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While it may be true that Google isn't trying to lock developers in like MS has tried to do, that needs to be considered with respect to their business model. MS and Google are both huge software companies, but that's about the end of the similarities. Don't forget that other search engines are a click away, so lock in isn't a viable strategy for Google's primary revenue stream anyway. I think culturally for Google, this has meant that they don't tend to think quite the same way as MS.

All that being said, the tradeoff turns out to be for end-users, not developers. Google is essentially saying, "Give us all your emails, photos, docs, and music.... In fact, give us all your personal data". End users submit their private data to Google so the advertising machine can rifle through it and monetize it. The products may be free as in beer, but the actual price is entrusting Google with all your data. I'm not really sure there is a historical analog to Google, but it does suggest an area of vulnerability for startups and competitors: "Use our (almost free) service but we promise not to peek at your stuff and beat you over the head with creepy ads".
Two things:

1. It still sounds like you're assuming it's self aware and that letting it out of the box makes sense more than letting Wolfram Alpha out of the box makes sense. The intelligence could just be a powerful logic engine that's in particular capable of analyzing its own design and producing a more powerful version.

2. You seem to be conceding the point I was interested in making, which is that an AI could be controllable if designed carefully. You now seem to be arguing "yes, but it will inevitably fall into the wrong hands." That applies to any powerful technology. On the bright side, you could always try to ask the machine for help in determining the best way to avoid that.
Thanks for the clarification. A bit off-topic but are you sure about the author's life + 70 years copyright agreement? I remember during the controversy where copies of Orwell's "1984" was remotely wiped off a number of Kindle's, there was some discussion about how Orwell's works were now out of copyright in Australia (and elsewhere) but are not in the US. (eg. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/)
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I am considering driving down to the Bay Area next week for a week or two for some intensified networking and meetings; being on a very tight budget, can't really afford conventional accommodation options. Any reasonable hacks for staying somewhere around the Bay Area for cheap? :)
The biggest problem I see with this is Apple won't even allow them to raise prices. So they are knowingly taking them out of the business when they take their 30% cut. If they are going to charge 30% for this, they might as well allow them to raise prices to remain profitable.

Why aren't these service companies switching to a HTML5 web app though? Wouldn't that allow them to continue their business untouched by Apple?
> I really don't see a problem here.

I tend to agree. Surety bonds have been effective for a long time to ensure completion of services in case of fraud or failure on the part of a contractor or service provider. States have been requiring surety bonds for many kinds of licensed professions for years, building contractors being a big one.
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Can't anyone build a Facebook app that takes payment in Facebook credits, and then cash out that payment into dollars?
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I really like Tripwow to create slideshows/video. I would like to know how to implement that in your website. I can only think of using Animoto APIs. Is there any other option to get visualy rich slideshows like Tripwow?
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I don't believe in the one-size-fits-all idea. My thoughts: http://swombat.com/2011/5/10/founder-equity
I'm inclined to agree. Perhaps as expectations raise over time as to what a CRUD app should be capable of this situation will change.
Can you point to a page that says there are indeed latitude + longitude + timestamp that follow a user's location?

From what I've read, the database was a cache of nearby cell tower and wifi hotspot locations from Apple's servers, not the GPS-calculated (or even tower-triangulated) location of the user.
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nearly as fast as C

not quite; using comparisons from the The Computer Language
Benchmarks Game [http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang...], Go is currently (in general) slower than C++ gnu g++, C gnu gcc, Java 6 -server, Haskell GHC, C# mono, just to name a few. Sure, it's not a definitive view, but it's better than code not run and compared.
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> Google is likely capable of creating its own operating system

I don't think they are capable of such mistake ;-)

There are plenty of free more-than-good-enough OSs to build upon. Unless Google needs something more revolutionary than Plan-9, they don't need to create another OS.

The only reason I would find sane to develop an entirely new OS would be to use all these new shiny toys we got in specialized processors inside our computers. It would be awesome to have a machine with lots (hundreds?) of cores of varying capabilities that could be powered up or down according to load, with processes being transparently migrated between binary-compatible ones or between similar virtual machines hosted on diverse cores.

It's been a while since I have seen a cool new research OS.
The difference between floppies and programming languages is that as storage technologies improved, the use-case for a floppy drive disappeared. (Although I think that CDs actually replaced floppies, but that's besides the point - they're on their way out, too.)

But as computer technology in general improves, the use-cases for C do not disappear. C is still needed where it's good. So unlike a floppy drive, a replacement programming language will have to compete with C's strengths.
Can this affect Bitcoin, and if so, how?
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They can get a very rough idea of the places you've been. But if they've stolen your phone, getting access to a list of cell towers you've been near isn't very much of a breach compared to all of your email, bookmarks, facebook, twitter, all of your contacts, etc. The whole thing is a very silly argument and Apple has already addressed it; so lets stop spreading FUD, please.
I don't get why you mentioned Bret at all, I think you must have meant that you wished your browser wasn't so crash-prone.
Here's a company that is smart enough to know that they could have a major part of a market though could explode. Google don't just have to sell ads. They have loads of very smart people. They could wind up being the major provide for driverless cars.

Sebastian Thrun works for Google now. He's one of the world's foremost experts in the field.
> how to ensure that any inaccuracy in the emulation won't make it insane…

You can always restore a snapshot of your sane self ;-)

Based on it, you could debug your own brain (being restored to said snapshot from time to time, until you remain sane long enough, but with full knowledge of what happened since the last "boot").

Wouldn't be fun.
It implies that someone has built a profile describing your interests from your behaviour. Many people find that creepy, and not worth targeted advertising. It's reminiscent of secret police behaviour with their networks of informants, and is not a distant memory in much of Europe.
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You are not using "the web", you are using services provided by specific third parties.

Those third parties can do whatever they want with their property, especially when it comes to free services such as Google Docs, Facebook, Yahoo Mail, etc.
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Next step: ability to create an entire web page of these elements and get the markup as a file. Bye, bye Photoshop!
Effective price discrimination is a very tough goal to achieve. The airlines try their best to price discriminate as best as they can, to maximize their profits, but it's not always possible to sell all tickets in a flight at whatever price consumers are willing to pay. Everyone would wait till the very end then to book tickets.
There are other ways to track users than cookies[1]. With enough browser information you can identify users fairly uniquely.

[1] http://panopticlick.eff.org/
You could also ask: What's wrong with news and political information geared towards your political opinions?
In our B2B start-up the back-end skills needed would be

PostgreSQL - solid database design skills, stored procedures, and query writing and tuning.

J2EE for the application logic layer in the core system.

PHP for rapid prototyping of extensions.

Lucene

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> This won't be high on the feature list

You could hardly be any less correct. This is by far the most major and interesting feature enabled by auto-driven and cooperative cars: http://www.sartre-project.eu/en/Sidor/default.aspx

> as it's still really dangerous.

Not really.
No. But surely it can replace C++ and especially Java. ^_^
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Perl has exception handling, its only that its not available via your usual try-catch syntax. If you want a more sugary exception handling syntax there is always Try::Tiny ( http://search.cpan.org/~doy/Try-Tiny-0.09/lib/Try/Tiny.pm).

Another advantage Perl has over Python in case of parsing is that regular expressions are first class elements in Perl, so they can be passed around like objects. Combine them with more powerful things like given-when(http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Switch-statements) and parsing becomes a lot more easier when compared to Python. Smart matching is a great feature. And all this obviously leads to better performance in terms of speed because less code to process means (to an extent faster code). And syntactically as well.

Imagine doing such a thing in Python. There isn't smart match operator at the first place, there is no switch statement, and on top of that dealing with innumerable regular expression functions(compile,match,search) with try-catch statements inside if-else loops. This piece of code in Python won't be easy to read and solution isn't elegant and better than Perl either.

Perl turns out to be better in all ways, the code is readable, concise, faster and powerful.
Page 4, section "What will happen to me if I don’t do anything?":

> In light of this if the ICO were to receive a complaint about a website, we would expect an organisation's response to set out how they have considered the points above and that they have a realistic plan to achieve compliance.

So basically compliance isn't required, just a plan to achieve compliance.

"Our realistic plan is to implement an invasive po-pup sometime within the next 3 centuries."
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I'm not sure - there has been a 3-5x increase in the number of spam emails in the Spam filter for me since around the beginning of the year. As a result I just don't look as intently anymore.

I caught a SoundCloud email in the Spam the other day and rescued it.
I'd put it this way: there's building on shaky ground and there's building on ground that's designed to disappear as soon as you get something good going.

I'm sorry for iFlow's people but if your business requires to be approved by a potential competitor to exist you are going to be in trouble.
And since when where governments the holder of truth :)

I fact if you look at Assanges argument you will realize just why giving him the peace prize might be a very good idea.
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I see this also covers the use of Flash cookies, but I wonder about the use of Etags as a tracking mechanism.

If I recall correctly, some of these sites use cookies, Flash cookies and also unique Etags on an object in the browser cache to try to work around people blocking cookies from their domains.
Nixon's democratically elected government estimated that keeping Watergate secret was the right thing to do. I would suggest that Woodward and Bernstein promoted democracy by releasing the information publicly.

Making things difficult for the government by holding them to the light is not anti-democratic, even if the government is democratically elected.
Why do the images need to be stitched together?
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2466129
Who cares about the usability of this site. It's not done to be user friendly but rather to be explorable.
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> And how did he promote democracy?

There are numerous signs that Wikileaks had an important influence in the events in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrein and Syria.

> Didn't Americans democratically elect a government which estimated that keeping diplomatic cables secret was the right thing to do?

Assange isn't an American citizen, therefore he can't be a traitor to the USA.

> Didn't Assange publicly release those cables?

Yes, and ironically they significantly enhanced the opinion that the rest of the world has now on USA diplomacy and policy. So it actually both profited the USA and the rest of the world.

> That being said, he certainly promoted freedom of speech.

Exactly. Some people (like me) states that social forms of freedom are more valuable than anything else. Some others value authority, or morals, or other things higher.
You could take the "political compass" test to know better where you're situated. I myself is in the bottom left, a rabid leftist-anarchist; I'm quite sure that Assange fares quite similarly.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/
It's not much different than any other recommendation system though. It's also funny how these ads exist because they work - i.e. the user actually does find them interesting, clicks on them, and discovers a product they pay money for because it brings them value.
Government regulation is in just about every case either not needed at all or better provided through non-coercive institutions. Since government innovates more slowly than private industries, government regulation tends to become outdated, going from common-sense prudence to arbitrary burden on innovation. For example, right now the Mississippi River in the US is flooding, destroying many homes. This is a huge loss partly because homes are very expensive. Maybe it would make sense to have some housing constructed of paper-mâché, not try so hard to resist disaster, but instead concentrate on making it cheap to rebuild. Government building codes prevent this kind of innovation.

Regulation reflects a lack of creativity. It says, "There is no other way to do this." But maybe there is another way and the politicians just can't think of it. They shouldn't be allowed to limit other, more enlightened people.

The above assumes that regulations are honestly designed to promote the public good, a dubious assumption. Often I suspect that regulation is designed to protect influential but inefficient businesses against competition.
I never tried, but as I researched the issue, it seemed others tried various approaches (including reply-to), and nothing worked.
The recent update that Google made to their ranking policy that was supposed to dis-incentivize link farms, auto-generated and content-free sites and search engine spammers.
A fraudulent one isn't though.

You're also dealing with especially sensitive data, life ruining data if it gets into the wrong hands.
Actually, though I've dabbled but little, it seems pretty easy to get arbitrary encryption on firefox. For an example, look at the LeetSpeak addon, which provides a bunch of ways to transform text, both in textboxes and on the page. The real challenge I can see is to provide a good interface for sellecting from the (potentially hundreds of) public keys at you disposal to encrypt with.
I don't get it, how do users login to the websites (like gmail) without using cookies ? Does this legislation target only permanent cookies that stay even after the user has logged out ?
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Programming is...

examining an existing problem, devising an elegant software solution, building that solution, and enjoying the results.

helping a customer define a process and improving that process with technology 100X.

building something over and over again but knowing it's not quite right until we've sifted through the output enough to figure it out and then build it perfectly.

always working on puzzles but never knowing when the lightbulb will go off. When it does, dropping everything to build the solution that popped into our head.

taking existing software that was built with good intentions but didn't quite do the job and getting it to do the job right.

changing the way a data base is structured in order to eliminate 90% of the existing code.

teaching proper technique to someone who only knows how to hack together kludges and watching them blossom.

experiencing the tension between getting really good at what you know and always yearning to learn something new.

something we never could have done if we were born 100 years earlier and may not be able to do if we were born 100 years later.

building something that never existed anywhere before except in your own mind and bringing it to reality.

doing a happy dance when something works for the first time.
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Those reviews are for hosting, not domain registration.

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It's not "as easy" as Python and "expressive" is hard to measure.
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Do the regulations say anything about localstorage ? I guess one could use that in place of a cookie..
I wonder why so many publishers and resellers insist on building only native apps. With the current technology you could invest in a web app that is cross platform. DRM can be cracked and it's just an annoyance to people who want to pay for content.

However, if you insist on developing commercial apps on the IOS platform than you have to realize that sooner or later Apple will want a cut. In business their is no free lunch, people/companies always want something in return.

Google is no different, see: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/05/google_skyhook_case_...

A Massachusetts court has denied Google's efforts to dismiss a hot-button lawsuit that accuses the company of unfairly using its Android operating system to strong-arm mobile handset makers into using Google location services rather than those of rival Skyhook.

The suit specifically claims that Andy Rubin, who oversees Google's Android project, told Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha that if Motorola didn't drop Skyhook from its phones, Google would remove official Android support from the devices. This would mean the devices could not use proprietary Google apps or the Android name. The suit says that whereas Google paints Android as open source, Google still maintains exclusive oversight of the OS.

This may be even worse if entirely factual, because Google doing the exact opposite of what it claims to be.
Go's compilers are still very young and do almost no optimizations.

Also, the 32bit compilers are specially bad as they are not really used by most of the Go developers, the 64bit compilers do much better as you can see here:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-lang...
Somehow it comes as no surprise to me that he's been 'Inventing shit'. Carry on; get a job, create one for yourself. That apple stamp of approval on your resume helps and we know Apple is run like a death star.
I think it would have to be someone with some real credentials, not just in airlines but in general.

I personally think you would not get a welcome reception from airlines either as they try make as much as possible from each ticket so anything that allowed a group of people that were going to get on that flight anyway to save money would not go in your favour.

You could possibly do it on less popular flights where they do not always get full?

Like I say, I am not putting the idea down, I love things like this. I feel this would literally be a 24/7 job though.
I don't see a lot of buzz for Go or at least not nearly enough to make me even ponder "Could Go replace C?".
Perhaps, but the best way to deal with it would to work together. Not wasting resources fighting each other.
I generally agree. What most people often don't realise is that a lot of regulations that are allegedly in place to protect to consumer are actually there to prevent established interests.

This is particularly true of licensing. The standards for licensing and the like are often co-opted by the industry/profession being licensed. As such, they use licensing to raise the barrier to entry, effectively limiting competition.

One example that comes to mind is that the aestheticians in Texas at one point were fighting to require people that do threading to get a license. I believe said license would require thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to obtain. Ultimately, there was absolutely nothing about threading the license at all. I am not sure if this law was ever passed, but it is merely on example of licensing works in practice to hurt competition, raise prices, and hurt the consumer.
According to the ICO report on the legislation I linked to, use of cookies needed to provide the user with a service they have requested is explicitly permitted. Likewise, if your use of the cookie does not violate privacy (i.e., you don't build up a user profile), it is OK.
That would most probably come under "strictly necessary".