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That's been the case for ages because Verizon is a CDMA network, not GSM -- GSM takes SIM cards, while CDMA does not. Different tech.

This is likely to shift as V rolls out LTE, which DOES take SIM cards. So we're actually likely to see more intercompatibility as things progress. Except, of course, that everything's still likely to be carrier-locked.
Consider the possibility that googlers dissatisfied with Google tend to leave Google for the bigger and better while there's a strong incentive for a disgruntled facebooker to hang on until his/her options fully vest.
Yes, it is something that was previously illegal. Think of securities regulation in terms of the company, not the investor. For a company, it's illegal to offer securities for sale to the public without a registration statement filed with the SEC (usually called an S-1 or IPO prospectus) -- an enormous undertaking -- unless the company can qualify for an exemption.

The entire point of these securities laws since 1933 has been to protect the average, "little guy" mom-and-pop investor from being swindled by fraudsters selling them pieces of the Brooklyn Bridge. The exemptions that exist have been carefully worked out to minimize the chances of that kind of thing, but you can never eliminate the risk.

The reason this matters is that no matter how wise you think crowds may be, there is massive information asymmetry between entrepreneurs (who know literally everything there is to know about a new venture) and investors (who know literally nothing except what they're told). This is why unregulated markets are a prescription for disaster and the hard-core libertarian view in this area involves serious crack smoking. It's textbook Econ 101 market failure.

I've written a detailed analysis of the subject at http://masht.ag.
No.

They aren't. That they can be used as such does not make what you said true.
FYI, Birman lives in Russia.
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Hum ... like what ? It is quite critical, someone with your username/passwd would be able to call for several hours without you knowing it.
When I saw Guy give this talk I was absolutely floored. Both the content and the style was impressive, the hand drawn transparencies, layered one on top of the other. It was the first time I realized one could give a talk with a high degree of style, that their were geniuses in our field. Guy and Gabriel's HOPL 50-in-50 talk was also very stylistic, but not as profound in content (more like entertainment).

Definitely one of the smartest and most talented persons in our field (OO PL).
In principle, I love this idea. In practice, without a great deal of work, this will make it much more difficult to switch between phones, which typically occurs more often than switching carriers. Right now, you can pull out a SIM and put it in a new phone, and you can immediately use the phone number with that new phone, without any interaction with the carrier.
> I'm not trying to build a brand, make money off this, or prove anything

so you torpedoed Dustin doing so? Nice.
"CISC processors are dead today [...] Intel (and later AMD and others of course) started making processors with a RISC core that support the x86"

That's a pretty far fetched argument. RISC/CISC is about
instruction set, and the x86 instruction set is CISC.

Of course since the big RISC/CISC battle the implementations have converged a lot on the microarchitecture
level, primarily because the transistor budget sweet spot targeted by RISC melted away and the amount of chip area saved in instruction decode and ISA simplicity was later dwarfed by out-of-order machinery, caches etc.

So an equally valid argument (as "CISC is dead") is "RISC is dead" since RISC chips today have brainiac instructions and pipelines like divide/multiply, unaligned access, variable length instructions (Thumb on ARM), out-of-order execution etc.
I don't get it. What's the difference between a "draft" and an "idea"?
The author has already changed the design in response to Dustin's criticism: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3744438

I'd chalk the design similarity up to "I...typed in rails new obtvse, and a few hours later I'm here."
Sorry, let me elaborate. I have the keys I purposefully signed the apps with. I would export the apk from eclipse, and sign it, submit it.

However, as part of the eclipse build, eclipse was signing the apk. Therefore it ended up signed by TWO keys. When I re-installed eclipse, this hidden key that I wasn't aware of was lost.

I couldn't submit to the Android market without the app being signed by BOTH keys. That is what I found strange...
Easy cloaking with superconductors and magnetic tape
Though, going to a store and proving who you are just to change a phone would be annoying. Maybe we could automate this. For extra security, we could use something besides a username and password. Maybe, the phone company could give us something, and we could use that to identify ourselves. Something we have. Maybe we could get the manufacturers allow us to store the identifier in the phone itself, and the phone could read the id card, and tell the phone company "Hey, this guy is good people!" that way, the entire process is all automated.

Good idea!
"The US requires" (via copyright law), and "Intellectual Property" including copyright.
Question out of curiosity:
I've been down voted why exactly here? :-)
Also ufo's officially don't exist, but have great military value. So watch next stealth (dutch??) wing troopers.
Oh well its not only DARPA that exist other countries have their inventions too.
> There is a difference between taking an idea and a design.

When the idea is the design (as is the case with visitor.js), no there is not. In both cases, it's taking and reimplementing wholesale (but from scratch) the closed product into an open-source one.
I stole that from Banksy ;)

Check out some of my original work:
http://gamegum.com
http://bassdownload.com
http://vbseed.com
http://webuildappsforyou.com
...

Funny enough I wrote that before I had seen svbtle.
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What happens here - is the phone itself becomes the sim card. That is troublesome on a number of levels. I'd rather push those functions to a little piece of plastic that is easy to move between handsets.

"You could tell operators"... How and where? When I'm in Thailand on vacation, I want data but I don't want to have to worry about registering my phone - I just go to kiosk and get a sim.

When I was in Ethiopia a few weeks ago getting a sim took a bit of work. I had to give them photos and some other documentation. A lot of governments are moving this way. Once it was done though, I had the sims I needed and the phone choices were wide open.

Maybe I'm missing a piece of the puzzle but in my experience the sim is what makes me free. The idea that the existence of a sim == being locked down comes from a broken telecom system not a technical limitation of the format.
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It's impossible when it's human powered. Human arms aren't strong enough, you can't get the power to weight ratio needed, or however you phrase it.

I added in my comment that I hadn't originally noticed the powered element of it, but like I say, even then you should assume that it's fake, because which is more likely: A guy invented an exoskeleton capable of powering an ornithopter, and kept it under wraps until it was finished, or that a guy faked the video, something for which there is ample precedent?

So as a journalist you should assume that it's fake. A tiny bit of research would reveal the total lack of detail and backstory, confirming this view.
I am always shocked by the blatant racism even educated and otherwise "normal" Spanish people display towards Gitanos.
I don't know man, he didn't change all that much if you ask me. He also couldve taken the extra "few hours" to make something that actually looks different before releasing it if you ask me.
I don't think you love simcards, I think you love the freedom to switch & a simcard is just the way you get that freedom right now. From a UX perspective the simcard is a pretty weak solution. For a starter, why do I have to reboot my phone to switch carriers?
> I think making a nigh identical open copy of someone's work is easily predictable to be unpleasant for many people.

That's certainly true. Linux and the BSD's pretty much killed the commercial Unix market, which had to be very unpleasant for some people.
Hmmmm. Here's my post from 9 days ago : http://ragmondocom.appspot.com/2012/03/Who-needs-SIM-cards - I propose virtual downloadable SIM cards....
Edit: If you're talking about the changed version this morning, check out the screenshots at the bottom to see what dcurtis was mad about.

Basic layout? Also the color scheme, font hierarchy, whitespace around elements (which is a critical portion of the design), and basically every trick dcurtis used to draw the eye and maintain the mental flow of the app.
> I never truly believed it was real, but I wanted to.

This is what sells any great hoax. I also think it's interesting that the ability to get people to believe in and desire something is exactly what a great entrepreneur/CEO/salesman (see: Steve Jobs) must do to make their product a success.
They wont pay roaming because they swap sims - 4th sentence.
The engine I wrote for my personal blog lets me save a draft (no, I didn't invent the idea). I'm not sure what the difference is between drafts and ideas.
That's a faulty conclusion. Being a professional designer has no bearing on how much time you spend designing something.

In fact, you could assume the opposite: that, because he is a professional designer, it took him less time to design the app than it would've taken a "layman". (I'm not forgetting about the perfectionism of many designers, mind you)
As mentioned in another comment, I really dig what you did. You put it on GH so everybody can build customizations upon it. That's how new things are born. Perhaps it will become a barebone blog template just because it received this whole attention. If Dustin's elite writer concept is good, it will succeed no matter what. Ideas are everywhere, execution is everything.
not practical. sim card is like our citizen id card. digitalize all you want, but we must always keep a physical card.
Mindset over cost. Companies here do all sorts of things to avoid small costs. I've seen some wrangle with hosting their own email on a server they have already purchased or make do with a poor experience with shared hosts simply to avoid the cost of paying for google apps once they have more than 10 users. They pay their employees atleast Rs 25,000 a month and are fretting about Rs 250?
Agreed that the brush tool is pretty much useless...

What's wrong with "The GIMP" (Gnu-Image-Manipulation-Program)?
Its always my second choice when it comes to image editing, or as a "photoshop-backup"!
I'd love to see a pocket hub that will take multiple sims & route my calls transparently over WiFi/VoIP.
Why do people allow themselves to be puppets?

We should never give up ourselves to being/doing something simply because John Smith does it.
Interesting to see Torvalds' attitude when he wasn't a rock star developer...

Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds

:-)
I was actually wondering the same.
...like all books ever written? :)
@dcurtis:

> Not only did that guy completely rip off my work, but he did it badly, he put the code on Github, and he got my name wrong. What a jackass.

> @natebirdman "Hey, I ripped off your work and put it on Github." Really?
Sorry, 160 characters taken out of context can mean both good or bad. No summing up there.
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Though I understood the points you are trying to convey, I had to go back and forth a couple of times over the article to make sense of it. You haven't organized your thoughts well. This, coupled with the use of incomplete sentences and incorrect grammar made it harder for me to understand the article. As an example consider this paragraph:

> But now I am of the opinion. Figure out an unnatural advantage. Take it. Otherwise raise VC from day-one for Indian startups. Don't bootstrap because longer runways are needed.

It has sentence fragments like "But now I am of the opinion.", sentences that don't make sense at first reading like "Don't bootstrap because longer runways are needed." and grammatical errors. Sorry for the harsh response, but I feel that rewriting the article will make it easier for the readers to see your points better.

I'm aware that Skitt's law probably applies to my post. :)
> Taking an existing closed system and opening it is a pretty fundamental part of the hacker ethic. However, it must be done in good faith and good taste.

1. OpenOffice.org says we don't like MS. How about we clone Office and annoy the fuck out of them?

2. Or MS is making too much money. Let's clone Office and give it up for free. We won't be making any money, but neither would they.

3. Or we are bored the fuck out of our minds. Let's build something - how about Office?

4. Or we are concerned MS's monopolistic policies and binary formats are needlessly tying in users to their platform. We will build something which looks and acts like Office without tying in the user to our product.

These and bazillion of other reasons are equally valid, and you or someone else doesn't have the authority to declare them invalid.

> Disregarding more complicated moral aspects, this just isn't nice.

May be this isn't nice. Freedom isn't really freedom if it covers only things you find nice. I would happily trade nice with freedom to independently reproduce something.

> I really don't think nwienert's intentions were bad, but I think he should reevaluate the choice he made here.

I really hope he doesn't take down the repo or the site. But if he is bullied into taking it down, even though he wrote the css, ruby, js code for the site, and didn't copy anything from svbtle, I think I will recreate the project. I don't care much about svbtle, but I do care about the freedom to reproduce it if I want it.

As far as design similarities go, it might or might not be copyright infringement - I am not knowledgeable enough to comment. If it is, he can tweak the design a bit to make it look inspired, instead of copied. As already said, if I independently implement a dock for linux(already done; just an example) which looks like Mac's, it's not theft and Apple can suck it if it thinks otherwise.
I don't see it; the whole workflow - draft to publish columns and such - is the same at drawar, or?
I'm also quite surprised, and disappointed.
Indeed, as can be seen with Verizon (which does not use SIM cards on account of being a CDMA network)

And the other way around, nothing in SIM cards mandate lock-ins, I bought my phone unlocked (the previous one was bought simlocked and I'd made use of my legal rights to get it unlocked 6 months into my contract) and my current ISP is pre-paid, no-contract on SIMs. I ordered a SIM from them, popped it into my phone and I fill the account when I need to.

And when I travel across europe, I can trivially get cheapo pre-paid SIMs and put them in if I need to. There is no lock anywhere.

In fact, I'd expect far more lock-in with TFA's solution: my current indie ISP never managed to get a reply from Apple when they tried to get their IPCC into iTunes (so user would not have to enter e.g. data network info by hand), Apple only deals with big ISPs, not with virtual operators for a few tens of thousand clients in minor euro countries.
I'm not GP, but I found it difficult to follow as well and stopped after 2-3 paragraphs.

"So here goes the question: [..]"

What is the question?

It was kind of difficult to get what your point was and what you where arguing. Please, just keep it simple.
NLIps says it below - and I agree - the problem I see with this 'virtual sim' is that it is less secure.
The plan is to provide an overview of the trend in the data (plot it) per sensor (there are hundreds of them). Perhaps select a minimum and maximum over a certain time interval.
There's an option C: most everyone ignores the new ones (because most people don't click the 'new' page and upvote articles), but pg generally does not change anything on HN.

So we are relatively stuck. No algorithm change, no UI change, increasing volume of submissions and few people upvoting - means most articles that bubble up are link-baity.
I closed the original post as soon as I sampled the air of superiority that seems to be ever more present with some "intelligent, creative, and witty" developers and commentators.

Hail the disruption.
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It doesn't matter what the underlying reasons are. The point is if you are going to invest resources in something that requires Indians to actually pay for it (regardless of payment model), you are taking a big risk.

PS: I am saying "Indians" because I am quite familiar with the situation here. I am sure though, that things are quite similar in most "developing nations".
I have an old Moto Razr that I put my SIM card in when I go on long bike rides in the boonies. The battery lasts longer and if I fall I don't have to worry about crushing my smartphone.
Pardon my ignorance, but being in Europe means I've never used a 2G CDMA network - the iPhone4S supposedly works for both GSM and CDMA; if you don't get a SIM, does the CDMA module only work if you bought the phone from a CDMA network operator, and not if you bought it from Apple directly?
> In practice, without a great deal of work, this will make it much more difficult to switch between phones, which typically occurs more often than switching carriers.

In practice it also makes it much more difficult to switch between carriers (which is in fact much more common than switching between phones when you travel across Europe or south-east asia): to switch carriers right now, I just need to replace my current SIM with a new one (assuming the phone is not SIM-locked, which it is not).
While I give credit for the Moz docs for being accurate.

They're not exactly the easiest things to browse or find what you're looking for. For webdevs they've got a load of stuff that you just don't care about.
"Also when that start-up outlier comes, Indian entrepreneurs will then do 100 such outliers immediately after that. But we have seen businesses built off the backs of decade long rounds of investment, value creation and persistence. (Shaadi, Naukri, MMT)Immediately after fast-followers followed at maturity to squeeze the juice (BharatMatrimony, ClearTrip, Yatra). Unless strong network-effects (Two-sided marketplace kind of plays), that would mean consumer plays are best approached from a brand building perspective?"

I am Indian and I couldn't make head or tail of what exactly is being said here. I suspect it isn't so much "Indian English" as unclear writing.

I think you are trying to say something like (I had to pause reading and think for a while)

"After a market was created and validated by companies with long gestation periods, others set up very similar companies quickly to exploit it. Given this, if the business model is not dependent on network effects, it might be better to just focus on brand building"

At least that is what I think you were trying to say.

Coupled with somewhat odd sentence structure (But now I am of the opinion. Figure out...) , and random capitalization choices (why is the word "Restaurants" capitalized for example?) the article is a very difficult read, with very choppy idea arrangement. A rewrite might really help.

(my 2 cents. posted this only because you asked for feedback)
As you say, they contain outdated and out right false information.

Now, it's not merely being wrong once in a blue moon or one or two articles being a bit behind the curve, but the sheer egregiousness of its mistakes plus the lack of action despite being shown to be incorrect (see: w3fools.com) which in the eyes of many qualifies it to be called a "cancer"; certainly in the realm of web development resources, that label seems rather valid.
Perfect! good thinking and you read my mind!
Dustin Curtis was a superhero.
Those who clamour after Obtvse don't particularly seem like the original target market. The 'Obtvse' network branding will have little weight as well, I think.
1. Svbtle is not yet popular. Six members != "popular".

2. Brand? What brand? It's a blogging platform. People don't want it because of a brand. They want it because it's a good idea (simplistic blogging).

3. Coke has a trademarked label. This is merely a website. What is dustin going to trademark/copyright? The ratio of whitespace to small, grey lines?
Apart from missing words and punctuations, your paragraph formation and grouping thoughts might have to be changed. It is very tough to get what you are saying in one read. But hopefully you can take the feedback and work on it!
Why would you pay roaming charges when you swap sim card for a local one?

Besides it's not that bad in EU with roaming anymore
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/roaming/t...

Also, some operators allow to purchase "european data" - ie. unlimited european data roaming for cheap.
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If your sim is implemented in software, how do you take it out of your smartphone when it breaks or runs out of battery and put it in a different phone?
The thing he copied was already "open sourced" anyway the minute Dustin blogged about it to the world.
Don't worry, its staying up. All original code, and I'm sure more than a few people will enjoy trying it out.
"Piracy is obviously a big problem. But it is a problem in practically every country."

Inside businesses? Really? Don't think I have ever seen pirated software at the places I have worked, and I don't believe it's very common. I have seen people "borrowing" software to install on their personal computers, but that's something else.

Is this just in Scandinavia?
The thing is Bansky does it with a touch more class. :)
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You don't have to reboot your phone (e.g. the iPhone doesn't need a reboot when switching SIM cards). But a lot of phones hide the SIM under the battery, and your phone won't keep running with its battery off.
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If you have been stuck with your Apple TV displaying an error message, each time you try to play iTunes, each time you try to play iTunes in the cloud content, for instance your latest favorite TV show etc, you must know that you are not the only one who has been left stranded.
Not if you use the same ssl certification authority mechanism that browsers use (obviously with some improvements to avoid common pitfalls). In fact, I would argue that it would be more secure (with revocation lists etc etc). Gone are the days that your phone can't do rapid handshaking / crypto etc etc.
Agreed, and I apologized. I've changed it. 4 lines of code diff. Cheers!
> startup

Successful startups require a barrier to entry for competitors, more often than not.
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How is this any different from Font Awesome being very similar to the Glyphicons set used in Bootstrap?

A few days ago, when it was posted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3672526), the comments were largely positive.

I'm not saying that nwienert is necessarily right or wrong, but it's strange that this post received such a strong reaction compared to the Font Awesome post.
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