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Personally, I think that any business model that relies on your customers forgetting to cancel your service is fundamentally flawed and consumer-unfriendly. And let's face it, that's what you're doing when you use Negative Option billing, even if you provide all the disclosure in the world up front. If I love a service, I'll sign up for it after the free trial.
Device specs for the Verizon iPhone 4 can be found here:

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2548&c=verizon...

EDIT: Just so I can understand what I've done wrong, would one of the down-voters please explain why the specs leaked in March/April last year are not relevant? Thanks!
Tend to disagree with this. Recently had the htc touch diamond. Then got a blackberry Storm 2 from the same carrier (telus). Bought the old phone back as a present for a friend that was going to go pay as you go (but you cant).

Then my friend tells me hes getting my text messages. Every one of them. So I get the phone back, call telus up and complain. The tech has me enter some number which opens up the config for the phone.

And low and behold I have my phone number sitting in the phone. Deleting the number stopped the text messages.

So lets think about this for a second. All I have to do to get your text messages is enter your 10 digit number into my old non active phone.

I would say security in text messaging is non existant.

FYI: Happened christmas of 2009 so it might be fixed but I doubt it.
Maybe the hardware has a second key hidden that wasn't used until now?
I agree with the way you describe the lock-in, of course that's the whole point of any closed network. But I disagree as far as the phenomena not being unique to Facebook. While grandma might have been on AOL, to her it was just the way to "use the internet" or whatever, she wasn't on any communities or groups or chat rooms. That required a slight uptick in the level of computer savvy one had to possess, which she never had or bothered to acquire. More to the point, her family wasn't on AOL, or wasn't interested in AOL, or if they were they couldn't interact the same way with her.

Facebook's success is a combination of making things easy for people like grandma and attracting everyone related to her. Without those two pillars FB would be just another MySpace.
I am absurdly excited about this, mostly because I am in hate with my Droid.

However, the gmail and contacts integration on Droid is top notch. Am I going to be less happy on iphone?
This is total speculation; back in Sept. I was thinking about the white iPhone 4 and how it was delayed. I can see it only being available on Verizon (for a limited time) followed by specific colors for different carries, much like KitchenAid does for their blenders.

I would be surprised if Sprint and T-Mobile didn't have the iPhone within the year (if Verizon does indeed get it soon)
Arguably humans and their inventions are part of nature.
>>The story implies that the more accessible information is, the less you "wonder".

This is a good story with multiple good interpretations. I myself read the story as a warning against working all day and being available through cellphones, intracells and whatnot:

Without intracell assistance, his natural hearing is so weak that he misses all the grinding and screaming around him. He wonders what this feeling is called.

People need silence and peace. We need to let our brain relax once in a while.

You could interpret it as a "back to nature"-story. You could also interpret the story to tell us that we don't have to think as much as we did earlier: We use the Internet and other means of communication to find the answers we are looking for. When we don't have those tools available, we have to think. Your interpretation is yet another good interpretation.
Gary Vaynerchuk? Not exactly "internet startup" in the YC sense, but Wine Library is definitely an online business.

http://winelibrary.com/
It does, but Microsoft's thrown loads of money at the problem and not made huge inroads so maybe they figure it's worth the risk?
I agree with Kingsley. "Pit" is a very depressing word, more likely to conjure up images of the doldrums than of compassion.
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I'm crossing my fingers on T-Mobile. I gave my mom a jailbroken iPhone 3G a few months ago, after she returned her third consecutive T-Mobile feature phone in as many weeks.

She's never been happier with a phone ('so easy to use,' 'doesn't make me feel like an idiot,' 'so many capabilities'), and I'd love to get her onto an up-to-date one with 3G data capabilities.

I'd just tell her to move onto AT&T but, in my experience, their network in the Twin Cities is even worse than San Francisco's.
I hate these memes so damn much. One ripples through your stream and you've just got dozens of lines of junk to wade through. The first one is cute, the rest are just obnoxious.

Wish Twitter for Mac had tweet filtering support. I know others do, but I'm psychologically dependent upon the Tweetie UI.
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They have at least the class of 2016-2017 given the 12 and 13 year-olds I know that have accounts...
Whatever it ends up being, I'm sure it'll be a better deal than ATT/V.
Thanks, Michael. I'm liking what I'm seeing here.
gmail on iphone sucks - because of apple
It will take more than something "cool" to knock off Facebook - 600m users isn't fad-ish. A competitor has to have a MUCH better product and be very cool. It could happen, but Facebook is much more in the driver's seat than MySpace or Friendster ever were.
Out of curiosity, does anyone seriously know who these "analysts" are and what their job actually entails?
I sync my iPhone contacts with my Gmail account using Google's Exchange ActiveSync.

http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/

edit: no limit on accounts
related from 2007: "How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook" http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/webdev/showArti...

It certainly hasn't, but can facebook be the first social network to somehow help people maintain their different personas and keep their social circles unentangled when appropriate? Over the summer I facebook updated something about hacking on my front porch, and my wife's aunt commented asking how I got sick. Stuff like that isn't creepy, it's just awkward, and keeps me coming back here and to friendfeed or to reddit or wherever the community feels right for having a discussion.
Develop and launch my own webapp. I'm a designer, so I've always relied on others to build my ideas for me, but I finally started figuring out Django and I'm about a week away from launching my first project. It's a good feeling. :)
I see a few advantages:

1. Requires much less modification to existing code than a callback style.

2. Code written in the sequential style is shorter, easier to understand, and just as explicit.

Edit, also from his article:

"""By decorating your functions with @tasklet and writing yield in front of blocking operations, you get the benefits of concurrent asynchronous I/O without the drawbacks of callback functions. Here's a blog comparing the two styles in the context of Twisted. The Monocle framework also promotes this style, and their introduction provides a good explanation of why coroutines are better than callback (scroll down to "The Big Idea")."""

Links:

http://blog.mekk.waw.pl/archives/14-Twisted-inlineCallbacks-...

https://github.com/saucelabs/monocle#readme
All adoration for Jason, DHH, etc. aside, this just seems like the type of PR nonsense that these guys usually won't touch with a 10 foot pole.

More like Get Fired Day.
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Since it claims the phone will be running 4.0.2, I'd say these are a little more speculation than fact.
Great article, very motivational to someone, like myself, who is just learning the fundamentals of programming.
I apparently need to do a little more work on programmatically detecting companies hosted by Linode.

Comments, ideas, bugs and patches welcome. The program I used to generate the report is hosted on GitHub here: https://github.com/jpf/domain-profiler/
In the case of duplicate submissions (or submissions of multiple stories reporting the same news), it would be good if high-karma users had the ability to re-direct the post to the previous HN thread. This would be better than the current situation where they get a few comments and then someone posts a link to the previous HN thread.
I pay nearly at registration costs elsewhere. Godaddy isn't the cheapest.

Godaddy has done the most/best marketing, that's all.
Why does it alway be about "replacing" us. What about a total upgrade?
I had the exact same experience as well, and then I discovered the "hide" button. I developed some rules and then spent about 20 minutes every day for a week hiding people who didn't fall within those. Examples of my rules were:

1) If I don't remember who you are, hide.
2) If I knew you in elementary/middle/high school/college and I don't think I'll ever see or speak to you again, hide. (This would cover people who don't share any of my interests, etc).
3) If you spam my newsfeed with "Farmville/Which Twilight character are you/I have a secret to tell you" sort of apps, hide.
4) If we have nothing in common, and I don't think anything you're going to say in the future is going to be interesting/have a real impact on me, hide.

There may be one or two more, but those were the core ones. After applying these rules, I found Facebook was SO much nicer and more fun to use, and there was none of the social stigma of "unfriending" people.
NB: This is i reply to heed above as well.

Firstly to address the point about human action being "part of nature": of course we are members of the natural world however I think the "disconnection" here that I'm picking up on the in the story is the archetypal story of disconnection told in Genesis. Getting kicked out of the garden of eden (a state of perfect and ineffible natural harmony) for eating from the tree of the "Knowledge of Good and Evil" (gaining sentience through our evolving brains and become Directors rather than Actors).

Note I'm not actually a religious person but this is certainly an strong story in the collective psyche of a large part of the human population alive today so it's not to be ignored.

Secondly to DanI-S I would say that the "connection" you're referring to here is the "cerebral" connection, or interconnection, illustrated by the burgeoning information economy in the story, and not a physical or emotional connection, illustrated by the "grass on the toes".
Sounds like they're mixing up Free Trial with Sign Up Now. Free Trial: I want to try this and I'll pay if I like it. Sign Up Now: I already like it and want to start immediately.
"and LinkedIn is toast"
I doubt that. I think people who take career networking seriously tend to keep their personal and professional lives separate.
I'm liking the new trend of making databases "fast" by default, with "safe" configurations. People who care about safety should take the time make it so; people who want it fast, well, give it to them faster! So maybe PostgreSQL should offer faster defaults?
A number of good responses about writing good tools. That's a no brainer.

It's scary to how many project managers I've had to explain why I have allocated 20% of my project planning to writing a new tool. They see it as wasted time because they don't think that we will be redoing the task again... when it's something sales try and sell with every project?!

The biggest thing that struck me were the strong statements about technical managers. I think the sentiment is correct, technically experienced managers are great. But it reads like you expect all technical managers to be up to date on their coding? Or just be competent at writing pseudo-code? Hopefully it is the latter!
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To me this is a symptom of the totally unnatural effect of urbanisation. It'll come good - once we all have high speed internet we'll move out to the country and start growing our own food again :)
Gmail and contacts syncing works great on iPhone. It uses Exchange to do all of the syncing, and it's quite fast. I had to get my phone exchanged, and all of my contacts and emails were synched in a few minutes after I got the new phone. Not sure what the other comments are talking about, you can use multiple Exchange accounts on iOS.
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I personally like the coroutine approach better (greenlets) since your code looks synchronous without squinting and usually performs well (there are various optimization in Stackless Python and PyPy has support as well). With libraries like gevent, and its API inspired by multiprocessing, asynchronous handling of code blocking on i/o just becomes another option next to using threads, processes or computing cluster.

Whereas with node.js/twisted (excluding @inlineCallbacks) approach the implementation detail—that is how do you talk with OS kernel about I/O—becomes the force shaping how you design your program and your API.

Sure, there's place for callbacks in Python. But as Python programmers, we can afford to reserve them for where they belong, like handling high-level events (i.e. observer pattern).
Looks like all the "groundless" speculation was dead on. A Verizon iPhone has been predicted for a long time, and we knew that there was an exclusivity contract with ATT whose term had to be met, but the claims of vapor have gone up in a puff of smoke.

I know of several people who wanted iPhones but refused to give up Verizon's cell network for ATT. The biggest gap in cell network satisfaction--based on the word of mouth in my circles--is between those two. Now that this is happening, iPhone is sure to maintain a permanently substantial market share down the line; not as high unit sales as Android devices, but more than enough to finance continued development of what I consider to be the best value for a phone on the market, which is all I care about.
Don't stress, man, you can slap "cloud" on whatever you're currently working on and call it done. Easiest achievement-inflating buzzword trend ever.
Since 4.0 you can have multiple Exchange accounts.
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"This is not how labor markets work."

It's exactly how labor markets work (without the unions inflating wages). The reason Mcdonalds workers are paid a little above minimum wage is because the skill required to do those types of jobs is low. Since it is low, the supply of applicants is huge and the company knows that if you aren't willing to work for them for that wage, they will almost certainly find someone who will. When I say value, I should have said wage, because you and many others seem to be taking the defensive.

"I think the inappropriate generalization of a HN reader's experience to the working poor in general is aptly addressed by other responders."

If you have a low paying job (and you can physically and mentally work), why aren't you trying to find a better one? I really want to know. All I hear are excuses or things that can be changed.
Really? I've never once had an issue with my iPhone 4 and AT&T anywhere in the Twin Cities. I have perfect 3G coverage pretty much everywhere I go.
"he poverty in those countries doesn't even begin to compare to the poverty in the US, in terms of number or hardship. Those countries all have national healthcare."

85% of the population has healthcare in the US. Hospitals will also not turn down someone that goes there in an emergency.

"Yes because those people are so inferior they deserve to live in squalor. Great attitude."

I gave you reasons why, if you want to make up your own, it's fine by me.

"You're assuming everyone has access to the internet, a computer, and knows how to torrent."
That was just a suggestion. You can find things legally (and free). Every library in every major city in the US has free Internet.

"What about the millions upon millions of people working
jobs in construction, fruit picking/packing, working in warehouses, garbage disposal, retail, or any number of other jobs."

They are paid what they are worth. Fruit picking? Probably low paying, because the supply is much higher. Many of the other jobs you mention are well above minimum wage (and some are unionized).

"Some people are born into poverty and because of one reason or another are never able to escape it."
Give me a good reason why someone (without being mentally or physically incapable) can't escape it?

"I find your entire rationalization of poverty to be completely bogus, unfounded, and disconnected from reality."

If the book you mention spews the same garbage in your posts, I'm not going to bother.
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The topic mislead me a little. Of course it's a problem, that the younger generation grows up with something, that is maybe harder to understand for their teachers, because they didn't grow up with it.

On the other hand, learning is something that happens at home, right? School mainly has the reason to help you structure your learning process, help you with finding exercises and good literature, evaluate your process with exams, answer the questions you have and last but not least kick your ass, if you can't motivate yourself. That you learn something while in school is actually not part of the schools description. So I wonder, how much these 29% "school learners" actually know about IT.

What the teachers need is a natural way of using technology in their classes. For that, they themself must start to use it at home. All these "Web2.0 Online Learning Platforms" that are actually just small CMS to download ppts can not really be all that is to it. My mother changed her major a short while ago and started studying to be a teacher for highschool. She actually thinks that these PPT-CMS systems and IRC-in-browser-integration are(!) Web2.0.
"The garbage men who take the trash off my curb provide more value than a lot of white collar management, in my opinion"

The garbage men in my city get paid $50,000+/year (it's in the midwest). I think this is a pretty good wage.

"Do you really think an 8 hour day sitting at a desk deserves twice as much pay as an 8 hour day digging a ditch? What the fuck is value?"

It's not for me (or you) to decide. If someone is willing to pay a ditch digger $300,000/year, so be it. The market decides value and it's usually based on supply/demand. Since anyone who is under 40, healthy, and has two legs can dig a ditch, I don't see the wages being that high.

"That's true of a lot of shitty jobs, and it's bullshit that the people who have figured out how to exploit these shitty jobs to generate 'value' also somehow deserve respect, while the exploited are denigrated for their moral failures (such as laziness)."

Why don't you start a company and pay ditch diggers the same as office workers? I know you won't, because you would rather force other companies to do it instead.
Watch the original "Ghost in the Shell" movie if you haven't; it touches on this line of thinking in some very cerebral but accessible and thought-provoking ways.
A bubble created around a legitimate service does not itself kill the service; the service becoming obsolete does.

The author seems to completely miss this. AOL didn't die because it was bought by TW, it died because broadband became commonplace and people realized there was much more to the internet than AOL's walled garden. Myspace died because it was the last vestige of the "personal homepage" style internet and never ran with its burgeoning use as a network for musicians.

Facebook will fade when the next major gap in social connections+communication is filled. Simply saying "something more popular than Facebook will happen" seems a horribly obvious and empty statement. Now talking about what we still need or might discover with connections would prove insightful, but of course no one's going to blog about that until it's launched.
So what's Taggers?
So what's Taggers?

It's an upcoming tagging platform for people and businesses. Our startup is currently in the beta stage and getting ready to launch soon. We are funded. We currently compensate contractors and employees fully in cash. Stock options and other benefits are coming in the near future. You will need to commute to our downtown Palo Alto, CA office. To see what users can do on Taggers, check out: http://taggers.com/10things

Now that's out of the way, let's get down to why we're here.

So far we've strung together a pretty fun combination of (buzzword alert...) CodeIgniter/PHP, jQuery/JavaScript, nginx and Amazon RDS/MySQL, all hosted on Amazon's EC2 platform. We've hit a stride where we can flexibly introduce new features and work on the user-interaction pieces of the puzzle.

Ideally, you feel comfortable jumping quickly into a codebase of several thousand lines of code with these technologies. The original developers are here to help guide you in the beginning as to the particulars of our environment. You should also feel comfortable taking charge to make decisions about selecting technologies and choosing implementation strategies. You will be your own technology director.

We are experimenting with different methods of using Comet to make the site more interactive. Right now we use an nginx module called HTTP_Push. We're not married to it, but it's working well so far. So, super plus bonus points if you have Comet experience with a PHP application!

Some of the fun challenges we're solving:
- Determining who gets to see what information on the site in a clear and consistent way
- Keeping active profile pages in sync in real time for everyone viewing them
- Staying flexible in our code and data structure so we can respond quickly as we learn about our users

We have no "minimum requirements." Art and philosophy majors can be awesome coders too.

If this all sounds up your alley, you'll have a huge impact on the direction of our product from both technical and design perspectives.

We really think we can make the world a more efficient and tight-knit place once Taggers takes off. So consider being part of it. If you're interested, send us an e-mail here:

jobs@taggers.com
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With respect to my post: I was responding to his question "What's so bad about that?" which took replacement as a premise.

Generally: I'd prefer an upgrade, but I worry that if we achieve strong AI it will be an extremely difficult problem [1] to ensure it behaves nicely -- so replacement may be more likely than upgrading. If we focus on augmenting human intelligence and not on developing independent intelligence this may be less of a problem, but I don't know which research paths will be more fruitful.

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligence
I second that. Wouldn't be hard to add the languages.
Keep in mind when this was. To most people computers were things in movies that caught fire when errors occurred. They commandeered spaceships and sacrificed humans for their own pitiless amusement. Some people had their own computers, but most people never had never used one before and never imagined that they would use one.

So it probably wasn't all that far out of context because the context wasn't well defined for them.
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The favor Verizon would be doing is allowing Apple's phones to be bought by people on non AT&T plans, greatly growing their potential market.