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WTH?

MOD consisted mainly of poor Brooklyn kids; in fact, some of them were members of street gangs, and taught themselves to hack on school computers. From nowhere to the cover of magazines ..

The wikipedia article sucks, but the lore is out there and well known:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Deception
I really like this. I'll share it with my poker buddies (or next time someone complains about a bad beat on Full Tilt).
Here's a post Jon did a few months ago on logs and Solr: http://www.loggly.com/2010/08/our-solr-system/ The deck from the SalesForce meetup is in the post as well. It's about the same as the one he did at Lucene Revolution a few weeks ago.
Care to quantify that? I could maintain my current lifestyle for 8-10 years from savings (without having to touch retirement accounts), or longer if I move somewhere cheaper, but I don't feel wealthy at all.
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bemmu - this is great, it's my new homepage. just wanted to let you know this I actually appreciate this. Monetizable or not, you're helping someone.
On what basis would you have nuked them?

They were at no treat what so ever to the US.
I really wish there were more ergonomic keyboards out there. The only one that is viable anymore is the MS Ergo 4000, which, while nice, is not ideal. I would prefer a nice mechanical ergo, but I would also prefer a normal ergo keyboard that was more my style; I never use the zoom slider or most of the other extra buttons on the keyboard. It takes a lot of space for all of those buttons and I would like to buy an ergonomic keyboard that is better, but this is basically the only choice.
I'm obviously biased here but I think a great way for you to get your hands dirty would be to invest in an accelerator, such as (plug alert!) Startupbootcamp or The Difference Engine or Tetuan Valley or a number of others.

By invest I mean either time (as a mentor) or money (as an investor in the accelerator itself) or both.

You get to be involved in 10 early stage startups, but you are not alone. You can follow their progress as they get input from dozens of super star mentors. It's actually an awesome due dilligence process as you get to see which teams are great at generating traction.
1. That's a 1 year old post

2. English language is horrible as well (theoretically)

3. I'd try to convince anyone, but it would waste highly valuable time making nice income developing in PHP :)
> What happens when people become trained to think of information and entertainment as something they receive and not something they create?

Well, how was it during all those decades when TVs were ubiquitous but PCs were not?
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Why wouldn't they? What could possibly be so hard to implement about a blog that would create such a track record?
Yes, that is another classic one. And this one I think will hit people even when they aren't doing embedded stuff. I seem to recall a compiler optimisation which would make the assumption that the shift count would be well defined, and so it could then do some other optimisation (e.g. maybe that shift count was then used in a loop later, you can then assume that the loop runs less than 31 times)

Also in your example, you should have said sizeof(int)*CHAR_BIT == 32 :)
You've got the right attitude. You just say you don't like it and move on. Different strokes for different folks.

No point in being condescending about someone else's choice of language.
The title makes it sound like he's on the payroll.

"12-year-old San Jose boy paid bounty for finding security hole in Firefox."
hmm.... I guess the "fair" thing would be for it to count as late, although I wish that wasn't the case.

I struggled to figure out what the "hack a system to your advantage" question really meant (given that I read that pg essay a while back on what "hacking" "really" means, although the question seemed to be referring to the other meaning contextually) and now I found out that I was wrong......

Could've had a pretty good answer for it, too. ho-hum.
I had a very similar experience, unfortunately it wasn't feasible for me to migrate the site to another vendor, we just had to sit tight. It almost ruined the launch, which had a hard deadline. Fortunately we too had an understanding client, but being hamstrung was no fun at all.

The issue of the App Engine status page not reflecting reality is a very real one - we had contact with a Google engineer who told me that "this is affecting all our stuff" and I know that it went on for several days, but this wasn't reflected in the status chart; the severity of the issue was definitely not conveyed well enough.

I like the promise of App Engine, particularly the "instant" scalability which is great for sites that you know are going to get hammered as soon as they go live. But it really highlights the risk you take when you allow yourself to be locked into such an all-encompassing platform.
wow, our usernames are similar... but yes, +1 for ZaReason. I have two of their systems. The company is a pleasure to deal with.
The problem with this and all other claims here regarding cloud computing being the future growth zone for Amazon is that they are far from the only company out there that provides or is capable of providing these services, and the switching costs are absurdly low for Amazon's customers. Right now they may have the largest piece of this particular pie, but there is no particular reason to believe that as the pie grows they will maintain their market share or margins; we could all easily come up with a list of companies that could jump in and drive Amazon's margins or market share down in the cloud computing space.

Now, just think, if amazon decreases prices slower than their costs fall (which will fall approximately with moore's law) think how much work it is for netflix to move off of ec2.

It takes almost no work at all. If some bean counter at Netflix tells their board next year that they the current cost/benefit ratio for EC2 now makes no sense it would take Netflix less than a month to move to another cloud provider and less than six months to move everything in-house again.

There is no switching cost and with more providers entering the space you are already seeing early arbitragers get into the game. This is going to exert strong downward pricing pressure on all vendors in this space. They are selling what is effectively a commodity, and there is no way they are going to maintain their margins for much longer.

If AWS and a bet on a future of fat profits from the cloud is what punters are using to justify this P/E they are making a costly mistake.
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I think you're reading too much into it. It's just that most programmers have gotten to the typing level where ideas flow through their fingers basically at the speed of thought, and anything that blocks that drives you insane.
Note the word deceptive/deceive:
"the financial industry was engaged in predatory lending practices, deceptive practices. They were optimizing not on producing mortgages that were good for the American families but in maximizing fees."
Meanwhile, stock-based compensation created further skewed incentives by encouraging executives to pursue short-term stock gains at the expense of long-term corporate sustainablity, Stiglitz said, and in some cases encouraged them to deceive their own shareholders."

Thus making it fraud.

Now how many times are you going to reply to this comment without actually answering my question in response: Where in the article Stigletz wants to make a new category of behavior to punish? I don't see that anywhere in the article. Or did you just make that argument up and attribute it to him?

You pointed to:"What should be done? "I think we ought to go do what we did in the S&L [crisis] and actually put many of these guys in prison," said Stiglitz."
He's talking about sending people to prison.

Note the headline:
Put Corporate Criminals in Jail

Keyword: crooks, not failures

Now I'm trying to assume you're not a troll, but my patience is wearing thin. You're making assumptions and misrepresenting Stigletz position, he never said we should punish failure, only punish crime--categorized by deceptive practices and deception--fraud.

Now please find some other comment to reply to if you can't even be bothered to argue against something in the article and instead choose to make up your own strawman argument for Stigletz, attribute that to him, and then argue against your own garbled argument. That's not his logic, that's yours.
The textbook I first learned it from described entropy as the amount of uncertainty associated with the event[1]. I don't remember whether it tried to form an explicit link to "bits" in the sense of "amount of computer memory/storage." Perhaps you could trick people into not getting confused by using another name at first and then later showing the conversion from uncertainty measured in [other-unit-name] to the minimum average number of bits to encode the outcome is the identity function.

[1] It helped that the book gave axioms for uncertainty and then derived the -sum(p*log(p)) formula.
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Note the headline:
Put Corporate Criminals in Jail

Keyword: crooks, not failures

For fraud, a crime. Prison is for criminals... I don't see anywhere in the article where Stigletz says we should punish failure, only repeatedly referring to crimes/criminals being punished/jailed.

Also, read up on the S&L crisis, fraud was a big factor: Fraud and insider transaction abuses were the principal cause for some 20% of savings and loan failures the past three years[clarification needed] and a greater percentage of the dollar losses borne by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_Loan_crisis

So please get your facts straight before you start making up incoherent arguments to attribute to Stigletz and then arguing against your own pretend version of the his position.

Please find another comment to respond I've lost my patience because I'm wasting my time discussing this with someone who obviously doesn't consider facts/reality pertinent to the discussion.
Has google posted anywhere on these issues and what they are doing to resolve them? I'm working on a site for App Engine and this has me a bit concerned.
My knowledge about Java is several years out of date, but I know that Java couldn't detect symbolic links at one stage. For a backup application, this sort of thing is useful. Similarly, think of all the other whacky platform specific file things, that probably aren't in the Java view of the world (resource forks in OSX, alternative streams in NFS, device files, named pipes, sockets, etc). I can imagine that writing a backup application that can't see past the abstraction chosen by Java would cause a lot of trouble.
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The design looks professional-enough to me. Better than a lot of B2B sites that make a killing. The logo is the weakest link design-wise. The V symbol is alright, but the fonts are poorly chosen, the color and edges show compression, the edges of some of the type is blurry, etc. You might want to give your call to action buttons (Start free trial) a color that stands out, maybe a bit bigger. The idea is to make it clear to the user what their next step is. Also, why are there two call to action buttons, sign up and start free trial, when they basically mean the same thing? I'd maybe suggest having a big sign up button with "30 day free trial" in text below, or something to that effect.

The copy is a bit clumsy. Definitely have a native speaker with some linguistic savvy look it over.

In terms of getting clients though nothing mentioned above may be a factor. What is your conversion rate? Improving your site will improve on that, but if no one is coming to your site then marketing your site is a more important step to address.

Do you have any existing clients? How has their feedback been?

I'd recommend finding people for whom you've delivered well and investigating what worked well about that relationship. Maybe they can give you referrals, maybe you can target people in similar situations, and so on.
Ask HN: Choosing a memorable and available domain name
It seems like it's getting harder to come by a good .com domain without resorting to gibberish. What are some strategies you would recommend to come up with domain names that aren't already taken?
The screen's the most important part? I think it's the keyboard. Typing without looking isn't a problem.
Thanks Jay.

"does getting into YC have to be a pre-requisite for your startup to succeed?"

The goal isn't getting into YC. Or even a successful startup. It's finding something I can do that is of use to others. Somebody boiled it down to four words somewhere..
This is pretty old, in vulnerability-markets terms. The practice has become more mainstream since then.
http://planetrubyonrails.net/
A long time ago when I met you, you told me you had a few passionate users that used it daily.

Does that meet your criteria? May I ask what is it that you are looking for?
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We do fund single founders. There were 2 this summer. We just have a higher threshold with single founders, because it's harder to succeed as one.

The last 3 of the 5 we'd compromise on if the person was good in other respects. Only the first 2 are essential. It's hard to imagine a startup succeeding without at least one person who was determined and flexible. It's just the nature of the domain.
Ah, vintage, pre-batshit crazy ESR. Not a single instance of referring to anyone and everyone who disagrees with him as an "idiotarian."
I recently learned that Kinesis headquarters are close to Seattle (in Bothell) and have a showroom. I'm going to visit over lunch someday - I'm not ready to shell out $300 for Advantage without trying it first .
But the warehouse in Texas will be owned by Amazon(texas) inc and the delivery was from a completely separate company Amazon(NM) - they all happen to be owned by Amazon(Bermuda)
This is a great project! I'd like a way to be able to list existing tasks / projects and then I would probably use it
I actually didn't use source control back when I started, so I can't show you what it looked like on launch day, but this is what BCC looked like in February 2007. Static HTML, written in notepad. The web application wouldn't exist for another year yet, and the software shipped with less than 20 bingo card activities written (it now ships with about 1,000).

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/old-site/index.htm

Sales from February 2007 were about the same as my sales from today.
Video tour here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31X323N20wU
http://www.goldtouch.com/p-65-goldtouch-adjustable-keyboard-...

I have one of these at work. I switched from the Ergo 4000 to this, and I like it quite a bit. (There's a Mac version, too.) No idea whether it's a crappy keyboard by Atwood's standards.

Beware: there are trade-offs. For the Mac keyboard, you'll want to map Caps Lock -> Ctrl. I don't know what's optimal for the PC keyboard; I run Linux and don't use the Windows key.

Also, neither has a numeric keypad. There's a Numlock key, a la laptop keyboards. I don't miss it but some people do swear by them.

I'm assuming you've also ruled out Kinesis. :) I'm too scared to splurge on one but I've heard they're fantastic.
I wonder what will happen to Apple's products when Steve Jobs retires.
http://biblioflip.com -- just a landing page right now. this is a cross-platform (mac/linux/win) desktop elibrary app. drag-n-drop pdf, chm, etc. into it and it 'figures out' what the content is and populates all the meta-info (i.e. authors, isbn, publisher, cover image, etc.). edit meta-info in bulk. lightweight, clean ui, easy to use. will also have lucene full text search (todo). will also expose RESTful web service so that apps like Stanza on iPad can browse and d/l the content to the devices. i've been pouring my time into this from 8PM to 2-3AM on/off while not doing my day job. if anyone wants a peek, i can send you an installer. would love help building the website ;)
The thing is, Wavee is not an auction site. An auction site is one in which bids are free, and the winner pays what their bid says they pay. What Wavee had, and what you have built are, effectively, a method of taking money from people for the opportunity to pay money for something.

Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing racket; Wavee makes 75 cents for every bid coming in to increment the value by 1 cent. Saw a $150 iPad. That iPad has already earned Wavee's owners $11,250 without even being sold! And the use of Facebook to gain the trust of people is a good marketing tactic, but it doesn't skirt the fact that creating fake Facebook users with a bunch of friends is easy (get some pictures, feed some content in from any one of the millions of open twitter accounts, etc.), or that you have a real incentive to perpetrate fraud.

Really though, being the most honest crook among crooks still leaves you being a crook. That's why some countries have outlawed this particular kind of scam.
This might become reality more quickly than expected. At least some mobile phone operating systems attempt to do that already.
Get on a linux command line, type in:

whois whatever.com

Brainstorm, repeat :)
How many times are you idiots going to post this same old story?
Thanks! Now I get what the hell Hackers (the crappy 1995 movie) was trying to portray albeit really badly.
I'm not from the US so I don't really understand the details.

What this always sounds like to me is that ecommerce broke the American sales tax system. Transferring responsibility to individuals is obviously a nonexistent solution to loose ends that never got tied up because they represented such a small portion of sales. I really don't understand how this will get fixed again without nationalizing sales tax.
Cool idea actually. I'd use something like this for daily notes to self.
great point.

personally, am sick and tired of VCs pretend they know stuff and that they care about entrepreneurs.

If they care that much why don't they just give away money for free to the startups they think are promising.
227px empty vertical space?
http://piqi.org -- a better alternative to XML, JSON, CSV, S-expressions, etc.
I just tried it out on your page. I typed in my question "Does this operate on a subscription basis or is it a pay per use service?"

A bunch of questions were popping up whilst I was typing which I found offputting given the fact that this is supposed to simulate a conversation.

It made me ask my question twice, but it's response did not appear to be parsing out any of my question at all - as it was I had to type exactly the same thing twice and all it said was "we need more details".

I would say: rather than focus on publicity, focus on your product. I don't think I would install this on my site.
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Im not intimidated. If anything, he should be more far, far more understanding of the point then: A simple fail-over model for a smallish database is completely different than a full blown EC2. In fact given that EC2 is a freakishly large example of distributed system, I would put it in a totally different class of product than the average "big distributed system".
The biggest civil rights issue of our time is software patents
Software patents M U S T be abolished or there will be no innovation in 10 years

why the fuck would i choose to code all day to try to make sales when that's going to involve reading patents all day and then getting fucked by an asshole in a uniform called a judge

http://endsoftpatents.org/

This is by far the biggest civil rights issue of our time

the US government might as well just outlaw small developers from selling software for the next 20-30 years
One way that I've found useful is to ask the question, "How many bits do you need to represent an integer counter from 0 to 999?"

They answer, "10 bits."

"How many base 10 digits do you have in the counter?"

"Three."

"How many bits did you need for each digit?"

Everyone gets it. Explaining arithmetic coding is then much easier.
Rightly or wrongly, I think the truth is probably closer to: "Apple wants to force Adobe Flash into the Trash"
Good way to help the decision for Amazon where the next distribution center will be built, not in Texas. They are already getting jobs and tax revenue from employees there. They should change Texas to Taxes.
The users left. It's mostly just me and one last reader who checks out a couple of stories everyday. It doesn't engage anyone but me.

There's a problem with this whole category of apps. Reading solutions are like content - they're getting commoditized.

There's also lots of problems with this app itself. There's no overt personalization. It's good that the UI is simple, but bad that the layout is simplistic. There's none of the richness of a newspaper layout to stimulate the visual cortex.

If I could build something that truly engaged a few users I'd be happy for a while.

Let's chat more offline if you want.
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You've got the name but it doesn't seem you have the philosophy that goes with it.
"Nah, who needs another search engine?"