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In the post, he links to the draft of a book he is writing about libevent. Looks to be worth following: http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/
You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .
So this is Linq for Ruby. Using this in place of ActiveRecord's querying API will be great.

One nice thing about Linq though is that most (all?) of the methods on IEnumerable have the same semantics as those on IQueryable. Ruby has a pretty nice Enumerable, but the method names in Arel don't match up. Map becomes project, select is where, etc.

It's convenient to be able to use the same syntax to query an in memory object collection that you use to query a database (or any other kind of abstract collection).
I think that the predominance of 'tech savvy' users in Linux (especially ubuntu) will change soon.

This is only an anecdote, but when I whip out my ubuntu laptop, people don't say 'what's that' anymore, they say 'cool ubuntu, how is it?'

Up until fairly recently you had to hack around with text files in shell in order to set up simple things like multiple monitors and proper sound support.

That sort of stuff got a lot better with version 8, and with the current version, 9.10 i'd say that using Ubuntu is as easy as using windows (possibly easier).

The only barrier currently is 'can i buy an OS disk in the store', and 'can I get a computer with it pre-installed'.
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That ad was planned before we were hacked, the timing was a total coincidence.

Michael is out in Davos, Switzerland right now — he isn't masterminding an opportunistic ad campaign.
You can start with your favorite language by downloading a library, there is bioPerl, bioPython, bioRuby and even bioPHP!
The libraries have all the routines to connect to public sources.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/89889045?report=fasta... has an enormous database and is all open source. The link I quoted lists the genome for a virus. I wrote a short program in JavaScript that did frequency analysis on the pairs. It took 30ms in Chrome. It is actually not all that difficult at a certain level of analysis.

In my mind the big question is, how can we understand how it works? It is like giving you a binary for windows to reverse engineer it. My own question is; does my DNA makes me? If my grandkids have it on a memory stick (it can actually fit), would they be able to 're-construct' me in some form of virtual reality?

A potential area for hackers to get involved in my opinion - is the potential of the Cloud. You can imagine say 10 million genomes stored out there at the not so distant future and distributed software analyzing it and indexing it and all the ethical and other problems that come from it.
Bad guys only need to know one way in.
Good guys need to know all the ways in.
35 pairs of eyeballs makes me think that they will not make fantastic advertisement deals, I think they are doomed when keeping the paywalls up
There's great value in online communication, but sometimes you have to talk IRL.

Pretend like you're a noob learning netiquette.
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Dang, on purpose would have been more fun.
http://www.conversionrater.com/2007/04/29/yahoo-acquires-rig...

This is the one small source I found of a guy calling himself a Yahooligan. Coincidentally it was about 3 years ago too.
Yes, what is this snort of which you speak?
If you all have cars, I would probably stay away from SF. Parking is expensive. I like Berkeley as your solution.
GeeksDoItRarely.com - true, true (no site exists here as yet)
Very specific brand of flash drive. ;) Thanks for the figure.
It is a strange premise, from my point of view, to characterise rather militant anti-intellectualism and hostility to the achievements of science, culture, scholarship, etc. as merely a trait of the majority of "ordinary" (non-"geeky") people.

I hope the author is wrong about that, or, alternately, that my understanding of what exactly is meant by "geek" is a bit off.
Good question -- and the answer is that systematic writing combined with widespread literacy tends to fossilize language, at least on the page. There is, for instance, a world of difference between written and spoken English, the written version being not too very different from what one might have expected to read in an eighteenth-century document. The vocabulary has changed somewhat, the modifiers less (ahem) magnificent, but the grammar (and the flow and phrasing) is essentially the same. In fact, it is really only semantic drift that prevents us from reading Shakespeare as easily as, say, Tom Wolfe. Even the spelling in today's written English reflects the pronunciation prevalent in the London area in the fifteenth century. None of us, though (or at least none of us who regularly interact with other English-speaking humans) would speak spontaneously in any way like the way we write. The situation is similar in other languages; in spoken French, for instance, one only hears the ne verb pas negation in the context of strong emphasis, the grammaticized pas having completely replaced the original negator ne in day-to-day speech. Only tweets, text messages and smilies will prevent English from being as static as written "Chinese".
The East Bay is a great option for startups on a budget. Cheap(er) rent, good food, lots to do, and many startup-minded folks. Emeryville is ~10-15 minutes away from downtown SF, so you won't be missing out on any major events in the city.
>80% of start-up networking opportunities are in the valley
Thats weird. I could have sworn there was a green 'share this' icon/link right below the hackers text. I was going to say maybe thats the source of the vulnerability.. its not in your screen cap though.
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In Australia we have to pay an extra $1 for the glasses (which you can keep or recycle).
Here's a comparison of Canvas versus SVG: http://www.borismus.com/canvas-vs-svg-performance/
It's funny to think that, but I think it's more that the guy is just insecure.
But then your expertise is not that different from your expertise. Your perl will probably still be faster overall than a beginner's haskell, not for the same algorithm, but for solutions to the same problem. Knowing which algorithms perform well for a given problem solved in perl is the most relevant part of expertise.
Someone working at Techcrunch isn't qualified for their job.
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"plus that Titanic was released at a time when people didn't go to the cinema as much as today."

My guess is that the opposite is true. Large LCD and plasma screens with 5.1 Surround Sound and DVD/Bluray make cinema less attractive than what it was 12 years ago.
i hope this doesn't mean you have to keep that welcome ad page up as a matter of principle going forward.
I wasn't sure, so I erred on the safe side of caution.
Chances are that the majority of developers won't find the most efficient algorithm to solve the problem.

(vs. the most efficient implementation of that algorithm... which is clearly going to be in a combination of C and assembly anyway).

Anyway, the guy using the good algorithm ends up with the fastest code. Different compilers will produce different quality of code.

Question is, if I am using C++ vs. a guy using Perl, will I ever reach the efficient algorithm? I might call it quits when I finally get something to compile and not segfault.

(Of course even this is kind of a strawman, because the perl guy can just reimplement in C++ when he figures out that he wants more speed out of his good algorithm).
To paraphrase jwz, social networking is not magic pixie dust.
It seems to me AT&T is trying to be more like www.gigpark.com than Yelp. Gigapark was recently sold to Canpages.. the guys operate in Vancouver, BC.
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> They did say South Park and I believe that and SoMA have most of the startup action, don't they?

I doubt it. (I've never heard of "South Park" and I've been in the Bay Area for years. I thought that SP was a reference to some NY district.)

SoMA may have about as many startups as NYC, but that's not enough to be "most" in the Bay Area.
Even were this true, you'll find they will work infinitely better than those lines not written by benevolent contributors working for free.

This is where the rubber meets the road... getting paid is a surprisingly effective motivator for a lot of people. And if the task is somewhat critical for your work, you'd probably give it a good shot to make it work effectively as opposed to just working.
Roundtrip latency is certainly going to add up to a substantial chunk of time, but that's not much excuse to discard performance considerations. Requests that take say 50ms of processing will take even longer if the box is busy; it doesn't take much to add up and becomes noticeable.

And if your implementation on the server side is very fast, you can do more.
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> Apple devices are useful problem-solving technology

Probably.

> and they bring a lot of joy to people's lives

but that sounds a little to fanboy, "joy" to your life? really?
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Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1078510
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I agree with the fact that this is doomed to fail.
AT&T does own Yellow Pages and they do have a head start in that regard.
Wasn't there a story about Yelp being lousy for business owners on HN active list the last few days?
That may be true, but unless you have some inside knowledge of the situation you can't know that.
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Another screen cap - http://imgur.com/H9jxU.png.
As long as you're here, do you have any details on the hack? Your only post about the attacks seems to be this one:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/

Which hasn't been updated with details as promised. The lack of details here and the fact that you got hacked again makes it look either like you don't know how he got in, or that there were multiple vulnerabilities.
They get hacked twice in a row, day after day has become the new routine. Someone there is totally doing their job you think?
How many 3D IMAXes are out there, though? My bet is that a majority of viewers are watching it in 2D in the U.S. alone. This list doesn't account for international sales, which probably attributes for a smaller overall percentage of 3D ticket sales.
"And, he's not bothered by the fact that it took them a year and half to launch."

Well, considering how long it took Twitter to scale and stop falling over, I'd say taking a little while longer to launch is a good thing.
I think I will probably avoid Hacker News tomorrow. At least one story every day has been ridiculous, I can't imagine what it will be like after the announcement.
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(LĐ) - Theo BCĐ Tây Nam Bộ, năm 2010, 13 tỉnh, thành khu vực ĐBSCL phấn đấu tạo việc làm cho 100.000 LĐ vùng nông thôn, vùng đồng bào dân tộc thiểu số với nhiều biện pháp: ....
I absolutely dislike techcrunch, but the idea that they somehow took advantage of this situation and put up that ad it ludicrous. I can tell you from experience that interstitial ads are not done on the spot out of no where. They are high paying ad campaigns that is negotiated well in advance with (usually) only a single type of product/services.

I don't visit techcrunch often (its actually hard-coded banned in my hosts file), but I can bet it was planned couple of days in advance for this weeks apple announcement, or if it is the unlikely scenario that it happened the same day that they were hacked; it was merely a coincidence.

You just don't wake up one day and put up an interstitial ad in high traffic site.
This is great. I also strongly recommend their documentary about North Korea. It's a best in class type documentary, better than many that have won Oscars.

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-...

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San Francisco is going to be the most fun. However, it is more expensive, and the majority of the opportunities are in the Valley.

After a while, you may decide that you need to live in SF.

I moved up to SF, and end up commuting to the South Bay 3X a week because no matter who I work with, they always seem to be in the Valley.
Can you explain what an interstital welcome.html ad is?
Yeah, but the other three seasons are longer and absolutely beaaauuuutttiifuull.
Sounds like a piss-poor idea.
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The site makes it very clear, actually, that they adjust ticket sales in each year independently, based on the year that the tickets were sold. http://boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm goes into all of the details.

That being said, I don't know how much their calculations should be trusted, as they claim to use $7.35 as the ticket price for 2009 as well as 2010, but show Avatar's 562MM as adjusted up from 555MM starting in 2009 dollars.
I now know that it's more nuanced than that.... X is just a pretence. [sic]

I think that it is even more nuanced than you propose. Often non-geeks are interested in the subject, but may not have sufficient interest or mental energy required for significant, structured thought into the subject. That is the kind of thought that geeks are accustomed to, but to non-geeks, that's what they do at work, not for pleasure (exceptions abound, though. For example, "non-geeks" often put careful thought into sports. Maybe they should be called "sports-geeks").

I regularly am asked questions about technical matters outside of my expertise. I try to draw some logic into the matter, break it down, and come up with a simple, reasonable, and probably accurate answer. If required, the asker is often intelligent enough to come up with a similar answer - or at least an equally plausible one. But they don't want to, so they ask me. And that's okay. If I don't want to think about, I'll tell them I don't know.
You've got to find a little bit of amusement in Swedes naming their hip North Korean jeans based on a corruption of a Japanese word which is itself a coinage half-derived from English.
It's surprising that anyone thinks it could be different. The people paying for Windows and Mac are the consumer. They benefit because Microsoft an Apple get more money if they serve their customers better. If a bunch of companies that need database or server performance are the main ones behind Linux, where could you possibly expect the improvements to come except in the server workloads?
An interstitial ad is an advertisement put in between content - the welcome.html that was on TechCrunch today was an ad greeting ALL users of techcrunch with a little "click here to see the website" at the top.

Defined -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage
well I know one thing for sure, I'll be checking techcrunch a few times a day for the next few days at least
I do it for the same reasons plus a big one:

4. Indexing. I fulltext index all of the books that I have for situations when search results from the internet aren't that useful and wikipedia article is confusing.
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I thought it was sad that I'd assumed Kara and Oke meant something relevant in Korean. Nearly slapped myself in the face when I put them together.
...[among investors] I think more and more people in the Bay Area are going, "Wow! It's super competitive down here..." So I'm seeing more Valley firms actually coming up here because they're seeing really good companies forming.

Read that, "Seattle looks more capital starved and has lots of good startups looking for funding which would have already been funded in the Valley". Heaven for investors, sure. I really wish it weren't true, but the Valley is better for entrepreneurs.
Depends on how the conversion is done. If they take the numbers in all countries in a particular year, convert them to USD at the rate applicable in that year, inflation adjust that number, then add them together, the result you get is roughly good for inflation adjusted worldwide gross. Other methods may be less valid.
I have to disagree that this is out of the realm of possibility - TechCrunch's ad team is very creative and moves fast, and their inventory is IN DEMAND!

They sold ads written on a WHITEBOARD shown on their streaming office cam for goodness sake.

Nearly every modern ad serving platform allows for interstitials, so this is within the realm of imagination.

But he didn't, so my crackpot theory is out the window.

http://www.beet.tv/2009/05/techcrunch-selling-ads-for-its-li...
It seems as if the vulnerability is in Wordpress' rpc.php file.

http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/82271-shoemoney-com-...
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Getting hacked twice in short time doesn't automatically mean incompetence. There could be literal dozens ways of entry - including all the third party javascript services they run. Also we don't even know if the attack was done using a 0day exploit.

A sign of incompetence would be if they had their whole database wiped out and they did'nt have any backup (ala codinghorror.com) or they got hacked exactly the same way 1 month from now.

Getting hacked 2 days in a row only means they couldn't find the weakness yet. 48 hours is not a long time. Twitter gets hacked more often than this.

They very well could be incompetent, but you are judging too soon.
"The alternative, though cleaner, is leadership by wimps." - What an underhanded way to validate the current power structure. The alternative is not leadership by wimps but a better political and power structure with more inherent fairness for all.
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http://github.com/jrockway/lisp

Please let us know when it is ready ;-)
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On the contrary, having a real data structure that represents the query you want your ORM to execute removes potential bugs! The alternative/old method of generating SQL was a bunch of kludgy string concatenation.
Heh. I'm not even sure what that was going to be :)

But really, a lot of those projects have actual code in them... and some even have users. :)

As such, I think it's unfair to dismiss anything I say with "shut up and write some code", because I code and talk about coding.
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Yes, they are protecting people from themselves. However it's not at all an altruistic gesture, it's purely self preservation. You're thinking in a geek/nerd mindset. The iPhone is a black box to most people - indistinguishable from magic. We want to get to the bottom of why a problem occurred, most people wouldn't even bother to link their actions with the consequences, let alone take personal responsibility when they end up losing money. Litigation and smear campaigns are far more likely.

I think the mainstream press wouldn't bother to describe details about an obscure option hidden deep within the system settings, and would likely have whatever was the most sensational, intellectually dishonest headline they could get away with coupled with some vague, useless security tips like locking your phone with a pin and making sure bluetooth is turned off in crowded places.

People don't have their bank accounts emptied (usually, except via phishing websites and Android Marketplace apps) because their computers aren't intrinsically linked to their credit cards. Phones are, and it would be completely trivial (and very tempting) to make a dialer.exe type program that surreptitiously makes $9.95/min calls to Nigeria. List it as some kind of a raunchy sex line and try pleading innocence to your telco about that one. Go on, I dare you.

Another point: on a PC, data is stored kind of haphazardly and if you have nefarious objectives in mind it's a lot more difficult to access very specific kinds of information. On a phone, this is very easy - everything has it's place. Especially on the iPhone with it's wide use of open standards - crack open the sqlite database you need and query away to your heart's content.
Actually as long as Microsoft doesn't modify the program, isn't it the case that Mozilla can't revoke their ability to distribute it? It's released under the GPL isn't it? I guess that opens the question of whether a change in the configuration is a derivative work or just a compatibility change. I'm not a lawyer, though, it's above my pay grade.

Actually it's not. If Canonical can do it, I guess Microsoft ought to be able to as well.
Do we have anyone's word on that other than a semi-anonymous poster on a messageboard?
http://twitter.com/jason -- more tweets coming in.
This has massive fail written all over it if they don't allow users to speak their mind.

If they would really give this a fair shot with their resources they could really make something of it. I'd love to give this a shot if they did this as a skunkworks project rather than their generally top down approach.
Aren't most of the people here getting paid?
Doing interviews before the release of movies, albums, books etc is standard practice. That's what fuels late night talk show content.
What's sad is that the chipset in the MacBook Pro he has can do hardware RAID, Apple just doesn't support it in EFI.

It's Nvidia's MCP79 (of the nForce 790 SLI)
Interstitials ads are not the same thing as whiteboard ads. Like I said you just don't wake up one day and put them up within 24-48 hours.

Your theory is still a crackpot theory even if someone from TC didn't point it out. I doubt you have any IRL experience in selling online ad inventory.

Yes almost _all_ popular adservers allow interstitials, doesn't mean you see them all the time. Why? Because high paying inventory are only available in certain time of the year. Including, high-profile product launch and holiday shopping season.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/around-town/debates/Best_Startup_N...

You should really go check South Park out, it is a pretty part of town too.
San Francisco has a strong Rails community. No idea if that's relevant to your startup. I'd definitely take into account the technologies and field of your startup for your decision.
You've made some good points there. I must admit I agree. I'm being too hasty with my judgment here.
Solar pad on back for recharging? I'm highly dubious..
It is shown on the second screen cap. Why do you think it was the source of the vulnerability?
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