skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all fine and good if you only take companies and security consultants into account, but I'm not sure it's 100% analogous. What about random hypothetical geeky teenager who wants to contribute security patches to an open source project? I don't think there's a lockpick equivalent to that.
Have you ever organized, maintained, or contributed to any kind of open source project yourself, or are you speaking out of ignorance and idealism?
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This takes me back to the first summer internship I had, where I was plopped in front of an SS5 back in 1998. I was a 17 year old kid who had a 486 at home, so this machine with no removable disks whatsoever really perplexed me. Then I realized I could walk to any workstation in the lab, sign in, and my homedir and everything would be right there, while everything ran off the app server transparently. "The network is the computer" blew my mind.

Our group's web server at the time was on a quad-CPU 50 MHz SS20. I can't imagine what that thing had to have cost when it was new.

In 2001, when I was in college, some lab in my engineering school decided to dump some SS5's. My roommates and I rescued a handful of them from the dumpster, and then mixed and matched parts from them so we'd have three decent machines. We set them up on a table made from an old cable spool, and on any given weekday evening there'd be three or four people coding away on them.
I like your idea and really appreciate the goal but I also have the concern that using the app on your glowing phone might just add to the distraction.

Maybe if the user loaded the app and registered before the movie started, they could keep it in their pocket, unlock the phone, tap an area of the screen, and receive a vibration pattern as feedback that the theatre has been notified? It would leave the usher to determine the problem, but could reduce the "glow" annoyance. Just a thought. Best of luck.
http://www.wakemate.com/ - analyze sleep patterns.
Some quick feedback:

Is this a job-listing site, or a resume/reputation site? Choose one and stick with it. Give me actual social proof (FB's Facepile or just generic testimonials by industry) on the front page. Don't use the words "get social proof" on the front page: nobody knows what that means. Move the Register button to the right. Give me a time estimate on how long the process takes. Reassure me there isn't any writing involved. Reel me in with promises of what your app does for me (show the process!), not descriptions of how it does them. Give me a reason to expect positive ROI. The animated screencaps are too small to read or make sense of - fix them or annotate them. Give users a portable widget or badge (digg button, like button) to embed elsewhere and lead people to your site. Visit howaboutwe.com, steal liberally.

The clip art isn't helping.
You have a really impressive portfolio!

I would really appreciate some design time on skinnyo.com, the look I would like to go for would be a warm and friendly web app - not a feeling you currently get...
Is the "hacker" categorization missing?
Here are my solutions for #1 and #3. I cheated on #2 just like everyone else.

https://gist.github.com/1026404
I wasn't referring to AirBnB specifically but the gist of my comment is I don't see how an AirBnB clone can justify $90m worth of capital.

So maybe my usage of the term "pushing humanity forward" may be a lil bit grandiose but i certainly didn't mean giant leaps straight off. For example, i consider Google/Wikipedia to be an invention that "pushed humanity forward" because it raised the collective IQ of the human race (with access to it of course) by a few notches. Both companies certainly didn't need $90m worth of capital initially to start off but benefitted from a few angel investments.

What i probably should have said is that the $90m could have better been allocated to things that are more worthwhile to humanity and not investing in just another "clone" of something.

But I guess kristofferR is right. At the end of the day, the only thing most investors care about is making money and since it is their money, it is fully in their right to choose what they want to invest in.
> "Haven't you been to a party where everybody took pics and you couldn't wait till they uploaded the pics on FB or something to see what they shot?"

yes, but I'm at the party for the party - I have no intention of spending the entire party staring into my smartphone and living vicariously through the pictures of the lives of people ten feet away from me.
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you don't need a study. most of the population of canada is situated far further south than most americans understand. the lowest point of ontario, for example, is south of the most northern point of california.

most of the inhabited areas of canada already have very hot summers. in southern ontario you can expect weather like washington DC in july

if most of the united states is set to be victimized by climate change (which everyone accepts) then it is a trivial deduction that most of the population of canada will also be
The Data Relay project referenced in his comment: http://datarelay.codeplex.com/
I think it's dismissive to jump to that conclusion - they're likely turning a healthy profit by dumping lists of emails, credit card numbers, and zero-day vulnerabilities on the black market.
I just wanted to thank you for posting all of this, and more importantly all your comments in the thread. It was incredibly generous of you to share so much details about your business. Packaged up it really makes me feel like I get a better idea on how Groupon works for businesses like yours (and hey, I also learned a thing or three about skydiving!).

I wanted to send an email to thank you instead of cluttering this thread but it was not in your profile.

Thanks again. :)

(why I reply to this comment is entirely random)
Bit of a nitpick (and I'm not sure where you live) but lock picks are generally legal in the US. In some areas however they become illegal if they can prove malicious intent.
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oddly enough some climate scientists (james lovelock, in this case) take it as a given that most animal life is already doomed, and that humans will have to engineer a food source in order to survive. green goo might be in your future
Nice work, I'm in the middle of redesigning my web app and I could use some input and an extra hand. http://www.foodtrucksmap.com/la/
some interesting food for thought. in james lovelock's last book, he discusses how recent volcanos have indeed had a measurable cooling impact (abeit short term)...he suggests that it may indeed be the case that humanity, in a fit of desperation, may have to (try to) engineer a large scale introduction of such material into the atmosphere to create immediate cooling...even though such material itself poses many dangers
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windows.net is the root URL for all the Windows Azure storage services. Back in 2008, we knew that Windows Azure was going to have the 'Windows' part of it's name. Since Microsoft already owned windows.net, this made it an obvious choice. So we get blob.core.windows.net, database.windows.net, etc.
Apparently QEMU can/could emulate a sparc system well enough to run linux.

If you just wanted to run a particular ancient app, it's not implausible that it will run on a modern solaris sparc machine.
Yeah, the article doesn't describe any tech used on the backend.
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it is important to note that half of the CO2 in our atmosphere is produced by our exhalations and those of our animals [source:gaia's final warning]...so indeed not only would ceasing all industrial activity be required to stop increasing CO2...we would also have to drastically reduce population. even then, there is enough CO2 already in the atmosphere to move the temperature to a new steady state which could take thousands of years to change

we are increasing population when we should be enforcing a global one-child policy
The reason you don't go "all out" for everyone (or at least the reason I don't go "all out" for everyone) is that you have finite resources and time. There're lots of people that I wish I was a better friend to, but there're only so many hours in a week, and I already have a fairly active social life and a demanding job, and so time and mental energy spent keeping up with them is time that's diverted from keeping up with other people.

It's the same reason that fewer people are willing to take on more "demanding" friendships. That time spent caring for a sick friend is time that can't be spent hanging out with other friends. Some people will do it anyway, either out of a sense of duty or because that particular friendship meant a lot to them before their friend got sick. But we don't often see these people, because all the energy they invest in their sick friend is energy not being spent hanging out with us.
Ahh, that's a good point. Thanks for clarifying.
On a web app, installation and updates are basically 'open the app'.

I'm not saying the iOS process isn't dead simple - it is - but its still a step behind web apps.
If I have a question [???] and the answer is "true" or "false". The probability of it being "true" is 50%; Every question you can come up with, you can come up with a negative version. e.g. "Is your name gwright" vs "Is your name not gwright".

So given any question where you know absolutely nothing at all about it, the probability the answer is "Yes" must be 50%!
Check out SoundHound: http://www.soundhound.com/

It does exactly what you ask for.
Somehow I doubt a 10 degree shift (F) would eliminate humans altogether, since humans have likely gone through a population bottleneck of 1,000-10,000 breeding pairs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
This isn't necessarily true.

Have you seen how much people spend, and how much trouble they go to for wedding photos?
It's sort of funny, if you can find an old HP PA-RISC 712, or Sun SS20 you can throw NeXTstep (OS-X) on it and it'll keep up with modern machines just fine. Wordprocessors will open up just as fast as your modern machine (without an ssd), mathematica keeps up with whatever you throw at it, and emacs is just fine.

I'm still not entirely sure what happened to the last 15 years of performance gains.

EDIT: I got through college in 2000 onwards using a nextstation turbo. mathematica and openwrite handled things just fine. I'm confident I could cope reasonable well with that setup again if I had to.
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i think this is all based on the VL2 paper, described here: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/05/VL2AScalableAndF... and the paper available here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.156....

it boasts of some freakishly fast ability to shuffle 2.7Tb between 75 servers in 27 seconds...
I feel ya bro. I think other religious people often don't grasp as well the fact that we're not robots -- emotions ask for comfort, not to be rationalized away. Which is funny because people often think of religious people as emotional.
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"URL discovery is still a major problem"

come on, google search is smarter than the app store search
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It has apparently become unfashionable to mention this fact. I hereby retract "league of american white old men" and substitute instead "league of american over-reacting nannystate citizen-leaders of indeterminate age, race, or sex".(1)

(1) They also may or may not have formerly said "Ni!" Hacker News, like Camelot, can sometimes be a very silly place.
It's certainly possible to live alone, but honestly, would you want to? How would you feel if Hacker News spamblocked you, so that nobody ever responded to your posts? How would you feel if that extended to every single aspect of your life, such that not a single person ever acknowledged your existence?

(Side note: a friend and I tried this on my sister when we were 8 and she was 7. She was being a nosy tag-along in the way that little sisters often are, and so we just literally pretended that she didn't exist. She was in tears within an hour, and my mom told us to either acknowledge her existence or my friend was going home.)

Just because healthy people can be alone doesn't mean they should. Over long periods of time, it causes marked social atrophy and can become really difficult to rejoin society.
Agreed. I wasn't going to say anything about it, but then every other day I see a new story and I roll my eyes in disbelief that they have struck again - then I don't say anything thinking it will be the last and wake up 2 days later and the cycle repeats itself. So I had to say something this time.

The most ironic thing about all of this though is they are likely destroying the very feature (anonymity) that they are exploiting.

All this does is give ammo to the record companies that want tight restrictions on the internet. Once that happens, it's game over. They can't win that one.
It's a reply on a general forum in a pretty non-technical thread. I thought he actually did a good job juggling between the two audiences, fwiw.
Not the NSA, it came from the Navy. See here: http://www.onion-router.net/
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37signals takes Rails and makes the products they intend to make.

Microsoft has attempted to make a successful cloud platform - their commercials all proclaim, "To the Cloud!" - and yet, they fail, while someone else takes their technology and (potentially) succeeds.
And it was non-trivial to go from Java 1.4 to 1.5.
Color was a nice way to relive the life and death of Cuil.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that no one could have predicted the success of Google simply by looking at the founders and what they had at the time.

It was their 2nd invention---highly relevant advertisement that made them an explosively profitable company.
These things absolutely apply to x86-64; there are actually two separate instruction sets, AMD64 and EMT64 - the same Venn diagram-style nonsense applies.
"Can Apple topple the web?"

well, then assuming a web page === a web "app"

the number of websites available to users is probably one million times the number of apps...

the number of new web sites that are started each day is probably one thousand times the number of new apps....

apple has a ways to go

and yes, i'll go there...you can't "kill" the real web if you do not allow users to access copious amounts of hardcore pornography
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To be clearer, Windows Azure can run any code that can run on Windows. So if you have x86/x64 code that runs in a Win2k8 OS, you're good to go. And most languages can do that, some with Cygwin. The major ones (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Erlang, etc) have phenomenal Windows support out of the box.

For this next bit, see my disclaimer below. The blog post mentions windows.net. That is the domain for the Windows Azure storage services (blobs, tables, queues, etc). In specific, the headers mentioned seem consistent with a storage request made to the blob service.

Disclaimer: I used to work on Windows Azure until a few weeks ago on strategic adoption among other things so I have to put this here. This is no comment on whether the OP's blog post is accurate or not, on any Apple-Microsoft relationship, etc.
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Yes, but it's a silly comparison. Israel has areas like the Valley too.
We all know things really happen in primes. It's numerology you can believe in.
but most stuff i access is content...and the web is great for content

i mean....does anyone actually install pointless web-in-a-box apps like the rotten tomatoes app (for example because it bugs the hell out of me to decline it each time)?

my dsire to consume content is not going away, and having an app-per-url is a nonstarter
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With all due respect, I think you plucked one of my lines out of a healthy bit of surrounding context -- much of which is in total agreement with you here. I never said that domain expertise was going to be replaced or made obsolete simply by having the raw information available to anyone.
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My dad is a CPC on the side; He's actually an accountant. One day I caught him programming Excel macros. His office has this spare computer which just runs macros all day long to automate downloading tens of millions of rows of database data from the company oracle database into thousands of Excel spreadsheet files.

He asked me if its possible to improve his system and I said I didn't know where to start.

I was quite surprised indeed, the things office workers can come up with ;).
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> When bugs are discovered in the old version most likely they will not be fixed because everybody has already moved on.

Is this a real problem? If you encounter a bug in an older version of Rails, why not just fix it and carry on as usual? Fixing bugs is part of the job of being a developer. If you are afraid to fix bugs, your application isn't going to last long no matter what language, framework, or platform you choose.
Browsing through the app store now is a lousy experience. If this is done well it will easily be worth my 99 cents.
I believe that's just a Class 0 SMS.
Comparing Nanotech, Education, and future IT to other revolutionary technologies is interesting but nothing radically new. It can be especially difficult to direct money to these new frontiers when the infrastructure of yesterday is becoming increasingly potholed.

Forward into uncertainty as a means of raising our ceiling? Or stand our ground and try to raise the floor?
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Wow! Stubby's story would make for a brilliant movie!
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Those were good posts, what ever happened to them? It seems like some of the Google Testing guys just moved on all of a sudden. Misko Hevery used to have some great posts/videos as well.
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The Aurora attacks were followed by systematic penetrations of one industry after another. In the so-called Night Dragon series, attackers apparently in China went after major oil and gas companies, not only in the U.S. but throughout the world
---

One more "for" argument: in Asia, China's been accused by Phillippines and Vietnam, as well as Japan of aggressively invading their territorial waters, islands. Those areas are likely rich of oil. Actions such as sending war boats to damage fishing boats are a sign of China's ambition to seek more oil, oil and oil...

Relevant link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110614/ap_on_re_as/as_china_us
That sounds really frustrating. Have you asked them why they didn't offer, in a non-accusatory way that won't put them immediately on the defensive? They may feel guilty and too ashamed to speak of it now. I can imagine the last thing you want to do is go over this experience with them, but the fact remains that you all hold a shared experience with your mother and there's still the chance to connect with them over that, and honor her memory that way.

Sorry, I don't mean to be presumptuous; I just think this kind of thing is so rarely discussed until you're in the middle of it.
He stated they had a third of the number of servers as Facebook back when the two were roughly equal. They were running on the older pre-java based ColdFusion 5. I'd say they scaled pretty well regardless of your opinion of the service.
I doubt they use only "paid for" services in their chain. There are very likely normal user-boxes (like your moms) and "forgotten" servers involved as well.

It's not easy to back trace when you have to send in someone to do forensics on a computer.
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How to Secure Windows Cloud Server
Let's say you have a couple of windows based cloud servers, and one is a database server, and the other is a web server.

How would you secure the database server assuming you need remote desktop access, but other than that, you only want the web server to be able to connect to the database server?

Would you create a VPN, run the security configuration wizard and make sure you have all the latest windows updates installed? Anything more? What about some "advanced" stuff like getting one of those RSA SecurID usb devices?

Having a server on a public IP isn't the most secure\smartest thing but what would you do to the lock the thing down tighter than a proud father of a beautiful daughter on prom night?
Consider that small talk can simply be a token gesture of openness to someone, a chance to engage them and try to take the conversation to a more interesting place. Few people can't jump straight to deep topics all the time and the people who do can be annoying.
Your vote is with your shoes.

Indeed. With this I do agree.
Jason, If you could help, I definitely need design help on my completely bootstrapped project on a socializing site for Indians.

The application is at http://www.koffeekya.com

The magazine is at http://www.koffeekya.com/pandora

Our business plan is being put together in bits and pieces at: http://www.koffeekya.com/pandora/category/business-plan
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I noticed today Color have removed the notice on their office that they'd like fellow denizens of Palo Alto to stop by and give feedback.

They've also turned off the projectors showing pictures from the app on their front windows. Very quiet at their office at the moment.
Ok, but wasn't MySpace in ColdFusion?

That's like saying Facebook is PHP or Twitter is Rails. Sure it started that way but when the shit hit the fan they probably went heavy and deep into lower level languages working much closer to the metal to solve the problems they were having.
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But some people did - Andy Bechtolsheim, David Sheriton, Ram Shriram, Ron Conway, Sequoia & KPCB. And given their track record on other investments, I don't think this was due to pure chance.

I'd posit that people like the investors mentioned above have a highly intuitive "pattern matching" system for finding promising startups. The lack of any one quality won't disqualify a startup; rather, they can unconsciously evaluate the whole startup as a package and decide whether it's likely to be a winner.

Hence, the win of probabilistic AI systems over rule-based ones.
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