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I know that SAP system maintainers/programmers earn a lot of money, in many instances with salaries of $200k+. But please, don't specialize in something solely for the money. Things like pentesting and reverse engineering are fields that hire people with extraordinary passion; it's hard to make a lot of money just trying specialize. I can speak on this topic, as I work in information security.

If you dream of making an iPhone app that people use every day, go that route. If you want to hack into the Fortune 100, get into information assurance. Want to build vast networks, become a network engineer.

The point is that any of these things can be lucrative, but they are competitive fields with no guarantees. Follow your heart, work hard and hopefully the riches will follow!
Expansive definition? Okay, to satisfy my curiosity I just checked. At the top of the first page to sign up for AdSense the first check box reads as follows:

[ ] I will not place ads on sites that include incentives to click on ads.

At the bottom of this same sign up page just above the "Submit Information" button to sign up there are three more check boxes, two of which read as follows:

[ ] I agree that I will not click on the Google ads I'm serving through AdSense.

[ ] I certify that I have read the AdSense Program Policies.

The "AdSense Program Policies" is an underlined link. Clicking that takes you to a clearly readable page, probably around 500 words total, titled "Google AdSense Program Policies" where the first sentence admonishes reading the program policies carefully. And the very first two bold labeled sections at the top of this page are entitled: "Invalid Clicks and Impressions" and "Encouraging Clicks".

Under Invalid Clicks it says: Publishers may not click their own ads or use any means to inflate impressions and/or clicks artificially, including manual methods. and has an underlined link to "learn more".

Under Encouraging Clicks it begins: Publishers may not ask others to click their ads or use deceptive implementation methods to obtain clicks and clicking the underlined link to "learn more" here brings a drop-down list of bullet points saying what publishers may NOT do. Here are the first two:

- Compensate users for viewing ads or performing searches, or promise compensation to a third party for such behavior.

- Encourage users to click the Google ads using phrases such as "click the ads", "support us", "visit these links" or other similar language.

I'm sorry, but I don't know how much clearer Google could be about unacceptable behavior.
I'm referring purely to the dongle attack. When you use an HMAC in that way, your secret is your "private" key. It also just happens to be the "public" key as well. That's why it's a terrible design.
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Putting aside the political slant of your comment, please educate me. Quite honestly it all looks like a drama-of-the-week from where I sit.

What feature of journalism is under attack to warrant all this hub-bub? And in your response, please remember whom the Pulitzer prize was named for.
> "let's take a walk" and then talk through design problems.

That is the MOST important part and yet every single training fails t mention this.
My brother was recently awarded a patent on a device he'd invented (a mechanical device used in the construction industry), but now it seems the ~$7,000 it cost him may have been wasted.
I doubt that would pass in court as fraud.

The problem here is that when something is questionable google exercises arbitrary power with no explanation or human interaction.

I got kicked out of ad sense because google said that ads were showing up on porn (my site is pure user generated content). I couldn't find it for the longest time, when I finally found it i was unsure how to handle it. It was text content that was in a foreign language which I didn't speak.

There was no way for me to talk to someone at google and resolve it.
"What about when people stop of flying BECAUSE of the TSA and either don't fly or drive? How does that factor in?
reply"

So if they stop all of these security measures and people die as a result, you aren't going to blame the TSA or the airlines..right?
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"To work around that problem hospitals needed to, as one medical physicist put it, essentially trick the machine into thinking it was using a different attachment, which it did recognize. To do that, users had to enter additional data into the SRS system."

Scary.
I'd simply say that you're doing business with a computer program, not a human being, because that's, basically, the root of it.

And people are learning to adapt on both sides: e.g. people who sweep out their PayPal account constantly. Or those who have learned that you can hose a competitor if you make the programs think they're a fraudulent business.
1. The Kayak dev key is here:

http://www.kayak.com/labs/api/search/developerkey.html

2. Using your email as a perl string requires a \ in front of @

3. I had to install many packages before the Perl script ran on a basic EC2 Linux instance:

sudo yum install gcc perl-CPAN perl-libwww-perl expat-devel gnuplot

4. Before installing the CPAN packages he mentions:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::SHA'
sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Test::More'
sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::Parser'

You may have to do additional debugging and install other CPAN packages.

5. Install the CPAN packages he mentions

6.

nohup perl SerenDaemon.pl > errors.txt 2> exceptions.txt < /dev/null &
It is worth noting that The Innovator's Dilemma, published about a decade ago, cited a study that the author had been involved in for the auto industry. In that study, based on projected improvements in battery technology, the date that electric was expected to be competitive with gasoline engines was 2020.

So yes, battery prices have been following a Moore's law trajectory (mind you not as quickly as Moore's law goes) for a very long time now.

Incidentally The Innovator's Dilemma gives a large number of other examples of technologies that have shown exponential improvement for long periods of time. From my memory some of the examples included how far a steamship could go before refueling, how big a scoop a hydraulic backhoe could take, the storage density of hard drives, and the quality of steel that mini-mills can produce. Oh right, and battery capacity+life.
If you attract girls to the field then eventually you'll have women in the field. Just look at me: I was attracted to the field as a boy. Now, I am a man.
This is my foray into writing completely speculative theories on a message board, but what the hell, gotta start sometime.

<rant>

1) Not speculative: Manning is gay - the media already made a huge deal out of this.

2) Somewhat speculative - Lamo is gay - from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Lamo - "Lamo was appointed to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Youth Task Force by San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano"

3) Completely speculative - Manning contacted Lamo on the basis of talking to someone who would understand.

4) Completely speculative - So far, there's no direct evidence that Manning's leaking the documents has anything to do with him being gay, and only complete right-wing nuts (e.g. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/31575) claim that. If there's something in the chat logs that says "I am gay, I leaked the documents because I hate the US and the Army's policy on treating gays, and I hope you (Adrian Lamo) understand", then there's direct evidence. Repealing DADT was already extremely controversial, and if Wired released those chat logs when they first acquired them, it would've made the discussion even more explosive. (never mind the argument that being dissatisfied in the army because of DADT is a reason to repeal DADT.) The repeal of DADT passed. Had Wired released those chat logs, it might not have. Assuming that editors at Wired and their general audience is left-leaning (somewhat speculative - I lean to the left, so do my friends, we read Wired), they wouldn't want to do anything that might interfere with the repeal of DADT, especially something like providing a link between Manning's sexual orientation and him leaking the cables.

<rant>
No idea. It looks like maybe it belonged to a Bruce Sherrod?

At the time the movie came out the official website was whatisthematrix.com, presumably because all the more obvious options were taken, so this was probably some other site whose domain was eventually yanked by WB's lawyers.

Interesting find though.
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Meanwhile, untrained TSA employees are rolling out hundreds of new radiation scanners at airports. The technology is different but TSA malfunctions are simply a matter of time...
The term you are looking for is reduced/exaggerated "impulse" which is defined as change in momentum aka delta(p) = F * delta(t).
The full context of the question is: "if asked how an ad-driven business makes money, how would you, as the business owner, explain it?"

The truth of the situation is: you click, I get paid. There is no moral value attached to such an action in and of itself. If anything, it is Google's own fault for putting itself in a position for charging advertisers to place ads in a medium it does not and cannot control. It is the very definition of a moral hazard.

http://banking.about.com/od/loans/a/MoralHazard.htm

What makes it particularly troubling is that Google not only owns the ad network but also controls the content distribution in the form of Youtube.

Google prides itself as a data-driven company, and this "false positive" is likely due to a "statistical likelihood" of click-fraud, but that's small comfort to a small business owner who does not have the resources to contest or appeal such a heavy-handed measure.
who is paying for the hosting on this thing I wonder?
Another impressive aspect is how quickly Kinect hacks are coming out. Some products seem to strike a chord with the enthusiasts, plus all of these things look very cool in videos, which makes for good publicity.
And to think these people knew the exact date they would die, and they didn't bother to get their affects in order.
Except it's been touched repeatedly, and all changes revolve around selling various editions of what's surely a very interesting book..
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread113809/pg1

More info in my previous post.
I have tried many from Kontera to Chitika. IMO there is no good alternative(in terms of payment) for adsense yet.
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It seems like it would be a confounding factor if said hot girl had a reputation as evil incarnate, as does Goldman-Sachs.
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Thanks for asking this question. I myself was also wondering what the policy was on HN on reposting when a past submission does not get attention.

I submitted a link to my new project (hackerlunch.com), but it failed to get any attention. Perhaps I should try posting it again at a different time, with a different title.
Y Combinator ranks on "naughty stories", "college fuck" & "become a millionaire"
I won't weigh in on this specific incident because I'm not familiar with the details, plus it's on the ads side, not the search quality side.

But I can weigh in on the "make the action exponential" idea. Regarding the steps that the webspam team takes, we take stronger and stronger action as we see repeated violations or violations with more willful or damaging intent.

Hidden text might result in a 30 day removal, for instance (and the site can always remove the hidden text and do a reconsideration request before the 30 days is up, of course). But if we see the site repeatedly violating our guidelines or doing worse stuff, then the action is stronger.
It appears to be a bunch of mixed gaming metaphors. "He stepped up to the plate and scored a touchdown.. checkmate" kind of thing.
US PISA ranks for 2009: Maths - 30th, Sciences - 23rd, Reading 17th.

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On the other hand, going to an extreme to appear attractive can backfire. You could be stuck with your act for as long as you want to stay with that girl. Do you really want to be with a girl, no matter how attractive, who won't like the man you want to be?
"naughty stories" no longer ranks 6th, but did:

http://cache.spyfu.com/Default.aspx?d=20101101&t=1848930...
I'm reminded of Socrates quote in "The Great Dialogues of Plato".

"Because in your talk you do nothing but lay commands on people, like young society beauties who are regular tyrants as long as they are young and good-looking. And perhaps you have found me out already; I can't resist the handsome!"

The notion of young beautiful women in our society as having less attention than certain less attractive ones is completely wrong. Socrates was calling these beautiful woman tyrants because all men around them were showering them with whatever they wanted. Nothing has changed in the last 2000 years. The only hope for men is to join arms and completely ignore women, but this will never happen, until then they will call the shots until they get old, then they will be married to you, and then they will still call the shots.

http://books.google.com/books?id=WMbS85Ijg2oC&printsec=f...
Correct. Using a DNS service like Google's can reduce throughput from location-aware CDNs, since you end up reading off of a CDN edge very far away from you.
Anecdotal evidence: My dad (around 50 years old) still has periodic pains in his hip from an accident 20-25 years ago because he tensed his legs, making them rigid and sending the force of the collision through his bones, shattering fragments inside his hip. To this day he still has minor bone fragments in his hip which presumably cause the pain.
You are correct, learn more should be easier to find.

As for formality that is coming as I get more feedback, I just wanted to put something out and start to get input. Tech first, copywriting second. I do agree though it is very informal right now.
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Are you suggesting that $400K is reasonable, and that it is because this person has the title of "CEO" and is located in the Bay Area?

We are talking about someone who:

1) is leading a startup journalism non-profit.

2) has no prior experience as a CEO

3) has never worked in the journalism industry

If this were a tech startup, the salary range for this CEO would be $0 to $100K. To be fair, since as a non-profit there is no equity upside, one could argue for a hefty year end performance-based bonus. But a guaranteed $400K salary is beyond absurd.
I think you ought to look into modern antitrust policy (as influenced by the U of Chicago). Google has something close to a monopsony for online video; between this and their perma-ban approach, many would argue their contract terms create an unfair restraint of trade.
Echos of Therac-25. Not nearly as bad... no one's dead yet.
The guy didn't write the article to say he was innocent. He wrote the article to say Google provides no human to discuss the issue with.
I for one would be interested in hearing more, if you want to share.
The only thing which is different 40 years later is that corporations -- certainly together, some in cooperation, and some even alone -- maintain more power and apparatus of propaganda than the government.

That is why populist Libertarianism (Randian muck) and the ghastly half'n'half-baked ideology of the Tea Party are so awfully (and often ironically) misdirected these days.
> Beautiful women have the world by the balls, when I meet one of these women I remind them that they will get old and be in for a rude awakening.

That makes zero sense to me. Everybody gets old, beautiful women too, and for all of us it is a rude awakening. The relative difference between being young and old and being beautiful and average is smaller for 'beautiful or average' than for being young or old.

Do you berate the young too for 'being in for a rude awakening'?

Whatever you've got use your body to the best of its abilities, you'll never be able to recover time that you've lost and don't begrudge others the bodies they've got, after all you could have been even worse off, possibly lots worse. It's just a giant lottery.

To berate people for attributes they did not choose is just another form of jealousy.

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Very. Presumably they're paying for hefty support contracts as part of the purchase of these machines - I cannot imagine that the developers recommended medical end-users alter the system. If so they seem culpable.
I agree, that's the easiest crude way to do it. The only problem will be is if you're trying to make an app where people supply their numbers in order to get an SMS, because you don't know the carrier. To get around that, afaik, there is:

1. [hard to implement, and costs money, easy for the user] integrate with an sms gateway. Here is a comparison of two: http://dcwilkie.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/sms-gateway-compari...

2. [easy(er) to implement, free, hard(er) for the user, hacky] Have the user sms a user id (or some identifier) to an email address, you read that email, and associate the identifier with the "from" field, and send sms's to that email.
> Recently we worked on creating a video to demonstrate how easy it is to deploy a Rails application on Engine Yard AppCloud.

At the risk of sounding snarky...

1. Pay [$85/month]

2. Create [Instant deployment]

3. Deploy [Pure git workflow]

4. Work [Complete API]

I'm still astonished that EY didn't dive headlong into the huge customer acquisition opportunity that was opened up when Heroku was acquired by SalesForce. I'm incredibly unlikely to try out EY when I have to pay at least $85/month for the privilege.

Heroku, on the other hand, is like heroin: the first taste is free, and then you need more and more until you're paying them hundreds or thousands of dollars per month, or checking into a methadone clinic (straight-up EC2).
Patents are essentially a licence to write new laws. A list of millions of banned actions. The only difference is the people who write these new laws aren't elected, and the laws expire after 20 years. There is no way to tell if something is banned or not, except by getting sued.

I don't know how anyone thinks this is a good idea.
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There is: http://getpantheon.com/

They're awesome folks -- the same people from Chapter Three in SF. They already have some high-paying customers, so I imagine they'll be around for a long time.
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I hear guys talk about the marriage effect all the time but I suspect the increased attention they get from women isn't what you think it is.

As a married man, you're now domesticated. Imagine going to the park and seeing a golden retriever. You might pat this dog on the head, or play with him, because you know he's been trained well and sociable. But if you go camping and see a wolf, you'd do well to steer clear.

In a lot of cases, the woman flirts with a married guy b/c exactly BECAUSE she knew you wouldn't react. Same theory for why some women are great friends with gay guys.
So basically the problem is using a public DNS server rather than your local ISP's, right? Gruber blaming this on "Google DNS" then isn't really a full explanation.
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It is a rude awakening for all of us, but I think the point is that one who heavily depends on looks has a much tougher time than someone not dependent on looks. Naturally not every beautiful woman has a heavy dependence on looks, but in general people tend to flaunt whatever extra-ordinary attribute they have, be it a natural and short-lived or learned and life-long.
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I've been told by people who've been sent on corporate junkets to Gartner shindigs/what-have-you, that they have lots of "high-status" (hot) women wandering around. It was the same with that french psychologist who had the Madison Avenue types eating out of his hand in "The Century of the Self" documentary. Having beautiful women around is a signal of dominance. People who want to project power use this, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. Film-makers use this whenever they want to portray someone with power.

The flip side: when you are hanging out with the other geeks, realizing you're at yet another sausage fest, does this make you feel powerful, or not so much?

To paraphrase the opera Carmen: if you want any enterprise to succeed, be sure you have women along!
Yes. The best thing you can do is check what your DNS servers are, and where they are.

If your ISP is giving you, for example, one local server and one non-local server, do some sleuthing and figure out where their second local dns server is, and hard code your DNS to those servers (or, remove the server that isn't local).

In the earlier days of the Internet, you were encouraged to provide geographically diverse DNS servers. But, what many operators did not understand is, that rule of thumb is for authoritative DNS hosting.

For DNS resolvers, you want those to be in the metro area that your internet connection terminates, and in that AS. Another ISP even in the same metro area is not good enough. That other ISP will not have the same peering/transit arrangements as yours.

So frustrating.
While I agree with the general thrust of your comment, the machines used by the TSA are not "focused" in the same way. It would take much greater effort to create hazardous conditions like these patients experienced.
and a remote control, too?
Oh, oh! I tried to find a book I have with the Therace-25 case study. If I recall, race conditions tripped the integer byte datatype and fired radiation at that point in time.

Ten years later, I've meant to finish the book. It's in a box somewhere.
Just an update on my HTML5 content creation app (previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2040844 ).

This version is taking some baby steps towards interactivity. You can now create event handlers in the UI, and there's a starting point for the required scene-level glue. (You can find a sample with some basic buttons affecting a canvas object on the linked page.)

I'd be very interested in your comments on these features -- now that I still have the opportunity to change it if it's going in the wrong direction...
Excellent advice, keep doubting yourself so that people like myself with confidence have an easier time succeeding because people like yourself don't even try, let alone fail, let alone succeed.

I'd take a date with a model or a coffee with a CEO any day of the week. I don't care if the long term outlook is zero, it's worth it just for the experience.
Silicone valley? Is that where all the hot models hang out?

More seriously, you might not have realized any huge benefits from this relationship with your founder friend, but that doesn't mean there aren't some significant potential benefits to your relationship.

Say you just happened to have a wonderful new product that your friend's company could use. A short chat with your founder friend about this product could be worth quite a lot.

Likewise, if you needed or wanted some advice from him, the advice of a founder could be worth a lot, as could any introductions to his peers that he might be willing to make.

Just think about it a bit, and I'm sure you could come up with dozens of other potential benefits.

Of course, such a relationship shouldn't be one-sided. There's a great book called "One Phone Call Away" by Jeffrey Meshel, who's main point is that the best way to network is to help people without expecting anything in return. Highly recommended.