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Ask HN: Viable to open LLC to run open wifi (or TOR exit node)?
There were some recent HN articles on persons still wrongfully getting accused of all kinds of things for having an open wifi. Even worse, "... you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node" http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Sep-2009/msg00058.html

How well would it work (in terms of personal protection) to let an LLC own the router/server/ISP-bills? Is the concept of Limited Liability strictly financial?

- LLCs are relatively cheap and easy to setup

- LLC does not need to be "for profit"

- LLC is a "company", not a "corporation" (might be an important legal-entity distinction)
I would sign up for a fast pipe from Netflix pretty much sight-unseen.
Founding a 3-person startup with no revenue is better than working for Goldman
It's actually more work to give you one address (a /128) than to assign you a /64.

Everything in ipv6 assumes a /64 is the basic unit of allocation. For example, the stateless autoconfiguration system that replaces much of DHCP assumes it has a /64 to work with.

Linode probably has 4 billion /64s to play with (with options on trillions more if they should need it), why not give out one per customer?
No - China as VC means that the government takes over your company, and they would own all your IP (ie give your ideas to "natively developed" companies so they can compete against you with your own work). Would you want that to happen?
If we were immortal, the need to "extend" ourselves through kids would also decrease dramatically. People (especially women) feel the need to have a kid after a certain age because they are afraid they will be too old if they do it too late. If you lived 1000 years, would you still be in a hurry to have a kid at 30? It's a natural instinct for humans to want to pass their genes to someone else before they approach death (and leave enough time to care for them, too).

Also, about a century ago people thought we would face terrible overpopulation by now, due to limited ground space for buildings homes. That's before we learned we could make apartment buildings.

Don't think of the future 100 years from now, with the eyes from 2011. You don't know what conditions might be created by then to allow for increased population. Humans tend to find solutions for everything, especially when approaching a huge crisis.
I think "this method" is letting people absorb the main lecture/explanation at their own pace, freeing up teachers to focus on one on one assistance, identifying people who are struggling, focusing classes on mastery instead of minimum level competence (C students pass, but obviously have knowledge gaps), etc.
At the Verizon store today, their "Blazingly Fast" connection was 0.2mbps on speedtest. We all know technology exists to go much faster than that, but it is the politics of the companies involved that is slowing everyone down. Consider the other news story submitted to HN recently about 1Gbps coming to Chattanooga not Verizon, not Comcast, but the community-owned EPB. Whether it is here in 10 years will depend not on the tech, but on the companies so it could come sooner than 2021 if there is a shift with the sources' understanding.
Exactly so.

The primary killers in the Western world are cancer and heart disease, and very few people argue with the billions of dollars in annual funding that these diseases receive.

What is often overlooked is that these are both fundamentally diseases of aging. Research in to retarding aging could easily have the highest ROI (where R is measured in the addition of years of healthy lifespan) of any avenue of research, yet it receives almost none because of societal bias that views it as fringe.
Great advice! This is the same strategy that I have developed with my own auctions and have been able fetch top dollar every time. I would also add:
*Never sell anything as a bundle, always separate it out into different auctions.
I work in healthcare IT as a software developer, and I only have one thing to say: Bureaucracy.

Honestly. When you have 12 managers for ONE project, that has ONE developer, nothing gets done!

Outsiders think the reason it's so hard is because of dealing with 'sensitive data' - they don't deal with it, they pretend they do.

If you want to make software for healthcare, have lots of cool graphs, lots of amazing "management" features and features to cut-down on paper-work (i.e. do referral forms automagically) you can sell it for A LOT -- but only if you're really good at sales, and know exactly the right people. :)

p.s. in healthcare IT, you can sell promises (oh, my humanity)
In Brave New World, contraceptive implants are mandatory, and there's a huge stigma around /not/ having an abortion.

The stigma around childbirth is a little scary to think about. But all things considered, I think that a society would adapt to limit births by some means if we achieved clinical immortality.

And there are plenty of means to limit birth without stopping sex. Just asking people to sterilize themselves would probably be sufficient, especially since recombinant cloning actually is at least a reasonable thing to talk about with current technology. (Sterilization doesn't mean you can't ever have kids, just that it's going to cost you a fair amount, and you will have a lot of paperwork to do.) The concept of clinical immortality, in contrast, hasn't really advanced beyond the legend of the "fountain of youth."
Nice. 7500fps and 36-bit color. Good link. Thanks.
But thats not how moores law trickles through the tech stack to the consumer....

We get shifting increase in computing benefits all over the place -- the last place the consumer sees the benefit is in access speeds.

Carrier backbone links will continually grow, but consumer access speeds will grow at a much slower rate.

The compute power of all devices will grow incredibly fast by comparison (moores law).

The reason for this is that you already pay what the market will bear for your access. The infrastructure costs to the carriers are incredible at the access layer, so the cost benefit for them is to upgrade much slower.

I predict that the disruption will come from the following potential areas:

* Google, Facebook or Amazon will offer a fiber to the home network soon.

* Advances in Spectrum technology cost/availability will offer the Gig-link

* Municipal networks are seen as the next New Deal and massive technical infrastructure projects are sponsored by the government because they do know how to supply funding for infrastructure and dont understand how to fund startups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg
I do exactly the same in NZ, except here we have 1 intl. pipe. They're trying to get another one off the ground, but it's probably far off in the future and I'm yet to be convinced it will make any meaningful difference. The govt. are also trying to roll out fibre to the home, but they're fucking it up fantastically and basically gifting it to Telecom (NZ's monopoly telecommunications provider). Thank allah for Linode.
The cost of maintaining a /64 is the same as maintaining a /128, and might even be less.

/64 is the basic unit of allocation in IPv6 and all of the tools and allocation protocols assume it.
"Hopefully the iPad is just a kickoff point."

That's precisely it. Being who I am, I'm going to be building everything with Open Web technologies and most likely built on top of jQuery Mobile. The iPad is just serving as a good initial platform to target and test on before expanding massively.

I wouldn't be surprised if much of the work that happens on the tablet version of the site gets back-ported to the main site itself (as things like tablets and mobile devices tend to encourage minimalist UIs and a larger emphasis on what the user is attempting to achieve).

I did work for the One Laptop Per Child project in the past, I'm a strong advocate for getting useful resources out to as many people as possible - regardless of their means.
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Shannon's Law doesn't actually say anything about the medium. That is we can find more bandwith OTA. I'm sure 30 years ago not many would have guessed you could do 100Mbps OTA (even knowing Shannon's Law), yet with LTE we can.

With better engineering (multiple frequencies, compensations, etc...) I have little doubt that we can achieve bandwidths that are still technologically out of our reach today.

With that said, when it does end, I'll probably be just as optimistic not knowing we hit the wall.
well become better at coping
Google has announced they'll be offering gigabit internet in Kansas City, starting in 2012.
But as they say, "these methods are repeatable and could easily be updated with new information obtained from the US intelligence community on his last known location."

If you add what we know now about Bin Laden's courier - obtained by the intelligence community but naturally kept secret until now - their methodology would have nailed it down to just a couple of buildings in Abbottabad. That's very impressive IMHO.
As I replied a few minutes ago - it absolutely will be a cross platform application using web technologies. It remains to be seen how it'll be bundled (likely using PhoneGap, I suspect) so at that point most of the major platforms are feasible.
GP did say "last resort." Sometimes it's more important that a thing exists than whether or not you make a profit off it.
FSO?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communicatio...
Things like lazy loading is a red flag to me that you are doing something wrong, so if your framework allows you to do that that's not necessarily something to brag about :). Random IO that is triggered by merely accessing a property without knowledge of the programmer is not the best approach if you want to scale, you are better off doing deliberate fetches as a result of previously fetched data. If you are breaking and composing queries, how are they broken and compose by the orm, as joins or as sub queries? If as joins does your orm know the best columns to join on? You could replace everything with named sql functions (dropping to the lowest level of optimization as you mention above), but at that point what is your orm really doing for you. Anyway, sorry, I'm not sold :). Maybe if you effectively replicated the database engine in your front end framework I would come closer to being sold, but even then you don't have the same rapid in memory access to statistics about tables to make the right optimization decisions, etc..
the possibility of super long lives happens to have really interesting social repercussions ... I see no reason why after but a single generation this idea of popping kids out pre 30 wouldnt just go away
the big question: " Do we believe this to happen eventually" ... if so, why not within our lifetimes?
Agreed on this. I've filed 2-3, and each has had a reply in minutes.
Seems like a good idea. I agree with the article: TorButton is convenient, but it's confusing and it can easily leak information about you. Two browsers (one private, one public) is much easier to reason about. And, being able to iterate quickly and not saddle "normal" Firefox users with the mistakes is an added benefit.
Roughly right. I told them that I really wanted to build a cross platform, mobile, version of their application (amongst other things, naturally). They mentioned that they were already looking to build an iPad application - that seems like a fine place to start development and testing.

It's going to be a challenge to figure out the right UI idioms for the project, less so getting it working on a bunch of platforms giving the technology stack (open web technologies). Right now that's my biggest concern. Once we figure out how the interactions should work then the table/mobile world is our oyster.
I'll make a guess that it says something along the lines of: "This tool is powerful and easy to use making it dangerous in the hands of mere mortals. It must be stopped."
How is this different than any other "service"?

Its way easier to get everything from Thai food to dry cleaning to auto parts in a city.
I wonder what the purpose of the linux firewalls is if there are already AWS security groups in place?

Seems like a lot of extra complexity to track the IPs of every EC2 instance whenever they launch/start.
But is the old contract still in effect ? If yes, then the profit selling his old phone probably doesn't cover the money he must paid for one year left of the old contract. That's why i'm confused.
Maybe they need to be busted up. I remember my local cable company before Comcast took over.

Of course, I would be happy with some muni. ftth.
They missed the best geeky part: the most recent 12C (or 12C+ as it's known among the enthusiast crowd) is a hardware redesign, using a modern 32 bit ARM based CPU (Atmel AT91SAM7L128), very similar to the 30B and 20B. But rather than risk introducing firmware errors with a code rewrite, the 12C+ emulates the original CPU and runs the original microcode. It's much faster, of course.

I think they've even released an SDK for it, if you're into reflashing with your own code...
"email, centered around your contacts," sounds like just regular email to me. I don't really 'get' it.

I thought the video could use work overall. There was some hesitation, some intermittent, rapid-fire talking, and so on.
If an immortal committed themselves to a lifetime (!!) of learning and improvement on the side (though not so much that all you do is learn), I suspect you could eliminate the Flynn effect. I personally believe if our ancestors were simpler folk, it's only because they learned less.

The most important upside, assuming it can be managed of course, is that continually keeping an immortal up to speed requires less resources than bringing a newborn up to speed.
Nice, that'd be convenient! I'd only have to deal with one company to get both my internet connectivity and my tv/movie content. Wait a minute...
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No mention of the way China subsides its own banking system in such a way that $3 Trillion in reserves is somewhat illusionary ..pet project disasters alone are $1 trillion counting the high speed rail disaster..and that is before factoring in the banks that China is holding up to prevent them from closing..
Once again I defer to an alternate version of Harry Potter:

"Uh huh," Harry said. "See, there's this little thing called cognitive dissonance, or in plainer English, sour grapes. If people were hit on the heads with truncheons once a month, and no one could do anything about it, pretty soon there'd be all sorts of philosophers, pretending to be wise as you put it, who found all sorts of amazing benefits to being hit on the head with a truncheon once a month. Like, it makes you tougher, or it makes you happier on the days when you're not getting hit with a truncheon. But if you went up to someone who wasn't getting hit, and you asked them if they wanted to start, in exchange for those amazing benefits, they'd say no. And if you didn't have to die, if you came from somewhere that no one had ever even heard of death, and I suggested to you that it would be an amazing wonderful great idea for people to get wrinkled and old and eventually cease to exist, why, you'd have me hauled right off to a lunatic asylum!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/39/Harry_Potter_and_the_...
Google announced the winner as Kansas City last month. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2011/tc201... has some interesting notes about the implications of Google running the service and disrupting the ISP market. One strategy they talked about was using Kansas City's own infrastructure to run fiber through utility poles and already present street conduits to get fiber to the home and cut costs.
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Squeaky-wheel method, sure.

We essentially built a web-based mail client centered around...

So when you talk about mail clients, you aren't including reading email, right? It's mentioned nowhere, including anywhere in your video.
Objc is not for apple only....GCC & GNUStep!All run perfectly fine on other platforms. Just because it's not widely used....maybe that will change considering the possible growth of objc again as apple's market share widens. sheesh ;p
Ok. Thanks for the feedback. I think I'm starting to see a theme here. The landing page in general needs a lot of work. We spent so much time on the app itself we kind of did the landing page last minute. I need to figure out the right message for it and it definitely needs a redesign.
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And for Android, Droid48 (my second most used app after the browser).
A breakdown of the takedown: Osama's Last Hour Infographic
Good point. Yes you can definitely read/write emails with it. It is practically a drop in replacement for Gmail.
Gamification? More like Exploitationware
Just over a month ago, on March 30, they picked Kansas City, Kansas.

Google Blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/ultra-high-speed-broa...

HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2387866
Interesting, most photographers I know keep the original RAW file from their cameras and work on copies for processing, storing the source as raw material for future projects. Instagram (and the like) forces your hand in the production of a finished product, no looking back.
" interesting pet at best " ?
"This is not an artefact, or a record, or a representation of a real moment"

Wow. So the Mona Lisa is phony because it's not a real moment or artifact? It certainly lacks authenticity. Real, professional (and good ;) photographers are using Instagram, http://www.flickr.com/photos/exoskeletoncabaret/sets/7215762... so there must be some redeeming property? Ah, here it is:

"algorithmically applying strange flaws that are common in photos of our parents when they were young"

Those "flaws" give the image a particular feel, so now if and when you want that feeling in a picture, you can just push a button and bam! http://vonslatt.tumblr.com/page/2 It's democratizing a visual language.
It's a little early yet to put that together, even if you do include a "Navy SEALS" insignia in the corner.
The advantage of using LINQ database querying in C#, and it's a big one in my experience, is that your queries are actually typechecked by the compiler like any other code, making it a lot easier to refactor. (In the context of Python/Ruby which don't even have typecheckers I have no idea what the draw is).

The disadvantage is that due to some organizational dysfunction at MSFT there's still no really satisfactory ORM infrastructure surrounding the query engines.

(as for your "misguided engineering idea in itself" claim, I don't really see how it's fundamentally different from writing SQL in the first place to be translated by the database into query execution plans, vs. writing the query execution plans directly).
Kolmogrov complexity proves that while language A can emulate capability X from language B, it is impossible to do so without writing B in A. In which case, it is still B doing X.

So, in a literal sense, it can be impossible to do X in A and possible to do X in B, even though A and B are Turing complete.
If you look at the full resolution picture, you can tell that there is a piece of paper on Secretary Clinton's laptop that has been pixelated. I wonder what that was.
Have you checked DSL options like AT&T or Speakeasy? I would be very surprised if that wasn't available in your area given that it goes over phone lines.
China can buy almost anything for a price—but almost nothing for today’s price.

In a way, they have become too big to succeed.
I'm on Linode too.

So if backhaul was being built, perhaps NZ could be persuaded to chip in for more trans-Tasman pipes being laid? As I understand it, the one pipe from NZ to California continues on to Sydney.
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What an incredible military operation. We should all be humbled.
Your generated procs's are your home-brew ORM, what exactly do you think an ORM does other than dynamically generate CRUD and map data into objects to speed development? The ORM is better, generates it's code at runtime so it doesn't leave a mess behind when things change and removes any need for you to regenerate.

That ORM can generate update statements that only update changed fields... can your proc do that or does it blindly update all fields? That ORM effortlessly maps data from the db into objects so you don't have to pass record-sets around; I don't want record-sets and data readers littered all over my programs, I want business objects.

Programs that keep all SQL in procs are horrible to work on and a bear to maintain, I'll take an ORM any day over a mess like that.
The graphic is a bit over-exaggerated. Were there actually rockets and multiple gunmen??
* Google, Facebook or Amazon will offer a fiber to the home network soon.

This would be a nightmare working with various municipalities and their right-of-ways. No two situations would be the same. Anytime a road is repaved, the fiber has to come out and be replaced. Lots of maintenance, too.

* Advances in Spectrum technology cost/availability will offer the Gig-link

Not possible. Has nothing to do with Moore's law. Imagine a family of 5, each watching a separate live 1080p stream. Now, how many people in a town can watch a unique 1080p stream simultaneously?

* Municipal networks are seen as the next New Deal and massive technical infrastructure projects are sponsored by the government because they do know how to supply funding for infrastructure and don't understand how to fund startups.

Yes, this will save the United States. I'm serious. This is the only viable option.
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Holding $3 Trillion in boring American gov securities seems like a safe way to shelter itself from price fluctuations if the FED decides to play with the interest rates.
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I suppose it's possible for you to have a 1 gigabit connection, but you're entitled to only 2 gigabytes per month...

So you can use your entire capacity in 16 seconds. That would be bad.
In my opinion, which I welcome other HNers to disagree with, showing their steps, I would prefer MIT.

Before I go on, let me ask how two colleges can still be in play for you on 3 May 2011, two days after the uniform national reply date of 1 May? Did you indicate to BOTH colleges that you accepted the offer of admission? Or is there something else going on here?

Back to answering your question. It is my general observation of young people who have faced the question you face--attending MIT or attending the low-list-price state university--that the persons who attend MIT end up being happy that they did so, and no worse off (arguably, better off) financially for having done so. What I hear about such persons is that they gain so many more, and so much more lucrative, career opportunities because of matriculating at MIT that the higher out-of-pocket costs is more than made up for. And what everyone who applies to MIT really seeks there, I think, is a community of a bunch of learners who can learn rapidly, deeply, and avidly for four years together with an amazing group of peers.

That said, I largely agree with pg's point in his essay "News from the Front"

http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html

that it "may not matter all that much where you go to college." What you do in college, and how you apply what you learned in college after college, makes an even bigger difference than where you go to college.
I'm no photographer! :) To be fair, I'm using Camera+ which gives me the ability to save the original file too. In general, I just don't because a lot of the pictures are just for punctual use and present little interest to me in their original form.