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I'm really impressed with VirtualBox's pace of development. They keep coming out with big new features, passing the other major (paid-for) VM software in some ways.

Hope this keeps up.
I wonder what will happen in the super long term. I think things sortof oscillate. We have desktop apps, people stopped buying them because of web apps, but then mobile web apps aren't as good as local mobile software so that started up again. Perhaps some day in the future we'll be talking about installing local apps onto ChromeOS like it's a brand new feature.
I'm confused. The article says that creativity is associated with low thalamic D2 receptor density, and that the thalamus "filters" signals to the rest of the brain, so they speculate that diminished activity therein results in less filtering and more creativity, and schizophrenia is a more severe form of this. That's fine until you consider that antipsychotics work by blocking dopaminergic activity, which would exacerbate the pathology rather than repair it. My understanding was that dopamine is associated with increased dopamine receptor binding in the prefrontal cortex (which is consistent with the observed mechanism of action for antipsychotics), and the lower thalamus receptor densities were simply due to downregulation caused by the excessive endogenous dopamine. Can someone with more expertise clarify?
It's almost like Google is making it ok to charge for web services again.
I think this applies more to larger companies than startups. Because startups are small they are also nimble and can change faster, whereas large companies can't adapt fast enough to keep up with the pace of change and so a gap occurs.
I think I found a bug. That is, a Safari bug that can be worked around by other means. I tried using Cardo (only available as TrueType) on a site I'm building, and it renders inconsistently in Safari (Mac), cutting off lines of type at random heights.

This seems to be a TrueType bug in Safari that can be circumvented by using OpenType or SVG, which I discovered can be easily prepared with this excellent little tool: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

I ended up opting for my own @font-face linkage with the multiple formats converted by the aforelinked, which seems to render much better across browsers.

Shouldn't be hard for Google to implement something like this, though.
Tabs aren't threaded in Mozilla. All tabs are managed by a single thread, and are cooperatively multitasked. And it sucks, since for example, one webpage doing a frequent setTimeout can adversely affect others. They've talked about moving to the Chrome model, but they don't seem to have the resources to do so in a timely manner.

A lot of what their doing is catch up to Chrome. They sat around not really innovating in a way that's really meaningful to a normal user for a long time.
I wonder what long term effects this has on domain names. If people need only to remember how to use iTunes or Chrome to find and use an app, will you really need your app.com domain anymore?
I think this makes more sense if you look at it in combination of one of the other things they just released - AppEngine for business. Sure on its own this is priced higher than S3 but in the context of a company running google apps + enterprise app engine + google storage it starts to make a lot more sense just from a convenience standpoint
"I'm not only the president, but also a client" ... MZ fail

UPDATE: I retract my comment above, looks like he does indeed have a more open profile than the one mentioned in the article where he practices what he preaches (... removing egg from face ...)
The $8/user does seem a lot for startups/small businesses. Maybe they are focusing internal apps for enterprises.

If a company has more than 125 users, then per-user cost will be less than $8, which probably is acceptable I suppose compare with all the infrastructure, upgrade, vendor hassles.
Not what I meant. "The Mozilla platform will use separate processes to display the browser UI, web content, and plugins." [1] -- I don't like this idea myself as it creates odd inter-process communication. Each tab thread will need to contact the UI, web content, and plugin thread. To me, it makes more sense to have each tab be its own process.

Threads don't provide a real advantage here. The executable is loaded once as the OS is smart enough to share the binary, common libraries are loaded once (using mmap), both processes and threads need their own stacks. However, by splitting loads as they have, if any of those 3 main processes fail, everything dies.

1.) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Content_Processes
"having Google come in for standard web apps should be a big wind in our sail, I think."

I'm not sure I understand, Isn't google now a direct competitor. They are now competing with you, recurly, autorize.net and every other billing company. Everyone will now use google checkout to pay monthly fees and their Gmail user name to sign into web apps?
Click&Clean 4.0 for Google Chrome
New version is excellent! I'm shocked!
will likely be adapted into an essay like the others
8 SEO Tips for Video Content (Mike Mothner of wPromote))
Verizon to upgrade CDMA network to handle concurrent voice and data connections?
How to analyse an OSS business model – part five
What about Vorbis? Will it be able to play Vorbis in Ogg as a fallback for HTML5 audio? Or do we just use a .wbm file without video track?
Previously you had to use Windows Media Player, Quicktime, etc. specifically to play back videos in IE. Now you will be able to use <video> and IE will look for video codecs (instead of browser plugins) to decode that video for you. A significant improvement.
The H.264 spec dates back to ~2000-2001.

x264 is an open source software program that implements H.264, and was written starting in 2004.

Furthermore, we don't know when they added intra prediction to VP8; it could have been many years after the original program was written.
Vorbis has been around for over a decade now, and incorporated into numerous products with no successful patent threats yet. Xiph.org conducted a patent search and believes Vorbis does not infringe on any patents. And since US patents expire in 17 to 20 years, there is a shrinking body of patents that could be used against Vorbis.
It depends on whether you work in company that rewards age over innovation or innovation over everything else. In a pure meritocracy it's what you do that matters not who you are. However every large company I've ever worked for has rewarded people more based on who they are instead of what they do.
hmmm, maybe he was on to something here.. bouncers do have access to hot drunk girls.. maybe he is smart after all ;)
On my Windows 7 machine, they're really ugly (in IE, FF, Chrome and Safari). I double checked to make sure ClearType was enabled, and it is.

I don't think I'd use any of these in a project where I needed a polished look and feel.

I much prefer Smashing Magazine's non-Google font-ified header font.

Kudos to Google for taking on this project, though. As others have said, this could be a catalyst in getting the foundries to open up their fonts to the web.
I didn't say that there weren't s-expression parsers for languages other than Lisp; just that I haven't found them. I'll be the first to admit that I haven't really been looking.

But you'll note the disparity in support. A library for parsing XML with C may have existed since 2002, but it's existed for XML since 97. In Java, XML support has been baked into the JVM for a while, but S-exp parsers are hard to find. That library you list for Javascript is not a s-exp parser but rather a Scheme library for generating Javascript from a Scheme-like language. Googling for javascript and s-exps returns a lot of results like that but not many s-expression parsers. There certainly aren't any widely used and recognized libraries like there are for XML and JSON fro most languages aside from Lisp.
The Mac OS X support is cool and I would love to be able to run older OS X versions in a VM, but it looks like they've still got quite a bit of work before it is really usable. Issues include:

"Even when idle, OS X guests currently burn 100% CPU. This is a power management issue that will be addressed in a future release."

:(

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14.html
Do as I say not as I do? That doesn't work on 2 year olds so why should it work on adults. Shame on you Zuck.
And a normal person can then train themselves to do that week in 5 minutes. It's like muscle mass: you're born with a genetic inclination to be weaker or stronger than average but the rest is up to you.
Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development
MS has said that IE 9 has a codec whitelist so it will not use any random codec you have installed. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/html5-video-in...
Maybe it's my firewall but this just lead to an error page for me.
There is nothing a contract can say that a good enough lawyer can't get out of, but there is no reason to expect that Google would try in this case.
I especially like the point: "can you imagine the CEO of Pepsi going a month without drinking a Pepsi? Can you imagine the CEO of Nike being caught dead in a pair of Reeboks?"
It's easy to lament the shift in coverage away from basic science and towards applied topics, but I think it may be a good thing. Nobody understands science or math, so the choice is to leave it out of the press, or else go the pop-sci route and basically make stuff up. At least with the applied articles you can accurately describe what we get, if not how.
When is the replacement for Gears going to be released? I really miss it :(
I tried, however it just meant another thing to have open and to check regularly.

We stick with IRC for conversations and e-mail for the matters that take a little longer to resolve. This suits better because e-mail and IRC are open anyway for customer contact all day long.
When I go Help | Check for Updates - nada. Will just have to go to their website and d/l.
To expand on your post a bit:

Used it for some courses during my masters. It was a painful experience. When you get to ~100 entries (simple text), it starts lagging so much, I could type a couple of lines of text, that would slowly get updated for the next minute. You cannot easily save images (preview, right click, save as... works). There's no serious way to print. When you work with others you either start mixing answers and questions with someone editing just below you, or start a new section for everything and allow the wave to explode to >500 entries of silly stuff. "Stuck" statuses still occur (waves that are always read, or always new). And there are loads of other small problems I'll skip here... I really waited for the Wave, but now that it's as reliable as it was in the sandbox, I don't see how it can be useful for me.
Are you using it strictly as a virtualisation host, or are you using the fact that you can set up serial ports and whatnot to do Windows kernel debugging?

I personally use VMWare Fusion for reversing Windows executables, VMs are invaluable in that snapshotting aids in quickly returning to a known good state, and I can continue to take notes in applications outside of the VM to keep track of my progress.
Or use the Chrome plugin - it's faster. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jggheggpdocamnea...
Ah, I was wondering why it was doing that! :-) Other than that, though, OS X under this version is pretty snappy given the circumstances.
Twitter for iPhone makes its official debut, no iPad version in sight
Google Launches BigQuery and (AI/ML) Prediction API
If super secret squirrel searches are your need, you may wish to look at things like, disabling Referrer, Tor, Disabling Flash completely (as it represents it's own version of a cookie), disabling cookies, regularly DBANing your system, and even then realizing that you are still screwed according to EFF's research in their Panopticlick project (https://panopticlick.eff.org/)
If people want to see what happens when a currency absolutely collapses (minus the whole Nazi thing) look at the Wiemar Republic. Gold was irrelevant than compared to bushes of corn, sacks of taters, oil, etc. Gold has little utility other than jewelry (not important in collapse) and sometimes in electronics apparently.

Gold's only worth is in its perception and its concentration, which to use the related Wiemar Republic failure, was that it was an easy payment to the people who sheltered/smuggled people out of genocidal areas.

And don't forget water for apocalypse survival.
I'm actually surprised how well xvid does in those comparison shots. Based on those, xvid would seem to be the closest competitor for VP8 alongside with VC1. x264 is in a class of its own. There seems to be some kind of trade off between blurriness and artifacts, imho x264 shots coulda been bit softer, and VP8 seems to lean heavily on the blur side.
The VP8 hope bubble has been deflated for me (I was expected a free and technically better alternative to h.264). I'm a bit bummed out about it, but there was no better way to learn about it than from this blog. Great writing, as always.

Thank you for bursting my bubble in style!
Thanks for posting this to HN Ravi!
Eugene Volokh's take (on it being a criminal investigation instead of a civil investigation):

http://volokh.com/2010/05/19/pennsylvania-attorney-general-t...

The idea that Corbett, as AG, would subpoena to investigate the criminal charges against...Corbett doesn't make sense though.
So you can have a Theft policy that says don't pursue or prosecute but you can't pay for one in cash? That seems crazy. Of course using an ipad as your only computer is probably not a good idea either.
Is there some way to express my displeasure at the recent trend of people offering summaries of the linked content rather than their own opinions?

This is one of the better examples of the species, which is partly why I'm responding to it, but often I find the summaries actively misleading, and almost invariably adding snarky content-free remarks.
There's Bill Joy, too :-) http://www.kpcb.com/team/joy
The argument for doing processes manually without code
As soon as I read that sentence, I wondered the same. Sadly, no news yet, at least according to http://www.osnews.com/story/23229/IE9_HTML5_Video_Will_Be_H2....

>HTML5’s features are rather broad so whilst no word on HTML5 Canvas has been mentioned yet, Microsoft did commit to HTML5 Audio and Video which were demonstrated at their developer’s conference MIX10.
Editors do both. However, if you look at the standard quality of a small town newspaper from the 1920's the overall quality is not all that high. Realistically, papers like the New York Times are an outgrowth of having a huge audience which can support a lot of staff, but there used to be a lot of small players out there who had a lot less content to choose from.
Ask HN: Mexico Zip Code With Longitude and Latitude Database
Does anyone have a database that contains Mexican Zip Codes with geo longitude and latitude?. I can pay a few $$ for it
Well doesn't duckduckgo use other search engine's results and combines them with its own? Or does that not involve sending the search terms to the other search engines?
How many are you fred? My place might be available in August.

Creative idea how to to fund it? The biggest need in the valley right now are capable engineers, UI, UX and project managers. This is a kooky for certain, but if you want to be original and a hero you could connect European talent with valley companies that are paying $2-$5k for candidate leads. Or find a way to virtually bring that talent to the area.
Every nvidia card since the GeForce 8xxx series beginning supports vdpau (save for a few exceptions), and even a few from the 7xxx series.

And if you don't have nvidia, sucks to be you for buying from a video card mfg that doesn't make nice things for its users.
Just curious why the 3 year requirement. I'd think that some quite awesome technologies can live and die in that amount of time.
From the page it sure sounds like they are just targeting internal apps for now. They made a specific note about customer facing websites:

"You will also use App Engine for Business to run publicly accessible apps, such as your company's website or service. We’re still working out the details on pricing for that, so stay tuned."

So stay tuned!
> Not that I care too much about super secure secret searches, but if they're advertised as such they should be.

Exactly. Sure you could use Tor and disable everything and log on a random wifi from a stolen computer that will then be smashed to bits and melted, but that's beside the point; if DDG advertises privacy, it should do everything it can to deliver on that promise.
http://code.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Droid+Sans
I keep trying to find a cloud service that will let me back up all my computers (3TB) for a reasonable price ($<500/yr) and let me manage it (no Backblaze, Mozy, etc.)

It continues to amaze me that nothing comes close to simply colocating a NAS.

This has to be a problem that affects absolutely every computing professional (and even a lot of nonprofessionals--gamers, ad agencies, etc.). How can the only viable solution be roll-your-own?

And if you think about it, even colocating 3TB is horribly inefficient. Splitting a Backblaze Pod 20 ways might cut the cost in half.
I can't figure out what the trivial fix is. Would proxying all S3 requests through his server fix the issue, or do the headers get passed through to Amazon anyway?
> "I stop using Adobe, and my PDF reading is faster and my machine has more cycles I can use."

Great. I agree that Adobe has some pretty shitty software. No doubt.

My point is that Apple has some shitty software as well. iTunes comes to mind.

---

Shitty Adobe software: "I stop using Adobe"

Shitty Microsoft software: "I stopped using Micro$oft"

Shitty Apple software: <insert external fault here>
The windows blog post only mentions the vp8 codec. No mention of container formats, webM, etc.

We don't know anything about WebM and IE9 <video> tag support.
When a guy running for one office uses the power of his current office to smack down critics, then it gives off a bad smell.

Think about this: if the AG was somebody other than Candidate Corbett, would he have started this inquisition? Highly unlikely, imho.
Do More with Google Latitude and Your Location Using the New Latitude API
This says that they'll support VP8 as an installed codec, but this doesn't tell us much about WebM. What about the container format, Matroksa? Vorbis audio support?
Continuous Deployment has been a tremendous boon to us at CollegeJobConnect. We make it work by:

- Being maniacal about integration tests
- Manually testing key flows (user registration in particular)
- Hoptoad exception tracking coupled with push email
- cap deploy:rollback

When you have production database migrations things get a little trickier. We are still looking for better ways to handle migrations in general, including leveraging systems like MongoDB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxGtPAhkEQU
A couple quick thoughts pop in to my mind:

1) A rising tide lifts all boats. I suspect this isn't a zero-sum game.

2) Chrome Web Store appears to be more geared towards desktop web apps. We're solely focused on mobile web apps. This is a key differentiator as the use case, experience, and expectations are all different. But Google pushing web apps as a legit form of apps will help us as we push mobile web apps as a legit form of mobile apps.
The real term is lateral thinking.
Why I Love Reading Other People’s Code And You Should Too
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Checkout by Amazon, Amazon Simple Pay, Amazon Flexible Payments Service
https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/index.htm

...and yet, people don't run to it.
It doesn't find out what hardware it's running on. The stock kernel has a driver for the TPM module. When it doesn't find a TPM module the kernel panics. You have two options, emulate a TPM module with the correct keys, or replace the driver with one that gives the kernel the answer it wants.

This is the basis for the "hackintosh"

I'd hazard a guess that it would be pretty easy to get this going on VirtualBox using iBoot + Multibeast.

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/
i liked the 4.7 logo, i´ll buy the t-shirt
I don't think they are saying that creativity and schizophrenia have the same mechanism but rather that there is just a partial correlation.
Just last week they announced that IE would only support the H.264 codec. They didn't get into details but it was clear that even if you had e.g. Theora installed they wouldn't use it for HTML5 video tags.

This appears to be a partial reversal of that so that VP8 will be whitelisted and played as long as it's installed, but other random codecs won't. Which is probably a sensible security precaution.
Indeed, I'm the youngest person at this particular office and I dread going to group lunches and having to hear about husbands, kids, mortgage payments, and other stuff I just don't deal with at this point.

The biggest thing for me is having to pretend...this false maturity is tiring. Definitely not a good sign, but yeah. At least, around folks your own age you can let loose a bit.

On the other hand, having older folks around (who are the same ages of my parents in my case), gives me room for lots of great advice about the stuff I don't care about now like kids, houses, cars, etc. from folks that aren't my parents.

It's a balancing act--be sure to keep up with folks your age outside the office. And when you're at work, if you can, catch up with somebody who's like-minded, even if they're older...they're not mutually-exclusive.
Will Generation Y Be In Deep Trouble? - Globalization
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>We don't expect everyone to have perfect pitch so why is it more reasonable to expect everyone to be a good writer?

Because not everyone has to sing in everyday circumstances, but they do have to communicate.

Although it would make annual performance reviews much more entertaining...
How not to respond to constructive criticism
Let's see what they looks like on a variety of browsers:

http://browsershots.org/http://code.google.com/webfonts
Historically, shifts in enterprise communication happen every 20 years, and with the millennial generation, this shift will be from email to activity streams.

As a 'millenial', for actual business communication, I strongly prefer email.
Isn't this sent by the user's browser, and not by DDG? It's a client-side configuration issue -- turn off referrers in your browser. Your browser would send the same header if you clicked through a DDG search result.
Too bad they were looking at his page: http://www.facebook.com/markzuckerberg

Not his profile: http://www.facebook.com/zuck
Listeners of TWiST get free admission to Launch Conf
Just FYI in case you want in but didn't listen to the latest TWiST podcast:

In case you are interested in going to the Launch Conference, Jason Calacanis' new version of TC50, in San Fran, you can listen to his podcast "This Week in Startups" 10 times between now and then to score a free ticket. The kicker is you have to listen live (which I never do). Each of the 10 times you have to check in with the moderator (Roberta?) in the live chat room and there will also be a tweet each time. Especially if you're already local or know for sure that you will go, seems like a good way to save a few hundred bucks.
That's not his profile, it's his Facebook 'page'.

His profile is here: http://www.facebook.com/zuck

It's pretty open ... he's got his birthday on there for example. And his last posting was yesterday at 9.53am.