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No. As someone intimately involved in startup hiring, there's been a massive shift in the make-up of technology organizations.

Mobile has gone from a side-show farmed out to consulting organizations to a mainstream in-house development effort, and the organizations themselves have shifted management and priorities accordingly.

It used to be that almost everyone had a web engineering organization in-house, even non-technology companies. That is changing. Companies like the NYTimes have gone from being grossly unable to manage mobile efforts and farming their work out to subpar contractors, to straight-up building a top-quality team of mobile developers.

Here's the tricky thing about that, too. Those developers, by the nature of where they work in the technology stack, are already quite versatile, and can choose technology solutions outside of the web stack. The problem that most organizations faced originally was that their web departments were a mono-culture and couldn't adapt.

So now you have companies that can and are building technology outside the web, and that means that the network effects that existed before are being torn down. The web tried to leap onto the application bandwagon, and the web failed. Now other technologies are taking over that space.
IMHO 4.2 should never have been shipped for the Galaxy Nexus. Just too slow. I upgraded to a Nexus 4 and 4.2 is fine there, but will 4.4 be fine? Nobody knows.
Yeah, I bought one.

The fundamental problem I'm trying to solve with this device is streaming youtube to my parents TV. I want something low-tech that they can invoke from their Computer/Android/iOS device and I don't want them to learn a new menu.

The pricepoint is what sold me. AppleTV is too expensive for what it does, and while the power plug is annoying, it's easier than their current solution, which involves leveraging an old PS3 for Netflix playback.

So yeah, this is not a straight up replacement for AppleTV, but it solves the subset of problems I'm looking for.

That's my $.02.
I constantly hear people make this claim, but in my experience, it is not true. I have owned tons of Android devices and they have really gotten a lot smoother and responsive, especially with 4.1/4.2 releases, but they still don't come close to iOS.

I have tried tons of different roms on the Galaxy Nexus and the factory roms on the One X, One, and S4, but they just don't have the iOS level of smooth.
So, the fact he hasn't means he will not?

And what crystal ball are you using to predict the out come of a hypothetical trial?
you will want to research and form your own opinion as there are very subtle nuances that have enormous consequences in maintaining large codebases, but here's a starting point: http://www.quora.com/Pete-Hunt/Posts/Facebooks-React-vs-Angu...

The main issue is that to do anything complicated in angular you need to start writing tricky[1] "link" functions; the React approach completely sidesteps this complexity. There are some tradeoffs you have to accept, like JSX, but they are easily worth it.

[1] tricky is of course relative; angular is easier to code than something like backbone+jquery or backbone+knockout.
During this morning's presentation, they mentioned 1080p with 5.1 but I don't know if that was the max or just an example.

http://live.arstechnica.com/breakfast-with-sundar-at-google/...
For most programmers most of the time, that’s not enough of a payoff to bother.

I would argue that for most programmers, they can't beat the compiler; they probably don't have your skills and experience. I'm glad there are still people like you (I've probably used some of your code in embedded projects using VxWorks/PPC), but the truth is that many people like you are writing the compilers (or libraries, as you are). That, and the fact that when you mention profiling, you often get blank stares, plus mentioning algorithmic complexity gets you knotted brows, tends to lead me to believe that the great mass of programmers shouldn't try optimizing, prematurely or otherwise, especially in assembly. Play with it, learn about your whole stack, top to bottom, sure, but very few (such as yourself) can beat a good optimizing compiler.
What's your excuse?

Mobile is growing hand-over-fist and web apps developers are still arguing about whether they're fast enough to compete, and whether we could possibly maybe actually move past HTML/CSS/JS sometime in this decade.

It's ridiculous, and you claim it's "reality". Fine, your reality sucks, and there's no inherent reason why it has to win ... and it might not.
Google's Lust for Amazon Knows No Bounds
IMHO, if you poke around in the Nexus 7K gear, it looks like RHEL or CentOS underneath. Cisco's always been very private about the kind of Linux they're running on their gear, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was modified RHEL.

RedHat does free Software, but their culture is services, which aligns well with Cisco. You don't get to be a billion dollar business without making some money somewhere.

Free software != $0 revenue.
1	1743 35.0493% git
2	726 14.5988% ls
3	385 7.74181% cd
4	314 6.3141% rvm
5	307 6.17334% vim
6	197 3.96139% rake
7	98 1.97064% tmux
8	97 1.95053% ..
9	86 1.72934% ag
10	72 1.44782% rspec

Not too surprising. I'm surprised how high rvm is on the list.
> Regarding LuaJIT, it compiles in about 10 seconds on a modern computer and does not use LLVM. A lot of it is written with an inline assembly preprocessor called DynASM

I think he was trying to say "Mike Pall doesn't use LLVM-IR for LuaJIT's bytecode representation of Lua programs, nor does it just embed LLVM processor backends for JIT compilation, for good reason."
I like the concept. This would be especially useful for documenting ramp-up guides for new developers.

I didn't see this feature, although I'm sure you've thought of it, but it would be nice to be able to point to and highlight specific lines of code, with arrows and color, to lead the reader from the annotation on the right to the code on the left.
Yes, but if caught Mr. Rogue Employee Who Wants To Get Rich would now be facing federal felony charges (or state felony charges, if FedGov declines to prosecute). I suppose anything is possible, but Google employees in positions of high trust tend to be very well-compensated, and presumably the company has thought of this threat post-China intrusions and adopted the appropriate countermeasures.

Also, as another comment points out, Google uses PFS, so Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc. are better targets for this type of insider attack.
Maybe they changed it since your comment, it now says ". All of these devices will receive the over-the-air update today."

Seems highly unlikely to me. I haven't gotten the update on my Galaxy Nexus yet.
Oh, I meant that Snowden can't disclose any further information about the NSA, which was given as a condition by Russia if Snowden wants Russian asylum.
And I'll be able to stream whatever is in that one browser tab to my TV without restrictions?
I'm curious to see what kind of Chromecast support they build into Google Hangouts.

Right now we have meetings on-site and usually have one person in the meeting running a Hangout on a laptop to communicate with the remote folks. Being able to have a "portal" to all the remote attendees would be awesome.
Hmm, this specifically mentions Chrome for Mac and Chrome for Windows. That very well may mean no capability for Linux yet. It also doesn't implicitly say Chrome OS, so maybe Chromebooks won't work either.
I know how you feel. Considering this thing will be sold at BestBuy, and we have BestBuy in Canada, why can't we get this thing day one?
Can one of the founders kindly clarify how long it takes for a photo to appear on Mac once it has been taken from an iPhone, both being connected to WiFi?

I have compared Photo Stream and Google+ for this scenario (i.e. taking photo on iPhone and see them appear on the respective cloud storages). Despite Google+'s awesome anytime-anywhere availability, its upload/backup speed feels much slower compared to Photo Stream. But the fact that I need a garbage like iPhoto to access those photos on Mac makes it a deal-breaker for me.

So while I'm already sold on Loom's Mac-based access to the photos, I'd be willing to jump ship if the following are satisfied:

1. Upload/Backup should feel as instantaneous as Photo Stream, especially with WiFi connections.

2. (This is different than my original point) Loom shows commitment to its users by some kind of a promise that even if it gets acquired it will not shutdown the essential servers or at the very least not ask us to archive and download all the photos we've put into it so far. I had a lot of hope with Snapjoy and it turned into a killjoy after its Dropbox acquisition. I'd like to stick to a service like this on a long-term basis.
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Why did you reply if you're not going to further discuss? Thanks for crossing your arms and walking away.
Every night, I bang two rocks together for several hours to scare off tigers so they won't attack me while I sleep. I have yet to be attacked by a tiger, so my plan must be extremely effective.
This is only useful to me if it also is supported by a major Windows media player like VLC. What I like about AirPlay is that I can flick something from my phone to the TV, but also from iTunes (blech) to the TV. I would love to have a solution that did not involve iTunes. I love that the price is 1/3 of the Apple TV.
On recent HD TVs that's true, but if you go back more than 2-3 years (or didn't buy a giant 55" set) then it's quite likely you'll have to resort to the AC adapter.
Chromecast will be available for $35 starting Wednesday from Amazon, Google Play and Best Buy. Best Buy will also carry the device in stores later this month.
The Chrome G+ post said this afternoon.
so, just like in the gold rush of 1849, those getting rich are those selling equipment to the miners.
This might be a dumb question, but why does the law require that an investor is "accredited"? Why does their income and net worth matter? If someone only made a measly $100k last year and wants to invest in my company, why wouldn't they be allowed to?
Restricting Temptations: Neural Mechanisms of Precommitment
I haven't read anywhere whether 4.3 requires the system to be mounted non-suid or merely operates that way by default. If it's not actually required, it shouldn't be too difficult to re-enable suid mount from a custom recovery (but I don't know about the SELinux parts).

Conceivably, this would allow the DRM subsystems to easily detect root-able systems (and perhaps even using some sort of active probing to check whether the kernel has been modified to lie about suid mount status).
No, you could look into your heart, and change.
> It provides NSA with a technical capability they do not currently have, enabling them to shoot first and answer questions for a court later

If I remember correctly , you don't have a problem with the NSA phone metadata collection either... but wouldn't your same argument apply there as well?
> More people die in a year on the US roads than have died from all terrorist attacks accumulated.

I'm a little tired of this argument. "Only" 3000 people died in 9/11. Yet look at the effect that 9/11 had on the world, versus 100 times that many automobile deaths.

As much as we'd like to think the only bad outcome of a terrorist attack is loss of life, that's not really the biggest outcome. It is the impact on society, like it or not.

At the end of the day, terrorism is primarily a tool to affect political situations, their effect on public health situations is not really the point; it is that political damage that is worrying to governments.
Consider it unlikely. I have a flagship Verizon device stuck on 4.1.1, this is true of my previous Android device.

The carriers seem to want a model where you replace your device regularly to get the newer software....
aka: you can't refactor code you haven't written yet.
One of my first jobs out of highschool was as a cad drafter for an architecture firm. As the low kid on the totem-pole, I was given the tasks that were not liked by the architects: drawing detail sheets and reproducing blueprints. -- both tasks were highly repetative.

I took both as opportunities to find a meditative cadence to the work. I actually really enjoyed the rhythm of taking plots of large 30x42 inch drawings, marrying them with a blueprint sheet and sending it through the machine. The room was rather small - so you had to pickup a sheet, flip it over, rotate it, stack them, rotate the pair and feed it to the machine. It became a beautiful meditation in movement and was really enjoyable.

With details - I had to draw so many and build so many of the same sheets - I became exceedingly proficient and soon was an exceptionally fast cad drafter...

There is a lot one can learn through mass repetition especially if you do so with the right frame of mind - and not lament the task.
Did you spot any cable during the presentation from the dongle to the wall or a power strip?
Most think NSA is violating privacy rights but want Snowden charged with a crime
And even 1024-bit SSL, unless you believe the NSA can't afford to devote <$1M per year per key to the effort:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57591560-38/facebooks-outm...
Eran Tromer, an assistant professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University who wrote his 2007 dissertation on custom code-breaking hardware, said it's now "feasible to build dedicated hardware devices that can break 1024-bit RSA keys at a cost of under $1 million per device." Each dedicated device would be able to break a 1,024-bit key in one year, he said.
I what? The hell? Of course I have a problem with the NSA phone metadata collection.
It's more like "there ARE people getting rich selling equipment". There are plenty of miners getting rich.
> No such thing is happening ...

You're asserting that there hasn't been a significant management and hiring shift in engineering departments over the past 5 years, moving away from what became a web monoculture in the post-90s environment, from roughly 2000-2005?

> That doesn't even make sense as proprietary application platforms have always owned the application market.

So you admit the web is ill-suited to serve as an application platform, and is failing to acquire traction in that space despite considerable but ill-focused efforts to the contrary?
Kindly go fuck yourself.
It's actually pretty close. It's theoretically possible for mrjob to run a script written in any language as long as it supports a simple stdin/stdout protocol. We just don't have any users dedicated enough to implement that stuff.

Also, you can write a very small Python script that uses subprocess to call your script. That way you can still use mrjob to set up all your dependencies and handle AWS for you. If anyone is actually interested in that sort of thing, I'd be willing to write a tutorial.
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> So JackDB also acts as authentication provisioning front-end for a DBMS so users don't have to do that themselves and suffer the maintenance cost/overhead.

Yep. Couple of mouse clicks and a user no longer has access to one or more data sources (grants are role based). Similar effort for provisioning new users.

If the level of effort for a secure system is on par with emailing a password to a co-worker then people will actually use it. Plus with JackDB nobody other than the system admin even has the DB passwords so a normal user can't even send an email out if they wanted to.

> I'm curious, your VPC bastion; how do you make managing SSH keys scalable given that setup? And why not separate accounts which in fact help with keeping sane logs of who did what, and distribute the risk of compromise across several accounts?

At the moment things work for us as we're a very small team. Obviously something more scalable would be needed once you have a large number of people involved. The single proxy account is for convenience. That way the SSH keys to log into the other servers (accessible only through the bastion) can be shared. All servers (bastion included) log the public keys used to connect so we do have a trail of who/what/when. It would just be a bit more involved to filter it. Given our relatively small size it feels like a good tradeoff of security and convenience.

As we grow it's definitely something to (repeatedly) revisit, as is true about any security procedures.
This basically will signal an end to the typical BTC pools. At .1 BTC (~$10) per chip, it is now possible to beat a $400 AMD 7970 with just $20 worth of chips.
Android support - do want.
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Just curious, what don't you like about the Remote app for Apple TV? I purchased an Apple TV over a Roku just because of how slick the Remote app was, personally, along with the good-but-not-great* airplay functionality you get with an iPad. I haven't had any issues with the wi-fi at all.

*: It seemed at first to be superb but then I found out that the AppleTV will refuse to play some (most?) content due to DRM restrictions. It's not clear if that's a problem with my HDMI cable or with AirPlay itself - I think AirPlay is simulating an HDMI connection via WiFi.
Probably to get more people to buy things from the Google Play store.
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You don't need a "root" to get a custom ROM (or any build for that matter) on a Nexus 4. You just have to switch the device to unlocked http://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html#unloc...

Unfortunately non-google-sold devices don't have this capability as standard yet, but the Nexus 4 is good to go.
Her site is on github. Most of the song machine source appears to be at

https://github.com/jendewalt/jennifer_dewalt/blob/master/app...
> deeply unprofessional on Twitter's part.

Agreed, but 'deeply unprofessional' should not imply hysteria. Worst case scenario, someone thinks their friend likes a coffee shop that does not exist.
I map ctrl to alt, and alt (meta) to the windows key. I also map backspace to caps lock. This is similar to the old lisp machine keyboards emacs started on. For example, the space cadet keyboard: http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/SpaceCadet1.jpeg (Note the location of the RUB OUT, CTRL and META keys)
I agree. The most obvious explanation (which may not be correct, of course) for these engineering changes is that Google is trying to armor its network against state-sponsored surveillance.

BTW it's every two weeks:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57591560-38/facebooks-outm...
Langley added: "We would have totally eaten the cost and the speed years ago -- if we could have done it without worries." As an additional precaution, Langley said, Google usually rotates its RSA keys every two weeks.
You're confusing the locked bootloader with root. All of those are rootable.
They didn't even endorse a real company....
Eight months of billing at $25 a pop, and they won't stop until you fill out their stupid form; screwing them over with a CC fraud charge would be worth $200 to me, if they're going to be that shady.
Yes. And not only will it continue to work, it should (hopefully) be the only way of getting a custom image.

http://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html#unloc...

IMO promoting 'security holes' as a mechanism of freeing your device is counter-intuitive. What everyone needs is a safe way of running their own software; security bugs are toxic to the entire ecosystem.
OR some last minute corporate padding. Either by lots of in house $20 donations or if its a lot left then Shuttleworth saying "Oh we were so close... you know what, I'll write a check for the balance!"

They've got a lot to gain from meeting their goal. It will show the big phone manufacturers that there is demand for this new phone OS.
The point is, you shouldn't need to root the device. That's a red herring. You can completely modify the source and then flash the device. All these manufacturers give you methods for flashing. You mention Sony[1], Samsung[2], HTC[3], here you go ... In time projects like Cyanogenmod will have ROMs baked for you that'll give you root. But why should it be easy for a user to root their device? If the user can do it a malicious program can do it. There is nothing wrong with extra security so long as the platform stays relatively open, which it seems to be. If anything handset manufacturers seem to be getting more not less dev friendly. Would you want Windows or MacOSX easy to root?

[1] Sony Android source based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project)

http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/open-source/a...

[2] Samsung Android source n stuff (unfriendly interface, a little digging is necessary, Samsung's got a lot of products)

http://opensource.samsung.com/

[3] HTC Android source n stuff, "Kernel Source Code, Binaries and Updates for HTC Android Phones"

http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads

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Google's AOSP n drivers (for completeness)

http://source.android.com/
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers
Ask HN: what's good web tutorial builder?
A while back there was a hn submission that featured a cool framework that was supposed to make tutorials or guides easy directly on top of the actual page or something like that. Unfortunately I cannot remember what the product or site was called and Google doesn't help for such generic searches.

Or any other good tutorial/guide builder for a website would be good.
This doesn't change the pools at all (pools don't change if everyone uses ASIC). This does probably signal the end of GPU mining though.
Walmart is one of the largest and most sophisticated consumers of technology in the world, and their needs often outstrip the commercial offerings in the market. They now have a formal Walmart Labs in the Bay Area, but for decades they have had strong in-house technology capabilities.
I hope they can find a way to stream XBMC to it. This solves SO many of my home theater problems if they figure that out.
It won't make Samsung devices any harder to root - Samsung devices are bootloader-unlocked. You don't need any vulnerabilities, you simply flash your custom firmware using tools such as Samsung's Odin. Most other providers are moving towards methods to allow bootloader unlocking. The ones that lock the bootloader usually get negative social media response and lower sales, so I think this trend will continue for now.
I'll buy this once there is wide adoption. I would like either a Bluray player or VLC to support this.
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But what brought on the actual realisation, and how did your life change thereafter?
I really want to know this as well. I pay for Hulu Plus, but the ads are almost as bad as they are on regular television (that's right, you get ads even when you pay for content).
It definitely seems to be designed for landscape - just look at the orientation of the word Nexus on the back. I'm not sure I agree about the Chromecast thing though, I think it's more that the media they want you to buy is better in landscape (possible exceptions being books, a matter of preference, and some games). Chromecast seems to be about the device specifics not really mattering, it's not a mirror so it doesn't need to be the right way or even awake.
> Thinking they are legitimate is the DEFAULT expectation.

My default expectation for user-generated content in a commercial or advertisement is that it is made-up.
This problem can be fixed. I have done it myself with a Galaxy Nexus and a Nexus 7.

This is a trimming issue of the internal memory.

- Root the tablet (if you haven't already).

- Install lagfix (free) from the market or crosscompile fstrim and run it on your sd card.

Your tablet / phone will be fast again.