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It's a nice story, but the distribution of the bullet holes in the illustration ( http://motherjones.com/files/images/blog_raf_bullet_holes.jp... ) looks a bit too neat to me. I wouldn't expect the bullet holes to be placed exactly so that a cursory glance makes it mind-blowingly obvious where the weak spots are, in a neatly symmetrical way. I'd expect a bit of frowning and thinking and calculating to be needed to figure that out.

So, for an article about 'obvious but wrong' conclusions, I think the illustration is kind of deceiving... unless I'm wrong!
It's other peoples job to decide if they're interested in you or not. Not yours. That goes for all situations, really. Not just this one.

Do companies near you have job openings* ? Send them an email asking if they'll consider an intern filling the spot instead.

*They probably do. Even if it's not advertised.
I don't know what to say right now.

I'm just touched.
What some deem "useless" or "bad" ideas can evolve to become very useful. Twitter, is a great example. Very few thought they'd succeed. Now they're huge and growing and I bet 5 years from now, they'll be doing things even their founders can't imagine.

Likewise, whether Qwiki survives is independent of their idea, but rather their ability to adapt their product to customer needs and above all, their ability to execute.
I doubt AOL told them to do this, beyond maybe a vague "have fun with the acquisition." But this isn't really insubordination. He revealed almost nothing about the actual meeting. He just made a bunch of jokes because it's fun and they're trying very hard to show that they're still the same old TechCrunch despite their new owner.
Would only work in the US.

Here in England, everybody wears that terrible neon reflective stuff every time they leave the house. Bicycle optional in many cases. They have no shame here.

The downside is that it makes me comparatively less easy to spot.
I don't even think it is logical to hope a direct competitor fails. There are two possibilities:

1. If you are out-executing them and they fail, you would have won anyway.

2. If they are out-executing you and they fail, it signals very bad things about about the sector/business model.
Even when autorun is disabled, Windows will parse through the autorun.inf file. This should have been patched with KB967715.

U3 enabled devices have been known to override the default settings in order to emulate CD-ROM drives.

Double clicking the flash-drive icon can also force execution of binaries, but I am unsure of how that works and if it is related to the user's autorun settings or not.
Note: the above is a verbatim quotation from the article. I think it's poor form to do that without indicating that it's a quotation.
If it's a .net shop, get vs2010 or the free as in beer version and install iron python. Bang, every .net classs available via a language that doesn't suck.
Here's a real sex graph;

It's not a sex graph: it also contains all relationships of people that were romantically involved without having sex.
How many WW2 fighter pilots were actually good enough shots that they could aim at part of a plane? I always figured that the difference between a good gunner and a bad gunner was whether they hit the plane at all.
Well it's probably the best modern shell (since it's objects being piped, you don't need regexs everywhere like currrent gen unix shells), but it really depends if he was attempting something command-linish or not.
It's even more interesting: payments were officially suspended in 1953 until Germany would be reunited - which nobody expected to happen in the foreseeable future. The bonds were near worthless curiosities until things happened quite suddenly in 1989...
What must a website achieve in order to be considered as influential as the creations made by (continuing the analogy) Bill Gates and Steve Jobs?
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The situation with writing web apps with Python has changed dramatically over the last 3-4 years and I think you are giving it too little credit.

Back then, there wasn't one obvious place to start with web app development with Python. Frameworks existed, sure, but there were too many and none were as good as rails. Django changed that, arguably helped along by Guido's pronouncement as the "official" way to go.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-046....

"The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed."
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Considering the size of the file, (and the fact I have not examined StuxNet), I'd assume that there is a good chance it has enough logic to determine which factory it is in by pure brute force.

If the main fan control gives a fairly standard reading, it shouldn't be too difficult figuring out what the particular factory it has infiltrated has wired that point to, for example.

Also, I haven't heard any definitives on what kind of factory this is targeting. I do know that there aren't many companies that develop and design high tech industrial facilities. Despite StuxNet having infected thousands (millions) of personal PCs, it really is only looking for maybe a few dozen or so in the world that are of the right type. Combine that with a low number of factory designs, and it could very well have a pre-determined database of how its intended targets are wired.
I don't drive.

As a pedestrian, I've almost been hit by cyclists running red lights with reflectors. Since my eyes don't emit beams of light, I had no chance to see them until that last second. I assume any cars going through the intersection would have had the same problem, since the obstacle was to the side rather than directly in front of them.

Reflectors do help make the cyclist more visible to overtaking traffic, but they don't help with anything that does not emit light. The cyclist won't be able to see hazards in the road ahead or other cyclists with reflectors.

I do agree that reflectors are better than nothing in the limited case of overtaking or oncoming cars, but they're not as good as lights. And considering how cheap LEDs and AA batteries are compared with the cost of a bicycle, why are we even arguing about this?
I wonder about the blinking things that seem to have become fashionable. I rarely drive cars, but when I did, I always found blinking lights extremely distracting. They make it hard for me to concentrate, to an extent where I wonder if it is still beneficial to the person wearing them. It's fine if a driver notices me, but I want them to still be able to concentrate.

People's perceptions may vary here, for example I also have my eyes when they put on the stroboscope in clubs.
This review doesn't make much sense to me. As another commenter claimed, I wonder if we even saw the same film. All the complaints that Lessig makes are clearly addressed in the movie.

For starters, it's not at issue here whether the Winkelvii deserve $65M. The film makes it abundantly clear that they do not. They are simply payed off (at a cost comparable to that of a speeding ticket per one character) for expediency, as Zuckerberg would not appear sympathetic to a jury.

The lawyers are not presented in the film as wise elders. I certainly don't recall them having any better comebacks than the younger characters. If anything, the lawyers are frequently presented as sharks; amoral, chaotic neutral characters who try to glean assets from the younger entrepreneurs at every opportunity.

Lessig goes on to conclude that the real story here is not Zukerberg's drive, that instead the film should really be about platform, the internet itself. But this is not a film about how neat the internet is, whether Lessig thinks it should be or not. It is about Zuckerberg and his dogged ambition. It's about the steps he took to develop and expand his creation into a worldwide phenomenon. Obviously the internet made that possible, but to denigrate the film because the internet itself wasn't its central thematic focus seems obtuse.
The available jobs data suggests that Ruby is growing faster (note that the absolute numbers are still in favor of python)

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=python,ruby,java&l=...
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>who is that guy?

He's been tapped to play Spider Man in the next Spider Man movie. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1940449/
You're assuming that a bunch of suits pulled some hackers out of their parent's basement and told them to write a virus.

I can only comment on the US Government's NSA, which has thousands of highly trained and highly intellectual programmers already under their employ. These are people that do their job to protect and assist in the affairs of the government. Probably already under highly classified labels. For some, it is just another job assignment.

However, I am also speculating. The truth: No one capable of telling the truth knows.
I really don't think the grandparent meant that Facebook is a subculture. I think he meant that startups and founders are the subculture and that Facebook is a result of that culture.
> You're talking about legal immigrants, right? Because I would think it's the opposite with illegals.

It depends. It may be true for immigrants coming from the nearby country (Mexico to US), but it isn't true for instance for illegals from Africa going to Europe: they must have a lot of money to pay for the travel through the continent (10000 to 20000 euros or even more).

This has a very bad effect on their countries of origin : both the best people and their money flow out to richer countries.
http://vinhboy.com/blog/2010/10/02/cool-facebook-like-worm/
My guess is that he was trying for the programmers hierarchy in ASCII:
http://i.imgur.com/G7WyP.gif
I was actually wondering how well the movie will do because, while it's about a service used by 500 million people, it's not about the service itself but about the creation and early days of the company. So a facebook user might not necessarily be interested.
It isn't shot down, it's shot at. This idea is unshotdownable because it's so obvious. If someone thinks that open source end user apps make sense at all (I don't), they have to think about how to make them available on the most widespread platform, which is the web. HTML5 apps do compete with native apps. I'm not using Evolution or Thunderbird, I'm using Gmail. I'm not using OpenOffice, I'm using Google docs & spreadsheets. The only desktop apps I'm using right now are vim, bash and the browser. Vim and bash could just as well live in the browser.

I think Android made one big mistake. And that's to not make the great leap forward to enabling browser apps instead of inventing yet another UI toolkit and off browser runtime. Maybe Chrome OS will be what I'm thinking of and maybe Oracle's case against Dalvik will help Google realise they don't need that Java runtime anyway.
Berkeley students, whose going?
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It seems immensely unlikely that Python is more popular than Ruby because it has a good web development ecosystem, given that the one thing everyone knows about Ruby is that it has a good web development ecosystem.

(Note that this applies even if, contrary to conventional wisdom, Rails is really no good at all; and even if Django is spectacularly good. As long as "everyone knows" that Rails is a superb web development framework, Python is not going to be more popular than Ruby for having a good web development framework. For the avoidance of doubt, I have no particular view on the merits of RoR and Django; I haven't used either.)
The code on the screen in the utility code scene appeared to be PHP, given that every variable began with a $.
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Start with Zazzle or Cafe Press. Build a following. Use that to springboard off of and launch your own eCommerce site (look into Pulley by Indie Labs - creators of Big Cartel).

Then try to get the word going like crazy.
Thanks for the links, reading through them now. Lots of great info.
How can you destruct already delivered email?
How could this be implemented?

http://www.thisemailwillselfdestruct.com
Where, for example, can I find an open-source e-mail client as good as gmail?

Mutt is far preferable to gmail (and I use both).
Is Django really good, though? Everytime I look at it I end up thinking "eeeew, why do they do it like that". That it is popular is no indicator - PHP is popular, too.

Trying to remember some examples that I didn't like. The ORM mapper was ugly, and I think the templating system is really inflexible - like you can not use it isolated from Django, or it couldn't do "inheritance", or something like that.
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A co-worker at my last job said she even had people go so far as to throw stuff out their windows at her as they passed while she was cycling... ever happened to you?
I think what you must be referring to is the adoption of Python for web-based startups. Python has always been popular in certain industries/niches.

From our perspective we use what we feel is best and we use more than one language on some of our projects. For example, we have a LOAD of legacy code in PHP and we use it still quite extensively for some of our sites. We use Python on some of the same sites for parsing and anything requiring heavy lifting.

Ultimately - use what you feel is best for the job at hand
It did transformed (to google apps)
If you live near a place that does screenprinting, they can probably print shirts for you for reasonably cheap. Much cheaper than Cafepress, Zazzle, etc. Except you have to deal with printers and ship them yourself.
I find it fascinating that the people on HN, of ALL places, aren't more sympathetic to that point. All of us that have built (or are building) companies have brought a Zuckerberg into our confidence some point.

Hell, most recently I was a Zuckerberg. My partner had an idea and the foundations to pull it of. He just needed a partner (me) with the technical chops to make it happen. I could have spent a few days picking his brain and stolen everything I could for my own gain.

I didn't... and things have worked out really well for us.

For me Zuckerberg is a villian. I've never met the guy, but from what I can tell he committed the most unforgivable act imaginable. He stole a vision, and actively worked to string those who trusted him along as far as he could. That's not something to celebrate, it's something to despise.

$65M seems fair to me. Hell it seems low. Fraud really does pay sometimes.
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Perhaps share these pages with your professor:

http://python.org/about/success/

http://python.about.com/od/gettingstarted/ss/whatispython_3....

I'd say your prof is pretty myopic.

Of the success stories, I particularly like this email about Python on NYSE from 2003:

http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/%3COF78FB9C74....
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What's the difference between a govt writing it and funding it. Writing is a subset of funding.
Didn't the point still hold at 24?
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Ask HN: Gig/Job ad strangeness
I am finding among the real strange gig and job ads that I am choosing only to respond to those ads that have an equal amount of test on skills required and text about the product.

The number one strange ad that I encountered was one requesting consensus be built among VCs for product direction rather than say customers.

What is the strangest thing you have seen in a gig or job ad?
"On an open platform we can make tools to fix problems, instead of waiting for Google or Apple to do it for us."

Who don't agree on this?

But I can't think of my parents using such a tool, soo for them (and people like them) Apple's cured garden has some benefits: (from "Apple's App Store Review Guidelines:" http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/09/apples-app-store-review-g...)

4. Location 4.1
Apps that do not notify and obtain user consent before
collecting, transmitting, or using location data will
be rejected

Can this solve all the problems? no, I've seen to many computer user pressing "OK" "OK" "OK" buttons automatically without reading what was the message, but it's a first step.

For people like you and me may be a lot better Android and the old "M-x butterfly": http://xkcd.com/378/

thanks for the chat
I don't think it "another story", I think it cuts to the heart of the question. What constitutes a business? It is merely the functional aspects? Or is it (as I believe) inherently tied to the larger vision?

To me it's the latter. Successful startups are built at the junction of motivation, skill, and vision. Zuckerberg, as far as I can tell, had the first two... but the third was certainly influenced (if not outright stolen) by his interaction with ConnectU. The twins made a tremendous contribution to Facebook, and were rewarded by (as far as I can tell) fraud on the part of Zuckerberg.

That's most definitely worthy of compensation. I still think they sold out for far too little really.
I live in Berkeley and plan on driving to Startup School. I can take up to 4 other people in my car.
It may be the best modern shell if you like OO and if you can tell me what's the difference to, say, an interactive Python session.

I think the most flexible kind of interfacing between independent apps will always be text based. It makes no sense to impose some typed object model onto those interfaces. That just causes more dependencies which is exactly what you want to avoid for that type of integration.
Nope. Mostly honking and one case of being told I was a bastard. I live in the city, though, and people are used to bikes.

If someone threw something at me, the police would have the license plate number so fast it'd be scary. Littering is a $500 fine.
For web developments, be sure to check out the Mojolicious framework (created by the founder of Catalyst). When used with PSGI and Moose, a lot of interesting stuffs can be built.

http://mojolicious.org
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Sounds like a good program.

When I first started cycling as an adult, I had no idea how to cycle properly. Fortunately, fear led me to Google which lead me to resources that helped me teach myself how to cycle safely.

Most people, unfortunately, only have the fear, and they give up before the Google search. A bit of education in elementary school about safe cycling could do a lot for the obesity epidemic and that whole global warming thing!
I had kids throwing stones and once a brick at me while cycling back from work. With the brick it was at night and I was aware of something passing my head and then I saw it when it hit the road.
cat'ing and piping into pv is a poor way to benchmark as the CPU overhead is too high (the buffer size for a pipe kernel object is 4kB, forcing a high number of context switches). Try "dd bs=32k </dev/sda >/dev/zero" and monitor with "iostat -m 1", you will see a higher throughput.
How did you get a *.edu domain?
I interviewed with these guys a while back and the interview was, dare I say it, fun. :-)
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Y Combinator startup Fabricly should be able to help you out a lot. http://www.fabricly.com/

I'm curious what kind of clothes you want to design. Are you thinking about fresh prints or fresh cuts?
Um, no. Reflectors are normally either cube corners (in molded plastic reflectors) or embedded spherical beads (vinyl ribbons and screen-printed fabrics), and both of those are designed to act as ideal retro-reflectors; slight imperfections allow for a small spread of the reflected light, but the spread is only a couple of degrees. Traffic signs and the paint used for lane markings and crosswalks work the same way. Any other arrangement is a diffuser, not a reflector.
> How many Amazon's that sell books?

Maybe. I always thought the connection is that they cut down the Amazon rain-forest to make and sell high-quality books.
I think it's good. (Disclaimer: I'm a co-creator of Django)

The ORM is Django's most powerful component, IMO. The syntax can look a bit off-putting at first (the double underscore stuff) but it's amazing how productive it can be at the sort of queries that make up the bulk of any web app. I guess maybe it's an acquired taste.

Inheritance is a key concept of the template system, and one of its most useful features.

You absolutely can use the template system outside of Django, but it's not available as a separate package so you still end up with the rest of Django is a dependency - definitely not ideal. Jinja is a very neat rewrite of Django's template system that is available as a separate package.
Glad to see the book - and it looks a good read. Perl really has evolved as a language & community over the last few years and it's still my go-to language for my own projects. Despite having been mostly Python/PHP on the dev side the last couple of years - and being a huge Ruby fan.

The core of the language still has some warts - but there's still some interesting stuff to play with.

Three reasons to have a look at the language if you haven't before (or take another look if you've been away from perl for a few years):

* Moose - http://moose.perl.org - is becoming the de facto OO layer on top of Perl's basic OO system. It has some interesting features that you don't see in most other OO languages (Roles for example.)

* CPAN - http://search.cpan.org - the library of perl modules. Interesting for a couple of reasons. First it's scope is amazing. When I need to talk to some weird API there's usually something there to help. Cuts development time enormously. Second - the infrastructure of CPAN itself is fascinating. The way that things like http://cpantesters.org, http://search.cpan.org, the standard methods for building libaries and modules, etc. all work together is an interesting software ecology. Worthy of study. Lessons to be learned there for gems et al.

* Testing. The testing infrastructure in perl is _amazing_. It's the best I've used in any language. That's because it's evolved around a language/framework agnostic testing protocol TAP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol) that allows many different styles of testing to co-exist in the same test running framework. Really nice stuff.