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I'm glad the article doesn't try to extrapolate that HTML5 has won mobile. I doubt that developers whom attended two hackathons are unlikely to be representative of the state of mobile development.

Also, I'm unsurprised that HTML5 developers are well-represented at hackathons, IMO in the context of a hackathon, i.e. building something from scratch in a highly constrained time frame, one can achieve a lot more in HTML/CSS/JS than in a native app. This might be down to my greater experience with web technologies than native mobile development, but I believe the tooling for web technologies are better suited to rapid development, e.g. I can rapidly build layouts with tools like CSSEdit2 and see how my changes affect the document in a WebKit view, in realtime. You also don't have to run a build process to see results, feedback is in general, instantaneous.
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Yeah, and there is no drugs in any Hollywood studios, right?
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If WebM is ready for mainstream, Google can just make it the main format for Youtube, and with a fallback to Flash. That shouldn't affect regular users at all (again, if WebM is good enough). The advantage is that by doing this, they can push WebM faster on the web, and as long as it's as good as Flash or better, there shouldn't be any drawback.
I wouldn't be so fast in dismissing it, I just checked and it actually does more than simply putting an image over another: The cross-fade function correctly handles opacity and different image sizes. Plus it allows for easy use with CSS transitions.

"the start image has a global alpha applied to it equal to (1-p), the end image has a global alpha applied to it equal to p, and the end image is then composited over the start image with the source-over operation." (see http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-images-20110217/#cross-fad...)

There are many people working on the Web specs from various groups, and they are very critical. Anything that's added to a draft will undergo a lot of review so you'd be hard pressed to find something glaringly useless.
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> Jail time for agreeing not to cold-call employees of another company?

There are evidence of worse than that:

"The evidence states that the defendants agreed not to poach employees from each other or give them offers if they voluntarily applied, and to notify the current employers of any employees trying to switch been. They also agreed not to enter into bidding wars and to limit the potential for employees to negotiate for higher salaries."

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/damning-evidence-emerges-in...
In the email from the NLP course, they said that all classes were being pushed back for reasons out of their control, and the delay could be anywhere from a couple weeks to several weeks. Too bad, I really needed the class in the first half of the semester, when I'm not already overloaded.
I find the title of this submission a bit obscure, since of all the technologies in and around the web, email is one of the few that actually does work (in terms of reliability, ease of use, adoption etc.).
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I'm very interested in thinking about how start-ups could address these so-called "cultural inequalities" - the article doesn't really cover the role of technology in its exploration of interesting trends and growing gaps.
Killing Hollywood Will Require Learning Hollywood’s Game
I suspect a large fraction of fans have watched Chuck online. Surely Nielsen ratings are a poor measure of the show's popularity given the its target demographic. . . .
While I appreciate the sentiment of this RFS with regards to the sclerotic dysfunction of the legal system of copyright (and the business models that perpetuate it), truth be told, as a life-long citizen of startupworld I've often found myself quite jealous of the Hollywood business model. Hollywood is a start-up machine that places huge bets and enables entrepreneurs to form teams, create product, and achieve success or failure 10 or more times in a decade. What a liberating notion!

Looking at the talented nerd in their third or fifth year slogging away at a successful enterprise with the possible monetization of their efforts still years over the horizon, I find myself asking: are there ways to make startupworld more like Hollywood? Perhaps there is something to learn from the way that the 'talent' in hollywood works with the 'money'.

As a thought exercise, what if doing a start-up was like making a film. Teams assemble, shuffle, and disassemble in an orderly fashion. Artisans are measured in a regular and public way and trade on their value. Quality results are rewarded in short iterative cycles. Its possible for the very best young talent to rise to the top of the profession in ~5 years. Entrepreneurs are funded by the 'money' with terms that are transparent, reasonably standard, and public, so shockingly free of embarrassingly predatory clauses. Shorter cycles, quicker valuation/monetization, a system that screens talent and quickly elevates the best.

Oh wait a minute, PG and the Ycomb revolution is actually making all this stuff happen. Which is why I find this conversation amusingly ironic. "Kill hollywood" coming from the institution that is doing the most to re-make the money/talent relationship in startupworld in Hollywood's image. So what keeps them from finishing the job?

So this is my real point. Startupworld has its own legal system with sclerotic dysfunction every bit as entrenched as copyright; it effectively bars start-ups from achieving a plurality of investors in common shares at any revenue level below $200m. There's lots of manifestations and motivations for this, but fundamentally, its bad for startupworld and to stretch just a bit, bad for capitalism and democracy.

There was a time not too long ago when an excellent young company with $20m in revenues could sell common shares to common people. What a liberating notion! How can we put a SOPA/PIPA-like focus on this issue and sway lawmakers, change votes, write legislation and move governments.

While I appreciate the 'kill hollywood' discussion of revolutionizing entertainment... I have to confess that its just not nearly as big a problem, and not nearly as broken as the world all of us work in every day. I'm jealous that Hollywood, through its own ignorance, has managed to marshal our industry's best efforts to midwife its own creative rebirth.

What about us?
I'd encourage you guys to check out artists who made it big without major labels, like Skrillex. He did everything via the internet, playing shows, and word of mouth.
As a Berlin resident I can tell you that foreign diplomats fishing in the Havel river is the least of our worries. Trafic rule violations such as blocking emergency exits and excessive speeding are not uncommon for vehicles with diplomatic licence plates. There are roundabout 8000 - 12000 cases each year with Russia, China, Saudi-Arabia and Egypt leading the board. Most cases are petty fines, but we have around 50 accidents a year. In 2004 the bulgarian Ambassador ran over a Policeman who tried to stop him for driving under influence.

Basically all that happens is that if things get too excessive a protest note will be sent to the country in question. However, other cities share the same fate. AFAIK New York collects the tickets and deducts them from foreign aid paid to the country (not that this would have any influence on Saudi-Arabia or China I'd assume)
This post was more interesting than the article!
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I find Eric Bidelman's HTML5 decks very useful. I understand the complaints. I occasionally read HN on my iPad and some links aren't tablet friendly.

These presentations are meant for developers and it's safe to assume that anyone experimenting with HTML5 will have access to Chrome, even if it's not their go-to browser.
I thought about http://somadesign.ca/demos/better-google-fonts/ but it's there too, just in a separate family. Thanks.
The concept looks interesting. I was sold on it and then, "backers will get a steeply marked down subscription." Wait, a what? Subscription? Sorry, you lost me. No way will I pay a subscription fee to use an email program. Apart from that, as a standalone app, it sounds compelling.
They're a large corporation with shareholders to satisfy. With so much economic incentive to cheat it's not very surprising that they do. Disappointing, but not surprising.
As OpenCL support picks up, including in the embedded space, hardware acceleration for WebM may be a possibility in the future. It's possible GPU manufacturers will eventually drop native H.264 support & go for a "software based" OpenCL solution. Obviously not going to happen overnight, but OpenCL is already available in something like the PowerVR SGX543MP.
This one is simple - I have lived with the same issues for years. You don't go on holiday to places without a decent Internet connection - 3G if you can't get broadband. You can visit the Greek Islands (say) or just about anywhere with a population density or tourist numbers that will result in decent connection options. This is part of the commitment you make to your business.
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Same here! Very interesting until I realized it's subscription based. Apps should have a one time cost and maybe costs for major updates. I can't even see the reason to have a recurring fee, why?
I already pay a subscription fee for my email, in the form of a $50 per year GAFYD account (of which I use only the email). Paying a subscription for an email program isn't my favorite idea in the world, but I'm willing to try it out in the name of Great Email Justice.
Is it cross-platform?
In hindsight this was submitted at a very sub-optimal time for exposure. Oh well.
Does anyone from MPAA ever read what Internet industry, bloggers or customers have to say? Do they read any articles like these or it is just falling on deaf ears?
I am ashamed Chris Dodd was once my senator. :(
Oh. This is about an email _program_. I thought they would try to attack smtp+pop+imap and try to solve some of the problems with how email works. That would be a really hard and interesting (albeit probably fruitless) challenge!

Edit: Anyway, this project looks pretty cool - even with the subscription. I've backed it.
I think you're being overly-pessimistic on several fronts:

1) I don't think the public was apathetic on this issue, just unaware. And that's YOUR fault (okay our fault), not the fault of the media or corporate interests.

2) the blackouts were an appeal to the voters, making them aware of the issue and urging them to call their congress-critters; in the end it was effective communication uniting people that killed these bills: democracy won over corporate money.

3) A longer response to "the entire government structure of the United States needs reworking":

this is simply false. The system we have is the result of the incentives in place. For all the obvious, bipartisan agreement that corporate money is corrupting politics, there hasn't been a movement formed to unite people behind reform, probably because people don't realize that changing the system and changing the incentives are easy, not hard.

You change the incentives and politicians will come around overnight. And it doesn't have to start with a constitutional amendment; there are creative finance reform ideas that can be implemented immediately that would have huge effect: http://republic.lessig.org/
This is one of those few one-liners that perfectly captures the point without any need for further exposition. It's like a ridiculously short function that does exactly what it needs to do. Thanks.
You can make cross-platform standalone applications with Firefox too: use XULRunner to package your HTML5/CSS3 application. As matter of fact, Firefox itself is built on top of XULRunner.
The advantage of XULRunner over AIR is that your users don't need to have AIR runtimes installed.
It's fine on Chrome 16 Windows.I believe that Chrome 17 is in Beta. Could you kindly send me a screenshot to sravfeyn@gmail.com!
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I keep hearing this battery life thing but how much battery life does H264 hardware acceleration really save? I dare to wager that the majority of the power is used by the screen, not the CPU.
Sorry for posting an outdated link. There is also their svn repository at http://code.google.com/p/evoluspencil/
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Does this count Chrome as not supporting h.264? As far as I know it still does.

I'm having a hard time believing chrome+safari+ie < chrome+firefox+opera
I guess it is a smaller percentage of IE that supports <video> than firefox?

Does anyone else find these numbers off?
Been there. People's names sometimes enter the periphery of my perception and I start wondering who they are ("Jon and Kate" and "Snooki" come to mind). I typically regret spending the effort to find out.
Its all about communication with your current and future clients. Depending on the no of clients you have, send them all an email or call them individually. Let them know, that you're going on adventure, why that matters to you, and you won't be available for that period. Thank them for their patronage and give them a 10 to 25 % off of a future bill. For the future clients, set an auto reply message doing the same, and contact them personally when you get back. In short, be honest, prepare and execute.
That is a very good idea. I do something very similar with Gmail Priority Inbox + Google Calendar already but it's very slightly more work. I have for categories in my Inbox: Starred, Calendar, Todo, Everything else.

* Starred are things I'm following until they are done - similar to the complete/incomplete feature they mention. It includes emails like Amazon shipments, work-in-process items, long email threads etc. The label doesn't matter.

* Calendar section is automated deadline-driven todos that must be done - paying bills, saying Happy B'days etc. It's similar to their timelines feature but I don't have an easy way to say 'Remind me about this email in June'. Instead, I use the label 'Someday' and once a week or so, go through my Someday emails and star them if necessary. If Priority Inbox allowed me to add 5 sections instead of 4, I would just make Someday one of the section too and be done with it.

* Todo section is very similar to Mark for Review and I just add the 'Todo' label to emails when I can't deal with them immediately but plan on doing so in the near future. 'Someday' is for when I want to push it off for a few weeks or months.

* Everything else is all other incoming emails. If I archive them, they're gone. If I star them, it means I want to track their progress. If I add 'Todo' / 'Someday' label, it means I intend to work on them soon or someday.

Gmail offers almost all the other benefits they mention, including multiple-mailbox, autopilot (filters/rules), and tons of intelligence. Personally, I don't mind sticking to Gmail for now but this type of approach to email validates my current practices and hopefully improves how all of us manage with email.
Wait there was a xkcd comic about that: http://xkcd.com/605/

Speaking of 'necessity as the mother of invention' were there any research on how to increase birth rate? I remember something about Russia increasing it's birth rate, but I don't remember how.
Chromium and XMind.
They do this already, every 10th of the Youtube videos i watch is Html5. I have testtube deactivated.

Look at the volume bar, it looks a little bit different. That i didn't recognize it most of the time is a good sign.
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The idea of email not going away after I've read it and being a to-do list sounds slightly terrifying.

I'll stick to my Gmail for now.
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"Your email is your to-do list".

This is exactly the OPPOSITE of what I want. I consider myself a reasonably high-volume email recipient (>400 actionable emails a day on average).

The problem with "email as todo", which is a habit I had to work very hard to train myself out of, is that it turns your inbox into a to-do list that others can put things on.

This becomes the WORST to-do list ever.

With credit to Amy Hoy (Freckle, 30x500, etc): I believe that the problem is that every email that comes into your inbox is painful because it is associated with an unknown amount of work, and you don't know the amount of work until you open and read it.

Amy's newest product, Charm, is a help desk tool built to solve THAT problem - fundamentally decoupling the processing of email from the work that those emails contain.

My workflow right now includes:

1) first line of defense assistant does triage, cleaning out things that I don't ever need to see and either need deleting, or don't need my input. This includes anything from FAQ to scheduling meetings, etc.
2) second line of defense is answering emails that only need an answer - usually nothing more than a sentence or two.
3) everything else that's left in my inbox requires work. turning emails that do need my attention into todo's means that I can work from a to-do list, or ideally the current day's to-do list with items prioritized onto it with the help of an assistant.

I'm pretty sure that @sivers has a similar workflow that I've read about here on HN, he may be able to comment more.

This makes email 10000000x less painful, and makes my to-do list less like playing whack-a-mole. End of story: it's easier to get more work done. Email is working for me instead of against me. That is email nirvana, or as close as I'm willing to accept today :)

Of course - the problem with this workflow is that it requires another human. I don't know if that's avoidable. Truthfully, the people who I've hired who work with my inbox I trust deeply. My inbox is a strange dichotomy of a place that is private, but that anybody can send something into. He needs a lot of context for making smart calls, and for me, I need to trust him to make those calls.

Email clients need work - a lot of work - but this is more than renaming the statuses of an email and showing me who I've emailed most recently with.

Take the work out of email, and put it where it belongs.
I tend to think they will get what they want, eventually. Congress is bought and paid for, and if they keep trying to pass bills like SOPA, issue fatigue will set in at some point among common folks. Blacking out Wikipedia can only work so many times.
Sounds like a desperate plea for help to continue getting everything as they please
youtube is already doing this
Does anyone feel like there's something really odd about using Kickstarter to fund proprietary software? Like some of the other Kickstarter projects that fund patented inventions. Like, if you want to launch a proprietary product, _do that_. The way of making money doing that would be to _do that_, not to raise it in some odd fashion, from people who won't actually benefit from it, or own any stake in the idea or profits, beyond 'above a level', a 'copy' of the application or an account?
And this is the same Dodd who supposedly reformed WallSteet
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Funnily enough NoScript throws a clickjacking warning on http://www.google.com/goodtoknow/online-safety/ when I try to play the video.
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1. Invent System like The Matrix. My own Personal Movie,All we need to do is somehow combine neuroscience , Dream Technology, AI etc..
2. Improve Internet Technology like Private Satellite, Distributed DNS, True internet without Government Intervention.

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> The average RoR of big-budget movies is less than the average RoR of low-budget movies

Sorry, no. The risk is higher, but the reward, should it pay off, is much greater and there is a much more attractive risk:reward. An indie film can indeed be profitable, but the probability of being very profitable is small.

This is the same for games, music, TV, books. As a publisher where do you concentrate your money? Where it's likely to make the most money, of course.
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Sexual selection also requires reproduction. Whatever way one sees it, the data doesn't support the view that nature selects for creativity.
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What's to stop the Hollywood competitor from producing shows like "The Wire"? No one said Zynga would be the Hollywood killer. In fact, the "Hollywood killer" might not even exist yet... so how can you know it won't do for you what Hollywood already does before it even exists??
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Thanks, very interesting. After reading the discussion about creating a query language for REST I remembered that Microsoft has something called WCF Data Services which is basically a SQL-like query language for web services.

Perhaps it is inevitable that we'll eventually need rich query languages to really deliver what clients want.
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Your first point is nearly impossible to do in conjunction with second point but reddit did it splendidly. The admins do a fantastic job of being unbiased and pro-users (instead of pro-owners). They have learned that taking a short-term loss for long-term gain is the right thing to do. They haven't tried to change the site design or rules after people have gotten used to it. They are still acting like reddit is a small community of the first 5000 users and not 20 million visitors.

You may disagree with the content that adorns the front-page but you can trust that it was driven by users and not sponsors.
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Ask HN: What is a good alternative to PayPal?
Requirements:
1- has recurring payments
2- invisible to end user
3- accepts canadian companies
4- (nice to have) easy to set-up
5- (nice to have) does not require a merchant bank account.