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Actually, if you had read the article to the end, or in a different location, you might have noticed and remembered where the article says:

"None of which is to suggest that these techniques...will turn a grade-A slacker into a grade-A student. Motivation matters."

That is hardly "lip service". It is an explicit declaration that there are no silver bullets when it comes to successful studying except for hard work and discipline.
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While I like this in theory (because burning the Koran en mass is a stupid idea) I'm troubled by it in practice. Does this mean that if I espouse on an idea that Rackspace doesn't like they'll pull my service? Obviously this has nothing to do with the 1st amendment... Rackspace may terminate my use of their property by grounds in the contract I've signed with them. I'm not sure, however, I like the idea of a hosting company policing the ideas that are posted on their servers.
The issue is more subtle than you make it out to be. Just as they have the right to free speech, others have no obligation to enable speech. They are not being denied free speech. They can still do and say as they please. Others have just decided not to enable it. There is a difference.
I'd vote you up a dozen more times if the button would let me.

Rackspace has a duty to stay in business. Nonsense of this scale has a lot of power to undermine that duty.
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A larger cache will of course consume more power than a smaller one; however cache misses also take a vast amount of power to service, so it's not a simple linear relationship.
For bigger, important tasks give your friends or family some money and tell them not to give it back unless you finish the task in time. The key is to make the amount of money significant enough to warrant not procrastinating.
As good citizens of a country Rackspace personnel also abide by certain rules and one of those is abiding by the laws of the land. The US constitution is pretty explicit about limiting expression and free speech so I can see how it could be argued that this is a free speech issue but that was not the point I was making.
>Encryption and decryption happen on the server. You need to trust me on that.

So in the event that someone breaks into your server, what keeps them from stealing my unique encryption key the next time I use your service?
"It's now an international issue."

I like Petraeus, but he holds a lot of the responsibility for this getting out of hand. He should have publicly called the guy a meaningless nut who shouldn't be paid attention to, and then privately called him up and kindly told him to knock it off... I'm getting tired of the media sensation around this idiot and the world leaders who are preening over it.
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Reading this one could think that university is a good source for entrepreneurs. Credentials can become a signal that you are a capable people.
You are making some broad generalizations and it doesn't exactly work like. Replacing any programmer is just as easy as replacing as replacing any adjunct. Replacing a specialist scholar is just as hard as replacing your special programmer. Adjuncts are Luke your basic php programmer. Thye know just enough to get the job done. But a university chair is like an architect, you don't give just anyone that job.
That's also not how antitrust works. Read:

http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/reports/236681.pdf

Read the intro to section 2, then skip to section 2 and read the first couple pages.

Long story short: the acid test for "monopoly power" is, "if Apple jacked the prices up on iPhones, would its customers be unable to acquire reasonable substitutes." Since Apple has something less than 30% of the smart-phone market (note: that same DoJ doc says that market shares under 55% are probably prima facie excluded from antitrust enforcement), it's unreasonable to argue that consumers have no substitutes for iPhones.

Apple also has a huge share of games involving catapulting birds and falling refrigerators and cars, but, well, read above.
"When operating a communications service, you must provide equal access to all views" is not one of the laws of the land. It isn't even a law that governs network television stations, and they run on spectrum borrowed from the people.
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That's dangerous thinking right there. I'm hoping Diaspora takes off. People need to own & control their own info.

iPhone kills other phones now, but in 10 years an open alternative will do better. Facebook kills other social networks now, but in 10 years an open alternative will do better.
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I think using the word violence to describe those actions dilutes its meaning.

edit: I disagree with the parent's point, but the post is civil and is a valid part of the discussion. Please do not downvote it because you disagree with it.
Perhaps you should consult the additional definitions of violence: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/violence

In this case Rackspace's cessation of hosting services very much seems to be an injury against this church, even if it is not an injury to any person's physical bodies.
Valid points in the 1st paragraph. However, this is a hobby project. I'm not competing with anything really. My initial goal when I thought about building PassKey was to see if it was possible at all to get it to work using a bookmarklet. In that sense, it's been a success.

I wanted to share it on HN to get feedback regarding implementation, and I got positive feedback (thanks!). Perhaps business-wise it's not such a great idea, but it wasn't my goal.

The bookmark only stores the encryption key. Even if you get hold of someone's encryption key, it's useless because you don't know their PassKey username and password (to get into the database).
> Can't we simply ignore a bunch of nuts in a small town in Florida who want to start a fire in their backyard?

Seriously. We're giving them what they want by paying attention. Do we hear about every KKK barbecue? Do we need to? Aren't we better off if we don't provide free publicity?

Right now some angsty teenager is doodling Muhammad on his notebook, and unless someone throws gas on the fire by making it a news story, it will remain a non-event. There is a cause and effect with stories like these--the media create the news, like the ground zero mosque story.
It's not something that would be particularly difficult on a mill (and remember I said a 4-axis machine; the fourth axis is a horizontal rotisserie-type armature), provided that the thread is stopped before the join points. The internal thread only seems difficult; the right tool bit can easily cut UNC-type internal threads to a bit-length-limited depth, and a keyhole-type bit would provide the thread-end relief. The external can be cut with a standard round-point 60-degree bit, as long as you don't try to cut threads all the way to the shoulder (a flat groove between the thread end and the shoulder wouldn't harm functionality -- and would be a good place to stick an o-ring if the bottle is supposed to hold liquids).
> As good citizens of a country Rackspace personnel also abide by certain rules and one of those is abiding by the laws of the land.

The law of the land very explicitly says "Congress shall make no law restricting..." not "Rackspace shall shut down no website".
Thanks Alex. The site looks great. I plan on playing around with that this weekend.
I would suggest looking into SBIR funding. Many of the large government agencies will provide Phase 1 funding for preliminary research and if proven, phase 2 funding for commercialization. DOE SBIR programs may be applicable. http://www.er.doe.gov/sbir/
Depending on where located, most states have organizations who can provide assistance in writing SBIR proposals. http://www.sbir.gov/state/
Using your logic VLC shouldn't release a Windows version since Linux is more open than Windows. I'm sorry, the world just doesn't work like that.

Besides, even with Android NDK it's probably easier to port VLC to iOS than to Android?
On April:

"My opinion is that iPhone users will be well-served by this rule. The App Store is not lacking for quantity of titles." (He's talking about 3.1.1)

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_...

Today, he doesn't comment on 3.1.1 but says "The existence of this document is a very welcome change" regarding the rules document. I'd like to see some comments on 3.1.1 as well.
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A. Very badly
I don't get all the fuss here: The site was against their TOS and Rackspace had to pull it off.

You may not publish, transmit or store on or via the Rackspace Cloud's network and equipment any content or links to any content that the Rackspace Cloud reasonably believes:

- Constitutes, depicts, fosters, promotes or relates in any manner to child pornography, bestiality, or non-consensual sex acts;

- is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence or contains harassing content or hate speech;

- is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes;

- is defamatory or violates a person's privacy;

- creates a risk to a person's safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement;

- improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person;
- is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections;

- infringes on another person's copyright, trade or service mark, patent or other property right;

- promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling or illegal arms trafficking;

- is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to the Rackspace Cloud;

- is otherwise malicious, fraudulent or may result in retaliation against the Rackspace Cloud by offended viewers.

Content "published or transmitted" via the Rackspace Cloud's network or equipment includes Web content, email, bulletin board postings, chat and any other type of posting or transmission that relies on the Internet.

I think that site was in clear contradiction with point no. 2
Nothing at the moment.
You are right, Universities are not only for getting money or for making profits. Society should clarify what they want university to be, what is their goal. When the goal is well defined is time to think about the best method to pursue it. Money is one of the factors but not the only one.

A place for knowledge, research and innovation is not a factory and can't be managed as such.
Anyone who takes enjoyment from exploiting their friends in the furtherance of a glorified spreadsheet needs a hug, a trip to the ice cream parlor, and a meatspace game of Uno.

There may be a baseline pseudo-fun available in the current crop of social games. Most social games, though, are more interested in bare metal compulsion than truly meritorious, universally recognizable fun.

You're really willing to sit there and tell me that you're comfortable with social game evolution stopping right now? This stuff really is sufficiently fun for you?

There's pandering to flyover country and then there's making something good. One will get you Oprah and Zynga. The other gets you Inception and Mad Men. One is quick cash, the other is integrity.

I'd rather take a smaller payday from people I like and respect than make crap.
I really like this idea, I've thought of it in the past and am happy to see it being implemented.

I don't know if you're planning on this, but I suggest making each donation as public as possible. For example, tweeting/Facebooking every time I make a donation or every month.

This will help spread the site, and help give social proof to people to show that donating to this charity is indeed a good (and popular) thing.
I'm burning my copy of Team Foundation Server 2005 Hands-on-Guide, of course.

I hope it's not the Kindle version!
I agree with zts. Having a giant "login with facebook!" button immediately followed by a prompt to give my credit card information does not make me feel comfortable.
Looking at just comments on items in todo lists: comment's have an item_id, items have a list_id, and lists have a project_id. You want to get all comments across all projects a user is a member of, so you end with a small handful of joins. Remember that these are reasonable large tables. When you consider the fact that comments can appear on nearly anything, you end up with more joins. Are you certain this will stand up under Basecamp's load even before you consider all of the other features you need? This is all before we run into sharding or partitioning as a scaling strategy.
And it is sentiments like this that simply confuse the issue. No one, including Rackspace, is denying them their right to free speech. The fact of the matter is that, when you choose to use your right to free speech in a manner that others find to be blatantly offensive; you open yourself up to repercussions from other private individuals and companies.

Do not confuse having a right to express your views in an open manner to mean that you do so without being held accountable for those views. What it means is that others cannot stop you from expressing those views, with rare exceptions. It in no way means that others can choose not to do business with you.
To be pedantic, according to Supreme Court, states can pass laws that extend the freedom of speech onto private property; some states e.g., California do so, but they target de-facto public spaces such as shopping centres, not servers in a rack:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._Ro...
What is unfortunate from my perspective (as a former WoW/EQ player) is that "real" social games are now besting Zynga at its own game: turning away from generating content for gameplay's sake and instead (again in my opinion) turning these games into cash farms.

Morally? Well, what's morality in business if you're not using child labor, robbing a nation of its natural resources or engaging in otherwise clearly reprehensible activities? I don't make any claims about morality. It's just out-and-out dumb to blame companies for seeking money-makers for its investors (or parent company, for their investors).

However, what Zynga has done has shown exactly how stupid the game-playing public is, en masse, and how ripe they are for exploitation for just a little bit of time-wasting. One can almost hear the boardroom discussions:

"Look, developers, just take Zynga's model for 'game development,' scale it up for us and keep doing it until we have their numbers."

Irony or coincidence? I keep getting the two confused.
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Sounds like a college-hire interview. With years of experience and sound references, having an interviewer insist on this "baby step" IS demeaning. And it breeds a bad attitude, sure.

How about Reading the code the candidate provided? Asking questions about that? Invest some effort in a mature candidate, instead of treating them like a fresh-faced kid.

Imagine the difference between interviewing a business-school graduate (What is accounts receivable? How do you track inventory? ) vs interviewing for an executive position.
OK.

But all I'm concerned with here is whether or not [persons at] Rackspace violated the rights of the [members of the] church. To determine this, we need to establish if one party initiated force or fraud against another, and if so, which one did so first.

I don't think anyone's rights were violated here.
It depends on what they meant by load average of 20. Or specifically, what kind of workload is it. In some cases LA 20 is pretty much standard, in some other you cannot even login to that box anymore. If it was the second case... well - since nothing works anyways, someone might just as well push untested code into production ;)

Although "One day the Sysadmin realizes" is pretty bad. They should have daily trends showing them it's coming days before it actually happened (unless it was some big release / marketing day).
My steam network has nothing to do with my rdio network has nothing to do with my facebook network has nothing to do with my LinkedIn network.

Their Venn intersection is very slight.

Companies like Facebook get displaced regularly in this industry. If anything, the network on Facebook (boy remember when Classmates was the place to be?) becomes as much liability baggage as an asset.
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This is why people make a distinction between the spirit and the letter of the law. The point is that congress represents the people and if every private citizen starts censoring everything on their property well then technically congress is not limiting or restricting anything but you are left with a society that is devoid of any free speech.
If you read Rackspace's terms of service there is a "incites violence" blurb that allows them to take site offline.
Good point that it's not just safety advances making cars heavier...

It still seems strange to me that even hyper-small cars (by modern US standards) like the Mini Cooper or Smart still don't seem to break about 40mpg.

Is this related to the US' aversion to diesel? Or just the fact that all of our cars are comparatively luxury because our standard equipment includes big seats and air conditioning?
My thought also, but be a little careful: you really want enough memory on mongod servers to keep the indices in memory.
The constitution does not give you any rights.
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Jones and his 50-strong congregation… – an interesting way to describe the lingering half of the congregation which hasn't abandoned him in the past 12 months.
A lot of revolutionary technology is unbelievable until it happens. Maybe try to organize a private demo?
Clear goals. Different goals require distinct methods to achieve them. College and University. Perhaps we need more ways to teach and educate people. Ideally one desire thinkers than can translate things into action, but while this is a goal, why don't we try to find the way to give every student the best way to build a good education?
> I don't understand why people have opinions of themselves, let alone why they have negative ones

Wow, I never really thought of the idea of having no opinion of myself whatsoever. It's an interesting idea--one that might make me a lot happier.
It's a nice sentiment, but expecting people to subscribe to your print magazine because they like reading your articles online is a recipe for a broken business model.

Maybe so. But if you, as an individual, like the high-quality journalism that's being produced, the question is not whether the magazine has an optimal business model but whether you want to keep reading the high-quality journalism. The optimal way to signal that you do is to subscribe.

When for-profit print publications ask for subscriptions, people are disinclined to follow through because they don't actually want what they're presumably paying for.

I think I'm paying for high-quality journalism, unbiased stories, and deep reporting. It happens to be delivered in a convenient package of pages bound with a stable and mailed. What do you think you (or others) are paying for?
Does your script environment have a debugger?
It sounds like it, assuming the way your idea is espoused violates TOS that you agreed to.
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Sweet! Thanks HN! I was just having to do some quick SEO learning today.
How does Windows 7 do it, then? I know W7 detects a login portal page too.
Stop making search engines, AltaVista won.
Great and all but "Linux drivers are not documentation"!

All of FOSS is not Linux.
The Art of SEO is a great resource if you're just getting started and are interested in White-Hat stuff.

If you're more interested in aggressive marketing and link building, stay away from the majority of forums (because they're full of guru crap) and read as much as you can from bluehatseo.com and anything in Eli's blog roll.
Sure, I'm not saying it was immoral for them to do it, just that I don't want to put any websites I control under such an AUP, because it's far too broad and subjective.

I agree this case is more than "personal sensibilities"; I was referring to their AUP in general when I said that, which has much more leeway for banning things. For example, what constitutes "promoting illegal drugs"--- is that only sites that are actually selling drugs, or will they pull the plug on a site advocating drug decriminalization, if the site becomes controversial? Would they pull the plug on xenu.net if it were hosted there? What's the threshhold for creating "a risk to a person's safety or health"? Are extreme-sports sites problematic? Does "assist others in defeating technical copyright protections" include discussions of emulators, or sites that host academic research on DRM schemes? The whole thing just gives me no confidence in hosting anything there.
Well, yes. One of the great things about the internet is that its regulation, as compared to other industries is relatively light. The flip side of that is that the government has little or no legal basis to ensure that people have a platform from which to speak.
The article didn't really clarify well what is wrong with ePub.
I genuinely could not disagree more.
> spirit of the law

The spirit of the law, in the sense of what writers of the constitution intended is a lot more limited: not only did they specifically not want it applying to private property, they didn't even mean to apply it to states; several states had established churches. Fourteenth amendment incorporation is why is why the first amendment applies to state and local governments, as well as federal government. Some amendments e.g., second (The Right to Bear Arms) weren't incorporated until recently.

> but you are left with a society that is devoid of any free speech

You have your property, on which you can practice free speech. Find another managed host, colocate at a datacenter yourself or get a DSL line with a static IP. There's also public property: universities, libraries, public squares.
Agreed with your general point.

But I would make a stronger distinction between (1) believing that a particular religion is superior to others and (2) believing that #1 makes it acceptable to stomp all over other's religious sensibilities.
As a Romanian, this article mostly made me feel good there are worse places. Not a noble feeling, but I'll take what I can.

This being said, this instinct about looking for acquaintances first is starting to be not so useful, and used mostly by the older generation. I've seen instances where inside intervention was less efficient - but I've also seen official free consultants (good ones) with too much free time because most people went over their. But still, it is unfortunately far from being a useless strategy in way too many cases.

Compared to how the article paints Greece though, our problems are different. Tax evasion is real here, but not critical. What _is_ extremely painful at the moment is the widespread politicization of public institutions. Everything starting from middle school headmasters has to belong to a party or another (and of course usually it's the ruling one).
Nobody's rights were violated, that's irrelevant. I'm just saying I'm not so sure this was a good idea.

Acting within the law is not synonymous with doing the right thing.
Look, as much as I may disagree with Terry Jones, the only direct victim of his "hate speech" will be an inanimate object. If he was planning to burn, say, 200 copies of "The Audacity of Hope", there would be hardly any reaction to it. Burning a book does not kill troops and civilians overseas; suicidal fanatics, easily incensed by the smallest details of what Western democracy allows, do.
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