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About a day is ~90 microseconds, which is really fast, even for an SSD. The FusionIO folks claim they can do 30 microseconds though, which is really incredible, just a couple hundred times slower than ram.

I wanted to say that that was within an order of magnitude to the cost of a simple system call, but it looks like system calls are much much faster than my intuition suggested[1], and they're in the range of RAM access.

1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1860253/what-is-the-overh...
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> Terrorism is using force or the threat of force
> against a population to achieve political or economic
> goals

A bunch of people handcuffed in a circle around a hospital doesn't have anything to do with 'force.' Just sayin'.
The following is only peripherally related, but would appreciate nuggets of knowledge.

These days stimulants get a lot of press, from adderall to ritalin to modafinil etc., not to mention plain old caffeine. Caffeine, at least, I know work by blocking those receptors that signal the feeling of sleepiness. I am curious to know about the opposite: chemicals, or enzymes if you will, that catalyzes the important reactions that takes place when we sleep. I am sure there will be a lot of benefit to speeding those reactions up. You would be more refreshed for the same amount of sleep, or need less.

Rather than smothering fatigue signals with a stimulant I would like to make my body more efficient at sleeping.

Sure this is a very complicated problem, even cataloging what all those reactions are is a huge task. But would be a rapt audience to anyone who can share any information along these lines.

For me, the 14 minute rule just does not work. Sometimes I wish I had someone to knock me out cold with a baseball bat, or that inner voice that keeps talking and planning and refuses to STFU.
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EVERY .com, .net and .org website should do this, whether you support user generated content or not (e.g. remember, user comments on your blog are user generated). Without it, you are risking this kind of thing happening.
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This is excellent - I'd recommend supplementing it with links to supporting information (why 90 minutes == 1 sleep cycle) and also information on caffeine intake/half-life.
I can't believe this is being tolerated by our generation.
Hiding text elements on simple, informational sites can work. On mobile devices, the performance hit of loading additional elements is compounded because of the slower connection.

The general rule of thumb is if you have a complicated application, consider building a mobile optimized (*not responsive) site or a native application (even better if you have time & money). If you have a simple informational site, I think hiding elements can work though you have to question if you needed the extra copy in the first place.
You can get a 200+GB SSD for a reasonable price. And while it might not sound like it 200+GB is a LOT of data. Chances are it's going to hold everything except some media files (Music / Movies). But you can cheaply store them on a HDD or a remote file server. And once you have that file server you can cheaply play those movies at any computer or any PS3/XBOX/iPad/Boxee (etc) in your house which is really nice. So, while it might cost a little extra and take a little more work there is a lot to be said for going down the SSD path.
Of course you can also get a smaller SSD and or use it as your only disk drive, but they do really make that old file server idea really appealing especially if you have more than one computer.
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not unprecedented for godaddy: http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0

such willfull misunderstanding in those comments. my sympathy to the people behind jotform.

the only way this can be (legally) fixed is by a court deciding that despite all the mumbo-jumbo in the registrar terms of service, domain names look an awful like property, and are not to be yanked without due process. unfortunately it seems courts mostly write opposite-minded decisions these days.
I don't think that the parent post was talking about common-carrier provisions[1]. The point being that the police are stating something ("these files were stolen") as fact prior to the trial. The assumption being that these facts need to be proven at trial. The same reason that the accused is called the 'suspect' and not the 'criminal' in police press reports. I'm not sure that this quite equates to something like saying, "he's a drug dealer," prior to getting a drug dealing conviction, though.

[1] Actually, 'common carrier' only applies to phone companies in the US. You're thinking of the 'Safe Harbour' provisions that are part of the DMCA.
Here, this might help. http://www.drinkdreamwater.com/
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> Quite honestly it scares me how much people are totally okay with being dependent on Apple and running to them for protection. It's a losing game this way.

They build the OS, why shouldn't they protect me? Is there a practical alternative?

> We should be focusing on expecting more "ethical privacy" stances by the companies that write these apps.

I agree, but many people expect stuff to be free and ad-driven. As soon as an otherwise honest developer drops in a fishy Ad framework, it's basically game over. I would be surprised if none of them would send AB data over the wires. They certainly send everything else they can get.
Time for GoDaddy to go out of business.

I'll do my small part. I have over 200 domains registered with them as well as a couple servers (to play with, not for anything important).

I'll start to transfer everything as soon as I identify a registrar that won't fuck over their clients like this.

Any registrar care to make a statement of loyalty here on HN so we know that you have our backs?

I am really starting to think that a coalition of large internet companies needs to stage a full and real shutdown. I am talking about something substantial, like a full day. This would send a strong message home to idiots running this country.

This could be advertised and announced on a daily basis over the Internet and TV for a full month. Then, on that Monday morning, all services go quiet for a day while displaying an appropriate announcement on their sites. If the event is well communicated to all users this should protect all involved from legal action. If you've been told about it every day for thirty days that should pretty much cover it.

Due process should apply to everything. We want due process. Sites that engage in criminal behavior are one thing, but, when the government is the criminal you are dealing with something entirely different.

Time to make noise again?
Yeah they must have thought about it a little. I think the main reason there is no 'me' card in the iOS address book is because apps can then not find out who you are. Strange solution of course.

Or they did that because of some stupid patent.
Why shouldn't they be angry at jotform? It looks like they had no expedited process for reporting phishing forms which had to have been a known risk somewhere around #1 on their list of known risks, they actually made it easier to go upstream instead of searching for their contact page (only linked in the footer) and hoping someone replies today.

Did they have any automated detection? If they didn't have a "report a bad form" button then maybe they didn't even try and find bad forms ... like anything with a sign in button or password field. 2 million forms is too many to inspect, but you could narrow that list down very easily.

What happened to them sucks but it seems like the problem could probably have been avoided.

Edit: it let me make a form with "Account number" and "Password" complete with emailing me what people put in it which is suggestive of no preventative measures at all.
I stand corrected. Growing up in D.C. that was the urban myth. Better to just refer to the actual laws instead!
Namecheap had a solid marketing push during the whole GoDaddy/SOPA business. I moved my stuff there and am quite happy with them so far.
I love the concept - my only problem with it is that the six starter themes (swatches) featured on the site aren't really attractive enough, more like failed experiments... it could benefit from a design-off where popular designers create a swatch with their own take on the Bootstrap, and submit it to the site...

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namecheap.com was recommended constantly on Reddit during the whole GoDaddy-boycott, and I'm pretty impressed with them.
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Its amazing, how many people you talk to who thinks all this is BS and the system is totally screwed, however it always translates to fuck-all votes at the polls.
Wikipedia must be fine with it because many of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica articles (which had entered the public domain) were imported into Wikipedia pages.

My point though was nothing to do with Wikipedia's policies. It was to your incorrect definition of what it means to be an encyclopedia. You've said:

- "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It's a terrible place for original research." I showed several examples of original research done for encyclopedias. One was the first use of the element symbols now used in every chemistry book.

- "everyone's understanding of what an encyclopedia (ANY encyclopedia) is" ... "is not a place of first publication for new research findings." In addition to the previous comment, this view falsely separates the scholarly research which goes into producing an encyclopedia from the scholarly research of any other field.

- "Wikipedia should do what encyclopedias do best: to wit, experts should conduct research to generate new primary sources or write books to generate new secondary sources." I gave a long list of encyclopedia articles across several encyclopedias written by acknowledged experts on the specific topic. Traditional encyclopedias often ask experts to do this. Wikipedia is in the small minority.

- "An encyclopedia is a survey of existing secondary sources". I gave many examples where encyclopedias references the primary sources, and pointed to encyclopedia articles which are not a survey of existing sources.

- "[Experts] shouldn't address the public by writing encyclopedia articles". Excepting that experts do address the public by writing encyclopedia article, and have been for centuries.

- "Encyclopedia articles are the worst way for them to address the public." Excepting as Wikipedia shows, encyclopedias are often one of the first places people turn to for information, so it's a very good way to address the public.

- "Experts shouldn't want to write encyclopedias." Except that some encyclopedias are written by experts. Do you think the "Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance" was written by non-experts? (Hint: "The existence of this large number of articles, written by experts in various fields, is enabling the publication of a series of EMR Handbooks on specific areas of NMR and MRI.")

Your statements are definitely contra-factual to how other encyclopedias work, as you make statements for which counter-examples are easily found. Your understanding of the goals and purpose of an encyclopedia seem based solely on your understanding of the goals, purpose, and operation of Wikipedia.

Do you have any evidence to back your claims? Otherwise I must conclude that you don't know what you are talking about.
Yeah, it totally depends on perspective. I actually love my time as a pedestrian tourist in European cities, hate them with a passion as a driver or when trying to do business.

It's interesting how many old cities were started as a heavily planned Roman garrison towns, straight boulevards, right angles everywhere, etc. Then those cores turned into the medieval rats nests we're familiar with today, then usually outside of that there was a building boom in the 19th century and a return to some kind of order.

But the advantage of the unplanned medieval layout is that the streets are usually an attempt at a shortest path between two interesting points.
Combine with http://design-seeds.com/ for maximum "hell yeah"

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Godaddy can seize your domain even if they're not your registrar.
True, what's interesting though is that the trend hasn't quite held up in the tablet space. Go to a coffee shop and it's entirely normal to see tablet users using a keyboard of some sort.
I would not be so ambitious -- but I have to believe that any entrepreneurial activity is better on a resume than nothing at all. It can't lose money.
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I actually went back to e original letter to see if I had missed a reference. From what I've seen of Teller, though, it isn't surprising that he would remember or that he would reply. He's one of the few famous people I wouldn't mind meeting.
Anyone consider this might be a fake? Any verification?
You NEED those things in VS in order to keep track of the 20K+ objects, code, libraries, etc. to code for Windows and .NET. You don't need all that in Unix.
This can happen to any web site that allows user generated content. Yes, that's true that it can happen just as almost anything can happen. But to act as if this comes as a surprise for which such a company should not be prepared is either ill-informed or disingenuous, and somewhat unbelievable in light of all the publicity around DMCA law recently. A company like Jotform, or any company hosting user-generated content (not just to pick on Jotform), can do a lot to help prevent it and protect their legitimate customers.

DMCA lays out several things which can be done to at least attempt to have the appearance of qualifying for safe harbor. If you host user-generated content, do you do one or more of these?

- adopt and reasonably implement a policy of addressing and terminating accounts of users who are found to be “repeat infringers?

- remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material upon notice?

- implement any sort of "red flag" process?
When I first saw SOCA, I thought it was a parody.
"UPDATE: Looks like this post struck a nerve."

Below that:

0 comments.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad article, but what nerve was struck?
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Even the suggestion that 'everyone should sign up' for this is a big flag itself.
This is interesting. Obviously you've moved your domain away from GoDaddy, what are some more reputable registrars?
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I'll go register "saynotoseizures.com" at godaddy and we can start an online petition!
Sorry, should have been more specific. A bunch of folks retweeted it, so I figured I'd better ride the wave.
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Some good points.

But surely they should have been sent a warning, even a 24 hour one, to remove some content before just being wiped off the Internet.

This action is business destroying and draconian.
I'm as eager as anyone else to blame overzealous US authorities and GoDaddy, but something doesn't fully add up. This doesn't fit the pattern of other seizures we've seen.

Why isn't there a big scary US ICE seizure banner on the domain? They're usually quite proud of their work.

Why is his .net domain still operational?

This looks to me more like GoDaddy operating on their own.
That looks interesting! I saved it for later.
Online publishing has only recently (in terms of university and government policy) become viable. There's still no real killer platforms, though there are a few good niche ones.

The universities and government are looking to ditch the journals, and the journals know it. But it's a slow process.
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Don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree they shouldn't have been destroyed and that GoDaddy has no right to be the executioner.
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Thanks for recommending various times.. I was afraid your app would tell me to sleep at an early time, but now I got room to spare!
I want to like it, because I know I could improve my workflow quite a bit.

However, IMHO:

- the strict dependency on Sun's JRE instead of OpenJDK was the first annoyance (I'm on Debian).

- the UI is just overwhelming me - lots of things happening that I didn't ask for. Maybe full-on IDEs just aren't for me.

- my goodness it's slow!

- non-native UI is another turn-off - crappy file selectors, plain ugly...

I tried to keep an open mind, but in the end I'm probably not the right audience for something like this.
For a minute, I thought you were gonna hammer me with the friggin' Food Pyramid BS!
I can't have been the only one to look at the source code of the page and feel slightly disappointed, considering that the page itself looks pretty nice. I'm looking forward to seeing if following 90-minute sleep-cycles would work out for me, though.
Great letter. Thrilled at the start where he remembers, without prodding, one of thousands of people he briefly met long before. Great insights, prompted by the questions I want to ask great people but could not put in words.

P&T have a great show. As the letter, they tell so much more than just clever tricks - they comment on the human condition. Because of its insights into Occam's Razor "Teller Smoking" is my oft-recounted favorite ... Well, that and the bullet trick, but that because I inspected Teller's bullet, shell and gun, and still have the shell I marked and the bullet (also marked) Penn "caught" and spat into my hand.
There is a great book that talks about this at length called "Sparks of Genius". It goes into detail about how a conceptual framework from one discipline can lead to blinding insights in another. Highly recommended.
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>Uh hang on. Cappucino or ExtJS vs XAML/C#? Are you trying to compare Apple vs Orange or JS vs Flash/SilverLight?

Silverlight vs Cappuccino and ExtJS. We tried both before silverlight and eventually gave up as the code became a complete mess (javascript and that monstrosity objective-j), debugging was hell (especially with objective-j) and documentation substandard (cappuccino had the assumption that you were keeping the apple cocoa reference handy I guess). OTOH Silverlight and MVVM Prism worked like a charm, we were able to redo the months front-end work in few days (everyone needed to pick up Prism). Things were super easy to mock and provide concepts with the Blend tool. If they only had TPL it would have been ideal.

>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).

So you agree then - tools and platforms do matter ? If there was no time to "work very hard" would the project succeed ?
Do you think this would have been averted if they took all the measures you are proposing ? There are no set guide lines here according to which the government is taking down stuff.. This is not DMCA related to create an process to take down stuff.. Even if they could not find the contact page, taking the whole website seems to be ridiculous thing to do.

I think things like this will make websites with user generated content to move away from .com domains and even move into countries where there is more due process to things like this.
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Um, BGP?
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I recall reading a study once where the brain waves of people listening to a story literally synchronized with the brain waves of the person telling the story. Quite literally the storyteller was controlling the minds of the listeners.

Apparently we are hard-wired to become entranced by stories, but there is a skill to telling them in a way that doesn't break the trance--or, as Teller talks about, leading people to a place where you can smash the trance in a dramatic way for maximum impact.

Storytelling has fascinated me ever since I read that study. I must go find it again.
I use dnsimple, but I've heard good things about namecheap as well. Find any anti-godaddy thread on HN or Reddit and you'll see a ton more names.
We don't know that this has anything to do with copyright.

It's a form hosting site; the user-generated content could be bank account phishing pages.

DMCA does not provide safe harbor from being an accessory to financial scams.
That's not true. Wikipedia does not have a policy of discouraging experts from writing there. I've personally said (a couple times here) that experts shouldn't write Wikipedia articles, because it is a waste of their time. But they are clearly welcome to do so.

The only thing they're not welcome to do is to cite their own expertise instead of actual sources.
I think there's a decade of history that shows it could probably have been avoided - they're not the first free-x-hosting company to ever be abused for phishing.
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What if I'm not an American company, I just happen to use a .com domain?
I'm glad it isn't being tolerated by the new one. Look at the protests on the streets. That is amazing by itself, but even more so is that it actually appears to have some effect.
I take it to mean, Ph.D; not from experience, but that's the only meaning that makes sense in the context.
That's truly begging the question. Wikipedia is a survey of secondary sources, but it's much too much to claim that all encyclopedias need to be. As others have pointed out, many encyclopedias include references to primary research and primary research itself. Indeed, the first encyclopedia included new material never before published.

cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia
Yeah, I noticed that too, weird, it's not everday that we see comebacks like this one on HN.