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You seriously think developers will manually HTML encode every time user input is rendered in the response? It's not just HTML they have to worry about, but Javascript, URL, HTML attributes, etc. If the framework doesn't automatically do it, nobody does it. That is, until they get hit by XSS.
I think for the same reason people like to comment on HN. people with knowledge have an opinion, and they like to be heard.

Also, I think most people like to be help.
Allow me to save you the trouble of clicking through each of these 17 pages.

1) Twitter - http://twitter.com/positions.html

Twitter is hiring in several areas, including engineering, marketing, and monetization

2) Gilt - http://careers-gilt.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1

Gilt is hiring financial analysts, engineers, product and marketing managers, and interns.

3) GroupOn -http://www.groupon.com/jobs

Groupon is hiring for several positions--many in sales, some in product development (such as visual design or quality assurance engineering).

4) SimpleGeo - http://twitter.com/SimpleGeo/statuses/15264604240

Geodata startup SimpleGeo tweeted that it was looking for HTML ninjas to do front-end programming.

5) Bug Labs - (this link is broken, it seems to point to the login for an editorial interface)

Bug Labs, a technology startup producing modular devices, is hiring web-developing interns, a QA specialist, and a VP of Engineering and Operations.

6) FourSquare - http://foursquare.com/jobs/

The location-based social network has open jobs in the engineering and business development departments. Foursquare is also seeking specific iPhone engineers to tune the iPhone app.

7) Sourcebits - (no job link?)

"is looking for a full time online PR person (in addition to several project developers)."

8) Digg - http://jobs.digg.com/

Digg publisher/Chief Revenue Officer Chas Edwards tweeted that the social news site is hiring engineers. While Digg is only hiring engineers, the positions range from business intelligence infrastructure to mobile and web applications. All the jobs are based in San Francisco.

9) Hunch - http://hunch.com/info/jobs/

Front-end developers can solve some "really interesting problems" at the San Francisco or New York offices of Hunch.

10) Quora - http://www.quora.com/about/challenges

is currently hiring engineers and product designers.

11) Asana - http://www.asana.com/jobs

is in search of "The Designer" and "The Business Person."

12) Smule - http://www.smule.com/jobs

Smule, creator of the sonic media iPhone "I am T-pain" and "Ocarina" apps, is hiring engineers, developers, and marketers.

13) Rent Juice - http://rentjuice.com/current-openings/web-developer/

Rent Juice a startup that works on making rentals easier, emailed to say it is looking for a developer.

14) New York Times - http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=1172909

The New York Times is looking for a media-savvy journalist.

15) Amazon - http://lab126.com/careers.html

Amazon's Lab 126, responsible for the Kindle, is on a hiring binge for managers, product engineers, interns, and recruiters.

16) Apple -http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-job-openings-2010-6

Apple is always hiring

(Several of these seem to stretch the definition of "startup".)
This sounds a lot like drop.io or mediafire etc.. file sharing services with a web interface. Since people were already using the public links to share individual files it makes a lot of sense to expand it to the folder level.
I'm sure you have never seen 1/3 of those reasons. That was my point — Apple can and does reject apps for any completely unpredictable, off-the-wall reasons. It's not nearly as cut-and-dried as you made it sound.

Also, can you give an example of a major rejection story where the developer "freaked out about being rejected" and wasn't right? I don't think that happens. Apple usually tells you in no uncertain terms when your submission has been rejected.

And yes, the app may go on to be "fixed" and then approved, or it might not. That doesn't change the fact that it was rejected for a bizarre reason to begin with, in contradiction of your claim that only apps that use private APIs and illegal and confusing apps get turned down. There are many more reasons, a lot of which aren't written down and a lot of which don't exist yet. That's the scariest part — Apple will just change their minds. Remember the Great Skin Purge, where they deleted tens of thousands of apps for "showing skin"?
Why is installing a video codec difficult? Here's how it can be done:

When users go to Google.com, Google automatically installs the video codec on the users machine. The user of course will get the install prompt, but as most users do, they'll click "OK". Done. The codec is now installed.

Since Google is such a popular site, almost everyone will get the codec (or have the chance to get it). And since it is Google distributing it, they take on ownership if there are IP or security issues. And since Google is the one that really wants to use this codec, they'll be motivated to make this happen. That's a win-win.
I don't say that cosmic rays cannot happen (well, they absolutely certainly do, I mean whether they can cause memory corruption that actually make some difference in the running system), but this is quite strange. No such faults were happening before this single incident and now, there many similar faults happening regularly? Why should I suspect the cosmic rays (was there any reason for such a sudden change in their activity and visibility of it?) and not an hardware fault?
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As far as i know, a successful startup is supposed to make you rich or well off, but what about a web app that brings enough profit to replace your day job?

That's an interesting perception. I have a web-based startup and I'm located in the Midwest. There is a huge entreprenuerial scene here, but web-based startups are as rare here as elevation changes.

Of all the entrepreneurs I know here, the vast majority of them make just enough to get by with a little stability, and you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't consider that a success.

I think a web-app making $1k-$2k a month with relative stability is a great thing to have, a good source of income, and even potentially a successful business, though by popular definition (as you pointed out), it probably isn't a "startup".
Yeah, while cosmic-rays are cool and all it sounds like his RAM is failing.
I used K in an internship in college (DB stuff for a data company whose clients were mostly financial companies). The learning curve was really steep, but once you can parse it, it's incredibly fast to program in, incredibly fast to execute, and generally awesome.

We had a vague guideline at work that if any algorithm took you more than 3 lines, you were doing it wrong.

Legend has it that Arthur Whitney wrote the compiler in a few files - a.c, b.c, c.c, up to around q.c, with each file being exactly 52 lines and 80 columns so they could all fit on one page.

See "no stinking loops" at http://www.nsl.com/ which has some great examples of really good K code (scroll down a bit).
Perhaps Nigerian keyboards are CAPS only?
A group of people that are incapable of basic life tasks like cleaning and paying bills are not going to cause the apocalypse. This is sensational garbage from doomsayers.
The people with the cleanest desks are not always the most productive or efficient workers.
Yes, and many baby boomers in their teens and twenties had comparable attitudes to the one satirized in the original article.
Tonido 1-click share does the same thing. Get a shareable link to a file or folder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtFRqNcGIP4
However, in that case, you don't force the original propertyholder to continue maintenance of the site.
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Thanks - so I guess since I have installed some Froyo image before, I will never get a push from Google for the final release anymore?
Testing RAM
I think the next new connector will be Light Peak and if the transceivers are inexpensive it will become "the" interface for all your devices.

If Light Peak is too expensive, then USB-3 will obviate eSATA in any event.
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The author seems to have very strong opinions about what everyone else should be doing (see the second comment):

http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/2010/06/the-antiquated-guid...

If all that stuff makes you happy, great. I like some of it myself (cooking, pushups, books). But "cleaning all the things" and "wear a tie" don't make everyone happy, and there is no reason Allie should force herself to do it even if Unlimited Magazine thinks it's what every adult should do.
As for the game mechanics, I would imagine that the low frequency of visits really was the major factor in the apathy towards them. Our startup (IActionable) is creating a game-mechanics as a service system and one thing we noticed is that it's only really useful when employed on a site that users typically visit fairly frequently (like once a week or better, ideally). There are other factors too - like number of integration points - or how many things can a user do on your site. The "game" is hard to make interesting if the user can only do one or two things since there isn't a whole lot of interesting stuff you can do around that usually.
And other things? If you are trying to run a bunch of open source stuff then perhaps you are going to run into compatibility issues - I don't have much experience trying to do this on windows. Presumably with IIS 7 and it's built in fcgi support PHP should be doable. If you are looking at hosting any of Microsoft's server products like exchange, sql server, SharePoint, or basically any new server they come up with, the 64 bit version of the OS is recommended if not required (for instance with exchange 2007+ you can't use a 32 bit OS) Even the .NET stack for web I would go with a 64 bit OS. Server 2008 R2 is a really awesome server if you are in windows land.

EDIT:

How to enable fastcgi and fix some issues running PHP.

http://tinyurl.com/278ra9l

The fix from MS for windows 2008 64bit:

http://tinyurl.com/2685nmz
Right, but so can alcohol, and mixing alcohol and tylenol can be bad for your liver.
I tend to agree with both this post and the linked pg essay, which I just read for the first time.

I do have a qualm with something pg says in the essay though. He says that the cause of this situation is specialization and the increased time required for training, but at the same time he says that little to no real teaching is going on in schools. If specialization requires increased training, which requires increased time in schools, then how can we be achieving specialization without actually teaching anything during this extended time in schools? Surely the time itself does not make us capable of specialization.
If one person whining was why we're all totally screwed, then we're all screwed starting long ago...

This is the internet.
Gulf oil spill: Boat captain, despondent over spill, commits suicide
If they were totally independent, they would also need to give up their common carrier and safe harbor status.
They hate our freedoms... Never forget.
opps, something has come up, I probably won't be able to make it now, really sorry. catch you all at the next one instead
His website (linked to in his profile) has an email address on it.
We're all screwed because we write more about the difficulties in attaining adulthood nowadays, which means we must be more infantile than the baby boomers.

We're all screwed because people donate more to cancer research these days, which means we must have more cancer than the baby boomers.

We're all screwed because we write more about software design now, which means we must have worse computer software than the baby boomers.

etc, etc.
This should be valid: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA1/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=GRACE...

-g
Well this is interesting: "I don't think those [SVG Standards] are good enough reasons on their own to make SVG Fonts an essential part of the Web platform."
he also said these things.

“There are no plans to make a tablet,” Jobs was quoted saying to Mossberg. “It turns out people want keyboards…. We look at the tablet, and we think it is going to fail.”

and

“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read any more.”

Steve jobs is famous for misleading people with public statements
Celery together with RabbitMQ (or another message broker) is great for big/huge projects. For basic job queueing and delayed job execution, beanstalkd (http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/) is in most cases a better choice. It takes almost no memory, no configuration, and just works.

I wrote a small library for Django that makes writing jobs for beanstalkd easier (http://github.com/jonasvp/django-beanstalkd). There's also a management command for starting (threaded) workers. Makes writing and calling jobs from Django very simple.
Jeez, I've never seen such ridiculous ads on a legitimate-seeming website.
Sorry, my tone might have been off. What I meant was: Buckwheat pancakes don't have glutin and are amazing. If you don't know about them, give 'em a try!
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A Shallow Introduction to the K Programming Language:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/11/14/22741/791
Currently either a reviewer has 2 choices: 1. put a review on Amazon, but hand over ownership of the review. 2. put a review up on a personal blog, and maintain ownership but get no readers. Micro-formats offered a way to publish reviews and have them more easily aggregated, but haven't delivered. It is clearly a non-trivial problem.
Removing categories of materials on request assumes categories exist.

How would those categories be created if Google can't pro-actively scan content without running afoul of Safe Harbor's requirement that providers not vet material beforehand?

Am I misunderstanding something? Because it sounds like arguing for a "Category Take Down" is just a round-about way of arguing against Safe Harbor altogether.
I think incenting people to review products defeats the whole point of what Amazon has to offer--genuine opinions about products from actual users. As mentioned above, no other e-commerce site has volume of reviews that Amazon has and few look poised to overtake them. Epinions took the incentive route and I think the difference in value is pretty apparent. Once you start compensating users for submitting "something", the value of that "something" is going to be pretty minimal.
It's oddly appropriate that the first comment to this is [deleted]
I think the main thing would be to build a community where people feel some need to belong. I don't know if Amazon really does this, and what you're seeing in terms of number of reviews on their site is probably just another reflection of their popularity. Some % of people will write a review, Amazon just has enough people that it ends up being a rather large number.

The problem then becomes how to encourage a greater % of your audience to contribute. Some people might be more willing to contribute if they could see that their contributions were valued. Can users rate a review (like Amazons X of Y people found this review helpful)? Some might be more willing if it increased their standing in the community - some people enjoy being seen as an expert - do you recognize people who take the time to leave reviews (perhaps magnified by review quality)?

Most of this will only really work if it is within a community, however. If lots of people just come and go then those tactics are fairly meaningless. If you have a niche site with a lot of repeat visitors that you can build a community around, this might be a good way to start that process.
That confirms my bias, which is that it can't be measured directly and the metrics that people try it with usually do more harm than good. But it's very interesting coming from someone with "years of direct involvement in measuring productivity".
They certainly do try to set their own prices. On occasion society revolts, sometimes violently and sometimes not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Satyagraha.
I there a way to turn GSM off on Android/CM? That would be great for situations where I do actually have wifi coverage.
I'm sorry I should have clarified it is a Server 2003 instance.
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"Open source alternative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

Is J Open Source? Last time I looked it wasn't.

From the web site

"Jsoftware licenses source for all the Jsoftware binaries. There are several factors in determining the cost of source licenses. Primary is the source itself: J Engine (portable C); Windows GUI support (C++); and Unix GUI support (Java). Secondary is the scope of use: internal; distributed products; and competitive (to Jsoftware) products. And finally the platforms: Windows; Unix; PocketPC; etc. The price range is from $10,000 to $400,000. Regular updates to our current source levels are available for separate update fees."
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They should design a "self cleaning" model that actually uses the piping behind the urinal to flush once a week or so. It seems like this would resolve the need to rely on human maintenance, although the urinal wouldn't truly be waterless anymore.
Who raised these irresponsible children?? They should be ashamed of themselves.
LOL...(it has also replaced Bless You as a reply to when someone sneezes)
Not to sound too defeatist, but over the course of human history, when have rationality and human decency ever succeeded?
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From her drawings, I would gather that the author of the original post is ENTP and/or has ADD. If she is ENTP more than likely she is very creative and could possibly find a work around. I see her indifference to doing common household chores as an opportunity for her to create some amazing product that solve these problems. Be honest; who wants to do these task? The other alternative is ADD. ADD doesn't mean you can't focus, only means that you can only focus on stuff you find interesting. ADDs are known for their hyperfocus:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus

But whatever it is, the problem is central to the author of the original post and does not extrapolate to the rest of the population.
Yes, I have to add to this sentiment. In my mind, I imagine Dropbox to be just as secure and private as my own hard drive. It's a bit of a fiction, I know, but until now nothing caused me to really question it. I use it for important files -- the sensitive ones that I really don't want to lose.

Maybe it's all perception, but this makes my private files feel dangerously close to the wide open web.

Dropbox, don't make me feel dumb for using your service for stuff that matters. If your service is meant for funny cat pictures and not my tax returns, please tell me now.
Hohoho, just as I land in NYC. Next time.
Many Amazon product pages are the de-facto location for product data in a variety of verticals. When was the last time you read a great book and sent someone a Borders/BN link? If that page page becomes the default home for that product, posting a review at Amazon becomes natural. This also leads to weakness in other areas, and I'd argue that for product categories where Amazon is not the natural choice, the review quality isn't fantastic (e.g. outdoor gear, etc.) If the goal of the review is to inform as many people as possible about your product experience, Amazon is a natural outlet.
What specific apps are you having problems with besides PHP? This may help for server 2003 and PHP. http://www.iis.net/download/fastcgi
In South Africa we've got a completely free, community driven and supported Wireless User Group comprising of ~2000 nodes.

Whilst it's certainly not the Internet I've seen a marked improvement and understanding in creating large, relatively free networks. (You still have to buy your own equipment.)

One can only hope that by 2025 the technology will have increased to such a point that it'll be powerful (no line of site required), cheap and abundant. (And in effect, uncontrollable by a single entity, corporation or organization.)

A bit more about the WUG: (http://ptawug.co.za)

They use standard 802.11g/n (5.8/2.4 GHz) Wi-Fi equipment. And mostly Mikrotik router hardware and software.

I'm just a user - So my information might be a bit wrong...
Apple never promised a replacement for Shake. It was just the usual Apple rumor mill at work.

They bought Nothing Real for people and some technology. A few pieces from Shake were integrated into FCP and Motion, for example optical flow retiming (=smooth slowdown) and image stabilization ("SmoothCam").
Celery leverages a message queue (including Rabbit, which is how we deploy it), Celery provides an easy API to define tasks, push them onto your queue, and run them on workers.
Nanex is a data feed company that was started by Eric Scott Hunsader who is one bad ass programmer and, based on my limited interactions with him when I used to program against a previous API he designed, a decent person. He was able to deliver results back then that other people couldn't dream of, and Nanex (called GenerationV at the time I think) was his "build it all again from scratch based on what you've learned to date" data feed engine. It's interesting to see the name come up here. How big of a player are these guys?
I have no idea what link you clicked on. The one above says this:

committing memcached

bradfitz (author)
May 27, 2003

Specifically, that was Tue May 27 07:19:11 2003 +0000.

I spent a long night back in 2008 recreating that history as accurately as possible. It involved a couple of git repositories, subversion repositories, and a lot of google and mailing list searches to ensure that every one who ever contributed to the project was properly recognized.

You can read more about that process here: http://www.mail-archive.com/memcached@googlegroups.com/msg00...
That's not really what the sentence is saying - taking it out of context and quoting it here is a bit of a disservice.
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Why the success of the iphone and ipad means the economy is in terrible shape 
Apple has been one of the few bright spots in the economy with blockbuster sales of the ipad and iphone 4. Its stock is near an all time high which it reached a few days ago and has more than tripled since Steve Jobs' cancer scare in early 2009.

Despite the good fortune of Apple the company, the economy remains in the toilet with unemployment near 10% and the prospects of a double dip recession not impossible. I think the success of the ipad and iphone (ipip) is indicative of what troubles our economy.

The ipips are discretionary goods, so you need some amount of income to buy them. However, they also lend themselves to be escapist goods, where you channel your enjoyment into these products and their apps while you forget that either you, your spouse, or friends are either unemployed or have had their pay cut. You can play games on the iphone or watch videos on the ipad while you wait interminably for a response to the dozens of resumes you sent out.

If the economy was doing well, you still might have bought an ipip, but you could afford to wait. Instead it's being used as a device to distract us from a state of ennui.
I'm pretty lost when it comes to statistics. Are you talking about not having enough data to make a conclusion, or something else?
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