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I used the terms interchangeably.
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There are plenty of deceptive bugs and other critters. Like stick insects, frog fish, chameleons, etc.
Afaik, HTML5 is not finished yet.
They could still settle for a codec, i guess?
Will this happen? Not with all the money that is to be made out of license fees in the future. But nevertheless, it's the right move to drop support for H.264, imo.
No single part of the internet as we know it should be "owned" by a few companies (see the very good comment about the GIF format at http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2094591 ).

Why are so many against the proprietary Flash format but embrace the H.264 codec? Google even invested 133 million dollar to buy On2 and offer the world an alternative.
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These apps are so far from the HIG that pushing this out would make the creators read the HIG, hopefully sucking in some of it.
Occam says, "noooo."
You can get rather cheap data without a contract in Germany, I'm using one for 5€/100MB right now.
The OP is right: for any T, however large, you won't be guaranteed that you will get hamlet from a monkey.

I don't understand what you mean by the law of large numbers not being the law of infinite: the theorem states the limit of a certain series of random variables, that's by definition about what happens when the number of random variables goes to infinity.
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Other formats here: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/wiki/Conference_Recording...; slides and links here: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4087.en.h...
> Copyright was originated to make the creation of intellectual property economically worthwhile so that more intellectual content could be produced and distributed.

This is often cited as the reason for copyright. Was this the actual historical reason, or just some windowdressing after the fact? (And the wording of the law in America doesn't count. It that argument hold any water, the USA PATRIOT Act wouldn't be so funny.)

Wikipedia has something like "The origin of copyright law in most European countries lies in efforts by the church and governments to regulate and control the output of printers." and similar lines.
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Why that? You just have to add one or two lines of code to your player to access the .webm(s).
i'll take pre-sql for it, before i'll accept or use post-sql
I don't think the GIF story is proving what you think it's proving.

The problem with GIF is that everyone thought it was open and free, and then Unisys turned around and started enforcing the patents.

Paying MPEGLA up front for indemnity is precisely the type of thing a company would do to avoid being sued by people who hold submarine patents on video encoding.

If there's a lesson to be learned from GIF, it's: don't use encoding formats with questionable IP.

Whether you or I think WebM is patent free is, quite frankly, irrelevant. Not many companies, besides Google apparently, are going to be willing to take that risk, precisely because they remember the GIF fiasco.
If one wants to be exposed to people from different backgrounds, one should go live in a big, metropolitan city / travel the world while earning his way. Sucking down enormous amounts of public / donor / endowment money to run social experiments, whether in university or otherwise and then using weasel-words like 'diversity' etc. is of questionable value, at best, unacceptable at worst...

Why should the taxpayer or the wealthy donor be fleeced to provide zero value to the unwitting student (who probably doesn't have enough maturity to make decisions independently anyway)?
Having first read jdp's comment, then the linked doc, this seemed pertinent -

"In the book that I'm writing now, I can talk about it later, if you'd like, I'm interviewing eight of the most eminent people in the world today in different fields -- In neuroscience, in architecture, in music. All of them are inherently non-conformists. All of them are inherently bucking the trend and taking their field in a completely novel direction by bringing out more of that uniqueness that I was talking about."

i.e. Innovation in funding and development of startups. (I would guess)
Not to mention the fact that it's hard to get short shares of a penny stock as a commercial investor, and once you have them, you face the same low-liquidity problem that everyone has in that market.

Pennies are a market that are slow(few trades) and fast(massive price swings) at the same time. The people that play them seriously wage a war of information, and sit around waiting for every tick all day, posting on forums, trying to discern the actors and their intentions. And it's frighteningly easy to deceive oneself into following pumper's tips, like those 50 gave. It just has to be heard from someone you trust, at a vulnerable moment.
That these guys are provocative makes their insights more valuable, since they get more attention. If you don't have or can't grow a thick skin, you don't belong in a creative field. It's as simple as that.

Nonsense.
Uhm, Cinepaint is a point in favor of the author's conclusions about GIMP. One of the reasons for Cinepaint is to fix the color depth problem the author wrote about.
No, those actions are morally right. Those people have already violated their part in the social contract.
i wonder if anyone has tried returning their ps3 for a full refund, claiming it stopped working
It sounds like a boomerang
While I didn't care so much for the violence, I thoroughly enjoyed the novels. I thought they had a comparatively unusual plot and unusual characters. They are definitely much better written than, say, Dan Brown novels.

Funny to see the the NYT complain about 12 page long boring descriptions. Surely any regular reader of the NYT should have no problems to cope with those.

Also that article just quotes things out of context to make them sound silly.
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I am seriously considering starting an @home project to simulate this.
Open-source is not the same thing as public domain. See: MySql.
OK, not guaranteed, but certain within high levels of confidence. Still, with an infinite monkeys you can get all that in an instant.
There is a comment dated Dec 3 saying the link doesn't work. So seems unlikely anyone from hn got it.
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Well it's not a backdoor.

Obviously, in case of full disk encryption, the bootloader needs to be able to do decryption. If not, the disk would be unbootable.

Sure, the text now trivially identifies the disk as 'truecrypt', but even without that text in, it would not be hard to detect a specific bootloader with signatures...

If one wants deniable encryption you need to use something else than full disk encryption, such as steganography or hidden volumes.
Consulting is like running though: the minute you get tired and stop a minute or two, your velocity is gone - no more money coming in. A functioning business is more like a bicycle - it's not like you're just along for the ride, you have to work, but you can coast a little bit now and then. For instance, vacations. That's true for both bosses and employees.

I enjoy consulting too, but it leaves me with the feeling of not building or being part of something for the future... if that makes sense.
The ISO body is needlessly large and hugely bureaucratic, we could have had a better c++ years before with a more effective standards body (ECMA?).
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>It's a very simple and easily understandable deal.

This is also one of the big reasons I switched to consulting. I find it a more honest way to work. My career advancement is completely in my own hands and not tied to a specific company. There is no tit-for-maybe-possibly-someday-tat involved.
Does Australia need that? I don't think they are a poor country? Sorry if that sounds petty, just wondering.
You are largely correct about Ruby I think, although it's broader than that. Functional programming is popular because mutable data is a major cause of bugs, is hard to debug, and creates unnecessary complication. In Ruby, all data INCLUDING the executable code itself, is mutable and regularly mutated. Integration and extension, including throughout the Rails codebase, is accomplished by changing object prototypes. This means that you can never rely on an object behaving in a certain way or following a certain code path, and your code or any third party code can easily be broken by a single line of rouge code from a library - and yes this happens often.

Regarding Scala, I don't think type inference means that you stop thinking about types, particularly when writing in a functional style where the returned value is the only thing that matters.
In almost no other field of work is it expected that you have a passion for your work greater than that for your family. Hackers repeating this passion mantra make life harder for all of us, because it raises employers expectations, instead of making them provide training or simply time to study. Good for you if you have that passion - I do - but why not enjoy it in private?
Like SHOwnsYou said, you will probably make more money from affiliate commissions, so I would completely remove the paid plan and only leave free accounts/signups (with the current premium features included too), it will be much simpler this way and you won't have to deal with the subscriptions hassle.
What makes you think I was talking about IT? There's more to video than the web.
Sorry but that doesn't make sense. When you buy from a supplier, you are already bound by a number of contractual stipulations, (almost) nobody reads those, either. They're still enforceable, there are mountains of jurisprudence on that. Should contracts be void because one of the parties can't be bothered to check the content of the agreement? Or should suppliers force users to read the contract to be enforceable? Some software makes you scroll down before you can click 'agree'; is this not enough? Should it show you the dialog for a certain amount of time? Or maybe software shouldn't be sold online, you'd always have to go to a store, where a clerk forces you to read and then quizzes you on the content before selling you the software?

You say the contract is 'unethical'; I understand that position and in some cases agree, to an extent. But do you agree with me that even if it's unethical, the principle is still sound and that the contract should be both enforceable and enforced?
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Provoke HN: Someone build a *useful* tagging service, pls
Long story short:
- Problem: Tagging and up-/downvoting mechanisms as used almost everywhere suck because they're too primitive!
- Solution: Do not just count how often s/o tagged s/th as "funny" or upvoted s/th, but save that info including user ID. If user A looks for funny links, tags from user B (who's "funny" tags are highly correlated with A's) carry more weight than tags from user C (who prefers a different kind of humor).
- Result: A useful tagging/voting mechanism that won't drag everything down to the average, but is able to identify and sustain multiple parallel "subcultures" with different preferences in the user base! Might help to safe HN, too...
Funny, I place Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown in the same section: writers who are good at constructing a compelling story, but not so good in actually writing it down.

With Stieg Larsson, I got really annoyed with the amount of boring expositions, pseudo-cliffhangers at the end of every other chapter, overuse of clichés ("and then they talked for X hours"), etc.. It reads like a very rough draft of a book, not as an edited text ready for publication.

That said, I've read both authors and enjoyed the books. I just feel that they could have been so much better with some serious rewrites (as apparently the English translation of Stieg Larsson had, I have to check that one out).
I've tried using it a few months ago. It's quite hard actually. The docs were poor, understanding the concepts was not easy and in a lot of places it abuses the Scala syntax:

LiftRules.rewrite.append {
case RewriteRequest(ParsePath(List("shopInfo", "view", id), _, _, _), _, _) => RewriteResponse("shopInfo" :: "view" :: Nil, Map("id" -> id))

My opinion is that I don't like. At all! There are better and simpler ways to do things, even the real-time chats they brag about (socket.io, anyone?).
Just got an email from them for too much API usage. :(
Not in an instant - a monkey still needs some amount of time to write Hamlet.
How do iPhone apps Instagram/Reeder/DailyBooth implement custom back buttons?
No, not really. I'm a little embarrassed that we're calling out for donations when there are much more worthy causes.
I got it. Here's a mirror:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3102685/cache/robertgreene/WS710007....
It depends on what you define as 'need', which is going to be a bit subjective. I can't be your conscience for you.

But every dollar will find a use now helping to evacuate, feed and protect people from the flood waters and in future it will help them to rebuild.
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One of the things I asked dpp for was a real introduction. He's very excited to talk about Lift's comet stuff (and it's easily the best comet impl you can ask for), but in the process he sort of leaves people who just wanted to get "hello world" up on the browser behind.

He's doing a round of lift classes, so hopefully some of that material will migrate to the website and make lift more approachable.
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That was my first thought when I read the news of the self-signed code running. I seriously cannot stop reminiscing about the glory days of XBOX1 and XBMC bringing jaw dropping awesomeness to the living room. The PS3 media playback although working perfectly in most SD video using PS3 Media Server, the transcoded DNLA streaming crap for some reason cannot handle fast forwarding / rewind or scene selection. We're talking 1080p playing from a i7 Extreme workstation + gigabit network. XBMC with HD support and Samba access would most likely playback perfectly on a PS3 homebrew build.

Guess it's time to fork git://xbmc.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/xbmc/xbmc but I'd almost prefer to take a wait and see approach with Sony's first salvo against custom firmware users.
I would try to go anywhere where parents/kids are. Maybe you could work with a local book store that often does story time type things for kids, or even schools. We had a virtual bank in elementary school to learn about money, why not work with local schools that may or may not have it already, and supplement with your app or offer it?
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The "fill in the blanks" bits suggest that pretty strongly, too -

> IT IS ORDERED that SCEA shall post a bond in the amount of $_______ as security...
A living example of the MacLeod hierarchy and the Gervais Principle at play. Psychopathic executives managed to groom their whole staff into clueless lemmings to better abuse them.

The Gervais principle was defined by Venkat (Venkatesh Rao) in a series of articles published in his blog. They should be well known around here, but here they are for those who missed them. The insight of these essays is amazing, and worth much more than the time it'll take you to read them.

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The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” --- http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk --- http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-i...

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Related considerations by the same author.

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The Genealogy of the Gervais Principle --- http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/02/04/the-genealogy-of-the-ge...

Random Promotions and the Gervais Principle --- http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/12/13/random-promotions-and-t...

Conceptual Metaphors (Mashable), Gervais Principle (Fugitive Philosophy) --- http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/01/13/conceptual-metaphors-ma...

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4shared seems to be a bit shaky; it worked in Firefox on Windows, but not on Linux.

I posted a mirror on Dropbox, & I can post it on S3 if that doesn't hold up.
My first thoughts were that when we moved from Brisbane to London 3 months ago, all my Queensland mates laughed about leaving the Sunshine State for UK weather. They've had nothing but rain since.

A few years ago I helped write a book on the history of Brisbane Riverfront homes. Most of those owners knew exactly where the previous floods (especially 1974, which this one will roughly equal) had reached. In some cases, their multi-million dollar home had been submerged; in one case, the owner boasted how they had come home to find a yacht in their living room. They all knew that no matter how many dams were built or droughts were declared, floods would happen again. I hope they're all safe.

Another interesting piece of information from that book's research was that it takes, on average, about 20 years for the effects of flooding to dissipate in the community. This is most obvious through riverfront housing prices - yes, they are multi-million dollars now (or at least, were 2 weeks ago), but it took a long time after 1974 (and 1955 and 1893) for the mindset to shift from 'major risk' to 'major desire'. Another way of saying: the impact of this flood on the city I love will last a generation.
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I mean, an infinite monkeys would need a small (approaching zero) amount of time.

An alternate way to say it: "An infinite, ordered set of monkeys each pressing exactly one key would produce the entire works of Shakespeare in at least one uninterrupted string that preserves that order."
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There was a homebrew community, using things like the Action Replay cart @ caetla/catflap rom, cf: http://jum.pdroms.de/PSX/psxdevstart.html

Also, there was the official Net Yaroze system - which had similar restrictions to ps3 Linux - no cd data, and no good access to the GPU: http://jum.pdroms.de/PSX/psxdevstart.html
Google as always wants us to use their beta software. This thread has generated much debates. I'm always suspicious when big corporation touts ideology as their cause. Don't fall into the pray. Just asked the question "Where is the money?" and you can guess the real reason for their move. Google seems to think that they have the clouts to influence all area of humanity, in this case the audio/visual entertainment industry that includes set top boxes, chip and hardware makers etc. They are fighter all wars (MS Office, iPhone, Bing, Facebook) by spreading themselves thinly. I believe these few years will see the start of decline of Google as a company.
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I'd say "Precorder turns you into a better videographer." could use some work as well.

1st: "Never miss a moment."
2nd: Tell the user how/why they'll never miss a moment by using your app.

Something like "Save the 10 seconds of video before you press the button" or whatever. Get a little technical.
I don't think there are many (if any) "draconian measures" from Apple that don't actually benefit users. Nearly all complaints about Apple's behavior can be split into two groups: Idealogical (e.g. "Everything must be free! Even if that means there are 1,000 app stores to choose from, everyone one of them consisting of almost exclusively malware and viruses, it all has to be open!") and "slippery slope" concerns (e.g. "but if they make it so convenient, what will stop them from controlling the world!?" as if new competition wouldn't instantly spring up to replace them).
This article speaks as though there was a time when the US wasn't the biggest source of spam on the Internet... I thought the US has historically always been the biggest source? ...
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Just to play devil's advocate...

I am not a moron, and I used to help hire at various startups. We'd always get one or two offers "we couldn't refuse" from engineers of our competitors. Whenever we gave them a second of interest, they'd waste hours and even days of our time. What they were really interested in was not engineering, but escaping their current workplace hell and wedging themselves into our startup as some sort of non-programming decision maker, for a (relatively) huge salary. But, we already had non-programming decision makers. We were trying to hire an engineer. We eventually just dismissed these guys outright, because in every experience they ended up being mildly crazy. Not the good mad-scientist hacker insanity, either... More of a desperate, annoying, stalker-ish insane. So maybe you came off as crazy.
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The parenthetical remark is probably to make sure people realize it is satire. There was a submission about the Facebook closing down rumor earlier that got flagged and deleted, apparently because people thought it was supposed to be serious.
I work for this experiment!

I think I'll have to play around with this data tomorrow.
Your thumbnails of the dolphin are a cool idea... but could be done a bit better I think!

1st frame: Boring, waiting for something to happen.
2nd frame: Cool thing, but not the best part! You missed it!
3rd frame: The best part. Thanks to precorder you caught it on film.

I think that's what you're trying to do, but the second and third frames are currently the same picture. Make the second frame the tail going into the water (you missed it), the and the third the dolphin's head.

Or, a kid at a little league game:
1st: Waiting to swing
2nd: Running to 1st base
3rd: Beautiful shot of him hitting the ball.

Etc.