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Why do you believe it?

Windows has a firewall, you're no longer an administrator by default as part of other changes from UAC, between XP and Vista, Microsoft put a lot more internal focus on security, Windows Update pushes itself on you, system file protection and validation stops key files being overwritten, IE8 has a phishing filter, popup blocker, more strict security settings, more process isolation/sandbox features. Outlook has unsafe attachment blocks.

Yes a full internet security suite will have some more benefits, but the main problems are still dodgy downloads and email attachments. If you know enough to stay away from those then the benefits of a full Norton/McAfee suite over Windows Firewall and Morro wont be enormous, I suspect.
The only thing dumb is this article. It's a pretty big stretch to say Apple is "threatening" anybody or that Palm is engaging in risky behavior. At the worst we'll have a cat and mouse game that Palm will spend most of its time winning.

I'm not sure why any sane person would want to that bloated monstrosity anyway when they could just drag and drop.
Why is it anti-competetive? I don't see any claim that it will be bundled in with Windows.
It should be pointed out that this is "Microsoft's Halo Team" which is not Bungie. Bungie is no longer a part of the company, but Microsoft still owns the IP rights to Halo.

Bungie is developing "Halo: ODST", to be released this year, as well "Halo: REACH" which is only at the teaser phase. Microsoft is developing their own game engine for their own Halo games.
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"Lack of a group in a field is a problem because we might be missing out on more like her, and I hate to think that."

Isn't that the point of trying to "make the demographics look nice?"
Hi Larry,

Very recently the tone has changed at HN. But that's ok. HN is great because occasionally we go through phases like this (sometimes too political, sometimes humorless, sometimes holier-than-thou, and so on) but it always bounces back. Hang in there. <puts on karma crash helmet>
What exactly is this message saying? Obviously diversity of talent is a good thing.

But maybe more is implied?
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Of course, on the flip side ... having people continually asking about your progress is actually pretty motivating (even if for the wrong reason)!
Wow this is very cool. With recent development in web technologies, I think any game anywhere will come to reality very soon.
I have not tested my app on the final version.

In my app, and in other reports of the leak, it was not the complicated stuff that caused the leak. See this report, for instance: http://markmail.org/message/wwovry6qwnezcrr2

My case was basically the same thing. I had a loop doing some processing and the memory usage just kept growing.
This line really bugged me:

"Google may also face some touchy decisions. For example, its YouTube subsidiary uses Flash for its video, but the inclusion of HTML 5 capabilities in browsers might cause YouTube to rethink that decision, notes Fette. "It's a cost/benefit analysis that they'd need to make."

I know Yahoo! doesn't like to drink the Google koolaid, but they should have at least paid attention to the fact that Google has been converting the video on YouTube from FLV to H.264 for some time now. They launched it alongside iPhone (no flash player there, remember?)

If HTML5 got enough momentum, you'd see the FLV content on YouTube disappear overnight.
Silverlight allows .Net developers to target a Rich web interface from Visual Studio. If you program in windows, you'll naturally choose Silverlight. If you want to develop using open standards, you'll choose html 5. Flash will be gone.
The actual depiction of the "Incredible Bread Machine" starts at about 30:30 into the film. But really, don't miss the rest (Milton Friedman is featured, along with Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon). Watching media from over 30 years ago is a fascinating reminder about how little some things actually change.
Almost all security problems associated with a modern Windows system aren't because of any inherent design problems but rather inexperienced users who run executables which contain malicious software. Linux/FreeBSD on the whole aren't popular enough and attract savvier users.

Currently, there's no perfect solution to this problem. By making is very easy to run any software, you also make it very easy to run malicious software as well. App store/package managers provide half a solution, but are still far from ideal for vendors who don't want to rely on the whims of those packaging, and the process may not guarantee safety or security. Forcing applications to operate in a sandboxed environment is probably the way forward in the long-term, but that's still some way off due to the overheads required to do that while still retaining backwards compatibility with existing software. I think the fact we're in this limbo is one of the reasons that has made web apps popular, because it is essentially providing a sandboxed environment of sorts.
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"This can't be said enough, especially on this board."

This seems to be one of the major blind spots of HN readers. Making something people want should be trivial compared to selling it. Think about it. You get to choose any business you want, so why would you choose one where making something people want is difficult? If you realize this, you wouldn't. Which means that if you choose a smart business then you're right that 90% or more of your effort will go toward promoting, marketing, and selling. It's true that making something really difficult to copy is a barrier to entry, but it doesn't make sense to make something difficult to copy just for that benefit, because in most cases the barrier of selling is an order of magnitude bigger anyway.
Well, I guess that depends on whether you think a people's right to self-govern depends on you liking them or not.
Telegram as media... Encoding messages to be transmitted point-to-point long distances over copper wire. If anything it just evolved telegram > ticker tape > computer networks. Signal fires > road flares. Smoke signal's > Rescue flares given to pilots etc.

Protocol's might die (Apple Talk, Analog TV), but technology's tend to just find a niche.
Personally, I think it's a shame and a rather sad state of affairs that Microsoft won't or, more likely, can't bundle it with Windows. I think a lot of users would benefit from it.
Okay, so maybe don't fuck silverlight and give us <video> to attack flash from both ends? And a pony?
I read it as "The point of having more women isn't to have more women, the point of having more women is to be able to make games women will like." This is a fairly common argument among people who suggest that diversity is something which should be actively aimed for.

I have never really found it persuasive, personally, although I like it a lot more than the quotas-for-quotas sake rationalization. Here's my beef: people are Ruby objects, not Java objects. They can have all sorts of weird behavior added at runtime that other instances of the same class don't have.

You could, for example, monkey patch an instance of Female on the fly with acts_as_fps_developer, or have an instance of Male which responds_to develop_product_for_female_audience. Moreover, this is not weird or unexpected in any way. So why would you assume that your ability to develop_product_for_female_audience increases linearly as the number of developers who are instances of Female increases?

Instance of: it's a code smell in Ruby, it's a code smell in hiring.

(Yeah yeah, I know, Java can do dependency injection these days. It's a metaphor, deal.)
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'Having more features doesn't force them to be used' — correct, but it changes the perception people have of the tool, as well as what they start to expect from it.

I personally favor smaller tools which do the least amount possible while still fulfilling your needs. That's why, for example, I'm not a huge fan of Rails, and would much rather use Sinatra when I can. I know I'm not the only one.

It's this sort of overhead I'm trying to avoid. Less is very straightforward, and I want to keep it that way—there's not much you need to learn to start using it, and the code base is tiny. For most use cases I think the feature-set will be more than enough, and if it's not, we have Compass.
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I really doubt that keeping pedophiles from accessing said pictures will stop the police from prosecuting those who posted them in the first place. Your logic makes no sense. Just because you make it harder for criminals to access illegal material doesn't mean you can't go after the providers too.
I forgot entirely about self medication for simple ailments. I had to get penicillin on the down low when I contracted scarlet fever.
I think what he meant was a text editor is useless for frame-based animation. Flash programmers are "visual programmers." I don't think there's any good way (at least not now) to program animations without a visual ide -- and I don't mean simple transitions in a javascript webapp.
Sounds more like a VHS/Betamax debate... an open standard against a closed, but more technically sophisticated, standard
In what bizarro world is not supporting your competitor's products considered threatening behavior?
This is a near perfect example of an incremental improvement. Kind of reads one's mind about what would be ideal to add to css - and provides it in a completely intuitive implementation. Bravo.
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I think Flex trades off user experience to make developers' lives easier though. That's never the right choice IMHO.

Every Flex app I've seen, no matter how simple, starts with a "Loading" popup. Flex apps also notoriously overreach by reimplementing everything in Flash rather than use HTML where appropriate. It's great to have good tools, but they should never produce an inferior product.
I don't know. I think optipng is basically optimal for what it does. If you use the -o7 flag, I believe it uses every available combination of settings that a png file can have, as well as using the minimal color space.

However, what would be really cool is something which would dither down, based on some of the research that is going on in that field. I saw a java applet once that could dither almost anything to 256 colors with barely any noticeable degradation. For something like the iphone, or any other memory limited/bandwidth limited device this would be awesome.
I agree with you, and I've never heard an argument that decisively positioned native code past the bounds of what's likely to be achieved with JITs. Native also seems like a bad bet on the future of computation.
Without a serious upgrade to our data infrastructure I don't see this taking hold for any serious gamer, the lag will just be too great.
You kind of missed the point... html 5 isn't going to hit it big if it only has that portion they need to be easily accessible to the entire audience.
> A machine language with the most important features of any modern CPU but without the ambiguities and trappings of any particular architecture.

Could you elaborate? I'm not convinced that x86 looks like other architectures.
You're presuming that all couples want to have children. There is not "something wrong" with those folks' relationships.
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Because it's faster. You can download torrents with Gnome-do without having to even look at torrent sites.
I think this is probably more of a "get some press with a simple but effective idea" more than it's something they'll IPO off of.
I doubt anyone will remember this, but way back around the .com bubble ICQ actually had a feature built in where you could host a website off of your computer using it and your contact list could access it. I don't think I really used it, but it was a neat feature.
SnapTwitter is a digest service for twitter. Many people can't read tweets as they are posted (think: people behind corporate firewalls that block twitter). SnapTwitter would collect feeds on a periodic basis (daily, weekly, every-three-days, etc) and send them to a user via email. Yeah, I know that twitter is real-time, but some times I can't or don't want to read tweets as they are posted to the web. I've often wished to have a summarized version of say @zeldman 's tweets. Some of the stuff he posts is important, but not so important that it should interrupt my workday. BTW - i want to actually build this and haven't seen any similar service (links welcome js65536@gmail.com)
render the full 720p image remotely

Ah, there's the rub. It may be rendering a 720p canvas, but for all we know it's rendering a filthy blotchy version of it - much like streaming movies sounds great (and is good as far as it goes), but when you put the image next to a well-mastered DVD - never mind an actual HD system - the differences are painfully obvious. Similarly, if you've ever uploaded some pristine video, which you know very well, to YouTube and then looked at it a few hours later it looks pretty hideous at the normal quality, and only OK at the high quality.

In both these demos the video looks fairly smooth and responsive, but all the same we're seeing OTOY as filmed on a screen by a camcorder and then further compressed by YouTube itself. I strongly suspect that an uncompressed (or non-lossy) capture from FRAPS of the actual video in the browser window will make the difference pretty stark. I would love to be wrong of course.

The other thing I wonder is how this is going to scale and what they need at the server end (I sure can't see this being peer to peer). It does make a difference if the server side is running an nVidia Tesla (~$1500 and up) or some similar graphics powerhouse to do the almost real time compression.

It's still impressive, I like the concept, and they sure took on a big challenge. But I'm not expecting Crysis on the iPhone anytime soon. On a side note, although gaming has the most obvious market and monetization potential, what I find exciting about Otoy are the possibilities for film and scientific visualization.
We don't have perfect choices. Imperfect journalism with limited access or access to the chatter. There is bad journalism too. People tend to be less on guard themselves when presented with bad or biased journalism. At least with twitter, people are less inclined to take everything at face value.

Anyway, I am confident. Earlier on people were making ridiculous arguments about how the internet is an untrustworthy source of information. All sorts of things that were highly speculative or untrue where being put online. Douglas Adams compare this to saying you can't believe everything you here on the telephone. I think this applies here too.

Twitter is new. People don't know how to treat it properly yet. The information you hear on a bus can be unreliable. It shouldn't be treated as a perfect sample. It may contain the opinions of crazy people, biased people & bus drivers. But it's still information. People are good at sifting through this kind of information.
I for one, see no problem with a properly done flash project (not bad amateur work). We can argue open-ness, but realistically it amazes me that everyone is wishing for something that already exists!

(prepared to be down-voted for liking flash)
I agree with him, but he doesn't seem to understand how Opera's proxies are intended to work -- they don't want to have to tunnel all your traffic except as a last resort: their main purpose is as a backchannel for coordinating NAT hole-punching.

As dumb as Opera is, they're not stupid enough to pay for all your live filesharing bandwidth, symmetrically.
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That's not the right choice for a non-visual programmer maybe. But its popularity is partially due to it being designer friendly.
I find the italic really annoying to read
I use Sass daily and I will continue to. I don't understand the hate for the indentation sensitivity; no curly braces or semi-colons to deal with and visible structure are huge wins as far as I'm concerned. I guess I'm just not seeing the "obvious awesomeness" that makes this so much of an improvement over Sass. I can see the appeal for the use case of existing CSS but I find that rarely happens.
Actually since flash player 9, flv's have supported H.264 video.
Why do you assume programming in windows == microsoft affinity. Im a windows man and am openly anti silverlight. I am actually amazed its survived this long...
You're still confusing sass and compass.

Like I said, your current feature set is ample for the 95% use case of normal web development. To that end, we are in complete agreement.

I don't know how familiar you are with blueprint, but the less syntax doesn't support creating new abstractions that simplify design.

In sass using the compass port of blueprint we can do this:

#sidebar
+column(8)

which generates:

#sidebar {
float: left;
margin-right: 10px;
width: 310px; }

The column mixin is defined here: http://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/blob/master/framewor...

So what could be the equivalent less syntax for this?

div#sidebar { .column: 8; }

This is wonderfully easy for end users, but the language syntax has to become more complicated to support it. You have to be able to specify the arguments for the mixin. Also, you need a way to refer to the parent selector within the mixin abstractly. In sass we use the & symbol to represent the selector's context. I don't know what a "css-like" syntax would be for these capabilities. I would argue that they don't really have to be that "css-y", but they just have to play nicely with existing CSS syntax, because normal users don't need them.

Anyways, it's your project... But I've spent the last year thinking about these sorts of issues. If you want to discuss further, you can hit me up on github.

-chris
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Actually, I do understand that. That's why I said that they were using a "P2P-like" network... Given that it's an alpha, it's pretty awesome that it works as it does, but this deficiency — tying you to an "operaunite.com" domain — is primarily where my criticism lies.

And, that they used such confusing and contradictory terms in their EULA.
I think he was talking about behavioral studies.
> And what Iran is doing is very smart. Evil but smart. Shutting down Facebook and youtube is smart. Why they left Twitter open is anyone's guess.

They didn't leave Twitter open. Iranians are using proxy servers, and switching between them rapidly as proxies get blocked.
I think you made the right call. CSS isn't complex enough to need a framework. In a lot of cases, CSS frameworks abuse the primary motivating factor for trying to separate style and content in the first place. If I have to use particular HTML markup or class naming conventions, I may as well just forego the separation of content and style altogether and use table layouts.

But less appears to make desperately needed additions that should ultimately show up in CSS itself IMHO. Certainly when I was first picking up CSS -- given my programming background -- I was reaching for the concept of variables and in fact was surprised that they did not exist in CSS. For that reason, I'd consider less to be more of a language extension than a framework.
4) This is incorrect; the Ayatollah did not approve of the election; that is why they have launched an investigation into irregularities.

Eh, actually...from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090615/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_e... :

"The day after the election, Khamenei urged the nation to unite behind Ahmadinejad and called the result a 'divine assessment.'"

It was only after the protests that Khamenei backtracked.
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this is like something jack handy would do. his would probably be funnier though. I only laughed out loud at the poison one.
Not to mention the size. A HTML + CSS + JS (jQuery) implementation of a simple component such as a menu would end up being ~50KB. In flash it turns out to be less than 1KB.
Rather neat. It reminds me of that "sixth-sense" technology demonstrated in a TED conference: http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.h...
its not a blind spot, its just that its not easy to figure it out and since its very valuable i dont think people its just spelling it out
I appreciate the intention and downmodded you anyway. "Wow, I've heard of a woman programmer, too!" is stigmatizing, although I'm sure that wasn't intended.

I work in Japan, and am one of probably three white guys in my industry in the greater Nagoya area. (That is an exaggeration, but not much of one.) When I get introduced to someone in a professional context, almost without fail, I hear something to the effect of "Wow, you're American? I met an American once." God does that get old.

Yes, I'm an American, but I'm not here in the wow-an-American context, I am here in the valued-professional-employed-by-the-firm-you-are-in-business-with context. I suppose the appropriate remark would be "Oh, a Big Freaking Enterprise Web Apps Java programmer -- I've met one of you before!". (Now, of course, nobody will say that because it is stupid and insipid... but the original was, too, with an extra soupcon of unintentionally insulting added to the mix.)
Yes, I suspect there are a large number of factors that affect our motivation, and each of those factors has a different effect on different people.

What's more important is finding those factors that personally motivate you.

For me making a public announcement helps in the short term, to get the ball rolling, but doesn't keep my motivation at a high level.
Yep, this is that same seam carving presentation from siggraph 2007.
We deprecated some features in Sass 2.2 that will allow us to change the variable syntax in 2.4. Legacy users are a bitch ;-)

The idea of allowing any top-level css class be used as a mixin is a really interesting one that we could consider adding to sass. However, I would argue that you still need an abstract class syntax like the current mixin, especially where arguments are in use.

As a sass framework builder, I really like that I don't have to define a presentational class name that would end up in your stylesheets just so that you can mix them into your semantic selectors. It makes it much easier to keep presentation out of markup.
Reportedly the underlying tech at otoy (not the competitor, just otoy) is essentially a legitimate breakthrough in real-time gpu-assisted raytracing.

The significant advantage raytracing brings to this space is that compared to typical rendering techniques camera movement is "instantaneous": you just change the ray origin and paths, there's no need to translate+rotate the entire game world as in typical gpu rendering...which takes you from having to translate the entire world for each frame and then rendering to just rendering.