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> RTMP: Of course HTML5 isn't built with a technology that was developed for Flash.

Likewise, a similar protocol could have been created for HTML5 video. It would be hard to argue that the web doesn't need some sort of persistence for video. Waiting for an entire video to load before you can seek to an appropriate position makes HTML5 video outright archaic in this light.

> But don't go calling Flash-specific protocols things that are against HTML5; that's silly.

It's silly to ascertain Flash as an enemy of HTML5, period. I never did. I simply implied that Flash has a leg-up in some important departments.

> multi-threaded animation: HTML5 has WebWorkers and multithreaded JavaScript. Not sure why you think this can't be applied to animation.

Let's assume for a minute that I didn't preface with "...not easily at least" and claimed that it couldn't be done at all. No matter the reach or depth of your imagination, you will not be able to conjure up a single timeline-critical HTML5+JS-based site that performs on the same level as a Flash-developed one. By that, I mean Flash is much more capable of handling vector-based and raster-based graphics at high speeds while maintaining composure. Secondly, WebWorkers and timeline animation -despite your insistence- is not easy to implement, as I earlier stated. If your statement was entirely true and HTML5+JS was readily capable of such feats, I'd imagine we'd see much less Flash games and much more JS-based ones today.

> HTML5 is stronger than you think.

I never attested that it wasn't strong. Regardless of Flash, I hope that HTML5 continues to evolve and is eventually capable of what Flash is. At this time, it is not capable and selling these false statements does nothing to help HTML5's cause.

Read more here: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html
And if I don't like any of the 6 concepts you create? I'm just SOL?
Using CouchDB to improve healthcare in Africa
My chipset is fully supported, until it comes time to switch modes using the nouveau driver for my Nvidia graphics card causing Ubuntu 10.10 to throw a black screen instead of showing me X11.

I then had to add an extra parameter to my kernel boot line according to some forum posts to make sure it would let me get the installer (nomodeset or some shit like that), after that it installed correctly but Ubuntu 10.10 does away with Grub in any way shape or form so the next time it booted after install I couldn't change that line so I had to boot into a live CD.

Then changing /mnt/etc/default/grub.cfg doesn't let me write that out to disk since update-grub tries to look for the currently mounted partition you want to modify in mount and won't find one with a LiveCD it can modify and as such that goes out of the window. You have to modify /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg and they have made an ungodly mess out of that file.

After I finally figured that out the system still didn't work correctly, so I install the proprietary nvidia driver using their tool, and yet at boot it still does the wrong thing because the nouveau driver is still installed. Finally remove that and Pulseaudio causes my kernel to crash randomly, especially when watching Flash video content. At least I assume it is Pulseaudio, it is the last thing mentioned in /var/log/messages EACH and EVERY time.

Since I needed an OS that could run Boxee (it really is too bad it doesn't work on FreeBSD) and didn't cost me any money I finally just grabbed Arch, installed X11 with the nvidia driver, installed Boxee and it works. It hasn't crashed at all since install.

Linux doesn't just work, and ultimately I was getting really frustrated with the whole thing. I own multiple Windows machines (two Lenovo's, absolutely fantastic), I run FreeBSD as a gateway machine (and have used it for years as a Desktop machine), OpenSolaris as a server and xVM machine, and own one MacBook Pro. I can clearly say that Linux still has a long WAY to go before it is as easy as Mac OS X, and has the same "just works" features. I've had less issues using PC-BSD on the same hardware as Linux, and FreeBSD the underlying OS generally doesn't have the support from vendors for hardware drivers as Linux does.
Evernote 4 for Windows is here
He's the other dog humping Mr. Jobs' other leg. So to speak.
Speaking of Babylon 5, for those of you who haven't seen it--or those who wish to rewatch it--all 5 seasons are available online for free at AOL's online TV/movie site, SlashControl.com.

Series page:
http://www.slashcontrol.com/free-tv-shows/babylon-5

Start here:
http://www.slashcontrol.com/free-tv-shows/babylon-5/season1/...

(There are one or two missing episodes--specifically, I know season 1 #13 isn't there--but you can get whatever's missing from iTunes, etc.).

The pilot is there, as Season 1 ep 1, but the other movies are not (I'd recommend seeing "In the Beginning" just before watching Season 5, if you can).
Should I leave my startup?
This is a throwaway account as I'm pretty active on HN along with my partner.

I've been running a startup on the east coast with my co-founder for about a year and a half with only a third of that as serious time as we both had other commitments.

We are a tech/non-tech partnership, myself being the tech side. As such, I've built pretty much all of our software and website.

I think we do some pretty cool stuff, and we have customers that agree. However, I'm getting strong urges to move on.

For starters, I'm not having fun working on this company anymore. Our backend is temperamental and I feel like the workload I have is large enough that it's difficult to stay on top of everything. I also don't feel like our team or environment is fostering creativity and energy. I have little to no motivation anymore and I'm not excited about the product or even getting up in the morning to go work on it. I feel like my co-founder is talks down to me, lectures me, and is extremely stubborn. He does his part though, so I'm not complaining about that.

I believe the company could go somewhere, and it already has a bit. However, growth is extremely slow (read: I won't be making a real salary any time soon) and I wonder where we would be with a different team that had better energy, creativity, and synergy where new ideas were more willing to be explored or even just considered without making the idea-maker feel put down for bringing it up.

I've had some new opportunities present themselves that I can't get out of my head. Opportunities with teams that seem far more energetic and fun and will push me to improve. I want to surround myself with smart programmers that will make me a better one. Right now I'm very much on my own and I'm getting tired of that. On top of that, I have a strong urge to start making money and building some savings.

With this company (as with most I'm sure), there is a constant "what if?" What if I just stay a few more months? Could that big break be right around the corner? What if I'm not giving this company enough time to see where it goes? What if I don't jump on the opportunities elsewhere, what would I be missing out on?

This startup has been great for my career and personal development and I don't regret it one bit, but I want to move on.

Any advice? Thoughts about how I should leave (it's 50/50 ownership right now) would help too.

Thanks.
I think the article does a better job of explaining why you might want to use watch than man watch does.
Last Week's "Back to the Mac" in 104 seconds
chromium --proxy-server=socks5://127.0.0.1:8080 is what I use, but chromium can also use your desktop environment's settings. On my laptop it allows me to make different proxy settings an define 'locations' that are easy to switch between.
So, I just signed up, been planning to write exactly this application for a few months now, but realized that I have to learn a lot more about neural networks to pull this off.
You saved me a lot of time and effort.

Faced with the limit of 64 feeds, I even signed up to the paid version, but now it still only allows me to import 64 feeds.

Also, is an HTTPS version coming?
My guess is that they are using some sort of biological algorithm of sorts that does NOT scale, but is highly efficient for the typical bee workload.
My apologies regarding FireFox. I don't use FireFox and when I do it is from a Mac OS X machine.

Either way Internet Explorer doesn't support it and as such it is still a no-go from a usability stand point since XP still has such a large market share.
No, thats just in the movies. That stuff doesn't happen in real life. Jeez. Get a grip. Its the movies! You gotta learn to tell the difference between reality and fantasy buddy. What are you, a leftie conspiracy nutjob?

At least, thats the response I get around here from people.
In that case, I'd be shocked if Gabriel continued to tout the fact that DDG keeps no logs. Surely a court order can't force him to keep doing that.
Based solely on the domain name, I assumed your site had to do with financial stocks, rather than stock photos.

If you want a descriptive domain name, it looks like these are available:

* STOCKMOBILEPHOTOS.COM
* STOCKCELLPHOTOS.COM
* CAMSTOCKPHOTOS.COM
What sort of performance do people see on the macbook air solid state storage? What sort of hardware interface does it use? I'm not seeing any non-puff reviews of this thing anywhere.
I think your math is off. The 140+ million unique visitors are world wide. Wouldn't these ~9,000 requests be coming from and directed to people in the US?
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I can't see a situation where I could be forced to keep quiet about something like that. And then there is wikileaks or some equivalent. For the record though, I have yet to get a court order about anything.
FreeBSD on laptops works just fine, if you don't mind not having resume/suspend or battery control, or anything along those lines :P

Yes, I run FreeBSD on various laptops I own...
Yep, to play a dvd I have to get out of my chair and physically move things around.

To play things I have stored digitally it's just a matter of using the remote to access thousands of movies/tv shows stored on my network.
Austin -> Denver -> Las Vegas.
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A lot of people have been making this claim in this thread, but I'm a little bit skeptical. For one thing, I'm skeptical of the idea that competition always improves products in a commercial setting (though it surely does under some circumstances). But more importantly, I think there is a significant disanalogy between Free software projects and businesses that sell products. Businesses compete for customer dollars. What are Free software projects competing for? Users? Credibility? I'm not sure. But it certainly doesn't seem like they have the same incentives in place. People write code for FS projects because they're interested in it, because they need the functionality, etc. -- it's something they would do even if their efforts don't attract a lot of "customers."

What FS projects do compete for is the time and interest of talented programmers. For that reason, having competing projects can be more harmful to them than good, because it divides the pool of programmers: more programmer time is spent achieving common goals (like having an excellent C compiler) than would be spent if the different groups pooled their efforts.

(This is not, of course, an argument that competing FS projects are always a bad thing. Obviously, competing projects, forks, etc. arise for a variety of reasons, both social and technical. But I am arguing that just competition is not necessarily a good thing, either, especially when competing projects have common goals.)
JMP Genomics 5 released
I've taken note of your email address and I'll certainly let you know. I'm not far off from being able to provide testing access to the data through a RESTful API, so you should hear from me within a couple of weeks.
Expedia, Travelocity say Google has crossed the "creepy line"
I don't see how the military budget is relevant to the complaint. If it is in fact worth it to spend 0.7 trillion on the military every year, that does not mean the government should be wasting money on other projects because they are relatively smaller. If it is not worth it, on the other hand, that does not justify wasting other money either. Projects should stand on their own merit and the money used to fund them should be treated very respectfully because it is taken from individuals who may not have wanted to give it up.
This makes me wonder if this is really the key to why everybody always seems so enthralled by any Apple presentation...
If you don't believe that economic status is correlated with jack-assery, go live in a low economic status neighborhood.
This is great. Very honest and straightforward. The points were he can add a lot of value, are very strong, and the points where he can't, are ok, because the ability to help you close a seed round:

"made sure it all closed quickly, fairly and without incident"

Once you can get someone to literally be a leader on the round (there's plenty of me-too investors, that rarely take the plunge first) everything should pretty much fall into place.

The techcrunch nut is not too hard to crack and it's not a dealbreaker.

I wish all investors had a list like this posted somewhere in their linkedin/blog.
Interesting perspective, customization and optimization is fun. On that note there are a few UI customization programs that I find useful on OSX:

nocturne - invert or dim the screen, helps your eyes stay relaxed in different lighting situations: http://http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/

divvy - quick window management, surprisingly handy, spaces becomes more useful with this as well: http://www.mizage.com/divvy/

visor - system-wide terminal via a hotkey: http://visor.binaryage.com/
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> I'd imagine we'd see much less Flash games and much more JS-based ones.

HTML5 games work (by default) on ~50% of computers because there is no Microsoft implementation. The reason we haven't seem many games in HTML5 is because of Microsoft's lack of HTML5 support. When everyone is using Windows 7 and IE9 (with hardware acceleration, too!) HTML5 will outperform Flash and will be available on every platform.
In Short:

Full new version of Evernote for Windows, rewritten from scratch in native C++. According to post, starts 5x faster and uses half the memory of Evernote 3.5. Full new UI, new clipper for Firefox and IE. Supports Jumplists and geolocation in Windows 7.

In all, a huge win for Evernote users on Windows.
I think you're missing the point. Imagine if everyone on hn posted a link that directed people to half of the content, and put the other half in a comment. That would make for a pretty crappy trend. Note that your original comment has 25 points, so as you can see there's incentive for people to start doing this.

I think a non-vote-able comment at the top wouldn't do as much damage as you might think. Maybe, instead, make it a rule where half & halfs get filtered/blocked.
It's been a while but I think you can recreate the stuff from the top bar in the bottom bar. I definitely had a network manager, and I never used the top bar.
Didn't mean to imply I disagreed with your stance, just pointing out the relative security (unless someone else knows something) of running it.

It probably is illegal, yes, and I won't personally run it, nor recommend anyone else does (as much as I've toyed with the idea of doing just such a thing by hand, at times). One could consider this civil disobedience, however, as it's not inherently harmful nor capable of spreading like a virus, and is for a good cause. At worst it annoys and makes people more paranoid online (as they should be), at best it causes change.
Would we know, if there had?

Given that, if this happened, the military has every incentive to make sure we know about it, I believe we would the minute it happened.

Also, isn't justifying reckless behaviour on the grounds that it hasn't killed anyone yet a bit of a weak justification? The average drunk driver hasn't killed anyone yet.

Whether or not this is reckless behavior is the entire crux of this debate.
That is why you build your system in such a way that you physically _can't_ put a log in it.
G (ie IQ), a statistical myth
I just got this book a couple days ago. I didn't have a chance to look at it until today because I was off at ErlangCamp, but it looks really good.

The first chapter starts with logic gates (NAND, XOR, etc.), and then adds an emulated chip, than assembler for it, then a VM built on it, then an OS and a compiler for the VM. The course is designed to tie together the whole CS stack, whose pieces tend to get discussed in isolation.

Some of the coursework is online, and it would probably be really useful to those of us who are mostly learning CS through self-study.
Built a buysellads, ioipublishers, isocket competitor. Feedback appreciated
I built Adclays [www.adclays.com], which is an advertising tool for bloggers to sell ad spaces directly to adveritsers. HN members pls give me feedback on it.
Agreed. The OP represents himself as one with intimate knowledge of Digg's internal policies. It's their site, and it's naive to think that Digg can "only ban accounts".

I rather doubt Digg's involvement here.
This reads like a big fish story: based on a kernel of truth, but exaggerated to make a headline.
I... how did I miss that. I just went back and it's right there in the next sentence, my apologies. wtf.
Ilastik: highly interactive learning and segmentation tool written in Python
What exactly are they going to do with their search history? Unless it involve kiddy porn or something like that?
The US military has all of those things and yet the Iraqi resistance still put up a good fight.
1)i don't like the fact that you use a plain text instead of a AWESOME logo for your own brand ...

2)you are probably using (i bet you are) a stock theme, from somebody that supposed to sell me a unique logo i expect him to be capable to design a nice site ...

3)I liked 3 of the logos (candice jane cakes , bad news bakers , twarket) the rest didn't looked amateurish
looks impressive !
Russian State Duma are Apple Fans
Wow, go to bed for a bit and suddenly HN has a riot.

I wrote this post. It is, hopefully, clearly satire. Furthermore ironic due to the fact that I have been, in fact, a technical cofounder. I'm just tired of the overwhelming sentiment on HN that programmers are a business' gift from god, and that all you need to do as a nontechnical cofounder is go read a book. If it was that easy we'd have facebook for cats six times over.

Look, there are plenty of good business people out there who don't have the time to create a 14,000 follower blog before they have a product, much like most hackers don't have the time to create full, working products before they have any customers. It's absurd to hold one half of the company to such stringent standards while allowing the other, as a comment so clearly put, to 'code it out of thin air'.

I'm tired of the 'Business people should learn how to code' mentality. It's not about technical vs nontechnical. It's about learning to have, and use, both.
Every time he says something "creepy", I always find it's taken out of context. Or, more appropriately, he's simple stating the truth, and we just find it uncomfortable. The classic case is: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

It's true. It's creepy, but only if you forget that it's reality. People took this quote to mean so much more than it did.

I'm not saying as CEO he shouldn't be careful of what he says, but at least he's saying something, rather than just speaking about vertically integrated forward-thinking active promotions across multiple wide-vector-outreach systems leveraging past-promised and future-potential market segments.
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That's simply not true. In my high school, for example, Napster got installed on all computers in the computer lab and a full class was dedicated to teaching everyone how to use it. For reference, another full class was dedicated to learning how to use "Search Engines". Frankly, I did not know a single person under the age of 30 who did not have a massive collection of MP3s and divx movies by the time iTunes came out.

Those "People" would actually be called teenagers, and I never met one who didn't know how to use Napster or Kazaa back when I was one of them.
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Very nice app, and as with the parent, Google Reader import got me to try it.

However, I was put off by having to choose 64 feeds to "turn on" immediately after the import procedure. It meant my first experience of NewsBlur was the difficult and uninteresting bookkeeping task of figuring out which of my few hundred feeds I really, really cared about, and I pretty much disengaged from the app at that point. If I didn't have to make that choice right then, my first experience would instead have been simply my familiar feeds in a (rather nice) new UI - and at your current price point that would probably have been enough for me to buy a premium account.

(To give more context - I subscribe to lots of feeds, and rarely unsubscribe except from really noisy feeds, so I probably have a lot of dormant feeds sitting in Google Reader. I certainly don't recognise by name all of my feeds, or which ones I'd choose to keep if I had to choose 64. The autoselect by popularity is a good start, but for me isn't a good match with the feeds I actually get most value out of.)

I fully understand why you'd limit free accounts - particularly with your servers on fire :) - but I would suggest imposing the 64 feed limit after an initial trial period, rather than immediately, so people get that initial great experience.
This is just a few quotations taken out of context. It seems that it's been particularly popular to do this with Schmidt lately; I wonder why that is.
.Com deemed the riskiest top-level domain, wrests title from Cameroon
What a gem! nice find!
Actually a good idea, but a MUCH better idea would be to automatically post a direct message to that person (from your own account or from central Idiocy account) about the problem, rather than hijacking the session and basically hacking the account, running into problems with law.
I get a slightly hard-to-read vibe from the page, personally. Maybe the contrast, maybe the harsher anti-aliasing in Windows (used to OSX), maybe the largish sans-serif font.
There are other reasons for people to not be passionate about their job. That said, having a boss who doesn't respect you can seriously sap your motivation.
Would a mixed (http + https) site with cookieless http traffic (from a different domain) be secure? Could something like this be included in the spec?
PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Facebook Signs Up
Open, yet encrypted Wi-Fi [2007]
Really sorry about this. I wrote a very long description of what I was trying to do for the site (built between 7pm and 3am last night).

Unfortunately, it seems that whole descriptive comment doesn't exist or didn't get saved.

This particular "straight link" doesn't add any value.

So. Here's the story (again).

I bought the name fstr.net without knowing what to do with it. If read aloud, phonetically, it "says" FASTER and it's a short name. I highly doubt a games aggregator is the best choice for what to do with it, but I couldn't think of anything else, or didn't have access to any of the real stuff that'd be appropriate. (networking? automotive? athletic-supplements? news?)

Anyways - it's not really much of an Aggregator at that, basically takes a read of the "embeddable games list" from addictinggames.com (not real time) and displays a random set of choices for you.

Next steps include finding and writing scripts to aggregate other's games as well.

I've got a lot of respect for the HN community and am so often inspired by the things other people bring to "show and tell" that I really wanted to share and collect feedback from others.

What would you do with it?
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