skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming it is true, it still does not alter the fact that Ogg is a bad format.
Being free from patents does not magically make Ogg a good choice as file format.
If all the standard formats are indeed covered by patents, the only proper
solution is to design a new, good format which is not, this time hopefully
avoiding the old mistakes.

Well, being free from patents can be a very good feature, and may very well make this the only -- and therefore best -- available choice.

It might not be possible to make a good format to replace it exactly due to patents. Too many patents on obvious and necessary solutions exist.

However, I don't know the specifics. I would have liked a similar discussion on the format which included patent concerns. Can anyone fill in? :)
3D Engine on Google Nexus One (Videos)
Shipley wasn't involved. He posted some angry tweets when he first saw it.
Optiums is built for Intel's new Core i cpu's, where the cpu has a moderately capable gpu integrated on the same die.

What I've read indicates that Nvidia is using a database of application profiles to determine if the dedicated gpu should be activated.

edit: I just read that the drivers will use heuristics so that application profiles won't be needed in most cases. Basically, if an application initializes DirectX, CUDA or OpenGL, the dedicated gpu will be activated by the drivers.

http://blogs.nvidia.com/ntersect/2010/02/world-meet-optimus....
I wonder how much of what he ascribes to the extroversion versus introversion (EvI) struggle should actually be ascribed to the sensing versus intuition (SvN) conflict. (See Myers-Briggs for descriptions of these dichotomies.)

Software engineers have also been shown to be very high on the N scale and have classically been placed in the NT temperament. (For anecdotal evidence, see past MBTI surveys on Hacker News and Reddit.)

Main point: communication style discrepancies, by Myers-Briggs definition, should be attributed to SvN, not EvI.
He had a tweet earlier today explicitly saying that Apple copied him, and that he wouldn't have sued even if he'd had a patent. Seems he's removed the tweet now, though (can't find it) so you'll just have to take my word for it I guess...
I'm interviewing Weebly's David Rusenko live today at 12:30pm (PT)
Nope. In the Washington Post Shipley says that is not the case:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01...
I disagree. Jay-Z, Tupac or Notorious BIG are the "Steve Jobs" (eg: consistently raising the bar) of Hip Hop
Hmmm... not sure about that remark... I've slaughtered a lamb myself, then ate a very good roasted lamb (it was very distressing, though).

I also put down my dog when we had to (which was way more distressing than that), so it might not be for everybody.
(Quote:)

You can get a free copy of the latest (but incomplete) draft of the C++ standard here:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n303...

Unprotected PDF, 10.9 MB, 1285 pages. Funny first page quote:

Note: this is an early draft. It’s known to be incomplet and incorrekt, and it has lots of bad formatting.
I declare "O rly?" vs "Ya rly" the worst holy war ever.

Neither side will ever give an inch, and vast armies of anonymous have lobbed internets at each other, killing a few StarCraft players in Korea and memeing millions upon millions more, with more arriving every day.
Why did I get modded down? I had some valid points..
It seems to me that deleting an article should require nearly 100% "delete" votes, for if even a small group of people wish to keep it, it is obviously useful to them, and it gets in no one's way.
Now I feel like a dick, re: the post above me.
There’s more to China's Great Firewall than technology
Written mostly based on some old research gathered from this piece (also based on the parent article):

"A Few Good Reasons to Not Partake of the Swine": http://indiejade.livejournal.com/23835.html

Ergo: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1124822
Are you going to bother responding to the specific points, or just the personal attack?
Given that the rate of deaths atributed to diet-related conditions is several orders of magnitude higher, I think this is trying to optimize for the wrong metric.
Though, perhaps they may be looking toward Bloom boxes as an effective way to reduce carbon emissions. Cutting emissions per kW in half is nothing to shake a stick at.
Viacom Taking Daily Show & Colbert Off Hulu
Oh god. I just went there, selected some options, hit "generate it!" and waited patiently for a few minutes before I realized that I was staring at the very spinner I had requested.
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Jobs told the world he would do this at the 2007 MacWorld keynote introducing the iPhone:

"We filed for over 200 patents for all the inventions in iPhone and we intend to protect them."

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-s...
> We are a consumer society.

I don't think it's quite that bleak. The trick is that we only create in a small handful of arenas. So most of what we have in common with one another, most of what we do, is consume other people's productions.

But that guy passively consuming on the train might have a woodshop at home and could be reading about woodcraft and fueling his passion even as he consumes.

That guy on the blackberry could be exchanging recipes to further his own.

And who knows what might be going through the mind of the guy reading the paper. Perhaps you've just caught him during his 'offline, recharge' time. Where he steps back to broaden his awareness to stimulate new ideas.

Frankly, you have to take a pessimistic, judgmental (borderline-misanthropic) view of anyone not actively creating at any given moment to decide that most people do nothing but consume.

I'm sure the stereotypical mindless consumers exist. But I know that even creative people go through phases of their life that are like that.

But that's how it is with passion. If you don't have it, there's no sense trying to force a craft.
Apple feels threatened by Google, as simple as that. Its hard to compete against a freemium model. It take years of research and development to make a solid OS (desktop or phone). Remember all the Phone interface before iphone? Yeah, they all pretty much sucked. Based on Apple iphone sales it is fair to say they have a winner and most people likes it.

Google comes up with a free high quality, highly customizable, open source alternative to iphone OS that can turn any phone to a good phone. So all phone manufacturers have to do is concentrate on making a phone that looks like an iphone.

I don't like that fact that Apple is being a patent troll, but at the same time I think manufacturers just copying iphone form factor is being a bit tacky.

Who wants to bet that when ipad ships (and if it is a success) tablet manufacturers will start making tablets that copies the form factor of ipad?

Edit: Relevant to what I wrote earlier - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8547230.stm
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Inspired by http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1161522, I think lots of people would love to hear more about startups' early stories. How did you decide what to work on? How confident were you in the opportunity? What else was interesting about your very early days?
"Angry"? IIRC he said they'd clearly copied it and that he'd be pissed if they were using it in a directly competing product. He also acknowledged that there's hardly a better visual metaphor for representing a collection of books.
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I don't think Kanye's work is all that ground breaking. However, it is ground breaking in the mainstream, and he is bringing depth to a shallow mainstream genre. I think that is is main achievement.

If you listen to music outside of the mainstream (yes, even rap), 808s and Heartbreak doesn't seem like that original or impressive of an album, and there are works by other artists that are far less appreciated or noticed but could make bigger impacts both musically and socially. I do, however, really enjoy a few of the songs on that album, and I think Kanye is an inspiring person even if he can be a total douche.
From the end of the article: "... such as compelling researchers to share both data sets and the code for statistical models."

This would be a welcome change. It seems very strange to me that it is not the accepted practice to make available any source code used in the analysis. It's an essential part of their methodology, and any bugs in that code could produce hard-to-detect flaws in their results (dropped data, rounding errors, etc). Just look at the work jgrahamc did on climate change analysis: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128782.
Some of those patents Apple is using are hardware.
Thanks. It was a honest question - I had no idea who he is.

Your answer makes sense, I rarely listen to rap music.

Ed: oh, and I don't live in US either, so maybe is a cultural thing.
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Do you have to be a geek to be in the computer field?
What's Autotune?

Auto-Tune was also used to produce the prominent altered vocal effect on Cher's "Believe," recorded in 1998. When first interviewed about this, the sound engineers claimed that they had used a vocoder, in what Sound on Sound perceived as an attempt to preserve a trade secret.[7] After the massive success of "Believe," many artists imitated the technique. It was evident in songs of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Some notable examples are Gigi D'Agostino's "La Passion" and Janet Jackson's US #1 hit "All For You," among many others. After years of relative dormancy, the effect was revived in the mid-2000s by R&B singer T-Pain, who elaborated on the effect in contemporary popular music by making active use of it in his songs, a style that has since gone on to be imitated by numerous other R&B and pop artists[8] such as Kanye West and, more recently, Jamie Foxx in his hit song, "Blame It".[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune
I assume your reply and my edit overlapped, but the link contains the other side of the argument.

Besides that, as I'm not really qualified to comment on the technical arguments, the way they are presented heavily influences my evaluation. On that metric alone ffmpeg is losing this argument badly. If they really care that much (and it appears they really, really do) then they'd do well to take that criticism on board.
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Excellent plan. Alcohol always helps people get over arguments.

Bones heal faster than internet battles :)
Their Latest News doesn't seem to show "We suffered a DoS from The Jester", so one might say "ineffective".

03 03 10 Two Americans shot dead in Garmsir, 7 coalition soldiers sustain loss of life and injuries

02 03 10 Italian officer, seven soldiers killed in Badghis battle

02 03 10 At least 25 Americans killed as 8 U.S. tanks destroyed in Marjah

02 03 10 Mujahideen fight British troops near Lashkar Gah

02 03 10 Dozens die as three American military tanks eliminated in bombings in Marjah

02 03 10 Blast in Helmand kills three U.S soldiers, injures another three
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If Apple thinks I'm going to buy an iPhone in the future because they're using legal methods to hinder the competition, they are dead wrong.
Oh. Looks like Kanye's attempting a little heartfelt PR stunt to make people believe he actually has a responsibility to create. Fair attempt, but his actions say the exact opposite: that he's doing it all for himself, the fame and recognition. I, for one, don't believe this jackass.
He's a dude who has made some of the worst records of all time.
Here is some documentation with examples,

http://github.com/nkallen/querulous/blob/master/README.markd...
Interesting as Apple clearly copied the look and feel of Wil's application Delicious Library of use in thier iBook store application.

Either that or somebody at Apple once went to a library. Wood shelves holding books... profound.
I was about to say... dwm was more like the grandson of modern tiling WMs.

Hell, it was fork from dwm author's _own_ project wmii.
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IE9 to support HTML5 and CSS3?
I'm not trying to be technical about this but I still don't consider that marketing.

Sure, you created some content and google picked it up and you managed to get some nice traffic from it. But that is because there was no competition.

That strategy is to rely on a first-mover advantage which is now well known as a poor business strategy. Someone else could easily come along and conduct basic SEO marketing and gets a bunch of links, then you're playing catch up or too busy moving on to another niche.

If on the other hand you conduct more thorough marketing (explained in the post) after finding this niche, it may turn out to be a sustainable business.

From my experience, finding the unexploited opportunities and ranking in google is the easy part. Turning that into a real and scalable business is the hard part and that takes quite a bit of marketing effort (understanding your customers, promotion, PR etc).
Once robots are smart enough to replace human teachers, is there really even any need to require children to go to school anymore?

The (political) reason for compulsory education is to prepare young people to enter the work force. At the point that a robot is equivalent to a human teacher, doesn't that indicate that the singularity is upon us and almost all work can be performed as well or better by machines?

Considering that this is posted on "singularityhub," I am surprised that they did not address this possibility.

Of course, the fact that these current robots seem more a novelty than some significant improvement in education might have something to do with that oversight.
I believe YC takes common stock, not preferred stock.
Yet when _why did it with his code examples, it was cool! ;-)

But, yeah, someone should clue him up on @font-face or something g I appreciate the crazy typography sometimes, but being able to copy and paste it is always nice..
Either that or somebody at Apple once went to a library.

If you read more into it, the iPad team is where 3 Delicious Monster employees ended up, including the lead designer.
Certainly, I personally don't have an issue with it's use. Indication of surprise puts it well, as far as I can determine as a non-native speaker.
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Querulous Examples (Twitter's Scala Database API)
My bad, turns out I didn't read your article carefully enough. I just assumed you were confirming the point of the original article.
Stevie Wonder will not be reading this.

Do you seriously think Stevie Wonder sits around reading Kanye West's site? :-)
You can get it for about $100 at Provantage: http://www.provantage.com/kodak-1338813~7EAK90Q0.htm
Given that the root cause of nearly all the world's problems is over-population, we should recognize that we need to build _more_ opportunities for "Darwinian Correction" into society. So leave the Hot Dog alone, and leave the Golden Gate Bridge alone. :-)
Microeconomics 101: Apple is in the mobile device business. Apple makes money by selling high-end mobile devices. Google Android is an move towards commoditizing mobile devices, as they are a compliment to Google's business [1]. The point of this is simply to increase the costs of making mobile devices.

1. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
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For real, Biggie and Tupac are really pushing hip-hop to new places - I can't wait to see where they take it next.
Running Safari 4 on the mac and it runs great ;/ Thats whats annoying about this CSS stuff you never know if it will work. Hoping HTML5 will start moving forward.
ubiquitaqaticism
I really like this line, "I never feel like I'm not the underdog. I never felt completely comfortable. I'm tormented by the need to create." Regardless of your personal feelings for Kanye that should resonate with every entrepreneur in the room.
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DVD will quietly disappear.
...Now that streaming and down-loadable HD video is so practical and inexpensive, traditional physical media is all but dead.
And this is a surprise?

IE8 doesn't support much CSS3 right now. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024(VS.85).aspx
have you even listened to the college dropout?
> Except it could hurt apple if HTC happens to also have a lot of nice little patents which the iPhone is infringing (not so far fetch).

Or Google, should they decide to go on the offensive.
Ask HN: A project to combine my ie degree with web programming skills
Hi everybody, I am just getting my master degree in industrial engineering. I am an industrial engineer and very interested in programming especially web. Can you advise me a thesis subject that i can combine my ie background with my web programming skills.
Both are in nearly every dictionary around. And given the base of "ubiquitous", I prefer adding a "ness" to denote a quality, which is extremely common in English and can even be applied to words that don't normally accept it, so it's an easy cognate. Something being cheesy == has cheesiness. "Ubiquity" is more of a hacked form of a word, as it removes from the base word.

Though I admit it's shorter, thus may eventually achieve ubiquity over ubiquitousness.
I doubt that it is really that personal. Both companies wanted to move into the mobile space, but for completely different reasons. Google is focused on the internet and data, whereas Apple is focused on media. The boardroom split became inevitable when they both entered the space, but I doubt it was a personal beef.
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Does that make his work an less amazing, how many great artists really are nice guys ;) I think it comes with the territory, can't be an agnst artist and a super nice guy.
Besides from the fact that it is only Firefox and Webkit specific for now and the apparent crashes that some of you have noted here, I was actually kind of surprised at how well this (visually) turned out.
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I don't think they're mutually exclusive. Where does this urge and feeling of a responsibility to create come from? Preservation of the ego, legacy, a feeling of importance.. all things that fame and recognition fuel.

It's a bit like economic motivation in capitalism. If someone's greed for money leads to them doing great things to make money (hiring people and redistributing wealth in the process) then that "greed" is considered good, from a capitalist point of view.

In the same way, Kanye routinely admits he has a massive ego, and I think that if that ego and pride leads to him doing some great work (even if he says some stupid shit from to time) then it's worth it. It's not like he's running drugs, touching kids, screwing taxpayers out of money, or whatever.. being an ass and jumping on stages is a small inconvenience for what he brings to the world.
This is so exciting. It is so true about the power of events to build community and empower entrepreneurs. I just got back from the Student Tech Meetup last night in NYC, and was blown away by how many passionate students were there who wanted to start companies, or were already doing it!

I can't imagine how amazing it would have been to have access to those kinds of events when I was in school.

This will truly be saving people from the Siren Song of Wall Street.
Apple is being a patent troll

No they aren't... patent trolls don't produce anything or use the patents they sue over. Apple is clearly using their patent portfolio to produce products.

You can disagree whether or not they should enforce their patents, but don't call them a troll. It weakens your argument.
I have a boss rc-2 loop station, I'm pretty sad now :(
For viewing slides, I generally prefer a PDF (as Preview an Safari's built in PDF viewer are generally pretty decent), or Google Docs. The problem with Scribd and SlideShare is that they require Flash, which is slow and buggy (it's crashing every time I try to view your slides on Scribd), and they generally have interfaces with lots of extra junk and ads all over the place.
Then I must be no one.
Isn't that basically just changing your IPhone into a Kaos pad?
What troubles me about this whole thing is, Apple doesn't NEED to do this. They still have great products, there are still many geniuses who would love to work there, they still have an insanely valuable brand. This sort of thing should be a last resort.
"ubiquitaquaticism" ("u" added)

The belief that water is everywhere?
> Not really true. The BBC trust is chartered to represent the license payers. The political votng has little to do with it. Hey mostly get viewer opinion from direct feedback and polling.

The govt has control over the tax money so theoretically voters have some control.

However, the BBC free to completely ignore viewers.

You were arguing that viewers mattered to the BBC. They matter only when convenient, which is very different.
True, but my question is, why not go after HTC et al sooner? There were iPhone knockoffs within months of its announcement that could have been sued. And why sue HTC, and not Google or Motorola or Palm?
There are also 300 million people living in the US, another truly astounding figure. People eat meat, and have forever. Just because there are now more people around to eat meat now does not make the process of making meat (also called killing animals...) suddenly become evil. You can make an argument that factory farming methods are inhumane, and we can have a rational discussion. But your appeal to the magic of large numbers is meaningless to me, just because 10 billion animals get killed for food each year does not make it "unfathomably evil".

(And also, you are going to compare loss of life in war to animals killed for meat.... Seriously?)
No, you get sued then because of trade dress.
Try putting your own beverage in bottles shaped like Coke's iconic curve bottle. Then you'll hear of it.
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I wish more investors got this deep into their businesses, there always seems to be a shallowness to it all. It seems like some of these crappy startups would get less funding if the investors had to spend time day to day in the business to get a feel for it.
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they were getting there with the QuickTime code, when MS settled that time for $150M... back in 97 or 96.
Originally put hte wrong title. Fixed now. Sorry Chris!!!
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Just because their authors say that doesn't mean that it's true. Worse still, no corporation is willing to perform a patent search because such an activity could open a liability should it be discovered that something they already use is covered by a patent they previously were unaware of.

The fact is that it is extremely difficult to implement any multimedia application without running afoul of a patent. Rational developers will pick the safest option, and that is to license the MPEG patents, which (I believe) also offers submarine patent protection in that the MPEG-LA would be solely liable for not finding them earlier should trouble arise.

The good news is that these patents are not enforceable worldwide, and the first of them should start expiring (if they haven't already) within the next few years.
Susu, or raising your own VC