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There is a different angle to look into when it comes to these problems.

A while back the Karnataka state government had set up a fund to help start up's grow. It turns out most of the money was taken by NGO's, and the answers for justifying that was given as charity work. Not only did the money go into the wrong hands. It turns out most NGO's who took the money were not even actual NGO's. Most were simply trusts set up to park money for tax evasion.

Such things are very common.

There is a degree of risk involved in funding such ventures in India. Unfortunately that risk is not that businesses may fail. But that some one might be taking money from you without even having a business. It might just be a phoney venture set up to take investor money and run.

Therefore investors wish to do some check on how serious you are before funding you.
I've never understood why it's so easy to sue people or companies in the US. What are the positive aspects? For me as an outsider it only seems to create fear and ridiculous warning labels.
"Woah, Google. You just went full Apple. Never go full Apple"

When has Apple ever done anything like this?
So we get the same spiel about how regulatory pressure is killing innovation, which is basically what all these types of guys have been saying for a while.

I'll try to ask this question without being inflammatory, but has there been a lot of case study or research about the effect of regulation on startups? I can think of the Uber thing, but apart from that I can't really think of things where regulation was the only thing that stood between a startup and success (survivor bias I know).

His example is , of course, alternative energy. He says that regulation prevents investment, but isn't it more the fact that connecting something to the grid is complicated, building something that could create any amount of power is expensive, and that the problem is more or less fundamentally hard the issue? I mean doesn't Tesla show that when you throw enough money at the problem, you're still able to tackle the infrastructure problem?
> I'm guessing his comment is a bit more like

I cannot fathom why people prefer guessing things that are publicly available and only takes a few seconds to check.
I use vikingcard [0]. You can get a real or a virtual card.
https://vikingcard.com/en/
The one thing that puzzles me above anything else about this whole thing is: "Linode uses ColdFusion".

I mean, you have this Linux company that's pretty much an open source champion to us Linux guys and then... Adobe ColdFusion. Really?

I know nothing about ColdFusion, don't get me wrong, I just find it an incredibly odd choice for a Linux company.

That having been said, I think Linode just learnt a really unpleasant lesson and will become an even more secure provider for it. I believe that moving my sites away from them at this moment would be like selling stocks when they're about to go up.
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All of the things you listed are within the scope of node.js's standard library - except for BigInt.
I'm not sure, their wording around it is a bit convoluted

"... previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in Adobe’s ColdFusion application server. The vulnerabilities have only recently been addressed in Adobe’s APSB13-10 hotfix (CVE-2013-1387 and CVE-2013-1388) which was released less than a week ago."

To me that reads like 'it was a former zero-day exploit", as all exploits are.
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Twitters war on developers continues.
I really like the way C++11 is and I already see how it is in so many ways more likeable than Java as an OO language. But a question arises: would the common C++ jobs be maintaining legacy C++98 codebases?

Also, when I am thinking about possibly being in web development, then is it a much more diverged path from the C family or could I somehow keep this as an open option? Is the easiest solution simply learn e.g. Javascript in parallel?
It has the classic chicken and egg problem that you'll face when you start any type of online dating startup. Niche dating startups are even harder to start because you have an implicit filter to start off with, and the problem with all filters is they reduce the pool. If you have a small pool of users to choose from, you'll have an even smaller pool of users with other filters applied.

So you can search for keywords on OkCupid, such as "nerd" or "programmer." You won't find many results, but you can try. The other way to go about it is working exclusively with software companies, such as Google or Facebook (similar to how Facebook required an .edu address to join, you must check for a company e-mail to join). You still have a chicken and egg problem though, so you must solve that in order to make the niche nerd dating startup work.
Ugh, I guess Twitter wants to be the next MySpace. These companies need to ADAPT if they want to stay relevant.
Is network effect so strong that Twitter can go so long at to try to destroy its own platform? Or is it the lack of an alternative?
Makes me think of Oracle doing the same with Java by trying to extend copyright to APIs.
That's odd, whenever I flew to SFO I had a great time. The TSA agents were more than happy to give me free massages, which you don't see anywhere else.
Wouldn't you rather have them working on assessing, containing and repairing the damage rather than catering to the impatient internet crowd that is so used to immediate updates on everything that they can't fathom putting together a responsible, useful, correct response might actually take a while? Honestly, these people don't understand what it takes to run a company and handle such an incident. As far as i'm concerned, the indignant vocal minority could shove it while I was working on resolving the problem for the majority of customers that exactly that from us.
http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/
More and more Twitter reminds me a fat and ugly beast.
It's surprising that the article doesn't mention the absolutely over-the-top security procedures in American airports.

I've been to Changi and Incheon, security was fast and smooth, and then you had waiting spaces with comfortable armchairs, nice exhibitions and beautiful gardens. In US airports the security process is slow, they confiscate your snow globes for no apparent reason, and the PA system constantly reminds you that you have to be watchful because the alert level is orange (or it was like that a few years ago, at least). And the article seems to think that what they need to make us feel better is to invest some money on having better shops...
If you want to learn more about this, the visual formatting model in the CSS 2.1 spec is very readable: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html.

If I were interviewing a candidate, I wouldn't expect them to be able to deeply recall most of that detail (though I'd expect them to be familiar with the basics). I'd accept an acknowledgement that floating an element takes it out of the flow, while using inline-block doesn't, as well as some further detail about what that means, what impacts/side effects it has on other elements and markup.
Imagine it integrated in Google Glass...
>The iPad was only released 3 years ago and yet now even government websites are optimizing for tablets.

So? The tablets are not a leap as not having computers -> having computers, or mainframes -> personal computers, were.

It's a small incremental update.
Java has more than 100k packages in 16years... more than 6k per year as well.
Think you're joking, but I came here to write - SFO is the best I can remember. Easy in and out, free wifi that actually worked and desks with power cords to use it from, regular and easy-to-understand shuttle bus system with helpful staff around, good access to cheap car hire and trains to town. Belongs miles ahead of Abu Dhabi. I bet Californians are a pickier bunch than the average airport visitor :)
You lost it at this point:

> Therefore investors wish to do some check on how serious you are before funding you.
Trying to write off the discussion of the speculative bubble nature of bitcoin as "just one side of a polarized debate" is, to my mind, grossly immature. Speculation and runaway inflation are things that are commonplace with currencies and investments, and for a sound currency there very much needs to be a robust and thorough debate on those topics. It does need to be discussed to death. If the argument of bitcoin proponents on the matter is "shut up" then you're doing a disservice to bitcoin.
IDEALLY it's so that "the little man" has some course of action against negligent entities.
Ugh, yet more startup news? Is this Hacker News or Startup News?!
He is not reconsidering. Read the comment just above yours.

He merely describes what the prevalent sentiment (on Wall Street et al) was, not what HIS was.

Is reading comprehension a lost art? His writing is not even ironic (where one could be justifiably confused).

It's straight out classical journalistic description of other's opinions and motives.
npm publish lets you create something new and share it trivially and in a useful manner.

This might end up being a negative in the long run, but for now it seems like a huge positive.
I will agree with that. Apart from the "we'll take naked photos of you" thing, it's a pretty nice airport.
SFO doesn't actually have TSA agents. Security is contracted through Covenant Aviation Security.

See --> http://www.flysfo.com/web/page/atsfo/saf-sec/
I love the responsive design of your navigation menus. But it feels redundant when i see your page on my laptop. Both the left navigation pane and the TOC button display the same list of articles.

Instead you could perhaps make the TOC button display the chapters within the current article on a wider display and revert to the current behaviour on phone/tablet.
They are going to pivot to compete with Spotify next :D
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This is what Caker (founder of Linode IIRC?) has to say about the strength of the passphrase:

"our private key is stored only in encrypted format. The passphrase is not guessable, sufficiently long and complex, not based on dictionary words, and not stored anywhere but in our heads." [1]

[1] http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/c...
"What has changed my life was connectedness, and Glass does not do more than a smartphone in that area."

Yes it does. It completes the connection between what you see and the rest of your digital world. That's significant.
They choose their engineers based on their gender, hence acted sexist. I find that offensive and will take it into account when having to decide whether to do business with them.
He didn't advocate any boom. He writes what Greenspan thinks is needed.

If anything, he is ANTI-bubble.
I think the mentality actually applies to a lot of things. Apps, products, entire businesses...even your personal life.
Yes, we were hoping we would get link back to our product or company. Linking inwards really is a pathetic UX, even at the expense of SEO. I hope Google sees and penalizes such UX.
Germany produced new record high (32.9 GW) in green energy
According to an article on Handelsblatt.de (pay-walled; referenced online on focus.de: http://bit.ly/YOq9DA) on 24 March green energy production (solar + wind combined) reached a new record high of 32.9 Gigawatts (GW). The previous record - achieved only last year - was at 31.6 GW. There is no information how long this peak lasted in the article.

For comparison: This equals ~60 % of the 2011 nameplate capacity of wind and solar energy in Germany.
In Britain these days, the deposit is held by an independent agency, not the landlord or letting agent. They have to give a good reason to have money deducted - and you can then dispute this if it is spurious.

I recently moved, and the landlord (who was broke) was trying to keep money for all sorts of non-existent faults, most of which were due to his shoddy DIY work before I moved in. I raised a dispute and eventually got the vast majority of the money back. Just make sure you keep pictures of the state of the house before you move your stuff in.
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Step #1 is "apply". That is a hell of a barrier to entry. You also need to explain what you want to do with the pause account.

As I said in another comment, it might end up being to the detriment of node, but now it feels like a feature.
Oh yay, let’s fight assumed sexism with more obvious sexism. That will surely work!
This would be nice if not for the pagination. It's slow, unpredictable, and unnecessary.

For another approach to annotation, check out fixjam.com. I never took this past the 1-day hack stage, but I'd like to revisit it at some point. You can try it by clicking the bookmarklet and highlighting some text.
Um, every other sign in that airport reads "death for drug traffickers". That's not any more pleasant than the TSA.
According to the Wikipedia, MgF2 is not harmful to touch, only if inhaled or swallowed. But so are lots of materials used in construction.

And I don't think TiO2 is very expensive, it's used all over as a pigment. Even sunscreen has it.
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Interesting... They seem to crack down heavy-handed on companies that offer payment related to twitter. Is this about user experience or is this a harbinger of their upcoming monetization strategy?
6:39AM 3 dead, 126 wounded, what a terrible incident this has been.
They're already so heavily made-up for the cameras I would be surprised if this worked.
That's not how Bitcoin works. Miners can't charge me anything. They can choose to not process my transaction if it doesn't have enough fees for them.
Linode is a Linux company, but it's also a company founded in 2002-3. Back then, there weren't many great options for web programming and ColdFusion would have made a degree of sense (PHP 4.0 was released in 2000, and Ruby on Rails 1.0 didn't appear until 2004; Django was released in 2005). A modern, reasonably-secure web stack in those days really did mean "PHP with register_globals=Off". (Facebook and YouTube were both created later, and in PHP).

It's a bit surprising that they haven't moved away from CF, but this is a good example of how hard it can be to transition away from legacy technologies. It's also not clear that security would have been improved by adopting, say, Rails, given that there has been no shortage in security issues there either.
Also (and correct me if my understanding of this is wrong since I've never used it), LISH is just a remote terminal service. You still need to know the VM's root password. And frankly, if you're doing it right, the root password should be a long, unique random string that you store somewhere safe and never use since you should be using keys to login to your box on a day to day basis.
Interesting points, thanks. I'd disagree with comments being merely secondary to the actual article though. Our point is that inline commentary, if done well, should be as important as the content itself.
I think you are projecting your extensive experience with the review system onto the everyday buyer.

eBay asked the shopper to review her transaction: overall her experience was negative (not enough postage) so she gave a negative review.
It would be interesting to have a site (dating or HR or commentary) where you could have specific facts/tags in a profile and some serious checking of those specific facts.

e.g. for a dating site you'd have "less than 300 pounds", "graduated from Stanford", "not married", "hivfree"

for an HR site you'd have "not a CISSP", "graduated from Caltech in 2000 in CS", "US Citizen", "worked for Google 2000-2004", etc.

Individual tags would be searchable, high confidence, and ideally structured (so "College Graduate", "CS", "MIT", "MIT SB", "MIT 2000", "MIT SB 2000", "MIT SB 6 2000" would all be known.

(The stupid way LinkedIn does Endorsements isn't it, I think. What my friends click just to get a stupid box to go away isn't high assurance information. I'm not sure if crowdsourcing has any place, but the ideal is to get actual validation from the data owner.)
why should I think you're smart enough to ensure your passphrase is good enough

Key strengthening.
> something outside the seller's control

It depends. For me, the seller is fully responsible for shipping, and any added postage, while well outside the seller’s control, is attributed to the seller. I also do not want the seller to correct an error, I want the seller not to make an error.

If you fail at that, I will leave bad feedback, and if it causes you to go out of business, I couldn’t care less. Do your job better next time.
I've canceled the card I used with Linode, the hacker may or may not have got access to the card number, but given the level of uncertainty I'd just rather cancel my card and get a new one reissued. I imagine my bank feels the same way.

Remember that depending on where you're based / your agreement with your bank that you might lose any standard "protection" for any fraudulent transactions that occur after you learn your cards been compromised.
Why not to store switch in a cookie instead?
I'm hoping there's an easy 'be quiet' option. They're 100% right that apps shouldn't be spammy, but we additionally need a standardised option to mute or uninstall apps with a couple of swipes. It's the most walled garden ever, but for something like this with so much potential for spammer abuse, I think we need it. At least they'll be hackable.
How much traffic can a startup get from a national newspaper mention?
Yeah, they didn't tell us when they got hacked, but seclist did (3/31/2013):
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q2/3
By putting a big logo on the page, they are definitely trying to get some marketing mileage out of it.
Hmm, was it LAX? I'm reasonably certain SFO had scanners, but yeah, it might have been LAX.
The quizzes, posted on livejournal, were what actually drove their early users. The blog came way later. Quizzes are non-dating/non-sexual, back in the early 2000s where among <25 year olds online dating was still something nerdy losers did (or old people who were desperate to get married, using sites like eHarm and Match). So, it brought a lot of girls.

I honestly had no idea OKC was actually a dating site until I'd had an account for a year or two. I just had it to answer quizzes.
How long until twitter rolls out it's own tweet-directed payment service? Maybe they finally found a market-tested monetization strategy.
They have not moved away from plugins, they merely replaced 3rd party plugin with their own.

Their HTML5 solution relies on their own closed browser-specific plug-in (EME CDM) and browser vendors that don't have Netflix's license are unable (both technically and legally in US) to use it.

So they continue to use plugin that runs their native code. The only change is that they've taken away leverage that NPAPI gave Microsoft and browser vendors.
Interesting. Whenever I make changes that affect how much I'll be billed, the amounts get added or removed and take effect when the card next gets charged (which happens once a month). At least that's how I remember it... going to dig through some old statements now to verify this as its been a while since I last changed anything that would alter what they charge me.
This is something that needs to exist, and I'm very excited about it. We may build this at CupidWithFriends. I've thought about tags for a while now, the problem is you don't have an identity layer to actually verify whether the tags are true or not. Think LinkedIn endorsements, but for dating. Lying is a huge problem, 81% of all online dating users will lie about some aspect of themselves.

I wrote this comment before I made it to the end of what you wrote about LinkedIn endorsements. The implementation is still up for debate, but the idea is compelling at the very least. I do think that LinkedIn endorsements are worthless because I haven't yet used them, but that idea distills a person down to their core. We're basically trying to solve that problem through the single question that gets more responses than any other on our site: "describe your friend using only three words."
It's WAY more pleasant.

I see the sign, it doesn't affect me, I am happy.

I see the TSA, they go through my stuff, they treat me like a terrorist, I wonder if they're going to steal something, they enforce arbitrary rules at their discretion, they take up my time, the whole thing is very unpleasant.
That's why I said good start-ups :)

I've been part of the not-so-good start-ups myself and have experienced "career managers" first-hand.

I totally don't understand how they got their in the first place though. I just don't get it?
My wife is French and after arriving at Logan, Airport from Paris after an overnight flight, we both waited in the "Non-US Citizen" line. We waited over two hours for our turn along with everyone else, just to get a stamp. The agent then thought my wife's picture wasn't perfect so they detained us to verify her identity. We were were subjected to stupid and unnecessary abusive questioning until they realized they were obviously wrong and let us go. So 3+ hours of nonsense and they let us go.

I realize that most people don't have to go through detention, but how can adding ~2 hours unnecessarily after (typically long and difficult) international travel be a good idea? It's a self-defeating waste. Investment in speeding up the process would no-doubt be returned to the economy and in better-will.
I doubt regulation plays more than a marginal role here.

The truth is that capitalism is not good at creating new technologies, only at increasing adoption of technologies that have already been developed.

Innovation on big problems is hard by definition. It takes decades and there is a very high risk of failure. The original ideas may not work out, an alternative technology may be developed which ends up dominating the market or increasingly the way may be blocked by patents.

Why would an investor support such an undertaking, especially when very good returns can be obtained in well established areas like social networking (at least if you spread around your investments) and finance ?

The only exceptions to this general picture are those very rare companies with practical monopoly power which have been able to fund developments of this nature. Examples are Google and pre-deregulation AT&T. But such behemoths represent only a small fraction of the total economy and though some monopolies might be good for technology development it seems unlikely that increasing their role in the economy would be of general benefit. The result is that the vast majority of new technologies over the past 60 years have been spearheaded by government research (semiconductors, the internet, etc.). Even self-driving cars were made possible by government driven efforts.

Overall I think society vastly underfunds research and development compared to what would be optimal for mid to long-term enhancement of human well-being and this is primarily due to a broken socio-economic system.
Man this was what made flattr fun to use. O well, at least I can flattr youtube videos.
Interesting, thank you for the answers, sounds like it could be a fair compromise in that case.
Native player supports AES 128 encrypted video.

Earlier iOS supports encrypted chunks, iOS 6 and up supports encryption of audio and video samples as well.
Proximity Is A More Relevant Perspective Than Volume.
I've always had an excellent experience when dealing with Linode one-on-one, via email or support ticket, but their one-to-many communication sometimes seems to be lacking.

I'm glad they posted a more detailed update regarding this issue publicly.
At least if someone tries cracking the passwords they won't have to bother with a dictionary based attack or short strings ;)
Congratulations Paras!
I love hearing about boot-strapped stories.
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