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Andy Rubin:

>So there’s really no disputing that Aliyun is based on the Android platform and takes advantage of all the hard work that’s gone into that platform by the OHA.

>So if you want to benefit from the Android ecosystem, then make the choice to be compatible. Its easy, free, and we’ll even help you out. But if you don’t want to be compatible, then don’t expect help from OHA members that are all working to support and build a unified Android ecosystem.

How "open" is something if you can't fork it and be left in peace to negotiate with the OEMs to ship it? Aliyun is already missing the Google Play Store and the official Google apps.

The "don't expect help from OHA" line is especially ironic given that Acer scheduled a press conference to announce making Aliyun phones before being strong armed by Google into canceling it.

Acer really had no choice, Android has 67% of the market and iOS has the other 30%. Losing early access to code and access to the Google Play store and Google apps will basically kill their handset business because the competition like Samsung, HTC, Sony, Motorola etc. will have those advantages.

They would basically have to quit the handset market outside China to make Aliyun phones for the Chinese market. Forking is a fundamental tenet and in many cases the lifeblood of open source. If you don't want that, put that in the license and do not call it "open" instead of artificial after-the-fact restrictions like this. If you make something open, people are going to eventually do something with it that you may not like.

What next, forbid retailers from selling Aliyun phones or threaten to pull all Android devices from them?

The only differences I see between this and Microsoft's OEM restrictions against other OSes in the 90s is that Android is not a monopoly(though it is effectively one for Acer), and that Android is open source(again, Acer doesn't really have much leverage to go on it's own with Android code).
These aren't unskilled workers. They are railroad conductors that are paid union scale including pensions. There is also a ticket agent that sits at each station during peak hours. Sometimes multiple agents.

I honestly don't believe the lack of automation on Metra is because ticketing systems would cost more than the agent labor and lost revenue from missed fares.
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You could get TheVerge unblocked right now: Move your stylesheets and other static files to a different CDN (not the sbnation domain).

If TheVerge can take it... just refer to the local addresses. Shove a Varnish instance in front to help if you fear for the web servers.
The closest "filter" I know of is: whenever you dislike the frontpage contents, go upvote something better.
I think the majority of the uk's international students are from less developed countries. Historically they were from the countries in the Empire, although recently there are more from Europe as our universities are better than many other countries.
I didn't grow up during the Punk movement but the commercial "revival" of sorts kicked off by Green Day in the mid-90s. Green Day was on a indie label, Lookout! Records, before hitting it big with "Dookie." When you bought their first two CDs/cassettes a small catalog of Lookout! Records' other albums fell out with a listing of bands I'd never heard of before. None of these bands had websites so information was really limited. You'd have to buy fanzines or know other people in your town that listened to those bands. If you were lucky maybe one of those bands came to your town and you got to see what they looked and talked like for the first time. I can't even imagine what it was like to see Black Flag touring every town in America in the early 80s introducing thousands of kids to a new subculture and form of music.

My point is, maybe I'm jaded now but music was so much more interesting then when there was mystery and not everyone had an opinion about a band before their first mp3 came out. I think the disposable quality of mp3s makes music less valuable too.

The internet also killed regionalism in music for the most part where a certain "scene" would have a certain sound as bands around an area being influenced by each other. See [1]. I'm not sure what could have been done, it's a natural by-product of the internet, but I miss it.

[1] http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/43235/our-band-c...
American schools don't lag behind other countries... American demographics lag behind other countries.

If you break down the PISA scores by american demographic groups then you'll see that whites do better than whites in almost every European country... Asians better than practically every Asian country... and the same goes for Blacks and Latinos.
Going back and reading the initial comment, I think I see where you are coming from. The poster says "FOSS projects like GNU..." and that is off base if he was implying that GNU has anything to do with OSS. You are right, no one should be talking about a GNU as a FOSS project due to their outright rejection of the OSS ideology.

But just so we're clear, it is possible to talk about FOSS itself (the software) in a meaningful way. It's not like the term is oxymoronic or something, in fact, the two descriptions are nearly redundant when it comes to describing the rights you get as a user, which is what you should be concerned with as a user of the software.

Why shouldn't we apply this to projects as well? I guess the questions I would ask to clarify the point are: 1) What do you call a project that would like to empower users with software freedom but would also like to embrace the development style of Open Source? 2) Given that there are so many projects out there that embrace exactly that combination, shouldn't we have a name for that?
>It is interesting to note that Apple now designes their own programming language, the compilers, the operating system, the processors and the products all that tech goes into. That's a pretty rare configuration of a company that hasen't existed since what? the 80s?

Not to mention a company that doesn't "innovate" and hasn't "invented anything" as haters say...
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Blaze your own path of belief without input from other smart people with interesting perspectives? That sounds like the opposite of a good idea (a bad idea)
I totally agree. AnandTech is one of the very few remaining tech websites that are still really about the technology itself, instead of all the other aspects that ignite flamewars and hating everywhere else.

The Verge isn't too bad either if you ignore the comments section, but everything else is just like you said, speculation/rumor sites that value page hits over actually writing something informative.
Your content dies with you. Read the terms of sale at your favorite MP3/movie/book store -- you're granted a non-transferrable license for personal use of the files. That means you cannot transfer that license to your relatives.

@pwg: Whether the media has DRM or not just determines how easy it is to make copies, not whether you have legal permission to make copies.
edit: thanks for the heads up, that was not the issue at hand.
I'm now trying compile with an older version.
But please update fontforge if you can.
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It's really quite simple. Acer is part of the OHA, so they have to follow OHA rules. It has nothing to do with Android, and everything to do with the OHA. If they want to use Android in any way they want, they can leave the OHA.
Rent is high in New York and Silicon Valley because the markets are warped by regulatory corruption and the extreme illiquidity of the market. Right now, local incomes can support those levels (just barely) but that can change, and when it does, urban decay will set in. Urban decay starts at least a decade before prices start to drop, because people hoard real estate rather than selling it when the market softens.

The problem with real estate markets is that there's extreme demand inelasticity, which means that declining conditions (reduced effective supply) actually cause aggregate prices to go up, in the same way that a hurricane in the Gulf drives up gas prices even though it's not a good thing.

The idea that high rents come from "desirability" is hopelessly naive. Very rich people can live whereever they want, so the difference between a $50-million apartment vs. a $10-million one is driven by those factors: how old the building is, how many third-world despots and celebrities live there there, whether it has a view of The Park. For the rest of us, the rent we pay is dictated by scarcity conditions rooted in regulatory corruption and the slow reaction of new housing construction to economic forces (i.e. that 10 jobs can be created faster than 10 houses)-- not "desirability". Real estate agents want you to believe that the reason The Rent Is Too Damn High is that New York is such an awesome place to live, but economics don't bear them out. Supply-side disruptions and failures push up prices much more than actual value increases or income improvements.

Regarding high-paying jobs outside of those locations, they exist but there aren't as many as there should or could be. The near-impossibility of getting funding for a new technology business away from the coasts is a real problem. Venture capital is ugly and I'd really like to see us, as a society, come up with something better, but it's the only option for a lot of companies in the global marketplace.

As for universal healthcare, we would have had it in 1948 if the Dixiecrat racists (who were afraid that a universal plan would require them to desegregate the hospitals) hadn't threatened to destroy Truman by stonewalling everything he did. Universal healthcare plans have problems-- Canada's system is far from perfect, and the UK's NHS has some serious flaws-- but all of those plans are leagues better than the horrendously shitty system that we have in the U.S.
The problem happens only on Windows.

For Chrome, if you zoom in, I think everything should be fine.But Chrome is lack of antialias in Windows.

I'm trying to solve the problem of Firefox.
I think I agree, but that Every single person does not
write for a living - although writing will at some point be an irreduciable part of their job, because widespread literacy is fantastically useful and value generating

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Whenever I have to make a choice, I try to list the pros and cons of each decision. Eventually, if I cannot decide between two choices, I just play it to heads or tails.
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I once programmed a swarm simulation as a project for a course I attended. You can set various parameters of the swarm and introduce a predator which can try to eat inidividuals of the swarm. You then can set a bunch of escape strategies. This was pretty much fun when I wrote it.

Just uploaded it to my bitbucket repository in case anyone is interested.

https://bitbucket.org/mlux/swarm-simulation
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I believe in God, the same way people have believed in God for centuries: I believe in a God that is a series of forces that govern our world, many of which I can't explain or understand.

These forces for me are based on Science for the most part, and where science can't explain things, philosophy or just plain mystery. But to me, that's the same God Christians believed in 20 centuries ago, we just have better information now. They haven't adapted.
I think believe plays into Entrepreneurship really deeply, in that it's all about your world view.

Most great ideas have an "I believe moment" (I believe everyone should have a personal computer, I believe communication protocols should not necessarily be 2 way, etc.) because they start with things that haven't been proven yet, at all.

They are the BEST explanation for an unknown aspect of a world view we can come up with.
The chilling effect on Android forks is the same, while it is funny that the Open Handset Alliance doesn't seem to be really open. All the major phone OEMs are part of it, meaning that Android forks will have hardware and marketing support cut off from them.

>If they want to use Android in any way they want, they can leave the OHA.

And basically quit the handset market, as described in the GP post. Isn't that like saying if Compaq wanted to ship BeOS or dual boot machine, it could forgo getting the OEM incentives that Dell, HP etc. received from Microsoft?
"The recorded music industry was a huge deal for those of us who lived through it, and we took it absolutely for granted, and now it’s really gone; it’s not what it used to be. You can’t really get super rich just doing that; you have to be able to sell merch or something to go along with it, or have concert tours."

Is it optimal or sustainable that a band needs to sell t-shirts and concert tickets to support themselves as musicians, let alone be super rich? The recordings and the concert tickets are the only product offered by bands that we place value in; t-shirts hold some slight social value, but little personal value. Revenues from concert tickets go mostly to the venue operator, especially for smaller venues of 100-200 people that most bands play in, and the amount going to the band is hopefully enough to pay for the cost of touring, and probably not much more than that.

So that pretty much leaves recordings as the only valuable product that bands can hope to sustain themselves with. Merch and tour ticket sales are not going to cut it for most artists, so without sales of recordings in some form, they're going to need to work a regular job, and the music is relegated to a hobby.

Making good recordings costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time in a recording studio, so hobby bands have difficulty producing them. Recordings are valuable to us because they allow us to integrate music into our lives. How can we expect musicians to invest the time and resources to make good recordings for us to enjoy if we don't recognize their value by directly rewarding the artist for making them? Buying a t-shirt does not send the message to the artist that we value their recording; only buying recordings does that.
But you wouldn't do that though, would you...?
American culture is extremely variable, and that's a good thing. It's a strength. The mean is low but the variance is extremely high so we hit quite a good share of the high notes.

However, we still live in a society where bullshitting, useless rainmakers get more respect than engineers, scientists, doctors and professors who actually build, fix, make, and understand things.
Personally, I think Google is doing the right thing here. If this secondary phone OS really does contain a lot of Android frameworks, as they claim, then I think Google is right to be upset about this.

If Google open sourced them, boo-hoo. If not they can sue Alibaba.

Android got a lot of benefit of the doubt for being open source, now they're changing their tune. Not good at all.

If Android runs 67% anti-trust isn't going to be happy at all, imagine if MS had threatened Samsung, Sony etc with the loss of any Windows licensing if they worked with Android. It's similar enough
I didn't mean that to sound like FUD. I work with a number of insurance companies that are on XP/IE7; with a Firefox install requiring approval from a large IT department.
That's cheating.

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Ask HN: Whose Hacker News Comments Do You Follow?
I've seen some discussion recently on Hacker News about what's good about the community here, especially about what we can learn here that is hard to learn elsewhere online. And one subthread I saw recently branching off from a main thread about one of the core topics here mentioned the issue of which Hacker News participants post particularly good comments, comments worth looking for. To emphasize the positive in metadiscussion, I thought I would ask about that here. Which Hacker News users are users whose comments you find particularly thoughtful and helpful? Who shares information from good sources? Who encourages other users here with positive comments? Whose comments are worth following, even if you aren't reading the other comments in the same thread?

I'll post a separate reply with links to a SUBSET of users whose comments I like to follow. I'd love to hear your suggestions. I don't think anyone reads Hacker News exhaustively; I don't think anyone could. But please let us know if you think the comments of some user here are generally helpful and kind.
Minor correction: 0.4% (the article reports a 99.6% indictment rate).
Only sloppy-minded Continental philosophers would typically discard the distinction of accurate vs inaccurate. (Though there may certainly still be a large space for variation within images of equal accuracy. If this were not the case, then one might plausibly argue that there is no art in making accurate photographs.) As this book would seem to be written in the more clear-headed Analytic tradition, I am guessing, if anything, it bears light on this distinction, rather than attempting to merely subvert it.

If you fall into the Continental camp of thought, then that explains why you are so hard to pin down. Continental thought is rife with meaningless hot air. Here's piece of evidence for that assertion, just in case you doubt it:

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

If you do fall into the Continental camp, you surely are not to blame. I blame society. On the other hand, it's never too late to replan your route to a saner road.
The problem is that Aliyun doesn't simply fork Android and run it's own App Store (as Amazon). It instead tries to rewrite bits, use some bits and create a Frankenstein type monster. Again, that's no real issue. However the real issue is that it's claiming to be Android Compatible, which means it's attempting to market itself off of Android's back. Add that with the fact they've stolen apps and apps written for Aliyun don't work on Android and we're all in a right pickle.

If anyone wants to fork Android, they're free to. But don't claim Android compatibility after messing with the APIs. Basically Aliyun would be a leach for Android platform and Google has the right to throw it's weight around in that regard.

Once again, Amazon doesn't mention Android when talking about the Kindle Fire and they've never heard a peep out of Google or Andy Rubin. If Acer are that convinced that Google is doing them wrong, they're more than free to leave the OHA and start having press conferences left, right and centre.
Well, I love it and think it's very useful.
You should definitely check out Daniel Shiffmans "Nature of Code" book that is coming out soon. It's full of stuff like this.
He already cannot leave the country due to the charges.
Sadly, education will never improve until it is nationalized. As long as states can influence the coverage of something like evolution they are unfit for making choices for those children.
>If the argument is that "you're using too much Javascript" then we all might as well just give up on HTML5 applications right now.

Sure. Let's.

As of NOW they are inadequate for mobile devices, provide a sub-par experience to native apps, and move too much redundant BS over the network (even thin client-side-rendering style ones).

Heck, some Canvas/SVG demos even bring a Desktop browser to it's knees and the CPU to 100%.
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Doesn't that make you unhappy? Because there's always something can be better in your life, and you're always in a mindset of lack.
there are so many things wrong with this that it's painful, but most of all: people do not agree because they share a certain level of intelligence; they agree because they share a certain culture.
Only caring about the top quartile (aka ignoring the majority) is dangerous, because it has been proven that humans are not very good at judging the relative intelligence of people more intelligent than they are.

Thus, a dumb population will elect dumb leaders who make dumb decisions. One has to wonder if we currently see something related to that.
There is apparently something wrong with your ability to detect when something is said in jest.
I feel the same way. Every single time I place a ton of importance on something, whether it's a relationship, or a project/career, it always comes back to bite me when I realize I can't have it all, and don't have 100% control of circumstances in my life.

To me, living life and always wondering whether I'm making the most of it every step along the way takes the fun out of it. Of course some introspection is good, of course, but I don't like to take life so seriously.
In the same way that CyanogenMod does? Around the time of Jellybean's launch, Google released the PDK which made it easier and less intrusive to overlay the Android source code. As a result alpha builds of CyanogenMod 10 were in the wild before the Nexus S (or any branded device) released a Jellybean device. In fact, HTC still haven't even managed to get Jellybean on to their current flagship device. The only people stopping/slowing-down hardware support at this moment in time is the OEMs.
I did come of age during the Punk movement, and I sympathize with your perception of what has been lost (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529054 below). The benefits of a somewhat slow and poorly distributed dispersal of culture are largely gone. The real question, as I see it, is what unpredictable cultural effects will the technology generate.
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They've decided to make pre-1923 articles from American journals, and pre-1870 articles elsewhere, available publicly (w/o any subscription or even a free account needed): http://about.jstor.org/service/early-journal-content-0

Their original FAQ on it used to have a question about whether this was related to the "Swartz situation", where the answer could be paraphrased as "no but sort of yes", basically that they had been planning it all along but may have moved up some initiatives in response to the publicity. Doesn't seem that their current FAQ has that question anymore.
"Aliyun App Store Confirmed To Be Distributing Pirated Android Apps"

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/09/15/aliyun-app-store-con...
That's all well and good, but some of us don't have an inbox full of job offers, free education or not.
>The U.S. is the 6th worst in terms of high school graduation, with 23% failing to attain a diploma

I'm surprised that the graduation rate was that high, as I was expecting the "did not graduate rate" to be closer to 30%, not closer to 20%.

Personally, my high school only graduated 59.1% of its incoming freshman for the class of 2000.
That last sentence is true for every single country I've ever lived in or spent time in. Wether it's highly paid footballers, cricket players, Starcraft players, or some other form of celebrity. Don't pin that as anything remotely close to uniquely American.
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I think Google's position is reasonable: either Alibaba make Aliyun OS pass the Android compatibility tests, or remove the Android app runtime.
DreamHost is known more for its low prices than its reliability.

Look at the blurb on Inktank that starts "Inktank is the company delivering Ceph—the massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system" . Follow the link at the end to http://www.inktank.com and the webpage just shows a default successful Apache page: "The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet" .

This press release is over ten days old.

I wouldn't trust them with anything serious.
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