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I think this timeline tells a different story: Intelligent life is very rare. Typically, life doesn't evolve beyond single-celled or primitive multi-celled organisms before the star goes red giant.

The chances of general intelligence evolving are so small that we're probably the first.
Anand is long regarded as a solid and classical player, quietly building up his position. Topalov is an uncompromising fighter, always looking at intensifying the struggle.

Every once in a while we get a glimpse of the youthful attacking Anand - a sacrificial attack with reduced material. Game 4 was another example of that remarkable talent being unleashed.

Over the years, Topalov is famous for games he has lost; it's not often he loses, but when he does it often is because of a brilliancy or dashing attack. Game 4 was one of those performances.

Even though I feel game 2 was a far better quality, game 4 will probably be the game that people will remember.
tea is proprietary. we're more interested in an open standard like beer at apple.
The EU is a bigger market, overall.

And it's far from homogeneous in terms of laws which would apply to you doing business in its various member nations.
There are several competing theatrical 3D systems: RealD, Dolby 3D, XpanD. Their technologies are completely different: respectively polarisation, wavelength multiplexing, shutter glasses.

Only RealD uses cheap disposable glasses. In Dolby 3D and XpanD, the glasses are fairly expensive to produce, and thus are recycled (collected from the audience after the show, washed and redistributed).

Americans seem to overwhelmingly prefer RealD, while Dolby 3D and XpanD dominate in Europe. Anyone surprised? :)
Will there have to be constitutional amendments saying1) bills must be clear and address only one topic

Random historical tidbit: the Constitution of the Confederacy (for non-Americans: the Southern states which seceded during our civil war) had this requirement built in (one subject per bill, and the subject must be clearly stated). It also had a line-item veto, and placed strict limits on federal spending.

Of course, it also had text permanently establishing slavery...
I disagree that the app stores are successful because of superior APIs, they are successful because you can charge for apps and make money.

But he is correct about Microsoft and web standards committees.
Is it any 'iPad killer' with similar to iPad screen? 768 lines IPS is much better then 600 lines (TN?) screen.
You know what got you Chrome? WebKit. WebKit started as KHTML which was developed by an ideological group named KDE.
I hope the option of 3D is the future of movies. I want to be able to choose to see movies in 2D or 3D.
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i'm reminded of a once twitter-threatening microblogging tool called jaiku. and google with the sword of death.

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For me, "How to train your dragon" was the most enjoyable 3D experience of all the 3D films I've seen - Avatar, Alice, Clash, HTTYD. The 3D didn't get in the way, and it really enhanced certain parts to the extent that I'd miss it. I've seen this film twice!

Coming to think of it, colour films are pretty useless too. What extra enjoyment do you get from colour films that you can't get from B&W films? Any hitchcock, chaplin, etc. fans here?

"IT ADDS NOTHING TO THE EXPERIENCE." - That's plain BS. It does for me.

"IT CAN BE A DISTRACTION." - Maybe, but so is Eastman color. We're still figuring out the art of it ... and making great progress imo.

"IT CAN CREATE NAUSEA AND HEADACHES." - Even normal film can cause epileptic attacks. So what?
It's an attack on Firefox.

By ensuring H264 is the dominant video codec they shut Firefox out of the competition, because Firefox cannot implement a non-free video codec.
I like that Ebert made it clear that he is not generally opposed to technological innovation in the arts, he just doesn't see much artistic use for 3D.

Had I been around when movies were invented, I'm sure I would have been inspired by the possibilities. Likewise with sound and with color, each of which added a whole new dimension to film. Does 3D inspire you creatively? Can you see more than one or two clever experiments before it becomes just an extra layer of butter on the popcorn?
Quote from Mozilla's blog of Metrics on work to correct Firefox crashes:

"For example, with a significant percentage of crashes in Flash, a lot of work around stability improvement for Firefox users is currently going into Flash Player 10.1."

http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/04/08/dramatic-stabilit...

It's also worth noting the comment that explains another large percentage of their crashes came from misbehaving extensions when they rejigged the internal code between 3 and 3.5. Since Safari doesn't have that issue that would increase the Flash crash rate as a percentage of the total for them.

You can also look at Firefox's crash stats and dig through the various bits of data in various ways. Most of it is incomprehensible to me, but if you sort crashes by site then Flash based sites seem to come top.

http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/bydomain/Firefox/3...

Obviously these sites are partly there because they are popular (take that Steve Jobs!), but it still seems over-represented by Flash to my eye.
Good find. Snippet:

In his model, the growth of leaf lobes is governed by the position of leaf veins. [...] By varying just a handful of parameters, Young can produce a surprisingly rich variety of shapes.

The issue of the shapes not found in nature is also thought-provoking ...

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Absolutely. Some European film critics held this view until recently.

I recall one of Finland's former leading critics, a man who used to teach cinema history in the country's leading film school, listing his favorite films of all time in 1996, when the art form turned 100. His list included a single color film, and he made special note of that: "This film demonstrates that it's possible to create a film where color is not a distraction but an essential element."
So why are they pushing Silverlight ?
I think your point regarding impossible/useless ideas is very insightful, but I'd take slight exception to the word 'useless'. I think a better word would be pointless - things like twitter, reddit etc aren't useless by virtue of the fact that millions of people do use them, if however you describe what they do (and, as you point out, this is the reason that big companies wouldn't approach those sorts of ideas) then a reasonable response would perhaps be to describe them as pointless.
How about "Coraline"?

And "How to Train your Dragon"?
Why did HP buy Palm? To escape the dead end of Windows
Is there any contract?

Does it have any mention at all of what happens if lala shuts down?

Maybe he can demand cash, since he is no longer getting what he paid for.

Also, can you sell itunes credits?
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I watched Agora tonight. It was good. I didn't know a movie could cause me to dislike religion even more than I already did.
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
Slow news day?
Ask HN: Self improvement programs
I have been looking lately at the various "self improvement programs" available out there. And I am tempted to give it a try.

Now, there are quite a few different types:
* short daily exercises
* full-time one-week
and targets:
* happier life
* success
* money
(and more)

Has anyone tried any such (or similar) programs ?

Did they change your life in any meaningful way ?
Guide itself is more funny than the subject.
It'd be interesting to pressure Adobe on this point right now, given the context.
Why do you think we'll never see it compiling iPhone apps? Neither the technical reasons - i.e. garbage collection in the iPhone Objective-C runtime, not the political reasons - the infamous 3.1.1, I presume, it doesn't do so already seem to me insurmountable. Especially since it is an Apple run project and one of its main goals is to be a first class Obj-C equivalent.
In Italy Dolby 3D is the only one I saw used. You get the glasses when entering inside the cinema, (they are washed with a special disinfectant in order to kill viruses and other bugs), and then after the show you give it back to the cinema guy.

It's fun the first two times, just to try, but the plain cinema is much better, with better colors and a lot more relaxing. The good thing is that since the 3D mania there are no problems in fining available sits in the non-3D rooms.
Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing
I found it via reddit, and also thought it was interesting. Sadly it sits now in the bottom of my upcoming languages to pick up... And it is a long list. I still have to write some more Forth to be comfortable with it, and then follow (in no particular order, as I still have to decide which is the next best) haskell, lua, go, factor, python (again, I have forgotten a lot of what I knew), agena and probably another one or two I don't remember ATM
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The series on More4:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/erasing-david/episode-gui...
I'm surprised the degree to which Apple is setting the pace in this new market. With all the resources available to these big players the combination of hardware and software is proving difficult.
Could someone tell me what I would do using macruby. I am a ruby programmer on a Mac. What kind of apps could i write ?

Are these essentially GUI apps which otherwise i would write using Objective C or Cocoa (i assume its a standalone language) or QT, GTK etc.

So does this allow me to write apps that have the Mac L&F ?
It's just about the LTS -- whether that's for IT governance issues or the desire for warm fuzzies. The LTS release is meant to be essentially no-touch for 3 years, so it won't be stamped "gold" until there is a significant public deployment of the normal stable release and time for bug testing in real-world user hands.
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Not even close. Reuters, AFP, AP, even Bloomberg provide more comprehensive coverage and "just the facts".

Ask yourself this: do you like the BBC because it supports things you already believe? This is an interesting exercise to do. Do you believe that what you believe is "truth" and therefore an organization that agrees must be impartial?

All independent funding means for the BBC is that they don't have to cater to an audience per se - it doesn't mean that they don't cater to the opinions of their own staff. A staff that is recruited mainly in one city, London, mainly through ads in one newspaper, The Guardian. It is not politically nor demographically representative of the British public, and many people here actively distrust it, and resent paying the tax that supports it.
This is just hyperbole tripe. Ridiculous. Flagged.

The worrying thing is not the 'surveillance' or 'privacy'. It's how obsessed and unhinged this man is, putting ridiculous things before his own family.

tl;dr = Man gets obsessed about privacy, Leaves his wife and kids for a fun chase. Detectives find his facebook page, work out where wife is having baby, phone hospital pretend to be him, and when something is wrong with baby they all turn up and detectives get him. WTF does that prove?
It always takes time to learn how to use a new technology.

Is 55 years enough? Because that's how long it's been since the boomlet in 3D movies in the early 1950s. The 3D technology then -- linear polarized images -- was only slightly different from the circular polarization dominating today's 3D offerings.

The special effects -- especially computerized -- that can give 3D some extra sizzle have improved and become more cheap. Audiences are wealthier and more novelty-seeking. But 3D still involves downsides that aren't needed for most storytelling -- making some people ill or distracted, lingering focus issues, shrinking the number of angles/seats in a theater that give a good view, increasing production costs, washed out colors.

I expect 3D to continue oscillating in popularity over the years, at a slightly higher background level of use, but never becoming the usual/majority format. (Or, by the time 3D does become dominant, there will have been such major advances in displays that movies are no longer displayed on giant screens, but sent to each viewers' eye-mounted heads-up display, or neural-visual interface.)
Why does society repeat the same mistakes?

1950s - first big 3d boom
1980s - second try
2010s - third try

Each generation seems to want to try exactly the same stuff even when it failed the last time. I guess maybe in 2040 it'll work well :)
I feared my comment would come across as a disguised ad hominem attack (thanks I didn't know there was a name for that!). But if you read the whole comment, it should be obvious that it's not in fact Tu quoque because I do address Sachin's position. I used Posterous as an example to argue that people don't make software just to innovate; there are other things to consider such as market trends and user needs.
You can write native Cocoa apps with MacRuby that have Mac Look and Feel, with better than acceptable performance.

There are clean, high-level Ruby wrappings of UIKit classes, see HotCocoa: http://macruby.com/hotcocoa.html, although it's not clear to me how extensive this part of MacRuby is.
For what it is worth, while the design could use some sprucing up to make it more engaging, I don't find the current design troubling. It's simple and to the point. (But I didn't go beyond the first page yet, so maybe the spartan approach wears thin after a while.)

FYI, your survey form refers to this product as "Jaysern Bot", not "Rapid Social Response".
I read the article diagonally, and found no samples of what non-natural leaf shapes does the algorithm produce. Sad. But it is interesting that even complicated shapes like maple can be produced with such a simple model.
Oh you've left out clojure and scala in your list ;-) Unless you've already done those. Thanks for the link. Checked it out -- interesting. but too many others on my list, too.
Good question - I have no idea who Silverlight is for. It might make sense for internal corporate applications - but they don't need to look very pretty so all the integration with design stuff is irrelevant.
Spam. Flagged.
No, I said I had at least two I didn't remember. Thanks for pointing them :D Clojure is in fact closer to the top, after reading some blog posts by a clojure programmer.
I'm excited by MacRuby's architecture and performance, but can anyone comment on how extensive and usable the HotCocoa bindings are?
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Why ridiculous? It's the story of a guy who hires two detectives to track him down, his attempts to evade them, and their techniques for catching him. It's an interesting experiment, well worth documenting. He comes across as a bit paranoid, perhaps, but making privacy issues more public is a worthy endeavour, no?
This 'print' link currently seems to be missing much of the text in the 'regular' multi-page version (also linked at top): http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/fantasy-island.html

By the way, in that page there's also a first comment signed 'John McAfee'.
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It depends on what part of the BBC you're talking about. Radio 4's (and BBC World radio's) interviews with politicans on the Today programme in the lead up to the election have been excellent, with the interviewers really challenging the politicians on their issues. True objectivity is never going to be possible, but good preparation and technique are where some parts of the BBC excel. However,I don't watch televised BBC because it's a different beast entirely, and more like its commercial partners.
Looking gifted horse in the teeth. Apple/Lala are giving him a 100 bucks, despite not being obligated the slightest to do so. But obviously for some people even free is not good enough.

edit: seriously people, read todd3834's comment bellow [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1307514 ]; unused credits can be refunded - USED credits (i.e. the money one had spent to practically rent the music) are given back as iTunes store credit;
But isn't that just it? It will have the entire web of apps. And they're all free.
I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or not. On the optimistic side, it could mean a more resourceful entity with plenty of goodies coming in like more File Hosting space.

On the other hand, I've been using the paid Fastmail service for over 4 years now and one thing they did head and shoulders above the bigger players was their service and support. Plus they were always pretty geeky, making sure the expert user had lots of configuration options to tweak every possible thing. Their sieve filtering was perhaps the best out there and the old web interface rocks.

What I fear is Opera trying to make FM into a mass consumer product losing the technical edge and going for the more flashy features like online chats rather than putting in better sieve capabilities or something like better Pine/Alpine support. How I wish this doesn't kill FM (I've prepaid for 2 years more). I would hate to make a email service switch since that is my primary communication medium online.
It's impossible. If you notice the 3D it's distracting, if you don't there's no real point having it there.

The thing is, conventional 2D movies already have most of the 3D cues we need - blurring, parallax, etc.
Firefox is free to hand H.264 content to Windows' media framework for display, just like IE will.
From the article:

"... In hacker culture, screwing with people's heads to get what you want is called 'social engineering.' ..."

From the teaser:

"... Only later would I realize just how truly Kurtz-like the mission had already become. On that day, what had started out as a sympathetic profile for Fast Company would slowly evolve into something more like a take-down, as I realized that McAfee’s position in Belize was much more compromised than I had imagined. Finally I understood why he had kept asking--playfully, I had thought--whether my story was going to be an expose. ..." ~ http://www.fastcompany.com/article/following-john-mcafee-int...
"... This 'print' link currently seems to be missing much of the text in the 'regular' multi-page version ..."

Thanks for pointing this out. I just go for the printed pages to reduce the adverts & images.
No. It's not.

"The average UK adult is now registered on more than 700 databases and is caught many times each day by nearly five million CCTV cameras."

Is designed to scare people. Even though it's BS. Most of those cameras are firstly in massive cities. Secondly, most of them are simply connected to some dumb VHS recorder that only gets checked if there is some crime.

Personally, I think it's more important for him to support his wife and kids rather than running off and pretending to be a spy.

Also, first rule of hiding, don't have a pregnant wife or dependents, because hiding will be pretty hard.
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Theoretically Firefox can comment a flag in source code which use ffmpeg to render video, just like what Chromium did. The official binary doesn't support H.264, but tons of thirdparty build would.
Come on, are you really suggesting that gmail didn't add any value and is just playing catch up with old email software? Free unlimited email storage? Auto-saving and suggesting contacts? Threaded email conversations? Big attachments? AJAX? Email search that works?

Each browser and each developer should be able to decide this, instead of being slowed down by the platform as a whole.

You know you do have the freedom to pick one browser. But you won't because it makes no business sense, unless you are talking about innovation in a vacuum.

We are re-inventing the wheel with the web to some extent. But it is already beginning to get very good very fast and Posterous is a good parallel of that phenomenon in the blogging world.
I've been starting to do this over the last week or so as an experiment. It's too short a time span to give me any useful data, but so far my impressions are positive. I've gotten less work done than usual but feel considerably less stressed, which is a net win in my view.

If anyone is interested in this sort of thing, read through the articles in the study hacks blog - http://www.calnewport.com/blog/. It's aimed at students but I've found it interesting and somewhat inspiring nonetheless.
I really do want to believe this guy; that's why I think that it is other forces within MS that are causing IE snail-speed progress.
A great rant by a practitioner who wants progress to go faster, ideologies and committees be-damned.

But, a little revisionist about why browser innovation slowed. It wasn't Microsoft yielding to standards demands that slowed their pace; it was Microsoft's de facto victory in (for a time) neutralizing the business possibilities of competitive browser development.

It took a while for alternate models that could sustain further browser evolution -- the Google placement payments to Mozilla, Apple's sponsorship as a complement to their other platforms -- to grow to take the place of the original Netscape dreams.

Hewitt's prescription seems right, though: a bit of healthy disdain for waiting for standards bodies before deploying new things, and some added respect for even those proprietary offerings -- like Flash -- that kept expanding capabilities and user expectations when browsers didn't.
Color, when used by a good director, adds a lot of subtle semantic content to a movie. See some old Almodovar movies, or maybe Kieslowksy's Three Colors trilogy, or even The Matrix. Color adds information that wasn't already there in black-and-white, just like movement and sound adds a lot of information that weren't already there in comic books.
Fastmail.fm was in my opinion the best free web mail solution available before Gmail came along.
He's a filmmaker. This is how he supports his wife and kids.
The transflective display is definitely a plus.

I can't believe Apple didn't put something like this on the iPad.
That's true, many of those pathways are shared between all current species, so they must have evolved in that early period. I wonder how (for lack of a better word) inefficient organisms must have been before they evolved the modern citric acid cycle, for example.
Just downloaded the amd64 version (from The Netherlands).
It's very strange, it looks like this is not a bootable CD.

It's more like an autorun CD with Wubi.
Anyone else got the same problem?

(downloading it as torrent right now)
idk. All the article shows me is that this is an unhinged man in need of help.
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I pretty much do this myself now, and although I find myself working more than ever (in terms of both hours and productivity), I also feel better about my work life than I ever have.

One caveat, though - 'only working when you feel like it' works best for me if I 'always work when I feel like it'.
Which is to say, staying late when I'm in flow, and picking up my laptop when I get a good idea on the weekend, etc.