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I agree for the most part that Google is not "fighting for it's life", though I think it has faltered a bit.

> people are not defecting away from search to use Facebook's search or Bing or whatever.

You are perhaps missing the point a little.

It doesn't matter what people are doing, it's what advertisers are doing. The fact that everyone still uses Google search won't be worth much if advertisers are only interested in putting ads on Facebook.... Google would be running an expensive, but popular, charity.

I don't think the day like that will come, but it is clear that Google's revenue can be threatened from things like Facebook which don't directly compete with their products.
The simple answer is that it's identity group signalling.

This is the costume which indicates you belong to our group.

That is the costume which indicates you belong to their group.

Not necessarily rational, but certainly one aspect of how people work.
It may sound strange, but we're the other way around. With Python 3 being the only future of Python, the inability of something like Django to support Python 3 is, for us, a hurdle to adopting Django, not Python 3.
I am sorry but the logic above could be applied to anything.

"Part of the notion that suggests people should be forced into sharing those risks is that nobody can rationally rule out future unbounded <whatever> expenses; you can't predict the future, and virtually nobody has enough money to cover every plausible <whatever> expense they might face."

Meet socialism.
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It would be interesting to run sentiment analysis on the archives of various online communities to figure out where the likely phase transition point is. Probably a PhD in it for someone.
> In 2011, we spent 700 billion on the defense department, and we spent 1,205 billion dollars more than we took in.

We also took in hundreds of billions less than we would have if not for the avoidable economic implosion and earlier ill-advised tax cuts.
That's life in a supermarket and happiness is on the shelves. Believing you can optimize you're life with only the best parts like on some market place has an interesting bias : the ideology of consumerism.
Precisely. When there are multiple fansub groups competing to produce the highest quality release, including subtitles, translator notes, video encoding and MKV metadata, subtitle timing and placement, the bar gets set higher for official licensed distributions.

Some fansub groups go so far as to provide signage overlays that move and scale as the scene itself moves. It's so subtle sometimes that I only notice it after the fact.

One idea I had was for there to be a way for fansub groups to distribute their translations in such a way as to layer on top of a licensed distribution. So you'd get the DVD/BlueRay for a particular Anime, and then layer on top of it your favorite fansub group's translations and translator notes, and somehow they'd line up.

This would require the licensed distribution to provide the original audio track and scene timing to match the original version, of course. US pricing and in some cases even US availability are another issue.
Talk to your local pirate party. Join them. Vote for them.

...and find yourself the subject of outspoken and unspoken discrimination for your political affiliations. Hollywood "owns" the word "pirate." It's too easy for them to make up some story about how all pirate party members are simply criminals looking to justify their evil, greedy theft of content. Most people will stop listening and join in the hatred as soon as an authority figure gives someone an easy-to-dismiss label like "pirate" or "criminal."
Yeah, absolutely.

I think iPhone vs. Android is a good analogy. Google is never going to kill Apple and Apple is never going to kill Google. Google provides a phone platform for two groups: people who want the cheapest smartphone, and people who want the most freedom to customize their phone. Apple provides a phone platform for people willing to spend a good amount of money on a phone that works perfectly without tweaking. Android will never satisfy John Gruber. Apple will never satisfy Jon Rockway. So there are two platforms and they happily coexist.
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In other words: you have no _freedom_ to pick insurance yourself. The current system gives benefits to employers and not to individuals.

I sincerely don't understand why people call it "free market".
Let's take case (a) -- that's the approach I adopted when implementing a Splay tree, introducing a Comparator interface. Granted it is a bit of a pain to write IntComparator, LongComparator, etc., but given that Go is not an object oriented language e.g. all types do not support a (hypothetical) CompareTo(other T), it is not clear to me how would the availability of generics would help in this case.

For basic type coercion, yes, it is a pita to write boxing code, and clearly a maintenance issue as well.
How many of those 17% are illegal immigrants? Do you have that data?
I disagree, and in my opinion this is the exact logical flaw that has lead google down it's current path.

Facebook might become more profitable at some point, yes, but google's revenue was not threatened if they kept their spot as search engine and innovator.
a nation state that can coerce its populace into having an arbitrary number of children is not one where those children would like to grow up in...
I think it's great what it has come down to. Peoples' projects more or less directly being funded by those who want the product!

I feel though, that when you want to raise 58k and suddenly you have 1.2m on your hands, it might not even be what you desired in the first place. More often than not, the expectations rise quite a bit when the money you receive 20folds.

In case that will indeed turn out to be an issue (we will see soon enough), I think it might be sensitive to include a default setting in Kickstarter saying: "Maximum amount that can be risen: 5x the desired funding". People could still set that cap to whatever they desire, but they would have to think about it first.

Obviously, I do not know anything personally about how those guys felt raising that much, but this would be my own point of view and I think such a setting could not cause any harm...
Java's top priority is to never, ever break anything. It has to be both binary and source compatible. That's a major reason why generics in Java are so broken. They couldn't change syntax to make it nicer and they couldn't substantially change jvm to make it generic-friendly. Which leads us to type erasure and weak integration of generics into the language.

Go has quite a different opinion on this question -- we'd rather break things but make a tool (gofix) to automatically fix all your source code. Also Go doesn't aim at binary compatibility at the moment as compilation time is _extremely_ fast and there are no shared library support yet.

Most likely they'll be more conservative with Go becoming stable and getting 1.0 release but that doesn't prevent them to break things for 2.0 if that's needed.
It's been very entertaining watching the pledge amount go up every couple of minutes. I really hope this gets funded!

What a stacked dev group as well!!
"Every single program on your machine has a uniform UI"

Minesweeper, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Word 2010

6 Applications by a single vendor. 6 UIs that are similar (WIMP paradigm et al) but different (UI looks) - just like any 6 websites are similar (links, some forms, 2 or 3 pane layouts, ...) but different (design details).
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You call ipads progress? where the fuck are our flying cars and moonbases???
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The plan is to add more push mechanisms, like webhooks (so that APIs like Facebook's can be made), and in general to ensure the system remains flexible and versatile, so that the choice of using the cloud for push is not a hindrance or a compromise.
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"is now at leas on par with google"

I think this is the problem, by playing catchup, innovation has taken a back seat. Being on par with google is a subpar goal for a competitor.

It's somewhat similar to google plus trying to catch up to facebook.
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> So you'd get the DVD/BlueRay for a particular Anime, and then layer on top of it your favorite fansub group's translations and translator notes, and somehow they'd line up.

That's a really cool idea.

But how does this represent an improvement over what's available now via torrent? I can't help but be skeptical about a plan that involves riding on top of a DVD that's already priced out of the market by the studios.

How about just an improvement over the subbing tools? Many of them are simply immature software. Can you fan-source it? Make it collaborative, interactive? Link it with Japanese lessons or a native speaker somehow?

There are whole conference centers filling up on a regular basis with teenagers who, out of love for this aesthetic, have taught themselves to sew. There has got to be a business model there for someone!

Right now it's being won by the guy who lugs cardboard boxes of $40 t-shirts from state to state in his van.
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It's important to keep in mind, though, that this article (and its follow-ups) is written almost entirely from the perspective of the Japanese industry, not the American one. I'm not saying there would be no benefit to disrupting this industry, or that there are no reasons to do so, but even once you get past the inherent differences in business models etc., you still need to keep in mind that this industry is far more lenient towards piracy than Hollywood, and the American[1] anime licensing industry even more yet: for decades (throughout the 80s, 90s, and a good part of the 00s), American licensors basically turned a blind eye towards piracy, and the Japanese studios largely didn't seem to care about Americans pirating their stuff. Even when the companies started taking action, though, in the American companies' case, it started out with earnestly and politely asking people to stop pirating licensed series (and, surprise surprise, it did work - as it turns out, if you treat people with respect when you ask them to stop doing something, they're far less likely to hate you for it[2]). DMCA takedown notices have only been used as a last resort, and to my knowledge, no one has been taken to court over anime piracy (and certainly not random unemployed teenagers being sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars).

[1] I talk about the American licensors, industry, and fanbase here, but much of what I say is more-or-less directly applicable to the same in other countries, as well.

[2] Just so we're clear, I'm being sarcastic here. There's absolutely no reason to believe that if you treat someone with respect, they're going to turn around and hate you for it. There are cases where this happens, of course (and this response may be more or less likely then normal depending on the nature and reasons for your interactions with them), but it's by far the exception.
"vegetarian with meat" is a surprisingly nice diet choice; avoid anything where meat is the focus and instead add some meat to what you're eating.
It was not a relocation; + and "" were not equivalent, and Google has made no effort to replace the functionality they removed.
Actually, speaking as an android user who LOVES that I can auto upload my pics to the GOOG, I absolutely hate that Google has any social platform at all.

Because G+ exists it makes Facebook a competitor. Can I easily share my auto uploaded pics with my Facebook friends? Not at all.
Can I change where I upload my pics to? (Ie : not picasa) not at all.

Picasa is about lock in. Not about user experience.
>how phenomenally fast the compiler is

This, more than anything else, is what's really got me interested in trying out Go when I have some time! I know it's not the most important thing in the world - my projects are generally such that compile times aren't a huge time suck - but it's still an exciting thought nevertheless.
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hmm i wonder if something is wrong with my cache or browser... I'm pretty sure when I click through it's the exact same app. Will post solution if I figure it out.
Because supervisors are never suspect. It's not the machines people worry about, it's the people programming and tending the machines. So to catch a supervisor, you'd need 1-2% of voters to audit the machine... which I find extremely unlikely to ever occur.
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According to various sources on the Interwebs, Go sucks for one or more of the following reasons:

- No generics.

- No exceptions.

- No inheritance.

- Nullable pointers.

- No decimal types (yet they put in complex!)

- No IDE.

- No support for GUI applications on Microsoft Windows.

- Go ignores years of academic research on language design.

Please ignore the people who are happily productive with the language :).
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I was guessing it would be GitHub.
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Time to relax and do nothing. I don't use Windows, :-)
This might just be a one off case that I heard of, but isn't not using IE shunned at MS? A classmate of mine interned there and was asked to use IE instead of FF. He did end up not hating the product, but I am not sure if the reason was love for IE or hatred towards not-MS products.
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I think the problem with larger companies is that they have something to lose. So fundamentally, almost at a physics level, they become less flexible. They have more momentum in a given direction.

The problem with larger technology companies is that technology don't give a s*. And it's fast. Things iterate quickly. That's just how automation and computers work.
It's sad.

Much of the knowledge that serves me well today was gained as a child sprawled across the carpet in our 'study' just flipping through encyclopaedia pages and reading what interested me.

Children of subsequent generations will never know that joy.

That being said, it's all part of the general flow of things. Change is inevitable!
Count me as one more tally mark on the side of capital-C Creation. The Raspberry Pi is by far the cheapest hackable device that includes a floating point processor and 1080p-capable GPU. I have plans, man. Plans!
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I don't have time to research every new HN trend in detail either.

So in your laziness, you expect us to do it for you?
Actually, the 'go' tool is one of the things I rather dislike in Go so far. It's good to have to tool that does everything for you, but I'd like to at least be able to structure my directories in the way I want. For mixed-language projects you won't get rid of Makefiles either way, and they're really not that bad with the right include files or Makefile generation tools.

Using URLs to identify external libraries also isn't something I'm very fond of. Both because you'd have more boilerplate to type when using them, and suddenly the library is fixed to a certain internet location and VCS.

Meh, I can go on ranting about other things I dislike about Go, but it wouldn't solve anything. I'll just keep monitoring the developments from the sideline and see how things evolve over time.
I think that graph should be titled "fabulousness" :)
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Actually this idea sounds to good to be true. Almost like a geek "The Boat That Rocked", but at the end, immigration or customs could be the pain in the ass for the residents of this ship. Not so much on how feasible it is, but more on the "they will make life hell for the residents on some kind of blacklist".

It all depends on the mood of third parties.

But actually this is the greatest hack to the immigration laws available.
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America isn't lacking, in any regard, in financial regulation. There are more laws on the books regarding that industry than any other.

Regulation does not inherently = smart or good.

You know what isn't regulated? How stupid the Fed gets to be with our dollar. How careless they get to be with interest rates and QE programs.

The lesson we apparently didn't spend the last five years learning, is what happens when the Fed intervenes (2001 / 2002) with a massive liquidity pump to falsify a recovery and artificially avoid a worse recession for political points. Oh hey, what does that remind you of?

The chaos of 2008/09 was almost exclusively derived out of trillions in bad real estate bets, which took down other bets when they began to fold in 2006 and 2007.

It was the Fed that spurred the gambling with their crazy rate policies; the government threw gasoline on the fire with bad legislation. The Fed has admitted it has the ability to generate bubbles through rate policy mistakes; and a bubble is exactly what they created. If you inflate a $10 trillion real estate bubble, when it crashes it's going to wipe out your financial system.

Then it was the Fed that bailed out all the institutions they were previously dealing financial smack to. A trillion for Citi, a trillion for Bank of America, a trillion for Fannie/Freddie, and so on. During the recession post 9/11, the Fed 'encouraged' the banks to lend with the spigots wide open, and encouraged hyper risk with low rates.

2007/08 was a sugar crash, the Fed supplied the sugar. They're doing it all over again right now, and nobody gives a shit.
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I think you've just touched upon one the most fundamental of reasons why organisations fail to adapt to social and technological change: losing sight of the original mission.

The same could be said about all those that are currently struggling with the changing times, from journalism, the music industry to democracy itself.
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i found sex and drugs but no c++ :)
I wanted the Kindle version. I probably have to stick with the PDF then.
> However, I'd like to make one point: it's Apple's money, they can do what they want.

The city has an "Environmental Impact Review" process whereby citizens OF CUPERTINO at least have the right to whine about it a bit and plead for a few more concessions here and there to "community values". But there's no chance this isn't going through - Apple is by far the biggest taxpayer in Cupertino and the threat that they might move somewhere else if they couldn't do this here is too potent.

Plus it's, you know, kind of cool.
Sorry to spoil the fun, but how is this relevant to Hacker News? Posts like this are what Reddit is for.
You know, that's a ridiculously short list. I was honestly expecting something much, much longer for a crowdsourced errata-discovery spanning 32 volumes. Kudos to Encyclopedia Britannica on doing a good job.
I dream of a day when the world will wake from this social sharing bad trip. Facebook is not only making the web worse, by breaking most of its core assumptions, but it's destroying one of the greatest companies to arise in recent years.

Google has made accessing the world's information transformatively faster and easier. Facebook has made blogging more pervasive and closed.
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If you've already started a normal application, that's what you'll see if you use the noidea link. I decided it would alarm people if I made using the noidea link convert an existing with-idea application.
I agree. And when people talk about the money required for solar being so much more than the money required for carbon based fuels they don't take into the costs of controlling the resources in the middle east, the costs to take care of the people with lung problems, the cost of cleaning up the gulf coast and all the problems related to that (not to mention the costs of similar problems worldwide, such as in Nigeria). I'm sure there are similar external costs to solar but I highly doubt they're nearly as much.
But does that mean that the difference between technical and non-technical makes the difference between success and not, or does it just mean it's the difference between "got an idea, might as well code a bit and see what happens" and "got a great idea... I wonder if I can get some investment"?
I guess Square. Why?

1. Pivotal's business is solid, and growing. But they must feel chagrin when they can only charge consulting fees while their clients, whose products they helped build, are going to be creating hundred-millionaires in short order. This might persuade Pivotal to give up their future business potential in exchange for stock options to share in the goodness. This rules out Google.

2. Twitter doesn't really need more programmers. It needs to figure out how to monetize. So Twitter+Pivotal is not worth that much more than Twitter alone.

3. Square has obvious potential, proven monetizability, and the only thing holding them back from chasing the huge array of obvious opportunities is a lack of programming talent. If they go too slow, their well-funded competitors (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, banks) may well beat them to some markets. There's definitely a first-mover advantage to getting payment devices in the hands of businesses in any given market.

All this should incentivize Square to offer a large chunk of stock to Pivotal, which should incentivize Pivotal to be acquired by them.
> CD/DVDs won't last that long because of decomposition of dye.

That's burned CD/DVDs. Pressed ones from the 1980s usually still work. Some early production runs had problems with the aluminum layer not being properly sealed and oxidizing, but they definitely have the potential to last many decades if Not centuries.