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Then by your definition Java is as closed as Microsoft Office?

ActionScript and Java are both published standards. Both have a canonical implementation which dominate distribution. Both are used as web plugins. Both standards are controlled by a single corporate entity.

Flash and Java are still free for end users and developers to use and distribute (alternative implementations are handled differently by Oracle & Adobe though).

The same can not be said for H.264. If i as a developer build an app that uses H.264 i have 0 confidence that i will not be sued in the future.
Regarding Scala, I don't think type inference means that you stop thinking about types

I didn't mean to imply that it did - quite the opposite in fact (that even if you didn't write the type, you'd still be encouraged to think about it, because of the compile-time checking).
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Facebook keeps improving their photo service - removing album limits, increasing resolution.

Flickr both doesn't limit how many photos can be in a set or collection and provides the original resolution (at least for the pro account, I don't remember what the free account's limits are). These "improvements" Facebook is making is just catching up to flickr's base functionality. Obviously, Facebook may be more compelling to use for it's (monetarily) free price if you just want to post photos for your close friends to look at. I personally get tired of the photos of people's lame afternoons on Facebook, there's a lot more interesting content being posted to flickr, and I don't necessarily need to friend someone to be exposed to it or find it.

I find flickr better for managing photos. It's the internet, it like one click to get anywhere. I've settled that if people don't bother to click through from Facebook (where my flickr photos get posted to my wall as thumbnails) to actually view the photos on flickr where they are public (requiring no account), they aren't actually interested in seeing it.
Will Google Dropping H.264 Lead To Antitrust Questions?
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The main thing is the quantity. if you need prototype to small volumes look at quickparts.com. they have a $150 min order last time I quoted a rapid prototype. Next step would probably be Protomold, they do injection molds out of aluminum with high speed CNC machines and can do a 1 day turnaround if you have the money. There's another company I've worked with called Vista Technologies (vistatek.com) out of Minneapolis that did prototypes and then production parts. If you're going to higher volumes you can go to pretty much any injection molder and have them make you parts, some will roll the cost of the tooling into the per part cost. oh yeah, vista will also do urethane castings for low volumes of parts, like less than 100.

I would recommend getting a rapid prototype made out of a material that is close to what you want the final product to be. prototype early and prototype often, what looks good in our heads or on the computer screen often isn't quite right in the for-reals. Use quickparts, vista, or shapeways. Pokeno is still working the bugs out of their 3d printing, give them a couple of months. Shapeways requires you to submit a .stl file of your 3D model. Quickparts and Vista are a little more flexible. I would not recommend a home brew 3d printer, the resolution and the material choices aren't as good. Also, you just want your part not to screw around with a machine.

I've worked as a manufacturing engineer and as a design engineer, product development is what i do for a living. If you would like to talk things over some more, I'd be happy to sign an NDA and maybe point you in the right direction... at least a direction anyway.
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Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness
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I'd like to post a dissenting view, but unfortunately my posts on hacker news are now censored...
There was no hardware support before H264 was widely used on the internet. Same for any other format in history. Mobile devices (which I guess you are hinting at) usually only support the Baseline profile which WebM does challenge. I don't see why there should not be hardware support everywhere in 1-2 years.
I personally disagree with the thesis of the article, but this is still the best commentary I have seen written on the issue. As usual, a lot of the argument seems to boil down to different definitions of the word "open".
TechCrunch is not worse or better than any other news source. They want to get traffic and to achieve that they cover what is interesting to their readers, namely innovation and successful startups. It's good for them to cover the most promising stories, preferably before competitors, to increase readership. TechCrunch and co are not corrupted, but their inboxes are overwhelmed with interesting stories. To sort through that they have only a few options:

1) They know you because you had success in the past
2) You were referred by someone they trust
3) Your story is compelling (with a bonus if you give them some kind of exclusivity)

The thing is, once you have achieved 1) and 2) you can consistently get covered much more easily. And it would appear that you get preferential treatment while in fact you built that reputation over time (often with a lot of hard work).
They might go bankrupt or discontinue for other reasons.
It's not so much that the modeling of the brain is flawed; it's just that the chemistry of stress and recovery in our brains is complex and has multiple variables. There are lot of outstanding questions.

There are different kinds of depression that manifest themselves with different symptoms (manic depression, sluggishness, suicidal thoughts). What causes some but not others? The type of treatment can depend on this.

Serotonin plays a big role in depression, which helps explain why SSRIs are so effective. Dut is depression caused by not enough serotonin, or is it because the receptors aren't as sensitive to it? Norepinphrine is used by the locus coeruleus, and a lack of it has been linked with PTSD, panic disorders, and depression. Why doesn't this new medication make a difference? Are the low levels of norepineprine a cause or just a symptom? Dopamine signals the pleasure pathway. A lack of it means a lack of pleasure, which is definitely a part of depression.

Those are the big three chemicals, but there are so many other variables. There's a genetic component to depression as well. What genes are responsible for hereditary depression? Even if you inherit the gene, it may require some environmental stimulus to cause it to express itself. What sort of role does childhood trauma play with this?

If you're interested in this stuff, read "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" by Robert Sapolsky. It's a really well-written, thoroughly researched book on stress and anxiety from a scientific perspective. The writing is approachable without pandering, and having a bit more insight into the science of our weird little happy/normal/sad system has given me some direction in managing stress in my life.
I think I was prescribed Edronax in 1999 for a very short while. The side-effect was knocking me out and caused me to sleep for 20 hours a day... I stopped very soon with them.
I don't know. I've got all the necessities and plenty of luxuries, so I'm content. Money is a pretty poor way of describing my quality of life.
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I agree. I've been filtering certain default subreddits (e.g., AskReddit) from the front page because the signal/noise ratio is terrible. As an example, I like the fact that /r/coding was spawned from the fact that 90% of the articles in /r/programming are not related to programming.
Confirmation bias, the author is a Infrastructure Architect, so he sees the problem as such.

> Infrastructure build-out and optimization strategy is something I know a great deal about. It’s what I do as my day job as an Infrastructure Architect at IBM — understanding what our customers need to do in order to minimize their infrastructure overhead in terms of systems, storage, networking and facilities as they plan for further growth.
Scary, but we just get to build cool stuff for the next while. I think well do a-ok as lOng as we continue having fun.
Yeah, like I mentioned in a reply below, I've started filtering the subreddits shown and it's helped the signal/noise ratio a lot.
I usually post a dissenting view here on hackernews, I never use name calling and always back up my sources. Unfortunately Hackernews has now censored my account and actively deletes my posts. I guess they feel threatened by an opposing view. "Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism." -quote from <CENSORED>
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Unless I'm wrong, they've measured both: Latency is 1 hour (time it takes a packet to go from source to destination), bandwidth is that number they quoted.
Yeah... I'm an engineer (a bit OCD too but who isn't these days?) and perfectly okay with change. I enjoy it rather... but I definitely prefer HN's current look over the OP's. The current font size is perfect as it is. I feel like larger fonts make sites look less professional... can't quite put my finger on why though. Maybe it's because larger fonts require more scrolling and is less efficient when I can read 12px (or even 11px) font without squinting just fine. There may also be a correlation (at least for me) with large fonts and say... children's books/sites and those with poor vision (typically the older generations who are mostly computer illiterate)... i.e., less professional and more casual.
What can I say? There is a difference between errors of commission and omission. I much prefer the latter.
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Mine has a single click demo -- http://www.davesgalaxy.com

Oh, and it requires some form of sign in since it has a persistent world.
New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3
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We've recently added two very talented interns to our team:

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This is not directly related to the post. But gauging that this topic will attract readers knowledgable about antidepressants, I figured I might get an illuminating response.

I often read that a side-effect of a antidepressant is heightened suicidal feelings. That completely mystifies me. Isnt it exactly what it is supposed to be working against ?
Also I would argue that you'll learn about as much from doing it on your own as you will learn from the internship . . . you discover a lot of things about large project management from necessity not by example.
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Maybe somehow it speeds up the system of evolution by keeping life expectancies shorter, thereby increasing turnover (death and new births)? I have no clue just throwing that out there.
The reason they are frowned upon is because the discussion section should contain, ya know, discussion. Not 30 pages of tired memes.
People still shop for CD's in stores?
Ask HN: Why do so many startups use the phrase ' ridiculously easy'?
Over the past few months, I've seen an increasing number of startups use the phrase 'ridiculously easy to do _X_' ..

Is there a reason for the rapid proliferation of this phrase? Has it been 'proven' to work with the masses ?
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I am suddenly struck with a flashback to the Cold Fusion experiments. I want to see this reproduced in a (pun totally intended) more sober setting
I'm starting to think the real reason behind this is that google hasn't been able to flesh out any of it's flash-based advertising products for html5, and know that it won't be easy to do so (people can hide ad divs or download the source videos trivially; no way for them to guarantee content protection to publishers). I think that they realize that the only way for them to stick with flash without being seen as behind the times or anti-"open" is for them to prolong the codec dispute by requiring flash for all of the h264 videos out there by removing native support. As a side effect, users of safari and IE who want to view youtube webm content will have to use a flash wrapper as well if I understand it correctly. This isn't to say that a long term goal of html5 video served via a patent-unencumbered coded isn't a motivation of theirs, I just think that the decision to remove native h264 right now is more of a way to keep flash a practical option than an ideological move.
No. Just no. Dedicated hardware is fast and efficient because it trades off flexibility for speed/power efficiency
Not judging but I love how the term "researcher" has been adopted as a way to guise whitehat activities.

I wish I could use that to get out of speeding tickets

"Officer I am just a researcher and trying to determine if the 55mph speed limit sign is really the law and if it's possible to break it"
Antidepressants motivate people to improve their lives.

One obvious way to do this is suicide. If your every moment of existence is painful, suicide is an immediate improvement.

It's the motivational aspect that seems to increase suicide - motivation turns people's lethargic depression into a more active form of depression where they find the will to carry out their desires.

A common desire among the depressed is the desire for death. Your typical depressed person however is too depressed to even exert the energy or thinking necessary to end his life.
I think that readers want to be exposed to innovation more. For example, here's new startup, they come up with a new way to buy your next air ticket, etc. Or here's one way to sync your contacts between iPhone. I think readers would prefer that kind of news, it has primarily been the reason why we go online in the first place. Other than email and play game, is to learn and to research.

I can understand people tends to associate past success = future success (more often) and prefer to work with someone they trust. I guess can't do much that about that, other than building more awesome products and connecting with more people.
This isn't an issue with testing this is an issue of scientific fraud.
I didn't sign shit when I bought my PS3. Sony isn't requesting that the US government enforce for them a contract that I signed fair and square, they're just using the court system as their own personal goon-squad.
Jared Loughner is that you? Talk about rage 24/7...
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Apple's primary reason for not supporting Flash is that there is not a "Browser Plugin Store", there is an "App Store", and Flash is decidedly not an "app".
Because government is always bad, and anything they do can only be for the evil.
Signing away your freedoms in a contract is sometimes legal and enforceable. However, even if the language of the contract is clear, it can be invalidated for being unconscionable or for lack of consideration.
The graph based on their Google Analytics data https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en... shows that the increase in reddit's numbers to due to Digg's problems was major, whether their admins want to admit it or not.
Ah! it makes more sense now. Thanks
How does this effect apps that already use a 4-fingered gesture?

It's technically possible to support it (I believe the touch events give you up to 11 touches). Are there any apps that actually do?

And were there any guidelines in place about not using multi-touch gestures in apps that needed more than 2 fingers?
PersonalBrain does feel a bit clunky in Java and it stinks that it's a desktop-only application (with a not-so-great and expensive Java web version). That having been said, it still rocks. I use it every day.

I would love to see competition for it as a collaborative webapp or as a native OS X / iPhone / iPad app.
Do you remember those sound cards that came with their own IDE controller for CD drives?
Programmers should organize.

The precise form of organization can be grown organically to fit the situation, whether you call it a "union" or just as "association"

The point is that programmers should organize so that they can improve the pay and general standard of life of every programmer and so they can increase the quality and value of every programmers output and the esteem of the profession in general.

Programmers should treat their profession with the same seriousness that Doctors, Lawyers, Psychologists, Actuaries, etc treat their professions. They create professional bodies that stand up for their interests whether it is by lobbying, marketing, bargaining, etc.
The reason Apple included these gestures in the beta was so that developers could test them and see how they function when used inside of their apps. The kinks in third-party apps will hopefully get worked out if there are any.
The data I see (from the people I know), is that it seems to pull real estate info, and is incapable of knowing where you've moved (if into a dorm or apartment) after moving out of your parents place. But it seems deadly accurate in giving me the addresses of every single one of my close friends parents - so I imagine those right above me in age (with homes) it would also predict very well.

You can remove yourself in the bottom right.
Probably because language and general expression are moving objects.

It is a very recent trend indeed ( http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=%22ridiculously+e... ) and I guess it has something to do with people getting their inspiration from other startups, who also used the expression...
I think this could fit: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/hannum-efdtt-source...
I'm surprised you need this spelled out for you, but the professor is unaffiliated with and has no contractual relationship with Sony. Since he's just mirroring someone else's code, he probably hasn't even agreed to a TOS.

Therefore any successful litigation against him would require reference to some law that makes it unlawful to disseminate the actual information. It's difficult to imagine how such a law would hold up to a rigorous first amendment challenge.

Your other posts make it clear that you believe this guy has breached some private contractual obligation to Sony, and I'm curious to know where you're getting that idea.
Why are new gestures news-worthy(HN)?
I don't think that's the argument being used. I think the argument is that there is no reason to believe that you are less likely to get sued for using WebM than if you use h.264. If you use WebM, there's just a bit more uncertainty about who will sue you.
To survive natural selection the gene must give the animal some reproductive advantage. I can understand that promoting longevity beyond the reproductive stage of one's life cycle affords no such benefit. But one still has to account for the fact that the lack of the gene appears to increase the survivability in the reproductive pahse as well. Something more must be going on.
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For the printer.
Maybe something more like:

えっ？全然興味ないんだけど。日本にいるんじゃん？

Sorry to kill the joke, but if Google translates it into grammatically correct English, the source was nothing resembling Japanese.
> I often read that a side-effect of a antidepressant is heightened suicidal feelings. That completely mystifies me. Isnt it exactly what it is supposed to be working against ?

That's ironic, but not odd. For example, treatments for stomach discomfort can have side effects that include... stomach discomfort.

Chemicals affect different people differently. Some people react in the opposite way than others.
hopefully the browser will get the 3-finger gesture for back/forward.
I think that without the orange bar the page is too airy—should I say appleish—elements are just floating in out there somewhere. The bar gives the page clear frames.

As for the font, why define one at all? Browsers already provide a default font which hopefully is configured by the user.
It's Apple.
Wasn't this done months ago? (/me looks for the article)

Well, this was more generic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907513

Oh, it was over a year ago: http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/12/07/2322235/WPA-PSK-Cracki...
I have one. I was trying to get an internship with a local engineering firm. Well, I knew one of the engineers there and he managed to get me an interview. Unfortunately through traveling and not checking my phone I managed to miss the phone call. So I never interviewed. But the firm offered me an unpaid internship anyway. Well, I was interested in working there and knew missing the interview was my fault, so I took it. Although a couple weeks into the internship they started paying me.
This is a prime example of what most content on TC has been, lately. I've been sensing a decline in the quality of content on that site, lately.
Is this some kind of artificial test or is it a real issue? What I mean is that the article mentions running through about 400,000 passwords per second and the hack took 20 minutes. But wouldn't most servers or routers block the user out after so many failed logins? How do they get around that?
Microsoft likens Google's H.264 drop to abandoning English
This looks pretty swell. I'm a fan of the UI improvements.

I also use a chrome plugin to inject some styling and other fun features to HN. It's on github at https://github.com/wookiehangover/grapeDrink-for-hackernews . Mine's definitely not as conventionally handsome tho.
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Reboxetine never helped me with depression, but I excelled on the forced-swim test after my doctor prescribed it for me.
Because it is an interesting UI/X innovation? And as the other poster said there's quite a few apple users on HN who would appreciate the info (I know I did)
You don't actually send 400,000 passwords to the server. You capture legit packets traveling between the access point and an authorized user and then run your brute force algo on their encryption.
Book piracy: Less DRM, more data
Not really. There was a short term spike, but their year-over-year growth was much more consistent AND greater in magnitude.
Wow. They could, foreseeably, do away with the home button now. Multi-touch is fascinating, until it becomes non-intuitive and too complicated...
You mean, 7?

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Mojang_Specifications

That sounds like a nice payout to me...
Yeah, these are great!
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What's wrong with the design? I love the minimalist feel. I think Reddit's and HN's design works great for news aggregators.
"The only way to get real service [at Google] is find someone on the inside..."
On page two, "Consistency Counts", the argument isn't right. "Openness" is sadly very ambiguous, but as noted earlier in the article, there's a difference between being developed openly and having patent encumbered royalties. Flash is actually an open specification, and anyone is free to develop tools that create flash content (distributed as source or binary) without paying royalties to Adobe in any part of the world. Anyone can create a flash player too without paying royalties.

VP8 and Flash are not open standards, but they are royalty free. AVC was openly developed and is an ISO standard but is not royalty free.