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Ask HN: Is the Google OS announcement merely a reaction to Bing?
With a user name like "K_McLovin", I've got to believe this was a joke. A mildly amusing one, though.
There's no especial need to RSVP or anything, but I do encourage people to leave a placeholder comment just so it hangs around the front page for a few hours, today.

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Amazing. This is actually much more interesting than the original post.
I couldn't disagree with you any more.

My usual (although probably totally unhealthy) habit of waking up and immediately (as in...within 20 seconds of opening my eyes) checking HN, gibsonandlily.com, reddit.com, and slashdot.com led me to this article. I read the entire thing from beginning to end (which is rare, for me), and thoroughly enjoyed the entire thing.

In fact, as I was reading it, I kept remarking to myself how much I enjoyed the writing style.

To each his own, I guess. It does frighten me a bit, though, that people make this complaint so much. What do people who can't be bothered to read a couple of pages worth of a story do when they are confronted by a book, magazine, or newspaper? (or a kindle).
No, it is apples to oranges. If they feel like reacting to Bing, it will be a more direct approach, such as adding realtime results to Google searches.
I don't think so. What they've said about Google OS is completely consistent with the rest of their stated philosophies. In any case, there's already way too much speculation going on about it.
Ask HN: How to get diggs?
I'm currently trying to promote http://digg.com/security/Art_JavaScript_Privacy_Collage_of_sites_you_visit_NYT , its got about 3 hours left and I'm wondering what I should to do attempt to promote it?
I understand digg is a very different community than HN but I figured there might be some cross-over and people with more experience would know what I should do. So far all I've done is e-mail my friends and the local computer science club.
Do you mean the idea of creating their own OS? Or the timing of the announcement itself?

Obviously they've been working on this for at least some time now if they are releasing the code in a few months.
Yes from a similar perspective, sort of.

I had few friends at school and when I was dropped into university it was like shell shock! Nothing to talk about.

I was lucky enough to make a couple of good mates and later made a really good friend on my course (at first I was really rude to him - he was being friendly and I had no idea how to respond). Beyond that group of 8 or so people I struggle to interact socially (or used to).

I get the thinking behind this exercise is great: Im just worried your setting a lot by it. I've spent time studying social interaction becuase i find it interesting. Take talking to people on buses - your unlikely to make headway of any sort all the time because people just dont respond to that. The social consensus tells people that if someone talks to them in that situation out of the blue they are either mad or bad! I mentioned familiartiy before: generally people will accept nods, a shared joke or very very minor small talk in the situations your putting yourself in. If they see you in that context a few times in a row they will be happier to open up more because of familiarity (he talkjed to me before, the world didnt end, safe).

I think your 30days thing will be of value as long as your take away is that people are very introvert people generally and your social difficulties are perhaps exacerbated but not unique (aka everyone feels a bit like that). I do feel the most important thing is to make longer term friendships. They will be a lot more beneficial (in my experience)

EDIT: where do you live? Im guessing the US which is the shame otherwise I would happily pop by and say hi in person (meeting someone I had "broken ice" with online really helped me once).

EDIT: to add a bit more - you've done amazingly well to get this far in. congrats! The secret is, Im guessing, that most "normal" (as in socially comfortable) wouldnt have made it this far.
It sounds like he needs to lubricate his internet ports.
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But when you consider MySQL's web-centric history, its lack of transactional and foreign key support, and its relaxed attitude with regard to data integrity

2 things:

1 MySQL has had support for transactions since version 4.

2 Relaxed attitude towards data integrity Seriously?
So basically this story boils down to (at least as of now):

...I'm not pursuaded that an 0day exists at all. The only evidence so far are some anonymous rumours and unverifiable intrusion transcripts.

Maybe this should be a lesson to wait for more solid info before people begin panicking...
Both. Microsoft has always stated they were interested in getting into the search business, so there is no surprise there. The fact that they've released something that is actually good may have spurred Google to make their announcement before having something to actually demonstrate.

I would imagine (as most have) that they are releasing some sort of Google-centric Linux distribution. This would make sense as it doesn't take long to roll your own if you know what you are doing (and I'm pretty sure Google knows how to do this).
the only thing I noticed that might have been funny, was a robot chicken advertisement for videos :)
I find #1 and #2 curious, given that martial arts are all about training for the opposite of these, and:

"The popularity of martial arts in the hacker culture deserves special mention. Many observers have noted it, and the connection has grown noticeably stronger over time. In the 1970s, many hackers admired martial arts disciplines from a distance, sensing a compatible ideal in their exaltation of skill through rigorous self-discipline and concentration. As martial arts became increasingly mainstreamed in the U.S. and other western countries, hackers moved from admiring to doing in large numbers." (Jargon file, 2000)

Are 'hackers' a negligible minority of 'programmers'? Or have martial arts ceased to be the "hacker exercise of choice"? (Then again, most other hacker hobbies also seem to "involv[e] concentration, stamina, and micromotor skills".)
The FUD is strong with this one. If you want to run your own apps, run your own server. Those who don't care will use the public cloud. Nobody controls the whole Web, and as long as your ISP is reasonable (which none are), hosting your own private app is still possible.
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The article seems fixated on consumer electronics. But in the same way that software is built and sold to businesses, the same can be done with hardware. Not everything has to ship in a shrink-wrapped box.

I don't know much about that market, but I'm very interested in learning more.
This seems true empirically, but when I do the math, it looks like you only need to calculate F_n up to about N/2 to make the ratio precise enough.

True -- I oversimplified. But computing both F_n and F_{n+1} (as you need in order to compute the ratio) takes effectively the same amount of time as computing F_{2n}, so it still doesn't win you anything.
Well if you don't support foreign keys in the main implementation (ISAM or whatever it's called), isn't it hard to say that you seriously care about data integrity?
Hmmm, seems like pretty dubious advice:
So by all means, test your code with the force -- brute force! It's good stuff! Just be careful not to get sloppy, and let the dark side of the testing force prevail. If you think one or two simple test cases covers it, that's taking the easy (and most likely, buggy and incorrect) way out.

Unfortunately, the example he gives is the epitome of "sloppy"-- in fact, it represents a total refusal to even attempt to understand the task at hand before beginning coding. Obviously, having a large suite of test cases is an advantage; but it's no substitute for understanding what one is trying to accomplish.
In Germany we have a special clause in the tax code to prevent your examples (see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewinnerzielungsabsicht). If your business loses money for a long time, you have to justify that you are in the business to make money, not as a hobby ("Liebhaberei").
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I think groups has their niche` users and those that stick are very high quality, and google video would still be going but they bought YouTube, which is probably turning out to be a great move.
The proof? Come on, man, I admire Google as much as the next developer does... Maps, Gmail, these things were simply stunning products when they released (and still are).

But they are a major American corporation. They employ a number of people in high-ranking positions who have very large compensation packages that are tied to profits and stock price.

I'd wager that nearly every working American can tell you stories about abuses of American corporations... dozens of stories... And most could probably tell you some that they themselves have witnessed as an employee.

The stock-price-driven mentality in management at large American publicly traded companies puts emphasis entirely on short term, quarter-by-quarter profits.

I don't mind being slightly inflammatory in saying that anybody with a little _wisdom_ treats all these corporations with suspicion. And you'd be a fool not to.

These are not people: lives will not be ruined by a presumption of guilty-until-proven-innocent. Giving these companies the freedom we give people to operate freely until proven guilty is what results in things like Enron and real lives being shattered.

Google is not a bunch of hippie kashi-eating hackers anymore. Not for a long, long time. It's a bunch of corporatist managers who love money just like every other company.

I'm a software developer and a startup founder. I have the same dreams many here do, the same I'm sure Sergey and Larry Page did. But come on. Don't be so foolish. Google is skilled at marketing and branding, but you're surely smart--nearly all here are. Don't blur the line between admiration and worship.
The key to supremacy in the enterprise market is to seize control of the entry point.

IBM did it in the 1960s and 1970s with the entry point being a highly skilled personalized sales force in an era where relationships established the trust needed for enterprises to commit to large systems.

Microsoft did it in the 1980s and 1990s with the entry point being its proprietary API for its desktop OS which, with the help of OEM hardware partners, it used to choke out anyone who sought to compete with it in the desktop applications market. It then tried (and failed) to use its desktop monopoly as a vehicle by which to dominate the back-end of enterprise computing.

Google now seeks to gain similar supremacy with the entry point being superior proprietary products ultimately derived from or at least capitalizing upon Open Source in a web-centric computing environment. What form this will take, I don't know. But it will take a form by which Google tries to seize and maintain control of the entry point and ultimately bend the world's primary computing environments to its proprietary advantage. The Chrome OS is one piece of this effort.

The question is one of which company will become the ultimate gatekeeper to all or most of enterprise computing, which is where the money is. Google wants that role and that is where its fight with Microsoft will lie.

As they say, "The law of human nature - it ain't been repealed yet."
I do live in the U.S. actually... If you're ever in Seattle gimme a holla! :)

As far as everything else goes, I think we're on the same page. When I do things, I'm either all in or all out. For right now I'm treating it as a religion but that's up for reevaluation at the end of the experiment. Not a moment before however!
Glow does support Firefox 3.5, Chrome 2, Opera 10 and Safari 4. We're certainly not going to ignore new versions of browsers until they appear on that list.

At some points, we've been ahead of jQuery when it comes to new browsers. Basically because we were able to quickly patch and release in order to fix high-profile BBC pages. This isn't a criticism of jQuery, but it shows the benefit of us being devoted to the BBC.

The BBC will always have to support older browsers because of our users. I think it would be unfair to ask other libraries to hang back with us (I'd much rather they advanced actually), and I wouldn't want to be using a library that left us behind.

At the moment, our support table is actually closer to other libraries' than it has ever been, that support gap will naturally increase and decrease over time.

We're not trying to steal your thunder at all, although I can see why it may have came across like that. My advice to developers is: use the library which has the most features you require. Whichever you pick, request the features that are missing.

With all the libraries innovating and others taking note, the quality of all libraries increases. Having one library to rule them all doesn't drive things forward, a good example of this is when IE6 was the only major browser, browser development stagnated.

We're not about filling a void in the market, but filling a void at the BBC. We're open sourcing our efforts because we should.

You mention you communicated with us? I'm not aware of this at all.

Having said all this, we're looking at the possibility of using Sizzle in Glow 2.0, although it's a bit vague about which browsers it intends to support. Would be great to know the details!

http://groups.google.com/group/sizzlejs/browse_thread/thread...

Cheers,
Jake.
I must confess that, after a week seeing those horribly distracting ads, I started clicking just to make sure they were at least paying for the annoyance.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. It seems that hardware may be the New Way (tm). There exist some pretty exciting technologies for cheap, namely FPGA boards and SOC (system on a chip... and/or nano-itx). These make a very large portion of hardware design much simpler. We can suddenly apply software rapid development techniques to board design with the FPGAs. Further the SOC makes much functionality within a product just software development.

Further, there are many exciting "hobby kits" which make gadgets very creatable and testable, since they allow for easy plug-and-play hardware creation. This sort of thing makes prototyping very very easy, and the rest can be outsourced pretty well. Sure there are complications that I know nothing of, but I think there is an abundance of supply chain for a lot of projects, making small hardware companies totally possible.

A slightly different perspective on the above: I beleive there exists at least one market that can be exploited by putting together existing big components in fun new ways.
Im pretty sure google base can be written off as a failure - not total since its still in operation. But it was supposed to be a repository for product information that google could throw into search results like video and news.

http://www.google.com/base/?gsessionid=6m6iYVR2r0FJA9WdwcC17...

google base : post it. Find it on Google.
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Sounds as if MySpace no longer is like High School. It's worse.
Why is the ribbon usable? What positive effects have you seen that caused you to implement it in various apps. As a user interface designer, how is the ribbon better than the interface it replaces?

I don't doubt what you say, but anecdotal claims are not very interesting -- nor do they convince me I should be awaiting Microsoft's next innovation with baited breath, if that's your intent.
Ask HN: Does the HN article ranking formula need to be adjusted?
I've noticed that the top spot for articles in the last has turned over three times within the last three hours. While I enjoy the mix of articles here on HN, I kind of feel that the fast rate of change for the top most articles is a bit frenetic.

Given that HN is becoming mainstream with all of the excellent exposure PG has had being on the cover of Inc., I'm wondering if the ranking formula needs to be adjusted or not.
I have two Yahoo addresses that I check once a month and one Gmail account I'm logged into 24/7.
But what if there are web-centric OSes and desktop-centric OSes?

In a world where the OS market is fragmented, centralized control and opression becomes even more difficult than it was in a desktop-centric world where one OS had huge market share.

Now that's not the case if we end up with one web-centric OS, but I don't see that happening any more than I see Bing taking over 65% of the search market without any response from Google.
"The social consensus tells people that if someone talks to them in that situation out of the blue they are either mad or bad!"

This is what some would call "a limiting belief" and I used to feel this way. Every interaction is between the two people in it and it is a mix of what both people bring to it. There is a lot of communication happening with body language and tonality. I find when I feel clear, confident, and good--others feel this in my presence. By bringing this energy into the interaction (even in a normally non-social situation), comfort/safety is easy to establish, and going further isn't difficult.

Here is another way of thinking about new meetings: "I'm a great person, who wouldn't want to know me?" now when you're meeting people instead of fearing that they'll think you're "mad" or "bad" you can think "I'm doing this person a favor by meeting them". And if you really are a great person then this statement is absolutely true.

Here is why I care enough to write a long comment--when I was doing what the OP is doing, I felt awkward about it and felt like it was a secret, primarily because I was tired of hearing things like what you're saying. I'm glad I managed to avoid these kinds of messages and just push forward.
I would be happy if Google, started using a term I thought I had some authority in. I would guess your web traffic will be up a bit for a couple days - perhaps you should have redesigned your site... (no offense)
Hardware companies have to handle inventory and RMA. Both are potentially 7-figure annual expenditures and you can't just build them into your price year 1 like you do with shipping.
London's GPS-based speed-limit trial puts Big Brother's foot on the gas pedal
"Drivers in the trial get a switch to choose how the speed limiter operates. Advisory mode gives a dashboard warning when the speed limit changes. Voluntary mode overrides the throttle so it slows the car and prevents the driver from speeding.

One potential problem is that GPS signals fade in the shadow of tall buildings in big cities. Lines admits that this does happen, but the system is programmed to assume that the limit is unchanged until the signal reconnects."
I think it's fine, as far as I'm concerned the decay could be a lot quicker than it is right now. This is one of those aspects of a website that is hard to do right to please everybody.

And to make it configurable on a per user basis would probably be quite expensive in terms of server usage.
Has the rise of virtual circuit design helped to improve margins for the hardware industry? the ability to test a prototype before building it must count for something.
"Example: I can suggest your bank could be doing all SORTS of things with your data - potentially supremely damaging stuff.... but you trust them, right? ;)"

No. Of course I don't. Unless you're banking at "Wee Lil Credite Unione" you'd be foolish to trust your bank.

But I have no choice. I do use a Credit Union for some of my financial needs but when it comes to IRAs, Brokerage Accounts, ETFs, etc, I have only the choice between a large corporate bank and a boutique brokerage with much higher fees.And business banking brings a whole different set of requirements.

Reckless profit-seeking bank, fueled by bonus-hungry execs, levied vast damage to the US economy. I don't trust them. That idea is almost humorous.

But i need them.

And like it or not, I need Google. We all do.

I dare say that the banking sector might not have been best choice of analogy.
you have to justify that you are in the business to make money, not as a hobby ("Liebhaberei").

The IRS operates the same way here, otherwise everyone would be starting up "businesses" for their various hobbies and deducting as much as possible. The Nolo book "Home Business Tax Deductions" is a great primer on all the specific steps one needs to take to ensure their business does not get classified as a hobby by the IRS.

Ultimately if you really have the genuine intent of running a business, you're going to have plenty of evidence to indicate that. But for those curious, I read/own this book and it was very helpful:
http://www.nolo.com/product.cfm/ObjectID/0EB8204C-4889-4C7B-...

This is usually not a concern for most startups, but for people who might be trying to turn their passion/hobby into a money-maker this is a useful guide to ensure you don't get burnt.
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Man I'd hate to be in a situation where I could get out of a situation by stepping on it and being held back by some helpful little box. It hasn't happened often in my driving career that stepping on the gas was a better option than braking but the few times that it did happen I was very happy to have that option.
I'm not sure since I didn't do any work on it. I just work with many of the people who do.

For the most part, we're loathe to reinvent wheels (honestly, that whole "Perl on Rails" thing was due to a long, complicated mess we had little control over). We also have legal restrictions regarding accessibility which may very well have played a part in this (just a guess, but I wouldn't be surprised). You can read full explanation of our reasons at http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow/docs/articles/what_is_glow.shtml
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Thanks for your feedback, Jake - and your note on the improved browser support, that's good to know. I stand corrected.

> Having one library to rule them all doesn't drive things forward, a good example of this is when IE6 was the only major browser, browser development stagnated.

I think that's a poor analogy. Everything stagnated because no one could improve upon IE 6 - it was a proprietary browser which had no way to add in new functionality. This is very different from an Open Source project run by a community of people and companies interested in seeing it improve and strive.

> You mention you communicated with us? I'm not aware of this at all.

I had talked with a member of the team at some post-@Media event (I think it was @Media Ajax, maybe @Media proper). Maybe I'm mis-remembering who exactly but I've definitely chatted with a few people at the BBC about jQuery and Glow.

> Sizzle in Glow 2.0, although it's a bit vague about which browsers it intends to support. Would be great to know the details!

What I mentioned in the post still stands: It supports at least as many browsers as jQuery does. I'm absolutely open to accepting patches to fix any deficiencies in older browsers (same goes for jQuery as well!). I'd love to see Glow utilize Sizzle, definitely contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
From the article it seems that the case was about more accurate defintion of who is passive and who is active investor. Active investors are able to deduct, while passive are not. For example, VCs are passive investors in your startup.

It seems that this ruling has expanded the definition of the active investor beyond where IRS wanted to see it.