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I agree that rallying their entire company around a key strategic initiative like this is not a blunder. It's an act of transparency that clearly communicates Google's direction both internally and externally.

There are many different perspectives at Google, and by focusing the entire organization on "social," he attempts to tap into the creativity of individuals throughout the entire organization. That type of engagement leads to unexpected benefits.

There are some good ideas in the article, like, "People want to isolate social from nonsocial aspects of their lives."

I suspect there is something to that, although there is also another factor the author may want to consider... the how much better are you than the current leader factor?

If a great new search engine launched tomorrow, that was a little better than Google, would it beat Google? No. Years ago at a Kelsey Group conference (2004ish) an executive at Google talked about the 50% rule. She said that for a search engine to beat Google, it had to be 50% better.

The point is that it is very difficult to persuade humans to change their behavior, and they will only do so when there is a huge benefit.
For the n-1 feeds do you just take a post fade AUX output from mixer and turn up each channel except theirs for that auxiliary?
We had that a decade ago with blogs. Social is about linking it all up which - and this is what Google doesn't get - is not a technical problem. No-one yet has a seamless, intuitive way to have a work social network, a personal social network, a social social network (for want of a better term... People who aren't really friends but that you do stuff with) and manage them all via one service. You can have friends on Facebook and work colleages on LinkedIn and random people on Twitter, for example. But that's not the same thing. Google thinks everyone who knows me even slightly wants to know everything about me, the more the better. That quite rightly annoys people.
What's an Environment? What's a Closure? What's a Continuation? What's a Scope?
Can somebody explain me,

What's an Environment?
What's a Closure?
What's a Continuation?
What's a Scope?

I get confused while reading stuff on scheme as they all somehow sync to 'scope'. Thanks in advance.
The post I replied to which said "I, the user" was ambiguous, though I think I caught your meaning so I'll just quote your other post:

"However, if I purchase a Xoom with Honeycomb, I have been given a copy of the Android software, and I will not be given a copy of the source code if I request it. That is the issue here [...] you are surely aware that free software is about the user of the software being able to access the source code, modify it, and redistribute it. None of these freedoms (which are also part of the open source definition) are currently given to purchasers of Honeycomb tablets."

I think it's clear here that your ignoring the key difference between GPL and Apache software like Android. If Android was GPL (and written at least partly by someone other than Google) then Motorola would need to release the source alongside any product containing it including any changes or improvements they made, as they are required to do for the Linux portion.

But Android isn't GPL, so they don't have to release the code they use. Google have released the code at roughly that time in the past, and it's that release, not the timing, which makes Android in general "Open Source". They say they'll do so with Honeycomb once they've finished the phone parts, and at that point Honeycomb will be Open Source too.

Feel free to say that the diff between Froyo and Honeycomb isn't Open Source until they release it. That's technically correct (the best kind of correct), but it is just plain wrong to bring the timing of the Xoom launch into things, or complain that Android as a whole suddenly stops being open source because more recent changes haven't been published yet.

Neither of those issues are covered by the term Open Source. You might have better luck comparing against a benchmark for open governance as proposed by Simon Phipps, but any issues for Android under those rubrics have been there all along:

http://opensource.com/life/11/2/open-rule-governance-benchma...
It's Opera Mail 1.0(or whatever), not a carbon copy of Gmail. Better to launch with less features and see which direction to take the product.
That is the kind of thinking that is holding life sciences back: lack of openness, obsession with centuries old journals etc. Starting in comp. Neuroscience, and coming from a physics background I was shocked by how little info neuroscientists share with each other. I cant even access most of the papers I need from home. There is no repository of data or even computational models (well there is modeldb) . There have been several attempts to make the life sciences more open on the web, but it's not working because there is no culture of openness. For cryin out loud, most of the journals don't even have an online comments section. Big, ambitious projects are missing (think LHC-scale), and the pioneers in these are private institutions like the Allen brain institute. Maybe it's not possible to make a github for science, but it's certainly possible for a high profile university to require its staff to publish in open access journals only. That would be a start
Honestly, math section of this 1869 test is still kind of joke for Chinese high school students. Getting full mark is easy for those well educated middle school students, say, up to about 30 percent won't be a overstated figure.
I assumed it was purposeful: an attempt at irony. Thus, I expected a funny article to be linked.
Hmmmm...

The software industry in South Africa faces several problems. Probably the first problem is that computer science teaching and research sucks. This is not my opinion but based on research (http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles/file/EBIT-Innovate/Local%20sci...) – the relative citation index of computer science is at 0.57. Engineering is much higher (at 0.73).

This problem is compounded by the fact that the financial services industry absorbs the most talented of those who study computer science.

Another problem is the sheer expense of broadband internet connection. Hosting is too expensive for many would be internet start-ups. What is worse, internet start-ups cannot use the only competitive advantage that S. Africa has – fairly cheap unskilled labour (cheaper than developed countries, much more expensive than China and India).

Personally, I think the local electronics industry will do better (with medium scale production). Firstly, Engineering education is still a lot better than computer science (thanks in part to international agreements such as the Washington accord which ensures (some) independence of engineering councils and keeps the government and political meddling to a minimum). Secondly, it is not as affected by the problems (bandwidth) and can at least use some advantages (cheaper skilled and unskilled labour).

I know of two electronics companies which recently gained quite big multi-year contracts from large US companies.

In the long term I am pessimistic though – the quality of primary and secondary education is falling (according to international rankings such as TIMSS and other studies). This creates a problem feeding the universities. The quality of research in universities is also under pressure and decreasing in most technical fields (see linked articles and personal experience as a lecturer). Unfortunately political considerations are before academic excellence. The industrial economy relies on people qualified in technical areas – and it will follow the downward trend.

https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/bitstream/2263/14593/1/Pouris_St...
Only on HN is Haskell "mainstream" :-)
A 2009 article. Discussed earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=718279
These are all just cheap shots.

If something goes wrong down the road, the writer can crow "I told you so" and strut around like a rooster. If nothing goes wrong, then who remembers some unknown writer in some forgotten rag?

The beauty of these naysayers is that, like a broken clock (or a stuck display ;) ), they're right about the outcome (and not the cause) once in a while by sheer chance.
You cannot estimate debugging time.
Good question. I would hazard a guess that they revised the test every year, but didn't want to put the more recent copies of it in the library as they'd be similar, and could poison the results. And therefore they held back old versions as "secret" for, say, 30 years. (Thus your later case, that the test was placed in the library 30 years after it was used.)

Or perhaps this was lost under someone's desk for 30 years in the admissions department, and when they moved into new offices they said "we should put this in the library for posterity's sake."
Why not buy sizes in some proportion to the sizes of actual employees? There's really no other answer unless the company has grown to the point where the size curve approaches a normal distribution. If you plotted sizes where I work now it would look nothing like a normal distribution (our plot would be a lot flatter).
That's actually pretty cool, and would work well if you curate your own image set with a unique tag.

Otherwise, it adds a bit of risk if you have sensitive clients. "Nurse" and "nursing" can return photos of nurses at work, a nurse smoking a cigarette in an old ad, women in sexy nurse costumes, or a river otter. The quality is also extremely variable.
That's like asking, "What's wrong with marriage?" I'd rather choose my own mate than be forced into an arranged marriage. The current state of social networking is more like the latter. The individual needs to be in the driver's seat, controlling the nature of the social interactions. Hopefully, Google can offer a new approach that provides the kind of fine-tuned controls that reluctant adopters and privacy advocates want, without spoiling anyone's party.
So, arguably to fix this we should improve our methods of gifted student identification? versus not having a special education program at all.

I was a gifted student, and I did not start off that way, I was not until high school that I gained entry to the higher level classes and I had to fight tooth and nail to get into them because my grades in the regular classes were Bs not As. It took a few of my teachers arguing with the administration to get me into the program where I excelled, and my grades got better, but because of the blind spot you describe it was almost impossible.
We don't use 'My' anymore.
You are probably a low class person.
It's not even reporting, it's just commentary - speculation on the success or failure of something that hasn't come to pass yet.
wasn't this the Buzz mission? It also has gmail chat and search :)
I'm not having the best experience. I sent an e-mail TO my new opera e-mail address and it bounced. I sent an e-mail OUT OF my new opera e-mail account and it failed "Bad Request: User [masked] was not found."
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That's why playback devices should have a "compression" knob, instead of hardcoding it into the media itself. It would be useful in the living room (for television dialog) as well as in noisy environments like the car.
Haskell or Erlang may not be so mainstream for enterprise Java or C# coders...
Best app I've seen in a while on HN -- targeted directly at me, lots of geeky features, very cool interface, the video leverages my enthusiasm for tea into a purchase decision, and easy to buy for my iTouch.

Congrats on the great job, siglesias. I'm buying it right now, and I'm looking forward to hearing what kind of market traction you get!

Also, at a meta level, at some point I'd like to learn more about how iPhone app developers manage so much functionality for so little real-estate. There was a lot going on in this app for only 6-10 very simple screens. Did you mock it up on paper first? Wire frame it? Use an online tool? Details here would be interesting.
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Wheat germ was removed from white flour in 1914 too, as pointed out in the original article.
This was my thought as well. By "B student" does he mean "students who got B's" or does he mean "students of mediocre intellect and industry"? Those are different sets of people entirely.

I know people smarter than I am who graduated (or dropped out of!) college with abysmal GPAs-- like 2.5, which is a disaster following U.S. grade inflation. I also know intellectual mediocrities who were good at playing the system despite mediocre effort. My sense of Mr. Adams is that he had A potential but probably got B's and C's because he had other projects. That's the good case of a "B student": someone who got mediocre grades because he was working on other things. They should be considering entrepreneurial pursuits. But I wouldn't want to see the average U.S. college graduate (fairly lazy, intellectually mediocre, able to meet college's low minimum demands based on socioeconomic status rather than merit) managing a large, complex company. Hell no on that one, sir.
I believe you're missing some restriction, otherwise this is provable by simply drawing a line from 12 to 6, then color 1,2,3,7,8,9 red and 4,5,6,10,11,12 blue.
Oops, read that as "in my opinion it's not bad reporting.."
I like the idea of a hug mismatch. Its like a couple hesitant to embrace and miss-timing it so that there arms get all muddled.

It actually fits the scenario: title and content badly hugging.

:)
The unwashed masses had bulletin boards, instant messengers, profile websites and Geocities ten years ago, although obviously fewer people spent less time on the internet then.

The only real difference in is the increasing tendency for services to be dependent (for traffic, functionality and/or data) on an industry monopolist. It's easy to see why Google consider developing a Bing of social strategically important; less easy to see what they gain from making their litmus test for the success of that strategy public.
good to have one new player (even though it's fastmail), but to me it looks like it's nowhere even close to GMail.
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If it would be easy, then perhaps you should do it. Such a conclusion would have a nice amount of academic value.

I imagine there are a large number of small and/or untraded businesses with dishonest or illegal practices. Perhaps data would even show that larger market cap indicates corruption is less likely, depending on your measurement for corruption?
I have a warm fuzzy memory about the first time I saw Google Maps and Suggest, and had that feeling that, "surely this is the future."
Very interesting - and fast. I won't be using it, before they implement a second layer of authenticators, though.

Google have always done their best to thwart Opera browsers from using their service, and this is a great response.

I'd like to know how fast Gmail is for Apps customers compared to the free version, though.
This is super crude, but something I just hacked up-

https://gist.github.com/911459
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Agreed, I just signed up and it is nothing special at all. It is a shame but with Firefox and Chrome being so good these days I totally forget about Opera. I used to try it out every new major release but I have even stopped doing that now. I don't know why they don't kill the Opera desktop browser as the mobile is the big money maker for them and do some work on WebKit or Gecko. They have a lot of talent but I can't help but feel it is wasted at Opera now.
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While that is called "compression", it is not what is being referred to. This sort of compression takes audio that is sometime soft and sometimes lound and flattens out the volume differences in various ways.

This, too, is not the crime per se, because this isn't always bad. Making something completely flat can suck the life out of a piece, but there are contexts where you aren't really "listening" to the music where it makes sense, such as background music in the stores or something, and you're unlikely to find what they are playing "full of life" anyhow. The real criminal here is clipping. Compression is only mentioned here because it lets them "get away with" yet more clipping after they've compressed it.
Lorem Ipsum is actually abstracted one layer further. It's based on some text by Cicero, but it has been altered so it wouldn't even be readable if you knew Latin.
Not to mention that it fights with Congo for the title of rape capital of the world.
I agree with the closing statements that facebook is making a point here, it strongly says "we are here for the long haul". I think openness like this also advances datacenter technology and efficiency as a whole, its one aspect that's overlooked by most of us but plays a crucial role in scaling. If you can reduce power consumption, improve cooling and squeeze more servers in racks then we are looking at a lot more hardware to play with. I cant see small startups benefiting from this but large scale companies definitely, twitter comes to mind. Their communication platform will only continue to require more processing power and capitalizing on open compute would be a key growth advantage for them.
Scotland's last-ever duel with swords was fought in the same year: 1899.

"Swords were drawn and blood was spilled over the election battle of the University Rector."

It was in a semi-public place (the Glasgow University Union building) and may have been reported at the time. Thus, duelling may have been in the news at the time.

http://www.theguu.com/about/history/
I'm loving that I got downvoted for stating something as obvious as cotton clothing shrinks when dried in a dryer. This is why HN is getting worse, a bunch of random fuckwad trolls who downvote people for no reason.
A much better (alternative to the C-h t tutorial, which is very good) intro to the bare essentials is the beginner articles from Mastering Emacs:

http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/category/beginner/
I know perfectly well that Android is not under the GPL, and nowhere in my posts have I implied that it is, and I have also not implied that Google is under any legal obligations whatsoever. The article which this entire discussion is based on is simply about whether or not Google is actually following through on their previous statements about Android, and about the fact that, as you just admitted, Honeycomb is not currently open source. I don't understand the distinctions you are trying to draw involving "the timing of the Xoom launch" because that is the essence of the issue: Honeycomb based devices are being sold without the source code being made available to the user, and Google states they are doing this on purpose and the situation will remain that way for some time. This is not compatible with the term "open source". The statement "Android is open source" is not the same as the statement "Older versions of Android are open source, but the most recent version is not."
Nowadays changing email address is really difficult. (At least in my case) Because you are already in everyone's address book with your existing email.There has to be something superior, crucial to make you switch your email.

Gmail's success, i guess, was because it was offering something which no one had when it was first introduced. A huge space and ajax. It was even considered cool to have a "gmail" when you could create accounts with invitations only.

Maybe opera mail is fast, maybe it looks nice, maybe it is simpler. But i dont think it has a key factor which would make you switch from email you currently are using.
"In terms of spammy results, if millions of people are applying upvotes to good results every day, true human-eyeball search QA will be working at massive scale."

And if a disproportionate number of those humans who bother to vote are spammers?
None of these languages seem "weird" to me. At all. Does that make me supremely weird?
Ahh, very interesting, but I'm not on Chrome. There doesn't seem to be a similar plugin for Firefox.
Amazing app -- if I were an iPhone user, I'd buy it. I don't watch videos, so I apologize if this suggestion is already handled, but WRT to the inventory tracker, will it only work if you know how many servings you just bought?

I'd love it if my loose tea serving remaining would be estimated by my entering how much (in oz or grams) of tea I just added to the stash, and it estimating servings remaining based on stated servings/weight for that tea, then learn from my actual usage. (As a loose tea lover, I hate trying to guess how much I have of what, and store estimates aren't always accurate.)
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Beautiful app and great presentation style inspired by none other than Mr.Jobs. That's "copy what you like" done well.
Thanks for saying something, I see this guy's obnoxious comments all the time and he often gets upvoted for it.
with the exception of haskell maybe

There is Nothing weird about it; it's Just different.
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The Rolltop: when do you think we'll see a concept like this roll out?
So, by spending years learning Latin, I save... months learning another (European) language. I see.
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And i didnt like the big "My Opera" button.
Intuitively it should go right into your inbox, but it doesn't.

In case of gmail, it leads right into ur inbox.
Back to gmail
This is a really useful looking app for interactive mockups - http://keynotopia.com/
It's not "mainstream" but I'd expect any serious programmer to know, at least, that the language exists and a few talking points about it-- that it's statically-typed, lazy, and functional-- and why people like those properties for some uses. You don't have to be using Haskell or Lisp to be a serious programmer, but if you're using Java instead, you should know why you're using Java.
If I have seen further than others, it is only by standing on the shoulders of grants.
You seem confused. I am not advocating this, merely explaining it.
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For those interested, heres the landing page:
http://maps.ubuntu.com/

Seems to only be concerned with 10.04 servers?
Hey, glad you enjoy it!

The main inspiration for the interface was believe it or not Apple's Phone. Like having a list of contacts that you could simply tap to call, it made sense for Tea to have a list of teas that you could tap to brew. And like Phone, we use the detail disclosure indicator pattern on each cell to provide more information. The interface kind of grew naturally from that starting point.

For sketching I used UIStencil's iPhone stencil kit, and the designer I collaborated with, Mac Tyler, sketched his ideas in Photoshop.
Yeah, competition for Gmail my ass. Like the browser is competition for Chrome, Firefox ...
no, i was thinking the same. they're pretty much all in the first circle outside the mainstream. i was hoping for the second circle of unusualness (J, Factor, Unicon, Oz, ...) - practical languages with useful but "weird" features that haven't bled their way into the more mainstream languages yet.
You could say that about any form of communication. What's special this time?
Without any context I'm assuming that this map is showing servers that run Ubuntu not Canonical's official servers. If so it is not a very accurate map.

Edit:
Ahh seeing the landing page I know understand what this is. The link should really be changed.
In a bold attempt to prove myself wrong I offer this other link that suggests that the story (well-known to alumni of Glasgow University, such as myself) may have been a fictional, satirical sketch written for the student magazine.

"It found no other mention of the event in contemporary university records, newspapers or court summaries."

http://news.scotsman.com/education/Hit-and-myth-Was-Scotland...