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headline should read: New Jersey to Allow New Form of Election Fraud
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He is right on target. Hindsight is 20/20, and it is an illusion that MS CTO had any deep insight.

People are predicting that mobile devices will be replaced by implants, or one of the many alternatives currently being prototyped, for reasons trivially linked to the relative strengths of the replacement. Check out Engadget and similar outlets for such predictions, they are dime a dozen. Imagine one of those articles nailing it; if you don't look at the other crap on Engadget, it will look like they actually knew what they were talking about.

Hence, no bullshit.
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One of the worst parts is that a great username is now off-limits.
The website calculated a calorie limit based on my weight. I subtracted 500 calories from what it chose to account for my habit of underestimating the calories in what I eat.

I am planning to try yoga. The trick from Carol Lay sounds like a good one. Thanks for the ideas!
Not necessarily, it's possible to find two envelopes with e.g. a hash of your name, without knowing your name.
@swombat, @jacquesm : I've mailed you details for a senior criminal lawyer at Delhi. Do check. Let me know if I can help in any other way.
Writing a full backend is serious work and it will cost you significantly in terms of time to market. For a green field app that doesn't require a companion web service it's still very attractive. Parse runs on AWS so if you build your backend on AWS, you still need to build a failover mechanism to handle that to be more reliable than Parse.

My main concern with the Parse SDK on the iOS is the lack of a clean model layer (and no, subclassing PFObject is not allowed) that would allow you to rip out Parse once you outgrow it. The way I understand it is the Parse SDK more or less encourages you to embed your models and business logic into the controllers as far as MVC goes.

It would be nicer to have a smoother transition path. A way to use CoreData as a local storage that seamlessly uses Parse would be a great option.

Minor gripes include the lack of a bulk delete api. Although there is a bulk save function so you could use that to soft delete.

However, with all that said, still seems like a great option even though the migration to a self-managed backend seems pretty rough (to maintain data integrity).
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RaphaelJS palette behaviour
Destroying drug cartels, the mathematical way
Biggest problem for me with win8 is the lack of start menu. There is a reason start menu is so popular. it lets user launch an application without having to context switch - example: launch a calculator or notepad while doing something else. The new start screen forces user to context switch by showing a completely different view just to launch an application. Who ever designed this must be a big fan of UAC screen which forces a similar switch when set to prompt.
The only way what you write makes sense is if Apple were dumping, not Google or Amazon.

Dumping to protect market share, then jacking prices back up once the competition has been seen off.

But with new entrants trying to compete with an incumbent with an enormous lead, I don't see anything wrong with making the investment to sell at cost or a loss. The consumer wins because they get hardware cheaper and more competition which should drive prices down across the board. The only people losing out are the people previously in a monopoly-like situation.
Nice!! I'm always glad to see someone expanding the jq lib universe :) Anyways, I know its in the early days but I'd definately suggest adding localization as a high priority next step. Here in europe, i'm always at a bare minimum of two languages on every form I make, so when frontend libs are hardcoded with one lang I can't use them. You might already know about it but for a howto on localization check out this other jq form validator (https://github.com/jzaefferer/jquery-validation).

Overall, good job! Lastly, I'd also suggest allowing option passing via $.extend.
For those, like me, who have no connections to India, please let us know if there's something else we can do to help. Including, if you need it, asking us to contribute money - I'm sure many here would help good members of this community.
That's not dumping, though; that's standard economics as practiced in the gaming console market for decades.
We can all agree Engadgets op-Ed is bunk: iPad mini $188 in parts
TL;DR; Ubuntu user refuses to use Windows' 8 Desktop Mode on his PC with large monitor, then uses WordPress's admin interface and complains that it's middle column resizes to fill screen, because Metro mode is full screen. Decides failure is not his own, but is rather Microsoft's.
Your reply is yet another "Tu quoque America!" post that is becoming far too predictable and common on HN. The US is not the subject of the OP's comment.

Clarification: My comment probably appears to be a knee-jerk defense of America. I'm a libertarian, and, as an example, I'm a huge fan of Radley Balko and his expose of no-knock raids and other many government civil liberty abominations, just so you know where I stand. I also believe the DEA should be shut down, and that many people in the justice department should probably be in prison. But my point is that power corrupts, universally. It is not isolated, obviously, to the US.
Maybe.

But Microsoft and others DID invent a iPad - in fact it was called the SimPad, Siemens own ipad.

A tremendous device which I had the luck to own and hack, powered by a SA1100. It could run windows ce or Linux with Qtopia. It made an excellent book reader - only the backlight was not that strong.

It could even get wifi with a pcmcia card ; I modded mine to use the DECT com port with a bluetooth module (pan networking eats less power) and add a mmc while I was at it :-)

Read my original review on http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6733 - Apple Like Design and a $400 pricetag.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMpad

I don't know why it was restricted to the german market, a shame. And the major hardware company they selected looks a lot like the Nokia of today smartphone - dedicated, fighting to remain relevant.

Ultimately it lost.

EDIT- submitted to HN if anyone is interested in talking about this device:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4739993

Unfortunately opensimpad page about the hacks seem down (it had nice pics), but I found the old ugly driver on http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded/plain/recipes/linux...
It sometimes amazes me that despite all the debates about any "decline in quality" and despite the continuously expanding community, when the chips are down we can still band together.
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With decades of experience, my lack of a degree isn't a large problem. But let's be clear that many companies will cull my résumé in the first pass. I'm fine with that, as I'd rather work for people who pay more attention.

When I was younger and had less experience things were not so easy. Lacking a degree, I had to persevere a bit more when job hunting. Networking was important early on.
Then, a few years later when many companies leave the market due to price, we're left with less competition.

We will not have less competition because of price or dumping. We will have less competition because the natural dynamics of platforms is to tend towards monopoly, because of lock-in effects of consumer investment in stuff that works with the platform combined with the economies of scale of making things work really well with any one platform.

It upsets me that your misguided wall of a rant is taking up so much space on this otherwise interesting discussion!
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They may or may not be the best in the nation, but having seen the case with my own eyes and knowing the person in question and the backstory very well, I can assure you that:

1) the case is totally made up (to a truly ridiculous extent), has been so for the six months since it came to existence, and has been handled with complete disregard for truth or any attempt to seek the truth

2) this is indeed very dramatic for the person in question

3) the person in question is completely innocent

4) the people behind this made-up case are closely connected to and influential with the police in Delhi.

And yes, you're right that it does make the Indian police system seem very corrupt. I'd be ashamed of it if I was Indian.
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That's a really cool idea, but just out of curiosity, is it normal for the gate to have to be programmed with a phone number? In the apartment complexes that I lived in, the gate would just buzz through to a small intercom type system beside the door in the apartment.

Is the phone calling thing a new process, or is this just an Australia vs. USA thing?
There's a certain irony about a 4-hour old story on the front page about building quality tablet apps for Android with zero discussion.
You could say that Dell is the reason why Microsoft didnt invent the iPad.

Tablets have been a gleam in the eye of the software industry for a long time. My wife worked for a professor who wanted to make an Apple Newton app for turfgrass professionals in the 90's and I remember playing Game Boy games in emulation and knocking off handwritten complaints during bad sales meetings with a palm pilot in the early 00's.

Microsoft has been fascinated with tablets and pen computing and has made multiple efforts in that direction over a very long time.

Look at one specific thing.

Back in the early 00's none of that suspend, sleep and restore stuff worked right on Windows laptops. It just didn't. I was a linux fanatic at the time and I was always laughing at the business people who had to remove the battery from their laptop 3 or 4 times a day to get it running again.

Back then, Windows was a real mess and when anything went wrong there was endless finger pointing. Microsoft seemed to believe that Windows never crashed on its own, that the fault was always bad hardware, bad drivers, cosmic rays, whatever.

Vendors of premium hardware, like Apple and Sun, controlled the OS and the drivers and the hardware. Sun systems were legendary for reliability (even though they were losing the performance war even in 1992) and Apple laptops could reliably wake up from sleep 4 or 5 years before Windows laptops could.

By the time Microsoft and the hardware vendors got sleep figured out, there was the invasion of the "crapplets". Turns out that Dell and HP get kickbacks from 3rd part software vendors when they pre-install annoying nagware on a computer you buy. So you've got a brand new Windows machine and it performs like it's 6 years old because of the junk pre-installed with it.

So it's fair to say that Microsoft has been held back by PC vendors as much as PC vendors have been held back by Microsoft.
“How does Scarborough know that Silver’s estimate is incorrect? He talked to sources in both campaigns. In Scarborough’s journalistic epistemology, this is the trump card: Silver’s methods cannot possibly produce more reliable information than the official sources themselves.”

Well, the campaign insiders do have access to internal polling data that the rest of us don't. *

* Although, Nate Silver apparently did get to see that data in 2008.
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If you are using Windows 8 on a Desktop / Laptop, why do you want to shy away from the Desktop. Use the metro chrome if you are happy with it. Else, use the desktop chrome on desktop.
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Maybe because it is a Sunday :)
Lets get it right: PC sales are declining and tablets are hyped.

PC usage isn't declining. There is just no reason to upgrade any more. A bottom end PC from 2 years ago doesn't give you anything more than a brand new one. Our dev workstations are 3 years old and still spot on performance-wise.

Everyone I know with a tablet has a PC and uses it heavily. The tablets are but a small diversion.

However, that is until you realise that Microsoft actually got this when they designed Windows 8 and surface. They worked out how to provide one device which fills both niches. Now Windows 8 and surface aren't perfect, but they will become in time...

Then the PC is dead. Oh no it's not - it's a tablet shaped PC. Again it evolves...
Teenage ninja turtles are nothing more than a mass of teenage, ninja and turtle habits.
This seems to be the Node equivalent of Jekyll in Ruby. Pretty awesome!
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Schizophrenia ?
Huh, a person is in trouble, people are volunteering to help with a lawyer, and you're concerned about India's image? Seriously, this isn't a news and views armchair discussion thread.
Has anyone tried the Start Menu replacement from Stardock [1]? I don't have Windows 8, but this is such a frequent complaint and I'm wondering if their version will be a good enough fix.

(I have no affliation with Stardock)

[1] http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/features.asp
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How does the fact that it's a company instead of an individual change the picture at all? In both cases, escrow serves the same purpose: to safeguard against getting ripped off.
Agreed.

Watching this happening was amazing. HN, respect!
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Tablet is just a "smartphone" with a bigger screen. So it will be replaced by the "smartphone" when wireless display tech is both direction, i.e. display and input. In future, when I need to write/read a book, I bring out a foldable LCD display, "airplay" connect to it with my "smartphone" (Siri hit the screen please!). Or go to a meeting room with such screen, airplay to it to present my ideas. Or in StarBuck, pull out the LCD screen on the table, and airplay to it. Or the screen might have Kinect like sensor so I can interact with it like Minority Report. Or the screen might be by a corner of my glass (Google glass), so I can "airplay" to it. All this from my "smartphone" device hidden in my pocket. By then screen is needed less due to Siri version X, as most interaction and info search is by voice. For x-Apple people, just substitute Siri/AirPlay with similar tech names.
You are right, I think he is carried away by his experinces. Actually, Book 'The power of Habit' (which I am also reading) is more about how habit forms and how to change/replace any Habit (from bad to good), whether it is Individual, Organization or Society. It is 'how' that is important here.

For Individual part, I am planning to launch an app for addicts so that they could also get benefit from same principles. I believe in that cue, routine, reward cycle. But, For creating app I need to do my own research for individual cases.
Platforms are natural monopolies. The only reason we are balanced on a knife edge between Android and iOS is because of the enormous investments being made.

The only case for anyone complaining about price in this whole situation is if Apple were aggressive about their pricing, driving out competitors. But they're not. There is no case to answer for the market entrant pricing aggressively, up to and including paying people to use the product (i.e. negative prices).
it was a response to the very real threat of Linux. MS was getting publicly beaten on an almost monthly basis by malware authors. It was a whack-a-mole contest to keep our boxes patched. I still scratch my head and wonder why our bosses have kept demanding Windows Windows Windows...
I'm an Indian.

I've been arrested and spent the night in the lockup because I said something that an MLA took as an insult. No charges, released the next day without any explanation.

Don't try to put lipstick on a pig.
Would curiosity be nearly as popular with the public if it didn't have a semi-antrhopomorphic "head" with a "face"? Our far-away pal is as cute as WALL-E.

I wonder about the design intent behind placing its one "eye" on one side of its face, where it seems friendlier, rather than smackdab in the middle where it'd look creepier and more cyclopean.
Top brass at Microsoft have known for a long time that the PC will be replace by something more portable; Bill Gates has tried, and failed, to launch a tablet for a while now. What they got wrong was execution and execution is everything....
I disagree. He's not saying that this somehow excuses the Indian behavior, or that Americans are worse. He's simply pointing out that this is a widespread problem. I personally found the post interesting and am glad he posted it. It is definitely not a "tu quoque" as you say.
http://devhike.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/palette-behaviour-wit...
Top notch guy, but unless you know him or have any political weight, he's not going to take the case.
It amazes me that so few people understand that the carrier subsidy is such a huge part of the iPhone's success. Apple has pulled in obscene profits by making the carriers pay huge subsidies to keep the iPhone's price competitive. And the carriers turn around and amortize that cost over the rest of their customer base. So, the customers that don't own iPhones are the ones really getting screwed because they're paying the same higher rates but not getting the same hardware subsidy.
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Do you have inside knowledge of this case, or are you "sure" that the case is not as described simply because you can't believe that the police could ever behave this way? If the latter, this is a pretty crappy post to make.
I purchased it. Once you install it, you wont see Metro apps at all unless you launch them on purpose. You can also get Classic Shell, which is an open source start menu repalcement.

http://classicshell.sourceforge.net
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Racket is my secret pastime programming language when I want to escape from the reality of coding for a living.
is it possible to make the same library but without having to touch javascript ? putting html5 parameters to describe the validation instead. please :)
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I think it's because Metro punches you in the face regularly when you are a desktop user if you like it or not (which I don't).

I rather liked Windows the way it was. Things were in the right place. I'm a luddite though - running classic theme in Windows 7 (and I still use Excel 97).
I don't understand how such a company could be possible even in theory. Seems like an oxymoron to me.
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the author writes: In his second last paragraph, Myhrvold predicts the winners will be those who "own the software standards on IHCs" ...

this is exactly why it has been so important that internet standards remain neutral, open, and free. without that, we'd truly be at the mercy of a single vendor (DEC, MSFT, etc) and you know what that stagnation looks like.

app stores are a risk of that alternative future (that honestly the phone companies also mapped out and drooled over, and slowly doled out with insane per-line item charges).
As some from Metalab in Austria, I can only agree. Feel free to visit!

Club Mate is definitely an acquired taste, but it grows on you - I really like it now.

That said, you should definitely come - C3 is an amazing event, there are always great talks and sessions. If you need some help with German, just ask me ;)
But predicting something without giving a timeframe is completely useless. Imagine if this had influenced Microsoft's strategy from 1993. They'd have missed out on the enormous influence of the PC, whose recent competitors such as tablets and smartphones have only really surfaced in the last 5 years.
This brings up an interesting twist to the conversation: Should it be considered self-defense to defend your privacy? That seems to be one possible category for the discussion: "do you care enough to defend yourself" (petitions and such) extended to "if you do care enough to do it, what should be your legal limit of self defense? Is your privacy an extension of your self?"
tl;dr

- "Steam may well be doomed"

- "Steam is just the wrong side of geeky"

- "Microsoft sold at least 4 million copies of Windows 8"

- "Microsoft is poised to apply a Wal-Mart Effect to PC software"

Metro is indeed where asses are told to go.
Ask HN: Built A Startup, Second Round of Funding Questions.  Please Help.
Hey HNers,

My partner and I built a start up and its going pretty well. We are entering and disrupting a community that needs it.

We built the initial software with our initial investment. Its a bit more than what the regular YCom start up gets, but it came with no strings attached. Just build the product and give them their portion of the profits.

The problem is we are running out of money quite soon. We have till Mid January to be sustainable, or we will need to find real jobs again. I can't stress how much I don't want this to happen and to keep working hard on our start up.

So here is the question. I am not on the west coast and know very little about raising money. I don't live in a hub where its easy to find investors either. So I was wondering if there are any tutorials before we get into the mix with investors? I am thinking YouTube Videos on how to properly raise second round funds and what to keep in mind before doing so. Anything out there we can spend a couple days on? We were thinking of entering our startup on AngelList because we have heard good things, but before we do so, we are desperately seeking the knowledge and doing out HW before we get into the mix.

Thank you very much HNers! I greatly appreciate it.

Feel free to email us at spoiledtechie with gmail.
Indian Security Agencies taking offensive mode for Cyber Security
Anyone up for a Hacker News meetup at the congress?
It occurs to me that I don’t even know how to find a command prompt in this environment.

The author was able to install Ubuntu and use its package manager to find utilities, but was not able to hit the start key on Windows and type "Command".

There's a follow up post too, where he complains that installing Eclipse is... well, exactly the same as installing it on every other version of Windows. His major complaint seems to be that the Store does not contain Metro versions of everything an Android developer needs.

http://point7.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/ermahgerd-jerver/
never a good idea to post other people's details online. mail them privately instead.
I modelled it off the way CodeIgniter validations as I always liked how they worked - but thinking about it this is a great idea - going to make this change sometime soon :)

Thanks!
Or maybe they could just, you know, legalize and regulate it?