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A lot of folks on the legal/policy side of this debate believe that a regulator can distinguish between network administration that is monopolistic rent seeking and that which is value added services.

I'm very suspicious of this as an engineer. I suspect it is very hard to tell the difference. In a competitive environment, we can more easily discover the difference. I strongly prefer imposing competition at the last mile rather than the EFF's suggestion of Title 2 + forebearance...
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The cosmic rays remind me of the xkcd comic about "real programmers".

Link: http://xkcd.com/378/
Yeah it should be. But for whatever reasons nobody is actually doing it! Probably because the power/weight budget of an integrated processor is so compelling, even when it ends up turning the product into snake oil. Plus commercially, you still can't claim to be free of proprietary blobs, because who knows what an isolated processor is actually doing. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if designers were coaxed into trusting the baseband by the chipset vendors ultimately preserving the carrier/law enforcement status quo.

So my point is that we have the ability to assemble secure systems out of off-the-shelf components. It just takes software work to integrate and set up easy to use on-the-go telephony under bona fide GNU/Linux, and carrying around a bit more weight until critical mass is reached and the form factor can be made more convenient.
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Preserved it until next year anyway, when the next version of the "we like money and power" bill is introduced. The problem with fighting big corporations is that we only need to lose once, and they have a non-trivial amount of highly motivated people on payroll just to do the fighting.
There is for business use.

Easy to make your own burner phone with customized AOSP for temporary use while in China or CIS/Russia if worried about industrial espionage or legions of criminal blackhats hanging around hotel wireless APs. After going through the source removing stuff like debuggered and GPS binaries, and writing custom init scripts can drop in TextSecure, Redphone and many other open source apps, thegrugq's Darkmatter app, platform sign them and enforce with middleware install-time mac to prevent anything else not signed being installed and use dm-verity to check system.img on boot for tampering. Lot's of business travelers need something reasonably secure to bring that they just end up throwing away when they return. Boot a Mobiflauge patched kernel temporarily with fastboot and wipe/encrypt the device when you get back for safe disposal, then flash Paranoid Android or CyanogenMod to it and sell it on CL to get some of your money back.

There's also Nexus 7 devices that can be bought without a baseband to do this. Essential reading is the Android Hacker's Handbook by @pof. Of course using any phone for something illegal is a guaranteed way to get arrested no matter what has been done to it. The hardware will always be a bundle of proprietary blackboxes, likely with a law enforcement door to brick it, record meetings with the mic or track the owner.
SQLite is great for its mobile crossplatform availability. We recently used for a crossplatform app (with Xamarin) on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

However, we found the WP version of SQLite to be much much slower than SQLite on iOS and Android, where it is built-in. On WP, SQLite cost about 3 seconds extra on application start up. Eventually we replaced SQLite with custom json serialization to get the the same performance as iOS/Android.
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As a small time developer, none of these tools is in my budget, I have no budget. So this list is useless to me.

Ok sure, I wasn't your target audience, that's fine. but the title doesn't suggest "Tools for active/established companies who have money to burn and needs to fill"
>I pay more specifically to get as much power from wind/solar sources.

And you are able to do this because there is a grid network, which allows your alternative energy provider to enter the market simply by connecting themselves to it, instead of having to run cables to your house.
I agree with you (and fnordfnordfnord), but I was under the impression that this is a duplicate of a document already sent, in which case what was sent can't be retracted and edited. I certainly didn't mean to come across as critical of pointing out the typo.
Depends what I'm doing. Right now it's been networking & market research, which is basically impossible without e-mail, LinkedIn, and the web, so zero minutes. If I'm coding with technologies I know well and have downloaded all the frameworks, libraries, compilers, and reference manuals I need, I've been known to work productively without a net connection for up to a week or two.
The person you're responding to didn't say "it's a bad article" or that "it can be worked around". I'm guessing that the root comment was simply a reaction to the title. I bet they didn't even read the article. However, you must be aware that the majority of the technical user community hates DRM.

Regarding your points 1, 2 and 3... where does it stop? Should we always be enthusiastic about experimentation for the sake of experimentation? At what point would you say "that's stupid"?

For instance, what if the title was: How To Dump Toxins In Your Local Water Supply

Would you read the article and then come here and congratulate the author on their efforts? I bet most people would glance at the article and then come here and complain about too many toxins in the water and what a jerk the author is.
I have a different point of view, i see contractors producing shit code then leaving the building before it explodes. These are non-independent contractors (about 90% of the industry in my country work for big name contract companies) with very little incentive to produce quality or maintainable code. Whats better than creating technical debt and never having to pay for it? I have half a mind to turn contractor just to avoid taking over some contractors mess.
I don't understand what kind of answer you want. Quantum entanglement is a difficult topic. Let's try the same question with gravity:

Everyone talks about [gravity] and there are a lot of fun experiments that imply [gravity]'s existence. But what does really show that [gravity] should exists?

Edit: It's very difficult to discuss entaglement without a lot of math, but you can start reading the "concept" section of the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Concept
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Comedy is tough. Harder by far than software.
I can speak from experience on this, home made cache can be much better depending on your avg object sizes. Letting the OS make decisions usually in databases is the wrong choice. The data is cached at page level (4k), if you have many objects randomly spread across your working set it's not going to be as efficient as object caching. Usually the more control you desire the better for the performance of your database. One technique that is used if you want to just let the OS deal with cache/paging of data is you have a dedicated commit log that is written with fsync on every update or periodically depending on your durability requirements.

The OS usually does a pretty good job, but remember it's designed to be generic not for a specific use case. When you really care about performance of a database you tend to bypass what the OS does, and take control bypassing things like the scheduler, cache, etc.
Love it! Hope there will be live streaming. ;)
> Why do local ISP markets tend towards monopoly, even though it has been illegal since 1992 to grant local cable monopolies? Two words: universal access.

It's true that universal access is what causes networks in major cities to lack competition. But getting rid of it wouldn't solve the problem anywhere else, because there are still millions of people who live in areas that couldn't economically justify more than one ISP. The only way those areas can justify the investment is if the ISP can collect revenue from a majority of the customers (and/or not compete aggressively on price), meaning that a competitor entering the market would cause both ISPs to become unprofitable and so no rational investor will be the second to service that market. Those geographical areas are natural monopolies. There is very little realistic alternative to utility regulations in those markets, short of massive government subsidies to create market conditions that can sustain multiple competitors.

> There is no free lunch. You can have: neutrality, universal access, or a mostly privately-funded telecom infrastructure, but you only get to pick two. If you think universal access is important, and net neutrality is important, you have to be willing to publicly subsidize the construction of telecom infrastructure.

That isn't necessarily true. What it means is that without public investment, the subscription fees for internet service have to be sufficient to justify private investment. It isn't at all clear that they aren't already at that level. The lack of investment in many markets is at least in significant part attributable to the fact that neither competition nor regulation currently provides a large incentive to make infrastructure improvements. But there is no reason that in markets with insufficient competition, regulations could not be made to create that incentive, e.g. allowing ISPs to charge higher rates only if they provide higher speeds and then over time increasing the required speed for a given rate. And ironically the rates required to justify a given level of investment would be lower if we had less competition, because the cost to wire a street is in large part proportional to the number of miles of road rather than the number of subscribers, so Verizon and Comcast having to build parallel networks each with half the total number of subscribers causes each to be significantly less profitable and that much less likely to make future investments. "More competition" is not a panacea.

And more than that, why is public investment in infrastructure a controversial position? We have public roads, what's wrong with public last mile networks?
Choice and redundant infrastructure are different things.

If you have one wide, dumb pipe, and you paid an ISP to route your traffic from some other point on said local pipe into the backbone, you would have tons of ISP choices. The only reason more ISPs do not exist is because of the infrastructure costs.

And those won't change. You will never be in a climate where it is haphazard to rip up roads or peoples lawns or add more mess to the overhead lines to run fiber channel everywhere. In terms of cost, the fiber cable itself is not even expensive - it is the manual labor installing it all.

> we're still letting analog-era regulations govern our use of wireless spectrum.

It isn't ideology, it is the current incumbent owners of spectrum like having artificial superpowers over the future of communication.
It is worth noting that recent vestions of BerkeleyDB are released under AGPLv3. This has significant legal implications, especially since the copyright holder is Oracle.
Well typically when I don't eat my body gets angry at me and tells me I should. My body feels like ass and my head gets foggy such that I stop and intake some nutrients.

I don't think I can go 72 hours without food without crashing.
that's cool. you should have continued working on it :P
The parent post is about the typo of 'premier' as 'premiere', not about whether it's appropriate to state credentials before the intent of the letter.
>"our systems is less like a democracy and more like an oligarchy"

What if the problem is simply that very few voters care about the issue, and that even less would be willing to change their vote over this issue?
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There's a lot of room left! Can you get accuracy at 120 fps? Can you do that in an embedded system? Can you use temporal and contextual queues to build a self-supervised system? Can you handle stereo and depth? Can the system handle a wide variety of image sizes? Can it handle rotation? Can it handle obstruction?

There is so so much more to vision than ImageNet! Go visit your robotics lab and they'll give you a giant laundry list of things they need but don't have.
I never said anything about the "Russian model". I simply suggested that where government stays out of the way, you get cheaper and better services. The quality of our internet has nothing to do with our government or social model, but with how free market and free trade work. If you had free market in Telecom industry in the US, you would also enjoy the same quality and prices.
I find the pyramid diagram with the arrow elegant and compelling. Is this a widely known schema, or something the author devised?
I'm using AOL's Project Phoenix with an @wow.com email address. I've seen a good amount of obvious spam flow past my spam box, so that oughta tell you enough.
so why don't we fix the real issue and disallow municipalities to create monopolized last-mile infrastructure?
What do you mean by internal pipes? Do you mean file descriptors? Why is reducing the number of file descriptors a good thing? After all, the total amount of traffic stays the same.
Your ISP does not give a shit where your packets are going to or where packets directed towards you are coming from. That is the backbones problem, and most ISPs do not manage it at all. For an ISP, it is effectively electricity - the cost to route a packet is always constant, assuming they don't have meterage deals with different backbone routers depending on the destination. To them, they just care where the packet is going, to just send it in the right direction either way. And maybe billing for data usage is a valid business model, but the real world per unit costs of packets are magnitudes lower than the per unit costs of even electricity in traditional measures like kwh. IE, the modern "pricing schema" for data, where a gigabyte costs multiple dollars, is an insanely unrealistic measure - if you are not paying for the wires in the dirt.
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Why do you believe there is no such correlation in Sweden?
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Why does it make scaling and changing languages easier? How is using an HTTP reverse proxy/load balancer not just as easy, if not easier?
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> which is kinda weird

Firefox uses SQLite for a bunch of internal data and the bindings are accessible to extensions. So basically Firefox is a cross-OS platform that's guaranteed to be linked against SQLite, with public bindings.

It probably works better than many of the Java-based 'cross-platform' solutions to many problems...
YC is a big monied interest, it's just one which happens to dovetail with the views of most HN readers.
Wanting to get a product rich in Resistant Starch out there is part of our process motivation for MealSquares. We're presoaking our oat flour in an acidic medium and then asking customers to refrigerate their MealSquares in order to maximize the amount of RS formed by retrogradation.

Resistant starch is starch you can't digest but your gut bacteria can. It's been shown to have a variety of health benefits.
The Silent Circle phone app is end to end encryption, it's their other service that offers "Out-Circle Calling" which is encrypted to the PSTN. I don't understand the dedicated network PR either
It's supposed to be more fine grained than load balancers, and you should be able to scale up and down different parts of the same web app dynamically. That probably didn't come up well in the write-up.
Awesome! We can do 3D selfless now!
see 'House of Cards' for textbook examples of this in action
I said this in a comment a couple of months back on the subject, companies for net neutrality need to start lobbying. I understand Reddit, Y! Combinator and pretty much every company with a conscious who cares about the Internet all have good intentions and have more reasons than most to see fair laws/legislation based around the Internet. But the sad reality is the FCC is a mere Government agency and words are not enough.

Look at those who are against net neutrality, those who stand to gain the most from opposing it: ISP's. I can't recall where I saw it, but it was an infographic/table showing which companies/organisations have been spending lobbyist cash on getting their archaic and unfair legislation through via the FCC. It seems as though spending has increased over the years in the form of donations and propaganda.

If the likes of Google, Reddit and Y! Combinator want to see a fair Internet, they need to combine some cash into a pool and use it to lobby the right parts of the system. Sadly we live in a world where money talks and words are ignored. I have seen a lot of companies speaking out, but maybe it is time to consider changing tactics when a public statement from Google on the subject is basically ignored. Pull out those wallets and start spending guys, it's the only way.
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Amusingly, I've built industrial controllers using the 8052AH-BASIC chip, but it was pretty bare bones.
> The best thing for tech companies to do is to start destroying some political careers.

This could be pretty interesting. For example, maybe Google could mine the web (or Twitter their tweet data) for public information on politicians and start airing their dirty laundry. For example, if someone Googles a certain politician, it could show that information at the top of the search if the politician doesn't do what they want.
I have 2 years of a BA in Economics. I started teaching myself programming when I was 18, starting the summer before undergrad. I got an internship at a startup as a "Biz Dev/Marketing intern" and mostly produced content, but I did a lot of data-driven blog posts (like pricenomics posts), which allowed me to get into their codebase and database and sort of integrate myself at a very slow pace. I would 'fill in' for baby programming tasks like adding Google Analytics event tracking to a button. I kept creeping away from Marketing and towards Code and after 6 months I was 100% a "programming intern". At that point I was still a beginner but I definitely provided value to the team. After another 4 months my boss once said "If you want to work here full time, you can". 2 weeks later I was bored and annoyed in class so I dropped out and took him up on the offer.

After that, it's smooth sailing. Once you have just one job as a "software engineer" people don't pay much attention to the education part of your resume. At this point, your perceived quality is based pretty much entirely on past projects - this means both open source projects and your past employment history.

During interviews, employers will be hesitant to believe that you have strong fundamentals (which is usually true), and they may push a little more than a CS student. Even though employers readily admit that 'implement a sort function' isn't real life, they will ask you to do it because they just want to know that you have a grip on things like O Notation (this comes up pretty much every time) just so that you know how to actually 'think' about a program and give a thought to performance, as most self-taught programmers don't. I've only been rejected by one company that interviewed me, and during those coding interviews I admitted to having no idea what I was doing while writing a sort function (even though I did write a bubble sort) and had pretty much no knowledge of O Notation. They said they were 'looking for someone more senior' and they were right at the time. So basically, just know that even if you are a very pragmatic programmer who can build anything, you will still be tested on fundamentals and it is important.

I should mention that I got my first internship through HN's "Who's Hiring" thread. Those are the type of companies you should shoot for.
If you have this type of situation, Java EE was built for it. Distributed transactions across applications including messaging (JMS) is part of the spec. This is really the (possibly only) domain where you should consider using Java EE, it's what it excels at.
I'm currently looking and believe I came across this job posting.

I didn't bother applying because, as mentioned by others, I couldn't figure out what you're actually looking for. Are you looking for "qualified PHP talent" or are you looking for a junior-level developer?

Honestly, I read your job posting as "We want a PHP developer that takes orders well (working under the senior dev) but we don't want to pay for it (entry level with 4-5 years experience)."

Maybe I read it wrong but that's how it came across to me. If that's not the case, feel free to get in touch.
If it is voluntary it is not coercive. You can always not deal with your competition on unfair terms. In what circumstance could a 3rd party non-violent entity coerce you? The biggest one I can think of is "buying you out" but that is still either voluntary, in that the owners agree on the buyout, or it is a buyout of a publicly traded company, and I can't even get started on how non-free market the stock market is, but even then you elected to sell ownership in a public marketplace voluntarily and took that risk.
I read in an interview you can ask to see the source if you sign plenty of NDAs and are a large prospective customer. Cryptophone GSMK operates the same
I've been using Nucleon's Database Master which has support for SQLite and also MySQL, MongoDB and others:

http://www.nucleonsoftware.com/Products/Database-Master/Data...

It's not open source and it's Windows only, but there's a free edition that lets me do most things with SQLite and MongoDB.
The interesting market for this is for people who are going to act on the news. For instance, a business development person could waste hours a day reading news articles to look for potential customers.
FWIW, this is about 2,300 qps on average. Nothing to sneeze at, but the per-second scale removes the awe factor of "6 billion a month".
Are you sure that's a good thing? antirez seems to have a hard time reasoning correctly about distributed systems:

http://aphyr.com/posts/283-call-me-maybe-redis
http://aphyr.com/posts/307-call-me-maybe-redis-redux
You are right, what the report says is that 97% of people live in census tract where there are two broadband providers. What percent have access to the two is unknown, but absent any evidence to the contrary, and given the relatively small size of census tracts, it is reasonable to assume a majority have access to the providers in their tract. I'm open minded here, show me some data that shows a large group of people don't have access to at least 2 broadband ISPs.
I just had a read over the letter and the first 2-3 paragraphs talked about nothing other than what's in it for YC (and similar companies) that are worth "billions of dollars". I'll be honest - I cringed when the focal statement of the letter started "We need the FCC" - as opposed to perhaps what could have been expressed as "In order for the FCC to meet its objectives of XYZ, we are asking that they consider ABC".

One thing I've learned about trying to motivate someone else to do something - a la Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people" and Pink's "To Sell is Human" - is to shut up about yourself and focus on the other person/party. Remember, we're all human.
> Y! Combinator

This is the first time I've seen this misconception, and I have to admit it make me chuckle a bit.

"Y!" is a trademark of Yahoo, which has no connection to Y Combinator (which is spelled without any exclamation mark).
I'm sure this was a great response to a threat from Apple's legal machine.

That is actually a brilliant way for the dev to protest. The complete history is intact, so you just git revert and away you go. Thanks!