skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem with Google, or any software company buying a hardware company is that generally the street values hardware at a lower multiple so this has the chance to pull down google's market cap.

I don't think I understand what you're saying here. Could you elaborate a little?
When Ugly met Clunky.
We use this as data exchange format for our RPC services at Shopify. Incredibly fast, stable, easy to use.
What's the worst case scenario vis-a-vis Android openness and competitiveness?

Google can't take back the code it's already released other than the non-open source apps like Google Mail. But it can stop releasing new code. HTC et al are making too much money from Android, I doubt they'd stop investing in the platform, resulting in slow platform divergence a la Unix in the 80s and 90s.

3.2 hasn't been fully released to the open source community, but HTC and all the important players have it already, and I doubt that their license allows Google to yank it unilaterally.

Google does have to keep releasing code it based on GPL'd work, primarily the kernel, but that's a very small portion of the Android IP.

The first litmus test will be the release of Honeycomb.

Best case scenario? To me, that would involve Google moving towards a more open development model similar to what virtually all other successful open source projects employ.

They will be forced to make moves to placate HTC and all of their other partners, but whether those moves benefit us is the question.
The thing is, this is the root of the problem. Without campaign finance reform, the rest is just noise.

It's not just the amount of money, it's where it's coming from.

See: http://fixcongressfirst.org/
Block all ads on any webpage with AdBlock.
It sounds like the new thing here is using etags. Clearing the cache should defeat this.

The idea with etags is the server says "I'm giving you version XYZWABC of the data" and then if you rerequest it in the future you say "give me it but only if it's newer than XYZWABC". So the server gets to store some data in the cache as metadata.

One solution for new browsers might be to have an option to clear this data without removing everything from the cache.
Motorola Mobility. The other half of the 2 way split, Motorola Solutions, remains independent.
Does this include any of the H264 patents that Motorola hold? If so this makes this story even more interesting, the cases for WebM/VP8 would change substantially.
So, did Google just buy a lot of "bogus" patents to be used in their "open" platform now or what?
What's it written in ?
The predefined security questions always bothered me. They're either really easy to guess (first pet, first car, high school you graduated from, etc), or doesn't apply to me. For example, I don't know where I was born and don't know my grandparents. I prefer custom security questions.
Software companies often have higher multiples attached to their earnings than hardware companies do. This is due to the fact that hardware companies usually have lower margins that software companies do.

If the street perceives Google to now be a hybrid hardware/software company then the street could lower the multiple that they use to value them.
I'm guessing the next reference Android phone won't be an HTC then?

Also, does this mean Motorola will stop making their Android phones hard to jailbreak?
> Apple are ahead right now (manufacturing handsets, selling software, etc)

Uhh, haven't more Android handsets been sold per day than iOS handsets for like the last 6 months?
Maybe a price filter? Let us manually set the minimum to $1k.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this, but MY first thought was Google bought Motorola so they can directly defend Android against Apple's Samsung-style lawsuits (which are now including the Xoom).
An error that may change your outlook a bit-- only about 16% of the population fall into the 110-120 range (roughly 74th to 90th percentiles)
I also wonder if this will affect Google's choice of launch partner for Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0). Current rumours have that either being Samsung or that there are multiple partners. It'd be too late to back down on a Samsung choice, but if there were multiple partners...
YVision augmented reality SDK
This will be exactly the path I choose to teach my son. I personally played around with it and think it's a fantastic program.
I think we should also discuss two widely recognized fears which, in my experience, are frequently related to procrastination: fear of failure and fear of success.

Both usually go, somewhat amusingly, hand in hand, but I think they should be linked to the "mastery" discussed in the topic. Fear of both failure and success are, in short, fear of change, fear of losing control, fear of not being a master anymore.

It is indeed quite common to trade a, sometimes illusory, feeling of easiness with the known current situation for the potential uneasiness of an unknown situation given as one the possible outcomes of the failure/success. Particularly in the last case, I have seen that it is not unusual to rationalize that we have already gained achieved should not be "gambled" against the changes that would result from the success of the activity we are procrastinating.

In short, the "I'll do it tomorrow" is usually a "I'll do it when I will feel confortable with outcomes I now consider most likely". I personally have discovered that focusing in the positive aspect of the outcomes I consider most likely, even in case of failure, is usually my best weapon against procrastination.
It's still all about ads for Google.

With the patent war being fought by Apple and Microsoft they had no choice but to arm themselves. Otherwise they would soon face a mobile space dominated by the other two mobile OS vendors due to license fees that would make Android unprofitable for hardware vendors.

Apple and Microsoft would then push Google ads out of the mobile space by demanding a large share of ad proceeds or by pushing apps instead of HTML5.
I wonder if Google will start giving away for free phones with ads, truly disrupting the market like they did with everything else.
Amazon’s Frustration-Free packaging is anything but
Why not $100,000? That's a lot of money too.
Google Motorola, Now will Samsung buy HTC?
When you show up willing to pay a 63% premium, it doesn't take six months.
Basically the profit margin on hardware is lower than on software, or at least that's the view of Wall Street ("the street"). Thus Google has spent a big chunk of cash on a business with an inherently lower profit potential than the rest of its business, so their stock value (which has only a tenuous relationship with the hard value of a company's assets) may decline.

I doubt it's going to make that much difference, though. Google hasn't actually directed money away from "software", they've spent part of their $40 billion reserve that wasn't doing anything useful on a hardware company designed to strengthen Google's position is a market it's already sort-of in.
If they have any sense they are already negotiating the sale of the physical business on to someone else. Keep the patent portfolio and recuop $6 billion of the initial outlay.

Also, "open" in name only.
Show HN: Photo map
Is this actually better than gzipped JSON?
This title should say "Google Buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion". No?
Alleged 'Patent Troll' Hit With Large Fine In Appeals Court
This Week in Location Based Marketing - Episode 38: Shopkick, Redbox, Syncuz
ad impressions are meaningless. eCPM in mobile ads has been on a precipitous decline. As an example, last year ad revenue made up ~15% of my total revenues and my eCPM was around $3 (with paid apps and in app purchasing making up the rest). This year? It's barely a rounding error (< 1%) and my eCPMs are ~ $.10. Other developers are reporting the same thing across the board. Granted this is for iOS and not android, but I can't imagine android being a whole lot better.

To make an analogy with the web, I think mobile ads are pretty much stuck in the Yahoo era. It only works because there are new suckers to replace the old ones. Almost all of the indie developers I know that have tried mobile advertising have said it doesn't give you a good ROI.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but to me it's clear that the future for app monetization is paid apps and in app purchases. If you are going to rely on # of ad impressions to choose your platform you are looking at the wrong metric.
Just speculating:

Could this be a genius move?

I don't know how good MM's patent portfolio is but not only they get lots of ammo for the patent war, they also get their own phone manufacturer.

And MM seems to in more than just phones, could they lead the way for the future of Android, namely Android@Home and Android Open Accessory?
怎样快速祛痘印
This is obviously great news for both Google and Motorola. I am glad they did not let the not buying Sun mistake repeat.

I have no idea what Sprint is worth but Google buying or investing in Sprint might take this to yet another level! And Larry had shown he isn't shy of adventures.

Still remains to be seen, how this impacts other manufacturers' support of Android. Could be WP7's gain. EDIT: http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/ - Many including Sony Ericsson, LG and HTC have responded favorably.
Is it really surprising that an operating system used by many companies is used more than an operating system used by just one?

I'd like to see the OS share total including smartphones along with tablets and devices like the iPod Touch though...
Isn't Samsung talking to HP about WebOS for a while now?

And - are there reasons to believe that Bada is not dead/completely irrelevant by now?
I hate articles like this. It's like saying "this just in, four cylinder Yamaha motors are selling much better than BMW 328i's"

Of course they are! Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi use Yamaha motors.
Firefox 9 will be out this December, lol, https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

Who on earth though this was a good idea?

So, every six weeks a new release - that means Version 15 this time next year. Seriously?
My crazy idea for making email better
Funny how I've been anticipating Apple expanding into Google's search, services, and map space, but I certainly never thought of Google getting into hardware. I think it shows just how different the modern consumer space is from the last decade of computing. Unless you believe this is entirely about patents, Google has identified a need to give the Android ecosystem at least one device that's been holistically designed end-to-end.
Perhaps you can add a list of default applications that many people want to silence, and offer to silence them automatically once the user runs them.
Oh. Can we bury MotoBlur now already? Please?
Why does it require/involves kext? I'm genuinely curious, since I thought OS X comes with powerful ipfw. Is it some stripped down version?
I grew up having to pull my weight. I'm one of 6 - it was just not possible for us all to get the attention we "deserved" without helping out. I was cooking meals at the age of 9 and helping out with the laundry shortly after. I cleaned my room, helped look after the pets, babysat younger siblings, etc.

And yet I STILL hate having to wash clothes and cook for my family. I know that they need doing, but I too will often procrastinate instead. I would rather be at my computer than at the cooker, at my daughter's side than at the dishwasher...

Is it my mother's fault? Did she push me too hard, or not enough? No, it is MY laziness that is the problem.

Stop looking for a cause, looking for someone else to blame: you are responsible for your own path.
Want a nice society? Pay your fair share for it.

You've focused on one half of the equation to come up with obvious but irrelevant conclusions.

For instance, how does inheritance fit into your model?
Nice demo - I like it.

I had the same comment - adding a key with this info would be really useful (especially if you could also use it as a filter).
It would also be great if you could draw a line across the graph (optionally applying a curve) to allow the results to be filtered and the section beneath the curve zoomed in on (potentially two curves if you want to cut out anything suspiciously low priced also). You could also allow this selected section to then be displayed on different axes; i.e. these are the cars with a mileage and price I'm happy with, now plot my selection as price against age.
Further user customisation would also be good - e.g. allowing users to change the meaning of the colours (colors) / dot size.

Nice work though - much better way to represent & search this data than the standard fixed range filters. I'd love to see something like this done for computers; when custom building & selecting processors for example, rather than getting a load of codes, plot serial task performance against price, filter it down, plot parallel task against price & further reduce the data set until you find the ones which meet your requirement.
MM holds spectrum?
6 month ago Motorola Mobility traded around 36$/share. Now Google is paying 40$/share.
Well, it's a 63% premium over Friday's close, but it's a nice even $40/share. Which one seems to be by design?

Notably, MMI peaked at $36.34 in January. I could see MMI's board thinking it was worth close to $40, given the crappy/insane state of the market.
Who would be interested in buying a marginally profitable manufacturing business in a highly competitive market for any significant amount of money.

Besides, I think Google are doing this, in part, to produce what everyone has been asking for - an Android phone without the crap heaped on it, a phone that will allow people to judge Android for what it is rather than for what Samsung, HTC and others think it should be.
I don't see the problem. Version numbers no longer matter as long as browsers are concerned. IE is an exception, as always.
For those parts of the system that are GPL licensed, they (or the handset manufacturers who are distributing the compiled code) shouldn't be able to: http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/most-android-vendors...

From the article, nice list of Android tablets showing those that comply with the GPL: http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/android_tablets/ - a small proportion of the list are marked compliant, but most of the big names seem to be there.

Posted earlier, but not enough votes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2885787
I suspect WinPhone 7 smells a little better every day.
Heh. My company provides cars.com with most of its data, so I have direct access to their db. ;) However, because our business model is predicated on aggregating and then reselling automotive data, it's unlikely you could get access for free. Still, if you think you'll ever want to go commercial, you might contact us: (DMI) Digital Motorworks Inc.
Perhaps, but Apple make a ton more money per handset than Google does, so in my mind they are ahead. They also continue to lead design-wise. Manufacturers are still copying Apple products in this space.
This sounds an awful lot like yet another ProtocolBuffers. What, if anything, new does it bring to the table?
>Progressive is a word that seems to mean different things to the left and the right, I notice you didn't define it.

"Progressive" has a very specific meaning when you're discussing tax structure, independent of its political meaning. Specifically, a progressive tax is one in which the effective rate you pay rises with income.
Mulberry Holdall
What is the problem exactly? You don't like updates that improve things a lot?

Really, it is just a version number.
Although it removes some of the fears that Google were going to have patent problems (I would assume anyway, their must be some patent gold in the 24000 somewhere). So that may have been previously been factored into the stock price?
Common Lisp. Because, why not? ;).
Google doesn't (directly) make any money off of any Android handset, so I'd say that's very difficult to assess without knowledge and analysis of the impact Android has had on AdSense revenue, not to mention this money is a continuous stream of revenue following the purchase of an Android phone as opposed to a one-time up-front fee.
The main reason is to reduce the amount of dependencies to zero. I didn't want to enter the nightmare vortex of several applications managing a single firewall implementation.

Also, as I've lately been an embedded software guy, I saw no harm or fear in a little kernel code.
Wikipedia says 19,000.
I believe most of them will be safe, probably even in Sales, considering how the two companies hardly overlap at all.

(unless Larry is really thinking to grab the patents and then chuck everything else to some Taiwanese company)
When I was reading the article, I was wondering when they would get to the role of interrogations especially aggressive ones.
I cannot find the link now but there was a study which subjected people to sustained questioning that went on for more than 3 hours without a break. After 3(?) hrs all the subjects were offered the chance to end the interview if they agreed to deposit some non-trivial amount of money for 60 days. Something like 95% of people agreed and even signed (fake but real looking) legal contracts to that effect - even tough most were students (not rich) recruited for the study.

Never underestimate the stress caused when in a room with people aggressively questioning you. Even if they do no physical harm, This is VERY stressful.

In the US - "Am I free to go?" and "I want a lawyer" should be at the top of your 2 item list when in this situation. Remember, the Police care about solving crimes certainly - they care more about clearing cases quickly.
Unfortunately, FireBug doesn't work in FF6.
You are poorly duplicating a password manager, which is an encrypted DB of passwords plus some UX goodness (autotype, file storage, notes, URLs, folders etc)
Pregnancy exercise | What are The Chances of Getting Pregnant.
Looks to me like they bought patents with a phone hardware company thrown in.
WordPress custom column with currently active page template
Once Apple's vertical model started working, everyone was jealous.
Another factor, related to bad data, would be price fraud. Fraudsters deliberately price a "vehicle" low (relative to mileage) in order to attract a high number of people. They know that only a small percentage will take the bait and send cash up front for a vehicle that he doesn't intend to sell, so he wants to make sure to get the highest number of people to respond to the listing. It's a classic buyer-beware scenario, so just keep that in mind as you see good deals in the "better" zone.
Yeah, that worked out great.
Samsung has Bada : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada_%28operating_system%29
Must-see event for chilled professionals « Food and Drink News
Tooyoou v0.6.4 (Alpha) - Get Paid For Viewing Ads On Your Homescreen
I'm not lazy, I'm not too proud to do mundane things, and I don't feel others control my life. (How would that last perspective explain procrastinating on a personal project like a painting?) I didn't understand procrastination until I understood it from this perspective (and I imagine a lot of the folks on HN are similar): I procrastinate because I'm a perfectionist. If it's not finished, it can't be judged. There's more I can tweak! Once something is turned in, published, or launched, it stands as an example of my best effort. It wears my name. And that scares the hell out of me.
Oleg, I've been kicking around some similar ideas and would like to talk to you about this project sometime. My email is in my profile.
They did it for the patents. Larry Page: "Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies."

Seems like the best jobs at Google will soon be the lawyers, not the engineers.
Don't forget MotoMobile also got Moto's cable box business. Think of every new Comcast, TWC, etc. subscriber suddenly having a Google TV box by default; which is fully integrated with their cable system. Apple and Roku's boxes wouldn't stand a chance.
You are afraid that you won't have access to a strong password in case of emergency and therefore you choose to use a weak password? That doesn't make sense to me.

Wouldn't a better solution be to use a password manager and always have a current and working copy on you when you go out? I'm pretty sure it's doable and can be automated. Keepass + Dropbox being one possibility but you can make it more robust if you feel the need to.

Reuse of passwords is a much worse alternative than not being able to fix someone's server on the spot.
The latest Firebug claims to be compatible with FF5 and 6:

http://blog.getfirebug.com/2011/08/10/firebug-1-8-1/

You should try updating all your addons.
"The act of rebelling against an oppressor, an authorative figure telling you what to do, is your way of regaining mastery over your own fate."

Surely you jest.

Oh, sure, some people will procrastinate as rebellion.

Just as sure, some people procrastinate a simple matter of choosing from a menu: choosing steak over fish is for some a simple preference, not weighed down with rebellion against diet or splurging against budget. At a given moment I have the choice to do interesting thing X or less interesting thing Y; I choose X not out of the oppression of why Y is an option at all, but just because it is what I would rather do.

You may struggle against authority an procrastinate as an act of rebellion. Others because it's just what they would rather do.
That is something worth considering, but it would go against one of the design goals: a firewall without a single alert dialog.
It feels to me like the conversation around mobile platforms is anchored in the past. It seems analysts and pundits can't function properly in a world where markets are diverse, and so every day someone somewhere comes up with a metric which is then presented as one platforms domination another platform. Like this one.

And the market for consumers and investors suffers as a result. These are not the "Windows vs Mac" days. This is not a "Google vs Apple" contest, no matter how hard analysts and pundits wish they were.

I personally don't care about stats like this because they tell us nothing. They look like they do, because you can pretty much extrapolate to your hearts content to make information like this positive or negative, and only confirmation bias influences which way you lean.

I'd prefer it if Analysts and pundits talked more about forward progress in terms of hardware & software and real life product launches, which would make their ramblings useful to consumers and investors.

With the exception of a rare few, they're basically just white noise.
First, it's ssl only. Second, the alternative (which I'm trying to avoid and where this idea came from) is a user being prompted for a password and responding something like "er, um... Password123" or just using the same password they use for everything else

The idea was that this may give users a bit more time to think about passwords, and possibly be more secure than the usual passwords. Stating the idea here is giving me some good things to consider
PyCon 2012 Call For Proposals
No, it's not a strong password just because it looks like it (which is the point of the latest articles). You choose from a small group of words (animals) and do a naive character substitution that specialized programs can (and do) anticipate.
In case there's any doubt this is about "defending Android", head over to http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/ . Each of the four statements from an executive at a major device manufacturer users the particular phrase "defending Android."
I was pretty surprised when I learned about Huey Long - he was a genuinely left-wing US pre-war politician (including Governor of Louisiana and Senator).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long

Unfortunately he was assassinated in 1935 :-(
Livros Robinson Street - AbeBooks - Binghamton, NY, EUA
It's also the default search engine on Safari in iOS, so I'm not sure there's a point to be made here.