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I upvoted your original post because it is a good point (4chan is dodgy ... or so I hear...).

I downvoted your whinge about getting downvoted for the following reasons:

(1) meta discussions must die

(2) pretending that upvotes/karma matter is just deluding yourself. Go watch the Southpark episode about internet dollars until you get it
This is, in a nutshell, how to be mediocre at stuff.

It's a bit pointless going to college and spending 4 of the best years of your life doing stuff you aren't interested enough in to devote yourself to.

In fact, you could argue college itself isn't the best use of those 4 years.

I'm thankful for people like this because they leave all the outlier spots (best spots that offer the most rewards (financial, satisfaction, recognition, etc.)) to people willing to pick something they love and willing to work hard as hell at it.
Of course, the hackers were suffering from acute Alzheimer.
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But that stuff is almost always crap.  Just like Pandora.
"Customer Service a la Zappos" strikes me as the most interesting of the lot.

The Ticketmaster clone won't work due to venue lock-out, as others have mentioned. "One Click Social Media Reports" seems kind of vague. "Recurly for Dummies" - the name is kind of a turnoff. One would also need a high volume of recurring payments to make such a service attractive. Then it also has to interface to existing accounting systems. "While You Were Out Notes" seems a bit too trivial. Who will pay for it?
OK, I stand corrected. Still, that is almost insignificant. But yes, nobody is perfect.
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There is no doubt that this is good cause. Yet, there is much to be pessimistic about it. First off, it will be excruciatingly difficult to produce a documentary of decent quality, comparable to ones such as "Inside Job", with only a budget of 150,000 USD. You definitely need to look to acquire a budget of at least 300,000 USD. Secondly, this documentary is extremely vulnerable to being thwarted by the "big six" media corporations. The only thing that stands in the way of corporations having complete power over the American people and their government is pro net-neutrality regulations. We will of course witness the perhaps the most determined onslaught on a small organization than we have ever seen taken by the corporations. Finally, creating and releasing a documentary presents the challenging fact that the current political situation concerning net neutrality changes at a rapid rate. A couple of examples would be how Obama campaigned on net neutrality, yet when he came into office his administration had corporations make a law that protected their interests over individual citizens. The other example is how Meredith Baker approved the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal and then resigned from the FCC to become the leading lobbyist for Comcast. This ever changing nature of net neutrality would make it necessary to release the documentary shortly after it has been filmed.
Sorry to be vague. In my benchmarks it takes around 30 ms to initialize an instance of a model as a result of a query using Python 2.6 and sqlalchemy 0.6. This is in contrast to raw MySQLdb query initialized as a dict which takes 2-4 ms.
What about turning http://www.ideafunnel.co into a web app to allow other entrepreneurs to ask the same question?

I am not sure people would pay for it though.
There's no mention of the distinction between the file system and the compute portion. Also, no mention of the particular computational approach (e.g., map/reduce). Arguably one of Hadoop's big benefits is HDFS.
I love naming companies. Of course, I've done it a bunch of times, so it's a familiar process. For someone who is suddenly out of their comfort zone, I can understand the frustration. A few tips:

1. Before thinking of names, get meta. What's the company about, what would a "good" name connote, what are the ideas the name should express? Write down a narrative of all the awesome things the name should convey. If you're diligent in following this recommendation, all kinds of new ideas will emerge.

2. Say any potential names aloud. Do they roll off the tongue, or are they awkward tongue twisters?

3. Do your domain lookups via the command line, not some web site. It's been suggested that domain lookup sites snatch your queries and register them. True? I don't know; but you can't go wrong using Whois in your shell of choice.
In addition to the problems mentioned by Retric, integrating the CPU and GPU into the same part prevents one from upgrading them independently.
Is Forrst worth the trouble?
While You Were Out Notes, a stupid idea. Email simple done and existing support for push notifications
I strongly recommend against wading into the complex, political, dominated, corrupt and extremely competitive online ticket sales industry.

I'm a friend of http://guestlistapp.com/ folks and it's a great alternative to EventBrite and TicketMaster. It's fairly minimalist and is still a huge undertaking for several people.

I suggest that you step back, take off your programmer visors and start listening for people who say "I wish" a lot. Chances are that if it's obvious enough to brainstorm, someone has already lost a lot of money discovering that the customers love it so long as it's free. You need to find something that's niche and causing great pain.
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The article is definitely sensationalist and linkbait, but the title is not a lie. However misleading it is, Reddit doubling its engineering staff is equivalent to hiring three new programmers.
Does this library provide the potential to extract the text out of the PDF for further processing?
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"The risk business is worth $10m a year" - typo or British m? Seems like it would be much bigger than this. Or maybe this is just what LexisNexis makes on their old product?
This is only good advice if you don't care about potentially wasting years of your life.

It's fine to fail, but don't set out to fail. Failure can be forgiven, but somewhere people got it into their heads that they should brag about it.

Lots of people wore bellbottoms, too. Doesn't mean it was an idea for the ages.
The code minus design is all here:
https://github.com/ptrsghr/SayBeat
Corrupt Media = Corrupt Government
Hours isn't bad. We deliberated on names for days to find the perfect one. In the end, we fell in love with a bastardized pronunciation of a foreign word.

I personally like using foreign words for inspiration because it's a good combination of a real world to you and a mostly meaningless word to your first market.
Event promoters need a service that will allow them to sell tickets and promote their events online.

I disagree. There are kick-ass startups already doing this, e.g. TicketFly, Eventbrite, and TicketLeap. That isn't to say that you couldn't beat those folks, but I don't get the sense that there's a desperate need in the marketplace that those companies aren't filling. The real battles for promoters are structural and legal (Ticketmasters long-term exclusive contracts).
Demanding justification for things a tool you got for free, is a bit ungrateful. Why not 'request' or 'ask', you might get a better answer. Demanding things from open source is a pointless venture.
I built http://www.sparkmuse.com just for that purpose. We've gotten nearly 100 ideas now, but not alot of traction, so I wouldn't build another :)
What about releasing a minimal skeleton version as open source and free in the app store, but keeping the feature-laden edition as closed source and pay?
Does anyone know what stack Citi was using?
Pdf.js: Rendering PDF with HTML5 and JavaScript
I've aced a fair amount of exams in my lifetime, and knowing what I know now about "knowing", learning and understanding, acing a majority of those exams were in fact a TERRIBLE indication of the amount (and quality) of learning that had taken place. For example, all those A's in my electromagnetism and thermodynamics courses, or calc courses -- completely unwarranted. I would say about 95% of it was mindless memorization of formulas and the application of the formulas mostly through the usage of algebra. Testing/performing on deeper conceptual understanding = virtually non-existant (which I can easily prove to myself by the lack of understanding I have at the moment when I actually try to apply the concepts).
Awesome.

Here's a link to the actual project:
http://hpccsystems.com/
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Hilarious, though not strictly correct. There is no guarantee 'sleep n' sleeps for n seconds, or that 'sleep n' wakes up before 'sleep n+1'. Granted, in reality if scheduling is so far off that things like this on the order of seconds become a problem, you've probably got bigger problems...
But if you make it easy to embed in Facebook, or Wordpress, or other social networks, it may catch on.
Anyone else think it's actually a good idea to name your company the same as your product?

In my case I gave up on the "company" name and instead printed business cards with the product name on them. That's all that any of our users know anyway.

Seriously, do you think most Basecamp users have any idea who 37 Signals is? Maybe they know Highrise and Campfire, but they probably think, "Yeah, those are made by that Basecamp company."
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uh there's no conspiracy theory, what I say is in plain sight. Who benefits from the DMCA, PATRIOT ACT, TSA patdowns, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Surely not us who are in the middle class.

I like the ad hominem though, keep it coming.
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Input isn't properly sanitized by the server thus allowing an attacker to run code through the database. Fairly easy to test for.
Finally: Macbook Air w/Sandy Bridge
I use citibank for my family accounts so may have been impacted. Has anyone posted a list of compromised account numbers someplace I can check against?
I saw your website in the past but I wish I could see screenshots of what you intend to provide with your service before asking me to sign up.
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Looking at the text of the bill, http://e-lobbyist.com/gaits/text/296040, one finds this egregious line:

"the offense consists of 10 or more public performances by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copyrighted works;"

This seems impossibly broad. It also ignores statutory licensing (which allows you to record cover songs and pay a statutory rate).
> Think of it as a mansion with a high-tech security system -- but the front door wasn’t locked tight.

It's more like an apartment building with high-tech locks in the front door and apartment doors. But after you unlock the front door, you can unlock any apartment's door with your key! The keys are all identical, only the number printed on the label is different.
I've seen a lot of the sites they have compromised before; can't disclose where. I wrote f-secure back in 2007 about it. Never a response. A few to watch for in the future Noth Korea's main site; Adam Sandler's home page. I'll have to dig trough my logs to find more. Again, no bodies listening, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651275.

Maybe a good start-up idea, Internet 911. Grey/White hats find vulns => report => issue gets the attention it deserves. Made me laugh, but something like cyber-police :D

From - Sat Aug 07 23:58:30

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Message-ID: <[re-dictated]@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:58:24 -0500

From: Chris <[my email]@gmail.com>

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To: sanjose@f-secure.com

Subject: fox news

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Dear F-Secure:

Many Fox news opinion sites(Glen Beck, Hannity, ect) are vulnerable to multiple attacks- read LFI(getfile.php), XSS(search), ect. I would try to contact them, however, the LFI leaves their mail servers vulnerable to ease dropping. As a well established security reseach company I feel disclosure of this should be left to you(the pros); plus it would make a good blog post.
This is neat, but I've always considered Delicious (despite the recent ownership troubles) to be a sort of databasey type service.
terrorists -> hackers
al qaeda -> lulzsec
patriot act -> ???
tsa -> ???
wtc bombing -> yet to come or spread out into many hacking instances?

lol parallels
Definitely a typo. The Risk division did £927m in revenue last year.
http://reports.reedelsevier.com/ar10/business_review/lexisne...
Check out the Dunning-Kruger effect on Wikipedia for an interesting explanation which also confirms your observation of students' self-ratings.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dunning-Kruge...
I have always thought something like this would be very interesting, I hope this catches on. I love the Hacker Dojo and wish I was in the Bay often enough to be a member.
Here's a blog post by the authors (members of Mozilla's graphics and JavaScript teams) explaining the motivation and direction of the project:

http://andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pdf-js/
Here's a tip: use the most obvious, phonetic (mis)spelling or you'll spend the next X years spelling it out to every yahoo who needs your address.

Eg. 'segway' not 'segue'
What kind of things do you need help with? Administration? Usage?
If a prototype is trivial to build then absolutely. But I don't think there's ever an excuse for not going out and asking people who might have these problems some good questions. "Would you pay for this?" being one of them.
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I think the point of the title is combining two pieces of interesting information: A) Reddit has come a hell of a long way with a tiny engineering team and, B) Reddit has hired 3 new engineers.
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Would this app be worth $2.99 if it was written for Linux or PC? Reason for asking, I can't compile and test software on Mac but have a lot of apps personal use type stuff. Being without a job selling this type of thing would make for great supplemental income. Any tips?
Domain sitting in particular throws a wrench in what's already a consuming enough process. I'm hesitant to admit how much time I've spent thinking about names (versus time spent thinking about core features, supplementary details, future plans, etc).
Loving this project. The more you can accomplish in the browser using HTML and Javascript the better.
Many people here are creating a false dilemma out of mousing and keyboarding. The argument isn't even necessarily about mousing vs. keyboarding, it could be about GUI vs. command line/hotkey. GUIs provide a discoverable profile of all actions (with the most common tasks optimized visually, hopefully). Hotkeys package the common actions to save time.

In any interface, there is a learning curve. Some users never progress beyond the most basic stages, and each time they interact with the software it's as if they are starting over. Other users develop further along the learning curve to the point that using a hotkey becomes cheaper. Many users bring overlap from other interfaces (which is what makes an interface intuitive — it fits the user's expectations). As more hotkeys are defined they will be for less and less common actions, which fewer users will learn, remember, and use. People will also move up and down the curve depending on their frequency of use with the software.

A useful product should have both. The more complex a product gets, the more the user skill stratifies (from newbs to pros), the more necessary both a GUI and hotkey interface is. The GUI provides a scheme for organizing the myriad features and functions as a fallback interaction layer, while hotkeys allow the user to leap ahead.

HN users are overwhelmingly savvy, which is shown by the support of keyboard interactions.
I just made an account... can't really say I see any compelling reason to recommend that others do so though.
Of course, the proper algorithm, when all are single digits, is to use an array [10]int.
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The article is a little over-the-top on a few points. But this obviously stems from the authors own difficulties in choosing a name. While your mileage may vary if for examples you're choosing name in English, based upon a common phrase or word you're going to be hard pressed to get the first name that pops into your head.

I found it more disappointing that someone felt the need to "review" the blog post in the comment stream for us. Even if you disagree with the post it would be far nicer if you pointed in a nicer way and the fact that it 'landed on HN' should indicate that the communicated is interested in the content.

Can anyone explain why there would be hostility against this particular author? It seems a bit out of place in this community.
Patterns are recurring designs, so anti-patterns might merely be non-recurring designs. This isn't necessarily a value judgment.
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That's funny: I worked with Byron Preiss back in the day (my company did two CD-ROMs for him), years before he sadly passed away in an auto accident. A bit of history: Preiss did a great deal of book packaging relating to comic books and science fiction. In the 80s he tried to do books on floppy discs, but his big break came in the 90s when he launched a CD-ROM company that went public. The company didn't do too well, but that was more of a reflection of the CD-ROM market than Byron. After the failure of that company I recall that Byron tried to do e-books again, but it didn't quite work. The problem wasn't his content, but the fact that the technology wasn't quite there yet. If he were alive I'm sure he'd be creating interactive books for the iPad.
No, LulSec said that he is part of the illuminati. I'm not even sure they were even serious, but funny regardless.
Probably something very large, very expensive, and very custom. I would think something like a custom contract-deal IBM solution.

Here is the whatweb output:
./whatweb https://online.citibank.com
https://online.citibank.com [200] X-UA-Compatible[IE=EmulateIE7, IE=EmulateIE7], UncommonHeaders[jid], Cookies[JFPWebAppInfo,JSESSIONID], Title[Citibank Online], Country[UNITED STATES][US]

Looks like something Java-based. It's fun that sometimes software gets so large that they miss a gaping security hole like this.
Generalizations are an anti-pattern.
I hear this concern, but I'm not quite sure what the government can even do to "civilize". What would it mean exactly? Tighter regulation of domains, criminalization of encryption, tracking down and harshly sentencing crackers, forcing an "Internet ID", registering hardware? Any of these measures seems extraordinarily expensive. Maybe doable if the CIA drums up a War on Hacking, shifting attention away from the War on Terror, post-bin Laden.
the top students slightly under-rate themselves, but the bottom students significantly over-rate their abilities,

Sounds like what you would expect from the Dunning-Kruger effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)
My laptop is my primary coding machine. I also walk to/from work (well, not all the way, but quite a distance) which makes laptops with 15" and larger screens a bit unsuitable for me. Because of my recent back problem (no more heavy messenger bags!), I decided to sell the 13" MacBook Pro I've had since last year and instead get a top-of-the-line Air (though a refurbished one). Which I did three weeks ago. This was an absolutely correct decision. The Air turns out to be not only lighter than the Pro, but also (1) its screen is significantly higher-resolution -- the 13" Air actually has the same effective display size in terms of pixels as a regular 15" Pro, which is great for text/coding, (2) the screen is noticeably less glossy than on the Pro, which makes it easier to work in cafes or other places where I cannot control the lighting, and finally (3) even the charger is a bit more compact.

During the three weeks of use so far, I've never once needed an optical drive. Definitely laptop nirvana so far.
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Interesting to me that they don't use a wildcard cert though.
yes, i can see no downside to this. i would never expect that there would be an irrational, overblown response that causes lots of people to be arrested and made examples of.
Im thinking I agree with you. Startup founder here preparing for a secret launch for number of reasons. 1 to gain most market share right away. 2 our idea is easy to imitate. Do you have any consulting with bringing a working product to a VC without testing the market?
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I've used unix os's for longer than I have windows, I consider the terminal to be "keyboard-accessible". You can argue that point if you like, but the terminal is always a command tab away. That with osascript and the open command means i don't have much use for Finder. If I could keep Finder from restarting it wouldn't even be running on my system.
Besides that they can't shake the concept of a paywall, the NYT is indeed one of the newspapers that does a good job online. I should hope so, given their size... I remain unimpressed and even puzzled by the poor state of the website of the average local newspaper. I see it as more than the NYT has done a great job, the industry on average has done an abysmal job of creating useful well designed online services - therefore, ones that have modern websites like the NYT stand out.
I like how you assume all these concerns away when this is the top comment and repeated multiple times. Light is visible from basically an entire dark theater. Sound, on the other hand can vary from a slightly loud neighbor to a loud guy the whole theater can hear. So, you, my loud neighbor may be disturbing me and maybe 8 others in your immediate surroundings, but I, with my cell phone distract everyone behind me, all 100 of them. You want feedback, don't just tell me I am wrong, listen to your audience. I don't want cell phones being turned on while I watch a movie for any reason.
5 hours ago: https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/81115804636155906

2 hours ago: your comment on this post. Don't you think they had some time to take it back up?