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it's also crap compared to the ipad. Smaller, lower resolution screen. Less storage. No ability to directly access wireless networks. Crappier apps. Fewer apps. Crappy entertainment ecosystem compared to itunes. Most likely Google will dick you on OS updates just like the nexus phone that waited months and months. No genius bar to send your mom to. etc etc etc.
Nobody invites those people to parties though.

Seriously, the bluetooth earpiece quickly became a universal symbol for pompous idiot. Much like the Segway is a well understood symbol of doofy nerd-dom. I will be very surprised if Google Glass wearers don't fall into one or both of those categories real fast. Until wearable computing gets MUCH more seamless, I think there will be social pressure on people who use it.
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it's on the side of their head and its very small and hardly noticeable.

This is on your face. In front of your eyes and it's very noticeable. They need to partner with fashion brands and put this on real fashionable glasses/sunglasses. Imagine Versace with Google Glass.
If a certain action would mean no one works with you then that action isn't rational, right?

When you talk about finders fees, then yes it would stand to reason that an agency would want to get as many of those as they can but they have to do so in such a way as to not appear to supply flaky people.

Agencies also generally place contractors and in the case of a contractor they ideally want to place the worst worker as high as they can. And when I say "worst" I mean "worst at negotiating for salary". That is, they'd like to hire you out to a big bank for $1k/day and convince you that $200/day is a lot of money so they can pocket $800/day on you. If that sounds bad, I've heard of worse arrangements. In any case, whatever they get the contractor in they're going to want to keep them there as long as possible so they can continue to earn off them.

If you want to stop the agency who placed with you from poaching your permis then you should insist on paying the finders fee over some time period. This avoids the need for immoral and unenforcable "no-poach" contracts and but gives the recruiter incentive to keep the employee in place. Especially if you arranged payments so that payments get larger later in the employment cycle.

Hmmm, maybe someone should make an agency and try this model. :) But if you do be careful because companies will try to flip it the other way: e.g. fire and re-hire the employee early on to avoid further payment (which is probably why agencies demand the fee up front now).
Summary: Accompanied by much fanfare and circus acts, Google offers you ways to let Google data-mine your life on a whole new scale.
Yeah, but theirs is unplanned obsolescence.
Installs just fine (at least for me). Just updated to latest Jelly Beans SDK (API v 16) and everything went smooth.
I haven't been following much of android development but is it starting to look like WP7? I only say this because both of the screenshots on the page look very very much inspired by WP7.

https://lh3.ggpht.com/3Pu3EHP1QUr9oI-YdIPQE5BxWYVGZ_DzPwhReS... - Metro-esque

https://lh4.ggpht.com/p-eZmyce7_T2-_eOwltQxU6glPj6f53kDXvDvN... - Big airy sans, open spaces, riding the line of minimalist, etc.
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Web copyright for the complete dumbass
It's strange. Usually Apple comes in and creates the definitive version of a product combining all the best of what was there already and some new concepts that seem simple and obvious in retrospect.

For their podcast app to come out and just be, "eh good enough" is a little concerning. I hope they stay on track.

Then again, maybe Apple just -- oddly -- really doesn't do audio UI that well. iTunes and the iTunes Store is pretty lackluster these days.
For anyone wondering when it's coming to ICS phones.

"Google: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean coming to Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S and Motorola Xoom mid-July"

from: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-android-4-1-jelly-...
Why?

Ever tried any of their location based features in europe?
Particularly since the OTA to Xoom is sometime mid-July.
Announcing Version 2 of the Google Drive SDK
You can override the default caching when you're using a UIWebView as well.
One reason:

"...performance of UIWebViews is less than in mobile Safari. This has a lot to do with the absence of the new Nitro JavaScript engine in UIWebViews, apparently for security reasons. I ran some tests on my iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1.1, the JavaScript benchmark Sunspider running in Mobile Safari was 3 x as fast as running in a native app with a UIWebView. Also, to communicate from the UIWebView to the native app, a JavaScript bridge is needed. This is tricky stuff, slow and not really thread safe."

http://blog.mobtest.com/2012/05/heres-why-the-facebook-ios-a...
Sorry, the fault is mine alone. I used an ambiguous description above, now edited.

The only point I wanted to make was that a collective effort might help cut down on ambiguity in expression that the compiler does not identify. I think we could use "more warnings".
"If I want to show someone content on my tablet wouldn't we just sit next to each other and look at the tablet?"

To me this seems like one of those features that you wouldn't want until it becomes available, almost like Bill Gates saying how we'd never need any more than whatever ridiculously small amount of ram he mentioned. Whatsmore, It sounds like a very interesting feature to be designed around to me, and keep in mind that the same idea of instant one-to-one sharing is one of the selling points of the galaxy s3.
A lot of 90's kids who came online in the early 2000's (me being one of them) used MSN for instant messenger, and I still do to this day.

I use Gmail for email, the only thing my hotmail is used for is to sign into MSN.
I guess?! With the power and OS in the Q, it seems obvious that they would simply make it a Google TV device. If it were cheaper, I could see it as a way of pushing Google Play services, but honestly, I doubt there are enough people heavily enough invested in Google Play services to warrant investing in a $300 standalone device.

I'm using a Raspberry PI now as a DLNA media receiver. I can use a phone or a tablet to stream media from my server to my TV for an extremely tiny cost compared to this.

I don't understand the value proposition. I know people like to act like Google does things willy-nilly, and I don't normally agree, but I do not understand the proposed positioning for this device.
One thing I love about PhoneGap that I kind of hate about all of these different "compile in the cloud" platforms, is I like have the actual source and being able to compile on my local machine.

If your cloud compile infrastructure is down or I don't have a net connection, I can't compile my app and test on device. To me that is actually worse.

I'm a developer and I can figure out how to setup an xcode or Android or WP7 app. It's not hard, especially if the app just has a single web view.

I realize these features only exist to appease Windows only shops who want to make iOS apps, but don't want to buy Macs, but if you want to build iOS apps, buy a mac. You want to make Windows Phone apps, buy a PC.

Trigger.io looks cool and all, but give me local compile and the actual project code. Otherwise, you've made my dev experience worse, not better.
Why are you tempted to say that?
> What stands out here, is that IV → I (F to C) is not only normal, it actually shows up just as often as V → I. This is surprising (at least to a classically trained person).

That's not surprising at all, and I don't believe for a second that a classically trained person would think so either. V -> I is a common movement for resolution, so is IV -> I as are several others. While his data is interesting, I find the analysis weak, he's acting surprised at perfectly known and normal things, even to someone classically trained IMHO. IV -> I isn't "breaking the rules".
Google Glass Explorer Edition Available For Pre-Order At Google I/O, $1500
I loved my Nexus One, and it was always on top of the latest official Android releases for about three years (and, if you wanted to root it, there's still good community support for it).
If only they could get some form of deal to bring TV content over. I don't think there's any way to pay to watch Season 4 of Breaking Bad in the UK.
What do you mean? Its much better for those of us who use glasses: just order one with your prescription.
This is actually a pretty weird continuum now between the three set-top boxes.

The Apple TV is really focused on getting content onto your TV. Out of the box, you can stream content from Amazon, Youtube, Hulu, Netflix, etc. without an additional iOS device. With Airplay, you can stream content from your OSX/iOS devices to the Apple TV.

Roku does the streaming half of that equation. It'll stream basically any online service to your TV.

On the other hand, the Q seems to handle the half that the Roku doesn't. It seems entirely focused on streaming personal content to your TV and speakers.
"What? The designers who will be using this to convert PNG's won't have the slightest idea how to access an API."

For designers it should be a Photoshop plugin (built on the theoretical library) or just a desktop app that can bulk convert entire directories.

While dealing with 20 images at a time is certainly nicer than one at a time, a drag & drop website UI like this one is an absolute workflow killer on the design side.
We recently ran a pilot with some students from our 13 thousand student base. Our reports show: 69% Hotmail; 13% Yahoo!; 10% Gmail.
For that use case, it seems like it would make more sense to plug the speakers into the computer they already have, or the mini-hifi they likely already have. I'm in the 18-25 range, and I run my computer sound through my $100 stereo system and computer video into my HDTV. With that and a free media center app, I have remote control, great sound, and a big picture when I have a party. If the party is somewhere that doesn't have a computer or TV already set up, there are plenty of speakers that connect directly to a laptop or smartphone that don't cost $750.

Why anyone would spend $300 on a device, then another $450 on speakers and cables for it, just to play music from their $600 smartphone... just boggles the mind.
Concluding the Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment
As much as I love Google, I would bet that they lose money on this endeavor, unless they have a really long-term plan where these glasses are just a stepping stone.

I just can't imagine that many people using these.
We've been using Citus at MixRank for storing our timeseries data, and it's worked out magnificently well for our use-case.

A few points:

(i) We can do ad-hoc realtime analytics on hundreds of millions of data points.

(ii) We can also do realtime analytics on billions of datapoints as long as we pre-compute along one dimension.

(iii) We could do a lot better at (i) and (ii) if we invested more heavily in hardware (and Citus would make this pretty painless, actually).

(iv) I'd normally not consider a closed-source solution personally, but since Citus is based so heavily on PostgreSQL (protocol-level compatibility, configuration, codebase), this has been a non-issue for us. We can still lean on the amazing PostgreSQL community, documentation, and for the parts we don't have the source code to, the Citus team has been very helpful in explaining how things work.

(v) Fault tolerance is immaculate. At the node level, PostgreSQL is notoriously one of the most reliable and robust databases available. At the cluster level, Citus will magically fall back to a replica mid-query when a server dies.

(vi) Although realtime inserts are not supported out of the box, the system is flexible enough that we were able to get this working on our own without help from Citus.

(vii) Schema migrations are also not supported out of the box, but we built a schema migration framework that takes care of this for us.

(viii) We're not worried about vendor lock-in, since the data is just stored on our servers, in the PostgreSQL serialization format. If we wanted to, we could just give up the features that Citus gives us and build our own data-access layer on top of our cluster.

Anyway, it won't be everything to everyone, but it works very well for our OLAP use-case of timeseries ad impression data. I'd definitely recommend looking into it if you're otherwise considering Hadoop, Vertica, Aster, Greenplum, or a sharded MySQL/PostgreSQL setup.

Full disclosure: I am extremely biased since I've gotten to know the team very well after using Citus. I'm definitely one of their biggest fans, if for no other reason the amount of time they've saved us at MixRank.
Right now the only real high-quality solution for remote streaming is Apple's AirPlay, and it has its limitations. The biggest problem is that it's locked down to Apple products and software; except for Airfoil, which improves matters greatly. But you still need an Airport express or AppleTV to stream to that you can hook up to your stereo.

Not true, there are a number of receivers that have integrated Airplay:

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Home/AV-Receivers/Air...

http://usa.denon.com/us/Airplayus/index.html

http://usa.yamaha.com/products/technology/airplay/

http://www.intl.onkyo.com/promotion/airplay/index.html

etc
You could argue that's just because those things never hit critical mass. People checking their palm pilot calendar was doofey. People checking their smart phone calendar is normal.
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There's also this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en&id=com....
I can't say that I have. Granted, there is a huge amount of territory in the United States that is neither San Francisco or New York. And as much as you or I may not like it, it seems pretty clear that Google primarily targets the United States for new features. (Given the crowd-sourced nature of their traffic data, I would venture to guess that it's partly because of legal issues).
Scalable data analytics accessible to anyone? Great!
I actually think they are putting this up head to head by making people ask the question about whether they should bother spending the extra £200 on an iPad.

Tablets are very much a luxury item, no one really needs two of them.

Essentially they're after people who are on the fence by making it too attractive price-wise to pass up on.
No VGA port! rabble rabble rabble
Woah! How is it 2012, and only now I discover that there exist PNG files where transparency works in IE6 ???

What the hell?

I mean, this would have actually been really useful for me... like, five years ago.
Same here, albeit a different Motorola device. A combination of Motorola and T-Mobile meant I got 2.2 just after 4.0 was released, and I'll never see another legitimate upgrade for my phone, which is less than 2 years old.

Not only will I never buy another Motorola phone, after the experience of release delays by carriers I'll never buy another Android phone.
But how are they going to avoid turning off their partners wearing that?
I am a Dane and this makes no sense to me. As far as I know no "benefits" like that are mandated by law. The only thing comparable I know of is during employment your employers notice will grow from 3 months to a max of 6 months (and that is after nine years of employment!). Anything in addition to that has probably been added in individual or union negotiations. Some companies may not require the employee to work during that period but many certainly do.

Edit: I am only talking about individuals. Mass layoff rules are different but I very much doubt they are any worse for the employer.
I was referring to this news.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/cheaper-ipad-2-may-be-ex...
First off, congratulations on the launch!

Check out Mike McDerment's talk on metrics: http://vimeo.com/10733370

Shortly after launch of our own app, we created a marketing table in our database. One metric we implemented immediately is to find out where users are coming from. Later on, as an example, you can join that with your user table and know where the paid users initially came from.

We also tracked how many times user logs in per day. From that, we started tracking many of the actions within our app. Now, using another table, we log almost all of the user's actions to get a better idea of how the user is flowing through the application. At the end of the day, track what you think will be useful to you and don't be afraid to track more than necessary.
It's curious how the Nexus 7 seems to be using a phone ui rather than a tablet one; it seems to make for a lot of wasted screen space.
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That's actually a pre-recorded (and cut) video of a similar jump, possibly a training/testing run -- not the one performed live at I/O.
I have a hotmail account but i have not used it for years since gmail. So technically am I a user of hotmail ?
Am I the only one that thinks this is pretty lame?
That part of the article was nonsense. First of all, you're not buying a slave. No-poach agreements are collusion and should not even be legal.

Second, agencies aren't placing people and then turning around and trying to steal them again. They just have your profile in a database, when a match comes up for a job they shoot you a mail. They don't remember that they placed you and they don't care. They make money by placing labor which has a very high fail rate so they live or die by volume. There's no time to consult a matrix to see what stupid clauses are between who, the employee will have to keep this sort of thing in mind. Remember, an employee taking a job and then leaving after a week for another $1k is going to hurt the employee more than anyone else involved so it makes sense the employee is the only one who needs to care about it.
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This definitely made my day. Thank you.
Sure, a Photoshop plugin would be great. And a desktop app. And a GIMP plugin. And a Finder extension. And lots of other things too.

My point is, a website interface the single most accessible way so that 100% of people can use it, regardless of platform or programming expertise.

It is the obvious first choice. That said, of course I hope all the other options come along soon...
> Similarly I could see Glass being adopted wholeheartedly by military, security and police personnel, especially as replacement for military helmet cams.

As I mentioned in the TC comments, I'm wondering why protesters don't rig up their own low-tech version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zcidJN69NY

This would give an opportunity for those with disabilities to take part in protests as a part of the action on the ground. (They could be like Barbara Gordon as Oracle in comic books.) Since the user-side hardware is inexpensive and disposable, much of the implementation challenge would be on the software side -- enabling the device deal gracefully with low and intermittent bandwidth conditions and offloading data to a local backup carried by another protester.
Was looking forward to an augmented reality demo. I thought the idea was that info was projected on the "glass". It would be cool to build a hack for a heads up display with some custom telemetry.
It's a shame they over-promised out of the gate. If they didn't start with that absurd concept video, revealing a life-blogging/recording peripheral with future potential would be pretty interesting.

Instead, it's a guaranteed let-down every time they demo an incremental step like this.
The Nexus 7: Google just brought a knife to a gunfight
Google Glass, or any similar product, is going to have at least one killer feature... real-life DVR. Instead of having to snap tho photo at just the right time or start recording before something amazing happens, w/ Glass (hopefully!) you can "rewind" and capture what you just saw happen.
Please tell me how to get ics . Btw, there have been nexus phones that have taken a while to get updates.
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Chrome for Android out of Beta
maybe they are not Keynesians
I've worked with plenty of otherwise competent people who could spend 5-10 minutes trying to find a website link or form submit button that was right in front of them.

Peggy provides better, faster feedback than a "forgot password" link does for the vast majority of the population. Not everyone knows their way around a computer; the HN crowd is definitely not representative in this respect. But plenty of people, especially in older generations, know how to use a phone and talk to someone.

Think of Peggy as a UX hack: she makes non-technical employees more efficient by cutting down by 75-80% the amount of time such people would spend trying to reset their password (using the "forgot password link" method). Alternatively, think of her as internal customer service. Either way, she actually does/did provide value to the organization if the organization was large enough that she could spend essentially all of her workday resetting passwords for people.
The Nexus One has only been out for 2.5 years (since Jan 2010) and it was announced back in October that it wouldn't be getting ICS because it was "too old", which at that time was still less than 2 years since its launch.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/26/the-nexus-one-isnt-invited-...
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That's what I thought when I saw it. How does a tablet have a screen, a battery, and more flash cost less than a 25w amp with some plugs on it?
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$82,000 was the acquisition price or the seed funding? If not, how much was Reddit bought for by Conde Nast, if you don't mind me asking?

Has Reddit been truely profitable? It gets massive traffic... but does not look like it is monetized very well. And it must get some of the worst demographics for mass consumer advertisers to sell to.
The specific form factor won't fly for the general public. Other form factors might. Specific occupations might not care. (Construction workers are already wearing helmets and often goggles, for example.)
I disagree that a classically trained musician wouldn't be surprised at the predominance of IV -> I in popular music. Plagal cadences aren't nearly as common as V->I in the common practice period, and when it is used, the pull of IV to I isn't nearly as strong. The resolution is much weaker.
We plan to release an API. The compression code is a combination of a couple of open source tools with some careful tuning and heuristics for optimal result.
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Perhaps they've got a Tron fetish...
I may be one of the few on HN, but I think this was a great move from Google. If this device is open, you can write games for it (or pull existing games from play) stream music, videos, and other content from your google drive. Its a push to make other Google products more valuable.

I think the HN crowd quickly forgets that not everyone can build themselves an entertainment PC.
Possibly. But there are millions of Kindle(fire) owners that would disagree. I guess it depends on what you are actually using it for.