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Unfortunately for companies moving beyond the PC, the genie is out of the bottle already.

Phones have been historically locked down by carriers. Taking a look at the alternatives from just 5 years ago, the iPhone looks pretty damn open. And there is a reason for that, and why consumers didn't care.

Consumers are used to phones being locked, but consumers are also used to doing whatever they want with the computers they've bought. And funny thing - this wasn't always the case. IBM-compatible PCs that you could extend with ISA cards, assemble your own, coming bundled with MS-DOS / Windows - weren't the first PCs available. Even Apple came after Atari. And those home computers back in those day were pretty locked.

What changed the scene is the simple fact that software is so much bigger and more profitable than hardware; and there are many forces in the market that want hardware to be an unlocked and cheap complementary to software. You can see that playing right now with the battle between Android / WinMo 7 / iOS / Blackberry.

That's the biggest reason why Microsoft won in the 90's - not only over Apple, but also over IBM's OS/2 - they made no discrimination when it came to hardware, they ensured backwards-compatibility for third-party software at all costs, they kept the SDK free of charge. Compared to IBM's OS/2 ; Windows was a piece of shit ... but it ran fine on 286 processors and was compatible with everything you wanted.

My phone has at least ten times the horsepower of my first computer. I had no expectations out of my Nokia 3310; as I only expected it to make phone calls.

Bottom line - computing doesn't move beyond the PC, but towards the PC.

And Apple is increasingly becoming aggressive because they'd like to keep the grip they have right now, but they also realize that they cannot do it. Want to bet that they'll lose costumers to Android if for example Kindle for iOS is shut down?
That's right because us hackers really care about fitness
> I think the best thing to do is merge as many departments as possible

Isn't that pretty much what the Department of Homeland Security is? ICE, Customs, TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, the SS and a few others under one umbrella? Doesn't look like it actually made anything better.
> defines the category and the expectations of the users

It's stunning how long that has been true. The modern desktop OS is patterned after the Macintosh, modern laptops all use the form factor introduced by the Powerbook 100s, and now all the best phones are made to look like an iPhone.
Is this sarcasm that hackers don't like being healthy or a kind of pun about AI algorithms?
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You can use it the other way. It's a little more awkward, though. Go to the github page: https://github.com/schacon/hg-git and scroll to the very bottom. Read the section on the "git.intree" option. After setting that to True, you can pull from a remote hg repo into your local git repo by doing "hg pull" (or "hg clone") followed by "hg gexport". Then do some work in git. Afterward, you can push from your git repo to a remote hg repo by doing "hg gimport" and then "hg push". You may wish to write git command wrappers git-hgpull and git-hgpush to automate those tasks.

I should note that I haven't actually done this myself.
These links to auto-printing pages are unacceptable. Link me to the normal display article in these cases. I'll take it from there.
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When they did make a tablet OS 10 years ago, nobody wanted it. They have a lot of things to unlearn. It's gotta take some time.
I wouldn't trust CrunchBase for reliable trend data because its coverage over time is unlikely to be consistent. But, a similar analysis based on legally-required (and thus comprehensive) SEC Form Ds might give stronger insight.

At least two Form-D watching services have been mentioned previously on HN:

http://stealthmodewatch.com

http://www.formds.com

Though, I think they're relying on easier electronic access that may not go back more than a few years.
Sure, well any conclusions in the absence of valuation or revenue data seem moot to me.
> Did I miss the part where iOS obtained 95% mobile OS market share?

That depends on whether or not you believe what Steve said in the keynote about having over 90% of the tablet market.
The difference from smartphones is that carriers are pushing Android. It's a free OS they have total control over, unlike the Apple-controlled iOS. Tablets aren't phones and must stand on their own as legitimate appliance computers. Apple has proven before that it can win that kind of battle--the iPod has been the dominant MP3 player for almost a decade.
I get the logic and intent behind these kind of articles but at the same time they infuriate me, because this is the kind of crap that people read and use as yet-another-reason as to why they don't try to get fit.

Sure, machines aren't perfect, and they railroad your form, but it's better than nothing. I train on machines, _and_ with free weight, _and_ doing bodyweight / crossfit stuff. They all have their place.

There's no way I'd try to pull the rep max on a free barbell that I would on a smith machine, but it says nothing about how effective one or the other is.

It's like the whole internet self defense huff. A billion words written on the technicalities of all the different martial arts but most fights are won by punching the other guy repeatedly hard enough to stop him hitting you. Sure it's not perfect, but its taking action and it gets results.
Hmm, I had read that assuming they were talking about an IP address, but I may have misread it. I think you can put your physical address in somewhere in your Gmail account, but it's not required and I might be misremembering.
OK, point taken.

The misquote thing is interesting. It causes (rightfully, I guess) a lot of noise, but to be fair: Jobs is not the author of misquote IIRC, and then we don't know if that version of the quote is a lie, Samsung does not give the numbers.
Choosing to quote incorrect version over the "smooth" version knowingly is indeed fishy, no matter the factual accuracy.
for now an average user would be silly to buy a Xoom and only have blown up phone apps

"Blown up phone apps" are much better on Android than the pixel doubling that the iPad does for iPhone apps. Android apps aren't hardcoded for a specific resolution, so most of them work well on tablets even without being specifically designed to.
Just for context: At that point, Apple’s iPad 3 will have been shipping for nearly six months as will second generation Android and WebOS tablets.

To their credit, Microsoft is getting faster (it took them more than three years to ship Windows Phone 7 after the introduction of the iPhone, they might need one year less to ship a tablet OS).
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The article's conclusion: Lift big with classic lifts. Gain strength.

What I actually do: Take walks and do isometrics on convenient bars, poles, etc. Max power, 5-10 second holds, multiple angles. The better I am about those rules, the more progress I make. More effective than any gym I've ever been in.
As it happens it's a pretty popular subject. Hacker Diet (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/) is a book written by Autodesk's Founder, there's a pretty active corner at Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/fitness), and this is definitely not the first post on the subject I've seen on HN.
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Prisoners are among the most fit people in the world, despite an absence of good machines, good diet, coaches, and instructional material.

If you want to be fit, start exercising--a nice way to get started is to truly understand that any kind of exercise is very much better than doing nothing.
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Even though this research was funded by Microsoft, they don't seem to actually be saying what the edited headline here is claiming.

Instead they bust "myths" like open source programmers not often being employed/paid to do the work, or businesses using both open source and proprietary software together.

All very boring, but I suppose someone has to put in the legwork to confirm what anyone paying attention knows in some academicly respectable manner.
"Guess what, you can do that with a 386 laptop from 1995. Apple's success comes from convincing people, through marketing, that they want to do that on an iPad and not on something else."

Ah, the old meme that people are just brainwashed by marketing into being happy with their Apple products, complete with made-up "95%" statistics.
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Classic Indian VC Behaviour:

"If you get a call from a VC analyst, saying "we just learned about you through...and think you fit well with our firm...would like to schedule an investor presentation..." This will go nowhere. The analyst is boning up on info, and they will suck your brain dry. They have no intentions of investing."
There was also a time you did not need a government issued ID to get on a plane. That also changed, for obvious reasons, but not necessarily good ones. Fear of the unknown is not equivalent to rationality.

The worst government policies are those where "concerned mother" (= Democrat) and "stern dad" (= Republican) stand shoulder to shoulder to protect you from yourself. Millions of people are in regular contact with that sort of "stern + concerned" thing in the form of the TSA, but other agencies are no less Kafkaesque (more so in fact given that they are operating in comparative darkness).

You can stand on a street corner and call yourself a programmer willing to work for $5. Or for zero. That doesn't mean that GE will hire you to write the code for their next X-ray machine. Distributed intelligence is much smarter, and centralized evaluation much dumber, than many believe.
This.

This is why it's smart to be a technology company first. It worked like crazy for Bell Labs for generations.
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How much web browser can you put in 128 lines of code?
but it's what spacesuits are made of :)
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Hmm... is it perhaps because one may require more resources to develop and support the an app across multiple Android platforms than to do the equivalent for iOS?

Just a thought...
They didn't make a tablet OS - they just added a wacom pen digitizer to some laptops instead of a mouse.

And before you flame me for being anti-whatever, I developed software commercially as a contractor for HP for 'windows for pen' in 1993, and owned and liked 2 Tablet PCs during 2002-2006, so I have a pretty clear idea of what they were.
When it comes to lifting the only real "fact" is that what works best varies from person to person. People with great genetics can do heavy volume lifting 5 or 6 days a week and make amazing gains. Meanwhile, others will struggle to make any progress even with a low volume 2 day a week routine because their body doesn't recover well.

Just go out there, experiment and see what works for you.
I truly hope you're right.

(Nitpick: I'm aware IBM compatibles weren't the first PCs available. Before them came, among others, the Apple II and the Commodore - both of which came with full schematics in the back of the manual. That's openness if you ask me.)
Where are you getting your marketshare figures?

It's no surprise that Android phones have numbers. They're on multiple carriers compared to just one (now two). Tablets don't have carriers backing them like that--they must stand on their own.

Apple fought off "iPod killers" for 10 years, so they've proven they know how to keep a lead. I think there's a lot of wishful thinking from some people wanting Apple to fall. For some reason, Apple's constant success antagonizes them.
All they did was to add another layer of bureaucracy over the top of existing departments, as I understand it. Ideally, they would eliminate redundancies post-merger, but this is government we're talking about.

If we coded the way the government governs, we'd never be able to remove bad code, we'd have to continually add more and more complicated code to fix the existing bugs and source control would also be an anathema, in particular because of the 'blame' command.
The data is useful, but not in a way you used it.

I don't think you did a good job of disclosing or the problems that might lie in the data.

Since I've been following crunchbase both from the data perspective and from the perspective of how much resources TechCrunch is devoting to it, I can assure you it varies wildly.

Also the editorial policy has changed a lot in that period, in about 2007/2008 they started putting much more emphasis on international start-ups. So there are specific skews that you should be aware of and disclose them in the blog post.

So I think you did a nice job, but conclusions are not to be trusted at tall. Yes it might be the most well-maintained open data out there, but it does not make it in any more useful for this kind of analysis.
Staying with C and its forty-year-old performance tradeoffs was a missed opportunity to make something more reliable. I admire the author's ambition, though.
A sign that the Apple fatigue is about to set in for consumers?
I've never met a successful person who was an unmotivated lardass. Probably close to 2/3rds of the people who I've worked with that are in the top of their fields are crazy about cycling, marital arts, running, etc.

It just takes too much energy to go hard enough to achieve big things, I wouldn't even consider it practical if you don't have some degree of physical fitness.
I love chatting with website visitors too, but Olark couldn't handle it. I have around 150 concurrent visitors on my sites during the day. Olark would silently limit the XMPP bots to 25 or 30 people (I found out about that after e-mailing them, it's now mentioned on their pricing page), and get confused and either send me messages from the same person through multiple chat bots or repeat messages that were sent over and over.

I've switched to SnapEngage after doing a live chat with Noah at AppSumo using their widget on that site and love it so far. Rather than try to assign a bot to every visitor currently on my sites, they seem to only assign a bot when a chat is initiated, which works great.
I recently started on "starting strength" & I'm seeing that exact same linear progression. It's really awesome.
I'm not sure why this would get downvoted. As a middle class white male in my major I was ineligible for a great many scholarships at my state university, and I was ineligible for most of the remaining ones because I had attended a concurrent high school and college program that did not publish class rank or inflate GPAs well beyond 4.0 as is common practice in normal high schools. As a result I could not get scholarships that required "(X on SAT or Y on ACT) and (Z GPA in high school or W percentile in high school) and *," in spite of my 800/710 SAT and 3.8+ GPA at the concurrent high school and college program.
If this is the case then any Microsoft tablet is going to be instantly Zuneified. While they may be attractive to some consumers, it's too little too late.
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Some hackers still need to learn to put two and two together.

That is to say, fitness + good eating = many years of happy hacking
This reminds me of HP which has both consumer and enterprise products under it's umbella, particularly since the acquisition of Palm.
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There's no way I'd try to pull the rep max on a free barbell that I would on a smith machine

Why not? So long as you're not being stupid, a spotter and/or the safeties built into the cage/rack or bench should do fine.
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Octopart is the YC website I use the most. In addition to current revenues, I'd suggest there's an opportunity to build a marketplace for parts too. I'm often looking for parts online to buy that simply are not available or require custom manufacturing. An alternative to eBay and other consumer marketplaces for parts, components etc. Generally anything B2B/B2B2C is under-served in comparison to B2C.
So I just checked out ICE's website (http://www.ice.gov/about/offices/homeland-security-investiga...) and I have absolutely no idea why a domestic copyright violation case would fall within their jurisdiction. Any ideas how they twist this to fit in their "mission"?
Congrats, guys! I'm really happy for you. It's been amazing to see how you guys have kicked ass over the past two years.

I'm still got that $40 waiting for you to fix my email problem, though. :)
China reformed its communistic system and embraced
capitalism toward the late 70s.

As someone claiming to be countering something 'shockingly untrue, intellectually dishonest and utterly asinine': take a look in a mirror please. China has never 'embraced capitalism toward the late 70s'. That's a PR ploy. On the one hand, the trivial 'free internal markets' have always been there, as much as they have always existed in Cuba. A complete lack of internal markets has never been implemented anywhere, except for perhaps North-Korea.

On the other hand, for a vast majority of purposes, there are still no free internal markets in China. You can't just start a company manufacturing bicycles and expect to sell them: the government still tightly controls who is allowed to do what and when. Whether you call it a communism, an oligarchy or even a dictatorship doesn't matter: that's not embracing capitalism. At most they've acknowledged how capitalism effectively rules the international markets and gone effectively along with the flow. Internally, there's a far cry from free markets.

Ascribing China's growth to 'embracing capitalist principles' is just wishful thinking from people that think capitalism is the source of all good things. If anything is responsible, it's the fact that a well-informed leadership with a strong vision can pull a country from the dust, like no president of a democratic country would ever have the mandate to do. That is what has happened in China, capitalism be damned. Touting 'capitalism' has just made them look good enough in the eyes of the West to make it that much easier to pull it off.
Well, if I'm not right ; then at least they'll get bitch-slapped by the EU as soon as they gain any significant marketshare.

I mean, they could convince frickin' Microsoft to make IExplorer / Windows Media Player optional ... which makes no sense whatsoever :)
"Seriously? Bigger and more important than the invention of the Internet and WWW?"

Well, Possibly. I think he's referring to tablet computing in general. It represents the fruition of progress toward a true household computing appliance, the kind of handheld "electronic book" that used to exist only in science fiction. Someday, the paradigm of the desktop PC and its required upkeep and complicated interfaces may be considered the short-term condition of a young industry.
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Sorry. I did understand what was being shown, even though I couldn't read the language. I was just making a joke about how the map looked like a SimCity game.

Actually, I was making two jokes, the second being how the map was out of date the instance it was published, because of how quickly a city's buildings and streets can change in China.

Still, it is very nicely done!
"Guess what, you can do that with a 386 laptop from 1995"

Then why do I want to do that on a 2011 Android clone tablet that costs more than the baseline Apple one (as of 3/2/11 more than $100 more)?

"Apple's success comes from convincing people, through marketing, that they want to do that on an iPad and not on something else."

They convince people that the things that they normally did on their desktop or notebook propped on their lap, they can now do on the couch curled up leaning against the arm of their favorite chair, perhaps with the TV on, as they pinch and zoom and tap and slide freely around a large, bright touchscreen instead of a tiny glidepad.
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Find yourself a pretty Cali girl and marry her ;)

But seriously, I'm kind of in the middle of this situation, I currently am on a TN Visa valid for 3 years, that allows me to work for the my company only. So there is no way I can have a second official/part-time job on the side for a startup and I want to do that and help startups getting better visual quality (I'm a graphic designer).

If I find more info I'll let you know I'm doing my research.
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But the Xoom is definitely a great step, especially with the higher-res, less awkward screen for watching video (the aspect ratio is an annoyance on the iPad).

This reminds me of my friends who've dated someone for many years, and then once they got the nerve to leave them, they end up marrying the next person they date, within 12 months.

When you spend time with something, you get really familiar with its weaknesses. Then something walks along that doesn't have any of those weaknesses, and because you are so obsessed with those specific traits, you perceive this new thing as perfect.

Of course nothing is perfect, and once the glow wears off, you see everything the old one was amazing at, and the new one sucks at.

Widescreen is good for watching movies. But you do a lot on a tablet that's not watching movies.
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