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It's a good point that Apple's mobile devices are invested in H.264, but do you really think that -- were Theora successful and safe from litigation -- Apple wouldn't put a hypothetical Theora decoder in the iPhone? It doesn't seem rational to me to oppose Theora just because current hardware doesn't support it. Consider, for example, how Apple has largely left FireWire (its own technology) behind in favor of USB. Apple is a very "out with the old" company.
I'm just now reading the article, and as a N900 owner I second this point. Flash does really well on this smartphone.
He's not though. Proving that you can write a small game in javascript/html5 does not in any way prove that you can write a complex, feature filled game.

I write games for a living (see http://www.rocksolidarcade.com), and the thought of developing them in html5, with the tools and compatibility we have now makes me sick. Eventually an abstraction layer that's fast and powerful enough will come along, once all the browsers support all the features needed.

But writing an abstraction layer, writing a tiny game in it and declaring that "in 2010, games built in JavaScript can be just as shiny, interactive, and fluid as games built in Flash." is ridiculous.
I'm perfectly sober and never heard of him. Sorry for being part of the unwashed masses.
Any anyway, how do you explain going from single-celled creatures to working organisms with a trillion cells? Darwin claims species are driven by their environment to better compete - is that not something like perfecting them?
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That's an interesting question. If they do, it would be interesting to see if people were good at discerning which types of unattractiveness correlate to higher crime-rates.

Or said differently, do we instinctively pick up on something meaningful in personal appearance that correlates to unacceptable social behaviors.
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Don't try to steal the mountain bike in the office entryway guys.
Wow, that's really remote. To drive there, you apparently have to take a fairly small ferry boat:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Looks like they're building a bridge, though. By "not as cold as you think", you mean that the spit hits the ground before it freezes?
Adobe Uses DMCA On Protocol It Promised To Open http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/22/1254246

How do Gnash developers work with the Adobe/Macromedia EULA? http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/25#eula

Read this two links and come back to discuss about flash openness.
Ahhh...attack of the popups!!

At first impression...this site makes me think i'm back in the 90's

Content is good though. This is a cheap (free) way to do what I was paying wordtracker for.
The same can be said of all technology whether that's HTML or any runtime or platform ever in existence. The fact that it existed before these things (touch, accelerometers, GPS) means that obviously it wasn't designed for these things. But technology advances. You wouldn't say that HTML 5 shouldn't be used for drawing capabilities because HTML 4 wasn't created for drawing. That's just silly.

The current beta of Flash player supports touch events (including gestures), accelerometer input, and GPS.
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I'm glad this crap keeps getting to the top of HN. I want news, not opinion!
I'm not making it but if any SD hackers or biz-dev folks are looking for a start-up to join please give my thread a look -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1305342
Did you even read the report? Pages 11-14 deal with factors not controlled for and the summary of the report was this:

In conclusion, while we were able to account for much of the difference in
earnings between men and women, we were not able to explain the
remaining earnings difference. It is difficult to evaluate this remaining
portion without a full understanding of what contributes to this difference.
Specifically, an earnings difference that results from individuals’ decisions
about how to manage work and family responsibilities may not necessarily
indicate a problem unless these decisions are not freely made. On the
other hand, an earnings difference may result from discrimination in the
workplace or subtler discrimination about what types of career or job
choices women can make. Nonetheless, it is difficult, and in some cases,
may be impossible, to precisely measure and quantify individual decisions
and possible discrimination. Because these factors are not readily
measurable, interpreting any remaining earnings difference is problematic.

This was a meta study that looked at data up to the mid-90s. Essentially the conclusion was that not everything can be explained through simply dividing by hours worked, but there are a variety of possible explanations including both discrimination, career choice and work/family balance.
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Interesting, especially when you consider that programmers will often complain when the subject of jury duty is brought up of being summoned for it only to be excused during voir dire when their occupation is discovered. Apparently attorneys prefer jurors they can easily emotionally manipulate. I suppose this is what you get when you systematically exclude anyone with an analytical bent and an IQ above 100 from jury participation: a group of twelve over-emotional, intuition-driven fools who determine the fate of their fellow citizens using the pseudoscience of physiognomy.
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Java is licensed under the GPL.
I would still rather have a large download than no download. Adding flash wouldn't hurt anything, it would simply enable some more developers into the iPhone space.
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e5877ebe3560be14d35c6eb96ffa38fee97078f0

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No, I consider Java to be open because it is licensed under the GPL, an Open Source/Free Software license.

but it looks to me like they are making it as open as they can

With all due respect, you're either trolling or extremely ignorant for someone reading HN. In case of the latter, please educate yourself and read up on the difference between proprietary and open source software. Also take note that "freeware" does not fall under the definition of "open" software.

FWIW I will flag any further trollish comments.
As iPhone Goes Global, So Do App Makers
I'll give you boys a hint. It has something to do with LOC.
Email pg perhaps? Donno.
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Nice post! You're right about how sometimes it is more fun to rip things apart than to build them. For example: I remember running a fuzzer on a brand new Solaris 10 install several years back and when the server spontaneously rebooted itself, I knew I had just found a remote root exploit.

Good luck!
Jurors go through a lot in performing what is a pretty thankless task, and I would imagine that courts and legislatures will think long and hard before adopting any system by which they add the further burden of making jurors undergo psychological tests as a condition of being chosen. Such a system, if used on a jury pool in any systematic way, would prove incredibly burdensome because, as anyone who has served knows, the pool itself is many times larger than the number selected. Even as it is today, jurors will sit around for a whole day, or even for several days, undergoing the selection process - I can't imagine what this would be like if they had to be individually tested for their emotional qualities as well.

Perhaps this can work for exceptional cases only and be made subject to the discretion of a judge in individual cases. Of course, if adopted for any case on the ground that science requires it for fairness, then the failure to use it in other cases may create due-process grounds for appeal whenever a defendant is convicted without benefit of the full range of protections available for the jury selection process.

My guess is that this study is too thin in itself to lead to changes in the procedures, especially because of the practical burdens that would result if its findings are accepted as established scientific fact. A lot more study would be required before so fundamental a change would be made.
That's weird - I see 3.6 MB, not 8 MB, when I click into the article (Apr 30, 3:24 EST):

"A simple “Hello World” app created in Flash and compiled to work on the iPhone is substantially larger in file size, and it would take up 3.6 MB when it should be no larger than 400K when made with Xcode, according to James Eberhardt, a mobile developer who has tested iPhone Packager."
Doesn't seem to stop people from buying new cars. ;)

Nah, the sale of a used house is a totally private transaction. It's not as though there's a magical base price for a house of that size, and then a tax. It'll be sold for whatever the seller can get for it. If it's practically new, it might be the original price including the tax. Heck, it might be higher.

The original builder doesn't get to keep as much of the retail price as a subsequent private owner would. That's the distinction between new and used.

Nor is it as though buying a fixer-upper avoids the tax entirely. Materials and labor for renovations are taxed. That can be a significant portion of what's put into a home.
Today it's a balmy 9 Celsius. Sure, the winter brings a couple weeks of -35 C and below, but with a solid parka and the same resolve we're looking for in our hackers, you can hack it. :)

And that bridge... What a nightmare. It's been in the works for years, tens of millions over budget, and it's become a local joke. "Yea, we'll finish that once the bridge is finished."

Also, you only have to take the ferry in the warm months--from January to mid-April you get to drive on the ice road. There's a show about it on Discovery called Ice Road Truckers (oddly, everybody here loathes the show, despite some of our locals being on it). It's pretty fun to be cruising down a shoveled track of ice on a huge frozen lake, radio blaring. Yes, there are roadsigns on the ice road. :)
"A simple 'Hello World' app created in Flash and compiled to work on the iPhone is substantially larger in file size, and it would take up 3.6 MB when it should be no larger than 400K when made with Xcode..."

Am I the only one that finds both scenarios to be ridiculous? 400k or 3.6MB doesn't matter -- both are stupidly large just to put up hello world...
I agree that Facebook could easily screw up on privacy but I don't think they could lose like MySpace lost. If Facebook were to screw up, where would people go? Assuming MySpace, Friendster, etc. are already a lost cause.
The last two sentences were the best part:

> All the wise people demonstrated conclusively that the engine could not compete with steam. They never thought that it might carve out a career for itself. That is the way with wise people - they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations.
This is utterly unsurprising.
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Sure, if you want to leave the same comment in every place you assign a particular hex value to one of the descriptive variables and don't mind changing each of those duplicated hex values if you ever need to tweak the color. Personally, I don't see the benefit of using comments when using variables is already self-documenting and further avoids possible duplication of hex values.
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Anyone know where we can get the full talk? I'd like to see Jack Dorsey and Ashton Kutcher's reactions.
Separating offense from conviction reliably is impossible, so we'll never know for sure.

One thing you can do though is measure more quantifiable predictors of criminality, such as IQ, and compare estimates based on attractiveness to actual performance. In most such cases the answer is that ugly people are dumber than average and pretty people are smarter than average, but people's subjective estimates are biased much more strongly by attractiveness than they should be given the actual strength of the correlation. A similar phenomenon is seen for height, also.
Do you work for Adobe? This is your first day commenting and you seem to defend flash as if your life depended on it.
Adobe only acquired Flash (w/ Macromedia) ~4.5 years ago, so they could hardly have open-sourced the plugin 5 years ago.
I really wish people would stop redefining the word "open" to mean whatever makes them feel good. (Vain hope.) Patents are totally orthogonal to copyrights and standards. You can put the source under whatever terms you want, and get whatever international standards body you want to bless the protocol, and that has nothing whatever to do with the patent troll who will show up the next day and start charging license fees.
That's a lot of deep sounding pseudo-wisdom right there.
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AT&T wants 3 strikes tribunal, government website blacklist
I've been to Israel. I have several friends who've been participants in said war, up to and including firing their weapons and hurting/killing people. I've felt the irrational random fear on a public bus that makes a mockery of all the people who claim to be afraid of terror in America.

My statement stands. If you have nothing to say about it other than to call it "moronic", maybe you should try learning something yourself. Protip: War is not football, you don't pick a side and root, you hope that it ends so there will be less suffering.
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edit: apparently adobe did open the RTMP spec?
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp/

How does Gnash being built without Adobe tools do anything but further proving that you don't have to use adobe products to use/work with flash?

I am not claiming with authority that Flash is open, I am just trying to see how it is closed. So far it looks open to me.

I'm not even a Flash developer, so please forgive me if I am not understanding properly.
How about instead of giving us 'boys' 'a hint', you drop the condescending bullshit and explain exactly what you mean.

I'm an experienced and successful game developer. Hundreds of millions of plays. Done very well financially. People sometimes recognize my game on the street when I'm wearing a company shirt. I think that entitles me to have an opinion without being treated like an idiot.
http://www.w3.org/2009/05/DeviceAPICharter Check the Camera API, Mozilla is already implementing the Contact API.
That's an argument for frameworks, not against Flash, and nothing to do with games.
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Ars Technica forums hacked, users received phishing attempts
Oh, maybe that's the basis of the general YouTube 10-minute limit...
Now this is how you pitch your product to an open source company
I don't work for adobe, nor do I even code in flash. I am just ignorant on the subject and wish to be enlightened.

edit: it's also not my first day commenting, I just forgot my old account and had to make a new one a little while ago.
(disclaimer, I worked on this)

Facebook has focused on the social graph, Freebase connects people and more. We liked the lightweight approach of the Graph API, so here's our version: http://graph.freebaseapps.com/the_simpsons/seasons?html=1

You can even use Facebook usernames (if we have them)
http://graph.freebaseapps.com/facebook.jackie/movies?html=1

One neat feature is the ?html=1 mode, which makes the JSON api browsable. I'd love to see other apis implement this.

What do you think?
1) I'd develop a theory of board games based upon game graphs. I think there's huge potential in the area, enough to even change the way we think about games. When viewing games as graphs you can start doing interesting things like enumerate all games that can be described in N nodes, find isomorphisms between game sub-graphs, and create a mathematically measurable concept of "difficulty".

or

2) The application of cryptography to anonymous financial trading. At the moment a lot of anonymous trading happens via "dark pools" which are third party providers that match up anonymous counterparties, however this is less than ideal because you have to have a trusted third party and it also introduces latency issues.
Sounds great. I couldn't be pulling for them more. Go India!
Same here. I love that philosophy, because as much as I like to tweak my distro, some times I just want it to work.
Here in Padova, the flowers are blooming, everything is breaking out in green, it is 25C, and I went for a drink in the piazza with nothing but a short-sleeved shirt this evening. Yellowknife like a fascinating place, but one I'd rather read about or, at most, visit, rather than live in. Good luck though:-)
I was considering buying a Kindle within the next month or two. This story literally just made up my mind.

No, it's not just you.
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One of the things that I like about a movie is if it makes me think about who/what the camera is. Is it a character? A god? Part of some piece of architecture? ...etc. Does it control time/linearity, or does time control it?

The idea of implicitly giving it a pair of eyes a few inches apart kind of ruins that for me. Why fake biology if you're ever going to make a jump cut? Most of our visual grammar depends on things actual eyes can't do.
The iPhone was announced over 3 years ago. Now it's 2010 and this Flash player is only in beta. It demonstrates how Adobe has struggled to deliver their software for these devices, likely due to the reasons these former employees suggest in the article.

In the meantime, Apple has delivered an excellent mobile video and HTML5 implementation, and they did it using open standards and open source.
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"in large Enterprise Java Shops you now have a smattering of different languages on the JVM , albeit all hidden away."

That's my take as well. I currently work in a J-A-V-A shop, but Python scripts are working their way in and there's the knowledge that in 5 years, we may need to look at creating our next generation of web applications in another framework.
I am sorry if you are offended by my ignorance. I am not currently arguing that the flash player provided by adobe is open. I conceded a while ago that the flash player provided by adobe is proprietary. However, an alternate flash player exists and you can program SWF without ever touching an Adobe product. There is a spec and open tools for doing so. I was simply under the impression that Flash was open minus Adobes implementation and am trying to see why everyone is saying it is not.

edit: I don't understand why me disagreeing with you automatically makes me a troll. People are quick to jump on people who don't agree with their viewpoints.
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Apple vs. Everybody
> I was considering buying a Kindle within the next month or two. This story literally just made up my mind.

If you're a regular reader, get some kind of e-ink ebook reader even if not the Kindle. It's been amazing for me getting all the out of print classics for free off Gutenberg.org and taking the time to read philosophy, history, the best fiction of all time, and so on. I've got a Kindle and am very happy with it, but get something even if not the Kindle.

I'm reading different, often deeper things than I used to read, I'm reading more, and it's light - I travel so that's a huge plus for me. Also, I never finish a book mid-airplane or mid-train and get stuck looking out the window any more.
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