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There's a flip side to this issue that adds a layer of complexity.

Right now video content owners are encoding video (at a fairly significant cost) to (generally) H264 for streaming media. This includes a wide variety of platforms - not just the web, mobile, internet connected TVs and the new over the top boxes like Roku all support H264 so it has already become a defacto standard for encoding.

Having to re-encode an existing media library to something else like Theora would be a significant cost to content providers with large library archives of content.
I hadn't read that, thanks. I'm glad it wasn't quite how it was made out, but it also makes it a bit sadder that they died.
Python lets you put the commas before the items, like so:

{ 'foo':'barbaz'
, 'k2':'v2'
}

Ruby doesn't like that though. Both Python and Ruby will ignore an extra trailing comma on the last item, which gives you another way of avoiding the common bug you describe.
I'm pretty tired of all the Mozilla bashing and all the H.264 praising. I'd say: give the people their damn H.264, let them face the consequences 10 years later and then tell them "I told you so".
Why does anybody need to recode anything? Youtube didn't had to recode all its H263 video to H264 when they switched. You can have both at the same time and only encode newer things in new codecs.

I don't understand why most of the tech community thinks that it's a black-and-white situation. I don't believe that any video site will have the guts to force everything to be H.264 HTML5 video - did you forget that 70% of the visitors, those using IE, cannot watch HTML5 video regardless of the codec? No, if they support HTML5 they'll ensure that they have a Flash fallback and things will work fine on Firefox and Opera even if H.264 is the codec.
This is the second product with a better specsheet, but we will have to see if they can come close to apples design and UX skill.
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Not only is it still relevant, people still add to the tradition. Brian Finnegan's tunes are some quite good recent ones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt3A_pIknY0

As the comments say the first tune is an older traditional song. The other two are written by him (who is playing the whistle).
I must admit, I like this version of Code Monkey better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYodWEKCuGg
YAML had a fuckton of sugar, where JSON has as little as possible, but the biggest differentiator is that YAML has references — you can express cyclic graphs. That's why it's a natural fit for fixtures and seed data in Rails: it natively handles relational data.
I thought I wasn't clear enough about that part, and so it seems. So I'll clarify.

Earlier, when I was learning to play guitar, I really really wanted to become a good guitar player. So, I spent countless hours to practice, but I wasn't advancing that much. And all the time I knew what the problem was, although I didn't admit it to myself.

It did not come from the heart.

I thought that it is only a matter of decision, and a matter of how much time and effort I put into it. But at the end it is a matter of motivation, and as you all know, motivation is not something you just pick and choose; it is something you look for, but you cannot force it. My motivation for playing guitar was shallow, but I tried not to face it, because becoming a good guitarist would have been so cool.

Eventually I started to hate it, gave up and got rid of the whole instrument.

Only years later I got a new "bite" to the hobby, and this time I was wise enough to admit that I am not willing to practice hard to become a good player - and never have been.

Instead, I just warmed up the old stuff, and started inventing my own music. Composing. Just trying out things, seeking for something that sounds good and then developing on that. Nothing too complicated or special. And boy, have I enjoyed playing guitar since then! I don't push a schedule, I don't push any targets, I just play exactly how I feel like and when I like. And time to time I feel like learning something new, borrow a couple of music books and have a sprint of actually practicing on something. But only as far as I find enjoyment in learning itself.

So, that is what I mean that I would have all the time I wanted, but I just don't (want). Anything more than I currently happen to put on it, would be waste of my time because I wouldn't enjoy it.
I like the updated version, after all, the "Sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma", rather than "a mass of incandescent gas": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA
Including yours? ;-)
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The field of physics is a human construct, whereas nature is not.

We don't know anything about the way nature behaves. The only thing we know is that physics (and chemistry, biology, etc.) seems to describe and predict the behavior pretty well. 'The laws of nature' are not a sensible thing we can refer to. It's like a square circle or 'outside the universe': you think you are making sense, but what you say doesn't actually mean anything. This is not a silly semantics game, but a very important truth about semantics: some seemingly meaningful statements just don't mean anything. There are only laws of the human construct 'physics'.
From the reviews on the Nexus-one , it seems that there's no big difference between iphone and android. and since switching costs are much lower , this is a totally different market.
Birgit Davis-Todd, an executive editor at Harlequin in Toronto — which had no corporate involvement in the research — says the study verifies the marketing tactics they've used for decades. "We'll use a variation on a baby story, for example, because we know it sells books," says Davis-Todd. "But can you stretch it to say that what women want to read is what women are all about? I don't think so. Readers enjoy the fantasy."

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> "counterpoint to the recently fashionable (and in some ways very good) microfinancing movement and other forms of entrepreneurship."

To add to your point - I volunteer a bit with the homeless, and what I have seen from professionals involved in this field is that basic life-sustaining activities are not sufficiently accessible to the poor, which leads me to believe that microfinancing and entrepreneurship is a poor solution to the poverty problem.

Below a certain income threshold, transportation becomes nearly impossible, and taking government and charitable handouts such as using the food bank is almost a full-time job. Someone at the very bottom is spending his/her entire waking hours trying to get to the next day - entrepreneurship is the last thing on their minds.

The homeless in my area (Seattle) queue for up to 3 hours to receive a single meal (if they are lucky enough to get it before it runs out), and similar waits exist for the food bank, job services, social security services... the list goes on.

What we need to encourage are programs and systems that will allow people to gain the bare necessities for survival - shelter, food, and security - without forcing them to commit all of their time to this task. Believe it or not, free time is the solution to the problem - one can only seek to improve one's lot when not entirely consumed with bare survival.
Mozilla: Stick to your ideals but don't fall on your sword. The openness argument is worth making right now before HTML5 video takes off. It probably won't radically slow the adoption of HTML5 video, or change H264 being the preferred codec, but they might have a chance to make Theora and equal player. They just need to flip WebKit and Microsoft would probably follow. Not totally impossible. Worth the fight in my opinion. What Mozilla needs to be careful of is taking it too far and weakening their market share reducing diversity of browsers if HTML5 video really delivers a better experience than Flash video (and it probably will) This would only serve to strengthen Apple, Google and Microsoft's role in controlling the browser. Mozilla needs to know when they're beat and live to fight another day. I give it another 12-18 months or whenever IE9 hits Windows Update.
Here is a writing tip: if you talk about a hypothetical person of undefined sex, choose "he" or "she" and stick with it. Some writing teachers say one should always use "she" to avoid sexism, but that is obviously not followed. As long as you do not actively reinforce stereotypes (i.e., you call all hypothetical flight attendants "she" and all hypothetical lawyers "he"), I think using "he" is fine.

But if you mix "he" or "she" up then you just raise questions in the reader's mind. Here the author has half "he's" and half "she's" which opens him (or her!) to bunch of accusations of sexism. Why was the newbie a "she"?
Yeah that's the point. HTML5 + h264 by default, Flash + h264 for legacy browsers (like Firefox).
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As a Perl defender, I don't feel any less clever doing things the Ruby way.

I don't mean to be dismissive, either, but Perl over the years has distilled, and what we got out of it in the end wasn't Perl.
Basically, once we can clone humans, which we're pretty close to having the tech for now, this would be possible.

Such is the case for the leaders in the Æon Flux movie.
You're right that they need Flash fallback anyway for <IE9, <Safari4, and <Chrome3 — but you're ignoring that it's not a big deal to just do it for Firefox and Opera too. They already have "Works better in Chrome" banners on Youtube for windows users.

Nobody is going to lossily transcode to Theora — they'll just use Flash like they have to already.
Interesting but incomplete. Furthermore, really bad science.

This sounds like an undergrad research study (use LUKE, an automated text analyzer, to count 'meaningful' words), then hypothesize about why those words turn up.

No reproducible results, no predictions, no working model, no evidence that can be used to support or disprove existing theories.

A waste of time. Only reason it got press was that it hinted at sex and romance.
one of my favorite articles of all time. the ending is... tearjerking, to be honest.
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Thom's arguments tend to be based on his personal biases (this company good, that company bad; open source good, closed source bad; etc.) and as a result he sometimes says the stupidest shit to defend them. The thing you quoted about Theora winning out is a perfect example of this, especially the last sentence:

Since Firefox is by far the largest HTML5 browser, encoding your video in H264 alone is shooting yourself in the foot.

Saying so completely disregards the fact that a lot of, maybe even the majority of, the video on the web now is already in h.264 alone, because that's one of the encodings that the Flash plugin supports. And when we add to that the fact that for the foreseeable future there will continue being a non-insignificant portion of people using browsers that do not implement HTML5 at all, meaning video sites which go HTML5 will still have to provide a some form of a fallback - most logically through a Flash player - a fallback that can easily be served to Firefox and Opera users, exactly the opposite of Thom's statement becomes obvious. Not encoding your video in h.264 alone is shooting yourself in the foot - you'd be more than doubling your storage cost and your video transcoding cost and even increasing your bandwidth bill, for no good reason whatsoever.
I switched to the cygwin urxvt a few months back and I've not seen a single "batch job" complaint on ctl-D since.

(As an added bonus I get the best terminal emulation compatibility since... well, since ever)
>A good dictator would be really effective and could do tremendous amount of good. The downside is that generally in a dictatorship, the ruler could also be an evil dictator and cause lots of damage.

I don't think this is quite right, since it assumes the possibility of a sufficiently good dictator.
would this help netflix? i'm thinking it might do marginally, but that with a large enough dataset you only need equality to start identifying values (for example, you can take the encrypted text in the "state" field that occurs most often, and assume that is the most populous state, etc etc).
Why not just post these questions on stack overflow, under the 'security' tag?
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Aha, I tried to do this a couple years ago when I registered a domain name I liked (pipinghot.info) and the tried to come up with an app to go with it. :)

I tried to do too much of the scraping work myself which got me into a mess. If you can get people to offer data rather than try to pull it yourself you might have better luck.

RSS, Alerts, etc. stuff handles a lot in tech, do you expect to try to get more casual things like live sports data, current events, etc?
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Done and connected it to HN.
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I think it's sort of a criticism of companies in general; I suppose it's unfair to specifically target Apple in my comment. But I really hope it's possible to be a successful business owner/executive/whatever and adhere to some principles... openness, ethical behavior, etc.

Certainly founders and investors want their companies to grow, whether it's in share of their current market, or branching out into new markets. But is it really that awful to settle for a little less -- still successful by any measure -- but be able to sleep at night?
That's very subjective. It's true though that Apple has been able to sell products that generally have lower specs then their price equivalent. But if that is because of marketing, killer applications, user experience or something else isn't really clear. They're definitely not dominating any market based on number of devices though.

What I'm most curious about in the tablet space is if Linux, with Android, MeeGo, Chrome OS etc. will be able to shine. As many tablets will be ARM based, there will be less competition from Microsoft. With a decent distribution platform we might see a situation where developers will be able to reach more devices with Linux than with iPad/iPhone OS. Especially from a global perspective.
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Presumably similar consequences to the ones we suffered for using GIF and JPEG images, and MP3s? Those were tough, I must admit.
Although the subject is interesting the page, published on 16th March 2010, is poorly researched blog-spam. It is essentially just copied from one of the numerous pages that say the same thing, such as this one published on 27th January 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4357829/Immortal-j...

The picture is not of Turritopsis nutricula, but T. rubra according to this page

http://www.ville-ge.ch/mhng/hydrozoa/hydrozoa-directory.htm

This is Maria's page

http://www.personal.psu.edu/mum31/

and the related journal article about ships' ballast is here

http://www.springerlink.com/content/81747575j2707j4g/
We need to capture one and feed it for a couple of centuries to see if it is truly immortal.
I've had and used ThinkPads, both before and after the Lenovo acquisition (personally I've found the Lenovos to be crap). Yes, I would say that the price is justified -- or, rather, that I'm willing to pay the price. Perhaps I'm just being deceived by shiny things, but, well... I can live with that, sometimes.

I guess I'm also something of an aesthete, and I absolutely love Apple's product design. Not saying it's for everyone, but I'm willing to spend a bit extra for something that I'm genuinely happy to look at.
The cops even were portrayed as having this same attitude. They figured those kids weren't hurting anybody and were relatively harmless small potatoes; but because they became more successful, the situation grew more and more untenable due to the higher exposure to increasingly shadier people.
According to this article, John Carmack didn't create that function.
http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/
> That means 2/3 of the time- mutations do nothing or help the organism.

Imagine you have a series of integers being multiplied. Each step, you increase 1/3 of them and decrease 1/3 of them - you leave the remaining 1/3 untouched.

After enough steps, you have zero.
unfortunately that logic still only makes perl a neutral language, not a good one.

(i haven't used perl for years, but this isn't intended as a snark against the language, just a comment on the fact that saying something "is not bad" does not necessarily mean that it is "good")
It is not an assertion, it is an opinion.
Not sure how you got that from what I said. I'm merely pointing out that hardware support and number of supported architectures isn't necessarily what everyone cares about most when deciding if an OS is "good" or not (whatever that means).
Yeah, I recalled reading something that went into the provenance of it but couldn't bring it up, so I went with the "scare quotes" option to hedge my bets ;-) Good find.
- One quality measure of an abstraction is the complexity
ofits interface (ie API size).
- Another measure is the amount of state the abstraction
encapsulates.

The simplest abstraction of many interfaces is two methods:

setParameterForNextCall(paramName, paramValue)
call(functionName)

The API is small, not complex and the amount of state is small, given that parameters are only set right before a call, all parameters are cleared after every call and no other state is retained. Yet it's clear to anyone that this isn't a good abstraction and that it doesn't result in an implementation that requires few unit tests. It requires an immense amount of documentation and allows a great many variations that yield bad/unexpected results.

Hence, good abstractions require few unit tests.

Abstractions don't have unit tests: implementations have unit tests. It's the size and complexity of the implementation made possible by the abstraction that matters.
Why is making money off of something the threshold for prosecution? Is the video (or the act itself) somehow less harmful to someone when it isn't commercially viable?
This quote by Sidney Morgenbesser seems apt. About pragmatism:

"It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice."
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As I understand it, this is client side only. That means I have to duplicate some of the code on the server side, right? I'm thinking of stuff like input validation. And I have to say I have become a little wary of anything called framework.
Luckily, he was storing everything in "the cloud!", so it's all ok.
That is correct. I'm from the Netherlands but I now live in Australia. Here in Sydney they seem to find it best practice to construct the pavement out of concrete. Every time work needs to be done on pipes they bring out "the heavy machinery" and you get two days of drilling and dust. When they're done, they patch up the hole with tarmac!

Sometimes however, you do see pavements that are made out tiled bricks which seemingly could be lifted up. But don't be fooled. These bricks are cemented in as well as is of course demonstrated by the patches of .... tarmac.
I think sort of a corollary point to this is that many people associate jazz with the often cacophonous "free/abstract jazz" (or whatever the term du jour is.) The image is often of mentarbatory discord.

I do not like at least modern "free jazz", but fortunately I still have tons of good, slightly groovier stuff available from 1920's onwards, and I think much more people would likewise find enjoyment in the classics. With the various "internet radio" and customised stream software, searching for these usually brings an excellent selection of music: Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane.
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Is anybody else concerned about the buggy demos?
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On "Collections" moving the bottom right slider doesn't resize the cells.
On "Containers", dragging the blue square is pretty buggy.
There are others too.
That kind of stuff would be a problem for me.
Even if Mozilla sticks to their guns it doesn't prevent someone from writing a plugin that uses the H264 codecs shipping in Windows & Mac, or x264 on Linux. Sure, it won't be "officially" supported, just like flash doesn't ship with Firefox, but everyone has it.

H264 is baked into silicon, there it's already been decided. Holding out for Theora is like holding out for ogg. Yeah, Wikipedia might use it, but no one else will.
I think they have happened over time, just not regularly and as with many disciplines, the bad and mediocre tend to outweigh the good, but if you consider Julius Caesar, Alfred the Great, Saladin, Suleyman the Magnificent and Ataturk, then actually there are a few (perhaps more historically than now due to the lower prevalence of current opportunities for would-be dictators).
It's worth noting that there's probably no fundamental reason why animals that live forever couldn't evolve. Sadly though, evolution favours whatever genes multiply fastest. There are trade-offs between living forever and reproducing as quickly as possible; and selection favours the latter.
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They can write software to give you "hardware" accelerated Theora decoders on your phone too, as long as the phone maker lets them. Apple doesn't.

Nokia (who are actively campaigning against Theora) do, so voila:

http://www.schleef.org/blog/2009/11/11/theora-on-ti-c64x-dsp...
In this article it would have been fine to use singular ‘they’ especially since each fictive person is really a group of people, so even read as plural ‘they’ works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
JPEG was specifically created to a be royalty-free standard. JPEG 2000 is the more advanced format with patent royalties that no-one uses on the web for that very reason.