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Profitable W'11 startup looking for Hackers.  Join us in our quest to kick healthcare's ass.
We are looking for several hackers to work with us in the Mountain View area. We are a profitable software company founded by two Hackers who are working to change healthcare in America by giving physicians software tools to treat patients better. We are currently operational and have hundreds of paying healthcare professionals using
our products across the U.S. We are in the Winter 2011 class of Y-Combinator as we prepare for our large outside fund raising round to scale up our system and completely revolutionize healthcare! Our goal is to make doctors more efficient, improve the quality of care patients get, and change healthcare for the better!

Since we are profitable we can afford to pay salaries, but we are really interested in finding dedicated Hackers who care about doing something meaningful and are willing to take a larger equity stake and little to no salary while we are in Y-Combinator and preparing to raise our outside VC round (after which we can quickly scale up to
industry standard salaries.)

The required skills we are looking for are strong Python/Django web development skills and/or strong Objective-C iPad development experience. A large part of our platform is for native mobile devices: iPad, iPhone, and Android, but these are not required skills and we will train really strong Python/Django developers on these mobile platform programming skills. We can guarantee that smart hard working programmers will rise far in the company and will have a
bright future in learning new skills and growing with the company as we get funded and expand.

We are a diverse and hard working company. We want to build a great culture where everyone can work hard and be proud of the work we are all doing. We are tackling the most difficult problem facing the country today, healthcare reform, and using the hottest and most powerful technologies on the planet to kick healthcare's ass. We can
guarantee that anyone working with us will wake up every morning ready to work hard because they know they are making a positive difference on the world and helping to tackle the toughest problem facing our country.

Email your resume to us: ycombinator.company@gmail.com
Do you mean if I could only learn three languages that I don't know yet or are you talking about which language I wouldn't want to be without ?
Honest question - what are you worried might happen? From your comment, it seems like you do trust Dropbox but are afraid they might have to surrender your data, but I can't imagine what kind of data you have that might be that sensitive.
Typically anybody that makes more than a few million per month on the internet and is not under the protection of the authorities for stuff like this has by now found out about the dark side of the net.
So what about the Open Source Software that are products?
Dropbox's network performance is still pretty mediocre even at the best of times. I don't know if it works better in the US, but here in Sweden it is a good 10 times slower than using our ftp site hosted a few towns over.

Copying a few gigs from my computer to my coworkers computers via dropbox takes close to forever, esp when compared to doing the same task via a local fileserver over a 100 MBit or GigaBit network.

Don't get me wrong though I love my dropbox account and even think that this new product would be great for where I work (if possibly a bit too pricey), but we are far away from dropbox replacing local file servers.
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Having multiple sites is genius. It's great market segmentation.
WebSockets handshake is vulnerable to cache poisoning of transparent proxies.
First it's important to note that the importance of programming languages is time sensitive, it depends of current programming language maturity and their related tools: VB was a success mainly because the IDE gave a lot of power to [below] average developers.

In my opinion:

i) C#: It's the most advanced general purpose programming language.
ii) Python: Excelent scripting and glue.
iii) Javascript: It's the Web!

But for system programming...:
i) Assembler
ii) C++
iii) Python. It's good for Reverse Engineering too!
... and true digital natives finally cast their votes for parliament too.

A lot of issues are caused because the young don't get out and vote. They* are already under-represented because the old simply outnumber them. The fact that they don't vote as well makes it especially hard.

Rich.

* = not counting myself amongst the "young" any more ...
Schneier on Security: WikiLeaks
hello guys,
i have a question about yammer
for example, if i sighn up in yammer with a company mail like microsoft , can i access to all of employeers of microsoft or no ,i was accessing to microsoft's employeers that sighned up in yammer?
The hand-drawn graphic at the top makes it look like a joke website.

And the first item actually BEING a joke makes it look even more so.

Your policies on how to deal with contested results need some work. 'Until both parties are satisfied' doesn't work very well when someone does a lot of work and the client denies that it matches what they asked for. And it could go either way at that point, too.
I think the idea with this is that even if the radar detector doesn't go off soon enough to save your ass, the next guy now knows the cop is there.

Of course, this also means false positives are a larger problem.
So, this is just spam? There's no reviews, there's no discussion, just a page to buy it.
They are targeting api.paypal.com
> Don't you mean "Great Ormond Street children's hospitals" ?

Correct - I'm not a native Londoner and I've spent less than a year there across my life. I also organized two small charity events, and asked a friend of mine what the equivalent of St. Jude's is in London, and he said Great Ormond Street.

> You gave money to them but don't even remember their name properly?

Unnecessarily dickish comment. But yes, I swapped "Great" and "Grand" in my comment incorrectly, good catch there.
Don't the HTC Sense phones still come with access to the official Google Market and with the official Google apps (mail, maps etc.) pre installed. If so then they are official Google blessed phones which activate via Google activation
London pro-Wikileaks hackers knock down Sarah Palin website
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OK I fail the challenge - I used VB6 briefly and I can't think of anything pleasant (or even polite) to say about it.
The Boston Tea Party was also an attack on private property not just the government.
Many options in the top menu should be hidden unless you are registered and login (Inbox, My Zombs, My Nets...).
> Sometimes it takes the government

Hmmm. Not disagreeing that some things funded by government grants have been worthwhile, but almost every scientific discovery before the WW2 period was funded independently of the government -- including big ticket areas involving fundamental research like automobiles, railroads, and aviation.
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The name is a little unfortunate, I think. I immediately thought "Zombal = Zombie + Paypal", so expected an online payment solution (for funny necromancers?) or a parody of Paypal.
The biggest lobbies for increased estate taxes are life insurance companies:

http://blogs.forbes.com/hanisarji/2010/12/01/life-insurance-...

“The estate tax is a cash cow for the life insurance industry – and the industry’s lobbyists guard it zealously...[o]nly three industries – pharmaceuticals, electric utilities, and oil and gas – spent more over the same period.”
Well it's not so much the assembled batteries, but rather the accidents / malice that can happen at the, er, plants.
Send a submarine to cut off submarine communications cables.
Shit. DDoS too?
I assume that this is pretty common situation in some (even non-criminal) circles, I'm thinking of various small web hosts, content-free portal pages, direct internet resellers of something etc. Few times some of these people actually went to us seeking help with something almost clearly unethical and possibly illegal. This is in Czech republic, but from various stories on internet I extrapolate that this is probably global phenomena, maybe even more pronounced in other countries.
That sounds a lot like Gnutella and it's worst own enemy: being so overloaded with search traffic that the rest suffers.
It's also completely legal to tell a cop he's a stupid pig when he pulls you over for speeding. Doesn't mean it's a good idea...
The reason most people find Objective-C memory management hard at first is they don't realise the importance of recognising and following the conventions.

Once you know the handful of conventions the article covers, knowing when to retain or release is pretty easy.
Relevant to my interests. I'll probably be giving it a go shortly. My buddy (who has taste) suggests toning down the front page, though.

While others say 'raise your prices' my suggestion is to keep them low, at least until you have more work than you want to handle. at $15, I might as well give you a shot. at $150? eh, I'm much less likely to blow that on something I have no idea if I will like or not.

Oh, also, if I like the design, it'd be pretty cool to slip you another $100 or something and get the html/css, I mean, if it's possible to get that sort of thing at that price.
Although some isolated initiative are great (Zuckerberg's pledge to education is presumably very much needed) most private charities are more expensive to manage and often counter-productive. Government redistribution can have in well-run countries handling cost around 3-5%; too many charities are closer to 15%. Government handles essential concerns, permanent efforts, infrastructure investment, etc. while many private charities browse around, try something but have little follow-through after the first media coverage. Governments can have a more global view of things, that can help isolate massively more efficient efforts, even when they aren't popular, like prevention, half-way homes. A majority of public money is spend on things with little isolated, visible impact, but the marginal impact can be much higher. A lot of local leaders in Africa have criticized the B&M Gates Foundation for being too disruptive for the good of beneficiaries.

I won't diminish the impact of being associated to massively successful people, or simply having spectacularly talented people manage those funds, but please don't confuse the good feeling of being in control with actual marginal impact.
All of those defenses assume that the attacker is a bunch of zombies sending ICMP or SYN messages or with spoofed IP addresses. When Anon attacks its with volunteered HTTP traffic so these defenses don't work.
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While you may be correct about the budget deficit of Texas (there is some confusion since they budget on 2 year cycles), the unemployment rate there is most definitely not higher than California. A quick google search shows 7.9% for TX and 12% for CA as of October.
I have a widescreen monitor and I suspect most people do. How about making the content and comments appear side by side instead?

A "pop-out" link for each frame would also be nice.
>If you dominate a market, a serious ethical duty devolves upon you to do right by your customers, but Paypal, Visa, and MC, on which donation-supported non-profit orgs like Wikileaks almost entirely depend, have utterly failed to fulfill that duty; in fact they didn't even try.

The majority of Paypal Visa and Mastercard customers rely to some extent on a stable international environment. Suggesting that these companies need to change their moral stance to accommodate anarchists is silly. Wikileaks actions suggest they want to take down the establishment that in a large part enables such companies to operate.

Indeed the fact that these companies have now been attacked by the associates of those they chose not to support means that they made the right decision. Why would they want to bolster groups that will turn and attack them?

If Paypal, for example, hadn't accepted Wikileaks as a customer in the first place then they wouldn't be having to deal with the current situation and could serve the majority of their customers better.

Taking a capitalist view basically Wikileaks supports believe that the rest of us should be screwed over so they can make their point. It's not civilised it's brutish anarchism.
I guess something is working out for them. But for that $800k/month they have to support 5 million users.

I wonder how profitable that actually is for them?
> Governments are typically terrible financial stewards

Well, no: many governments are far more responsible than most individuals. That's not true in counties were everyone criticize the government as strongly as you do in the United States, but in countries where government positions are prestigious, the most talented people work there. As recently demonstrated, financial incentives are no where as efficient as job safety and support for creative tasks, this is why a system that promote civic dedication has tremendous impact.
Funny, I associated the name with Zombies, but not with Paypal. I thought it would be a Social Network for Zombies.
That's not Amazon, but yes, attacks on DNS providers work.
Phones sales in general hit the billion per year mark a few years ago. Smartphones are a smaller, but growing, segment of that, but the iPhone alone is doing about half the claimed rate. So why do you find the number so unlikely?
No, they aren't discrete. This is a silly exercise but fun to play.
If you read my previous comment you will see I addressed exactly that.

"Note, I'm not talking about everyone that does it, just most people."
It really does sound a lot like Zombies (My Zombs?).. I thought it would be a game.
Because Dropbox still have your data unencrypted.
This is not true.

I work for a major DDoS mitigation equipment company and we see SYN floods all the time.

And you CAN block one million users from all opening up one connection. Our software/hardware makes this happen. There are MANY MANY ways that DDoS can be dealt with; the biggest hurdle in many cases is convincing a customer that they might be next. Until then, they often don't see the need to spend the money on sufficient capacity or properly test their system against the range of "probable" attack vectors.

That's likely what you're seeing here.

It /is/ true that attacks are becoming more sophisticated and targeting applications rather than just pure network resources (e.g. b/w). A big part of our efforts are trying to abstract away the potential attack vectors common to several application stacks rather than developing solutions for each one at a time.

P.S. Paypal seems to work fine for me right now.
Hey, funny, I think I've had that customer too!

I ended up referring him and his company to my worst sworn enemy competitor, haven't heard from him since.
Or as a web service for nlp. DirectedEdge made one for recommnedations systems...
I agree fully. The only thing this is doing is ensuring that the data cannot be seen by someone in transit; as long as you're not using your own key, anyone dropbox still has access to your data.

I remember this issue being raised earlier, as I recall, tarsnap and spideroak were the suggested alternatives.
It's not a matter of data being sensitive, it's a matter of paranoia and data control. I do it too, I don't like my data leaving my control, which is why I use SpiderOak even though it's much more of a hassle sometimes.
Exactly. I see WikiLeaks as test of free speech. Test at which US is failing..
At first it was all completely unnecessary no one had ever heard of the product.

However as it started to climb the poker ranks and get more players the early start we had made meant that the network guys were ahead of the hackers/criminals from the start. We had developed a good relationship with our providers (of bandwidth and hardware) and internally stress tested the system.

By the time I left it was WELL worth it. A reasonable sized poker site can easily rake a million dollars a week which is a revenue stream worth defending.

My advice would be that if you think your are going to be vulnerable invest early, make mistakes early, when the big boys come at best you have hours to respond. Investing doesn't have to mean buying the most expensive hardware but planning for how much you can afford to loose will put things into perspective. Deciding how much to spend of defence is important and must be continually reviewed as hardware/software change and new threats pose themselves.

It's also important to remember that the big attacks like DDos are annoying but can normally be defended against. Intrusion detection is as important but much harder to defend against.
"We should all be doing whatever we can with whatever resources we have to prevent Wikileaks from dying."

It is never right to do wrong for a chance to do right. The ends do not justify the means in this case. Your argument is fallacious in that you can apply that reasoning to everything in life.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm the owner of the site.

Regarding the payment system, I agree it’s not clear at the moment. Currently, the way it works is that when there is a dispute between the two parties, they can file for mediation. They will be charged a small fee and their case will be reviewed by an arbitrator whose decision is final and will award between 0-100% of the agreed upon price.

We will also consider revising the design.
top of my head stuff:

1. there is beginning to be a serious proliferation of DIY science centers at least in the field of synthetic biology (those guys are capable of doing anything from biochem to cell bio, so they could work on these jobs.) you guys are in a good spot to take advantage of this growing network!

2. the name is just not going to fly. period. change it.

3. my first thought is "bullshit" when i read this, so your first page should basically be a testmonial: the most legit sounding scientist you can find saying how awesome his experience with your thing was. i know you're in beta and you can't do this yet, but remember you will be battling for legitimacy in a notoriously conservative community.

4. a question: what kind of thing do you see people getting done on this site? a certain category of experiments in my field (sequencing, synthesis, etc.) are already commoditized. are you aiming for somewhat more complicated stuff? make it clear.
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Amazon operates on a scale where they can handle this type of thing I don't mean automaticlaly, but they have the access points and gear in place to do it, and the levearage with the right ISPs.

Buying a 10 gig link woulnd't be a distributed denial of service attack, and itwould be far too easy for the providers to not only find out who it was and filter it out, but to find out who to sue for all the wasted time and bandwidth and other criminal charges.
Jungledisk workgroup is a smaller package, but for a lot less money. Also, storage fees are per gb, which is nice. We use it for our 4 person team and pay about $20 a month. Same encryption and shared storage features.
I'll happily take that bet — but please check the local situation first.

You remember the Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and its impact on local business? There has been the same disaster, continuously for decades, thanks to oil extractions by “greedy” Shell. Somali pirates? They were fighting illegal radioactive dumps that contaminated their food, that were more “lean and efficient” to leave there rather then properly process. When locals are up in arms, the local economy rarely benefit.

According to friends who worked for the UN or US Aid, there is far worst to come, thanks to Chinese company.
The one thing that popped in my mind when reading this was "poor viruses, they put electric charge on them". :) Now it's clear that a virus is so simple that it's not even clear if it can be considered alive, but what if something similar was devised with bacteria? Where would we draw an ethical line? :)
It doesn't sound like you are in favour of the principle of WikiLeaks.
Very interesting idea. Congrats on the launch.

Usually I'd say names don't matter much, but in this case not only is your name terrible, you are taking it too far by using words like Zombs, launcher, catcher. The whole concept is novel enough, you don't want people to learn a whole new Zombie lexicon just to understand what the heck your site is about.

I'd rather just borrow terminology from elance, odesk, etc.

Other available names: ososci.com, outsosci.com, researchoid.com, fineeinstein.com...
Yes it has. Unfortunately I can't really say much about the parties involved or what happened (I wasn't the bad guy though, promise), but it absolutely has, and if I've seen it, then either I'm a unique little snowflake (yay!), or it's happened a LOT more.
Interesting idea. Are you going to give us some invites?
Agreed. We're huge fans of Jungledisk here.
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Alternate link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/173858/mozilla_blocks_microso...

Mozilla is automatically blocking two [Firefox] add-ons: the Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant and a related plugin called the Windows Presentation Foundation
Yep, just go here and request it: http://zombal.com/get-invite
I was thinking of doing something similar yesterday! Talk about coincidence. However, my idea was to have something completely non for profit in which there is no money exchange.

After seeing the kind of noise you find on places like rent-a-coder, I don't think I would use a paid service myself (as a scientist, I mean). I remember someone on one of those rent-a-coder like website asking for a solution to P=NP and a huge number of bids all saying "WE CAN DO THIS IN FEW HOURS!"
Rich are not demonized.

People who use their wealth to feel superior and annoy others, who are wealthy enough to set up tax-evasion scheme, who behave as if they can pay to be above the law are demonized.
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Along the same lines, I had to search for a minute just to figure out how much a 'Quan' is. Why not just make it USD or Euros?
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