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Sure: profits.

If you can sell your users the old stuff at inflated prices why bother to upgrade.

An area where I lived could not get broadband internet at all, only dial up at a ridiculous per minute rate. Then some local entrepreneurial type put in high speed wi-fi with a long distance link to a better connected place.

Within weeks suddenly all those old lines could run at dsl speeds, something that before had been 'theoretically impossible, and very expensive to remedy'.

Telcos hate competition.
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Yeah, that's the sort of leaderboard that I like. Not the global ones.

Also, it should be pretty easy to make it newb friendly: Just don't make any of the stats lifetime stats. Monthly or Weekly should be good.
I was very skeptical of the Engadget shots, but it's hard to argue with the depth of detail in this article. If it isn't the final design, I can't see it being too different.

OTOH, if the prototype is legit I wonder if Gizmodo will come to regret publishing the article. Even assuming the phone was 'found' and not stolen as Gruber implies in this morning's Daring Fireball post, the article seems like a pretty clear violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. Gizmodo knew it was a secret prototype, who it belonged to, and that it had been lost or stolen. I'd love to hear a lawyer's opinion, though.
If he's honorable, he'll fall on his own sword for the Dear Leader.
If you had a brompton I think it'd be fine (red gate hq is miles from station - literally)
a) Story has nothing to do with its conclusion.

b) So when did Starbucks start using the awful coffee it uses nowadays? Or do they merely buy good beans and roast them badly?
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...and here I was thinking about X11 authority. Silly me.
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Staged or not, expect a lot more Android phones with front-facing video cameras...
I burst out laughing after clicking that. I feel bad for those people.
This is important enough of a usage note that I'm going to probably mention it in my software's documentation. I personally largely ignore this issue and thing I'm probably safe doing so with my usual testing workflow, but it is an easy thing to burn yourself on if you sit and watch your dashboard all day.
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This is so depressing. I pay $25 for 12mbps. And even that's a half-off special only good for the first six months.
The headline says Apple, but is more about Foxconn and briefly mentions Dell and HP. It seems like a bad idea to do the correct thing and openly talk about issues with your suppliers.

I am really disappointed in journalism today or that this guy gets paid to write this stuff.
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Impressive if true. That would give it a density of 326 pixels per inch, which is higher than everything here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_densi....
That is depressing, I pay more for a lot less via Comcast in the US.
I still see that high a resolution as very unlikely (assuming you meant the Gruber number of 640x960).

The iPhone 2G–3GS all have a 163 ppi pixel density, while the iPad has only 132 ppi. Doubling each dimension of the iPhone's 320x480 pixels would result in four times the pixel information across the same area—making for a massive 652 ppi, nearly five times the density of the iPad, and well over twice what is generally considered sufficient for print resolution.

Much more likely is a 480x720 display, which would yield about 360 ppi.
Yeah, I don't see what it has to do with numbers--the explanation to the customers was the only thing that made it work; while only 10% of them may have been able to tell the difference, 100% of them would like to think they'd be able to tell the difference, and would gladly pay more to signal that ability.
Some notes:

1. This pricing subject to a 24 month contract and an installation fee.

2. They only guarantee this speed locally(read: within the network), so they're not getting 1000mbps everywhere.
> "The first programmers (in a certain sense, wiring the first calculation machines in certain ways to achieve certain results) in fact were women"

I'd argue that "programming" in Ada Lovelace's age is more closely related to modern-day science than computer-science. Note also that scientific fields today are in no real shortage of women.

I think the possibility needs to be raised that there's something fundamentally wrong with our field, or at least the people in it - an uncomfortable thought to be sure, but the sheer number of women (growing at that) in every "geeky" field but CS should be an indicator of something.

This reminds me of a conversation I had yesterday...

I'm just going to throw something out there: I know a lot of CS majors, and a lot of science majors. The science majors are a geeky bunch, but are normal, functioning people for the most part. They will just as easily gab all day about some biological principle as they will the latest pop sensation. Their geekiness complements their personality.

Contrast this with the CS majors I know, where their geekiness is their personality. It's almost as if we try too hard to be the stereotype that it is, in the end, all that's left. Not to say all CS majors are like this, but the loudest, most visible ones certainly are, at least where I came from. I know it's a turnoff for me (and I'm a guy), I can't imagine how annoying that'd be for women.
The US isn't exactly the most gender equal country in the world, so I'll be pretty surprised if women aren't being discriminated against in the tech industry.
Is Gizmodo willing to commit suicide for an exclusive?

On the other hand, is Apple willing to eat the bad press it would get from crushing Gizmodo?
I'm no coffee expert but I've heard it said that Starbucks' coffee is not so much bad as it is different and an acquired taste. Of course, these could be the words of apologists, but if so, is Starbucks entirely living on the dollars of coffee dilettantes?
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Automating ssh, however, is surprisingly painful.
It's a big deal because now you can just go ahead and use it and no manager can complain that it's not an official language. Hackers sometimes forget how conservative the mainstream IT industry can be.
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Keep in mind that we still have a few months before the official announcement, if the past three releases are anything to go by. Also, this unit was found in a case to disguise it as a regular 3GS iPhone, and the seams may help it fit better in such a case.
"The fact that most women don't want to engage in programming is not a natural phenomenon"

It's potentially not a natural phenomenon. To the extent it is unnatural, we should strive to fix it, but most theories behind the discrepancy are conjecture, and when people are blamed for creating an inhospitable environment for others without concrete evidence behind it, nothing constructive will come of it.
Would someone please enlighten me what's wrong with my comment above instead of just following the herd and downvoting?
It sounds like Arista only makes the sheet metal and control plane; Dune should really get the credit.
I agree it's all about priorities. Once you live in the city and get used to the hustle-bustle and the fast paced life where most things are close-by and you can walk to most places or take public transit, it becomes part of your system.

I've lived in cities most of my life and when I had to live in the suburbs once, it was very hard to adjust to the quiet at first. Not seeing a lot of people walking around, going about their lives made me feel something was missing. The mobility and being able to use your feet as the primary means of transport was something I missed dearly.
1. If you are setting up servers, you don't need to transfer private keys anyway. You may want to transfer client public key to server, but that is absolutely unrelated to man-in-the-middle, paranoia or anything.

2. If you are setting up servers, you may want to transfer the server public (not private) key to client, but what's the point? Ssh/scp will do it for you anyway, and you already know the remote end public key fingerprint anyway -- since you are setting it up.

So, no, "ultra-paranoid" doesn't explain the pastes in question. "Ultra-ignorant" does :)
My broadband is also subject to a contract (12 months) and has no guarantee whatsoever... They say it's 24 Mbit, but in practice, even to London it's only about 10 - and to other parts of the world it can be a lot lower.
From the article, it looks like it was remote wiped before anyone could play with the new OS.
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Yes, government-granted monopolies. This going beyond things like spectrum regulation, but also to exclusivity deals that municipalities sign with various providers. In Asia this just doesn't happen.

When your customers need to be online, and there's no one else but you that offers service, you can sell them whatever the hell you want.

We have loud outcries about Goldman Sachs and other sorts of corporate shenanigans, yet we make no noise when our city governments blatantly jump in bed (publicly admitted as such!) with telecoms.
The first programmers (in a certain sense, wiring the first calculation machines in certain ways to achieve certain results) in fact were women, but something badly changed since then.

You are somewhat misrepresenting what the original job of "programmers" was. The programmer's job was to translate algorithms written in a higher level language (flow charts) into machine code. The people writing flow charts were predominantly men and went by the title "Systems Engineer".

Men were the first programmers, under the modern definition of the term. Women were the first compilers.

The major change since then is that compiling high level code to machine code is now done by a computer program rather than a person. That's not a shame of our society, that's a triumph of computer science.
I'd say this is a prototype hardware unit. The sides don't look finished, not with large, visible creases. There's no way they'll go from the smoothness of the MBP & iPad to something far less elegant with large visible gaps.
The Milgram experiment goes a long way in explaining the amorality of groups, but I think I have a simpler argument:

Even if all people have equally strong consciences, some of them will worry more about proximate responsibility ("clean hands") and others about ultimate responsibility ("clear conscience"). In other words, some people would be more okay with ordering a man shot as long as they don't have to pull the trigger, and others would be more okay with joining a firing squad as long as they don't give the orders. Once the former start giving orders to the latter, the group will be able to do worse things than any individual member was capable of, but everyone still feels morally okay.

To put it yet another way, for each morally questionable task that arises, a large group will probably contain someone who doesn't object to that specific task. Division of labor ensures that group morality sinks to the lowest common denominator.
You're absolutely correct, but it's actually pretty common to distribute that public key all over hell and then start shuffling the private one around between the ones you find yourself ssh-ing off of. At my last job, this practice among wayward sysadmins caused me a lot of gnashing of teeth.
I'd imagine it's up to the developer to support different resolutions; like with iPad apps.
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Previously posted at:

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1276732
I think that law would be fairly ineffectual. The people who misuse private information now, go to great lengths to hide the fact that they're collecting your information. Google and Facebook use it very effectively, but practically everyone knows what they're doing. What will change with this law?
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"Most are."

I think that's the most important point. The six point test is important, but its so vague that it can give people a false sense of safety.

From the linked NYT article:

"'If you’re a for-profit employer or you want to pursue an internship with a for-profit employer, there aren’t going to be many circumstances where you can have an internship and not be paid and still be in compliance with the law,' said Nancy J. Leppink, the acting director of the department’s wage and hour division. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html
For obvious reasons, you're much better off generating a new keypair for that (not reusing any existing private keys).
Subtle change in the headlines here: GB/s to Gb/s. Things get confusing quickly but B is bytes, and b is bits. (Except when it says something like MBits).

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I think Foursquare's value is more likely in their relationships with businesses than the user base. As many have said, the userbase isn't that large yet, maybe a million people. But they're right on the verge of kicking in to the awareness of businesses, which is after all where their revenue is.

I was at the buffet at the Las Vegas Hilton a couple of weeks ago, and they have the little internal advertising cards on the table. You know, visit our nightclub, see our show, that kind of thing. But one of the items was a "Check in with Foursquare, get rewards" card. That changed my perception of where Foursquare is with things. And what they really are.

The casino sees them as another customer loyalty program. If they're providing customer loyalty programs to every business in the world...well. That's a market. And that's where they seem to be making the most inroads, moreso than with users so far. But if the businesses start helping them advertise, ala the casino...

Foursquare is on the verge of being MUCH bigger in very short order. That's why the feeding frenzy is happening right NOW.
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But Apple doesn't seem to have too much problem "stirring up press" with their product launches.

If anything this might result in "Segway Syndrome" where all the excitement happens long (well, two months or so) before the product is available, and by the time it launches it's yesterday's news.
Is your physical location really part of your privacy if you're in a public place?

I can understand that if you're at home on the toilet or something you'd want to keep that private. But when you're walking around the city, or going to a shop, those are public spaces. Therefore it's not private information that you would be divulging, as anyone in that location would have that same information.

Then if you didn't want people to know where you are online you would change the settings, or just not use the application. This is just another example of Clay Shirky's idea of Filter Failure.
It's not a problem in cosmetology, but it's a huge problem in nursing and elementary education. Qualified people are being discouraged from fields that would benefit greatly from their participation, based solely on their gender.
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wasn't it still a surprise when you clicked the link?
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They have several.

To answer your question, if I was to pick up only one, the first that came to my mind was "pageviews". So, everything that increases pageviews is good. Well, not quite, because so is CTR, and in fact doubling CTR allows you to halve pageviews.

Anyway, whatever they think of, the ultimate step is money earned. No single path leads to this, but several, like pageviews, CTR, click value, searches per day, other services integration, etc...

Edited: You're thinking about A/B testing but I don't know if you're aware there's also multivariate testing, which Google does use (its optimizer easily creates A/B and multivariate).
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I pay $39.99 for 10mbps. And I only seem to get it on speedtests... everything else is pokey as heck.
It has its own grammar, distinct from English, its own vocabulary, and native speakers -- what more do you want from a language?
With python you have Fabric and paramiko which makes automating ssh very strait forward.
Why not an environment where you're just a click or two away from browsing (editing, changing, and running) the source code of everything?

http://www.squeak.org

Edit: To encourage kids to tweak and program, make the source easy to get to and a breeze to modify. Forcing them to type The whole program to do this strikes me as a bit indirect. We did it in the early 80's because we had to. Often, there was no other way to get your hands on that particular program. Today's environment is vastly different.
In response to some of the comments made in this page, doesn't the very fact that some jobs seem more "natural" to one gender or another actually only serve to magnify the problem here?

Why are plumbers and programmers alike seen more as a male profession, and cosmetology a female one? There's no evolutionary basis for it - feats of strength and endurance kind of go out of the window when we're all utilizing tools to minimize the job's physical impact. Lawyers certainly aren't reliant on any gender-specific genetic traits to perform their job.

It seems as if most readers here seem to be missing the picture: much of these biases, and they are biases, are entirely cultural, not sex-specific. There is a /cultural/ problem with programming that causes the field to innately repel most potential female programmers.

Saying that there's some things women do and some thing men do, and never the two shall meet, isn't just an obsolete 1950s attitude - it's like a bunch of schoolchildren whining about cooties. Asserting that the field /shouldn't/ try and attract a more diverse workforce has all sorts of nasty underlying implications that I'm sure most of you don't mean. The tech industry isn't and shouldn't be a boys-only club - it should be an industry that prizes intelligence and capability above all other factors, especially gender.
If this was not an intentional leak, well... There'll be hell to pay.

This has to be by far the earliest and deepest leak Apple has had in the Steve Jobs II era, if not in its history. New iPods have occasionally been blurrily snapped a week or so before the unveiling; ambiguous new MacBook chassis parts have been leaked from factories weeks before the reveal, even the iPad was caught in a photo of its lockup the night before its unveiling.

But here we have a fairly radical redesign of the flagship iPhone, with the actual prototype hardware in full possession of a gadget blog fully two months before it was to be formally shown to the public.

The mood around One Infinite Loop can't be a pleasant one this morning.
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Sometimes there is more than one "correct" method. In a lot of those cases, the "wrong" way is pretty specific, or at least tightly constrained. At such times, it is easier to explain that instead of explaining a large group of extremely different options.

Other times, it is just a simple case of "I don't know what works, but I know what doesn't work". This allows the next person to not make that mistake.
Well spotted. Updated.
You don't think you would be a little happier knowing that when you die your name will still be written in history books for decades or centuries to come?
I've found StackOverflow to be extremely helpful when learning about programming. It fills in the gaps and complements textbooks, API documentation, and building stuff on your own nicely. Many times I've even answered my own question before pressing "Post Your Question".
There have been hundreds of phones with front-facing cameras and yet actually using video conferencing still hasn't caught on. People like the idea more than actually using it.
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I haven't read through the PDF though, however I did contact Neil to take him up on his offer of a free copy. I'm always interested to see something that clearly inspired him and the people he respects...

He wrote back promptly saying that a copy was on it's way. I'm looking forward to reading through it!
What you've outlined makes it sound like men were the first software architects, but women were still programmers. Translating a software design into code is definitely still programming, don't you think?
If you get a huge purchase order from a new customer, that would show as income

This is NOT true.

A purchase order is a promise to buy, nothing else. It does not become income under any accounting method until you actually invoice that customer. That normally occurs when you actually deliver products or services to them.

Once you invoice that customer, it is considered income using the accrual method whether or not your customer pays their bill. It only becomes income using the cash method when they actually do pay the bill. I imagine that's the distinction OP was trying to point out.

Moral of the story: for accounting advice, seek an accountant, not a blog entry posted on hn.
It's extremely, extremely unlikely that this was done on purpose.
Is it "install Linux"?
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A nice simple alternative to gliffy or a napkin.
I used to read hex-dumps over the phone with my buddy, complete with checksum in the 'pre-affordable-modem' days.

DATA statements aside, typing in reams of code from hard copy certainly ingrained the ability to predict what the code did long before finishing the typing in, and I'm sure that is something that comes in handy even today when scanning other peoples' code.

I think it is harder today to get started programming than it ever was in the past, the 'bar for entry' is no longer some crappy little game you can write in three days but some three-d studio produced glitzy epic adventure. No way 'block shoots block' is going to live up to that, even if you did write all of it yourself, and the 'enterprise' being the red block isn't much of a winner either.

Computers are no longer 'knowable', and this is another matter that needs addressing if we really want to lower the bar for understanding what goes on under the hood.
I have good results by using opendns and my own local caching dns server. Throughput is great, unless of course your DNS lookups add giant lag.
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Yeah, the HTC Evo is totally copying this phone that we only now got some info on.
How many mouse clicks does it require to share a file or folder?
Another tip: Do it when you're motivated, don't wait, because motivation might fade and not come back for a while.
My theory is that they intentionally burn the coffee during roasting to make every cup consistent. Also, relatively speaking, the various espresso drinks are much better than the plain coffee. The sugar and cream do wonders to cover up the over-roasting.
Is there an objective standard for "normal, functioning people" or is this a slightly more sophisticated High School 2.0 way of partitioning hobbies or personality quirks into ones which are socially acceptable and ones which are not?