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what makes you trust creidt unions?

I think banking is the perfect example because they are a very similar model. Obviously your distrustful of them all.

Why are you more trustful of another search engine than Google? And if your not then you have to use some search engine otherwise web browsing is a complete pain - and which one do you use? the one you distrust the least (I assume).

Sounding similar to the banks in your model?

At some point you have to extend a level of trust to some entity - be it a bank or a search engine (though I would argue the level of trust for a bank has to be much higher, surely!!).

If you cant do that then you have to keep your money under a mattress, or indeed not surf the internet...

(Edit: In case my point is a bit confusing - why are you suggesting that Google are any more or less trustworthy than any other site you visit. How can you trust pg not to be selling our data to people? I'm personally 100% sure he isn't but the suggestion is there - and I bet if it was made seriously people would demand evidence)
If it uses the GNU userland, it still wouldn't be fit for a GNU/ name in the eyes of the FSF. Saying "GNU/Linux" means you're talking about a GNU system running on the Linux kernel. By that logic, this could be called Chrome/Linux. GNU doesn't figure into it significantly.
It is interesting that this, the top rated reply, is not about "With what will this compete?" but "How will this kill competition?"
what an OS actually is - the gateway to the underlying hardware so that you can perform the functionality required to complete a specific task

This is exactly correct. But in the case of Chrome OS, the real underlying hardware is the server youre connecting too, not your local machine. So photoshop (or similar photo editing software) will run on Chrome OS, but it's going to run in a network connected piece of software using server resources.

This minimizes the need for expensive local equipment, and dramatically increases the demands of the server. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if sometime in the future Google plans on renting their server resources based on the number of CPU cycles you use!
Is there a list somewhere of all the "special" pages on HN?
What are you saying, exactly? Should google endeavor to make their search results worse so that more people use other search engines? A simple monopoly based on the excellence of a freely provided service is not necessarily a bad thing, especially considering that search engines do not particularly inspire customer loyalty. If google becomes dramatically worse and other search engines become dramatically better they will lose the majority of their users without much difficulty, just like yahoo, ask, etc. lost their users when google got big.
Does it matter, from Google's point of view? A customer is a customer, whether or not they pay for games.
I suspect this is the right answer.

Given we've also seen a slight reshuffle of their web app (dropping the beta logo for example) in the same week.
I'd guess over 90% of Google users (and maybe 99%) don't know about "site:" Hell, most people can't even come up with a reasonable definition for "search engine".
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You mean to say that Apple is first and foremost a hardware company.
why not just clarify? the 'judging' doesn't mean you judge other people -- it means you prefer action over learning. that's the real difference between J/P -- action v learning preference.
I wonder if this has been part of the rise of Linux on the desktop for the last year or two.
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But this isn't about you, precisely... it's going to end up enabling the same thing on (hopefully) cheaper, lower resource hardware resulting in broader adoption.
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I'm reading the Codingthewheel blog pretty regulalry. While I don't find this article on Postgre particularly intriguing, some others are good, for instance the one on hand evaluator algorithms:
http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/poker-hand-evaluator-....

All this talk is often making me wonder whether good (and improving bots) will take over the world of online poker someday, to the point where it is just a pure waste of money for anyone else than an expert to play, on any blinds level. (not that I'd feel sad about it).
Great! We're on the same page now, different sides of experience. It's unfortunate that we were ingrained with that "don't talk to strangers" mentality--I understand the reason for it, but it does hurt us as adults.

The surprise thing is not what causes someone to overrule their gut reaction. Someone once described it to me like this: When two people meet, an invisible exchange of information is initiated. Each person quickly learns about the other person's emotional state before a word is said. Each person then acts in accordance with how they perceive the other person.

Fortunately for us, tweaking this stuff and avoiding negative transmissions is possible. If I cross my arms, I'm communicating that I'm closed off. If I lean in, I'm communicating that I'm more interested than you are, etc.

If you have neutral body language, make sure the person can hear you (i.e. get their attention and do it with authority), and don't look down--you're halfway there.

Learning these body language things and some basic social skills are what it takes to become very charismatic and these are things that can be taught.

A bus stop, subway, bookstore, hostel, and even the grocery store are all places where people can be met. Sure some situations are more comfortable than others and there is no need to try to stack the deck against yourself by meeting people in situations that you're less than comfortable with. But when "learning" it is a big confidence booster to make some of these harder things work and it can work. It really is the social equivalent of sky diving. :)
I think they talked about this in the Bible: something about an eye for a tooth and a tooth for an eye.
I'm not sure exactly how, but I got two invites in the mail. I used one and gave the second away on Twitter. The other person could use the sign-up invite URL without a problem.
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Voluntary mode overrides the throttle so it slows the car and prevents the driver from speeding.

Kudos for the Orwellian naming convention :)
Which Google projects are you unable to export your data from? I'm happy to point you to the interface to do so or pass on the request to the data liberation team in Chicago.

For mail, contacts, reader opmls, docs/spreadsheets/etc there are exporting facilities and in some cases (like in blogger) mass export tools that Google has written to make it easier, in essence, to leave. Some tools aren't as easy to export from, yet.

As to the "server your data is stored on" we won't be shipping that to you anytime soon :-)
Suppose someone does the necessary studies, and it turns out that having a system like this would save 100 lives per unit time by reducing accidents, at a cost of losing 1 life per unit time because someone was unable to get to the hospital so quickly. Yeah, "tough to be you", and it would be really horrible for the victims and the people trying to get them to medical care in a hurry; but it could still be well worth it.

The override button isn't a bad idea, though.
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I think the point is that in this trial drivers get to choose whether the device is actually limiting their speed or not; what's voluntary is their choice to be limited by it.
I'm a BBC World Wide employee, so the usual disclaimer applies: my opinion isn't that of my employer.

I've been a critic of the Glow library since I learnt about it, not because it's not good code (it is a solid enough framework), but because the javascript-library problem has been pretty much solved by now.

I think that in a large organisation such as the Beeb there's a big tendency to want to do things in-house so changes can be made to code-bases easily, there's a standardised way of implementing funcionality across the org, and it's "signed off" for use by management.

The "signed off" bit I think is the main advantage for the BBC developers, as the politics involved in getting external code installed (even JS) on servers is a very heavy workflow.
Excuse my ignorance, but who is Mark Dowd?

Edit: link I just found: http://taossa.com/index.php/author/mark/
Or you could be running a version of OpenSSH that is less than four years old. 4.3 came out in 2005
#7 it will make it taste like cake. Sweet, sweet cake.
It goes beyond even that, with some sweet tech coming out:

http://vimeo.com/5404358
I hadn't heard of him either but a google search looks like he is pretty good at exploits: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1030
What about EFI?

(No, that's a genuine question. I want to know if computers using EFI boot faster than those still stuck with BIOS.)
Should google endeavor to make their search results worse so that more people use other search engines

I'm not suggesting anything like that.

I'm simply pointing out that for many of us, Google traffic is a SPOF. How to go about fixing that, who knows. Some people are claiming Twitter is the future of traffic, but I don't think so, at least not for most sites.
Scientology is not a religion, it's a scam. Do you delete 411 scams from your email? Same thing.
Haha. I think we've blocked a number of "God Hates Fags" type things. We generally just block anything that our user base complains about, though. It's easy and quick (usually).
Yes. Though I find the serious tone hillarious.
It's more like the "default default" -- you can change it so, by default, every table is created using InnoDB. IIRC, MySQL comes with an example config that demonstrates just that.
From my understanding, this is kind of a squid / load balancer in one? Or is it really just Yahoo's version of squid?
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Atheism is a "sect" now?
These videos are for the London conference. The slides for the talks can be found here: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2009/talks
The thing is without full disclosure from the dev team (after they find out if it is in fact a true exploit) upgrading in the dark just to upgrade you could be upgrading to a version of the software that has the exploit.
There is no lock-in with Google, and that makes all the difference.

Companies that are making an effort to use lock-in to keep you are not using that effort to keep you by giving you good customer service and user experience. A "no lock-in" policy supports quality. It says that a company is going to live or die by quality, not by something that sucks for the customer.
Checkout github; from any non-payed account they make changing to a payed account easy. Definitely worth looking at.
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth

> So, the middle ground is: understand as much as you can, test as much as you have to.

Test even what you understand. QuickCheck (http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/QuickCheck/) and friends like SmallCheck and Lazy SmallCheck let you turn specs into tests easily.
By that time he had already spent eight years without his sight after a tub of white hot aluminium exploded in his face at work in a scrapyard.

This is why you should always wear safety goggles.
But for most startup servers who'd like to use it via an API, is.
Yeah sorry, the browser war statement could probably be misunderstood, especially since there was a browser war with Netscape already :-) Writing clearly is a hard discipline.

If Google made an enhanced webbrowser they still wouldn't have a clear line of sight from their apps to the customer: There would still be a middleman that could get in the way.
Heck, that's what reseller accounts are for with most hosting providers. Part of your business model should be to (re-)sell them hosting; it'll give you recurring (monthly) income for the lean times.

Plus, there really aren't any one-and-dones. Down the road they'll want changes; if they host it themselves, it's a quick road to making something easy, difficult.

Also, think of it from their POV: most business owners want a single POC for their website. Not one guy to develop it, another company to host, a third to do email, etc. They're willing to pay a (smallish, generally) premium to keep it smooth. Heck, I know guys who buy the $5 godaddy shared hosting and split it among like 10 clients, charging them all $15 / month. (Note: I find this a little unethical, but very profitable. Not what I'd do, but there are lots of folks who do it.)
It seems having followed this over the last several months that many argue that ray tracing is really great, and obviously the way the world works, but scene graphs and filters and such with existing matrix transformations like in DirectX and OpenGL are always going to outperform raytracing because it is just inherently simpler. However I don't do too much development in this area, so I would welcome any other perspective!
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Microsoft's announcement next Monday has almost certainly been in the pipeline since before Google revealed Chrome OS, so it's not a response.
That's not Google's "Chrome" version of Linux - that's Chromium FOR Linux. It's a browser, not an OS, and it wasn't leaked, it's an open-source project that's been around for sometime. In fact, it's the base for the Google Chrome browser.
See also http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction_to_QuickChec...

And for a use case: http://blog.moertel.com/pages/seven-lessons-from-the-icfp-pr...
Looks Like the iPhone's Doing Well in Japan
Despite all sortsa smartphone choices...
Well I have heard that he was one of the people on which Dr.Strangelove ( of the Stanley Kubrick movie ) was based because of his nuclear firststrike thinking and in the days leading upto his death he used to go to meetings on wheelchairs !
Google hypes what looks to be a Linux thin client targeting netbooks?

Call me back in 2010 or whenever GCOS arrives on the market, and I'll compare it to then-current Moblin and Linux distros and Microsoft Windows for the netbooks.

(And GCOS? Wasn't that an OS from GE? Fifty years ago?)
Ask HN: Do we really need every article to be about Chrome OS?
Is there nothing else interesting or newsworthy today? A lot of good articles on the "new" page are being ignored in favor of speculation on an unreleased Linux distro. Is it <i>really</i> that interesting?
With regards to the constructive criticism about the date of the article, thank you and I will keep that in mind next time.

I submitted this article because I genuinely thought it was interesting and wanted to share it with like minded tech savvy people. (My real life friends wouldn't really care about this :-p)

I chose to submit this page rather than the newer version ( http://eff.org/issues/printers ) because I found the image of the dots on this webpage very interesting. I figured if people were interested they could click the "For up-to-date" information link. I will save everyone a click next time.
I think Native Client's environment is constrained enough that it would be feasible to implement JIT translation between architectures (i.e. x86 -> ARM).

ISA translation tech is already widespread: a company called Transitive has been quite successful in offering translation products for Unix vendors who have needed to transition their customers to a new architecture (most visibly they provided the PPC->x86 translation engine for Apple's "Rosetta").

With Native Client, the translation ought to be made easier by the structural limitations that are imposed on NaCl modules primarily for security purposes -- to use a natural language analogy, it's easier to translate a text if you know all the words originate from a certain dictionary.
Most spiders implement a maximum depth in their search though. So you'd really just get an inefficient crawl, not an infinite one.
No, it's just you.

Regular users don't know about, and wouldn't go out of their way to install it if they did. I certainly haven't, and I'd consider myself quite a bit more tech savvy than your average computer user.
Is GDrive part of Chrome OS? Can we still get a stand-alone version, please?
I worked as a consultant maintaining commodities trading software for a multinational petroleum corp. They make money because they do business everywhere and because of that, they have intimate local information about everywhere.

A lot of that information, they cannot use for legal reasons. But there is a remainder that they can use legally to turn a profit. And in a company as big as that, some young turk is going to figure it out and make a name for himself.

It's a certainty that this will also happen with Google. A lot of information passes through them. A lot of it can't be exploited for legal reasons. Some young turk there is probably figuring out a way that it can be legally exploited, and we on he outside aren't necessarily going to be happy about it.
... it's VERY easy to put off the hard part. Which is generating sales for your company and making a profit.
My Palm Pre, much as I like it, takes close to a minute to boot up.
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Yeah, I get it, but I still think it's ironic. I mean, if this becomes required someday, it could still be called "voluntary" because you don't have to drive.
If that page doesn't exist, then according to specification, they don't and you can crawl any page.
because I don't care and hardly even notice them. I've gone banner blind in the 90's during the animated gif pandemic.
I think I missed something. What is the mechanism that causes the slime/memristor to keep changing states after the external stimulus is removed? I thought the memristor just remembers a voltage. After you remove the external voltage then wouldn't the voltage across the memristor just remember the state it was in when the last external voltage was applied? Likewise for the slime and air.
It's not really how much stuff Microsoft controlled that made them dangerous. It's the fact that they had no qualms about using their monopoly power to squash competitors. So far, Google hasn't demonstrated that tendency.
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Open Google Chrome TextArea in External Editor?
I'd prefer to use Google Chrome as my primary browser, but the one thing that's still keeping me on FF is the ability to use the add-on called "it's all text" which allows you to open a text area in your favorite external editor.

Does anyone know of a way to do this in Google's chrome? I remember seeing a sort of hack that did a copy-paste and kept track of the window id to move the text between the browser and the editor.
I think I got sidelined by the quote I threw up in the original posting

If you had RTFA before your first comment, you would not have gotten sidelined.

The author (mixmax) of TFA graciously conceded in his reply that his "Google won the browser wars" was probably not the best choice of words, but the context made it immediately clear to me what he meant by that choice of words.
Thanks for posting, this is very interesting. I wish they included more details.

The realm of realtime computer graphics has been totally dominated by the SGI+Renderman line of thinking, and realtime raytracing has only made occassional appearances in demos or academic research (and possibly the pipe dreams of Intel executives wishing for a disruptive technology to make up for their weakness in graphics).

It's fascinating that they're willing to build custom chips for this purpose. Are Toyota's needs simply so advanced that they couldn't do anything else? Or will this be another Cell processor type project, a chip launched with high hopes and only one major customer?
More of an assertion than a theory, and with a few handy-wavy examples rather than any specific explanations.
Well. I just looked through Glow, and ...

Yeah.

Anyway, to salvage something from this: all I want out of these "frameworks" are ways to do DOM work based on CSS selectors.

jQuery, prototype, dojo ... all I want is $(..)

Anyhow, I was in the middle of ripping down dojo's query.js, which is the standalone CSS3 select/query part of dojo, so I could just deal with that without the rest, and I stumbled across DOMAssistant.

I've only been using it a couple of days now, but it's less painful than the other frameworks, because it pollutes my head less.

It's basically just A) the fastest and most complete CSS2.1 and CSS3 selectors (currently fastest slickspeed), and B) a minimal framework where everything is accessible off of $() and $$().

The 'whole' thing is 9k gzipped, too.

Anyway, there are probably a ton of very useful things that jQuery/prototype/effects.js/mootools do that all-day js wonks know like the back of their hands; I like DOM assistant for the querying, though.
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It looks like the phone Google gave us on the I/O '09.
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The way to fix it is simple: have other search engines leapfrog google in the same way that google leapfrogged the existing ones.
Actually a lot of search sites reguarlly pull down large searchs result sets from eachother to do comparisions to their own, though of course this isn't tecnically 'crawling' in the follow every link sense.
While true, suggesting safety goggles as a guard against exploding white-hot aluminum just makes me think of that goggles meme. What was it again?...
> So photoshop (or similar photo editing software) will run on Chrome OS, but it's going to run in a network connected piece of software using server resources.

Like, say, Aviary.
1998 post about Netscape quoting Marca saying the browser would become an OS.
as someone who has been exploring python lately but who has spent the past few years using mostly ruby and javascript, i have really enjoyed observing how the python community approaches problems ...

- code readability is generally very important (unlike ruby, where magic-fu is quite important)

- there is more heterogeneity

- there is less of an obsession with testing and boasting about it.

Most importantly, I haven't read any blog posts promoting automated code quality measurement tools (are any of your methods over 3 lines?) -- those things are incredibly backwards in my opinion, and the gravitational pull of the ruby community toward them is unfortunate, and suggest that too many ruby programmers are squandering their gains in productivity refactoring code into 3 line methods...
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It's amazing that these chips aren't sacrificing precision for performance, operating on Bezier curves.

While we're on the subject of realtime raytracing, does anyone have insight about the polygons vs voxels debate for normal (i.e. desktop apps, games) programmers?
The thing is, these aren't even proper tests. Since when do we run Markdown engines over comments that aren't in Markdown to begin with?