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AppJet is really cool, it's a drop-dead simple way of doing javascript server web development, and great for both novice programmers whetting their teeth and grizzled hands to tinker with.

It's missing a few features that would really make it useful (and render me willing to plunk down money for services above and beyond the free sandbox). I keep reading where the AppJet crew embarks on more grandiose global transformation schemes like earlier, wanting to port to PHP, or now, seeming to enter the web framework space.

But it strikes me that a few added features would really finish off the polish…

* …ability to upload image and static file assets. Indeed, there are workarounds for this deficiency, but a simple "file" manager tab (with limits and caps and security to prevent abuse) to allow uploading images and resource (or CSS) files.

* …SQL DB and/or improved object storage. Persistence via the storage library is nifty, but more useful would be the ability for more structured data storage.

* …not certain how stable the JS server side engine is.

On the AppJet forums, I read feedback for desire for templating but if the above was remedied, incorporating template library would be a no-brainer.
I don't think you really answered my question, Colin; I think that's a cop-out answer. =)
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Spend it on tickets and travel to the 2-3 biggest trade conferences in your industry. Make sure to set up meetings with target users/buyers of your product beforehand. This works a lot better in certain industries than others.
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=341138 is one. I find old posts rather hard to find (took several Googles to get that one!) :)
I don't know why you're being downvoted. It's cool for the guy, but I found the speeches of Obama completely dull as well. Maybe the talent resides in writing speeches that will offend absoluetly nobody while masking the fact that they tell nothing at all, just like anything that aims to gain universal consensus. I, for one, was definitly not sensible to this tone.
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Right, but then you are only including applications that have limited access to files, not any application. I was just lured into a good paradox. :)
A very misleading title. Kurzweil's predictions are just the anecdotes leading to the main point: "Beware the conjunction fallacy - adding details to make something more persuasive but also less likely
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For that one, look away from The Last Question, and toward Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut. I think, as long as we're talking about finite time, life would have to be pretty incredibly bad to make me want to end it.
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"... start mixing and matching pieces to build your own stack?"

Perhaps because the pieces are sort of like Legos; they're designed to be mixed and matched with known results.

I prefer Ramaze, because it's more like Play-doh to Merb's Legos (sort of; I realize that's an over-generalization), but Merb is not some random collection of libraries. It is (I think) more like Rails with deliberate decoupling of components.
So Prof Knuth doesn't use email. Big deal. This has been known for many years and doesn't really count as news. I still have his books, dusty from years of being unused because google has made them largely unnecessary. Last time I looked at one was when I needed to do precise division of numbers represented in base 100.
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uh, no thanks!
Maybe I misunderstood your question. I thought that "as far as I know, I got the crypto right in [product where I wrote my own crypto protocols]" was a pretty clear answer to "have you ever written your own crypto and gotten it right?"
Seems to be doing better on the netsec subreddit. +8, no downvotes in an hour, vs +4-8 in 11 hours on progit
Does this support HTTP pipelining? I've been looking for a way to efficiently retrieve several pages from the same sever simultaneously, and from what I've read pipelining is the best way to go; I just don't know if it's possible in PHP.
That list has a site that lets you file Freedom of Information requests and check out FOIA's that others filed.

That's an interesting idea. Do we have something like that?

I see there's this: http://www.rcfp.org/foi_letter/generate.php

I like the idea of making it social though. Create a FOIA and read FOIA's filed by other people to get ideas about what records you should be asking for.

Thoughts?
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I was referring to the president-elect, who describes himself as a writer in this article.
The problem with death is that it's irreversible.

If I'm bored today, I might still find something interesting tomorrow.

If I'm dead today, I'll still be dead tomorrow.
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The very poorest in our society are, as you note, mentally ill, addicted and diseased.

Beyond those people, however, most of the poor do live quite well even in comparison to nobility of the past.
You raise a good point. Obama probably likes having someone so young and inexperienced writing his speeches. There's no ego to deal with. If Obama's speechwriter thought he was a better writer than Obama, there'd be problems.

Makes a lot more sense now, actually.
Thanks for the feedback. IT would be great if other people that got feedback here posted their results.
If neuroscience is ever going to truly succeed, that link with mathematics better get more firmly established (even as it's surely underestimated based on the journals sampled). With the number of neurons and possible synapses, there needs to be advanced computational work to tame the complexity. The NIPS conference, for instance, is already decently big. But we need many more folks from that physics and engineering cluster.
Pricing is very hard to get right especially when you have a conflicting values and aims to balance. Like you we are a larger coworking space and therefor are not just supplementing our office with some additional coworking. We built The Werks http://thewerks.org.uk purely for coworking. We have a capacity of ~70 people so had to balance the aims of;

1. Covering our rent and the large financial risk
2. Creating an environment that brings interesting people into the space, as madmotive implies the people are what makes the space work
3. Being open and flexible to suit people with different incomes, often the most interesting people are not the ones with the largest budget but can contribute more in other ways

What has worked for us is to do some of what tstegart suggests and create different products for different people so we have a percentage of the space as small offices who pay a higher rate plus a number of serviced desks... these create financial stability and provide products that suite those with a better income. We then have all the rest of the space for coworking and offer a range of options that give people choice depending on their need and budget. Some pay £100 per month and less frequent coworkers pay £60. We also have drop-ins with no fixed price. This is important to get right, no fixed price doesn't mean free as free implies no value. It is up to the individual how they pay and it may not be entirely a financial arrangement, we have people do workshops or help out in other ways. If you were to do this, I would encourage you to make it very easy for people to understand value from your perspective so they can make a decision based on facts, most people have no idea what it costs to provide a bit of space so give examples.

There is a delicate balance that we had to work at and still haven't made it perfect, but having such a mixed range of offerings means we are able to balance the financial risk whilst removing barriers to entry for cool people.
John Gruber needs to just get it over with already and ask Steve Jobs out on a date.
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I can't see this site.
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This reminds me of how some Web sites / Web apps use ancillary sites or articles / Flash games as linkbait to get their brand known - just in the offline world.
Yes- it is absolutely possible to build an ad supported business in the current economy. The key is to focus on a niche with a readily monetizable and under-served advertiser base for which you can be the best source of new customer acquisition.
How likely are you to find something new and interesting if you are a universe sized super intellect?
Security, just like privacy, is one of these things that generates a lot of noise and heat, yet only people with vested personal interests are really worried about it.

Users don't give a shit. I've seen tons of support emails confirming this. They will continue to download and launch viruses just because their friend who sent them an infectious link thought that sheep jumping from under your windows look funny. And they will disable any software jail that stands between them and the sheep or the singing cat photos.

Most security-minded consumer software only makes everything else work worse, slower and annoy the hell out of people. It saddens me enormously that everything but port #80 on the Internet is blocked, everything except HTTP is banned and most users of my application will be threatened and screamed at by their own computer simply for trying out what I'd built.

This security hysteria not only doesn't work, but it chokes the innovation, restricting us to sit forever in this little crippled world of Mozilla/IE/WebKit runtime with 90% of what a computer can do unavailable to us.

JVM has been around for nearly 15 years, being many times more powerful than Mozilla and WebKit's wildest dreams, yet it has failed outside of data centers because it never allowed OSX programmers to write true OSX programs or Windows programmers to write true Windows programs, and I see no reason why browser-based "boxes" will be different. And you need true OSX programs if you want the consumer market. For the enterprise - yes, they eat anything, users of enterprise software get paid to use that shit, but if you want software markets to strive, if you want people to open up their wallets, you'd have to do a lot better than that. Otherwise we'll be locked forever in this eyeball market of free crap supported by canadian pharmacy advertising.
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@kuniklo merb is designed to be modular and to get its pieces working together smoothly. However, this is a harder problem that having one well defined stack.
merb isn't for all, and if you are happy with the framework you use, you should stick to it. However, if you happen to have to fight with it to make it do things it was not designed to do, then you might want to look at merb.
Also, note that merb also comes in a full stack version that you can customize if you wish to.

So again, in this article, I was not trying to convince people to give up on what they use, but instead offering an alternative for people who are looking for something else.

As Matz said: "We have several post-Rails frameworks, which is very good, and I believe in diversity."

- Matt
In such schemes, all applications have limited access to files. Again, these guys are way ahead of you.
Forward secrecy was one of the important mistakes I had in mind actually. If you use TLS naively, you have none. You probably didn't even realize you needed it.

Verifying certificates correctly is not so easy to get right either, if you can even figure out what PKI means for your particular application in the first place.
The developer who made this mistake probably didn't think s/he was writing crypto code. (Switching to "he" for brevity) He probably thought he was merely making use of someone else's crypto code. The mistake was in choosing what string to sign, not in the function applied to that string after it was chosen. I think the real lesson here is that if your app needs cryptography, then you need at least a black-box understanding of what crypto does and doesn't do.
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Also some interesting comments here:

"The card industry has been very quick to internalize the insights of behavioral finance and apply them to maximize profit by exploiting consumers' cognitive biases. There's probably no other industry that knows as much about consumer behavior, and they are constantly learning more..."

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2008/12/1...
Is there actually a technical distinction between a Series A and a seed round? (I've always assumed it was just size and order of progression.) Their last funding was already $1 million, so wouldn't this be more like a small Series B?
Hah, nice catch!

It seems to me (though I am very biased!) that most of the landmark papers in the aggregate behavior of neural networks are mostly in physics (eg: Hopfield networks) and in computer science (eg: Perceptrons, Minsky).
I think of secuirty as a reasonable spectrium. I would like to be able to install software from my bank, a well known software company, and NBC without consern that they will corrupt my system. I don't really need a system that let's my bank run any hackers program on their servers without concern, but it's gotten to the point where I don't install software without a significant background check which is just silly.
Certificates are a lot like git branching. They're intimidating if you consider them in their entirety, but simple if you stick to your old use cases.

Enterprise apps make good use of certificates. A common use case is to set up a private CA (a three-line shell script) and issue internal certs to all endpoints in a system; you can then do crypto-strong access control just by checking signatures. This is approximately to PKI what "using git just like you used Subversion" is to git.

Another place where TLS has been a huge win is in wireless security; EAP-TLS with mutual certificate auth is the de facto corporate wireless security standard now.
... because it's impossible to find a Merb programmer? Sure Rails beats the shit out of ASP.NET but good Rails programmers are rare, expensive and have very cocky attitudes. It has been a major, major problem for us, to a point where I've started thinking that doing a project in ASP.NET can actually be cheaper and more pleasant experience.

With Merb, I am afraid this issue will be even more pronounced. Merb isn't as widespread, and seems to be technically solid. This, I suspect, will only give these Ruby assholes more reasons to bring all that elitist crap to the party.
I was asking if you'd ever worked with a team of (other, I implied unsuccessfully) developers who got a cryptosystem right on the first try.
This works exactly until you hit the point where you want to (a) re-use an app-specific VM for multiple runs of the same app, so it can save state, or (b) share any kind of information between your apps or your Desktop.
You mean the page doesn't load?
Really neat stuff, thanks a lot for building this.
Aha, that explains why I've been seeing traffic from reddit in my logs for the past two hours -- thanks for resubmitting it to the more appropriate subreddit.
In my experience, the people who do the worst at building secure systems are the ones who know "just enough" about how crypto works. These are the people who implement Diffie-Hellman and don't check parameters, the people who implement AES in ECB mode, the people who store passwords hashed with ultra-fast digest schemes, the ones that leak timing information or cipher state in distinguishable error messages, and the people who implement mirrorable challenge-response protocols.

The "dumb" developers just use OpenSSL and PGP, and they usually come out ahead in the end.

Also: I doubt the Amazon implementers here were dumb. I bet they were pretty smart. They just forgot about canonicalization; this is a classic problem in signature systems. Building crypto features is a good way to get screwed.

(PS: I feel qualified to take a contract breaking systems like this, but probably not qualified enough to engineer my own crypto protocol.)
Those are artificial neural networks -- not necessarily anything like the real ones.
Ok, that explains it. I didn't catch the fact that you were excluding the degenerate case of a one-person team. :-)
I also assumed you'd like your own stuff. But, now that we understand each other: was that an answer to my original question?
That's a lot of poor speculation. If you explore Merb and its community more, you will see that the elitism is pretty much non-existent. Merb is extremely new, so of course it does not have as many developers as more mature frameworks. When Rails came out of the gates, you could have said the exact same thing.
The headline is misleading and this story is horribly one-sided. It is written as though Yahoo's policy is a breakthrough for privacy:

"Under the new policy, Yahoo will delete the last eight bits of the Internet Protocol, or I.P., address associated with a search query after 90 days."

This is the same trick that Google is trying to play on us. Basically, they still retain all information they use to track you indefinitely, except for 8 bits of it. With decent data-mining software you can still identify somebody pretty accurately even without those 8 bits.

Here is a better story that gives better information:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20081217/wr_nm/us_yahoo_data
So the idea is:
1. Find a correlation around a bit of data relating to a very broad tendency in history.
2. Draw an unwarranted conclusion
3. ???
4. Profit
When you finally understand everything there is to know, if that is possible, then I think you will be so far gone from human that you will be impervious to boredom.
Let's take the average user who goes to www.cwtv.com and installs a plug in to watch their videos. Now if it works that's great, but what if there are problems? What if you install an old game that messes with your system? What do they do next?

Users want the systems that "just work", so adding something as simple as an OS level uninstall that always worked would be a major boon that people would notice. Is it really that hard to build an OS that protects it's self from unintended harm? Plenty of people buy Ant Virus software for a wide range of reasons but it helps is enough to make the developer a lot of (Edit: Money).

PS: I am suggesting that VMware, Java and all the others don't own the market at this point. It's much like search before Google where it almost works, but nobody seems to be focusing on the real problems.
Surprised no one called me out on this.
"Hot cocoa and coding" -- such a great idea
I found several effective techniques to get myself working in 'The Now Habit" by Neal Fiore. It focuses more on the psychology and why we procrastinate and provides some useful tools to deal with it.

An example is to schedule time for fun, instead of work. Schedule times to see a movie, see a friend, exercise, or other activities you want to do. The benefit is that when I'm sure I will get the fun things I want, it's easier for me to focus on other tasks in the meantime.

He also describes a 'time boxing' technique that I've found very useful myself. A 30 minute commitment for me does the trick. Usually I'll end up working longer in a stretch and find it easier to recover from interruptions during that 30 minute commitment.
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Some are. Some aren't. It depends on the instantiation details. Folks though seem to be much more ready to implement at a biologically-plausible level these days than they were even a few years ago.
No, they didn't. They helped, but there is no way quant shops caused this sort of supply/demand imbalance for months.

There is an inherent problem with a lot of financial modeling in that it assumes normal distributions (technically lognormal), so a lot of the models are mean-reverting. But financial markets are anything but statistically normal.

Stop blaming short sellers, the uptick rule, hedge funds etc. If noone wants to buy something, the price will go down. That's it.
Someone who makes 12K US a year in the American South can easily live better in almost every material way than most nobility could even a few hundred years ago. More food choices (and at least as abundant food), more chances to travel (by driving), and such a vast array of entertainment choices that it would be inconceivable to people whose might see a bunch of concerts and plays every year.

Even the homeless have access to more, through libraries and shelters, than many societies' wealthy ever did.
I believe I got the crypto right in version 1 of tarsnap, but I wasn't working as part of a (non-degenerate) team. I've never done crypto with a team -- so my answer to your (clarified) question must be a vacuous "no".
First, you're talking about a nonce, not a salt. You'd be a happier person if you took the word "salt" out of your CS vocabulary.

Second, the vulnerability here isn't password cracking; it's that AMZN verifies the signature on canonicalized data, but operates on non-canonicalized data.
Also, something interesting I found using the main site http://eigenfactor.org/map/ was how music was linked neuroscience. What a cool site!
Slightly more? This guy should lose his Headline Writers Guild membership card for passing that up.
What aspect of Singapore's history gives lie to the theory that a tribe w/ portable resources will recirculate those resources within itself as it expands globally?
Laudable goal and all, but isn't "Change non-profit fundraising" a little overdramatic?
...or very numerous. If wealth keeps trending upwards, then anyone who wants will be able to afford their own ship out, as the wealthy can all afford yachts today.
But you've worked against a couple teams now that got it wrong (Amazon, OpenSSL). Do you agree that the evidence supports my argument?
good question. anyone?
boo to being mod'ed down.

I am I the only one who noticed that she was wearing business attire with flip flops?
Agreed. The one I attended back in April was a great experience and really useful.

Congrats on the funding :D
A lot of this is a matter of packaging/marketing. Technology that looked a lot like the JVM had been around for well over a decade. One way to think of the success of Java, is that it "packaged" such technology in a way that was attractive to a large user base.

Most security software is not packaged and marketed in a way that is really attractive and useful for end users. From what I've seen, it's usually good for the nerds, but a bit of an obscure PITA for the average Jane/Joe. Contrast this to OS X's incidental low virus rate through obscurity. Now that was packaged and marketed very well to end users, and I'd wager that quite a few users paid a pretty penny for it. Technologically, there was hardly any substance there.

The technology is already out there. Whoever manages to package it for end-users is going to cash in big time. (Witness Dropbox. The ability to diff a directory and create a recoverable log of the changes has been around forever. They're just succeeding at marketing it to end users.)
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Marketing fluff. Also: doubt many hackers are staying up nights worried about the unnecessary space their cameraphone originals are taking on their hard drive.
You're right, but it quickly moved away from physics. McClelland and Rumelhart also did the seminal work in cognitive science in the 80s.

Here's an upcoming review:
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~jlm/papers/McClellandIPTOPiCS...

Then there are folks like Sejnowski (http://www.salk.edu/faculty/sejnowski.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Sejnowski) who pushed the field more into biology.

Still, I'm really surprised by the current chasm, if that map is reflective of the state of the field.

EDIT: For spelling.