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I generally like the way Firefox implements the sidebar, but there's one problem with it - it doesn't work well with websites that expect horizontal gestures. For example, a drawing app wouldn't work very well.
No, the change you're thinking of is when Debian's maintainers managed to comment out the "secure" part of it's cryptographic secure random number generator, thus ensuring that SSH would only generate keys from a trivially small range of possible values. That change had nothing to do with the fundamental difficulty of generating random numbers.

The fix for not leaking timing from your comparison is trivial. Either double-hash, or use a timing-independent comparison function like the accumulator XOR function upthread.

It does nobody any favors to spread drama and FUD over what is in fact a simple and easily fixable problem.
"The U.S. has the second-highest statutory corporate income tax rate in the developed world. Despite anecdotes regarding a few companies that exploit the dubious carve-outs in the tax code to minimize their tax liabilities, the results of 13 unique studies of the effective tax rate on corporate investment across the globe show that the average U.S. effective corporate tax rate, like the statutory rate, is nearly the highest in the world."

"The most recent studies show that the average effective corporate tax rate for corporations headquartered in the U.S. is roughly 27 percent, while the average of other nations is about 20 percent. The effective average rate for new investment in the U.S. is roughly 29.8 percent, 7.4 point above worldwide competition."

http://taxfoundation.org/article/us-corporations-suffer-high...
I would imagine you have to try a different password each time.
He sounds like a douchebag to be honest. The article reads like he's already made it as a success yet there are no specifics to anything he's actually done. Is he even receiving any salary for his position at the firm?
As well as the comments below, side navigation allows a consistent UX between phones and tablets - just on tablets, the navigation bar is always visible.
This is really what has kept me from giving Haxe a try so far. It's just extremely painful to go back to curly braces and semicolons after years of writing noise-free code with e.g. Python, CoffeeScript and Haskell.

I know it sounds superficial, but I'd love a CoffeeScript-like alternative syntax for Haxe. That would probably elevate it to the number one language choice for game programming for me.
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The criticism of AngularJS is a little vague to me - "codebase appears to be fairly sprawling and not very modular. Views are not modular enough (will address this in more detail in the cons of Batman.js)." I'm not sure how it isn't "modular" or how views/components aren't reusable.

AngularJS is possibly best-of-breed in the engineering aspect in my unqualified opinion, and I expect to properly use and deploy it once its documentation and cookbook are fully beefed up.
I've heard in some countries, it's cheaper to buy a cordless drill with a battery pack, then the battery pack alone, because batteries have a huge duty, but cordless drills (even including batteries) aren't.
The 12.1% effective tax rate being claimed in multiple posts here is a temporary number due to a one time tax break for 2010 and 2011 that will expire. After which the effective US corporate tax rate will skyrocket back up to around 25% to 26% or so. And it's worth noting, it's a front loaded expensing, versus expensing over a period of years, so that 12.1% is completely deceiving.

"In 2010 and 2011, companies were allowed to deduct the full cost of the purchases of new equipment, while normally these costs would be expensed over several years. In 2012, this deduction will go down to 50% and be eliminated altogether thereafter, causing the effective tax rate to return to roughly the 25.6% average effective tax rate corporations paid since the late 1980s, according to CBO forecasts."

http://business.time.com/2012/02/06/the-corporate-tax-rate-i...
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I disagree. If you type just "facebook" into the location bar in either Firefox or Chrome, it searches Google for that term and produces Facebook as the first result. This is probably how countless people get to FB. Therefore the reduction in searches is likely to reflect people spending less time on the site.

Also, it'd be consistent with this Reuters poll that showed 34% of users spending less time on FB than 6 months ago (however, 20% reported spending more time): http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/05/net-us-facebook-su...
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I've seen this page before, it's a good read. Friscans had a good sense of humour, bless them.

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I buy a fair bit of stuff from Amazon, but it's hard for me to spend more than 10 minutes on the site without wanting to punch the monitor. Now, don't get me wrong. I love the attention to detail in every other part of their business. It's just their website (and similar things, like the abysmal Amazon MP3 app for Android) that are the problem.

I hate that I need to log in 3 times within the space of 5 minutes as I hit different parts of the site that apparently are considered more and more sensitive.

I hate the way they keep on misleadingly suggesting that items might be eligible for free shipping when they aren't (every possible signal from the user profile to ip geo-location should be indicating that I'm the wrong country for that).

I despise the way they keep on defaulting me back to paying in the wrong currency with their rip-off "amazon currency converter" with worse exchange rates than my credit card.

I can't believe that in this day and age they aren't able to synchronize anything except the most rudimentary profile data across their different domains. So the US site will keep on recommending a DVD I've already bought off the UK site, and the UK one will nag me about rating a book that I've already rated on the US one.

That's just a few things off the top off my head, not some long held grudge list.
That's what my whole comment was all about. Automatic generation of strongly-typed classes. Code completion. Compile-time type checking. Well-defined and strongly-typed API contract. Anything you want me to clarify?
Thanks for posting the link... that was a fascinating and illuminating link. Bookmarked in case someone else needs it later. +1
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I know insurance covers it; I'm wondering how they determine what situations are likely to be fraudulent. Is customer history involved? My parents have never ordered from Amazon; if the same thing happens to them on their first purchase, what would the resolution be?
Perhaps not. But let's say that I patent some technology that uses as it's basis another idea that is patented. Then I develop some technology based on this. I then license that technology. Then someone else creates a patent based on my patent and then licenses it from me.

So here is where I perhaps get a little confused. Is this allowed? If you can't refine an idea, then this restricts innovation. If I can refine the idea and then patent it, does this mean that any license costs must go only to me? Or do I have to pay a portion of these license costs to the original patent I have derived my ideas from?

Option 1: Can't refine a patent. Result: restriction of innovation and trade.

Option 2: You can refine a patent, but don't have have to license this to the original patent author. Result: you can bypass patents. The whole system becomes pointless.

Option 3: You can refine a patent, but you must pay part of the license you charge to the original patentee. Result: Costs increase for each patent license.
Ask HN: why do Twitter and Youtube use mottled/noisy background images?
I recently noticed a trend of websites using slightly mottled patterns for their backgrounds. Off the top of my head, Twitter's menubar comes to mind, as well as Youtube's whole background. I just noticed that Firefox has used a similar pattern on its "speed dial" startup page in version 13. To make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, I opened up the image files in the GIMP, zoomed in, and used a color picker. Sure enough, there is a somewhat random color variation throughout the patterns.

So the question is, why not use smooth backgrounds and gradients? Is there some sort of aesthetic advantage to the noise?

My dad, who worked in the automotive business, told me that the reason car manufactures put tiny swatches of many different colors on the upholstery of the seats is that it has the unexpected effect of being able to match many different exterior colors. So, I'm wondering if there is a similar principle at play here.
Since we're drawing weird analogies with technology platforms anyways,

Refactor refactor refactor. Sure, tech companies have the grand luxury of having fewer stakeholders to be accountable to, but surely it's possible to refactor, refine, and reduce the tax code every so often?
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May I ask you regarding the percentages you get from the desktop Linux vs Win vs MacOSX sales?
Never expected how the tech giant approved that in first place.
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> Does anyone know how the PyPy implementation differs

It differs significantly in that the whole interpreter works under STM, it's not just an API.

> Is it just laying the groundwork for leveraging hardware transactional memory support, or is the thesis that this will eventually become usable directly?

It's a development project at this point (you can — and should — check the backlog on pypy's blog), but the goal is to have it usable directly and pave the groundwork for HTM/
Being forced to work on a big consultancy company, specialized in outsourcing, makes me sad reading this type of blogs.

If you want to outsource development, at least keep it inside your country.

Outsourcing to countries were cheap work and poor working conditions rule, just leads to exploitation of people. Sadly very few, get to improve their life conditions.

I for one, wouldn't like to have my company's success tied to such situations.
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Not to get into the argument (if you can't understand the difference between copyright infringement and theft, good luck), but the suggestion that no one would create work without copyright is absurd.

Plenty of music is released for free, many photographers are happy just to have someone see their work, and lots of software is written with very permissive licenses.

Remember, the entire point of copyright is to benefit society by having more works available to the public. That's it. I don't believe it's proven that we need strong (or any?) copyright in order for this to happen.
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That wouldn't have been as good a headline.
This is common with people that don't know anything else. So they build biased metrics to put one framework in the spotlight and satisfy their want for using the framework vs learning more about others or building the knowledge to roll their own.

Sure, use a framework, let's not reinvent the wheel. But my biggest peev is when I look at a project with every framework imaginable, using a small portion of it's functionality. I guess this is where the "plays nicely with others" metric is important for these individuals. "It doesn't matter if we load 10 frameworks in the DOM as long as everything works" -Retarded Developer
It's more IRS enforcement risk, you can interpret something incorrectly and the IRS will penalize you with usually crazy penalties.
I agree that those helped, but when the people around me started using facebook was right around the time "Social Network" came out in Japan.

I used to be on Mixi, and I and most people I know have pretty much stopped using it. When they started tying in their services to other APIs like Twitter, etc, I think is when they really jumped the shark.

(Also, Mixi is not really a Facebook clone, per say, as they both launched in the same month. I would say they were just another SNS that was more geared towards the Japanese market)
This article was last updated January 14, 2012. Since then, a number of real-time JavaScript frameworks have been released, like Meteor, Derby, and Firebase. You can't have a complete picture of the JS framework landscape without these newcomers.

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I still don't understand why they use this one click hoster, which have a waiting time and limited download rate instead of bittorrent. The files are large enough and I think enough people would seed it. Decentralization is an important point for such data leaks as well.
I think it's hilarious that 2 of the 3 comments on the gist are about how he formatted his Markdown. sigh

I think MessagePack is great. Good for him for trying to make something better. He openly admits it's not better all the time. Why not help?
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A rather lazy piece, in my opinion. It doesn't deliver any new or critical analysis of Facebook or anything to do with it. Rather, it simply compiles previous articles written about the social network into a single, pessimistic piece. It's a lame literature review.
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Used this article before and he completely misrepresents SpineJS. Asynchronous UIs do not need an algorithm such as operation transform (the technology behind Google Wave). OT is about collaboration in a federated network. SpineJS does not, in a typical case, deal with such scenarios and thus the asynchronous UI can and is handled by a simple queuing system.
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I've actually reread my comment, and I concede the point.
I don't get it.

We provide free and custom made cheatsheets...

Ok, great. Next page:

...and I'm willing to pay up to US$...

Clarify the concept for me. Am I meant to bring these into an interview as a reference point or are these to be used in advance to help me prepare? If it's the former then I can tell you, as someone who has interviewed hundreds of people over the years, someone glancing over these in an interview would leave a terrible impression.

Finally, on your about us page you have the following:

Faisal used to be terrible at interviewing, but over the past 3 years, and with over 500 interviews under his belt (on both sides of the table) he's gotten pretty good at it.

The instant impression I get from this is that Faisal is terrible at interviews. It's not the most convincing argument.
BSON isn't meant to be compact, it's meant to be quick and efficient to serialize and deserialize. You store it inside MongoDB as bindata, and you'll save space.
I loved this discussion and I learned a lot from reading the responses.
I have a side project that is not profitable but has been around for almost 4 years. It's called Ben's Friends (http://bensfriends.org/) and we build patient support groups for people with rare diseases (here is our 60 second video: http://youtu.be/YBeRFnJkleU).

It's almost impossible to monetize a patient support site, especially for rare diseases, so I've known for a long time we wouldn't make money. However, we've become one of the largest patient support networks on the Internet. I've put a lot of my money into it and we've run out of money many time, but something good always happens and we stay afloat.

Here is some unsolicited advice:

-Keep your side project alive for as long as you enjoy it. You never know how things will change. When we started there was no such thing as crowdfunding. Last year we managed to pay all the bills through an IndieGoGo campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/Bens-Friends-Builds-Support-Groups-... - we never dreamed Crowdfunding would exist, now it's our lifeblood. Reading through many of the responses below, they are public service projects. It's very likely you could do at least a small crowdfunding to pay the bills if you need it.

-Who cares if you don't make money? You get to do something you love. That makes you incredibly lucky. Also, almost every person here has tons of opportunities so you can make money on something else. Again, that makes you lucky.

-Change the way you measure success. Most people measure success with money. Since we weren't going to make any money on Ben's Friends, we started measuring how many thank you emails we received every day. I get about 25 thank you notes a day - completely unsolicited. Your measurement may be usage, or reach or whether your girlfriend likes your app. Whatever it is, focus on that. It will make you a lot happier than money.

-If you are going to do something that doesn't make a lot of money, do it with a partner. It will be more fun, you'll pick each other up when things are down, and with both of you brainstorming and iterating, there is a much better chance it will get traction and eventually become something. Ben's Friends never would have gone anywhere without my partner, Ben Munoz. Good partnerships turn into great friendships and they are one of the best things about starting something.

Hope this helps. thanks for posting a great question.
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If a group of people can hack together a working MacOS Classic environment for BeOS (http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/) without source-code for the all-important ROM, there's nothing implausible about this story at all.

The task of porting and keeping an OS under active development ported is no small task but certainly within the capability of a talented, knowledgable engineer.
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I wonder the same thing (I didn't even notice the Firefox background). When Youtube changed its background to mottled it was a bit surprising. Does the texture give a better experience?

Interesting point about upholstery colouring, though I doubt it's the case for these web textures. They're really too subtle to have a strong impact on overall colour balance and matching (IMO).
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Here's a writeup from an ex-member, who was pretty high up in the org at one point and saw most of what can be seen, describing his experiences since having left. Sure, the whole organisation is unlikely to be "evil", but most religious sects gave up this stuff a while ago. Try to imagine any vaguely normal religion doing this. In a time when people give Google or Microsoft a hard time for being evil, this redefines the term.

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Neither have I. That says much.

In general, I dislike having anything to interact with in upper left corner. Hard to reach.