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No, but I did managed to title it "incorrectly" twice, so I'm glad a mod came in and changed it to what it is now. :)

I had a laugh reading your comment though and thought how one day there will be an app for that.
Regarding your aside: A fearful populace is probably significantly more likely to stockpile.
I've downloaded MapDroyd for an upcoming trip to Australia. is there a way to get it to provide turn-by-turn directions, or even to show a map of a particular address? I can get it to show me a map of my current location, but haven't figured out street addresses, yet.
How many attempt a summit without proper preparation? (Or what they consider proper preparation, which amounts to the same thing)?

I honestly don't know, but I would guess that people attempting to climb Everest are not just random climbers, but people who train specifically for this.
>If you post public-domain material to your site, you don't "own, or otherwise control all the rights" to it.

I think you'll find that you do.

You own that copy that you are presenting for distribution, no one else owns it nor has rights over it, you do (at least in copyright terms, PD could still have trademark and other issues).

The right to prevent other people copying it is exhausted, there is no [copy]right there to own so it's not a legal right that you don't have. That other people own other copies and have control of all the available rights to their copies is immaterial.

That said I think you're clutching at straws classified documents are not in the public domain unless they have been published by someone with the right to do so and the copyright term in the relevant jurisdiction has expired.

There are about 30 states IIRC that aren't signatories to Berne Convention or relevant parts of TRIPS, etc..
Turn off Apache KeepAlive.

You aren't pegging the CPU, are you? Right now, you're probably using 0% CPU or thereabouts, and you don't have a problem caching can solve. What you do have is a limited pool of connections. Having KeepAlive on causes any browser that grabs a connection for any reason to hold onto it for a few extra seconds, to improve its performance on subsequent requests for e.g. static resources. Unfortunately, if you have more clients than you can service, they all get to wait until the keepalive period is over so that one connection gets released, immediately satisfies an additional client with cached data, and then does nothing for another few seconds. This looks to people in the queue like your server died.

Apache KeepAlive defaults to on in several popular distributions, including Ubuntu last time I checked. That default interacts very, very poorly with common conditions for blogs in 2010.
Will this have any effect on NodeJS?
A few things come to mind:

1. to "tend" to something. For example, a to-do list or monitoring service.

2. to extend something. For example, may be an API list or some kind of add-on.

3. related to number 1 above would be to be attentive to something.
We sell to and support thousands of hosting customers. We have two customers running Virtualmin licenses on XServe machines, and only one is exclusively a Mac OS X shop. The cost of running XServes is simply so much higher than running many other quite high end rackmount server products from Dell, IBM, HP, Sun, etc., and as a server OS Mac OS X is way behind Linux. apt-get or yum alone makes Linux vastly superior when managing a large number of servers, but it's also worth noting that Mac OS X has historically had broken NIS, LDAP, PAM, NFS, and SMB/CIFS integration, sometimes for months at a time. I had the task of integrating Mac OS X in a client role in a mid-sized company a few years back, and it was not pleasant. Damned near nothing network-related worked, and the Macs ended up being off-the-grid in most regards because they simply couldn't play with the existing authentication and file sharing options.

Also, real servers have a lifecycle measured in years, and very predictable availability. Dropping them with a four month notice is just a slap in the face to IT guys who have to deal with the fallout. I don't have a problem with Apple leaving the server market (since they were never very good at it), but it's kinda crappy to their customers to do it without a reasonable amount of notice.
If people were given a choice between no bananas and GM bananas, doesn't that make GM bananas a no brainer?

Sure. But it's a false dichotomy. The world is full of bananas, we are just running out a single (albeit very commercially profitable) clone variety.
It was a photo galley app...the words in the list were tags that the user types in, and the fetching of objects was to pull images from an Api using Ajax to prefetch images and dynamically add them to the gallery as the user scrolls.
To a first approximation, my answer would be something like http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... .

That's not necessarily the whole answer and I imagine JS can't ever quite go that fast. But still....
Interesting concept. Personally, I wouldn't ever use it for anything serious, but perhaps for comical purposes.

The color scheme is very light, too. Perhaps a little bit more contrast.
Considering the plight of tuna, we can safely put this old saw away.
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The culture in China doesn't entirely foster it. I agree China is entirely capable of producing excellent software. But that doesn't change the culture. I've breathed it when I lived in China for several months. You'll notice that college students in China are always in groups, and there is a hive mentality to decision making. The self isn't as important as the group. Espirit de corps.

Jack Ma of Alibaba spent considerable time in the US, and enlisted US friends to develop Alibaba. Many Asians that have been through Western education become extremely creative. Not that I'm saying the Western/US education system is better (it has its problems, on the entirely opposite scale), but Western university culture helps bring people to their potential, while the university culture in Asian countries is a continuation of high school (hard to get into, extremely easy to get out).

I work regularly with Chinese companies, and if you were to go to an equipment manufacturer in China, you'd notice they practically use the same designs, block diagrams, software for the same product. It's all exactly the same. You might also recall that the mandatory filtering software used by the Chinese government was plagiarized. Or the Cisco firmware. IP has serious problems in China.

Japanese cellphones, for instance, were way ahead of the curve on the merits of specs. But that isn't true anymore. Japan, like other Asian countries, have a difficult time with creativity not because they're less talented, but because the culture doesn't help bring ideas to fruition.
Ever looked into Cython? http://www.cython.org/

Sage (a open source replacement for matlab) uses it quite successfully for speeding up critical paths.
... This is totally stupid.

Issues;
1) Battery life
2) Heavy CPU/Memory Usage
3) Decreased device life (due to heavy usage)
4) Potential of overheating -- heavy usage combined with no fans
5) Most smart phones don't support it
6) Most phones have small storage capacity
7) Who wants their company running all their stuff on their phone then having to switch to a different VM to use your phone?

Companies stop being cheap and just give the staff that need it a phone with remote wipe just encase. Problem solved.
What furthers US interests furthers Good; the US is Good and its purposes noble; the US acts for the Good of the world and disagreement with the US is Evil.

As a democracy, Americans elect their officials. As leaders of a force for Good, these officials act with noble purposes; embarrassing them hurts Good and is therefore Evil.
The dour face on the always-present screen is such an enduring image of totalitarianism in our culture -- the first thing I thought of was Dr. Breen. More than likely, though, this will be softened with animated graphics, music, and special guests in between the dour headshots of the Secretary.
This is the source of the diabetes numbers: http://www.internalmedicinenews.com/single-view/marijuana-sm...

Unfortunately I don't have any access to journal articles right now beyond what's available for free. As for the IQ study, they are defining a joint as .7 grams, which is much larger than a normal joint; I'd speculate that the reason NIDA defines a joint as being .7 grams is that they are attempting to increase the number of studies showing that marijuana is harmful. To put this in context, the average portable vaporizor holds about .1 grams. A recreational user who started as an adult probably vapes on average .05-.1 grams per session, whereas a medical user probably only vapes .02-.05 grams unless they have severe pain. Which means that you could vape 7-14 times per day recreationally or 14-35 times medically and still be considered a light smoker. (The exception on recreational smoking is users who started smoking before age 16, who typically smoke 3-5x as much as those who started later.)

As for all of the other claims, they are readily available via Google. For example, if you search for Marijuana + Anti-angiogenic then the first result is this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiogenesis_inhibitor

This then links to an academic study, which then links to other similar research. I will however point you to this podcast, which is an excellent overview of the medicinal properties of marijuana. The post also has tons of links to medical studies and other sources.

http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=258#more-258

Also here is a pretty good list of all of the studies that have been done with marijuana on different kinds of cancer:

http://www.mountainmedicals.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/g...

There have literally been over 20,000 studies done to establish the safety and efficacy of marijuana, so it's pretty easy to find whatever you're looking for.
No, I said that like there's a recklessly selfish spectrum and this is pegged near one end with driving while extremely intoxicated, habitually using heroin, etc. At the other end are mildly selfish acts.

Playing an X-box is a mildly selfish act. It's fun, but probably isn't a real big win for family, friends, society, etc. Not too damaging to them, though, unless done in excess.

Getting massively drunk and then driving your sports car around risks bystanders (sherpas), your life (causing sorrow and hardship for friends and family), and society (cleaning you and your victims off of the road cost money and time).
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Googling "everest base camp trek" will dig up all sorts of information. There are several adventure travel companies that offer treks of this sort - typically you'll go in a group of around 10 other travelers plus your local guides. If you're on a tight budget, flying into Kathmandu and booking the trip yourself with a local company can be much cheaper, it'll just require a bit more effort. Depending on the time of year you go, it can either be busy with many other trekking/mountaineering groups, or it could just be yourselves. You don't need to be superhuman to finish the trek, but you do need determination and a relatively good level of fitness.

One drawback with booking a set itinerary is that if your body doesn't take to the altitude well and you need more time to acclimatize, it could jeopardize your trip. Within a group of 10, a couple people likely will not make it all of the way to base camp and will need to stop. If that worries you, finding a more flexible itinerary will let you travel at a slower pace if need be.

This is the sort of scenery you can expect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ZPYwlj4bc
> "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Actually, what he was really trying to say was "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to YOUR death your right to say it."
>ISP that is also a jury to content that is not a clear case is evil.

User: Amazon, I found child pornography on one of your hosted pages.
Amazon: Sorry we're not legal experts we'll keep the content until a court case delivers a verdict.

Yeah, right.

You're living in cloud cuckoo land if you believe that an ISP has to forgo all moral judgement on content and only remove or deny hosting if something is proven to be illegal.
I think your analogy is flawed. Are Chinese and Swedish diplomats figuring out how to extradite Assange to America?

I am not inclined to uncritically believe Assange since he misled us about the nature of the charges against him.
There are a lot of decisions that affect the risk level. This is the same with any activity. Cutting edge climbs generally involve enough "risky" decisions to be considered dangerous, I have lost too many friends to claim otherwise. But there is a lot of "serious looking" climbing, including quite a lot at high altitude as well as very technical routes that can be done at a risk level similar to non-"extreme" activities.

Accidents on hard routes are either because of objective hazard (e.g. climbing underneath a serac, an obvious hazard that the climbers chose to accept because they thought the route was "worth it") or human error (e.g. rappelling accident). You choose where to climb and you assess conditions. Some hazards are hard to assess (avalanches from slopes that you cannot evaluate), but most accidents related to objective hazard involve a specific decision that was known by the participants to be risky.

It is not the case that choosing to attempt a big objective involves an especially large risk. But if you never make risky decisions, then you are likely to fail at your objective (maybe climb something less impressive). The trick the prolific climbers who make it to old age have mastered is evaluating risk sufficiently accurately to get the big lines without dying. There are a couple who were just lucky, but by and large, luck runs out eventually so you have to be good at assessing risk.
> If you want to go with the conspiracy theory that the CIA bribed two Swedish women to file false charges against Julian Assange just to stop Wikileaks, that's up to you.

I intend no such thing.
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Thanks. I just turned KeepAlive off.

(Edit: I don't think this was the original problem, since when the site went down the CPU was in fact pegged. Regardless, it sounds like I should have KeepAlive off.)
Seems like it should.
Ask HN: What is the deal with hating Flash?
I am in the process of building a RIA that will involve various media types and creating an interactive presentation out of them. We are doing it in Flash. It's faster and simpler to code with a universal support by desktop systems where this app is targeted to be used. In discussing it with the various digerati as oon as Flash is mentioned it's like I've stepped in dog poo and noses get all scrunched up. There simply isn't an elegant HTML5 solution for this task at the time. I'd be happy to support the iPad and Jobs mafia in the future when this all gets cleared up but, as we've seen, a great majority of Flash dependent applications (Youtube and their interactions, Viddler and their comment system, and recently Grooveshark and their actual file player) cannot be done in anything but Flash if they're to be as interactive and reliable.

Am I wrong? Has anyone seen any really good interactive multimedia RIAs done in something outside Flash?
> To assume that native is always better is dismissing the massive value provided by web-based.

Massive value to whom?

We all know the value to the developer. I'm not disputing the current cost savings of webapps, though it will quickly become irrelevant as native app dev/distribution costs plummet.

But is there any value to the customer? There used to be a lot more. Sure was convenient to be able to log in to your email from any computer. That was until you started to read all your email on your phone that you carry with you all the time.

The web interface isn't going to disappear, but it will become the secondary way to interact with apps. Right now it is still the primary for many apps like Facebook and Flickr. That is changing.
$100 says this doesn't go a year before some hacker makes those displays play out the V for Vendetta broadcast monologue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqi8m4CEEY
The default thread count for Apache is 256 is it not? I know we can't handle millions (and I can't speak for how Apache itself with threads) but servers running thousands of threads are not only possible, but exist and work well. Whichever way you do it (threads or events) at some point you will hit a limit.

I see Slowloris as an "attack amplifier" - it's a way to do a lot more damage with N connections than a straightforward DDOS. In some situations, it's possible to deny access to a server with just just one.
I think this requires a bit of context. I was troubleshooting a mysql query when I discovered the text at the bottom of the linked page: "In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org." That links to the takedown ( http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=30399 ).

Upon reading the takedown, I don't actually see Google listed by name, so this piqued my interest and I'm wondering if any HNers know more about this.
Failure rate alone isn't enough to compare climbing Everest and running a startup. The cost of failure on Everest is ultimate, but the cost of failure in a startup is temporary and economic.
Can't we push for an open government without extremes?

I'm not sure that we can. On the one side, we have well intentioned individuals who forthrightly believe that secrecy is the only way to protect our freedoms and way of life, and whom will stop at nothing keep anything detrimental to that goal from being revealed to the public and our "enemies". On the other, you have equally well-intentioned people who, for the most part, acknowledge that there are things that are completely reasonable to keep secret but that most things probably oughtn't. To have an open government balanced correctly, we need transparency extremists. Otherwise, the balance of power is wholly on the side of people who want to keep secrets, leaving us with a less open, less transparent government.
> Mercurial users use MQ for this process, and to me it seems like it's a better and safer method with an uglier UI.

MQ lets you do the exact same thing as the interactive rebase. It's not like it forces you to go back and ensure every single patch is correct after you've qfolded some together or reordered them.

> You can `hg qpop` back to the beginning of the set, run your tests, fix anything that's broken and add it into the patch. Then you would `hg qpush` the next patch and do the same thing.

And you can do the exact same thing with your git commits before pushing them, last time i checked MQ had `qpush -a` and did not force you to run your tests between two qpushs.

> Yes, it's more work

Indeed. And if you have no problem with that more work, you can do it just as well with git. MQ doesn't magically make people care.

> If someone tells you changeset X has problem Y, you can just `hg qpop` back to the patch, fix Y, refresh the patch with that change, and retest/resend.

No you can't. Because if it's a changeset (rather than a patch in a series) then you've already qfinished it and pushed it to a public repository, and you're now rewriting public history.

I don't like git for a number of reasons, but this is a terrible strawman: git provides all the tools needed to ensure each and every commit is correct (whereas bazaar, for instance, doesn't. Not without untold amounts of pain anyway), and I've seen a number of blag posts and comments which recommended exactly that approach: tinker on your local branch, rewrite to your heart's content, and before you push anything to remote test each commit individually. There is nothing which prevents you from doing that, just as there is nothing that forces you to do that with mercurial.
It's tend-able not ten-able. I thought the same when I first read this too.
Tend to as taking care of business
I see only an option to buy the print version. Is there an electronic version coming out anytime?
Steve Jobs doesn't like milk.
The basic argument is "design a protocol (damn-it)".

I agree with this point, I've made it here and I don't think I'm the only one.

But everyone knows the Diaspora folks went the "product first, protocol later" route and a fair number of people agree this approach. So it's a disingenuous little to act "oh, they made a basic mistake so it just won't work." They went a route, at least, that lots of people think will work. It's not like they used hard coded eight-bit node identifiers, had each node multi-cast its information or some other design decision would guarantee things couldn't work.
There are very few places left unexplored by the human race on this planet.

Actually, IIRC, most of our oceans are completely unexplored.
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Just to be a devil's advocate, void main(void) can be correct when programming microcontrollers & other embedded applications.

With GCC, you can even set `void main(void) __attribute__((noreturn));` .

(For the lack of a better source, http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/porting.html )
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And twitter.
They haven't shut down the wikileaks account, and my wild guess is that it's not because nobody is pressuring them too.
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I'm simply pointing out that there are people that despise the West, and it's bad enough that we have to take it from them...we shouldn't have to take it from our own people too.

Despise is perhaps too strong a word, particularly in regards to "our own people". But regardless, what if there are very good reasons to despise the West? Everything the West does is not ok simply because you and I live in it. A good portion of the enemies you're referring to have very valid grievances with the West. That their tactics for dealing with those grievances are not my tactics (or Wikileaks tactics) does not in any way deter from the validity of their grievances (or mine).
> and I imagine JS can't ever quite go that fast

I'm not the most knowledgeable person on the subject, but from what i understand, there is no theoretical reason that JS couldn't go that fast. The two languages are more similar than they are different, even if JavaScript is quite more complex.

I remember Mike Pall saying something similar in an LTU thread some time ago.
That's not really a counterexample, at least not to the claim you're disagreeing with. He was not just lucky, but he was nonetheless quite lucky. If apparently solid ground had just given way under Jerzy Kukuczka or the terrain above him had come crashing down on his head, or the temperature had suddenly dropped a lot further, he still would have died, wouldn't he?
Your Mac takes time to startup even with an SSD?
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Analogies have limited reach, agreed :) The script has changed a bit now. It is the US & UK diplomats working secretly. Since they are working secretly, we do not know what they are trying to do, but it is quite possible they are not thinking of his welfare.
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