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> Any system that's inherently corrupt is bound to collapse.

I don't really believe this, but it'd make me very happy if you could prove me wrong.
As very much not a C programmer, I did sort of grasp the argument that while the overflow behavior may be undefined, once the overflow happens and if the end result is that the sign goes negative, how can you reasonably skip the negative branch?

int a,b,c;
a=INT_MAX; /* statement ONE */
b=a+2; /* statement TWO */
c=(b>a); /* statement THREE */
I know these guys just applied to YC: http://tempoautomation.com/
Microsoft did release a cheaper Web Browser than Netscape, back in the day.
One issue I have with these frameworks is the scaling pattern/path

With Rails I might do:

1. Fresh rails app

2. Add page caching / CDN

3. Add database/query caching

(I have no apps large enough to require anything past here)

4. Sharding the DB?

Rails is awesome because each step is concise (via the language, ruby) and many other people have demos / documentation on how to do them.

Sure, your framework of choice may be fast at stage 1, but how easy is it to go to 2, 3 and so on when I need to?
Or in a dystopia where sometimes evildoers are inside -gasp- the government itself.
You have to wonder what Microsoft's goal is here, given that some estimates have them earning over $3B/yr in licensing fees on Android sales.
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I did not say that I can not perform on a MP10. I regularly do, because of practical reasons.
All I said is that the Hofmann or any other hand made piano is much better because it has a soul.
Just look in the worlds concert halls and see what word class classical pianists prefer.
Yes, but I understand the problem to be that we simply have gotten too comfortable with this behavior.
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I think the point is not "this is the best/right way to write the check", but rather, this way of writing the check used to work, and is pervasive, and now it gets optimized away, and that seems like a Bad Thing.

The bug report appears to contain a lot of investigative work by the submitter to try to substantiate their claims.

I don't have a problem with the back-and-forth, people are allowed to get passionate, especially if they are doing the leg work to try to substantiate their position.
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In a just world Apple and Microsoft lose out on enough idealistic brilliant engineers over this that over time they decline and die.
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Great, and what does it mean?
I am Secretary Not Sure if I could read anything by Rob Enderle.

Please find a better, umm more reliable source.
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> If you're interested in changing this situation, I'd try recommend trying to get the attention of the one organization that really holds the power, here: The United States government.

Well it's certainly easier to vote with your dollars than to change the state of politics. Politics are relatively stable in short-mid run, and even a large group of citizen has very little power to change that unless they get representatives of their own to run for and win elections with a clear no-more-patent-bullshit agenda.

Net: it's not going to happen any time soon.
It's a little early to say for sure, but I predict this will do more to hurt Apple's reputation in the tech community than anything they've done before. And that is not a good community to alienate. I would not be surprised if they look back on this move one day and feel that they ended up net worse off as a result.

Apple used to be careful not to alienate hackers. And Microsoft has been gradually digging itself out of a hole in that respect for several years. Now in my mind they are both the enemy.
indeed. Sounds more like extorted than invited at first glance.
This comment is ridiculous. The big players have been playing a patent chess game since 2007. Don't forget Google bid for these patents as well and it's completely ignorant to think they would have not exercised their billion $+ purchase.

Google took the initiative a year ago with their Motorola patent portfolio, Samsung took the initiative with their FRAND patents, Apple took the initiative with their design portfolio, Microsoft took the initiative by funding SCO and suing android OEMs and now this conglomerate is taking the initiative with the Nortel patents.

This is a war with many players willing to stifle the industry until this gets sorted out. All players are responsible, but this terrible system requires that you get involved and are proactive in protecting your intellectual property.

Go sell your mac and get an ultra book. Go learn Java and ditch obj-c. But do it because you prefer those products, not because you think you are taking the moral high ground.
> If corporations are banned from trying to persuade people (i.e., advertising), they'll turn to bribing politicians (i.e. hiring lobbyists).

So, you are saying if corporations are allowed to advertise, they won't hire lobbyists?

(Not that marketing to the public is any less bribery or more trying to convince people than lobbying is, the only difference between the two is the universe of people being targeted for bribery/convincing.)
Wait, when does 'w' make the sound [u] (as opposed to [w] or [ʊ])?
My only possible conclusion of your saying is that you have never heard a good big orchestra.
What do you mean by fragmentation FUD? Are you seriously saying that android isn't more fragmented than iOS?

There are 5 resolutions to support in iOS. For most purposes, there are only 2 versions to support. What's the situation like on android?

Just because you don't understand an API, doesn't mean you should trash it. Writing APIs is hard. Last I checked I couldn't have more than 1 map on a screen on android with massive trickery.
> Do most ships now employ private security onboard during their travels through that region?

Over 30 different navies are now deployed in the region to secure trade and there is a huge joint operation there with a constant presence.

One taskforce is Combined Maritime Forces:

http://combinedmaritimeforces.com/about/

another force is called EU-NAVFOR:

http://eeas.europa.eu/csdp/missions-and-operations/eu-navfor...

Their operation is Atlanta:

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

Similarly you have US operations, South Korean, Australian, etc.

The problem is that the area is so vast and there is so much traffic there, Somalia is an almost ideally design pirate base. They can't protect all the traffic, and even with convoy systems (similar to what happen in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during WWII) ships still get picked off.

What has happen now is the type of target has changed. From large container ships to small pleasure craft, tourist vessels, smaller merchant ships, etc. That is why the average take has gone down. You will never be able to protect all ships throughout the entire area, it just isn't feasible.

If anybody is interested, the original report reference in the article is available on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Trails-Tracking-Financial-Activ...

Since it is a World Bank report, it is likely available for free online if you search for it.
Everything in first iPhone existing much before iPhone came into existence if you lived outside Steve Jobs distortion field.

The fact that Apple could sue Motorola who invented Mobile Phone and get away with it shows how stupid the patent system is.
> [...] largest and most dominant companies on the planet.

... in software.
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Despicable. At least this is good news for patent reform.
Oh wow, that's awesome. One wonders if there's something to be cribbed from the Recipe world? Voice activated step by step app with built in timers? Cookpad for wetlab? labgenius?
shellroulette.ru perhaps! Looks like you need to be a russian citizen to register, though.
Catastrophic? I can't claim that. But I can tell you that I had a server drop out on me when installing software this way. Here's a quick quote of the bug report I sent to Linode when I was installing Longview.

> Bug: Update the nginx (?) error pages to be bash friendly
>
> root@marius ~]# curl -s https://lv.linode.com/nGiB | sudo bash
> bash: line 1: html: No such file or directory
> bash: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
> 'ash: line 2: `<head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head>
>
> This could be done by just dumping out echo statements since its already
> being parsed by the shell. Additional meta about the request (headers, etc)
> could be dumped into comments too…
>
> # 502 Bad Gateway
> echo
> echo "Uh oh: Something went sideways during the install!"
> echo "("
> echo "Re-running the installer should clear things up."
> echo
> echo " sudo !!"
> echo
That actually looks close to perfect. Unfortunately early price estimates put it not too far from the iPhone 5S.
At least the US and USSR realized what Mutually Assured Destruction actually meant. It seems these big companies don't quite understand, and it's going to be pretty sad when they find out.
Why the childish tone in the midst of people trying to have a serious discussion?
If I remember correctly, Google has always said they would only use these patents in a defensive manner if they ever get them. http://www.androidcentral.com/google-pledges-only-use-open-s...

That's very different from Apple or Microsoft.
Easy people, don't waste your emotional energy. Microsoft has been collecting Android licensing fee for years now. Apple has the objective to kill Androids. And you think Google don't use patent to sue? These companies are all evils.
Your source is terribly written (grammar and spelling mistakes abound) and is blatantly bias towards Apple.
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That is microsoft's story, however if I recall correctly, if google were to have bid with the others, the deal was structured such that they couldn't protect android partners. So the lawsuits against android would happen anyway with the difference being google sponsoring the patent trolling against its own android OEMs.

But yeah, "invited".
You realize that suit was from before the two companies merged.
If you look at any mining profitability calculator, the biggest factor by far is the asymptotic hash rate growth. As difficulty rises, it drives ROI on even the latest and greatest not-yet-released ASICs to essentially $0/month just a couple months after you plug it in, if not weeks.

For example, in the last 90 days difficulty has increased 1150%. Butterfly Labs next-gen - supposedly coming in February - 600GH/sec miner for a mere $5k, will be worthless before it even ships at this rate.

The hash rate growth is so radical, it almost makes you think someone's broken SHA256... Or maybe Butterfly Labs can actually produce those 600GH/sec miners for closer to $100 each, then you have a chance of being profitable when the only real cost is the $30/mo in electricity.

Personally, I think the time has come to switch the proof-of-work algorithm to something that correlates more closely to the original vision of 'one CPU one vote'. The raw hash rate is not nearly as important as the concept of mining being democratized and decentralized.

For example, if there was way to do proof-of-work via proof of committed network bandwidth, storage IOPS, lowest latency transaction forwarding, etc. those are all "real" contributions to the P2P network versus running a essentially a "spinlock".
I'll probably get buried here but that's okay. The graduate school and university I go to churns out employees to three letter agencies probably at the highest rate that I know of.

I also have grad classes with many current employees amd contractors. They are regular nerds. They like building things. They like breaking things. Most of all, they are really smart and talented and pretty straight edge. Usually from a small town.... I have nothing bad to say about any of them. Honestly great people.

They a lot of times end up in the government because of really huge scholarships they give you like hot cakes where I'm at. 20k a year stipend plus free school room board books conferences. After that they are required to work for a few years in the government.
I'm more concerned about the integration of hangouts with sms and mms -- I read that as all other voip/video calls and messaging services (xmpp) will be further pushed into the cold.
Yep, I agree this is generally bad practice and is prone to error conditions, but I am mainly addressing the article since it is claiming that this should never be done because of the possible catastrophic consequences, and I just don't think that scenario is likely enough to mount a campaign to abolish this practice :)
Small world :) I live down at the bottom of the hill in Queen Anne. I recently got rid of Comcast as well because unlike your 2 or 3 nights a week, I had 7 nights a week of slowdown. I had their 20Mbps down, and from 1900 till 2230, I could get maybe 1 or 2Mbps. Called and complained several times a week. Other than basically getting my "service" for free for 3 months, they never did anything to fix the speeds.

Luckily, I can get the 40Mbps down and 20Mbps up from CenturyLink. Other than having to wait a month for them to turn it on, it has been rock solid. Even during peak times I have no issues with speed.

Like you, my lease is up in a few months. I'm going to try to move to one of the Gigabit areas...
It's only partially about taking the morally high ground; I'm afraid Apple is going to start losing significant market share.

i.e. I always hear of friends and colleagues who switch from the iPhone to Android (and not vice-versa). And from what I've seen Google is also actually making significant improvements Android's API instead of Apple's method of just making aesthetic changes (and some argue making it worse).
I don't think that a robot like Tempo Automation's is the issue. We have low cost cncs and pick-n-place machines, and more importantly places like sierra circuits. The harder problem is, like ChuckMcM described it, an easy to use high level abstraction over the hardware to simplify and accelerate the design process. Fabbing a board isn't the hard part.
Thanks for the great feedback!

I'm very interested in location and really trying to figure out what GeoGraph can do to deliver the most usefulness to its users
And Aliyun OS
And Baidu Yi
May be even the newly funded CyanogenMod company
Your logical fallacy is: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

Conveniently, there is a bullet point list of 5 items in the middle of that article. You are free to disagree with any of those points: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
> What's the situation like on android?

Screen resolution is almost meaningless on Android. Form factor is what matters. Phone (1280x720 being the floor for remotely new devices), small tablet, large tablet.
Google paying a "few billions" will impact their company as a whole: a few billions lost, means these billions are not invested somewhere else, and patents may have other insidious consequences, such as restraining the internal innovation at Google because of past experiences with Patent trolls.

And as I said in another post, Google has a different stance on patents. So far, they pledged not to use them in an aggressive way. Maybe they'll change their mind in the long run, but they have not been very aggressive in that field so far.
What's funny is the kind of interview questions they ask at Facebook. They act is if they are rocket scientists creating major breakthrough algorithms.
Non-Americans watching this - make sure you organize however you can to stop the American disease spreading to your country. Watch your politicians carefully for any sign that they might want to implement their patent systems in your country. Good luck.
Who cares? You said it yourself; torrent it.
Well, that depends. What if they're not friends but "friends?"
That's more or less already the pronounciaton for V in English.
While I definitely agree that the software around synthetic biology is weak, I think this is not actually the problem bottlenecking the field. Ultimately, most efforts in synthetic biology are gated foremost by a lack of underlying biological knowledge. Automation may aid discovery, but the number of components and complexity of biological systems leaves many unanswered questions.

Yes, There have been demonstrators of biological computing and circuits, but from a functional perspective they are extremely limited, especially compared to in vivo systems. Put a different way, even if we can do complex "computation" in a cell, our understanding of the "I/O" is too superficial to design systems to treat diseases or act as devices. The failure of rational drug design over the last 20 years has taught the pharmaceutical community this lesson quite harshly.

Understanding the interfaces and mechanisms that our "biological computers" will work with will require more research in fields like structural and molecular biology, and this work will take time.

With that said, there are some useful systems we can engineer in the meantime; for example, biosynthesis pathway work is well underway. Just realize that these systems don't require substantial engineered computation.
However, what the original commenter is saying is that he is trying to make an impact against this action by not giving his money to the companies that are taking this action.

Your attitude suggesting that company revenues have nothing to do with the actions of the company is simply suggesting that people don't vote with their dollars, or maybe that they shouldn't, which is wrong.

Corporations exist to make money, if they make decisions you disagree with, you should not spend your money on their products. You should do what you can to let them know that reason x,y,z is the reason you're not spending your money with them. Enough of a groundswell and that will change.

Interestingly in this case, if a large enough mass of people bought Android phones specifically because of this lawsuit, that is a double-wammy for Apple and Microsoft in the mobile space, and it gives Google a few dollars to pay for the patent suit.
Nuclear engineer here.

The thorium fuel cycle has obvious advantages, but it takes so long to transition from uranium to a pure thorium cycle that I doubt I will see it happen in my lifetime.

There seems to be a lot of confusion about thorium. It isn't thorium that makes LFTR so great, it is type of reactor that makes all the difference. Molten salt reactors can run on any fissile material. The only advantage of using thorium over uranium in an MSR is in the fuel cycle.

(Full disclosure: I'm a founder of a startup (http://transatomicpower.com) that is designing a molten salt reactor to burn spent fuel.)
The suit was filed after google struck the deal to buy Motorola, but not officially finalized.

Google announced Motorola Mobility acquisition in 2011.
The suit was filed in 2012.
There is no mutually assured destruction here. Google is helpless.
Considering that neither the STASI, nor the KGB had any difficulties in recruitment, hoping for bad PR about their employer to change the mind of the choir is... Naive at best.
I disagree, microsoft tried to destroy linux by coercing companies to pay a bogus linux tax. Microsoft also footed the bill for SCO's case against Linux. MS' record is atrocious here.

Motorola Mobility sued apple in 2010. Just last month Motorola filed a motion to reopen their case against Apple.

Again, all of these companies are deeply involved in this game of patents.
but the screen on my new macbook is so nice :(

Besides, google isn't exactly a wonderful company lately. Their ads and related policies, ugh.
I'm sure both had plenty of difficulties. There must have been lots of really good people who'd never have considered working for either of them.
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It is simple Microsoft and Apple are trying to get their paid 4.5Billion dollars from Google. It is a strategic mistake from Google side deciding not to be part of that team to buy the patents from Nortel.
Well to be fair then it should include google/motorola as well in the boycott... their hands are not clean either. Motorola has lawsuit against Microsoft/Apple on standards essential patents. folks should go buy fireOS phone/develop for it etc...looks like they are the only clean ones of the bunch.
True, I never claimed otherwise.
The government is not the media. Terrorism headlines are sensational and grab attention, thus advertising dollars. Don't confuse the two.
@bradleyjoyce

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If you are interested, send me an email at shail2@live.com. I can provide you with details.
Someone better tell the conservative Australian government... our fibre rollout got canned in the name of saving money.
Google threw the gauntlet when it took a billion dollar investment into a mobile OS and gave it away for free.

these dumping tactics ruined the market for licensed OS like Windows.

did anybody truly believe the rest of the software industry would take it up the ass from google without fighting back?

bing, apple maps, patents, etc - all part of the war. how much money does MS already make off android due to lost patents?

blaming a single player in this game is ridiculous. schmidt in apple's board was the ultimate insult.
Probably because they can see what happened with PCs happening again. If they don't fight android with everything they have now then in 5 or 10 years they might not have the chance.
Hang on a sec, if the patents are found valid, and Google etc. are found infringing, then they have s/broken the law/failed make appropriate agreements so that they are then allowed by the owner of the monopoly defined by the claims to use the defined invention, and are now liable to a civil suite from the owner of said patents in order to exercise their exclusive right granted by the ownership of a letters patent/.

s/Breaking the law/Using patented inventnions/ is OK when you're Google, but an abomination if Apple/MS do it I guess? Obviously Google knew the value of the patents, and clearly knew the contents, and if it's found they continued to infringe them, then they're getting what's coming to them. If it were small companies without the resources to discover the patents they might be infringing it'd be a different matter, but this is absolutely not the case here.

Edit: law ain't broked, but Google et al potentially open to exclusion of the use of the inventions defined by the exclusive patent right.
You must be kidding if you think iOS 7 is just aesthetic changes. So Apple iOS engineers took one year leave and left their designer colleges update iOS 6 to new look?
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Actually, Apple was really dumb in this instance. Google bought Android in 2005, Apple brought Eric Schmidt onto it's board in 2006. So, either Apple was hoping to get some insight into what Google was doing with Android and hoping Schmidt might slip up, or they just shouldn't have brought an advisor on who was the CEO of a potentially major competitor. I was always amazed that that happened.

Google Buys Android - 2005 http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-08-16/google-buys-a...

Schmidt Joins Board - 2006 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/08/29Google-CEO-Dr-Eric...
That may be true, but it would be misplaced. I think we should channel our outrage into changing the screwy US patent system so this kind of stuff would become moot.