skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting iteration. The Q certainly looks much nicer than the Revue hardware. The cost does seem high for a device like this without both a remote, screen and a ton of storage.
I'm not sure how much this tells us. I overclocked my system to the point where it crashed, then dialed it back from there to the point where it was stable while running IntelCpuBurn for ten minutes. I'd be surprised to find any overclocker who hasn't crashed his computer at least once during the overclocking process.

What myth is supposedly being shattered here, by the way?
I agree with you, and am 100% sure it's bullshit.

There's no details, not just identifying information, but details like where did he learn to program? What language did he use? etc.

Like most popular threads on Reddit about something incredible someone did, it's obviously completely fabricated.
Google Glass! first thing that came to my mind:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18071353/Google%20Glass.png
You're never going to have a tablet that is future proof if you don't want to upgrade every year... because there will always be newer, better ones coming out, and newer versions of Android.

Your complaint isn't that buying now would force you to use an outdated operating system, it's that you would use an outdated operating system for a little longer than you normally would.
Arun from wakemate here. This is the first I'm hearing of this. Trying to get a handle on the situation now.

Also the website is up at www.wakemate.com. (not working without the www but we will fix it.)

Edit: working without the www again.
Thanks for that. I had no idea the Fire lacked a hard volume button. I almost compulsively use the one on my iPad, as I find quantified increments far easier than sliding my fat finger over something my fat finger is blocking.
Here are the list of allowable exemptions: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title47-vol1/pdf/CFR-2...

AFAIK, "kit" does not protect against FCC requirements. MY interpretation of CE, however, does allow a lot of lenience for "kits and components" which cannot be used in their supplied form. I.E.: user must perform non-trivial assembly before being able to use said device. Having been through the FCC and CE processes, I'll take FCC any day. For most things, getting past irradiated and conducted emissions is easy enough - getting past ESD is a whole different matter.
Why would they address him with a title he didn't possess? And why would that be demeaning?

Academics tend to guard jealously their hard-won academic titles, and also to strive for accuracy in the things they do. An unsolicited 'Dr' might be extended as a courtesy to a graduand, i.e. someone who has already submitted and successfully defended their thesis viva voce. But surely not to someone who is merely 'finishing up' - a process that might never terminate.
I don't mean this as a dig at the developers of this particular site because my annoyance is more of a cumulative thing as opposed to being about this website in general, but IMO this is yet another website that does one simple thing that should be a library (or at the very least a documented web api) and not a website.

Websites of 2012, I am disappoint.
a bad one too.
While the Apple TV has one processor, it has two GPUs and each GPU is more powerful than the one Google chose (Apple TV uses the SGX543MP2). My guess is that the chip in this and the Apple TV are very similar prices.

The amp has to be a bit of the price, but I don't really get that addition. Like a lot of people, I have a receiver and speakers in my family room. Is this device aimed at people in dorm rooms and studio apartments that don't have dedicated sound systems? That's all I can think of.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't even support Netflix, MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL, Hulu or other streaming services that $99 and less devices do (although none support all of those).

For the price of this, a person could buy an iPhone 4S and an Apple TV.
I have to say, 7" is enough for me. I've got a Samsung Tab 7.0 from work, and it fits in my pants pockets; can't see that happening with anything bigger. Also, it's just about the right single-hand holding size and weight (anything bigger/heavier would be too much). What gets me about this offering from Google is the storage. 8GB and no microSD? Seriously? Some of us don't have 24/7 high-speed connectivity, and even if we did, we don't necessarily want to use the cloud.
I know it's not quite the same thing, but PhoneGap does Windows Phone too: http://phonegap.com/about/features
What you're also paying for is manufacturing jobs here in the US, as that's where it's made.
91% of the Android market is covered by 3 major versions (2.2, 2.3, and 4.0). 72% is covered by just two major versions (2.3 and 4.0).

This problem isn't quite as severe as its made out to be. Dealing with the diverse hardware ecosystem and implementation bugs are both much larger problems, IMO.
"Dr" Chang.
:-)
> It has to do with the knowledge that, if I buy an iOS device today, I know I'll get the next couple of OS releases.

True that. Actually, Apple gets the best of both worlds. If your iOS device isn't up to date enough, then you're forced at that point to upgrade. So Apple wins on both ends: newer hardware is bought with a degree of comfort, and those who hold on are motivated to pony up for new kit.
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That demo actually made me excited. It was really great work. I wished their on-stage demo could have built off of that energy.
Love the video btw!
No one says that whites were the victims of Mandela's ANC, why do you insist on justifying an occupying military that is enforcing an apartheid?

Probably a few of the Egyptian military and police have been killed by protesters but I only mentioned the 1000+ civilians killed by the police and military, no one insisted that mention the dictator's side of the story, why do you say that I am giving a one-sided story of Israeli occupation?

As we are talking Israel has been bombing Gaza and killing children, women and men, I did not mention that either. Do you know that home-made Palestinian rockets have killed less than 50 people in decades? The number of Israeli civilians killed by rockets from 2001 to 2012 is 31 and Israel has killed more Palestinians in the last few weeks alone. Which side is the victim?

Do you know that Israeli attacks have killed far more people than Palestinian attacks no matter what time-frame you pick? The ratio is usually 4 to 10 times. I don't think killing 50 people with F-16s is any more noble than killing 10 people with a suicide jacket.

In the last major assault on Gaza in December 2008 Israel killed more than 1400 civilians (more than 700 women and children) and systematically destroyed mosques, UN hospitals, UN food depots, livestock and flour mills. 13 Israelis were killed during Gaza massacre of 2008, 10 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians. (If you are unaware of any of the above you should google up human rights organizations reports, Amnesty, HRW, Israel's own B'Tselem)
It has been called a massacre by human rights organizations, it was not a war; the Palestinians had no military, no F-16s, no white phosphorus that they rained down on Israeli schools, it was Israelis who did that.

Given that it was Israel which violated the ceasefire in November 2008 Which side am I supposed to criticize?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/05/israelandthepale...

Gaza truce broken as Israeli raid kills six Hamas gunmen
5 November 2008

Before that Israel killed more than 20k during Lebanon invasion in 1980s, killed more than 1300 Lebanese in 2006 (injured 400+). Before that Zionist militias killed thousands of Palestinian civilians and British civil servants in 1930s and 1940s, at what point were Israelis the victims in Palestine?

"It is necessarily at the expense of someone else. That someone happened to be the Palestinians."

If you are acknowledging the injustice then why do you insist that I am singling out by mentioning the injustice alone and not being sympathetic to the military occupier?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/quotes

Journalist: M. Ben M'Hidi, don't you think it's a bit cowardly to use women's baskets and handbags to carry explosive devices that kill so many innocent people?

Ben M'Hidi: And doesn't it seem to you even more cowardly to drop napalm bombs on defenseless villages, so that there are a thousand times more innocent victims? Of course, if we had your airplanes it would be a lot easier for us. Give us your bombers, and you can have our baskets.
I've always hated the Hotmail e-mail experience, and I can't stand receiving e-mails in Hotmail. But I've been keeping the e-mail around for using with the MSN messenger.
Was exactly what I thought. I know its a google search away but at least show me specs/pictures so that I know whether to wait few weeks or just get your-competitor's tablet.
Maybe you could do something like StackOverflow does. You are given the option to login using your Google account credentials there. This way it's just the simple press of a button, both sides get what they want. You can login with Facebook as well, it seems: http://stackoverflow.com/users/login
I thought RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook name was brilliant. To the consumer market, they read it as "play book" and think of all the fun things they can do while playing with it. For the business market, they read it with the sports metaphor as a "strategic playbook" which fits their purposes well.
They probably wanted to demonstrate that if Glass will not interfere with extreme sports, trivial tasks as "walking on a street" will be smooth..
Windows 8 and Audio: better on desktops, much worse on ARM
$1,500 for US-based Google IO attendees. Pre-order at conference only. They won't ship until early next year.

Yikes.

Edit: I know these aren't consumer devices. I'm speaking fron a developer perspective. Noticed how literally no one clapped when Sergey announced the price, unlike when the Nexus 7 price was announced?
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Wow! I have seriously never noticed that. My brain has always just filled in Dark Side of the Moon. It wouldn't surprise me if they wanted it to be that, but some copyright/trademark issue with Pink Floyd prevented it.
We did that naked thing with our product at www.jackpotbuddy.com. When people click the button to Play then we prompt them to register or login.

I think it is a good idea and can help with conversion rate.
They had better come with prescription glasses at that price.
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Happened to me. Turned out I already had an account, but forgot about it. If you try to register an account w/ an existing e-mail, it'll tell you if it's already being used. The checkout process after I was logged in went fine.

Also, I tried the password reset before realizing I had it stored in 1Pass, and the reset didn't work. Site could use some work on functionality.
Worked really well for me, took a 238k png down to 106k. I'm not seeing any artifacts.
But won't you miss the benefits of amazon prime ?
The built-in boolean type only has two values, 0 and 1. Anything else in the memory means it's not actually a value of that type.
Coming early next year, too.. they have really, really demoed this too soon.
> If I saved it then I would have to organize it, keep track of it and back it up.

I really find this hard to swallow. It fails for me on so many counts.

Firstly, code is small compared to just about anything else you might keep on your computer. All you have to do to preserve it is drop it in a directory you keep for that purpose. The code doesn't have to be organized in order to preserve it. If you back up your computer, then your code is backed up. You back up your computer don't you?

Sure, it may be hard to find some useful piece of code later if you don't organize it, but preserving it, at least, is easy.

More importantly, you never write reusable code? You never write a library that can be applied to future problems? If not, then, you may not be the type of programmer that I'd want to work with anyway. I firmly believe that the way to increased productivity for any team is to factor out useful components and make them into more general purpose libraries. To do otherwise, is to end up with a codebase that is bloated with boilerplate.

Thirdly, if coding for you is as natural as breathing, surely you can whip up a couple of pages of code as a "code portfolio" in no time. You could have done that instead of typing in the above for your pleasure.
Thanks for all the feedback, everyone! We're still working on making TinyPNG easier to use and removing some of the kinks. Keep the comments coming!

We created this service because we (our web agency) were building a couple of sites that used very large transparent images. Unfortunately the file sizes were also massive, so we went looking for compression mechanisms beyond traditional lossless optimisation tools, which simply did not reduce our files enough. We built TinyPNG around a couple of existing open source quantising and compression tools.

Initially it was an internal tool, but we were extremely surprised by the consistent good quality of the results. So we decided to share it as an online service so that it is as easy as possible for everyone to reduce file sizes. An API will be coming soon!

Is it always a good idea to use lossy compression? No, certainly not. There are some edge cases that perform poorly. But we think the results are impressive. Use your own judgment! :-)

We actually went looking for PNG files on very popular sites (Facebook, Google, Github, Duckduckgo, many others) and almost all of them could benefit from TinyPNG's file size reduction without noticeable quality loss.
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Rejections hurt, period.
I don't think google can compete with the ipad. The ipad is priced competitively, and the question every similar tablet has to answer is why on earth would I pay as much for this as I would for an ipad? There doesn't appear to be any good answers. The android tablet manufacturers don't appear to able to compete on price with a similar hardware quality.

edit: I meant compete directly. Obviously they can make something nowhere near as nice but a lot cheaper. But is there much profit in that? The answer so far from android phones seems to be there isn't much profit and it's hard to walk up the value chain.
I have a much happier story, luckily.

My first internship in college was in R&D of a Fortune 500 company testing bugfixes for software that ran $1M+ machines.

Sometimes this involved following test matrices to exercise the machines. At the end of the test or when something went wrong, you had to read operational data off a terminal emulator on the PC hooked up to the debug port on the machine, and then log that data in the tracking system as part of the report.

The manual data entry was horribly boring and error-prone. There were a few dozen test operators who did nothing but run matrices all day so it sucked up a substantial amount of man-hours too.

Once I discovered the way-fancier-than-it-needed-to-be terminal emulator had its own scripting language, I hatched a plan. In my spare time I figured out how to automate the commands in the terminal emulator to make the machine spit out the appropriate debug data, and then I researched Windows automation and figured out how to automatically copy the data out of the terminal emulator into the reporting software. I had to deal with the machine OS developers moving debug menus around constantly for no reason (hello escaping to root menu and then regexps) and all sorts of messy stuff. End result: one button press and all the data magically appears in the report.

Once I had the kinks worked out from using it myself, I gave it to one of the operators. Instant hit. Within a couple weeks everyone had it.

Luckily management was pretty great about it - I never asked anyone before I did it. They saw how much better the automated way was and how much time/money/productivity it was saving them and heartily endorsed it (and gave me a raise).

I always hoped they managed to find someone to maintain it after I left.
I can play all the music from my google play account?
What about my iTunes account , spotify account or the random MP3s I have on my system?

Oh , so I can't play any music then?
Eclipse always struck me as kind of Junoesque.
I'd do it. Couldn't get a ticket. If i'd bought a scalper ticket, i don't think i'd be willing.
great concept!
As an Australian, I must admit that doesn't move me as much as it does you.

(And I wonder how much of the manufacturing is done in the US anyway. Is it just the chassis and final assembly, or does that include all of the components too?)
H2 support for the latest Alfresco versions
Nexus branded devices do get the OS updates in a timely manner. It's part of the Google Nexus experience. This is actually one of the reasons Google keeps putting out devices...to keep their OEMs honest and moving forward. It isn't working as well as I'd like (my HTC Sensation 4G which I bought on short notice to replace my Nexus One, which broke while I was traveling, still doesn't have ICS, despite having HTC assurances that it would be out early in the first quarter; I've given up and will be rooting it), but when you buy an Android device from Google, it's gonna get the latest Android for at least a couple of years.
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If you had gotten the galaxy 7 (the new one) you'd still be fine.

But none can predict what's future proof, mainly because it's what companies make their money off. They NEED you to buy a new tablet, phone, etc, every year.

They'd make car breaks and need complete replacement every year if they could as well.

So, while it can happen that a product is "future proof" for a couple of years instead of one, it's rare.

Heck, even clothes are made to break quickly.

Of course, that's not very ecological, and certainly not cheap for the customer ;-)
What the heck do we call these things?
Google Glass Explorer Edition, $1,500 pre-order shipping next year
It's Horn. Google seems averse to accent retraining - which is maybe not entirely a bad thing.
That's like saying 91% of the Windows market is 3 major versions, XP, Vista, and Windows 7.

2.x and 4.x are very different beasts.
But here's a browser, so Install it maybe..
There are _slight_ artifacts on the defocused green die. At typical Wikipedia in-article display sizes (400x300, in this case), this is acceptable. Viewing in Win Firefox 13.01, Windows gamma. I'd use tinypng on large files before downscaling for web use.
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That's adding, what $10 bucks to this devices bill of goods? As was demonstrated with the iEconomy series and Apple manufacturing devices over in China, it's not so much about labor as it is the entire supply line.

This device isn't $299 because it's made in America.
Hearing all your groanings regarding price, is easy to understand why we "can't have nice things". To make you happy, everything needs to be disposable, lightweight, made in China using the cheapest components available, wrapped in cheap squeaky plastic which smells like my dog's feet. That, or supported by ads or a giant media/appstore sales like AppleTV or Kindle.
I don't actually get the IM or the notification on my phone. Strange.

In any case, 99% of the designers I work with and 75% of the developers have iPhone/Mac and don't use either Android or gchat although they all have gmail/google accounts. So if they got an email they would be notified, otherwise, they never know.

Without the link it is also really hard to just tell people to go to G+. The way to join the hangout if you don't have a link is hard to find

This is not just an opinion, like I said, I actually tried to set up hangouts several times and these are the reasons it failed. Just my experience.
I have both a gmail and hotmail accounts and I use Hotmail because it works, gets less spam, and I think google knows enough about me as it stands. Gmail does have a nicer interface but that's about it IMO.
All devs at Google I/O each get Nexus, Nexus 7 and Q
Future-proof is a reasonable goal for a desktop PC, television, digital camera, automobile, wristwatch, or other more mature technology. It's just too soon to expect future-proofing from tablets or phones.

As long as the tablet continues to do what it's supposed to do , it shouldn't really matter that there's a newer OS out there.

As compared to the Kindle fire, which was never any good at doing what it was supposed to do. It wasn't even present-proof.
$299 / month? Doesn't seem worth it to me.
Good post. Loyalty in the workplace is also nonsense. We're (mostly) all capitalists here we should act like it. Never ever stay at a company because you "love it" or some childish notion of "loyalty". You should be there because it's the best allocation of your resource of time/knowledge.

I don't care about the company I work for and I feel no more loyalty to them then I do an online electronics store. Having said that, my employment has two goals: making me money now and making me money later. This means that I won't leave the company I'm at if someone else offers me $2 more a year. There are a lot of factors that make up my market value and all of them have to be considered. I have left one company to work at another at lower pay because I knew that move would put me in a better position several years down the road, i.e. would increase my market value. I said before I didn't care about companies I work for. Emotionally that's true. Professionally, of course I want them to do well because them failing hurts the value of the time I spent there. I also want to stay long enough to accomplish big things that I can talk about to the next place I interview for.

If you go into a relationship where you are more emotionally attached to them then they are to you you're going to get hurt. And a company is just one downsizing away from letting you go no matter how much they make you feel like "family".
This is very cool tech wise.

But I dont know if people would actually wear this at a party.
Specs say 216ppi? "7” 1280x800 HD display (216 ppi)"

The Retina iPad is 264ppi.
I'm in San Diego. I've passed up opportunities in the Bay because I love it here. My girlfriend is getting her MBA at SDSU, so that's another reason, I suppose. I might have to give in and get a job up there in the end but I hope not.

I've been working on developing a business in my spare time for a while now, while it won't be the next Google or Yahoo in terms of numbers, hopefully it will provide some opportunities for SoCal developers. Maybe Y Combinator can help out with making that happen =)
notice how both of your supervisors were women
I was doing PHP in 1996. If you were doing PHP in 1996, it was generally because you wanted to do it, learn it, etc (arguably web stuff in general then a bit too). There weren't many "PHP jobs" as such back then, so when you found other PHP developers, you knew they were enthusiasts of some sort.

That's where Scala's been, and almost any 'newish' language. If you find people adopting them, they're probably enthusiastic about it, and enjoy living on the cutting edge. :)
We need to remember that Hotmail and Yahoo have a lot of worldwide users. I think these numbers are a little more accurate, considering Atlantic's reporting bias (page 20):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46245195/Strategy%20and%20governance...

Gmail is also probably growing, at least if we compare advertising growth rates. I don't actually have data for the mail services and I realize there will be discrepancies, but this is from a presentation some time ago for the above case that sort of visualizes advertising (mail) growth:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46245195/comp.png