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That is what AOSP and its derivatives are for, to pick up development when the manufacturer gives up. The Defy did not get updated past 2.3.6 by Motorola, anything after that (currently running 4.4.4 which is as far as this device will go) comes from there. Since Android apps are generally backward compatible for a long time, older Android devices can still run current apps. This is actually one of the advantages Android has over iOS, older iDevices are generally stuck at older apps as soon as Apple stops supporting the device.
I can confirm that this is a thing at multiple companies.
Instead of of testing the actual algorithm, you'll encounter such blasts from the past like: "Network Socket Debugging", "How The Fuck Does Java Read From STDIN?", and everyone's favorite, "Why The Fuck Did You Give Me Text Data In CSV Format?"

I have seen this go well exactly once. And they provided an environment with a working (albeit do nothing) scaffold along with test data. Also it was like a three hours in a room.
I built a site like this a few years ago, got absolutely no traction, and shut it down.

I'm very open to the possibility that I went about it the wrong way, but I don't really know what I should have done differently. Maybe it could have worked if I had done a lot more evangelizing -- I admittedly didn't do much, but what I did do was so poorly received that I gave up.
Or the dividends from keeping your down payment in the stock market.
Likewise, we should have seen the rise of middlemen who put up the capital to buy medallions, rehire drivers at suppressed wages, and proceed to collect rent forever, as bad.

This is essentially the same problem that we see reoccurring everywhere in modern society. We put in a system that seemed like a good idea, but after some time being exercised in reality, turns out to have some serious flaws.

Fixing those flaws is so time consuming and expensive that it becomes a bureaucratic impossibility. The result is that the profits pass onto the few, and everyone else suffers for it. (e.g. politician buying in Washington, software patents, prop 13 in California, etc.)
One thing I think would lay to rest a lot of this issue would be if Facebook would just explicitly state, "We have patents for React," or, "We hold no patents for React." There's a lot of misinformation going around, and some people say that there have been searches and found nothing, others have said there are patents, so it's very confusing. My understanding is that Facebook doesn't hold any patents for React or technologies that React uses, but I don't know for sure because I haven't seen it from a qualified source and Facebook hasn't said anything. The other thing I think would help is if Facebook made is crystal clear the meaning of the patent grant and explained it in plain English, because they currently aren't doing a good job at explaining it as evidenced by people always saying different things about it. Their relative silence and opaqueness around this issue only causes confusion and distrust of their OSS work, even if it is good.

The main reason that I don't like the patent grant isn't because of React specifically, it's because Facebook revokes ANY patents if you sue them for patent infringement, even ones unconcerned with the technology you're suing them for. This is why I prefer OSS licenses with explicit patent grants better, because they're worded in such a way that the only patent grants you lose are the ones that concern the technology under license (see Apache 2.0).
Cycling: Groups call for action on 'car-dooring'
Since other comments have already pointed out some negative aspects of roku, I just wanted to say that I really enjoy my roku. Moreover my parents and non-tech-savvy friends love it. I'm not sure why, but when it comes to roku vs similar products these demographics just seems to 'get it'. I refuse to get cable TV since everything I want to watch can be streamed; but my roommate complained almost every day that he didnt know how to stream, he didnt like the chromecast or PS4 and "why cant we just get cable?!". Unrelenting I picked up a $50 roku premiere hd. For whatever reason, he loves it. He says it feels familiar - whatever that means.
> some random source

Sorry, Caixin and WSJ and Bloomberg are not "some random source". I know "China bans Bitcoin" has been a joke meme in the community for years, but this time it's the real deal.
There's really 2 aspects to Bitcoin regulation: 1) the technology itself (hard to regulate, possibly filtered at firewall level however) and 2) the intersection of Bitcoin and fiat (ie, the exchanges). #2 is much easier to regulate, and in the end, far more effective
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code is a decent summary.

IP68 means absolutely no dust whatsoever and:

"The equipment is suitable for continuous immersion in water under conditions which shall be specified by the manufacturer. However, with certain types of equipment, it can mean that water can enter but only in such a manner that it produces no harmful effects. The test depth and/or duration is expected to be greater than the requirements for IPx7, and other environmental effects may be added, such as temperature cycling before immersion."

In the S8's case, the manufacturer specified conditions were "submersion in up to 1.5 meters of fresh water for up to 30 minutes", from http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/galaxy-s8/performance/.
Of course catching bugs early is much, much better and well executed code reviews and TDD are the way to go.

But what do you do if your team struggles to get the basics right? When asking them to write tests results in doubling the code base with trivial module tests finding no bugs and only preventing the all too necessary refactoring? Slowing the team down so much it has to be scaled up? What if the software is not intended to live long?

What if manual tests are the fastest and most reliable way to establish feedback?
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Well, one of the benefits of centralization is economies of scale to do R&D. And thus the power generation can move to wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear and so forth.

And it can be supplemented by solar panels which is decentralized.
Though untested, many think the BSD and similar licenses provide an implicit grant that can't be strategically revoked. Future case law to the contrary would make a lot of open software unusable or at least a legal minefield. Providing an explicit grant with explicit conditions of termination makes it easy for Facebook to selectively restrict use of anything that might be under patent in ANY of their projects. At best it's not in the spirit of FOSS and at worst it asymmetrically weaponizes open licenses.

It's true that, practically, most companies won't ever have to worry about Facebook infringing their patents, but I think it's garbage on principle to reserve first-strike litigation while making it impossible for someone else to do the same and use software you've made available under a supposedly permissive license.
This would only let you exchange for tokens, right? 95% of the trading public won't give anything a look if you can't trade for fiat.
Medical school?
Yes, the CO2 exhaust can be captured before it escapes!
> people have searched around for obvious concepts and phrases involving the virtual dom, synthetic events, etc., and nothing has been found.

Someone shared this one with me recently:
https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242

That said, if you're using React, I don't think you should be suing Facebook for using your patents - after all, you're using theirs. If you do want to do that, then by all means, skip React.
Gmaster – git client with semantic diff
We (the Flapjax team) open sourced a vdom for reactive web programming / FRP in 2005-2006, including formal publications in 2007-2009, so precedent will be interesting. We're doing next-next-gen of that stuff at Graphistry (Rx, Falcor, GoAI, ...), so fun times if lawyers come in.
I guess you can "day trade" and only own them for a short amount of time. Any suggestion on exchange/marketplaces ? My experience (Bitcoin) is that it's too slow with small volumes. Then there's a lot of risk, like the exchange getting hacked.
> AAA games?

You mean the ones built on a handful of abstracted 3D engines like Unreal, Source, id Tech, CryEngine, Unity, etc?

> Linux

You mean the operating system that abstracts away from us things like filesystems, hardware access, shared memory, time sharing, networking protocols, access control, multicore processors, etc.?

> Rust

You mean the programming language that adds a new abstraction of "borrowing and ownership" to help simplify the confusing existing abstractions of memory management and data race detection?

> Vulkan

You mean the API that abstracts away parallel computation on graphics hardware, upon which they intend for dedicate graphics abstractions like OpenGL and WebASM to be abstracted?

> WebASM?

You mean the API that abstracts away running low-level machine code — not on your own machine, but sandboxed on remote machines via web browsers.

> Meanwhile most of the really interesting problems are still done in fairly primitive languages.

Do you want to take a guess why I'll argue that you consider the obscenely complicated task of "delivering secure, multiuser, interactive applications with offline persistent data storage to hundreds of thousands of remote clients" a non-interesting problem?

It's only because of the incredibly successful and complex network of abstractions that are Ethernet, IPv4, TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, graphical image formats, web browsers, database servers, caches, switched networks, load balancers, and so on that these kinds of achievements that would have been considered monumental even thirty years ago are not "really interesting problems" today.

Abstraction has allowed us to break apart the component parts of this incredibly complicated problem into small, independent, coordinating layers. The fact that you think that something like delivering web applications is a non-interesting problem practically makes my argument for abstraction all by itself.
SSNs aren't being used for identification (they're ... an identifier), but for authentication.

That's a subtle though crucial distinction.
http://linux.via.com.tw/support/beginDownload.action?eleid=1...

Interesting. 0fa7xx is indeed where the VIA Padlock instructions live, but the last byte is probably being partially decoded.
> I suggest you discuss this directly with archaeological faculty at a university, rather than making claims about dynamite - e.g. those who used dynamite were treasure hunters, for example, not archaeologists. Modern archaeologists do share your distress over most of what you've claimed.

My experience with academic archaeologists has been that they are pretty myopic on this. They like to dismiss past archaeologists as treasure hunters, but they are also eager to get their hands on all the data they can without much regard for the locals or for preservation. They usually justify this by pointing out that they aren't looking for treasure, in the traditional sense.
This article about Tesla and Musk has all the information you need to know and more:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-li...

Here's the money quote:

"2) Energy production is more efficient in a power plant than it is in a car engine. To use an example with an identical source fuel, burning natural gas in a power plant is about 60% efficient, meaning 40% of the energy of the fuel is lost in the energy production process. In a car, burning gas is less than 25% efficient, with the vast majority of the energy lost to heat. The larger more complex system at a power plant will always be far better at capturing waste heat than a tiny car engine. The increased efficiency means that even a car running purely on coal-generated electricity will emit carbon at the same rate as a gas car that gets 30 miles per gallon—which would be a significantly cleaner-than-average gas car."
Ever heard about peak oil?
> why would they give up free money?

Chinese system is a top-down system, once something becomes 政治任务(Political Mission, meaning the top level agenda), they are basically in a obey-or-die situation and of cause most of them will comply.

Indeed, the Chinese government cannot ban EVERY individual, but they can make it scary enough that most people, unless desperate, will not attempt it. Like, put some exchange owners into prison to make an example, restrict the access to foreign exchanges, or they can even go as far to detect bitcoin protocol and kills it on packet level. That is what they usually do anyway.
They don't let the crawlers in either. Do a search. You'll see the snippet only contains the same part of the article you see before the paywall.
UK AI Startups Raised £100M in 2017 so far
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And they still build and sell millions of petrol vehicles too, but that's changing; my point stands.
> It's a tad slow, but weren't talking about literally a few seconds of waiting, nothing truly inconvenient.

A few seconds of waiting is not "truly inconvenient"? I suppose you're either a zen master, or not doing much with the phone (possibly because it's "a tad slow").

For me, the phone is something I use constantly during the day, in lots of brief bursts. Few seconds of lag may be the difference between me staying in or leaving the flow. It would often make a significant fraction of the length of a single interaction with a phone. Those kinds of frustrations add up for me over time. Avoiding all of that is worth the $700, if I can afford it.
Could they just get around the requirement by using the HTML5 storage stuff? It's such a silly legal requirement. There's significant privacy concerns. And they make me close this silly message that has nothing to do with privacy at all.
I am still using Chromecast (1st gen) device to cast pretty much every video I can find on my phone. For the video apps without cast option (like Amazon Instant Video for example), I simply cast entire phone (Android system 'Cast' that mirrors screen ) on my TV. This solves fragmentation issue for me as I can cast pretty much everything: YTube, Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, Amazon Video, CuriosityStream, etc. Works great for me.
Purely out of curiousity: Is it physically possible for a sufficiently smart active suspension system defeat a conventional (i.e. solid bump on the road) speed bump?
It kinda worked after world war two in the wake of the New Deal (which incidentally was instituted in a depression and a >90% top tax rate). In the 1970s, deregulation took over and worker wages began to stagnate and decline. Tax rates fell. Since 2007 when the banks imploded and were bailed out on the people's dime (the people weren't bailed out), we've been unable to fix the economy with monetary policy.

Demand has been slack for a decade and economists are freaking out. What's going on? Why is civil society disintegrating? Why is the fascist right rising? Why are white people's life expectancy declining?

Neoliberal reforms (deregulation, private capital, sale of nationalized industries, etc) that were instituted in central america, south america, Russia, and others basically destroyed them. In particular, the wave of desperate people arriving at our borders are in significant part due to US support of neoliberal policy and the support of violent regimes in El Salvador, Guatamala, Chile, Argentina, and on and on.

You have to ask yourself, why are we facing problems now? We're the global superpower! Even more so, why are the economic maladies present throughout the western world at a time when we should be at the peak of our civilization? This was something that stumped me for a long time. Shouldn't problems be regional? How is it possible for Donald Trump, Brexit, Geert Wilders, and Marine le Penn to occur at the same time?

There's a systemic problem. Think about it.
TY -- the sad part is they'll read it and think you agreed with them.
Robert Boyle's Experimental Proof of the Possibility of the Resurrection
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=china%20fossil%20fuel%20points...
This license isn't exclusive to React. Assuming that you're correct and Facebook's legal team made a mistake, what happens when everything is filed correctly with another project? What happens when another company uses this? I can't help but feel that the big picture is being missed. If Facebook's open source projects don't lose momentum, other companies will be tempted to do follow
I think this comment is bringing it to the point. Investment wise it was a bad idea to begin with, and when competitors start to hit and easily conquer the same market, then of course it becomes really stupid to invest in that market.

In that regard my pity is also limited. Yes I feel their pain with them. But we also have a responsibility to investigate before making such a huge bet. And sadly if you discuss with people who lost their life savings like that, many actually think they are not responsible BECAUSE they didn't think about. The "logic" being, if you don't think about it, you can't be responsible for the result.
Taken a step further, could LIDAR/RADAR systems detect speed bumps and inform the suspension system?
This only happened because Uber broke the law, actually undermined the rule of law and they got away with it. Think of what would happen if every corporation could pick at will which legislation they ignore.
Recent growth has been coming more from South Korea and Japan. This news has already hurt the price, but it's likely priced in now, and there are plenty of other markets out there. Speculation will continue.
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Driving Change at Mozilla
The link is pretty bizarre to me. It can only occur if an enormous region of an ocean is tremendously heated. Short of a Chicxulub-style event in which down falling ejecta massively heats a large region, I don't see how you get there.

Even then, the link requires that the troposphere remains at a relatively normal temperature, which rules out ejecta heating. I just don't see a mechanism.
Considering people in China are using Bitcoin to skirt Chinese capital controls, this would be the "right" move (in the mind of the government.) If China were to hamfistedly crack down on bitcoin and centralize exchanges under government control, bitcoin would collapse (imo.) I honestly think such measures are inevitable from Chinese officials. Though the problem I'm sure is that there are some officials or people tied to them that now holds coins, which gives them some conflict. Bitcoin as an industry is sort of baffling to me.
As much as I would like this to happen soon, I see the 30 minute charge as main ux impediment that needs to be overcome before they can really go mainstream. People simply aren't going to want to wait that long. It needs to be comparable to getting gas or it's a dealbreaker imo.
Boy, the IBTimes has always been a terrible place to read articles, especially with its autoplaying videos, but now when you scroll down (after having stopped the video of course) it inexplicably jumps to the lower right corner of the screen and then PULLS the article to the top of the screen where the video used to be. So while you're reading and scrolling, the article just jumps away from you and you lose your place.

Incredible. How anyone thought this is good web design is beyond me. Then again, IBTimes has always been a really shitty place for journalism overall.
nobody says they want their kid to have a job stacking bins, but there is a need for low-skill, low-training jobs. "Industrial operations, design, etc" are jobs for skilled employees who want a career. Not everybody wants a career, or wants to go to school. Some people are just looking to stack bins for a few months to fund their travel or surfing or whatever.
If you've ever visited or lived in a Chinese city they need to do this to cut down on pollution, which is awful.

They're also ramping up nuclear power for similar reasons (http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pro...)
Or, for $50 you can get a phone with a midrange chipset that will be nearly as fast as any of the top tier phones out there. The slightly used phone market has really broadened access to cellphones quite a bit.
You mean like happened with oil until we moved on to newer extraction methods and newer tech, and supply started outstripping demand again? At least with lithium batteries, the waste products can be reprocessed.
More trouble than it's worth. The current style of lightweight rubber or plastic bumper is already elastic for small collisions and absorbs some energy from larger ones, deforming as it goes. Replacing that with a comparitively complex sac of non-newtonian fluid will be more expensive to manufacture, more liable to vandalism, heavier, harder to repair, so on and so forth.

It's also potentially able to make a big mess from a small accident that a regular bumper would shake off. Jam an iron bar into a regular bumper and you'll scuff it. Jam it into a non-newtonian sac, and you might rupture it.
what about this one? It was literally just published: "Automatic overdraw reduction before rendering"

https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242?dq=facebook+use...
> Isn't it equally cruel to talk like people want to be drones?

Well, I didn't append all the qualifiers I could have because I assumed that my comment would be read in a reasonable way.

Right now, those drone jobs are the difference between eating and not eating for a lot of people. I obviously want to see the eating problem solved before the drone job problem is solved. Until then, saying that these people should be happy to lose their drone jobs is cruel. I encourage you to go present your theory to some of those drones. Tell them about how they can cast off the chains of their slavery and be free to starve.

Talk about failures of the social safety net is nice (and I agree, as far as that goes), but it's just talk. Talk is not going to fix the social safety net. These are real lives that depend on this issue.
China is also investing heavily in nuclear: http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pro...
Building a Culture of Reliability
> The Aborigines very likely helped turn much of Australia into a desert.

That isn't remotely what that article (or the paper it summarises) suggests -- it has nothing whatsoever to do with desertification. The magnitude of ecological effects of indigenous settlement of Australia is as yet very poorly understood and highly contested, and the timeline even more so. It's possible, but by no means demonstrated, for example, that early human settlement wiped out megafauna, but that it quickly settled into a sustainable pattern as the incomers learned to manage the continent.

To label any detailed description of indigenous cultures as 'romanticizing' or relating to 18th century 'noble savage' myths, for no better reason than that it contradicts unevidenced & derogatory popular myths, is just lazy.

A portrait deriving from the actual evidence carefully unearthed so far suggests nothing remotely resembling a 'noble savage' account of indigenous Australian civilisation, nor one that was 'less effective' than ours. Indigenous Australians were not purely hunter-gatherers, running naked around a 'pristine' environment, but were active managers of an entire continent's biomass. The aforementioned Gammage and Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu are the best popular accounts, both drawing on and carefully referencing primary sources. Reading either might dispel a few prejudices.
China Is Said to Ban Bitcoin Exchanges While Allowing OTC Trades
Nudge Theory