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Sadly there is a submarine patent related to vorbis.
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Now it works on Chrome but still bad on Safari (Mac).

This error comes up in JS console:

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"I have a brief moment of that very hard to spell German word"

For those wondering, Patrick is (almost certainly) referring to schadenfreude: joy derived from others' misfortune.
"your claim that good skin makes a person worth more"

It was a passing thought, not a claim. Pay it no more attention.

"The taboo is on judging people in the same way that we judge products, services and merchandise. And quite right too -- there should be a taboo on doing that."

No, it extends further than that. Even judging people on moral grounds is condemned as "judgmental".
I'd suggest Algorithm Design by Kleinberg and Tardos: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Jon-Kleinberg/dp/0321... , it's more readable than either CLRS or Dasgupta/Papadimitriou/Vazirani.
> Besides presenting us with an unfalsifiable anecdote, you obviously haven't read the article.

There were a few articles trying to "debunk" dvorak recently and no, I did not read this one. I am tired of them. It's a silly debate.

It's not just my anecdote. There are at least 1/2 a dozen others here on hacker news this week with a similar story. That's only a small sample. I've met others in person who type dvorak with a similar story, there's one at my current workplace.

The fact that people don't know about or consider alternative layouts doesn't mean they aren't better in some way.
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Well, that's not what makes entrepreneurship hard for me. Each day, I can get up and decide various things to do, and I'm plenty motivated. In fact, I would guess most entrepreneurs are the workaholic, get-it-done type.

What makes entrepreneurship hard for me is figuring out what to do, not following through on it. So, in some sense, it would be easier if I had a boss with a todo list, if the ideas were better than my own.

At a chugging corporation, it's easy to figure out stuff worth doing, and hard to motivate people. At a start-up, it's just the opposite... it's easy to motivate people and hard to figure out stuff worth doing.
This makes me want to change my browser's user agent string to something that includes "Apple Tablet". Just to screw with companies / bloggers like this.
I completely disagree with the “Period.” I think it’s a very small part of why it’s hard. Actually, if I were to ask the question differently and say: What exactly makes Entrepreneurship so attractive? Many would say it’s the lack of a boss.

Entrepreneurship is very personal and if you don’t have the discipline muscle already trained and ready, the first year or two will be very hard. But after that, you simply pick up a sheet of paper in the morning, look over at your yearly plan, and write down the couple of things that you must do that day to get a little closer.

At the end of the day, cross all the items off the list. If you’re lucky, that is.

Of course, it’s much harder than that. Specially when your plan is evolving as you go.

From my experience, I believe what makes entrepreneurship so hard is having to fly multiple plans in the sky simultaneously.

It’s telling which planes are carrying the cargo and which are carrying the people. The ones that can absolutely not crash no matter what from the ones that can not crash.
You linked to the Theora page, not the Vorbis page.

Also, just because Xiph says there are no other patents doesn't mean there are none. It takes an incredible amount of IP research in order to be confident of such a claim. Probably only Sun has done enough to make this sort of conclusion--they did an incredible amount of IP research for the development of Sun OMS. The spec, though terrible, is worth a read just for its coverage of IP-related issues.

This is primarily a problem for corporate adoption: companies are scared shitless of submarine patents. Many would rather have the devil they know than the devil they don't. It's the same problem with promoting corporate use of open source software: many companies would rather have a proprietary license that makes them feel secure than even a BSD license that guarantees nothing.

Even if Theora and Vorbis are both actually patent-free, the mere fear that they aren't is enough to scare many companies off.
re: H264

Not all standards bodies require RAND terms, and not all RAND terms are 'reasonable' for individuals. You have to look into each standard and then to the assigned licensing agencies and what they charge for.

In the case of H264, the patent pool is licensed by MPEG-LA, and they're anything but free.

Here's the overview of the broadcast licensing terms:

http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=10900

more data about licensing can also be found in the Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC
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So why do so many people not pirate software?

If you think it's just because they don't know how, then you're wrong.

I suggest because of their own sense of fairness. Most would not get caught but they still feel it's right to pay a software author for what they have created. Some cultures (currently) have more of this sense than others - e.g. the U.S. more than China.
Out of interest, what does that give you? I haven't had FF crash in months, so it wouldn't make it any more stable for me - is there some other gain from process-per-tab?
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indeed, but http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/download/ isn't unique to the 0.5 release.

wish there was a blog post I could have linked to

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And also see these credit-card-sized hardware OTP solutions:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/12/credit_card_wi...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1085642/The-n...

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You can start typing the second key, when you remove your finger from the first key the second gets activated.

this behavior is new to 2.1
Ah, that comparison had the opposite of the intended effect on me. The Theora encoded video looks much worse in every instance. Not sure if I would notice the harsh contrast and encoding artifacts when viewing a YouTube video without comparison, though. But still, the comparison pretty much convinced me that Theora has a very long way to go to be able to compete on quality.
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Yeah no doubt, hoping to get my head around it better this year.
I disagree. Everyone has some kind of a boss, even though it may not be a guy working in the office next to you. For entrepreneurs it might be the customers, it might be your investors, it might be your cofounders, but there is still "a boss".

What makes it hard for me is the fact that there is a fog of war. There is a high degree of uncertainty about almost everything. I'm dedicating a tremendous amount of my time and effort to something that might tip over at any moment, either because of a wrong decision, or because of a situation outside of my control, or because I'm not good enough, or because it was a terrible idea in the first place. Entrepreneurship requires faith, basically, and I'm not used to structuring my life that way.
Would H264 that mean the end of all non-major browsers?
It would be nice for someone to provide a script which did this on rota (or a single date) for all countries with i18n for each of those countries outlining their own censorship laws, including UK, France, etc.
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I deleted my parent comment - it's getting late and I made a whole bunch of mistakes there (as you rightly pointed out).
I really thought it would be unlikely that Apple would let iPhone Apps run unmodified on the tablet, its going to have a larger screen and resolution - that just sounds like a recipe for ugliness especially for games.
"Because it cost virtually nothing to copy bits, the supply goes up."

There's a lot more to this discussion, because it's not a theoretical 'perfectly competitive' market. Supply in the case of one product is restricted to one supplier so it doesn't mirror a normal S-D curve. In a normal supply-demand curve supply moves up because others enter the market with equivalent products, driving the price lower until there's a balance. In the case of Office, others have entered the market and, having created alternatives, the price is lower than it would otherwise be. There is a lower limit to the (price x sales) of Office below which Microsoft would have no incentive to create it.

If the software market could be equated to a normal S-D curve with a single product in the market, software developers would quickly restrict the amount of applications they sell. You'd only have 100k Office licenses per year.
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whenever I read this kind of stuff I just think "cart before horse". the games I enjoy the most are quite primitive. all the enemy AI in crytek didn't amount to a fun game.
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yeah, four accordion folds from the looks of it.
"My impression is that of a community that helps each other out in order to make this new model of work succeed."

In YC when you have a problem you generally find another startup who can help and then pair off with them to work alone, like on a dating site.

Alternatively, there other seed programs where all the startups sit around a big table and talk about each person's problems one at time. This is more like a polis, because different discussions create value for different people.

The latter exposes you to more new ideas, but it also wastes enormous amounts of time. (And a lot of these new ideas don't end up sticking because you haven't already tried yourself and failed first.) I think the YC model probably maximizes your chances of success after three months, but only if you already have a pretty good chance of succeeding. If you still have a bunch of missing skills you need to fill in, then looking into non-YC options might make more sense.
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I think the number 1 thing that Ogg could do to stimulate adoption is to change its ridiculous name.
"Always" in my experience, anecdotally. I am sure there are some crafted benchmarks that favor Mozilla, but they're not really fair; in every real-life deployment I've seen personally, Chrome has crushed Firefox. There may be some edge cases where Firefox performs better, but Chrome is by far the faster browser for real-life browsing.
PG: Would you consider funding a startup aiming to take on a massive but completely monopolized market, e.g. desktop OSes? Being one of the developers on a completely new OS, I frequently wonder about how it could be commercialized and pitted against the likes of MS, and it seems that it would be effectively untouchable from a funding perspective, with the way things are now.

I know investors like risk, but it seems like the chances of success are such that 99% of the time, you're going to be throwing your money way. Any insight here?
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The author of this post spends the first seven paragraphs telling us how busy he is. Then he uses a metaphor that compares being busy to having a large penis.

I am not making this up.
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I have watched it. It was clearly a joke, but equally clearly not completely a joke. I didn't like it at all. The truth, though, is that I haven't done the kind of research I would want to do to properly argue about this, and it's possible my judgment is off base. (Apart from which, this wouldn't be the right place. I held off replying for a day because I seem to have triggered the wrong kind of discussion.)
What version of Safari? I've done it on all the pages so far, but I'm thinking I'll have to get "creative" on that damn sm2 loading.
I would do this for a day, but not for 5.
that's sort of a vague question. some of history's biggest monopolies have been the most vulnerable to disruption (telecom, anyone?).

i don't want to speak for PG, but I think when YC considers applications they weigh risk against potential return. m$ certainly has demonstrated there is a tremendous market for desktop software (though with the onset of cloud computing, perhaps it is becoming obsolete).
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I have a Nexus One. There's no reason to even bother with subpixel font rendering -- the DPI is so high that the text, with regular anti-aliasing, looks far sharper than ClearType on a normal density screen. I imagine Droid owners have the same experience.
I perhaps made it a bit too vague in an effort to make it applicable outside my specific case (I work on a pure-managed OS focused on desktop/mobile applications). Even though I fully believe in the project, the chances of it ever becoming the Next Big OS (TM) are slim to nil, so I'm curious if any sane investor would touch it. Obviously there's a profit to be made with it in certain niches, but I don't know if that would be big enough for anyone to fund it.
How much of the constant state of emergency is unavoidable and how much is a consequence of running to the limit of capacity such that you can't anticipate non-scheduled black swan events like, um, Christmas?
I think you shouldn't do "modal HTML dialog boxes" neither for evil nor for good.
That link isn't even related to David Kelly.
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And, heck, while we're at it: Flash includes a closed-source H264 decoder implementation. At this point, adding an open-source decoder would be an overall improvement.
No more so than a small start-up with your friends. Groupthink has far more to do with the work environment than the size of the group.
And that's part of the problem too. The Mozilla devs have made it next to impossible to plug in a video decoder to replace the embedded one, so there's no way to just punt the decision to the OS by passing the video to DirectShow / QuickTime / gstreamer / etc. It's Theora or nothing.
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Why are people still insisting on estimating traffic of other people's sites? Here is a tip: Alexa is rubbish, i.e. wrong. At best, it is a very disturbed reflection of reality.

Also, why does it say "Don't refresh or quit the page until the end of the report generation..." near the top? What happens if I stop half-way through because I didn't see this warning?
It doesn't get any better; later he complains that some of the members of his retail workforce clock off as soon as their shift ends.
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That article has some really shady analysis in it. An example:

Despite there being diminishing returns on my time beyond a certain point, there are still positive returns. To elaborate, if my first 10 working hours per day are worth $10 per hour to the investors, the 11th hour may be worth $9, the 12th hour $8 and so on. Still my 19th working hour would still be worth $1 to the investors. As long as I am not destructive and my work produces value, and I can function the next day back at the $10 an hour mark, there are real benefits to my company for me putting in my time.

He provides no proof for his claim that performance drops off in such a linear fashion and he can consistently work nineteen hour days while being just as productive the next day.
I'm just wondering if the health market in America has gotten so dysfunctional that firms building their own primary care clinics might be more cost-effective than purchasing health insurance on the market. Would love for someone to crunch the numbers.
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Directly measured @ quantcast:

http://www.quantcast.com/scribd.com

The big falloff end of June I assume.
WorkaholicsWives.com doesn't roll off the tongue as easily. I wonder if he'll change it anyway.
Piracy is not a market correction. It is a superior product. What.cd and waffles.fm, with their depth of product and usability, make iTunes and Amazon music seem like a joke.

The music hydra does not just have every album, it has most versions of every album. When what.cd and waffles.fm are shut down, they will be replaced by four sites, possibly more.

For example, for The Beatles album Let It Be, the following editions are available, as high-quality MP3s and FLAC (currently just FLAC for the vinyl rips, which is fine):

24 bit lossless vinyl rip of the 1970 Apple record. 24 bit lossless rip of 1982 Japanese vinyl. 1987 Parlophone CD. 2004 Apple vinyl rip (16 bit lossless, alas). 2007 Purple Chick Remaster. 2007 Dr. Ebbetts Remaster. 2008 Dr. Ebbetts Remaster. 2009 Apple Remaster.

When the music industry can offer a product superior to piracy, they will stand a chance. When the marginal cost of production falls to zero, classical economics ceases to function and extra-market restrictions are needed to force the continued existence of the market.
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Really? What's the patent number?
Bill also famously decried piracy: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/most-of-you-steal-your-...
I think first we must ask if content creation truly needs to incentived. That content would go uncreated, and that we'd somehow lose out on content that needs to be incentived in order to be created, and that said content is somehow more valuable than content that doesn't need an incentive to be created, seems like a pretty big assumption.
I don't believe that his strategy is the best one, but if he does, more power to him.

Burning your life only gets you so far. It must be terrible to see other people that seem lazy to overwork you.

In my experience, the best workers I'd known were lazy bastards, from that reaper that worked only in the morning because grass was fresh(dew) and did more in one hour that all we in the entire day to the CNC machine programmer nobody knew how he made simple programs in very short time and leave that surpassed our own in the company.

His "having it big is good" argument is flawed too, I have a friend with an enormous one that had real problems with girls.
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Bill's blog has been around for what, a week now? Being #4 in so short a time seems pretty good to me. :P
I think Internet censorship is great, because it pushes technologies like Bittorrent and Tor into the mainstream, which improves those technologies. Every time someone uses one of those tools to do something silly like download a song or look at pictures of 17-year-old-girls, we are getting closer and closer to an Internet that the governments can't meddle with. When information can flow freely without consequence from the organizations in power, society can advance. Imagine how much more useful information will end up on Wikileaks when the leaker can truly be anonymous and safe from the established power structure their action is hurting. It will be very good for society as a whole. (And there is the whole issue of "Tor is just for child pornographers". When you have to use it to see the New York Times, nobody will think that anymore.)

Anyway, Internet censorship is just something that looks good in the headlines, but it is not a real issue. These technical measures are easy to get around, and will keep getting easier. (When I was in China, I just ssh'd to my home machine to browse websites that the Great Firewall blocked. Oh yeah, damn the global nature of the Internet...)
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so my options boil down to dealing with c++'s warts or writing my own forth interpreter? heh! i think i can see why the status quo has persisted for so long.

(not trying to be snarky. if you have written your own forth interpreter, then you are a lot more hardcore than me.)
Fascinating- it'll be interesting to see if this story pans out to be true- and how Apple will use/avoid Flurry for future product launches.
Not an artificial language, I do not think so (backward compatibility etc). A language could breed a simpler/cleaner language, that happens, but it is a different language.

Natural languages are a different story. English has arguably become substantially simpler over centuries (hardly cleaner, however).
I'm not quite sure why they still have county lockouts (except for the potential marketing release dates, but still).

Its fascinating though to see such consistently strong numbers for increase in downloads due to the removal of DRM. We'll see if dollars incent publishers to ease their usage of DRM in the future.
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No you didn't lose any money on them, but it does go a way to validate that persons activity as a social norm. If I can afford a game but my housemate can't and pirates it. I may then decide that I may as well do it to and save my money for something else.
Your .doc example is a good one. Mozilla explicitly refusing to support both H264 and Theora (because they want to make a stand) is like OpenOffice refusing to read both doc and odt, because doc is proprietary format.

I would prefer to see open, unpatented and free video codec used for the majority of web video. I applaud Mozilla for taking a stance. I don't applaud them taking a stance by limiting their users' freedom, instead of directly talking to Google, Vimeo and others and lobbying for the use of more open formats. Surely, a letter from Mozilla "hey guys, we really think you should support Theora too, let's meet and we'll tell you why we think it's very important" would have more effect than random blog articles & what amounts to blackmail?
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