skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really a fair comparison, especially considering the level of discussion the DMCA goes into when covering what is considered fair use and what sorts of reverse engineering is prohibited. It'd be more like a gun manufacturer suing because someone turned their gun into an automatic rifle (jailbreak). And then spread instructions on how to do it (homebrew). And then a bunch of people held up grocery stores (piracy).
Try Glassdoor.com
Next Ferraris will sense your heartbeat, perspiration
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Seriously? We can argue the ethics all day, but from Sony's point of view, this series of events is isomorphic to an expert lockpicker breaking into their office building and then sending a letter saying "if you want your next building to be secure, get in touch with me."
And the website myspace looks down to me. Is it?
Really? You're guaranteeing zero chance of any event happening in IT until 2028? 17 years from now? In the same industry in which 17 years ago it was 1994 and Yahoo! wasn't called Yahoo! yet? In the same web space in which 6 years ago it was early 2005 and Youtube wasn't created yet?

May I borrow your crystal ball for a couple of minutes, please?
It is difficult to scale trust, for once: you would get people who keep submitting everything as spam, until overload of the "spamming" committee you are suggesting (if I understand you well). Many people are not that able to make the difference between spam and not, also (is efreedom spam or not ? If you are not a programmer ?).

I also suspect just taking the top 5 % will get a lot of false rejections, which is a real issue.

But when I say that there is a cost/revenue issue, it goes both ways: everybody thinks about the cost of spamming, but if the income coming from spamming decreases, it would also fight spam quite well. Decreasing this without decreasing google's revenue may be challenging.
It saddens me to reflect that every time I felt like a company was with was failing, and that we might recover, ultimately, we failed. So, the most rational advice I could give any employee would be: if you're invested in the success of your employer, and they seem to be failing, leave. And the CEO giving locker room inspirational speeches is the surest sign that it's time to stroll on.

But, how does that square with the idea of pulling together and making any endeavor work? Is the lesson to only be a founder? Morally, doesn't that mean: never employ anyone?

I don't know, I just feel for those laid off this week. 'Cause is really sucks.
I actually see lack of H.264 support as more of a blow for those desktop browsers than anything else. With both Firefox and Chrome on the desktop refusing to support the video codec preferred by most (non-PC) device vendors, and both mobile browsing and video usage on the web dramatically increasing, I can't see this having any long-term effect other than marginalizing these browsers for the majority of users. Users who just want to visit a video site and have it work equally well on any device they happen to be using.

H.264 is royalty-free for at least the next 5 years, has widespread hardware encoding and decoding support and its patents will eventually expire. Removal of this codec from Chrome just doesn't make any sense to me. I'm sure all those people who have recently switched to Chrome won't find it too hard to switch away if the "more open" video support starting burning through their laptop battery three times as fast.
It strikes me that this is the difference between wealth in the past, and wealth now.

A medieval king was vastly wealthier than me in his ability to command other people's time. But I am vastly more wealthy than him in my ability to command nature, which means I have access to much better medical care, communications, and entertainment opportunities than he had.
A text message can't be sent without confirmation from the user on iOS.
Right now it might be true that it is in the best interest for ISP to not restrict access to particular content. This may not be true down the road. It won't be true if the ISPs form a cartel.

ISPs may decide that it is best to be content with their percent of the market and instead of competing with each other to gain market share it's better to nickel and dime consumers.

The cost of legislating net neutrality is quite low and the consequences of cartel pricing are quite damaging. Therefore it makes sense to regulate now rather than later.
Google as a business is well within it's rights to do whatever it wants to further it's business interests, and/or tick off it's competition. Let's just not keep saying it's all for the user.
While free is generally better than not free, the cost of licensing from MPEG-LA is relatively cheap. Terms may have changed last I looked, but it's something like twenty five cents per paid subscriber per year, the first 50,000 subscribers are free with a $1M cap. The same goes for sold encoders/decoders.

So companies like Google, Adobe, and Microsoft have to pay $1M per year at most. A smaller site that charges, like PluralSight, probably pays $0.

This really isn't about money. It's about control.
I for one have heard a lot of stories of interesting technical work being done at MySpace. Sure, as a website it's terrible, but there's a lot of demand for scale that was happening much earlier than it was elsewhere.
Perhaps the legal principle of "two wrongs don't make a right" applies here.
Once you get past the PR and spin I think this is just another strategic move in the battle between these corporate giants. Remember that Google re-encoded all of Youtube to mp4 so that it could be shown on the iPhone, they were partners, but then Jobs got mad and started a war by suing HTC over Android. I believe Apple was dumb in starting this war because they have a lot more to lose than Google, if the iProducts lose Google's YouTube/Maps/Gmail/Search/Voice/Goggles, etc it would put them at a big disadvantage. Consumers will be collateral damage as this battle continues to escalate.
Sorry, but the fact is obtrusive advertisements like this work. Most people out there don't think like HN readers.
If anyone's interested, an engineer at Myspace who thought they were being laid off (but turned out not to be) is doing an IAmA on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/f09rk/iama_myspace_emp...
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If the end user does not own the Playstation 3 (it seems to be owned by Sony, from Sony's point of view), I wonder what he paid $499 for.
HTML5 video is DOA and Google might as well lay the groundwork for the next round. Major content providers don't support HTML5 video. Netflix, Hulu, and anyone else with intellectual property to protect want nothing to do with it. So we're going to need to keep our proprietary plugins and our proprietary apps through the HTML5 era. Even YouTube needs to stay proprietary.

So if HTML5 video is DOA, why support h264? Why be democratic when people are going to use Flash and Silverlight anyway? At least this way there might be a real push for the standard HTML5 video codec to be free and open source.
The carriers have this fear of being relegated to the "dumb pipes" role. What the phone-bundled crapware shows is that they don't deserve any better. They're incapable of adding anything of virtue to the experience.

I wish, instead of horning into the user experience with bullshit, they'd spend their time embracing their core competency: network infrastructure deployment and maintenance. And really do it with gusto – be the best they possibly can be. This would breed loyalty. This would create enthusiasm in consumers for the carriers they pay.

But who am I kidding – it's much easier to license NASCAR and shove that trash into a feature phone.
Putting aside the metaphors, Google's growth is not coming at the expense of Apple's profits. Nor are Apple's seemingly perpetual revenue and profit gains coming at Google's expense. They are attacking different problems from very different angles.

With only three or four percent of the market, Apple swallows up more profit share than the largest three phone makers combined (in the neighborhood of 40 percent). That's an astounding number, and it doesn't even include non-phone devices. At the same time, Android had tremendous growth in 2010, inevitably passing Apple in unit sales rate. It's a bit glib to simply say Google therefore beats Apple in 2010. There is nuance, and either company can be painted in the foreground.
You know...he's kinda got a point.

Relevant? http://www.techedots.com/2010/07/google-search-traffic-has-c...
Which is also not extortion.
Various sources [1] are stating that the Sony PS3 TOS allows Sony to disable units remotely leaving them unusable for both online and offline use.

While I would be fine with being banned from their network, I believe the hardware should be mine to do with as I please - with the obvious exclusion of piracy. If I want to get Linux on there, then that should be my right as the owner of the hardware - same if I want to run custom firmware to allow me to do hobby development. Both their supposed right to unleash a ban wave, as well as their lawsuit against Geohot et al just doesn't make sense - why can a lawsuit like this even be allowed to happen? (This question is linked to the fact that Geohot purposely did not add peek/poke functionality on what he released to ensure that piracy would not be possible using his tools - even if others have since added that in)

[1] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-in-theory-p...
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Sometimes all of the profit is where you'd least expect it. $10 per month for VZNavigator? How much of that is really a cost to Verizon?

See also: extended warranties.
Not that I disagree, but a "patent search" early in the process for Vorbis is not that comforting. Vorbis has been around for a while now and new patents are awarded that all the time that are used against prior art. Unless Google/On2 has an inside man at the patent office raising Vorbis as prior art, it's likely that someone could craft a patent specifically intended to target Vorbis, get it approved, and then sue lots of people. Trolls take this approach fairly often.
I understand the purpose of preinstalling the apps, but why make them so hard to remove? Do they think an informed user is going to spend all this time trying to remove crapware he obviously doesn't want to use and finally give up and say "Ah well, you win verizon. $25 worth of hip-hop ringtones please."
I've learned and used many of the major players and some minor ones in the CAD market: AutoCAD (currently using at job), ProE, NX, Catia, SolidWorks (school), Alibre (internship), Sketchup, OpenSCAD (personal). Once you've picked up the ideas, it's mostly just learning the interface and use of a program. They all will do extrusion, you'll just have to learn the command for each one. I would say spend a good bit of time with 2-3 different programs. This will give you flexibility, just like knowing more than one programming languages is useful for programmers.
I like maté too, but it isn't tea - it's a different plant (which also contains caffeine; apparently it's an easily synthesized pesticide).
someone at my high school ran a "social experiment" website called petridish.net back around '98; he didn't have proper backups, and one day it lost a significant chunk of itself. Yet another "also-ran".
Establishing an open standard for video on the web is a good thing long-term.

Why is that a good thing? It's not a bad thing, but is it worth a lot of churn? Virtually none of the media formats in wide use today are open, yet it hasn't really been a problem, from Flash to MP3 to MPEG-2 to even WMA/WMV. The ability for users to transcode is virtually limitless. I don't have a single media file that I can't get to any other format.

I don't think this is about the long-term good of the web. I think it's about the long-term good for Google.
Call me back when I can remove Stocks or Notes or Weather from iOS.

At least I would use 2 of those 3.
Not the classiest bug report in the world, but the official response of 'Yep! Take it or leave it!' isn't so great either.
I even had one government employee who had a high level job at a place we all know tell me "Look. This is easy. You do all the work. Solve all the hard problems. I'll take credit for it."

The only thing that is missing from this Don Draper-esque speech is the "That's what the money is for" line, as that's what consultants are supposed to do.
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Depending on where you live, there are probably decent tea shops (or, failing that, gourmet or health food stores with decent tea selections). It's nice to be able to smell different varieties, try samplers, etc.

That said, I've had consistently good experiences with Adagio, and (once you know what you like) tea is well-suited to mail order.
Me too, and I would like to know if anyone has ever studied the trend so I can better develop my application for these users.

Wikipedia claims it does not exist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulsive_highlighting
WebM video is DOA and Google might as well lay the groundwork for the next round. Major content providers don't support WebM video. Netflix, Hulu, and anyone else with intellectual property to protect want nothing to do with it. So we're going to need to keep our proprietary plugins and our proprietary apps through the WebM era. Even YouTube needs to stay proprietary.

Your argument goes both ways.
Ask HN: Any advice for an iPhone user switching to Android?
I'm an Apple fanboy. I have a MacBook, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and iPod Shuffle. The Apple devices have accumulated throughout the years and, while I like them all very much, I feel that I need a little change in my life. When I saw some of the fabulous features Android has to offer, I knew I needed one.

To let you know, I'm an AT&T user and therefore my choices are somewhat limited. I think that almost every review I've read or person I've talked to recommends the Samsung Captivate for AT&T users. However, the camera does not seem to be as good as the Sony Ericsson Xperia. There are also a lot of other features that one needs to compare, and I've been having trouble keeping track of all of them. For an iPhone user who never has to make a decision in their life, the countless compromises that need to be considered when purchasing an Android phone seem intimidating. What do you all think are the most important features to look for in a phone? Is the Samsung Captivate really the best one for AT&T users?

And along with those questions, do you have any other general advice for an iPhone user switching to Android? I've heard it takes some getting used to, but I'm willing to put in the effort to become accustomed to it.

tl;dr - I'm an iPhone user switching to Android and am confused by all the choices that have to be made when picking a non-iPhone phone.
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Very good points. Thanks for the reply!
In #ffmpeg on freenode:

(09:50:48 PM) sjuxax: Guy on HN said this: "ffmpeg only has a working webm decoder. xvp8 (the x264-based encoder) hasn't been touched for a few months and is basically vaporware"

(09:50:50 PM) sjuxax: true?

...

(09:52:34 PM) Dark_Shikari: not quite true

(09:52:42 PM) Dark_Shikari: close, but not quite.

(09:52:58 PM) Dark_Shikari: 1) the github tree hasn't been updated

(09:53:05 PM) Dark_Shikari: there is more stuff that isn't in the tree yet

(09:53:13 PM) Dark_Shikari: 2) Ronald is dealing with his first baby boy, give him some slack

(09:53:20 PM) Dark_Shikari: 3) Google just hired him full-time for a year to work solely on xvp8

and later on...

(10:12:27 PM) Dark_Shikari: tl;dr: it's kinda vaporware, there's a bit of work done, but it will stop being vaporware in march when Ronald goes to work for Google.
The reason they are usually hard to remove is because they are burnt to the ROM.
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Is Kelly F (the google employee in the thread) a bot?
I think it's a telling contrast when compared against the success of the respective companies.
Ask HN: Can we please start calling NoSQL PostSQL? 
NoSQL sounds really negative, Post-SQL has a better ring do it.. or maybe DROPless?
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I did not know the Japanese expression, thanks.
They were just providing liquidity. Chill out.
Tea is definitely a mind-hack. I've taken lots of theanine capsules and... not so much. YMMV.
Infographic of countries with factory-unlocked iPhones and their prices: http://www.cutviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/02081001....

Cheapest:

#1 Hong Kong

#2 Singapore

#3 Canada

#4 Switzerland

Looks like the all the iPhones have the same radios. So, if an unlocked iPhone doesn't work on 3G with your current carrier (i.e. T-Mobile in the US), then you won't be able to find an iPhone anywhere that does.

From the Apple site (I verified with the top 4 cheapest countries):

* 3G Support: UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz)

* 2G Support: GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
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This, and the carriers want to have a relationship with you.

With all the creepiness, and clinginess, that implies. In their warped, MBA, boardroom bullshit philosophy, uninstallable apps are essential to that goal.
I've been developing in Java for a while, and a lot of Java code is ugly because the "patterns" developers use are ugly. That's not to say that you can't write great code in Java, but compare a Java app with JavaBean getter/setters to Spring JDBC Template DAOs to a Rails app with ActiveRecord, and it's no contest. Another source of ugliness is logging - logging libraries that abstract away other logging libraries.

It was worse when EJB2 was the standard.

Take a look at the Play framework for some modern, non-enterprisey Java.

http://www.playframework.org/
Flash will support WebM in a future version. Additionally, Google could update the iOS YouTube app to support WebM in a future iOS version.

Once both reach sufficient market saturation YouTube will be able to completely switch from h264 to WebM.
while at the same time shipping a browser (Chrome) where you cannot remove Flash (which continues to support H.264)

You can turn off flash in Chrome

about:plugins
Thats pretty ridiculous I wonder if google is planning on cracking down on things like this or if they can at all? I a lot of pirated copies of other games as well countless SNES game rips ..etc
More discussion in this Hacker News thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2094613
Well, what other food and drinks do you like?

If you like scotch, try lapsang souchoug - it's a smoked Chinese black tea.

If you like sushi, try Japanese sencha or gyokuro - the same umami flavors in nori and kombu come through in the tea.

Etc. Etc.

If you were me, I would suggest a "malty" Assam (or an Irish breakfast blend) for most mornings, lapsang souchong for cold winter weekends, bundled up with crossword puzzles or programming texts, cheap-but-decent Assam as a base for making masala chai (with fresh cardamom and vanilla sugar), and good Sencha for the office. Citrusy green teas are great for summer pitchers of iced tea.

A good tea shop will be able to find matches for what you like, though. (Also, somebody at Tea Gschwendner (in Chicago) taught me that, after smelling lots of interesting teas, the best way to reset your sense of smell is to smell your clothes. FWIW.)
That's exactly my view, both moves are good to me. HTML5 video is still young and barely used currently, it's the time to try to shape how it will be used. If you wait 5 years, h264 will be impossible to displace and everyone will have to get software with a license, hurting all of us even more.
I wonder if it means anything legally that (at least for the initial period of the console's life) Sony was selling the device for less than cost with the expectation that they would make up the difference with game sales.

I think there is some moral greyness to buying an essentially subsidized console with no intention to buy games -- though now that they probably make a profit on the hardware, that point is moot.
DSPs are programmable, limited functionality, computers.

TI I believe is the largest vendors of DSPs for hardware decoding/encoding

http://focus.ti.com/dsp/docs/dsphome.tsp?sectionId=46&DC...
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You and everyone else, start developing the software or at least design in and document what you plan on building IN DETAIL.. and try to find someone to work with for a equity state and some cash.

Ideas are a dime a dozen

on a side note as a developer the word viral give me a visceral reaction and is a instant turn off
The apps are uninstallable because the carriers are getting paid for those apps to be there. If they let you uninstall they don't maximize their income.
Someone should tell him the different between pumping a product like "Vitamin Water" and making $400 million and pumping a stock and going to prison.
There aren't _(and probably won't be)_ hardware WebM decoders.

http://googland.blogspot.com/2011/01/g-availability-of-webm-...

The Oulu team will release the first VP8 video hardware encoder IP in the first quarter of 2011. We have the IP running in an FPGA environment, and rigorous testing is underway. Once all features have been tested and implemented, the encoder will be launched as well.
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Software decoding video isn't really that big of a deal. Even mobile processors are powerful enough...

(yes, it'll consume battery like a dry horse drinks water in a desert)
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> (yes, it'll consume battery like a dry horse drinks water in a desert)

For mobile devices, that's a huge deal. There are no resources more scarce than battery power on a mobile device.
narcissism always has its merits i suppose
Have they ever proposed that those codecs be part of the standard?
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> Even if you get an unlocked phone, you will most likely only be able to get a voice+text SIM card when traveling. Especially in Europe, only full blown plans included any amount of data.

This is totally untrue. I traveled to England last year with my Nexus One, bought a T-Mobile SIM card, and got unlimited data for a week for something absurd like £1 ($1.50) a day, after paying for the $20 SIM.

https://www.britishsims.com/T-Mobile_SIM.html
Only if you persist in looking in the wrong places.
The practice of buying the console with no intention to buy games seems to have been somewhat common among academics, who used clusters of the machines for things completely unrelated to gaming. My research advisor at some terrible state university in Texas had about forty of them for algorithms research purposes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
I was looking at ads for places today, and happened across this listing:

http://montreal.kijiji.ca/c-housing-house-rental-ST-COLOMBAN...

Small mansion 1 hour commuting distance from Montreal, $400,000

Let's look at craigslist:

http://montreal.en.craigslist.ca/boa/2116842083.html

35' cruising yacht, good condition, $49,000

This is certainly doable on $172,000
1. Apple adopts WebM (which requires WebM hardware for iOS devices)

Why? Aren't the iOS devices powerful enough to software decode WebM streams?
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I wonder if the dismal housing market and the rising demand for software will finally force corporations to figure out how to manage remote developers.

It's not like wages for the common programmer are going to keep skyrocketing until companies are buying your house to relocate your family.