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Having been on both side of the enterprise sales process I think this is a remarkably insightful post. A lot of this goes to explain why enterprise software often needs to be quite expensive - you have to pay for a lot of time and effort from sales and technical pre-sales people hand-holding potential customers and helping them through their software purchasing process.

[Edit: I didn't notice who wrote that comment before replying!]
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Do you have people using it yet? Do you have paying customers? If not, why not?

Asking people here might get you useful info, but getting the target audience to use it would yield better results. To some extent there's probably overlap between HN readers and your audience, but I bet there's a lot of non-overlap (underlap?)

Have you tried getting feedback from people via something like http://fivesecondtest.com/ ?

Conceptually as an idea it's got some merit (this was one of the project areas I was looking at for February). But I'm not your target audience :)
Lisa Assembler: I was really young and only capable of typing in examples from the manual and books I had taken out of the library. I liked the pre-made graphics routines best.

GWBASIC/QBASIC: I had lots of fun making games with these languages. It was very easy to conceptualize a program as a sequence of steps at that age.

C/C++: I'd bought one of those "Learn to Program Games in 24 Hours" books. It took a little longer than that with school and everything, but my friends thought it was pretty cool.

Perl: Wow. You changed everything. I started to think about programming as a language rather than a set of formal instructions. I had a lot of fun making games, bots, and my first "web log" script.

PHP: I had given up programming for a while when I decided I wanted to get into music. But when that failed I was able to pick you up and walk into a job that really turned things around for me and kicked off my career. You were really easy to learn.

Python: You introduced me to concepts I hadn't heard of before in a way that was approachable.

Lisp: You spoiled me. I love conditions and restarts, CLOS, and real symbolic debugging. I come home to you after a long day of work and smile. You make programming fun.
I would add - as a buyer (and possibly someone who's hell to a sales guy) - I usually ask to be put in touch with a sales engineer, and if he can't handle me, I very nicely explain I'd like to talk to the developers to get a feel for their product - because the devil is often in the details.

EDIT: Also worth noting - there is value in recognizing a customer you can't handle (whether or not you should be able to isn't relevant) - and then following up later to find out how things worked out for them so you can find out if you screwed up an opportunity.
You're right there's a market for integrating it with CRM, at one of my previous employers we had an automated CRM system (built in-house) which scanned you email and on your homepage automatically told you any news stories related to your contacts.

(I think they did this by converting email -> domain -> domain to ticker symbol -> ticker symbol to news feed rather than any sophisticated NLP thought)

Personally I'd be more worried about legal issues than profit margin for a service like this.
"Concurrent Development" sounds like "multiple people working on the same code at the same time". For which you need a good version control system, not a feature of the language.

If the code is concurrent, not the development, could we please have that in the title?
I'd recommend writing a toy operating system, there are many tutorials online. That will give you a good start. I wrote a small x86 kernel many years ago following online tutorials. It's great fun. You'll learn a lot from doing.

Since you are at university ask around for a professor that teaches or is an expert in Operating Systems and seek his advice. That's why [s]he is there.
If they don't emit any energy of their own, they are undetectable. Unless I'm missing something. You cannot passively detect another passive receiver.
I use it only for spam articles. I don't believe I am able to judge what fits the "theme" of the site. As I see it, if you hang out here, you are a "hacker" by some definition. Stories are submitted, and if you find it interesting, you upvote them. If nobody upvotes a story, it is uninteresting to everyone and it dies out in about an hour (how long it takes to leave the first page of the New section). If it is uninteresting to me, I would be inclined to flag it since I don't think it fits my definition of the site, but I restrain myself since other upvotes mean that it is interesting to some (possibly quite large) subset of this community. I can't decide that ahead of time. All I can do is not deprive others of the opportunity to upvote a story before it gets killed.
Yay! Looks cool! Now to wait 20 years for it to be implemented commercially.
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Yes, but instead of seizing MC/Visa's assets, the government can treat the companies unfairly in arbitrary antitrust lawsuits, not protect the companies from unjust foreign action, and pass regulations that limit the abilities of the companies to earn a profit. None of these would piss off 80% of voters, but could be significantly damaging to Mastercard and Visa.
Except Bill Gates isn't just throwing money at problems and producing no real value. You may not be seeing the benefits of his work directly, but he is making a real difference, and I'd be willing to bet, through his work, employing far more people who work to pull people up rather than merely advancing the advanced.

Edit: I'm not against people advancing the human race mind you (advancing the advanced). However, neither is Bill Gates merely handing out money. He's teaching men to fish, rather than simply giving them fillets.
http://linuxgazette.net/77/krishnakumar.html

just with a little google. :)
Custom solutions means consulting fees. And if it is a big company or organization you are selling to, once they've decided on you product, you can more or less make up any number you want and they'll keep paying since it is far less work than going through a new round of purchasing.
The question is why do you want people to take leaps, small or big, in things which don't matter? Outsourcing research is a pretty big leap of faith, better focus on convincing people on that one.

Do you have an email address I can write to you at? I'd like to discuss some collaboration options if you are interested.
For example:

http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~kohler/class/10f-aos/
More interesting is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion... , which explains why the page was deleted. A number of votes for deletion on that page either implicitly mention or explicitly link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:LINKFARM , complaining that the list was not a real article, but just a bunch of links of mirrors of the same site.

It is also worth noting that the list of mirrors at http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html is still linked from the main WikiLeaks wikipedia article.
Of which Buffet owns several. Which may or may not play a role in his support.
This is somewhat frustrating to me. I understand why it's there, but I hate having to be in fear of being tossed out when I'm genuinely trying to improve the site. I really think people who trip a detector should be notified of it so they can understand why. Failing to notify seems like a DRM-type move: basing a decision on preventing abuse rather than empowering honest users.
I'd have thought you could counter-attack? Assuming that the bots have poor security and so have been compromised - I guess that the botnet could be hardened before use to mitigate against this.

Do any ISPs profile their clients to test for bots?
Super response.

I've known Mark from long ago in Toronto and he's pretty solid.
I think you've watched 'Fight Club' too many times.
A corollary from these stats is that their active user base is about 1/3 of the total.

That's pretty darn impressive, if it's accurate.
There are only two camps in this debate: cut taxes (to grow the economy and increase gov revenue) vs. increase taxes (to directly increase gov revenue). There is almost no talk about the underlying problem: spending.
I was the lead developer on Arbor Peakflow DoS (not the traffic scrubber they acquired from Ellacoya; the NetFlow analysis engine) and then a product manager at Arbor. This is fine advice if you're an Internet service provider (except that virtually every ISP has already taken that advice). But if you're buying connectivity, the Arbor box isn't going to do you any good; your links are going to be saturated before the scrubber can do anything about it.
I think it makes more sense to focus it on industries where looks or verbal communication skills matter a lot, such as teaching, modeling, selling, etc.
Yeah, it's hard to speculate as to what's going on, because we are not Paypal or Mastercard. Maybe someone from Anonymous works there and changed their uplink media to 10BaseT :)

So about the SYN floods you see in real life, how do those work? Do routers not do SYN proxying for the servers behind them? Do SYN cookies not work? Are sequence numbers being forged? Is the link saturated? Something else?
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Of course, The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure is far too offensive to be sold on Amazon.
Could you counter equally naively, does a single IP need to hit your site more than a couple of times in 10mins, say?

Still even an simple test could be too slow to counter a big enough attack.
Right.

It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to solicit users. Finding potential customers is as easy as opening Craigslist. Granted, getting one of them to bite may be tough, but if none of them do, that's probably the feedback you need. This concept should work well as a bootstrapped, iterative start-up. All you need is one business who will use your product to get responses from their Craigslist ad.
Could not be any more right. Right now the media (fox) and many shitty government officials are on a witchhunt. At the moment its wikileaks. But fear not my young friends, if the information in wikileaks was to be nicely piled into a BT download complete with a UI which is download and read, then it would be bittorrent -- the unamerican enemy. They just want to pin the blame.
> You cannot passively detect another passive receiver.

In general, there isn't really such a thing as a passive receiver. The typical radar receiver design will downmix the incoming signal to some lower frequency (IF) using its 'local oscillator'. Some of the energy from this oscillator will leak out of the receiver and be detectable. This is only one of several possibilities for detecting receivers.

So no, not undetectable, but much harder than detecting an active transmitter.
Also, people were literally starving to death. In the words of my awesome European History teacher, "Happy meals were 18 dollars."

I think that makes a big difference. Nobody is going to start a revolution if they have enough to eat and a place to live.
1. Thanks for the recommendation, duly noted

2. Yes, seems to be the most common recommendation

3. Any ideas how you'd get this to happen?

4. I thought it would be used by primarily by college students wanting to make some cash and by companies seeking to outsource extra/menial work
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I thought zombies were usually compromized Windows boxes. This article says they're mostly linux. If that's the case, why so many friggin' Windows viruses?
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Yet since his wealth is from his ownership stake a company that has yet to list on the stock market, much of that wealth is theoretical at this point.
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Not to mention "a series of confidential, revenue-generating partnerships."
That's exactly how I remember it too

ln -s 'the one that exists' 'the one that doesnt exist'

I actually say that to myself as I'm typing the command. Since I started doing that, I've never gotten it wrong.
I don't follow your train of thought. Why would a stat $800k revenues per month make you conclude that users must be quite dissatisfied?
It has little to do with anonymity (although it's close to ‘Anonymous‘ approach): they do it to force journalists of the “factual” part of the magazine to accept that they are part of a redaction; see:
http://www.economist.com/about/about_economist.cfm
That “lack of by-line” allows them to have a tone and yet, not be the Opinion pages; it seems to work.

They have a public list of their journalists (or at least, their work):
http://www.economist.com/mediadirectory/books.cfm
and staff can publicly say they work there.

A friend of mine works there (or interns, not sure); she post on Facebook and twitter the papers that she wrote, or the video that she shot, but she also includes other papers that she really liked. I'm assuming the official policy is stricter, but what she does is rather implicit, that only a handful of people notice (and presumably mostly other journalists that help with her ‘beat‘). So far, she has defended, sincerely, every paper that I criticized (I go after The Economist a lot) — most of them quite far from her beat (I'm closer to the Economist's line when it comes to the topics that she covers).
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Dojo is a great toolkit that could use more evangelism. Showing separate sites like this necessitates some kind of frames, I thought this was a pretty good use of them.
Wow, this is the first site I've seen to use frames in about 10 years!
It was an interesting read until I found the publishing date in the footer...
Not only am I unable to choose, I can think of nothing else since I've read this.
For anyone interested in this topic, 'Fatal System Error' is a pretty good non-fiction book that tells a LOT of great DDoS war stories:

http://www.amazon.com/Fatal-System-Error-Bringing-Internet/d...

Good read, IMHO.
If you find a better alternative, let us all know.
I highly recommend "Operating Systems: Design & Implementation" by Tanenbaum. It is a very clear book dealing with a lot of design and implementation details of operating systems. It has an in depth discussion of the Minix source and design decisions made. Now Minix does not have such a large user base as Linux, but in my kernel hacking experience in both Minix and Linux so far the Minix sources are far more pleasant to hack on.
I fully agree with this, wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a resource for listings of mirror sites of any kind.

I understand the sentiment but this starts to smack of 'if you're not with us you're against us' and that is exactly the wrong attitude to take.

A single link to an external list on the wikikeaks main page is more than enough, and that could be to a list that is dynamic rather than one that needs constant updates to keep it current.
Government redistribution can have in well-run countries handling cost around 3-5%; too many charities are closer to 15%.

The charity costs include publicity and fundraising drives. To make apples-to-apples comparison you'd have to include the cost of the IRS infrastructure and the cost to society of the entire tax collection and avoidance machine.

Government handles essential concerns

That this is not self-evident is, well, self-evident. Much criticism of government spending is around governments focussing on whatever lobby yells loudest, while charities are market driven: i.e. they fill actual needs that someone sees in the community.

A lot of local leaders in Africa have criticized the B&M Gates Foundation for being too disruptive for the good of beneficiaries.

A lot of local leaders in Africa do considerably less well under a privately allocated distribution than they do from government aid.
I agree with you that the parallels were… creative —— but I've been one the wrong end of publication once, and it can be close to a DDoS. You can't respond, whatever the journalist misunderstood is the Word of God, and if he wake up on the wrong foot, it feels very much like a mob —— the paper actually triggered a crowd of 15 to beat me.
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I don't think is really an issue to be honest, whatever your viewpoints are on Wikileaks or Governments around the world, I don't think Wikipedia is really 'censoring' anything.

Using it as a repository for links (that's regularly updated) isn't what Wikipedia is designed for
Google is your friend:

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So, no practical difference from any regular client at the moment.
I wonder if that's a permanent change? If someone indiscriminantly flags for a while, but then slows down, will their flags begin to be counted again?
A particularly trenchant comment, coming from w1ntermute. I don't know if they make a better stand alone complex or temporary autonomous zone, though.
I think it's a great idea(!!), but as emeltzer says, you should get some legit scientist to give you thumbs up, before anyone wanna use the site.
The second thing is your name - zombal!? Come on. I was thinking exactly the same thing as everybody else: A Socialsite for Zombies? Like: Zombiebook, zombiespace etc.
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Liu Xiaobo has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on human rights in China. It has however aggravated the Chinese government, such that all major western media are being censored as we speak by the national firewall. Should we acknowledge this prize? Or should we rather pay respect to the regime that has governed the Chinese people with marvelous economical growth the last two decades? Do China need democracy and freedom of speech? Its been said that; never change a winning team. And China is currently the fastest growing nation on the face of the earth, economically. So why should we, the western society tell them how the game of life and existence is played? Is it envy?
I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm not actually a huge fan of WikiLeaks or of Anon, but...

Try to keep things in perspective. We're facing a substantial progression towards a hybridization of the scenarios outlined in 1984 and Brave New World, and you're worried about the disruption of commerce?

Are your priorities really that warped?

There's always collateral damage, whether it's merchants or your civil rights.

I should've guessed that there would be hand-wringing about commerce on here, but I never knew it would be so ridiculous considering what's being hashed out here.
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I don't see why the police, military, and highways need to be funded through government. To the extent that these services provide a benefit, there's no reason to think they couldn't be supplied in a free market.
I've actually had a note (in Evernote) for a while now to "find replacement for Evernote or write my own."

Every time they release a new version I see item after item that's of no interest to me. I really just want a simple place to store to-do lists, notes, etc. and have it available on every machine and phone I use.

They do a lot more than that now, but yet you still can't edit a to-do list with checkboxes on the iPhone!
I once wrote a brainfuck interpreter in assembler which would run at boot time. It's Turing completeness closer to the machine.

But the internet already thought of that and crazier things: http://www.masella.name/technical/BF-CPU.pdf
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This is the biggest mistake most of the people make. If it worked that way, every weekend app released here would be making tons of money. (We have better apps here as weekend projects than out there in market).But this is NOT app v/s app game. This is business v/s app. And you can't take down a business with an app. You need to create a business.Sure you can build a better 'app' then Evernote or make a better burger than McD's (one of the best in my country at least) but you can't make a better business, the day you do - you are in game.There are many other dynamics too. But just a quick note.(Note to self: write a detailed essay about that)
You can always come join us in the great white north of Montana. The tech community is small and pretty tight knit. We'd be happy to have you. More persuasive material here http://bit.ly/hghtmI and here http://vimeo.com/17564571.
Lesson one: C is a case sensitive language and so is english. Apologies for the snarkiness but I could not let it go.

Anyway... This is an interesting read:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html

Also check out this reading list:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
What about streaming video sites? Has ww seen any distributed attacks on 1935?

I am running Wowza currently, and worry about this.
I have what Patrick would call "a wee bit" of experience with this problem; I led a dev team on a successful anti-DDoS product from 2001-2003. For now, I have two pieces of advice:

Advice #1:

Every major ISP has a tier of network engineer that is equipped to handle the DDoS problem. They're the ones with access to the traffic analysis tools, they're the ones with the scripts to deploy ACLs, they're the ones that can reroute traffic to a regional scrubbing center. If you're dealing with a real ISP, they have an anti-DDoS product (probably one I've very familiar with) deployed.

There aren't many of them and they are never the person answering the phone when you call the ISP. Nobody at your ISP has any incentive to escalate you to that person. Your ISP may deny that the person exists (I've seen that happen at ISPs where I know the right person by name).

Find that person. Be persistent. If I knew who mine was right now I'd send brownies and belgian ale. Weekly. Advance planning and cheap insurance can't hurt.

Advice #2:

Nobody knows what "I'm under DDoS attack" means. It doesn't mean anything. You have to be able to describe the attack precisely in technical terms. That doesn't mean "it's a SYN flood!"; it means, "My link is saturated, I'm getting N million packets per second, an unusually high number of connections sourced from TCP ports 15030 - 19012, it started 9 minutes ago, and doesn't coincide with a spike in requests to my DNS server."

In all likelihood, nothing you have deployed today is going to generate that information for you, so your job today is to get that infrastructure set up. I recommend getting NetFlow turned on and using Argus, which is free; NetFlow also happens to be a language ISP network engineers speak readily. You have other alternatives, like ntop. Just have something that can characterize traffic and ideally tell you (either directly, or via graphs) when things are out of the ordinary.

You will have much better luck getting help from your upstreams if you can write the ACL for them and make it easier to find what places in the network need it.
Hmmm I think you made a point - of having the cover letter content into the resume. I have especially noticed one thing with some start-ups - they prefer a 'cultural, personal' jelling. I put personal information, thinking of that.