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But you can re-direct the location for the installation of Essentials. It has "Other". Point it at an external drive (USB, whatever) and then wipe it. Make sure you install UNIX Dev Support - it will go onto the boot volume (and the gcc compilers come too.) And make sure to de-select "Documentation" if you don't like surprises later.
> [...] and tendency to let me destroy my work for the past few hours by using the wrong command.

I have the same misgivings about Mercurial. I guess it depends on what you are used to. Conceptually git and Mercurial are isomorphic. (See http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GitConcepts for an explanation.)
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I agree. Rape is a serious crime, regardless of who, by whom or to whom. However, it would be difficult to say that the handling of this case has been proper. To the contrary, it seems like a complete mess.

The prosecutors seem to be playing a PR game very publicly. A proper investigation does not issue an arrest straight away, retreat the arrest, then issue an arrest again once the mood has calmed down.
On the other hand, Microsoft has a majority-share browser, along with a search engine, advertising business etc. Are they doing all of this today?
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with 2 prisoners the probability of success is 0.5, so you are correct.

with 4 prisoners the probability of success is about 0.37, which is better than chance. (the probability of success turns out to be one minus the difference of two harmonic numbers.)

it's hard to give a hint without giving the answer. the best i can do is that it has to do with the structure of cycles in permutations.
I wonder if this abuse monitoring service can be outsourced somehow. Pay a team of people around the world to monitor the abuse email address and hand them the kill switch for so they can respond immediately to take down one account only instead of the hosting provider taking down the whole server.
I decided to move all my private repositories to my own server.

When you do this, make sure that the server has continuous backups. Also, make sure you still have an offsite backup.

Once you figure out what these things are worth, you may realize that you should probably just keep paying Github.
In the last few weeks, I've started using this a lot as well, to host my multiple little "labs" projects without blowing my private github repositories limit.

I keep private github repos for collaborative projects.
Yes, nothing like rape for a good chuckle.
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Their actions are inappropriate.

The majority of commentors here assume guilty until proven innocent.

In fact, the author of the article has still been unable to identify the "phishing" form. Was there even really a phishing form?

With all this anti-phishing technology built into modern browsers, why is it Rackspace's responsibility to "protect" users from "alleged" phishing sites?

For copyright, we have the DMCA (for better or worse). Perhaps we need some similar sort of due process for hosting providers or cloud providers.

Most appalling is Rackspace's lack of transparency in handling this.

Pandaform was never contacted by the complainant. The complainant only contacted Rackspace. Rackspace assumed, without investigation, the complaint was legitimate and gave the guy notice via email.

Also, the real rub, is the fact the Rackspace would terminate his account if he got a second complaint.

So, it is not necessary to have an actual phishing form on his site to have his Rackspace hosting terminated. Someone simply needs to allege this to Rackspace, and his account and data will be gone forever.

That is fanatical? Again, I cannot recommend Rackspace.
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> "What fraction of users actually want folder sharing?"

How on Earth would I know that?

We use folder sharing extensively at the University I work at. We have a folder structure which is shared by all staff which we call the Archive. People move email into the Archive which is owned by their role and which needs to be kept and shared with others. So you've never used folder sharing? I can show you several thousand people who have...

The ACL extension for IMAP looks as though it came out about 13 years ago!

> "Now I don't know how you personally use it. But I'm fairly sure that if I looked at your desired workflow using it, I could find another that was equally effective that didn't use it."

You know you could find a better workflow than the one I'm using, even though you don't know what I'm doing? magic.

> "Better yet, my alternative would be much more convenient for any software developers who don't happen to be working in a Windows environment."

The above makes no sense whatsoever and proves you completely missed the point. This isn't a Windows feature. I'm using it from Thunderbird on an OSX box right now, connecting to Dovecot IMAP server on a Linux box. Courier IMAP also supports it, as does Exchange and CommuniGate Pro, Cyrus and most open source webmail applications and email clients...

GMail doesn't support the IMAP ACL extension, nor does the webmail interface support any sort of sharing. That is a severe limitation.
The bad things about this case is that whatever happens to Mr Assange, or how he is perceived in the media and by the wider world, directly impacts the credibility of wikileaks itself (like it or not).

A site that is built on a great ideal can now be easily dismissed by doubters and opponents because of the actions of its figurehead.

The people behind wikileaks should have remained anonymous and not given their enemies a target to attempt to take down.

Instead, Mr Assange reveled in the attention and tempted opponents of wikileaks to make a case of him.
I do not know, if `clumping' works as a general idea to point you in the right direction. (Though the solution does lead to clumping.)

As an alternative: Try to make the successes of the prisoners _not_ statistically independent.
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For what I understand it's all about an update to Cyanogen's Android 2.2 ROM.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but all the devices listed are already supporting Android Froyo officially or unofficially by some time. I've been using my HTC Desire with the HTC update to Froyo for a month now, it's not like it couldn't run it before today.
If the people being phished know they are being phished, then why are they allowing this?
I have heard people argue, that the Roman toilets were for squatting on top.
I agreed in email. There was no mention that the next (and I assume subsequent) editions would be paid for digital. To be honest, I hadn't heard of Hackers Monthly before being approached. The previous three issues were free so I simply assumed that would continue to be the case.

Stackoverflow content is Creative Commons licensed (non-exclusively):

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/StackOverflow.c...

so the content could be reproduced with attribution anyway.

Interestingly though, it's not the SO version that was published. I made some corrections to an expanded version on my blog:

http://www.cforcoding.com/2009/07/plain-english-explanation-...

which obviously isn't CC-licensed.

Print version costing money makes sense. It costs money to print things and send them to people.

I think of it this way: ads on Stackoverflow pay for the site being there but any user can access the content. There is no registration or pay wall (like the evil hyphen site) so I'm happy to volunteer my time to answer people's questions. If SO were ever to construct a registration or pay wall I'd be gone in 0.13 seconds.

This feels a little similar to me. While I appreciate the work that goes into doing a magazine layout this is now a commercial enterprise in all senses, at which point you need to pay your content creators, so it feels a little bait-and-switch to me.

Or am I wrong?
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"Paul Graham is not some magic oracle."

Well normally at YC dinners he goes into his yurt and swallows a lot of peyote, and then he comes out talking in tongues and we all write down what he's saying and try to figure out how to proceed.
So, the writer of the article had one complaint. The forms cannot take passwords.

A second complaint, without any investigation, would result in the termination of his account and destruction of data.

That is not reasonable.
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What is it that makes Oracle more suitable for some projects?
Which doesn't explain Rackpace's behavior, considering their premium cost for "fanatical" support.

Perhaps Rackspace cares more about it's shareholders than customers?
I'm not sure why you'd need the users permission to view what they're doing on your site in real time? I don't feel like I need to gain permission before I tail my access log when people are viewing my website? How is this any different?
My original point in this line of argument was that one of the main reasons cabs don't contribute to congestion in the city is because the number of cabs allowed in is capped.

Even if the number of cabs increases by 5x (i.e., customers are underserved by a factor of 5x), it will still be a small number.

As for the distributional benefits, yes. I'm willing to harm the wages of a middle class cabbie if it helps a poor unemployed person. I'm kinda progressive that way.

You're taking the savings from the medallion and labor costs that you posited above and assuming they'd be passed directly to the consumer, but that's overly simplistic.

I don't think so. Consumers pay the average taxi $90,000/year. I'm proposing a change in which consumers would only pay that taxi $66,000/year.

By the way, I think we should reverse your argument. You seem to favor creating artificial shortages in low skill fields to drive up wages. Since this is presumably good policy, perhaps we should expand it. How about waiter licenses for high end restaurants (which primarily serve the rich)?

(I ask about expanding this policy to other sectors because I think status quo bias is the main reason you support the status quo.)
I can't help but agree with you. In anything I write, I am either paid directly, have my own ads up against it, or I am contributing to a community with a broader goal of making information more readily and easily accessible - where there is a mutual benefit (everything from sites like SO to comments on HN, etc.)

For somebody else to profit, in my eyes, is no different to the splogs that I spend too much time playing wack-a-mole with. The splogs could also argue that they are making the information (my content) more easily accessible and more organized.

The hackermagazine is in a position where they could pay contributors, providing a quid-pro-quo through profit sharing. Most personal blogs make very little from advertising, so they could re-jig their model to provide a revenue source to good writers (who in-turn would have a further motivation to write good articles).

It is a bit like the old trade monthlies and quarterlies who would take the best research papers or other contributions from a particular field and wrap them up in a magazine - only they would pay their contributors.

If the publisher was not being sincere in their email, and this was a bait-n-switch, then that is a whole other matter that would require clarification from them.
What if you are not hosting phishing site, but a single person alleges you do host a phishing site?

Should that distinction make a difference?
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Your spreadsheet looks pretty cool. I think though that you could really do with a little more explanation about why it's doing some of the things it's doing.

Take, for example, Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio (CACR) for the 2nd quarter (cell [H33])

Going by the formula that's:

[H33] = CACR for 2nd Quarter =
(
([CMRR for June] - [CMRR for prev March])
* 4
* ( [Gross profit for Q2] / [Total CMRR for Q2] )
)
/ [Marketing costs for Q1]

Why do we only use the numbers for March and June? What is that magic 4? Why are we dividing by the previous quarter's marketing?

Your post is your chance to explain why you are right and why we should trust your spreadsheet. Don't just wave your hands and say "it's complicated".
And then he'll have to amend his advice to "no single founders unless they're really awesome".

At one point PG stated that the YC investing rule here was "no single founders unless you're a genius".
I read the preview chapter, and wasn't excited by it. But it's always taken me a while to get into Stephenson's novels.
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I highly recommend using Gitosis; it makes managing teams, projects and users a breeze. It's really nifty: you get a git repo that contains the ssh keys and config file to manage the system. Add the user's key, add the user to the config file, push, and you're done!
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Finger cramps? Finger braces? Carpal tunnel?
I don't know why there is so much Clojure junk on HN but if your thinking about picking up Clojure you'll be better of learning Erlang instead.
The problem here is that these are not asset backed, at least in the collateral sense. A house can be foreclosed on, a car repossessed. You can't take away the education someone's gained, although I suppose you could force schools' registrars to not confirm the granting of a degree, but that could still be proven in a variety of ways.

The concern is that too many would immediately declare bankruptcy after finishing their education, wait out the 7? years it takes to for that to fall off their credit report and then get on with their lives. Since few new graduates need serious credit for anything beyond cars....
Well, we know wufoo doesn't use Rackspace.
"Nor do I take much comfort in the thought that Google itself would have to be trusted never to link one’s sober adulthood to one’s wild youth"

After a preamble that compares Google to the artificial intelligence described in science fiction books, this was what I will take away from that article.

Kids are growing up with public persona's and as anyone 30 or over will tell you, those persona's change drastically over the course of our lives.

Building on this, I want to be known as a different person to different people. In the current Facebook and Google Indexing style of amassing information, there is no way for me to do this. I want to be known as a trustworthy, reliable father; a fun-loving, somewhat reckless friend; and a knowledgeable leader to my colleagues. However, I have no way to separate my past, present and future or the different people that I want to be known as right now.
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I could be mistaken, but I think that the rackspace cloud is their cut-rate product which comes with less support.
I don't see any reason to run gitosis when there's gitolite, even for a single user. Either is definitely preferable to doing things manually, though.
Important missing info: are you working currently full-time for someone as a DevMgr?

1) In the MSFT world, certifications are still an interesting "get your foot in the door" approach. If that's an interesting option for you, you could pick your path and work your way through the cert. Personally I enjoy the process of learning and testing myself but I understand it isn't for everyone. Other options would be teaching yourself via books, open source projects, videos, classes, etc. If you are employed, see about getting your company to send you to training events and conferences.

2) You're forgetting how great it is to write unit tests all day, every day for two weeks! Yay! :D Well, here's what you're forgetting: important decisions will be made without you and, whether you agree or not, your input will likely often be ignored or you will be expected to just shut up and code it. "Sorry - the decision's already been made. Yes, I agree that it isn't the best but it's out of my hands. Can you have that class finished by Friday? Thanks for being a team player."

3) I don't think this is a real issue unless you want the "cream of the crop" developer positions. Small companies would kill to have someone with your experience take a dev job with them.
> I wonder if this contributes to the higher rates of hepatitis and related illnesses in Asia -- and that in turn to the custom of removing shoes before entering households.

Removing shoes before entering households is standard practice in quite a few (most?) European countries as well, so I imagine it is not related to higher rates of hepatitis and subsequent fear of infection.

(Frankly, from a subjective viewpoint, I consider this custom to be related mostly to common sense. It seems mind-boggling to me not to remove shoes before entering your home. Not only does it keep your home cleaner, but it is more comfortable to boot.

The only valid exception would be not asking guests to remove shoes, since they may not be comfortable with that.)
I hate to say this, but you're never going to be very good (unless you change this).

I don't hate to say this, but responses like yours are the classic example of hn's biggest problem: people talking when they should be listening.

I suppose your opinion could be accurate if we had a flux capacitor and you were making your prediction in 1979. But it's you versus 1,000,000 lines of code deployed, 1,000 successful projects, and 100 satisfied customers. They outrank you.

FWIW, I made 2 posts yesterday. This grandparent which included intimate secrets of my success and earned nothing and this little joke:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649922

which earned 58 points.

Gabriel Weinberg made wrote an interesting post which got my juices flowing and led me to share my experience (experience, not opinion). Then people like you tell me I'm wrong or worse, that what actually happened couldn't have.

Any wonder why outliers with successes to share are reluctant to share them?
Mint is like a crazy weed. It'll take over your garden given half a chance. It survives mild (UK) winters, but probably needs to be established before it will do that. So you might want to look for advice and maybe start it indoors for the first winter.

I did make a great discovery this year: chocolate mint (mentha piperita). The leaves taste like minty chocolate (you really have to try this -- you won't believe it until you do).
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Appreciate the feedback. I learned how to calculate those numbers from Bessemer Ventures PDF, which I linked to in the article. Essentially you're taking the difference in CMRR for the quarter and annualizing it, then dividing by the marketing cost for the previous quarter.
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I wouldn't mind a similar system put in place for Google Reader next
As a user, would it bother me if you were trying to monetize your app via affiliate links? No, unless you annoyed me. Affiliate links don't bother me and, if links/products are embedded in an app, it's expected that the app dev made them affiliate links.

Is it a "good idea"? That's a different question. I don't know your app or anything about your users so I can't say.
I was surprised Simulchart did not make TCs short list. It's superbly executed, a perfectly functional beta product (I've been told by the developers themselves that they plan on taking it over the finish line in the coming weeks), has a dead simple API, works across all browsers, and is immediately marketable. Not to mention, it's just plain cool.

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reminds me of Prosecutor Ekström from the Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Trilogy)
Backups are important, but not that important if it's just a small private Git server. After all, the full history is not only stored on the server, but also on each of the clients.
I think it's easy to misunderstand your point, but after I re-read your post I agree - Stephenson is about as tech-savvy a fiction author you're liable to find, but the fact that this project looks so poorly done makes you question how much he was actually involved.
Oh. Really!!!

But somehow they need access to my data, right? To index it?

So we're working on the promise that they won't do anything dumb or evil in the future. Not with that index, nor with the API tokens that grant them access to, uh, all my online data.

Great for people who have always wondered "Why do I need so many stupid passwords, I have no secret data anyways" I guess.
Just updated the post, BTW.
The backups aren't as important as each git repo is a fully blown code. If your local repo is destroyed, you still have the server copy. If your server blows up, you still have the local copy.

There are many other good reasons for a service like Github, like the excellent collaboration features, the really good repository and history browser or the good bugtracker.

If you don't need those (small team, working alone) but are concerned about uploading your intellectual property to a third party server in a potentially foreign country (depending on your location), then quickly setting up gitosis / gitweb / redmine might be enough for you.

In my personal case, I would really love to use github even for my small team, but I'm too concerned about the legal issues to go ahead with that (and the local installation is plain too expensive).
1 year in seconds per Google is Not 60*60*24*365
606024*365 = 31 536 000
But Google says that it's actually : 31 556 926 seconds.

http://www.google.com/search?q=1+year+in+seconds

And Wolfram Alpha rounds up : http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+year+in+Seconds

Leap years FTW!
Server most likely needs to be backuped anyway. Backups not so important for git as for svn because you are cloning repository with history etc.
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"Kids are growing up with public persona's and as anyone 30 or over will tell you, those persona's change drastically over the course of our lives."

This is the ray of hope, I think. As more and more people grow up with the embarrassing details of our adolescence online and public forever, having those embarrassing details public will be less of a big deal than it was in the past.
I have a couple of very long running web sites and the #1 request I get is from people to pretty please remove any and all traces of what they were up to a decade ago.
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