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Aren't your four bullet points essentially true of a large number of web applications in tech hubs like Silicon Valley?

The only point I might contest for that analogy would be (2), but I think we are still seeing a trend towards disrupting traditional payment systems (e.g., people expect Facebook to be free and funded by ads).

And it's worth mentioning that Silicon Valley startups do have their fair share of underpaid, overworked positions. But I think that is slowly changing, and we are seeing startups--especially ones that have been around for a few years--paying market or even above market wages for reasonable 40-50 hour work weeks.

Hell, I was just reading an old thread on reddit--about 3 years old--where people were posting their salaries. I was shocked to see a lot of people working at Google, Facebook, or a Silicon Valley startup, with a few years of experience, posting that they made $80-85k in salary. That's what I'd expect in South or Midwest, but not the Bay Area. Now fresh grads there are getting $100k with signing bonuses (at least from Google/Facebook).
cell phone networks are swamped in the area.
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they do it at the firewall...
Can someone just run a plain marathon without having to worry about this in modern civilized life? Come on. This isn't even crime, this is just insanity.
Fortunately my CC information on file is expired.
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Number 5! Or just give me $1500 and I'll build one that crushes everything else for 75% of the price.
dd if=/dev/sda bs=1M | ssh root@<newhost> dd of=/dev/sda bs=1M

let SSH handle compression for you instead.
By this logic, if the gun control measures fail to pass Congress it should be the President's fault?
There's very nice utility called Ghost 4 Unix that makes the whole thing even easier: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I am curious why you find latency arb so problematic, and what you think it's impact is on limit orders?

I for one think latency arb is one of the bigger net wins for hft. As a market participant, each venue I have to maintain a presence at is a cost to me. I'm willing to pay the latency arb shops their cut to provide me price consistency because for my models it is much cheaper to do so than to continually reevaluate and redeploy to every possible venue. It frees me to shop for venues that provide the best features and fees.

As for quote stuffing, you are absolutely right it is awful. That's why almost every venue out there has taken or is taking steps to curtail it. They did so because their customers agree with you.
It is waaaaay too early to be speculating who's behind it. Nobody knows any details, early reports from the scene of a terrible event like this are frequently confused and contradictory. Speculation at this moment is just firing shots in the dark.
Consumer Reports has been doing automatic testing of this kind of thing for decades, so I assume not much.
Maybe it's because I'm Canadian, but I think it's stupid not to read bills out loud at least once before they become law.

In our House of Commons the procedure is to read each bill, out loud, three times before it is passed. Then it gets sent to the Senate where it's also read three times (mind you the Senate typically rubber stamps everything).

So every law in Canada has been read out loud a total of six times, and (assuming they're present) every member of the legislature has heard it three times.
"There could also be an option to provide the app with fake data instead of telling it to not have any permissions,"

Some guys from Cyanogen released a proof on concept a while ago. You could install any Android app and select which permissions to "mock".

Anyway, I think the permission system in Android makes sense the way it is. It forces app developers to declare what they want to do on you system, but the install process stays simple and straightforward. On Windows and OS X, we used to give every app the "do whatever you want with my computer" permission for years.

On Android you risk a shitstorm of bad reviews if you fail to explain the reasoning for permissions to users. And Google can use the permission list and double check apps with critical permissions for malicous behaviour.
Noon? Umm, are you on the west coast?

I think you are using start times in East Coast time and then doing calculations based on the explosion occurring West Coast time.....

The elites were long, long over the finish line when this happened.
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‘Women’ are not a class. Sex is neither hereditary, nor locally confined, nor necessarily bound to little property. Nor are ‘men’ a class, and trying to construct a ‘class warfare’ is as much bullshit as trying to construct a ‘class warfare’ of left-handed versus right-handed people. Stop it.

Also, your notion of distinguishing between people based on their gender is highly sexist.
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Your explosion time is off. Happened around 3pm Eastern
Video of the explosion (very poor quality) - http://deadspin.com/heres-video-of-the-moment-the-boston-mar...
Another example of the hypocrisy of our goverment which claims to champion ideals like freedom and equality before the law.

As long as there are innocent people like this suffering grave injustices in gitmo, as long as drones are killing innocent Pakistani villagers, as long as the U.S. brazenly continues to financially and militarily support Israel, the president and every member of congress have blood on their hands.

Let me tell you something, these clowns in office couldn't care less about your or me or the homeless guy on the street. They care about being famous, having money and power and going on free vacations paid for by John Q. average tax payer!
Most current (~2012) cellphones do in the US, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Mobile_Alert_System

(I'm unclear on how these are delivered within the network, seems to be SMS but I can't source that)
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All phones have the ability to get broadcast SMS messages based on the cell tower they're connected to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast
You've just invented the Public Works Administration! A huge proportion of America's infrastructure was built in the 30's by the PWA - including the vast majority of infrastructure in federal and state parks.

They had to stop because that's socialism - and as we all know, socialism is unAmerican and bad.
Random person with mental problems? Like all of the other shootings, stabbings, etc that have occurred in the last 10 years.
Yeah, cell phones are useless in a disaster situation. The networks are totally overloaded.
As another CS major working at a college newspaper, I agree! Are you the web developer? Shoot me a message.
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for the record, i am the person who started the WHT thread.

there is a mixture of truth and lies on both sides, to be honest.

i am annoyed with it, because i reached out to several linode employees privately to given them an opportunity to explain what was going on -- they either said 'no comment' or said my linode was fine.

based on the irc log, that is clearly not the case. which is why i decided to raise my concerns publically.

luckily for me, my linode was not doing anything mission-critical, just some secondary monitoring and running an ircd for a network i like using, but there are others who are using linode for mission-critical work, and they deserve more transparency than this.
Thanks - I misread. I updated the comment.
>>Shouldn't you at least do this over SSH?

Yeah, I mentioned that at the bottom of my post. Using ssh or some other inline encryption would be a good idea if it is a system you care about. If you have a site to site VPN tunnel between your systems, you can skip adding the encryption.
"Plastic" is not one material, but many. Some degrade spontaneously over a timescale of a few decades; others don't. Is your statement a result of testing Legos, or a guess based on experience with other things, perhaps made from a different plastic? Chuck McManis above said his experience was that his 40+-year-old Legos work fine.
I suppose you're right. Just strange, things have been so quiet for so long. The US is leaving Afghanistan, Iraq - apart from some sectarian violence has been quiet, and now this?

My mind just goes back to NK. With the heightened tensions and such... Seems too convenient.
Speculation is pointless when you don't have any element to work with.
I've never generated an API key, and Linode showed it as blank. I generated a new one anyway, but I can't imagine how they'd have a default key and somehow not show it in the UI.
Such a system already exists: http://www.fcc.gov/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea

Alerts can be sent out to particular geographic areas by restricting the cell towers they are distributed through, and "many providers have chosen to transmit WEAs using a technology that is separate and different from voice calls and SMS text messages. This technology ensures that emergency alerts will not get stuck in highly congested areas, which can happen with standard mobile voice and texting services."

The bar an alert has to clear to go out over it is very high, however, to avoid people being desensitized by false alarms.
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My friend and I are both college seniors. I'm in CS and he's Accounting. He's non technical but constantly shows interest in new startups and a hint of jealousy that I get to be part of the tech world.

I want to help him but sometimes I don't know what to say. He thinks like an entrepreneur but lacks experience/commitment to follow through with his ideas. I suggested to teach him to code and while he's kind of interested, I honestly don't know what he would do with the knowledge. It doesn't make sense for him to go the engineering route. Anyone would agree that he's a "business guy" and definitely not a coder at heart.

Despite all the things against him, he still has a strong desire to work in technology. He feels like he's missing out on a lot and I can't say that he's wrong. I wouldn't move to another industry if you held a gun to my head (ok .. maybe .. you get my point). So I'm asking the community for ideas or experiences. He's going for his CPA right now. Most job descriptions ask for Sales, Marketing, and Product Development? While he could go for sales, it doesn't make sense to throw away 4 years of Accounting from a top university and a CPA. What kind of opportunities are there for people with good accounting skills and some tech knowledge? Hopefully in the valley so we can room together in SF :)

Thanks HN
What? The explosion was just before 3:00 pm.
Yet another example of how "News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5549054
That is one (good) way to handle the encryption.

You don't want to leave out the compression or block size however, so add those back in. Most WAN links are low bandwidth enough that compression will not slow things down (this is usually true even on 1 GBE LAN links for pigz) and in my experience the speed-up is substantial.

pigz is much faster than using ssh compression as it is multicore. apt-get it or http://zlib.net/pigz/
Name-blinded reviews doesn't seem like a good solution for a conference, where a significant part of the appeal of a potential speaker can be their existing fame. They are a business, and name-blinded reviews could cost ticket sales.
If your job is unsatisfying, you can experience burnout even working 50 hours a week.

That said, it's a good idea to have free time even if you love your job - my father's a workaholic and he had heart problems, now he makes time to go fishing and is much better off.
"Because Nigerian princes A through X are irresponsible with your cash, budding lottery winners should regard that as acceptable and give Nigerian prince Y a free pass to do the same?"

Of course not, and this drives to the very core of risk management. I've signed up for some very shady online services in my time, doing so in the full knowledge that should a product or service not be rendered as advertised, I am guaranteed to be able to reverse the relevant charge. Even when I the consumer am doing something shady (in a case last month, attempting to import goods I knew weren't certified for the EU), the system still works for me. This is the sole reason I use a credit card rather than, say, my current account's Visa number.

It's not even about assessing the risk of whether or not you're going to get ripped off, but whether or not a particular company will cause you the inconvenience of the aforementioned phone calls.

If you work on the assumption that you card data is safe, you quite simply aren't safe enough to be in possession of a computer or card. Credit cards aren't built on that assumption, instead their entire motivation is based on risk profiling both the consumer and merchant, and terminating agreements when various thresholds are reached. In return the industry guarantees that in the minority of cases where things go wrong for the consumer, the problem can be corrected swiftly.

It's understandably upsetting that their customer database might have leaked, and I can genuinely understand peoples' concern over that. But as 4chan has taught us, there are very few people left in the west whose address and telephone number aren't available within even an hour's Googling.

As for locating confidential data on machines shared with other customers and managed by a piece of unaudited software, I have no sympathy for that. That's the price of a VPS, and why it's so heavily discounted compared to real hardware.
But it is so professional. Two explosions, within seconds of each other. And these were decently powerful too considering they had to be small enough to hide in the crowds.

You might be right, but something about this just makes me thing /organised./
That wouldn't work since CVV codes aren't sent with recurring transactions (they can't, since they cannot be stored).
I wonder about the legal implications of providing a service like that. Lets say Facebook started an emergency alert system based on geographical data. What happens if they report a false emergency? What happens if they fail to report a real emergency? Would they be liable if they did not respond with their alerts in a timely manner?

I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know, but if people came to rely on an emergency alert system that was not reliable... I would get nervous to say the least. Look at the bad press Google and Apple get whenever their maps lead someone into danger.
While this is buggy/not ready for release, here's a way to follow this on social media.

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It's horrific to see this happen. I hope that people make it out of this ok, and they get to bottom of who did this. Seeing these kinds of senseless attacks on the innocent is just disgusting.
Awesome. In that case I amend my statement. I'm surprised the Examiner didn't mention this in their article!
This "forced quota" thing rarely works well - on large or small scale. Back in my college days, IBM came to campus - they announced their intention to hire more women than men, to have diversity in their workforce. While it was good for the girls who got hired (edging out guys who were more qualified), it annoyed a lot of guys who had better grades.

May be a better way is to create a nice atmosphere where women feel welcome and comfortable, having very strict code of conduct in conference and generally us (male engineers) being nice to them - this might take time, but the changes would stay.
After 4 days 6 hours it did 36,720 iterations. After 10 days it failed on 37,112 iterations.

I noticed that inconsistency as well.
So that means it'd correspond to finish times likely for amateur runners with times in the 4:20 - 4:40 range, averaging 10 - 11 mins/mile.
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It's not about talent, it's about practice. This isn't genius level engineering, it's competence and experience.
A dictionary attack uses a pre-built dictionary of (words OR phrases).

A brute force attack takes an input of (characters OR words) and creates a (word OR passphrase) to test.

It doesn't help that you've made this mistake several times in this thread.

Imagine a 4 word diceware phrase.

One attacker has the diceware list of words. The attacker knows we have a 4 word phrase, and so starts kludging different 4 word combinations of the diceware phrase.

This is a bruteforce attack. It is not a dictionary attack.
As usual, it is erroneous to compare the micro vs the macro, a government is not the same as a business or a family. That said, as a business, you have to evaluate spending money to grow your business. If you have proven unmet demand, you should spend money to meet that increased demand. If you don't have enough demand, but that is purely because customers don't know about your business, then you spend money on reach. And if your business really doesn't have much untapped potential, then maybe you should invest somewhere else. In your case, if you're really "saving all of your profits", you might be achieving your future company non-optimally. It might be better to invest some in your consulting company to grow its profits faster, compounding things even better. IMHO, if you really have a great idea for a future company, "bootstrapping via consulting company" I think is a poor way to go about it. Rip off the bandaid, go raise some funding, or quit now and start immediately. You might find that "at some point in the future" your amazing company already got done by someone else.

The macro economy is a a completely different issue. Deflation or the paradox of thrift can leave everyone worse off in the way way that a trade can be win-win, a non-trade can be lose-lose. The basic criticism of goldbug mentality is that if the money itself becomes a better investment than using the money for transactions, then the social function of the money as a means for trade is devalued. Fewer trades = loss for everyone.

And frankly, you should be spend some of your money supporting the overall system in which your business has thrived, including basic infrastructure, education, and insurance. It is in your own rational self interest to do it, but unfortunately for society as a whole, too few people are able to realize it.

Is your future business really made better off, if we converted everyone into Austrians, and we just left millions of elderly without support, millions of unemployed with no insurance, and millions of kids with no public education? There's no evidence for the libertarian utopian position, and not much evidence we should fear mixed-model economies. Sweden is doing very well with "socialist" tax rates, a debt-to-GDP ratio <30%, average GDP growth >2.5%, not the disaster that the welfare state is supposed to be.

I don't think we need to adopt Sweden's policies to solve our problems, I think we can maintain our dynamic economy without this constant fetishizing over extreme economist policies on both sides. We need tweaks, not revolution.
Early in a mortgage you're paying what, 25% principal? Probably less? And that's not even taking into consideration property taxes, mortgage insurance, etc, etc. So no, you're not getting $1k back from every month.
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I'm willing to bet that running in a marathon is still statistically safer than taking the same trip in a car.

No more how much modern life keeps improving, tragedies will happen, whether by natural disasters or nutjobs. Actively fearing that which is outside of your control is pointless.
There's nothing wrong with ColdFusion, especially if you've had it around for a while. It's not as glitzy as Rails, but it works and it's still supported and modern. Besides, this isn't ColdFusion's fault. Leave because Linode violated your trust, but not because of the programming language they wrote their site in.
> 2. If Linode grossly mishandles the situation. There have been a couple of allegations to that effect so far, but nothing substantial. I don't see any reason to claim that they've done this yet.

Linode's handling of the Bitcoin incident last year was sub-optimal. This too has been sub-optimal, given that credit cards were exposed but all we heard on Friday was to change our passwords, and even that was claimed to just be a super-careful precaution.

Linode needs to start giving us some frank talk ASAP. They've already burned through a very generous helping of benefit-of-the-doubt.
the compression is unnecessary here, you're moving a max of less than a couple of hundred GB of data.
Or, for the people who are in Boston or know anyone who is in Boston, this news is a very important notification. I don't think the news media was responsible for this incident.
I've seen people do this at my last startup, needless to say, they are now tanking. Close to a 100 million VC dollar going down the toilet... Those people got promoted really high too...
They may be waiting on the police and/or their lawyers to allow them to talk publicly about it.

Waiting for their own lawyers would be a particularly weak excuse. This is a priority, and they are responsible from conveying that urgency to their lawyers.
The portuguese ATM network operator provides this for free (its called mbnet btw). You can even set expiry times and value limit, it's the best thing to use when paying for stuff online. Want to buy a 9€ game? Just create a 10€ card and use it.
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Nailed it... "ownership turned out to be largely a hack people resorted to before they had the infrastructure to manage sharing properly"

Ownership is just an idea to align consumption with stewardship. The idea that owning stuff is "right" or "good" is just a cultural phenomenon, and not one shared by all cultures (e.g. Native Americans).

I think you could do a lot worse in trying to find a start-up idea than to ask yourself "where is there excess capacity that can be shared."

Parking, housing, office space, cooking, people-to-do-tasks, storage space, server space - this is the sharing era.
I don't pretend to know if the conferences mentioned in the story are exclusionary or just choosing the best speakers. The only thing I'll say is that speaking or joining a panel at a small conference often leads to speaking at bigger conferences and keynote appearances.

If I was looking for speakers for my conference, I'd check their proposals to see if they had spoken at other conferences. But at this point, whose judgement am I relying on? Not mine, of course. I'm relying on the judgement of other conference organizers who in turn probably relied on the judgement of other conference organizers. This isn't really a system based on merit, though it appears to be. It's more based on who had an initial connection or a good PR guy to get access to that first conference spot.

I'm not entirely sure what we do about this problem, just pointing out that there's a problem here.
It's because 2/3 of Americans are homeowners, so for a majority of Americans, falling house prices are bad.

It's the same thing for most goods - the price mechanism is inherently value-neutral, and then whether it's better if prices go up or down depends upon how many people are potentially on each side of the transaction. Falling wages are seen as a bad thing, because most Americans identify with labor and not capital. The social security crisis is seen as a bad thing, because senior citizens (who get the payouts) vote in much larger numbers than young adults (who pay the taxes). Falling stock prices are seen as a bad thing because most Americans own stocks, even if indirectly. Falling CDO prices are seen as a good thing because most Americans do not own CDOs.
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