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Slicehost was awesome but my more recent sites have been on AWS. If they're going to force me to transition my whole setup, I'm going to move it over there and make my life easier.

Not very happy with this whole thing.
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As is life.

You'll always find people that oppose everything that makes you... you. Religion, politics (<-- oh and i think you know about that one), ethics, money, fighting (Boxing vs MMA), Operating systems... etc.

For every several pieces of 'shat' you take, you'll find a couple golden nuggets. Those make the difference, builds character and knowledge.

Who knows, it may even help you build the next startup or 'cool app'.

Take the plunge!
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Looking for someone who can help out with a port of an iPhone app to Android. Should be pretty straight forward, and I can provide details to those interested.

I need to get an estimated cost figured out for the client before any development can go ahead, so you must be willing to do some quick number crunching.

email me. Thorren (at) robotsandpencils.com
Having rented an 'emergency' VPS to demo something, I can confirm they credit you automatically, at least as of last month. Not sure if it's by hour or day though.
Bin Laden’s war against the U.S. economy
I know that they boast absolutely no support, but is their IRC channel helpful at all? Or do they have a user mailing list?
I'd say "premonition", but that word summons "supernatural" connotations to me. Really it's just common sense, with even a mediocre knowledge of history.
How? How would it have cost them less? That seems like a good question to answer preemptively if you're going to make that argument. And, while you answer it, keep a running tally in your head of roughly how much it would cost in (1) legal fees and (2) delayed deployment (which has a cost you can break out in $/hour based on continued needless truck rolls as only one example) to negotiate that with the MNO.

When you're finished, weigh that cost against the benefit of reducing the legal fees for criminals who steal service from your meters.
You think it is immoral to do anything illegal? Any action that is not yielding completely to authority (unless in the context of very public "courageous" civil disobedience) is just plain wrong? Even if your actions don't harm anyone else? I can't really agree with that ethos because you're outsourcing your own moral compass to lawmakers. By your logic, having gay sex is immoral in jurisdictions where sodomy is criminalized.

If you live in a jurisdiction where sodomy is criminalized, then that is an intolerable situation which should not be allowed to stand. Even if you personally are smart enough to get away with it then undoubtedly there's some poor innocent who isn't going to get away with it. If you find yourself in a situaion like that you're morally obliged to either:

a) Leave, or

b) Actively campaign to change that law. If you choose to do it via civil disobedience then good luck to you... otherwise just get to work on campaigning.
Exact same story here. Linode seem to have Slicehost/Rackspace-like uptime, for less money, and with a much more fully featured control panel.
If I'm not mistaken Khan Academy is still hiring: http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs/dev and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2412000

I'm sure there are many great minds in here who would love to join John and the rest of the KA team
Always have the ability to walk away
On keeping your costs down, from an ex-banker
Thanks for the condescending advice... one of the last parsers I wrote was for a website with 125,000 active users, they are far from the be-all and end-all for me.
Try telling that to someone who actually has a lot to lose by taking either path. Say they are too poor to leave and in an authoritarian state. Or maybe they face retaliation at the workplace in an otherwise free country for their activism.

Each person needs to make these decisions for themselves while you are getting all high and mighty and calling people immoral for not either:

A) submitting to authority unquestioningly

-or-

B) risking everything to change the laws.
thanks for the info! Ever played games on it or any GPU intensive applications ? I work alot with games, thats where my MBP gets noisy very quickly.
>The power company should at least pay for some of the charges

Sure. And all that could have happened, however FTA: "Kylie Maree Monks, 33, pleaded guilty". If you plead guilty, it's over.

This is a clear case of a uninformed and/or unintelligent defendant and a judge with a severe case of hemorrhoids.
I'm having a few nodes running at VPS.net, but in direct comparison linode seems to offer more for the money. Does someone have experience with both and could compare them?
I'd say there are lots of people who think that nuclear power plant can explode like nuclear bomb.
Destroying your files is a single step, well-implemented in Mac OS, and you don't even have to do this if you simply install a fresh OS and use the right settings

I don't think installing a fresh OS will remove personal data sufficiently. But maybe there is a setting to do a secure clean?
It's worth noting that none of the Ruby guys Tom worked with at Powerset are still working for Microsoft 3 years later. The guys I've spoken with had a miserable time working there and left to work for other startups like Greplin, Bank Simple, and Square.
>but the Khan Academy could change the face of education in this country.

It's not just one country. I sincerely can't express my gratitude enough for Khan Academy guys, their very rich educational materials have and are helping me tremendously in my education and my career. I'm from a developing country.
Not just in the US, but in the whole world. Particularly in maths and science.
Of the bids that you go after, about what percentage do you win?
Shipping a product (even if it's just a dumb little side project) is way more impressive to most people than contributing a patch to an open source project.

I contribute to projects that I use as often as I can, but I've never had to point a potential client to my Github account to land a contract.
Considering that software patents do not apply in the authors jurisdiction (or in many jurisdictions), they seem unlikely to cause him a problem.
Alright, so the article claims 0.04 d/TWh, 0.037 of which are a direct result of Chernobyl at a claimed cost of 4000 lives. Other sources claim 1000000 deaths. That would be a 250-fold increase to 9.25 d/TWh from Chernobyl alone.

That does not look all that well now. Just sain'
The real issue is because HP may release the 24x454 at $2000, but in three weeks Dell releases the Latitude XY1 that is $100 cheaper with the same specs. Two months later, Acer has the same specs at $250 cheaper.

In the PC world your pricing competes against every manufacturer. So HP has to push their prices down on next rev.

Whereas no one else can make an Apple computer. They can set a price and keep it fixed for a year. There's no knockoffs that can undercut them.
Show HN: Easily manage over 10k Google contacts with Sharepad
My co-founder and I have just released Sharepad today at http://GoSharePad.com which supports full integration with Gmail & Google Apps.

Sharepad Uses:

Stay organized and on top of unlimited contacts!

Allow others (padmates) access to your pad for full-blown collaboration.

Take notes on contacts which are also viewable by your padmates and vice-versa.

Assign follow-up tasks on contacts for yourself or any of your padmates.

All contact history for every contact is just a click away, including all notes, tasks, and emails exchanged with the contact.

We've pivoted several times and we hope this can be our official MVP. Check out our demo videos here:
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For HN the promo code is HNFREE. Just enter on the signup page to bypass entering cc info.
Besides, "eighty bucks" is a silly estimate anyway. Nobody in Australia will sell you unlimited 3G data for twenty bucks a month. If you think that's unfair compared to other countries, remember that Australia has a population density of two people per square kilometre, and that Telstra actually has a pretty darn good coverage in their 3G network (Optus and Vodafone are cheaper but can't be expected to work reliably outside major cities).

Somebody mentioned $22 a gig... well, the highest-data plan on http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/browsing_packs.html is $69 for twelve gigs a month, with excess data charged at five cents a meg, or fifty dollars a gig. That sounds like a lot, but as we've said, the 3G network really isn't designed for individual customers doing terabytes of data per day... they clearly don't want you using 3G in that way.
That contract could have been written to make them contractually liable for $75 trillion dollars. Following your logic, it would then be easy to establish $75 trillion dollars as a basis for damages.
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FUD, actually. I did not see giving up and using past tense terms to describe OpenOffice when Oracle bought Sun and things did not go the way the community wanted. The community simply routed around. What makes Mono different? How does this news mean anything for Mono at all aside from people not getting paid to work on it?

Does the anti-Mono crowd just lay in wait for a negative story to further disseminate FUD? I've used Mono a few times and I just do not understand the treatment of Miguel and the project. The only answer I have ever deduced is that Mono is rooted in a Microsoft technology and the anti-Mono crowd apparently hates Microsoft.
Don't want to ruin this bad joke here, but there's even a port of SQLite to to .Net:

https://code.google.com/p/managed-sqlite/
One thing I like about products that work... They work, and I don't have to. Which is why I like dropbox.
Thank you for posting this. Aside from one wildcard record (that shouldn't have worked anyway), it handled all of my zones perfectly.
Honestly this sounds kind of strange to me. It's almost like, "I need someone who can code Ruby and also take out the trash." Making appointments isn't quite the same, but it's certainly not using the skills of a technical person and seems insulting.

At the very least, administration is a different skill set. It's like "I need a salesperson / chef" or "I need an accountant / news reporter." What you need is 2 people.
Ask HN: Which RFID-kit to use for a prototype?
I am looking for a basic RFID-kit (no solding) which I can use to hook-up on a Mac/PC to test a webservice, most probably by using a local daemon.
To be fair, 90% of them are just webcams of tourist destinations, they're probably linked from travel agency homepages. Google has to get to them somehow.

Sometimes though, you get one of someones office. Just very occasionally, you hit one with the controls to move the thing around, and you can make it wave at people and watch them freak out.
How Dave Eggers Is Making Learning Fun
What troubles me about this story is not so much the lack of security protecting the camera's and the DVR, but the fact the police department was wasting scarce IPv4 addresses on laptops and security cameras. These devices should have been on a private internal network with private IP addresses.

Just saying. :)
You are probably not the only person to use the current boundaries of the law as an outer limit of your morality, but as you say, many people do not. People's morals vary and I'm not sure how far you will get by advancing your own particular moral code on others on this forum.

Most people would agree that in general, when living in a society, you should try to behave in a way that does not adversely affect that society. Is that the same thing as never breaking the law? People have different moralities, and they do not always closely track with the local laws where they live in all cases. Many people judge that their personal consumption of drugs does not adversely affect society in any significance, especially given that drug taking is common in society, and that there are legal drugs that are bad for society.

Judging whether something is good or bad is fairly easy with something like murder. Judging whether it's OK for you to smoke some of the weed your friend grew is very different. Morality is more complex than "is it illegal?".

The danger from the consideration that illegal acts are immoral is the reverse - legal acts are moral. I'm sure we can all think of legal acts that we would consider immoral. Is it immoral to smoke a Cuban cigar? Is it immoral to use a differently-sourced cigar the way Bill Clinton did? One is illegal, the other is not.
Polls are reserved for a karma level your account has not reached yet. Doing this as comments is nearly worthless now that point totals for comments are hidden.
What a lot of folks might not get is that there isn't one thing that can be called "contributing to Open Source", which is why setting that as a goal is somewhat vague and difficult to accomplish. If you can find a project that you want to contribute to, then that's awesome. If you can't, that's understandable.

> There’s no certification, ceremony, or merit badge

That's part of the point. Anyone can code, design, document, whatever. There's nobody telling you you're ready and there's nobody telling you you can't.

> It’s not obvious where to start.

If you don't have an obvious starting point, that's okay. Most Open Source contributions are coders solving problems that interest them. If you don't have one of those right now, that's no big deal. Not contributing to open source isn't the end of the world, it's just one of many ways to sharpen your skills.

> Open source is for people who are
> better at this than me.

Gotta start somewhere though. In my experience, a project's owner usually gives invaluable feedback if you send in a patch that isn't quite there yet.

> Trying to contribute and failing makes me feel stupid.

I have the same problem. For lots of projects, I'll never meet the maintainers, so I just hold my breath and click send. What's the worst that could happen?
Right. The most perfectly seamless transition would be one that I wouldn't have noticed if I didn't see the e-mail. How much work am I going to have to do?

I just have a little hobby server running on Slicehost. I feel sorry for people who are running businesses there. :/
Sensationalism at its best is at work here. Attachmate/Novell laid off a lot of employees in the US today, and "internetnews.com" goes on to extrapolate that "Today Attachmate laid off an unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working on the open source Mono project". Indeed, the number is unknown - it may as well be zero.
"unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working on the open source Mono project." does not mean the entire team was laid off. Second, no source is cited and this is unconfirmed as of yet. I think people should calm down with the speculation until something official happens.
can you give some examples of some cool things this can be used for? I watched the youtube video and checked out the site but I'm still a little confused. What I got was you can control stuff on your PC from you iphone? So nodeler creates a sync somehow? Also whats the technology used behind this?
If you sell your phone in May and use a beater phone for a month you can sell it for another $100 more.
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Looks like an interesting concept, but the video comes up tiny for me and there doesn't seem to be a way of resizing it. The full screen button doesn't work (Chrome 12, Windows 7).

Any way to provide a demo or at least some screenshots in addition to the videos.
Your account will be credited automatically. The only time you have to talk to support is if you want to actually get a refund (minus a $5 processing fee).
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Why would anybody do that when a chance to disparage Mono is presented?
Thank you for saying this Brian. Very well stated - and here is a link for the page on the python-core-mentors stuff: http://pythonmentors.com/
Dear Programmers: Stop chewing with your mouth open.
Just because you have asperger's syndrome doesn't mean you can be a slob.
I just committed a change to someone's library last week. It was like a lightbulb going off in my head - "Oh, so it's just this easy."

I wonder how much more difficult this was before Github.
You've got a point, but we still need to use these reactors while we build more modern, safer ones to replace them.

It won't be pretty.
The above link appears to do some horrible cookie checking whereby you can only read the abstract two or three times before it punts you to a shopping cart page without even an apology. Bloody academic mafia.

Out of spite, here's a link to the whole paper: http://dionysus.psych.wisc.edu/Lit/Articles/WallA2000a.pdf
This Class of Geography Students Found Bin Laden's Hideout Long Before the CIA
I dare you.
I dare you, to not break the law in the location you are currently in, for a period of 24 hours. Unless you resort to not moving, you will be breaking a law (although that might be illegal as well). In most developed nations, you are dealing with a layer of international, national and local laws, with a history of several hundred years. Many of these old laws have not been revoked however, they are just no longer enforced.

"Oh" you say now, "I mean I just follow the laws that are still enforced actively". To that I say, "so do I". But I might just have a different set of laws I consider enforced than you do. That doesn't make me more or less moral than you. We both break the letter of the law. And we both hold ourselves to our own moral standards.
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Ok. I'm going to add an access code field in just a few minutes for HN only that would allow you to signup without entering credit card info etc. Please stand by.

Looking to see if I can fix the intro video resize link as well. For now you can watch it on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GLUaiCfXkc&feature=playe...

UPDATE: ok. done. the promocode is HNFREE. You can signup without having to enter your cc info if you use that. Thanks!
This is probably going to go on for a few days. Yesterday it was through twitter. I was lucky enough to get screwed over by it.

http://rixstep.com/1/20110502,00.shtml
Ah. The first hit I had appeared to be in someone's bedroom.
The phrasing of that is a bit odd, so in case anybody is unclear on this, I'd like to note that it's common practice for spent fuel to be kept in a cooling pool for 10-20 years while the more radioactive isotopes decay away, then moved to dry cask storage (or recycling, in countries like France).

However, there are designs which would keep the fuel underwater for longer periods of time, like the B&W mPower modular reactor, which has a cooling pool in the containment structure with enough capacity to hold all waste generated during the 60-year design lifetime.

All this is, of course, figured into the per-kilowatt-hour death rate when it actually hurts someone. The spent fuel pools are considered part of the plant for the purposes of risk assessment. In normal operation, of course, the spent fuel pool keeps the radioactivity nicely contained and doesn't hurt anyone.
Difficult question, because not all bids are created equal :)

So let's say that you're browsing through bids, and you see a couple for $200-$300 which look like they could be fun, and then another one for $1,500. Obviously you're going to spend a lot more time preparing the bid for the $1,500 project than for the other two. Plus, I only bid on major projects that I personally found interesting, and I think my enthusiasm carried across.

In general, for the major projects, I got pretty much well every one that I bid on; for the minor projects, probably around 25%.
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Personally I really hope that the MS-Novell deal will not be renewed.
IRC confirms that the number is at least 1 (and after knowing that I extrapolate that there is some truth in that headline).
Which would be quite entertaining if what you encountered was really a honeytrap, looking for the identities of the more, um, inquisitive folks on the local network.

But I'm guessing it wasn't that clever.
(In US law, at least) Clauses that impose "penalties" which are not directly rooted in liquidated damages are unenforceable.

This is not a case about a penalty clause; the damages here emerge straightforwardly from the MNO's usage contract with the utility. The thief didn't stumble across a landmine clause that said "parties agree theft of SIM card incurs $100,000 of damage"; instead, the thief continuously used a metered service that resulted in a 6-figure charge.

One imagines it would be possible to dispute a six-figure liquidated damages claim by arguing that the metered charge was devised in such as way as to deliberately create a penalty clause. My point here being, these things aren't so black and white as to be trivially adjudicated by geeks on a message board. But I think we all in the back of our heads realize that the fee structure for smart meter mobile data isn't an elaborate scam to entrap SIM card thieves.

So, no, your example doesn't work. Companies cannot simply write "you owe me a zillionty squillion dollars if you steal my stuff" and have that hold up in court.
How to rotate my paws?
Sounds like the author is just making excuses to rationalize his laziness/fear.
This article makes no damn sense. Not only does it fail to explain the nonsensical-sounding theories which they used to predict it, it also says:

According to a probabilistic model they created, there was an 80.9% chance that bin Laden was hiding out in Abbottabad, Pakistan

Wow, really? But...

To be clear: the class identified the nearby city of Parachinar as being the most likely hideout.

So there was an 80% chance he was in Abbotabad, but they considered it more likely that he was in Parachinar?

The whole thing sounds about as useful as the psychics who will no doubt come out of the woodwork over the next few days to say that they too correctly predicted UBL's hiding spot.
I'm not quite sure the every year upgrade makes sense, for all the reasons others mention. But I have seen that if you upgrade on a 2 year, 3 year or 4 year cycle, in South Africa at least, it costs you about the same in the long term.