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People said the same thing about sound. And color. And widescreen. And so on.

Attack the films themselves, not the medium. It's only going to be as good as the artist who uses it. Don't fear new technology, even if you are an over-the-hill critic.
What does this mean for those of us who have applied for this summer?
Building things that people want is overrated. A person can derive great pleasure and satisfaction from ripping things apart instead. That's the gig we're offering. We work with some of the most interesting companies, along with lots of companies with interesting technology you've never heard of.

This job has had me write compilers, learn Scala, reverse and interoperate with freaky network protocols, test chipsets, write hypervisors, extend debuggers, and crawl through the heating ducts and garbage chutes of several of the biggest web apps out there. It is a very cool gig.

http://www.matasano.com

And, I have news! Since last I posted this appeal, we've opened a Bay Area office. I'm hiring in NYC. I'm hiring in Chicago. And I'm hiring in SFBay.

We're looking first and foremost for people who can code and who have a deep interest in software security. I've been thrilled with the quality of people I've gotten to talk to on HN. You can't possibly waste my time. My contact info is in my profile.
there a lot of dev and design openings at nytimes.com. all jobs are in nyc.

http://www.nytimes.com/features/openings/

also have a opening in the r+d lab for a data scientist: http://bit.ly/nytdatascientist
Nasuni (Natick, MA) is hiring!

http://www.nasuni.com/sub/jobs/

Inside Sales Representative (Account Manager)

Web Marketing Specialist

Community/Social media manager

QA Test Engineer

Most of these would be onsite - I'm pretty sure the Community manager position can be remote.

We're a venture-back startup, and we've just gone live with the 1.0 version of our product. Now would be the perfect time to join us!

Feel free to email resumes to jobs@nasuni.com or jnoller at the same domain.
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No, they have webmail integration in the browser with some providers but not with Gmail because Google doesn't help at all.

This is a move to satisfy the users who want webmail to work seamlessly.
Its all reporting and no analysis

You have just NAILED exactly the reason I gave up on cable news years ago and now get most of my news from Public Radio. At least MPR has the decency to point out where they may have a conflict of interest with the stories they report on!

It is simply not enough to know that "X" happened. Often, why it happened, and how it can happen again, and what the consequences are is more important than the basic report.
When can I use... (Browser Compatibility tables - HTML5, CSS3, SVG, & new tech)
Is designed to scare people. Even though it's BS. Most of those cameras are firstly in massive cities.

Well, lots of people live in those massive cities...and by cities, I mean anywhere with a population of >100k or so. It's easy to be blase about it from a viewer's perspective. I lived in London from 88-96 and was surprised to see how much surveillance increased during that time. On the rare occasions when I go back I find it quite unpleasant and intrusive to see so many cameras.

Certainly one can argue the old 'if you're not doing anything wrong...' position. But what's 'wrong' is not guaranteed to be fair or consistent, but can change quite quickly if the political climate shifts - and it's comforting but mistaken to assume all our mistakes are behind us and things can only improve. Sometimes they decline, and under those circumstances ubiquitous surveillance paired with ample state funding for technological improvements presents a serious danger. Consider that by the time the Berlin wall fell, the East German secret police operated a network of informers estimated to comprise ~2% of the whole population - some claim it was much higher. that's not a healthy use of resources or authority.

Didn't downvote you BTW - I disagree but I don't consider a variance in opinion justifies all the negatives.
how does one work this out if there is a zero in one or in both numbers... I played around with this on a napkin at a bar and couldn't figure it out...
really, no important change. but we will add companies going forward as they apply. so their 3 months runs at a different time than people during the summer.

that said, we are doing away with weekly dinners and some other stuff so we can concentrate on things that will add and create more value for our companies.
more on omniwheels, which I did not previously know about: http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_omni_wheel.shtml
Appropriate amount of well-selected content. Catches my eye.

I'd suggest that the information architecture flow is a little lax. You have a clear conversion goal--get users interested in your services and contact you--but to accomplish it it falls to users to first choose to click through your menu. You should have clear calls to action, starting from the landing page: "See what we do" or a couple recently finished projects, and make it easy and compelling for potential clients to contact you directly from project detail pages. I'm sure your newsletter is also a good conversion path--you could integrate into the projects section as well: "Learn more about this site in our newsletter! Click to subscribe!" I'd put your phone number in the footer too, and perhaps investigate a click-to-call implementation.

From a user-experience perspective I'd make sure every clickable element is clearly actionable (links to Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn don't look like links) and has a hover state, consider Fitt's law (e.g. the "Web" and "Print" links on the Work panel are incredibly important, but awfully small), and validate submissions on your contact form. From an implementation perspective, the way elements scroll in on each panel is a little jumpy--maybe that's intentional, but it looks rough. From a tech perspective I'd be more impressed if you'd chosen to use @font-face instead of image-replacement, but that's a little silly.

What does "Your Piece of the Web" mean? If it's regionally-appropriate and you're appealing mostly to local clients then it's good, but otherwise, eh, multivariate test a couple options maybe?
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Performline.com is looking for experienced people to work on it's network platform.

The codebase is well-written and maintained and written in Django. Anybody with strong experience in any web framework is welcome.

Pay and options are very good. Work must be onsite in NYC.

Get in touch with Adam Nelson at adam@performline.com
Clayton christensen, in his book , recommended to assign disruptive innovation projects, to seperate business units.I remember that the celeron development was one of the highest achievement of the israel intel branch. so maybe they implmented christensen's advice.
3D seems to have one trick: throwing things at the screen to startle you.
I think patents are just the "mine's bigger" for corporations.

In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass* , Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were “stepping all over Apple’s IP.” (IP = Intellectual Property = patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we moved forward to commercialize it, “I’ll just sue you.”

My response was simple. “Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?” Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I’d help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996. Lighthouse built applications for NeXTSTEP, the Unix based operating system whose core would become the foundation for all Mac products after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996. Steve had used Concurrence for years, and as Apple built their own presentation tool, it was obvious where they’d found inspiration. “And last I checked, MacOS is now built on Unix. I think Sun has a few OS patents, too.” Steve was silent. - Jonathan Schwartz (http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis...)
"Useless" is said with a touch of irony, because obviously millions of people do use them. However, when they launched, the reaction from all but a handful of early adopters was "Who would ever use that? How can this possibly be a viable business?"
I just noticed recently that on the unibody Macbook Pro the sleep LED on the edge of the body is hidden when off. It uses tiny perforations in the aluminum.
Maybe not insight but it gives you an approach to multi-digit multiplication that you can use even if you're still sketchy on single digit.

I know as a kid I'd occasionally resort to just adding a number up the appropriate number of times. and while that works for 67 * 5 it's super error prone for a 6 year old if that 5 is a 9 or worse a 30. This might (might) give 6 year old me an approach to that, sure it doesn't change the need to be able to count and do a little addition but it's a way to break the problem down that I sure wouldn't have thought of.
Ex-Adobe Engineers on Thoughts on Flash
Please don't try to use Hacker News for SEO. Your comment is fine, and Croatia is a lovely country, but holiday apartments in Croatia have nothing to do with either your comment or the story.
It often takes months to deploy fixes inside of enterprises for known problems. The idea that we're going to be crazy ninjas dealing with nationally distributed attacks using vectors most people haven't even thought of yet strikes me as deeply unrealistic.
Would it be advantageous to then re-apply with the companies as they progress? For example our company has changed in marketing strategy and monetization since we have applied. If this is the case, would it be better to meet in person or just send another application.
It certainly used to be grudging -- originally Apple just threw a huge clump of code back to the KHTML guys, technically satisfying the LGPL, but not doing anyone much good. That's a far cry from the community they've built around the project now. I wouldn't call Apple philanthropists, but they're not simply following the license either.
WebKit is already doing this. They constantly implement new features that are later imported into HTML5 or CSS specs. For example, canvas, shadows, CSS transforms and CSS transitions were all things that WebKit introduced in its nightly builds and the standards groups later adopted specs for them. Just Google any of these technologies and you'll see the posts introducing them on the Surfin' Safari blog years before the initial version of the respective standards.
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How do you deal with the credit card and address requirements?
Like, Whatever - Does it still really mean much to "like" something?
We don't need sound, because we have intertitles. And we don't need color, because we have enough shades of gray to represent color "well enough."

Adding these elements would be far too distracting. And if we weren't distracted by sound and color, then what's the point in having them there?

Artists should work in the most limiting possible way -- in a way that everyone is already accustomed to. Otherwise, they're cheap, tawdry sensationalists. Down with change! Down with innovation!

Wait... what?
Take a look at alphaclone.com -- it is another startup centered around replicating hedge fund performances from 13F filings.
“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.”
They also could have rewritten that. The original KHTML code is a pretty small part (about 140k loc initially) compared to the WebKit project (about 3M loc).

Also, they only really needed to have WebCore and JavaScriptCore open but they decided to make all of WebKit open later on (all the rest under a BSD licence).
OpenX is still hiring - we're looking for a wide variety of positions (http://openx.org/Jobs), one of which is to work with me on the Market (http://openx.org/market). If you're into scaling high-volume back-ends doing non-trivial work on every request using a variety of languages from Java to Erlang - you might like working on the Market. If you're interested send me an email (joel at openx dot org). The location is Pasadena, CA, and you need to work on-site. Relocation is available.
For me the business ideas lay the groundwork for future technological exploration and experimentation. If I had 5 months I'd crank out a few profitable websites and then use those funds to bankroll my future endeavors. What those are exactly .. I can't say and that may be part of my problem. Waiting for financial stability to pursue my passions (but I digress)
> For what it's worth, there are hundreds of patents in the total MPEG-LA pool.

Furthermore, it's not clear what Apple would stand to gain by enforcing its two patents that may or may not be relevant to Theora. Maybe I'm wrong, but media patent enforcement doesn't seem to be one of Apple's core businesses (HTC lawsuit notwithstanding). There are plenty of other companies, though, that likely have a vested interest in protecting their much-larger video patent portfolios.

I think it would be wrong to assume at this point that Apple is instigating patent litigation against Theora. Occam's razor would encourage the view that Apple knows the people who want to take down Theora and is rationally fearful of them.
Apple has 40 billion plus in cash. If you listen to the calls, they say they're going to use it for something big. It's done in a very understated way. My belief? They're hoarding it to roll out essentially a wireless high speed network as described in this post. That's why you hoard what will eventually be 50+ billion dollars in cold hard cash. Just my theory though.
Your call. For companies that are on the cusp of being interesting to us, we're going to start providing advice in the form of "we think you should do X, Y, and Z and then come back and talk with us". That doesn't mean you have to follow our advice but it'll serve as a guide as to what may get you to the point that we think it's a no brainer for us.

Oh yeah, new apps are not up yet - will be in the near future though.
You will soon, if you want it: competent Windows machines for basic tasks will soon be the price of a mid-range piece of software. There will be plenty of reasons to prefer other platforms, but there won't be any need to choose per se.
HipHop isn't exactly advancing the state of the art wrt computer systems. It serves FaceBook's needs very well, but source-to-source translation is already pretty well understood. There's Google's Closure Compiler (JS to tighter JS), GWT (Java to JavaScript), PyJamas (Python to JavaScript), Fog Creek's Wasabi (Visual Basic++ to PHP and Visual Basic), all the compilers that target C, and a bunch of toy or one-off production systems that serve their authors' needs but are never released.

The "state of the art in computer systems", IMNSHO, is things like Jekyll (bidirectional source-to-source transformation, where the generated C code is readable & editable and can be transformed back into Jekyll), Subtext (programming by copying & editing), Epigram (dependent types let the computer write most of the program for you, interactively), and a few other research projects that most people have never heard of.
We are hiring a designer at our startup: http://www.pinterest.com. We are in Palo Alto. 3 people, funded.
I hope Apple relaunches this within iTunes. I loved lala.com and am sad to see it go. I found myself purchasing streamed albums after a certain point.
Either that or more people are posting/linking them.
My company isn't actually hiring, but I run a jobs website that focuses on the entry level market.

http://www.onedayonejob.com/

It's a pretty simple premise. Every day I feature a new company that is hiring. You can browse by tag, so for the sake of the HN crowd I'll plug myself twice more.

Software Development Jobs: http://onedayonejob.com/entry-level-jobs/software-developmen...

Web Development Jobs: http://onedayonejob.com/entry-level-jobs/web-development/

I only talk about the entry level positions, but a lot of the companies are hiring at higher levels too.
> First, they aren't the first company to realize that.

I meant within the consumer computer industry, sorry. It's not like they invented vertical integration.

> I agree. And I never argued that. I said that from the beginning.

Okay. It's just with quotes like "they took the easy way to quality," you seem to be saying that the process means more than the end result. That's what this all boils down to.

> Good questions/challenges. Sorry if you've had this discussion before. I've never really discussed this particular angle. Most of my friends aren't geeks!

No problem. The first computer I ever used was a Mac, so I've been having these discussions forever. I was totally the little fanboy in 7th grade, holding my copy of MacAddict with pictures of those amazing new Bondi Blue and white G3 towers, arguing with my friends that (to quote Hackers) "RISC will change everything."

In any case, it's always great to have real-actual, in-depth discussion. Thanks just as much to you.
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Dropcam, http://www.dropcam.com/ in San Francisco.

You should email me directly - greg@dropcam.com. We code for the cameras and the server-side, mostly Python/C -- and there are many terabytes of data to work with. We also have an iPhone app and will support more mobile platforms in the future.

We're looking for generalist engineers who know C like the back of their hand but prefer to code in a higher level language like Python 90% of the time. You should also have experience with IP/networking or a voracious enough learning appetite to get it fast: we work with protocols a lot, and not just HTTP. Linux knowledge will come in handy too ... understanding file systems, system calls, toolchains, etc a plus.

You might work on web, iPhone, embedded camera code, and video server code all in the span of one project -- we don't like silos. Everyone here is an engineer and writes code. Our current team consists of core engineers from Xobni and DivX.

We've been too busy to write up a fancy jobs page, but there are ample sodas, salary, and equity :)

And FYI, we're funded by Mitch Kapor, David Cowan, and Aydin Senkut.
It would seem like this issue has been settled in previous cases. One would think they would at least try to tailor the statute to conform to established judicial precedent.
Oh, I haven't seen any movie that makes 3D worthwhile. It's just that the argument "people tried it before and failed" is not even a little convincing.
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The Toronto HN meetup last night was great! Thanks to Zach for putting it together. And thanks to FreshBooks for the free round of drinks.

Lets do more of these!
Was an industry standard.

And that's the point, flash has some real drawbacks and since it's not an open standard with multiple implementations, it stagnated while Adobe thought it had no competition.
There are several applications with ".NET" in the name.. Many of them seem to use the this moniker because they are built using .NET.. (duh)

http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualPrope... seems to give some advice on this topic for .NET framework related apps.

But, as far as I can tell, "(.Net logo)" is their only registered trademark concerning .NET. you can see a list of their trademarks here: http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualPrope...

I'd consult with a lawyer first, but I think you're good to go. There are many apps and websites that have ".net" in their name, and the .net domain predates Microsoft's framework by quite a bit.
You really need a trademark lawyer to do a search and review of that name. Don't trick yourself into thinking you'll be okay without getting a qualified opinion. I'm sure MS has tons of filed trademarks, and until you get a trained person to review specifically what MS and others have trademarked, how their claims are worded, how broadly their mark can be applied, etc. I went through this process with a trademark lawyer, and came away knowing a lot more than when I went into it. If this product/company is worth anything to you, then spend a couple thousand and get the name cleared and in the process you'll also learn a lot for future projects.
Going out of business is different than just saying "we won't honor the purchase you made anymore".
Oh, who cares about H264 compared to 3.3.1..
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I think you start to see ARM replacing intel. in some sense IPAD is replacing some netbooks.

ARM's biggest problem was windows on the netbook. usally when disruption happens , it replaces a whole value chain with another. that's what's the IPAD is doing, and chrome os might do.

So you would have the apple's and google's marketing machines (and other big companies around the ARM architecture), fighting against intel's. that's a more fair fight than intel VS amd.
Thank you for the quick replies. Hopefully this helps out other shotputers with the same questions.
Awesome. If it had first-class functions I'd be downloading it now.
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That is incredible. Why would anyone pay money for that?

I am still a bit skeptical that this would hold up in court. There are laws about what you can hide in the fine print, and often judges will hold the transaction to be for things that that a reasonable person would expect, not what is stated in the contract.
Scott Adams explained it very well when he started taking advertisments on the Dilbert site. Dogbert stood up and said something like "For the slower students among us, let me explain. 1. Advertisers give us money. 2. We like money."
Quora in Palo Alto is hiring software engineers and product designers.

http://www.quora.com/jobs

We're working on a high quality question and answer site.

Some of the tools we are using include Python, Pylons, nginx, memcached, Thrift, and git. We're using continuous deployment and EC2, so all code you write will go live to production within minutes no matter what time it is.

You can see more about our team so far here:
http://www.quora.com/about/team
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I'm not sure if your comment was intended as sarcasm, but you can pretty much do this in Ruby.

myarray.each {|x| func_a(x); func_b(x); puts x }

is equivalent to

myarray.each do |x|
func_a(x)
func_b(x)
puts x
end
the internet?
I picked Clearlooks as well - it's easy on the eyes and doesn't get in the way of what I'm working on.
Splunk is hiring engineers in SF, drop me a line at dlanstein@splunk.

The last time this thread came around, we hired the one person who emailed me :-)