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14911.
by api 12y ago
This looks really awesome. I've been contemplating a KickStarter project for a Linux networking device for a while, and this may well make it possible at an attractive per-device price point. Everything else was either too pricey or no
14912.
by api 12y ago
One thing I'm getting from this particular thread is that I need to focus more on use cases and concretes and less on technology, at least in my initial splash page. For some reason these two responses kind of crystalized that for me..
14913.
by api 12y ago
This fits into the category of advice that's "so simple I'd have never thought of it." Maybe I need to prominently list some use cases. Thanks. :)
14914.
by api 12y ago
Some other info: 500-600 users online at any given time, about 1000 total global users. User base is highly global, with lots in China, etc. There's a lot of people using this to collaborate globally. Paying customers are all consult
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Ask HN: Critique my startup: ZeroTier One
7 points by api 12y ago|12 comments
14916.
by api 12y ago
Internet: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, crowd-anything that challenges traditional top-down and institutional choke points. Energy: General Fusion, Helion, and other alternative fusion startups exploring other idea... I feel that the tokamak
14917.
by api 12y ago
Command-line n-dimensional plot tool-- it works, but haven't touched it in ages: http://adam.ierymenko.name/flatland.shtml https://github.com/adamierymenko/flatland An evolvable code artificial li
14918.
by api 12y ago
Yeah, this sort of "takeover of a field" infuriates a lot of people. I know Wolfram got a ton of flak for implying in A New Kind of Science that he basically invented the study of CAs. He didn't. Like I said: what Taleb is ta
14919.
by api 12y ago
Coining a neologism is an act of linguistic imperialism that helps to link your identity and body of work -- as originator of the neologism -- to a field. It's worse in some scientific fields than others. I spent a lot of time studying
14920.
by api 12y ago
I too have had this impression. For a long time I've been very curious about how this kind of king-making occurs and what the underlying political machinery looks like. I don't buy that it's random or organic. Being a middle
14921.
by api 12y ago
There's work in the area of genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation that might be applicable: http://www.kgi.edu/Documents/IEEE.pdf
14922.
by api 12y ago
I don't disagree. GMail conquered the world by investing a lot in overcoming the spam problem.
14923.
by api 12y ago
Honestly I think the OP's title should really be "use something other than Chrome." The fear here is that Chrome (and Google) are approaching critical mass that would allow platform lock in. I personally think that Gmail is t
14924.
by api 12y ago
Good counterpoint. I work on open source too. I'm just questioning the god of free lately.
14925.
by api 12y ago
Radio never had the ability. It's not bidirectional by nature.
14926.
by api 12y ago
Interesting idea. Micropayments have been a perennial failure, but I wonder if anyone would actually use this? I might if your "Netflix for web sites" was full of really high quality content that wasn't reachable elsewhere,
14927.
by api 12y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I've come to this conclusion: Free (as in beer) is the enemy of free (as in freedom). It's the enemy of privacy, security, and human dignity as well. In the beginning there was
14928.
by api 12y ago
Like many benchmarks, results may not match performance on real-world work loads.
14929.
by api 12y ago
I would like to see a lot more projects along this line of thinking.
14930.
by api 12y ago
If such an infrastructure did exist, do you think people would use it?
14931.
by api 12y ago
Linux, BSD, and most home routers are full cone. Apparently my cellular tethering feature is also full cone. Most importantly, every carrier-grade NAT I've seen (used on cellular nets and by some ISPs) is full cone. It's actually
14932.
by api 12y ago
Side note... Funny thing about white supremacy. If you go on raw IQ statistics alone, then whites are certainly not the master race. That title would belong to Asians and Ashkenazi Jews. But then again I'm a skeptic of IQ = everything.
14933.
by api 12y ago
It's very weird that the BitTorrent docs say that, since I have seen different in practice, both Transmission and uTorrent support uTP, a tcp-like udp protocol that can traverse NAT. There is something like a standard. Few products use
14934.
by api 12y ago
That's a different thing in that it's hyper local, basically people next to you. Cool but different.
14935.
by api 12y ago
Most of this is incorrect. Look into hole punching as a starting point. BitTorrent, SIP VoIP phones, desktop Skype, etc. all do this. It's sort of a hack that became a semi de facto standard, but so is NAT. There are some percentage wh
14936.
by api 12y ago
Those are all very good points. I'm pretty much certain that standard issue p2p approaches will not work on mobile without a rethink, but I do think its possible. SnapChat may not be the best example, since it's a very ephemeral q
14937.
by api 12y ago
Check the thread and see my other reply.
14938.
by api 12y ago
I'm considering doing just that. I already have most of it done in fact... It's the engine behind this: https://www.zerotier.com/ It does most of the things I listed. The remainder would be a matter of proper pack
14939.
by api 12y ago
Things are monetized through the service , not necessarily the server. Having everything have to go through a server all the time just adds cost. That makes me doubt that need to monetize is a fundamental reason for p2p being rare... but I
14940.
by api 12y ago
Hmm... so... (1) Developer ease of use... must be almost as easy as simply opening a 'dang socket. (2) Must be able to fall back on non-p2p easily and transparently if p2p is not possible for a given customer. (3) Must be able to s

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