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More of a worry is the fact Flex is dependent on the Flash player which as of yet has not been opensourced.

A headless player is holding back CI in a big way.

I also can't see FalconJS delivering a full flex stack without help from the browsers. A lot could be rendered in a canvas, but then you get into situations where you need stage text etc...

I just wish Adobe had a simular JS environment to announce at the same time, or slightly before. At least then there would be a migration path. Currently Flex devs are trying to find a simular enterprise RIA platform, and none of them are owned by Adobe.
If you found out that he had been behind some kind of huge success, would you agree with him more? ... If he could fill a paper with things that he's done for people you've never heard of, would that make him more credible?

Honestly, yes. Because we have a thirtyish guy talking about "success" in the abstract, and promising that he knows how to achieve it, and yet he doesn't seem to have much in the way of concrete achievements to back it up.

"If you're so smart, how come you ain't rich" is usually a dickish sort of question, but when you're posing it to someone who is sitting there actively claiming "I'm gonna make us all rich by my awesome smarts" then it's a fair one. At one point he claims that the project will become profitable just because he wills it to, and therefore it will; if his force of will is truly that powerful then one wonders why he didn't will himself out of being not-rich way back in 2004.

It's only because he insists on talking about how awesome he is that we ask him to back that up with actual achievements.

Of course even if he were rich and successful, his attitude would still be dickish (you'll note that the truly rich and successful people who post here generally don't go on egotistical rants about their own awesomeness) but I'd have a little more tolerance of it under those circumstances.
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This guy is no Steve Jobs
I'm confused. I'm trying to get rich writing jokes, and you tell me to quit being a joker and just get it done. But "it" is being a joker. Seb, are you going meta on me? Am I supposed to consider my professional joking to be something else, in the same way bank IT workers in the 80's were told to think of themselves as bankers, not programmers? OK, man, BAM I'm not a joker. Welp, back to work!
Mulberry utilizes PhoneGap's technology, so they have a symbiotic relationship, not a competitive one.
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Scientists solve mystery of the eye
On one hand side - yes, the "open sourcing" of some projects was done in a really silly way.

On the other - I'm glad they at least do this when abandoning the project. How many times do we hear "if they discontinue this, they might at least open the source so we can continue porting"? As long as we agree it's pretty much EOLing rather than open-sourcing, we can be glad that we don't get left with binary blobs noone can reuse in any way.
Pretty cool, but the method for "downloading" looks painful (converting the generated ZIP to base64 in order to use it as an URL).

I wonder what the size limit is?
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> there even were some virgins in the course

An early part of the article said there was one. In my mind, neither the author nor the instructor he wrote about seemed approving of the choice, and went to lengths to cast it as non-normative. A decision for abstinence before marriage should be encouraged, not demanded, and not based on scare tactics. There are more people making that choice than the article suggests.
It puts a new spin on the phrase, "technology a grandmother could use", doesn't it?
Side note: it is the first time I see sharing links or Western site that include a Chinese SNS (here it is Renren). Maybe it is localized to me, though.
That would be great. I was disappointed when the AI class didn't have programming exercises. I feel like these were the part that really enforced the learning for me.

I think another part that worked well was that getting 100% for each exercise is readily achievable. I want to finish each exercise perfectly so I don't break my 100% record for the course. I think this works well for motivation.
Nuts that would have been a cool project if it was not restricted to an HPC cluster. Hadoop for windows server would have gone places and using LINQ to query the data would have been great.
Chief of CIA Bin Laden Unit Speaks Against US Foreign Policy
There is no turning back  – here’s what the teaser site was all about
But that essentially what she was saying:

You would have a court determine that a site is infringing and serve orders on U.S.-based payment providers and advertising

A court only make the decision, not the corporations.
It's a pity you didn't reply to that request with:

422 Unprocessable Entity - The request was well-formed but was unable to be followed due to semantic errors.
I'm not entirely convinced there's a real correlation, just because my observations agree with yours, but they do: Any business with more than one tier of bureaucracy offers vastly more opportunity to pass the buck, offer plausible excuses, or play good-cop/bad-cop than a three-person startup does.
As someone who is partnered with 2 other people in business, I can really appreciate what's being said by Seb: If you make a commitment - hold to it.

We had the same situation come up this week for us. A job went sideways that was worth a month of expenses and then some. The client gave us a deadline to fix it, and if it wasn't they weren't paying.

I told my partners I would do whatever it took to fix this issue because that's too much money to lose. Long story short, our team had it fixed in two days; including contingency plans B, C, and D lined up if our first solution didn't work.

Complete trust has to exist in a partnership, otherwise it doesn't work. And this means sticking to our commitments.
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"For years, the RIAA and MPAA have argued that purchasing a physical CD or DVD simply grants one a license ... then the RIAA’s rights have been legally preserved."

Or the RIAA are wrong to make such an argument? They clearly heard the first sale doctrine, and made up words to make it not apply to them. Isn't this ever brought up in court? Or do the RIAA not like, and therefore not partake in, legal proceedings?
I'm sorry, but I can't agree with some of things said in here.
I graduated from high school (15-18 years old, I'm not from english speaking country and I'm not sure how that level is called, hence the years spent there.) 2 years ago. Now I genuinely regret that I wasn't worked harder. All I did was concentrate on maths and physics (got really good score there), but I am rather clueless when it comes to: geography, history, chemistry, biology, linguistics, you name it. Now I am at University of Technology, got a bit older and realised how wrong I was. (Don't get me wrong, I do have grasp of that subjects, but it's all chaotic.)
For most people all that creativity talk ends up in not working hard enough. Most of them have loads of free time and just waste it.
That there are "whales" that power a large chunk of in game spending truly suprised me. That the gaming industry uses the same word for these big spenders as Casinos, given the criticisms around social gaming being akin to gambling is disturbing.
Why Startups Need Great Content
I wish it was ProPublica that had got posted instead the Geek.com article is very poorly written. He didn't even bother to take 2 minutes to verify you can still opt-out.
Some elements of Aspect Oriented Programming are comparable to the COMEFROM statement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming#See...
I know it's an easy analogy to reach for, but I wish that writers would think twice before comparing some trivial inconvenience to being raped. You may have just ruined the morning of a survivor of sexual assault.

There are dozens of other things you could say that would have the same rhetorical effect without trivializing a severe problem, and it's beyond impolite not to. All you have to do is write "Nonstartups are just horrible to work with, like standing in front of an automatic baseball pitching machine."
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I really like this idea. I think it really needs to be explained better, it is very confusing how it is explained, pages that should explain are also full of details that might not help clarify things.
Why would it have to be the big advertising companies? If there's ads, there's a money trail - you just cutoff at that point. Torrent sites can be hosted in some safe heaven or Tor site, but if they can't get money from the US and other "cooperative" countries, they won't last much.
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To me it seems that NLP is the follow up to ML.
I'm taking ML like you and NLP seemed to address the next question: how do you deal with text based data.
You are right. That was insensitive of me; editing right now.
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Battery life? How is that possible?
There are two things here, one is lack of funding, and the other is lack of technical talent working on the project. To a certain degree the former can compensate for the latter, since if you're a company and you believe enough in your language to think that investing staff hours in improving it is a net-win for you, you'll do it. As it turns out, attracting and keeping technical talent is hard.
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Someone is going to say -- "perl ? Does any one use it ? I had to maintain a project in perl 6 years back and I absolutely hated it ..."

Disregard him. He sucks candy.

EDIT: The downvotes are acting a ( ) for all the candy suckers. Checkout their useless profiles, and memorize their silly nick's.

ha ha !
I havent' noticed an increase.

The complaints that I hear all seem to be the same.

I can't get into my iMac to change the hardrive or ram.
I can't get into my iPod to change the battery
I can't get into my iPhone to change the battery.
I can't get into my Macbook Pro to change the harddrive,etc..

All complaints I've heard often, well before Steve passed on.
The real challenge is with enterprise applications that need a rich UI - this is where Flex was a good solution. Saying "just use HTML5" is fine when you serve the consumer space; it's not if you serve enterprises.

HTML5 is just not a go-er for enterprise products that need a rich UI. Even if it could do everything Flex can (and it can't, yet), you need a modern browser. Many enterprises still use IE6. I'd say 60% of our customers are on IE6; and the remaining 40% use IE7. Demanding IE9 would make an enterprise product dead in the water.

Flex fitted here. You have enterprises who say "no more client server, everything should be web" but then don't give you the web platform to be able to deliver the required user experience (i.e. you must use IE6/7). Flex let you deliver on the web, with a rich UI, on legacy browsers.

So you had a choice:

- Stay on client/server (lots of enterprises won't consider you)

- Develop for HTML5 (not quite prime time, no-one can buy your product as won't work on their browsers)

- Dumb down the UI and deliver in IE6 (workable for some projects, but not for many - some products really do need a rich UI. Especially not doable when porting existing rich client/server app to being webbased - clients don't like backwards steps on the UI)

- Develop in Flex

So it's all well and good saying people yelled 'iceberg' but really you're between a rock and a hard place, and even with this news I'm sure most Flex enterprise developers would make the same decision again - because there really weren't many alternatives.
If we were to clamp down on the Credit-card based revenue streams, that these sites will simply switch to Bincoin... (Which is fine with me, FWIW)
If we were to clamp down on the Credit-card based revenue streams, these sites will simply switch to Bincoin... (Which is fine with me, FWIW)
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I would say the only startup worth working on is your own.

Working at someone else's startup is a recipe for getting exploited - overworked and underpaid. And the worst thing about it is that it's all couched in an atmosphere of guilt trips and taking-it-for-the-team.

Perhaps there are exceptions. I just haven't seen any.
I'd rather work for The Man in my day job in a cold corporate environment where everything is explicit from the get-go, get well paid for it and crank out code for my own startup in my free time.
Productos nature essential
Kickass PHP Database Class for Simple Web Apps
Every time I need to build a quick web application in PHP, I always use this simple database class. I made some modifications and added more functions to the original source of this class.
I don't know if it gets any more obscure than Scheme's call/cc, which is a building block for other control flow structures. You can use it for cool things like the Racket web server, where event-driven programming can be made to feel like sequential, procedural-style programming. You can also use it for sick mind twisters like ((call/cc call/cc) (call/cc call/cc))
This guy expresses a lot of confidence in his developers and is just trying to motivate them. This is a good thing. It is so so easy to be a joker. Everything in nature needs energy to move forward, including startups and software developers.
Nobody has ever had a gun to their head in the same way as the SOPA act threatens to do. Other domain shenanigans may be annoying but nobody has ever prevented people from obtaining any domain before.
COME FROM is the reason INTERCAL is among my favorite esoteric programming languages. That and the fact that its name is for "Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym".

From Wikipedia: An actual example in INTERCAL would be too difficult to read

Gotta love it.
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I don't agree with the "no politics" point. Sure, there might be no politics within the startup, but there can be a lot of politics involving investors and their other portfolio companies, or partners and customers who are large/few enough to drive product or technical direction, etc. I've been at startups that have been told "don't do X because it will cannibalize stablemate Y's market" by investors. I've recently become aware of a VC telling companies "use stablemate Z's product and don't criticize it in public" situation. This same pressure can be applied by customers and partners, driven by politics within those larger companies, and can be hard for a small company to resist. So don't think you won't need those political skills when your working at or with a startup.
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"Peanut Butter Manifesto" guy leaving AOL
While it is indeed cool that this is done in the browser, it'd be nice to see some emphasis on using it within Node.js. Presumably, it'd probably work without too many modifications.
Family Work Balance Is Great In An Online Job
But is there enough incentive to make
Apache, jump on it
?
Why the fuck is this on HN? For the comedy?
I'm sure some while(1) JavaScrip would be a lot easier...
Well Photoshop is a bit more complex software than a text editor; it's more of a deep toolset than just a frame. Being great at Photoshop means that at least the tool command is there to do great design work. It's probably more akin to a development platform, like saying someone is a "Ruby wiz." It still doesn't mean they'll do great work, but at least they CAN do great work. If someone sucks at Ruby (or Photoshop) they are going to have a hard time developing great products with it.
Compare to Unfiltered, which seems to be a little lower level.

As a scala beginner, but a proficient sinatra user, I'm trying to decide which would be a good choice for my next project. Thoughts?

http://unfiltered.databinder.net/Unfiltered.html

I am a little anxious about having to deal with the ultra-heavyweight java server architectures, especially coming from the world of rack/thin/passenger/etc. but I guess I'll cope. Either that or just use GAE.
they simply have no empathy for the poor freelancer trying to make a living client to client.

If you are depending on one check from one client to come in so that you can make rent this month, I think you should be looking at your own financial practices, not anyone else's.
60%? http://www.ie6countdown.com/ doing most of your business in china? by asking them to upgrade you are doing them a favor
Sorry for not responding sooner... I've been on the road.

First, they can't screw you down to 0%. Your shares are always your shares. You can be diluted down to epsilon, but not to zero. Also, the board has a legal fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interests of the shareholders, so there are limits to how capricious they can be. At the very least they have to be able to provide themselves with plausible deniability that what they are doing is in your interests.

There are two legal mechanisms for avoiding future dilution. One is to have a class of non-dilutable stock, but that is hardly ever done. It's a huge red flag for future investors. The other is to have a ride-along clause that gives you the option to participate in future rounds to maintain your current percentage share. It is rare NOT to have this clause, but the problem with that is, obviously, you have to be able to come up with the cash.

But by far your best option, since your stake is so high, is to take a board seat. Being on a board is all that time consuming, and it looks good on a resume too.
I remember being shown call/cc briefly in CS 61A at Berkeley and then forgetting about it until recently when I saw an article on it while I was in the middle of writing an event-driven web application using Perl and Plack. I immediately saw how useful it would be and wished I had it available to use there.
I get that you gotta ship sometime :)
Looks great though, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.

Though I would urge you to reconsider the switch. There are plenty of times when I technically do have a data connection, but for various reasons, would rather hold off on streaming. (e.g. traveling through a series of deadspots; trying to prevent 3G overage charges; trying to preserve battery; generally slow data connection).
And on proggit:

Apache, the Indian burial ground for unwanted software projects.
In part I think it's because Perl is done. It works. It's effective.

Extending Perl beyond what Perl is makes Perl something else. Perl 6 is barely Perl in any classical sense.

The "Swiss Army Chainsaw" was never intended to be Java or C#. Its weaknesses, a lack of formal typing, a small, simple set of core data structures, a terse and convoluted syntax, are actually its strengths.

Just as C++ is not really C, and Java is certainly not C++, Perl would be better suited by some kind of successor language that embodies the Perl spirit without having to carry forward on the same code-base or concern itself with legacy. I don't think Perl 6 is this thing.
Samsung redesigns Galaxy Tab after Apple's sales ban
I believe this proposal started long before E-PARASITE, SOPA and similar (pending) legislation, but it has become relevant given the current SOPA situation. dot-bit (namecoins) has the potential of circumventing the DNS-censorship that SOPA might enable.

Also, its sister technology, bitcoin, has the potential of circumventing the payment-processor (ex. MasterCard) type of censorship. (See how wikileaks is being shutdown/censored)
I thought the virgins from the article were simply people who never had sex before, not abstinence advocates. I wholeheartedly disagree with your abstinence ideology, but I don't think HN is the place to discuss that.
I'm sure it doesn't apply to you but that sounds like it was written by someone who never really had sex all that often. "The Joy of Sex" became so popular (in an era in which sex was widely seen as a leisure pursuit and before the scares over HIV) because many people actually did need to be told what to do. It concentrated on the emotional as well as the physical aspects.

Poor analogy time: owning a car does not make you an instinctive driver, suggesting you just keep taking it round the block until you figure it out is the kind of thing that only a non-driver would say.
I would like to see what happens to a swimmer with a suit coated with this thing. Would it go faster or slower?
I personally do not believe in Open Sourcing as EOLing is going to help anyone. The donating codebase is often a large piece of code where the original developers have been pulled onto something else and therefore the documentation is too limited for generally anyone else to even compile. And the development community just ends up with one more project that PHBs can point to as 'why open source does not work'.
"""The real challenge is with enterprise applications that need a rich UI - this is where Flex was a good solution. Saying "just use HTML5" is fine when you serve the consumer space; it's not if you serve enterprises."""

I don't think there is anything that can't be done with HTML5 (the whole stack, I mean), nowadays, and that Flex can do it. Especially since an enterprise can dictate to it's users to use a capable modern browser.

There's plenty a full native solution can do that HTML5, but Flex ain't that, and besides being limited it's also not that rich component-wise anyway.
Humour seems to track with sun position. When the sun is above GMT votes for humour go up, once it reaches GMT-5 to GMT-8 humour get's downvoted.
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Salman Khan: The New Andrew Carnegie?
It becomes a much bigger problem when the money you were counting on this month, comes in five months later.

Yes, I've had that happen.
Yo, Hannibal, use the ring.
Ase useful as it is, couldn't this submission have used a slightly more descriptive title? "Use the source" sounds like the name of someone's programming blog, not a job board.
Interesting. I'm not sure if this is a good sign since it can be a bloat indicator. Certainly most of it should be due to drivers being added. What I'd like to see is the size of the core kernel bits for say x86 or x86-64 only (i.e. with drivers removed).
A list of types of threats, organized by target area, summarizing:

- each threat
- its basic mechanism
- basic effective defenses
- common ineffective defenses
- tradeoffs between more effective and less effective defenses
- possible stopgaps until you can use an effective defense
- where to start to learn more about each.

Sort of a Zagat's of security.

I would also like to see evo_9's How to Secure Your Life, described in his comment.
It probably differs between carriers, but here in the Netherlands it's not very common for Android phones to be customized by the carrier. At least my phone (Samsung Galaxy S2) was not changed in any way.

Though if you're paranoid it's probably best to buy a simlock-free phone instead of choose from the carrier. It can even be cheaper overall if you take a sim-only carrier subscription.
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GP's point is that the best advice on how to please someone comes from that person, no book can give complete insight into the way their body works.

To torture your analogy some more, imagine a car capable of explaining to you how to drive/maintain it perfectly. Like a less whiny KITT. Would it not make sense to ask the car rather than to pore over generic car manuals?