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Hi Elliot,

I appreciate that you discovered a security flaw and took action to get it fixed. Thank you.

However, the WAY you did this really screwed up a bunch of people. I have an app running on PHP Fog that serves 25,000 people a day, and I woke up on Sunday morning to a stream of complaints that it had been down for hours. You seem technically capable, so I'm sure you have a lot of interesting (and useful) projects and hacks to come. But next time you do something like this, model it after this:

http://daverecycles.com/post/2858880862/heroku-hacked-dissec...

If you're hacking to help people and make the world a better place, do it like David Chen. With your abilities you will get a lot of respect and appreciation if you do it like that. If you act destructively, some people might appreciate your technical chops but you won't get real respect in the field.

And don't worry too much if it feels like you're at the center of a cyclone right now. It'll pass, and as long as you act more deliberately in the future you'll be okay. :)

- Jason
If insider trading were not illegal, they would not be crooks. Nor would they have the ability to "steal your money" - you would be under no obligation to invest your money in the public markets and you would be well aware that there are better informed people out there.
Agreed. I'm a second year CS student and my summer job salary isn't far from that.
The Tyranny of the Extroverts title reminds me of "The Smart Talk Trap" (stanford-online.stanford.edu/apm04csia/docs/SmartTalkTrap.pdf) from the Harvard Business Review which talks of these poisonous extroverts who excel in the language of "No, it wont work" and revels in shooting down ideas to fix something and not coming up with any actual steps to solve the problem. I recommend it if you havent read it already.
20-40 hours per page is ridiculously high. They must be incredibly slow and it makes my doubt their design skill.

To design a web app is incredibly easy because there is no marketing element to it--it is all about functionality. If you are bring on a designer to do work on a webapp his job should be to make it pretty, but also to make it usable. If all you are getting is better color selection then you are wasting your money.
WOW!

If anyone hasn't seen these, seriously, check them out.

I've used Theme Forest themes before for sales sites, but never found great themes for a web app. These are definitely going to the top of my list for the next time I need to build something.
You don't want Facebook traffic if you can't make anything off it. In some situations, investors might prefer a company fold than spend all the remaining money trying to rescue the situation.
The other day, I saw a discussion on reddit entitled something like "What is it that people actually do at parties?" I thumbed through it, not really that interested, but I had just been to a gathering the evening prior and had a small realization while thinking about it.

Quite simply, people talk about themselves.

There's some skill and filtering involved (you have to do things to have something interesting to say when you talk about yourself, and you don't want to focus the whole conversation on yourself), but the most important part of this epiphany was that I realized that growing up, I was always taught that the best way to be a conversationalist (and the best way to get girls to like you, and the best way to get support for your decisions, and the best way to get important people to listen to you) was to minimize yourself in the conversation and take interest in the other person, asking questions and responding with more questions...

and that this advice is sabotage, created by extroverts to make introverts easier to spot so the E's don't have to spend as much time trying to engage us and can just move on. It's like telling someone who has a hard time picking up skiing that snowplowing down the side of the run is just as fun as actually skiing, so they should just stick to that (and incidentally stay the hell out of the way of everyone else).

Extroverts naturally ignore this advice (or never see it, because extroverts don't need to seek out advice about how to engage others), and when introverts internalize it they further push themselves into a corner.

The most rewarding thing for me in extrovert situations has been figuring out what makes me an interesting person, and talking about it.
I'd argue that the way Apple got into the iPad market was extremely different from the iPod. Apple's iPod play was very low key and niche at the time. The iPad, in contrast, is a mass market product Apple waited for the timing to be just perfect on. It required the technology to get where Apple wanted it and Apple's (now) enormous scales of economy.
One should note on the F# side that there are similar modules to Accelerate that let you calculate on the GPU.

Personally, I've found that the performance from the SSE4 units are faster than the GPU, but I have a feeling that this may be due to unaligned data structures.

http://tomasp.net/blog/accelerator-life-game.aspx
If they aren't finding people, they aren't offering enough.

I know no business wants to hear this, but it's the simple truth.
"Cause" is a very strong word. Even if more water in the ocean created pressures that contributed to the recent earthquakes, there are certainly other factors--by which I mean even without global warming, the EQs would have occurred anyway--eventually. Perhaps it accelerated the coming of the most recent ones.

It's hard to conduct scientific "experiments" like this without a supercomputer to simulate the actual effects of greater pressure on the plates.
One doesn't have to break a law to be perceived as a crook; it's quite often a moral judgment, not a legal one.
When I scanned this headline, I first read "bake V8 into hardware" (i.e. the V8 JavaScript Engine). An interesting idea!
I highly recommend http://www.olark.com -- but I am biased. If you already use an IM program, it's hard to beat being able to monitor visitors right in your buddy list.
> He's only working about 7-10 hours a week as far as I can tell.

A bit of advice: It is very difficult for business people to assess the contributions of engineers and vice versa. This story may repeat itself.
There is nothing in the letter to indicate that. I get such "would you like to explore" letters twice a week too; and I turn them down also.

It is the recruiters' job to cast a wide net and reel in as many candidates as they can.
The stories about TRIM coming in Lion also pointed out that so far it was only supported on Apple's own SSDs.

Also, the major problem with Sandforce drives on Macs is that their firmware can only be updated a) under Windows, in Boot Camp, and b) with an MBR-formatted disk. That is bullshit.

http://eshop.macsales.com/Customized_Pages/Framework.cfm?pag...
For the curious I pulled the US govt salary data:

75% of developers in the US earn less than 100k/year.
10% of developers in the US earn more than 130k/year.

To get in the top 10% of developers in the UK you need to earn £60.5k (about 100k USD). So developers do earn more in the US than the UK (although once you take into account things like greater holiday allowance, etc. the difference comes down to about 10%).
Great points.

I suppose what I did a poor job of emphasizing (after reading your comment) was that networking beyond LinkedIn and trying to establish relationships. Perhaps I'm a bit more cold about who I connect with on LinkedIn, because in a way I see it as an extension of my social consciousness when people can just reach out and ask to join that circle.

And that's not to call myself old fashioned or lash out against the worthiness of something like a digital Rolodex; what I am saying however is that if it's worth your time to go through and connect with people on LinkedIn, it should also be worth your time to find out if these are the people you can derive some sort of social bounty from as well. Needlessly padding your connections count is about as non-advantageous as needlessly padding your twitter count.

However this opinion is purely relative, and contains large amounts of imperative perspective based on a few bad experiences.
Your point appeared to be that Flash is insecure, but that the things proposed to replace it e.g. Webkit, CSS3 implementations suffer from similar issues. My point was that, similarly, its performance problems with video are shared by other browsers when implementing the same functionality.
As far as tablets go, isn't the iPad already on the low end? No reason to undercut the lowest priced mainstream tablet when they are the lowest priced mainstream tablet.
If there is anything I have learned about Steve Jobs, it is that he decides for the market.
Why does stuff like this get on the front page, or do TC articles get special treatment or something?
Especially given that their codebase is apparently Ruby and not PHP.
Are you saying they should also sell Android phones in their retail stores?
Actually Thomas Jefferson wrote a fair deal (no pun intended) on copyright and ultimately he was ambivalent as to it's benefits, but he certainly recognized that copyright's ultimate aim was to enrich the public domain and was not intended to give ownership to ideas.

"Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."

Also, copyright is a legal claim, so almost any argument about it will be rhetorical. (Rhetoricians and Sophists were basically the first lawyers) Copyright itself does not logically stem as a necessity of the conditions. With regard to rhetoric logos is one of the rhetorical appeals so even an argument based purely in logic can be rhetorical in nature.
Paul's Online Math Notes: Cheat Sheets and Tables
Cheap slideshow link-bait but kind of a nice historical archive to have
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. -- Pablo Picasso
... and we usually do not take a screenshot of the email after replying "Thanks, but no thanks" by email either.

It is just a cheap-shot to ride on the geoHot wave to get 15 mins of fame.
The submission I made earlier - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346092 -
apparently has notes that are mostly ripped without giving proper credit. As a result, I thought I'd submit a link to the originals, rather than that rip-off.
Beetailer (YC W11) Helps Online Retailers Set Up Shop On Facebook
Have you explained to the guy that from your point of view he is unacceptably unresponsive? Has he actually said these tasks are "below his pay grade" (a strange idea at a startup)?
Not if you're actually qualified to question them; if on the other hand you're not a specialist in the field and you're claiming all those who are haven't a clue what they're talking about,

So basically, the scientific process is limited to a group of select insiders and outside criticism is forbidden?

FYI, most serious skeptics don't claim the specialists "haven't a clue". They claim that the certainty in our current conclusions is overstated. It's also important to note that many AGW proponents make the exact same claim when geoengineering is discussed.
They're still in beta and they got back online ridiculously quickly considering what happened. I've been happy with them since day 1.
That's the standard story yes, but it's like playing one game and calling it quits. Those who game the system would be found out (perhaps through insider info) and their finance costs would increase.

Other firms would take to releasing info themselves in order to set expectations and reduce risk - which already happens, but there'd be a huge driver for more so - lest others trade early on the info.

The effect on startups, even in your scenario, would be nil / positive. We already have a ton of risk priced in, and we're not required to file 10K's, etc. Also, most startup boards include the lead investor who has access to all "insider" info already - you don't think they share that with that in future follow on rounds?
This actually goes to the heart of a debate a friend and I have been having, whether it's possible to create rules that have longer term usefulness. Hopefully this isn't too off topic, but after reading Anathem and looking at the Long Now stuff I thought, what sort of "disciplines" are useful for creating organizations that can a long time preserving core values but adapting external values (and being aware of that adaption). I tend to think that rules or meta rules are possible in this space. My friend thinks that rules are always too restrictive and you should just have sets of models you can apply. Maybe this "only break the rules you really know" provides a path to create rules and break them with purpose.
Mobile Prices in India (Jan 2011)
I'm not splitting hairs this is actually a major issue. I run a developer job board, before that I founded a social mobility non-profit that specializes in understanding university admissions and outcomes. I'm intimately familiar with the data.

The BBC article is based upon the JACS classification of Computing which incudes IT subjects. From anecdotal evidence CS has very low unemployment and IT has high unemployment, but due to HESA using the JACS classification a graduate in Business IT is considered the same as a graduate of Computer Science.

If you split universities which only teach CS from those that teach IT, you can see very clearly in the HESA data that Computing has a much higher employment rate at universities which don't teach IT (this isn't clear cut evidence as universities which don't teach IT tend to be academically stronger universities; but it does back up the anecdotal evidence).

I wrote to the universities minister asking him to get HESA to split CS and IT data after he gave a talk at TechHub, but sadly he didn't respond.
That's what I do. I think it's also good to remind yourself of the difference between what you need to survive, and what you simply enjoy. I feel so fortunate to enjoy so many luxuries, but I also know that I can (and did) live without them.
Age Segregation in School
I suspect that if the OP had actually gone through Parris Island or San Diego, the friendly on-site staff would have helped him remember how to spell it correctly.
> So basically, the scientific process is limited to a group of select insiders and outside criticism is forbidden?

Let me rephrase that for you to more reflect reality...

The scientific process is limited to those educated on the subject and criticism from the uneducated isn't taken seriously nor should it be.

So, if you're not a climate scientist, and your position on climate science is in opposition to 99% of actual climate scientists, it's very likely that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about and should be summarily ignored by any rational person.
I'll add, specifically: are FPGAs used? Commonly?

That seems to be where they're going, since Google promises VHDL and Verilog code.

http://www.webmproject.org/hardware/
One of the things that a 'dynamic' type system (or as the author would see it, a restriction to a single type) imposes on its creators is the need to make that single type as useful as possible. This includes things like being able to easily lookup an object's class, documentation, methods, properties, uses (is it a sequence? is it a map?, etc.). As a result, I find the design of the core libraries of dynamic languages like Clojure more well thought-out than say something like .NET. It's simple things like being able to treat a string as a sequence (Haskell, a statically-typed language, does this), an 'object' as a map, a map as a sequence, etc. I wonder if it has to do with a sort of de-centralization of control; being dynamic seems to make a language more malleable and open to experimentation. Accomplishing the same things in a statically-typed language requires more planning (which means that after it ships, its too late).

I really appreciate a well-thought out static language like Haskell, but it still has some way to go for the common programmer. For now, I don't think that the practical outcome of this article is for programmers to abandon dynamic languages.
My guess is a ~$300 tablet with a smaller screen would attract a lot of people wanting to read ebooks and dip their toes into the tablet world. The only decent tablet I know of priced this way is the Nook (which, ironically, isn't being sold as a tblet: it requires rooting to act as one).
I agree - I find your post is clearer than the original paper, Crockford's explanation, and Lundh's Python post. It helps that you start with just addition and multiplication, then add more functionality after explaining the basics.
I just sent you a mail..
It's pretty natural to mention the people you work with a lot, and YC startups work with PG a lot. I'd mention my coworkers a bunch too in my comments, except that they're not public figures like PG is, and I want to protect their privacy.
This is amazing. It is quite a thrill to be able to read such things in a browser, instead of having to slog to the library or do an inter-library loan. And the indexing is very well done, even with English translations of titles.
> but he was the boss

You said he was a tech co-founder. You are another co-founder. So he's not the boss of you. You should have a frank conversation with him. It sounds to me like you let the problem drag on far too long, maybe not wanting to be confrontational? You have frontend skills and are "not allowed" to fix cosmetic changes requested by customers? It all sounds very strange.
Emotely: [Announcement/Beta Stage]

http://emotely.com/
The problem with insider trading is it leads to stock manipulations which is the opposite of your argument. Pump and dump is possible outside a company, but when you get to write the prospectus there are many more options to mess with the market.
Investing In A Downgraded Apple
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The url is http://www.postamigos.com

I went with a simple slideshow instead of a "normal" landing page. When I actually have something to launch, I will probably remove this.
google, there are a number of facebook app development mills.
Reminds me of the "It's like X, for Y!" startup-description snowclone.
Are you referring to extension methods? Or the "dynamic" keyword/type? I've only used the dynamic type a little bit, can you use it to solve the type vs representation problem he is referring to?

Thanks
Is it your take that this is an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, so no one will cheat, and everyone will use an honest tit for tat strategy? Except that the payoff for cheating is high enough that you can probably earn enough to stop playing. Additionally, these tricks are difficult to prove--it took years for Enron to unravel.

Also, because cheaters can't be predicted in advance and your "cure" is only retroactive, the capital costs are born by everyone.

Startups get capital because the business they create will eventually be worth a multiple of their earnings. If that multiple is reduced because of an "insider cheating" penalty, the attractiveness of the investment is reduced, and therefore the amount of investment that will chase it. There is no floor on the risk discount that can be assigned to the price of an investment, except perhaps $0.00.
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>In truth, I could probably afford to just outsource all our engineering

Then you do not need technical co-cofounder.

> He's only working about 7-10 hours a week as far as I can tell.

Was he like this starting on first week? May be something has changed on your side as well.

Don't count working hours, count work done.

> And meanwhile, I don't know what the heck he's doing that's taking up so much time that he can't round the corners.

Did you ask him that directly, he might be solving some other complex problem back of the mind.
OT, but I was intrigued by the other items on the proposed ISP bill--in particular the "US Timeshifting" item. I did some searching. It seems some Canadian cable companies offer for $1/month to provide access to both the east and west feeds of ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS.
PHP is, by no means, just as secure as any other language. It has a horrid security track record when compared to any other language.
Thanks! Good luck to you too.
businesses aren't democratic, plain and simple. If that had been the government saying you couldn't publish your book about Islam or Judaism or something, then that's something to get up in arms about.
Fear may be more dangerous than radiation
If you go back and look, the iPod wasn't put out in a low key way. It fit the pattern that Apple has established. The problem was that the MSM didn't really pay them much attention and the timing was really horrible (Oct 2001 release).
> *That's great Lime, but does it really connect with the marketing message? Maybe if you added a bit more "pop" to it. Also, wouldn't it be better if it were teal?"

For an explanation of "pop", see:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
Talk to old people.

Seriously, I've countryhopped myself and once you have a decent grip of the language, the best way to get low-friction contact with the locals is to strike random conversations with old people. With few exceptions, they love it when anyone at all talks to them, have interesting stories to tell, and are much easier to approach than your random person-your-age on the street. Try it. Give yourself a quota of one conversation a day. Talk to that granny that lives two floors above you to start with. Keep it up.
Google is full of very smart people. Wouldn't it be smarter, if they wanted a BSD-licensed Linux workalike running on ARM, to start from, say, NetBSD?
you made my day
If you're looking in the bay area, I'm going to be shamlessly self-promotional and suggest http://www.justin.tv/jobs/apply (the form just sends me an email).

Not only do we use ruby, rails, mongodb, postgres, git, and an async framework (Twisted/Python), we are a startup-y startup. Feel free to email me emmett@justin.tv if you have any questions. More info is available online at http://www.justin.tv/jobs/jobs.