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> advantage of original founders who remained extremely engaged

I'm skeptical about whether this is true in a straightforward way.

For one thing, most of the complaining about the (relative) decline in engineer-centric culture at Google has happened since, oh, about six months after Larry returned to the CEO position. More wood behind fewer arrows, big push on G+, more shutdowns, more constraints on 20% time, etc. (... although I have no personal experience of Google under Schmidt)

For another thing, if Sergey is engaged in anything other than his (awesome!) blue-sky projects in X, he puts a lot of work into hiding it. Seriously. Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to give him a thumbs-up, if he's going to keep putting his capital (financial, social, and political) into socially transformative projects. But I would not describe him as engaged with basically anything web-related (search, ads, social, android, etc).

Also, you seem a little confused about X. X is a tiny fraction of engineers, and as such it's not clear what it has to do with "bringing in top engineers". I mean, unless you mean "bringing in top engineers and preventing them from working on money-making projects". And also, btw, it's mostly within the Mountain View office complex.

This post probably gives the wrong impression. I'm long GOOG, and I think X is awesome, and I think Google is still doing more good than harm. But I believe these in spite of the other stuff I mentioned here, not because of "original founders who remain extremely engaged", especially in the context of sergiosgc's comments.
Sadly, the choice of OpenRISC also means it's hard to get Xorg working, since it wasn't tested on OpenRISC. Also, the gcc OpenRISC target has a number of bugs, I've heard.
Cool! This is the last big piece I needed for a project, because the CSS filters aren't available everywhere.
> there's not a strong link between rehabilitation efforts and recidivism rates.

[citation needed] for that claim.

I'm friends with a woman who works with prisoner rehabilitation and treatment of violent prisoners and sex offenders, and the work they do is scientifically sound, using evidence-based methods. There are very strong, proven casual links between the rehabilitation and recidivism.

Try,
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=sex+offender+evidence+ba...

> And if "rehabilitation" is all that's required for freedom, it shows a disconcerting lack of value for the victims of crime.

Indeed. "Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done." -- Lord Hewart
Not sure why you need to build one.

Last time I checked, people tend to have one, irrelevant of the effort they put into building it. Is that one not enough? Why not? If you are missing one, why do you need to get one?
I miss Steve Jobs. I once remember him saying something
like,'I'm a little worried about Cook; he's not a gadget
guy.'

Did anyone notice during the Apple press conference, the
head honchos tried to capture Steve's enthusiasm, but it
seemed forced?

I don't understand why they are making such a big deal
out of multiple colors? I guess it's a calculated marketing
decision? Maybe they think the Iphone will end up a fashion
statement? Sorry, but I don't think Job's would care about different colors, or a fingerprint scan--at this point in
history. I'm pretty sure hackers will find a way around
around the scan pretty quick? Out of respect for Jobs, I'm more than content with my Iphone 4, and my Ipad 2. They get the job done, and their still perfect for my needs. I don't think I'll buy another mac book pro for a long time. I have a feeling I'll be able to buy parts forever?
>Can a very minimal gcc be written which would be capable of bootstrapping the entire gcc compiler?

Yes. In fact, this is how gcc is built - in stages. First stage: build a compiler that can build the compiler. Recompile the compiler with the newly built compiler. Do it again. Repeat until completion. ;)
Deterrence is the only reason. His punishment must at least negate the years of luxury he got from is scam. Nobody should be tempted to repeat it for a few great years at the prize of prison afterwards.
I thought this was just another stupid comment but now that I've actually read through that page I feel like you've summed up my thoughts perfectly.
So many of these apps look terrible
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A note -- when linking to arXiv, please link to the abstract[1], not directly to the PDF. The abstract has other information about the paper, and one can see different versions of the paper, and of course one can click through to the actual paper. Going the other way requires manually editing the URL.

[1]http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605v1
> There's no surprise in his conclusions. If it's about an Apple product or decision, I know what the ending will be.

And so was Titanic, Avatar, etc...

You should read the Life of Pi. Storytelling is very powerful.
You mean like they already did in 2011? http://bgr.com/2011/02/09/motorola-atrix-4g-review/
Please go somewhere else with your racism.

Thanks.
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Please add an actual licence (MIT, BSD etc) to your files if you want your work to be used by others, it lets people know what is acceptable use.
Why is it that whenever I read the stuff people who studied too much philosophy say, I feel like I gained absolutely nothing of value from it?

I am pretty sure that, subjectively and objectively, this sort of nonsense discussion of the definitions of words and reality is non-constructive.
Im against posts that lead me to page that i have to pay for. Please HN do something about that!
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It sounds better, but is ARM actually handling the 64 bit ISA transition better than Intel's Itanium fiasco? (AMD's ISA won).

Also, odd that Gruber doesn't mention graphics, and likelihood that this has an Imagination series 6 "Rogue" GPU.
Differences between Android and iOS Intents and Sharing
I have read several articles saying one of the key advantages of Android is sharing between apps and that iOS doesn't allow sharing between apps. I don't understand Android enough to understand the differences. This is to foster that discussion.

My impressions are:
Android apps can register for intents and intents can be used for both file sharing but also inter-app operability. Android apps can also choose to expose portions of their data for cross app search.

iOS apps can register to handle file types and another app can choose to share a file with your app. My impression is that the built-in apps don't use this (ex: no specifying a handler for save movie files in the mail app)?
Israel has a single-payer-multiple-competitor system. It's national in the sense that everyone is covered. It is not national in the sense that there are several (5 or 6) competing HMOs, each with their own IT / management / procedures etc.

3 HMOs cover about 85% percent of the population, and of those at least the 3rd and 2nd largest have decent IT. Significant parts of which still run on a mainframe....

I've heard horror stories about the biggest years ago - but they might have upped their game since.
The Great Moon Hoax, and "Are we amusing ourselves to death?"
Not sure why the "philosophical implications" of things that are not so in reality would be interesting to ponder.
awesome addition..althgh am little confused looking for changes..but revision wise looks quite descriptive....
I'm pretty sure you must mean "OS X from the mid-2000s" — look at screenshots of System 7 for comparison…
Do you work for Apple, or are you an iOS only developer, or something? Throughout this thread, your gushing praise of everything Apple and disparaging remarks about literally everything every other company does is so over the top, even by HN standards, its hard to figure out where you are coming from.
I see what they say are the reasons for closing it down.. But here is what I am hearing between the lines:

"So guys, we are closing down the auction house! We are not really breaking even anymore between the cost of running the auction house (servers, maintenance, etc) and the profits we get from sold items so we are closing it down and hiding it behind a smokescreen of 'we are totally doing it for the player, lol'. Oh yeah, its still always online so lulz I guess. Please buy our expansion!"
I was just listing some languages that were designed as system programming languages as well.

But any language with native code compilers, that is able to have small footprint executables would do.
This is a related news http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/csc-courts-si...

It looks like all around fiasco.
If we are entirely honest, you don't have anywhere near the level of social mobility across the EU as across the U.S.A.
And, just to clarify: Some countries have no legal concept of "public domain" and even those that do, it can be unclear exactly how that impacts users of the code. A good license remedies that problem, and allows people to use the code.

MIT and BSD are "public domain"ish licenses, which have stood up to decades of scrutiny and usage by lots of projects. They'd be good choices. But, there are many others that also meet that description.
Given that it's obviously possible to independently agree with most of what Apple does and think that that what they are doing will be successful (which in reality has turned out to be the case), what exactly is it you're accusing Gruber of?
Welcome to Swansea TechHub, the Capital of Wales ;-)
They (Apple) ask for it with words like "this changes everything" & "most forward looking". The truth is, Apple folks love the aura & being put on a pedestal. They do not want to be treated like a normal company.
You can have the best of both worlds by writing low-level modules in C for use within a higher level framework.

For example, I've been having a great time writing this music player backend in C[1], but as soon as it's solid I'm going to write a node.js addon module and then use that as the backend for my web-based audio player[2].

[1]: https://github.com/superjoe30/libgroove

[2]: https://github.com/superjoe30/groovebasin
I use face unlock on my Nexus 7. Not gimmicky at all for a device I pick up maybe 3 times a week, in good light.

For a phone, it's a poor fit. Variance in light levels is too high.

Fingerprint login is something I've had on my laptop for what seems like a decade. It's a gimmick there. But I anticipate that fingerprint unlock could be about as good as face unlock. It has the advantage of working in the dark.
> I'd be more afraid of lack of true value types in Java

The IBM J9 VM already has them.

http://duimovich.blogspot.ca/2012/11/packed-objects-in-java....

http://www.slideshare.net/mmitran/ibm-java-packed-objects-mm...
OT: I have a HP laptop with fingerprint reader, and it works perfectly with Lastpass and Windows login. I almost never type my passwords now. HP had shipped some software, but I honestly never used it. It works just fine with in-built Windows 7 support.
libfcgi (C) + postgres worked like a charm for me. There are also things like libmicrohttpd, libevent/libev, ... that are also very useful if you want to play even more. It's not that hard if you know C.
Just go home
Are UI designers too serious?
Apple realized it is better to copy Android in each and every respect. Apps, NFC.. Even copying colourful phones of Nokia doesn't hurt. Congrats Apple!
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China, some of the time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11962520
porting that would not be a problem, I'm quite sure.

but problems? yes. for example, the default EaselJS build strips out such DisplayObject methods that are not documented but are present in the unbuilt source code, e.g. getBounds(). I do understand there are reasons for it being undocumented, sure -- calculating bounds for a raster object may be very expensive on canvas, but since I'm working with strict square shapes, it works for me very well, hence I've got a custom EaselJS build to maintain.

I also had some problems with TweenJS (a tween co-lib for EaselJS) -- this was also solved by a custom build, as the downloaded minified version they're currently hosting was not up-to-date with EaselJS' newest changes (at least it wasn't couple of days ago).

that said, even though my code is not quite render-agnostic, I'll definitely try out Svgjs, as it's methods are almost one-on-one match to EaselJS'.
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If you need a lot of C interfacing go with something that interfaces well with C. Like Lua.
To each his own. I'd pay an extra $100 to get a 3.5-inch screen. 4-inch is too much and forces me to move up my palm.
I do mostly JVM and .NET based development nowadays, in consulting projects.

Sometimes I wish to be part of a C or C++ based project, then I try to imagine how the quality of our offshore guys would map to those languages and realize how lucky I am not to be part of such projects.
Awful, just awful. Very surprised to see a company that has design as such a focus blow it like this. The flat design doesn't help the user (imho) and actually hurts him/her. It takes longer to understand and discern between different elements in apps. Can't wait for iOS 8.
That breaks the Tor protocol. It means that non-bbc websites would appear to be blocked and unblocked at random as users used Tor.

I had a discussion with one of the developers and basically Tor isn't designed to do this -- the blocks on each exit node have to be propagated through the network, and if every exit node did this then it would adversely affect the network in some way that I don't recall the details of.
"Target crowd" is a bit misleading. True, as long as fingerprint sensors were a bit difficult to use, only the ones with a specific need for them took the time and effort to use them. But the same was also the case with previous smartphones, and lots of other technology.

If some company hade made a really good and well integrated fingerprint sensor, it might well have seen more widespread use.
When I was a kid my brother (much older, getting his ME undergrad) built me a 1/5 or 1/6 scale biplane out of plywood and other lumber. It had working control surfaces and the wooden propeller (which he had "carved" by hand on a table saw) rotated freely. Needless to say I was in aviator heaven for a summer.
Discussion by people who are more likely to know what's going on:

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/77730/what-is-the...
Exactly. ZFS has a parameter for this, which you need to set manually.
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To err is human, to catch an error shows expertise
The people most drawn to the idea that wealth is earned, not just made, are the ones who want to be entrepreneurs. You don't create webapps and whatever because you are passionate about it, you do it because you are passionate about becoming rich and famous, and think that you can do it, if only you try hard enough. Failure is only for those people who didn't try as hard as you, right?
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My own experience with Galaxy Mega (5.8) is awful. Its screen is huge; coming from an iPhone 4S yet its battery is terrible; barely last a day (7am til 6pm) with a full recharge.
I would also suggest checking out D3 if you're not familiar with it. What you've described sounds like a perfect fit.
actually, for example, EaselJS is written up very neatly and IS easy to work with, so I see absolutely no problem writing a custom adapter which would recursively reiterate the EaselJS Stage object (toString() method) and parse out all the shapes and what-not to whatever format you could possibly want.
It seems that the technology is intrinsically linked to the A7 processor. I hate linking to a Quora article, but this one actually highlights why the A7 is such a leap.

http://www.quora.com/Apple-Secure-Enclave/What-is-Apple%E2%8...
Not totally unintentional, since it was created by a website dedicated to app discovery... But yeah, I discovered some new interesting apps myself :)
Strategically it has a huge benefit to Apple. Touch ID provides a secure way to authenticate your iTunes account, which millions have linked to their credit cards.

If Apple ever starts offering payment services through iTunes (using NFC or some other technology), authenticated payments can be done in an instant instead of "just wait a bit while I enter my password".
Similarly I note that he emphasises how other people are going to like the new colours, but says little about what he thinks of them himself: "bright and friendly" is about the most of it. Does he actually not like them very much? Likewise, there's nothing much about the new iOS 7 aesthetic. Maybe that's because the OS is meant to be a topic for other posts, but you'd expect a holistic, design-centred review of the 5C to at least note that iOS 7 (especially the home screen icons, but not only them) and the 5C have been designed to match each other visually. (In a way that the iOS 7 and the 5S don't, significantly.) Gruber was one of the people who was holding out the hope of significant changes to the appearance of the beta iOS 7; now that (afaics) it's largely unchanged, is he biting his tongue?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+the+capital+city+of+califo...

I made DuckDuckGo as my default search engine two weeks ago and in the end I realized that most of the time the results doesn't satisfy me and I make the search again with !g prefix. DDG is still my default search engine and will stay as default until I get tired of this. I hope they are working on better results and I hope they will achieve this soon or I hope I can find a better search engine except commercial ones.
I'm a keen gamer and pretty serious about my fitness, and my experience is that they both have very different benefits. Exercise does have benefits that gaming doesn't, but gaming also has benefits that exercise - even quite "gaming-like" exercise like kickboxing - doesn't.
Yes, you are being scammed, and all US carriers charge for incoming text messages.

AT&T: $0.20 per SMS or $0.30 per MMS, both ways. or text plan for unlimited messages for an additional $20/month

http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=52588&cv=820#fbi...

Verizon: $0.20 per SMS or $0.25 per MMS, both ways. or text plans an additional $5-$20/month, no unlimited option.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/planMessagingOverla...

Sprint: $0.20 per SMS or $0.25 per MMS, both ways. or text plans an additional $5-$20/month, with $20/month being unlimited.

http://www.sprint.com/landings/attachables/

T-Mobile: $0.20 per SMS or MMS, both ways. I think all current plans have unlimited text though, not sure.

http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2825
I use C every day, and I wrote a whole framework for writing websites in C (no longer maintained because I'm no longer that interested in writing websites):

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.annexia.org/freeware...

What was amazing was that you could write pretty complex dynamic websites that fit into a few K of RAM and could trivially handle huge load.

I originally wrote that framework for a chat service. It ran for years on a single 32-bit CPU box with 128 MB of RAM, handling the chat requirements of dozens of English schools.
Carefully thought out yes, but often when there is imperfection that's carefully thought out too.

For example the cameras in the early iPhones were very deliberately below par specifically so that they could ramp up the camera quality with each new model as an incentive for owners to upgrade. Imperfect by specification, but perfect business execution. I say this as someone who bought into iPhones with the 3G and never regretted it, but it's the truth.

With screen sizes, I would prefer a slightly larger screen size on my current iPhone 5. I do think Apple will eventually go to a greater screen size, but if so they will do it because they need it as a differentiating factor for a new model. I was half expecting them to do it this time because I couldn't think of a compelling new feature that the next model would need, but I didn't know about the move to 64bit, TouchID and M7. This time they had enough new features that they didn't need to move to a bigger screen.

Yet.
It's great to see the steady rise of SVG on the web (finally!).

I've created a small JavaScript library for SVG, called "Pablo": http://pablojs.com

It packs in a lot for its size. Pablo lets you create and manipulate SVG, somewhat similarly to using jQuery and Underscore.

For those near Brighton, UK - there's a launch event this Friday: http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/events/pablo/
> Well to quote the quoted regulation:
"shall not deny, limit, or restrict the ability"

They do make people pay extra to officially be allowed to tether other devices to their tiered data LTE connection. Those against people tethering used to be quick to say, "It's to keep people from sucking down 200GB+ a month in bandwidth when Verizon offered unlimited data."

However, that rational does not exactly work when only a minority still hold onto their unlimited data almost 2 years after Verizon stopped it for anyone renewing their contract. Especially not when most users are now limited to 2-4GB a month before overage fees.
We actually used c in ~2000 in our web company (one of the biggest in our country at that time). Even the finnish EU commission site ran on C platform that I wrote. Oh the days..
FWIW, my understanding is that CDDL, as a MPL-derived license, had a patent licensing clause and therefore the patents don't matter as long as it's using that set of source code. So a clean room rewrite might run afoul of patents, but the existing CDDL licensed code is okay. (See CDDL, section 2.1(b), but keep in mind section 2.1(d) where modifications and deleted code are not covered.)
There are many good things to say about video games (after many studies about positive effects on brain development), but I've come to realize that there is also a huge downside: games satisfy your yearning for accomplishments and there seems to be a finite amount of that (one could say that they give you a cheap, false sense of accomplishment, even though what people achieve in games are often real accomplishments). So by achieving much in games, you will have less "hunger" left to pursue achievements elsewhere and this will potentially affect careers, relationships, self-development.
PowerVR TBDR architecture is great at handling MSAA. I think quite a lot of games will be able to use it (as it was with 4x) http://gdcvault.com/play/1015331/Bringing-AAA-Graphics-to-Mo... (~page 28)
It's really the integrity checking. As you say, mdadm is much more suited if you need to change the geometry of you array, add disks and so on. It's much handier for the smaller business, who can't afford a second send of disks to build a second array on when they want to reshape.

We ran btrfs on top of mdadm, getting both integrity checking and flexibility (although this just tells you that something is wrong).
The Oculus Rift will make these kind of projects obsolete.
I'm fine with that as long as they are required to unlock it after the the "rental" period.
To all the nay-sayers (sibling to this comment here), I just want to say: I thought the talk (er, slide show) was very, very interesting. I didn't even notice anything special about the slide-show.

It worked for me. ("worked" as in: made me intrigued about an interesting topic.)
From what I get they managed to vastly simplify calculations of super-symmetric Yang-Mills theory by representing results as volumes of geometric object.

Super-symmetric Yang-Mills theory is not shown to represent reality (yet?) but they hope they can use similar method to simplify calculations of the quantum field theories that are currently believed to represent reality.