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Hey Jeff,

Thanks for taking the time to work that up - your value proposition is a huge improvement.

Currently Java end-user app developers and their managers is very much the target audience.

The biggest thing that is actionable in the report is the most likely reproduction steps - see http://usermetrix.com/log_messages/8805/error for an example.

Provides developers with a huge head start on narrowing down and pinpointing the root cause of a problem rather than just the symptom, NPE or whatever.
This is like comparing whether you would like Diane Krall or Bob Marley based on beats-per-minute. Why do people have such a struggle separating qualitative from quantitative?

I'm American but I've lived in six countries: the richest was easily Switzerland, the most frustrating was easily France, but for me, the best was easily the Czech Republic. Hands down; no competition. But that's me. And the only way you can ever know which one you'll like best is to live there and go native. If you listen to Diane Krall waiting for it to start turning into the Arctic Monkeys, you won't like it. Most tourists and expats keep expecting the new country to be their old country with a different language. It's simply a different beast, and until you can lose yourself, lose your expectations, you won't know.
Don't think I have. I'll check it out next time I'm in cambridge or bluewater (My closest it looks like).

Thanks for the recommendation
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Might I suggest that you also read the explanations in the first result?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/958681/how-to-deal-with-memory-leaks-in-rmagick-in-ruby/959473#959473
I find it interesting that by following the green/red color code, apparently, the less you spend on health care the better.
Is health care a bad thing?
Start here:
http://david.freetype.org/cleartype-patents.html
It's not about what you (or I) need. Sure, using both Google and Facebook is fine. But Facebook might gain ground if they added (social?) search functions to their offerings.

I don't necessarily agree with the author's assessment -- building a search engine that competes with Google is a decidedly non-trivial project. Still, I think you may be missing his point.
They all seem like well-thought-out changes, and pleasantly schemey.
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I can see what FB does right - identity and other apis are good, but the site itself has very poor usability, unfortunately. Author's point - that you usually have no idea where your message goes and who can see it - is one thing that makes me limit it's usage to a minimum.

And the very valid observation that FB wall is usually cluttered with senseless status updates and stupid game events from an otherwise intelligent people does not add any points, too.

But surely, seeing how well FB is doing for other people who don't want to learn all that complicated things to post pictures online, I give them credit. Just not 50B of it :)

FB will never become the new Internet, and probably will never even become Internet's identity DB. See interviews with Mark where he tries to reply to a direct question whether or not he understands what kind of responsibility he gets with owning 500mil user records. He has no idea. I foresee a horrendous crash of trust. Hope I'm wrong.
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/IL/US

If The United States were your home instead of Israel you would...

- spend 2.3 times more money on health care
- use 97.95% more electricity
- consume 96.7% more oil
+ make 63.38% more money
- be 5 times more likely to have HIV/AIDS
- have a 47.24% greater chance of dying in infancy
- have 29.11% fewer babies
- have a 25.68% greater chance of being unemployed
- experience 14.8% more of a class divide
- die 2.62 years sooner

Q) Would you rather live in The United States?

A) No. I would simply try to find a way to "make 63.38% more money" where I live now, as the rest of list seems like US is not a better place to live.

But US is not San Francisco or New York right?

So perhaps, the comparison should not be made country-wide.

As I would definitely rather live in the bay area than in Tel Aviv where I live right now.
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The canonical URL is actually news.ycombinator.com

// Just thought you might like to know.
It's not like running diff against both versions wouldn't pinpoint the problem anyway.
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Thanks for this answer. A minor question: how long was your press release and did you attach it as a document in the email or just copy-pasted the content in email?

I'm asking because from what I read bloggers don't particularly like getting traditional press-releases.
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HIV rate in Japan is 0.1%

HIV rate in Singapore is 0.2%

The app tells me I am 100% more likely to get HIV in Singapore... which I guess is technically right but it certainly doesn't sound very inviting...
List of richest countries (IMF):

#7 : Sweden

#9 : United States

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom...

I hate to reduce this to numbers, especially GDP per capita which is even more of a joke, but in any sensible form of measurement, Sweden has been richer than the US for a long time.
Or the threshold for "Facebook is not for me" is rather low.
It would have to be a heavily optimised webmail UI. Current webmail implementations are too heavy on legacy features that normal people don't use (BCC/CC), have issues with spam ("why do good emails end up in my spam bin where as this viagra ad does not?") and light on social link and media sharing features that facebook users would expect.
Jiminy. This is like saying "if you're talking about a CTR implementation tht forgets to make nonces unique, that's a buggy CTR implementation". Well, no shit, Colin.

This case has the added benefit of you being wrong (the counterspace always starts at zero, but that doesn't mean decryption or encryption does).

And: that's not all I'm talking about.
Er, what else would you want to do to the message? Or, to put it another way, what else do you think normal people do with the messages? 99.9% reply or delete. Perfect.
Ask HN: Programmers Without Relevant Degree
How did you get your first job programming?

A friend of mine finds it difficult to believe that one can get a job programming without the credential. I'm telling him that it's helpful not necessary, if you can show you can code.
Oh, I get his point. It's just that his point doesn't make any sense from Facebook's perspective as well. Facebook's essence is to be your one-stop destination for anything "social" in your life. They would not do well to expand into generic search, since that's what most users associate Google with, not Facebook.
I agree that there's a lot of fluff on Reddit, but I don't think I agree with your solution. I find a lot of good, technical comments end up quite a way down the page in more detailed discussions between users who are more interested in the subject matter than having a conversation (or having their joke voted up the page.)

Really, I wish Reddit had something closer to Slashdot's moderation categorisation to filter on. Filtering out "funny" comments would be nice. Ignoring votes cast by people who just want to register their agreement or disagreement would be an incredible, impossible goal.
Just to assist with cross-referencing, there's another, slightly older discussion of this here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118778
Just to assist with cross-referencing, there's another, slightly more recent discussion of this here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119104
Discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119104

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118778
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Ask HN: Why is new Facebook profile hated so much?
I don't see how it is worse off than the previous version. It looks more appealing, has more color, and it CAN show more depth to the person, if used properly. What is wrong with it?
Probably the site's author sees it from the PoV that it's just too expensive in the US. Other systems offer the same level of health care, at a far lower cost to the patient.
I guess the author was not an early adopter. He'll like Stuxnet 2.0 I'm sure.
Yes, US East region only for now. From their official FAQ, other regions in the future:

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/faqs/#regions
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This is a head-explodey subthread. Sure, Colin, O.K., it wasn't a "crypto mistake", it was a "refactoring mistake that happened to basically turn off your crypto". The fact that perfectly innocent and benign seeming refactoring changes can do that to crypto is exactly why generalist developers should not be writing crypto code.
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Le botnet, come ormai sanno bene i lettori di Punto 1, sono reti di computer infetti, governati da remoto da criminali per portare a termine le attività illegali quali ad esempio: spam, phishing e attacchi di dDOS.

Nel corso di questi ultimi anni, a causa della loro dimensione e potenza, le botnet sono diventate un minaccia crescente per Internet e per la società stessa. Tanto per dare un ordine di grandezza, ENISA (l'Agenzia per la sicurezza informatica europea) nel suo comunicato ricorda che Finjan, ad inizio 2010, ha ipotizzato che il volume di denaro "movimentato" dal cybercrime sia comparabile a quello del traffico internazionale di stupefacenti. Per questi motivi...
What degrees does your friend see as being relevant?

Most job specs I've seen look for a technical/scientific/quantitative degree. This doesn't have to be something related to computing: it normally translates to degrees such as maths, engineering and physics.

Getting a first programming job without any degree is harder, although if you show you can code (via prior experience) then it's not a big deal.

Looking for a first programming job with an unrelated degree (say, something creative) and no experience might raise some eyebrows.
buy blekko. and stick the search bow right on the homepage when you're not logged in, and make it clear that if you search without logging in, you get standard results, whereas if you search after you have logged in, you get results tailored to your interests, the things you 'like', the stuff your friends 'like' etc. It's a great opportunity because it is relatively easier for Facebook to expand to search than it is for Google "to become social", imho.
As one of the two people working on something similar to Heroku or GAE (we're called ep.io), Beanstalk is simultaneously worrying and quite interesting - while it is an interesting player into the market, it's not _that_ hands-off, from what I can see, especially when it comes to databases, or things like Redis, which it's nice to have managed for you as well.

It's possible we'll see people springing up on EC2 offering those as separate services, however.

The other interesting part is that, since they don't do shared hosting but make you use a whole EC2 instance, there's potential for it to cost considerably more for smaller sites, but only once you get past that free plan of theirs (then again, the disk I/O on the Micro instances is truly awful)
I have found through experience that different cultures/markets require different qualifications. In the US you can create some practical experience (home projects) for yourself and usually find a lower-paying entry level position with a smaller company. After a few years experience you don't get asked about your lack of formal education anymore (this is what I did by the way, I have a Sociology undergrad).

In London, I found that people are much more interested in degrees and pedigree. Job interviews often started with education questions first, and I feel like I was considered less valuable because of the lack of CS background (that was my opinion at least).

In Switzerland, where I am now, the people I encounter place a very high value on training programs. Scrummaster training is more valuable than Scrum experience and programming certificates are important in a way I never expected. However, the Swiss have a very strong culture of apprenticeship and "Lehrling" programs, and both shops I have worked in have many more interns than I have seen elsewhere. And the interns are often in the last phase of their Masters degree!

This is all just experiential and not very quantitative. But my answer is it depends on where you live. If you agree to work for less than the next person then I think you have a very good chance of landing a programming job.
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This is just the first step, according to techcrunch ruby is next.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/19/amazon-web-services-introdu...
You clearly believe the press Stuxnet is getting. I don't. Neither, to some extent, does this analysis in Forbes: http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffreycarr/2011/01/17/the-new-york-...
Could you elaborate on what the exam was like?
In reading about these child abuse cases I was struck by how familiar they sound to the Witch Trials of the 17th Century.

We have prosecutors convinced they have discovered a hidden evil and that it is more widespread than people like to think. They sometimes have children as witnesses. They have false confessions from the accused. And we have bodily investigations of "secrete places" either to confirm that sexual abuse has taken place or the devil "knew" was familiar with the accused. And we have bizarre stories of strange practices, which are credulously believed.

It is like there is some universal process going on here. Communities require these expressions of hidden evils. And if you doubt the veracity of these claims then you are suspect too.

I don't think this paranoia is a new phenomenon to human society. What changes is the topic, but not the underlying need we have in human society for these expressions.

Examples of Witch Trials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hopkins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
I'm assuming you're an iPhone owner.
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Huh? What consensus are you talking about? The techniques Nate brought up --- techniques that are in a book that (while good) you can buy at Barnes and Noble --- would have made brute-force recovery of the payload infeasible; within reach only of organizations that had a full "stack" of "centrifuge"† equipment in the Natanz† configuration, and certainly out of Symantec's reach.

† If that's really the "target"
I bought my phone for the non-phone features, sure I'll admit it. In fact, I never had a use for a cellphone until you could browse the net on one. When that came along, I was all in. For me it's not a parlour trick, it's the primary reason I have one.
I suppose the point is that not everyone in your audience will be using 64-bit counters.
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No, it is the opposite of hand-wavy. It is a guy getting up on stage and performing an actual technical analysis in front of his peers, rather than posting an anonymous message board post insulting someone they presumably don't know.
I'm using this:

http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-plt/

Hope it helps.
I don't understand what "Android sales don't seem to dent iOS sales/usage statistics as much as the phone OS debate might suggest" means.

Most stats from various sources and markets over the last year, like sales and installed base, have Android behind but growing (much) faster than iPhone/iOS. So phone sales only exceeded Apple's in the US 2 or 3 quarters ago, and we only had data showing that about 1 quarter ago. Installed base is estimated to be moving above iPhone right about now, iOS (including iPads and Touches) will obviously take longer. Android share of the tablet market (the Galaxy Tab basically) is already at 25% for the last quarter apparently.

So in summary, anyone claiming Android was already ahead of iOS wasn't using any reliable figures, and mostly I've seen this in reverse (i.e. if Android is so far ahead where are all the quality games). Claims that Android looks like the future are (despite being predictions) on much firmer ground given the historical trends in the data.
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How about "not disclosing the manner in which it disrupted the target, thus leaving precisely the same avenue of attack open at multiple sites in the future"? The fact that this is plastered all over the newspaper would, were this a professional intelligence operation, be a major flaw in the operation. So much so that I don't think that's what it is.
Cambridge has one on Regent Street. Good burger; you won't find a decent milkshake, though.
Actually, that would be great for facebook. Sending millions of emails per day to the outside world with a link 'XXX is already on facebook, why dont you join today' at the bottom would be priceless.
What does "using" mean? Virtual memory? Resident memory? Shared memory?
To me, the limitations of App Engine are things like having to use a crippled version of the programming environment (as you don't get your own computer, so they've neutered things down to something "safe") and a bunch of limitations on CPU time, request length, and background processing.

(edit: I had somehow read what you said to mean, "no, but with these new limitations", so arguably I should just delete my response here, but I think that a specific list of things might be valuable still)
Ironic that PG's definitive reply is now below the fold:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118936
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I don't think that's relevant. Most Android users have no idea it's a 20% project. It's an app that's available on their phones.
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75 percent of Japanese still haven't heard of Facebook
Does anyone believe a modern Benz will be able to drive for 1,000,000 miles the way old ones regularly would? I don’t.

I think this has to do with the advances in material sciences and engineering. My theory is that parts in old cars were massively overengineered because the variation in quality was so high. If you wanted most of your cars to last 100,000 miles, you had to construct a car to last 1,000,000 miles. Nowadays, you can probably get away with constructing a car to last 200,000 miles.

Can someone with the right background comment on this train of thoughts?
I can't remember what author it was, but I'm sure it was Charles Dickens (but it's too early in the morning for me to be sure of anything), that made an entire page a single sentence to mock people who had complained about his long 'run-on' sentences. IIRC the page-long sentence wasn't a run-on sentence.
In the UK, I see the web results below the Facebook results, right at the bottom of the page. Almost impossible to notice.
The taste of American chocolate has always puzzled me - apparently it is down to butyric acid:

http://www.rps.psu.edu/0009/chocolate.html
Videos of Smalltalks 2010 are online
"I make no secret of the fact that I think real technological progress has slowed in many fields, possibly even reversing itself." states the author at the start. That's very hard to defend.

However, let me boldly agree in that I think this is true for qualitative change, but not quantitative. I think quantitative changes are rapidly happening, and that's because it's very easy to generate better answers from a set of pre-existing knowledge. Computers (plus their engineers) are very good at that. It's the whole premise of the Semantic Web.

The hard thing to do is generate a better set of existing knowledge, and then curating it well. As (perhaps mis-used but I'll use it anyways) Picasso said "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
It seems that his (valid) criticisms are about some implementation details (hence fixable without changing the library interface) and the message is almost two years old.

Have things improved since then?
I personally believe that if Apple had released the iPad with the same aspect ratio as the iPhone, developers would have simply treated it like a giant iPhone and not bothered trying to build interfaces that took advantage of the larger area (which is actually important, leading to a few new widgets).

(That said, I'd imagine the actual key reason for the aspect ratio change is that existing "classic" aspect ratios, like 320x480 and 1024x768 are the sweet spots on pricing at these various sizes.)
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An ethical, focused content site with well-targeted ads?
There's not much really good information out there for a naive smartphone buyer-- reviews cover incremental improvements in technology and arbitrary lists of pros and cons that don't really touch the issues of what makes a particular phone good or bad for a potential buyer. And, after a phone is bought and a contract signed, there's not much to support a user who's got a phone and not much practical information on what they can use it for.
Here's the idea: a site that does more than review (or aggregate reviews)-- a site that guides a potential smartphone customer through their options and lays out the real differences between one $100 Verizon Android phone and another.

Beyond that, people who buy smartphones don't get much support from their carrier or their phone's manufacturer after the contract is signed. Most phone buyers aren't checking out appbrain and browsing their phone's app store. This site would offer straightforward ways for people to get real utility out of their expensive hardware.

The core of the content, alongside links to others' video reviews and so on, would be a few paragraphs dealing with practical considerations in plain English for the non-technical user, for phones, apps, carriers, and technologies. The value added is a distillation of the issues that a technical consumer can get elsewhere. Mainstream journalism is lousy for helping people gain useful understanding of issues like this, and the kind of person searching for help is also the kind of person likely to click on very well-targeted ads about the products that they're now well-informed about.

Do you thing there's enough value here to make a site along those lines? Is there enough money in targeted phone and accessory ads to make it worth the effort to build a trustworthy site that ranks highly for http://www.google.com/search?q=what+smartphone+should+I+buy ?
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Incredibly poor article from a journalistic perspective; it leaves me wondering if the author actually understands the topic for which he is commenting.

However, there is substance to this and almost certainly violations taking place. The community is all the better to know about.
"go to the US if you want money, UK if you want quality of life"

Don't you think that is just a bit of a sweeping generalization?
It'd be interesting to know the price drop over time of the cars. I'm sure that cars nowadays are more cheaper than back when they could get a million miles, so the comparison doesn't work.
It's pretty annoying, Atomic Web is always running out of memory
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actually that's about the same percentage in China. Which is a more significant number considering the amount of people.
I don't suppose there's a transcript somewhere?
Ask HN: Anyone have an iPad SSH client suggestion?
I know I'll need one one day, and the reviews on the App store are less than awe inspiring.

Has anyone used one, and have suggestions / complaints / apps to avoid or buy? Not worried about price, as I know I'll need one at some point, and when I do, I'll be risking more than the cost of an SSH app.