skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an incredibly poorly thought out piece. Right from the beginning:

"Imagine what would happen if GM and Ford collaborated to invest in the components and architecture of a better public transport network -- and then licensed it for free to cities, states, and countries."

What? This is a completely bogus analogy with Google's browser strategy. A better public transport network in no way benefits GM/Ford to anywhere near the same extent that a better browser benefits Google. In fact it would quite possibly be detrimental to their business.
i liked it. it reminded me of the way william shatner has reinvented himself by hamming up his old cliche. he is now way more interesting. if bill gates could PR himself the role of 'PC genius doofus dropped back into normal world' with the help of some off the wall humour of JS - i think this could be a really interesting ad-war.
Libv8 + libfastcgi = server-side Javascript
That's not necessarily true. Look at GMail for example, it has two modes, a "basic" view for people who don't have/want all the fancy Javascript.
It's thorough, but -as a hacker- the superficiality of it all turns me off. Give me a millenium falcon-type car any day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTB1uUpu-2w
Thanks for the breakdown of the libraries. Very useful and interesting. (Also saves me time/energy this weekend.)
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Polar Bears might not survive that long, i don't care about ice, i care about bears, and they care about ice.
I use scrot and then upload the resulting screenshot to my slice.
Secretive? I didn't realize it was hard to get invites at all. Happy to be in though: I started to depend on it big-time since it just works. I have everything from research papers to svn repositories on there. And yes, that big movie file doesn't have to be there but I had to try ;-) Thanks, good job, keep up the good work
Indeed, “meme” is a stupid name for what was completely understandable when simply called an “idea”. The analogy of ideas to genetics is not particularly insightful, and at this point quite worn through.
> Basically, the impression I'm getting is that most carriers do not want 'small fish' like us to send MMS messages on their network without approval.

EXACTLY!

The way we circumvented the system a few years ago (2006) was to get a plain unlimited SMS plan, and then programatically send and receive SMSs through a real phone connected to the server via USB (not sure about MMS, but it is probably similar). This is very slow (12 seconds per message), and most carriers tell you "unlimited" but there is an actual limit in the fine-print.

I would recommend this solution only so you can bootstrap it. If you really take off, the carrier will block you immediately, so a business model that can sustain the MMS costs is a must (as swombat pointed out).

Feel free to email me if you need more info on this SMS hack.
>This is certainly good news for beginners, but for serious scaling, rails itself is almost never the problem.

I wish this myth would just die. Just because David Hansson and nearly every other person in the Rails community keeps saying and saying that, it does not make it true.
Hmmm why not pick some historical person and follow in their footsteps? I suppose even then people managed to get about quite a bit so you would have to pick someone quite sedentary or else you'd be in for a beast of a trek.

An exchange student suggested I go on this pilgrimage with her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela#History_...
I'm not a religious person but I don't think that that is really important. It seemed to be more of a summer break thing with the added bonus of possible redemption. I suppose you could even take a car and just follow the route. Actually this might be a bit sacrilegious.
Thank god you're here to save us, Captain Obvious!
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Chrome Not Ready For Enterprise
And thats just the 32-bit range. Don't forget Moist and Chewy 64 bit edition - twice as crunchy.
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duh?

It only came out this week, and prematurely at that. Not much of a surprise that it's not "ready for enterprise".

There's little chance of "Enterprise" even evaluating it before 6 months have passed anyway. Then they'll take a year to come to a conclusion. If they even bother to do it at all.

The whole question is irrelevant anyway, since the aim of Chrome is not to distribute Chrome itself, but to get everyone to adopt the technologies inside Chrome. As they say themselves, "success" will be when even IE adopts Chrome technologies.
Poll: What program do you use to vote in this poll?
If you have chosen Other then post your variant in the comments.
Other (browser, standalone RSS reader, etc)
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Carcassonne was restored in the second half of the 19th century, see the wikipedia article above.
That made me smile :), wish I could upmod more!
Why not just ask PG for the browser stats?
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Not to mention being slow and sprinkled with a good helping of errors every other page.

I stopped reading once I saw mosso made the list.
Actually, I think it does. Desktop UIs have evolved and are designed for interaction, and web UIs have evolved for display of information (that is, until very recently). There are no universally common standards for interactive controls in web UI elements as there are for desktop apps.

Obviously, webapps should not copy desktop UIs entirely. But any evolution of web app UI toward better interaction is certainly good for everyone. And because desktop apps have had a lot of time to evolve efficient interaction controls, mimicking them shouldn't be a bad thing.
I am interested in this topic because my younger son has just started at secondary school here in France. On most days he has to carry more than 12 kilograms in weight (school books and writing materials). [That's over 26 pounds for those that use the Imperial measurement system.]

It is clear to me that all his text books could be made available on a device like the Amazon Kindle. Plus, a good deal of his "written" work could be completed and submitted using a small laptop. I suppose that rough sketches and drafts are often best managed using a pencil and paper but even here an electronic device using a stylus could be useful.

However if classroom devices are unwelcome because they represent a distraction then I can't see us moving forward on this issue and school children will forever be carrying an unacceptable weight.
Spending $300m on an ad campaign to inspire consumers to reconnect with Microsoft not only feels desperate, but seems such a waste when it could have been channeled into making better products or hiring better hackers.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61691
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This advertising campaign will be a great critical success. It's a sublimely entertaining advertisement and a really nice thing to do for Bill Gates. This 300MM blitz will really humanize Bill Gates to the TV watching public.

Of course, even the best advertising company can't save Microsoft. They need a miracle.

How long do you think it will take for the market cap of Amazon and Google to surpass Microsoft? In 100 years and beyond, Microsoft will disappear and Google will achieve immortality, at least until we abolish capitalism.
The text is a bit low on details, but on the video they say the current (pink) version is $120 and the October (black) version is $98. You can also see a spec sheet:

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RAM: 128M/64M

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If you want to help directly, one good way would be to help write and improve existing climate models.

Perhaps start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_model#Climate_models_on...
sucks having to think...
Rapid prototyping is nice, but today's rapid prototyping machines can't make "almost anything", not by a long shot. They can make a lot of pretty neat things, but not very much valuable. I have seen cup holders, iPod accessories, shot glasses and various kinds of support material. All in plastic, of course - these parts will not stand up to any significant forces. You can't make a combustion engine out of them, or anything requiring significant rigidity. (Want a skateboard? Keep dreaming).

I'm very excited about the future of rapid prototyping, but the headline is very misleading.

Other manufacturing machines also look promising (computer-controlled laser mills, CNC mills, etc), but I'm pretty skeptical that they will be available at reaasonable prices in the near future. I hope you'll prove me wrong, though.
Secretive compared to the other startups that would give the fillings out of their teeth to have Arrington talk to them.
Its quite refreshing to see good Software Engineering practices coming out of a large company like Google.
A decade on: Google's internet economy
Might be useful if you could explain what sort of great stroke of insight you hope to gain from this...
Well, they're google. "Do no evil," which tends to lead me to believe the opposite "do all good," which applies to their coding too ;)

Though they aren't doing all good according to some...I give them the benefit of a doubt.
Rails and Django are very, very similar in what they set out to accomplish, but they do so in different ways. TBH I don't really think you'd every come up against a project that was obviously suited to one framework or the other.
CS graduate from MIT or Podunk U?
Nothing gets adopted by the Enterprise until it has been proven. IT departments rarely adopt new technology when it just comes out.

If there was any Enterprise company considering using a 0.1 version of Google's first browser, they are in need of a new IT department.
Intel's TBB adopts + translates much, from Cilk to C++.
IE8: Robbing Peter to pay Paul
"In 100 years and beyond, Microsoft will disappear and Google will achieve immortality"

I suspect that, in a mere 25 years, Google will get the same respect that Microsoft does today (ie some, at least from some quarters, but much less than heyday levels). Some young bucks will come along with the same combination of smarts and business savvy and build the next big thing, and lots of the bright people currently at Google will have retired or moved on to other things.
Thats a good idea - I must try it. I have just come back home a week ago after spending July and August riding my bike around France. Whilst there I was relying on taking those little muesli bars (useful for when you are on the bike for a whole day as when cycle touring) and sugar cubes for moments of exhaustion.

I got the sugar cubes idea after watching the French cyclists using them, but they are not that pleasant to eat.
False problem. The total amount of bandwidth and connections being used is still the same.
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Did the meaning of "beta" escape them?

Maybe ReadWriteWeb isn't ready to write about software.
But nevertheless, browsers still maintain their own internal cache. Firefox: http://jelmer.jteam.nl/2006/11/04/disabling-the-firefox-dns-...
Web Analytics For (SEM) Dummies Part 2: Three Real-World Situations
Sweet where do I sign up? Bill Gates dresses better than Steve Jobs, it's true, my coffee told me so.
Getting reporters to call you
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Come and visit the UK, where you can get a free laptop with virtually any 12-month mobile broadband commitment.

I think Orange did a promo with free laptops on ADSL a while back, too.
[edited to cite...]

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com (main page on the right - url is horrid)

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http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/offers/laptop/?...
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Skitch, ScreenSteps, and another one I forget that starts with P, and its a whole page capture tool on the mac.
Hacking comments in Django 1.0
Anyone tried these? https://www.tankabar.com

Seems like a combination of meat, nuts, and fruit would be ideal.
"the lack of ActiveX support will create problems in the enterprise and there are other usability issues that will occur (such as the password entry and popup problems our reader experienced)."

So Enterprises that invested in IE applications rather than web applications are not ready for Chrome then.

The real question is whether the influence of IT departments can hold back the reintroduction of the open web to big companies.
Code reuse cuts the development time and brings down the defect rate. So it should be a good thing. Quite the opposite approach taken by the Mozilla guys. Those guys alsmost built their own everything (rendering engine, foundation classes, etc). There are a lot of open source libs there also, but i guess google wanted to focus on the minimal UI design and the per process architecture.
Google At Age 10
It will be interesting to see how Google will celebrate it's anniversary in 2 days time.

I guess it would have been a much better time to launch chrome from a marketing standpoint (wouldn't have made much difference though).
But i guess the decision makers at google thought about this more than any of us.
The 'wtf' vibe is also generating all kinds of noise about the ad. Every Mac related website in my RSS feed had an article about it, and it's on every news site I visit. The average consumer may be slightly confused, but the internet large is having it shoved in their face. Isn't that what you'd want with an aggressive ad campaign like this?
There was a reason for that (clue: how many platforms does Mozilla support? How many does Chrome).
"This pad and polish combo removed between 1-2 microns."
Very, very nice.
TBB borrows the scheduling portion, but requires substantial code restructuring, and doesn't have a solution for the global variable problem analogous to Cilk's hyperobjects.
An ad that people talk about cannot have failed. Whether that talking is explaining or not doesn't matter.
What sort of questions do they ask?
I use GrabUp (http://grabup.com). It's much quicker than skitch but it has a stripped down feature set.
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Thanks. I was thinking about dropping stronger hints of this, actually -- I distinctly recall seeing various arguments of Gould's being torn to shreds by Dawkins and/or Dennett, and I have gradually developed the habit of taking my extensive collection of Gould's books (given to me as gifts), stacking them in a little pile on my shelf, and then actually reading something else -- but I am neither educated enough in evolutionary biology nor recent enough in my reading to pull a specific quote, and the last thing we need is more heat and less light from a total non-biologist like myself.

Also, I haven't read an essay that is quite so direct as this one that you link to. I'd point out that this link illustrates my point: When scientists get down to business and talk about each other's work, they do not mince words. It's kind of refreshing, actually.
He apparently is also very thorough documenting his car wash.
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"Free Python library that implements SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, and TLS 1.1. TLS"

Is Chrome using Python somehow or did they just pullout the underlying C code from the module?
I think that's exactly the point they're trying to make: We may never catch up with Apple culturally, just as Warren Buffett may never catch with some sleek hedge fund type culturally. We're normal people, but we're still kind of funny and get things done (such as earning a billion or ten) without worrying too much about fashion.
How does a real scientist rate Wired's Tobacco Virus 'cure for cancer' story?
Text based services are going to be big for a while; small screens and keyboards and being on the go with wonky access and low bandwidth will mean that it's worthwhile to get a text version of what you're after.

Wireless bridges and bulletin board access points might be selling better (a bulletin board ap is one that has local storage and no backhaul bandwidth, it's sort of like a wiki restricted to a particular physical location).

Laptop Decor will become ever more important.

Most schools will require laptops, or just provide them.

Coworking Coffee Houses will become a distinct and recognizable place.

Legal documents on the web will be more common as the expectation will become that everyone has access.

Homeless people will hack for food. (hack in both senses of the word)

Festival registrations, solar power packs, campfire computing; Burning Man tech will go mainstream.

Field programmable gear will go big, your car, your house, your dogs collar will all expect to be told what to do over a usb port.
isn't this just a dupe of scribd?
It's the journey that provides the excitement, the warm/fuzzy feeling, and the great memories, not the destination.
There is one major problem when it comes to writing games in JavaScript: sound. Controlling sound sucks in the browser. It's just about impossible to get it working well for any kind of game.
Whoops -- wrote that at 3am and rambles a bit. Point of the whole article: Bootstrapping works! (Sorry, my first submission to HN -- just been lurking)
I'm not sure if that makes any sense. The bottleneck in terms of parallelism on the client is me, the user. Predictably, what all those cores will do 99.999% of the time is wait for me and wait for my ISP to increase throughput. The multi process model in chrome (that IE has as well, on a per window basis) is meant to reduce the effects of crashes, not increase parallelism.
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Sure is. And it's awesome.
Following the crowd: "crowdsourcing"
BTW, do desktop GUI apps have non-programmer designers?

Well, not non-programmers, but programmers who know the particular layout libraries of the platform better than the programmers writing the data access layer, for example. I'm not saying this is universally true, but when I worked for a larger team focuses on a single product, that's pretty much how it worked.
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It was now 5:30pm by this point so I stopped at there for day 1.

Wow.
It does not use Python directly. Python is used for testing various parts of Chrome, such as code coverage, dependencies, measures page load times, compares generated html, etc.
its not the thinking that sucks, it's the time it takes reading these huge articles on HN when a brief conclusion would help ease those like me passing by for a quick scan of the front page on HN before stories get buried.
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Scribd requires Flash; somehow they implemented Vuzit's client in AJAX
Google at 10
Yep, and it is great to see how google.com page looked like here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://google.com
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Yes, but the fact that people are choosing an OS based on other considerations indicates that Microsoft could do something to win them back, which runs counter to the article's thesis.
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This is somewhat unrelated, but if you own a white Macbook, pick up some Turtle Wax White Polishing Compound. It will remove any scratches on the outer case and make it look perfectly clean and white again.

Also, I hear arm&hammer tooth paste can fix the fading that happens near the keyboard.
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Normal conversation is what people outside the window are having.
Oh I see, so the ad is targeted to mensans only?
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Get out of the car (HN break)
Microsoft is spending all kinds of money on both products and great hackers already. The biggest problem they have is their overall strategy.

With the cash they have on hand, I have never understood why they aren't doing more parallel development in smaller groups to let the good ideas happen organically. They continue to try to fit every new product into the existing Microsoft ecosystem -- something that is beginning to fail.
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I use VMware Fusion on my Mac.

Note that if your client-side stuff works in IE6 standards mode, it will almost certainly work in IE7 (in my experience, anyway).
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I have a little bash script I use on OS X:

screencapture -x screen.png && scp screen.png myserver:www
I may risk to say understanding the ad will qualify you as not human.
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Is something rotten at Apple?
I am also a hacker, I like fast cars, I'm an avid fan of TopGear, and yet I don't want to see this here.
I've kept away from commenting on this one, because I can't tell. But let me let my thoughts out:

Frameworks are a tough thing to do as a business. People tend to flock to use mostly one. Learning a framework is a big decision, and a big time and money investment. A framework needs to be compelling to make anybody want to use it for serious stuff.

The key motivators are default, money and laziness. Let me give you an example:

- I know MFC because it's the default framework on Visual Studio
- I use Django because it allows me to be lazier than if I use PHP. Also, I figure my python knowledge may make me money in the future
- I use jquery because the availability of plugins means that I don't need to write those stuff myself
- I plan to learn to use the iPhone SDK because there is money there

I don't want to use Lisp or Fortran or any of those smaller languages/frameworks because they offer me nothing.

I would only use your framework if it fulfilled on one of the criteria above. Right now, it's really not clear. Will it make my development work faster? Will the resulting applications be better? I can't tell, so instead of wasting 2 weeks finding out, I'd rather just close the page.