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> How likely is it to turn random strangers into friends? Seems to me a better strategy would be to do things where meeting people would already signal a common interest.

You're absolutely correct. That's why Grubwithus has themed meals and local interest groups (that regularly host meals). The idea of bringing people together over a shared interest has been incredibly well received, and generally results in higher quality conversation etc.
If you would bother to read the full thread as well as PHK's position proposal you'd see that removing cookies brings more than a tiny benefit. The overall flavor of his proposal is to reify a concept of session and by that eliminate redundant communication. At the same time we get substantial wins in security.
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So why hasn't that happened in China?
I'm curious too :)

I admit I've neglected it a bit recently, but I'd be happy to have contributors.
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Could you elaborate? What justification would I be ignoring? Closed source runtime? Bad flash programmers? Plugin hate? Anecdotal "flash always breaks my computer" type stuff?

Re: second point, I disagree. Being better than alternatives makes something very good--better than everything else in fact. What you're saying is good is actually some kind of fairy tale perfect that doesn't exist and never will.

I mean, hey, use whatever you want, but have you ever written a flash application? And if so, what are the key problems?
I'm not very sure, but the first thing that popped into my head was Blender. Java based and has quite a large community. A lot of tutorials, howtos etc.

I'm by no means a guru though.
I wonder if this is payment for the presidents support for SOPA?

Obviously not directly and previously negotiated, but maybe an I scratch you, you scratch me situation?
StringBuilder or not StringBuilder that is the question...
>Has any company ever worked harder to get people to stop using one of its products?

Wouldn't that be a compliment to the company???
Source to source solves the problem where the only way to ship for certain platform is to compile only with the toolchain provided.

The Unity3D engine for example uses Mono's AOT (C#) to produce a very big assembly file (.S) which later goes through apple's own (or is it gnu's) as (assembler).
Exposure to different subjects is good, but there are better, cleaner languages to use for introducing concepts of programming such as variables, functions, algorithms, and data structures without taking up students' attention with syntax and boilerplate that has nothing to do with the lesson being taught.

Compare these hello world programs for instance:

Java:

public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello, world!");
}
}

Python:

print "Hello, world!"

Ruby:

puts 'Hello, world!'
Just wait until the ad industry has caught up on to HTML5 and when they'll produce massively CPU intensive banners and other crap with HTML5. Its for the same reasons the the Flash player CPU utilization was capped in browsers, the same thing will happen for HTML5.
As always during this particular debate, there comes a time when perhaps a distinction between Apple Legal and Apple R&D would enrich the discussion.

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Neo4j is in Malmo (http://www.neotechnology.com/2012/05/neo-technology-is-hirin...)

You can check out The Duffy Agency (English language ad-agency in Malmo), no idea what their hiring situation is. Very nice team of guys.
Going to be great to hear about how they built their high availability stack!
If you're a scientifically minded skeptic, I'd encourage you to read this book on the UFO phenomenon:

http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Offici...

It's a very good read. Also, in all UFO threads there should be a disclaimer that you are not making a point by pointing out that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object not Alien Spaceship; most people when referring to the truly unexplainable cases use them interchangeably since extraterrestrial origin is one of the few hypotheses that are consistent with the evidence, though it's never obviously conclusive.
Even though it's sharper, that does almost nothing if the text is too small to read comfortably.. Cramming a PDF into a 7 inch screen is not going to work as well as on a 10 inch screen.
Like someone else says downthread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4253475):

(1920 * 1080) / (2880 * 1800) = 0.4
Your 1080p 15" display contains just 40% of the pixels of a single Retina 15" display. They even showed this in the demo. They edited a 1080p video in Final Cut at full resolution and there was plenty of room left for UI elements.

---

Retina stuff isn't supposed to be remarkable just because the resolution is higher. It's remarkable because there are drastically more pixels in the same size screen.

The reason why folks are talking about this as if it's different is because cramming that many more pixels in the same amount of space requires some technology for it not to get all screwed up. It's not a modest jump from, say, 1024 to 1280, the progression you're describe. It's from 1920 to 2880. That's big. You might not like it because it came from Apple and Apple people like it but it does matter.
Why? These two people are clearly idiots.

It is a simple rule. Never trust user input, the issue has been known for decades and everybody should be aware of it by now.
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Anybody else notice that this is blocked as "spammy" on Facebook?
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Sounds like a great idea. I don't think there are many yet.
I question your assumptions. It is every individual person's prerogative to decide whether they wish to publish, and we should avoid setting up systems that exclude those who decide not to.
Whenever the Star Simpson incident comes up, I'm surprised how quick people are to blame her. From the accounts I've read, I don't thing she did anything wrong, or even suspicious. (Contrary to reports, the "suspicious substance" in her had was a hardened clay sculpture, not something that could be reasonably mistaken for a block of explosive.)

Since you say she's a friend of yours and might know more details, I'm curious what you think she did wrong.
Wonder if they also asked Sheryl Sandberg? Seems that she would be another one to move given that Zuck is probably going to be CEO for a long time.
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In a day when Instagram can be acquired for $1B, how much would Yahoo have to pay for Netflix? NFLX market cap is about $4.6B with $3B in assets.
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I get the message but he shouldn't use "1999", lots of companies founded that year were doomed from the start, and even some good ones couldn't get enough funding after the industry collapsed.

About the last paragraph he certainly means the Ouya, either that or Gabe showed him an actual SteamBox.
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Ask HN: I have 600+ updates in Reader to read everyday. How do you manage it?
So I'm subscribed to ~30 blogs via Google Reader. Some of them are big blogs like Mashable, TC etc. In any span of 24 hours, there are nearly 500-600 unread items. Now even going through all of the titles takes a lot of time and I may miss something important. How do you manage your reading?
Don't forget the part where they rip up his papers. That's pretty out of line.
The point you got wrong was the last one. Instead if removing clothing, call the police.
I think most of the hate Flash receives is from the people whose browsers it frequently crashed. There was a period of many years where the Flash plugin was very unstable, and it was both normal and expected that opening a flash-heavy page might crash your browser.
I feel the rapid deploying of browsers is just increasing the fragmented world of html + js

Not in my experience. I've recently finished writing a fairly large and reasonably complex HTML5 app and getting it to work across standards compliant browsers Chrome/Firefox/Safari has been absolutely painless. In over 6 months of development I have (without exaggeration) spent no more than 8 hours fixing cross browser issues and this includes cutting edge and vendor prefixed stuff.

I think that flash still has its place... it's still way better at doing things like client side image compression/encoding and has very sophisticated binary manipulation capabilities (if you need those).

It really is a technology of the gaps, and the number of gaps that it can exclusively fill is rapidly dwindling.
He says that he tried to call, and his statement looks clear to me:

> I also tried calling the main number, at mcdonands.com: 1-800-244-6227, but got a voice recording that was totally unintelligible (very loud and distorted), and it appears this number does not work.

I tried the number just now, and in fact, it is exactly as he describes: you get a loud distorted unintelligible message for a 3-4 seconds and then it hangs up.

As Dr. Mann is likely calling from Canada, as I also am, it occurred to me that this particular 800 number might not work from Canada. Some USA-based 800 numbers work, and some don't -- it depends on the calling area that the 800-number subscriber wants to pay for.

Listening to the message a second time, I think that I can make out words about the "calling area", which would indicate why it's not working.
France isn't that small...

Frankly I wish this kind of thing were more popular in the USA too. Dating strangers is nice and individualistic and all, but I'm way more comfortable meeting people through friends and more to the point it's fun - which is more than I can say for spending hours writing OkCupid messages which will 90% of the time be ignored.
Yes: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/faq

They somewhat claim that it will be released alongside the Windows release.
> C generates compiled code. Code which is very efficient, but not as efficient as hand coded machine instructions.

...written by a perfect programmer.

> C is an easy language to write code in.

I think the word he was looking for was "simple". The field of land mines known as "undefined behaviour" disqualifies C as being an easy language.

> So you have to use pointers - which are nothing more than variables which contain addresses.

Except that they have their own semantics and syntax as well as their own fun set of undefined behaviour.

> This means you can define local variables which shadow external variables quite freely. This makes you code easier to read and safer to develop ...

Because everyone loves to keep track of which version of the 'count' variable you're referring to! (Seriously, there is almost never a reason to define the same variable name twice in the same function.)

> imperative: C statements are tasks to be executed in sequence. Hence imperative.

The word imperative doesn't imply a sequence...

> C doesn't support objects

Pretty much anything that's not a function is considered to be an object. C doesn't support polymorphic classes. (Well... let's not get into that!)

Overall, this might be useful to the author if he finds that he can't remember the details of the language for very long. Anyone not already familiar with the concepts he's talking about will be lost at best, or damaged in the average case.
Well, I (for one) am happy to be alive right now. I am happy to be in the generation after people like Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk, who were 1 generation after Bill Gates & Steve Jobs.

Here is the guy that invented modern day browsers, and modern day SaaS services/companies, and is revolutionizing VC investing. It's like he can't do anything 'normally'.

I love it.

We need more people like that, in the world, willing to shake things up.

Either way, I will be one of those heeding his advice about trying to build awesome internet companies - because he is dead on the money.

Imagine, at the height of the automobile revolution if someone came to you and showed you an 'easy' way to build solid, quality cars in your garage and mass manufacture them for free/cheap and distribute them and sell them on the cheap. Effectively taking advantage of economies of scale without having to pay for the scale.

I can't think of any other industry/revolution/time in history when people could do (from a company building perspective) what we can today with the addressable market size we have access to, with such low distribution costs.

The same thing applies to creating content and media.

How can I not take his advice?
The Flash history lesson is cool. However, the idea that Adobe has "admitted defeat on mobile" is just plain wrong.

In spite of the massive hype differential vs. appcelerator and phonegap, Adobe's AIR is one of the best ways to build & deploy cross-platform mobile apps right now. That's flash, that's mobile, and it's a far cry from "admitting defeat".

Flash on the desktop browser is increasingly limited to a small set of niche uses. Flash inside a mobile browser was never a good idea, and it's dying. The decline of those two specific use cases should not be construed as a general death of the flash platform.
Agreed. That's when Safari's reader feature comes in handy.
Sort of FYI, plaintiff lawyers in the US may choose to work on a contingency basis if they think there is a big payoff at the end, no cost to the plaintiff, just let them sue on your behalf and they are off to the races.
Little background here (I'm French and grew up in Paris):

MacDonald's branding in France are really different in France than it is in the US, especially in Paris. Food is quite tasty, meat is fairly good, and even the colors are different: the flashy red/yellow has been replaced by a classy green/black two years ago.

And this specific MacDonald's is one of the biggest and best located in Paris (Champs Elysées)

Money laundering may have been a plausible explanation for a random US MacDonald's, it's really far fetched for this one.
The two things I like about this project are

1. It's specific. They're not over-promising with a really cool video. They already have a plan and know the costs in considerable detail.

I see an awful lot of Kickstarter projects which are basically link bait getting heavily funded, then discovering that they had no idea how hard Shiny Thing X would actually turn out to be.

2. We all know that our industry's ratios are unhealthy, and it's a self-sustaining loop. It's starving the industry of talent and leads to an insular, narrow culture that's frankly holding us back from being taken more seriously as a profession.

While this project won't wave the magic wand on the whole industry and deliver rainbows and puppies, it identifies a particular high-leverage point that can be improved almost immediately.

I think this is one of the better kickstarter projects I've seen in a while.
Google does overwhelmingly support one party over another, and was the 5th largest donor to Obama's 2008 campaign:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-46840313/google-polit...

Probably had nothing to do with the takedown, as YouTube says they take down everything with a DMCA claim attached. Still, you can't dispute the fact that the parties involved aren't objective: the money says otherwise.
Yes, but I don't believe it is any files. It allows access to the camera as well as filmroll, so basically photos and videos.
hah. yeah. but I think the most powerful thing (and this could be implemented with cellphones) is just being able to summon witnesses, esp. witnesses with cameras.

It seems that these days wars are more about how it looks in the media than about killing as many of the other guys as you can. Just knowing that they are being watched, I think, would prevent most violent crime.
> I have a few friends whose significant others will not like them go anywhere unless they are also invited (and often these significant others are unpleasant people). It is sad to lose these friendships.

Even sadder is that pleasant people should be tied up in relationships with unpleasant ones. How does that happen? Is there a shortage of pleasant people, or does everyone care more about looks/money than kindness?
Guessing she's saying... "First thing we're doing is adding threading to email"

Or... "Internally, we're going to use Gmail for corporate work, Yahoo!"
> instead of trying to compete.

What? Please tell, did they have no competition in smartphone market when they introduced iPhone? There were no other companies making cell phones and smartphones?
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Maybe it's a fast meal at midday when there are still places to go, and a good meal in the evening to wind down.
It's great if you mostly want male friends...
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By title? By summary? Surely not by parsing the audio. If automated, why so quick to take down, when there's videos that have been up for years that are the original recordings?
Another well researched book is:

http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-National-Security-State-Chronolog...

It covers the intersection of military/governmental organizations and the phenomenon, mostly in the latter half of the 20th century. The short version would be to search YouTube for Richard Dolan. He's a great speaker and presents the information in a way that should be palatable for even the hardest skeptic.
And later in Oct, She will go on maternity leave. So no Yahoo head ache for some time. http://www.firstpost.com/tech/yahoo-marissa-mayer-is-first-p...
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actually I am indeed talking about the "bickering" that is going to start. I use Ubuntu myself and am most definitely not bickering about Fedora.

However, the Linux market is already fragmented. And even worse, it is deeply religious. Just google for the bickering that ensued when Meego chose rpm over deb. People have already started talking about why not Arch, etc.

The point that you are missing is that, if anyone could unify the Linux fragmentation it is Valve. Steam is a killer app, and I can totally see people migrating towards a distro built around it (and laptops certified for it).

I want Valve to succeed - how will it succeed in a severely fragmented market ? Can it justify the cost of its Linux team then ? Android is having a similar problems in version fragmentation. People have posted articles here on how they are unable to justify multiple version (distro?) development.
Multiply that problem by a thousand - different audio toolkits, poor driver compatibilities.
I am not able to see how they are going to succeed, unless they unify atleast the multimedia toolkits (something like CoreAudio)
And other stuff that raises flags for me.

First the original article was deep-linked into the eyetap.org site. Which is to say it didn't appear as a link on the front page, in fact I didn't find any inlinks to it until this story broke and those are from blogs etc. And it was posted by an account created to post that one link on HN (not like Dr. Mann or someone who regularly participates here stumbled across it and tried to link it.)

Now if Dr. Mann had a running blog about life as a cyborg or his thoughts on wearable computing, and this just happened to come up in that blog as "Oh the saddest thing happened ..." then it might feel more natural. It has since been converted to a one-entry wordpress blog.

As I've said elsewhere, we'll see what the next steps are. Eyetap has certainly gotten a lot of publicity out of the deal so I expect the press will follow up on any fallout here as well.
Had a good time at these meetups, to bad I'm in Toronto now.
How do I finish filling out the profile? Apparently I can't respond to "Bring a plus one" to the party?
Well the first problem there is putting your hands on another person. In America that's begging for at least law hilarity if not worse.

Oh, and not to mention they tore his paperwork up.
Parisians are famed for their rudeness. Whether that is fair I cannot judge, when I went there we didn't seem to have any problems!
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DiBona's take is interesting

https://plus.google.com/u/0/116969159384245484847/posts/Rb44...
Another main thing I took from him was the importance of not compromising on your principles: when faced with two tough decisions where there is no "right" decision, if you stick to your principles even if it may be uncomfortable, you will feel more certain about the decision you made. But if you decide on something else, possibly for convenience, then that is when you get doubts if you really made the better decision.
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Your right they have been spending big chunks of late (I believe the Motorola deal recently closed so that 12B check had to clear the bank eventually).

I continue to believe that Google is perceived to be a 'high value' target by offensive litigators.
You mean, extraterrestrial origin is by far the most absurd explanation and shouldn't even be accepted as a hypothesis, right?
John McCain was hit by it as well in 2008[1]. Particularly appropriate, since the are both GOP presidential candidates (not implying there is a conspiracy or anything, just that the campaign managers should have seen it coming).

1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10066738-38.html
If you click on the Plus One button it will toggle and automatically save the status. This is a clear usability issue.

Do you have any suggestions on how to fix it?
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Actually, there was a well known Mcdonald's franchisee who had stores in the dozens who was later found out to have laundered millions through it. I don't have the case handy, but he was in what is generally known as the American South. It's hard to say what Mcdonald's region he was in, because they mix up their regions about every couple of years, and he ran stores in multiple states.
Why trolling? If we criticize censorship of Kim Dotcom or Julian Assange, and express anger, is that trolling? If Westboro Baptist or Glenn Beck abused the DMCA to silence their critics, we'd rightly be waving pitchforks. No different to criticize what appears to be an attack on free speech using the DMCA. Regardless of your political stance, if there appears to be an agenda to silence someone on the one side, then it's fair to label those on the other side as crazy and evil.
Even for 0% accuracy?