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You don't understand how it's a good idea to match the aesthetic of the software to the hardware framing it? Do you believe that any good looking shirt looks good with any good looking pair of pants?
All news is biased. It is the essence of news and reporting. Whoever is recording has chosen to show you what you see and hear. If someone is telling you something it is biased.

When I'm buying a book at amazon.com, I read the One, Three and Five star review before deciding what to believe.

When I hear something on the news go to Fox, CNN/BBC and NPR/CSPAN...assuming I feel it is 'bias-able'.
If the information is freely available then I don't see that as ethically wrong. It is like being in a bar and overhearing someone who has an issue with your competitor and approaching them.
How long did it take to get to the halfway decent (and I do mean halfway) browser that it is from the rewrite? How long would it have taken to get there /without/ the rewrite?

EDIT: If you're going to downvote at least explain why...
The iPhone 4 featured next to the caption "Humans have two ears" is wrong: the volume buttons and silence toggle are on the wrong side.
This is fine, as long as you take the next step and also don't vote.

If you choose not to be informed, it's really irresponsible to inflict your opinion on others via the voting booth.
Would you mind posting some of your own resources and recommendations?
Very striking design. For me, it brought back a flood of memories of my grandfather and his piezoelectric cigarette lighter, of which looked quite similar to this phone.

I am so disappointed this phone isn't real, but simply a concept. Still, I appreciate Andrew Kim's talents.
Those claiming that Fox News are lying bastards (such as myself, though I didn't use "bastards" originally) likely are doing so because the evidence is on our side. On Fox, there is no division between the opinion and news programming, and both are riddled with so many outright lies that it is an insult to journalists to apply the word "news." To then equate that total butchering of facts with an upfront and honest ideological bias such as those espoused by Olbermann and Maddow (whom I am assuming you mean when you refer to MSNBC, as they don't really have very many liberals at all) is no more than false equivocation. Liberal-leaning watchdog groups such as Media Matters (http://mediamatters.org/) do a damn fine job of documenting and citing evidence of Fox's lies, and so I will not get into it here. Rather, my point is that there is a huge gulf between having two or three liberal hosts of fact-based shows and having an entire channel twist and abuse facts into subservience to the Republican/Tea Party.
I personally use Twitter to subscribe to a variety of individual journalists, news makers, wire services, lawmakers, media personalities, etc. Thus, essentially building my own "news aggregrator".

I try to follow +just enough+ people that infuriate me from time to time - just to challenge my own well established biases.
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In Australia everyone is legally required to vote.
CSM tends to have a much more thorough perspective than the big news sources. I'm not sure how that came to be the case, but I do appreciate them for it.
I like the stand idea also. But, does it mean I need to remove the case/bumper if I want to stand it?
Lacks the standard android buttons for a more iphone like single button interface. On android you need to have the home, menu & back button or else most apps won't work. The search button is also needed but the lack of one would probably not break most applications.

Designs like this are great, but often the achieve their elegance by ignoring physics or some other constraint that makes them completely unworkable.
Yes, everyone has an opinion and everyone wants their opinion heard. Some people get much too passionate about naming. But in my experience, it's often been the people with the least vested interest who have the strongest opinions, and rather than 'calling bikeshed' the smart thing to do would be to identify the real stakeholders and get their opinions.

If you have hundreds of servers, the team of sys admins using them every single day, who stand a good chance of connecting to all of them at least once in a year, should take priority over a manager who might refer to a small portion of them in conversation at a high level a few times per month or year.

Someone who has to use server names in conversations with customers, investors, partners, and the like should take priority over a guy who wants to name production servers after his favorite porn stars.

One solution is to simply declare bikeshed and pick an arbitrary scheme. I think in most cases that wouldn't be necessary if you muzzled the people who really should never have gotten involved in the discussion to begin with. It may be that once you get consensus on a few criteria (eg. no porn-star names) you may stall. That's when you declare bikeshed and pick something arbitrary that fits the criteria.
Yes it looks long, but for what I have been able to read so far (the first couple of chapters) its a worthwhile read. The programmer inside me is afraid that if I don't read it before I sleep I will never be able to find it again!
Combination of reddit.com , NPR , bbc.co.uk , cryptome.org and off the hook. Sometimes I will watch CNN. If one thing I have learned is that there is no such thing as unbiased news. I try to get from all angles and remain skeptical.
Somewhat weird to me, they really don't feel like an Apple commercial to me. Why isn't Apple talking about its speed, the camera/video recorder, or the "retina" display... Maybe they are trying to make the whole family interested in getting one, or maybe it because everyone still compares every new phone to it so they really don't have to rehash its technical merits. That means they can show off its emotional appeal.
Apple had to develop a process to unlock iPhones when they started selling internationally. Not permitting it in the USA, when unlocking phones after a period of time is the standard, is not lack of innovation, it's a step back.

Providing no way to install applications outside the App Store (and actively working to stop jailbreaking), while rejecting applications that compete with Apple or AT&T (Google Voice, Grooveshark, Podcaster, MailWrangler, etc.)? That's a great way to present like a monopoly, regardless of whether Apple is one at this time.
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Stratfor is my daily geopolitics fix. They occasionally offer $99 subscriptions, but there's a free weekly email and podcast that's a good way to get an idea of what they do.

They're not news so much as forecasting. A lot of what happens in the news now which used to seem to come out of nowhere doesn't, because I've been reading their updates on the brewing situation between countries X & Y for months.

Similarly I enjoy Foreign Policy, though they're a bit pulpy at times. Still cheaper than an Economist subscription though.
what i want is my live wallpaper to be projected onto the casing, so that it looks seamless.
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They are quite a cult but honestly, religion in Japan is very difficult for me to grok. All the members of these "New Religions" that I've met seem to be old/facing mortality, with two exceptions.

As for Kofuku Jitsugen To, you probably know them under their English name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_Realization_Party

The HRP is scary because they sincerely believe all of Japan is under existential threat by North Korea and that they need to remilitarize to "take them out". If that sounds normal to y'all, it's because you never read the books by the founder or how Kim Jong Il's "teacher's ghost" supposedly appeared before the founder and told him that NK would destroy Japan for its evil master China.

(On the other hand, they want to have more babies which would be good for Japan, particularly if it resulted in people getting out of the Tokyo area...)
That way you could be talking to a friend while you gchat a friend, and facebook another friend. Summary: Multi-task while you multi-task.
This becomes somewhat more problematic (but not impossible) when you need to start replacing NICs, and moving MAC addresses over to new servers. Some linux IPv6 stacks (RHEL) tend to work better in autoconf mode (EUI-64 promotion of their MAC address) - particularly across multiple versions of the kernel (Static addressing has given us problem) - so we tend to do the migration of IPv6 addressing by changing the MAC address on the NIC, which, ironically, offers more straightforward and predictable behavior across multiple RHEL 5 releases than trying to force a particular static IPv6 address onto the host.

If you end up having to play games with your MAC addresses, basing hostnames on them is a suboptimal strategy.

Asset tags, on the other hand.....
Do you believe you should only watch shows that match your television?
The Economist does it again, an very thought-provoking article. Did you know that until 1993 no restrooms were assigned to female senators in Capitol Hill? They had to use the same restrooms as visiting tourists. Or that women take 3 minutes to go in and out but men take 83.6 seconds?

I've always wondered how the number of toilet stalls are determined for public spaces a s a function of number of people expected to use it.
http://2chan.us/wordpress/2009/07/23/new-political-party-bas...

http://2chan.us/wordpress/2009/07/28/hold-on-to-your-sanity-...

covers some of it.
The bacteria would never harm you, so it is pointless either way. I suppose it might make some people feel better regardless.
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Quick quips tend to polarize people on HN: either excessive upvotes or minus 4's. I think it's because since there's not much to go on (usually a sentence), it's like you're throwing all your eggs into a very small basket.

And since HN already discourages one-liners, I think the moral is to quip at your peril!

EDIT: this was meant to be a reply under @shasta.
Please, HTC, no more ad-libbing your own user interfaces They suck and are hard to remove. We all call it nonSense for a reason. Stick to making hardware, and let Google handle the software. It's cheaper and your users will be happier. (Just once I would like to buy a phone that I don't have to reflash as soon as I bring it home. Should have gotten an N1, I guess.)

Hardware-wise, this concept is not too compelling. Needs physical buttons. Needs the trackball. I don't want to pay for stereo sound or the ability to turn into an alarm clock. Give me battery life and a higher-res screen instead. I don't want gimmicks, I want a solid phone that always works and doesn't get in my way.

I agree that they should make their "premium" phones out of metal, though. I think Apple is leading the way here (with a metal case and a very high-res screen), and that HTC is just going to copy. But that's fine, an Android-based iPhone 4 clone with WiMax will be phenomenal.
They're opinionated but they're clear and upfront on what their opinions are.
No, I think that the "software matches the hardware" means literally nothing. What does it mean in this context? Almost all phones are virtually the same shape. Gray or dark gray, what part of the OS do you change to tailor it to the hardware.

No one ever explains what it means, they just reference it as if the iPhone possesses it as another of its magical abilities. Your analogy does not translate to hardware and software. How does Windows 7 match up with your monitor, or unibody desktop computer? What, specifically, makes OS X beautifully tailored for the unibody MBP. Nothing. It's just a way of saying "I think the iPhone has a prettier interface than Android" which is a tired argument so it's dressed up under a new guise.
I've never found numeric names to be a problem. And there is _never_ a problem with how to spell the name. I will take "ssh m435.local.domain" over (real world example, ARGH) "ssh Vanaheimr.local.domain." and "ssh Muspellheim.local.domain" - I want to shoot people who think that's clever.
1) Compelling idea 2) Significant ownership stake (ideally 50%) 3) Funding to pay salaries for 1-2 years 4) Co-founder that's competent, hard working, and easy to work with.

If you have those four things you're in the top tier of awesome opportunities. Any entrepreneurial-minded great hacker is going to be interested.
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Could search be a double click of the home button like the iPhone?
I've found Ezra Klein's blog to be pretty legit, especially when healthcare reform was going on. (not unbiased) http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/
Can you elaborate?

Right now, you press the calendar button and you see your calendar. You press the phone button, dial, and you make a phone call to the number you dialed. I am not sure what's missing here.
Things that came to mind

the "kick stand" would be hard to engineer due to speaker location.

the UV light while charging thing is a bit off

If you want to design a phone for the ages, it needs to be somewhat expandable, a sd card slot and/or a changeable main board might do the trick
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Yeah, having to know Morse code to use the phone will make it easier to use.
My view is that no media outlet is completely unbiased, so I try to read as many opposing views as possible with as many facts as possible, and derive some interpretation of the truth for myself, based on as many relevant facts I can find from all sides of a debate/topic.
"Now that Twitter serves as a broadcast platform, Techmeme plans to include cogent 140-character Twitter posts written by influential people as headlines."

^ This is interesting. Can change the game for a lot of bloggers, and Twitter.
NPR is not unbiased. What you will perceive as unbiased depends on your own political leanings.

For example, I consider anything left of Ayn Rand level capitalism advocacy a left-leaning bias because it's left of the truth. But other people would say that's extremely biased even though it consists of nothing but true statements. What they would call unbiased would be advocacy of some mixed/compromise economic system which is left of capitalism. Shrug.
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Is this a joke? Al Jazeera!? And BBC? BBC is sometimes even more anti-Israel than Al Jazeera...
Not an ethical problem. But I wonder if the customers might feel a bit spied upon. I would keep the communication generic, wouldn't mention how you got their address and not refer to just the problem that they mentioned.
Then you are morally obligated to be informed.
I think it's a bit silly BUT if it makes my phone glow a cool blue in the dark, I'm all for that.
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Sure. Hiring?
And this is ostensibly an Android phone, yet it throws out fundamental functionality of the software in favor of aesthetics.

Form matching function is absolutely a good thing; form over function is foolish.
bookmarks are awesome.
The question "What is the resolution of the Google Earth satellites?" isn't the whole story though. About a year and a half ago there was a quite widely publicised event where Google were flying a light plane filled with cameras over Sydney to take google map pictures.

I don't know if this image of my house is a satellite or plane photo:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-33.904944,151.17401&z=21
but those two white rimmed black "squares" on the roof are skylights which are pretty close to 80cm x 80cm. My guess is a single "dead pixel" on imagery at that zoom would be maybe 8 or 10cm across.

[update: make that 3 years ago... http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/01/29/1169919256978.html ]
iPhone has tethering built in since iPhone OS 3. Works very well over there with no AT&T in sight.
Whatever you do, don't reference specific issues the customer had or statements they made. Most people will find this very creepy and stay away from your service. That said, you can tailor your pitch to whatever pain points that customer has.

So "I saw that you have a problem with X at wonka corp" is a no-no, but "My service is way better at X than wonka corp" should be fine. In general, keep it general.
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It's really a shame that the WSJ has gone down the toilet since Murdoch bought it. I subscribed from college until its recent decline and modulo the hilariously biased opinion pieces ("we have both sides of the story: the right-wing opinion, and the far-right-wing opinion...") it was a good source of information about what was happening in the world because its subscribers had a vested interest in getting information about what was really happening: when real money is on the line you want a no-BS, no-spin view of the world because it can cost you dearly if your news source loses its way and tries to tell you what it thinks should be true rather than what it knows to be true. Since the journal joined Rupert's empire the story quality has declined, the headlines have become less informative and more sensationalistic (even in articles that are not page one stories), and its current trajectory seems to be aiming for crash-and-burn before the decade is out.

These days if you want good daily business reporting the Financial Times is really the only choice you have.
Once I got to the last slide I realized it was a joke.
Actually, replacement Input Methods are more common than the ringtone things, in my experience. It's also an area where you see a fair amount of innovation taking place on Android -- there are IMEs like Better Keyboard or Smart Keyboard Pro (which I use personally) but there are also people experimenting with things like Swype.

Android really lowers the bar for creative people developing new ways of interacting with mobile devices, and I think that's probably the single most exciting thing about the platform.
With a 40-50% equity stake, what's a reasonable salary range for an experienced programmer? What's the minimum?

I would raise initial salary from my own pocket for the lead CTO, so I'm curious if I'd have enough. $90k+ is not feasible.
Looks like the iphone version of an Android phone. Doesn't seem like a really good phone. Although the UI seems less cluttered. That is my one big complaint about Android. None of the phone manufacturers have wrapped Android UI in nice way either.
An observant reader (or someone who lived in singapore or hong kong) would note that both Singapore and Hong Kong do not have true democratic governments.

Hong Kong currently has a parliament that is only one third elected by the people, one third elected by the government itself and one third elected by special interest groups. The executive (the head of state) is elected by 800 people representing private citizens and special interest groups. In practice however, these 800 people are all selected by the government itself. As a result, each year you see the same billionaires in the 800 group, always electing the candidate who has shaken the most hands with the PRC government.

There are a multitude of economic consequences as a result of this. Policies left over from decades ago include fixed electricity pricing, price floor on bus tickets, supermarket duopolies, tunnel operator monopolies, misplaced housing estates, local shopping center monopolies, are some problems the government is not willing to deal with. (Why would they, to lose support among 33% of voters who also happen to be most economically well-off and to be accused of "economic interference"?) These are all things that exacerbates income inequality. Income inequality is increasing not because the highest income people are producing more but because they're earning more from the inefficient market and political system geared towards them.

Everyone thinks Hong Kong has like the best economic system ever, but I'd like to point out that they don't.

Of course, things I've said here are very political and you might get different responses depending on who you're talking to...
If you expect reasonable hours, then an early-stage startup is probably not for you.
I haven't read the book but the table of content looks almost perfect. I wish I had something like this to preserve my sanity when I first entered the industry.
Seems easier to long-press the home key than to lock my current screen, turn the phone over, and unlock that screen. I don't think you've really thought this through...
I'd not work 12 hours a day for a company, and then end up worse than if I had worked for a big company. If I would end up with a million bucks, then yeah, but if there is no advantage, I rather work for a big company then. As any reasonable person should.
Is there any law against submitting a blank ballot? If so you can just write yourself in for every office for which you are eligible, and pick a friend to write in for any others.

If there's a law against a blank ballot AND write-ins are disallowed, you live in a sham democracy where an elite wants to legally compel you to signify your assent to its illegitimate rule, and it is your democratic duty to boycott any such elections in order to highlight their illegitimacy.
that lock/power button is going to get unintentionally pressed often.
The Daily Show is biased towards humor. They will stretch facts and take quotes out of context so that it fits their joke.
Say some "<script>do_bad_stuff();</script>" got through from some source you just expected to have text. (e.g. this happened for youtube the other day)

If you insert this into the DOM with html(), it will execute the script, doing bad things. If you insert it into the dom with e.g. text(), it won't be interpreted.
The minimum and optimal is enough to keep them break even financially, nothing more. That could be $40k/yr or $90k/yr. Totally depends on their specific situation.

Whoever pays that salary should get equity in exchange, whether it's you or an outside investor. Ideally it's an outside investor (who can afford to lose it). Either way it should be at a reasonable valuation.