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What makes you think that? NDAs are thriving in California. You may be confusing them with non-competes.
I'm still confused myself; the Internet hasn't been restricted to university usage since the way-early 90s, right? What specific service are you providing? Without that I can't be more clear.

(If it's something you'd rather keep secret, I understand, but can't exactly help much. Or if you want to talk privately, send an email and I'll try to get back to you quickly.)
"The future of warfare is in robots making war time strategic decisions, guys, can't we just take this to its logical conclusion and settle matters over a nice game of chess.... Best 2 out of 3?"

This was the plot of a Star Trek episode, where the losers had to docilely line up to be incinerated when the computer determined that they had been "killed" in the simulated battles. It was all much less messy that way.

Of course, when Kirk destroyed the incinerators (or was it the master computer?) they had to decide whether to fight the messy way, or maybe just not fight at all.
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and should you judge the people if they fancy themselves a federal republic?
When I was in a similar situation a few months back, I chose to find another option rather than running the risk of confusion by my customers with me on the losing end.

While instinctive for many HN'ers, remembering to misspell and use .ly is an unnecessary burden for people like parents and non-tech friends. In my case, the average age of someone in my market is 50+ so I went with a .com.

A disclaimer is that I do invest some in domain names on the side. Unfortunately I hadn't bought this particular name years ago so had to pay $1500 for it.
Agreed... the previous comment goes to far. he might not have meant it to come across that way though. "Communication" is probably too general.

Design might be about communicating the experience to the user, but it is still about designing that experience in the first place. When you are at your computer mocking up your amazing designs, are you "communicating"
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> Sadly, the acronym p2p is tied with media piracy

In the music/movie industries wet dreams maybe.
If everyone has access more people will play around and/or be able to create things. Having an idea and applying to YC with "I want API access" probably won't work too well, even if they do "invest in people".
>I think Moblin had shipping products.

...oh, you're right. [1], second paragraph.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin
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I'm kind of rooting for a fork, just as a lab of top-down versus developer-driven progress, with the Oracle version staying on SVN.

Cool names might be 'NortheastPassage' or 'Passage', for the water-navigable route explorer Henry Hudson sought. Or something based on features near the Hudson river in New York, like 'Adirondack' or 'Albany'. Or something in contrast or crossing of the river, like 'EastRiver' or 'GWBridge' or 'HollandTunnel' or 'Verrazano'.
>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software,

>package hudson;

You might own the trademark Oracle, but you just licensed the use of it to everyone.
This doesn't use $ISP's DNS resolver -- it's totally based on your own machine (essentially /etc/hosts shared by BitTorrent as trotsky notes below) and appears as encrypted BitTorrent traffic.

Certainly, $ISP could block all BitTorrent traffic if they wanted to prevent this, but that would be a much different situation.

It's also worth noting that there are a number of alternate roots [1] out there right now (that use DNS, not BitTorrent) and AFAIK ISPs aren't trying to block them, either.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
Am I the only one who's thinking, "If he's really a designer, he's got awfully poor taste in fonts?" Its because I'm seeing this: http://imgur.com/gGrVm.jpg

That font would be fine on a page of paper but seeing it on a screen just hurts my eyes.
Congratulations! The original blog post was pretty awesome, and I look forward to the book.
>Since the carriers largely lock down their networks, you can't just buy a generic smartphone from cheapphones.com and have it work (at least not on the 3G/4G networks).

Not true of the GSM carriers, at least. I have a Nokia N86 which I bought unlocked from Amazon; it works fine on AT&T's 3G. And the Nokia N900 was sold only unlocked, and works on T-Mobile's 3G.
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> Those "meetings" you seem to disdain aren't just for people to bitch.

Yes they are. If you read through the posts in the actual mailing list, consensus has been built--the consensus is "move to github".

See several developers' comments here:
http://groups.google.com/group/hudson-users/msg/5c6ec5888594...

http://groups.google.com/group/hudson-users/msg/02a9ca4abd7d...

http://groups.google.com/group/hudson-users/msg/9d4c44b83a1a...

This entire thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/hudson-users/browse_thread/th...

http://groups.google.com/group/hudson-dev/browse_thread/thre...

The only reason it hasn't happened already is because Oracle wants to bitch. I'm calling the developers drama queens too because instead of forking after consensus was built, which was the logical thing to do, they are still talking to Oracle and/or blogging about what Oracle will or will not let them do.
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> I was thinking about a sort of reverse Tor this morning, so that sites can hide their IP from users, as opposed to the other way around.

Tor already provides that https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tor_%28anonym...

> users aren't going to install a new piece of software or a special browser to access masked domains.

Sure they will, just like they install BitTorrent clients. It's only a matter of proper incentive.
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Does anyone vow not to drive again, or be a passenger in motor vehicles after being hit, hitting another car or injuring or killing a pedestrian?

You'd think you'd hear of such since more people drive, and the bad crashes are worse.
Ask HN: What do you do when you find someone doing the same thing as you?
If you had been working on a startup for a few weeks, and were making significant progress, what would you do if you suddenly found someone doing nearly the same thing you were planning. This other company has funding (from big investors) and some traction (not huge though)?

That's my situation. I haven't incorporated or hired anyone or even taken money yet so I'm not in too deep yet. Do I soldier on?
Sorry for the sloppy reference. I think it was in "The History Channel". They described the American invasion to mexico in about five seconds just showing how the U.S. suddenly grew. The show was very entertaining but skipped on one of the main passages of history.
So I'm going to let someone inject DNS entries into a local /etc/hosts hijack, based on information from a 3rd party over a distributed network?

You know, I'm not actually against that so long as I can verify the end site in some way. Perhaps all traffic over this .p2p network should be SSL? And perhaps someone somewhere can hold a verifiable list of certs.

Basically, who in this arrangement can I trust to route my request to the right site? How do I know they won't lie? I know that applies now too, but DNS is based on trust and that generally means the roots are trusted and they won't risk that trust. In this decentralised world, who can be trusted?
Is it? What browser/resolution are you using?
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DNS queries can be filtered, categorized and reported just as easily as any other type of traffic.

Regardless of the tech, it's the fragmentation that this sort of behavior causes that is the real problem.
Which would be a valid point if Objective-C had evolved since 1986. The C family has evolved since then, C++, Java, C# v1 - C# v4. Objective-C gained properties in v2 and a host of ways to break encapsulation but its hardly evolved. The tools are even worse. XCode Fanbois rejoice at "new features" that I've had in SlickEdit since 1993.

You've hit the nail on the head with regard to my complaint.
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Hmm, interesting. I have been doored once on my daily bike commute in Cambridge, MA. I've slipped and fallen once. A few times a month I have to swerve or brake hard because someone didn't see me. And I'm fairly experienced at this point (about a year of cycling every day) -- when I started out, I was dodging cars and pedestrians once or twice a week.

I haven't had any major injuries myself, but a friend was doored recently and hospitalized. He had surgery twice and missed well over a week of work. Months later, he still can't ride.

My point is just that it certainly doesn't FEEL very safe. The claim of health benefits is certainly something I want to believe.

And I definitely agree that more cyclists on the road would be good. Drivers just don't look for cyclists -- practically ever. If there were better bike lanes and they were always full of cyclists, people would probably learn pretty quick.
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I concur. I once spent a couple of days in Tampere "attempting" to fix a couple of serious bugs between our app and the telephony layer on a S60 device. Never once did Nokia pair us up with a hard core device engineer - I honestly don't know if they exist. I can tell you all about the fluffy product manager types and the great times we had eating Reindeer!
My "argument" against bytecode on the basis of inevitable version hell and bytecode-lowering tending to overspecify against alternative implementation and optimization strategy is fundamentally an observation: both Java and .NET were designed for one particular language first, and the intermediate code design reflects this in many hardcoded and hard-to-change ways. Not only in what was put into the bytecode, but what was left out.

Both the JVM and the CLR fail to run other than their premier languages, or nearby languages, very well (fast enough or with all features in the "port"). Continuations? Hah. Invokedynamic has taken way too long and the JS VMs have run laps around the JVM.

Yes, browser vendors will also not agree, and for these good reasons among other more "selfish" ones. Get over it.
Last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a press meeting that Wikileaks should be labeled a terrorist organization. I find it frightening that the government has reached a point that they will label anyone they don't like as a terrorist so that they can bypass the legal system. I didn't realize that exposing information could be an act of terror, but Clinton would like to have you believe so.

Edit: I did a quick Google search to find a news piece about this. The first one I found was this:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/gop-rep-wikileaks-deemed-...

That article tells us who lobbied Clinton to label Wikileaks as terrorists, but it also references the Pentagon Papers case, which I cited from in a comment in another discussion about Wikileaks (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948911).
Rust is not for the web. It's an ahead-of-time compiled static systems programming language, for goodness' sake. Please read the FAQ before posting.
Probably the 'X' bothers him; it's always seemed silly to me to emphasize 'XML' when the most interesting uses of AJAX skip XML for raw HTML and JS, and the APIs for doing background requests only mention XML as a historic accident (like the misspelling of 'referrer' in HTTP).

It's just a matter of taste, but I prefer a vaguely evocative name like 'Scatter' to a faux-precise-acronym like 'AJAX'.
Like using Windows would put HP in a race with chinese PC clone makers - that's why they stuck to selling HPUX and VMS.
GitMac is in Private Beta right now. http://gitmacapp.com

We focused more on making Git easy to use, so it's more of a Versions/Cornerstone type workflow.
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"Oracle in conflict with another open source project?"

I know it is chic to dump on Oracle these days. Can we please get a neutral title or the same title as the original post? I disagree with the use of the word "another" and the question mark. A better title would be "Conflict between Oracle and Hudson project".

EDIT: It looks like Andrew Bayer, a core developer on the Hudson project, submitted the story. It also looks like any comments calling for reasonable, rational debate are being down-voted. That's all I'm asking: reasonable, rationale debate.

It looks like that Oracle doesn't like the way that the project is run and this isn't an attack on open source. This is a disagreement about how the project is run. But we can't even have that debate because the topic has been slanted.
> "Since the carriers largely lock down their networks, you can't just buy a generic smartphone from cheapphones.com and have it work (at least not on the 3G/4G networks"

I believe that's a temporary situation with a clear end in sight. LTE is rolling out with a unified SIM standard, right? 4G should finally bring the US a market where you can consider phone and carrier separately.
... Only when using the ISP's DNS. The point of the project is to locally catch .p2p requests before they hit a DNS server and do the lookup locally. (So they can't be filtered, categorized and reported.) The local table would be provided by what appears to be force-encrypted BitTorrent traffic.

"According to the project’s website, the goal is to “create an application that runs as a service and hooks into the hosts DNS system to catch all requests to the .p2p TLD while passing all other request cleanly through. Requests for the .p2p TLD will be redirected to a locally hosted DNS database.”"
Is Oracle just actively trying to destroy their acquired assets now?
Comcast and Level3 are both being disingenous, really. Each is pretending they're operating as a transit provider (because they both do at times, Level3 more than Comcast), but neither is actually doing that at the moment. In this case Comcast is the eyeball network and Level3 is the CDN.

I have no doubt that Level 3's CDN traffic went through the roof when they took on Netflix. I also have no doubt that Comcast went "oh, we have them by the balls, lets get more money". It's not really a simple thing to take sides on.

It is a problem, though, that Comcast is operating as a de facto monopoly with their connected consumers. That's kind of the breaks of giving them that sort of leverage. Thank your congressman. Level3 is sure using that story to their advantage.

--Edit--
Also, Comcast apparently does charge other CDNs like this. My opinion has tilted slightly in their favor, it sounds like they're at least being consistant. CDNs always have the option of not using a peering connection but going through paid transit.
Hey,I didn't mean to denigrate you, or anything like that. If it sounded that way, I am very sorry.

The examples that you quote citing colossal wastage of expenditure, ring quite true.Exactly my point. But really, wasted expenditure is wasted expenditure,plain and simple- There cant be any justification, more so, citing another wasted expenditure. Analogy- how rational would it sound, if a convicted murder says in trial "But I killed just one guy.Go,look at some war-ravaged place in Africa what people get away with".

Actually,I believe basic science encompasses a lot more than astrobiology-Even the issues I pointed out, would stand to gain a lot,from advances in basic sciences, and perhaps need more investment.

Perhaps you feel that discovery of ET life would changed your life for the good- I would completely agree with you, if it could make us humans healthier,welathier, or otherwise more intelligent. Till then, I would wait and watch :-) and... read the next interesting thread on HN!
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Just did a quick experiment and the hosts takes priority over DNS, so domain poisoning this way is easy.

Tricking windows users still need to get around UAC to overwrite the file but most inexperienced users just click 'Continue' anyway.
"Ich bins" with the 's' actually does mean "It's me" in German (I'm told). Manuel Simoni pointed out the pun when he saw an earlier attempt called 'icbins'.
It's wrong to assume that Comcast does not send a lot of upstream traffic. They actually sell IP transit at relatively small prices.
Right, that's my point--I've been using Nokias since 2001. If they built an Android phone, its phone bits could be dramatically more usable than stock Android.
This could finally mean freedom from ICANN and any other controlling authorities. Somehow this needs to have domain identity verifying mechanisms as well.
I didn't see any photos that didn't come from istockphoto. The logos were his customers logos.

Most of the UI elements seem to come from other PSDs of stuff he's already created.

Inspiration from Basecamp and it looks like some Flickr screenshots... totally normal.
Because it needs to be said. PHBs look at the iPhone and its success, and see that it uses ObjectiveC, and jump on the bandwagon. Someone who has actually used ObjectiveC and other languages needs to point out that Emperor Steve's new clothes were just stolen from a pantomime wardrobe in 1986.
The encryption part of this whole thing is useful and very interesting.

This line of thinking is very similar to what happened when the Gnutella network itself was formed. It was created as an alternate system to the FastTrack network. Nervous of the legal system, the decentralized network was built with a (still increasing) number of clients available.

In the same way that the Gnutella network further fractured the web, alternate DNS systems have the same capability, on a much larger scale.

In my mind, there is nothing wrong with creating alternate systems that work beyond the view of government agencies and the public in general. However, every time we do this, we create yet another fracture in the Internet that we know and love.
After that whole thing I wrote, do you really think that's my opinion?
hmm the community should apply some fun and humor..

name the fork SSBounty
Seems a reasonable strategy to me if you have plenty of money but are short on time. Probably the largest barrier to having university students play with the platform is the cost of the hardware.
I read it to be saying that even in the north, (I live in Seattle) you are fine with the vitamin D from your diet and the sun that you get.

However, I can't see how that's possible. For at least two months of the year, I basically only see the sun on weekends, and it's usually cloudy. (Plus, I don't eat the vitamin D fortified foods they mention, but that's probably not true for most people here).
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Should the "top friends" be "top retweeted accounts"? Other than that, it seemed to work, but it did not give me that surprising results though (since I am the person who wrote my tweets).

Why the focus on "know thyself"? I would think that the bigger value in this tool would be to discover what top words other people used.
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Does it work with goog.le?
Just curious, what's your experience living or traveling in Latin America? Have you seen or experienced this widespread hatred first hand?

I obviously don't deny that the USA committed terrible abuses in Latin America, but I have yet to see the widespread resentment you speak of; not everybody walks around with a copy of The Open Veins in their pocket down here. Latin Americans can be as ignorant or apathetic of history as anybody in the USA.

I am not a Chavez supporter, but the claim that he or many Venezuelans "hate the USA" lacks nuance to say the least. If that were the case, Johann Santana would be reviled as a traitor for playing baseball in the USA, rather then being received by Chavez as a hero.
This is excellent. Last time I looked at libgit2 was in May and it was seriously lacking. They must have put in a ton of work this summer!

Good job Vincent, and props to Github for sponsoring it.
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This is exactly what I've been looking for. Will definitely buy.
The encryption part of this is perhaps the most interesting. However, even without breaking the encryption, I have to think that there will be ways to identify requests base on pre and post data.

We know what encrypted Torrent traffic looks like. We don't need to know exactly what is being transmitted, only that an encrypted torrent session has been started. Similarly, I'm guessing that we would be able to draw conclusions based on size, timing and flow?
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A lot of things factor into it.

Were you creating your solution because "nobody was doing it and you wanted to see someone do it"? Might make sense to back off. On the other hand, if it was because you see it as an area where you can come out with something novel, I'd stick with it. The truth is, the fact that someone else is doing something similar is a step towards validating your hypothesis that the service is needed.

If you're going to let the fact that they're in the same space as you keep you from pursuing your idea, consider your dedication to it, and whether you really want to invest what it'll take to get this off the ground. You're never going to be wholly original. The question is whether you can execute well on your idea.

If you're passionate about what you're building, I'd stick with it.
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Fixed, thanks. If it weren't for the frequent malapropisms people might mistake me for a well-read and thoughtful person.
How do you think your implementation compares to theirs? Competition can drive both of you to be better.
Comcast is also a transit provider, much like Cox. For example Atjeu located in Phoenix has Cox as their major transit provider.

So don't be so quick to dismiss this fact.
My post has nothing to do with Rust I was just taking about making a new web language.