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Not exactly an OS, but to replace C the language will have to become the lingua franca for performance(read speed) critical applications. C has wide adoption not just in writing Operating systems but in other equally challenging areas of CS namely databases and compilers.

Modern day applications like webservers, middle ware layers and caching applications are all written in C(or at maximum C++). Not to mention, C syntax is almost every where. So there are many trained programmers already here.

If go needs serious adoption Google will have to do the following things. Develop killer apps in Go, give the world few things written in Go the world just can't live without. Write real cool tutorials/documentation/recipes and manuals for Go. Take it to enterprise have you people talk in every other conference on the Globe, convince universities to teach it. Make sure the day to day programmers has all the right tooling, support and batteries to use Go everyday.

Sun did a lot of this stuff to promote Java. I think there is a lot to learn from that.
On what order of magnitude is the cash flow of the business? Why have you decided to ditch it (i.e. if you dont want it, why would someone else)?
Multiple backup locations? Interesting- can I ask how you are handling that from deja-dup?
Hopefully, people will be too busy surfing the web to notice that their cars are politely improving traffic flow.
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Anyone that has the HTTPS everywhere extension (Firefox) is already using the SSL search in Google. As others noted it has been in beta for quite a long time and is missing some features like the image search or the doodles on the homepage.
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I would have trouble with the criteria for making a hash mark. Is it like "ok, here I go", start a timer, work for an hour, then mark the sheet? What if you get interrupted, don't stay focused the whole time, or find yourself having started working without having started the timer?

I have a possibly over-the-top solution to that problem that I just wrote about here: http://messymatters.com/tagtime
To be fair with the airplane example, if something goes wrong in an airplane there is the waiting period as the plane plummets to the ground, whereas a car accident would be over very quickly (unless you started rolling down the side of a tall mountain or something, I guess).
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That's generally what's meant by "wake up." This would seem to indicate the phone's not really "off," though I couldn't say how possible it is to tap into the mic in this state.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if PayPal supported the law. Many regulations protect large, established players by raising the cost of entry for new market participants. PayPal can afford to post this bond, but many bootstrapped start-ups probably can't. This is just one of the ways regulation _can_ increase the price of products and services; they decrease competition, allowing established players to raise prices.
I don't think it will make sense to re write a Unix-like operating system in Go again! or other one.

Google can release something else, like high performance webservers, databases or other web infrastructure. They are in as much demand as probably an operating system. And they make good applications for a killer app.
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A couple of other alternatives to C and C++ are D, D2, OOC and Cyclone. In a more functional vein, BitC and Fortress. There are also a few interesting languages that compile to C, like Vala (C#-like), Cython (Python-like), Lush (Lisp-like), Chicken (Scheme-like).
True, but it could be mitigated by making the computer automatically take a picture of the plate in front.

The car computer saying "yeah, that just cost him a 50 dollar fine" would be absolutely loved by its users.

And it would force the other drivers to drive by the rules.
They've been at it a lot longer than that. Payola, Hollywood accounting, abusive recording contracts, ... all of these things predate 1999 by far.
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What law of nature causes the BC to become more secure?

We moved off the gold standard because it was too volatile, and we needed a way to stop rampant deflation and/or inflation (thus central banks expanding and contracting the money supply). That was the gold standard, where at least the underlying value was of worth outside of it's use as currency. In the BC universe, there is no system of regulating money supply, the underlying "value" is fictional, and AFAIK, thus there is no way to stop the deflation we're seeing already.

I've also argued BC's inability to handle inflation, no separation between M0/M1 money leads to infinite lending and thus infinite inflation.

Withoug a way to keep both of these under control, I really don't see how this system could end up stabilizing in a way that would be useful.

Or am I missing something?
It may be an awesome tool, but the site needs a serious design overhaul!

The ALL-IMPORTANT 'sign-in/sign-up' link is tucked away, unobtrusively, in the top right corner.

The 'Public Sketches' aren't very attractive, and the demo video just shows the creation of an arbitrary, uninteresting design. Some solid, beautiful examples are essential.

Plus a succession of other design disasters...

These links may be helpful:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604693
http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/landing...
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http://www.formstack.com/the-anatomy-of-a-perfect-landing-pa...
http://designinstruct.com/visual-inspiration/visual-inspirat...

In terms of competition, there's Balsamiq mockups, a slick, established operation. What tangible advantages does SketchLab offer...?
I would be more inclined to try out automated light rail/subways first, seeing as they don't need to navigate traffic.
I wonder how BankSimple is doing now.
I don't know how my restrictions compare to others, but why not use a portable Chrome? Chrome frame is for serious limitations, I hope no filter blocks the download.
Yuri Milner (as an individual and not via DST-Global), along with SV Angel's Start Fund, invested in the individual companies that participated in YC -- not in YC directly.

Though Sequoia Capital is a LP in YC.

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2156560

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/yuri-milner-sv-angel-offer-...
When you buy a software program the eula always say "you don't buy the program, you buy a license... blablabla" - so wouldn't the difference be that the store owner only brougth one license whereas the cloud music owners brought one for each user?
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Yet, I still try to remember to leave the camera in P when I put it away and often shoot in P. It's a relatively idiot proof mode; it's unlikely that, if I just pick up the camera and shoot because I'm in a hurry for whatever's in front of me, P will give me a ridiculous, unusable exposure.
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Not once you have published the change.
Depends on context; in some cases it absolutely is.

Courts often "trust" people to go free temporarily if they can post bail pending trial. Lenders will "trust" you with their money in the form of a loan if you can post collateral.
Yes... sadly, Australia jumped in early on applicability to software. IBM's fault, natch. The case was in 1992, confirmed by high court in 1994. The USA didn't fuck it up until 1998.
If you run a node on Bitcoin, aren't you technically a payment processor?

I wouldn't be surprised if this is step 1 of a 3 step plan on Bitcoin takedown. Clever too I might add, so props to whoever came up with it.
Governments already hate google. As for selling enterprise solutions that was never googles main focus so that is a little like saying that Microsoft will have trouble selling word to vi fans.
So google is pushing you to improve your security by doing this. Good, good :)
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Its a little difficult to beat 'Ideas done right, first time'. For the very same reason it will be difficult to replace Lisp(grouping all its flavors here), Perl(CPAN, power, flexibility, freedom, rapid prototyping, extensibility, help, documentation, support, regexes-text processing), C, Unix etc.

Despite their inherent flaws they haven't gone away, no matter how attractive alternatives exist. Because they solve certain set of problems so well, you just can't do without them.

Even tools like sed and awk have their own niches and uses, and replacing them with something else is just isn't going to happen.
> Hopefully, people will be too busy surfing the web to notice that their cars are politely improving traffic flow.

I actually did that while traveling to work this very morning :) No need to dive into the future for that. It's called public transportation.
He's probably talking about the Canon 70-200 2.8 L non stabilized zoom lens. Which is behaving pretty much like a prime lens in all its range.
Some links:

* Intel Threading Building Blocks - http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/

* TBB Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Threading_Building_Blocks

* CPAN - http://search.cpan.org/dist/threads-tbb/

* White paper - http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SAMV/threads-tbb-0.02/doc/thr...
If only we could go back to the salad days before Apple's app store when mobile developers had it good.
Thanks for the reply - good answers. I'm in the UK so location matters a lot to me, I'm also not really looking for new opportunities at the moment, but I thought it would be useful for you to see the kind of questions that I would expect to see answered. Good luck with finding a co-founder, and good luck with the prototype.

Purely out of interest, (and feel free to not share), what's your strategy on MVP and launching? I ask because it's been a common pattern at places I've worked to sink time into prototypes without proof of market, so I'm personally pretty sold on a fail-early approach.

edit: the 'focus on efficiency' sounds like it could be premature optimisation. No point building something that can scale to a bajillion users if you only get 100 on launch day. Just saying :)
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The last bit at the end makes me think that Google must have laughed at the Kinect.
Ah, Business Insider.

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Well I mean it's my personal blog, there's really no need for https since there's no user accounts or login. Are you saying HN is insecure because they don't use https? How about Reddit, no https there either.
the video is edited, right about when he's showing process explorer post-exploit. the cursor suddenly leaps across the screen, so assuming they're covering up the other child process of the main chrome process is fair. strangely, process explorer's 'process count' only goes up by 1, despite launching calc, and (seemingly) another child process. To be over-zealous, the single row of visible pixels for that other process is consistent with rundll32.exe.

That still doesn't mean that it's not a chrome bug - the exploit may use flash to retrieve the payload, make use of flash-js communication, flash-chrome communication quirks etc.
I'm not so sure there are applications which simply cannot tolerate garbage collection. Unless, you have no reasonable way of preventing allocations.

Console games, for instance, are often largely garbage collected, despite being hugely performance critical applications. The way this is generally achieved is by allocating 100% of the console's memory upfront as object pools. The game then utilizes domain specific collection mechanisms on those pools.

Shawn Hargreaves has a good article on dealing with C#'s garbage collection in XNA games: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2007/07/02/twin-pat...

The problem in .NET land is that some base class library methods allocate internally, so you need to completely avoid them if you use "Path 1" (avoid collections). You wind up having to do funky things like re-implementing core methods and pre-allocating pools of strings to avoid concatenation. Presumably, a language designed to be a systems language could avoid these library problems.

I don't know much about Go, but if allocations are clearly demarcated and easily avoidable when necessary, you could allocate 100% of memory up front. You could treat virtual memory as an object pool of memory pages and perform domain specific allocation on those.

Alternatively, a collector with a richer interface, such as generation control, multiple heaps, etc. Would allow for "Path 2" (avoid latency) by performing very small, simple collections.
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There is a lot to be gained by designing a language that is easier to use than C++ while being at least as fast and that's what Google is probably betting on. GC saves a lot of programmer's time and they don't care about tiny embedded systems not being able handle it. Examples of D and other alternatives only show you need a company behind a language to make anyone use it.

On the other hand, C can't be improved much without compromising the 'as much speed as possible but handle with care' philosophy (like introducing GC while sacrificing a bit of speed).
Python is too good a language not to have made it. Google endorsement helped a lot, but they chose it because it's great.
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Agreed. Besides crappy formatting, he also makes his programs do confusing things. Why does the first example run in the infinite loop?
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This won't affect PayPal in any way. They have plenty of money to cover the licenses and bonds and whatever else. They're part of the status quo and are not considered a threat by Visa/Mastercard in any way, shape, or form. In fact, PayPal is one of their best customers.

If you have a bone to pick with PayPal, you ought to be wishing for more competition, not supporting barriers to entry for their competitors.
For what it's worth, Google has also been offering it for quite a while... It's been my default for months.
Lisp never became mainstream and if it hasn't succeeded up to now, it most likely never will. D & co. didn't make it either and things aren't going to improve for them. Great point about Cython though, and thanks for the Vala pointer, I wasn't aware of it.
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Boohoo, cry PayPal a river.

I don't understand what this has to do with PayPal. PayPal is large enough to easily jump through whatever hoops are required to keep doing business. This is a problem for new companies, that would compete with PayPal.
Yes... but you don't usually have 1 million customers and owe them all money at once. That's just daft.
It is not very high if you consider that people drive cars everywhere, not only in the US.

The fatality rate in the US is around 30k-40k every year[1].

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BitC, a project started by Jonathan Shapiro of Coyotos project fame and briefly associated with Microsoft's Midori project, is a systems programming language that supports garbage collection but also allows the programming of critical sections of code in which garbage collection is not permitted to take place.

http://www.bitc-lang.org/docs/bitc/bitc-origins.html
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The free certs from http://www.startssl.com/ are apparently accepted by most browsers these days (the exception being IE6/7 users on XP who have not downloaded the optional CA cert updates): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startssl#StartSSL

I've not used their cert for anything yet (I plan to test them on some personal sites when I get chance, before using them elsewhere), and wildcard certs are not free (but they do seem relatively cheap), but it might be worth looking into for someone in your position.
I can think of four off the top of my head. Sigma DP1, sigma DP2, Leica X1, and the Fuji X100. The first two will cost you as much as an entry level DSLR, the latter two a lot more. Non of them can be considered a reasonable equivalent or replacement for an entry level dslr. What cameras where you thinking about?
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I've actually actively started to petition clients to use GnuPG since the HBGary hack, but I agree that it's difficult to make progress. Someone has to develop interfaces to make it usable. This is especially needed for web mail clients, the Firefox extension that used to allow this on GMail is no longer maintained.

I'm not a browser hacker so I'm not sure if it would be easy or hard to get this integrated, but ideally the browser would have built-in support for crypto on designated input fields, i.e., "encrypt this text box" option on right-click. I'm sure it would be hard, but I bet if Mozilla and Google got together and worked out a common interface that allowed Gmail et al to pass information to the browser (like whose keys should be used), this would eventually get implemented and be awesome.

As usual, Microsoft is the biggest roadblock with Outlook. Hopefully if your company is using Outlook it can afford a license for PGP, which afaik is the only complete crypto extension for Outlook.
Yes, HN is insecure because they don't use HTTPS. Especially when using a public WiFi network someone could hijack my session, and even intercept my password by passively sniffing packets.

There is a HTTPS wrapper around HN, but it has been pretty flakey lately (lots of timeouts): https://quickhn.appspot.com/news

I do agree that if you don't have user logins there is no real threat. The only possible 'attack' then would be an ISP injecting ads or injecting other content that you didn't write :)
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I just checked BHphoto and the G12 costs more than an entry level Canon,Nikon or Sony dslr with a kit lens. So while the G12 is a great camera (I have a G10) and there are many good reasons to buy on, price isn't one of them
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Why should I be that bothered about this?

As a consumer I want less people between me and the actual producer of the work so another intermediary going out of business bothers me not at all.

My ideal world is that I buy a novel direct from an author, perhaps paying a small commission to a single intermediary. Author to publisher to iFlow to Apple to me isn't efficient.

Yes there is an issue here with how Apple and the publishers behave but there is also a significant issue with how much value iFlow were adding in exchange for their cut. A slightly different (maybe better) reader simply isn't worth the 30% they seem to be planning on.
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I am not surprised at all that Google has done this. There intentions for the Android platform have been pretty clear, and this was the next logical step. I am very excited to see the kinds of things that come out of this.
Here in Europe, PayPal (which is acting like a bank) had to get a banking license (like any other bank). As far as I know they didn't go bankrupt yet, so it can't be a wholly bad thing.

If I drive a vehicle that acts like a car, I need a drivers license. If I run a service that acts like a bank I need a banking license.

I really don't see a problem here.
Ask yourself: if this turns out to be a HUGE success, how will I feel?
I use one-click on a near daily basis. Go to a product, click local express checkout, and I'm done. Makes my life easy.
If only someone had warned him of their secretive culture before he started.
You can not produce two exposures that have the same focal length and f/ratio that have different depths of field

Just to nitpick, you can if you change the size of the film/sensor. f2 on a medium format camera looks very different than f2 on a digital P&S sensor. But other than that you are correct.
That is a pretty decent price drop. I had no real issues with the price before. But again, a price drop is always welcome!
So, if a user can get Chrome Frame on the system and running without admin rights... why not just have them download an admin-free standalone instance of Chrome instead? I fail to see the benefit of running in IE.

I'm clearly missing something.
It would be awesome if it could add several shadows/backgrounds.

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The Copenhagen Metro is driverless (and there are probably many others around the world). Works like a charm.