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The conspiracy isn't particularly hidden -- this is just rational behavior by large ISPs. Like every producer of a service, the telcos don't want to see their product commoditized and subject to pure competition, and they are doing all they can to delay this.

The motivation for a company to want deregulation cannot be to increase market competition for their own product. To the extent that they claim otherwise they are being dishonest.

What a company/industry might honestly claim is that regulation will prevent the development of valuable markets, satisfying neither producers nor consumers. This is an empirical claim, however, that stands on evidence rather than ideology. And we have only to look to the countries with faster internet to see whether it holds.
As far as "how upset will people get", people get much more upset at factors that they perceive to be out of their control rather than factors they perceive to be in their control.

If my laptop hard drive dies tomorrow and I realize my backups aren't bootable, that sucks but it's my fault. I just have to get better at backups.

If Google missteps and I lose access to my email, it's completely out of my hands. There's nothing I can do, and there's nothing I could have done. It's much more upsetting than something that can be internalized.
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Ask HN: Please review workola.com. Can I coexist with Facebook?
Hello,

As a whole, I tried to create a site that would compliment a facebook account and create a virtual desktop, ala igoogle or netvibes.

http://workola.com

A. Online storage - Freemium model

B. Interactive HTML5 desktop application.
2. Task, Bookmarks, Ideas, RSS feeds
4. Modular widget 'Toolbox' (youtube, hulu, weather, getglue and tokbox)
5. Pixlr integration
6. QR code generator & management
7. Online notes module
8. Mobile App - Remote Time Tracker (sync with dropbox)
9. Unique platform for multitasking
10. office dog

Desktop information is stored in your browser cache and remains private. Desktop application only works in Chrome and Safari.

There are a few known bugs...so if you get an error logging in with facebook connect just click 'my files'.

http://workola.com

Any feedback would be great!

Thanks,
Dave
At this point they're going to just have to change the name of the company.
The idea of net neutrality comes from the concept of Common Carrier in the Communications Act of 1934: carriers cannot block communications between any two parties (such as favoring their subscribers over those of another carrier). In exchange the carriers are not liable for the content of the communications.

Another thing that seems to totally ignored by Boehner et. al. is that you sometimes need regulation to protect basic rights, the Civil Rights Act for example. Net neutrality (hacker view) is the right to communicate whatever with whomever. The FCC has actually been protecting the Internet, bu ever since Powell the child's term as FCC chairman, the waters have been considerably muddied.

(In order to give my rant some measure of verisimilitude, I attempted to vet it against Common Carrier and Communications Act of 1934 over at Wikipedia. I found two of the worst and most incomplete articles that I have ever encountered. The Act itself is a 333 page PDF. tl;dnr So please be kind. :-)
A good little technical overview of what CALEA entails here:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/io...
> not just moving it from one place to another at a loss.

By definition, unprofitable ventures will run out of capital and stop without government intervention.

> There seems to be a common misconception that free markets will arise naturally

History is full examples of humans freely trading with humans. International trade is completely co-operative, free of government oversight (there is no world government).

It is not a misconception that people can trade without a central authority figure. And the presence of the black market in all cultures shows us that it is universal that people want to trade freely.

> the role of goverment should be to determine the immediate value and future costs fossil fuel energy production.

Can you cite an example of when price fixing has improved living standard of the general population?

And is there ever been a time when raising energy costs has improved the human condition?

Do you really propose lowering the standard of living for the poor and middle class because of an unproven theory that the climate is a positive feedback loop and 2 degree change will snowball into catastrophic effects?
Can what you love about the tech side be found elsewhere?

If yes, then you can at least match what you have (interesting work, crappy compensation, and crappy office culture) someplace else.
Reminds me of when a fanatical Mariners fan friend of mine came across Alex Rodriguez and another player. She promptly went running up to the pair and exclaimed "Oh my God!! Dan Wilson!!!!!"
1. San Francisco has a very vibrant tech startup scene that's unmatched elsewhere. That's the same comment many people from different parts of the world tell me. They all seems to be excited to be here.

2. San Francisco is small. I'm happy with 15 minutes bike commute. Many of our customers are a few blocks away. This week we are abuzz with a big developer's conference in Moscone Center next block. Such events big and small keep happening through out the year.

3. The author seems to enjoy drinking and partying a lot. But don't get it wrong. You don't have to drink to enjoy San Francisco. I do none of those but I simply love the natural environment, the activities and the dramatic coastline around here. There are something for everyone.
When there is an alternative, but they are a utility, there are essentially no options.
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> a long, drawn out process

It doesn't have to be that, either. A fixed, short to medium time frame will do for bids; it doesn't have to be all or nothing.

And honestly, perhaps he's 100% on the up and up (like every other politician), and Koch Industries is honest to a fault (like so many other corporations) and really DOESN'T want utilities at potentially criminally low prices; this non-bid clause give a huge appearance of impropriety. With nothing else anywhere to show that there isn't any, would it not be prudent to either explain his actions or change them accordingly?
Hacker News Takes SO long to load...
Not sure why. but it's a consistant issue for me, we're talking 30-45 seconds from click to load. (Running Verizon Fios, and I can load up several other sites in the time it takes)
Anyone else have this issue?
It sucks that so many of those books are not available in ebook format, I would have thought programmers would be leading the way in ebook adoption.

I own Code Complete, and have for a year or two now yet I've not even got 1/4 of the way through it. I enjoy the book but I can't take it out of the house because it's too big, and I can't lie down and read it, because it's too unwieldy.
I think from a "fun game design" perspective, it's probably a terrible idea, but it still sounds like a fun exercise in of itself, because it will force you to design the mechanics in a way that's decoupled from the GUI, and thus easy to tweak.

I say it's probably a terrible "game design" idea because you run a very high risk of working hard on the mechanics, then working hard on the GUI, only to plug them into each other after much blood sweat & tears to discover that you've created a game that isn't fun. It's less of a risk since you're programming an RPG--a known concept that you can trust to have a certain appeal just by following a few conventions of RPG-ness--but in general, the best way to do game design is to "find the fun" first.
And then what did you do? What do you do now?
A lot of people in this thread are concerned about the TOS and whether or not it is enforceable. But did anyone notice that he claims wolfram served apple a DCMA notice for the app? That law was supposed to be for copyrighted artwork. Aren't wolfram alpha, and other sort of dynamic procedural output from websites more of a service than an artwork (or a 'work' as it is probably termed in the DMCA? It seems a bit pretentious to refer to the output of something like wolfram, google, etc. as a 'work.' I could see a website in it's entirety as a 'work.' But the output of a service doesn't strike me as a 'work.')
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I'd be really hard pressed to pick just one, but I agree with most of the higher ranked selections on the first page of the SO thread. I didn't drill down any further, but there was some good stuff there.

Of the ones I didn't see, I'd throw out:

The World Is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman

Enterprise Integration Patterns - Gregor Hohpe & Bobby Woolf

Thinking in C++ - Bruce Eckel
The New Hacker's Dictionary served as my whirlwind tour of programming culture, and was one of the first computer-related books I read. Either directly or indirectly due to this book, I ended up: using Emacs, learning Lisp, learning LaTeX, reading (portions of) Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, contributing work to the GNU Project, and generally went on to enjoy programming more than I think I would have otherwise. I didn't learn how to program from this book by any means, but I think it played a notable role in how I developed as a programmer.

That said, the book is woefully outdated, with the last printed edition being published in 1996, and a lot of the topics it covers were kind of old in technology timelines even then.
I didn't up- or down-vote it; I agree that it isn't really useful in this discussion, but he did make the additional point that "quitting" is a wholly different matter when family or life is at stake.
Are there really adults reading hacker news with skins thin enough to be offended by his post? Perhaps e have a lot of web-monkeys who have a business plan to deep-link?

Sheesh.
If I'm understanding your results correct, Chomp came in last behind both app stores and AppBrain? That doesn't bode well for their success!
This is wildly irrelevant, but I have to ask: does anyone else experience profound irritation at the name "HBGary"?

Every time I read the name, my reading flow stops and I stare at the name. HBWhat? Does that stand for something? Are they initials? Who is Gary? Are they from Indiana?

It triggers this bizarre, deep-down irritation like nothing else I've ever seen.
I second the Hear Hear! Im actually involved with social entrepreneurship right now and doing several projects with non profits and technology. So ya would definitely be open to talking about them or technology and startups in general.

Im on skype under edwards_ross and my gmail is startupz.net at gmail.com.

Maybe we can setup an email list or something and get a talk going.
Here is another developer waiting with enthusiasm for your book!
Kind of like the division of Diebold that made voting machines became Premier Election Solutions
I haven't had time to test it but the first thing that pops in my head is maybe you shouldn't have a header that is a copy of facebook's. It's the kind of things that could get you in trouble, plus, the plain blue color of Facebook doesn't look too good on your website and your header could look a lot better.
http://enidnews.com/localnews/x231066283/Advance-Pierre-Food...
Very true - those Koch Brothers, often discussing freedom, really are just pushing orthodox conservative views.

Like decriminalizing drugs, legalizing gay marriage, and ending the patriot act (their #1 political position, based on money spent).

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/frrth/stop_the_koc...
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Antagonises means "in opposition to" or more commonly "to incur the dislike of." Offends means something else entirely. Writing can easily incur people's dislike without offending them personally. For example, on most forums, excessive use of all caps will antagonise people even if they agree with what is written.

And with that, I'm done with this thread.
You're spot on there. I feel like the odd-man-out in a lot of Apple/Flash discussions. I understand the reasons why Apple doesn't want Flash on their devices, but I see the hypocrisy in the "open" arguments. On the flip side of the coin, I'm not crazy about Flash, but I do miss being able to view Flash-based websites. I think it's a bit disingenuous of the author to suggest he never encounters this problem. I browse the web a lot on my iPad. We've been shopping furniture over the last couple of weeks, and IKEA's website uses Flash. They have an iOS app, but it's formatted for the iPhone, thus I am unable to shop IKEA furniture on my iPad. Boooooo :(
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I assume it's because other people noticed the part where he said that he missed that part of the ToS, even though he checked for funky terms. It's pretty normal to be able to link to a website and terms forbidding that are abnormal.

So, yeah, he goofed a bit, but they could have been more flexible.
Ask yourself honestly if you are unhappy. This alone is a big reason to move. For me being unhappy is even worst than being pay poorly.

The tech job market is very hot lately. You should check out your option out there.
CUDA has come a long way since it's birth as a student project.
I don't have quite the same reaction, but my gut instinct thinks the company name is something my 10 year old son would have come up with. If his name was Gary, anyway.

It's right on par with naming your company "ImSo$#@!Awesome Inc." or something.
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How about: there's a difference between being right and being polite.
"Hi, I'm Linus"

"Nice to meet you Linus. What do you do?"

"I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal"

"Really?"

"People know me."

"Well I'm very happy for you."

"I'm very important. The internet runs off my software and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."
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Upvoted = saved.
The actual question in the body of the SO post is different and evokes a completely different answer from me:

If you could go back in time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your career as a developer, which book would it be?

In this case, I'd probably have to go with a book that wasn't even directly about programming -- like 4HWW, Never Eat Alone, or How To Win Friends...

Because looking back, the meta is more important that styles, conventions & code.
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As someone else stated, your (kreci's) English needs a little help to be professional grade:

"Trick your friends and show them broken screen... or make them broke it! "

Here you have an incorrect tense ("make them broke it!" should be "make them break it!")

Same for the text on the fart app.

It's understandable but it shows you're not a native speaker. I'm not either, if it helps :)

I still bow to you since you actually made something (rule #1 of enterpreneurship) while I'm still afraid of taking the plunge.
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SQL isn't special.

Scalable SQL is.
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Valuable advice, but being technical myself, I'd like to see a post about how to find a business/marketing co-founder.
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Design is very important.

The way there are upvotes and downvotes on reddit is an important part of the design. It has deep repercussions on the user's dynamics, the way posts get popular or are ignored, etc.

Now, purely font-choosing 'design' is not that important, but if you think that's design, you are misguided.

And this comes from a guy who just codes and does SQL queries all day.
Voted yes, would like to know if there is a way to automatically get a list of all of them, not only the first four pages. If there is, I wouldn't mind to send them all.
I swap between my small kindle and a portrait oriented 24" monitor for programming books. I'll read the normal text on the kindle then use PC for the programming bits, which are often tutorials that I need to do anyway.

I'm going to give the Send to Kindle chrome extension a go for this ebook. He mentions ePub and PDF are coming soon, but I don't think the kindle supports ePub and PDF is less than ideal on it.
>"not just moving it from one place to another at a loss."

>By definition, unprofitable ventures will run out of capital and stop without government intervention.

in the context of this discussion it means :
"not just moving it from one place to another to generate personal profit at a somebody else's [usually wide public's] loss."
The government role is to prevent such profitable ventures which profit at the loss of the general public - free market isn't able to do so on its own.

>Do you really propose lowering the standard of living for the poor and middle class because of an unproven theory that the climate is a positive feedback loop and 2 degree change will snowball into catastrophic effects?

this is just Red Book of Cheyney.

Anyway, technological progress, including development of new sources of energy, has generally benefited poor. Where is limiting market competition by subsidizing ineffective outdated technological processes (which de-facto happens right now with coal and other fossil fuel energy) has always restricted technological progress and thus impacted the whole society, including poor.

>And the presence of the black market in all cultures shows us that it is universal that people want to trade freely.

presence of black market in the Soviet Union was showing universal people desire to smoke Marlboro and wear LEVI's jeans. Desire to trade freely would created the black market in bread as well, yet no such market existed. Such market exist in Zimbabwe though, where it shows universal people desire to eat.
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It adds ~50ms to move to Dallas. That might be worth it, actually, it's not as though I'm hosting an HFT platform.
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I actually figure that's harder. There are no shortage of people who "talk the talk", but its hard to see who'd be good at raising money, getting customers, and biz dev based on interviews. At least with techies, you can see if they can build things or not.
There is of course some truth to that, but in this case I think it's a bit unfair to conservatives. The words "freedom" and "liberty" do have reasonably consistent and coherent conservative meanings. They're just different than what libertarians, classical liberals, etc. mean when they use those words (negative liberty) and what liberals, social democrats, etc mean (positive liberty).

But I do agree that Politics and the English Language should be read by everyone, so I'm always glad to see it linked to.
And in a few months they will all be replaced with goatse...
In pick up artist lingo, HB stands for "Hot Babe" to keep their names anonymous. So for example you meet a girl with a hotrod you would call her HBHotrod. Had to chuckle when I saw the name HBGary.
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> Any government bidding program is going to take several years to complete.

I doubt this. Governments routinely sell assets, such as property seized in criminal cases, tax foreclosures, and surplus equipment at auction and it doesn't take years. There doesn't seem to be anything about the proposed sales in Wisconsin that would require a long procedure.
Very cool, although not sure if it's unique ... Maybe by being an Arduino add-on, but there have been other DIY 8-bit consoles (here's one: http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?pro...).

This was impressively polished, it really shows that the author has been around a bit. :) I found the lack of any more concrete specifications a bit annoying, but maybe I just failed at locating information about e.g. what chip powers the board.
> 2. The only useful result is a Google cache with a pastebin with a stack trace similar to mine.

I work on a product with a public bug tracker [1]. It's amusing how often the only useful hit for a problem I'm looking into will be the actual bug in my product that I'm working on.

I imagine the same thing must happen with open source projects all the time, but this is the first place I've worked where it's been the case with commercial software.

[1] http://jira.atlassian.com
Hard to argue with any of the books in OP's post. The ones that I have read (at least half of them) are great. If I had to pick one, it would be the Rhinocerous book, simply because Javascript is everywhere.

I've been a professional programmer for many years, but oddly, programming books, as good as they often are, have had surprisingly little affect on me. I've learned much more about programming from working on projects, other programmers, and websites about the technology at hand.

Programming has always come naturally to me, but business hasn't. So since the original question is "most influential book" and not "most influential programming book", I would prefer to mention some of my favorite business books. They helped me become the programmer I am much more than any programming book.

Differentiate or Die - Jack Trout
Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki
Controlling Software Projects - Tom DeMarco
You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar - David Sandler
Carnegie - Peter Krass
Do More Faster - Brad Feld and David Cohen
Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston

But if I had to pick only one:

How to Get Rich - Felix Dennis

because it got me to dreaming, it's so much fun to read, and for the line, "If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it - it's cheaper in the long run."
The weather is not dreary. It is beautiful and sunny right now. And it is like this most of the time. I always enjoy the bright view across the bay. The temperature is often on the cool side. This bit you have to get use to. It is actually a great relieve for people escape from sweltering heat elsewhere.
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This post put a big stupid grin on my face, just imagining him walking around, and nobody knowing who he is. Him being far more influential and more important than most people in the room, and yet having trouble explaining what he does.

It sounds like a family reunion trying to remember people names and telling everyone you make web sites for a living.
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I'm a designer, I also do development.
Mondo 2000 is restarting their magazine for the iPad and the first issue will also cover this.
It depends how complex your markup is.

I've found that a site that's been developed for the desktop can usually be made much more accessible by offering a different stylesheet. I.e. it's better than the alternative of doing nothing ;)

But I agree - it's not always as straightforward as you might hope would be. Sometimes it makes sense to serve different markup.
"So here's a shout-out to my new BFF's Jon Hamm and DJ."

Can someone please make it happen that Linus gets an appearance in Season 5 of Mad Men? He could play an IBM salesman or something like that...
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A couple months ago I ended up spending good money on iStockPhoto looking for the right kitten picture to put in my app's 404 page.

If only I had waited.
If somebody offered me a dollar to stand up when I heard a certain word in a certain talk, I'm sure my effective intelligence would go down, not up. I'd spend all my attention waiting to hear a certain word, and cease paying attention to or processing anything that was actually communicated.
Which gets to the root of the Wolfram's real issue with it: If you go to wolframalpha.com on an iOS device, you are shown an ad for their $1.99 app (which you can ignore and continue to the mobile version of their site).

If you go straight to a query, it bypasses this.

The O.P.'s app bypasses their ad, and Wolfram doesn't like that.
Could you stick an email in your profile (both fields, I can't see the one that's most natural) or send email to the address in mine?