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eh, you are just used to commodity markets (which really, I think, is where free-market capitalism outdistances everything else so sharply)

In a commodity market, nobody can charge much more than the cost of production or else you get competition undercutting you. Of course, nearly everyone puts a whole lot of effort into convincing customers they are not in a commodity market.

Personally, I'm also much more comfortable in commodity markets as well... and in my space, because everyone else is trying so hard not to be a commodity, this isn't as hard as you'd think.

But yeah, lots of people are offended when you charge more than a reasonable margin over the cost of production, as you would if it were a commodity. But you know what? nearly all software companies don't want those people as customers, simply because if you apply the commodity model of capitalism to software, you get open-source software.

the thing is, companies like 37 signals, I don't think, care that they offend people who expect to pay commodity prices. Most businesses want customers who are willing to pay a premium for a premium product.

Now, if I were to run a workshop, I'd be very concerned, because my customers are people who want to pay commodity prices; people who would be offended by large profit margins.

Some people say those are bad customers to have; I mean, if I can't stay ahead of the crowd price wise, I'll sink pretty fast. On the other hand, serving this market is much easier (well, for me, anyhow) than serving the 'premium' market. It's a market I understand, though, and one that is under served.
The reality is that each minute the phishing site remains up, another account may get its information stolen. Imagine if you are the person that had your bank account information stolen and drained during the "grace period" for the company to respond to the takedown notice.

This is the kind of thing where a customer who gets their information stolen while Rackspace is waiting for the grace period to expire might have a legal cause of action against Rackspace.

Ultimately, I think Rackspace did exactly the right thing here. If you are operating a service that would potentially allow fishing, then you are bearing the risk of policing your users. Asking Rackspace and affected users to give you a grace period is asking them to bear the risk instead. I 100% agree with the decision to immediately shut the site down.
Irony: the uxmovement.com site includes "(Required)" in its form field labels.

(Ok, ok, they're Wordpress defaults. Still seems slightly hypocritical to go ragging on everyone else while doing it themselves.)
If you click on the edited date on Stack Exchange sites you can see the revision history. That one shows that Qiaochu Yuan changed the tag from "geometry" to "topology".
What is missing from this article (and comments so far) is a more comprehensive analysis of available options.

If I lease a server from linode or AWS or theplanet or serverbeach or ${your favorite hosting provider}, would the situation be any different? I understand the article's author frustration with Rackspace, but it's a single data point hence hardly enough to be a basis for an intelligent choice of hosting provider.

I'm not even sure if I sympathise with him. You can argue whether 1 hour notice before disabling a server is enough or not but there is an obvious conflict of interest.

The interest of the person hosting server, who can potentially be a phisher himself, is for the site to stay up as long as possible.

The interest of the public is served by terminating the server as quickly as possible.
my question here is, why would you be thinking about vc's at this point? Start small, look around familiar territory (family, friends, and fools...lol) for raising a small Angel round and also potential biz partnership.
Many articles here by Android fans say iPhone's Gmail experience is better than Android's. If you want real time push, you just need to switch it on.

For Google Voice, try an HTML 5 app:

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Sony's scheming a streaming music and video subscription service, too?
html 5 is not a replacement for flash, not even close.
Do you think that it is reasonable if someone creates a phishing website on heroku, and all servers on heroku got shut down by amazon in an hour?
This is probably a bad thing to post on a thread about visualizing inverting a surface, but since I've been making my clothes for over 2 decades, I had to check this out. So I took off my trousers and pinned the cuffs together along the circumference (it just so happens that I'm making a new winter coat, so I had pins handy), matching the seams to each other. I grabbed the cuffs and pulled one leg up through the other. The result is that the pinned cuffs sit right at the crotch seam -- there is no way to completely invert the trousers any more than this, and I don't think it would be possible even if the pants had a higher lycra content, as there is no way to get the cuffs THROUGH the crotch to complete the inversion. However, if I grab the pinned cuffs through the waist band and flick the trousers away from me, they turn right side out with a lot less effort than it takes to turn them inside out.

Also, all of the cash fell out of my pockets.
moot can't really build much on the platform he adopted from 2chan. He's probably going to innovate in the web community / imageboard space with his new startup Canvas.
This point needs to be emphasized more. All these articles just deal with video and then come to the conclusion that HTML5 is better than Flash because the video playback is smoother. What no one seems to mention is the much more complex applications that are built in Flash.

There is basically no existing tooling to build complex things in HTML5. A designer I know is working on a massive graphical timeline. It has tons of different layers and all sorts of user interaction points. It's a pretty big undertaking with the tooling that Adobe provides for working with Flash. It would take an order of magnitude more effort to do the same project with HTML5 and there would probably need to be someone involved with significant programming knowledge.

Someday maybe the tooling will exist but at the moment HTML5 just isn't a reasonable replacement for everything that Flash can do.
That won't be happening. The Nobel Prize cannot be given to a dead person. It's in the rules.
"Real-time analytics" is a contradiction in terms, imo. Analytics isn't day trading. Who takes action in response to data in "real time"? What does that even mean? Even Jason Calacanis says "...the truth is we identify any page that gets over 1,000 views a month..." (my emphasis). There's a lot of novelty value in blinking stats, but I concur with the general sentiment here that we need better analytics that makes sense of the data, not "real time" analytics that just pumps it out faster.
Good to know I wasn't wrong when I switched to Linode (From Rackspace). While phishing and spam is damaging, owners need more than 1-2 hours sometimes, especially when they are in a different part of the world.
this will happen at any responsible web host. If you are hosting phishing sites, expect to get taken down. This trickles up. if you run a hosting company, and you get enough complaints that you don't deal with, then yeah, you will get shut down or asked to leave.

That said, I think especially for higher-priced services, a phone call would be nice. (Note: I don't call my customers, though this is a policy I've considered implementing.) I'd be interested in what other people think about other notification systems.
I second this. Not a fan of Rackspace.

Some may argue having your own hardware is more expensive to maintain, but there is a definite advantage to controlling your physical hardware.

Rackspace is helpful until you have a real problem, and you are left to fend for yourself.
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in the settings I thought you could make it only load flash items when you select them?
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I don't think the issue is that he was hosting an active phishing site. The main issue here is the amount of time he was given to fix the problem was too small. You think Rackspace's upstreams would shut the pipes down if there were a bunch of phishing sites that set up shop? Doubtful. Usually they only get involved when there is a MASSIVE DDoS.
I wish HN would show the sub-domain (math.stackexchange.com) because at first I thought there was a new "fashion" SE and I was starting to feel sick. Glad I clicked through though, very interesting stuff.
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Well, clearly the fixed width font came first in computer programming. So yeah, I'm sure I pick the words because I use a fixed width font.

Using a variable width font would pose many problems to the editor and you'd have to have tabs on the "inside" of a line (as opposed to just having them on the front). That isn't necessarily bad, just much different from how I currently currently code.

And aligning to a tab stop is not always what I want--you'd need a tab character that didn't mean "go to the next tab stop" but instead meant "line me up with the corresponding tab in the previous and next lines at the minimum possible distance". That seems annoying and probably not worth it.
If heroku got enough complaints (relative to it's size) they would get shut down or asked to leave. Now, heroku has a lot more than two servers, so it's going to take more than one or two complaints to take them out, and they are probably going to get more than an hour of notice, but if you provide a hosting service, you need to make sure that your users and customers are not using your service to host phishing sites.
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Rackspace (and others) need to call their clients on the phone in these situations. They feel it is so important that it must be taken care of in one hour, yet they use email. Not exactly fair to the client....
What should happen here is this...

When a server is 'shut down' for phishing or spam, a firewall blocks all incoming/outgoing except for traffic to/from a pre-determined IP address along with the notice that the server is being quarantined.

Site owner/admin can then access the server, perform any investigations or deletions necessary, notify data center, then data center opens traffic again.

Alternatively, something like a web-based shell allowing access, but all other traffic denied, would be acceptable.

I've had servers shut down for 'abuse' which was one complaint from someone at 1am local time for me. I supposedly got a call from xxxxxx at 2 am, notifying me that action would be taken, and my server was taken offline at 3am. I wasn't awake until 7am, and couldn't get things resolved until about 10am. I was told I needed to 'rectify the situation', but how can I do that when access to the server is blocked? It's a ridiculous execution of policy, and only serves to heighten everyone's frustration. A private web-shell or single IP in the firewall to allow access would resolve most of the ill-feelings site owners caught in this situation have had.
Go to any medium to large architecture firm.

You will find 20% of the employees doing "big idea" design. They don't use AutoCAD.

You will find 80% of the employees (who wish they were the other 20%) implementing the designers "big ideas" in AutoCAD.
How was this construed as "phishing"?

Did the customer simply set up a form that asks for a user's email address? because if so that describes tons of other services out there... e.g. Wufoo, Google Documents (but I guess they are not hosted on Rackspace!)
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Well, from my experience in industry, big providers of bandwidth do apply pressure (up to and including the threat of disconnect) to large hosting companies in an effort to get them to clean up their act, even when it comes to things like spamming and phishing that are less outright destructive to the network than DDoS activity. You are right that a million dollar customer will get a lot more slack than a twenty dollar user... but, uh, to me that should be expected. Dealing with abuse is very expensive. Some places I've worked that has been the majority of support costs.
More on tweet half life - it's still less than 1 measly day
You can generate X-ray's from a device the size of a flashlight.
HTML5 doesn’t need to have all capabilities of Flash. The Flash plugin might very well be relegated to Java plugin status (i.e. hardly ever used) while still being a lot more capable than HTML5.

All HTML5 has to capture are the most common use cases Flash is currently used for. Video? Sure deal. Audio? Looks like it will work. Animations? No problem. Infographics with light interactivity (like the stuff you find on nytimes.com)? Will work. Games? Hm, not so great. Audio and video capture? Let’s not talk about that. Oh, and restaurant websites? Shouldn’t have used Flash in the first place.

What’s important is what’s widely used, not what something is theoretically capable of. You are right that HTML5 is far from being able to match all the features of Flash. It doesn’t have to.
It seems like it would be an improvement to either:

1. Keep the very short notification period but also try to reach the site owner via phone or IM

2. Lengthen the notification period if using email only

(Note that I have no problem with short notice and email only if the customer was given the option of providing an emergency contact method but chose not to, and that I otherwise generally agree with the response.)

It seems like the real flaw here is the combination of lack of communication and lack of warning.
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Isn't the rackspace cloud their cut-rate service? would they have called if it was a slicehost (premium price) customer?

Still, I think it is a good idea, and one I ought to implement in my own service. The problem is that we all hate dealing with the phone, but that sounds to me like a lazy answer.

On the other hand, really, if you are an abuse problem, honestly, I don't want you as a customer.
Also a difference between "not profitable because they can't be" and "not profitable because they refuse to be".
> I was told once that in China, people squat a lot more than in the West. Both for toilet use, but also just for "sitting down" somewhere.

In rural midwest US, the instead-of-sit squat is called a "hunker". Yes, folks talk about "hunkering" and will say "come over her and hunker with us for a while". "Hunker down" is different.

> I was told that upon seeing a bench, whereas westerners would normally sit on it, a Chinese person will squat on it.

I've never seen anyone hunker on a bench - they always hunkered on the ground.
No, and that's a strawman argument. That's like asking if it were reasonable for Level 3 to pull the plug on Rackspace if Level 3 got a phishing complaint.

If Amazon got complains about Heroku then I'd certainly expect them to be investigated, and in Heroku's case I'd expect Heroku would take over and shutdown the phishing site.
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Not quite true. "I beg your pardon" and "I begged her forgiveness" are standard English.
Your last two lines sum up the problem nicely.

Everywhere, the more you pay, the more effort they will put in to helping you clean up your messes rather than shutting you down right away, which makes sense, because helping you clean up your mess is an expensive business to be in.
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help people and businesses realize their full potential

and

Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices

Maybe It's personal but somehow "helping people realize their full potential" sounds much more worthy cause, while Apple sounds more like a fashionable gadget manufacturer.

Consider Google they dont claim to be creators of Best Search Engine and Great email service, rather its "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".
A sample size of 1800 / 3 where 40+% of them died is actually a fairly good for this type of research. The only real value for a larger sample size is the ability to measure smaller effects. And if the change is tiny then it's not really significant anyway.
All this talk about how Rackspace should be treating startups make me think, "Why?"

I understand startups may not have the personel to react as fast as a larger company with dedicated personel, and I understand that there might be a very large percentage of startups on Rackspace which might account for a nice chunk of revenue.

But what makes startups different from my personal website or a larger corporation? If Rackspace receives a complaint about a phishing site hosted on their servers, they should do what they can to correct that, regardless of which client is using the server that has the phishing attack. The startup should get the same treatment from Rackspace as the large corporation and the guy with some simple homepage.
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If HTML5 can do most of the important stuff that flash does, then fine. It already comes with a better supported programming language (javascript), with 1000s of libraries to supports it. It doesn't need to do everything.

And when Adobe releases support for exporting to HTML5 from flash, as they have been rumored to be doing, it will be looking like the end.
Not good enough at small resolutions, and looks horrible with light on dark colors. ProFontWindows doesn't suffer from this, and works at small sizes.

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You're on the internet. Why are you wearing pants?
that's not true. I can not delete my account at this very moment. You have sucked in 6 of my accounts and have not showed me an ounce of value. That was a terrible decision.
Are you sure it is not using HTML5? tvnz have all their stuff in html5 as well, to work on the iPhone and iPad. They are actually very trend setting in this area.
My policy is that I shut down the server, I create a fresh server for the user and then I attach the old disk read-only to that server, in case the user needs to retrieve data.

The problem is that there is no way to 'clean up' after a break in without booting from trusted media. Otherwise, there is no way to know if you have closed all the backdoors the attacker left.
If the code is good code, then it's good code. You're right about that and I certainly don't go around thinking "If it's not on github, it's bad code."

However, Github makes it very easy to inspect both the source code and the activity around the project. To me, the community that is developing around github is just as important as the code. I don't find that disturbing. I also like what Bitbucket is doing for what it's worth.

Sourceforge, Google Code and a lot of other hosted solutions rely on advertising to make money. They're trying to sell clicks from a click-averse audience and it affects the service. Github is paid for by developers who want great tools. I won't hold it against a development group for picking something other than github but I think developers who want good tools will migrate there. I won't miss sourceforge. If it were merely a fashion trend, I would agree with you but I think github fundamentally changes the way you interact with code.
> I'm amazed and a bit saddened whenever I hear sentiments like this. These days more than ever.

The big advantage of printf as a debug technique is that it doesn't work unless you understand what you're doing. If you plan to debug using printf, you must write code that is easy to understand.

Great debuggers let you try to fix code that you don't understand. Worse yet, they make it reasonable to write such code.

Since the person reading the code is never as smart as the person who wrote the code, encouraging simple to understand code is extremely important.
I believe this is one of the reasons that Seymour Cray dug holes as a hobby. Instead of work, just do something else that is not mental. Relax, Social, Drink, or Exercise.
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I don't want to put too many words in his mouth, but I think the point he's getting at is that there's an opportunity cost to education, above and beyond the (significant) direct costs.

If you spend 4 years studying something, that's four years you can't spend studying something else. If it turns out that you studied the "wrong thing", you are going to be four years behind the people who took the other path. So it's not hard to see how that education program could look like a net negative.
Every government system that actually does anything that I've ever come in contact with looks the same. A few racks of windows servers crammed with expensive consulting-ware all chosen and acquired using the "strippers and steak" purchasing method... and one or two 'unauthorized' linux servers actually doing the work.

I guess its good that our computers model the human structures in government. At least we're consistent.
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Agree. This wasn't a simple DMCA issue-- phishing is an active, criminal activity. Even one hour notice is generous.
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I think it'd be better to check out drinking habits of aged Japanese to figure out whats a good level =)
It's also possible that Apple offered to help them. If Apple has been putting together dev tools to help track down Windows dependencies.

On the other hand Maya already runs on Linux and Mac OS X. So they may be using Maya numbers to calculate sales and difficulty porting. Since it's used for video work you'd expect more Mac sales.
What exactly would be wrong with a "fashion" SE? I'd find it quite useful.
I hate to admit it, but trepidation at the "incorporate and do bookkeeping" part is exactly my roadblock. Paralyzing is an apt description. What was it that finally got you around it?
Twitter is getting some big YC love, I hope the reverse happens too (like what Facebook did)
Similar, but different. Operator overloading doesn't affect evaluation. You know immediately what is being evaluation now and what isn't, not so in Lisp, and this matters a great deal.
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Welcome to the joys and sorrows of hosting user-generated content. If this makes you feel better,rackspace is just your first problem. You'll also find soon enough that abuses can get your domain blacklisted in chrome, firefox, and for opendns users.
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