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Hey Atomical, I've seen a similar study before, but can't find it. Could you point me to it?

For other interesting studies on health: http://delicious.com/ramitsethi/health
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It's not the government's primary job to fund innovation. What we are seeing is that innovation is unable to sustain itself without government money.

You've got this backwards. It is specifically the government's job to fund innovation is currently is commercially untenable. Otherwise, who else would do it? Often times after the government's grant expires, the innovation is still commercially untenable. This makes sense because the research is exclusively targeting projects whose commercial viability is unclear. But other times we get things like the Internet, GPS, etc.

Now we can have a long and interesting discussion about specifies; i.e., whether said research is worth it in the long run, how soon should certain technologies be cut off, etc. But the fact that the government is funding technology that isn't able to sustain itself without government money is not a negative thing; that's exactly what the government is meant to do.
New Twitter exploit about goats – how it works.
Twitter's blog post on the vulnerability: http://status.twitter.com/post/1192873885/malicious-links-on....
That alone won't protect you against all CSRF attacks since you're allowed to POST forms cross-domain.

Checking the referrer header is a start. Including the token you mentioned is even better.
Not just our parents:

http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/

This site is a production of the Produce for Better Health Foundation, founded and funded by the Produce Marketers Association.
idempotent

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Not unless you think having sex with goats once is fine but having sex with goats multiple times is bad.

You probably meant "GET requests should be side effect free".
The value of a blog is the writing. They don't really depend on the one photo they use. The "value" of the website in question is that they get to laugh at photos that you can't use commercially. Without the photos, the website is nothing. A legal battle around this question probably depends largely on the lawyers arguing about where the value of the commercial entity derives from.

To get a real answer you'd have to ask a lawyer. But my intuition is a blog that uses one photo per post in fine, while the website in question is not fine because it requires the photos to even exist as a website.
The only thing I like more then actual news is more info on angelgate. awesome.
Last Thursday Tech Crunch published a leaked email from me to some angel investors who attended the Bin 38 dinner.

I would like to clarify some confusion from that email.

David Lee, my partner at SV Angel did not want to go the Bin 38 dinner. We talked and then agreed that he should go.

David Lee shares the same passion and satisfaction as I do in helping entrepreneurs bring their innovation to fruition and that’s why we work together and I am proud to call him a close friend and partner.

This is the last time I am going to say anything about this topic since we must focus our attention back where it belongs..with the entrepreneurs and helping them build great companies!
Your post proves too much. It proves all discounts are a bad idea, a concept I do not think I really need to sit here and disprove at length.

Also, Groupon does not create a "price emphasis". To a first approximation, all economic actors are always price sensitive.

I could argue with you at length, but it would be of a length exceeding a friendly HN post. I suggest some time with a microeconomics textbook. There are free ones on google if you search for "microeconomics textbook". I'm not trying to be snarky, it's just that the alternative of basically pasting an extemporaneous one in here is not really that friendly.

It may be true that Groupon hurts businesses, but this is not any of the reasons why. The reasons why would have something more to do with having costs that exceed benefits, not that the idea is intrinsically bad.
Topic closed.
>Dr. Jennifer Foltz, a pediatrician who helped compile the report. She, like other public health officials dedicated to improving the American diet, concedes that perhaps simply telling people to eat more vegetables isn’t working.

Jesus, you didn't know this? Really?

I have been bombarded with "this is healthy", "this is not healthy", "you should eat so much of this, so much of that, only a little bit of this" ever since I was four, possibly earlier. Same goes for all the calls to exercise, the cute campaigns to "exercise 30 minutes a day", "take the stairs", etc, etc, et fucking cetera.

So why, after all this time have they still not realized that the reason I (and mostly everybody else) don't exercise isn't that we don't know we should, it is that exercising sucks, getting sweaty takes time and then you have to clean up again, getting back and forth to the gym, etc.

The same thing goes for eating healthy, although it is _slightly_ ofset by carrots, which are very tasty.
Oh my god... This is so awesome!

Call me stupid - but I am one of those persons who was unaware of MDC - and to be honest Mozilla sites hierarchy can be hard/impossible to traverse for the un-initiated.

I was wishing so much to find something like that JavaScript Guide. I love JS - but the little intricacies that are common knowledge to greybeards were so hard to find about - now I got it all here.

!!! Yay!
I think it's a bit more complex and gray-area when you need a model release, even for commercial publications. The canonical "need one" example is using someone's likeness on a billboard to sell products, or on the label of your product. The canonical "don't need one, even if use is commercial" example is newspapers publishing photographs taken in a public place as part of an article. For example, you don't need a protester's permission to publish a photo of them at a rally, even if your newspaper/magazine sells ads and is for profit.

There's a lot of in-between area, though. This site doesn't seem to be clearly using the photos in the model/advertising sort of way; they're not using them to launch a line of public-transit-rider products or putting them on tshirts or something. It's definitely a step down from journalistic reporting, but I could see it arguably falling closer to that than to the usual cases where model releases are needed. You could imagine a genuine reporter running a story on fashion trends in different demographics or something, illustrated by a few photos taken out in public, and this is basically the half-assed, mean-spirited tabloid version of that focusing on one particular demographic.

(Though as far as AdSense in particular goes, Google can of course make up any rules they want.)
This is getting tricky again... We now know that Ron Conway knew about the dinner beforehand. We also know that his partner did not want to attend, presumably because he knew the type of conversations that would be had. They talked and decided that David Lee should go.

To me it seems that what changed before&after the dinner, was the publicity it took, which switched Ron Conway from a 'wait&see' approach (at the very least) to the openly hostile approach we saw in the 'nuclear bomb' email.

While before this update I gave Ron the benefit of the doubt (not in small part due to pg vouching), it now seems that he was much less surprised than I thought.

My estimate that the 'nuclear' email was damage control intended to be publicised has just gone up.
I don't think w3schools has any affiliation with the W3C. But I agree with you, their documentation is terrible: bad examples, idiosyncratic code conventions, confusing layout, (no syntax highlighting,) lots of distracting ads, and very little of the "what are the corner cases", "how does this work in every browser", &c. details that are essential in this type of resource.
I guess the people that believe calories don't matter and weight gain/weight loss is genetic want to down vote this to hell. Oh well!

Calories do matter, but it is not nearly as simple as you're trying to make it out to be.

Genes play a huge role. For most people, playing the game of watching what you eat and counting calories makes sense, but for others, it's not so clear cut. For example, my dad (a molecular biologist) is studying the effects that certain genes have on the weight of mice. The details escape me (and aren't relevant here), but the takeaway is that your genetic makeup will predispose you to weighing a certain amount, and some mice/people will be fat even if they eat very well, and others will be skinny even if they eat very poorly.

Hence, for some people (but not everyone), managing their weight requires more than just counting calories.
I read that they told them to hope for Christmas.
That token should not be considered optional. Even if you require authentication you should still have a one time expiring token tied to an actual form recently shown on your site for this sort of thing, Or an api key if it's a rest service.

Your "if possible" clause makes it seem optional but if you don't include it then your service is vulnerable, period.
You don't see newspapers vindictively replacing all of their content except ads with a humiliating photo and a mocking, false story about their subject.
It does. They're called my mouth and nostrils ;-)
Careful there. I put "lifestyle" in quotes due to my own rejection of the prevailing VC-driven silicon valley disdain for lower-growth businesses. FWIW I also feel like HN is pretty well balanced on this issue as well (at least compared to SV at large).

However ambition is ambition, let's not redefine the word as a means of affirmative action. I never made a value judgement that every business should have endless ambition, or that getting what you want from a business and being satisfied is bad; I merely stated that the moniker "lifestyle business" is defined more by the ambitions of those running the company than any inherent quality of the business.
Googling for 'javascript' brings up some sites about javascript, such as Wikipedia and Crockford's, along with some not so good tutorial-ish sites. The only really bad thing I see is the java.com reference at number three. Searching for 'javascript documentation' or 'javascript docs' pulls up the MDC doc site. Not sure why this is that big of a deal. I don't see a need for enlisting "the community" to drive SEO here.
People seemed to have misunderstood the title of the link -- I meant it as a declarative statement, not a surprised exclamation. Perhaps I should have added "consequences of" to the beginning, but my point was just to share a particularly unpleasant experience.

On the plus side, the discussions below about using AdSense to monetize a website dedicated to profiting off non-consensual pictures of people is quite interesting.
Congratulations on knocking down that straw man.

ajg1977 didn't say the economy would have been worse without the stimulus. He said that what you presented as evidence was not, in fact, evidence, because it could be interpreted a different way.
To me it seems that what changed before&after the dinner, was the publicity it took, which switched Ron Conway from a 'wait&see' approach (at the very least) to the openly hostile approach we saw in the 'nuclear bomb' email.

Isn't it also possible that Ron Conway and David Lee decided David should go because they didn't know what was going to go down, and then once they knew, Ron decided to distance himself from that group?
This woman had a long-term account with RackSpace, so RackSpace was willing to show some flexibility.

To clarify, this was a lot more than a single dedicated server. As I recall, the setup was more like a 6 servers, one was a dedicated database, then there were 4 web servers, plus one server that was dedicated just to SFTP, and then there was a firewall and a load balancer. I think the monthly bill was around $3,000 or $4,000. The $18,000 figure included a large amount of custom programming done by Rackspace. As I recall, at that time, Rackspace charged $150 an hour for custom programming, so it was easy to run up a big bill with them, if you weren't careful.

The woman had relied on Rackspace for a lot of custom programming, and then she got the bill, that she realized that her business had reached the point where it made sense to hire her own team of programmers. Like a lot of people who are expanding their business online, she had started out thinking that she only need to make a few small tweaks to her site, and she might as well leave that to Rackspace, since the people there knew what they were doing. But a few small tweaks evolved into much more. So at that point she hired her own team of programmers. Which is how I got involved.
There's a reason the deals on Groupon last only a day.

Your argument applies equally to Gilt, but I don't think people are going to start paying less for Diesel jeans.
IANAL but it seems like this is harassment of some sort.

Also, when close minded people make fun of the diversity of a particular city, the people of that city can be brutal in their response. This is already evident in the fact that the Times picked this story up and ran it.

I think there is a response along the lines of "Yeah. There are weirdos on the bus. And, yeah, we sometimes snicker. But they are OUR weirdos in OUR city and no one messes with that."
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Yeah, I quit by the third "could of."

Sloppy writing suggests that the author respects neither the ideas he wishes to communicate nor the audience that has to read him.

I really feel like there's a transactional element to communication. If you want your audience, you have to give them the very best that's possible (for you). Anything less and you're wasting their time. I hold very few things sacred, but that truth is one of them.
Late '83 was not a good time - as well as this incident there was also "Able Archer 83", which had the Soviets very scared that the west was going to carry out a first strike:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
Which is quite astounding. These aren't novice programmers fresh from a comp-sci course and in to the big bad world. Making this kind of mistake (which is a mistake on not one, but many grounds) is extraordinary. It's as if the ideas of idempotence, REST, basic security, treating external input as hostile, etc. have never even been mentioned between them.

I'm not foolish enough to imagine that this is anything other than a blip for them - their first mover momentum and market dominance is invincible for the time being, but they don't deserve it if they keep putting users at risk as casually as they seem to be. So far, we've seen nothing too nasty (though this could be embarrassing I suppose), but it's a bad sign looking ahead.
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Am I the only "founder" / "entrepreneur" that doesn't really appreciate these special labels? They're generally something I only hear from the VC tech startup crowd, and usually in the context of breathless veneration.

I'm running a business. I'm not special, a new breed of business man, and I don't need a special startup-glorifying vocabulary for what I do. I'm just another person running a small business -- something people have always done, and it's something that parents (and everyone else) understands.

A neighbor recently started a coffee shop. She puts in long hours, manages the books, orders food, directed the installation of the sound system and kitchen, manages the kitchen staff, makes and serves coffee, and works the cash register.

Nobody is calling her a "founder". She's just a small business owner. She had to raise capital, her business could expand into a large chain, she could (but isn't likely to) become the next Starbucks, or even get bought out by Starbucks. She could also fail miserably. Is it really all that different from what we do?
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If you decide to go deeper with the details like in the bulleted points above, I think 2 additional features would be useful:

1. Radio buttons for each item that lets the selecting person set how important that item is to them on a scale of 1 to 10.

2. Something to do with attitude/personality, such as (serious)(humorous)(quiet)(outgoing) etc... where both people can rate themselves on a scale of 1 to 10.
Yes, I liked the one where Mr. Grylls jumps into a glacier tunnel to make his way towards the waterfall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gOVbNftSdQ
Of course it is. Nothing at all is certain when working with so little information, which is why I mentioned probabilities.

However, we know that two such dinners took place, and that David Lee was present at both. Also if they didn't know what was going to go down, why didn't David Lee want to go in the first place?

Again, we are only talking probabilities here, there is a huge amount we certainly don't know.
Personas are first and foremost a communication tool and thus more useful in bigger organizations than in a small startup.

Personas can help to avoid useless discussion in meetings around UX design decisions, when every attendee (including managers that might be in a contact with the team only once in a while) has their pet peeves, instead of focusing to think it from the perspective of selected persona.

In a small startup, same group of people discuss all the time about the product and are better on the radar about design decisions, thus value of personas as communication tool is a diminished, although they still can be valuable.

(Note: Personas can be also a good thinking and design tool)
If Google wants to write some better docs, that’s their prerogative. MDC has good docs that exist, today.
My first thought was "what trickery did they pull to make this only run well on IE9?"
This is cool, I had completely forgotten about this game! Lemmings was the first thing I ever launched from the command line, when i was 6.
> How can someone rack up an $18,000 bill?

I'm not sure I understand what you are asking here. I'm sure Rackspace has many clients who run up charges well over $100,000 every month. RackSpace handles some very large clients. Recall that YouTube started out on RackSpace, and was on RackSpace at least till the end of 2006 (I forget the exact date YouTube left RackSpace). RackSpace actually invented a special low rate (regarding bandwidth), just for YouTube, but, instead of paying monthly, YouTube had to pay daily, in exchange for that ultra low rate.

I'd guess that RackSpace clients probably follow something of a power curve, with the top 1% of their clients using something like 30% or 40% or 50% of all the bandwidth that RackSpace sells. And of course, that top 1% would have very large monthly bills.
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I agree, I can't quite believe they put something so poor security wise out. I'm not convinced when they say it's fixed that's it's really fixed yet either - in that someone could just create another page with the problem.
Systems/Networking startups 
Hi,

What is the trend you see for startups with emphasis on Systems/Networking, with respect to profiles of founders? What is the experience level of such founders?
Any trends observed, with respect to funding and profitability of such startups?
I was curious about this because the fact that there is significant lower entry barrier for web startups,was discussed in other threads.

EDIT: Please do also mention the names of such startups!
But you can't patent an idea - you have to have an implementation!

Srsly - you have fundamentally misunderstood what a patent is. If it's "a method for mangling widgets" then you have to have built a real, working widget mangler too, and include the blueprints in the patent application.
That is a good movie. Highly recommended. It records a glimpse of the American history that many have ignored or forgotten.
Period? So you can eat 12,000 calories a day and not gain weight?
> FWIW, the Austrian Schools predictions go back many years, including accurately predicting the great depression, the fall of communism-- not just that it would fall, but how exactly it would fall and why-- 70 years in advance, etc.

Are there any validated studies of this, rather than just anecdotal evidence? I'd be interested in a detailed retrospective study on predictive accuracy of economists, but I haven't found one. Are their predictions precise enough to be tested, rather than Nostradamus-like? Have they made any big whopping mispredictions that you're omitting from your list, and how frequent are those compared to the correct predictions?
It would go much further for the mozilla development center to do a little basic, white-hat, on-page SEO. For example, this URL:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...
has a title of "Array - MDC". Even when it does come up in search results, most users wouldn't have context from the title what it's about. "MDC" adds nothing to the title. Words like "JavaScript" or "documentation" might help. Similarly, "documentation" isn't even on the page, and "Javascript" is first found halfway down the page and mostly in extra small text.

That said, the search results seem fine for this. [javascript array] turns up this page, albeit at position 9. It also shows w3cschools.com's page on the javascript array at the top, as well as several other great references. The only less than ideal results that I see are the two from javascript-array.com which tends to smell a little over-seo'ed from the fact that the hyphenated domain matches the query.
Honestly it doesn't require a security "expert" to tell them the current system is insecure. A basic grasp of web security should be enough to use PUTS with auth tokens!
They must think their sizing/font choices are good enough for everyone, so they've essentially stopped zooming.

Used properly, the META viewport should help pages adapt to smaller screens. For example, I think an iPhone-specific viewport setting would make the HN front-page more legible on iPhones by wrapping submission titles.

Unfortunately, lots of sites seem to pick settings that either don't work well on all mobile devices (like assuming iOS dimensions even for non-iOS devices) or prevent native zooming (Google mobile sites and the default WordPress mobile theme are offenders here).
Thanks, lukeqsee. I appreciate that. While I understand that its not unheard of for 8-5's to swallow good hackers, there are plenty of people with the drive to hack working day jobs, and not necessarily because they aren't brave enough to take the plunge.

I'd also like to point out that startups can cause hackers to lose the desire to "hack" as well. After the initial stages, so much time is required on other things that hacking often falls by the wayside, and often is never really picked up again.
I'll believe that when I see S^3 gaining any traction. Specially with everyone else that uses Symbian jumping on Android's bandwagon...
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Twitter: We've fixed an exploit that posted malicious links on Twitter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery
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Unlike other guides this top5 list contains the latest available tablets (including startups) without emphasis on brandname to help you decide which tablet to buy this holiday season.

http://anythingbutipad.com/top5
It was intentional and meant to be lighthearted. Tough crowd.
Calling Javascript a functional language is quite a stretch. All native data structures are mutable, the function literal syntax is extremely clumsy, and there is no algebraic datatypes, pattern matching or TCO.
@bodds Sorry about that. Just using WordPress, but maybe it's the template I'm using. Please recommend a more non-javascript friendly blogging engine if you know one.
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seems like it's fixed now : http://twitter.com/twitter/status/25615345589