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It will probably be $20 per month on Verizon. That is what it charges currently for other phones.

Verizon did make this service free on the Palm Pre, so it's possible it could be free for the iPhone 4 as well. But I think that was more because the Palm Pre was unpopular whereas the iPhone will be plenty popular.
I'd be upset, but T-Mobile failed to get an upgrade smartphone to me within 2 months of my order and so I switched to Vodafone and got it within 3 days.

Full story, for the interested:

I had recently moved home and tried to use T-Mobile's website to update my address. Unfortunately, it had one of those forms which require you to enter a postal code and select the correct address from the results of a postal code lookup, with no way to manually correct it. Since the postal code lookup didn't give my address, I chose to call T-Mobile's customer service number to get the address changed at the same time as asking for an upgrade.

I spoke to one customer service representative to update the address, confirming very clearly that they had the correct address, and then asked to be put through to the upgrades department. After negotiating the upgrade, I asked whether it would be dispatched to the new address I had just given them and was assured that it would, within the next week.

A week and a half later, the phone had not arrived and I hadn't heard anything, so I called again to find out the status of the order, and was told that the phone had been dispatched to a non-existent address as that was what T-Mobile had on file for me. In fact, it was the incorrect address suggested by the postal code lookup service which I had specifically called to have corrected. Note also that T-Mobile had on record that the phone could not be delivered and neglected to contact me.

After updating my records (finally) to the correct address, T-Mobile told me they couldn't send out another phone as stock was limited and that they couldn't simply send the erroneously sent handset to the correct address once it returned to them because that "wasn't how their system worked".

Another month of going round in circles with inept customer support reps and I was gone. Next time I won't be so patient.
The Finite World
Doug - where did you get the stock photos for each landing page?
According to her facebook she lives in Wilmington, Delaware.

Most days I imagine she will have no snow on her bucket.
Neat idea. I may try this myself, living up in the woods of Vermont I have snow on my buckets from Nov-March.
Don't even get us old timers started on how we used to mount CD drives. Editing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS and making sure the sound card driver loaded after so it wouldn't steal the same interrupt, and sometimes D:\ would appear to be there but you couldn't read it ... ah, my back hurts! Get off my lawn!
Already they are chipping away at net nutrality by sniffing around what you are doing on THEIR Internet. They are becoming gate-keepers for what kinds of content can pass through their shiny gates.

It is only a matter of time until this turns into finer and finer gradient of what applications/features/utilities you can and can't use at any given time.
In Italy, too.
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The madness of corporate web filters
And the UK on some networks. O2 for example charge more, 3 just take it out of your phones data allowance.
How come I read this function out loud as String to Death?
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Google Paints Chrome Into A Corner With Open Stance
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Technology induced unemployment
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Storing data in the cloud can and should be safe though, the ideas of economy of scale, and secure storage should not be mutually exclusive.
Be careful. Sometimes the reason you code slower is that you are thinking from an architectural level and are making sure your code is a reasonable fit. Sometimes you are taking the time to shape the code in a way that is maintainable.

I have felt this loss of what the author calls "programming innocence", but when I dig down deeply, I think it is more that I am doing MORE work than less. When I was young and stupid, I thought I was implementing features, and I whipped things out quickly. Lord do I remember also spending a lot of time debugging those things, and if I came back to the project a few months later, I would find it hard to read, figured I knew better, and would rewrite the whole thing with my newfangled enlightenment. Today, I spend a lot less time debugging and rewriting, and my projects are more feature-complete. It may feel like I am programming slower, but I am still whipping things out, and unlike my young days where I was my own customer, my requirements are constantly changing: I write code that can evolve.
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Probably not... using the iPhone as a wifi AP is going to drain the battery even faster, and one would imagine there are a lot of people who want an ipad but not an iphone.
Why is this news? I thought this had been available on AT&T for sometime... and Verizon has had this feature for well over a year (really, longer for plain ole tethering) on Android phones.

Or is it just the distinction between tethering and "personal hotspot"? I suppose I'm used to my free "Wireless Tether" as "tethering" where it more meets Apple and Verizon's description of "personal hotspot".

Whatever, they just want to call it that to make it seem more justifiable that VZW's going to charge extra for it.
I have filled out an informal complaint and hope everyone else does so that your ISP will finally open these ports again without an abundant fee.
Before going to school, and thereafter in the summer, I do remember writing WATFIV and SNOBOL programs on punch cards, but I used a card punch machine to create them.
>You don't actually have to pay your pants off with royalties to some group

Really? How is paying a few cents a user 'paying your pants off' ?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/h264-patents-how-much-do-they...
Wireless limits have to be hit some day. Each tower supports one bandwidth-worth of traffic no matter how many users are in that area. Imagine a wired network with hundreds of people on one switch.

Of course they are handling it badly. But its not the case that they have any simple recourse - a successful ad campaign resulted in oversubscribed bandwidth. They can install more towers - lag time: months or years to get the right-of-way. They can improve cacheing etc on their end. And they can get folks to use it less.
In addition to the other reasons mentioned, I imagine it is also a decent proxy for a number of other characteristics (white, from a wealthy family) that you might not want to make explicit in your recruiting strategy. I guess Harvard just isn't doing a good enough job screening on those things these days.
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Qualcomm buys Atheros - good luck with that
Google, H.264 and Video on the Web
I think the deeplink suggestion is good. If I stumbled across these urls, I might just think it was some evil tracking code or something and strip it off, deeplink is meaningful and gives me a clue that it does something clever. Great work btw.
I live in India, and I pay a grand total of $5 a month for 2Gb(that's right) of data and I don't even know how many minutes and SMSs(no charges for incoming, btw). I am always shocked when I hear of people paying over $60 a month for a phone that they don't even own. The telco industry in India is ridiculously cut-throat because of their fungibility. I think over 90% of all mobile connections are prepaid here. Its working out beautifully. We also get really weird plans, like Rs.10($0.2) per website per month you access. Since there is competition and the telcos know their place, nobody gets riled up about this. It actually works out really cheap for a lot of people I know.

On the other hand, you guys are talking about LTE, and we still don't have 3G, so what do I know?
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Thank you for all the attention and fantastic suggestions. I have begun implementing most of the suggestions here and we are going on a revamp of the site based on these recommendations.

It is very easy to become disenfranchised with a project such as this, but it is good to know that there is support somewhere!

Will it work? Maybe. Will it fail? Possibly. But it is worth trying
Gotta give you props for your "roll up your sleeves" philosophy..You know, a blog post you wrote a few years ago, had something in it about things not being as hard as they first look. That one line inspired me to go learn Python, then ruby, rails, javascript, css etc I guess its time now to stop mucking around and learn some photoshop.

PS Just noticed this was not posted by the author, but the comment still applies
It is a good analogy but it would be more appropriate to use a theocracy or a benovelonet dictatorship that wants to take over the world. It cam free everyone of dangerous choices that way.
You had cards? We had to use a hammer and awl to punch the holes into vellum that we tanned ourselves.
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Agreed, hiring is hard.

If you have specific, defined tasks, it's better to get a contractor. For example, for my current project, I hired a sysadmin for about a week to set up a new infrastructure, configuring puppet and so on. Sure, I could have done it myself, but that would have taken a lot of time and probably wouldn't have been done as well (I'm more dev than admin).
Who Owns Your Data?
They will have to buy it from some other company then: if they don't have the bandwith, they shouldn't sell it.
The overwhelming majority of iOS devs make little to
nothing, documented countless times

Not true. The majority of iOS devs I know make a decent revenue stream that involves making apps for the like of Fortune 500 companies and startups. Since they walk the company through the whole process of becoming a registered Apple iOS developer, you would never know the app was ghost-coded.
Another customer who's fed up with this. I went with T-Mobile just over a month ago knowing they had other limitations - worse coverage and slower data rates - specifically because they had good data terms. Now this isn't true, and I _will_ be kicking up a fuss about this in the effort to get either this rescinded or my contract cancelled without penalty (for which I'm quite happy to return the phone provided under it).

T-Mobile, a thought experiment for you. You've decided you only want to provide me with half of a key service that you agreed to when I agreed to the contract. How about I reciprocate and only want to provide you with half of the payment I said I would? Would that be OK too?
It might be like that but the point of my original post was that the correctness of the GT job was verified by native Spanish speakers (one might say it's a sort of a Turing test), not that my Spanish was bad so I thought translations are done good.
Likely the argument would be that it is industry standard that "unlimited" means "capped at a high level". And that industry standards trump dictionary definitions.

This is not the case for your other examples.
I watched my current company grow from 6 employees to 100 employees and along the way I realized I don't have the riskiness to do what our founders did. Our founders spent 2 solid years hiring people with no work for them to do, and within 4 weeks turning around and selling work we didn't have enough employees to fulfill for. This tit-for-tat growth was probably a bit unstable but they went back and forth between overhiring and overselling to the point that we are now a stable and have always been a profitable company.

I have a lot of respect for entreprenuers that can just jump in and make things work like that.
No, you don't have to decide on the one or the other. They can very well be combined. Profit isn't guaranteed either if you simply copy someone elses idea. And if you come up with a good new idea you might make a big profit.
Google URL Shortener gets an API
Is Mobile Affecting When We Read?
Then a message should be sent to a server that forwards the SMS text.
What possible benefit would being a rower bring to working in an investment bank?

Perhaps I'm being cynical here, but rowers are usually white, tall, and fit. The usually have broad shoulders, long limbs, and tanned faces. Much of the job of an investment banker is looking the part.
> forced millions of users...

While there may be millions of servers running PHP, I doubt millions of users (PHP programmers) were the ones upgrading them. I'd be shocked, if _most_ PHP programmers have ever installed PHP themselves.
You must have exclusively learnt Arabic at school then.
Microsoft challenges Apple's App Store trademark
A handy quick test of your current IPv6 readiness is to try Google IPv6: http://ipv6.google.com/

Sadly it doesn't work for me - for curiosity's sake I'm now going to try via Lynx from my servers :)
I like how the author rants that the existence of this bug as totally unacceptable then suggests instead using clang compiler "for those who [...] can tolerate a few bugs"
>It shouldn't be anything to do with the carrier. The carrier should be a pipe.

Blame bandwidth delusions all around for that.

Carriers price on the assumption that while your caps are high, they really want your usage to be low. This is simply a response to customer delusions that the pipes are boundless and free (which is not true on landlines, and is enormously untrue in the wireless spectrum): See all of the salivation over the supposed unlimited plan Verizon might offer.

So my cell plan gives me 5GB. In an average month I seldom use 500MB (I'm always around wifi it seems), and that's exactly within their expectations. If I start tethering my phone, however, my average is going to go way up.

If carriers priced simply on throughput -- say $0.10 a MB or something -- they would be overjoyed to turn on and encourage all of the tethering you could ever want.
Secret businesses aimed to exploit vaccine fears, British Medical Journal finds
Ask HN: How do talent acquisitions work?
How are these types of deals initiated, negiotated, priced? Is it only realistic for US-based teams?
How many people are in the position where they are getting money thrown at them, vs. people who are looking for funding but can't get any?

What does that say about the perspective of the funder vs the perspective of the fundee
Looking for funding
First Past the Post, isn't.
Getting Money Thrown at me
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The difference $16 million will make for Bump (YC S09)
I'm very surprised that C# rated so highly - maybe I'm out of touch - has it really gained that much traction? Which sectors is it focused in? Is it largely due it being pushed strongly by Microsoft, or are there other reasons for large takeup?
http://test-ipv6.com/ gives you a bit more info about exactly what is working and what isn't in regards to your v6 connection.
To be perfectly honest with you, your comment reads far better without the use of the word fanboi. That's name calling, and it sits at the lowest rung of Paul Graham's "how to disagree" scale.
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My dissertation research involved using (and, most importantly, evaluating) GT for certain medical text problems (going from EN->ES), and I found that its performance is highly domain-dependent (i.e., the quality of its translations depends a lot on what kind of input text you're feeding it). Furthermore, I found that whether or not it's "good enough" depends heavily on the user, specifically that user's level of proficiency in English.

GT is better than a lot of machine translation systems, but it still falls victim to a number of common problems that face such systems. Specifically, I've run into a lot of major word-sense-disambiguation issues, especially when working with the sort of short snippets of text that the gem in question uses as examples. Basically, that sort of short bit of text is a worst-case scenario for statistical machine translation, since there's so little context. Google generally does much better with longer runs of text than it does with short phrases.
It was the best of times, it was...the Blurst of times?!
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I'll add:

Cloud storage has a tremendous advantage over a local NAS when your apartment/house/office/campus burns down.
Actually I agree, I'm rather against giving programmers ability to extend native objects at free will, but I'm still for strings being objects in PHP, or even having "everything-is-an-object" approach there.
You're probably right; I can't imagine that Google would have been careless enough to not have an army of lawyers look over everything before releasing it.
Stack Overflow was created by a very Microsoft-oriented team.
You could tether one computer via cable or Bluetooth. This is up to 5 with wifi.
On Polish Era network it's free but disabled by default. You have to call an actual human being to get it enabled.
How does the structure of the VC industry impact investment strategy?
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Except for a few edge cases this is the best way to make money on the App Store that I'm aware of (contracting to other companies).
I think this is a particularly important lesson as many startups seem to be raising huge rounds on big valuations before gaining a ton of traction or (seemingly) being very profitable. Even if you have a lot of cash right now, it is best to keep your burn rate low by only hiring people you really, truly, need. That's how you give the company time to find traction. Most VC backed startups are going to hire someone, but I like this perspective a lot.
Right, I'm familiar with the current rules and that they don't do very much to curb the problem of concussions or bad (read dangerous) technique. I'm not convinced that the tactical penalties need to change - they're severe enough. What I think needs to happen is that everyone, both players and referees, need to be held more accountable for their actions on the field than they currently are.

That said, though, I'm still not convinced that forcing a team to play with a 10-man team is even workable given the rules of American football, or even desirable.

For instance, would you propose that both offense and defense play with one fewer man for the rest of the game in a "send-off" scenario? What about special teams? If you used a "power-play" rule like ice hockey does, how does clock management (a huge part of American football strategy) interact with that rule?

Even if you could iron all this out, there's still the fact (which you acknowledged above) that a team playing with 10 players is extremely likely to lose to a team playing with 11. Couple this with the fact that referees are far from infallible (and are currently not held accountable for bad calls in any serious or transparent way), and you've got a case where one bad call early on could literally cost a team a game. To the best of my knowledge, personal fouls aren't contestable, and you can't appeal for a game to be replayed. This would be a huge problem even if you could iron out all the other problems with forcing a team to play undermanned. That's why I don't support that plan. Ejecting a player is fine, but not allowing substitutions is overboard given the nature of American football.
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Usability is everything: True
Perhaps a cost-saving measure would be to provide unlocked netbooks and a separate wireless connection to them, distinct from the company network. Even if employees would be discouraged to slack off, if they did, they had an outlet for it.
Since this gem appears to use Google's public API, one important thing to keep in mind is that there's probably a hard limit on the amount of text that can be translated at one go. I've found that throwing more than a thousand or so characters at GT's API results in their server throwing "URI too long" errors, since it only works via HTTP GET.

Disclaimer: This might have changed in the five or six months since I last messed around with Google's API, or, alternatively, this gem could be doing something clever to try and get around the problem. Either way, I'd suggest checking it out.
I think you underestimate the market for English-only software.
you should probably chase them off the block, because they can still grab your wifi from the neighbours lawn.
No, you have to pay extra for tethering on AT&T. Though that is effectively the same thing in the USA, at least up to now.

I believe it remains to be seen how many pounds of flesh Verizon will try to extract from iPhone tethering customers.
I implemented email autoresponders after reading Rob's stuff.

One positive side-effect I found was that many more people will reply to your mailing list email that contains a question, rather than filling an online feedback form.

I wish Mailchimp provided better autoresponder reports, as if they were manual campaigns.
Real World F#
Sorry I should have been clearer. I'm talking about people selling their own products here.

Yes, there is lots of money to be made in, essentially, consulting. That is true pretty much universally.
And this almost certainly means that I can finally tether the wifi iPad to the iPhone, an inexplicable omission that has always been annoying.
Not a very clever one liner but I'll bite. My opinion appears to be in the minority on here and possibly elsewhere as well. What gave you the impression that my opinion is so important to the debate as to make it a miracle. I could see if I was a congressman or in government you might think that, but I am not.
It's wonderful to see some leadership here. Don't miss the IPv6 address they have... 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3
Not on TMobile...
The DMCA explicitly disallows the publication of methods or programs that allow users to circumvent copy protection, from what I recall (not a lawyer). It's not a matter of a private contract, Sony's abuses have been enshrined by IP law, and that's the problem -- the person I was replying to was complaining that we don't believe in copyright generally. I don't think that's true, we just don't believe in copyright so extensive that you are not legally allowed to publish something imprinted on a device you own (even if that is imprinted electronically, like the PS3's encryption and signing keys).

Even so, clickwrap and EULA contracts are pretty lame. If your product must be distributed where end-users are restricted from doing things, then you should create a real contract that each party takes seriously.
A multiple choice test isn't the best way. But asking someone to write a real piece of software over a 4 hour period (a 'test' if you will) would be an extremely good interviewing method. Especially if you did it in something like EtherPad and can review the person's thought process afterward.

Regardless, I completely disagree that you can completely vet someone over a cup of coffee. Especially for highly competitive positions. That might be a good screening interview, but that is not enough to make a final hiring decision unless the person is already recommended.
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