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Jobs himself had a good analogy, cars vs. trucks:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006526-56.html

"When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that's what you needed on the farms." Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.
"PCs are going to be like trucks," Jobs said. "They are still going to be around." However, he said, only "one out of x people will need them."

For the office, and content-creation in general, you'll still need PCs, but for content consumption in the home, tablets are good enough for most purposes, just like a truck is overkill for say, a run to the grocery store or dropping the kids off at school.
I couldn't find a peep about the meeting in TSA's blog. I find it ludicrous that they can boot a top tier expert without enough time to replace him by anyone that could bring similar points to the discussion.
I've been visiting Forrst on and off from its early days and I have this impression that Kyle was struggling with shaping the community into what he wanted it to be. Posting guidelines were updated on (what seemed like) a monthly basis, there's a limit on how short a descriptive part of a post should be, there's a ban on posting "angled photos of one's screen", etc. These are superficial things that are meant to funnel the community into something that it doesn't really want or can be. The moderation was all too visible on the site, and this is never a sign of a healthy ecosystem. Way too many aspiring 13 year old creative designers and javascript ninjas. There's really no reason for an experienced designer or a developer to hang around there. It's not that the site didn't have a good idea behind it. It's that the community needed reboot. Perhaps this acquisition is going to do just that.
per-capita is meaningless, you want per registered car
I vehemently detest this name.
I would love to see a javascript highliter that consumes TextMate syntax definitions.
A huge (multiple million policies) missing market that no one is covering here is motorcycle coverage. Almost every site caters to car insurance, but no one touches bikes.

Opportunity for someone for sure.
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Another problem is that current network applications assume an unlimited data model. We would need an equivalent to the big yellow EngeryGuide label for data applications. The last thing I would want is some applications that just keeps sucking a MB here and a MB there in the background without my knowledge.
It's on the list. It's down the line but it's on there!
Can you honestly not see that they stacked the competition in their favor by customizing the device from its stock install state?

And not that it's relevant, but I like Microsoft's products. I think their direction of the latest Windows Phones are great. I'd rather they didn't resort to cheap tricks to try and "prove" that their product is better.
I was always a fan of a fixed cost to go towards the infrastructure and a variable cost based on network congestion.

On a phone, similar to seeing signal strength, you could see the current cost per min calculated by your location and current time.

People should be able to download stuff in off hours in what ever quantities they can. If there is a huge event that would normally overload the local towers, this would be a way of properly allocating network access to people who really need it.

It might take some time for people to get used to it, but a comparison to gas prices might be helpful.
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You need to preface all of this with "in the US." Per minute POTS billing is very common outside of the US.
Condolences to all involved.
Source code: https://github.com/jeswin/fbremix
At $150K, you are not "average", you are a good developer, with some specialized skills that make you hard to replace quickly.
I watched the video all the way to the end, this is nothing short of amazing. Now I get why they call it 'creative mode'.
The committee membership is here:

http://oversight.house.gov/committee-members/

That's over 20 different states represented there, so odds are good you can contact one of the members and be listened to. Let 'em know this is bullshit, and that if we're going to spend money on security, it shouldn't be on theater.
Originally ebay started out as "auction web" hosted on the same site that Pierre Omidyar used for hosting information about the ebola virus.
This is one example. Airbnb isn't actually renting the place out to you (the landlord is).

They discourage 2-way communication because what will end up happening is that the user will try to make a deal outside of Airbnb, get screwed, and then come crying to Airbnb for recourse (and it will make them look bad and discourage future customers).

They also want to keep their clients.
Oh, it is absolutely a problem! But, having people not knowing what they're talking about has always been a problem. Nothing short of a strictly-enforced policy mandating that HR departments need to have decent knowledge in a certain area will change that.

Besides privacy, it could turn out that HR involved in other domains are broken relationships. If anybody has any examples, I'd love to hear them.
Note that Germany (as well as New Zealand and Scotland) actually has a mixed system for the Bundestag (lower, more important chamber of parliament) where roughly half the seats are determined by a district-based first past the post system and the others by a proportional system, with each voter having two votes.

The downside is that you need really complex rules to reconcile cases where the two results don't match up. This is done by adding extra seats, but can lead to edge cases where a party would actually have gotten more seats if it had recieved fewer votes.
Not a book, but if you're interested in codes and codebreaking, it's worth a trip to the "National Cryptologic Museum", located right outside the NSA headquarters at Ft. Meade, Maryland (between Baltimore and DC). It's a relatively small place that's open daily and seems to be a labor of love by retired NSA codebreakers.

The museum has a four-rotor Enigma machine, which is about the size of a typewriter. It is packed into a wooden case and deployable into the field.

The museum also has a "Bombe", the Enigma codebreaking machine devised originally by Polish mathematicians, and improved by Alan Turing and others, and fabricated in quantity by the British and the Americans during the war. This an electromechanical device the size of several refrigerators.

So nice to see them both together. Of course, I have today's simple and compact encryption technology in my phone, and right across the parking lot from the museum, there is an acreage of computers (Ft. Meade) which is probably able to decrypt what I send, if desired. Same as it ever was.
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I have worked on and used selinux, rsbac, smack and others, there is no area to improve on rbac itself isn't usable or even secure compared to a capability based system like capsicum.
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DRM controls the amount of IP that is available in the market, because without it - information can be copied freely. I would call this artificial scarcity - simply because it artificially makes a resource more scarce .. but perhaps here we have monopolies controlling the supply of a product simply to be able to price an item.

I would argue that that some consumers are at loggerheads with the prospect of paying for IP simply because the cost of production is so marginal (due to the fact that a copy can be made for no cost).
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Maybe it's me, but I don't think it is that bad. Yes, you see the occasional trolls, but it's nowhere near as bad as Techcrunch or Reddit or whatever. There was a post about some guy wanting to move to SV asking for a place to crash, and he'd get the most wonderful comments and offerrs. I think HN is a nice community with a few newcomers who still have to learn that there is actually something like being nice to each other on the internet.

I'm sure things were different, more intimate and friendly a few years back, but that's more of an issue with becoming more mainstream. To me it doesn't matter, just ignore the haters and remain constructive, helpful and friendly. Well, I try to, at least!
I don't think they are out of woods yet. They are still reliant on the insurance companies for their revenue(essentially they are just an affiliate site)...so they've complied with the letter of the complaint, but not the spirit.

They are still doing something that insurance companies care enough about to shut them down over.
care to elaborate, pls?
Angry Birds Space is okay, not really too exciting. Besides, can't get my head wrap around the idea of sling-shooting in zero gravity.
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If they pulled it off in survival mode, I would be absolutely floored. Well, I still am anyway, but still- Damn creepers.
pri's not a constructor in this language's terms, it's just a visibility operator. The language wants you to be able to use code in your class member assignment statements; if that means it has to generate a constructor to make it happen, it will. Or maybe it just wants you to start coding without fussing with boilerplate.

And the @str title=null line above the class seems very odd.

This is great because you can indent code under it that's relevant to it, that would normally end up cluttering your function's narrative up with housekeeping for variables.

This is a much more pleasant way to deal with PHP. Check out the documentation, it is outstanding.
http://code.google.com/p/php-snow/wiki/Class
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When I heard Schneier had been invited I actually thought the government was going to take this seriously.

Obviously this is now going to be just another whitewash. sigh
Compared to the JVM (and probably even V8), it's slow. Compared to Javascript or Ruby or Python, it's no more expressive, probably less. And it's more dangerous than any of those, being just as brittle as C. I don't see any relevant niche in which it's best suited, other than being artificially blessed for half of the smartphone market.
That would damage their attempts at hagiography.
Are you just reading/learning/performing the things day by day? So day 6, you only do the things of day 6, etc? If so, I think you should also repeat some of the days before. So on day 6, also go over days 3/5 briefly again. And write .py code each day using as much of the past days info you learned. Repetition and doing stuff yourself (or changing existing .py files and seeing what happens) works for me. That way I make the information my own. I also like the small exercises on http://codingbat.com/python
It is steadily becoming a lot more open - Jeb's the lead developer now and a big focus has been put on adding mod support. They've hired the guys behind Bukkit (a popular third-party mod manager for servers) to help with that, I believe.

Clones have also started to appear but it's still small indie companies making them, meaning it'll take time before many are at the same level as Minecraft.

However, the bigger companies do seem to be paying attention (an EA bigwig spoke about Minecraft in a Gamasutra piece the other day [1], though he was saying fairly obvious things), so it'll be interesting to see what the genre's like in 5-10 years' time.

[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167137/Minecrafts_future_...
Valid points. It seems like the more seasoned designers are over at dribbble. It also seems like the more seasoned developers end up on the stackexchange network trying to soak up knowledge.

Maybe there are more newbies trying out design and programming than there used to be. Might be a good idea to market to them directly?
I think it also comes across as socially acceptable to be bad at history, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, nutrition (both theoretical and applied), literature (not reading, per se, but knowledge of important works of literature), public speaking, music, computer science, painting, sculpture...

Basically, I guess fundamental reading and writing (though not necessarily with good penmanship) are the only skills we actually expect other people to have?
All sorts of places.

I'd be willing to wager that there's hardly an OCaml programmer in this world who isn't also skilled in a few other languages.
This is today's version of building your own computer on wire wrap in your garage. I don't think you'd go back in time and tell Woz/Jobs that the Home Computing Club or the Apple 1 weren't useful. If a 16 year old understands in detail how a graphing calculator works from a raw bit-logic level, then I think it speaks that they'll have a much more interesting career in store for them than 99.99% of 16 year olds.
Log in to your Comcast account, and on one of the primary tabs will be the amount of bandwidth you've used this month and the totals for the previous two months, along with a clear specification that you get 250GB/month (and how fuzzy they are willing to be about that), and some FAQs about why. Market-speak about why, yes, but still, it's there. It's all there now, and has been for at least a year. And they clearly announced this at the time they put it in. The only thing they don't have is the easy API for finding this out automatically.

Unfortunately my login details are not where am I am right now and I can not give you directions straight to it, but it's not that hard to find once you jump the hurdle of finding your login.
About the theft: when traveling, keeping an USB flash drive to where you sync your code/docs (possibly with encryption) and then slip into your pocket is very useful. Unfortunately, I always forget to bring mine along ;)
Car ownership rate in NYC is under 45%.

Many of us who own cars are too lazy to move them every couple of days for street cleaning, so they are parked in attended garages or lots, which deters (though isn't a guarantee against) theft.

Some parts of NYC have higher theft rates that get lost when blended into the overall city rate. Brooklyn for example has a much higher theft rate than the rest of the city.
Would love to see a blog post on how you used the Hunch API to recommend stuff (movies or other things) between groups of friends.
Ah, indeed. I checked the iOS section of opensource.apple.com and didn't find it there and falsely assumed that meant the ARM version was proprietary.
Me too, the Bavaria part, and yes, we only technically count ;-). The only hope i have in the long run for the pirates, or whatever name the movement adopts one day, is that they are not going the way of any new party and turn the new greens eventually.
I thought this ad was pretty good and makes fun of the old versions of IE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4...
I have multiple motorcycles. I'd like to buy insurance for them (already covered, but I wouldn't mind price shopping). Nearly all websites like this cater to finding you a better price on coverage for a newer car. I have a 30+ year old motorcycle and a 2 year old motorcycle. If there was a site that made it so I could find a cheaper (and better) insurance policy, I'd be totally up for it.

One key point here is 'better' as well- not just cheaper. If the insurer is likely to triple my premium after a claim, and another would only increase it by 10%, then I'd rather have the latter.

Kinda like Hipmunk- not just about the flight price purely, but the agony involved in flying that trip. No use on saving $5 on a ticket, only to need to spend 12 hours and 3 meals in an airport on layover, or stuck at an airport that will always leave me stranded with cancelations.

I doubt this is a 300 billion dollar business (it isn't), but I can only imagine there's enough money in this to employ a few dozen people and make real money.
That's actually how I started this project! I started working on making a syntax highlighter that could pull in TextMate tmLanguage files, but then I ran into a lot of issues and decided to spin it off into this :)

That is why the syntax in Rainbow is pretty similar.

The main problem had to do with Javascript regex not fully supporting everything that most languages support such as negative/positive lookbehinds and (.*)
So... why should I use this instead of http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/ ?
any immediate plans for service outside of san francisco area?
'paulhauggis' is dead-on re: why the policy is set the way it is. However, I think the key takeaway is the lack of customer service, not the service itself. Nobody likes being told their stupid, and nobody likes being ripped off.
It depends on how tall these are. A sloped roof can easily reach 8 feet tall.
Our company is based in The Netherlands and in our country there is indeed a preference for established 3rd party websites. Everyone knows and trust those payment providers; they already have proven their credibility. So when you are company that no one knows yet (e.g. when you are not a household name), you still can earn trust by implementing these 3rd party in your payment system. Besides: consumers are used to seeing a 3rd party payment provider, so for them this feels not amateuristic at all. iDeal, which is the most used payment gateway on B2C sites, is also such an example (created by big banks, paying is like logging into your ebanking account to transfer money).

But if you feel this is amateurish, try your best that it does not look that way. Integrate as much as possible or do an iframe or whatever (I don't know if this is possible security wise). But like I said, people in the Netherlands (and by the way this also counts for the Belgiums who live in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium called Vlaanderen) are used to redirects to 3rd party site. I do not know how the other European countries do this.

Also don't forget to offer pages in all different European languages, because not everyone speaks business English that well.
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These companies are the only way anyone buys insurance in England. Fantastic businesses that make tons of money.
I was waiting for that! :-P
jpadkins: "It has been shown over and over again that consumers prefer fixed price, even if they have to pay more to get it."

It is pretty well established. Where your model deviates from reality is in not accounting for the mental costs associated with having to (/wanting to) track how much bandwidth you've used on a minute-by-minute basis... how much is that Netflix movie costing me? How much is this Youtube video costing me? etc etc

You can argue about how irrational this is. You can even be objectively correct. And it won't matter very much.

Even objectively, you do need to worry about some fixed costs too. A package deal for the first X GBs might now be as irrational as you initially think.
One problem with this idea is that most quality people aren't going to want to work as contractors part-time.

That's a strong assertion for which I see no evidence in the market. Plenty of great programmers and designers neither have to nor want to work for anyone else.
I think you're confused. Their blog is not an information-dissemination service, it is a marketing instrument.
An even more extreme example is Japan: the LDP was in power from 1955 to 2009 (except for two years in 1993-1994), with the result that actual policy decisions (as well as who go the highest political offices) were negotiated between factions within that party.
I almost was part of a startup (which we were going to submit to YC) that did exactly the same thing. We were trying to negotiate with providers of insurance comparison quotes to get the data, with web scraping as a backup precisely because I knew the insurance companies would not like us scraping their sites. We were not able to make our data deals go through, and so the only option left would be exactly what Leaky is doing now: compute from the publicly available data. We did not feel we could do a good job of that at the time and that combined with other reasons caused our efforts to fall apart. (This was 2010, though we'd tossed the idea around since 2008 I believe.)

Anyway, I get what Leaky is going through and also the need for a product like theirs in the industry.
Thanks for the link. I just emailed my representative on the committee.
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This is the best website i've ever searched for insurance on! The lack of spam alone is a major selling point, but in addition to that, its quick, and snappy. Quite the amazing job. Also, you just saved me $100 on insurance... so my opinion may be biased :D

It would be nice if you integrated with CarWoo, so while I search for my car I can see how my insurance will change.
Regardless, the point stands, WP7 receives a lot less app attention - which makes sense since it has 1.7% market share.

For example, the new Angry Birds launched on iOS and Android, and has no plans to port to WP7 due to the need to rewrite it for that platform,

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-22/-angry-birds-space-...
What is the point of an oversight hearing if you refuse to let your top critics testify?
For a long time I’ve been trying to create offline app — backbone.offline
There's also slimv, another swank client in VIM. Here's a video using it with Clojure

https://vimeo.com/38372260
Haha! Great minds think alike. I just went through a very similar sketching sequence and reached basically the same conclusion!

I've plotted the positions using proportion of max votes (as a proxy for response rate) to account for the different number of voters responding to each poll (with actually counts added). And my axes are reversed!

The bipolar bar chart you're aiming at should be pretty easy to achieve if you first make the dislike values negative. I'm happy to write some code to demonstrate if you'd like.

edit:
link - https://gist.github.com/2206278
You would've gotten the same message across without also insulting vgnet by omitting that first sentence.
A large part of our success thus far is due to that at Mixpanel as well. The founders in our batch gave us tons of feedback for everything they could want.

In fact, 60-70% of every new Y Combinator batch is generally using Mixpanel prior to launch - Exec being no exception ;)
You're forgetting software sales (ColorSchemer), t-shirt sales and fabric printing.