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From the FAQ:

"hoarde.rs is based on Yahoo! Inc's del.icio.us a social bookmarking site that has recently been decommisioned."

This is not true. See -> http://www.delicious.com/
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Read the terms of service for the sites. Who owns the data and when are they allowed to turn off? Answer: you "own" it but they can do whatever they want with your content, and they can turn off the service any time. Boot up that server in your livingroom if you want your content to live on.

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Hosted solution to maintaining web api/dev portal?
We're a SaaS startup rolling out a REST API to a niche developer community. We'd like to create a dev portal with API Reference, code examples, etc.

Thinking of using Confluence as we already use JIRA Studio, but I'd appreciate any alternative suggestions, mainly because Atlassian's hosting does not allow us to add plugins (like better code formatter, for example).

What publishing tools do folks find particularly adept for dev portals? Any (low-cost ;- ) hosting providers that host those tools - we'd really like to avoid maintaining our own Confluence/WP deployment.

Thanks!
-nikita
They had me at 'beguiling'.
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> I would argue that the target audience of the app store isn't tech-savvy enough to do this anyway.

That's what people said about piracy on the iPhone, but I know plenty of non-tech savvy people who use Cydia or whatever to get free apps.
doh!

You are totally correct. I completely missed that. Maybe I should drink a bit of coffee and wake up ;)

Although... I have a suspicion that at some point it would effect non-logged in users. Many logged in users banning a site is a signal that may effect the global results. Maybe in the same way marking spam in Gmail...
Your business card is CRAP
You'd be surprised what lengths people will go to just to get some free stuff.
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"We see that you've pirated an application. We're now going to block you from buying it legally."

Sounds like a plan.
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I was at one point willing to pay to convert the songs to the new DRM free versions; however the US iTunes store will not accept a valid UK credit card and so no payment is possible.

Apple told me to just create a new iTunes account in the UK; this however has never allowed me to use my update my iPhone apps nor to listen to the music. So much for trying to do the right thing

I remain very suspect.
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This is one person saying another person's claims about DNSSEC are not credible, in part based on benchmarking done in private. One of these people is a cryptography of world renown, the author of the mainstream DNS server with the single best security track record, and the holder of multiple crypto and encoding speed records. The other is a security researcher. Both are speaking in an area of claimed expertise. Their background is extremely relevant to evaluating their claims.
This guy is really lame.

There is only one business card lesson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y
In the old days we had killfile. Why can't we PLONK content sources like authors or sites by handles like nicks or domain names? There should be some standard protocol for that. Httplonk.
I didn't intend to suggest the publisher couldn't access the data. Regardless, I don't think it discredits my point.
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I think it would be more accurate to say they are rarely horrible. But what does that prove? The highest selling cars rarely have less than 100hp, but that doesn't mean the public really wants to buy the car with the most power yet, by mistake, keeps buying reliable cars with high resale value.

Even if it were difficult to make a good movie (which I dispute, more or less), that doesn't explain why once the good movie is made the public would still avoid it in favor of "Clash of the Titans". The reviews are widely available.

How exactly should we determine what the public really wants than by what they go out and purchase? I just don't get what you and Eliezer are arguing from.
Consider it from an advertiser prospective if you make $5 per customer, and it costs you $1 to get a customer from Facebook, then you'll quite happily keep paying Facebook $1 for as long as you keep getting customers. If Google undercut them and offer you ads for $0.50, you'll buy both !

I currently buy ads at Google, Facebook, Linkedin and PlentyOfFish. Find me another source of effective advertising and I'll advertise there too.

Unless your margins are razor thin and you have tiny volumes, it seems unlikely that the extra time you have to spend managing your ad campaigns would justify not using them. After all just because the CTR of Facebook is smaller than Google it doesn't mean you have to invest more time into it because your ad has to be seen 100x more often to get the same CTR.
This is in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2068730.
By going with a competitive scoring system, SO set themselves up for endless headaches trying to stay ahead of people gaming the system while driving away otherwise valuable contributors who don't feel like jumping through hoops.

Wikipedia demonstrates that a cooperative model with minimal rules can work staggeringly well, even on a massive scale. There is such a strong intrinsic motivation to contribute. It's a terrible waste to subvert that shared interest in favor of a conflicting one.
OMG I haven't laughed so much since forever!!!

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Ugh. This post is flawed. I've been in contact with him all afternoon trying to explain why (I wrote the original post he is attempting to debunk).

Under his 'Paid Apps' banner he is counting applications that use in-app purchases (but are initially free) and that offer free demo periods.

He doesn't know how many of those users are actually paying for items within the applications using in-app purchases, and he doesn't know how many people are paying once their demo expires.

I did my homework on this one. I looked at the 'Paid Apps' section listed on the official Chrome Web Store. When I noticed how low the running weekly download count was, I contacted Google and asked what was up. They said that the 'Top Paid' section on their store was not listed in order (no idea why), but even when I browsed through all of the 'Top Paid' applications, the one with the most downloads still wasn't doing very well.
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I agree. Looks like the submitter is thinking of Two Generals. It's closely related to BFT ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance ) which does have some pretty complex solutions. Friend of mine wrote a paper on improving BFT for his PhD thesis.
So what? I hadn't read that advice before. I found it on his blog and lost 20 pounds in a month. Following exactly his advice. I wouldn't call that a rip off.
Because, according to him, >90% of what you'll do in the gym isn't necessary.

So he offers training programs for a bunch of different goals (speed, strength, vertical, etc) while citing elite coaches that work with some of the most extraordinary and accomplished athletes for each case.
The one thing that absolutely drives me up the wall is the recent touting of "Tim Ferriss's 'Slow-Carb' Diet" as if this was some sort of revelation previously withheld from the masses. Every time I hear somebody saying they're following it from 4HB I think, "These principles have been freely available and many times presented through a variety of media channels for years. Why is this news now and why is it being credited to Tim Ferriss?"

I won't downplay Tim's mastery of self-marketing, but seeing this kind of thing makes me go bonkers.
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Is a piano without keys but instead 4 strings and a bow still a piano? You could build a different interface, no question. I'm not sure what the threshold is, but at a certain point, you're not playing the same game anymore.
Other than the language being different, what are your goals in learning a new language?
Wow, that's... Trivial. Does that really work? It's almost like apple wanted to have this happen.
Not decommissioned, just planning to change owners: http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2010/12/whats-next-for-delici...
Ya, I agree. I am like you a lot, but I know I am influenced by others. Like after I pick my choice I am comfortable with, but seeing not a lot of people making the same choice may make me think again.

What I am thinking is, do ppl really admit that they are affected by others?
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Now they can bot-click your adsense ads to cause google to ban you. If you are ad sponsored this effectively puts you out of business.
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Wow salesforce is really on an acquiring spree right now.
This seems an odd way to analyze the impact of user growth given that sales distribution in app stores is so non-linear.

It would seem safe to presume that the growth in paid users will result in stronger sales for the predominant apps – versus them being spread out over the whole inventory.
The notion of "endpoint validation" has an entirely different meaning in DNSCurve than it does in DNSSEC.

In DNSSEC, all the security resides in the actual DNS records. End-to-end security means verifying each step in the DNS chain, from .org through "www". This is the only way DNSSEC provides any value.

Unlike DNSSEC (shockingly), DNSCurve protects the actual conversation between a name resolver and a name server, irrespective of the RR's configured for a zone. DNSCurve (for the most part) does not care about your RR's. When one speaks of "end-to-end DNSCurve", one is talking about a hypothetical universe in which the root servers all the way down are speaking DNSCurve.

That world is never going to happen.

The point of DNSCurve is that it provides a degree of security --- by my reckoning, the most important degree --- even if the roots don't adopt DNSCurve. And in that universe, caching works just fine: DNSCurve is only going to be used to connect endpoints to caches.
An analogy I am thinking is, if someone or lots of people tells me that an iphone clone in china has outdone the iphone. what would I do, even from my experience it is the other way around.
I have been using Faxaway.com for years, which bills on a per minute basis, not a per page. I believe the rate is $0.11 / minute in the US and $1 per month service fee.
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Can somebody who knows math comment - There is a 5 % difference on a sample of 700. Not huge, but that seems statistically significant?
Please post the source code so we can verify, and try this ourselves...
What's the medication she's taking? I've never heard of any chemical blocking mosquitos before.
Heh, yeah, I saw the title and thought this was a post about us.

I would strongly encourage all our competitors to adopt this elegant business model.
What I dislike a bit about Mark's site is that he's promoting the 'primal' lifestyle and at the same time is selling the supplements.

So did Grok (that's how Mark calls the paleolithic human) eat supplements and isn't there a conflict somewhere?
That was a mispeak. I should've used 'money-losing' instead of the word 'ineffective'. My point is there are only certain ads that is money making on Facebook, thus my reference to users' mindset of 'fun'.
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Good information bears repeating. Also, if it wasn't written in the last six months nobody will believe it.
I like this map myself:

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day 1? at least AFAIK there are no anti-piracy measures.

i'd love to hear from someone who isn't speaking out of their ass though.
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Agree with the sibling poster - this is the best comment in the thread. Do you have any interest in sharing your hard work with us?

If you go to the CSE website and select 'Advanced' and then download annotations, you can export the list of sites you've excluded.

Further you can make the exclusion list ("annotation list") into a feed - so it is entirely possible to implement the kind of user-generated blacklist of sites which has been discussed here.
likely to happen once in 50 experiments or so.

I think we need more samples to gauge significance.

Why do you need to try this offline? I'm not opposed to the idea, just curious.
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Ok. Here's one. It's a very common C function that appears in some way/shape/form in most client software deployed on the Internet:

int
connect_host(const char *host, u_int16_t port) {
int sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if(sock >= 0) {
struct sockaddr_in si;
memset(&si, 0, sizeof(si));
si.sin_family = AF_INET;
si.sin_port = htons(port);
si.sin_addr.s_addr == inet_addr(host);
if(si.sin_addr.s_addr == INADDR_NONE) {
struct hostent *hp = gethostbyname(host);
if(hp) {
memcpy(&(si.sin_addr.s_addr), hp->h_addr, 4);
}
}

if(si.sin_addr.s_addr != INADDR_NONE) {
if(connect(sock,
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return(sock);
}
}
close(sock);
}
return(-1);
}

Tell me something. In the world we live in now, with 10's of well-known mainstream CA's, I see an SSL certificate warning on an otherwise totally OK site about once a month. DNSSEC supposes a world in which everyone runs their own CA; in other words, a world in which there are tens of thousands of CA's.

Where, in that function, do I (a) detect a DNSSEC failure, (b) propose to the user the untrustworthy - but - probably - totally - valid address we got instead, and (c) pop up a dialog to the user to allow them to decide whether to connect? Or, instead, does all this deployed code fail in exactly the same fashion as if the host didn't exist?
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When I first heard the Airbnb idea - I was really skeptical. This is one of the cases where the actual implementation of the idea turned out better than the pure idea itself.

I've booked a couple of places through the site when I was traveling in California, and the result in both places was better than I would have expected.
With Microsoft monopoly you always had the opportunity to reverse engineering the OS but when you can't see the binaries because they are in the cloud you're in trouble, it's worse than closed source.

Building your business around web apis without an SLA is the most risky business, you don't have control,

Enjoy your 15 minutes of your application placebo fame!
PS -- I use FB and Twitter a ton, and I love SmartTwitter.

I've even sent some emails on behalf of SmartTwitter to folks I know who might be able to fix this issue.

My point was simply that this will become par for the course, and you should expect and be okay with that if you are developing on OPP (other peoples platforms).

And that might be fine. SkyMall is at the mercy of the airlines, but still makes an absolute killing and so they put up with it.
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Why is "suicide" in quotes in this article's title? This woman did actually kill herself, right?
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Obviously I made a poor choice of words in my original post, but I decided to leave it since it would be unfair to reframe the conversation after the fact.

However by responding to my post you force me to further reiterate the exact same thing once again in no uncertain terms.

At no point did I mean to imply that Facebook is in any way open. If "embrace and extend" does not make that clear then how about The Godfather Part 2 embrace [kiss] of death.

> ... but your theory starts to fall apart ...

Again, my theory is that Facebook is aware of what is going on around it, open or closed, public or private, and uses it to its advantage. And so far, nothing that is "open" or "distributed" is competing in any meaningful way with Facebook. This is very very different from what AOL did.
You could write a little GreaseMonkey script or extension to do that, shouldn't be too hard.
And they close new signups rightaway. Can Salesforce not handle a few thousand new customers? Whats the logic behind these decisions?
Maybe they wrote a different value on each document as a fingerprint of sorts. Or maybe they just expected this to get out.
I picked up Erlang a couple of years ago because I needed to hack on a Jabber server. Never mind the functional aspect; Erlang stands out for concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance. Several of my Erlang projects have been running, at scale, trouble-free for months. I get a kick out of never getting service alerts.

Lisp is another good answer to your question. It's different. And the cliché is true: even if you never use it, your coding will improve if you understand Lisp. (Land of Lisp is a fine primer.)

However, with Erlang it has been much easier to find actual projects to do.
Very concise and informative. Thanks.
My platform is mobile devices. I am happy to develop Android and iOS apps, and I feel like the companies who run these somewhat walled gardens play mostly fair. As an added bonus, they have provided me a way to make money.

People who have found their success on the internet at large are my colleagues, but occasionally they are also arrogant in their views that anyone who doesn't make an HTML website is an idiot. These people's tunnel vision will hold them back their whole lives, and this character flaw is likely evidenced in other views they espouse.
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Given that if he's right, the vast majority of men would lie about what they want, it's hard to say. We could do a survey of porn, but you've already announced that you think the market for porn is consistently producing a product that most viewers don't want.
I know what the terms of service say, and I certainly know the terms of service allow Twitter to be assholes about this particular issue. They're still assholes, though, and they're assholes because they're getting in the way of their own users.
IIRC from the last time I browsed through jQuery source, attr('css', ...) is used internally but didn't look like it was meant to be exposed as a public method. And I never remember seeing this sort of special case in the docs. So, I wouldn't recommend using it in kosher jQuery code. A lot of things in this article seem a little dated; almost every tutorial now covers the $(function() {}) shortcut, and event binding is something I wouldn't know about jQuery? Really.

Note to jeresig: this article illustrates a beef I remember passing on when the jQuery docs reorganized; it works well as API reference now, but before, introductory text for each section of the docs describing things like event namespacing made for a nicer introduction to beginners like me, as well as the structured sub-organization of methods within each section. Now, it's more of an alphabetical method soup, so a lot of beginners probably never bother to learn that event namespaces exist, or what the jQuery event object does. For example, you can only get to the documentation on the event object from within the documentation for methods like .bind(), which I find odd. (How would a beginner know that it even existed unless they went specifically to the .bind() docs in an alphabetical list of other cooler sounding methods?)
Refresher:

DNSSEC is the 15+ year effort by the IETF to add security to DNS by adding new resource records that allow cryptographic signatures to DNS data.

DNSCurve is Daniel J. Bernstein's response to the cache poisoning flaw published in 2007, to which his own popular djbdns server was not vulnerable. Unlike DNSSEC, DNSCurve doesn't change the schema used for DNS data, but instead simply allows a DNS client to securely ask a question of a DNS server without allowing that question to be read or tampered with.

In a DNSSEC world, an attacker who broke into a cache server might (with many very important caveats) not be able to inject fake DNS data directly into RAM, even with control of the machine itself. DNSCurve does not provide this protection.

In a DNSCurve world, an attacker with control over the network would not be able to tamper with or even read the DNS queries sent from your desktop machine to a DNS server. DNSSEC, in its commonly proposed configuration --- the one overwhelmingly likely to form the basis of any DNSSEC adoption to occur† --- does not provide this protection.

Kaminsky favors DNSSEC; Bernstein in fact calls him "the marketing department for DNSSEC".

† I'm bearish on DNSSEC for reasons beyond its security issues, which I think --- at least at the protocol level --- are marginal.
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Too true. :/
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That's Really cool. Quite simple, has some of the good features of the Mac app store (aggregation, search, updates) and,seemingly none of the downfalls (bad ui, oppressive rules).