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Doubt it. It is the market share of MS Windows, not MSIE, that makes tying a legally questionable practice.

There are opt-out email alerts, and you can also invite people without G+ profiles to the event. The advantages over an email list can be convenience for the sender, the look of the invitation, and additional features for those who have G+ profiles.

SMS among kids would also qualify, at least in Europe (took off later in the US for some reason).

Exponential growth.

Any chance the team will stick together and recreate Troll Tech? Kind of like the Ximian/Mono team formed Xamarin after being fired from Novel?

And, thanks to scale, that some of the clusters corresponds to high level concepts. According to the article, earlier attempts have mostly resulted in low level concepts like "edge" or "blob" to be detected.

Also, it was (again, from the article) plausible but not a given that high level concepts could be found from unlabeled data.

That "cat" is one of the high level concept you get from using random Youtube videos as raw data is both impressive, and slightly amusing.

This is Microsoft's third or fourth attempt on a tablet PC, the earlier attempts all pre-date Apple's creation of the market.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XP_Tablet_PC_Edition#Tablet_PC_...

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

Depends on who "someone" is, what the "newspaper" is, and what was said with "said so".

In this case "someone" is a double Pulitzer Prize winner, and what was said was something of a nature that means the editor in any reputable newspaper will demand hard evidence, i.e. he will have the names of all the sources, and confirmed with at least some of them. If the story is a fraud (possible, look up Jayson Blair), the editor would have to be in on it, and it would be a larger scandal than the story itself, which really just confirms what everybody already suspected.

The story is as good as investigative journalism gets.

And yes, reputation matters a lot in journalism. Jayson Blair is a life coach today.

Unless David E. Sanger is a new Jayson Blair, I'd say the connection is confirmed, not just suspected. There are no weasel words in the article, meaning both the journalist, his editor, and NYT are putting their reputation at stake. This is as strong as a newspaper story gets.

Apple is currently suing all the major Android makers, including Motorola.

Best case scenario: Googles new weapons will lead to a series of broad cross-license agreements, which will end the mobile patent wars.

Is that where they say that Facebook contact information may be exported to yahoo and hotmail, but not to gmail?

I don't see it as a jab, but a helpful reminder. At least, personally I often find myself starting to compose a funny reply that would be fine for reddit, before remembering that this is Hacker News with different standards. Like many others, I'm active both places, and don't want to dilute the difference.

Or uses Android.

Maybe not, but I could see a lot of PC Gamers be willing to boot into SteamOS, if the right games were available.

Not the only reason: http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Linux-users-contribute-twice...

Linux users seem (or seemed in 2010) to have money to burn on games (and charity).

I like the TOS for this site: http://ycombinator.com/legal.html

I think they are just trying to influence the spin right now. Try to give the less imaginative (or too imaginative) journalists something to write.

The "firestorm of interest" can wait until they actually have a product.

GCC already has 4 other 16-bit backends (e.g. pdp11), so it should be achievable.

The revision history go back almost that long (November 1988): https://www.ohloh.net/p/gcc/analyses/latest

More specifically, it most likely refers to this discussion:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_frm/thre...

Linus was a kid in 1992, and got scolded by one of the greatest icons of the field. That could still sting 20 years later.

There are two problms with type-[0] comments. 1) They lead to type-[1] comments. 2) Humor posts are too easy to upvote, and can drown insightful or informative posts.

Disclaimer: I posted on of the [0] comments, and came back here to apologize when I saw how many upvotes it got.

Gopher is already too well established.

Apple and Motorola is suing each other. The 2.25% claim against Apple is from Motorola. Google has stated that they do not intend to drop it. Even if Google were unselfish angels, dropping their claim without getting a cross license agreement first would be plain silly.

A judge did rule that Microsoft could not bundle IE with Windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

Microsoft would have been split into two if the DOJ had not interfered.

Some of the alleged business practices of United Fruit (Chiquita), De Beers, Monsanto, and APOC (BP) have been comic book levels of evil.

I agree in general, but this one (stifling competition by illegal methods) happens to be within my particular corporate evilness threshold. Unlike every previous evil Google has been accused of.

The problem with a word like evil is that it is so subjective. For some, obeying repressive laws in China would be the ultimate evil Google has committed. Using Google's own definition of evil, using the entire right side of the search results for self-advertising could be seen as evil.

However, ultimately I agree. Since evil is so subjective, very little information is provided by calling out Google in particular for being evil and thus hypocritical.

Condemning all the involved companies equally would make more sense.

(But I can't help feeling more disappointed Google was part of this).

Actually, COPPA is formulated in a way so that the nationality of the kid doesn't matter, only the nationality of the company.

I hate this "anglo-saxon" meme. The head of Google+ has an Indian name. His boss has a Russian name. And Google+ seems to be going strong in Asia, with names like สมนึกน้อย or 盧小小.

Could you please write "unconventional" instead?

There are good and coherent arguments for allowing anonymity and strong pseudonyms, but the accusations of racism and sexism are definitely not among them.

This ... doesn't help. Especially right now.

If I worked PR for SOPA/PIPA, I'd try to associate the anti-SOPA/PIPA movement with Anonymous. Let's see: Megaupload is a foreign website being taken down. SOPA is about taking foreign websites down. Anonymous responds with vandalism as a result of Megaupload being taken down. Therefore, anyone opposing SOPA are criminal vandals. Yep, that logic should be strong enough for the American public.