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I suspect the patents were proving to be of less value than Google thought. Combine that with Samsung and other big players investigating other OS's for fear of Google pulling a Microsoft with the Surface. Any way I slice it though, it still sounds like a 10+ billion dollar mistake.
From the article:

>There are scores of fast-food outlets, bakeries and cafes near Main Street, a half-mile away.

Too busy feeling smug to read the god damn article?
Facebook Officially Mobile Ad Firm, 53% Of Ad Revenue From Its 945M Mobile Users
I don't think yankee meant pirate. I'm pretty sure it's an old term with the same meaning as 'wanker'.

However, the Yankees turned it around on the British and owned the term. Classic.

Edit: the actual origin of the word is lost in obscurity. There are lots of theories.
(healthcare costs being the biggest reason for personal bankruptcy)

This is interesting. Is this true?

I apologize if it sounded like I was complaining. I only meant I chose this life. How is it reasonable for me to choose this, and then force other people to pay for me?

The other alternative is that I should feel like a shitty human for choosing not to maximize my earning potential and getting myself into this position in the first place. But part of having freedom of choice is the freedom to choose poorly. It's my own life, a life I'm not burdening others with. If I break my arm, can't afford to pay for it, and then become bankrupt as a result, then I have suffered a personal penalty which society will remember and will punish me for. And while I may have temporarily burdened others by not being able to pay for my emergency care, I've still been penalized as a result, which seems quite fair. Whereas taking a handout to cover the same expense feels like I got something for nothing.

I admit that there are some good arguments in this thread, though, so perhaps I should reevaluate my moral perspectives. But it's extremely difficult for me to become comfortable with the idea of encroaching on other people's lives by force.
I wonder if I should be in a hurry to buy a Moto G now as a test device and secondary phone? I'm not sure how good Lenovo's cell phones are.
Article says it includes "certain patents".
root shell, plus rm with any sort of wildcard matching, plus a bit too much of a delay before you get your shell prompt back results in a very specific kind of panicked anxiety that almost anyone who has been programming or sysadmining for a while can easily relate to.
I'm trying to figure out why a VC, who has a very high cost of equity, invests in this type of business rather than the more "traditional" PE growth fund... or if revenue/cash flow growth is so high... why not go the debt financing route.

Anybody has any insight?
A good way to learn asm is through books but there are not many for current architectures (especially x64, except the official Intel manuals which are quite good but also hard to read). Nevertheless, there are some on ARM which I can recommend, namely: ARM System Developer's Guide by Sloss, Symes and Wright. ARM Assembly Language by Hohl. ARM SoC Architecture by Furber.

IDA Pro is the industry standard for reverse engineering but it also is expensive (like USD $2k). There is a free version but it doesn't offer 64bit, so not really an option for modern ObjC or Intel computers. As you've mentioned ObjC chances are you work on OS X. IDA pro is not working well on OS X (the recommended way is to use the Windows version via virtualbox and not the OS X version). Still, Hopper.app is a great alternative on OS X. Not as good as IDA, but it has a Python interface, GDB support, and decompile support for ARM, Intel (and some knowledge regarding Objc). And it's only ~USD$100. [There is also a Windows version of hopper.app but it seems not yet ready to use, as I've only heard bad things about it there so far.]
> "By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded in it."

Still could happen. (checks calendar...) Nevermind, then.
One big experiment by Google to cheaply increase worldwide mobile connectivity and subsequent ad dollars.
The impact of early parenting bonding on young adults' Internet addiction, through the mediation effects of negative relating to others and sadness

Paywalled article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030646031...

Abstract:

The aim of the present study is the investigation of the potential role of negative relating to others, perceived loneliness, sadness, and anxiety, as mediators of the association between early parental bonding and adult Internet Addiction (IA). The factorial structure of the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and the prevalence rates of it in a Greek sample will also be investigated. A total of 774 participants were recruited from a Technological Education Institute (mean age = 20.2, SD = 2.8) and from high school technical schools (mean age = 19.9, SD = 7.4). The IAT was used to measure the degree of problematic Internet use behaviors; the Parental Bonding Instrument was used to assess one's recalled parenting experiences during the first 16 years of life; the shortened Person's Relating to Others Questionnaire was used to assess one's negative (i.e. maladaptive) relating to others (NRO). Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the three-factor structure of the IAT. Only 1.0% of the sample was severely addicted to the Internet. The mediated effects of only the NRO and sadness were confirmed. Negative relating to others was found to fully mediate the effect of both the father's optimal parenting and affectionless control on IA, whereas sadness was found to fully mediate the effect of the mother's optimal parenting on IA. Overall, the results suggest that parenting style has an indirect impact on IA, through the mediating role of negative relating to others or sadness in later life. Both family-based and individual-based prevention and intervention efforts may reduce the incidence of IA.
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As a French citizen who has visited UK and Germany, I prefer the pragmatic data-based discourse I see in European countries. It's still bullshit but at least it doesn't like it and all the promises are verifiable. I'm not particularly fond of Obama's "I ask rich people to give a bit of money to the poor" and hope that's sufficient. Hope...
I have to agree on that statement regarding Mr. Morris. He is an intelligent individual, and a competent programmer, but unfortunately he has demonstrated himself to be quite rude and unaccepting toward those who do not share his exact viewpoints. Just take a look at his postings on Twitter to see what I mean. The advice that he offers to people who are new to functional programming is quite difficult to comprehend, and he harshly derides people when they use the "wrong" approach to a problem. I am concerned that some of the snarky things that he has said in the past has impacted the community.

However, I feel sorry for him, as he has been in great pain for quite a long time and I do hope that he gets better. It is easy to lose self-control when you are under stress like that.
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An analogy like that can be used in many ways. Here is my version:

professional = I have to eat you (not want)

nice = I am sorry (being nice is not only about helping)

professional + nice = I have to eat you and I am sorry.
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The same thing Lenovo got from buying IBM's PC and now server businesses. Instant inroads into a foreign market. I mean, Lenovo went from a brand no one had ever heard of to the worlds largest PC maker in a decade or so. They're pretty awesome at squeezing money out of low margin businesses and creating some pretty high quality products (their own branded smartphones are pretty awesome looking, wish they sold in Canada).
You're just being snarky and not actually playing a game of semantics, right? Patent that progresses the arts vs. patent that makes money, regulation tries to make these ideas correlate as much as possible but there are flaws.
WRT the patents, it depends on the details of the sale, and how/why Google valued them. Speculation was that one reason Google bought Motorola was to keep someone else from getting the patents and being able to use the patents against Google. If that was responsible for a large portion of the valuation, that might still be retained in a sale to Lenovo, depending on how precisely the sale is structured. It's fairly common in patent sales to include terms protecting the seller, so Lenovo would likely not be able to turn around and sue Google with the just-purchased patents. If so, Google would still retain the portion of the patents' value relating to them not being in the hands of someone who can sue Google using them.
I was testing disaster recovery for the database cluster I was managing. Spun up new instances on AWS, pulled down production data, created various disasters, tested recovery.

Surprisingly it all seemed to work well. These disaster recovery steps weren't heavily tested before. Brilliant! I went to shut down the AWS instances. Kill DB group. Wait. Wait... The DB group? Wasn't it DB-test group...

I'd just killed all the production databases. And the streaming replicas. And... everything... All at the busiest time of day for our site.

Panic arose in my chest. Eyes glazed over. It's one thing to test disaster recovery when it doesn't matter, but when it suddenly does matter... I turned to the disaster recovery code I'd just been testing. I was reasonably sure it all worked... Reasonably...

Less than five minutes later, I'd spun up a brand new database cluster. The only loss was a minute or two of user transactions, which for our site wasn't too problematic.

My friends joked later that at least we now knew for sure that disaster recovery worked in production...

Lesson: When testing disaster recovery, ensure you're not actually creating a disaster in production.
> Fortuitously, AR didn't have all that many customers at the time, so only 15 or so people were affected. Less than fortuitously, those 15 folks had 10 to 100 messages queued, each.

Excuse me for caviling at your post, but "fortuitously" is a synonym for "accidentally", not "fortunately".
This is definitely something I value about working in finance. Exchanges (the ones we're caring about anyway) are all closed over the weekends.
>Perhaps it's an inherent property of capitalism: some things always end up barely within reach of a lower class.

I wouldn't say that's true, we just need to figure out ways to produce those things cheaply enough (through automation, other technologies) that everyone can enjoy them. Take a look at agriculture in the US...even the poorest people here have access to (not very healthy) food whereas just under 100 years ago many were starving in the Great Depression. This is because agricultural technology has led us to an abundance of cheap food that everyone can afford at some level or another.
I am guessing market share for mobiles in the US is their first target. It would certainly give them an enormous kick start into the market. It looks like a similar strategy when bought the laptop business from IBM.
From the Lenovo perspective, this would be two very large acquisitions in a short span of time. Very interested to see what they do with this...
The primary value that I've experienced is that I can run the same code -- as in the same version of a library -- as part of a CLI app and as part of an interactive JS web app.
I'm not a huge fan of Android, but I had hoped that Google would use Motorola to take a holistic approach to security similar to what Apple can do. This would have been a serious pain for both the NSA and the PLA, but instead they are selling the whole business to the PLA.
Makes me wonder how this affects their recent patent pact with Samsung -- now that they have Samsung as a form of support, they no longer need Motorola Mobility?

Perhaps a patent pact with Motorola Mobility would've been better than buying them outright?
As does Rackspace, even with their manage server services. More times than not when I go to Rackspace Chat to speak with someone, there is a bit of troubleshooting but then a ticket needs to be opened and response time is usually 4-6 hours. Not ideal at all.
It's a long site so I'd just like to highlight the following:

"The data extracted - your Primary Care Dataset - will include the following:

Your NHS number
Your date of birth
Your postcode
Your gender and ethnicity
Your medical diagnoses (including cancer and mental health) and any complications
Your referrals to specialists
Your prescriptions
Your family history
Your vaccinations and screening tests
Your blood test results
Your body mass index (height/weight)
Your smoking/alcohol habits"

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Go to that site. Opt out here http://optout.care-data.info/. It's really simple.
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So, ignore the async arguments, because everybody else (mostly) can do that too.

The things I like about it are NPM, which is the package manager and is quite handy--maybe a bit better than bundler for what it does.

Writing extensions in C/C++ is not hard to do.

Extending node with your own Javascript code and bundling that as a library for others is not hard at all (see NPM).

It actually runs on Windows with a minimum of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

You can do remote debugging of a server with some sanity.

It plays with messaging libraries (zmq, sockjs, etc.) very well.

Grunt is awesome for running tests and not being makefiles.

There is a pretty cool LDAP client/server library available for it.

~

That said, there are some things that bug me.

Javascript has some nasty edges, and anything you don't like about Javascript won't go away with node.

Async callback spaghetti hell will happen unless you use something like promises via Q, and it will suck.

It's a young platform, and nobody quite seems to have Rails or CodeIgniter or whatever for Node yet--too many contenders currently.

There is no standard ORM yet, and has the same issues as above: many choices, no winners.

Node devs can be derpy sometimes (usually around threading, fibers, rediscovering basic principles of operating systems engineering, etc.) It's a loveable derpiness though.

Express (a pretty standard Sinatra-like web server for node) can die in a fire: its docs are bad and the devs should feel bad (and it's soon to be abandoned, it looks like, as there is yet another new shiny incarnation of it on the way.).

~

It is quite good at prototyping at hackathons, though.
I see 'certain patents'. I don't see a reason to read a number out of that.
It doesn't really solve anything, but I've done bright blue prompts for staging, red for production, and green for development.
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I would temper the suggestion to use Glacier with a warning: make sure you thoroughly understand the pricing structure. If you don't read the details about retrieval fees in the FAQ, it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot and run up a bill that's vastly higher than necessary. You get charged based on the peak retrieval rate, not just the total amount you retrieve. Details here: http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/

For example, suppose you have 1TB of data in Glacier, and you need to restore a 100GB backup file. If you have the luxury of spreading out the retrieval in small chunks over a week, you only pay about $4. But if you request it all at once, the charge is more like $175.

In the worst case, you might have a single multi-terabyte archive and ask for it to be retrieved in a single chunk. I've never been foolhardy enough to test this, but according to the docs, Amazon will happily bill you tens of thousands of dollars for that single HTTP request.
What is identity assurance?
Is this really that bad? IANAMechanic, but if the coolant system is sealed, shouldn't the gas just work similar to antifreeze?
It makes me wonder how this will affect Google management's willingness to make additional attempts in hardware. For example, will they still push Google Glass? As you suggest, Google TV? Further out, they seem to be pursuing things like autonomous vehicles -- perhaps this could motivate them to limit their ambitions to the software/AI aspects of it.
Yeah, I can't even parse that discussion. Jumping in mid-thread didn't help.
Most likely cross license with Google staying as the owner of the patents.
thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4618808
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Wasn't there some story about how Motorola represented billions of dollars tax savings from deferred tax credits? Is it potentially possible to sell the rest of the business while keeping those?
I would wager that it means a ton of these patents arent useful anymore.. the stuff coming out of google X will pretty much make these old patents kinda uselesss.

Even the very nature of the cell phone is rapidly changing and Google Glass is a useless halfstep with contacts coming right around the corner which will be the real hardware killer.
A year off and the name is different, but Chromecast has redefined the way I think about 'Smart TVs' and HTPCs.

Google's long game still looks good in this area, IMO.
Never EVER trust a recruiter. Years ago I got an email from a recruiter about a job after I submitted my resume. The position was a Novell admin. On my resume, there was NOTHING about Novell.

IMO it's a complete waste of time.
Poor people don't have the credit to get credit cards, so they go to Green Dot and get charged exorbinant [sic] amounts of money. His business is one of the heaviest into the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.

This is a bit unfair to Green Dot. First of all I don't think their fees are that high. Secondly it's not their fault that most merchants and services expect everyone to have a bank account and nineteen credit cards. That didn't used to be the case, and eliminating credit cards would do much more to help the poor than eliminating Green Dot.
I'm not sure they should even be allowed to bet against their clients, because it gives them all sorts of perverse incentives.

You have to consider that when an investment bank sells you a structured product it then naturally has the opposite position. If you want something that pays off if interest rates rise, an investment bank can sell you something like that in the form of an interest rate swap. You are now long interest rates and the bank is short them, but there wasn't anything malicious there. The bank just sold you the product you wanted. Now the bank has to hedge somehow or sell the swap on to someone who wants to be short interest rates. It may have clients that are interested in that sort of exposure.

I'm not trying to defend Goldman here, but when people say things like "banks are betting against their clients" it usually shows a misunderstanding of the business.
Agreed. Windows costs a fraction of a single admin's monthly salary - cheap at twice the price - and comes with a selection of fast to install powerful software with built in GUIs for customizing it.
Lesson 1 rings a mad bell. I distinctively remember a text from a colleague saying "yeah, I'm never launching anything on a Friday".

As a general rule, the best time to launch is first thing on a Tuesday. Why Tuesday morning? We are also well aware of "Monday morning madness" too - pre-planning stress for Monday morning is akin to masochism.
As long as you're cool with bleeding to death on the steps of the emergency room

And exactly how common of an occurrence is that in the United States? Yes, one can bemoan the lack of preventative medicine and proper follow-ups, but if you show up at the E.R. of most American hospitals with a life-threatening condition, you're going to get treated regardless of how much you can pay.

If we're going to properly fight the problem, hyperbole needs to go out the window.
Really.. have you met PHP and ColdFusion developers?
I did see that. I read the first article too. What these seniors would require for an adequate "disruption" would be:

<= 2 blocks from home

Bathroom facilities

Enough room for tables and chairs to accommodate ~5-15 people

Free or close to it

Completely enclosed, some form of A/C preferred

All that in a high density/high land value urban area. Like the old song goes, something's gotta give.
I don't know how anyone can see selling off a company for $9.5 billion less than you paid for it two years ago as a "smart move". It is prudent to get rid of Motorola now before it eats up even more cash, but the smart thing would have been to never buy the company in the first place.
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In a lot of cases your AWS account being compromised is going to open you up to having any encryption keys you use for GPG encryption stolen too anyway. So it seems that there's a decent chance that even GPG encryption is just protecting you from the "disks stolen from the datacenter" risk.

At the end of the day your AWS account is often the "master key", so make sure you use a good password, rotate it, and 2-factor auth.
> then it would be unfair for me to ask my countrymen to foot the bill.

That's in your head. Realistically it's in everybody's interest to keep their countrymen happy.
I agree that it is a fairly large difference in number, but I still think that trumpeting on about it distracts from the primary discussion.

At best, this is all speculation. 7-8 years is the time before Chelsea Manning becomes eligible for parole. Whether or not she is actually released will depend on a number of factors, including the political climate at the time. We'll only really find out around 2021.

Finally, and this is something I touched on in my first comment, even 7 years in a federal prison is nothing to sneeze at. A non-trivial amount of time spent on federal probation after release isn't exactly going to be a cakewalk, either. And this is all on top of the time already spent in the military justice system, including almost a year of solitary confinement. Basically, I'm just asking that we don't downplay what must be an awful experience simply because our justice system has wiggle room.
I was so close to buying one, I'm going to have to hold off now.
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With Amazon Redshift SSD, querying a TB of data took less than 10 seconds
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With a bunch of big investors they certainly have enough hype to give it a shot.
I think that C# copied Java and did a better job.
Move everyone to standing desks and cut out the costs of chairs. I'm not joking. I've been using one for over a year and I can't bear to sit for long periods of time at work any more.
> ... and my new cluster goes live day after tomorrow.

On a Friday? :-)
He did, at least euphemistically. Right after the very first mention of natural gas he said "if extracted safely".

That's about as far as he is going to go if he isn't going to say 'no more fracking'.
And add the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" as the backing music.
You may be overestimating a lot of googlers
2 factor auth anywhere that matters. Google and Amazon for me. It is occasionally annoying, but worth it.
> What's crazy is that the US is an "at will" employment law.

I live in an "at will" state and it hasn't been a problem. I believe in freedom of association.
>the stuff coming out of google X will pretty much make these old patents kinda uselesss.

Why would the stuff coming out of Google X make patents related to cellphones useless?
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It's expected in Q1, they tweeted a picture of a large shipment of hardware last week.
Yeah, Chromecast is pretty amazing. I bought one and everyone in my family who has been over to see it has purchased one as well.