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> Google declared Flash dead in Chrome for Android.

I'm not part of Google, but i have been studying Native Client pretty closely. I think Google's interest here is that Native Client is designed from the ground up for security. They are happy for Flash to operate through Native Client (which is what the "Pepper" API interfaces), because that largely obviates the security issues it poses.

This is excellent news for web security. It will force other browsers to at least implement the Pepper API. Hopefully it will encourage them to use Native Client as well.
Twitter should again implement the verification of accounts.
I cannot agree more. Has it always been like this or is this a recent change? I thought I remembered a time in which clicking "News" did keep your old search term but I cannot be sure. In any case, this behavior has been a bane to me since I discovered it.
It's funny that "unauthorised" copying of not freely available material has value whereas "unauthorised" copying of freely available material has nearly zero value (you could just copy/download the original).

So, effectively, by putting up DRM and copy protected content, they make up themselves the whatever value "piracy" has.
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That's an interesting approach, but how many potential employers would raise an eyebrow if you mentioned having kids or being a social person as your greatest weakness? I know it would smell like BS to me.
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Overdoing it? Nah. When I see a vim hack that I like it is just a quick key combo away to make it so.
Netflix/Hulu aren't making these decisions unilaterally. They have to meet DRM requirements set by the Studios.

You seem to want to demonize Netflix/MS/Google/Hulu for this but I'm having a hard time doing so when they seem to be trying to evolve standards to meet current market conditions.
>I haven’t actually described how you should answer the question What is your greatest weakness?

I can know yours; misleading blog post titles, and not answering the question.

If you wish to talk about 'what i think about stupid interview question X' then call it that.

But you don't get to choose your interview questions, and others here have actually given some insight into answering this question (use it to bring up your needs, to ask them tough questions, etc).
A great page about sleep cycles is this one
http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic.htm
Job interviews are my greatest weakness. I never seem to do well at them.
Probably because Native Client on ARM isn't as well-developed.

http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/reference/arm-overview#...
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I've noticed that the past couple months or so. It used to correctly keep your search term across categories.
Talk to them to find out?
Were database transactions continuing while the terminal was non-responsive? Yes. Thus, its not really crashed.
WebRTC <http://www.webrtc.org/>; development is ongoing between Google, Mozilla, and Opera. You can try it out in the latest Chrome canary/dev channel.
I agree that it could get tedious, but I'm compartmentalized (not OCD ;-) enough in how I do things, that it has worked well for me so far.

Your XUL apps approach sounds interesting. Can you offer any pointers on what you do and how others could do it too?
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I know i can download pdf/ppt (actually I can also just watch the truncated slides and guess what's there, you can understand 95-99% of what's written) but I think all these problems make the course a bit less professional than it should be
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Amazing advancement for medicine, but frightening potential bioweapon.
I have this weird sleep pattern, where I sleep from around 5pm-7pm or 7.30pm without an alarm clock, I am sleeping very deeply, always dreaming and really hard to wake me up (I don't notice the phone ringing right next to me) and then I'm sleeping from 1am to 6am, where I usually don't remember dreaming and where I wake up very easily
I'm unsure what you mean by this phrase: "The only thing this does is give blessing to break principles of universal computing."

By Universal Computing, are you referring to accessibility on the web? Platform accessibility?
Good Points Corford...

>Some sort of Geneva Convention style treaty (but with more binding teeth) that lays out a list of fundamental principles and rights for the internet that all countries agree to adhere i.e. go over the head of the ITU.

That'll be awesome...

ISP's have to be located in countries... I wonder if it's feasible to launch a "Free Internet" satellite or something...
Actually the best way would be to write a facade which would allow him to change between implementations -- so he could switch between his custom LRU, Redis and any mixture he he wrote later (say a custom version of memcache or memcacheDB).
A nice and tidy way to generate a ssh key for a single service: http://retrieve.tumblr.com/post/228790418/create-ssh-key-for...

I have one for github, one for gitorious, one for each of my remote servers, one for for my university lab boxen, etc. You should as well.
Yes, "Ignorance". He was "ignorant" of the possibility. When you call somebody ignorant, for being ignorant of something, this is not an insult, it is a statement of fact. I don't know where you got "righteous indignation" from. There is nothing righteous about my saying he is ignorant, and there was no anger or annoyance, so I don't know where you got "indignation" from.

"Some of us are completely aware of what Google does"

And most are not. And that was my point. At no point did I state that 100% of people are unaware of what Google does, so I don't know why you felt the need to add that tidbit.

"Seeing some personalized ads in exchange for access to all the world's information seems like a fair trade-off to me."

Not really relevant to anything I said. (EDIT:) However, if "seeing some personalized ads," is the only cost you can imagine, then I'm afraid that Google is benefiting from your ignorance too. Here are two more costs:

1.) If your account is compromised, your search history is compromised and could be used against you

2.) If you get in legal trouble, your search history could be used against you

"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged"
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I don´t see how he insulted, he´s just pointing a fact. Voiceover quality is not exceptional.

Fiverr is not a direct competitor either, you can get all sorts of things there apart from voiceovers, for example you can get book covers, video recordings of people writing whatever you want on their body, pictures of your logo in front of the taj mahal... its quite cool.
This was mind-blowing. In some ways it was also a huge troll, getting a bunch of real geeks and professionals to give a standing ovation to dubstep like that :-).

At the actual conj, it was surreal.
i'm basically immune to caffeine, afaict.

i frequently come home late, drink a diet coke or whatever, and head straight to bed. i've gone back and forth between drinking a six pack of diet mountain dew a day and nothing and never noticed a difference. i can slam two bottles of Bawls (160mg) or eat 3 Fooshes (http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/6e27, >300mg total) and still take (and want) a nap.

if i gave myself anything close the amount of sleep i appear to be capable of taking, i'd never be up to get anything done....
The other element is that mobile devices are optimised for power consumption / battery life and also for heat output. Desktop devices generally have neither of these concerns, unless they strive to be 'green' or fanless products.
Definitely a good thing. Given the timing, I'd optimistically say that they might want Leap to be demoed or featured at the iPad 3 launch.

As an aside, you probably don't want to piss Apple off by asking HN about it in public!
"OSX is the best OS. MacVim is the best editor. Zsh is the best shell. Pry is the best irb. Solarized is the best color scheme."

This is hilarious. No, thanks.
> 4 hour intervals

What about those 90 minute cycles that are also commonly cited in popular sleep-advice? Those wouldn't work into a 4hour schedule.
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I wonder if this will eventually intersect with the gamification trends. This article had me imagining a crude augmented reality MMO, routine tasks are assigned point values and so are items for purchase. Walking through the store you could see that Sara Lee white bread nets you 100xp, paying your mortgage on time, Bank of America has awarded you 1000xp. A look at someone and the HUD displays their level and point value along with their various badges. Of course check-ins will be automatic.

I doubt this iteration will be very advanced, but the article definitely made me think.
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My line would be (and I suspect many HNers):

- I need to be intellectually challenged or else I get bored.
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There's no reason to run an out of date flash plugin. You can enable click-to-play for flash in the chrome settings. It's in the content settings area of the "under the hood" section I believe.
You'll note that I made no statement regarding the goodness or the badness of tracking. I merely stated that Googles business model relies on the majority of people not being aware of the tracking, or not caring enough to disable it.
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I'm pretty sure the other person is Paul Betts. They are working on Github for Windows (i.e. a Windows version of what they've done with Github for Mac).
19 is too many. I use one: NERDTree, and I bind Leader-n to NERTTreeToggle. It's invaluable to me.
The most annoying part of Google's UI is changing email settings inside Gmail, and I know I'm not alone in this... On the top right, there's a link for your name, a link for your avatar, and THEN below those the most important one you probably want (that wheel icon): the email settings link. So annoying!

I don't care about changing my Google Plus or account settings if I'm in Gmail. I wanna set up filters or setup aliases. Why is the email settings link not prominently featured? I always end up clicking the wrong link when I want to change email settings. Also, don't get me started on creating a filter. That used to be 1-click and DONE in the old settings, now it's like finding Waldo. Ridiculous.
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But so what? The browser needs access to the picture to display it, so there is no way to prevent the browser from saving the picture to a file.
I'm just pushing the responsibility of action from Google et al to the W3C. I don't blame Netflix for wanting a better way to stream DRM'd videos. I would blame the W3C if they allowed Netflix to dictate what video on the web will consist of, for better or for worse.
I guess researchers dubbed it, "the whole of the article from line 10, word 7 through the end?
Huh. Your list of the greatest problems of online dating sum up why online dating really works for me.

1. I'm really, really verbally oriented. If you're not at least decent with words, which usually carries over into being a pretty good writer, that conversation would peter out pretty quickly, whether it started online or not. The people I'd be interested in anyway appear to have plenty of personality.

2. I don't have a picture up on my profile. I recommend this to every girl that bitches to me about online dating. I therefore get almost none of the "Hurr, you're cute, wanna go out?" messages, and when I do, they're obvious dumb spam cause, well...no picture. If someone messages me/replies to a message from me, it's because they think I'm fun.
What I find really shocking is how the UX of the main google search page has deteriorated for me. It gives me all sorts of crap that doesn't make any sense ... and I don't even know how to complain since all the content is personalized to me (e.g. photographs). Google's search page used to be an Internet treasure ... for me, it is now another example of how the quest for revenue growth destroys beautiful products.
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Slightly related question: It seems zsh is gaining in popularity. What is the learning curve like coming from bash? Is it a "superset" of bash or completely different?
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I really, really don't care about their relationship with their business partners. And you should not care about this too. If they are pushing for standards that limit our freedom, I will blame them. From my point of view, they should pressure "Studios" to get rid of DRM for their own good. If they instead make us suffer from DRM I will demonize them as much as I can with the goal of informing public of their evil actions and/or taking them out of business.
For vim I really like the github color theme: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2855. I do use solarized for my term though.
Mac OS X probably didn't happen first because there are way more desktop Mac OS X users than there are desktop Linux users...
None of the open source browsers will be able to include the DRM in their source code anyway, so how different is it from downloading a proprietary plugin?

I assume this will be something that is available in Chrome and Safari but not Chromium and WebKit, etc.
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> Basically I have to install Chrome and explain why videos
> and other stuff work only on Chrome.

Starting 5 years from now, when Adobe actually drops support for Flash on Linux, right?

We'll see how much video and other stuff still requires Flash in 5 years. With any luck, not much.
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I wish for a higher contrast as well. That's really unfortunate because that's one of the theme which is nice, well thought and ubiquitous.

Right now I'm using Molokai.
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"In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month."

'Plunging' people into 14 hours of darkness per day? Does this sound like a scientifically sound way to determine the natural sleeping patterns of humans?
If I'm feeling lucky, I point out that my nick name in prep school was 'hubris' and that I earned it :)
Based on other comments in this thread, it sounds like less of "Adobe supporting Chrome" than "Google using its source license for Flash to keep supporting Chrome on Linux". And yes, presumably at least in part due to Chromebooks.
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> If you can use a local in-process data-store (sqllite, levelDB, BDB etc) you’ll be winning massively.

Hold on just a sec. SQLite? Isn't that essentially equivalent to saying "If you never have to concern yourself with database locking, you'll be winning massively?" How can we be talking about scalability and SQLite in the same article?
With this I agree.
Often when you wake up after sleeping longer than usual (say more than 9 hours) you feel tired because of dehydration. Your body loses a fair bit of water while you sleep, so that might be reason you feel bad after a lie-in.
This is not a snide comment, I'm truly curious. What is the point of "An [x] parser/interpreter/compiler written in [x]." I've seen one now for JS and this one for PHP. I lean more toward the sponge learning [1] side of HN, so forgive me if this is super obvious.

[1] http://alexrosen.com/blog/2011/05/sponge-learning/

edit: grammar.
I presume you're aware of US history in terms of its "self-serving" acknowledgement (or rather, lack thereof) of foreign copyrights etc.?
Also interesting is how Sprouter have featured London-based Housebites today (and managed to spell their name wrong in their email blast...)

If you have seen it, Housebites is awesome! http://housebites.com
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"Other browsers" have already commented why things like Native Client are absolutely a no-go area. As far as I can tell, the arguments against Pepper run much along the same lines - being dependent on Native Client sure won't help.

If you see the arguments against Native Client, it's also obvious using it to be able to keep supporting Flash would be rather...ironic.
The guy who did this study spent 20 years. He found 500 'references to segmented sleep'. One of which being a painting depicting people not sleeping and sleeping simultaneously.

That's less than one reference every 2 weeks. Either that guy had the most relaxing job in the world, or it is genuinely difficult to find such references.
Assuming the latter to give the researcher the benefit of the doubt here;
how deep do you have to look before you start to think that maybe this isn't actually that common after all?

Also, how the bbc title reflects this study is beyond me.
Why can't the battery just be simply disconnected?
This guy has something to say about that kind of thing:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jesse_schell_when_games_invade_real...

Worth listening to, it gets kind of scary toward the end.
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And the link to the project: http://www.photoshopwireframingkit.com/WireframingIcons.html

What do you think?
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Are the Motorola patents in the Microsoft case "FRAND" or "standard essential"?

The story seems to use the two interchangeably, but there's a difference. In one case Motorola has promised to do something (however fuzzy that promise is) in the other the patent regime gives them the right to block the standard just as they could any other use of the patented idea and they've not necessarily entered into a previous agreement to do otherwise.
People seem to spend a lot of time trying to get PHP to be more like Rails, Django, Node/Express, Play and similar, people seem to think it's OK for the entire application to need to be re-initialized on every request (LazyLoading classes) instead of just running the setup once and then handling requests. PHP has it's advantages but why re-invent the wheel using marshmallows?
I'll speak from experience that the buying/reselling on Craigslist will be hard in smaller metros, especially ones where you have to drive far to get between buyers/sellers. The gas costs alone could eat away at your profit.

When I lived in Seattle, WA, I would buy/resell everything from stereo equipment and sporting goods to high end office chairs and make about $500 - $1,500/month with about 10 hours of work a week. Goodwill and thrift stores were gold mines but YMMV.
I had a gift card to burn on googlestore.com last evening.
Noticed pages like this one http://imgur.com/6Y1nO
which is apparently a failed search for a category, that simulantaneously has 0 matches and six pages. Same thing happens
when I click on the big Youtube merch logo at the top of all pages there.

I was clicking around my google profile today (to remove history etc) and found broken links to google products there.

I remember when it was simple and perfect..
The New York Times took on this topic a few years back in a very good article that argued that the whole idea of the 8-hour sleep was invented by the mattress industry (and other purveyors of sleep products), and that humans don't need anywhere near 8 hours of continuous sleep.

Ironically, all of the industry's marketing makes people anxious about getting enough sleep--and makes it harder for them to get to sleep (thus propagating the need for more expensive mattresses and pillows.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18sleep-t.html?pa...
"You will like it! You will get used to it! I know what's best!" The designers will scream to their users.

This may be, just the beginning.

It's not just the "+" missing from the new tab button or the logo issue, it's a LOT of things. Gmail's new "blank sheet of paper" look. The annoying notifications of Google+ that follow you around. I just logged into analytics yesterday and saw the new redesign and I just... my jaw literally dropped. Who the Hell did this?! Is this is a joke? A bad dream? What did we do? Who at Google did we piss off to deserve this? More importantly what's going on in the world of design? Everywhere I look I see designs that look like the crap I used to turn out.

For a moment I even ventured to think that maybe that radioactive water from Japan finally hit the west coast in full force.

Google's new redesign combined with Kotaku, Gawker, and TechCrunch's new redesign, Ubuntu's Unity and Gnome's, and the new Yahoo mail is making 2011 + 2012 the beginning of an era of atrocious UI. Even Microsoft is joining in, by removing the start button. Maybe the designer shortage last year caused companies to hire up a lot of beginner designers.

More likely this is all because Steve Jobs passed away and now every designer in town is trying to take his place. The king of UX has died, the throne is up for grabs, and everyone's eyeing it. Desperately trying to mimic Steve's "forcefully creative" attitude and ignoring all logic and design laws, these new designers are hell bent on overly simplifying and minimizing every interface until there's nothing left. Desperate for fame and glory the designers will infiltrate every company they can find that's hiring. "You will like it! You will get used to it! I know what's best!" The designers will scream to their users.

I bet you it will get worse.
My two biggest annoyances with Gmail:

One of my accounts has this bar at the top reminding me that a couple accounts are linked. It says this notice will remain for a few days, then disappear... it's been there now for 3 or 4 months.

Secondly, Gmail auto-trims signatures. This is annoying by itself, because I don't think Google should get to decide, by fiat, that signatures are passe. Worse, the trimming often trims much more than intended -- sometimes whole messages. It's totally unprofessional when e-mails to clients & partners go out sans signature, closing, and the bottom half of my e-mail.

Naturally, getting a hold of Google for help with this is a laughable Sisyphean endeavor.