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2003 - A drunken Martin Odersky sees a Reese's Peanut Butter
Cup ad featuring somebody's peanut butter getting on
somebody else's chocolate and has an idea. He creates Scala,
a language that unifies constructs from both object oriented
and functional languages. This pisses off both groups and
each promptly declares jihad.

Nice take:-)
Sometimes the police might need to enter someones property or get access to data to stop crime.

Whilst I think that of course people should stand up for civil liberties etc we have to bear in mind if we completely neutered the police your civil liberties aren't worth shit as a criminal can just take them from you as nobody has enough power to gather evidence against them.

You then risk people turning to mob justice with no due process whatsoever.
The Pirate Bay wants you to download physical objects.
I suppose this only detects intermittent leaks? If a particular class always leaks then this tool would have no frame of reference to detect it, right?
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Everytime I open a report, it hits http://app.plumbr.eu/decrypt_report with an encrypted version of the report.

Even if you don't store that information, and even if it is not really useful, you should maybe note somewhere that all the "leak" information is sent to Plumbr servers.
This is very nice. Between this and Booking.com's (disclaimer: I work there)  €100,000 donation just over a month ago TPF is really getting on track for having large corporate sponsorship from organizations who recognize how valuable Perl is for their infrastructure.

I talked to some of the TPF people at Booking.com's donation event and they expressed desires to have more paid-for developers working on the Perl 5 core, and they're really gearing up as an organization for making that happen.

One thing of note for those unfamiliar with the Perl community: Notice how both of these big grants are earmarked for Perl 5 development, not Perl 6 development.

By now Perl 6 is viewed as best an interesting research project by organizations using Perl 5 in production.

I don't mean that as a comment to detract away from what the Perl 6 developers are doing, but to point out that it's a very different pattern than what's happening with the next generation of Python, Ruby, PHP etc. runtimes.

1. http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/01/bookingcom-sponsors-1...
Show HN: Focus on the user (a.k.a. Don't be evil) User script
I just saw a Chrome extension and a bookmarklet on focusontheuser.org, so I decided to convert it to a user script that runs automatically. Hopefully someone will find it useful.
45 Examples of Websites Designed with HTML5
HTML5 language has replaced the HTML4 that had been used to modify the website design over the past years. The failing of the HTML4 was it didn’t have the features of multimedia integration and the animations.
Mr. President. What the hell more do you want from us?
The Whole College vs Starting a Business Debate
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Very interesting! Do tell me more about your experience :)
Apparently even Facebook thinks Grad Schools are a Disease
Blaast launches cloud-based mobile app platform, pays developers based on usage
I work as a freelancer making android and iOs apps, and already I am having clients that prefer launching on android first and later iphone.

Mostly it is because they believe their potential customers are more likely to have android devices, as android phones are cheaper and ubiquitous. Some of them believe competition is tougher in the app market, although I don't necessarily agree.
How Google Made $37.9 Billion in 2011
Relevant reading:

Race Against the Machine (http://amzn.com/B005WTR4ZI)

The Lights in the Tunnel (http://amzn.com/B002S0NITU)
also, as grandparent guessed, static and thread local variables do not have the same lifecycle of the "normal" objects, I've been bitten more than once by some "clever" optimization caching stuff in those places.
Google Spent $951 Million on Data Centers in 4Q
Google now allows . # , / and many other punctuations
I think it's a bit of a stretch. The FBI had been investigating the MegaEmpire for years. If anything, their plan to legitimatize their business was a reaction to the inevitable raid, not the other way around. Conspiracy theories make great link bait, but it's ridiculous to believe that somebody at UMG called somebody at the FBI and said "those gosh darn do-gooders at MegaUpload want to take down our evil empire and offer artists 90%, they must be stopped!" and the FBI complied.

Anyways, this made me laugh.

> "Yes that's right, we will pay artists even for free downloads. The Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works."

Yeah, they tested it alright.
Thanks for considering colourblind people
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Why would you want that person to be able to avoid going to jail just because he was smart enough to use encryption?
for linux: redshift is packaged for most distros.

https://launchpad.net/redshift
Totally agree and this tool might help in this situations but still I find it more suitable to simply watch the memory usage, which in a sane application, should have a pattern.
I'm guessing googlebot creates a lot of initial connections and if this was implemented widely it would speed up crawling.
Neat idea, but not working for me. I tried with with Day CQ5 CMS, and Plumbr starts but it looks like it stops while loading the Lucene indices.

This would have been useful 9 months ago when we were tracking an object leak. Stress tests with AB and monitoring with jconsole combined with reading the code were sufficient to find the problem.

I advise caution, particularly with false-positives (objects with long lifecycles). If it was so easy to find the leaks, the GC would be able to resolve the leak itself.
Idea for a floating encryption window (requesting HN comments)
The "Don´t Be Evil" Tool
Google could be +(more) user friendly
Ferrari F430 crashed
Is it acceptable to not know sed, grep or awk but to know Perl?
Liverpool vs Man Utd Live Stream 28 January 2012 FA Cup
Ticketmaster ticket sales glitches-Slowdown’s the Denver Broncos Playoff ticket
The Psychology of Influence in Online Startups
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> but it's ridiculous to believe that somebody at UMG called somebody at the FBI and said "those gosh darn do-gooders at MegaUpload want to take down our evil empire and offer artists 90%, they must be stopped!" and the FBI complied.

After years of exposure to American media, I actually find this relatively easy to believe as far as conspiracy theories go.
It was fun while it lasted, but I flew over about every 6-8 weeks, and it got exhausting long term. I'd usually effectively lose one day to travel each way + one day after I returned where I'd be totally useless.

In terms of the work, it was challenging to work remotely. We spent a lot of time on Skype, but the time difference wrecked havoc on my schedule - my coworkers in the valley got in around 5pm-6pm London time, and would usually still be in the office at midnight my time, so I ended up working in the evenings a lot, often while also working a lot during the day. If it hadn't been a startup I might've tried to keep more strictly fixed working hours with evenings some days (to account for meetings etc) and more free time during the day, but that wasn't really an option.

I managed a team, which was even trickier because whenever I flew out I'd spend 2-3 days resolving whatever drama had arisen since my last trip. My impression both from that job and others where I dealt with SV engineers is that you're far more likely to find some real primadonnas with huge egos amongst software engineers in SV than in most places in Europe. Most of the guys I worked with were really nice, though, and overall it was a great experience.

Trickiest part with the regular visits: Make sure to never, ever say the wrong thing to immigration. If traveling under the visa waiver program, you're not allowed to do normal work while in the US. You can receive instruction and participate in meetings etc., but you can't do "productive work". We had an immigration lawyer instruct me in detail on what I was and was not allowed to do and how to address this with immigrations to mitigate the risk that I might get turned away. This was because I was flying in often enough to get asked extra questions now and again, though - if you fly in a couple of times a year, there's not much scrutiny, but I had about 13-14 stamps from SFO in my passport and none from other locations at one point...
I think your approach is wrong all together - D actually allows you not to use 2 different languages in your project, specifically one high level and another one low level. The whole idea is that language is flexible enough, that it allows you to both write performance critical and high level code when you need to. That saves you all the troubles of interfacing, different runtimes and so on.
I'd have to see more evidence before I'm completely convinced, but I don't see that as unlikely. Media concerns played with law enforcement before trying to sue normal people for crazy sums. They used the system to make those cases long, costly and tried forcing new laws which would make more attacks easier in the future.

Why is it hard to imagine that they would pay a lot to speed up investigation / raid on a company which already had FBI's attention? It could be just a troll / conspiracy post of course, but I wouldn't say that this course of action is improbable.
Really good read,thanks for posting!
And TPF can put the money to good use; recently (2010 or 2011, don't remember exactly) they started to pay one core developer (Dave Mitchell) to work on bug fixes and refactors that nobody else wanted to do. Later Nicholas Clark got a similar grant, and both have been used to great effect.

I'm not deeply invovled the p5 developers, but it doesn't look like these grant create envy in other contributors, judging from the development speed.
Original author here. My colleagues and I have been kicking this idea around and we built a proof of concept under Windows. I'd like to hear HN comments. Has this been done before? Would you use it? Is there any chance it could be made to work on sandboxed devices like the iPhone?
Did anyone else feel a bit uneasy with the racist undertone? The author seemed to dismiss out of hand that "Chinese or Mexicans" could do any kind of skilled labour. There is a fair amount of high tech work done in Asia these days.
I'm Johannes, the Space Invaders guy. To make things clear right at the beginning: I love and support open source, not only because it's somehow making me money, but also because I think, as we are beings living in communities, openness and sharing are the ways.
Before Mario published his book, he wrote a German tutorial on game development (which, same as the book, is great), that's where I have the code base from. I mentioned Mario in the app as well as in the Android Market description as well as on my blog and our website and left the game licensed under the GPL of course. There's not much more referencing I can do. I also once took the game off of the Android Market, but Mario told me to put it back on.
Regarding the ads: The other ad network I use is madvertise. T me it's interesting that they appear to be more intrusive to you, since their banners actually are a lot smaller than those by AdMob. How come? I also use Heyzap which I also find a bit annoying, especially on small devices, which will be removed with the next update.

Personally, I really like quality apps and think on the long term, even if they are not financially successful, the gain is bigger with these apps than with apps that provide lower quality. However, also prank apps can be of good quality of course and in the end it's the user who is judging. There had been more or less successful fake iPhone apps on the Android Market almost since day one, but most of them don't exist anymore. That's also why I thought David's app would be removed fast, especially when the audience became bigger. This didn't happen so far, which surprises me a little. For David, I hope nothing like a lawsuit or removal will happen, but the possibility obviously will always exist.
That doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory. What is with the desire to paint everything in the ridiculous. It sounds like a good way to make more money, though risky.
Good points. I'll also add:

* They automatically screen new uploads for copyrighted music.

* They don't monetize videos unless the uploader is invited to become a partner and opts in, which requires a human screening of the partner's content.

* They have an established reputation for their user-generated content.

* Many users and businesses make good money providing original content to Youtube.
Do all investors behave like this or is it just more common in SV VCs?

No wonder we have such a boom and bust economy if this is the general practice.

What is wrong with simply investing a reasonable sum to help a business with a high probability of success getting off the ground and then make a good reliable long term return?

Surely that scales better.
Very unlikely, if you want some more background read the indictment (actually very interesting) in its raw glory here: http://www.nbr.co.nz/sites/default/files/images/78786408-Meg...

It certainly changed my opinion on the whole matter.
a rare instance of programming humor that is actually fun
This is stupid and wrong. The investigation into MegaUpload took two years. This post wants me to believe the US government convinced the New Zealand government to perform a 70+ person raid in two weeks? The government can't give authorization to someone to tie their shoe in under two weeks!

More importantly, this is an opinion piece with zero facts or evidence posted by a freaking high school student. Why in the hell is this nonsense being posted to HN?
Note I specified a grammar, though no semantics. This means sentences, that (usually) will be bizarre and surreal.
Like nonsense phonemes, nonsense sentences will (usually) not have any apparent meaning; though both can be suggestive.

A "random" example might be "acatimpliedoncolourlessphones.rb"
I found most circuits are based on generic engineering designs. Note the chip numbers, get datasheets, and draw a basic block diagram. From that, draw up a mock diagram that could work, then reference the board for the details and make changes. The result is fairly accurate.
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I dare you all, test your strength: Open a book
Nnu
You'd think so but they don't see through ground planes.
Any reason not to keep the old ones as well?
Thanks for your reply. There definitely valid points there. I guess I'm just of the opinion that most people are capable of overcoming such issues if they consciously sharpen their skills and/or do a little "hustling".

Even if your career ladder does take a hit, is it such a big deal if you've managed to enrich your life in the process? Maybe I read too much HN, but it seems to me that unless you have dependants, debt, or equity, employment isn't really worth being a central pillar of your life.

To also talk personally, I feel that I used the stability of my latter education and the first phase of my career to defer tackling other aspects of my life. That was a mistake.
Judge orders woman to give up password to hard drive
I think you only have to look at the indictment to see why they were shut down. Whilst it's an interesting point, and perhaps if the mega empire had attempted to legitimize their business a lot quicker then the indictment would never have been put together, I simply think this falls into the realms of conspiracy theory.

I have posted the full Indictment as a news story, with highlights, for those that are interested in the actual reason for their shut down: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3487808
Show HN: What your Chinese market thinks about your brand?
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The central problem with Ed Bott's article is here:

"Apple has chosen to leverage its dominant position in the tablet market to try to hobble its competitors in the ebook-publishing business. "

This is total bullshit. If Apple wanted to "hobble their competitors" with their tablet share they would probably have done so by banning Amazon's Kindle app and they would have done it (for real) years ago.

This has little to do with tablet share other then Apple's only play for a successful niche was to play to the ipad's advantages over Amazon's suite of devices.

Don't get me wrong I'm sure they do want to "hobble their competitors" just like everyone else does it's just they aren't the 900 pound gorilla in the ebook market.

What Apple's doing here is quite simple. They are building a niche to start to attack Amazon with. They had to innovate it in a completely new direction because of the huge Kindle lock in moat Amazon has built {Apple knows a thing or two about lock in}. So they needed to innovate and be the leader somewhere, anywhere. Interactivity and textbooks are what they decided on.

Ed Bott thinks Apple should just sell the same textbook as Amazon plus a widget. Apple probably thought about that but realized the plus a widget version would cost extra and people/school districts would buy the cheaper version from Amazon or whoever.

So they went the exclusive route. Here's out format, here's the tools that make it easy, and here's the catch: sell on our store only. It's that simple. It had to be exclusives.

Ed Bott thinks Apple is evil but he should look at the score over the last 2 years: iBooks is getting raped by Kindle and Ed Bott's claimed solution wasn't gonna change that.
Here goes nothing :) :

The Northern Light - 1995/1996

Northern Light was to the search engine world what Apple was to the computer world. Shortly after its launch, Northern light like Apple, developed a fanatical following, but held a relatively small market share compared to the likes of Lycos and AltaVista.

From: http://www.salientmarketing.com/seo-resources/search-engine-...

Also: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067807/Northern-Light-...
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I think the bigger point is unrelated to the format per se, and that is the idea that you can't sell the content you produced without going through apple.

If someone were to write a custom reader by reverse engineering the apple proprietary format, I would still not be allowed to sell my content to them without giving apple a cut.
Vancouver, Canada, where a 1BR in the poshest, yuppiest corner of town, in a new high-rise with a doorman, clubhouse, pool, sauna, jacuzzi, and glorious skyline view costs about $1100 a month

Really? The cheapest 1BR I can find in Yaletown on craigslist is $1280/month -- for 397 square feet in a building constructed in 1912. Padmapper says that the median price for a 1BR in Yaletown is $1650/month.
aside - is there a way to remove the stupid, fat search bar from the top of the page, or at least let it scroll with the rest of the page. I'm a habitual space-to-page-up user, and this type of design means I have to scroll back a few lines each time.

I know, their site they can do what they like and all, but it's messing with my muscle memory :)
Was Megaupload taken down because of their Megabox plan for 90% royalty sharing?
Finding out that you have a memory leak is a lot easier than to find what part of the code is responsible for that leak, for nontrivial code sizes.
This show how psychologists can torture a nerd toward the end:
http://www.noob.us/humor/the-office-dwight-faces-nerd-tortur...

When you look back in time, more and more programmers knew assembly. In 1992, I got my 486 and learned the CPU instruction timings. (I used VAX asm at work)

In school we programmed motorola 6800 8-bit CPUs in assembly and studied how to make embedded designs, like general motor car stuff.

On the 6800 you did not have floats, so you did scaled fixed-point arithmetic.

On the 486, the float instructions took 30 cycles and the int 3. Therefore, most programmers over 40 grew-up in a totally different world. Now, floats are about equal and it's practically impossible to judge timings. Trust me -- most of the osdev people have false impressions from the past. James, is smart, though.

It was shocking when I did my compiler and discovered improving my code had no effect because it was all getting converted to RISC and scheduled by the cpu anyway.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\WEALTH.TXT

liberty to sell his whole crop to a corn merchant as fast
as he could thresh it out, his whole capital might have returned
immediately to the land, and have been employed in buying more cattle,
and hiring more servants, in order to improve and cultivate it better.
But by being obliged to sell his corn by retail, he was obliged to keep
a great part of his capital in his granaries and stack-yard through the
year, and could not therefore cultivate so well as with the same
capital he might otherwise ha
Kill Hollywood? Let's fix politics instead: kill lobbying.
I read the 'Kill Hollywood' RFC, gave it some thought and came to a conclusion that killing Hollywood is not a Value Adding Intention (tm). I understand that the RFC is a response to SOPA&co which is obviously pushed by Hollywood.

My thoughts went: "Should we-the-people retaliate against some influential business (sector) every time they successfully lobby for their own interests against the interest of the wider public?"

On which I concluded: "No we should fix politics instead, that's where the problem originates, that's where we can fix it once and for all."

And the most obvious fix I see is to criminalize lobbying (= power to the wealthy) as it is against democracy (= power to the people) in its very nature.

Just to name a few sectors that successfully lobbied for changes that (imho) harmed the wider public: banks, car industry, big-oil, big-pharma, big-food, military contractors.

Some simple math: if business (sector) X puts in 5M for a lobby on issue Y; the probability of success on their lobby campaign is 0.5; then the payoff of the campaign is at least 10M. Now where do those 10M come from? From everyone that is not X. In other words: the honest people --who do not try to influence politics outside of the public discussion-- lose from the wealthy mega-corps.

Lobbying is currently a fast growing industry itself:

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/01/washington-lobbying-grew-to-32.html

So please YC use your influence to fight the real bad, and "Kill the Lobby" with an RFC :)
I think I'd love to see a demo video in action to really understand what is going on here.

I work with some commodity traders, and they need ways to securely communicate from the trading floor their positions back to the main office. Could you see this being applied in that environment?
True, another factor is that we can now offload more stuff to "the cloud" which is especially useful on handhelds.

As we get better connectivity everywhere it might be that we actually see a regression in performance (or at least staying static) on many mobile devices in exchange for better battery life.
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