skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet."

Same will probably apply to most of the features for android/play introduced today.
It would be great to have this in the rails asset pipeline. Do you plan to open source your compression code?
This is much better than the first part.
The timing seems a little defensive, but I think this raises a good point.

Databases, scaling, persistence, and synchronization are hobbies of mine. As a result, I generally find the "FSYNC AFTER EVERY DATABASE OPERATION!" crowd rather tedious.

Even more so when they:

1. Don't know what they're talking about

2. Publish benchmarks of databases they don't understand compounded with a misunderstanding of statistics

With that said, I'm skeptical of how useful MemSQL's specific trade-offs are. They represent a nice contrast to how most other databases are currently configured, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to be for.

It seems as if it's designed for situations where you're doing a lot of table scans. This is rather odd. Are you optimizing for the lazy company that won't set up an OLAP for analytics and is trying to make their OLTP database do the work? The vast majority of transactional or just plain 'usual' work is indexed fetches by id of some row, document, kv blob, etc.

I know OP is actually the CTO of MemSQL and seems to be rather straightforward so I'd like an answer as to what MemSQL is trying to solve.

At present, it doesn't seem like MemSQL is actually better at the sundry "fetch by pk/guid" 95% use-case than MySQL. If it is, I'd like some evidence of that.

Answers that can be summarized as "BETTER THAN MYSQL!" will be met with derision though ;) Talk to me like an engineer...in trade-offs.

Edit: that "MySQL is a bazillion times faster than MemSQL" post appears to be the top Google result for MemSQL now. That's gotta sting. N.B. This is a common mistake database vendors make. Not explaining their niche/use-case clearly. They love to claim they're superior at everything. Basho is marginally less guilty of this than most.
The Google tablet is half the price of an iPad. If that's not competing on price, I don't know what is.
Indeed. From Apple's press release of January 2010:

"iPad will be available in late March worldwide for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model, $699 (US) for the 64GB model."

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/27Apple-Launches-iPa...
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If Google would only release 1 major version of Android per year, like everyone else, they would bring those numbers for only 1 version of Android before the next one is released, instead of 2.

I understand why they had to showcase Android 4.1 now - to release with their brand new tablet. And Android 5.0 will be released this fall. But next year they really should just release Android 6.0 at I/O (their biggest and most professional event), and be done with it. Then Android 7.0 at I/O in 2014 and so on.
Android also has some notion of a traditional filesystem that's exposed to the user, iOS does not.
They could change form factors for wider acceptance. A form factor that looks like hipster glasses with lenses that dynamically darken would do very well.

For some different and older crowds, building these into visors and caps would be good for tourism applications.

Add an app that can do limited communications -- like yes/no/maybe/Google-that-please using 1-3 taps on your cellphone, or give a human assistant the ability text and ask questions and pop up a dynamic menu, and this would be very useful to businesspeople and diplomats.
Yes, nice to see there is not a huge mark-up for the UK prices. $199 is £127 + 20% tax = £152... Close enough.
Yes, it's exactly like saying that. Windows has several years between each version and each version still has like 30-40% each, so it's quite fragmented, too.
MacBook Pro: Frequently asked questions about using a Retina display
It's the built in amp. It's a risky move to be sure. There will be a market for this for sure, but $299 is a lot. It also has more wireless technology than your average media streaming device. Being made in America is not adding a lot to this price.
FWIW you can get ICS on that phone, just not officially.

If you aren't going to buy a Nexus, you have to accept the fate of sparse official/OTA updates if you're lucky enough to get any at all. This is the fault of carriers and the ignorant masses that prop them up. An alternative exists if you're interested; buy Nexus line.
Your story makes me fear every working for a big company. With these exception of a few retail stints while still in school, I've primarily enjoyed working for smaller companies.

I had a very similar human-powered spreadsheet task which was a massive time sink, and hugely error prone. It entailed looking up values in one sheet, comparing to another, and then combining separate pdf files based on the result of the spreadsheets. After doing it a few times, I decided I wasn't cut out for this kind of task. I fired up Python, scripted everything away, and turned what used to literally be an all say task, into something that took only a few minutes to run.

Showed my boss, he was pleased as punch, and I received a sweet bonus at the end of the week.

Small companies rule (for their lack of stringent bureaucratic rules).
Not only that, but the soft volume controls aren't uniformly available. When you're watching a movie in Netflix, you have to stop the playback to adjust volume, but you can't hear the volume until you start playback again. Just painful.

Note: this experience may have been fixed, I haven't used my kindle fire for watching movies in months, for obvious reasons.
No HDMI?
According to the market share figures from last November (the most recent I've seen), the majority of them will have Android phones. Your point?
Some people wear Bluetooth earpieces every waking moment.
More specifically, a brand new layout engine for Firefox, to eventually replace Gecko, with better concurrency and safety enabled by Rust. Firefox will still use the same Javascript engine.
I'd like some feedback on the project I'm working on. I'm finishing some UI work right now, when I update the apk on the Marketplace I'll definitely hit you up, thanks man.
Specs on the device page say a 216 ppi, am I missing something or did you mean to make your cutoff closer to the iPad at 250ppi?
Your site does not work in the old Internet Explorer? Does it really matter?
To be fair, Google will sync your (un-DRM'd) iTunes music (and whatever other music). It takes a while to upload and there's a limit on the number of songs (20,000?), but it does have that utility.
This is accounted for in the article.
> live video streaming and two way audio, over commercial cellular networks, using commodity hardware

Isn’t that the description of any smartphone available for a few years now? Remove the screen and you can shrink it almost at will.

Project Glass is interesting, I’m curious about the display tech, but this demo didn’t show anything new.
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I have mine underneath my TV stand/media cabinet. It cannot be seen from the couch or really anywhere in the living room.

The Apple TV's ability to just disappear really is it's biggest selling point.
Why is that? Your contract allows you to change phones at any time, you just can't get another subsidy or cancel your service without a fee until the extant contract expires. You are free to purchase another phone, second-hand or new, without cell company subsidy and switch to it.
Anyone developing for health-care, government, etc.

Heck, I'm sitting here on XP, developing specifically for IE6 and nothing else.
Do load balancing routers help in site-to-site VPN setups?
I feel like the supported browser icons should be in colour. To me, back and white represents 'not supported'.
What are you talking about? This is a 7" $199 tablet we're talking about. And besides, the talking head on stage mentioned JB is coming to the Xoom in the next month or two.
They're only maximizing it for one quarter at a time. They're losing repeat business to competitors, primarily Apple. Why would I want to buy a second product from a company that has let me down once already?
It's a cool stunt, but I don't quite understand why everyone is so excited about this as a tech demo - surely a head mounted camera is the least interesting use of Google Glass, and the big unknown is how it looks on the user side?
That part is cool, but it's also "FaceTime with a head-mounted camera". They spent most of their time showing something that is better but not unique. I was under the impression that Glass is supposed to put a UI in your field of vision, yet the entire presentation focused on the camera.
I've employed people and hope to again soon and the conclusion to your post is 100% wrong. All the costs you mention are your problem. Finding talent is expensive. But it's expensive to everyone. You're spending all that money to find someone willing to invest their precious time and skill/knowledge with you instead of spending that value some other way. That doesn't make them your slave. You don't get any special rights because you spent money.

If you want to keep people give them a compelling reason to stay. Collusionary practices like anti-poaching, Noncompetes and so on are not fair and just. They are immoral and bad for the markets. Engaging in any of these practices should come with hefty fines.
If Google was serious about helping the US economy, they'd pay all of their corporate taxes in America, not Ireland.
Interesting. nakkiel would be right if it had been in the U.S. or here in Uruguay.

From what I'm reading, that is the case in the Netherlands, the company has the right to the work:

http://www.biolegis.com/uploads/tx_articles/Who_owns_IP-olan...

"In principle the person/legal entity that has created the work (such as software), is the owner of the copyrights in that work. However, article 7 of the Copyright Act provides
that if the invention is made by an employee, the employer is entitled to the copyrights."

Here's an apparent example from the Netherlands:

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/03/05/w...
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Synchronizing such devices in different rooms across my whole apartment might sound better than turning up the volume on the nice livingroom stereo in an attempt to have it heard three rooms farther. That one is too expensive, but I could imagine littering the apartment with sub-100USD devices.
Anyone know how I install egit with Juno?
I think we may have our wires crossed. I'm concerned about undefined behavior in my own programs, not undefined behavior in Clang itself. Someone mentioned Clang as a tool that can help detect UB in other programs, but I mentioned that these checks are far from exhaustive.
> Optical and HDMI make so much more sense for a processor like this.

It has those, too.

> if you own a huge TV/speakers

Lots of 18-25 year olds don't have huge TVs and these will be great for their parties. Move this and a set of speakers into place and they're ready for the party. Everyone else can use the optical output and still have the flexibility to move it around for special occasions and directly connect to speakers.
Googlers skydive wearing Google Glasses, broadcast jump live to Google+
I just did too. I hope that I don't regret this decision like I did the Kindle Fire. It seems that $200 is my price point for impulse-buying tablets. If Microsoft can manage to get their Surface out for $200, I guess I'll have to get one of those, too.
The integrated 25 watt Class D amplifier wouldn't account for more than $20 of the parts cost. That's about how much it costs to buy one wholesale -- including a case and power supply.
This is why I love google. They back engineering efforts wonderfully. Glass does look like a good wearable computing device.
Hackers seek hackers in NYC for absurdly fun + challenging startup (YC W12)
We're leading the online-to-offline revolution. We use social technology to make your life better, not merely to reflect the life you already have (lookin' at you Facebook). Our ultimate goal is to end loneliness and to create some amazing stories along the way. Users have already created thousands of these stories (offline) through our product.

[fun product + hard problems]

We have way too much fun using our own product and solving super hard problems (making things happen offline is way harder than merely scaling some web app). We regularly tackle unchartered problems in algorithms, logistics, social behavior and UX.

[awesome business model]

We make money. We're a real business, not a charity. We've also raised money from some of the best investors in the world (including YC), which we haven't announced yet, but we'll gladly tell you when we chat.

[founders are hackers]

We're a tiny team still willing to give away full points of equity. Both of the co-founders are technical and have previous startup experience (including at other YC startups and an app that scaled to billions of impressions per month). We were fortunate enough to go to good schools (like MIT, Princeton, and Yale), but we're most proud of our hacking abilities, which they don't really teach you at those places.

[you]

We're looking for full-stack hackers who understand people and appreciate great design. We're in New York, but if you're not we can chat about getting you here to the greatest city on earth.

If you want to put a dent in the universe and have fun doing it we should probably talk. Shoot us an e-mail at social.hacker.nyc [at] gmail.com. No recruiters or "idea guys" please. Hackers only.
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The article says

"According to a recent report from Pacific Crest Securities, a Portland, Oregon-based investment bank, orders for components used in Amazon's standard e-readers have fallen 75% from the bank's previous expectations."
cough Nexus One cough
Glass looks interesting, but (presuming the price comes way down, which it surely well) I can't see it having a whole lot of traction in consumer markets. Yeah it's small and light, but it's still going to be distracting - I've worn glasses for 30 years

That said, I could really see glass taking off in occupations that require field work - for example, a surveyor or construction foreman can use them in the field and managers/architects/engineers can review pictures and video of project progress or problems that might crop up in the field. It could be attractive to certain consumer markets like cyclists, etc.

Similarly I could see Glass being adopted wholeheartedly by military, security and police personnel, especially as replacement for military helmet cams.

All my opinion of course. We certainly live in interesting times, and kudos for Google for trying to expand our horizons.

edit: BTW if the developer preview were available to non-IO attendees, I'd seriously consider getting one. Like I said, it would be extremely useful during field work.
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I did not read the full article- but just did. He did not add the password only after finding out he was being fired (in fact, the way he tells it, he was escorted from the building). I think it would be very difficult to demonstrate malicious intent. But again, I'm not a lawyer :) Or a judge.
20,000 is a ton. I synced my entire library into it and it was a couple hundred gigs. It also takes higher quality than Apple I believe (320 kbps mp3) and converts down FLAC, OGG, etc.
1280x800 on 7" is a very high resolution, it will make everything look tiny. I think what parent was referring to is that the OS doesn't scale the text and UI elements, like the new iPad does. The new iPad has a 2048x1536 screen, but the UI looks like it's 1024x768, it's simply twice as sharp.

I have very bad eyesight, looking at the tiny UI in the screenshots on Google's tablet page made me cringe. I wouldn't be able to work with a tablet like that. I had the same problem with the MacBook Air 11", which has a resolution of 1366x768.
This report disagrees with you rather strongly:

http://opensignalmaps.com/reports/fragmentation.php

It claims 2.3 and 2.4 make up for ~75% of the installed base, and the remaining 25% is just a mess.
And its second-biggest selling point is its remote control. Best. Remote control. Ever.
They could, well... gosh, I dunno, perhaps put licensing restrictions on the use of the Android name/logo, such that by referencing your device as an Android, you commit to a certain minimum level of upgrades/support for devices, vs just cranking them out with 0 upgrade path.
Everytime I try to close my hotmail account I get an error from the website and give up.
$299 kills it dead. A complete flub in an otherwise great keynote event.

For that steep a price it had better hover in the air like a magic orb.
Relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
It's half the price, but also smaller and lower specced. So it's not going after the iPad head to head.
It's also 3" smaller, shorter battery life, much lower resolution, and maxes out at 16GB of storage.

I suspect Google has priced this very competitively (low margins) specifically to compete with iPad by offering something half the price.

If they'd put out a device with comparable features in screen, battery, and storage it would have had to be priced so close to the iPad that the question "why not just have an iPad?" would still remain.

This is pitched aggressively against the iPad as a (good) inferior product at an amazing price point.
Here's the actual hangout: https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts/ZAnS9UMS...
I really like the device, and the queue appears to work exactly as I would want it to. I'm looking forward to owning one.
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Yeah, this seems quite overpriced to me, although I like the concept of integration. The built-in amplifier is a complete waste of time, though. I have professional powered speakers in my studio space and a nice amp for the TV/surround speakers. Who has speakers but no amplifier? Just give me a clean line out.
Depends on what you mean by "hard". Although it's time consuming to learn different platforms, there are not a whole lot of gotchas you have to discover on your own. It's all been done before and well documented.

PhoneGap development is hard inasmuch as there are tons of gotchas you don't know about and haven't been clearly and extensively documented.
It follows good principles of not being developed under stealth mode and being released sooner rather than later.
Its been fixed upstream by Netflix.... but why didn't you just change the firmware on your Fire to ICS like I did? Standardized soft vol avail everywhere.
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These are a low-volume "developer preview" device. No one sane thinks they'll sell to consumers at that price.
How does the future-proofedness of Android tablets compare to the first iPad?

I think it's held up pretty well, it doesn't get apps or features that require the camera, but aside from that it still gets updates and can run stuff.

Andriod tablets can run new apps but not the operating system upgrades? I don't have any experience to know.
Android 4.1 adds Offline Voice Typing
What? The designers who will be using this to convert PNG's won't have the slightest idea how to access an API. I, as a programmer, don't want to write code to do this either. I think creating a site for this is awesome.

It would be cool if they created an API as well, and a library (but for what language? so many compatibility issues...), but to say this should "not be a website" is entirely backwards. A website is the most user-friendly and accessible platform possible, and makes perfect sense to be the first step.
For the same reason no-one asks after Chrome OS much anymore: Google doesn't seem to know why they're making it or where it fits. Until they figure that out for themselves, they're not going to have any useful answers to give us.
* Most Nexus devices do.

Google no longer supports old hardware to a certain extent. I had to upgrade phones from a Nexus One because they wouldn't be pushing ICS to it. I'm guessing that this will be the case eventually with tablets.

I particularly only purchase Nexus branded devices because of the support for the most current OS from Google.

(Just noticed you said 'for at least a couple of years')
I see at least one eager early-adopter market for Google Glass: amateur pornographers who want to share their, um, personal experiences. Don't laugh -- throughout history, pornographers have been early-stage adopters of new media technologies -- e.g., see http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v49/no1/johnson.html
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I don't understand this sentiment. These are absolutely not consumer products. They're highly specialized hardware devices being sold to interested, motivated hackers that would like to investigate the technology.

Google clearly isn't sure about what direction to take the technology. They've espoused some vague notions about the importance of first person views and the ability to instantly capture precious moments, but that's about the extent of their push right now.

I think it's really cool that they're interested in getting devices into developers' hands to help them figure out where to take the technology.
thanks but i wouldn't go that route for several reasons. i like the idea of simple, normal, default speakers. they are not tied to any standard like airplay and they just do one thing well - make sound. a wireless audio signal may suffer from interference in some situations. i don't like apple itunes at all, but that is just my personal preference. i've always avoided itunes and have used foobar2000, songbird, anything but itunes. i have a lot of classical music in FLAC files and just don't want to deal with Apple and their rule of the month.
Couldn't a recursive query help here? Oracle has had CONNECT BY for years, and SQL Server has had recursive queries since 2005 (not sure about open source).

And, if SQL isn't the best way, what is? Map-reduce seems hellish to write to me, requiring very advanced developer skills - maybe some Python code?
And it doesn't do anything different than the existing Google TV or the Vizio Co-Star - well, those don't have a built-in amp, but why would you buy this if you don't already have a nice stereo system (which already includes its own amp in the first place)?

Were the people who designed this product just stupid? I mean, it looks cool, but really, the built-in amp is a complete waste.

And another thing - twist it to change the volume? Why should you even have to touch the thing at all? If you can't make it do anything else by touching the device itself, why would you increase the cost by adding a 'twist the top to control the volume' feature? You're going to be playing all your content from a remote device. You can control the volume from that remote device as well. Sure, I guess it's a cool feature and all, but utterly useless. come on...
Wow, you're right. I've been saying it wrong for some time, then!
I wish someone wrote django-static-upstream
As somebody from the Netherlands, this makes me skeptical. He's claiming to be Dutch but his legal perspective is American. He also claims to be fired on the spot. There is no such thing in the Netherlands if he had a long term position: it will always be reviewed first by a government institution called Centrum voor Werk en Inkomen or by a judge (there are exceptions for exceptional cases, like if somebody punches somebody else in the face).