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That is a complete misrepresentation of the situation. This is almost literally a case of "choose your poison" for Mozilla. Abstaining is no way to win. There is no way to win this for Mozilla, damned if they do, damned if they don't.

However, at least with Mozilla you get the benefit that the DRM piece is as contained as possible and you are not leaking information to the content providers. Something Mozilla fought for that neither Google nor Microsoft gave anything about.

Also, Mozilla doesn't brag about its mission. What does that even mean? That Mozilla is pointing out the difference between itself and the other players in the market? It's vital that people are aware of the fact that Mozilla is a mission driven organization. That is the reason d'etre of Firefox.
> Why do business services always cost more!

Because SLA.
Ask HN: How do you promote your open-source project?
I have an open source project I've been working on and I'd love to have people using it and getting feedback from them. I'm not sure how to go about this, though. It's 100% free OSS so I'm not looking to make money.

Other than a Show HN post, how do you get people to actually try and use your project?
First smartphone 'kill switch' bill in the US passed by… Minnesota
I know all the basic ins and outs of bandwidth. But why is this so complicated? I pay x amount for access to the Internet at x speed. I use internet. I pay the access fee.
The difference is the amount of know-how and effort involved. I think people overestimate these for the machine-shop approach and underestimate (for now) in the 3D printer case, but in principle the latter eventually allows that know-how to be entirely baked into a digital file and distributed and the effort will eventually come down.

I'm still not sure that this is terribly important but it is a distinction with some basis in reality.
Let's rephrase it then. Net neutrality is a very reasonable idea (same way as antitrust regulations are). Why do Republicans oppose it? They like monopolistic abuses on the Internet?
In trying to "fix" this problem have TVT potentially made themselves liable for all the content posted there? They now assert "ownership" of all the content. In order to be protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act courts have held that they must not be "information content providers"[1], but TVT asserts full rights over all the content, including relicensing and use without attribution.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio...
My name is Byrne Reese, and I am the VP of Product for Bitreserve. Thank you for your questions. I first wanted to shed some light on how we manage our reserve. When a member of Bitreserve converts bitcoin to fiat, we adjust the assets we hold in our reserve to match. So if our members hold 100 bitcoin, and $1000, then our Reserve will also hold 100 bitcoin and $1000. In this way we manage a full reserve.

We believe that what our Members do with their money is their business, but what we do with their money is everyone's business. So just like the blockchain, the public can monitor in real-time all the transactions taking place across our network via our Reserve Chain, and all of the subsequent adjustments we make to our reserve on our public ledger. Then to build trust in these resources, every quarter a big-four auditor will publicly verify that the assets and liabilities we claim in our ledger are accurate.

Right now we are purely bitcoin in and bitcoin out. In that way all value that flows into and out of our system is discoverable and provable on the block chain. You will be able to track every transaction back to the original entry of value into our system confirmed by the block chain.

Thanks again for your comment and don't hesitate to contact support@bitreserve.org with any further questions, or feel free to continue the conversation here.
I don't believe this was posted by the author. Maybe a misinterpretation of the "Show HN" tag by the OP?

Still, it's nice to find out that Ampache has been forked and updated!
I will say though, dismissing Rob Von Behren in the area of async vs. sync IO with an anecdotal paragraph is a ballsy move. (i.e. "wrong approach")
That's not what I said, or at least not what I meant. If you have blocking operations (that take a long time), then thread-blocking (as opposed to fiber-blocking or async) IO will require too many threads.
Elon Musk on the Flawed Premise of Tesla and the False Promise of Fuel Cells
RIM(Research in Motion) was renamed/rebranded as BBRY(Blackberry) in 2013

BRRY(the company) is NOT dead.

They are still very much alive and still making and selling smartphones and other products/services.

IMO, they are doing a much better job of making them(smartphones), then they are of selling them, and if they continue on that trajectory they could well end up ... dead ... but

FWIW - Let's not put the body in the cooler until were sure that its actually not breathing.
Can someone please clarify this line:
"- Tentatively concludes that priority service offered exclusively by a broadband provider to an affiliate should be considered illegal until proven otherwise."

the offered exclusively line is what gets me, if they offer a "fast lane" at a higher price to everyone it isn't an "exclusive" offer and therefore would be allowed?
If you look around there is no "beautiful ERP" solution out there and the status quo is "you can make a very capable ERP or a "pretty" ERP but not both". I understand the the difficulty of striking that balance but I think by applying the right kind of modularity to the app design (sort of like openERP but even more granular and forgiving) you can arrive at a solution which invites businesses of all-sizes but can grow with the company into very complex processes.

There is HUGE opportunity in this market and I believe one big reason is that a new generation of userbase will expect and demand a better UX than any current offering.

In fact, I suggest a great startup idea would be a to take the openerp codebase and wrap a new UI/UX around it starting with one vertical ("niche") market and working out from there. (i.e. "A beautiful ERP for medium-sized businesses focusing on your growing warehouse, sales and purchasing needs built on the solid foundation of openERP."). Not saying it would be easy, but just worthwhile. I have a feeling the Odoo rebranding points to an effort for a UI overhaul which acknowledges the opportunity of a great UX.
> If the reviews are signed, public, and citable

If the reviews were signed, public and citable there would be much fewer critical reviews, especially in small fields. Cue all arguments in favour of anonymous participation on the net.
Exactly, customers in the market can then make cost/value choices for products that directly relate to how that individual ISP is managing costs.

With fast lane proposals, additional cost gets pushed back to successful websites. So for example, when Netflix pays a toll to Comcast, that additional cost is distributed among all the users of Netflix even if they're not doing business with Comcast. How does this work to support a market where consumer choice rewards efficient ISPs? It basically makes the market for network connections look more like the healthcare market where a fundamental problem in it's efficiency is how endpoint costs are highly disconnected from how efficient individual players in the market are operating.
This article comes up every time someone mentions I/O "speed". You have to be very careful with making blanket claims in either direction.

These tests were a particular kind of network traffic, and were testing for max throughput across many connections. Minimizing latency, smaller message sizes, and/or fewer connections can make the decision to use NIO vs standard IO libraries come down in different places. (Not to mention that you cannot program the standard IO libraries in a no alloc form).
Sorry to hear about your dad's illness. MM is a bitch.

If coming to the US is an option, there is a treatment center (Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy MIRT) that is part of the University of Arkansas and is probably one of the best places in the world to get myeloma treatment. I know quite a number of people that have gone there and gotten good results.

It is based in Little Rock (of all unlikely places) I think because it was founded by a grant from Sam Walton, founder of WalMart. He died from MM in 1992.
produce unencrypted video/audio for the browser to display

That's the silly example used in all of the pro-EME propaganda, but the standard also allows content providers to demand an encrypted path all the way to the video card, IIRC, thus bypassing the browser's ability to save content, and exposing a potentially insecure video driver to the CDM blob.
> Thanks for the thoughtful response. Care to explain your CDN/ISP hypothetical further? Wouldn't the content providers who are capable of paying have an advantage over those who aren't?

Of course, just as Amazon has an advantage over smaller retailers, and Netflix has an advantage over new steaming services. Incumbents always have certain advantages, and business deals always favor those involved in them over those not involved in them. Money makes things easier. But "an advantage" isn't "an insurmountable advantage", and HN is full of startups coming up with innovative ways to circumvent incumbent advantages.

> I'm not clear on how money changes hands in your case, but undoubtedly this arrangement would favor the ISP.

Not necessarily. This doesn't need to be a win/lose zero-sum scenario; it's entirely possible, in the scenario I described, for all three of the customer, the ISP, and the content provider to come out ahead.

> As far as peering goes, it's a bit more complicated... server locations are more mobile than consumer locations, so there is less concern about an effective geographic monopoly for backbone providers.

That's certainly true. And in general, I think it's much more critical to find a solution to the ISP monopoly problem than to the network neutrality problem, because ISP monopolies lead to quite a few other issues as well.

> Without fully thinking through the economics of peering, my initial thought is that there should probably be a regulated amount that ISP's can charge to peer with backbone providers. Maybe cost plus a maintenance fee based on traffic volume.

I can understand where that idea would come from, but ick; there are so many things wrong with that idea.

Perhaps it would make sense to legally separate the "last-mile" provider from the large-scale bandwidth provider, with the former providing only connectivity to a local meet-me room. I don't particularly like that idea, but it seems far less awful than alternatives.
Also, the FCC didn't vote for any 'Fast Lane'. They voted to discuss and eventually vote on possibly regulation of the Internet. Included in the proposal is complete Net Neutrality as well as Fast-Lane/Slow-Lane. Everything is on the table right now.
It can't print all the parts... but you can find the rest of the parts at any poorly stocked downtown hardware store (let alone a real hardware store).
How can they know if they are marked as spam?
I think people who use certain software full-time and in a professional setting experience it in a completely different way than people who use it only occasionally. Few people outside of publishing seem to spend truly long stretches of time in Word.
Well, my company sell training packages at affordable prices :D
The only quote you need to read from the FCC’s net neutrality meeting
Oh, is it now a built-in module in 9.4beta?

I've used it in 9.1 (downloading the patch, applying it, recompiling postgres..) - have found this article re: postgres caching mechanisms (and pg_prewarm use in particular (though re: pg_prewarm, most of it is about applying the patch itself, etc.)) useful:

http://raghavt.blogspot.com/2012/04/caching-in-postgresql.ht...

P.S. here are some more comments from the author: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoZihvzFW6n6pPwzDO... (btw, I've found the pgsql-hackers to be a great mailing list indeed!)
In practice I find Terminal/tmux/emacs a more pleasant experience to me than GUI emacs/frame and window/shell.

GUI emacs does brings nice features:
-multiple fonts / font sizes at the same time (nice for minimap http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap !)
-more shortcut possibilities with s- added to the usual C- and M--
-more colours

Shell/ansi-term modes don't work well enough. There's always problems with shortcuts/encoding/escape sequences/Ncurse.
> we currently raised millions of children who _can_ do math just fine the current way

Unfortunately that’s simply not true, we live in a culture where most people can't do math, and find it acceptable to not be able to. How math is being taught is simply wrong and those methods you're so resisting aren't new, they're decades old and they're already proven.

> What happens when it turns out a combination of poor training of teachers and lack of exposure by parents combines to produce an entire generation that can't do the most basic of math problems.

We're already there.

You're just fear based and will resist any change whatsoever.
Here's the thing about smaller, 'independent' ISPs: they're small. That means they don't have very large coverage, and the US is a very large country. So even though there are SOME smaller, independent ISPs which are likely to remain net-neutral, they can only service a very tiny portion of the population. That doesn't help everybody else.

I live in Santa Clara, in the South Bay. It's pretty close to the heart of Silicon Valley. My only option for an ISP is Comcast; my choices are literally, in the true definition of literally, use Comcast or don't get internet. And that's not really a choice, is it?
No your question is quite relevant, and a good one.

There is some research along similar lines regarding exposure to certain parasites and disease.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/helminthic-therapy...

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130422-feeling-ill-swallow...
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They also discovered how to succeed as a tech company: Better use at least three 'O's in your brand name.

"Choosing the right name is hard. To find the perfect name, we analysed the names of top internet companies. We discovered a direct correlation between the company valuation and the number of 'O' in its name. The graph below shows the average valuation of the top 10 internet companies according to the number of 'O' in their names.

With three 'O' in its name, 'Odoo' is in phase with our ambitions."
I'm really interested in this project: a request from a particular industry to provide a valuable, bespoke product. I'm ready and willing to work on something like that.

But the above questions are important.

"Track Changes" is included with Microsoft Office (so we compete with free). Printing on paper is also free.

A worse problem: the article is not clear enough about what editors would actually value.

Dear Karina Palmitesta: Commission someone to build exactly what you want, get your staff to test it and provide relevant feedback. You should expect to pay for this. If you believe you can sell this to your peers, negotiate a profit-sharing agreement. You should still expect to pay for this.
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Really the only thing holding back anybody from doing it the proper way out of metal is a lack of motivation. If you want to do it, teaching yourself to do it is fairly trivial. Any highschool kid (from a highschool that still has a shop class, which are increasingly few...) could do it if they were inclined to do it.
That is exactly the point! In this case, Mozilla does not have leverage. Users have leverage. Chrome and IE users could have decided to abandon those browsers when they implemented the DRM measures. They did not.
> In particular, I was asked to help hire an algebraic geometer -- algebraic geometry not being my specialty.

Why were you selected then?

> For me to read and understand the highly technical papers of each of 500 job applicants

Why did you, as a professor, wasted your time even reading the 500 names of the applicants? Wouldn't your time be better spent if somebody else did some background research, filtered 95% of the candidates and you were provided only a short list of the best candidates that you could carefully inspect?
>Let me put this clearly: asynchronous APIs are always more complicated than blocking APIs..

IMO I would rather use a single threaded server and manage synchronicity explicitly with callbacks, composable promises, comprehensions, monads, and "other functional shenanigans" vs having to sync shared state across threads and manage thread pools.
That's quite interesting! Does it rely on steganography? Because as far as I know, it's quite difficult to keep the integrity of stego contents if the system is public knowledge (e.g. a low pass filter may destroy high frequency watermaking). The sheer amount of degrees of freedom in a minute of 30fps 4k video though makes it seem not so hard to accomplish a steep ( video quality x decoding probability ) tradeoff for attackers.

Of course, then there's the software integrity problem -- I can't imagine a feasible system that prevents bypassing the software verification completely. Or, for hardware checks, I can't see a regulation enforcing "All TVs must have this enabled" (i.e. you just buy from an open brand).

This would be more interesting though for authenticated video streaming. Imagine every user is required to reveal a real identity to retrieve content. Then they can not only watermark the content but point to the exact user responsible, as long as the content has enough degrees of freedom to support it. Makes file sharing a lot harder if you can be held responsible after an indefinite period.
I third that
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Notably the screen capture terminal command, while neat, is sold as "more flexible". I think the author is unaware of Command+shift+4 followed by tapping the spacebar. It'll give you the window capture.

Otherwise good article.
Mailchimp offers Mandrill, which is a basic SMTP service.
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Seems like a shoe in for an editor with git as a backend, and cute, inline diff visualization. Seems not terribly difficult to get an MVP out?
tl;dr: Using Apache config files to configure IIS doesn't work.
That’s true, and it’s also true when Netflix buys a dedicated circuit to Comcast. Their traffic is no longer going over the other circuits.

Not saying it’s the right thing to do, but that it’s functionally the same.

It’s also functionally the same to say that any traffic not on the CDN is in a slow lane or being held ransom, in the sense that it will be congested until the publisher pays.
Agreed - for example a (canonical example) chat application (long lived connections, small amounts of data). But that's still not performance, that's then scalability? As in "how many active chat sessions could one server handle?".

The opposite canonical example being a static, small-file web server. Short connections. How many files can you serve per second?
Man, am I ever fascinated with the complexity Java devs have to put up with.

Maybe it's just been a long time since I had to deal with Java-land, but you need to know about so many different things just to get off the ground. Granted, this may be easier with newer frameworks, but still.
Yeah, as the UK is an island, we've pretty much only ever had to monitor some clearly defined locations to prevent arms from being distributed (borders, army bases, farms, legacy firearms, etc).

Now with 3D printing, they could be manufactured with ease anywhere within the country. It's a whole different situation for the police to be dealing with.

Mostly though, it's the massively reduced cost from a CNC mill to a 3D printer (that's why they're so exciting!). A £50k+ purchase for a mill and then the expertise/blueprints to program it is very prohibitive for the general population. Whereas the 3D printer for ~£1k with freely downloaded click-and-go plans from the internet? Almost anyone could scrape that together if they tried.

It's a tipping point situation that has really scary implications for any country that has gun control.
I was reminded of this NY Times article describing how someone cleverly gamed a gun buyback program by making and returning homemade $5 zip guns: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/the-very-brief-...
Very good point. But the main message I was trying to deliver is not about the bang for the buck, but rather the amount of issues/decisions WAWS tries to offload to the users instead of handling them intelligently on its side. It's not hard to send an email message, or automatically configure web.config knowing the predefined quota, but the impact on customer satisfaction could be huge.
I was actually referring to the [implied] part where the person installing it doesn't need to know anything other than how to plug everything in. You're not going to get a usable network out of this if it requires the people using it to know anything at all about their hardware, or if they have to get their own identifying numbers from ICANN.

It really needs to be something where they plug in a box and hot and cold running Internet comes out when they open the faucets. And if you thought disruptions were bad when some country "misconfigures" their BGP to route the entire Internet through their spy agency's offices for 15 minutes, wait until a thousand Joe Bagadonuts are doing it truly accidentally, all the time.
First of all, your attitude is off putting and condescending. You don't convince people by telling them "You guys are living in the past, look how I do things, you should do the same".

Please enough of that, especially coming from the Scala community. Let's act as professionals and judge tools on their merits instead of instigating flame wars.

Second, I'm doing both (web Java at work, web Scala on my spare time) and in my experience, there is really no clear winner. What's especially interesting is that I can find about the same number of positive things to say about the Scala tool stack (Scala/Typesafe platform/Akka/Play) as I can say negative things about each of them. Every time I'm happy about something in the Scala world, I find something I'm not happy with that counter balances it (tooling, slowness of template recompilation, unprovedness of the actor model, Play's arguable step backward in the v2 compared to v1, etc...).

Java is impossibly verbose and has a very limited type system compared to Scala but man... do I develop things quickly with it. There is close to zero friction to get from nothing to something workable, maintainable and fast. And the tooling is top notch, the environment and compilers are super stable, and Java 8 is numbing a lot of the pain I used to feel. In contrast, I feel that I'm often fighting against the Scala compiler whenever I write Scala code. It feels nice in the end to see how concise and neat the code looks compared to Java, but I'm never really convinced the pain was worth it.

So, back to your original point: I've tried (and continue to experiment with) all these "new" technologies that Scala is claiming to bring to the table, and so far, I'm unconvinced that they are a clear improvement over what we currently use in the Java world.

And given that Scala continues to be a marginal language on the JVM, I don't think I'm the only one doubting that Scala represents the future.
Introducing the Arduino At Heart module
Ours is Organization Validated - it's possible that they're still using SHA-1 intermediates for Domain Validated certificates.
In the vast, vaaaast majority of cases, "no".

Especially in apartment complexes, you'll have a single carrier lock down entire areas in a no-compete way.