skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing we'll have workstations for those tasks for some years to come. But of all computer usage, how much is web/email, and how much is 3D modeling, sw dev, etc? I'm guessing not that much, if you look at a general crowd (not HN).
jeff:

i'd like strongly to encourage you to offer your opinions on things on which you are nonexpert. having only experts allowed to opine, with experts also relaining monopoly on experts, leads to echo chambers.

however, you seem to be reacting to a different article entirely. nowhere did the article mention simulations. if you look at Stodden's CV (the woman whose talk motivated the article) she's a statistician. The need for code-sharing is in fields like climate and bioinformatics where people's analyses lead to changes in politics, policy, pharma/health, etc; not for people deciding whether lorenz goes chaotic at precisely the right bifurcation parameter value.

more and more and more science is becoming statistical and data-driven. chaotic dynamics, though very important, is not the issue here. it's analysis of complex data coming from real-world systems.

there are many interesting and wise comments in this thread but they are almost all about an article on simulations -- ie. not the article the OP points to.
The Wall Street Journal since Murdoch, with pretty graphs:

http://www.journalism.org/node/10769
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I think there's a karma threshold you have to cross before you're allowed to downvote. (Or maybe that's only for colours?)
You can always use the command line whois client, which is provider agnostic.
Even simpler would be to just expose the native capabilities of the platform. Mac OS X and Windows 7 both support h.264 natively, and to my knowledge Mozilla has actively chosen not to use that support.
"There are significant and useful study’s which suggest 2 hours of nonstop instruction is less useful than two one hour periods with a moderate break in-between."

The professor of the last class I took was very conscientious about taking a break at the 1 hour mark of an 80 minute lecture.
less windows please... the cube is much too open!

especially the window behind. read Feng Shui: they say it's uncomfortable if you cannot control what's behind you.

to let in light, a glass roof might be better instead.
I study medicine. We studied about ear, in French, but I identified the illness. In fact, this is a neurological disease and I'm not sure about the "Neuromonics" device. The reason is that your auditory fibers are affected and keep sending signals even if there is no sound at all. So I would be curious to know how that handy device work to solve this problem.

Now solving this problem isn't easy, and solving it will consequently solves other problems. Solving it needs someone that study neurophysiology in depth and does endless researchers. Someone that spends his day/night/holiday studying, testing and trying things. He can end up with a result and this result would solve many problems.

He'll need at least 15 years studying this specialty in depth and may be another 10 years researches. So someone young of 20 years old, will end up with the result when he is 45 years old, wouldn't be easier to start a high-tech startup and make money in his first year? Or loss his youth and 'may be' become rich (extensively rich but 'may' is a matter).

The shorter way is the safer.
This diagonal method is also how you can prove the halting problem is unsolvable.
The expensive part is the land, not the construction cost. The reason this is attractive is that because it's not a building, it doesn't cost any land.
"They knew that mobile devices would overtake PCs."
For productivity work, people usually prefer to remain stationary and use monitors larger than 4". They are not competing products. Ludicrous.
The BBCs More or Less is an excellent podcast, they like to go over the stats the media and politicians produce and give more in depth coverage than the soundbites stats are usually contained in.
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So it looks like your value your freedom to $0.20.

"And remember, I am still allowed to do anything I want with the code. I just have to give MPEG-LA half a can of beer do it."
Then free software would'nt be ablo to be free software. You cannot preserve freedom this way.
ok here something topic related, if you answer in the story style with the negerian king - that would be fun!!!

Who is that Co-Founder?

I am looking for a Co-Founder/ a Friend who want to build and realize the “Online Music Player 2010” with me.
Long and beautiful story short – “I want to create one Music Player which is able to play every music source, the individual user, knows and uses in his daily life.”
Music sources changed over the time . Especially the last 10 years!
Something has to be improved, to make-all-the-music mixable and enjoyable again.
And that is the main direction of pictures I see around that startup.

So I checked every stuff in the music-play/consume-field and I want to go in the direction of the usability of the Grooveshark player, which is coded in actionscript.

If someone is here who...
I´m coming right now from Sydney. I told my story there half Sydney – everyone found the idea great, realizable and wanted to use it.
Since I am here, everyone ask me first about my business, revenue model.
I give definitely a fuck about money – but I want to start this action /fun/love trip on another way.
So if you only want to be the next big thing, I am the wrong partner right now.
I see fun, extreme and creative promotion, offline contact to the users, partys, the difficult steps to start and realize something which isn´t there right now and much more stuff, but I have to keep this here short too – and fuck I would do it for free, for myself – if I needn´t money for a little bit more of “cooler through the life” right now. But that is my motivation – to get more of this trip. What ever this can else means. And at the end – build something what the people love and at least... My background is that I am normally studying Media Management in Germany, and that I have already done a lot of projects in my life – so I know how to monetize something!

So if you are cool with this, think you are able to build a music player in action script, for the first impression similar to Grooveshark + you can for example! include YouTube content too, than we are on direction!
Give me a message and we will see what is possible.
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I'm not sure you understand the problem here. They do not have a license to use h264, and even if they did, they could not afford to share it with you. Distributing patent-encumbered GPL code violates the spirit of GPL-2 and the letter of GPL-3. If you don't like it, campaign against software patents.

Chromium's approach to this is slightly better, but it's not all there yet. (Speculating here) Google can afford to distribute Chrome binaries with license protection, but they most likely track the total downloads in order to pay the fees. They cannot easily track the source, which is why Chromium doesn't ship with h.264 either. However, it uses ffmpeg, so if your system ffmpeg has h.264, you'll be able to use that (after this is fixed: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21318)

Ideally, that's the approach Mozilla would take, too. If not, as other posts mentioned, the distros that are willing to distribute non-free will eventually solve the problem.

As they say: Patches Welcome.
I couldn't view the scribd document on their site for some reason so here it is on scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25163168/The-Reality-of-Freemium-i...
> For various reasons, proprietary software is a lot more likely to employ proprietary data formats than open source software.

That's kind of a moot point if you require open formats from the start.
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"But both of these firms are going against what is currently the biggest trend in corporate data centers: commodity servers. Such boxes aren’t simply a collection of low-power chips — they have to be networked from inside in order to deliver optimal performance for the lowest power consumption"
It's fine and all, and best of luck to him, but I'm not sure that doing something for 7 days demonstrates much in the way of "dedication".
Thanks for the comments and the interesting article. I can see your point about how traversing the structure can result in the same cycle detection issue. I'm actually very interested in algorithms, but lately I try to do everything I can to avoid implementing them basically for maintenance reasons, just because I am totally in a get the thing out the door mindset. I guess my typical problem solving philosophy is to try the laziest practical solution just off having too much to do. gluck in your work!
The rule-of-thumb test for whether or not you can use a particular name is "likelihood of confusion" among customers between the name you select, for the particular market you target, and names of existing companies also serving that market. If it is clear that customers should readily be able to tell the difference, and not get confused, it is generally safe to go with your proposed name (if in doubt, check with a knowledgeable lawyer).

With respect to any trade or service mark, even if registered as a federal mark, the scope of protection generally extends only to the particular "class" of goods or services for which the mark was registered. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_classification for a general description of the classification system)

If a mark is particularly strong (e.g., Coke - fanciful, well-established, etc.), it can cut across all classes.

A classic case of an in-between mark, in which the holder contended that it was strong enough to cut across classes but lost in court on the issue, was the "Lexis" mark held by Mead Data, the legal research service. In the 1980s, Mead Data sued Toyota over its planned introduction of the "Lexus" brand automobile, claiming that customers would potentially confuse the marks. While Mead Data ultimately lost the case, the case went up through the court of appeals. (A summary of the dispute is found in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis)

For most normal cases, marks will not be strong enough to cut across classes and it therefore is generally okay to use comparatively weaker marks in different fields with slight variations in the name (or often even with identical names, as long as they are in different jurisdictions).

Thus, the answer to your last question is generally "yes."
Indeed. He could have bought a domain, and a ready made website in an hour and launched it. That's light years away from being a business though.
Is it just me or does a week seem like a long time to do this? I mean obviously it's not really a business just a little web service, but really, any competent programmer could probably have the functionality up and running over a weekend - figure another day to do design, half a day to put together the "business plan" power-point, and another half to register a domain, incorporate and set up bank accounts (really how long does that take? - maybe it's harder in Australia). So what 4 days? Cool, that's 3 left - you could do another launch in that time.
PlanetLab and the clouds are great ways to do non-reproducible research, because the other users in the system (where sometimes "the system" is the public Internet) create interference. Reproducible networking research either has to be simulated or has to be run on an isolated testbed such as Emulab.
This is what I was wondering. If this is true that what we're talking about is linking against proprietary libraries that already exist on the user's machine, then I don't understand the argument against it. By the article's logic they should pull the plug on firefox for windows & mac since they are more "non-free" than h.264.
C++ Template Chaining
This is a example to build combined filters/tests from small pieces. I use them as chained condition in functors to do something in STL containers.

Typedefs are used to give them a expressive name so they could be used with ease on different places.
Excellent points - this interview is definitely a practical guide on the steps necessary to rethink a business against the big guys. Good job Harry!
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2009/06/directsh...

Firefox won't use system codecs because they might be insecure, they might be buggy, and Mozilla wants to encourage Web authors to use Theora.
+1
I think google would happily subsidize the cost of H.264 end-user licenses for the 100 million or so unique visitors that it had in Jan 2009.

But I think it is going to be cheaper for them to spend a 100 million or so and buy out a top-end video codec developer and release the codec as open source.... or did they ?
Don't expect to stave off dehydration by drinking urine. Your body expels salts (and other substances) through urine. Thus you'll die from hypernatremia drinking urine or seawater, just as happens if you don't drink water at all.

Apparently blood and alcohol are also bad. They are processed as food, which requires large amounts of water from your body. Thus while they're both fluids, they result in a net loss of water.

Fish apparently have a column of fresh water near their spine. You can cut them open and drink from this. You can also suck fresh water from their eyes.

Edit: Oh, hey, a citation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urophagia#Attempting_survival

Everything else is from "Complete Survival Manual," Michael Sweeney.
I'm not a rules referee, I'm just explaining why I downvoted this particular post. It was a comment about how you feel you've personally been slighted by the HN community, and I didn't feel like that comment added anything to the conversation. I see very little evidence of this type of behavior.

I do not disagree with your other posts, I haven't even read them. Your username doesn't ring a bell. If I did disagree, I would write a rebuttal. This is not about you and your posts, it's about this particular comment, which I don't consider to be constructive.
That's a grahamism also (http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html#f9n):

"This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it."
I'm not sure you understand the problem here.

I do, which is why I am so critical of Mozilla's "solution" to it, which has confused the issue of not being able to ship h.264 support for the reasons you mention with trying to promote a format that (whatever its merits) nobody wants.

Ideally, that's the approach Mozilla would take, too.

Indeed, it would be, but my understanding is that they are unwilling to do so or unable with their current code, due to the dumb (IMHO) decision to pressure people into using Ogg.
I dunno, you've got to have pretty serious scale to have a 512-CPU outage not hurt at least a little bit.
Cool. I'm not that familiar with Zoho's products, but if there was an API available to allow pushing new CSV reports, you'd be set. Just set up a GAE cron job to run every morning.
Rather impressive, but genuinely simple. He maximized sunlight in the winter while minimising it in the summer and increased the buildings connection to the earth below frost level where the ground stays a constant 14C/57F year round.
I've been more interested in checklists after hearing Charlie Munger repeatedly espouse them:

"...You’ve got all the tools. And you’ve got to have one more trick. You’ve got to use those tools checklist-style, because you’ll miss a lot if you just hope that the right tool is going to pop up unaided whenever you need it. But if you’ve got a full list of tools, and go through them in your mind, checklist-style, you will find a lot of answers that you won’t find any other way."

http://www.tilsonfunds.com/MungerUCSBspeech.pdf
I don't understand. Why would the Iraqis buy these devices? Nobody else is using them and there's no evidence it works. It's not like they're idiots. Are they just desperate for anything to improve the situation?
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The parallels with the information security products industry here are stark.
Only if you actually use GMail. I wonder what percentage of iPhone users use GMail on their phones vs. other email services. I don't use GMail. My calendar syncs with my non-G calendar and my Mac. Ditto for contacts.

In what respect does Android integrate these features better than the iPhone does?

The one thing that sucks on Google Maps is you don't have access to reviews (or at least in no way that I can determine). At least they show subway stops.

I think success here is probably determined by number of hardware units sold.

PS: Apple doesn't do maps.
There's also an ObjC library: http://code.google.com/p/uispec/
Why do people pay dowsers to tell them where to dig a well? Why do people - some very intelligent - pay a fortune teller to tell them their future? Why do people - some very intelligent - tithe to protect their soul in the afterlife?

Never underestimate how easy it is to separate a desperate man from his money.

And the the related: you can't con an honest man.
in other words, there is almost no new information you can pull out of apple besides what they decide to say.
“It is vitally necessary to be able to check the simulation against real data.”

Actually, that’s not enough either. In spam training, you have to have a completely set of data that you use for the final test but never, ever for training. Why? Because otherwise your spam filter will learn how to properly classify every message you train it with and nothing else.

For simulated science, this means it’s not safe to say, “Well, we trained the simulation until it could reproduce 2000-2010 when we gave it 1990-2000 as input data.” If you do that, your predictions for 2010+ are probably going to be worthless, since your simulation is like a cheating student who only knows the right answers on old tests he stole, not how to pass any test in general.
Suggesting nobody wants Theora/Vorbis is absurd. Clearly someone wants it, as it was created. The important questions are whether it is useful enough to merit inclusion in a browser, and whether it's useful enough to outweigh the downsides. The same questions should be asked about H264.
Mozilla links directly with liboggplay and actively avoids abstracting it in any way. It can't handle any non-ogm container formats, and ogm was intentionally designed not to handle any other codecs.

They're just assholes. If software patents are repealed in the US they'll mourn the loss of the mainstay excuse with which they force earnest activist wankery on their users. If patents were the real obstacle they'd distribute the x264 decoder to/from locales where the patents are unenforceable, and/or fall back on system libraries.

Their present actions serve only to strengthen the Copyright, Patent, and Trademark status quo, because without IP assholery they would neither have a soapbox to stand on nor an enemy to fight.
I for one, am excited!
App coolness is not a function of the number of devices it runs on.

a) people probably buy iPhones because of specific cool apps that are available on it (similar to the battle between the 3 game consoles)

b) an iPhone user doesn't care whether the cool app they love run on a Crackberry. I suspect Android users also don't care if an app they love doesn't work on an iPhone.
I'm not really sure what real need they're trying to fill here. A single Atom core has a TDP of around 4W, performance-wise it's at about 10% of a mid range Core2 Duo, which has a TDP of around 65W, although the mobile versions are much more efficient than that (35W or so). To get 10 Atoms (or 5 if they're N300 series dual-cores) running must take much more infrastructure than a single Core2, which consumes power as well, so I doubt they're getting more FLOPS/Watt or integer ops/Watt than a Xeon or Opteron cluster.

So the intention must be maximising I/O. What sort of workloads are so shared-nothing that they can parallelise to this many non-shared-memory CPUs efficiently? Content Delivery Networks? Seems incredibly niche; niche enough that the CDNs probably have already built their own.

And what exactly is the I/O bottleneck on a Xeon system that a bunch of Atom systems can do better? FSB/Memory throughput maybe? The Nehalems already have a 192-bit, 1333MHz DDR3 memory interface per CPU and gigantic caches, along with I/O that doesn't share data paths with memory accesses.
For the love of god, stop the retardedness with the J
There are lots of health startups. Where I live (Seattle), biotech/pharma/medical startups are a major part of the local economy. If you're doing research that points to a viable solution for a health problem that affects tens of millions of people, you can get funding for it.
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I began to wonder how long it will take for someone to begin working on a fork of Firefox which would include support for h264. I have already seen patches for both DirectShow and GStreamer backends, so I'd guess it's not that hard technically.

What we need is a catchy domain name, some marketing and a few devs and the spice shall flow again.
I agree, but the real solution is either a branching checklist for the situations where there are only a few possible norm deviations, or an honest to god Expert System when there are potentially very many norm deviations.
Who's going to pay the licensing fees? If you fork, you probably don't get access to the Google money spigot.
Patches are not welcome. Mozilla is not going to back down on this.

Their implementation is designed to make it extremely difficult to swap in other codecs from a plugin or straightforward patchset. You'd have to fully fork at least Gecko and XULRunner, and extend Firefox. Due to their strong Trademark policies, your fork couldn't use their names or logos (see also: Iceweasel).
What about x264? I know there is speculation that x264 wouldn't have much chance to withstand a software patent fight but OGG Theora isn't 100% safe either. If Mozilla is already going down that road they should just adopt x264 and see what happens. Challenge the patent holders to outrage the public and cripple the Internet. That's going to do more for software freedom than sticking their head in the sand.
I took a quick look at the firefox source, and it looks like they wrote their own media-handling code (implemented with libtheora, etc).

I did a bit more research, and found this[1] bug. Mozilla explicitly rejected using ffmpeg on mostly-ideological grounds. So, I guess there's plenty of blame to go around. They're still bound by software patents, but they could allow their users the ability to choose, and they refused.

... So I guess that means we're now in violent agreement. :)

1) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541494
Except that atm Twitter search only reaches back one week, and to get older Tweets, you have to go to Google or Topsy or something.