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The salaryman culture isn't dead in Japan; and that culture came as a bargain - loyalty was a two-way street, as the saying goes. So he would consider working without contractual guarantees because those corporations still have a track record of delivering without contractual guarantees.

Whereas American corporations haven't had that spirit for a long time (replacing it with a letter-of-the-law attitude) and a number apparently actively seek to exploit their employees' delusions that some might still have that spirit, as this MySpace example perhaps illustrates.
Just switched back to Safari.

Sorry google, but I own an iPad. :(
I'm not sure to the degree it's still true but it was once true that in Japan a job was essentially for life. Not only did the employee have loyalty to the company but that loyalty was reciprocated.

Like I said, it's probably not quite as much as once was but there is no doubt remnants of that still there.

Chris Dixon eloquently articulated the types of work relationships that exist more commonly in the developed world. Broadly, there is the transactional view (as per Jack Welch) or the collective view (eg a startup where you have some equity stake in the company).

See http://cdixon.org/2009/10/23/twelve-months-notice/
How the heck is "if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me" extortion?
Cost of moving can be very significant, in many ways (not just financially) and often people are reluctant to do it. That means you often have to make a guess as to what you're going to value a year or five (or ten) from now. And often, you have to make that decision under pressure, or make lots of tradeoffs and wind up paying for things you don't value in order to have the things you do. In other words you might have chosen a location in Cambridge because that was the only place that had the amenities you wanted, and its proximity to Harvard and MIT is coincidental.

And not only do your values change, but the environment changes too. The place you choose to live now may change significantly.
probably on an old version of android. browser on my android phone does animated gifs fine
I think I have got it... should I give a spoiler?
Firebug, HTTP Live Headers, AdBlock Plus and a slew of other extensions I typically use do not work until a late beta is out.
If you were a skilled technical worker at Myspace, wouldn't you have already left by now?
I got mine just before Android 2.2 came out (I got the 2.2 OTA update right after pulling it out of the box) and it definitely did have Twitter.
I love the age when you can ask that about a living 20-something.
I'm sort of happy that Google is doing this. I'm not always happy with google and what they do - not being evil sure as hell doesn't make you a good guy - but if there's another bunch of guys who aren't on the 'good' side, it's MPEG. I really would like to see the HTML <video> tag evolve in a way that doesn't require an MPEG technology.

HOWEVER, I'd like to raise a couple of points.

One is that the x264 devs, easily some of the most codec-knowledgeable people in the world, have raised questions about VP8's patent exposure. It's fair to say that On2 didn't have to worry about getting sued over implementation details of VP8 as long as its design was hidden and proprietary, but I'm quite confident that google is going to get shaken down over webm, a lot like Microsoft did with VC1. Unlike Microsoft and VC1, Google will settle and license the patents in question, with indemnification for webm users, because webm is more important to them than VC1 was to MS. But it's going to cost them.

Second, anyone serving video now has a nice low-resistance path that means encoding exclusively in h264 - served up via the html5 <video> tag for iPhone and newer browsers, and served up inside flv with a flash plugin for older browsers. H264 isn't going to go away anytime soon, so google wants everyone to start encoding 2x now - with h264 and VP8. Or I guess you can just start using YouTube...?
Why does it double your encoding cost? Support the majority of the market first, then the minority if you can squeeze it in in your cost structure. iOS devices are the minority devices, they naturally come second.

Supporting some single or low double digit market share at the expense of the vaster share doesn't make any sense. It's like owning a fuel station that only offers electricity and hydrogen and then complaining that it'll increase your costs to stock regular old petrol and diesel.
somewhere here the researcher of this article decided to leave out China, whether it refuse to acknowledge it, or just couldn't get the data from the almighty Communist Dragon, but from personal experience, China is probably in par with U.S. in terms of spam.

There's virus on every other site. Especially phishing for gaming accounts. The country's hacking network nets couple hundred million $US dollars just hacking gaming accounts and sell the virtual currency on a third party platform. If you have heard "Chinese Gold Farmers", then you must have also heard " Chinese Phishers"
I personally don't have a big problem with carriers loading apps on the phones as long as they don't interfere with what I do, but it is mind boggling how idiotic the "rest" of the industry is in not identifying this opportunity. It took the PC industry only a decade or so to start offering crapware free computers - first at $50 premium and now free as an option. May be the carriers can do better.

The carriers should really stay out of the software side - less spending for them, clean experience for users and let the manufacturers do what they know best. If the OHA members just stood up for themselves and convince the carriers, I can easily see it happening.

In a way T-Mo has taken the right direction for G2, hopefully each manufacturer offers at least one clean experience phone per carrier.
The real question is will Google follow through and remove all support for H.264 from YouTube. That will be the telling sign that they're serious.
As it turns out, Mr. Jones and his lieutenants knowingly used their employees, working them hard, making them give up time with their friends and families, knowing all along that no matter how hard they worked, and how successful their efforts, many of them would be rewarded with layoffs.

Pardon me for being cynical, but just a little personal experience:

BOSS: "There will NOT be a layoff."
REALITY: There was a layoff.

BOSS: "There will be no more layoffs."
REALITY: There were more layoffs.

BOSS: "This will be the last layoff."
REALITY: There were more layoffs.

BOSS: "I will be the next person laid off."
REALITY: He wasn't. Someone else was.

BOSS: "I am instituting 35 hrs. pay for 40 hrs. work."
REALITY: It lasted one pay period before the layoff.

BOSS: "The corporate jet will be the next thing to go."
REALITY: The corporate jet was still in place after the layoff.

BOSS: "Customer XYZ will pay their bill next week."
REALITY: Customer XYZ never paid their bill. Layoff instead.

BOSS: "Finish this project and we're in the clear."
REALITY: The project was finished. Then came the layoff.

BOSS: "Indispensable employees will be spared."
REALITY: No one was indispensable.

BOSS: "We made our numbers. We'll be OK."
REALITY: The SEC and IRS disagreed. We went out of business.

BOSS: "U.S. manufacturing is solid and protected."
REALITY: 400 jobs shipped to Haiti within 90 days.

BOSS: "A layoff will be the last resort."
REALITY: Layoff + executive auto leases still in place.

BOSS: "I will promote you next week."
REALITY: The company newsletter reported his girlfriend getting my job.

BOSS: "Just help me get through this and I will reward you."
REALITY: I helped him get through it. He didn't reward me.

Sorry to say, moral of the story:

Q: How can you tell if the boss is lying?
A: His mouth is moving.
The commitment of Japanese companies to lifetime employment has never been universal across the workforce, and it is weakening, but for salarymen (what most HN readers employed for salary at a megacorp would be), it is not unreasonable to expect the company to durably honor The Offer regardless of the company's financial performance, changes in management, etc.

The Offer -- which underpins a whole lot of social life here -- goes something like this: if you swear yourself to us body and soul (see my numerous posts about work/life balance here), we guarantee you against most forms of risk. You will receive steady paychecks, predictable raises/promotions, a suite of benefits, and the unwavering loyalty (and social support) of the company until the day you die.
By "society" should I assume you mean "other people who want my stuff"?

I see nothing unjust about an arbitrary amount of acquisitiveness. I don't think success, or its material reward, are inherently sinful. I do think it's unhealthy to be obsessed with acquisition for its own sake, as opposed to when one has healthy intentions for that which is being acquired; but in any case, that's nothing to do with the collective good to which you refer.
Clickable:

http://www.onefatpig.com
1. On2 never went to market with VP8 before the sale to Google. To say that they weren't sued for something they didn't release doesn't prove anything, especially since VP8 was marketed as a evolution of VP6.

2. See #1, they licensed VP6 not VP8/WebM.

3. No doubt!

4. Google does not indemnify users of WebM (http://www.webmproject.org/license/software/). If someone were to sue you for WebM, it's not an attack on Google and they have no reason to pick up your legal bill. Sure, it's not unreasonable to assume that if many large companies adopt a technology it's safe to use, but it doesn't protect you from being attacked individually.

Armchair legal hand waving goes both ways.
I have been looking at whether or not to rebrand. The initial branding was PiggyBanks. But all variations of that as a domain are parked by miserable squatters. One of them offered to sell at the 'reasonable' price of $16k.
Why do you have to be first to market? I too have started building this very app and still plan to finish it. There are a thousand factors that determine how your app/business progresses. Market timing is just one small one.
I can kinda see a practical rationale to a no-cold-call policy: It's pretty well-known when a movie is in production, so one company could throw a monkey wrench into a competitor's film by poaching a key person at a bad time just by throwing a bunch of money.

I suppose that's mostly the case anywhere, but film releases are, I think, on somewhat tight schedules to hit release windows. Cause a three month delay in the release of a Pixar movie and you might remove a potentially huge summer competitor from the field.

As long as unhappy employees are able to look elsewhere on their own initiative, it doesn't seem that bad.
Are there any you can buy today? I honestly don't know of any.

EDIT: Thanks, I guess the answer is no...
An ubiquitous solution is in the best interests of users. My parents could care less about whether the video is encoded in H.264 or Ogg. They just want it to work on their iPad.

Depends on how you look at "best interests". Another way to look at it is that it's in your parents' best interest to see for themselves what a closed platform entails, and to think twice before investing in one in the future.
The claim is that ISPs won't see it in their best interest to restrict access to particular content, or to charge premiums. That's inconsistent with their observed behavior (e.g., charging extra for mobile phone tethering, even though shipping packets costs them the same whether or not the phone ships them three feet further to a laptop). It's also inconsistent with their expressed desires (viz., for instance, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre whining about Google and Yahoo wanting to "use [our] pipes free" --- even though the pipes in question were already paid for by customers who thought they had every right to use them to access Google content).

For more on the relevant history, I recommend "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu, or "The Creation of the Media" by Paul Starr.

Cite on the Whitacre quote: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ip-telephony/how-google-can-tell-e...
However, the devices with the most users which don't have flash (read: iOS), can play h264, not WebM. That would make it likely to be more often h264 with flash fallback.
Desalinated water costs 50 cents per cubic metre in Singapore. 8 cups of water per day * 365 days gives 2/3 of a cubic meter. 35 cents per person per year. Even the poorest of the poor can afford that.

Individual people will fight over water. If you don't get enough to drink, you die. That's worth fighting over.

Governments fighting over water is stupid. Yes, I know governments being stupid is pretty commonplace, but it's our place to tell them they're stupid, not egg them on, like you and NatGeo are doing.
For anyone who grew up with 80's and 90's computers and software, there could hardly be a funnier recap of those wild-West early days than this book.

Besides the humor, and admonitions against arrogant stupidity (yah, redundant), In Search of Stupidity made clear that competent technical leadership is vital. IIRC, Joel Spolsky's introduction in the book points out that only Microsoft stayed in the top 10 of software from the 80's through the end of the 90's, in large measure because billg understood the importance of e.g., personally advocating for OLE with his software team; while his competitors were busy with yachts and alienating their developer communities.
I've never worked for MySpace or Fox, but I've worked for folks who had just come from MySpace / Fox and I have to say it was really apparent how ingrained into the culture pulling all-nighters, working through weekends and holidays etc was.
I've been a consultant most all of my life -- mainly because I don't trust stock-price-driven companies to be honorable or to know what the heck they are doing. I love all the people I've worked with: it's just the organizations and business models they create that's so crazy.

The nice thing about being a consultant is that you do something they like, they pay you. Repeat and rinse. Pretty soon you're out on the street looking for a new gig. If they don't like you, you don't get paid (and you're on the street quicker).

It's a very simple and easily understandable deal. And being on the street is not the end of something or a failure -- it's a chance to go on an even greater adventure.

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."

Sounded good to me. Finished the job early and went on to something else. He's still there doing the same thing.

There are a lot of implied or assumed promises in corporate full-time jobs. It's been my experience that you shouldn't trust any of them -- even from people who are trying really hard to do the right thing. IT is just a business where everything is always changing. It's not like any other business I've ever seen
The problem is that content providers have yet another option to choose from, but so far one that is supported by almost no one. Firefox will support WebM, and so will Chrome, so to reach those browsers you either need WebM, or Flash.

Flash also supports h.264 video, as do most mobile devices (Android, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Windows Phone 7, Zune even) and game consoles (XBox, PS3, and afaik the Wii). In fact from what I can tell, the only platform that doesn't support H.264 is Firefox without Flash. Compare that to the massive amount of existing platforms and devices which don't support WebM (and have no hardware WebM decoding), and it seems like moving to WebM makes much less business sense.
There's a difference between hardware designs and actual hardware... Google doesn't offer indemnity for use of the format so why do you think they'd be the only defendant? If Google's so smart like you say, if they're so kind hearted, then why aren't they offering indemnity?
Cost/benefit. We outsource encoding to Zencoder which costs $.02 to $.05 per minute. Then there is also the price of disk space and the amount of time it takes for the video(s) to be available. Maybe one day the cost/benefit will change.
Great news. Now how about that mobile hotspot?

Will it be free or an extra $20 per month like Verizon's other phones? There seems to be confusion on this point.
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Perhaps something along the lines of "bringing home the bacon" could be used too. I hear people say that all the time.
>"IBM didn't make the first personal computer"

Maybe not the best example. IBM's first PC came out in 1991. Ten years later they were posting billion dollar plus losses which almost killed it. Profitability returned as they began to withdraw from the PC market.
I'm sure there is. I want links I can review, because Java sucks the joy of programming out of me.
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"Cant turn off location detection" discussion on Google support forum
Fair enough. Well, that'll stand as one hell of a scathing critique of academia then.
SAPPHIRE announces the first Fusion APU motherboard
Ask HN: Anyone using SSDs from SoftLayer yet?
I just noticed that SoftLayer provides SSDs as a disk option. I've been curious about using SSDs on database servers for a while (regular RAID+InnoDB or RethinkDB). Can anyone who has used them comment on their performance?
That's the real problem. The stakes are huge, so eventually most systems get gamed by spammers.

Maybe they could have meta-moderators (crowd-sourced?) like Slashdot has (had? haven't been there in a while). People who review what people have reported as spam, and only the top 5% most trusted and consistent accounts would be used to actually influence live rankings.

For a spammer to get there, he would have to do lots of good work for a while, and risk losing that top spot as soon as he starts trying to do spammy stuff.

Maybe it would work... Any obvious way to game such a system?
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Agreed with this. Get a .com, and yes there are still plenty available. I've registered ~15 .com's in the last 2 weeks for clients, all were original, all were legible and properly-spelled english words (or combination of words).

They're still there, you just need to think outside the box and pull your thesaurus out :)
First Google result. :) Cheers:
http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/01/availability-of-webm-vp8...
Agreed. OnePinkPig? ChubbyPiggy.com? KidPiggy.com? PiggyPlease.com? I don't know - just suggestions that are available as of now.

Nice design and layout by the way. Works well on the eyes.
ourbigpiggy.com is open, and would signify the group/family aspect with the 'our' in it.
That is rather obtuse, but some sites don't even let you delete your account/profile at all.

(Like the one we're currently on.)
Yep, I know. The cover-up culture in the companies that develop such bosses certainly don't help. That is one reason why it is harmful.
If you can answer this, you are old :D
"have the jailbreak and any information about the jailbreak removed from the web"

Thanks for the morning laugh. The horse left the barn a while ago. Sorry, Sony.
Or another way to view it is that if you factor in Flash support for H.264, the only clients that can't view H.264 content are Firefox, Opera, and IE 8-or-earlier installs without Flash installed.

I'm not sure what percentage of the market that is, but I'm pretty sure it's pretty small.

In comparison, all mobile devices, game consoles, and Blu-Ray players support H.264, as do all Flash installations (including the one bundled with Chrome that users can't remove), and all installations of Safari and IE9 (when it arrives).
Aah, it was 2.2 that added Twitter to the base OS:

http://support.twitter.com/groups/34-mobile/topics/125-troub...
I'm using one on a very active database and it's been quite amazing. I would say an SSD allows you to either cut your query times in half or double your queries. They are that impressive.

I don't have before/after benchmarks but I can tell you we built a beefy server with an SSD because our SCSI disk based server was falling on it's face and now the load is very minimal.
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I was more interested in the concept of the magnetic mirror point, which I was unaware of until now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_mirror_point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-shell
Crapware isn't an expense, it's a source of revenue. Think of it like the ads on Google's result page. Just another conduit for commerce the carrier and manufacturer use improve profitability.

Deciding to kill a source of revenue, whether it's more appealing to the consumer or not, becomes harder to justify when that source of revenue is paying off creditors and funding new development.
I agree with atomical - I would change the name. I actually like it, it's quite clever, but I don't think 'typical' parents would enjoy their children talking about 'one fat pig'.

Can you whitelist or blacklist products? I imagine many parents won't want their kids saving up for a hello kitty vibrator: http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Kitty-face-Massage-Roller/dp/B00...

Getting users... yup, thats the hard part. Talk to some moms you know, give them some free accounts. Nothing, absolutely nothing in the world, can beat the value of word of mouth from a happy mom, and that's who you are targeting anyway.

This may seem crazy, but go to your local coffee shop, grocery store, restaurant, and see if they have a bulletin board that you can put flyers up on. Another prime mom location.

Check itunes for mom or parenting podcasts. Contact the hosts and ask if you can come on their podcast to talk about your site. Offer some free accounts for listeners.

Target geek moms?

I think you're getting the point... target mom!
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Yes, there's that of course :)
bankofmom.com ? It's taken but maybe the owner will charge less?
This seems like kind of an odd comment. How did Android 'beat' Apple? What's the game they're playing? Google is displaying a lot of ads (their goal). Apple is making a shitload of money (their goal). How did Apple 'lose' or Android 'win'?

Also, not to nitpick, but 'Java variant' seems inaccurate. Code is written in actual Java (not a variant, as far as I'm aware), and compiled to bytecode to run on the Dalvik VM (not a JVM variant).
>"Would that be a useful endeavor for a biz-guy?"

No. Learning CAD would be a highly inefficient way to improve your communication of ideas due to the steep learning curve associated with professional level products.

Playing around with Sketchup might have some benefit, so long as one recognizes that Sketchup models typically have substantial limitations as technical documents.
I feel like the Features page should be condensed somehow. There's a lot of text and images... But I like how the UI looks on those screenshots. Good stuff.
The interesting thing to me is the spam on that github.com post by DIA10. Coach purse spam on a site like that? With the overhead involved in getting to that point to post?
It appears that they just took my post from last week and added 500 words: http://ted-is-a-nerd.tumblr.com/post/2631616173/
Let me know when you get that frisbee-yo-yo thing working, it sounds awesome!
"The only legitimate concern with this is hardware decoding, largely in mobile devices."

iOS can implement WebM, no problemo. The problem is, it will be pretty crummy.
That's also precisely why he realized that one of the keys for Facebook was people uploading their own pictures and information. I bet he wouldn't have had that epiphany if he didn't do Facemash first. Not that I'm condoning what he did or anything.
These guys knew they were working for Rupert Murdoch, right?