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* HDDs have some of the lowest margins in the components business. If you're buying from Newegg you're basically getting it at cost (unless there is some conspiracy by all warehouse retailers to keep the price at >$100).

* It's the chain of custody that is important not who keeps it. Most LEOs outsource to various contractors for all types of investigations.
There's actually a really good reason why this isn't coming anytime soon to the US: number portability is not entirely centralized, and the porting system is built to run in batch, not in realtime.

So if, say, Sprint issues a portability request to Syniverse (the mapping platform provider) so that they can have your number from Verizon, Syniverse puts that request in the next batch. Then the batch gets passed to VZ for evaluation for things like whether you still owe them money. If you're good to go, VZ kills your DN (that's your number and the associated SVC mapping), and your VZ service goes dead. Then they pass your record back to Syniverse who then passes the thumbs-up and the number to Sprint who sets up a new DN to your new service (and presumably your new handset if you're going from one locked-in CDMA net to another).

That's a really watered down, 4am version of what happens. But the upshot of all of it is that if it worked like WiFi SSID switching, every time you switched, you'd probably lose service for awhile. If all things work for the good, the switch can take like 10 minutes. I'm sure they could get it down to 1 or 2. But probably not 0.

Here's the punchline... the SIM card in GSM was specifically designed to OBVIATE the need for all that (also to act as an encryption key, but that got hacked years ago). The SIM is supposed to authenticate you to a particular DN and link you back to a billing record at your primary carrier. The theory was that every carrier would create roaming treaties, and you'd just wander from network to network, oblivious to whose actual network you were on. And your primary carrier would sort it out on the backend. And in many places, it actually pretty much works that way. You can carry 3 or 4 cards and swap carriers and numbers based on the plan you want to use. Because the phones aren't locked to a single carrier's cards.

A good example of this is that in the T-Mobile / AT&T breakup, they came to an agreement to allow cross-network roaming sometime late this year. So if you're a TMo subscriber, but you've got an AT&T signal, even in a TMo service area, you'll just ride AT&T instead.

So essentially the reason it doesn't already work this way is because A) CDMA is so popular in the US, and CDMA really requires the rigorous porting process, and B) the carriers who do support it (AT&T, TMo and Sprint on their now-dwindling GSM net) have been jerks about it for years. It's a business decision, not a technical one.
Again, I am not so sure if I agree with all your points here.

>>Cash on Delivery has a lot of issues. I won't elaborate but, customers refuse the sale later on (impulse buy regrets), delayed booking of revenue, costs around collecting and cash reconciliation.

So do other modes of payments. There will always be customers who will want to get a refund. As I said am not entirely sure what the best solution is for non-physical transactions.

>>Indian Businesses and consumers don't pay for Technology Products.

This a blanket statement. Maybe the types of businesses we interact with are very different. From my experience a lot of them are ready to pay well if they see the benefits.

>>If they want to pay, they don't have mechanisms to pay you online.
Umm, this is false. There are lots of ways to pay online. IRCTC does this on a decent scale.

All that being said, I agree it can be hard doing business but I don't believe it is any harder than doing it anywhere else. Every market has its set of advantages and disadvantages, but one needs to focus on what can be done instead of obsessing over what cannot be done.

I looked at your site and like the idea. I am sure you must have tried this but have you tried making up deals with IT companies where you do the tax filings for all the people in the company for a bulk rate. A lot of companies do this since the guys collect the documents from the office saving the employees time and your pricing is very reasonable. Also, they are the ones who'd be more likely to understand and pay for this.

Cheers
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I, personally, don't downvote as a way to express disagreement. The average redditor does. I wish it was reasonable to expect that the entire reddit community uses downvotes only in a way I consider appropriate, but I don't think it is.
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Former owner of PR agency here: absolutely correct.
I read that iPads in France let you choose the 3G network during the first boot. Sounds silimar to what the author is proposing. If anybody has a screenshot of that screen, please share. http://store.apple.com/fr/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad/...
Well currently there are quite a few successful mikrokernel OSs, like QNX and VxWorks.

And MacOS X and Windows are actually hybrid-kernels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel
SIM cards are exactly this, with the added benefit of (almost) two factor authentication. If I have my SIM card, I can be reasonably confident that you can't pretend to be me. If phones managed keys, I'd be more worried that you've managed to copy my key somehow.
Not new, not original youtube or producer site. This really needed to be HN'd?
Since when are drafts a revolutionary blogging concept that dcurtis has a monopoly on? And Obtvse did not copy the community building via invites. In fact that was the whole point.
Thanks for that, I have a new wallpaper!

I just have a nitpick: I think it should break the two words into different lines, like the original does. I first thought it was because the word I chose was shorter (I used "WAVE ON", as in Hendrix's If 6 was 9), but it happens with "CARRY ON" too.
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I think that's only the case for 2G (GSM, GPRS, EDGE). UMTS (3G) doesn't do that.
The industry has been working on software SIMs for some time. I had a telco talking to me about the initiative years ago.

The problem is that the soft SIM provisioning process will become like DRM for phones. The users desires and the service providers desires are fundamentally misaligned here. Users want to be able to choose freely from the best tariffs available to them in a given location. Service providers want to lock people in and keep roaming expensive.
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The only "scrolling effect" I see in either Chrome or Firefox is that the page scrolls. That's not particularly awesome.

Edit: ah, it's not a scrolling effect, it's a click effect. Click any of the blog posts and it will appear to "shift the screen" into the article you clicked.
CDMA phones come with an ESN (http://www.mobileburn.com/definition.jsp?term=ESN). It's basically like your SIM card number, except that it doesn't change.

CDMA carriers can activate a phone not sold by them by ESN. However, some carriers have decided that they would prefer you to buy a handset from them and refuse to activate devices that weren't sold by them. Sprint has a policy of not activating any ESN that comes from a phone they didn't sell. I'm not sure if that applies to the iPhone since a non-Sprint iPhone would really be the same device. Anyway, unlike SIM cards, you're more at the mercy of whether a carrier will activate it or not.
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Old neighbours often ask me to set up their new (non-smart) phones for them, SIM cards make the process of moving contacts so much easier.
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I think the author is conflating SIM cards with vendor lock-in. Phones locked to SIM cards from a particular carrier are not good. If you want them to die, then fine - but that's got nothing to do with SIM cards.

SIM cards as authentication tokens work just fine. My phone takes SIM cards from any carrier. If I want to switch carriers, the new carrier just sends me a new SIM card.

Get rid of SIM cards, and you're going to end up with a security problem with keys being copied/cloned from phones. You're going to find that you need some kind of authentication based on a hardware crypto token, and will end up inventing...the SIM card.
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The mention of Flipkart was for parents argument that Indians don't want to pay for anything and would pirate things it they can. Flipkart sells books and music successfully which a lot of people here don't seem to be willing to pay for.

>>The fact that Indian consumers have woken up so late to it re-emphasizes that Indians resist technological intervention

Maybe I see things wrong but I don't think Indians resist technology. Its that the technology got here late. Also, its just that it is a different market and different factors at play here.
As an engineer working in the SIM card industry, as long as they add some other form of secure element for placing highly sensitive data like bank/id applets it would still be reasonable.

As others have commented though, I'm afraid that they would use it to lock the consumer to phone specific plans.

I like a lot the ability to take my SIM card to other phones, as it allows to carry some kind of ID with me, there are better and seamless ways of doing that that I can't wait to be implemented and deployed (a user and password to put when booting the phone is not a solution).
- I know I was making a blanket statement. Both are somewhat strong generalizations on data I have come across via our company and other entrepreneurs. This is to provoke discussions and gain new insights. I am not trolling, though. :)

- Many businesses will send you cheques, recurring payments are PITA, as you have to do "collection". Delayed payments are quite common.

>> but have you tried making up deals with IT companies where you do the tax filings for all the people in the company for a bulk rate.

- We do exactly that. Large employers buy ClearTax on a negotiated price for all their employees. Most people want to transact in cash.

- My point is the infrastructure is maturing very slowly. You can't bootstrap easily. Your startup may die by the time the market matures.

>> I looked at your site and like the idea.

Thanks! :-)
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Your nonalogy makes no sense whatsoever:

* Addresses don't significantly impact the phone's behavior (and its costs), current ISP does

* As I noted, you might want to get out more, phones don't need to reboot when changing SIM

* Considering the number of people who criticize iPhones for not having a µSD slot, physical tokens do indeed seem trendy in crowds which need them
There's a huge banner at the top of the page which does a weird perspective moving scroll thing. I can't describe it, but scrolling the page makes the pseudo-3d banner "spin".

EDIT: Chrome on snow leopard.
Bootstrap is intended for use by whoever wants it. Font Awesome was presented as a tweak, an improvement. Svbtle is intended for a small audience, and Obtvse is a straight rip-off
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Hmm OK, could still be a draft, though :) I use Evernote for similar stuff, but then I don't blog.
Yes, a decent apology needs to show some awareness of why exactly what they did was wrong. A decent apology needs to show a little bit of soul searching, and that they understand where people who were offended were coming from.
But surely this until the first carrier breaks the deadlock and then decides to offer soft SIMS to tourists ? Then the rest of then will be forced to follow on or else be squeezed out of the market. In fact, if you were a small-ish based carrier, then you could benefit from first-to-market as well as not being eaten by your customers going abroad (as you were first!).
I honestly can't remember the last time a fellow HN user put together an unfinished project, wrote a blog post demonstrating the ideas behind the project, and then had his work so shamelessly ripped off on the very day it was created!

To see the HN community defending this is really sad.

Dustin himself had asked people not to copy his work and that he was releasing it publicly:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742596

It's bullshit like this that discourages good ideas from being shared.
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I would love an opportunity to contribute my Solaris, OSol, OI knowledge and would happily pounce on an opportunity to use Dtrace and Node.js, certainly two of the more amazing technologies, with Dtrace being unlike anything else really out there for deep understanding of systems.
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The video did not claim it was human powered. The previous videos on the youtube channel showed how they attached electrical motors to provide the lift. The arm waving was just the mechanism by which to tell the wings to flap.
Just for the record, the Daily Mail is not a credible newspaper.
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We The People are embroiled in wars on multiple fronts between an emerging and increasingly-draconian ruling class and the government they use as their enforcer. We're treated as cash cows to be milked for every dime, and when we try to hold on to what vestiges of freedom we have left, we're told to get down and OBEY.

We all know the multitude of heinous crimes perpetrated by Big Media for the sake of Big Profit. The conflict with Big Media is but _one_ of the battlefronts of the 21st-century Class War. The casualties of this conflict so far: elderly people forced to pay thousands in fines, college students forced into indentured servitude for life, and even people from the other side of the planet over whom our government has no lawful jurisdiction.

Perhaps more angering are the casualties of liberty: the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. Our right to freedoms of speech and self expression, our right to privacy, and our right to not self incriminate have all been victims of Big Media's profiteering quest for control.

In this war for personal liberty, we've been outgunned by dollars and lawyers, lobbyists and congressmen. The aforementioned individuals have lost their battles because We The People did not stand beside them.

For the sake of our future, that dynamic has to change. Now.

I started this thread to ask a simple question: what can We The People do, in united cause, to win this battle in the Great Class War? What can we do to get Big Media out of our lives once and for all?

This isn't about piracy - it's about _privacy_. This isn't about made-up theft from big corporations - it's about _human liberty_. However, if we are to win this conflict, if we are to preserve what liberty we have left, we must JOIN, or DIE.

What can we do? Could we pool our resources for a class action lawsuit against the RIAA and/or MPAA? How about against the United States Government itself, to force copyright laws to change?

I'm not an attorney - I'm a patriot. I ask this question in good faith of those who may have legal knowledge. I also ask for other options, whatever they may be, so we can finally begin to unite and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

Our FREEDOM - our God-given rights from the moment we took our first breaths - is being stripped away. The blood shed for that freedom has been greatly dishonored. The ideals that we hold as a nation have been thrown out the window and replaced with a sick, twisted Corpratist caste system where the 1% rule over the 99% with an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove to ensure complacency. We've been victimized and assaulted. _America has been invaded by a hostile occupying force_.

Make no mistake: we are at war.

The question now is: What will we _do_ about it?
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I have a friend that runs a closed bulletin board website with his friends. His new job blocks access to it. Can anyone recommend a service that would mask his bulletin board with his own purchased domain? the website is something like: subdomain.freeforum101.com which could be accessed through www.purchaseddomain.com.
Remember that 4M$ valuation line that lead to Angelgate? http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/05/the-4-million-line/

Either angels have learned how to make money on higher valuations or we will see a lot of losses in angel investments.
> Just please don't copy my implementation or designs. I need those things to be sacred so I can craft experiences that are not diluted by external factors.

I don't understand how reusing/copying something finely done reduce its sacredness/sanctity.
They attempted this in small form on 'Marcel's Quantum Kitchen' (its on Netflix) using a toy quadcoptor to 'deliver' a piece of pizza at a dinner party. Didn't really work out to well but interesting concept nonetheless.
Yeah, still not seeing it. That banner is pretty well static in both Firefox 11.0 and Chromium 17.0.963.79 on Ubuntu. (I also tried rekonq but I neither expected nor got anything out of it.)
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This is going to be a rant...

I am an Indian! Currently staying in Bangalore.

Indians don't buy Technology? This is BS, right?

Indians pay for technology all the time. From the poorest to richest. Just because they don't click on paypal and the money doesn't land in your start up's account it doesn't mean Indians don't pay up. The average levels of Piracy in India will more or less be the same as they are around the world.

Indians pay for things that bring them value. Not just because you built something. And it is you who built it.So first understand what value you bring common Indian masses.

I know of Auto drivers and cab drivers who get costly metering and taxi dispatch systems fitted to their vehicles. And they are really poor people. They are paying for technology, because it brings value to them. Do you know how many people use mobiles phones in India? Even the poorest people might be earning less than $1 a day(I know many beggars who carry mobile phones) use mobile phones in India, and they pay their bills.

I know Temples, Churches, Mosques use scrolling displays outside their compounds for various announcements. The displays survive in tough weather. And they sell. They bought it because it adds value to them.

I know ordinary middle class people, buy handy glucometers( for diabetes/blood sugar level testing) and Nebulizers and Sphygmomanometers(To check their blood pressure levels), Glucometers made by Accecheck. Why do they buy this technology? Because it brings value to them.

Millions of middle class Indians use solar technology and rain water harvesting systems. And they pay for it, you know why? Because it brings value to them.

I can go on and on... Citing examples.

India is like every other country and Indians are like people from any other nation.

People pay up when they see some value in the product. So any time you accuse Indians of not paying up. Ask your self a simple question.

What value does my service/product bring to the people

If you can't come up with a good answer to this question. Really the problem is with your product strategy.

Not Indians. Or India as a whole.

PS:

In this case 'Tax filing' software/means is worth dime for a dozen in this country.

EDIT : To all people who are downvoting this, Truth is bitter. An MVC site which has a thousand clones or which doesn't bring any value is not bound to succeed.

Seriously ask your self what value you bring to the world or why should people buy from you.
"Tizag, which is second in the results, is a pretty good resource."

Their Perl tutorial set is pretty terrible. They call it "PERL" (it's Perl), they believe the latest stable version is 5.10 (it's 5.14) and the code samples are simply awful.
> I think I speak for most when I say that my reaction to this news is "expected disappointment". I never truly believed it was real, but I wanted to. Dearly.

This was exactly the point. The guy is a movie maker, a story teller. By positioning it as real instead of a hollywood blockbuster, it got these emotions going inside a lot of people. Moving people is the goal of any story teller, and by doing it this way, and this well, the impact was much bigger than if the film had been called "My Special Effects work: flying like a bird".

Neo does a lot more spectacular things in The Matrix, but it moves us less precisely because we know that it's all CGI.

I say, a massive success.

The only way to tell a more moving story is to tell a real story of something spectacular. This is what all the war journalists are doing - genocides and floods always do well on public TV. Essentially, you could call the Bird Man hoax the "good news" version of the same goal.
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How is that not just a made up caricature? What single example of Apple's marketing can you show that suggests anything of the sort?

The only marketing materials I've seen from Apple that say anything about how the products are made show Jony Ive in a workshop talking about industrial machine processes.
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Apple already have a patent for a virtual SIM card:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/11/apple_sim_patent/
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I thought we were discussing the suggestion that Dustin copied www.drawar.com
Is it equally cynical when municipalities put safety nets on bridges?

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/07/29/iconic-golden-gate-bridge-...

That people might have been driven to choose suicide due to overwork or abuse is the problem, not the safety nets.
One of the largest improvements I've noticed in between caching and optimizing in PHP has been turning on APC. I'm not aware of any drawbacks, if you have any let me know. I didn't do any bench marking, but it did make a significant impact on page loads to my eye, as well as the stats on the page.
The fonts were never the same, I'm using a the Lato font from Google Web Fonts: http://www.google.com/webfonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Lato
Ask HN: Do you own a startup? Do you have a charity pot?
Hi guys,

I just wondered if you own a startup and if you do - do you give a certain % of profits to a charity?

I know a lot of comapnies that have charity schemes, I wondered if startups did as well. If you don't have a scheme would you consider starting one up?

thanks
A lot of banks don't support two-form authentication. A lot of online merchants keep credit card information on file and allow for quick check-outs.
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And considering Hacker News is based off Reddit...