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The cost of a Windows license was never a material factor in the cost of a computer. Windows just happened to work on the widest range of hardware, much like Android. Being "open" has little to nothing to do with that.

What I find lacking in all of this Android chest-bumping is the recognition of what made it possible for so many smart phones to be priced reasonably: the decreasing price of flash storage. If we're going to point to anything as the cause for smart phone ubiquity, shouldn't we consider what Apple has done to drive down the price of flash?
When I first saw the video of this machine running Quake 3, the first thing I thought of was building a box that has a couple of these built in and a few small monitors around the sides, with USB hubs for plugging in mice and keyboards. Mobile Quake 3 LAN center, why not?

Though using one to build a home-baked tablet would be a pretty decent project, I have to imagine the battery would, as always, be the biggest hurdle.
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Try a Galaxy Nexus. You can easily unlock the bootloader on it and root it. And it doesn't come with all the junk that the other manufacturers install. Ice Cream Sandwich is amazing, too. The phone is really designed and built for geeks like us while still being easy to use.
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Not sure why you've been down-voted, but this has infuriated me more than any other single thing.

I pay a good deal of money to see a film in which I am so bombarded with ads beforehand that its ruined the film experience. The last film I saw had a full 15 minutes of ads and trailers before it started! My girlfriend asked me if we could just leave and get our money back.
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Sure, that's essentially my point: Parts of the Android stack are open and parts of the OS X stack are open. Whether or not the important parts are open depends on who you are. Take, for example, the other story on HN today about HTC finally opening their bootloader. That, to me, is much more important than any other part of Android being open.
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> If there are ANY benefits at all from switching, then that benefit can be enjoyed every year forever, dwarfing the one-time cost of switching no matter how big that cost is.

Give me $1000 and I'll give you (and your heirs, their heirs, etc) $0.01/year forever. Give me $10k and I'll sweeten the deal to $0.15/year. Give me $100k and go to $2/year.

What? You don't believe that any forever benefit justifies any one time cost?
What does it take to have movies that are in theater streamed to your home?

Would you not watch more movies at theater prices if you could watch it on your couch at 12:01am Friday morning?

I think the problem is at the theater, the companies get $12/person, $12 PER person.

How can we come up with a solution where they still get their dollars, but I don't have to leave my couch to go sit in a dirty, loud theater to watch it?
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I thought it might be fair to source HN and ask about interesting interview questions.
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I went to a movie a few days ago for the first time in months. As soon as the advertisements started for other movies/consumer good I had to walk out. I couldn't bear to sit through 10 minutes of all that advertisements anymore.

I've told my parents that I like movies but I hate going to movie theaters before and I think this might be why.
The setup Dan describes is high-quality, affordable over time but not over the top, and sensible across the board (no pun intended).

I invested an hour and a half and saved countless hours of research.

Thank you for this post.
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Ask yourself - why is Google actively trying to become a major provider of webfonts?

They are hiring type designers left and right and pouring money into creating a wide variety fonts - both original and knock-offs. Fonts that then they are offering for free. The only connection between the webfont and Google's core business is the fact that a Google-hosted version of former needs to be embedded in one's website in order to be used. So, they are doing this - at least in part - in order to expand their tracking capabilities.

It's one thing when one joins G+ and decides to share most of his/her online life with Google. And it's another thing to embed a piece of JS/CSS and to start tracking other people on Google's behalf. Google is effectively exploiting the greed and ignorance of the web designers to go after people who do not want to have anything with them. This is plain unethical, but nonetheless Google is very aggressively pursuing this direction.

The same incidentally goes for Gmail. I was buying a piece of real estate not long ago, and the realtor was using Gmail. We are both in Canada. I told him that exchanging documents over an email was like sending faxes back and forth, but not forgetting to send a copy of each to some random US company (because it would make sending faxes free). Only then he realized that he was in violation of whatever privacy requirements his RE association had. The level of ignorance when it comes to online freebies is absolutely STAGGERING. Google knows that what they do online would've never flown in the real life, but they still merrily peddle their free services and constantly seek ways to go after those who don't want them. That's certainly not evil or bad. It is all "well integrated", so it must be benign.

/rant
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I don't so much mind seeing trailers before a movie. It seems like a tradition, and trailers can be fun to watch. However, ads for other stuff like cars, or soft drinks cheapens the experience. I'm at a damn movie theater, don't remind me that it's really just a big TV screen.
The UN is not a "global governing body." It has no real power; and it doesn't deal with things like calendar standards. And it would take a lot more than "sign off" from some global standards body to get people to actually switch. It would require completely re-writing every piece of date handling software ever.

The Y2K bug is a very different case. That's a case in which the calendar system was perfectly able to deal with reality, but some people had buggy code implementing it. All it took was those people fixing their bugs, mostly completely independently, not some big coordinated effort.
> But Android is not an open source project. Because Google does not open its development to external contributors, nor do they develop it in the open. They only do code drops. They don't take patches.

Ignoring for a moment the fact that the factual assertions you make are completely untrue, to subjectively label something as not "open source" because you don't like the manner in which the source code is released publicly in accordance with free and open source software licensing is absolutely ridiculous.
Win.

Well, it's a win for rich surgeons. It's a loss for customers who will be paying a higher price for insurance.
I love movie trailers. That 15 minutes is one of the reasons I go to a theater instead of streaming something at home.
> Androids would probably still exist if Apple never put out the iPhone

While Android would definitely exist (it predates the iPhone's unveiling by years) it would be a very, very different beast. It might have moved towards its current state over time, but its first handsets would have been much more similar to the Blackberries of the time. In fact, this (recorded) origin still plagues the platform to this day, it's one of the sources of the structural issues leading to "insufficient" responsiveness.
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Nothing... I have android phone.
Not to mention HBO, which is a more direct challenge to theaters in the "you give me money, I give you high-quality content" sphere than, say, AMC, which is still ultimately banking on selling advertisement.
Funny. You can say the same thing about Windows.
I'd pay double, maybe even triple the regular price of streaming rental (~$5) to see movies at home on the day of release.
Movie revenue is dropping for the same reason buggy whip sales decreased with the deployment of engines. Movies are a dead medium walking. Interactive beats mindless observation.

The mpaa wont go down without taking a handfull of civil liberties with it though.
In my mind there's a huge difference between spelling _mistakes_, and _purposefully_ setting up a negative and insulting tone. There's no need to ignore the rest of the comment, when you think the overall language will do more harm than good.

I can accept that you find the language used to make a point not that important, but you should consider that not everyone might agree with that.
> You can already see this at work in a number of African countries where mobile payments have proliferated and matured at an astonishing rate.

This, however, has been going on for half a decade and has absolutely nothing to do with smartphone and smartphone OSes.

If anything, smartphones and their terrible battery lives can only hamper that kind of efforts in places where access to electricity is unreliable and a common charging technology is handcrank-powered.

edit: ah, so going against the completely nonsensical (because absent) link implied by richardburton between smartphones and african mobile payments (let alone Android and the latter) yields graytexting. Thanks, I guess?
Don't forget the bit he dropped in that same bullet point about better home theater technology. Instant availability and movie delivery would still leave a lot to be desired compared to the theater if we were watching it on boxy 27" CRTs with stereo sound and "tracking...tracking...tracking" on the media player.

Flat screens measured in feet and thinner than a ream of paper and surround sound (all digital) are now within reach of a large segment of the population. The higher quality of picture and sound at a theater, relative to a home setup, no longer outweighs the negatives, many of which have gotten worse in the last ten years (price, distractions, miscellaneous theater rigmarole).

IMAX is pretty much the only theater experience I still leave the house for. The screen size and sound are still novel enough to draw me in, and I find that the audiences tend to be more focused on the movie-going experience as opposed to being obnoxious.
how freaking scary would it have been to explain to your great-great-grandfather that people would carry around computers and look at them while in the bathroom or driving - he would have been terrified of this future

Given that my great-great-grandfather would have been born in the mid-1800s, explaining it would be arduous, not scary. I'm pretty sure that all of the other things I'd have to explain to give him proper context on, "people use their phones in the car and in the bathroom" would probably scare him more.
i stopped reading it after 4 or 5 steps, it was a nightmare trying to understand that in the Little Schemer.
Timeboxing.

If you're going to devote a portion of your life to "consuming" (or, to use a more elevated term, "researching"), and a term to producing, and you're finding you're overwhelming yourself with the research phase, timebox it. Set a limit to how much time, or how much of your day, you're going to expose yourself to inputs.

Identify the stuff that you've absolutely got to pay attention to: the truck barreling down the street, the cliff at your feet, bills to pay, eating, time on the loo. Exercise.

And identify the time you're going to spend being creative and productive.

It doesn't have to be absolutely rigid deadlines, but there should be some sense of order to it. Some people work better with more structure, some with less. Find your own method in the madness and stick to it.

Yes, we're in a culture that makes consumption, and productivity dedicated to the interests of others (often our employers) easier, the norm, and default. Think of it as yet another system to hack for your interests and goals.

Good filters are good. But the flipside of a strong reject discriminant is identifying that which is worthy or simply that which you want to spend time with, and do so. Wiping out the other distractions at this point is very useful.
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Is there a secret crappy version of the Kindle Fire that amazon is sending to Hacker News readers? Mine is fine at those three things.
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It's a difference in the author's attitude toward the project. A person who feels that they're building an MVP will be looking for ways to monetize it, while for "just a side-project" monetization might be an after-thought or explicitly not an objective.
The latest pg-release is at http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar . It was released "only" two years ago (http://arclanguage.org/item?id=10254 ) and runs on the latest version of racket. The repository you're looking at is an unofficial one that is much more active than pg's releases.
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I'm afraid the article is far too partisan to take seriously. I realize that's Thom Holwerda's usual schtick, but the idea that Android is a world revolution while the iPhone has had negligible impact is silly.
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> It's legitimate to say that Android will be the driving force for commoditizing smartphones, however. iOS will not be that force, and I think that's fine.

I'm not sure about that, cheaper iPhones have been available with every new release, last year european operators already offered 0€ iPhones with 2 years contracts, and the 3GS has gotten one more year lease on life being advertised as a $99 phone in the US.

edit: -1 without any discussion because I point out iphones are available "for free", which seriously sounds like commoditization? That's an interesting HN dynamic.
Would this be considered price fixing by the surgeons? Is it even possible for a true market price to exist when insurers are involved?
Just see this made me think about The Well. On the Well new users get access to a forum for their first year, after which it's archived, just for those users. (Going by memory, it was a long time since I had a well.com account.)

What if your purchase of an eBook gave you an exclusive license to a private on-line community of readers of that book? Might be a reason to buy it.
What's with the piggybacking name?
After yesterday's article about not making petty technical corrections of peoples' choices of words, I hesitate to say anything, but you should, at most, say "the major recording industry has never been one based on honesty". It is still probably an overstatement but at least it removes a whole slew of hard working people who you probably do not mean. We work with over 200 record labels, thousands of artists, dozens of venues, and partners across the industry, and nearly all of them are cool people of high integrity.
Sure, Rubin's definition of open ("mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make") would still apply today without the iPhone but let's be real: Android, without the iPhone, would at best be a Blackberry clone. One could argue the market would have ignored it because it would have offered very little new. It had wide adoption among hardware manufacturers were desperate because they needed to compete against the iPhone. Would the same have been true if they were still competing against Blackberry, a Blackberry clone and whatever Microsoft would eventually come out with?

Android is what it is today because of Apple and the iPhone.
Don't feel bad. I ask myself this for about 80% of the projects I saw posted here on HN. I used to ask the posters themselves, but I rarely got any answers beyond a vague "we'll sell advertising." Really? Do you have any experience in sales of any kind, let alone advertising sales?

My (somewhat cynical) guess is that what used to be called a "side project" is now getting the title "MVP" or "startup" because it sounds cool.

I should add that this is a general note, not directed at this particular project.
I'm not sure if the title of the original post was changed or not, but after reading over the linked website, I did not see any mention of him charging for this. It appears to be a free extension that he is sharing.
That's very enthusiastic and I applaud it, but could you perhaps provide some more substance beyond an open source frontend. How can we use the API? What benefits do you think exposing an API would provide? What are the capabilities of your API, etc.?
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15 minutes isn't even so bad any more. The last movie I went to see was 30 minutes of ads (seriously, I checked) and about an hour 40 long. That's a broadly similar proportion to TV, which doesn't make a good case for paying £8/person for it.

I feel like it's never actually been that good, but I think it has actually gotten worse than it used to be. Possibly doesn't help that I remember actually being interested in movie trailers, whereas mostly now I'm just bored by them. That ties in a bit with Ebert's point the first, but to me it feels like it goes further; most of them look rubbish and any exceptions I've normally already heard about via an internet.
I was sure he was going to say that it was partly because every movie now seems to be a sequel or based on a comic book. It's so rare to find a mainstream 100% original movie anymore it seems...
Seems to me that a MVP implies that there will be further iterations coming.
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The benefit, for the trainee looking to improve overall body composition, is that HIIT provides both cardiovascular and EPOC benefits without the concomitant catabolic effects of frequent prolonged aerobic activity.

Fat loss is mostly about diet, full stop. If you're doing cardio to burn fat, you're mostly looking in the wrong place.

If you want to lose fat, gain muscle, and improve cardiovascular fitness, as well as boost overall metabolism, incorporating HIIT (and benefiting from EPOC) increases both training efficiency and overall body composition, as you'll make faster lean mass gains.
Over consumption is bad, so produce more things for others to consume?
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It took about 3 or 4 readings for me. That's the fun part IMO.
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I know in my highschool all our science teachers had previous 'job' training. The chemistry teacher worked down in mines in (IIRC) Australia. The physics teacher had worked at a lab doing radiological work. The biology teacher actually went from field work, to university professor to highschool vice principal.
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1. Google did not build Android from scratch, Google bought the company which created Android, and built it to a releasable platform from there.

2. Inferno has nothing to do with Google, the only (remote) link is that Inferno is that Ken Thompson worked on its predecessor (Plan9). I'm not even sure Thompson worked on Inferno itself.

3. I've never seen any claim that Google uses Inferno anywhere.

So a better question would be: what makes you bring up Inferno in a place where it has no reason whatsoever to be?
Growing up, I lived about an hour from the nearest theater. I remember we used to use 10 minutes as the rule of thumb for the movie to actually start after the posted showtime...no commercials exactly, but 3 or 4 previews in those days.

If we were more than 10 minutes late, we'd just go to the mall or arcade or something instead.
One thing that's become an issue for me, at least at my local theater (and I admit I may be in the minority here), is volume.

Now, before you pull out "too old" or "don't be a wuss", I'll say that I'm only 29, and I play in a _loud_ rock band, and go to many loud concerts. I am no stranger to loud things, and have permanent tinnitus to prove it. I still enjoy concerts as much as I ever did, but I've found myself bringing earplugs to movies. They can be downright painful at times.
But the article has a perfectly good point to make. That it's couched in the usual rivalry terms is unfortunate, but hey, that's the way of the world.

I don't think it's proper to reward narrow-minded partisanship with a shrug of the shoulders.
Appreciate the comment! I like the concept of that, it goes in the same line of thought where I was thinking in the lines of "sites like this / alternatives", can be useful. especially when you are shopping for stuff online.
I don't know, some podcasts out there do deserve to be tormented. :P
Smartphone-proliferation requires a strong network capable of moving bytes in much larger scale than currently feasible or economical in most 3rd world networks. Hell, many 1st world countries struggle with growing data.

The OS of the phone is much irrelevant (Windows, linux, meego, webos etc. are "cheap and good enough" if you really have the demand of billion such devices. Having open source OS helps, but I'd say it's more about who can sell the network cheap enough to suit the smartphones.
Movies now days are like commercials designed to last an hour long. I especially love when they blatantly promote products in the movie. Did I really have to know that the main character uses iTunes and drinks Pepsi? Fuck you Hollywood.
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At my day job, we run CentOS 5 on EC2 instead of Amazon Linux because we actually run a hybrid local-node/EC2-cluster and it is easier to verify software builds on a single platform rather than two of them. The distribution we use actually doesn't matter a whole lot, though, as long as it is consistent between what we can install locally and what we can install on EC2. Our choice is actually constrained by what Amazon offers for the node types we primarily use (cc1.4xlarge).
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I think Alamo Drafthouse in Austin is doing it right:

1. Food & beer/wine served with movie -- convenient and much preferable to overpriced popcorn.

2. Cellphones must be turned off.

3. They take talking seriously, and preface each film with a strongly (and amusingly) worded statement to that effect.

4. No babies allowed except on specified baby nights.

5. Creative and fun special events, such as quote-alongs, sing-alongs, live comedy (Master Pancake, which is sort of like live MST3K), movie/food pairings, etc...

I pretty much refuse to go to any other theater, and judging by their crowds, they seem to be doing quite well with this formula.
All valid points, though I disagree with PPS :) Learning that sticks comes from filling in the little blanks yourself. I think Friedman is a master of giving tasty little clues while still leaving plenty for the reader to solve by themselves.
Because Monsanto holds a patent on that technology. Their claim was patent infringement.
Totally agree on the TV. The Christmas episode of Downton a few days ago was encroaching on the length of a movie and much more interesting than nearly all of them. Let alone the fact that it's free to watch and we could record it etc.