skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BMW also plans to sell the BMW i3 and i8 online:

http://green.autoblog.com/2012/07/30/bmw-will-sell-first-car...
This is typical of the technology-journalist-circle-jerk you see when a new product is announced but nobody has hands on yet. No news older than a few days old. Same photos over and over again.
I think the point he's trying to imply (and you're trying to ignore) is that Sweden effectively paid Cambodia $20 million to arrest this person.
can you tell me why you think it is less well thought out than ios or android in practice?
One strategy would be to have stolen a bunch of returns from a dozen (well-known?) individuals and then have them confirm that privileged information was taken.

Wouldn't entirely prove it to the public because it could be some kind of clever conspiracy, but taking it to a large enough size would make it fairly plausible.

That's the only way I can think of to get around relying on PWC or the Romney campaign for confirmation.
I'm on no side, but what did he refute? That no strings were attached? That noone threatened to hold payments back?
Most iPad apps have iPhone equivalents, or are built and distributed as a single app for both platforms.

Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 does not appear to have this functionality. There was rumors of WP8 apps being usable on Windows 8, but I highly doubt it'll go the other way.

Users should not be expected to see two devices, which have equal interfaces (just a smaller form factor) and realize they are different, especially seeing how iOS/Android has trained them to think they are the same.
I tried using the Wacom Bamboo before, and did NOT like it. The buttons are too far away from the touch surface for one-handed use, and "flicking" motions do not generate any pointer momentum, like flicking a mouse or trackball does. I find a trackball much easier to use, and doing so completely eliminated the pains in my wrist which came from gripping a mouse.

The Kinesis is ONLY useful for "home-row" typists. If you are a "sprawl" (and likely self-taught) typist like me, not only will the Kinesis be next to impossible for you to use, it likely won't fix whatever issues you're having, as "sprawl" typing does not require bent wrists like "home-row" typing does.
It's "Sweden," not "Sweeden." I see a lot of people making that mistake on HN[1].

[1] http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+swe...
looks like they nginx runs on their cubieboard =)
You should always submit a cover letter
Nokia Re-enters Smartphone Race with New Flagship Phones
Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins
I wish it was so easy. You still have to invest significant time into an "internet sale" and even then they can pull a bait-and-switch on you. It still requires hardball negotiation tactics, like bringing in a cashiers check and being prepared to walk out (even if you had to drive 1.5 hours, take time off work, etc.). The whole thing is a freakin' mess.
I very much agree. I'm a (grad student) statistician and most of my time is spent developing models, running simulations, etc.. But once I have all the results, I need to find a way to present them in a way that is both informative, and inviting.

So I had to learn how to make beautiful plots. I used to be terrible at it, but one of my supervisors was very strict about plots: he would literally refuse to read reports in which plots weren't perfect (even draft reports). So I learnt how to make great plots (using ggplot2 for those who know R). At first, it took me forever to make any plot. Now, I can make very good ones in seconds.

So yes, instead of thinking of zero sum games, think of it as training.
A fair statement, but I'm not sure that nebulous 'good relations' are enough to explain the amount of time and money the Swedish government is pouring into what would seem, at least from a Swedish perspective, to be petty crime at best. I suspect there are much more specific gains being had, maybe officially through some kind of US concessions or accommodations, or unofficially. Certainly the RIAA and MPAA can open (and close) lucrative doors to Swedish media, for example.
"Cancer" is a fairly wide range of diseases. There are specific diseases that have had significant success. I don't have historical data handy, but I recall reading that Hodgkin's Lymphoma went from something like a 10% survival rate 30 years ago to something like 80-90% today.
Hmm, my impression was that the process of "jailbreaking" an iPhone was somehow rather related to breaking out of a chroot jail. I don't know where I got that impression though.
Twitter is a private service. You use it at their pleasure.
But you can not distribute that program.
The designer / minimalist half of me eschews ornamentation – I'm a big fan of the "swiss style". But, for all the recent ragging on skeuomorphism, there are times when it is appropriate. When we released polychord 2 with its dark leather and chrome look, it was in response to feedback from lots of our users who wanted something that fit in with their studio gear. We resisted the urge to use 'knobs' and other physical gadgets that would mess up the UX. It's just a skin, but it made a lot of our users happy. I also observed that the new physical hints made the app less threatening for new users to jump in and start playing around.
The big difference is that this allows you to make money on a "task" that you're already doing anyway. Remember, you would make deliveries only to places that are close to your home, which is where you're headed. It's only a matter of making a small detour on the way home.

I don't even think it will be about the money. I could see this being a system where you earn credits for delivering, so that in the future, you get free deliveries yourself.
Doing It Right: Development Meets Reality
Why timing really is everything
Leaders: Ask Your Team This One Simple Question
Spotify is a bit snappier , and you can load your own local music through it. One thing I don't like though is that there is no EQ settings (at least that I'm aware of). I imagine they will probably eventually add that feature. If you don't mind having the option to listen to a whole slew of other music (with ads). I believe ads don't play when you are listening to your own tracks.
http://www.spotify.com/us/get-spotify/open/
Consumers Say No to Mobile Apps That Grab Too Much Data
Ship it on Day 1
For sure not. But if I'd pay 400M SEK and had a little wish, I'm sure I'd let the other side know about my wishes.

It's not my argument, but the interesting argument is not that Sweden paid 400M SEK to get a prisoner - that cause and effect are working this way. But it's interesting that he is arrested after quite some time in Cambodia and Sweden is paying 400M SEK aid.
Apple: We Didn’t Give FBI Any Device IDs
I had to close down one of my sites. We basically built too much around google and made it difficult to migrate. Basically had to re-engineer bunch of stuff and it wasn't worth it anymore. With MySQL it's different obviously depending on how easy it is to dump your data and transfer it
Ugh, this comment really gets under my skin. I'm so glad that GitHub has a nice looking back-end, especially if employees have to look at it all day. That's one of the reasons the company I work for utilizes Twitter Bootstrap, because not only does it reduce development time, but it looks good too. Also, it's just CSS. It doesn't take that long to swap out the values of some of the colors. Unfortunately, this is the typical project manager response I've come to know.
Not any open source program, only open source programs that play well within the confines of the official app sandbox. The $99/year doesn't give you any way to escape that sandbox, meaning there are a ton of things you can't do. Also note that any apps installed with the $99/year certificate will expire when the certificate expires, which I believe is currently after a year, so you have to continually renew.

The only way to really get full control of your device is to jailbreak, but Apple is fighting jailbreakers hard. And of course this isn't hypothetical at all: Cydia is full of apps that not only can't go into the app store, but couldn't be usefully installed on a non-jailbroken device using a developer certificate.
After Tomorrow Comes Base16
Offshore also doesn't mean not American...
There are natural bodybuilding competitions, and the competitors look far more human. The difference is most pronounced when it comes to female bodybuilding. In female competitions the natural competitors often look very feminine, but the women who compete in the regular (drug enhanced) competitions often look like shaved gorillas.
Police seizure of text messages violated 4th Amendment, judge rules
Well if people want to sell their cool shit, they probably aught to spend 20 minutes making sure all the media around their product doesn't look like a giant con.

Seriously other than the handle hipboi/hipboy in an email address that was removed from the site yesterday, there's nothing definitively linking Cubietech/Cubieboard to Tom Cubie.

And I can't see anything about the Cubieboard on Tom Cubie's Facebook or G+. That also strikes me a little odd.
Agreed. I've worked with some of them (with the mini2440), and a lot of their websites are just ugly, and out of date. They are mostly used as a place to post their phone numbers, and not as a business front. Keep that in mind.
I just tried it on an HTC Incredible 2 on Verizon. Nothing happened. No error message, just back to the dialer.

EDIT: I see now it was stated these are SIII specific. Guess that explains why nothing happened for me.
From London, a Lesson in the Benefits of Free Wi-Fi
Future is Now, Part 58
"If you know what you're doing, signing up for the $99 dev program already effectively allows you to load whatever apps you want on your device."

Not even close, sadly. You still can't install any apps that do any system-level stuff, regardless of what you pay. Apple still exerts a good bit of control over what you can do even with your own device, your own code, and your own dev program membership.
This parallels my own experience. I too had a "can-do" attitude 10 years ago but now just can't be bothered with many things that I used to spend time on. This, however, is not laziness, it's maturity. You have now reached the level of maturation in your understanding of technology to know that things you learn for a one-off project will be forgotten within 6 months. And you are nearly at the level of maturity in relationships to know that if your girlfriend is truly passionate about selling her jewelry that she can learn to maintain her own eStorefront
Fun fact, we have Romney's 2010 and 2011 tax returns. McCain only provided two years of returns too when he was running. It's not a hard-precedent to provide "everything you have", either tax records or birth certificates or transcripts or letters of recommendation... But looking at it from a politician's perspective: if it can only help you, fine, release it. Otherwise why bother? Unless the damage from not releasing exceeds the damage from releasing (which I think is becoming the case for Romney), it's just unnecessary information.
Speaking as the instructor for a class that is using raspberry pis: at this point the most important thing about the raspberry pi is the community and mindshare. It's going to be hard for a new board, however awesome, to replicate this.
Eureka Netflix makes Amazon more reliable with open source software
"How do you attract those Jobsian A-players?" and "let the culture naturally build itself."

I think this is one of the biggest fallacies of "startup culture" and possibly of business strategy in general.

This idea that you can hire the right people and culture magically comes out of it is ludicrous. Yes, a lot of your culture is based on personalities and people you can't control, and hiring is still important. But it is incredible to me how people will rise to the culture they're a part of, and how culture and the systems surrounding people will enable them to become better.

Define your company culture well. Know what kind of company you want, and create that kind of culture. Hire based on that as best you can, with people you believe will fit with your culture. But when you invariably end up with people who aren't those perfect rockstar A-listers you think you need, don't throw them away. Stick to your culture and be emphatic about it. Teach them, allow them to learn. Have a culture of positive personal development, not static employee hiring or firing decisions.

Do you think Stripe hires 100% perfect employees? Do you really think that's why their culture works?

I think it's the exact opposite. Their employees work because they've figured out a great culture, and they value it highly, and hold it as sacred. That's a company value, not an employee value. It's shared, and it comes from the whole group, glued together by the resolve of a leadership that knows it.

Figure that out, and you can achieve what Stripe has. If you think it's just a hiring strategy; sorry, try again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
What If You Can't Deliver Your Kickstarter Funded Project?
First step to crowdfunding for equity online. I think AngelList is being smart and honing down what that would begin to look like.
I think he misses the point here that 'people like to have fun'. We know that skeumorphic designs aren't the most efficient and in some cases may confuse the user. But these apps aren't being used to control a spaceship. They are often used in the 5 min gap between meetings or on the train where a tiny sliver of fun is perfect.

Whereas when I look at something like Kicksend it's just another boring, stale and uninspired photo site. And yes, it may 'get the job done' better but if I am not enjoying using it then why not use something that does.

And that really is the crux of the argument here. You have a tiny window of opportunity to convince a person to keep an app before they will simply delete it and find something else.
Asking users to participate in "two-factor authentication" seems like a great way to match people's personal information to particular devices.

So maybe we have a double-edged sword here. If you want to be able to authenticate you have to give some company the ability to track you and monitor all your activity (which they will try to "monetize"). It sounds sort of tinfoil hat but this is what we are facing.

The reason: We insist on using the web and other "client-server" approaches for almost everything we do using the internet, instead of considering end-to-end, peer-to-peer approaches. Things are so insecure when everyting goes (mostly) unencrypted over the open web via middleman (Facebook servers, Gmail servers, etc.) that we need to try things like "two-factor authentication".
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Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious, but That Isn't the Point
You can distribute the source code and allow others who have paid $99 load it on to their device. Or distribute it via Ad hoc (limited to 100 per year), or purchase an Enterprise account which might give you more distribution options outside of the store.
Small nitpick - MD5 is not technically "encryption"

From the article:
" likely to be an inverse of your phones IMEI number with an MD5 encryption thrown on top"

MD5 is a digest...not encryption
Entrepreneurs are the new labor
The Rasp Pis are not particularly special. Things like the BeagleBoard etc existed before it and it was mostly the promise of a cheap board that was somewhat powerful (albeit with a bunch of GPIO caveats and a closed-source Broadcom chipset).

But the price was always a lie, if you are in Canada the cost of a Rasp Pi approaches 80$. Not so exciting when the actually manufacturers put their extra costs over top of the "35$ cheap" original price. But I guess the 35$ price tag for the RaspPi didn't include manufacturing or shipping.
I wish Tesla luck in this. Laws mandating franchise car dealerships seem to be fairly bad for consumers, and I can't think of any compelling government interest in maintaining them. Maybe seeing a better model at work will help them to go away.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attacks government's 'snooper's charter'
Broken window theory basically. Ugly internal tools feed into not-giving-shit attitude among employees.

And I'm sure employees are happy if their admin interface is pleasant to look at and contributes to their productivity.
Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer
It's probably worth noting that the News Challenge has funded projects like DocumentCloud (full disclosure, i work there) and TileMill amongst many others.
Everyone is different so I can't comment on how it'll turn out for you. I traveled with friends and my girlfriend so company was definitely not an issue. I didn't have a bucket list, more of just places I wanted to travel to after it became possible that I could.

I think for me, it was one of those things that sounded great on paper but in practice it wasn't as awesome as I thought it would be. It was definitely fun and exciting at first but then it just got redundant. I dreaded getting on long flights. And although there were lots of places to go and things to see, at the end of the day, it's still relatively the same thing. You can only do something so much before it gets boring. Sure you go site seeing and parasailing, jet skiing, etc... Eat all the local foods... But eventually it's the same thing masked under a different place/time. Maybe for others that is exciting but for me the honeymoon mode wore off.

Plus half the time I couldn't stop my mind from thinking about doing stuff. It's like a disease you acquire, being active on doing something was just constantly a part of my mind (something as in another project, startup, business, etc)
That is exactly what I mean ;) Pretty getting a notification that a drone is near is not going to save your life. For one thing any drone coming to kill you is unlikely to be spotted until its to late. And places where it could be useful I doubt there is useful cell coverage anyway.

So I'd wager that app is nothing more than a titalating tool to fill peoples morbid curiosities. And at which point this is a conversation about culture, taste, censorship.

At that point I expect Apples well documented self protection guidelines to kick in and distance themselves from the app... leaving it up to people use other options not associated with apple to view that content i.e. creating a pseudo app by book marking to the home screen.
I sent them a message a few days ago, but didn't receive a reply (yet).
True.

Censorship counts even for "bad" things. The US has free speech, unless it is child porn, for instance.
Agreed. After years of WoW, I'd like to see a world where the world is 'alive'.
Boston Dynamics' Cheetah Robot Now Faster than Fastest Human
Tell me why we shouldn't demand devices that we can change, do whatever we please with? Why shouldn't we demand that computing devices has an override, or some way of running whatever software the owner wants it to? What would happen to Apple if we had these kinds of regulations? Would the iphone never have happened? I doubt it.

Businesses don't have any rights on their own, only the rights we give to them. When the interests of companies goes against the interests of the people, then we regulate. It's that simple. I'm against regulations that impose overhead for companies without good reason. Regulation to PREVENT companies from expending energy to actively keep users from doing what they want is not overhead. Forcing companies to keep their system somewhat open won't hurt them as much as it would benefit the world.
RoboCopyright: How The Copyright Police are ruining the internet
You read my point. You can fill in the dots. Also, see the other comments in this thread that this is _old_ news, which predates Anakata's arrest.
Ok so now 'business' is the same as 'politics'?

The problem with tossing all these things into the same etymological barrel is that you lose the ability to communicate effectively about their differences.

Government restrictions imposed by force are not the same thing as market realities created by private decisions.

Business decisions are not the same thing as public policy crafted via the political process.

It is true that business decisions can have public policy implications and vice versa. That doesn't make them the same thing though.
Historically, Sweden has to rely on the US for defence vs a certain Bear in their neighbourhood. Even during the Cold War, their allegedly-neutral stance was really backed by US reassurances. Maintaining good relationships with their American friends is clearly seen by the establishment as worth much more than the life of a couple of nerds and some free movies.
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HTC Working on Flyer 2 tablet with S4 processor, Android 4.1
>...which is basically applied statistics.

Well, one could also say that human intelligence is applied statistics, subject to biases. When you look at how we make decisions you'll see that we either refer to past data on the subject, or on a subject related to the issue at hand. Our past data can contain incorrect information and we'd still use it, since we don't know it's incorrect. Right up until someone comes up to us and says, "It's common sense silly, you don't adjust the side mirrors to view the back of your car but instead to view a continuous image of your back and sides along with your rear-view mirror. It's common sense".

Humans are a very good example of machine learning and "AI". What we learn in our school syllabus would probably have been University level a few hundred years ago. That is to say, if you consider the human as a single state machine, it(we?) is/are getting more intelligent with the passage of time.

Pardon my cynicism on humanity but I generally think that our intelligence is merely logical inference of past empirical data mixed with some healthy dose of confirmation bias. You could also add a bit of True Randomness to account for irrational behaviour along with a bunch of other biases.
I feel the exact opposite. I had a Galaxy Nexus for a few months earlier this year. One of the reasons I switched back to my iPhone is that the screen is insanely too large for me.
Other people are going to look at this page hundreds or thousands of times, often in moments of crisis, so investing in making it easy to read/understand is a no-brainer for positive ROI on time. As for "making it pretty", it's not like this is chock full of gradients and exotic fonts and custom background images--in fact there's no reason I can think of why simple, pure-CSS designs would take any longer to develop if they're pretty than if they are not.
I think you like a few others represent a small segment. Of the consumers willing to use Red Hat, those who would pay is even less. Enterprise is a much bigger piece of the already small pie.
Yelp is blackmailing my sister's restaurant
Cherian from Cucumbertown (http://www.cucumbertown.com/) here.

I think we were among companies to do the AngelList Docs online. Can answer related questions.

Edit:
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What are your favorite things? How is the HTML 5 rendering? How is the wifi? What are its biggest faults? What do you feel like you are missing?

I am very curious. I am a long time Apple fanboy and a general UI junkie. Android still feels so inconsistent that I am not interested yet, but I am very curious about Metro on mobile. iOS has been relatively stagnant interface wise and while extremely functional and completely unoffensive, I am itching to try something new.
They are probably just small, idealistic, and prioritize producing actually working hardware over producing marketing fluff.
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What I'm taking away from the comments below is:

"Everything that could be done with this API has already been done using HTML parsing. This development will simply make those applications faster."

Truth?