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The server administration information on slicehost has been real useful for me, I hope they port that documentation over and it doesn't get lost. The articles were basically my introduction to setting up a web server, db , and installing language packages.
How exactly do you calculate what a profit margin for Telstra is? This I'm honestly curious about, as it seems to come off as rather kneejerk, more "this is what I think you _deserve_" than "this is what was agreed to as part of the contract that governed the use of this device."

Personally, I find the market value of the service - i.e., the stated rates of the contract - to be a reasonable starting point. If one finds this to be too high, perhaps one should not have stolen things in the first place.
My solution is the people for nuclear power and those that build the plant, must live next to it.

Their solution is to turn off your electricity. Hope you enjoy your hand-cranked laptop.
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Guilty as charged your honor! But I do understand punk culture ie just do it, end result matters more than credentials. Any relation?
But I do NOT believe in a staged/waterfall model. It is not an either/or. Or at least some people hope there is something that avoids the perils of each,\.
Not to mention the generous amount of non-nuclear catastrophic industrial events that already happen from time to time. Oddly enough, nuclear still has a worse reputation than hidroelectric energy, the chemical industry or coal burning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease
Since it's better to just get started, the best date in any particular year is clearly January 1.
I have both Slicehost and Rackspace Cloud servers. I'm hoping they bring in more features from the Slicehost control panel, and the migrations will be nothing more than moving images around on their backend (Yeah, right). One big thing missing in Rackspace Cloud servers is the ability to separate billing from technical accounts, and being able to delegate technical control to a different account. This was one of the best features for Slicehost, allowing independent contractors to push out a site, but have billing done through the site owners. Domain names isn't an issue for me (I use DNSMadeEasy) but I can see how it would be a bigger deal later.

Lesser features -- Slicehost has several kernel versions available. Rackspace Cloud does not. Slicehost control panel's UX is just much better.

In spite of all this, I've been moving as many of my customer's servers over to Rackspace for a while now. Most of them don't need the extra bandwidth you get for the slice, making Rackspace Cloud much cheaper when you add in backup images.

IPv6 is a big deal though. Everyone's going to have to touch their long-running servers sometime before the end of this year. With IPv6 Day closing in this June and the eventual migration of residential broadband to IPv6, this is one of those inevitable things that isn't going to magically go away.
The title is somewhat misleading. It's a theoretical explanation of why moral hazard induced by insurance may not be inefficient.

A more interesting assumption made by this theoretical argument is that it measures efficiently a bit differently than most arguments on health care. Namely, it treats health care itself as a desirable consumer good - if a consumer would willingly spend $10k on a medical procedure with no health benefits, it would be efficient for insurance to pay for this.

This is probably why this analysis differs from other similar analyses of the efficiency of insurance - most other studies attempt to measure health outcomes rather than revealed consumer preferences.

Interesting article, regardless.
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that would be:

exec sp_executesql N'SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = @id', N'@id INT', @id=1
Sorry but when you're too corrupt and incompetent to find the world's most hated man living in a mansion near your most elite military academy--well you lose the right to complain that someone finally intervened and put down a mass murderer.
Here is a map that may be helpful: http://hotspotr.com/wifi/map/115-new-york-ny
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Just curious, why isn't it?
I agree for the most part, and I apologise if I came off over strong in my last post.

For what it's worth I have spent a great deal of time in the company of such people. Perhaps it's the case that the majority are simply living in a deluded drug-addled mist, and certainly a great many are hedonists first and last, and would be happy to admit it.

The thing is though, I see a lot of false enlightenment everywhere. There are whole swathes of people who would consider themselves spiritual for one reason or another but don't seem the least bit capable of critical thinking, open mindedness, introspection or subtlety. Ultimately, dogmatic ideology has stunted more people's personal development than drugs ever will. Not to mention the billions murdered over the centuries.

Yet in any community you will find deeply thoughtful individuals who have clearly gained and grown a great deal from their experiences and beliefs. For this reason I cannot bring myself to write any tool of potential enlightenment off, no matter what the behaviour of the average user, or if it comes in the form of scripture or white powder.
yes but they still had a 31% increase in earnings
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110429/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_mic...
I've have panic attacks like the OP. They lasted pretty strongly for a year, then tapered off. Treatment: Basically, lots of benzos (Xanax) that I titrated myself off of over time. (Xanax is a much lower risk drug than some of the powerful ones a psych might prescribe (SSRIs, for example)). For years though, I couldn't do anything that put me in an altered state. Even taking Benadryl to sleep (which makes you groggy at first), would make me freak out. Even a tiny hit of pot would make me get all scared. Apart from taking Xanax on-demand, it just mostly went away...

I still keep Xanax in my pocket (I think everyone should, to be able to remain clear headed if a panic situation arises), but hardly ever need them.
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Given how exciting Khan Academy is, Mozilla could still be pretty darn awesome and not stack up.
The article in Wikipedia says he was "one of the most prolific publishers of papers in mathematical history", that doesn't mean he was the most prolific mathematician of all time.

What about Euler[1] for example? (I don't think he used drugs though)

Anyway, I agree with your comment in the sense that intelligence, talent or success are not mutually exclusive with drugs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
I found this guy’s story inspirational. To me the story isn’t him not taking the million dollars but that he channeled Jesus to solve the problem.
It would have been far more interesting if a Math Dunce had solved it.
There's Arduino Lisp, a Common Lisp (sort of) to Arduino C++ translator:

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,55873.0.html
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Probably something like this: http://www.photron.com/index.php?cmd=products
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Basically the copyright equivilent of patent trolls, how lovely.
I enjoyed your analysis James.
I was also struck by that picture, and it remained vividly in my mind for longer than I expected it to.

Thanks for sharing!
> making a change to a stored procedure's signature. In order to change it, you have to change all of the clients that talk to it at the exact same time.

Assuming all of your clients are all server-side (ie, servlets) and are also in source control, this should not be an issue.

If you have thick clients accessing SQL functions directly, you have a bigger problem (client-server... ugh) that browsers have solved.

If you have multiple servers talking to each other, you still have a version of the "thick client" problem, namely enterprise integration... for which there are intermediary APIs.
Yes of course...
As soon as you collect all those carbon-dioxides you seem to have misplaced in my atmosphere.
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Hi everyone,

Post author here - as ever, if you have any questions or want any clarifications, please feel free to ask away :)

Tom.
Eropple: As is likely apparent, I am of the opinion that the thief should be forced to make good on her damages. They are not illusory damages; _someone_ will be made less than whole if the thief is not expected to provide compensation. And, no, I don't expect her to pay it back. But it is her obligation to make whole those she has wronged. Doing otherwise is neither reasonable nor fair.

Keyword: damages. Damages are not the same thing as missing out on an opportunity for profit through means of extortion.

Sure, she should pay for her damages caused to Telstra--they just need to give her an itemized receipt of expenses that she caused the company. This might include the amortized cost of hardware, maintenance, support staff, etc. However, these costs would certainly not include Telstra's insane profit margins. The purpose of most legal systems (Australia's too, I hope) is to maintain justice, not to serve as an alternative means of doing business. Somehow, I think Telstra might come up with a slightly smaller figure than 193k if required to itemize their damages.
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This is cool but I have a question I rarely see explained here on HN or elsewhere: How do you actually get in front of an Angel or VC to show them your deck/demo?

Assuming that one like myself (a) lives outside SV but can visit easily, (b) has past experience and moderate success bootstrapping, and (c) knows absolutely no one in the angel/VC circles ... how would you setup a 3 to 5-day visit to SV in order to pitch potential investors?

Will Ryan Spoon (who wrote this post) even reply to my email? Or is this advise only for those who are 2 degrees of separation from him?
It's not like coal's figures have deaths attributable to massive CO2 emissions dramatically changing the climate over the next couple centuries factored into them either.
It's ironic the same crowd sneers at people taking advice from Jenny McCarthy and Oprah Winfrey on vaccination and autism.
Your English is a bit bad; I mean no offense by that but simply that I am not sure exactly what you are trying to say.

I just tested it (I had to disable Google Instant in my settings to test it) and the I'm Feeling Lucky button works perfectly fine for me, just like it always did.

Is this something that has since been fixed, perhaps maybe it is a bug in a regional non-US version of their search page? Or am I simply misunderstanding what you are posting?
You can tell when a cell phone provider is in desperate straits - they're forced to please customers, instead of screwing them out of every last penny.

I don't expect these policies to survive a merger with AT&T.
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And if you like A State of Trance, give the http://di.fm Trance channel a try. A State of Trance is just one of the recurring sets they play.
Yes, but StackOverflow does have a DBA, and very good one at that: http://www.brentozar.com/

I guess he doesn't deal w/ this level of optimization, or it never hit his radar.
Is there a comparison in term of cost/risk among all major energy source? Cost includes production and risk mitigation, and the health cost.
They are probably the best option if you are going to run openbsd or freebsd on a vps, though if you are going for linux I would say my experience with prgmr (for a similar price range) was much better than arpnetworks and if you want support/dns you should go with linode.
I don't understand why this comment was downvoted. The author, in the updated post to this article, said "I was wrong." http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/anatomy-...

Unsurprisingly, it was not maliciously intended, it was just misattributed. As McArdle acknowledges, a facebook user had posted the first sentence, followed by the King quotation in quotations marks. When retweeted, the quotation marks were dropped (apparently to fit Twitter's character limit, according to McArdle).

You might think that its unfair criticism of an author for sharing a quick thought on a blog, or for making a mistake. You would be wrong. This post by McArdle is only one of many instances of her doing extremely poor research/lying in her posts for the Atlantic. An MIT Prof has dedicated pages upon pages to demonstrating how poor of a journalist McArdle is: "... the key point is that McArdle makes a lot of stuff up, and hence is untrustworthy across the board: why should you believe any argument from someone whom, everytime you check closely, gets even the little stuff wrong — and I agree with that."

and "It is now...simple prudence to assume that any fact she presents is, as she puts it, “a hypothetical” unless footnoted and checked."

http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/its-not-that-m...

It should come as no surprise that McArdle has whole hosts of people, entire websites dedicated to her being fired. To slack up on McArdle is to tolerate shoddy journalism not based in the facts.
sadly, neither do I. T-Mobile was the only carrier in the US that actually operated like a European carrier. They had no problem selling you just a sim card, would charge you a lower monthly fee for buying your phone upfront and/or providing your own....
Pulling a Nokia, as it were?

Still strikes me as mostly meaningless and somewhat desperate.
Same problem as fossil fuels - nuclear is non-renewable.

We need a better long term solution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
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He can not spend the night with him, when he spoke to him on the phone until the wee hours," said the friend.
This seems a like a faulty argument to me. Those are not our only two choices. Sure coal is really really bad. But that does not mean that nuclear is our only alternative.

Currently solar power is getting much cheaper and more practical. Same thing with wind power. We also have a natural gas which recently has been getting cheaper as large new discoveries are being made.

Natural gas is still a fossil fuel but it is much much cleaner than coal both in terms of health pollutants and in terms of CO2. There are some issues with natural gas extraction, but even if the various environmentally damaging methods of mining the stuff get banned as they should, we still have plenty of natural gas from new discoveries to last us for the foreseeable future.

Thus, we can use natural gas while solar and wind catch up price wise, which will happen sooner than we think. Solar especially is improving faster than anyone thought. Then we can still use natural gas for occasions where solar and wind aren't working.

So the coal/nuclear argument is a false dichotomy. We can have neither. Of course we should run the current nuclear plants until the end of their lives, but there is no reason to build new ones unless some revolutionary technology that makes everything much safer emerges. I would say the only new nuclear plants we should build are ones that burn the waste of the old ones, because those would technically make things safer by removing waste.
It's such a cool app, but as I've asked the developer before, I wish they would make something similar for coffee.
It would be great to have the networks offer service to devices in small units of time, and have the phone decide which plan on offer to go with automatically based on the user's preferences, then we could have an efficient market for this resource. But entrenched companies seldom like playing in an well functioning market when they can be rent collectors instead.
I would love for you do that if you also exempt me from outdated laws that were made in the 70s/80s. The 'waste' isotopes are a $4B+/year business.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690627522614525.html

The fact of the matter is that our outdated laws lead to a lot of waste that really isn't waste. The example of France in the article is very telling.

What remains after all this material has been extracted from spent fuel rods are some isotopes for which no important uses have yet been found, but which can be stored for future retrieval. France, which completely reprocesses its recyclable material, stores all the unused remains -- from 30 years of generating 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy -- beneath the floor of a single room at La Hague.
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Hah, I came here to say something along those lines, although I know HN is not very tolerating of that kind of comments.
Nope. Insurance companies explicitly exclude these type of events. That should tell you something -- insurance companies don't like open-ended, catastrophic risk.
If I understand the article properly, Righthaven may also be doing the reverse of the title: Finding the infringement, and then buying the rights, possibly by cutting a deal with the original "owner" for a split of the settlements.
In the post, he talks, quite a lot, about how awesome Mozilla is, and how it's the best place he's ever worked. And he links to the Mozilla job's page saying that he seriously recommends it.
Awesome to see someone this talented put his skills into a real, valuable product.
But imagine if he had!
Is https://github.com/Schultz/slicedns2linode what you mean?
This. looks. awesome.

I spent last weekend getting destroyed by the Clojure learning process. There is a ton of documentation for different libraries and such, but there are precious few EXAMPLES.

I do have to say, though, that I'm skeptical Clojure hackers will pay for this. They'll want it for free. Probably.
Thanks for sharing your personal experience here. Your comment reminded me of this article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2545731/Drugs-like-LS...

From the article:

"When they were interviewed again 14 months later 58 per cent rated the experience among the five most personally meaningful of their lives and 64 per cent said it had increased their well-being."
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You can say similar things about coal and strip-mining.
The article title is technically ".. when to hire an assistant". It's an important distinction to make. The core point of the article is about how hard, but incredibly valuable it can be to let go of your baby.
I had tremendous problems with this. I hired a friend of mine who is intelligent and recently graduated from a highly reputed engineering school.

I told her that she was there to save me time, and that she should act with maximum initiative. One day I asked her to arrange a meeting for me within a certain time-span tomorrow, at a café with wireless Internet. She emails me back several hours before the requested time-span with a list of possible cafés and with everyone's availability -- thereby leaving it for me to arrange the meeting!

I also gave her a copy of my password database, and told her she was responsible for this. We go over everything and I make sure she knows how to open the password vault program. Later, I hired someone to do some Wordpress stuff for me, and emailed them both, explaining that the Wordpress contractor was supposed to coordinate with my assistant for all of the relevant access and passwords. I wake up one morning to see an email from my assistant to the contractor saying, "I don't know anything about that password." I end up having to send another half-dozen emails to my contractor and answer as many calls, while I was onsite and supposed to be billing hourly to another company.

Days later, I find out that she lost access to the password db file, and she never told me.

It's been hard to hire an assistant!
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Well, that was unsatisfactory.

First it gave an account of how it's possible that health insurance does not induce moral hazard (by giving the patient a lump-sum).

But then you realize that that's not how the world works.

What's the solution, just give patients a lump sum for each diagnosis for them to spend as they please?

The underlying assumption here is that patients are consumers (that they can effectively assess the value of some treatment option), which Paul Krugman directly refuted [1]. Therefore, it is up to the doctors to be honest with what treatments to offer the patient.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/opinion/22krugman.html
Chernobyl is a lot worse than anything that could happen today.
I think you're making as assumption that Gates cares about making more money at this point in his life. Based on his other philanthropy it looks to me that he cares more about his legacy as it pertains to changing the world for the better and very little about money now.

The flip side of your argument is that if Gates thinks nuclear is the next great thing then why is he NOT investing in it? Personally, I would find it odd if Gates thinks something is the right way to go and didn't invest. It would signal he's not very serious about the issue.
When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say “wow, that was an adventure,” not “wow, I sure felt safe.”

Great quote and I try to live my life by the same philosophy
Bill Gates has to weigh in before people understand this?
They also go over a bit of the how. (By aggregating all the tasks for a week that they'd have the assistant do, and presenting that list.)
Something that's often overlooked in these debates is that if we were willing to eat the proliferation risk and increased cost of high-enriched uranium we could reduce our production of long-lived alpha-emitters by an enormous amount.

This would make the storage of waste a lot more manageable.
It persists, but by deleting the comment they can prevent more people from down-voting it.

This say something stupid, wait for the down-votes to begin, then delete it cowardice pisses me off, but I guess it's not something to get upset over.
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I'm the other Slicehost founder (Matt). Jason's comments are right on, but I wanted to thank all of our customers for the support over the years. We built an amazing community and I'm sad to see it go. If I can ever be of assistance to any of you please let me know - matt@devstructure.com. I owe all of you a ton, thank you.
This has happened, but Osama - who clearly was a capable and inspiring man - sacrificed a life of mostly carefree luxury for caves, manhunts, etc. I'm not saying he was not crazy or entirely free of being corrupted by his position, but it seems likely that he actually believed what he said he believed - and even if he didn't go out and blow himself up, he was probably aware of the likely consequences of his actions. (Evading capture in Afghanistan was quite a feat/lucky.)