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Most of Google's weird stuff makes sense in the long term. Google is big on making web apps, for example, so they have a serious interest in making web apps less painful. To that end:

1. They design a browser to make web apps more reliable and secure. One process per tab, plus fine-grained OS-level security.

2. In that browser, they introduce a JavaScript engine meant to make execution of JS a lot faster.

3. They continue to fund Mozilla, which is working on some of the same things, and may have a better approach to the JavaScript performance issue with TraceMonkey.

4. And now the Native Client. Theoretically its speed may even be surpassed by sufficiently good JITting of JavaScript (or whatever), but practically it will probably be pretty handy for some applications. It's nice to be able to get native speed now instead of waiting for a better JIT to be developed and deployed.

About the only thing Google's spending serious money on that doesn't improve the environment for their money-making products is the Google Lunar X-Prize. And that can be justified by the sheer coolness of sending probes to the moon.
In case you didn't notice: the FSB took over Russia, and they are evil. They don't have Ukraine's best interest in mind in anything they do. They want to start a civil war, and annex the Russian part of Ukraine.

Can you make such a case for opposing overwhelming foreign intervention in Venezuela? No. Therefore our meddling there was wrong.

Not the same as Russia/Ukraine. We were opposing a takeover in Ukraine.
Following this line of reasoning, Twitter is horrible because it doesn't adopt an open standard. Likewise Flickr. And delicious. And anything else with a homegrown REST API.

If their API is well documented, who cares that it wasn't designed and rubber stamped by a committee.
From http://www.kcorax.net/ofsite/Process.aspx seems like they offer €20k-30k for 20% share. A bit excessive, no ?
I know of at least one that is!
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It doesn't even have to be 2029AD. Technology is getting really good at this even now. Think about all the believable special effects you see in movies; imagine what a competent and well-funded team in the service of some govt agency could come up with. It doesn't have to be realtime.

Even amateurs can create believable-enough photoshop images these days, video is surely not far off. I would surmise that certain people are well aware the tech is there, or almost there. We may just need a crisis before they're able to use it.
From what I understand, the Pre is just using iTunes for media sync. Everything else (contacts, etc.) is handled OTA.
I just looked at the State Dept's website to see exactly what their mission is. They still have a page from 2007 outlining the will of the then President Bush. Maybe they should think about updating their own website sometime...
It's extremely unlikely that Mousavi is a US stooge. He's a regime insider who was Prime Minister between 1981 and 1989, and also held the post of Foreign Minister.
Still, the claim in the next sentence that "you must push all your traffic through Opera’s proxy service" isn't true.

I understand that you were primarily criticizing/debunking the reason d'etre and social crap in the copypastad press-release -- not the technical handwaving.
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I think if Opera provided an explanation of how to set up a "Unite server" on your own server, than a lot of this controversy would be moot. That's why Google was so epic with their launch of Wave.
I think this would be a win-win for YC and the hosting provider. The startups would save a little bit of money, and the hosting provider would get a good amount of recurring revenue after the 3 months, since we are unlikely to migrate our servers after spending countless hours setting it up.
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> I give it a pass because I see no reason not to. This doesn't mean I like it and approve of it personally, but I think it should be allowed and acceptable.

This is the crux of where we disagree. I don't think you'll see many people claiming that Apple doesn't have a right to do what they've been doing, but the fact that something should be allowed does not imply that it should be considered acceptable.

Flash pop-up ads on web sites, for example, are completely unacceptable. If some web site pulls that crap with me, I stay the hell away from it. If I have to use that web site for some reason, I'll grouse about it. I wouldn't try to deprive those web sites of their right to use Flash in obnoxious ways, but I sure won't stand for it.

Similarly, Apple's behavior is unpleasant and disturbing and it should be treated as such. This is one of the big advantages of the Android platform, and why I will not get an iPhone: openness. Freedom, if that doesn't sound too hokey. It's important to me.
This has been killed twice now, with the exact same title and URL...
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Fabrice is one of the greatest living hackers out there.

Epic!
Twitter has adopted open standards, they use oAuth. There's nothing wrong with home grown APIs, but I think APIs that ignore open standards will be a problem as services become increasingly interdependent.
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This is a total digression, but do we have to spell it "fanboi"? What was wrong with gool ol' "fanboy"? Whenever I see "fanboi" my mind automatically tries to pronounce it as either a French or Spanish word, and that's jarring. (I have this same problem with "xian": an abbreviation for "Christian" that looks like it ought to be a Chinese word. Damn it.)
What you are advocating is not exactly new.
Pragmatism has been around for a little over a century now.
I'm not sure I understand the concept of all these startups with names warping the English language.
And it all seems to have started because TechCrunch insists on reporting software news without understanding software.

To understand what I mean, read http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/want-the-kindle-source-... all the way to the bottom, including the "technical perspective from [a] commenter". Pathetic, isn't it?
I don't understand... isn't this a compiler that translates a CSSish syntax to proper CSS? What would it mean to make stuff like this "for Java"? You mean writing it in Java?

It's true that Java has become utterly unfashionable. Unfortunately the popular replacements are very much limited by the fact that they are hundereds of times slower and force you into a multi process design in order to use multiple CPUs.

I've been trying really hard to replace Java in some projects and it's been really difficult, so I guess Java has got to have some quality beyond fashion. If you look for libraries that are well maintained, do non-trivial stuff that you don't want to do yourself, are fast, reasonably complete and up-to-date on Unix and Windows, you will find that 98% of them are written in Java or C.
The tax load in Russia is actually much, much higher than the flat tax if you take into account things like:

1) Back-breaking tariffs on all imported 'luxury' items like computers.

2) The 'unofficial' tax of about 20% (so I'm told) payable to the FSB to actually conduct business in Russia.

3) On the spot 'fines' from police more determined to rob you than to fight crime.

P.S. I'd just like to take this opportunity to publicly state that I hope the entire Moscow Militsia (police) develop testicular cancer. Evil, mean bastards every one. Rob the people they are charged with protecting.
I was intrigued by these videos; this guy has been doing these videos in odd places, seems like he wants to create a new way of teaching (i had a hard time trying to ignore the traffic in couple of videos!). These videos are meant for high school students. Very basic lessons, but enough to make you want to explore the topic.

I was wondering if any of you know people/sites specially teaching fundamentals of algorithms/discrete mathematics in a similar way (the Mit OCW, berkley videos are the (typical) traditional class). There are some amateurs on youtube also, but I thought someone knows better here.
FWIW it's actually 21 tickets at the moment. Of which 18 are either documentation (10 tickets) or updated translation files (8 tickets).
This is an example of the degradation of all things hacker news. How much farther can we slide? We must take a moment to...

Will be become another Reddit?

Ok, I'm just kidding. I figured this thread was already a piece of crap, so it could use some disingenuous meta-analysis.
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Hit me with negative rep will you?

How dare you! My comment is the shining beacon of light in this piece of crap.

Shame on you!
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I keep running up against terms like "Dirchlet distribution", "conjugate prior", etc. in the Bayes Net papers I'm reading. I've been looking stuff up on wikipedia, but an organized approach would be useful to me. Any help?
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I do think it's $200/mo, but as far as we've been able to tell, it's perfectly legitimate to run our own $200 transaction and pay the processor fee (a few bucks a month on $200). We've only had our merchant account for ~1 month, though, so I'll be able to tell you more at the end of the month
i recently watched the airbus 380 episode on 'engineering connections' [hosted by richard hammond(top gear)]. Lots of comparisons on borrowing technology from nature(insights into flight of an eagle and applying the same into the wings of the 380). I can't help think, there's more to learn from nature.
SnapTwitter is a service to dynamically filter and respond to Tweets.

You can use a user-friendly interface to define conditions under which a Tweet is Snapped up. These Tweets are organized according to the conditions under which they were Snapped, and when you log in to the site, you can read through all the Tweets that SnapTwitter has Snapped up for you.

SnapTwitter is no old rhino; this young Snapper can learn new tricks. When you create a condition, you can customize your Snapper's response. It could send certain Tweets to your friends. It could SnapBack a new Twitter, using dynamically generated text, generated according to rules that you can define -- without writing a single line of code! You simply use the nice user-friendly interface to teach your Snapper how to twist around what is said in a Tweet into a response which can be automatically Twittered back.

Advanced users can write code for the conditions and the SnapBacks themselves, in a special language called STML (SnapTwitter Markup Language).

Some people might say that SnapTwitter is a cheap ripoff of a few good Internet ideas from the past, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people, and it's also the future of Twittering.

So quit sitting back and start SnappingBack!
Just to clarify, this makes a collision attack feasible, not a preimage attack.

That means (iirc) someone can create two messages that have the same hash - but not create a message that has a particular hash.

Still not ideal - but not terrible. It still wouldn't be feasible, for example, to bruteforce a password from its hash.
More negative rep, will you? HA! I've got it to spare you scoundrels!
Another note if you're doing recurring billing: Check with your payment provider if you can get your customer payment data out ever. At my previous startup, we were locked into PayPal because they wouldn't release the consumer CC#s and it's never good for business to have to ask your customers to input their payment info a second time (attrition is inevitable). This time, we did a bit more research and our two top payment services (braintree and trustcommerce) both allowed full data portability (with a fee).
Somehow the process that is selecting computer programmers out of the general population disproportionately selects men. Unless you believe that the dearth of women in the field is driven by biology (and there the evidence is against you), it's pretty clear that women are being deterred from hacking by social factors. Saying "we need more women in CS" is equivalent to saying, let's stop driving half the talent out of our field.
If someone finds their way back to this thread, I did end up writing the site.

Granted it took me a more than the 15 hours (more like a part-time week) but the result is up: http://hogornot.com

Is was good to pick up django, jquery etc. It has little content right now but anyway -- it's up!
Coming to CSS about 6 months ago I was just amazed that it doesn't have these features already, like variables and mixins. Is there anything like this out there already for PHP?
this is actually really interesting. I can see a lot of new apps coming from this. I just installed it and tried it and so far I like it. The fridge app is a good idea but needs some design work. Photo sharing worked, its not just a file enumeration, they make pretty web galleries and there's an interesting chat app too.
In a couple different ways. EC2 is an amazing service, but it's not a perfect fit for everyone. We basically wanted to buy cheaper bandwidth and more bandwidth per CPU, and there's no real path for that on EC2.
You can still inflict a lot of damage if you can create collisions. Producing a rogue CA is just one possibility.

http://www.phreedom.org/research/rogue-ca/

The potential for intentional collisions makes it critical that an attacker cannot control or predict all of the inputs to your signing operation.
You guys are hosers. HOSERS.
What kind of explanation are you looking for? You just download Opera, change a few settings, and leave it running.
I think that's a chip on your shoulder, not a reflection on the previous comment.

I work with plenty of women programmers, but whooptie-doo. I think the intention of the previous comment is clearly to point to Niniane as an inspiring programmer[1], who also happens to be female. On-topic for this story, and not stigmatizing, unless you feel simply discussing female under-representation is stigmatizing.

1. well, minus Lively
Absolutely true. Nothing here is ground breaking, but it seems like so many people forget this. My greatest successes have always come from trying to "scratch my own itch." In fact, it's usually something completely out of left field that never seemed like a business that turns out to resonate with others.
One big problem with making selectors into mixins is that then every mixin takes up valuable space in the CSS file. This is enough of a problem as-is with Sass, although work is going to go into space optimizations in version 2.4.
However, announcing your plans early can generate buzz (which is helpful in case of startups), IF you can "under promise, and over deliver."
Well, we kinda sorta are. Where does Iran get its mobile handsets and cell towers? Same place as everyone else, Sweden.

One concrete thing the US could do is run up GSM relays on warships already in the Gulf...
I think your response was perfectly relevant to the conversation. It's all about discussion here!
LOL! another self-professed "startup professional" stating the obvious, common people, most likely, you get the IDEA because you see the PROBLEM. amazing how many people makes a living by stating the obvious.
This is part of the perverse reason I can't get behind the advice to start a startup immediately after university.

Suffering at a large company for a while isn't self-flagellation, it hands you hundreds of things needing solutions.
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Just because you're only hitting me softly, when the other guys are hitting me hard, doesn't mean I shouldn't ask you to stop.
Actually, I think it's about ease of implementation.
Lame guys. I think the email encryption is probably the biggest feature, and you left it out from the try out.
The only way to try it if it works for you is to pay for it.
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Didn't do anything on Chromium/Ubu.
I have investigated that old web page.
Take a luxury and make it a commodity.

It works the other way, too. Water is a commodity -- a commodity which is, essentially, free at the margin -- that is also a multi-billion dollar business in the US. Much the same could be said about food.

(I am about to step on some toes. Turn away if you're easily offended.) There are entire industries which are designed around the proposition "You are too good to consume X. Poor people consume X. You should instead be consuming X Prime. You can tell it is better than X, because it costs five times as much."

A separate but related issue: consumption of status goods among poor people.

In terms of selling B2B services, I am often amused by re-luxurization of commoditized services: taking something which was once customized and extraordinarily expensive but then made into cheap-and-infinite-scale and then competing with the cheap-and-infinite with something that is a cut above but which still scales.

Data centers circa 1996: luxury service. Web hosting: commodity service. Slicehost: not a commodity service, but the marginal cost to the firm is still close to zero.

Personalized financial advice: luxury service. Your bank's website and free checking: commodity service. Mint: personalized financial advice, but at scale.

Graphic design: luxury service. Stock icons: commodity service. 99designs: commodity-priced luxury service that scales.
Everything old is new again, eh? I was actually disappointed with the final design; it reminded me unpleasantly of the fake handwriting/signatures on direct mail (an advertising trope I particularly despise). But I'm grouchy that way.
People have a tendency to overcomplicate things.

You are looking to build a system that is a) as small and as simple as possible that yet b) still retains conceptual integrity.

You want the first because it's easier to build and get to market, and the second because it's not done till all the necessary parts are in.

Remember that the vast majority of your understanding of the problem space is not accurate, and will remain so until you encounter customers and users. So do as little work as possible; just enough to get you to those customers and users. Then you listen to them to find out the next parts to build. (The ideal case here is that you are also customer #1, incidentally.)

So no, not just some specific feature; you need the right coverage. But make sure you don't go overboard anywhere in particular, especially if it might not be needed.
If I'm on a phone where the BEST POSSIBLE UI is recieving the messages via SMS, then what is the point of a link?
"Hooligans" seem rare at football matches in Britain these days, thanks to cultural changes, better stadium design and improved policing.
I don't follow. If you spend 10% of your time making something you then have to spend 90% of your time promoting... are you sure people really wanted that thing?

Better to spend half your time doing customer development concurrent with product development, and go through lots of iterations with real, actual breathing customers, to arrive at something people want. Then it will sell itself.

Marketing after-the-fact can't fix a turd.
Couldn't agree more!
Kevin Rose's Problem was, not being able to get news to the SlashDot home page. And we all know how successful the solution he came up with.
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The title itself is a ton of advice. So simple and so profound.

I think 'start with a problem' - creates a clear definition of success (solve the problem), demands focus and makes everything so simple to figure out.
The fact that we're posting on this site is pretty good proof that we're not a good example of the average user.
Perhaps I should have said "Lack of women in the field..." But I was trying to be general. I implicitly agree that the problem is social, and was trying to say "crap, with a dearth of women we're missing out on many (?) of the most talented programmers." But that last sentence was a bit off.

Now, I believe words matter and can warp intentions over time and there is a danger of getting into a quota-for-quota's-sake mindset (as patio put it). I think that will alienate women as being somehow different from the majority of us, when they have more in common with us than with the rest of the population.

So, we kinda agree, I was trying to say what you said, but I think "we need more women in CS" is subtly and notably different. ...partially due to guys asking if they're hot or not... (bottom of thread)
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Thinking about it, making a forecast in an unfree society might be quite difficult. People might be reluctant to tell random strangers who they would vote for - could be spies from the government.
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How could I have misread something that by your own admission was not part of the text?
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Indeed. I'm reminded of Fisk's reports from Baghdad during Gulf War II, which in retrospect turned out to have been mostly made up (e.g. he reported fighting at Baghdad Airport that simply didn't happen, as embedded journalists who were actually on the scene pointed out).

But as he was saying what his fans wanted to hear (i.e. that lots of US soldiers were getting killed) his career blossomed nonetheless.
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Maybe when the patents expire and we get some competition.
In context, I read it as an admonishment to not get hung up on race, creed, or gender, but to realize that creativity and intellect are better things to focus on. With some fluffy encouragement.

(Btw, I wasn't saying Patio's interpretation of her statement, although I see where he's coming from.)
It's pretty similar on SH and LN. I prefer LN, because you get to decide when it happens. You just get a message in your manager to say you have a migrate pending, and you can shutdown when you like.

When I moved from 1400 to 2800 it was a very speedy operation.
People often come up with water as an example, but it fails on many levels:

In many cities the "native" water is full of chlorine
If you travel to a foreign country, you may not be able to drink the native water at all
If you are not at home, getting water may not be possible unless you by it in bottles.
Bottles enable you to carry around water, which is useful for car trips, etc.
there should be no TLD at all. China's GFW already blocked some of OperaUnite and all of my.opera.com

So why don't Opera just use a Newsgroup-like name system
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