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Computer Security - Dos and Don’ts
You can avert a major portion of computer security issues by being cautious. You must constantly remind yourself that your security is your priority. You should be strict on yourself at all times and never compromise on anything when it comes to computer security.
Here are some dos and don’ts with regard to computer security:
1) Is that hard to believe? Yahoo only incorporated in 1995, there were start-ups before that. Unfortunately, I can't find DNS records to back this up - FFN domains seem to be registered with non-Verisign registrar which wouldn't have been arround until 1998 (when third party registrars would have been available).

2) AFF's founders could have already been hosting sites before founding AFF (indeed, it would logically follow that he'd have experience running a site before launching a successful company).

EDIT: Here's some proof:

Conru.com is registered wih Verisign and on 03-NOV-94 (Andrew Conru is the founder of AFF and you can see the FFN address and name when doing 'whois conru.com'). Yahoo.com is registered 18-JAN-1995 (do "whois '=yahoo.com'" to check). Seems like it's at least plausible (Stanford is a small place).
But I would have thought that the MoneyBeamer example from the article (becomes PayPal) would classify as a bad bad idea going by your definition, and yet...

I think that the important thing is that you need to build the full widget, even if it is a bad idea. At some point during widget development, you'll nearly always have to solve a problem that could be applied to another domain with more success.
I am experiencing the same emotions as when I heard about the Million Dollar web page, Tension Sheets, imageshack, plentyoffish...
This is both funny and sad.
Code Snippets in Google Search Results
SSL Certificate for mozilla.com issued without validation
And you're comparing Google Docs to which product by 37 Signals?
For me, it would seem the Internet increases my knowledge while reading a good book puts my mind to work. I guess it depends what you mean by smarter.
But they won't approve an app that lets you receive podcasts via RSS.
The algorithmic perspective painstakingly analyzed here is that hotornot.com uses a 10-point ranking of hotties while pickthehottie.com uses dueling hotties to make for an easier rating by the user.

The author used the latter approach for his Transformers picture rating site which replaces hotties with playthings.

Add a provocative title on HN and, bingo, overnight millionaire.
HTTPS is more secure than HTTP... but when it's possible to get bogus SSL certificates like this, it's apparently not very much more secure.
And everyone says Sarbanes-Oxley killed the IPO market...
41 miles per gallon is still terrible - even allowing for the small size of the US gallon. Ford do rather better with the cars they sell in Europe - as do the European manufacturers.
The problem is if it crashes and burns, it turns into some sort of referendum on how IPOs are "doomed" in this economy and possibly also for quite some time in the future. I'd rather see a better company and one that doesn't carry a stigma (rightfully or wrongfully) that could prevent wide public investment be that bellwether.

Unfortunately those companies are probably staying away from even thinking IPO at this time.
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In what way(s) is Ioke superior to, say, PLT Scheme or Clojure?
Remember Speak & Spell? 
When I was 5, it was the ultimate hack. A device that could talk -- wowowow!

It's almost 2009, quick -- name one electronic gimzo in your house that talks to you. Innnnteresting.
I've always wondered how AFF can possibly maintain a number of users for long. Even average women can just walk into a bar/bookstore/coffee shop/etc. and find a man on any given night with very little effort, which means that site couldn't have much of a selection of females participating. I assume the same is largely true of gay men. So you're left with a large amount of straight men looking for women that probably aren't there.

So I could see how they could lure in a lot of straight men with the promise of casual sex, just not how they could keep the enormous churn rate down when they found they were barking up an empty tree. Maybe they just haven't burned through 100% of the population quite yet, and want to IPO so they can cash out before they do, or maybe just a lot of people have lower standards (even when sober) than I would have guessed. Or maybe AFF is nothing but a ruse to lure men into porn sites they own, since you'd probably prefer it to your options there.
Your book has fantastic Amazon reviews. I think you just sold me.
41 miles per gallon is still terrible ... Ford do rather better with the cars they sell in Europe

We don't have to wonder why.

European countries tend to have lax safety and smog-emission standards. If America had those same lax standards, ceteris peribus, fuel economy would be higher there.

European countries also tend to have higher fuel prices. If America had those same high fuel prices, ceteris peribus, consumers there would select vehicles with higher fuel economy.
Am I a fossil for just streaming all of my video to my tv through an Xbox 360? uTorrent + tvrss.net + Xbox 360 = cable + dvr - $80/mo.
Andrew Conru had several web businesses that were contemporaneous with the start of Yahoo. I worked with him for few months at W3.com (not current owner of site but a company that built websites for Egghead, New Media Magazine and others) in 94/95. It was at the start of the first dotcom era in Palo Alto. I was not involved in AFF which he started later. Conru was in the Mechanical Engineering PhD program at Stanford and could well have known the Yahoo guys.

EDIT: here is a pointer to original W3.com products http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_/ai_17179339
Its all right talking about "$xxxxx a day" — but how long will that last? I think its better to create something useful/fun which people won't get bored of within 5 minutes and that can be updated later. Even if its just for your own self respect — I really wouldn't want to be the guy who "created the popular iPhone fart app". :P
I wouldn't count on this being next years runaway success. Cool though.
I picked arbitrarily between all of the choices; do you guys have any informed guesses as to when we will see recovery?
Stop throwing sheep.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10045321-36.html
might be popular in Australia depending on what happens to that legislation to monitor everyone's traffic or whatever it was..
Agreed the certificate provider mentioned is a fraud, but so is Veritas, who issued a certificate identifying some random person as microsoft.com a few years ago.

Governments need to regulate, and audit, certificate providers, and financially punish them for failing audits.
Ask HN: How do I know if its time to change the host?
I've been running a service on shared host for a few months. The service is getting popular and have started to consume significant proportion of assigned resources (disk space, bandwidth, etc)

Lately, I see my website going down more often than earlier - tends to happen around the time I have more users online or right after a good promotion activity.

How do I know if its time to change the host? Is there anything I could do to find out the number of simultaneous users I can serve on the existing system?

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This is the response from my host:

we have checked and found that at a time 200-300 mysql queries are running through your site so thats why you are getting this issue so i suggest you please take VPS server from us because some time your site taking more CPU and memory usage of the server....
Can't be updated? But think about all the different kinds of fart sounds that could be added!!! eyeroll
Worth it just for the screenshot of Game Neverending - never saw the genesis of Flickr before, only read about it.
I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but personally I'm not going to joyfully embrace the glorious opportunity to throw away 45+ hours of my life every single week to help make some rich people richer.

Personally I wouldn't just travel (maybe 2/3 months a year), I would write libraries to help the programming languages I like and do various CS research. I think there is so much more to discover in our field.
The primary use of the proceeds from the IPO, the company says, is to pay off the nearly half billion dollars in debt on its books.

So they're only going to take money from new "investors" to pay off the old? Sounds like another Ponzi scheme to me.
Is adult friend finder even a legitimate business? I have always been of the opinion that the vast majority of the ads for women are fake in order to get men to sign up. After all, why would a woman post an ad on there when she can just as easily go to, well, anywhere and find a random guy to hook up with?
Not to worry, I was just feeling cranky. Posting at 3 AM and all that :)
That's strange, this is the first negative review I've heard (not that I've been digging for them). Most of my friends have one and every game I've plaid on one of their systems was amazing. They all also seemed to be really impressed with the things you can do on the Zelda game (and most have bought the "crossbow" thing for the controller, etc.).
Sorry, but the logo is burning my eyes out. Also, can we please go back to calling them websites?
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What's the advantage of doing it in hardware instead of software?
I omitted detail for brevity. Of course debt isn't always bad. But "too much" debt is. How much is "too much"? That's complicated. So I simplified. That being said, going into (mainly credit card) debt to buy TVs and iPods and widgets, which lots of people having been doing for years, is almost always "too much".

If the resulting payoff is greater than the debt, then absolutely it makes sense to go into debt.

I agree: if. But government lacks the proper incentives to ensure that the benefits justify the costs.
there is no hive_Exec.jar
Since you're calling it a startup, I might as well ask: What's your business plan? Because it looks a lot like a webapp and not a startup ;)

The logo really could use some love from a designer. It doesn't fit into the rest of the page at all.

The FAQ needs some linebreaks.

The site doesn't fail gracefully, so http://mystartupnews.com/live_unpublished.php doesn't work without JavaScript. I just got an empty section with NoScript :)
I'm sorry, I have to (strongly) disagree. I used Perl professionally for 5+ years. I was the one that always added bindings to C and C++ libraries. I wrote a massive OO network management system that used all kinds of meta-magic (keep in mind this was long before Moose, etc.) to deal with new kinds of computers coming into the system automatically that is, afaik, still running.

And I'll never use Perl again for anything on purpose. I'm not a Python fanboy, but I don't find your library comment right at all. In fact, the time I used Python was because I had to add functionality to an older Perl project. Rather then write in Perl I rewrote the entire thing in Python (that is; I chose to use a language I didn't know at the time, rather then write Perl again). The resulting source code was one third the size (I counted) and much much clearer with more features added. I didn't have to download anything for Python while the old Perl code was using 4 or 5 CPAN modules.

As for Java/Haskell, this is obviously not a fair comparison: Perl+CPAN vs. Java/Haskell standard libraries. If you include third party libraries for Java it should have far more code then any other language by now.
It's just a slip of the tongue. When you pick up idiom from the television and exchange students it's easy to say something that's like totally retarded.

She was probably just nervous and didn't know what to say. So she said the first thing that came to mind...
Why do so many people insist on labeling their crappy websites as a "startup"

Your website is just another clone of 1000 others out there. I could clone your clone in about 4 hours.
When/How will postal mail go away?
Businesses like The Gas Company, The Water Company, The Plumbing Supply outfit still send paper invoices and statements to most of their customers. These businesses spend millions of dollars each year in postage alone (not counting paper, printing, labor, etc.).

In this country alone, one million men are walking up to mailboxes, hand-picking-up, driving, sorting, re-sorting, driving, and hand-delivering stuff - at an enormous cost and waste (both in terms of dollars and in terms of the environment). In this modern day and age, it’s absurd. We’ve got e-mail, IM, twitter, etc.

The question is, when and how is this finally going to change?

Zumbox launched yesterday - "the alternative postal service". Is this the answer? Thoughts?

Here's the Zumbox environmental case:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9405157/Zumbox-White-Paper-Whats-the-real-cost-of-42-cent-stamp
The perfect index symbol for them would be NSFW.
Reminds me a lot of the split brain phenomena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain).

"Split-brain patients may sometimes confabulate a rational account of their behavior, if the true motivations cannot be reported since they may depend on processing in the linguistically inaccessible right side of the brain."

For example, when they are shown a picture of a door in their left visual visual field, they will get up and walk towards the door. When asked why, they will always have an unrelated reason (e.g., to get a glass of water), and are unaware of the visual cue.
It's interesting that these robots are anthropomorphic and have human-style "moves" like punches and grapples. For fighting in a ring I would have thought a more "vehicular" style would yield better results, but of course the human-shaped robots are more entertaining!
This is absolutely relevant to entrepreneurs and HN. This is a real web business with real revenue really going public.
Yes.

Because PG has nothing better to do with his time.
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I have always wanted to say 'my greatest weakness is Chocolate Cheesecake, can't get enough of it'. Seriously though, things I would consider weaknesses in one context are strengths in others. Integrity is generally a strength, but sometimes it can cost you a sale! I guess, as annoying as this question is, it tests your ability to recognise these things in yourself.
Oh..I actually confused it with another website with the same design that used to spam many blogs a few years ago.

So yeah, not spam.
Work on what you use and share the rest
I wonder if it still works on modern browsers ;-)

Anyway the HN christmass mod really made me laugh.
It would depend.

This is the easiest way to do it for a network of computers without client side setup. Another alternative would be to set up a server which does it for you.

Let's say you're having a meeting with dissident bloggers in your house in china, and you would like to provide a wireless network for them. The safe and easy way to do it would be to patch one one these between you router and acces point.

Instant anonymity.
I always read things which interest me by printing them. With HN there, it becomes hard to read interesting stuff with concentration because you always go back to HN pretty soon
May I suggest Peoplesoft? I think it is a worthwile read.
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If your site's going down, it's probably already time. VPS's are pretty cheap. Alternatively, there may be some optimisations you can make to your code to reduce your concurrent MySQL connections.

You can use tools like siege or Apache ab to probe the limits of your capacity, although I wouldn't run them against your shared host out of respect for the others on the machine. You know what your capcacity is there anyway - you've already reached it.
What is the ;-) for? You think you've found one? If so, you would do better not to judge people for whom the sum of your knowledge is: "they don't completely agree with me". ;-)

The last project I did at my last job I did several hours overtime every day until the projects completion. Not because I was asked, or because I felt it was expected. I did it because I was 40% into a refactoring that I didn't want to back out of. I could have, as my manager suggested, gone back to the main branch and added the new business feature requests and avoided the overtime, but the maintainability of the code means something to me. How "beautiful" it is, if you will. It didn't bother me to invest the extra time because I knew the several-months-long refactoring that was desperately needed (6+ year old code base that had changed hands 8 or so times) could happen no other way.

I think you over-simplify and focus in the wrong area. In any thing people set out to do, the best ones truly love what they're doing. Micheal Jordon didn't wake up every morning saying "Oh, god, do I have to play basketball today?". This is also why many fighters retire so many times. They just can't stay away. The thing to look for in other programmers isn't "oh, look! He only worked 7 hours today, he's a free-loader!". What happens when you ask them about programming projects they do outside of work? Does the thought create an instant grimace on their face? It will for most, but not the best ones.

Personally, I'd rather have one guy who works 4 hours a day that's passionate about programming then 2 of your non-loafers. They tend to cause me the most work in the end. ;-)
See, you started off there with an fairly reasonable comment, but then by adding a stupid political zinger, you landed firmly in the wackjob category.
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My host is asking for $100/month for VPS compared to < $5/month I pay for shared hosting.
In the long term we are all dead. Or, to quote Keynes again, markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. It's not just a question of whether these real assets will rebound in value within the next few months/years - it's also a matter of how much margin the HMC might need to put up for realized losses. Deleveraging forces you to sell at firesale prices into illiquid markets.

The Wall Street firms that bailed out LTCM in 1998 actually made a profit off of LTCM's assets within the next 1-2 years, once the markets returned to rationality. Unfortunately for them, LTCM didn't have the capital to weather that storm. Depending on what else HMC holds, they too might be forced to liquidate what seem like economically sound positions at a loss.
Yes, but Micheal Keaton has shown us that a clone of a clone might not be as sharp as the original, or even as functional as the original clone.
I would gladly be the guy who "created the popular iPhone fart app" if it netted me $10,000/day for even a week. That'd be plenty to live off of for several months while I built something better.
Avalon for large sedan. Highlander for mid-sized SUV, 4runner for large. I'm not familiar with Honda's lineup at all, or really any other non-luxury vendor, so I can't come up with more.
They seem to be remote controlled, but I wonder how? Maybe the moves are preprogrammed and the remote only triggers the moves? Quite impressive.
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Does the way people use your product determine if your business is legitimate or not? If you did much IRC back in the day then you know that no such site will need to make fake women accounts to get guys to sign up. There are enough people who get a kick out of pretending to be a girl just to prank guys.
It's a populist backlash. As far as Harvard is a proxy for our financial elites, the commenters are upset at what they see as the government bailing out Wall Street while ignoring Main Street.
I don't think you view your mental illnesses as something you want to change. i.e.
"... so I regard it as a blessing, though a mixed one."
"My most beautiful but also damaging..."
The post gives the impression you want to be seen as a damaged butterfly. I know someone very like you. He has the same hyper-sensitivities, trolling, avoidance of drugs, obsessive writing and hacking. I class both of you as classic INFPs with a strong need for self-expression.

My friend made a couple breakthroughs with his life a few years back. He got into drama/acting and films. These things made him far happier and he began to express himself in a more positive manner. Maybe you should try out this area. It is a good way to get some decent friends.
Um, no? They're going to sell a part of their company to pay off their debts. But if you still don't see the difference just realize that they can only sell so many percent of their company until they have nothing left to sell and the company belongs to someone else.
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How will I get my stuff from eBay?
That's alright, we have Sinatra for innovation now: http://sinatra.rubyforge.org/
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Why ever not with "only" a few million neurons? Have you proved, mathematically, that there is a lower limit?

How many neurons does it take to crunch a few patterns? I'd think that a couple thousand ought to do it.
the Dutch (especially younger ones) tend to speak English at practically native speaker level.

Don't overestimate us. Dutch people tend to be able to communicate in more languages than their own and be prepared to do so when encountering foreigners, but fluency in English is not widespread.
I thought about getting into this, but I was trying to keep the metaphor simple. But when you really think about it, the intent of the two systems are pretty similar: a mortgage is backed by a physical asset (a home) that is usually worth about as much as the debt that finances it (if not more), and can be liquidated to guarantee the debt if the borrower defaults. Stock investors have no equivalent physical assets to back their trades, and banks have established the margin-call system to compensate.
You're welcome, enjoy your travel! :)
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It doesn't work like that. There are many factors in play here other than just culture. And even if it was just culture, it couldn't be changed by one cnet article.