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You can be disgusted all you want, nobody is forcing you to visit that site though. Going to sites where you disagree completely with their philosophy is called trolling.

You want a moral 4chan style site, go to christchan(real site btw)...thats the thing with the internet, sites that people want will always stay alive. I mean look at 4chan stats: "Current users: 29,989", that's almost 30,000 users using the site at the same time, so I guess there are plenty of people who don't mind the openness of the site.

Freedom of speech IS axiomatic, in the bill of rights they didn't write..."freedom of speech, except when it disagrees with our beliefs", all the freedoms guaranteed by the bill of rights are not there to protect the opinions of the majority, they are there to protect the opinions of the minority.

Sure its not treated this way in the real world, and that's where the hypocrisy lies. All these people being proud of "the freedoms we enjoy in America", are usually the same people who then go around and start telling everyone what they can or can't do.

Internet really is the last standing bastion of actual freedoms. I can call you a little bitch when you act like one, and you won't run to the boss crying about getting your feelings hurt.

No there aren't any degrees, when you start applying degrees and stop giving a shit because it doesn't apply to you that's when you start helping others to strip away your own rights. The key is to set precedent, and when you have one its much easier to go for the bigger fish.

And here is a good quote for you: "In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up."

So you may disagree with whats being said, but you really need to take the approach of "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." because if you don't, it won't be long before it affects you.
Having a magnet for all that junk helps keep it off the rest of the internet.

In any case vitriol past a certain level is easy to laugh at. The stuff you need to be careful of is the insidious slant, where nothing is said that steps over the line but gradually the point of view worms it's way into the minds of the viewers.
What's your thought that this appears to infringe on US patent 5978768?
http://www.google.com/patents?id=hJgYAAAAEBAJ&dq=job+des...
A lot of it seems to be a result of the misconception of productivity that is so prevalent today. A lot of people seem to think that, because you're not actually doing something, the act of just sitting down and thinking and experimenting with ideas does not constitute being productive. They don't realize that, if everybody simply sat down and banged out work continuously, we'd always be doing things that we already know how to do.
Last year we've built a storage unit for IP surveillance cameras where we've written our own filesystem optimized for continuous writing with zero fragmentation. We had only 4MB of RAM available and the requirement was to never use more than 10% of CPU, which was as powerful as 386DX (remember those?). These things operate 24/7, mounted on telephone poles, for years, without human supervision.

Yes, in C++.

As a side thought: if Apple were dumb enough to embrace Java instead of sticking to Objective-C, I doubt that OSX-powered iPhone (with a full-sized WebKit) would have been possible. Just look at Microsoft and their Vista disaster, this what happens when you start believing into "megahertz and gigabytes are cheap".
this is the internet...women are only present in jpg form :p
i'd have to ask my girlfriend, maybe ponystars.com?
Couldn't agree more. His point #3, about IE being integrated "deep" into OS is absurd: IE isn't integrated into anything, in fact IE is just two DLLs, which allows them to "merge" iexplore.exe and explorer.exe, very similar to how conqueror works on KDE.

Even windows registry, the source of many issues, has nothing to do with security, since critical portions of it are read-only to a non-privileged user.
We have 11 people working with us (5 of which are compensated),and expenses related to music data contribute to the burn rate. The search company and the music company are separate corporations and operate accordingly. Our CEO is Rich Marino (former President of CNet Networks) and he feels the patents provide value to IP as an asset. Still interested in options.
The back/forward buttons don't work with pagination on Safari 3.1.2

Interesting, you don't see too many folks on ASP.NET

What made you choose that platform?

curl -I http://www.startuply.com/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:57:46 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-Powered-By: PleskWin
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=xxxxxxxxx; path=/; HttpOnly
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 72915
There is pipelinedeals.com and leads360.com as well.
NT could be made really solid and really secure.

The main problems here are the deep hooks into the OS that Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer (and all software that requires parts of both to function) had built into them.

The other problem is that far too much of the system runs as "system". I read this has improved a lot in the 2003 and 2008 server editions. But most of it was improved by having additional software bolted on top of the holes instead of just getting rid of them.
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Bezos likes the analogy about Amazon services being "electricity" for other businesses, i.e. you don't to have to own a generator if you operate a restaurant (as they used to back in the day) - just "hook up to the grid" and you're all set.

Funny analogy, since all data centers DO have their own generators: they're not restaurants.
The page is about 1200px wide. That's a bit too much for me. I'd have browse with the window maximized to see the whole page...

Perhaps you could put the search box and the browse filters on top of the page and use a vertical layout?
I've been working on a private cloud using http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/ that maps to Amazon incase of issues like this (though Amazon was supposed to be the backup).

Has anyone else been doing the same? What have you been using?
Yes, in C++

My point being, he cited a lot of example that would have been no slower in Java.

this what happens when you start believing into "megahertz and gigabytes are cheap".

As I say to the people I work with all the time, yes computational power is cheap, but it's cheap for everyone, our competitors included. The ability to throw raw power at a problem is not a competitive advantage.

As an aside, I wish CS was taught like that. "You are never going to need to write your own sort ever, but we are going to teach you about sorting so you understand that smart algorithms always beat brute force. Pay attention."

My personal opinion of Java is that its shortcomings were either necessary for or worth putting up with for a world of applications on demand running on heterogenous client devices (i.e. the original applet vision). Now that it's mainly used in known environments (i.e. your own servers) it has to compete on its merits alone, and that's where it struggles. But I really don't mind if other people want to shackle themselves to it :-)
and this is the reason why you let other people pay to test the infrastructure "cloud". it's hard to justify not being able to do _anything_ when any AWS goes down as smugmug must be figuring out by now.

here's a piece of advice: start by leasing a couple of $75 USD per month servers. if you can, buy instead of lease. if you go bust, you can sell the hardware on ebay whereas with AWS you can't do any of that it's just money you're throwing away for 0 assets. AWS still needs to be managed, you still need sysadmins available 24/7 so you won't save any money there. the only thing AWS has going for it is provisioning. be smart and take advantage of that (eg. have your own physical infrastructure and be able to send some of the load the way of AWS if and when you need to).
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Try deleting iexplore.exe on windows xp. Then reboot and go delete it again. It might not be "integrated" into windows, but its hard to get rid of without modifying an XP install cd.
They could describe something about it, without disclosing everything.
Did you know that WWW is deprecated?
Amazing how long you can milk one stupid story. If he gives up the names of the people that supplied him with his exploit tools --- or even just their handles --- there will be drama.
Nice to see, someone agrees with me :)
Huh, I knew it was about 4chan

but I disagree that it is most anarchic or influential site, there are lots of chans and even wikichan.

it's all started in japan

UPDATE:

Oh, here is his photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/extraface/2445211563/
2008: You shouldn't try to build web-based Office alternatives because Google, Adobe, and Zoho are already doing it.

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1998: You shouldn't try to build new search engines because
Lycos, Excite, and Altavista are already doing it.

Any argument that proves it was a bad idea to start Google is probably a bad argument.
Oh, this is why Jungledisk is down.
I've been trying to do that. Kind of a Quicksilver on the Web. I'd be very happy if anyone from this site would check it out:

http://zendo.arvixe.com/
“Simple browsers” (#2), i think, has already been solved. Take http://Shiira.jp/en.php or Safari on the iPhone. The larger problem is how to make mass audiences aware without mass advertising, or to make it affordable to those without income. Seeing this problem under the lens of getting computer and media illiterates to open their minds, or employing the permanently unemployed, better reframes the challenge.
This article was great until it said Craigslist could be improved.
actual url would help much, oh well I will google it
This feature has nothing to do with IE. It's called something like "system file protection" (can't recall exact term).

Nearly everything in System32 is protected by this: Windows keeps shadow copies of those files: their attempt at fixing "default administrator" legacy - how else can OS protect itself if installed on FAT32?
I think they are trying to invade :D
Tough love: Linux needs more haters
I seriously don't think market share has anything to do with security

if popularity is the main reason, then how come the more popular unix servers, are more secure than their windows-based counterparts?

why unix better? by obscurity? absolutely not (i reiterate unix are more popular, powering huge sites)
better knowledge/use strong passwords? nope don't think so
better admin? maybe
better product? absolutely ... ssh, encription, randomization (swap, memory, etc)

my conclusion: unix is more secure due to its bottom-up iterate-often development model yielding better product (more secure, more powerful, etc)
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Amazon S3 down
This is the first YC startup I've seen a while that seems to have picked ASP.NET as the development platform.

Not a criticism (I did this too at one point, but have since switched), just an observation.
Wow, this will be tremendous help! Thank you so much.
Agree. Wikipedia's "philosophy" implies neutrality of each article. If someone finds in article some kind of propaganda or any facts that seem to be false, he can easily remove/change doubtful data after checking its origins.
But on the other hand when you read some article on wikipedia, you just haven't enough time to verify each origin or even to think about the truth of the article.
Yes, it is a small niche at the moment, but there is no reason that the world economy can't shift to comprise many more startups and fewer crappy desk jobs. Paul Graham has argued eloquently for this (e.g. http://paulgraham.com/boss.html).
Surely Craigslist's own developers think that. Do you think they think they're done forever developing new features, and that all they have to do from now on is replace broken disk drives?
I disagree pretty strongly here. The data point I want to pick out are the existence of trolls: people who end up destroying enlightened discussion and replacing it with a bigot firefight.

There are many ways to reduce freedom of speech. One can be coerced, or one can be denied access to the time required to think of and say something useful. But there's another kind of denial -- when a conversation turns ugly, many types of speech simply disappear. /b/tards actively inhibit other types of conversation. So freedom of speech can't be axiomatic: it is internally inconsistent.

When the founding fathers penned the bill of rights, speech meant speech [edit: though, as pg has pointed out, they intended to include the printed word in their discussion.]. Not intrusive speech, and not published, internationally accessible works. They were not so clairvoyant as to see how powerful small publishing houses and studios could become.

One important type of freedom of speech I disagree with is that which impinges on someone else's freedom of speech. Everyone should have a place for their voice, but I am unwilling to protect any right to intrude.
By the way, I think Startuply should have a company profile on Startuply. Even if you're not hiring, it's probably a good idea to get a profile posted.

Good luck to the Startuply folks from a fellow startup fanatic.
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Assuming that "less than listed retail" is a bargain is false. There are lots of things where a huge fraction of the customers already pay less than retail. There are even some where the vast majority do. (Hotels may be one of them - I've never paid anywhere near the rates posted in the rooms.) "Listed retail price" is a fiction - it is manipulated to maximize revenue and need not have anything to do with typical price.

Interestingly enough, the discrepancy between "listed retail" and reality is especially large for high-status/cost items. Many rich folks seem to think that they're entitled to significant discounts on "bling".

> retroactively charge them more for everything they've bought recently, since they are now demonstrating evidence of heightened income

The fact that someone has high income does not imply that they're willing to spend a lot of money for any specific product/service. (They might be spending their money on back debt or saving for something.)

> some rich people might get annoyed that others are systematically paying less for the exact same goods

Rich people aren't going to pay more. If you're building a system that requires that they do, it's dead.

FWIW - I've never seen a decent plan from someone who disliked the domain in which he was working. Such people always think that their policy preferences trump facts.
One cannot simply escape the influence of 4chan by not going there. It is a cesspool, and the memes that breed there spread elsewhere. Do you think the players of Habbo wanted the influence of /b? And the violent culture there was shared by meankids.org when they started to frighten Kathy Sierra -- it was only a short jump from there to the death threats, and now they've inflicted harm. She will never be the same.
It would be really interesting (at least to me) to read the original YC applications of successful YC companies like reddit and Xobni. Would make a fascinating read.

With their consent, of course.
What absolute nonsense. Microsoft has spent more money on source code audit, software pentesting, and SDLC than any other four of the top 10 ISVs combined. All they do is find and remove holes.

Find one credible professional security person --- almost all of whom run OSX and Linux, by the way --- that thinks you're right, and MSFT is just bolting security on.
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For Gruber's argument to be true, there would need to be "peak oil" for Win32 malware: a point where the criminal value of those 88% of all desktops decreased because of all the competition. Then malware authors would address the 11% of OS X machines.

But there isn't "peak oil" for Win32 malware. Your odds of success with a new Windows bot or trojan or virus are as good as anyone else's. No matter what you do, you'll get more candidates than you would targeting Apple. There is no point at which targeting Apple becomes a rational business decision.
OmniGraffle does a pretty decent job.

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/
It's an article about the financial markets. That relates to politics, but then again, everything relates to politics.

If you don't like it, don't vote for it. Complaining about the posts doesn't change anything, and it only makes the discussion noisier.
Run your own job board
Though I agree with your point about freedom of speech being internally inconsistent, the founding fathers definitely meant speech to include the printed word.
That's true, but I interpreted the word "trust" in terms of capability, not availability.
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The game quality is pretty good as they don’t load up in a billion seconds or cause your browser to gum up while loading. There are plenty of websites that offer free games, but a true addict would never mind taking time out for something new. Especially when you try to access major sites that have Big names but take so long that you think of giving up the entire idea, with eyes all soared watching the load in progress, caption!
Wrong.

1. OS X is a single-user operating environment. More importantly, anything you or a virus cares about bears your UID.

2. The clock on software security started with 8LGM in 1994, not with the advent of networking.

3. IE bears approximately the same relationship to Win32 as WebKit bears to OS X.

4. Almost every OS X user runs in group "Admin". See reason 1.

5. Microsoft's "backwards compatibility mantra" bears the same relationship to Win32 security as the Carbon libraries do with Apple security, and many Apple developers came to Unix directly from OS9. Google "chargen ARDAgent".

6. What Windows calls a "registry" Apple calls "Library/Application Support" "Library/Preferences". Both are tree structured opaque configuration repositories. Google "chargen input managers".

7. Google "Vista UAC". People hate this feature, and it doesn't work.

The reason there are fewer viruses on OS X than there are on Windows is that you will make far more money targeting the large market than the big one. What rational malware author would ever target OS X?

Signed,

A Linux convert to OS X.
If IE isn't important to Windows, why does it need to be protected by this feature?
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Remote login to Windows is encrypted.

SSL and generic encryption primitives are built in to Windows, and the libraries that implement them (schannel, etc) have been audited by people who have, among other things, published RSA breaks.

Microsoft pioneered randomization. OS X just recently attempted to introduce ASLR, as a catch-up measure to Microsoft, and failed badly.

The evidence you've presented is easily refuted, and so your arguments won't carry.
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Apple (or someone like them) needs to make a digital camera with iPod simplicity.

I bought my parents a digital camera a few years ago and it might as well have a plutonium core the way my parents deal with it.

Primarily they hand it to me on social occasions and say, "take some pictures...I don't know how to use this thing"

Just a simple camera with these features and nothing more:

1. on/off button

2. zoom in /out

3. take picture

4. review pictures

5. delete picture

6. transfer all pictures to walmart via wifi (you walk into the store, press a button and walmart slurps them up).

I'd do it, but as pg says, hardware scares me.
Why do so many of the "better than capitalism" theories insist on "we will punish you for your thoughts"?
> prohibitively expensive homes that every one could afford

erm. I _think_ you meant that the people were borrowing more than they could afford to buy overpriced homes. But it sounds like you were saying that everyone was fabulously wealthy and homes, though not cheap, were affordable.
How do you send a message here? I don't travel much, and spoken English is difficult for me. But if you want some more details, I'm nico.aragon at gmail. I'm on holydays so my connectivity is random, be patient.

I didn't gather any content. The idea was to create a complete service for young groups and later trying to attract some stars, I thought that I would do the online and legal parts and my cofounder the musical part. In the end I was researching everything. I had a regular work, so I gave up when I found out that external funding was a need.
Exactly right. I meant people were borrowing above their level. A credit crunch would make everyone live within his or her means. Or rather, make it more likely that they would. I think people would still find some way to get things they should not have anyway, but it might not be as systemic.
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Your analogy is weak at best, -- office suites aren't really an algorithmic problem ... Google beat out Lycos, Excite and Altavista because it created a better algorithm for indexing and organizing information.
Office suites are about features -- lots of them, thus entering the market competitively requires man power not intelligence.
Is there room for improvement... certainly. But it is incremental improvement. I just don't think its the type of area where some killer new idea can shake up the entire space.
It's great. Thank you.
A "professional security person" running OSX or Linux would seem to say something about the security of Windows and how Microsoft practices security, or at least the perception of it.
Thus illustrating the gresham's law of social news or something like it.

Blacklists, whitelists, gatekeepers, keyword vector analysis, are there any architectural approaches to delivering 'news you can use' that haven't been tried several times already?
Very true, but does that mean a startup is going to pay startuply a massive fee for finding those crutial employees? Is startuply going to ask for equity? :/
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