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I'm not yet aware of an Android device which supports WebM hardware decoding. Virtually all of them support H.264 hardware decoding.

This is not an iOS vs Android argument (though many have tried to make it so), all of the current devices chose H.264 as their primary codec because when they were being designed and developed that was the only logical choice.
The "situation is fluid" link in the article is the same as yours. They didn't explicitly mention it, though.
Yes: you don't own the messages. It is a private internet that FB owns. That's why I don't like it.

The internet is meant to be decentralized. I use Mail Service X, you use Y, maybe one of us runs our own mail server. Doesn't matter. A common protocol makes it work. If my mail server dies or your service goes offline, any emails we've sent still live on the remaining server.

If we want private communications, we can encrypt our messages. If we want to use email as an API, we can. We can receive and parse and archive to our hearts' content.

When FB owns both ends, owns the servers, controls the features, and keeps the data, we communicate at their pleasure. If they want to scrape for political keywords or decline to deliver messages about banana bread, they can. If they want to delete your messages, they can. If they want to forward your messages to advertisers, they can.

"So what?" people say. "Gmail scans your messages and shows ads." True. But if I'm ever uncomfortable, I can switch to any email provider I want, or set up my own server.

If John and I both use Gmail, I can leave Gmail and still stay in touch with him. But if John and I both use Facebook, I can't leave Facebook without losing the ability to message him. If everyone I know is like John, leaving Facebook is voluntary exile, and nobody wants to do it first.

The internet is meant to be decentralized. For many people, FB is taking over the internet.

That's why I don't like FB.
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It's quite funny to criticize a html-guy on worrying about semantics ... seriously, it's the core of html and the core of my every day job.

If you want a more detailed explanation, check the "sad semantics" section here:
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/html5-meet-world-irony
One user says they use a credit card with cash back on ebay.

Interesting concept. Buy $1000 worth of $20 gift cards at face value, sell on eBay. Cash back at 1% is 10 bucks. It is some profit. Not sure if it's worth handling 50 ebay listings, and listing fees probably negate it.
Thanks but it seems that it is available only for Windows and Mac.
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As a result, throughout my childhood—and most of my adulthood—we mostly contended with a slim parade of different, sometimes contradictory, caricatures: lotus blossoms and dragon ladies, math nerds and martial artists, refugees and gang-bangers. Ad nauseum.

The amount of presumption that I have to deal with from strangers on a regular basis is still disturbing. Such interactions only comprise a small fraction of the total, but a modern urban setting is sufficiently populated to generate a regular supply. No, I look nothing like Jackie Chan. Please don't treat me like someone wearing a costume at Disney World. I'm not a cartoon and I'm not your instant Asian friend. Yes, I was born here. English is my first language. I know next to nothing about martial arts. I'm not bad but still not that good at math. No, I don't think I'm better than you, I don't need to be shown up, you're not making the world a more beautiful and better place by doing that. (Still, all of those are better than the instant Asian=target of abuse idiots or the weird psycho-sexual vibes from certain kinds of middle-aged white guys.)

I observe the little dance that people go through when they get to know each other. I notice the little verbal and non-verbal signals being passed and being noticed. I'd really like to notice more of those transactions and stop wondering about their relative lack coincident with these big globs of presumption coming out of nowhere.
From speaking with jashkenas on IRC, I found out that while it's not immediately obvious, backbone is quite extendable/pluggable by using Backbone.model.extend.

I reckon that as Backbone matures and gets closer to 1.0 status, we'll start seeing more people start creating plugins. I'm still just an intermediate javascript developer, but once I get a better handle on backbone.js and javascript, I'm planning on writing an undo/redo plugin based on Backbone.model.extend and the included .previousAttributes() function (unless someone beats me too it, of course).

Backbone is quite a bit more abstracted and that is where it gets its power from, but it is also why probably a bit harder to grok when it comes to extending it. I reckon with time and tutorials, we'll see a robust ecosystem develop extending Backbone.js.
If an iPad app has no copy and paste feature, OCR a screen grab
I had a few as well. I posted them on Twitter as a "free giveaway" but with a catch - Justify the domain name with a good app and take it :)
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Remember that referring 3 of your friends, gets your card for free. 25% of those could be free, increasing the acquisition cost.

Couple that with the recent $175m investment Amazon made, and yes, it is expensive. Is it a good investment? Bezos makes few mistakes.
So, when I click a link on HN, using Chrome, Chrome is sending that information to Google? Likewise when I type http://somethingorother, that's going through Google first?
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High school would probably be a better analogy. I'm fortunate that my HS experience was a relatively easy-going 4 years, but others in my grade were not so lucky.
Agreed! I've always thought that it's an innate-ish lack of affinity towards machines that's partially responsible.

Human infant females show a toy bias away from toys modeling machines, and even female baby primates of other species prefer soft toys (interestingly, the infant male rhesus monkeys show no preference between the "boy" and "girl" toys; but the females actually show a preference away from trucks and other mechanical toys.)

You need to both have an affinity for machines and mathematical thinking.
If corporations are so much like people, how come they can be bought and sold?
So what the heck was the solution to the puzzle? Word files = evil.
Brian is completely correct. The problem with DiP3 is that it was one of the earliest adopters. We knew that python 3 would take years (like, 3+) for widespread adoption.

Things are going according to plan.
Almost everything against the Asian parents are against how their values are different from typical "American" parents

Really? Everything I find negative has to to with prioritizing signaling over substance. The same goes for "typical" American parents. (Being a "doting" parent at the expense of honest feedback is a great example of my annoyance with the latter.)
For people in certain countries, it is a way to launder their PayPal balance for something easier to spend.

It can also be used to twink an ebay account. Buy a few dozen cards, get 12-15 positive feedbacks, wait 60-90 days until the items can't be verified on your feedback, scam sellers and get a much larger payoff.

Europeans often purchase the cards so that they can buy product, etc.
Pretty cool stuff.
May as well list them here. Could find a taker.
I don't believe Test::Unit does this intentionally; it's just a side-effect of the implementation (load all tests into an array, and iterate over the array).
Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
The "How, What, Why" framework for Experience Design
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I'm trying to help keep that conversation going. It would be very easy to just rename and give up on Oracle, but we all would prefer for Oracle to do "the right thing", and we are giving them as much time as we can.
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I'll throw that back at you. What makes you think I think that, or that it somehow affects what I said?

Regular people don't care, nor do they need to. Browser makers (Apple, Google, Mozilla) and content publishers (YouTube, BBC) care intensely, and are driving the entire controversy. All have a significant financial stake. Sufficiently large content publishers like Google/YouTube and the BBC have been motivated enough to invest heavily in open source codecs themselves. Supporters and detractors of Flash are fanning the flames.
JUnit stores all of the meta data about each test case in the test instance itself, so all of the reporting is based off of these classes. It has always puzzled me why it was done this way, why not just store a collection of "meta-data" objects and report off of them (allowing the test instances to be garbage collected,) but I assume it would break most of reporting the plugins/tools to change it now.

Note this is for the older 3.x versions of JUnit, I'm not 100% this is still true for the 4.x line.
I can't claim to be that well versed in the field of Gantt charts, but a guy I used to work with made:

http://ext-scheduler.com/gantt.html

if you're okay with ExtJS.
Having been a "professional expat" for the past several years, I can assure you that it's not that simple. Yes, hearing their stories can bias your decision up or down by a few points. But, just like choosing a Linux distro: you can only know if it's for you if you live in it. There are no ways (that I know of) to successfully quantify what one seeks in a situation, otherwise eharmony.com would have taken over the world.
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Reddit's method - http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588

HN's method - http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574
The bigger issue here is that programming and computer science are related, but not as much as you might think. It's like saying that if your main goal is to be a proficient writer you should study English literature in college. There are lots of kinds of writing and writing is useful in any field, and besides which studying English literature might make you a slightly better writer, but you shouldn't necessarily major in it if that's your goal.

I think it's a real travesty that somehow "programming" got parked under "computer science" and hasn't made its way as a staple into other programs.
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I think the point is that of the information available on students, math performance is the best indicator for cs performance.

Obviously there are outliers (such as yourself). However I don't think there are any reasonably objective statistics for many of the other qualities you have mentioned.
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The thing with a torn ACL is that they can't repair the cartilage, so if you get the surgery and go back to playing sports then you have a significant chance of getting osteoarthritis within as little as ten years.[1]

Is it really worth suffering debilitating and incurable pain for the rest of your life just to be able to impress other people?

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/19/133025140/for-young-athletes-k...
Actually, this is perfect advice for daily living with others. In other words, stop playing chess with relationships and get out of your own way.
Google may eventually drop Adobe Flash if it becomes obsolete, but there is no reason to do it out of spite. Plugins are a part of the web and are in line with Google's culture of extensibility. See also vendor modifications to Android OS. If anything Google will open up plugin autoupdates to more plugin vendors.
I'm not sure I want to use many of my iPhone apps without a touch screen.

I'm not sure I want to wave my arm around in front of my 27-inch Cinema display.
Google may eventually stop bundling Adobe Flash if it becomes obsolete, but there is no reason to do it out of spite. Plugins are a part of the web and are in line with Google's culture of extensibility. See also vendor modifications to Android OS. If anything Google will open up plugin autoupdates to more plugin vendors.
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I think it is a new approach to solving a broader problem, which is how do you gather the knowledge of a group of people efficiently. Sure, Tpstry is built using cool technologies (Rails, Mongodb), but using an interview process to gather structured data is what I find most interesting.

We've built Tpstry to modify the interview questions based on previous answers. So new lines of questions are opened and others are closed. This helps with the user experience because it only presents the user with relevant questions.
Perhaps i didn't make myself clear enough.

I don't think Chua's initial excerpt actually said anything meaningful. It was like some sort of bizarre Rorschach test, that said very little, and upset a lot of people.

My point is, having read it the first time, i too went through the "yeah this kind of describes my childhood" thing, and then looked back at the claims, together with her caveats and noticed that there was precisely nothing one could take away from her article, except that it was an anecdote about her family, and how other people think she's a horrible person.

There was no generalizable information in her piece, and thus it was ultimately sort of an inconsequential, and self-satisfying fluff piece. What does amaze me, is the amount of time and effort dedicated to discussing her and what she's said. Given that i don't think the substance of her comments was worthy of such discussion, all i can figure is that she is controversial because of who she is and the style of the comments.
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This is part 1 of 2. 2, the "Comes Back to Win a National Championship" isn't going up until next week.

The only things I got out of it were that gymnastics is just as viciously brutal on ones body as ballet or sports like American Football, and the knowledge that mens' gymnastics is dying a lingering death in the USA.
A better comparison would be backbone.js.

It don't see any mention of it building natively to devices on the site. So you could still use Phonegap in combination with it.

I'm currently building a mobile app with backbone.js + jQuery Mobile + Phonegap. Backbone works great for me so I see no reason to switch.
"Study Links Medical Costs and Personal Bankruptcy: Harvard researchers say 62% of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. in 2007 were caused by health problems -- and 78% of those filers had medical insurance."

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jun2009/...
BSD-licensed software is free software according to the FSF (see: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleL...), it's just not copyleft.
I think you are wrong to project the failings of the C++ committee on ISO as a whole.

For H.264/AVC, it was less than 4 years from the first draft to final ratification. It was a joint effort of ISO and ITU-T.

Still, if that's too slow, SMPTE seems to go faster when they start with an existing codec. VC-1 and VC-2 (a profile of Dirac) were both done there.
It's easy to make a case that "SOMEONE should pay" if you cherrypick examples but most cases aren't that simple.

What if you make pacemakers that save millions of lives but one day there's a software update that ends up killing a thousand people? Who's the "SOMEONE that should pay?" The developer who coded the bug? The analyst who misunderstood the use case and wrote the wrong requirement? The Quality Assurance team that tested the code and said it was A-OK? The software department head who signed off on the release?

In the real world, the cause of most lethal mistakes are shades of gray, not black and white as you imply.
Neat. All I can say is: Thanks!
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> when [MzScheme] wants to find a thread to run, it asks the O/S kernel about each socket in turn to see if any input is ready

They've never heard of select()? </snark>

But really, is there some reason that it's hard to collect up all the fds at once or something?
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The traffic graphs linked in this post [0] are an interesting addition to the "How often do you visit HN?" poll [1] that was done a week ago. From the graphs, it looks like there are about 10x as many page views as unique IPs.

[0] http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic-17jan11.png
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2090191
How secure is this? Waving a device near something to complete a money transaction seems too easy.

At Defcon 18, there was a presentation on how to access RFID from long range (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEBrslz0Xf4). It makes me nervous that other people can also do this stuff.

There are already cards that do NFC, such as MBTA (public transportation) Charlie cards and American Express credit cards. However once NFC becomes even more common, will this invite the bad kind of hackers to bump up their efforts to steal your money?

So, how secure is this?
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Can't make it to the event? We'll be broadcasting LIVE via webcast[1] using Vokle.

Speakers and topics:

. John Buckman will be speaking founding companies, and various things he's learned as the founder of numerous successful startups.

. Aman Gupta will be giving a talk about debugging ruby systems, but it's actually a talk that will (mostly) apply well to any language, as he goes through a number of useful tools.

. Giles Bowkett will be giving a talk on A Year Of Entrepreneurial Experiments.

Full descriptions available at the meetup page.

1. http://vokle.com/lineups/7510-los-angeles-hacker-news
I may agree that Facebook is ultimately undervaluated, but :
"If it was a country, it's the third most populated one. Name me a country that has a GDP lower than $50 billion" is the most non-sensical analogy I've seen in a long time.
> Is it really worth suffering debilitating and incurable pain for the rest of your life just to be able to impress other people?

If you think sports is about just impressing other people, then I'm guessing you've never played a sport at a high level.

Being able to unify your mind and body at a high level in competition... it's one of the most cerebral, peak experiences, and it shapes and develops your character henceforth forever afterwards.

Ask most competitive athletes who've been injured if they'd go back in time and not play to avoid it, and most wouldn't make that trade.
Who are these for? They're like the AOL Keywords of the new decade.
Wolfram Alpha's take on the Drake Equation
I can't quite figure out how using that wouldn't roast you alive. 20 minutes with a jet turbine on your back? Ouch!
Using CSS Selectors as Fragment Identifiers
A significant amount of Gnome 3 development time has been spent on things which will be mostly invisible to the user; overhauling libraries and such.

It looks like Gnome Shell has been in development since late 2008, but only got to a state where it was very usable in late 2009. http://gnomejournal.org/article/85/easy-breezy-beautiful-gno...
I worked at a startup once that made a network card that did this type of buffering (wait for whole HTTP requests, then forward as a lump to the host, across a local fast bus).

Pretty whizzy, definitely helped server scaling.

We started shipping in 2001; the dot-com bust more or less canceled any interest in the product, and canceled the company, too . . .
Ask HN: What tool, process or habits have boosted your productivity most?
The recent thread "The road to faster tests" inspires me to ask--what "silver bullets" you have found that markedly improved in your productivity.

For me, autotest was a huge win. It keeps me focused and aligns the discovery of an error within moments of having caused that error.

We all know there are no silver bullets, but I want to know what yours are anyway. :-)
If you're talking about the bar leak, that happened in April.
Arthur C. Clarke pretty much predicted this in the 1970s (one of the Rama books, I think), except I think he said it'd be all done by infrared connection.
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she started walking back, saying that the WSJ quoted fragments of her book out of context

I haven't read the book, but I have seen evidence that the WSJ extracts were highly selective. In fact in the Guardian piece below, in which her children are also quoted, it says that she completely changed her approach when she realised the effect that it had. Her daughter is quoted as saying:

"The other day, I messed up a math test. I texted my mom that I got an A- and she replied, 'Who cares! Mummy loves u!'"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/15/amy-chua-...

[Edit for those who don't want to read the linked article: The Guardian piece casts the book as a confessionary "these are the things I did because I thought they were right and boy, it just made my kids miserable so I stopped" rather than the WSJ-implied tone of "this is the way I raised my kids and you wussy Westerners should do it like this or be squashed"]
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Fine, ill add some detail to my snarky comment. There is so much going on in the valley and in tech right now that frankly has all happened before. Given the market conditions now are far more ripe for all these services, which allows them to be made and more successful now.

The problem I see, and the point of my comment is that we truly aren't seeing too much that is new - but when a company comes along that is hyper successful and full of young talented engineers - people forget history.

That is fine - but I think people need to take a step back sometimes.

Point taken, however. (I'll take my own advice about taking a step back :) )
i agree with you, but i don't think you have to go that far to make your case.

sports are fun.
Large objects are easier to target. (That, and Chrome doesn't have a menu bar, which would at least bump it up to 80px.)
Proximity sensor on Apple's iPad 2 could bring auto screen lock, unlock
http://gantto.com/
Video: http://vimeo.com/12705404
Keyboard shortcuts. This isn't a big deal for the vim/emacs folks (what other choice do they have?), but for those of us who use Eclipse, they can be a huge win. For me it's not so much the speed of the keys vs mouse; it's the cognative context switch for digging into menus which shortcuts allow ms to bypass.
Container parsing: it's not that hard. Besides which, they can use one of the freely licensed existing parsers to solve that problem.

Trick play is already implemented. If you have to do major rework of that area to support a new format, you're doing it wrong.
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It was all in the formatting. Strip away the whitespace, and you're left with a bunch of text in one of two sizes. Treat the 10pt characters as zeroes, and the 11-point characters as ones, and decode that as ASCII.

P.S. These guys put on an absolutely awesome event.
Zombal has a different format from Innocentive. The way it works is someone (the launcher) launches a task (usually scientific) and sets a budget or approximate payout amount. Then several people (the catchers) bid on it, they don't do any work until they are actually hired to complete the task.
Crummy thumbnails are the bane of web video. If people actually use this, I'll be a very happy man.
10 Great Things You Can Do to Save the Earth.
HN only supports 20 req per second???
YC ranks 2400 on Alexa, and I'm sure most of the traffic is HN. I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find a top 10k site written in Scheme. Does anyone know of one?

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com
Some threads from the list that might help contextualize this:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/118594

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/119382

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/123727

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/118554