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Like others, I'd recommend a 512mb Linode. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it's enough to run a well-architected app, and if you need more juice, you can always upgrade to a larger Linode.

$20/month is dirt cheap for the quality of platform you get with them.

You can throw a small Adsense ad on it, and if the page is getting any traffic, that'll help diffuse costs. I've got a hobby project that does about a half million pageviews/month (which isn't bad, since it's a single-page JS app) and it pays for itself about twice over with a single 300x250 in the bottom right-hand corner.
To be honest, I never really liked the whole concept of an third-party "web plugin" for the browser? Either support the file-formats inside the browser or just download the file and let some (native) app of my choice deal with it? Would that be so bad?

I even question the wisdom of inline graphics? The screen is not really like paper. If there is a need for a "figure 1", then it would be almost always be more useful to have it display in a separate window next to the browser, so that you don't have to scroll up every time the text refers to something on this figure?
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Speaking from experience, Heroku's free tier doesn't hold up well against "Show HN"-type traffic.
I fixed my WiFi not reconnecting by zapping my PRAM.

Cmd-Opt-P-R on boot and hold down until you get a couple of loud bongs.

Yeah! I know! First time doing that has ever fixed a damn thing for me, but not reconnecting to my WiFi was starting to become an annoyance.

This was on a new main logic board on my 2007 MBP running a fresh install of Lion 10.7.2 copied out of the Install app and burned to an 8GB USB key.
He wasn't proven 'right' as much as 'successful'. He wanted to keep flash off the iPhone and iPad and he succeeded. Just because Adobe, faced with a ban on the most important mobile platform, decided mobile flash wasn't worth the development effort doesn't mean that they couldn't have created a viable player on iOS. With enough money and the improving hardware of devices, they almost certainly could have. But even then they'd be left with the fact that native apps are succeeding far better than web apps on mobile devices anyway.
The one thing I seem to recall, and this is fuzzy, is that BeOS had issues with large applications, like Firefox. I don't know if that was true or not.
Seems odd that universities would have a class on flash at all.
Sounds good but it will lose support in a year or so. And you cant forget about new apps without difficulty.
This is kinda sad, but flying to NY and buying it on 5th Avenue would probably get you exactly the same computer for much less!

*Aside from the keycaps of course.
alt+left or alt+right doesn't work for me in Terminal out of the box (I usually use iTerm2 where it doesn't work either) - do you need to change any settings (such as emulation, terminal type etc) to get at that?
What is odd about that?
No doubt this behavior began before the Fed started their zero interest rate policy. Come to think of it, Apple was in business at the end of the Carter Administration when interest rates hit and exceeded 20% (!!!)....
Can you elaborate how his portrayal of rock tumbling is "grossly inaccurate"?
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It really bothers me that people seem to think that flash works well on windows.

And that's even before taking into account that flash is a gigantic security hole (on all platforms) and that adobe still can not, after all these years of misery, push updates well (to windows clients at least).

Google did the world a huge favor by developing Chrome and thus make it so blatantly obvious what crap flash really is (putting the blame where it belongs as they so delicately put it). It's become much better the last year but some things you just can't rescue and it should be banned from use just for security reasons anyway.
Check HN of course.
The two paths that I am seeing:
join start up -> do your own start up
join amazon -> do your own start up

If possible come up with what the start up will be about and perhaps get some traction. This is will eliminate your CV completely ;)

I respect having a back up plan, but for some having a really good one keeps them from fully committing to their start up idea.
Hi there - not yet. We are going to start the alpha release very soon though. You can play with the client-side stuff though - it's essentially the same system. If you sign up to the newsletter you will get notification when we drop the FE Server stuff
Did you read the article? It's not really about Flash, but the need for people to adapt to an ever changing programming landscape.

Obviously, Flash isn't actually dead.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230... is such a thing, and at $1099 USD, it's nearly half of your quoted price. Unfortunately, it has a widescreen which has more pixels than you asked for, but somehow I don't think that's a bad thing.

It comes with Windows, but if you want a real operating system, you can install any Linux you like on there. Or a BSD. Go for it.

Also, I was going to just answer "mu" to your question, and be done with it. Macbooks don't have quality construction; that's why their hinges keep falling apart after a year or two of actual use. It's been a problem since the Powerbook days.

So, uh, yeah. Apple products are too fuckin' expensive.

(Oh, and there were a handful of VAIOs that also fit this criteria, but let's be honest, VAIOs are not real computers.)
I am one of the SimpleCV Developers. We are overjoyed at all this feedback. We have a few really exciting things coming up that we would like to share:

1) We will probably release the SimpleCV 1.2 super packs next week. There are a ton of sweet new features. We could really use some beta testers. Please let us know if you are interested.

2) We just signed a book deal with O'Reilly Media to make a SimpleCV guide. We are soliciting input from the community about what CV problems they need solved, or cool projects they would like us to do.

With respect to our business model, right now we are focused on quickly and cheaply delivering open-source machine vision solutions for manufacturing. If you have a manufacturing contact that has a machine vision problem and is looking for a solution we would love to talk to them. In the next month we will have a development scrum that will focus on our Seer product. Seer will the framework for deploying your computer vision projects in a cloud context. This means being able to remotely deploy and manage a vision system (i.e. CV as a service). Also along these lines we are actively looking for partners for the DARPA iFAB BAA that will be released soon (see: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id...). If you are going to submit a proposal for this contract we would love to talk to you.

Since we're open source we welcome and encourage community participation and feedback. If you have a cool project or a pony request shoot us a message via twitter (@Simple_CV or @IngenuitasInc) and we can chat and perhaps help you with your project.
> “If you as a speaker must choose between entertaining or informative, go for entertaining. People are giving you 45 minutes of their lives.”

If that's all it boils down to then you probably shouldn't speak at all. I go to comedy clubs for entertainment. I fly halfway across the US and spend a week in a hotel for your 45 minutes of information.
Navigating between two windows is much more annoying than scrolling up.
If you don't like MacOS zooming and maximizing behavior, i recommend divvy [0] it has a heavy price tag but fixes those issues completely.

[0] http://mizage.com/#macdivvy
Adobe doesn't need to point the finger at anyone, they only need to look as far as their own product to see why a company so focused on user experience and security, like Apple, would decide against it. Adobe never seemed to take Flash on Linux based OS's seriously. Now that those systems are becoming more popular, Adobe is trying to play catch up, not succeeding, and trying to point the finger elsewhere.

However, I read Mike Chambers' blog post that this thread's article is based on. It doesn't sound like he's explicitly blaming Apple for anything. He states:

Just to be very clear on this. No matter what we did, the Flash Player was not going to be available on Apple’s iOS anytime in the foreseeable future.

... and ...

... given the fact that one of the leading mobile platforms (Apple’s iOS) was not going to allow Flash Player in the browser, Flash was not on track to
reach anywhere near the ubiquity [it has on desktops].

Is he going after Apple there, or merely stating facts?
Well, its a sliding scale really. It works so awful os OS X that, by comparison, it is much nicer on Windows.
I wonder how much of that 350m was Bitcoin related, since Dwolla was one of the main ways to add USD to MtGox.
Terminal.js is good reading. According to his comments there, Eric plans to add tab suggest and html5 audio fallback. I wonder what the end game for this project is and if a text editor is coming - * crosses fingers for vim*.

Edit: The entire deck is impressive. Click the Chrome icon here: http://www.htmlfivewow.com/slide52.
It's a dead end.
Hi there - yes, it's partly about marketing message. When we did early validation, people were concerned about a 'custom language' - the reality is that the majority of the application is written in JS - the performance parts are in KL. KL itself is almost identical to JS, but right now you have to declare types. In the future we may switch to inferred types, at which point code will be indistinguishable from JS. Just don't use closures :)
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I took KJXW974YELWX, I'll definitely let you know what I think of the app.
It seems too specific a technology to learn in school. Time in that class might be better spent in a more fundamental area.
> Mac OS X has oddly small targets for many of the Window management things.

I actually like this about OS X. When i heard that Lion added resize-from-any-side, i was annoyed, because i feared it would be Windows 7-esque (in that on W7 there is this 20- or 30-pixel dead zone around the edges of every window where you can't get anything done except resize). I found the final implementation on OS X to be surprisingly good.

> Naturally when you click it in iTunes you expect the iTunes window to.... shrink down to a compact size. I know the purpose of it is to 'change the window size to fit the content' - a nice concept but doesn't seem intuitive or easy to grasp for everyone.

iTunes and Finder are outliers when it comes to what the zoom button does. To Apple's credit, a few versions ago they did try to make iTunes more consistent by making the zoom button work as described. However, there was an ENORMOUS backlash from people who liked the former behaviour and found the keyboard shortcut (OpenApple+M i think — it's in the menu somewhere, but i never use the mini-player because it's stupid) too excruciating to use instead, so they switched it back around for the next version.
Eventual regulation of system administration? I think so.
Coincidentally I'm working on this type of thing right now. Right now, 'feature detection' is a tiny bit more difficult. I work with something known as Active Shape/Appearance Models which do just that. The issue with them is needing to be roughly in the right spot to correctly conform to the object. Once you detect the object, you can apply a mesh frame to detect the inner objects. I'd recommend looking at Stacked Active Shape Modelling for a nice edge detection approach to feature detection.

SimpleCV just released a video about face detection but I don't think they've expanded into features yet. Hopefully they don't cause I want to do it!
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If it repels water that well, how is going to be for breathability and moisture coming off the body wearing the treated clothing?
To all of y'all complainging about zoom button behavior, I agree it is pretty terrible, but! --there's an app for that. It's called "RightZoom". Works well.
fascinating. I'd love a code to try this out if still possible.
Ah, my bad, I must have set that up myself.

According to this[1] stack overflow post, the vim key bindings for move back and forward work by default (which is news to me), or you can set up the alt left and right behaviour by following the instructions here[2].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81272/is-there-any-way-in...

[2] http://blog.macromates.com/2006/word-movement-in-terminal/
This is accurate - our intent is to do the same thing with Ruby and Django. We are doing additional work on the server side so that it makes more sense to work with node.

We picked node as a first target because we were already using it for our client-side work - it was a very fast integration.
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I interned at Google back in the day, and when I came back to school, I can only remember raving about one thing -- the food. It was absolutely fucking amazing. I gained 10 pounds that summer (starting at 145, this probably wasn't a bad thing).

There was a lot I could have raved about. The fact that around my area in ads there was probably a 20% chance that an individual had his own Wikipedia page. The debugging tools I got to work with and the MapReduces I got to write. All of the geeky stuff that makes Google a cool place to work at.

But when I got back to school, the food is really what stuck out about the experience. I would argue that those cafeterias are one of Google's most marketable benefits.

A bad programmer who is overcompensated just blends in, a great chef gets singled out.

No matter what, equity distributions are going to look insane in retrospect. Probably the most glaring ones are not even going to be the under-performers who plodded along or folks in less-important roles that were hired early, but the crappy execs that were hired well after the risk was decreased, but got a huge stock grant anyway. Start with those guys.

Let's be honest here -- how hard someone works isn't directly relevant to the discussion, it's how much value they end up adding. But to that point, I'm pretty sure Charlie added a lot more value to the company than many software engineers there had.
Did you try the codes? Are all taken already? Please let me know because then I will post some more
Apple should at least give people the option to put an older operating system on a newer system. Similar to how PC vendors offer XP or W7. I tried to install my Leopard family pack on a computer that shipped with snow leopard - no dice. With the way things are, I'll never buy a new Mac, as I refuse to "upgrade" to Lion.
How about tablets? Flash will not work on tablets, because they are considered "mobile" by Adobe. What if tablets take 50% of the laptop market share in the next 5 years? Will you still say it's not dead?
You have some users who hate the idea of installing loads of things and those are generally users who have the phone for having the phone sake. They're users that have been forced to migrate to smartphones from featurephones. You also have the social users who like being able to talk about their apps with their friends and share via the different services available. For those users, which often overlap the more 'ignorant' users, what they simply want is a reachable recognisable service they can use anywhere.

The argument that users don't/won't install lots of apps on their phones is simply wishful thinking. The reality is exactly the opposite of that. Users that have traditionally struggled with various features of the internet in browsers are able to do what they've always wanted in apps with far more ease. Even despite the a lot of the Mozilla community being dead-set against using a native UI, they've pushed on and will eat more market share as a result due to the instantly recognisable interact they'll get as they launch the app rather than waiting for the interface to load on XUL/HTML/JS/XML that just aren't as quick.

You also have to take into account that with a website, you have no one to run to. Users generally feel ignored, where as with the social aspect of any app market users feel like they're patt of a community.

Anything that currently states users prefer websites over apps is incredibly ignorant of the facts. A prime example is with Twitter. Tweetdeck on desktop and mobile shows far more usage than that of the website. As does Ubersocial and in fact their own apps. There's a firm desire on the parts of many to see people use the web over apps but those are merely desires of a small percentage.
the age-old problem of the menu for a window on a secondary monitor being displayed on the primary monitor

That sounds very easy to fix when talking in a forum, but I bet there are a million corner cases. Worse, real users (as opposed to people who can look around a web page when a button moves) would have a hard time. "I have two file menus now, I'm scared!"

OS X isn't perfect, but, for the problem it's trying to solve, it does a really good job. I still don't have a better alternative for my needs that range from scripting and compiling through photoshop and sales presentations. Especially one that works so reliably in a consumer environment.

I'm about to buy a new laptop. I've been putting a lot of thought into it, and Linux just isn't there yet (mostly 3rd party apps I need) and Windows lack of unix underpinnings means fighting Cygwin or running a VM all the time (though I'm finally starting to get the mid-to-late 90s taste of Microsoft out of my mouth :).
One handy thing is that because OS X uses Command for most of its window-management and application hot-keys, control + key is almost always unmasked by the application. Why is this important? Control-A and Control-E work in almost any text input! They work in Adium, they work in Chrome for the location bar and this textarea, and I'm sure many others.

I was pleasantly surprised because the Windows/Linux systems tend to mask Control-A for select-all.
To me, the "mobile web" and the "web" are one and the same thing. What I like about modern phones and tablets is that it's possible to use actual websites instead of being diverted to some m-dot thing.

If Flash is in decline on the mobile web then it's also in decline on the web.
"Save as" is usually used when you want to save it as a different file somewhere else, and most people have cmd-shift-s ingrained in their mind.

This no longer exists and there's no excuse. Autosaving doesn't even do the same job.
But very, very few apps ever get it right, and most people seem to just want minimize and maximize.
There is a distinction between "doable" and "usable".

I should switch to Terminal every time I want to toggle hidden file visibility?

Or write a service to install on my Finder toolbar. (I did this, because I'm not Joe Sixpack, but it's still annoying. If I wanted to write my own UI, I wouldn't have gone out and bought one.)
It’s no less obscure than other operating systems in this regard. I can’t see the difference.
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Oh well! Looks like they're all gone. Mega cool product you've got there :-)
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$14 USD for something which is standard in most Linux desktop environments? (And is probably standard in Windows, but I can't remember.)

This is exactly what people complain about. Yes, this stuff can be done, but you need to set a bunch of options via the command line (no problem, but annoying if you have lots of stuff you want tweaked); then set a bunch of program options; then install a bunch of apps (some of which need to be paid for).

It is baffling to me why I need to install 3rd party software just to stop my MacBookPro making the startup sound every time I turn it on. (The alternative is to remember to mute the sound every time I turn it off.)
Hi there - it depends on who you're targeting. Our client-side focus is on native developers looking for high-performance in web applications e.g. medical visualization http://vimeo.com/31970502 - the benefits of web applications are great, but performance is the current limiting factor.

We are likely to build support for NaCl in the future.

On the server-side, there is no requirement for a client to install a plug-in - it's for high-performance on the server i.e. semantic analysis, compute bound problems etc

Last point - we also think a lot about hybrid models where performance can be accessed on both client and server. This is much longer term, but the design of Fabric allows for it.
http://digitalsurgeons.com/labs/html5/canvas/zombies/

Flash is dead.
Thanks for telling! Here are some more:

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I used one of the codes on reddit. Though it looks like it's free now.

Nice work!

Couple of thoughts:

- I only have ear phones with a mic. It wasn't immediately clear how I should measure something. Perhaps a tutorial? If I hadn't watched the video first, it would have been difficult.

- It's loud, is there a different frequency that could be used?

- Without any other background info, it leads one to think that the temperature is the only additional variable in the equation. Wouldn't it then be possible to tell the temperature with a known distance?

- Unless I have multiple iOS devices, I can only measure just past a meter (from the video). Combining this with the fact that it's not very precise, it would be much more useful if I could measure longer distances (e.g., sonar).
FYI: multiple desktops are built in OS X (and in my opinion it's the best implementation there is).
All codes have been used at time of writing.
yep, no luck. i have a good friend just finishing up his phd in a the field and working on applications for similar technology for european automakers.
Free? I still see it listed as 99 cents in the app store.
Can't respond to your latest, but I took: H9FERRJ3TXJ9
I was ok with hidden scrollbars at first, and then I started running into websites with scrollable areas that were padded by non scrollable whitespace. Without a scrollbar, there's no indication that the area is even scrollable, unless you're lucky enough to see some partially cut off text. Even then, it's hard to know where the scroll pane begins and the padding ends. Maybe web designers should either stop using seamlessly pad scrollable panes, or indicate scroll ability some other way, but in the meantime I've turned scrollbar visibility back on.
That makes using Bootstrap easier. If that actually also wrap JQueryUI, it would be a killer.
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Thanks so much! Very cool product.
It looks like it's showing up for some as free.

http://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/lz0i6/hello_riphone_...
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Hold shift while clicking the zoom button to maximize the window. Edit: in Chrome only.
I'm a veteran. Served time in Kabul in 2008/09 with the US Army.

While I don't expect anyone to thank me for my service (tbh, it makes me uncomfortable), I'm offended that you find it so easy to throw all Soldiers into a single bucket to be judged based on your own ethical standards.

The fact of the matter is that we cannot choose our commander, or our mission, but we trust that our leaders do their best to do what's right...the same way we try to trust politicians to do their duties. While it might be true that there are many bad leaders, Soldiers, and politicians, that doesn't mean we're all as ignorant as you might think.

What did I learn in life threatening situations?

1. If I can survive that, I can survive anything.
2. I am more confident in making immediate decisions.
3. I trust myself, and I trust the people around me.
4. Hard work and discipline goes a long way.

While I have no interest in a lifetime of military service (I separated honorably in 2010), if it weren't for my time in the military I don't feel I would be nearly as willful, determined, and successful as I am today.

Soldier != Servant