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I had a client that had a Java app that required 4GB as minimum. And another 4GBs for the in-memory Lucene index.
Sure, but isn't it better to legislate net-neutrality for the wired internet than not do anything at all? If this was the only legislation that could conceivably pass, would you vote for it?
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This is such a great idea - I find that it's very easy to rationalize myself out of the goals I set, but as soon as another person is involved it makes it 10x harder to back out... it's sort of like the inverse of the Milgram experiment.
Why would you feel better about Twitter + OAuth than FaceBook + OAuth (which is what the sign on component of FB Connect is)? From a technology perspective, it's the same protocol. Neither company has a good security track record.

(not criticizing BTW, just curious)
Yes, that sometimes works, but there are a lot of times where I need to do a restart of the phone too.
Is anyone honestly surprised by this? Google played into the telecoms' hands, they created the first viable competitor to the iPhone and gave it to the telecoms saying "do whatever you want with this, feel free to modify it any way you want".

Google's vision of a market in which handsets are independent from carriers is absolutely poisonous to the industry's business model. Even though the iPhone is very successful I don't think verizon or sprint are interested at all in a world where they are just a "dumb pipe", they won't allow it.

Google lost this war because of their commitment to openness.
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the case in question involves limited licensed spectrums and companies which have legal monopolies over who can use their network and how. it's like bellsouth requiring you to use an Apple for broadband and comcast requiring Microsoft. it's anti-competitive and unfair to both consumers and any company that may want to compete due to the harsh cost of either entering the market or for a consumer to pay for the expensive new devices or contracts. considering this is the most ubiquitous method of communication in the nation (and probably the world) this is something every government should regulate.
For a task like:

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I have had good experiences with Amazon Mechanical Turk. Maybe you'll find that helpful too.
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Yup, I can never figure out why so many people recommend K-9 mail. I'm guessing from this discussion that it has more features for IMAP users, but for ActiveSync it has less, and the UI is as step backward, even more ugly and awkward than the built in Android Mail client, which IMHO is like the ugly duckling of the default Android apps.
I don't mean to belittle I Move You in making this comment, but would companies like this exist (as companies, not side projects) if they didn't have programs like ycombinator to catapult them into the spotlight? It seems to me that without the adrenaline shot that is ycombinator + techcrunch, one would have an incredibly difficult time successfully bootstrapping an idea like this that depends so much on the network effect.
> If you disagree with me and believe that legislation limiting the contacts that can be signed between two parties is necessary, please reply and explain why instead of downvoting an alternate point of view.

It's perfectly legimate to downvote people who post without thinking. If you want criticisms of anarcho-capitalism, go find them on Wikipedia. The article was not about the problems you have with human behavior.
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'Fraid not, presently I'm just working on my startup on my own time while working full-time.

I'll be the first to admit that I have no life and don't get a lot of sleep.

I think it really depends on what kind of trade offs you're willing to make and risks you're willing to take.

I don't know if a compromise like this would be all that attractive to outside investors either, although my own startup is somewhat independent of all that.
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Anyone know what's up? By now they're apparently supposed to have awesome user interfaces. Hope they're set to launch by September.
Yes, the record dry heat is 38.8C congratulations, we're on a gigantic lake, which has been putting up the temperature by about 10C when calculated as the humidex. For the past 6 weeks we've been hitting an average of about 38C on the humidex. Obviously you're in some miracle location where humidity doesn't have any bearing on heat, we are.

The city of Hamilton has been doing a large campaign for the past few months (until everyone got distracted by where to put the tigercats stadium and no one cares about lead in the water anymore) on how to deal with lead in the supply lines to many houses, and have currently got no plan on what to do. They're considering changing the makeup of the water so that it doesn't leach lead out of the existing lines (note the levels of lead are upon entering the system are safe, not necessarily exiting the system). There's a big concern, because a lot of houses only have about 2ft of exposed lead piping, normally well concealed, for the homeowner to know they have a lead supply line or not.

They're currently offering a $2000 loan to cover the cost of replacing your private lines (on the inside of your house) which is woefully insufficient to say the city provided the original supply lines, and then they'll cover the work to replace the private line that connects to the municipal line (IE everything outside of your house, much of which is well below city property in the downtown areas this concerns).

Please don't try to pick apart my comment, this isn't reddit.
I'm disappointed in Google but it doesn't really impact their existing services so I won't stop using them. I certainly won't use whatever services they end up piggy backing on this deal in a few months when the uproar has died down. I'm a firm believer things happen for a reason. Google did this deal for some future project that involves Verizon as the carrier. No doubt in my mind.
How utterly unsurprising; still a shame though. I wonder is Plastic Logic will survive? Is there sufficient differentiation between their PROReader and the Kindle DX, apart form one existing and the other being vapourware?
well said. i would find this more useful as a reference index than a template. it says "quickly" and "right-footed" but i think it's give and take between the two.
It was easier to understand (openwhat?) and use (less clicks).
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Since when are video codecs reprogrammed for each specific hardware instruction pipelines? You don't need the skills/knowledge that you rattled off to re-write the h.254 codec, not that that makes it any easier.
Do you have any basis? I mean we all know the theory why it might, but I'm not convinced?
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> If high speed internet is so important to you and Comcast is the only carrier in your area

This is usually due to a local monopoly having been granted by local government. I think contracts between corporations and government that have the result of reducing competition in the marketplace should be legislated against.

Take a look at the competition that exists between ISPs in places like Europe or Australia to see how it could be. Capitalism works best when competition exists. Obviously it's in the best interest of corporations to attempt to reduce competition in their industry. That doesn't mean they should be free to do so.
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Flaws with the benchmark:

1. Misrepresentation

The title says 'Apache vs Litespeed', when in reality it is 'Varnish vs Litespeed', Apache has nothing to do with this particular benchmark.

2. Questionable results

Varnish serving 217.05 req/sec for a static page at 100 concurrency level? Something is seriously messed up in the setup; Varnish can easily handle thousands of req/s for something as simple as looking up a cache entry and returning a static file for 100 clients. Oh wait, 11177.99 [Kbytes/sec] - looks like you saturated the pipe, making it a test of how fast your network is, and nothing to do with Varnish.

3. Flawed benchmark testing procedure

You can't expect a simple `ab -c 100 -n 10000` to provide any insight whatsoever towards the general handling of a server. The only thing obvious is that Litespeed has been saturated with 100 concurrent connections. If you're going to do a benchmark, you must post varying concurrency levels at least (along with exact setup configurations). Likewise, cpu and memory usage are just as important to providing valuable insight.

4. Comparing apples to oranges

I'm not entirely sure what Litespeed is doing (eg. does it cache statically?) since you haven't specified it exactly, but considering that almost 70% of the requests failed and almost all requests after the first few had a different content length, I would assume that Litespeed is returning a dynamic request each time, whereas Varnish is returning a static file. I have no doubt in my mind that if you ran the same scenario (ie. Litespeed serving a static file as well) the results would be much different.

5. Irrelevant to the article benchmark

Saying "But Nginx is a bit slower than Varnish", then linking to a terrible irrelevant benchmark and using circular logic (based on another completely crap Litespeed vs Nginx for serving php!? benchmark) to infer that Varnish is faster than nginx hurts my brain.

I ran a really simple benchmark on Varnish 2.1.3 and nginx 0.8.49's proxy_cache directive on a single url; nginx is faster.

However, what if we test a heavy config with a bunch of complicated rules? Varnish's VCL compiles straight to C and might give it the edge in those cases. What if we use test a million different urls and really test how each one handles their cache hit/miss procedures. How do they fare under real world scenarios where thousands of different clients on various connection speeds are connected? I know nginx is damn efficient memory wise when dealing with a load of keepalives.

6. Conclusion

Good benchmarks are difficult.
"It could have made phones that worked on all of those networks, and then sued those companies if they didn’t allow users to get fair plans."

the networks require different antennas. no phone can work on all of them and be competitive.

google got verizon to agree to neutrality on the wire and can continue to fight for fair treatment on wireless. i call this progress.
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Actually OpenVZ already has a lot of the things mentioned, although only for Linux VMs running on top of an OpenVZ-ified Linux kernel.

Paging, ballooning, content-based sharing, CPU and RAM overcommit, all are there, provided you only use Linux VMs.
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According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_system), most Tire-pressure monitoring systems nowadays use RF as their communication link.

I'm no EE major, but I do like to tinker with stuff like this... Anyone know what would be the best way to 'view' the RF signal? Hook something like this http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Linx-Technologies/RXM-43... up to an oscilloscope?

Edit: This looks pretty useful as well: http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/ez430-rf2500.h...
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If your local government granted them a local monopoly without negotiating these terms, then that is a local issue.

Why this has to be addressed at a federal level is unbeknown to me.
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Interesting concept. I think we're going to see gaming mechanics applied to a lot of social activities in the near future. This is a lot more appealing to me than checking in or something. Or at least it would be if I could do 50 situps and survive it.
For a power user who uses keyboard shortcuts all the time the new layout is awesome.

One thing I have noticed from a few minutes of use is contact groups should work completely like labels. Right now you can add and remove them well but there is no filtering based on group.
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I really like it and can appreciate the technical aspect but I was really hoping for a web enabled IRC client that didn't require me to connect over port 6667.

I would use a web enabled IRC client every day. Crap, maybe you just gave me an idea for my next project.
As a software developer, there isn't a single programming concept / architecture / algorithm / etc that I can't learn in less than a day.

Can you implement this algorithm in less than a day then?

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/pubs/polygon-triang.pd...
So, the lesson is: teach them something twice, and then ignore the students. I like it.
So lets say Blockbuster, as a benefactor if said agreement, became a monopoly for... 5 years? maybe 10? In this example, how were things that terrible? Independent movie rental shops couldn't compete? What else?

Of course I don't want things to be terrible for 15 years, but I haven't heard anything that would lead me to reasonably believe it would be. If wireless internet remains less-regulated than wired for 5-10 years, what do you expect will happen? Verizon and Google will team up, hike wireless prices, block torrents and censor content?

Maybe we should let events play out a little more before crying out that our internet freedoms are being trampled by faceless mega-corporations. Maybe Google, Verizon, FCC, and other agencies aren't sure yet how best to compromise on this complicated issue. Maybe demanding a non-negotiable "everything is free (as in freedom)" policy isn't the best response 1 day after a vague press release.
"Comcast is caught throttling bittorent, and instead of switching providers to satellite or Verizon or anything, everything goes to the government and demands regulation on net neutrality."

I live in Philadelphia, where the tallest building in the city is the Comcast Center. It's going to be years, if not a decade before I can get FiOS here. The reason Comcast is the only carrier in my area is a result of taking government out of the equation. The big telecom companies don't give back to the government that gives them the tax breaks and concessions that allowed them to become big companies in the first place. At every opportunity they get, they seek to undercut the very country that makes their existence possible.

Take Comcast for example. In Pennsylvania, we have special zoning for dilapidated parts of cities and towns that are designed to encourage renewal - Keystone Opportunity Zones. Google 'em for more detail, but essentially, businesses in a KOZ don't have to pay state or local taxes.

When Comcast announced it was building their HQ in center city Philly (which, despite the piss smell, is hardly dilapidated) they lobbied HARD to get the zoning changed on their plot of land to a KOZ so that they wouldn't have to pay state or local taxes. Sure, they're bringing in jobs, and those people are taking trains into the city and driving cars into the city, and roads and train tracks totally just maintain themselves.

I don't give 'government' a free pass, but I absolutely lean toward government - an entity that arose to further civilization, believe it or not - over corporation, which is entirely selfish. Both can do good and bad, both can be abused.

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My own experience and why I'm pro net-neutrality:

For the first few months that I lived in the city, Hulu was a stuttering mess. We have cable internet, which wasn't as fast as the FiOS we had in the suburbs (which was both faster and cheaper), but was by no means so slow that Hulu should have to buffer. YouTube worked fine. Downloads were fine, but Hulu? Couldn't get through a half hour show without three or four pauses to buffer.

It took a number of complaints to Comcast, and maybe it had something to do with me whinging on my twitter account with the 8000 followers, but after a number of phone calls, Hulu suddenly worked fine.

I can't stand watching cable television, our entertainment center is a Dell Zino HD hooked up to a wall mounted LCD, and we watch Hulu and Netflix almost exclusively. Do you think Comcast are sitting on their thumbs while Hulu eats their lunch? It's not like I can get anything else decent in the city.

If they can get away with crap like that, they will. That is why outside regulation needs to step in.
> And you wonder about youth violence, but if this is the message taught by every film what do you expect?

The facts don't bear this out, despite how often it's repeated. Real world violence is not proportional to violence in movies (or video games for that matter).
Nginx has had an apples to apples proxy_cache directive since 0.7 which does the exact same job as Varnish (albeit lacking a few features yet).

Also read my other reply to your comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1593611

I suggest you take down that benchmark article, because it is flawed on too many levels.
Yes, there are plenty of companies out there that very much depend on a network effect and aren't Y Combinator-funded: Digg, Facebook, Quora or Stack Overflow, to name a few.
Also of possible interest - things we've done with the current (1.1) version of our platform:

Howto: Build and scale a Cassandra cluster in five minutes - http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/08/howto-build-and-scal...

Howto: Build a Hadoop cluster in five minutes - http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/07/howto-build-hadoop-c...

Howto: Build a ten node memcached cluster in five minutes - http://blog.gridcentriclabs.com/2010/07/how-to-build-10-core...

You may notice an interesting trend :)

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After I started working :) (i.e. after I got my job).
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I thought his paper was showing P/=NP which is the already (more generally) accepted theory in computer fields. I'd understand it reflecting poorly if one of HP's researchers was claiming P=NP against the accepted wisdom. It would however reflect great if this guys paper is a proof of P/=NP or even if it's simply a step forward.
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Good point - OpenVZ is quite good for userspace virtualization.

One thing Copper (what this demo is running on - http://www.gridcentriclabs.com/copper) can do that OpenVZ can't do is VM clone / page sharing across multiple physical servers. For example, if you wanted to clone thousands of desktops across a rack or two of servers.
those are all horrible examples. all venture-funded, and therefore were news-worthy (in the tech news blog sense) from the very beginning.

I think the question the above poster was asking is:

If I Move You was being bootstrapped, would it be major-blog news-worthy?

I'm not here to answer that question though ;) what's deemed as "news-worthy" jumps violently up and down on any given day in the tech blog world...

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This isn't too surprising; many government mandates and economic factors (such as runaway health costs) have been raising the cost of employees by a fixed amount per head. And technology often offers increasing returns to expertise and experience rather than headcount.

Thus, if faced with a choice between hiring 5% more employees, or doing other things (such as capital investments or new incentives) to get 5% more productivity from existing workers, the latter is becoming more attractive. Hence, fewer employees -- but employees that are higher-paid and higher-skilled.

(Many of the things intended to help low-wage and low-skill workers -- minimum wages, minimum benefits packages, new legal protections -- actually wind up raising the breakeven point for taking such workers on. Businesses then prefer other less-labor-intensive strategies to increase production, and the intended beneficiaries of these policies wind up worse off. But they still keep voting for the superficially-attractive policies. The bloodletting will continue until the patient improves!)
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Update: Should be fixed now. Give it a try?
I wish whoever downmodded this had instead explained what they disliked about it.
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