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And with Nexus 10 looking pretty damn sweet, I guess 2012 can be declared the year when Android tablets finally took hold.

With all the wonderful things Android-phones has done for the general smart-phone, it was about time we had the same revolution happen in tablet-space.
No need for apologies. My comment was unnecessarily accusatory. I've edited it accordingly.

Re their status posts: you may well be right. Time will tell I guess.
Those sales, while not iPad league, aren't too shabby for a single Android device and, significantly, seem to be growing.

Will be interesting to see what the iPad Mini might do to Nexus 7 sales.

Certainly there are going to be a bunch of them that are people who specifically want an Android tablet, and there are going to be a bunch who are highly price sensitive (question there being are the newer Kindles having an impact) who aren't going to being looking at the new iPad, but there will also be people who just like the form factor for whom the Mini might be interesting.

Short term though I suspect we'll see what we've seen in the smartphone market - plenty of overall market growth meaning plenty of unit sales growth for everyone (except RIM) which will keep the market interesting.
In my advertising classes in college we used to hear about these exact same "campaigns" people would do to get a job in the advertising world. It may work in the tech world, but I feel like this just adds clutter not value to the world. At least you're determined though, good luck for real.
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Also, I think Windows 8 - not WP8 or Windows 8 RT necessarily, but the whole family, including the desktop/laptop market - will end up having a significant user base.

I agree. You can design one app for three major platforms.
While I really applaud his tenacity, I don't think that this is what Paul had in mind when he said "relentlessly resourceful". I borders on stalking. It's one thing to have a product and try to get YC's attention, it's a completely different thing to just promote the fact that you are applying. The time and money would have been better spent on his prototype. I don't like it.
I'm not sure if it can be compressed in the time domain though.
Asus: Nexus 7 sales climb toward 1 million a month
You mean Android tablets other than the Fire which sold a boatload last year?
Nexus 10 with a keyboard (and battery) casing and some desktop linux on it sounds like a good cheap high res laptop. Performance wise it would be fine for the stuff I personally do, guess that would scare other coders off.
> There are still many, many usability issues in gnome with a high ppi screen.

Would you care to mention some? My impression has always been that Gnome handles different DPI settings relatively well, but I'm no expert.
Why does the brainwave headset appear to include a pair of headphones?
He's talking about WP8, not really the desktop operating system. Those users are going to the browser anyways.
I think a good solution could come from review websites. If they all agreed that any screen size below 2560x1600 (or maybe a little less) would only score a maximum of 5/10 it would certainly rock the boat.
Yes, I noticed that too and tried it, along with a few other things as well. Nothing worked. I also found a few postings on the Sublime Text forums, asking about the same thing and the consensus seems to be it is not possible in ST2, not even as an add-on because the API does not expose the functionality needed.
I've been looking for a replacement for my Mini 9 and this seems to be about the only thing out there. Microsoft sure has strong armed everyone to make things with regular HDDs because they needed to run Windows... I actually went into Microcenter last year looking for a SSD netbook, and they practically chased me out of the store, and added $50 to everything that wasn't Windows (which they didn't have the prices on anyway). Does anyone know of a company that has Netbooks without Windows on them at a $250 price point? Dell's Linux pages are non-existent. I can't believe that something I bought in 2008 is now double the price.
Yes, thanks. I know what idiomatic means, but the OP either does not or just wrote an awkward sentence.
Ask HN: Where Are You On Khan Academy (Math)?
I mastered 281 concepts out of 378, meaning I already complete 74.33~%. I am going strong at 10K energy points. I earned 196 meteorites, 81 moons, 2 earth, 3 sun, and 24 patches. Sadly, I have not earned any black hole badge yet. I earned 1,074,253 energy points thus far.

I am progressing at a rate of 10K energy point which usually includes a few concepts mastered each day. Least optimistic estimate of 2 concepts a day mastered means that I will complete everything in roughly 7 weeks.

Where are you on Khan Academy?
Well, dropping to the interactive prompt is a statement or two in Python. You could do that when something goes wrong (for example, in the inner, or outer exception handler of your application).

There's also tools for Python where you can browse/modify state of a program remotely through a debugger, for example winpdb, others included in IDEs.

Overall, dynamic debugging support is quite good, if you are willing to search around a bit. But probably not as good as CL or SmallTalk, if they're especially engineered for these kind of things. I don't know enough about them to comment on that.
For reference - http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joeyh
Your use of present tense ("applies") suggests to me that perhaps you missed the fact that I wasn't describing what Zappos does today, but rather what I fear many companies will START to do as a result of this decision.
Yet you leak the name of an internal mailing list. Well done!
Are you also selling hardware, and if so, which?
Are there any official sales figures on the Fire ?
risk=dangerValue x probabilty. I am entitled to value legal liability as higher than my own life, am I not?
Thanks. From what was discussed here, I was expecting him to go into the benefit of the higher resolution a bit more.
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Oh, OK. I've never seen "idiomatic" used with a negative connotation before.
The article raises a good point. Should we compare this to the iPad? (iPad 3?) It's a different size and price point. The Kindle Fire is the only other tablet with as high a profile as the Nexus 7, and we don't have sales numbers on that, either (which makes me wonder how they know the total number of tablets).

I'm glad it's been successful as I'm quite pleased with mine, but I'm not sure this announcement tells us anything at all (even if it had clear numbers).
I'm unsure about that. A company can't refuse to sell based on nationality as that would be discrimination, but the country is something different due to geographical challenges in being able to supply the goods. There are far too many business who refuse to ship goods outside the UK mainland.

Kickstarter is a service provider so maybe that's different. An EU citizen living in the UK sounds like they should be eligible.

I know very little about this subject so I will probably stop talking now.
Hi, John. I'm about to start writing my first ebook. Whenever your software is ready, I'd love to test it. Send an email to kaufmanjohn719@gmail.com whenever you have a beta!

Best of luck to you!
It's at a brilliant price point and I think that's why the sales are doing pretty well. I wonder if the Nexus 7 is also sold under cost similar to the Kindle Fire?
I got a Dell Inspiron 8200 with 1,600 x 1,200 in 2002
I think that's what zachinglis meant. You could easily challenge this under EU law I think.
Agreed, I have a small amount of friends, only those I see in person on a regular basis (and family) and Facebook is quiet but worth visiting again for me.

But it's not cool anymore, mom and aunts and uncles remind me of that every day
Disney movies & cartoons promote certain characteristics of our culture that are already in effect, so how would you see it anyway? If you weren't really looking deeply at the issue, which I assume (excuse me for assuming) you aren't doing. This is very deep subject which requires lots of analytical thinking and human behaviour understanding.

Disney has the power and money to hire whole teams of psychologist to analyze how to very subliminally affect their movies in such a way that the merchandise etc will sell more, bringing more and more cash in their pockets.

Take for example Donald Duck (in the cartoons). He is always depicted as a unlucky main protagonist who is being ruled by the rich Scrooge. No matter what he does or how much he works, he never becomes in control of his own life, usually being controlled by the Rich Banker Uncle Scrooge.

This tells our children that no matter what you do, you will always be controlled by those who have more money and can tell you to do whatever they please. Not in so direct way, but in a more subtle way it creates a world view that keeps this model in it's current place.

But this is not the main point, the main point is that for Disney and these other big companies, money goes beyond anything. This affects deeply their moral values that are put into their products and what motivation is being the driving force behind producing their movies. It's not the great stories, or changing the world, but about money. This is not a good thing, from many viewpoints. They are not focusing on sustainability, but on maximizing their incomes. This is reflected to all those little children who watch their movies or cartoons.

Those who own Disney are those with great money in their pockets. They will want to keep us passive consumers who will be hooked into their stories (which many are just copies from folk tales, like the Lion King which a pretty much direct copy from the story of Kimba the White Lion) and sell us Toys & Fast Food.

Have you seen the movies these days ? It's all about selling more copies of DVD:s of the latest blockbuster movie to the parents of the children. First creating a need in these children to look up to these movies and characters, then telling them that there are toys, sugar & caffeine filled drinks and fast food available related to these characters, hooking them (literally with caffeine, sugar, fat) to these products and the feelings related to those.

Think about it. Really. Do you want Disney to be raising your children ?
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GPUs are SIMD machines, so they're executing the same instruction simultaneously on all the active cores. That means if you have code which branches, it has to mask out the cores which follow branch B while it executes branch A; then has to mask out all the cores which follow branch A while it executes branch B. In other words, if at least one core follows each side of the branch, it has to execute both branches.

If all cores branch in the same direction, you don't get that penalty. A large part of optimising for the GPU comes down to arranging your data and code so that this can happen.
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Appreciate the feedback, but the contrary is true. I'm currently building a business and I find YC a great place to kickstart it from.

This is my 3rd company, in my previous two actually dismissed the value of a strong network, mentorship and sitting in Silicon Valley.

Applying to YC in the earliest stages of this company is actually me not making the same mistake I did with my previous startup(raised $350K, busted asses for almost 2 years but failed).
God says...

like all the nations.

8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to
judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the
people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected
thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that
I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have
forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest
solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall
reign over them.
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Facebook is going to forge a new path to irrelevance, not take the same path as MySpace. People will stop using Facebook because (1) they outgrow it, (2) they get tired of it, or (3) it lost its usefulness.

I don't believe another app will take its place. Rather, I think an existing app/platform is already Facebook's biggest competitor. And it's one you've been using for 30 years. Email.
Hopefully they'll pick that up and bring it back in.
Doesn't surprise me. They got there (the 7 inch space that I'm confident Apple always had their eyes on in their roadmap), before Apple, with a competent device and great hardware.

And I mean, really great hardware... The rubberized backing but still has nice proportions for everything else, makes it akin to the equal and opposite to the latest iPhone. Both awesome hardware designs in their own right.

I think the Nexus 7 bests the iPad Mini in hardware design, whilst the iPad 4 still trounces the ugly Nexus 10.
I disagree, desktop Operating Systems cannot handle high resolutions at all. They just keep making things smaller and smaller instead of sharper and sharper. OS X has JUST added basic support for a sharper lower resolution mode, but even that is highly limited to their new displays.

Resolution from a OS perspective needs to be scrapped and re-invented.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about Windows 8, as that is what the article is about, and because he said that the web app is a good substitute (wouldn't be true if he was talking about the phone).
Not sure why this is downvoted, while it's not a solution I'd pursue it is a valid response.
One way to test it is merely to offer larger tiers, in addition to your $5 plan. You may be surprised by your customers' behavior.
> Finally I strongly believe at one day there will be a decentralized social network, based on Open Source tools.

How about tent.io ?
I've been using an iphone and an ipad for the last 2 years, but I've recently bought a nexus 7... and I love it. The ipad has since been sold on.
FYI, Apple sold an average of 5 million iPads a month in 2012.

From TechCrunch
"On the Apple side, the company sold nearly 60 million iPads during its 2012 fiscal year. But that’s a different market, one that Apple forged itself. How the iPad mini performs remains a separate question, even though Apple on stage at its event last week framed this as essentially a way to replicate and continue that existing success. Still, the iPad mini goes on sale in many more countries with an ecosystem that’s much more globally available than its small tablet competition, so it’s fair to assume Apple will beat competitor device sales, but by how much remains a key question."
Have you heard of Satanism ? Look it up. Has to do with this .. achieving immortality .. and sucking blood (energy) out of other people.

Oh yeah, it's real, black magic hasn't gone anywhere. Where do you think the ritual sacrifices would have disappeared ?
Usually vector based formats compress very well in the time domain, since you only need to store the transformations. But without testing the code, I would be surprised if it is fast enough for something like 50 frames.
This is such a non-respectful thing to do to YC partners.
the score depends on how long you need to get it right (within the countdown).
the current points per round are calculated by the following formula:
(100-(level+50)) * timeForRound/maxTimeForRound * 20
level can be (20|10|0) where 0 represents very hard and 20 represents easy.
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if there were always points no matter how far you're off the game would never terminate (unless the user decides to stop playing it)
What features are available in the iOS voice search that aren't in Google Now? I live in Canada and every example in the video I can do on my gnexus.
Exactly. Two examples for inspiration: Manpacks and Candy Japan (the owner is on HN). There is also a startup based out of Mountain View that delivers new games and puzzles for kids every month, but I cannot remember the name of it.

http://www.manpacks.com/
http://www.candyjapan.com/
A <Language> program can be really slow, especially when it's written by non-experts who don't understand <CorePrinciple> well.
Except the Dell Mini 9 doesn't have anything nowhere close to a decent keyboard.
I already have one http://imgur.com/4LOiA ;)

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Appreciate your feedback, take into account that my budget is $100 and it took me 1 day to set this up.

I actually limited the whole YC application process to 1 week, before it and now I'm talking with multiple potential customers, building an MVP and even got 2 investment offers.

Truthfully, I'm not sure if it's stalking or not, and I'm not sure if it was a good move or not, but the risk/reward here was good enough.

For me being an entrepreneur is executing a lot of different ideas I get to reach my goals, knowing that most will fail, not letting it decrease my speed.

Btw, the whole thing was worth it even if I don't get to YC, as it got some people to reach out to me and helped me solve a problem I was currently working on - how to get american parents to be interviewed by me(problem interview).

Again, I appreciate your feedback and if this move fails, it might be because your thoughts are exactly what YC partners think about this - in that case it will be another lesson learned.
16:10, a man after the aspect ratio of my heart
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He may be prescribed it. I understand your sentiment, but Ritalin may make him take a shower and actually make the morning commute.
Nit-pick: These generators burn diesel not, gas.

And to the poster below: 500kw generator is not unreasonable for a fully populated datacenter. That is power and cooling, remember.
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Diesel doesn't vaporize to any significant degree at temperatures experienced on Earth.
Great news for Google, except the hardware quality doth suffer. I had to RMA my first one, as the audio jack was spotty and only outputted one channel. The second one arrived with exactly the same issue and a screen that wobbled. RMA'd that one to get a third one, and saw that it was one of the early batches that had a ton of issues and I didn't bother keeping it to find out what was wrong with it.

So Google, if it has any hopes for displacing iPad, needs to clamp down on quality issues with its suppliers and make sure that these products match up to the incumbents they are hell bent on displacing.
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Have you tried overloading the search key (used to be caps lock). This key is roughly useless outside chromeos (and I never used it inside chromeos anyway). I am planning to bind that key to my windows-key when I get home tonight so I can use the keyboard to get at my Unity launcher.

As an aside, I was very impressed how well Unity runs on relatively anaemic hardware. for running a terminal and a web browser it runs great.
I am looking to pick up a Nexus 7 this week to evaluate its gift potential. There are two areas where it falls behind the iPad mini for me. First is the Apple App store appears to be in much better shape. I can get around that pretty easily, the second is the lack of back facing camera.

The reason the second issue stands out is that I would like to gift these to my niece and nephew. When using my iPad or their parents smart phones they love to use the camera to take pictures. So I am was a bit disappointed over the omission.

The main point in the Nexus 7's favor for me is its price. So the make or break will be software, namely some learning apps and games.

I would prefer to avoid buying an Apple product; I own many; based on their emphasis on lawsuits recently but they do have some features on their tablet that are hard to pass up and the old adage reworded for our age probably holds true, no one will be disappointed getting an iPad for Christmas. (the old adage of no one was fired for buying IBM)
I had I problem asking weather questions to Google. I asked "will it be cold tomorrow" and got back the forecasts temp for tomorrow in my location. And a whole lot faster than Siri (which took me three tries to get anything about weather returned). You have to provide contxt every time with Googl, but that's a very small thing in my opinion and since it just works still ends up being faster.
Kickstarter: Objecty - 2D game development made easier
Instead of competing head-on with Apple, Google and Microsoft in the "mobile touch" market, a much smaller player late to the market, like Ubuntu or Mozilla, should probably have tried to differentiate its OS in some strategic and major way or just stayed out of the market. (Note that even if being open-source were enough of a differentiator, which I doubt, one of the established OSes is already mostly open-source.)

Working well with e-ink would have been a good point of differentiation in the mobile market given e-ink's advantage in energy efficiency.
This looks cool. Another guy has showed me: https://joindiaspora.com/ which also looks pretty interesting. Thanks!
I like to read popular science book. Does that mean that I have to give up reading popular science and read dreary academic papers?
Nice! One of our stretch goals is to look at compatibility for other platforms (Mini-ITX included!)
Well, don't misunderstand me; I wish you the best for your future business! But to me it looks like bad means to an end.

As an entrepreneur, I believe that you can get known through more classic initiatives. It reminds me of a french deputy who used a hunger strike to defend his cause : noble end but terrible means.
Is it cheating when you put your browser over a Photoshop image displaying the rulers?
I have been searching for this laptop too. The only solution I found was to dual boot my chromebook. Works beautifully and the hardware is cheap for what it brings to the table.
Running Erlang/OTP on Mac OS X
Very doubtful.

'EU Law' doesn't make all of the countries that make up the EU one homogenous blob where everything needs to work the same.

EU Law provides many broad directives on how things should work in general, but the detail is country specific, and it's almost certainly compliance with all of the details that have meant that Kickstarter have decided to start with just the UK at first.

They'll probably start to provide Kickstarter for residents of other EU countries along the line in the future.
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