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I work at Google. We don't typically monitor HN, reddit, twitter, etc but we have plenty of people watching Stack Overflow (the one we direct people to from our docs). The default quotas are conservative during this Beta period but we're happy to increase when needed--the service is certainly not provisioned as high as IMAP at this point. Submitting the quota increase request (from the developers console) will send us an email and we'll either approve it or if we need to, we'll start an email thread to ask for more info/suggest improvements. Hope that helps!
A future version of Windows will have Container capabilities, and Microsoft has committed to contributing Docker Daemon code.
They chose to make Haskell a lazy language and that forced them to make it pure. You cannot have laziness without purity.
> As an Australian resident with no real access to current episodes of Game of Thrones without getting cable TV …

That's the same situation as USA.

Australia actually briefly had it better than USA, with the AU iTunes store releasing HBO shows like GoT within a day or two of their USA cable release. But then HBO + Foxtel broke that.
But they all seem to be getting bigger. Why are all offerings moving toward exclusively serving only half the market?
> I also think you're implying that the male in your example believes his way is better because he's a man and therefore smarter and all that nonsense

Oh, definitely not. I think the guy usually has no idea what he is doing and it's just reflexive behavior.
To deny that Moore's law is amazing is amazingly ignorant.
Although I can't speak for all Android phones, in my opinion this is absolutely what the manufacturers need to focus on (hurhur) to compete with Apple.
Yeah I always thought that's why they jumped over 6 to name the tablets. Nexus 6 is a bit of a burn to the legacy it tips its hat to.
Does this have a flash? I can't see one, unless I am being dumb?
This one is huge...And seems like Google didn't upgrade their Nexus 5 model?
It's true that you use a 5" phone differently than a 3.5" phone. But a 5" phone comes with a lot of advantages of its own, which you might find hard to recognize if that's not what you're using.

> All I need is phone calls, texting, GPS/maps, snapcat, music, and (usually reading only) email and OneNote.

Well that's probably just because you use your current phone for these things. Who's to say that the bigger screen won't make you do more or other things with it?

I'm not trying to pick on your taste, or say that your taste is wrong. This is just a reply to the general sentiment that you express which I see expressed many times in these discussions. I'm saying that many people complaining about these large sizes are just complaining that they can't use their new phone in exactly the same way as their old one. As if that is some self-evident bad thing. But it comes down purely to taste and - as with anything that depends on taste - it doesn't hurt to try something new sometimes.
Chromecast runs an app inside that does the streaming.

Phone/tablet just setup the URL for the stream.

You can easily verified this by setup the chromecast to stream from youtube with a phone after it start play, you can turn off the phone and and it would still be playing.

The phone/table for chromecast is just a fancy remote control.
What keeps me off buying another Playstore device is Google's terrible customer support, especially before they can command such a premium price. I have an unresponsive Nexus 4. I cannot just send it in for warranty repair. In order to return it, I have to go through a list of steps on their website, then get on a phoneline on which they state I have to wait for 45 minute to get a customer rep. Often the line is interrupted. I haven't been able to get my number for two weeks now.

Eric Schmidt recently said in Germany that Amazon is their biggest competitor. For that to be true, they need to seriously up their support.
Yes, but before you couldn't simply get a good mid to high-range phone for $400. That's not true anymore nowadays, the Moto X 2014 will probably go down to ~350USD/Euro off-contract like last year's generation. Heck, even the Moto G is a great phone for most people and is $179 off-contract for the LTE model.
> Expanding who you know, how much they like/admire you, and how much they want to work with you is part of meritocracy.

Ehhh, that's the textbook definition of cronyism, the opposite of meritocracy.
I disagree. With a generation 2 VM, I run 24 VMs quite happily on my 32Gb machine if you turn on dynamic memory. My 8Gb X201 runs 6 and Visual studio, sql server well. I haven't tried any more than that yet.

As for apps, IIS makes a pretty good container system if you want to use it for that sort of thing.
Is the TV / app interface bad? I've heard good things about Netflix on the Xbox.
Damn, I was hoping they would finally improve the speaker positioning as well. "Stereo" speakers right next to each other on the bottom is so pointless.
Now this just needs to happen with other TV networks.

For example, I'd love to pay AMC Networks[0], A&E Networks[1], or NBC Universal[2] a nominal monthly fee to access their catalogs on-demand.

While it's true that these networks stream some of their current shows online, the players and streaming experience is usually very terrible.

That's how I want to the future to be: everything is like Netflix or HBO-sans-cable. Maybe even eliminate, or at least reduce commercials.

And it's not exactly a-la-carte, because most channels aren't individual networks. And most shows are perfectly suited for on-demand viewing. There are very few things I watch that are actually "broadcast" live (news and sports are pretty much it). All I'm suggesting is that we bypass the cable companies and pay the publishers directly for content. I'd pay good money to an Internet Service Provider who gives me a fast and stable connection to the publisher's servers.

The flip side of all this choice is that it's no longer dead-simple for consumers. It sure is convenient to simply pay Comcast $100 a month and they take care of getting all of these networks and publishers into my home in one box with one remote control. Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon apps are fairly ubiquitous on pretty much every platform including built right into many TVs. I doubt traditional TV networks want to invest in that technology.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Networks

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26E_Networks

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBCUniversal_Cable
Ask HN: In SF next week. Any tech offices I can visit?
Hey guys,

I'm in SF next and wondering if there's any tech offices I can visitor or if anyone's interested in meeting to chat over coffee? I was an SRE at a startup acquired by Google back in 2011 and currently work at Hailo as a platform engineer writing microservices in Go using distributed systems. It's my first time in SF and I'm looking to see what the scene is like out there.

Cheers
Microsoft and Sony Pressuring Ubisoft for 30FPS on PC
If you want to learn more, there's a live web chat on Oct 22 with Kurt and Slava, the CEOs of Compose and RethinkDB: http://www.meetup.com/RethinkDB-Bay-Area-Meetup-Group/events...
I have to agree. I wanted to see something spectacular and I wanted to see Haskell explored as a real option. But running 25fps on Android?! Seriously? It can't hit 30fps or today's accepted video game speed of 60fps on an extremely trivial Breakout game?? As I was reading, all I could think was that ONLY after a lot of optimizations requiring hacks or deep knowledge of how Haskell operates you hit a low slightly higher but still low benchmark..that's.. nice(?). Not the 'Wow, I should start using Haskell' argument at all.

I don't need to see full 3D to convince me, but the average game on any platform is tens to hundreds of times more asset-heavy, resource-heavy and computation heavy than this example. It's just not convincing to see it perform UNDER the expected 30-60fps.
The pixels become obvious under the magnification of Cardboard.
Yes and I actually missed that bit. I hang my head in shame :(
Before I got my Mustang (:-) I was hacking on the OCaml arm64 compiler backend using this technique. The article describes setting it up for Fedora. Follow through the links for how to do this on SUSE and Debian. It's fairly reasonable as a userspace dev environment.

http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/how-to-run-aarch64-bina...
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The pricing is really high. Seems like Google is now no longer interested in forcing great phones out of Samsung/HTC etc. Now that great phones exist they raise the prices and no longer upset the hardware chain.
I think as more of the older crowd has gotten into smart phones the screen size has gotten larger to compensate for their poor eyesight.

I think this point is backed up by the fact that the rendered text size has not changed in any appreciable way.
> Not arm outstretched, like my dad

LOL, didn't know my brother was on hackernews, too. What's up man!
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Dumbphones had great battery life.

Yet we use smartphones...

Anyhow, my Nexus 5 lasts the day, I plug it in at night. That's good enough. And I like the screen.

Battery life only matters to a point - after that features and niceties matter more...
I don't hear people saying "big phones will never catch on" but I do hear people saying "these bigger phones are too big for me."
If only Sony would acknowledge the existence of wireless charging (Qi). It has been great having many recent Nexus devices use it.
A lot of people have used an SSH client on a tablet for development on a VPS or other server.

There is a blog about it here: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
Till something goes pear shaped in multi threaded database optimizer written in C. They contemplate core dumps and sources for few days and magically come up with an answer. Source: I've seen that happen.
At this price point, I don't think a lower price would do anything. If you charge $99, no one complains about the price. If you charge $79, do you really get any more buyers? If they could do box + controller for $99, maybe that would attract people, but a crummy controller would get a lot of bad attention in reviews.
You can drive your average care at peak power for an hour without problems. The problem with the Veyron is that at top speed the tires will wear off in 15 minutes and you will run out of fuel after online 12 minutes but I think it is not really limited by its cooling capacity - at 400 km/h a LOT of air passes through its 10 radiators.
you mean on osx, right?
I was not trying to state any of the scenarios I presented as facts. Please do not be disgusted by so little.
Now we need a $20 google audiocaster. It would kill the airplay speaker market for android devices. You can hack it with a $20 hdmi to 3.5mm audio adaptor, but then it becomes a $55 device.

I'm somewhat surprised there is no ethernet in this player. For some places, wifi just doesn't work in their environment.
How much dangerous are the neutrons from such device? Similar to radiation, worst?

Time sell any oil company stocks, mutual fund holding?
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You make calm, reasonable, critiques of that video.

You claim other "gamers" will not like her video for the reason you give.

Can you explain how someone moves from "I disagree strongly with some aspects of the video you made" to [insert death threat here]?
experience and the timeline in the pdf I linked

You responded with the law, and a bunch of idiocy. Oh, it's against the law to dick over employees? Well then, it never happens -- case closed!
They are not actually forbidding selection, just hiding it. If you blindly select text you will see that copy/paste works - at least in Firefox.
Workplace Etiquette
Once your phone dies, go to the apple store and they will replace your broken phone with a new one (identical model) for $150 or $200.

Out-of-warranty cost:

iPhone 6 Plus: $329

iPhone 6: $299

iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5: $269

iPhone 4s: $199

iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, Original iPhone: $149
SD card support would be even better.

I recently got a 128 GB SD card for my phone and it's great to finally have as much storage for music as I used to have on my iPod Classic (I use Google Play Music All Access, which allows saving as much as you want to local storage).
Was I wrong? ;)
I've found that it's not terribly difficult to wait for the shows to come to Amazon Instant. For a bit I pirated premium channel content on release and bought it on Amazon Instant after the fact. I eventually realized that waiting really didn't impact my enjoyment.

I do still supplement my NBA League Pass with viewing of unauthorized streams for games that are not aired on League Pass.
i thought the ipad mini 3 was called iphone 6 plus
Only marginally smaller than an iPhone 6, sadly. 4.6" vs 4.7" screen, though the smaller top/bottom bezel helps with pocket size, if not screen reaching.

Still more reasonable than the new Moto G/X and all their 5+ inch ilk. I'll keep it in mind!
Remembering that there's no possible way we could know how many years away a thing is; the numbers are clearly a guesstimate.

They're more of a rounded (hence the clustering at or away from given numbers) measure of the remaining 'effort' versus 'difficulty'. Very likely there is some absolute time required (experiments take time to run), but throwing more people (and more importantly, more resources to run experiments and gather data) at the problem /would/ get to an end result faster (though how much faster is open to debate; it's sort of like asking how much effort does it take to win a top 30th percentile prize from a lottery).
3rd gen was the first Retina iPad
Why acknowledge sample size when snark is on the line?
One upvote for the Bladerunner mention. That would really be the only reason for me to upgrade from my Nexus 5 to a Nexus 6 :-)
(and/or "cheap")
Sometimes I will purposely log in to an airport's wifi network to use their connection.
The next time I'm back in that airport, my phone remembers the network and automatically connects.

I guess I need to manually remove these one-off networks, but I don't think I should have to micromanage my phone like that.
I see nothing particularly negative with that.

I found it distracting and it struck me as lazy writing. Apparently, though, you can't criticize writing style on HN submissions.
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Hi, Im visiting SV next week as well. (Im from The Netherlands). Could I join you when you visit something :-)?
If Google could produce a phone that lasted 4 years, that would be incredible.
As a Nexus 5 owner, I can see why. It's by no means obsolete (runs the newest games still, very smooth and fast, great screen), and easily has the nicest 'feel' of any phone I've ever used...
iOS 8 included over 4,000. It's not really a big deal. There's stuff that's deprecated an replaced but won't be removed for several releases (and you'll get compiler warnings so you're aware), there's a tonne of stuff you'll never use, there are lots of API's for new features (iOS example: HealthKit), and then there are things which you'll come across from time to time that make your life a little easier.
I've been using the item you linked to for about a year. I try to wear them if I'm using my computer or watching TV within 2 hours of bedtime.

My anecdotal experience is that they do something to help me get to sleep quicker and sleep sounder. Sometimes I forget or take them off for some reason, and then I definitely have a harder time getting to sleep.

Is it placebo? I guess I'd have no way of knowing...

2 additional comments:

1. I didn't anticipate this, but should have. Yellow lenses will make yellow things difficult to see. If a website uses yellow-shifted colors on a white background, certain elements might practically disappear when you have the glasses on.

2. You will look ridiculous wearing the things. Maybe you don't care. I'm slightly ashamed to admit that I do care, and am considering buying these to remedy the situation:

http://www.amazon.com/Blocking-Driving-Wayfarers-Sunglasses-...
Your listing is simplified compared to the actual lineup

* The non-air iPad Retina and non-retina Mini are still part of the lineup

* the 5S and 5C are still part of the lineup

* the iMac exists in 21 and 27"

* the rMBP exists in 13 and 15"

* the MBA exists in 11 and 13"

* the 13" MBP still exists
I live in a long apartment with thick walls, so there are lots of wifi dead zones. I'm constantly turning wifi on and off as I move from room to room.
This is the same company that recently released an iOS update that broke touchID (and WiFi?) for their brand new phones. Humans aren't perfect.
actually, 99% of native apps should work flawlessly _on the condition_ that they're downloaded from the Play Store. intel has something called the Houdini for AOT binary translation: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13005569/38749
So, the reason I mention full software 3D, is this:

Computers are, at heart, numerical engines. 3D rendering, in software, is the perhaps the purest form of exploiting that. If your language can't do that well, then it's a high-level language and is suited for gluing stuff together. I specify software 3D because any fool can pull in some OpenGL bindings and talk about framerates, but in that case their language is only glue for hardware APIs.

And there's nothing wrong with that, mind you, but then you can't get by on "But think of the performance this could have, one day, with magical compiler technology from the futuuuuuure!". You have to get by only on claims of safety, or developer ergonomics, or provability, or something else.
No SDK until the 17 though.
Aren't we getting to the point where you don't have a choice, if you want a new phone? The market wants phones, not necessarily with a strong preference for the sizes being offered. I recently bought a new phone, and found my options getting quite limited if I wanted less than 5" screen size, and SD card. If I compromised on SD card, maybe there's more options, but all the main choices seem bigger in general.
would you really want to interact with gmail, drive, etc with this xbox-ish controller?
Time to buy airline stocks. If you can put a miniature fusion power plant on an 747 equivalent, airline profit margins will skyrocket.

Actually even if you believed there's a chance this Lockheed concept can work, the time to buy airline stocks would be on the back end of this dead bull market that's about to fall off a cliff. And then there's the 20 year wait before it's finally deployed to a commercial airplane.
> How much dangerous are the neutrons from such device? Similar to radiation, worst?

Neutrons are interesting in that they dump all their energy into a very small region. Instead of losing energy continually and gradually, they travel a ways and then dump all their energy into one spot. This makes them potentially very useful for things like cancer treatment (you can select neutrons to ensure they deliver most of their energy into the cancer, rather than evenly along their travel path). I suspect this effect means that, for reactors, the wear and tear is more localized, but of a larger amplitude.
You can't simply say that it's meritorious to work hard at whatever it is that makes one succeed. Otherwise any non-randomised culture is meritocratic. For meritocracy to be a meaningful term, the concept of merit needs to be detached from real-world success.

Which isn't to say that network-building isn't meritorious, but you can't use that particular argument for it.

(It's also not relevant how meritocratic SV culture is in other areas.)
> On the Nexus 5 (440 dpi), I can't see them anymore.

I can't see jaggedness on my iphone 4 at 'www' in the browser either, and that's at 326 PPI.

But fair enough. The low 400s range seems like a solid enough improvement. I just don't get the upper 400s like the Nexus 6's 493, and perhaps the 500 range next year. Obviously there's a bit of extra battery and a bit of extra processing hardware required for that, however small, I'd want to hang on to it beyond the low 400s PPI range.
"This is the beginning of the end for cable. And hopefully also for propaganda stations like Fox News and MSNBC."

Fixed.
Looks like it's an Apple / iPhone 'feature' [0] so not directly EE's fault or intention. EE's initial response was quite unhelpful though, probably through misunderstanding. After all, who expects an unlocked phone to magically lock itself?

[0] http://selfhelp.carphonewarehouse.com/SelfHelp/request.do?vi...
T RANDS SHOULD WE TELL THEM?
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The Huawei Mate 2 has a 6" screen, 720p, and gets about 2 days (almost 40 hours) of battery. Unfortunately, they have a screwed up copy of 4.3, and it is really terrible and Huawei doesn't release enough info to make Cyanogen work on it.
It seems to me that using dependent types to express the type "the number of primes below one million" would take at least as much code, and be at least as error-prone, as writing that function in a dynamically typed language directly. In fact I'd be surprised if the dependently typed version were less than 2x the size of the direct version.
I suppose you can simply mirror your phone's screen to your TV using Chromecast while browsing for movies so everyone will see your phone's display on the big screen. But I guess it's not exactly ideal. Personally, I never search for movies using my phone. It's so much easier on my laptop.
So, it's still a work in progress. I don't think this is a surprise.

> Based on the typical work schedule, activity levels, and metabolic rates of astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), the MIT researchers estimated that a settler would have to consume about 3,040 calories daily to stay alive and healthy on Mars.

Sounds like a McDonalds hamburger could take care of this.
I dont think anyone would be happy with such a lopsided agreement. Its borderline extorsion, it does not happen at this scale in many more professions. Developers are really taken advantage of by these intermediary companies that add no value after the initial contact. Their margins are growing thinner and maybe in a few years many of these companies are out of business.
Can they freeze your youthful energy as well? I'm not sure that having kids in high school when I'm in my 70s sounds like much fun. Also, it would be nice to know my grandkids someday. So this isn't much of a solution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad

Retina came in the 3rd generation.
Last year, the N4 got a price cut before the N5 launched. This year, no such. The Nexus 6 is so hugely expensive that the line may just sit and stagnate on the "price:performance" frontier. :-(
Weird. I returned a Nexus 4 last year and got faultless support. I was gobsmacked.
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> This leak is about as accidental as me.

That doesn't say much, does it? I don't know you, were you accidental? :-)
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I do really have trouble making out pixels on my old iPhone 4. My gf's nexus 5 is really nice (although it probably has more to do with non-resolution aspects of the screen) but that's lower 400s range. The nexus 6 is basically 500 PPI, I just don't get that range or beyond which we'll surely see next year.