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The expectation at HN is that anything that's standardized is a cheap commodity. Normally that's sensible as standards standardize already existing methods of solving a common problem. However, this case is different as the standard is also the development. I don't know the details, but Ericsson is widely regarded as the technology leader in telecommunications. I'd guess that Ericsson has put a lot of work into all the mobile networking technologies that are standardized and that they expect to get paid for that work.
It is as well quite a common requirement: "North America" - "USA and Canada only".
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What about the costs of network equipment? For all of the ports? What about the price of internet from all of the middlemen involved? If I created an ISP today, I would need to buy bandwidth from a Tier1 provider (like Hurricane Electric, or Verizon) and then resell said bandwidth to my customers.

The last-mile is also the most expensive part of any cable. You aren't allowed to just tear up people's yards and run cables through them, you have to work with the local government (or Home-owners association) to get approval. Said approval process may cost money, etc. etc.

The most expensive, regulated, and complicated, part of network delivery is the last mile. And that's the real reason why local monopolies like Verizon and Comcast exist... except in the cases where Google buys out an entire municipality's fiber line and then gets cozy with the local government.
Mostly kids books. These stood out - I've read each of these at least 30 times.

This is not my hat: http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-Not-My-Hat/dp/0763655996

Smelly Louie: http://www.amazon.com/Smelly-Louie-Catherine-Rayner/dp/14472...

WOLVES: http://www.amazon.com/Wolves-Emily-Gravett/dp/1405053623/

Gorilla: http://www.amazon.com/Gorilla-Anthony-Browne/dp/0763673668/

Goodnight, goodnight, construction site: http://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-Construction-Sherri-Duskey-R...

The Promise: http://www.amazon.com/Promise-Nicola-Davies/dp/0763666335/

Some of these won the Kate Greenaway Award - an award for excellent illustration. I've made a partial list here (this is an ugly list because I just needed a list of all the books in one place, with links to amazon, and I'm too lazy to do more now it works): http://danbc.neocities.org/index.html

The official list is here. http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway/
Why is it gross that one of the most prolific inventors of wireless networking has a lot of patents about wireless networking. This isn't an Intellectual Ventures scam, Ericsson invents Real Stuff and sells lots of Real Equipment that use its standards. It's great that the license them too, it would be a shame if our phones didn't all work on the same networks.
Update: I still think standards should be open.
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> users of netflix is not concerned with knowing what bitrate the video is

That's part of the author's point: if netflix can halve their bandwidth without users noticing, they will earn massive savings. Apple & Amazon will also want in on the savings (being competitors and all)
McLuhan and Nevitt are talking about human organizational structure, not technical design.
It's frustrating that sales of a product can somehow be up for grabs over disputes in a mere component of that product.

No matter how good your idea or, ahem, sorry, "intellectual property" is, if you don't know HOW to turn it into a multi-billion dollar product or you don't have the means to do so, WHY should you be able to sledgehammer your way into lots of money when somebody else becomes successful? If anything, years of inaction on your "idea" proves that the idea has NOT been worth all that much to you.

Meanwhile, there could be literally thousands of unique components in an iPad, the products of tens of thousands of brilliant minds, many of whom get virtually nothing. Heck, I give more credit to the tertiary industries such as the people delivering the iPhone packages to my door, than I do to any owner of a patent for a product that they didn't build.
Take a look at the CVEs. People find vulnerabilities in trusted open source projects all the time. The NSA hires a lot of smart people to spend all day looking for them and not share their findings with the Internet.

No infiltration required.
That statement comes somewhat ironically from a founder that now does not appear to have much of a technology at all.
I'm not a big fan of patent trolling but I do like to see apple get a taste of their own medicine after what happened with samsung.
The article details examples of 'information asymmetry' between employees and execs, at the same point in time.

According to the article:
-June 30: outside firm values common stock at $0.88
-'Late July': Board knows they only have 30-60 days of cash
-'August': Some employees buy common stock at $3.34/share
I disagree with several of these. But I guess that's why 1) I am working on my own language, and 2) Walter Bright is a lot more successful at that than me. So yeah. He's probably right, and I'm probably wrong. However: I'm doing this entirely for my own pleasure, and I don't want success as he defines it (popularity means having to cater to the whims of others).

Disagreements:

I think minimizing keystrokes is important, and I think the notion that code is primarily read, not written, is idealistic but completely wrong. The purpose of programming languages is to be writable by humans and readable by machines. There is value in making them readable by humans and writable by machines, but only secondary value.

I think there is value in easy parsing, if nothing else because every single editor out there can highlight your language even if it isn't popular. I think the focus on popularity as the measure of success is wrong.

Tried and true is overrated. There are plenty of examples of programming languages that break the tried and true rules and are successful either because of this or despite this. Either way, it doesn't seem to matter as much as people seem to think, but staring too hard at the success of Java might make you think it does.

Anyway, feel free to disagree with me, go ahead and design your own language. I sincerely hope you are successful, regardless of what your definition of success is.
I don't think we'll have this for a few more years, and even then it'll be really expensive.
No I am actually skeptical myself, I was hoping somebody here would explain the real cause of their findings :)
Leave it to Psmith - 10/10

Anna Karenina - 8/10

The Code of the Woosters 8/10

Fooled by Randomness 7/10

Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life 8/10

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia 9/10

Reluctant Fundamentalist 9/10

The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes 8/10

The Last Question - Asimov - 9/10

The Magic of Thinking Big - 6/10

The catcher in the Rye 8/10

Models 7/10

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby 8/10

The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman 7/10

The Surrender Experiment - 10/10

Untethered Soul - 9/10

The Autobiography of a Yogi - 7/10

Raja Yoga - Swami Vikekandanda - 7/10

Something Fresh, something new - 7/10

Karma Yoga - Swami Vikekandanda - 8/10

Thinking, Fast and Slow - 9/10

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates 10/10

The Pearl by John Steinbeck 7/10
> if you knew the history of the labor movement in the 30's

News flash: We are nearly one hundred years away from the 30's. Just because things made sense then (and they absolutely did) does not mean they make sense today.

What I am putting on the table is a verifiable mathematical fact. No opinions here. Fire-up Excel and do the math. Not sustainable. And that's the point. I didn't say unions need to evaporate, I said they need to mutate into something that truly works for a sustainable common goal. Today, for the most part, they do not. And we all pay for it in one way or another.
You need to make sure that the founders are good people. Most of them are not.

I can relate to the one year cliff and the economic incentive behind terminating employees - Thankfully, the founders I worked for in my last startup were fundamentally good people. I wouldn't hesitate to work with them again.

As an employee, you are always at the mercy of the founders - So you'd better study them carefully. I think the best sign of a good founder is that they're usually easy to talk to - They're genuine people and they always talk to you on the same level as any two human beings would, not as a mere employee.

Also, good founders are humble; I had no idea that the CEO of my previous startup could read and write code until about 6 months in - He never said so. I knew the founders were smart when I joined, but I didn't appreciate the full extent until about one year later.
Cor 0.2.6 released
“When I learned of this I ordered DOC to fix this, fix it fast, and fix it right.”

Fast and right, it turns out, don't always agree with each other.
I think they could have saved a lot of bad reviews by just including this with the laptop. They're already pricey laptops as it is...
Court orders Google to pay $115k damages for defamatory search engine results
https://burrow.io/
While fairly engaging until the end, the characters in the book were pretty shallow and the story itself wasn't really that special. "Amazing" is extremely heavy praise for what is a decent airport sci-fi page turner.
European unions don't function as US unions do. They are far, far more benign. They would never make deals that would result in the utter destruction of the company their very members work for. American unions have succeeded at delivering amazing short-term gains for their members at the cost of killing companies and industries. Ask any old-timers in the printing industry if you want to start grokking the subject.
I'd be more sympathetic if there weren't laws requiring adherence to standards.
http://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

Page 41, Second paragraph:
"The keys, and the file’s metadata, are stored by Apple in the user’s iCloud account. The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as Amazon S3 and Windows Azure."
Arguably, Clovis people at the end of the last Ice Age killed off the majority of large mammals in North and South America. Living at a subsistence level is no real remedy against impact on the environment.

What I believe will happen, and really, we are already starting to see this happen in the United States, is that the concentration of humanity into denser populations in the urban and suburban zones means that the more rural zones become abandoned and grow back up. New England is more densely forested now than it has been in 200 years, because the population has concentrated in the cities, and land that was formerly cleared for intensive agriculture has fallen into disuse.
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I can't speak for parent, but I believe people who read a paper a day, don't try to understand it deeply enough to be able to start implementing whatever the paper talks about. Rather it is read to get an idea of the approach and what kind of results it will give and what kind of problems it can solve.
I'm not job seeking at the moment but when I was, I would have paid for a site like this that would allow me to create tailored resumes for each application, manage the list, and ideally have some version control. Might be outside the scope of what you were working on but definitely a way to go from side project to side business. Contact me if you'd like more feedback.
Makes sense. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
The CEO of Sonic.net points out that their wholesale bandwidth cost decreases a little each year. They have no caps on their DSL or fiber services.
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Exactly! I had left options on the table at several companies because I knew about the tax implications. In one case, I would have made money had I accepted the options.

During the 1999 crash, they actually bailed out some dot-come speculators who "didn't know" about AMT. This outraged me. I purposely didn't speculate, and yet I was forced to subsidize those who did. America is disgustingly unfair.

(Most of the people posting here do not understand taxes and the AMT.)
Exactly this. The quality of advice is also much better. The first thing they'll tell you is "you need to get insurance, these things are not toys".

Now you can walk into Maplin (UK electronics store) and buy a £200 drone as a Christmas gift for your 12 year old. The rep who sells you the drone won't tell you about insurance, or how dangerous they can be, or anything...
This isn't patent trolling. Apple and Ericsson had a license agreement and when it ended they couldn't agree on a new price and went to court about it. They've now reached a price they both agree to in this settlement.
I take it you mean they don't want you to work there?
There are pretty significant differences. Prior to the latest version, the women's product has been much larger (they're pretty similar now, except for the blade assembly). The blades also included a larger rubber pad on both the top and bottom of the blades. On a basic visual inspection, the women's product seems like it should cost more.

I'd imagine some women prefer the larger blade and find the much larger handle more convenient for reaching areas of the body men don't typically shave. My wife, however, loves using my (inexpensive) Dorco razor. She doesn't care about the added padding on the top/bottom of the blades, nor that it's not specifically a "women's" product. I think the marketing copy holds some actual realities here. They've made a product that they believe was designed to meet unique shaving needs of most women, it's a product that uses more raw materials, and required unique R&D that was not shared with their men's razor. It also had the added risk that women would reject it due to these differences.
If you have shareholders, you can't legally make that call.
As near as I can tell, this proof would work in any well-ordered integral domain D where D's field of fractions would the role of the rationals. The analogue of the standard proof would require that D also be a unique factorization domain (or maybe the slightly weaker condition that any two elements have a GCD).

It might be the case that all these properties together "force" D to be a UFD or that the author snuck another property of the integers in there, but I've only taken a cursory look.
VLC can play anything!

More seriously: the bitrates do not affect a player's compatibility with the container or video/audio format. For instance, if VLC can play H263, it doesn't matter if you use Handbrake to output 5100kbps or 100kbps.
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And to prevent others from doing similar work.
Is it the slippery slope you're worried about?

Nobody is really talking about killing people in this thread. What is being said is that the unnecessary development of Africa will lead to a population explosion and vast increase in consumption of resources that will hurt animals. We should not be encouraging development, and should focus on curating the African wilderness.
No, FreedomBox is Debian rather than a derivative.
I won a Pebble Time Steel at work, but decided not to keep it since I already have the iWatch. It'll be a Christmas gift.

A co-worker has the LG G Watch R. I really like the look of it, but I haven't used it. I was really hoping the native apps would speed up. I'm not sure if the Hue Lights app is native but, without exaggerating, it takes more than 30 seconds or longer to open the app on the watch, and sometimes it just doesn't open at all. It's faster to take out my phone and use the widget.
There is no indication that Juniper cooperated with the NSA or acted intentionally to compromise its products.

All software has defects, and if bugs entitled customers to civil damages there would be 0 technology companies left alive. The standard is negligence, but the NSA is sophisticated enough to compromise designs that were not negligent.
While you may have a point for patent trolls fishing for royalties on obvious "inventions", this hardly applies to Ericsson: http://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/products
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A "component" needed to make a product is your salary and skills. Should you not get paid a salary for your effort and know-how? I mean, it's not like you are building "the whole product," you are just building some feature.
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Ericsson actually made the world's first full touchscreen smartphone in 2000, seven years before the iPhone:

http://www.gsmhistory.com/ericsson-r380/

This model R380 had a plastic flip in front of the touch screen. With the flip closed, it looked like an average chunky Ericsson phone (the keys on the flip pressed the touchscreen). With the flip open, it became essentially a widescreen PDA with mobile data access (although browsing the Internet on GSM data sure wasn't fast or cheap).

The successor model P800 had a color screen and was more pocketable. It was so far ahead of its time that "Steve Jobs was heard raving about it" [1].

Patents aside (I'm not qualified to comment), it's not quite so far-fetched that Apple's iPhone project does actually have a spiritual debt to Ericsson.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/04/sony_ericsson_p990i_...
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> Delivering actual value to customers.

That's exactly what companies usually patent - things or methods that deliver value, because theoretically it's what patenting is all about.
It was only added in September[1], if that makes you feel any better.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
"No. I have read about welfare reducing poverty. I'm sure you have, too."

Only in the short-term. In the long-term, it creates generations of people completely dependent on the government, never really getting the chance to get themselves out of poverty.

All of my extended family are like this. They don't work because the government gives them enough to live.

"No. I have read about public schools outperforming private charter schools."

Where is the proof of this? In my area, the public schools are terrible. It sickens me that I have to pay taxes to support them when they just continue to spiral downward. It's also impossible to get rid of bad teachers, because whenever some sort of solution is suggested (for measuring effectiveness), the unions come back and say it isn't possible.

"The question isn't whether or not liberal policies solve problems far more effectively than Republican policies. The question is how quickly you will accept that truth"

Most liberal solutions that I've seen leave out human nature and a history of complete failure and re-dress it as something 'new'.
They did about two years ago. http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iOS_Security_Fe... (emphasis added):

"Each file is broken into chunks and encrypted by iCloud using AES-128 and a key derived from each chunk’s contents that utilizes SHA-256. The keys, and the file’s metadata, are stored by Apple in the user’s iCloud account. The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as Amazon S3 and Windows Azure."
I mean, this is what they agree to in order to keep making the product. This was a settlement and is what apple agreed to instead of having to discontinue the property theft and pay damages. consider this intellectual property in the way you would consider copyright, if i gave out an album but had stolen a song on it I could license the song and give the original artist a cut off the top or else i could be sued and give up my ability to keep distributing the album. It's not that this is up for grabs it's that this is what they are willing to give up to continue using ericsson's property and ameliorate previous damages.
There have been several different Global Trends reports. Currently in progress is Global Trends 2035, which is being prepared by crowd sourcing rather than a team of experts. See http://www.dni.gov/index.php/about/organization/national-int... for a description. The earlier reports (2010, 2015, 2020, 2025, and 2030) are linked at the bottom of the page. Other reports can be found at http://www.dni.gov/index.php/about/organization/national-int....
I'm pretty sure shell.de was owned by a private person named Shell in the 90s or early 00s as well, but now it's the Petroleum Shell.
tl;dr -- if you are not a founder, your stock is never going to get as much thought as a founder / investor's will. And also they make decisions on your behalf, often which benefits them greatly, and you little.
> If you don't want a union, pay your employees well (well above market), or have a great working environment

Third option seems to move the jobs out of the country, which is what happened to highly unionized manufacturing sector.
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What's special about hardware patents?
It's not about money, it's about power. He who directs what a few hundred million people see on the internet has tremendous power - and that what Zuckerberg is after. He is not to be trusted with such power - no one should be trusted with such power.
Any chance for Linux prerelease?
> "Split image into 4 parts

My iMac has 2GB of GPU memory because it’s for home-use.
It’s insufficient size for larger image output.
It can output a little bit larger result when its display resolution set down to 640px x 480px.

It still needed to split images into 4 parts for 720p high quality video.

It caused a side effect which each frame has a border at the joint of the parts."

You seem to be correct on why the frame is split into four quadrants.
My old boss absolutely loved his P800, right until he got his iPhone 3G (this being Canada, we didn't get the original iPhone.)
Schadenfreude may amuse, but what we have here is not even a casino. It is a massive negative-sum (to the non-lawyer participants) game where winning usually turns on procedural points having nothing relevant to do with the actual conflict. (If you disagree, then kindly explain the Eastern District Court of Texas.)

The result is this huge coercion machine that pretty much randomly chews up small companies and rewards attorneys and (somewhat randomly) large ones.
>You are passionate about the mission

How come? No, in all seriousness, mission is secondary to growth for startups, isn't it? If you are passionate about the mission, shouldn't you join a non-profit?
There were lots of patents, including some that are deemed essential to the various wireless standards (2G/3G/4G/LTE).
The purpose of the limitation isn't to save peering costs, it's to ensure users click on Facebook's ads and compensate them for the costs of providing cellular access.
Really? Cause that sounds exactly like what he was saying.
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No, that's been tried and it doesn't work well for multicopters.

* They're only effective from quite some altitude, much higher than you typically fly multicopters

* They'll still just soften the landing somewhat anyway

* Multicopters are much more fragile than, say, EPP planes,

* You have to make sure they don't get caught up in the props

* Also you need to find a reliable way to trigger them -- for model aircraft in general and multicopters in particular, humans are way too slow and sudden high accelerations in arbitrary directions are common for multicopters.