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Is this really what we want?

Let's say AT&T decides to go the author's suggested route, and let's also pretend that I'm a paying AT&T customer. I travel to an area where AT&T is delivering their data through WiFi, but several shop owners in the same area have set up WiFi access points and have overrun the available WiFi spectrum in the area. The quality of my data connection suffers significantly, and I get upset at AT&T for providing poor service.

Does anyone really think this is in AT&T's best interest?

By using licensed spectrum, wireless providers gain tighter control over the engineering of their networks. Yes, it's a double-edged sword, but I don't see an opportunity for improvment by moving to unlicensed spectrum.
> ""people familiar with the situation said" conveys a very different impression than "according to amazon PR off the record.""

Well "according to amazon PR off the record" is a contradiction in terms. If you identify them as the source, they're on the record in every way that matters.

That said, I completely agree that the press has long been horrible at passing along glorified press releases as 'news' and it ought to stop.

I just can't think of any feasible system to stop it. Even a community attempt to catalog and shame people out of it would just force the practice to evolve into using intermediaries, however deep as necessary, to establish plausible deniability.
This is an area I am thinking about on my subscription site as well, and your thoughts about the main cancelation reasons jive with mine as well. In my experience over the past few months, the main reason why people cancel is either because of price (need to cut back on expenses and they see startup tshirts as a luxury) or they weren't fans of the particular shirts they were getting (in which case we can let them know about whats upcoming).

Either way I handled this all through email, which made it easier to fully understand their problems, and in many cases turn it around (since every month is different, it may just take one cycle to get them happy again).

Most of the people canceling relayed that they were still passionate about what they were receiving, so what I've been doing recently is giving them free subscriptions and having them on as brand ambassadors, helping me spread the word about Startup Threads Monthly. Too early to tell if this is a good idea but its what I'm working on now.
Mountain Lion is a much improved version of Lion, no more. That’s great.

I don’t see any roadblocks to installing it. It already works much better than Lion.
Isn't it possible to deliver a notification OTA but require WiFi to download it?
Sorry, I expressed myself wrong. I meant to say I visited Toronto in North America, and other cities in Europe and Latin America (but I haven't been to the U.S. yet as it's the hardest country to visit in terms of visa requirements. Now that I can get one, I don't have time :) ).
Or the old, "refer-a-bunch-of-fake-accounts-and-activate-them-each-on-a-VM" cheat.
Overly dramatic title. AT&T sent me a text message when my 2.2 phone had a 2.3 update available. The instructions were clear with screenshots of every step, so the only thing needed is about 30 minutes of one's time.
With MercuryPuzzle you can self-evaluate your skills and strengths and receive interesting job offers from companies you choose.

Today we launched into open bet and are thankful for every comment and feedback!
I agree. Programming for programming sake has never really made sense to me. Thats why I learned to program by writing games - there was a purpose, and immediate visual feedback.

Anything else is masturbation.
Too many words to express what The Ultimate Productivity Blog already said three year ago.

http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/

PS: ;)
"People have done amazing things with low-spec hardware before, but it certainly doesn't help if the hardware is poor along with the other poor decisions on display here."

I think that guys like Sony or Nintendo had so much more budgets/experience/talents to create super-optimized low-spec custom hardware and SDK going along allowing to create great piece of software with these specs.

I am quite sure that the SDKs that will go along the platform will be "as-good" as the stock SDK provided by Google. Meaning "good" but not in the same game with Sony/Nintendo's SDKs.
It doesn’t mat­ter what com­mu­nity he is part of, nor who he is. He’s a hacker, a father of two beau­ti­ful girls and a hus­band. He’s being robbed of his life, and his daugh­ters robbed of their father.

What matters is we can help. All of us — some of us (me) have been lucky enough to get help and sup­port when we needed it most from peo­ple we didn’t expect it from.

We can help him; we can help his fam­ily. Even if only a lit­tle, and even though we know what the future will hold. So let's just do it.

Skip the squabbling over politics; national healthcare, etc. It doesn't matter - what matters is him and his family, right now.
Because that would be illegal?
OS fragmentation? Call MG!

I kid, but it's interesting to see a few warts in the Apple ecosystem. Nobody can argue that they don't make awesome products, but as they slip into the "mainstream" we're going to see that it's more and more difficult to maintain a flawless complexion.

First, they remove the "can't get a virus!" ad, now this, within weeks. Being unable to upgrade your OS is no minor quibble. "It just works" indeed.
You only have one life. Why would anyone want to spend the vast majority of it doing work for someone else? The rare case is that they are passionate and care about the work. Anything else, and I just don't understand it.
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No doubt you've heard of this? https://github.com/jspahrsummers/cocoa-clojure
The issue is whether a state-by-state single payer system would be universal. It would not be in the US--the Republican states would never enact it. How would Canada's system react if Ontario had single payer but British Columbia did not?
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The DMCA doesn't say they have to pre-screen everything. Youtube goes above and beyond what the law requires (in many cases to the detriment of its users). The law doesn't say "you have to do whatever other, similar companies do". It says "here is what you have to do".

Of course Grooveshark might still be inducing infringement or something like that, so I have no idea about your second paragraph.
Ha, nice title

I thought this was a thread on entrepreneurs that constantly tell the world they are working hard on social media sites versus actually working hard
I almost never use wi-fi on my phone. It drains the battery too much.

edit: I'm not familiar with cellular hardware tech. My observation is true for my phone, necessarily, because my 3G reciever is active 100% of the time, and turning on wifi is just turning on another component. If this isn't the case for you, do you turn off your 3/4G while you're in a wifi spot? Does it manager this all automatically?

Do you have your wifi on while you're outside of a wifi spot? If so, how does that not cause a loss in battery life over never having it on?
I have personally been doing weekly hangouts on my iPhone for several consecutive months. This included, by the way, using that feature on an iPad 2 and using AirPlay mirroring to throw it up on an AppleTV.

The thing that actually changed is that Google+ is now a real universal app with an iPad-specific UI. The headline is misleading.
I'm the only developer in a start up team and want to leave
Hi guys,

I'm the only developer in the web team of a startup and I'm no longer interested in the product we're building. The thing is since I'm the only developer, nobody knows the stuff I'm working on and it'd be horrible for the business if I leave. What should I do?
"Free" texts, to be exact. 3G/4G networks in the Philippines aren't very good or reliable. And they are expensive, so only a very small minority use them.
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Depends on what you do. Airfare from the US to a destination outside of North America probably costs around $1000 round trip (varies by time of year, destination, etc). For a family of 4, you're already half way through your budget just to get somewhere and back. On the other hand if you pack up the car and drive to the next state over to visit Grandma, you've probably only spent a couple hundred on gas/tolls/etc.
The title is terrible and misleading. The linked article itself is poorly written, confusing, and misleading.

The AT&T Note 4.0 upgrade is happening over Kies, a desktop piece of software not unlike iTunes. Fullstop. How that turned into the ridiculous title is rather bizarre.
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Given s_henry_paulson's sadness enough to comment, I'd say it's likely he has donated. Funnily enough I don't see why it's necessary for you to be outright rude to him.

Edit: I'm glad you've dropped the threat nonsense.
I second this. I noticed my MBA running hot and I figured it was because I was photo editing. I stopped but then it continued to run with fans full speed ahead. I looked at Activity Monitor and saw KiesOverWifiAgent running at 100% CPU. Uninstalled...

Hardware manufacturers are the WORST software makers.
Strictly speaking there's no requirement to actively filter content. YouTube goes beyond the DMCA safe-harbor provisions because they want a friendly relationship with Big Content. GrooveShark recognizes that their model is incompatible with that of the record labels, so they hide in the letter of the law. Though it is hard to see how GrooveShark could possibly dodge the "direct financial benefit" or "red flag" tests.
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This is exactly what we do where I work - a lot of our programmers don't know Ruby when they walk in the door but that shouldn't matter if you choose the right people. I'm scared of choosing language or framework 'specialists' because they have a limited view on what programming is, and a cemented view on what it should be. The only exceptions I can see are when the specialization is language specific to the problem domain, IE C for high performance server or system code.

Programmers who advertise themselves as "Ruby programmers" or "Python hackers" or what-have-you come off as inexperienced and one dimensional. The best hackers have used the right tool for the task at and, and the best hackers have solved a wide variety of problems to require different tools.
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You're right, text-only loads faster. I whish I could link paypal directly but it looked unsafe to do so.
If this is the only language in your belt, please for your software's sake learn something else, widen your perspective.

Would help if you spent some time learning PHP in the first place :/ .. to preserve keys simply '+' the arrays together:

php > define('CONST_1', '1024');
php > define('CONST_2', '65536');
php > print_r((array(CONST_1 => 'val1') + array(CONST_2 => 'val2')));
Array
(
[1024] => val1
[65536] => val2
)

Also, constants have nothing to do with the problem you had, it's just the way array_merge works.

Edit: wow, just wow. The parent is voted up with miss information and I'm voted down for correcting him.
They've been doing this since Mac OS X 10.3 or so. It's nothing new.
Why Email is not broken
One suggestion is to try and first familiarize yourself with the different types of philosophy. Philosophy is a pretty broad topic, so find something that is interesting to you (such as metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, etc..) and then read the relevant philosophical works. A great resource to get a general overview of many philosophical concepts is the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/
Think of it as a classification problem. Every message falls into one of four levels:

1. Should read immediately (generates an interruption)

2. Must read, but can wait (goes in a queue that I look at regularly, and must be marked read)

3. Maybe worth reading, but okay to miss (goes in a pool that I look at sometimes, but disappears if ignored. This pool should be bottomless.)

4. Should not read (uninteresting stuff, spam, and duplicates)

We have many ad-hoc systems for performing this classification, and email is only one of them; we use the medium itself as a proxy for parts of this classification.

Gmail's Priority Inbox is meant to distinguish level 1 from 2, and its spam filter to distinguish level 2 from 4, but it breaks down when level 3 messages (such as mailing lists) get into your inbox. RSS is for level 2 only, and can neither escalate to 1 nor filter to 3 and 4. Forums are for level 3 only. News aggregators like HN distinguish between levels 3 and 4, but they suck at escalating to levels 1 and 2, and their ad-hoc nature means that they have pretty serious duplication problems; an awesome post is still a level 4 message if you've already seen it.

If you want to replace email for me, you need to go broader; let me pull everything into the same system, then get the classification right.
The smartphone is the "browser" of the 21st century. Remember the old days when tons of browsers were coming out? The situation is going to become like that. By controlling the phone, you control the user's access to the 'net. You decide which search engine s/he uses, which maps site, which IM client, etc. You give prominence to your buttons (shopping in this case), while denying/delaying competitors.

The whole browser war is going to play out over the next year or two, this time via smartphones.
But (after taxes) about 6 weeks living expenses in NYC of SF.
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I'm a long time lurker on HN, and among other projects, about two years ago I began creating a textbook replacement.

www.forgetthetextbook.com

In short, it's a free, crowdsourced, and dynamic online textbook that rewards quality instruction. It's ideally a platform anyone can learn or teach from in every subject, and I hope it will harness the Salman Khan's of the world.

Reddit gave me some great feedback over a year ago, but I've been so busy with my normal life and day-job that it has fallen to the wayside. It's still rough around the edges, but I wanted HN's opinion of the concept before I put more effort towards it.

Any input would be great.
> “For example a cellular picocell costs from $7,500 to $15,000 whereas a much higher capacity carrier-grade Wi-Fi access point costs around $2,000,” Thanki wrote. “The cost of a Wi-Fi chipset for a consumer device is around $5, whereas 3G cellular chipsets costs around $30.

Won't a cell tower cover at least a couple orders of magnitude more area than a wifi access point? Is this analysis silly or am I missing something?
Leave. You are not indispensible even if it feels like you are.
Samsung Staying Strong
Exec isn't so much a task rabbit clone, yes it's a similar concept to TaskRabbit but they've in my opinion improved the concept and TaskRabbit is far from dominant.

In Germany and the UK Milk.ly is quite big and has a much better looking Interface, that's why TaskRabbit is pushing for a London launch asap to compete.
Our obsession with tools
Might sound nice to some, but basically it's just a gimmick. Why not just offer them 7.5K more in salary and leave it at at that?
I'm not sure if you can do it over the telco network (you probably can), but you can certainly upgrade over Wifi since iOS 5.

The procedure used on at least some products was to download the new version alongside the existing software, verify it, configure it all and then set it to be the boot version only when the install is done - then it can reboot. Until that point it will still boot the original version. You could even have a 'boot this next time only' mode and then at the conclusion of a successful boot it would set it to be the default and in the event of failure would go back to the previous version.

There probably are bad cases if the power is lost at the very end but the window is quite small and you are probably safer with the phone having its own battery (don't start installing unless there is enough charge) than you are with products like TVs. I know at least one TV manufacturer used such an approach and it seems a reasonable approach for reduced risk.
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Lol, carriers will never EVER willingly became "simple internet providers". EVER. They will scream and fight to the last dollar for their "right" to provide monopolized "services" - separate voice traffic, separate plaintext traffic, separate image traffic, and other "services". They'll cut and limit all generic internet connections, they'll filter unwanted packets (VoIP, iMessage etc.), they'll reroute traffic through their internal resources and inject ADs or spyware. They'll do lots of thing, except of cource becoming ISP.
It's an article focused on Singapore. Exec hasn't launched in Singapore yet afaik.
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nowhere does it mention "oh btw if you don't own the rights don't do it", that's hidden on the terms of service page.

Are you surprised that when you buy a knife, it doesn't come with a warning explaining that you can't stab people with it?
Uploading music you don't have a redistribution license for is not against the ToS, it's against the law. You're supposed to know it in the first place.
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What you say is true, and there a lot of reasons why. One of them is that companies that trust their employees enough to have unlimited time off also tend to give their employees substantial ownership of whatever they are working on. They want to make sure their "baby" is being taken care of properly and is looking good as a matter of personal pride. The cultural pressure is not to not take time off but to make sure what you own is as good as possible.

In the case of my company, which also has unlimited time off, there is this same pattern of engineers that do not want to take vacation. Managers encourage (gently force?) people to take time off that are not taking at least a few weeks a year off on their own. The actual range of vacation taken at my company seems to be from about two weeks (that would be me) to about six weeks.
This article is misleading on several accounts. First, it completely ignores the incredible difference in range you can get with 4g vs. Wifi. This is directly related to the frequencies you are operating at.

Secondly, the reason that WiFi frequencies are not regulated the same was as cellular frequencies has to do directly with that limitation. If we suddenly had AT&T, Verizon, and other WiFi routers littering our streets every sixty feet, there would be a terrible amount of noise and it would interfere with people's home or business networks.

Suddenly, you would need to start licensing that spectrum. See how it works?
The reason that wifi is better than cellular is because you don't have to fight with a carrier to use it. if AT&T starts pushing everything onto wifi, it won't make AT&T better, it'll just make wifi worse.
Taxis seem over hyped. Why not just call a car service. Don't know if such things exist outside of NYC though. Basically you call them to pick you up and drop you off anywhere you want. They give you a fixed price depending on your destination rather than having a meter running. The only limitation they have is that you cannot wave them down. You have to call them. Overall I feel I get a better service from a car service than from a yellow cab. Also, as far as I'm aware there isn't a limitation on how many car service there can be (I have family members that work in such) which keeps competition high and prices low.
"You wouldn't pay someone to talk to you about startups in general, so don't waste your time on it."

A distinction needs to be made between talking to someone knowledgeable (about anything) and reading about it. Having a conversation is interactive. The person can dial in give exact advice which takes into account your exact situation and specifics. Things that would take much much more time if you had to read about every possible scenario (which you wouldn't necessarily understand the nuance of anyway) can be covered and discussed in a conversation.

That's one of the problems that I have with advice that people read on the net about anything. It doesn't (and can't) cover all the possibilities that apply to one's particular situation.

In general you might be able to find advice regarding startups that says summarizes something in this way "young people can take the chance with a startup because they have less to loose and more time available than a middle age person who has a secure job with a big corporation, a family, and will loose seniority and possibly not be able to find a new job". So that might be a generality that sticks. Otoh change one factor in the older person's situation (say they have a trust fund) and that info is no longer as valid. A conversation allows you more easily to uncover the dozens if not hundreds of specifics that apply to an individual and what is important to them. It also allows someone to clear up misconceptions ("medical school is tough be prepared to work hard") that might not be entirely correct.
"I guess I could still do that in Japan without long vacations but I guess I would need to do that on time of company."

So in other words, you'd need more than 10 days of vacation.

I don't think expectations are important at all here. When vacation time is established at national, cultural levels, the expectations of the population will reflect that.
I know it's not required, my point was more than Grooveshark are claiming that they comply and they're great and all but they do the bear minimum, they do enough to not get sued, but then they claim with a straight face that they're supporting artists etc.

Artists choose to sign with a record label, Rihanna wasn't forced at gun point to become part of Def Jam, she chose to and in return Grooveshark are streaming her music anyway claiming that it's "for the artists" and "we comply with DMCA so it's okay".
Unfortunately I almost never use cellular data on my phone. It drains my bank account too much.
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I get the impression someone is trying to replace that nasty old piracy word with something that sounds much more like a verbal fuzzy kitten.

I think Shakespeare put it best: What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
It seems to me to actually be the opposite. Having a working wifi connection will increase my battery-life by at least a factor of 2
I didn't realize that. Then why is this news? And why is it news when a phone company decides it's not worth the trouble to build out ICS for a 2 year old phone?

Honest questions. As people in this thread with more knowledge than myself have stated, there's a tradeoff in introducing new technology and maintaining legacy hardware support. OS fragmentation seems natural. And the better our tech gets (longer life of devices), the worse the problem will get. Considering how fast phone technology works, why is/was Android fragmentation such an issue?
At least for some of the iOS updates, you have to be on wifi to download it.
Well he said a picocell which is around an order of magnitude greater range. I am not sure that range is the most important thing as towers become more and more congested I am pretty sure we are moving to smaller and smaller ranges.
Please do! I'm getting ready to make a stronger marketing push and would dramatically appreciate feedback at this stage in the game.
Amen. I bookmark a lot too, 'just in case'.
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