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This seems like a misleading claim, based on their "24-hour battery life" claim, which is in fact 24 hours of cellular talk time, with Wi-Fi off.

From http://www.google.com/nexus/6/

Testing was conducted by Google using pre-production Nexus 6 devices and software. Talk time tests used default settings with Wi-Fi off and LTE on. Standby time tests used default settings with LTE on and Wi-Fi on. Wi-Fi internet tests had Airplane Mode on with Wi-Fi connected to a test access point, while loading three popular websites cached on a local server. The Nexus 6 loaded a page, waited 40 seconds, and then loaded a page from the next site. LTE internet tests had Wi-Fi off and LTE on, and used the same testing method as the Wi-Fi internet tests.

Edit: If you're going to downvote, please explain why.
correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the chromecast require that you use another device to stream content to it? i.e. to play netflix, I have to stream the video from my phone or something to the device?
The GitHub page is up now.
At the time I write this, one of two other responses is, "good riddance." How does this make sense to anyone? How can anyone look at this kind of thuggish behavior and celebrate its results? I often disagree with Sarkeesian's critiques, but all of the abuse she has gotten is beyond the pale.

I could understand (though not condone) when there were one or two outspoken women complaining about being harassed were dismissed as provocateurs. That has not been the situation for some time. Would anyone here want to join a community that behaves like this?
He's asking why not just keep the same screen, which looks perfect anyway, and make it cheaper/last longer.

I have exactly the same question, that's why I ordered a Sony Z3.
7" screen was the perfect size for reading books and comics in my opinion. I'd preferred to have gotten a new 7" with smaller bezels. Might as well skip this Nexus generation.
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I think the pocket problem is a little over played (at least for men). The 6+ fits fine in the pocket of my hipster skinny jeans.

The strap idea is interesting.

I have a hard time imagining a phone that gets people who aren't already carrying purses to start doing so. In addition to the social awkwardness (man purse?) it's just so much harder to lose something that you keep directly on your person.
Great. Then the relatively physically weak, the infirm, the elderly, the women, will be at the mercy of the strong.

A short look at mass shootings in Western Europe in the lat few decades, which are both more numerous and more deadly, suggests that intermediate restrictions won't do any good at best. History prior to that tells what government can easily do to disarmed untermensch.

I'll take an occasional mass shooting over everyone being at the constant mercy of thugs.

For that matter, sort of echoing the others who have commented prior to my starting this comment, such an attempt in the US would instantly spark a nasty civil war killing orders of magnitude more people.
Yep, we need to explain it more. What do you mean "explicit support for the Hacker School Social Rule"?
"Nexus 6 will be available for pre-order through the Google Play Store in late October starting at $649."

This is from Motorola http://motorola-blog.blogspot.fr/2014/10/nexus-6-from-google...
GamerGate is not a group, Anita.

It's an event where multiple industry respected journalists were caught censoring or promoting certain stories in exchange for sexual favors.
I had a Nexus 5, but I bought a Sony Z3 Compact a few weeks ago, and I don't regret doing so. This phone is simply too big.

For anyone interested, I would highly recommend the Z3C. It's a fantastic phone and a really great size.
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I thought that was strange as well. Any phone or tablet app in the Play Store that uses native code will not be compatible. I'm guessing they did this to make it more attractive to game developers. PlayStation, XBox, and PC are now all x86 platforms. Makes it easier for top game studios to also target Google Player if it runs the same architecture.
Now that every company is releasing gamepads for their set-top devices hopefully we'll see android games support them properly.
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It's also come to mean, in general, to make something less useful. You can "nerf" an alchemy or farming skill in an MMO, even if that doesn't have any combat ability.

Still, I don't think it's super appropriate, because there's nothing making the older phones worse, they just aren't getting better in the ways they obviously could.
I'm sorry, but this is a false equivalence. On one side you have people literally threatening people with violence to the point of being forced to leave their homes, cancel speaking appearances, etc. On the other side, you have people pointing out this unfortunate fact.
Can you point me to a definition of merit that I redefined?

I guess I'll try to say it slightly differently to clarify: "it's worth working to expand who you know, how much they like/admire you and how much they want to work with you". This is a skill you can get better at. It's hard work that you need to do. And yes, sadly, this work is certainly easier if you're a 25 year old white guy who went to Stanford.

Do you think people who have worked to have a deep network of folks to sell to, hire from, get introductions from, etc., have done meritorious work? I'm suggesting that how hard you work on this stuff (and how good you get at it) is part of your merit (in the world of startups/entrepreneurship). I certainly don't think it's the only part.

Given that about half of the top venture backed startups are founded by immigrants, I'd say the startup is more meritocratic than a lot of people seem to think. But I'd agree with you that we have a ways to go.
Is there any demo or 30 days trial period? This landing page doesn't explain anything. In my opinion just twitter bootstrap and one paragraph of text definitely is not enough!
You could jailbreak an iPhone 5S for a year now.
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Physically, the Nexus 7 is just over 2 inches (51.4mm) larger diagonally then the Nexus 6.
I can hold it normally and comfortably reach the entire screen with my thumb. I can also hold it in strange ways like with my 4th finger on the top edge and my thumb on the bottom, and still reach the entire screen with my index finger. I'm sure that last one sounds weird, but I do it surprisingly often (mostly while laying down).

The gigantic phones remind me of 17" laptops. I can see it making sense if you don't have another computer, but hell if I want to carry one around. For phones, it's just a big thing in my pocket that's trying to be redundant with my surface. All I need is phone calls, texting, GPS/maps, snapcat, music, and (usually reading only) email and OneNote.

A 6" screen doesn't make any of those things easier or more convenient.
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It says this is chromecast enabled... so it's the same thing with more, no?
No: the problem is that VMs are too slow, and therefore you need to spread them out over more machines, and therefore VMs are too expensive. Otherwise, why not just make every container a full EC2 instance?

All the analogous tech to Docker has existed in the AWS+OpenStack ecosystem for a decade; it's just that nobody is willing to pay $50/mo per container. An entire huge company (Heroku) lives off the profit margin that is created by paying for VMs, then selling containers at VM prices.
I don't care to conjecture about the frequency or origination of the threats because I don't think there's enough information and, frankly, it's not that important.

I can tell you I'd happily endure electronic harassment for that much money, especially with experts telling me there's no risk of physical harm.
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Apple isn't Foxconn. Zoho is a company started in India by Indians with 90% of its workforce in India.

Of course Apple, Nike, Dell, News Corp., and Zoho are international companies, but Zoho is as Indian as Apple is American.
If something's effectiveness is destroyed, it has been nerfed. I think being made obsolete is an appropriate time to use the word nerf, though I don't think the phones were in fact made particularly obsolete.
OP has a reasonable point, not sure what yours is.

> Did your gorgeous 27" display cost more than $500?

Actually, they're going for about $300 on NewEgg, and are currently on sale for $200 at Best Buy.
There are lots of small weirdnesses scattered around a website which doesn't really have much detail.

It's a good idea - I was thinking open code review would be a super useful thing for many people - but a demo of how it works in practice would be worth a thousand XP points.

I'd be deeply reassured if there was explicit support for the Hacker School Social Rules.
Why does it need updating? 4K support?

Since the Nexus Player will have Chromecast support built-in (like all Android TV devices), software will hopefully continue to add support on their end.
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Chromecast is a little different from a box like this. Chromecast is about bridging the gap between the Android phone/tablet and the TV as a display. These boxes are more about directly targeting that TV environment as its own ecosystem. For some apps like Netflix this is a redundant point, but for other apps it is a key difference.
They're good ideas there's several sites out there that cater for them. We don't want to charge. What's been built is from many customer segment interviews. We'll be improving on it over time of course.
the problem with services like this is that once that issue is resolved, where is it going to be documented? I highly doubt that someone is going to take the time to enter in the question and solution somewhere for all to reference should they have the issue.

http://xkcd.com/979/
Exactly - I don't know many personally who like the big phones, but you are exactly right that they sell anyways because nowadays there are few other options.
Really? Your eye can resolve the difference between 300 ppi and 500 ppi at arm's length?

Also, don't be a stranger.
Yeah I should add a demo. Thanks for the idea!
Correction: a piss poor 27 inch display. "Quad HD" is way too little for that size; you need to at least quadruple the amount of pixels to get anything resembling print quality.

And I don't understand why we shouldn't strive for that. After all, (for me at least), much what I do on a computer is reading, and that benefits from a higher-resolution display up to a point much more than images.
>Clearly carrying large phones in pockets is impossible... impractical... and... undesirable.

People keep saying that and time and time again it's proven wrong. It has been wrong for years, and it will keep being wrong. If large phones were impossible, impractical, and undesirable, people would stop buying them. But they're not. They're demanding them in such large numbers that even Apple has put out a massive, massive phone. Even Nokia put out a massive phone. Samsung started matching the size of their flagship to the size of their largest phone years ago.

Every manufacturer has a huge phone, because the majority of the buying public wants a huge phone. But still I hear people say "big phones will never catch on". Guess what? They did catch on, and they're not big phones anymore. After several years of being big phones, they're just called phones now.
Do you doubt that she has received death threats? Do you doubt that other women recieve death threats?
I do think that a chromecast in a boxed set with a simple 4" wifi-only Android tablet would have been the more "Google/Android" solution to the problem this device is attempting to solve, but that would leave the fledgeling Ouya-esque gaming world off the table.

To me the big failing of the Chromecast is families, where the kids will not necessarily own their own smartphone. This device comes with a bundled remote.

However, that's a huge change in the Android world because up until now every official Google Android-device has been touch-enabled. Switching to a remote control is very significant.
Many of us are not 5' tall and want to get things done on our phones.
That would be http://xkcd.com/678/
So is it confirmed that there's no new Nexus 7? What is the best new alternative with some kind of clean Android mini tablet?
My chromecast sits unused in a drawer because I hate to have to use my phone / tablet to watch TV (lack of tactile feedback, phone lock timeout, and being distracted by work email when I'm trying to relax). This thing has a remote, which is a huge win for me. Maybe it even has an IR receiver (or one could be plugged in via USB), which would allow better integration with my harmony.

Also, you'll probably be able to side-load xbmc on it without rooting, like you can on a Ouya, an Amazon FireTV or (rooted) AppleTV to get full access to your media library, to act as a PVR front end, & to give you access to the vast world of shady XBMC plugins.

The open question for me is what sort of video the thing will be able to play back natively. And whether or not you can side-load Amazon Instant Video
The set of rational numbers that lie inside the interval [0,1].

This set is not closed there are non-rational numbers in that interval which are limit points of sequences that consist only of rationals. For example, any of the algebraic numbers. I think that all real numbers are limits of such sequences, but I might be mis-remembering some subtlety of Dedekind Cuts (one method for constructing the Reals).

This set is not open because any rational is the limit of a sequence of non-rational reals. This probably makes intuitive sense, but just for the sake of formality: To construct such a sequence for any rational r, start with the number x_1 = 1/pi, and approach by a factor of 1/pi at each step, i.e. x_n+1 = x_n + (r-x_n)/pi . x_n is irrational because pi is transcendental.

Any simple interval in R will be either closed or open on each end (but it could be closed on one and open on the other). It's more illustrative to create a set with a non-compact interior. In higher dimensions it's possible to have more exotic borders on an interval, but I think that border will just end up being isomorphic to a non-compact set in a lower dimension.
"useless organ" - yet revolution did not remove it. Did modern science finally decide whether caffeine or fat are ultimately good/bad? Because they seem to be changing their opinion every year.
For a start, roku has an extremely closed app development policy. Have you seen how you develop apps for the Roku? The Player will have it open just like other devices.

On amazon, Roku 3 streaming player costs 90USD. So, it's the same price range. Except that Player will have more apps in no time.

(And from a developer perspective, Roku is using a custom language. You read that right, a DSL of their own)
> we will launch a stand-alone, over-the-top, HBO service

"Over the top" is new to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-top_content

Earliest reference I could find is April 2010: http://www.billingworld.com/articles/2010/04/taking-over-the...
Maybe it's the reverse. It is a PR to make an impression that the fusion is just around the corner to discourage other nations from investments into tokamaks and improved fission reactors, out of impression that this fusion breakthrough will make them all soon obsolete.
This comment by Matthias Felleisen's is a very polite and well-considered position from an academic on the dynamically-typed side of the spectrum: http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/bellman-conf...

Harper himself can't be relied on to be so cordial, unfortunately.
What the commenter is pointing out is that it may not matter how you cool the reactor. It could be in interstellar space and it might not matter because the material the reactor itself is made of may not be able to transmit the heat away from the reactor. And no such material may exist.
Just took a quick look at paper #2, which is quite fascinating -- to try and isolate the effects of static / dynamic typing, they developed two slightly different programming languages which varied along only this axis.

I have some sympathy with this approach, but I'm not convinced you can actually separate things in this way. The type systems I actually find useful are not just a static analysis layer, but have significant impacts on the semantics of the language and the way libraries are designed. I'm not sure you could just 'turn off' the type system in Haskell and have anything even remotely sensible, for example.

I sometimes wonder if there's enough mature open-source projects in the wild now to be able to draw some statistical conclusions about the long-term effects of language choice, but that would be quite a project...
I just released the beta version of the site so I don't have any data-points yet. But I'm hopefully going to bank on enterprises mostly purchasing the software, and those are going to be entities that I know will most likely respect the per-user contracts. The entire source-code will be available to the customer once they purchase the license. I've had to make a lot of hacks when tailoring 3rd party software with pieces of their code closed-source, so I hope to alleviate that pain for other developers.

What type of software do you sell, and how are you currently charging clients?
This stuck out for me, too. Jordan was far too chummy in his responses. This signals, "I want you to like me so that when I fuck up you will give me more slack." It's not genuine warmth, it's a cynical, sociopathic ploy to garner imaginary "friend credits" that can be traded for real money when need.

(It actually reminds me of how mobile customer service call centers repeatedly, obnoxiously apologize, to the point where they seriously degrade the service. I would much rather a person help me than waste time apologizing to me.)
No nexus has ever had an SD card slot [ED: since the nexus one!]. It's their thing, to push people into the cloud.

>dying breed

Rubbish, quite the opposite: every (other) flagship android phone has one this year: S5, One M8, LG G3, xperia Z3. Every windows tablet has one. Compare this to the last round when it was pretty much just the S4.
I'm also pursuing mobile games in Haskell, so I'm very happy to see them working on this. That said, less than 30 fps for a simple game seems very poor to me. For comparison, my previous game ran easily at 60fps on an iPhone 5 w/Gambit Scheme.

So, I'm wondering where the culprit is. Is the android phone fairly old? What does a basic rendering test run at? I.e., w/o yampa or SDL or other game logic? I hope to have my own answers to these questions soon, but bravo to Keera for blazing the trail!
Charging is always fastest with airplane mode on, perhaps that's how they reached these numbers.
The one thing I wish the Chromecast had is a physical remote. Well really I just want to be able to learn/program my IR remote to control it.
This looks very similar to the old Russian Gas Dynamic Trap:
https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/366958.pdf

RF and neutral beam heated steady reactor with very high mirror ratio and superconductors.
I am not sure if I would notice if a pixel count changed by a factor of 1.2, but when you double the resolution (4x the pixels) the difference is dramatic. The screens on my iPad2 and iPad4 are very different, and while I didn't mind it when it was new, the iPad2 now has painfully low resolution.
What would be a way to solve these harassment issues?
You notice pixel density between 400 and 450, or 450 and 500 when holding the phone normally (at say a bit less than an arm's length usually)

I mean, I notice FPS changes from 60 to 90, but I wouldn't pay even a dollar extra for it.

I'm not actually wondering if you can notice, I'm wondering if it makes an actual impact on your viewing experience.

And if so, if that impact (however big or small, feel free to elaborate) is worth the extra money we can all assume it costs to buy hardware capable of pushing a lot of extra pixels smoothly.

And lastly, if that different not only is worth the price, but also the hit to battery life we can all assume exists.

That, to me, just seems like a really tall order. (if anyone has some insights as to how big the impact is on viewing experience, cost and battery, feel free to add! I've got no real clue).
> If her videos were well researched and fair, maybe there would have never such a shitstorm.

This isn't about her videos. It is about the shitstorm (death threats!) you say is somehow partially her fault. Coming from the same person who said she was "bathing in the outrage". This is beyond criticism of her work, this is an attack.
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The Nexus 6 with no plan?
But bigger...
I'm not OP, but I went back to a apple phone (5s) from a galaxy 3 in part because texting with one hand was a pain.
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Am I missing something? The Nexus 4 certainly does appear to be supported.

Android 5.0 Lollipop, which comes on Nexus 6, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player, will also be available on Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10 and Google Play edition devices in the coming weeks.
I don't have personal experience with this, but my anecdotal observations of friends with iPhones is that installing the new version of iOS on devices ~2 years old just makes people want to ditch those old phones and get the new ones, because performance isn't good any more.

The conspiracy theorist voice in my head says this isn't a coincidence.
I am really curious to see if there will be noticeable "real world" battery life improvements. On paper they have done things which SHOULD give us improvements (ART, and "Project Volta" scheduling), however it remains to be seen just how well those theoreticals will translate into improvements on the ground.

I have read reports from people who have tried the developer preview, however their anecdotes vary so wildly (e.g. 10-60% improvements) it is hard to believe any of them. Need something more scientific than people's vague "I got more hours today than yesterday."
I know a lot of people whose smartphones have become their primary computing devices. A big phone offers much better battery life, much more usability across countless apps, and it makes watching videos a tremendously better experience.

I think it is a real possibility that many folks legitimately like bigger phones.

Keep in mind that the Nexus 5 is still around and is still a perfectly viable phone. It will also receive the Android L update. It's not like the Nexus 5 is being killed and replaced with a 6" phone. Rather, a 6" phone is being added to the lineup.

There's also the 2014 Moto X, which is effectively a Nexus but with a 5.2" screen.
Static typing is mostly orthogonal, Haskell is mostly blazing fast because of all the aggressive compiler optimizations and the last decade of hard work by Simon Marlow and others on the parallel runtime.
I personally have used Gunnars (www.gunnars.com) for years now. Headaches are nearly a thing of the past. They have frames/lens geometry designed specifically for computer work. Is it a placebo? Maybe. The lens geometry probably is at least. Does it help? In my personal experience, yes.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nerf

To "nerf" means to weaken or make less dangerous. Google's forced obsolescence of Nexus devices is clearly making the devices weaker and less capable than they can be. I think the use of the word "nerf" was accurate and justified in this case.