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Agreed. Apple has come full circle to perfectly embody the image they protested in their classic Super Bowel commercial. Millions of souls mindlessly catapulting birds on their little devices while fed a steady diet of carefully curated media and apps.

Rescue us, lady with the sledgehammer...
You are right, I tried with Microsoft: http://i.imgur.com/PJiOy.png

https://github.com/microsoft/
It's more alarming that this is 'standard industry practice', implying all the UK mobile telcos are doing this.
I suggest some of Seth Godin's earlier books. "All Marketers are Liars" and "Purple Cow." Marketing is one of those things you can adapt to any business, any product, you just need to figure out how the lessons apply to what you're doing.
We're aware of the labeling issues in recent Mapnik and will land a fix soon: https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/1017
You can't prove that you can trust the carrier. And with trust I not only mean that the carrier has good intentions but also that the carrier is physically unable to do any mistakes.

Also you can't prove that someone doesn't sniff the traffic when you copy it to your second DROBO and you can't prove that none of the drives have been copied afterwards.

Not saying that your approach isn't "secure enough" (I'd guess that's what they do on submarines?), but compared to (the theory of) quantum cryptography it has many flaws.
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Apple commercials aren't even really about Apple; they're about making consumers feel cool, special, hip, and creative because they use Apple products. It's the ultimate in feel-good messaging.

Seriously: watch a Motorola Droid RAZR commercial, then watch an iPhone commercial. The difference is extraordinary.

I don't know which particular commercials you meant, but here are the ones I watched:

Droid RAZR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9yisLa4ao (the first video for "droid razr advertisement" on youtube)

iPhone: The first video on http://www.apple.com/iphone/videos/

The Droid RAZR advertisement has very little footage of the phone itself, and doesn't demonstrate any of its features. Most of the ad is an action movie sequence.

The iPhone advertisement shows people using the Siri feature in realistic scenarios. The focus is on the phone itself and what you can (purportedly) do with it.

I've never understood this meme that Apple wins because of feel-good marketing. Apple's ads typically just show people using their product. This strategy wouldn't work if the product didn't have something intrinsically desirable about it.
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Maybe added economic value is the wrong way for society to decide the quality of someone's life?
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I suppose that O2 gives their trusted partners a way to check age and make billings through a private API or similar. Any other site which is not affiliated with them wouldn't have access to that API so they can't get any other information.
My enjoyment of this article (which is both interesting and provocative) was hampered by the nightmare that is the Daily Mail web site. Plastered down either side are gaudy advertisements and salacious celebrity gossip accompanied by images I'm embarrassed to have on my monitor.

I hope they publish more articles like this, and give them the presentation they deserve.

For others with this objection, try this link:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055497/JEREMY-PAXMA...
It's a more successful version of the Yahoo portal strategy + the walled garden strategy. Yahoo failed when the competition created more attractive services and a walled garden requires something interesting enough to build a wall around. It will interesting to see how well it works.
Congress isn't like a business with a bad review. It's like a business with a bad review and they can censor the medium where the bad review appears.
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The screen resolution he mentions is 0.1% of a 1024x768 resolution. So lets say we need 1000MHz to render 1024x768. Then I think modern software is doing alright. Because today we calculate more color bits, keep track of all the input devices, output 'real audio', keep the device online and so on.
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The man-in-the-middle proxy adds the phone number based on your IMEI. You could probably send someone else's number down and it'd change the header back to yours in the proxy.

The SMS spoofing issue (which has been around forever) is far worse as it's not proxied anywhere. Some SMS-controlled devices use the SMS from number as an authentication scheme which is much much more dangerous as that can be spoofed easily.

It's all about trust and it appears that trusting proprietary networks is an issue.
Hopefully, it's augmented by verifying the origin of the traffic. But yeah, not exactly bulletproof.
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Microsoft is on github. Github should let these teams setup an organization under Microsoft as a pointer.

https://github.com/microsoft-dpe

https://github.com/Microsoft-Interop

https://github.com/WindowsAzure
During an election, it may not always be clear which candidate voters will choose, but it is absolutely certain that those candidates need a lot of money just to get on the ballot. As a result, the U.S. government's course has been charted by lobbyists and their money for a very long time now, and that isn't likely to change unless the U.S. starts capping campaign contributions per donor like other nations do. (This is actually a very good idea!) So how important is public opinion really? Not very important at all, in the long run. Yes, PIPA/SOPA met heavy opposition, but will the same bill with a different name get the same response next year? How about the year after? What about a dozen different bills that incorporate all the bits and pieces of SOPA/PIPA separately? Paid lobbyists will always win in the long run.

Internet companies like google are being threatened with crushing government regulations just as Hollywood was in the 1920's. Hollywood's response was a combination of heavy lobbying and just barely enough self-regulation, in the form of the production code, to escape government regulation. The code was abandoned in the 60's, but Hollywood hasn't let up lobbying since. It's arguable that they have actually achieved a form of regulatory capture when it comes to copyright laws. e.g. The funny coincidence between how long copyrights last and the age of Mickey Mouse.

The real wake-up call that SOPA/PIPA has provided is not to the public, the government, or to the MPAA/RIAA. It's to companies that rely on the internet for their revenue. That revenue dwarfs Hollywood. Literally. Regardless of what the public wants or what lobbyists say, legislation like SOPA/PIPA would have a far larger negative impact on the U.S. economy than burning Hollywood to the ground. So why aren't there lobby groups sticking up for internet freedom? Why was PIPA/SOPA only stopped by a grass-roots movement? The money is there. Far more than the MPAA or RIAA could ever muster in fact.

My prediction is this: ISP's, google, etc. now know that Hollywood is gunning for them. They're going to fight back with their own lobbyists, and they have a lot more money. The next decade is going to be dark indeed for the MPAA/RIAA. They have awoken a juggernaut.
Ask HN: Who owns my senior design project?
I'm working with three others on a senior design project for our "customer" who is from outside our university. Once all is finished, I wanted to post the source to Github for potential employers to see, but I'm not sure if I will be able to (my group members are okay with it). I haven't asked our professor about IP rights, but other students have in the past and basically received a non-answer. Any thoughts? What is typical in this situation?
Ask HN: offer extended with options agreement 'coming soon'
Hi all,

I got an offer from a start up that I am really excited about joining. We had a great (and fast) courtship and they sent over the usual documents-- including a Non-compete (6 months) and NDA.

The salary is well below market rate, but I am ok with that because I really like the team and the work. Believe me, I am not in it for the money otherwise I'd go work for BigCorp Inc.

They've given me a verbal (and email) description of the equity portion of the offer, but in the email they said the options document would be ready 'in a few weeks'. (huh?)

Now, I am not counting on the equity per se, knowing full well that it can all go up in a puff of smoke, but am I right to be concerned that the equity agreement wouldn't be signed and in my hands when I sign the rest of the documents? How binding is an email with a promise of a certain number of shares?
> A Freedom of Information request to get the full list,

Although (as far as I know) the FOI Act only applied to public bodies (government and organisations like universities). So O2 wouldn't need to comply with a request under that act. Not sure if the ICO could force them to disclose that info, but I doubt it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_2000...
code.google.com is a big -- if not the biggest -- Github rival, which makes this move seem like Google is waving the white flag.

I wouldn't be surprised if an acquisition is coming.
Hand sanitizers as Agent Orange? (There's such a thing as too clean)
You beat me to it! I agree this read to me like "I rooted for the Patriots when they weren't good and now that they're good I'm glad I stuck with them!"

Don't get me wrong I love sports and have teams that I follow but I have to try to divorce myself from the team's performance (especially when they lose). I have to keep reminding myself that I don't have any skin in the game so I cannot influence the outcome.

With Apple love I suppose it's a little different since you can go all-in to their ecosystem and provide them with revenue.
I agree with that. However, many of the wealthy tend to be equally useless, uneducated and ultimately unproductive - that they have money or engage in some sort of commerce does not change that.
> This is very much like the hacker who keeps playing around with a broken method until it works

There's a huge downside to that: "Lets see if drop tables works... oops."

I'm not sure if this thinking is only something from mixed metaphors or is applicable to what they're doing.
As they are saying, it seems that Google is just getting started.
Pretty sure that's the exception. She actually has a Masters degree as well, so I think that line is pretty misleading. $130k is still high for an entry level product manager though I think.
You should lobby to limit the influence of lobbying. Seriously.
There are so few cases of people doing a good job over a long period of time, I'm willing to take that trade-off. However, I do think campaign finance reform should come first. Let's see what happens if politicians are really beholden to th people.
If it's anything like the systems I've come across, there is a proxy server on the mobile data network with a whitelist of either IPs or URL patterns that will have the number added as a HTTP header ("header enrichment"), then the endpoints (so the third party systems) must be configured to only accept this header from the IP range of the proxies, so that should avoid spoofing if correctly configured. I'd have thought this IP restriction requirement would be part of the contract they'd have to sign to get the data.
I have a hard time understanding the whole deal everyone is making of Google finally combining the whole ecosystem they have into one nice package. I don't think the author knows that Google already knows what you use in Google docs, they already mine your email to show ads to you, they already do everything he talks about, they're just now going to let you have access to it through search instead of having to go to mail/reader/youtube/etc individually. This seems like much ado about nothing. Google isn't trying to wall people up in it's ecosystem, they're simply trying to unify all of the services they offer into one point of contact, which, as a user of many of these services, I applaud.
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Just because it is complicated does not mean it should not be dealt with. Fast.
Yea I was looking at the video of it running XBMC. Thinking of running it as a media center
As a long-time admirer of Patagonia and other companies that incorporate sustainability and social responsibility into their businesses, it is great to see this happening. If nothing else, it draws attention to alternative business goals and provides some degree of legal protection to certain public companies.
I'm aware of that, does the Raspberry Pi not have separate video ram? If not, that is my mistake - I didn't look closely and made an assumption. If it has a shared block of RAM (like the Xbox 360 Xenon, which has 512mb shared) then that is a significant difference - but still plenty to work wonders with.
"Apple understands products. Apple invests heavily into really good design, usability and compatibility. Their stuff WORKS, out of the box, without any fiddling. their products stay useful for a long time, longer than any crap of their competitors."

This is not mutually exclusive with what I am saying. The two go hand in hand. Of course Apple focuses on product. But as far as its consumer messaging strategy goes, it talks about that product in a very specific, lifestyle-oriented way. Obviously it wouldn't be able to talk that way about its products if it products weren't great.

"such a nerdy thing to reduce apple to "good marketing". just like SJ was just a great "showman".

This is not at all what I said, and if that's the impression I gave you, then I'm sorry for not having been clear enough. But you're taking what I said in a tangent that was never intended. I am not "reducing" Apple's success to marketing, but rather, am explaining why consumers seem to have a love for Apple that they don't for its competitors (in response to the grandparent comment about not understanding why consumers have an emotional bond with Apple).

Marketing and product reinforce one another for Apple; it's not one to the exclusion of the other.

"think a great ad would suddenly make Motorola sell more than Apple?"

Again, you're pretty wildly misinterpreting my post and making inferences that just aren't there. I'm not sure what else to tell you. Either I wasn't being clear enough, or you misread me, or some combination of the two. But I'm not saying any of what you're accusing me of saying. At all.
That is correct. You can issue Subject Access Request under the Data Protection Act to find out information about an individual (yourself) and who this has been shared to. You can only issue a SAR in writing and there is a capped charge for £10 for the privilege.
bye bye google code?
Indeed but it does not change DevX101's point. Also it is strange they did not request the microsoft account
1.) FOI only applies to public bodies. You can't send an FOI request to O2.

2.) People probably opted in to this without realising. Do they need to supply an opt out, if it was a condition of signing up in the first place?
It would need to sync your location between places....
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I can't seem to follow them, and I do hope Google starts using Github instead of Google Code. Github is by far the best website for open source projects.

It's all mainly due to using git and its interface. Github has a great website design.
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The most heartwarming part is knowing how much wonderful charity work the most valuable and successful corporation in the world must be engaging in.

I mean, sure the old school giants like Exxon, Walmart, Microsoft, et al. give incredible sums of money to charities. Hell, even Goldman Sachs gave over $300 million in 2010. But just imagine how much money the Apple corporation must be contributing...
If I'm making .935 billion dollars per week, do I care if it "stagnates" at that level?
AI will eventually drive healthcare, but not anytime soon
But a hash of the number, or a random id would work for this too.
Management is not programming, these are simply different skill sets. If you are asking senior managers to write college graduate programming solutions, you are being an asshole. If someone has moved up to people management, ask them people management questions.
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I found hijack on your blog:

http://www.rubyinside.com/hijack-get-a-live-irb-prompt-for-a...

This ranks higher than the github repo while searching for "ruby attach running process." hnsearch showed the same article being submitted about 2 years ago, with not much interest showed.

I was a bit surprised. I was searching for HN thread as I was expecting some useful discussion, but found none. I assumed this is the kind of topic which would interest HN crowd, but looks like that isn't the case.
I've noticed the same thing. I get downvoted quick any time I make a fair and carefully worded comment about Apple that isn't glowing, and the comment stays gray until someone with a cooler head comes along.
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I presume most websites that weren't expecting to find an O2 number in the HTTP headers won't have looked for it, won't have logged it, etc.

If I send a secret to you in the post, and you put the envelope in the recycling unopened, have I disclosed a secret to you?
For some reason it fascinates me that for a project promoting the strengths of Common Lisp, one would write the translator in Python.

EDIT: Apparently this is because GCC has a Python plugin API. All right, I guess if there was a CL plugin API then the author would write the translator in CL.
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I think you missed the OP's point. The point isn't to say "languages" or "problems" specifically, those are just examples of responses from the "A" list candidates.

The point is the "D" list candidates respond with "I want to work for $company because their $product is $adjective", where it is painfully obvious to the interviewer that $company, $product, and $adjective are variables adjusted for every interview.

P.S. There are people who live to make sausages. Read "How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead" http://people.wku.edu/rich.patterson/CFS-452/Readings/stayer...
"The reasonable man adapts himself to Emacs. The unreasonable man adapts Emacs to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." With apologies to George Bernard Shaw.
Yes they are relevant, because fundamentals don't change. Human nature hasn't changed.

Supply-and-demand is still in effect. A thing is still only worth what another gives for it. And when you try to mess with these two rules, they don't go away, they just adapt to what's imposed.

"Functional poverty" is, for most practical purposes, illegal in this country. Employers can't pay what a job is worth if that worth less than a given wage; ergo, economic fundamentals dictate commerce find an alternate solution which does match the supply-and-demand rule, which unsurprisingly often is manifest as either international outsourcing or robotics (loosely speaking). The "average" gets skewed because the lower end of the bell curve gets chopped off, and those chopped find themselves unemployed because it's illegal for them to earn what their skills warrant. Yeah "average" doesn't cut it any more, because someone tried to impose a new economic model and large segment of society is finding out the hard way it doesn't work. The demand is still there, but since it's illegal to supply that demand with human labor, the supply gets filled in other ways - ways which create more demand for high-end skills leaving the low end further behind.

You can't violate these basic models without causing (or relocating) the very problems you're trying to solve.
The $46.33 billion in revenue is insane. The Airspace broke it down in comparisons—over $5,000 per second! http://theairspace.net/events/apples-q1/
"Apple's ads typically just show people using their product. This strategy wouldn't work if the product didn't have something intrinsically desirable about it."

I didn't say anything about product quality in my original post. That wasn't my focus. My focus was on explaining -- in response to the grandparent comment -- why it is that Apple is able to establish an emotional connection to consumers.

Marketing and product design are not mutually exclusive. And I did not intend to imply that they were, or that one takes precedence for Apple over the other. Since at least two people have incorrectly taken this from my post, I must have phrased something incorrectly. I'm really not sure how to have been clearer, but I'll accept responsibility for the misinterpretation. That said, it is neither what I meant to say nor imply.
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Definitely better than blog spam and content farms, but I was hoping those weren't my only options :-) I would like the highest signal content for the aspect of digital cameras I'm interested in, regardless of source. Using G+ as a mechanical proxy for relevance makes sense of course, but I don't think it gives the best results. I faced this what looking up coffee makers too. There are these search ruts you just can't get out of.
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This is exactly why personalized medicine, bioinformatics, computational pharmacokinetics, etc is key for the future of medicine.

I am not a biologist but I imagine someday soon a scenario like this will be possible: You have a model of the sites and interactions the drug targets, and optimum biology - metabolism, target cells' proteomes etc. Measure these in the patient and you can predict ahead of time the efficacy of the drug and then optimize the drug's chemistry to be more effective for this individual. With a better understanding of protein modelling and such you could do a search for similar structures and compute the expected interactions and optimize for personalized effectiveness.
It's definitely not going to balance out so that it becomes economical to hire people for today's low-skill jobs.

Let's take a market force like peak oil. When oil is <$5.00/gal then using a backhoe to dig ditches is the obvious choice over hiring ditch diggers.

When oil is $50.00/gal then you might think twice about using a backhoe to dig ditches, and instead hire a bunch of ditch diggers for minimum wage.
"The solution to average people becoming less relevant in the economy (which I don't dispute, btw) can of course never be to make everyone above average as that is by definition impossible."

It's not as impossible as you might think. The idea here is to be above average in a specialty, not in everything.
It's even more within reach when you start thinking about how narrow a specialization can become. I remember Scott Adams's reflections on this... that you can become "elite" by being the very best at one thing (like Roger Federer at Tennis), or by by being good at an interesting blend of different things. The first is out of range for most people, but the second is a possibility for mere mortals. Scott Adams's personal reflection was that he was good but not great at drawing, telling jokes, and commenting on business, but all three together made his comic strip unique.

Even this approach will require a substantial amount of education and hard work, but it is a possibility.