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When articles that deal with the world outside of startup finance appear on Hacker News, the articles and comments usually have so little knowledge behind them they are practically unreadable.

Sometimes these issues just don't require that much knowledge to understand, though, and I think this is one of those.

When upside returns are based on a percentage of your winnings, and downside is limited to the loss of a job, at worst, the course of action is clear: shoot the moon, take on as much risk as you possibly can. Push the rules as far as they'll go to crank up the variance of your returns, and half the time, it'll pay off.

There are no subtleties here, no deep knowledge of banking required to see what's wrong with this picture. I'll agree that finding a solution might be tricky, but the fundamental problem has nothing whatsoever to do with politics, it's simple arithmetic.

Hell, even the people that benefit from these sort of incentive schemes - they're most definitely not a stupid lot, if you've ever interacted with them! - tend to think that they're crazy, they agree that what's good for them personally tends to be bad for their companies, and bad for the economy at large. But being fairly rational decision makers, they optimize for personal profit, just as most of us would if we were in their shoes.
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Right now the social networking sites occupy a similar position to CompuServe, Prodigy, or AOL in the mid 90's. At that time each company was trying to figure out how to become a mass-market gateway to the Internet. Looking back now, their early attempts look ridiculous and doomed to failure, for we have seen the Web, and we have tasted of the blogroll and the lolcat and found that they were good.
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i've been saying this for ages but this guys puts it so much simpler i'm ashamed.
Most tablets already has support for handing off between Wi-Fi and 3G already.
You know, combine this with some sort of display (glasses, projection, implant) and you could be on the right track. That's my first thought.

Second one is about carrying this ball, how easy it might be to lose it. What if instead there were rings on middle fingers or even all fingers? Could handle a few of the things you mentioned.

Electronic handshakes just got a lot more literal.

Perhaps typing in the future would take the form of hand shapes/signals, akin to traditional signing for the deaf? Assuming voice input will not be able to completely replace it.

Maybe the future computer is a display in the form of an eyepiece, monocle or implant, finger rings as an input and then a processing component in pocket or within a belt?
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On your last point: If true, that would mean a temporary hit but over time it would provide a permanent benefit. Great tradeoff.

A user searching for exactly what your website is offering, using the words that make up your website url, should at the very least have a strong opportunity to arrive at your website. If Google did anything else it would offer an opportunity for Bing et al.
Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: yes, Google certainly treats the Big Three differently than it does .co or .ly. I don't have specific evidence of them discriminating against .co/.ly, but the evidence that they discriminate for EMDs in the Big Three is overwhelming and undeniable.
they would have to implement a wifi network as ubiquitous as wireless coverage.

you consider that flawless?

they don't mention wifi coverage anywhere on their site.
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They don't have to make it for web standards, they just need to recompile for mobile. They are dropping the flash player not the whole flash platform on mobile.
You act as if there are only two choices, bail them out with no strings attached or let the whole economy crumble.

We should bail them out and then imposse serious penalties and regulations. Sadly we didn't do that.
The Firefox teams seems to no longer care about add-ons and add-on users. I am an Add-on author. I submitted an updated version of my addon for Firefox 8 on October 27. Twelve days later the new version is still sitting in a sandbox waiting editorial review. With a new release happening every 6 weeks this kind of behavior is inexcusable and will likely drive people away from Add-ons.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/categorize/
> Design Matters. A lot.

This is a common sense, but I have hard time reconciling patio11 saying that with an actual appearance of his projects. Preaching without practicing takes away a lot credibility from a preacher even if the advice is reasonable.
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Surely you saw this coming though? But anyway, a lot of your issues with HTML/JS for the types of things you'd use AS3 for are a matter of immature tools and libraries I think. Google's added static type notation to JS via their Closure compiler - you might take a look at that. And straightforward rendering is something that Adobe could be great for giving us now that they're refocusing on this.
Right, you need to combine saving the financial system with systemic change. Letting them fail is equivalent to letting the system crash and the doing nothing.
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Quad Core and a GPU is a bit more accurate, but still an interesting system. I wonder when development boards will go on sale.
I have to agree, I'm really enjoying working in flash every day at the moment. Web development has a long way to go before it's this much fun.
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Not all uses of the word troll are necessarily derogatory. In its high form, a troll (the article, not the person) should evoke and provoke discussion. The article is well written using the very vernacular of the subject piece. The article and its subject article form a nice meta-circular structure. Something, i'm sure can be appreciated on HN :-)
Yes. Whenever we discover that we missed a good startup, we go back and try to figure out why. We've changed the selection process several times because of such mistakes.

We're not so systematic about looking at the applications of groups we fund that don't do well. Partly because when we mistakenly accept a startup, the mistake is at the interview stage, and partly because we don't worry nearly as much about mistakes in that direction.
Why does an entry titled "Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash" link to an article that starts "Our future work with Flash on mobile..."?
> Being social is all about disorganization, spontaneity, creativity, breaking out of all the stupid taxonomies that we impose on other people and have imposed on us.

That is a very euro-centric, post-modernist way of thinking.

What are caste system if not social?

What are far-flung familial relations if not social?

A definition of being "social" which only applies to societies where friendship is paramount, and friends come and go with ease is too limiting and leads you to solutions that can be awkward in other societies.

For example, in my country, we care deeply about family and ancestory--so much so that in every generation one member of the family is nominated to be the "memory keeper" (sorry, there's no translatable word) who keeps track of the geneology of everyone, and is expected at a glance to determine if a stranger is at least vaguely related to us.

Would a free form social graph be useful to us---not really. Our facebook pages are practically 90% family members, 10% people who through marriage will become family members.
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Microkernels have been the wave of the future for longer than some of the most popular OSes have been around, namely Windows NT (not just Windows 7, but the whole NT design), Mac OS X (NeXTStep too, for that matter), and Linux (but, admittedly, not Unix).

If I may prognosticate, stripped-down monolithic OSes running on hypervisors are the wave of the future. Look at VM/CMS for an extreme example: CMS is about as complex as MS-DOS, being a single-user single-tasking OS with no memory protection or security model. VM is the hypervisor. Together, they date to about 1968, or a little before if you include research systems.
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for the simple reason that it autoplays, whereas FlashBlock will stop Flash autoplay. I can't tell you how many times I've been listening to a video, wondering why it sounds so awful, and then figuring out there's another video autoplaying in a background tab.

The default behavior in Safari is not to play any content until the tab it's in has been focused - that goes for HTML5 video, Flash, QT, or what have you. Constant spot of annoyance for me anytime I'm forced into a different browser.
I had similar thoughts, but I guess the video's main emphasis is on User Interface which is highlighted most.
You shouldn't care about the person in front of you until they have proven their worth. "Hotness" is simply giving the women a chance to prove herself. If she does, then you can create a good connection. It doesn't have to end up as an empty experience. If she doesn't have a mind past that hotness, then walk away (or have an empty experience to learn). It would be wrong to say it's always empty.

Higher value is an overrated trait. It's definitely important but it isn't the end-all, be-all. Confidence/fun/etc. is.

"Hot" is subjective. Your hot could be average to me and vice versa. It depends on what your priorities are in a relationship. If you found a hot catch and you are willing to challenge other candidates, why not? That could be fun within itself. If you want a one night stand, that's you. If you want a long term relationship with a decent enough girl, that's cool too.
Not according to Wikipedia :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Tegra#Tegra_3_.28Kal-El....

The Tegra 3 is functionally a quad-core processor, but includes a fifth "companion" core. All cores are Cortex-A9s, but the companion core is manufactured with a special low power silicon process. This means it uses less power at low clock rates, but more at higher rates; hence it is limited to 500 MHz. There is also special logic to allow running state to be quickly transferred between the companion core and one of the normal cores. The goal is for a mobile phone or tablet to be able to power down all the normal cores and run on only the companion core, using comparatively little power, during standby mode or when otherwise using little CPU. According to Nvidia, this includes playing music or even video content.
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Exactly. Restrictive query model and data rw patterns required all tech decisions to be bounded by couch requirements (which is a no no normally) but in 2 years, 40TB and going from 1 to 14 nodes seamlessly, there was no lost data or crippling cluster events.

Thats a big deal.
You're right, I was mistaken! I also found some more detail from this more technical explanation:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5072/nvidias-tegra-3-launched-...
think you have a valid point there.
Did anybody else get absolutely electrified when he described working in that warehouse of shops with other creators and how the creative energy was amplifying itself?

That sounds intoxicating. I would love a dev environment like that with a small team. I have experienced this one time professionally in its truest rawest sense... A small team hacking on fun problems. It was phenomenal, literally hopping out of bed in the morning just to get to the office.

Anyone else experience this before? (not necessarily with dev if you have a good story)
Mixed feelings about this article.

> The potency of my solution lies in the idea that people do not consciously wish to harm themselves; I feel much safer on a plane because the pilot, and not a drone, is at the controls.

What about myopia, self-delusion, panic, sheer intellectual dishonesty or even disability, and all the other assorted biases that afflict human judgment? Humans hurt themselves all the time. In fact, there are instances when putting more pressure or increasing the (financial) incentives hurts performance and increases risk.

> I believe that “less is more” — simple heuristics are necessary for complex problems. So instead of thousands of pages of regulation, we should enforce a basic principle: Bonuses and bailouts should never mix.

Having said that, I'm still all for the use and (re?)discovery of heuristics in regulation, combined with judgment on the part of the enforcer. It's high time we moved past the game of who can outlawyer who. There is a reason that posts like yesterday's knife maker capture the attention of many people these days and why firms like Apple or Leica are so successful these days. Life is becoming so complex, we can't write every contingency into a law; so much is becoming possible today that we need more and more conscious, i.e. editorial constraint.
What strikes me is that this could compete with current generation game consoles, so next gen consoles might be Tegra "Wayne" (from Wikipedia) :

Processor: quad- or octa-core ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore
Improved 24 (for the quad-core) and 32 to 64 (for the octa-core) GPU cores with support for Directx 11+, OpenGL 4.X, OpenCL 1.X, and Physx
28 nm[23]
About 10 times faster than Tegra 2

This would be low-power/low-cost game console.
I agree with you.

The normal critical thought displayed by HNers seems to evaporate when the subject is politics or finance. Post titles that would otherwise be called link-bait, like "Goldman Sachs has engineered every US crisis" and "investment banks have caused world famine" (paraphrasing the title of 2 recent posts), are accepted as truth. Another example is any post dealing with HFT.

Subjectively, these discussions appear to have a lot more of downvoted (grayed out) comments. Either they're bad comments, or they're reasonable comments that are downvoted for going against the "hivemind". In either case, it's a bad sign.

This sort of post, while interesting, should be treated as articles about electoral politics and hence off-topic. But the only apparent solution is via moderation.
The fact that Adobe acquired Macromedia was quite unfortunate for the web. Had Google acquired it, they would have probably opensourced the player code, and maybe contributed the AS3 rendering engine into WebKit as an alternative to javaScript, making Flash native for WebKit browsers. Maybe it's not too late for this step even now.
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FlashBlock just uses CSS to hide certain <OBJECT> and <EMBED> elements from the page; the same techniques work for <VIDEO> and <AUDIO> (My MuteTab Chrome extension (http://www.mutetab.com) does this) and I'm sure the same could be done for <CANVAS>.

If you want to completely prevent animation of the page, though, you'll need to disable JavaScript completely (as you can currently do in the NoScript extension), although this could be troublesome if the site requires portions of the JavaScript to operate.
http://simpel.com and http://simpel.nl disagree with that statement. http://simple.fr and http://einfach.com also are taken, but redirect.
The UK has several companies doing this. For example, http://www.cfhdocmail.com/
Well, it wouldn't be a solid ball since it would have to be able to be squeezed so if dropped it atleast shouldn't roll away, and contrary to most smartphones it would actually be able to handle being dropped quite well. Rings/camera/gestures (minority report) in general are of course interesting but I think the downside of that approach is no tactile feedback
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I'm sure no one understands the technical challenges better than Adobe's engineers. The problem is that the company never admitted these challenges to their developers and customers (until now). Instead, they continually explained the problem as merely a political fight with Apple. Your website is no good on mobile? Don't blame us, blame Apple's lust for control.

At worst, they flat out lied to their developers and customers. At best, they are merely incompetent. Either way, if I were heavily invested in any Adobe technology I would seriously question how I could continue to trust that company.
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Flash in mobile web browsers always felt awkward and sluggish to me. I'm glad that they'll be focusing their mobile efforts towards polishing AIR
I was exactly like this. It was good while it lasted. It was not fun when I developed some health issues. Now, I exercise every day and sleep on a regular cycle. The exercise really helped with the sleep regulation.

Do watch your health. It is of prime importance.
Chrome and FireFox have FlashBlock extensions and Chrome has a "Click to play" option in about:flags (but unlike Safari it is turned off by default.)

These features should behave similarly except it sounds like in Safari players are enabled by default when you visit a page but for these other browsers you will have to manually click on things to start them playing.
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What's the "real" reason Google does all that stuff for its employees? You're doing it right now, Steve.
ssh otherbox cat /dev/dsp > /dev/dsp

should work on a Linux system with OSS emulation enabled. Or, if you have alsa-utils installed on both systems:

ssh otherbox arecord -D plughw | aplay -D plughw
What struck me is how lonely the video felt. People hardly talked to each other. The only emotion exchanged between people was with the mom and daughter making apple pie, and that was through the screen.
I'm guessing it helps him (or others) refine ideas for better Yelp-alternative. Whenever I seem to complain, I am actually starting the process to come up with a better solution.

His post got me thinking about combining Four Square w/ Yelp. (Feel free to laugh.)
So you think it's worth the move to example.com/blog even if you already have an established blog.example.com?
> Flash on a laptop turns it into a battery-draining space heater

The worst part being it is so even for trivial flash objects like those "copy to clipboard" clicky thingies (e.g github). It was not skyrocketing to 1.0 loads but enough to prevent the CPU to go in some deep C-state mode and/or back off frequency or whatever. Having such a NOOP Flash object was literally removing in order of hours from my battery life ("was", because ClickToFlash is brilliant).

I guess that way they will be true to their promise: the next iteration of Flash for Mobile will, in a way, be both stable and a non-battery sucker.
Because you didn't read the rest of the sentence?

"...devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores."
Every ten years, the media companies "upgrade" their copyright protection via Congress, as technology outstrips their content controls. Now they want to circumvent the courts altogether. This has got to stop; it serves no purpose and only alienates (and, often, criminalizes) consumers.
Look at his main site: http://www.kalzumeus.com/. It's quite good looking and well designed.
Only if they're boring and badly written. Or if you're spammy about it.

When in doubt, hop on IRC and see if someone else thinks it's worth submitting.
I don't really think that's true. Look at Jabber.org which is probably the biggest jabber network out there and it seems they're scaling pretty well.

Edit: Also XMPP supports UTF-8 for everyhting out of the box and as far as I know it's not really possible with IRC (or did that change over the last years?). E.g. nicks with non-ascii chars are no problem to have..

Why do you think it's not fun?
That's been my experience. Not only will the blog's pages rank better by being on the main domain, they'll also help the rest of the site's content rank better by bolstering that location's authority.

That said, I don't want to suggest this is always true all the time or that Google/Bing never group subdomain authorities together, just that we've seen inconsistency and thus I'd recommend keeping them together.
This turns into a redirect loop on the iPad as it tries to send you to the touch version, then the article, then the touch version, then the article...
Oh yeah, I've seen it coming. There's a reason my day-to-day at my job doesn't involve much Flash anymore. It doesn't make me any less sad about it becoming more 'official' though. It's more of a nostalgic sad than an upset sad.

I can certainly hope that HTML/JS evolves more in the direction of AS3, though I fear that Adobe will either push in the direction of Canvas-manipulating tools (where now you have a crappier API than Flash and you still lose the ability to arbitrarily throw some html in the mix (say, for including ads)) or their tools will mostly lend themselves to huge bloated div-fest monstrosities like what we've seen out of Muse so far.
Safari has a similar plugin called ClickToFlash, but no Chrome-like option as far as I know.
Alternatively you can selectively block elements on the page by any DOM criterion. I use GreaseMonkey and jQuery for that, and I hear AdBlock allows you to ban DOM elements with a right-click.

As for trivial blocking, I observed an increasing number of <blink> Flash objects falling back to just as much eyesore animated GIFs. I don't think I'm ready to fall back to lynx/links.
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The same can be said about Ruby, except that my experiences with Ruby are worse than with Haskell. With Haskell, you can get a pretty nice "batteries included" setup by installing the latest Haskell platform package.

With Ruby, you have to learn to use rvm, bundler and whatnot just to get a recent version of Ruby installed. Many distributions ship with quite old versions of Ruby and the Ruby official release tarballs have been unreliable (version number doesn't change, tarball contents does, etc).

Lots of languages seem to suffer from similar problems.
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