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>Android started by copying Apache Harmony, as means of Google trying to avoid to pay Sun their rightful licenses, as confirmed by Andy Rubin emails.

The Apache Harmony code base is an open source, free Java implementation, developed by the Apache Software Foundation that is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Google had every right to use the Apache project according to the terms of the license.

>Thanks to that, Sun lost what might have rescued from insolvency. Which Google, while thinking that they finally got rid of Sun did not bothered to try to save.

Sun is solely responsible for their bad business decisions due, in most part, to their incompetence. Issuing a license to Google would not have saved them from being acquired by Oracle.

>Yet Android does not use 100% of OpenJDK, rather they are adding little pieces of it in each Android version.

I wasn't aware that you had to implement 100% of an open source project if you forked it. Can you cite where that's a requirement?

>Thus Android uses a forked version of OpenJDK, with everything that Google doesn't care removed from it.

The Android SDK uses a forked subset of the OpenJDK. And why wouldn't Google remove things they didn't need like AWT, Swing, etc.

>The fact that they use ART is an implementation detail, some Java certified JVMs for embeded deployment also have tooling to convert to their optimized implementation instead of using .class files.

No it's not. There is no association architecturally or IP related between the JVM and ART. If there was then Oracle would not have lost every one of their JVM IP patent claims they asserted against the Android runtime.
You seem to be implying that consciousness has no influence on behaviour.
This completely ignores the marginal rate of utity of a dollar and is a regressive and disastrous policy.
Can mental illness start in your immune system?
This article is basically all about commercial ad-tracking and spying, so this is mostly off topic, but if you want something to look at, Apple is repeatedly hardening their hardware against FBI surveillance and congressional demands.
Na, the member states are just going to xEXIT, taking their self-determinism with them.
>Or am I confusing 2 separate programs?

You are. PRISM is a lawful program that Google agreed to be a part of in 2009. Google's data centers were hacked (or the link through the dark fiber was) by the NSA and that's when they started encrypting that link.
It does have tangible, countable value. Apple may elect not to sell it for now, but they can change their mind at any time in the future. This is not to say that people shouldn't use them over demonstrably worse competitors (privacy-wise), just that there is no such thing as a company's soul, and they will betray your trust when the math adds up to it.
Nikola Tesla was never a billionaire. Even of all of Elon's companies go bust, he'll not die broke.
>first the redesign now this.

Did they forget that the reason they got so many users in the first place was because of the Digg redesign?
This is such a lazy argument.
I think it's the coolness factor. It's about a futuristic car. Any person who can afford this car probably will buy it, mostly for the social status factor.
It achieved that in a similar way to the JVM though, architecture-independent bytecode.

That said, it's still incredibly impressive that System/38 programs can run unmodified and without recompilation on modern POWER8 (soon POWER9) systems. Sadly not all software can be as well-architected as AS/400.
This is not true. Social licence directly affects share-price. The bulk of most public shares are hold by other public companies. For example my superannuation company invests my payments in its portfolio that portfolio is under constant review and have to tick a number of social responsibility boxes, that process is part of its charter, and the charter is the reason I invest in this company.

I work for a big mining company, 'social licence' is discussed at board level. Now most of that may very well be corporate bullshit, but the impact of social responsibility perception amongst the owners (shareholders) on share price is clear.
> Being a foreigner is the issue there, not being a different race or ethnicity.

A convenient cover premise when the population is extraordinarily homogeneous: most of the foreigners are going to be another ethnicity and or race.
It's hard to understand why people choose to put others in these conditions. For example, who makes the decision not to pay overtime and why? It will save one dollar and thirteen cents an hour. What could this possibly amount to, in the cost of a Kindle?

Perhaps this is due entirely to the race to bottom inspired by competitive pressure -- the various bidders all trying to find a way to offer Amazon the lowest bid -- or perhaps it is due to internal pressures, where managers can be rewarded for finding savings that are significant relative to the cost of a certain phase in the process, even if it is of little consequence for the cost of the final device.
> Probably, something popular needs building that demands 10G-in-the-home to use, in order to get volume up so pricing can come down a bit.

HDMI 2.0 for 4K is 14.4 Gbit/s

HDMI 2.1 for 8K is 42.7 Gbit/s
I got a Kindle for Christmas, and I've been reading through Discworld chronologically. I'm on Raising Steam right now, and I already feel like I'm going to have to reread the series with a list of references open. There were a lot of places where it was apparent there was a reference to something, but it was completely inaccessible as an American in his late 20's.

At the same time, I almost feel like I shouldn't read the last book for a while, it's going to be really bittersweet.
You do realize that you can still have some very rich people and still have a more equitable distribution of wealth than we have today, right?
> the innate californification of Apple

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and ebay is dirty with 10G SFP+ mellanox cards, many under $20. 24 port 10G SFP+ switches can be found for $300, and they all work fine with the cheap SFP+ modules from fs.com
This is already stuff the Department of Homeland Security is doing - this is like an action plan for "future releases". The government (and the people who are involved in it) willfully want to do this and have decided they will start doing it. It makes me think of the teenager who gets caught smoking by their parents, is told to stop because it's bad, then sneaks out at night and smokes anyways because they wanted to and came up with some reason to justify it.

On another note, I can only imagine what some of the less-accountable governments would to do with this information if they looked at the DHS as an example. Any authoritarian government wanting to maintain their position above the public would love to have complex PII available at the execution of a query.
You're correct. But in my opinion the innate californification of Apple & systemetic PR helping itself to project as saviour of privacy has prevented the privacy enthusiasts from putting Apple through same rigor as we do for Google, Facebook.
1. The higher the capital gains tax rate, the less money will be invested.

2. Higher rates make for less efficient economics, because people will hold on to poorly performing investments longer.

3. A big chunk of capital gains are actually inflation.
C++17 is better though.

incoming.
Which is what makes me trust it the most.

When someone takes an altruistic stance, it's easy for them to change their mind later if they decide $$$ is more important.

But when I see that an organization's actions align with their profit motive... then I find it much easier to rely on them, at least as long as I expect their position relative to the market/competition to remain qualitatively the same.
How would they even know you had a girlfriend? That's not something publicly available like a marriage record would be.
A couple things to point out that the good Doctor seems to have left out of his musings.

Corporations don't REALLY care about people. They aren't going to invest large amounts of money to acquire and develop nearby property to be lived in by transient workers. Doing so would represent a huge assumption of liability on the company's part, the cost thereof most likely would be passed on to the employee. Work is soul sucking enough as is. Living in a company town with all the strings attached that would entail would likely make matters even more depressing.

Self-driving vehicles are nowhere NEAR "basic-AI". It takes a well-developed teenager of a ripe 16+ years to even get to the point we as a society are even comfortable TRAINING them to drive, and God help the one's with a Y chromosome come time to pay the insurance.

And finally, think of the freedom gained by one who learns to operate a vehicle. You unlock a form of mobility unmatched by any mode of locomotion naturally evolved. You have opened to you the collective infrastructure built by man to enable you to travel and transact. If there is any question that should be asked with regards to automotive travel and work, it should be, why don't we travel more for our own edification, rather than for someone else's?

For the current generation at least, the answer seems to be wage stagnation/stratification. A phenomena uniquely addressable from the very same corporations whose altruism is being appealed to in this article.
The correct solution to this problem is to abolish the distinction between capital gains and ordinary income (ie wages), and abolish the corporate income tax that justifies the "double taxation" argument that justifies the capital gains rate.

Capital gains is why Mitt Romney can make 200 times as much as I do in a year, and pay half my effective tax rate. This is broad across the economy. It's a fundamentally immoral tax model. Moreover, it's a socially dangerous one - the idea that there is one set of rules for the rich and another for everyone else is already stressing our nation. Stop actually proving the point, lest you want a revolution to deal with it when society lacks the nerve.

Corporate income tax is no big loss. For one thing, it's an increasingly shrinking part of our tax base. For another, it's riddled with loopholes and borderline graft, much more so than individual taxes. This kind of stuff is biased against entrepreneurship, in favor of cozy relationships with politicians. Being connected is more important than being hardworking or imaginative.

Tax capital gains as ordinary income. It's simple and fair.
I think that's backwards. You cannot assume that a "private" message is actually private unless end-to-end encryption is advertised. You still cannot safely assume so unless you've checked the code yourself. Privacy is never the default.

Hence the move to call things "direct" messages, rather than "private" as it used to be.
Correct.Google reacted the same way as other companies did for PRISM.

But they didn't know that their data was also accessed via other means & they took action to prevent it.
I thought her plea bargain with the FTC / SEC deemed that she couldn't hold executive positions in any company within the U.S. for ten years?
This is a direct attack on basic free will and it is way past time that we stand up to our traitorous enemies.
I mean Capital owners, which includes Bezos and a few strata below him. Everyone else is labor, whether they’re an Indian sweatshop worker or a startup employee.
Couldn't disagree more. What's wrong with a prisoner in the prisoner's dilemma playing the game rationally while also wishing he wasn't in a prisoner's dilemma?
The "blub paradox" is an opinion piece; it is not gospel. I did a bit more than two thirds of my career in non-"blub" languages. I like those languages, I know them well, I am good at them. For the last couple years I've been writing Java. I find it to be a much better tool for the job. A little bit more typing really isn't a very big deal.
I never made that argument. Reread my comment.
This sounds like the market is working, to me. Who wants to work for no pay? Not I! I'm a free market fundamentalist!
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Capital gains is wage theft. If you have money, you are taxed at a lower rate than people who have to earn it. Carried interest is just a follow-through of this principle that is apparent at every level of American government. Those with money steal from those who must earn it.
I know they are organized as partnerships, but the managers don't really have any equity rights to the committed capital, only the profits. But I guess that's really no different than an investor with preference rights in a startup.

In any case, thanks very much for your explanations, really helped me think about the issue in a different way.
Are you one of those people who thinks that abstinence prevents teenage pregnancy too?
I’m in China, I use Apple for privacy and a foreign SIM so my data never touches any servers here. I did use Android but I’ve heard horror stories and decided to get an iPhone instead, price and shinyness doesn’t factor into it.
I listen to NPR on my (short) commute and read a couple Financial Times articles a day on average. I also read several finance, economics, and statistics blogs and newsletters; while those probably don’t count as news, between all of those sources and HN, I manage to do a decent job of keeping up with politics and current events to the extent that I care about them.
American dream is actually using capital to make others work. That is the way to scale. Not necessarily hard, but smart work.
Yes and no. Even singlemode can be pretty flexible. Every manufacturer's product is different, but even 20 years ago, the singlemode we were installing could be wrapped around a Sharpie without damage (though it would lose a lot of light; that was an installation-only ability), and would happily tolerate something like twice that bend radius during operation.

That being said, I've seen people do some horrific things with copper, and it tends to survive things it shouldn't. But if you treat glass even half as gently as copper wants to be treated, they'll both be fine.

I think fiber gets a bad rep because large multi-strand cables have stiffeners to keep the jacket from kinking, and people assume the individual strands are similarly stiff. They really aren't.
US population: ~60% white non-hispanic, 20% hispanic, 14% black, 6% Asian

Japan: 98.5% ethnic Japanese

Immigrants in the US + their US born children = 27% of the population, roughly 86 million people, or equal to 3/4 the size of Japan's entire population. Such hostility.
You need to make 10M JPY in your job before coming to Japan.
One potential problem I see with it - when welfare, public infrastructure, country protection and other goods for all commons is outsourced to one ambiguous entity (federal government) people who paid for it the most are not getting respect for that, and instead are being called thieves and abusers of the system and that they should give more. While praise (if any) goes towards that ambiguous system.

When a large donor donates to some cause - they get their name out there. When someone pays a lot of money into federal treasury - nil. It can be very discouraging and further isolating from people actually receiving a direct benefit (even if in the grand scheme of things everyone gets better off, including these large taxpayers.)

Not saying there is a solution to that in modern states to that, but I can see how paying taxes to ambiguous treasury not very fulfilling, and when one actually cannot feel how they helped someone with it.

I have similar feelings when contributing to a large code base. Yeah, we get top management's praise one a quarter/year about how good we did as a mass, but I do not feel that. Perhaps if I could see how the code I contributed somehow actually helped someone - I would feel better. But I could not come up with some solution to that.

This I would imagine applies to many large systems. This includes so often discussed BS jobs, which most likely are not, they are just perceived this way because one who did it has no clue what effect their work had. And unless you are "superstar coder", "industry disrupter", etc - no one even remembers your name...
It's competitors include linux. That surely is the most privacy friendly option. You have to trust apple but when you use open source you can trust yourself or the community.
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But Apple is investing so heavily in the privacy branding that they have much more to lose by doing so.
I’m aware of the rehabilitations of the Effective Altruism movement and find their arguments unconvincing. Not to mention entirely the product of right-wing TINA thinking.
What if we could improve their conditions by being willing to pay more for luxury products like tablets, smart speakers, and higher-end smartphones?
This was a rambling, uninteresting read without any new insight or humor.

Summary: Author doesn't like commuting, wonders why companies expect people to do it, then hopes for a self driving car future as though this somehow solves the problem.
Happy to help out!

In any case, as I stated elsewhere(1), I'm actually not sure what I believe on this topic. I can really see it both ways.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17276214
There is a company’s soul when it’s run and fully controlled by the founder. After that all bets are off.
They've been closed-source for a while longer. Some changes on the live site took months to arrive in the open source repo, if they ever did.
The only point that seems unfair is point 3, which can be mollified by adjusting for inflation.

If we reduce points 1 and 2 to their logical conclusion, capital gains should not be taxed at all. This is idiotic. Due to the structural advantages individuals with money have investing, you'd basically be creating a system where people with money would capture almost all of the wealth.

The end goal shouldn't be the most efficient economy possible, it should be the highest standard of living for the individuals in your country. To that end, a certain amount of taxation is necessary.
But they aren't directly taking ad money. It's concievable that if we moved away from the "advertising centric" way of doing things, Google and others could use other methods monetization.

There is no reason to believe that they wouldn't exist at all were it not for ads.
I would agree, if they taxed "real gains" not inflation.
Awesome response. Thank you. I agree with everything you wrote.
The devil in detail here is that you are probably want to use term "stochastic" rather than "random". While hardware model of the brain can fluctuate slightly, from a higher level all processes are pretty deterministic.
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Thanks for your feedback. I'll try harder next time. ;-b
>How is the average American going to figure out what the truth is?

Basic education that was provided for free in middle and high school?
I honestly hate Apple's locked down ecosystem and have bought Android consistently for the last 7+ years. I've considered getting an iPhone as my next phone because of privacy concerns. I'm leaning more towards not carrying a phone or carrying one with a removed sim though as the cell providers still sell my location data.
> Where do you think wealth comes from?

In this case it's very clear where wealth comes from: Bezos and the rest of the Amazon shareholders are severely underpaying these workers in violation of China's labor laws. Did you read the article?

> We can’t have stolen this wealth as not the smallest fraction of it existed in all the world before the industrial revolution.

The capacity for self-deception is always a bit surprising. Confronted with a clear and concrete case of labor exploitation and wage theft you insist, never the less, it is not labor exploitation and wage theft. That is economic insanity.

> How is removing demand for their labor going to make them wealthier?

There's no need to appeal to vague self-serving questions. The impact of labor standards on global trade have been studied and their impact can be quantified. Here, in particular, the California Effect [1] has been proven to be very effective in increasing labor and environmental [3] standards around the world. California alone could likely help here a lot by demanding regulatory advertising on these products. The first step would be to educate American consumers so they understand the enormous suffering that goes into these products.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_effect

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/opinion/free-trade-by-its...

[3] https://www.nature.org/magazine/archives/the-california-effe...
I think what they’ve done in China shows that this premise is tenuous at best, and subject to change given the right “incentives.”
> If we reduce points 1 and 2 to their logical conclusion, capital gains should not be taxed at all. This is idiotic.

FWIW a great many people believe that capital gains should not be taxed at all. And while there are certainly fine arguments against that point of view, I don't think it's fair to say that "it's idiotic" when their p.o.v. is based on solid economic theory.
Employees invest their time for immediate pay off (they get paid twice a month, monthly or something like that typically) So in essence, this is short-term capital gain which is taxed at the same level as regular income.
Except one of Elon's gifts is marketing and selling. Rocket boosters are a brilliant way to stay in the media and on top of everyone's mind.
This is a secured debt, the state can collect it from the sale value.

The tax is on property value, so if the house sells for too little the tax wasn't owed to begin with.
What they’ve done in China was one of two options, the other is “abandon China”. The US doesn’t have a legal framework to ban a company. They do.
Odds are we will see overclocked 14nm Vegas with an X suffix before Christmas this year, and 7nm Vegas next year.
I'm sorry, I was unclear.

When speaking about employees, I was talking about startup employees who take a significant % of their compensation as risky stock options. My point was about this portion of their compensation.
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Would you really consider Linux to be a serious competitor? Sure, it's the most privacy friendly, but that's ignoring the fact that privacy is a sliding scale. Apple has generally shown itself to be on closer to the Linux end of the scale than the Android one, so I compromise some of that trust for increased convenience.
Am I right in assuming you consider communist revolution the only solution? Just so you know it is unlikely you will be the Stalin of that eventuality, just one more of his slaves.
I'm not that well versed in continental philosophy, but there is a whole (and somewhat diverse) program called phenomenology which originally planned to explain everything started from the basic fact of experience.

"Phenomenology, in Husserl's conception, is primarily concerned with the systematic reflection on and study of the structures of consciousness and the phenomena that appear in acts of consciousness. Phenomenology can be clearly differentiated from the Cartesian method of analysis which sees the world as objects, sets of objects, and objects acting and reacting upon one another." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy)

I'm not sure if they discovered anything that belongs to mainstream science now. (But, for example, I frequently see references to "Phenomenology of Perception: Maurice Merleau-Ponty" here and there, in modern discussions.)

I have not really read anything from these authors, (only some Heidegger) so I can't have any respectable opinion on the subject (also my strongest impression about continental philosophy is from Sokal;), just pointing to the field...