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No one makes any stuff like this for Java. Java has lost the wind from its sails. Java has been relegated to beige cubicles and enterprise solutions.

I say this as a disheartened Java programmer. I've recently been involved in a Rails project and a couple of Django projects, and then jumped back into Java. The difference in energy is amazing. Who would make something like this for Java? What would its success path be? Acceptance into an Apache incubator and then into "Commons?" Spec JSR-123987 finally being accepted by Sun/Oracle five years after its written?

I know this isn't a new revelation and I'm far from the first person to bemoan the stale, slow death of Java - but I'm sitting at an airport terminal with nothing better to do, and it's raining out, I'm depressed, and probably shouldn't be posting to HN. :)
a service that suggests twitter usernames? something like domainr.com
So because they do it, it's okay for us to do it too? We've moved completely away from the "Trade with all nations and have emnity with none" of the Founders to the Machiavelian games of Brezinski, Kissenger and their friends at the CFR.

Why did the CIA plan and execute a coup against the democratically-elected Hugo Chavez, and attempt to overthow the legitimate democracy in Venezuela? How can it be justified from a non-Machiavelian (i.e. moral) worldview? Can it? The crazy thing is, the US subverts democracy in the name of democracy.
It's only been 4 months since they announced commercial licensing. Before that you'd have been a nut to build your business on it. Pretty much any announced YC company started development more than 4 months back.
Yes, so future apps may prefer to run on the Larrabee cores, but the fat cores that old apps depend on cannot be removed.
I don't doubt the video itself (the footage, not the CNN commentary). However, it's quite a hazy circle (wider at one end, almost nonexistent at the other), and it seems to me as though Denna Smith was re-imagining it as something more "perfect" than it actually was.

I saw somebody blow a smoke ring for the first time today, and at first sight it was quite magical. The chances of some smoke from a ride forming a vague ring are much higher than the chances of UFOs (or even super-hi-tech military antigravity planes, one common explanation for these phenomena -- but I think that's unlikely in this case).
"The soft over comes the hard, the slow over comes the fast,

let your working remain a mystery

just show people the result."

- Tao Te Ching -
It's preferable when you want to fit in with existing Java infrastructure. I can prototype something in Jython and then deploy it on Tomcat just like any other Java application.
It's interesting that CPython has picked up Jython/Java conventions for what's "right" over time. That list is from the Python 2.0 era (pre-2002), and most of the items that say CPython should be fixed have been fixed since then -- even down to print becoming a function in Python 3.0 to drop a troublesome keyword.
I'd call that loop use.

This might as well be the poster child for why LOOP is an awesome macro.
I wish. Flash will continue working on IE 6 and other older browsers though. Until all the browsers you want to support have HTML 5 implemented (correctly), you're going to have to either use Flash or some hybrid/piecemeal solution.
You're absolutely right - for the points I explicitly listed Android is probably fine. My problem with the Android was different - I couldn't seem to get my hands on one. Plus I wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea of switching to T-Mobile anyway.

Also, I merged a bunch of ideas together and probably rushed that reply. I'm horrible at posting to forums like this because I almost never get up the nerve to do it.

Anyway, if Android was more available (i.e. if the O/S was adopted by a major cellphone manufacturer like a Nokia or Motorola across many different models on multiple carriers), and I could have easily got my hands on one, I would have bought that instead. But as far as I know its only available at T-Mobile, and only in the form of the G1, and was only maybe available at this one T-Mobile store that was quite a drive from here. Many other phones are easily available within a very short drive, so that's what I ended up with.
I've come into the habit of being seriously skeptical of any scientific work done more than twenty years ago.

That has amusing implications for us, twenty years from now.
Before this, everyone was on AWS, did YC companies get a deal with Slicehost?
I hope they port it to Linux and OSX

Oh, wait, we don't need antivirus, we're secure by design.
Study separates Russian flat tax myth and fact
Parody of Zen Koans
Upgrade & Billing Screen Design Walkthrough (Basecamp)
SnapTwitter is archive.org for twitter -- historical snapshots with a high degree of time precision. Be able to roll forward and backwards through time to see (and search) all of twitter at any point. Maybe it even has a visual timeline at the top of the page that lets you navigate through time.

I'm up to my neck in my startup (see below), so I couldn't actually take on another project, but I thought I'd throw the idea out there.

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Man, fuck silverlight, Microsoft should kill flash by pushing HTML5. It's not like they need to gain much marketshare, just not-lose it.
Wisdom of the crowd.
Does HTML5 have authoring tools comparable to Flash? There is your answer
IPhone is Here to Stay. What's an Enterprise to do About it?
It would seem that for some public shame (announced plan that you never completed) is a motivator, while for others public announcement gives you a sense of reward.

Most studies show that the biggest motivator for anyone is when it costs you and not accomplishing the goal costs you even more.

There is a study on going to the gym and they found that the primary motivator for working out is if you pay for a gym membership and are reminded that you're losing money. It does not work if it's a gift (money you never had). It would be interesting to see if it matters between extroverts (get energy from talking to strangers) and introverts (lose energy when talking to strangers).
Yeah! Take that, Twitter! Let's see you compete with this! This...sorry, what is it again? Social networking for dogs?
So it's similar to a mailing list?
Not only that, creating animations in Flash tend to be a lot faster than anything else. Very often at my job we opt to use Flash for things that could technically be done with straight HTML/CSS/JS, simply because the former would take orders of magnitude less time to create (and that time can be invested into polishing, etc).
But that's OK because for most users they'd just be using Opera ... "sorry, what's a server?".

Incidentally I win at teh internetz, broke this story on the 14th, if only I was famous I'd be, err, famous.

http://alicious.com/2009/opera-about-to-change-the-world/
Congratulations on the Ironman.

I don't think that article is really about Ironman-type goals, though. By the time you are preparing for the Ironman, I'd imagine that you would be quite dedicated to your training. As I understood it, that article is about goals which you have to start from scratch -- for example, choosing to start running and train for your first 5K race.
Canvas will make a dent

SVG will finish it
Memrisistors (theoretically) can make SSDs that are faster than RAM and denser than magnetic hard disks. You can also build crossbar latches which function as smaller/faster transistors for a lot of purposes.
Sports events with an authoritative source can have problems with Twitter: http://twitter.com/MNBikeFestival/status/2111645285

Did Michael Jordan ever go scoreless in the second quarter during his career?

That is the sort of question that Wolfram Alpha was created for, but it doesn't look like NBA stats are covered yet, just NFL and MLB scores, and not yet in sufficient detail: http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/SportsGames.html
Nice looking project, but...

Am I the only one in the world that bemoans naming decisions like this? The name is not just a dictionary word, and hard to get page rank with; it's even the name of an already-existing popular geek word (namely, the UNIX pager).

Am I the only one that thinks that the best names for things are the ones that have extremely few search engine hits before you choose them?
Do your folks currently have their own server, how about your cousin with the Nintendo DS (Opera browser) or perhaps you have a server on your iPhone (serving by bluetooth maybe?) ... my post from the 14th, http://alicious.com/2009/opera-about-to-change-the-world/
> Slicehost can more easily upgrade your plan. Linode has to switch your box should you want to move plans. Often Slicehost can move plans while keeping you on the same box.

I'm on slicehost, and when I upgraded ("resized") a slice, it was not a "live" operation. I don't know whether it's physically the same machine, but the old slice had to be shutdown, file system copied, and a new slice booted.

From the "Resize your slice" page:

Step 3: Current slice is shut down and migrated
You will experience a downtime varying in proportion to fullness of the filesystem.
"The working group on censorship demonstrated the alternatives for instance by actually removing over 60 websites containing child pornographic content in 12 hours, simply by emailing the international providers who then removed this content from the net."

This is a great example of demonstrating the government's real intentions. If a bunch of guys can send a few emails and take down 60 childporn sites, what are the paid government enforcement agencies doing? Evidently, it has nothing to do with child porn and everything to do with politics.
Or, perhaps even web pages?

Wasn't hypercard a precursor to the web?
Agreed, and an interesting link. That is why I called it a tale.
The US will remain the top innovator, if for no other reason than that nobody else innovates very much. I don't know how people came up with China as an innovator. The article doesn't mention just how far ahead we are. We made Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Intel, AMD, and countless others. What innovation ever came out of China? Or, for that matter, Europe?
I'm not trying to spam or anything but in looking for hosting for a friend, I found this. There has to be a catch. How/why are they doing this? I mean I was willing to give him cPanel but I don't go around calling out that I do it.
Yes, what would be your suggestion for finding startups to work for in LA?
Yes, it is called a text editor.

html, css, js, canvas, svg, xml, etc. all can be authored easily with a basic text editor.
I had to stop at "The internet is the house that PageRank built"... gah! Talk about cart-before-horse.
Are you joking? I can't tell.

This is the age of web applications and permanently net-connected smart phones. Who are you to tell me I can't fix a typo or push a bugfix more than once a week?
IIRC, Microsoft fixed a lot of the security issues with Vista/7. Modern Windows is a very different creature from old Windows, and even has features that many other OS's are missing (privledge levels).
I had a very similar reaction. I rode a century (100mi) bike ride this spring, and telling people I was doing it was an important part of staying motivated. Also, because the ride was a charity fundraiser, once I had people sponsoring me (i.e. donated money to the cause) I felt like I couldn't back out.

I think the difference between this sort of goal and what's described in the article is that with a lot of intellectual pursuits, just telling people that you've been thinking about it and sketching out how you would do it gets you 80% of the respect and satisfaction for 20% (or less) of the total effort. On the other hand, you don't get much cred for just saying you're going to do a marathon or tri or century.
Verbosity is not word length, and efficiency of communication is not measured in characters.
we have found that this is steep enough to make a desk chair roll– kind of irritating

The only premise I could sense was related to the rolling.

The efficiency was, however, very close to 100%. You're just measuring the wrong thing.

As you seem to have focused on how fun the exercise was, you are more than likely right.
I don't know how big Facebook is today, but I know last year they were aiming for 1000 employees by December. That's about the same size.
Sure, today, you can have one for (say) 10 million dollars. In 18 months, it will only be five million. At an exponential decreasing rate, it'll take over a decade to be under $1,000.
"On my machine, I can allocate, initialize, and garbage collect almost 4G of memory a second."

When everything has to happen in 1/60th of a second, then all that garbage collection is a serious problem. Memory allocation and deallocation is expensive in games, especially on the consoles.

For simpler games, yes, not a problem.
> Just because one is sandboxed and the other is not, does not mean that it's inherently more secure.

Actually, that is actually what it means. Security is the reason for the sandbox and is an essential property of the native client. Sure, bugs could exist that defeat the protections but that can just as easily be said for any code.

ActiveX is very different -- by design, there are no protections.

However, I'm not sure I understand why the code has to be native -- A think Google could have built a C-compatible VM machine language that would be easier to validate and then just JIT that in the browser. They already need a patched GCC to compile the native code for the client. And a VM JIT could be ported to other platforms besides x86. Why does it have to be native?
Hypothetical arguments can go any way you choose. If sandboxes can be broken out of then all browsers are equal and you better disable JavaScript, Java, and Flash.
Actually, I speak fluent Thai, there is no word for Yes or No. There is ไม่ which is a negation word, and ใช่ which basically means "correct"/"right", not "yes". The Thai question format is generally:
Q: Hungry? หิวไหม
A: Not hungry. ไม่หิว
A: Hungry. หิว

There are other question indicator words, but the one you're referring to is for "correct or not" type questions, e.g.

Q: This road, right? สอยนี้ใช่ไหม
A: Right. ใช่
A: Not right. ไม่ใช่

Alternatively, for a lot of statements you can just respond with the polite ending words, ครับ for men and ค่ะ for women.

The question, "would you like one of these?" in Thai would be, "เอาไหม่"... literally, "want?". The correct response is then either: ไม่เอาครับ or, เอาครับ ... that is the polite form for "do not want", or "want". There is no other way to respond to that question (except without the polite ending).
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin... ;)
Why does yc silently ban users without giving them any notification so that they still continue to post unaware that none of what they write is being shown on the site?
Would Twitter be able to take the domain name over given that it includes the word "Twitter" and is about Twitter?
Google could have built a C-compatible VM machine language that would be easier to validate

A JIT is significantly more code than the NaCl verifier, and generally JITs don't handle SIMD well.
Radio, the death of newspapers?
Television, the death of radio?
Internet TV, the death of television?
Silverlight, the death of flash?
HTML 5, the death of flash AND silverlight?

This reads like a TechCrunch headline.
Looks good, but it's unclear from the website where they're located - would appear to be Greece? It may benefit them to make that clear, not least since it would affect the legal environment.
They are at about 850 right now, last I heard, and I assume they have slowed hiring a little given the economy, but I could be wrong.

Either way, it means that before the layoffs MySpace was 50% bigger than Facebook, which is pretty amazing.
I'm sure that html,etc can be _written_ with a basic text editor, but I'm not convinced that's the easiest way to get things done.
Silverlight might not make it.
Flash will be fine. The Flex + AIR combination is pretty solid, and I'm looking forward what we[my company] can do with AIR once we get our application rewritten in Flex.
The End of Fail
Im not sure, but i think its because if you tell a troll that he was baned its very likely that he would make another account and continue with his previous actions, but if he doesn't know, he'll simply think he is being ignored. Its literally preventing trolls from being fed. Im not sure if HN does that.
What "things lumped together"? Please substantiate. Having ADD, and having kept up on research for years, I find your assertion that it isn't a disease new and surprising.
Thanks for clarification. I stand corrected. I appreciate you adding the quote on Hacker News policy.
It seems slightly odd to call it "leaner" when you're adding stuff on top of CSS. The additions seem nice enough, but to me, "leaner" means that the number of [mis]features is being reduced to make a smaller spec and implementation.
Try Gentoo/Alt. I used it to get up-to-date GNU stuff in a Solaris environment. You don't even need root access. Highly recommended, it's very flexible. Gentoo being Gentoo, you need some skills, though.
I assume "leaner" is referring to the resultant CSS.
From what I can tell (I'm the owner of the house), the first 6 feet of the floor were built slanted. A friend of mine with some contracting expertise has suggested that the room was likely a porch that was later closed in; such a slant would be typical for an exterior floor to shed rain. The flooring also changes slightly in how it's nailed down around the 6 foot mark, suggesting that the underlayment might change there too.
Microsoft wants everything to be on .NET. HTML5 doesn't further that goal any more than Flash does.
A JIT could handle SIMD if those instructions are included in the VM. I'm not thinking about a high-level VM like Java but something considerably more low-level. A machine language with the most important features of any modern CPU but without the ambiguities and trappings of any particular architecture. In NaCl, they're already restricting the code to a subset of x86 instructions, so it's not far off.

And it doesn't even have to be JIT -- it could just be a compiler that translates from the verifiable VM code directly into x86 before anything is run.
Twitter is being used by foreign powers to spread misinformation & seed malcontent. Twitter is taking orders from the United States State Department about what it should & shouldn't do in Iran.
Not unless it gives me access to the user's webcam (but I'd love to see it happen).
It wouldn't be of much value in a vacuum. But Iranian-US dynamic didn't start this week. 'The US is manipulating Iranians,' is a storyline that Iranians would be open to. It's a pre-existing fear.
For some businesses, the economic value of a marginal gigabyte is, say, (does math) $50.

Santa, for Christmas this year:

1) I'd like to use all of my 500 GB quota, every month.

2) I'd like to start paying overage charges. REALLY BIG OVERAGE CHARGES.
I think I kind of agree with you, but kind of not.

Try looking at it from this perspective: There is really only one program. It is running on the internet and the disconnected nodes that only exchange data by sneakernet. It never stops running. Every bit of software that we think of as a separate program is really a part of this program. What are the techniques that make this program manageable (in the sense that it continues to perform useful functions and people continue to extend it)? I don't think they're module systems and type inference. I think REST, for example, plays a much bigger role. Full-text search of documentation plays a big role. NANOG plays a big role. Most of the things that really matter most in keeping it manageable are interpersonal and institutional rather than purely technical.

But this large program is made up largely of code, and nearly all of that code is made up of individual lines of code. Many of the technical things that help us most to keep it manageable are precisely the ones that allow us to write self-contained modifications more and more incrementally — a page, or a paragraph, or a line of code at a time.

So in that sense, things like type inference and programming higher on the declarativeness scale (e.g. DSLs, libraries) are important in managing the large project precisely because they can be compellingly demonstrated in "programs" of less than a page.
For a transition strategy, I think the browser makers should make an HTML5 plugin that's as easy to install as the flash player.

Therefore web application developers can have more confidence in developing with HTML5 since it will work on legacy browsers.
Yes. And to me it seemed odd that 3/4 of the examples of LESS actually require MORE typing than the CSS. So perhaps not the best name, but looks like a nice tool.

Or maybe LESS should be an acronym: Less Equals Simpler Styles :-)
Yeah. I fail to see how scads of global data is less ugly.
There was at least one forecast, but as noted it was hard to draw any real conclusions from it.

However, there is also a fair bit of data on past elections and voting trends - which the data from this election departs from remarkably.
To be fair HTML5 and Flash/Silverlight aren't really comparable to the different media formats. They're just different ways of doing the exact same thing. It'd be more like analog vs. digital.
I had really bad luck using Jython 2.5 beta 0 with django. I ran into some nasty memory leaks. It looks like other people have run into the same problem: http://www.nabble.com/Django-Jython-memory-leak--td20899097....

I would not recommend Jython for production uses.
That actually makes a lot of sense, in context; I was wondering why/how Rich had enough time to pore over some random guy's implementation of ants, not knowing much about Pascal (until this HN thread). I think if people ignorant to his own accomplishments, it's because many F/OSS project mailing lists or IRC channels see messages from someone new to the project claiming a more naïve version of Pascal's email every few months (or weeks).
Benford's Law anomalies in the 2009 Iranian presidential election
Well, the issue is that now with twitter there's no such thing as "multiple unconnected sources". You don't know who is independently corroborating something, and who is parroting.
The "you are not Google" principle applies here. Unless you are writing the next hit game for the Wii, you can afford to write maintainable code. If you need every last bit of performance that your (underpowered) hardware can provide, then you need to take shortcuts and hire the 200-member team that that development style entails.
I believe, technically, a superconductor has to allow electrons to travel throughout the entire body of the material without resistance.

This material only allows the electrons on its surface to travel without resistance. So its not classified as a superconductor.

However, this makes me think, can't we make a version of this in a shape with a very high surface area to volume ratio? Then it might be pretty useful as a superconductor for small voltage levels.
Anything by Radiohead.
Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians" - single hour-long track.
Rachmaninoff "All Night Vigil".
Cabaret Voltaire "Plasticity".
John Coltrane "A Love Supreme"
Anything by Stereolab.
Tim Hecker "Harmony in Ultraviolet".
late-1960s cool jazz (Miles, Herbie, Freddie Hubbard, etc)
Most stuff by Bach.
Older stuff by Autechre.
Philip Glass "Koyaanisqatsi" - another hour-long track; can't play it too loud though or it gets tiring.
Opera Unite is going to be used mainly as UI for desktop apps... desktop apps with distributed UI.
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