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I found this article very confusing. GPS is being used in at least three different ways: a separate device that uses the GPS to help you navigate, the function in your phone that uses the Global Positioning System to navigate, and the Global Positioning System.

To someone who doesn't refer to the separate device as a GPS, but calls it a SatNav, reading this was an exercise in increasing frustration, each time having to stop and unpick the meaning of the acronym.

Hacker lesson to learn: Sometimes when you're explaining things you'll use the same term in different contexts to mean different things. Sometimes your listener will be unfamiliar with the nuances of the different contexts, hear the same word, and get confused. I think that lost me the potential for funding in one pitch I did.

So, the real question, do these "Smart Phones" that they're talking about have a GPS chipset that lets them find their position using the GPS satellites, or are they using cell-phone-based location awareness?
They have one of the best chances to pull it off out of all the attempts over the last 25 years.

I really hope they try to go big -- bury ALSA cleanly, use Skia for all drawing as vectors, and have an event model intended for Cocoa/WPF/GTK# (not the crapulence of Xt).
So, just in case anyone is confused about RHEL packaging policy: The version stays the same for the life of the release; patches are applied to that version to fix security and stability issues.

Our forums see tons of questions about this, with folks assuming that because they have an "old" version of PHP or Apache or whatever, that it has known security vulnerabilities. When, in reality, an RHEL released package is probably at least as well-vetted for security as the latest release from upstream.

But, in this case, since there is no known exploit (and it is possibly fictional), there's nothing vendors can possibly do about the problem. I suppose vendors could have been quietly notified of the problem, and we'd start seeing new releases rolling out; but you'd see errata on the relevant vendors website. Asking random folks on HN wouldn't be the best course of action for reliable answers.

Anyway, OpenSSH.org has nothing on the subject.
Scientists claim to have created human sperm in laboratory
Has state capitalism replaced globalization as the global economic paradigm?
Small Newspapers May Be Able To Prolong Death Longer Than Large Counterparts
The barrier to replacing X is not replacing X, it is the significant rewriting of software that uses X.
If you look at the google video asking what a browser is chrome doesn't really mean browser to anyone... The main thing is that google means something to everyone and that is all that will end up mattering.

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ (What is a Browser?)
The size of the headers response is not the issue. It's the latency of going and getting each one, and remember web browsers typically have a limited concurrency to any one domain. You're not going to be firing off a big batch of requests in parallel and getting the responses a second later, you're going to have three or so worker processes chewing through 30 requests each in serial.

The situation becomes even worse with TLS, in which the handshake is even more of a time sink. Too many requests on an https page is absolute death for performance! This technique could really help that.

Pipelining would certainly help, though, if and when it finally "arrives".
Absolutely no new info, and some of the speculation doesn't even make sense. Avoid.
Microsoft's Gazelle browser takes a radical path
I wonder if Chrome OS is the same as, or a derivative of, Goobuntu:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Goobuntu
One thing I don't understand: why pre-announce so early?
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These thoughts aren't interesting at all. Most of them are smug and vapid.

>I'm slightly amused that there were 8 updates already.

Why? It's RC software.

>There’s an odd dichotomy with using text labels...

I actually turned text on in the taskbar, but nevertheless, it's pretty much the same as OS X. Doesn't one typically recognize a program by its icon in both OSes?

>The use of color is odd for OS X users.

The only place that seems overtly colorful is the login/locked screen. Certainly personal preference; the implied value judgement (that OS X is classy and Win7 is gaudy) is just silly.

>It seems like Microsoft is really hammering the Windows branding into your face as frequently as possible. Everything has Windows logos, the Start button’s logo glows eerily on hover, and everything is called Windows-something. Apple is much more subtle and conservative with the use of their name, the Mac name, and their logos.

This is just silly. The only place I see the Windows logo is the Start button. And the use of loaded adjectives - "eerily" for Windows, "subtle" and "conservative" for OS X - betrays any objectivity the author might have claimed.
To give developers one more reason to focus on web technologies, coding their apps in HTML 5 / Canvas / Gears.
I wonder just how Google Native Client will fit into this, especially extended with things like USB support and OpenGL.

There's games, obviously, but what about a NaCL port of iTunes? It's not that far-fetched.
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Chrome wasn't built in a day.

Though you'd think if they're announcing a linux-based operating system, centered on their web-browser, making their web-browser run on linux would be trivial. OTOH, could it be the diversity of linux distributions that's making it difficult for them?
When the iphone was first released, development was going to be via javascript and safari. That didn't go too well with neither users nor developers. Isn't this going to be the same thing? And for the so called windowing system I would not hold my breath and except anything like quartz. Its probably going to be just enough framebuffer code to drop X11 so the browser window can run in fullscreen. The window manager will then be implemented in javascript. Wee!
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And the first massive hump there is getting the replacement good enough to even bother thinking about rewrites.

Google has a chance to leap past that, because they've contrived a situation where they not only don't need X, they don't need to port X apps.
One of the other stories claimed they said it was because (last Thursday) the NYT and Ars Technica reported it. That's what Google said, but of course they didn't have to confirm the stories (and I think they haven't on previous occasions unless it suited them).

So your question remains: why does it suit them now? (Guessing), perhaps part of their evolution into a huge corp?
You're probably right. I was feeling negative, because I had hoped that Capital Factory would provide seed funding for innovative development and help kindle some entrepreneurship among top-notch hacker types in Austin.

I'm not really sure what motivated them to pick a hodgepodge of me-too web properties (a few niche craigslist-ish things and a pet medical site).

Outside of Capital Factory, it seems like Austin Ventures and friends will continue to fund more of the same recycled enterprise network/virtualization/identity management software companies, being started by the same management teams over and over.

I really hope the next batch of CF startups is more interesting/innovative. Good luck with your venture, it looks promising, even if CF didn't care to fund it.
was posted several days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=686344

for what it's worth - my summary:

-AIG FP was created in 1987 when Howard Sosin, former Drexel Burnham, created a model on how to value and trade interest-rate swaps

-The company to make money insuring these transactions could not be a bank (which would be bound by law to hoard unreasonable amounts of collateral), but needed AAA status: thus... an insurance company

-AIG stops sub-prime mortgage insurance business in 2005 after realizing that 95% of their mortgage-related portfolio is sub-prime

-Other firms instead jump into the lucrative market after 2004/2005... Wall Street underwrites 1.6 trillion $ in sub-prime and 1.2 trillion in Alt-A mortgages from 2004-2007

-AIG is bound by contract to provide collateral in case they lose AAA rating; as such legacy business (built up until 2005) traps them into bleeding collateral in the 2008 crash on their sub-prime credit default swap business

-In result AIG runs out of capital reserves to provide collateral

-By comparison, no money is lost on their corporate credit default swap business
Since this is for those who "want to give Google Android a try, but don't feel like buying a T-Mobile G1," and not meant to be actually useful as an OS, I don't understand what this has to offer over the SDK. (The SDK runs Android in a virtualized environment on Windows, OS X, and Linux.)

I read the project summary and skimmed the "readmefirst.txt" and I still don't get it. Is it faster? Easier to install?
Think Again: Asia's Rise
please don't repeat linux's mistake by allowing fsf to attach gnu/; gnu/chrome? yikes!
I think Lively uses SVG, not Canvas.
I believe Disqus is what you are looking for.
Pay attention, or be bamboozled by bread and circuses
Also forgot Backtype
what on earth is 'prolonging death longer', does that mean you have to die earlier ? I think the author meant to say 'stave off death' or something to that effect.
I suspect this is more of a case of Google gaining mindshare with Apps before charging for the service than it is an example of Google making any sort of shift in strategy.
A spectacular headline, but the article doesn't add anything to the story and offers no new insights.
Super insightful +1 magic hat.
CakeTorrent, torrent searching and in-browser downloading
Questions:

- Will the fMRI patterns for the same image be the same for two different people?

- When I think of images, the vision I have in my mind are not as vivid as when I see them directly. Given this, will the fMRI patterns be the same in both cases?
I've an AA1 running Linpus, which is buggy and slower than I anticipated. It's bloated down with superfluous software that I don't need, and that you have to follow a series of complex guides to remove. (Even then you risk screwing up parts of Linpus which are dependant on it.)

All I use it for is browsing and light coding on the move. Windows, and the likes of Ubuntu Netbook Remix are all too 'big' for that.

It sounds like the Google Chrome OS is exactly what my netbook needs.
Why would that fare better on netbooks than Linux?
We don't need a twittorial.
1st rule: create a software app of high enough quality, that CS college grads from good departments will not vomit, when they see your source code

2nd rule: don't run out of money; get a part-time job; mow your neighbors lawns etc.

3rd rule: build something that companies, or any mid-sized and funded organization will actually use; you're insane to think you will actually succeed in the consumer market

my two cents. good luck.
It's a torrent client implemented as a Java applet.
he means f(infinity).

Were not at all dealing with f(very big numbers, increasing)
Indeed - or to put it more simply it's just rearranging the equation, not solving it ;P
Yes, that would be a perfect device for it. Because, when we talk about netbooks, I am not so sure I'd like to have Chrome OS on it. Ok, it would boot faster and maybe also run slightly faster, but the boot time isn't that much of a concern for me. On the other hand, I have a half dozen windows apps I want to run on it, since I don't live on the Internet only.
That is truly amazing, it's great that almost weekly I see something created that seemed like it might be decades away.

There are a lot of political/legal consequences of research like this, paternity tests can be used to rob unwitting men if someone decides to create a child without their knowledge. Also, this may eventually change the burden of proof in various forms of assault as the presence of sperm doesn't actually indicate that the individual involved was there.

On the flip side the upside is amazing, allowing sterile fathers to have children. And of course the technology is involved is amazing.
I would say french lessons are not important you can spend more time on your start up. I have the same situation as you are right now, I have a startup and a day job but one difference is that I have a awesome girl friend who supports me a lot. She knew that I have spend lot of time in building the product so she doesn't disturb me much. You should convince your girlfriend about your situation.
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It's not a taxes problem its a spending problem.. They need to reduce the amount of money they spend.
"The region produces roughly 30 percent of global economic output, but because of its huge population, its per capita gdp is only $5,800, compared with $48,000 in the United States."

That's nice, but it's states that buy armies, not individuals chipping in one by one.

"Asian countries are furiously upgrading their militaries, but their combined military spending in 2008 was still only a third that of the United States."

But what if they're getting 5 times the value for money? Military expenditure in the USA is so notoriously, farcically expensive and inefficient it is often quite literally a joke. China sure manages to build a lot of ships and submarines for the little money they supposedly spend.

"Even at current torrid rates of growth, it will take the average Asian 77 years to reach the income of the average American. The Chinese need 47 years. "

I don't know what numbers this guy is looking at, but in the last two decades China has grown 7+% above whatever the US has managed to achieve. PPP is what counts in this case, so that's a 6-fold gap to catch up with the average American. A seven percent advantage will cover that in under 30 years, not 47, which is comparable to experience in Japan, Korea, and elsewhere.

I could go on and on, but why bother when the article seems to be founded upon such basic flaws?
I'm not sure if I like implications of a web-centric OS, especially when its producer is as rich and powerful as Google. I see the market for it, and I think it will be a huge benefit for the average user. However, I see the transition from desktop-based software to web-based as a loss of user control. Today, when governments decide that mp3 sharing, porn, articles of political dissent, or news from non-national sources should be eliminated, they quickly realize, if they don’t already know, that elimination is impossible, because no agency can track down and deal with every user who has decided to install software allowing him/her to do these things. When software moves to the web, I think it will likely end up existing on the servers of one of an oligopoly of computing providers, who will be much easier to influence because of their small number, and because they will have no choice but to abide by legislation if they wish to remain in business.

This may not seem like an issue right now, because there is still choice. But with Google pushing a web-centric OS, I think within a decade, many people will have a hard time choosing something else, much the same way they had a hard time choosing something other than windows until the last five years.

Maybe I’m just a Big Brother fearing nut, but I don’t like where we’re heading.
where does it say they're using Linux as a base? Im not saying they aren't: it's just there is no suggestion they are. and, y'know the press release feels like a level shot at all modern OS's. Unless they've said otherwise I reckon were looking at something new (which is great IMO)

EDIT: bleh I read from the bottom up (in terms of the front page) so Google Blog was last :) I see the source.
I have decided to do a masters degree in computational biology (bioinformatics).

There are a few masters courses that could lead you to a career in data science, but it depends on your background. Most of the courses I found were specialisations, e.g. a masters in computer vision or HCI for those with a computer science background, or a masters in digital media or design and technology for those with an arts background. I had neither, so I thought I might have to do a conversion course into computer science or art and then specialise. However, when I read the article above, I realised I was more on the design side anyway (happier in Photoshop and Illustrator than a text editor) and that I needed to learn the computing and statistics side. This brought me to bioinformatics since I already have a background in biochemistry. The course will teach me programming, data mining and statistics. I also get to do three projects, which I am going to do in visualisation of life science data - which is why I got interested in this topic in the first place.

I think undergraduates have a greater opportunity to 'cobble' a course together tailored towards data science.

I found it useful to do a bit of research on anyone who does a visualisation that you like and see what their background is.
Google to release Linux based ChromeOS
This was a competitive VC deal? Halsey Minor has been trying to get someone to take OpenDNS off his hands for quite some time now; he needs the money. Don't believe everything you read, kids.
Good that legislation is moving towards the direction of dealing with Internet services in a reasonable way (since Internet as main distro media pipeline cannot be stopped).

Also good that they've figured out rates. Although, they're still higher than radio rates. Little steps...
To provide counterpoint to your "Once you go Mac you never go...", I did exactly that last month.

My previous computer was PB12. Yes, it is dated, but until unibody MBP13 introduction Apple didn't have any other model to replace it. Well, they still don't have anything able to replace it. MBP13 has shiny display, non-replaceable battery etc. Combined with unavailability of next OSX release for PPC, I had to choose what's next. So I got an Thinkpad, that has proper display instead of mirror, easily replaceable batteries and few other perks (you can put a second battery into DVD-RW bay, and it has built-in WWAN card with great antena, oh and the keyboard rules, yay!).

Regarding Unix-yness, you can run Linux of your choice either natively or in vmware (I run mine in vmware), and I'm satisfied. I don't care for iLife (I used just iTunes anyway; winamp is OK replacement) or iWork. Things that I do care for are equally well done on Windows and OSX.
If ARM and x86 are targeted, this means no Flash (not surprising, given how poorly it runs on Linux), which presumably means YouTube will be operating in full-on HTML 5 video mode by the time these devices launch.

If netbooks continue their meteoric ascent, and if Chrome OS grabs a significant share of the market, we may finally see the realization of the mythical Year of Linux On the Desktop. The ironic aspect, of course, is that even though a large number of non-technical users will finally be running on a fully open-source platform, they will use it to run applications whose workings are even more opaque than traditional closed-source, client-side apps.

I wonder what role, if any, Native Client will play on these devices. I understand Native Client to target only x86, but I find it difficult to imagine Chrome OS -- Google's first direct challenge to Windows -- not being able to run Native Client applications.
David was pud's sysadmin, about as low on the totem pole as one can get. "Down to earth" is the only favorable adjective one could use for this fellow.
Andrew, You should consult a good accountant or attorney. The IRS has very strict rules as to who may be compensated as an employee versus an independent contractor or consultant. This is the case, partly, no doubt, to ensure that employees are classified as such and the appropriate payroll taxes are shared between the employee and the employer. As I understand it, officers of C corps are essentially employees and may not be compensated as consultants for services they render to a corporation. Assigning rights in IP and stock purchase agreements are independent of the issue of whether or the someone working for the company may be considered by the IRS as an employee or an independent contractor.
I'm the Program Director for Betaspring. We will be offering funding in our next round. We've soft-launched this summer with a few local teams to prove the model will work here in Providence.

Our hope is that we'll attract smart, talented people to the city to help support the burgeoning technology/design scene that we currently have.
If it frees us from X, that would be an improvement - I am holding my breath.
Arrington: Google Chrome Redefines The Operating System
I don't know, but I think the early Google Wave announcement was a similar thing.
There is a similar app available for the London Underground at http://www.tubeexits.co.uk/

The data is pretty good (only found a single sub-optimal station so far), whilst the UI is fidgety at times but I'm sure it will improve.
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A nuclear bomb? Come on, they didn't even release a direct competitor to Microsoft's OS. Yes, I'm sure it will be streamlined and efficient and very well designed for web apps and things programmed for it, but it still doesn't replace a Windows desktop machine because of its inherently different architecture.
Wich is not necessarily a problem since they seem to be aiming for a minimal local software stack.
If you don't think you're using any particular methodology at all, you're probably using Agile.
I get the impression that the only native application it will run is Chrome. So how are you going to edit your source code, push/pull your changes, test it, run it?

I've seen web-based ssh clients, and someone might be able to write a web-based vnc / remote desktop client, but I can't see it being useful for offline coding.
Well, yeah, but you're not talking about replacing X anymore (which is what the GP post was talking about).
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I enjoyed your narrative.
I agree that it is incredibly hard and decidedly non-trivial to try to replicate the model.

I suppose it depends on what you define as success. For us success will hinge on the number of companies we launch in Providence. We know that many will fail, but our hope is that by launching 20 (or so) companies a year we'll be able to accelerate what is already a small but thriving startup scene.

One could argue that Techstars has been invaluable in placing Boulder on the startup map. And I think we're just starting to see the same thing come out of Bootup Labs in Vancouver.

Success (for us) is just as much tied to our love of Providence as it is to decent returns for our investors.
Speaking as the owner of ChromeServer.com I just wish they'd stop naming their stuff after my stuff!

That aside I guess they're building a brand and want to populate it with some related products. I'm dubious about the value of that approach though; Sun's plastering of the "Java" brand onto on OS didn't do them much good. IBM's WebSphere overloading has caused me problems in the past. Microsoft turned ".NET" from a useful label into a meaningless one.
Checkmate.
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