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Why would you have to completely re-provision a machine just because you turned the firewall on?

I'm guessing maybe this is a VM?

Either way, I tend to prefer hardware firewalls over software firewalls for this reason ESPECIALLY on Windows. With a "real" firewall, you can generally maintain a connection to the firewall (if you've set it up right), and that way if you firewall off the wrong port and need to reverse something you can still do so.
Maybe you don't need to find a balance. Provide a "more (technical) info" link after the general-user description.
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True. Maybe he assumed that when the firewall was off, everything was blocked (forgetting about the remote desktop).
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>And I thought that would never confuse me again...thanks.

In things like this, it helps to scale it up to 100% -- what happens if a $4 million company takes $4 million from VCs? Certainly the VCs wouldn't own the entire company, so you can't give them a percentage based on premoney valuations.
It could be a plausible solution to our electricity woes to a degree. Mainly in baseload electricity supply which is about 60% of the U.S. grid. Small liquid flouride thorium reactors (LFTRs) can fit on a flatbed truck and mass manufactured. The idea is that we can connect these to existing coal plant secondary systems around the country and replace the coal boilers.

Thorium is extremely abundant. We have 3000 tons of it sitting in nevada gathering dust because we have nothing better to do with it. Also, you can get an incredible amount of energy and little waste out of a liquid thorium reactor. See http://energyfromthorium.com/. That's Kirk Sorensen's blog. A NASA engineer who's really led the movement on LFTRs and got featured in Wired for it.
I'm getting the impression you haven't spent any time doing prototypes on this yet. Are you familiar with Xcode/Interface Builder/etc.?

I've been procrastinating for a couple of weeks now because I'm not happy with the visual design of the iPad app I'm working on. I'm no designer and would love to just pay someone to do this part, but if you're going to be learning this for the first time it will probably take you longer than it will me (even though your final product should look much better than mine).

EDIT: Wait, what do you mean by "I would be producing the design files"? Do you mean producing e.g. pictures of what the GUI should look like that I then have to go build myself?
The US has a candy called Smarties, but they are different entirely, and made by different companies.
Another good reason to know some of the basic stuff is to make sure that someone does not happily blackhat you straight in to pagerank '0' territory.
RMS is a bunny ears laywer (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BunnyEarsLawyer).
AlphaLab (Seed Accelerator in Pittsburgh) application cycle is open
Smarties exist in Canada as well. Though every seems to enjoy M&Ms more.
Kinda scary how so many HN people are giving you armchair medical advice... if you think it even remotely physiological/bio-chemical, go see a REAL doctor.

>I'm doing that's burning up 8 hours a day without actually achieving anything.

If you're certain it is not... have you tried brain hacks like the The Pomodoro Technique?
Also considering asking another hacker to mentor you. Simply sharing what you are working on is great motivation. I often tell my friends about the projects I am working on knowing that I will lose traction doing the low level stuff. Having someone you respect checking on progress goes a long way.
I don't think that it is right to say that it is a waste of time to use these Social Media services. If it is so it would be also a waste of time to hang around with friends or walk in the park.
That's not true.
People want to have fun and you can have fun on FaceBook. You can also have fun with friends and so on.

What I'm trying to say is if you want see such things as a "waste of time" then shouldn't go out with friends or to the cinema instead you should work or learn something.

Everyone should be free to choose what is a waste of time for himself.

(sorry for my bad (!!) english. I hope you got the idea)
EDIT: fixed some grammar errors (I bet there are tons of left)
"x is down" seems to be the "man, it's raining" of the internets. Everyone around knows when it's happening, everyone knows it'll eventually get better, but there's the urge to whine anyways.
Hey guys: CloudFab went through AlphaLab, and their cycle is open again.

Pros: pretty low equity take, $25k.

Cons: Some strings attached to the Western PA area, since AL is ultimately funded by the state of PA.
I wish Google well in this conflict, but can someone explain to me why Oracle's former position on open-sourcing the TCKs is relevant to the case? I agree that the somersault makes them "look bad" as the OP says, I just don't understand its specific legal implications.
In the meantime, we are all complaining about the downtime in normal services.
> Are you suggesting he is not allowed?

You misunderstand-- that line comes from shifting the original author's opinion back at his own complaint. The devil's advocate I channeled doesn't really have an opinion of its own.

The point is that it's somewhat worth noting that complaining about someone else's complaints hints at self-contradiction.

[Aside: I guess sometimes other people use the "devil's advocate" voice for their own opinions? Not in my circles-- it's always used for giving a view that may be contrary (or different) from your own for logical discussions and/or debate.]

Certainly I personally have no opinion/say on what he's allowed to talk about. Though I do admit a preference for positive or neutral topics over negative ones.
Alright, so I'm a little confused about the timeline here. This article says it was published Sept. 28, but updated at 7:50 ET. Is that 7:50 today, or 7:50 on Sept. 28? And if the former is the case...

>>The two new lists, produced by ACS:Law

Does that mean that there's the list that 4Chan originally got hold of last week, one from monday of this week, and another one from within the last couple of days, leading to 3 total?

Or is this just a resubmitted, week-old-news article?
One of the first major lessons of being an entrepreneur for me was that even though I probably could do everything myself it was not economical and not feasible to actually do everything myself.

That probably was the first lesson, but I still spent another two decades before it fully sank in.

There are many things that, even though not rocket science, are quite specialist in nature and it takes time and experience to get to the level where you can do just as good a job as a specialist.
"The diagnostics were a little prettier than gcc-4.5's, but not a huge improvement." <- I think this example fits with this description: gcc clearly stated it was the second argument... it is nice that it pointed out to me what the second argument is, but I can count. A little prettier, but not a drastic improvement.

I think what most of us are really looking when someone claims that they have better diagnostics is to do something for cases that are currently incomprehensible. As an example: if you run into an error in a recursive template, sometimes you are scratching your head at an error that seems to have no direct semantic meaning. When I was really doing a lot of C++, I started to accumulate a mental map of "when gcc claims that X has occurred, what that really means is that I should try explicitly adding a template or typename keyword to a nearby expression".
Isn't that what he says?

"And this is a completely virtual machine, there's no keyboard, no big red switch, no physical reality with which to fix this."
This seems like an argument to use LLVM for day-to-day development and gcc for later staging and deployment, not to ditch gcc entirely for LLVM.
Consumers don't care

Customers (the ones paying money) care about doing business with winners, not hypocritical trolls (SCO was one, the jury is still out on Oracle). And starting IP lawsuits instead of delivering products has a desperation stench attached; and you can bet that Oracle's customers care about that.

And speaking of corporate customers, those include companies like Adobe which also have investments on top of Java.

Oracle's large corporate customers will cheer them on for defending
their patents.

This line of reasoning I don't get: are they earning anything from Oracle's lawsuit?

Quite the contrary, unless you have a patent arsenal the size of Microsoft's or IBM's, patents are one of the biggest nightmares you can have, especially since this lawsuit proves that companies like Oracle aren't acquiring patents just for "defensive purposes" and lawsuits are not reserved just to patent trolls.

Google's "do no evil" schtick is a triumph of PR, but that's all it is

Corporations are recognized by the law to have rights and responsibilities like natural persons. Companies should and are punished for their bad behavior in society.

Regardless of Google's morality, this discussion is not about Google, but about Oracle's lawsuit. Substitute Google with "X" and it would be the same.
If the Police have a warrant to search a safe, presumably you can be required to hand over the combination or be in contempt of court. Even if the combination for the safe 'lives in your brain'.

ISTM a virtual 'locked container of documents' would have the same legal status.

I'm not sure why so many techies go down the Walter-Mittyesque 'Enemy of the State' route when discussing this sort of thing. Mention the police in conjunction with encryption and suddenly everyone's a paranoid compound-dweller...

Let's be clear here - it is unlikely that this guy is making a stand for paranoid techies - it is much more likely that he's got pics and videos on his HDD of kids getting raped that he doesn't want the police to see.
The clue is the text on the note "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of..." - you could walk into the Bank of England with a note and get the equivalent in gold (theoretically anwyay!)
That's true. We had two reactor options during the cold war that were choices to extend our Uranium supply. One was the Fast Breeder reactor and the other was the liquid thorium reactor. My dad worked on the Fast breeder which would use liquid sodium as a coolant to allow the reactor to operate at much higher temperatures and high neutron flux so as to burn actinides more efficiently and convert uranium into plutonium to be either burned or taken out and used for weapons. Although, it's silly, American commercial fast breeders wouldn't really be used for plutonium production even if they got off the ground because U.S. regulations wouldn't allow anyone to access the fuel very easily. Unlike Chernobyl, which was a weapons/energy plant, designed for easy access to it's fuel. Hence the lack of containment which all American plants are required to have.
I think Steve Jobs, Jason Fried and many other design geeks can relate to this experience in their developing years.

It is what it is. Psychedelic means mind-manifesting so the two should go hand in hand anyways. I think people just overthink enlightenment and miss how simple the universe really is. Ancient wisdom and modern science are coming together and revealing the same truths.

Read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Physics-Exploration-Parallels-Myst...
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I think changing firewall rules remotely is one of those things where it pays to be extra-careful, and then make sure you have access to the console (or physical access) for when you inevitably mess it up and lock yourself out.
From the FAQ: "If you believe you will have overages consistently, you can purchase additional transfer or upgrade to the next plan level. Purchasing additional transfer ahead of time is $0.10/GB, otherwise overages are $0.15/GB."

http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm
Oops, yeah. I missed the "virtual" part. That's what I get for reading/commenting while on a conference call and working on a remote desktop session...
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This is a classic case of a solution to a problem that does not exist.

Firstly, Uranium is practically an insignificant cost of a nuclear power station. The price would have to go up by a factor of a 100 before it made a difference.

Secondly, the supplies of uranium are currently limited because the demand is limited. The moment the price shifts up by even a little, supply will grow because several other mining locations will become profitable.
Read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Physics-Exploration-Parallels-Myst...
I interpreted it as another list, good point though, it may only be two, but the text strongly suggests it's three.
agreed on the culture clash, however, there is something that is a little odd about this story in general. vb.ly launched in aug 2009 with the very overt subtag: "The Internet’s First & Only Sex-Positive URL Shortener"

Why did it take 13 months for libya to care enough to take it down?

Here is the post on it's launch (possibly nsfw in libya?):
http://laughingsquid.com/vb-ly-the-internets-first-only-sex-... (NSFW??)
The Brazilian election machines produce no paper receipt for the voter, nor any paper trail for a recount. There's no good way to audit an election result. Already this is a nonstarter for most election reform advocates.
It's called "schweeb". That's all you need to know right there.
What's needed for the iPad to really challenge the laptop market?
My point is though, why would you pay for additional GB only, if you can also get a node for "free"?

You can improve the performance of your app by deploying more memcached nodes, for example.
It is not mentioned in the article. But yesterday Mexico sold 1 billion USD at 100 years. The longest debt issued by Mexico ever.
As I said, the point of view is particularly useful for data transfer hogs.
That made me laugh. I've got the message! :-)
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Indeed. On the other hand why would they spot it?

Non-alarmist explanation; they could have received a complaint (which, lets face it, is how such things usually works in the US too)

It does make it a little more interesting though, certainly :)
I don't post much on here, so I'll just briefly say that I run a web marketing consultancy in Denver that has worked with several start-ups and e-commerce stores. Email in my profile if you want to talk further.

Since the discussion in this thread is turning toward whether SEO should be a "buy or build" decision, I'll throw my two-cents in there, as well.

If your website is a hobby or just a side-project, I think SEO is something you can pick up by reading some of the better guides out there (SEOMoz's "Basics" guide comes to mind). This will ensure that your site doesn't have things like <title>Home</title> or inaccessible navigation.

However, all of "what there is to learn yourself" is what our firm would take care of on day 1. The real SEO (the kind that commands 6-figure salaries or 5-figure monthly retainers) is much, much more in depth than the average internet user realizes. The reason you can't learn those strategies in a day is because most successful SEO practitioners keep them private, for obvious ($$) reasons.
The real answer is the R&D costs are not worth it because Uranium is still extreamly cheap. The fuel costs for a modern reactor are a small fraction of total cost.

Also, fosil fuels a not going to be replaced with wind, solar, fission or fusion any time soon because they are not really portable for anything smaller than a boat.
According to the CIA World Factbook, Mexico has 5.5% unemployment, public debt 37.7% of GDP, 3.6% inflation, and it’s a net oil exporter. So Mexican sovereign debt looks like a reasonable investment, as these things go.
Send me a message (AIM sn in profile) I'll help you out, no charge. I'm the technical founder of a top 100 and top 500 site and picked up some SEO along the way.
SEO seems to attract a lot of snake oil people though. Maybe the recipe "not hard" + "lots of money" attracts a lot of people hoping to cash in.

I think at a minimum I'd only consider hiring someone with actual development skills.
I believe magamiako is referring to areas in World of Warcraft where thorium can be found.
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We have already mined something like 100 years worth of Uranium that is just waiting around to be used in power plants. Or, if the US moved to breeder reactors we could go for something like 1000 years without mining any new uranium.
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Oracle consumers have never heard of Oracle? I don't get it. Or are you talking about other (less relevant?) consumers?
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Well for me I place emphasis at times by ending my statements using adjectives like "fuck" "bitch" ...tats jus me...when people act offended what do u say to such people...why do they care and get offended of my expressions...whats wrong with these people
This sort of security article rubs me the wrong way. It's obviously written for the layman; someone who doesn't know what a "shell injection attack" is or what it enables. Thus it goes into great detail about the things that are possible if you can run arbitrary code as root (or the app user, just as bad).

You can delete/alter the records! You can make fake records! You can record future activity without being noticed!

Of course for most of us here reading it, we already knew that as soon as you said "shell injection." They left something unvalidated, and you got shell access. Don't get me wrong, that's a huge problem. It's also a tiny fix. Your job isn't over. I want to know, say they fix that hole, which should take all of two seconds. How secure is the system now?

You say that you're "confident" you could have found another attack— do you mean you're sure there's another way to run unescaped shell commands? You're guessing. There's no evidence that there is unless you found one. You just don't know.

A much, much bigger problem with the system is tossed out in a single sentence: the attack went unnoticed for two days. Wholesale alteration and interception of data passed by completely unmonitored. That's not a problem with the app, that's a problem with the system, and the human processes behind it. And as long as the people who run it aren't secure, even the most watertight app is only going to last as long as it takes someone to pick up a phone.

That should be the headline here.
As with so many things, the devil is in the details. Here's a simple keyword example:

accounting services and accounting service are different, with substantial gaps in search volume and competitiveness. Do you know which one is worth more? Do you know how much more?

There's an order of magnitude difference between the traffic on nj accounting firms and new jersey account firms. Are you sure you know which is better?

Even if you cultivate a list of hundreds keywords that are relevant, valuable and that you can be competitive in, do you know how to decide which words to try to hit via SEO and which to do via SEM? Do you have a tool that can help you make that decision quickly?

Do you know who your competitors are, what keywords they're winning on, and how strong they are on each, so you can plan an effective attack, leaving them only with the crap you don't want?

Sure, it's pretty easy to say use valid html, use alt tags, use meaningful URLs, have a header, use relevant images, make videos, get links from relevant content with good anchor text, and all the other crap that goes into SEO 101. But when you get into market analysis, competitive analysis, management of link-building campaigns, etc, it gets very involved. I'd expect that it would take smart person a year of working full-time under an expert to be good at it.... and I'd expect it to take them much longer if they're doing a part-time self-guided tour.
I agree. Should we pretend that companies don't act selfishly? Oracle wanted Java more open when it worked better for them, now it doesn't. They are allowed to change their minds, aren't they?

I still hope Google wins though.
If you're applying a kind of maximin strategy, overestimating the things you want less of makes sense.

But underestimating the things you want more of is as likely to lead you to quickly exhaust your existing supply as to go out and find more.
Consider who the 'consumers of java are.
In particular, I'm thinking of a ton of college students taking computer science are introduced to programming through java. If college's CS departments start hating on java because of Oracle and change their curriculums, Java's foothold as a mainstream language is going to start fading away.

They only have to frustrate a certain group of people to start suffering from repercussions
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Does anyone else see this at the end of the post?

> "Hello there, fellow HN user! If you like this post, I'd really appreciate an upvote." [1]

I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I am curious how it's done.

1: http://i.imgur.com/gu47C.png
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Nice to know about 100TB.com.

As I said, the math makes sense if your app is a data transfer hog (> 1TB/mo).

As to Amazon, I suppose you meant EC2? (S3 is a data store). If you use 1TB at EC2 for $0.15/GB, that's $150 for data transfer only, on top of the instance usage price.

At Linode, if you use that 1TB, you pay less for that transfer ($100), and you get a free instance.

How's this so "wrong on all levels"?
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So what would your advice be to someone who could, once upon a time, code (COBOL, C) but hasn't written anything in ~15 years?
Old school RPG style map in HTML5 canvas using websockets.
Works in firefox or chrome, chrome only for websockets. Flickers bad in firefox.
http://rp.eliteskills.com/html5.php
Not working for me either. Looks like it's a problem on their end.
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I'm so glad I don't need to keep a Windows box around to have a GUI for IDA. Now if only they'd release a new free version that had the GUI.
Also, FWIW, as someone who recently registered a >3 character .ly domain, the minimum-length restriction on foreign-owned domains is plastered everywhere, and in English. That kind of restriction is something you just have to keep up-to-date on if you own a ccTLD domain, in my opinion.
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I was wondering what the Escrow services you have used and would recommend for software development or graphic design projects.

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