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there's no perfect substitute for a specific book

I mostly agree with this, but at the same time I can't help but wonder if the author Dale Brown would get such prominent shelf placement if his name were something else.
> find a regulated niche, weasel around it to provide clients ...

Regulators can't regulate the demand away. They can only push it underground, beyond the light of day. Whether this is a desirable social outcome or not I leave as an exercise to the reader.

It's not clear to me why regulators want to prevent mutually agreeable transactions from taking place. Surely when GS is on the other side of the table, you are aware that you are swimming in the deep end with the big boys...
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That's because theft generically reduces inventory while leaving the seller with the need to recoup the marginal cost of the item stolen. This is one of the many reasons why downloading something without the copyright holder's OK is not the same thing as theft. (This is not to say it isn't a crime or that it's morally OK — just that if it is a crime, it's one other than theft.)
Sounds like pretty arbitrary regulation. Does anybody know in particular what laws Goldman would be violating by offering to US investors?
Oh, I agree with you. I just think that he unambiguously drove the company into a lake, though I guess it doesn't matter if the board doesn't realize that.
Thanks espadagroup. Intuit is a great place to work, learn and practice skills including design thinking.
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Ah, I don't read the Reddit. Mea culpa!
Yes, but the attacker can not get the browser to silently fetch the page (regardless of whether Javascript is disabled) just by sticking, say, an <img> tag somewhere.
I'm not the original poster, but the idea that the US intelligence agencies have collectively decided that Iran's nuclear weapons program is inactive is not some crazy conspiracy theory: the most recent NIE really does say that. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/world/middleeast/03cnd-ira...
It may be that the authors did not want to telegraph their true capabilities to other state actors with cyberwarfare units. Although Iran is one such nation, the outcome suggests they're too far behind to constitute a threat.

More sophisticated states are looking at this and either learning: 1) that Israeli/US offensive cyberwarfare capability is much weaker than they previously believed, or 2) nothing, because they already know better.
not to disagree with your point, but it's a supply/demand issue. In Bangladesh, I'm sure the pipes they don't have enough of (though times are changing) deliver water. In the US, the pipes we have issue with are the ones that deliver data.

Market's will eventually resolve the supply/demand imbalance but things take time to build. The expectation for things to happen instantly is partially a product of the instant-information age we've been living in for the last 10-12 years. These days so much of the demand side is expected to be instant that we forget the production side isn't.

I'd also be curious to see bandwidth production/consumption data broken down by country.
> How do they get to pretend they are outside the SEC's jurisdiction?

The SEC only has jurisdiction over US securities activities. GS is capable of doing securities activities outside the US.

This sort of thing is not unique to securities.

Consider pharmacuticals. Certain drugs may only be dispensed in Japan under prescription while others are complete banned. Some of the former are over-the-counter in the US while some of the latter are prescription-only in the US. A Japanese pharmacutical company is bound by Japanese law wrt production in/export from Japan but is not bound by Japanese law wrt distributing drugs in the US, even if they were made in Japan.
"Halted in 2003" is how I remember it. How can you push back the progress of something that was halted in 2003 (if it was)? Anyway, (a) I haven't read the report; (b) an objective discussion of this matter seems impossible; (c) I already regret contributing to something that probably shouldn't be on HN; (d) I think I'll stop here.
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Instead of directing them to a BB, direct them to a site you control and embed a self-submitting form via post. Probably more difficult from a social engineering perspective, but just as effective.
They tried to "dodge the rules" by using a mechanism explicitly written into the rules. As the regulatory state expands, the notion that we are a nation governed by laws and not men dies.
I got a note from a user about an hour ago that they were unable to find our app in the Android Market. A quick check of the console showed it as "unpublished". I was able to easily go in and publish (all the assets were still there), but still a pretty serious "hiccup" on the part of Android.
How can you sell something with no terms and conditions mentioned that he is selling, "Sale includes data, domain, brand."

And then continue to say, "We promise we won't spam" on the signup page?

How does that work then?
The subversion is not this latest bit of news, in which GS is submitting to the will of U.S. regulators by not offering their service domestically.

The subversion was their prior stance of keeping the fund under the artificial limit of 100 investors, by presenting it as a mutual fund of sorts, where many investors invest in the fund, and the fund invests in Facebook. Despite likely getting the exact details wrong, I believe that's the gist of it.
A few things:

- Missing checks on phone number and email, i can write everything in those fields (do it client-side)

- Does this have a Company admin panel? Something that shows them the list of appointments and gives the ability to manage them, get the info of the customer if needed, etc...?

- This is clearly a MVP, i suggest to put some time/money in the site layout when the back-end will be complete.

- I'm not sure the "no monthly fee" is the way to go. Considering that is rarely used elsewhere it could be a good candidate for some A/B testing.

And btw, it's clear that you are competing with the product of patio11, interested in seeing how it will go.
Facebook uses both among others.
You said "This blog post is basically:", which I took to mean that you referring to him specifically (as he is the author of the blog post). I apologize if you weren't targeting him specifically.

Many in security are indeed condescending, although I don't find it to be more true than in the computer community at large; especially amongst programmers (who seem to feel an almost intrinsic need to disparage someone else's opinion about a language or design choice).

It might just be that we travel in different circles, but I actually am constantly impressed with how helpful and non-condescending most folks in the security community are. I frequently ask questions of people on Twitter who are among the best in the industry and I generally get really helpful replies (as helpful as you can be in 140 characters).

And I don't know Nate personally (I only refer to him by his first name because "Mr. Lawson" has a bit too much of a "Agent Smith" vibe to it), but I've never gotten the impression from anything he's written that he's smug or especially competitive about the infosec industry.
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The sole purpose of the entity they created was to allow more investors to participate than the SEC individually allows. When doing so attracts world-wide media attention, there is little difference between that and publicly selling the stock of a private company, which is not allowed.

They were doing this in the US before everyone said "WTF? Isn't that illegal?" It was a fine line GS was was walking (surely they expected and were counting on some hype), and it appears that it worked a little too well.

Edit: clarified.
Turns out Tumblr's having some downtime... Post can be viewed here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=159265784121760&...
The UBS style guide prompted derision and disbelief when it first surfaced last month, but Kern insisted it was still good for the bank's reputation in the long run.

Reputation for whom? I can't imagine potential employees or customers would appreciate this.
You inferred Nate's motives from his post and judged him an asshole for writing it. You are comprehensively wrong. I wouldn't be the only person in the industry to stay that you're wrong almost on the face of the matter just by implying that Nate's part of the vulnerability research "community"; he isn't.
Extracting terabytes of data is difficult to go un-noticed.

How do you transfer the data? rsync through external network is too slow.

The most convenient way would be to mount physical drive on one of database server and copy things directly. But that would require cage access, which I assume not many employees have.
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otoh, Twitter.app on the Mac is awesome.
Well stated. Another reason not to use Facebook or Goldman Sachs.
I don't intend to be mean, but the first thing I thought of when I visited the site was: why would a business choose to turn over the branding and interactions for their scheduling system, i.e., the most important part of their sales process, to a site with with an improperly spelled domain?

IOW, what is so compelling about Reservv to justify this risk and lack of control over customer data?

Also, following up on the first question:
Will be you following up with branding features?
Will you be allowing customers to download customer data entered into the Reservv system? If not, why not, and how will you explain this to businesses?
Generally I like it jumping straight in, but "it depends". (If anyone says "test it", generally I'd prefer you to be spending that time making the game better.")
Jesus, how do people do these things? I want some design sense.
Because mint is fresh and nice and a brilliant concept to be associated with... but "mint.com" is a brilliant brand name for a service like mint.com. Which explains why Aaron Patzer reportedly gave 1% of the company in series A stock in exchange for the domain (see 4th comment here: http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/08/startups-101-the-complete-m...)
I didn't include a link because I don't have time to vet any particular source. But you can take your pick of countless ones: http://www.google.com/search?q=iran+nie.
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We're not talking about skills that have fallen out of use over generations and therefore stopped being passed down. The people that used these machines are generally still alive and the younger ones are still part of the workforce.

Also, any parts about people being "weaker" or "stupider" are your words, not mine.
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Someone needs to do that t-shirt, with the Stuxnet code on the back. I'd get one... although I'd probably be too afraid to wear it :-)
You don't get shamed for a bug in your code - you get shamed if you aren't willing to go on-call to support your own code. That IMHO is a very healthy attitude.
I don't have a student visa unfortunately.
Time to build an open source portfolio and get in line for GSoC...
Any suggestions? I have a few small useful scripts that I've written over the years but they're not of good quality to release. Should I work on those or find some project to work on?
You'd be surprised how far Blueprint (http://www.blueprintcss.org/) and sparing use of text-shadow/gradients (http://css3please.com) will get you.
the first thing I thought about when reading "small QA team" and "the key...talented engineers" is that QA is not very important to the company

Couldn't the other corollary of this be that the company/development team has invested heavily in automated testing?
How did you keep it together? The binding is so bad, you can't open it up more than 45 degrees.
IIRC, it's because of StockTwits. http://stocktwits.com/
Therefore it is important to use tokens.

Another way (or in addition to using tokens) is to not expose hard delete functionality to the front-end period.

One thing I've done is to create a 'recycle' table in the database with a unique ID.

Also give every table in your database a deleted column.

If something gets deleted, create a new row in the 'recycle' table and use that ID to populate the 'deleted' column of all the rows that were deleted. This way each delete associates itself to multiple rows.

This offers you the ability to "undo" any delete + all associated rows with the delete from an admin interface that is not exposed publicly to web users.

This way, you have 3 tiers of protection:

- tokens

- a soft delete that you can easily undo

- backup copy of the db if all else fails
> It's not clear to me why regulators want to prevent mutually agreeable transactions from taking place.

In general, because the regulatory functions are aware of information asymmetries that could lead to large numbers of people transferring a significant amount of wealth to smaller number of other people.

Wealth concentration is expensive for society, because those who lose out do NOT give up their right to vote replacement money into their pockets. The more of them there are, the more likely they are to get society to cover some of their losses.
Nor use OpenBSD ;-)
Regulators regulate to protect the greedy from themselves.
Afraid of whom?

I've never heard of someone afraid to be pro-Israel/Mossad, only the opposite.
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I had no idea. I'm going to try switching to this.
The idea isn't that the two parties involved will harm each other, it's the effect on the rest of us.

And "it's going to happen, so we should just let it happen" isn't a great justification for anything. "Regulators can't regulate robbery away." "Regulators can't regulate assault away." This doesn't mean that nothing should be done. I agree that regulation may not be the best answer, but throwing it all out is likely to be as bad or worse.
It's the classic demo vs. reality problem (or hollywood vs. reality problem). What looks cool for short periods of time often doesn't match what is actually useful for 2,000 hours per year.

An IDE that displays code on the sides of rotating icosahedrons looks really cool for about 3 seconds, but is hugely impractical in reality. Similarly, giant noisy rooms seem more interesting in pictures and in planning but in practice are less useful than individual walled offices.

One of the great things about individual offices in terms of facilitating collaboration is that it actually makes it far easier to have impromptu meetings between a small number of people. In cubicles people tend to avoid such things since the noise is disruptive to others and there's not much room for people, with offices you can close the door and have 3 or 4 people in a single office without much problem or much impact on others. There are many other examples.
And now it's back up. Impressively short amount of downtime (<10 minutes), and it was amazing to see how quickly twitter picked up on it.
Remember that MATLAB started life as an interpreter written in FORTRAN for doing matrix maths interactively. It's a little unfair to compare it to something that came much later. The guys at Mathworks could have written an all-new language as good as Python (or embedded a language like Tcl or Scheme) at any time - they chose to retain backwards compatibility instead. That may be the wrong call aesthetically or technically, but I bet it was the right call commercially.
I'm sorry, I had a duplicate comment and deleted the wrong one before I saw yours. Thank you very much for these, hopefully my new projects won't look like mulch.
The SEC has continued to expand on what it considers its jurisdiction to be.

For example, see this article (section on "extra territorial jurisdiction"): http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/article.asp?articleid=107...
It's a satire on the BBC's 1970s school programming output.

The writers know what they are doing; this parody of mathematics is exactly how real mathematics sounds like to a lay person. This is nonsense, sure: but so is the satirical poetry of Lewis Carroll and the poems of Edward Lear, and the most erudite experts in the English language derive much pleasure from reading such nonsense.

Indeed, the more sophisticated the mind, the greater the need for self-parodies such as this show.
Did you get any bids yet?

Not asking the offer price, just the number of bids (from HN).
Thanks for your feedback. To answer your questions:

- The reminder is not optional.

- Yes, you can do all that you mentioned in the admin.

- This is a fully working product. If you sign up, you can see the admin right away. Perhaps I should add a link to a demo admin area.

- I'm not sure what you're suggesting about the lack of a monthly fee. Can you explain some more?

- I don't think this competes with patio11's product. As far as I know, customers do not use his product to schedule appointments.
Exactly! The fact that the anti-Mossad regime is so secret is what makes it even scarier. The less proof we can find, the more compelling it becomes!
Well, the lack of QA certainly explains a lot.
The purpose of Stuxnex was to push back Iran's progress by a few years.

Ah, but why bother? Iran's nuclear weapons are always just a few years away, in the future: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/bad-intelligence-but-in-which...

“Late 1991: In congressional reports and CIA assessments, the United States estimates that there is a ‘high degree of certainty that the government of Iran has acquired all or virtually all of the components required for the construction of two to three nuclear weapons.’ A February 1992 report by the U.S. House of Representatives suggests that these two or three nuclear weapons will be operational between February and April 1992.”

“February 24, 1993: CIA director James Woolsey says that Iran is still 8 to 10 years away from being able to produce its own nuclear weapon, but with assistance from abroad it could become a nuclear power earlier.”

“January 1995: The director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, John Holum, testifies that Iran could have the bomb by 2003.”

“January 5, 1995: U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry says that Iran may be less than five years from building an atomic bomb, although ‘how soon…depends how they go about getting it.’”

“April 29, 1996: Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres says ‘he believes that in four years, they [Iran] may reach nuclear weapons.’”

“October 21, 1998: General Anthony Zinni, head of U.S. Central Command, says Iran could have the capacity to deliver nuclear weapons within five years. ‘If I were a betting man,’ he said, ‘I would say they are on track within five years, they would have the capability.’”

“January 17, 2000: A new CIA assessment on Iran’s nuclear capabilities says that the CIA cannot rule out the possibility that Iran may possess nuclear weapons. The assessment is based on the CIA’s admission that it cannot monitor Iran’s nuclear activities with any precision and hence cannot exclude the prospect that Iran may have nuclear weapons.”

You'd think that after consistently making false predictions for decades, people might be a little more careful about this, but no....
Thanks, Cryptoz ... Thoz. :)
Try a discovery flight. It's a cheap, no-commitment way to see what flying small planes is like.

After you're back on the ground you'll probably find yourself bumping up the priority of flying lessons on your todo.
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> "I wonder if the authors, (seems to be Israel and/or US), wanted Iran to figure out who was behind it."

Or perhaps it was engineered to be as complex as necessary to accomplish the job (sabotage), but simple enough that Israel didn't have to show all of its cyber-warfare cards.

There's a good chance that any worm, no matter how engineered, will be detected and reverse engineered. It makes sense not to go all-in on any single one and reveal your techniques unless the difficulty of intrusion calls for it.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis
Labda Calculus can be shown equivalent to Turing machines.
"I think the comparison here to Enron is a bit of a stretch."

Could you clarify why this is? I'm not trying to imply anything, certainly not that Facebook is Enron, just that (to me) they have similar attitudes to assigning staff to work duties. When I read the Facebook quote, I immediately thought of Skilling's quote.

It seems to me and many others here on HN that I've read over the last few months have problems with the way Facebook operate e.g. those who need to use their API to integrate with their own service, privacy concerns, spam, etc; and Facebook doesn't seem to address these issues at all. That was my ultimate point - how they address with these issues, and could the fact they are not dealt with in a timely manner actually be a symptom of letting engineers pick their own work?
Did you consider switching to emacs ? It even has a vi compatibility mode.
Hey, one quick thing I noticed about supportbreeze.
I noticed a lack of clear confirmation when hovering the button "Get started for free" I can tell a faint color change however there is no clear indication of my selection.

Whereas hovering other links gives a visual mouse indication and a visual indication over the link.

Is that by design?
But the unanimous consensus ("with high confidence") of all 16 US intelligence agencies remains that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program _anymore thanks to stuxnet_

FTFY
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A lot of people don't know this: on Verizon, apps can't connect to internet while on a phone call. I'll wait...
What evidence would you accept
> jQuery is using promises, and not futures.

Can anyone explain the difference between promises and futures? I've always used the terms interchangeably.
Here's a list of last summer's mentoring organizations: http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google...

I haven't done it myself, so I don't know if my advice is any good, but I'd suggest picking one that interests you and getting started fixing bugs as soon as possible. And when you have a chance, double-check that they intend to take part this summer, too.

A friend of mine did GSoC a few summers ago. If you like, send me an email and I'll put you in touch.
Great post Brett. Really interesting to hear a little of the motivation behind you getting Company Line started.
There's a requisite level of precision that I think programmers can feel comfortable with.

There are also few things that are more refreshing after you've been sitting in front of a computer all day than flying to the coast, popping open the window at 4,000ft and taking in a California sunset.
... and you just broke bookmarks ...

Why do people insist on hammering in the screws, and screwing in the nails?

If you want to send data from the browser back to the server, use a post. It isn't difficult!

Is the motivation behind this secretly that there is some retarded 3rd party framework in play here that doesn't support post? Something like Ruby on Rails or Django or some weird ass Java REST library???
From the article: I decided to leave Intuit and fundamentally improve communication in a way that would obsolete notebox.

Sounds like notebox and CompanyLine are two different products that don't necessarily share code.
The idea was to use a short domain name -- in order to keep the link shorter. A lot of customers probably would not even notice the domain name if linking from a company website. I suppose the same could be said about schedulicity.com, but their name doesn't seem to be affecting their business.

Via the Reservv admin, the company has complete access to their customer data. Companies cannot download customer data through the admin. That's a good idea, but wasn't a primary goal for the first release.

The colors, background and text can be customized on the site that the customer interacts with when scheduling an appointment. The Reservv logo cannot be replaced. That's on my to-do list though.