skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The base price is just under $50,000 after factoring in a $7,500 tax credit. But models with a large enough battery to allow for a 300 mile range will be priced at $87,900 after the tax credit.

Great. So American taxpayers are essentially subsidizing luxury automobiles.
> a city car running on compressed air (as well as a battery-powered electric motor)

The range sounds implausible to me at any reasonable speed on compressed air alone. How is the electric motor involved? Is the air a backup for the battery or vice-versa?
It's 115 links to a 2 MB executable. The actual on-disk size is 2 MB.
The real story behind the conviction of SurfTheChannel´s owner Anton Vickerman
Codemage's comment neatly explains Facebook's current predicament though. All of us suck at valuation it seems.
Didn't saw that option. Maybe only available to those who have registered a Kindle device.
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> Firstly because I hardly ever use my cellphone, not feel the need to, secondly because when I ask people that do, they have no clear idea themselves why they cannot keep it in their pocket.

I don't use it while walking, but I surely use it when I don't have anything else to do(waiting for bus/cab, in a cab/bus...). I can keep it in my pocket, but I would rather listen to music, browse news, read articles, blogs, check facebook, twitter etc etc rather than sitting on a bus and waiting for my destination.
Patton Oswalt’s recent comments concerning "luck" are worth adding to the discussion. Talent may be worth more now than ever before. We've heard this before, but it certainly seems to be true: "Our careers don’t hinge on somebody in a plush office deciding to aim a little luck in our direction. There are no gates. They’re gone." -- http://thecomicscomic.com/2012/07/27/patton-oswalts-letters-...
Wait, what? Are people seriously arguing about the dollars and the coffee? Here, let me explain you why paying a dollar for an app or a theme or any such crap on my (full disclosure: Android) phone pisses me off and why I'm happy to go pay CLP3250 for Starbucks coffee once or twice a week.

When I go to Starbucks to buy my coffee, I get a beverage that has a certain level of caffeine I like, lots of milk, is sweet and will last me the better part of the morning. I found out that they have a product that I like and it's a repeatable experience: I go, I ask for my favorite brew and it has the same qualities that enjoy, every time.

When I look for an app for my phone, I can see screenshots of it and see the reviews and ratings. Neither of these are very reliable, for reasons I assume I don't need to elaborate here. At this point, I have the two options: 1) I can go online and do further research to try to separate truth from crap; or 2) I can install the app.

When it turns out that the app is crap after all -- or that it's good, but doesn't do what I need, or that it's excellent but the stuff I happen to need doesn't work for my phone or OS version -- I have to uninstall it and look for a better one. Or give up.

At this point, I've "paid" with my time and effort and hopes, so this is where the difference between free and $1 dollar is a lot more important than $1 dollar and $4 or $10 dollars. If the application was free, I feel disappointed and disgruntled. If it wasn't, I also feel ripped off.

But the most important part is that this whole process is repeated for every app. That is where the comparison with Starbucks breaks down: shopping for apps is fundamentally different from buying coffee at Starbucks. The comparison with movies is a lot better, because every movie is different and every movie is a gamble. Then again, movies still have more alternatives than apps: I usually go to see a movie because 1) I'm so excited about it that it doesn't matter that I'm risking a disappointment or 2) I want to spend some time relaxing with my wife and it doesn't matter that much whether the movie was good or decent, as long as it isn't godawful.

Bottom line: when it comes to purchasing apps, the reliability needs to improve. Alternately, I wouldn't mind if every paid app had a time-limited, full-feature free version. Whatever the cure, the problem has nothing to do with the quality of the goddamn coffee beans.
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There is still reasons that debit transactions should attract a charge. There is definitely still fraud risk as well as comms/infrastructure/support. 5-7% is high, but 0% is also unrealistic.
Actually, the Philippines can very easily cost as much as an average spot in the U.S. Much of the drop in cost of living here for many people comes from simplification.

Sell your car, sell your house and then give away or sell everything that you can't carry on a plane. Then move into a small apartment away from from friends and family. That's a big lifestyle change and you might save a lot of money just by doing that.

I moved abroad because I saw the chance and took it, why not? That my cost of living went way down was just an added benefit.
this is a scam which has been explained a lot of time. energy storage density of compressed air is extremely small and will be enough for only a few miles of range, no way for improvement here, and efficiency is very, very low, way lower than batteries because of the energy inevitably lost when the gas heats due to compression, then dissipates heat. forget it.
Willful ignorance.
It seems odd to me that in other countries individuals can't bring criminal cases - leaving everything to the "official" prosecutor (e.g the Procurator Fiscal here in Scotland).
Hi Eric - Firstly, thanks for the work that you do. I can always rely on nanex research to produce thoughtful and interesting discussions.

Many of the "bots" in your research seem to be adding quotes that are far away from NBBO. One theory is that these exist to provide market participants with more precise measures of their own latency - almost like echo location. They send out a pattern to the exchange, and then wait until they see it coming back on their market data feed. I think that its good for market participants to have an accurate means of measuring market data latency and that having that means ultimately enhances the efficiency of the market. Do you disagree with this stance? Is there some other better means of measuring latency that would be better for market participants to use?
Wow. This is awesome. Any way to encourage being more present with your family or whoever you are eating with is a great idea. And by doing something different, this could give them some nice publicity.
We put the Growl 2.0 SDK out, adding support for Notification Center.
We put out the Growl 2.0 SDK, which is the first version to support Notification Center. Developers can drop the framework in place and gain Notification Center support in their applications that already have Growl implemented. Developers who support Growl in their new applications will get the benefits of Growl on 10.7 and 10.6, while on 10.8 getting NC or Growl depending on the scenario.
Are you familiar with the Tesla strategy mentioned by him in a some interview?

Their goals are:

- High price low volume car.

- Medium price medium volume car.

- Low price high volume car.

They seem to be on their way.

Also the article claims he said 'It's going to be tough.' He has always been pretty straightforward with that. Check out any of his interviews.

Check out his interview after Falcon 1 failed http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/08/musk_qa

An excerpt from that:

"Wired.com: At the end of the day you're still zero for three; you have so far failed to put a rocket into orbit.

Musk: We haven't gotten into orbit, true, but we've made considerable progress. If it's an all-or-nothing proposition then we've failed. But it's not all or nothing. We must get to orbit eventually, and we will. It might take us one, two or three more tries, but we will. We will make it work.

Wired.com: How do you maintain your optimism?

Musk: Do I sound optimistic?

Wired.com: Yeah, you always do.

Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work."
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Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were having a private debate.
Why mirror it? The first-party link still works fine. https://media.defcon.org/dc-20/defcon-20-dvd-original.rar
The value of a social network is never in the technology. It's always in the users.

join.app.net is making the same mistake as diaspora, facebook, myspace, etc. You can't charge someone real money when you aren't the one providing the value.
The article has a lot of good points, I'll give it that. What rubs me the wrong way however, is that the smart person is lowering herself to the level of the people in the room.

For me, this is akin to in high school when the English teacher would tell you to write at an 8th grade level (the average reading level of an audience) when writing an essay for mass consumption. Completely aware of the elitism in the last statement, I have trouble with constantly dumbing down anything when what I really want to do is help to raise people to my level of thinking.
Shoot. I often eat with my phone on the table, but I never field a call or text - I just put it there along with my keys because it's uncomfortable to sit with it in my pocket and I usually don't wear a jacket.

I can see how just putting it there could send the wrong message, though, that I'm open to distractions. Argh. Just one more reason to get a "european carry all", I guess. Or maybe I'll just wear a jacket.
Sentencing Remarks of Judge Evans (Anton Vickerman / SurfTheChannel Case)
Regardless of this story, I find it very cool that in Brazil you can just setup your own credit card company. Are there many regional CC networks like yours in Brazil? How did you get the idea?
I'm getting capped at ~25mbits from defcon's site. I'll post a 1gbit mirror once I finish downloading.

Edit: Defcon's download is down to 3mbit or so.
It was an add-on ("Tilt" iirc) before that too.
A bit more information has come to light. A respected broadsheet newspaper here in Australia has requested some diplomatic cables under the Freedom of Information Act and reports that the Australian diplomatic service believes that the US will attempt to extradite Assange.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/us-in-pursuit-of-assange-c...
Its probably there just in case scroll detection breaks. Some browsers - specifically BlackBerry browser (v4.6 to 5.0) - support AJAX lazy loading but don't support the scroll event.
"We're going to Taco Bell for our first date, I spent my dining budget on a social app."
I've turned that off, because I tend to get notifications in my clients. There's no good Windows client yet though, so when I'm on my gaming machine and don't have my phone handy, I use the web client for tweeting, and I never notice DMs.
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The subsidies are for plug-in electric vehicles in general. They apply to other cars like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_incentives_for_plug-...
the original 1st party link is too slow. i had to wait days to get it completed.
Have you ever made it past the table of contents on the Kindle?

I find the reading experience is quite smooth. Navigation and the UI is a bit slow, but that is a secondary feature to me.
Keep in mind that 70,000,000 high school graduates in the USA are employed, while only 35,000,000 college gradates are employed. High school educated people have a long way to go before they are completely marginalized by college graduates. You make it sound like there are just a handful of high school educated people hanging on to the last jobs by the skin of their teeth, which couldn't be further from the truth.

I feel it is also important to note that the college educated gains made in this study were by people aged 25 or above. Those below that age are actually more employed with just a high school education for the first time. We can surmise from that data that experience is what has become important in the recession, which is also backed by my anecdotal experience. It is just that a degree actually did matter a decade ago, which left those without a degree lacking in the necessary experience today.
Your post is very charged.

If I am at dinner and I decide that I want to keep on top of my device (I have four children and a very busy professional life), those with me have to deal with it. Most of the time my phone is more important than the discardable conversation happening over a meal.

It doesn't make me more important than them, though maybe it means that I have different values.

I generally veer away from these sorts of conversations because they tend to be dominated by angry people who are essentially trying to control other people ("you should do this and you should do that and I will forever be judging and disapproving or approving". You don't hear people living in the real world declaring that everyone must check their phone constantly)
If you use memes on HN, you're going to have a bad time.

(They tend to be downvoted to oblivion, 'round these parts.)
The Kindle app on my phone has increased the amount I read so much. I find all these random times throughout the day where I can read another chapter in whatever book I'm reading.

Waiting for a meeting to start or standing in line? I'll read the next dozen pages in my Clojure book or the latest fiction novel I'm working on.

When I first started reading on my phone I thought the bright display and small screen would bother me. It hasn't. I've read huge novels on my phone flipping small page after small page. If anything, I feel like I read faster.
I don't speak Portuguese, but is this the contact info for visa in the region? [1]. Maybe a few letters to some choice managers there could get Visa to act a little more responsible. if not, I'd push as high as you can get in the organization to petition. There is a corporate visa page [2], there may be something useful in there. [edit] CEO is Joseph Sanders. There may be a PO box listed for him [3] at

Joseph W. Saunders
Chief Executive Officer
Visa Inc.
P.O. Box 8999
San Francisco, CA 94128-8999

phone: 650-432-3200 [4]

I had an employee that worked for me dig up the CEO contact info for a big insurance company and make a stink about a $500 charge and it was taken care of the next day. hopefully something like that will work for you.

[1] http://www.visa.com.br/Conteudo.asp?pg=7

[2] http://corporate.visa.com/index.shtml

[3] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1403161/0000000000120...

[4] http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/aspdotnet/databrowsing...

[5] google search: site:.gov joseph saunders CA

[edit]

1) Portuguese spoken in the region: sorry guys - my lack of world travel showing.

2) CEO is Joseph Sanders

3) might have found phone number
The company that owns the theater I usually end up at has a policy of asking disruptive texters to leave:

http://www.gqti.com/TheaterPolicy.aspx
Knew someone years ago who had a health food store. He had problems with people stealing product. CCTV was just starting to become common place, but was still expensive.

He found somewhere that would sell you a plastic camera body shell, with a red LED sticking out of the body that would flash periodically. It cost maybe $50, where a real one would have cost $1000+.

His losses from theft dropped to close to 0.
Looks like it might be a DVD of the Defcon 20 conference?

https://media.defcon.org/
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I have an anecdote to counter your anecdote - I have worked with a company whose apps have been regularly featured in the App Store (and beyond) due to extensive legwork by our (extremely competent) marketing folk.

The fact that the apps were incredibly well-made didn't hurt.

And this underscores the whole point - success is a probability function, it is hardly ever guaranteed. The author seems to blow this out of proportion though, and suggests the common refrain that one should just give up/get out of the game. This ignores the innumerable things you can do to improve your own odds, that others aren't doing already.

A large part of that is to make sure that your product/skill is actually good. But that is incomplete.
My main concerns with this message are:
1) Although GNU was conceived as a full operating system, without a kernel it became (in practice) the GNU Toolkit -- a collection of replacement command line tools that you could install on any Unix (style) system, in order to improve / standardize them (made the interoperability among AIX, Solaris, HP/UX, Digital/True64, etc more tolerable). Now I know this wasn't the intention, but that was mostly the reality of that time (early 90's, late 80's).

2) Although Linux is the name of a kernel, it also became a banner for a different style of free software (free vs. open source, the two have different philosophies). The Linux style seems to be OK with free and non-free software co-existing. So calling a distribution GNU/Linux sounds like the entire distribution is in line with the FSF goals. I'd rather leave the GNU title only to distributions that are 100% Free (GNU style free).

3) Back to point 1, a lot of people were brought together due to the different style (Cathedral vs. Bazaar) of Linux (the movement, not the kernel). So Linux should get recognition for more than "just a kernel".
Here's the video of the arrest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19300149
finally, some truth shed on this developer-centric bubble of a "company"
That's entirely possible, though considering the costs involved (on both sides) and the impact of the vulnerability, I'd be surprised if they weren't to mention it at least in passing if they plan to upgrade the PP.

The encoder is an even tougher one -- hotel owners in the US (it's different in some other countries) do not have the ability to update the locking information on the encoder. That means that any update on the device requires the board to be changed and then the device has to be loaded with the proper information for the hotel by Onity. That means either downtime to send in the old encoder and get it back, or that Onity has to send out a new (updated) encoder to each property and get the old one back. I can't imagine they wouldn't mention that.
It looks lame, like the Segway.

This seems to be the official teletubbie's car.

People wants something more akin a kiss ass compress air-electric kart to move in the city. Something simple, that does its job well, and fast when you need to accelerate in a hurry.

Cars are empty in the cities most of the time, make them unipersonal.
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Credit card company is generic term. In our case we are a PAT (we provide employees benefits). We never "touch" the money, your employer is, indirectly, who pays the merchants. We cannot provide loans (credit). For that, we need a lot of cash (FDIC insurances, etc)
Agree!

I doubt you'll run into this person. He isn't well known and hasn't even made his first angel investment yet. (that in itself should probably have been a clue for me to not waste my time with him...)
I just leave the desktop function turned off and use Finder and terminals. I prefer a plain black background.

Off-topic, but I will say it again anyway: I really wish I could disable all window decoration and personalize the way windows are managed like you can in many X11 window managers.

( I miss using compiz standalone on Arch. )
When I'm dining with someone, and I realize that I'm being rude and looking at my phone, I will put the phone on the table -- face down -- as a sign that I am consciously putting the phone away. The other people can see that I'm not able to discretely look at my phone, and that it doesn't rule me. If the phone was face up, I can see how people would think my attention is being diverted to whatever incoming text/msg is on my phone.
OP here. This is a nights and weekends product that's the result of turning my own small, private time tracking and invoicing tool into my first launched product. I've had a blast building this; I'm looking forward to any feedback the community can provide.
And yet Tata are a huge, well-known international.

If they say they have an air-powered car, they have an air-powered car. This isn't just some dude in their garage.
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this is still manual. This is the exact problem markup wand solves.. isnt it :)
<rant type="indignant" intensity="105%">

Mind your own damn business and I'll do the same. If I'm carrying a phone to a nice restaurant, it's because I'm on call. No, I do not raise my voice to talk, because I've mastered the arcane art known as "volume settings".

If my phone rings, there's a high likelihood I won't be there for long anyways. And in the meantime, if me texting at my own table bothers you, or a couple of low volume buzzes bother you, I highly suggest you disinvolve yourself in the actions of other people's personal lives. Failing that, I invite you to attempt airborne fornication with a gyrating piece of pastry.

</rant>

More on topic, how much do you want to bet this is just an excuse to raise prices by 5%? Furthermore, the day I give my phone away to some random in a restaurant is the day I've taken full leave of my senses.
I think this is exactly what the electric motor does: compress the air if you run low.
> As an 8-bit nerd I'd love to return to the days when there was, basically, just one language onboard the computer, and all vendors just used it. :)

Oh, like a Lisp machine. ;)

(Be careful what you wish for, though; the 'one language to rule them all' world was essentially why ADVENT was written in FORTRAN of all languages.)

(Also: Was it ever just one language? Eight-bit systems always had BASIC and assembly language; for a lot of tasks, assembly language was pretty much it, unless you bought a Pascal compiler or something. Lisp machines had Lisp written in the normal way, Lisp written in an obscure way to improve performance, and microcode. Even old AS/400 systems had COBOL and RPG, which is rather a pick-your-poison dilemma but the choice was there.)
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You are talking about ETFs, while patio11 is talking about index funds
they are a smart team. im sure they will get there soon, if they dont do it now.
You've misread me.

I don't expect everything to get cheaper because of the dollar. I do expect some things to. And they haven't.

Stuff is more expensive in Australia because there are fewer of us. The market is smaller, there's less competition and less economies of scale. Mix in the odd combination of almost unlimited land and almost unlimited restrictions on land release and you can see why just about everything in this country is, dollar or no dollar, more expensive than the USA.
Small correction, but Brazilians generally speak Portuguese, not Spanish (for that reason, as well as a few important others such as its size, Brazil is commonly considered a distinct market from the rest of Latin America)
I was asking those who think app.net solves a problem which problem it solves; that includes at least the person who seemed to imply (I'm not sure if they did) it does, as well as anyone else. And it may even include you; feel free to give it a shot. Just not interested in reasons for not answering it - lack of responses does the same in less bytesize.
Sorry Dan Shipper and other coders, you are wrong.
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Maybe I'm not reading it right, but it says it depends on jQuery and accepts selectors or jQuery objects, not DOM elements.
You're correct that the script tag will not show. However, we train our testers to use special characters, including < and >, in their test data. It happens that the environment in which we spotted the vulnerability was our QA environment.