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Good point. I'm billingual, so that hits home. I will focus on making it good in English and Spanish. Spanish speaking countries dont have a very good opiton (google sucks with spanish).
This is a "drawing app", not an "email app".
I agree with you the pendulum has swung a bit far. But I think these sort of articles are just way off. Yes, there are bureaucracy and labour laws that are unhelpful. However, they are not the main reason Europe does not produce more entrepreneurs.
yes, and if you pay less taxes, then it won't be able to pay for it, and if a government can't pay education, then there's less employees competent enough for your start-up.
Same goes for a lot of thing the government pays. And government is the only one who is (realistically) able to pay for it.
I can just imagine how he dreads having to type those long blog articles on a keyboard. Clearly it is so much more convenient on a tablet.

(Sorry - I like codinghorror actually...)
exactly, what's wrong with midsize companies?
Wrong. eg. If company fails, employees get several month salaries from the State (ok) but founder (ownership >50%) while he paid social charges will receive 0. You'd have to get your own (expensive) private insurance if the biz does not work out to get something back.
Ha! I knew someone would hate it. I thought about spending weeks building a proper Rails version of the invite system, but I have a product to build. A quick PHP hack works. So, why not? Have you ever flown commercially? Do you know that commerical airplanes are often fixed with duct tape? There are hacks everywhere. Doesnt mean they dont work.
Yet another Webkit browser. Boring.
A small suggestion for the website: always show the scrollbar because the transition is pretty annoying otherwise.
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Which, of course, is why they are promoted as protection!

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That's what they want you to think!

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> DIY and alternative tablets can be desktop replacements

I don't know why you consider this "DIY" or "alternative tablets". Most tablets on the market has these capabilities.

> Personally, this is just evolution of form factors. Nothing terribly interesting.

I find it exciting we're close to the point where we can get convergence and not need multiple different computers for must uses, but you're right: It is largely about evolution of form factors, which is why I find it so amusing that so many people are so insistent the desktop PC will remain important.

The traditional big box desktop has been in freefall for years. It's losing market share at a rapid pace, and what remains of it is shrinking too - it's harder and harder to find full size ATX or Flex ATX, and almost impossible to find towers in shops geared at "ordinary consumers" for example.

Sure, it will still exist. But as a smaller and smaller niche.
Founders and executives. My sample size is small, but a lot of the ones I've met are pretty rotten people. There are a lot of good people who want to become founders, and there seem to be some decent people in VC, so I'm not sure where the mismatch occurs. I think it's an artifact of the fact that it takes a certain kind of ego to tell a stranger to give you millions of dollars.
I agree.

Please stop whining :)
Every single (social or other) script linked on a website increases the risk of crippling the site should the service providing the script be unavailable to the client for whatever reason.

Even if loaded asynchronously, the added loading time and "elements settling into place" provides a less than perfect user experience every single visitor has to endure, whether they share a link to your site on a social network or not.

I'm not only talking about the panic Facebook caused by being down. I'm also referring to the situations not everyone considers: Facebook being blocked in a corporate environment while your website is trying to load open graph.

There's value to the social engagement, no doubt about that, but as a developer I often feel the urge not to include any of the dynamic "like" and "tweet" buttons unless I'm explicitly asked to, instead I opt in for the regular links where at all possible.

If that means sharing my sites on Facebook won't automatically insert a short excerpt, so be it.
Love the pics, I'd like to see more stats on how much HDD space / ram / CPU speed each server in each pic is.
The idea of running a desktop "in the cloud" on EC2 or similar interests me. Not sure how practical it would be in real life though.
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While that may be true for specialty hardware like 3D graphics cards, don't forget that the server market will likely be alive and well, leading to faster and cheaper servers.

So while you might not be able to get a silent, high end desktop computer, I think you'll still be able to buy or rent the computer power you need at a reasonable price.
I've had the exact same concern regarding pricing of equipment for workstations/laptops.

It's not hard to imagine a world where the workstation that costs you $2000 today will cost closer to $4000 simply because the demand is 20% of what it is today, and the economies of scale disappear for even the large manufacturers like Apple, Lenovo, Dell, etc.

My hope is that the next great frontier for tablet commuting will be content creation (code, video, etc) and we'll start to see that make some serious in-roads before the prices go up substantially.
I agree with what you say, but it doesn't really contradict what I'm saying:

- the "wanting to be rich" is a bit of a cliche, but it's still a major social taboo. As a foreigner who came to France, that was a major culture shock. True, people want to be rich, but politicians don't say it out loud. From what I see, much more efforts are put into helping poor people become middle class, than helping middle class become rich.

- I agree with you on the taxes thing. After all, I'm living here by my own will and I like these social securities. Nevertheless, while it may work out well on the personal level, it doesn't encourage people to start companies. It's great that my kids' schooling is afforded by the government, but these high corporate taxes are still heavy on entrepreneurs.

- I completely agree with the bias towards being a manager at a big company. Point in case, I work for a major investment bank. It's also true that failure is not easily accepted here. I know relatively few entrepreneurs (I'd say less than 5% of my graduating class 2 years ago) and those who "failed" (whatever that means) are having a hard time going back to the "regular" corporate path.
not to mention that meteor is just a pretty wrapper around expressjs and a bunch of other node packages.

it's more or less a prettier npm with 10 million investment.
Real time arrival times for Boston subway (where available).

http://wheresthembta.com

I've never found the maps data viz particularly helpful.
Don't get me wrong. I like what entrepreneurs can do-- to use your words, "adding value to the real economy-- creating new technology, finding cures for diseases, etc." Two things, though.

1. I don't think a new social media platform deserves in the same category as cancer research. When I talk about VC-istan, I'm talking about the former category. I know absolutely nothing about biotech.

2. There's no question that what entrepreneurs are doing has the potential to make the world substantially better. I'm only saying that among the people I've seen get picked to be founders, I've seen few good ones and mostly bad.

I don't have a "[my] industry". I've worked in finance, and in startups, and I generally work whereever I think it will benefit my career. I don't think it's wise to rule anything out.

Anyway, certainly I agree with the spirit of what you are saying. VC-istan could be really great, but it needs a total reboot and that involves most of the current crop of "cool kids" being out on the curb.
Having a bell on your cycle helps a lot with this - just give it a ring a few times before overtaking people on a combined cycle/foot path and they will generally (although not always) try and do the sensible thing.

In my own experience I was somewhat surprised to find that using a bell actually works a lot better than saying "Excuse me please".

Also, some pedestrians will do intentionally stupid things when encountering a cyclist on a cycle path, but fortunately them seem pretty rare and far less common than cyclists who do stupid things.
Yes please. I detest our use of .co.uk where .uk will suffice.
On the subway, it's probably harder to get data to the TVS since it would be transmitting from underneath tons of concrete. They could tie it into the train control system, but they probably don't want to connect that to the Internet to prevent the case that someone could take it over and mess with the subway.
It's a protest of the french tax situation : the word pigeon is often used in the context of a person being extorted money.
Hook it up to Google apps and this would be great.
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Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012) 
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596379
Unfortunately, that's not what the corporate filter I'm stuck behind says.
How innovative and forward thinking. They should most assuredly receive all the praise and accolades that accompany such unique creativity.
but you just made someone's day a little worse

That just made me chuckle considering I know I've made so many women's day, even ones that have turned me down. The first words out of my mouth is a genuine compliment. For vast majority of women, it's a flattering and memorable thing.

It is why I've had girls blog about or post to criagslist missed connections about the experience of being hit on by me. It's why I'll regularly get girls tell me something to the tune of "wow I needed that" or "omg are you serious?".

Your perception that women dislike being hit on is a common armchair belief albeit not grounded in reality. Rest assured, I make way more girls' day than
most other guys.

I'll note that I don't hit on girls in bars and clubs. I do so on the street almost exclusively and vast majority of girls I meet have never been approached while walking on the street. That debunks your point that women are tired of being hit on.

The reason a man can't just say hello to a woman and have it just be a friendly hello is because of PUAs and others who follow this principle.

You have it the other way around. The reason you can't just say a friendly hello to a woman is because most men beat around the bush, pretend they just wanna be friends etc. when in reality they have other intentions. Compare this to a guy who walks up to a stranger, tells her he may like her and in a straightforward manner asks her out.

So, to answer your question, girls are suspicious of mere hellos because of past experience of guys trying to be friends when really they had a romantic interest. These guys are probably not PUAs because almost all PUA styles emphasize getting to the point relatively quickly.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
Based on this Oslo Stock Exchange note, I was thinking it would be Opera based . . . :
http://www.newsweb.no/newsweb/search.do?siteLanguage=en&...

Edit: NO > EN URL
IMO thinking in terms of power/performance is completely useless if your goal is to figure out where things are going. All these "computers" have enough power now or will have enough power in the next few years (either through better hardware or device specific software) to do all the things most people need to do. If there really is a need for rendering animation in your pocket I'm sure it will be possible, at some price.

For that reason, this is not the same as the mainframe-minicomputer-microcomputer transition. What is going on now is new types of computers (tablets & pocket tablets) that are defined by their form, not their power.

There is a second reason other than new form factors for the success of these new devices that has nothing to do with power or form factor: new OS/app metaphors & paradigms. The basic metaphors & ideas (desktop, file system, install scripts, desktop shortcuts, trash) behind the PC are 20-30 years old. They were created before grandmothers, electricians and 2 year olds used computers. They were never optimal and they have grown hairs over the years. iOS & Android are a clean slate. This has fixed all sorts of things. Most important (IMO) is tuning applications application into "apps". Apps have a clearer definition than applications. They are self contained, easy to install and easy to remove. Applications are things that your older brother or IT department has to install.

This second factor (the clean slate factor) is tricky one because it's very important in the short run. In the long term it's irrelevant to the number of desktops, laptops or tablets sold. PCs will eventually incorporate the features (or the whole OS) that are better in touch OS's. This factor will not affect the ratio of laptops/tablets sold in 2018.

Declaring the PC dead is silly. This is just like web based software vs installed software. Power was a bottleneck. Now that it's clearing we can see that for all sorts of things web based software is better but not always. Keyboard & mouse vs touch is similar to this "transition." Things that work better on touch will move to touch, but not everything.

This will be a dispersion, not a migration.
I think a large part of the article is very much about addressing your point. In particular, these parts are relevant to your comment:

> Desktops, on the other hand, are perfectly justifiable. That is, if you want three monitors, eight blazingly fast CPU cores, 64 GB of memory, and fire-breathing multi-GPU configurations. If you need absurd, obscene amounts of power, a desktop computer is the way to go.

> But even as an inveterate PC hot-rodder, I've noticed that in the last few years I've started to lose interest in the upgrade treadmill of ever faster CPUs with more cores, more sophisticated GPUs, more bandwidth, more gigabytes of RAM.

> I think we're way past the point of satisfying the computing performance needs of the typical user. I'd say we hit that around the time dual CPU cores became mainstream, perhaps 2008 or so. What do you do when you have all the computing performance anyone could ever possibly need, except for the freakish one-percenters, the video editors and programmers? Once you have "enough" computing power, for whatever value of "enough" we can agree to disagree on, the future of computing is, and always has been, to make the computers smaller and cheaper.

If I were you I would read it again before dismissing it as stupid and sensationalistic as I believe he raises a number of valid points.
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Thanks. I just fixed the TCX parsing issue.
Wrong: the state funds/agencies themselves recommend and propose extra (non obligatory) pension funds on top of obligatory social charges because, as they warn every French working, return on social charges is forecasted to steadily decreases over the years. (Aging population: less people working to pay for more retirees)
More importantly, once you connect a bigger screen, keyboard & whatnot, you are no longer using a tablet. You are using a PC.
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We're not talking about paying less taxes. We're talking about the more and more taxes to pay for a government that is -in essence- broke. Hollande basically promised everybody everything and is now facing reality. Like they say: "You can deny reality, but you can not deny the consequences of denying reality".
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They indeed have partnership with Opera:

http://opera.yandex.ru/

Also with Mozilla:

http://fx.yandex.ru/

and Microsoft:

http://ie.yandex.ru/

:-)

But no, this one is based on Chromium:
http://habrahabr.ru/company/yandex/blog/152905/ (in Russian)

EDIT: It says they are using Opera Turbo technology there.
I have no idea if it's true, but the argument can be (and has been) made.

Activist investors in the 1980s took over a lot of companies and laid people off. I don't think that was necessarily a bad thing, because corporate inefficiency was pretty extreme in that time.

What I think is killing the middle class is upper-class corruption, rampant inequality, generational malfeasance, and political chicanery. "Activist investors" probably don't belong on the top 10.

The argument you would have to make is that the influence of activist investors led to the cutthroat corporate cultures of the 1980s and onward, with "rank-and-yank" becoming normal. But I don't know if that's the case. I will say that the argument can be made.

The argument can also be made that, since what's killing the middle-class is back-scratching, self-dealing, and corruption among a well-connected and entrenched upper class, that investor activism has been fighting against the enemy. I have no idea whether that's true either.
You're right. I implicitly meant 'for desktop users'.

Ideally, a slider on mobile should be usable through swiping. It's not hard to setup either.
Why do they put GPUs in phones?
The PC's and mini-computers were defined by form and price, too, not performance. In fact the much lower performance is what completely blindsided IBM when mini-computers appeared, and later DEC when PC's appeared. For their customers, the new type of computers didn't make any sense. But there were whole other markets out there who wanted a much more "portable" or cheaper computer.

You can now get a decent tablet for $200. You could also get netbooks for that price, but they aren't exactly decent when it comes to overall performance, and that has more to do with how the software is written (for powerful x86 chips - not for Atom chips), while mobile apps are written for much lower performance chips.
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Are you measuring something you can’t change?
> lots of plugging things in

One cable with MHL (power, display) and bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

Some devices, such as the Galaxy S III, uses MHL adapters that also provides a USB port so you can hook up your USB keyboard and mouse to the MHL adapter and have just one cable to attach even if you want a wired keyboard and mouse.

> harder to coordinate everyone, possibility of losing things

How is that any different from today with offices full of laptops?

> can a tablet do all the graphics processing for a big screen?

Yes. My <$130 Allwinner A10 based laptop gives decent performance at full HD (1080p) resolutions today, and it is by no means a high end tablet. Sure, you are not going to get the same performance today on a tablet that cheap as on current high end laptops or desktops, but it is "good enough" for many uses, and this tablet lagged substantially behind the top of the crop tablets already on release.

> What if you are using a big file - can your tablet handle it?

Big by what standard? What it can't handle today, the next generation will handle soon enough. It is not that these tablets and phones will magically be capable enough now, but they are catching up to the type of laptop and desktop performance the vast majority of users are willing to pay for at a rapid rate.

> Disk space is a huge draw to PCs too. Very few people I know are happy to entrust their life's photo collection to an online storage-as-a-service provider.

My <$130 tablet today has 48GB of storage (16GB built in, 32GB sdcard), and can attach whatever size USB storage I want (including easily 128GB USB sticks), or connect to a NAS. Give it a generation or three and you'll be able to put hundreds of GB in these devices.

So again: Maybe some users won't be able to put everything they have on it today, but give it some time - storage on these devices will keep increasingly fairly rapidly as and when usage patterns expand.

>And I'm yet to see a good 'media center' (though I think they'll come along at some point).

XMBC runs on Android: http://xbmc.org/theuni/2012/07/13/xbmc-for-android/
This is missing the forest from the trees.

Yes you can attach a keyboard. But carrying a keyboard along with your tablet is more expensive than carrying around a light notebook, like a Macbook Air, which is just as portable, more efficient at certain tasks, less efficient at others.

Also, comparing a PC with a tablet by comparing the hardware and the input interface is totally missing the point. When the PC evolved from DOS to Windows, from single tasking to multi-tasking, from big desktops to laptops and then to thinner notebooks with touch-pads, nobody talked about "post PC", as the evolution was not including regressions of functionality which made it totally obvious that the new devices were just like traditional PCs, only better.

That this happens now only means that these new devices are more limited than PCs, so a hard distinction needs to be made. And going forward, while lines continue to be blurred, the distinction will be extremely simple and effective, by answering just one question ... is software installation from third-party sources easy?

The ramifications by answering Yes to this will be: (1) piracy is easy + (2) mallware is possible + (3) Firefox is available for that device + (4) yes, that's a PC.
I wonder what the remainder of the UK would be called if Scotland secedes after the referendum for independence in 2014.

Perhaps the Former United Kingdom?
Correction: Zeroth.

Sorry for being to geeky ^_^
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As do most other non-startup companies.
What I'm saying is that it's difficult to find people.
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We will see :-)
Wondering what they would be using the Opera tech for:
http://www.newsweb.no/newsweb/search.do?messageId=312626
Love the pics but do the URL and page title really need to contain the word "porn"? It makes it a little embarrassing to open at work and some corporate filters will even block the page.
Interesting, but what I don't understand is why businesses aren't adapting and working around this sort of issues.

Look at Canada - you can't discriminate based on gender, age or race, but you can hire beautiful young girls as models that also happen to wait tables in Cactus Club and Earls. If full-timers are such a pain to deal with in France, why not hire more contractors? In fact, why not skip full-timers altogether. Seems perfectly doable, especially in startups context, no?
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