skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that they should be. CSS is well understood by designers/programmers and doing animations all in JS is error prone and off course a CPU hog. Hardware acceleration is particularly important when you're talking about devices with underpowered CPUs (Android). On my iPad/iPhone CSS animations outperform JS animations by a ridiculous margin.
I will respectfully disagree here. Yes, you are totally correct that Adobe has released the specification for a lot of things. However, Adobe is still causing problems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC#RTMP_SWF_Verification. Right there we see that Abobe's Flash uses RTMP to stream video and servers can implement a simple ping request that the client has to return. This ping request is considered by Adobe to be a copy protection mechanism (similar to me putting a note on my unlocked door saying "please don't steal my stuff" I guess) and they have gone after people who have implemented it (more info: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/24/iplayer_xbmc_adobe_s...).

Flash is mostly open. There are still portions that Adobe isn't so open about. Plus, when something is created and maintained and extended by a single company, it's very different from something like HTML. I mean, Adobe can implement something, launch a working player and then tell people about the specification for it. At which point, alternative implementations are always behind. And there's a part of me that says that any situation where one company is essentially 100% of the market can't be open. Openness means coding to a spec and making sure that your stuff works on multiple implementations. If I'm a Flash developer, I'm not going to code to a spec - I'm going to code to the Flash player since it's the only implementation of the spec that people really use.

So, Adobe does restrict certain things, there isn't an open development of the spec ala HTML, they haven't open sourced the vast majority of the Flash player that doesn't rely on licensed technologies (and whose open-sourcing would greatly help). . . Adobe likes being the only game in town for Flash.

Frankly, even when you look at the WebM stuff, you can see that Google is trying to make it a place for more than just Google. The WebM project website (http://www.webmproject.org/) is actually copyrighted by the WebM Project - not Google! There's no Google branding - Google is barely mentioned more than other companies like Opera. That's open. I'm guessing Google would love contributions and enhancements from non-Google people. That's different from Adobe. That's a community process. And it is different.

Flash still feels very much under Adobe's thumb. No, it isn't closed like many technologies (and that's a positive thing), but there's a meaningful difference between the openness of Flash and the openness of HTML and other truly open technologies.
I agree with you that Lean & Bootstrapped are just buzzwords that say nothing about the product.

But I think MVP does. He's saying the product is simple. It's useful when giving feedback to know the author considers this a minimal product.
Unless you work in a large organization, the "system adminstrator" often isn't actually a System Administrator
Questions to ask before teleporting virtual machines with VPLEX
ISS, Shuttle transit the Sun
Thanks! I wonder how many hours the Amish put in?
I think that's a great idea. Also include "for ux people" (not just artists).
WRT to omega 3 supplementation (which I think is a good idea to balance out the surplus we get post-WWII of omega 6 fatty acids due to the shift to vegetable oils) I recommend Nordic Naturals. I buy half a years supply at a time (to avoid excessive heat or cold in shipping and to get a volume discount) and they maintain their freshness.

If you detect any rancidity you need to find another source.

For what it's worth, I too take essentially what you're taking: a private label knock off of the Centrum mature multivitamin (unless you're a menstruating woman you probably don't need iron supplementation and it can be harmful) and a fair amount of Vitamin D3, which I will be adjusting based on blood tests to figure out what's right for me.
Pledging support for VP8 doesnt mean they will stop supporting H 264. Will be a disastrous business move to do so with the current market penetration H264 has.
There's a pretty good course here:

http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/
Rape accused to be given anonymity
Check out: http://www.stickk.com/tour.php

You can pick a goal, set the stakes, select the friend you trust, and even get supporters -- all based on ideas from the field of behavioral economics.
($100 is a ton of money for socks, most people don't care enough to care about socks.)
BizSpark has an expiration date, as covered by a comment on Rob's blog:

http://blog.wekeroad.com/2010/05/19/no-sql-in-the-wild#comme...
Why Diaspora will fail
Want to know about Social Network Marketing ? It’ll cost you £3k..
You posted a pic spam link to your own blog.

I think the consequences were entirely intended.
"Yes," Horn answered, "In view of the marketplace uncertainties regarding patent licensing needs for such technologies, there have been expressions of interest from the market urging us to facilitate formation of licenses that would address the market's need for a convenient one-stop marketplace alternative to negotiating separate licenses with individual patent holders in accessing essential patent rights for VP8 as well as other codecs, and we are looking into the prospects of doing so."

I'll give the guy one thing -- he speaks good run-on.
I hadn't heard of it but I enjoyed this list of most-highlighted passages from the just-released Kindle edition: http://kindle.amazon.com/work/viral-loop-facebook-businesses...
How change makes a monkey of us all...
I wouldn't be too confident about Apple getting on board. They can easily treat it in the same way they've treated other free, popular, better than the proprietary alternative codecs like FLAC and Vorbis and simply ignore it in the hope that it'll go away.

They'll be under some amount of pressure as people will be able to view WebM in Safari via Flash which will make their browser a second class citizen compared with Chrome, Firefox and Opera. (A quicktime plugin will be released in a few weeks that will enable HTML5 in Safari as you currently can for Theora but Flash will probably quickly overtake it for installed base once it gets WebM support).

Hey, I've just realised that Macs come with Flash pre-installed, which curretly includes VP6 and soon will include VP8. Wonder what Steve thinks about that?
Jobs Responds to Google's WebM Video and Patent Questions Begin to Surface
I'll add something to consider:

Look at your % paid not only compared to total users.

Compare it to:

1. Last 30 days active.

2. Last 90 days active.

3. Last 180 days active.

Since free users dip off more typically than paid users comparing total paid to total users doesn't really make sense. It's better to look at it in terms of active.
Reminds me of the homeless guys whose pitch is something like "I don't want money for food, I just want to buy beer". They expect the honesty to work, but personally, I think that if you want to get wasted on beer, you should get a job. So while the pitch is unique and honest, they aren't getting any of my money.
It sounds like you're requiring users to sign up too early. Why not try to figure out what information they can only get by signing up and giving that to them up front? It doesn't add to your numbers, but it may lighten your memory load.
When you're saying this I'm thinking about Nostradamus, this 2012 phenomena and the bible. Things you can interpret in many different ways so that if one thing fail, you can reinterpret it and say "oh no the world shouldn't end in 2000, now it's obvious the year should be 2012".
I stand corrected. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Amix, there is also the user guide available:

* http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/VirtualMemoryUserGuide

Redis 2.2.0 will be a memory optimization release so even with VM disabled this new version of Redis is going to take a very small percentage of the current memory in order to store small lists and sets (for instance less than ~200 elements), like it happens already with hashes.
MVPs do not necessarily need to demonstrate economic viability. Some of the best ones I've seen can't be sold at all -- for example, Dropbox's MVP was a video of someone using the prototype of the product. The thing they're Viable at is that they're just good enough to start giving you actionable information about those big freaking questions about the market you have.

"Will people pay money for this? In numbers sufficient to pay for my rent? In numbers sufficient to compensate me for my risk?" are all big freaking questions, but for some startups they are logically after questions such as "Does anybody actually want a website which tracks when their baby has an excretory event?" (+)

+ : Yep.
When we make significant changes to elements that affect certain critical aspects of our site (a very limited number of specific places, like user registration) we sometimes walk through manually just so we can sleep a bit easier. To date, our test coverage has been sound and we haven't caught anything this way. It may be redundant but we like to see it for ourselves just to be sure.
No, he didn't.

Here's a slightly better article: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/australian-...

His passport was held for minutes because it was "very worn". Which, the newspaper tells us, is routine.

This is pretty transparently a non-event that is being played up for attention.
Is there a way to add Duck Duck Go to the firefox search bar? I really like using keywords to launch searches (since I use VIMperator) but I can't seem to add arbitrary keywords to my knowledge.
My current routine:

Wake up at 6:30 am, hop into the shower, make breakfast for us (me/girlfriend) .. Eat breakfast with girlfriend, usually we have a laptop with the news to see what's up, check the weather, etc and discuss whatever.

Then, drive girlfriend to work and then head to work. In summer, I usually biked to work and she drove but in the winter that's how it is.

In one week when I move to Toronto it'll be almost the same except we won't be driving and hopefully waking up a bit later (7'ish probably) as the girlfriend won't be working at her current place anymore. :)
I'll copy here what I wrote on GW's blog:

Thank you for taking the privacy of your users seriously! Most of us aren't spies or Chinese dissidents, but the principle of privacy is very important to me, and I'm glad to see that it is to you too.
To add it to the search bar, go to http://duckduckgo.com/ or https://duckduckgo.com/ (depending on if you want SSL or not), and click 'Add to Firefox' at the bottom.

To add it to the address bar, type about:config into the address bar, search for keyword.url and then change it to http://duckduckgo.com/?q= (or https://duckduckgo.com/?q= for SSL).
I'm curious as to why Google's OTA music and app sync didn't get people more interested yesterday. I was watching the keynote and all I could think was "oh man, that's awesome. I never have to use posTunes again!"
Well, a minimum of politeness in public is expected.

Me, I might have said "near totalitarian present", echoing in part ryandvm's comment. What really gets me, and could by many be counted as a final straw, was Jobs saying "the platform needs a HyperCard" and then his personally disproving RunRev's version: http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/revmobile-and-appl...
The iPad would also be an excellent adjunct device. As the price of such devices fall, the interface possibilities will become readily available.

Also, just having an Apple/Front Row style remote with a menu driven interface enables a whole lot.

The big attraction is the data. iAd style advertisements on these boxes will be a treasure trove of consumer data.
interesting! Hadn't heard of them before, will check one out sometime.
Odd. My 2.26ghz 13" MB Pro puts Safari at under 10% CPU usage for this; the CPU doesn't even clock over 1ghz running it.
Does anyone know what the belt of "scraps" between Mars and Jupiter is? Is there another "Kuiper belt" of sorts sitting right outside Mars?
Rob is primarily well known by those interested in Asp.net MVC - which, given its roots as a RoR knock-off (I say that with love), tends to mean MS web devs with an interest in OSS will have heard of him. He is also well known from his SubSonic project - an OSS ActiveRecordish ORM.

From your list of Technical Fellows it sounds like you're probably not a web dev, so you wouldn't have run into his stuff. An MS web dev these days would tend to list names like ScottGu, Haack, Hanselman, Conery, Walther, le Roy, Wilson, Verissimo, Lipton.

In other news, Anders is totally the cat's pajamas.
Chrome eats CPU like there's no tomorrow and the frame rate is around 15. Firefox doesn't even animate it.

Seriously, what is the point of this demos? It's like that Star Wars movie in ASCII. Interesting, but not very useful.
This guy clearly didnt watch the demo or read the developer docs.

And, I DO want a search based TV interface. I hate having to scroll through several screens to find the show that I want.
The highest I've seen was 20%, the lowest I've seen was about 0.01%. Partially depends on your market, partially depends on your traffic volume (so you can iterate on tests) and focus. Really you should be asking about the whole funnel and looking at NPV vs CPA or ROI or payback period, depending on your financial and funding picture. I consult on this type of stuff for a living while I'm bootstrapping my startup. I'd try sell to you but I already have one of your competitors as a client so I don't think that would be a good idea. :)
Vitamin B12 and folic acid, relatively large doses to prevent recurrence of deficiency, since regular dietary intake wasn't enough. Brand doesn't matter, since it's prescription-only. Non-vitamin supplements is Omega-3 if I haven't eaten much fatty fish lately, and fairly low doses of haem iron to keep my ferritin where it is.

I see no reason to take any other supplements, as my diet is fairly balanced, lots of vegetables, fairly good amount of fish (but could be better). I take enough pills already as it is due to chronic illness.

Besides, there's so much NONSENSE out there. NO, large doses of Vitamin C will not help for a cold. It will give you the runs, and harm your kidneys in the long run, but you're wasting your money. Get out in the sun in summer, eat vit D-rich foods in winter if you live in places such as Norway like I do, and otherwise take it easy. Eat vegetables, try to eat less processed food, remember that vit B12 only comes from animal sources (milk, eggs, meat - spirulina does NOT contain B12) and you should be good.
Getting EPG data is not a big deal, but may be costly if you plan to sell services based off it, e.g. a single Tribune (EPG data monopoly in the US) EPG data access costs around $10K. However, if you are developing apps for non-commercial purposes, e.g. open source, you can get this data for $20/year at http://www.schedulesdirect.org/.

The real problem is to access the video stream. Currently this is viewed to be illegal (see the lawsuit in 2001 that pretty much sank ReplayTV, http://www.eff.org/cases/newmark-v-turner).
From Super Geeky to the Small Print of UI
You clearly have not leased space in a building owned and run by accountants.

• 4:00pm? Shut it off. Leave the blowers going at least. (Had negotiate life support systems until 6pm in the next lease.)

• Long weekend? Shut it off.

• Compressor that drives the thermostat system fails? Get a cheap household unit from Harbor Freight. (Thunderously loud, ran nearly 24 hours a day, for a while anyway.)

• One of the two main air fans broken? Don't fix. Air still moves. It's ok, I can put on the hearing protection and work in the server room in the afternoons when my west facing office is uninhabitable.

• The remaining fan breaks on Memorial day weekend. Why‽ It was already running 24x7, this is just cruel timing! Now the building gets way too hot and starts transferring heat through the uninsulated walls into my machine room overloading my cooling capacity.
Right. Look at what Apple does with the very simple 6 button remote. The trick is to come up with the right contexts and choices to cover the easy 80% use cases.
Military Helicopter Murders Two Reuters Reporters - Video
Ask HN: A Wikipedia for books (ie, why isn't WikiSummaries more successful?)
I've recently been pondering the idea of a "Wikipedia for books" -- a site that houses a table of contents and synopses for every book. I would find something like this extremely useful, as there are many books that I either don't plan to read or not ready to read, but would like to get the general gist of, see the table of contents, get the main thrust of each chapter, etc. For most non-fiction books, this is enough to make me feel like I understand the argument the author is trying to make.

In researching this, I stumbled upon http://www.wikisummaries.org. It seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, except for one thing: it's not very popular and doesn't have any traction (to date it only seems to have 347 book summaries).

Wondering if anyone else would find this useful, and why you think this isn't more popular.
Seconded. I loved that episode (though it made me mad at GM and their unions...)
Linux users do have a decent flash player. We have hardware acceleration! Apple only recently released the required video API for the flash player.
I wonder how the love triangle between Tesla, Daimler and Toyota will play out. Does anyone know if Toyota and Daimler have ever collaborated before?
Wake up. Hit the alarm a few times.
Girlfriend says, tiredly "5 more minutes?" and I usually oblige.
Check (android) phone for messages that came in overnight, usually getting distracted by Gmail + Facebook notification emails in the process.
Coffee + RSS while she showers.
"Begin the triple-S and wash the previous evening off me".
It seems your philosophy is more along the lines of "Be so loud they cant ignore you" :)
William Gibson?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprawl_trilogy#Setting_and_them...
I think the "fake" interface ways more heavily on Apple's thoughts then sales numbers.
What is the difference in the "cheap" supplements and the ones you recommend? Cheaply manufactured doesn't imply that they are bad/worse.
I'd like to hear more about why you switched from Sinatra to Rails. I'm primarily an Asp.net MVC dev who plays with Python/Ruby on the side, but Sinatra really interests me.
Yeah there's no way a bunch of university students can compete with a big, established social networking site! Oh wait ...
The hit and miss analysis seems a bit off.

Seems downright biased to me. Bill was as prescient as one could expect with many of these points. Of course, his vision isn't perfect, but he does have a general gist of what would happen. Where he's been really wrong is how Microsoft and Windows would fit in, but he's bound to be biased about those factors!
http://survey.io/
RIP Rudin
E. M. Forester. He actually predicts something like blogging in The Machine Stops!
I'm interested, but I won't become excited until more details about how it will actually works and how I can actually use it become available.
Actually, with 2008 R2 the SQL Express limited has been raised to 10GB.
And/Or switch to 32nm. Runs much cooler at load.

I wish AMD would hurry the heck up with their 32nm as Intel is too pricey.
Jeez, I was waiting for the right moment to unload this limerick, this post seems ideal

There once was a lawyer named Rex
With a diminutive organ of sex
When charged with exposure
He replied with composure
De minimis non curat lex

This is a great way to remember this Latin phrase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis), which by the way is of interest to HNers, e.g. you don't report small items in your IRS return.
WRT to "be valuable to the team", it also matters how good/non-political your superiors are. I've been the key employee at a couple of small companies where political games at peer or above levels resulted in my getting purged ... and the company then having an hard and ugly death in pretty short order.

And there are zillions of well sourced accounts where the key technical people at companies big and not so big lost political battles and then their jobs or ability to accomplish anything and the company then suffering or worse.

A lot of this comes down to Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy:

"In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely."

I'm really bad at even detecting these games until it's too late, and of course it's hard for anyone who's focused on the goals of the company to fight those who are focused on their position within it.
I can't find any non wikipedia source for this news on the web though a friend of mine in the math department at Johns Hopkins University says that his dept chair sent out an email broadcast.

(For the uninitated, Walter Rudin is a distinguished mathematician. He wrote some Analysis texts that have been standard undergrad reading material for decades.)
Sorry, I'm just trying to be encouraging and to challenge the belief that there is no way out of this situation. It's fun to hack the brain, and to submit your lower brain systems to the will of your conscious brain. The short term may be hard and painful, but in the long term you'll feel better for it. It's not that different from studying hard or exercising.

This is my humble opinion, and your mileage may vary...
Also arrived at via http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/usenet_duke_server/ , which also has a link to a 1992 history (http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Internet/HaubenEvolutionNet... ).

By the way, not all in the Duke piece is to be taken as gospel. I think the 1983 "get a file from one computer to another across the country" may actually have been UUCP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP ). And Arpanet was already on, with FTP, etc. although at relatively few sites.

(A couple of years later, getting a complete Emacs tarball from prep.ai.mit.edu was still a sporting proposition - watching hash characters march across the terminal on an ftp without auto-resume - actually, no resume at all, just retry ...)
Now that I've seen the post in question, the easiest answer is that the submission just isn't funny.
Yeah, I recognize the irony. :)
Nope, not a secret ad. While Sokanu can help people by helping them find their passion, it has nothing to do directly with the issue of globalization and it's economic effects.
Perhaps a good spurring for everyone else than Apple to pick up pace and get with implementing specifications for their browsers.
Here are stats for Evernote:

1.8% of users (6% of active users) have converted to premium users.

http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2010/03/26/evernote-freemium-busin...

http://mobile.venturebeat.com/2010/03/26/freemium-summit-eve...
I don't really have any stake in this, but if you contrast the ethos of their 1984 commercial with some of the stuff happening now . . .

[Written on my MBP while listening to my iPod.]
They had to dig pretty hard to justify calling many of these incorrect. The social networking one in particular, apparently the author has never heard of meetup.com.
A balanced diet is not difficult!

Its a no-brainer to me that if you are worried enough about your health to simply change your diet to add a bit more fruit and veg rather than spend money on magic pills without any medical or scientific basis.

this comment also echos my thoughts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1367101