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The purposes for the update are way more simple and common sensical than that.

Until this change, pretty much every product had it's own privacy policy. I think there were something like 70-ish different policies. For both users and people within the company having so many slightly different privacy policies is a complete mess.

As a user, trying to keep straight in your head the subtle difference between gmail's policy and search's policy and the policies for photos, google+, blogger, etc. is probably impossible for most people. It gets even harder when products start interacting in interesting ways. For example, if you share a picture from a Picasa album to G+ contacts, which then generate message in gmail with pointers (or copies) of the picture, which privacy policy applies? If you're in gmail and you chat with someone from you circles, which policy applies?

(Note - I'm not at all interested in debate about whether people like the features I used as examples. I am simply using examples off the topic of my head to try to show some of the problems inherent with having per-product privacy policies when the lines between products is blurring)

The goal is that, by having a single and comprehensive privacy policy that applies to all Google products, it will be easier for users to understand exactly what promises Google is making and not making. It also makes it easier for engineers (like me) that are creating and improving products.
I'm not sure that was the first slide to unlock, it certainly wasn't the first touchscreen device.
http://www.androidcentral.com/apple-granted-patent-slide-unl...

I tried to like Apple, after receiving an Apple Tv 2, but it doesn't work seamlessly with anything else I own. As one co-worker put it "You need an Apple House for that."

I'm glad all the Apple fans have lovely walls in their garden, but I'm not hanging out there. I don't like them trying to patent me into hanging out there for trivial items like "slide to unlock", either. I don't even like slide to unlock! I much prefer just punching the physical button unlock my phone, but I guess that just means I'm old and you damn kids better get off my lawn.
shareholders might be in a better position to hold managers accountable

But to whom? You can't assume shareholders agree on what this means, so you're introducing a layer of politics into the board elections. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

You could say the same about buisnes management- shareholders will disagree on strategy. But the current solution to that is the "business judgement rule" that says boards have wide-ranging protections so long as they're acting in good faith. You'd have to assume the same sort of thing would be adopted for charitable decisions - the "charity judgement rule", if you will.

And now you have a board with wide freedoms on business decisions and on non-business decisions. In other words, you have a board who can do pretty much anything they want outside of outright fraud. That is not exactly inspiring corporate governance for would-be investors or would-be do-gooders.
Is the author equating email with Google or am I missing something?
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This Github account is definitely run by Googlers (Will Norris and Ilya Grigorik). It was announced on one of the internal mailing lists a few days ago as a companion to code.google.com for things like rubygems, not as a replacement of any kind.
You can't use the native map control (MapKit) but you can use an alternative:

https://github.com/mapbox/route-me
https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-ios-example
https://github.com/mapbox/tilestream-ios-example

The main advantage over JS is the ability to go offline, as well as performance. But that's largely negated if you need to go cross-platform as you do, where I think JS does make a lot of sense.
Er by "escape" I meant "opt-out."

A while ago, if you were average, there were too many barriers to not being average to let you to escape the middle and it was easy to just "be."

Now, with the internet, the barrier to escape has been lowered to a laptop + an internet connection.
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The system in Germany is different in that it names a particular set of stakeholders, namely workers, and gives them a formal place in governance controls. To my knowledge, German managers do not have to take into account the objectives of suppliers, the local economy, or society at large in their decision making. While it's similar, it actually addresses the first point I made, as compared with the California law under discussion.

German companies have much more concentrated share ownership, which gives them an advantage for corporate governance that perhaps makes scandals less likely. Also, they are a product of the German culture which is very different from American culture.
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I pirated a few as a discovery mechanism, which led me to Audible, and other voice publishers. There's also a store nearby where I live that does this... it's not cheap, but what's out on the sharing networks is only a sampler of what you can find in the paid market.
> As far as SPYW goes, it's all about giving the users more relevant results.

For the majority of users, Facebook/Twitter results are more relevant than Google Plus results. There's nothing in the rule book that says you can't leverage a successful property to promote another, but it's unfair to everyone to try to pass that off as a move to increase relevance in search results.

Disclaimer: I'm a Facebook engineer who doesn't take SPYW personally.
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Not to troll, but who's on the light side?
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you can't make everyone above average

Yes, you can, because there's an infinity of dimensions and each person only has to be above average on one of them.

I'm really surprised how many people here aren't getting this.
Nobody really survives cancer

For many cancers this is simply not true. I know many people who are 5-10-15 years out from when they were declared cancer free after treatment. Should we have let them die when first diagnosed?
That doesn't really seem to agree with Paul Buchheit's quote on the wikipedia entry regarding the topic, where he said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out," adding that the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent." I'm pretty sure the plain meaning of the phrase was one of the intended senses, suggesting that any aggressively selfish behavior falls under its umbrella.

It would be a little opportunistic to, on the one hand, have the founders include the following line in a company manifesto: "Don’t be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains" and garner all the amazing PR that's come from that association over the years--but then turn around and claim, oh, no, that was really mostly just talking about user experience. And I doubt they'd make that claim.
And "average" now, is what you can expect as the default, if you make all the "safe" choices.
Assuming that the laws are uniformly applied (which may not be true), they are irrelevant to the differences between people's incomes.

If Person A invents hoverboards and everyone buys them, creating billions in economic value, and Person B works at a gas station and creates a few thousand in economic value, they both reap proportional rewards.

No, Person A couldn't have succeeded without laws protecting him/her from theft and arson. But Person B also has that protection, so clearly the difference between them lies somewhere else.

If Person A has gotten billions in government aid through political connections unavailable to Person B, there's a problem. But a non-corrupt legal system is impartial, and therefore you can't attribute success or failure to it. If the system is corrupt, the solution is reform, not income redistribution.
USPS blew it. They could have evolved/adapted into different businesses. Not only could they have competed with UPS and FedEX for parcel delivery at scale, but there was (and perhaps still is) an opportunity for an entity to provide 3rd party authenticated email service-- and charge for it.

Instead, they got comfortable with merely existing as a junk-mail conduit. Pathetic.

Sadly, in the current environment, where the failure of government programs is taken to be virtually axiomatic, the USPS is running out of slack to re-invent itself.
Yeah and if they buy github maybe they can integrate social coding features using Google Plus and force hackers to code using their real names. The horror...
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I actually agree with the overall thesis -- Google is integrating its services in emulation of Facebook and Apple in order to become more profitable.

The "poor" parts are 1) the over-the-top sensationalist language and 2) the implication that it's okay or even beneficial for Apple and FB to integrate but that Google has "sold its soul to the capitalist devil" in doing the same.

Regarding the Chrome ads, this would be a complete non-issue in any other industry. Suppose I go to Amazon to buy a computer-related book and am there shown an ad for Amazon Web Services. Are AWS now being shoved down my throat?
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> "Why should I be any happier when the AARP influences govt than Larry Page?"

For the same reason you should be happier that it's possible to win a Presidential election in the US with less of the popular vote than your opponent, as opposed to, say, a plutocracy simply choosing the winner.

Neither is great, but one is at least representative of compromise and shared values across a very large chunk of the nation where it's very unlikely they all share the same best interests.
The difference between the best and worst teams in a professional league is usually minute.

Yes, when you compare the entire market to the NFL's Fortune 32, of course football is going to appear more based on luck that skill. You're forgetting all about the skill it took for people to get drafted into those franchises. If we were to look just at the Fortune 50, buisness starts to have all the same properties you ascribe to professional sports leagues.
Why don't you believe our spending is sustainable? The USA is nowhere near default. Rates on US Treasury bills are extremely low, as they're actually seen as an incredibly safe investment compared to both other countries and stocks in general.

I sort of disagree with Friedman. I think we need to reform high school educations to make them useful. Career and Technical education needs to be seen as a viable track for students who don't go to college. High schools should let people take 2 years of programming, welding, metalwork, plumbing, carpentry, CNC machining, HVAC or other useful skills if the student doesn't plan on college. There is no reason why a HS grad should be flipping burgers. Quite frankly I think even people on the college track should learn a bit of trade work.

I am an advocate for increased social spending, but I do think it should be sustainable. I don't think we need to worry about that just yet, and I think the consequences of NOT spending on society now in the midst of a great recession are pretty dire.
Something that bothers me is the feeling of expectation that software engineers (hackers) are supposed to be tech-heads without looking outside at the business, when really, the business pays the bills. Programming is my job and my hobby, but there's a big world out there where programming is only embedded into the general landscape, not the dominant thing.

Is it not okay to go home at 5 and focus on other things beside your work?
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I just wanted to add (I know you didn't ask) but I agree that the white text in the bright yellow is hard to read. I think the suggestion to make that bigger and more prominent will be helpful!
True, I expect (but don't know for sure) that BASIC was actually highly optimized to be as fast as it was.
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I've learned not to trust big corporate IT companies. Apple is one.

I've been through the IBM/Sun/Oracle era, the Microsoft era and am now living in the Apple era. It's like a perpetual screwing ground extracting cash however they can. The products look good but aren't and are primarily fad based. It's the same tactics but different medium.

The only constant good, trouble free, ground levelling force has been Linux so far which solves problems and gets out of the way.
Thanks for the feedback. Grouping the components by function is low handing fruit that I should add very quickly. "More fancy examples" would also be a big help. Thanks for the feedback! Back to work!
I think most of the complaints about sports fans has to do with the lack of thought one makes for being a fan of a particular team. Many seem to do so for childish reasons (the person likes the colors, mascot, or the city the team plays for) or because of something more annoying, one was raised that way. They never question if they support the vision of the team, or the management, or the coaches or players (most of whom never lived in the city for which they play). But hey, they are my city's team!

I certainly will not force my children to grow up liking a particular team/company just because I or my family likes them. I would hope that I would teach my children to appreciate a well played game (or well run company) and make the appropriate choice for mature reasons. I would also hope I would teach them that you do not need to have devotion in the face of mediocrity.

One has a choice in who one roots for and one should use proper reasoning when coming to that choice. Rooting for a particular team/company should not be a mindless activity.

Be a fan of excellence.
Infinity of dimensions, sure. But we're only talking about one of them: number of dollars of economic value you can create.

Whether you're an above-average Scrabble player is irrelevant to a discussion about work and wages. Unless there's something of economic value that you can do better and more cheaply than a robot, there is no reason for anyone to pay you.
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As to age verification, how there isn't a boolean 'isMajor' per-account baffles me. They take your DoB during the sign-up process.

Agreed 100% on the UUID - authorisation does not have to mean identification.
What is funny is that some of the same engineers are on all these github accounts.
Can I just mention Maperitive

http://maperitive.net/

You fire it up, draw a bounding box around the area you want to work with, it downloads that area from open street map as raw data which you can then theme using rule files.

Plus all its commands have command-line equivalents which means you can automate much of it, so far it's been a joy to work with.
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Interesting, I would like to know the percentage of folks who prefer this over the earlier version. Personally, anything over the previous "Downloads" window pop up is a refreshing change.
There's definitely more money on the special interests' side than ours... but we will also have data to link donations to the actual voting constituency. Maybe this will increase our impact.

We agree the concept is somewhat abusrd, but... maybe just the fact that we resorted to making this a real thing will be enough of a wake up call to congress. Maybe.
@CoughlinJ: isn't it also obvious that we should eat healthier, exercise more, and watch less TV? What I have observed again and again is that many engineers start off with positive qualities but lose them over time. What's obvious to you may not be obvious to someone who has been working at the same company for 20 years and hasn't interviewed in just about as long.
The main problem the USPS has right now is that Congress a few years back mandated that they put aside money for pensions of USPS employees who haven't even been born yet, let alone hired. FedEx and UPS don't have that requirement.
I'm talking about the "free market", which is a race to the bottom, which I really don't think anyone wants our education to become.
"How would you do this with classical cryptography?"

Nearly every classical cryptography device uses a source of entropy; if you break that intentionally then you have a side-channel.
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It does not follow.

- nobody in the world had seen anything like the entire package that was the iPhone 1.0. It was a fabulous and revolutionary package, and Apple was rewarded with a massive crowd reaction and huge profits.

However, I bet there were people in that crowd that had seen some of those features before: slide to unlock, multi-touch et cetera. However, they were probably cheering just as loud as the rest. It's often more exciting to see something done well that previously sucked than it is to see something brand new.
I know it's right up there with the "Caesar Cipher" on the cuteness sale, but the "One Time Pad" shouldn't even be considered cryptography. The only thing it does is shift the secret in time, against a passive attacker.
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hey guess what. Microsoft sucked. If suddenly every Linux laptop anywhere in the world turned into a Microsoft laptop, there would be a howl of pain from all corners of the world.

If suddenly every Linux laptop anywhere in the world turned into a MacBook, everyone would smile quietly and start configuring it.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. As you say, I think our fundamental positions are not that far apart, but our ways of reaching there are quite different and we seem to disagree on scope. Just to be perfectly clear, I do support (and indeed rely on) the concept of Intellectual Property, but I believe it needs to be limited in both duration and scope.

Now, to address a couple of your more specific points. Steel is an alloy of iron, not just purified form (although some early forms involved mostly removing impurities and creating the alloy with other impurities naturally present), and while the term steel is somewhat generic I could say something like "440 Stainless Steel" and refer to a very specific composition.

I point out that Rearden relied on it because I believe (it has been a while since I read Atlas Shrugged) Rearden metal used steel as a base. Even if that detail is wrong, it certainly relied on the millenia of metalurgical knowlede developed before Rearden, for which he paid between nothing and very little since only the very most recent developments are patented.

The fact he led a team rather than developping it on his own weakens the clean philosophical argument that it was "earned by the sweat of his brow". He worked with others. Yes, he paid them and has every legal right to claim it as his (actually even that's muddy because he did it through his corporation and it is not entirely clear that he was a 100% owner with no one else having any equity at all). But while that doesn't muddy the legal water, it does muddy the philosophical claim.

When a right was recognized does not change its status certainly, but it does act as evidence against a claim that it is an axiomatic right. One would expect that an axiomatic right would have at least some traces of origins in antiquity and that it would have arisen (even if it took a while) independently in many cultures. This is not true of copyright or patents. Those were extremely modern, created by a legislature and for a very specific purpose. Euclid would likely be shocked by the idea that someone would need his permission to copy his Elements (which he borrowed liberally from others to create). Oddly some of the European Moral Rights, such as the right to be acknowledged as the author, come closer to being axiomatic than actual copyright, even though they aren't recognized in the US in a full form. Euclid probably would have been outraged if the copy you made of his Elements didn't acknowledge him as the writer, but he wouldn't have questioned you making the copy.

As for Disney, again I am not arguing against IP rights, I am all for them. The fact that most of Disney's best movies are openly derivative is an argument for IP rights that are limited in time and scope. That is what I am arguing for, and that is a position which benefits Disney greatly.
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1) Your random number generator could be broken

2) I can flip bits in your message without you detecting it.

3) I can send random messages and get your receiver out of sync with you.
> For the majority of users

Can I have an independent "authoritative" search engine and "cool" social networking tool. You both have Ad platforms on your respective platforms to "promote" products. Thank you.

Disclaimer: A singleton instance of an average user
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Hmmm, that and they are also both games which simulate running a tower as a business.
Very true, great point.
And what do you do when they drink the check and once again lie dying in the street?

Not particularly much you can do in that case, no?

If we can manage it as a society in a sustainable way, people should be protected somewhat from bad fortune, whether it's from a ephemeral event or a bad roll in the genetic lottery. Protecting people from the predictable consequences of their own bad decisions is another thing entirely.
If you are using <ul> and <li> elements for your links it's one fewer tag in your HTML:

<ul class="nav">
<li></li>
</ul>

vs

<nav>
<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>
</nav>

The only 'danger' is that if someone is specifically looking at your page specifically for <nav> tags to locate your navigation they won't find it.
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If the correlation between income disparity and crime rates remains despite a net drop in crime, how is that a refutation of inequality of disparity as a component to crime?

Wouldn't a larger drop in crime in more-equal countries than less-equal countries only re-affirm that though there are clearly other factors involved, inequality is still a component?

I don't actually know the numbers but I'd think it would be pretty easy to look and see whether crime rates are dropping uniformly, or if less-equal countries are seeing a lower drop than more-equal ones.
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