attacks.

What Sony has done is give thousands of bored teenagers a reason to hate them.
I don't know that deleting it will do much good. Most web apps for performance reasons don't actually do a delete against the database, rather mark a record as deleted and perhaps run a batch job later to clean deleted records from the database. If you've got access to the database via SQL injection, you'll have access to all those "deleted" records as well. Even of you go through the website and update each field with empty, anonyomoua, or incorrect data; I suspect there's a high chance of backups being available to anyone who's 0wned their servers...

My advice would be to assume any data Sony has about you is already in the hands of attackers, and do whatever you can to minimize the usefulness of that to the attackers (which largely means ensure the password you used at any Sony site isn't useable anywhere else online)
Hey, I'm curious whether my information was compromised in this attack, but I'm too lazy to figure out how to figure out whether it was. If someone has downloaded the released data and is looking for a weekend project (and the weekend's coming up), I'd love a site that lets me easily determine whether I'm affected.
Good for Uncle Walt. There aren't enough reporters out there who call CEOs out on the truth of his comments. Right or wrong, it's more interesting for Walt to say his view on this as someone who looks at a _lot_ of Android phones than just let that statement pass unchallenged.
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Time travel becomes a much greater possibility in the event of multiverse being true, because then causality doesn't matter.

If every decision 'creates' a new universe, then your birth doesn't depend on the duplicate grandfather in the time travelled universe. Sure time-duplicate you won't live, but that won't cause you to cease to exist.

In a linear universe time travel is paradoxical because you're literally creating a loop in time and any action you take is likely to cause a knot. In a multiverse you're simply rearranging matter to a prior state with the exception of you, it's still a continuous line of time. Time hasn't changed, the matter in the universe has.

I personally believe I'm travelling through time at 1.1second/second and I'm impatiently waiting for everyone to catch up.
I would recommend that, a free sample chapter, and an email list. If you want to throw something together really quickly, Woothemes for one of the single-product WP themes. Get a good cover design done -- see jakonrath for how to make one that sells online.
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Maybe they can come up with an algorithm for appropriately distributing AdSense revenues from commercial videos for those who opt-in with their otherwise -NC- works.
Good to point this out... Flash works because the desktop platform has such a huge excess of computing resource relative to the needs of the applications built in Flash that some inefficiency in the name of an easier developer experience is no problem. On mobile phones, where you're almost always pushing the envelope in terms of available memory and CPU cycles if you want to do anything interesting, this suddenly becomes a huge problem.
A well known cracker named George Hotz (GeoHot), best known for iPhone jailbreaking, began to target the PS3's security to enable full access to the PS3's graphics capabilities via the Linux install option that the PS3 originally shipped with. Sony was concerned that that would enable piracy, so they removed the Linux install option in a firmware update.

If you refused to install that firmware update, you could continue using your PS3 with that Linux installation, but you wouldn't be able to play new games or potentially play online. Basically, compute clusters that relied on that install continued working, and continue to work today.

The removal of that option incensed many PS3 purchasers, tech writers, hackers, etc. George Hotz then went on to crack the PS3's security anyway, enabling arbitrary code to run on the device (including applications that would let you run pirated PS3 games). Sony sued Hotz, ostensibly because he enabled massive piracy. This further incensed varied and sundry "hacking" organizations which began to target Sony. Eventually, Sony dropped the case against Hotz, for reasons that are difficult to discern (bad publicity for the most part). At this point, various hacking groups were able to penetrate the Playstation Network as well as many other Sony properties, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars of lost income at this point.
But at least Apple can fix bugs when it finds them in its own products, whereas if there's a giant Flash security hole it can do nothing to fix it.
AHCI supports DMA, which has been the preferred transfer standard in ATA since the mid-1990s. Nobody in their right mind would intentionally use the PIO modes except on very very old hardware.

And for a device that can handle 320,000+ IOPS, a short queue depth won't be a bottleneck.
They did point it out...

SonyPictures.com has been owned,
this is its SQLi hole:

## http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/ghostbusters/photoupload/view.php?id=12838 ##
TEAR THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF IT WHILE YOU CAN; TAKE FROM THEM EVERYTHING!
All currency values ever are completely speculative, the value of a currency is a shared mass consensual hallucination, this even applies to gold. There is no innate reason that it should ever have been considered as a form of money except by the consent of those that offered and accepted it as such. Bitcoin is no exception to this, but that is largely irrelevant with regards to the realities on the ground of how people are currently trading with btc rather than trading in btc.

Those trading with btc just want a fast digital medium of exchange, they have taken to pricing their goods and services in a local fiat currency with more stability than btc (which is pretty much anything with the extreme market swings in btc right now) and a proviso that the conversion will be done at the time of the transaction. So, effectively they are simply treating BTC like cash. Due to the superfluidity of the exchange itself they can afford to ignore the actual exchange rate.

Those trading in btc are hoarding it with the expectation that the price will rise as scarcity increases due to other people speculating in it as well as the network hash rate of the mining effort spiralling upward.

These two points taken together was the core of my hypothetical idea about buying / selling agents that are effectively exchanges coupled with merchant service providers. It reflects the reality on the ground and plays well with both sectors of the market.

Just to answer the obvious points also, something you can print on your inkjet when you're twelve is also printable by any other inkjet holder. The BTC in your account are unique and the total supply of BTC is expanded by a well understood mathematical process at a predictable rate and distribution, not fiat declaration of a central bank. This is what is meant by bitcoin is not a fiat currency.

I also have enlightening perspective changing quotations from jesuits saved up just in case, and I am a militant atheist.

I guess I'm just weird like that. :)
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Is it "bad" to store XML in a database?
The problem with this notion is that everyone is assuming that HTML5 + Javascript is going to be somehow drastically better than flash when it matures.

I have not seen any technical arguments as for why this would be. I imagine that when all the inexperienced flash programmers move over to HTML5, we will end up with even slower HTML5 based animated ads and an even more fragmented browsing experience due to the lack of standards for video and audio. Worse, since these technologies can be more thoroughly integrated into websites, it will be far harder to block them.
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This level of professional negligence isn't reserved exclusively for megacorps. There's YC companies writing their own PHP frameworks that will enable these flaws to live on for another generation.
I find particular amusement and disgust with the local merchants who blatantly rate their own services with 5 stars from an account that clearly belongs to them.
I agree, but sadly the prevailing notion held by the majority of developers and the public seems to be that HTML5/JS is somehow significantly better than Flash in terms of technology. In this sense, Apple's deceptive marketing strategy has been a success.
Wouldn't that be something that could be asked of any sort of technology platform?
Management didn't "misinterpret" anything. Management changed all items that said "The Oatmeal" to "the fag".

Your comments assume a lack of malice where malice is clearly evident. ;)
Bingo, this my first response as well. What happens when users stop clicking through to content because it's being served up by Google, Bing or Yahoo?

I guess it could actually hurt them as well. If users aren't providing information back to the algorithm in the form of a click through related to a search term, don't the search engines also risk losing a key signal of relevance?
Do you really think that's true? My impression is more like they're doing just enough to convince groups like the RIAA and MPAA that they're "followinusingusty best practice" until such a time that they are in a powerful enough position to admit "actually, we don't care much about your DRM and your failing business model, it's upsetting our users so it's gone." like they did with the DRM on iTunes music. Maybe Jobs's Pixar relationship will make Apple's movie industry support stronger than their music industry support turned out to be, but long term who knows?
The world has that.
Quite Biblical. Paul says we are to be transformed through the renewing of our mind.
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The market is getting saturated with Groupon copycats. Plus, high quality merchants can't repeat Groupon offers all of the time or they risk cheapening the brand.

I have a neighbor who owns a "Moe's" franchise -- many of his customers refuse to do business without a discount.
I really like the part with the rating.. seems pretty useful since I trade most everything at work
I'm aware of that history, and personally am here despite rather than because of it. I don't really have much interest in startups, but afaik there isn't currently another good general-purpose tech-discussion site. Slashdot isn't quite what it used to be, kuro5hin is now a dive bar, reddit.com/r/programming is overall worse than HN, and other forums I know about are good but only in relatively small niches (e.g. Lambda the Ultimate for academic-slanted PLs).
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I think Groupon is a suspect company to begin with. It's a great idea, but most of the last few rounds of funding have gone to pay off the early investors.

http://allthingsd.com/20110602/where-did-groupons-billion-do...

They raised nearly a BILLION dollars, and spent 80% of it on paying off the insiders. Not a good sign.
You think it's silly that people read what interests them and ignore things that doesn't? Isn't that kind of a big deal to the point of cognizant thought?
How many plugins are available in Wordpress?
Android's not the only platform Flash sucks on. That video clip was freezing and choppy on my 2010 MacBook Pro.
Assuming it did cost them $2300, that would have only been about 1% of color.com. They got a steal.
Seems like about half of his comments are nonsense, but the rest are completely sane. He has developed an awesome OS though. http://www.losethos.com/

Maybe it has something to do with this, songs generated randomly (by god), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3463VDQrfQ
Speaking from a technical standpoint, since Flash is a VM, and it's running on top of Dalvik, wouldn't performance necessarily be poor?

If anyone knows a little more about how Flash works on the mobile, please share.
What about the band that broke the bitcoin story!?
There seem to be a lot of people who have objections to how other people choose to consume their daily news...
It's not that it's teens and 20-somethings. It's that it's "Hacker News" and the culture drafts off of pg and Y Combinator. If you think you have a good idea, you build it. I was not being flippant at all. There is an extreme bias towards building in this community. Sorry.
It is hard to deny the connections between Y Combinator/PG and the startup scene. I guess we all have our reasons for coming here.

Regarding the old name of the site, you did spur me to look up the dates involved (definitely before I got here, which was maybe a few years ago):

"The site was created by Paul Graham in February 2007. Initially it was called Startup News or occasionally News.YC. On August 14, 2007 it became known by its current name."

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
Please let us end the myth of staying up all night as some noble right of passage, or that if you don't find this enjoyable you're not really a hacker or you don't enjoy your work.

I'm a hacker. I don't enjoy hacking for 18 hours straight because I feel tired and groggy unless I take drugs.

I work better when I'm rested and focused. Everybody does.
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Verified by science! Oh me oh my!

But how do we regulate our metacognitive regulation? And can we regulate that regulation? And ...

Biting your own teeth, indeed.
It's not like there were hybrid tape/HDD drives.

Actually, for a long time if you requested aerial image data from the USGS, an automated tape library would copy the desired data to hard drive, and then you could download it. It was always hard to find that site (obviously you don't want Google crawling a tape library), and I can't find it now if it still exists.

Granted you may have been referring to actual integrated hardware, but I think such an automated system is close enough.
Sony is a big member of the RIAA and MPAA who have been suing people for a decade for downloading mp3s because it's "lost revenues". They recently carried these practices over from alienating people who have little clue about technology but really like music, to people who actively work to hack consoles and phones.

It's rather safe to fire a gun into a crowd and expect no one will challenge you. It's rather different to fire a gun into an army division and not expect everyone to fire back with better guns than your shitty pistol.

Sony has secured its customer data like it's a fucking fire alarm. Sure it has the illusion of safety hidden behind that plate of glass, but when you provide people with a hammer to break the glass and pull the handle it's really rather pointless. They're going to bitch and moan in front of congress, parliament and every other government that asks them WTF about cyber security and blah. When they've installed a turn style at their revenue source and got surprised when people started stealing.
Interesting; normally, shortened URLs are converted to their 301 destination on HN, but the same does not apply to Tumblr. Hence my confusion.

Thanks for pointing it out.
Sorry, I meant that AHCI requires the driver to do a PIO read to set up each command, even though the data is transferred using DMA.

This card has 32 flash channels and 128 or more NAND dies, so a queue depth of 32 would leave most of the dies idle.
I think the Apache bureaucracy will kill that branch of the project and development will continue on the LibreOffice branch.
This was a long read but very inspiring. While I don't have social anxiety at the level that he did, I still am anxious in some social environments. It was refreshing to read about someone getting past social anxiety. I'll be using some of the assignments as inspiration for my own life. First assignment, leave the house (I work from home) and talk to a stranger every day.
Worse, since these technologies can be more thoroughly integrated into websites, it will be far harder to block them.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to "Canvas Block".
Thanks for your praise. I agree with your assessment.
No, it is true for Advanced; they will only sell it to entities they've dealt with before.
Jump right in and start building something that interests you. An important learning technique is grinding through a real-ish world problem.

If you're open to the idea, I suggest Python and Web2py. With a bit of programming knowledge, I suspect you could pick up both Python and Web2py in less than a week and be coding with reasonable efficiency. The Web2py "Book" includes a summary on Python which is enough to get you started. The nice thing about Web2py is you can easily run it locally on Mac/Windows/*nix and deploy to a server whenever. Good luck.