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The posts on this thread remind me of that quote, "To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

I would bet good money that none of the critics below have done anything of much weight or significance.

There are two kinds of criticism, the kind that builds and the kind that criticize just to criticize.

The difference is in the intent.

Critics who build are giving feedback because they want the hearer to reach their full potential and be better, "You are almost there, but I see a few things that you could do to really take this to the next level. Don't settle. Really take this thing to the ground and do it right."

Critics who criticize for the sake of criticizing usually have nothing really useful to say. They don't care about the individual or institution they criticize. They usually have nothing of value to add. They are like spectators at a football game, who cheer or boo because it's fun. For these people, disagreeing is not done with the intent to help, but only with the intent to disagree. It's a waste of energy.
That would be a vulnerability inherent in the OS / tag-reading software itself, and would need to be dealt with just like any other threat (malicious file downloads, URLs, etc.)

Under normal circumstances the phone shouldn't have any bug causing it to execute anything read from the NFC tag as code.
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I really feel you are grasping straws there. Motorola is only defending itself against Microsoft's patent attack.
> I would bet good money that none of the critics below have done anything of much weight or significance.

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

> There are two kinds of criticism, the kind that builds and the kind that criticize just to criticize.

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

> Critics who criticize for the sake of criticizing usually have nothing really useful to say

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

> full potential and be better, "You are almost there

They say that they are going to change the world!

I'm here to tell them that they aren't that special: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085569.

Be careful with criticizing the critical my friend. You are playing on my turf now, and I have home side advantage.

And I leave you with this:

Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2008/01/extraordinary-c.h....
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Your view is very biased. What if the successes are often random? What if in truth many people could be founders if in the right place at the right time? How many of those people with higher degrees go on to be successful? Even founders?

Hell, I can point you one successful founder who went through a degree and even a graduate degree: Peter Thiel. Yet you say:

"Of these 10, some go study medicine/law/engineering and disappear from the pool."

Yes, the world is very complex, and you probably know less than you think you do. As do we all. The most honest among us always remember "we do not really understand."
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I highly recommend everyone do as I have done: read the paper and track down the references they state support their claims such as "43%!" and "50%!" and determine whether or not the references cited support the claims as made. It's an entertaining exercise.

Then, based on one's findings having done this, decide for oneself whether the paper should be withdrawn and all 22 of the authors fired from their positions.
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I think Thiel is grossly underestimating the value in college, especially for the students in this Fellowship.
Thiel argues (elsewhere) that college is only worthwhile if you have a good idea of what you hope to get out of it. I completely disagree. For most people, college is the time that you discover your interests and figure out what you want to do with your life.

Even for these students, who seem to know exactly what they want to do, college is invaluable. It's not a coincidence that most of the major tech companies of the world (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc.) were started while their founders were in college. In many ways, it is the perfect incubator: you have plenty of domain experts readily available to talk to, a good supply of smart tech people, and no requirement that your startup make any money yet.

So, IMHO, Thiel is doing a disservice to these students by paying them to drop out.
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When I say that we don't need more children and should people not encourage to get more children because we already have enough humans I get the weirds looks. If i tell them that japan has many problems, but their shrinking population is not nobody believes me. They ask "What about their social security?" (I'm European) Well, it's just a ponzi scheme it will collapse anyway. First of all people should stop thinking more people = better. If we cut all our propaganda and financial aid for more children the children per women would probably drop well below one child per woman. That would be a way to start.
Open a dictionary and take a look...

Here I saved you the effort seeing as you're obviously incapable:

http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=ironic&o=0&l=dir
> My hunch is that Apple's feelings on the project were "lets throw this out there and see if it sticks"

Which is somewhat uncharacteristic of Apple and what some folks blame Google for doing repeatedly. I hope Ping's failure resulted in a lot of lessons learned about the social space.
At first I shared your frustration, but I glanced at the paper and it looks to me (as a layman) as though the authors did their homework. It was published in Nature after all.

Here's a high level intuitive argument: Imagine that lots of important parameters about the Earth's climate and ecosystems could be modeled using a bunch of differential equations. Right now, due to humans, our current state is deep in historically unexplored territory. To be safe, it makes sense to try to modify all the parameters we can back to where they were in case weird stuff happens in the unexplored territory.
Sure, but don't you have to deal with politics and policies from the rest of the company, or occasionally interface with bureaucrats from other departments, other buildings even? Working in a team of 30 people at a big company is never anything like working in a company of 30 people.
I'm interested as well. :) jim.jones1@gmail.com
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I don't agree with Linus here. He first goes on about how "open source"
is not about making the world a better place, but then states
that the GPL is all about fairness. Well, that's the point - we want a fair
world, where everyone's freedoms are respected. How is that not making
the world a better place?

You could just as well start arguing that there is no such thing as altruism,
and that everyone always acts out of selfish reasons, even if helping someone
else. I must say I find this to be a quite misantropic attitude in general.
I don't do IOS development, but from what I hear you still need a developer account (which costs money and I'm assuming can be revoked) and there exists an install limit for your dev app (though I hear that limit is a lot higher than it used to be).

Their goal is also to provide this to other families. I don't think you can expect everyone that wants this tool to have apple hardware to compile on as well as a developer account.

That's a lot of hoops to get through when the alternative is as simple as attaching your .apk in an email or posting it online.
This, the same week that someone posts an ESR rant about how RMS is a bad, counterproductive zealot for making software freedom into a moral issue.

Maybe he is, maybe not, but this example begins to show the moral dimension
It's also important to note that this is a review article: it's an attempt to distill an opinionated consensus in the field, not to fully flesh out the models and provide all the empirical evidence.

For that, the reader should check the copious end notes.
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What do you guys think? :-)
That was CVE-2012-2661. This one states:

CVE-2012-2695

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CVE-2012-2661, even if you upgraded to address that issue, you must take action again.
This is one of the best things I've seen invented in a long time.

It's like a peltier cooler[1], but it produces light instead of heat.

I'm thinking of the most amazing beer cooler/Christmas light display ever!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling
Except, as far as I know, Motorola is leveraging FRAND, standards necessary patents and Microsoft wasn't. There is a large difference.
I was about to say, I swear I read an exact same vulnerability a few days/weeks ago, also in regards to the where statement.
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Their interactive engineer mesh stream handles this time keeping.

(That is, probably an irc channel..)
This one is a variant of that attack.
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Per your claim, some driver for some piece of hardware has a disabled feature which you can use to mess up your hardware.

So why don't you just freaking avoid enabling that feature?

Is it Linux's responsibility to absolutely prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot after taking very special effort to research the best way to blow it off?

Question: does OS X fully support every possible bit of hardware which you can technically make to run with it, with every feature you want? Is it absolutely impossible to shoot yourself in the foot with OS X?
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But where would you use light that cools?

Fridge lights? House lighting in warm regions? Hmmm. On second thought it could have interesting applications depending how much it cools.
Sued? No they'd be served with DCMA takedown notices. Which is perfectly fine in my book.

If the content creators don't want their content on Imgur then they should be able to take it down.

Nothing is preventing people from linking directly to the content creators site, redditors are just apathetic and would rather just click through imgur links.
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For that exact reason, I usually to put all my build scripts into a bash file, and just call that bash file from jenkins.
When publishing a paper, "peer review" typically means that two or three scientists ask you for one round of revisions before publishing. It does not mean complete replication of the source code and data analysis. It means a cursory pass, not a complete unit test suite.

Nature and Science in particular have been forced to retract many papers recently for failure to replicate. A short list of recent retracted Nature and Science papers:

http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/highly-cited...

http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2012/04/guest-post-accurate-i...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=study-fails...

And here is a recent climate paper by Gergis which was retracted after the blogosphere found flaws while attempting to replicate their work:

http://climateaudit.org/2012/06/10/more-on-screening-in-gerg...

All of those papers were beaten up after they were accepted because other scientists couldn't replicate their results. Perhaps we should see whether this too holds up to scrutiny for a few years before remaking the $100T world economy.
He first goes on about how "open source" is not about making the world a better place, but then states that the GPL is all about fairness. Well, that's the point - we want a fair world, where everyone's freedoms are respected.

The fairness he mentions is not about having a fair world, but a tit-for-tat kind of fairness. When talking about a fair world, people usually mean a world where everyone is equal, which is not tit-for-tat fairness.
The post is titled "e1000e and the joy of development kernels"

This is hardly a matter of 'improper config'!

Why on EARTH are you running DEVELOPMENT KERNELS (not just talking about newish kernels) on your bare hardware? Is that something normal users would do? Why? How would they even acquire and install them?

How do you expect to ensure that bleeding edge open source development drivers cannot be used to do stupid things? Some kind of legal prohibition on making any drivers until you have been vetted by some central committee?
Thanks for open sourcing it, great work. Sorry for the stupid question I have not much experience with this type of app. How do customers create tickets? I'm not exactly clear of the workflow, could you elaborate?
These docs can retain their usefulness even when their titles are long since obsolete. "The C10K Problem" comes to mind.
This vulnerability also adds 2.3 as an affected version.
This finding wouldn’t surprise Kahneman, who admits in “Thinking, Fast and Slow” that his decades of groundbreaking research have failed to significantly improve his own mental performance. “My intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy”—a tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task—“as it was before I made a study of these issues,” he writes.

Doesn't Kahnman distinguish between intuitive and deliberate thinking? So it could be possible to think better by distrusting our intuitions and deliberating more, right?
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Yes, I read the original, in its entirety.

As to peer-review, this was not published as either an "article" or "letter" (see: http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/gta/2a_Manuscript_forma...) but as a "review", which is more or less just a published essay. As such it falls under a much different peer review guideline.

Even so, peer review is no surety of fact, far from it, it's nothing more than a signoff that the authors have seemingly followed the basic forms of reproducible scientific investigations. However, in this case I think that Nature has let down its readers even in publishing this essay as a "review".

There is nothing that is not vague and generic in this essay. There is no model here, no theory. And no predictions nor falsifiability. It is not science in any sense and should not be treated as science. At best it is the shadowy outline of a future theory, at worst it is politics, mysticism, and superstition masquerading as science. And yes, reprinted in one of the most prestigious science journals of our times. That doesn't make it better, that makes it worse.
I do agree with you. But having read a lot on HN, I have the feeling, that a lot of people do stomp on apple, when apple removes an app.

But on the other hand, a lot of developers (oftentimes the same people that cry out when an app is removed) are happy to put apps on the shelves of this walled garden, trying to make a (fast) buck.

When I started reading these arguments and outcries against apple, I really felt with the developers. Nowadays it shifted. It seems to me, that there is (by some/a lot) developers a lot of bigotry involved. And on the user part as well.

Who didn't buy this or that app giving the evil lord of Apple the 30% cut? Who didn't praise this or that developer for their totally cool app, pushing it, promoting it, helping it make a bigger buck (and helping the evil overlord Apple this way)?

Me - I am guilty. I have an old iPhone and I did buy some apps. Yes, I thought the iPhone was cool/great/whatever. So yes I am as guilty as anybody owning an Apple product.

What I'm trying to say here is, that if anyone is really serious about showing Apple the middle-finger (excuse my language) he/she should stop buying products from the evil overlord or his minions (iBooks, Appstore, Macstore, et al.).

This and only this would show Apple, that maybe the removal-policy is wrong. Apple, as nearly any other big corp. will only feel the sting, if revenue drops and share prices drop after that.
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You would only need one and toggle the actions instead :) That's what I did anyway, but the biggest drawback (at least on galaxy nexus) is that the phone needs to be unlocked to read NFC.
>>> There’s a reason patents are in place, to protect decades of hard work and research that go into our devices. To take someone’s life work and market it as your own is simply wrong.

This appears to be the crux of it: is the technology that SfY 'copied' actually the direct results of decades of effort, or could it have been created by a few designers and developers looking at the problem of assisting disabled children over a few months?

If the approach that is used is trivial to think of and/or implement, then maybe it's not really "marketing someone else's life's work", but just re-implementing a simple-enough idea. If patents are granted for ideas as simple as that, then clearly patents are broken.

>>> We intend to participate in this space (new consumer technology / tablet apps) but will only do so in a way that supports the best possible language outcomes for those clients with severe communications disorders.

I hope that includes pricing a product well within range of most potential customers, and not at $2,500+ prices.

If the entire approach of an app is easily copied, it hardly has the right to expect to not be copied (except when patent protected). It's funny, we get much more complicated algorithms and systems implemented for free in free/open software, while these families have to pay the economic rent imposed by a patent-holder for a relatively simple design that IMO could be easily re-invented by a few product designers focusing on the problem.
Uh, whether altruism actually exists is a matter of serious debate. Google "does altruism exist".

I think it's telling that one of the most successful open source leaders doesn't really believe in altruism as the motivator for open source.

If you always acted as if people would do things just to be nice, you might be continually confused about why contributions were made or not made. If you just assume that people are going to contribute for their own interest, then your project may be more likely to succeed.

Contributing for your own interest doesn't mean "selfish" or misanthropic. It means finding common ground where interests align and both parties win.

Do you think IBM or Google contributes to Linux to be nice? Obviously they have business interests in Linux. That seems to be the simplest explanation. And I don't see it to be different for other contributors either.

Random links from Google:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/11/does-altru...

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/is-pure-altr...
Lighting is hot. I'd love to have lights that weren't also little heaters. Or, if the cooling effect is big enough - imagine solid state cooling on devices. Who needs a fan when you can have a little cooling light?

I doubt that they'll be able to scale this up too much though, since it probably relies on an effect that only occurs below a certain threshold.
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How comes that the VFAT patent (held my Microsoft) is not considered FRAND?

After all, it's part of the UEFI specs, SD card specs, and so on. And what about the new exFAT stuff (required for some of the newer SD specs, SDXC or something like that)?

Microsoft certainly leverages those (esp. the VFAT stuff) against Linux in general, and Android specifically.
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