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Yes there's no denying that there's much more opportunity in the San Francisco Bay Area than most anywhere else in the nation but that doesn't change how much opportuniy is also available everywhere else currently. And as telecommuting gets easier opportunity is more afforded to everyone with a web connection.

Each morning I tell myself 'There is more opportunity today than there was yesterday' and this is why:

Every day there are over 1 million Android devices activated. There are also over 1 million iOS devices activated. Each of these devices is activated by people who are potentially new to the digital experience. They are going to need new apps to get the maximum value out of their device. They are actively looking for new experiences and services.

Open source hardware like the Arduino as well as wearable computers like Google Glass are beginning to point to a future of smart everything. The Arduino hall of the Maker Fair makes me feel like what it must have been like to be at the Homebrew Computer Club. You just get a sense that once again Moore's Law has made a host of new things possible.

Crowdsourcing sites like KickStarter and IndieGogo allow markets to form, signal purchasing intent, and even shell out the cash for projects before the entrepreneur has even begun production.

Incubators like YCombinator are in place to find and cultivate the best and brightest entreprenuers as well as being there to add rocket fuel to the spacecraft and participate in the countdown to launch.

Even in small towns every company that is serious needs a web and/or mobile presence. They need someone to design it and create the assets. They need someonde to build and maintain it. They need someone to scale it out and add new features. They need someone to keep it secure.

The gamut of opportunity in the consumer mobile, web, and electronics space is so wide and varied that it's only limited by your imagination, passion, and focus.
I was thinking maybe as an investor I'd see this move as an example of "potentially" good execution and a possibility of Google playing well with media giants.
Awesome that its so affordable. HTC has a similar device called Media Link HD which costs around $90 and i considered buying it. Chromecast all the way :)
Hello, this is Sean Wilkinson, the author of QMachine. I'm not sure what "excepted scientific computing" means, but there is an example study available at http://q.cgr.googlecode.com/hg/index.html, but it's probably going to fail if everyone on HN tries it because the data source (the NCBI) will probably crash ...
China’s crazy plan to build the world's tallest building in 9 months?
The End of National Security Reporting?
This is useful for educational purposes, too - wirelessly streaming from a chrome browser or chromebook to a projector (via hdmi to vga adapter).

(An alternative if you have a laptop connected to the projector is to run AirServer to act as a virtual Apple TV, and then either airplay from your ipad or run AirParrot from a windows tablet. Of course Chromecast will be the first solution to work from android tablets, too, since Miracast solutions still seem to be non-existent or not so great.)
I've got a "smart TV" and can tell you that the UI they provide is crappy, slooooooooow, glitchy, and hard to navigate, even with the tinsy (yet clever) remote they provided (yes, Vizio, I'm talking to you). However, if you want to get an idea of how this device will operate, try pairing your phone to the YouTube app. Amazing? Yep. So much more useable than a silly remote. Plus, you'll likely be able to watch whatever service makes an app. Boom!
This has since been corrected in the original article.
For me, it is the ability to control the TV from my cellphone, tab or mac without dealing with the terrible keyboards on the smart TV remotes (PS3 input is only slightly better).
I'm sure you're correct about not being their target.

I think there are already android apps that let you stream stuff to your tv via wifi, I could be thinking about something else.

If you already have netflix, is this device basically half off?
Every major browser vendor has pushed for some stuff and resisted other stuff. Only extremely rarely does anything new make it to 'cross browser compatible' status.

There are far far worse systems for evolving widely used platforms.
Are you saying he's have the same level of insight if he was from Saskatchewan, Canada?
> languages and environments that run around an order of magnitude faster than Javascript (on Javascript's best day)

I'd love to see the programming language that's an order faster than Google V8. See http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/javascript.php and play with it a little bit ;-)
This is generally accomplished by hiring.
Coming soon, if you'd like to help, actually :-)
this is super smart. also, it gives me a good guide for ideas for the sites i want to build as i'm learning to code. THANKS!
Is fizz buzz broken? A random number is nice, but what if not divisible by 3 or 5 - what do I enter? Example: I got 559.
How close are you to filling your storage? I think the storage issue is aggravated when you're close to filling the SSD up. I have an 8GB that was unusably slow, while a friends 32GB never had any problems.
Years? Exaggerate much? I'm not a game dev, but when I think about the projects that I've put literally years of effort into, they are far more complex than the typical <$10 app store game.
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If they really feel strongly about it they'll let the bill sit for the 10 day period where it becomes law without their signature.
"If there's a watershed on the TV then why isn't there one for the internet?"
Would be nice to have something multilanguage for users of minority languages (Erlang, Haskell, or Lisp.)
Is there a video of this presentation somewhere? Would love to see it.
Chromecast is not available in your country.

I live in Canada. Apple seems to be able to make this stuff work, why can't anyone else?
So 4.3 fixes neither the ad-hoc WiFi issue #82 nor the audio latency issue #3434. I will continue to pass as those are the deal breakers for me.

It’s amazing – these two have been pending for more than 4 years. Google hasn’t cared to even comment on the former while thousands of users beg them to: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82
To be honest, as soon as I read the title I thought "but if you force yourself to deliver something new every day you want have enough time to actually learn new stuff in between", and you proved me wrong. Congratulations!
Are there good links you can recommend for implementing SSL with perfect forward secrecy?
Thanks for the comment.

TrueCrypt is far superior when it comes to security in the sense that everything is encrypted and decrypted on the fly in RAM. But it is also pretty complex to setup. And maybe I've just missed it, but I don't know how to do things like email myself a copy of an actual encrypted file, or copy and paste an encrypted file into Dropbox without decrypting it.

So people who use TrueCrypt probably won't want to use this. But for people who don't know what "Create Volume" and "Mount all Devices" mean, this is hopefully a lot simpler. It really is just a folder that encrypts files when they are copied into it, and decrypts them when they're copied out of it. There are no hidden disk images and we don't even encrypt the filenames so anyone up to anything particularly devious will probably not want to use it. But it is absolutely trivial to get running. And my mother can use it. :)
Speaking of promoting misunderstanding, your incorrect characterisation of this amendment as a bill in it's own right has prompted, to date, no fewer than half a dozen people to earnestly speculate that the President will certainly veto the bill - thus defunding the entire Defense Department, rather than just one program - should it pass.
"Maybe it depends on whom you hang out with."

...and your existing bills and how you are able to pay for them.

I've got a 1 hour commute each direction, and an 8 hour a day, soul-sucking, brain-energy-sucking job. (HN is sanity retention medicine for me.) By the time I get home in the evening, fix dinner for the kids and me, eat, catch up with the family, etc. I don't have a lot of time or energy for anything else.
7 million Nexus 7 units have been sold so far; I doubt those bugs are major issues for those purchasers.
I was thinking about this quite a bit, and I imagine that you'd have a docking station of sorts that has it's own video card in it, with better cooling. Otherwise, I suppose you could have a docking station with active cooling.
Correction noted. I hadn't moused over that spot.
'The pill' can change your taste in men
Any word on if I can stream whatever is on my Android screen to this?

There are many times where I have pics on my phone (either via the phone's camera, or Picasa, G+, etc) that I want to show people at home - but there's no easy way to show them without having to pass around a tiny screen.
Make an innocent joke, downvote.
Make an innocent joke about Apple, upvote.

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This is great! I find myself always using an online code tool to figure out and test the appropriate regex.
http://orwell.ru/bio/grave/english/
All you need to know about TypeScript
Ask Gamers: What peripherals do you use?
I've got a Naos 3200 that I really like, and a Logitech K800. I've got a decent 1080p TN 25in panel. I'm not made of money so I can't afford the latest/greatest, nor could I justify a Korean panel, but I'm working on it..
Congress has defunded the program to close Guantanamo Bay.

They defunded the program under which ACORN was made possible.

They defund military programs and bases all the time.
The president can't veto an amendment, he has to veto the entire bill. It would be hilarious if with out sufficient votes his veto resulted in the DoD having no money.

Basically, he can't veto the bill and survive politically...
Makes much more sense as a product than last year's Nexus Q.
The Gamestick is powered by MHL if you have it, but you have to power it through its micro-usb port if you have normal HDMI (source: have one). I expect it's the same for the Chromecast.
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HTC give you bootloader unlock code in like 5 minutes if you request it. That is a reason why there is so strong support for the devices.
Link: http://www.oklabs.net/skype-reverse-engineering-the-long-jou...
Looks interesting, but I'm already a customer of smugmug, and they're claiming they're launching something innovative at the end of the month. That said, I wouldn't be adverse to jumping ship if this offering ends up being better.
You said annual?
Yes, the reality is that proprietary application platforms are taking over the application market, and that the web is slowly losing one of its major market advantages: a huge brain trust of web-only engineers and web-only engineering organizations.

Imagine that.
Yeah, I always felt a tiny bit sorry for non-US developers, especially using languages like Perl that use $ all over the place.
This kind of dedication is inspiring.

From http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/51616616313/day-58-explo... :

"Tomorrow I head to Pennsylvania to host a bridal shower and bachelorette weekend for my sister. Between the pre-wedding festivities and visiting with family, I’m going to be pretty limited on time for building websites. But, the show must go on and I am excited to see what kind of goodness I can create under pressure."

Congratulations Jennifer.
The author doesn't seem to understand that this is just a compiler. From him, it sounds like LLVM is the magic sauce in smartphone software on the planet.
The users can already choose to not use proprietary software, so what is it protecting them against? Themselves?

It's simplistic reasoning to ignore the social effects. For example, non-copyleft free software is extremely vulnerable to the EEE strategy, since any proprietary vendor can take the code and re-release it with extra or changed features under a proprietary license, which might almost extinguish the original software for lack of interest, forcing the user to have to choose between the Free version or the "upgrade", which is actually compatible with everyone else's.

No, I just believe that the GPL is intellectually dishonest. It's about controlling other people's means of production, with the end-goal of creating a communist ecosystem in which it's essentially impossible to not participate due to inherent market entry costs.

What happened to the person choosing to not use the software? Suddenly when it's the poor proprietary developer, he's being controlled by the bad copyright holders?

And how is the GPL intellectually dishonest? Replacing proprietary software by giving free software developers an advantage is an explicit goal of the GNU project. How is it dishonest?

In any case, you're fighting the wrong windmill. It's not the GPL that gives anyone such power, it's copyright. It's that government-granted monopoly that allows control over other people's means of production. The solution to your problem is simple: fight for its elimination.
This is the reason why a) I let myself off the hook for work that had to be rushed and isn't quite perfect when it ships, and B) why I'm not so goddamn critical of other people's work.

Most of us are works in progress, doing the best we can, iterating and making mistakes all the way through, but gradually and incrementally improving. This need to be perfect all the time is a neurosis that our society needs to lose because it results in us being perfect never.
Sounds like it - Netflix is what, $10/mo? Pulling that off the top of my head. After tax it was ~$42 with basic shipping - so more than half off it sounds like :-)
Which is fine until you end up in court (or whatever) because Google routed some important emails into your Promotions box.

My Gmail spambox already contains 40-50% legitimate emails that I have to rescue manually, so I already know I can't rely on Google filtering things properly...
> There are far far worse systems for evolving widely used platforms.

That's fine, but perhaps it would behoove Mozilla to not participate in dooming the web as a competitive application platform simply due to a misguided belief that the web is defined by HTML/CSS/JS?
Copyright law isn't the only kind of law possible that would require people to release source code. The fact that it is even used to do that is a weird recursive act begun by an eccentric genius and a fortunate historical accident. That's my point.
Politican website hacked. Comedy ensues.
You might find http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/alain.darte/Master12/Cours2012_8a.p... interesting - it addresses the question of NP completeness head on.
Sorry, I meant to post this in the thread on Android 4.3, not this one on Nexus 7.
Since I got my ipad mini, I have not really used my nexus, only for debugging my apps. The battery, screen, speed and so were all worse, and I never got used to the os as much as I have for iOS.

If I didn't need an android tablet, I probably would not have one.
Thanks so much for posting this. This is the most inspiring "show HN" I've seen here.
In that case, your gripes are valid.
Let's go to Mars
It's supposedly designed to hold comfortably in landscape. It coincides with the chromecast release, where your primary layout is going to be landscape to match the t.v. display.
JS VMs make tradeoffs, yes. Regarding your specific examples:

1. Shared-state multithreading. This has been proposed by various people in the past, and is still being debated. There are people for it and against it in various places. It might happen, if there is consensus to standardize it.

2. SIMD: PNaCl (which I mention since you mention NaCl in that context) does not have SIMD. But of course it can add SIMD, just like Mono and Dart have, and there is a proposal for JS as well, hopefully that will get standardized.

So even those limitations are in principle resolvable. They do depend on standardization, of course, but so would any VM you want to run on the web.

> Let language authors target the low-level machine, and target your high-level general purpose bytecode.

asm.js is meant to get performance similar to a low-level machine. It's already very close to native on many benchmarks.

> Once you've built a runtime in which I could implement a JS runtime that's as performant as yours

I don't follow that. You can't make a fast JS runtime in your previous examples (the JVM, PNaCl, .NET, etc.).
I'm a little bit sad, because this was one of the funnier things I've said in my life.
There's an additional point: People may not realize just how negative the come across on Twitter.

I'm sure some people do, and do so on purpose, and if that's their choice then great. Follow or unfollow.

But if you find yourself turning to Twitter to vent you may not realize that, to many people, all you do is vent and complain. It may only be a small part of your total personality but if that's all you're showing to some people that's what they'll use to judge you.

A corollary to this might be that people should not be so quick to judge others based on some small sampling of their comments or tweets.

There's a very good chance they've said and done much more than what you've just happened to come across on the Intarwebs, and you've only seen a small part of that, and even that has been filtered though specific media and circumstances.

Perhaps apply Postel's Law to social interaction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
My plan is to learn how to code by reading the code for 180 of Jennifer Dewalt's websites in 180 days.
I dont understand how you stream content from your device to the Chromecast.
My PC has Windows Media Player, my Windows 8 phone has XBox SmartGlass. Would these applications allow you to stream to the tv. I am abit lost...
Yes, for users nothing really changes. Though, some people will probably appreciate the i18n stuff.

I consider this a sign of maturity, though. The smartphone UI is now quite stable.
It's true that there are more Title III intercept orders targeting Internet providers and companies that come from states vs. the Feds. Note these stats do not include Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act eavesdropping.

But because Google can be compelled to divulge the plaintext of, say, email messages or G+ posts if subject to a lawful court order, there's no need to perform a more difficult and expensive Title III wiretap. Real-time services like Hangouts are an exception, but it's still easier to serve a Title III order on Google than try to install a box on a rural ISP in Georgia and try to intercept and decode the stream.

Re: your point B, PFS would protect against passive attacks even if the master SSL key is known to Eve, and a subpoena would be insufficient legal process to obtain an ephemeral session key.
Will I be able to use free Hulu on Chrome through it? If so, this could make subscribing to Hulu Plus unneeded.
There are already patches for the IR blaster in CM10.1 (or 10.2 now). You have to cherrypick them though, as of two weeks ago they weren't merged yet.
LMAO. No such thing is happening, the web isn't losing anything nor does the rise of apps on mobile threaten the web.

> the reality is that proprietary application platforms are taking over the application market

That doesn't even make sense as proprietary application platforms have always owned the application market.
It'd be nice if the landing page explained how you're different from all the other options!
Certainly - But he could veto the bill, and tell them to resubmit with that clause removed.
It'd bounce it back down, and start the process again - Upping the stakes on both sides.

There's a lot of political tricks that could (and have) be used when congress and the President vehemently disagree.

In this case, however, I don't think it'd ever get that far.
I don't think the issue is popular enough pass the senate, nevermind with a veto-proof majority.

Even then, The Senate is run by the Dems, and (IMO) they're unlikely to want override a veto on a President of their own party.
He's not; he thinks he's being insightful.
> I don't follow that. You can't make a fast JS runtime in your previous examples (the JVM, PNaCl, .NET, etc.).

I included ones you could, such a NaCL. And I should probably have also included the native platforms (Apple, MS, Google), because they're the competition, even if their sandboxing or runtime environment isn't what one might call 'state of the art'.

At the end of the day, it's the two-tier universe that bothers me the most. You're content to foist the JS runtime on everyone but yourselves. Once you implement Firefox entirely as an application running in a JS VM, the argument that JS is good enough might carry some weight.
D.C. Toedt's book is probably not a math book, is why I asked.
Focus Your Efforts (Entrepreneurs Should Ignore The Liontamer's Stool)
Yes, this is what happens when Google owns Motorola. Things that Motorola cares about (tight control), Google now cares about.
I'm going to have to live with that repulsion, aren't I?
Sometimes a limb just becomes so rotten the only option is amputation. The only problem with that is that there is a pretty good chance this limb will craw away afterwards.
I encountered an absolutely jaw dropping Walmart deck a while back correlating their site speed with conversion rate:

http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2012/02/28/4-awesome-slid...

Sounds like a great fit for Torbit, reading that deck last year made me instantly respect the team at work @ Walmart.com
Copyright is creating artificial scarcity for copies and using price abnormally elevated by this scarcity to finance art makers (in theory) and scarcity creators (in practice).

Same way I could create scarcity on your oxygen supply and use artificially elevated oxygen price to finance myself and my efforts to create and uphold this scarcity and also finance cute puppies to mask what horrible thing I am actually doing.

Patenting and copyright clearly doesn't make any sense. It's just a tool for creating revenue stream by holding information and commercial freedom hostage. There are much less harmful ways to create revenue streams.
1	116 39.4558% sudo
2	37 12.585% cd
3	29 9.86395% ls
4	5 1.70068% traceroute
5	5 1.70068% nautilus
6	5 1.70068% ifconfig
7	5 1.70068% chmod
8	4 1.36054% ssh
9	3 1.02041% x64
10	3 1.02041% ping

Nothing too exciting, use Ubuntu desktop mostly, most of the sudo stuff is likely apt-get and other non-repository installation stuff. Network debugging, Nautilus was when I was trying out desktop managers managers... Glad to see VICE C64 emulator on the list.
Keep in mind, she's starting from scratch, and her goal is to learn fundamentals of programming, not project management. Managing an large, interconnected project is a formidable task in itself.

She's made a pretty strong case for starting small, managing scope, and keeping realistic expectations.
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How an Awkward Stock Photo is Born
'fastboot oem unlock' will still work on Nexus devices, right?
Knockout and Ractive take opposite approaches to managing the DOM. There is value in understanding all approaches and then choosing the best fit.