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My comment from another online that I have FAQified because the issue comes up from time to time:

I'm a baby boomer, which is another way of saying that I'm a good bit older than most people who post on HN. I distinctly remember the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated--the most memorable day of early childhood for many people in my generation--and I remember the "long hot summer" and other events of the 1960s civil rights movement.

One early memory I have is of a second grade classmate (I still remember his name, which alas is just common enough that it is hard to Google him up) who moved back to Minnesota with his northern "white" parents after spending his early years in Alabama. He told me frightening stories about Ku Klux Klan violence to black people (the polite term in those days was "Negroes"), including killing babies, and I was very upset to hear about that kind of terrorism happening in the United States. He made me aware of a society in which people didn't all treat one another with decency and human compassion, unlike the only kind of society I was initially aware of from growing up where I did. So I followed subsequent news about the civil rights movement, including the activities of Martin Luther King, Jr. up to his assassination, with great interest.

It happens that I had a fifth-grade teacher, a typically pale, tall, and blonde Norwegian-American, who was a civil rights activist and who spent her summers in the south as a freedom rider. She used to tell our class about how she had to modify her car (by removing the dome light and adding a locking gas cap) so that Klan snipers couldn't shoot her as she opened her car door at night or put foreign substances into her gas tank. She has been a civil rights activist all her life, and when I Googled her a few years ago and regained acquaintance with her, I was not at all surprised to find that she is a member of the civil rights commission of the town where I grew up.

One day in fifth grade we had a guest speaker in our class, a young man who was then studying at St. Olaf College through the A Better Chance (ABC) affirmative action program. (To me, the term "affirmative action" still means active recruitment of underrepresented minority students, as it did in those days, and I have always thought that such programs are a very good idea, as some people have family connections to selective colleges, but many other people don't.) During that school year (1968-1969), there was a current controversy in the United States about whether the term "Negro" or "Afro-American" or "black" was most polite. So a girl in my class asked our visitor, "What do you want to be called, 'black' or 'Afro-American'?" His answer was, "I'd rather be called Henry." Henry's answer to my classmate's innocent question really got me thinking.

So to me, the astounding thing about today is that people still regard "race" categories at all. I agree that the trend line in the United States is for people to get along better in general, but we still have painfully far to go to get the categories out of our brains and meet new individuals as individuals.
Given that one of Obama's advisers is currently pushing another stimulus package [1], and given the fact that Obama has absolutely blown the records in every category of spending possible for this upcoming budget, I believe our plan is to inflate away our debt.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=ajQb...
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Why is Google's AdSense doing the bidding of Scientology?
Until you've seen it, I don't think its safe to make those assumptions.
pretty much since the start google adsense has offered a 'competitive ad filter' which you can use to block unwanted ads.

Incidentally, this is also a great way to get your CPM up quite a bit if you use it smartly.
I think what we're going to see is a way to hook into Chrome so that it appears like you're launching an application (rather than visiting a web site), but it runs within the Chrome engine using HTML/JS. With Native Client, even complex operations could be done within Chrome without performance worries.
You can email Linus Torvalds or Mark Shuttleworth directly and get answers to your Linux questions, sometimes within minutes or hours.

I call BS. At best, maybe you can get answers like that because you're a already a Linux wizard. Linus and Mark are not going to help me set up my network printer with Ubuntu.
What is http://google.com/unclesam ?

Edit: must have just mistyped it, works fine.
Apple was never going to be anything other than a niche player in the personal computer marketplace, and they knew it all along. Why else would they commit so many resources to co-opting the personal music and cell phone markets? Apple has already won the wars of its choosing.
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try it: http://google.com/unclesam
I agree that we have different options. We don't HAVE to choose Google, just as we didn't have to choose Windows; it was just the easiest/most convenient/accessible/popular way to go and so most people do it. Also, I'm sure more systems will be created that are designed to protect our data, as you say, though all you're doing is putting your trust in Corporation B over Corporation A.

Constitutional rights? Right to privacy? The government can listen in on any phone conversation they want (wire, cell, voip...), read any e-mail that gets sent, break into your home if they would like, et cetera. What rights do we have exactly?

Power corrupts. It's human nature. Your trust in the government to not abuse its' power is scary to me.
The BBC's Glow effort has always confused me. They were using jQuery on the main BBC web site a few years back and I ended up chatting with them about it. They mentioned that they were working on their own library since they needed support for Safari 1.3 (if you've ever had to support that browser version, it's miserable - I'm not even sure it could be described as 'functional'). This was a little bit odd since they hadn't actually submitted any tickets or patches requesting that Safari 1.3-related bugs be fixed.

Now, I should take a step back and mention that some people are just set to be framework authors. They see a problem and want to write their own framework that matches their mental model. This isn't a bad thing - I certainly did that when I wrote jQuery (decided not to use Prototype back in 2005 and wrote my own instead) and the BBC guys are of the same ilk. It's important to realize that the BBC's Glow effort is less about filling a specific void in the market and more about them wanting to write and run their own framework. In an organization as large as the BBC this scale does tend to make its own brand of sense.

If you look through the timeline for when changes were made to the level of browser support, v3.3 shows when support for Safari 1.3 was dropped to "Level 2" (a.k.a. "The web page must be functional in a gracefully degraded state.") - this was in September of 2008 (long before the public release of the library, today).

Timeline: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/technical/browse...

If you look at the support table for which browsers they support (the important ones are Level 1) it's interesting to note that they actually support less browsers on less platforms than most other libraries. For example, jQuery supports Firefox 3.5 (on Windows, OSX, Linux), Chrome 2 (on Windows), Opera 10 (on Windows and OSX), and Safari 4 (on Windows and OSX) in addition to the browsers listed in Glow's Level 1.

Support Table: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/technical/browse...

In the end I think some seriously short-sighted planning went into the creation of Glow. When I was talking with some of the guys at the BBC who were working on it (before they were using it internally) I asked them: "Don't you think that you will have dropped support for Safari 1.3 before you end up finishing and releasing the library? Writing a framework isn't trivial, it's going to take a while and Safari 1.3 is already effectively dead." (At the time Safari 1.3 had a 0% marketshare.)

And now, sure enough, here we have yet another JavaScript library that does similar, but not quite the same, things as every other library - with worse browser support, less uptake, less documentation, and more fracturing of the community.
Essentially asks "why isn't it everything for everyone?"

Apple's OS/hardware isn't that either, they seem to be doing very good. Why do you want creative features in a consumerist OS? It seems to be a sort of a "TV 2.0", not a UNIX workstation, even if it runs on Linux (kernel).

Let's wait to find out what they actually have in mind, and then jump to conclusions.
Sure, and their IP will be blocked by Google some time around the 10th request.
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That's a common misconception.

When the iPhone was first released, development was restricted to web apps and they didn't have access to any API. The fact that it was javascript and HTML was mostly tangential to the complaints of people who wanted to install (and sell) local apps, with access to the unique hardware, though obviously existing Cocoa coders, 3D game programmers and anyone needing to get close to the metal weren't going to be happy even if these other elements were taken care of.

On the other hand "fart apps" and things that are basically light wrappers round existing web apps have no such problem.

See the Palm Pre for someone taking this to it's logical extreme.
it searches the .gov domain, because 'uncle sam' employees can't remember to put site:.gov in front of their searches ?

Think of it as a shortcut.
I think that the Google OS will be great even if I only boot to it occasionally. If it really only takes a few seconds to boot, it will be useful to use when on the road or when I just want to check email.

It's a little like using Chrome instead of Firefox. I use Chrome when I actually want to use the web like a normal person, but when I want to do real work and development, I use Firefox because it is so much more powerful (WebDeveloper, Firebug, TamperData, etc).
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They have been working on the linux port for only 9 months porting what was essentially a native windows application written in Visual Studio. The fact that they got this far this fast shows that they have a pretty good team.
Understanding a customer's needs is perhaps the greatest skill a developer can learn. I once met a colleague who refused to work on a project until they explained to him what it was for, why they needed it, and how they intended on using it. It took me a year or two to really understand how wise that was. Of course, we're assuming the customer knows what they want. (PT: They don't.)
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Ok this is interesting. I agree with you about the roadblock argument to a point. I think where it breaks down is that the browser itself is the choke point for any internet based strategy as it is the gateway to the web for 99.9% of the users out there.

To evolve the browser into something that is closer to the server would eliminate the roadblock of which you speak. I don't think you need to create an OS to do that. IE has a decided advantage for Microsoft as it comes pre-installed and is prominently showcased within the OS itself. The fact that you have to download and then install either Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Opera presents a roadblock for users. Switching operating systems is an even bigger roadblock.
OS 2008 (Maemo Linux on Nokia N8XX tablets) has a port of Flash 9 running on ARM. I doubt it'll take much to get a new version out for Google.
The title is a bit misleading. Clearly Scientology have spent a lot of money to make it to the top of the pile; Google have nothing to do with it.
Next time you're looking at a PC infected with malware have a look at the network traffic using a sniffer, chances are pretty good that you'll see searches to google for the weirdest of terms. Apparently this is to get around the limitation that you mention. I'm assuming the results of such searches will be 'mailed home' through some kind of dead-drop.
We actually have a surprising number of customers come to us at 80legs wanting to crawl google search results. I don't think most of them are trying to reverse engineer google or anything like that. Most probably just want a fast way to find relevant topics to crawl.

They are disappointed when they learn we obey robots.txt, so we have them manually do searches to pull out seed lists for their 80legs crawls. It's a pain, but there's not really a way around it within the rules.
Yes, this looks a lot like what I had in mind. Reading his blog entry, I like that he is getting something out there, even though it is not all of what he originally had in mind. If he keeps iterating, he should do well. I wonder if he has any thoughts on business models.
Exactly.

DirectX has done almost as much, if not more, to preserve the Windows moat as MS Office has (moat in the sense that Warren Buffet says it). Many people buy Windows (or steal it) just to play games, just as many businesses stick with Windows because MS Office is the resume-standard office suite and VB apps are so easy to hammer out.

Really it'd be nice if either a) game developers switched to OpenGL, or b) the open source community came up with something better than DirectX from the developer perspective, creating a natural impetus to switch.

(Yes, I am being entirely selfish here, as I'd like to stop dual-booting for my non-Wine games.)
(for now) delta^2 = 0

Oh, that's another wonderful story — of Clifford algebras: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number , useful in automatic differentiation.

As to your general point of what constitutes "internal representation", someone below tries to convince people that definitions involved with Reals are arbitrary and can be made differently thus forming Hyperreals. But no. One first have to construct Reals anyways, then one arrives at infinity, which is not a number, hyperreal or otherwise, but a consequence of numbering per se. Nothing ad hoc here. Hyperreals are that or another notation, but the main thinking is still the same, just paradoxes pop in different places, the only gain is increase in confusion as hyperreals, tuns out, do not conform to that "internal representation" in many more places than the poor 0.(9) .
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By the way, if anyone's wondering, I verified that this Labs feature actually exists!
Sounds like a botnet DDoS attack
Now, Google Chrome OS running on the CrunchPad, wouldn't that be something...
There will be Google-branded netbooks in Best Buy within a year. No, I'm not saying this based on any actual announcement or special inside information. Just common sense. Abstractly launching an OS doesn't do anyone any good.

Google could work with Dell or something to do this, and Google could even promise to stand behind Dell if Microsoft tries to retaliate in a way that almost nobody else (like RedHat) could.

(Also note that with yet another six months or a year of hardware development, the specs on these netbooks are going to be pretty good. These netbooks also won't be subject to the Microsoft XP "sell it with only 1GB" issue, or anything other netbook-hobbling plans Microsoft might concoct.)
Pretty much the same happened around CMS in the Netherlands broadcast sphere, I always figured that it must be really comfy when your paycheck is based on taxation and not on some kind of competitive success.

If you're a business and your opponent can leverage an existing solution vs you hacking out your own in the basement you'll find out the hard way that this was not a very smart move.
"As for your latter suggestion - I think its unrealistic to build a general web-based solution."

Might be a dual product strategy, the public facing webapp with limits on data size to test drive, and customer site installed enterprise version. Or maybe some solution that uses Amazon storage (in other words, outsource data storage and security issues to Amazon).

Of course, Google had the two tier search idea (they wanted to monetize by selling custom search servers to businesses) but found the real money was to be made on the consumer facing side. So you never know.
But not so nice if you're a paying user (via the license fee) and upgrading means a new OS or computer. I think their mandate is to work for their paying users, ahead of helping web developers.
Interesting that US and South Korean sites are being attacked and that the attacks started on July 4th. It seems that North Korea might have their hand in it. They are partial to showing force on US holidays, and as of late have vied both US and South Korea as immediate enemies.

However, North Korea has a pattern of showing force to generate internal support for its government and as a playing card in negotiations with the west. Cyber-attacks like these are not flashy like testing a missile or a nuclear war-head and not very good for propaganda machine.
No condolences necessary. I'm glad that more people are looking at Keyczar and finding these bugs. We learn from our mistakes and in the end have safer code for everyone.
I find one of the biggest challenges, and best skills to develop, is getting the customer to describe the problem they're trying to solve rather than the solution they think they need. My job, as a Software Engineer, is to figure out the best solution for the customer's problem, not just to implement the solution the customer requested.
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I think Google will continue to "win" and we will use their applications/reader/ecc until they will have the dominant search engine. If you look at what they offer (with the exception, maybe, of excel-like webapp), they are not killer application. We are using them because our online-life is Google-centric.
So we should remeber that everything else they do is buld on their search engine dominance (think to the omnibox)...
For the webos is the same. It's fine, for a netbook IF Google will remain Google.

If you look at what people do with a Mac, they do far more than just using web application. Far Far more.
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> this space is already crowded

"Cambrian Explosion" springs to mind.

Javascript libraries, Web frameworks and CMS's all seem to have this theme where the perceived difficulty of rolling your own is less then bending something existing to your will.
Google Chrome OS is Linux. Not. (Here comes applinuxes?)
Don't tease me.

The BIOS is one area that is long overdue for some modernization. If the folks over at coreboot.org can do it from the outside, imagine what would happen if mobo manufacturers opened up their specs to the community and embraced what came out of it.
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That's very interesting.

I'm coming at it as someone who was doing NLP a decade ago, and recently came back to it by taking courses part time here at Carnegie Mellon (where I am employed). So I have courses under my belt now covering the intersection of machine learning and NLP (which is pretty much all of NLP these days) and planning to take the Masters Machine Learning course this Fall.

The part I would need to add next, I guess, is the data visualization part.

For the large scale data part, there is this program:

http://vlis.isri.cmu.edu/

I was already thinking about applying to this program, and the discussion in this thread is further convincing me that it's a good idea.
this is even weirder..
http://www.google.com/microsoft
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To sum it up, we all speak our own language and every person I talk to I try to treat as though I am trying to figure out how to translate my language into theirs.

It's this realization that's the "line in the sand" for me. If the other person doesn't realize this, this indicates a certain paucity of imagination and lack of curiosity on their part. It is a prerequisite for many forms of intelligent conversation -- namely the forms of intelligent conversation I am the least conversant in. In other words, it's how I can access what is most deserving of my curiosity.
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Neither would it be safe to to assume anything about the OS before it has been released.

Yes article, I am looking at you: "it should be faster", "Google is promising boot times measured in seconds", "If Google can come up", "we might just have the ultimate", "Google may use these"

That is: should, promising, if, might, may. Not a single bit of concrete data at all, just pure speculation.

I know Google has released quite a few solid products, but aren't we giving them too much credit on something yet to be delivered? Google may know how to run servers and write web-apps, but why are we assuming they know anything about how to build a decent client OS?

If Microsoft was to release anything like this, with just as little data, the entire tech press would be up in arms about how this was going to fail.

I guess I'm getting about as tired about the Google-hype as the iPhone-hype. I use both, but that doesn't mean I believe in magic before I see it.
I would put "wasting time following content-free links" near the top of that list.
There are also allegations that the South Korean spy agency is overstating the attack in order to build support for a new law that gives it broader powers.

And keep in mind this is a DoS attack against public-facing websites. Taking a SK newspaper site offline is really annoying but it's not exactly in the same league as hacking the electrical grid.
I don't think this is a matter of 'if' but 'when'.

Already governments are openly leaning on google to get it to do their bidding, who knows what is happening behind the scenes.
And the article is not worth enduring the torture (hint: use the Readability bookmarklet on such pages if you really want to read them).

thenextweb.com had been banned here before, and I think it should be again:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=637738
We've had a hell of a time getting Scientology ads out of our backfill adsense. They show on feeds, in content, on forums, etc. The competitive ad filters don't seem to be working either (or we're total morons who can't figure out ad domains).
I'd have to agree with your predictions.

Some are claiming that rather than hurt Windows, this is going to take the market share Linux "might have had". But I really don't think that Linux users are going to want a system that gives up more of their privacy to Google, and restricts the power of your own computer to what you can do with Google.
Running it using nspluginwrapper seems to make it so that when Flash crashes, it doesn't take Firefox down with it.

I regularly killall npviewer.bin too, when Flash is hung or doing something weird. Reload the page and it restarts.
Honestly it looks more like a competitor to the Crunchpad then Windows. At least the CrunchPad can run Skype.
the ideal laptop / internet pad would behave like an animated piece of paper.
Ok. So I'm interested in what this may be. That said, I'm not going to vote up news about upcoming news.
In the medium-run the dollar value will go down (in 6/8 months). There's non way the USA could repay the debt. Brasil,Russia,India and China (the BRIC) want a group of currencies non only the dollar, to be the world currency. They don't want, for the future, to encrease their dependance on the dollar. In the future they will become (and the China is becoming now) more advanced economies, not only selling goods to the west.
And the american debt holders are afraid of the american debt becoming larger day by day.
So you should expect bat times for the american bond and the dollar (but good for your export and debt).
http://www.google.com/unclesam?q=wtf
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"If Microsoft was to release anything like this, with just as little data, the entire tech press would be up in arms about how this was going to fail."

For good reason. They have ample precedent of huge Microsoft failures. Google, not so much (yet).
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