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GOOGLE NOW

Google Now is a sort of unifying service that takes everything the smartphone knows about the user, and everything the user’s previously wanted to know, and combines it to keep everything on track automatically.

KEYBOARD

The new Jelly Bean keyboard lets you get started by typing a word or two, and then based on what you’ve said, Android makes a few educated guesses on what your next word will be and offers them up as options before you’ve even started typing the next few words.

NOTIFICATIONS

Essentially, actions can now be performed from straight within the drop-down notifications menu. So, if you’ve missed a call, you can text or call back that contact directly from the notification widget. The same holds true for liking or commenting on foursquare check-ins and other social media interactions.

ANDROID BEAM

Android Beam now lets you tap your phone to any other NFC-enabled Android Beam phone to share photos and videos. You can also automatically pair any NFC-capable Bluetooth device, including speakers, headsets, etc., with your phone by simply tapping the phone against the device. “It’s that easy.”

CAMERA

The Jelly Bean camera app now lets users swipe for a quick preview of the last photo taken, but picture review gets even better. Users can continue swiping to see all photos taken, and pinch to shrink the gallery into a film strip UI, allowing users to navigate to the right image quickly.

You can swipe a particular picture from the film strip away to delete it, but in case it was a finger spasm or some other sort of misstep, you can always hit undo to get the image out of the trash can.
http://sas70.com/sas70_faqs.html ; Question #2 - who can perform/sign off on audits? Only CPAs.
I am a glasses wearer that drives a lot (25k miles per year), cycles a decent amount (around 1,000 miles per year), plays sports and practices a martial art - I am constantly dealing with blind spots caused by bridges, nose-pad temples, as well as reflections off the lenses. Unless Glass becomes significantly smaller (it will get smaller over time, but I'm talking a few cubic mm) it becomes one more blind spot.

Certainly for me it would become enough of a hassle that I couldn't imagine wearing it around all the time, which means having to dig it out for the times when I do want to use it (which means remembering to bring, etc) - at that point, why not just use my cellphone?

I suspect I'm not alone, but we'll find out over the coming years.
There is plenty of undefined behavior in C++ [1]. It is important to understand that these aren't bugs in a particular compiler, but deliberate definitions in the standard itself to give compiler writers leeway in their implementations. Amusingly, that means "undefined behavior" is explicitly defined in the standard.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/367662/712512
If you don't login, it's not counted. If you don't log in for over a year then the account would be deleted.
These ones? No. These are ridiculous, (really) ugly, and pretty limited.

But make no mistake, this is absolutely the future.
It seems like your argument is against the existence of the device. I disagree. I think it's a much nicer experience than anything that involves plugging in a desktop computer. Although, I do think it should be priced <= $200. I was simply saying that being able to connect directly to speakers is a nice feature that doesn't come at the expense of anything else.
I have to agree with the OP here. Making this a webpage is silly.

If it were a library the program that created the PNG could have saved it in this compressed form in the first place.

Choosing the language isn't an issue, either. The obvious choice is C because that's what regular libpng is written in. And every language in existence provides a way to interface with C.
Aye now, 320kbps MP3 >! 256 kbps AAC. Aurally they are almost imperceptible.
"There is no culture, no common morality, no historical tradition to draw on."

There is a hundred centuries of culture, moral evolution, historical tradition, and also philosophy, art, literature, and science to draw from, if not more. It is not uniform, it is not monolithic, but it is there. If we took a random collection of human beings from all over the Earth and we dumped them on a planet with nothing they would develop society, culture, ethics, and government within a short matter of time.

Yes it's scary, and it's going to get scarier. And yes there is still a lot we need to do to make sure that things go well. But this isn't the first time that the world has been rocked by titanic power shifts into the hands of "unprepared" individuals (see: the automobile, the printing press, firearms, industrialization). Ultimately we're already past the point where we could stop it, so we best figure out how to deal with it.
On the other hand, what are the odds we're still using them in 100 years? Almost none.

The next question then must be: when do we start writing the next generation of tools? Now, or should we wait?
Right now, the product screams alpha build.

But given 3+ hardware generations, it'd be useful to have a HUD with customized real-time data. Probably information overload for most people, but wearing googles beats checking a phone in your pocket for convenience.
And you think that is a good situation for Android users? Want the new OS, buy a new phone without a subsidy. That is one hell of a tag line for Android
The moment anything happens during protests, millions of camera phones come out and point at it. It's far more imposing than any glasses.

Bluetooth is the PAN implementation of the hour usually and is used to shift stuff around.
I'd say that's an issue for me too... one item to be viewed at a time on my work laptop. I'd prefer much smaller images.
The tools you mention use lossless compression. For 24-bit PNG files that means they probably won't come close the kind of lossy compression used by TinyPNG.
It's built on existing Open Source tools. Look for OptiPNG, PNGcrush, etc. There are plenty, this is just a pretty web front end.
The devil is in the details. Styluses were too slow as input, and the device was separate from the main comms device.
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Riot[1] (windows) does as good or better than pnggauntlet and lets you preview things. supports the same backends I think (pngout, optipng, advpng, etc) and some extra dithering options... perhaps worth a look, I switched from pnggauntlet. :)

[1] http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/
Hands-on with Voxer: more than just another iOS messaging app
I swap my batteries (and always have a spare which doubles my battery time - with my phone I have three), on my laptop, on my phone, and if I had one, on my tablet.

I'll never buy Apple until they have replaceable batteries. I know several people like me, and there are probably a lot out there just like me. I don't know why Apple people think "why not get an IPad" if price is comparable. I'd pay a bit extra for the same specs just for the battery being swappable.
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This stuff isn't exclusive to big companies, I've had similar BS in smaller companies too. Usually when you have a company director who is scared of technology.
'Infinity Blade' is Epic's Most Profitable Game Ever
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/

Strange Days - 1995.
There's already a market for Point of View (POV) porn, and people are already having sex holding big camcorders.
There have been many instances of Google design resembling Metro. For example: http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions.html
I'm wondering why protesters don't rig up their own low-tech version:

For personal security, monitoring illegal police acts, sure. As a means for letting people who can't come be part of the action? That would get annoying real quick unless the wearer stared in one direction all the time, or only occasionally moved their head. Otherwise it's just shaky cam which lots of quick cuts as the wearer looks up/down/left/right/etc.
Or just get a 10 inch Samsung tablets and buy one of the stylus's that are available anyways. It's no different than an iPad with one of the 3rd party stylii.
That's coming with our UI toolkit :)
https://trigger.io/forge/toolkit/
Their definition of entrepreneurship is purely a function of new business creation. How many of those 60 year olds are attorneys, physicians, accountants, or other independent personal services providers with support staffs of 0-3 people? I wouldn't call an MD an entrepreneur.

The linked Kauffman PDF says (page four) that they can't distinguish between business with high growth potential and others for the purposes of this study.

[EDIT: modified to include definition before I saw klochner's reply]
Uh, thats false. Android scales the UI across foir sizes.
In a typical data environment for an event table, you can have a user_history table with the unique_primary_key, timestamp, user_id, attribute_column_name, Previous_value, and Subsequent_value.

If you want to know what users who did X and later did Y, couldn't you select all of the users who did X in a subquery and then find out how many of those user_id's match user_id's of people who did Y, where the timestamp on Y is between the X's timestamp and X's timestamp + some_predetermined_amount_of_time?

I am out of my depth, but isn't there some database best practice for tracking user session start and stop times?

Edit: I wrote this comment before I saw a different comment of yours above, which I think answers my question.
It was fine for me in Amsterdam and London.
I'd pay more than an iPad for a tablet with identical specs if it had replaceable batteries.

I'll never, ever personally purchase an Apple product until they do.
I don't understand the freakout over the price. This is a beta, dev-only prototype device designed to get it into the hands of the hardcore for exploration, testing, and development.

$1500 is a blip in a dev shop budget. It's obviously not a consumer-ready device yet, and with it, no consumer-ready price point. There is no economy of scale at play here yet.
what's really interesting for me is their brand-name vs white box comparison:

DRAM one-bit ﬂip, Brand: 1 in 2700, White box: 1 in 950
Disk subsystem: Brand: 1 in 180, White box: 1 in 180

Assuming that brand-name desktops have brand-name memory and disks it means:

1. brand of your non-SSD desktop-level HDD absolutely doesn't matter.
2. brand-name memory is 3 times less likely to fail.
This is good advice to the millions of people who start a blog/website/ecommerce store/hobby/business that they want to make money from. It's not always about what you love, it's about what you can sell. Sometimes your passion can become a profit center, but not always.
I don't think total augmented reality is the goal with these devices. Besides, I sense that truly useful augmented reality is still so far off; to the point where the AI needed would totally negate the need for AR beyond some one trick pony act that's amusing for about 30 seconds.
A nice example that good tech reference doesn't need much stylistic formatting :)
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Noob question, where can I find the recorded version of that demo?
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Slightly off-topic but I always liked this concept: http://www.coroflot.com/billymay/Nike-Hindsight There's plenty of room for Google to innovate in glasses design if they're willing to throw away people's expectations of glasses-as-fashion.
As one of the 1% who followed PG's link (6 year club member), I still consider reddit to be one of the more valuable destinations on teh webz due to the community structure.

Like HN, I often don't even bother with the linked article because the comments usually have so much more value. I think there's even more value to be extracted there if one can find a way to bump back up the S/N ratio....
sweet jesus thats a big bezel
http://www.google.com/nexus/#/7
Will I be able to watch it after it's done?
How I find ideas in trivial details. The guy who stares at screws.
Anecdotally, they've also done relatively well here in Ontario ever since they dropped the prices to 200$ and up. Many of my friends and family have one (no Kindle Fire up here).
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I have a reasonably popular app and I was stunned to see how much Yahoo and Hotmail addresses dominate. Very different from my friends circles.
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JPEGmini: Optimize your photos and images.
I don't think 25 watts will provide enough sound for a party. I think it would be fine for lounging around a room, but not for a party.
No, they should do like Apple and not obsolete Android devices that aren't even released yet. It's part of making customers feel good about buying your product.
Maybe it could have potential as a gimmicky child's toy in which you can take care of/play/see your virtual pet while you're wearing the glasses?

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil
While I'm all over you getting an iPad (I'm primarily an iOS dev), the Nexus line of phones, other than the G1, have shown markedly more updatability than the run of the mill random crapware phones you get for free by doing X or Y.

Perhaps you'll get a few years of updates out of it?
I'd buy it for sure!
What's worse is that flash videos have their own volume control, and some of them default to having volume at half staff, and for some reason, sliding your finger on the (flash) volume bar doesn't adjust the slider at all, it moves the whole webpage around. Really frustrating watching flash videos on an Android device.
Needless to say, as one of the few pro Machinima filmmakers in the world, I'm absurdly excited by this. Haven't used Source for years...

The key point about this tech? If you're using your own art assets, it's usable for commercial movie-making, with no license fee.

Any of the learned HN types know how the Source engine stacks up graphics algorithms-wise with other engines like Unreal 3 and Crysis? Specifically, how are their lighting standards, and do they support Global Illumination / Indirect Lighting stuff, and/or Ambient Occlusion?

Update - apparently they do support SSAO, but on a per-material basis. Not ideal, but hey. And they do Indirect Lighting, but baked, not dynamic.
Facebook has taken their app offline:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/facebook-quietly-rele...

In the mean time, a company called FriendThem announced they are contemplating legal action against Facebook because they feel their idea was stolen:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/25/friendthem-sues-facebook-c...

Which made me think this idea is too simple to sue each other over. I wrote a clone in about half a day yesterday (the link above). For those interested in the technology, it's made with Python, Bottle.py, Gevent, MongoDB, CoffeeScript and JQuery Mobile. Code is here:
https://github.com/allards/connectnearby

A live version is here
http://connect.othercircles.com

The app would be much more useful if you could connect on Linkedin, Twitter or with a vcard as well. NFC would be perfect for this. What do you think?
Congrats to the Citus team! It looks like a great product, will definitely use it!
In the linked report, the significant change is that the 45-54 group has overtaken both the 35-44 group and the 55-64 group since 2007, but there is pretty regular fluctuation so I wouldn't read too much into it.

More interesting is that the latino population has seen a marked increase (+100%) in entrepreneurial activity since 2000.
Realistically, there is a level beyond which you cannot increase profit through forced obsolescence. If I have a year left on my contract I am not going to buy a new phone, no matter how good it is. So the choice is not between a free software update and a new phone. It's a choice between a software update and nothing; the update may actually be more profitable.
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Just FYI, the first iPad will not be compatible with iOS 6. Still a pretty decent lifespan, but coming to an end.
Seems like you really want to take issue with my post but I have no idea what the hell you're going on about. Sorry for the language, but this isn't the first time, so I'm a bit frustrated.

Yes, we must deal with it. Yes, there are examples in various formats from the past but nothing directly applicable. Drawing inferences and finding a common ontology would be difficult in the best of times. No, it is not especially scary. I said I was pessimistic, not that I was afraid of anything. So we're living in the latter days of the Roman Empire. It's just a thing that is part of our existence. No, this isn't the first time the world has been rocked with change but the change today is occurring at a much greater rate than ever before.

Like I said, I'm not sure we disagree on much. Apologies if it wasn't clear from my comment what my point was. Historical analogies are much more difficult to draw than at any time in our past, philosophical underpinnings of the way governments and groups of people work need to be applied at the principles level and not the policy level, and dozens of trends kick off each decade which will have major impacts down the road. Nothing to fear; this is just where we are. Understanding the problem and talking about it helps gain a common understanding for the required adaptation that will eventually arrive. Evolutionary adaptation can be very painful to experience.
The skydiving demo is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh-liQDE3cM
If you're good with speech synthesiser development .. now's the time to shine.
>I was surprised that the company didn't just sue him for not giving up company property.

That probably would have required escalation to Corporate Counsel and CEO, which would have exposed the fact that the manager fired the kid for doing awesome work and was likely trying to get the password to run the system himself, fire the other data-entry people, and take credit for the amazing efficiency improvements. He probably didn't want the CEO to find out about that, so he couldn't sue.
MHL compatible probably. (The Galaxy Nexus is...) $15 adapter from monoprice.
Oracle's CONNECT BY is a good idea. I forgot about that. CONNECT BY is technically for hierarchical queries but you could probably hack something together between connect by and windowing in Oracle. I'd be curious to see how the performance is.

Part of my behavioral database is a query language for event data. It's called EQL (Event Query Language). I don't mean to slam SQL to try to make my solution sound better. I wrangled event data with SQL at a company years ago and it was awful. Data was denormalized and stored in rows but we ran into issues of max column lengths and row chaining not to mention a ton of custom processing.

I've also tried using Redis as an event store but you really need your data processing on the same box as the data to get good performance. For example, Redis supports ~100K calls per second (depending on the command used) on a single box. You can retrieve multiple events at one time but you're still going to hit a network performance and CPU bottleneck serializing all that data, not to mention that you still need to process it. I built my behavioral database to compile EQL to optimized machine code using LLVM and then iterating over events in memory-mapped data files. As a comparison, I'm traversing about 50 million events per core per second.

I'm not trying to knock RDBMS systems or Redis. I used to be an Oracle DBA and I've used Redis on plenty of projects. Behavioral data is just a different beast though. It needs fundamentally different tools.
For personal security, monitoring illegal police acts, sure. As a means for letting people who can't come be part of the action? That would get annoying real quick unless the wearer stared in one direction all the time

You'd want to treat the "controller" end (as opposed to the "ground agent" end) as augmented reality.

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/725013/hands-on-with-o...

The "controller" would inhabit a 3D virtual reality, moving smoothly along with "ground agent" with a "window" displaying the video. The "controller" would have to turn his point of view to see the window too.

The "controller" wouldn't be just a passive observer, but would be providing intel to the "ground agent."
It seems like there is really 3 form factors: 1 hand operation, 1 hand hold / 1 hand operate, and big tablet. It seems once you get past being able to hold it in one hand comfortably, you might as well go for the 10".
In the Netherlands he wouldn't be let go immediately, there would be a variable legally-required period of time before he is shown the door, during that time he is still technically employed by the company. I suspect that it is during this period that he spoke to the senior manager.
I guess you have not worked at a company where these types of things can and do happen? It's a plausible story in my book since I had something similar happen early in my career. My boss hated me and another new hire (fear) and kept telling the VP that were were "not working and slow" well without letting my manager know the VP started logging all of the work and found that in a given week I produced 40% of the work, the other new hire produced 30% and the other three people on the team produced 10% each (including my manager) She was fired and I was given her position after being with the company for only a few months.
>> Faster, Smoother, More Responsive

Does all this finally mean it has actually caught up with iOS in terms of touch-lag? And is this finally admittance that there was a problem all along?

I know some may jump to the defence of Android here, I've seen this argued ad nauseam before, and yes I've tried some Android phones that didn't have noticable lag, but the 'top of the range' Samsung Galaxy II tablet is indisputably laggy when compared to an iPad 2.

If this is finally the fix we've (or maybe just I've) been waiting for then congrats to Android, I'm really glad to see it.
@datapimp,

I know what you're saying, but I think that now the average American knows a lot more than she did 20 years ago, thanks to the internet. If it was up to the big media corporations the average Joe would never have found out about the other side, they would only know that we are liberating Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela etc. I think you must have change the mindset of some of the people that read your stuff, maybe you sowed some seeds of change (and no I'm not talking about Obama who is carrying out some of the same policy and taken some of the Bush policies even further, and has prosecuted more whistle-blowers than all other US presidents combined).
> I'd pay more than an iPad for a tablet with identical specs if it had replaceable batteries.

Why?
Your doctor is looking for lesions - diabetic foot kills a large number of people. The ones that don't die have a leg amputated.
> 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.

Then why hasn't that happened yet for a few years now, you think? Maybe your assumption "you can shrink it almost at will" is a bit simplistic?
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But even if we are willing to upgrade every year, I'm still forced to use an outdated operating system. That seems wrong.
Yes, finally a 3.x release that made me seriously consider switching from 2.6+.
The 24-minute news cycle doesn't make allowances for little things like facts.
What are the laws like about things produced on company time anyways? In particular, is it a two way street? In other words, what if they don't want what you produced on company time - are they obligated to take it and find a way to dispose of it?
A password is not property. The company holds the copyright to the software, but the employee has no obligation to have made the software usable for any purpose. (No more than a cabinetmaker who creates an innovative jig is reqyired to write a manual or provide training.)