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Cool little hack, however, I'm not convinced of its accuracy. There are a lot of assumptions at play here. The biggest being that you need to be able to control exactly when you fall asleep.

I have no idea how long it normally takes me to actually fall asleep, and I think the average 14 minutes you refer to will highly vary among people. Basically the entire calculation is ruined if it takes a little longer than I expect to fall asleep. Plus, if I knew that I was being timed, that small sense of urgency would keep me awake.
You find that article persuasive? I find the essays from Reason to be, well, not well-reasoned.

Consider this quote: "Once the 0.08 standard took effect nationwide in 2000, a curious thing happened: Alcohol-related traffic fatalities increased, following a 20-year decline. Critics of the 0.08 standard predicted this would happen." It has a link for you to verify, but that's to a Cato ("libertarian think tank") essay from 2005. The Cato publication in turn refers to an increase in overall deaths, but doesn't say how large the increase is, nor if there are any other reasons which might cause the increase.

Since the Reason article was written in 2010, you'd think they would see if the predicted upward trend was more than a statistical anomaly. Go to http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811402.pdf and look at Figure 1 in Chapter 1. You'll see the trend went up, until 2005, and then dropped. The number of deaths in 2009 is about 4,000 less than the pre-2000 low of 34,942.

This means the trend hasn't continued, and the critics' prediction is wrong, so the foundation of this aspect of the argument does not exist.

This was pretty simple research (I think I spent 10 minutes to find that publication), so it's poor scholarship to use an outdated, secondary source, especially if it can appear that you've cherry picked that source.

Or take this example of what's considered a legitimate behavior: "Imagine a driver pulled over or stopped at a checkpoint after having "one for the road," knowing his house is a short drive away and the last drink won't kick in until he's sitting on his couch." That makes little sense to me. (Okay, the concept of "one for the road" doesn't make sense to me either.)

You've got, what, 5 minutes until the alcohol starts to affect you and 30 minutes until the BAC is at its max? Since "one for the road" happened when that person was inside, who needs to say goodbye, get out to the car, etc. then I'll call it 15 minutes until the alcohol starts to impair driving. There's very little margin of error: what do you do if you get a flat or you get out to the car to discover you've left the lights on and it needs a jump start? What about road construction, or if the lights are against you?

(Of course if you're less than a mile away I would say to just walk home.)

So I just don't see that as being a reasonable counter-argument.
I don't think we'd get much further than we already have in earlier anti-SOPA talks. The irony of the situation gave me a chuckle though. Hopefully they move away after this, to a company which would at least try to put up a fight.
Not only would it be more convenient for you, to focus on bits of the story you're actually interested in, the newspaper could collect analytics on what parts of the story you're interested in, and suggest further articles, and highly-targeted ads, based on that.

Imagine you see an article about Christopher Hitchens accusing Henry Kissinger of war crimes, and Kissinger is wearing a smart suit, and you dive in to find out more about his couturier. The click-through rates on high-end clothing ads would be vastly more.

Though, to take the opposite tack: would this encourage newspapers to turn into something like mesothelioma blogspam? Writing about something, only because the ads associated with it are profitable, instead of because it's a Fact Worth Knowing?
As a bit of background, Joe was founder of SimpleGeo, which raised $9.81M and was sold for $3.5M (according to TechCrunch). They were doing great stuff, but I kept wondering how they were going to generate enough value to justify a $10M raise quickly enough to satisfy the VCs...
Also for those interested, I've found the wakemate to be pretty useful and pretty accurate, especially for someone like me who has an enormous period of time I might fall asleep in. It works as an actigraph to capture your sleep patterns and determine the ideal point to wake you, in a given time range you specify. Of course, the solution presented here is a bit cheaper =)
I'm failing to see any indication that the government was actually involved. Did the US government serve upon GoDaddy?

JOTFORM.COM nameservers are set to NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM, and spam-and-abuse.com is owned by GoDaddy. Just doesn't seem to be the normal way the government has been involved, but then again, nothing should be normal about domain seizures.
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Why would GoDaddy open themselves up for this liability without a court order?

Registrant:
Interlogy, LLC

Registered through: Go Daddy
Domain Name: JOTFORM.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
NS2.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
This can happen to any web site that allows user generated content.

How come we don't see Youtube, Yahoo, Facebook suspended? Do they have procedure in place? Does that mean that you're much weaker if you're small? What are the legal safeguards for UGC startups?

There should be equal rights for all companies. Right now it seems the US government is picking those it can easily bully.
You're right, all the major media is right of center
Hey there,

I like the way you've responded to some of these comments. You're a class act.

Thanks for the encouragement! (Really hard to come by these days.) :)

Interesting blog too (the bootstrap frontpage confused me for a moment though).

I just stitched together the design in a hurry. Redesigning the blog is lower in my priority list right now. Expect an overhaul soon though.

found the post about the conversation with your co-founder rather interesting.

I'm glad you did. This is why I put it there in the first place. I thought people like you'd help me figure out if we're on the right track.

IMHO, younger founders who're thinking of startup life as a career (long haul), should work on maximizing (2), (3) and (4) primarily.

I totally agree. It is easy to take these things for granted. Especially the value of connections and the fact that you have to be constantly working to make new ones.

It's possible you wouldn't cross off that entire list with a single startup.

Like I said, I think connections are a perpetual work in progress. It's more than likely that we won't cross off even half of it.

Before I get carried away, answering 'what you do' can get you massively different reactions varying with the audience, locality etc.

Don't even get me started on that one! A few relatives of mine are actually horrified by the idea that I despise the idea of a regular job and would rather start my own thing. Sigh.

I think the above holds extreme importance, especially if you're going on an 'what would you like me to build for you' marathon.

Haha, exactly. In fact, the whole point of this (even-if-you-have-to-make-a-fool-out-of-yourself) exercise was to get two things into our heads:

- Ideas are like girlfriends. Have fun with them but think twice before getting emotionally involved.

- The hardest thing for startups (and for most things in life) is to be able to talk to people and successfully get your idea across. Practice it.

Good luck. Looking forward to updates on your blog.

Thank you. Trust me when I say that I have derived great value from your comment.

Take care.
This only makes sense to me in a progressive loading situation. That is, you load the summaries first, then load additional detail later in the rendering timeline. Fine; I'd get that.

But I don't like the idea of not getting the full story every time. Why not think a couple years out and assume everyone's connection is fast enough to handle text - LOTS of text - even over a mobile connection. It's text. Like one-or-two-bytes-per-character stuff.

I suppose it's also interesting as a navigational scheme. To show summaries automatically and expand on some user action, a la clear (http://www.realmacsoftware.com/clear/).
That makes sense. I've been doing node js too long where you have to do this stuff by hand :0
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This is probably standard procedure at GoDaddy, and since GoDaddy is very loyal to the authorities, they probably considered the regular way of seizing the domain unnecessary.
Uh hang on. Cappucino or ExtJS vs XAML/C#? Are you trying to compare Apple vs Orange or JS vs Flash/SilverLight?

One of the previous companies I worked for bet on WPF and it didn't go well. Memory hog, crashes, boilerplate code (sometime hidden by VS.NET), and the consensus was that WPF pretty much sucks out of the box (have to work very hard to make it look good).

By the way, another company I used to work for used GWT + Ext-GWT (GWT port of Ext-JS). It was pretty good as long as you don't have to modify the Look-n-Feel to be something it is not.
Fuck Godaddy.

I have been a vocal proponent of Godaddy over the years - but no longer.

Godaddy's involvement with and support of SOPA is reprehensible, but I was hoping their about-face was for real, but this action is the last nail.

Look at jotform's nameservers:

NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
NS2.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM

That's just great....

I've got hundred of domains registered at GD, but I'll be damned if they'll be there after tomorrow.

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Apple has previously erred on the side of the web too when their Safari form autocomplete leaked address data. I don't think we need a conspiracy theory for everything.
They're not dumb enough to use godaddy...

But yeah your point about fairness is loud and clear.
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This is why including a summary prefacing long-form writing is such a good idea in general.
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I am not quite sure if 'Seized by US" is the case, if you check out the dns look up it points to NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM which is owned by Godaddy. After some searching it appears that that's what happens when Godaddy suspends there service to you, from similar cases it seems that they can transfer the domain to another registrar.
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yes there should be but unfortunately that's not how the world works. In politics (which this clearly is) you always pick a fight with someone you know you can beat. It's hard to beat facebook or youtube.
I think this is a much better use-case for this kind of idea. I especially like that even if I shrink down my browser, I can still re-show the content that got hidden using the dropdown at top-right.

Maybe people's concerns about not seeing the full content could be alleviated by a similar solution for re-showing the text that got hidden in the OP's example?
The Boston Ruby meetups have always been very good, but lately have grown in popularity and quality thanks to Brian Cardarella's leadership.

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> How come we don't see Youtube, Yahoo, Facebook suspended? Do they have procedure in place?

Yes, they do. And if you allow users to post content, you should too. You need to formally register as a hosting company and have a DMCA process published and usable.

First, register here:

http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/

If you've done it right, you'll get one of these:

http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/a/auganllc.pdf

Then post a notice on a Policy page linked from every page of your site. For example:

In compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”), please send DMCA notifications of claimed copyright infringements to: Advection.NET c/o Jonathan Band PLLC, 21 Dupont Circle NW, 8th Fl, Washington, DC 20036, with electronic copy by e-mail to...

Pursuant to the DMCA, Advection.NET will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. Advection.NET will cooperate fully with any civil and/or criminal litigation arising from the violation of this policy.
But the order of magnitude between disk and ram is so large that sequential versus random access on hard drives doesn't matter that much in comparison.
Any details on what the content was? The post implies that only a small amount of user generated content is being investigated. This is the first I've heard of a website being taken down entirely when only a small amount of it's content is questionable.

I feel like a huge chunk of this story is missing.
You're absolutely right that academics are torn between two things that they want:

1. open access for their research (both for altruistic reasons, because they want to spread knowledge as widely as possible, and for selfish reasons, because greater access to their research means more citations of their research, which helps them with career advancement)

2. publishing in the most prestigious journals they can, because that helps with career advancement.

The NIH, which funds all research into biology and medicine in the US, just cares about 1. above. They just care about maximizing distribution for taxpayer-funded research, as long as the distribution is done so in an economically sustainable way.

The NIH drove the open access mandate in 2008. My sense is that in the short term, driven mainly by the demands of funding agencies, all journals will move to 'open access models', where publishers pay to publish their research in the journals, and for readers, it's free to access. This satisfies both 1. and 2. above: academics get both open access and the validation of being published in prestigious journals.

Longer term, I think alternative credit metrics will replace the credit metric that's governed research for hundreds of years, i.e. the brand value of the journal you were published in.

I think when that happens, the power of journals will disappear altogether. Right now, the journals' role in driving the discovery of research has been disrupted a lot. In the pre-web days, people used to walk down to their libraries, and check out what had been published in the journals recently. In those days, the journals used to drive a lot of research discovery.

Nowadays, pretty much all research discovery happens online, and it's driven by things like search engines (Google, Google Scholar, Pubmed), and social platforms (Twitter, arXiv, Academia.edu; general communication technologies like email and IM are also used a lot).

The journals still have a strangle-hold on the validation of research. Which journal you were published in is still incredibly important, as far as the validation of your paper is concerned.

Other credit metrics are emerging, however. Citation counts are one metric, and that has a big role in driving research discovery on search engines like Google Scholar. Hiring committees are starting to look at the kinds of credit metrics that apply to general web content, e.g. page views.

As alternative credit metrics emerge, there will come a point when they do a good enough job at the validation of research that academics feel they no longer need to submit their papers to journals.

I wrote up some further thoughts on this here http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/the-future-of-peer-review/
I'm not quite understanding this. I understand what Pontifex/Solitaire is, but how do they fit together with the cheap phone and dead-drops?

I could see using Pontifex to encrypt text messages, but how do dead-drops fit into this? Communicating the location of the drops? Dead-dropping the phone with encrypted messages on it?
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Right, the breach was terrible, but I like to think that the fast food restaurant that gave everyone food poisoning one week is probably the safest restaurant to eat at next week. I know it's not popular to do business with someone that leaked all of my account information, but Sony PSN leaked my account information and I'm still playing games on my PS3... so... Anyway, I use Lastpass now and have a randomized password for each site, so a compromise at MtGox couldn't do any real damage. I don't leave cash or BTC in there.
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I have no clue, but it almost happened to us, too: http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-...
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looks like he jumps at any opportunity to get his amazon affiliate link out there. even posting it with a pretty much useless comment on this g+ post:

https://plus.google.com/112493031290529814667/posts/LvhVwngP...

(this link is from a story that just recently made the frontpage on hacker news)

Eric, how's the affiliate marketing going?
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Those comments really got to me too. What really struck me was that they seemed to be angry at Jorform! These angry users are talking about security too as if they were attacked or something. I really feel for the users but at the same time I'm angry at them for placing the blame where it doesn't belong. Instead of being mad at Jotform they should be mad at the government.

A while back I was advocating that we reach out to such people and explain this SOPA censorship stuff in a way they understand and this is precisely why. SOPA's supporters have done a really great job of training regular folks to think like some of these angry users making them think that somehow it was Jotform that did wrong. If they only knew how totally arbitrary this stuff is I think they'd be mad at the Feds like they should be.

It's so sickening that the government probably just hurt not one but maybe thousands of companies in one fell swoop and everyone's pissed at the wrong guy. Then the politicians want to go around talking about creating jobs... Ha! How about destroying them? That's what it looks like to me.
It's time for a widespread revolt against domain name seizures and suspensions without due process. Where do we start? This path will undermine the internet economy and sets precedents for horrible oppression and control by large interests down the line.
Regardless of whether or not these practices were ethical (I don’t think they were) or had a point (I don’t think they did), the article was a fun enough read. If that’s how this guy wants to get his kicks and meet new and interesting people (who seem to be interesting to him only because they have money), then that’s fine by me. But if I ever see him at an event I host, he’s getting kicked out whether he deserves to be there or not.
eclim would be a better fit if i am going to use emacs as my do-everything IDE. I found that eclim has even a connector for emacs as it has for vim.
But usually, those links expire, or are only able to be used once. So the password the user creates is secure, and the period the attacker can use the captured link is only from the time the user requests the password reset until the time the user tries to use the reset, it doesn't work, and the user requests another reset.

When a user is sent a password via email, unless that user is required to change eir password upon entering it, it is inherently less secure than sending a link.
Wouldn't putting your search term in quotes have the same affect?
> Surprise. Withold information.

Works well for Apple.
"But making certain connections"

I was really confused that he'd state this and provide his real name. I can see him crashing for the lolz or general social practice, but I can't believe, in light of the post, that he is doing this to build connections.

Then again, there is something to be said just for getting your name out there. Plenty of people won't care about the ethical considerations.
I'm well aware of these stats. the problem is that the proponents of heavy sentencing are apt to claim that crime is going down because the increasingly tough sentencing keeps more criminals off the street for longer periods as well as having a deterrent effect. I don't find this very persuasive, but I've have to go into some details about the law of criminal procedure to say why; nor do I have a clear alternative policy to suggest.

Economic theory as applied to criminal suggests that sentences must be harsh in inverse proportion to the probability of catching a given criminal, in order to eliminate the 'producer surplus' of crime (potential gain/ (potential risk of capture * loss of sentence)). Of course, the weak point of this theory is that law enforcement has a strong economic incentive to prosecute easy-to-prove crimes like drug possession; another issue with it is that the public perception of crime risk and severity isn't very well correlated with the actual risk, and historically people are not very interested in what happens to criminals after conviction.

Since the costs of a trial are so high, most investigations result in a guilty plea in exchange for a reduced sentence and the public cares even less about people who say they are guilty. The public is somewhat interested in the claims of the innocent, but then again many assume that there's no smoke without fire and resent defendants' use of taxpayer-funded resources to conduct long trials and lines of appeal. American law is so procedural that trials are very very slow compared to most other countries, and so expensive and challenging for both prosecutors and defense lawyers that only fewer than 5% of charges go to a jury trial; the rest are settled with plea bargains, bench trials and so forth.

See http://www.marcgalanter.net/Documents/papers/thevanishingtri... page 462 onwards. Clearly the current system is not working well at all and is creating a great many injustices of its own, but there's very little legislative mileage in saying that. I was quite surprised that Congress passed the legislation eliminating the disparity in crack/cocaine sentencing in 2010, given that crack dealers have been the criminal bogeymen of choice for so long.
This is why the Pro IP Act from 2008 needs to be repealed as soon as possible. It's worse than SOPA for Americans because it can pretty much do all SOPA could do, but for domestic domains (.com, .org, .net, .us) rather than foreign ones. The Pro IP Act managed to pass by us just like SOPA almost did it, too.
wow - didn't know you had to find a designated agent to register. It must be simpler than it actually looks. Definitely very hidden. Thanks for pointing out this.
The decision to raise capital should be an intuitive one for entrepreneurs. Most founders know if they're going to need funding to ultimately reach a level of success.

That being said, there are still some good points here. It can't hurt to make sure you're examining your needs from both sides.
Here's the link to the actual lecture with relevant quote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&t=5m45s
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