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even jerks have friends. If you reject them, they'll tell those friends and you could lose even more customers.

My experience having done several client management studies with clients, is that jerks have friends ... who are also jerks. (Generalising, of course, but if you've got a solid enough business model you won't mind losing a few good clients if it means not dealing with a larger number of toxic clients.)

Best case study I did was with a branding agency. We got a list of their clients (about 100) and had the owner mark them each as Up, Down, or Neutral in terms of energy. We then had the team explore where each of the 'Down' clients (about 15) came from - half were from the Yellow Pages (again, using my experience, more price-oriented than service or quality) ... and the other half were referrals from the clients who came through the Yellow Pages!
Well, most railroad expansion was due to a govt act giving tons of land rights and other highly valuable privileges to anyone laying track in the territories - the TransContinental railroad was laid this way.

However, quite true on the rest.
wasn't the biggest issue with the first gnutella networks that search through flooding basically does not work? Is this somewhat accomodated by the fact that now we, well, can basically keep much larger databases?
I don't think so.
PLT Scheme was already moving away from R5RS. I think the renaming was to acknowledge that Racket isn't scheme.

That said, I believe the have implemented scheme in Racket. I think PG implemented Arc in it too. It also comes with Algol-68 I think.
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So you turned down a product because you failed to lie your way into getting a pro version?
I fail to see how turning down a one-off for a personal request makes a company bad at handling corporate customers.
I'm working on a (hopefully) potential solution to this right now. It may take me months upon months to complete, but if I ever finish it, I think you'll be somewhat impressed.
Then we can use visa.com to donate to wikileaks, and it establishes a precedent that it is okay for private companies to never censor their customers, even if the government thinks the customer is dubious.
I listen to talk radio from time to time, and it still gets me how uninformed some people can be at times. I heard one host talking about how Wikileaks hacked the US government, and sperading fear in the way of saying that the US could be hacked at any moment and we are screwed. Of course, the US Government and infrastructure could be (and probably has been, in the the past) hacked, but the Wikileaks problem is one of a LEAK from someone who had ACCESS to the cables.

I still don't know how I feel about the cable leaks and the war logs leaks, but I do know that the media is spinning this in the wrong direction, with some calling to have Assange arrested for espionage. If they are going to prosecute anyone, it should be the person who gave teh cables to WikiLeaks, as WikiLeaks is the medium that the cables were distributed. As Schneier points out, years ago, the newspaper would have leaked the information. Would the US gov't go after the NY Times if they were the ones leaking the cables?
>I've quit my account with them because I want this world to be a better place to live in, than being controlled by a bully who harass people.

So Wikileaks and Anon are not bullying people?
For a community-driven site without a clear statement of intent, 'having a number of upvotes' == 'fits the theme of the site', surely?

Personally I think articles about how to make more money are nothing to do with the hacker mindset, but I wouldn't even consider flagging them if other people found them interesting enough to upvote.
That has been the opposite of my experience. To a large extent, the government can't take IT security seriously, because they've outsourced it. There are smart people in and around the government but no coherent strategy. I don't want to get too specific but no DoD network I've seen or talked to people who ran ranks with the least of my financial services clients.
Doesn't Remember the Milk do exactly what you want? (not a user myself, but a friend is and he likes it a lot)
I've seen it, perhaps if I saw it again I'd have clue what you're on about?
First, you are assuming both parties are in the same country, and second, you think the provider would notice instantly, or charge ~$6 per minute until filtered.
If they took IT security seriously, it wouldn't be a checkbox in a Lockheed or SAIC contract.
I pass on consulting work if I have any strong feelings that the customer and I are not a good fit. Many years ago, I had a potential new customer spend a lot of time telling me about the problems he had with developers, mostly that they wanted to walk from his projects. I ended up accepting work from him anyway because he was a nice guy and interesting to talk with. It took me a few months to finish promised tasks and extricate myself from his project, becoming another "walker."

I have had experience of clearly being at fault also: twice I have let myself be talked into projects in tech areas where my experience was really thin, and within a short period of time, had to notify the two customers that I was not a good fit to their needs. I was very apologetic both times and obviously did not bill them, but they were out the time documenting the tasks for me.
It conflicts with Vrome extension keybindings.
Not that I'm opposed to private security forces or weapons ownership, but remember BlackWater et al are "private military/police - also known as mercs who are fully motivated by money. Even our police have loyalties to each other and their town - however stupidly they may act, they know they're not easily for hire.

Not sure...
Sounds incredibly boring. Just saying.
I meant client-side encryption of data before it is submitted to the server.
I don't come out with the same numbers. Seems to me:

Just over 3% of total are paying (160,000 / 5,000,000)
7.5% of total users are active users (that's in the article)

Still, they've built a $10,000,000 business (in regards to turnover, not profit or valuation of course) and that's darn impressive as well.
Surprisingly balanced article. Thanks for posting this link.
Because an app with that many users always has a chunk of dissatisfied users.
As long as wealth is earned without coercion by providing goods and services to others, why should you care if someone is using their wealth to "feel superior"? What moral justification is there to take away (through taxes or otherwise) the wealth of someone who has earned it through voluntary exchange? If you choose to work harder than me in providing things of value to others and you grow richer than me as a result, why should I (or a democratic government) then have a claim on your wealth?
We use dropobox pretty much as a "file server" at the office and my biggest issue has always been the lack of ability to assign permissions/roles. i'm glad they incorporated this much needed feature but at that price point there is a 0% chance we'll be upgrading. The attraction of dropbox, at least for myself and other small business/startups, seems to be the low cost of entry for

1) reliable and relatively secure backups

2) access over multiple computers, networks, devices

3) versioning

i only wish they had remembered the "low cost" part when adding the new functionality because at that price point it's better for me to just set up X number of s3 buckets and assign users/roles to each bucket and let them mount the drive via transmit 4 or sign up for jungledisk. yes, not as eloquent but it'll work for our needs.
What's a country where government positions are prestigious for reasons other than they're an opportunity to participate in bribery and corruption? (Switzerland?)
Routers don't do SYN proxying. SYNs are just regular packets and are passed along to a host.

FIREWALLs on the other hand, might use a SYN to make an entry in a table that's used to track connection state. That table might be overloaded by a SYN flood. Same thing applies to load balancers.

SYN cookies work just fine at the ENDPOINTs.
Can you provide links to the domains in question?
Do you have a debugger attached? I've found that Android's emulator is a bit slow, but not unreasonable; but then attaching Eclipse's debugger slows it down by two extra orders of magnitude, which makes it unusable,
The site started out as 'start-up news'.
Like I said in my last sentence, there is a difference between not paying suppliers and lying to customers, and using warez in a start-up. It's like saying that since I think downloading music is ok (I don't), I must also think killing people is ok (I also don't), because both of them are bad, and I justified doing one bad thing.

There are probably a whole bunch of morally ambiguous situations that aren't patently illegal to the extent your talking about. Would using warez software be illegal? Yes. But would it do any tangible harm to anyone else, as, for example, not paying suppliers for their services and products after you signed the sales contract, or not following compliance rules [which could cause a host of issues]? You might argue for the software companies that distribute the product and their lost profits, but if the choice is either 1)Pirate their software and use it or 2)use an alternative, there is not a hidden option that appears that says "3) Find money that doesn't exist and pay for the software right now!", so the loss of the sale of the products is, in a sense, never materialized to begin with.

Again, I am not advocating that "anything is justifiable if you need to catch up to the competition" (as I also said in my last lines of my last post), nor that using warez software is at all 100% permissible, especially in a start-up past the initial stages. I am saying, however, that I see scenarios where the situation could be at least partially justified, and I don't think every start-up that did it should be vilified as it seems like the comments in this whole thread implied. Perhaps not entirely condoned, but not vilified.
Doing that opens the system to being gamed easily. If the penalty is temporary, then a large number of logins can be acquired and scripted to enable down-voting cabals. If the penalty is permanent, then new accounts with sufficient karma would need to be "farmed."
Agreed - who hear has found how generous other founders are of their time, connections, etc.? Ever try to get a favor from ever a local politician? If you do, you get far less for far more - in my experience...
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People should really use @property syntax for accessors, unless they need finer control over what happens. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/...
I dunno. I enjoy a collaborative work environment.

I was sufficiently spooked by their environment that I choked on a little practical exam they had set up as part of the interview process.

Anyhow...I didn't get THAT job, but I did get a BETTER one. More money, more autonomy, more interesting work.

:)
HN does have downvotes actually. Once you hit 500 Karma you get access to downvoting
So I'm one of the co-founders of Skyara. We worked pretty hard to set up this event and would hate to see it go unnoticed. We actually haven't even met Ron ourselves and we're giving away a chance for a lucky startup to meet him so we think that's a big deal.

It's also supporting a good cause, the UCSF children's fund which we've been participating in, so check it out.

We would also like some feedback on any other interesting experiences you guys would like to see on our site. We promise we'll try to get them listed for you.
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The cow cannot exist in nature.

umm, yes it can http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs

and Aurochs originated in India, where cultural tradition prohibits using them for meat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_in_religion

The cow was possibly revered because the largely pastoral Vedic people and subsequent generations relied heavily on it for dairy products and for tilling the fields, and on cow dung as a source of fuel, fertilizer, and psilocybin mushrooms which naturally grow out of the animal's own excrement.
Well, I worked for Arbor, and while it's true that you can readily block packet-y attacks even from a million sources (as long as you can characterize the attack), you're kind of missing 'jrockway's point.

During the Olympics in Korea, which Arbor ran DDoS protection for, attackers set up web pages that simply directed hundreds of thousands of computers at URLs on the MSNBC sites. How are you going to filter against that? If you have a botnet, you can saturate a target with totally legitimate traffic.

You can talk all you want about anomaly detection and attack characterization, but if your attacker has a botnet that generates totally legitimate traffic patterns, you have a very hard problem to solve. It isn't intractable, but probably will require code changes to your application to address.

A lot of anti-DDoS gear that gets sold to enterprises is snake oil. Most companies aren't in a position to filter their own traffic.
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I'm sorry, but do you honestly think this is anymore than a bunch of angry teenagers who will be bored in a week? Look back on every other instance of "Anon" "protesting" and work out what has changed. Please do show what they've actually done beyond cause minor temporary disruption, it just so happens that this time the minor disruption has real world repercussions and is hurting businesses. The people who are responsible for this are those in US government, I think it's pathetic companies like Visa, Paypal and Mastercard are being attacked when they've done nothing wrong, it's the US government at fault but they're "untouchable" to these angsty teenagers so they do the thing they always do and attack the weakest targets.

Give it a week and nobody will remember any of this, besides the businesses that lost money.
In order of appearance

- Logo/hypercard. My highschool doens't even own a pc at this point as I command the turtle around

- True Basic. Fast forward to the line-number free future. Also the birth of my first project, an implementation of ELISA.

- Pascal. Let there be types! Also runs on a computer I can actually buy myself so I am no longer dependent on daddies apple. Also the first language my dad doesn't know. Both important factors if you are 14.

- VHDL. Wow so this is how my VCR works.

- Miranda. Met a hacker who managed to make pacman with it.

- Assembler/C. Wow so this is how my computer actually works

- Java. super('let there be objects')

- PHP, breading ground of the "read php.net - code a zillion lines - eat pretzel" SE methodology. Also pays bills.

- Matlab. Working with images never was easier. Nurses unique coding skills through skillful (miss) use of find or cumprod.

- Python. New found partner, we are in the exiting and slightly scary 'getting to know each other" period
It should continue to exist, in case someone does have something worthwhile to release. But in this case it was hardly worth it. Except for the secret sites, that WAS irresponsible. The acceptable principle of the site does not exempt its operators from the law of developed countries, and will obviously subject them to the lawlessness of undeveloped ones.

Now they're threatening to take down twitter (who don't need any help in doing that!) because they are percieved to be preventing 'wikileaks' from trending. Looks increasingly like a load of kids with a ddos hammer seeing enticing nails everywhere.
Although I generally agree with your comment, I disagree that the process only detects large corporate customers. In fact, I've seen plenty of small customers who for whatever reason act like a large corporate customer, but instead of bringing 80% of revenue end up bringing nothing more than support overhead.

These are also the guys who either slander you online or at least threaten to do so. These are also the entitled customers who tend to think you have infinite resources to throw at them. In my experience, large corporate customers were more understanding to having to draw the line somewhere than small irate ones.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Google make an IDE?
Google seems to be releasing a lot of products with a goal of speeding up the web. So why not make an IDE?
That fee seems a little excessive. I can see wanted an amount high enough to offset any disruption cause by the merge and then breakup, but that number is quite a bit higher than the disruption that would be caused, I'd think.
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Python taught me about list comprehensions and bound methods.

I've never played with Python before, and I'm trying and failing to understand what bound methods are. Could anyone explain them?
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Well, if this proves anything, it proves that not even three languages cover every problem.

Which is strange. In most other endeavors you'd think being fluent in three similar ways of doing something would be enough.

FWIW, I'd choose Lisp, Javascript, and C. But I'd be writing an assembler as my first project and a database interaction language as my next. And now that I think about it, my database language would look nothing like SQL...
Yeah, that reminds me of the recent story on how most crosswalk buttons don't actually do anything.
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Articles, not comments.
That's downvoting on comments - not on articles.
The question needs more context, like"
"if you could only... to get a good job"
"if you could only... to understand the roots of programming"
etc..

For example, to have a better understanding of programming I would chose 3 different paradigms:
- an object oriented language. eg: Smalltalk
- a logic language. eg: Prolog
- a functional language. eg: Haskell

But if I would want to get a good job I would chose Java, C# and Objective-C
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anyone know why they raised the downvote option from 200 karma to 500?

I miss my down arrow :(
Interesting product. Care to share any details on the backend? Presumably a lot of crawling was required to get content? And what were you using NLP for - to understand the context of a keyword/filter match?
Agreed about the name. my first thought was http://www.zombo.com/
Ahh, you are correct. Sorry about the confusion there
That's only for articles. The author, jacquesm has over 45,000 karma and would probably have mentioned here it if he had a down arrow for articles.
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http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/performance/wikileak...

sites will be up AND down simultaneously for different people. That's what happens when they're overloaded.
When it starts to defend itself against us. Of course it may be too late by then (for us I mean).
Wuala dev here. I just wanted to let you know that we have fixed some of the issues you have mentioned. We'll switch to CBFS as file system driver shortly (that's the same driver SugerSync is using AFAIK). However, this is still a kernel driver. Unfortunately, Windows provides no other way to mount a custom file system. DropBox just syncs an existing folder, but that does not scale to large amounts of data. For example, if you have 100 GB of data online, you cannot sync it to your notebook with a 60GB disk. On the other hand, the dropbox approach is simpler. Delta-uploads (achieved with block-level-deduplication) are planned for spring. You can also disable seeing the public groups in the options now. Also, the UI (which is SWT and not Swing btw) got more light-weight and simpler with the August update. We are not as fast with many things as we'd like to be, but there certainly is progress.
I like how he doesn't have time to answer his email, but he has time to write a pointless blog post about not having time to answer his email.
You could use phing.

Here is an older article...
http://www.davedevelopment.co.uk/2008/04/14/how-to-simple-da...
This survey is for 3 new languages. Wouldn't it be more interesting to see what 3 languages people would pick if they could only work with the three they chose? Basically, what, in your mind, are the three most essential languages?
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grandalf has a fair (if self-interested) point. He's not gonna contract malaria and neither am I. But I'd kinda like a phone battery that lasts a month.
Except maintain anything you just wrote.
But it's not the same as building an IDE from scratch.
>Give it a week and nobody will remember any of this

That's the tragedy not

>besides the businesses that lost money.

Nobody cares about citizenship or rights anymore. Just money.
Actually, there might be a market for some kind of tool to help enterprises gather software requirements, create shortlist of candidate vendors and allow the vendors to reply online.
Now you're just showing off ;)
Absolutely - in Hans Rosling's famous TED speech, he mentions how public health is the most important thing regarding a countries economic growth and well being.
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Well I'd be willing to give you a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs for, say, 0.1% of the company. So yes.
It's a really, really neat idea. I think it would be helpful to have an obvious "How does it work?" link on the home page, though - I started looking around at the navigation and got sort of distracted by the lingo.
There's an inherent assumption in this though that 'digital natives' will survive the process for long enough to get themselves elected though. We all routinely filter out all sorts of little oddities about life because they're 'just the way it's always been', 'it has to be this way for safety' or whatever.

If that generation has enough of these views hard-wired into their understanding, _now_ could be the high-water mark for understanding of the dangers and appropriate reactions.
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Each time one of these "surveys" comes up I am surprised by the number of Python vs Ruby responses. It seems to always be 3 to 1 in favor of Python while I had thought the usage was more like 50/50.
Btw: If you still can reproduce the MD5 issue in the current version, could you report it to bugs.wuala.com or send me a message?
Which if it's enough businesses loose money might be a lot of people.

I'm completely opposed to these actions, but I've got to say that causing financial losses is a fairly effective protest.
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