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It's all over the art departments I've seen.

Flash is ubiquitous in animation-focused tracks. While lower-level tools are necessary for studio-quality productions, I still don't know anything that even comes close to flash for prototypes and low to mid-level animation work.

What does your university use?
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That is really great technically, and generous: they prorate costs per second, and dynos start up really quickly. So, if you start up a task a few times an hour and the task runs quickly, then the cost is really low.
I'd love to see what you come up with! Here are lots of CL terms you can use:
http://share.begriffsschrift.com/joe/bank-17.txt.bz2

It is a tab delimited file. The first column is all CL terms of length 17 which reduce to a normal form. The second column is what they reduce to, and the last column is the number of reduction steps it took in a leftmost-outermost evaluation order.
I can testify that an EC2 micro (free tier) instance stands up to some level of traffic as long as your site is built well.

It is also easy to scale that instance in the case that you need even more capacity and are willing to pay a bit more for the expected high traffic time period.
funnier yet are the over weight people standing on the side watching.
Thanks for telling me!

Have some more:

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Thank you HN for your tremendous interest!
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This patent, and many other similar 'Intellectual Property Rights' are no doubt carefully entered on some accounts as real assets and then 'financialised', i.e. leveraged by a huge factor, borrowed against, turned into some kind of bonds and then the whole process repeated several times.
Did I really just read this? No discussion of what possible regulations might be required, just "sysadmins are untrained. We may need rules". HN bait at its worst.
I'm all for Flash dying in time, don't get me wrong but let me summarize your answer here:

"Partly works, recent hiccups, runs on good hardware only, in progress (aka not here yet), blocked, smaller install base..."

I am all set for Flash to die, but I am not sure the web is QUITE ready for it to die yet. Replacements are coming quick... but the operative word is "coming". I look forward to the day it's all really here and ubiquitous as Flash is/was.
What does it look like on tablet where there's no mouse hover?
My understanding is that attempts will be made to algorithmically promote diversity and to reward/punish social behaviors in such as way as to discourage discursive protectionism.
It's a great vision, but their website does not disclose how will they implement it better than existing similar projects.
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The most interesting point in this article (for me) was the argument that disruptive market pressure from methamphetamine (in particular, low barrier to entry on the production side) didn't just show "War on Drugs" activity to be ineffective; it showed it to be orthogonal to meaningful consequences.

Production by cartels outpacing interdiction by law enforcement isn't nearly as convincing as an argument for ending WoD activity. On the contrary, it's something that WoD hawks can point to and say "See? We need more [crazy expensive/attractive-nuisance-for-thugs resource X]!"

Modest proposal: The U.S. needs a Manhattan Project for weed/coke/heroin poppy production. Legality of demand isn't required; production just needs to completely undercut the market value of weed/heroin currently imported to the U.S. (or exported from Afghanistan, for example).

Beats subsidizing corn for ethanol, at least.
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Not only that but, as a new mac user, it seems like there are several common keystroke types. Fn+x, ctrl+x, alt+x, cmd+x, cmd+shift+x; maybe there's some logic behind it but i can't find any. It seems like the windows system is a bit more understandable.

(if there's something obvious that i'm missing someone please tell me!)
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Keep in mind that the console versions of MW3 usually has an order of magnitude more concurrent players than the PC version.
As I said, no.

Govt said that if your loan portfolio doesn't contain enough loans to certain people, you'll be shut down.

Govt then tried to make those loans make economic sense.

Yes, some folks arguably would have made those loans otherwise, but some wouldn't.
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What's wrong with Windows 7? Shift-click ignore and it will go about its way.
Ask HN: Why would stockholders vote to increase # of issuable common shares?
Why would stockholders vote to increase the number of authorized shares as in the following?

http://bnymellon.mobular.net/bnymellon/fds/document_1/Proxy%20Statement.pdf ( see: recommendation #3 on page 2)

The only benefit I see here is if I really believe in the company's governance and want to help them from being taken over, assuming there is truly a takeover threat present. Though ownership looks diverse to me?:

http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-major.html?t=FDS

Can anyone help me understand? Surely there is something else to it. Thanks!
Also, http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=satellites+overhead
Yes! Exactly right. The prison guard union in California lobbies hard against any attempt at even mild reforms of drug laws. Here's a taste:

http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/07/prison-guards-union-locks-...
In case you're having an IRIX machine available, here is a page with a working link to the software :
http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool...
The biggest source of error is actually the variation in the speed of sound. It increases around 2% when the temperature increases 10°C. Then there is a source of error because it seems the clock frequency of the ADC/DAC on the iPhone is not 100% accurate. If you recalibrate the app with a known distance (by moving the temp. slider until the displayed distance matches the actual distance) it should be pretty precise. No warranties, however. If the noise level is too high, it usually just doesn't show the measurement. There's one other source of error, that was actually the hardest to filter out: The sound doesn't only travel on the shortest path (line-of-sight) but on many paths. And often the sound from the longer paths arrive amplified, compared to the shortest path.
If you are serious, we can talk. We are a startup based out of NYC and are working in this space. n a n d y a l @ google's mail. (remove spaces)
Lua is imilar to JavaScript in that respect, and LuaJIT2 has effectively solved this problem for Lua. Code that's perfectly dynamic is almost on par with C, with variables switching type from int to double to string as needed. With essentially no restrictions on what you use.

JavaScript is more braindamaged in its dynamicness, so it's harder to write something like LuaJIT2 for JavaScript -- but it's not impossible.
it's unfair to compare professional human athletes to caged chimpanzees in a zoo. Compare poor chimps to some pizza-eating couch potato human spending most of his time in front of TV (or computer monitor) instead, lifestyle matters! :-)
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Let me put it this way: I don't have the flash plugin installed, and I can still make use of this functionality perfectly, so apparently they do proper fallbacks.

imgur, for instance, seems to have an excellent HTML5 image uploader and editor.
This looks like 'snake oil'. What exactly is the purpose of using the brainfuck code instead of the message itself? Surely, if steganography fulfilled its purpose and the message was not discovered, then the simplest/most compact form of the message would have been the best. On the other hand, if the message was discovered, then brainfuck does not represent much of an obstacle to reading it.
I think the dangerousness of Chimpanzees, and the other tree dwelling apes is that we're not accustomed to their kind of strength.

A humans arm span is proportional to their height, so a 5'7" human has an arm span of 5'7" (roughly). A 5'7" chimp or orangutan has an armspan of around 8'. Which anyone who's a boxing fan knows that it's exceptionally difficult for someone to win against an opponent that can outreach them, especially if it's as significant as a foot.

Furthermore apes have significantly higher upper body strengths than humans. This is especially noticeable in young chimps and orangutans that look more like Popeye than a person. Even worse for humans is that we're accustomed to punching and kicking. Apes are accustomed to grappling with both hands and feet.

Flanged orangutans are considered highly dangerous, not only because they're significantly bigger, heavier and stronger than humans, but that it really doesn't matter if they get you with a hand or a foot, they've got enough strength in that limb that you can't let go.

So why does the media find all this amazing? Because humans are weak, and it seems like a divine intervention or something that made us survive because they play to their audiences naivety.

So how did we survive these brutal apes? Because we didn't evolve anywhere near them. Ape territories don't really overlap much, the different species have their niche to live in. So by the time humans encountered apes we'd already evolved tool use and sharpened sticks and heavy clubs were likely intimidating enough to keep the chimpanzee pack from messing with our ancestors.

This likely extended to other predator species of early humans too. Predators aren't dumb, they want an easy meal not something that could kill them. Once early humans started defending themselves with spears, wolves and lions would likely have looked elsewhere for food.
> I'm shocked at the number of closed-minded members of the HN community. ... I get down voted.

> I thought this was a community of intelligent people, yet I'm beginning to realize that this just isn't the case anymore.

Yes, it could be that we're close-minded and not smart enough to appreciate your brilliance.

Or, it could be that "we" thought that you were an annoying self-important git and/or point-whore and are downvoting you for that.

For the record, I didn't read your brilliance or down-vote you. That said, it's never the audience's fault.
This is just a guess but my intuition is that a company issues stock in order to raise capital. So if the company has a useful investment opportunity that would affect its long term profitability then raising the capital in equity markets might be a good strategy. Rational investors would weigh the possibility of stock dilution vs. long term profitability and make a choice.
>These are certainly some significant data points, if what they told you actually happened. I would be interested to know whether they spoke about this sort of treatment in the 60's and 70's rather than waiting until much later -- when the "antiwar protestors spitting on war vets" image has become so much a part of American folklore.

That looks like a fun game to play. Let me try:

So your mother and aunts told you stories about how they were sexually harrassed in the workplace? These are certainly some interesting data points, if what they told you actually happened. I would be interested to know whether they spoke about this sort of treatment in the 60's and 70's rather than waiting until much later -- when the "male-chauvanist bosses hit on their female employees and passed them over to promote less-qualified men" image has become so much a part of American folklore.

>FOX has a long and sordid history of outright lies and incredibly biased reporting.

Please cite examples of outright lies.

>This particular story doesn't even mention the alleged victim's name. Nor does it mention whether there were any witnesses.

The first sentence of the story is:

"The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harrassed and spat upon near Occupy Boston protesters."

The Coast Guard would be prohibited by the privacy act from naming the woman.

The only point in dispute is whether or not the individuals responsible were part of Occupy Boston. The spokesperson said that they weren't part of Occupy Boston, which is sort of an interesting variatikn on "No true Scotsman:" Those rowdy protesters who do ugly things? No, no, they're not real* Occupy members."
"The apes beat us in leg strength, too, despite our reliance on our legs for locomotion."

Oh we rely on our legs for locomotion, do we? Humans 'locomote' about as vigorously and often as chimps play Angry Birds whilst shotgunning bags of donettes.
Flash isn't dead like kayluhb pointed out Mike Chambers post: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2011/11/11/clarifications-o...

True, "if you can't deal with it..." approach is rude. But it's the truth. And Tom did explain the situation in detail to the students as he wrote in his post. It wasn't like STFU or leave.
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I said flash has a smaller installed base than web browsers, not the other way around. :) Also, I said WebGL runs as fast as the user's system can support.

I intended my post to summarize the ongoing work on the replacements for the various things people cared about in Flash, specifically to make it clear that HTML does have all the same use cases in mind. As each new technology becomes available, more bits can migrate off of Flash.

Flash needs to start dying now, so everybody on the sinking ship can start figuring out what they need and solidifying the replacements. It'll have a lingering death scene, so the sooner it starts, the sooner it finishes. If the replacements don't work, they need fixing, without people thinking "oh, I'll just use Flash instead". People need to think "no, it needs to work now, I need to migrate off of Flash as soon as possible".

Ideally, in the next couple of years, we'll get Flash to the point that Java has reached now: an oddity that the occasional legacy site uses.
> There is a reason the police are the ones wearing ski masks down there:

And there's a different reason why SWAT-cops in the US wear masks. The last time I pointed that out, someone mentioned that UK cops also wear masks at times.

Is there any place where the cops never wear masks?
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In many cases on Linux I just wait until the next OS release to upgrade software - because toying with the huge dependency graph is not worth it. Maybe I should switch to a rolling release distro? I haven't tried that.

When I most recently used Linux on the desktop, in 2010, I finally grew frustrated enough with Ubuntu's screen management setup (there was no way to get it to respect my wishes for it to turn off the screen completely, until I finally killed the power manager entirely) that I switched to Arch. That was superficially better (stuff mostly worked as advertised), but the rolling release means either keeping up to date and dealing with constant breakage ("Oh, look, the new kernel has a broken driver for my audio card", or "Oh, another update, another few hours troubleshooting Wine. Yay"), or waiting a while and having the update become riskier and riskier.

Linux will be ready for the desktop when updating doesn't mean near certainty that something breaks. I realize that things used to be more broken, but when I used Linux as my primary desktop back in 1998-2003, my expectations were lower. Being a Mac user for 5-6 years seriously reduced my patience with troubleshooting random problems just to get all the functionality that the system I'm using claims to provide.
Ending the WoD?

That's only what, about one-third to one-half of all law enforcement (and the prison system)?

Do you realize how many jobs there are at stake here.

Of course I've got my tongue in my cheek, but you do see the problem with the problem of ending the war on drugs?
Mm, sounds like a plan. In taking the 8-bit greyscale image down to 4-bit, I've essentially introduced a margin of error of +/- 8, which explains why the message was able to fit into just the first ten or so rows of a 128-row image.

A higher palette resolution would, as you say, increase the amount of space taken by the message, but would result in a higher fidelity of the image.
Doesn't that imply that Apes/chimps, or even wolves and lions are able to recognize and identify weapons? Or that their fear of humans evolved at the same rate as we adapted to use tools?
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I can't reply below (is that an HN feature of some kind?) but all of these:

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Are taken. I would love a chance to play with this app! Thanks.
Your third paragraph doesn't follow from the first two paragraphs. The first two paragraphs make the interesting conjecture that increased police corruption in Mexico lowers drug prices in the US. This is something potentially worth discussing.

The third paragraph asserts that legalizing drugs won't stop the violence, and that Mexican police aren't "doing their job." The first point contradicts the original article, and thus requires supporting evidence (e.g. quotations from the original article, followed by references to contradictory studies). The second point is simply unnecessarily accusatory, and is ignorant of the reality expressed by burgerbrain (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3228850).

Meta: you've commented (and I've responded) in this pattern before. You start with something that will be perceived as inflammatory by the typical HN crowd (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172594), then follow up with a complaint about the votes you receive or the changing HN culture (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172744). Maybe you're not trolling on purpose, but it sure looks like it.

As I said before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3173159), you'd do a better job of conveying your message and be less likely to start a flame war if you restructured your arguments to be more appropriate to the audience -- present evidence, apply logical analysis, and draw a logical conclusion. State your assumptions (e.g. in this case if you believe that absolute societal order is more important than individual freedom, state up front that your argument depends on that). Most importantly, if you want others to change their minds, be willing to change yours if the argument goes the other way.
...those home and end keys unfortunately don't take you to the beginning or end of a line like on Windows or Linux...they take you to the top/bottom of the document! one of the more painful parts of my switching process was un-training myself to hit home to get to the beginning of a line (these is no way to remap system wide either, you need to do it on a per app basis)...you're almost better off without having those keys.
> As far as going to jail for being sociopathic burdens on society, well this one's hot off the presses, nobody goes to jail from Citibank or Goldman for committing fraud:

And Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are also still walking around free. What's your point?
6 paragraphs, complete with 7 points, multiple states, and not messing with the almighty Dock. No wonder Apple can't figure out window management, and is resorting to the "Maximize everything!" approach.
It's probably not sour grapes. At the time, Apple's management was widely considered to be an incoherent mess. They'd run the company damn near into the ground, and Jobs threw most of the people Gassée would have had to deal with out when he was brought in, in favor of NeXT personnel.
People throw the word hate around a bit lightly these days. These things seem like minor annoyances.
I had an app on my old HTC Touch Pro 2 a couple years ago that did this. Yawn.
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I count myself as a Mac power user, but I definitely learned something from your post.

Perhaps there should be a "power user FAQ", one that covers "how to make Mac OS X 10.X more like Max OS X 10.(X-1)".
I wouldn't go so far as "snake oil", just "pointless fun". As mentioned elsewhere in these comments, the idea behind this was "what if I could run an image file as a Brainfuck program?"

It's not a rigorous academic study of the merits of Brainfuck as a steganographic technique.
I mean they mask control-A to select all instead of moving the cursor to the beginning of the line.
... "too big to fail" should include things like "don't make a bunch of terrible bets and then hoodwink your customers into taking the fall on those bets for you".

I don't understand the mechanics of this. It should be illegal for "too big to fail" banks to sell a security when they believe it's price will go down? Should it also be illegal to buy when one believes a security is going up?

...the alternative was to be the last one holding those CDOs when they exploded...

Goldman was the last one holding (some tranches of) ABACUS when the housing market collapsed. That's why they lost money.

Incidentally, I no longer work in finance.
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This is exactly how I implemented my solution.
The worst case scenario is important because some images have last strips that have a unique "next strip" value.
Clearly people who work in nurseries do more than move plants back and forth 5 feet away, but this is an interesting step in the right direction. When I worked in a nursery in high school I had 2 primary tasks a) keep the plants watered b) help customers load their cars with big items. I've read about projects that use water sensors to enable plants to request water individually as they get dry. Adding a water tank and a sprayer to these little robots might be an interesting addition if it isn't cost prohibitive. I look forward to seeing more applications of technology in agriculture.
haha I know right, text... text is underrated too. I don't have time to read a full page with information about a new project because I don't know anything about it yet, I don't even know if I'm interested. I like to talk to landing pages like this: "let me try the thing, tell me how to download it, signup, connect or whatever gives me some interaction with the product(without scrolling, without reading 20 lines of meaningless text)" because If I'm interested then I will read all the docs, reviews and architecture papers you want. Is not a wikipedia page, it's a product launch and guess what: It didn't work for me in my mac =)
To me I think of it as Bash bindings, because that is where I learned them. For text editing I've been using vim bindings, but I never found the vim mode to work quite like I want it to on the terminal. I should look into that more.
You're not the only one to use vertical maximization. I really liked being able to middle-click the maximize button for vertical, or right-click for horizontal. It seems that's no longer the case in Gnome-3-hacked-to-look-like-Gnome-2-in-Ubuntu-11.10. I suppose it's replaced by Windows 7-style border dragging, but that's less flexible as you can only do maximize, left half, or right half.
Now we are talking past each other ;) You're right, of course, which is why I said I'm not sure FT would be useful in this case. I was giving the grandparent the benefit of the doubt, however: it is at least conceivable to me that the evenly spaced discontinuities in the shredded image (due to the uniform slice width) could present as a frequency spike (or rather, a series of them) in the FT of some function of the input (the derivative, perhaps) in the same way that the FT of a Dirac comb is also a Dirac comb. Wild speculation, of course, because like I said - image processing is not my forte.
Yeah, the only reason I knew about Fn-arrows was because my old MacBook actually labelled them: http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/15837.jpg
For some reason the labels are not part of the new design (no numeric keypad emulation either). I guess they thought it was too busy a design?
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