skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://bankofamerica.truecar.com/main.html

This. you can price, including out of state, etc. for in-demand models w/ price markups or inventory issues, this can be an eye opener. they e-mail you an invoice. that locks in a price. the prices are pretty decent, and benchmarked to invoice.
The real work-horses are actually Kamailio and Sems, which are quite little known but power a LOT of your ISPs' VoIP systems.

Provisioning is built on top of Apache/Perl/Catalyst with a MySQL backend. The billing system is in C and Perl, and the Media Relay is in C with an own kernel module on top of iptables.

Asterisk is pretty insignificant, but it's surely the best known part in the VoIP world.
"More retina" is meaningless: the whole pointer is that it's indistinguishable from normal use distance.

You can say "higher resolution", or even "retina when held closer to the face", but "more retina" really is nonsense!
I run it in Windows via msysgit without issue (need nodejs and npm). It's pretty easy to get up and running quickly.
Good luck! This has to be tough (I've seen a fair number of HSM and key management related failures; sucks how security and reliability are sometimes at odds...)

Please put a full postmortem on the Internet (and ideally describe what hardware went wrong AND how you'll prevent it in the future) once you've finished immediate recovery. I'd suggest it come from VP Eng, CEO, or Founder level people.

If you can make a credible case for why this won't recur, it shouldn't have a long-term negative effect on the business. (A vendor who had a problem and learned from it is often safer than a vendor who had no problems and has just bene lucky...)
Seems plausible. What about if you record a 15 minute video about their services, how great they are, why you are or are not using them, and why other people are using them. Then reach out to their pr + info@ + founder emails and give them your thoughts. Then perhaps they will look into what you can provide and take "the ball in their court" and come to help out.

If anything, it proves that you are serious about providing value and eyeballs to their services.

Good luck!
It think it's trying to head off customers who complain about the black bars around their 720p videos.
If you design for them it is, although I can't say the knowledge means you are or aren't a technical person in any way.
What new IPS displays? Aren't they still using the OLED/ClearBack screen?
Nokia's giving away Qt was the final sign of their move towards the road of no return. It was good for Qt though, since Nokia has no interest in it anymore and could only hinder any progress. Nokia is history now.
I have always liked the Lumia series. But its becoming a pain to decide to support all these new devices and operating systems for my small little app. Way too many of these OS versions and form factors to worry/think about.
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Most costumers don't yes. But tech savvy ones do.
'The article starts "A baby born in the U.S. this year is likely to live to blow out 78 birthday candles . . . " That would mean he or she would make it to age 12.'

I like this comment :)
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The Lumia phones really need to be held in the hand to appreciate the design. There are a few salient points:

- The colors are fantastic, the palette is incredibly vibrant without being gaudy.

- Despite the bright colors, the material feels high-quality and not plasticky, which is the fate that usually befalls brightly colored consumer electronics. The texture of the colored bits is really, really good - better than anything HTC or Samsung is fielding, IMO.

- The curvature of the device feels very natural in the hand, moreso than IMO most phones - particularly Motorola phones that feels very front-heavy and too-thin.

- The glass front feels like glass, unlike, say, Samsung's phones. My Galaxy Nexus's glass feels very distinctly plasticky, almost like a thin film has been deposited on top (and I suppose it might actually be just that).

- There's a comfortable heft to it that subtly reminds you that it's supposed to be an upmarket device, similar to iPhone, and dissimilar to Samsung's flagship phones, which feel too light to be taken seriously.
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Too many metaphors. I really don't understand what you're saying.
Speaking of pricing games, apparently the WSJ need look no further than itself.
I would characterize that more as a function of a diversifying and growing economy than a diminishment. The pie got much larger, so land holders' relative position diminished, but their absolute wealth still increased. An acre of land in medieval Paris exchanges for far less wealth than the same acre in 2012 Paris, even though the social status it conveys has diminished.

Furthermore, while I like the concept of not owning anything, I suspect that won't be remotely feasible until we engineer energy sources that provide 2+ orders of magnitude more energy than we currently consume, for 2+ orders of magnitude less cost. Holding onto material goods is another way of expressing an economic preference to not have to expend the energy it required to obtain the goods in the first place.
Agreed. I think a better analogy would be comparing this situation to being a squatter and seeing a real estate agent sign in the yard of the house you've been squatting in. You realize that you only have a short amount of time to leech off the work of others before it is cut off.
In the second video they use a van to record, not a bike, look at 0:27 glass reflection.

With a ban I could also get stable shots.

Trying to fool customers, they are so desperate.
Logical vs
"Organic matter" always makes me think of "fertilizer" or "compost" (ha ha). But I do like the ID designwork Nokia have done.

I don't see how the new phones will change the game for them, though; they're incrementally better than the old ones (apparently as is the software).
At the very least it seems like the system would benefit from a graduated-tier of trust. Once you've demonstrated to them that you're very likely to have the licenses for your content, it seems the burden of proof and benefit of the doubt ought to shift in your favor.
It seems like they'd be in a whole lot more stores, and in front of a whole lot more eyes, if they just worked with dealerships. It is a lot like how many phones and other devices have attempted to get sold online without a lot of success compared to something that is actually placed in Verizon and other carriers' stores and sold to millions. Will they "lose" a ton of money if they let these middlemen play? Sure, but they will sell a lot more too.
I don't disagree that they're probably a major contributor, but the first statin came on the market in 1987 (Mevacor, by Merck), and the line is well on the down-slope by that point. In fact, more than half its drop (for US data) comes before that point.
Well, yes. The thing is, it is practically impossible to trust a stranger service for writing/jotting-down thoughts on a service like this. It is simply hard to build and depend on it (you gave an example of Posterous - it was something I stopped trusting within few months).

I don't know about the technical solutions, but the way Branch currently integrates with Twitter, the way you can be conversing on Branch and still your conversation spills over Twitter...is what I have in mind in terms of this type of simple blogging service. The paragraph or couple of sentences should spill over to Twitter, and/or the Tweets should spill over to this type of service. All this not necessarily in a way it is currently setup by other platforms (like Wordpress, you can cross-post blogs to Twitter) but something naturally with least effort and distraction.

Am I making sense? There may be some services out there providing this experience, but ... anyways.
This business model allows Tesla to be incredibly agile in a slow moving marketplace.

With the current auto market, there is a lull between what consumers want and the production facility. Remember when Ford was cranking out SUV's and then the economy tanked, gas prices went through the roof and nobody wanted SUV's anymore? Ford's plants were still producing SUV's and shipping them to dealers who didn't want them and couldn't sell them. They were taking a huge loss on every one of those Explorer's they produced.

Tesla's model allows them to change much faster to the needs of the consumer, without wasting a lot of production costs and overhead. I think the time is right for a huge disruption in this industry.
I suspect they'll look better in the flesh.
The original paper presenting it earlier this year:

http://www.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/8000...

"The Nokia PureView Pro imaging technology is the combination of a large, super high resolution 41Mpix with high performance Carl Zeiss optics. The large sensor enables pixel oversampling, which will be explained in detail in this paper but in a nutshell it means the combination of many pixels into one perfect pixel. PureView imaging technology is the result of many years of research and development and the tangible fruits of this work are amazing image quality, lossless zoom, and superior low light performance."

So yeah, PureView vs PureView Pro or something. Still feels more like widening a brandname used on something that got people excited.
I don't get the point of centering it. Why not just open a second VIM window to use the space up?
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You don't need to stream to the US, it's purely optional in this modern day and age. The US is not the be-all-to-end-all of audiences.
Simple and great service! I read it every morning. I know it's critical to keep it simple and easy to read, though I'd love to have the weather forecast for the day as well.
I was in the airport last week sitting near a little fog-tornado machine and guess which age group was curious enough to go over to it and mess with it? Only the kids.

Maybe that's because we "grumpy old men" have seen the vortices elsewhere at other science museums and more than a few in real life? Maybe the kids weren't playing with their phones because they didn't have any?

Over time we get too world-weary and cynical.

The weariness is very much physical. As I've progressed into my 40s, I've had more and more difficulty finding the energy to code as long and into the night. I'm not looking forward to my energy levels as I move toward my 50s.

No, the good thing about aging is that it's nice for natural evolution. If the old monkeys hadn't grown old and died, they would have dominated the young monkeys and had no real pressure to produce heirs.

Once we mankind can control the degeneration of aging and take control of our own genetic modifications, the "grumpy old men" will dominate society with their knowledge and experience in ways that currently aren't possible... well, until the robot overlords rise up from our home networks and kill us all.
Interesting. This reminds me of a bug from a couple years ago. Apple used to leave a big unencrypted swap file on disk, so you would open up single user mode and search for string related to login and there would usually be a cache of logins and passwords in the clear. Apple fixed this bug by removing the swap file, among other things. But it turns out that there are ways to enable a dev representing virtual memory with some kernel hacking, that does something similar as the swap.

This vulnerability is fairly similar in that it involves scouring memory, is somewhat more sophisticated since it requires some decryption, but is less powerful since it relies on memory being intact, whereas the most common, illicit way to gain root access is by single user mode, which usually obliterates much memory. But it would be interesting to test--to preserve memory it would be best to set boot flags for single user and then restart as opposed to rebooting (presumably this would cut power to memory for a shorter period of time, thereby better preserving its contents).
None of the current theme colors are hard to read, even "pink" and "teal". I think in real life they're more careful about readability. And they're focusing on new colors because a lot of people were frustrated that there were only 2 (now 4) colors of the Lumia 900.
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Charge yearly a X%(go figure it out what works best) of what you would charge one-time.

Charging a one-time fee is evil for the customer with common sense. If your service stops growing, what about the customers that already paid for it?

You don't pay for updates in a SaaS app as it's in the cloud, so... I can only truly see a recurring model working. UNLESS you know very well your userbase and you know very deeply it's the only model that would work.
I work on a smartphone OS for a living (Boot2Gecko) and yet, I have no idea what the pixel count on my Galaxy Nexus (my personal phone) is, or that of the last two phones I owned (Samsung Focus and HTC HD7). It's not something I care to know about my phone; all I care about is that it looks sharp.
The original contention is that it is the absolute (useful) peak of screen resolution, as in, at the distance the screen is normally viewed from, the individual pixels are imperceptible to the human eye, and adding more will not result in any perceptible difference.

Similar to print media, where beyond a certain dpi your eyes just can't tell the difference if you added more dots.
Good idea! I'm definitely going to ping the companies I listed, but I hadn't thought about a video.
This article lacks one important piece of context:

The Roadster has a base price of US$109,000 in the United States, GB£86,950 in the United Kingdom, A$191,888 in Australia, and €84,000 in continental Europe.[5]

Yes, the showroom in Chelsea is "Cool". But its like any other Art gallery, with hot underpaid 23 year olds staring blankly at iMacs. Ie, its just another White Cube. With a car parked inside.
> My point was that Exchange is not compliant enough to be usable from a non-Outlook email client.

Well, you kind of have a point there. I use Apple mail and iCal against our corporate Exchange, but when I have to schedule a meeting, I either have to log into the Windows terminal server or use the outlook web interface to do it reliably.

It would be nice if there were an RFC for calendaring protocols, even if that RFC was just codifying Exchange.
> The iPhone purchasing cycle is very cyclical

I agree. It's also very critical. What we need is a competitor to time-strategize and release a competitive handset at the same time as the iPhone flagship so that consumers don't have a clear choice. We keep giving Apple the all-clear to continue with it's vicious cycle.
Interesting...oh right...I can see why you would get more replies. That's a good idea.

Looking for smaller niches where the respondents won't get 200 replies - is probably a better use case.

That's interesting.
In the US, it is a cost issue. Pennies cost too much to make and people tend to lose them.

I wish the US would get rid of the penny and nickel and go to a one decimal digit system instead of two. It would be better to go to 12 -> 1 just because of divisors (10: 1, 2, 5 or 12: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6). Much better for dividing food bills.
The statement was concise and clear. You are reading into it.
My dad, mom and sis know what Mpx camera they have on their phones. And my mom and dad are no way close to being tech savvy. What the number means is a whole different question. But if you don't know that in your phone, you cannot begin to say that you are tech savvy.
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The chart is derived from nonsense too. The article is sourced from an "Analyst". Analyst is a fancy title for a pundit who is paid to have an opinion by some industry figure. In this case, most likely Samsung.

These analysts post "reports" that show the company is winning, and the company uses those reports to try and drum up sales.

Meanwhile the "analysts" send press releases to blogs who then report the results as if they were fact like this.

It is usually only years later (if ever) that the real results come out.

Only Apple reports its iPhone unit sales. Samsung, for instance, does not.

It wasn't until the lawsuit with Apple that they were forced to give up these numbers, and they were very anemic. (while at the time "analysts" were saying they were kicking butt.)

This is just hype being spread by a blog that is trying to make it look like android is "winning". None of the android makers report real sales numbers, including Amazon (so we don't know how many fires have been sold, whether it is a success or not.)
Looking at the chart, the only things that have significantly changed are heart disease, birth defects and perinatal conditions of newborns.
They do indeed have marginally higher PPI, but they, understandably, didn't mention it in spec sheet. Because it's just lame to brag about 2 more PPI. Although I think it is impressive that they have achieved it in a screen that is 1 inch larger then iPhone's.
My employer uses exchange, and I use Apple Mail and iCal to connect. It works perfectly. (Exchange provides an proprietary connection between the server and the client. It also supports IMAP, but many admins don't enable that. It's server to server connections are fully interoperable.)
Sidenote on marketing: this is probably an amazing screen, but the gadgetmarketspeak designation of "Pure Motion HD+" makes me tune out instantly.

The cleverness of "retina display" was that a single explanatory sentence told you everything you need to know - this phone has better resolution than your eyes can fully perceive.

"Pure Motion HD+" means nothing to me - is that better or worse than 'true HD'? (For that matter, was the original just plain 'HD' actually fake HD?)

I had the unfortunate experience of trying to gauge displays at Best Buy yesterday, where machines in the same category would variously have resolution designations from "1280x800" to "SXGA" to "True HD" to nothing whatsoever, depending on what they thought sounded best, and the cumulative effect was that I felt less aware of my purchase options looking at the actual machines than simply checking opinions on Newegg.

I can't imagine trying to navigate that process as a consumer with other priorities in life. And they wonder why Apple has such healthy profit margins in comparison...
But the brakes have been on sales for a while, as we have known that the latest windows phone software won't work on the existing Lumia phones.
My comment was not clear on what I meant by pixel count, but if you had read the parent, you would know that I was talking about the camera Mpx count and not screen resolution. I don't know the latter exactly either.
Yes, it's most likely not rational, but to me it feels like being tricked, if the price changes every few minutes. I prefer a little reliability.
This is a big release and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. That said, the next big launch coming up will involve a design refresh for both web and mobile. I'm meeting with our designers later today and hope to ship the best looking, most intuitive news reader within the next couple months.

Here's the iPad app splash page: http://www.newsblur.com/ipad

And here's the source code to the iPad app: http://github.com/samuelclay
Their site is linked from their Vimeo page:

http://www.2dream-animation.com/
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I'm glad someone else sees the difference between the engineering of working software and the "process nattering" that seems to make up official "software engineering" as far as I can tell.

You do miss a couple of steps in the feedback loop:

1. "The 'high level' people at the start of the process have a built-in bias against iterative solutions."

2. "A built-in predilection to overdesign as they try to get everything right the first time."

3. The wild-ass guesses that make up the overdesign prove to be completely wrong.

4. The project fails miserably or succeeds, miserably.

5. The "high level" people perceive software as "very expensive", reinforcing their biases.
> It would be nice if there were an RFC for calendaring protocols, even if that RFC was just codifying Exchange.

Like CalDAV:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV
Inane length stats for their answers:

Romney:

* Words: 5,031

* Paragraphs: 70

Obama:

* Words: 3,242

* Paragraphs: 35
Should have ordered from element14 -- 4 day delivery time for me. I also heard that mcm electronics is pretty fast too. You should be blaming the distributors, not RPi. There are many distributors, so choose one that doesn't suck.
Yeah, makes me think the opposite. When you talk about it, it sounds like they don't care about design (or maybe even don't know what design is.)

Nokia has made good products in the past, and I do hope they will succeed in out designing Apple.

But I'll wait til I see it.
As an auto enthusiasts I absolutely love this idea. I recently purchased a new speciality car last year (2012 Jeep SRT8) and I must of said at least 10 times during the process that I wish there was a way to circumvent the dealer. Dealing with car dealers is one of the most fundamentally broken experiences I have ever witnessed.

Ready to drop $65k on a new vehicle I walk into a dealer and the first thing that happens is the sales man walks me to a desk, pulls out a piece of paper and starts asking questions and writing "whats your name?, how much do you want to spend per month?, what is credit like?, we can offer you really great financing." I had to interrupt him to explain that I just wanted to have a normal conversation first to even see if he could get the car. Turns out they couldn't.

After many other slimy conversations with car dealers (and being hassled in the parking lot before I even walked in the door) I finally found a dealer that was willing to special order the car I wanted at the price I wanted. I waited 4 months for the car and 2 weeks before it was ready to arrive a the dealer they called to tell me they didn't want to sell it to me for that price anymore and they were going to sell it for $10,000 over MSRP. Long story short, I had to threaten legal action just to be able to buy the car that I had put a deposit on and waited for 4 months for.

This is not the first terrible experience I have had with buying cars. The "car sales man" attitude is fundamentally wrong. About 80% of the sales people that I talked to at dealerships did not even know about the car I wanted to buy, mentioned the wrong engine or did not even know it existed.

I'm waiting for the day that I can just click "buy now" online and purchase a car with Zappos-like customer support at one fair, up front, low price without all the bullshit in between.
This was also available for my Volvo XC90 when I bought it, though I didn't do it.
On phone... Short reply.
Life expectancy since 40 increased at a rate comparable to expectancy since birth. That is, we've made huge gains in keeping ppl alive even starting from age 40.
Yea, we're talking with a few people who've done this before. Once we get the the license choice squared away, right now we're discussing MIT vs AGPL, we'll publicly launch the source. If you, or anybody else reading this, wants early access, send me an email s@lambdal.com.
I felt the WP7 icons looked 'ok' until I saw/used them in person. The movement aspects of the tiles, personally, are important to the overall feel of the home screen. I really liked the tile interface after using it (so much so I switch to a WP).
If by "marketing" you mean "understanding what the market really wanted and then making it", then I agree.
I don't think so. Their site says:

Display: 4.5 inch Nokia PureMotion HD+ WXGA IPS LCD, Super Sensitive touch, Nokia ClearBlack with high brightness mode and Sunlight Readability Enhancements

http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/05/video-introducing-...
Not a Windows Phone user, but have used several and liked them fine - is it really any more boring than the iOS home screen?