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> But you really only need to figure out how to do it one time; after that, it should be part of the build process for your .cspkg and something you don't need to think about again.

It didn't take long to figure out (Microsoft is one of the few companies that really puts a lot of effort into documentation, and I appreciate that).

I have two other problems with that:

- I need to think about it again whenever a (security) update is released for the software (not only including the jvm, but also the web server and, for me, scala and akka)
- I have to upload that whole mess each and every time when I update my software. For my slowish internet connection, it took at least 30 mins to upload the whole stack (JRE, netty, scala, akka). [Fixed that by putting the .zips into the storage (whatever their S3 is called) and let the .cmd script download these]

Oh wait, I just remember one more detail about the webserver (taken from the .cmd):

:: 3) Place a Jetty 7.x distribution as jetty7.zip under approot in your project

:: 3.1) If you want to download the server into Azure directly from a URL instead, then

:: uncomment the next line and modify the URL as appropriate:

:: cscript /NoLogo "util\download.vbs" "http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/7.4.5.v20110725/dist/jetty... "jetty7.zip"

That is just wrong. If the eclipse server is down or changes its URL... my servers won't start. And, if I load balance my servers, I everytime use server resources of eclipse?

I really do not understand why Microsoft doesn't simply provide VM images with Java and the common webservers pre-installed. Or, at least a repository inside azure where I can download common Java versions and other common Java software. They spent big marketing dollar on their website and documentation on Java, yet when I actually used it, it felt like the engineer spent 2 hours on the Java support.

All of this is fine IF I want 100% configurable IaaS. But I'd rather have PaaS (which is what the parent comment was about), and Heroku, CloudBees etc. have so much more to offer, at least for Java.
it is easier to learn Ruby on Rails part-time than it is to learn image processing algorithms part-time. Go for the harder one.
Most people in the USA outside of academia haven't even heard of Russell, and those that have certainly wouldn't condemn or revile him.
http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.h...
yes. :-(
>Moreover, you made the security of your system "key"-dependent: what if I generate such "key" that will only use 5 iterations of MD5 and 1 iteration of SHA-1? This would be a major failure. Imagine if the security of AES was not 2^128, but varied between 2^10 to 2^128 depending on what key you supplied -- would you use it?

Agreed. The unpredictability of the work factor would be a problem.
I own a handgun, given to me as a hand-me-down, that was originally used for small game hunting.
You'd lose a lot of doughnuts.
I too work with embedded linux and arm9's ... HSI has a few people of embedded domain hanging around, so just post what you feel is good and people are there.
It's interesting to note that the newly Kickstarter-funded Wasteland sequel is going with Unity for its development. A great post on why here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts...
I don't understand why Monsanto is vilified for enforcing the licensing agreements that farmers willingly enter into when they buy the seed?

When you buy the seed, they tell you straight up that you can't replant. And I'm not a farmer (grew up in farming community), but I don't think this is unique to GMO crops either. I believe the same thing happens for "conventional" hybrid crops from breeding.
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"none of the copycat incubators have an alumni list or investment portfolio containing names such as Dropbox, Reddit, Clickpass, Posterous or Codecademy. I can't think of a better list."

Clickpass? Really? I could think of a better list containing just YC companies.

And how do Dropbox, AirBnB, Heroku, Weebly, Justin.tv, etc. lack vision?
I didn't realise HN expires links, allowing them to be reposted after enough time has passed (we'd posted RubyMonk to HN several months ago).

Any idea what that time-period is?
Psst Intel will make ARM chips
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Reddit Gold probably makes them more than either of the above, but I'm just pontificating here.

I think you're misusing the verb to pontificate. Maybe you wanted to say guessing instead?

SO can probably monetize pretty well with ads - their demographic is much more targetted.

Here you're mildly pontificating when you're telling SO what they should do to monetize their service.
Seems nice, though a bit slow.

When copying quotes it would be even nicer if you could keep the formatting from the website. Bold text, lists etc. should be preserved when presented on your site.

I thought the screenshot feature could have been a useful alternative, but for certain pages it doesn't really work: http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-2... - I'm not sure it can be solved in general. Maybe it is possible to run it through readability before taking the screenshot.
Because at the time, Jobs was still hanging around in Silicon Valley, he was the ideal candidate - i.e. cheap, and available.
To me it was the first real-life example of an interactive, desktop-like experience on the web (that wasn't some crappy flash app). It was a huge leap.
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Why is them winning important?

EDIT: Sorry, read that as "where Monsanto sued and won the case" I expect you won't find many cases where Monsanto was sued and lost, since they would be extremely inclined to settle and it would be hard for a farmer to turn down the sort of money that Monsanto has available to it.
In the case of Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange, see Jeff Atwood's (slightly dated - IIRC job candidates are no longer charged) answer to "What is Stack Overflow's business model?":

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/79435/what-is-stack-...

And their Careers 2.0 employer page:

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer
> When they came out they were much better (in price-performance terms) than their PC equivalents. As expected, this lasts no longer than 6-12 months.

That may be true in price/performance, but in absolute price terms, those 6-7 year old consoles are still a better deal. The quality of experience you get from a $200 Xbox continues to be much higher than that of a $200 PC.
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I would be curious to know why you think this looks more promising than Braintree.

Disclosure: I work at Braintree. I'm not trying to shill here - I'm genuinely curious about how people think about our stuff vs. other payments companies.
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Avid shooter here. Yes, those humanoid targets are made for practicing the shooting of humans. That should not be controversial. Some humans are a threat and occasionally it is required that you shoot them.

Shooting innocent humans is bad.
Seems like the x-axis of founder distribution is characterized by external perception - is this person "like" me? do I see characteristics in them that I relate to myself? Liking is mentioned at least once in the article, ie "lest the people in the crowd get introspective and realize that the sacrificed was essentially just like them".

Early in a startup, founders will attract other who are like them (paypal a documented example). However, when the startup is big enough the perception of the founder compared to everyone else in the company has the naturally emergent property that the founder will be seen as different than everyone else. Now, the tipping point of this difference becoming a "dislike" could be company performance or bad luck. So the theory all seems to come together in V.B and V.C in article.

I did however, find some of the background to be confusing, particularly section I.D seems to make the case that king-ship is a matter of perception outside of the organization.
To each his own, I guess. I find a good mouse to be the best aiming tool there is.
That's what I meant by "status and allure". We're defining "money" differently.
Luck has everything to do with it.

If Jobs and Woz had been born in Jackson, Mississippi, they would not have known much about phreaking, attended Home Brew Computer club meetings, or known HP employees with disposable income to spend on the Apple I.
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Hmm, I just get a "Bad login." response as usual - regardless of the browser.
What on earth does this have to do with the original post? I don't think propaganda from Noam Chomsky has any place on HN. I don't agree with a single sentence. The original post seemed very biased in an anti-business way, and this is even worse.

Dow made Agent Orange at the request of the US military decades ago. Are they supposed to be considered evil because of that? Union Carbide clearly screwed up in a huge way over Bhopal, but they settled with the Indian government, and tied up all liability before they were acquired. If you disagree with me, take it somewhere besides HN.

Disclosure: I grew up in Midland, MI, headquarters of Dow, and much of my family worked there.
So what about credit cards and bank accounts that have no annual fees (essentially free to use)? I suppose your money is the product being sold (in terms of interest) in this case.
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Que el ecosistema de Google Chrome cuenta con una impresionante cantidad de extensions y complementos para potenciar lo que es la experiencia Chrome es toda una realidad. De hecho, Chrome es ya el navegador líder, superando a Internet Explorer en cuota de usuarios. Han sido dichas extensiones, entre otras cosas, las...
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https, we're not using 'GET' parameters for the hash (which is almost certainly ending up in log files on leakedin's site). We also just came out with a version for eHarmony's breach: https://lastpass.com/eharmony/
Please elaborate? Would be good to hear your perspective given your experience in the market.
I think they want to reassure investors and partners that Google Maps will remain on iOS. Demoing the whole thing on an iPad was no accident.
>> "Transparent Pricing - Monthly service fee + only pay for successful transactions."

I cannot see the pricing. Any idea of the monthly service fee and cost per transaction?
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The Curious Case of Internet Privacy
This has to do with Medicare specifically, not out of pocket costs for a self-pay patient or regular insurance.

It is robbery and also probably a large part of the reason procedures are so expensive for the rest of us. Regular insurance reimbursements are much more reasonable but they still don't pay near what you'd pay if you had to pay for a procedure out of pocket.
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I tend to agree, which is why my whole comment was conditional on "if it's a good idea for everyone to use custom hash functions". Basically, if we're going to have custom hash functions, we want to reduce the "roll your own" aspect of that to a minimum.
Would you mind elaborating?

ssltrip requires a valid root ca, or an ssl library that doesn't check the signing chain. After using it though, the parameters are unencrypted and so can simply be sniffed.

Are you attempting to reencrypt the parameters with another key? If so then why run that through https?
One of the factors I considered when I switched jobs earlier this year was that the new place has a policy of devoting 2 months a year to refactoring :)
Why am I envious of Hadoop and Big Data geeks in the Valley?
>> For a one-man project, nothing beats Google App Engine.

I'd argue that Heroku is even easier than App Engine.
I think what he's suggesting is composing secure hash functions with some simple customisable steps, like xor, negation, so that the final result is as secure as scrypt, bcrypt, what have you, but also customized, so that standard tools won't work, and the attacker would have to do some custom legwork to attack your application. This, done correctly, would increase the cost of attacking to the point of making drive-by, mass-trolling attacks uneconomical, as they're based on pointing an exploit tool at a list of adresses.

It will not deter targeted attacks (spearfishing) by competent attackers, but again, not much would.
Perhaps I'm missing something but... wouldn't you still need to store the random salt field somewhere in the database?
All three are extremely good for this use case, when the competition is SHA-1. Beyond that, I don't know enough to compare the three. So yeah, it came out of my butt.

If Colin has a paper on it then I trust his comparison. What I really meant to say is what you said: all three are just fine.

Also, I thought I remembered my comment's parent saying something stronger, either it was edited later, or I was drunk when I decided it was worth commenting on.
Future of the web - Single CDN network?
it was a breakthrough, except for scroll wheel zoom. I think that is the worst UI concept I have ever encountered.
I don't understand your objection. Are you complaining that mentioning that Dow hired a private intelligence agency to monitor people expressing grievances makes Dow sound evil because most corporations would (or even should if they are "responsible") do the same, so it's not a particularly evil act amongst corporations?
This is what happens when you can't downvote on a news forum.
Congrats!

Many years ago I worked on a similar idea: first a desktop archiver called Dowser, and an online app called Archivd.

If you don't have enough to do (heh) one killer feature is to extract semi-structured data: email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, prices, photos, Facebook "og" metadata, etc. Imagine saving a bunch of apartment listings to GimmeBar, and having it automatically plot them on a map of the city.

Good luck!
Short version, we now have 3 CDN networks that are on-net within ISP networks (Google, Akamai and Netflix).

Should we not fix this before it get's out of hand???
Microsoft Azure gets a big assist from small PaaS companies
That's dangerously close to "security through obscurity" - whatever process reads the passwd store has to know about and have permission to read the salt store - so just putting it in a different file or giving it a different name only buys you a false sense of security.

The reason for moving the passwords out of /etc/passwd is that there are a s lot of processes that do need to read the user list but don't need access to the passwd hash. But there is nothing to gain from splitting the salts out of /etc/shadow into a another file
It's rather interesting that contrary to the popular wisdom around here, general purpose computers are still preferred over locked-down electronic appliances. This is precisely the reason why iPads, iPhones and Androids are probably going to eat into the gaming consoles market.

The biggest problem of PCs is the fast evolution of hardware. When you buy a game for PS3, you know it will work well on your PS3. And when you buy a PS3, you know you'll keep finding games for it, even in 3 years from now. And I bet there are still titles released for PS2. That's the only advantage of console gaming and is quite a big one.

The fast evolution of mobile devices is actually a disadvantage for the kind of people that buy gaming consoles in the first place.

However, console gaming has been a niche for quite some time. This is not new. The exception was Nintendo's Wii, but that was just a fluke.
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me” - Jobs
“Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful . . . that’s what matters to me.” - Jobs
Kinda offtopic: But since you work at braintree, please have a look at my comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4069105
Interestingly(?) I haven't seen an add on reddit in a long time. And that is without adblock. There used to be Amazon ads fairly regularly a while back, but now all I see are pictures of burgers, adverts for subreddits, flash games and 'thanks for not using ad-block'.

I wonder why they haven't ditched it or done something about it. (I totally agree with your suspicion that reddit gold earns them more).
Perhaps it would be a good idea to disclose that you work for George Church's lab, and that George Church is a Monsanto Life Sciences Research Fellow.
>> Nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft.

Somewhat off-topic, but I hate this quote. Replace Microsoft /w IBM/Oracle/etc and it's still a straw man argument.

I recently worked for someone who came on to replace the CTO of Java-shop, brought in a number of Microsoft developers, and was unceremoniously fired after less than 2 years.
I read 'vet' as "tear it to bits"
I always find it interesting when a contemporary argument boils down to old ones. (This isn't a criticism). Your argument against the Great Man Theory is best expressed in War and Peace, where Tolstoy goes on long discussions on the imaginary significance of great men, including obviously Napoleon. Or, as Isaiah Berlin says in the "Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History," Tolstoy perceived a "central tragedy" of human life:

...if only men would learn how little the cleverest and most gifted among them can control, how little they can know of all the multitude of factors the orderly movement of which is the history of the world...
Plus Google AppEngine (yes, Azure has more than 1 flavour: AWS style, GAE style, and the following that I'm about to mention) and also an environment where you can drop your pre-configured Windows 2008 Server VM as well (not sure if it is limited to Windows 2008 VM only).
It's a poisonous loop. Initially the yields will be high with seeds of Monsanto because what ever modification done will be effective. This results in depression of prices and farmers have to compete on volume to make decent profits. Since normal seeds can't do that, all farmers are forced to use GM seeds. Once majority of farmers shift to GM seeds, farmers go back to earning the same profit while paying extra for monsanto. And more importantly, if they lose the crop for any reason (very common in India due to droughts/floods), they will go underwater and might even lose their land on which they take loans every year. This leads to suicides. This is exactly what happened with BT cotton which is one of the reasons why Indian govt blocked BT brinjal.
Azure is a product from Microsoft which competes with AWS (IaaS/PaaS) from Amazon and App Engine (PaaS) from Google.
We already have proven, well defined method of DNT already: private browsing.

You are still being tracked with private browsing. You IP, user agent, OS, screen resolution, etc. are enough to connect the dots in most situations.

This is a decent idea that will need to be implemented to some degree if sites are eventually going to support under-13s, since it is illegal to track their behavior under current law. But you are right, I don't see a lot of places voluntarily signing up to make less money.
A breakthrough in usability, I couldn't agree more.

But a technological breakthrough (which is what the author was caling it)? Not so much.
Sorry for the current slowness - we're getting hammered pretty hard on our infrastructure at the moment. We're working on it.
Contemporaneous anecdotes from visitors to his lab reported a beautiful pure red spot of light, redder than any possible in nature, coming from a machine. Since it happened in the past, does that make it alleged? I don't think apocryphal works - its not an urban legend, its from documented letters etc.
This is reeeeeeeally missing the point. The conversation was about (apparently) the ethics of selling a product which is known to be used a majority of the time for the aim of killing a thing (whether that be deer or human, is up to the owner of the gun/bullet). This should not be a controversial statement.

Before someone says "oh but you can use it for target shooting and/or sport!", there is nothing about the function of a gun and bullet which suggests it is intended for (for example) target shooting, since you don't need something as incredibly powerful as your average gun or bullet to shoot a target. Not to mention the wide variety and increase of both power and rate of fire of different weapons... these things are designed for war, basically. An AK-47 is an incredibly reliable and impressive weapon, and unless you are the worst hunter in the entire world, would never need such a weapon for hunting. It's like a bow and arrow with a grenade on the end.

And let me go even further: bows and arrows are intended to kill things as well. It's harder to kill something with it, but that's what they were invented for, and that's what you're practicing for on the range. But I don't hear many people screaming about boycotting bow and arrow manufacturers/salespeople. The fact that it takes skill to kill with one killing instrument while a child can kill with another, does not take away from their intended purpose, nor the fact that the market for the thing is why they exist to begin with.
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I'll say this as a person who used to work for an electric utility that generated MOST of its power via coal.

It is MUCH, MUCH easier to control pollution at a point-source (like, say, a power plant) than it is to control pollution on a moving platform.

If you only knew the kinds of engineering efforts that have been devised to make the gasoline engine more efficient and less polluting, you might consider how much better electricity generation via fossil fuels will get if we were really serious about having an energy policy in the US.

SO far, there isn't a mechanism known yet for generating energy from a concentrated source that doesn't involve some form of pollution. Coal, nuclear, solar all have their by-products.

Once you account for externalities, there are very very few options that look great.
This is the mindset I am talking about, "I just need a few million as a pillow and then I can create something great!"

A founder with a few grand in the bank who can create something great is the founder who doesn't depend on money to make them great! They don't need to look for investors to support them and give them an allowance.

Look at Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, etc... Money is not the dependent factor, they hack the system for the simple fact that they want to hack the system! Free phone calls, driving a van records across boarders, etc.