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Good point. This has certainly complicated my thinking.
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The difference here is that, thanks to volume, Wal-Mart has the kind of market-making muscle that BMW could only dream of. This isn't as important in the world of cars or TVs but the network effects of software means there's a lot more at stake in the contest for market share.
Hi RivieraKid, would love to get in touch about some work - do you think you could drop me an email or let me know your address so I can contact you?
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"Isn't this contradictory? Having a low margin business by definition should mean that you have a smaller cash flow available to fund your R&D?"

Not always. It depends on how consumers react to the price of your products. A drop in profit per unit (by lowering one's price) might yield a large enough increase in units sold such that the total profit is higher. This is especially important for retailers who can't price discriminate easily.
That isn't a router, that is only a wireless access point, big difference!
No, make -B mytarget rebuilds either mytarget only or mytarget and everything mytarget depends on. A more common scenario is when you need to rebuild mytarget and everything that depends on it. Without rebuilding other parts of the workflow that you don't need.
The iPad mini is quite obviously a response to cheaper, smaller Android tablets, the best selling of which is the Kindle. Apple is clearly interested in the customers on the fence between a Kindle and a more expensive but higher quality device.
This is a really cool looking company, thanks for pointing it out!
BMW competes directly with Ford in Europe. Prior to the sale of PAG (Aston Martin, Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover) BMW also competed with Ford-owned brands in the United States.

I'm also certain more people cross shop Fords and Bimmers than one might initially assume.
I live in Australia and get to see first hand everyday just how backwards our country is (I'm guessing you do as well). We are regarded as one of the United States closest allies and friends, as well as trade partners. Do you think Australia would say no if the US said, "This country is illegally infringing on our copyrights and selling pirated material, we ask if you would please kindly block this site" I am only assuming, but something tells me we wouldn't say no and there's no way to dispel that until push came to shove.

The ISP case you speak of (is different to what I am proposing could happen. That case was in regards to whether or not an ISP should be held liable for its users actions and whether or not ISP's should be monitoring traffic to ensure it's customers aren't infringing. Filtering on the other hand is an already partially implemented thing, it's for filtering sites related to child abuse and other banned and obscene content (at the moment), but that's not to say it couldn't be used to block "other" URL's as well.

While we as a country haven't followed the United States lead on piracy (most likely due to stark differences between how our Governments and legal system works) that's not to say it couldn't happen. I mean our country only just passed an 18+ rating for computer games...
what makes you think nasa has an unlimited budget? they constantly have less money than they would like.
won't the US just ban access to the site?

Currently, the US has no ability to do this, they have no country-wide firewall like China.

At best, they can revoke/hijack the domain name, since ICANN is pretty much under US influence, but the site would remain accessible by IP address, and it is likely that tens/hundreds of alternative domain names would be set up by the site supporters.

Or, the US could hijack the IP space with BGP black holing/null routing, but this would be seen as an extremely offensive act. It would be the first time a western country does this AFAIK.
Just fyi, this actually isn't the Sorkin one — that one's coming out later on (not sure when).
Probably because hardly anyone uses all four ports, and extra ports is extra cost. Besides, you can always get a switch.

Not saying I would object to more ports, just my guess as to why.
My theory is screwing up like you did with your email generally gives us the experience to avoid screwing up in the future on much more serious counts, which is why most of us are not forever haunted by serious screwups.

This is in the general case, of course. It doesn't cover how the internet sometimes makes a big deal about fairly silly things.
Yes! Counter-Strike next please.
In one of those "I have no way of knowing that it's true, but it's still almost certainly true" predictions: For the last 10 years:

- Cisco upper management has been yelling at the Linksys guys to add features and do things "the Cisco way".

- Linksys engineering has been subtly hinting back to the Cisco guys if they added those features and did things the Cisco way, a low end router would cost $1000.

And most of the best Linksys guys acquired either work for another division within Cisco or a different company altogether, because they saw the writing on the wall a long time ago.
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Yeah, that seems to be the case. Manned flight is a massive step forward though. It's not just a matter of making sure everything they have today works well enough if people are on board, they still have critical systems that they still have to develop first! They still need to finish, then test and certify those second generation draco thrusters that would be used as the launch-abort system for instance.

The craziest part is that I think they can actually do it.
I'm trying to make a distinction between 'a code project' and 'all the code they make'. Generally speaking, having one shit project doesn't do much to someone's overall record. 25 good, 1 shit is better than 10 good, 0 shit.
I've never used any client other than the web interface.
Maybe then Chris will add him as a friend!
Thanks for the kind words, but I'm winging this more than I'd like to admit. (Though winging it as carefully as I can.)

But if I finish, I'll probably have learned a lot about when to use each. Hopefully because I figured it out correctly, and not because I said something egregiously wrong and got corrected by someone who knew better!
The current "standard" appears to be: connect to the Bittorrent swarm, see how many people are connected, multiply by $OBSCENE.

That's assuming this ends up peer to peer, I guess that's a bad assumption given that it will be government-sanctioned.
The new myspace is a work of art in it's own right.
I totally agree. I have a couple of the Nanostation Loco's for a woreless link at work and they're excellent, and ridiculously cheap.
How is this going to make any difference?

Pirated content is already available in US and other countries via thepiratebay and other torrents sites. Pirating copyrighted content is already considered illegal in the US, and is being actively monitored by media companies.
If this Antiguan website indeed becomes accessible to Americans, or say other country, how will downloading from this site differ from downloading via torrents. Since torrent usage is already being monitored in US, there's a high likelihood that American ISPs would monitor the usage of this site as well.

Edit: Downloading copyrighted content -> Pirating copyrighted content.
The batteries in it really don't like that cold.

Also the dash would simply refuse to work on account of the liquid crystals no longer being all that liquid.
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Not in Australia yet, sadly :(

edit: I spoke too soon. You just have to own the Windows version, and the mac version will appear. Downloading!
I don't know anything about MM, but one runs across such people all too often on the mailing lists of public projects.

They write at great length, and seem... superficially reasonable... but there's always something vaguely wrong about their conclusions. However because of the huge length of everything they write, and their willingness to write much more in response (nothing they write is short), it's both hard to follow their arguments, and completely exhausting to argue with them; many reasonable people simply give up pretty quickly.

If you can just ignore them, that's fine, but this can end up being a real problem in loose communities that try to do things by consensus, because these people come in and essentially disrupt the mechanism through sheer volume...

[There's a wide spectrum of actual insight/ability, of course; some people are more or less reasonable, others are just completely nuts. Unfortunately the style of interaction that binds them both hides such differences, and is itself corrosive to normal discourse.]
Thanks, but I'm still having a great deal of trouble following the post. Could you explain it like I'm five?
Offering models with extra ports sounds like it would be an awesome way to price segment your customers.

The enterprise people have already figured this out, I don't know why the consumer people haven't.
Thanks for the bug report! I've uploaded a fix and if you clear your cache you should no longer have that problem.
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Ask HN: How do you get a Development job in a non-tech industry/company?
Hi, could you share your thoughts on getting a job(contract, permanent) with software in companies or industries that are ~not~ in IT and/or doesn't even have techie culture? How have you got it before?

I'm in Brazil and not in an economic center, it's a relatively rich city(higher-end cost of living) but software companies here exist mostly to serve the government(which to the city is centered) so the work is dull. I got really entertained by the idea of getting into companies of more traditional businesses, where I could 'make a difference'(I know I'm idealizing here, but still), be closer to the business, get resourceful and on...

I imagine there's at least a handful companies around that are healthy financially but not so savvy or big that they've already have it all figured

For example: News(hopefully data visualization), hotels, logistics, commerce, real state, law...
Well, now you know how to fix that.

With a properly formatted request to the department responsible for maintaining the web filter, of course.
If they had left in the 'or later' clause, they couldn't use software from the third-party supplier, who only licensed under GPLv2 without the 'or later' clause.

If you are distributing someone else's software (even as part of your own work), you are restricted by the terms of the license they've given you. If that's GPLv2-only, you can't distribute a work incorporating their work as GPLv2-or-later.
We used the Ubiquiti wireless access points at my last job. Aside from being awesome for the price, the management software was a cinch to install on Ubuntu and seemed quite cool (what little I saw of it). They really seem to know what they're doing.
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Run from the Cure.
Cisco neutered/limited the specs of Linksys WRT devices when they purchased Linksys so the offering wouldn't poach on their higher-end offerings. For instance the WRT54GS line used to have 32mb ram and 8mb flash and it was lowered to 16mb/2mb: source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series#WRT54GS under Cisco. There is huge potential for beefier hardware that can run open source linux or bsd in this area. Hopefully Belkin will see the market opportunity and start creating some affordable routers that are hackable and powerful running 802.11ac. They'd sell millions imho.
BB back squat 360# 1RM.

45 degree inclined leg sled: 1010# for 10 reps, when my squat was ~250#.

The press gives you a lot of mechanical advantage (1.7x), removes stabilization requirements, and subtracts out bodyweight (part of your total squat lift).

Power lifting and road cycling is actually a very good training complement: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/16/health/he-cycling16
>I once worked with someone in his 50's who was undoubtedly a highly intelligent with an intense attention to detail -- super productive. However, he was known for claiming, among other outrageous things...

Interesting.

The type of tales told by a prior coworker of mine line up neatly with the ones you heard.

My guy claimed to be a former officer at Department of Homeland Security, former CIA agent, adopted son of a Japanese swordsmith, able to bench press 450lbs, previously owned 14 cars including all manner of exotics, killed a man for sleeping with his ex-wife, killed a man while "on-assignment" in Mexico and earned a double MS at Berkley.

Again, this was just the tip of the iceberg and when he wasn't telling stories he was affable and generally competent at his job.

I wonder if/why folks with these conditions gravitate towards a certain brand of stories?
Oh it routes just fine. Add a cheap switch if you need ethernet ports.
Great job. Surprised at the amount of negativity for an app that is meant to help people.

This is one of those disruptor-style apps that pierces the veil of an industry and brings professional level tools to the masses.

I sat up from my chair after seeing this and said "wow". Have not done that for an app in a long time.
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Given Dmitry instigated that incident by attempting himself to "slut-shame" C, I'd say he had that one coming! I think Linus was fed-up there with the nth polite suggestion he re-implement either git or the kernel in C++.
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There's services that already do this, but it's not really necessary in most cases. Even with my lonely workhorse I can smash through hundreds of millions of hashes a second. You only need additional reinforcements for more computationally harder hashes.
Great idea, much needed.

My 2cents would be to put this statement: "Reader validated, curated WordPress news" somewhere on your home page. State immediately and explicitly why I should care about your website (provided I don't enter through the about page, like the link here).
Anyone can read the entire article in the browser on Academia.edu without logging in or registering. The paper is displayed using HTML5 in the browser, and there is no need to register to read the full text of the article.

We require people to register if they want to download a local copy of the paper. Registering takes a few seconds, and is free. Our users don't mind doing it.

Academia.edu's philosophy here is somewhat similar to BitTorrent's. With BitTorrent, if you want to download chunks of a file, you need to be uploading the same chunks to other people, and that is how the content and the community is sustained.

By requiring people to register to download articles, scientists are more likely to come back to Academia.edu and upload their own articles, increasing the number of open access articles on the web in general.
Can you source your record-breaking earnings statement? From what I've seen they seem to be kind of stagnant.

`The firm matched last year’s net profit figure at $13.1 billion.` [1]

[1]http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apple-face...
"Downloading copyrighted content is already considered illegal in US"

Not to my knowledge - I'd be happy to be corrected on this though. My understanding is that it's only the unauthorized distribution that's illegal, not the downloading. In this situation, Antigua has a WTO authorization.

The reason why torrents are illegal, is that most clients turn you into a distribution node as well as downloading node.
I've played around in both and enjoy them. Tellingly, I've noticed a lot of the original community (at least, in my area) has come back and is sticking with NS2 strongly; the couple of hardcore-ish NS friends I have really like NS2 too. It's worth the money :).
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I didn't limit my comment to Asperger's syndrome, and at no point was I making excuses. My point is that saying "You're a jerk" is not a solution to the problem, whether it's caused by ASD, psychopathy, whatever. If you had read and considered my final paragraph, you would see that I did propose a solution.

Edit: oh yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error -- This thread's full of it.

Edit 2: My suggestion of a "pragmatic mental model" of others' emotions is influenced by the existence those who are able to learn to read emotion by analyzing facial expressions (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4630989).
Alan left Linux for a few years before, to do his MBA, and he came back :-)

http://kerneltrap.org/node/759
>SmartWater, now made with Muonic Hydrogen, get it before it decays!

Wait. Isn't hydrogen a chemical? I'm pretty sure I've heard that chemicals are bad for me... ;)
Do you think that all smart people work at Nokia and Qualcomm?
I really think this is interesting for a couple of reasons:

1. The US, who is a member of the WTO, thinks it doesn't need to comply with its ruling.

2. If this does happen, it will be interesting to see if the US tries to interfere with it. For example, would the US try to prevent people from reaching the site and would they pressure finance companies to keep people from buying from it?

I can't wait to see what happens.
superdracos have been in testing for a while: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUUnYgo1-lI
At the very least, LinkSys stuff is interoperable and EVERYBODY has LinkSys so adding access points and whatnot has always been pretty effortless.

I made the mistake of trying to mix and match brands once which is a great way to waste time.
I feel like I was pretty clear, so I'm puzzled by this response. Let me distill my last comment.

There are applications with human-readable URL schemes that will, with trivial manipulation of URLs, cough up arbitrary files from the server filesystem. Are those URLs OK to play with because of the "design principles of the web"?
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Serious question: was Linux able to play any kind of game in 1998? Linux releases are a little more fluid so there aren't as many big moments, but I'd imagine it was a hell of a lot less capable in '98.
Where can one buy the DRM free version?
BM:S is very, very nice looking and fun, but it's still not finished yet, anyone looking bear in mind multiplayer and the Xen levels are not implemented yet.

It's passed steam greenlight, so once finished, should be available for a nice one click install. I look forward to this :)

But if you're reading this thread and excited, you'll probably get a kick out of it.
I have given NS2 a go actually. Last I played NS1 personally was just over a year ago.

Regarding NS2, graphics are sweet, but I do not like the gameplay changes coming from NS1. I literally thought NS1 was perfect, and NS:Source would have sold like hotcakes.

That being said, I did happen to stumble across NS2 Classic (http://ns2cmodpreview.com/), and was very intrigued. Search for "Classic" in the NS2 server browser and just connect to play it. I found one with just 3 people on it, so not much gameplay was to be had.

Long story short, it was everything it was advertised to be - it felt JUST like NS1, with additions where needed. There was even a ported NS1 map we were playing on (I think it was ns_eclipse), although the textures weren't done. It still needs lots of polish to be done, but man, is it promising.

Very promising though if NS2 classic takes off, and I think (hope) it will see more adoption as the NS1 crew starts to move out of HL1... And as more people in NS2 discover the wonders of NS2 Classic.
<blockquote>Readline being GPL was actually a pretty good idea imo– it's gotten some pieces of software to open-source themselves solely because they wanted to use readline</blockquote>

That's pretty much the entire value proposition of the GPL, and it was pretty important in the early days of F/OSS when the value propositions of F/OSS was less clear -- "you have to open your stuff if you want to use my stuff".

But very early on in F/OSS, the argument was made that F/OSS was actually good for the people releasing their software as F/OSS -- not just good for the downstream recipients. And to the extent that that value proposition has been accepted, GPL-style licensing is less beneficial. If you believe that F/OSS is good for the licensor as well as the licensee, there is no reason, as a licensor, to use the license on your software as a bribe to get other people to open their software.

While initially -- before lots of big players clearly saw the value of F/OSS and adopted it for things they released even outside of GPL-style license-based compulsion -- the GPL was useful both for those who believed in the value proposition of F/OSS and those who were ideologically attached to F/OSS independent of the value proposition, its now useful mostly to the latter group and a negative to the former.
Let's not forget 3rd Bass, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, etc. White rappers have been around forever; to act like they're some sort of new or even remotely rare phenomenon is kind of silly at this point.
As the purchaser and support, either personally, or through family, roomates, co-workders, and one landlord, of no less than Fifteen Linksys WRT54G[L] in the last 10 years (with the obligatory OpenWRT Mods), and a network engineer/manager by occupation - I look forward to seeing if Belkin can come up with a <$200 router that reliably works for more than 3 years. I think I've seen about 50% failure rate in a 3 year period for those fifteen Linksys WRT54Gs, as compared to the dozen Cisco 2621s that I have reaching year ten w/ 0% mortality.

Yes - I realize that a $75 Consumer WAP is going to be less reliable than a $2000 commercial router, but I would hope, over time, someone would come up with a inexpensive, reliable, workhorse consumer router.

Now that Belkin is acquiring the Linksys name, maybe they'll deliver it.
I don't think this was ever the case for white rappers.
Asus. I've had a rock solid WL-500Gp and 2 WL-520gU's. They're running DD-WRT, but the stock firmware would probably be ok since the hardware's been excellent. I'm considering the RT-N66U next[1] which is a little pricey but ranks well on SmallNetBuilder throughput charts[2] and supports a custom firmware build that uses the native optimized drivers[3] (or DD-WRT/OpenWRT, etc.).

Also, any Linksys router with an external antenna has been OK, but those are rare now. Netgear and D-Link have been hit or miss for me.

//edit: A couple folks have said Apple Airport. +1 from me as well; I've used one without any incident for a couple years connecting primarily Windows/Android machines.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006QB1RPY/

[2] http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/view

[3] http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/319...
If this is correct, then it is technically record breaking:

"Apple just announced its Q1 2013 earnings, and the company posted a record $13.1b profit on a record $54.5b in revenue. That's just over last year's record of $13.06b profit on $46.33b in revenue at this time last year, and well over the $8.2b profit on $36 billion in revenue in the last quarter."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/23/3908330/apple-q1-2013-earn...

$13.1 > $13.06 but just a bit.
>One option would be to ask users for $5 a month in return for unlimited access to U.S. media.

Day 1 customer if this is true. I live in Bolivia and will pirate it anyway, the US media corporations refuse to price things according to my location, so screw em.
There is a great paper written by Geoffrey West called "Life's Universal Scaling Laws" http://biology.unm.edu/jhbrown/Documents/Publications/West&#...

I was under the impression he was one of the first to touch on this topic, so I find it weird he wasn't listed.

He also applied this to city growth. Which is much more interesting, considering cities aren't biological, strictly speaking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.ht...