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You are correct. I have never had to deal with regulatory compliance. It's a concept that I read about and, after turning it around in my head for a while, dismiss with a sigh.

Are you _payed_ for your services 24/7 in those jobs? Because if someone really likes to invade your life like this, this surely increases your pay-check?

My lawyer friends (Here I've to insert the disclaimer that I have few) would certainly talk to me about law issues, if I ask for advice.

Funny thought: Did anyone reading this board ever decline an IT support request from friends or family with the 'Yeah, well.. Listen. I'd love to help you, but I cannot provide you with computer related advice. Sorry. Company compliance thing, you know?' outside of office hours, on his/her free and _unpaid_ time?

Certainly there are good reasons for regulations of some sectors/jobs. The article fails to mention a serious issue in this case and you couldn't convince me that there's a problem either.
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Sbvtle has made it very difficult to distinguish visually if I have seen something from a particular writer or not. This is bad.
So, now that this is out, what do the admins for these compromis-able systems do. Presumably RuggedCom has not got a patch out yet, so they just sit there?

Not a good day.
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Des has submitted dozens and dozens of his own articles. How could say that he only ever wrote 2 posts that were in any way "promotional"?

Moreover, I think Des himself knows the commercial value of all this promotion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974542

Blogging has been our most effective weapon thus far. We'll give advertising a go soon, just to compare. But right now it looks like a good article that's related to the product drives readers, which we try to then funnel into the site.
I believe the parent's point was that, for the HTTPS scheme, you can't use any alternative CNAMEs, because they won't match the key S3 serves--so if your site is designed to be HTTPS-by-default, and is attached to an S3 bucket, putting a robots.txt in it is moot.
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Hmm.
That's a magnificent $0.65 a blog...per year...in gross revenue.
I'm so angry at GitHub! They make me feel so unproductive. Somehow jealousy is always my first reaction when I see a new update from them.
Well, they're completely distributed with little physical overhead. With 100 employees and the only other primary cost being servers, I'd guess they're doing alright.
Apparently it's too hard to download yourself?

wget http://downloads.basho.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/riak/1.1/1.1.2/riak-1.1.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh riak-1.1.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
The indicator you're looking for is the size of the scroll bar. Not perfect, but I think it's pretty silly to ask authors of long articles to write a disclaimer about the article's length when it's right in front of you. Also, this is not exceptionally long for an article, I think the lack of pagination contributes to your perception.
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I downvoted it because the comment was content-free. "Backs down" from what? What's the likelihood that a random HN commenter intends to communicate support for the 2012 White House "Cybersecurity" agenda with a comment like that? Epsilon.

As for your "in their current form" innuendo: that would be clever, except that the Administration has for several years communicated loud and clear what their agenda is on this subject. That it is surely something you will not approve of (likelihood that random sampling of HN readers will go apeshit over what the Obama Administration wants to do vis a vis cyberspace: 99.999%) doesn't make it "weaselly". They've been anything but weaselly on this topic.
Blog post:

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_S...

FAQ with artist (quite fascinating):

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Q_A_w...
An HTML canvas has no palette.

This one does. You can see it in the lower right.

I just tried this on my phone -- where it works -- that has no color palette hardware at all.

This is HTML. It's a software palette.
That argumentation is a bit silly. Chaotic systems are not necessarily unpredictable. For example take the pendulum that swings among the magnets (one of those classic examples). So the exact path of the pendulum might be unpredictable, but it is predictable that it will reach equilibrium eventually.
What I mean is: some aspects can be predictable while others are not predictable. Therefore your argument is wrong.
Mathematica, if you have access to it, can give you the minimax polynomial in one line.
I've met quite a few people who enjoy arguing about something far more than discussing favorite sports teams, or comparative benefits of different restaurant chains (eww!!), or the color of someone's socks (no, I'm not inventing this), or whatever their kids are doing in school. Of course you would want to stay away from idiots, but say OWS vs. libertarianism, or whether AAPL is a good investment, or pretty much anything else, is so much more fun to discuss with someone who disagrees.

Life would have been more interesting had this attitude been more common (interesting for people like us of course, for some others, probably supremely annoying).
My experience is that slow-compiling projects tend to have bloated header files. The C/C++ pre-processor needs to apply #define's and friends before it touches source files. Java compilers don't suffer from this problem because the Java spec doesn't have support for header files.
This is a good point. There is some selection bias here for sure (a lot of the people on the mailing list have adopted Riak already). That said, the opinion of those who have committed time to Riak is definitely important. If you have the emails of 1000 people who tried and didn't use Riak for various reasons, please let me know. I would love to talk to them. :)

More importantly, we need to get a a proper yum package built and maintained. In the meantime, this should get you started.

http://wiki.basho.com/Installing-on-RHEL-and-CentOS.html
Its too early to tell or say anything concrete. Ask this question again two years from now.
Amazon did send him a warning email.
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It's comprised in part of what we observed as the top hundred or so user passwords, so I'm hesitant to share it. I hope to do a more in-depth post about some stats we're able to run on password usage - I'll see if it makes sense to disclose (part of) our blacklist in there.
It's not the "same old client/server model" from legacy systems. Essentially it's a publishing model that embraces mobile, cloud and in-memory data computation. ie, real-time data sync and the democratization of data analysis.
I highlighted their difference with Tumblr here not too long ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3809374

They both use Quantcast, so the numbers have to be pretty accurate.
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1) I normally use Amazon's S3 service to host and serve images to iOS apps. Your backend will maintain and "serve" up the URL's to these photos and the iOS app will have to pull them by that URL.

2) I am sure they are pre-loading and/or caching the images inside the app. The image size, sever performance and device network speed will also determine how quickly they load.

3) Be very wary of extremely short/low estimates from candidates on oDesk. You get what you pay for.
But why doesn't they try to sell to other hospitals? In Europe, e.g., Switz hospitals are very well known for their quality. They might be interested.
I'm currently in the market for a class of this nature. If the bloc offering is similar to RailsTutors, why does it cost more than 6.5x as much ($3,000 vs. $450)?

Based on the class descriptions, it looks like bloc.io lasts approximately twice as long (8 weeks vs. ~4). However, the first three weeks will be spent covering Michael Hartl's rails tutorial.

I don't mean to be flip, but I am having a hard time determining what the value proposition is here. Hartl's tutorial, after all, is more than clear enough to work through on an independent basis. Shouldn't it be a course pre-requisite, and not part of the core material - especially at these rates?

edited: clarity / details
Glad it's helpful! If that's too hardcore for you, check out "Login Notifications" as well (on the same page). This sends you a text whenever someone logs in from an unrecognized browser (but allows the login).
Ah, well fuck me for not reading the writeup more thoroughly.
Agree with both of you guys. And of course I am making a lot of assumptions, but wanted to help devs realize the value of different components of a business. Because if that wasn't the case, Facebook could have just build an app just like Instagram.
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Government interference isn't a homogenous force that is amplified or reduced. While one particular rule or restriction may have been removed, the end result can still be an even more distorted marketplace (eg. because one side is disproportionately favoured), depending on the nature of the remaining rules.
bonch, your account has been hellbanned. All your comments are dead. I'm replying here hoping you see it.
You can not trust any research done where the career of the researcher depends on them finding results.

As an aspiring researcher, I quite agree. I know many researchers who have similar feelings.

But of course, this means getting off the capitalistic grant-publication-grant model of research.
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You keep repeating the same thing (politicians are the the causing entities, corps. are the reacting entities) even in response to a challenge to rethink that assumption. That doesn't mean it's true.

One can reasonably disagree with your simple-minded answers (imho). Notably wrt the third, fourth and fifth questions. Another possible answer is that corps. and bribers wanted a way to legally bribe politicians (to avoid jail time for illegal bribery), and hence created the concept of legal lobbying (it doesn't exist in many other countries, btw).
I'm 65% through the Pragmatic course, and the answer is that it of course depends on your learning style.

Books are great, but I enjoy the lectures, combined with the follow up exercises. I intend to supplement with books and the amount of free material on the web, but I feel the quality so far is worth the price.

Unlike a book, the instructors check in on you to see how you're doing, and ask for honest feedback. And you get access to a mailing list where so far I've seen any question answered very quickly, and without some of the intimidation one can feel asking "noob" questions in other places.

Again, I don't think it is an "either/or" proposition. But I do feel like this combined with other resources is a good option.
Like the author notes, I don't think the problem was with Google. It was no fault of theirs.
The reason: It's a fine line between maintaining privacy policies and managing such events. If google were storing/caching these links, there would have been an outcry from those worried about user privacy and stuff.

About the by-the-hour downloads, well there again is a trade-off between providing data quickly and doing a lazy evaluation.

I think, as the author notes, it was just an unfortunate event that was a consequence of good design decisions gone bad circumstantially and wreaking havoc for the author.

It was certainly nice of Amazon to have made that refund. The resources (read bandwidth) were used after all.
Thanks for the heads up — deploying a new version of the product page that has a version of the icon in the header.
Maybe they had... or maybe the NASA/MIT code is based on code originally obtained from behind the iron curtain.
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Do they?
There are of course Free Software fundamentalists who will not touch proprietary software but I don't think the majority will fit into that.

There are already a number of companies selling proprietary software for Linux.
I'm going to assume you mean that when you update a project, it takes a long time to recompile-- as opposed to the time it takes to compile from scratch (although I would still be surprised if Java is faster on a comparable-sized project).

You may have an include file that gets touched/changed a lot, and that shows up (directly or indirectly) in most of your project files. Have a look at your dependency tree and see if anything jumps out at you. Alternately, you can "touch" a few files at a time manually, re-build, and try to track down a culprit that way.

Also, take a look at John Lakos' "Large-Scale C++ Software Design", which offers metrics and design guides for reducing dependencies among files in a project.

Assuming you have no way to get around each source file including lots of headers, many C/C++ build tools offer some kind of "pre-compiled header" option, that you might look into.

Finally, check to see whether you're doing a very aggressive "release" build, with lots of inter-procedural optimizations enabled. I find IPO at the link stage takes a very long time. So compare your debug build options against your release build options, and think about what the timing differences tell you.
No, the reason many entrepreneurs are building social networks is because many of those entrepreneurs don't have the technical chops to cure cancer or to solve more difficult problems. Solving difficult problems often requires either deep domain knowledge or solid technical expertise in areas more challenging than web/phone app development. There's a much higher barrier to entry.

Mind you there's a fair number of entrepreneurs out there solving difficult problems. But they're not as many and they don't get as much press.
What's dubious? I don't think there are many (any?) people who understand what he's talking about and would be able to implement it, but wouldn't be able to figure it out on their own. Of that set, the set of people who are malicious is even smaller, if not non-existent.
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I guess it depends in part on how strong your relatiomship is and how feasible it is to determine what the root causes are and effectively address them. Due to my undiagnosed health issues, I was always accused of laziness as a child. I found it an unfair accusation and was very frustrated. Because of that, I was pretty tolerant of the appearance of laziness in one of my children. He and I have been able to resolve underlying issues of various sorts and he seems a lot less lazy these days. Similar issues with his father could not be resolved and we divorced. My relationship to my ex was just not as strong as the one I have with my kids and he was not as willing to look for and resolve the root causes.

Best of luck.
Predicting the financial crisis is probably orders of magnitude more complex that climate change.

Orders of magnitude simpler, I'd think. "If real wages and household incomes keep dropping while household indebtedness keeps rising, you will eventually have a financial crisis."

Marx never needed any math to work this out, just the good sense to realize that money never appears out of thin air.
Last time I checked the ruby driver for risk didn't properly support secondary indexes. Looking at https://github.com/basho/riak-ruby-client and https://github.com/seancribbs/ripple, I can't see it there today either.

I'm sure that I might be able to find it in the spec folder somewhere, but I think it's a great feature and putting it in the readme would help a lot of people
We chose Mongodb over Riak for a host of reasons, but after working with Mongo, there's times I definitely wish we had gone after Riak, but there's a laundry list of why it lost out (and where it was super strong as well). I took a look at the list of improvements and one of the biggest reasons we didn't pick Riak (Riak's APIs and model make it significantly difficult to use it and be able to mentor a mediocre developer to working with an existing system...I've got a whole list of details on where, how and why this lost out) doesn't seem to be on the list. There's standardizing the client APIs, which is nice, but wouldn't address a large number of the issues. On the other hand, a lot of the issues could be resolved by wrapping existing APIs (whether directly in Riak or in client APIs/the REST API). We decided not to create our own wrapper because of maintenance and training/documentation concerns.

There's really too much info to go into it here (we spent something like 4-6 months investigating different datastores with actual production data and load levels), but Mark, if you want to sit down and talk about it, or chat via email, feel free to drop me a line. My contact info should be in my profile.
Wow, two hackers in one thread looking for a business guy?

I have 40+ business ideas - some well fleshed out and others just a couple lines from a notebook - but I have no one to execute them. Between school and work I haven't had time to translate my basic knowledge of data structures into something like rails and python. And to be honest, I don't enjoy building as much as I should to be able to code them on my own.

However I do have a BS with a focus on business and basically a minor in EECS.

I pretty much figured I was SOL at finding a tech co-founder.
Actually, there is one old model that this new model does remind me of: IMAP (and Exchange as well). The e-mail client caches local data, can operate offline and interacts with one server that synchronizes data across multiple clients.
> There is no Heroku for lisp.

Heroku itself supports Clojure.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/cedar#polyglot_platfor...
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Not $1,000 worth in either case.
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I don't have an API yet, but I'll probably create one. I have heard of phonegap.com before, will need to take a closer look at it. The problem is, I don't know anything about programming, so it's hard for me to judge what the best thing to do is.
Why stop at adding the speakers? Add USB ports, for connecting disk drives, mouse, etc. Or make use of the extra space next to the keyboard and add a track pad too.

This isn't meant to be sarcasm, but if they're adding so much features and essentially turning it into a 'MBA' with split up mode, use the opportunity to take it a step further and add more value.
The problem is simply that C++ is a MUCH more complicated language than Java. Just compare the grammars and look at all the crazy ambiguities of C++.
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Slicehost (now under Rackspace) sent a very cryptic email a few weeks ago saying users needed to "migrate" their servers, but gave no reason why. Then this mail went out on Friday:

We are writing to update you on the migration you recently completed, and to provide more information about the reasons it was necessary. We know that migrations can be inconvenient, and we thank you for your patience. Now that the migrations are complete, there is nothing more that you need to do regarding this issue.

When we announced the recent migrations, we explained that such measures are periodically required to promote the stability, performance, security, and feature-richness of our Slicehost platform. We were not able to share more information at the time, without putting you and other customers at risk. Now that the migrations have been completed, however, we want to provide you with the transparency that you expect from Slicehost. We now can tell you the timing of the migrations was driven by the need to fix a potential security issue.

We discovered the issue in collaboration with an independent I.T. security consulting firm that tested our products. The security consultants used forensic techniques to examine the underlying physical disk in newly created instances. They discovered that, in certain use cases, random fragments of temporarily stored data could be left behind on the physical disk.

In repairing this vulnerability, we have ensured that all data is wiped effectively whenever a customer vacates hard-drive space on a host machine. And through the migration that you and other customers have completed, we have cleaned up all fragments of remnant data. The security consulting firm that discovered this issue has performed follow-up testing and has found no remnant data on our environment.

We know of no case of customer data being seen or exploited in any way by any unauthorized party.

One reason is that the remnant data could not have been seen through normal use of slices, but would have had to be sought, using forensic techniques. It was not possible for anyone to specifically target a particular customer through this vulnerability, given the random and fragmented nature of the remnant data. Customers who encrypted sensitive data on slices would have faced no risk of exposure.

If we had made this issue public earlier, we could have opened the door for a malicious user to exploit the vulnerability. For that reason, we decided to keep information about the vulnerability within our company — until now, when the issue has been fully resolved.

Dealing with security issues is a constant in any type of computing or cloud-hosting provider. At Slicehost, we work to provide you with the safest, most-stable environment possible. We regularly consult with independent security consultants. We employ a large and growing staff of security specialists and IT engineers. We are proud of their work in repairing this vulnerability, and grateful for your patience.

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So you don't need Stuxnet anymore?
This is great news. Another idea would be to put aside funds for philanthropic startups.
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You should read this as an example why many software vendors don't bother with trying to get their packages into distributions' package repositories.

http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2012/03/16/why-you-should-stop-fi...
Yeah, better consider the median!

Really, this essay sounded like the opposite of the 'lean startup' idea.
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