skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sensitive contents of the "analytical model" were enumerated in earlier filings in this case and involved the number of customer redemptions of the program and resaleability and inventory issues with repurchases products. Best Buy replaced significant portions of the model by using an insurance-backed system instead of a cash reserve system (parameters for the cash reserve system were one of the enumerated sensitive model bits).

Several of the other "smoking gun" claims that Techforward made were elements of Techforward's own website. Techforward operated a buyback program independently at the same time they were in partnership talks with Best Buy. Anyone could have looked up the terms they used.

I don't think it's likely Best Buy is using this stuff outside the buyback program.
I'm pretty sure the lawyers did the same thing with BeOS when it was acquired by Palm. [0] They sold the IP/copyrights and Be retained the lawsuit against Microsoft which eventually settled for US $23 million.

[0]: http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/print.php/3073811/
I think the idea is that most people drive near where they live most of the time.

If it does turn out you need to drive out to the boonies you can rent a car for that on a case-by-case basis, much like how we don't all drive box trucks on the off chance that we might need to move a big TV back home someday. But in the meantime you'd still get the benefit with your normal car.

If you drive long distances more often though, then that obviously changes the decision for now... at this point a Tesla wouldn't be for you until there was more Supercharger infrastructure around the nation.

Honestly we already have something similar going on, at least where I live (in DC) I see those tiny little Smart cars every so often, but you can bet your ass that you don't hardly ever see them outside the Beltway, no one is dumb enough to risk their life in one of those little things on a long-distance trip out of, and back to, DC.
But from you other posts it sounds like your expecting greater than 20% growth.

I'd just worry 20% growth could happen fairly quickly.
WebDAV in Nautilus works very well, but it is by no means the same level of convenience as syncing a la box.com or Dropbox.

I mean hell, I can mount an FTP server in Nautilus too, but I'm not going to trade my Dropbox for FTP.
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." - Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

The exposure and removal of corruption is one of the ways in which the industry of societal governance is being disrupted and reformed.
In terms of investment in manufacturing, $100 million is chump change. Fabs are an order of magnitude or more greater. The amount is approximately that required for a middling "power center" shopping development. Or constructing a handful of Apple stores.

Not to be cynical, but I suspect that local, state and federal tax subsidies will yield a positive ROI on the $100 million. This looks like pure PR.
To Stop Climate Change, Students Aim at College Portfolios
A related great post you could write is: 'Don't be hired by a loser'.
Tim Cook hints that an Apple television will change the living room
..And it's really nice.

I've only tested it on my Nexus 7 but the swiping motions are very smooth and nicely decorated. The 'never lift your finger from the screen' thing works very well, and its genuinely a really pleasant keyboard to use.

It also still works like SwiftKey itself. Despite the opinions of many in this thread, I still consider it to be a a wonderful keyboard if you use it on a device that can keep up and you train it right. It really can make typing very fast with its excellent predictions.

The combination of the predictions with the swiping motion means it comes up with reasonable sentences rather than just relying on the individual words it thinks you typed.
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I can't.

I'm always trying to choose between C++ and Lisp.

Disclaimer: I don't know Haskell or any other pure FP languages.
I certainly wasn't trying to imply Apple is being devious by any means. I really am just curious as to where that money will go.
It is the case in a lot of chat programs that you will get

Tipzntrix: hi
Tipzntrix: )

The closing paren is supposed to be attached to the colon to make a super quick happy face.

or sad face.

Tipzntrix: (
Clutch.io seems only targeted at native apps, although the company is apparently shutting down after being acquired by Twitter: http://blog.clutch.io/post/29340796276/clutch-joins-the-floc...
I agree with a lot in this post. It doesn't happen all the time, but if I can I prefer to present without slides at all.
Marketing Hack: Promote The Competition
Here's a tip that won't work for every situation, but it did for me. Here's what I did.

I own a small business called Dunk Tank creating demo/explainer videos for startups. Like with any business, it's hard to get in front of people, and the best opportunities are often to piggyback on other popular sites. Such is the case with Steve Blank's Startup Tools resource.

I visited Steve's Startup Tools (http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/) page recently and noticed that, although the list is extensive, there was no section for creative services like mine. Rather then passing up on a great opportunity or hoping he could fit me into some other category, I simply offered that Steve could create a new category and that I would supply him with a full list of my competition to fill it with.

The end result, Steve had no problem creating a new category as long as it wasn't empty. He created a section called Product Demo Videos, and my company - Dunk Tank - is right at the top.

Sure, the other guys are going to get some traffic and probably business out of the deal, but it's worth it for the traffic that I'll get as well.

Just a reminder that sometimes the best solutions don't come out of any sort of traditional thinking whatsoever.
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Show HN: file.st - File Street: The old-school uploader.
It's ugly, but hey! It serves its purpose, and you can't get stuck in the polishing nest after all! New design/features will come as they are requested by the community. Keep em' coming!
I think it's a fallacy to ignore the holistic quality they're producing.

The top post in this thread has a good idea of it—they're producing not only a drastically different drivetrain technology-wise, but also a drastically improved ride, driving experience, and controlling every aspect of the car purchasing, driving, and servicing experience. (And with superchargers, also the refueling experience to a degree).

This is strikingly reminiscent of Apple's model. This is why I made the comparison, and I think it's highly valid. I don't mean to compare their product or level of innovation or even the amount of differentiation. I mean to compare the companies and their models. And I not only believe it's a successful model, I believe it's been proven and will continue to be proven.

If you break it down and look at individual parts in isolation, sure, you can see ways they could be beat. But that's the problem with this way of thinking—Tesla is not breaking it down. They see the whole picture, and that will lead to their success. That's the key.
Apple Invents Displays with Hidden Audio Sensors
Announcing Startup row: PyCon 2013 Edition
It's not the service you base it off of, it's what the people you're following on the service share. If you're friends with a bunch of people on facebook who share hollywood/pop culture stuff, that's what you get. If you follow a bunch of geeks on twitter, you get the topics that show up on HN.
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I don't like these kinds of posts, because they suggest that happiness is something just within our grasp, if only we did the exact right thing to grasp it. In this case, it's suggesting happiness comes in part from questing to find major change X in your life that will change everything.

But I think that's actually the cause of a lot of unhappiness. It's a perpetual "grass is always greener" situation. Say you go on this quest to find the best city to live in. You find a good one, and you're not unhappy. But you'll always have that doubt: "What if I had quested just a little more? Would I have found an even better city?" And that'll bum you out. It becomes the anxiety of "what if".

Happiness is being content with the moment you're in. Having good health, a not-empty stomach, and a roof over your head is already a big step above a significant portion of the world's population. Now this doesn't mean you have to become a mindless lump, barely moving from the couch and uninterested in even the slightest change; but it's a suggestion that perhaps learning to be happy with what you have, where you are, and with what interests you, is, in the long run, precisely what will make you happy.
Another day another one of these absurd, self-righteous blog posts.

What's hilarious to me is that only Apple draws this kind of posturing and absurdity.

You don't see blog posts like this about Dell or Sony. But you DID see posts like this about Microsoft in the '90s.

It's really more about standing up and decrying whatever company is on top than anything else. People feel like by slagging on the top tech company they are taking a stance as an independent, righteous, thoughtful person.

When in reality they are taking the most obvious, boring position available.
As a slight sidetrack, Apple doesn't have that much cash in reserve.
They have short term investments and long term investments.

Articles you read that claim they have 100 billion (or whatever) in cash are seriously confused about how cash and cash equivalents work.

From their latest 10k:

Cash and cash equivalents	$	10,746

Short-term marketable securities $ 18,383

Long-term marketable securities $ 92,122

(this is in millions)

Long term marketable securities are basically those things that they would likely take a significant hit on if they had to actually convert to cash in a reasonable period of time.

So how does this really compare to other companies?

Let's look at google.

As of September 30, 2012, Google had:

Cash and cash equivalents: $ 16,260

Short term marketable securities:$ 29,464

Whoops. It turns out google has more actual cash than apple, and more combined short term securities + cash.
Just not as much in long term investment securities.

In short: Apple doesn't really have some amazing amount of cash.
That's what we in finance call a good problem to have.
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Since reading about http://roca-style.org, I've really come to understand the errors of our ways: client-side processing is great, but these things massively abuse that opportunity.
No idea about job availability in your chosen field, but C software engineering isn't exactly the usual freelance/contract fare as far as I can tell either, and I found a contract within 20 miles of where I'm living on the south coast with ~3 weeks of looking around. Since then I've identified a few more opportunities.

If nothing else it's worth a look, good luck :)
Why the seed stage only criterion?
"six legged feature"?
This is good news - Now if we could just get Apple to pay taxes. I hope the comment from brudgers saying it is a PR move is wrong, but my cynical side things he is right.
Weboob 'Web outside of Browsers', I can get that. But the attempt to put 'boob' in every application name? Am I missing something from a translation from French or is this meant to be comic?

Flatboob: Search for a house.

Wetboobs: Display current weather water levels and to see forecasts.

Nice to see application 'QHaveDate' was altered from 'QHaveSex'.
It's indeed hard to defend the lagginess, but since the praise is going to Google, it's worth noting that iCloud predates Drive by quite a while, and as far as I know, although you can use a combination of Drive, Google Cloud Messaging, and the Backup API to get a similar experience on Android, it's relatively complicated.
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> But I'd bet an equivalent post about what could happen to a startup when a young new hire comes in would get uber-flamed.

Because thats not the equivalent. The equivalent would be an old established company hiring someone young to come in over the top of all the older more experienced managers to try and shake things up and force some innovation.

Which is an article I would actually be very interested in reading. I imagine the culture clash could cause the company to completely implode if it was not done right.
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You're only partially correct. Apple doesn't need a fab. Apple needs a systems integrator like Foxconn and it's MUCH cheaper (order of magnitude max) to setup an assembly plant than a fab. But yes, I suspect subsidies would make even a $100m investment profitable.
However, I think everyone knows someone who can fix it. There is something to be said for ubiquity.

Although it is annoying being family tech support.
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good job, keep it growing Paul.
I agree. A few other commenters suggested this on this thread, but personally I can't imagine buying anything requiring me to send a money order.
You are missing the "How I lived out of a shoebox and traveled the world on a bicycle while creating my startup that teaches people how to live out of a shoebox and traveled the world on a bicycle while..."
How is that misleading, it provides work to people in the US. A case can be made that the factory wouldn't be there if it weren't for Apple's business:

"The A5 processor - the brain in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 - is now made in a sprawling 1.6 million square feet factory in Austin owned by Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics, according to people familiar with the operation. One of the few major components to be sourced from within the United States, the A5 processor is built by Samsung in a newly constructed $3.6 billion non-memory chip production line that reached full production in early December."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/16/us-apple-samsung-i...
We prefer to showcase the smaller / bootstrapped / cash strapped startups over those with more capital. For the latter group, we offer 50% discounts (https://us.pycon.org/2013/sponsors/prospectus/) on Silver and Gold Pycon sponsorships (a steal, when you factor in how much you're saving on conference registration).

The goal is to find small, python oriented promising startups and give them visibility they might not otherwise be able to afford.
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't like theese cool presentations filled with expressive words 'DO IT!', 'NEVER DON'T DO THAT' "bitches" "programming motherfuckers". It's funny, but not for 100th time.

Another example are pictures, or memes pasted into the presentation. Maybe sometimes it is funny, when there is one funny picture, or the subject of presentation is chalenging.

But very often amount of 'coolness' is too much to me to handle. I often find presenters not knowing subject enough for answering questions(they just make jokes, etc).

Maybe should we just go back to excellent but simple, polite, content(text) rich presentations ?
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Ahm... but if you paid cash for the bitcoins, you don't owe any tax on it, right... until they appreciate in value, then it's capital gains?

And then, only if you actually cashed out, right? If you leave them as bitcoins and the value drops below what you paid, now you've got a loss and maybe deduction instead...

It would make sense that you should pay taxes on mining income (if they can find you).
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Possible side effect: Change in business privacy? Say Foxconn are the contractor, a product leak in the factory's first year might be a lot more chase-able than one in China, but also a lot more inevitable. Will there be robot-only zones for the private parts, or more lawsuits?
Fun fact: Ford didn't receive money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout. They restructured rather than take te money.
Perhaps the most worrying thing regarding email monitoring is that not only is it likely that the NSA is simply intercepting and archiving for later a lot of email traffic, but also that even if you "delete" an email from a host like Google or Yahoo, it's probably not actually "deleted". Even if it is 100% fully deleted, you probably still have a copy of at least a fragment of the email thread in your sent mail folder--and the recipients kept multiple copies too.

Just like the digital cat is out of the bag for media companies trying to stop their movies and music from being copied by everyone under the sun, so are our email communications able to be copied, archived, and distributed with almost shocking ease.
>> This is not an attack. Merely an observation. You value the quality of HN. Be the quality. Don't be the problem.

I agree with most of what you wrote, except this part. Maybe I'm being naive but I believe discussion about stuff you don't like about a community-driven platform like HN might actually improve it. To me, the fact that articles like this hit HN more and more often, is separate from the discussion you can have about it.

>> People enjoy different things. You do not want to judge, so don't

You are twisting my words. I don't want to judge opinions, but that doesn't mean I can't have my own, and it also doesn't mean I can't express them in relation to the stuff that gets upvoted on HN. In everything I wrote about this article don't think I've passed any judgement on the author's opinion itself. You say 'people enjoy different things' as if that justifies anything that gets posted on HN. Lots of people enjoy reading about ponies, but you don't see a lot of articles about ponies on HN, and I don't think many people think that's a bad thing.

All I'm saying is that in the time I've been visiting HN, the information value of the articles upvoted on HN is going down. If this continues, before you know it HN will be like Gizmodo with a really crappy layout. Telling me to 'just don't read the articles' or 'just don't upvote them' is a pretty negative conclusion to draw from this discussion don't you think?
It already is illegal for the CIA to monitor Americans on American soil.

Of course once you are used to breaking laws around the world, what is one more law?
Jesus was a carpenter. Where would he get the money to fund a startup?

That's only a bit tongue-in-cheeck. That actual title of that piece is "Christian Tech Entrepreneurs Find Funds, Support Among The Faithful", and it makes no comment about what Jesus would do.

This is sort of like socially responsible investing. ("Sort of" could be "is", depending on your views about Christianity.)
AFTER EDIT: This a duplicate submission, a repost of the previously submitted

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731

item from a different URL

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=193b767bbb3b0eb0d949d592...

two months ago. (That is shown by the date on both submitted mock front pages of HN, and by their identical text.) It's funny, and memorable enough that I still recall the last time this was posted.
Awesome post! I absolutely agree to the fact that the quality of the presentation is in the talk and not in the slides.

However, I still would like to make these beautiful looking slides. Does anyone have pointers on how make your slides look beautiful without being a trained designer?
Manufacturing is coming back in the form of new jobs. The jobs that the Chinese are having are becoming extinct. Product labels use to be stuck by hand in China even in mass production. Long gone are those days!
that's fair. and noble. Anyone with more than 100k can afford to buy such publicity.
I haven't, actually - thanks, I'll take a look.

I'm very attached to really good, big touchpads though - losing gesture support is hard!
I was certainly aware of the connection between anti-CP and copyright, but I have never heard of a connection to DRM specifically. I thought the connections were limited to the shared interests of fighting CP and fighting copyright infringement, like monitoring peer to peer networks and requiring ISPs to keep records and comply with requests from law enforcement.
HN discussion on that article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4873542
>Or the the rising wages in China means that building a fully automated line isn't as cost-prohibitive as it was in the past.

The wages don't play much role in it.

There is an article about the last Apple US factory, back when they used to make stuff here, and the guys managing it explain that it wasn't the wages that drove them to China (the extra cost would be negligible in a product's price, like a few extra dollars compared to a $500 price tag), but the economies of scale, with supplier factories for glass, metal, SSDs, parts, etc being literally next door to your factory, something that wasn't true in the US.
There's a great Ted talk by Shawn Achor that shares that point of view: http://on.ted.com/Achor
Sure, and people should.

But saying that people don't have the right to do otherwise is a much stronger statement than what you just stated. In fact, people in general have the right to do many things which are immoral or even unethical, e.g. the Westboro Baptist protests at funerals.
http://americawhatwentwrong.org/story/as-apple-grew-american...

http://news.cnet.com/Apple-may-outsource-iMacs/2100-1001_3-2...

Sanmina (recently dropped the SCI from its name) still owns that plant in Fountain, CO. I could imagine it might be a big PR win for Apple if they revived what used to be their flagship factory in the US.
You mean:

echo "deb http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free" > /etc/sources.list

Linux has had software repositories for ages now. Unlike Apple's broken-by-design implementation, you can even have more than one on the same machine AND sideload apps, all out-of-the box. Sounds incredible, doesn't it?
Seems like a good place to link to "Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?"[1] submitted a few days ago. The most interesting notion to take away is that, for all the buzz surrounding static site generators like Jekyll and Pelican, you can actually accomplish the same goal using absolutely any backend you're comfortable with. As long as your output doesn't contain anything dynamic, you can even use frameworks like Django or Rails then pair this with a spider (e.g. wget) to pull all the dynamically-_generated_ output into a static snapshot that you then upload to GitHub.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857473
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