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Since you include heroin and cyanide, would you have some kind of provision that prohibits people from taking certain substances if they've demonstrated by their behavior that those substances would cause them to harm other members of society? In other words, should we allow susceptible people to become junkies if they end up doing something really really bad while they're under the influence?
Moultano - I have a strange request, but one I hope you'll take seriously.

I think this issue is very important - to Google, to web searchers, to businesses seeking to be found by Google and even to less scrupulous web operators. I'd love the opportunity to engage in 20-30 minute written chat with you and publish it (anywhere on the web you'd like).

As background, I've worked for years as an SEO consultant, founded a community and company in the space (SEOmoz.org), and have been spending the last few years developing and launching search marketing software.

I certainly respect your background and beliefs, but I think there's some flawed logic in your assumptions and arguments that I'd love to dig into, talk about and maybe even have some of my own perceptions changed. I would not ask you to disclose anything that's confidential - I'm much more interested in the theory and logic behind web spam, SEO and search relevancy.

You can reach me via email - rand@seomoz.org. Would love to hear from you!
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Bonjour and Wide-area Bonjour (aka DNS-SD) are great for this kind of thing. If you set your dev server to advertise itself users on the local network can just open Safari or Firefox (with an extension) and pick the dev site from a list of services.

Wide-area Bonjour enables the same functionality over the internet with a few caveats — you've got to do some additional configuration and only Windows and OS X machines can register services (Avahi can only browse in wide-area domains). That said, you can still take advantage of WAB handling the port-forward and DNS record creation and just pass someone the appropriate URL to access the service.
"It takes one to know one" ?
"We've written to Trend Micro explaining that we're actually neither a spammer nor an individual end user, but rather an honest website that's kind of a big deal, and they sent us a form letter explaining how to configure Outlook Express and encouraging us to ask our ISP for further information."

ahh the joy of robot-email-responders.
" This means that the ring pattern of a tree-ring sample carries the "intellectual fingerprint" of the dendrochronologist who measured it, every bit as much as this text carries my intellectual fingerprint."

This is, as far as I can tell, insane. Error margins in measurement are not an acceptable basis for restricting access to your data.

"Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting," has, unfortunately, significance here.
Very persuasive. I finally pulled the trigger and deleted my account tonight. I'm not sure that Diaspora is the answer either, but frankly privacy is only half of my problem with Facebook. The other half is that it's simply a massive timesuck. That hour a day I wasted being a voyeur of friends and family's lives can now go back toward living my own life.
Like I said... "once deployed at scale."

Their system is in closed beta.
Bad legacy code is certainly unpleasant. I'm currently working with a large code base that was mostly written about 10 years ago. It's not even particularly bad code, it's just big, and old, and crufty. But we can refactor that code a bit at a time into something clean and new, using modern perl. And we can do that without having to rewrite the entire thing in one shot. And that's one of the many advantages that being a good perl developer gives you. Another one is that that giant legacy code base still runs on a modern perl binary, because perl is (with a few well documented exceptions) a very very stable language. Most of the big modern perl changes are just modules. And they're backwards compatible with the old stuff too.
The word 'amoral' is in the quote in the comment you are replying to. It's disingenuous to imply otherwise. You've also neglected to point to the whole comment that you are replying to, instead pointing at the part of the comment that you were replying to and insinuating that it is the entirety of the comment itself.
This thread has some good recommendations:

32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1245255
Holding up the D.E.N.N.I.S. system as an example of successful manipulation kind of torpedoes the credibility of your interpretation. Did you finish the episode?
> I think this hope that Zuckerberg crashes and burns is a combination of jealousy and wishful thinking.

Maybe jealousy from some, but I doubt the majority that dislike Zuckerberg/Facebook are jealous of him/it.
JIT is nice, but it's not going to really matter. Anything that needs performance is already natively compiled. So, this should make your tip calculator scream! It may mean that from now on devs can use Java where they had to use the native API before.
Perhaps originally I should have said pharmacologist, but even in retrospect your term of a specialized chemist seems more correct.
Lilypond's web site could benefit from some examples of its output directly on the front page. I tried three different approaches in my casual attempt to see just how good it is, and didn't reach any PDFs or printouts.
HFT is a technique that's used by many people, including exchanges, hedge funds and market makers. You're right though - the exchange is obliged to fill the consumer at the best available price.
I think what Amanjeev suggested is correct, don't call, better email (written) so that you can have some defensive point. and choose the correct words.
> What's wrong with "to-day--a good day--is..."?

Even though the punctuation may be correct, that looks bad w/o spaces.
The article was interesting to me because I have a friend who is a Prison Guard. He regularly tells stories about working in the system, about the prisoners, and about his work mates.

With the prison system here in Australia, he says there is a genuine drive to get rid of hard-ass prison officers, and replace them with what he calls "yes men", who will back down from any potential engagement with prisoners, because it is essentially bad publicity for the prison system, and the media loves to jump on prison violence (especially caused by the guards). In this the guards are already coming from a weak position because the inmates can actually use the media attention to their advantage

Anyways I'm getting off track, but my mate refers to himself as part of the old school system, where if you care to break the rules at all, it will be met with swift and violent retribution at the guards hands in the form of some sort of midnight visit. This is all being phased out though, as I already mentioned in the previous paragraph.

Also, the inmates definitely know the system, and know how to get around the justice system - There was a recent riot in the local prison here, where the prisoners attacked two of the guards, but even though the prisoners knew there was CC TV on them, they simply covered their faces with towels as to avoid identification. Now the guards could identify them based on mannerisms on camera (the way they walked/moved, used weapons), however it didn't go to trial because the the video was the only evidence, and a prosecution would never get a jury to convict because mannerisms would never be enough to identify the perpetrators. Kind of a long winded way of saying the prisoners know what they can get away with, very well. I asked him what would have happened if the prisoners had actually killed one of the guards, and he said well they would have got away with murder.

Scary place, he certainly earns his 90k per year. Sorry for the long winded response!
Just look at the second hand car market for a comparison - people are generally less willing to spend money on new cars that depreciate quickly, preferring vehicles that maintain their value. Particularly people who intend to sell their car on rather than drive it until it falls apart. EA are effectively increasing depreciation on their games.

I would guess that a good number of players who sell their old games use the money to buy new games. This move will definitely push the price of EA's used games down, I would guess by close to $10 for games with significant online content. Which means that EA's primary customers (the people buying the new games) now have $10 less to invest in their new game for every old game that they sell. I can't see people increasing their spend on new games to compensate for this, so the net result could be that EA get more money from used sales, which is more or less balanced out by getting less money from new sales.
A great example of where Flash has been used for no reason at all. This could have been made much nicer in html/javascript.

I'm using OSX with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 and the pictures are tiny in the middle of my screen. It also looks like the quality has been compromised to enable the flash to keep its file size down.

Great idea, could have been implemented better.

Edit: Its all about the photography. I want to be blown away by the pictures, not struggling with the implementation.
Maybe it is server load, maybe it is Flash, maybe it is shoddy coding, but something is causing this to chug to the point of being completely unbrowsable.
Here are some of the ways that a blogger will try to manipulate you into purchasing a book.

First, the post presents itself as a harmless and useful source of information. There's nothing to lose, and you might be informed or at least entertained if you keep reading.

The story spans several different aspects of human behavior. At some point, it might touch on something that you've personally experienced, which makes you more interested in the post.

As the post goes on, it begins to accumulate reasons why the topic is important, and how it can potentially affect you and your life. Before you know it, you begin to feel like you can't afford to ignore the provided advice.

Then finally, the trap is set! An affiliate link is posted, and all you have to do to feel better about the situation is whip out your credit card.

Here's how you can avoid buying a book that you don't really want:

1) Recognize the signs

2) Use a web site that allows comments to publicly mock the blog post. Not only does this give you the enjoyment of being a jackass, you can transform your reticence into a noble cause.

I hope this advice has been helpful!
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You can take your chances with retail and hope someone is curious enough to pay for it or you can pay an OEM to include it and atleast the curious part will be satisfied.

Whether it's shelf space or disk space ISVs pay for it.
... know myself.
This actually sounds a little like what OpenSocial is trying to do, http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

And there're already open-source implementation of this framework under the Apache license, http://shindig.apache.org/

I've 'ported' java shindig to C# .NET but it kinda sucks going at it alone. http://code.google.com/p/pesta/, http://raya.codeplex.com

I wonder why there aren't more people interested in contributing. Coz my code sucks?
None.

They struck a deal with EMI very early in the game and the other labels followed suit.

Source: http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200943/4665/Grooves...
It depends a lot on what kind of site you are trying to secure, but a cheap certificate works in many cases. Browser acceptance really isn't an issue with major providers. I would just be sure to check out some reviews for the provider that you want to go with: http://www.sslshopper.com/certificate-authority-reviews.html
While that's true, a small piece of code can likely be JITed once and then will essentially become cached. I'm guessing that real world applications will have more overhead from JITing thus the performance likely won't be quite as good. Still, even if performance increased by 2x - 3.5x or so that would be a huge win.
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It sounds like there are so many flaws that it would not be worth anyone's time to note them all.
Well, you could always ship software in platform neutral code and make the final transition to native code when they are installed (either with something like gcj or use some intermediate representation like LLVM does).
From: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Such an interesting idea, such a terrible execution.
It seems somewhat like people inflating bids on eBay by incrementing their max bid by odd amounts until they hit the other bidder's max.
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This looks kinda cool, but when I need to expose my local dev environment (for example, for testing callbacks/hooks), I always just forward a port on my router and use the IP address.
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Where's the source for the other labels doing a deal? The source you linked only talks about EMI, and a cursory glance around the web doesn't find anything to corroborate other labels doing any deals.
FDA is a federal agency, paid for by the government. It is not a nonprofit because it doesn't have to seek funding whatever the govt't gives it is what it works with.

BTW, bribing a government official will usually result in one or both of you doing time in a federal (not a country club) prison.
Looking for a tech co-founder
We are a very small team, in super early, pre-funding stage. Our business idea has been validated by a couple of key industry executives - from the viability, (high level) business model and funding perspective. And, we are now in the process of (informally) validating it with potential users. We have experienced high-profile advisors - seasoned startup folks, Stanford, IIT alumni.

Currently we are working on the initial prototype. The problem we are trying to solve requires expertise in crawling, search, social network APIs, and social graph algorithms. We are looking for a rock star hacker to join the founding team (potential tech co-founder) - someone with strong experience in the following areas, though we fundamentally believe that anything can be learnt if you have a good base/foundation and the right attitude, and you are committed -

- information retrieval, extraction

- social network APIs (linkedin, facebook, twitter)

- experience or knowledge of social graph (desired)

- social networks aggregation (desired).

Passion and commitment are an absolute must! Also, it will help if you are a believer of Lean startup principles.

We are based out of Silicon Valley, CA - and we would highly prefer someone local. Btw, we all still have our day jobs and intend to keep it till this startup reaches a stage where we are able to raise some funding and afford to dedicate full time to it.

So, if this sounds like 'you'... solving challenging problems excites you, and you are entrepreneurial and have always wanted to build/start something of your own, but got busy with 9-to-5 and life in general.. and you've been looking for the right idea / opportunity / time... and you are super-duper hungry ( http://gapingvoid.com/2009/05/11/welcome-to-the-hunger/ ) ....then, we are waiting to hear from you!!! Let's talk and explore if together we can create something meaningful that improves the lives of millions and they love to use it, and in the process we also get to experience some of life's thrilling and exhilarating moments.

Send us a mail and tell us why you think this is 'you' - info at hachilabs dot com .
I'm humbled that my post was powerful enough to elicit this kind of personal expression.

Or are you usually this good?
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Never said anything negative about the role(s). I think it's important, and takes a load off the folks doing the more core business-specific tasks which are vital to startup takeoff.
Third startup and she's 18!! I'm totally hopeless (~40 and just recently started thinking seriously about it). Then I read a bit more and saw this:

> Ms. Keng has several advantages in pursuing her entrepreneurial ambitions, including her father, a venture capitalist who splits his time between Beijing and Cupertino and gave her $100,000 in seed money.

Hmm, so that partly explains it. However, younger "kids" still hold the upper hand in this domain. Yes, yes, you gain more experience as you get older, etc. But I think there's a huge stigma associated with an older founder, the thinking going like "Well, if he is founder material, he would've done it earlier." I mean, look at the photos on our very own YC page, can you see anyone older than, say, 25, other than the speakers?

Of course, the dearth of older founders may be a good thing: you can think of ideas that may not occur to younger competitors, e.g. monitoring personal health. Still, I'm kicking myself for not being more like Ms. Keng, 20 years ago.
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You keep a copy of credit card numbers and CVV unencrypted in a database?
Why wouldn't you use a third party/gateway to deal with CC data storage?
It's never ceteris paribus. Are you familiar with polynomials? Ax^i + By^j + Cz^k? It's the same concept. :)
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I've been using yard for a while. Although, i often forget the tags and their usage, but one can use snippets for that (snipMate.vim) for example.

One can also write a script to generate the tags for a method.
Thats an interesting idea, and it's in the budget :) I'll have a look at my options.
1. Tell your client to immediately switch to another service provider for his online store. When the current one gets hacked (note I said when, not if), your client's customers aren't going to care that it was a third party provider your client was using. They will look at it as they trusted your client and that trust was betrayed.

2. Perhaps an anonymous tip to Visa and Mastercard would be in order. The provider needs to be shut down, as what they are doing goes beyond any excusable security failure. Almost every developer, no matter how good, can botch security--and so if all they were leaking was credit card numbers, names, addresses, and phone number, it would be at least remotely forgivable, if they were to promptly fix it.

However, you said they have the CVV too. That is not supposed to be stored at all. Of course, an online store site has to keep it for the duration of processing the transaction, but that should only be a few minutes. The fact that they are storing CVV shows that they are beyond redemption.

3. As for the numbers and other data you downloaded, secure delete it. I doubt anyone is going to care much about it. I once had a file with about the same number of card numbers and contact information, which I received unsolicited, offered up as a sample of the 100k cards the sender wanted to sell me. I was able to do some checking and determine that the information was apparently legit.

I called Visa and (I think) American Express. I naively thought they would be interested in putting immediate holds on the accounts. Nope. The FBI was not interested either--they suggested that the Secret Service would be the appropriate agency to deal with someone trafficking in stolen credit cards. The Secret Service disagreed. Eventually the next day I found someone at Visa who asked me to mail her the list.
the ssh (or in this case autossh) oneliner for this would be something like:

autossh -M 0 -q -f -N -o "ServerAliveInterval 60" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -R 20080:localhost:80 -R 20022:localhost:22 [USER]@[REMOTE-HOST]

where 20022 is the port you can remotely ssh into from anywhere, and 20080 would be the http port on a remote system publicly visible that you have access to. Autossh will respawn failed connections (say the internet connection goes out) but will fail silently with "-q" (say you haven't authorized the RSA keys yet.)

I think this will work for ssh too if you drop the "-M" flag. You'll probably need keys, and it would be a good idea to make a specific user with no shell access, and restrict the ssh keys as the article mentions...
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Actually, there is also some problem with Asperger's folks and empathy. They don't have a lot of it. This is a fairly well-known characteristic, and there are related things: only talking about things that interest you, that sort of thing. From this perspective, AS folks could be called "less moral".

Of course it wouldn't really be a fair comment. And calling them "amoral" is just being a dick.
We have already gotten several offers to purchase the bundle's source code and I hear from other developers that they are getting requests for another promotion.
Sadly, not much in the way of any reasoning. Paul Graham etal have give reasons why they think Lisp is great, and their secret weapon. What is authors reasons for saying that is false.

I used to program in a hugely popular language, in which it was a pain to even open a file. It took ages to find out how to open it in append mode. How to format a decimal ... moving a piece of code into a try catch block was painful.
Often one's productivity can suffer due to a language no matter how proficient one is in it.

Given the same amount of expertise in 2 languages, if i can write the same feature in much less time in one language, then it is more powerful.
I'm not convinced that most of the inmates have quite that level of sophistication, but anyone who's dealt with a particularly effective bully will recognize the kinds of psychopathic behavior depicted.
The browser handles pretty much everything inside the editor including the handlebars for resizing images and tables. Editors like TinyMCE and CKEditor are still very impressive, I've made my own RTE once and it's one giant PITA to get everything to work nicely, especially across browsers.
I also have a copy, and was only shunned on IRC a few months ago for using it.
This guy's bashing (which I remember reading from years back) is part of what makes the book famously bad. At least to me.

I find the tone of the intro of the updated article very amusing, I guess it's the typical underdog story. He used to be some random guy on the Internet who liked C; now he's an experienced professional who spent almost a decade on the C committee. Awesome.
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I feel like you missed listing a big change: with the rise of UGC sites, the boosting of results of anything on an "important" domain doesn't seem valid anymore. Just because something is on twitter.com doesn't mean it's highly relevant, since anyone could've posted it. But it's fairly easy to google bomb someone's name by just registering a Twitter account and listing their name as owning it.

Similarly, stackoverflow.com doesn't have very good answers for a number of technical topics, but it's often on the first 10 hits, even when the answers are useless and there's much better answers ranked lower (like project mailing list archives).
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Half of his rant focuses on Zuck 'stealing' features from other websites and potential competitors. Since when did adding new features that someone else invented become a moral issue? In many industries, that's standard practice. Google didn't exactly invent email. There's no moral standard to apply here.
His other assertions about Zuck screwing over past partners is more troubling.
You realize this site would be considered a startup, right? One that has already lead into a book deal?
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