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Man seriously, if I am going to be/am bailing these guys out I want some control over this crap. I am not sure what that control is or how it is done, but seriously the money here is just insane. And once again maybe the amounts are normal but the whole thing just seems out of control.
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> Does Google get a share from the sale of Nexus devices?

You mean they don't? News to me.

> I think it's samsung competing with asus rather than with google.

But Asus partnered/supported/whatever with Google, not Asus on their own clearly.
I like mustache a lot. Particularly because it just works for every language I use, and a huge number of the languages I might use. But it does have pain points (lots of little templates, weird include behavior, some uneccessary repetition, etc).

I don't think that adding logic, filters, etc explicitly to the templates is the right answer. Such things tend to accelerate and encourage big ball of mud apps (in my experience ymmv). It also makes it harder to have a consistent cross-platform experience. I really think a better solution might be to have a simple callback mechanism. So for instance, a tag:

{{*foo}}

Would result in the renderer looking in the context dictionary for a key "foo". If the value for that key is callable, it calls the function (with the context dictionary as an argument), and replaces the tag with the return string of the function.

That's it. This can mitigate many of the pain points of the templates, while still making consistent implementations across languages easy.

It is still a bit tricky in the "templates are the same on client and server" case, because then you need to implement a function twice (potentially), but I think I would rather do that than descend into some of the templates with logic horrors I've seen (and written myself sadly).
(Disclaimer: German)

"Austerity" is a media invention. Or what does "austerity" mean for you? The word is probably the most used word in the crisis, which is never explained by facts. What are those "punitive austerity measures"? This is not a rhetoric question, I'd like to know.

Germany (and others, Netherlands, Finland etc.) want taxes to be paid (could end the crisis real quick) and structural reforms to prevent bottomless pits and enable growth in the future.

Greece was not able to take 15 billions EUR over the last years of infrastructure money from the European Union because of a local administration that just does not work and is extremely corrupt. The European Union was supporting Greece growth with money for innovation projects, infrastructure money etc. over the last decade, but Greece was not able to run the necessary projects.

I was managing European IT projects 10 years ago. Poland did show how to take EU money and prosper. They were on EVERY IT project I was part of, payed every company and university that took EU money additional money, helped get projects into Poland etc. They did everything right, now - and it was of course not only EU money but a very strong spirit and enthusiasm in Poland - they prosper from what they did since they joined the EU (and before).

The crisis is kind of sad for Greece, because their productivity grew strongly in the last 10 years (contrary to Spain or Italy) and the crisis is often attributed to "lazy" Greeks.
I don't think the first comment is particularly controversial, though the speaker was being diplomatic in his use of the term "innovate." It makes more sense if you replace it with "rip off."

The fact of the matter is that a lot of people paint this idealized picture of the morally virtuous techie, where the only people who own patents are big bad patent trolls, and the only people who get sued are innocent innovators who independently arrive at an invention.

That's not the actual story, or at least that's not the whole story. Like in every other field, there is a gaussian distribution of business ethics at various companies. Look at how many companies get nailed for using GPL-ed software without releasing source. You think those same companies don't also copy competitors' designs wholesale? When our company was doing business with an American telecoms supplier, a manager there mentioned that a Chinese telecoms supplier was ripping off their designs wholesale, down to the silk-screening on the PCBs.

There is a difference between "let's innovate on top of this idea" and "oh this idea is good, let's just copy it."

Now, NPE's in their current form are clearly just rent-seeking. However, I think there is a role for NPE's that create value by serving to create a market for patents. Not every innovator wants to get into the business of making products. ARM wants to design microprocessors, they don't want to design and manufacture iPads. Patents facilitate that division of labor, and NPE's can make the whole system more efficient by creating markets for patents.
I guess it's luck of the draw. I don't envy Start-Up Chile's task of trying to find experienced mentors in Chile with time for 300 startups a year.
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I was under the impression that Startup Chile gives some preference/reservations to local teams.

In any selection process, any group that gets a boost due to irrelevant factors needs to meet a lower standard. Typically, a group of people meeting a lower standard will be inferior to a group of people meeting a higher standard.

Of course, if I'm wrong about Startup Chile boosting local teams, this reasoning wouldn't apply. Anyone know what their policies are?
Awesome! Congrats on that work!
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>However it's a superset of C

This isn't 100% true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B#With_C
As far as I see, you have complete control of what type of cards you see as well as the extent of the notifications. Being customizable to that degree, I don't see how anyone could be overloaded with information they don't want.

As you said you do not care about when your team is playing or rather if you care, you will mark it down some other way and do not need Google's help with it so you most likely won't have that card "turned on".

If you care, but don't want to be interrupted by notifications specifically, then you'll either turn off notifications for that card, or if possible (the following is pure assumption based on the Jelly Bean notification priority options), you would set that specific card's notification priority to minimum, meaning it does not show up in your status bar and doesn't fire off any sound/vibration signals, but if you pull down on the status bar (meaning you are looking for information) it's there at the bottom of your notifications, completely unobtrusive.

Either way, it's the user's choice.
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This is fucking on-point. The Timeline is just completely useless anymore as a way of keep tabs on people I care about. I rarely care if my friend was tagged in a picture, and I never care that they commented on a wall post by some random person I've never met.

I wish I could ditch it altogether, but the events and messaging are an integral part of my social life now.
Thanks for your tip. The subtitles are usually fairly accurate, but there's something messing with them on this video, could be the music or the narrator.

Usually speech recognition errors are fairly routine, but in this case they are hilarious. Oh, and the word 'Android' was not recognized.
I don't know why everyone takes Facebook so seriously.

Well, actually I do but I don't want to dive into a long comment about how it's a voyeuristic, social panopticon and how easy it is to project your insecurities onto it. Well, I have a small and strange solution to staying in contact with your friends, do what I do: remove all your actual friends from your newsfeed.

When you see them, you won't already have eagerly instantiated things to talk about, you won't jaw off about some article they posted about the latest bath salt murder -- you'll actually catch up and connect in genuine conversation.

The site only has as much power as you give it, posting a long diatribe about how it has no power over you anymore because you deactivated is legitimizing its power over you.
is this the simplified igoogle? how am I supposed to use it? don't see it under my account anywhere.
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Maybe we have a new record? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trading_losses

Last one was 9 billion by Morgan Stanley in 2008
I will love to be able to switch career path at some point in the (far) future, but I don't see how to start doing the move.
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Almost the perfect ad to make me not want to ever dream of a developer job at Groupon. I think it was meant to be humorous and make me think that Groupon was a cool place to work, but it looked almost like a parody and made me about as uncomfortable as a teenager enduring one of their parents lame smutty jokes for the 1000th time.
> except all those written before it?

Out of curiosity, what do you use? My history is not too great, but I can't think of many languages that came before C that are still in use today. I actually use fortran at work (along with C), and I'll give a pass to Lisp (it seems like c predates the dialects that are still in common use, ie common lisp and scheme), but it seems like most others (Pascal, COBOL, Basic) are more curiosities in the modern world. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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I'm not sure why. Devaluation would give the PIIGS some breathing room to get their internal affairs in order, and the worst Germany could expect is some inflation. That seems like a better risk than watching Greece leave the EU and triggering a wave of other defections.
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It's built into the Android OS, as far as I can tell.
I don't think there is any reservation for local startups afaik.
SMS among kids would also qualify, at least in Europe (took off later in the US for some reason).
I don't think I see what you do... might be because I have AdBlock? Not sure.
I don't know about your first point, but the problem with the US Government and the conflicts we as a nation have entangled ourselves in over the last decade+ is that we can't even be bothered to even do the basic due diligence before jumping in.

Fundamentally, we ignored even the simplest tenets of 'The Art of War'. It's actually painful to read this after the fact. Powell knew this stuff and at it's core, the Pottery Barn principle is a couple of those AoW tenets boiled down into something everyone can understand.

In the end, if you can't even follow the sage advice that has been proved countless times over the last couple thousands of years, you've got bigger problems.
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Agree, and to say more : the few great or successful people I met were all taking very seriously their control over new technologies. I was surprised by an old lawyer, he was knowing and even using almost all corners of his email client. Take control over your tools or they will control you.
That seems designed to allow NATO enclaves.
I'm the author of this answer on StackOverflow. It seems to me like everyone in this post on SO is united in something that just seems very wrong to me. I'm clearly the minority here, but am I wrong? I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Not if you're claiming open source.
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Why isn't this making it onto the front page?
I've made a policy of routinely downvoting anyone who complains about those naughty naughty swears, and I hope others will too. Enjoy!
I am not a big fan of the Fire. It's not bad, but it feels like it could be a lot more with just a few extras. It's alright for 'consuming' content, but for much else it's suboptimal:

* Amazon appstore means no The Economist app! I already paid for the magazine, dammit, and I don't want to pay again to read it on Amazon.

* No Google apps hurts, especially Gmail and Maps. The web-based alternatives are just not as nice as having the native apps.

* It's nice to have a camera - I'll get one of these to use as a video phone with my parents.

Anyone know if it'll be possible to get some kind of add-on keyboard for Google's tablet? Trying to type anything on the Fire drives me crazy.
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Fantastic tool, can't wait to try it. I agree this is kickstarter worthy. Looks like the OSG bindings and pane makes it easy for devs to hack motion design, I wonder what will come out of that.
It's pretty simple really. He can get his freedom back, his servers back, his content back, and then find a location that is far outside the influence of the US Gov't.
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> "The chief investment office — which invests excess deposits for the bank and was created to hedge interest rate risk — brought in more than $4 billion in profits in the last three years, accounting for roughly 10 percent of the bank’s profit during that period."

The risk office was speculating, not hedging. If they are paid bonuses on profits then they are encouraged to speculate. That office should be bonused on having opposite P&L to the groups they are hedging.
"But what happens when data mining technology increases to the point where they can deduce real facts about you as a person from all this data they're collecting."

Like that NYT article "How Companies Learn Your Secrets" on buying habits (at Target) of pregnant teens.
"Events are the only reason many people use Facebook."

Is this true? Do we know this? I tried looking up stats on fb's events app usage and wasn't able to dig anything up.
Yeah, this section of the design document made me do a double-take. The problems with this aren't just limited to the impedance mismatch; it also seems that arithmetic will be a ton slower due to lack of dedicated hardware.
PS:

(The structural enhancement fonds for Greece was 20 billion EUR from 2007 to 2013, Greece was not able to take 15 billions from the fonds up to 2012)

For growth in Europe: The next structural EU fond for getting countries with lower living standards to EU level will run from 2014 to 2020 and contain 466 billion $.

I guess it's easier for people to run with the "austerity" story, as a story with victims and villains sells more magazines and blog posts. But it's sad that none of the facts get written about. And it's even sadder that this spills over to HN.
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Pride is not the opposite of humility, arrogance is. Otherwise they would not be calling it "gay pride".

Pride is actually a good thing in many situations. It's good when father is proud of his children and almost always when someone has pride of someone else. It's good when employee takes pride in his/her work, as it's kind of proof of motivation. Could Olympic athlete enjoy victory fully without feeling little proud? I bet it's then mostly "I did it!" not "others suck!".

I think there is a basic feeling that can surface as pride or arrogance. Pride is the positive side of this. Usually no feeling is bad, it's what you make of it that can be bad.
And even the casino analogy is largely unfair to casinos.

They don't get to bet against their clients, lie about returns, or collude with other casinos.

And that's even if we grant the rumors and whispers as true; that the casinos might have the gaming commission in their pocket the way Wall Street owns the ratings agencies, and that they may well get the same sweetheart penalty deals when busted, as Wall Street does with the SEC.

But even there, what casinos may be doing can't compare to what Wall Street does -- not even as open secrets, but on the public record.
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It's really heartening to have your support, and to see that it could help a lot of people.

I have been using it daily for a few months now, it's a bit like re-discovering coding because it's just way more fun to code with it.

And I will definitely consider creating a Kickstarter project.
Legal semantics aside, practical upshot: Now you can be compelled to buy any product, under threat of fine.
Not really. Andy Rubin said this is being sold at cost, so either Google is paying for Asus' margin or none of them is getting a margin on this device, setting a price point even harder for manufacturers to match.
1) Available to OEMs does not mean that any OEMs had yet released phones with it on my carrier. I have unlimited data, which effectively shackles me to the carrier unless I want to give that up for a pitiful 2-4 GB/month.

2) I connect to a corporate server. I cannot use a custom ROM for security reasons.
Here is the thing: small business folks love free stuff. They love shifting costs onto other people. They think everything they have to pay for is a huge drain on the economy and everything they get for free is a justified incentivization of entrepreneurship.

Now don't get me wrong, I love small tech companies. The engineering companies I have worked at have been exclusively small tech companies. They're great. But most in the industry have constructed this idealization of the morally virtuous startup founder. Everyone likes free things, sure, but big companies at least seem to acknowledge the fact that they're inflating their profits at the cost to someone else. Small company culture doesn't do that. The AirBnB debate recently was a great example. People were decrying regulations that could undermine AirBnB, but it didn't even register to people that a lot of the "value created" by AirBnB was actually just costs that were shifted to the other residents of the building/surrounding community.

I see the same sort of thinking when patents come up on HN. There is this presumption of the morally virtuous innovator. Therefore, every $1 he must spend paying NPE's must be $1 of dead weight loss to society. There is no conception of the fact that some part of that $1 represents money he would rightfully have had to pay to the original patent holder, because (statistically!) he's not morally virtuous 100% of the time.
I have to say that I don't really agree with the overall assessment made over here. It appears that a lot of people come to Startup Chile expecting the wrong things.

Why would you come to Chile and expect:

- There will be no bureaucracy (this is a government run program..)

- You won't have to give anything (RVAs) at all back - (equity free capital in return for what ? in that case..)

- Connections to US accelerators and investors (WTF ?)

To be honest, it's unrealistic to expect all of the above. I do agree that Startup Chile can do MANY good things (connections to latin american investors, more guidance/mentorship, etc.) but why not take into account the fact that this is a young program being run by a government in a country with very less startup experience.

Here are some positive points I've heard from people:

- Use government connections. Folks who have their startups in fields where government help can work eg. education, social service, etc. are able to uniquely utilize startup chile's clout in the government sector.

- Learn some Spanish.

- Do something relevant. You're hardly going to get support if you're designing a product that solves a problem in the US or elsewhere (with no possible extension into Latin America). Besides, why would a local investor be interested in that case ?

As for the part where filing statements, getting reimbursed, etc. - there's no need to whine about that. The processes have been streamlined a lot over the past few months and these guys seem to be working on it more, there is definitely good faith involved and it's not all "Oh yeah we're going to make them WORK for their money". They just need to be sure that your expenses are justified. I know of people who are trying to squeeze out an iPhone or two in their reimbursements. They naturally have to be very careful due to the fact that this is taxpayers money.

Furthermore, all the pains of startup chile are pretty well known. It is definitely not an accelerator, you will probably not have a lot of events and guidance. But, if $40k equity free capital and a reasonable amount of freedom (in how you use it..) are important to you - then sure, I think it's a program worthy of mention.

/ Just sick of all the whining that goes on about how Startup Chile doesn't connect you to the US blah blah blah.. -- why should it ? Also the sense of entitlement a lot of people carry is sickening. A lot of folks seem to treat startup chile as a 'gap year' and then whine about how they didn't manage to make the next $1B company (not saying that the author is doing this...). That's just messed up.
...what's wrong with pride? In the context of this post, you could certainly be proud that you do whatever it takes to make your company successful.
Native Client Flash isn't available for Chromium, which obviously implements NaCl, so I don't see why other browser makes implementing NaCl would let them use NaCl Flash.
Yes, so "only" in 99.9% of the cases, including all that matter most...
I might finally have to take a look at Grails now that there's static type checking. Do I need to wait for a new release of Grails to use Grovvy 2.0 with it or can I do that now? Also, I'm curious if it can be turned on globally when calling the compiler instead of having to annotate all of my classes with @CompileStatic?
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there just aren't many people that you can boast about a printer to so i decided i'd get it out of my system on here. by the way have you seen the HP slate 2? its AWESOME.
> educating the next generation of willful idiots?

You could ask the same question to any teacher, and maybe the answer is that without this education the world would be even worse. Actually the world was much worse before. Not so long ago, say a couple millenniums ago, an accomplished man was the one who killed the most enemies and a complete genocide was the glorious achievement of wars with neighbors. On Egyptian temples you can see warriors offering plates of enemies penises to the emperor.
That can't be true. Even if it was deliberate for the inning scores, the Runs/Hits/Errors columns are out of whack which makes no sense.
It's only a matter of time before Google catches up on Apple on UI and slick hardware (really only the two core strengths of AAPL) and win by using Google's core strength: DATA. The future is bright.
Google I/O and the Nexus 7: playground open
I bought one for my sister. She doesn't have a lot of disposable income and has to support two children. The cost was low enough that it's not a significant burden (£159 + shipping)
Searching for "Google Now" in the Play store on my Galaxy S3 yields nothing, once again the Android user experience is found wanting.