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Adjusting a Wordpress site or spinning up an EC2 instance sounds firmly within the job descriptions of an "IT operations manager", who clearly would not like the title "assistant".

Just for what it's worth. Nobody is saying you're crazy for wanting to hire that person.
Right. They have to take action upon receipt of a notice. And they're not liable for what happens before being notified.
> proggit

One too many Gs: progit.org
why? I guess it depends on the value you put on design...
I have paid Slicehost a premium for a few years to avoid having to spend expensive engineer time on a migration to an unproven system which will almost certainly require downtime and break something in production. This announcement is absence-of-happy for me.

I respect the desire to EOL an old product line holding up dev schedules, but this email has a lot of things which scare me (multi month dialogue about migration? Translation: "hit a button to reboot server" is not in the cards.) It also doesn't identify any benefit for me to stay: Rackspace's dev problems are not my problems because, prior to this email, my servers worked.
We really don't know anything about this woman's financial situation apart from the fact that she's on a disability pension. A fine of $200K may not be "destroying her" financially. (Remember, this is Australia, where it's hard to buy a house for under a million dollars nowadays...)
I think you might be jumping the gun here a little, nobody said any major changes will be happening to the Mono project, this article has not even been confirmed yet.
Indeed, my experience is the same. Years ago I tried to sell my 1.5 year old MacBook white (back when it was still the regular consumer model). I could only get a bit more than half of the purchase price. The trick in the article may work sell before the end of the cycle), but I don't want to align to Apple's cycle. What if the cycle is probably going to end, and you have some deadlines?

I concluded that the resale price is too low for such good-quality and durable hardware that I decided I'd rather give my older hardware to family or friends for free or a small compensation. Making someone happy with a good MacBook or Mac Mini is worth more.
Definitely a prank. But the whole point of Banksy's career is to blur the lines between art and prank. And really, a found urinal that Duchamp autographed with someone else's name? That isn't even original at this point? That's not a prank? :-)

The movie definitely grows in value when you realize there's a huge real-life prank going on, and that no-one is quite sure exactly what it is. Kind of like not being sure if you're on a seedy street or in an art gallery. But that's a big part of the feeling that street art is supposed to give you, as nearly as I can tell, and Banksy and Fairey are at the top of the game at it.

For me, one of the big mysteries is who actually made the movie. You mean to tell me that Banksy and Shepard Fairey made that? It's a very well-done movie. It sets off new and old footage really well. It's engaging and provocative. So they do street art very well, and are really good at making films? Seems to much to hope for, but it certainly could be true. That's part of the fun, I think. :-)
Native isn't available in their London DC yet. Doesn't matter though. I've been using a free IPv6 tunnel broker whos end point is less than 1ms away from my Linode:

http://tunnelbroker.net/
Build a shed? Obviously you do not know about Yucca Mountain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_re...
The way doctors think is radically different from the way engineers (who build the tools) think. We need somebody like Steve Jobs in healthcare.
You know, given that you submitted five similar doom-and- gloom links within five minutes today, I was curious about your submission history.

These kind of pessimistic news links to common news sources are all you appear to submit.

Maybe you could think of a way to more concisely enlighten us about what axe you want to misuse HN to endlessly grind.
Now that this has happened, and both the MNO and the power company are trying to prevent it happening again, that would suggest they are changing the service, and thus the lawyers will be called back in again to amend the service agreement accordingly. Ignoring the costs associated with both the potential extra PR costs in cleaning this up, the costs associated with IT or modification to meters either installed or otherwise, or the costs with the power company's representation during the court case I could imagine that this return visit by the lawyers wouldn't be put onto the MNO's bill entirely, nor would they be getting a discount compared to the smaller amount of time I assume it would take to define the preventative requirements as part of the agreement before it was finalised.
I'm really shocked that it took them that long to hire an assistant. It would be very difficult to think creatively with all of those trivial concerns in one's head.
Wow, just one IPv6 address for free, pay for the rest.

Granted, you're paying for addresses pooled among hosts with failover, which could be well worth paying for.

But come on Linode, a single IPv6 address allocation is ridiculous.

Update: Found this post by caker (linode guy) http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=7055&highlight=i...

He mentions a third option involving a /64, does not mention if it will cost extra:

"We'll also be rolling out support to have an entire /64 routed to one of your IPv6 Linodes, which you can then route wherever you please."
This is a reaction to my current frustration. My ex-partner said ideas are only worth 2%, technology 5% and implementation 93%. But he wants to know if he take the idea and continue to work on it on his own.

So I said "If ideas are so cheap, why don't you think of a better one?" <crickets>

It's getting to the point where people say it without thinking.
You might check out http://www.mono-project.com/Software and http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono
An important piece to this that isn't mentioned is filing bug reports, good bug reports. If you track down where some fails, figure out why, and find the smallest, easiest set of steps to reproduce, you have helped the developers a lot. Even you don't know how to fix it, or know that the fix is not trivial, the developer now has a great place to start.

I have created several bug reports for Django where I pointed where it fails and even offered "bad" solutions in the description. I rarely provide a true patch because I don't have the latest of Django and rarely have the time to check it out, create a patch and tests. In the few cases that I have, my patch hasn't been used because the developers, in the wisdom, found better solution, usually very similar to mine, but more thought out or handling other cases I wasn't aware of. This doesn't bother me, because the developers are never hostile over proposed solutions, in fact they have been appreciative for the help in a starting point.
The power company is presumably already forking over a huge amount of money to Telstra every month for data. This one event would have been a spike, but not a crazy dominant one.

If you or I accidentally ran up $200K in charges due to somebody stealing our SIM then yes, we could probably negotiate it down. In a big-business-to-big-business context, though, Telstra is as likely as not to say "Hey look, that's what the contract says, you signed it, so suck it".

Without any information to the contrary, I'm willing to believe that if the court decided that the actual damages to the power company were $183,000, then the actual damages were $183,000.
> I do not accept the notion that these are remotely comparable situations.

So you don't think that the power company got screwed here? We both know that it's unlikely that some random woman is going to be able to pay back a sum like that.

Would it really be so reasonable to expect the phone company to do something to at least warn people, whether businesses or private citizens, who are suddenly racking up over a hundred thousand dollars in charges from one phone so that they can do something about the bill?
But isn't it likely that the meter owner might strike a deal for thousands of devices which each send a very minor bit of data once or four times a month, and be able to structure that contract a little differently?
how do you get them in front of it? I am reluctant to "make" my 9 yo or 6 yo do it, but it competes with flash games and whatever else they find online.

In a related question, do you use OpenDNS or any other access controls?
Sure, but I imagine that actually working on the Linux kernel, making and testing patches, submitting them, and having them accepted was much more difficult.

Yes, they turned out okay, but that doesn't mean it wasn't much more difficult, right?
It should be fairly easy to write a parser for the page if one doesn't exist now.

Check out beautiful soup: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.h... HTML

(I'll play with this for a bit, if you don't want to)
Looks like the 5GB cap is for data only devices.

> 3G: 5GB while on network and 300 MB while off network.

http://shop2.sprint.com/en/solutions/mobile_broadband/mobile...
Excuse me, but if a nuclear plant pollutes, specifically in the form of un-contained radiation, that's considered a failure, right?
I don't think anyone would argue that drugs is the answer for everybody.

Perhaps some people are blessed with the creativity and vision to see a blank canvas as full of ideas. Other people have to resort to aids to get to that point. Yet otherer people probably couldn't get there even with aids.
I think everybody here agrees that she committed a crime. The discussion is whether the punishment is fair or not.
Only true if your traffic was below a certain amount of the maximum traffic included in Slicehost's monthly fee.
Don't underestimate how many people want a Mac or want to try a Mac, but cannot or do not want to spend the 'entrance fee'.

From this perspective it's a shame that lowest-spec Mac Mini is more expensive than the previous generation. The 'white' Mac Mini sold for 499 Euro in The Netherlands, while the aluminum Mini is 699 Euro. This excludes many families with a lower income.
With any luck, Google has negotiated for something in return that will benefit end-users. Namely, that these carriers (ahem... Verizon) will agree to always offer the latest pure Google experience device.

Most likely, Google has negotiated something that advances better/broader net access over the long-term - as this would also align with their own business interests. It's difficult to believe that threats alone could have forced Google's hand.

As far as tethering goes, this seems to be exactly what the spectrum auction reserve price was designed to protect. Second, tethering apps can still be installed, just not via market. While this may be a minor inconvenience, I'm not all that concerned. Big picture/long-term, ubiquitous network access will be critical enough to the global economy, individual health and national security that it will no longer make sense to keep in the hands of private corporate interests within the current regulatory structure.
I sincerely hope that this is mostly a generational thing. Younger people (<30) have a drastically different ethical valuation of copyright related issues. Older people (>45-50) who still make up a large number of the judges who field these cases and executives who feel strongly about being infringed upon, have a different valuation. Unfortunately, they have a disproportionate amount of the power. I think that over time, the idea that posting someone else's picture on your blog is worthy of a lawsuit will become laughable and more cases will be dismissed by more understanding judges and less people will try to bring these suits. This may not be the case, but I think it will prove to be one of those fundamental differences between those of us who grew up in the internet age vs. those who wrapped their old moral/ethical framework around it.
Are they just thumbing the nose at rackspace/slicehost here? I'm amused either way. They should offer a credit or discount for switching right now. I think it'd convert like mad.
On the same day that Slicehost announced that it will move into Rackspace because of the transition to IPv6… What are the odds?
I say is telecom should not be allow to gouge consumers. They should not charge consumer an amount that is clearly not agreed upon.

If you have misconfigured an app on your phone and it run up $10,000 network charge in month. Will you hand over your $10,000 to the phone company? Do you think this is a fair charge?

Cap the telco off how much they can charge unless authorized. I think this is most fair for both party. Telco can cut off access, but no to gouge consumer.
This article is astonishingly biased. It brushes off the important "escape valve" of fair use like this:

Eric Goldman, director of the high-tech law institute at the Santa Clara University School of Law, said reposting published material online could qualify as "fair use" if it didn’t diminish the market value of the original. Other critics of the suits contend that reposting material for the purposes of discussion does not constitute infringement.

That brush off both misleads and diminishes the purpose of fair use. Fair use isn't not-for-profit, it's for the purpose of education, criticism and some other things. Fair use isn't just "a small piece", either. Recently, reposting of an entire article was found to constitute fair use.

The "critics contend" part seems particularly misleading, in that fair use is a part of both case and statute law. It's not some lame-o pundit's opinion, it's the law.

Unfortunately, you have to actually go to trial to get a fair use judgement, and that's where the anti-free-speech nature of "copyright infringement" shows up. Without a presumption of fair use, the government-granted monopoly of copyright impedes free speech.
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Uber: Me and my Driver... ish.
So there's multiple tiers being used in the demo. Nodeler itself is just for Node A finding Node B. Developers are free to define their own protocols to communicate between Nodes.

An add-on for developers will be the "Nodeler Central" communication servers which uses Node.js to accept web socket or tcp socket connections to create real-time communication between Nodes. This is what the demo apps are using.

Pretty much everything so far is javascript and C#.

More about the technologies is covered towards the bottom of this blog post:
http://blog.cdeutsch.com/2011/05/introducing-nodeler.html
It wasn't much more difficult.

It just wasn't as good looking.
a bit cheaper on average when converting slicehost to rackspace, but not universally so. $20/mo slice, for example, converts to somewhere between $0 ($11 if you estimate 100% uptime) and $38 on the rackspace plan. its kind of dependent upon what you're doing and still a roll of the dice.

not cheaper at all when converting slicehost to linode or some of the other competitors.
She is a clueless, poor person.

There's no indication that she's clueless or poor. A clueless person probably wouldn't have any use for the insane amount of data she downloaded. And a court probably wouldn't impose a $183,000 fine on a person who was both poor and disabled.

She's on a disability pension, but disability pensions aren't means-tested.
Are you talking about a site that discusses the practice of medicine, or more the business of medicine?

I'm not aware of any large sites that discuss either in a format similar to HN.
The difficult part is in understanding and working with the code. The rest is 'transaction costs', which are certainly lower with github, but IMO not that big a deal compared to getting difficult C code right.
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Hmmm... Apple.com before the shiny black bar?
When you lend a person your gun and he goes on to shoot someone, you're not liable (in general; there are some notable exceptions). The question is whether the thing you own was instrumental in the perpetration of the crime or whether it could have easily been replaced by another instance of the same thing.

In case of the dog and the tile, it was the things themselves that caused the damage, unguided by a human. In case of the car, the law is there for convenience purposes: they can only trace it to you and to be able to fine speeding, it cannot be otherwise. Those seem like the usual cases, but they are actually special cases. The usual case is you lending a book, a glass of water, a gun. If someone uses the knowledge, the water or the gun to cause harm, they are liable.

With ubiquitous free wifi, your AP is not instrumental in the perpetration of a crime. The criminal could easily have gone elsewhere; that makes you a non-accessory. Of course, IANAL. But see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term). I do not see how providing internet access could possibly make you an accessory to a crime.
I've always considered laptops to be disposable computers.

Are the people buying used, at a student discount price, really getting a machine of that value? If it's out of warranty, any small hardware problem means disposal.

Apple certainly has a strong brand with high perceived reliability. That's not value. Here's the rub: Warranty extends to the expected life of the machine, set by the producer of said product.

Everything else is brand loyalty.
Your rational argument would better apply, I think, to a black-hat hacker (say geohot, not totally blackhat but is a recent example) rather than poor, uneducated woman with bipolar disorder with a history of abuse.
Someone else looked up Telstra pricing and got an estimate of 90GB.

http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/plans/phone_plan.html

They charge more like $2/MB. Sadly, Australia absolutely sucks in terms of internet access costs.
I would be interested in both. I'm here talking about Medicine in general.
As I said elsewhere, even on Telstra's most data-generous plan they charge $69 a month for the first twelve gigs and fifty bucks a gig after that.

Basically they have a pretty tenuous, very expensive 3G network to serve an enormous sparsely populated area and they really don't want people to use it to download large amounts of data. They're happy to sell you a wired link for that purpose.
Admittedly, I haven't read the Chicago Manual of Style in a while, but when did it become acceptable to use "pwn" in a headline without quotes?
> Can I get more than one IPv6 address?
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> A single IPv6 address can be assigned to your Linode for free.

I hope this is a misunderstanding -- if not, it's actually a huge step backwards. The current solution for IPv6 in linode (HE tunnel to static IPv4 address) gives each node a full /64. It could be argued that this is a bit excessive, but it seems fairly typical, and lets you do useful things like serve multiple SSL sites from a single host without bothering with SNI.
It's not just this. The lack of a clear plan/solution for going forward regarding the new Xcode/IB single IDE; the solution to keep using the previous version just isn't ideal. I've seen a few times in the past 6 months where major changes dropped and users were asking for really basic info/response on forums and got nothing. I'm just going to stick it out with obj-c.
That's really neat. I was able to explore and find some things I hadn't yet found. One thing I'd like is for it to show which ones I've visited. Another thing is to be able to explore common libraries outside of clojure-core and clojure-contrib.
I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I was accusing the commenter upthread of framing this as if it was a civil matter.
The problem is that we become focused and attached to ideas. It becomes hard to seriously consider other ideas once you've fallen in love with one. We lose objectivity.
Well they also give you a single IPv4 address, and they scale it proportionally for IPv6. This is just like having one IPv4 address times one IPv4 address times one IPv4 address times one IPv4 address.
It's not clear to me how you defined "happiness" on the vertical axis. Can you elaborate more on that?
yesimahuman: Despite what you have heard, that is something that is scheduled to change. Take a look at http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/03/21/announcing-ra... This will be the foundation for a brand new DNS Manager in the Control Panel, and it will give you the ability to script your changes!
I really do not buy the oft repeated maxim that ideas are cheap. I think one reason for this thinking is because unless an idea is converted to an actual product there is no way to tell if it is good. But just because we can't judge whether an idea is good - does not mean ideas are cheap and worthless either. I think this notion was made popular by investors and VCs, and it makes sense in their cases - as they make nothing from mere ideas - only from products that sell. Outside the domain of startups and VCs, ideas are very precious indeed - just ask scientists who work on ideas that can create brand new industries. Quantum physics was just an idea with equations - but we would not have any of modern electronics, lasers, computers or mobile phones. Which brings us to tbe second part of your question - why can't we think of better ones. My theory is that the human brain is wired to perceive what exists and act on it, whereas innovation requires perceving what does not exist and seeing the gaps. It is much harder for the human brain to focus on this. Which is why it is easier to improve upon what already exists than it is to create a brand new product.
Reminds me of stories about casinos who pump additional pure oxygen into the air to make gamblers feel "more alive and awake" while they're there (and thus experiencing a low when they leave).
That's great, exactly the sort of experience I was hoping to hear about! :-D

I have a number of ideas about how to sanely scale things up to support arbitrary third-party libraries.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. This is why I read HN.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I detect a note of disparagement toward our civil servants who have signed up for a job that puts them in harm's way. Maybe, as a military veteran, I'm over-sensitive/biased, but the tone is unnecessary to your point.

That said, I totally agree, and the thought occurred to me, too, while reading tfa that these recordings should be publicly available if not broadcast in real time.
>It's been hard to hire an assistant!

The problem you are having, I think, is that you are hiring someone who is not trained as an assistant, and expecting them to become an assistant with little training.

This would be like hiring a smart guy right out of law school and then complaining that he didn't know bash or something. I mean, if you can make it through law school, I think you can pick up bash, but it is irrational to think the person will be good at it the first day, you know?

I mean, I'm not saying you made a poor choice of assistant; I've had luck with people of similar backgrounds; but if the person hasn't done the particular job you need done before, well, you are going to have to train that person; training takes time and effort.

I know you want someone who "gets things done" - the problem is, everyone wants a different level of control in different situations. I mean, personally, I like someone else to 'just deal with' the money side of things. If we're running out, lemme know and I'll go get some contract gigs. But first, most people are pretty uncomfortable spending other people's money, so reassurances need to be made. And next, even I have some strong opinions once it gets down to the wire; (I mean, until you run out, money doesn't matter... but at that point? it becomes a very big deal) I had one assistant who would pay debt before payroll. So it's like "yeah, I want you to 'just take care of it' but I also want you to do what I think is the right thing."

being an assistant is hard.