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Speculation on pricing: "Most deliveries are expected in 2015, and the base price is expected to range from $70,000 to $90,000" [1]

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24297493/classic-sili...

A Fourier transform is not merely another graphical representation of data (although, it could be used as such). Among other things, it lends itself to generating features and analysis that can be used for detecting patterns by computer, not just humans.

Keep in mind when the first iPhone released, there was no App Store. And no plan for one, supposedly [1]. Apple had as much control over your phone as the other carriers did. And much more than it does now.

My comment was more about the leverage it had over the carriers and completely squandered. IIRC, AT&T was paying Apple $10 or so per user per month. A carrier paying a handset manufacturer a fee seems like a lot of leverage. At this point, Apple had the potential to turn the industry away from fleecing customers. Instead, in 2013, we're lauding an upstart-ish company for contract-free smartphones. Great progress, but its taken far far too long.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/10/business/la-fi-tn-if...

I see. Yes, I misread your comment. Apologies. We are, as another commenter eloquently put it, 'in violent agreement'.

wrt "Most don't", how do you know this? Is there a study or a poll you could point to? I'm genuinely curious about this.

#1. A commenter is not a website.

#2. There are a lot of considerations apart from bandwidth when it comes to disseminating information. For eg., having to use speakers or even reach for a set of headphones is reason enough for me to skip to the text.

T-Mobile is shaking up the industry like Apple should have (and could have) done with the launch of the iPhone in 2007.

Really? I did the same, my bill went down 50% (this is on top of a sweet discount I had on AT&T). But I see your point, I'd switch even if the savings weren't as good, they treat you like real customers, not sheep.

A Google Maps collection of these.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=gplus-ogsb&ie=UTF8&oe...

Prop 8 goes down as well. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf

Agreed. In the process of sponsoring green cards for prospective candidates, we go through the process of trying to find US citizens that could fill the role. This is a requirement of the labor certification process. We rarely, if ever, find _any_ US citizen that applies for these positions. Most applicants are immigrants, which makes us reject them (since the exercise is to really see if we can find citizens). These are not low-paying grunt jobs. These are highly-specialized, very well paid positions.

This assumes your spouse is a citizen.

For the employer case, this is true for prospective immigrants of all national origins except India and China, which also make up the bulk of potential engineers looking to become permanent residents. As of today, the average time for an Indian in the EB2 ('advanced degree or exceptional ability') category is roughly 5-6 years and this number is going up because of increased demand. For the EB3 category, the wait is at least a decade.

I agree that companies have the potential to abuse this power they have over you, but in practice, I have rarely seen this happen.

Very neat. Is there a way to only do plain text?

You're right. http://www.bart.gov/about/planning/sanmateo_santaclara.aspx

Op-Ed in The Hindu discussion the issue: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3391109.ece

Hadoop is popular not (only?) because of some PR-driven mania around big data. It is popular because it is an organic, evolving open source project that solves hard but common problems faced by a lot of companies in a variety of industries rather cheaply; despite being somewhat susceptible to the common pitfalls of design-by-committee projects.

I fail to see how the existence of other tools that solve different and/or narrower problems takes anything away from the success of Hadoop, let alone spells its demise.

Also, for anyone interested in an academic, objective, inclusive and yet thoroughly fascinating summary of Indian history, I highly recommend "India: A History" by John Keay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keay)

They made it easier to do this. You can send a public link to any file anywhere in Dropbox now.

This is worse, its wrong. And IMO, parent couldn't be clearer.

I believe this is exactly how LastPass is implemented.

Sorting descending by time makes this a meta post: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22I+dont+m...

It also makes this comment a meta^2 post.

This, very much so.

"At every point in the last forty years, wealth, health, and happiness in our economy has been built on the freedom to disrupt the entrenched powers, not the preservation of their rent-seeking monopolies."

I would extrapolate this to progress in free societies at any given point in history.

Oddly, this evokes a strange feeling of comfort in the inevitability of disruption.

This post hit me with a serious case of deja vu.

And then I dug this up: http://sunpig.com/martin/archives/2011/07/03/google-made-my-...

You're right about the history of Partition.

This is roughly what happened. The British cabinet committee had originally proposed a 3-tier federation: with the center at the top, a provincial grouping of states in the middle, and states at the bottom. There were 3 'groups': A: Hindu-majority areas of the North, West and South B: Muslim-majority areas of the North-West, C: Bengal and Assam. Jinnah and the communists had agreed to this plan, Nehru wanted to defer the decision to the Constituent Assembly. Jinnah saw this as a 'betrayal' and withdrew his support. Eventually, when this plan seemed in jeopardy, the cabinet committee proposed Partition. Jinnah accepted, Nehru disagreed. And then 'Direct Action Day' and riots happened. No looking back after that.

This article is timely, in light of (yet another) terrorist attack on Mumbai by allegedly Islamic militants. I'm going to go out on a limb here and claim that this attack is only the latest in a long bloody series of consequences of Partition.

The history of armed communal militancy, both Hindu and Muslim, began with the Kashmir movement in the late 80's; this itself was a side-effect of Partition. This was the first time communal tension took on a decidedly dark tone with armed militants entering the picture. Since then, things have only become worse, with the Pakistan establishment actively supporting and arming anti-India militants and Hindu nationalists in India attempting to derail any possibility of reconciliation by repeated acts of religious intolerance. The current situation vis-a-vis Mumbai is quite pathetic, with politicians falling over each other to get a quote out; and the people of Mumbai developing a horrible sense of resigned apathy, touted regularly as 'resilience'.

What is the solution? I don't know. (War, of course, is guaranteed to always be the wrong answer). A reasonable answer, as always, is economics. If the economies of both countries improve, the resulting improved education and decrease in poverty might provide a solution. India seems to be on the right track here; Pakistan, not so much.

Interesting new claim, but irrelevant to the OP. I'd suggest you put your thoughts together in one cogent reply rather than randomly trolling comments all over this page.

It bugs you because you don't get get it, freely stereotype and readily tell people how to spend their free time.

I work for a bigco that doesn't contribute to open source. I used to work for a bigco that was one of the biggest contributors to open source. I spend spare time working on an reasonably sized open source project, of which I was one of the founders, hosted on, yes, github. I have interesting (to me, atleast) side projects, mostly hardhacks, which I don't necessarily build to share. I do it for fun. Obviously, I read HN.

I never require open source experience when I hire, because my experience in both the 'closed' and 'open' worlds tells me that great scientists and engineers exist in both worlds and using a VCS account as a filter is crude. This is just another facet.

As long as there is some component of air that stays the same: both in identity and proportion, the calculation should hold. Is there such a component?

Simplifying assumptions, even those seemingly false, are common in fun math problems. The point is just that, the math. I'm sure the traveling salesman had issues to think about other than the classic math of the problem.

Just for my information, any references to strengthen your last statement?

The existence of a well-backed military-industrial complex seems to have very little to go with the glut of engineers in India, let alone cross-border politics.

As a product of this system, the reason seems fairly straightforward to me. Its plain simple economics. On average, in India, engineering is the path of least resistance to a quality of life better than your parents. When I graduated about a decade ago, engineering was perceived as a stepping stone. Indeed, most of my classmates are not in engineering anymore (most of them weren't even interested in it), and, by all modern measures, quite successful. A 4-year engineering is seen as a foundation to bigger things, and that doesn't seem like such a bad thing at all. Its the generally accepted way of getting to the top of the pile, if you're not born into money, and so its not surprising its such a popular choice.

There seems to be a small sliver of anecdotal evidence that this may be changing, with people willing to follow their passions more, but the effects of this 'at scale' remains to be seen.

To folks with the bad-programmers-from-India experience, the fault is solely yours. You're looking for engineers from this system to do your job for the least money. You're going to get people who're great at selling themselves, not great hackers.