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Snapseed is probably a huge part of it (and it's already very much cross-platform). For the other aspects, there are a number of other companies Google might have chosen to acquire instead (Topaz Labs — which would be my choice as a scrappy, lightweight, innovative photo-centric company — Alien Skin, etc.), but they're absent in the mobile space.
I've already started sticking them to the walls of my house to control lights, the thermostat, the garage door etc. This didn't make sense at $400/device but as soon as they hit $100 or so the game was afoot. Now they're so cheap, its literally cheaper to grab one from "the pile" and whip up a nice html5 interface for the task than to buy a dedicated Insteon controller or Nest thermostat. Hell, it was cheaper to automate my garage door and give it a REST interface on the web than to buy a single new clicker at Sears.

I'm guessing that in the near future there won't be many surfaces left in our lives that aren't festooned with touch-screenage.
That's how the plumber works: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/plumb
I have a feeling most people here would be quite interested to hear news about martians.
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"If I can't introduce myself to the guy, how am I ever meant to prove I'm not one of the many useless bottom-feeders he deals with on a daily basis?"

Networking, word-of-mouth, recommendations and referrals, social media, via your website, advertising...

The same way everyone grows their business without spamming and cold-calling.
It's worth noting everyone in the hardware business knows this. For example: why do you think everyone is fighting over the living room? Players like Samsung want to sell you a cheap tablet so you might buy the smart TV it pairs well with. And then maybe you'll buy content there too.
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I did mention in the previous paragraph that I was referring to an unrealisticly strict view, and that most people won't think in those sorts of concrete terms.

My point was that people are used to a certain type of "property" and, before digital media, that view wasn't inaccurate. Yes, there were licenses and you weren't allowed to make copies of tapes or CDs, but there was still the physical property of the cassette, videotape, CD, DVD, what have you that was your property that you could lend, sell, destroy as you wanted. Digital media doesn't follow this model, but a lot of people don't realize that. I do, and it's not a model that really appeals to me for those types of products, so I hang onto the "old ways" and continue to buy the physical products.

I buy physical books, I buy DVDs (I never got on the Blu-ray bandwagon for a number of reasons), and music.. well, I have an odd relationship with music such that radio tends to be good enough for me most of the time anyway. Also, music is the media product furthest into digital territory to the point that it's unavoidable in some ways.

As for Gutenburg, I suppose I should clarify that I'm not anti-Kindle. The device itself seems useful and Gutenberg fits nicely with it. I think Safari Books works with Kindle as well, and most (if not all) public libraries can lend you digital copies of books to your Kindle. My rant wasn't directed at a device, but at the sales model of digital media. I just feel there are some growing pains left to work though. I'm not much of an early adopter for anything, and it still feels like that's the phase we're in to a certain extent.

I hope that made some sense.
I clicked on G+ only to try to deactivate it. Sadly I am being counted now as an active user.
Writing a diary can be few minutes every day.

I would like to keep personal stuff private, its not a good idea to make everything public.
Well, I'd be very happy to hear when your boss tell you that it's going to change - I'd love to get it here!

I don't believe there's any reason my IP would be identified differently, but I can tell that except for once on the first day this never happened again from any device here.
To be fair, some NoSQL solutions were being sold marketing wise as the be-all and end-all of data solutions. Just google "mongodb mysql migration" and look how everyone is/was so eager to jump on the non-relational bandwagon. Some backlash was to be expected, after all, we might have reached the Trough of Disillusionment
Don't forget to read a book that's specific to your particular RDBMS. Because SQL databases are only trivially interchangeable for trivial cases.

There have been more than a couple times when I was ready to blame the relational model, but further investigation revealed that the real root of the problem was that the existing schema or query used an approach that was optimized for one DBMS but performed terribly on the one we were actually using.
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My family uses Facebook heavily to stay in contact since we tend to be in different countries, along with Skype and email. They moved to this long after the initial craze because Facebook offered some really compelling advantages.

For my tech-savvy parents and non-tech-savvy grandparents, it provides an easy way to share/view photos. Using email/IM means having to come up with some sort of filing system for photos, whereas Facebook just provides it, along with captions which can be useful for travel albums.

It's a broadcast system with less urgency than email. If there's some photos or a story from daily life you want to share, emails like that will get lost in an overload of tasks and requests. IMs are easy to ignore and hard to dig up. Facebook provides a way to find out that hey, something interesting happened, and when I get around to it I can browse what's up with people I care about.
I'm pretty sure that this is the table from the end of the story. http://www.frys.com/product/6982177?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT...

I wonder how this compares to the Nexus 7 in terms of usability/response/lag/etc.
Maybe its just who i am following on G+, but my usage patterns have roughly been:

G+: great posts by prominent computer scientists, programmers, engineers (Rob Pike, Andy Herzfeld, Douglas Crockford, etc), many of whom work for google.

FB: everybody else.
Of course. 100 mil people who use Google+ at least once a month, and the other 300 have registered with Google+ but haven't used it in the past month. The ratio seems to be 4:1 compared to Facebook's 2:1 of non-active to active monthly users (they use a very similar method to determine the active people), so I wonder why Google isn't taking more steps to reduce this ratio.

Maybe they care as much about "registered users" as they do about the active ones. Maybe they just want to have everyone with their real names on file, which might explain why they might not care about the ratio of non-active to active as much.
You can get an Android phone for a decent price if you don't care about top-of-the-line $500+ phones (e.g. the Samsung Galaxy Q here - http://mobilicity.ca/phones/). If all you're looking for a 'dumb' phone with some niceties... I'm sure you can find plenty to complain about with respect to things like browser performance, etc, but that's not necessarily a priority in this case.
Check the site's twitter and the whois. The domain didn't expire. It was on autorenew and, in any case, has an April expiration, so that explanation makes no sense.
Btw, I do completely sympathize with the situation itself, it sucks.

But name-calling the new owner of the domain, who almost definitely acquired it legally, and is the only person able to make the decision to return it, does not seem very smart.
It's interesting he starts with the claim he needs to find talented people with technical skills and then immediately starts talking about his need to cyberstalk the personal lives of candidates in order to disqualify those whose beliefs and hobbies he disagrees with.
Some of these are really nice. I'm curious how many of these are Android-specific though. Path looks pretty similar on iOS and so do FourSquare, Flipboard etc. Which of these are examples of good mobile design that holds itself on various platforms (iOS, Android etc.) and which are unique to Android?
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I think you're right. Though I wouldn't hedge any money on them improving Picasa, directly anyway. This is more about enriching the Android platform. There are a lot of photographers that walk with a netbook and use that for editing within Lightroom. With a bit of a push, those said photographers could instead move to tablet.

Picasa is like the Google+ of social networks, it had some loyal users who want it to be the next big thing. But that won't happen any time soon. Google will invest in this niché premium market for tablets. With the incoming Nexus Phablet and November's rumoured 10" tablet, they'll try and prove that Android offers more than casual/convenient usage.
It's not hard to grab a rarely happening bug. I stumble upon a few of those each week. The OP has obviously stumbled upon dozens of those rarely happening bugs.

So we should ask ourselves: are they so rare? Maybe we should stop providing lame excuses and write our codez correctly from the start?
Python has a lot of built-in support for overriding how imports work, and modules have always been just namespaces. As hacks go, this isn't very hacky in Python, and it isn't particularly brittle, as it's just implementing existing interfaces.

It is also not "monkeypatching", which ought to be reserved for things that involve reaching into an existing class and modifying things. This on-demand loading, which doesn't have anywhere near the same evil factor, but is rather more like dynamic programming languages working-as-designed.

You may find this distasteful. I do, actually, though I'm not 100% sure why. But it's not because it's some sort of abuse of Python. Python is very nearly designed to do this, and the last little bit that it isn't designed for isn't that big a deal, especially compared to something like the "import python modules through zipfiles" functionality, which now ships with the core.
Thanks for the feedback :)

Hartley and I actually have some good connections in the music blogging space, and we're working on building some tools that we think will help artists and bloggers work together.

For example, right now bloggers either:

a) use an artist's embeddable player in order to post a song. They can't track plays/downloads coming from their site or their impact on an artist (I contributed 20% of their downloads, for example).

b) upload their own versions of audio files so that they can track plays/downloads. But now the artist can't see the reach of their music.

I think we can fix this.
Yes, both support vector maps you can easily get.
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Love the rant, answer of course is in the title "Nobody's upset" which isn't really true of course it should be that "Nobody is actionably upset."

Much of this rant is a variation on 'craptialism' [1] and a number of the problems mentioned can be traced back to disk drove based storage. I've got a RAID6 appliance that I store stuff on and realized I was avoiding a lot of these bullets. (such appliances have their own issues of course but that is a different rant)

Its my hope that people will stop 'adding value' with software hacks to things like dishwashers (do we really need a ringtone to tell you its done? really?) focus on function, but that only happens when people actionably respond to these problems. They return them for their money back.

One of the truths in the consumer goods industry is that returns is an excellent signal for going to far. These things live on very small margins to begin with and returns reduce that margin still further. So folks returning 'broken' products incent the manufacturer to fix them. Its a pain though, that I truly understand.

[1] Crapitalism is the effect of racing to the bottom in terms of price to achieve market penetration / dominance. Sadly it often leads to products that are cost reduced to the point of not being functional.
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I like the idea - except I don't care for the short list of companies they have devs from. From my personal experience I wouldn't hire anyone from Facebook, Twitter or Zynga unless they could really show me something. But the overall concept is interesting.
I love how the internet gets shit done.

Social marketing can be so explosive for unique small businesses. That company never would have gotten that kind of exposure before the web.
Yep, or you need to build some other construct to support it (IE: keeping running tallies and the like).

It's a tradeoff between the benefits of the document store vs the loss of relational data. The blog author here clearly didn't understand the trade-offs he was making.

As always with these discussions: it's important to use the right tool for the job. I'm a big fan of what Mongo is doing. I've used it two higher scale projects and have no complaints. Of course, I'm using it in the context for which Mongo excels.
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A low price point on commodity hardware certainly doesn't correlate to the hardware industry being dead. If anything it is quite the opposite. With such a low price point, the potential market opens up quite significantly. There become many more people that can now afford a tablet, and there also becomes many that can justify having a few around the house for various tasks. A tablet in the kitchen for just recipes becomes a viable product. Of course I would want that particular tablet to have some particular features. Maybe water proof, and easy to clean.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, you do have the Apple's and Amazon's of the world that the author mentioned. Quality/expensive hardware will continue to exist long into the future. It will help drive the advancements in technology, and a portion of consumers will always demand quality regardless of price.

If anything the low price point opens up the market for new products. Take Ouya as an example here. While they managed to get $8.5M on Kickstarter, their initial outset had them need less than $1M. I would argue, and I think I have here that we are on the brink of a cambrian explosion of new hardware devices, and given the low entry point, there will be many new companies that bring us exciting new products.
I was thinking of something at the os level, like the namespaces for windows.
Maybe the name is okay, but this is gonna kill you: http://www.mvsic.com/
@mikado & others: I'm curious how cinemur got started, especially investing-wise. I see it has a 963 808 € capital, and yet the websites seems to have appeared out of nowhere.

I thought Allociné was in pretty good standing with cinemas, film distributors, etc. How did you pull that one off?

Anyway, good job!
>You as a company can't cold call developers at your competitor and convince them to work for you, you can however pay a recruiter who does it at an arms length.

Aside from just getting a bad reputation, is there some legal reason why you couldn't do precisely that? If this question seems a little naive, it's because I absolutely am (naive, and asking is how I learn).
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I write another one for ruby, check out samples here: https://github.com/quark-zju/easysh

Although its functions are a subset of sh for python. It has many synatactic sugars, makes full use of ruby Enumerable, and does lazy-execute.
As a relative idiot when it comes to this sort of thing, I'd like to insert the following supplementary question: what is the sort of application/dataset for which Mongo is particularly suited?

I've used it on small projects, and have enjoyed it. Perhaps my data has just been simple/loosely-coupled enough to never run into these problems?

I read a lot of posts like this on HN before every trying Mongo, so I've at least been convinced to always implement schema at the application layer. Others seem to keep learning that lesson in harder ways.
So do the new machines also use testicle-nuking backscatter x-rays? Who cares whether the image is photorealistic or not. This piece was almost more disinformative than informative.
Maybe they want to imply that anyone who objects to being scanned for privacy reasons, must be mentally ill.
Two points.

"I want to see the candidate's twitter feeds, Facebook pages, LinkedIn profiles, activity on mailing lists and github, etc."

This is the very reason I keep all my social network to myself and not under my name. Unless I tell you what my Twitter page and Facebook page are, you'll never find them and I do this on purpose.

I agree this industry needs some help. A company I was recently working for developed an application for the pharmaceutical sales industry which assigns a score to each sales person based on various criteria, which is then tracked by employers looking hire the best talent. As soon as I saw it, I thought it could just as easily be used in tech field for developers or any other technical position.

This is just a start, but at least its something that's gaining traction in a industry that is similar in size and revenue generation.
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The only thing I use Google+ for is bookmarking. It's my bitly. I have g+1 button plug-in installed on my browser, so whenever I see something interesting I bookmark it using it. Would this count as active usage? Probably. But am I actually an active user? No. I don't go to their front page everyday, check the news feed, e.t.c. So the 100 million is probably an over-estimate.
It'll be a hurdle, for sure, but not too much different than The Hype Machine being at hypem.com
Its a great advice !!!
The sample rate is 8kHz, which means the Nyquist frequency is 4kHz. Slowing it back down won't sound good, but frequencies below 400hz will be present.

Here's a 8kHz .wav slowed down to 1/10:
http://dump.elektronaut.no/post/ak52_1x.wav

edit: You probably need a subwoofer or a decent pair of headphones to appreciate the rumble.
I think the real distinction here is stationary verses non-stationary distributions. Many of the arguments made in this article hinge on the fact that the responses to the same input change over time (nights are different then daytime, which is different than the weekends). By continuously running the A/B testing, you are looking at a small window in time, which you assume is stationary so you can do your t-tests or whatever statistical test.

But, to be clear, this is a heuristic in A/B testing. If you have a window of time over which you know your distributions are stationary, you should always use a logarithmic regret MAB algorithm because it is theoretically better.

I think the best way to frame this argument is that because the domain does not match the assumptions of MAB, A/B testing has been shown to be robust and easy to modify for non-stationary domains, while logarithmic regret algorithms are somewhat more fragile.
I think this is touching on a different vein.

For 30 years, companies have extolled the virtues of globalization, while jobs were moved overseas and shareholders reaped the benefits.

Now, finally, we're starting to see the consumer aspect of globalization. If I can buy a tablet for less than it costs to take my wife to dinner, technology is truly within everyone's grasp.
I don't blame him for not blindly following the advice. I blame him for blindly ignoring it:

> I have to jailbreak my phone to fix this problem?

Clearly, that's not his only option.
That's a good question, and I'd be interested to know how this is generally solved (it seems the ipad just doesn't du subpixel AA). I don't see a problem with subpixel anti-aliasing if it's with rotation in mind, i.e. different rendering depending on orientation.

In context of the original post, of course, there's not much the ipad can do since the subpixel AA is already encoded in the image.
Yeah, that's a fallback issue on our end - thanks for the screenshot.
What hardware are you using? I've wanted to try home automation for a while but all I can find is either the lowend stuff (X10) or the really highend stuff that requires a dealer to install it for you.
CoffeScript was designed with transcompilation to JavaScript in mind. This is why you've correctly noted they're conceptually similar in many respects, and therefore relatively easy to transcompile.

Transcompilation can be relatively simple in the case of CS to JS, or significantly more involved in the case of Ruby to Java. One of the most significant examples of transcompilation is PHP to C++, as in the case of Facebook's HipHop compiler.
You can think of RPGs as essentially ad-hoc story-telling with some mechanics and elements of chance to give it structure. I know when I used to play GURPS, we only followed a vague semblance of the official rules; in practice, we just did whatever we wanted. It would be very difficult if not impossible to contain this sort of anarchy in a fully digitized game!

This is very different from most "normal" board games. The real attraction is not playing a game or trying to win but rather coming up with and participating in an evolving narrative. Given the right friends with sufficiently twisted (in a good way, of course) senses of humor, the end result is often completely unexpected.

That said, I'm sure that playing an RPG on something like PixelSense (seriously, they couldn't come up with a better name?) would be pretty cool.
This site contains a stack overflow bug which crashes Firefox and IE9 on Windows.

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Some of them definitely use the Holo UI style, while others use their own non-holo/non-iOS style, although I wouldn't know if they use the same one for their iOS apps, too.
I wonder how they are pushing the millions of Orkut users into it. those were huge in brazil/india for a while.
Yes - there's a huge difference. Want to create a gmail account? Guess what- you've got Google+! YouTube account? AdWords? AdSense? Bingo - Google+.

I use Google+ for hangouts to run our remote meetings. It works pretty well. But not much use for it beyond that. Of course, that's not saying it's any better than Facebook - I only use FB to promote stuff related to my business.
Reminds me of what Chief Creative Officer at doubleTwist said about designing for Android:

>> As it stands, If you design a great app for Android and people say 'hey, that looks like an Android app', that means you've failed.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/sdw/status/187245772205600769
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Hypothetically if you have a credit card that's not already registered with Amazon, create a new account, enter the mythical US address of your choice, purchase the book, and then rip it to a sane format via Calibre or whatever your tool of choice is you can get an ebook copy and give the author money at the same time.

Or read the CC copy and purchase the dead tree - which is what I'll be doing once my current reading queue empties.
That tablet is not ICS.
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There will always be erroneous data, but monthly active users is a fairly powerful statistic.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm still skeptical that sql could be injected though. I'm not seeing how DTMF or speech would translate to the punctuation usually required for that type of attack.

P.S. Coding with telephony APIs sounds horrible. I used to do phone system installs (Nortel, etc) - glad I don't anymore!
The domain was not due to expire and according to their Twitter feed, they have auto-renew enabled as well. It was stolen/hijacked.
It really is all contingent on who you circle. There are a ton of active photographers and at least a handful of hydrogeologists regularly using Google+ in addition to all of the programmers. It's akin Twitter in that regard: apparently the celebrity accounts are a huge draw for an enormous set of Twitter's users, but I'm effectively oblivious to that aspect of the site.
Do you know why are case-insensitive searches not recommended? What's the realistic work-around?