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Not looking forward to basically a 100% increase in my bill when Verizon pulls the plug on the grandfather unlimited plans.
Under all circumstances: I'm sure we've all been faced at some stage with the unplanned need to route between two RFC1918 subnets, only to find they collide, in situations as simple as a home VPN connection dialling into the office LAN, up to corporate mergers involving hundreds of thousands of desktops.

A central address registry along with 'public' allocations is the only way to avoid this kind of mess. The fact that public addresses are currently scarce doesn't make having unified addressing any less desirable (just presently impractical).
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I would imagine that it uses a wired data connection. Otherwise, imagine the mayhem that could result if some enterprising hacker were to inject fake data into the stream... such as copies of the mayor or chief of police's cars.
In theory, you're right. But in practice, IPv6 really wants subnets to be /64. For example, stateless address autoconfiguration requires it.
Fine. How much does it cost to build the machine that mills the case out of a block of aluminum? How much does it cost to employ the people that design the hardware, that write the software? How much does it cost to market, distribute and sell on a global scale? The cost of an iPhone, or any mass-produced product, is WAY more than the cost of each individual part from NewEgg.
Those mattresses sitting in a stack are bulk orders negotiated by the retailers. But you can still walk in and order something they don't have in a back room. Those are built and shipped. But that's not true for all mattress companies, just some.
The national median household income is around 45k. The third quintile starts just under 35k. Are you really going to say that half of the US population is "underemployed"?
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$792 million in patent royalties from just two companies in a single quarter, Samsung and HTC.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/windows/20792/microsofts-haul...

Nokia also made a similar amount in patent licensing from Apple. I believe Nokia is also suing HTC so might start collecting patent licensing from them at some point.
Yes, and marketing, logistics...
Only because HN is IPv4-only. I'm sitting in a remote office on my laptop this morning, and it has an IPv6 address. When I visit google.com, it's over IPv6.

It's happening.
Really cool. UX-wise, I think you're missing a message that says: "That username is already taken. If it's your account, please login."
Often it's not so much that people get used to it, as that the yellow lights are often set too short to react to in time (and safely) to avoid running the light. If people have to stand on their brakes to avoid running a yellow-turning-red, it's too short.
Yes, among many other things! Materials cost doesn't really mean much.
That's what I meant, I just assumed people would understand that a custom-ordered mattress was 'used' once it has been taken home and returned no matter whether someone slept on it or not.
"almost"?

I'm still stuck on an IPv4 connection at home, in Britain. My phone still can't get IPv6 on mobile internet. My VPS host still doesn't support IPv6 on my server. And PHP still fails to properly parse some types of IPv6 address.

Things have got better, sure, but don't say it's almost gone. Far from it.
>For me, the biggest issue with the new 16:9 screen is that the entire iOS app ecosystem has been built upon the idea of 'pixel perfection,' and this historical focus on pixel-perfect design has now put iOS developers in the position of having to modify their apps to support a growing variety of specific screen resolutions.

All iPhone apps already have to resize vertically. The status bar changes height when you're in a call.
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AT&T used to allow iPhone users an upgrade annually for the new iPhone despite being on a two-year contract. I'm not sure if they have for this round, but every other year, they simply changed upgrade eligibility for iPhone users right before the iPhone came out.

The problem is that this is very expensive. An iPhone costs $650 and you get it for $200. That means that the carrier is eating $450. Even if you argue that a carrier is getting a discount and it's only costing them $300-350, they have to earn that back. $300-350 over 12 months is $25-29.17 per month that they have to earn back, plus interest. So, you have a $30 data plan, and only $0.83-$5 of that is going to actually implementing, maintaining, etc. the network. If they're subsidizing the device by $400, giving you an upgrade ever 12 months would mean taking a loss of $40 not including the cost of creating and maintaining the network.

So, it's quite detrimental to a company's bottom line to offer that to the point that it isn't wonderfully feasible. Sure, you can say that it gets you the voice plans of those people who switch and maybe that can go to the subsidy as well and whatnot, but the margins are thin. I'm quite literally paying $40/mo for my iPhone plan as an add-on to a family plan (plus 1/5th of $20 for texting ($4) and 1/5th of $70 for voice ($14)). So, I'm paying a total of $58 and getting a $450 discount on the device. $450 over 12 months is $37.50 plus interest and so I would only be paying $20.50 per month for my actual usage. Even if I bring my own phone, there isn't a carrier that would give me a price near that low.

Frankly, I think it would be better for uses to pay the $649 up-front and have cheaper plans (and this does happen in many countries and can happen here if you want to buy the iPhone 5 for T-Mobile). However, even there I wouldn't be getting such a value. T-Mobile offers 500 minutes plus texting plus 2GB of data for $50/mo. For $8 more on a family plan, I'm getting $450 off my device which even if I can only upgrade every 24 months is an $18.75/mo value.

It would definitely be a huge differentiator. AT&T did this for many years to keep Apple fans happy and to prevent their yelling from overwhelming the press around the new device. However, it's really expensive. Even if you gained more customers, it likely wouldn't be worth it.
Sadly not all software is posix compliant, there's still tons of stuff that just doesn't work in windows without lots of painful work. For example, if you use nodejs, around 40% of the npm modules that use native code doesn't compile properly in windows. The only way to do development is to run a VM. If you're a developer, the only reason to use windows is if you're developing for windows related platforms, otherwise it's just a pain in the ass -- use linux on the laptop and run windows in a VM or use wine.
(3) is only secure if no one bothers to write a bot for your site. It would be trivial to do so, however.
that's where majority of the US population lives -- the sprawl if you may. If you simply restrict to SF/NYC and downtown areas (which in a lot of the US cities are mainly office buildings and not housing), you're not going to able to expand your business.
If these guys can build a phone of this quality and make a big profit, imagine how much money their competition is making by using cheaper materials (and judging by what we know, lower production/r&d costs) while selling for the same prices.
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The retirement plan was almost certainly making less risk-free interest than the interest he'd effectively make (risk-free, hence apples-to-apples comparable) by paying off the student loan. When the difference in interest is great enough it's financially prudent to cash out the retirement plan to pay off the student loan.
Room temperature superconductivity has been claimed several times, but never corroborated as fas I know. And neither has this claim, yet.
If it works on android/ios I'm a customer. I'm using textsecure right now.
"it's all about finding balance"

I was thinking that the whole time I was reading. You can only eat knowledge as fast as you can chew it. Digestion takes time too.
At the risk of putting words in rscale's mouth, its not that PE creates these conditions or that PE is even necessary for these conditions. Instead, PE tends to find and play in highly attractive industries (See Porter's 5 Forces for a classic view of "attractiveness"). PE involvement in an industry can be a good signal...
Sorry, I was imprecise. I meant, under what circumstances today is it the best thing to spend routable IP addresses for machines that aren't exposed directly to the Internet? I'm getting directly at the practicality of these schemes. Obviously, if routable IP addresses were easy to get, there would be lots of cases where it would make sense to use them.
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I am working at a company that is trying to do just that.

http://saatvamattress.com/
Yet no one else is posting anywhere near the profits that Apple (AAPL) is, quarter after quarter. Yes, their margins are slimming, but they still lead their market in terms of actual profits.
It seems a bit arrogant to say "I don't like this particular article, therefore the community is primitive." An Animated GIF messaging library is certainly of interest to a majority of hackers.
Even before that, start making mattresses flippable again.

But a flippable + rotatable mattress means it could last decades, so of course it won't happen.
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That seems utterly logical and practical. Thanks for your take and the link.
"fiat allocation doesn't work"

Sort of, and sort of not right? Fiat allocation of a fixed resource, sure, but ISO does fiat allocation of OID space and it works because folks are free to grow as much as they want below it. As I recall one of the original 'next gen' IP proposals was like a huge address translation cloud, IPs were encapsulated in yet another layer which provided 'context' for the IP address inside. Basically every entity got their own 32 bit address space and ingress/egress to the Internet resulted in encapsulation and some additional router magic. One of the arguments against was the huge additional bandwidth cost. Of course we didn't realize at the time that few protocol changes could waste as much bandwidth as SPAM does.

The other challenge is that a functioning liquid market for IP addresses would most likely lead to speculation in IP address blocks. Worse is buying an address block from someone in Germany so that packets have to go to Germany first (top level static routing) to the router where they are re-allocated and then to their 'real' destination router. All very inefficient.

I, like other folks at Sun, was a big fan of a more modest 64 bit address proposal for V6, but alas it was not to be. That the conversion has taken as long as it has (and still isn't "here" nearly enough for a lot of users) really illustrates the dangers of the argument to 'permanently' fix things[1]. But innumeracy aside, the confounding issue is that IP addresses are 'structural' like telephone numbers and managing mobility of structural identifiers is always challenging (the cellular market deals with this all the time) so creating a truly liquid marketplace for these identifiers would ideally include fixing the structural issues which would allow the constraints to be fixed and thus eliminate the market.

Bottom line, it would have been great if folks had thought of that first, but they didn't and while future protocol developers can (and should) benefit from that experience, we're stuck with V4 address blocks that are stuck in various regions of the world.

[1] The most persuasive argument against 64 bit addresses was that this would only push the problem down the road, whereas 128 bit addresses fixed things once and for all.
I felt that was a disingenuous part of the chart. The author said that FaceTime only worked over cellular for AT&T when you moved to a shared data plan, but always worked on Verizon. That's technically true, but only really because Verizon won't offer customers subsidized pricing without moving to a shared data plan.

From Verizon's perspective, if you pay their post-pay rates and bring your own iPhone, you're paying them an additional $18+/mo since they don't have to cover the subsidy. As such, if you have a grandfathered plan, they care less since you're basically paying for a higher rate plan by not using a subsidy.
People grossly overuse (and abuse) the term unemployment like this.

First, an unemployment rate of 0% is bad. This is because not all unemployment is bad.

Frictional unemployment is actually a good thing (to a certain extent), because the alternative is having people stuck doing jobs they don't want when better jobs are available.

Structural unemployment is what happens when $old_industry dies because $disruptive_tech_company changes the market. It's definitely bad for the unemployed (who will never be re-employed in the same field), but it's usually the result of positive improvements to society at large. The 'solution' is that those people losing their jobs need to be retrained to work in another field, which is admittedly difficult, or retire.

Cyclical unemployment is undeniably bad. That's the result of boom-and-bust economies - people over-hiring during bubbles, and then having to lay off en masse when the market contracts. (The problem is largely that the people are being dumped into the jobs marketplace all at once, creating a glut, instead of being more evenly distributed).

The rest - someone who's employed but at a salary lower than what they'd like, or someone who retires because they're laid off... that's not unemployment. Someone may dislike it and they may think it's a 'problem' that needs to be 'fixed', but they need to realize that they're talking about something completely different from unemployment.

As for real unemployment, the ideal value is a point of debate amongst economists because it is tricky to measure, but somewhere in the ballpark of 5% is a commonly accepted value for the target 'natural rate' of unemployment.

That is, a sustained, unwavering value of 5% unemployment is actually the target for a healthy economy.
The disclosure was previously published on Sept 5 (OP links to it)

http://samgranger.com/whatsapp-is-using-imei-numbers-as-pass...
I think anecdotal evidence is good to a point.. we can only know so much before starting to make larger generalizations.

In all this, there is some sense that we (as Canadians) are fundamentally different than our American friends. I do agree (it's just a feeling) that these perceived differences are holding us back in many ways.

Could this be culture? Could this be our more left-leaning ideologies? Could there be some small thinking involved?

As a Canadian who was invited to partake in the American workforce more than once but decided on staying here - I believe Canada has more to offer than America.
Apple is also making this low profit by negotiating too hard with Foxconn and other suppliers, which in turn hurts the workers there. At the end of the day Apple cares more about profit than anything else.
>> "They could win in the court of public opinion if they yell loud enough. This is politics nothing else."

Not quite... It's law.
Technically. If you consider The Open Group as some sort of authority. But Apple's OSX shows how meaningless it is to recieve the expensive POSIX "certification" from The Open Group. Alas, there is nothing in the spec about having to actually perform. Nothing that requires clean design or reliability, let alone transparency. I mean, if you want to use UNIX for a commercial product, by all means go ahead, but the least you could do is not ruin it.

"Certified UNIX". Pure marketing. Apple has the budget. There are vastly better UNIX implementations (from which Apple has borrowed copiously) that will never be certified. Go figure.

From where I sit, the most talented coders always seem to hold the POSIX specifications in spite. They do not like them. OSX is proof that they are not being unreasonable by taking that view.

To be clear, I'm not endorsing GNU/Linux. That is a whole 'nother story of UNIX gone bad.
IE8 support will probably arrive, it's just a matter of developer hours and setting up ugly VMs. If you're on IE7 or below, won't happen ever. :)
With a memory foam mattress, they tend to be vacuum packed in a plastic sleeve and box that is nigh-impossible to ever fit it back in again. I suppose if you had a specialized team that could come to your home, repackage it, and take it away, it might work, but that doesn't sound like it would scale very well outside of a large city.
A better way of putting it is that there is a generation of users that do not differentiate between hardware and software. They just know devices.

And if you are only supplying one half of the device, you are in most respects going have trouble sustaining your business in 5-10 years time because the market for just the OS or just the hardware will be tiny or have tiny margins.
You could run the real XMPP client on a server and use the native push messaging system to wake up the mobile client. This would also enable receiving "offline" messages while the mobile device is not on a network or turned off.

Of course, this would let the person operating the "real" XMPP client read your messages; but the person operating the XMPP server can do that already, so there isn't any real change -- either way you should be using OTR messaging at all times.

In the peer to peer spirit of XMPP, such a project should make it really easy to run this virtual client yourself locally or on a cheap cloud server. Maybe something like that exists already? Anybody wanna build it?
AT&T isn't forcing customers to change plans (at least not during this upgrade cycle). Verizon is requiring shared data plans for upgrades, but AT&T is allowing grandfathered users to keep their plans. AT&T is, however, throttling past 5GB, but they're doing that whether you upgrade or not, IIRC.
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I'd have thought a large majority of what's app users use it for chatting. I can't imagine they're particularly fussed about people sniffing their plans for meeting up that night. There are varying requirements for security...
Skype would be a decent bet.
In this case, I think I disagree. A lot of this not just easy for an attacker to find - it is trivially easy for an attacker to find. Letting people know their communications are vulnerable is important, and it's not like they don't have plenty of alternatives.
This is a brutal generalization so take it with some salt. I also don't subscribe to the "all PE guys are evil and unnecessary" philosophy but with just this teaser description it would be easy to think I support it. Anyway, on to your answer.

Private Equity firms typically want to run their portfolio companies as profitably as possible. This means cutting down service, R&D, technology, etc as lean as possible without damaging the existing product or brand.

It also rules out lots of room for innovation as the companies chief reason for existing becomes generating enough profits to pay off the individual company's outstanding debt.

Why is there debt? Private Equity firms will buy a company, streamline its operations, increase its profits, and demonstrate to banks/investors that it is financially stable. Once they've done that they raise lots of debt against the promise to pay off that debt with the future, dramatically increased, profits. They use the debt to pay themselves a bonus for taking over the company and fixing it.

Why not wait and just pocket the company's profits over time? Well, that's how Warren Buffet does it (sort of), but by loading the company with debt they get their bonus sooner increasing the IRR for their own investors.

edit: phrasing.
Relevant TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/28

My conclusion from the post and the TED: launch to trendsetters in whatever demo you're hoping to target (always easier said than done).
" dropped in an envelope and shipped to anywhere in a day or two"

Not to mention the ease of returning those eyeglasses should they not be to the customers liking.
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The link mentions a lower BOM for iPhone 4S, but it's important to note that this is the BOM for iPhone 4S right now, not when it launched. Obviously the cost of the components for iPhone 4S has lowered since a year ago.

The BOM for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, at the moment of launch was $188, so more than the current iPhone 5. Sounds to me like Apple is skimping on what it can add to the new iPhone, and prefers the extra profit instead. Usually others have the cost of materials about half of the final retail price, and that helps with covering for R&D and other costs as well. Apple seems to have the BOM 1/4 of the retail price of $650.

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/iPhone-4-Carries...

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/iPhone-4S-Carrie...
I'm not sure about other places, but I wrote some software for an ISP in Poland. It seems damn hard to coordinate whole country worth of people in normal operation, leave alone make a transition to new technology. Remember that many people won't be happy with transient trouble related to the switch.
Same on elance or odesk. You can now compete to be a virtual assistant for $3 an hour with someone in Delhi.
> The problem with getting normies is that they're incredibly hard to reach.... I think the problem is inherent in Normie behavior - they simply don't have much time to invest in or thought to give to new online startups.

No, the problem is that startups are filled with people who are arrogantly elitist and can't imagine anyone doing anything another way but the Silicon Valley way. If your startup is targeting biker moms, then the first question you should ask is how many biker moms have you talked to? Of those, how many know what you do and why you do it?

I'm not a marketer. I don't know the ins and outs of getting the word out. But even I know something as basic as explicitly targeting your demographic in ways they understand. America is accused of being an overly consumerist culture; and yet, somehow all these obsessively consumerist people don't even notice you exist. Why is that? Why is it their fault?
Voted this up just so we can have a discussion. I hate the non-skeu'ed versions, they look terribly boring to me. Might suit a corporate cube farm though.

Seriously, I don't understand the hate against skeu. I've been a designer (graphics and UI) for decades and I've always appreciated UIs with textures and 3D elements and color gradients and such. I used to enjoy using Kai's Power Tools, Bryce, etc. with 24-bit 3D UIs back in the day when the Win98 or Mac interfaces looked like pixelated garbage by comparison. I swore I'd switch to any platform or OS that offered a UI like the MetaTools stuff. First one was (surprise) Mac OS X. And since then Apple has (with a few misteps) done a great job of crafting modern, sophisticated UIs.

Anyway, whatever floats your boat. Just so you know I'm not a total fanboy, I do like what Microsoft is doing with Metro/Windows 8 as well. Completely different aesthetic but one I can appreciate too.
Does anyone know if the tip carbon monoxide was oxygen toward the probed surface or carbon? I wonder if using the same atom to probe as be probed is part of the resolution enhancement.
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You don't have to upgrade to the iPhone 5. If you keep your existing phone, you won't have a problem. It sucks, but it's not like it will break your existing setup.
I just gave you a reason. Without coordination of private network addressing, those networks essentially speak different protocols, needing horrendous transforms like NAT which only works in specific situations and myriad crap over the application layer (like DNS views) in order to get them to talk.

If anything, today, networks are more likely to end up interconnected than they were in 1994.