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Maxim plans analog integration, Gartner is skeptical
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I'm not sure there are any Google Experience phones for sale.

The Verizon Galaxy Nexus does not appear to be a pure Google phone -- it comes preloaded with Verizon software and I have seen no statements from either Verizon, Samsung, or Google regarding when updates will be released, or who will publish them, or if they will first have to go to Verizon. (Here's one article discussing the issue: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397377,00.asp - How CDMA is killing the Galaxy Nexus)

Even the imported GSM Galaxy Nexus is being questioned as perhaps not a google phone as it seems to have shipped with substantially different roms that may have different update policies. (http://www.xda-developers.com/android/is-the-galaxy-nexus-st... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3341959 )

I am very interested in this question of when/where/who will publish the Galaxy Nexus updates -- I want to replace my Nexus One with a Galaxy Nexus. But much of the value I perceived of the Nexus One is that the updates came frequently and came directly from Google.
What do you think about Maxim's plan and analog integration?
I'm afraid that subset of political parties is also its own superset.
I'm not aware of anyone disrupting critical code the way you're suggesting. It would be akin to rewriting malloc. I'm not discounting a slow transition akin to what you suggest, but you're talking about a long time frame of supporting 2 VMs side by side. Probably 10+ years.

And even then, you still have to support JavaScript being written directly in HTML <script> tags, something no other language could enjoy. So every browser must include a JavaScript to (new VM) bytecode compiler. JavaScript will always be in a priviledged position.
The title says "SOPA Hearings Pushed to 2012", but this is nowhere in the article. Edit, please.
I've been reading the guy since about 2004 I think and I feel he's become more combative and biased over the past few years. Or maybe he just wasn't very motivated to go after the opposition when it was Microsoft. From what I understand of the guy I guess he might have felt that pointing out Ms's many missteps a few years ago was like shooting fish in a barrel, why take them seriously, hell the vibe I get from him nowadays regarding Microsoft is one of encouragement.

Still, the guy is damn insightful, you can't take that away from him. If you wish to understand Apple you have to read him, which is why I still do, despite his flaws.
Your example prices the book too low. Even at 100% it would be impossible for the author to make the same amount of money. 9.99 is a price point that most people seemed to think was reasonable. If a $15 paperback book was prices as an ebook on Amazon for 9.99, the author's cut would be 6.64. This would allow an author to sell the ebook at 2/3 the normal price while still receiving a larger payment.
in your list of groups, you'll see all of your own repos and all repos where you're listed as a collaborator (On GitHub, go to repo -> Admin -> Collaborators). so people that are just watching or have forked the repo don't get added to the list.

in its current form, gitdash sets up a private mailing list for the committers, whether the repo is actually public or private.

thanks for the feedback, suggestions welcome!
Another idea: if the MPAA and RIAA break the internet, let's break them. How about a petition of people who pledge not to go to the movies or buy mainstream music if SOPA passes?
The implementation would have to be shitty in a very specific way in order for it to not hurt the Internet at large. If this thing does get built, all American Internet traffic will have to flow through it, so it has to be stable and fast.

Maybe we could just make it block by default the websites of all the politicians and corporations that support SOPA.
I think we are asking opposite questions - if web based UI's are so awesome and have no caveats attached for display based apps then why are browsers not written using HTML, CSS and JS ? I am asking this question because I know at least one person from mozilla has replied to this thread.
I grew up in the north east and then relocated to the west. Almost without fail when I met someone new on the East Coast (especially NE), one of the first questions they would always ask is "where are you from?" I cannot recall ever being asked that as part of an introduction while I've lived out west.

In my experience there is a lot of focus in the northeast on where you come from, and what your background is. I've found out west (and I'm not even in the bay area) there's a lot more focus on where you want to go and what you can do.

And I think related to this, I've generally found people to be much more open and friendly. People are generally much more willing to let you into their social worlds than on the east coast.
Nitpicking:

"If 1 = 2, then 2 = 4" technically this is a true statement. Any implication starting with false premise is true. But you already know that, and you meant that I cannot use the "then" clause of this implication, because it can be true or false.

Main subject:

My reasoning resulted with contradiction, which I blamed on assumption (1) or (2), but it can be that there was hidden assumption (3) "there is a chance that Friday will be choosen".

When we assume (1) (2) and (3) we have contradiction, when we assume (1) and (2), but not (3), we can't use (2) to prove there's no possible day to choose for teacher, so that case is the solution.

OK - count me persuaded. Thanks for disscussion.
It's not just that they treat CM like crap, they treat all their vendors the same way. Only the nexus team at Samsung had access to ics before launch.
Excellent, first github pull request success, we are on our way !
It seems pretty reasonable to observe the desktop world, though, since it has the properties under discussion, and ask ourselves whether it's easier to deploy an application to a wide audience there or on the web.
If your point is that 'it's not impossible to do..' I agree.

My point is that this is more efficient, not that it is some super secret 1337 way to hack.
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You're missing the point - his suggestion was for a decentralized internet that isn't blockable in the first place. Cliche idea that won't actually happen, but that aside...
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During that time we should compile a list of all representatives that support this bill and any/all donations and from whom those donations came from to support this bill. When the money trail is out in the open, I think both the representatives and the donors may be more timid about pushing forward against an unpopular bill like this.
Ask HN: HN Style Aggregation Legalities
Suppose a site like HN existed, except that when articles/links are submitted their contents are extracted and the content (while still properly attributed) is displayed on the aggregation site itself. Are there legal boundaries being crossed here or is this considered fair use?

Context: I am thinking about creating a browser based niche reader app that would allow users to stay on one site while viewing content from multiple sites. The content would automatically be scraped from RSS feeds. If the RSS feed does not provide full content, the scraper will get the content from the full URL.

Thanks in advance.
This brings up an interesting idea, however. Now that twitter is such a big part of election campaigning, etc, couldn't twitter give an example of the perils of blocking free speech by blocking the twitter accounts of any Representatives that vote pro-SOPA?

It could send a message: "Politicians, if you are so eager to block and censor internet activity, we are happy to show you first hand what it can do, starting with your re-election bid".
That is a simplistic and sexist view of the industry. It presupposes women have no agency, no will of their own, and that men can control them just by waving some money and the promise of fame in their faces.
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I've written code for this before, I have it over at Github:

https://gist.github.com/fd98541dd158d7e7be9e

So if anyone wants a full example they can run and play with themselves. Your example stuff looks like it was pulled from the code I wrote above...
The "SOPA Vote Delayed" link on the front page is the better article upon which to comment.
I've done that with Stack Overflow; I'll ask a highly-specialized question that would be best answered by the actual mailing list, often because I'm already on SO and I am too lazy to go sign up for the mailing list.

In my defense, two days ago I tried to post to the git mailing list and it took many, many minutes to do, because:

* the git web site does not actually tell you the mailing list subscribe address; it links to GMANE and shows the post-to-the-list address
* GMANE has a subscribe option, but of course, they mean subscribe through GMANE

I finally found the master list of lists at vger.kernel.org (one giant unreadable page), which lists the unsubscribe command, which can of course be reverse-engineered into the subscribe command for that majordomo server.

And I freaking wrote a major mail server. No wonder people just post to "that place where you ask questions".
> The JVM and the CLR have already adequately demonstrated that multiple languages can easily (and with adequate performance) share common libraries and APIs.

Please tell me how code in PHP can get a response from a function in JavaScript? What if that response is a Date object? What if that Date object was extended with additional functionality? What if that Date object stored additional values in unexpected places? A huge advantage of Javascript is that everything is an object and everything can be modified.

When you try to make that work, you'll start placing restrictions on what can and what can't be passed. Global scope will be a nightmare. You'll try to hack together a scheme that casts responses into primitives. In the end, you'll end up with a stifling environment where interoperabilty is a theory that is never used in production because it was crippled to make it functional to the point of being useless.
> (informal) To inflict a severe electric shock, not necessarily fatally.
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The question is not closed at the moment.
I prefer not to decide to withdraw my vote until they cast theirs. And even then, I honestly would rather not withdraw my vote until I've discussed the matter with the relevant congressperson and found out what their reasoning was. If they can make a reasoned argument, I will reconsider. Merely disagreeing with my congressperson is not enough for me to withdraw my vote, because it's a given that I will disagree with them on various points. If they are a reasonable person, I will generally weigh the number of things we agree and disagree on. If they are not willing to listen to reason, my support is out the window immediately.

Anyway, I think despite the fact that it's likely that those who support it now will vote for it, it's perhaps too early to make a decision on voting or not voting for a given person based on this bill alone.
Yes, I found your stuff through a Stackoverflow post you created.
Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation in 1980 (Insanely amazing)
Ain't gonna work. Noble, yes, but it'll just push the salary up 'til someone who doesn't care takes the job.
"What happened?"

Investors just raised another $1 billion for Zynga. That's what happened. I don't understand the point of this article. The author is trying to make Zynga's IPO sound like a failure, when it is not.
Bill summary and list of cosponsors/supporters:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR03261:@@@P
This is genius. I love the idea of developing law as though it were a software development project. I always thought that government could greatly benefit (the people) by implementing technology- even something as simple as online voting or perhaps an official online debate forum. But the point of having legislators is to have someone represent a group of people's opinion. With the internet, they are no longer necessary as each individual can state their opinion directly. Politicians, with the use of the internet, are essentially obsolete.
Javascript is a perfectly reasonable underlying language. Nothing that I know of stops people from compiling python or ruby into javascript.

I would never write pure javascript, but using languages that compile to javascript has been pure joy.

See http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
Actually it's even bigger than that. yt$ does not include the newline, yy does. So p after a yt$ will not change lines, it will insert the content directly on this one after your cursor, while p after a yy will reproduce the entire line as a new line below the current one.
Great idea. Who owns Congress?
Only thing that costed me was hosting and domain
You should see the official site: http://inaka.github.com/edis/
"Hard to say, the business might need to change in order to be successful."

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1805-lets-just-call-plans-wha...
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Because this internet does function like the one they want to control. If there is New Thing X that makes the internet not-useless, new legislation will expand SOPA to cover that too.
It's not quite what you're asking for, but OpenCongress.org seems to have a pretty relevant list of the money various reps have received from groups supporting and opposing the bill: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/money
I hope they don't pull a "1913" and pass the bill on Christmas day like they did with the federal reserve act, legislation which caused the great depression and the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis and leaves us about 15 digits in debt here today. sopa is kind of like that. Replacing free market currency/internet with regulated currency/internet.
I think the point is that if you are tweeting when you should be listening, are you actually doing your job? Theoretically, he should be listening to people's opinions on the topic and using points to help form his own opinion. Instead, his opinion (or paycheck) has already been formed and therefore is not doing his job at all. The tweet was blatant proof.
Science defines our best view of reality, period. And by best, I mean most accurate representation of objective reality.
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If we thought like a VC we wouldn't get any work done, what with all of the hookers and blow.
Does anyone have links to samples of DCI-structured code other than the very small money-transfer example Google turns up? I'm really intrigued by the idea, but I'd like to look at some examples with multiple contexts and roles acting on the same data classes.
> Grandfathered into the FIA (Formerly Charles Schwab) 2% visa signature card

FIA (nee Schwab) was my 2% on everything card but my account was sold to BofA, which changed the terms to 3% on gas, 2% on groceries, 1% on everything else. My usage dropped a lot with the sale, in part because my wife refuses to use anything BofA.
No, my point is that it is already completely trivial, and getting a list from google wouldn't even be worth doing if they did provide it, as you can easily and quickly generate a more extensive list with a single command.
Your concerns seem ill-founded given that these are solved problems. There are working implementations of low-barrier cross-language compatibility, today, for both the JVM and the CLR.

Here's one example; Rhino provides pretty seamless bridging from JavaScript to Java:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Scripting_Java

I've used it to run user-supplied JS inside the JVM.

PHP is pretty easy too:

http://quercus.caucho.com/quercus-3.1/doc/quercus.xtp#JavaPH...

Scala is even more lightweight here:

http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/interop-between-java-and...

Bear in mind that these are all for the JVM, which wasn't even designed with the intention of being a general-purpose multi-language VM.
Outside of Google, Facebook and another top 10 internet businesses, can someone share a realistic example of employing M/R in a typical corporate environment?

I'd be really interested at moving forward with the tech but for the time being I do have to stay where I'm - in my primitive cubicle cell.
Someone will do it when they offer a ton of our taxpayer money to fund it. Its sad, but some people will do anything for a buck :/
It's a failure for any insider that got a chunk of stock and was hoping to flip it on opening day.

"First-day pops in initial public offerings are almost axiomatic today. After all, IPOs are engineered that way"

Whoops. Not this time.
Good info here, too, on the money trail:

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/money
There will always be those who prostitute themselves out to build the software to support the bill. Some companies, those most likely to be be the victim of litigation by those in favor of the bill will have no choice but to implement the software due to the threat of litigation damages.

However, the best way to combat litigation damages would be a threat to those same companies from every network that connects to them. i.e. an internet embargo against any company that implements the filtering and changes to the DNS.

At the end of the day networks need to connect to other networks. If a company implements software that filters it, every network that doesn't have the same obligation can embargo those businesses so that those businesses have no choice but to fight the MPAA and RIAA.

Treat those that implement the technology like a cancer and "excise" them from the network.

Following the money is the only way to prevent the technological implementation of SOPA from spreading. There needs to be an equally or more costly financial threat from the anti-SOPA companies.

It doesn't even need to be at the network level. The browser level is sufficient. Chrome, Firefox and Internet explorer (built by 3 organizations that are against SOPA) could all embargo sites at the browser level in the default installations of the browsers. The majority of Internet dollars travel through the browser. The browsers could sniff for DNS systems implementing SOPA and blacklist them. If your DNS implements SOPA then you aren't part of the internet. If they want a browser that supports networks that implement SOPA, let them build it themselves and spend time and money trying to get their browser adopted.

The search engine level is another approach. Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo could reduce the search rank of every site on networks that implements SOPA.

SOPA uses legislation to break the technological contract that keeps the internet together. Break the technological contract and you should no longer part of the Internet.
If you raise them.
The Nexus S 4g (sprint) was the worst phone I ever owned. Terrible reception meant calls dropped constantly and therefore the battery never lasted a whole workday. On the flipside, my Motorola Photon has great reception and battery life, but is encrusted with Motororola customizations, and apparently unlocking the bootloader disables 4g. While I love the open nature of Android and I've enjoyed CyanogenMod immensely in the past, the fact is that right now I have a fairly locked-down phone which -- though powerful --is nowhere near as fun to use as ones I've had before.
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> And yet, Google, Apple, AND Mozilla have all successfully introduced entirely new or significantly refactored VMs in the past few years.

Yes, because the old VMs were critically slow. Things like DOM manipulation aren't blocking problems the way they used to be.

> This is solvable; it HAS been solved.

Why? What critical problem requires a bytecode VM? Developers refusing to write in anything but their favorite language?

> In terms of performance, debugging, profiling, and simple functionality, compiling to JS is simply a work-around, not a solution.

This is solvable without alternative VMs. WebKit is working on CoffeeScript/other language debugging: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/debug-languages-on-javascr...
Hmm, the only people I know who wear suits are corporate lawyers and wall st folks. everyone else is probably more dressed up than san francisco, but that's because there's fashion industry presence in the city more than the requirements of their respective jobs. San Francisco is a beautiful small town.
Going in for cancer treatment does not imply a philosophical commitment to human immortality. You people are the new Randroids.
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Can I express shock for a moment: first, Mike Lee voting against the defense appropriation bill, then Jason Chaffetz moving to put this on hold. I'm so used to Utah politicians like Hatch and Bennet that it is incredibly surprising to be proud of my state's representatives for a change.
Technical cofounder lost motivation - what now?
My CTO lost motivation to complete the product we originally decided to make. I can't code what he's coding. The product is probably about 90 % done already, the last 10 % should take no more than two weeks, but he is dragging his feet and has even admitted that he has lost all enthusiasm for the product.

I do not want to find a new CTO, I just want suggestions on how to finish this product - should I try motivate him? How? If I can't manage to motivate him, should I pay someone else to finish the product? Should I just do nothing and wait? He said he will eventually finish it and to please not bother him, so I stopped asking so as not to annoy him. I just said to let me know if he needs anything. However, I am really concerned - that was a week ago and no updates at all from him on how the product is doing.

We have a second product we want to make after this one and he is still enthusiastic about that. I suspect he just wants to scrap this one and move on to the next product, but I still believe in this product and in any case, it's so close to done we should just finish and launch it.

What are your suggestions? Thanks in advance.
I believe this site has also done a bit of advertising on reddit. How is that working out?
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This generally isn't the case with disparate languages on the JVM. Unless you have a concrete objection with a scientific basis, you're just spreading FUD, and I don't think that contributes to the conversation.
Here's bc:

bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
1.15 * 100
115.00
Why would I want to use graphite, a python based graphing solution to say rrdtool?
As this post recognizes, there are a lot of components bundled under the name Graphite:

* There's whisper, the file format carbon uses to store time-series data.

* There's carbon, the daemons that accept data over the network, combines them, and writes them to whisper files.

* There's graphite, a django application that can read data from carbon files or RRD files. Graphite features several user interfaces of its own as well as an API to render the data as graphs or as numerical values.

What I find most interesting is graphite's API's potential as an intermediary service between your metrics storage (whether its RRD, whisper, or some other format that you add support for) and your applications that need to consume those metrics (e.g. your monitoring system, your dashboards).
Since SOPA would result in various American internet companies being crippled (censoring those would result in the death of the company if a large portion of their users is American), there would be plenty of other countries affected negatively by the passing of SOPA.