skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't say that I know the MP count on any of my current/past phones either, despite using the cameras quite frequently. Again, it's just not something that matters to me -- if I care about super high quality, I use my DSLR. Saying that you're not "tech savvy" if you don't know these things is just downright pretentious.
When managers put "keeping the stock price at a decent level" over "selling a metric ton of our products," they've lost the game before even taking the field. Sigh.
This is really a shame. Another commenter says the same and apparently it turned him off to the RPi in general.

I don't know why RS drops the ball on some orders; hopefully as demand increases another supplier will start offering them for those of us who dislike RS.
It's IPS

http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/lumia920/specific...

Design > Display features
Nokia's new phones look fantastic. But their last ones looked fantastic, too.

I think this totally sums up Nokia (and Microsoft's) predicament. They're doing all the right things, and they still can't seem to catch a break.

Google's tactic of putting Android in the hands of companies who were being heavily burned by iPhone gave them ubiquity, and in America at least, the AT&T deal probably did more harm than good for Apple by forcing Verizon to push Android hard.

Now we have this two horse system: one that has all the apps and the cachet, one that has the rest of the handsets (and, with Jelly Bean, is really a strong offering against iOS) and there just isn't any room left for Nokia or WP8. I think Nokia is going to have to step into the Windows RT ring this holiday.

Microsoft thinks it knows how to play this game from its Xbox days: buy out developers until you get enough mass to make consumers stick. But the game is different when you have carriers screwing things up for you (no Nokia on Verizon this year, carriers blocking OTA patches) and a platform that is driven by app numbers rather than by hits in the same way the games industry is. It doesn't help that web startups are hitching their horse to iOS and then begrudgingly offer Android later (I'm looking at you Mint and Simple). Windows Phone just isn't in their roadmap anywhere.

My guess is the fate of Windows Phone and Nokia is probably tied to the success of Windows 8. If Windows 8 takes off, Windows Phone will get a halo effect and sales of that will follow. But even then, I think consumers are going to be weirded out by the fact that the stuff they have on their Windows 8 tablet doesn't appear on their Windows Phone 8 handset.
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"there's no dealerships that can service your vehicle"

Around here the stealerships all claim to service anything you can push pull or drag in regardless of brand. GM service dept loves to service your Ford or Toyota, etc. There's no lifetime employment / company man effect, the greasemonkey at Ford probably worked at the GM or Toyota dealership last year anyway.

Finally, its an electric car, what are they going to do, change the oil and spark plugs?
Tesla doesn't have affiliates so they are not subject to the same problems Amazon had.

On another note, states already have rules dealing with buying a car in another state, so it is settled law.
I don't know why I said barely - should have said 'doesn't solely stand on it's own.' But of course ideally it would be nice if it had meaning all by itself.
Nokia Should Have Just Made An Android Smartphone
> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,399,190 tested so far

That isn't 1:2.4e6, that is at best 1:2.4e6, they have only run 2.4 million tests and so can't say anything more than that. Your browser fingerprint could easily could be unique in the whole world.
Danny of Beeminder here! Thanks so much for enthusiasm about our API! We're really excited about the things people are cooking up. Especially related to Hacker News, here's my Beeminder graph of HN use over the last year: http://beeminder.com/d/hn (that's time spent as tracked by http://tagti.me but it would be great to have something that measures page loads of news.ycombinator.com directly...)
Yeah, I really don't get this line of thinking. The iOS and Android home screens are about as boring as you can get. It's just a grid of icons.
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Enjoy your 1-2 weeks at the top, I say... The 5 is around the corner
Maybe I should change the default code to use Date.now()? ;)
What you will need will depend on the jurisdiction, however, even if there is an implied transfer, you should put in place a full written agreement. This will deal with:

- assignment

- further assurance (so they will sign other docs if necessary to perfect the assignment)

- warranties as to the quality of the IP and their work

- indemnity (if you get sued for using their IP, you can claim against them.

- insurance (so they can afford to pay under the indemnity if necessary).

You also need to be wary of incorporation of third party code into their work and if this is the case, you will need appropriate rights to use the third party code.
That's interesting. There is a trend with this kind of sites (I've seen at least one here on HN before). Is it some evolution of joint anonymous blogging/microblogging/pastebins? Or is it driven by an experience - I want to try blogging, let's start by writing, not registering, configuring, skinning, etc?

I don't believe that this might catch on, but as a branch of online self-publishing it could still live a little.
It would be great if some of the stuff on the about page were on the main page instead (or also).

I would humbly suggest that at the very least you put an explicit link to your own status chart on the main page.

I realize that that image in the middle is clickable, but the fact that you can click on it is not readily discoverable (I only noticed when I went back to see if you added more copy yet :) ).
The appendix (pages 22-23) provides an excellent summary of various forms of waste, and suggested methods for reducing waste, all along the supply chain.
Very strange. It completely contradicts with my experience.
Almost everything that easy to do in Linux is someway distorted or missing completely in Windows.

Basic things: apache, nginx, supervisord - underpowered or completely missing. Ipython is my favorite shell in Windows, but in Linux it works better (just because console is better in Linux).

Have you tried to run Django under IIS?
I assure you - it's pain.
I'd encourage a different interpretation of the data: Cancer holding steady actually is an improvement.

Everyone is guaranteed to die of something, and the longer you live the likelihood of that something being cancer greatly increases. So as people shift away from other categories, i.e. heart disease and childbirth, and live longer, they're going to shift towards the cancer category. I'm actually amazed that cancer hasn't gone up significantly.
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> Windows 8 on a Nokia is like taking a camel to a horse race.

What are you basing this statement on?
Reading that, it seems like there is no one inventor of email, but a bunch of different solutions, perhaps leading to the 1981 RFC for SMTP by Jonathan B. Postel, which I would guess is the beginning of the actual current email implementation:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc788
There exists a treasure trove of truly feculent Apple marketing for you to peruse if you ever have the inclination. But here's a downvote if you're in a rush.
Ditto. This is the first time I've received spam that's been HN-targeted.

If the sender is reading: this isn't hustle, it's douchebaggery.
This is the downside of building a product which is at the mercy of another companies service.
I implemented something like this to notify interested parties in realtime of changes to a shared data element for synchronization. It is basically eventual consistency
using op-based CRDTs.
true, and it could be even worse. There's a quote from former HP CEO Leo Apotheker after the webos acquisition about wanting to be more "Apple-like".

I can't tell you how many meetings I've been in where managers / product directors / ceo's all talk about how they want to be more like Apple - even when their business model may not make any sense to be more like Apple. And then their execution plan is focused more on cost savings than actual innovation.
That's an interesting perspective to maintain without any data to back it up. I click on links from blog to blog all the time. I read blogosphere-level conversations all the time. I also think it's worth bearing in mind that the leading crawlers know the context of a given set of links, and a bunch of links with minimal context all in the same div (e.g. "class='blogroll'") aren't even going to provide the kind of "link juice" a contextualized link in a large body of text would gain. So that's why a "links" section on a given post or as a page on a site provides minimal value to the recipients of those links.

If you want to complain about something, complain about the decline of contextualized discussion in the blogosphere. Oh wait 00 you can't, because that's not actually a problem.
There are some things other companies never seem to learn from apple:

1) Differentiating their phones by weird model numbers that no one remembers

2) Making product announcements with no details about price and availability

3) Cramming all kind of high end features and adding non catchy names like this PureGodKnowsWhatEver+ in their product descriptions and praying people will buy them.
That would certainly give the proper illusion. :)

With our environment, you can interact with it and it'll maintain that state as well.
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Email can only be replaced by another system which does not require you to be on any particular network (decentralized).

Email doesn't die because gmail can send to hotmail and to every other domain.

The entrepreneurs trying to replace it will focus their effort on one exclusive platform which they know they could monetize if they hit a tipping point. Unfortunately, the very motivation to profit is what creates the biggest problem.

The only true solution to email is a decentralized system, that many other companies could utilize. Unfortunately, once you have a system which is easy to create competitors you get instant commoditization. Once you have that, the economics of the idea suck which means that VC, and other investment money will never chase that system. In other words, a decentralized system is worthless from the idea stage due to the expectation of commoditization.

That is why email is “unlikely” to be replaced.
Being our own customers
Just a tip fwiw. I like the idea of what you're doing with Jetstrap. But asking me to sign in with Twitter, gMail etc without screen shots or a short video isn't a good idea. Guessing if you had a short video your signup rate could soar.
That looks interesting , could you share it. Thanks.
So someone who's playing with node.js, EC2, Arduinos, etc. isn't tech savvy because they didn't read their phone's spec sheet when they bought it?
Jurisdiction for state taxation is not a matter of business presence, it is a matter of having sufficient nexus. This is and always has been the deciding factor.

When Amazon was "just" an online "catalog", it could take advantage of cases like Quill Corp, which held that a catalog with no physical presence in a state and which sold few goods into that state did not have sufficient nexus to establish the state's jurisdiction to tax.

However, Amazon is the single largest retailer by volume in nearly every state in America, topped only by Walmart. It sells a substantial volume of goods into every single state. Legal commentators, including numerous former SCOTUS law clerks, have noted that if Amazon were to challenge state sales taxation today, it would lose because the justification set forth in Quill does not apply. And that's with a significantly more conservative/libertarian SCOTUS than in Quill.
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I've been teaching kids to code for over 10 years now. It's an exciting time to be a computer programming teacher. The amount of resources (mostly free) that make teaching young people computer programming easier and far more enjoyable have grown exponentially since I started teaching. The last two to three years in particular have seen an explosion of online education sites and materials.
A tech-savvy person probably knows that raw megapixel numbers are meaningless. A non-tech-savvy person probably got the number from the guy at Best Buy trying to make his commission.

I'm tech-savvy. I honestly couldn't tell you how many MP the camera in my iPhone has.
Yeah, I got 3...
I sincerely apologize if it came out as a spam. I really did not mean to. I spent over a week building the whole template and the dashboard and really thing it is useful for startups.

I stepped overboard with the feeling to tell everyone. Really sorry about that.
Nokia and Motorola are announcing phones today; it's not clear when they'll be released but at least the marketing will be out there.
Cheers! Great venue and the best startup conference in town. Startup School is by far the best startup conference in the Bay Area, and I say that as a 20-something startup founder that mostly still finds increased social connection with 20-something startup founders more compared to wizened 30-something serial entrepreneurs, media people, employees, and successful failures. It's a good thing Startup School is going to get a lot bigger this year because it's unfortunate that so many people always were rejected.

It's actually very difficult to find a venue of this size in the Bay Area, though particularly in San Francisco. I say this as both an ex ticket scalper and an event promoter for a large Bay Area event that is coming up.

By the way, please come to my event (the Singularity Summit!) www.singularitysummit.com Use coupon code HACKERNEWS for a discount on tickets.
In the end, it's all about the DNA
I have an academic and professional background in traditional AI, and I've programmed an AI for a 3D video game I made in college. My traditional AI background is mostly in applying a wide variety of mainstream machine learning algorithms, including neural networks, SVMs, and regression, to real world problems like fraud and image detection. I was somewhat frustrated when building the game AI because the best solution came down to building a large state machine with hard-coded logic. The AI was dead-simple, but it worked well and wasn't too far from state of the art in video game AIs at the time, and I suspect today.

I agree with the general point of this article; in fact, I think it understates the case. When people want AI in video games they want the AI to be truly smart. The fact is, we haven't cracked "intelligence" yet. Most of 'AI' research has veered into machine learning, which is basically applied statistics. While this algorithms can solve many constrained problems quite well (this field powers much of google search) it's tough to frame complex problems like a 3D FPS AI, into a simple statistical framework. Even biologically-inspired AIs like neural networks are designed to solve highly constrained problems. In short, I don't think it's possible to even design a non-bruteforce AI, regardless of computational power, with what we currently know.
Since an iPhone jailbreak provides full access and is, in fact, usually used for tweaks and other modifications rather than custom apps, that is disingenuous.
As a side note, Nokia's stock seems to have dropped 11% today. I guess stockholders aren't too excited about the new devices and WP8.
Thanks, that's a great point.
The iPad app looks great! Any word on when the Android client will ship?
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I came to HN expecting to read such a comment thread and I was not disappointed at all.
WP8 is definitely more cluttered-looking than WP7 before it. But overall, it's just blocks of color, and in many (app) cases ugly colors.
The Oldest Message in a Bottle Ever Found Is 98 Years Old
In John's post he mentions that doing hotswapping is very hard, but that hasn't been my experience so far. Can you by chance expound a bit on what makes/made it so difficult?
I've been saying for a while that the only problem with email is one of management. As the volume of incoming emails increases we need better tools to avoid a similar increase in the amount of time we spend checking it.

To that end (shameless plug) some friends and I have been building Lightermail to solve this problem for us. We're getting close to opening the service up to a wider pool of private beta users and would love to have some HN users and their feedback in the mix. If interested head over to https://lightermail.com and we'll be sure to get back to you in the next couple weeks with an invite code.
We at 2600Hz are both making money and have a pretty website!
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Agreed, I'm excited for this format, but only because I store almost all of my state in JSON blobs.
iPhone has peaked (just like the iPod did) and right now Android us exploding everywhere.

I've been thinking the same thing, although it's hard to prove either way. I have owned the iPhone since the original version and recently got the N7 tablet and switched to the HTC 1x phone. Android hardware and software has come a long way since I tried it before buying the iPhone4 (my last phone). Before ICS, the Android HW/SW simply wasn't very good. It wasn't as responsive as the iPhone and certainly didn't feel as nice.
Not really. If you change those metrics and then re-login to any account that is cooperating with the person trying to track you, you've lost your anonymity again.
(probably soon to be former Recurly customer)

I use Recurly for one of my SaaS apps. I've had it on my todo list to move off of them and just use Stripe directly, but changing entire payment backends isn't one of those "lets hack for a few hours" things. Just using Stripe would be cheaper than Recurly and my existing merchant account/gateway.

I don't know if any of my customers are affected yet, however now they have failed to bill a customer when they should have, double billed a customer when they shouldn't have, and now potentially lost data.

I'm still on their original pricing plan and never moved to the new plan. When they changed their pricing, it just didn't seem attractive. My service is too small and my month charge was going to double for a service I was already meh on and just adding some new reports.

I believe at one point I'd heard you can request customer data from them... don't know exactly how that works as exporting customer credit card information would be incredibly sensitive. If they've lost any credit card info, likely just cut my loses with them, export nothing, and have all my customers resub. Probably not going to like that, but so be it.
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Sorry, I forgot to change a variable in my settings file, so Twitter was calling back to my local machine. Hence it worked for me but no one else. Fixed now.

As for bugs, for now you can email me... saeidm[at]gmail.com or @sfard on twitter.

Much appreciated!
I don't understand people who say this. My friends have pentile phones, and say they don't notice, but I looked at a GSIII, and it was immediately obvious to me. The screen looks sort of grainy, and the colors are all weird.

I prefer Android, so I've been holding out for a high-end one with a great camera and a non-pentile screen. If there isn't one this year, I might have to switch :(.
I'd love to know the percentage of false positives out of their overall scan dataset. I'm sure it is extremely small.

Note I haven't seen anywhere yet that the claim related to this story is actually incorrect? DNC cable coverage is perfectly copyrightable and you don't have an inherit right to watch NBC's coverage on YouTube of a political convention.
Here's the code for the Android app: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/commits/android. Based on the latest nightlies, we're looking at somewhere in the next couple weeks. Very, very excited, since Android is a very underserved platform in news reading.
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This is an interesting point. It makes you wonder about the general macro considerations around life pro-longing technology. You solve one risk, but then something like cancer either remains or even increases.

Tackling the cancer problem is exciting but also worrisome at the same time. It’s an old problem. Nixon said in 1970 that we’d win the War on Cancer by ’76. People have been working on it for 40 years. So while we’re 40 years closer to a solution, it also seems farther away than ever. Doesn’t the fact that it’s taken so long mean that it’s an incredibly hard problem that won’t be solved soon?

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/24253160557/peter-thiels...

edit: reference
The Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note, and Xoom do too. It's used to speed up GPS fixing (knowing your altitude helps resolve your location more quickly). A Google employee said that he didn't believe the barometer in the Galaxy Nexus was weather grade. There is an app called pressureNet[1] that reports your barometric data and then builds a map of the results that anyone can see. Kind of interesting but I don't know if it's actually useful for anything yet (I welcome Google Weather though).

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...
BMW also has an amazing military/diplomatic sales program -- it was something like 15-20% off MSRP, and contractors were eligible. It would actually have been profitable for me to buy an M3, ship it to UAE, drive it for a year, and sell it on the UAE domestic market (where BMWs were marked up 20-50% over US MSRP).
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If people were to shift away from heart disease, etc, towards cancer over time, the death rate due to cancer would be going up, not holding steady.

I think you're making a poor assumption that if people move away from heart disease, etc, that they would automatically move towards cancer. If such a move happens, there would have to be an external causation factor for that.

Holding steady would indicate to me that either our efforts to combat cancer haven't improved at all, or our efforts to combat cancer are only keeping pace with the increase in cancer rates due to increased toxins in our daily environment or whatever. This talks about death rates due to cancer, not cancer incident rates, so either of these 2 scenarios are plausible (and I'm sure there are other possibilities I'm not able to imagine).
I've just had my first course in AI, and being interested in games, I was curious to see how the reasonably specific, theoretical techniques we were taught could fit into game design. This was a reasonably interesting example, but I think I'd be more interested in some specific applications, although I appreciate these might be jealously guarded secrets...
It's a lot more important for AI for game characters to look real than to be real. It's easy to forget that the characters are there to support the fun of the game, and not to be fun to write or support the ego of the author. Incidentally, I thought the article was worth it for the mention of Infinite Mario and Galactic Arms Race alone-- I had not heard of those projects before.
Wow Sam great to see the traction you've been getting on this. Congrats.
I feel like this is a common problem - we all get presented with many opportunities to join startups that become great.

I remember reading a similar post that was about how an engineer felt about turning down the opportunity to be a 1-10 employee at Facebook