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I've signed up for a few newsletters on purpose before, if (a) the product and/or content was compelling enough, and (b) the checkbox told me unambiguously what the newsletter would contain, and most importantly, how often it is sent (monthly is ideal).

Assuming your newsletter might be something your users would actually want to read (crazy, I know), the newsletter preview link is a fantastic idea.
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Hahaha, I love that they snuck the word pivot into their description of a startup's journey:

"from the planning, to finding the target market, to the coding and then pivoting"
The very fact that ICE is involved in IP enforcement is itself a pretty shameful anachronism. If the US Government wants to have a department that acts as the enforcement arm of the content industry's copyright battles, then it should create a division whose primary duties are not "chasing down Mexicans". The link between bootlegging and the borders hasn't been germaine in over a decade, and asking ICE to be responsible for enforcement is almost guaranteed to cause the sorts of issues we've seen so far with regards to inappropriate domain name seizures and illegal requests made of organizations like Mozilla.

I don't personally believe that the gov't has any business acting as a uniformed proxy for the RIAA and MPAA, but if they're going to take on that role they need to create an organization with the mandate to do so, a clear mission statement, and transparent statements and limitations of power. They need to be independent of the content industry, and operate within well-defined boundaries if they are to have any legitimacy.
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no, I'm in the high tech mecca of South Carolina. New York is frightening to us southerners.
I don't quite get the vitriol.

People leak things to the WSJ all the time. You may not like their Editorial page, but their business reporting is pretty solid and well-respected.

How could providing better protection for their sources be a bad thing?
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I'm a Slicehost customer, and I just found out about all this from a blog - it's two days after this Hacker News post, and I still haven't received email about the matter. Rackspace, I'm very, very unimpressed.
> six places ahead ... five places ahead ...

Those tables do not show a rank # by each programming language implementation because that might encourage people to make a completely bogus comparison!

(For example, six places rather than five just because one table includes an extra programming language - Clean.)

You're both being silly! "The numbers" for Go 6g and OCaml overlap and are quite similar.
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I think it has a lot to do with making an incredulous statement without providing some evidence, or discussion as to why you think "WAFs are snake oil".
This is a nice start, but after reading "Pillar #1 - Technical Competence", this sounds more like a guide for systems administrators than for developers.

Don't get me wrong, everything in Pillar #1 is important, but I think there are much more important things for an aspiring developer to consider.

Just off the top of my head:

- program structure and organization
- variable typing, naming, & use
- function/subroutine strategy & use
- frameworks & APIs
- algorithms
- database design, structure, & access
- benchmarking
- performance tuning
- scaling
- security
- testing philosophy and strategies
- systems analysis
- systems design
- prototyping

To better understand the difference between a software developer and a systems administrator, I often use this analogy:

My users/customers are race car drivers. We developers build and maintain their cars. Systems administrator build and maintain the racetrack itself. Every link in the chain is necessary, but in my experience, smooth pavement with poorly running cars is the norm. So we developers need to focus more on building better software and leave as much admin as possible to those experts.
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OK, so actually state your reason. You're being downvoted because we can't read your mind.
This is a legitimate question--but what if you need to support different versions of open source packages and you need to be sure that they will exist years later. This is something that I'm facing now in that I may be using numpy 1.2.x, but suppose someone else is using numpy 1.3.x and we all need to play well together in a distributed environment--the context needs to be stable. If I don't put this in source control, then where's a good place to stash it so that I can reconstruct the various contexts when I have to migrate to a different server?
Perhaps if you had shared some of those reasons you wouldn't have been downvoted.
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Is anyone else worried that the MafiaaFire authors might start putting bogus redirects in the plugin? Does anyone know the people behind it?
This is going to BLOW up into some amazing technology. Just you wait.
I do disagree with you.

WAFs aren't perfect, no security product is. They do allow you to implement protection against many types of common attacks against your website. This is useful if your site runs applications that you don't have the ability to fix XSS/Injection/etc... issues on (you don't own the code, you don't have resources to do it, etc...). This is actually pretty important as most websites out there run old and/or closed source and/or 3rd party code and/or don't have internal resources to identify and fix every vulnerability 100% of the time. A well tuned WAF provides a decent layer of protection. They also allow you you solve PCI DSS 1.2 Req #6.6 without doing pen testing/vuln testing after every single code change you release.
It's remarkable in this context how one of Sony's primary strengths for the Playstation franchise has always (certainly PS1/PS2) been having the broadest third-party support of any console out there.
How about your IP address?
>> "So now only users with Javascript enabled can use your website."

It's easy to measure what percentage of your users have JavaScript disabled. For a consumer website, it's probably measured in the hundredths of a percent.

If you can make a change that increases the conversion for 99.97% of your users, even at the cost of ZEROING the conversion for 0.03% of your users, then you will still come out ahead.
Given the article that someone cited in their reply to me on this comments page that said that Google has been launching it's product in many forms since October 2006, it still seems possible that they made the decision to buy that company because of Google's actions. As far as everyone knowing what Google was doing, I don't think that is true. Didn't a lot of people think that they were really just trying to get into the 411 business? I mean before they actually launched the product in their labs thing and stated their intention.
Indeed, these kinds of altruistic behaviors have been demonstrated many times and in many different ways in simulation. It is interesting to see this implemented with real robots, but it is not at all surprising that the same dynamics would appear.
Assuming all possible inputs to the compiler cause it to halt. Not true for many high-profile languages.

And while not strictly related to "is it decidable", in the real world we have to keep in mind the complexity of the solution. The presence of the naive solution for a particular language doesn't say much about how well we can* actually do it. Is the problem actually decidable within the confines of the physical observable universe for real world inputs?
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I think the product is the obvious part of brand experience and the one that most startups think is the silver bullet. It isn't...there is no silver bullet. It is about delighting people every single time they come in contact with your company.

In a B2C context, the only contact the user may have may be the product in which case focusing the brand experience around the solely around the product may make sense.

In a B2B context there are touch points such as support and customer service, billing, development, etc. Whether you know it or not, you are have the opportunity to build a relationship with that customer at every single touch point. If they have an experience that blows them away at every time they come in contact with your company...this is something that goes way beyond just having an engaging product. This is something they will want to tell others about.
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I would be very, very curious to see hard numbers on this.

Also, it's trivial enough to add a <noscript> tag advising users to turn on Javascript (with a friendly "here's how" link), or you can do the work to degrade gracefully. Your conversion might drop for such users, but there's no reason it should go to zero.
Thanks for stopping by to provide this clarification, and additional information. It means a lot that you took the time to post, especially in this venue, about what's happening with Rackspace and startups. Definitely looking forward to the unveiling. :)
I could see how others might disagree, but I think the WSJ's terms are reasonable. The WSJ also has an admirable policy of not respecting embargoes slapped on press releases unless there's an agreement in advance.

If what you're leaking is so secret that you can't even discuss it with them in advance, then you shouldn't trust them period. It's on you as the leaker to make sure they have no way to determine your identity in the first place.
How does he explain helping unrelated strangers?
That's not intuitive. When I go to a site I know if I remember the password or not. If I have no clue what the password could be I won't even attempt to login. If I don't see the "forgot password" link I would assume the site doesn't have that feature and leave.
Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA&feature=playe....

The whole thing is just amazing. Checkout 3:30 in, the computer control station is just rad.
> Rupert Murdoch has been pretty cozy to western governments and large corporations,

I don't get this criticism. Isn't the point of sending them the information for it to be published and disseminated?
Is Wikileaks unbiased and uncensored?

Journalistic virtue is a rare thing. Everyone has an agenda, either ideological or commercial. The only thing we can do is take what we can get and consider the source.
No, all government agencies have a legal staff. The DoJ's mandate doesn't include screening all government actions for legality.
If you think Python was a significant influence in Go's design you probably have not worked with much with Go or its ancestors.

Yes, Go is not a 'purely functional' language, or 'purely' anything, Go is a pragmatic language following from a very long tradition mostly at Bell Labs.
Go falls under the broader OO set. OO isn't C++/Java, OO is an ill-defined collection of techniques that centers on binding data structures and methods to manipulate those structures tightly together. (Any other criterion I've ever thought of has a language that doesn't meet it, yet is generally agreed to be OO; that is literally as tight as I can make a broad definition of OO. You can't even get too specific on the nature of the "binding", and yes, my definition permits C code that is structured in certain manners to be "OO". I don't have a problem with that.) Python, Javascript, Go, and Java are all "OO", despite a wide variety of significant differences.
Interesting read. But, don't skip the intro (even though it gives you an easy way to) because it clearly calls out:

> The optimal target audience is the following group of people: Professional software developers ...in junior positions ...working in large software companies

I don't work in a large software company (I'm allergic), and as a result not much of this felt relevant to me.
The thing about this "category of software" is that it seems to be more-or-less promising "security in box".

But any security expert should know that "security isn't product, it is a process". That is, the entirety of an organization has to be organized with security in mind or any particular effort is going to be worthless.

It is well-know that security that isn't organization-based is essentially like installing armored door on your house without baring your windows. And its seems that there are a number of large organizations which just aren't willing or able to make this security a priority.
Wait, there is a viable chance at (controlled) fusion within the next decade?

That would be massive news, I mean of the century, no?
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> How could providing better protection for their sources be a bad thing?

Why would you assume they would actually provide better protection? Because they said so?

But, then a valid question is "How do we know if Wikileaks provides good enough protection?" and the answer is that we don't know exactly, but we trust it more because of its past willingness to go against the grain and not play along with the govt and corporate entities. Its members are routinely harassed, its head is on some show trial waiting deportation, one of the sources has been locked in isolation for months and months.

I personally wouldn't trust WSF to provide any protection for any important information. I would just assume it would log all the identifying information and when their liason from FBI calls they would be more than happy to provide that info without a court order. That is just my personal attitude towards WSJ.
I wasn't aware of this. My perception of your post was you think Richard Feynman's aversion to the prize and his reasons for the aversion were dickish and you are calling him a dick.
It's comparable for the advertiser, but it's not good for Facebook. Their inability to get higher CPMs for their traffic is a big problem for them.
Both pages show "performance" - they show 2 different summary statistics of "performance".

> The "which language is best" chart you linked has rather arbitrary weighting.

That chart has exactly the same "weighting" as the chart you say is "the relevant chart"!

> Which shows Go is well ahead of OCaml.

Which shows the time measurements for those programs with Go 6g and OCaml completely overlap

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-lang...

The time measurements are similar for both Go 6g and OCaml -

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all...
Ok, than go on. :-)
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Fun that I can recognize you based on your user name, but you probably can't do the same matching for me (its Mikey).

You were actually one of the people I was thinking of when I originally put in an aside about the really motivated people still doing it. I then removed that aside, but I probably should not have. The really motivated people are going to go into startups; they caught the itch at some point and need to scratch it to remain happy.

The subset of people that could go either way (startup or corporate) don't quite have the opportunity to see what a startup would be like at UW. The capstones are good, but for most they are an afterthought to be done in the final quarter or two, when they have most likely landed a job already. Software Engineering (CSE 403) is more about satisfying a requirement than about building something, and that is all most students end up with.
If I did graphics design, I would have no problem with it -- heck, I would even tell people about it :)
And before too long it will be expanded to include the "High Speed Rail security circus"!
Hey, lysium,
It's just you :)
First of all, in problem 9, 20, it's part of the problem to find the pattern :)
And for the problem 22, an ARRAY of numbers is divided into substrings, which is possible ( and substring isn't necessarily a part of a char string, and the problem statement clearly defined a substring as a subset made of consecutive elements :P )
And the site is still new, so you can't judge to such a big site as Project Euler, and the existence of Open-CS doesn't eliminate that of Project Euler, no one ever said it wasn't a good site
Good luck in getting problems :P
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> They don't have your contact information.

So how to they catch all those "online pirates"? I am sure they don't provide their address, name, and social security number when they download a song for example. However that has not stopped thousands upon thousands of cases to be filed (now whether you think identifying people by IP is right or wrong is besides that point, it is happening and it is part of the system). So "no" you should not leak anything to these people unless you know every well how to hide (chances are you might not, even your browser's identifying info like fonts, OS version etc. can be used to narrow down the search and there are other things as well).
Single page version: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/05/google_go/print.html
I graduated from UW's CSE program, worked at Microsoft full-time, and then quit Microsoft to do YC. I don't think the students at UW are averse to startups, I think there is just a lack of presence and exposure to those types of options. It wasn't until I lived with someone who went to Berkeley that I even knew that hacker news existed.
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So one of our consultants took it upon himself to install and configure a MoinMoin wiki we could use to collaborate on technical documents and projects. He had it up and running before he even mentioned it to management. The wiki quickly became one of the company's most valuable IT assets and completely mission critical.

And I'm sure that the system administrators were totally and perfectly happy with having a new piece of (possibly improperly configured) software, running on a development box or taking up server space. I'm not saying that its bad to take initiative and bring in the tools that you need to get the job done. Its just that before you do so, you should think a little about what sort of maintenance your solution will require. Will it require updates? Does it need to be configured in a particular fashion to avoid security risks? Is the data stored in the tool easy to export or backup?

A more programming related example is that of the Excel spreadsheet + VB macro "application" created by somebody in accounting that turns into a mission critical app. Typically, by the time management recognizes that their entire company relies on something that's been extended far beyond its initial intent, the code is typically in an unmaintainable state, and significant effort has to go into cleaning it up.
This is a huge mistake. I don't want to argue that videogames can never be art, but in general, no matter how good they look, they aren't (Radio is also highly suspect on this list). The problem is that "the arts" (in a more traditional sense) in the US are infinitesimally close to being criminally underfunded. Opening NEA funding to even more applicants will only further detract from more traditional applicants that should receive funding.
The serialization/deserialization times are dramatically different for Python. Thrift has an accelerated binary serializer written in C with Python bindings, while Protobuf's is pure Python. While there exist third party C++ wrappers for Protobuf in Python as well, they are buggy (segfaults).
Generally speaking, people don't dismiss conspiracy theories merely because they are minority viewpoints. The dismiss conspiracy theories because it is obvious the fail the logic sniff-test.

If you gave equal time to every theory, no matter how basicly logically flawed, you would end up spending all your time just watching poorly edited videos on youtube. Dismissing something as a conspiracy theory isn't closeminded, it's a basic defensive mechanism.
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Thanks very much for digging that up. It makes things very very clear.
Adblock takes care of most of the annoying flash junk, so I haven't bothered. Guess I'll actually install C2F now.
Germany did not shut down the reactors because of Tsunamis. There are none in Germany.

Germany did shut down the more problematic reactors for a security check. The question is whether the reactors survive a scenario, where multiple systems are failing (like in Japan). This can be caused by operator errors, terrorist attacks, earth quakes (yes, germany has earth quakes), etc.

Compare that with the US, which has several reactors which are much more dangerous than most German ones, has some in very dangerous earth quake zones, etc. The US did mostly nothing.

I know which government I prefer.
If someone has access to your email client you're hooped anyway.

There is nothing stopping an extra security conscious user from deleting the email and changing their password right away. What it does is to give a convenience to users that want to treat your service as a trial. Picking unique user names and password is too far down the developing a relationship path for me personally.
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Non-termination of some compiler inputs is a red herring. The only modification required to the original algorithm is that the search proceed in parallel (such that every input eventually makes arbitrary progress).

I agree with your point in a sister thread that decidable doesn't imply practical, but the claim of the original article was undecidable, which has a technical meaning.
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Current theories hold that there's a supermassive black hole at the center, surrounded by a very high density of massive, old stars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center
Only one of the two has proven themselves to be trustworthy at all, and only one of them doesn't use weasel words in their terms. If your criteria is whether the leaker is unsure of being able to discuss their material, the WSJ is even more useless.

Basically, it appears you're arguing for the case that the WSJ is a great place to send your leaks if you already know there won't be repercussions (via your own precautions or their flaccid protections), which is pretty much what they have now. What's the difference between this and a link to "tips@wsj.com"?
Well if you're going to be that paranoid then you shouldn't leak anything to wikileaks either.
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This is exactly what happens when the free markets are not allowed to rule. These loans should be nearly interest free as there is little to no risk in lending.
there is completely different regulatory landscape and thus price to enter the game. Any fission work would involve radioactive elements from the start. Licensing and approval on all the levels from federal to local require investments and political power on the scale well beyond ...

An even if you manage to develop and prototype the fission reactor, the deployment is still and even more subject to that approval problems.

The nuclear fusion work, as long a it is deuterium based (tritium can be bread during the process) and no dual-purpose equipment is attempted to be bought (like very large power lasers or extremely short-impulse discharge devices) can be conducted in your garage ... well until you start getting real neutron flux (or gamma flux before it if you're going fusor way) - either you and your neighbors get serious health damage/killed or you start installing protection from the flux - that would involve money and questions on why would you need so much of boron concrete :)