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Is there any process for bring American-made cars into Europe tax-free?

Also, I've heard that you can get quite a deal on Japanese imported cars into Europe if you know what you're doing. They've some strict regulations which adds to the cost of owning a secondhand car, meaning that they look to sell off cars quicker than other countries.

But there is another factor here that determines what you’re buying in the secondhand car market: the notorious “shaken.” This consists of all the bits of bureaucracy you need to keep your car on the road — weight tax, vehicle inspection and compulsory insurance (car tax and more comprehensive insurance coverage are separate). If you buy a new car, you have three years until you need to jump through the hoops and start forking over cash. After that, you have to do it every two years, and it can easily cost you over 100,000 yen each time.

The end result of this is that people tend to sell their cars when the “shaken” runs out. Dealers will usually arrange “shaken” so that potential buyers have two years to go — a big selling point in the secondhand market. The upshot of all this is that used cars will usually be available when they are 3, 5, 7, 9, or 11 years old. So the first thing you want to check is the length of “shaken” left.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/buying-a-u...

Anyone have experience of importing Japanese cars to Europe?
If you like this, you might like Dungeon Raid even more. Similar idea: puzzle match, dungeon-crawl theme. But much more addictive, and deeper.

EDIT: fixed the name
I had not realized that I was not the emperor of the United States. I appreciate you cluing me in on the situation. It would have made for awkward conversation at my High School reunion when people ask what I do for a living now-a-days :p

And I ask: what is your point? Do you disagree with any of the points I have made? I am talking about a specific concept of a "cookie law".

I am not talking about the generalities of privacy and security, which you are. I have never stated that I think the government has zero role in the area of digital privacy and security.

Do you have a specific point to make?
What do you mean by extend the twitter? As in post the first part of the article on their behalf?

I was thinking of something like that, but wanted to make the use case as general as possible so people can decide how they want to use it. Maybe I'm wrong :S
I'm sure lots of successful companies are started by the over-40 group. They have lots of connections, business experience, and don't take huge risks. That's a formula for "success" without innovation. It's been HP's and Xerox's formula for years.
I thought the inventor of Email was this guy: http://www.inventorofemail.com/
This is a tremendous essay, and well worth the read. But please for the love of god use correct titles! This piece already has a name, and given that it was named by the man who wrote it - let's use his title.

For a brief, and cruel second you led me to believe that George Orwell had written a piece called "How to Write".
In sales, or how exactly?
The 920 has an 8Mp camera. I got the same feeling from all the blogs covering the event. They all talked about it through a "doubtful" lens. I kept seeing expression like "I gotta admit it's actually nice" and "this might actually be worth owning" that clearly states their Apple/Android affiliation.

I used to be an Android fan but after using the Lumia 820 for a month (unlocking it for a friend), going back to a Galaxy left me a bit sad. After WP, Android seem childish and overly hard to keep uncluttered over time.

I just hope the 920 won't be too expensive otherwise I'm gonna have to deal with samsung for another 2 years :(
I would buy a Nokia Android. Awesome hardware, great software. Windows 8 on a Nokia is like taking a camel to a horse race.
Twitter auth didn't work for me.
My father is also a math professor, but not a web design expert. At age 13 I made him a now somewhat embarrassing website for one of his trips, that looks pretty similar to that one. My dad still has it posted (17 years later). It's not because he likes the aesthetics of a 13 year old girl, he likes that the information is accessible and is a path of least resistance kind of guy.
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My understanding is that it costs @$3000 USD in order to have the "privilege" of taking European Delivery of a Porsche. BMW is currently claiming up to 7% cost savings[1], as is Mercedes[2]. Volvo advertises up to 8% savings, but they also pay for the plane ticket[3]. Audi offers a program , too, and according to this blog you save up to 5%[4].

[1] http://www.bmwusa.com/Standard/Content/Experience/Events/Eur...

[2] http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/european_delivery_program/excl...

[3] http://www.volvocars.com/us/sales-services/sales/volvo_overs...

[4] http://audieurodelivery.com/ed-faq
It is not easy to provide those numbers because there are no standards for battery tests. 2.5 hours of what? Browsing? Video playback? What level of brightness? In an area of weak signal or perfect signal?
I'm going to guess at:

* Let the public markets know there's something good in the pipeline to keep the stock price as a decent level

* Let the distributors / carriers know (+ no worries about leaks)

* In some ways, it's better than the alternative of a leak, where all the marketing messages come from some crappy blurry cam mixed with a bunch of fake images

I agree it's a little risky from the consumer's POV. Bear in mind a couple things though:

* Even for consumers, when it gets released, they feel more positive towards a product they've heard of previously

* It's possible that the interest will be maintained over that period, although this is a stretch for anyone that isn't amazing at marketing.
Yeah I didn't think there were any dotcoms available with such common words.
Indeed, I will most likely be pre-ordering the new iPhone at some point next week. If this phone were going to be out any time soon I may have given it a second thought.
note that it's just advertisement for a free+commercial solution based on Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org/)

It makes the setup and maintenance easy, basically.

Personally I use Asterisk with all the standard SIP clients (CSIPSimple on Android for example)
I don't have a smartphone, so I'm not the target market here.

But to me, it looks like a yellow iPhone running Windows. What have they "out designed Apple" on?

Are there subtle smartphone features I'm missing out on?
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I like the problem you're trying to solve, and I think you're on the right track, but this doesn't really work for me.

- The name is obnoxious. Highlighting the events you've been to is somewhat interesting, but implicitly claiming that paying to go to some conference gives you higher social status is lame.

- Too many items. If I were hiring someone would I really want to read through all that? Maybe, but not at first glance.

- Organizing items by the date they were started / completed isn't especially compelling to me. I don't really care how busy you are, I just want to see the most interesting things you've done period.

- It's not clear whether or not you can choose your own categories of what to add based on the front page, and presumably you can't since they each have their own unique icon. This is a problem, because what I would want to highlight about myself wouldn't fit especially well into these categories.
Damn! Thanks for letting me know. Can you tell me what, if anything, it says?
I don't know that you can separate marketing from making great products as causes of Apple's success. I think both are needed.
BSD is a funny beast in that almost know one is required to contribute anything except a license attribution in their code. Apple doesn't contribute anything to BSD because you really can't, there is no one to answer to. All you can do is stamp the license on your code and other BSD forks may use it.
The only thing Asterisk does in our system is acting as a voicemail server.
Is that documented anywhere?
Why mention it? Isn't retina just an Apple specific marketing term for a high resolution screen?
They've had a showroom like this in DC for some time. I walk past it all the time. I don't think I've ever seen a customer in there.
> I'm tech savvy and I still don't know why having a 8MP camera makes pictures look any better?

It means you need a slightly larger SD card, to store all the sensor noise.
The camera's selling point is the optical image stabilization which counters camera shake at low light, slow shutter
shots. That sounds very good...
I would say it's easier to provide numbers when there are no standards; just make up your own tests (see "Smoked by Windows Phone").
It was a huge time sink. I stopped blogging when my mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and getting away from "trying to be popular on the internet" gave me the distance to see that I wasn't getting anything out of it.

I also changed jobs to something more interesting and now that's where I put my passion instead of a hobby.
That's what I used to think too... until I actually owned a Lumia by chance. Now I'm rooting for them because I know I won't get that quality from other manufacturers without buying and Apple product. PS: I'd rather chop off one of my testicles than do that.
How long did it take for the traditional post office to die? It didn't die even after the arrival of FedEx or DHLs.

Email is a basic and all inclusive communication method. People later on have added and tagged along their businesses to ride on the same method. Those who are facebooking, tweetering, chatting, texting, etc, are still communicating on the same basic principle which binds the email.

However, headlines like "email will never die" or "email is dead" are as stupid as they can be.
You said "Guess what: Your digital security and privacy is your responsibility." and then later you referred to "the small minority of people, like many here, who are hyper vigilante about digital privacy." Those are just your opinions and characterizations and they don't have anything to do with cookies.
Leaking everything before the actual event happened was a huge mistake. No surprise during the event, no excitement, no clapping on features announcement... The event looked and sounded boring when what they were actually announcing was cool.
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It appears to be based on Asterisk, with Mysql and Apache.
> A purely OO programmer mostly in .Net land sees one cute JS trick example and declares Namespaces obsolete?

Yep.

The majority of "X is obsolete" or "Y is the way of the future" blog posts are like this. HN loves to be bleeding edge, so anything saying "out with the old" gets submitted here.
Reading people in internet poker means using a HUD plus drawing distinctions based on how long they wait before making a move. That's it.
The charts show plainly that either in the United States, or in OECD countries

http://www.oecd.org/general/listofoecdmembercountries-ratifi...

as a whole, life expectancy is going up throughout the human age span. Life expectancy at birth is up quite a lot over the decades shown in the charts, but life expectancy at ages 40, 60, 65, and 80 have also increased.

The New England Journal of Medicine has a free access article from earlier this year (to celebrate its 200th anniversary)

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1113569

with much information on changes in mortality in the United States over the last two centuries.

The current prediction by demographers who specialize in life expectancy research is that a girl born after the year 2000 in a developed country has a 50:50 chance of personally living to the age of 100.

http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/projects_publications/publicatio...

http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2010/humanlongevity....

http://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/projects_publications/publicatio...

(I'm glad for that news on my daughter's behalf.) That's based on steady improvement in mortality and morbidity outcomes across the age span in those countries, and what can reasonably be expected simply from more thorough provision of existing preventive treatments and treatments of acute and chronic diseases. Already it is hard for twenty-first century Americans to remember that once even kings and queens had many children die in early childhood from communicable diseases, and someday it will be difficult to remember that children ever died from much besides volitional human behavior (accidents, suicide, or homicide), with even those causes of death being in decline.

AFTER EDIT:

Several of the other comments in this thread refer to cancer mortality rates. An excellent article by a cancer researcher, "Why haven’t we cured cancer yet?"

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/why-havent-we-...

which was submitted to HN when it was first put on the Web, discusses the several reasons why cancer mortality has declined only a little over the last few decades, despite much research devoted to finding more effective treatments for cancer and preventive measures against cancer.
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One of the guys who built Bootstrap actually built Foundation previously when he was at Zurb. Blanking on his name right now.
When I hear something like "only young people work on computers", I envision someone in their 70s who thinks their grandkids are tech wizards because they can program the DVR. Actually being in the field, it's more about young people being cheap. Can't afford five experienced engineers? Hire one and four interns. My best advice is to solve expensive problems. This works regardless of age.
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Good God! who did you order from? I placed an order with RS in May and got it about a month later. 20 weeks is simply unreasonable. I'd cancel and look at another fulfillment company.
Number of units they will sell.
The things a poor founder will do...
"maintains no business presence in a state"

Amazon's recently experiences with sales tax collection shows that a motivated government will keep its eye out for "business presence" and then regulate when it becomes politically useful. Freedom's just another word for something too small to bother regulating.
I stopped reading at the cancer reference. What a joke.
The 900 was their last flagship Lumia device so, as this model is the next generation they've incremented the number.
I've looked into this with regards to Tesla (I'm on the fence about if I want to buy one or not).

I'm in Toronto, they're opening up a dealership in a mall ("Yorkdale" for the locals) and they have one service centre in each major city they operate in (Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto). The sales person told me they plan on opening more.

You pay $600 once a year for maintenance & service. Additionally, your car is constantly phoning home to alert Tesla HQ if something looks awry.
Apple also applied for a trademark for "retina display".
Looks different and something I would want to grab and use. But honestly, Windows Phone layout is just boring. After I used it for a few times, I wouldn't want to pick it back up.
Had the exact same thought while watching the conference. The problem does not come from the hardware, it comes from the software.
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This article is mostly counting angels on pins given that Nokia has months and not years left, but their Lumia hardware designs really are excellent.

They're beautifully tapered, the colors are distinctive, and the feel in the hand is lovely. I wasn't delighted with the sicky Pentile displays they used for the first run, but the new IPS displays should put that to bed. They're strongly reminiscent of the 2nd Generation iPod Nano, one of the most fantastic pieces of Apple design.

Despite all of Nokia's profound failures in the last few years, they found a distinctive and appealing design for their "flagship" phones that didn't mindlessly ape the market leader and they should be commended.
I once used an auto broker to help me purchase a very specific used car and it was probably the best used car buying experience I've ever had. Zero drama. Very civilized. Maybe I could have saved a little bit of money by finding the car myself and being a hardball negotiator, but there's a value in keeping the part of your soul that dies when you interact with a car salesman.
It's actually a bump around 1981 or so, and then a sharp decline, followed by a resurgence in 1985.

It seems to occur in the "Heart and Circulatory Disease" category.

I'm not sure what this translates to specifically, but if they are classifying AIDS deaths as a "circulatory disease" and not pneumonia, it could be that.

There was also a severe famine in Africa in the 80's. Do you die of a heart attack if you are starving? Not sure.

It could also just be the pattern of heart disease/healthy living/research was playing out... notice that afterwards, the category accounts for decreasing amounts of death.
Organic things like trees and such are well known for their smooth glass surfaces and straight edges. Be careful if you put one of these phones down in a park, you might lose track of it among any nearby sticks. :)

This goes beyond distortion and well into redefinition.
NewsBlur (YC S12) launches iPad app, aims to compete with Google Reader
What "exponential growth curves"? People used to think population was exponential back in 1798 [0] before they had enough data. Now we know population is logistic [1], which looks like an exponential on the left side of the curve but flattens out on the right; you can see a very clear divergence from the exponential if you look at real data [2]. Human population growth passed its peak (annual growth of 1.1% down from 2.2% in the 60s; numerical growth of 75 mil down from 88 mil in the 80s [3]) and is on the way to leveling out at around 9 billion, or about 20% more than today's population [4]. Things that go along with population -- like waste production -- are, obviously, also not exponential.

Worrying about the consequences of exponential growth curves is like worrying that a potted plant is going to consume your entire house by the end of the month because it went from seed to sprout in just a few days. The only reason the "exponential" myth persists is scaremongering and willful ignorance.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_Po...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#In_ecology:_m...

[2] http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/Kurzweil_files/image...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth#Human_populat...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growt...
Seconding this. It's an utterly engrossing dollar game that ate huge chunks of my summer.
>>Right now HackerNews and Reddit are top notch. But they too will die eventually.

You haven't even read the article.
And it still remains to be seen if it sticks this time. Funny how "innovation" works like this.
The video is good. Tried to find a site of who did it, but could only get a Vemeo page. Maybe you can get some supplemental income on creating them a site to sell their videos.
V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai: "As a high school student in 1978, he developed an electronic mail system, which he called "EMAIL".

Ray Tomlinson: "In the fall of 1971, Tomlinson sent the first network email".
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"monkeys mindlessly following a script" -- social engineering is a script that is ridiculously successful at achieving its goals.

Humans are always the weakest link.

What's ironic is that if it hadn't been for all the FUD in the 90s against PGP, maybe PGP signing of messages to verify identity would have become the norm for email and it would be much more difficult to spoof.

I wonder if anyone has ever thought of an option in gmail/googleplus for supporting PGP?
What about http://vooza.com/ ?
What does retina mean? Can you explain to us?

Do we really need a term for "high PPI"? If iPhone 4 is retina, then what is Xperia S? It is certainly not retina, because it would be insulting to call it retina when its pixels are even more indistinguishable. What about Galaxy Nexus? It is 316 PPI, slightly less than iPhone. Is it enough for being retina or not? Who determines?
Since we're on the topic, there's also Tributary if you're doing d3 stuff. http://enjalot.com/
It's entirely plausible that antisec could have obtained the Apple UDIDs elsewhere, as part of an orchestrated attempt to embarrass the FBI.

But its also possible that the FBI is simply in deny mode, which isn't surprising considering it's the FBI. Either way you look at it, Apple UDIDs were stolen somehow; the data did not magically pop out of thin air.
I ordered from RS. At this point, I don't even care anymore. I won't be doing business with them again, and I likely won't ever order another RPi. I was terribly excited for it, but it's been so long since I put down the commitment that the thrill is gone. My cousin ordered a couple weeks after I did and he got his in June. I've just doubled down on Arduino instead.
One that has succeeded, and more people know what it means than "High PPI". I'd say leap on it, and argue in court that people don't associate it with Apple, they associate it with not noticing pixels.
It was a "well done visual," and does put some things into perspective. For example, the "War on Cancer" began in about 1971. While I'm optimistic about the near-term future in cancer treatment, the chart doesn't reflect much historic clinical success.
I really like the look of this phone. I've been an Android guy since I left my venerable Blackberry Bold 9000, but I find myself really attracted to the interface of WP7/8. With a phone of this build quality, it's enough to make me give it a shot for my next upgrade.
Yes, that is my opinion. That is my take on life: Everything is your responsibility that you can reasonably manage. In my view, you can't depend on the government or anyone else to take that mantle of responsibility from you as an individual. If they can help, great. But I'm not depending on it.

If there is something practical and cost effective that the government has the responsibility to enact, I'll hear out the idea. But this is not one of those ideas--as you said--in my personal opinion.
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Having 3 more ppi than iPhone is not much. Having that amount of PPI in a screen that's 1 full inch bigger is. And have you ever compared a ClearBlack display with an iPhone screen? I have. The iPhone is better due to the resolution, at night! But in daylight I'd prefer a ClearBlack display over any iPhone. Unless you only go out at night in which case you'll probably be better off with the iPhone.
Oh and the viewed 2 times is sheer laziness. I set the viewcount to 1 upon creation to avoid potential future errors like dividing viewcount by a number etc. And then when it opens it becomes 2.
I love this.Is there any place we can report bugs or suggest new stuff ?

Also I can't login with twitter atm.Anyone else having this problem ?
Sales are important. But, lets give them some credit. This is a really well designed phone. And if the (less than impressive) iPhone 5 leaks hold, than this could be the first phone that is arguably designed better than the iPhone. That is pretty impressive.
I only wonder if they could make the phone out of metal instead of plastic.
Does anybody have any non-scribd links?