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This was my favorite bit:

"Every time I drive by Sand Hill Road, I see clumps of “fresh fish”, shuffling from pitch to pitch, who equate raising VC with having a successful company. Look, this is hard; if you’re really building something of value, it’s going to be hard, and you have to be prepared to endure a lot. The finish line is liquidity for your shareholders, investors, and employees, not a VC raise."
Excellent!! I believe in building a company with my own sweat and blood. And build something that people want to use and be thrilled at its use.
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For 85% of the world, the only way they can receive H.264 is via Flash and that is changing only very slowly. For another 14%+ they get it via Flash anyway and again will continue to do so for some time.

This article pits H.264 against VP6, H.263 and Theora two weeks before Google is supposed to announce VP8 and declares a winner?

It even says 40% of all video is delivered via Youtube, and that's not even getting into speculation that Adobe and Google will both support VP8 to stick it to Apple.

Anyone claiming how you play it back is irrelevant is trying to push a bizarre Apple line that suggests they are the one's pushing H.264, when in reality they are riding the coat tails of Adobe on this one and quite likely to be left behind if Youtube and Adobe pick a different winner.
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any studies on the kneeling stools?
Chaise longues? That'll work. I sit in a sort of feet-up semi-recline as it is.

Maybe I just need to bring the patio furniture into the office.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1167716
> Whining about clients getting screwed is like whining about people showing up to Fight Club and getting punched.

To continue the analogy, the "whining" is really about some using brass knuckles against others when it is supposed to be a fair fight.
The upside of having a system like SASS is that it can be a lot smarter about the underlying system it's generating content for, which you don't get if you use a general-purpose template system. Selector nesting in SASS is a good example of this. It makes both the styling and page structure a lot easier to understand, which is a bigger win in my book than the typing it saves.

I see a system like Zen Coding not for tackling the same tasks as a template system, where the bulk of your work effort might be spent. It's for the irritating little bits around the edges where, instead of taking 5 minutes per page bashing out boilerplate, it now takes 30 seconds. Not a huge win, but a win nonetheless.
IBM selling their computer line to China was a major mistake and should have been blocked on national security concerns. The fact that half the government uses Lenovo laptops that used to be Thinkpads is criminal.

It does not take a genius to realize that China is using all their power and cunning to infiltrate everyone everywhere. When your firewall and your packet filter and your router all come from the same place how can you be sure that you don't have a backdoor?

I know people who work in this area and the bottom line is that it is not whether or not you are paranoid, but are you paranoid enough?
It's worth remembering that OSM in the US is the poor cousin compared with the rest of the world. You should check out London, Netherlands or Germany to see it at its best, where basically none of your points apply.
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Maybe not. If you had a choice, would you shop again in a store that did that, vs one that didn't?

Shaws will still be selling stuff long after this is over, but people will remember.
Not a one of them - all a silly waste of time and an accident waiting to happen for the unwary.
rather just suing people and companies they don't like

This is what the "non-discriminatory" part of the "reasonable and non-discriminatory" licensing terms that ISO/ITU require of their participating members is about.
I doubt they're getting any new contracts, anyway, ban or no, especially now that they're in bankruptcy. The problem is there's a whole backlog of stuff they did years ago before anything major happened to suggest their work was problematic. As you note, this water supply tunnel was finished in 2003, while the Big Dig ceiling collapse fiasco didn't happen until 2006.

Something similar happened in Atlanta, where two structures built by Hardin Construction collapsed within a year, a pedestrian bridge in 2008 and a parking garage in 2009. I doubt they were getting much new business after that first collapse in 2008, but that still left a bunch of existing work, like the GT parking garage, already out there.
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Not to be anti-rehabilitation, but I submit that letting serial killers out of jail is a bad idea.
Anyone know why it took 8 hours to turn off the valve controlling the pipe?

I could see a hour or two to identify the exact pipe, and locate the paperwork on where the valve is, but 8 hours?
"Ericson and Goldie studied spinal shrinkage of three different types of chairs while performing video display unit work and found that subjects shrank more when sitting on a forward sloping chair with knee support than on a conventional chair.[3]

Drury and Francher studied the original Balans kneeling chair in 1985, concluding that overall it was "no better than conventional chairs and could be worse than well-designed conventional office chairs."[4] Lander et al. conducted another experiment in 1987 comparing the kneeling chair with a conventional chair and concluded that their experimental data "do not support the manufacturer's claim that the Balans chair is likely to decrease complaints of [lower-back pain]".[5] A 1989 study on a sample of 20 subjects concluded that the Balans chair promoted greater lumbar curvature than the "straight back chair" during relaxed sitting, typing and writing and that it could contribute to treatment of lower back injuries.[6] A more recent study from 2008 confirms that "ergonomically designed kneeling chairs set at +20 degrees inclination do maintain standing lumbar curvature to a greater extent than sitting on a standard computer chair" and suggests that "Further research with a greater number of subjects and on different chair designs is warranted."[7]"

Links to references on the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneeling_chair
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I keep seeing this idea that Linux upgrades shouldn't break old functionality, particularly in Long Term Support releases. That's two separate fallacies interacting.

1. A Linux upgrade is not like someone redecorating a few rooms, or adding a new wing to your house. It's more like that extreme makeover show where they bulldoze the entire house and rebuild it from scratch. In exchange for fixing your foundations, replacing lead pipes, and fitting a high efficiency heating system you have to put up with the fact that hat rack no longer accommodates your ten gallon hat and that handy light-switch in the bathroom has been moved outside because it is no longer up to code.

If you don't want to take this tradeoff then you have the option to not upgrade, certainly not on the day of release.

2. A Long Term Support release of Ubuntu is supported for 3 years on the desktop (5 on server). This means it needs to balance stability with the fact that it's not going to be changed for several years. This means doing things like putting a newer version of Firefox as going with the 2.0 line would have been soon out of date.

Combining these and expecting a LTS to be more likely to support old hardware flawlessly is the wrong conclusion. People seem to understand that the introduction of Vista or Mac OS X Snow Leopard will obsolete certain lines of older hardware. Don't hold Linux to a higher standard because they actually make a effort to support old hardware with the new code.
My impression is that it's common mainly among undergrads. That also seems to be the case at CMU, though my knowledge is only second-hand in both cases.
I figured the concept for the display devices was based on microfilm/microfiche readers rather than CRTs. Microfilm was "high-tech" back then, and Vannevar Bush's Memex (of a couple decades earlier) was microfilm-based.
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How about "too big to not be public". It seems that there are some areas of thought (usually highly mathematical) that are virtually required to build anything else useful in a given field. Even based on a very liberal interpretation of the original intent of the patent system, it seems absurd to let a little clot of big business seize it and then rent-seek an entire society.

If ever there was a case where the exercise of Eminent Domain by government was required to prevent a tragedy of the commons from developing, this type of thing is it.
There's no real difference between a FEXPR, and a macro that calls eval or apply during expansion. The real meaning of "banishing" FEXPRs is that we actually get something extra: guaranteed-non-macro functions that behave according to a predictable pattern (evaluate arguments, pass them in, return a value.) Functions are basically a codified Lisp design-pattern, while macros (or FEXPRs, as they may be) are the real core of Lisp's abstraction mechanism, and really what make Lisp, Lisp.

It's just the same with Smalltalk: functions take lambdas as arguments, not primitive or composite values. "Receives values" is simply a design pattern.
I'm awaiting the arrival of a Herman-Miller Embody, which is my engagement present! It's very expensive, but...er...'worth it'. Meaning I've trialed it for a week and loved the feel and the way it subtly encourages movement while sitting. It simply blows away anything I've sat on, including the Aeron they loaned me until it arrives. The fiancee got a ring - but surely a really good chair is much more worthwhile for a developer who works from home a lot?!

http://gizmodo.com/5071571/herman-miller-embody-review-the-b...
I'm still waiting to see some independent real-world comparisons between h.264 and VP8. Until I've seen that, it doesn't really matter, because if VP8 isn't closer enough, or better, than h.264, it will have a hard time becoming a standard.
> These investors took a risk. They knew they were taking a risk and they knew the risk they were taking

The point is, I don't think they really knew the risk. In other words, if the risk was so obvious and you claim that these are smart professionals, then how come so many bought the securities? It seems either the risks were not disclosed properly or these so called "the most professional in business" were really "mom and pop" type amateurs. So which one is it?

> The simple fact is that they did a poor job of assessing risk versus reward and lost a ton of money as a result.

Perhaps true, but if they didn't have the appropriate information to assess the risk because they were deceived, then that would be a serious problem. I am not arguing that's what happened, but rather, that it is hard to assess risk if you are provided with misleading data in general.

To use the McDonalds analogy, it is like them putting false nutritional information, or not disclosing important parts of the nutritional information to their buyers.

> Again, when you go into a McDonalds, nobody says, "please give me unhealthy food", but instead they say, "give me a double quarter-pounder with cheese". This person is taking the risk of heart disease versus the "reward" of enjoying a calorific sandwich.

Again, if you don't know about the amount of calories in a McDonalds, you don't really think you are taking the risk. You just think you are eating a yummy lunch.

The pension fund, didn't think it was taking a risk, it thought those securities were AAA rated. You need access to available and truthful information in order to make an informed decision about risk. I agree that investors were professional and the fact that so many didn't assess the real risk correctly, it means that something was hidden from them. That's the gist of the problem.
I can see your point but my take is - that's what New Year, Christmas, ${Special_Occasion} are for, keeping in touch with fringe acquaintances. Send an email on those days.
There's a bit of disagreement on the benefits of FEXPRs in the comments of this earlier HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1125109

In addition to the discussion on HN itself, the comments there also point to this excellent discussion: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3640
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I love living in Germany where this kind of EULA clause is completely void.

http://bundesrecht.juris.de/bgb/__307.html
Your mixing things up here.

Adobe Flash can push upgrades to everyone because they have 98% penetration and a built in update system. New versions are ubiquitous within a year.

Silverlight and Unity can only push updates to people who have them installed. This means they basically face the same issue as browsers who can put things into the hands of their users (1/3 of users for Mozilla, 1/2 if all the browsers but IE support it).
I deleted my FaceBook account yesterday. For me, their absurd privacy policies are unethical, but the real reason is, I find it a complete waste of my good time.
> However, what's "free to stream"? According to the interpretation of the U.S. law, if you stream your video with ads (e.g. Youtube, Vimeo), then that's a non-free usage. It's commercial video, even if you, the producer, makes no dime out of it (and that's a definition and interpretation of the US law that even Creative Commons believes so, if I am to judge from their last year's "what's a commercial video" survey)

This is a pretty common error of legal reasoning. For one thing, the definition of "commercial video" that Creative Commons asserts is just a definition it made up; only a court can actually determine what the term means. (I am unaware of any cases deciding this; if they exist, please let me know of them.)

And at any rate, the definition of "commercial video" in a CC license has no necessary bearing on the definition of "free to stream" in the MPEG-LA license. They are not the same document, and the same term in two different contracts can have entirely different meanings.
This is really very nice. Made me learn a lot. It also reminded me of "the little schemer" :-)
I also recommend a timer. I use water for my timer - drink lots and keeps you going to the bathroom often. Unfortunately, this isn't good for solving hard problems that involve much concentration, but my back often needs a break.
So everyone should use only MJPEG or worse end-to-end because he says so — obviously the only path to freedom is Bondage and Discipline

Somehow it's only the freetards that respect Patent law to the letter — they may be campaigning to dismantle it, but in the process they've been consistently acting as it's biggest cheerleader by licking its boot heel in toadyish submission.

It's just like how the hackers that campaigned to dismantle the export restrictions on crypto in the 90s are the exact same people currently shouting down the ability to use crypto for practical purposes: they want hardware key escrow, DRM, and signed firmware to all be effectively illegal. I don't think ideologues are capable of understanding irony.

Freedom is rigorous self-enslavement to other peoples' patents. Ignorance of the state of the art is strength!
I'm reading a biography about him called The Snowball. I'm currently on the section where Salomon Bros has just done something illegal and he has to step up and fix the company. I'm sure he's feeling some deja vu about now.

Awesome book - long, but has much more detail than anything else I've read about him.
There is NO explanatory text anywhere.. which HTML source have you seen?
The tutorial is really just title, code area and results :-)
This is a "learn by example" tutorial, aimed at who already knows a little javascript.
There is a little more than just knowledge acquisition in grad school. your advisor, research partners and other researchers from other schools/industry are vital to learning your domain, how to (not) approach problems. Of course, some will say that I am talking about a PhD, but I think this applies as well to a Masters program (to a lesser degree of course).
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Definitely not hacker news but keep your eyes out today folks...
As to the debate about the aesthetics of video games, I am finding it interesting that there are so many people compelled to attempt to exclude video games when it would be simpler to ignore the question. But for the current generation, there is no question that the greatest video games are indeed art.

I am in a generation where perhaps half of my peers have never played with a console or a desktop. For me and my closes peers, art has been something which elicits a feeling, as one 'experiences' art. Kitch is not art because it is so easily dismissed.

But art takes skill. In reading it is skill in pacing an word choice that involve the reader; in cinema it takes evocative lighting and framing to get rapt aattention. However, video games have had a simple method by which they can achieve the experiential involvement: first person perspective and control. This has lead to a raft of games which are designed fulfill every juvenile fantasy at the click of a button. However, one of the first uses of cinema was blue video and the Canterbury Tales are not high brow discussions of theology; as a medium video games will mature like any other new technology aimed we use to study our world.
Anyone have a good chair recommendation that doesn't cost $500? The stool concept struck me as a great idea, until I saw the price. (Maybe I should be in chairs?)
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In most cases the only time a signature gets looked at is if someone is contesting a charge. The CC processor would ask the store for a record showing that they actually made a purchase.

In the end, signatures are really there to protect the store not you. It's in their best interest to have you sign with your actual signature. If you signed as Donald Duck and then contested the charge they'd probably have a hard time proving it was you and they'd lose money.
Buffet is one of the largest (if not the largest) Moody's investor. I can't speak to how "ethical" Buffett is, but what is apparent is his conflict of interest in this case.

In general, I tend to have a problem with cult figures. Buffett has acquired a large following of worshipers who are willing to defend what he says or does based on lofty pronouncements such as "he is ethical" or "he has integrity" and so on. One thing is obvious, and that is he is one of the wealthiest and best businessman in the world. Whether he is ethical or has integrity is probably independent of the fact that he has acquired all this wealth.
I think I remember this before, back when it was called "Why Our Civilization's Image Art and Culture is Threatened by the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)".
Yeah, I thought about the same book as well :-)
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> Buffett is known for for his personal integrity...

Aside from this cult followers claiming that, I only see a one of the most successful businessman in the world. One could equally have a psychopathic, dishonest, thief as the most successful businessman in the world.

I guess, I would be more convinced of his "integrity" if he actually criticized GS or Moody's, while he still holds large investments in those firms.
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I put the blame on narrow minded family members.

You should be able to 'come out' if you are gay without that kind of nonsense, presumably you have enough to deal with in a situation like that and your family should be supportive.

Especially your family.
The funniest part is that MPEG-LA doesn't even gross that much money in license fees to get distributed to the pool — it's effectively peanuts for pretty much everyone paying in (only producers of 100,000 devices need to pay, and then it's pennies apiece with a total cap), and it's peanuts for all the pool members receiving the payments too!

They aren't directly hurting anyone's bottom line, nor is anyone really profiting from it. It's just a bureaucracy for FUD-maintenance, that was originally created to keep its members from fucking with one another.

If anything really gets out of hand, the government will just force them into a more liberal patent pool — it was done before to the Wright Brothers for being dicks, and in wartime to quasi-nationalize military IP.
The sum total of a bunch of innocent stuff posted about you by others can add up to a lot more than the parts if someone decides to put it together.

I read this a few days ago:

http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/

Privacy is even more dead than I ever suspected.
What about the part where we hypothetically solved their problems? Once we kill a few people, have we crossed a line that keeps us from being ethical, higher-level beings?

I find it interesting and instructive in situations like this to think about what it would take to make you or me go over the edge and just start killing people (I'm NOT justifying murder in ANY way, I'm just throwing this out there). As I said above, these people did it for some reason, despite most or all of them knowing that there was a punishment involved...what is the reason? If we uncover it, can we help them and maybe release them into society? Why is my response starting to sound like a bad paper for an undergrad philosophy course? (-:
Well - you basically made the exact reply he was expecting.

I think that letting serial killers out of jail is a bad idea, yes. The reason why we should keep serial killers in jail, though, is not that they're serial killers - it's that, in most cases, they tend to not care and will willingly kill again.

If there is a serial killer who is provably not sociopathic and who can actually become reformed, then that person should be eventually let out of jail. That is a very difficult standard to meet.
the BW journalist forgot to tell us where the money he invests come from. He's probably a very good entrepreneur, but I doubt he was able to make billions of dollars of profit from ad sales on Mail.ru or Vkontakte.ru
+1 On the event board idea. With some supportive upvotes we got the first HN in TelAviv to around 40+ members.

Afterwards we weren't as lucky with timely upvotes (being a rather small community) so I am relying on our existing 90 user Facebook page. Which results in the exclusion of new members.

1) Would be nice if there was a place to post in advance and have it stick

2) Some way for events that were upvoted on that page to appear on the bottom (or any other visible but not too prominent area) of the main HN page for 24-48 hours so all members can see.

3) Still keep some control, so people don't just post events and then change their minds.
Yes, my example of a serial killer was a really bad one in retrospect, exactly because most if not all are sociopaths and there probably isn't a way to help them.
I've been purging my data every week for 2 years on facebook. It keeps things fresh.
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Yep just like he defends his investment in Moody's Investors Service.
Chip and PIN cards work pretty well (and yes I do know they have vulnerabilities) - I only use cash once or twice a month.

I actually can't remember the last time I used a credit/debit card and actually signed for something - that would seem rather quaint these days.