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I just ask for an email address. I then email an auto generated password to the user. Their first login with the password I sent creates the account and takes them to their profile page which allows them to change their password or fill in other non essential info.

This system has a few benefits:

* No annoying "username already taken" or "password too short" rejections that make people give up.

* No junk accounts that haven't been verified since I don't create an account until the first login

* Person's email history has a record of their password if they're the type of person that doesn't care to change it.

* Since I'm really lazy, the account creation code is also the password recovery code. It just emails a new password.

I don't see any downsides with my system.
You can say that Murdoch has been cozy with western governments and corporations, but he's also been pretty successful with his media properties.

If News Corp thinks that there's profit to be made in a Wikileaks style operation, more power to them. I have no doubt Murdoch can flip whenever he feels the winds are in his favor for making future profits- he did in Britain when Labour started became dominant.
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I think there are a few problems here.

1. Your positioned for the Art market but your site looks so corporate. Have a look at the design for smugmug.com (targets photographers) and carbonmade.com (targets artists).

I'm guessing your market may assume that your a fly-by-night operator who bought a template from somewhere and isnt really serious about the market.

This is just my opinion - you can easily A/B test this with another design.

2. There is no testimonial on your homepage. This is not good.

3. You can only figure this out if you start A/B testing. There are a lot of products out there which will let you run experiments without changing your homepage. So start doing that.

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/landing-page-design-infographic/

4. I should be able to build the site first before logging in.
I see it as basically a one-group incubator that already had a decent product prototype.
I would generally agree, but to any observer it looks like SunSpider isn't being actively developed: http://bit.ly/lScLRi

- my correctness bugs have gone unanswered since August,

- other mozillians bugs have not been fixed either (at least one since 2009),

- the SunSpider svn logs show that there is no work being done on the sunspider tests themselves, since the release of 0.9.1 in January 2010,

- the last fix to the harness was 5 months ago (which broke shell tests for everyone except JSC).

If you [1] want to remain the "maintainer" you have to show that's you're maintaining it. While this isn't how I would have gone about it (and I was thinking about it), I can't really fault Google for this.

[1] And by "you", I mean "Apple", not you personally.
It's amazing that you've come in and criticised "the left" for spinning something pointlessly, when in fact you're just spinning it right back at them, while nobody else had made this discussion in the slightest bit party-political.
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> Also, perhaps they didn't want to spend the $5k on a lawyer

a government bureaucrat letting pass a chance to send more work to his lawyer friend? Nope. They just do not risk yet to attack Mozilla on such a shaky ground as declaring such an add-on as a paraphernalia of copyright infringement. Yet, it is just a matter of time. They will start with somebody less popular than Mozilla.
If you upvoted this article and think raising awareness of such overreaches is important consider contacting your elected representative, the person whose job is to hold government organizations accountable to the public's concerns.

https://writerep.house.gov/
This is so very German.

Can anyone tell how the take-off/landing is handled? It appears that the planes ride on little support struts, but do the struts auto engage/disengage once landing is complete/about to begin? Most of the taxiing appears to be done sans-struts. Also curious what happens to the planes onces they take off...
Please don't use URL shorteners on HN. There's no reason to hide the destination or to shave characters here.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/06/25...
Define a series of heuristics.

For example, lets say you have one heuristic that is the number of page views on a particular page, then the number of people who fill out a particular form, then the number of people who.... (Basically various things that should correlate with sales).

The easy way is to then go through and first off measure the correlation between each heuristic and sales and then define some facsimile for the change in sales through something like the sum for all h(corr(h, s)*delta h) with h being the heuristic and s being sales.

You can then use that as a new test heuristic for A/B testing.
Startup ideas that confuse "persistent" with "consistent".
What happens when your oauth provider goes out of business or decides they don't want to offer oath any more and you lose all of your users?
I personally think that asking the question lies in a grey area where it is often a complaint couched as a question, sometimes a genuine question that should nevertheless not be asked, but sometimes appropriate. If a post has a lot of votes and a lively discussion, complaining or asking is counterproductive. Flag it and cross your fingers that the moderators will recognize when something is popular but harmful to Hacker News.

If a post is fairly new with little discussion, perhaps patience is a better strategy. The discussion may emerge and you will be able to see for yourself whether the post is an exception to the apparent rules.

Sometimes a post has a lot of upvotes but very little discussion, and the discussion is fairly thin. In that case, the question can be sincere and helpful. After all, if there is very little discussion it's hard to figure out whether to flag it or not, perhaps there is some hidden value to the post.

I'm saying nothing about this post or this question, mind you, just musing about when such a question might be appropriate and sincere.
I get so tired of this. Almost ALL of you are thinking with blinkers on. The password field of your website is not the only vulnerability! Most, of the time, an even bigger vulnerability is PEOPLE. People at your company, for example, who have access to the database.

Listen up: rainbow tables CAN BE and ARE of a concern if you run a website, because unless you use a salt, anybody who has access to your database can (speaking figuratively) rainbow-table it straight into their bank account.

Stop thinking about JUST web pages and password fields. That is a mistake some banks and other corporations made, and their databases are now -- remember? -- available for download online.
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If you're a developer, find an SSD with good IOPS performance. You'll save time/frustration/angst and never want to use a spinner again. Every single developer I've shown my laptop running an SSD and spinning up Xcode/eclipse/RubyMine/ Textmate/Rails/Grails/Tomcat/etc has been shocked at the speed. Once they make they jump, I invariably hear: how did I develop before this?
For recommendations on an SSD, have a look at the Intel SSD's, the Crucial C300/C400, or the new Sandforce based drives. I had an Intel X25M-G2 and upgraded to a C300 and loved both.
A downside might be that you send passwords over unencrypted e-mail?
Why not? The last Watergate broke via the Washington Post.

Actually I think the question of who breaks the next Watergate may depend on whose ox is being gored. If you're leaking information to bring down a Republican president you'll leak to a left-leaning outlet (like wikileaks) and if you're leaking information to bring down a Democrat president then you'll leak to a right-leaning outlet like the WSJ.

Wikileaks and the WSJ is not perfect symmetry, but it is satisfying to know that all ideological bases are more or less covered.
Given Labour had 12 years of solid majority government, in which time they had a mandate from the electorate for electoral reform (manifesto promise).
And given the No camp has more Labour MPs than the Yes.

I feel you cannot state that Labour in any way desires electoral reform.
He has the capability to leak whatever is in his best interest now.
Not quite the same, but there was a lot of love for Tweetie's sunken logo (http://i.imgur.com/u6u4v.png). Twitter bought that app out and started using their fat bird instead :'(
Yeah that meshes with what I know as well. However I'm pretty sure when I started on the PS2 pre-launch, SCEA dev support didn't even exist. Sony Japan probably didn't feel it necessary.

Which is probably why all our docs were in Japanese for the first three months.
I agree, but I do have one nitpick: I've seen this suggestion several places, but I don't really think it's accurate to say that JS engine improvements are levelling off. See http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/new-crankshaft-for-v8.html Improvements to SunSpider scores, on the other hand, are levelling off, as you note.
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Cool. I'm looking for a June 1st apartment share - know anyone who might be looking for a roommate? Around $950 would be awesome.

My email is railsnoob at yahoo dot com.

Thanks.
I've started writing a 68k ASM module a while ago but I never finished.

Hand-coded assembly code is better in that it's less optimized and mangled. But worse in that it has much less structure -- I can't convert ASM code into C. Each programmer has its own way of implementing certain programming patterns, etc.

IDA Pro is actually quite good at flow analysis of ASM code.
Interesting that that gets down voted. Do you really suppose large companies don't invest in understanding what motivates consumers before trying sell to them?

Clearly, the ads are trying to associate with a circumstance that people aspire to - basking in the love of family or whatever. It's all about finding levers to pull in your head.
Phenona was over subscribed so I'm still waiting for my private beta invite :(

So may give DotCloud or Stackato a go soon. Apparently Perl deployments have already passed NodeJS on DotCloud! http://twitter.com/#!/dot_cloud/status/66208136494718976
You could also setup chatrooms or forums around technologies: https://github.com/chrismatthieu/CHATS.iO

Other ideas:

- measure who has implemented what technology and when

- work out various combinations of technologies

- work out who would have the most expertise in an area

- try and create a hacker score for users: (function of: time started, site traffic, simultaneous technologies, ??)
Flippa has listing in that price range. Click on "High End" on the home page.
> The language seems intentionally designed to not evolve

This is a strange claim to make given how much the language (and its libraries) have actually evolved during their little more than a year of life.
Is it just me, or is this not a "program" but a sponsorship of other incubators? I'm sorry, but this looks nothing like Microsoft's BizSpark, or some of the other offerings for start ups. If you want me to use your platform for my entire business architecture it sure as heck better be more compelling than, "Oh, hey, so we sponsor these guys and stuff."

Don't get me wrong, I love Rackspace's support. They're pretty damn good at what they do, but they also charge adequately for it.

Edit: See Nick Longo's clarification here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518560
> I honestly can't tell if you're joking, trolling or you actually don't know that Feynman's first name is Richard (or, shorter, Dick).

I knew his first name is Richard; didn't know Dick is diminutive for Richard.
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I'm asking about technical merits of one over the other, which you didn't respond to at all. And look at the overall scores on the 64bit one-core and quad-core benchmarks. OCaml is ahead.
I couldn't even find out what there doing, other than "providing resources".
Ill take the risk of Facebook, Twitter, Linked, Google, etc going out of business before my service does :)
You have to trust their promise that their anonymous submission process is actually reasonably anonymous. Many whistleblowers probably couldn't tell between an anonymous process and a seemingly anonymous process that isn't.
Most people don't know how to mask their IP address.
I can do it even better. As long as it's being done on your own server, and you are only concerned with outside threats, then toss bcrypt over the side, and you can do that in 2 easy steps:

[1] pause for 0.2 seconds (make sure the delay does not block other threads), and

[2] compute your goddamned hash the same way you have always done.
The ballot form has a 'yes' and a 'no' box on it...
You can learn to be useful in Go in about 5 minutes, and it has some extremely convenient support for concurrency.

On the flipside, I think learning OCaml (if you've no experience with that family) will make you smarter in a way that Go won't. Of the two, given someone that knew neither: if you want to learn something learn OCaml, if you want to do something use Go.

Aside: speaking of OCaml and new languages, have you looked at Rust? https://github.com/graydon/rust/wiki - it was bootstrapped in OCaml.
It pretty much contravenes the current community conventions surrounding Ruby and the sharing of gems. Good luck selling that to a community that was built by people sharing ideas and code while having them peer-reviewed, who are also adamantly opposed to the idea of selling snippets of code.
Or have an option that both parties would agree to to save and archive the chat?
Actually, I would say that for the average user, a well done OpenID login is considerably less complex precisely because they don't need to make up another username/password to memorize or otherwise keep track of.

You need look no further than any of the stackoverflow related sites to see a very successful large scale site using OpenID.

I'd also suggest looking at tripit.com, catch.com, mindmeister.com or springnote.com to see excellent examples of OpenID login done in a way that's very user friendly while also providing the option of a traditional login for people who prefer it.
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yeah you are right, I learned servlets / jsps from Marty Hall's book and then just progressed from there. For smaller projects I usually start with Tomcat + Stripes + iBatis Sql Maps in order to minimize the learning curve. But no self respecting corporation would consider that stack (even though it is free, easy to learn and very fast).
Ask HN: How can a boot-strapped startup market without spending money?
I launched a small startup a few months ago called Talentopoly.com. I spent a few hundred dollars on advertising in the first few months and it seemed to help bring people to the site. Without a source of revenue though a long-term marketing budget is not sustainable. I use Twitter, my blogs, guest posts, etc. to draw attention to the site and get the word out.

I'm interested to hear from the HN crowd other ways to market a boot-strapped startup like mine without spending money every month on advertising. What are some other ways to market a startup? Thanks in advance.
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I think I'm along the same lines as you are. I don't comment on generic blogs posts as they don't represent the continuity of community to me and therefore offer me no benefit in spending my time writing something for a group of strangers. If I see the link on HN or Reddit or MeFi, or Twitter even, I'll comment there, not on the blog.
Absolutely. Perl on DotCloud was a huge success: no other service on our platform has seen such rapid and massive adoption!

Perl hackers are much more experienced on average, they typically master more than one language, and they are extremely good at documenting and helping each other out [1] [2] [3].

[1] http://blogs.perl.org/users/leo_lapworth/2011/04/deploying-t...

[2] http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2011/04/catalyst-in-cloud.htm...

[3] http://blog.kraih.com/mojolicious-in-the-cloud-hello-dotclou...
since we are comparing go and ocaml, why did they not add more functional programming support in go? It would at a lot of expressiveness to the language. Just wondering.
I have looked at Rust. Rust looks like it has the potential to be a much bigger game changer than Go in the systems programming space, in my humble opinion. But only time will tell.
Based on the description of the design here I was expecting it to be a lot worse. The design is okay, but yes, A/B tests will let you know for sure.

But the building-the-site-first idea is tops particularly because people can get worried that (1) it will be too hard, or (2) there won't be a theme/design they like. Instead of trying to prove it with words/pictures, just let them start. At this point, even giving your email address away is a commitment, not even just CC info.
One problem that I noticed is that not all OAuth providers give you the users emails as part of authentication data. Twitter and LinkedIn for instance dont, whereas Facebook does.
How do you handle that?
What you are describing is a very real danger, but if you are modeling actual noise, it's less of a risk than if you are modeling some small systematic shift that you claim you must subtract from the signal. With noise, it's more unlikely that the model would just by chance give a systematic shift to the data. More likely, if the model is wrong, it just won't decrease the noise level.
I think the question is these don't look like NormalCDF(coef/se) p-values given the coef and se you report. They tend to be too small.

right that's my question
They should still file bugs and ping the maintainers, at least.
from the looks of things, they're providing resources if you're in a sponsored incubator.

also, this: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/information/promotions/kingof...
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But effectiveness isn't about the number of clicks you get, but ultimately the value you derive from the impression (and the probability of a click).

If advertisers get 30% less out of Facebook ads but it costs 30% less, then the effectiveness is comparable.
Los Alamos did have a hole in the fence! Because everyone working there was a US citizen the censorship was voluntary and had limits, so Feynman was able to write a letter out describing where the hole was.
Back in February on the dev list Rob said something about "...until the App Engine stuff is out." For some reason this email doesn't appear in the archive, but I'm definitely looking at it in my inbox right now.

It did and still does make me wonder, though.
"because one crucial piece of data is lost when the code is compiled: the intention of the programmer"

I've worked on many projects where that's lost when the code is written.
Related anecdote: I visited the National Ignition Facility [1] last year, where everything was pretty much up and running but they still hadn't finished putting in all the shielding that needs to surround the target chamber before they start actually doing fusion shots. We were assured that if they had done a fusion shot before installing the shielding then everyone in the (extremely large) building would have been dead due to (if I recall correctly) neutron absorption.

Side note: the National Ignition Facility is freaking awesome.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
If I see one more article on this incident that abuses the word "firewall" I'm going to hurt someone. Surely Apache is either accessible via port 80, or it isn't. What would a firewall do to mitigate vulnerabilities in a webserver?
I think this is the best ad made yet. Google needs to do more of these.
The youtube video above explains that (again in German). The start/landing system with two 'poles' was designed over a long time to allow realistic angles of the plane (i.e. nose up during descend/landing).

Are those things disconnected later? I'm pretty sure, yes. The actual mechanism wasn't shown in the videos I've seen, but I expect those planes to be able to taxi to the runways, connect and lift off.

After take off the planes are brought behind the scenery in a special area that allows to store/move/hide the planes. The video even says that it should be possible to change the direction of the start/landing.
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Look at modsecurity.org. That's what people call (rightly or wrongly) a web application firewall. You can put a bunch of rules in and if it seens certainly bad incoming requests or certain outgoing requests (all of which are configurable) it'll take whatever action you've got configured.

For example, if you try and submit javascript tags to my websites, they'll just drop the connection. SQL injection attempts (at least, very obvious ones) are also logged and dropped.

There are commerical hardware devices that'll do the same sort of thing modsecurity does - I guess it's being suggested Sony didn't use any, which IMHO is very stupid.

If you look at the definition of firewall, modsecurity seems to fit it: "A firewall is a part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications." I don't think the term is being abused, just used in a way that people aren't familiar with. Most people seem to think a firewall is only a network (IP or Ethernet) level device.
Painful to read - because of the awful 'tag cloud' widget in the right that sucks CPU like there's no tomorrow.

Printer version: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/japans_nuclea...
This is a really pretentious article. Everything described there as a huge problem is just a setting away.

Want to improve your movies?

Invest in a TV with a huge gamut, so dark areas or areas with a color gradient will not show bands or borders where the color changes and also have those huge compression artifacts.

However, the same Plasma TVs recommended in the article have better color gamut than LCDs.
I wonder how much of this would have been possible without computers.

The Germans, after all, could semi-reliably lob V2s at London without anything more complicated than a slide rule. If we'd been significantly faster with rocket technology and significantly slower with electronics I wonder what an uncomputerized space program would have looked like.
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Have a look at Mint.com's marketing plan. Not necessarily finance-free, but it gets the gears turning: http://awe.sm/5IdQy
It's was actually systematic shift, but a periodic one. It wasn't random noise.