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Being from a 3rd world country myself, there are a few important details that are good to know:

Crime: Most westerners will not be ready for this. There is a much greater divide between the haves and have nots. Most people get disturbed by child beggars.

Kidnappings: Since we're on the subject of crime, this is a good topic. Kidnappings were a common occurrence where I'm from. It's bad enough where you can't even trust police officers at times. You or your family members will be in danger of this, and it can cost either a lot of money, a life, or even both depending on the country. Luckily where I'm from it was well known that elements in the military were carrying them out, so as long as you paid no one was harmed or touched; hence the professionalism. Sadly this isn't the case in most countries (especially in the Americas), where the kidnappers fail to think about the long term 'repeat business' that comes when you're smart enough to keep your 'customers' alive.

Food Cleanliness: Hygiene especially around food prep isn't all that great in the 3rd world. You definitely want to get your shots, but even that's not enough in some cases. My friend got e-coli from a 4 star hotel. Tip: don't eat street food unless you like gambling with your health.

Bribes: This is also a way of life. Not going with it can make business much harder.

I agree with others who feel the article is a bit naive sounding.
"Over here at SeatGeek, we were excitedly discussing the tremor when Mike, our trusty sysadmin, realized that our Amazon AWS servers were all in Virginia, right near the epicenter. Did it impact the service at all?"
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I use it when in-app search fails. Sometimes gmail search is atrociously slow or doesn't find what I'm looking for, for some reason.

I also have multiple gmail accounts (don't ask why), so Greplin is way easier than searching through them individually.

The Chrome extension helps a lot -- I used Greplin less before it was released.
This was a great demo, but if I could make one suggestion- I think it would be a more useful exercise to group layouts by category and then test based on educated assumptions from there.

What does that mean? Well I believe strongly in the "less is more" strategy, and I have a hunch that the real difference in results lay in the lack of options for visitors to the Basecamp intro page. With the two previous long-form versions, users had the option to spend time reading and eventually navigating away from the page. With the photo page, there is really only one option- go to the sign-up page now. The images certainly make the first impression very engaging, and I think it is well done, but I would be interested to see whether a meaningful change would occur if instead of the smiling people, you had a beautiful cityscape of the Chicago skyline, or no image at all. I suspect it wouldn't be huge. My point is that it would be useful to gain actionable insights that could be repeated, such as "always make a sign-up button the only option and focal point of a splash page" as opposed to "always use smiling people." Otherwise, the real value of the lesson may have been overlooked.
I completely understand what you're saying. In your metaphor, our system is more like this: all "porn" I access is logged (and this log is sent to my wife) and only she and I together can unlock the filter. More succinctly: no single person here has all the passwords.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamirs_Secret_Sharing
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Pretty sure IE 5 for the Mac was the first browser to implement that feature back in the day.
Note that it's currently limited to transactions will fairly small read and write sets, but this is not an inherent limitation of hardware transactional memory, and it can be used as part of a hardware/software hybrid system to accelerate small transactions.

I'm pretty excited. The chip modifications here are really small and cheap, so I think we may start seeing this in more mainstream server chips in a few years.
willing to give you in return for things like a great American style working environment and company appreciation.

That still sounds very subjective and working environment may not be what drives people. Also, what is an American-style working environment as compared to, say, a British or French working environment? I can understand differences between low/middle/high-income working cultures, but it's tough to paint all American workers with the same brush.
Worse, its almost a pure text-book case of the tragedy of the commons.
> Anyone want to comment on what sort of numbers you should be looking at, roughly, in order to get statistically significant results?

This is a very important point. We've found you have to go with your gut until a point.

We've just started doing lots of A/B testing for Buffer (http://bufferapp.com). We are now getting 300-500 signups per day, and we currently have around a 10% conversion so you can work out how much traffic that is. We've tried A/B testing in the past without success, and I think now is the right time for us with the right volume for A/B testing to have a significant impact.

One important thing: we've started A/B testing aggressively (a new test almost daily, now onto our 4th test. We've tested 3 different variations and had no significant results. I expect this to take a long time, and posts like this make it seem easy to get significant changes in conversion. A/B testing is hard.
Heh, I didn't mean to say that there's no incentive to have more than two children, I should have said that the balance of incentives has changed.

As the youngest of three, I'm well aware of what a great idea it is to have more than two children. ;) (And no, none of my own just yet, but I'll probably have two so that I can avoid owning a minivan...)
We are using Haskell + STM for scaling a major multicore system at Bump, and it's been exceedingly awesome thus far. However, STM happens to suit Haskell's type system-enforced purity particularly well; it's hard to see this being anything but a monumental undertaking in a language like Python.
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Based on this discussion, it would behoove innovative people to start writing fiction now
and design the future.
You'll want to follow people in the industry as well (I've found Nate's blog in particular an enjoyable read). A lot of the practical knowledge accumulates in the brains of the guys who actually get hired to do crypto work. It's an interesting feedback loop to be sure.

Also, it's my impression that start of the art papers aren't really necessary to start off with. The implementation errors people make in their code are flaws that have long been published, sometimes for decades.
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I subscribe to the "silence is golden" camp -- blogging when there's nothing meaningful to say just devalues your efforts when you actually do have something useful to say.
From the post:

"For about six months, we’ve been using a combination of StatsD, Graphite, and GeckoBoard to power a real-time dashboard of some of our system stats."
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First, HP makes $3Bn/quarter in gross profit. The tablet business you propose is a major strategic initiative that, EVEN IF it pulled neck and neck with the prohibitive market leader, makes only $23mm/quarter†. That's a disaster.

Second, when you're making $15 per customer and the prohibitive market leader is making $200 per customer, your business exists at the pleasure of the market leader; they can cut their prices by 10% and put you out of business; the can plow an order of magnitude more money into marketing and product development and still beat you easily on the numbers.

† And even that assumes that the money from the app store is pure profit, which it isn't for Apple.
> I think either you know some odd people or it's some regional variant.

I think you've read the thread a bit quickly and are a tad confused. I was talking about the Italian pronunciation. I know how it's pronounced in English as well, as that is my native language.
YouTube lifted their limits on videos for some users: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/12/up-up-and-away-lo...

"Starting today, we’ll begin allowing selected users with a history of complying with the YouTube Community Guidelines and our copyright rules to upload videos that are longer than 15 minutes."

...

"This launch has been made possible in part by the continued advances in our state-of-the-art Content ID system, as well as our other powerful tools for copyright owners. Over 1000 global partners use Content ID to manage their content on YouTube, including every major U.S. movie studio and music label. We remain as dedicated as ever to building and improving the most sophisticated technology in the world to help copyright owners protect their rights. "
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An example then:

switch( machineState ){
case ALPHA:
...
break;
case BETA:
...
goto location;
case GAMMA:
location:
...
}

No, I wasn't familiar with Duff's device until just now. I'd say that you only need to be explicit about pointing out fallthroughs if the blocks in the switch statements are more than a couple of lines long.
Get real!
Crime? try getting shot at because you cut off someone on the road.
Food? have you dinned at you typical college campus cafeteria?? cleanliness.. yea right!

* I've lived in the US & in South America for over 20 years..
If it helps any, he's no longer a teenager
Peoples' obsession with CS having the class macro is weird to me. Seems like laziness more than anything - once I grokked JS's protoype object model I've found it to be ridiculously powerful AND I got to learn a cool new programming abstraction at the same time. All the rails guys I know are going gaga over CS but I just don't see the point as I like and can be efficient in JS.
Thx! The client is BitPay ( https://github.com/warpi/BitPay ). But if you want to use the green address feature for secure instantaneous transfers, you will need a more recent version than is currently available in the Android market. This one includes support for it: https://github.com/javgh/greenaddress-pos-tools/BitPay.apk/q... .
How does it help HP sell servers, printers, PCs, calculators, test instruments, or enterprise software when they burn billions of dollars in an attempt to trash the tablet market?

This just doesn't seem complicated to me: there is no clear path for HP to make money on these tablets at the price points we're talking about. Therefore: they shouldn't sell them.
I believe it may not help our cause to tell people we just sent their porn log to their wife...
Not very often, but every now and then I want to find a tweet that I remember reading, and then it's useful.
Interestingly, we'll never have any evidence either way.

If I upload myself into a computer and destroy my old body then the new "me" inside the computer will no doubt say "Oh yes, my experience was fully continuous", because it will have been from his. But that won't mean that my experience was fully continuous. And if the copy of me is not me then you won't be able to ask me because I'll be dead.

To me the idea that my consciousness (as in, what I am currently experiencing) would get transferred across to a copy of me if I made such a copy and deleted the original seems to me rather implausible, though, especially as deleting the original seems to be optional in such a procedure. And no, I don't think quantum mechanics saves us.
Thank you for the replies. I've received an email from a FB software developer and hopefully that contact will clarify and resolve the issue.

That person also mentioned

https://www.facebook.com/whitehat

as the URL to use to report security problems. I don't believe I used that in my initial efforts, but I will keep it under advisement. For the moment, I'll see whether this direct contact can provide resolution (including calling me an idiot, if that's called for ;-).

Thanks once again for and to the community and HN. I'm grateful to be a part and to be allowed to play my own limited role here.
And this is why competition is a good thing. If you read between the lines, it's clear a lot of these features are motivated by Google+'s privacy controls. Facebook has even exceeded Google+ in a few areas like tag approval. What's interesting here is that people have been asking for features like tag approval for several years. Honestly, it's a no-brainer feature that has had widespread support. But it took the entrance of a serious competitor into the market to force Facebook to respond to user demands.
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Crypto papers actually kind of suck; my experience is that roughly 2/3rds of the time, the complicated formula on the page works out to a "for" loop that would be trivially easy to understand if expressed in algol syntax.

Best advice: do deep research on TLS. For every feature, do a directed search of the literature and do experimentation to try to figure out why that feature is there. Most of the features in TLS exist as a countermeasure to some attack. Follow this tack all the way down the stack, starting with the high-level protocol features and working your way all the way down through the block cipher modes and configuration that it uses.
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Mac Pros might be discontinued, but they definitely won't be replaced by daisy-chained Mac Minis that are barely user-customizable. Owners of a big-box PC want maximum power with good value and to be able to add or replace memory, disks, and other components quickly and easily.
The word you want is corroboration unless you mean for a third-party to help Falun Gong in their fight against the PRC.

To corroborate:

to make more certain; confirm.

Example: He corroborated my account of the accident.
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This all goes back to the Jack Welch theory: either be number one or two in your industry, or find something else to do. What the heck did HP hope to gain by building a crappy version of the iPad and charging the same price for it? The lack of innovation at these companies is truly confounding. If I had any HP stock I would be dumping it with both hands.
I still like the Donald Duck cartoon used as precedent for that method of raising a ship, personally. I think that someone linked to a previous HN discussion of it below.
The screenshot does not show any IP addresses at all. The drop down does say something about Falun Gong and the buttons do say what the article claims (about "Attack" and what not) but aside from that, the rest is just hearsay.

So we have a screenshot of a window that could be created by anyone, reported by the Epoch Times (a Falun Gong media outlet). That fails the smell test.

As much as I don't like the Chinese government's position with regards to what it views as dissident organizations, the evidence is not there and this sort of article runs the risk of being a "must be true because I don't like 'em" sort of thing.
Just wondering, has the wealth distribution changed in that time?
Give him time. He'll show up, and I'm sure he'll disagree with half of what I've said.
Yeah there definitely is a bit of an art to reading them. But we can't have cryptographers and security professionals merging too fast... that would just make too much sense. :P
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> I've lived in the US & in South America for over 20 years..

There are 3rd world countries outside of the Americas.

> Get real! Crime?

One of my really good friends was killed in an open market in Columbia. I've had two family members who were kidnapped, as well as family friends and friends who were as well. These are things I don't have to worry about as much in the US if at all.

That doesn't even count the 'mundane' crime where people just rip out necklaces from someone you know as they're stepping out of a cab... These are not things most people, who don't have some connection to a 3rd world country, are familiar with or in some cases even remotely aware of.

There's also a reason many houses of The Haves in 3rd world countries resemble fortresses.

It also doesn't help my viewpoint when we go out about town, whenever I go back home, we need several heavily tinted cars (all with drivers), of which we only ride in one, while the others serve as decoys.

Given the economy, even places that used to be alright in the 3rd world, are now becoming dangerous.

> have you dinned at you typical college campus cafeteria??

It may be dirty, but normally you won't end up in the hospital, nor are you throwing up for a weekend after one meal.
Facing a similar problem, the Pentagon used 21 C-130 Hercules cargo planes to haul $12B to Iraq. Admittedly, the Pentagon only had to ship pallets of $100 bills, not gold bars.

Surprisingly, federal auditors are now suggesting that some or all of the cash may have been stolen, not just mislaid in an accounting error. U.S. officials claim often didn't have time or staff to keep strict financial controls, so millions of dollars were stuffed in gunnysacks and hauled on pickups to Iraqi agencies or contractors.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/13/world/la-fg-missing-...
Good Lord, just because someone is pointing out that a certain problem might be in a way related to immigration, it doesn't mean that someone is racist. Can you really not see that "more immigrant kids in Finland" might lead to "more kids who have learning problems at school"? Simply because immigrants to Finland typically don't speak Finnish, are poorer than the average Finnish citizen, etc. This is far cry from saying immigrants are inferior.

Suppose that we found out that if immigration in US were heavily curtailed, then some social indicators such as "% of population with low income" or "average grades in standardized tests" would improve and then US would compare more favourably in relation to (say) Finland. That's not to say that immigration is a bad thing! I, for one, think that US is helping more people than Finland, even if reluctantly.
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Another thing that comes to mind is that some computers have accelerometers in them that stop the harddisks if the machine experiences sudden acceleration. If AWS has the same system in place, that might affect their servers' responsiveness.
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Maybe Apple does not even believe they invented the tablet. But they have to act as if they do, because it feeds their cult following, which sells devices at the end of the day.
Any industry for that matter; just replace programmer with <musician> (for example).
TNG? The original series had Uhura using an electronic clipboard with stylus back in 1968: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/08/how-star-trek-arti...
This serves as a reminder for me to upgrade my installation.

I was wondering if they flag hacked themes only, installations too.
Don't forget the vast quantities of accessories for consoles. Extra controllers, Xbox Live, downloadable content, are huge profit centers for the Xbox division.
now that you mentioned it :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTgrQ7W-taQ&feature=relat...

Typically happens at night when most officers left
I hope rwalker was being funny, because otherwise this is the most epic Eric Schmidt moment ever :)
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That would probably ruin all the fun of rule-breaking.
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I think that had a lot to do with Dow Corning bringing tough conductive glass to market. I have an old kitchen scale which looks remarkably like an iPad to a casual glance; it's got a black glass top, and measures the weight function via very small recessed feet it sits on. You switch it on and recalibrate for tare by just touching the appropriate icons in the corners (which actually work by optoelectric sensors rather than via conduction or pressure). It's like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Salter-1041BKDR-Glass-Electronic-Kitch...

The glass cover thing has been in kitchen and bathroom scales for a while, since they're likely to be exposed to fluid/powder on a regular basis.
Some amount of American school spending also goes towards addressing those problems, not really towards education, which can distort what the "education spending" figures mean.

For example, depending on which figures for education spending you use, it might include the free school lunch program, which is really more a kind of anti-poverty program that happens to be distributed via the schools. In addition, beefed up school security, anti-gang programs, and counseling programs are the school acting as policeman and social worker more than as educator. So it could be (but I can't say for sure) that Finland's lower per-student education budget still includes more actual spending on education, if other parts of the government take care of the other issues better.
Isn't that what patent trolls pretty much are doing today?
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This makes a lot of sense for reddit. They get to keep a huge and very successful sub-community and really integrate it into the rest of the site. The exchange is one of the cooler things on the internet to show to friends and I'm really happy that the guys can now afford to work on it full time with the reddit team. Congrats guys!
Yeah, latency is most likely due to the vibrations affecting the various rack components, as commented here. Actually, earthquake-proofing datacenters is a big business in places like the West-Coast USA and Japan: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/07/17/earth...
reminds about the IBM's "strategic mistake" of allowing BIOS clones that triggered the PC revolution.
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Excuse me? Could you please explain, as I fail to see how a tragedy of the commons arises.

(Of course patents are problematic, but the reasons that I know of are not related to the tragedy of the commons in a way that I'm aware of.)
Could the US create a "digital moat" isolating China's internet? Would that be considered an act of war if the network was disconnected on US soil (e.g. MAE-West)?
To me copyrights for APIs should be treated the same as for recipes and games. You can't copyright the list of ingredients or design, respectively, but you can copyright any text or images that goes with it. In the case of an API, the specific documentation such as JavaDocs would be copyrighted.
So? you are saying there is no crime in Texas/US/1st world countries ??
Unless I'm about to get married, what does this article have to do with the IT industry?

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