skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found a place to stay for a while on airbnb, but that ended up fairly expensive. In the end, trawling Craigslist really is your best bet (although homeaway.com or vrbo.com are also fairly decent options).

For funding, you need to get in touch with the angel network here. YC folks are certainly a good start.
Looks like it isn't available for the free version:

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-wave-lab...

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/wave.html

I may be wrong though
We're bringing 5 people in. We have a bigger budget than that - we're still trying to figure out how much exactly but i'd say around $3k/month is the max we can do. I love the hacker dojo suggestion! More places like this where we can hang out instead of just working out of whatever place we find are definitely welcome.

Thanks!
Right, but the MPEG-LA’s strategy has always been to hint about possible upcoming litigation while never actually launching a suit.
I'm not an expert on this, but I believe that Apple's App Store agreement mandates that in-app purchases go through Apple.
It doesn't need to be the standard. Chrome now supports WebM, H.264, and Theora. Mozilla's position is that we will support multiple high-quality, open, and royalty-free standards if they are available:

"We believe that it is in the public interest for HTML5 video to be backed by multiple, open and royalty-free codecs available in a way that is consistent with the W3C license standards. We would absolutely consider H.264 if MPEG LA would make it available under open web terms as defined by the W3C standards. We stand by our position on Theora." (Mozilla press statement)
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Defending your IP is not the same thing as using patents as a weapon to go after a specific company that you see as a strategic threat.
I like free web sites. If companies somehow can pull that off, more power to them.
Changing the batteries in the control panel that caused the blowoff mechanism (or what ever it was) to mal function.
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I had a similar workaround in a project, it did something like this:

{% form.name|attrs:"class='foo', maxlength=20" %}

If Django templates allowed function calls however (as Jinja2 does) that would eliminate the need for a lot of these tags.
Same Here. My organization run backend on ubuntu machine, but as I am both a backend and frontend developer, I run Ubuntu as my base OS (for backend) and Win7 (for frontend), as Host OS on VirtualBox.
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This is a tremendously useful resource, with all the major players compared/contrasted. This could save a lot of people a lot of hard work.
They've been quiet about adding other codecs to the player, but considering Google's recent support for Adobe, I can see how they could easily ask Adobe to add that in support of them. Not to mention that they would need to do it for FP to remain relevant as a rich video player layer.
Take a look at the changes to pf.conf when upgrading.
I think it's reasonable to be overly critical of the source code quality based on the factors he cited (the lack of a real spec and the extreme age of the codebase) - if the code is the only thing we have to go by in many cases, it had better be pristine.

Hopefully there's some sort of a real specification forthcoming and it just isn't ready for release yet.
Thanks for the alternative sites! We've been looking at airbnb actually. We'll go through the others. Much appreciated!
I don't think it stems from really increasing the author pool so much as reducing the amount of effort put into editing the material. A good editor can dramatically improve legibility, but few bloggers are paying for it.
I thought this was particularly interesting:

With regard to patents, VP8 copies way too much from H.264 for anyone sane to be comfortable with it, no matter whose word is behind the claim of being patent-free.

Google isn't indemnifying those who might use VP8, right?
Why would they switch to a poorly specified format that uses more CPU (battery), and delivers poorer video for the bit?

(See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361442)

How long until Google releases a real specification? (the current one is quite bad, it would be frightening to design silicon from blocks of uncommented C code lifted from the on2 implementation and foisted off as a specification. How long until someone writes an encoder that is incompatible with your silicon? Will it matter if it is your fault or theirs?)

How long until there are hardware VP8 decoders? (to save your battery)

How long until the patent holders decide to sue? (VP8 is extremely similar to H.264. They left out the most obvious IP in the algorithms, to their detriment, but only the patent owners know if they will sue. Though, I wonder if licensing the MPEG-LA properties covers VP8 decoders as well. If so, then Apple won't care, they already license.)
Last time I experimented with OpenSolaris, it seemed as though it was very useful for Java development, but not a whole lot else. It might have changed since then though.
I love this thing but it goes through too frequent updates. They just had 3.1.8 9 days ago and now they have 3.2. It's not quiet about the updates either, so I feel bad if I don't upgrade. I wish updates had known release dates, except where security bugs are fixed.
I tried browsing to https://www.google.com/a/mydomain.com/ on my domain that has Apps Standard. I get:

>> Service not available

>> This service is not enabled for mydomain.com. If you believe this is an error, please contact your domain administrator or try again with the following link.

>> http://wave.google.com/a/mydomain.com

I don't see anywhere in the Dashboard to enable it, either. Bummed.
Not very promising. I'd think that VP8 would need to be decidedly superior to H.264 in order to become a universal standard. Maybe Google should have acquired Red?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/red-blows-away-small-room...
The essence of entrepreneurship is "quid pro quo" please don't get into the habit of begging. Stay in an entrepreneurial mindset by thinking about how to create value or at least barter services. To understand who in Silicon Valley needs charity visit a Salvation Army location or a homeless shelter before you portray yourself "in need" of a donation.
My startup, AppStoreHQ (http://www.appstorehq.com), has been private alpha testing a mobile web app (HTML5) app store for the past couple months. It's been working out great and having Google come in for standard web apps should be a big wind in our sail, I think.

Our mobile web app store focuses on distribution and monetization of developers' work.

Here's an example app (it's an HTML5 frontend to foursquare) called fortysquires:

http://www.fortysquires.com

And it's purchasable from AppStoreHQ:
http://www.appstorehq.com/fortysquires-mobilewebfoursquarecl...

It's also open source (so you can see how simple the API to interact with us is): http://github.com/iseff/fortysquires
Procrastinate less by forgiving yourself
That was my thought too.

At the risk of being snarky, I read this article as: Boring exposition, boring transition, finally some data and then a hedged conclusion with no suggested solution.

This article had impeccable grammar I'm sure, but I hardly cared because it had a weak, watered-down message.

For a tech analogy, it's a bit like web service uptime.

- No one will care unless something's wrong
- It doesn't provide a net gain, it only prevents a net loss
- It only matters if it's worth reading anyway
Which of those are we seeing on this live stream?

http://code.google.com/intl/pt-BR/events/io/2010/session-sch...

Also, what's the GMT of the schedule?
It's a decent Unix OS. It's as comfy as any modern Linux distro.

Much nicer than, say, AIX for a development desktop.
> That said, I've been reading through the libvpx source for the past 20 minutes or so. Jason repeatedly slams the quality of the source. The code is much cleaner than he suggests and rather well-commented.

It is possible he had an older revision of their code. Since he didn't say how he obtained it early, it may have not been through official channels.
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After doing Java for some time I did a reasonable sized project in Scala. What I found was that Java was easier to learn but as I tried to do more with it I started missing simple things like first class functions. With Scala, it took a little more effort to learn but it was easier to accomplish more.
A fair amount of people have complained that they switched to Chrome from Firefox because FF is overly bloated, takes a long time to start up, and so on. Seems to me that a browser that also runs separate apps like this would take a considerable hit in load times and performance.
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Better testing methods for the equipment and more redundancy would also have made it a LOT less likely.
Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory
I agree, but come to the opposite conclusion. The year of linux will come, but people want know or care what linux is (except the nerds).
iPad compatible?
Being Bad at Relationships Is Good for Survival
You're complaining that standard parsers give you extra information about the document being parsed? Another thing that might annoy you: even though comments are "ignored", many XML parsers generate comment nodes in the DOM. This allows you to produce an output document that is exactly equivalent to the input document.

If a node doesn't mean anything to your application, ignore it. If you're an XHTML parser, the whitespace is significant, so you need to handle it. If you're a FooML parser, the whitespace is insignificant, so just ignore it.

If you hate XML, this is not a particularly good justification.
i wasn't talking about speech in general, I was talking more about the "they said something critical about me...subpoena them" sort of actions.

but yes both parties are shitty when it comes to free speech....ex: both support free speech zones etc.
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Agilewords moves into public Beta
I don't understand the last point: if I can only purchase and install them from Chrome, how do I run them in another browser? Just point the non-Chrome browser at the (un-DRMed?) local install after purchasing/installing with Chrome?
Anatomy of a Typeface
Thanks for the advice. Any advice on the best scripting languages to play with on this? I've got some experience with python and I'm working on getting better, but I don't know if there's a better choice in this domain.

Industry or a different academic program are both options in my head right now. I don't love the idea of leaving my PhD but I also don't love the idea of spending more years on something I find uninteresting.
A touchscreen is not the solution to the footnote problem. Rendering the footnote near the place in the text where it appears is. (Ever read one of those dead-tree books? That's what they tend to do.)
? I'm not seeing any mention of VP8 there.
A choice between a node and an attribute is not always clear, but there are helpful guidelines out there. A search for xml nodes versus attributes will give you a list of articles to ponder -- sorry for not being more detailed, but I am away from my archives, or else I could have given you links to the places that helped me to visualize it better. Here is one classic, though, from as far back as 1992: http://xml.coverpages.org/attrSperberg92.html

EDIT: ok, the first link is to an IBM Research article which I recall having been useful: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-eleatt.html
It is decidedly superior: it has a free licence. If that’s not important to you then you won’t be fussed by this announcement, but for the rest of us this is a big deal.
That's a huge leap for him. It's true, it doesn't sound to dependable, but it might be worth the risk in the end.
Microsoft takes wraps off stealth plan to boost scientific modeling
So WebM support won't be added to Firefox 3.7?
> the article explicitly states that PosgreSQL cannot compete with Oracle, et al in the enterprise.

Don't forget the article is quite old.
I've read about billionaire hacker (forth one?) - can't remember his name.
The next minor update, 3.6.4, will have out-of-process plugins.
The invite only thing was a really bad idea. If it was meant to be a developer preview it definitely wasn't widely percieved that way. If it was an attempt to build up a following in the way gmail did then it was a total flop. People are bored of invites now.
This was simply an EPIC email exchange! The blogger made some really good points there. And Steve kept his cool remarcably well, until the end. It kind of makes you wish he hadn't pulled that "what have you done that's so great" card.
You're not getting the point. It doesn't matter that you provided an alternative, it's that you suggested the idea at all. That sort of sectarian bile I'd expect to find at Slashdot, not here.
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Yes thats true. It was a really cool time but now as you attend a demo event you just realise that we are all outdated guys who know each other and everybody know in what you are specialised and what you will do. And there are those who just do demos serialisation (demos look like the one you just made before) with neat tools and top algos which is becoming boring.
and you realise that their is no young flesh bringing new life and spirit to the whole thing.

we all grow old.
Quoted from "Summary for the lazy" aka tl;dr

"VP8, as a spec, should be a bit better than H.264 Baseline Profile and VC-1. It’s not even close to competitive with H.264 Main or High Profile. If Google is willing to revise the spec, this can probably be improved.

VP8, as an encoder, is somewhere between Xvid and Microsoft’s VC-1 in terms of visual quality. This can definitely be improved a lot, but not via conventional means.

VP8, as a decoder, decodes even slower than ffmpeg’s H.264. This probably can’t be improved that much.

With regard to patents, VP8 copies way too much from H.264 for anyone sane to be comfortable with it, no matter whose word is behind the claim of being patent-free.

VP8 is definitely better compression-wise than Theora and Dirac, so if its claim to being patent-free does stand up, it’s an upgrade with regard to patent-free video formats.

VP8 is not ready for prime-time; the spec is a pile of copy-pasted C code and the encoder’s interface is lacking in features and buggy. They aren’t even ready to finalize the bitstream format, let alone switch the world over to VP8."
Chrome does really well to make sure that one tab doesn't interfere with another. Furthermore these paid apps would only load when you want to use them. Why would running a paid app in a tab have anything to do with startup time or performance?
"The demoscene" can also refer to the largely overlapping subculture of tracker [1] musicians. There're a few well known electronic artists still using trackers today, like Venetian Snares [2], Bogdan Raczynski, and enduser.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_(music_software)

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjAwxG3q3Yo
This is really great and I've been waiting for GOOG to do this for a while. The web is the dominant platform for the future. Having companies like Google making rich HTML5 apps become the standard is a huge boon. Some have already asked us how this plays into Cloudomatic long term. Like Iseff said, it's a big wind in our sail. Not just ours or appstorehq's but for web app devs as a whole.
Sorry, that wasn't the best URL. Updated it to one with more info.
I agree with your observation. Also I think some of the posters here of HN are trying to hard to play devil's advocate based on how much they like that particular devil.
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It's still slow as hell, lagging behind as I'm typing.
Interesting timing. I guess they want to steal some press from Google.

OTOH, they already have lots of press today for the Salesforce suit.

I guess they prefer favorable press.
Beware VC's who claim to code.

You can sort this out like you sort out anyone else who makes this claim -- "oh, what's your github page". If they use the word "gitwhat?", then you should be suspicious. If they show you their page, then there's nothing to guess about.
Google I/O: Chrome Now 70 Million Users Strong
I think it's pretty obvious that once you put your photos on your Facebook (or other social media channel) profile they are pretty much public. I don't really understand why people would upload sensitive information about themselves in the first place.
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They are web apps. Basically, web pages. The idea is basically an extension to Chrome's existing Application shortcuts option in Chrome.
I stand (partially) corrected. This doesn't seem to be the main argument in all of the stories (see, for example, "freedom from porn"), but there has been a lot of noise in the discussion, so point taken.
Yeah, sorry 'bout that. I had initially phrased it as suspecting it was a criminal prosecution but being unsure from the article, but then realized that it must be a criminal case, given the grand jury PDF, since grand juries don't happen in civil cases. You must've gotten to my original post within the 3 or 4 minutes before I edited it. ;-)
Can the iPad run Chrome?
I sincerely doubt this is going to be the end of the Facebook era. There are way too many people using the service and only a tiny fraction of them are going to delete their profiles anytime soon.
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That Red "magic 4k codec" is complete vapourware. Also is it impossible to get an unbiased opinion from that demonstration in a room of Red fans.
Well, that's the end of H.264. Knowing that Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe won't be getting licensing fees for most Internet video is just wonderful.
Finally! I've had a sandbox account for the longest time, but for some reason they wouldn't give me an invite to my main account.

Edit: contact import from mail still seems a bit ropey...)

there's a HN wave if you search for 'news.Ycombinator, which has about 21 people on it. It's been moribund since October but I guess we can start adding to it again...
Ok, they've officially announced support now. No mention of which version of FP though.
Google Code Blog: Google Storage for Developers: A Preview
Some of these patents were assigned in the mid-90's. Where has Microsoft been all this time?

Patents should have an "enforce it or lose it" clause. Some of these may have been novel at the time of filing. However, after some time of being unenforced, they become standard practice in an industry. Then after 10 years of standard use some company comes out of nowhere and tries to enforce it? Too late.
Red's R3D codec was a modified JPEG2000. Perfect for its primary application, but intraframe only and a patent minefield.

http://peter.schlaile.de/redcode/

Great company and kit though.
IE9 will support VP8 and H.264 video
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Way to miss the point, Mark.

The issue isn't privacy per se, but the illusion that objects tagged as "Friends Only" are not as private as perceived — that 3rd party interests have access.
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further reading ---> http://rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=demoscene
I'm the founder of Braintrust, I wonder what I need to do now to differentiate from Wave...
Russian spammer advises Russian gov on antispam
Sigh. Mark Cuban, multi-billionaire doesn't care about your privacy. Film at eleven.
any tips?
To summarize large scale databases:

A) Running a payroll system is not a difficult software problem. A 400$ pc is significantly more powerful than the 80's mainframes that ran huge enterprises. The only real issue with such systems is the terrible state of in house “enterprise” software.

B) However, for those rare cases where you really need a monster of a database there are plenty of options. Teradata for example can be used when hundreds of HDD are just not enough.

So while Oracle can scale up (to B), it's rarely used in that capacity simply because it's not needed (see A). IMO, the only need to use Oracle is when it's possible to scale rapidly and money is not an issue.
I wonder if a side effect of WebM will be to push Ogg Vorbis into wider adoption? Platforms that want to play WebM will also decode Ogg, so why not support the audio-only format?
Just think of all the money they aren't making from the Pakistanis now.
Why VP8 instead of h264? VP8 will bring you firefox, which does support flash. h264 brings you i(Phone|Pod|Pad) and other hardware. Am I missing something?
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The IEBlog (and all other MSDN blogs) is down for maintenance and cannot take comments, which is why the post is on Windows Blog. People can voice feedback via the comments on the blog post should they choose to :)
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To be fair I think we can all agree that Microsoft's use of these patents is strategic. Lots of things can be strategic. The question is whether or not its right - which, since software patents are involved, a lot of people don't think it is.

(On the whole I don't think Apple have been doing so fantastically in the tech press with their current closed platform anyway.)
"The quality generated by On2’s VP8 encoder will probably not improve significantly without serious psy optimizations."

Fortunately, there are open video developers with experience building psychovisual optimizations for codecs like the VP3-derived Theora. This post from yesterday details some of the psy improvements coming soon to Theora:
http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/theora/demo9.html

So it might take a lot of work (it has for Theora), but I believe the potential for improvement is there.

P.S. Hello from a fellow Mudder!
aw, doesn't seem like pg's talk will be broadcasted
http://dl.google.com/googleio/programguide.pdf
WebM: Why We Should Be Excited
Not having to (eventually) pay royalties for serving H.264 videos could be a factor. This assumes that VP8 successfully stays clear of patent threats.
Of course; x264 isn't unique in its psy optimizations. x264 was not the first encoder to have good adaptive quantization and Theora, while late to the party, is moving that way too.
Free license is irrelevant if you're going to get your ass handed to you by MPEG LA in a patent lawsuit.
I had rc8 through an NDA which has now expired (hence why I waited until now to post the analysis).
This blog is the best technical blog I've found, period. Ever. I've worked on an implementation of H.264, so I enjoy the tech details, and I find his posts informative, insightful and well written.

This has to be said — there is so much mediocrity around.
It only drive 800 uniques? That is impressively low.

I used to buy a weekly link on a blog with 34 times less traffic than mashable. It was generally is a pack of maybe 10-20 other links. That sent me ~10,000-20,000 per week.

Other than SEO benefit, that's very disappointing.
Definitely. Vorbis is a good codec, too, so this is a win for everyone.
I say this with some reluctance because I've written quite a lot of Mono/C# code, but to me this absolutely proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the software patent threat from Microsoft is real and not just some abstract academic debate. I think I'll be limiting or scaling down my use of .NET on linux in future as a consequence.
My guess is that Wave is tied to Google's production infrastructure. So nobody can give you a local copy of wave without also giving you a local copy of everything from our storage technologies to our job scheduling infrastructure.

That ain't going to happen.
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Please don't pretend that some backwater nutjobs represent the whole of the state of Pennsylvania.
There's already a frontpage news regarding this... Why the dupes?
Going low res on H264 would do it. Users would blame that on the device!
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