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For $299 I can get a PS3 with Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime with 250GB of space.

Or for $299 I can get an XBOX with lots of apps, Netflix, Hulu, and 250GB of space.

Or for $99 dollars I can get an Apple TV with Netflix and iTunes rentals.

Or for $79 I can get a Roku with USB, and buy an external drive with 250GB at $100 ($179 total) and get Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.

Or for $299, I can get Google Nexus Q with 16GB of space and no apps yet.
Well, if you enjoy 'log' pulling info over the network (slowly), .svn in every single folder, barely useable branching, no reabase, no stach, no… well maybe you have the point.
Otherwise not even comparable.
When I first saw Linus' talk on git where he was very harsh toward SVN uers I thought "WTF". Then I tried git and had to admit that the man was right.
Google Nexus devices in Google play
I get both an IM on Google Talk and notification on my phone ...
Is the PCB built stateside? Or was the "(c) Google Inc., Made in USA" about something else in the Q's exploded diagram?

I'd be a bit surprised by that.
I hope it's obvious that Motorola releasing the RAZR2 is more profitable than spending time working on software updates to the RAZR1 and I don't know why you insist on comparing Android OEMs to Apple when you yourself already point out that they have different goals and strategies by the nature of their products,
It sounds like this is news to the rest of the team, it's just one person who's gone off on his own and taken the twitter credentials and email list
I agree. Sometimes it's fun to think of the limiting case: all data on the device locally and displayed in the simplest viewController. Then step towards the real app and you most likely come to your conclusion. Only corner case I can think of is the previous engineers went overboard on the networking code on the device. In theory the facebook apis are plenty fast but the networking code on the device is a c or c++ mess and the current engineers are using higher level objective-c libraries.
Well, sorting is not so very difficult that you can improve it by much. However it is true for linear programming:

http://agtb.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/progress-in-algorithms-...
A good Sonos installation is really expensive.
It looks really cool. Pausing and resuming across devices is awesome. I just... 300. $300 is a lot. The tablet has a display, and it's less expensive.

That amp must be really expensive.
I dunno why you're bringing lesbians into this. My point with feminism is that feminism is about treating women with with respect, and not expecting them to do thing, nor critizing their appearance all the time (too fat, too skinny, not enough make up, etc.) This could explain why some women do not like online dating.
I love how the long-scrolling tiled design sucks you into exploring all their offerings. So much easier to do that via scrolling than by clicking around through the site.

Great use of two design concepts to remove barriers to and simplify the core customer experience.

PS - the Frank Lloyd Wright collection, for anyone who missed it:

https://www.airbnb.com/wishlists/frank-lloyd-wright

Also, looks like Jack Dorsey is a fan of houseboats and the occasional mega-yacht:

https://www.airbnb.com/wishlists/3182046
Google Nexus 7 vs Microsoft Surface Windows 8 RT
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Self joining is a good thought. It is possible to write a query like this but handling n+ steps (A..B, A..B..C, A..B..C..n) is eventually going to make your query optimizer sh*t all over itself in all likeliness. You're not simply joining two tables but you also have a temporal relationship between each event. For example, if you're looking for users who performed events A then B then C, then you need to self join B to A making sure that all events in B are after A and then all events in C are after B.

Beyond that you have to worry about whether A, B and C are all within the same session. Trying to define a session such as "all events that occurred until there is 30 minutes of idle time" is going to be damn near impossible in the SQL query.
The logo is a "Q"...
Same here. I just used a proxy site I picked at random and it works: http://www.uswebproxy.com
this is google's answer to the $99 apple tv??

the problem is, even if it is a great steamer, how many of your friends would have android phones or tablets?
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Whoa: It's 2012, and the World's Most Popular Email Service Is ... Hotmail
Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ unlocked is now 350 through the play store
Exactly. In my flat we have a £2 cable to connect phones and laptops to the stereo. No cloud content delivery explanation needed there.
What is it you think should say "within Safari browser"? JavaScriptCore is certainly not inside Safari; it's a part of WebKit. JavaScriptCore is no more "within Safari" than WebKit itself is. But I'm not sure what else you could be referring to.
Yeah the guy seemed pretty aware of it too. Painful to watch.
They are maximizing shareholder value though. Each OEM is competing with the other OEMs producing for Android, and creating a new Android update for the older phones doesn't increase sells if another OEM releases a phone that has better specs in addition to having the newest OS.

Whenever any of my friends go shopping for a new Android phone, they immediately try to find the one with the highest specs. OEMs aren't going to waste time releasing an update for a phone that won't make them money anymore, they're going to spend time instead on making better hardware that will make money.
You don't understand.

It must be a start-up with a freemium model. Soon they will reveal a monthly subscription option with a professional bulk uploader in Flash or even a desktop client. Just wait and see.
Google's Nexus 7 tablet
Sounds hard to believe. Denmark is in the European Union, and it's EU law that gives lots of employment rights. These laws would have to be in Danish law aswell.

There are some countries (UK, Ireland) that have implemented the bare minimum of EU employment law. There are some that have implemented above and beyond (France). But Denmark wouldn't be able to ignore most of it
User perceptions play into performance more than you'd think. If the HTML app can't scroll or transition smoothly, or it's spinning up new WebViews and you have to wait (there is an inherent delay in loading any content in a new UIWebView), then users will say it's slow. Not to mention memory usage of HTML elements, and managing that whole mess (the "rococo pandemonium" of HTML CSS and JavaScript, as Tim Bray put it) of objects in (usually) one giant container...

I've never found a situation where a WebView-based app is better than native.
hopefully you are less of a dick to your customers in these awesome niches you are serving.
Thank you! Arun from wakemate here.
This is the first I'm hearing about any of this. Trying to get a handle on the situation now.

Also as always, if you have any WakeMate related concerns please email me: arun[at]wakemate.com!
It ships with Jellybean... I've been waiting for the Samsung 10 inch tablet with the stylus, but it's already out of date and hasn't even shipped yet. I don't want a 7inch tablet and it is going to be years by the time a Jelly Bean 10 inch tablet comes out and by that time there will already be a new version of the OS! I already have a Fire and I can't read magazines on it, it's too small. I'm just going to give up and get an iPad.
Oh really? Email me! alexis AT hipmunk.com

And thanks for the testimonial.
I love stories like these. God knows if they're true:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Indexer.aspx
"your own copy of Transformers: Dark of the Moon"

Oops! Accidentally a word, there.
Its made in the US with parts from US suppliers. Be interesting to see if US consumers will pay premium for that over other devices like the AppleTV.
£159/£199 in the UK... very reasonable I think, compared to the current prices of Android tablets in the UK.
Good product. Terrible price. I think it would be successful at $99 but $299 just kills it.
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I've had a hard time finding a really convincing "great app" that is largely HTML5. Can you mention what it was?
Thanks for sharing your schedule. I use Skype and IRC to work with my remote teams too.

I don't really have a schedule per se. I do things whenever I want to. Luckily, I am in the mood to hack all day long. And when I wanna take a break, I go to the gym to clear my mind :).

For days that I am not the mood to hack, I decide to not touch a computer the whole day. PS that never happens :).
Try this link instead
http://www.google.com/nexus/#/7
Android Jelly Bean: Siri versus Google Voice Search
Can't native apps be smarter about caching assets than UIWebViews?
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Well... I might build apps for any phone, cool, but I cannot play your screencast on my android. The codec is not available on Android 2.2.
You'll probably get totally different results amoung non-heterosexual people…
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I read the original study and came away thinking that it was skewed strongly to errors that an OS could detect. For example, CPU errors were far worse than DRAM errors, and both were much worse than hard drive errors.

Regardless, in my life, "white box" computers have lived twice as long and undergone twice as many upgrades as any of the others. Eventually they got retired when they started crashing. Laptops might get extra ram or drive space but they got retired when they were too slow or too heavy. It doesn't mean the laptops were more reliable. It's like comparing a truck that drives 350,000 miles and a car that covers 120,000 miles. I'd say the truck was more reliable since it fulfilled its job three times as long.

I also kept old "white box" machines running much longer because the old 3-4Ghz Pentium-IVs were fast compared to the Core 2 Duo laptops that replaced them. Those machines kept running from the 500MB RAM days to the 4GB RAM/SSD days.
Google and other tech vendors moving manufacturing back to US
Many of my questions were simply answered outright in his teachings

* What is truth?

* What is happiness and what is peace? How to get them?

* What is Enlightenment?

* How to recognize an Enlightened being?

* What is nirvana?

* What is eternal life and how to get it? How to save one's
life? How to save the world?

* What is destiny?

* What is reality?

* What is life and how does it work?

* What is good teaching and what is bad teaching?

* How to tell the future? How to see the present? How to derive correct information from records of the past?

* How does the energy in the human body work and by what details in what process does a consciousness exist and drive a human body?

* What does the term god mean and what's the relationship (if any) between gods and human beings?

* What is gravity, how is it formed/generated? What is the relationship between gravity and other fields? What is space-time made out of?

* How did the third eye form?

* How to live well?

* What is leadership?

I actually had lots of questions, and it's not only his answers that convinced me but his dedication despite the hardships he endured carrying out his mission
So the Google TV is dead? And their answer was a Apple TV/Boxee Box competitor for 300USD?
> I seem to remember from one of the okcupid analysis posts that the majority of profiles are male.

This is a significant factor. If you run a stable marriage algorithm with 400 men and 200 women:

Men less attractive than the median will remain ummatched.

A 50th percentile man will be matched to a 0th percentile woman.

A 60th percentile man will be matched to a 20th percentile woman.

A 70th percentile man will be matched to a 40th percentile woman.

An 80th percentile man will be matched to a 60th percentile woman.

A 90th percentile man will be matched to an 80th percentile woman.

In other words, all men below the 100th percentile will end up dating way below their "league".
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I always think 'side' should be in there, but it isn't :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399103/
You can also get a $99 Xbox with a 2 year Xbox Live contract.
Linkedin's app is mostly web tech. While I personally have used it a few times, I think most people enjoy it.
> Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet.

At least show me what it looks like!
"Occasionally a politician will sweep through with an attempt to cut costs"

If you're referring to any non-military domestic stuff, "Occasionally" means "Every year from 2000-present". Head on down to town/city hall and pull the budgets for the last 10 years if you don't believe me.
The bonus pool he was drawing from was meant to go to an entire team of people, but 90% of it was going to him. His pay ended up being quite a bit higher than what it should have been.
Any chance you could reply saying how many requests you got for a free tshirt, for science!
I really like the idea of being able to buy an entire outfit at once (for what looks to be a great price too), but the clothes sold on the site look a little too fasionable for my tastes
Thanks. Turns out the corporate VPN routes to the Internet somewhere where this is available. This is probably a better link (seems to work everywhere):

http://www.google.com/nexus/#/7/specs

The UX of putting up this ugly banner is pretty crappy. It would be fine if this was splattered on top of the page or covering the ordering buttons but you could still see what devices are available. I think I've even gotten some form of Google Play advertising (an email perhaps) that directed me to a link that then showed me this.
No SD card slot? Urgh. 8/16GB is not a lot of room, especially for a tablet that is not going to be online all the time.
2.3 and forks of it look like the de-facto version of Android at this point.

Google has to fix this problem or these new releases won't be relevant.
It is, by a large margin: http://osrc.blackducksoftware.com/data/licenses/
The shadow on that compressed panda has visible artifacts.
Nexus 7 tablet now available
There are OS's that are designed to survive a fair amount of HW errors, but I don't think most people that OC would want to pay the speed penalty's for that.
Viewed in IE 4 (800px x 600px):

http://i.imgur.com/9NZgc.png
Just ordered the 16gb version. I'm not much of an android guy, but for that price and the fact that it's pure android (not manufacturer customized shit) and it's running the newest OS update...meh, why not.
"This is a set of lecture notes on cryptography compiled for 6.87s, a one week long course on cryptography taught
at MIT by Shafi Goldwasser and Mihir Bellare in the summers of 1996–2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008.

Cryptography is of course a vast subject. The thread followed by these notes is to develop and explain the
notion of provable security and its usage for the design of secure protocols. Much of the material in Chapters 2, 3 and 7 is a result of scribe notes, originally taken by MIT graduate students who attended Professor Goldwasser’s Cryptography and Cryptanalysis course over the years, and later
edited by Frank D’Ippolito who was a teaching assistant for the course in 1991."

Link for current course: http://web.mit.edu/professional/short-programs/courses/crypt...
FWIW, reddit raised $82,000. Total. So I think 'depended on an acquisition' is a bit extreme. Hopefully lessons from breadpig and hipmunk are also useful! Though it's still too early to tell. Ultimately, all advice is only going to be so useful -- there's no recipe or guidebook for success. So much of it just going to be luck, but that'd be a really short e-book.
That would be standard operating procedure. The kid's program (if it really exists) would be company property, and his failure to turn over the password could result in civil litigation (or potentially, but unlikely) criminal prosecution.
I'd respectfully disagree. The original context of Cuban's advice is here:

http://blogmaverick.com/2012/03/18/dont-follow-your-passion-...

..and an especially relevant excerpt related to your comment:

"Why? Because everyone is passionate about something... ... [things] that we really really want to do with our lives. Those passions aren’t worth a nickel."

His overall point is that instead of blindly following after your passions and "hoping" things will work out, you should count on effort and hard work.

Technically, you're right - Cuban wasn't talking about specifically picking an eCommerce niche. But he does make the great point that if you're successful at something - regardless of what it is - you usually become passionate about it.

The problem faced by many new entrepreneurs is that their passion-based business plan doesn't get traction, and they give up. But if you start with a effort and market based business plan, a new entrepreneur is much more likely to succeed. And when they're successful with their business, they'll become very passionate about it.
I've never seen anything about it but I always assumed it was the Valley effect.
> If I have to worry about supporting users when it's against my better interest, then I am strongly disincentivized from offering an online service.

The situation is different for individuals or small companies than it is for large companies. Large companies (that are not structured as mutuals, or somesuch) generally only have one interest: maximizing their profit. But they often tend to use a Prisoner's Dilemma's strategy against the world that might maximize their next quarterly return but does not act to make the economic pie bigger for everyone.
It's a $299 market competitor to the $99 Apple TV.

It's round with several thick cables sticking out of the back with an array of ports -- an odd industrial design to me. The LEDs are really, really cool though.
This thread has tons of comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167711
Same here: "Los dispositivos en Google Play aún no están disponibles en tu país.
Estamos trabajando para ampliar la disponibilidad de los dispositivos en otros países lo antes posible.
Inténtalo de nuevo en unos días."

The link http://www.google.com/nexus/#/7 works.
Haha. I guess there'll be three. I'll tell you by end of day.
My co-founder mentioned there is some sort of german "self employment" visa, that will allow you to get residency in Germany without having to work for a local company. I don't know any more details bout that, but would love to hear from someone who has actually gone thru the process, if anyone on HN has.

Berlin is becoming a bit of a startup hub for europe, and with the economic issues this may increase if the other states start hurting small companies as they try to shore up their budgets.

This is the kind of things I'd never use, probably, except for meetups and stuff like that. But, unlike others, I think it is good that it is being built. Yes, the magic happens when you're working from your apartment or basement- and in fact, that's my preferred place to work (all founders under one roof, zero commute times, etc.)

But why is it, whenever someone says "This useful thing for startups is happening in some city" the responses are "You're not creating silicon valley!!!" Nobody said they were replicating silicon valley. Why are the defenders of silicon valley so defensive that every time something involving startups happens out side of california, they have to pile in and say that silicon valley can't be replicated? Hey, personally, that's great. I lived in the bay area. It isn't a good place to do a startup on all the criteria that matter to me (burn rate, employee availability, etc.) But it is certainly great for people whom, for the first time in their lives, they have lots of smart people to hang around with. If that's you, I can see why you'd love it. It is also great if you're doing the "google acquisition target startup" and need VC money, or a number of other possibilities.

But silicon valley does not have a patent on the idea of doing a startup, and in this globalized world, the barriers for doing startups have dropped all over the world, and thus it is GOOD that Berlin and other cities are becoming good places to do startups.

Especially since many companies simply can't relocate to Silicon valley. For instance, one of my co founders is not a US citizen. Silicon Valley is not an option for us.
I don't think it is surprising at all.

A modern laptop (produced in the last 10 years or so) has zero unused space, meaning that even if they are not treated well, components won't come out of sockets because they literally have no where to go. Most laptops also have tighter thermal regulation than desktops, because they are facing a harder cooling problem and wouldn't work well if they didn't.

Laptops also lag desktop technology by at least half a generation -- the average laptop CPU at a given time is produced with older-at-the-time (higher yield, better understood, more reliable) silicon processes than desktop chips.

Every floor-sitting-desktop I've seen gets kicks occasionally, and there's actually room for memory, fans and cards to move around.

I would guess a Lenovo or Dell desktop is still less reliable (as measured by real life crashes such as in this study) than a laptop produced by the same company.
It would be almost a must-have if it supported a user-supplied microSD card.
I think even interpreted correctly it is horrible advice for the majority of people. There are some passions that are just not marketable to a successful business. As an example, as a teenager one of my passions was philosophy such as Nietzsche, Kirkegaard and the like. It would be very hard for me to parlay that passion into a successful venture. (Although maybe I just lack creativity)
Ask HN: Are there any resources online for movie scripts?
I was thinking of doing a small project involving the contents of movie scripts. Is there any way to get my hands on a lot of movie scripts?

I'm asking on HN because it's related to a project I am thinking of doing and I really have no idea where would be more appropriate to ask.
Apple gets a lot of things, obviously. Making the updates backwards compatible means more people are using the current version, and that means feature uptake time is minimized. Apple's intention is that supporting your hardware for a longer period of time makes it a more attractive purchase.

Android phone manufacturers do not care about this. They are not in the business of promoting the operating system or cultivating a developer base. They want to sell hardware. They sell hardware by introducing new models with new features, not porting those same features to older models that have already been sold.

The maximal return under the Android model is to deliberately obsolete your older hardware so people purchase new phones.
You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some "not the latest" anxiety?
The BatchPCB marketplace sounds similar to what you are looking for (for PCBs):

http://batchpcb.com/index.php/Products

...and you might find Club Jameco interesting as a slightly different take on the Sparkfun idea:

http://www.clubjameco.com/
Looks like even Google is afraid to directly take on the 800lb. gorilla that is the 10" iPad at the $500 price point. Xoom, Touchpad, Playbook(7") and countless others seem to have bit the dust trying. HTC and LG have even temporarily quit the tablet market to stem the bleeding. Wonder if ASUS is seeing volume on its Transformer line. Also, does anyone know how the Galaxy Tab is doing?

Even Kindle Fire's sales are slowing, so lets see how the market reacts to this. Unlike phones, which are must-haves, people have a lot of discretion when it comes to owning a tablet or not. Sadly, the only real competition to take the iPad head on this year seems to be the Surface and we'll have to wait and see what the price is.