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I ask this earnestly, but did I give some indication that the threats being delivered don't deserve scrutiny or should otherwise be waved aside as negligible? I guess I'm not entirely getting where you're coming from; my point was that there's a worthwhile discussion that needs to be had regarding sexism in gaming, but much of it has been muddled by participants from both camps.

The death threats here, just happen to be example of muddling of side "A".

Name calling, death-threats, "doxxing", there's mud being flung here, calling it a "false equivalence" when I've implicated both parties of not moving the ball forward seems rather obtuse.
Thanks for your feedback. At this point mentors will have to manage their own time.
Motorola will also update their older phones to Lollipop. Including Moto X and G starting with the 1st gen.

http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2014/10/its-official-andro...
it's now launched; thanks for your patience :)
Probably so they can use Player as a way of getting Atom ready for phones. The Atom chips use more power, but it doesn't matter because they'll not be running off battery.
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There's no real special technology there, if you do the math on their claim it works out to a maximum power draw from the charger of 12-15W, which is about on par with most tablets. This is just a function of having a large surface area to dissipate waste heat.
I'm feeling exactly the same, but since they appear to be keeping around the N5 I have my hopes up that next year there will be a new similarly sized Nexus.

Also, while Google's specs don't list wireless charging Motorola does:
https://www.motorola.com/us/Nexus-6/nexus-6-motorola-us.html...

Haven't been able to find info on whether the Nexus 9 supports Qi as well - but again I'm disappointed with the increased size over the Nexus 7 there.
And three times the price.
> You need to expand your view of meritocracy beyond just product/code. Expanding who you know, how much they like/admire you, and how much they want to work with you is part of meritocracy.

These things may very well be critical to success, but that's not what the term 'meritocracy' actually means as it is commonly used and understood.

"I hired hitwomen to slay all of my competitor's developers. We are now on top because of our company's longstanding culture of meritocracy."

Edit: Meritocracy is not synonymous with success. In the way you are going, all successful startups become meritocracies by virtue of being successful.
> Actually, they're going for about $300 on NewEgg, and are currently on sale for $200 at Best Buy.

Are you sure those are 2560 x 1440 res?

Usually those prices are for 1080p screens at 27"
The present obsession with "bigger is better" is perplexing to me. I know some use cases are facilitated by larger displays, and they are valuable to people with poor eyesight, but I've never once in my life thought "boy, I wish my phone was even larger." A phone I cannot fit in my pocket is virtually useless to me.

Anything larger than my (already too large) Nexus 5 is a complete non-starter for me. I can see a place for these models in a lineup that includes smaller models, but the Nexus series does not seem to operate that way. This will be the first Nexus phone I will never own.
A game that simple should run at 1000 fps in any modern language.
For things like this, I find great "relief" in using BananaTag (http://bananatag.com)
No: usually convertible notes or priced preferred. I've only bought common once or twice out of ~90 angel investments.
They don't show the price on the 6 or the 9 either, they definitely aren't "embarrassed" about their phones and tablets.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.avo...
Yeah, it seems real impressive until you realize that you could duplicate it, faster, with only a small bit of C or C++.

Until I see a real-time software rendering project in Haskell doing full 3D, don't really think it's worth half the fanboyism it gets.
Before even loading up the papers I knew they'd be using some horseshit type system like Java's.
Google's spec don't list it but Motorola's claim it does support Qi:
https://www.motorola.com/us/Nexus-6/nexus-6-motorola-us.html...
It's so easy to use. Sure I can reach any point on a 5 inch screen, but I'm reaching to touch half of the screen. The 3.5 inch screens everything is just their under your finger. It's fantastic.
I've just switched cases on my Nexus 4 and I am having the exact same problem with the button positions. Very annoying.
An aside: this article has a lot of bold text, which I find quite distracting. I've seen it said that over-reliance on formatting to make your point is a sign of poor writing.

Most of the bold text could have been removed without any drop in impact (in fact, it would have greater impact because whatever bold text is left would actually stand out).
Really? I use "while (true)" pretty frequently in my code. In my mind, all loops are composed of these parts:

1. Some initialization (optional).
2. Some stuff you do each iteration (optional).
3. Check the exit condition and exit the loop (optional).
4. Some stuff you do each iteration (optional).

"while" loops nicely handle the case where 2 is empty. "do while" loops handle 4 being empty. "for" loops handle both 2 and 4 being non-empty but only really accommodate 4 being a single expression.

For any other case where 2 is non-empty and 4 is more than a single expression, I just use a "while (true)" with an "if (...) break;" in the body.
Other apps like what? What apps (besides games that need a controller) would the Chromecast (or devices like it) not be able to accomplish?
The 1st step is to match people up. Documentation can come later.
Because Google updated the blog post.
Is it just me, or do the controllers (both of them) look just like the Fire TV's controllers?

I just don't get it. Does every company have to jump in head first to any emerging market just because the others are doing it?
I'm all for pushing as many pixels as we can, but not at the expense of battery life. I'll happily take a 720p screen if it buys me even a mediocre improvement in battery life.
How is it a scam? People gave her money to post videos about video games, she is posting videos about video games. Are you saying she's not enthusiastic enough about the video games she's calling out to deserve the money people decided to pay her?
Where did you get that this is expensive? I don't see a price on the page anywhere.
I actually dislike that feature on my Lumia 920. It's hard to get it in a holder tight enough to hold it and not mash the power or camera button.
It already has been weaponized, in the form of a fusion bomb.
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Ehm.. no nexus since Nexus One had SD card slot. Which Nexus models are you talking about exactly?
I guess by that metric, the Ouya is a Roku killer too. How many units did Ouya sell?
My favorite form of the old joke is: "Nuclear Fusion is the energy of the future, and always will be."
My understanding is that it's being officially released this upcoming Monday. Builds of it, however, are available for testing and bug reporting.
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Chrome cast mirrors a screen and requires a separate device to control, this can run actual applications.
You use your phone at arms length? I am usually holding mine at like 6 inches to 1 foot from my face. I could very much tell the difference between the 318 ppi of the nexus 4 vs the 445 ppi of the nexus 5 with my usage patterns. I am skeptical that I would notice further improvements though.
The 6 is more than twice the price of the 7, and while IMO too big for a phone, also too small for a tablet.
Interesting! I assume that this problem would exist no matter where the keys are placed, assuming the holder doesn't handle the keys gracefully :)
It's true that there were people in the early 70s who said fusion was thirty years away. However, they conditioned that on a certain level of funding. For the funding they got, the same people said it would never happen.
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...those devices didn't have the whole back catalog of the Google Play Store running on them. This one presumably does.
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Is it even physically possible to notice the difference in that ppi at that range? I thought human eyes didn't have the capability.

I think everyone saying "yes I see a difference" should be doing some double blind validation. I've had people tell me they could tell the difference between 720p and 1080p at 20 feet. That is physically impossible for the human eye.
Android TV, Google TV was an OS purely for TVs that failed. Android TV is Android with modifications to run on TVs.
Not only do these women receive orders of magnitude more death threats than your typical online celebrity, but people do in fact come to their homes, contact their relatives, harass them at work, mail them stuff, etc. Consider also that some studies have shown that more than a third of all women have been sexually harassed or assaulted at some point in their lives, which is mostly invisible to guys like me[1].

That must be a pretty terrifying place to be. If that was me in Anita's shoes, I doubt I'd be able to just wave off these death threats, especially if friends and family were being targeted as well.

[1]: You can start reading at this comment — http://www.metafilter.com/85667/Hi-Whatcha-reading#2777344 — and keep going for a good long while. This thread changed my outlook a few years ago.
Generating random numbers in (0,1) is mathematically different than generating random numbers, even from the same type of distribution, in [0,1), (0,1], or [0,1]. Equating all of these, as the article points out, rarely causes problems in practice, but it is nonetheless a conceptual error.

If you'll pardon me pulling out my soapbox for a moment, this kind of bug would be less common if the "programmers don't need math" attitude was not a successful meme in our culture. The notion of "between zero and one" may seem straghtforward and obvious, but is actually ambiguous. Perhaps, given the number of distinct floating point values that can be represented in the interval (0,1), it would hardly seem to matter what interpretation of "between zero and one" is used. But in mathematics you will never see such terminology used without a qualifying statement that clarifies* the meaning.

*E.g. "between 0 and 1, inclusive", "on the closed interval bounded by 0 and 1", "[0,1]", etc.
I don't think the price is silly. App development is far easier on these devices than competitors.
Congrats on the round!

I'm curious how you differentiate yourself from the built-in speech APIs on iOS and Android?
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/Speech...
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/Recogn...

I'm a little biased (I used to work on the Google speech team), but it seems very hard for a startup to compete on the basis of accuracy, and for wearables like watches it's pretty clear both Google and Apple are putting third-party APIs for voice interfaces (including command-like syntaxes) front-and-center. A lot of earlier speech/NLP startups have struggled with this dynamic--although an aggressive, well-executing team can get a year or so ahead of the platform, if you do something too close its core competency, eventually Google/Apple will build the same feature directly into the operating system, and then you're stuck competing with a team of 100+ PhDs with a 1000x distribution advantage. At least, that's what would give me hesitation about building a speech/NLP API startup in 2014.

I also noticed you're running a conference on voice interfaces (http://listen.ai/). I'm not sure if you're well-connected to the speech folks at Google/Microsoft/Apple, but if you decide you want somebody from Google to speak, I'd be happy to ping some of my former colleagues on your behalf. Looking at the agenda, I think the areas where they could provide coverage is the core technology--acoustic modeling, deep learning, hotword detection, or embedded recognition.
That comes from months of research including customer discovery interviews. It's a fact that over 90% of new coders waste hours on Stackoverflow searching for answers.
Why? The minimum wage in Australia and it's legal boundaries do not apply to other countries. Plus, I don't see why there is an ethical issue in outsourcing work to another country where rates are lower.

The assumption you are probably making is that $9 an hour is too low. That's right if you are in Australia, but is that low for Indonesia?
I think it should be noted that the article you linked to is published by Gawker Media, one of the companies at the center of this.
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Anything that requires more than minimal computation?

Chromecast pretty much just mirrors a screen, it also requires a separate device to control it. You could browse the web on this without requiring a phone or laptop.
Luxury technology shares a lot of characteristics with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest

It's easier to see how you compare to other people with a quantitative measurement. All you can do with a qualitative measurement is try to relate it to the mean MSRP of devices that share that quality, which is a bit too much math for conspicuous consumption. It also sounds like an app dev opportunity.
At arm's length, no. I don't know many people who stretch out their arms completely to use a cellphone or a tablet.

Usually people that I see (myself included, I have a Nexus 5 and a Nexus 7), hold our devices at about half an arm's length. At that distance, the pixels are discernible, especially if one has better than 20/20 vision.
A guest user mode is a great idea. It would be nice to be able to lend someone my phone without effectively handing them the keys to my entire life.
People keep saying that because an earlier version of the page did not include Nexus 4.
.. is only twice the price
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I love the 4:3 aspect ratio - after switching from iPad that was the thing that bothered me the most on Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 models. They were either not tall enough or too narrow for comfortable web browsing and reading (also, holding N10 in portrait was pretty tiring due to weight balance).

So finally having a good 4:3 Android tablet is good news for readers :)
Nexus One does.
Any documented instance of concealed carry preventing a crime? Strictly using my imagination, I see far more opportunity for escalation of and accidental violence than for prevention.
There is no fundamental string type in C, or C++
> Then the relatively physically weak, the infirm, the elderly, the women, will be at the mercy of the strong.

Fortunately guns aren't the only weapons. Guns are more contentious than most because it gives a single individual the power to kill many others.

> A short look at mass shootings in Western Europe, which are both more numerous and more deadly, suggests that intermediate restrictions at best won't do any good.

More numerous and more deadly than, what? The UK hasn't had a mass shooting in several years. It certainly wasn't more deadly than the handful the US has had between then and now.

> For that matter, echoing the others who have commented prior to my starting this comment, such an attempt would instantly spark a nasty civil war killing orders of magnitude more people.

This just further proves that the very people who have guns are dangerous individuals who cannot be trusted with guns.
That was a facetious comment. The point is, everyone got excited about the Nexus Q but it was too expensive. We got excited about Google TV, but it never caught on compared to the competition. The Apple TV has been $99 since forever, as has the Roku and recently Amazon's FireTV. Google discounts their phones massively over the competition, and that's a big draw for why people buy them. Why price this exactly the same as everyone else?
The price is $400 [1], in case anyone else was wondering:

> Google’s Nexus 9 goes up for pre-order on October 17th, and should hit the shelves on November 3rd. The 16GB model will go for $400, the 32GB for $480, and a 32GB model with LTE built in will set you back $600.

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/15/google-nexus-9/
Doesn't it depend on how close the device is to your eyes? Also just because the individual pixels aren't visible doesn't mean there's a noticeable difference in picture or animation quality. Just because Apple claims that "retina displays" use the smallest pixel size noticeable doesn't mean it's true.

Edit: Google search on the topic: http://mostly-tech.com/2013/11/08/debunking-the-retina-displ...
Are you suggesting "rightwing talk radio and the goldbugs" don't get similar death threats? As far as I can tell they do.
You're not wrong - her message could be delivered with better impact if she omitted these examples (most of the "you get rewarded for killing women" examples are specific instances of "you get rewarded for killing npcs").

Still, she does have a point. Objectification of women in video games still runs rampant and does everyone a disservice. Just because there are some bad examples here doesn't invalidate the rest of her message.
Looks to be inspired heavily by Go's net/http package and its interfaces: http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/
It does have the voice search, which might be very nice.

Also, it will run your Play Store apps. So, presumably GMail, Calendar, Drive, Maps... and not just the 'cast version of them, but the real deal.
I don't exercise, slightly adjusted BMR x 1.2 pretty much worked.
I wish this was a real Google TV replacement.

My 4-year-old Google TV box (Logitech Revue) -- with Android 3.1 -- is really showing its age. The app store is pretty empty and it only supports things like Amazon Video and HBO Go because Android still had Flash back then.

The missing key is an HDMI input. My TV is always tuned to the Google TV input whether I'm watching live cable TV, a Netflix movie or casting a YouTube video. I have a single remote control (the Google TV one) for all of them. It changes channels and settings on my cable box with HDMI CEC.

All these new boxes make you switch inputs and remotes all the time. I have too many remotes already.
@freehunter: I cannot reply to you for some reason. but ouya was marketed as a gaming device. Completely different thing compared to how Roku is marketed.
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Amazon is directly competing with their Fire TV.
Cable TV contracts are typically very long (5-7 years) so I'm wondering if this is partly due to some existing contract coming up for renegotiation.

Anyhow, if HBO starts selling their content directly, that's going to give them some leverage for better terms with MSOs.
that's the problem. later never happens. with SO the conversation becomes the documentation.
That's peak power, though. Basically no street car is designed to be able to produce peak power for more than a minute or two at a time, and probably very few can do it for more than a few seconds. I'm pretty sure that car doesn't have the cooling capacity to cool itself at full power like this plant would have to.
I'm not sure about this. Since Bitcoin ATMs still dispense cash, why not just retrofit the same hardware?

Hell, why aren't people paying the smaller ATM companies to make custom ones? It's not like banks don't already get custom-shaped ATMs made for them.
Kindergardens tend to host male children and the children of male people. That there has so far not been a female president of the US also demonstrates the sexism you're denying.
http://www.motorola.com/us/Nexus-6/nexus-6-motorola-us.html

very bottom:
Battery 3220 mAh
Mixed usage up to 24 hours*
Qi Wireless charging support
New NYPD recruits go through 13 days of firearm training...

Is that impressive? The cops in flyover country come to the job with quite a bit more experience than that. 10-15 years of hunting, target shooting, safety training in school at multiple grade levels, and the supervision of experienced adults probably doesn't completely transfer to open carry as a peace officer. However, this "13 days" figure will make me a little nervous the next time I'm around a young cop in NYC.
I guess all icons are going to have to be SVG to scale on these new devices, otherwise they are going to be impossible to see.
ive got a droid maxx with a 5 inch screen, and it's a bitch to fish it out of my pocket when its got its silicone protector on.

also i miss being able to share my phone pocket with my wallet
> he 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.

Absolutely! But that's going from 132 PPI to 264 PPI.

Obviously there's diminishing returns at play here. The difference between 1000 million PPI and 2000 PPI, I'd wager, isn't going to make an actual impact on someone's viewing experience.

And I really wonder if a change from 350 up to near 500 would. Surely there's a change, but I'd say a minor one, and given you're pushing way more pixels, the cost to battery / hardware might not be so trivial.

If anyone can substantiate this last point with some numbers, I'd be very curious to hear.
Thin about printers. Even the cheap ones print at 600dpi. The good ones go 2400dpi, 4800dpi.

Resolution does make a difference.
Cherry-picking is made considerably easier by the abundance of loaded cherry trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_RPr9DwMA

GAMES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE:
Assassin’s Creed 2 (2009)
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (2010)
Bioshock (2007)
Bioshock 2 (2010)
Dead Island (2011)
Dishonored (2012)
Dragon Age: Origins (2009)
Fable 2 (2008)
Far Cry 3 (2012)
God of War 3 (2008)
Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
Hitman: Absolution (2012)
Hitman: Blood Money (2006)
Kane & Lynch (2007)
L.A. Noire (2011)
Mafia II: Joe’s Adventures (2010)
Metro: Last Light (2013)
No More Heroes (2008)
Papo & Yo (2012)
Prototype (2009)
Red Dead Redemption (2010)
Saints Row (2006)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010)
The Darkness II (2012)
The Witcher (2007)
The Witcher 2 (2011)
Thief (2014)
Watch Dogs (2014)
Man, I don't even want a budget phone, I want a full on high-end phone with a reasonably-sized screen. My Moto X is 4.7 inches and I think it's a tad too large. I'm willing to pay for great hardware, a big battery, and lots of storage, but I need it to fit in my hand.
I've played games with a PS3 controller on my Nexus 4 hooked to a big screen before. It never worked, because mobile games are designed for a touch screen. Even Modern Combat, it was fantastic with a controller right up to the point where you needed to touch the screen for a quick time event.

You can run the entire back catalog, maybe. But no one will want to until the apps and games are designed for non-touch input.
The older engineers are usually the nicest. They exist peacefully in a privately-defined world of polygon rendering, or TCP stacks, or vector math. They're the REAL thinkers. They won't hassle you.

They're on autopilot half the time anyway; they wrote all their best games/apps/whatever a long time ago and now they just kinda float around soaking up compliments and contributing advice.

They lead quiet, comfortable lives with a history of industry respect and good stock options. But: It's usually easier for a contractor to predict when his or her actual, final day on the job will be. Yay for Q.A.!
Most talk on the internet points to performance issues with iOS8 on the iPhone 4S, which is a 3 year old phone at this point.

On the iPhone 5, iOS 8 performance is brilliant, which it needs to be, because Apple are still selling the iPhone 5C.

When I see the Nexus 4 in public now, it's effectively a crippled phone.

With Apple you're getting 1-2 years extra, which probably makes it worth it over the lifetime of the device.
Ars Technica reported pretty significant improvements http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/07/examining-project-vol...
As far as I can see, either Speech API provides a backend NLP interface like Wit does. Wit lets me build my own data set, custom phrases, etc. etc.