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The article puts forward a false dilemma by implying your only choices are (a) squashing all of the commits into a single patch, (b) examining the end point and then only signing the end point (with the risk that there might be some bad stuff hidden in some of the intermediate commits), and (c) examining and signing every single commit.

In fact what we do in the kernel community is most patches are in fact reviewed via e-mail. This increases the likelihood more people will look at the patch and notice any potential problem, and more importantly, the e-mail archive introduces an additional external record of the proposed change. After each patch in a patch series is reviewed, in isolation, with each change small enough that it can be easily reviewed in a mail reader, and with especial attention made to maintaining bisectability, the maintainer who will ultimately by signing the git pull request will apply it into his or her tree.

For larger changes and for larger subsystems where we have submaintainers, it is the maintainer's responsibility to make sure the submaintainer sends a signed pull request. At that point the submaintainer is assuming full responsibility for the set of patches which he or she is sending to the upper-level maintainer, just as the maintainer assumes responsibility for the patches he or she sends to Linus.

In the case where the submaintainer does not send a signed pull, or the maintainer does not have full trust in the submaintainer (either for social or technical reasons), it is the responsibility for the maintainer to check each and every commit for correctness. If he or she can't do that, he shouldn't accept the pull request; instead, he might request that the patch series be sent to the mailing list so everyone can review the patch series.

One of the things which follows from this is that for me as a kernel or e2fsprogs maintainer, github pull requests are not particularly useful. Most of the time I have no idea who the person is that initiated the pull request, because the primary community is on the mailing list. Worse, the pull request only gets sent to maintainer, which makes the maintainer the review bottleneck. If the patch series is sent to the mailing list, as individual commits, with no requirement to jump to a browser, it allows the review workload to be distributed to other developers on the mailing list.

As far as I'm concerned, a github pull request is the same thing as a patch sent via private, personal e-mail. I'm going to review it very carefully, and only apply it if I know that it is clean. Typically the review involves extracting the commit as a diff, and as has been discussed in other places, github doesn't encourage properly formatted commit descriptions, so I end up needing to extract the diff, and then reapply it with an appropriate commit description. So for me github pull requests generally represent negative, not positive value, because of the quality control and quality assurance requirements of the code bases in which I work.
Here are some opportunities:
Social graph is their biggest asset. 900million users.
A number of companies have been built only because of this network. I can easily see them charging large sites in the future.
Spotify, Pinterest, Tumblr are just a few companies using the social graph to build better products and all of them are billion dollar companies using Facebook for free.
Google maps now charges large sites for API calls, Bing is now charging for API calls. Facebook will too.

Payments is an amazing opportunity for them. One click, Purchase With Facebook. The payment processing game is all about the network effect. Dwolla is innovative but they need an "eBay" for them to gain massive usage. Facebook doesn't need it.

Facebook can destroy eBay by creating a marketplace + their own payment processor. Facebook is the only company that can break eBay's monopoly of the online marketplace and payments. This field is ripe for disruption and in the game of network effect Facebook is unstoppable.

I can see them moving into enterprise too. Maybe teaming up with Micosoft's Office 365 to create an awesome enterprise social network with Office 365 built in.

Online gambling laws are starting to become loose. This can be huge for not only zynga but for many, many other massive companies who would love to use the social graph for the gambling. Example: BetFair and Bwin.
Humans are also bad at comparing horizontal differences to vertical ones. Switching from one to the other obscures the difficulty of going higher. If the peak of Everest were 8,848 meters in distance rather than height, it would be an unremarkable hike.
Wouldn't this be solved with a merge commit? If I can see where a commit merged in, I could prove that I didn't author it, as I don't have access to the other author's machine.
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Rhyming words are very stable memes, they carry their own error correction.
Whats the worst thing that could happen? All the manufactures drop Android? Good, then we will get an official, not messed with, Android phone directly from Google. I see only good in this.
I hope Motorola sets a new course towards premium iPhone territory.

I've always found raw naked Android much nicer to use than the silly re-skinning every manufacturer wastes time adding. Sense and blur are bad, but Sony's Timescape was absolutely the low-point.
Tell that to all the people who bought expensive video cards only to see the price of bitcoin fall until their recoup period's measured in years.
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Geometrically speaking, Pringles is much more satisfying than Lays
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Well, 55 years since Sputnik, getting to orbit's a lot harder than just touching space.

But it's not only for what they did with this launch. The rocket meets NASA's requirements for carrying humans, once they finish building an escape system. It's also a lot cheaper per pound of cargo than what we've been using.

A successful dock with the ISS will mean they're well on track to carry astronauts there, and to carry tourists to Bigelow's orbital hotel.

So far there have been only two successful manned space programs, both run by superpower governments. Now it looks like a fairly small private company is going to pull it off. That's a pretty big step forward.
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In my vision, these companies (Samsung, HTC, LG, etc) did not "invested" in Android. They used free Google software to actually save their own skins. What chance any of them would have in the smartphone transition using their own home-made software? I dont think they have much options now, the Windows Phone choice is not giving good results for Nokia and I think the only choice they have to compete against Apple is to have an unified environment so the users can benefit of more apps, and this is exactly what Android gives to them, for free.
A slightly more cynical view might be that the learning outcomes that we're getting is really as good as you can expect given the material + general mix of students + time involved.

Honestly, I would be more interested in seeing the comparison between variation in time/scores for hybrid + traditional formats. My hunch is that the smartest people are significantly dragging up the hybrid scores. My personal experience in class is that professors tend to teach at a rate acceptable to the top ~75% of the class, leaving the top ~5% feeling like class is moving like a glacier. And then there's the fact that each student typically gets stuck at slightly different points, so if a lecturer is to clarify each of these points, there's a LOT of redundancy being thrown around.
Skype and Facebook are very close to each other.
Skype powers Facebook video chat and you can use FB in the Skype client. Also Skype is owned by Microsoft, arguably Facebook's biggest ally.
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not good...it's tiring to not rest your fingers on a surface. your muscles need to rest, your fingers need to touch.
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So far that research has failed to persuade many traditional institutions to deploy the software -- ostensibly for fear of shortchanging students and alienating faculty with what is liable to be seen as an attempt to use technology as a smokescreen for draconian personnel cuts... the resistance of many professors to prefabricated courses that they did not invent and cannot modify to their own needs and tastes.

This is a perfect illustration of why non-profit education is broken. There is no principal, so the agents are running the show. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem if you are unfamiliar.)

In a competitive market dominated by for-profit principals, this wouldn't be an issue. The effective principals would order their agents to cut costs and they would, allowing these principals to dominate the market by cutting costs.
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Samsung at least seems to have far too much invested in Android now to consider dropping it (hell, they're making the best-selling android phones on the market).

This isn't a surprise for anyone, though. They have been working towards this purchase for a while, so if any of the manufacturers were likely to baulk at it, they already would have done so.

Here's hoping that google puts out some great handsets, and makes this a real game-changing move.
If humans have hard-wiring for facial recognition, then likely a lag between the processing of the facial system and the refresh of other optic-visual processing nodes.

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

The rods in the eye responding more quickly than the cones is a more simple example which you can see by quickly darting your eyes back and forth in a darkened room while looking towards a red-LED clock.
The language should be less of a moving target now, after the changes in 1.3.
I have a theory that loosely speaking, highs and lows in life balance.

20 Looking at his disciples, he said:

“Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.

23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

24 “But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

-----

I don't know. You can look at politician popularity. It certainly ebbs and flows. Jesus on Palm Sunday, then Good Friday.

God says...
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bear the same proportion to the Dutch
commerce now which it did then. But this great naval power could not,
in either of those wars, be owing to the act of navigation. During
the first of them, the plan of that act had been but just formed; and
though, before the breaking out of the second, it had been fully enacted
by legal authority, yet no part of it could have had time to produce any
considerable effect, and least of all that part which established the
exclusive trade to the colonies. Both the

----

My expert interpretation is it must be the case that in classic naval engagements you spotted a fleet at some point in time and had to extrapolate... and hope for luck! ROFLMAO.

When praising God, the obvious things are Creation and Exodus. God has a plan, so it's probably the case that lots of things were Him. Divine Wind? Spanish Armada?
Again: Thanks.
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I want my Google MotoGlasses special kit for the GoogleCar now.
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In danger of being a bit too pedantic, there is no such thing as a 'real scientific law' either. Though I admit there is general understanding of what is implied by 'a scientific law', and I assume that's what you and the article is referring to.
Something you're probably going to be interested in: Whole Brain Emulation. [0]

Human intelligence is IMO something that is referred to in pop culture as "emergent behavior" [1]. Problem is that you risk building the electronic equivalent of a cargo cult [2]. After all, on a cellular level of a nervous system, what's the difference between what happens in the brain of a chimp and that of a human? How detailed do you have to go to build a platform that can house intelligence?

On a philosophical level you kinda end up with a contradiction: is the human brain complex enough to understand/build the complexity of a human brain? Personally I'd be happier if research in this field was a bit more modest. I once read (somewhere in the 90s) that there was a researcher in the U.S. who was mapping every cell's behavior in the fly's "brain". With current tech, it would be feasible to implement that into a simulator and see what pops out. But doing the same for a human brain? Let's first try to come up with a definition for fuzzy meta-sensations such as intelligence and emotions that would translate to computer lingo.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRB6Qzx9oXs

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
If that happens then Androids market share will quickly drop below that of WP7, most developers will react accordingly, WP7 will be the new Android and Android will be the new Meego. You might see that as a good thing, but I think many will disagree.
I recently read Jim Lovell's book Lost Moon about the problematic flight of Apollo 13. It paints a reasonably detailed picture of the 1960's systems that put men on the moon.

I would say that the software problems are relatively simple compared to the hardware issues of space flight. Software isn't going to offer much improvement to the ballistic facts, nor is it going to make much difference in overall reliability of the in-flight systems - fault tolerance and fail safety have been understood for a long time. I suspect that most of the impact of software would be on the manufacturing side of the project.

To put it another way, once the rocket is lit, the computer is pretty much going where the rocket is pointed regardless of what software is running.

On the other hand, the idea of open source space hardware is pretty interesting and might have a significant chance of impacting the fortunes of people living in the developing world.
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I'm not sure it's possible to "iterate quickly", if it takes a year to build the product - unless you can anticipate what changes will be needed, which is the problem Lean tries to address. However, I agree that some deep projects do require a year (or years).
An association I don't ask for, and I'm willing to waive in order to keep my apps physically in my device. Note that these are largely non-DRM apps.

But wait, there's more. They also delete the contacts, both those stored in the account (those, understandably) and those stored in the phone. Did I mention they force a FACTORY RESET? call logs, notes, saved app data, you get the idea.

If you root your phone you can solve this, and even without rooting there are still hacks to avoid the deletion, proving that this is perfectly possible. But Google prefers to make it a DESTRUCTIVE thing for you to try and circumvent being tracked at all times.

It's not a corner case. A lot of us don't want to be tracked at all times.
I had the impression that Samsung was readying themselves for this with Bada. There will probably give more weight to it from now on, while investing less and less in Android. It won't be an overnight withdrawal for sure.
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What alternative is there for these companies? Windows?

Short of shooting for the moon (i.e. developing their own OS) I don't see any alternative.
In my experience, NMap hasn't been the best at identifying smartphones and other mobile devices. So from my point of view, yes, this would help. I don't know NMap's goals on that, though.
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Samsung is however also investing in Tizen. So while I doubt they have any plans of dropping Android, I wouldn't be surprised if they have people working on plans on to handle a situation where doing so becomes expedient.
Perhaps you should read up on the laws of thermodynamics. You do not get "10kw" of heat out.
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that's awesome, I'd love it if you found a link to that :-)
This is a grab-bag of clever tricks, based on one idea.

As you know, a TCP connection consists of a (sender_IP, sender_port, receiver_IP, receiver_port) tuple, and individual packets additionally need a valid sequence number ("valid" is rather complicated; TCP opens two of these connections at once, one host1->host2 and one host2->host1.) An attacker with these five numbers can inject arbitrary data into the connection.

The linked article assumes that between the client and server there is a firewall that does sequence number checking (i.e. drops any packets that couldn't possibly be valid; note that packet loss may cause the firewall to see packet2 and packet3 but not packet1, so it has to accept "valid plus a little bit".)

Now, if you have a little information from the client (such as can be obtained by running "netstat", which is an unprivileged operation on pretty much all OSes) and know the server's (IP, port) information (e.g. (www.facebook.com, 80)), you can play around with the firewall.

The most basic attack is simple: send packets with randomly-chosen sequence numbers through the firewall, and see if they make it to the client (the firewall will forward anything in "valid" to "valid + something", and drop anything else; the client will increment the netstat-visible error counter if it receives anything but "valid".) Once a packet makes it through the firewall, you know that the "valid" sequence number is within "something" of the sequence number of that packet. Various refinements and nastier attacks are explored.
While I am fully expecting this to be buried (as google is much fawned over.) I'll persist and point out the hypocrisy that I see between how Google paints their competitors and Google's own behaviour.

The first hypocrisy is the idea of 'Openness', Google often describes their competitors customers as 'hostage' when they won't allow Google access into their system, or 'walled' because they use a closed model. However there is nothing preventing Google from allowing facebook to access Google's data, merely stating reciprocity isn't a reason to keep their own customers 'hostage'. It's simple business, Google wants there to be no competitive advantage. Facebook is significantly larger than Google+, meaning that sharing data will always be in Google's favour. This is why Larry talks it up, not because he's much concerned about users being held 'hostage', but rather he wants an easy way to leech users from facebook into Google+

Next is the idea of 'choice', Google often paints their competitors as giving their users less choice. However when it's convenient for Google's business model, choice is eradicated - between Google's online services and Android users are funnelled into google's services above all others. A trivial example is search where YouTube is highlighted, while 'video' is relegated to the last menu option under 'more'. (YouTube mobile and webm is another example of this leveraging.)

Another often touted soundbite is that Google is all about being truthful, again implying that their competitors blind or mislead their customers to keep them loyal. However Larry would know perfectly well that Chrome's recent ascent to largest market share is a side effect of pre-loading pages, and not representative of actual use. However it's convenient for Google to claim victory here rather than represent actual web use, which sadly appears to still be well within the dominance of IE.

The point I'm making is that Google spends a lot of time trashing it's competitors for doing the exact same things that Google themselves are doing. The only difference is that the competitors aren't sanctimonious by holding up virtues that they can't legitimately claim.
Beside Google Maps and fruit ninja, what are the apps demoed in the video ?
I thought this acquisition as was just about patents. As much as I would love to see some true "Google hardware," I suspect it will be business as usual.
Great UI indeeed.
NMap can tell you what ports are being used by a device. tcpdump would be able to show the conversations.
For a while transistor density's doubled every 12 months. That stopped happening, then for a while they doubled every 18 months until that stopped happening. Now, if your willing to accept transistors doubling every 50,000 years as the same exponential growth as doubling every 12 months then sure it will continue for a long time. But, that's not what 'Moore's law' as originally stated.
Android benefits from the lock-in effect of Google Play and the apps distributed by Google, like GMail and Google Maps. It also benefits from all the improvements that Google is pushing at a fast pace.

Amazon may have the strength to open its own app store for the Kindle. But it can only do so because the Kindle is just a means to a purpose, which is consuming stuff from Amazon's store.

Apple may have the strength to build their own alternative to Google Maps, but they are Apple.

On the other hand, did anybody here ever used the Samsung App Store? (http://www.samsungapps.com). I didn't think so. And what's an Android phone without Google's apps and Google's Play? It's just a shitty smartphone.

Actually I think it's great news that Google buys Motorola, because maybe, just maybe, these phone manufacturers will drop those silly enhancements and start getting in line with the official updates.
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Even if Facebook collapses, it doesn't mean it will take the rest of the web down with it. It just means that perhaps a place where you are shooting the breeze with your beer-drinking buddies isn't the best place to sell some, perhaps even most, goods and services. If that's the case, and the price for putting an ad on FB decreases, it doesn't following that the price for running an ad on another website will also be lower.

The author making the fundamental mistake of assuming that all web sites are the same, and that's obviously false. Just because Facebook is (in his view) a ad-supported website doesn't mean that it is interchangeable with any other ad-supported website.
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I'm a big fan of all of the Big Nerd Ranch books. Also, Objective-C is pretty simple to learn, the real hurdle is learning the Cocoa/Cocoa Touch framework in addition to others. I would recommend the BNR books (they have one on iOS programming as well as one that teaches Objective-C) as well as watching the video lectures from Stanford since your focus is learning to program for iOS.
What makes you think it is fake ?
Using Chrome on the mac, the "New Project" shortcut open a private browsing window. I believe the browser shortcut issues are being addressed already though.

Overall I like the idea a lot, I've just began learning how to use VIM and this app seems a nice way to learn, but as has already been mentioned it seems more like a practise tool rather than actual teaching. The only way to learn the answer is by getting it wrong the first time. I think there needs to be more focus on the "shortcuts" tab, or at least integrate together with the main app.