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I've had the "fun" of having to do low-level hacking and troubleshooting on PCs for portions of the last 15 years or so. If you've had to try to make sense of Windows internals, you've almost certainly had to use one of Sysinternals tools like Regmon, Filemon, Process Explorer, etc. The cool thing now is that you can access this sort of stuff from a UNC like this:
\\live.sysinternals.com\tools\<toolname>

e.g., \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\Regmon.exe
"Personally, the concept has always struck me as the childish fantasy of a certain personality type."

Do you have some factual basis for considering the claims to be "childish fantasy"? Or is the fact that it conforms to your stereotypes is enough to dismiss it without investigating the claims?
If the websites don't want you to scrape, use proxies and botnets!
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For me the brick wall was social, not related to the math, and I hit it in geometry class in 10th grade. Our teacher was an idiot, and had trouble solving the more difficult proofs at the end of the homework. Day after day I would go up to the board and write down the solution to the problem he couldn't solve. Then, I would get an F for not turning in my homework, which I rightly considered to be a waste of my time, and the people who copied down my answers would get an A's. That was when I decided I had enough formal mathematical education. I taught myself the math to do AP chemistry in high school and tested out of pre calculus in 2000 in college. I am currently teaching myself calculus from Michael Spivak's Calculus. You couldn't get me back in a math class, but I love learning math.
Congrats to PG and Jess!!!
"In the past, you could measure Microsoft’s success by others’ weakness"

Do people actually have that mentality?
"One of the things I got from Infinite in All Directions - it was a delight to me, and I've been quoting it ever since - is that you honor inventors as much as scientists.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

Is it the scientists who are putting them down?

Yes. There is this snobbism among scientists, especially the academic types.

Are there other kinds?

There are scientists in industry who are a bit more broad minded. The academics look down on them, too.

Is that a weird British hangover?

It's even worse in Germany. Intellectual snobbery is a worldwide disease. It certainly was very bad in China and probably held back development there by 2,000 years.

How would you stop this intellectual snobbery?

I would abolish the PhD system. The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs."
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Right. Instead of counting time you might count the number of votes.
You want evidence for the fact that SSL libraries have bugs?

http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:08.open...
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:23.open...
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:19.open...
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:21.open...
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:05.open...
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:18.open...
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:06.open...
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:02.open...
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:33.open...
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:51.open...

Is that enough?

OpenSSL and OpenSSH are tied, at 10 advisories each, as the pieces of software which have been responsible for the most FreeBSD Security Advisories -- outdoing Sendmail and BIND (7 advisories each), procfs (6 advisories, and removed from the default system configuration due to its poor record), and tcpdump and cvs (5 advisories each).
It is rumoured that some encyclopedias give biographies of ficticious people to enforce collective copyright. This wouldn't concern you if wanted information about a historical figure. However, it would be very problematic if you worked for a rival encyclopedia or wanted to make your own website of the encyclopedia.
"In this sense you are totally correct - bayes is simpler."

That's exactly the sense I referring to and similarly the error correction terms (i/o) in backprop.

But I mis-read the original question: Either "works" just fine - it's just that there seems to be a movement away from NN and toward Bayes. That's what I was answering even as it's tough to judge that right now. Still, NN seemed much hotter 10 years ago in the literature. Where's Google Trends for academic papers?
"Is there a viable market for this type of transportation?"

Absolutely. It's a 24 hour commute from our Melbourne, AU house to our Brooklyn, NY house.

I've sat next to a fashion buyer who does the trip from SYD-NYC-SYD once a fortnight (that would be awful).

I'm hanging out for the scramjet.
That should be $15,000: $5000 for each co-founder, and $5000 for the startup.
I don't think people have that mentality to judge anyone base on people's weakness, maybe majority judge them by the percentage profit compare to time?
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But is he Nick Burns, your company's computer guy?
Great example about nil.
Of the 12 postings you provided, 6 have nothing to do with server security, 2 are dupes, and only two of the remainder date to after 2004. Thanks for making me do that research. I guess I deserve it.

The comparison to Sendmail? Pretty laughable. Why don't you work from the real list of Sendmail vulns, not the ones in your personal database?

Now, I'll respond: under what circumstances would you advise a prospective YC app developer to avoid SSL because of the risk of server vulnerabilities?
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They managed to weasel an extra $5000 out of YC for their (future) third founder, PG Jr.
i'm kind of jealous

of pg of course

grats
I'm just a bit bugged that someone actually thinks that's how the industry works.
Over 24 hours now.
"They estimate they will be up and running by Sunday afternoon."

Still down.
More comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205709
Honestly, I have to agree with a lot of the commentators on TC. I am not quite sure what Steve was getting at there. Anyone else feel this way? And if someone did figure out what he was getting get, care to elaborate?
Of the 12 postings you provided ... 2 are dupes

I only posted 10 links, which is probably why you think there were 2 duplicates. :-)

The comparison to Sendmail? Pretty laughable. Why don't you work from the real list of Sendmail vulns, not the ones in your personal database?

FreeBSD security advisories were an easily available list of vulnerabilities which were assessed on the same basis. If I were going to "the real list of Sendmail vuln[erabilities]" (whatever you consider that to be) then I'd also have to use a real list of OpenSSL vulnerabilities -- including those which didn't affect FreeBSD because we didn't ship those versions, and the "oops, last months' security patch was broken" vulnerabilities which didn't affect FreeBSD thanks to the fact that the FreeBSD security team proofreads vendor patches.

under what circumstances would you advise a prospective YC app developer to avoid SSL because of the risk of server vulnerabilities?

If they didn't care about the confidentiality or authenticity of data being transmitted, then I would advise them to not use SSL.

More importantly, if they were using SSL, I'd advise them of the increased risk and suggest additional layers of defence -- for instance, terminating HTTPS within a jail at a proxy which forwards requests in plaintext over a localhost connection.

Of course, individual circumstances always vary, so it's hard to give any sort of blanket advice.
The impact that Jim Gray had on computer science is huge. I would highly suggest reading the wired article on the extensive search that followed his disappearance.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-08/ff_jimgra...
The writeup makes no sense. It doesn't even meet basic standards for english grammar and understandability.

From the page:
"On Microsoft’s side, Twitter needs to end the rivalry between Exchange and SQL Server on the delivery side"
I think the rule of thumb is roughly 1 request every 2 seconds.
You have two advisories for the same 0.9.7l get-ciphers vulnerability. I have, as you've noticed, lost the ability to count. Yes, less than 40% of the evidence you provided survives a minute's scrunity.

If you really think OpenSSL has a worse track record than Sendmail, assert it directly. I don't think you will.

I think you've just provided some spectacularly bad advice to web devs here, Colin.
Ask HN: How do Mint and Buxfer sync with online banking?
Are they basically logging in as a user normally would, and scraping or downloading the relevant data? Or do banks provide another means of accessing that data?
Votes / total number of votes * views / total number of views * time decay function
Long division. 1st grade.

I never really topped out, because I always figure that when I don't understand something, I'm not smart enough to get it yet, but that doesn't mean I'll never get it.

This pattern started, as I said, in 1st grade with long division. My dad had been trying to teach me math early, and I whizzed through addition, subtraction, and multiplication, but I just couldn't understand long division. My mom (who always took a dim view of acceleration) said "Just let him learn it in school with the other kids." So that's what we did, and when 3rd grade rolled around and we did long division in class, I got it right away.

I did similar things with algebra (dad first tried to teach me it in 2nd grade, didn't get it then, but I started rederiving it on my own in 6th grade and my teachers figured it was time to get me an algebra textbook) and logarithms (which I first tried in 8th grade, but didn't understand for 4 full years...that was my block through all of high school).

As for how far my formal mathematical training has gone - I aced up through vector calculus in college, and also took discrete math late in college and aced it. Also took Functions of a Complex Variable and Mathematical Logic, but got lost around halfway through each of them. Passed, but not really competent in them.
Well its certainly fantasy. What factual basis do you need for categorising speculation?

The problem with singularity is its unchecked use of extrapolation. With any kind of prediction you ought to factor in a certain level of uncertainty based on how much you've observed about a phenomena. Considering we don't have yet what we'd call real artificial intelligence, let alone artificial intelligences creating other artificial intelligences - our level of uncertainty renders any prediction absurd.
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You have two advisories for the same 0.9.7l get-ciphers vulnerability.

No, there's one advisory for the original vulnerability, and a second advisory for a new vulnerability which was added when OpenSSL shipped a broken patch (this one we didn't notice in time -- mea culpa).

If you really think OpenSSL has a worse track record than Sendmail, assert it directly. I don't think you will.

Overall? No -- Sendmail had a horrible track record in the past. Recently? Yes, I would say that OpenSSL has a worse track record than Sendmail over the past 4 years.

I think you've just provided some spectacularly bad advice to web devs here, Colin.

You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but I'd like to hear more details -- which bit in specific do you consider was bad advice?
Does observation count as "some factual basis"?

How do you know what I've investigated?

Which part of my claim about how it strikes me are you taking issue with?

More interestingly, what's the response to Dyson's claim that growth in processing power is not matched by growth in people's capacity to use it?
When taking 2nd level honors linear algebra, we were given a takehome exam. I spent ~40 hrs on it and got just under the median grade. I was able to pull out a decent grade in that class, and I graduated with a degree in math, but now I know I'm not smart enough to hack it as a professor.

Not that I'd want to, anyway. Math is a great subject, but it's not what I'd want to do with my life.
My theory is that Techcrunch is experimenting with someone's technology demo for writing Op-Eds with AI.

Either that or the writer took one bonghit too many before sitting down to write.

It sounds visionary but it's really incoherent.
Algebraic number theory, when I was a graduate student in Oxford.

Well, sort of -- by that point I was pretty firmly on the CS side of the fence, and was just sitting in on the number theory classes out of interest. I probably could have grokked class field theory and L-functions if I had taken the time, but I was busy and it wasn't my research area...
Please, no more cross-posts of Steve Gillmor's rambling stream-of-consciousness TechCrunch essays? Or at least include "Steve Gillmor" in the headline, so we know there's no news content?
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people who froze up when confronted with incomplete information about probabilities of outcomes were out competed by those who did something, even if they chose wrong a lot of the time.
Dictionaries have long done the same thing with regard to definitions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_trap
I always know a Gillmor post because my eyes start glossing over by paragraph two. Something about the way he puts together his prose makes it very difficult to gain any information from his words.

"But each chink in the old Microsoft armor cuts two ways..." means what, exactly?

edit--Here's another gem from his comments: "Kool Aid flows in both directions." His mixed metaphors are really, really sloppy. I'm probably going to have to start collecting these crazy quotes.
Recent evidence tends to indicate that 'not smart enough' is probably a myth. Almost everything can be attributed to exposure and effort at some point rather than some innate smartness.

A lot of advanced math takes some serious concentration to understand. For some non-practical aspects, I found that I lacked the motivation rather than ability to understand it . One particular class where I seemed to hit my tolerance was a theoretical linear algebra class. I could understand the practical applications of most of the topics but some of the theory seemed just out of reach. The book was extremely dry and I think the professor may have been taking lessons from Ben Stein.

Give me a private tutor, a theoretical linear algebra for dummies book, and a pending disaster for which this is the solution, and I bet the outcome would be a little different.
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I'm still asymptotically approaching the "top out limit point".
RailsConf was awesome. Met a number of interesting people. Go Microapps! Ben - I liked your REST presentation though I got lost of the more advanced examples (seems like there is a right way to build REST views and many wrong ways)
Last class I attempted was trig, and failed completly. I enjoy math, but have given up untill after I finish collage.
I didn't know that dictionaries also do it. Nor did I know that fake entries were also known as mountweazels (after the surname of a ficticious entry) or nihilartikels. How very cromulent ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromulent ).
love the monitor/keyboard on the floor. some late night too tired too sit hacking?
The core problem of your argument is that you don't even bother to define what is a "huge problem". It seems to be 1) anything that isn't funded by VCs 2) huge in the sense of taking a long time to solve. Or both.

Once you do commit to a concrete definition, why do you believe that VCs should be considered sources of funding for the problem? For example if LHC fits your definition of a huge problem, you may want to consider its funding model as an alternative.
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Calculus III... I think I could have got it, but it's tough material and I had a terrible professor, so I didn't really learn any Calculus III. I passed and did much better in my final math course, a one semester differential equations/linear algebra hybrid course.
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3 19" widescreen @ work. 1 24" Dell at home.
However, I spend the most time (not by choice) working on my HP laptop (not even sure the size of the screen, company bought it)
I'd like to get 2 more monitors for home but I just don't work enough there to make it worth it.
Here's how to find out:

Set up a page on a server you control that has a URL you know that Facebook has never seen.

Start making a posted item on Facebook with that URL.

Check your logs and see what User-Agent Facebook is using, and try to get your best guess as to what is going on.

Beyond the User-Agent (which might just be something like "Facebook") you could always dive deeper by investigating the actual packets sent and comparing them to those generated by something like wget or cURL.
Prediction: Google Sites - Ning Killer?
Ok, so its a little early, but I am very excited about the potential of Google Sites. As I was researching various wiki solutions for a corporate project collab site, I ended up settling on Google sites as a hosted wikifarm solution. The presentation is in google's repertoire - clean, lacking features, but very promising. :)

After creating a few sample pages and looking for more information, I found the Google Sites blog:

http://googlesitesblog.blogspot.com/

Even though Google Sites has been out for a few months now, based on the very fresh blog entries and a spurt of activity, I have a feeling google is ramping this app up.

If you examine the list features, specifically the project tracking templates, it almost seems like they are going after Basecamp as well.

Now, consider the power of embedding google gadgets, and my prediction may not be very far off!

I just don't understand why google doesn't add massive features to its apps products, given that they have a whole army of developers...
OK. You are quite right about that definition.

There has been an ongoing discussions over at Haque's HBP site about this for a couple months now, so I was operating under the definition that his discussions were operating under. Then I put it here, and it didn't make sense removed from context. Let me take a stab at it.

It's like pornography, you know it when you see it. Not quite.

Huge problems are those problems where everyone is doing things one way, and that way is stupid. For example, the way food is distributed is a huge problem, because it has inefficiencies that happen all over the world and are multiplied billions of times over.

I'm not happy with that. I'll look back over the HBR discussions and find a better one.

OK. Since his writing is so good, I will let him speak for himself. Here is the context for the way I was conceiving "big problem"

http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/04/an_open_chall...
But those "free" alternatives don't really compare, yet...
I went to Cornell College, which schedules classes on a "block plan", one class at a time for a month each. My first semester, I took four consecutive courses in calculus. By the fourth one, I was extremely burned out on math and barely squeaked by.

I ended up taking a couple more math classes before graduating (discrete math and linear algebra), have continued to study math on my own, and have recently been contemplating a master's degree in math, just because I want to learn more.

All of that is to say, I'm not sure that the math brick wall is constant, but perhaps sometimes you need to take a break to allow your mind to digest what you've learned so far.
I thought there was a client app that did most of the data management?

Well, yes. But it's a command-line application, and all of the communication with my server is via a client-server API, not via a web browser -- maybe this isn't quite what you meant in your original question, but it certainly fits on the "without a UI" side of things.

if I had I desktop application and was a user of tarsnap could I bake backups into my app?

It would be difficult to bake tarsnap backups into your application directly, but tarsnap's command-line interface is almost exactly the same as tar's -- and I suspect that tar is one of the top 10 most commonly scripted UNIX programs. So if it would be very easy for your application to run tarsnap as a subprocess.
I have yet to find it, but Algebraic Topology took me a long, long time to get.
Wow... surprising, I guess I know how it feels to be one of the folks not in the know.

Congrats PG and Jessica! Coincidentally, your two books sit side by side on my shelf (as I'm sure it does for the YC community).
Would be interesting to see top digg users, the sites they regularly digg and their traffic
Didn't. Just lost interest.
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My most advanced math course is currently Calculus II (integral calculus and so on). However, I don't believe it's my "wall", and I'm planning on taking courses on differential equations and linear algebra whenever I have some time.
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perhaps by better title he meant something that would get a lot more attention
The time zone handling is a nice feature. It has already made my life easier..
the algorithms in this book might get you thinking in generally the right direction, but you might miss out on a couple of critical ingredients -- namely, time-based decay functions that make things float and sink (and float again -- dont forget that!), weighting things based on a user's "input worth" (how much you value someone's vote), and so on.

i see these three components as being the basic broth for a good "organic ranking" site:

1. time since the article was submitted, probably represented logarithmically.

2. how many votes came in, measured by how quickly they came in from the articles submission and how far apart each vote is.

3. the "weight" of the users voting on the article.
Can you expand more on what makes that different from loading them in from swap?
wow, and I thought it was just me. Seriously, did he read (and re-read) what he wrote before he published it?
Very true. I really enjoy math, but after abstract algebra and real analysis, I slowly lost the motivation to go deeper into pure math. Interestingly the most enjoyable areas of math for me are those arguably most applicable to CS: graph theory and number theory.
Back during private beta I think someone told me that mint is using yodlee for account aggregation (yodlee's moneycenter has awesome functionality, crap UI). How does yodlee do it? No idea. Oh, this is interesting: http://www.bizorigin.com/2007/techcrunch40-top-company-award...
i was going to say the same thing.. esp those $40 tables. I was actually going to buy one this weekend to put in my living room for when friends come over to cowork
Makes no sense!

Sounds like it came straight out of this: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
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