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I'm not qualified to comment on how reasonable this is, but it's author has a good bit of credibility -- he's the "R" in the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography). Note also that this piece is over 10 years old.
but the visa waiver program might (at a push) be ok for something like YC.

It's really not. I'm not a lawyer either but this is very much illegal and you will be deported (and be made ineligible to use the VWP ever again) if found out.

You can use the VWP to attend business meetings and certain types of sales calls, warranty repairs, etc.. but actually doing "work" (even if not in return for money) is a big no-no. With YC you'd actually be getting money AND doing work.

I worked for a firm in the UK that sent me to the US to conduct 'internal meetings' once or twice before I got an L1 visa.

Meetings would be okay. If you were actually "working" though, that was illegal. That's not to say it doesn't happen all the time but it's still illegal.

More info on http://travel.state.gov/pdf/BusinessVisa.pdf
society tells me that if I want to make anything out of my life, college is the place to go. One poster in my High School flaunts that I will make one million dollars more in my lifetime if I go to college.
There is no policy cure for massive fraud and theft.

this is the best one liner on the economic crisis I've ever seen. Pundits should be paying you to write.
That's a real shame, actually, because managers are essential to any project or large organisation.

However, in my experience, there are really many different kinds of managers (the term "manager" covers an enormous range of people), and not all of them are simply attempting to suck a living out of their customers.
The fastest way to make [little amounts of] money is perhaps writing about how to make fast money.
I was on DiscountAsp.net amd the service was very good. However they don't support managing multiple websites.

I went with Mosso instead but it's quite expensive, $100 per month. In spite of the cost, I'm very satisfied with the service. Their control panel is also very good.
He might be referring to applicants into YC. YC generally doesn't accept startups with all business guys and no tech founders, though it readily accepts startups with all tech guys and no business founders.

At the very beginning, you've gotta build. As for knowing what to build, the assertion has been that hackers can learn that. They don't need to have it filtered by a business guy.

I'm guessing that's where he gets his impression from. But then again, until he points to specifics, I'm just guessing.
Microsoft Exchange introduced this feature years ago.

I once did mistake of sending mail to wrong person in my university and within seconds of clicking "send" I'd realized what I'd done as well as the consequences of it. I rushed to the sys admin who calmly said "No problem, we'll take it out from queue. On average a message, outside our domain, takes fiteen MINUTES to get dispatched!". And he removed mine from the queue. This was back in 2002.
You can automate the VPN'ing. Or, in my case, I just use an on-campus computer which doesn't need to VPN. What you can't automate away into instantaneousness is the delay of waiting a day for a paper to get there.
Yes, and it drives my business partner crazy.
You can still really only do this correctly if the input contains no errors. If you try to recover from errors, you risk generating errors that aren't actually errors (because the code is correct if you consider the erroneous part you skipped). I'm sure you've worked with compilers that generate multiple errors; sometimes you can trust all of the error messages, but most of the time, you fix the first error and the rest go away.

Parsing is hard.
Actually the way existing mail servers work foo+bar@domain.com and foo+bar2@domain.com get delivered to foo@domain.com (if the server was configured for "+ addressing")
I use my gmail accounts via IMAP. You can't see me when I'm logged in.
The Mongrel HTTP library is today the de-facto standard for running Rails applications,

No it's not. At least, not in this survey of 1100 folks who are deploying Rails apps. http://rails-hosting.com/Results/SurveySummary.html

It was the de facto standard, but Passenger has taken the baton in the last several months.
Great insight, an interesting read. How did Madoff get started though? And it's still hard to believe that many in his offices were clueless that Madoff was making off with everybody's $.
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I would have used a simple interface that generates an email for you (random and non repeating). You copy paste the email and next you get the link back.
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Ideas are easy. Execution, not so much.
You can get decent file navigation in Emacs by using Nav (Google for emacs nav), but it won't help with other Eclipse features that Emacs doesn't have.

About refactoring of scripting languages, Python has Rope, with bindings for Vim and Emacs. It's not a comprehensive or bug-free solution, but it's a start and has at least one solid developer. I submitted a report for a tough Rope bug and one of the Rope developers fixed it in a few days.
With all of the talk about morals and ethics, these are the 2 questions I ask myself whenever making a tough decision:

1) Am I making the world a better place or a worse place?
2) Am I providing value to the people I care about?

I can't speak for Charlie Miller. But, my answer would be no for both questions. If I were in the same position as him I would feel like a big piece of fucking shit every single morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.
Everyone hated the news feed, yet now it's hard to think of wtf Facebook would be if it didn't have the feed. Everyone hated the first major redesign too, but now I'm sure everyone's used to it. They should do a test, wherein they switch the layout back to a previous layout then have people vote. I have a feeling this would show that the vocal majority would dislike ANY major change. I'm pretty sure Facebook's team has a lot better designers than any of the 700,000 voters.
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I have slowly been coming to the realization that just as the internet is doing its creative destruction thing on many obvious institutions (book distribution, music distribution, etc.) there are a lot more areas where it applies equally, although much less obviously.

Management as a career is one of those areas. Really, the whole need for managers (especially "middle" managers) is to maintain a line of communication between the leader of an organization and its producers/workers. Doesn't the internet make this type of job obsolete? In an efficient pipeline (of information), aren't they just bottlenecks?

We're certainly not there yet, quite possibly still a long way away, but once we get to the point where dissemination of pertinent information is at maximum efficiency, we won't need these arbiters of information in the system anymore.

I think this ties in to PG's thoughts on people not being meant to have a boss (http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html) as well as Berners-Lee's talk at TED about getting information onto the internet in as raw a form as possible.
It's interesting to note that much of the success of large US universities, compared to their European counterparts, has been driven by the fact that American alumni are far more generous than European alumni. Only about 10% of Oxford alumni make donations to the university, while most US universities have donation rates exceeding 50% -- and Oxford and Cambridge are doing considerably better than their continental counterparts.

Whether this is due to US universities being more aggressive in soliciting donations (they are), more willing to allow admissions decisions to be influenced by donations (they are), or simply due to US alumni having more money to throw around (the US has a higher income gap between degree and non-degree holders than Europe) isn't clear; but whatever is causing this difference in donations, it has huge consequences.
A one man company can easily create jobs if it hits the right niche and unlocks a sub-market of related goods and services. So no, you definitely don't have to get big.
You're right about the dangers; but those dangers can't really be avoided. If the news.ycombinator.com server stops responding to queries for hackerne.ws, the owner of hackerne.ws can simply set up a proxy which changes the Host: header and have hackerne.ws start working again.
Yep, that's pretty useful, but it only shows replies to your comments, and not other comments on the same article.
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Thank you for the last couple of paragraphs of your summary that provided the motivation to actually read the article. To others here quick to dismiss it out-of-hand as just a fluff piece, it's anything but.
on the other hand, the proprietary solution lasts only as long as the company providing it stays in business.
Okay, then I guess you won't mind answering a few questions I have.

Down to it, what is so fundamentally wrong with CP? There is no universal consensus of what is beautiful, what is ugly -- the human libido desires whatever it desires; black, white, brown, tall, fat, short, thin, male, female, etc. etc. Why is it a problem that one person prefers the flesh that of the youth? Centuries ago, the traditional relationship actually WAS between one person of considerably older age with one of a significantly younger age.

I anticipate the following responses:

1) Because it indirectly creates a demand for CP in general and it is thereby criminal.

2.1) Because it is immoral (religiously, culturally, etc.)

2.2) Because children aren't mature enough to decide for themselves, they should not be involved in CP and adults should not pursue relationships with them.

My responses:

1) Which is precisely why it should be made legal. I think it would expunge the market of concretely illegal media. This, in my thinking, is appropriately analogous to the drug situation. If drug X is legalized, the availability of a safer form of drug X would likely appear in market and the impure, dangerous forms of it would naturally cease to circulate (in ideal conditions). OBVIOUSLY I don't condone any physical violence toward anyone. One thing that I CANNOT wrap my head around is BSDM-related porn. And by God, if anyone harms their child, or any other's for that matter, get them some counseling. Pronto.

2) It is decided merely as such by the culture. I take it that the general populace on HN is of atheists -- why then, as atheists, would you shun the the preference of a certain type of body as unnatural, immoral, or illegal?

Your thoughts?

//Disclaimer: I'm not involved in/with CP in any manner whatsoever, I only believe that it should be "legal" in the same manner free speech is. I believe NOTHING should be censored by ANY governing body, rather, it should be with products and services offered by private entities that CP and other related things should be "blocked for viewing" solely at the behest of the end-user. And yes, then I would encourage any such user to turn that "feature" on to block questionable material. But in the general scheme of things: ZERO CENSORSHIP.

//P.S.: Please pardon spelling/grammatical errors, I don't have time to check what I've written.

EDIT: HN, please stop downmodding/marking/whatever-you-call-it-here me, it would be against the HN-etiquette as I understand it (downvote for troll behavior, but not for differing opinions). Furthermore, I invite any discussion that goes against what I have said to what I have said. Cheers!
Fair enough, I have to admit I haven't checked out your blog before. The age did occur to me, but Leopard is still current and I thought it was a good read.

I was mainly interested in if there had been any HN discussion on it. Thanks.
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Bug has been reported by Intel's own employees and by researches since 2006, it seems.

Paper here: http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/misc09/smm_cache_fun...
Code here: http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/misc09/o68-2.tgz
Touche. But my point that all strategies are equally likely to succeed, or better phrased, better to fail still stands. Or maybe, as you've indicated, its simply more people are less prepared.
No, Nike made the swoosh. MJ was also just $45 million of marketing spent wisely. But the swoosh remains. It was a brilliant strategy. Tie the two together, but after so many years, when the athlete retires, you still have the swoosh.
this guy is pretty darn smart in my booke
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Then IMAP could count as "seeing" too.
I wonder if the Mail Goggles idea was a spinoff of the the undo idea: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sendi.... Generally seems like the same dilemma. Does the recipient have a right to your drunken email?
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You could use a 3D software to render beautiful images and then with that images as a visual guide you can create icons, ie in Photoshop, by using layers and vectors.
I've met Zed a few times and I can tell you that he's not some scheming mastermind who wants to trick the world in believing anything, he's an honest and passionate person.

The only thing you might be able to hold against him is that in his enthusiasm he can also be rather erratic. I would hardly call that a problem, we all like a little bit of commotion and change.
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With Y Combinator as their cornerstone.
Of course, Adams' argument falls down because of one minor point - you get value in return for donating. Here's a few examples:
1) Your children will get priority when it's their turn to go to university.
2) Keeping the school at the top of list means that your own degree has more value - it's much more impressive to be able to say 'I went to Harvard' than to say 'I went to Harvard before it became the run down dump of a school that it is today'
3) Alumni generally retain the ability to access various university resources.

On top of these direct compensations, there are a couple of others to consider:
4) When you go to a school such as Harvard, your experience is being subsidised by the Alumni. Once you too are an alumni, you would have to be a poor person indeed to not feel at least a little obligated to do the same for the next generation, if your circumstances permit it.
5) If you do have money that you want to donate, I for one can think of few rational choices that are better for society than a university. However the university uses that money, it will help them to obtain the best researchers (either directly or indirectly), and help those researchers get access to the funds they need to improve the state of human knowledge.
"Anyone else generating massive amounts of business distractions?"

There, fixed that for you.

Giving serious thought to one idea per day seems somewhere on the line between hardly possible and a huge waste of time.

I can go to the local founders meetups and pick you out a couple dozen people that generate loads of ideas. The ones you'll want to meet though are the ones that have seen a couple of them through by getting behind them and pushing.
Although you're probably right about Apache + Passenger becoming the de-facto for running Rails applications, I personally think that Mongrel is still ahead by a bit.

The Rails Hosting 2009 survey shows that the test group uses Passenger more, but the people in this group are not a random sampling. I would argue that people ahead of the curve are also the people who find it inviting to fill out such a survey.
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A really useful article on how to avoid 'lying' with statistics; very basic, covers Type I and Type II errors with a review of some of Tufte's materials. Well worth a look.
Ah I knew there was the checkin, I wasn't aware it was currently useable. Thanks for the info, I will have to check it out.
Yep, in fact this is especially noticeable in situations when your GMail is not working for whatever reason. Once, I had my GMail account temporarily disabled for a day (I set up some filter that immediately deleted and forwarded certain e-mails which apparently got triggered too many times and caused a temp shutdown) but was still able to send e-mails to myself.

Lesson here is, if you use GMail, don't e-mail yourself to check if sending works at the moment.
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Yeah, somebody has to do that. But it doesn't have to be one person. I wouldn't mind digging a ditch or handling some sewage every once in a while. If everyone did a little of everything without commitment or paperwork or whatnot, I bet we'd be much better off. Utopian, sure, but I'm certain it could be made to work. (Even the worst slackers would start doing things when there's no blame, expectations or obligations.)

Also, I'm afraid that when the robots finally do everything, we the people will still be left with paper-shuffling jobs. As robots gain ground, jobs will be lost and new pointless jobs invented for the sacked. That's been happening for decades now. It's like boiling a frog: we won't even notice when we get to the point where robots are doing everything and the only reason we're still working is because we're keeping each other's artificial jobs going.

Kind of hard to explain this point. Think insurers insuring managers who manage insurers, only more widespread and complex. Think circular references in a reference-counting garbage-collected environment: objects that are completely unnecessary but things have gotten so complex that it's hard to see it.

Then of course there's the question of who owns the means of production: if corporations had to pay for the robots, they won't just make them do everyone's work for free. Quid pro quo, right? And this doesn't take malice: the frog will be boiled very gradually.

(I know you can't boil frogs like that. That's not the point.)
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This is good news in that IE 8 is better than IE 7, which is better than IE 6. Maybe, with 6 being two versions back, we have more weight to get rid of the chap. However, even though Microsoft has recently claimed that IE 8 is the fastest browser, its legacy weight still shows for now, and the other browsers are sprinting ahead.
I don't think that it is possible for an idea to be a "killer idea" until it reaches execution phase. But then, it is no longer an idea but a combination of idea and execution.

There might be some ideas that just make money entirely by themselves. They are far less common than businesses that make money hand-over-fist. And these are less common than ordinary successful businesses and these are outnumbered by people think they have great ideas for making money ....
What are you talking about? The whole YC program is explicitly about getting your hand held. Anyone can get a credit card or family/friend loan for 5,000 for a three month project. YC is not about the money; it's about the advice.
YC is about nurturing seeds to see what comes up, rather than testing them for the Winter. There's a reason seeds sprout in Spring -- to give them as good as possible running start before Winter comes. They'll get tested soon enough.
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Without actually knowing anything about it, I would venture to guess that European universities get a lot more funding from the state than American universities do.
In his case:

3) Can I feed myself?

By finding Safari bugs, he does make the world a better place. But he can't live like that, so he has to stop looking for Safari bugs.

Since Safari undoubtedly has bugs, this means someone else is going to find them. That someone else could be a criminal, but you can't blame the guy for not wanting to do work that doesn't pay. In the end, Safari's security is Apple's problem, not Charlie Miller's.
It's nice that it's MIT though since they're one of the institutions with the academic weight that a journal wouldn't want to cut themselves off from the authors there.

That said, I suspect "open access" is to the traditional world what P2P is to the music industry: it's scary and presents a real threat to their livelihood.
Technically that is true, but any common reference point is usually referred to as a ground. If it does indeed connect to the earth, then it is usually called an earth ground.
Back in college I used a scripting language I developed (on my own time, had an interest in it) as a shell (which I turned in as a class project for Unix Systems Programming). Unix commands (the actual command, not the output) could be stored in variables, they could be combined (via a pipe; I'm checking the source right now, and while I only piped STDOUT, adding a pipe for STDERR would be trivial) and redirection of STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR was supported.

And 15 years later, I still don't use it.

The shell really is easier to use on a daily basis than most scripting languages (and yes, this does include Perl). Yes, I could type 'ls <enter>' and get a directory listing. But what about of a different directory? In a shell, it's 'ls /tmp' (for example). I want to see if a particular email got delivered? 'grep 70333248A03 /var/log/mail.log'.

Unless the scripting language makes it this trivial to issue simple commands, you probably won't be using it as a shell for very long.
Wow. This was brain freaking dead simple to configure compared to Apache and even simpler than Lighttpd. Thank you a million times over! It works great!
Truth is, BBSpot didn't try to "trick" anyone. That entire site is devoted to fake and satirical news. There was no "hoax," only a joke that someone didn't bother trying to understand before spreading his outrage around the Twittersphere in little 140-character long spurts.

Hear hear. Twitter was full of mostly interesting, cutting edge, net culture-y folks until early last year, but this story shows just how the community has changed. It beggars belief that anyone would believe the original story if they'd taken time to read it rather than just retweet what someone else had said (similar to stuff getting voted up on Reddit/Digg without people reading?). It reeked of satire.
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I also find it very interesting how he complements Windows and IE. I think people forget just how hard it is to be the biggest target.
This is actually one of the better articles I've seen on HN lately. And, I've been a bozo here for quite some time.
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Give 5 examples where this has worked (also with less marketing).