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Are New NBISE Infosec Certs Intended to Displace SANS/GIAC?
I was surprised to see supportive comments from SANS' Alan Paller in the threatpost.com link below, given that SANS might lose a profitable revenue stream from its own GIAC certification program if NBISE is successful in its goal "to supplant a hodge podge of private and industry certifications for IT security practitioners, including the CISSP and certificate programs run by the SANS Institute and other industry and private groups". From the second link below and third links, I see Alan Paller listed as a board member for NBISE.

Are these proposed new NBISE certs intended to replace those from GIAC? Is this a signal from Dr. Paller that we shouldn't obtain new or renew old SANS/GIAC certs going forward and instead should pursue the new NBISE certs?

References:
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-certification-group-aims-set-high-bar-it-security-pros-080510
https://prodnet.www.neca.org/publicationsdocs/wwpdf/71210natboard.pdf
http://nbise.org/leadership.php

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You are exactly right Giff. I didn't mean to sound like I was criticizing your post in general, it's just the whole discussion in general. I just finishing reading 3 posts this week on NY vs SF and then solo vs co. So this happened to be the post that I commented on :D.

I believe that if you happen to find a co-founder that truly works well with you, amazing things can happen. That is definitely the highest percentage way to go. I am a newer entrepreneur so I get what you are saying. But with very little connections and no real experience, it is much better to start as a solo guy (like you mentioned) and then hopefully find someone along the way.

Although, I still see no reason why those people can't be employees. It all depends on the type of leader that you are. Regardless, good post (and I love your list of lawyers, that's how I found mine, so I appreciate it).
This seems really cool. I imagine there is a large audience out there of people who keep hearing they should get more involved in social media but have little to no idea what that really means or how to go about doing it. I think this could really strike a chord with small business owners - the one challenge would be finding these people who may not be as web saavy - but I don't think that's too hard of a problem to overcome.

I don't know if "Eyes and Feet" really makes sense as a name for me, but I'm not sure if the "perfect" name is really a big deal.
It's $5 for everyone. The piracy thing is a marketing gimmick because you don't get written up in gadget blogs just because you have a sale.
What is in the 420 pounds of non-cheese, non-beverage-milk dairy? Taking out ice cream, that leaves almost 400 pounds, or, according to the chart, 20% of what Americans eat. Surely, there needs to be some explanation on here to justify the claim that 20% of what Americans eat by weight is dairy that is not beverage milk, cheese, or ice cream.
Yep, I used to work with a bloke from IP Sharp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._P._Sharp_Associates#APL_Impl...), he showed me some cool stuff. I have another friend who does q and kdb+ stuff.
Do they understand that? I think they believe those options are worth more than they really are.
Thanks for the reply Andrew. I can see it being worth every penny to a lot of people, but if you are looking for a specific person or topic (i.e. 1 or 2 videos), it just seems out of reach. I know for myself, even if I wanted to watch more I just would not have the time.
Yes, there is debian-installer support now.

http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-amd64/

http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-i386/
It's great to hear you say so. We're working hard to get more merchants (not just ones in Palo Alto) signed up. The more people you tell about it, the easier it is for us.
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This is a really good idea that seems to resonate with a lot of people. We can not do this yet, but it will be one of our top features to get to work on. Thank you for the comment.
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I feel like I've just witnessed a comet passing or a lunar eclipse.
The punchline is at the end:

> Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slanging crack-rock: I became a stock broker.
Looks like an elegant app for data collection. As for your methodology, I'm wondering how much you'll be able to conclude. For example, there will probably be a high correlation of people are relaxed and in a park, but does that mean that parks make people relaxed? It could be that people take a break, relax and then go to the park.
I meant it as a tongue-in-cheek reference. The mentality of the character in the movie boiler room gets involved with stock trading because he equates it to the young white male version of "slangin' crack rocks". I found it interesting that stock traders/programmers are literally "slang-in'".

The mentality in the movie also leads one to question the value of what is being created in the world of stock trading. So, to me, the comment had multiple levels of irony and coincidence. But having to explain it makes it lose some of the luster.
People pirate in general because it's easy.

People pirate games with DRM because the pirate version is better than the legit one.

You could easily argue that the DRM is increasing both the number and social acceptability of software pirates, which is basically the opposite of what it claims to be doing.
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No, it isn't -- it's by design not capable of running enough applications to be a standalone computer.

In terms of niches, it's more like the XTerms of yesteryear. The terminals weren't much for horsepower; they were basically UI's that allowed you to work more or less transparently with whatever machine you wanted to, like that Cray Y-MP or SP2 cluster in the data center next door, or the SGI Indigo down the hall.

Snip the wires, shrink it down, modernize the internals and put a slick visual UI on it, and you have an iPad. Well, conceptually, that is.

This is what the iPad was made to do, and IMO is one of the reasons that it's successful -- it isn't pretending to be something that it isn't.
I tried to get into scala, but the 2.8 release cycle instability was a brake for me.

I trust that scala guys had to do what they did, but this kind of revolutions shouldn't happen too frequently, especially when the languages matures.

still waiting for the porting of lift to 2.8 so that I can use lift and akka together.

On the other hand, very fruitful experience with clojure. Even moving from 1.0, to 1.1 and now to 1.2.
Yes, Lisp is a more expressive language than Java. But when I have to find out a nontrivial algorithm it does not help if I use a very expressive language.

For example let's have this old interview question: find a loop in a linked list with O(1) memory.
Here the used language does not matter. I feel the same with almost all algorithms.

I know that using a less expressive language can get in your way. I programmed a lot in ASM, and later in C. They got in my way sometimes. Java is a far more expressive language than Asm and C. So it is already luxury for me in a sense (although really not as expressive as Lisp)
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Single page view:

http://www.xconomy.com/national/2010/08/06/how-to-banish-bus...
Their stock is the same class as the founders. Everyone who had options in Slide also made money proportionate to Levchin, which is better than the investors did, who made nothing. (This assumes early, cheap options. Later ones may have lost money and be worthless.)

The situation the OP is referring to is when the founder decides not to sell the company or IPO, or makes a poor decision about when. With the former, there is no liquidity and stock in a private company with no liquidity or profit sharing is pretty useless.

If a company takes VC investment, it is basically committing to sell or IPO at some point (VC wants control to ensure this), ensuring the options will at some point be liquid. So, technically, having a VC with board control could be a good thing in some situations to ensure that the founder doesn't get any ideas about building a "lifestyle" company and that everyone gets a payday at some point.
That is awesome -- it's almost unfathomable to your average commuter that the journey itself can be even better than what awaits one at the destination.

Getting soaked on the way to work can be a pain, but if one just carries a rain suit in his/her bag then this will never be an issue.
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Hi HN,

I have a few web applications that I have been working on for a while and need to start looking towards my releasing options. I am not to production stage in quality yet, but would like to plan ahead.

So, my question is whether or not web applications should be released as an individual or as a company (ie an LLC created by me).

Any thoughts or suggestions? The applications are all aviation-industry themed.

Thanks!
Great feedback. Thank you. I honestly have no idea what it would take to accomplish this but we will start looking into it.
Where have all the Hacker News old-timers gone?
Try:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/531329/best-c-book-for-an...

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http://www.amazon.com/CLR-Via-C-Pro-Developer/dp/0735621632
I upvoted you, but I found myself wondering why you have a 30km commute. You mention that you would be more humanly fulfilled if you spent more time with your kids; why are you fine with wasting an hour commuting every day?

I've been paying more attention lately to perceived requirements. So often we assume that we have to continue living or working where we currently are, and that we have to build our lives around that. The truth is contrary to that: almost everything in your life can be changed, and it's often much easier than you think.
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Interesting point. I suppose the thesis will be on how happy iPhone owners are in certain places. I'll be curious about how the Apple Stores rank :|
That happens most often when you are on a road you really don't belong on. Are you familiar with Highway 9? (for those who don't know, twisty steep 2-lane mountain road, very popular with bicyclists who ride in the middle of the lane and later complain about all the cars) Though they love it to death, that road was not built for cyclists, and it's far too expensive to expand it to give the cyclists their own lane.
Thanks. Yes, finding them will be a challenge - but we think that can be addressed, one step at a time. Our first tagline was "Eyeballs & Footfalls for your Local Business". And we thought, EyesAndFeet was 'earthy' and related to the promise. But, like you say, the name's not too big a deal.
I would check out these books:
C# in a Nutshell (http://www.amazon.com/C-4-0-Nutshell-Definitive-Reference/dp...)
CLR via C# (http://www.amazon.com/CLR-via-Dev-Pro-Jeffrey-Richter/dp/073...)
C# in Depth (http://www.amazon.com/Depth-What-you-need-master/dp/19339883...)
I'm sorry to say it, but the only way to cure your sickness is to suck up your time and just get 100% of the SC2 achievements. Once you do that the temptation will go away.

Happy hunting!
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Giraffe Rider,

I have always said “life is not fair” but recently have come to believe and accept it.

A 36 year old friend was an innocent victim of an automobile accident seven weeks ago. He is still unable to communicate and move. A respectable individual with a wife and three young girls.

Another "young" (42) neighbor of mine, father with three kids. Cancer came back of out remission and a recent bone marrow transplant failed.

>The best you can do is get on with life.
Agreed. Part of being born is dying. We need to accept our fate, make the best of it and move on. I now have a much deeper appreciation of my good health (and most of my family members around me). I don’t take it for granted any more.
I know many skiny lazy people; We can debate without slandering... I think "Working your whole life" and "not working and taking it easy your whole life" are both choices with consequences.. not choices necessarily between right and wrong in the big picture. Perhaps right and wrong in your head but not universally.
When looking at an idea it’s useful to ask yourself: “Would it have been possible to build this company 12-18 months ago?”

This reads like a list of stuff that has been possible for a lot longer than 12-18 months:

Direct Access To Customers
Anything as a Service
Always Connected
Zero Barrier Distribution
Social Context
Assume The Device Is Portable
Location Aware...

I'd say dig a bit more, all this stuff was possible in Feb 09. You have the right approach, but the wrong examples.
I am assuming you havent heard of Allegrograph.
I actually like Facebook and don't have any complaints that come to mind. Perhaps demographic has something to do with it: I'm an engineer in my mid-40's who spends a fair amount of time online. But I got an account because of a very non-technical friend who used it to share pictures and anecdotes about her life. I log onto FB about 1-2 times a week for around 10 minutes each, so I'm not a heavy user. I'm using it mostly to keep in touch with people I haven't seen since college, or friends who live a long distance away that I don't talk to often. And for that it works really well.

I don't care about FB privacy because really, there's nothing there that I worry about getting out. My friends are pretty boring :-)
What bugs me about this story and the conclusions is that it tries to compare taste--something wholly subjective--to other things. It implies that people use the same criteria of judgment for everything, which isn't even addressed by the study.

How we judge our food doesn't necessarily reflect how we judge more important things like our political and social views. Has a similar study been done for those subjects?

This is the worst kind of science reporting because it's trying to take a single study and draw wildly unrelated conclusions.
It's actually worse -- MSFT has the skunkworks, but they keep ignoring the nifty new toys that come out of them.

It reminds me of IBM -- there was an amazing amount of very cool new stuff appearing out of the TJ Watson lab (when my parents were IBM'ers, I got to read their journals regularly). IBM brought very few of them to market, even when other companies did so with gusto (PDAs are an example -- IBM had working prototypes stuffed on a shelf somewhere long before Apple started even hyping the Newton).

And the defecutives didn't learn their lesson -- when their server market started suffering when the bubble burst, my mother started asking friends and colleagues about potential candidates for IBM tools and servers when she became a marketing exec there. I gave her a list of companies like PIXAR, Blue Sky Studios, Digital Domain (you see where this is going). 3 months later I went to Linux Expo with my mother and several of hear colleagues, all of whom wondered why IBM hadn't gone after those markets -- the people who gave my mother her mission stopped her from going after the companies I referred her to.

We were particularly impressed by their foolishness when we attended Carly Fiorina's keynote -- in which she listed nearly every company I'd suggested, some with video interviews, and making a big deal about how HP had provided them with Linux based solutions.
Well, to some extent that's inevitably going to be true.

But we do ask some control questions, including what people have been doing. So we can see if people feel differently when they answer that they're "Sleeping, resting, relaxing" in the park versus when they're doing the same activity elsewhere.
Can you elaborate? Any particular problems you have in mind?
Yes, it does seem like a hell of a lot of yoghurt and whey protein shakes, doesn't it?
" the game doesn’t bother players serial codes or online authentication, but it’s also very easy to copy it "

Somewhat misleading. It's also very easy to copy all the super-DRMed games. In fact, the process is identical. Load up a torrent site, search, download.

At any rate, claiming 90% piracy (regardless of truth) to run a sale is probably a good marketing move. It's a beautiful game.
Roads would be great if it weren't for all the cars on them. Around here, if you're not a car, the roads aren't a safe place for you to be, ever.
Software that aims to reduce the costs for a business and does not aim to increase its revenue.
You're assuming that all I'm (and those at the pentagon) concerned about is names.

This leak is over a year old. They're not going to get much in the way of here-and-now. But now we have a leak that goes into detail about how we operate. It's already a pain in the ass fighting people that look the same. We don't need to shed any light onto how we do what we do.
This doesn't really seem fair...
Yeah I was just playing
I'll just leave this here. http://bit.ly/cOGT5n
> primarily comes from it being developed and offered as a cohesive whole (Kernel and userland)

To a large extent this is also the Debian model, which is a lot more integrated than many Linux distributions--- they don't just cobble together a bunch of packages and call it a day. Like FreeBSD, they do take a lot of things from upstream (e.g. both use X.Org as their X11 server), but also like FreeBSD, they heavily customize the core packages and develop them so they work together well. There are core Debian teams working on its versions of the Linux kernel (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel), X.org (http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce), Exim MTA (http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4), package manager (http://wiki.debian.org/Apt), etc., along with thousands of Debian-specific patches to other packages, which are maintained as far as possible in an integrated manner to meet the unified Debian system policies.

It's not entirely identical, but I don't think it's that far off. I think the FreeBSD core system may be developed somewhat more as a single entity (for example, because FreeBSD literally develops its own kernel, rather than customizing an upstream one), but Debian may actually have more cohesive development across the entire system. My impression, though I could be wrong, is that FreeBSD ports are more spotty when it comes to really being managed seamlessly with the base system.
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So let's go steal it! Yaaaarrrrrr!
I've been using Squeeze in production systems for several months, as I needed a wide variety of bug fixes/features it provided over Lenny. It has been completely stable - glad to see Debian development moving forward.
Seriously, what is this doing here?
Minneapolis not good for bikes? Tell that to Black Label.
Not typical - most start-ups continue to give out options no matter how many employees they have. However, options at a hundred-person company are generally petite. You shouldn't think of it as 'missing out on a chance to get rich' or even 'missing out on a chance to make significant money', because it probably isn't.

That said, if your company's mature enough to employ a hundred people and you're working hard and putting in long hours, you're very likely getting screwed on your salary.
If it is possible to predict a financial crisis, then it is possible to make a profit off of that crisis. The immediately obvious conclusion is then that it is worth provoking financial crises when it is possible to predict them.

In Michael Lewis' book The Big Short, this is exactly what several folks did when they figured out how to use credit default swaps to short CDO bonds.

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0...

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/students/dunlop/2009-CDOme...
Definitely Don Box's Essential .NET (http://www.amazon.com/Essential-NET-Common-Language-Runtime/...). For the concurrency aspect I recommend Joe Duffy's Concurrent Programming on Windows (http://www.amazon.com/Concurrent-Programming-Windows-Joe-Duf...).
Those are the ones I'm enjoying the most - usually I get a larger value as the parameter in the first or second run, and I can make some sort of connection between the parameter and the result to refine my function accordingly. (It's rather hard to get the right function out of 2->6, which was the first run for my first test, but once I got 789->310866 I was able to get the right answer after only two more tests).
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I really enjoy both languages so it's great to hear an affirmation of this from Martin. Scala and Clojure compete only in the sense that I only have enough free time to really dig into one or the other but the approaches are different enough that they can certainly co-exist.
alternatively, bid on a fixed-bid project for 50k, and spend the 25k on help to ensure that it gets done.
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Not really. A liquidation preference is worth something, so if you really didn't want to give on, you could give up more equity.

But as Fred Wilson once pointed out, it's a great way to handle a situation where the founder thinks the company is worth way more than the VC does. If the founder is right, the VC owns less stock than they otherwise would have; if the VC is right, and the company is bought for a low valuation, the VC gets a higher percentage of the payout.

Essentially, a liquidation preference can give you "conditional equity"--the founders own, say, 50% of the company if it's sold for a small amount, and 80% if it's sold for a large amount.
The changes have been a little painful but overall I think the Scala team is taking the right approach in fixing obvious design mistakes now while it's still possible to do so. As I'm getting more familiar with the new collections library I'm enjoying it a lot. I can write code that's as concise and expressive as Ruby but with the advantages of static type checking and much, much better performance.
then i wonder how they got the 90% number.

Comparing the number of unique copies of your program running to sales made takes about ~20 lines of code. On first run, ping the website and mark somewhere that you won't do that check again. Count how many times your program accesses the website.
Hardcore pirates will always find a new excuse. Most of them just don't want to pay. They can't be counted as lost sales if they never had any intent to buy.
I don't understand this:

"Why have a graph library when you can just embed the graph naturally in the data?"

Why do you need a graph library in Java? Why cannot you embed the graph into the data in Java?

class Node { List<Node> pointsTo; }

Java is a bit verbose, but it is not something from the devil. Also some of this verbosity is because of strong typing, which is self documentation, provides for nice tool support and for compile-time detected errors.

Of course you might need a graph library to use pre-packaged notrivial graph algorithms, but it is independent of the language used.
well, i mean, i know that doing that action is trivial, but isn't a pingback a light form of registration/drm/etc.?