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Yes, C is just another arbitrary abstraction layer among many others, but it occupies a special position in modern computing.

C is the lowest abstraction layer that compiles on the most hardware. "Where the falling angel meets the rising ape", as it were.
Copyright is a political construct. Capitalism is an econonmic system. There's no inherent cause and effect between them.
Technically speaking it is Android 4.1, but yes I get your point.

Anyway. You can tell from the way this is implemented that this is a core OS feature, not an addon app stacked on on top. The reason it's not out for ICS or older versions of Android is because they can't run it. They lack the pieces it uses through out.
You probably can't get the trademark on a single word like those. Any trademark would likely have to include the word or logo for Google. That said, if Yahoo creates a music/video service called Yahoo Play, you can guarantee there will be a successful lawsuit.
Value is only created if patents are functioning as part of a system of disseminating ideas.

Imagine two possible worlds. In the first world, when you -- as an engineer -- have a particularly difficult problem in front of you, you first go to a catalogue of solutions, look up the problem, and see if there is a solution already. If so, you pay a nominal fee to the solver, incorporate it into your design, and move on to unsolved problems.

In the second world, you have the same particularly difficult problem, but there is no catalogue of solutions, so you buckle down and solve the problem yourself. Later, someone looks at your solution and declares that a portion of it is similar to something they wrote down in the big pile of disorganized ideas. You didn't know this, because looking in the big pile of disorganized ideas is a lot of work and rarely pays off, because most of the ideas are half-assed and don't really tell you anything you didn't already know. An exorbitant fee is then charged.

There may be some industries living in the first world; I can imagine that in -- say -- chemical engineering, it is very easy to organize the ways to produce chemicals by the formula of the desired end product, and that the standard for describing how to produce a chemical leads to a pretty useful solution.

The software industry, however, isn't.
Are you really stupid enough to say that online? Oh - you are...
I'm seeing similar things on Facebook. A group of my friends is in a Facebook group that was originally intended for a business purpose. It is still used for that, but we also frequently post things there that we want to share to a small audience and not broadcast to all Facebook contacts.
I think the reason it's not an APK is due to the fact that it's baked in directly into Android 4.1's search.
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"Conversing with a friend, I start to share a story I’d earlier posted on Facebook. Since she didn’t comment or “like” the post I guessed she hadn’t yet seen it. Instead, she cuts me short: “Yeah, I saw your post on Facebook.”"

lol, my wife does this to me all the time :) (or should the emoticon be :( )
This ham-fisted affair bought shame to the police, politicians and judiciary, and, now squarely in the public eye, they are endeavouring to do the right thing.

There were, I would argue, a few bad calls by a few people who should have followed the normal processes, but they likely made them under pressure from within and from the USA, who in turn were pressured by the MPAA. There was not, I surmise, a lot of decision making happening that was informed by the likes Hacker News readers.

That is getting fixed. We have some very smart judges, who are getting across all of this - Judge Harvey springs to mind as someone who got his head around a lot of the online issues. The politicians read the newspapers - and are on twitter, and they are watching the wind and get it too. The Police do not like to be seen to over react and conduct swat raids at the behest of a foreign entity (the MPAA) - I can't see that happening again.

Meanwhile @kimdotcom is fantastic on twitter - open, disarmingly candid and sympathetic.
1. Names can't be copyrighted, but they can be trademarked.

2. Google is using their name in the branding. E.g. Apple calls the iPhone just the iPhone, not the "Apple iPhone." On the other hand, Google prepends their name to all of their product names (e.g. "Google Play" "Google Now" "Google Plus" "Google Glass"), with Gmail being the only major exception that I can come up with (off the top of my head).
The world would be a much better place if everyone knew the basics of multiple disciplines and had some basic knowledge about how all the machines they use everyday work.

That being said, in the real world people don't give a shit, and the companies that are successful in any industry recognize and accept this fact.
Crossing my fingers that Chromium will stop finally yelling at me about my outdated* Flash.

*While providing a helpful link to solutions that don't work.
How do we protect our privacy when the world goes social with Google Glass?
When the masses go social with their Google Glasses and similar devices, how does the public protect their privacy? What if some doesn't want their picture/video taken and posted online for everyone to see?

Seems like it would be almost uncontrollable. What do we do? Invent a digital face obfuscator for people to wear in public? Will privacy-seekers be wearing masks whenever they go out? Will such an involved social model eventually collapse on itself?
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Its awesome that Valve releases their toolkit and I agree that most of the tools are pretty decent. Hammer (the level editor) is getting really long in the tooth though - it hasn't changed much fundamentally since Half Life 1 was released. And even then, it was pretty much just a third party editor for Quake (iirc - some of the details may be off).
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If wealth creation happens at any step, it's when an invention that is beneficial to society is created, and the patent system exists to account for that.

If the invention is junk (like the Lodsys patents), it doesn't matter how wealth has been transferred around; no value has been created. Any rent sought on those patents is an economic distortion and (in my opinion) immoral.

I didn't even start this off to take a side (though I guess I have by now) - I was just pointing out a fallacy in GP's thinking.
Same here.

I bought the first iPhone the day it came out, but I'd much prefer this sort of addition to my next smartphone than what I've seen from iOS 6 so far (especially what I fear with the Apple Maps app).

The first minute of that video is more compelling to me than the entire Microsoft Surface presentation/website etc.
Just allow us to keep your "web history" and we'll serve up the exact ads... err content you want!

Does anyone keep web history enabled? Nice to see Google trying to get people to by making this seem useless without it.
Why can't this characterisation of "close-to-the-metal enlightenment" come from any language that surfaces your OS's SysCalls, along with an understanding of what compilers and assembly are?

It's possible to understand the entirety of practical computation from top to bottom without C needing to be in your toolbox. Correct me if I'm wrong.
So just because you don't have the proper settings on your news feed, you're quitting facebook altogether.

I agree that facebook is a lot less personal than it used to be. Personally, I rarely update my facebook status or stare at the newsfeed. I use facebook to connect with "friends" whose phone number or e-mail address I don't have and to join or create events.Those two situations are perfectly well handled by facebook.
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To those who knock groovy, just give it a try.

As a long time java user, i was very reluctant to learn groovy and it took grails for me to really tune into groovy. Now it's really hard for me to go back to java. :)

I also personally feel that static compilation is more of a marketing sop to the hard-core java crowd to help move them over to the dark side but what the hey, if it works, it's good for groovy.
It's pretty clear cut-- if Milife is a new corporation, with new owners, then the only way they should have had the list is if they paid WakeMate for the list. Any other use is theft from WakeMate shareholders. I think the odds are very good there will be legal problems for Milife, possibly criminal.

Greg took Pincus's lie cheat and steal message too seriously.
How come whenever Google launches something, I only know the who/what, but am never told the when/where/how? Telling me WHEN (if ever) this will be available on my device, WHERE to download it when that happens, and HOW it will integrate into my device/profile would be really nice to read about :(
Yes, the number of application cards that require geolocation is vaguely disturbing. You think Google's in your pants now? Just wait until you routinely enable geolocation on your mobile device.

(Of course, I'm likely tilting at windmills. The carriers have been accumulating triangulation data for a long time. http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention )
Exactly, and you don't have to talk to it. It's just a notification, and (hopefully) learns which notifications are most useful for each person
At least with Google they will delete all your data and stop tracking you if requested, unless other companies cough facebook
Maybe that's a feature
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Google doesn't "read" your emails. The information completely secured from human eyes. A computer looks for words and phrases and tries to match ads to email content. Sometimes this is helpful, but the advertisers only receive anonymous data and no humans at Google or anywhere else read your data.

Source: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
I could make exactly the same assertions about assembly language (I learnt 6502 when I was a kid, and dabble in 6502 and 68k these days for fun, keep meaning to learn ARM). Being able to reason at that level, and read generated ASM (x86 ugh) is an invaluable skill which I use daily, and it's a level below C.

But, lines of assembly language professionally written: 0.
Not just proper settings on his news feed. He also felt like he had to filter himself for propriety, and found little worth in the communication that resulted through that facade. That's not a technical issue, it's his valid personal issue. He's not the only one with that view of facebook.
It's a part of Android 4.1, so the WHEN, WHERE and HOW depend a lot on what phone you have.
I hope someone will do an analysis of the whole program 5 years from now to see what the results of it are. How many companies came/stayed/grew/died/etc...

Good point. It would be also interesting to know how the perception of Chile has changed in entrepreneurial circles through this program. I think this is really a unique idea and so far it seems as they did at least an acceptable job of running it.
The didn't demand openness. The article is sensational.

> The problem is that the GeForce / Quadro driver from NVIDIA is only available for Linux x86 and x86_64 architectures, not MIPS or even ARM (only the Tegra driver is for ARMv7).

Nothing about being open.
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That was a bug and was fixed a few hours after launch.
This should be a textbook example of the Broken Window Fallacy.
I used to feel identically about Eclipse but then I gave IntelliJ a try for a week and once I got past the initial learning curve it blew me away, and I've been using it since.
I remember during the android session someone asked the question and the official response was that it will take as much power when phone is active than when it's not. Don't know what that implies though.
"I don't dare get personal on FB now."

The irony.
Ammending: I made a typo -- 12-bar blues should be (I-VI-I-V-IV-I).
Financial freedom is a hedge against the loss of your human capital. Most people dramatically overestimate the continuity of their human capital and are surprised when it starts to diminish. It's a great thing that a certain percentage of people remain vital their entire lives, but you can't count on it.
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Are they really? I'd say they are far more invested in WebKit, HTML5 and Java.
The current trend for the .io TLD is of course a playful resurgence of the 80's hip-hop exclamation "yo".

And now you can't help pronouncing it "yo" !
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Actually it's also one of the quick actions on the lockscreen, along with camera and unlock. That should help discovery.
I think that is highly unlikely though.
Confusing that nothing on the page (besides the video) mentions the word "Android" or how you can get Now.
One red flag-
100 working hours for getting all the paperwork done to get paid

Otherwise, I think the program is pretty clear about it's objectives from the get go. It's about bringing techies/entrepreneurs from all over the world to start businesses in Chile.

Expecting exposure to US investors is not fair I think. But the program should provide exposure to Latin American investors.
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I think the author's complaint that all of the beneficial events, connections, etc. came from the participants and not the organization is a bit misplaced. After all, the whole point of Startup Chile (as I understand it) is to provide exactly this kind of networking, resources, etc. from foreigners because it's not really available in Chile today.

That being said, there's really no excuse for having poorly-secured and lit office space.
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You're conflating the language with its modern compilers on modern processor architectures, but I agree. My statements above were the iconoclastic and anachronistic version of reality, purposely so.

If you know C, it is possible to comprehend a direct mapping of your "high level" code to a set of processor instructions. This is complicated by modern huge glib-style libraries and modern compiler optimizations, but it remains possible.

That, combined with the fact that C is foundational in almost all current production languages, and remains highly useful among them, are why I think anyone who takes programming seriously should know C.

Someone else compared C to Latin. Obviously C is more useful on its own than Latin, but the comparison is valid for the foundational aspect. Understanding threads and locking in C gets you a long way toward understanding those concepts in most popular languages.

I'd make the same arguments for understanding Unix, by the way...and also that you can't really understand Unix without understanding C. And the converse.
It's also great for people who can't make it. They can watch the live-stream during the event and will be able to browse through all the pictures after the event.
I personally think this is a very good thing and anyone pushing the status quo and conventional thinking a step further is in my view a worthy cause. Sure, there are going to be backslashes, but I honestly believe that society is moving forward not by rules, but by those who dare to break them.
I can't see how that could be a feature. Misaligned list give wrong info, it looks more like a Photoshop mistake.
"...Cards appear throughout the day..."

Yay, just what I wanted: yet another software service to interrupt me thoughout the day.

Snarkiness aside, I'm sure the information is relevant and good. But if I forget that my favorite team is playing while I'm working on a design, do I really need to be reminded? People are not machines. I do not subscribe to and process an information feed in the same way that an email client would.

I see Google continually trying to work the problem of strong AI and transhumanism and that's great. I'm all for it. But they seem strangely blind about the real hard edges associated with being human. Instead of assistance it all seems to be about data, speed, and relevance. It seems the assumption is that people will adapt to however fast we can push the information at them. I'm not so sure that is an valid assumption. Or if it is, I'm not sure I like the way we would adapt to this vision of the future.
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Feedburner, YouTube, Orkut, Picasa, Blogger? Good points though.
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Depending on the definition of 'mainstream' there is only one OS where the bash prompt is not one click away...
Translation: Here's another reason why you should give us all your data!
iOS 6 is going to be introducing very fine grained control of which apps can access what, not just location - which it's already got, but things like contacts, diary etc.

From what I've seen on Android (I'm pretty new to it as a platform, so I could well have missed something), you do get told what the app wants to access but then only get a binary "allow everything that it's asked for/don't run the app at all" option.
"low-level rigid type system"

You've never written C.
Anyone know the font they're using? That nice, big open one?
It's only not a problem if they get alerted via email when people invite them to events. Unlike Facebook, people don't check their G+ every day, so it's more likely that they won't see that event being posted without explicitly being invited by email. And if that's the way G+ events are being promoted, I might as well just set up an email list.
I wonder about that too. Similar apps today are battery drains. But maybe it's using new 4.1 APIs that only fire events when the app really needs it? Since they announced it as part of Jelly Bean, makes me think so.
There will be some kind of API i guess, but another thing is Google Now is an app in itself, and i am not an android dev, but an app having developer API does not seem very fitting. For example, gmail can have intents but not an API for other apps to use, i guess.
There is an app for iOS (since a long time ago) that does exactly that: http://www.onthehive.com/getapp
I understand Google Glass involves the hardware, and all the technologies that make it available.

But before getting all hyped, in this demo, this just looks like a camera mounted on a frame, and a stream on a g+ hangout.

Show me the software, an SDK, and the real HUD.
I'm not under the impression it constantly notifies you, only that the cards it's showing you when you launch it are shuffled (sorry) depending on what's going on.
I think he was "joking".
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Yeah, because Apple is the one that wants to track everything you do; either electronically, or via some stupid looking glasses so they can show you ads and sell all your information 100% of the time.

Google, the privacy company.
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This program is more than perfect for me. Point. I am from Egypt and can't find an investor to back me, so I am going to try this out.

Thanks for letting me know about it.
Good point, but the common belief is that patents are worthless and therefore it's interesting that at least some (the trolls) make a hefty profit on using patents in their business model. I.e. patents can't be worthless? That was my point and some thought I should be downvoted for that but it's still my point...
Wait -- what VCs are funded with tax dollars? Either you guys do things very differently in Australia, or I'm missing your point altogether.

Regardless, it isn't necessarily as black and white as you've stated. They aren't just looking for the 'short term' money, but to give the teams the best opportunities for success.

Per beilabs' argument, it seems that their best chances for success aren't in Australia.

You also seem to be missing the fact that it's a boon to the Australian economy for companies to succeed, even if they succeed elsewhere, unless they completely emigrate. Every Australian success story sparks another entrepreneur in Australia to get motivated.

Yeah, it sucks that the deck is stacked against them at the moment, but that's not a problem the VCs can fix until the government gets cracking to foster startups. That's a long slow process... and as the existing government watches startups leave for those reasons, it should serve to motivate them to fix their laws and better retain local talent.
I've seen comments such as "How do you know someone doesn't use Facebook? Because they'll tell you".

As if the primary reason you're expressing your dislike for the service in a discussion about it, is because you wish to proclaim smug superiority.

I think it's important for those who dislike the current platform, and are concerned about the future ramifications of it, to speak up in public forums. To state openly that they don't use Facebook for reasons of principal and also, because Facebook's actions have spoken louder than words numerous times and in my opinion, to continue to use the service is like staying with an abusive partner.
Openness is great, other things being equal, but in the graphics card market other things certainly aren't equal. A huge amount of R&D goes into the drivers rather than the cards themselves, because better drivers offer a substantial commercial advantage over the competition.

If that advantage is reduced -- or even becomes a liability -- because you gave away the secrets that you spent a lot of time and money learning, then there is no longer any reason to spend that time and money in the first place, and not even your own drivers will benefit.

This is the problem with almost any Internet debate about intellectual property or open development processes. It's easy to see the benefit tomorrow if you just force everything open today, but you have to consider the implications for next week as well.

In this particular case, a lot of people are calling NVIDIA names and assuming they're being stupid. It's entirely possible that they have competent management who have looked at the loss for this one deal, balanced it against the ongoing loss of disclosing their proprietary driver techniques without an adequate level of control, and simply decided that it wasn't a good deal. Sure, it's 10,000,000 "lost" sales, but the global PC market alone ships upwards of 300,000,000 units every year, so this deal isn't even close to big enough to reshape the industry.
There are quite a few privacy concerns about these technologies, and I think that proper legislation is necessary to address them. Most people trust a bank to hold their money, and there is legislation to control financial institutions. Now, people are increasingly trusting their data with data banks, and there needs to be legislation to control how the data is stored securely and not abused.
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I use Linode and prgmr. Both are excellent services, though I would slighly favor Linode.
This means I have to leave wifi or data on to be notified in the morning which kills my phone. I already manually check the weather by turning on wifi and opening an app this just cuts out an extra tap!
For what its worth, I have an Nvidia card and am running Ubuntu 12.04: Chrome's Flash plugin does not work very well on the latest dev build; it has some weird issue with playing flash at double speed or something. I had to switch back to Adobe's flash plugin until this issue is resolved... This could potentially be hardware specific in my case, but, just wanted to let others know that Adobe's plugin still works.
Indeed - the more 'connected' we are, the more socialized we're forced to be. Facebook is not the third place simply because there are too many appearances we're have to maintain.
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