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You did most of the work : fact selection, and fact presentation/interpretation.

Otherwise, seeing "Netherlands:0, Spain:1" on a headline is a biased news. I can see it as noise (non-important entertainment massively supported by ads I'm paying against my will in products I buy) taking my time and thus hiding more important things happening in the world (and insightful analysis of them) or around me I should care and do something about.
The lesson here seems to be that if you innovate you can count on the US justice system to punish you. More than any other company, Apple has improved the state of the art in cell phones for US consumers. Now they are getting sued because they didn't improve it even more. Reminds me of Samuel Johnson's description of a critic:

"Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at a very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature upon few, and the labour of learning those sciences which by mere labour be obtained is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert such judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critick."
Johnson: Idler #60 (June 9, 1759)
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Nope, still not close. The 2.2 update did make a difference, but it is still far from perfect.
Yeah, I like to listen to their stream in the morning. Good stuff! ;-)
Well, I was moderately annoyed to find out that only browsers on Windows XP were tested.
It was 8 in a row for the 2010 World Cup which would lead to the odds being 0.5^8 or 0.39%.
funny idea, I like it
I have had an iPod since 2005 and have never purchased music from iTunes. You can purchase or rip music from anywhere and put it on any Apple device. eMusic and Amazon have been the main online music stores I have used. Many people seem to assume that Apple devices can only purchase music from Apple music stores but this has never been the case.
I would expect reasonable hours, some guarantee that the startup would be around for a year, a bigger potential pay-off than a big company, and that the other guy was a reasonable person with good ideas that was not a micro-manager.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Watch it for yukks and for a general take on what occupies the American psyche. It's in your face frivolous, but so much news these days is frivolous while pretending not to be that in comparison, The Daily Show actually feels like straight talk. They seem to really do their homework when it comes to researching past news. And the interviews are gold.

The Economist has a decent survey of what's important to different peoples around the world, but I try to keep in mind that a page or two of commentary often doesn't capture all the nuances of a local situation. Other times I just scan the front page of Google News.

All news is biased. Just choosing the verbs and nouns in a news report makes it so. Things I try to avoid these days are outright dishonesty, unfair judgement (different standards when judging Party A vs Party B), and hidden agendas. Having a value system is alright if you are honest and forthright about it.
Funny, but it brings up the question: What is the resolution of the Google Earth satellites? I had no idea. According to the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#Resolution_and_acc...):

"This base imagery is 30m multispectral Landsat which is pansharpened with the 15m [panchromatic] Landsat imagery. However, Google is actively replacing this base imagery with 2.5m SPOTImage imagery"

So, it's nowhere near 80cm. But if you read on, you see

"In some areas, local government jurisdictions have submitted more finely gridded terrain models through the Map Content Partners program [44]. In March 2010, the County of Marin, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge by San Francisco, California, published a 40 cm gridded terrain surface of 1425 square km through the program."

40cm, that's nearly unbelievable!
There is always some level of bias. If there is space for reader's comments (like here), I try to parse them because there I usually find "the other side" of the bias, then I have more to build my opinion...
I like the slides and I'm glad there is more advice being produced on working with Haskell on a serious scale.

Still it would seem hard to try and get an existing (imperative programming) engineering team to take up Haskell without having to shuffle a lot of people in and out. I know I wouldn't bother writing any production Haskell in the teams I've worked with because I would be the only one who could maintain it, and that's not good. Trying to skill up existing developers might be worth it in the long run but would be a costly slow down of operations for a fair while I imagine.

I really do love Haskell though :)
Several years ago I read a biography on Rupert Murdoch and one thing that this book impressed upon me was how biased much of the world media is.

Based on that, the approach I take is not how to find unbiased news sources (although I still do try to find those), but to read widely and deeply and most importantly, to think! I try to read both 'liberal' and 'conservative' media to get both sides of the stories. I feel a lot of arguments could be avoided and consensus more easily achieved if more people tried to understand what the 'other side' thinks/feels ... and so I try to keep myself 'educated' by reading all sorts of media.
The Economist isn't even close to unbiased. It has a very clear view and interpretation of the world.
I find it irritating that there's no way to force an update in Chrome other than clicking on the wrench icon-->Options-->Under the Hood-->Clear browsing data...-->Empty the cache->Clear browsing data. I used to imagine I was forcing an update by shift-clicking the refresh button, but now I know I was only fooling myself.
I've done something similar. I pretty much ignore what's happening on the news. Anything really big usually ends up on hacker news. :)

I do listen to a local radio talk show once in awhile to get an overview of what's happening in my state and sometimes the country. I've been meaning to watch Al Jazeera English more. I've enjoyed it whenever I've watched it.
A nice checkbox 'send me marketing upates' below the email entry box would be really nice.
These days most people appreciate an opt-in experience to opt-out.
For down the middle, I find WSJ to be a nice balance. Both Republican and Democratic leaders sound off there.
Yes. The UI must be improved. It's almost an imperative to do so. They need to hire a designer just like Twitter did two years ago. Twitter kept simplicity and get a lot of style and really nice themes.
It can't be for the reason they claimed?
I think there's a big confusion in a lot of this discussion between bias and general rationality. The Economist has a much more rational, well-thought-out point of view than most American newspapers and periodicals, but it's also a very ideological one, and while reading it one should be trying to consider ways that the facts presented could lead to different conclusions which the editors would not be promoting.

I ultimately agree that this is a much better place to be in than trying to publish irrational but "unbiased" news, however.
I'm assuming then that for consistency you also wouldn't work for Zygna, Blizzard, or any social or MMO game companies? Or work for any alcohol or tobacco companies? What about Hostess or DQ? All of them are companies that knowingly benefit from and encourage addiction.
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I don't think there are any unbiased news source. I think the best we can do is read from several different sources and interpolate accurate news. I'm starting to feel that this method is too much work, but here's who I read:

Primaries:
New York Times
BBC
Al Jazeera English

Skim both:
Drudge Report and
Huffington Post
And the interviews are gold.

Um, what? Daily Show interviews tend to be awful. Most of them are random book authors hawking their latest book or actors hawking their latest film. Stewart often acts like an attention-starved puppy. When he decides to actually confront his guests, things often go badly because he's so unprepared. Did you see his interview with John Yoo? Yoo wiped the floor with him. Did you see how he sucked up to Musharraf? I mean, when you have a dictator on your show, you can at least ask one or two challenging questions.
My understanding is that it does vary, depending on source (and their variance is often due to purpose and location).

For example, I'm in a major city so the resolution is great - you can see the boat the previous owners had in the backyard. My parents live in a rural area, and you can't even find their house through the pixels.
Average CPM is around $2.5 - $5.
Reddit gets 280M pageviews pcm.

Therefore, if it's only breaking even and not turning a profit then their server, bandwidth & wage bill must be in the region of between $700,000 (2.8M/1000x2.5) and $1,400,000 (2.8M/1000x5) per month.

Either their servers are massively inefficient, they're paying their staff too much, they're selling themselves short to their advertisers, or their offices are wallpapered with banknotes.

Either which way, they're doing something massively wrong somewhere.
I certainly wouldn't want to dictate a "long email or text message", but I do find the speech to text useful with the built in navigation, web search, and yeah, occasionally short text message replies. For example, from the Android "car dock" app, you can click voice search and say "navigate to Barnes and Nobles", etc.
At first I was a little unimpressed by the design (very iPhone 4-esque), but the stuff farther down the page is really neat!
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Competing on price is the one fool-proof way to always defeat Apple. Google must hammer Apple on price! Besides, is sheer craziness to just let Apple rule the smart phone market and let them have 40% profit margins!

Just as hardware and marketing is not in Google's DNA, so to the race to the bottom commodity pricing is not in Apple's DNA. Apple simply cannot compete on price.

We geeks get caught up in the tech side of things and don't even blink at paying upwards $2,500 for the total cost of a contract-locked smart phone for two years. But give the average non-tech person a choice between a $2500 iPhone, or a $200 unlocked Android that they can use on any carrier. It's obvious which choice the majority of consumers will make.
But... what if they make the wrong decision!? I think we need more time to consider our options here.
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I personally like the design of this. Actually, when I saw the first picture, I thought, "I want one...". Plus I love the idea of the stand. Use cases were already flowing through my head when I saw this!
This ad reminded me of all the sentimental times I've had with video chat. When my brother recorded a video of himself and mailed it to me on CD when I was studying abroad. Christmas over Microsoft NetMeeting. Skypeing with my now-fiance when he traveled for work in our early relationship.
A pretty nice design. The built-in tilting mechanism is genius: First reaction was "why would I want that?" but after thinking about it for a while, I could see using it a lot.

My only gripe with these mockups is the typography on the world clock. Why is there a period after the place:

new york.
9:00pm
seattle.
6:00pm

Very confusing image. But overall, good.
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I don't know why anyone would be regularly consuming any such obviously/strongly biased sources. I'd be concerned that spending too much time amongst poor journalism and extreme views, they might just start to seem more 'normal' or 'acceptable' when they are really potentially very damaging/hurtful our (your?) society as a whole.

Certainly, sample some of it from time to time, to get a feel for what people are consuming, but there are more sensible options. For example, here in Australia I read a mix of The Age (moderate left bias) and the Australian (moderate right bias), and also sometimes the Australian Financial Review (surprisingly centrist, pleasantly free of sensationalism).
The UV light is interesting. I like the idea bit it looks like it'll only kill bacteria on the front part of the phone.
I love it. I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Earl was more worried that she wouldn't read it!
I wouldn't say it's good or bad, it just is. Sometimes being attached to a server can be helpful, but it can also be a hindrance. There's no right or wrong answer.
Why do people feel the need to label news sources as either "left" or "right" wing. Why do both sides always have to have valid points? Either the news source has good reporting and its opinions are logical and supported by facts, or not.

That said I don't really read much news but I prefer Al Jazeera English and the BBC.
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> (far to the left) are the entire NBC/MSNBC set of stations and Newsweek

If you think NBC is far-left then you probably don't understand the left.

Far to the left is Socialist Worker. MSNBC is basically a mish-mash of bog-standard (American) liberal populists and analysts.

This is mostly new for MSNBC, because in 2001-2004, MSNBC was one of the biggest boosters of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, with Scarborough and Carlson headlining the prime-time opinion shows. As soon as the American public lost interest in the culture war and turned against interventionist foreign policy, they started staffing up liberals.

I also disagree with FT Op-Ed leaning left. Being a socially-permissive capitalist doesn't make you a lefty.
Great idea! It's cool that you can listen to the submissions in public too. As you could expect, the quality is insanely variable so far.. anyone who can make it through entry #2 at http://musikpitch.com/songcontests/reach-for-your-college-dr... has my eternal respect. I'm almost tempted to create an account just to submit humorous a-capellas.
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I have read a lot about this on other articles written by other people, but I must admit that you is the best.

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I have always been confused by the sales engineer (presales) versus sales people, can someone enlighten me on what exactly are their roles - more specifically why the distinction ?

Here is what I know, at a place where I used to work selling expensive IPTV solutions (which was a limited market of big carriers - so I don't expect the sales people to be doing cold calls all day long), sales was apparently the place to be in terms of salary. The presales people were the more technical guys/gals who would get the customer requirements, help in the RFP, make presentations. And the sales people...well I dunno..I never understood why the presales people couldn't also be the full-fledged sales people closing the deals...I don't see the value-add...are the "sales" people there just to have smooth talkers who can close deals while pre-sales get the technical concerns out of the way ??
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There are some beautiful design concepts in this. I think the number one thing lacking in software design is the gap between the software and the device it's running on. It's something that often breaks that metaphor that the software is supposed to provide. It would be really interesting to see more software that takes the broader context of the environment the sotware is running in into account.
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I think it's a real mistake to throw MSNBC into anything other than the "right-wing" column. Yes, they have Olbermann and Maddow, which are both good, fact-based shows with obvious and upfront ideological viewpoints, but that's overwhelmed by people like Scarborough, Buchannan, Matthews, etc. The presence of Olbermann and Maddow on MSNBC speaks mainly to that they do not want to appear to be as rightward-leaning as they actually are, and to the fact that fact-based programming, regardless of bent, enjoys a real lucrative niche.

BTW, I think people have forgotten what a "liberal" looks like if Olbermann is held up as the extreme of the left wing. Remember, America is in the middle of recovering from one of the most severe ideological swings in recent memory, and so things that previously were center or even slightly right-wing are now seen as being extremely liberal. For instance, Obama's health plan is extremely similar to that proposed by the Republicans in the mid 1990s. Point being, bias can be seen relative to the zeitgeist, from which view MSNBC etc can be seen to attempt to steer conversation rightwards by making issues such as "deficit reduction" more discussed than issues such as "unemployment." Olbermann and Maddow spend much of their time defending their own views, and rarely set the tone of the conversation.
Would love to see a screen at the back also -- dual screens, if you will. That way I can have one app running on the "front" screen and another on the "back" screen.
There are some related notes about reload at http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2010/02/reload....

As an aside, F5 in Firefox 3+ has a long-standing bug with iframes: the new iframe src= in the DOM structure is ignored, and Firefox makes a request to an older iframe src=. This also happens after session recovery. Another bug claims that iframe targets are sometimes mixed up, which implies some broken internal cache.
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I think this depends a lot on what your biases are. I see both the Economist and NPR as pretty ideological sources, and that's fine. The Economist is a bit more open and up front though. NPR's central ideology is bland American boosterism and an absolute refusal to ever make value judgments. That's why you see NPR being completely incapable of making truthful statements that make the US government look bad: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/06/22...

As far as ideologies go, that's a whole lot better than Stalinism, but I personally aspire to higher standards. Nevertheless, it is a very commonly held set of ideological priors, especially among the tote bag set (i.e., the group of people that regularly donate to NPR/PBS and thus got an NPR/PBS tote bag). Just because their ideological priors mostly match up with yours doesn't make them "unbiased".
that's why we call it logographic, not ideographic these days.
Yes I ended up reading it more fully after submitting my question here :)
1. Yes.

2. I would hide it or claim its a stealth project. Experience has taught that weirding out people is not the most efficient way of maintaining relationships.
I don't understand this "the software and hardware have to work in harmony". This argument makes no sense with any other OS/hardware in existence. The OS should look good. The hardware should look good. Does the wallpaper match the casing? The user is going to change it anyway. I simply don't understand this logic.

This concept encourages further vendor UI overlays, custom icons, and the 4x4 app icon grid. It's clear that it was inspired by the iPhone and it simply removes the innovation of the Android homescreen paradigm in order to look more like the iphone.

That having been said, why a manufacturer hasn't stepped forward and created a piece of hardware to rival the iPhone is beyond me. Until the hardware is compelling, all Android phones will be interchangable. For example, how many Android users would jump at iPhone-like hardware running Froyo/Gingerbread?
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The Wall Street Journal.
* Their opinion columns are slightly against leftist policies. I've been reading the Journal since Obama took charge in Washington, and the opinion pieces have been highly critical of the present administration. But then, anti-business sentiment among the people is high, and the present administration reflects this, so I would still say that the Journal is a great source of news AND opinion.

The New York Times, on the other hand is very much a left-leaning publication... I read it during the Bush years, and I am planning on reading more NYTimes, come November ;)

Edit: Oh yeah, forget about TV as a source of unbiased news... It's far better to go to the papers for your news :)
Ask HN: What's your stance on this method for poaching potential customers
To make the long story short, my future competitor's issues are online. That is, their bugs, feature request, etc. are viewable by all. And because of this, I can easily see what their customers/evaluators are saying about their product. These customers/evaluators also make their e-mail address freely available.

The question that I pose to you is, how would you feel if somebody contacted you about a problem that you had raised? Note before contacting the user, I would obviously have to believe that my product would be able to address the issues that they raised.

Would this be crossing the line or is this just how business is done?
Looks great. I feel like there must be a dozen real world reasons why it's infeasible. Antenna performance, cost, size, weight, etc. At least I want to believe that, that explains the reality we live in where objects like this generally don't exist. The only other explanation is inept companies who don't hire or listen to good designers.
Here's their site in case you want to bookmark it and take a look now and then: http://english.aljazeera.net/

Occasionally there's a story there that I find interesting but often it's enough to skim the front page.
Only reason I was curious is that I've heard them described as a cult by a lot of people. In my experience, they seem pretty harmless, and overall pretty friendly, but religion in general makes me... edgy.

But yeah, them being hated by the right-wingers does score them points in my book. :)

Didn't know about Kofuku Jitsugento; care to enlighten me?
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I've picked some policy blogs written by smart people. When news happens, they often write posts about it and link to articles plus they often add their own analysis.

This is something that I don't think is well understood: the most broken component of most news organizations is the editing. News editors tend to be...not smart. They don't have nearly enough subject matter expertise to make intelligent decisions about how to asses factual claims in articles or how to put the news in context. If I want to read about economics, I know for a fact that any econ blogger on the planet knows a hell of a lot more than 98% of newspaper editors. What's far worse is how news organizations present politics; they behave as if political science doesn't exist. Everything is explained in terms of fictional narratives that often contradict polling while ignoring fundamentals. Reading news articles about politics makes you more ignorant, not less.

For example, I read Lawyers Guns and Money ( lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/ ) and when, say, a war in Georgia breaks out or a South Korean warship sinks, I know about because the LGM guys write posts with links to news sources. But since some of them are security studies professors who specialize in international relations and global security, I get the added context to make sense of it.

So pick some subjects that interest you, find some subject matter experts with blogs and toss them into an RSS reader. The result will be better than any newspaper and you'll still get notified when an "important" article gets published in the NYT or WAPO or LAT or WSJ or anywhere else.