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Gosling Praises Azul Open Source Initiative (from 2010)
The best example of voluntary contribution to a government is the founding of the US government itself. It was entirely voluntary, while taxes were being collected by the enemy. And yet somehow this was successful enough to overthrow the largest world power.

But the obvious objection to that is "times have changed". Religious institutions and other charities are simply modern examples.

Personally, I believe that the entire US government (in its present state and power structure) could be funded voluntarily. Not by promising salvation in the afterlife, but by marketing to the citizens that if you want to remain free, it's your civic duty to contribute (at some prescribed rate).

Since arriving at this new way of looking at taxes, my attitude at the ballot box will be something like this: When asked "Do you approve an 'x-mil' tax levy for the Department of Disability?", the question is NOT asking me "Are you personally willing to support the Department of Disability for Y-dollars?" (which I wholeheartedly support), but rather "Are you willing to hire enforcers to enforce the extraction of payment from someone who may not agree or may not be able to support the Department of Disability? The enforcers may harass, bind, and imprison those that do not support it. And you are hiring these enforcers." Because that is REALLY the question being asked.

At that point, I need to make a moral decision. Is the tax so important that I am willing to vote to imprison someone who doesn't support it?

On the other hand, I am perfectly willing to "sign up" on the spot, for automatic deductions for myself to support the Department of Disability. But that isn't an option. And it should be.

In order to "phase in" widespread voluntary "tax", each organization would need to facilitate easy acceptance of direct payments (just like charities do), and our leadership would need to "market" to the people that contribution is the right thing to do (just as Obama, Bush, and Clinton did in soliciting donations for Haiti).

Pretty simple, really. You'd know pretty quickly whether it was viable.

Honestly, tax is the "lazy man's" way to raise revenue. "Let's just vote it in... then we don't have to justify it further."

I would cringe if my contributions to Wikipedia were mandatory. Yet Wikipedia is always able to raise the funds necessary to continue on their mission. But if they started preaching eternal damnation if you didn't contribute, I bet the contribution spigot would run dry.
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This is a GPLv3 problem, and it's not limited to Apple. v3 is incompatible with many existing business policies.

The trend of dumping GPL will continue in many of the for-profit tech businesses.
No. Apple currently don’t allow any browser engines apart from their standardised WebKit on iOS. This is why you can’t currently get Opera or Firefox on iOS (leaving aside Opera Mini which skirts the rules by running the engine on a proxy server).
Usernames with access to favorite bulletins, maybe even have short links like tinypic.com/TyukvI, something like that. That links to the bulletin post
Isn't J the inverse?
I'll second this. I tried setting one up on an Amazon micro instance, but in the end I had to use a small instance instead. Jenkins needs a lot of resources for that it does.
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IIRC, Browser's sync is just bookmarks. Chrome for Android also syncs open tabs and autocomplete suggestions from the desktop, bringing closer to Firefox Sync.
Mozilla introduced "Privacy Icons" (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy_Icons) a few months ago, which seems to have the same goals.

The main problem I see is that if these icons are just opt in, why would a company use them if it wasn't respecting a user's privacy? It would be similar to a website having a badge that proudly says "Invalid XHTML".

P3P (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P) tries to address a similar problem but in a machine-readable way.
Well, I think I could swing it. What kills me right now is not my meager salary, but rather that it takes so much damn time to acquire it. And most of that is unnecessary time. Working hard and playing hard is more my melody, I dislike the middle ground.
> The big difference is that Chromium is open-source
> while IE was not.

While certainly laudable -- how does that matter in practice? The drama surrounding IE5 would have unfolded in a similar manner if Microsoft's browser had been open source. It's about control and pushing for non-standard features, not development strategies...

Your second point stands, of course.
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>new IE5+ era

Only that Chromium and G Chrome are W3C compliant and don't try to force their own DOM rules onto everybody, like MS did until recently.
Does Apple allow any "full browser" on iOS? Opera Mini and Skyfire don't count.

I figure Firefox and Opera Mobile would've been there by now if they did.
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This is what many implementers of photo sharing sites don't get. (I didn't get it myself for a few years.) Flickr is a social network for photography enthusiasts. Just because another site puts photos on a web page doesn't mean it's a competitor. Especially Snapjoy, since automatic organization by date is more for pictures that tell your life story than for pictures that show your portfolio.
Are you implying Chrome will be the new IE on Android? It won't be if they keep it separated from the OS, like they do with all their other apps.
I guess I'm going against the flow but I didn't find his (calbucci's) post as disagreable as most commenters. As engineers, we learn stuff on the run our whole careers and we are rightfully upset when we don't get a job because we don't have something on our resume' that we feel/know we could pick up pretty quick. I get it.

But look at it from the startup founder's perspective. He's in a race and he can't really afford to take on someone who can "get in shape" after joining the team. He really needs someone who can start running right now.

I agree with most that the pay cut for worthless equity is a nonstarter though.
not correct, if Google ports their features back to Webkit and they are accepted by the Webkit project than yes you will see it on iOS as Apple uses the Webkit project.
Furthermore I don't think CC licenses are meant to be used for code: http://creativecommons.org/software
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It’s not a secret. We do monetize social discovery, and it’s great
Instagram has an API, and several sites use it to allow you to show your photos publicly if you so choose, albeit limited resolution (612x612).
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Ask HN: How to network?
Lots of advice highlights the importance of networking. (mainly for those who run a startup or a small business) I don't know how to network, I have no idea.

Any advice on how to do it?

- Local networking

- Online networking (I can't network locally since I'm located thousands of miles away from my target customers)
That is true, but Chrome is not the problem (it's merely a cause). Problem are web developers blocking their sites. Funny enough, Google being in the lead.
Fair enough, did you add the bit to the start of the article about 2.2 or do I just suck at reading and comprehension(in which case apologies)
:-) actually 1998 voids your argument for "building a kernel from scratch". It's not any more a new kernel in fact :)

see my other comment in this thread about the business case. Without a business case, any exciting project would eventually disappear.
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"Your boss should be fighting to make you recognized. That's a big part of his job. If he isn't making that effort, and if he isn't helping you find opportunities to be noticed, then you should look for a new boss who will."

Agreed, though I've come to learn that this isn't always going to happen. While you can certainly control what company you work for, you can't always control who you're going to have as a boss. And my old boss's behavior seems, to me, to be more the rule than the exception.

My strategy these days is to focus a considerable amount of effort on foolproofing my boss's ability to champion me. Regular, systemized communication prevents him from ever not knowing what I'm working on. Communication timed in advance of big "alignment" meetings, and other executive functions, ensures that I will be top of mind when he has occasion to discuss employees with other leaders. And so forth.

Ideally, yes, a boss should be fighting for his best employees. And if you're pretty sure you're one of his best employees, you should be giving him the ammunition he needs for the fight.
well, that's debatable. It annoys normal folks (who have to exchange money when going abroad) and businesses (who have to hedge against exchange rate changes). And in the end when shit goes down in Hungary it takes CZK down too.
Not yet, but that's my plan :) I'll setup CloudFlare soon, for the "go live" of my new startup this month.
Ironically, I do maintain a list of websites that I check every day for updates.

I think RSS is the greatest thing since sliced white bread, and it was killing me. I literally once spent an entire unemployed day reading what was in my reader. When I got to the end there was more, and I just kept rolling that rock up the hill. So that particular tool is wide open for abuse by me. "You can just skim the subject lines" never meant anything to me, it's all just so damned interesting.

My solution was to kill my reader, put a few "daily" bookmarks in my toolbar (this is one of them), and put a bunch of sites in an "often" folder which I'll browse when I have time. Which works better for me. Most people probably don't have this problem.
I wouldn't hold my breath for Chrome on iOS or Windows Phone. In both cases, the app store rules ban key features of Chrome (like the V8 JavaScript engine).

Google may well do something to address Windows Phone and/or iOS users, but it will probably be much closer to Firefox Home for iOS (which lets you explore your bookmarks, open tabs and history and then follow links in Mobile Safari) than it will be to Chrome for Android.
I don't see how it's in a manager's interest to not promote good work that their team members are doing. If your manager says to his/her superiors things like, "look at the talent that's thriving under my leadership", that's a good thing for everyone.
There's more here than zeroing memory.

People writing fast, single-threaded network stuff may see immediate value w/r to poll(), or any other situation where you need a packed, easily update-able list of things.
That sounds too juicy to ignore. If you find it, please post it here!
So, shyness is a social problem now?
Didn't Adobe already say that they will no longer develop Flash for mobile devices – so isn't this kind of self-evident?
It doesn't look as advanced as Collective Intelligence (the Python-based book which covers most of Ng's ML course), but it looks like a cool R introduction.
Did you try the de-duplicating on http://ourdoings.com/ and if so what didn't work about it?
Opera has strong roots in W3C as well, does it help them not getting blocked? No. And I'm not blaming Chrome. I said it will only deepen the problem. Web developers are the ones to blame. With Chrome taking huge majority of the market they will have it easier to justify themselves.
I have an early review copy if this book and know both the authors. It's good and I highly recommend it!
JetBlue or Delta? Which one is your startup going to be when it grows up?
My bad, sorry, looks like i need to work on my reading skills. Comment withdrawn.
Skimlinks has officially responded - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3566369
It's a great idea, but how is it a startup idea? Not every good project is necessarily a business.
If you're getting memory from the OS it's going to be initializing it for you, so no speedup. Otherwise you get memory as it was left by some other process, potentially leaking passwords or other sensitive information
Snapjoy automatically organizes using metadata, which Facebook strips out. That plus recompression make it difficult to detect duplicates from Facebook.
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Do people here have suggestions about how to best make vim screencasts? What would be the best way to capture key presses and their results in vim? Any recommendations? Since it's basically about text and key presses, I'd assume that one would choose slightly different tools than for more graphically oriented UIs.
This obsession with text editing efficiency is getting out of hand.
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I never saw someone using "nil" in JavaScript (even in a comment). I guess the author has a Ruby background.
Your calculation assumes that no browser natively supports WebP but you'd only need to send the .js and rendering time would only go up (noticeably) if the browser didn't support WebP natively so if your audience was 99% Chrome (& Opera & Android4+ & mobile apps that can include the C library etc.) then you'd be much more likely to use this fallback for the other 1% than than if it was 99% IE.

For the current WebP support figures globally it's about 3/10ths and Firefox support could double that to 6/10ths. I wonder if it already makes sense for Wikipedia?
I guess it comes down to the cost of double storage/transcode vs bandwidth.
I have a Galaxy Nexus, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but I find Flash works pretty well on the device.

Granted, I only use it for video content on sites like the BBC, but the underlying functionality is fine.

I don't think Flash has a future on mobile devices, but HTML5-based solutions aren't up to scratch for general use yet, so I don't think Adobe should throw in the towel just yet.
Honestly, a quick poll, does anyone actually still use PC Anywhere?
Why? Can you present a coherent argument against enabling flash that isn't just "I don't want to use it so nobody else should be allowed to"?
The tone among startup mavens is increasingly reminiscent of the odious arrogance of all the johnny-come-lately bandwagon jumpers that were crawling out of the woodwork in 1998, with the same lack of originality and hand-wavy business plans.

I think this is the fifth or six social health & fitness startup I've discovered this week.
Emotional Intelligence is not extroversion. There's plenty of extroverts with poor social skills, you call them "jackasses". And while social anxiety might be associated with introvertedness, not all introverts are shy.

Also, the division between introverts and extroverts is a Jung-era myth which got picked up by Myers-Briggs. Extroversion is a continuous variable (with most people being neither introverts nor extroverts), and is also contextual.

If people think there's a silver bullet for dealing with people (called "EQ" or "extroversion"), they're. EQ is a broad set of skills. They are probably correlated with general intelligence, but not strongly. I doubt they are all correlated with each other - in some context a certain trait (say - assertiveness) is a big advantage, in other contexts it can be a disadvantage. Some people are great in some situations, some people are flexible, and can adjust to many situations, and some people are losers in many situations, but it's not simple.

So I like that you've suggested a lot of different resources.
Given the context and the joking tone (complete with smiley), I think you're reading way too much into the comment. Given the devices ICS had been shipped on at the time, she could have just as easily said it was the first time in a year that they'd shipped Android on:

- a single-core device

- a device with a screen smaller than 4.5"

- a device with less than 720p resolution

- ...
for some people.
A followup to the AI class starts soon (I remember Feb 20 but can't find confirmation):

"Due to popular demand, we are teaching a follow-up class: AI for Robotics at www.udacity.com . Also due to popular demand, we now have a programming environment, so you can develop and test software. Our goal is to teach you to program a self-driving car in 7 weeks. This is a topic very close to my heart, and I am eager to share it with you. (This class builds on the concepts in ai-class, but ai-class is NOT required)."
The fact that you hired and then failed to fire for three years an employee of a given profession does not translate in any way to a general advise to never do business with lawyers.

It DOES, however, translate to a general advise to think hard about what skill sets your startup needs, and when.
You built it. How do you get users?
Say you built a web-based application that solves a problem. Practically, how do you get users?
Isn't there an extent to which forced deprecation of software like Flash might hasten the uptake of newer technologies like HTML5?

Fortunately iOS already did most of this on its own. But reduced support can always encourage more websites to move to HTML5.
Anybody with the chops to do meaningful work on the TCP/IP stack and the MS IDEs can pick up anything to do with web development in a month or maybe two. Brogrammers that only know web dev generally don't seem to realize that most of that work is on the pretty easy end of the difficulty spectrum unless you're working at Twitter scale or something.
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The uninitialized memory aspect is a good hook for an article, but the real meat of this data structure is that you get O(1) insertion, O(1) test/lookup, _and_ an O(1) clear operation. I was using a bit vector in a similar application, but clearing the bit vector was taking some time (I had to clear it inside my main loop). Swapping in the sparse array gave me a nice performance bump, even though it used 64 times the memory.
As much as I'd like to see HTML5 pushed for interactive content, it's not there yet. I can tell whenever Youtube gives me the HTML player because everything breaks. Apple's webplayer is even worse. I think the only good experience I've had with an HTML5 video player is on The Verge, and half the comments complain about it so it probably just works well on Chrome.

I think Flash still has a place in the current web, while we work on getting HTML up to snuff.
I failed typing class in 9th grade. Big fat "F".

Two years later I was touch-typing on my first computer, because I /had/ to in order to get the speed I wanted.

Motivation is wierd. :-)

[my handle, 'kabdib', is what comes out when you type my name and one hand is off home position]
Opera Mobile 11.5 is 286 + 8 fwiw.
Dolphin Mini 216 + 0.
1% of Android users is still at least a couple million. That's more than enough to get a reasonable pool of beta testers. By the time it gets out of beta, the Android release distribution will probably look quite different.
Depends on what I'm doing. If I'm writing out a lot of text, usually I'll stay hovered near the home row keys (but never resting my fingers on them). However, if I'm in vim, my hands spread apart some to give better access to Esc+Ctrl and Shift+:
I'd be interested. I don't quite fit the bill as I'm currently a director at a non-profit association serving the privacy profession, but have worked in and around startups for 20 years.

Why I want to participate: My current job has made me painfully aware of how many B2C startups are simply not paying attention to privacy laws, regulations and best practices. So much of it is simple for a startup to implement and really painful for an established organization. That makes for a ridiculously huge potential competitive advantages for those that get it right early.

My email is in my profile if anyone is interested and, coincidentally, for more specifics on this topic I'm writing a blog post that should be ready to go in a couple of days.
OK seriously that was some of the best support responses to a customer complaint I've read in a LONG time. The support person was super friendly, spoke to several devs internally to get a good resolution, and really tried their best to help this annoyingly persistent customer with their complaint. Calling them names is totally uncalled for here in my view.
Fortunately iOS already did most of this on its own.

By pushing everyone to apps? iOS is no shepherd in the movement to standardized, cross-platform solutions. It is probably the greatest setback the open web has faced in over a decade.
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two nitpicks: one, they're still supporting you developing mobile apps with Flash. two, they seemed to be hinting that their partners (i.e. Google in this case) would be allowed to take over development if they wished to. It seems Google don't want to (can't link directly to the relevant answer but search this page for Flash):

http://code.google.com/intl/fr/chrome/mobile/docs/faq.html
In scientific writing and inter-office memos the use of passive voice is strongly discouraged by pretty much every style guide. <smirk>

Sure, it's a stylistic choice, but one best adopted by writers whose purpose is entertainment, not conveying information. Active voice is nearly always simpler and clearer.
Coherent argument?

Sucks battery

Poor usability on touch interfaces

Memory hog

Buggy, leads to browser crashes
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Should designers learn to code? Who cares, as long as they’re curious.
Unless you think Google can negotiate exceptions to Apple's and Microsoft's respective store rules (or, more impressively, convince them to change the rules), we're not going to see Chrome for iOS or Windows Phone anytime soon (if ever).
Same experience -- Flash works close to perfectly on my Galaxy S II.

This isn't a technology move, however, but rather is a revenue move: Adobe makes no money from Flash, but instead makes money from authoring tools. The lack of an iOS target is killing the authoring tools on the Flash side (who would build a new site or delivery mechanism using Flash when you know it cuts out a huge portion of the market?). So Adobe is refocusing on HTML5 tools.

Even though Flash is useful today, Google doesn't want to inherit the cost and risk of developing it on mobile so....no more Flash.
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You pretty much described how I type. My hands may fly all over the keyboard, but 1.) I don't need to look at the keys, and 2.) I'm pretty fast. Ergo, I don't think there's a problem. (Not counting when I have to use a keyboard with those big keys and make an awful lot of noise.)
Poor usability? What does that even mean in this context?

Flash allow you to create any kind of interface and experience you want.
I agree, but as another poster said, the technology simply isn't there.

I haven't tested an iPhone 4S yet, but I did develop some javascript canvas based animations for some time, and the performance was extremely poor. The old benchmark I used was http://themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2010/03/22/ I believe, and I have yet to see HTML outperform flash on it.
Personally, I am not a fan of these lookma-my-interpreter-in-zero-lines stuff. Take a look at http://norvig.com/lispy.html. Bigger, but well engineered.
These are all current arguments against HTML animations as well as Flash.

HTML also supports a 'mouseover' element, just as Flash does, so I don't consider that to be a strong argument.
BTW the HTC Hero supported tethering since Android 1.5, hence why i was confused. I didn't realise it was vendor specific before 2.2 because it seems all factory unlocked HTC's(and some carrier locked ones) have supported tethering since 1.5 without rooting.

http://insidesprintnow.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/hero_gsg....

Lol, had to look it up for my own piece of mind, i was sure i could remember tethering on my old Hero back in the day.