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my 2 cents: complaining that underpriced hw kills competition, is like saying that a free Linux will kill Apple and Microsoft. I can see where Linus is coming from here :)
Well, that is apparently not happening yet after how many years of free software? Welcome then to free hardware, however free hw won't happen thanks to volunteering, there are paid ads, content, services, is that bad? good ?
did free Skype, Gmail, Github, Youtube, Zip compression kill the market, or was the market itself creating the conditions for them to be free?
It's unfortunate, and I liked Berlin a lot.

But the new venue should allow a lot more people to attend and participate, and in the end I think that is more important
I'm pretty sure iXsystems uses supermicro cases as well, they just put their branding on them.
Your device becomes unsellable without the Google lock in. Lots of companies tried it early on in the Android ecosystem. Even those who hit great price points, provided a vanilla Android experience and provided their own app stores failed miserably.

It's just naiive to think you can be successful without Google.
Just do a code review in the morning to warm up, instead of hurriedly finishing yesterday's work and then tossing it aside to start something new.
All I learned from that article is that Linus Torvalds is as uninformed as your average Engadget commenter. I thought that was one of the most spot on and original pieces to come out of Engadget in months if not years.
Looks fine to me.

</sarcasm>
I didn't need ID to buy two prepaid SIMs when I was in Portugal. Dead simple.
This article is completely ignorant of scientific research into how procrastination actually happens.
> Please explain how you envision this being implemented.

Make the directory containing source code read-accessible using your web server?

There is nothing you can truly implement that can guarantee that the code being executed is the same as the code being exposed, but you can hire a 3rd party to audit the server and verify as much.
That's not the only part. They have complete discretion by their use of the following words:

excessively
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Kodak no longer makes consumer video cameras. Try Sanyo.
I agree with some of your analysis. Note though, as far as my reading in the literature on this subject, empirically predatory pricing hasn't been viable in the long run. *I'm a PhD candidate studying this very topic.
Ethiopian children hack android in 5 months, know no English.
I was trying to make the point that it's not an accident of history that the President isn't elected by popular vote, but for good reasons. The President isn't running just a big collection of people, he's running a union of states. The states send electors to choose the President, and each state take popular opinion into account by way of the popular vote.

This is good because it means that each state's interest is represented (though the fact that only swing states get the focus is something that should be addressed). I live in Rhode Island and I like that we get some consideration. Large low-population states are another consideration.

...and on posting my reply I see this was already addressed very well in an earlier reply to a parent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4737359
So... peeing in Mason jars is a sign of paranoia?
No devices can not pass the CTS and look/feel significantly different. Vendors sign up to Google's non-fragmentation agreement which means that although you can put a slick veneer over the top (but doesn't effect functionality). You cannot add new cool stuff. For example you wouldn't have been able to add your own NFC payment system to ICS ahead of other vendors. You also can't add your own APIs to power your own devices etc.
I don't think that pricing aggressively to get people to pick your product over your competitor's is "poisoning the environment". It's Capitalism 101. Uprooting an entrenched market leader isn't done by being as-good-as, it'd done by offering something so compelling over the market leader (in this case, price) that people are willing to give you a shot. Apple managed to survive the computer price wars with its ridiculous margins intact, by positioning themselves as a luxury brand with an image that justifies the price premium. Why would the smartphone/tablet market be any different? We know from decades of technology sales that hardware trends towards being easier and less expensive to produce, and thus, more affordable. Economies of scale naturally dictate that Apple is going to have to lower prices to compete; if their prices remain the same, their margins go up because the component hardware becomes less expensive to produce.

Google is gunning for people who are price-sensitive because they can afford to have next-to-zero margins on their hardware. I don't think it's to poison the perception of mobile hardware pricing as much as it is an attempt to be as competitive as possible.

The iPad Mini costs about $195 to build, according to analysis I've read. Apple could had made the choice to position it at $299, still made a ~30% profit margin (rather than 40%, which is about Apple's margin on everything), gotten under the psychological $300 barrier, and been much more price-competitive with the Nexus 7 ("It's a premium brand! You pay a little extra, but it's worth it!") - the fact that they chose not to isn't because they had to make a choice between a profit margin and being competitive. It's because they make a 40% margin on everything they sell, and the iPad Mini wasn't going to be any different. They may pay for that choice in loss of marketshare, but that's economics, not a poisoned perception.

OTOH, attacking Google on "privacy" is poisonous, IMO, because it's hypocritical; both Apple and Microsoft have long histories of doing things that are questionable on that front. Attacking your competitor and attempting to ruin their image or public perception as a tactic to dissuade people from buying their products, rather than competing with them on features or price is absolutely ugly, and should be called out and discouraged. Apple seems to be really hot on this strategy lately (privacy with Google, "cheap knockoff" with Samsung, "patent thieves" with basically everyone else), and it's discouraging, because consumers benefit much more when companies put their money and effort into building products that outclass their competitors rather than simply trying to discredit them out of business.
...feel free to let me know why it's a good idea. Reflexive downvotes don't let me understand the voter's point of view.
On a related note, Hetzner's terms of service say "material not deemed in good taste is not permitted" http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/legal/agb/
Your analysis ignores competition on any axis other than price. Clearly a low price alone will not win you the market. There is always space for selling premium goods to those who consider their purchase more than a commodity.
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Because in the past you had to use servlets directly, or JSPs that you had to do a lot of work manually to separate business logic from the presentation layer.

Source: I worked at a Web startup circa 2000 where we did exactly that. I think people sometimes forget how far we've come.
You want access to God?

God says...

24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying,
No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for
themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

24:17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one
know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth:
he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave
those which have sinned.

24:20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him;
he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a
tree.
Related to "New Jersey to allow voting by email" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4738126
It’s as if our leaders in Washington, all highly credentialed, are standing on a beach holding their fire hoses full open, pouring more capital into an ocean of capital. We are trying to solve the wrong problem.

Perhaps this is the cause of the problem and not just a poor solution to the problem.
Rackspace Takes Koran-Burning Church Site Offline[1] : "Dove World refused, and Rackspace gave the church several hours to migrate the content." (emphasis mine)

I guess that's better than just pulling the plug, but not much.

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368948,00.asp
I didn't look in enough detail on the Linux side to see if it always gives a zero page reference, or does/doesn't clear out a fresh page when it's referenced based on how it was allocated and by whom. I could see that saving time but I can easily see just nuking a whole page being faster than the work of tracking and checking.

From the glibc side I believe you are exactly correct.
And what exactly is wrong with working on something as forward-thinking as HAMMER2? (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-02/msg00...)

DragonflyBSD's team is very small. Roughly fifteen people really active people if I recall? Only fifty people listed as contributors. It's smaller than any other major BSD, it's smaller than any of the major Linux distros by a substantial margin while also biting off more work as they're developing the entire operating system as a whole.

That means you need to make tradeoffs like using NetBSD's pkg_src so you can free up time to work on more interesting things. Packages might break, but the intended audience at the moment for DragonflyBSD is very likely already familiar with building from source and comfortable supporting themselves, certainly with setting up a desktop on their own.

I'd suggest looking later when HAMMER2 is out of the gate and they have more time to focus elsewhere, the ports situation certainly wouldn't be forever. (especially with help)
You can prepay, for example on T-Mobile. The sim card is $1, and while you won't get by on $10, if you stay in the city $30 gets you all you need. Definitely still cheaper in China and Europe.
sometimes you can make something too cheap to be really sustainable

Or even too cheap to be worth owning. That's happened to me before with furniture, and it's happened to everyone who wants a 1080p laptop but can only find 1366x768.
From the article:

> And in a vote of confidence in the form, students in both [of two Coursera courses] overwhelmingly endorsed the quality of the course: 63 percent who completed Dr. Agarwal’s course as well as a similar one on campus found the MOOC better; 36 percent found it comparable; 1 percent, worse.

I'd say that the quality of MOOCs vary, but definitely no more than the quality of courses at a formal institution.
All these devices are really cheap to produce, Apple and Samsung are selling them for US$ 500 to US$ 600 because of their high margins.

There's nothing wrong with this situation but as has happened with the PCs, consumers will probably see that there's no use sustaining prices that are high forever and when there's demand there will be supply. And boom, your will probably have a new race to the bottom.
How many of these buzzers have remained unchanged since the 1990s?

Also, long distance appears to be at least $20/month extra on a standard small business landline here (Bell Canada). That's not much, but I can see it happening for something the landlord would think of as a non-feature: Because why wouldn't you have a phone number in the area you live?
I just read this comment thread then realised how pointless it was, therefore creating an example of what the author of the article was talking about. Very meta!
The USA does not have cheap pre-paid sims with data. I visited Singapore. Got a $50 credit pre-paid sim. Got 1gig of data for $7 a week, taken from the pre-paid sim.

As far as I can see there are no pay as you go data plans in the US. Only subscription plans. If there are I'd like to know of them
It's not about his preference of the UI, it's about his preference of phones that do not appear locked down. He prefers Nexus because of the stock Android UI (nothing to do with iOS UI here!), but even more he prefers nexus phones because Google is fighting the proprietary locked down carrier approach -- the one that makes us slaves to our carriers in order to get a good phone at a decent price. I may get a Nexus 4, and in that situation I can purchase my freedom from my current slavery to Verizon for a paltry $100. I can actually evaluate all the carrier options and determine which phone is the best. If this kind of freedom takes hold, it is likely that carriers will actually have to compete at some point, instead of customers being forced into one carrier their whole life (basically). Then other aspects of carriers will probably improve because they have to compete.

In other words: It's not a preference for one design over another, it's a preference for freedom. You may disagree with the freedom argument, but this is certainly what it's about. This is why Linus is coming out to bat for Android -- not because he likes Google or Google's style, it's a pragmatic decision because he thinks Google is his friend as far in trying to reintroduce competition into the market.
It never ceases to amaze me how even the most innocuous things (like the video port on your netbook) could be an attack vector for security exploits.
I was under the impression that was because the PA law was challenged on discrimination/disenfranchisement grounds which falls under the Voting Rights Act. I want to say certain states do have to get pre-approval before any voting changes under the VRA due to a history of voter discrimination, but I'm pretty sure PA isn't one of them.

Not aware of any blanket deadline on changing voting processes, do you know which law that's in?
If your content is such that Rackspace closes your account, reliable hosting probably isn't nearly as much a commodity as you describe. All hosts have clauses in their TOS to let them close your account if you become an inconvenience.
Please refrain from using the pharmaceutical industry as an ideal model for innovation, competition and new treatments fostered by patent protection.

There is a significant problem with the emergence of multiple-drug resistant infections. Even with patent protection, pharma companies are not pursuing development of new antibiotics. Why? Because the economics are unfavorable. Better to have a monopoly drug like Lipitor that people have to take for the rest of their lives than an antibiotic that you only take for two weeks [1].

Patent-protection does not necessarily provide solutions that markets want. It only provides solutions that are profitable with patent protection. There is clear market failure regarding antibiotics. Where are the desirable economic outcomes and new treatments?

Appealing to the pharma industry as an example of where patents work at their best is not helpful for a discussion on patents unless you identify its obvious shortcomings.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/10/25/3618608.ht...
We have to show ID an Spain and register prepaid SIM cards, but I'm sure that's mainly due to terrorism and security related reasons.

You can go into a store, pay 5€ and walk out with a new line in less than 5 minutes though.
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We're also trying to do that with Rust (it's based on the work of Dan Grossman and others with the Cyclone region-based memory management). It depends on whether you consider it a C variant, of course.

Cyclone is something every programming language enthusiast should look into, IMHO. It's extremely interesting, well-done work.
>Which is due to his own preference of the UI, but similarly ignoring others who may instead prefer iOS.

Projecting much? At best he said he likes Android's UI. He didn't even mention iOS.
This is true. A 51% attack in which the attacker prevents all transactions from going through is probably bitcoin's largest vulnerability.

However, even at today's difficulty levels, this attack would be very expensive to maintain. With the introduction of dedicated mining ASIC's coming soon, the difficulty will rise substantially, which will offer even more security against this type of attack.
...this is why i have an android...syncs everyone...always...
No need for it in Sweden. It probably varies from country to country.
None. I use the git package sometimes, but I prefer to use to terminal for it.
Indeed, what if the prevailing Keynesian economic theory is in fact making things worse. At what point can we determine it's not helping?

> The Fed has been injecting more and more capital into the economy because — at least in theory — capital fuels capitalism.
It's kind of funny that the other day he was complaining about low-res screens in laptops... when the degradation/stagnation in laptop screens is in a large part due to the race to the bottom he's arguing is unequivocally a good thing today!
I agree with what his argument is with cell phones, but if it were not for Apple's higher margin tablets and laptops we would probably be using crapy netbooks today with a crappy OS. Both Engadget and Torvalds have a good point.
One issue people continually fail to grasp is that low rates are setting a low bar for capital investment. The result is shitty assets/investments/businesses.[1] People will only jump as high as the bar requires.

Think of the analogy of your Kid: Would you set the bar low and expect the kid to excel and get into Stanford? No. Thats now how it works. Without coaching, encouragement, benchmarking, and measurement, success is the exception not the rule.

Why is this so hard for DC to grasp? The empirical datapoint on this is clearly Japan in the 1990's. Ultra-low interest rates, and ultra-cheap capital might spur investment, but not <profitable> investment. Twice as much investment at 1/2 of the return on capital is not moving you anywhere.

That's a major part of the problem. USA have been facing this since the Greenspan stimulus following the Dot-Com crash in the early 00's.

_______

[1] This might work OK in a short run, of 6 months or a Year, but not over 3-5-10 years -- then you are talking entire capital investment life-cycles.
Ask HN: Would you pay for this freelancer tool?
Lately, I've been thinking about the freelance software developer market and the mess it is in. In my opinion, it boils down to:

- Freelancers mostly find jobs through recruiters. It's hard to find clients willing to deal with developers directly, especially in the enterprise market, which accounts for most of the job openings for freelancers.

- Freelancers are unhappy with how recruiters treat them.

- Some recruiters use shady methods and most of them act in an intransparent manner.

- For clients it seems to be very hard to find the right freelancers for a job.

While I applaud Geekli.st, Matchist, Hackerlist and the likes for trying to solve this problem I think they can't really scale to the freelancer market at large. They also seem to only appeal to a subset of developers and clients that doesn't necessarily intersect with where the biggest demand is. Most enterprise clients mostly will not even have heard about those services.

So, while I think there at least for now is no general solution to this problem I've been thinking about a product that might at least mitigate it from a freelancer's point of view. This product would be a web application roughly outlined as follows:

A freelancer clips job openings via a web clipper.
The application does named entity recognition and reduplication on those clips and displays related entities for a job posting (like recruiting company, client, contact data, required skills) in a Rapportive-like manner.
The skills for a job would be matched against the freelancer's skills, thereby ranking the openings.
Another interesting aspect could be that given enough users this product could be used to build a relevant database of job openings.

Basically, it would be CRM tuned to the needs of freelance software developers with the additional benefit of a potentially huge lead database.

Question is: Am I on the right track with this one? Would you or anyone else pay for this?
Lots of people are saying that your pricing is too high, but I presume that people who live in apartments with fancy gates for protection can probably stand to throw away $100/year without even thinking.
Supporting Google access and requiring it are two very different things. Of course a phone that wasn't capable of integrating with gmail etc would never sell but that doesn't mean that I can't personally opt out if I buy that phone.
I thought Keynesian economics was about fiscal, not monetary stimulus like what the fed is doing? From my understanding you're confusing the two.
I use T-Mobile's prepaid with my unlocked Android phone. I get 100 minutes voice per month and unlimited data for only $30. They certainly don't advertise it, but you can buy a prepaid SIM card from their website for only a couple bucks and then sign up for this plan. I go over my minutes frequently and pay $.10 per minute for the rest of the month at that point, but it still comes out far cheaper than any regular plan.
"Local" google voice numbers aren't local enough for these systems. At least not for my last apartment's.
Did they honk at you because you were in their lane? :)

That's what I get in Scottsdale. You just have to assume here that every driver feels entitled and doesn't give a fuck. Whatever is the shortest or fastest path is their birthright.
What's the complaint here? Google makes changes that sometimes negatively impact someone's business?

As long as Google's algorithm is trending in the correct direction (that is towards better quality results) then these complaints are just growing pains and I don't see much of a problem.

Some startups are criticised for simply being features of a chosen platform. Once they get big enough, the platform in control will simply add the feature and eliminate the startup. I'm unfamiliar with Nextag but it looks like a price comparison site and you could perhaps argue that price comparison is simply a missing feature of Google.
Yes android does keep contacts synced but the problem is that you still never know if you have the most up to the date and relevant information about your contacts. Only you know your contact and social information best. We let users create one profile with all of their contact and social information. So when you can add a contact on knok.me you're sending a request to their profile. The syncing solution is very complex. You're still creating duplicate copies of each contact. It is very unnecessary.