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DF / allthingsd is relevant: essentially, there is no profit in the google nexus tablet and they're selling it at a loss. Thus my point is correct: Google can't compete with the iPad and instead they're going for decent but really cheap. Which is fine, but how long are they going to take a loss on the hardware? Also, this quote is money:

"When it gets sold through the Play store, there’s no margin,” Rubin said. “I
t just basically gets (sold) through.”
However, it appears that the Nexus 7 is headed for retail shelves, as well,
though only the plans for the Google Play store were announced on Wednesday.
While that kind of cost structure could make life challenging for any other
hardware makers looking to sell Android tablets, Rubin insists there is
plenty of room left for Android tablet innovation.

That was the sound of Google's partners being dicked.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/06/28/no-margin

[2] http://allthingsd.com/20120627/exclusive-googles-andy-rubin-...
They want to keep the threat of making Bing the default search engine.
Sure, I'm not saying there's no value here. But the glitches you posit (spotty coverage of some content, delayed access), combined with the general hassle of getting your internet working before your TV works, are simply keeping these devices out of homes right now.

What you have is "cheaper TV with a few holes", and that's great for you. But that's not what the market wants -- believe it or not they want to pay that $100/month, because that's what they're doing already, and it works for them. The winning product needs to take that $100 and do something better for the consumer (or conversely, produce a cheaper product with no visible disadvantages at all).
The unsubsidized phone is already down to $349, down from $400 when they first put it on Play.
https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9188721/Mozilla_Forg...

http://blog.mozilla.org/mobile/2010/09/28/firefox-home-looki...

I have not heard them use the monopoly complaints against Apple. I'm sure Mozilla is worried about Apple, but is using a different strategy since an argument that Apple is abusing monopoly is weak or underdeveloped.

Mozilla might believe that Apple is a better actor in the open web space than Microsoft.
Wow... that's one really ugly UI.

http://www.mylifeorganized.net/i/sshots/myLife-ssh012.gif
Interesting comment stream.

In one view you have 'America, World Police' being handed a defeat. That is a good thing because I believe that both the precedents the USA is trying to set on the world scene are wrong, they will also come back to roost in unpleasant ways.

In one view you have a victory for the Libertarian Internet which gives us a stronger 'nation independent' view of the Internet, but this is part of a wider set of events which are trying to figure out the role of the 'information-state' if such a thing could exist. This is stuff SF writers have chewed on considerably and to see it in 'real life' is fascinating.

In the third view we have someone who has many of the characteristics of 'nerds' which seem to have taken on some of the aspects of a counter culture.

The interesting things is that this fiasco has neatly tied together three on-going 'conversations' [1] about the autonomy of the Internet, the role of nation states in world government, and the rise of 'nerd culture'.

As we enter the 'post-American' century the discussion of world government will be be, by far, the most influential on our day to day lives, but the autonomy of the Internet will also become a central theme, much as human rights is a central theme in our interactions. The story of Kim Dotcom will then fade to being the tag line for one of the things that shaped how we feel about the first two.

[1] The term 'conversations' here is used to indicate that its a topic of discussion at all levels of our society with various competing views fighting for dominance as the 'group consensus'. This is also the name of the process by which a community arrives at a common understanding much like two people conversing about the topic might come to a consensus.
IMHO, THAT market is something Google has the "DNA" to compete ostensibly on: they have the know-how and infrastructure to go heads on with AWS...
I don't like vim, but I'd still use it before spending $50 on a text editor that did less.
Actually, I just discovered that ads keep appearing even if you defriend the person!

I just defriended someone who works for a social game company because they were pushing waaaay too many ads through to my feed. I felt bad about doing it because I don't mind the guy on a personal level, but shit it was annoying. Anyway, having defriended him I reloaded my news feed only to find that the ad was still there!

Now, maybe that's a one-off and the servers hadn't quite synchronized yet, but damn. Facebook makes me dump my friends to avoid ads and still gives me the ads!
That's not the only reason, though it might have been a small factor. Many of us here at KA are tau believers. :)
Scrolling in ST2 isn't right. It doesn't do the rubber-band thing when you scroll to the end. It doesn't have the right resistance to scrolling horizontally when you mean to scroll vertically (it's hard to two-finger scroll perfectly vertically).
God forbid we step outside of the "spirit" of dropbox's intended use in order to achieve something highly useful. Yeesh.
Yay! Clean code that makes sense to those just learning CSS (as opposed to CSSHat just that spits garble at you for $30) and a beautiful introduction. Love that it's free and Windows-compatible too. Interested in seeing how it compares to this project as well: http://dribbble.com/shots/591127-Codie-CSS3-Photoshop-Plug-i...
Exactly. Having to swipe to get my list back on screen is less than ideal.
I live with 60 minutes per hour, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 360° in a full circle, a speed of light of 299,792,458 m/s, to name only a few cases of historical 'accidents'.

2π is arguably more fundamental than π, but given the things above, I don't care much.

If you want to tackle something worthwhile, update theoretical physics lectures to 'modern' notation (where modern means 1960s).
This touches on something that bugs me about all the commercial editors using TextMate-compatible bundles for language support: It's not clear who, if anyone, is maintaining the bundle for a specific language.

I doubt the developer of editor XYZ commits to actively maintaining the 2 dozen language bundles they distribute with their editor. So support for language X might forever be that Last-updated-4-years-ago zip file that perhaps wasn't even the definitive version when it was found, especially for the less community-orientated languages.
You really think they'd turn their guns on their own citizens just to break up a union dispute with an American corporation?
You can provision a server on EC2 exactly the way you do a rented server. However, on EC2 you can image it after you have it provisioned so if you need to setup a new one, it's as simple as "make a new server with this image".

I see no way to say that it's more work on EC2. It may have worse performance, or cost more, but that is an entirely different argument.
Most of the people were actually from the U.S. (if I remember the stats correctly), many people from Europe, also from Latin America, but not many locals inside the program compared to the others. There's a lot of interesting people for sure! From all around the world!
Hypercards!
Looks like a cool idea! I just might have to use this when my product comes out of beta.
Farmville could be blocked relatively easily. These can't be blocked at all.
You can make VMs as small as you want.
>It's not even clear that having a full featured Chrome would hurt Apple in anyway

Perhaps this is how Apple sees it:

The browser might create a SDK that makes web apps work more like native apps thus resulting in reducing Apple's control over apps. Also, look at things like NaCl and how plugins like Flash might be enabled by browsers with rendering engines.
It's ironic that he uses "magical" when his company is called Nothing Magical.
I believe jaems33 is referring to the phone being used as a hotspot. I can, almost literally, watch the battery drain when I put my wife's Android phone in hotspot mode.

Also, there are more popular 4G data plans now, such as T-Mobile's "No Annual Contract Mobile Broadband Passes" that you can enable on-demand, only requiring once-year usage to keep the account active. I'm not sure if other carriers offer similar plans.
I'm not sure. There's a big psychological difference between push and pull -- if you check your phone, then you'll pulling the information at your convenience, but if it gets pushed to you on a HUD, then that's potentially intrusive and distracting. I think the only way they could really make that work is to have a good way of telling when it's reasonable to push information to a Glass-wearer, and that's tricky. Definitely cool if they can figure it out, though.
I've never understood the 7" tablet argument.

Yes, the size and price makes it far more appealing for kids.
And women who want a Kindle++ that fits in the purse they already carry everywhere (but is too small for a 10" tablet) could make a stronger case than most.

But, in general, half the size of a 10" tablet doesn't make it half as useful as a 10" tablet and thus worth half the price. Half the size makes it really hard to argue that the apps or browsing experience is notably better than a phone. And not being able to pocket the thing, thus necessitating a bag only raises the question of: is this thing good enough to justify bringing a bag when you otherwise wouldn't? And half the size of a 10" tablet again makes this a hard pitch.

Even if you're extremely price-bound, I just don't see the point. The price-bound have, at this point, waited three years to make a tablet decision anyway. Going without for a year or so to save for something that makes a stronger case can't be all that unacceptable.
Note: I am that Mozilla developer, which is why I remembered that press coverage in particular. For a less personal example, see comments to the press in 2009 by John Lilly (then CEO of Mozilla Corporation):

"Given the choice, would we work on a platform where the sole company controlling it makes us unwelcome, or would we work on a platform, like Linux, where we are welcome? The answer is going to be easy for us." ... The danger of a gatekeeper like Apple on the iPhone is that innovation is stifled, Lilly argued. "These vertical silos don't enable innovation," he said. [1]

Our general counsel gets involved where there is a legal case to be made or legal questions to be answered. There's no current legal case against Apple; I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea if a legal complaint would make sense. But in the meantime, we have no real ability to change Apple's actions.

I think we would complain more loudly or frequently in the press if we thought it would get picked up and have some positive outcome. My personal experience is that, after four years with no change in the situation, people either agree with us already or they think we're just whining. And Apple itself has never really cared when third parties complain about this policy. I'll add that there's not total agreement within Mozilla about this. Some people think we should stay aggressive in these political battles regardless of outcome; others think it's better not to "go negative" and that we should focus more energy and attention on the platforms where we are able to carry out our mission.

[1]: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9128119/Mozilla_backs...

(That story was mainly about Mozilla/EFF testimony in 2009 in favor of the DMCA jailbreaking exemption, which Apple lobbied against. These exemptions must be renewed every 3 years, so Mozilla mobile developer Brad Lassey just presented at the Library of Congress last month in favor of renewal -- but the press did not even report on this year's hearings, which perhaps shows how people lose interest once something is "old news.")
Why would they undercut by a factor of 2? They seem to be going for better and more predictable performance at a slightly lower cost without going into the low end. I'd like to see more but I didn't really expect any major undercutting considering we already know GAE pricing.
I don't see how "built to last" means "built out of cardboard." I can't find the original Rob Walker piece, but it sounds like it's talking about timeless quality vs. empty fashion, not about the environment.

An iPhone lasts a long time, and the author should be comforted that not everyone can afford to buy a new one every time Apple bumps the version, naturally limiting Apple's ability to fill landfills with barely-used iPhones by launching new product features.

The net footprint of a big company like Apple is surely complicated, as there are many ways to offset one's impact. I'm no expert, but Apple has a whole website on their strategy (http://www.apple.com/environment/) that shows they are making an effort, perhaps a large one.
Come on. It's close to the same engine in the same way Desktop Safari is close to the same engine in Desktop Chrome. You upgrade one, the other remains the same.
Google Copies Microsoft, Not Apple, To Fix Android Fragmentation
Honestly it hardly made any difference for me. The only thing about the latest update that bugs me is now the birdie is tilted more upwards than he was before.
Qualcomm restructures to help protect patents
Google Drive Now Has 10 Million Users: Available On iOS and ChromeOS
"For example, consider integrals over all space in polar coordinates:

\[ \int_0^{2\pi}\int_0^\infty f(r, \theta) r dr d\theta \]

The upper limit of the $\theta$ integration is always 2$\pi$."

This statement is false. If $r = r(\theta)$, then it can be the case (e.g., for a "looped" limacon $r = \cos(\theta)$) that $\theta$ will not range from $[0,2\pi]$. The upper limit is not necessarily "always" $2\pi$.
It's more like extra 0.9-1.0 compute, since the prices aren't exactly equal. So that's indeed 50% more compute compared to Amazon, just like they said at the keynote.
I would say that if you are young and/or have very good eyesight then you will be fine. Most people over 40, for example, will have a hard time reading without zooming well in.
Experiment with Google Consumer Surveys: how you ask the question matters
tldr - Admirer of gadget fashion design ponders wastefulness of consumer culture. Wants for token "recycling" to soothe his conscience. Looks at conceptual art projects as if they're close to practical technology. Finishes up penance and walks away thinking that he has earnestly evaluated his own wastefulness.
Insulin not only causes your body to store more energy as fat, but also interferes with memory formation.

*edited, more to the point.
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. Most facebook controls are buried three levels of counterintuitive links down in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".

Or to put it another way, if I can't figure out how to make facebook show me stuff that isn't shite, how are ordinary people going to figure it out?

edit: Also I've figured out that the reason I no longer hear from an awful lot of my facebook friends is that I've probably set at least half of 'em to "ignore" due to 'em posting too much garbage.
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Can a Growing Company Grow Faster While Spending Less (Part 2)?
I've been using my Kindle Fire with ICS on it nearly every day. It's a really nice size for reading and browsing.

I'm sure it is a personal preference. Some people prefer 10" and some people prefer 7".
In a nutshell, you get very different results on 2 similar questions: "Is it ok to pray when you smoke?", vs. "Is it ok to smoke when you pray?"
Google will promote their excellent customer service and how they provide excellent support to developers when things go wrong (i.e., their API is down). /sarcasm
I think it's a "tired argument" because its not easily defeated. _Why_ wouldn't you "usually" e-mail or call? Why? Why would you? (This seems like Churchill's point: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.") E-mail didn't fail, this is why we're seeing a resurgence of it (http://three.sentenc.es/, 501 developers against e-mail bombardment, minimalism over e-mail organization, etc.). Why has FB suddenly become "the best we've got" when all people seem to argue for is particular features that could be replaced. FB is a mash-up; this has nothing to do with "maintainability of social grace." It's a mash-up; and consumers like mash-ups.

Seriously: _Why?_ Why do we need we need a "social framework" that captures the rest of our human-interaction? We do we need a "social baseline"? Why do we need a system to maintain familiarity for us? I'm not even sure I understand the value of the point you've made, even if it is a good argument. _I_ maintain familiarity; Facebook is a tool for supporting what I do naturally.

> It maintains familiarity.

I'm not sure what this means. How does it do this? By making an API function do... What?

> Subbed in a co-ed game of ultimate frisbee and met some people? Add them on Facebook.

Add their e-mails? Organize your labels.

The sweet spot for _who_? I'm telling others to drop it because you can achieve those goals through other interfaces; you're telling me that others shouldn't set their goals too high (acquaintances). My point still stands. E-mail [certainly] would make more sense within the "acquaintances" counterpoint.

Facebook is a set of opinions as to how one should manage (or maintain?) one's social life. Isn't it clear that if one rejects that System, one might be expected to provide an alternative, or possibly simpler, solution? The argument cannot really be a surprise to you, surely.

[EDIT:] I'm _struggling_ to understand the point about "maintaining" familiarity. I really do wish to understand it, as I feel it touches the heart of the matter. However, such an idea may require a break-down.

I think the issue of "discovery" is an important one, but what actually am I discovering in this digital world? A portfolio? Or a person? To argue that FB's sweet spot is about acquaintances from the evidence that it's a good tallying tool, or a notes tool, for friends made in the physical social world, I think, is a bad argument, or at least it's not very compelling. I think such an argument only re-confirms the "tired argument" I initially presented.
Virtualization works wonders. You can take a big machine an divide it up into a lot of smaller machines.
And it's on iPhone right now -- runs fine on 3GS and above. Android support is planned later.
More like "please stop copying Apple's advertisement style". This is getting so out of hand that in Nexus Q case, for instance, you get this beautiful "ad-documentary" with a lot of people saying hyperbolic catch-phrases and not a single clue on what's the product all about...
Except - if you look at the linked repo, there is no mention of bcrypt at all - https://github.com/jasonroelofs/raidit/blob/master/Gemfile.l...

Infact, the whole persistence mechanism is rather mystifying - an in memory store? What if I accidentally the power?
> much of the tradition of western rocketry is descended from captured and reverse-engineered Mysorean rockets

I find it hard to believe. Any references?
Why is Apple's iCloud being mentioned in the same sentence with Compute Engine and EC2? That's like putting Google Drive in there, too.
I'd rather they concentrated on supporting openid so you don't need a google or Facebook account...
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It's all virtualized, anyway. You don't really get put on a one proc box at Amazon.

More likely, the want to limit the onslaught until after they've worked out the kinks.
The comments on this thread are such an embarrassment. Someone's worked hard on something for months, and people go and piss all over it.

If you don't think this is a useful or good app, you don't even have to look at it. Just pass.

At least when someone launches a product, if you don't have anything encouraging or constructive to say, it's best not to say anything.

It seems HN is suffering more and more from the "Why wasn't I consulted?" angst - http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html
It fits with the "use cases" they describe on the page: Batch Processing, Data Processing, HPC.

They probably decided to focus there so they can start with 1,000 new customers of meaningful size instead of 1,000,000 tiny accounts. Even Google needs time to scale up new offerings and the business processes around them!
Exactly what the users should be requesting from Apple. You're lucky Apple at least tries to be competitive on the browser front, but if they didn't do that, iOS users and developers would be in big trouble by now.
With no camera or internet, it'll be hard to overthrow a government with, unlike those pesky mobile devices the rest of the world uses.
To me Scala isn't a whole new language, it's java with extra stuff (except the variable names/types are reversed).
Sounds like you have a lot of great ideas. Can I have some? I'm a talented developer, but I rarely ever use apps myself, so I'm short on ideas. I'll buy you some beers if I make a few sales. :)
This is exactly what interests me. I keep 20 servers in colocation facility because I have I/O requirements that can't be reliably met with EBS. Solve that problem and I'll move as soon as my colo contract term expires.
and you're right, too! A piece of information and a anchor link pointing to it are two totally mutually exclusive things. No way this could ever be supported even in HTML6.
JP Morgan is hardly going out of business.
Well, yes and no. The article makes the point that to provide a service on Minitel, you had to get the permission of the French incumbent monopoly telco. But the reason you can experiment freely on the Internet is that your ISP or company has gotten permission in the form of a block of IP addresses from a central authority, registered a unique name with another authority, etc. You don't see it because it's hidden behind intermediaries and perhaps take it for granted, but the Internet isn't inherently more open than Minitel; it just happens to have historically been run that way. It could easily have played out that you had to prove that you were a registered nonprofit to get a .org, etc.
What he said.

Chile is an excellent place to test/bootstrap an idea. The $40K USD Start-Up Chile money makes it nearly risk free. This is the only promise of the program. Any other expectations are misplaced.

However, the reimbursement process is awful, does make for a considerable distraction from "real work," and should just be eliminated entirely.
Isn't saying that Google doesn't have a good track record with 'cloud' a bit like saying that Toyota doesn't have a good track record with 'automobiles'? I mean, Google's business is built upon the cloud. Like Google's services or not, they're clearly providing some 'cloud' value to someone.
"pi is a lie" and "pi is wrong" are incredibly disingenuous slogans.

For the former, you just need to know your meme:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the+cake+is+a...

For the latter, you need to know that it comes from Bob Palais' original article.

For both, you might need to lighten up.
Well a team that decides to build a clone of something that exists hundreds of times over, without thinking to even mention that more features are on the way, probably doesn't have the ability properly add features in the future. They show a complete lack of thought towards innovation or product usefulness, only the ability to poorly copy something. Therefore I'm not going to waste my time following them, and instead give attention to one of the other 100 todo apps that shows the potential for actually becoming useful to me.
Well, WebGL doesn't work in Chrome on Android either.