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Web-Batman - I like that.

The thing is, its not even an issue that's difficult to fix and its not as if I broke anything, the security hole is blatantly obvious.

Basically, the offending form doesn't use SSL or any kind of encryption when people send in private information, which does include sensitive financial information amongst other things.

Given the level of information they require, anyone intercepting that info could easily social engineer things like passwords out of that person, which is why I'm worried about it.

Ah well, at least I tried...
Until you forget a decref/incref somewhere ;) Personally, I prefer to use either boost.python, cython, ctypes or swig. Although writing C routines to directly use numpy arrays is fairly easy.
> The empirical evidence shows that, for example, NPR is more likely to interview a conservative economist about a story than a liberal.

To be meaningful, we'd need to compare the ratio of conservative economists on NPR to conservative economists in the population.
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They could very easily combat comment spam too. The DroidPhoneFiles comment is almost always the #1 comment on my free apps. I'd say it's updated automatically almost every couple hours.

Lastly, the ability to comment on our own apps from the dev console would be great so I could respond to buyer comments since we are not allowed to buy our own apps.
That's an excellent point. Talk of the Govt. making a profit is nonsense until it's clear how much loss on those assets it ends up absorbing. According to that Bloomberg piece, though, Citi was supposed to cover the first $29B of losses, so that plus earned dividends plus the relatively paltry share value appreciation means there's a bit of a buffer for the Govt.
Hey jbellis, been doing some Cassandra this past week.

The original contention was just regarding medicaid -- 290 billion compared to a 3 trillion budget, with a > 1 trillion deficit. Entitlements all together add up to about half of the budget. They're big. But the original point was that nobody wants to touch medicare/SS but everyone makes Medicaid the bad guy. Makes you think they're more concerned with demographics and likely voters than budget arithmetic.

EDIT: Watches the downvotes. Chill out guys, it's just numbers. You'll win the house this fall, take it easy on HN.
Never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by incompetence.
Do you suggest we scrap all the planes because that's what the hijackers used?

It's a myth to think you can stop all criminal behaviour by eliminating all existing criminal methods. It's a myth to think that the citizenry can keep tabs on what the government is up to. It's all very well keeping tabs on elected officials, but half the time they're just as much in the dark as the general public about what is really going on.
Engineers Blindsided By COICA Bill Under Review by Senate
"I will never stop using the Gnu/Linux desktop, not because Gnome and KDE are absolutely the best, but because Gnu/Linux offers me complete control over how my desktop looks feels and works and the software it uses is open source and free."

Then install another piece of software rather than the Gnome-branded software.

In Linux, I can eat my cake and have it too if I really want to -- I can run Amarok but use Gnome if I want. If someone wants to spend their time developing a browser suited exactly to the philosophy of the Gnome desktop, it's your decision whether or not you want to (un)install it. The only thing that gets wasted is their time.

Most non Gnome-branded apps work fine in Gnome. If GNOME wants to duplicate existing software, it's Gnome's right to do so. It's also your right to install what you want.

In other words, go to your favorite package manager, and pick what you desire. Don't be upset that you have more options. Options are the beauty of open source.
I did try, the whois information doesn't come up with anything useful and a search for the name in question doesn't return any useful information
My Flickr photos are carefully-composed shots I've taken with my DSLR that I want to share with the site's community of enthusiast photographers. My Facebook photos are quick phone snaps that I think my friends would get a kick out of. Isn't this how most people divide their use between the two services?
I was wondering if profiles might have been the reason for some of the larger hue/sat differences (over the whole image).

Will gladly keep looking, it's interesting either way :) Thanks!
Well, for the record, SS is a very conservative market investment -- the surplus is invested in government T-bills every year, that's as conservative as you can get. Of course then people turn around and say it's the government writing itself checks or they're worthless IOUs or something.

As far as the finances, as I understand things, simply raising the cap on income would extend things out a bit, FICA doesn't get collected past 105k or something. That's also redistributive and you could say unfair, but the fact is that we have a big population bump retiring and no system to pay for their retirement is going to be fair to us.

EDIT: Also, I suspect any other mandated market investment that the government enforced would have even worse problems than SS. What happens when all of the baby boomers put daily selling pressure on the stock (or gold) market for 30 years? That might wind up being a way worse investment when it comes to the market prices at sell time, no matter how well the economy does.
My point was just that they're showing a lower quality image that is is lower in size. Great, ice is cold.
Wouldn't you be more comfortable leaving a 6 figure job? This way, you'd have more savings, and the knowledge that if you've done it before (earned a 6 figure salary), you can do it again. I think someone who earns just enough (perhaps around 70-80 k) would be least likely to leave.
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"Solid technical background and development experience with JavaScript, along with experience with UI AJAX frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, and scriptaculous and server frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and PHP;"

Interesting. I understand needing to have a web dev background, but RoR and PHP without mentioning anything else seems to mean that they aren't targeting this evangelist at enterprise business using Java OR .Net? Or do they think this person would be prototyping and those were the fastest/best two to web dev with? They say "such as", but I don't think they just picked those two at random.
> Why can't we get interfaces right? We have all this processing speed available and yet our computers are slow.

My computer is not slow. I rarely see issues like a cursor that is delayed with respect to my typing. What kind of device do you have? Have you actually tried doing any performance analysis to see why it is slow? Did you buy your computer based on it not being slow, or, to put it another way, give an economic incentive to the outcome you want? (Clearly not, based on your post.) Or was there something else you opted to prioritize over that quickness you say you want so much?
Luckily I already feel like I've hit a home run. I'm fortunate enough to have a top 20 game in one category and over half a million downloads, lots of good feedback, and great ratings.

Right now, the thought of adding countries is more exciting than not. It's like I'm about to get a second at-bat.

My fear of competition is that I get a competitor who can update features even faster than I can.
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Do they re-apply with different ideas or the same ones but more developed?
I'm trying to reply to this in a way which doesn't turn this political. The national debt will not be brought under control until government spending policy reflects that. Putting that money on the national debt is like paying down the credit balance on a reckless spending teen card holder; it doesn't really help the overall situation. This money is free and clear profit, so it looks to me like it should go right back into the economy immediately where it can be beneficial immediately. A bird in the hand and all that...
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So, we can assume there will be nothing worth reading on TechCrunch tomorrow.
I realize that a lot of people have issues with FoxNews but it was the best article I came across that fully explained the issues and potential ramifications of the COICA bill. The full text of the bill can be found here:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-3804

This bill has the potential to greatly affect both US and non-US startups. From what I can tell, if a judge rules that a non-US site's purpose is to violate copyright then the judge's ruling would require US businesses to stop working with the site - ISPs block, financial and ad companies break business ties. A non-US site could see all US traffic blocked and it's PayPal and Adsense accounts revoked.

As I mentioned in another thread, this bill would set a dangerous precedent for the US government to be able to block a website with a simple ruling by a judge. I could see cases where large entertainment companies would bring lawsuits against small web startups in places where the courts would favorably lean in their direction (think patent cases in East Texas).
I am leaving a six figure job at the end of the month.
The issue with what you say is that six figure jobs are usually all encompassing. You work all the time. There just isn't enough time to work a six figure job and do much of significance on the side. Law, finance, medicine and even 6 figure hacking jobs... The one constant all of these share is: unpaid overtime.

That said, if you DO have a six figure job where you only have to work 40 hours a week or less, staunch is actually right...you have lucked out and should hold on to that job until your side project takes off.
Just don't tell our sun. Seriously, another star could just come out of nowhere to join it, and we'd all be fried.
Off the top of my head, it seems like most of the big successes match the Larry+Sergey (= Gates+Allen) pattern: 2 or 3 good hackers in their early to mid 20s, who are also resilient and worldly.
I think the Quora example does give off a bad vibe.

a) We are a Quora for the enterprise

b) We are Youtube for audio

Quora for the enterprise sounds like a superset. Quora, plus enterprisey features. Quora could compete, their core competency is in that set.

Youtube for audio sounds like disjoint sets. OK, I know what Youtube does. They do video well. I could see a good audio site that does it similarly, allows user submissions, etc. Youtube isn't a competitor, it is a model.
There's nothing wrong with using T-Bills, the problem is that the T-Bills are not owned by the worker for 12.5% of his lifetime earnings. And, if any money is saved it's just a temporary measure b/c the program is designed as a pay-as-you-go program, where the taxes paid by current workers are sent to current retirees. So it's really not investment that is going on, merely a very temporary surplus.

I don't approve of raising the income cap because that fails to address the regressive nature of the tax. It also fails to address the larger issue, which is the vulnerability of the program to demographic shifts and congress's whims, including the oft-used whim of spending the current surplus on other things to avoid having to raise taxes now for current spending.

I think the best solution would be to give workers below a certain age the option of opting out of the pay-go program and instead choosing an investment based program curated by the government but with an ownership component. The missing revenue should just be paid for via our progressive income tax regime.
I disagree. For every startup that can easily and succinctly communicate their purpose and value, there's ten that stumble over vague, non-descriptive utterances. If you can say "We're like Facebook for pets", that has value and we can immediately hone-in on what specifically differentiates you.
Your statement reminds me of this quote "A boat is a hole in the water which you throw money into."

This is the general point of view executive committees have of IT. A necessary cost to keep them afloat in the sea of business.

So as much as money is not an issue the bottom line at most enterprises is money. If you figure out how to greatly reduce the overall costs IT, or in this case data storage, the enterprise company you work for will probably appreciate it.
Norvig references Alan Kay's "Maxwell's equations of Software": http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

I thought this was a particularly interesting nugget:

"""
Just as an aside, to give you an interesting benchmark—on roughly the same system, roughly optimized the same way, a benchmark from 1979 at Xerox PARC runs only 50 times faster today. Moore’s law has given us somewhere between 40,000 and 60,000 times improvement in that time. So there’s approximately a factor of 1,000 in efficiency that has been lost by bad CPU architectures.

The myth that it doesn’t matter what your processor architecture is—that Moore’s law will take care of you—is totally false.
"""
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Wasn't meaning to shoot down the paranoia, just having fun with / at your username, as I saw the potential for fun :) It's certainly excessive, but more layers = more efficient routing, and I'd assume they don't want to go through all this again in a mere 1000 years when we're populating 5 planets, everyone has 100+ network connected devices, and data centers have billions. And everyone tweets.
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Not gullibility. Blind greed. People don't want to miss the bandwagon when they see others making money. They may be the most untrusting people in the world, but they turn that distrust towards the naysayers if they think there is money to be made.
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I nominate Zed Shaw.

"Listen here you Ruby pussies, you're going to use IE and you're going to like it."
I think dividends could only come from Citi, not from an investor; and part of the original deal was a limit on dividends, presumably for the sake of preserving a semblance of moral hazard in the course of a massive bailout.
As a one time idea, this is unique and clever.

Unfortunately, I foresee many "me too" companies that will make this a tired paradigm.
For the proper Market website, and push-to-phone on purchase to initiate the install, you're describing what Google showed at their Android demo at I/O earlier this year.

The rest would be nice improvements too.
This is what it looks like for me in Chrome. What does it look like for you?

OS X + Chrome: http://paulstamatiou.com/i/Pricing_-_Notifo-20100930-203150....

Win 7 + Chrome: http://paulstamatiou.com/i/Windows_7_x64-20100930-204347.jpg

Ubuntu 10.10 + Chrome: http://paulstamatiou.com/i/Ubuntu_64-bit-20100930-204707.jpg
That's an excellent link thanks. I've managed to come up with their email naming scheme and am going to send off some emails soon.
Yeah, the problems the author has with Gnome are only problems as part of the "regular people wanting to use Linux/Gnome" argument. Basically, a form of NIH syndrome.

Why stop at the browser or IM client though? Technically, Gnome itself only exists because of that same mindset (not being satisfied with KDE's initial license).

Linux people tout the fact that you can install whichever application meets your needs (or write your own, if one doesn't) as a main benefit to using Linux. I'm not even one of those people (I really dislike Gnome, and I have no love for Linux in general), and I don't see this as a bad thing.

I have a hate/hate relationship with the GNU/Linux desktop, but I would never presume that people who are predominantly volunteering their time and efforts to work on Gnome have a responsibility to rely on non-Gnome applications for fundamental desktop functionality.

The only possible rationale I can see for the author's opinion is that if the Gnome developers weren't spending their time having to create an official Gnome application when an existing one would serve just fine, they would be free to spend that time improving other aspects of Gnome.

I don't think that's necessarily a given.
This in no way rings true with my experience of modern computers. I think most people will agree, unless you are blatantly taxing a machine beyond what it was ever meant to handle (running 17 instances of Visual Studio at once, and trying to edit a Word document perhaps), even an entry level machine should run relatively smoothly.
What is a good use of an Android-based webserver?
To make it even faster, they should get an alternative 3-letter domain to act as an alternative, like how j.mp woks with bit.ly.
What I meant with that last comment was that in a setting like Disrupt, you are exactly what your audience thinks you are during a pitch, and an "x of y" description can leave the incorrect first impression that you are "me too" opportunity, which Opzi and many other startups are not. In non-SV areas, that thinking is a paradigm that cannot be unshifted. I've seen a great deal of cool and creative ideas come out of places like OKC that get brushed aside with the "x of y" description. Arguably, it's one of the more intangible benefits of SV.
The problem with analogies is picking one that doesn't break down too quickly.
I'm not a fan of this approach, or the "we're like x meets y meets z" (mashup of services), but I can see the value in giving unfamiliar listeners familiar reference points. As long as you can easily field the followup questions -- you can differentiate yourself or describe competitive advantage -- I think you're fine.

edit: Another problem I've seen with using this approach is that sometimes they use existing services to describe their service, and it actually undercuts their value. For example, someone builds service to capitalize on the networking, information sharing, and shared knowledge base of pet owners but sells as "facebook for pet owners." Well, pet owners use Facebook, so the value proposition is lost in the analogy without further reinforcement.
I remember building an 700MHz (I think) pc, setting it up with Win98SE and Office 97 and commenting to someone that I didn't see how anyone could want for much faster processor speeds; boy, did it have teh snappy.

Seems I was wrong...
Evidently, a single instance of MS Powerpoint is too much for my 3GHz XP box - the equivalent of a dozen or more Cray-II's.

Dredge up an MS-DOS box running WordPerfect and remember what an actually responsive computer feels like. Seriously, do it. Then tell me your modern PC is "smooth."
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I think you are misinterpreting. The taxpayers are the investors, and the government is holding these (imaginary after we pay for 300 billion in failed mortgages) profits. The poster wishes these profits by the government, which taxpayers have invested in, to be payed out as dividends (tax refunds)
I agree with you that the Republicans aren't going to do much of what I want. I don't agree that all politicians are Democrats or Republicans, or that it's pointless to speak about issues where the parties in power aren't making good proposals.
Even before twitter, url shorteners were useful in many places. For example, a Google Maps link would be a good candidate for url shortening. When used in emails/usenet/IM windows, long urls often get mangled.
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In this case the shareholders are U.S. taxpayers due the dividends. So, let's say profits amount to 100 billion, and divide that by 300 million Americans. That's about a $333.00 rebate check. That certainly could help as economic stimulus. I'm all for it.
Thanks for the reality check. I threw this up on a whim after skimming this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745133. It was fun, regardless, because I suspected I was competing with others to get it done first. I spent about 20 minutes getting it functional and another 15 making it prettier.
I've had cursor-delay happen on every OS I've tried, in nearly every application, unless I was using Vim / the CLI. Except for Windows' CLI - that gets more worthless the more I use it, and is significantly slower than many other Windows tools.
Sounds like that is included:

> And the government will get even more money from its investment in Citigroup. The Treasury said it would reap a profit of $2.25 billion by selling all its Citigroup trust preferred securities, which it received for guaranteeing $301 billion in the bank’s most troubled assets. It expects that sale to be completed on Tuesday.
I'm not sure how you could ever manage to make $100 billion in government borrowing or spending not 'political'.

If you reduce government borrowing by $100 billion that frees up $100 billion for use by the private sector. Quite a few people would argue that $100 billion in private investment via the free-market is a much better idea than $100 billion in dubious government projects selected via political horse trading.
Medicaid amounts to 65% of the budget deficit and about 60% of medicare. Welfare amounts to another 70%. If we cut the welfare state (i.e., medicare and welfare), we would have a budget surplus.

While I agree that medicaid is a politically easier target than medicare, it's not a small program. It's a completely legitimate target of criticism, and eliminating it would significantly improve the federal budget.
"In 2008, this guarantee was for $306 billion."
Who knows how much billion of toxic assets are still under the banks' book because there is no standard method for determining those value. Remember during financial crisis, when Bear Stearns, Lehman, AIG and most TARP funded banks told, their value of toxic assets kept on rising. $306 Billion seems skeptical until there is some standard method of valuing those toxic assets.
I saw that, it looks quite good but I'm not sure how much better than Unladen Swallow it can get... RPython is another promising contender, if the PyPy guys ever polish it for end users...
Yep, they won't speed your code up 50 times, though.
Why does this surprise you? Since deficit spending is generally disallowed for state and local governments, nearly all sizable projects are funded through bonds. Bonds are basically loans with a promise to pay back in the future, generally with tax revenues. So you are paying off that 99 year bond to build a TB sanatorium built in the 1930s.

We are doing the same thing today. My grandchildren will be paying for the school repair and high-speed rail bonds that passed a couple of years ago here in California. Their grandchildren will be paying off the anti-global-warming school air conditioning and hyper mag-lev rail bonds that will be put forth 25 years from now.
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It's the best of both worlds, really. You write everything in a language that's fast to write, then you write the bottlenecks in a language that's fast to execute.