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I see that in the article and I don't agree that it makes sense. The whole article is premised on an analyst who reports numbers of 'shipments' (compared to Apple 'shipments' which are actually sales numbers). The simplest explanation is channel stuffing so I think he has to come up with a good explanation why it isn't. He is saying 50% of android is probably nook and/or kindle and he's trying to find the other 50%...

What they can’t do in the absence of actual sell-through is induce the retailer to dramatically increase his exposure. Android retailers have been doing that.

Where does he get that from? Couldn't another explanation for the rise in shipments year-over-year be that more retailers are getting into the game? These are global numbers and the market is expanding. Retailers don't make that much margin on iPads so they really want to have some other tablets on hand to put up next to the iPad.

One datapoint he talks about is the HP touchpad. Last year news reports said Best Buy took delivery of almost 300,000 units and sold less than 10%. That counts as 300k units shipped. So right there we have one great example of channel stuffing going on... and keep in mind that the retail stores aren't buying the tablets. BestBuy didn't take a bath on that, they push the loss back onto HP. Why not take shipment of the next 300k duds from HP or Motorola or wherever? Having inventory is bad for a company, but it's not so bad if you can charge it back to the manufacturer if it doesn't sell.

I'm just saying I think channel stuffing is the simplest solution to the missing tablets problem. I'm not going to worry about where the tablets are going until I see someone quoting the sales figures.
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Is anyone paying attention? Just because a company has a massive user base, big popularity, and lots of VCs, doesn't mean it has a great business model.

Sure,you can buy shares, watch them triple in the first 24 and dump them, but when the dust settles, what really happens?

Groupon is trading at $20.04. It IPO'd at $20.
Zynga is trading at $10.05. It IPO'd at $10.

Good for the VC's, finally getting a return on their money and all, but it doesn't seem that the companies are really doing much to deserve the hype.

Facebook is presumably making money, and has a crap-load of user-data, but 100 Billion dollar valuation? Maybe based on what people are willing to pay for it, in the hype to get some of it's stock, but its revenues were 2.5 Billion last year. A valuation that's 50x their revenues seems a little steep to me - but again, that could just be me.
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>I agree

I don't support Anonymous because I don't discount or disagree with concepts. I only discount implementations and Anonymous has no implementation to address the valid problems their enemies have solved in their own way.
If that scares you look at sales force 5500 p/e and a 15B valuation. For SaaS software.

Insanity.

(Disclaimer, I have a vested interest in this stock going down.)
Exactly. That's what happened to the TouchPad. HP, presumably because of excessive optimisim, stuffed the channel past its breaking point. In response, the channel revolted and was going to return TouchPads en masse before HP decided on the fire sale instead.

It is also worth noting that ASUS, one of the more successful Android tablet vendors, is doing the exact opposite. There were severe shortages of the Transformer after it launched and, from what I can tell, the Transformer Prime isn't easy to get either. I think ASUS is deliberately ramping up production slowly to match demand so they don't have problems with variants that flop (like the Slider).
As others said there are enough Apps (like Cinexplayer) who play all kinds of video formats. And transcoding to MP4/h.264 with iTunes may be a hazzle, but that will ensure that the file will be played with hardware acceleration.

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It is everyone vs everyone. Apple has to pay Nokia a hefty licensing sum, they are currently sued by Motorola, Microsoft is getting big money from every company which uses Android, Google sells strategic patents to other HTC, so they can make for them the dirty stuff. And nevertheless in the end all will make business together. I am sceptic against people taking sides in that.
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Ok, but how do we readers act upon the article?
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The Xtion is depth sensing only - a Kinect branded sensor would likely have both RGB and depth, like the other Kinects.
No, it's all just common sense really.
I was lost in the beginning as to the definition of "Big Data" and how it relates to the sewage system demands. It would be good to answer all those questions in the first paragraph
The new Kinect hardware has a "near mode" and there's been discussions of adding upper body skeleton tracking, as well as gesture recognition.
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MS also has to fund the Kinect SDK team and Microsoft Research that develops new applications for the Kinect.

Examples include Kinect Fusion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGhaggn3cQ) and the Holodesk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHL5tJ9ja_w).
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Have to be honest, I didn't know much about 3D printers until I heard about Makibox so you could classify me as below average user. Now,, with the price point as well, I am excited just to imagine the possibilities!
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Off the top of my head, I can think of one toxic substance that easily mixes with water and boils below 100°C: methanol.

Some hydrocarbons might also fit the description.
Remember, channel stuffing can't stay a secret forever. Android tablets have been on the market a while. Even if a manufacturer takes returns, unlike HP, at some point they either have to sell the tablet or take the loss. Other than RIM, I haven't heard of any manufacturers writing down tablets on the scale that would be required to sustain channel stuffing.
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I'd call BDB "pre-SQL" rather than "NoSQL".
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Thanks for the article. I launched a web app first, no regrets, many people access the web app on their mobiles.

An extra tip could be: Design the web app to be usable on mobile devices, i.e. no scrolling, no flashy things, nothing super small, etc.
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What's the split of student loan debt between public and private universities? In the case of public universities having some 'skin in the game', isn't that still essentially the taxpayers?
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I often find myself looking for the opposite mapping; to which package does /usr/share/foo/bar.blob belong?

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Ok you're right, but why argue the semantics in this case?

The author's point is that too many start-ups are creating fun apps that give little moments of joy rather than ones that noticeably and significantly make life easier or better for people. You can criticize the author for trying to be controversial and write something he knows has a good chance of making the front page of HN; as we've all probably noticed posts with this general sentiment are definitely in vogue right now on HN, but I think it's worth moving on from that and noting what he defines as big problems.

I think all the problems he lists we can agree are 'big' in the sense that they create a lot of confusion and inefficiency in society. In the case of medical records, 'solving' that problem could literally save countless lives.

On a related note, I disagree with the author there are big problems in society that start-ups can't solve. I think there are plenty. For many I'm guessing the idea behind 'Kill Hollywood' springs to mind. For me, it's the ubiquity of advertising in society. Personally, I'd love to see Facebook, Google, and co trying to change the world to reduce the concentration of it in our lives, unfortunately it looks like they're more interested in the opposite.
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Understood, my roommate vented every time someone misrepresented Germany or god forbid said "European". I do agree, I could have had a better transition with better examples and explanations why I used the examples.
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Export/Backup for your Social Networks - great idea.

Can I get more than just photos (files)? Can I save my data or will that get you banned from a few of the providers you integrate with!

I use Backupify for this 'anti-Cloud' type service - it backs up my Gmail. Since I use more than one PC, I'd like to see this do similar to Dropbox - sync local, in the Cloud, and be accessible through clients on any device. I suppose I could do that by putting the SocialFolders into Dropbox - but I'm not sure I want to pay on the double then.
If you create enough spreadsheets to warrant spending $200 on Office, then use Excel. For me Google Docs is good enough and getting better. I just don't use Word/Excel enough to justify the price.
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For that matter, in my opinion, he isn't really talking about the traditional electronics retail channel anyway. To me, the big "mystery of the Android tablets is the crappy junk you find on sale at drugstores, Bed, Bath & Beyond and who knows where else.

I can't think of any reason to buy that junk, but they do keep stocking them and getting newer models (from fly-by-night companies that would go bankrupt if they evem thought about channel stuffing), so someone must be buying them. Is there just an endless supply of people willing and interested in trying out a $99 piece of junk?

And the junk does keep getting better. There was a time, pre-iPad, when the baseline was Cupcake or worse. Now it is Froyo or Gingerbread, with ICS on the horizon...
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The 'pirates' are against copyright infringement, where after the act the information is copied and no one is denied a copy.

This is something else, where after the fact no one has a copy, information is less free than before and someone has been deprived.
Not a great vindication of the new CIO/CTO roles created within governments, if the 2 of them only lasted a couple of years in what should have been the most exciting and challenging phase of their careers.
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I prefer "apt-file search" which is much faster than "dpkg -S" at the cost of some disk space and having to periodically do "apt-file update".
> I mean, it runs on a Mac.

I'm on kubuntu, I could run it in a VM though it's much simpler to open google docs in a new chrome tab and more than enough for my needs, so why bother? It's not the right tool for the job if google docs gets the job done for me with much less hassle.
Why wouldn't universities just rase rates 10% to cover their projected liability?

This would obviously only exacerbate the problem and hasten the fall, but that does appear to be how independent actors work.
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This is really upsetting for so many reasons. The intent to use these site designs took time and effort to implement. There had to be hours of time that they knew without a doubt they were stealing work they did not produce. To feign ignorance in this case in unacceptable.

Furthermore these guys have raised 1.2 million dollars. To think that someone in this position would raise that amount in capital and pull this kind of bullshit is offensive. This is a black eye for the valley.
The comparison with mortgages is fallacious. A mortgage is for a material good which can be repossessed and has an intrinsic value independent of its current owner. An education has neither of those properties. And as has already been mentioned, students loans carry zero risk for the lenders, because the debt cannot be discharged by bankruptcy. One way or another, the lender will get that money back, even if they have to wait for your take your estate when you die.

I agree that the current educational debt levels present sustainability problems... but trying to compare apples to oranges only leads to worse public policy than we already have.
"Children don't know any better so can just learn this way."

This sentence made me think. The image of the brilliant programmer who got his start at the age of 12 has always been, in my mind, proof that some people are born with programming talent and some aren't (not to say they can't develop it).

But what if, the only difference is that someone happened to start programming at a young age because he was interested it for some irrelevant reason, and because he was young, he learned it much more easily, in much the same way kids learn languages more easily than adults.

An interesting idea. In the real world, people's ability is probably a factor of both these things.
The difference is for most of those products you have to pay for the bandwidth

Megaupload each party paid for their upload or download and that was it, no server bandwidth costs

Obviously for things like linux distros we just use torrents, but for less tech savvy (idiot) users I could imagine megaupload being used for things like huge law libraries, collections of 3d models, collections of sound files, etc. Sure some of that might be copyrighted but there are huge chunks of materials of all those things out there that aren't. And likely more than before once you take hosting costs out of the equation. Who wants to pay $4 a month for hosting when it'll run out after 10 downloads anyway and you're guaranteed never make a cent out of it? But upload it to megaupload and put a link on a forum, not so painful
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That's true but there are a lot of warehouses in the distribution channel and they could very well be sitting there. Companies can keep write-downs off their books for a while.

I remember there was at least one accusation by Lenovo that Samsung was doing it with the Galaxy Tab at the end of last year:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/02/samsung-gal...
It's not something that can just be parallelized away with identical probes. It's the difference between a multifunction calculator and a PC. The PC may weigh 100x as much, but it has an infinitely greater breadth of capability. That's why human spaceflight is going to be important for the foreseeable future. Unless you want to design a separate probe for every conceivable task (some of which we undoubtedly don't know yet).
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that should do it. you'd have to wrap each line in a tag though.
This email is clearly wrong. Anyone, who knows anything about Unix knows that the world didn't start till 1970, so all this stuff about things happening in 1969 is clearly impossible.
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Most CIOs in large enterprises are more politician than tech, too, unfortunately.
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Thanks for the thoughtful and thorough reply. I only recently started using Jekyll/Octopress, had I known or yours I would've checked it out at the time; but yea - I think I'll stick with Octopress for now.

I do hear you though on the precompile vs github doing it -- I struggled a lot at first with the Octopress directions, especially after having read about jekyll processing support at github, to understand why it was making me precompile and put the compiled code in its own branch.

Furthermore I had to modify the jekyll source to make it work the way I wanted in the end: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/pull/337

I'm curious to see this go full-circle... Hosted Jekyll with point-and-click plugins, themes... which gives you a gui to edit your posts, and then you click to commit to github where it's generated and hosted!
People go to FB to communicate, they go to G to search. Brands are associated with products. That's why this G+ thing is a bad idea, it totally waters down G's brand in search. FB offers Bing on their site, but still nobody uses that.
I'll give you that. I think that is happening a significant amount too. I would even go so far as to speculate that a small but significant (and a much, much smaller percentage than Android) number of iPads are bought as a novelty and don't see much real use. The difference is that Apple makes good margin on that. From the perspective of a healthy platform, active users, or as an app developer, that's effectively a non-sale.
This list is really a non-sequitur.

First, I honestly can't count Ubuntu.

So besides that: Gates Foundation, Startup Education, and Omidyar are essentially charity. Yeah, they are technically start ups, but...

The other two's problem domains are really exceptions in the realm of "big problems": we've been doing space travel, we've been doing electric cars—these startups just do it better, but they aren't solving any new big problems. (They are solving many interesting technical problems along the way, of course.)

It's also interesting that every one on that list (still discounting Ubuntu) was started with a pile of money by a previously successful entrepreneur. (And SpaceX and Tesla by the same entrepreneur, by the way.)
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"Ok you're right, but why argue the semantics in this case?"

The logic of the article is that great minds are working on small problems in irrelevant startups. However, these great minds are great at certain fields, like technology. They are not particularly great at politics, for example, which is necessary for many of the problems listed in the article.

Put another way, if I want to make the most good in the world, and I'm a great programmer, what should I do, build the next Dropbox (something I'm capable of), or try and fix government regulations which cause inefficiencies in parking bills? Never mind what helps the world the most, take into account my chance of succeeding.
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I am very familiar with the CIO role.

If you have any technical chops you can spot bullshit a mile a way - especially when it comes to non-trivial highly complex systems.

This guy was snow job "dazzle them with details, baffle them with bullshit" to the core.

As someone who has been in silicon valley for 17 years I feel comfortable with my evaluation of him.
Statistically, the Russian space program is safer than the American. They're not exactly famed for their health and safety, in a hilariously stereotypical tradition Russians piss on their rocket (it dates back to Yuri's flight) and until recently they carried shotguns to ward of bears after returning.

The problem is outlined in the article, but not expanded. Every year politicians change NASA's goals. If the project you're working on keeps changing spec it's going to expand the timeline. Didn't Bushes plan call for us to be on the moon by 2015?

Another problem is the way NASA makes their vehicles. Private companies make products with the goal of making a profit. NASA's goal is to get people into space. The space shuttle is an example of this failure: it was overpriced, so dangerous cutbacks were made which ruined two of the vehicles. In an ironic twist, the soviet Buran suffered from none of these issues.
It may work, but I wonder what else the WD-40 may be eating away. I'd probably try contact cleaner first.
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