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You have to give the guy credit. Arrested, he escapes into the ceiling tiles, steals a uniform, and walks out the front door. Arrested by a frackin SWAT team, he steals the squad car he's placed in and makes a run for it? Hats off, ladies and gentlemen; we have a winner.
I looked this up. Shaq's net worth is $130 million. The Cavs owner, Dan Gilbert is worth about $1 Billion.
Something similar happened to me. I'm a happy Vim user and have been for years, but I've always used bash in emacs mode.

However, some months ago I started to work in an environment full of Solaris 8 machines with ksh as their default shell in vi mode for some reason. It's configured that way for every machine and we have to constantly log in and out of them to do our jobs, and it's always been that way so I simply didn't ask for it to change. After all I was also the new guy.

After a few weeks I got so tired of trying to use emacs commands in vi mode shells while at work, and vi commands while in emacs mode at home that I changed to vi mode at home. And I've been happy since then. It's not that hard. You get used to it quickly, especially if you use vi or Vim a lot like I do.
I'm still using Photoshop 4 that I got in 1996 or so. There are layers, but only one undo. I don't use it enough to justify the upgrade, but I have done a lot of everything in this video from time to time and it is extremely time consuming. This is quite an advancement. I usually give Adobe a lot of crap, but this is really very nice.

But I wonder... are tools like this to manipulate reality making really less and less interesting. Are losing our love of reality because of the dreams we can so easily create?
Months back I registered a .cn domain using godaddy. 2 days later Godaddy sent me an email with a refund apologizing that they were unable to register. I imagine that they were growing weary of that.
The key takeaway from the article for me was not only that China is requiring enhanced registrant tracking for new domains going forward but also for previously registered domains. Not only is this a privacy issue but it is also an administrative nightmare for GoDaddy.

So how will China manage this? Match a list of .cn domains registered via GoDaddy? I can only imagine the rats nest of DENY statements all over their infrastructure. The next step is for China to impose these rules as a prerequisite for registries when they renew their contracts to dole out .cn domains.

Question on a tangential thread, would anybody here even use a DNS server based in China? Hardcode opendns.com DNS addresses (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220) ftw. Can you even get port 53 outbound to a non China controlled DNS server from within China?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm very happy to see companies take a stand against China and their policies.
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How can we avoid fooling ourselves and correct our errors?

is a constructive question that leads to things like the scientific method, and to the use of criticism in discussions.
That seems pretty specific to academia, though.
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While it may help with squatting and spam domains, I don't think it is anything more than a way for the government to censor content by attempting to identify exactly who is behind each domain in country.

What I don't understand is this retroactive, meaning domains previously registered will be required to provide such information. In some ways though I do think it is a well intentioned idea with requiring some higher level of verification to register a domain name. Assuming that is all it is...
1. they already have quite a few products at 37signals

2. he addressed that - at least this idea works for them right now and had for past 10 years

3. starting from scratch now will not yield answer to whether new idea was better in next 10 years
some of the section on IO is included in free preview, and looked interesting.

I find it funny that most of the languages had some feature or the like to recommend them and why they are worth learning (Haskell = type system and functional purity, Clojure = a Lisp, Io for prototyping, Erlang for concurrency/actors, etc) but Scala is just "this is a hot new language". Especially since some things got knocked out for not offering anything you could not get in the other offered languages.
Yes, exactly - thanks!
You seem to suspect that poor people are lazy to the point of being irrational. I disagree. If there were sufficient rewards for them to work-- a way out of poverty would be a huge reward-- then they would. However, there is no such work available to them. Otherwise, they'd be likely to take it.
"Running a tech startup and running Berkshire are completely different,"

Exactly, it's rather silly to expect a tech entrepreneur to follow the same career path as Warren Buffett.
Perhaps they like to live in Florida, or already did live in Florida when deciding where to put the data center?

At least one person connected to Wikipedia lives in Florida:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
There's room for more than one investment strategy; there's not a "correct" one. YCombinator invests in the top 1% of developers regardless of ideas. I can see how it might be smart to invest instead in the top 10% of developers with the biggest ideas.

Unfortunately the data on this kind of thing is rather small. The only way to be sure which is better is to run two funds side by side with different strategies.

edit: It should be remembered that Viaweb had not only great developers (the functional stuff in Viaweb is cool!) but also a pretty big idea. Viaweb is really a bad example for "ideas don't matter".
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New Update: "To those worrying about us--we're fine, and will issue a suitable riposte shortly."

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/10993931099
AFAIK GoDaddy is just a reseller for CNNIC for .cn domains; that contract can be renegotiated.
Comparing a tweet to a more verbose instruction is hardly fair.
Where is the public outrage over this?
When a government cannot pass a bill due to overwhelming public opposition, using an alternate means such as a treaty like this is policy laundering. It's disgusting and I can't wait to see ACTA covered on the Nightly News. This genuinely frightens me.
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Godaddy should just go ahead and pull out of america too.
I just learned a bit of it for a class in programming languages(paradigms, assembly(simple), prolog, haskell, perl) prolog is a bit of a pain to work with if the problem is mildly imperative in nature. It is very useful if the problem is or can be written in a declarative fashion. That's just my take on it from learning a bit of it for a class though. I am sure if you are a veteran at it you will be able to make it bend to might.
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I think the techstars app has fewer questions concerning the founders And it seemed to lean more towards the idea.
I guess he's talking about post title prefixes.
"The fact that the Chinese government thinks this type of policy is a good idea makes me wonder if they know something I don't."

There were lots of very intelligent serial killers.

I also seem to remember a smart woman that worked for NASA that drove many miles to get back at an old boyfriend. She wore a diaper so she wouldn't have to make a bathroom stop.

The point I'm trying to make is that intelligent people many times make terrible decisions.
Is there an analog for \e on the postgres console? That makes more sense to me than using vi editing all the time
Whatever you think of their commercials, you can take the facts at face value.

In December, China began to enforce a new policy that required any registrant of a new .cn domain name to provide a color head shot and other business identification, including a Chinese business registration number and physical signed registration forms. ...

"We were immediately concerned about the motives behind the increased level of registrant verification being required," Christine N. Jones, general counsel of the Go Daddy Group Inc., plans to tell lawmakers Wednesday afternoon, according to a copy of her written testimony to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. "The intent of the procedures appeared, to us, to be based on a desire by the Chinese authorities to exercise increased control over the subject matter of domain name registrations by Chinese nationals."
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How about being "Baptized into Totalitarianism?"
Except we never closed Gitmo, and even if we did, the public outcry is associated with that base's name alone. If the military were to rename and move it a couple miles over, the public perception wouldn't ever reach Gitmo levels at least as long as Obama is in office.
I don't know - I guess if you want to sell, sell, if you don't want to sell, don't sell? Why does it even concern other people?
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The appliance itself doesn't seem that important. The big thing I take from the article is law enforcement needs to: "persuade one of the Certificate Authorities — using money, blackmail or legal process — to issue a fake certificate for the targeted website." If you can get a forged certificate from a trusted cert provider, then there is a bunch of ways to do this. The box is just a convenience.
If you care about censorship, you are not licensed to ignore censorship in the US just because both are gray. If you care about humanitarian abuses, you are not licensed to ignore them in the US just because China may commit worse ones.

You are however "licensed" to focus more on China, on the grounds that their abuses are orders of magnitude worse.
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> In some ways though I do think it is a well intentioned idea

Yeah, well ... the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

They already have enough to identify you, unless you've given a false name / address. In which case they would only have to track the financial transaction ... and impose a rule that domains with untraceable owners should instantly be terminated (and I think this already applies to all tlds).

What in the world do they need a picture for?

I guess it's for fast reaction times, to identify more efficiently when they send the police at your door.
Or for increased levels of paranoia amongst the population, keeping you honest and all that.
I'm not talking about an idea that can fall under the 37signals brand. I'm talking about an idea completely out of left field. For example, what if he suddenly was enlightened with how he could solve world hunger? Or a completely new form of alternative energy that could be easily and quickly distributed?

You wouldn't exactly have a 37 signals homepage that showcases Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, and now introducing World Feed, the solution to World Hunger!
"...any registrant of a new .cn domain name to provide a color head shot and other business identification, including a Chinese business registration number and physical signed registration forms."

Question: Can't ICANN postulate what can and cannot be relevant information that is gathered?
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It seems high but they are not hosting this information on an easily rented server. First they have to anonymize the data but keep it as authentic as possible. Second (and this is directly from one of the operators of WikiLeaks) they have to host it in a way that it crosses at least 3 jurisdictions from them to you.

They were operating this out of their own pockets. Donations were scarce when they just asked (for years for it) but were still online. When they took away the information and asking for donations they went way up. I did not like this to but he explained it, and it made sense to me.

The one person I personally know from WikiLeaks has been online 20 minutes ago. So at least he seems to be fine.
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I do watch many of the videos yes. They are well done. He asks good questions and he's not like a typical journalist, because he asks questions he shouldn't. Sometimes he puts the interviewee on the spot and I like how he helps them feel comfortable sharing things they otherwise wouldn't. That part of it is great, because it helps entrepreneurs understand that the reality of business isn't pretty PR releases.

Packaging is important. It can be just as important to focus on the failures, but we don't see that a lot. People don't want to talk about their failures. It's hard to find the failures though, they aren't as famous. We can really learn a lot from failures though.

I believe it may be precisely because we don't see many failures that we keep failing. It's very difficult to understand why a company succeeded. We aren't told about the neighbor who had $1 M to invest or the happenstance that led to a great sale.

It's easier to identify reasons we fail and help us avoid them. Oddly, most failures we read about are due to the environment created by vc. Expectations, short runways, business/techie conflict, yet we continue to be led to believe that vc is a good thing for entrepreneurs. If you run the numbers, the first decision you should make as first time entrepreneur is to avoid VC.

Bootstrap the first one and get VC for the second one. Or, as some suggested to me in the past, get VC for an easy idea you don't really care about. Sell the investors that idea, keep the good one for yourself, then use the money to fuel what you're really passionate about.
>Do they really expect to be able to keep a lid on political speech within their country long-term?

No, but they expect to be able to do it in the short term. I think at this point they are just hoping to delay a more open internet for five or seven years -- much beyond that begins to seem laughable.

I suspect the leaders of China understand better than we do just how tenuous their control is, and I think their fear of free political speech is legitimate. A protest in Tiananmen Square once almost brought down the government, and I don't think the CCP could withstand another protest of that magnitude, though of course less-lethal crowd dispersal technology has come a long way.
I live in a reality where I can read public U.S. documents.

Here's one where Apple requests to keep it a criminal act to unlock an iPhone:
"Apple Inc. submits this responsive comment in opposition to proposed Class #1 contained in
proposed exemptions labeled 5A and 11A3 submitted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation"

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2008/responses/apple-inc-31.pd...

To date, it is legal for an "individual" to unlock their phone (an iPhone's additional behavior, not so certain) but it is still a criminal act to provide services or create tools to assist such acts. The fact that the government isn't currently prosecuting does not make the threat any more real. The threat keeps the unlocking market from being legitimate and pervasive. The current Copyright Office exemption only applies to a narrow range of activity leaving wholesale unlocking a gray/black market.

This link has a solid catalog of the current state of the Copyright Office's DMCA position:
http://www.eff.org/cases/2009-dmca-rulemaking

You can see the most recent EFF request is September, 2009. It seems pretty clear the status of jailbreaking is still up in the air.

It took me one Google search to find dozens of quality sources of information on this topic. Next time, please do your own search before publicly accusing someone of being disconnected from reality.
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Sounds interesting! I wonder what it's about?
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Interesting article, and things we should be thinking about.

I think he derails, though, when he loses track of what governments are forcing us to filter versus what Google (or whomever) decides that they don't want to deal with.
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Hi, Joel. I've learned a lot from your stuff.

I guess I'm just frustrated that the current structure of web has created all sorts of malincentives around the exchange of knowledge. Trollish content attracts more attention, so well-meaning creators of worthwhile content are incentivized to wrap legitimate ideas in trollish presentation in order to reach a larger audience.

I wish this weren't the case. I hope it changes in the future.
Amen!

I am glad to see people on this thread who can differentiate between the morality of what he did and the actual skill, balls, and sheer luck this guy had.

While I do not condone or advocate stealing from banks or anyone, well, the damn banks do not seem to have a problem with stealing from clients . . . where I live, the banks charge the local currency equivalent of FIVE US DOLLARS per deposit, even small deposits . . . I had to order a couple of PC parts a few weeks ago, and experienced it for myself . . . stood in line for 30 minutes (out of 8 teller windows, only 4 were manned, and this is in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday) and paid that much to deposit the local currency equivalent of 15 US . . . this is in a country where minimum wage is like $2 US per hour folks . . . someone has to be a straight sheep to criticize a person who steals from banks while not saying the same about the banks themselves . . .
People often cite the cynical business reasons why Google pulled out of China, but this article makes me wonder why no one ever cites the reasons why China began to ramp up the pressure on Google these past two years. Baidu has come to its own (at least in the Chinese market), and maybe they don't feel they need Google anymore.
> " In particular, you had information available while you were obese. You didn't stop being obese until you chose to act on the available information."

I didn't have the information. The fact that nutritional education is practically free in Canada is not a well-publicized fact (most Canadians, even obese ones, are probably unaware). This is akin to claiming that some obscure website has some important factoid, meaning it is "available" to everyone. Technically true, but it doesn't mean people will even be aware that this information is available to them.

Which is why I suggested making it mandatory in primary education - even subsidizing and making such services free means precious little if people aren't aware of the existence of such programs, or how powerful this information is.

The works of Shakespeare are available freely just about anywhere you care to look, but we still roll this into our education system because, frankly, people will probably not go out of their way to learn it otherwise. For the greater benefit of society, critical information that everyone should know should be in the educational curriculum.
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"YCombinator invests in the top 1% of developers regardless of ideas"

Interesting stat, which is obviously an opinion.

Here's a strongly held opinion of mine: top 1% developers != top 1% of business people.
> If NYTimes, News Corp, Knight-Ridder, and Conde Nast got together and decided the ad space in their properties would cost $X

Those folks have been selling ads for some time. What evidence do you have that they're doing it (significantly) wrong?

Note that all of those publications are losing off-line subscribers like crazy and the on-line numbers aren't growing as fast.

Are there anti-trust implications in your proposal?
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I thought that too. It's one thing to think about death and another to face it. But I have faced it. 4 times I've almost died: Once I was saved from drowning, I was in two car crashes, and the last time was due to an illness. Everything went blue. My vision shrank to a pin hole and right before I passed out and collapsed, this feeling of peace came over me. I remember thinking, "This is what it is like? This is dying? It's not so bad."

Since then, I've spent more time thinking about life and death and it is through that reflection that I feel fear. I try to imagine not existing. It's hard and I come to some place of blackness which is much more terrifying than that last time I almost died, but in all fairness to soldiers, there were no bullets flying by me, bombs exploding, or adrenaline in my veins.
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The article's rather nebulous on how the thing actually works; it almost sounds like an emf burst that detonates the incoming warhead early.

Either way, visions of nanotech-supercap-coated clothing are dancing in my head; I'll need to go give my kinetic barriers a workout in Mass Effect 2 to simmer down.
Well, "hammered" meaning he asked probably 5 or 6 variations of "Would you ever sell?", "What if someone offered you 10x revenue, would you sell?", "What would it take to get you to sell?", etc, even after dhh gave the same answer every time.
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It's hard to be original in a planet with 6 billion people; this is done quite often in Brazilian Portuguese. Since when, I know not.
Which is pretty much what's happening, except it's moving to the other side of the world.

And we're just killing people rather than bringing them in.

So, there's your Gitmo solution.
Wow, that's been my biggest trouble with vi mode for years, and I've been using Zsh for a long time and didn't know it could do that. I would be eternally grateful if you could post the solution here...
Why is it that you believe the CCP's decisions are terrible?

At the meta level, China has outpaced everyone in the past twenty years in regards to growth and development.

Among the senior CCP leaders, I imagine most if not all, acknowledge that an open, capitalistic democracy is inevitable. Their job is to grow the country to the point where the transition to said democracy is peaceful and smooth.

No China analyst worth his salt will argue that China is ready for this transition today....
Maybe. But TechStars has been defined by their focus on community building which would suggest otherwise. Smart founders usually have smart ideas so it's easy to overplay the distinction. It might be more insightful if you could look at how many companies radically changed their idea during the program.
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