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or X3D or O3D... the author should have done some googling.
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This whole episode is probably staged and directed by Apple.
Great way to call attention to an upcoming release.
Oh and also to get people like me, who otherwise never would've read an iPhone spec/review, to actually read an iPhone spec/review.

You got me there Apple! Well played.
Researchers at UC Berkley and Microsoft Research have suggested that 3D displays are bad for your eyes:

http://www.journalofvision.org/8/3/33/article.aspx

3D HTML could be cool, but I'm a bit concerned about the possible long-term side effects.
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>The data reevaluation that resulted in 1934 being declared the hottest year in the 20th century

This whole argument is getting extraordinarily tired, but 1934 could well be the hottest year on record in the 20th century without invalidating the claim that the climate has warmed on average by several degrees since then. Outlying data points are in every single data set.

>the "hide the decline" games

As I recall there was a single game, in a single email.

>the fierce debate over the existence of the Medieval Warm Period and its extent

Europe? As I understand that's where the data is from. But even so, even if the temperatures have precedents, that doesn't disprove the warming trend - it just casts some doubt on the alarmism. And that's what I'm trying to get at. Warming is happening. It will continue.
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Most people are Facebook friends with classmates.
Honestly, we don't have the full context.

As I've stated previously here, I'm no fan of Mr. Calacanis, but there may be a whole host of legitimate business reasons why he wishes to no longer have this employee on-site.

Whatever the full context, it's VERY unprofessional (also likely violating his MCA or NDA) of this employee to post what is clearly proprietary HR-related information to the public Web.

I'd say these bridges aren't just burned, but well and surely nuked.
Hey guys. My startup is in the 3D printing space, and so I'm excited about this news. This deal happened between the largest 3D printing manufacturer, Stratasys, and HP. They're making white-labeled Stratasys machines under the HP names.
> $99 is much cheaper than my privacy

To you and many of us certainly, but do you really think that's true of the average user? Especially given the tradeoffs (most residential internet connections would be terribly slow and unreliable for such a purpose) it seems very unlikely that the average person, who has only the vaguest understanding of technology and probably hasn't given much thought to their privacy, would be enthusiastic enough about this idea for it to take off.
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I get it, attack the person, not what he's saying.
Thanks for the great advice. I've been considering breaking out and doing my own contracting, and have done it before, but I'm in need of stability. Hopefully I'll find that place that just 'sucks less' soon; it just hurts to be in what others would consider 'the perfect job' and feel so empty. Good to hear I'm not the only one that struggles with this.
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Really, this particular point is not that specific to NYC. It's applicable more generally, although in SV Steve Jobs & Zuck are the biggest heroes.
s/combine/tarnish/

;)
"All science is bought by special interests to a certain extent." Any evidence for that statement? My academic research was mostly funded by the US NSF, which doesn't really strike me as a "special interest". The NSF doesn't particularly care what the results are, just that the questions are worth answering and that the approach is reasonable.
I don't agree. X3D for example give a xml way of describing objects. While text on a ball is one thing, what if you want to describe a scene? For example, what if the 3D is the content, not the text that goes with it.

I'm currently working on a medical imaging app that displays 3D models using o3d. In this case, you can use JSON (or google's binary format) to import description of objects and scripting is all done with javascript. X3D is similar but uses xml as I said to describe the objects.
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He's as much to blame? Did he have in his posession something which did not belong to him? To be sure, that is where his outrage is. Someone had something that dis not belong to them. They sold that thing. The recipient had every reason to believe that the item did not belong to the seller.

It doesn't matter if he found the thing next to spare thing on the street. The finder knew who owned it (who was carrying it) and did not contact them. The buyer knew damned well that it belonged to Apple and not some random guy--they're in the tech journalism (apologies to ethical journalists) business for Christ's sake. I can't think of many people more qualified to know that the phone was property of Apple, Inc.

And that makes it wrong.
Please note, when I visited docs.com the app was automatically authorized to have access to my Facebook profile. I had to find the app under my Facebook App settings and remove it manually to deauthorize it. So, Facebook 3rd party partners do not need permission from the user to access the information?
I like that quote. Also, sometimes, what you want is not what you need. (that's also my philosophy when meeting with clients: even when they "know" what they want, I try to find out what they really need)
This seems like the beginnings of the Cable TV biz model on the net.

It begins with a small charge so content industries recoup monies lost from early adopters dropping their Cable TV subscriptions. I bet they'll offer different packages; $5 a month for X amount of content, $10 a month for larger package. As more people move online the prices will increase and then they offer Hulu through your broadband TV for $100 a month.
Please tell me you're not serious.
I don't really see it as a complaint. I'm just mirror-ing what I hear from a lot of people I went to school with; I work at a startup now and I love it. But I know that to attract the "ivy league" talent, or any talent for that matter, it is ideal to appeal to what they know.

And frankly, I think there is more than enough "wealth" distributed amongst VC funds to subsidize some portion of a kid's student loans for a year or two. Is that really that much to ask?

I just want more of my former classmates to be in technology, because they are really smart, and their talents get wasted at high frequency hedge funds and investment banks. So how do you get them? That's what I'm trying to answer; passion is a big part of it, but some people need a hook or starting point.
"Google has minimal if any connection to their users."

I think, at the very least, almost every Gmail and Android user would disagree. Not to mention users of search, docs, voice etc. etc.
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This is a great move on Microsoft's part. The general population on HN might not make a switch but there are a LOT of people who have no idea what google docs are but are on Facebook all the time. Think your average farmville player or your grandmother/parents/random cousin in high school.
There is no subclassing going on. Take the time to actually read the documentation provided by the link.
My first thought as well.

I'll never understand how anybody looked at all the amazing possibilities that were opening up due to the web in 1995 and thought "the next thing this really needs is a 3D environment!"... Oh well, I guess that was back when the 'Net was The Future and hackers were going to be able to kill you through your virtual reality headset.
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This is Facebook's "instant personalization" feature that just launched. You can disable it in the privacy settings/applications. (it's opt out).
I disagree, I know plenty of students who just need that initial push.

Also, anyone who has worked at a startup at a junior level knows equity is usually meaningless, and you're lucky if you're getting more than a few bps after a certain point.
I bet Google will be delighted about this use of their trademark.
So you think Gruber is guilty of uninformed speculation on the legality of Gizmodo's actions. I don't see how that makes him "just as much to blame as Gizmodo". You seem to agree that if the naming and shaming of the engineer was a response to Gruber, it wasn't a reasonable or even logical one, so how can you hold Gruber responsible for it?
Is this what Adobe was complaining wasn't available & their excuse for why flash video on the mac sucks?
Yes, you're right, I will probably update that. Thanks for noticing it. I just needed a couple of books that could improve, and that seemed fine lol. My bad.
The contract is functions not members, and Clojure has a way to declare public and private fns, so what's your argument?

When I release a new major version of Foo Lib, and your program refers to private members, your program will break when I remove or rename them.

Immutability won't protect you from that.
the voice-overs are very boring. No disrespect to the presenter it's just that these lesson plans would ideally be best consumed in a positive, motivating environment. I personally find it very hard to keep at attention listening to the robotic voices.
There's deeper issues not addressed by this article - why we've created a culture that so highly values 'brand-name resume builders', for one. And I'd argue that startup compensation needs to be rational even when competing sectors are not. But there's real potential in using the prestige (deserved or not) of a venture-capital firm as a recruiting tool.

As an aside, I hired Azeem at my startup after his post-college gig as an investment banker, and he thoroughly kicked ass as an employee. That doesn't come through in his blog post - I wouldn't want people who didn't know him to think he's still an investment banker!
I was really excited about this and so I went to Youku.com (Chinese YouTube) to try it out and, unfortunately, it looks really terrible.
Sharepoint 3.0 was free to anyone with a Windows Server 2003 license. Once you build out that infrastructure a bit the marginal costs to upgrade into MOSS (SharePoint 2007/2010) start to look ok.

I personally prefer more socially focused solutions (e.g. Jive) but SharePoint is making huge strides as both a collaboration backbone and as a document management platform.

Some Fortune 500 companies are now building new intranet apps around SharePoint rather than standalone. There are a number of off the shelf solutions available as SharePoint "web parts".
The italicized portion at the top of my comment was a quote from the parent comment.
The trade secrets part is based on the Uniform Trade Secrets Act:

The act defines a trade secret as information, including a formula, pattern,
compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that:
i) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being
generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by,
other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and
ii) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances
to maintain its secrecy.

The auto industry has provided plenty of case law where car manufacturers tried suing people for photographing and reporting on new cars the companies were testing in public, almost all of which they lost because once the car was out in public, even with fake body work added (see http://www.worldcarfans.com/10803171807/vauxhall-reveal-the-...), it no longer met the second requirement of reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy.
They're pretty different actually. eBay is a website that stopped evolving, whereas Facebook is a platform that's evolving at a decent pace without signs of slowing down.
I agree, this is compelling for a lot of the same reasons as the anagrams problem. I spent weeks playing with anagram code at one point, and like you I felt an immediate compulsion to start writing code for Sling Blade Runner. So far my (ruby) code just does the obvious: builds the graph connecting up the movies and then uses brute force to find all chains of length two, then three, etc. Bogs down at chain length of about 11. Added some quick and dirty optimizations and pruning heuristics, and I'm geting chains in the mid-hundreds. I think this approach can be extended further, but isn't particularly clever :-/.
Not a fan of this article, many inconsistencies in it as @mmastrac points out but to be honest in the big company I work in points of view held by people making the decisions of what we all use are similar as of now so having this out is important.
And I'm sure that'll be a fun process, now that his name is forever synonymous with a single mistake, thanks to the power of Google.
RDF.rb and RDFS.rb look like nice libraries and basing them on the high quality Redland libraries was a good decision. That said, using Sesame for the underlying parsers, data storage, and real RDFS inferencing would be a nice alternative (if limited to JRuby use). Perhaps a lot of the RDF.rb code could be reused for this?
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Then don’t install flash!

That is the degree of freedom that I appreciate. Not so much Flash that bank/shop/gov. sites expect anyone to have it.

And not so little that all the, er, uninteresting-to-me stuff now in Flash is rendered in unavoidable HTML5 standards. (Note to self: save a copy of an ancient browser.)
Or perhaps if they are allowed to do so, but have to disclose it?
I have always wondered how Steve Jobs' so-called reality distortion field worked, since its myth makes him seem supernatural.

However, if you spend enough time circulating, you start to see how it works. I encounter a lot of people pitching in my line of work. In fact, I spend a lot of time pitching too.

Some universal things I've learnt that lead to getting people on board faster:

0. Listen, listen hard. Understand where the other person desperately needs to head next.

1. Paint a vision of the future that fulfills both parties' desperate needs.

2. Be genuinely passionate about that vision. If you're passionate, it's easier for the other party to be passionate. It's also hard to be dishonestly passionate.

3. Turn that vision into immediately actionable steps.

4. Start moving yourself on your own commitments and lead that person into taking those steps.
>Though well suited to gauging the timing of evolutionary events

I think you may have misread that.
No time to upgrade but they time to fill out a survey? I don't get that. Maybe a prediction of how long an update will take. People might think they need to reboot their machine.

I also wonder how many of the people who didn't upgrade and didn't fill out the survey would have said "no time".
How about 3D CSS Transforms?

http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/Inte...
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX_Video_Acceleration, Flash did not use DXVA (hardware-accelerated video playback) until 10.1. Video being the complicated beast that it is, there are probably many reasons why Mac flash performance was inferior to Windows flash.
It's not about "wanting Flash to die". It's about improving web browsers so Flash is not necessary.
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This explains why people don't upgrade FireFox but I want to know why people don't upgrade from Internet Explorer to a better browser.
Xiaoma is referring to a Treasury Regulation which requires you to file a one-page form with two numbers on it (nuisance scales linearly with accounts controlled). The penalty for forgetting to file it if you're a paycheck over $10,000 is that a bureaucrat will be very cross with you, if they notice.

http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f90221.pdf

Relatedly, the IRS' response to minor issues with tax returns is to send you a bill.
I'm not asking you to do this work, but to prove your point you'd need to list some research that the NSF has funded that "denies" global warming (assuming they fund the reverse).
Exactly. Despite reliability and batch/lot issues with drives of vastly different SMART error rates and ages, the KEY Drobo feature appealing to the "lower end" of the RAID prosumer space WAS heterogeneous drives.

In the current market, Drobo has managed to price themselves OUT of that space while simultaneously NOT keeping up with performance on the higher end.

Drobo is now in the uncanny-valley of proprietary RAID systems.
It seems to me that a gas-operated semi-automatic rifle is a poor choice for an unmanned vehicle, as there is nobody to clear out a jam. I suspect that if this proves effective, they will take a non-automatic action and motorize it as that is far less prone to jamming.
Because Apple has a really hard time getting attention for upcoming releases, right?

If only they could generate buzz and media coverage in some other way, they wouldn't have to resort to these transparent and desperate gimmicks.
Some random thoughts:

* nice!

* great that it is DRM free, that would be a no go for me

* do not force people to sign up to your newsletter to download the free example

* I would love if the speaker would talk a bit faster.

* Some sort of flat-rate offer would be nice.

* Perhaps I am a bit of a cheapskate, but I think you are expensive.

Good luck and have fun.
The article fails to make a convincing case on exactly what Gizmodo damaged by releasing information about the phone.

Leak or no, this phone is most likely going to sell like hotcakes, and the builders at Apple should do just fine. It's not like the product launch is ruined in any way... Steve Jobs will be A-OK on stage presenting it.

Virtually any tech publication would report on an iPhone prototype, and it is not their moral duty not to.

(I don't think Gizmodo needed to name the Apple engineer who lost the phone; however, this is not a topic presented by the article.)
And iTunes in general. Profit comes from hardware margins.
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They may break even on the numbers, but the apps are one of the biggest features and selling points for an iphone. Apple even knows this too, when was the last time you saw an iphone commercial that didn't say 'there's an app for that'?
If this is really the case, he should be enraged at the mere existence of sites like Gizmodo and Engadget. But, clearly, he's not. For some reason Apple is held to a different standard. Are the employees of other companies not skilled enough to deserve the same protection? Are they just common labor?

This whole notion of outrage on Apple's behalf (for the moment, ignoring the poor engineer and his very public outing) mystifies me. This is the first time I've seen such a reaction by so many people feeling bad for a multi-billion dollar corporation.

Just because Apple's policy is secrecy doesn't mean we have to cover our ears and close our eyes when they let something slip. Sure, Gizmodo's handling of the whole situation was dubious, but in the long run, I can't see any way that this actually hurt Apple.
That's a nice utopian vision from someone aware of our eroding privacy, but the only way the average consumer would care enough about privacy for that to be viable in the market would be for Facebook's data to grow a couple orders of magnitude more comprehensive then it is now over the next decade. Then if the US government were replaced by east-german style totalitarian regime to the point that violent revolution was eventually necessary, then, at that point people would be ready for their own private hosted service appliances.
Perhaps there should be two speakers that talk about the code. One could ask questions and play the student, the other one would be the teacher.
What's the deal with the hilltop compound in the banner of Steve Blank's blog?
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I've noticed that recently as well
Gizmodo's behavior may have been reprehensible, but I have a VERY difficult time shedding tears over the so called 'damage' this does to the Apple employees that worked on/are working on the device. Boo frickin' hoo. The phone isn't going to sell a single unit less because of this. Nor will the people who worked on it have any reason to feel any less pride in their work. I'm sure the thing is going to rock. sigh
It sounds like you've got a lot more problems with your macs than most. I'd like to know what kind of third-party software you've got running.

On my macs, Flash will regularly eat my cursor, and jitouch and my Wacom drivers can occasionally interfere with my keyboard or cause recent versions of iTunes to crash, but none of these require a reboot, and usually don't even require me to log out to recover.

Your MBP clearly needs a new battery if your machine dies when it's still at 20-30%. I bet if you went to the power section of System Profiler, you'd see see the full charge capacity of your battery is less than one fourth of its rated capacity. I once abused a battery so badly that its full charge capacity was less than one tenth of its rated capacity. (Oddly enough, this was partly due to Windows, but that's a story for another day.)
That's a pretty damning video, it would be funny if it wasn't so sad. The original nokia video should qualify as false advertising.
It's not like the product launch is ruined in any way, and Steve Jobs will be A-OK on stage presenting it.

Can't disagree more. You're saying Steve is going to go on stage and pretend like he's "unveiling" something everyone knows everyone in the room has seen? I'd expect that from any other CEO, but Steve is smart enough to not reek of bullshit in front of his most loyal customers.

Apple's not just selling a phone, it's the entire lifecycle experience: that includes the buildup, the unveiling, the opening of the presents. It's precisely like Christmas, and Steve Jobs is Santa. For those of us who buy into this ritual, what Gizmodo did is like tell us exactly what our Christmas present will be in August.

If Jobs is as big of a perfectionist as I think he is, even if they intended to, there's no way they're introducing that phone on June.
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Entrepreneurs need to keep their eyes on the prize.
That was the prize.
Arguing that the media shouldn't publish factual information because it impacts a company's bottom line is a dangerous argument, even (especially) if the company affected is one that you like.
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How much result quality is lost by doing this?
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The point here is not which year was the hottest but the incorrect research that said a recent one was. An additional point would be the big deal the alarmists made when the first results came out and their silence on the correction.

Your recollection is incorrect, "hide the decline" is found throughout the source code in the CRU archive leak (quoted like that in comments and directly expressed in the code). There's also the green line in that IPCC graph that just ends in the middle of a thicket of intersecting lines. If it had been continued, it would have ... declined. It's a pretty big deal since it throws into doubt the entire tree ring approach (not to mention the explicit or implicit fraud).

Agreed on the "casts some doubt on the alarmism", although I'd say more than "some", since they went to some effort to disappear it in the first place.

Hmmm, maybe I should ask, "Warming tend over what period?"

Since the last Ice Age, obviously. Since the Little Ice Age, certainly. Beyond that? The time series of data really matters in this debate, for if recent increases do not correlate with anthropogenic CO2 increases (e.g. if it got warm in the 20th century before that was big, and now is getting cooler) then it calls the whole alarmism crusade into doubt (at best).
But would any tech organization buy stolen company secrets and property?