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I think you misunderstand my lack of understanding. I'm very familiar with the Internet, peering (settlement free or otherwise), 'default free zone', etc.

What I'm asking is, given that there is NO public infrastructure (in the US at least, again, going back to my question), at what point does a private set of interconnected networks become 'the Internet' for regulatory and oversight purposes?

Does a large set of MPLS tunnel over a different providers networks constitute part of The Internet?

Does just the circuit path within the territory of the United States constitute the 'Internet' as far as the USG is concerned? Do we need filtering routers on every border?
What happens when I peer with a different provider over a new circuit that's not connected to the current Internet? At what scale does that become 'the Internet Too'?
I2, Lambda Rail, ESNet, etc. There are dozens of HUGE, international, not-the-internet networks running IP with IANA assigned address space, etc. Do these count as 'The Internet'?

When Cogent and L3 decide to have another spat and de-peer, and the world now has two congruent but unequal routing tables, without full reachability or visibility, which one is The Internet? Do we now have 2 Internets?

And back to the Public Infrastructure - does the US presume to provide rules and regulations over the national infrastructure of other countries? Many nation states have monopoly, government owned network / phone service providers - does the US really think they can dictate what those other countries do? And if the regulations only apply to stuff 'physically' in the US...well, what's physically mean in a virtualized, cloudy world?

To use your analogy - I own the property and the pavement of the roads around my house, and they are NOT public roads (ie: private development, shopping mall, etc.). The DoT doesn't enforce any law, such as speed limit, equipment condition, etc. on these types of setups - only on the Public Infrastructure. The Internet is just a bunch of these private shopping malls connected to each other - there are NO public roads (in the US at least).
Maybe they plan to push display resolutions, the same way they've done with the iPad. Apple is one of the few players with enough clout (and bandwidth) to push 4K resolution TV into living rooms. This could allow them to establish a manufacturing barrier-to-entry and de-commoditize the TV market.
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I am referring to automated billing of arbitrary computing resources based on usage from a large pool spanning several computer architectures and computing locations. Now it's not LINUX boxes, but that's because they focused more on latency and bandwidth than 'modern' cloud system providers do.
a few years, its a project that has evolved quite a bit, we did a lot of offline stuff, organising opportunities for creatives, and an offline magazine.
From the article : His "electoral" successes ... much time for himself ...

Ok, politicians do not keep their knowledge of science & math up to date enough to beat little kids at math. News at 11.

Let's try senior management next !

In all fairness while it's a foregone conclusion 6 year olds will beat politicians and managers at math, I wonder who does best : senior management or politicians.

What would be interesting is to see if engineers would do better, well they'd do better than politicians of course, but they'd have advantages and disadvantages compared to kids. They have experience, lots of practice, but also a lot of practice that would be largely irrelevant. Still at my workplace, I'm pretty sure most of our researchers would probably kick the asses of most phd candidates in the math department. But that doesn't apply for the whole engineering department.

But how is it a surprise that someone whose job it is to bankrupt America and deny he's doing it doesn't measure up math-wise. That's probably an asset for politicians.
because they have an agenda to own the entire home entertainment stack. Letting you keep your existing tv is not compatible with this. They don't want customers who are picky about integrating with their existing devices. They want customers that want all apple all the time and love to pay for it.
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That sounds like a really easy-to-game strategy. If you know that someone follows this approach, then just invert your estimates of his strength.
In retrospect, I'm embarassed that I had to google TLA.
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The same reason they do everything: vertical integration and control.
You're missing:

> we are achieving all this growth without paying
> a dime to any of the labels

and

> In our case, we use the label’s songs till
> we get a 100 (million) uniques

Combined these statements make it less ambiguous.
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Offtopic observation: when Wolframalpha first appeared everyone on sites like Reddit and HN were falling over eachother to explain, in detail, what kind of an arrogant d*ck & loser Stephen Wolfram really is. Ignoring the Wolframalpha product features and going directly for the person behind it and his book and so on. Now seems like everyone loves his product and, subsequently, never mentions the guy behind it anymore. Anyone else noticed that?
MacObserver spam HN - 38 submissions just in the last week that push submissions from legitimate users out of sight that little bit faster.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jmartellaro

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=digiwizard

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Semteksam

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=davethenerd
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You know you're on hacker news when the most upvoted comment is a link to a bunch of stuff about paraboloids.
This wasn't really a secret, many people in the phonographic industry (including some at the record labels themselves) knew or suspected for quite a while that Grooveshark's business plan was something like this.
I've read this argument a few times and the part I don't follow is how you can figure out the odds for an event (the spontaneous occurrence of life) that has only happened once to our knowledge. For all we know the odds are 1e100 to one.
This seems to be more about Groovesharks' business model than emails.

They appear to be respectable businesses, and have mounted a successful propaganda campaign regarding paying them for music, but let's not shed a tear for the major labels. They steal far, far more from musicians than 'piracy' ever has. Even beyond the way they rope musicians into highly unfavorable contracts, they often don't even fulfill the contracts. Every major label has failed to pay up to hundreds of millions owed for radio plays and licensing, from all levels of musicians. All in all, they're about as respectable and deserving as your average street pimp. Good for Grooveshark. Someone needs to shake up that industry.
Abstract Algebra is my favorite math topic. I was addicted after one semester. Proving things about groups and rings, and making up your own groups and rings makes other math feel like an engineering exercise. Making new structures and proofs redefined what I understood math to be.
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Because they don't care about you.

Anyone with the mindset of "my tv works fine... unlikely to replace" is probably not their target audience.

I have a buddy that will buy anything new, regardless if he needs it or not. He, is why they make these shiny gadgets.
Perhaps I'm the exception, but in Grade 10 I didn't take math (long story) and had never seen most of the math concepts but still was the go-to math helper. High school math is fairly trivial- easy enough to figure out with just some intuition and general thinking skills.
my greatest personal epiphany was when i saw that while we're longing for other intelligence and looking for it out there, there is an other intelligence right near with us.

on related note: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2666839
…asked if they could define a particular TLA that was coming up frequently.

Were you meta on purpose? For the other people that don't know (like me): TLA stands for "three letter acronym". I was really wondering if you were being recursive by using a made-up acronym, that nobody could define.
I saw a graph for the link on this post but tried a number of other functions and did not see graphs.
> If you only use voice once in a while buy a bunch of minutes

Maybe you could explain that more? Smartphone data plans and prepaid minute phones don't overlap... are you suggesting we carry two phones?
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You clearly have not set up TVs for your family. :P

TVs nowadays have absolutely atrocious navigation and remote controls, and it seems absurd that everyone needs to educate themselves on what a DVB-B, C, and T tuners are. TVs today are marketed as "it looks great", not "it just works".

Most people can't tell the different image qualities aside, unless they are completely abhorrent (probably because retail stores tend to give cheaper TVs an analogue signal to sell the expensive ones), and it's the reason why we have to suffer the "Dynamic" video setting on our TVs.

That people in select countries will also know that they can get help from the Apple Geniuses probably also helps a bunch - tech support in this regard is a pain in the ass.

Besides, I am sure that the iTVs will be somewhat unlike what we are used to - for one, I have a Panasonic plasma AND a PS3, and I am still left with no TV browser worth the effort.

The hub-like experience is going to be incredibly interesting, but the price and image quality will still be very important to people more in the know about these things like your median HN user.

But I am excited, because it will give everyone a kick in the ass to raise the bar, regardless of whether I buy one.
It is a killer combination and I'm doing it for a while with Nexus S and CSipSimple App while roaming abroad.

I'm from Europe. And best part is that my mobile operator has SIP gateway, so wherever abroad I am, I always get myself local 3G data SIM card (it's 10 EUR for 1GB on average) so I can use data as much as I want, and I can call and being called (with my own number) with prices just like I would be back home - cheap.

Even better is that I can also send SMS with same app (again from my own number). Classic way, when abroad it can be anywhere from 0.15 EUR to 0.40 EUR per SMS when roaming.

Sending SMS works on EDGE, but for calling it needs to be 3G. Sound can delay from time to time, but it's a small price for keeping home-network-prices wherever in the world I am.
I'm not saying insulting intelligence is acceptable when laziness is a more likely cause, but you can't say the the post was "extremely clear" then go on to rewrite it, adding several written language features that aid clarity greatly.

English is my second language, and I sorta know a couple more and could have a nice rant about English orthography and phoneticity or lack thereof and the root causes of this unfortunate situation. English as a second language issues might cause one to confuse "vary" and "very" but will not be the cause of pluralizing with an apostrophe. The lack of quotation marks is also at best a laziness issue, not a dyslexia issue.

I really struggle to see why someone would go to the effort of posting a comment and not bother to correct at least the spellcheck-catchable typo "extreamly."
I think dropbox had a similar change and also found that it dramatically increased referrals once both the referrer and the new user both got extra space.
I have no idea how they compete on "quality", but Apple is the Roman army of logistics, so they might very well win over people on pricing alone and create component and transportation bottlenecks for their competitors in doing so.
How is it inconsistent?

That SQL/NoSQL are "two sides of the same coin" does not mean, as you seem to imply, that they are the same SIDE. Two sides means that they are opposite ends. Thus, each has different (actually complimentary) pros/cons.

Which is exactly what the phrase you quote implies: that normalization incurs some damage that we have to undo (via O/R mapping in the example given), if we want to get the same pros of a NoSQL solution from a SQL datastore.

(Also note that O/R mappers != NoSQL)
Gingerbread's built-in SIP client is great; I couldn't see a noticeable difference in battery life running it all day. Before Gingerbread, I ran Skype, which couldn't get through a full day on a single charge. Before Skype I tried SIPDroid, which was a lot better than Skype, but not as nice as the built-in Gingerbread one.

My Skype account had lots of contacts and lots of chats open, so that may have had an adverse effect on battery life given that the communication is all P2P and required keeping an insane number of sockets open.
There are hacks around it and there have been improvements since I played with the framework. However the hacks are ugly... I wrote a little tiny procedural 'music' app when I first got my Nexus One (android 2.2 i think). This was a workaround for lack of midi support and the latency issue. Anyway, not a shameless plug, its free and no ads, was just a "learn android" thing and was never polished at all. I'll dig out the code and get it up on GitHub if anyone wants to play with it.

[0] https://market.android.com/details?id=xian.bubbles&hl=en
Negatively motivated writing.
holy... 0_0

Is there anything people can do to stop those kinds of posts? Submitting a few articles from your own site is fair enough, but these are obviously blogspam.
Just because you pay 1/10th of a price that you will have to pay in the developed countries does not mean that you are getting less quality people. The truth is that the cost of living in a country like India is comparitively less. 1 cent per minute is what we pay for telephones $2-3 is good enough to get a sumptuous food. It is the macro economic factors that make workforce available at a competitive price in India.

I think it is about lack of homework on the part of the outsourcer that causes the trouble most of the times. When you are smart enough to hire a developer at less than 1/10th of the price that you will have to pay you otherwise shouldn't you be atleast twice that smart. A clearly defined wireframes with specification document is a must before you start any project. Ask your developer questions on the basis of wireframe to ensure both of you are in sync. As a first step outsource 2-3 modules in phases to see if the developer is able to meet up to your requirements. And do the above irrespective of if you are hiring someone from India or any part of the world which promises kick-ass developers at $100 per hour.
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I don't think it's fair to blame a school system for failing to educate the children of a single mother on welfare as well as those with PHD's from Harvard. And I am not suggesting that it's genetic. If you took identical twins and adopted one into each of those family's I would expect to see a similar performance gap.

The US has some 'great' public schools, and some 'terrible' ones. But, the difference has a lot more to do with the students than people are comfortable admitting. The private / public gap in education is also a lot less than you might expect.
Then who talks to the users and analyzes their feedback? Who determines the direction of your product, manages the executive team's expectations (plays politics) and makes the tough go/no go decisions on features or entire products? That's part of what a product person does.
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Of course carriers are going to hate this, and will disable it. The question is how. The easy way is to disable it in software, which means anyone running stock Android or Cyanogen and friends will be unaffected. Whether they go beyond this is another question. Are there enough users running software of their own choice to be worth the bother?
Oh, that was a serious question? I assumed it was a reference I didn't get :P No, I do not work for Lucasfilm.
It is widely used. At least in several parts of Europe I've been to and/or lived.

With some variations such security measures are ubiquitous here. SMS tokens, an electronic device that generates numbers. A card full of numbers of which a couple of them are asked before each transaction, etc.
Wow this really hit home to me, I always struggled with math in highschool because things like formulas and shortcuts didn't sink in with me. I struggled to understand how to use them unless I could see the proof.
Hah! I was just reading this on a political-ish blog yesterday:

"In my experience — and I'm old, so it's long — people who make a noticeable exhibition of their smartness are not the most intelligent people. They're not the dumbest people. But the smartest people are strategic about displaying intelligence. That's how they outsmart you. "

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/12/newt-obama-largest-poss...
Firefox does have a new versionless API, called the bootstrap API. It also allows extensions to stop, start and hence update, without restarting firefox.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Bootstrapped_ext...
Are you saying that simply because TVs are more expensive (and perhaps have longer expected lifespans) than MP3 players, phones, tablets, laptops, PCs, etc.? Most of what Apple (and every other company) sells isn't the first entry into its market, so they're always hoping you will buy "a whole new whatever."
Will the Apple TVs just be 55" iPads? ;)
That article was so good I made a separate submission for it. Thanks.
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Too devoid of content. The larger part that could be considered an argument, is this:

"""It’s hard to look many of Apple’s own super glossy and reflective candy coloured icons and not think: “what the heck?”"""

Actually, it's not hard at all. The majority of Apple's own icons are just fine. And even if they were not, this is still not exactly evidence about "quirky design decisions" nor explanation why the author of the post "lost faith" in Apple's design circa 2009.
It works in Chrome, but it doesn't work in IE8. (I didn't try with other browsers.)
> the Cro-Magnon [ie. current "humans", we] will in its turn fall victim to the next human species.

I don't think so, at least not in a violent way. Like something Nietzsche said in TSZ, "man is something to be surpassed, but only a buffoon thinks that man can be overleapt."
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I highly doubt they'd go 4K at launch:

1) 4K panels are still ridiculously expensive. Apple's mastered the supply chain, but not the laws of physics. Also keep in mind that anyone Apple could source 4K displays from at any useful volume will be putting them in their own TVs first.

2) Apple might have the bandwidth to handle 4K streaming. Your average home connection most certainly doesn't. Even if we're very generous and assume everyone has guaranteed 100Mb/s lines, that's still a few hairs under 3x Blu-Ray's bandwidth. You'd almost be able to pull it off if you went into overdrive on the compression. (and no other activity on your line).

And perhaps you meant iPhone 4? The iPad's resolution in terms of DPI isn't significantly higher than a decent notebook.
I am not even a Dilbert fan, it just came to mind as an easy way to get an impression. (Office Space, on the other hand...).

It just sometimes seems as if when women say "men", what they mean is actually only the top 5% of alpha males they actually recognize as men. The rest of the male population and their plight does not even register on the radar.

Yes, the problems should be fixed for everyone, and I also can imagine there are problems specific to women. Not sure they are always sexist, though. For example I also face problems as a father when I take care of my child alone at times. It occurred to me it might have parallels to the situation of women in IT. Namely, usually mothers meet other mothers (on the playground, at home, wherever). Now, if I want to meet other kids on my "daddy day", I feel a bit awkward. I haven't created the same networks that my wife did - hooking up with mothers starting from birth courses to frequent playground and mother group visits. I suppose I could call her "other mother" friends and visit them with my son, too. But it would feel a bit weird, at least at first (haven't actually tried it yet), because I am not directly their friend, I am only the friend of their friend. I wouldn't blame it on sexism, though, it is simply evolved historically, because they went to more kid related courses than I did. Even if I change the diapers once per day and my wife does it 6 times a day, it creates a distortion.

I am all for fixing the problem, but blaming the wrong reason is very counterproductive to that. Just saying "it must be sexism" prevents people from looking at other possible causes.
That's because people don't usually go out of their way to produce damning evidence. Damning evidence is an accident, that's why you don't find much of it, even among "tens of thousands of documents." Which is why careful scrutiny of discovery documents is important in any legal case.
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You can set axis ranges, which address some of the zoom issues. I've found this to be a bit tricky / iffy at best, particularly when using financial datasets.

Agreed regards zoom and such.
I believe you are remembering wrong:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611656

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607532

Not to say it is uncommon to call Stephen Wolfram egotistic, I swear there was a thread about Wolfram remembering Turing and people counting how many times Wolfram mentioned himself but it may have been killed as I can't find it.
You can also draw multiple functions by separating with a comma.

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But can it graph the Batman equation?!
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Because Apple's marketing goal is to simplify, not add more. In addition they want to draw you into the Apple brand. They want you to have the, "Apple products work great with other Apple products, and I already have all these Apple products, so I might as well choose an Apple product when I need something to do X" mentality. They want full hardware control. A small box wont do that. Another small box will have millions of combinations of other hardware attached to it that may behave in unexpected ways. If they sell you a TV instead, then they can ensure that they're the central hub (and likewise, that everything "just works").