skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the patents don't cover the process of making the files available to the public via HTTP supported by ads -- it would appear that these restrictions on that are a novelty of MPEG-LA's standard contracts for licensing the patents.

They're obviously enforceable on the organizations that entered into those licensing agreements directly, but what if I bought an licensed encoder off the shelf?

Is the on-disk format itself somehow patented, such that the files themselves are patented articles? Wouldn't that fail the machine-or-transformation test rather egregiously?
This isn't really the first time something has happened twice.

Forty Days, Forty Nights. A white bird (dove), a black bird (raven), two of each animal. ect. ect. Two stories- combined into one. At least a theory
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And? You keep harping on the distinction while carefully avoiding explaining why it should make a difference - beyond declaring that yes, there is indeed a distinction.

When I give money to a company, I am in no way "forced" to support anything the company or any employee does afterward. I've spent my money; it's theirs, now, not mine.

If I really don't like what they do, I can avoid buying from them.
ask the CTO cofounder what it would take for him to drop everything and move to US, then either negotiate that or achieve what he's asking for.

from his perspective, he created the core product, and you've put in some initial seed capital and drum up interest. his opportunity cost is very high so he'll need something to balance out the risk..
Class Warfare: Classes vs. Prototypes
The Dev Show episode 2
I was trying to figure out how I can use Steve Blank's ideas on customer development. But my biggest issue was finding potential customers to interview. This post helps a lot.

Thanks.
". . . Firefox, AOL and Safari account for about 45% of the browser market share. . . If Microsoft can lock down deals with these companies then its fricking on . . ."

What is the default AOL browser at this point? Their own?
I wanted to buy this book, but Amazon didn't have it, so I just bought a different book instead. Basically, if you want me to buy something, and Amazon doesn't have it, you will have to make me really want it. Amazon can ship to my house overnight for $4, and I can buy stuff with one click. (In the case of e-books, the book is sent directly to my Kindle. Nobody else does that.) Making me go elsewhere means I have to deal with inconsistent shipping times, giving someone new my credit card details, etc., etc. Usually, this is way too much of a hassle, and instead I just pass on your product and settle for something from Amazon instead.

(And BTW, I'm a published author, and it doesn't matter to me how much Amazon sells my books for. They can pay people to take them off their hands for all I care. I get a fixed amount for every book sold. The publisher, not the author, loses out when Amazon wants the books to be cheaper. But of course, they don't really lose out -- there are a lot of benefits to being available from Amazon.)
It is actually less likely that the children of the top 1% will have a better standard of living than their parents, than that the children of the middle or lower percentages will. The parents in the top 1% have a standard of living it would be hard for their children to top.

Disclaimer: Being a child of a parent in the top 1% certainly makes it more likely that one will also be in the top 1%. But even in good times, such a child falling out of the top 2 or 3% will experience a fall in living standards relative to their parents.
Not if you check out who is involved: http://appfund.com/who.html

Financial sites aren't consumer sites. You wouldn't call berkshire-hathaway sketchy, would you?
I find it amusing that they took out a full page ad in a print newspaper.
Can't easily find the historical evidence, but here's the current data: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/311/once-again-the-future-aint-w...

Note that the data is different depending on whether you ask "will children do as well as their parents?" or "will your children do as well as their parents?"
Did the Kyoto Accord increase emissions by forcing production offshore?
> 3. I agree with JSON over XML, but what about binary data? That is the weakest part of JSON, in my opinion.

What binary data? All attachments in emails are Base64 encoded. That's what MIME is all about.

> 6. how about SHA-1 hashes of content? Done properly, that would eliminate any duplicate messages, and could make it very easy to include other messages. This might also allow content to be transfered between accounts only once, dropping bandwidth and speeding delivery.

Developers should start to shy away from SHA-1 since it's already started to get broken.
Actually, more often than not recruiter's best interest is against yours. Recruiters in companies have one job: to get as high of a talent as possible - for as low cost as possible. Right? Everybody is shopping for the best bargain.
I just don't get libertarians. They're great at pointing out problems but never seem to offer realistic solutions. No doubt most of these issues he raises are valid concerns however what's the alternative? The free market will magically fix everything? We know from the Great Depression and in more recent times the free market is only concerned about maximizing profits for themselves. The government may not be supremely efficient at running some of these things but at least we have a say in the process. Most of the issues he cites exist because the free market failed people in the past and there was public outrage over a government that allowed it to happen.
$mbox = imap_open( $host, $login, $password );
foreach( imap_search( $mbox, 'UNSEEN', SE_UID ) as $uid ) {
$header = imap_fetch_overview( $mbox, $uid, FT_UID );
echo $header[0]->subject . "\n";
}
imap_close( $mbox );
Hyperlinked Bible made me laugh. "And God spake unto them, follow this bit.ly link to be reminded of what I did unto the town of Sodom."

Of course, then we'd have comments fields, and someone would have tagged Psalm 51 as "Dupe"... probably Adam, who would also be responsible for writing "FIrST!!" on every Genesis update.
I'll tell you what helped me - I started doing something as I was reading the Kawasaki's book. It is embarrassing to recall now, but had I not done that stupid stuff I would not have gotten in the habit of doing. As you do things your successes will embolden you and you will have a larger pool of experience to draw from. You need to find something that you can do with limited commitment and demonstrable results, which will in turn embolden you to take on a slightly larger thing next time. I recommend a market that is quick with feedback (which excludes enterprise), and has monetization potential (which rules out large segments of consumers web plays). For example, find a small business with a small problem and solve their problem in a scalable way - you will feel a lot more brave after that especially if you make some sizable money along the way.

It's funny to realize that courage is the only thing that stands between someone like you or me and their entrepreneurial success, yet I don't see a way to short-circuit that simple problem. It seems that working through it step by step is the surest path. Oh well, whatever works, right?
sounds good to me...i've had a bad experience finding a respectable boxing trainer in my neigborhood as well as a dance instructor to help me and my wife w/ our first dance for our wedding so this site seems very useful for me...would be good if their instructors had more ratings/reviews from existing clients so users feel more comfortable setting up a class or training session.
reMAP claims to treat conversations as first class objects. Given suitable APIs on top, I think you could build different views on different email clients.

I think what is meant by a new protocol and server innovation is a change in the data model. I do not believe they are going to dictate views.
It speaks more to canada's lack of entrepreneurial spirit than anything else. There's a reason good canadian companies go to the U.S. to get funding...
But to pretend that the reason facebook and IM are replacing email is IMAP (and not, y'know, spam) is borderline delusional.

As is believing that it's about spam (or probably believing it all, for that matter, but let's stay on topic).

I don't understand people bitching about spam in 2010. I have probably a dozen email addresses that I publish all over the web and I get maybe one spam message a month. I get way more "spam" through Twitter than I do through my email.
Probably an ugly wrapper around Gecko or IE.
i guess the us state department was ahead of the curve on banning thinkpads once ibm sold the division to lenovo...

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/19/state-dpartment-bans-leno...
Dr. Dobbs: Proving The Correctness of an OS Kernel (using Haskell and Isabelle)
It takes a few minutes to get into it, but it's very interesting and from what I understand exactly what the actual product is like.
But it is saying something if both Friedman and Krugman agree on this.
People generally have little trouble finding a job at any company that values traits that they possess.

While I understand your point there are plenty of places that have more of a "don't rock the boat" mentality. Some of that is dependent on how close or visible your position is to people invested in the company (monetarily or otherwise) vs those who are just trying to make it to the weekend.
No, that's just old-fashioned polygamy. Fundamentalist Mormons and the like are not polyamorous.
One important use of flash video is in ads. Many users feel these ads are too intrusive, but the industry demands them and they have near universal adoption. Penny-arcade had a strict policy against such ads, but when 99% of ads requests became flash based even they changed their tune.

That short-content, user generated video hosting sites have experiments with the video tag does not signal imminent shift in the platform.
i'd drop google like a rock if they did that. I use them very little as it is... bing's video search kicks google video search's a.
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Way to cite primary sources! It enriches these discussions so much when people are willing to do a little digging like this.
Ask a basketball player (top 1%, in height): "Do you think your kids will be taller than you?" If he answers Yes, he’d be wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean. Update: same thought as donaldc.
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Syncro: Real collaboration in Google Wave gadgets
The iPhone and iPod haven't conquered virgin markets, either.
Air was not mentioned. However, Apple is by far the biggest contributor to the WebKit project. That would be like saying "Camino is driving HTML 5 forwards more than FireFox".
Myself at 39, educated above but living below my parents standards. I'm not complaining since I'm very happy, but it is interesting that my generation is already experiencing this drop.

House prices and a competitive job market are the main forces keeping my standard of living lower.
This measure also supports that article - not even a blip -

http://getclicky.com/marketshare/us/nexus-one/
Don't forget the 10+ years iPhone dev experience (we'll pay you in equity)
3) Handling binary data is incredibly easy when you're already using HTTP: just use hyperlinks to other resources!
Nmap Secrets
And then you still have money to spend - unless you're going with purely free and out-of-the-box solutions, someone's going to have to spend time designing the website. At the very least, someone will have to spend time writing what will be on that website.

Even if nobody pays you a dime to do those things, you've just done something that can be priced under "in-kind" campaign finance regulations.
Their funding came from a Canadian VC.
It would be dumb not to try the US for investment, since they have almost 10 times the population and a similar culture.
Certainly possible - This is why I have opened a college savings, 529 plan for my 4 week old son (you can never start saving too early).
One important use of flash video is in ads. Many users feel these ads are too intrusive, but the industry demands them and they have near universal adoption.

Near-universal adoption on the supply side is irrelevant if there's no demand on the consumption side.
You can't just stash a building and cash it out 40 years later. You would have to maintain it for all that time and it's a huge liability. By the end of the day the building will be much worse than the ones being built at that time, really the only value of it will be the land is stands on. Any value in the building itself will come from recent renovations, not 40 yo investment. Thus the building is not a savings mechanism. The land may be, though.

Even then only if population continues to rise - if population drops as it does in almost all developed countries your land will be worth a lot less. Imagine a world where there are 1000 old people who can't work but own land, and then there are 100 young who can work and need a place to live. The first 100 buildings will sell/rent for some amount of food, the remaining 900 old people will die of starvation because there is nothing they can offer to the young in exchange for food.
This is why I avoid Google products and block google domains in my HOSTS file.
DenisM is talking about the principle that present consumption must come out of present production. Yeah, there are some things that are neither consumed nor depreciate quickly, like houses ... but who's going to pay grandma's property taxes? To repair or replace her furnace? Replace her hip? Etc.

Note that DenisM uses food as his example and try to find his meaning instead of the few exceptions.
John Carmack's dev notes on Doom Classic for iPhone
The question wasn't whether their kids would be in the top 1%, it was whether or not they'd have a better standard of living.

To the extent that having a good life comes from one's personal income, if the purchasing power of the dollar were increasing then they could easily buy more even if they were only in, say, the top 10%.

But most of what comprises standard of living isn't even determined by one's personal income, but rather by the resources, laws, customs, etc. of the community at large. And as it stands the wealth and health of society as a whole is dropping so fast that an individual can pretty much never keep up, no matter how much money they make or where they choose to live.
That's fine, the short-content, user generated video hosting sites were the only legitimate non-annoying use of Flash that most people deal with (except browser games). Now we can just leave all flash blocked.
This isn't a Google problem, this is a gov't problem.
Google is a massive company. By some reports 10% of 'internet traffic' flows over its private links. It has an army of smart engineers who know internet technology inside out and develop new systems at various layers on a regular basis.

Why do they need the NSA to help them against attacks, exactly?
Yeah, that was my thought about that too. Attachments downloaded separately via HTTP.
The way you casually talk about this as if it were some sort of unanimous opinion at the time of the Constitution's drafting suggests that you should do a bit more actual research into the history. And, possibly, into the document itself, which was drafted as a reaction to the failures of a deliberately-crippled central government.
Move to Germany?
Elaine Wherry Co-founder of Meebo Shares some Exciting news with us
Honestly, I don't care so much about him staying in Europe as I do him going full-time.

In terms of the work, yes, he's done most of the programming to date. I've worked with him to design the actual product and had the vision of the core functionality, but yes, he's done the hard part of coding it and what not.

Also, the lead investor we're talking to (who is awesome and an active entrepreneur in our space) currently is an exec in company that has a dev team on the other side of the ocean. Based on his ongoing experience, he thinks the distributed team model sucks and wants our CTO to be here in the US alongside the dev team. I tend to agree with him, as my cofounder and I have had WAY more productive, creative conversation when he was here vs via Skype.

Honestly, if he was willing to give me a firm answer in terms of "when we raise x amt of money, then I'll go full-time," then i'd have no problem. But right now he's being totally vague, and doesn't seem willing to commit to anything specific.

Also, more generally, we've built something very cool, but our product isn't too hard to imitate/copy at this point. We need to kind of sprint to get to the point where network effects kick in, etc. This is also a source of frustration.
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I think the main take-away is that this will be a PR hit to Google, especially internationally.

No matter how strong the firewall Google puts up between surveillance and intrusion diagnostics, there will be people questioning it.
Nice. Now I can watch videos and chat on IRC with IPv6. Move HN and Github over, and I won't need IPv4 anymore!
Your point might be correct for the majority of the world's population but certainly not for the US...You don't think technology equals wealth, really? I'm surprised to find people who think that at HN. Think about how much would you pay for a sony walkman today vs. 20 yrs ago.

In that same vein, how can you calculate the cost of healthcare for technologies that did not exist 20 years ago? How do you compare the cost of a McMansion to the kinds of houses (tiny) that were being built 20 years ago? You can't. So instead people look at numbers they can calculate, and draw limited conclusions. It's a sort of selection bias based on what kinds of data we know how to work with.
As others have alluded to, the fear does not stem from thinking that the computer is going to kill you. It stems from thinking "If I break this thing, I'm up for $$$$." and "If I break this thing, I won't be able to complete my work." and "If I break this thing, I'm going to feel stupid."
Ask HN: Is China throttling Google.com? help me
this is a double post but just because i need help.
I do live in Shenzhen, and i noticed that in the past 2 days Google.com is getting seriously slow and unusable. Since it works quite perfectly with my VPN located in USA, i am becoming quite concerned. Moreover Google.com.cn does work perfectly, and all the other foreign sites are at the average usual speed. My main concern is that for all of us, foreigners in China, Google is absolutely a must have, for me is even more, a survival tool. Can somebody in China confirm that this is actually happening ? it is damaging my business and i would have to take counter measures if this is happening for real. Thanks a lot in advance.
Check out 'Johny got his gun' (the movie or novel) for such an experience
Doing that now. Not really getting answer.
humiliation.
Users don't "demand" ads of any sort, let alone Flash ones.

Advertisers demand Flash-based ads, because they can do stuff like animation and sound, but more importantly because they can use Flash's full tcp/ip sockets to send arbitrary tracking information home (e.g. how long was the ad displayed for, any mouse-over events, browser and os information, etc).
Anyone that has an upper hand in a market is going to draw the govt's interest, but it is a two-way avenue, since I am sure that google would benefit from such a relationship.
Maybe not physically but my mother-in-law gave her credit card number to a pop-up that said she had viruses and to pay now to remove them.
OK, so tell me why we don't have movie ushers anymore.

Price controls always produce shortages; in this case, there's a whole bunch of jobs companies just can't afford to hire people to do any more because the total cost of labor is higher than the return. Is this so hard to understand?

Is it a moral position to tell an unemployed youth that if they can't get a job at $X wage there's better off without one? Have you looked a youth unemployment rates, especially recently?
How ‘cognitive fluency’ shapes what we believe
Why would the Mozilla project point Firefox's search at Bing?

Why would Apple?
With regards to search, I recently installed Cyrus Squatter for full text IMAP searching and it is blazing fast. To me it seems just as fast as any of the special case local searches I've seen people build (Spotlight/recent Thunderbirds).
Thanks for your suggestions Joachim! This is why I wrote that blog entry in the first place: To get some high-quality feedback.

I think IMAP could be replaced independently of SMTP. You could conceivable replace an IMAP server with a reMAP server and not affect the rest of the mail ecosystem. SMTP will likely not die for another hundred years.

1. I know about the OAuth problems. Do you think we'll see a more secure solution in the next few years?

2. Is there an easy way to validate UTF-8ness? Happy to hear suggestions.

3. I know about THREAD and SEARCH and IDLE but find them clunky. Under the assumption that we're replacing IMAP with something RESTful you might as well get those ones right.

Happy to take this offline as well - my email is on my HP
Why are you forgetting that codec's themselves are "external software", the only difference would be that the browsers themselves would be shipping them.

One could kind of argue the Ogg Theora would not be "external" just because it's open source, but in reality all codecs are external, especially the proprietary ones like H.264.
Nintendo's Genre Innovation Strategy
Don't get be wrong, I completely agree with you that Apple has made some bold decisions, and I respect them for that. However, I'm not sure it is fair to contrast Apple's innovation in new products to Microsoft's (lack of) innovation in established products.

To use your example of the iPhone: As innovative as the iPhone was when it was released, Apple really hasn't messed with it in almost three years. Doing so would risk alienating the 50+ million people using iPhone OS devices every day.

When the time comes in the next few years, will Apple make the hard decision to redesign their iPhone OS, possibly driving away some of their current users in the process? I would say they are more likely to than Microsoft. However, until they have passed that test, we shouldn't be so quick to judge.
Group-hugs and playing Half-Life?
Hulu's streaming video is provided by flash. Web based applications which need video interaction, such as Rosetta Stone online, are flashed based. And flash based games, as you mentioned, are a significant use of flash outside of ads.

For the latter, note that creating a flash based games and apps is going to be significantly easier than doing any approximiation in javascript with canvas/o3d/video for quite a while.
Mozilla Seamonkey and Thunderbird do that all with IMAP (except the web client part).
How owuld you like massive success at 20 as a musician and the rest of your life as a dud. Sequel?
thanks for the article, but it has right the opposite direction than what is complained about here in Germany.

we complain about the newly introduced Bachelor/Masters system here. We complain, students will now have less time to study and think about the problems. Also having to pay more money than before, we say that less people will go to universities, thus lowering education standards.
Even if technology isn't equal to wealth, technology certainly drives down the costs of food, makes modern housing more comfortable and safe, and expands the number of ailments that are treatable by health care.
Does it matter? Does anybody still use AOL? What service do they provide these days?
have you ever heard of FarmVille or the Nintendo Wii? They're obvious counter-examples (among many others).
I've got the same attitude. For many years now I've had the attitude that if I can't buy it on Amazon then I'm not buying it. I don't strictly hold to this attitude for everything but I do when it comes to books.
More money?

Also, Apple might be strategically happier working with Microsoft than Google right now.