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I miss a lot of opportunities for micro-promotion. Actually, that's the story of my life. Small things can really add up (thankfully, part of my life story does reflect this).

A good example that reinforces this entire article is how I just found out about duck.co - I'll be participating just because of how much I like the domain name!
I'm the hacker in question and its the former ad I replied to. And yes, I'm quite gainfully and meaningfully employed with the Tribune. And no, I'm not full of shit (at least I wasn't on that occasion.) Glad folks are enjoying/inspired by it.
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He's going back to Silicon Alley roots. Plus the ThisWeekIn startup, he's got a pretty good read on the community than TechCrunch.
You're not cheap. Any business willing to spend $1500 where is doesn't need to is just waiting to have it's lunch eaten.
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Can you be tried for the same crime twice?
As great as hidden volumes are, traces showing the inconsistency between the fake and real volume will be left on your system unless you take heroic measures to erase them.

Things like logs of all the external drives you connect, and links to recently opened files.
It all depends on how much work goes into supporting IE6. If the amount of time is substantial, personally I would consider dropping it. But even until the bitter end, that decision depends on your target audience and how much you want that group to be forced to make a choice: upgrade or leave your site.

That's for functionality. I think we're long past the stage where you should care whether or not IE6 gets the same exact _visual_ experience.
I had a similar micro opportunity experience that has been invaluable. Lyle Fong the CEO of Lithium came to the University of AZ my senior year. I reached out to him and got his card. Most students did not even talk to him personally. Over the next few years while launching my startup I emailed Lyle about my progress. This small little opportunity has evolved into Lyle becoming a great friend and mentor. You never know how a small opportunity will grow into something much bigger!
Thanks- good point! We made our name originally on the iPhone and we'll definitely emphasize this more!
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I've been resetting people's 8 character passwords lost due to Post-Vacation-Insomnia for ages, I'd really like to see them expect me to remember a 50 character password under stress conditions.
Which is not a bad thing, in my opinion. One of the structural problems that the global financial crisis has revealed is that financial institutions take risks with other peoples' money. If the gamble works, they get a good slice, if it doesn't they don't have to pay anything. It would appear that the French government is opting for gaol time and enormous fines to make individual traders act responsibly, even when their employer refuses to. This is not a bad idea, it makes people self-governing, rather than having a government organisation trying to run audits on companies and detecting how their best accountants have cooked the books.
I thought remembered a court precedent in the US that ruled being compelled to divulge encryption keys was equivalent to being compelled to hand over keys to locked places (like a safe), which is historically required.

That said, I can't find such an article, so hopefully I'm making it up and we are indeed safe in our minds.
I wonder why he didn't say he "forgot the password". Although it may seem implausible, how could they prove it's not true?
Most applications need to perform some computations with data that is read from the backing store. Even simple sorts and searches will vastly outweigh the cost of an extra memcpy. Honestly, an HTTP cache is sort of a perfect case for the way in which Varnish was implemented. There is very little actual processing, if any, that needs to be done with the data that's read from disk. It just needs to be read from the backing store and shuttled over the socket as fast as possible, with very little friction. An extra memcpy or two matter in the Varnish scenario.
Great list. I would add that if a resume is required, a well designed resume is important especially if it's a front-end or generalist engineering role. Kick ass startups look through hundreds of resumes, and first impressions are a big deal.
IIRC, Grooveshark only pays EMI royalties, and UMG is taking them to court. Sony and Warner have no deals.

I'd be curious to see what Sony and Warner choose to do.
After reading the article on typefaces, looking at this announcement makes my eyes bleed. >_<
I have been using RAC sporadically for 2 years now, but didnt even manage to make the tenth of that number !
Do you have a suggestion/advice on how to boost my business ?
While I found this video to be entertaining and awesome, I don't like how they're trying to compare the compressor & 'tube' etc settings to 30k outboard gear and imply you're just as well with this...

Still cool though!
Email newsletter? Is there some legal non-compete that Calcanis is under after selling Weblogs, Inc to AOL that prevents him from running a blog as a business?
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The 5th amendment protects against forced testimony, not against compulsion to provide evidence. You can refuse to testify against yourself, you cannot refuse to comply with a valid search warrant.
Apparently not, although I though I had read of an earlier case where there was a judge that ruled that a password had to be revealed.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2008-02-07-encr...
"It sends a robust message out to those intent on trying to mask their online criminal activities that they will be taken before the courts with the ultimate sanction, as in this case, being a custodial sentence."

seems like a good reason to have "innocent until proven guilty". drive could contain anything, or nothing.
Thanks. A lot of times knowing what to search for is half the battle. I'll see what pattern based AR turns up.
Checkout http://mirah.org for Mirah

Can create android apps with it and get it to compile to an apk. It has ruby-like syntax but is strictly typed. It's former name was Duby. It's awesome and being actively developed. It's come a long way.
The article was also a pretty weak criticism.
While not free ($5/mo), mog.com has been awesome for me. The only time I buy on iTunes is if I have gift cards and need to burn a CD for my old car stereo.
Because the average person is clueless, often including myself, and there is no reason or technical recruiters to be any different.

Anyhow, that's a pretty hilarious letter to send to DHH. I don't think it speaks to the general situation with technical recruiters, however.
Caution: only works if you're a kick-ass programmer.

Strive to be that and getting a job becomes magnitudes easier. Sweet, successful side projects are the staple of a kick-ass guy. Glad I got some under my belt :)
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Agreed. "Problems" without measurements aren't worth much. My initial reaction was to your assumption about Linux, but we agree that assumptions in general aren't worth much.
Often comedians joke, "Nobody cares about what you ate for breakfast!"

But that isn't true! Your significant other does care and maybe your friend who gave you the recipe. The problem is that it isn't easy to prioritize certain items to certain people. I don't care what a friend from high school ate, but I do find it interesting to see what a friend who is a professional chef makes each night because it is often interesting to read and opens conversations.

I believe this has been submitted to HN before and I find it to have a lot of good insights into what social networks do vs how real life actually works. http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... (it is long but worth it)
You can certainly be tried for the same crime twice. You can't be tried twice for the same criminal act. Arguably, if they ask him again after doing his 16 weeks, it's a new action if he refuses to comply.
In the US the current rules for personal hard drives are bound by the 5th amendment which has been interpreted as "a reasonable expectation for privacy." What happens is the police say "Give us your password and we'll drop whatever sentence by 75% for helping the investigation." You don't have to give your password but the NSA works pretty extensively with law enforcement and the FBI (most US cases that require password cracks are federal cases but thats a separate issue).

Anything that ever touches an ISP is a totally separate issue though. In that case, in the US, any information stored by an ISP can be retrieved without a warrant 6 months (I'd need to confirm its not 120 days) after the incident. Those cases fall under the interpretation of a message overheard. In 5th Amendment cases, if you say a message in a crowded room, you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy and this is how any message on the internet is interpreted legally. There was also a court case this spring where the DoD sued an ISP to give over IP addresses sooner than the 6 month (120 days?) limit (anyone got a link?). The DoD dropped the case though.
I actually ended up "unfriending" facebook all together for frequent unimportant posts. I also found myself getting irritated with friends and family members from all the group invites, farmville updates, etc. and figured that facebook was mainly serving to undermine my real relationships with people. I have noticed Im much happier (and have much more free time) since I have kicked the facebook habit. Not trying to sound preachy though, do what makes you happy.
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I think labels will continue to have its piece of the market. Not the whole market as in the past, but a important one, because they still control access to mainstream media.
Well the persons that are sitting back not doing anything would still have to talk to someone who knows what is going on to ask them anyway.

Also, it seems you're never going to be able to give out enough info to please everyone in these circumstances so you give out just enough like they did.
What PG says is 100% true. I say this having done a startup in the space.

In a nut shell, you need roughly $1M upfront for legal fees to negotiate with the big four record labels (for an interactive service, not a non-interactive service like Pandora).
They can slap an "obstruction of justice" charge on. Or charge you with "contempt of court" and just jail you based on that.

In broader terms yes the system has a way to inflict random punishment on you for disobidience.

In other countries they will just start breaking your fingers, your loved ones fingers, and so on. So the password problem is solved a lot "easier" then.
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I thought that also but then found this from 2008: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2008-02-07-encr...
This is totally off-topic, but I've always loved IBM's naming conventions: OS/360, z/OS, OS/2, DB2, etc. It just has this feeling of "Are systems are built out of titanium and iron."

The reality is obviously different, but it is definitely a naming style from a different generation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IBM_products
True, but IMDB was acquired mostly to provide data to Amazon.com. For 15K, you can get access 'legally' to IMDB data.

As for IMDB Pro, serves mostly the film/tv industry itself not consumers, where the money is.
Traditional media headline FTW:

Hacker infiltration ends D.C. online voting trial
I think this is semantics: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1760580
There's United States v. Boucher but case had a couple of wrinkles, including the fact that Boucher had previously cooperated with law enforcement so it was thought that providing a password wasn't self-imcrimination since it wouldn't add to the knowledge of what the authorities already had: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Boucher
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It seems like a bad idea to store anything incriminating on your local hard drive. Why not keep your encrypted files on a flash drive? If the police show up destroy the flash drive using a hammer, ensuring that the flash memory chip is thoroughly pulverized and completely unreadable.

Likewise, if you are going to be using the internet for devious purposes drive around and use a neighbor's open wireless network access point, which highly reduces the chances that anything can be traced back to you. Or set up your own unsecured wireless network point and suggest to officers that illegal use came from an outside source.

Not that I want to condone illegal activities, or condone lying to police officers, but to the hacker in me these seem like simple, sensible steps to take that will be more dependable than even a 50 character password.
No legally in the US you are not required to give the keys to the safe, but they can drop your sentence significantly for working with the investigators. For a safe, if you don't give them the key, the get a grinder and hack saw, for an encrypted hard drive in the US they give it to the NSA (though 50 chars would be tough for even them i'd expect).
Spotify is great as long as you don't step out of the narrow scope of the music offered. Try finding anything released <6 months ago and report back. rdio and MOG are even worse in that respect. Grooveshark is the only service that has a decent though a Kazaa-like chaotic catalogue.
The writer of this article either a troll or untalented hack.

Lets talk about the article :
a) the so called XML tax : Agreed XML is not the best representation of information but it does seem to be particularly suited for build tasks.
Ant's plug in tasks give you a lot of leeway -- a prudent programmer would know how not to hang herself or himself. I hope for the writer's sake that the example he chose is not from his actual project. If it is, then the writer should probably find a different line of work.

b) Netbeans now supports Maven 'natively'. And before that, I have been faithfully and successfully upgrading my Netbeans version while working on enterprise scale applications.
The problems that the writer mentions are either exaggerations or a reflection of his ineptitude.

c) Maven : it took me a while to wrap my head around it and I hated learning how to write plugins -- in xml. But it was worth the effort. I implemented a Continuous Integration build system for my project that builds an EAR with over 1.2 million line of code.

Maven just works -- once you have put in the effort to learn the platform. The writer has not put in any effort towards that. In fact the maven problem he talks about is actually a quote from a third party. This guy really does not know what he is talking about.

Don't get me wrong -- ant and maven are far from perfect ; but this article only betrays the writer's ignorance and lack of skill.

And then he goes on to recommend Rake . Would you take recommendation from a guy who whines about stuff he knows nothing about ?
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Once they start breaking your fingers, it gets a whole lot harder to enter that 50-character password.
It's funny, but email just wants to be a part of my life. Due to the push notification on my phone, it's almost a feed to me.

I mentioned this in the comments on AVC some time ago: I'd like to see an email service where I can modify the submittal (ex: for NAME@email, I could submit NAME-X-@email.com) where the X automatically created a sub-inbox X when replies to it came in.
Yeah that's the border - slightly different, though they also set up border checks hundreds of miles "inland" around the country which makes their intentions suspect.

What I hate about all these cases is it comes down to child porn which makes it impossible to defend. Why can't it be something mundane that actually shows why this is a REALLY bad idea.

I just saw a scary university lecture on youtube on why you should NEVER talk to to the police, even to "explain things", even if you know you are 1000% not guilty of whatever they are after. So now it makes perfect sense to me that if they want to go trolling across your hard drive, they are doing exactly that - you are testifying against yourself for whatever charges they want to invent afterwards.
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In the USA you cannot be tried for the same crime twice under double jeopardy laws. From wikipedia:

There are three essential protections included in the double jeopardy principle, which are:

- being tried for the same crime after an acquittal

- retrial after a conviction, unless the conviction has been reversed, vacated or otherwise nullified

- being punished multiple times for the same offense

London and Wales repealed prohibition against double jeopardy in 2003, so if you live there, you can indeed be tried for the same crime twice.
In the US there are conflicting precedents at the moment, so it really depends on where the case is being heard. At the moment the case that seems to have the strongest route to the Supremes is the one involving child porn at the border, allowing the court to address both the "are passwords protected" question and the legality of laptop border searches. Unfortunately for the cyberliberty crowd this particular case is the last one they want to see before the court, the facts are not good and it provides an easy excuse for a "law and order" majority on the court to significantly extend the government's reach.
I think that the law is worded so that it's an offence to have encrypted files and not be able to decrypt them. Whether it's deliberate or just forgotten isn't relevant (though I'd hope it would make a difference in sentencing).
Originally i was going to write something sarcastic involving grep and instead i wrote that :D

EDIT: Hey, seriously, that was an attempt at humor...
> Only the evil criminals can do that.

Depending on the country, the symmetric set difference between the police and "evil criminals" is quite small.

And even then when the police can't torture your officially, they can have ways of torturing you un-officially. They can lock you up with a group of gang members who are on the un-official "payroll" of the police. They rape and torture you until you reveal the password. The case in the media will come out as "my cellmate confessed in a moment of weakness and here is the password".
You are right in what you say, however I think I have been misunderstood. It is well defined what it means for an algorithm to be correct -- it means that it returns expected output for a given input. Ambiguous situations you are talking about are when the problem is not well defined. That is why I used the word "algorithm" in my first comment. Trial and error is perfectly fine when we are not exactly sure what result we expect, but we will "feel" when it's good enough. It is unacceptable if we know exactly what the result should be, though.

When the problem is well-defined, like word-wrapping, or sorting, or whatever, if you blindly stagger and write code hoping it will work, instead of stopping to think why it should work, you are doing it wrong.
In that case I would say it's been so long I forgot it.
placing boots on the ground causes a lot of collateral civilian casualties (look at, for example, Iraq civilian casualties) and make the people hate invaders and leads to insurgency. The "Black Hawk down" i mentioned is a real story of the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_%281993%29

where USA had 19 KIA and 83 WIA, and Somalis - anywhere between 300 and 2000.
A precision hit to the building which was the original target in the Battle of Mogadishu would cause much less casualties on the both sides (and much less fossil fuel burned).

>You don't win a war with just an air campaign. You still need boots on the ground to go after people.

that is just a generic slogan.
He said on Twitter that he was working with a contractor on it, but it fell through.

I think my app has polish, and it's slowly getting better, but most of it based on the official app adapted to Android UX patterns.

Either way, Marco is nice enough to allow third party clients and I've made more than I thought I would already.
Initial thoughts:

- Can't we make playlists in Youtube already?

- Youtube's search auto-suggests, yours started playing a silly cartoon when I typed "a".

- Controls are not where I would expect them (they are at bottom left in just about all other video sites in the world).

- There's a weird dotted outline when you click on the video.

- On the top right, there's a link to your profile, which I don't care about, but no link to register/login, which I do.

- "Add" icon is rip-off of Netvibes. Does not add to Netvibes and is confusing.

- How about supporting other video sites?
How is he Ex-french? Was his nationality stripped from him? That would be a bit of a insult after injury, wouldn't it?

Shouldn't it be "French ex-trader"?
I have a 12 character password and it is a pain in the ass to type it several times a day. I couldn't imagine using a 50 character password.
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it will fail when you realize you aren't 100% passionate about what you're doing.

we fail every day, maybe every hour. If you realize you're failing, that actually translates to you being aware enough to know what's going wrong.

By knowing what's wrong, you can fix it. If you're totally dedicated and obsessed, failure is just part of the process.

Failure also happens often, there's just one massive failure at the end which is basically representative of an individual who has finally found an excuse to quit something they're not totally in love with.

Startups end as a failure because the founders choose to see it that way. There's no other concrete reason why.
you're missing the point. A company can not fire a religious guy over long hair and can fire a non-religious one with the same hair length and dirtiness. That is discrimination, a penalty for being non-religious.
Having been an ER nurse for 17 years, I hear ya. It really sucks. The whole system is pretty crappy.

Think about it. If you're having a heart attack, when you hit the door of my ER, I am able to pull a trigger that causes huge team of people to spring into action.

Our goal is to get you to our Cardiac Cath lab in less than 60 minutes, have an Interventional Cardiologist with 15 years of training under his belt work from 4 feet away, and thread a wire through an artery in your heart that's 3mm wide and inflate a balloon inside of that clogged artery to 8 atmospheres of pressure so that your heart muscle doesn't die.

That requires a team of 2-3 nurses, an ER tech, an EKG tech, lab tech and radiology tech in the ER alone. 2 nurses and a Cath tech. An ER doctor, a Radiologist (usually reading films from home). Not to mention the crew in the lab that run the battery of 30 lab tests in less than 20 minutes. Also, registration staff and clerical help to help move the process along.

But, when we're not doing that, we take care of ear aches, tooth aches and people who were in fender benders. Not to mention the uninsured alcoholic lays in a gurney in the hall who is swearing at staff, peeing on the floor and in general being unpleasant for 8 hours while he sobers up and can walk out the door.

So, yeah. The care that we give is crazy expensive. But, what people don't realize is that using the ER for minor stuff is like going to a Mercedes dealer to get an oil change for your 86 Chevette.

The whole system sucks. I'm sorry you had to wait so long to be seen. It's awful.
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