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They could have a small pool of servers where they could move problematic sites until the customer has had a warning and a fair chance to react to it.
I wonder what he feels about Wikileaks?
This is just damage control, nothing else.

Bootuplabs have egg all over their faces and pretty much deserve to be ignored by any serious startup.

An apology doesn't go far enough, if half of what I read about this is true they should send those guys some money to cover the costs they made to move to Vancouver. The thing they're probably really sorry about is that it got as much play as it did, I don't think they expected a not-so-spectacular startup to get that kind of PR on being axed, more so than they probably would have gotten during a launch.
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I wholly agree with your points, however I wanted to stay away arguing the point that games like The Longest Journey (one of my favourites for epic stories) are art qualified solely because they're a video-novel not a video-game.

A game is a game, so I wanted to stay away from screwing with definitions and (I hope) I managed that. I don't consider certain things art, which others do. Music is one of my peeves, because it has so rarely emotionally touched me that it barely qualifies as art to me, but (and please do if you disagree) someone else will likely follow this right up disagreeing wholly that music is fundamentally art.

What if fundamentally boils down to is that mine, yours and Eberts opinions on art don't matter and never have. Ebert sadly will be forgotten months after he stops reviewing (for whatever reason), I'll likely be forgotten 5-minutes after this drops from the HN front page. You're right though that Mario in 30 years will likely still be remembered and played and felt as a great game, after all every gamer in threads like this are quoting games that are from two-decades to a few years old. The original Mario has already stood the test of time, so has the original Final Fantasy, yet I'll still pick up a copy and play once in a while just to get that feeling back. Just like I'll rewatch a movie or relook at a piece of art.
I'm a bit confused by this. Gizmodo's behaviour seems skanky, but only different by degree from Gruber, in this very post, confirming that the recent photos were of a late stage prototype, or in recent posts confirming tech specs.

People are throwing terms like "industrial espionage" around. Why is publishing such details of unreleased products from internal sources, as Gruber seems to take great delight in doing, not the same thing.

If one of his moles gets fed tagged information and the release gets traced back to him, resulting in a firing are we supposed to all gang up on Gruber too?
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What about "hate speech"? This is forbidden by the laws of the U.S.

The U.S is not an "everything goes" place where you can say what you want. The only difference is that some things are culturally inacceptible to say, and so are protected by the law, and some other things are not.

There is a lot of religous fervour behind these anti Islamic-culture movements, and a lot of it has little to do with free speech. A lot of it is mostly just religion.

That's what's so terrible about this - it comes across as a bigoted religous argument, and not as a defense for free speech. Look at the way people vote down anything mildly pro the other side and vote up comments that are just anti-islam. That's not about free speech, it's about intolerance for another religion.

I'm not asking for a law against showing the prophet on TV. I'm asking that this aspect of muslim culture be respected, just as words with slave origins are not used on TV.

All I want is that we all just respect each other and not mock each other.
Here's a link to a pdf and another pdf guide from FEMA since you probably won't have reliable internet access in a nuclear attack.

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It seems that much was true though, at least it was at the time. When you commit to funding 7 start-ups you have to have the full amount for that sitting in the bank. If you have only enough to fund four then the correct claim would be 'not enough money to cover all investments', which is only a small step from 'no money' since it depends on which startup you're looking at whether or not they have money.

If there had been only three start ups and 0 money then the situation as far as those three startups is concerned would be exactly the same.

It's not for them to look in to the bank accounts of their investors, but if you're not getting what is promised then 'you have no money' turned out to be a pretty good guess at the state of affairs. "Not enough money" would have been more accurate though.
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Rereading of their holy book is not going to change what's formed in them due to the culture which they have been exposed to their whole lives.

I agree with you that culture is hugely important in determining what a person considers to be justifiable killing. I don't agree that re-reading their holy scripture can not change their attitude. People have life-changing religious experiences all the time. One reformed murderer comes to mind who actually went on to write a large chunk of Christian scripture.
I actually switched my banking to HSBC just for the Xero integration. I'm surprised more services haven't picked up on the potential of HSBCnet (the technology behind the integration) - I can see it being incredibly useful for all the mint.com clones in the UK.
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I don't think anyone is trying to convert you to Islam, and whatever your thoughts on other religions, I believe that we should all show respect to the believes of other people.
I vaguely recall an article from a font developer with a bit of legal expertise complaining that using fonts on a website doesn't need a licence, because of some loophole or other in the wording of a specific law.

Does that ring any bells with anyone? I suspect it might be partly crap memory and partly wishful thinking...
Strawman. Nobody's saying HN/YC should be allowed to overuse resources (then again, I don't know the terms they had agreed to). But not giving a warning is crappy customer service, no matter how many other folks do likewise, how many years Pair has been doing other stuff well, or however else you want to spin it. In this case, it also happens to be a big sales screwup.
It is definitely easier to get traction quickly (especially if you target a growing market like France was when I started)
This has been ok for a year or so but in the last 6 months Facebook has introduced a lot of breaking changes (ie: removing the notifications, and stream.publish)
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Perhaps send her to flickr, my grandmother loves to look at photos, so she might get a voyeuristic kick out of it.

I've preordered one of these for my grandmother and have started considering getting one for myself.
I would consider doing this just because what I'm currently stuck with is an iPhone.
Not at all.

Bigger, more established companies generally have (much) lower P/E ratios that new companies (eg, Google had a P/E ratio of 118 at their float price, and had a lot of criticism for pricing too low. See http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2007/tc200...).

I'd be very interested in what you think a non-fanciful market cap number is - and how you arrive at it!

My point is that when they float, they will raise a lot of money. It might be $5 billion, it might be $20 billion, it might be $50 billion. In any case, they are going to be sitting on a big reserve of cash.

Your point was that they will be irrelevant in 5 years. My argument is that - ignoring other factors - any company in the tech sector sitting on a few billion dollars in cash is far from irrelevant.
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While it's true- this has been covered in the past, programming has a fair bit to do with clever math.
Can we please stop having posts on this topic? Its old news and seems to come up very often. I don't even know why people keep blogging about it... surely they realize that this neat thing they learned in math class or on wikipedia or on someone else's blog is not new?
I typically don't tell other people how to run their businesses, but if a similar issue brought my website down and I were to post about the causes, I might focus more on my failures in capacity planning, vendor selection, and monitoring rather than on my vendor's lackluster customer service. User-visible failures are, ultimately, process failures on my part, regardless of the surface cause. A nice side effect of this philosophy is that improvements to my processes help with all sorts of surface causes whereas if I were to address surface causes individually it would be like playing whack-a-mole. Bad vendor whack, hard drive failed whack, traffic spike whack, poor customer service whack, out of memory exception whack whack whack -- why is everyone conspiring to keep me from getting any work done.
This argument is all about what's good enough to be art.

If the first film ever made was boring, film was not yet art. If the second film was good, film suddenly became art. Including the first film?

Is a really really good film art, or must it be at least really really really really good?

There is no film everyone likes, so the only way to recognize a good film is by majority. Must it be filibuster-proof?

This debate makes no sense.
Ethics matter, i agree. Rule of law matters? I am really not sure, it needs to be considered case by case: Things change over time, new laws come in that make old things illegal. Do i have to accept them blindly or not is a personal decision.

Coming to the point, you did not mention what part of Gizmodo story you think is ethically wrong. Ethics matter, rule of law matters, try our best, learn from mistakes, etc. are kinda universal truths, everybody knows. Say something concrete to the point!
This was primarily a legal analysis. What laws are wikileaks breaking?
My point is not that Gizmodo did the right thing (far from it) but that Gruber is actively involved in hyping this thing up. I don't think its a mischaracterisation to say he implied it was stolen, it's right there in the text of the post.
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It is hard to answer this question, it really depends on the nature of your application and the mother tongue of your users.

Applications with english users tend to be much better paid than other languages.

But it is easier to be visible in a less crowded market like Indonesia, or the recently growing asian countries.

I remember that on my ads (targetting french users) I was getting an eCPM oscilating between $0.06 on a RPG game and $0.40 on a quizz application which is quite low in comparison to the english application standards.

It also depends on the ad network you use (some ad network performs better than others depending on your application).

There is no generic rule. You have to experiment all of them to see which one works better.

I was making 15000 euros per month with 50K users per day on a RPG game (as opposed to casual game) using various monetization strategy.

On a quizz application, with 1 million active users per day (20 millions page views) I reached $3000 a day without any direct partnership (simply by adding a basic ad from RockYou) with ads only
The legality of the initial invasion is an open question, without any clearly-defined and universally-accepted answer. Without an unambiguous resolution by the UNSC or ruling by the ICJ, a debate on that topic would fill many pages and might still be no closer to a definitive answer. I definitely don't think it's possible to state outright that it was either legal or illegal.

In any case it's not relevant to the question of whether the current status of US forces in Iraq is legal. That was determined by UNSCR 1483 in conjunction with UNSCR 1511 (sorry, I forgot to mention 1511 and 1790, chalk it up to imperfect memory and a lack of time to research all this again), with the latter resolution explicitly authorising the presence of the Multi-National Force in Iraq as a mandate under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. This mandate was renewed annually until 31 December 2008, when it was replaced by the US-Iraqi SOFA, a treaty between the two countries which established a new baseline legal framework under which US forces are legally permitted to remain in the country.

So there is no occupation in Iraq, let alone an illegal one. If you continue to believe that US forces are occupying Iraq illegally your conclusions and understanding of the situation are going to be flawed and useless. It goes without saying though that accepting the legal basis for the US presence there is not the same thing as condoning it. Though I feel I should point out that I'm not trying to create a justification for the war here, I'm just trying to clarify some of the facts around the conflict. That US troops are in Iraq legally is a fact, it has no morality of its own. It should be enough to disagree with the US's presence without having to wrongly claim that it's illegal.

But for what it's worth, it actually is possible to illegally break into a house and have the legal right to resist eviction, with a number of countries having so-called 'squatters' rights' legislation that protects the rights of people to remain on a property, though usually only for a defined period of time and under certain conditions, even if they occupied it unlawfully in the first place.

As for your last bit, it's an emotional argument which still has no bearing on the specific point you raised earlier. I happen to think Iraq is better off right now than it was either under Saddam's regime or at the height of the war, with their economy improving at an impressive rate, but I'm not sure the bloodshed they went through to get here was worth it.
> "What about "hate speech"? This is forbidden by the laws of the U.S."

I'm not an american citizen, my opinion is that hate laws shouldn't exist. And most certainly not any law protecting against blasphemy of any sort - glad we agree there.

> "There is a lot of religous fervour behind these anti Islamic-culture movements, and a lot of it has little to do with free speech. A lot of it is mostly just religion."

Oh I couldn't agree more, theres a lot of religious bigotry in this world.
I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion, why should matt and trey self-censorship? Are you afraid they might be interpreted as being religious bigots? What if they secretly are? It just doesn't matter.

> "Islamic-culture movements"

Again, not all muslims think portraying the prophet is a sin, as far as I know (which isn't that far, I'm no religious scholar) all Shia sects don't see it as so.

> "Look at the way people vote down anything mildly pro the other side and vote up comments that are just anti-islam."

I'm upvoting anything I see as a defense of freedom of speech, and maybe I'm upvoting comments that have been upvoted by bigots, I can't help if they are on the right side (in my opinion) for the wrong reasons, I won't stop making my argument just because people with horrible intent agree with it for the wrong reasons.

> "I'm asking that this aspect of muslim culture be respected, just as words with slave origins are not used on TV."

Actually they quite frequently are.
Maybe the frequent is there cause I mostly watch HBO.

> "All I want is that we all just respect each other and not mock each other."

I share that sentiment, I truly do.

But I'm not willing to compromise and capitulate my freedom of speech to respect other people's (in my opinion) nonsensical and fetishistic beliefs.

I won't do it for christians, jains, buddhists, jews, muslims. Thats equality - you earlier spoke of double standards, I strive not to have them :)

And if you really think this isn't an erosion of freedom you just aren't following this subject, there are people who are living under death threats for writing novels, and I'm not talking about the countries that have it inscribed under sharia law, I'm talking about western nations, look around the examples are plentiful - and this makes me want to do is show the prophet more, not less, not as a provocation but as a statement of freedom and civilization.

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How is that not implying it was stolen???

I thought a legal education was a pretty lengthy process - I stand corrected.
Thanks, I agree. It helps to have a set of fresh eyes - your comment made me rework the design so it's a bit cleaner. The revised version should be on the live site in a day or two.
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Why do we care what Ebert thinks?
I'm honestly not sure how shared hosting survives.

John Smith Plumbing's five page brochureware site doesn't need the headaches of having a VPS but also won't accomplish business needs on Flickr.
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The history repeats itself. Android is for ARM-based smartphones what Lunux was for intel-based commodity hardware.

Google is new Redhat, while Apple is new MS. =)

Now we're waiting for epidemic spread, fueled by new devices from several established vendors, like Motorola, Samsung, HTC, LG.

I'm personally can't wait for the Nexus Six. =)
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I understand you. But there is a slippery slope. Here is an example to support my argument. Koran says that you should leave off your business every Friday for the Jumu'ah prayer:

"O ye who believe! When the call is proclaimed to prayer on Friday, hasten earnestly to the Remembrance of Allah, and leave off business." (Koran 62:9)

A half an hour prayer on Fridays practiced by a small group of people would harm nobody, right? I live in Turkey and I can attest that local authorities in Turkey are happy to give their employees that freedom. Besides, what is the odds that an entire brigade of firefighters turns out to be devote Muslims? http://bit.ly/bbQWcB [Google translation of a Turkish news page].

Once you start stretching the laws to hand out privileges to a group of people, more privileges and more groups with different requests will follow.
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Please explain where spirit and ethics that are broken in your opinion.

AFAIK, Gizmodo's business is that: gather sources, inform interested people what it can. If we forget letter of law, this is how i see it:

(1) No where i see the proof that it was stolen.
(2) Gizmodo paid the guy some amount to get pictures, etc. and is actually willing to return it to Apple. I still don't see the problem if it gets returned to Apple.
(3) Gizmodo revealed the Apple employee's name to public, which is kinda crossing the line -- but given that a guy recently committed suicide for such a fault, i give Gizmodo a pass.
Such publicity is good for AAPL, even if that was an accident. =)
I was waiting for a long time for PG to release Arc. Learning languages is easy but become productive with the libraries can take a long time (I come from Java and defected because I just couldn't keep up with all the APIs). So I chose Python before Arc became available and the "batteries included" approach has suited me well. Speaking of which, anyone care to mention how many "batteries" Arc comes with? I believe the Clojure took off as fast as it did because it is built upon the wealth of Java APIs, ditto for IronPython.
I read somewhere (IMDB, probably) that the original Back to the Future script had the car running on Coke. Life imitates art...
My grandfather could never figure out how to use the mouse. Even after we did a hand-holding training, he just wasn't able to figure out how to do anything. He gets the iPad though -- it's just touch here, then touch there. There are no confusing menus and overlapping windows. He never "got" the concept of the windowing environment, windows hidden behind other windows were always really confusing for him.
I'm sure it's much easier to just open up Safari and type in the right URL...
Yes, PG himself (HN BDFL?). If you check out his articles you'll find an interesting bit of history on it. The biggest joke is that after ViaWeb was acquired the suits decided that "it had to be " re-written in C++.
As Danny says, Bootup Labs has a long road ahead of them to regain the community's trust. I'm willing to give them that chance.

At this point, I certainly couldn't recommend that a startup from outside of Vancouver move here to work with Bootup Labs, but for a startup in Vancouver -- treading carefully and making sure that money is in the bank and that legal agreements don't say anything evil -- I think Bootup Labs might still be an option.

And if Bootup Labs has a few years of success stories, well, that might just redeem them.
What if the doctor reading the scan is in another city/country? That's becoming increasingly more common.

Though on the AV front it doesn't make sense to have all of your organization's computers running critical software to update at the same time (no matter what software, it just happened to be the anti-virus this time).
Such a brilliant move it could be!

Time to fund chip-design startups? =)
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"We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh"

Statements like this do not demonstrate respect for the beliefs of other people - therefore those who subscribe to them do not engender respect.

Are some Muslims really so insecure that they think other peoples' ideas can shake their faith? Isn't that the point of having faith in something, that you believe in it regardless of what anyone else says or does?
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Wipe the drive, then destroy it.

After all, simply destroying a drive would allow you to magnetically scan the bits and pieces of the platters left over.
I'm curious, how useful to people think these kinds of puzzles are in hiring?
I think what the OP was trying to say is that there is only one reason that a a business can fail in the legal sense... If you can't pay your bills any more you have run out of liquid assets (which basically means running out of cash) and you are forced to shut down your business.

What you describe isn't a failed business but a business that has been given up on.
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Very much true.. Wikileaks was acting on a pure journalistic impulse
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Dunno if they are good for hiring, but some look fun to try for a little hobbying.
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