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I can't help but be reminded of early 90's Microsoft when I read about what Google is doing lately. They're definitely on the "extend" phase of embrace, extend, extinguish. They're creating their own little insular community. Search results return Google+ results first and prominently at the top. Their browser has features that no other browser supports (native client, Dart etc). Their previously free APIs are now going to cost lots and lots of money (Maps). None of these things are bad in and of themselves, and all of it is certainly their choice. However, if this is the direction they're headed then I want no part of it.

Edit: For those of you who find my comment off topic - did you even read the article or just the summary? Here are some relevant quotes:

"Twitter had criticized Google’s new social search feature, which it calls Search plus Your World, on Tuesday. As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter, its statement said. We’re concerned that as a result of Google’s changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone."

"Sullivan told Schmidt he thought one feature of Search plus Your World, which recommends relevant people to follow on Google+ but not other networks, is the equivalent of saying ‘hey, you can only find information about finance on Google finance. You cannot find information about finance anywhere else."

Clearly people are upset about Google trying to block out competitor's results. I believe my comment is completely ON topic.

Edit 2: Wow, I had no idea how many Google apologists were out there. I had high hopes that the Hacker News community might actually be objective and not just fawn all over Google. Christ was I mistaken.
What would be more awesome would be including emacs as well.
In case anybody is interested, on top of explaining the function the page also lists ~30 tests/results against some of today’s commonly used gadgets and their user-strings (iphone, ipad, hp phones, blackberrys, windows boxes (98/XP/Vista/7), tmobile sidekick, palm devices,google nexux s, cricket phones & more)

Hope somebody finds this useful. Appreciate any feedback. =)
Regardless of whether or not HN readers are already aware of SOPA I think it's important the community show solidarity with other sites going dark in protest. A widespread blackout should get some attention, the wider the better.
Slightly offtopic, but I wonder how much overhead in those benchmarks comes from calling native code from .NET runtime? An interesting data point could be benchmarking equivalent implementation in C or C++, avoiding the overhead of native-managed transition.
I like your idea of adding "SOPA would mean that we would have to black out portions of the Internet..." That would get attention.

As far as Google's advertisers, the G+ vs FB battle, and investors. It's either take a temporary stand now or get forced into taking a long term stand down later. What good is google ads if they can't run your ad? What good is a G+ vs FB battle if its really GOV vs G+ & FB? What good will it be to investors once their stock drops because google's ad rev (as well as other revenue sources) drops?
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Your comment is unrelated to the article. Fine if you have a problem with stuff Google is doing, but on this topic they currently seem a lot more right than wrong.
So hard to give up gmail habit though...
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Is India headed towards something worse then SOPA?
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What would happen if twitter removed rel="nofollow"? Couldn't that open the possibility for more spam on twitter? I tend to agree with Google here, but maybe when it comes to social recommendation, Twitter could be recognized as special and specific algorithms could be written to figure out the worth of a recommendation.
When Twitter pulled out, Google didn't have a way to do social networking results. Facebook presumably turned down their offers. This is one of the big reasons why Google+ was built to begin with.
Same experience here: 5% of total sign-ups to asaclock (http://www.asaclock.com), an elite anti-procrastination web community for startup single founders and people working on side projects, come from Quora with a 20% conversion rate.
>They're definitely on the "extend" phase of embrace, extend, extinguish.

When you provide even a little evidence that this is their plan, this may be taken seriously. As it stands, they are still a huge champion of open standards (hardly a "phase"), and have raised the price on two of their more expensive services (app engine and maps) - both of which only affect developers, not end users.

As it stands, your fears are FUD and nothing more.
For cities, especially home owners who have a deeded parking spot, but doesn't have a cart - this is genius! Airbnb for parking, going to be big!
I've seen a Siri proxy TWSS implementation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4LamngB070
At first glance, it would seem flying a Predator over someone's property to do surveillance like in this article would be very, very similar to flying a police helicopter with similar thermal imaging systems.
Well it sure darn looks like they don't have much to hate us for nowadays.
Indian version of SOPA type lockdown?
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That's pretty cool. How did you get around the issue that you have to issue that you have to do an API call for every follower to get their details (quickly outstripping the number of API requests the average person has)? Or at least, that's how you had to do it prior.

Unfortunately, the information it gave me wasn't helpful: @BarackObama, @TwitPic, @Schwarzenegger, @WholeFoods, @Starbucks, @zappos, @threadless, @imogenheap, @charitywater, @ijustine

Basically, I have a handful of big companies and politicians following me. The only one I've met a handful of times personally and had any interaction with is iJustine.
However, I would never even think of shining a laser at the helicopter, directing an emp pulse towards it, or have my home-made drone attack it. I might have some thoughts about doing that to a flying camera.
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This is slightly off topic, but a good read...
http://cpp-next.com/archive/2009/08/want-speed-pass-by-value...
This appeared in a newspaper as well, it was ultimately dismissed as political figures trying to cover up articles that portrayed them in a bad light, nothing to worry about as the government has no intention of doing anything like what China has done.
Can you put it on Github? There's one thing I'd like to see how you're doing it logic-wise.
.com and .org do not fall under SOPA
SOPA will bypass those websites which have .com or .org domains
I didn't call you a failure per se; it was more an exhortation to quit the pity party, take responsibility for your misguided thinking, and do something about it. That is the point of my thread.

The specious arguments you put forth in the thread are not worth addressing.
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See the userscript above, which chrome handles a bit like an extension.
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Did you even read the article? There are a number of quotes from people in the article that say what Google is doing here is definitely wrong.
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I agree it is impossible in the general case (it's obviously impossible when input data controls program flow, for example). But I don't think that has much meaning for the benchmarks under consideration, which, by the way, one would expect to sidestep the obvious pitfalls here.

The impossibility of solving aliasing in the general case doesn't stop C compiler writers from implementing alias analysis.
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Microsoft have very strong relationships with hardware manufacturers. They're acutely aware of how important industrial design has been for Apple and are doing huge amounts of work to push forward the development of Ultrabooks, tablets and smartphones running Windows.

Apple's buying power is so immense that they transform whole markets. They're buying most of the world's Flash memory and creating worldwide shortages of CNC machining capacity. Apple are likely to be the single biggest purchaser of Gorilla Glass, so it is very much in Microsoft's interest to ensure that good supplies are available for other OEMs. They can negotiate on behalf of "everyone but Apple" in a way that no-one else could.
Its interesting to see though how governments are trying their best to suppress the Internet: the vehicle of transparent information.

Of course Internet is the inevitable. So the old guards would fight to stop it... but for how long?
The training data is pretty funny. I suppose he collected it from an online TWSS thread.
Interesting, so their implementation has broadly expanded upon the original meaning of the attribute (and the one standardized as a microformat), and in recommending this be broadly used to fight against spam they've paved the way for an interesting time for everybody else?
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Greetings,

I am currently a College Student, and I really like the startup culture and I am trying to make myself very hire-able right out of college, based on the following, would a start up consider bringing me on board when I graduate?

Experience:

1) I've designed and implemented a program for DNA analysis that my state uses in their labs. (I made the source code available)
2) I've done bioinformatics, concentrating on parallel computing, mostly NVIDIA's CUDA.
3) I was the head back end programmer for a startup (can't disclose the name), I joined as the only programmer and helped come up with many of the concepts they now employ. I started out with a focus in rapid prototyping and eventually moved on to building a scalable backend.
4) Internship for a big name company (think Microsoft, Apple , Intel big)

Education:

1) Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering
2) Also pursuing a minor in Mathematics
3) I have a 4.0 GPA, all around

Computer Skills: (languages I know and a few I plan on learning)

Java, C/C++ (I prefer C), Python, PHP, MySQL, Haskell, Clojure, Scala, OCaml, Javascript, VHDL, C#

I love software development, I have read(or am reading) all the big books on the topic, ie code complete, pragmatic programming, man-month, design patterns, etc..

Even though my focus would be software development, I have a very firm understanding of the hardware, and enjoy some assembly every once in a while.

I am currently 21 and have 3 semesters left before I graduate, I ask you HN, would a start up take me seriously coming out of college? I mean like a real member of their team!
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Just look at Chrome. On one hand, Google claims undying support for web standards, and on the other they're adding a bunch of non-standard features to their browser trying to get people tied in. This is very similar to MS and IE6 + ActiveX
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Note: I'm not sure yet if it's encouraged/discouraged to link to PDFs on HN, as I know there is inconsistent browser support for them (although I think progress has been made in recent years). Overall I thought it best to link to the source document rather than any number of the mostly generic and/or completely speculative tech news articles appearing today (unless you find a really good one).
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Poll: What's the Chrome vs. Firefox ratio for HN? 
I've always wondered which browser is better for tinkering with the web, firefox + greasemonkey or chrome?
Personally I find chrome to be faster and easier to use for script implementation.
Also, I'd be grateful to see what you use for regular browsing (in the comments!)
You've got some really good insight. If you could recommend a good book on this topic, value based pricing vs cost based pricing, it would be great.
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Perhaps it was just some mismatch between the expectation (pooled, long-running connections) and reality. (many, many short-lived connections)

I think another takeaway from this is any time you need to adjust the ulimit, take a step back and ask "Does this make sense? Is my use case exceptional enough that it won't perform within the default limits set by my OS?"
try something like WebDrive, NetDrive, ExpanDrive or Dokan SSH http://dokan-dev.net/en/

they create a mapped drive to a location of your choosing and you edit files as if they were local.

i stopped worrying about the remote editing functionality in editors since. before that i used winscp, which detects changes and re-uploads automatically, but it's not as convenient.
> native client, Dart, etc.

You forgot SPDY, WebRTC, etc. This is nothing like ActiveX. These are open-source technologies and other browsers are free and invited to implement them. They're trying to push the web forward.
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yes, definitely valuable. So are tutors or mentors. As they say good advice is priceless!
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The article is still there, and rest assured that nothing is "hacked". I just tried to fix the performance under high load (and failed). //owner of the website
I downvote people who respond "+1" for the same reason that I downvote people who respond "LOL OMG ME TWO!" To improve the signal:noise ratio. Downvoting you was and continues to be, the correct course of action to achieve this aim.
From referrals, I see chrome steady at 60% for both HN and reddit
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I think Android as an OS has a major effect here, because its Intents system codifies that 'starting point for a task' concept. If I want to carry out a particular operation on some data, all of the apps capable of handling it can inform the OS that they are available as options, and I get a menu to select which app I want to use for the task. What you want, as an app developer, is to have your users become confident enough in your app to check the "set as default" option in that app choice menu.

This is kind of the equivalent of the fight over 'file associations' in Windows.
You know iJustine? Congrats :)

Regarding your point: Yes, as discussed in other parts of the comment section, I believe that tonight I'll take some time and implement a feature that allows you to hide people who have a ton of followers, and also, follow a huge amount of people ... which basically, doesn't mean anything to you then. so this should address the issue.
I scraped the last sentence of pretty much all posts on http://twssstories.com and tweets that was replied with "that's what she said". Though it's currently using just twssstories data.
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I have almost the same setup. Love it!
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and regarding the api: twitter has updated it so that I can query a huge list of IDs (with paging), then in a second query, submit up to 100 ids and get data back (iterating in packs of 100) ... it's probably not solving the issue fully, for Barack that is, but for most of us, it should.
primarily as a web dev, the only two things preventing me from switching from NP++ is the poor and non-customizable matching bracket styling. and the buggy html matching tag highlighting (and styling as well)

once those get addressed more fully, i'm ready to cough up the cash.
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Yea, exactly, that's what I was thinking. Just need to get a little more sophisticated with the levels. I have one in mind to build a tower on a see-saw, so unless you place the blocks perfectly, they'll fall over, making it way more easy if you just code it.
This sounds excellent for Corning. As a company that melts glass by the pound and sells it by the square foot, 20% thinner should result in net cost savings.

What I'm most excited to see in production on a phone are their matte finishes. You never realize the kind of friction coefficient you're working against on today's glossy touchscreens until you've tried one with a smooth matte finish. It's miles better.

Anybody at CES pick anything up on new product adoption? I've only seen the news regarding Acer.
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I'm concerned about Apple's success attracting copycats (like Microsoft) who may think that being as nasty as Apple is somehow a prerequisite for success.

It could also attract lawmakers' interest, as tight control over client devices provides a possible angle for law enforcement in democratic and not so democratic countries alike.

At the end of the day, what Apple's model means, if it becomes standard, is the greatest possible loss of freedom for developers and users alike. That's what prison stands for when used as a metaphor.

But I certainly hope that my fears are overblown and you turn out to be right that it's not such a big deal.
Sullivan said he thought Google had enough permission to include links from networks like Twitter in its search results, Schmidt said: “That’s your opinion. If you could arrange a letter from Facebook and Twitter to us, that would be helpful.” [1]

Sounds like the reporter expects Google to be able to scrape and index all tweets in real time. The whole point here is that (1) that's a big deal and (2) Twitter would prefer to charge dearly for that access if they allowed it at all. In negotiating terms, Google+ provides Google with a great BATNA in this situation where previously all they had was "pay whatever Twitter asks to index tweets or go without".

Frankly, the "I believe you have permission, make it happen!" argument hinted at in the above quote sounds just as naive as the Congressman who says "We can do it! We have the technology!" about SOPA.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Sure they're free and open source. But they aren't STANDARDS. You seem to be unable to look objectively at the situation. While ActiveX was closed source, by extending the web with non standard technology the end result will be the same, open source or not.
This meme about Google turning into "old bad Microsoft" is a result of false dichotomy.

Search+'s effect on the results page is peripheral, manifesting on the right pane and search suggestions, the main results are largely the same and there is a handy toggle to switch modes.

Their browser is opensource, NaCl is opensource, Dart is opensource, the Microsoft stuff never was opensource.

They started charging for the Maps API because some German mapping company complained to the EU that they can't compete with free.
Yep. The usual "Program X is faster in C than Java" gets a barrage of "That's because you know C better". Shawn is a performance-obsessed Java expert, Eclipse committer and longtime Google coder who works on JGit. If he says Java is slower than C at this, then Java is slower than C at this.

EDIT: but as wcoenen points out, this was written in 2009 and Java 1.7 does a better job with some of this.
Am I understanding correctly that this is based on an ARM core, as in licensed from ARM?

As an ASIC design guy, I have a hard time calling this "GPL-compliant hardware" when the main non-trivial component is closed source.
This is probably the first time I've understood node.js.
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as i have said in the disclaimer, i'm definitely not bashing or blaming mongodb for anything. when you read it, you will see that i have done a 30K/sec load testing. the url it was pointed at was doing writes to mongodb. it opened every connection, wrote to the db and closed the connection. this is a huge success for mongodb. the problem is, when you send every single read query to mongodb under a heavy load, within a few seconds, it will just accept connections and will not respond to queries. this is definitely not the case for writing. writing handles them very well. i really would like to know how we screwed there.
Can you elaborate on the storage abstraction and the repository setup?

Just curious about what advantages there are to make you sacrifice the performance of the cgit binaries. Mostly out of ignorance on the subject.
In my experience, the average user is only dimly aware, if at all, of Google's involvement.
I build fairly high-performance Java code. And get hit with three major gotchas which prevent it from approaching C code.

- There's no way to do array access without null pointer and index checks each and every time.

- Generics with basic types, and their unfortunate embedding into syntax (like the new for() syntax), are awful. Boxing and unboxing incur a ludicrously high penalty, and generics push coders away from using arrays. Unlike in C++, generics have been the enemy of performance.

- Poor quality collections classes (ArrayList and HashMap are notoriously bad)

Sure there's a few other things like pointer walking etc. in C, and Java's poor floating point, but the big three above are the killers.
I think that a day without google or/and facebook would generate way more discussion afterward than just a simple change of skin.
But they are adhering to standards as well, more so than anyone else for that matter, point to an instance where they're not.
Also it takes ages for stuff to get standardized, are you suggesting that no technology should be applicable until it's the standard? I see no issue in introducing new cool tech specially if it's opensource.
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Oooh, false dichotomy. Because you used big words you must be right. See my below comment: Open source does NOT equal standards. They are different.

Further, the picture in this article: http://mashable.com/2012/01/10/google-launches-social-search... clearly shows your Google+ results directly on top of your normal results.
In general, HN should not go dark...it should dim.

The appropriate action would be to block access from U.S. IP addresses and to block links to articles with the same.

There is no reason to make the rest of the world put up with more of the results of US political posturing than they currently do.

It's our (America's) problem. We're the one's who should feel the pain.
In context: Whoever lobbied for this list of laws.
What are these non-standard features? Are they open sourced? How hard would it be to fold them into another browser, especially one built on Webkit?
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Love the auto-complete! Keep up the great work.
Well that open source project left me satisfied and smiling