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There are so many more factors than just rank alone. Such as competition, search results, web exposure, sales, and more. They also have a lot of those "talking" apps that people with kids gobble up at one point or another once they have a smartphone.

He didn't explicitly mention that CopterKid did very well, but I'm sure he's wise enough not to give away where he's directly seeing his successes because who needs MORE competition?
Amazon gets a new cert with a different provider and revokes the old one. Those people are pretty talented operationally. This should not be a difficult thing to do.
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The article said they were in plainclothes. No uniforms.
Google had to acquire Aardvark, otherwise Facebook would have bought them, and with the imminent launch of Google+, Google had to prevent this at all cost.
I imagine it would work like a normal pawn shop. In a traditional pawn shop, you take out a small loan with interest using your valuables as collateral (the loan is usually a lot less than the value of the item). The pawn shop makes money from the interest, and if you default, they can sell your item and make a profit.
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I agree. Lost iPhone 5 is a really big issue, the last lost model was international news. There can be little doubt that Cook was briefed on it. I seriously doubt he had no opinion about it voiced in that meeting.

Furthermore, someone at Apple at some point in the past decided they needed a private police force with badges and uniforms that looks like real police, and recruited from "retired" police (how can one be 26 and retired anyway). That's not a casual decision by some middle manager, that's another CEO level decision, and that one probably came from Jobs.
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Yeah, but the law is always murky about what constitutes a "physical presence," and the interpretations vary from state to state. I'm fairly certain that if they started springing up all over the US, there would be a lot of debate about whether a sales tax was required.

In any case, there's no way Amazon would keep these around if they alone necessitated a sales tax, since the trade-off would be too great.
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Agreed. No eink, not interested.
We are working to create a 'democratic' algorithm to balance sites exchange that are sending more traffic than receiving. There are no dark schemes involved.
few people would trust it since it's not a name-brand

Fat lot of good it did to trust a "name brand" in this case.
1 year? Nice perk.
2 years? Effectively sub-$100 tablet.
3 years? Paying for itself.
I love this idea. I travel full-time, and have no permanent residence. Amazon Prime has been a godsend...but, even that only works when I'm staying somewhere long enough to get something shipped in (I upgrade to overnight for $3.95 per item quite often), and in a place where I can have something delivered. Fedex and UPS do not yet accept GPS coordinates as a destination for delivery (my motorhome is often parked off the grid in the desert or mountains on public land). The ability to ship something to a 7-Eleven in the nearest town or along my planned route is just too wonderful to express.

I recently had to buy a new phone, somewhat urgently since my phone is my GPS/map/Internet/etc. and I'm lost without it, and was trying to figure out how to get one shipped in quickly. The one I wanted at the price I wanted to pay was not available with Amazon Prime shipping, so it was going to cost $40 to overnight it, in addition to the hassle of having to be in a specific location with a fixed address through the weekend and into next week. Luckily, a T-Mobile store had it for the same price, so I got it same day for only a few bucks more (because of sales tax)...but that's usually not the case. Had I needed an unlocked phone, or needed something not widely available, it would have been an ordeal.

In short, I don't know how many normal people are going to use this service, but I am going to use the hell out of it as soon as it is widely available.
This is awesome. Really good for people who live in an apartment and aren't there during the day to take deliveries.

...but what surprised me more about this was that it was shared from The Daily.
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This is similar to what FedEx does with packages that can't be delivered. You can have it redirected at no charge to the nearest FedEx Office (formerly Kinko's) location and you can pick it up when it's convenient. It's like having a UPS Store box without having to pay the monthly fee.
Really? I think the n-spires are going in the wrong direction for post-academic users, trying to approach the input (full alphabetic keyboard) and UI of a computer on a severely size-constrained piece of hardware, rather than focusing on what I think stand-alone calculators should be about: an easily manipulated tool for back of the envelope calculations and first-try graphing of equations. By allowing easily accessible alphabetic entry, it makes typing in complex equations easier, but anyone who is not constrained by academic requirements will be using matlab/R/mathematica/etc. for that, rather than trying to type using a small non-qwerty keypad, and getting results on a too-small screen.

I understand the logic of something like the n-spire for academics (though I'd prefer an HP 50g): get a piece of hardware that can do enough math for testing purposes, but limited in usability and/or IO, to hopefully reduce cheating, and have students use it in class and for homework so they are familiar with it by the time they have to use it on a test. However, it's sad that an entire industry (calculator hardware) requires poor and time-wasting data and formula entry characteristics (mostly based on required form factor) simply to avoid having students cheat on tests (both in-classroom and standardized tests).

How much time and effort would be saved if students could use smartphones or tablets with a customizable calculator UI? Calculators' limited screen size, inflexible input, and limited market size compared to smartphones/tablets ensures they will remain hamstrung.

And TI still hasn't gotten it through their heads that RPN should be a basic supported calculator mode, not left to a 3rd party to implement as an optional program.

Disclosure: I grew up with a TI 30+, 34, 68, 81, 83+, and then a HP 48gx -- which got me through most of HS and college, hence my strong preference for RPN. My HP48 broke (screen damage, no fault of HP's) and I never replaced it. I've used a calculator probably a single-digit number of times since then.
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Going completely off topic, there are, at least in some places, irrevocable rights which cannot be overruled by consent. In the UK, R v Brown[1] "ruled that consent was not a valid legal defence for wounding and actual bodily harm".

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Ask HN: Is my account banned?
Hi, Sorry for being using this account just for this question:

This is my real account: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=g-garron

Since yesterday all my posts are not being seen (invisible submissions).

Please someone tell me which rule I've broken, and what should I do.
I enjoy this community a lot, and would to continue here, following rules of course.

Thanks for your time.
To make your life easier.

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First words out of your mouth when they want to search the premises or even ask you any questions is:

"I'd like to speak with my lawyer first".

and second, if those aren't the first, or you don't have an on-call lawyer, it is easier to start with:

"May I please see a search warrant?"
Looks like they are all there to me? Maybe you went past a threshold at some point?
The exercises we looked at were everything from the index-card/finger and stop-watch to flashing words all-around the screen. Based on the small bits of data available and the effectiveness of the various exercises on our own reading speeds, we found that flashing "chunks" of text (similar to spreeder.com) and the "word-snake" method (that we decided on) were the only effective methods of increasing reading speed. Because the word-snake most closely approximated off-line reading, we settled on that as the basis of our curriculum. For sources, we looked at available literature like Evelyn Wood and software like 7SpeedReading.

As far as a data blog - that is one of our middle-term goals, but until we have more users, the best we can offer are anecdotal evidence. This type of shoddy analysis is a big part of the problem with existing reading research, so the plan is to wait until we have a more robust data-set before we start publishing results. I'll post on HN when we start publishing results.

The reason for the difference between the final treadmill reading speed and the suggested speed is that users regularly demonstrated a significant loss of comprehension at the final speed. We think that it was because of the delay between realizing that the treadmill was too fast and stopping the treadmill. At first, we reduced the speed by 10%, but after a few more users, it was clear that was insufficient, so we're trying it at 20%. The quiz speed is adjustable (with the faster/slower buttons or by using f and s as hot-keys), so it's meant more as a suggested starting point than as a definitive reading speed.

Thanks for your feedback!
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Pocket or table calculators can still be useful for quick calculations. Of course you won't use a 15C for any seriously heavy lifting anymore- you have MATLAB and Mathematica for that now- but M & M are poor tools for spur-of-the-moment computation.
The hell it isn't.
Thanks for your answer... With this account I cant see some of the links
Like this

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2956224
This idea was inspired by Jeff Casimir's talk at Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference, he basically said it is hard to get a good bug report from a client, then outlined a framework for them to follow. I put this framework into a simple form for people to use.
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Ah cool. It's a very interesting area, and extremely useful this day and age. Good luck with it!
The keys often make it or break it for me. I really don't like the keys on the TI-89 nor the HP-50g. I love the keys on the HP-48 though.
Another site, similar to ZapReader is spreeder.com. Sites like these offer a really spartan reading experience, but on top of a proven curriculum/methodology. They were a big part of what inspired us to create the first version of readfa.st.
Each time I re-install a Windows machine I search for this product for a good 20 - 30 minutes before I give up and start installing stuff by hand.

The thing that kills them is their name. There is just no good way to easily remember it.
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That particular submission was probably killed. Happens to the best of us. (Someone here said that if 5 account holders flag a submission within a certain interval of time, the submission is killed.)

I believe that the following is your most recent comment. If so, then I see nothing fishy going on.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2954416
Desktop is the only indexing+search tool that works in Linux. Ive tried all of them, but the search+ranking algorithms in Google Desktop _just work_.
Seriously, killing G-Desktop just sent computing back to 1990.
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An official SFPD spokesman said "three or four" SFPD were involved in the actual search? How many SFPD resources were involved in the run-up to the search?

This sounds worse than a poor engineering post-mortem: only "three or four" hours or days went into the work, but that could easily involve another "three or four" that were not included in the estimate, so are not counted for the total effort involved.

I'd hope a publicly-funded department has greater accountability than a random development task, but here we are.
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They also recently shut down their free and quite wonderful dictionary.
Yep, and differently from tv, consumption on the iPad is much more likely to be 'relatively' peer-to-peer. If we pay for content, there will surely soon be more producers around, given an easy-enough distribution chain/a flat-enough distribution channel. Very different from the TV business and it's intricate hierarchies and institutions!

I sure think this IS a Golden Age. The bizarre and 'negative' traits, and our moments of distress, easily hide it for us - but it's here and now. We just need to learn how to create a society out of the jumble (ie, planet) that's out there...
Hope you may see this comment. That would mean my account is not banned.
A lot of online businesses are somewhat seasonal.

If students use your product heavily, this is normal.
When the package is actually delivered, the
customer receives an email notification along with
a bar code to his smartphone and heads to the
7-Eleven. There he’ll stand in front of the
locker system, which looks like the offspring
between an ATM machine and a safety deposit box.
The machine will scan the bar code on his handset
to receive a PIN number. He’ll punch that PIN
number and retrieve the package.

I don't understand the purpose of the PIN. If I'm reading this right, it scans the bar code on my phone and gives me the PIN, and then I enter the PIN to get my package.

Why doesn't it just give me my package when it scans the bar code? The PIN doesn't seem to add any security.

I supposed the PIN could be an artifact of the implementation, rather than a security measure. For the prototype it might have been easier and cheaper just to use some stock keypad-based lockbox, and so they have to tell you the PIN, rather than to do some custom engineering to hook the locking system straight up to the barcode system.
If a CA becomes compromised they should be removed from every browser ASAP, otherwise the system is meaningless.
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OK, I see it with this account, it may means my account is not dead.
Anyway I will be a reader only for some days.
Because now, as soon as I submit something it disappears, I'm sure there is no time for others to flag it, It happened to my last 5 submissions. :(
Heads need to roll for this little stunt.
Nope that is not my resent submission.
In my experience, FedEx often redirects packages that CAN be delivered, too.
A better system might be farming out the delivery to a special service that sends a package at any hour of any day. Amazon gives the package to this agency for a fee and they will deliver it to any gps coordinate at any time (but someone has to sign for it).
well i already feel left out. i have no idea who pete cashmore is. (i never really joined twitter).

I guess that's the point.
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Yes, and it has been running for several years now. Very handy.

In Japan, the customer doesn't have to mess with any lockers. In the convenience store (Lawson instead of 7 Eleven) there's an electronic terminal used for buying tickets, pre-paid cards, etc. The customer inputs the order code and key into that terminal to print a ticket. Then they hand it to the clerk who picks up the package from the storage.
The comments here suggest that many folks don't realize you can correlate to a precise dataset, not just a hand-drawn trendline.

Click the link next to the search button. "Enter your own data" or "Edit this data".

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People forget that Socrates was forced to drink poison ostensibly becuase he had not made many friends with his "method". So one might consider that. I think often times say "the Socratic Method" which is a method of aurgument when really, they mean to say "ask a lot of questions" but that does not sound as cool I guess.
uh... give it to them?
Yea I see what you mean about spreeder.com. I think what makes it so fast is that I don't have to move my eye across the page in what I think are called 'saccades'.

I imagine an interface where I fix my gaze in the center and see text pulled through the single point. Perhaps the words near the fix point are a little blurry. Words further away are unreadable. I think there should be something like a gutter on the right or left for images, equations or code samples that floats from bottom to top as it is in context.

If I hit pause I would like to see all the text snap into focus with my focus word highlighted somehow.

Also, I would like this to just work with any old web page. I hate having to pull the print version of long articles then copy and paste into zap reader.

Good luck with your site.
Also key: while you're talking with them, don't invite them inside. Talk to them outside, and if you do decide to talk with them to answer questions (ideally, with a lawyer), do it at a neutral location outside your home/office.
It'd be nice if they were less cutesy about the entire thing. ("Spring-Cleaning"?)
Why the presumption that this must be an "Android tablet"? Amazon is one of the few companies entering the tablet market that isn't a primarily a "computing device" company. They have a computing device product, the Kindle, but it's very focused.

Amazon is an online:

* media retailer
* department store retailer
* book seller
* catalog warehouse (third-party resellers)

They have broad distribution agreements with thousands upon thousands of merchants in all product spaces (including media). No other tablet manufacturer (not even Apple) has the kind of vertical reach that Amazon does.

Amazon is also a pioneer in understanding the way their customers shop for products. Amazon's iOS apps are some of the coolest shopping applications I've used. Scan a bar code of a product at a store, and instantly find out if you can buy it cheaper on Amazon. Usually you can. That's smart. They constantly refine their website to fit customer usage patterns. They know how their customers behave, and they know how to adapt to customer change.

Remember when the iPad came out and geeks everywhere united in sentiment that it would fail. "It doesn't run a full desktop, OS!!! It's doomed to fail!!!" That's a caricature of tech punditry at the time of the iPad launch. Today, the iPad is way out front. All those arguments sound eerily familiar to:

"If any API incompatibilities emerge (beyond the normal API level that Android uses to distinguish between release APIs) then developers will be forced to fork their own products and maintain 2 separate release channels..."

This is all geek speak. Turns out, the market doesn't really care.

Amazon, like Apple, isn't trying to enter a market, they're trying to create one.

I'm not smart enough to know if they'll be successful, but if you look at Amazon as a company, they're an entirely different animal from Apple, Google, or Samsung. I think they have the tools to make it happen, but it will ultimately come down to execution.
This irked me as well, and as usual when some small technical detail irks me in an article, an HN commenter has already made the complaint...

I might just chalk this one up to bad reporting instead of needless redundancy in the implementation.
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The other problem with autorelease is when you release too many times; the autorelease pool gets drained down the road, and your app crashes in some other situation (inconsistently) at a time unrelated to when you made the mistake.
Well, honestly, I've toned my feelings down a bit in my post. My first thoughts were of mass Wall Street hangings, burnings at the stake and branding surviving executives/technocrats/economists on their foreheads with the letter "E" ("Its the Economy, Stupid!").

There are potentially at least 3 problems with employees involved: negligence, crookedness, and competence. I want to expand on the last of these, "competence", since, unlike the other 2 problems, I do not believe that it can be corrected.

The financial industry has failed to absorb the lessons of the last 100 years concerning financial instruments. Taleb's "Black Swan" addresses this failure as does Fox's "The Myth of the Rational Market". Those executives/economists/technocrats unfamiliar with the ideas in those works should be removed forever from the industry. That means most of them. Why? Because they are ineducable - their entire training is based on defunct financial models. The finance industry must be rebuilt from the bottom up with more robust models.

But I don't expect such real reform (of either sort: the burnings or the education). Instead I expect the same damn thing, another financial meltdown, to happen yet again within the next decade. Perhaps then some crazed financial Savanarola will be able to arouse the crowds to a passionate frenzy over the trillions lost. Maybe then heads will fall and true change will take place.
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