skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow this looks great. Just include the stylesheet and use the font in your CSS.

Seems like the big type foundries are going to regret dragging their feet on agreeing to a reasonable scheme for web fonts. I know that these are probably inferior in some ways to commercial fonts, but it will be a steep hill to climb to get people to pay for fonts if this project gains traction.
Charge double the hourly wage you would work for as a full-time employee. If you're worth $25/hr as an employee, then $50/hr would be about right for freelancing.

A more in depth look: http://www.antipode.ca/2009/what-your-time-is-worth/
"As we said at MIX recently, when it comes to HTML5, we’re all in." Canvas too?
Obviously a desire to avoid being sued for patent infringement. But, with google shipping VP8 as part of chrome, wouldn't any patent holders go after them as well? Doesn't google provide some form of air cover for other browser makers that might want to include VP8 in their browser?
Again, can you be more specific? Which API: Visualforce, Apex, web services, chatter, ... ? What about it needs improvement?
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Afaik R3D is a separate codec.
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EnterpriseAdoptionDate = EarlyAdoptionDate + 5 years // that is all

[EDIT: Changed "OpenSourceAdoptionDate" to "EarlyAdoptionDate". Thanks, coderdude.]
....but does it support a root index.html file? This is like the only thing that keeps me from hosting static sites entirely on S3.
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Doesn't seem to work on the iPad.
Personally, I think you need to provide more to be a 50/50 co-founder if you're not helping to build the product, and you only want to give equity.

Just my two cents.
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While I'm glad to see Oracle are pushing the development of VirtualBox, I'm fearful they will make it 'not-free' and try to price it like VMware Workstation. I have the same fear for MYSQL. Let's hope Oracle have the sense not to tinker too much.
This is an example of an obvious idea - only it won't be obvious until people start using networked computers for some time and realize the need. Unfortunately we have a low bar for what is not obvious, e.g. when no one else has yet had the need for it. Being the first to do something should not give anyone the right to prevent others from doing it.

Patents are a net cost to society, and software and business patents are teeing up to explode those costs. A large tax on the real economy this way comes, with the spoils largely to lawyers and financiers who produce nothing of real value.
Likely it is the opposite though. Wood flooring is more $$ than vinyl flooring...
The editorialization in the title is unnecessary.
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14 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319430
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Is that how they figure out when to buy new copies of Windows? The article doesn't mention open source software.
Been wanting to take the same journey! Will check your blog.
I find that the reason that older people in management are slow to adopt new technology has little to do with their generations. It has more to do with the fact that their time is extremely valuable and they don't have a lot of it. Investing time in learning new technology just isn't worth it for them.

I've seen plenty of older people who are unemployed adopting social media and other new technology. Their time isn't that valuable, so they make the effort to learn the new stuff. They're same generation as the folks in management, but the value proposition of investing time in learning technology is very different.
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Ha. Because all serious coders across all industries use GitHub, or have at least heard of it. Come on.
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Soo, it looks like the store is kind of advanced app review directory where instead of urls you click on shortcuts which smartly translate the url into an icon + metadata inside the browser, i.e. "install" the app, and if need be charge you for that.

Seems like a problem will be with having to pay for something which you can get for free by just going to the web site directly. If on the other hand developers don't allow direct access to the apps via normal urls, then obviously the competitors will do.

So, the store will be filled with loads of free apps, promoting paying versions. That's probably how its best to be used.
I will be downmodded that much, that I would see the core of Earth, but I have to say it: "a tool for encouraging innovation into a panicked land grab" was the primary goal. Think: who was the people who created patents young/pour inventors, or elite ones that wanted protection from the hungry ones?

It was known even to them that patents were a tool for controlling innovation to their interests (unnaccessible fees, even to poor people). The point is a "patent" of an "invention" should be a right of a citizen, without additional fees. It's not a product, it's a right within the community!

EDIT: We all want to believe that our founders were truly ingenuous good people. But the truth is, they'll never be.
They don't have many fonts available yet, but if there is something I've learned about Google is that they always think big. Maybe in a couple of days they will announce the buy out of one of the foundries?

Here's hoping...
I'm glad to see some more of the common pieces of the internet hosted more centrally. There are issues with one company being in control of these things, but we gain a lot of benefits by having standard fonts and libraries available. These benefits include better caching and ease of patching.
Can you point to a link for this, or briefly explain? Are you connecting vbox to a debugger?
Right. As far as I understand, this is untenable legally anyway. The MPEG group has the authority to sue anyone and everyone in violation (including the end user). Google is obviously not offering to pay damages in all of those suites.
Looks like their 'waitlist' is a google docs spreadsheet+form. Which, incidentally isn't loading. I'm not sure how well that bodes from a capacity planning standpoint.
My sneaking suspicion is that the video element in IE 9 will happily play any video for which a codec is installed. It'll of course guarantee H.264 since the codec ships with all supported versions of Windows, but there's no real reason for it to refuse to play a video it has a codec for.
Interesting, it appears to be serving @font-face fonts with browser-specific stylesheets. Firefox gets a tag with src: local('name'), while IE doesn't. More details here: http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/docs/technical_consider...

This server-side logic makes it more than just a font-face repository like I initially assumed. If you feel like rolling your own and not using Google's, you can easily download font-face kits from fontsquirrel.com.
But the time required to learn a new technology, at least enough to use it successfully, is much lower for "millenials." And it's scary low for the kids in middle school now, who learned how to spell from animated computer programs and could probably click a mouse before they could write. I think your point is valid, that the older management don't have the time, but I'd say because of the difference in time it takes to learn, younger management would be able to make the time for a new system.

This generation gap is apparent to me, and it's all the more frustrating as I consider myself an outlier in it. I'm young (firmly in the middle of the millenials by this definition), but I identify more with the values and communication styles of the older generation. I love the technology behind it, but I don't use it. This leaves me with the prospect of looking like a horrible anachronism when myself and my peers are in the positions of power.
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So when I go to management and let them know that I've spent my less valuable time and figured out a way to speed up our process, they should then either trust me and let me implement it, or spend the time and evaluate for themselves if I'm correct. When management says their time is too valuable to learn how to do their job more efficiently, they're just bad managers. It would be like a programmer entering a bunch of data by hand over and over again because it might take too long to figure out how to automate it. It may not pay off immediately, but it will in the long run.

It seems to be a misconception of older people that a manager's time is too valuable to learn new things. I don't know why that is... it just always seems that way to me. Maybe you can enlighten me...
"You have maximum freedom of speech for political purposes. But if you have malice towards a person for political reasons, and are saying things you know to be inaccurate in order to hurt them, and you have hurt them in some way (perhaps instigating an investigation you know to be spurious) you've crossed the line and should be subject to civil action from the person you are purposely harming. That's not a criminal thing, but a civil thing."

I agree, but the US doesn't hold political figures to this standard. Two wrongs don't make a right, but the principle you outline isn't universally applied in the US.
That's a terrible example to draw from. Your lawn might look great when they get done with it, because I doubt those gardeners were the people that designed their truck's advertising. They probably hired some guy to do it for $300.
The post by Jason Garrett-Glaser (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361442) suggests this move might be strange for Mozilla since there's a high chance that VP8 will be patent trolled soon.
Typekit doesn't work with iPhone-OS Webkit either (our designer put a bunch of typekit goo on our site).
I just tried it in IE7, and the JavaScript from Google causes an error. The font still renders, however.
While it is too early to comment about wave specifically, I wonder how a big company would handle a flop of such a product. A flop being lack of expected level of usage.
Well, Salesforce should have done their homework, the first thing you have to do (when you start to get pretty big) is check if you infringe any patents.
The article states that there are 9 suicides among 400,000 Foxconn factory workers in China in half a year. The suicide rate in China is 14 per 100,000 ♪. Thus the Foxconn employee suicide rate is significantly less (9 vs. 28) than the expected amount.

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> 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.

This is the scary one. The other points are simply a matter of improving the spec / technology.

edit: read comment #16

"Actually ripping of H.264 may be a way to avoid submarine patents.

By having design so similar, Google only has to worry about MPEG-LA patents.

So there is a known, finite list of patents to review.

Given bizarre tweaks and omissions in VP8, I suspect that’s exactly what they did – looked at claims on H.264 and tweaked VP8 just a little to avoid crucial points (remember in patents you have to infringe all points in a claim, if you infringe 2 out of 3, then you’re safe)."
Kilimanjaro called it yesterday :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357578
So... I'm not sure I get this. We built a webapp on AppEngine and would like premium support/sla. Is this meant for developers like us too?
It would be unfortunate if they decided to start charging for the free edition, however most of the product is GPLed. The only parts which are not open source are a machine-level RDP server, USB support, and USB over RDP (see http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions). I'm sure the community would fork it if Oracle closed it up.
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Sure it's a solution. It's not the only solution, but neither is in-lining the footnotes or placing them nearby.

Placing them at the end of the page has size-issues if fonts are changed. A moderately long foot-note could crowd the entire page if font sizes were increased. The point of footnotes is they are ancillary information that can be skipped if desired. If footnotes have to flow across to another page (or fill a page), then you've introduced an annoyance for the user as they are no longer easily avoidable.

Placing them inline has issues if you only want to read some of them and not every single one.

End-notes are another use-case that can be handled in pretty much the same way as footnotes if you have a touch screen (or a decent pointing device) and is handled horribly on the Kindle.

Just because there's a decent solution for the paper variety doesn't mean the digital variety needs to handle it in the same way. I resisted touch-screens for a long time, but it's clear this is a very good use-case for them.
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I think the people downmodding jrockway are reading him way too literally. He has a point.
Yet another attempt by Google to control our words and by proxy, our minds. Once everyone depends on this font API to make their social mobisodes pretty, Google will do some clever pixel altering to insert favorable articles about itself into the New York Times. They'll change the Chinese government's website to say "we suck", and a virtual stop-hitting-yourself slapfight will spillover into real world bloodshed.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
As the article mentioned, you can see the implementation in wild here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
I think those are both the same thing. Plugging it would allow them to redrill later in a different location. Salvaging it immediately would allow them to do both at the same time.
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Confusing.. why would I use this instead of S3 which costs less, has proven itself over the last four years (OK, not 100% but damn close), and has countless client programs and libraries?
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The implication is that Microsoft realizes that some people, believe it or not, might want to use VP8 in a context other than web video, and so the proper place for the codec is installed as part of the system, where it can be used by all video playback software, instead of built into the browser where it is only useful for web video.
Though if Oracle had actually put "Oracle aren't going to kill this project" on the page, my opinion of them would have gone up 1000 points.. :-)
i came up with a term for this ability to be both very creative and loose and random while also being able to switch into a very logical, analytical, judgemental, executive mindset:

groglogic

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This release introduces MacOS guest support, but the license agreement for MacOS states that it must not be run on non-Apple hardware. From the VirtualBox manual:

"Mac OS X verifies whether it is running on Apple hardware, ...these restrictions are not circumvented by VirtualBox and continue to apply."

Wonder how long until someone patches the source to remove this check. A guest OS shouldn't be able to snoop and find out what kind of hardware the host OS is running on...smells like a hack.
Netcraft confirms... sorry.

I've never understood why low cost router and firewall software has tended to use Linux rather than OpenBSD or NetBSD, which has by and large pulled the security advantages from OpenBSD.
No, I don't think so. Until the URL concept is dead, it will always be easier to promote your web site directly, via multiple reviews, affiliates, other software, etc etc. Google app store will be just one of these.
Safari is based on Webkit, which is also part of Chrome
-Exactly. How do you have one without the other?

If obvious patents are granted, society will be giving it's protection at a net loss. For society there is a cost incurred in enforcing protection as well as an opportunity cost in forbidding competition (assuming you believe competition creates better products). This trade-off could be worth it, but only if if the invention would not have emerged, or would have taken a long time to emerge, without protection.

-Should Microsoft (or any other patent holder) go to court and argue on the basis that society is not being well served?

Absolutely not. They should never have to argue for anyone but themselves in court. Microsoft is just playing the patent game by the rules that exist today. My problem is with a system that is neglecting its purpose. The problem seems to be rooted in patent rules that are massively out of touch with the current state (and pace) of technology.

-Any article that simply refers to a patent abstract as proof of the triviality of a patent is itself trolling. Patent abstracts offer a very broad description; it is the detailed body of the patent that distinguishes it.

You're absolutely right in saying that it's not fair to criticize a patent simply by its abstract. The problem is that often the detailed description in the body of the patent is far too broad. Many patents have less to do with a specific invention and more to do with gaining blanket coverage of a large swath of IP. This is the game that large companies and their patent lawyers are playing. I would argue that a system where "he who has the most lawyers wins" is very counterproductive to invention and innovation.
Anecdote: I've been regarded as a good programmer, and my sister is schizoaffective.
Did you actually read the patent?

I am very familiar with reimaging machines from a central server, booting machines off of remote images, and roving profiles. All were in use before this technology. None fits the claims of the patent in any way. The key point of the patent being that it lets you get incremental updates to software whenever you want. The incremental bits avoids having to copy the whole thing, which is important when your connections aren't that good.

Incidentally rsync was publicly announced in 1996 so I very strongly doubt that they were using it in 1995.
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I'm in a very small company. I am the youngest employee. I'm not certain of the exact age difference, but I suspect I'm on the order of 25 years younger than the next youngest employee.

This company was founded by people who all worked at another place and started their own show. They are all doing things they would never have dreamed of doing 3 years ago, let alone 10. There is blogging, talk of twitter, talk of facebook... social media is one of the new favorite words of the president.

I don't think the generation gap really drives the technology change. Sure, young people may be able to change faster, but old people can still get it when it makes sense to.

That said, I wish there were some younger people around... it's hard to relate to their discussions about kids, houses, etc...
Thanks for the great write-up Jason. I had no idea you were a junior at Harvey Mudd. I remember when you helped me on an IRC channel when I was writing a patch for FFmpeg. I thought you had many years more experience than me when you were only a year older the whole time. Very impressive!
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Anger and fights seems to be a big part of your workflow...
Link? Would love to see it...
I use it to catch up on the news during my morning bus ride. There are bugs, but the small speed and interface differences compared to Mobile Safari keep it preferable for scanning lots of text in lots of small articles.
Well what seems the most likely is that they fear a bit of a patent war around it and want to be sure they won't be held responsible.
Speak for yourself. Plenty of bootstrapped startups grow very slowly over 3+ years and earn around $100k per month which would technically put them above $1m/year.
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Good catch, really. Trivial to fix fortunately. Not that I care too much about super secure secret searches, but if they're advertised as such they should be. And even then, you probably should assume they're not. (secret).
Nah, they just want to move people out of making graphics they can't crawl/translate/etc and instead encourage people to use a textual format that Google (and anyone else) can index.
I wanted to check it out at their web site, but it insisted that I upgrade to the latest version of Silverlight before they would deign to show my any of their content. Some people spend hours trying to get page-glances turned into users with minimal impedance; some people apparently do the exact opposite.

http://www.modelingtheworld.com/
I absolutely agree. The fact that I know of 2 independent reinventions in the period between filing and issuance underscores your point.

But the recollections of the Marimba founder, and my memories of how people around me reacted to apt, both confirm my point that the technology seemed very innovative to most people at the time.
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I wonder if the whole would make sense or just be a big haphazard mess with only local coherence?...
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More discussion going on over here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361543
It's HTML and javascript ffs, there is no lock-in.
This part was interesting to me:

VP8 is simply way too similar to H.264: a pithy, if slightly inaccurate, description of VP8 would be “H.264 Baseline Profile with a better entropy coder.

Then later, about the encoder:

there were comments describing bugfixes dating as far back as early 2004. That’s right: this software is even older than x264!

Wouldn't that mean that VP8 didn't copy if the software is older? Prior art? I mean, you can't write an encoder for a spec that doesn't exist. IANAL, so I'd like some info here.
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The smaller codebase may be easier to secure, but the OBSD folks had problems with Apache's version 2 license changes, which they characterized as "less free".
On2 announced some stuff with ARM a couple of years ago, apparently they worked together to both design and optimize VP8 for the ARM platform, including NEON.

And one of the low cost platforms for Android phones had a mysterious "On2" hardware acceleration block on their schematics at least 6 months ago.

A quote from ARM today on the VP8 announcement:

The efficient processing is helped by the fact that the VP8 codec is already optimized for Cortex-A/v7A class processors with the NEON SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) engine. NEON allows the ARM CPU to work on multiple bits of data in parallel, and optimizations for ARM11 processors are also available

http://blogs.arm.com/software-enablement/support-for-vp8-and...
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That day will come as soon as we're all using Chrome OS.
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