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Filtering of DDoS attacks is moving into the network. The days of sorting attack traffic at the destination have always been numbered.

Current best practice has been to use technologies like FLOWSPEC to get the traffic off the network much closer to the origin.
Nice to see I'm not the only EA MIT-hopeful on HN! :-)

I like what you did. It's cool to make the stressful process a bit social. I understand there's not exactly a ton of data to work with, though.

As a general rule with bookmarklets, however, it's good to put the bulk of the source in an external file that you can update: not only does it make the bookmark smaller, but it also allows you to push updates seemlessly.

By the way, I was really impressed that they sent out an an email exactly (down to the minute) 1 week before the decision date. They said they'd give us a week's notice, but who knew it'd be so precise... All of this is causing way too much anxiety.

Good luck!
I never said that you outsmarted them

Right you did not, that was mentioned in another post you did however say that "how stupid of them to not give me a discount" so I carried over the outsmarted perception because they where similar. If it appeared that I put words in your mouth I apologize it was not my intent.

Whether that's their fault or not, you might want to consider changing your writing to avoid this

Point taken, I am well aware of the fact that I did not communicate the story well, that or I see the world different from other developer in either case. I think this thread chain serves as evidence to that fact. It is not in dispute.

Not that it amounts to a hill of beans, but it was already a long post, I trimmed it to shorten it, I think in doing so, I omitted some important details. Further I tried very hard to not inject the developers response, because I did not want to bias the intent of my post with charged rhetoric, I also omitted that I ended up paying full price to the alternate, which I think further slanted the perception that my decision was based merely on not getting my way for a non-standard request.
> that only left myself as the scam artist and I knew I wasn’t trying to cheat anyone, so that took care of that concern.

Er, yes you are. You are causing a bunch of people to do a bunch of work producing no useful value for your own enrichment. Sounds like a scam to me; even if it's technically legal, it's still unethical.

There are really two scams going on here. One is the credit card companies charging merchants fees and passing some of the money on to their customers in order to incentive the use of the cards. This eats into the profit margins of the merchants, who don't have much power to refuse credit card payments because the guy down the street/other store on the web will accept them.

The other is using a credit card to buy cash, deposit it, and collect the rewards. Those rewards are coming out of merchant fees that the mint is paying; you're basically just having the mint pay you to give some extra work to your bank to sort out the coins. And of course, you're abusing the good will of you bank, who's (probably) sorting out those coins for free, which you just have on credit and are doing nothing of value with, and will not be deposited in your account long enough to be worth anything to the bank in interest.

So yeah, it's a scam, and you're the scammer. This is not something to be proud of. Go produce something of value, that someone will pay you money for; don't try to find clever ways to get "free money," since anything that involves "free money" is either a charity or a scam on someones part.
You can't go wrong with blood on concrete, though!

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Likewise :) Yes, I actually tried a load-script-into-head bookmarklet, but it didn't seem to want to work on chrome (though it worked on safari). If you can get a snippet working, I'd gladly implement it.

Good luck to you too!
California too I think, if you're collecting personally identifiable information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Privacy_Protection_Act
I interviewed at a bunch of places and only got two offers. One of the places I interviewed and failed was Microsoft. They had the interviews throughout the day (about 4 of them), and then after that they had an HR person give you the good or bad news.

(It's worth saying that the developers I interviewed with were really outstanding. They were in the Dev Tools group (CLR, Visual Studio, etc.) and were really sharp).

Anyway, I got pulled out, and the woman gave me "the bad news," and the typical HR lines about "not a good fit at this time," and, "we encourage you to apply again later." And then, out of nowhere, she throws out "And you should definitely take a close look at yourself to figure out how you could be better."

The reason I tell this story is to point out that "helpful feedback" is absolutely useless when not actually helpful. Having an HR person (who had, up to that point, been totally disconnected from the whole process), come and give me some "helpful tips" wasted her time and mine.

I also interviewed with Meebo (which was actually a pretty interesting interview, and the people there were pretty cool). I met with the HR guy at the end of the day, and he tried to talk me into doing an internship instead, because I'd be competing with people with "years of experience." I told him I already had some offers and I wasn't interested in an internship. Later, when he emailed to "give me the bad news," he said "we're going with another candidate, but enjoy your summer at Company X!" I'd say this loosely qualifies as rejecting me like an asshole.

I ended up with offers from Facebook and Google though, so life goes on :)
Not quite sure why this is being downvoted but let me put my more "politically correct" hat on.

I don't feel strongly with the presence of the word hack in the same line with engineering. They just don't gel.

I rarely and hardly seen any engineers pulling one-nighter writing code with lack of automation tests. I see a lot of young hackers do that.

I would strongly suggest the downvoters go to InfoQ.com and search for Aditya's presentation regarding Facebook engineering to understand the issues arise for having a "hacker" culture.

And I'm telling you the fact that Facebook albums have had UI bugs; they frequently re-appear after what I felt is a re-deploy of their updates/newer versions of the website

Back button doesn't necessarily work sometime

One can see other people pictures but can't see their album (can't click the "photo" link but can click the photo in their profile page)

On iPhone, often one can't see "more..." pictures.

When I say those bugs in Facebook albums are exceptions, I truly mean it. Facebook can have buggy code yet they probably won't get penalized by their user. None of their user fled for other social networking sites.
Hm, blood on red does look good. I might change it then, soon.
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It's worth noting that this (reduction in the efficiency of internal communications) is exactly what Assange wanted:

The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive “secrecy tax”) and consequent system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption.

http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-an...
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> If the secret files are really so wide open that they're just counting on people not being able to take them, then there's some much larger problems that they better start addressing.

It's a hard problem. Before 9/11, "the secret files" were locked down tightly, and every branch of the federal government that kept such files kept almost all of them separately; they were subsequently inaccessible to every other branch. The intelligence and law enforcement agencies came under harsh criticism following 9/11 — since information sharing was so limited, it was very difficult to correlate data and properly address targets and threats. The response was to pool a LOT more data than was previously available in one place on SIPRNet, which is accessible to intelligence agents, the State Department, the various military branches, federal and state law enforcement, and even some non-US allies. The truth is that the only files leaked to Wikileaks were not considered to be particularly important, had the lowest level of classification, and were accessible to (and could be easily shared by) over 3 million people.

The response will unfortunately be to lock down information sharing yet again, increasing the likelihood of intelligence and response failures in the future. Most of the federal government and idiot, grandstanding congressmen made the cable leaks into a much bigger event than it would have otherwise been had they not overreacted and simply "kept calm and carried on", and the US will face the self-inflicted consequences.

Secretary Gates had it right when he noted early on that, "I’ve heard the impact of these releases on our foreign policy described as a meltdown, as a game-changer, and so on. I think those descriptions are fairly significantly overwrought."

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/gates-on-leaks...
I was surely not pointing at their pride or natural tendency to use the timezone they live in. I was talking from the point of view of target customers as it's pitched at a larger audience. The same reason why they used USD for the price.
You can add my vote to, "Clients pay for my shits". They also pay for me reading Reddit and YComb. Honestly, 15 minutes isn't going to break any billing you have. Now, if you happen to take a lot of "breaks", you may want to stick with your current system. I'm a one "break" a day kind of guy...
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I'm looking to get into a mobile market for application development to make money. Which platform is better?

I'm experienced in PHP, Ruby, SQL, CSS, HTML, Javascript, jQuery, Java and ColdFusion.

I have all the tools for Apple dev: iPod Touch, Macbook and iOS SDK. But I also have a few other machines that run Windows and Linux. All my platforms have the JavaSDK and Eclipse.

What's the best place to start? Right now I'm leaning towards Android because it's a "developing market", Java based and open. But it's also fragmented unlike Apple.
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You do load in jquery, why not replace that script URL with your bookmarklet script?

Script tags aren't subject to cross-domain policies, so you shouldn't have trouble there. Plus, if they were, you would have seen issues alread.
When I worked on Wall Street all of our Desktops literally had the USB ports ripped out. I'm really surprised the military doesn't do something like this...
As an aside, I didn't realize TJ was part of the learn-boost team. Does anyone know how long he has been with them?
I think the issue is that there isn't any feedback when you take a screenshot. You have to take the screenshot and then open the file browser to see it.

The other issue Danny was encountering was that Wordpress uses a flash based file upload widget. When flash opens a choose file dialog it opens a GTK-like full system browser. The standard Chrome OS file browser that comes up when you hit a HTML file input is much simpler and would've made the screenshots easier to find.
I tried loading the script, but what happened in Chrome is that the whole page was replaced with the url to the script. In Safari, on the other hand, it worked perfectly.
This is indeed a very appealing option. Right now, our intention is to sell to retailers directly as an onsite engagement and traffic-building tool. Depending on the business model that we decide to pursue, we will consider your suggestion.
I have a question about homomorphic encryption and information leakage.

Do I have this right: A homomorphic encryption is a function

e :: P -> C

between groups (P, -) and (C, +), where P is the set of plaintext and C is the set of gibberish and -, + are the respective group operations in either space, such that e is a homomorphism in the group theoretic sense?

Because if so, the following basic properties must hold:

e(id_P) === id_C
e(inv(p)) === inv(e(p))

Suppose you are a malicious cloud services provider and you are manipulating encrypted data. Couldn't you use these group properties to make much more informed observations about the encrypted data without ever having to decrypt it?

A very simple example: as a malicious cloud services provider, if you see a bunch of gibberish strings x, y1, y2 ... yn, and it turns out that x + y1 == y1, x + y2 == y2, ... x + yn == yn, wouldn't you at least have a sneaking suspicion, that x is the identity element? And in the situation where you could potentially make very damaging (to the other party) decisions based on this information, it would seem to defeat the purpose of homomorphic encryption.

Moreover, recall that the cloud services provider is technically also allowed to run any additional set of calculations using the group operation on the data you give it, not just those you provided. It seems that, in general, even with very unstructured data you could use the properties of homomorphisms to de-anonymize data very easily.

How is this issue addressed?
Some thoughts:

It's a little odd that it wouldn't allow you to install Chrome extensions from outside of the market

The external harddrives probably DID work, and would show him images if he used something that required browsing for them

As much as I hate to admit it, he's right about iTunes. Who with an iP{{o,a}d,oop} would be able to use this thing alone as primary pc?

How do floating pop up type windows work? I.e. clicking the pop out button on google chat, or hulu

For a web-centric machine, those 3g plans seem a little towards the expensive side, with pretty low data allowances. But on the other hand, I don't really know how many bytes "regular browsing" accumulates in a month.
I think the most frequent complaint of mine is unprofessionalism on the end of the company in getting back to the candidates. It's pretty much being an asshole to not get back to the candidate who takes the time to come and interview with them. I understand that they may have many a people applying for positions and this and that but there are some common courtesies. And I'm not even talking about a hyper competitive job where hundreds apply for a few positions. This has happened when I was one of the 2 people considered for the position and what not. This one time I got an email from HR after a couple of months of interviewing asking me if I was still interested in the position etc.
Both Inconsolata and Consolas seem to look nice on Ubuntus default rendering (though Consolas only seems to look okay on a dark background).

I personally use Inconsolata.
I've seen them epoxyed all to hell as well.
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I don't know what it is about these clips, but they're so much more watchable than the real news clips on TV. I'd happily replace all our prime-time news with these videos!
I've seen that. The first time you see it you're like "what the hell is on the computer". Looks a bit like a mix of hot glue and earwax (at least what I saw).
Yes, I know. It still doesn't make me want to love his web framework though.
I need regular confirmation that some people really are slower. My whole life, I've refused to really believe in intelligence. Although I loved the attention of being the 'smart kid', I've always insisted that I just liked reading and puzzles and things, and if anyone else spent as much time reading and writing as I did, they'd be pretty smart too. Of course, some people really don't like reading the kind of nonsense that I do and all the other stuff that comes with it, and it might be more than just preference.

I might really enjoy slam-dunking basketballs if I just did it more, but there is a really good chance that its never gonna happen, no matter how much I try.

This is a fact of life that I'm often unwilling to admit. I'm sure that contributes to the impatience a lot of people feel, we have very little empathy for people who don't comprehend and analyze the same way that we do. Where would that empathy come from? Analogous experience with slam dunks, maybe.
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There aren't any rules, but the feelings are usually strong ones. Consider the piece of rock in the article. It weighs tons, and has resisted gravity for centuries, so it would take horrible luck for it to fall off while someone was climbing it. On the other hand, no one would plan to fall on it - not even the guy who climbed it.
Napoleon practiced what is now known as Maneuver Warfare.
John Boyd - the guy who originated maneuver warfare formally studied spent his life learning this stuff. Patterns of conflict was a study of 2500 years of conflict and includes Napoleons campaigns.

The current startup culture of fast iteration is a very weak version of what Boyd produced. I'd advise anyone starting or running a business to read up on the subject Boyds' work will tell you what you can and cannot achieve and how to go about doing it.

http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2003/02/08/oodaAndB...
It does actually have a terminal and you can open up a ssh session to an outside computer, so maybe sysadmin isn't too much of a stretch :)
I completely agree the ICFP contest matches real-world problems better. I can't recommend it enough. The longer timeframe requires discipline and good planning, while also providing a bit of a buffer for early (minor) mistakes.

Having a strong and well organized team is huge. You'll learn a lot about your teammates in the process, both behaviorally and technically. However, I've had to go solo the last two years and still enjoyed it immensely - it just changes how you prioritize some of the development.
I guess, but I don't want to run into the 1KB index size per row limit in MySQL (unless that has changed without me knowing) either and I have other fields I want to index as well.
Fairly interesting, but a bit surprised that he missed one of the most surprising elements of Napolean's innovations: canned food. Modern war is largely a question of logistics, and canned goods (over foraging) gave them the ability to keep food edible longer over greater distance. Of course, not even canned food could give them victory over the russian winter.
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In my less socially adept days, I would have loved that. A sort of dating exit interview? Yes please.
there is another source telling that they sold out 30 million downloads /year. so the profit must be really high.
The GCJ was google's spin off from the standard TopCoder algorithm competitions (see http://topcoder.com/tc). In fact the first two GCJs were run by TopCoder before Google decided they wanted to run it themselves. I suspect the Hacker Cup is also being run by TopCoder.
I agree with you that it doesn't seem much. However, it looks like an easy way to get the frequent flyer bonuses discussed in that other thread :)
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using this as a proxy of whether he or she will be flexible and helpful on a larger order is stupid. Because you entered the door as a cut rate single license purchaser, and used that as a proxy to evaluate the vendor providing bulk services.

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp You can embed a lot of reason into a non-standard request. Some times it can serve as an indication as to attention to detail. We can argue the merits, but it has worked for me and it is not uncommon. The above link is probably the mother of all non-standard requests and it served a very specific purpose. I think there is value in it, as well there are several renowned, well respected and published negotiators who lend credibility to effectiveness of the practice.
Good pivot.
Allow me to point out that anti-democratic in the context of the times (and especially Wellington) really means pro-monarchy. In other words, not for the oppression of the people that anti-democracy perhaps implies to the modern reader, but instead that monarchy is a better, more beneficial system for the people.
The ICPC is fairly different in format though. For one, it's always team-based, and usually has much harder problems since the entrants are always university-level students who have taken advanced algorithms courses. I've participated in both TopCoder contests and the ICPC and the GCJ/HackerCup are definitely TopCoder-style rather than ICPC.
Let's see how many anons go from downloading and running LOIC to analyzing documents and uploading audio on Youtube.
Reminds of this classic Kuro5hin account of seeking hookworm infection as an asthma treatment:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971
That's some fine company to be a part of: Lady Gaga, Beck, Obama, Robert Gates(!), Unemployed Americans, lol. What a joke. Assange should be partying with Rumsfeld and Miley Cyrus. I think we're all being played by this dubious character, Assange.
I agree about the lawyer comment. At minimum, get an opinion. Secondarily, you can also negotiate to pay only based on success. So, you don't pay unless you win. It's a fairly common practice, expecially if you've got a good case.

Best of luck,
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> I think much greater harm is caused longterm by the permanent restriction of funding for Wikileaks than is caused by temporary DDoS'ing MC, Visa, and Paypal.

That makes sense only if MC, Visa, and Paypal have an obligation to help Wikileaks receive funding.

Do they? Why? Who else has that obligation? (Does discover have that obligation? How about Google Checkout?) How do we know?
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Completely agree - take the time, even if it's a standard no thank you email, to get back to the candidate. There are plenty of companies that do this, and while I can take the rejection without any hard feelings if that is the outcome, I will lose respect for the company when no response is given.
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Yes, different cards charge merchants different amounts. It's generally somewhere around 25 cents per transaction plus between 1.5 and 4.5 percent depending on the specific card being used.
javery and I basically pair program during our TekPub recordings, using SharedView and Skype. The hosting SharedView user has asymmetrically better control of the editor, but it still works out great for us.

Not quite the same as a collaborative editor, but similar.
Dunno about science, but this seems like it may actually further wikileaks' goals, as opposed to attacking corporations that are only defending themselves legally.
“Crew resource management” (there’s a good Wikipedia article on it) is another interesting application of Boyd’s ideas. In a nutshell, it’s the training that cockpit crews use to make decisions in quickly-changing environments like emergencies. It has the advantage of lots and lots of testing, which not all Boyd’s ideas do.
Much better Anon, much better.