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The actions of "one closet nut case" are always the responsibility of the closet nutcase.

> this is a route where there isn't much of an alternative

You make a case that people shouldn't be allowed to fly while black/muslim/wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a gun on it/etc in case some "sensitive soul" kicks up a fuss, and that it is not that sensitive soul's fault. I disagree.
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If you jailbreak you can have this on the iPad + iPhone with "SwipeSelection". It is great.
Yeah, this article makes sense. It seems like the first 'phase' of Android marketing was all about getting phone companies to support it and to achieve market dominance. They've achieved that, and can now focus on making Google phones/tablets a premium brand.
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Also, by that point his fate had probably been decided, and he might as well make his point and confront them. Perhaps they'll feel guilty; or perhaps others present will remember to push back more a little earlier.
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Any thread on dolphins teeming with the usual tripe about their intelligence, playfulness, peacefulness, and near parity (if not outright superiority) with humanity is not complete without mentioning their tendency to commit infanticide and kill other marine mammals for fun:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3323070/Killer-do...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1689180/
A little odd why they ditched Drupal (a CMS) for Wordpress (a blogging platform).
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Exactly - it's not handy to do, but the root cause is clearly the airline/airport policy. It should change.
This isn't all that new, right? I feel it's been this way for at least several weeks.

(I know, new is open to interpretation, but generally when I see something on the HN front page, it is from within a day or two.)
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Interesting. We should give the benefit of the doubt in cases regarding commercial use from copyright infringement. If its a 9 year old who is downloading a song, then she must be aware of copyright law and thus can't be given the same benefit of the doubt. That girl is a pirate.

Is it just me who thinks this logic is wrong?
Both SPDY and Dart are open, neither are patent encumbered, and nobody is forcing you to use either.

I am wary too.... but I don't see anything obviously wrong.
The major difference is that Windows wasn't free and in fact was expensive for manufacturers, as is Windows Phone.
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I thought the quote was appropriate in providing the context in which the irony of Sony's copyright violation in question has taken place.
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Not sure I agree with the article. Would a company the size of Sony play a strategy like this? I suspect the real reason is that the design of the casing just hasn't been finalised yet. Nintendo did something similar with the Wii as I remember, but the other way round, announcing the the hardware look/feel first and the Wii remote and launch games at a later date.
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I don't think "pirated" is the right word.
Suspicious is one thing. Seemingly terrified by hiding is another.
Value-based pricing in software development is a high-risk gamble though, as it can very easily go either way. The risk of course decreases with experience, but even experienced teams and individuals can burn themselves on value-based, i.e. fixed-price. If the seller overshoots their estimates, you have a regular tug-of-war, where the seller is trying their best to do as little work as possible, because every extra hour puts them further in the hole.
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Why didn't he simply show the captain the photos that were on his iPhone? That would have verified that he only took one photo, and it violated no one's privacy.

Actually showing the photos would have been a stronger argument than saying "That is a lie." Also, he could have volunteered to delete the one photo that he took.

Someone in the comments suggested that this is a "he said, she said" situation. Not really, because there was a camera involved. The camera is the authority on the subject of whether he took photos that he should not have taken.

I recently was at the Port Authority, in New York City. I was amazed at how busy it was at rush hour, so I pulled out my iPhone and took some pictures. I did not realize this was forbidden. A policeman approached me immediately and asked me what I was doing. I showed him the photos I had just taken and I explained I wanted to send them to some friends who had never visited New York. He suggested that I delete the photos but he walked away without making me do anything, so I was able to keep the photos.
Only in the US. The "Droid" name never launched globally, for licensing reasons.
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When Google first announced the Android OS, my first thought (after "that's silly") was "What will Google do when they want to release a line of actual androids?".

Deep down, I'm hoping they're de-emphasizing the Android brand so that they can re-use the name, like Microsoft did with Surface. Announcing Google Android, the internet-connected humanoid assistant you never knew you needed.
Lost sales is normally calculated as some hypothetical price tag in the case if Sony had bought a license from KDE. Its what music labels do when calculating damages in p2p cases, rather than looking at the unit cost.
The usual corporate response is to send a letter telling the offender to stop.
How many billions is the slimming down of PS worth to Sony.

I am a cynical bastard.
How is the US Healthcare system in anyway like a free market?
It's by far the most heavily regulated industry, every aspect of it. I believe government pays ~ 1/3rd of all healthcare costs.

Free market healthcare is veterinary, plastic surgery, lasik or maybe even dentists. Those sectors haven't seen skyrocketing costs.
I think that they don't expect you to come back for just 1 item. So I would guess that they value the engagement and increased chance of a trip to a store.

I don't know their margins, but I doubt a 20% discount has them losing much on that item.
It says in the article the problem is with Samsung's keyboard app, in which they've added a clipboard history feature. Since you are using a different app (SwiftKey) it doesn't apply to you.
A 20+ times difference? how can they justify it

It's not right, but I know how they justify it.

Health insurers negotiate a "discount" rate, that doctors tolerate for two reasons. The first is that the insurer will actually pay. The second is that, since insurers direct patients, they have leverage. One might call it extortion, in that the physician either needs to accept the insurer's rates, or end up "out of network" and get no patients from that insurer.

Uninsured patients have no leverage, and the vast majority of them never pay their medical bills, so the people who do pay get marked up severely.
I really like the transition the web is going through to a flat design. Focused 100% on content and highlighting the important bits using proper spacing, and typography relationships.

Kudos on the website. I love how it highlights crossbrowser, lightweight and features CSS3 selectors.
I had a fun experience in college working in a research lab. My first task was to interface a Mac with a high frequency generator using a data acquisition connection and a very specialized environment called LabView (sort of like Sketch but for research equipment). I had the HFG's manual as a reference and it was pretty straightforward, after I wrapped my mind around the fact that voltage of 0 was a logical 1. The "code" (little boxes representing various devices and virtual wires connecting them) was complete and actually pretty straightforward after a refactor or two. Except it did not work. No errors were raised but the HFG did not produce a frequency. I spent Thursday and Friday debugging it and left the lab very frustrated. This was my first project and I wanted to be taken seriously. Looking back I was probably putting too much pressure on myself about this really minor thing.

So far as I know, nobody was in the lab over the weekend and certainly nobody would have touched my workstation. When I came back Monday the code worked. It worked the next day and the day after. The only thing that changed over the weekend: daylight savings ended. I have no idea why that would have any effect on the components involved and it is a mystery to me to this day. (Yes I restarted everything numerous times prior to that which would have explained the sudden fix much more simply). The worst thing is that I don't know whether things stopped working 6 months after when daylight savings started back up.
I am going to go out on a limb and suggest barriers to entry.

You don't just get a group of skilled doctors together and say, "let's make our own hospital!"

Rent-seekers + regulation agencies = regulatory capture = barriers to entry = no competition.
It's interesting to compare with other devices. Consumers buy:

- a Windows (version) machine. Not Microsoft, not just Windows. But Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 8

- A (hardware manufacter), with Windows (version), like a Dell PC with Windows XP. Few buy an specific hardware manufacturer brand without caring for the operating system.

- A Mac. Not a Mac OS X, not an Apple machine. Some do know the feline

- An iPhone (model), an iPad

- A Blackberry. Not RIM, not Blackberry (version)

- A Nokia (model)

The only operating system there is Windows, along with its version. Maybe because only Samsung managed to be seen as a quality product using Android, Google is killing the brand. The different apps, settings and behaviour depending on the hardware manufacturer and carrier only make the situation worse. My Android, version whatever, is very different from my friend's Android. Maybe if Google had enforced uniformity, things would have been different. There's no Windows XP from IBM, or Windows XP from Dell. On the other hand, maybe fewer companies would have shipped Android if they could not customize it.

This looks like a business failure to me. It would be better for Google to have its operating system installed in as many devices as possible, and consumers actually buying it because they specifically want Android, with its Google apps and services. MS managed to do it, and I bet Google wanted, but they are giving up. But unlike MS, Google does not sell software, so I guess as long as people are still providing information for ads, it's a good situation for Google.
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What went wrong at the interview? BTW, is this going to hurt the market for Django developers in DC?
Oh, the irony... the new jQuery website layout is completely borked in IE 8. So much for cross-browser compatibility.

On a different note, I love how they have Stack Overflow listed in their "support" links. It's also cool that they're pushing CDN usage of jQuery more than the download version (based on relative space given to each on the home page).
My Galaxy Nexus doesn't do this, the author clearly has issues but shouldn't generalize so much.
Very interesting case study in how simple changes lead to emergent complex systems. Who would have thought that taking health insurance away from the person and assigning it to the employer would lead here? With every band-aid we put on the system, it just flows around and makes itself more complex. All of these systems, the paymaster, the insurance companies, the employers, the drug companies, the trial lawyers, etc -- they live in an ecosystem we have created over time. This ecosystem was continually adjusted to solve one problem, thereby creating more complexity for all other areas.

For that reason, I do not believe a list of remedies is the way to go here. Especially trying to increase hospital taxes -- that has as much chance of working as spitting in the ocean increasing global sea levels.

Whatever we do, we have to fight the complexity actively -- even if it doesn't directly lower costs. We can understand these things as basic software architecture principles. A couple of small suggestions:

- Eliminate needless architectural tiers. Make it illegal for anybody but the patient to pay healthcare providers. If you have insurance, fine. The insurance company pays you, then you pay the provider.

- Decouple the hospital (building and administrative staff) from the services being provided

- Standardize components. Mandate that all services provided must be in a free and open market. That means open pricing (bidding), public consumer reporting, outsourcing if possible, and so forth.

- Require interoperability. One provider cannot require that another provider be used. It's the provider's responsibility to interface with other providers

- Establish naming conventions

You get the idea.

The point here is that we've been playing whack-a-mole. Some guy goes out and writes a wonderful article about the complexities and problems with the market. So new adjustments are made to fix them. They only create more problems, which some other guy goes out and writes about. Each iteration may take many years. Over time the amount of cruft and inefficiencies is staggering. If we continue with this strategy of fixing the problem it's just going to get worse.

This method of problem solving hurts. Let's not do that anymore.
I'm not looking for them to include an iPad or a data connection. I'd buy it if it came with customers. The "business in a box" marketing would then be spot on.
The best part is it will already know everything about you.
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We all know Sony fucked up in the past but that is no reason to automatically assume they did so again without any proof.

Why not? When somebody or something repeatedly behaves in a certain way, I think it's perfectly valid to assume that they will probably continue behaving that way in the future (unless there is some evidence otherwise, which in Sony's case I personally haven't seen).
In my first job I had a coworker that always was teasing me. Once I got really angry at him. I went to his desk and loosened (not simply disconnected) his keyboard plug, while talking to him. Rest of people noticed what I was doing, but not him.

He could type for a while after I was back to my desk and before the keyboard went dead and he started to curse about a quarter of an hour of work lost. Everybody was laughing out loud, and louder because he was seeing that I had something to do with it but he can't figure out what.
I get what you're saying- this is almost certainly a case where one employee was either lazy or ignorant and just found a nice icon. Not a big deal. But, it was in the service of a company and the corporation is responsible for it. In a sane world, what that means is that someone from KDE would point it out to them, and Sony would say "Ooops. That was a mistake. We'll change it. Sorry.". Who knows what happens in the real world.
"Open source DRM"? No, they should push for removing DRM entirely.
I disagree - it's not weird at all. It's awkward; but the awkwardness comes from the fact that you're being confronted anti-terrorist rules. By their application they're basically saying: "I'm only doing thing because you might be a terrorist".

That's awkward, and it's entirely natural to want to deny the accusation. And sure that denial will also be awkward... but the problem is the assumption in the first place, not the denial. Everybody knows that the airport is a place of everlasting mistrust, no matter that it's not reasonable - and that you'll be treated unfairly because you're implicitly assumed to be a terrorist threat.

Everybodies thinking it (or trying to avoid thinking it) whenever the security is being particularly annoying, yet nobody is allowed to mention this thoughtcrime.
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Regarding the last point, what's the latest & greatest in vim support for Scala?
Indeed, the start of extra-terrestrial mining ( the exploration part - no exploitation ATM ).

Altough this is mining on a planet ( with gravity and atmosphere) , I am keen on asteroid mining, physics could be quite different there. Even the Moon could be quite difficult to mine ( due to the dust ).
Since pebble started shipping and already got nice coverage and feedback from the community it sounds reasonable that apple might work on it's "i" equivalent.
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http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=settings

Iconfinder is one the most popular ones around... so probably whoever is "responsible" for it used that kind of search engine.

There it is: http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/8844/128/kit_settings_... with author, licence and all the info.
He missed one other reason, which may not be the sort of thing you want to discuss with your Board/Shareholders, but: "Opportunity Cost" - It may be that you are happy running the company, that you have no imminent threat, and the offer doesn't really capture all of your upside, but - the resources/team might be better suited doing something with a greater return-on-investment.
None of the things the article cites are actually irrational.

In fact, the only thing that's irrational here is the article itself and the confused view of "rationality" that it relies on.

Having friends, and wanting to share messages and photos with them is perfectly rational, and so is finding an easier way to do that.

"An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man’s value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man’s reason and his emotions—provided he observes their proper relationship. A rational man knows—or makes it a point to discover—the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come; if his premises are wrong, he corrects them. He never acts on emotions for which he cannot account, the meaning of which he does not understand. In appraising a situation, he knows why he reacts as he does and whether he is right. He has no inner conflicts, his mind and his emotions are integrated, his consciousness is in perfect harmony. His emotions are not his enemies, they are his means of enjoying life. But they are not his guide; the guide is his mind. This relationship cannot be reversed, however. If a man takes his emotions as the cause and his mind as their passive effect, if he is guided by his emotions and uses his mind only to rationalize or justify them somehow—then he is acting immorally, he is condemning himself to misery, failure, defeat, and he will achieve nothing but destruction—his own and that of others."

- Ayn Rand, Playboy interview, March 1964
so it turns out that people sound pretty dumb saying aloud a lot of the things we would otherwise tap without hesitation... hmm...
I'm confused, you use the term tripe, as to say it's misleading about their intellect or parity, and yet give two more examples on how similar they are to humans.

We, as humans, are peaceful, playful, intelligent, and vicious and sadistic murderers.
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but what exactly is a 'linux' or 'unix' pro?
OK, I get that this is a bug. And it was reported a while ago. And it still hasn't been fixed. And yes, there have been other bugs by Samsung (and every other company, ever).

But please, does this bug really warrant "never trust Samsung", and "...Samsung's atrocious attitude to its customers..." and all that? I think someone needs to take a deep breath and try to calm down a little.

Here's the thing. There's a lot that goes into fixing even "simple" bugs for an existing product that is in production. Ideally, there is a lot of testing, and a lot of review for each and every fix.

In the case of mobile phones, there's even more hurdles, because the carrier has to approve the update too. They do their own testing, and it can take a while to get it pushed out. The carrier may be all up in your grill about other issues that you don't see (like something on the network side) that they prioritize over a clipboard bug that only affects users of alternate keyboards.

I don't know why a fix for this particular issue hasn't been pushed out yet. But there may be a good reason for that. Or a bad reason.

I'm not terribly impressed with some Samsung product divisions myself. My Bluray player does indeed play discs, but beyond that it is quite slow and crash-tastic. And my SK4G's original firmware was rather buggy. And my Nexus 10's video playback is a little glitchy.

Hmmm... maybe it is Samsung after all. At any rate, I don't know if there's a need to rant and rave about that though.
You mean the "havoc" of taking pictures onboard? In violation of a policy that should have been criminal to draft in the first place? Such terrible havoc that will annoy... no one. Not even the FA if she just ignores it.
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You may be interested to look at the Australian health system, with a dual system of free cover for all, and the option of private insurance and private treatment (option of staying in a hospital with nicer rooms and the ability to choose your own doctor) -

Good care is incentivised for all

(many of the expensive drugs mentioned in the article, for example rituximab and the breast cancer treatment drug Herceptin, and many other drugs that would cost >$50,000 for an individual, are bought by the government and made available for anyone who needs them for a maximum cost of $36.10)

And doctors can still earn good money in private practice if they so desire

As a side note I am currently an Australian medical student taking a surgical placement in a Boston hospital.
A surgeon in Australia can easily make the same amount of money as an American surgeon; they will earn on average twice as much during their training years (base salary for a first year graduate in aus is ~$56,000 extending up to ~$80,000 with overtime (paid hourly) vs ~$45k for an intern in the states who is salaried and not paid overtime.

First year attendings/consultants in Australia generally take home $200-250k, exactly on par with US doctors

With the added advantage of not having 200-500k in student debt (I have been a student for 10 years by the time I graduate later his year and will have $45k in student debt)
It's not just you. That's an example of "high court" for the rich and well-connected persons, versus "low court" for the vast rabble. Less serious charges, with minor or no penalty in "high court". More serious charges, with large penalties, often with strict sentencing guidelines, for the "low court".
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Well, "pirated" is probably not the right word for anything less than armed robbery of a boat. But lately it's been used as a synonym of "copyright infringement", so maybe it applies.
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Of course she should be given the benefit of the doubt too.

See, if you as an outsider want to make sure that all parties are held to the same standard then you should be willing to apply that standard to your worst enemy as well.

Note that I am not in any way defending Sony or their conduct, I just want the same standard that I'd like to apply to downloading music to apply to this instance of possible copyright violation.

Sony is a terrible company and they deserve to go down because of the way they've harassed private individuals, they've lobbied for ridiculous legislation and have done an enormous amount of wrong. And in spite of all that you should still be even handed in dealing with them.
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