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> I sure hope so.

It's looking more and more likely. And I agree, if React + Flux/etc becomes the de facto portable standard for the next generation of web and mobile development, we will be in pretty darn good shape. I've only done some tutorial apps and experimental stuff so far, but they're definitely on to something.
While I don't disagree with you, Google is far more benevolent. They'll either stuff your pockets with cash or graciously stamp you underfoot like you weren't even there.
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What's confusing about it? An open-source project gets started...dozens or hundreds of people contribute to make it what it is...then a relative handful go off and sell it, profiting off the hard work of others who never see a dime.

If you got a hundred people together to collaboratively build a mansion, volunteering their time and resources, with the implication that it would be something "open" and jointly built and owned by all...then flipped the house to a private company for $10MM and kept all the proceeds...that would seem a bit unethical, no?
I get reports of voice echoing.
Dissidents need the ability to conduct private conversations to reduce the ability of the government to silence them.

Take the example of the Black Panther Party marching into the California State Capitol with shotguns. Under the laws of the day, it was perfectly legal. There was no intent to break any law. Yet, had the authorities been able to determine that they were planning this, they would have been stopped.

Private communication is essential to the planning of public discourse.
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>I wouldn't think too many as the arrow is pointing up and not down as it would be for expanded comments.

People might think the arrow doesn't indicate the comment thread state ('expanded') but the action that will be performed when clicked ('collapse'), which might also inlude the top-post (that would be consistent with the 0-replies case).
As I noted regarding Oberon, but you'll have a hard time trying to break the cultural bias against GC.
I like it and used it for a while, but ultimately its lack of certain killer apps like Puzzle and Dragons sent me back to iOS.
Well, one of the target of the warrant is also supporting Google here: https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/560575339450347520 https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/560579349460815872
And dealing with young kids, which sometimes is the same as dealing with some founders :)
May be instead of investing they could stop shaking down Android manufacturers with patent trolling? That would be way more useful.
Back in 2010 I was given an HTC Touch Pro 2 that ran the positively ancient Windows Mobile (hence "given"). Someone had ported both Android and Ubuntu to it, and I used it with Android as my primary phone for some months. The hardware was great, the UX on Android was OK, but had enough quirks that it was replaced with an LG P500 (which lasted for 2.5 years; now that was a great phone).
While this is exciting, so far technically this seems fairly straightforward stuff, some defines and defaults (enable avx, disable exceptions) set for the ps4.

I bet the biggest upside is that sony has easier time keeping up with the current llvm, and so devs get recent compiler versions.
This is a very minor investment, and won't give MS any sort of controlling stake. It's very likely that they want to use this to keep a better feel for the pulse of the direction the Android ecosystem is going in than any sort of power play or to adapt technologies.
My HTC 8X is getting pretty long in the tooth but I still like it. I'm still a fan of WP and trying to decide if my next phone will be the HTC M8 Windows variant or the Lumia 1520.
Hey, our team is using React to build STB interfaces. Would love to chat about your experiences, drop me an email? davedx@gmail.com :)
It was always heading in the wrong direction. Something like proper glibc Linux with Wayland is more interesting.
They aren't 'picking it up/buying it'. They're investing and according to the article will be a minority shareholder.
I can't help but think that between this and the Android Visual Studio integration, we might see Android app compatibility on Windows Phone, much like the Blackberry app play a couple years ago.

It would certainly put the jumper cables on Windows Phone.
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What's even more fun is when they get a divorce and remain cofounders.

It gets weird and it gets awkward! Where I'm at, there's clearly a 'his team' and 'her team'.
iOS has the exact same situation for it's notifications framework (essentially, observer pattern).

From what I've seen, consistently across frameworks that support the pattern, that you need to de-register your listener before releasing it from memory.

Pretty funny to think, I'm a "junior" developer and even I know that you have great power, but also responsibility, in the observer pattern.
Neat. I wrote TCL like 10 years ago daily, mostly for different shell scripts and Eggdrop extensions. That was fun…
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Has AMQP changed substantially in two years? For purposes of publishing a simple event?
I've found that logging a bug on the AbiSource bug tracker results in fairly prompt attention and, in the case of the pdf export bug I walked into, a prompt fix.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/abiword/+bug/1262375/

http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13586
Heres a good analogy:

Visa and the banks are the old way of doing things, they are analog. Blockchain technology and Bitcoin are digital.

Years ago when analog signals had no longer been useful and became outdated, it became a law that all signal for television must be broadcast in digital. This was because analog required so much more energy and bandwidth then digital does.

What bitcoin offers is a replacement for all the energy and resources that are poured into money transmitters, banks, credit cards, and even recently wall street. The technology is expensive to run, but not more expensive than all of the above combined.

And to answer the question of transactions per second, the Bitcoin network is endless. The problem isnt how many transactions can you do, the problem is storage. The blockchain currently is 25 GBs of data that must be stored by many nodes. Though not everyone has to have a nod, if many do not and only big companies do, then it can become once again centralized. Even though 25 GBs is not that much, that is with only around 100-200,000 transactions a day in the BTC network. Visa does 2,000 a second alone.

So if the blockchain was to transact 2,000 a second, you are looking at PB hard drives in a year or so. That is the issue to be concerned with. here is a great article for reading on possibly solutions / problems https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
"Portals that mix accounts will be rejected"
Perhaps one situation where spam could be the solution. Notify everyone that contacts your main contact email that all emails received and sent are also copied to some watchdog organization. That way, when your already-in-place system copies an NSA info request, your culpability is lessened. That's my theory for how to deal with this kind of shadiness anyways - infinite sunshine.
So you really mean that Microsoft sold 10 million phones last quarter? Nokia knows how to make dumbphones, nothing new there. That those appear on MS's balance sheet does not imply anything about the capabilities of MS.
I'm usualy really into criticizing french bureaucracy but i must admit i have absolutely no idea what you're talking about... Could you give more details ?
I remind everyone of Brendan Eich.

He donated money to a popular political cause and a few years later, after the political winds have shifted, a leak about this lead to him being forced out of his job.

A lot of people are alright with this because the find Eich's position to be repugnant. Maybe it was but that's not the point.

They need to remember that sometimes, they're not going to agree with the herd and it well could be them on the chopping block.

Ubiquitous surveillance will make future McCarthy-style witch hunts possible and arguably it even makes them likely.
The government silencing protest is the problem there, not a lack of privacy. Dissidents don't have that need if society and government allow free expression.
Vihart and Nicky Case created an interactive way to play with this model that I believe appeared on HN a month or so back: http://ncase.me/polygons/
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Pentatonics is a good idea. Maybe to distinguish in this case you might have a 'blip' type noise go down to the sound of the do block's tone?
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I don't think the matter at hand here is using privacy as a shield, but rather having the ability to voice dissenting opinions because of privacy. Privacy is a means of preventing oppression/coercion against those holding dissenting views. It ensures that those in power do not have the ability to suppress dissenting views, rather than forcing dissenters to use it as a shield. We still have the first amendment, but privacy helps protect it and mitigates the social pressures related to the first amendment.
Yes that's the pre-computer I was talking about. Sophisticated mathematicians should be concerned about if it is machine readable or not. If it's machine readable then you can use whatever font, color, or any other style you want that helps you to read it. The viewer can abbreviate descriptive names to single glyphs if you want.

Programming is much less fun, and harder to follow, without syntax highlighting. But it doesn't follow that we should manually be color coding syntax and variables, or that integers should always be blue. That's essentially the case with the "readability" of mathematics.
Why is it interesting? It's since become clear that Google was not in cahoots with the NSA, just like Drummond said.
> You can't just brute-force your way through problems like you can in most other areas. It takes intuition and understanding that is innate to a few folks and earned through experience by everybody else.

You absolutely can brute force with management. You can always pay people more, or give up some of your equity to someone who will work harder.

> "We did, however, realize (a bit later than we should have) that disappearing from a tiny office too frequently during the day was a bad idea and hurt morale for the rest of the company." There was no way for them to fix this by working harder.

Being present longer and taking fewer breaks is superficially working harder. More abstractly, you can work harder until you make redundant people who complain about coffee breaks, if you so choose.
The U.S. National Vaccine Injury Act is the mechanism in place which protects producers from a litigation.

So yes, this would be the role of the FDA. However, the effectiveness and willingness of the FDA to take such action, not just against vaccines but any drug product, is a subject of much controversy. Just search Vioxx and FDA. That case doesn't present a reassuring view that safety issues are handled in the way you would expect.

Also, the FDA doesn't conduct its own independent testing. They require companies to do the testing and submit the results. It is certainly not the best designed system.
Note that WhisperSystems is actually concerned with the legality, because it's their own necks on the line, and they don't want to put their own neck on the line for something that their own legal counsel says won't work.

While the EFF is . . . well, they don't promise to bail you out of jail and pay all your court costs and go to jail for you. The EFF is an advocacy organization, begging people to believe in magic beans, by telling everyone that magic beans work. If one of them does and finds out it doesn't work, what is the EFF going to do then? Say "I'm sorry" really nicely?

The hired lawyers' viewpoint is easy to see. If the government orders you not to communicate something, then you aren't supposed to communicate that information. Doing it in a really roundabout way is still communicating it.
if you are a certified medical researcher you can request to review the WUs. Many might not produce real results, but in the words of thomas edison:

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
They approach their partners and try to convince them with either cash, marketing, or other benefits to make apps for Windows Runtime and Windows Phone.

Source: They did it at my company
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And if zombies rise from the dead to eat our brains, it would suck if they were able to track me via a GPS tag built into my skull, but even that invasive loss of privacy is obviously not the real problem.
At this point MS hates Google more than Linux/Android. This doesn't surprise me at all.
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Thank you so much for your insightful post and prospective.

I have a question on how you imagine/think. People with eye sigh often think with pictures. Even thinking about abstract things like programming. I often visualize how a data structure looks and how it interacts with other code. I have found it tremendous useful as I can replay/test such scenario in my head.

Do you have similar experience when you think? Do you construct mental picture (such as circle, a binary tree) in your head? What is it like?
Yep! It was tricky to make it performant but I mostly just used chromes performance profiling tool to pinpoint optimization compiler bailouts. A big one was just casting to ints with |0 inside the kernel function.
You're implying that I don't care that Google and Opera are doing it too. That is false.
I used to think that way too when I was in my 20s. High achiever, very smart. Now I'm in my 30s and I can say that my opinion has changed. Not hugely so, but definitely some.

The older you get the more your perception of time changes. I think this is part of the reason that there are so few 20-something leaders of huge companies. Partly it takes time to prove yourself to enough people to get a shot. Partly because it takes a long time to be patient enough to where you can be effective at the job.
If we won't see Microsoft apps and services start popping up in Cyanogen 6 months from now, then I'd agree with you, but I think that's exactly what's going to happen.

Microsoft may not get a "controlling stake", but it will probably have a huge influence in the development of Cyanogen from now on.
That would be very amusing to see.
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I have a couple investors who said they want to invest and will send term-sheet. Now it drags for a couple months and really got to the point that their procrastination is hurting the company.
Is it ok to tell them we need money NOW because burn-rate etc.?
How else can I enforce a deadline for investment?
My Nexus 4 runs like a champ with Lollipop and my hardware is inferior to yours.
Lollipop has its issues(memory leak) but what you describe sounds like LG did a crappy job brining you lollipop
Nails it.
Ah, didn't realize "refresh" was randomizing my prior-chosen settings; thought it should just re-apply those settings to the randomization process.
Possibly. But for me 'social issues' is a bit too vague for comfort.

Very normal, in itself healthy social interaction could bring one to alcoholism for example, and nobody, including the addict, will be aware of the problem for a long time.

I believe a more interesting claim would be to say 'social issues involving a significant other'. It's easy to hide problems of various kinds from your friends; it's much harder to do so with a partner, especially living together.

I'm not saying having such a partner prevents addiction, but I do think that it makes it harder to maintain without ramifications. I suspect a significant part of addicts either lack in a significant other, or have one who suffers from 'compatible' issues.

Personally I've found that partners and flatmates (family or otherwise) are a primary reason for not spiraling into bad habits (or addictions). With friends it's too easy to 'manage' yourself.
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Microsoft still has about 90% desktop market share. In the Office document market, they're even stronger. Microsoft simply came a little late to improving their mobile product, which left the door open for Google, thus missing out in an important new market. Their revenues have constantly increased over the last decade. They have close to $100 billion in cash reserves.

http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Financials...

Microsoft is still an incredibly powerful company.
I dont get this gripe. It's a cross platform tool. Who complains that a hammer is red if the room in the house they're working on is orange ... it's a simple tool _designed_ to function, not designed to integrate seamlessly into a certain environment.

Let me phrase that another way ... is time wasted using it on OSX, are there more windows/buttons that must be pressed to achieve the result on another OS? If not I say the tool is created just fine.

Yes, I know a branch of it is in the works for OSX. But that's like making a website per platform -- HTML5 and CSS should appear similarly everywhere (although rarely 100% the same on every platform).
It all started from Google. One could say that Microsoft hatred is built into DNA of the company.
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That's not useful for a kernel. You can disable garbage collection in go, but go doesn't provide the tools to disable creating garbage entirely. You can get really close to creating zero garbage through profiling and helping the compiler's escape analysis, but afaik the go spec makes no guarantees about stack vs heap allocation.
TL;DR Seeds are usually spread by animals ingesting them in one location and excreting them elsewhere. In that case, how do things with big seeds get dispersed? (what eats and avocado seed?). Answer: Large animals long since gone.

Disclosure: I didn't finish the article. There may be a twist at the end.
no free pricing tier?
Where there is profit there is competition. As a miner years ago, i was able to produce a lot of bitcoins with my GPU setup. When the ASICs came out i tried to compete, but simply did not have the capital. But other people did. And it wasnt just one person, it was a few big companies that did this.

So no longer is the individual able to mine BTC, its now a profession. So if this happened to FLDC, that wouldnt really be a bad thing, because if it is to happen, then that would mean FLDC has gained enough value for someone to pour money into being the top folder. So then the economy of FLDC would be where the general public has the interest and the Folders would simply be a profession.
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Android.

Google builds an AOSP environment, as soon as everyone uses it, they move all the libraries into the proprietary Google Services Framework, and then they appended their contracts so that every manufacturer that produces "Android with Google Play" devices can’t sell pure AOSP devices anymore.
Just FYI, in case it's not well-known, there's now an electronic version of the 2nd edition for Kindle. It's page-scanned (something Amazon used to be picky about because of file size), so the figures are nice and crisp.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz-ebook/dp...
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When I was in my 20s, I would have said the same thing. :) I agree that there are mature 18-year-olds and immature 40-year-olds. I think you're discounting the role of practice, though. Someone with 20 years of experience has spent almost 40,000 hours at work. It's very hard for a 25-year-old to compensate for that no matter how smart they are or how many experiences they've had.

Story time: My grandfather was a soft-spoken old cowboy, but you should have seen him charm and intimidate cattle buyers. At 70 years old, he could hold his own with the slick-talking young buyers because he had gone through that same negotiation 100 times and there was no trick they could pull that he hadn't seen.

Disclaimer: I'm 39.
>no mature libraries for User authentication

"User authentication" can mean 1,000 different things, maybe if you clarify your use case, people can suggest solutions.
I think the new Microsoft is becoming really cool. Now there is one step more to do.

Windows, I would like to see something like the project Spartan, a Windows based on unix.

I'm a dreamer I know but at this point I will not be surprised.
> Personally, I find strict purity more important than expressive modularity. But if anyone could really put them together in a way that worked it'd be great. I'm not so sure such a language exists today, though.

There is Ur, which has both ML-style modules and Haskell-style type classes. It's also pure and strict. And it has advanced type-level programming features and record types. There's a lot to like.

There are a few problems with it, though. It's mostly a one-man project. The compiler is immense, complex and almost entirely devoid of documentation (it's pretty amazing actually, like 1 comment per 1000 lines or so), so contributing is hard. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to use the language for anything but web development: there's no way that I know to execute a program directly, rather than as a sub-program of the ur/web framework. The standard library is tiny and doesn't even include `print`. But even with those warts it has enough good things about it that it's worth checking out.
Maybe not: http://www.yale.edu/leitner/resources/papers/Eggmueller_2011... ("The average investor in Congress underperformed the market by 2-3% annually during this period, a finding that contrasts with earlier research showing uncanny timing in Congressional trades during the 1990s. Members in-
vested disproportionately in local companies and campaign contributors, and these political" investments outperformed the rest of their portfolios (local investments beat the market by 4% annually). Our findings suggest that informational advantages enjoyed by Congressmen as investors arise primarily from their relationships with local companies, and that widespread concerns about
corrupt and self-serving investing behavior in Congress have been misplaced.")
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I wouldn't have thought that the demographic that enjoys Transformers would have much overlap with the demographic that's aware of more than one or two paintings of the old masters.
G3 has a high res screen and under powered GPU to run it.
Frankly go isn't my favorite glue language (and I'm one of the relatively few people who's been doing go full time for a couple years). I currently prefer python for that kind of stuff, or sometimes bash.

However it's certainly possible to use as a glue language. I've talked to some folks at DO who just install go on machines and `go run` scripts.
Why do you say that? I've been at Google for three years, and the only strong negative feeling I've observed towards MSFT was over the Mark Penn campaigns. Even then the response was mostly that the campus store should start selling the ties the Google guy in one of the ads wore, and ironically using "Scroogled" similarly to "Thanks, Obama".
Show HN, version 3.x ..... soooo not "new" ? :)

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