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If going by the stats that Xamarin gave[1] for Dalvik versus Mono on Android 4.0, Dalvik is also much slower than Mono. Though obviously Xamarin is not the most independent source in the findings, but I would believe it to outperform Dalvik in my own uses of both it and Dalvik for Android apps (I bought a license for it 6 months ago).

There's also some results by Koush Dutta[1] (Cyanogenmod contributer and Clockwork Recovery developer) from 2009 showing similar findings, though obviously that's way old and before Dalvik had JIT added in Android 2.2. We had a discussion sometime ago about that article on hn as well[3]

[1] http://blog.xamarin.com/android-in-c-sharp/

[2] http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/dalvik-vs-mono.html

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=421862
Sorry, I edited the post. They block that feature, not the whole mail.
Is there a way in G+ where we can follow only relevant topics from people we follow ?

Say if someone I follow posts something which he tags something ("tech", "travel" etc) and I can choose to follow only the posts that are tagged "tech".

This is something I cannot figure out and if its there, I'm sure it will avoid most of the clutter in G+.
Insurance is mandatory in the US. Average insurance prices for someone under 24 years old is ~$2000 every 6 months, or $4000/yr (2600GBP/yr).

I'll agree that motoring in the UK is more expensive, but insurance isn't the reason why.
CS research has been pathological for a long time.

Anybody near the field has their own list of "taboo" research topics that are very interesting but just don't get funding.

Then you go to the library and realize they have 120 shelf-feet of conference proceedings about Internet QoS that have gone precisely nowhere.
Well, he did include "at least" which suggests he was just coming up with a rough figure. I somewhat agree with him.

There is no denying that Google is (arguably) one of the most powerful companies out there. Are they ten years ahead of everyone else? Maybe, maybe not. But one thing for certain is that they have the computing power, finance,and connections to pretty much pursue whatever they want.

Is that a bad thing? Who knows. It really boils down to whether anyone/anything should ever have that kind of power.
What do we do about bad startup advice?
I tried one of these phones last week. It was awful. No innovation, slow/juddery animations, bad UX. Granted it's a developer preview, but based on the preview I wouldn't develop for it.
Google and NASA snap up D-Wave quantum computer
Why is this in hacker news?
I think there is no advantage over what you're doing. It is just easier accessible for people new to Openbox
It is a common misconception that if you have a very low opinion of microsoft you are automatically either a rabid Google fanboi or a rabid Apple fanboi. Myself, I don't hold either Google or Apple in especially high esteem.

You have to understand, however, that the generalized hatred of microsoft is nothing more, nothing less than a direct consequence of microsoft's past coming back to haunt them. No other company in tech comes even close to having so many skeletons in the closet. People have long memories and asking them to ignore microsoft's past is pure intellectual dishonesty.
What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support?
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Sure, geographically speaking, that’s correct. That’s not what I was getting at, though. Israel is more akin to Western Europe culturally than European countries like Albania. Israel has a functioning democracy, freedom of speech and religion, excellent education and healthcare, and it has a higher GDP than most European countries. Europeans have been coming to Jerusalem en masse for thousands of years, especially this guy by the name of Jesus has been quite popular with Europeans.
I flag subs like these because the comment threads are fucking awful.
And Google employees/shareholders never post anything bad about Microsoft online, like on HN, right? I have a bridge to sell to you.
Back in programming class, we had people read some stuff from /dev/random (or was it urandom? I don't remember). Some built infinite loops, which drained the entropy pool of the kernel and caused the program to hang.

It was just glorious. They were confused. "Look, this print should be triggered all the time and spam like hell, but nothing is happening! Where could it hang!" they wondered. And you just sauntered over, looked at the program, pondered for a second... and poked the mouse to one side. 5 more lines appeared. Eyes flashed bright with confused understanding.
So the implication of the article is that Microsoft deliberately made a YT app that they knew Google would be forced to C&D just so they could use that as a cog in a PR campaign? Seems penny wise pound foolish if true.
" not to mention it means everyone who wants access needs to commit to losing 1TB of space on their hard drive."

Dropbox has selective sync for years already, doesn't it?
The preview is supposed to give you an idea of how it will function on real world low-end devices, so sounds like that's working, at least. :)
OK, reposting my other comment here because the FUD is getting ridiculous. Here goes:

It is a common misconception that if you have a very low opinion of microsoft you are automatically either a rabid Google fanboi or a rabid Apple fanboi. Myself, I don't hold either Google or Apple in especially high esteem.

You have to understand, however, that the generalized hatred of microsoft is nothing more, nothing less than a direct consequence of microsoft's past coming back to haunt them. No other company in tech comes even close to having so many skeletons in the closet. People have long memories and asking them to ignore microsoft's past is pure intellectual dishonesty.
Straight from the Shop Floor (Lessons Learned)
Attorneys have clients, but it's not the same thing... or, at least, it's not supposed to be. Attorneys can lose clients and some amount of income, but no client is supposed to have career-wrecking managerial power over an attorney.

Even for in-house corporate attorneys, their managers are other attorneys, all the way up to the general counsel, who answers to the board (not the CEO) itself; the board is the GC's client.

Of course, if you manage your client list badly and end up dependent on one client, you essentially have a boss. In theory, it's not supposed to be that way; in practice, obviously it can be. But the aspiration (lawyers answer only to their own) is noble.
How does it compare to the $100 retail iPhones and Android phones you've used?
its MPL. not that GPL crap
This is really amazing

I had no idea it was this complex. Well, in a way it is simpler than I imagined (since he's using an antenna with an amplifier), and the FI amplifier is "simpler" as well.

The most interesting parts for me is the demodulation, and the code phrases search using FFT.

No wonder you need a FPGA to do the heavy lifting.
Thanks for the second link. Been very keen to get collapsible threads.
> I'd really like to see this power in a companies hands that is not against the concept of privacy

Is there any company like this? I mean... it seems companies won't be against privacy as long as it doesn't get in the way of making profit.
Because a user found it suitable enough to submit and a few others agreed with that submission enough to upvote it.
you are mistaken, firefox os does not need "the same hardware" as android, it needs less, a lot less.
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OP mentions this app "Arq" for AWS S3/Glacier backups. Does anyone know a similar app for Linux?
No, they got tired of begging Google for a Youtube app for close to three years for Windows Phone, so they went ahead and made one so that Windows Phone users will finally have a good app instead of getting frustrated by Google's deliberate strategy to make Windows Phone less attractive.

And Google wants to pull away that app from WP users by using legal bullying tactics.
They did demonstrate quantum behavior in a Nature paper [0] they published in 2011.

[0] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v473/n7346/full/nature1...
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Yup, but for some reason most people don't seem to know about it. They could set up a shared top level project directory with sub directories for each aspect of the project and then people only need to sync the stuff relevant to them.
I believe the "drip-feed" invite idea suffocated Google Wave. When it first came out I was begging my inbox & skype for invites. Once I finally got in it was ... a wasteland. I dished out invites like there was no tomorrow but in all honesty, if people could JUST sign up, I might have had someone to talk to.

Who knows, maybe it might still be running. I'm not sure if there were other factors but personally it never made sense to me.

I believe if Google really wanted to, they could go from 0 to 1 million users in minutes.
Everybody knows that SMTP is old, inefficient (hey, it’s nearly plain-text!), insecure, diversified (so many different servers to choose from!) and generally just bad.

Clearly a closed web interface that only runs in Chrome would be much better for everyone! Then people could always be sure with whom they communicate, nobody could hack or social-engineer their way into other accounts, and everyone would have to follow The Rules or they’ll have their account closed for good.
Don't forget, they tried "open" with Google Wave, which was a total flop. Developers did not buy into it.

You can't expect to have it both ways, especially since Apple has proven that a closed infrastructure (walled garden) works.
Dalvik does have a JIT now, and it's much easier to JIT Java in the first place. The difference between deskop and mobile may be smaller with JavaScript, but not by much.

The biggest issue JavaScript+HTML has is memory usage. Cheap phones don't have much memory and Java on Dalvik is much more memory efficient.
Didn't Google already buy up a ton of dark fiber backbone? GFiber may be closer to disrupting the national ISP market than we think
Okay, I was confused because people don't seem to be condemning Google for their evil lockout tactics here and are instead commenting on commenters.

Criticizing Google for being evil does not mean they're supporting Microsoft here or that they're MVPs or PR drones.
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Well said. It's worth keeping this in mind for salary negotiations as well. Sometimes you'll hear an argument that a company can't offer you a certain salary (even though you clearly are worth it) because its far above the average wage for their other employees at your level.

Other people's inability or unwillingness to negotiate what's best for them has no bearing on your right to negotiate what's best for you.
As is HTML and it provides little benefits to a lot of ordinary people and a lot to a lot of rogues.

The fact that it is open does not imply it needs either to be supported (does gmail support S/MIME, by the way?) or that it is convenient.
I would add that the configured program should spit its final configuation back out as it starts up, either as a set of command line parameters into a log file, or if that gets out of hand, as a file in /tmp with all external cofigurable values explicitly written out. This simplifies the 3am fix problem somewhat, since some values will always be missing.
This is immensely impressive.

What strikes me is that the math and all the corrections would not be all that alien to a sextant user from 100 years ago. To determine position using a sextant you also start with an estimated position and an accurate clock. You compensate for drift during your measurements, for dip and refraction, you solve the equations for several celestial bodies etc.
You keep harping on the "open format". So what? That doesn't change any of the talking points here.
I don't see how

compute a() in parallel with b() and

handle mouse events concurrently (could be a()) with keyboard events (could be b())

differ and how does

compute a(0), a(1), ..., a(N) in parallel differ from

handle events from 1000 sockets concurrently which would be something like a(event0) a(event1)?

Don't we require the same tools for "task parallel" and "task concurrent" as well as "data parallel" and "data concurrent"? To me they don't seem orthogonal but I believe they are very much the same thing.
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Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations (video+text)
yep, thought that too. As Exchange has an easy way to send calendar invites
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Google is the new MS. They dictate too many things including how web developers should develop their websites.
There are the RSA challenges which are as public as you get them. Just factor a bunch of the numbers... That IS peer reviewing and no mistake.

http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2092
Agree, as an non-British EU company founder based in London I can not think of a better way to discourage investment. Berlin will be the beneficiary.
What is the modern backup solution for cloud service data (db+files)?
So we have a cloud-based service we are going to be offering soon. It is built on MongoDB for now, but could easily be MySql. We would like to have regular backups of our database and related files that are then stored elsewhere in case something really bad happens.<p>What is the best industry practice these days?
Openness was not the only thing wrong with Google Wave.
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Maybe you need to register first?

https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/registering-with...
Does anyone know of any case where someone has been fired for looking at a hand drawn non-pornographic depiction of a nude in the western world? Really?

I see stories about teachers being fired for working as strippers on the side, or there's a teacher fired for http://www.parentdish.com/2006/10/02/texas-school-teacher-fi... a child to nude pictures in an Art museum (Texas -- ) but I think this is fanciful. And note that the teacher concerned was no, technically, fired over the art.

Prudishness in the US is pretty ridiculous but the only thing which would be job-threatening here is that you're surfing the web on company time AND the thing you're looking at offends someone.
This thread happened again, and this time i'm ready - here's my HN extension!

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Also compatible with greasemonkey for FF users.

All tweaks are optional with a discreet menu: two custom themes, hover user to view profile, hover parent link to see parent, option to confirm accidental downvotes, show submissions link in header, link to additional commentary on other sites
I'm glad to see this Canadian company succeeding in this way. Hopefully this continues to snowball. There has been so much doom and gloom around this company in part because so many people (including myself) don't have the ability to assess whether its technology could actually work.
It might have been the most open platform in the world, but I'm still not sure what Wave was actually for.
Here's another chap who designed his own GPS+GLONASS receiver back around 1992: http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/theory.html

The best bit is that all the diagrams, schematics and PCB layouts are hand-drawn.
Any statistics on US deaths like this? I couldn't seem to find anything particularly useful.

I just mean to say that China is an enormous country, and statistically these things are bound to happen. Does anyone else perceive this type of media coverage as part of a greater strategy of propagandizing or is the oversturation of news outlets just hungry for enything sensationalist to grab eyeballs? Both?
Because not everything in life needs to be tailor suited to your needs by using the coercive power of the state. You aren't entitled to Google's products and services anymore than I am entitled to you creating a free search engine for me and allowing me to use it.
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I'll make my point again: The problem is not that the content is or isn't pornography; the problem is that the content can be considered pornography by a viewer. It doesn't matter whether I think it's pornography, it's whether the person at the desk across from me does. If they think it's pornography, they're well within their rights to file an HR complaint if it makes them uncomfortable.

Which is why it's good to have clear 'NSFW' warnings on things that might be inappropriate in the workplace. Trying to get really specific about what might be appropriate doesn't do anyone much good; just tag it NSFW if it's remotely questionable and people can check it out at home. Make sense?

Visible genitals - whether male or female - are often considered not appropriate for general audiences in the US. So it is not exactly crazy to assume that someone might be made uncomfortable or upset by a coworker viewing them at work.
Because every open project that fails means that was the reason why it happened so all will?

Wave had lots of problems one of which was that they gave up on it fairly quickly.
Can Python replace PHP as a server side language?
Whatever happened to the Unix philosphy? 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well'. Last thing I want in my inbox. Call me a purist but email is for emailing people.
Unfortunately too true. Google owns search, maps, google play/android, adwords/adsense, video sharing.

At this point they are competing with Facebook and apple the most, since they don't have a monopoly in those industries. I find it hilarious how many of the googlers love their retina MBPs and iPhones though. Can't wait to see that showdown.

I'll take godaddys tech support any day over Google, hell even Comcast has a support number.
Okay. That's a great thing, because Openbox is really awesome (no pun intended ^^).
What kind of subs exactly? The ones critical of Google?

How about just skipping the story/comments and moving to the next instead of trying to bury real news for everyone by flagging?

From the HN guidelines:

If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)

You're basically abusing your mod privieleges.
This is what should happen in IT. Someone looks for a vulnerability; find it. Determine if the project owners need prior warning; then go public. Everyone becomes aware of the issue and upgrades their systems accordingly. Problem solved.

Criminalizing those who are only looking to harden the security of public facing infrastructures from those who don't have good intentions doesn't help anyone. And while I'm sure that Geohot and Reece took on this challenge as more of a fun exercise, we've all benefited from the results.

So I look forward to reading more articles where hackers attempt to exploit Go binaries; and subsequently how to avoid my own Go binaries from being exploited the same way.

(i should add, this is a more generalized comment. I'm aware that this specific attack isn't a practical real-world vulnerability)
Can someone confirm Google is killing XMPP and its server-to-server federation?

The Verge says Hangouts is not using XMPP but does it mean that XMPP (Google Talk) is definitely going away?
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Isn't it "#!"?
Yes. In London it is possible, though perhaps not enjoyable, to live on a low wage. Many people from around the world do it for a few years. They come to London and learn a lot. If you are trying to throw something together quickly with a few people that's very doable in London.

The problem comes when your company needs to hire and retain senior people - ie people who have families, mortgages, etc. The cost and pain of living in London makes it very hard to keep and motivate those people for extended periods. The infrastructure means they either need to suffer a difficult expensive commute (or work remotely, at which point you have to ask why your business is in London) or be paid massively to live in the center.
The IRC channels I go to (primarily non-technical outside of freenode and 2600net) have between fifty and 100 people in them on a daily basis. IRC is not dead. Certain networks, due to DDoS attacks or policy changes against file sharing, or incompetent operators are dying.
Some are obvious, some are really worth a deeper consideration. I liked the one about questioning the advice.
Quantum computers can't solve arbitrarily large factirisation problems. The signal gets weaker the largers the numbers get to the point where factoring a 4096 bit number is not going to happen.
This is possibly due to the security requirements:

https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/actions/securing...
There's a lot of "flat" design going on, and they're struggling to display any hierarchy within it. It's a similar problem that Windows 8 is facing with it's Modern UI, and pretty much any other interface that has been stunted by the flat design trend.
I'm pretty disappointed by the recent dropping of standards that Google has been doing.

I'm quite a sceptical person and I've never been a fan of any big corp, but Google has been the one that I've trusted my data in the most and that I've been happiest with.

I still trust them with some of my data, but I'm rapidly losing faith in them and in fact I'm starting to think that Microsoft are a more "open" company... and I'd consider myself a one-time Microsoft hater, but I think they've turned things around.

The only reason I'm still with them for email/calendars is that they're just so very very good. But they're privacy policies for GDrive scare me, so I don't use that.

Frankly though, I'm starting to think that my data and services would be better off with Microsoft now...
At some point, if you're trying to move a lot of money, it's cheaper to buy tickets for multiple people and split the amount of cash they can carry to some fraction of the maximum amount allowed out by law and then combine on the receiving end. If you're a powerful enough person (or dangerous enough) you can probably compel them to cooperate either based on compensation or intimidation.
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For a lightweight version you can try the mobile version https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream
Thinking that this empty rhetoric could convince any rational person of anything makes you far more cynical than the comment you're replying to.

edit: just looked at the replies. Your comment is not only far more cynical than the comment responded to, but an accurate assessment of enough people here to worry me.

P.S. Please don't waste time calling me disgusting or arrogant for not being bullish on X.
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Well, the quote from The Verge is the following: "Singhal says Google had to make the difficult decision to drop the very 'open' XMPP standard that it helped pioneer."
It is like people have never heard of or seen Intellij. The android plugin supplied by jetbrains has worked well for my android dev. With Google directly involved it should only get better.
meaningful conversation

It's 2013. Who cares about meaningful conversation?
The feature appears to be independently implementable in other clients, so if it takes off and those badges start appearing, then other e-mail clients can follow.

And some "designed for gmail" badges may actually be a good thing — maybe that would force Microsoft to do something with grotesque HTML rendering in the latest Outlook.
They've tried "closed" with Google+, which is also a total flop.
Bill Gates is a goy so he can not be king of the internet. But Google would make a good king, so just bow down.