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Moving to Xen-based VPS with fast connection from dedicated server. Big deal.

For me it looks much better to rent a dedicated server and divide it into several KVMs and resell them. =)
I don’t know where you get the impression that Gruber thinks this is industrial espionage.
Taweed, your service looks fantastic, it must have taken a lot of development and refinement. It certainly looks polished from the youtube video.

I don't know your numbers but based on the fact that you are continually overhauling your pitch I am going to assume that you are struggling to gain traction, so with that in mind I'll do my best to give my opinion on why that is. Again no offense intended, service looks great!

I think you are struggling to develop a direct, refined super simple, super clear focused message to a specific niche customer.

For some reason I have you on my google buzz thing (we exchanged some emails a while ago) so I feel like I'm pretty up to date with your iterations. Your message has never been ridiculously simple and focused. You should pick a specific niche and go after it like a starving dog. Is it for micro startups? for freelancers? for families? for college group projects? for enterprise? for red-haired left-handed moms born in Idaho? Get specific, answer EVERY SINGLE ONE of that niche's questions and concerns, and then hit it out of the park.

I watched all 7 mins of your video, I've read all your copy (I agree that the grayed mockup is very non-user-friendly and thus a turn off) and I can't get excited about it because it's too vague of a proposition. I get that its private and its a communication platform, but customers less savvy than myself understand that there is an ocean's worth of online collaboration products. It's not a question of how great your product is (it does look pretty nice) its more a question of whether your target audience understands the benefits of your specific product and how you solve their specific problems. This is why it hurts to be vague, you end up trying to be all things to all people (whether you intend that or not) and you get brownie points with zero of them (because you don't specifically address any niche pain points other than privacy).

Get tiny - get narrow - get focused.

Seems like your competition is 37signals. They started by focusing on freelance web designers (because that's what they were). They focus on the tech-savy freelancer who needed to collaborate with his client - nothing more.

Oh yeah lastly, the whole philosophy page is extremely self-serving. No one cares about your company, they care about what your company can do for them. It's fine to talk about yourself just so long as it's in the context of how your helping ME. I think you meant well with what you wrote, but for us HN'ers it's blatantly obvious that you are talking about internet startup related things - your customers dont care! No one cares about your business model, they don't care about the legitimacy of freemium, they've never heard of 37signals, they-don't-care!

It's 4:30 am, I'm going crazy, best of luck to you my friend!

HTH!
which everybody is really interested to know anyway

Actually, after reading that article and seeing it confirmed that it's a real iPhone prototype, I felt a strong sense of disappointment. There won't be any surprises on this front at Apple's announcement, because of Gizmodo.

As unbearable as it might be, anticipating new Apple gadgets is quite fun. Gizmodo robbed us of the fun. It's a bit like someone shouting "the butler did it!" halfway through a movie. Sure, you wanna know who did it, but not that way.
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The majority of the opcodes is identical though, you should be able to infer the rest by inspecting the code, the 'unknown' opcodes and architecture details can usually be puzzled out like that.

Reverse engineering CPUs with unknown architectures like this has definitely been done before, and the fact that it has most of the major components identical with a documented set will only make that easier, after all, the changes should be relatively minor compared to the common parts.
A related side-note: my organization blocks access to Facebook, the iframe with his like button was also blocked by the filter.
meh, I don't imagine anyone could do that - the positioning of the platters is important and with a load of it munched you're screwed :)
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He makes a living blogging about Apple. The fact that someone got their hands on an iPhone prototype and sold it to Gizmodo is a major story for his audience. I wouldn't call him commenting on the ethics and legality of it "hyping this thing up" and I have a hard time seeing how it makes him an active participant in the story or in any way responsible for Gizmodo's actions.
Sounds like a good time to delete all of the data about me on FB which isn't necessary. I barely use the site so I really can't be bothered to try to keep up with the privacy settings du jour.
It is a bit of a roundabout way to get flash on the iphone :)
Re: Slicehost's help articles... Have you seen the Linode Library http://library.linode.com/ ?
Classified US military documents and videos are a whole lot more secret and illegal to publish than an iPhone prototype (and have a lot bigger consequences--there won't be any retaliation suicide bombings from HTC). I think it's illogical to call for Gizmodo to be prosecuted without also saying the same for Wikileaks.
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23acta

Every minute or two someone is discovering and tweeting about #ACTA. That's in the order of 1000 people a day. How many tweets does it take for all 18+M active twitter users to know about ACTA before it's too late?
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Calacanis has nothing to do with Engadget anymore. It's still not a great site, but don't visit because of him. He's busy filling the web with spam.
It seems Apple already holds some kind of ownership over ARM. From ARM Wikipedia page:

The Company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Inc and VLSI Technology
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People seem to forget that a big part of the controversy surrounding the cartoons in Denmark wasn't just that Mohammed was portrayed, but that he was portrayed as a terrorist and performing lewd acts.

Really?

Were these the cartoons portraying Muhammad as a terrorist and performing lewd acts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoo... ?

From the article:
This led to protests across the Muslim world, some of which escalated into violence with police firing on the crowds (resulting in a total of more than 100 deaths),[1] including setting fire to the Danish Embassies in Syria, Lebanon and Iran, storming European buildings, and desecrating the Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, French and German flags in Gaza City.

- Now, how fucking insane do people have to be, to have that kind of reaction to a fucking cartoon, even if it actually had been "lewd"?
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I think the distinction, from Gruber's point of view, is simply that Gruber is not violating any laws or contracts, while Gawker is.

Presumably, Gruber has never stolen any of Apple's property and is not under any contractual obligation to keep silent about Apple. His sources, on the other hand, are probably violating NDAs when they talk to him.

Perhaps under your system of morality, Gruber is at fault here: if he receives information from someone who he knows is violating an NDA, then he should immediately cover his ears, avoid publishing what he learned, and report the person to Apple's legal department. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think that's the position of US and California law. Under them, Gruber's sources are being naughty, while Gruber himself is not.
yellow-papers methods to keep the buzz up. Of course, effectiveness of such events cannot be compared to spreading rumors about ARM acquiring. =)
"I'd be very interested in what you think a non-fanciful market cap number is - and how you arrive at it!"

Market cap is defined as "a measurement of size of a business enterprise (corporation) equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a public company".

My point all along is that you are engaging in wild, unfounded speculation about a non-public company, using wholly inappropriate metrics.
Yesterday someone mentioned the Sling Blade Runner problem from their archives and I can't stop thinking about it.

* http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzle_archive.html?catid...

* http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/10/03/sling-blade-runn...

I'm in the middle of writing a web-based anagram server and there's some similarities in both these problems. You have a dictionary that you iterate through recursively to find a solution. For anagram, the solution is usually found with 3-5 recursions (100 word list, 3 recursions: 100^3 calculations - not a big deal for desktop software, too slow for web-app). For Sling Blade Runner, your goal is to keep increasing the depth of the recursion as much as possible so it's actually impossible to go through 100^200 calculations.

Does anyone have any idea if these problems could be better tackled by converting them to map-reduce problems? I'd like to play with Amazon's mapreduce service.

Edit: Neat. I came across: http://blog.xebia.com/2009/07/02/thinking-mapreduce-with-had...
NM, I probably overestimated the rate of tweets. More like a tweet every 5 minutes. Is there a service like twitterholic that tracks hashtag volume over time?
Edit: Thanks for question from @BradFraser. "Can you turn it off?" ... No, you can't turn it off, unless you log out whenever you leave FB. This also means that simply by looking at an "enabled" external page they know it. There is a new privacy option under "Privacy | Applications & Websites | Instant Personalization" that is enabled by default, you should turn it off so the site doesn't read your profile on visit. This can't stop Facebook however.

I'm curious about who the "them" is in this second sentence. According to Facebook's FAQ about this, no personal info is shared with sites using social plugins (http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17092).

Is the fear that Facebook will be collecting which third-party sites I visit?

But then again, a later FAQ question (http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17100) states that the third-party sites have full access to all of my non-public FB data.
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Including the belief that you should stab people who say things that you disagree with?
With that in mind, why buy ARM? Why not buy something new and really innovate.

We're at the point where there's only one platform that isn't doing multi-architecture development, and even Microsoft has Windows CE / Mobile running on ARM and x86.

With the way things are going, it's conceivable you could see mobiles running MIPS, Power, and half a dozen other technologies. Apple could lead the way if they bought up a couple smaller companies.
Sorry, I should have made that more clear. Facebook knows about it. To get the plug-in, the browser has to hit the Facebook servers so all the context has already been passed along. I will edit. Thanks.
Truth is, you challenges aren't uncommon.

I'm one of the folks working on undrln. We really liked what was going on with HN and wanted to replicate it for the design/marketing community. Our site has been online for just over a year now.

The tough part with social news sites like these for the creative sector, is that there are so many of them. As such, you're competing for attention with many other similar sites.

My suggestion is that you concentrate on building a small, engaged community, and avoid worrying about the technology too much.Fact is, HN isn't by any means the nicest site, but the discussion makes it a great site.
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Hm... two steppers geared down quite a bit, a hard drive head. Striping between platters really is a problem, but given enough time...

That would be an interesting challenge, now to find someone to pay for it.

I don't think it would be easy, but if the information is still on the platters you should be able to recover at least some of it.

Especially if it is email or other textual information it would not take a very large fragment to contain a large chunk of text.

On a single platter drive you'd have a better chance than on a multi-platter one, the synchronization tracks would help in figuring out what went were. It's a bit like puzzling together shredded documents.
They say statistics can be used to prove anything, so I'm not expecting this to change your mind, but poll after poll shows that the majority of people in the USA are Christians.

http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html
Thanks. The Facebook FAQ seems contradictory about this:

1) "Social plugins are engineered in such a way that no personal information is shared with websites using them."

2) "When you and your friends visit an instantly personalized site, the partner can use your public Facebook information, which includes your name, profile picture, gender, and connections. To access any non-public information, the website is required to ask for you or your friend's explicit permission."

This seems contradictory unless "personal information" is taken to mean "non-public information".

Or are "social plugins" and "instant personalization" not the same thing?
similarly I thought, maybe they can chop off SpringBoard from a freshly jailbroken iPhone OS and replace it with the VM and its GUI. That'd be a significant saving in coding process.
One obvious point is that HN is a peripheral part of YC's business, mostly aimed at recruiting, rather than something that's critical.
Thanks, but I was looking for something more social/interactive. Flickr seems passive, unless you take photos yourself.
HN has been pretty sluggish for a little while now. If you rewrote it in Rails you could it host it on Heroku and get back to not worrying about scaling!
Thank you nostrademons. Yours is the reply I was looking for.
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According to Gizmodo the phone was lost March 18. On March 29 Gruber publishes a short comment that casually includes some of the specs (A4-family CPU, 960x640 display, front-facing camera). Kinda makes me wonder if there was an authorized leak of the hardware specs in order to steal some thunder from any upcoming stories.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/29/wsj
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I'll be grouchy and say I'm put off keeping a lot of the Chrome extensions I install because they want to plant their brash ugly icons (that apparently can't be toggled or collapsed) on the main toolbar. Part of the reason I like Chrome is the airy and minimal appearance.
That's coming next for the exact reason you mentioned: intranet / self hosted apps / custom built apps.
that was exactly my feeling when I watched original iPhone keynote!

Free at Last, brother! :)
Are you looking to pre-generate the results or generate them dynamically? I think MapReduce will only be effective for the former.
Agreed. We think we're going to add 6 apps by default since there's 4 per row. Thanks Max, most of our goal was to test that hypothesis: is this confusing at first glance with no idea what to do? and is having default apps / better copy the way to fix it?
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I'm a Muslim and I've never read anywhere about killing someone who draws Muhammad (Peace be upon him). But drawing Muhammad(PBUH) is definitely considered as a disrespect. Moreover, it definitely upsets people(muslims in this case) so why just keep doing it? On the other hand, my own study of Quran is limited, however, I've yet to come across any study that says something about killing someone who draws Muhamamd (PBUH).
People shouldn't draw Muhammad because it hurts Muslims. Whereas, muslims should be silent in this case, imho. There is a story about Muhammad (PBUH) visiting Taif (city of Saudi Arabia) and people of Taif threw stones and tortured him(PBUH)and Allah sent a messenger asking Muhammad for the permission to crush people of Taif. And Muhammad said something along the lines of "No, I forgive them" (this isn't the exact story probably as I'm recalling from memory). My point is that, if Muhammad can forgive people insulting him then why cannot, being beloved followers, we be quite in this scenario. On the other hand, I guess non-muslims should be tolerant of our views and shouldn't do things that makes us sad (and same applies to us).
I'd rather be fired (quietly) than kept on but under the apprehension that I was only there for PR reasons.
My limited experience of older people and computers has been very positive. All the older members of my family (70s - 89) use computers for email, research, shopping etc. The eldest (90 in June) has been playing with computers for years and until very recently was having fun with programming languages and wrote quite a few simple python utilities. A couple of them use and are comfortable with cloud based tools like delicious. If I asked, I think they would probably give up TV before their PCs and laptops.
That means Apple was an initial investor, so it held stock in ARM. Somebody here posted that Apple sold its stock years ago, though.

Related question: is there actually public information on who are the major stockholders of a publically traded corporation? I'd love to see that.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283324
In Gruber's post he points to a law that clearly state that if the theft was done in the interest of justice, then it could be considering OK. I think wikileaks might be able to use this. They are doing it in the interest of the public in their mind which is completely different here. Gizmodo did it in the interest of making money and paid for a phone they knew had been stolen.

Also, wikileaks isn't hosted in the US and thus doesn't have to obey to American laws. They also did not steal those videos these are copies and in my IANAL opinion is completely different.
Gruber is not offended about the phone leak. Gizmodo's analysis of the phone hardware they obtained is legitimate, even though their methods in obtaining said hardware are shady-to-illegal.

What Gruber and a lot of other folks are upset about was the entirely unnecessary outing of the specific engineer who lost the prototype phone.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283670
The way I understand it, if you have the "instant personalization" feature On (and it is by default), when you visit an enabled site, they can request your personal/non-public information to give a better experience. If you turn that feature off, they can only access your public info ... Pages and whatever else you leave open. Again, all this stuff is public by default.

I'd like to hear some backup of this theory though.

The big winner here is Facebook. Comments, likes and all that stuff all make they way back to the Facebook mothership. The external websites may or may not get access to that info.
One of the chip-design startup exit strategies has long been "getting acquired by ARM", actually. Quite some acquisitions happened during my time at ARM (4 years).
To use a recent movie quote: "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."

ITA's business is all about dealing with fiendishly clever transforms on small-ish sets of data, and the results are needed Right Now. Most of the hiring puzzles revolve around that theme.

Much like any other company giving these kinds of problems, it's not about bringing out that cleverness every day, but it's about figuring out who has the ability to think in that way, along with the persistence to work on the problem until it's done.
you can hide them.

Before: http://i.imgur.com/MJdNw.png
After: http://i.imgur.com/5qMj4.png

Chrome Beta build but I have seen this on Chrome stable build too.
I see plenty of harm, mainly because most religions come as a package. There's weird harmless stuff such as hurt feelings about depicting Mohammed, particular dietary practices, fasting, graven idols. And the obvious answer for that is "If you want to believe weird shit, go ahead".

But that's the thin end of the wedge for lots of really insidious nasty behavior like oppressing women or other religons, flogging, FGM, MGM, honour killings, forced marriage, brainwashing, suicide bombers, stonings, stabbing people who criticise you (or stalking them and suing them into oblivion), beating up gay people.

You can't preach respect while that sort of nasty intolerant stuff is going on, and "It's our culture" doesn't hold any weight with me. Violence and oppression are violence and oppression, whether you have a religious excuse or not.
Q4 2010, seriously ? Seems more like a leak of vapor to me...
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It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently.

That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.)

That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-ups never happen there either.
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The US government, since the inception of this housing market slump, has tried all means to harness it. Buying mortgage securities, lowering interest rates, setting new standards and making policies. However, the outcomes are not so satisfying.The recent policy of reducing principal on mortgage loans is causing a bit of a chaos for banks. What do you say - how can the government tackle this issue?

Original Blog Link:
http://blog.mfgmortgagerates.com/?p=67
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I would suppose the diff is public domain while the original retains its protection.

Otherwise, every document produced by the US government derived from another document would put the original under public domain.
I can see big full page ads with some bearded guy and "C'est nes pas une Prophet Mohammed" underneath it...
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Professionalism is boring.
Except reactions to Gizmodo publishing the name and photo of an innocent employee, who they then proceed to mock. The only rationale for doing so is to deflect some of the heat that they were getting in classic dick fashion.

"Dude! We screwed up, but... look at this guy! Man he likes BEER!"

Thats professionalism right there.
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Ah - Thanks. In 5.0.342.9 on OSX it seems you can push them off the edge, but the >> drop-down isn't presented.