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I am reminded by this of my trip to the National Crypto Museum on NSA's campus, north of DC. It's a real treat if you're a geek, what with the old hardware and crypto devices, but one of the pieces there is a picture.

The picture was mailed to a US senator as a gift from children, who had supposedly painted it. However, during a later bugsweep, it turned out that the frame contained a radio device, and had transmitted endlessly since its hanging.

I remember thinking how perfectly the gift had been designed, how innocuous the packaging, and how cleverly the delivery mechanism.

With regard to the cost to secret price ratio, I'm going out on a limb to say that as a non-threat to the nation, I'd happily pay a thousand dollars to see what ACTUALLY goes on behind closed doors of high ranking political officials. I can only imagine how much more worthwhile it would be if I had my freedom riding on it.
Yeah! You tell 'em! Nobody has any grounds to complain when a specific fucking request is ignored! Who cares if the customer gets what he wants? He should be happy he's getting what thirty other people want instead!

Criminy. Did you even read what you quoted before you responded to it?
It's an easy way to find recommendations for professionals like accountants and attorneys. When someone is connected to or, better yet, recommended by someone you know, it's basically what you would get with a verbal recommendation while eliminating the hassle.
Can start-ups keep up with Amazon in the cloud?
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Any news on the MagLev public github release? Supposed to hit soon iirc.
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That's sorta like a hotel renting a room... and if you overstay your rent, they throw you out the window. Sure it's their room, they're allowed to do anything they want with it, but I wouldn't want to be that guy thrown out the window either. There are better ways to solve the problem than using a shotgun.
Kasparov lost the last and deciding game of the match with a horrible blunder playing the Caro-Kann, a defence he did not often play.

Kasparov believed that the Deep Blue team had spent a lot of time analyzing his style and looking for weaknesses. He felt it was unfair that Deep Blue was designed to beat him, personally, but he wasn't able to study it in the same way.

Kasparov decided to play an unusual defence in game 6 hoping to avoid any theoretical surprises his opponents may have prepared against his favourite defences, but it didn't work. At the same time, the pressure he was under no doubt contributed to his defeat.

Of course now Rybka doesn't need any 'help' from human handlers, it can comfortably beat strong Grandmasters (Rybka 3's ELO is over 3200).

If it is any consolation the surge in computer chess strength is largely thought to be due to modern engines evaluating positions more like a human would, rather than looking at more positions.
I completely agree with your point about having food around at the office. We don't have anything nearly as elaborate as the Facebook offices, just a snack room with an Odwalla fridge, pretzels, chips, etc, and another fridge full of lunch meat and other sandwich materials. And I agree that my productivity has gone through the roof because of easy access to food -- when I'm hungry, I just go and eat, and get back up to full potential.

That said, I agree with the original comment: this is not a good way to get your company in the black. Maybe I have a terribly uneducated palette, but the sandwiches I can make work for me. In fact, I've never heard anyone at work complain "I wish we had a cafeteria with a sous chef." Maybe that's because we're in downtown San Francisco, and there's a lot of stuff around. But seeing as how we -all- go to Mehfil 3x a week, I don't think the variety is helping.
about the brightness at the ends - I'm pretty sure that is due to the fact that this is a pi-conjugated system; that is, the pi-bonded electrons can jump around the whole molecule. This, together with the fact that the molecule is finite in size, means that the pi electrons are confined to a rectangle of lower potential energy, and when you solve the quantum mechanics (similarly to the quantum harmonic oscillator) you'll find higher electron density at the edges of the confining potential.
You sound like a person at McDonalds. I SPECIFICALLY ASKED FOR A QUARTER POUNDER WITHOUT PICKLES AND YET I FOUND A PICKLE IN MY QUARTER POUNDER AND I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER
I speculated about 'trojan laptops' a while back:

http://gojomo.blogspot.com/2002/12/trojan-laptop.html

With netbooks so cheap, the expected return of such a strategy might have recently turned positive. (It would be nice to think that only those who steal the laptops would be bitten, but as thieves probably pass them on to innocent third-parties, there's not really a 'white hat' way to use this trick.)
Personally, I think freezing the domain is preferable to logging in and killing a (likely rather important) process.

But then, the discussion is academic. I've never had to shut down a domain to prevent heavy legitimate or runaway process use from harming other users.

I have shut down many domains to stop abuse, but that's a very different thing. If you want to examine a compromised disk, you are best off doing so booting off of read-only media then carefully examining the compromised partition, so you want it shut down anyhow.
Just some thoughts on your downs (i'm a dev, so opinionated in 1 direction :) )

* At least on my 64-bit linux box, mmap page size is 4k. So if you have to read 100 bytes vs 4k, in the end I don't think its a big difference. From the drives point of view, 100 bytes and 4k are basically the same, and with os file caches, it'll cache the 4k anyway most likely

* The JavaScript support is very optional (only db.eval and $where). When it used it uses very little memory because nothing is really stored in it. Its basically processing 1 record at a time and we've written a very efficient wrapper. Also, v8 actually just released a 64-bit version, so we may look into switching back to that as well if it turns out to be a lot faster than trace monkey.

Why do you think its green and small? Its actually been used in production for over 18 months (www.businessinsider.com for example)
I have first-hand knowledge that this exploit is currently in use in the Middle East and is purchasable from at least one American corporation. It must be assumed that intelligence agencies have had this capability for the entirety of the GSM deployment.

Base station security is a separate matter. Why do you think A5/1 influences that?
Sigh, when you find the answer to that question, let me know ...
Like they said, they're not obligated to consult for the guy for free.
The neighborhood I work in is just awful for lunch. About a dozen mediocre restaurants (half are fast food) with thousands of "office park employees" taking their lunch break at the same time. What used to be a pleasure is now just a pain.

Also, once you learn to eat fresh and healthy, sometimes it's better to eat nothing than Wendy's or shit like that. I shop 2 or 3 times per week and pack breakfast and lunch everywhere I go. And I'm sick of it. Really sick of it.

AFAIC, a cafeteria or dining room with real food is more important than just about anything else.
In fact, if it does come to a legal situation, it may be detrimental to them if they do.
No ecommerce on the list?
"PHP doesn't support global varibles..."

Since when?
That's the difference between ramen profitable and gourmand profitable!
OK, sure, they're within their rights to be rude. Everyone has that right (it's America, dammit!)

But why bother having a wall of shame, if you're actively hostile to people who try to fix the problem?
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I didn't know what MSRP meant - so I looked it up and "Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price" seemed to fit into the above comment. In case anyone else wonders.
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It's really hard to follow threaded conversations without any kind of ID.
Don't forget to sign the hashes.
The apartment analogy isn't perfect, but it is a good example to show that just because you own something, it doesn't give you the legal (or moral) right to muck around with it whenever you please. If you're renting computer space to a customer, there are rules that need to be followed. Some of them are legal, some contractual, and some are societal norms.

In this case they definitely violated the societal norms and possibly their contractual obligations as well. I'd say that you have a pretty good expectation of privacy on a virtual _private_ server.

I don't particularly know anything about Rimuhosting. I know most places are oversold to a certain degree. I suspect that there isn't any way to make money in the industry if you're not.
Fantastic question that I've been musing over myself recently.

I've not understood anything specific that led to this (as far as my tired mind remembers), but my hunger for some specific statistics grew. For instance: Partitions of US workforce into industry, median wage, median age, geographical locations, etc. Trying to see the overhead in society. Sources of political contributions. Wealth division. Each industry's contribution to: GDP, pollution, natural resources, workforce, etc.

My long-running goal has been to create visualizations that sum up a lot of these big questions. I'd love to work with others if they share similar goals.

edit; forgot to mention: I've been craving to find out topics known inside industries but covered to the general public. I.e. how record labels work, how industries deal with non-compete agreements and collusion, what financial institutions do that should be illegal but isn't, details of HFT, agriculture subsidies, barriers of entry to large industries, etc and etc. (I have a feeling I'll be editing this a lot)
They compete with Google for talent. End of story.
I agree but you should not be using a VPS if you are a high CPU user. You use a dedicated server for that.

Most shared providers will charge you more if you use more CPU or require that you upgrade to a dedicated server. I'm pretty sure that any hosting company will be happy to lose you as a customer if your usage degrades the other users performance.
You say you have medical knowledge. Regarding your claim that the ringworm cured your psoriasis. I find that a very exciting claim, if true. There are other cases of people using parasites to cure illness.

Is anybody using ringworm as a psoriasis treatment?
flapjax seemed cool, but I really just can't stand writing with JS syntax and all the baggage that comes with it.

my current JS project (actually objective-j with cappuccino) is weighing in at over 5000 semicolons, 80% of which is probably glue code. FRP (or bindings if it's imperative) would reduce a lot of it, but it wouldn't make JS any "safer" to write in. i'd still get goofy mistakes all over the place that you take for granted won't happen in haskell/ML/etc.

I looked at ocamljs which can use FROC but it looked like it had a pretty large function calling overhead. YHC javascript backend also looked like it had a large overhead.

I also checked out scheme2js (actually I wrote the first version of my JS app in it, but with no GUI, haha) but it relies very heavily on the rest of HOP to do useful stuff in a browser, which I would not be using. Also, debugging in it was a nightmare. Inria does mad cool stuff though.
Maybe I'm just biased (as a OSS developer who has had my software ripped off), but I don't see he is trying to fix the problem. His first comment on the issue essentially was: "It does not violiate license of FFmpeg." Personally I'd be more then a little hostile against someone who started from that position.

If he was he'd do what he was advised to do many times in the issue tracker:
* Read the licences involved
* Hire a lawyer if he doesn't to understand it
* Follow it's terms

Argueing and tweaking things in his EULA isn't part of that solution. It's really not ffmpeg's position to offer him legal advice on how to comply with the licences.

If he genuininly believes he is following the licence, maybe he should talk to his lawyer about defamation?
Sure, but look at what those companies will do to stay in a strong position. I know Microsoft is an extreme example but look at the damage they did in the last year: OOXML, sabotaging OLPC, FUD in general...
This was not actually Kasparov's complaint. He thought there was intervention during the game. He replayed a particular position through a PC and when given an extremely long time to think the PC did not find Deep Blue's move in the same situation. This along with his feeling that the computer 'just wouldn't' find the move made him believe that someone had essentially told Deep Blue to pick an alternate move from the tree creating a man-machine combination. This was not substantiated and seems unlikely considering the Kasparov - Deep Blue matches generated so much publicity even with Kasparov winning. In either case his accusations reflect badly on him since he doesn't have any real evidence. If he hadn't failed to find a draw in one of the games he probably would not have lost the match. Also the blunder in the last game could have been avoided but it seems human fallibility and some point would have done him in no matter what.
Yes to all of the above. Not to mention that we've long been able to visualize protein molecular structure using X-rays and NMR. This probably isn't very useful to anything related to proteins.
Darn. I didn't get a single letter in the acronym correct. Oh well. :P Thanks for the article!
It wouldn't answer my question either :( I like the logo though!
For a company of facebook's size though, I'm sure the chef's hired would be a very small amount of the people hired.

It also would come off to employees that they care, they have probably pulled off lucrative hires that they may not have got without the meals they provide.
A GRE of 1130 maps to an IQ in the 90th percentile ( http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/GREIQ.aspx ). Hardly below average! Of course, in a good computer science program a lot of people will be at 99+ percentile, which can be a bit humbling.

Usually listening to a professor didn't help, I might as well tune out.

I think that's pretty normal, even among the very smartest.

I forget things very quickly if I don't continue to use them.

I think that happens to everyone. I sure can't do a derivative anymore.
Transportation costs are comparable to $1000+ ft^2 housing prices? Please.

And in the context -- people decrying $100K/year salaries -- it's important to understand that $100k is a small income to live in the city.
Thanks, fixed, a space somehow snuck into the URL.
There's a saying... the Japanese invented ramen because the quicker you eat, the quicker you get back to work. In this way, I think they are the same.
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Jeez, I don't even know what MediaCoder has done wrong here. If they're not linking against ffmpeg, just piping to it, MediaCoder's code doesn't need to be GPL'd, right? Anyone care to explain? These ffmpeg guys sure aren't.
"Friday afternoons feature a happy hour with real wine and beer."

I hear MySpace only has the fake stuff.
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Facebook is "profitable"?
From the discussion, it sounds like MediaCoder needs to ship source for mplayer and ffmpeg.
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But to say that Rimuhosting broke into their own machine is ridiculous.

I'm not sure about that. Since the VM is virtual, you could say that they don't own the VM, they own the machine the VM runs on. They can control and manipulate the VM via the container for running them (Xen in this case). But since the VM doesn't physically exist, it could be argued that they don't actually own it, they only rent server capacity to run the VM.

Now, I know that you could similarly argue that they were only reading/modifying a disk image that existed on their server, but that isn't as much fun to argue.

I think that everyone here can agree that this was a dumb move by Rimuhosting. And I'm not sure what the contractual arrangement is when you buy a VPS from them... but what they have posted online doesn't make this very clear.

The question of ownership is interesting in this era of cloud computing (and not at all clear). I think it's clear that they own the bare metal. I think it's also clear that you own your data. However, where those mix is an interesting question. At what point is their (uninvited) intervention in a customer's VM warranted outside of their normal management options in the VM container (Xen)? At what point is the intervention too much?

Does the company matter? I can imagine everyone being up in arms if Amazon tried the same thing with an EC2 instance.

Of course this could all be alleviated by using a dedicated server... but even then, if the hosting company owns the hardware, would it be okay for them to pull a hard drive, and add themselves as root? Never. Ever. But this is effectively what we're talking about. The only difference is that with a dedicated server your actions don't affect others. In a VPS environment, your actions can affect others. But I think that there are far better methods for controlling this than "breaking in" to a customer's VM.
So what, basic human social skills are lacking in that thread and it's certainly not stanley who's lacking them.

Personally I would feel ashamed to know any of them, especially diego who seems to be an abhorrent troll.

So much for 'open'.
Did you read the FIRST post in the issue tracker?
http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/msg5911

He is shipping binary only versions of a modified version of ffmpeg. He needs to comply with the licence for that code, which (vastly simplified version) means he needs to supply source in some way.

[Usual disclaimers apply about lawyer, and not being same, especially with regards to the legal obligations]
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In this case their posted terms and conditions aren't very clear on the extent that they can muck around with a customer's VM. It's quite clear that they can suspend or kill it, but it's unclear how far they can go to "restrict" the customer's VM.
Judging by how big of a feat this is to image a molecule, how on earth do we know how things like cellular respiration work? How do we know cells use ATP, etc without being able to watch?

(I may make this question a separate post to HN, it's been bothering me for a while.)
Rimuhostinh owns the box. The client rents it, but the owner never gives up the right to step in and fix something if it is impacting the service they provide for other clients.

If I require this level of privacy, I will go with a co-location contract, not a virtual machine. Those are different products with different features. A VM on a shared chassis is hardly a private computer.

Oddly, I have some experience with virtual servers and never had much trouble throttling down an instance that wanted too much resources.
They will never sell Chanel No. 5 in gas stations because it would cheapen it. Likewise, a blog that tolerates retarded trollish comments looks cheap. If I were one of the IBM scientists who worked on that project, I would hate to have my work publicized by a blog as distasteful as Gizmodo.

Call me elitist if you will. BTW, my question was rhetorical.
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Does anyone know how much Apple makes (earnings, not revenues) from iTunes vs the physical devices they sell?
Definitely worth a read. They discuss which language features gave them advantage and disadvantage and so the lessons can be used by programmers in many other languages as well.
Nice catch. As explained at www.php.net/global, PHP most certainly does "support global variables". They are accessible by declaring them with the "global" keyword within the scope they are to be used, or by accessing them via the $GLOBALS superglobal (one that, it appears, the author neglected to include in his list of superglobals)
One challenge I have with all these logins options is that it becomes hard to remember which provider you logged in with. We have an issue already with Facebook connect and standard Django auth of duplicate accounts for a single user being created. Often times merging these can be rough. Has anyone come up with an elegant solution to this problem?
If users can no longer rely upon their names being displayed, they will come up with alternate ways of identifying themselves. Forced anonymous has worked in some places in the past.
Is there non-real wine? What do they call it? Imaginary wine? As an European, I really don't understand the joke...
Exactly. In my mind this is the difference. If there is an emergency, the hypothetical apartment manager must physically enter the apartment.

However, in this case, the hosting company has another option available: pause the VM.

It is also easier to do technically than shutdown the VM, edit the filesystem, restart the VM, find the errant process, change the configuration, etc....
I saddened that the intent of copyright has been forgotten so much. As has been pointed out, copyright is a "contract" between the people and the creator. The creator is given a limited time in which they can exclusively profit fro m a work IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THE CREATION OF FURTHER WORKS. Copyright does not exist for the creator. It exists for the people. By allowing an avenue for the creator to exclusively profit from a creation for a time, the people can then expect further works from the creator, resulting in a much richer society with great works of art. The perversion of this system by perpetually extending copyrights stifles the creation of further works due to the maintained state of the original copyright. I am a musician, and am overjoyed that I have exclusive control over my original works for a time period. I am a software developer, and I am overjoyed that for a period of time I can be the sole distributor of the works. I am a consumer, and I am disappointed by the lack of progress in created works due to the maintenance of copyrights.
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hahahahaah! indifferently, yes?
It's hard to tell where revenue comes from by looking at their earnings reports, since they aren't broken down by product/service (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/07/21results.html). Clearly they make more from selling Macs, but if you did a strict iPod/iPhone vs iTunes, it would be close.
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There's nothing worse than receiving a gift that the recipient wants you to have but you don't want to use.

But this couple seems annoying, and doesn't seem to understand the social process of gifting.
What if there were multiple interconnected daemons running? What if shutting down apache stopped the apache process from doing some other job that another process needed? With servers that you don't maintain, you just don't always know how the services interact.

So, it is always better to just pause the entire VM and let the owner deal with it. (Sure, you can offer to help fix it, that's good customer service, but just don't take it upon yourself to do it without approval).