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Well that's a semantics issue. Niven might argue that since the egg-producers don't gestate the young they're fulfilling a "male" role of merely producing gametes. But I'd argue that the female role is defined more by producing egg cells than by gestation: female fish produce eggs but don't gestate their young, and we still call them female. Therefore the "male" puppeteers that produce eggs are still truly "female".
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This is the price of weakening patents. When corporations were afraid of patent holders, this happened less. The great fear was, you infringe a patent, you get shut down. That happened to Kodak when they tried to get into instant photography in violation of Polaroid's patents. Kodak was forced to exit the instant camera business within 30 days and buy back every instant camera they'd sold.
>The way I see it, you are essentially asking people not to learn from each other.

I dont think he sayimg anything like that. There's a big difference between learning from each other and baiting you for your secret sauce.
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They talk about research but don't show it. All the explanation they offer seems common sense, is there anything more than that? Software engineering research is notoriously less stringent than the hard science of the rest of computer science, and to the extent that it serves to justify a corporate strategy, invites substantial scepticism.
If, as hinted in the article based off a judge in the case’s remarks, and Google’s defense is “we were under no obligation to compensate him” then it does seem that it is what went down.
You can tell this is legit because they didn't mention using MSN. :)
Of course there's a reason to complain here. I can hardly think of a better place to get the word out to technology entrepreneurs if your goal is to do so.

(Not to imply anything about the truth or falsity of the allegations. I don't know whether any are true.)
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I call this bullshit.

> "Project Genie to educate Google about his proprietary ideas and techniques so they could develop a working proof of concept of his Engineered Architecture technology"

Parametric design and integration into AEC is industry standard since the 80-ies, and a long-time goal of virtually all design software manufacturers. Everybody had a take on this moonshot, and eventually it will get there.

It started with Christopher Alexanders "Design Patterns", when he won a city planning competition for the rebuilding of a destroyed Lima, Peru by offering simple recursive design patterns and not a grand master plan.
In the following decades this was being incooperated into various design tools. In the 90ies I based a university course on that ("Computer Assistet Planning"), and there were several others also worldwide.
City planning is obviously easiest, as there are almost no physics involved, AEC also easy but problematic because the heterogeneous SW used (needing API's, needing a strong partner), and construction being the hardest (Think of AutoCAD vs Revit). Allia thought of the Neufert standards as design patterns. Good goal, but by far not proprietary and revolutionary. Most of us working on that had far more than Allia.

Going to Google with this plan is also extremely naive. There's only AutoDESK to go to with such a project.

An earlier overview is that article https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/17/8048779/google-x-eli-atti...
A current take on city planning is the City Engine: http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine/free-trial
I don't think the problem would be the learning in this scenario. The problem would be not compensating the educator.
But that's a much much smaller target to aim at than the vast number of websites that you trust with a password
Yeah but at least the old ObjC ones are still relevant. And there are a lot of them.
Yes thats true, but did you try to do that gesture on a phone number dial screen? If you do that, it only shows numbers 1 to 9, rest gets hidden and is out of screen area. It would be nice if they managed to show all digits while the gesture brings the screen down.
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1. Baiting is learning though.

2. "Baiting" is an opinion. I have no doubt OP got baited in his view but to Google, it might have been simply the asking of questions.

Maybe the questions were asked to make sure OP's technology was sufficiently different and inferior to whatever they themselves launched. If that were the case, it wouldn't be baiting. It'd be discovery.
Your users are a group of individuals, not some anonymous mass. People don't have a problem with Mozilla implementing new features, people have a problem with losing control over their personal data. It's really arrogant to believe that you are entitled to making this decisions on behalf of your users. Just make it opt-in with a huge warning-sign an a message detailing how the data sharing works. Problem solved!
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Wow this story is shocking. I want to point out it’s quite believable if you look at this situation historically. Microsoft was known for doing this exact same thing. Their tactic was to wine and dine startups, give them the “big megacorp company treatment”, ask them to divulge just a little of how they were doing what they were doing. Then they would go back to Seattle, put out an identical product 6 weeks later, and dare the company to sue them. Also another tactic of theirs was to get their executives or those on their payroll onto the boards of startups, sometimes as advisors, and then feed info back to MSFT. Their behavior has changed a ton from then I want to point out, but now looks like Google has picked up where they left off...
Also, that it's not legally binding.
This seems to have started around 1976/1977. Polaroid wasn't exactly a tiny startup then, so they had the financial resources to defend themselves.

https://books.google.com/books?id=6TTbCT64seEC&pg=PA91&lpg=P...

"In 1977, (Polaroid) revenues reached $1 billion"

The lawsuit took 15 years to settle:

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/16/business/kodak-settles-wit...
Thank you. I suspected as much, but great to hear that as well. I'll work on some CTF problems.
Generating forwarding email addresses is something password managers like 1Password should do. They should generate a new username, password, and email per service in one click as you please.

Thanks to social engineering, email address reuse is the new password reuse.
It was nearly ready, then canned on the last minute. Hard times.

Oh yes, and Java bridge.
Like the latter part of an actuarial mortality table, it seems Bitcoin dies more often as time passes.
My first website was dedicated to AIM. That was 14 years ago in 2004. I was in middle school. I got into development (vb5/vb6) so I could make things to boot people off AIM. I learned web development so I could make cool things happen in my profile with buddy4u.com. I learned Photoshop so I could create AIM buddy icons. I wrote many a love story in my profile.

This hurts.
OK - so what is the take away for startups? It is common that investors don't want to sign NDAs. And it is mostly OK, because in most cases the investor does only investing and he cannot use the ideas on his own, so his best bet is to make a deal with the startup, but if your potential investor is a big corpo - then you need a lot more careful.
On the other hand, if one pension starts a trend, there might be big benefits to being first in. How do does one fit such outcomes into the volatility calculation...
if that is an internal culture at Google, that may somewhat explain how Levandowski and his people may not personally felt any duty to follow basic morals toward Google. I mean i'm not trying to justify their actions, and personally i find Levandowski's actions smelling pretty bad, i'm just saying that at the system level it seems to be karma at work.
In general in employment contracts in technology it seems. Any software written or ideas related to the field of employment get transferred to the employer. In some cases (have read it on HN here) people have successfully modified their employment contract to exclude some of the clauses like that.

> Are you paid a flat fee? Do they pay a "kill" fee if Google X ultimately decides not pursue your idea and terminates your employment agreement?

No idea, maybe someone could share. I would imagine it is a customized contract tailed for each contributor / collaborator. The important bit is it is a contract, so unless it is illegal any "kill" clauses could have been put in there.
Where are all the people who are always disclaiming to work for Google in every thread about Google? Weird you’re silent on this.
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The big advantages are (a) they’re much more isotropic, (b) there is less effect from grid artifacts (reduced moiré patterns, etc.), (c) they are noticeably more efficient in terms of sampling rate for a given quality of signal. If everything is done on such a grid end-to-end, you get quite noticeably better quality results for just about everything (with the exception of slightly worse results for drawing sharp grid-aligned rectangles). Even swapping in such a grid in one or another part of the pipeline can usually net some advantage.

The downside is that there are a zillion implementations of everything you can imagine w/r/t a square grid, whereas implementations on a triangular grid of hexagonal pixels are fewer and further between, often some crappy matlab code written by a grad student, so you’d maybe need to reimplement, optimize, debug, etc. a whole pile of tools, or even invent some new algorithms for doing stuff that hasn’t been tried on such a grid before.

There have been lots of papers written about the topic, and at least one book. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781852339142

* * *

It’s similar to the advantages you get from tri-axial fabric: it’s better but requires custom machinery, so in practice is only used for bullet-proof stuff, space suits, and art projects. Hexagonal pixels end up getting used in medical imaging, astronomical imaging, and the like, where pixels are individually expensive.
Yep, latitudes and precisions (except m3800) are quite ok and difficult to beat on price vs specs. I only don’t like the myriad of options to choose from, why not decide on some standard like screen resolution or keyboard backlight?
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Whether or not such a file makes sense is another question, but I find the mentality of the "Disclosure" field quite puzzling.
It is not up to an affected party to decide what disclosure terms apply. After responsibly disclosing an issue to a site a security bug finder should disclose it to the public, whether the affected site likes that or not.
>One of the problems with this approach is in order to get executives to forgo their compensation for that many years you often have to pay them more, which gets into pay magnitude concerns.

That is logical; however afaik there is almost no data to indicate magnitude of CEO pay is an indicator of company performance. I would bet you that long-horizon-tied CEO compensation would be correlated, though.
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No it's not. It's the same argument we've had about any kind of progress in programming languages since we started using higher level languages (I.e Fortran and up).
> 99% of blocks are maxed out at ~4M weight DESPITE segwit

Hasn't been true since July: https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-block-size

> full blocks and high fees have caused Bitcoin to lose many users to alts (LTC, ETH, ETC, DASH...)

What's the evidence for this? All my friends own btc and alts... but none of them transact in it. They own them only for investment purposes. I don't think anybody is using alts for their higher throughput.
So by that point, I've already made like three things up because there's absolutely no way for them to fact check this nonsense. Why talk to George when I can just pull something out of my ass? "Yeah, the process totally saved a half hour every week, which is about $500 because BUSINESS. Good luck verifying that, asshole."
It’s a weird company.

Consider this, their CEO Eric Schmidt, technically Alphabet’s), has a voracious prostitute-appetite.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2371719/Googles-Eric...
Is your grandfather Bobby Rydell?

Or maybe Fabian or Frankie Avalon?

I love this kind of challenge.
"I made up useless nonsense because that's what you want to hear and it resulted in me getting a job."
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Is that confirmed anywhere more reputable? Daily Mail doesn't exactly have a stellar track record if I recall correctly.
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Or, you know, it's an objectively better language, clearly the future of the platform, and ABI stability doesn't usually affect the day-to-day life of an iOS developer.
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> No, it's vastly more capable of "surfacing" sites you've already visited, putting you into a filter bubble.

Not necessarily. Here's an example: say the 3 most visited sites by a user are NYT, LAT and the Atlantic. Even if this user has never visited The NewYorker, it's a good bet that she would find it of interest.
Since you asked, it's 11:36pm and I just got home from drinking wine with a friend. I'm making a pastrami sandwich and might fall asleep soon. Can't speak for others, though. Thanks for your curiosity.

Thankfully, your honor, most of us are smart enough to know to not play unpaid internet forum lawyer.
I'm not sure how that's relevant to the discussion.
How's the story with source code obfuscation in Swift-land? Wouldn't that be an option for you?
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I don’t mean a general benefit, I mean for the GP. Anything he says now without legal advisement is a liability should he choose to persue legal action.

Seriously guys. You might think it’s just online venting but these law firms dig everything up.
The negation of:

"Most people are actually pretty bad at explaining things in a clear, concise, helpful way, very often especially people well-versed in the field they are trying to explain. Communicating complex concepts to non-experts is indeed a fairly rare skill."

is not:

"nothing but highly effective teachers".
Thanks for sharing! Seems like a company that does this as an automated service (for private orgs/repos) would be $.
I wasn't suggesting any of those things weren't true, merely a back-of-the-napkin estimate of the sort of load a function like this would be sufficient for.
Yes please, can we please get @boulos to tell us how GCP can be seemingly used to solve this architects problem here? AWS has clearly failed!
What bugged me was the creation of the server centers.

"start building a series of massive computer facilities around the world"

The AI can be quick as a wink designing these things, but the supply chains for huge buildings takes a lot of time. Acquiring talent, training operators, construction crews, as well as location scouting, surveying, zone approval, geological testing, and various other tasks takes years. Sometimes a decade or more. And sometimes it all falls apart and you have to start somewhere new, because locals don't want you there. Politicians can be fickle bastards.

Construction is a lot of people shaking hands and discussing things, phone calls, walking back and forth for supplies, waiting on permits, advice, et cetera, and you cannot AI that to be faster. The plans always have to be modified because reality intrudes, and buildings where the architect does not visit are poor ones. Worse, when the architect has no practical experience.

Simple example in point: I was in a beautiful house where a hallway was juuust a bit too narrow. You could get a normal sized dresser and armoire down the hall, but couldn't quite turn objects of that size enough to get through two of the bedroom doors. A bed springbox was iffy. The builder quickly realized this(and made a quip about the owners buying IKEA flatpack furniture), but everything looked fine on the plans. Because of the rest of the layout, especially where municipal services entered the (already poured) foundation, the house could not be modified. A hand's width would have made all the difference.

Worse, when the architect does not have a human body.

Every building on earth has quirks like this. They have to be solved in-situ.

Creating the plans is a tiny portion of the task, and not much of a time saving.
This advice is gold. But it isn’t easy to overcome the temptation of imagining that any convo with any division of mega Corp is the lucky break you always hoped for.
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I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. Early on he blatantly cheated Wozniak: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/steve-wozniak-cried-jobs-kept-atari...
There is almost not a week without an article in the Economist or/and the FT about us reaching the peak of the market. I can't help thinking that it starts to look like 2006 again.
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> Is there any guide to all this? Any standardization?

UEFI is standardized. The reference implementation of UEFI called EDK II is even open source. [0]

However original device manufacturers (ODMs) are lazy, and independent BIOS vendors (IBVs) have moved in to offer ODMs customization (e.g. the fancy configuration GUI) based on EDK II but which aren't open source and are sprinkled with their proprietary magic. Think AMI, Phoenix, etc. the same people who were making BIOSes.

The specific Intel features like TXT, Boot Guard, AMT, etc are not to my knowledge open specifications, so if you wanted more information, you'd probably need to sign a very long NDA with Intel. Clearly there is information available, since the IBVs integrate this functionality into their product.

In summary:

- UEFI is an open standard with an open source reference implementation [0]

- TPM is an open standard. [1]

- Intel specific features are, to my knowledge, proprietary

- IBV products (AMI, Phoenix) are proprietary

[0] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
Unfortunately I cannot access the article... could anyone summarize the content? Thanks
Swift 4 as a language is marvellous. It’s the tooling that’s still very annoying to work with – autocomplete not working, SourceKit burning CPU time, crashes, that kind of thing.
Joe Kennedy supposedly said he avoided the stock crash of 1929 by getting out of the market when his shoeshiner started giving him stock tips.

Multiple times recently I’ve been at restaurants recently overhearing people talk about how much money they’re going to make in Bitcoin. It’s hard to convey here, but the make-money-who-cares-how-it’s-magic came across every time in such a wow-this-is-definitely-a-bubble way.

But as they say, markets can remain irrational longer than you cane remain solvent.
And third by not mobilizing it. There is no reason Whatsapp would have won if AIM went mobile app, push notifications, done. They had a huge and passionate user base, were integrated into Apple iChat, you name it. They all blew it.

Goes to show that big corps often have no clue how to deal with their offerings.
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And what do you do when you don't have access to that data? Lose the position to those who do or are willing to lie about it?
As far as the stock market goes, sentiment has not yet reached a peak. There are still a lot of what I call the "wise naysayer" on CNBC and elsewhere, claiming that we are due for a big decline, or even a crash. Until there are no naysayers left, the chances of further climbs is supported by sentiment analysis.
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Considering that PBKDF2 has adjustable difficulty parameters would you still say it's worse if very high difficulty parameters are chosen?
My projection is that this is resulting from a lot of circular investing. Fund A gives money to company B, who has more money than they can spend so it goes to fund C, and then that goes to company D, etc.

We've learned that you are not supposed to have idle capital. And yet we keep so much of our wealth as money, the only way to deploy it is to send it in a circle. Valuations go up, prices and costs don't.

Unfortunately it's a house of cards. When someone finally cashes out, they'll pull money from the whole system to the tune of the amount it's been amplified by circular investing.

There will be an ugly correction.
I've used Debian's xkcdpass to generat 50 sets of 100 million passwords, then then checked for duplicates. The algorithm uses six words and a large dictionary, but otherwise resembles the xkcd original.

There were no duplicates in any of the 50 sets. (About a week's runtime on a fairly modest Intel processor.)

Given that 100m accounts is a fair fraction of the world's active computer users, that's a pretty good start.

(There are further reasons for finding passwords alone insufficient for security, but at least these are strong, and yet potentially memorable, passwords.)
Are you going to put the disclaimer though in your post at the bottom?
But there is also not a week that goes by without an "expert" in the financial media claiming we are due for a crash. Until there are fewer of these "warnings", the market could very well just keep on truckin.
nope; its actually not that uncommon for a college graduate; An edge may be gained if you vary paradigms for some companies (Procedural, Functional, OOP, Logical, Interesting Type System)
Thanks for posting the link. I just read the first several pages, and I disagree with your conclusion.

This was more than a simple idea or patent. It was developed by someone with extensive experience in a vertical industry. Google actually paid to contract with him to develop a proof-of-concept, with the idea if the tech panned out and had market viability, they'd take it to market with him.

Google doesn't hire patent trolls or rely on their expertise in developing products.

The lawsuit is full of hyperbole (which hurts it in IMHO), but the underlying claim looks pretty believable.
Similarity is more easily explained with convergent evolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
It also presents Google’s answer, which was

> that Attia gave Google rights to his technology “without a condition of later payment.”

They admit they did it, but claim they were in the right to do it.
It depends on the NDA. But one of the important things you should always think about with a contract is your power to enforce it. Even a small lawsuit can be expensive and painful. Are you willing an able to go the distance against the defendant? If not, the language of the contract doesn't matter.
Wait.. which hand do you use? I'm right-handed but I use the phone with my left. (and it goes in my left pocket, because my car and house keys are in the right, per other comments).
Remember when they (Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay [1]) colluded to keep each other from competing for talent and driving up wages?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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We could double the block size. Then the capacity would raise from about 10 million users to about 20 million users. I'm sure that would solve all of Bitcoin's scaling issues for a long time.