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What are you talking about? Just because the airlines aren't doing great right now does NOT mean aviation is a 0 profit biz...
"This book is ten years old. I started work on it in 1992..."

I remember 1992. I feel old.
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I'm pleased he thinks that bees will survive.
I would have loved a little more detail on what kind of performance they already achieved and what kind of performance they think they can achieve.
I think it was in the notes to a recent re-print of The Intelligent Investor or Security Analysis but it made clear that the cumulative profit of the airline industry has been negative overall (I'll try and find the reference to back it up). Of course there are some airlines that make money, but a lot that don't. Think of British Airways: essentially a loss-making pension fund with an airline on the side.
But Git requires that users either use cygwin or install half a linux environment in Windows.

That was true, but is no longer. There is a Windows port of git called MSysGit available on google code: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ .
Natural Ash is good for the ground, and especially for vineyards
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cummulitive profit of whole industry is 0. some people makes alot of money, but not companies.
When you say "format", do you mean file container or video codec? Most people mean codec. In that case, Flash (and Adobe) doesn't have a format to destroy.

Meanwhile, Microsoft's work in this area over the past 13 years with the WMV family of codecs has been extraordinary, coaxing more quality from a given bitrate needing less CPU to play back than any other commercially viable codec. That's why WMV codecs work on so many consumer devices, even phones. VC1 is remarkably good, only just recently challenged by H.264 encoding's most recent optimizations.

Meanwhile, if you meant file container, Microsoft's recent player technologies such as Silverlight support H.264 in .mp4 containers, as do recent Flash Player versions.

With all Windows machines supporting .WMV container and VC-1 codec, Macs still shipping with a Windows Media Player or able to play it in any QT app using Flip4Mac, Linux players supporting it "out of the box", and both Sony PS3 and MSFT Xbox playing it, not to mention most every consumer device and set top box -- if you want to send someone a video that just works, then .WMV using WMV3 or VC1 has been a decent bet.

Your newer best bet for sending a file is .mp4 with H.264/AAC, which is played by Flash Player 9 Update, Silverlight, QuickTime, VLC, etc., and more recent Windows systems.

For embedding in the web, stats say Flash is your best bet, but those stats apply to VP6 codec which looks terrible and most people don't know how to play locally and doesn't work for HD.

So your best bet for embedding is .MP4 with H.264/AAC with an HTML5 tag, and inside that tag a Silverlight player embed, and inside that tag a Flash player embed, and inside that a download link for the .mp4 file.
This is the most complete adult list I could find on the internet.
A better solution would be to do what the Soviet Union did when that neuclear plant blew up: drop chemicals from the sky to force it to rain in place nobody cares much about.

This time, we could dump that stuff out over the Atlantic.
But you do see Linux everywhere. Servers, embedded devices (including Android) tons run Linux. The Desktop is just a sliver.
>The whole thing looks and feels like its made out of recycled plastic.

Wait, I thought that Apple was the eco-conscious company.
In Linux at least, if you want to use a temporary profile for testing an app or extensions with default settings, you don't need to muck around with the Profile Manager at all:

mkdir /tmp/test-profile
firefox -no-remote -profile /tmp/test-profile

Browse around, do your testing, blow away the directory when you're done.
"The purpose of the presentation is to show the coming bleeding edge features for modern desktop and mobile browsers."

Except for mobile browsers without a right arrow key.
A Sneak Peak At the Black Box Inside Your Phone
Cellular telephony seems to be the biggest network implementation (bigger than the Internet in means of user base) that has been surprisingly closed to inspection and experimentation despite its age.
The Macbook assumes you keep things on your Mac, the netbook...
With all the media attention you would think the dangers of flying in this would have been clearly explained to everyone by now.
Tried it in Chrome, and I'm hella impressed. Everybody else is busy hating on it, but I'd like to thank the developers for putting it together. That 20 minutes of playtime has taught me 10 times as much about what to expect (and why I should be excited) than all the discussions and blog posts I've seen so far.

So, while some things didn't work, I'm not going to harp or nag, as overall the presentation was excellent.
This is such a good idea - and so obviously for the public good - that I am 100% confident it will not be adopted.
There are several typos, including word omissions. I'm not kidding :)
The Examined Life, Age 8
I have definitely considered it. This option probably makes the most sense for startups who don't have a lot of capital up front.. turning as many fixed costs into marginal costs early on in the business.
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Which browsers are WebGL-enabled?

Chrome 5.0.342.9 (beta) does not seem to be.
Because the companies are poorly run. This has little to do with the industry itself and air travel is clearly not going to stop anytime soon. Some companies may die, but again aviation is not a 0 profit industry, these are just shitty companies who grew beyond what they could manage.
So, Prolly we will have alot of good wine this year ;-)
The travel times are unduly pessamistic. Australia is an edge case - the reason that travelling London to Australia takes so long is largely due to poor overland connections after you reach southeast Asia. You can travel by train from London to e.g. Beijing in around 10-11 days.

London to Rome can be done comfortably and cheaply by train in under 24 hours. Some people prefer this to flying.

The website seat61.com has a huge amount of info on travelling internationally by rail.

Also I suspect rail travel would suddenly recieve a lot of investment should air travel become impossible.
Thanks for your suggestions! Really excellent ideas, I appreciate it.
A lot of the early hacking was before there were laws against it.
>the inherent advantage that this generation of tinkers gave America

I think he meant to write: "the inherent advantage that this generation of tinkerers gave America"
This is useless, sorry. The TLDR: people generally agree technology is getting better (shock), people generally are not prepared for the future (shock). The internet is probably going to make us smarter (shock). Privacy is a big issue on the internet (shock).
That doesn't seem to be the story on the iPhone OS devices, though. Everybody I've ever seen with one, regardless of tech savvy, has it loaded down with apps and is excited to show off their favorites.

Mobile apps tend to be "bite size" (approachable), centrally discoverable through the App Store, very low cost, be built around rich media, and the user feels a control over their management that makes the experience more like the "lightness" of visiting a web page than the "heaviness" of traditional desktop app management which is marred by unpredictability, multistep install processes, reboots, conflicts, and a general feeling of lack of control. I think users really like software... they just hate all the bullshit overhead that has usually gone with it.
The location thing is definitely I could add now. I like the map feature suggestion and hope to have that integrated into the second iphone app version. Thanks for the compliment and the reply.
Is that really for sure? Why?
My sister's didn't. More RAM for me (and my next laptop will also be a thinkpad)!
XML has the advantage that validation is part of the DNA of the data, while JSON is useful the world of JSON validation is not mature by any stretch.
I presume they aren't interested in anything that AMD is selling right now, but rather Llano, AMDs APU (CPU and graphics on the same die) which has had test silicon going out to partners recently.
A comprehensive analysis of the US Army on facebook
Viral, Open, and Consumable - Twitter Annotations and the Social API
It is meaningless if Steve Jobs don't like it anyway.
While I was learning Linux, I partly used this book.

Some of issues have been solved, some will never be, but for me it was important to know the other side of the medal. I still use linux. (I know that Linux is not, or it was not last time I checked, 100% POSIX)
'The emails they want must have been internal to yahoo's system (yahoo to yahoo account) because there is no way you could convince me that the government doesn't have a copy of every email sent via pop3/smtp since 9/11 because they are completely in plain text.'

Maybe I'm just being naive but can someone comment on how accurate this actually is?
Recommended book: "Driving Mr Einstein"
Haha I think planispoken is actually Dutch for plain spoken, and the guy who made it is from the netherlands so that may have something to do with it...
I was honestly expecting an onion article.
i was just reading about Active Disks yesterday:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.15....

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/Active/index.shtml
Steve Jobs holds a grudge though, so I think it's unlikely they'll use IBM chips again after the 3GHZ G5 failure.
I have to say that I have not seen much evidence of people not being aware of what is going on in general terms, or challenging the groundings.

Upset, sure, but (for once) pretty much upset at the right target: ms. Nature.
IIRC apple is one of the primary contributors to the Clang project, yes?
I wonder what motives they could possibly have for being so interested in compilers.
Not to sound like a conspiracy nut, but is it possible that apple could impose a restriction on the iphone apps :"must be compiled with our own version of clang" etc?

LLVM is a great step forward in compilers but it's ties with apple and the recent devious deeds it is capable of is holding me back from contributing to LLVM.
Some airlines are profitable, Southwestern, Ryanair, Easyjet, Westjet - but this is offset by national airlines which aren't.

US airlines are never profitable because the more money they lose apparently the more willing people are to bail them out
"pressured into opening the skies too early"

It's not just their own regulations they'd have to break, it would be the terms of sale of the aircraft (Boeing sayeth "thou shalt not fly the big shiny bird through clouds of volcanic ash") and their insurers, who say much the same thing.
Does it matter? They're still selling, a LOT.

Watch how people ACT, not what they SAY. Steve Jobs knows this. People slam apple all the time but they're doing incredibly, incredibly well. So, from their POV, who cares?
How the fuck did this get to the front page?
Oh, that wasn't what I implied. If you had read all of what I wrote you would've seen that I referred to the THEORA vs H.264 tests being performed suboptimally for H.264.
Agreed, I think anybody that has watched the history of major banks and their political chums for the past oh, 200 years or so, knows that this will amount to a slap on the hand, much less than they gained through their various activities of the sort, and will prove to be little deterrence or punishment.
I like the fact that he focuses on protecting his hands. Kinesis keyboard+dvorak layout seems like a very good idea, and hopefully someday I will get to afford a kinesis keybard
It's like being back on reddit!
I would suggest that whoever has upvoted by examined... it might be a network of users who have been registered solely for this purpose.

HN pagerank is quite good, so I can see this happening more.

For now... who has downvote powers on the item?
I suspect that's much like Hollywood, i.e. why if you're an actor you want a gross point (a share of the revenue) and not a net point (a share of the profit, which on paper won't exist, for tax purposes).
Assuming that the ash layer remains at altitudes over 32,000 ft., would not airlines eventually start flying at lower altitudes, albeit slower, with more stopovers, and more costly?
There is nothing hypothetical about the freedom that Mozilla and GCC are trying to preserve.

NeXT tried to release Objective-C as a proprietary patch to GCC. It was only after the FSF told them that that was in violation of the GPL that they released the source under the GPL, now allowing Objective-C code to run on other platforms (I do in fact know people who deploy production code written in Objective-C on Linux, so this is not at all hypothetical).

Furthermore, NeXT^H^H^H^H Apple is now an even larger threat to computing freedom. They now have several Tivoized devices which forbid you from installing your own software on them unless you agree to an insane license from Apple that prevents you from writing any sort of interpreter or compiler that runs on or even targets those devices (oh, and also forbids political satire, apparently, unless you happen to be a Pulitzer prizewinner and get lots of press out of your rejection). People are talking of using these devices to replace their primary computer; people are even using these things, which are controlled by Apple and can have content remotely wiped from them, for government business. This is most definitely not an issue of "hypothetical" freedom; there are real freedoms being taken by Apple. They have even explicitly stopped upgrading to newer versions of GCC because of fear about the GPLv3; they don't want to make their platforms more free as the GPLv3 would require.

The H.264 issue is not hypothetical either. The licensing system is baroque and risky, as the MPEG-LA reserves the right to change the licensing in the future, meaning products with decoders, encoders, or even content encoded with H.264 may suddenly have massive royalties charged (with only a promise not to change anything for the next couple of years).
The App Store as a single point of distribution is one of the great advantages of the iPhone line, removing that would be a massive mistake, even if it would appease some techies and developers.
I would be interested to hear of any work combining version control with non-hierarchical file systems (meaning the user does not need to name and place a file). Fitting with the peculiarities of SSDs would be good (dig up old mag tape or drum work ?).

Seems that MS's WinFS(?) is resting, and Sun's ZFS may not have all the answers. Hard, hazardous work ...
They're interested in compilers because, unfortunately, GCC has never really had any emphasis on Objective-C support.

What would be their motivation for restricting down to a single compiler? They had a (silly) reason to lock people into Objective-C; but that reason doesn't apply here. And even if they did, how would that be different from now where GCC is the only option?
Books all kids should read at school (a list)
I would want something pretty superficial: An ability to organize branches in folders.
CSS3 Spotlight effect
It's not only airlines that would be affected. Think about UPS and FedEx. Think about major exporters of fresh fruits, fish, etc. Most of those are transported by planes. The "build on demand" model that companies like Dell operate under would also have to go, and non-on demand retailers would have to maintain considerably higher stocks due to higher lead times. US - European business relations would be severely hurt.
Actually that won't create a new branch.

'hg branch foo' just marks the working directory as branch foo. The 'hg update default' would then update back to the default branch and mark the working directory as being on 'default'.

To really just create a new branch you do: 'hg branch foo; hg commit -m "Create a new branch."' Two steps, but like you said, it's probably not something you'd be doing very often anyway.
I'm not sure you get that kind of attention to detail without a crazy genius's ego.
Ask HN: Whats the best way to find a H-1B job in the Bay Area?
Due to the general advantages of the Bay Area tech bubble I'm considering to move over from europe. While I am aware that most start-ups don't want to go trough the process there are probably a few bigcorps considering overseas talent. Whats the best way to find companys offering sponsored H-1B visas? Are there any specialized recruiters or job sites?
That counts as a valid preference, but it isn't an answer to "who makes better quality hardware?" unless you are implicitly answering "nobody you can think of".
Greg Ward and some others are working on it with the bfiles extension for Mercurial. It's a work in progress but at least it's getting the ball rolling: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BfilesExtension
> Mine had a cracked motherboard because I was apparently picking it up off the table wrong, by the corner vs gently holding it on both sides

Same as mine.
Replaced with MacBook Air, without regrets.
Best patch ever:

--- list of volcanoes in iceland 2010-04-16
+++ list of volcanoes in iceland 2010-04-17
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
Eldfell
Eldgjá fissure system
Esjufjöll
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Grímsnes
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Isn’t that a value judgment, not a answer to the question?

There is a difference but it doesn’t matter for most people. It’s simply true that apps can present information just as good or better than websites. That’s just how it is. And I don’t like it either.
That's going to depend a lot on what AMD have in their combined chip road map.

Who apart from AMD could offer a single chip with laptop-class performance? Nvidia lack a CPU and Intel's graphics are not in the top tier (yet).

If they could save 15% of their power budget for the CPU _and_ the graphics card by putting it all on one chip then that might be something that would work, even though a direct CPU to CPU comparison wouldn't.
This leak is merely a public negotiating tactic to get a better deal from Intel. I doubt they'd drop Intel for AMD even if this generation's chips are faster/better.
A classic and great book.

For those of us like the primary editor (Simson Garfinkle, a few years younger than me and also a member of MIT's "computer club"), who were not entirely pleased to see UNIX win while too many of the critical concepts behind Multics, ITS, Lisp Machines, NeWS, etc. were lost (well, at least we got job control from ITS), it still has significant value.

And it provides plenty of implicit suggestions on how to make our current systems better.
Isn't there an online HTML version or text version of this book.
needing less CPU to play back than any other commercially viable codec.

What do you expect from a codec that's closer to the previous MPEG-4 ASP generation (e.g. Divx, Xvid) than H.264?

VC1 is remarkably good, only just recently challenged by H.264 encoding's most recent optimizations.

Recently challenged when? Only right after Blu-ray was introduced VC-1 was somewhat better than H.264 because the VC-1 encoder implementation was better than any of the "pro encoders" that the studios used.

http://mirror05.x264.nl/Dark/website/compare.html also and there are plenty of PSNR/SSIM measurements online which show H.264 is vastly better than VC-1.

not to mention most every consumer device and set top box

iPods, iPhones? Also I have never seen a real-world VC-1 deployment on an STB. Virtual all of said consumer devices also play H.264 video.

It was only Microsoft's lobbying that led to VC-1 getting accepted in Blu-ray and (on paper but not in reality) in DVB. Even Microsoft have pretty much given up on it; H.264 is in Silverlight, IE9 and Expression Encoder 3 has its own H.264 encoder.
Great post. I've loved following 100redesigns too..
He bribed people with alchohol repeatedly...

And the picture where they have Einstein's brain on a cutting board is a bit... well
bzr can do that with its shared repos. It's not too hard to fake it with git, either. (This assumes you know how to use git, which without a doubt is hard, despite what its apologists may tell you.)
I think there are a few issues.

One is that Apple likes control. They could hire the lead LLVM developer, own the copyrights, and use a permissive license, allowing them to exert a lot more control over the project.

Another is that Apple is allergic to the GPLv3. They have stopped upgrading to newer versions of GCC in recent Mac OS X releases, because they are afraid that the GPLv3 may prevent them from Tivoizing the iPhone and iPad.

And back when they were NeXT, they tried to release their Objective-C extensions to GCC as a proprietary patch, but wound up being forced to release them as free software by the GPL. They may want to avoid that sort of thing in the future. For instance, I don't believe they release as free software their implementation of OpenGL which uses LLVM.

So yes, I think it's entirely possible at some point in the future that Apple will say "you must use Clang to compile for the iPhone/iPad platform." And it may even be a special, proprietary version of Clang, targeted at a custom chip in the iPhone or iPad. They have worked very hard to have full control of the platform and toolchain, and made sure that it's all under licenses that will allow them to make it proprietary whenever they wish. They can't quite switch to Clang yet, as its C++ support is not finished yet (though it does cover enough to self-host), but once they do, I absolutely would not be surprised if they mandated its use.
Gmail compromised or gmail trojan?
Discussion in Russian about this issue: http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/infosecurity/91266/
Cutting Through the Fog of Google's Cloud Print
My wife and her parents used to have AT&T Tilts (HTC TYTN II). Like you, they were very frustrated with the phones. Now they all have iPhones and are very happy.
IT is possible. but it will be twice slower and twice more expensive ... but yes.
I'm not sure what's remarkable about this list. It presents one person's point of view. I sure hope that someone who wants to come up with a real reading list for children will be much less one-sided.

Also, the lack of fiction on this list makes it pretty terrible. What a boring reading list.
It runs fine on Vista, but you do have to install 1.1. Played with it some last night and it is very easy to make some cool animations.
It was fantastic (on Chrome anyway). Incidentally that 'press arrow key for next page' feature is something I've wished all websites had for a long time - like to leaf through forum pages or article pages.
Nice post, but I feel like a lot of topics covered in this list are far from being well understood. Especially 'proper' nutrition.
I seemed to remember reading about a similar issue with Amdahl and IBM from the 1970s. A cursory search popped this up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_Corporation):

"Amdahl owed some of its success to antitrust settlements between IBM and the U.S. Department of Justice, which assured that Amdahl's customers could license IBM's mainframe software under reasonable terms."

Also (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Amdahl):

"By purchasing an Amdahl 470 and plug-compatible peripheral devices from third-party manufacturers, customers could now run S/360 and S/370 applications without buying actual IBM hardware. Amdahl's software team developed VM/PE, software designed to optimize the performance of IBM's MVS operating system when running under IBM's VM operating system."

[also posted to lwn.net, but there it's mostly over]
Stratified JavaScript in the Oni Rocket Web Server
Indeed; we're told they're flaky in part because the have as much firmware as a modern OS has kernel code, there's no reason why they can't eventually allow for this sort of thing.

Even given how social and political doing that right would be, this could happen before the day SSDs displace magnetic media (a day we can not as yet really foresee).
DOJ abandons warrantless attempt to read Yahoo e-mail
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the Guardian debate.
Don't you hate it when developers punt to upstream?