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Yes! I've always thought that HTML should be more like XML in that arbitrary tags should possess little presentational meaning without an associated stylesheet. Perhaps we'll call this new concoction... HXTML!
How about some Modern Talking ? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKaDfALhoPg

With cross-fading, cymbals and the whole shebang.
Treat it exactly like a div. So display as block with default div positioning, margin, border etc. CSS can then customize as needed.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Absolutely wrong. You said that Netatalk in its UMich days was "once successful" and "fully mature," and that its previous users didn't need to maintain it anymore. Neither of those assertions are true. Fully mature? Reference my earlier post on CNIDs

I never ran into the CNID issue when using Netatalk on our Mac OS 8 systems. By the time Mac OS 9/Mac OS X came around, the project's necessity was already diminishing and I (like many others) had long since stopped paying attention.

I seem to recall contributing all of one patch to netatalk, and that wasn't because I was an evil corporate code stealer -- we just didn't need an AFP server anymore.

Fortunately a few motivated developers wrote the CDB and DBD backends, and the problem disappeared.

The BSD license is why they didn't contribute the fixes back, because they didn't have to.

Vendors had absolutely no reason to use a GPL fork unless new contributors then implemented considerable useful code under the GPL. In other words, making it GPL wasn't the magic that got vendors to use the GPL'd software, providing them more value for free did the trick.

But vendors ship tens of thousands of units every month running the GPL'd version, so it wouldn't hold water.

How many of those actually significantly contribute back to the project? I count three active committers.
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I'd like to see it. Is it showing somewhere?
I wonder what this guy would do if he had more than a couple pencils...
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Devil's advocate:

"Well, if my email is down, then my competitor's is too!"

I don't really know how much your argument applies to companies looking for hosted email; if they can't send, they can't send, so it doesn't matter if someone else can't receive. In fact, probably makes it better b/c they look less individually incompetent.

GE's central email farm went down when I interned there a couple summers ago. All 300k+ employees' emails went out.

The business is still affected by the outage if they host locally, there will probably just be more of them. And there's the illusion of control: GE had noone to blame but themselves (and the incompetent contractor who hit the big red button), whereas they could've pinned this on Google and felt worried about external risks and dependencies.
The loss of God???? What in the world are you talking about? The majority of people in the US are religious. Religious institutions are all over the place and have huge influence on society.

When we get an openly atheist president, then you can complain about the loss of God.
This would be a lossy transformation. An <address> tag would still need to be transformed into a <div> which would destroy the association between the tag name and its contents. After that getElementsByTagName('address') wouldn't return any results, browser plugins wouldn't see the connection between the original and rendered data, etc.
"Early 2010" as per their Twitter feed, but there was a private screening at Google yesterday and that's why I asked.
> Zoltan never lost a radar to a HARM missile.

That is very impressive.

If he only had serious computing power, enough cell phone towers, and plenty of fiber-optic cable, he could have triangulated the position of steal bombers from the interference patterns.

Also, old Soviet radars operate on longer wavelengths and interestingly enough are sometimes more effective at detecting stealth aircraft.
What always amazes me about this things is not so much how they work or that they work at all. It's more that they are so completely simple. The brain is such a curious thing.
What the article has missed is the fact that these cameras and their operators are less interested in crime and far more interested in fine-able offenses such as motorists parking incorrectly; stopping in the wrong place; driving too fast; people putting their rubbish out on the wrong day; people putting the wrong rubbish in the recycle bins; or whatever else they can bill you for to pay off the bank-bailouts.

Local councils are milking these cameras for all that they are worth. Most of the cameras aren't even watching crime spots, but are instead focused on the roads at stop signs etc. Given the added revenue - irrespective of the crime prevention stats - those cameras are here to stay.
call me jaded but I was a lot more impressed by the pencil beat boxing than the rapping.
You can't readily apply results of this study to humans
Ivan Kirigin is "now at Facebook" ?
Well but that's sort of the point. I think 99% of the people on earth would be in favor of camera setups like this if there was some way to guarantee it would only be used to catch murderers and rapists. But it's a slippery slope and once you put that power in the Government's hands they will almost certainly abuse it.

You're probably right about the cameras being a permanent fixture in London. But the fact that Government officials are using them more for minor infractions than serious crime is a lesson that may prevent setups like this in other places.
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You're absolutely right. If you're going to generalize to humans, wouldn't you be better off trying to generalize from close relatives?

Let's try that. In many mammals the selection is clearly for winners of dominance fights who collect harems. We clearly don't do that. Our closest relatives, chimpanzees, have a lot of selection for sperm production. We don't do that either. If we don't behave like these close relatives, then why would one assume that we behave like bower birds?
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If there was any discernible drop in crime rates, rest assured that they would be shouting this from the roof tops.
Apparently Crime in London is at a ten year low: http://urdunews.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/london-crime-rate-d...

But the police don't seem to be giving CCTV credit for that: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1

So I think it's one of those "draw your own conclusion" situations.
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any typos in XHTML (when served as XML) will result in the yellow-and-red screen of death in Firefox.

Or, say, using && in your javascript. Yes, that does it. I have the 30 minutes of wasted time a week ago to prove it.

Here's the "solution", just so you can see how elegant it is. You have to escape it like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
if (var1 && var2) blah blah;
/* ]]> */
</script>

Or just use AND I suppose, forgot if it's got some weird precedence difference or something.
I joined to get laid. Worked well for me, YMMV :)
Would the DOCTYPE declaration of the html version be able to overcome that problem?
It's gotta just be that weird social mores make men feel more comfortable than women spending time and participating actively on the internet...
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Not sure scrappy means to me what it means to PG - it pretty much means having a fighting spirit. I think people do tend to use that adjectives on small dogs, which may create associations with lack of dignity/gravitas, but I don't think it is intrinsic to the term. Language evolves I suppose!
"I never ran into the CNID issue when using Netatalk on our Mac OS 8 systems."

That's good! Unfortunately I did, and so did many others. A quick perusal of the old mailing lists will turn up plenty of this. We tried a test rollout in a division of a Fortune 50 company, and our backups saved us -- when a user noticed a file was missing, that is.

"I seem to recall contributing all of one patch to netatalk, and that wasn't because I was an evil corporate code stealer."

Excellent! All patches were appreciated. We could've used more of that. (And we'd have happily accepted patches from the storage vendors, they just wouldn't play ball. I don't think any of us felt the corporations were "evil," just that they were behaving like ... moochers.)

"How many of those actually significantly contribute back to the project? I count three active committers."

First, that's misleading. The three active committers take patches from others as they please. So to get a true picture you'd need to go through the mailing list and see where all the patches originally came from. And I haven't been involved in the project for some years, so you'll need to go research that yourself.

Second, you've completely missed the point. And it's one you should really like.

Netatalk entered a sick state because the people who had the desireable patches chose to hold them back. The BSD license allowed them to do so. Then other developers came in and said, we'll commit our patches, but we want a guarantee that those who ship our work will have to do the same. And that was enough to motivate them to make Netatalk fully mature -- every significant enhancement/fix implemented privately became available publicly, and more, thanks to those devs.

And what was the outcome for ALL of Netatalk's users? The storage vendors were happy because they could stop maintaining their private forks and just ship from upstream. The users were happy because all these bugs were fixed and they had a responsive place to seek help. The devs were happy because they were assured that they were now on equal terms with the storage vendors. Whether the vendors continued development or not wasn't actually the issue.

So everybody won, the users, the developers and the storage vendors.

No, the GPL didn't write the code, but the BSD license allowed the code to remain private, and that's where everybody started losing. The GPL assured everyone that that couldn't ever happen again, which, as it turned out in this case, was a necessary precondition to success.
Interesting article about how a few talented individuals on a shoestring budget can take on established, well-funded competitors.
"Old Soviet radars operate on longer wavelengths and interestingly enough are sometimes more effective at detecting stealth aircraft."

The fuselage of the F-117 is covered with a top-secret radiation-absorbing paint. This paint is designed to operate over a certain range of frequencies, i.e., it's supposed to provide impedance matching over a certain frequency band (a bit like a thin-film in optics). Hence, if the enemy uses radars operating at frequencies for which the F-117 is not stealth, then there's a big problem. Using an old German radar from WW2 the F-117's radar signature is as big as the one of a non-stealth aircraft like the F/A-18.

BTW, Zoltan (who is a Serb of Hungarian ethnicity, as the name suggests) is now a baker:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Dani
Note that this is just sample code to connect to HighlightCam's webservices API.

I think Objective-J is one of the more notable YC-spawned open source thingers:

http://objective-j.org/

Virtualmin is also a pretty big contribution:

http://www.virtualmin.com/download
He is referring to one specific job featured on Dirty Jobs that he believes has a better incentive structure (results instead of hours).

The title is a little off because it isn't about dirty jobs having better incentive structures, but rather an incentive structure which he explains is fair and rewarding to everyone involved and additionally resistant to racism, sexism, and other discrimination.
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smart move ;-)
Yea I see your point. I think in the end it still comes down to scale, for a couple of racks it's not worth the risk and effort while on a larger scale it might be worth brewing your own meta-filestorage system.
I wouldn't be overly dismissive of this. It is (hopefully) the first of many experiments. They just wanted to start with something where they could easily determine intelligence and mating.

Designing this for humans will be much more difficult... but I'd be interested to see if they can come up with a reasonable experimental design.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but let's remember that <div id="article"> is just as meaningless as <article> without the stylesheet, and the second one looks nicer, and has more chance of becoming an (unofficial?) standard.
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Haha, I never said the BSD license couldn't be used successfully. Now I just think you're trolling.

The project looks like it's in fine health to me...

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=6860...
it's just a slightly more concentrated form of existing Valley culture.

in one sense YC isn't new. It is just a microcosm of the essence of capitalism. but in another sense it is new, because never before in history has it been expressed in such an unadulterated manner.
i've been thinking about this considerably lately. Isn't this in many ways what facebook has done with FBML? Just created there own tags, and get a javascript to manipulate it?

I understand that it is a dtd, but can't you create any element you want and define it's behaviour in a dtd?
I'm still just getting into the research on this.
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He plastered the F-117 interface with so many ads and links to unrelated stories that it became so painful to navigate, read, and comprehend that the pilots sent the plane downward.
Even better, buy Apple products, which are made in China, for that elusive "double hypocrisy slam"
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"Dani said that his unit has had annual reunions on every March 27 since 1999 when a cake in the shape of the F-117 is served."

Nice!
AOL had nothing like connect. Connect is the reason Facebook is going to win, imho.
hah. see, I go further; I can't even tell you what looks good. (I mean, I can tell you what I like, but that is something entirely different.)

The thing is, to hire a designer, I would need to outsource the 'look and feel' to someone else. I mean, your logo needs to fit with the rest of your site; my logo generated in figlet would look horribly out of place on a web 2.0 'rounded edges' website. Instead, I have found some minimal css that appears to be under an open license, and busted out with 'figlet' for everything else. No rounded boxes, but I certainly have a look that is both unique and consistent. And I find it aesthetically pleasing.

I was tickled pink today by someone on twitter commenting that I was an excellent example of 'niche branding'

He even called me a 'cli webhost' so it sounded like maybe he knows something about advertising or art.
You must be running IE, the only browser with outdated javascript abilities.
Duplicate to:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=796573
Convert it to <div class='address'> or something along those lines.
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To me, he's talking about wysiwyg tools like Dreamweaver.
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This is a really cool product, yet not something I would have imagined there being a startup for. Regardless, great job guys and good luck!
The difference is that a non-expert (such as myself) probably has a rough idea what div means. To know article is actually a div, I'd have to make sure there wasn't a valid html <article> tag.
beware mind/body dualism: instead say "my model of reality is such a curious thing".
"The Americans entered the war a bit overconfident. They thought they could crush us without real resistance. At times, they acted like amateurs," Dani said, listing some ways the Serbs managed to breach NATO communications security, including eavesdropping on pilots' conversations with AWACS surveillance planes. "I personally listened to their pilots' conversations, learning about their routes and bombing plans," Dani said.

So, the world's best Air Force goes to war and does not use encrypted communications? This is mind-boggling. To make matters worse, the NATO planes tended to follow the same routes every night. They were begging to be shot down.

Last but not least, never underestimate the ferocity and tenacity of the Serbs. The Ottomans and the Nazis sure learned their lesson.
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you can't really answer such question if you don't say what it is you are doing.
This looks like another case of correlation != causation. Physical health (e.g. absence of disease) of the male birds is one possible lurking variable: good health keeps one's brain performing better, and it also makes one more attractive to the other sex.
How does that explain why it is consistent that some get the opportunity to start out wealthy and some do not?

You don't seem to get what I'm saying at all. Among those who are willing and able to provide production value are some who get a boost from inherited wealth and some who do not.

Do you consider that fair or consistent with a merit based society? I do get perfectly well what Ayn Rand says in her books, and based on that her stance on inheritance is grotesque.
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Is there a short description of the algorithm anywhere? I'm too lazy to read the code.
Hey, I use Ubuntu for my desktop at work, and in the past have done substantial deployments of it to managed end-user desktops. It's not beneath me or anything.

I'm sneering at a particular subset of Ubuntu users -- the entire userbase of ubuntuforums.org, the Digg/Reddit/Lifehacker "top ten ways to..." readers. They are the "Power Users" of desktop Linux -- they have no clue how anything works nor the facility to learn, but they sure are earnest and they love to evangelize! They'll seize any opportunity to apply their cargo-cult knowledge to help you with the problems they think you have.

In past generations these people (largely adolescents) would have been know-nothing partisan tweakers of Windows, Classic Mac OS, BeOS, Amiga, or any number of 8-bit home computer platforms. For now Linux is the cool thing to wank over -- compiz helped a lot with that. A couple years ago it looked like a lot of them were defecting to the Hackintosh community -- does anyone know if that trend held up numbers-wise?
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It isn't technically Google-operated: they've outsourced it, which is fairly common for promotional goods. (McDonalds doesn't specialize in making T-shirts, after all.)

What I find hilarious is that if you buy an $8 T-shirt from Google you can actually talk to a human being about it, which makes that approximately the only Google-brand product sold for under $100,000 where that is reliably true.
I hate to nitpick. But <address> is probably a bad example in this case as the tag <address> already exists in HTML 4.
Complacency is often the downfall of large organizations. And it's complacency at high levels; Joe Pilot probably knew all about crypto, varying his routes, etc, but Jane General wouldn't sign off on the budget. That scenario will be familiar to anyone who's worked for a big company.
I've been offline for a few days and just read this:

But you only pay the cost of the try/catch/throw when you actually use it.

Do you mean that the existence of an explicit return is recognized at compile time, so only the functions that actually contain one need to be wrapped in a try-catch? Now that I think of it, that seems like the best way to do it. I've wanted to be able to compile return-from into JS for a while...
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-117_Nighthawk#Combat_losses, the wreckage is now on display at the Museum of Aviation in Belgrade.
Why? It's clumsy and not colloquial. It's the properties of the the brain we're talking about. I see no mind-body dualism implied by saying "the brain is such a curious thing".
That's self defeating. It's like saying that a democratic society has the right to democratically abolish democracy.
Indeed, not unlike the heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Also interesting to note is that FF3 (and quite possibly older versions) interpret and display custom tags which have been styled using CSS.
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I had heard the F-117 bomb bay doors failed to close, causing the stealth to be lost. That wasn't mentioned here though.
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How come you can recognise the tune of the number one song of 1968 as being Hey Jude by the Beatles, but not the number two song?

Eh. This kept Jude's sister track "let it be" at #2 in the UK

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Wand_rin_Star_Lee_Marvi...

Somewhat less remembered, I think.
That's what namespaces are for.
Just delete them? Doesn't that work?
Yah, my post was laced with (semi-blatant?) sarcasm surrounding the fact that this, as byoung2 mentioned, is already possible using a technology that was chosen for deprecation.

I'm not of the pro-XHTML side, but it will be interesting to see what happens after HTML 5. XHTML attempted to solve, or at least provide a stop-gap to, a lot of problems that may not go away as easily as we hope.
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