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There is two cases of protecting IP in the history of Google. The first started at Moto before Google purchased and they let continue.

The other was the best known which was the Waymo suit with Uber.

Google gets patents to protect themselves from someone else getting but do not use.

Google instead gives away tons of IP. Like Borg with K8s. Or VP8 and then on top indicates they will protect anyone that uses from patent infringement and on top gives for free.

Or SPDY or map/reduce or GFS or so many others could have patent and hurt the industry but instead gave away and helped the industry push forward. Can't think of any other company that has given away more valuable IP than Google.
The 747 only exists because of subsidies and defense contracts. If the US government were not heavily involved in the industry, we'd all be flying in Airbus jets.

These subsidies made the development of the 747 possible.
I'm an "early" programmer and still poking my way around various toy side projects to learn concepts and such.

Ubuntu and Bash had been somewhat of a mystery to me previously, but I eventually got a virtual dev environment setup and was comfortable getting in with navigating to my Vagrant folder, then executing 'vagrant up', 'vagrant ssh', etc. and then navigating to my project.

That comfort turned to annoyance as I realized how unnecessary those few keystrokes were. And despite how little time they took, I found myself getting angry at the repetition of having to enter them.

So I decided to conquer my Bash scripting fears, and wrote what many would consider to be a trivial script to navigate to the Vagrant folder on my host machine, boot up the VM, and then navigate to the appropriate project folder in the VM. Along the way I learned more about aliases, and also how to pass commands from a host to a guest machine which was one of the roadblocks I encountered.

I now can boot up and get into my project folder with a simple three character alias from within any directory on my host machine.

Again--any experienced developer would be able to script this in minutes most likely. Back then it took hours. And now those are the most satisfying three characters I type, as every time I enter them, I get reminded of the progress I'm making and that even trivial things may be candidates for automation.
> Microsoft: embraces open source

Oh please.

Microsoft has not embraced open source.

Is their web browser open source? No.

Is Word, Excel, or Powerpoint open source? No.

Do they even push for open standards of those products? No.

Is Windows open source? No.

Is the C# compiler open source? No.

Microsoft may have taken some positive steps to support Linux on Azure & other things -- things possibility necessitated by market demands -- as well some contributions to open source.

But to say they have embraced open source is patently false.
Source? People tend to put much more thoughtful words in his mouth after the fact trying to make what he says seem more reasonable, but if you have a source I'd gladly review it.

In the meantime, politifact has a good breakdown of what he says about the issue and where the numbers come from (spoiler, they make some wild assumptions) [1].

[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/...
It's primary purpose is as a unit of account, i.e., to quantify the value of an asset. It's the assets themselves that are the long-term store of wealth.
I had the photo of Linus flipping the bird to NVIDIA as my desktop wallpaper for quite a while at a previous job. Used it as a reminder not to commit something stupid (not to Linux - the internal project I was working on at the time).
Why? Most robocalls I get are from numbers that were obviously chosen for their small edit distance from my own phone number.
And they may still yet change course. At this point it’s hard to say.
Am I being downvoted for being too partisan or not partisan enough?
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Or transform the numbers to floats, i.e., "5.1" -> "5.1f".
Thank you! Not sure if this is within my ability to implement but will give a definite try
> but I don't think I'll ever end up using PHP since it still appears to be very easy to write bad code

I was in the Java world for many years, and found it to be incredibly easy to write 'bad' code. Sure it looked OK, but whenever there was a problem... i would just have people telling me it was 'wrong' and 'bad', but rarely ever any 'good' way to do something, short of entirely rebuilding in someone else's preferred library/framework/stack.

Loads of "well, that never happens to me", "works fine", etc. Was it tomcat? which version? was it one of the 95 dependencies interacting with tomcat in a way no one had ever hit? Oh shit - you're using tomcat? WTF? Glassfish/jetty/jboss are the only 'real' tools to use... etc.
This is true of almost everything written. Most think-pieces and opinion columns by even professional journalists are just humans wishing out loud for a world reordered so that they are made more important or attractive.
"when the research in these domains has been openly published and built upon by the community already"

Well, mega-corps like Google lobbied for a first-to-file system (America Invents), for one thing. Community shmunity; whoever has the most resources to file the most applications wins.
This stuff varies way too much team by team regardless of company level mandates.

Your best bet is to apply to the places that seem like they might be aligned with your interests, and when one decides to move forward and produce an offer, use that time to really kick the tires and talk to the management and the ICs on the specific team you'll be working with.

I've found that regardless of what sort of culture upper management may be trying to build, at the end of the day your experience will be mostly made up of the specific things you'll be doing and the people you'll be doing them with.
I'm trying to decide if you're joking, or if the cryptocurrency is really that volatile. That I have to ask is... worrying.
Right, a program I can delete instantly is “bloat”, but ports I don’t need and carry around with me are good.
I recommend reading the Cliff Notes for "The Origin of Wealth" (the full book is just too damn long). Sometimes product designs with a devout following still fail the product market fit test. Trying a bunch of things to see what sticks is a pretty valid strategy, it's what nature does. Steve Jobs would just convince you of your folly for wanting anything but a one button mouse, but Eric, Larry, and Sergey would offer you mice with 1-10 buttons, hover mice, eyeball tracking systems that act as mice, a laser pointer mouse, etc. Each is a small fixed cost and if there's product market fit, the winning variant pays for all the others...
Every government dollar (over)spent in Boeing-branded thing is a subsidy for every other Boeing-branded thing. The same way every dollar NASA spends with SpaceX's Falcon 9/Dragon systems subsidizes the development of further generations of Falcon/Dragon/BFR systems. It's really hard to assume this money is not spent thinking about the strategic side effects.
- Phone: Say "representative" to talk to an agent

- Me" "REPRESENTATIIIVE"

- Phone: Sorry, I didn't get that. Say "representative" to talk to an agent

- Me" "REPRESENTATIIIVE"

- Phone: Sorry, I didn't get that. let me transfer you to a representative

(This specific one happens on United calls, every single time.)
The government has all kinds of built in incentives for inflation to be reported as low, whilst simultaneously being high.

This kinda points at the ideas, though I don't actually agree with all the content: https://dailyreckoning.com/revealing-real-rate-inflation-cra...
I've never taken an Uber in the original sense of car pooling. It's always been as a cab.
I was thinking TP and such. But maybe having more TP makes me shit more? I'll have to set up a spreadsheet :)
Sorry, there are parallel threads going, so I'm going to abandon this one. That said, I misspoke slightly here and rather than rehashing everything, I'll point you to my response to naasking.
Living APIs and the Case for GraphQL
Can the Emmys be Hacked? [video]
China hacked US contractor, seized sub warfare info
If they develop an AI that administers medicine to veterans, and the army takes it and change it so it will administer torture substances to prisoners of war, is it Google's fault or the army's fault?

Google makes tools with a purpose in mind, but like many other technologies in history, they can always be twisted into something harmful, just like Einstein's Theory of Relativity was used as basis for the first nuclear weapons.
I find that many comment like gp online are equally valid with the word “Americans” replaced with “people”. It irks me as well.
That happened in 2012.
Minor nitpick:

You're probably already using a WM (unless you're in tty all the time). Gnome, KDE, MATE are all WM (and more).
A Brief Introduction to Bisq
The state of the art is primarily hybrid models which use deep neural networks in combination with classical parsing algorithms. For example, the Stack LSTM method uses a form of arc-std with an LSTM and a stack of sorts.
I would consider switching to Linux, but those mc keyboard commands are consistent and etched into my muscle memory. When I have to fire up a Linux vm, it is painful to recall whether it’s shift-ctl-c or ctl-c, etc. if there were consistency across apps, it wouldn’t be nearly such a drastic move.
How does an NN generate audio without generating samples? The outputs are somehow interpreted as a continuous function / polynomial with tons of terms? And nobody ever once tried to not do that?
Building a dApp into a business is becoming viable… without an ICO
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> Are parked cars litter?

As in: are they in the way? Yes.

As in: are they useless from pedestrians' point of view? Yes.

As in: would the person who put the car there mind if it was towed and tossed away? Likely yes.

Where I live, I can't see incoming traffic from all the cars that <strike>are parked on the sides of streets</strike> are blocking the street view and constricting capacity. I would be happy if every single one of them would be treated as trash.

Disclosure: we have a private driveway. I walk and cycle, I don't drive.
I personally prefer https://send.firefox.com/ as they also encrypt the files.
I guess for some very broad definition of bubble.

Consider, e.g., real estate prices in a relatively stable area after that area is plunged into a long-running war. Prices will sharply correct, but talking about a "peace bubble" is a bit disingenuous.
You listed a pile of goals, not tools. Understanding how depression works can be a tool.
Surprised to see this getting downvotes. I purposely created a new discussion to avoid taking this thread further off-topic. And that post quickly became very popular and even made the front page. Is it just not kosher to link to relevant discussions that you posted? If so, sorry! I figured it would be ok since the linked post is not in any way self-promotional.
Yup, but I think it's a good deal - to lose some points but have an interesting discussion.
That link eventually led me to this, which is one of the most enjoyable things I have read recently:

American Dream: https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/blob/master/Stories/Ameri...
I think it's inexperience speaking, which is also why it's very dogmatic. If you've seen how standards develop, they're usually taking many ideas like this that have become popular and tweaking the specs to smooth out the differences.

The POSIX API is often called Berkley Sockets because a vendor, BSD, released their API and it was widely adopted. ANSI C cobbled together existing C compilers into a standard, and POSIX itself was trying to tame a huge mess of Unices.

And even if the standards don't fully converge, you have standard libraries to plaster over the differences. Everyone has to contend with weird Windows path conventions and such, to the point where it's hardly even notable.
1. Your article is about 2016, 50 years after the 747 was developed.

2. Having the government take less of your money is not a subsidy.

3. Boeing 2016 revenue was $95.5 billion. The tax break is about a quarter of a percent of that.

4. I'm curious what you consider military technology that makes up the 747.

5. I'm curious what part of the Everett plant, which was built from scratch to build the 747, was built with government/military funding.
People(most people) like to do the same thing every day. Even me, I'm a programmer and have different tasks, but I get most of my work through one client. I would hate to be chasing down new clients all the time.
Except that its /rarely/ not in your control. I'm unable to find numbers, but I find it hard to believe that any significant amount of people's requests to leave are taken to court.
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For a sampling of his rants about git history rewriting, see here: https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/git_rebase.html
I ask if a company uses a monorepo as one of the ways to decide to pass on them if they do. Definitely not an indicator of good engineering practices in my opinion.

One of my former bosses was an ex-Google manager and had the same opinion. I guess Google's monorepo grew out of a historical accident from their early customizations of Perforce, and had nothing to do with any supposed engineering benefits that are used to rationalize it now. Then other companies adopted it for the same shallow cargo-cult copying reasons they also use Google's interview hazing approach. And it became an empty marketing icon, e.g. with the ACM article on monorepos.

Any more, I think monorepo vs. project repos is just a bunch of bikeshedding, and the real value of a monorepo is easier centralized surveillance. I grant this might be an important priority for megacorps, but it still doesn't mean it has anything to do with good engineering practices or culture.
They're doing a hell of a lot more cool things than Apple, these days. Windows is moving. macOS is terrible.

(Says the guy who's been a Mac user for >15 years and bought every new product Apple has come out with.)

Apple is doing this to themselves. As a dev platform, their appeal is waning. (Stop making shit laptops, and make your macOS stable again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

Microsoft, under Nadella, is making the right moves, listening to their userbase. It was enough to get me to switch back.
Chemists harness artificial intelligence to predict chemical reactions
It’s about time: Immediate rewards boost motivation – Cornell Chronicle
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/suicide/inpatient-suicide-id...

"
Of the 35,000 or more suicides per year in the United States, about 1800 (6%) are inpatient suicides.
It is estimated that a psychiatric nurse will experience a completed suicide every 2½ years on average."
Yes.

My ex attempted suicide. I came home from work and found him. I called an ambulance, naturally. The cops came.

While the ambulance was taking him away (to the opposite hospital they said they were going), the cops questioned me. The male was rather nice in mannerisms, but the female...

She told me it was my fault and berated me for my messy house. I was accused of hiding a meth lab (My house was messy, but it wasn't that bad. Seriously). They asked to search the house. I said no. Seriously, at that point I wanted to go to the hospital. I think if I we were a different race, I wouldn't have been able to opt out of the search.

I still hate that female cop.
I'd appreciate it if you could be specific about government funding for the 747.
Occasionally Fugazi's "I'm So Tired" will come on and I am instantly reminded of the worst parts of my depression. It's been years and years since I was that severely depressed, but that feeling can overwhelm me in an instant when I listen to that song. Just remembering the terrible place I was in brings tears to my eyes because I know how close I got to never experiencing all the joy in my life that came afterward.
Does the "camera" point downwards? Straight out? The available views from a window seat are pretty close to a 180 degree half sphere. That won't be possible with a screen unless there's some way to pan.

Also no rays of sunlight :-/.

If there is some way to pan, it could be better than looking out the side for most passengers, if it's super HD. It presumably won't be blocked by the wing, and could encourage carriers to put nice outward-facing views on the seatback screens for passengers in other seats.

IMO it's definitely going to be a minor downgrade to the experience, offset by lower ticket prices.
Not sure if this is substantiated or refuted by any clinical research, but through experience I believe depression to be a side effect of the mind being absent any existential threats that would, as an animal, threaten your survival on a daily basis: searching for food, maintaining shelter, guarding yourself or each other from predators. As we become farther and farther away our primal origins, the mind needs to invent challenges, obstacles and worry.
And also people complained about sonic booms which caused a bunch of rushed legislation and killed the potential market even harder.

Honestly, the extra fuel burn (carbon emissions!) from SSTs would be problematic even today. I'm not sad that aircraft manufacturers instead focused on boring but profitable fuel efficiency instead.
I hear your argument, but my issue with it is that AMP is in fact open. They're accepting pull requests on Github[1] and other providers have already implemented AMP on their own, no Google involved[2].

HN is just bursting with NIH on this issue. I'm not seeing any substantive arguments, no alternatives offered, and no consideration for what users actually want.

This article in particular seems to be droning on about "intentions", "messaging", and "long-term solutions".

To all of HN: if you don't like AMP, shut up and code :)

[1] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/accelerated-mobile/
You’d Need 6.3B Years to Do What This Supercomputer Can Do in a Second
> I honestly don't have any numbers to backup my feelings...

Then you don't know what's true and you should want to find out. Otherwise you risk spreading very harmful anti-intellectual and anti-science misinformation.

> And even if statistically the police aren't that likely to hurt someone, the frequency that it's happening and the growing resentment on both "sides" can make it so that many people will want to attempt other solutions before involving police.

Consider that you might be contributing to this very problem. You're spreading a meme here that you don't even seem to believe is backed by data because of your feelings on the topic. Now multiply this attitude by millions of people and you've got an entirely self-inflicted societal problem.

Humans developed scientific tools precisely to overcome our biases and emotions. Leaving them behind in the name of feelings is the path towards chaos.
This is great and I would love you to keep doing this, however couldn’t HN software be made better so I could follow people and provide many different ways to surface fascinating commentary? Even being able to see what people had favourited over the last month would give another great list of incredible commentary from all the clever people here.
What does violence have to do with any of this, unless some of the noise-related altercations are getting out of hand?
Before Twitter, people on AIM and similar services would use status messages to broadcast short little notes to their buddy list. I had the idea of turning that into a service in the early 2000s.

What surprised me was seeing a serious journalist like Wolf Blitzer regularly reading people's tweets on his prime time show.
It's PR, and it has cool pictures. No insight necessary.
> "...who may threaten, in some conception of the term, American interests..."

Let's not be naive. "Amwrican interests" is a euphemism for "revenue and potential revenue of America's rich and powerful."

For example, history is clear on Afghanistan. A "conventional war" doesn't work there. But if you want to reap the rewards of all the untapped natural resources __and__ you're not footing the bill for the military's efforts then you simply command your puppet(s) to give it a shot. The only loss is the lives of someone else's kids.
Charles Krauthammer note to readers: “My fight is over”
Ask HN: What are useful CS theories you actually use at work?
For me, I think it was database design that was most useful - things like normalization especially.

Binary search I use a few times for an ecommerce cart. I remember to avoid putting loops inside loops.

I use Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) and SOLID principles for code design.

Besides that, I haven't used them all that much. Which do you find most useful?
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> In the three years I have been here the rents have risen probably 15% or so - it means even with promotions and pay rises you just keep up.

Well, except you also have 15% more money after paying rent as well. If you save the same percentage of your overall income then your absolute savings went up 15%. And if you assume that all your other costs are not rising as quickly (maybe fair, maybe not) then you could save a higher percentage of your income because your salary grew faster than your costs as a whole.

It's the same argument why living in SF or NYC is worth it even with the high cost of housing.
I suspect this is a driver of the increased suicide rate. People are afraid to tell others because they don't want to deal with the police/authorities, so they don't get the help they need.

My sister attempted suicide as a teenager and the police that responded spent hours ransacking our home and further tormenting my family for no good reason. Then to think of her being locked up in the hospital (I wasn't able to see her for at least a week).

If I were having such thoughts, I certainly wouldn't tell anyone for this precise reason.
"Taking control of a piece of information [from someone else]" is mostly a misnomer/paradox, unless you have a way to identify and destroy all co-owners of that information.
Google has just given back so much more than Microsoft. Great example is Google dominates with Android and Chrome the client and server and creates SPDY and gives it away. Heck it was changed and they even switch from SPDY to http2.

Or a big one is MpegLA was commiting basically extortion and Google created VP8 and gave away for free. But then did a crazy thing of even giving people that use for free protection from patent infringement. Who does that?

That is why we do not pay what we had to for mpeg2 licenses. Just not aware of similar from MS?

Or a big one is Google finding Shellshock, Spectre, Cloudbleed, Heartbleed, Meltdown and others. MS has so much to lose and does not find anywhere near what Google does to help the entire industry. Plus Google even shares mitigations.

Instead Google finds MS vulnerabilities and gives them 90 days and MS b*thches about it instead of thanking.

But then all the papers of things that are now just defacto standards. Like GFS, Map/reduce, Bigtable, Borg with K8s and just so many more.

Some are ways we now do things.

Then all the source code they give away.
A friend recently introduced me to Matthias Felleisen and I found the interview when searching his name on DuckDuckGo.
With LCD screens say on the floor you can have glass bridge flying over Alps experience for every passenger independent of seat. Add magnification and AR.
Part of hotels' professionalism is knowing how to deal with "hillbillies". Hillbillies are naturally attracted to cheap things and have no idea how to conduct themselves when they aren't in their own hometown, so they are a special problem with respect to Airbnb.

One might assume from my place of birth that I am a hillbilly, but decades of travel and living in various places domestically and abroad have mostly civilized me. I do occasionally have to correct myself however.
I don't think you understand the scale at which these scooters are left.