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UKStartupVisa: lowering the bars, positive for enterpreneur and stratup. 
UK StartupVisa Legisltation, Drafted by A Cambridge based VC Alex van Someren, of Amadeus Capital Partners and former CEO of tech star nCipher, worked on UKTI’s global entrepreneur program has delivered yet another master stock in area of Britons VISA legislation which will come in effect by 6th April.

This new resolution, which have lowered the Bar, cleverly, Thus allowing the Entrepreneur from outside UK and EU resident to enter into UK Venture and entrepreneur market easily and thus create a positive competitiveness with US-StartupVisa,which has raised the bar higher in terms of cash requirement from entrepreneur.

Under UK's Tier-1: Entrepreneur get the visa by proving a financing of £50k from a regulated financial institute FSA-registered VC firm or entrepreneurial seeding competition supported by UK Trade and investment.

Followed by the key benefit in this law is inward investors could apply for accelerated settlement in the UK at any given point after 3 years-instead of 5, as they can prove that their startup have created the 10-ful time jobs for UK resident for a year or generated £5m over the 3 year.

This is much lower compared to US StartupVisa norms, which requires much higher funding, a two-year visa for immigrant entrepreneurs whose firms attract at least $250,000 in angel or venture capital financing and 5 job for resident US withing this time.

Willager's views: US StartupVisanorms is much higher-difficult to achieve by the immigrants, Thus will create the fewer takers, compared to UK 's Startup Visa, which will drive the entrepreneurship to UK.

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without a doubt, the best book on the topic is:

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Software-Security-Assessment-Vulne...

Mark is one of the best vulnerability researchers in the world. We used to hang in the same groups, and I remember that there was a 2-3 month period where he found and wrote exploits for vulnerabilities in almost a dozen different operating systems on 5-6 different architectures. the guy is a god

Back then the only way to learn was to try it out yourself. there were no books, only phrack, IRC, and setting up boxes on your own network and having a go at them with a debugger running. you really have to be motivated, as the work is laborious, but worthwhile because there is nothing better than the rush you get from developing your own exploit. it is awesome that ppl like Mark are now writing books and dumping the knowledge they have gained through decades of real experience

there are different types and categories of exploit. local apps and targeting privilege escalation, kernel exploits, server daemons (ie. anything that has a port opening and waiting for a connection), crypto implementation exploits and then webapps and browsers (more popular today).

then there are different discovery methods: black box testing, where you throw data at an unknown system and through known inputs and outputs figure out what is in the box. white box testing, where it is still closed source, but you are able to attach a debugger, and then code auditing - which is simply going through the source code and attempting to find common errors that you can exploit.

you will find that you will levitate to one particular type as you learn. for eg. for me personally it was IIS server (found and developed 6 diff vulnerabilities for IIS 4.0 and 5.0), NT kernel and web apps. good luck with it - if you find something, send it to me :)
Apple's Mac App Store Sales Already Half As Large As The iPad App Store
Al Franken: ‘They're coming after the Internet’
I have a kettle, and it is just as quick, but is there a fundamental difference? Does the microwave "scorch" the water? Whatever that might be (ie, make it hotter than it needs to be, manipulate the minerals in the water in a way that affects taste?)
From pokeballs to frisbees
This scares me.

> I could run it out to md5 and trim the first n chars but that’s not going to be very unique.

What? MD5 going to be orders of magnitude better than what he's given.

> Storing a truncated checksum in a unique field means that the frequency of collisions will increase geometrically as the number of unique keys for a base 62 encoded integer approaches 62^n.

Well, duh. That's a given. And his solution won't do any better.

> I’d rather do it right than code myself a timebomb.

Doing it right would be using a real hash. Not something you came up with over a cup of coffee.

> Pretty random-looking, huh?

If that's his idea of testing for randomness... Use any randomness test and I guarantee you MD5 will preform better and faster.

> This is a minimum security technique.

This is the best piece of advice in the whole piece. Please never ever use this for something you want to be secure. I haven't tried to break it (maybe I'll do that over the weekend), but giving it a first glance I would be willing to bet anyone with some skill would be able to do so.

"Anyone, no matter how unskilled, can design an algorithm that he himself cannot break." -- Bruce Schneier
EditGrid is still around and free and unlike Google Spreadsheet's broken importXML function (see: http://goo.gl/fWYDi) it has a web_xpath function that mostly works.

Also worth noting DabbleDB is one of the (few?) relatively well-known projects implemented in Squeak/Seaside as discussed here: http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&t...
I don't think there's going to be a shift from Reddit to Hacker news in the same way. I feel like there's a theoretical balance between social networks. Additionally I think reddits subreddit system helps a lot too.

p.s sorry for the drunk post.
the context may not be right, but you do have a point. flash and acrobat are the easiest attack vector, as it seems that for years now they have almost constantly been vulnerable to one exploit or another, upgrading them is a PITA for users, and they are often easy to exploit

for years now, whatever computer I have myself, or whenever I am setting a network policy (if the owner agrees), I always always disable flash and acrobat/pdf readr.
This is fantastic.

But we also need a breakthrough in K-12 tech adoption.

n=1: my girlfriend is a math teacher at a better district in California. The only technology they provide her is a desktop with Windows 98.

So she uses her own mac to admin a tumblog filled with photos of assignments and answers to problems she uploads from her iphone. She uploads PDF's to google docs and 'shares with everyone'. She links to Khan academy videos since the school bans youtube and none of the district computers support flash.

Then her students use their home computers (if they have them) to consume this content. They're excited about it (most never heard of Khan before this) and it seems to be effective.

Back in the late 90's IBM installed a token-ring network at my high school. It was obsolete before they finished the project and the computers we had could barely get IE3 to load a web page.

So I hope this incubator does a lot not just to foster edu focused startups but to also get the right people in education to push for decent technology at schools.
The Future of Search Can Be Found in Dungeon
Use BETV to Watch hot and new live report about Japan Nuclear radiation
Watching CCTV live report Japan quake on BETV
Facebook co-founder Saverin backs mobile payment startup Jumio
Judging a company's ambition by the size or grandiosity of their office is exactly the kind of thing Fried/DHH rail against.

Tons of companies build big pimped out office and justify it to themselves as being necessary for their future plans. It's one of the signs that you have "arrived".
I recall a friend who advocated "tabs" with IE6. He seriously used it that way, too.
Completely off-topic, but I just noticed that when people reply to your comments on TechCrunch it notifies you on Facebook. That is baller.
I find it interesting that the study found Android to be so markedly better only for sites that weren't optimized for mobiles. On mobile-friendly sites, the median was quite close and even in iOS's favor: "The two operating systems were much more closely matched for mobile specific websites with Android only faster three per cent of the time, with a median load time of 2.085 seconds versus the Iphone's 2.024 seconds."

I don't think for a moment that the difference in load times for mobile-friendly sites (about 3%) is significant, given the errors inherent in such a test, and the results for non-optimized sites clearly show that there is a lot of merit to Android's browser stack. Rather, I bring this up because I think it reflects on Apple's design philosophy as compared with Google's. Whereas Apple designs for their ideal of what the Web should be, Google designs for the Web that actually exists. One could argue that Apple's approach is better in the long-term, but I don't think that I agree. They've taken a lot of liberties with the idea of a web standard, after all, and seem to be banking on their market power to ensure that their technical strategy works. On the other hand, Google's approach is more developer friendly, I think, in that it treats standards as tools which may or may not be employed by individual web development teams.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but all the same, I do think there's some room for very interesting analysis--- The Inquirer missed an opportunity here to delve deeper. Alas.
My memory is that IE v1 was never widely released to the public.

The only place I ever saw it was on a MS documentation CD, and then only because a coworker was pointing at it and laughing about how terrible it was.

I notice it's up on oldversion.com though. I suspect he skipped it because setting up a IP-enabled Windows 3.11 system was more trouble than it would be worth.
If I would get an Android, it will be mainly about the price point.
> I chose primes near the golden ratio to maximize the appearance of randomness.

Anybody know what this appearance of randomness is?
Syntax to me is superficial. What APL/J/K are doing is much deeper: programs are short sequences of composable operators.
Then, something really bad happened. Something which made the earlier outage a comparative walk in the park.

Murphy's law on St. Patrick's Day. Doesn't get any better than that.
I'm with you on this one - but this is a pretty unpopular opinion on "Hacker" News. Just let the kids call themselves hackers if it makes them feel better.

It's a pretty fine idiot filter, too. If someone introduces himself as a hacker you know directly where to put him :)
Exactly, you haven't even been able to make a new database for a year now and it takes about 30 seconds to export your data to excel. I really don't see what the big deal is here.
What are your apps?
My question is: if you've built a function where f($1.00) = $1.25, why stop at $10K/month?

What I'm really saying: if you stop at $10K/month, you haven't actually built that function.
I am not sure that this is the canonical approach, but the way I did it was to model my search index as the resource. Requesting it with no parameters returned the entire index in its natural sort. Additional parameters filtered/sorted/paged/etc.
Great writeup. I'd love to hear other people's experience with regards to workarounds when / if EBS goes down (switching over to RDS for a short time, etc.).

The comment about moving to local storage was interesting. Isn't the local storage on EC2 instances extremely limited (like 10-20GB?)
This Chunichi Shimbun Article:
http://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2011031702...

about the increase of looting in Japan following the earthquake uses 略奪 to refer both to armed robberies and taking things from unattended stores.
I see that as noise, and I prefer to downvote noise. Not voting is reserved for comments with very small contributions or opinions I disagree with and don't seem properly justified. But that's just me.

I agree that downvoting is a harsh punishment, but it's also my opinion that this "noise" should be differentiated from the above cases, so I don't see any way around.
"it was about how the jews control Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. The funny thing about this particular site is that it had Google Ads all over it."

I actually thought about this the other day in the context of how important Facebook was during revolutionary activity in Arab nations and the action Facebook took to protect people's passwords and privacy during the civil unrest in Tunisia.

My first thought was that maybe that would take the wind out of the sails of the "Jewish Zionist World Conspiracy" types.

Then I realised that those types probably don't read. Or think. C'est la vie.
Investor Brands
Microsoft raised $1M in VC in '81 from TVI (went on to become August Capital - at least shared some partners and LP's). they also burnt through a lot of Bill's parents' money (which is why he had a larger share than Allen)

for some reason this isn't part of the microsoft history story and most ppl don't know about it - but it took years for microsoft to gring out decent revenues and profits.

'lifestyle business' is meant to mean a small business where the goal is to gain enough revenue to live from. ie. something between ramen profitable and taking a salary from a VC funded business.

I can't really think of a top50 tech firm (on market cap) that didn't raise outside capital at some point.
Desbloquear Motorola WX290 - icelular
Assuming "local storage" is synonymous with "instance storage" it's 160GB to 1690GB. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
A little thing we like to call 'visual impact'.

Frankly I'm just amazed whenever I see a graph online where somebody hasn't diddled the y axis, or a 3d pie graph with massive chin that 'accidentally' makes the lower slices look much more massive than the top slices.
Run Visual Studio 2010 in safe mode
I remember someone once arguing with me, telling me that IE 7 was going to be the best browser ever and kick Firefox's ass.

I eventually decided that this person was a meatspace troll, though I could never quite be sure if he was honestly such a big fan of IE or just trying to get a rise out of people.
Awesome Google Chrome extension: JavaScript Errors Notifier
Notify about JavaScript errors on the page by icon in address bar
API Idea Management with Google Moderator
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MyDLP on HowtoForge
An howto about installing and using MyDLP has been published on howtoforge.com.

Check it out

http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-and-use-mydlp
From the article:
"Blaze has produced a report that proves Android is faster than the Iphone[sic] at web browsing."

This is incorrect. Blaze didn't even test the Android browser or Mobile Safari. It tested the performance of embedded browsers in third party apps.

From the report [0]:
"The measurement itself was done using the custom apps, which use the platform’s embedded browser. This means WebView (based on Chrome) for Android, and UIWebView (based on Safari) for iPhone."

Mobile Safari is faster than embedded browsers in third party iOS apps [1].

[0] http://www.blaze.io/uncategorized/mobile/iphone-vs-android-4...

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214752/Apple_Blaze_s...
Amazon claims: "Each storage volume is automatically replicated within the same Availability Zone. This prevents data loss due to failure of any single hardware component".

They make it sound like they are already providing RAID or something similar; however, the fact that things like this happen to Reddit, who have built their own RAID on top of Amazon's already replicated volumes, show that reliability is not a good reason to go with AWS.
"I'm not writing this to be a dick."

glad we cleared that up, saves me leaving a comment
If the dabble guys are lurking here can you ping me? I was always really interested in the technology and how it could work with http://decalcms.com/

I've also emailed that support@ email address but not sure if that's just for customers or what ...
Why wouldn't you run MD5 with binary output, then convert the output to base 62? That's ~21 digits in base 62 and doesn't require figuring out your own hashing function.
DHH's "How to make money online" (Startup School) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY goes into more detail on this.

The version with slides isn't working right now http://37signals.com/svn/posts/981-the-secret-to-making-mone...
Judging a company by its office is indeed a bad idea. Judging ambition by an office, less so.
There used to be Hacker News meetup in Vancouver, but it died a year or two ago. That said, other types of meetups here have been quite successful. I started VanJS in 2009 and we get 50-80 attendees nowadays. Feel free to organize a new one.
(Oops, that's the mobile formatted version. Normal version: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...)
If I want a string thats 5-6 chars (for, say, a URL shortener), truncating an MD5 is a bad idea since it IS random.

These keys are GUARANTEED to be unique. You can run all the way up to 62^n without any key conflicts.

If you truncated an MD5 to 3 characters, by 62^3/2 you'd have a 50% chance of collision.
More discussion is taking place over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2339214
Actually you are stating a hypothesis as a fact. Exactly what DRM is under First Sale Doctrine is to my (somewhat rusty) knowledge, still unclear.

Whatever licenses you do or don't have in front of you don't matter. That's the whole point of First Sale - you are not subject to any contract or license, it defines what you can do WITHOUT PERMISSION when you purchase a particular item.
For shorter 5-6 char strings. Ala tinyurl slugs.
More like "they build you up, and you tear you down".

The demise of Digg is entirely self-inflicted.

My recollection is that amongst other things they:

Had a big pointless UI change

Arbitrary changes to how something shows up on the front page

Polluted the frontpage with 'sponsored links' (read as: advertising)

Layered ads on their ads ("I heard you like ads...") with a side-helping of ads.

In order to increase click-through they were trying to make the ads look like normal links... this is scammy. Once you start lying to your users, why should they trust you? Once you lose their trust, how will you ever get it back?

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Now I'm not saying advertising is evil, and I'm not saying they shouldn't try to monetize. Gotta put food on the table somehow.

But honestly, I don't believe that they've dropped from 18 million to 12 million. 18 million to 1.8 million, that I'd believe. Digg is like a ghost-town now compared to what it used to be.
TechCrunch -- has it gone completely anti-Google?
I have been following TechCrunch since past year or so and I have noticed a lot of changes in them and thier post.
Degradation in the Quality of the content and for no apparent reason making some sensational headlines against Google.
The last 6 months, around 80% of the articles have been anti-google. On some of the articles, I have been shocked to see how low they have gone to criticize Google. I am not a google fan boy, but what struck me was there was no consistency in their posts. At one article they will go rant about google services and in other post, a similar loophole by a known company goes without rants.
Sometimes I do feel that TechCrunch definitely has an agenda of attacking services for no apparent reasons.
Lots of money has been made by the lack of rationality of those who control movies (Hollywood). I exaggerate to make a point, but if it is in my lifetime, it might be just barely.
i feel the same way. like this place is a toxic pit of narcissism that leaves me feeling icky and uninspired.
I saw this fragment in the source code:

case T_IRQ0:
// Bochs generates spurious IDE1 interrupts.
break;

Evidence that they run their educational OS in a virtual machine.
What do Entrepreneurs Have to Think About?
He's attacking Amy Hoy, a vocal opponent[1] of the hype around startups whose current business is a time-tracking app called Freckle. Freckle's main attraction is that it has a pleasant user interface. I'm not sure how anyone was duped. I guess it's supposed to be dishonest if you're getting people to pay money for functionality they can get free elsewhere.

[1]: http://unicornfree.com/2011/follow-the-money/
I always love seeing a good technical post-mortem of what went wrong and how it could be fixed in the future...

I'm currently working on building a backend service that has to scale massively as well, and it has been a fun challenge trying to understand exactly where things can go wrong and how wrong they can go...
What to do with $300k?
A friend of mine was telling me that he has $300k saved up and he wanted to see if I have any advice for him as far as what he can do with it. It got me thinking, you hear a lot about how cash is king these days, but what can really be done with $300k? Buy a commercial property? You have to pay 30% down, so $300k would buy you a $900k property, which isn't much in CA real estate market. And who's gonna rent it? Seems like there are plenty vacant ones already. Invest in stocks, that would be a total roller coaster ride? Start a startup?

The sad truth that I realized last night was that $300k isn't a lot of money these days.

What do you gals/guys think he should do with the money?

DISCLAIMER:
This is a fake account to keep my friends identity confidential.
How do we suspect AT&T are able to determine when a device is being used to tether?
Android/iPhone web browsing speed test flawed - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/androidiphone-web-browsin...
You can truncate the md5 base 62 string to anything you want after that...you're still going to have approximately as much uniqueness as his hash.
oh, you still read TechCrunch? I stopped reading it since the day AOL brought them.
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Hosted with AWS? Who is having problems in the northeast.
HTC Android Phone HTC Desire Z Launched In India
HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today unveiled the HTC Desire Z Android-based smartphone in India, featuring the new HTC Sense experience. The new HTC Sense focuses on enriching the mobile experience, wherein the customer is placed at the centre of a whole new world of features.
It's a shame that they are finally cracking down on MyWii and the other jail broken tethering applications. Those applications, at least for me, helped to make the iPhone usable while AT&T dragged their feet on enabling proper tethering for several years. Now that Verizon is finally putting pressure on their (lack of) business model, we get stuck with an overpriced official solution instead.

Hopefully Verizon won't pull a similar move: they seem to be largely ignoring the unofficial tethering solutions for Android phones.
If you use a prime near 62^n/2, udihash(range(1,10)) would still be unique but it would return a list that clearly has some linearity (V0001, 00002, V0003, 00004, V0005, 00006, V0007, 00008, V0009, 0000A, etc).

Using a prime near the golden ratio makes the list appear less linear (cJio3, EdRc6, qxAQ9, TGtEC, 5ac2F, huKqI, KE3eL, wXmSO, YrVGR, BBE4U).
I saw this blip as well. Spreedly was telling me it couldn't talk to my server for around 17 minutes. 8:04pm-8:21pm PST
I'm guessing web browsing on browsers that are clearly PC/Mac desktop versions.
Uh... didn't DabbleDB also get acquired for their developers and put into maintenance mode?
Facebook adds batched requests to their API
I'm trying to see the larger picture

1. Get people addicted to Pokemon game
2. Add in-app purchases
3. Start gaming empire

For those who haven't seen the game, it's incredibly well executed. Good sounds and graphics.