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Chips are becoming an insignificant part of the total cost, and, increasingly, the overall experience. Nexus Q is made with die cast zinc, has moving parts, and weighs 2 lbs. The Nexus 7 is plastic, has no moving parts, and weighs 0.75 lb.

A consumer will probably replace the Nexus tablet every 1-3 years. A Nexus Q will probably be used much longer. It needs to be more durable. I'm still using my 30 year old Yamaha YST-C10, one of the best audio devices ever made.

Likewise, the materials in an Apple Macbook or an old-school Thinkpad make those laptops a lot more expensive to manufacture than a typical plastic laptop.
The xoom 2 or the very first one? It got off from 3.1 and then got 3.2, 4.0 and now 4.1. That sounds like a nexus like update life. Is nexus 7 really the first google tablet?
The NY Times has a story about how the device is made in the US.
Given the headline from 2 days ago – "Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses" – isn't Facebook the world's most popular email service?
"at 2200 I'm in bed with a light cucumber mask"

Anyone else think of American Psycho when they read this?
Oh wow thanks, I hadn't realised that was the case, never actually heard anyone state that so bluntly. Is it safe to say the ASUS tabs are smoother?
You already recognized the positioning: it's all about Google Play.

Google TV exists/existed because Google wants to be in the living room. But they can't get TV makers on board. They can't get content owners on board. They can't get ISPs on board. They got some OEMs on board and tried to let developers 'solve' the content problem as it was solved for iOS and Android, but that bombed spectacularly.

So now what? Now they've got a fledgling content service in want of players. And now they're going to try to use that to get consumers to put Google devices in their living rooms and dorm rooms.

And maybe, just maybe, they'll flip GoogleTV back into the game as/if it picks up steam an developers start begging for access. (the specs are certainly overkill for a streaming set-top box)

But who really knows? If these things sell without Android apps, and Apple doesn't push the issue by allowing apps on the Apple TV, why wouldn't they carve direct deals that give them veto power as Apple has done?
It is fragmented. But not in the developer sense.

Microsoft has always been quite good in backporting their developer libraries. So even you did have users on XP you could simply bundle these with your app e.g. .Net, DirectX.

Google may have to look at doing something similar for 2.3 users in particular.
Weekend project as in "done-in-a-weekend", or as in a side-project?
Each of their videos hits oh-so-close-for-comfort. It's hilarious.
I don't get it. Either you're interested enough in Google Glass to pay a premium to work with a prerelease version of it, or you're not and can wait for it to actually ship before you buy it. I can't see any third category, nor can I see why either category would complain about the price. What's the deal?
Google is rolling out Google+ for Tablets and Google+ Events
Regardless of the drama, I can't imagine buying anything from someone involved with WakeMate after the horrible experience the first time around. $50 spent, and it never succeeded in tracking a night of my sleep. There are other products out there these days that actually work.
Same thing here. And a lot of them can't spell hotmail.com. My app was having some many bounces that I wrote a function to detect and fix the 20 or so most common misspellings.
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.5 Release Candidate
This looks really, really incredible. And they are giving it away for free, and you can even make money off something you create as long as you don't use Valve's assets. There's going to be soooo much awesome content that comes out of this. Way to go Valve, and congratulations to the SFM team!
Microsoft Offices in Athens Hit by Terrorists
Calise | Camera Light Sensor
good old C compilers did not have the bool keyword and did not have this silly undefined behaviour. Standardisation committees should understand that the quality of a standard is inversely proportional to its length.
The Pachelbel Rant is also worth checking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
nQuant is a similar (C#, Apache 2.0 licensed) re-compressor; it was created by Matt Wrock as an adjustment of Xiaolin Wu’s algorithm to work with the alpha channel.

http://nquant.codeplex.com/

Matt gets into the guts of how this process works here: http://www.mattwrock.com/post/2011/09/05/Convert-32-bit-PNGs...
John August has some scripts at http://johnaugust.com/library but I'm not aware of an Internet-scale script repository.
That isn't the same at all.
I've had some great email exchanges with Arun and he has been nothing but helpful and honest.

The fact that he is continuing to work on this product says a lot. Any team would be lucky to have a guy like him on it.

I hope this mess gets straightened out.
I think he's talking about a stylus like in Galaxy Note, which is quite a different beast (proper pressure sensitivity and pen angle detection).
OK :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4168896
He means to say you're welcome to submit patches to make them more exhaustive.
I suspect there's a strong correlation between the email account host and the place on the early adopter curve.

There's nothing wrong about wanting to live near other early adopters.
No, Google keeps its promises when it comes to supporting old devices - Jelly Bean will be released in mid-July for the Nexus S, a phone first shipped in Dec 2010. It also got the ICS upgrade months ago.

It's the other Android manufacturers - Samsung, HTC, etc - and the mobile carriers that approve each OTA update that often don't fulfill their promises.
... except that they add the tax on top of the £159. It's actually £168 here, I've just discovered.
Tablets still aren't generally thought of or used as productivity devices, they are viewed and used more as consumption devices. I'm not saying this can't or shouldn't change, I'm just saying this is how it is right now. It seems smart to market to that.
This sounds a lot like what was described in the UK miniseries "Black Mirror": in short, record your life.
"Write programs that do one thing and do it well."

also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
PNG8 (which IE6 supports) has had support for alpha transparency for a long time, but only Fireworks was able to create those files. I'm guessing that these guys are making PNG8s? I haven't tested the site myself.
Eclipse Git Plugin 2.0 Released
How I Tried to Have Virtual Sex in Zynga's New Game
FYI from the PBS video watchable on Alexis's new book sales page:

"According to Google Double click ad Planner'a estimate THE MEDIAN U.S. REDDIT USER IS MALE (72%), 25-34 YEARS OF AGE, HAS SOME COLLEGE EDUCATION, AND IS IN THE LOWEST INCOME BRACKET OF US$0-$24,999"

So...
Promote your app. Submit it to 50 app review sites.
You know, the point of a computer is to do work or play games with it. You do not need the absolute latest release of whatever to do useful work or play games.
bought the book and donated to fightforthefuture - Hooray Internet!
Trojan Author Includes Integrated Chat, Challenges Security Researchers
I think he's just curious about how IE6 was tricked into supporting it.
January 2010 was a long time ago...
>I think you are a troll, based on this and prior discussions, and this is the last time I'm responding to you.

Nice of you to edit and sneak that in there. All I did was mention how it's in the interest of OEMs to push new devices. You continue to call me names, not reply to what I'm saying and be rude. Apparently you learned nothing from the last time you did this to me. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158857
I am very excited to see mobileFwd getting some media coverage because they really have created a pretty awesome game. I also love to see more tech coming out of Arkansas. I have bought trivi.al and it is a ton of fun.
Google has stated very often and very clearly that they're trying to maintain a separation between them and Motorola. They don't want owning Motorola to mess up their relationships with other hardware companies.
DNSMadeEasy announces ANAME records
I struggle here with Google's business model, and the impact their efforts have on other Android tablet vendors. At this price point the profit (if there is any to speak of) must be wafer-thin.

But Google can handle such wafer-thin margins because the secondary markets that this tablet secures for them. No other Android tablet vendor can enjoy the same control over the underlying OS, the same footprint in terms of Apps ecosystem (and importantly the revenue derived from this), the same intimacy between online applications/services and hardware. All these things mean Google can 'get away' with pricing this tablet as cheaply as they do.

But where does that leave Samsung, LG, and the others ? The big risk for us as consumers here is that Google will in fact reduce, not increase, the amount of credible competition against Apple by jeopardizing the competitors' capacity to derive profit from tablets.
The present of labor laws does not mean that everyone has access to union work or that those laws are enforced in some situations. The same goes for health and safety regulations. There are plenty of jobs where you buy your own work equipment (I've had them). Also, the most economically disadvantaged work more than 1 job, so saying that people don't work 10+ or 6 or 7 days is not accurate.

The bottom line is that those at the top have always exploited technological advance for themselves while leaving others behind. This is a primary function of capitalism throughout history. That some conditions may have been worse in the past means nothing while economic oppression continues right now.
I sign up for most apps with my Yahoo account, because why should I give Random App my real email address? For the most part I don't care what it's emailing me, so I just need an address where I can go to click on the inevitable "activation" link.
seems like he's doing the right thing
I went to our local embassy in Tel Aviv but they were not very helpful, quite hostile actually. When I asked about the different kinds of visa, saying that I can apply in different possible ways (as self employed, as an employee of my own company sent overseas, etc) depending on which gives me the best chance to get the visa they said literally "we are not here to help you get into Germany, we are not a market for visas. you choose by yourself how do you want to apply and we'll send it back home for approval/denial"

so, I found a german lawyer over the internet to get advice.

Long story short (this is not legal advice, btw ;)

- self employment visa has some bizarre requirements like "investing 250K EUR and employing 5 locals" to get it "automatically". you can still get it with less but you'll have to prove your 'economic worth' to the region, which might not be trivial and needs a lot of paperwork.

- there is another kind of self employed visa, which is sometimes called an 'artist visa' and it is given to artists, teachers, engineers and some other well defined categories of self employed people. The problem with this kind of visa is that software engineers are not listed on the list, and are not legally considered 'engineers'.

me, I'll probably take my chances with the first kind. going to start the application process soon.

BTW, if anyone has any corroborating or conflicting evidence, I'll be very glad to hear it.
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"Working From Home" Myths
The acquisition closed a little over a month ago; communication during a buyout before it's approved is seriously restricted. A month isn't anywhere near enough time to get a product from scratch to market. Besides the logistical issues, Google's stated that Motorola doesn't get special treatment, so going by their word, Motorola has to compete for Nexus bids just like everyone else.
Is it listed anywhere which versions of MySQL and MongoDB were run?
Same for me. I'm far from a Google lover, but I opened my Gmail account in 2004 (when it was still invitation-only), and never, ever did I hesitate to put my email address even in the shitiest, scammiest sites/registration forums I see. Only about 5-6 spams in the past 8 years, an 0 false positives.

My previous experience with Yahoo (pre 2004) was much much worse. I haven't use Hotmail though, and as I seriously doubt Apple's technical skills when it comes to cloud services, I don't feel safe to put my @me.com address anywhere public.
Never say never. If someone had told me that i'd be able to buy a high-end(processor and brand) tablet for $200, I would've laughed in their face.
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but it actually seems like you agree with me almost completely... You say:

>it has become less a place where you post your progress and methods and more a place to hype your startup, post your better idea of an app or site or just plain steal a style from another designer. There's very little "process" and a lot of sleek, shiny finished concepts.

Agreed. The purpose of my post was to point out that THIS is what Dribbble has become, and it's not because the community has dropped the ball as much as it's because the design of the site doesn't encourage more thoughtful, critical interactions.

>If Dribbble really cared about a lot of things, the site wouldn't look and work the way that it does.

This is precisely my point. Dribbble has chosen to not focus on nurturing criticism and feedback, therefore Dribbble is not a platform for critique.
Machine Learning Impact Forum
Definitely. I've played around with a friend's Transformer Prime for a bit and it was mostly pretty fluid.

ASUS also makes far less modifications to the OS, too. Their devices are very close to stock Android with just some small additions, some new apps and wallpapers and whatever.
Yes, iOS caught up with Android in many respects at the last WWDC, and Android is catching up with iOS on the responsiveness front. That's fine, on both counts. It means that Android and iOS are competitive. It also means I don't have to switch to iOS if I'm craving responsive.

The Android JVM basically means Android needs a faster processor to get the same level of responsiveness. So that's what they're giving it.[1] That's fine, since the benefit of Android is being flexible enough to run on scads of devices. That's emphatically a benefit, not a curse, just like being able to buy all different configurations of PCs is emphatically a benefit.

[1] Reports of A5x being faster than Tegra 3 are overblown.
> My argument is against the idea that 18-25 year olds would be buying this for $750

I agree but it's only $300. As I said before, I think it should be $200.

> Windows Media Center, MythTV [...] using your bluetooth/IR remote control isn't exactly an inelegant solution

I was using MythTV years ago, so I'm not personally disagreeing but the average person would violently disagree.

You can argue for Apple's solution but that's not really my point. My point is that this thing (especially at $200) is a much better solution than anything involving a desktop computer and that directly connecting speakers is a nice feature. Additionally, look at how easy it is to play a/v from your friends' phone or tablet without any setup; it just works and doesn't require any wires.

@rdl:
If it really does add $100, I'd be nice to see it as an optional feature but I stand by the utility of the feature.
8 pundits who said iPhone would fail explain themselves; Dvorak blames Apple
Looks like it just makes the process accessible to the layman.
Valve To Release Internal Filmmaking Software For Free On Steam
"Exercise bike because I'm somewhat terrified of being around cars, random people, and far away from home/office without a nice metal cage around me and a trunk full of storage capacity." Perhaps one of many reasons I don't work at a bank.
Incredible Photos from the Colorado Wildfires
Laptops are more likely to fail in situations where they can't report crash data.
I have used my android phone for turn-by-turn navigation, finding transit, restaurants and other POI, translating foreign-language signs, etc. making me a pretty independent world traveler in Tokyo, Hamburg, London, Milan, and Paris. I have rarely had any problems with their location-based features.
But it's Apple that already has this advantage, controlling the HW and the app/media ecosystem. Someone needs to step in and compete with that, and it looks like Google (and MS someday?) is the only one in a position to do that.

These other vendors like Samsung just aren't hitting it off. So it's a choice of "Apple and a bunch of overpriced tablets that can't compete" or "Apple and Google". Despite there only being two options with the latter, at least the second option is actually viable.
But if you forward it to say Gmail, then you count as a user (Gmail pings Hotmail for you).
I hope you hate your job a bit :)
Jason Hoffman of Joyent on Node.js
Inspired by this article:

http://www.wkiri.com/research/papers/wagstaff-MLmatters-12.p...

This is a forum to contribute your ideas for what challenges we might aspire to solve, changes in our community that can improve machine learning impact, and examples of machine learning projects that have had tangible impact.
Does anyone have any information on APIs being available for this? It certainly has potential but out of the box its a cool toy at best.
Yeah clearly the extra $8 of value that provides makes a difference.
Because not everyone wants to make up for Amazon's [or any other OEM] R&D failures by wasting hours of their time wiping out their software?
The OP wants a 10" tablet, which Google's not making. He's saying that if he buys a Samsung produced Jelly Bean 10" tablet, it won't be future proof.
I understand your point, but I am not sure I agree. The initial demise of the American automobile manufacturers was partly due to the unreliability of their products.

Regarding tablets, I would think that locking people into a particular app ecosystem would be a higher priority than achieving a high tablet turnover rate. Seems like the money is in the apps, not the hardware.
What?

This whole conversation is disgusting. It's an email account. But since it's ubiquitous and mainstream, now it turns into this weird cultural thing where we have to make sure we have the right email account, lest we look like one of them.

Repeat after me: it's an email account. Not a reflection on your identity.
Motorola Mobility will never build a Nexus device. The other Android manufacturers (particularly Samsung) need to be reassured that Google will not simply lock them out of Android's future by leveraging its own hardware division.
That's fair enough: part of our design philosophy is to not require setup for local compiles since our goal is to appeal to devs who value that.

That comes with trade-offs as you mention, the requirement to have a network connection to interact with a cloud build service.
I have developed a theory about this:

Suppose you were hired to do X, and after doing X for a few years, you have developed the skill to do Y instead. But that skill does not guarantee that your current employer will have an opening for a job doing Y. Even if they do have the opening, from their point of view, if they let you transfer, they will definitely need to hire a replacement X, and you might turn out to suck at Y. So a rational manager will feel a strong pressure to leave well enough alone and let you keep doing X.

There are a variety of ways for an employee to escape this situation, but the simplest one is just to find another company with an opening for Y.
The press are pretty good at doing that already!
Anyone know why only the android session seems to be working? (Circa 4PM EST)
Can your guests share drm'd files with AppleTV or Airplay?
The social security net is indeed very strong in Denmark. If you pay a low monthly fee while being employed, you are entitled to a special unemployment benefit rate for up to two years, which almost corresponds to minimum wage salary (Which in it self is very high, compared to other countries). There are some obligations to actively seek new work and you could be sent on various training sessions, so it's not a complete free ride, but close enough.

I know that at least compared to Germany, it's a lot easier to fire people, legally speaking. I'm not sure if that makes Denmark or Germany the outlier, but probably the former.
- Kindle Fire: Android Tablet
- Kindle Everything Else: E-reader

> But while Kindle sales may be falling, demand for the Kindle Fire is climbing, with requests for components up nearly 60%.

The article is about how Kindle Fire may be cannibalizing sales from the e-readers.
Most laypeople don't even know what a PNG is...
Mission Bicycle: The Bike Startup
which existing open-source tools?
New videogame lets amateur researchers mess with RNA
If I was there I would have bought them. I will not be surprised if someone can sell a pair of them for $10k on E-Bay in a week or two after they ship.
I think it's likely that all lower bins are artificial, so e.g. underclocking a 2.4 GHz down to 2.0 is probably exactly the same as if you bought the 2.0. But yeah, it would be worth measuring.
Mechanized LambdaJS
Meet the Pyro is really cool, but Source Filmmaker is the real story today
It's funny. I get similar feelings with people that use RoR.
> I was surprised that the company didn't just sue him for not giving up company property.

Perhaps the executives of the company weren't knee-jerkingly litigious idiots, and realized that their money would be better spent improving their operational efficiencies than paying their lawyers to acquire a metaphorical bucket of water while the tap from which it came runs permanently dry.

Litigation is expensive, and sane businesspeople don't casually file lawsuits that deliver no strategic value to their companies.

No matter how legally valid the argument may be that the code is company property, the fact remains that the code wasn't the product of 'company time'; it was the product of skill, creativity, and initiative whose benefits the company clearly does not and cannot have without the willing cooperation of this individual. Why make enemies when you can make friends?
>I'll happily shell out an extra $200 to buy a product that is built in any country with halfway decent environmental and labor laws.

Maybe for a laptop, $200 makes sense but three times the cost? That's way too much. Anyway, I have a HTPC hooked up(a 6 year old Dell with Windows 8) so I am not in the market for such a device. but a 200% price increase is just too much for me.
Everyone enjoys a little conversation and a little snark :)
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Android's UI as a "media consumption" device is terrible compared to what Kindle Fire and Nook have done. The average user (say your parents), aren't going to go to the Google Play Store (which is a terrible non-obvious) name to buy books, movies, apps, etc. unless you explain to them that you have to use the Play app to download content.

Kindle Fire nailed the obviousness of this with the top bar being labeled with Movies, Music, Apps, Books, Web.

Nexus 7's home screen widget is a poor attempt and trying to shoehorn media discoverability into an OS that isn't built for media consumption, it's built for phones primarily.

You could make the same arguement for iOS, but iTunes has already trained users that you go to iTunes to get content or you go to the obviously named App Store.

Make it easy, make it obvious. Nexus 7 is a small step in the right direction, but it needs work.
It's a slight inversion of expectations. V -> I is more common in classical, but IV -> I is a close second. In this set of songs, IV -> I is more common, but V -> I is a close second.
Perhaps Google could pay the all or part of the wages of one or more engineers at each sizable OEM, with them dedicated to getting new versions running and shipped.

Give them special training and support, maybe require the OEM to provide additional engineers who would work with and be mentored by the Google-paid engineer(s).

It'd probably be worth the expense in the end.