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Just put the h.264 code in a directory that is in a closed repository. Why is that soo hard? I don't believe the h.264 license limits the exposure of your internal api.
Its like going from one lion's den to the other. Either way you're going to get eaten.
ahh and the chrome/chromium browser has done just that so it is not even novelty.
I am very, very interested in hearing a discussion of the business, marketing, or technical aspects of ICHCB on Hacker News. That goes ditto for just about any site, from a titan of Internet publishing down to what some high school kid whipped up in his bedroom which has a total of 100 users (as long as there is some hook to it).

However, linking to the front page of a site just because it is on the Internet probably wouldn't pass muster with me.
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Facebook uid = users.id? It gives zero privacy then.
Surely, it must be possible to make a non-hideous adapter? I imagine, though, that it must be more complex than a microSD -> SD adapter, or someone would have said something already.
I would live like this by choice, but it has become difficult to get the combination of the screen sized for the monitor and a nice font. I've got a widescreen monitor and I've been unable to get recent ubuntu installs to size right for it. Thinking of trying out BSD to see if their resources are better.
I think the 3G iPad is likely to be a lot more popular outside the US where there's real competition in the mobile phone/data market.

Although the use of a micro-SIM will be a drawback there, unless you cut down a normal SIM.
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It's the iPad for people who don't want the 9" screen version - or that is who, I guess, they are targeting.
You can learn how these 'chips made of silicon' store data by following links here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-only_memory#Types_of_ROMs
Tmux has promise, but I've found it less practical. For example, if you have a large feed happening (example: cat a large file) then the tmux build I used became unresponsive.
As far as I know, many employment contracts specifically disallow the use of the employers clients regardless of if you compete or not - but I'd check your contract with your current employer.
If you have strong opinions, the web is calling out for a topic-website focussed on people who want to live entirely in the console: it could compare console utils, give tips to people on how to set it up just right, that sort of thing.
I agree with you 100%.

All I'm saying is the nurse example doesn't really prove the main argument, which is that fewer interruptions equals fewer errors. Right now, it appears everyone reading this wants to apply this seemingly proven technique in their own work place, when (maybe) all they need is a device that reminds them that 1.) they make mistakes and 2.) their mistakes are being measured and observed.
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I gotta admit, it looks a lot better than the iPad. Same price and better screen. And even though I thought JooJoo was a retarded name a few months ago (and still do), it's still a better name than the iPad.
I have an iPhone, my wife has a T-Mobile G1.

I looked into getting root on the G1 - it appeared to be hugely more complicated than the pretty simple jailbreaking process, involving downgrading the OS to find a local root exploit. I didn't bother, it looked like far too much bother for too little reward.
It's very difficult to find developers that have never installed the Adobe software ever

Kids -- by which I mean anybody under 18 -- cannot enter into contracts. An Adobe EULA cannot be enforced against somebody so young. In lawyer-speak the EULA is "voidable" (as opposed to "void").

So all you'd need do is hire 'em young and make sure they don't agree to anything once they turn 18.

IANAL, do this at your own risk, yada-yada-yada.
While it's true that since then Adobe published the RTMP specification, but they left out the description of the handshake procedure, without it cannot be called full and open.

What's more they are constantly changing the handshake procedure in every point release. I wouldn't call that open either.
pretty ironic comment, given that sex is amongst our first basic needs
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That is a beautiful analogy!

Like all analogies, it is not perfect, but it fits very well with a good naming philosophy.
And get some legal advice. Just because they put it in a contract doesn't mean the provision is enforceable.

Lots of things employers try in this area are held to be against public policy (e.g. you can't sign away your right to be employed by anyone or to be employed in your general field of e.g. programming). Other restrictions are held to be over broad, i.e. duration and territory stuff, but that would generally take a court case to hash out.

The contract must also be a real contract, e.g. there must be consideration on both sides. Signing one when you get a new job is OK, your consideration is the new job. Being presented one after you're hired with a "sign it or lose your job" is not, they've got to give you something in return.
Maybe you could do tethering with the iPhone? Or another phone...
I was really impressed by the "gradient brush". I couldn't imagine how useful that could be until I tried it.
I've just submitted this comment (we'll see if it gets posted):

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Hello Mr. McAllister,

I'm glad to hear that Adobe has opened as much as they have. That's the right direction; I'm glad you're doing it.

I'm a little concerned about your claim that anyone can implement SWF, RTMP, and so forth. Didn't Adobe issue a DMCA takedown when someone implemented RTMP?

Here's a copy of what appears to be the takedown notice: http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/notice.cgi?...

I recognize that that the takedown notice says it was issued because the implementation "can be used to download copyrighted works," not because it's an implementation of RTMP. That's a silly argument-- every web browser that uses a Flash player downloads content before it plays it. How could one implement RTMP, the "Real-Time Messaging Protocol" without sending any messages?

I'm willing to believe that there might be some misunderstanding here-- maybe there are two parts to the RTMP spec, and only one is open, or something like that. But at the outset, I can't reconcile what you've written with the rest of the evidence that I see.

Perhaps you could explain what I'm missing?
They are making good money with display adapters. Mine cost 30€ from the Apple store (MiniDVI -> DVI).
" What's next? Tracking our bowel movements? Places we've had diarrhea? Places we saw pretty girls?"

That's what Twitter is for.

Or at least, that's what Twitter gets used for. Most people have entirely unremarkable lives (nothing wrong with that). You get a Twitter account, and you say ... what? "I just went to Starbuck's again. LOL!"
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it could just be the user interface design. instead of markers, they could switch to gradients, so that you could view sex density, in the way you want it
Agreed 100%. I spent some time checking it out a little while ago, and was inspired by the article to go back and have another look. Very impressive indeed. And also total, utter overkill for 99.99% of sites. And hey, I'm all for overkill, but it looks like a pretty steep learning curve; time probably better spent polishing your site based on a more traditional DB.

Also, while the tech looks good, I wasn't delighted to read this:

http://basho.com/enterpriseds.html

That's an awful lot of features held back, and the lack of specific pricing does not bode well IMO.
That's very very nice. The ability to effortlessly tinker with code samples is priceless. As is use of JQuery.
You should take a look at the minified/obfuscated source that Google's Closure produces. It really isn't much better than looking at a disassembly of a C# binary, as far as clarity goes. And all that in the name of minifying the source, not obfuscation.
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SwapKit, iPhone local data sharing library, reaches 1.0.
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Or, because the dialog is done entirely with Javascript, just view the source of the page and read the article, and you can see it's yet another (short) rant on the decision to cancel NASA's shuttle program:

If we can put a man on the moon, Americans used to say, we ought to be able to solve our current problems. So the question of whether the US can still put a man on the moon matters a lot to national morale.
Barack Obama’s administration this week released a budget that would scrap Nasa’s Constellation programme. That plan, announced by George W. Bush after the crash of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, aimed to send US astronauts to the moon by the year 2020. It has failed. The new budget dresses up the demise of Constellation as opening the way to “a bold new course for human space flight”, a more modern, “21st-century” space programme. But the bravado is that of a dog barking louder as he backs away from a fight. There is no indication of any alternative destination for manned space missions. Richard Shelby, the Republican senator from Alabama, called the Nasa budget a “death march for the future of US human spaceflight”.
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What is more dangerous in my opinion is the use of the internet for spreading mistruths that could lead to terrible consequences. On a much lower level you see countless facebook groups protesting against things which are untrue as well as false rumours perpetuating on twitter and other social networking sites with no level of moderation. Virtually all of this has been relatively benign so far but this could quite easily go the other way. However, the internet does have the advantage that people generally take it with a "pinch of salt". Nevertheless Voltaire's quote could still ring true one day:

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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I don't know what it's like in CS/EE courses today, but back in the day most computer architecture students had to create a simple microcoded-ALU and write both sides of the code.

Doing the microcode for those projects was kind of fun, I miss that kind of work sometimes. Now get off my lawn.
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You could simply have a different motivation than most market participants. If most trades are executed considering only next year's P&L statements, but you are more interested in what happens over the next 20 years, different strategies may very well be appropriate.

I like your essay on anti-inductive markets, it is often counter-intuitive how markets are different than falling apples, etc. But another thing to consider is how one might take advantage of the fact that so many market participants do not seem to understand the anti-inductiveness of markets. For example, a handful of investors made killings by finding ways to short the real estate market, at a time when many investors were treating real estate prices like falling apples.
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While video may be a small aspect of what flash provides, it is likely the overwhelming majority of what flash is actually used for.

He's right that even if flash video was obsoleted, it wouldn't die completely because it does have other legitimate uses.
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Game mechanics: not just for WoW and StackOverflow anymore. Read this -- it is worth your time.
Erm, how do you clean the outside of the glass? If you're high enough to benefit from putting a balcony in then this design prevents you from cleaning the outside.

I know that Pilkington made some hydrophobic layer for one of their products a while ago that meant that the rain would clean the window (or a hose), but that was years ago and doesn't seem to have found favour (I've not heard of it since).
This gives a general overview of how the BIOS works, but I'm not entirely sure if it goes as in depth as you may want it to. However, it should be a good starting point. http://mikeos.berlios.de/write-your-own-os.html (See "PC primer" paragraph)
I tried to say this in another way and got downmodded :)
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golang for maemo comes with the plan 9 c compiler. not sure whether you can use system libs with it, though.
This article is gonna look pretty stupid when the next iPhone uses a micro SIM.

That whole micro SIM thing is really pretty ridiculous. Imagine for a moment a world in which the iPad uses a normal SIM card. Space is certainly no problem. But there is this other device where space is a problem. How was it called again? Oh, right! iPhone. It seems more than reasonable that Apple would put a micro SIM in there as soon as possible. So now, what do we have in this hypothetical world? Incompatible SIMs! The press gets to write the exact same story, no matter what Apple does! Yay!
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MIT still does it that way: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...

Back in the late '80s a friend who was taking it told me about a contest of sort they had to the side: you were given an instruction set to implement in hardware and firmware (microcode) and on the day of the contest you were given a program to run on it. The fastest implementations after a day of hacking and tuning won.

I notice that the last lab for the above spring 2009 version has a price/performance challenge, which is very apropos to what's hot in this area today (e.g. the ARM, Atom, etc.). You're to minimize the number of gates while still making it run a sample application quickly.
This is one of the canonical "technology is not always a positive" stories. (I know, radios don't kill people, people kill people, but radios make people damn more efficient at killing people.)
I don't doubt what you're saying at all, but do you have any specific examples in mind? I'd be interested to see.
Interestingly, the Nexus One from Google allows users access to the engineering bootloader (allowing re-flashing with a rooted image) with a simple command sent over USB ("fastboot oem unlock"). There's even a friendly "third-party images are not officially supported" confirmation screen built in.
I don't know if Monoprice ships to Europe, but there has to be a better alternative to the Apple Store there. You can get a comparable cable from Monoprice for about 8 Euros.
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Utterly uber-lame that no comments get posted on an article about how Adobe is being open.

Open my arse.
If it supports OTR I'm sold.
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This is really a great way to keep parents out of the loop, which is great for the kid players and the game, because if I found out my son was spending $3/week on virtual dog food I'd turn off our internet.
What's with the group downvotes, folks?

I stopped responding to this guy because his points are worthless. I'd rather the space on this page was used up by intelligent discussion rather than needless debate over a concept that is obvious to anyone who actually does any kind of ambiguous, difficult work (e.g. running a start-up, being a consultant, and generally being anything more than an employee who takes orders).

Please don't force me to waste space and energy arguing this stupid point.
While I agree that Constellation was failing hard (or at least the Ares part of it, and that part desperately needed to be terminated with extreme prejudice), the final paragraph it telling:

"That is what makes the debate over Constellation symbolic. The decision to abandon moon exploration has “decline” written all over it. Americans often profess astonishment that the Chinese of 600 years ago failed to take full advantage of their technological superiority. They invented gunpowder and, on the eve of Columbus’s discovery of America, their ocean-going vessels were bigger and more seaworthy than Europe’s. Perhaps now the process by which an innovative civilisation invents technologies that it is unable to exploit will be easier to explain. The failure of the latest US moon programme is a small disappointment for national pride, but it is one giant leap for historical understanding."
"There is only one way to do X" = the way narrow-minded, uncreative people see the world.
You can file a regular "mini" SIM down to size.
That seemed to be the case with Netscape, but I hear Mozilla has gained some market share lately.
First time to ft.com and... wow, what a horrible experience.
And in Sweden it's really hard to land a sentence above 10 years for murder.
Questions like this one should be on http://superuser.com/

This isn't HN material.
I use OS packages for everything. Fixing the occasional breakage there is much easier than the constant manual updating and tweaking required to maintain your own installation of everything.

I have a few local Emacs Lisp extensions, and I maintain my own ~/perl5 and ~/.cabal... but I bootstrap them with the OS packages; various emacs extensions, the OS perl and liblocal-lib-perl, and haskell-platform. Modules my own software needs goes into ~; modules that OS-managed software needs I leave untouched.

Basically, if your distribution breaks your packages regularly, you should get a new distribution.
I'm really getting upset that people are learning about game mechanics. It was my little secret for so long. :(
I'm probably the only one, but I find this somewhat hope-inspiring. This response by their CTO gives the Flash team permission to go back and fix all of the crashing bugs and improve performance.

If Adobe is like most other large companies, I'd bet those same engineers have been stuck in the downward-spiral feature crunch to support more codecs, more language features, more more more. It takes a pretty high-level push -- like this one! -- to reverse that trend.

A good analogy is MSFT and the turnaround on security in ~2001/2002.
"Official reasons" ???

The subhead of this blog states: Please note that opinions expressed within are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of Adobe.
Does anyone know of a similar method to learn vim? It would be a lot easier, faster and more fun if there was some kind of game which would teach you all the keys and combinations.
Interesting. I was under the impression all I needed to turn a SIM into a micro-SIM (or whatever they are called) is a sharp blade and a little eye-hand coordination. If I don't mess up big, all I need to build an adapter that allows me to use my newly made micro-SIM on any GSM phone are the plastic pieces I cut off, some glue and a little bit of thin, rigid, plastic to help hold the freshly made micro-SIM in place.

Seriously... Are all these articles about how Apple is out to screw AT&T's customers really necessary?
Not sure I agree with that - certainly, radio became a catalyst to incite violence, but the problem wasn't radio, but that there weren't enough radio voices. Media was primarily state controlled as the article points out and Tutsis were used as scape goats for all manner of problems at the time.

The problem in believing that it's 'technology can be a negative' in this case is that the solution for some people would be to ration and control what technology gets distributed which perversely is the reasoning for the government run media and lack of competition ('the news is too important to let private enterprise bias the public').

Finally, while I can accept that radio was a catalyst, the groundwork for the genocide was laid long in advance and facilitated by France (http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=1940) in the last couple decades. The silly conspiracy theories the US gets frequently accused of, France actually did in Rwanda (and continues to attempt to do in many former colonies with their foreign policy based more on mercantilism than trade - only the most recent example being Cote D'Ivoire).

What is most troubling about Rwanda is how (at least until Sarkozy was elected), France defends its role and also members of the government that initiated this genocide at the UN. It's little wonder then when I visited Rwanda (possibly one of the biggest emotional experiences of my life was after hearing the director of a orphanage speak in graphic detail of some of the horrifying massacres and killings that took place), that everyone seemed to want to learn English.
This is a seriously interesting innovation.
It was my initial reaction to this post by Jordan Cooper: http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/full-of-potenti...

"So today I am 28 years old. When I was 24 I used to look at other Associates at venture capital firms who were 27 and 28 years old and think to myself “well, I’m four years ahead of these guys.” When I was 26 and founding my first company I used to look at 30 year old founders and think “well, I’m 4 years ahead of these guys.” Now that I’m 28, I look around at my peers and I’m pretty much right smack in the middle, not really “ahead” of anyone. And what’s worse is, 2 years from now, I’m going to look around and start to say “well, I’m 2 years behind these guys.” It’s already happening. I spend time with a guy like Chris Hughes (26 I think) and leave thinking “well, I’m 2 years WAY behind that guy.”...

Hence the cursing.
Good philosophy; I wish companies operated this way. Most don't. I'm talking about big ones here, not the smaller, can-do companies who can't afford "dead wood" at all. The politicos want to build empires, and they hire people who are pliant and will bend to their will, and are not usually competent.
It's funny -- I live in Redwood Shores and am often in Starbucks when current EA employees saunter in for an afternoon coffee. They rarely seem like people who are happy in their jobs.
Toyota can save its face and gain back trust. They need to fix the software issue at hand and then open source the code.
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Very pretty but ... propulsion? Control surfaces? Sort of basic requirements, one would think? And with a shape like that I'd love to see it in a storm .. would rather less like to be on board.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of lighter-than-air flight and consider the area to be criminally under-developed. But that thing needs to be rethought with an eye towards practicality.
Great project. From the blog , it talks about the tools used to build this. Id be interested more in how all these play together.

Are you planning on opensourcing the project?
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On the one hand, it isn't right for anyone who questions the science (which is, after all, the point of science) to get stuck with a highly pejorative label.

On the other hand, what else do you call those who are so convinced of a One World Government conspiracy that they refuse to accept the very notion that humanity can cause long-term damage to the ecosystem? They're out there, I've met quite a few.
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There was a Facebook campaign about a year ago saying that the British Government was going to use taxpayers money to build a £100 million super-mosque in London.

If I remember rightly the mayor's office had to publically come out and say that no taxpayer money was being used after the Facebook group had many hundreds of thousands of members.

In this case the harm was pretty minimal but in a climate that was more turbulent the wrong message on "real-time" social media could cause a dangerous situation.
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