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> You can fork android and not license the google services, but it means doing without youtube, maps and chrome. That's a horrible experience.

Not to hundreds of millions of Chinese Android users.
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Using Apples definition of Retina 140dpi is Retina quality when viewing from approximately 60cm. That is about how far I sit from my screen, 140 would definitely be great.
minor point: evasion is not legal, avoidance is legal. So, Google does tax avoidance, not tax evasion.

And Google has lawyers and accountants telling them that what they're doing is legal, but if the UK tax authorities disagree it goes to a court. So it's possible that what Google is doing isn't legal, because it hasn't been tested in court.
Good, now I have almost no reason to go to Google's site at all. Between this, Reader and the useless G+, google's web properties have gone almost completely off the rails.

I utterly fail to see why shutting this down was a good idea.

I hit my iGoogle page dozens of times a day and would have put up with ads and all manner of garbage on it because it was so useful.

Outside of My Yahoo (which was recently updated thank goodness), any other alternatives?
I don't know if it's that straigh-forward as "not core to their revenue stream". At the time it launched I guess it was supposed to be part of their core revenue stream -- it was supposed to give them more insight into what their users are into, and thereby allowing them to target their ads better. Not too different to Google+, I guess, just a different wrapper. I think the problem here was that it didn't catch on as well as they wanted it, and even people I know who were using it, moved on after a while.

So, I guess it would be more correct to say that you shouldn't use Google products that aren't going to be popular enough. Unfortunately I don't have such an insight into the future.
Just because it's always free to have it on your site doesn't mean that everything they will ever offer you is free.

Using WebRTC, the actual cost of operating this service is very small, as the connected browsers will be using P2P rather than going through a single server.
If the speaker is physically capable of that, the same technique can output ultrasound - with modern processor speeds, you probably could twiddle that output bit while still leaving room for normal system operation.
A great idea, in principle, but £5 for 5 stickers? It'd cost me 10p to print 10 stickers with 'lost@mydomain.org' on... which I might well do, now I'm thinking about it.
> mucking around with home-built PCs running some Linux distro

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/
I'm sorry to spoil the fun here, but if you want to drive a race, rent a race track and don't do it on public streets where you endanger innocents.
I give Apple props for for their contributions to LLVM or WebKit (and OpenCL, and Darwin), no one is saying they haven't done any good things for the ecosystem, but that doesn't erase the egregious damage that the iOS T&C impose on the ability of people to do what they want with their devices. To me, that ranks them lower. That, and the aggressive "thermonuclear" offensive litigiousness they have, not just on patents, but even going back to the Look-and-Feel lawsuit of the 90s. I'm an Apple fan boy when it comes to their hardware, I've owned every Apple device, I own an iPhone 5S, the A7 is remarkable. I love the hardware, I hate the closed nature of the platform, the fact that I need to jailbreak my device to have ownership of it.

For the average consumer, control of "the next big advertising platform" is a meaningless abstraction, it matters to people in the ad buying business, not consumers who generally don't like ads in the first place, and tolerate them mostly to get free stuff. And how does Android "control" mobile web advertising anyway?

But for the average consumer, telling them they can't install App X on their device that they spent $300 on because Apple censors don't like it is much more direct.

No company is perfect, but I can say as a Googler, your cynicism is basically wrong, that open source isn't just a marketing tactic, but that the rank and file at the lowest levels of the company, culturally believe in it. Google has disappointed in the past on the degree of openness, and there is much to improve, so I am not uncritical of it in this regard, but if you were to query the rank of file of Microsoft and Apple with regards to open source, and Googlers, you'd find a lot more zealots at Google.

The world isn't black and white, it's shades of gray, and some are just a much brighter shade of gray than others.
> I deleted the post before it got locked in so that I could repost with the same link another day.

Is this generally OK to do, within reason?
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How did you justify options/profit sharing to the parent company? Did not they insist you pay only salary and/or bonus?
"The Rockstar consortium is an organization backed by Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson and Sony."

Out of all these companies RIM (BlackBerry) is the only one up for "sale".

How long until Google tries to buy itself a backdoor into the alliance?

I give them a couple of months.
This is definitely spot-on.
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The upside seems to be anonymity, whereas with your idea you could possibly be identified by your own domain. I guess you could easily anonymity with something like "3dal2lk4@gmail.com", though.
>"Google clearly wanted to control these patents themselves so that they could extract licensing deals from others..."

Has Google ever extracted licensing deals from others?
thanks! I'm trying to hustle as hard as I can right now.
This is according to some moral code or what? The world doesn't abide a set of moral rules. Rules are made by people who can't win without them. You can't tell everybody to stick it and start entering several industries at once. In the real world you have to be cooperative, as well as persistent, because you are not the only 800-pound gorilla.
> Again I insist and this time with google translate to chinese, give me the source code as stated in the written offer.

You know, the quality of the English they're sending to you might have suggested that you weren't accomplishing much by using Google Translate (they'll be using Baidu Fanyi instead. But yes, google translate really is worthless as a way to communicate in Chinese.)
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igHome is the suggested alternative: http://www.ighome.com/
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The allegation of breaking boot-from-CD isn't that high visibility - you wouldn't notice it during normal operations.
The problem is not these companies, it's the regulatory climate.

But why is the regulatory climate so problematic? I guess it's because our current form of democracy is highly inefficient - politicians have much stronger incentives to do what rich entities represented by lobbying firms want than they have incentives to do what is beneficial for the general public. Bad laws are basically written by those who benefit from them and that's why it takes so long to change the bad laws and that's why the new laws are always half-assed and full of loopholes. This is not going to change any time soon.

The more I think about it the more I think that government regulation is neither fair nor efficient and I wonder... how difficult would it be to partially escape government regulation by creating a distributed company? Think of Linux on Bitcoins. No single entity to sue. Some kind of self-regulation based on millions of stakeholders carefully disconnected from their real-world identities voting with their money or something.

This is just a very vague idea - I am not sure it could solve anything and I am pretty sure that it would create a lot of new problems but I feel it is useful to think about this stuff because we cannot expect governments to efficiently regulate society in a way beneficial to general public. Democracy needs to improve in order to keep up.
the i in apple's products make no sense either
You forget about "Unknown sources". In practical terms that is substantial freedom (see: Amazon and other app stores) that makes Android phones qualitatively different from phones with an overload (OEM, carrier or otherwise).
As well as sales and purchase, employees incur tax too.
Typically it's implied that you get to own a share of business.
Why they didn't at least migrate it to a similar format as Google Now (branding wise) is beyond me.
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Loseproof is really geared toward people who want an out of the box solution – easy to signup, easy to protect your stuff & more secure (it's anonymous).

We'd also love to know where you can get stickers printed at that price... we might need to change supplier!
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I can't answer for spenvo, but for myself, I would be happy to call myself "libertarian," except that extremely limited government is bad at protecting the poor from the rich, and libertarianism places a little too much emphasis on individualism to the detriment of communities.
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Just from the case you are asking this question means you should probably start looking.

Remember there is no harm in looking to see whats out there.
interactive?
This is very reminiscent of http://www.tagbak.net which adds in a "reward for return" for the honest finder (which is a great idea). IIRC, TagBak is trying to work with vendors to include tags with phones instead of selling tags to end users... interesting to think about which strategy is more effective.
Nice Idea, localized networks are trending fast.
Do you remember what day of the week and at what time you posted the successful HN post?
what about those that didn't work?
Agreed. I wonder how this article jeopardises him in terms of getting arrested for this. It's basically a public confession isn't it?
Yeah. Hopefully these assholes can be criminally charged; their identities are known, after all.
I agree with you but in this case it wasn't about racing. It was about breaking a specific record.

[EDIT] To all the people who are downvoting; I am pointing out that I agree that it was a stupid thing to do but just saying "go on a race track" is pointless because he wanted to do something that cannot be done on a race-track. It is like telling someone to go to a climbing gym instead when they really want to conquer Everest.
Sure, I get that. Have you thought about approaching businesses? My organisation has about circa 100 BlackBerry devices in circulation, none of which have any kind of 'if lost' marker on them...
Now what I would REALLY pay for, and what I thought/hoped was, is stickers had location tracking so I could find them with my phone, i'd put them on my keys, wallet everything.
I think THAT, packaged into an very easy service, could be a brilliant business.
For some reason, this reminded me _The Last Chase_ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASCmH1HdG6g
The groundwork for these measures was laid a long, long time ago. Many of the patents Apple has used against Android OEMs have gone back to the mid-90s - when Apple v Microsoft was recent history and their inability to get "patent-like protection" from UI copyrights was fresh in Apple's mind.
Nice job on the site and branding. Personally I don't see writing "Please call 555-1212 if found" as a security problem that needs solving, but there are probably some who do.
> A terribly made framework (I won't name names) will bite you in the ass. Choose carefully.

Facebook and Twitter seem to be doing alright. Care to elaborate?
The guy who did it in the M5 (Or that might have been someone doing the gumball rally record) had to research statute of limitations for all sorts of driving offenses he might be charged with in each state before he went public.
This is just about working for me:

http://www.ighome.com/
Why can't I just put my (e-)mail address on the device? The person who finds it just needs to give it to the next post office and tell them the receiver will pay for it.
You're not spoiling the fun at all, only sensibly trying to ensure that everyone else can have theirs without a sleep deprived moron canonballing into them at 100 mph. Its all fun and games until you kill someone.

Considering how many deaths there have been at Le Mans (closest comparable organised race I can think of), this is certainly irresponsible. I wonder if they went through a jurisdiction where the minute by minute trace from the tracking company would be enough to prove they broke the law.
Maybe there is one an I'm just missing it, but I'd love to see an OWIN-based benchmark in that list.
I always thought it meant 'my'. My Google, My pod..
Mmmh. Looks better than netvibes. I think I ll give it a shot. Thanks for the tip !
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It is good, but have you seen the lack of storage? I am sure I have USB keys with larger storage, and I have more MP3s than will fit on its storage. It is abysmal.
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Surely open-source handset OSes are just as vulnerable to patent attacks? If Firefox OS were to take off, it would immediately become a target for exactly the same sort of lawsuit.
I think in their minds it was about the expression of ones identity, and showing that you're such and unique snowflake.
I wonder how much it would cost to get enough roads closed/with police cars as a rolling roadblock to make a proper race legal? I expect the city start and end would be tricky.
I have to agree. I still have Facebook (as it's one of the ways I can communicate with people who I don't have numbers for) but if I scroll down it in their mobile application a LOT of the content is adverts. Another big percentage is terrible videos/pictures from 9gag-esque accounts that people have liked.

After you get passed all of that you are left with very little information that actually matters (status updates/pictures etc.) It's a combination of a problem with both the userbase and the platform.
This is exactly like TrackItBack, which you've probably heard of? I came across them since they had some pretty awesome airline mile bonuses. I never used the stickers (I still have them); all I remember was thinking to myself "damn these are some expensive stickers." (The miles promo was so good that it made sense to buy them even if you wouldn't use them).

..

I just searched for them and found that they're out of business. Other competitors seem to be idstickers and foundit, though I know nothing of them.
well at least you can say android can and has been forked, you can't say the same about iOS or windows..
OK, I misunderstood your motives. Sorry.

Personally, as a web developer, I never liked third-party APIs, I stayed away from proprietary platforms that are hard to replace, always preferring open-source alternatives or alternatives based on standards, I use Ubuntu Linux on my workstations, I encrypt my documents that I store in Dropbox and I use Facebook & Twitter with great care.

I also prefer Android both as a user and as a developer, in spite of Google's disregard for Romanian developers (i.e. we can't sell apps on Google Play, we can only distribute free apps), but that's only because with Android you're not tied to Google Play. Plus I'm rooting for Firefox OS taking off, as even with 5% of the market, it will push things forward by developing and standardizing new web APIs.
They've certainly tried to against Microsoft but they failed. Microsoft and Apple were required by the government to license their standards related patents under reasonable terms to anyone before this Nortel patent portfolio buy was cleared. As far as I know none of them are trying to sue over SEPs. I don't even think this lawsuit contains patents related to standards, but it's kind of a moot point because no company actually has a controlling interest in Rockstar. It's all John Veschi and other former Nortel employees who run their company.

http://allthingsd.com/20130905/microsoft-trounces-google-in-...
iGoogle IMHO was just following the "Portlet" fad that seem to infect many portal sites. I think Google Now is a much better interface for this kind of stuff, if only it were "extensible" the way iGoogle gadgets were.

I wouldn't call it a product, more like a feature. Google has literally changes thousands of features of their search page over the years. Maintaining them all without ever sunsetting would be an unimaginable technical debt.

This brings up the usual Reader meme, but even Apple unceremoniously kills features in products they charge money for and profit from. Remember the Final Cut Pro vs Pro X debacle? Or iMovie? Sometimes companies just decide its time to revamp a product and remove features that are no longer popular, or just poorly designed. Paying for a product does not protect you from that if you are a minority of users. Well, maybe it does, Microsoft seems to just keep on piling on features in its products without ever removing them.
It was wednesday at around 11 AM PST. I'm pretty sure the other times were closer to mid-day like 12 - 2. Although this post was posted mid-day as well, however on Thursday and it seemed to do really well.
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Nice visuals! But this highlights one thing about Go that irks me coming from Erlang: sending mutable state over channels. Here the power of a node is modified in another nodes goroutine, which makes things much trickier to reason about. A better approach, IMO, would be to decrement the power before a node sends itself over a channel.
I never developed for the Android. Is Android a good platform for tinkering/hacking? Maybe its already too mature? No low-hanging fruits?
Two points:

- The evidence seems to be that the bigger the government, the wider the gap between the rich and the poor. This might sound counter-intuitive, but that's the date we have. The rest is pure speculation. It could be that there is some hidden variable that makes the rich/poor gap and government grow at the same time, but it's not enough to just repeat some dogma;

- I am for communities, but the only point of communities is to make the individuals that compose them happy. If a community is thriving by some metric but the individuals that compose them are unhappy, the community is pointless of even counter-productive.
I used X11 forwarding over SSH to run a browser on my VPS

Running a browser remotely in that way can be quite painful. Running Firefox locally you can tell it to use a socks proxy on localhost:1080 after connecting to your VPS with "ssh -D 1080". You may also want to set the about:config setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true.

Or you could use VPN software, but that's more to setup, and you already have ssh access.
"Android for some"
Know nothing about this. But say they couldn't be transferred. Then you could have moribund companies holding a patent and doing nothing with it thus stopping other people from doing something that would benefit the world. But given that they can be transferred, there is a market, so a moribund company has an incentive to pass the patent on, and the patented thing gets realized, by someone.
Because Google bought Motorola after Motorola-Apple fight started, the aggressor is a bit more complicated, but still pretty clear cut to me:

Whichever side that is not willing to end the patent fight (without payments to either side) is the aggressor.

And it seems to me Apple is the one not willing to quit.
iGoogle used to be my home page.

Now this is: http://www.ighome.com/

Which (cant remember) either I set up for DDG or, it was the default. So, while I do find myself !g ing a lot, google is no longer my default for anything.

So.....
Yahoo for mail, as I have had the email address for something like 15 years
DDG has been my default search for several months
Then switched from iGoogle more months ago because of the obvious
Did have a G+ account thing, simply because it was where a few vaguely interesting groups are, or were. But I only ever looked at it if I was notified via iGoogle. So, guess what? Not looked at that in months either.

Um....so... yeah, well done google. I assume Im not worth enough to them. Hell, turns out, google isnt worth much to me either.

What happened to the cool kids on the internet block, aye?
I am not sure if this will be of any help. But you could actually globally override $watch - without it feeling like a hack. Angular does provide a mechanism to do that. Since $rootScope is a service, you can have a decorator for it where you can override the $watch which will override the $watch for all scopes.

Angular Batarang overrides $watch too for instrumentation.

Consider this one more request for publishing your directives and changes :)
Well, it really depends on the application type. We are a Java and Ruby on Rails software house (http://codedose.com), we also have experience working for investment banks, and for some cases Java with Spring or Play is the best way to go, especially if you think about apps with complex back-end.

We have recently released an online market for physical gold trading capable of handling 10k+ concurrent users with horizontally scalable architecture and complex trading engine/accounting logic, and it's all Java. It has to be fast and there is not enough static or almost-static content to make caching effective.
That's no excuse. If breaking the record involved endangering others, leave it. Break another record if you have to. Do a higher jump than Baumgartner or swim across the atlantic, I don't mind - just don't race a car on public roads and use "I made it as safe as possible" as a pathetic excuse.
Yeah, I was kind off worries when they talked about OVH and Hetzner... they are notoriously bad... If you have to out-source your servers, at least pick a company that does it's job well (like LeaseWeb for instance).
Usually this "-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd" will fix your fugly situation. Actually, at least since version 3 of PyCharm I don't have to muck around with java settings to make it look humane.
start-ups are supposed to pivot like shit. gorillas are supposed to keep the lights on forever.

i know it's not that simple. at least start-ups have a reasonable option of open sourcing failed products. i don't know how often that works out, but it offers some consolation. gorillas have a much harder time. who knows what a service was hooked in to, what it was built off and what was was built off it.

it makes me think along a line i've thought many times. a friend once said "you either become a big company or a part of a big company". which means you either become a core service at a big company or part of a core service at a big company. or you're dead. a lot of services are going to get a bullet.

accept for a moment that is the right decision, scrappy start-up or goliath. there is obviously still value in a lot of these services to a lot of people. maybe they can't become big businesses. maybe they can't be important to big businesses. but they can still be important to many people, some of them with the capability to develop and run them.

when will open source extend to services? beyond libraries, and into applications themselves? services with open, distributed development and hosting. built and run by the community, for the community. the things happening with distributed data storage have to help, and a lot of the work going into making mobile applications efficient and responsive (every phone is a node in a network that is constantly being partitioned). it seems like this could open the door for a lot of things that don't really fit the "hit or quit" model.