boristhespider

Yes, but if we just called them packages the headline would be "99% of top Python packages are now packages"

Really? Assuming you think this is a bad thing because phones with replceable batteries are bulkier and less durable, we're still affected by this outside the EU, we just didn't have any say in the matter.

The Autocar article [0] says they are going to sell the LHD model in the UK

[0]: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/tesla-cancels-ri...

I think the screenshot is supposed to show someone using the Comcast website to pay with the Final browser extension.

Another way is to be lucky enough to have an Open Device Lab nearby: http://opendevicelab.com/ (or try to set one up yourself)

Excellent. One useful feature would be the ability to sort search results by age, for example.

Perhaps not quite the equivalent, but there is a "Modern UI Style" app: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-gb/app/shazam/5593d150-...

A commercial laundry server product: http://www.laundryview.com/lvs.php

Apparently [1] MP4s (at least their file sizes) can be optimized much more than animated GIFs, although it doesn't seem like that's been fully done here.

[1] http://gfycat.com/about

The Russians used a...

Looks like it is coming to the UK: http://nest.com/uk/ (although not the thermostat yet)

Apparently it's London Tube Normal (http://www.azfonts.net/load_font/londontube.html). P22 Underground might have been nicer, but costlier. There's also Hammersmith One on Google Fonts: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Hammersmith+One

Thought this was going to be about Jony Ive. It isn't. Dead to me. (Sorry.)

Well, that at least is fairly new. apple.co.uk was until recently an illustration agency: http://web.archive.org/web/20110517201243/http://apple.co.uk... (Now apparently http://www.appleagency.co.uk/.)

You can quite easily find startlingly cheap solar powered USB chargers, intended for use with mobile phones.

Yes, Apple does seem to be between a rock and a hard place.

That applies to the strange, pre–iOS 6 iPhoto-specific map tiles. OSM is acknowledged in the new app's acknowledgements, but so far there are places where the Maps.app is less detailed than the basic OSM database – but no doubt this can and will get better.

Ad-supported, but not pay-per-pageview advertising, and not as a full-time job.

Feels laggy for something ostensibly so simple.

I find myself flapping between news.ycombinator.org and news.ycombinator.com (also .net), and cookies are not shared. Picking one and redirecting the others to it would be appreciated.

I feel uncomfortable posting this, but a related argument: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/media/2012/07/how-media-sh...

I think the run was only supposed to be very short anyway (it ended a while back), to be ready in time for WWDC.

Hmm. I wouldn't call the essential Like button "social", since it doesn't get "shared" with one's "friends" or anything like that. Still, I don't think that's an important difference - it retains the lab rat overtones.