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Yeah it's a real shame - it's a very popular stag party destination for tourists from the UK and Germany.

It's actually worth checking out in Winter - It's freezing - but, there are hardly any tourists and the cold and the snow actually compliments the city in a way.
Also check out "In Bruges" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/

One of my favorite movies :-)
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Well this is the challenge. Chrome needs to be compelling for 'normal people.' As you say that's not easy.

Most 'normal people' haven't tried Firefox on someone else's machine & said 'I want this not that.' In fact, many are still on IE 6. So the bar for 'compelling' is high. You need someone who does not find the difference between IE6 & FF compelling to find Chrome compelling. Big call.

FF got to >15% on that sort of steam without much marketing (but still some). Google can probably out-market Mozilla.
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If you do go to Siena, try and go to the Il Palio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palio_di_Siena

Each district of Siena has a horse in a (quite violent) race around the square.

Whilst it's generally a massive attraction for tourists the locals take it very seriously and it's not just a tourist attraction at all. After the race the winning district put out their banners and have a massive party.
It's surprising that consulting companies make millions of dollars?
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Why bother coding something complicated, when you can copy paste some open source code and make millions

Why climb a mountain when you could ride to the top in a helicopter? Because it makes us better.

Open source is actually the proof that innovation lives completely outside the bounds of corporate influence. It may very well be human nature.
I think it's just as bad that they either: a) Didn't look over their own EULA, or b) tried to sneak one over us. Either way it doesn't look good on them.
Hulu doesn't work full-screen on any of my 3 high-spec factory installed Vista PC's. VLC does. (Its about the only thing that does).

Fox should just release the commercial containing episodes of the show straight onto bittorrent. If the quality is good and they are well seeded, most people will download the official versions.
Lightweightness isn't decided per story. Whole sites and filetypes are. At the moment it's just me, because the code is simply a list of each: there's no mechanism for adding new ones except editing the source.
That's correct. My understanding is (having never been there myself) that if you're running a large site, you're going to have to throw hardware at a scaling problem -- that said, if just hardware solves your problem, you're in great shape.
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If only the comic wasn't so horribly overmarketed. Seriously, I haven't tried Chrome yet since I don't have a windows box, so I'm holding off judgement, but all the overenthusiastic, arrogant, and annoying marketing crap in the comic has already left a bad taste in my mouth.

The technical details were interesting, but I had to wade through a wrapping of marketing crap to get to the gems about why Chrome is so much better than the competition. Really, all the comic needs to complete it are claims that Chrome cures cancer and makes the sky rain kittens and cotton candy with the sun still shining.
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"... Just what kinds of innovation are people looking for that they're not getting? ..."

- Data storage: Ways for people, companies to store data for perpetuity

- Power: cheap, pollution free way to generate personal power

- Water: cheap, pollution free way to clean water for drinking

The list can go on.

"... And further, what innovations from decades ago are we still relying on today and not innovating through? ..."

Lets see: operating systems (Linux, Max OSX, Windows), GUI's (Windows), keyboards and other input hardware. These are the tools we use each day and would be recognisable to people who programmed at the cutting edge in say '76, 77. Transportation is another. Inefficient engines that emit noxious gasses. Another practical example would be food storage around the world. In India for example where a percentage say 5-10% is wasted simply because it cannot be stored properly (a combination of cost & lack of expertise) and eaten by rats.

"... But let's call it what it is, instead of predicting gloom and doom. ..."

I'd agree with this. So many negative stories come from angry middle-age white-guys. Innovation comes in spurts which is never really acknowledged. From what I see coming up things are looking up wrt Power generation, water and recycling technologies.
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For adding new sites to the list, how would you favor incorporating a small positive weight for sites which are not on a "positive weight" list but that have a history of generating votes (or comments/comment points/comment word count) above some threshold. The weight could be very small at first, but be additive until it meets a value which could include it in the positive list (or flag for a review queue). In the same way, sites which fall out of popularity can be slowly and moderately down-weighted.
Regensburg, Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regensburg

I have friends who live there and they like it a lot. Especially cool during the Christmas festivals, lots of markets with mulled wine and decorations for sale.
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This is off-topic :)
Every now and then funny stuff pops up on arXiv. It's the forum for publishing for semi-serious side projects by physicists and astronomers.
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Visby on Gotland, the big Swedish island in the Baltic, is pretty cool, especially during medieval week.
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Does this mean hackers will be RFID-Driving for my credit card info?
I think Estonia's old Hanse town, Tallin (Reval) fits. Between 1549 and 1625 its church was the tallest building in the world (and its peak height wouldn't be exceeded until 1884!. Very interesting table here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294496 ). Wikipedia has good historical population numbers for the town:

Year . . . . Population

1372 . . . . 3,250

1772 . . . . 6,954

But I've haven't visited yet, so I'm not sure.
You're right. JavaScript is a great intermediate format, even if it's not the best source language.

The OP was right about JavaScript compiling straight down to machine code though: http://code.google.com/apis/v8/design.html#mach_code
I want to provide a counter point to your argument, Sometimes innovating for the sake of innovating can be an exercise in futility if current solutions are adequate.

Let's take an old joke, which from what I understand is based on fiction, however it illustrates the point well enough. It goes something like

NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pressurised pen that Astronauts can use to write in space. The Russians use a pencil

Innovation can also blatantly pointless. Take the fashion industry, at some point the necktie was introduced into fashion for men, however it serves no actual purpose - yet it is one of the cornerstones of formal attire.

EDIT - There was one last variation I guess I missed, sometimes people do innovate and at those times, sometimes ideas just don't stick for whatever reason.

Take the old phrase:

"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door"

Well I've definitely seen better mousetraps, yet whenever I notice them at the supermarket, they always seem to be the old fashioned, crappy wood types - sometimes the Market is just happy with subpar equipment? coughMicrosoftcough
The world's tallest buildings, since 2600 B.C.
Thanks for the link, that's a great Wikipedia article
well, when its this easy it gets concerning...
http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/03/19/how-to-hack-an-rfide.htm...
Agreed - in fact I just submitted it as a new HN story.
Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_three_tallest_struc...
how many times is this article going to surface? I can recall at least four times in the last year between here and reddit.
Great - that clarifies it. End of story. Now can we clear some room on the HN front page for some real news ;)
What do you like about JS2?
I thought it was quite clear why it wasn't built for the other platforms just yet.

The other platforms are generally dominated by tech savvy users but in the big scheme of things we make up a very small part of the internet as a whole. I'm sure they just wanted to spend more time focussing on getting a larger number of customers adopting early than spreading resources thinly.

If anything I think it shows a great amount of respect on Google's behalf of its Linux and Mac users, because I dont think they would have wanted to release a buggy piece of crap to their users if they had limited resources on the project.
5 very fine EULA/ToS doc's
Wow - I missed that. That's actually the much better reference. Except for all the TV antennas screwing it up.
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It handles scheduling as someone said, but it also uses Google Gears which is file system management...right?
This particular "myth" has already been busted. Looks like El Reg is a running a bit behind the new of the day: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/32254
Ask YC: was Google Chrome project really that secret?
Did Microsoft, for example, already know that Google was developing a browser? Could Google possibly keep this kind of secret for so long without it leaking to the competitors?
I realize this is off-topic, but I hate that joke, and it bugs me every time I see it.

Sharpening a pencil is inadvisable in microgravity. Little wood shavings go everywhere, they get inhaled, must be vacuumed up, et cetera.

And mechanical pencils require gravity to feed the lead; a mechanical pencil that would work in micro-g is just as hard to develop as a ballpoint pen that will.
OK, this is a nice effect, but does anyone really not know how to implement it? Also, the code s/he gives will erase any other code set to execute when the page loads (check the comments for the right code). I guess I'm not really seeing the value of posts like this.
yeah, you can already do that.

i can't find a link to the experiment, but i saw something on rfid wardriving and hacking that involved setting up a node near gas station rfid payment nodules (similar to how ATM hackers set up fake fronts on the card insertions), intercepting the information that can get cracked or copied for use.
There was plenty of buzz about a Google browser over the years. Even the BBC covered it way back in 2004, around when the Chrome team was established: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3680942.stm

In addition, plenty of small blogs covered it:
http://kottke.org/04/08/the-google-browser
http://thetruthaboutmozilla.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/the-goo...

So there were plenty of rumors flying around about Chrome. Its just that they were lost in the sea of rumors any large company has.
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I knew the rumors too... but did the competition knew it somehow, or were they in the same state of confusion as the rest of us?
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A truly unpleasant reminder how awful it is to develop in IE, and how backward the browser is compared to Firefox from a developer's perspective.
Ended up debugging IE7 javascript last night and this link proved useful. The culprit in my case was a trailing comma in the last line of a jquery ajax post submission.

My lesson learned? Use single line escapes for comments (//) rather than multi-line escapes (/.../), as it makes commenting out large sections of code considerably easier when/if you need to cut out sections for debugging purposes.

A truly unpleasant reminder how awful it is to develop in IE, and how backward the browser is compared to Firefox from a developer's perspective.
A million rupees maybe.
Tallinn Old Town is definitely a good place. Lot's of restaurants and tourists, but the buildings and the atmosphere is really medieval.

Another somewhat similar place close by is old town in Stockholm, aka "Gamla Stan" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamla_Stan). The feeling there is a bit less medieval though, could be that some of the buildings are a bit newer or maybe just look that way.

I have visited both places many times.

And while you're at it, go check out Turku in Finland. Some nice old buildings and my home town. :) Castle is from 1280s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turku_Castle
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Yeah, agreed - it's just not funny.

I originally was writing about a triangular shaped wheel on a car prototype I saw about 15 years ago on an Aussie TV show called Beyond 2000. The premise of that show was essentially they showed off a lot of bleeding edge technologies (for it's time), prototypes and just plain new ideas - Fascinating stuff, especially for a 12 yr old kid.

Essentially the "wheel" was triangular prism with a track that ran around the perimeter to provide motion. It was also able to walk up stairs/curbs by rotating the "wheel". I remember it was an odd sight to see a car trying to walk up a group of stairs.

We still use good, old fashioned, round wheels though.

So I opted for the pencil joke, as the other was too obscure a reference.
Burj Dubai is now the tallest man-made structure on earth. This news amongst much other fanfare regarding Dubai makes me wonder: What's going on there. I know UAE is an oil country - but where is all that money coming from? And who is spending the money moving there?

Basically: does anyone have any info on "what's up" with Dubai?
Entrevaux, France - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrevaux for something different. Old Vauban fortress in a small village in the southern alps of France.
Sounds like he got in a little trouble with Discovery for blaming them.
For those of you who aren't already members of thefunded, I highly recommend it. There's so many shady VCs out there and it's just one more tool to cut through the crap.
De facto standards always create lock-in to a product, at least initially. Nowadays, committees are necessary because no one wants to let their competitor set any standards, "de facto" or not!
Indeed, charts like this may be informative if you have a pretty average lifestyle, but all those people that die from smoking and heart disease would have eventually died from one of the other risk factors, had they continued on.

Recently I read that something like 70+% of all men past a certain age had nascent cancers when they died, regardless of whether cancer killed them. To me that leaves cancer my #1 fear above all others (ignoring "events", like being hit by a car), since our generation is going to live much longer, and thus be hit by even more cancer.
Invention comes from (groups of) individuals, not institutions. But individuals can become institutionalized...

Not all leisured aristocrats did creative work - but the system of aristocracy facilitated it. The giant monopoly of Bell System created a similar space within it - Bells labs - and we got C and unix. Another monopoly enabled space in the form of Xerox PARC - more innovations.

If universities can create some space within them, not controlled by grants, then individuals can do creative work.

Another view is that today, we are as rich as those leisured aristocrats of old (if we don't care to keep up consumption with the Joneses). We can become pg-style independently wealthy, or just live frugally, and (groups of) individuals are free to create.
I would not be surprised if everyone turned out to have nascent cancers. As we learn more about human biology, having cancer seems to be less and less a binary thing.
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I think they knew. Chrome doesn't pose a threat to Firefox (for the next year atleast), but looking at some of the rapid developments around IE7 and IE8, it seems like Microsoft sensed that Google will eventually launch a Web browser.
Having sort of "grown up" as a web dev with the way things are now (IE in the lead, followed by a smaller, but significant firefox, a few safari users and this thing no one ever heard of called opera) it's been easy to be cynical about progress in the browser world.

What's so exciting about Chrome is that it validates what had seemed like (to me at least) a lot of wishful thinking about "javascript applications" and really full-featured, browser-based UIs.

Plus, having such a big user of bleeding-edge javascript techniques driving the innovation can't be a bad thing.
"Adam Savage's widely circulated YouTube video account of a pack of credit card industry giants pummeling Discovery Channel into deep-sixing a Mythbusters investigation aimed at RFID is now taking more of a beating than Buster the dummy absorbs on a typical episode of the show."

I had to re-read that first sentence a few times.
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All spot on, except for this:
"Finally, it's a little bit of the product of the admissions department. Many people are admitted based on extracurriculars which look good on paper, but neither stretch one's abilities, nor are particularly novel (if they were, they'd be hard for admissions to understand), nor are particularly technical."

This is true of every high-end school, and is not especially pronounced at Princeton. The biggest issue is the first one you pointed out, wall st. and the consulting companies snap up all the talent.
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I would also suggest Ghent, Belgium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent

"Much of the city's medieval architecture remains intact and is remarkably well preserved and restored. Its center is the largest carfree area in Belgium."

I was there last month, it was pretty nifty.

Bruges is super-touristy, Ghent slightly less so. You should try to check out a non-touristy town as well, that nevertheless has a significant amount of medieval architecture. Examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechelen, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuven
The hype isn't that big. What Google is trying to do might be.

So: no. Reconsider your contrarian status.
I know as little as the next guy, but according to the people building these structures, it's an attempt to make Dubai about more than just oil. However, Potosí is almost a ghost town, so I don't know how succesful this strategy will be for Dubai.
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A good algorithim would be to take a list of Hanse towns and subtract the ones you've heard of. The rest are backwaters that were previously important.
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Satire's usually more effective when it's not immediately obvious, as in this BMJ article:
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I understand your argument, but at the same time I believe that in order to bring the "big stuff" to reality that truly impacts people lives, it requires heavy high-risk investment that only few organizations can absorb (normally governments). For example, the Wright Brothers succeeded because the military invested heavily in the first airplanes. Other examples are the Internet, the space program, cars (highway investment), commercial airlines, etc... A lot of the big stuff is initially subsidized with public money, and then thrown to the private sector.
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The trailing comma thing is actually very un-IE. It's rarely the most stringent, standards-compliant browser.
Does anyone think it's really b)? That's just paranoia. They couldn't capitalize on that one without looking like total asshats. Then again, in today's corporate climate, big companies just go ahead with massive asshatery because they know they will get away with it.

It's pretty medieval, really. That, and people in the US who are intimidated into keeping their jobs for health care. Why do we put up with this?

Okay, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you're wrong!
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When I watch 2001, I somehow feel like our generation failed the previous one. People at that time thought "well, we went to the moon, so 30 years from now we should be going beyond Jupiter!", and here we are praising Twitter and Google's latest browser.