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Some rich clients deliberately ignore parts of the format. For example, the Windows-based Sumatra client did. It seems to have been acquiring more features in the last few releases, and I'm not sure of its current state. But in the past it has been useful for example in that it simply doesn't run embedded Javascript. Or Flash.

That's been my personal approach, such as it is, to the need to deal with some PDF files from third parties. I look for the environment that does no more than render the static page content.

Somewhat akin to using NoScript in the browser. I only execute when I need to, and then from a source for whom I have some trust.

I recently had to clean up some business systems belonging to a relative whose employee ran an infected PDF. By avoiding execution, I was able to examine the PDF and show them how it was indeed the source of their problems.

Unfortunately, these "business users" still have limited will to learn the techniques to avoid such problems. I've made some impression, but the Adobe PDF format is still a time bomb ticking away in the midst of their organization.

I'll mention that, for casual browsing, I use an extension that redirects PDF URL's to Google's Document Viewer (while not signed in to Google). Again, I get (usually) the static view without having to trust or execute the file on my own system. Thanks, Goog!

(Note that I don't do the latter with documents containing sensitive/personal information.)
Very similar, yes.
One could argue that it's a chicken-and-egg problem, but a year ago friend lists were easier to find, allowed filtered per-list access to your News Feed and ...

"Tonight at a Facebook Developer’s Garage meeting at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Zuckerberg fielded a question about the service’s privacy controls. He said that the ideal solution for sharing different things with different people is to make a friend list. “But guess what? Nobody wants to make lists,” Zuckerberg admitted."

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/26/facebook-friend-lists/
You may also be shocked to discover that the HTML spec includes its own language with Scheme-like semantics and Java-like syntax.
Isn't the expectation that the miners will compete to confirm transactions, and there is an expectation they will work for small transaction fees?
From the sounds of it, Noel (among other things) is responsible for finding the actual virtual assistants. That's a critical position. The design team is probably more easy to replace.

The other thing that I note is that the founder wants everyone to read Atlas Shrugged. I'd take that seriously, don't apply unless you're comfortable with that brand of politics.
I'm not sure I'd describe HN and TechCrunch as the big tech sites. They're both pretty specialized around startup people (devs, VCs, etc...).

If you really want to see trends I think CNet, Ars Technica, Wired, and Engadget are going to give a much clearer picture of what tech savvy people are doing. Not just what tech savvy consumer-focused startup developers are doing.
Very clever/sneaky!
Perhaps it's not that different than how charismatic folks routinely get people to help them. I realize it's supposed to come off as a funny piece that reads like an online dating profile, but it does feel like pandering to me. I guess I was more offended by it than I first thought.
Right now chrome performance makes other browsers irrelevant.
No amount of features would convince me to roll back to something that takes 5 full seconds to start.
agree w/ the other ones... that depends a lot, and it's not that easy here in brazil.
Wouldn't it make sense for them to be using .us anyway?
The old system has been entirely decommissioned, and the team works entirely on the new system now.
As a side node: I did a diff and it seems that besides some newlines at the top and the text at the end the scripts jquery-1.6.2.js and and jquery-1.6.2.min.js are in fact identical. This could have changed at any time, so from a security standpoint, you could even consider the client page as being compromised.
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Move it to a different domain. Not much else you can do.
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I am not searching for RezVera. I am searching "gastritis" "irritable bowel syndrome", etc... RezVera is just a quick way to see the sites that get listed on Google, I assure you those sites come up for legit searches too.

If you do a search for "Irritable Bowel Syndrome" & then sort by date 3 of the top 4 choices are: "Manuka Honey Capsules Announced", "New Supplement [RezVera] Shows Great Promise for Gastritis", "CSIRO cereal a real superfood". Spammy McSpam Spam.

Sometimes press releases blur the lines between advertising & news, I get that, but these sites aren't really that useful & look almost like they're gaming Google News to advertise. Rarely do they actually have any authoritative links backing up their claims, which is something Google supposedly wants from sites joining Google News.
Awesome, thanks! Sorry to pester you with trivialities like that.
Programmers don't want to look for jobs.

So, I've been looking for a programmer to hire for about a week.

I didn't ask for a resume, I asked them to complete an online interview.

I posted the job description, skills needed, responsibilities, and a link to the interview.

In the interview I ask a few upfront questions, regarding who they are, what they've done in the past, what blogs/etc they follow, what kind of environment they like to work in. Then I asked (what I think) are simple questions. I asked them what problems exist on the very webpage they're using (Basically, just run yslow and tell me what it says). I ask them to refactor some garbage code (all they need to do is understand arrays and switch-case). I ask them why 5 lines of javascript takes five minutes to run, and how to improve it. I ask about the absolute basic linux command line tools (ls, cd, mv, chmod). I asked them to write 5 lines of sql that does an inner join, and a few security related questions. I then provide three boxes for resume, cover letters, and anything else they feel may be important.

So, I've entirely ignored the standard process of hiring applicants. I've said "I want real hackers, not idiots who think java is javascript."

I posted it to hackernews jobs, forrst, facebook, twitter, craigslist, and some other places.

What's the pay? I put down the pay is what they feel they're worth, and if we feel they're worth it, we take them. Sounded fair to me.

Want to know what my page stats look like?

500 hits in one week for this job page. 99% bounce in under 10 seconds, and 0 persons have posted to the job.

So what's my point? Nobody wants this job. I clearly outline it's just basic javascript, with a side of PHP and other things. I've had 0 applicants. I have two friends who have been asking me to hire them (epic problems incoming?) and neither of them will submit a damn application form.

I tried to hack the hiring process to get away from HR problems of having thousands of non-programming-programmers apply, and I get 0.

Maybe this is a rant, but I'm sure there's something constructive to take away from it somewhere in this mess.
> I do wish that, when people slate a platform for not having certain features, they would actually do a little research instead of assuming.

I do agree with this, obviously, whole-heartedly. But, at the same time, I feel like the lack of research in this case is kind of making a point of its own. The circles feature has garnered a lot of praise from people while it seems that very few people even know about Facebook lists and even fewer even use them (if the articles and discussion on HN are any indication). A feature nobody knows about is as good as missing and I'm sure their designers are going to have some fun if FB decides they need to emphasise their lists more.
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Uh, maybe in the US. You can find soda fountains in pretty much all UK buffets.
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I've used my school ID to board planes on multiple occasions. It's easier than pulling out a passport, and no one seems to really care. Actually, the only time I even need to show ID at all is at the last step where I board the plane... you can pick up a boarding pass by just answering some questions... and in my experience, the TSA only really looks at your boarding pass.

I've also found that their security systems have problems with edge-detection. I inadvertently brought a razor-sharp piece of metal in my carry-on with me from Canada to the US once, and only realized it when I was unpacking. The article is correct: mistakes happen all the time, but it's not a security concern I'd worry about.

I'd more complain about the multiple times I get stopped by customs. US Customs held me at DC for 3 hours because I had too many types of US stamps on my passport. After waiting 3 hours and saying "I was a student", they let me go.
It is not impossible for Google to differentiate between "some site redirects to brand new site" and "some site redirects to existing site".

In the first case Google should try to transfer reputation. In the second case Google should weight that redirect less.
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>2. the .co.uk/.de etc, should only get a bonus in their own countries.

A flawed rule. I deal with websites based in other countries and written in other languages. I also access websites from my home country when overseas.
sounds like a good strategy, at every job I've worked the first question following a statement of "We need more people" was "Does anybody know somebody who would fit in here ?"
Ok maybe you do know. However, it's odd that you bring up that you work at Google and then add nothing new to the discussion (everybody knows about the 200 metrics). How about: "You're wrong, PageRank has never been the foundation of Google search"?
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How about "I'm considering taking a new job on the other side of the city. Anybody have experience on the best cycling route to ...?"
You're posting to the wrong message board.
I think he meant that they don't reveal that information to the public.
What indication do you have that a paying market exists for such a product?
Cashmere hoodies are all the rage on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif., home to many big-name venture-capital firms, according to venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who recently brought on former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers as a special adviser. Mr. Andreessen says "the challenge for now is to get Larry to wear a hoodie."

Something about this feels very odd.
My guess is that it depends on the amount of traffic.

Edit: I remember a few years ago it would take 30 minutes to an hour before it expired. Maybe it deletes the oldest tokens first.
> Likely it will be a little worse than break-even

Only if you are marking against the current market price for bitcoins, which is not necessarily the best way to look at this.

1. Conversion Costs: Converting USD->BTC is currently very cumbersome so it may be worthwhile to go USD->Mining-Rig->BTC instead if only to avoid the hassle (as well as securing a low-cost source of BTC going forward after the Rig has paid for itself.

2. Market impact: Buying BTC on the open market will put short-term upward pressure on the price which is bad if you are trying to accumulate a position (especially in the aggregate). Mining them nets you an increasing BTC position without this impact.

3. Pricing against expected value: Many miners likely believe that the current market price is artificially low and are not 'marking' their mining efforts against this. Unless the miners are simply churning their BTC into other currency at the spot price this is entirely reasonable[1]. If/When the exchange rate goes up to the effective price the mined bitcoins will be 'worth it'.

[1] This only really holds if you don't have an alternative way to convert USD->BTC (see #1) or don't have any USD to convert. If you did you would buy the cheap BTC with cash instead of paying to mine.
"...pay more attention to joining the billion dollar revenue club."
That is a rather large number. For most, you can survive and grow with far less than the billion mark and never take a drop of venture (and still be considered a success).
I like G+ because , of the circles. I can have long discussion with interested ppls , without inference and >=140 is the strength and weakness of twitter. Facebook brings in too much of junk.
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You have soda bars like beer taps? Because that's what they're talking about. Where there's a soda jerk (bar tender) that gets the soda for you.

US restaurants have a lot of self-serve fountains.
I'd think that it would be the used car nobody who knew it wanted...

When jobs show up in those sites, the company already failed at filling the position through trusted references. (or so is my impression)

Doesn't have to be bad ofcourse, but propably warrants more due dilligence on the job seekers part than a good reference.
I'm in Canada, and I've filed CCTS complaints for both Rogers and Bell. Bell refunded me about $500, and cancelled my plan for free. Rogers had a different issue, but fixed all my problems as well. It's just that most people don't realize there are regulating bodies, and thus do not pursue injustices.

In the US, Verizon's executive office called me with an apology, and fixed up the problems as well. Verizon took about 15 days to respond. Bell took about a month, and Rogers took about 5 months. In the end though, they compensate you as if they would've responded right away.
Maybe the bike circle as a whole exists as a place to ask questions ("My chainset is hosed! Anyone have recommendations for a new one?") but he only actually goes out biking with people he doesn't work with. More to the point, why does it matter why he doesn't want to share something with them in this particular example when it's really easy to construct good examples?
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I'd love to have a Samsung Galaxy 2 with WebOS...
Thanks for the feedback! Re: pricing-When we launch in late August to the public with pricing it will be $15/user/agent. Hope this helps :) If you want in on the beta let me know.

Cheers,

Alex
I've been using Clojure for a while, but I've seen a lot of stuff lately (even just old stuff that predates Clojure, which has been dug up and reposted here) that points to it striking something of a perfect balance. I think it's on the cusp of becoming really big, and I honestly hope that popularity doesn't ruin it.

I fear a "Rails moment", which would be the inflection point where some library or framework for doing X comes along and dooms Clojure to forever be "an X language" in peoples' minds. Of course Ruby is still a fine language... but Rails practically made the Ruby community into what it is today, for better or for worse.
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Beyond a certain point the majority of the mining reward will come from transaction fees.
But what sort of traffic?

See, e.g., Arvind's comments on StumbleUpon visitors:

http://arvindn.livejournal.com/133249.html

To quote the takeaway, "most of the traffic generated by StumbleUpon users to any given site is going to be low quality because the dopamine junkies make 100x more clicks".
Psychologists are not dumb. They hire actors. They lie an any number of ways. Just as you shouldn't believe Hollywood depicts the Bible accurately, don't believe popular conceptions of psychology.

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No surpriseWhen you're competing against people who are doing bitcoin mining using someone else's resources (eg http://thenextweb.com/au/2011/06/23/abc-employee-caught-mini...) then bitcoin mining will not be cost effective for you unless you are using someone else's resources as well.
I have an instinctive emotional desire to keep what I possess. You have an instinctive emotional desire to feel compassion for someone who is suffering. Because of your emotions, you want to raise taxes on my property to support the poor. Because of my emotions, I want my taxes to stay the same, if not lower. How can science decide between us?
That's where we were pre-Google; we called the whitelist our "bookmarks".
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But the sun isn't a perfect sphere. If you're using pi to calculate the circumference of the sun, and need any sort of accuracy, you're doing it wrong - you're answering a question with no relation to reality.
A. Why does he need any indication. Fail fast, fail cheap. If it doesn't work it is only a loss to those invovled.

B. I would pay. So there.
One thing wrong with your logic is that this sort of stuff does happen, and Google's algorithm does let cracks like this through.
No indication. Just have the urge to do this.
Sorry, you're right, the other five didn't actually fight it, I'd thought one of them had.

What I would say thought is (a) Motorola's fight isn't going brilliantly and (b) when the likes of HTC - hardly small fry - think it's best just to license, there's probably something there.
With the upcoming version of chrome, there won't even be a url bar. AFAIK firefox wants to get rid of it too.

Now is this an argument for keeping the url bar? It's obviously error-prone, but the other methods of establishing identity don't seem to be there yet either.
The Facebook login page did fall out of the top spot last year in favor of a ReadWriteWeb story about changes to the Facebook login page.

The comment thread rapidly filled with deeply confused people complaining that they couldn't figure out how to log in on this new page.
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What if Google put subtle warnings on websites from other CC TLDs than .com, .net or the TLD you live in?

Alternatively, Google could just work on spotting phishing and spam sites.
I'm a bitcoin speculator. So far, I've made a very good ROI on a relatively small (4 figure) investment. It's been a lot of fun, really.

MtGox, and other exchanges (though I've got less experience with them) publish raw market data. I've written some analysis tools using mongo and python, they run on an Ec2 instance and buy/sell automatically. I send myself an SMS when I make a trade.

It's been so much fun to build. It's like SimStockMarket (or SimForex) to me. I've always been fascinated by the high frequency trading platforms. Obviously mine isn't high frequency, but it was a chance to build a trading system that had enough skin in the game to be interesting but little enough to be a hobby and not a stressful investment.

I really don't see myself mining at all. That part has never interested me.
It probably will. I feel crude pointing this out, but it has become an annoyance to me in the past year. I consume a lot of technology and videogame journalism, so my comment is mostly derived from experiences there. (The person posting this blog/request is more related to what I'm about to say in spirit than in actual example).

In particular, I've come to enjoy playing a sad little game called "content creator or attention whore" where I predict what a journalist's website will be like before I actually visit it.

I am very good at this game. It helps to illustrate the difference between people who care about and are knowledgeable in videogames or technology versus those who just want to get their name and voice and face out there and are just using whatever they can get to springboard into having a sit-com on NBC or hosting Entertainment Tonight or something. These are the people who make me feel icky, because either they are misleading the audience and the reader by pretending to give a damn about something that is just part of their path to fame or they have so little faith in the reader that they can't win them over with words.

So, you have your Jeff Gerstmans, Veronica Belmonts, Scobles, Pogues, Sarah Lanes, Ngai Croals, Justin Mcelroys, Ryan Davis. These are people who clearly care about the things they cover and the focus of their sites are their content. Yeah, you might catch a series of goofy candid photos from Scoble now and then, but when you visit their sites, the primary focus is content.

Then you visit the site of some other people who supposedly do the same thing and their sites are just massive walls of devotion to themselves. They're filled not so much with -- you know, content -- as they are with headshots and glamor shots.

The most recent example of this game being played was when I listened to a gaming podcast where someone was a guest that mentioned they have about four shows that they do. Video podcasts, audio podcasts, producing content and so on. I just knew what I was going to find when I went to the website they mentioned. Sure enough, the site had a list of all the shows they do that was dwarfed by the 70% of every page that was consumed by multiple enormous headshots of themselves.
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That example is significantly biased in the author's favor. In fact, VCs are not getting nearly 50% of companies. More like 10-33%. And liquidation preferences have drifted back towards 1x which is reasonable. Finally, no one is raising $1m and selling out for $5. In this example, just add a zero and the founders are now looking to split $5m vs $500k.
So, what are people using to back up their data? I'm familiar with doing it piecemeal; does anyone have an integrated solution that covers the entire domain (from an administrator account/credentials)?
At a guess: HEAD requests give one URL, GET requests give another?
Very nice. I like books, but this is a big commitment and including "connectivity" is even better.
Yes, it is sad. And yes, it must be done out of necessity.

Any company, especially a large company, must do business with a large number of people. Inevitably, some of those people will be, uh, neurotic. Some of those people belong to watch-dog groups which may or may not have motivations aside from playing out internal "rescuer" psychodramas. Some of those people are journalists who are itching to carve out a "hard-hitting" reputation from the hides of their betters. Some of those people are lawyers who are trying to salve their consciences by showing that no, they didn't go into Law just for the money. Some of those people are bureaucrats who wish to demonstrate their "impact" so as to impress their peers at the next high-society cocktail party. And so forth.

Corporations act like contemptible curs partly because the free market does not work exactly as advertised, partly because business schools are seedbeds of iniquity, and partly because they get punished for acting otherwise.
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