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Threat modeling is a pain in the ass, doubly so if you're using an automated tool.

Simple, platform and software-specific checklists might be better. Here is a generic one as well.

http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/securecode/a_se...
Good luck to both of you :)
It's the difference between describing how something works and describing what something's like to the person doing whatever it is you're describing. Science can (arguably) get at how something works, or at least make some predictions and models concerning these things, but that's not the same as getting at what something's like, from a "subjective" standpoint.

Scientists can ask me about what the experience of "red" is like, and I can tell them that it's not quite like blue or green, and can point to it, but the experience itself (like all experience) remains a completely private matter for me.

Just think about it. Look at any red object and compare it with any "scientific" description regarding wavelengths and retinas, neurons, synapses, neurotransmitters, visual cortexes, atoms, molecules, or what have you. Clearly none of these thing are in any way related to what it's actually like for you to see that red object.

Now, you may well believe that what's going on when you look at a red object is "really" some interaction between what those scientific terms describe in some model of what's going on with your brain, sensory organs, etc. But this requires a sort of suspension of disbelief, as you have to set aside your actual "subjective" experience of the red object itself (an experience which lacks the mediation of all these scientific terms, models, or even what they refer to, as you don't experience the neurons, or retinas, or neurotransmitters, as such, you just see the red object).

The subjective experience is really where science is quite helpless. It's been this way for hundreds if not thousands of years, and there's no sign it's getting any closer now.
The difference is that he's good at it
So this would be like consulting, but about things that only other people actually know about. So... specifically, management consulting?
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"True economic drivers" are not made so by being wonderful technologies (although that can't hurt). They're made so by convincing those with money that they are, usually through marketing clout. But, success stories and grassroots marketing work too.

So far, Erlang has not had this. So if you think it belongs in the spotlight, then by all means, make something awesome with it. Get on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or something and talk about it, then people may listen.
Make that a second person - and I've been on the site for over a year. I knew that _comments_ added Karma, but I wasn't aware that a story submission's Karma is added to a person's total.

I've always wondered how someone who has been on the site for less than a year can have a Karma > 1000 points. I always thought they were posting a lot - but a dozen 50 Point submissions will get you halfway there pretty quickly...
There is nothing "international", technically, about flying within the Schengen zone. Airlines don't require you to produce an ID because you're flying "internationally"; you need an ID to board a plane anywhere in the EU/EEA, also for "domestic" flights.
On a single ridiculously slow computer. Even the slowest Core 2 Quad would be able to factor 8x faster.
Now I'm curious. First of all, any random Core Duo could probably put a significant dent in that timeframe if all he had was an Athlon 64. Second, what would the effect of CUDA be on this? It was extremely useful in that MD5 contest earlier.
If somebody actually touches my screen while pointing at it I immediately say "Do not touch the screen!" It appears that people don't perceive it as rude and just continue pointing without touching.
Well, I think the reason most people try to be nice/humorous is that the screen-poker is generally not aware that they are doing something wrong. They view their computer as a piece of furniture--something that sits on their desks.

Making a joke or lighthearted comment is a lot more effective than saying "hey there, I know you just use your work computer for MS Office, solitaire, and Facebook, but I care more about this computer than most people care for their children. Keep your dirty mitts off of it."

They'll probably never understand why you care so much for your computer, so it's better just to pretend you have some 'weird' issue with people touching your stuff.
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Unable to find like-minded individuals in rural area.  
Good Morning HN,

This is my first HN submission and instead of submitting a Tech Crunch article, I am submitting a very perplexing question in which I seek a solution.

You see, I live in rural Eastern Canada (New Brunswick) in a town that has the population of ~6k people and I experience the difficulty of finding like-minded individuals to collaborate with on my projects and ideas. I know there are people in my area who have some similar interests as me (same as all of you, which I assume, is technology and entrepreneurship) but as there are no organisations to join where I could ultimately network with these individuals I seek, I cannot find them anywhere. You would think the internet would make this problem much easier to solve, it has not.

I have come up with some a tentative solution and a non-solution to my problem; I will start with the solution:

I have been thinking about organizing a start up weekend in my area. In the surrounding area there is a large satellite internet service provider and the data center for the worlds largest frozen foods manufacturer. Combine these two entities and I think I might be able to draw out enough people to cover the expenses of the event. However, in the event that I DO organize the event and not enough people show up, I would be left with covering the expenses of the event and that is something I cannot afford. (perhaps we could think of solutions to this problem?) I could perhaps sell tickets in which people must pay for the event in advance, but I don't think that would work..I could be wrong?

Non-solution:

Move. Simply put, even though it`s not as fast paced as Silicon Valley or any City for that matter, I love it here. I love being able to swim in nearby bodies of water without risk of..pollution, sickness and disease. I love the wilderness and the shooting at animals in the aforementioned wilderness. Moving is just something I don't want to do at this point and I will only endure this option when all else fails - I know I could move back, but I want to make a run at a start up in my area first.

So how do people in similar situations as me find other people to collaborate with on projects? I have many ideas, some larger than others, but they all don't seem as fun without having someone else to work on them with. Not to mention, they also seem like an insurmountable task to tackle on my lonesome.
> (The 83 is mandatory in U.S. education and sometimes distributed for free, all American High Schoolers use it, and did so for at least the last 10 years.)

It's a bit off the subject, but this has always struck me as a terrible scam. For the material it is used for (introductory calculus) and the way it is used, one of these TI calculators hurts student learning and understanding more than it helps, and there is no excuse for schools to force students to purchase a $100 piece of electronics without a damn good reason. That these devices are absurdly overpriced compared to the state of the art (~$100 multipurpose netbooks, for instance), and that the models required are made by a single company with monopolistic coordination with standardized tests and textbooks, only make things worse.

Learning how to use a calculator is perhaps a useful skill, but it's one that can be learned quickly if needed and should not be pervasively required: for most math done for math's sake (that is, as opposed to computations for some engineering problem), students would be better off if teachers instead made problems that could easily be worked with pen and paper.

(Personally, I made it through high school and then up through upper-level undergraduate mathematics, physics, econometrics, etc. courses without ever buying a graphing calculator, so it’s clearly not strictly mandatory for current curricula, but students and parents get the impression that it is essential, and the vast majority of students do buy them, so the effect is about the same.)
Unfortunately it's a ridiculously shitty hardware platform to be developing for in 2009. It's a motherfucking Z80, for $100 -- a vintage Game Boy minus any decent sprite graphics hardware, with enormous profit margins and a captive market (enforced by regulation) of a million a year.

Yes, the OS on the TI-83 is dogshit, but I have a feeling that it's pushing the limits of what's reasonable on the hardware. The TI-89 has a terrific input language and OS (almost mac-like compared the the apple-II-ness of the 83), but running on a m68k.

Who knows, maybe someone can at least make a firmware that not only forces you to close your parentheses, but gives you some benefit for doing so.
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I like the idea, but I'm not sure people will necessarily know what they want to read about. Take, for example, a disaster, people would want to know about it as soon as possible. You don't want to wait until someone votes on the topic before writing about it.

So I'd modify your idea a bit -- have many short snippets about rumors/events that quickly introduces a subject, to build interest, and will be free to everyone. Then have followup stories that will be voted upon.
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Simple to answer but hard to execute; the goal is to create percieved value in an object or service. People are willing to pay for something that is valuable. Not as easy to accomplish as it sounds.
There are two biographies that I think should be required reading for wannabe Silicon Valley entrepreneurs: (1) High St@kes, No Prisoners by Charles H. Ferguson and (2) The New New Thing by Michael Lewis, about Jim Clark

And two that, while light on content (i.e. math), never fail to stimulate the childlike nature of my inner aspiring mathematician: (1) The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel, on Ramanujan and (2) The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman, on Paul Erdos.
I was hoping to see the code not the torrents. sigh
Yes, here in the UK it is a bit more "serious" (is that the right world). Our Den guys are pretty solidly respected business people in their various fields.

And it has worked: Reggae Reggae sauce (I dont know if it has made it to the states yet) is now a multi-million dollar business after investments from there.

Rapstrap was also launched in a similar way (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/09/18/dragons-...) though there is some controversy over it.
I didn't even know we had karma here.

I'm sure you also "don't see race".
If you're analyzing complexity and your algorithm needs malloc(), then you implement and analyze malloc(). For example, see Knuth section 2.5.

By the way, do you have a point to make, or do you just enjoy being brusque?
"I didn´t know energy had weight, but again, it may be explainable."

If you didn't know that energy had weight, then how could you possibly understand anything whatsoever about relativity?

You talk about "adding graviton collisions". Go way way simpler. Energy has weight. Speed things up, they are heavier. Want to speed it even more? You need to add even more energy than the first time because now you are also speeding up the energy [weight] from before.

Run the math. Solve. Final result c=speed_limit. The math is easy, don't take my word for it. Do you know any calculus? That's all you need for the math.

You are talking about advanced topics like gravitons and tachyons, without even understanding the simple topics like energy having weight [mass].

How do we know that the weight of energy is equal to the energy times c_squared?

You can measure it, that's how. The earliest particle accelerators can do it. Actually you don't even need a particle accelerator.

Take a gamma ray (a photon), cause it to split into an electron and an anti-electron (using a magnet). Measure the energy of the photon that is left over. The difference is the energy that was consumed in making the electron and anti-electron.

Measure the mass [weight] of a single electron.

Do math. Result: e=mc2 (i.e. mass of an electron * 2 * c_squared + energy of leftover photon = energy of starting photon).
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I threaten them openly. Touch my screen again and I will hurt you. If they repeat the offense I snap them over the fingers.

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> instead of submitting a Tech Crunch article

classy, it is appreciated!

I lived in rural Canada as well (st. Josephs Island, Ontario), and I found some overlap between the people that go to lan parties and those that hack - either for a hobby or for a living.

Another trick was to take out ads in the local rural papers (usually very cheap) to see if anybody was interested.

Even if you only find one person like that he or she will probably be able to point out a few more.

Once you have a little network going you can do the event and split the take together, I think that even if it is just a BBQ it will eventually draw a crowd of like minded individuals but I doubt that you will make that work on the first round, so start small when you have found a couple of buddies and make sure they understand they can bring anybody along that does something interesting.
Although relativity was based on an empirical observation, Einstein is also famous for his theory predicting additional, as-yet unobserved phenomena.

From researching this thread today, I learnt that a similar thing happened when Hertz discovered radio waves: they were predicted by Maxwell's theory (which was based on an observation by Faraday):

> When Faraday discovered that a magnetic field can affect the polarization of light, he proposed in 1845 that light may be waves in the lines of force of electromagnetism.

> [...] In 1864 James Clerk Maxwell followed up Faraday's ideas with mathematical formulas that described light as waves of electromagnetism and that implied other forms of electromagnetic waves. Maxwell's work was experimentally verified in 1888 when Heinrich Hertz, following a suggestion from George Francis Fitzgerald, discovered radio waves by directly applying Maxwell's formulas.

http://www.answers.com/topic/electricity-and-magnetism

Can you imagine how much Hertz's mind was blown when the prediction turned out to be true? I got goosebumps just typing that.
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If you're set on local collaborators I guess that's as good an idea as any.

But let me make one suggestion which is to not be so fixated on your area. Yes, it's great to have local collaborators but it's hardly necessary. There are plenty of tools that allow collaborators to work together no matter where they are.

The most famous example I can think of is David Heinemeier Hansson. He worked as a partner in Chicago based 37Signals even though he lived in Denmark up until a few years ago.

The truth is, whether someone's in another part of your rural community or in Denmark the collaboration itself shouldn't be that different (using tools like Skype, IM and even 37Signals' set of collaborative tools)
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It's also frightening because all codes required to arm the warheads are kept onboard and can be accessed by three cooperating individuals (in contrast with stationary installations).
I doubt that missiles can be launched on the "moment notice". De-conservation and targeting are bound to take hours.
It's clearly specified in the requirements that you need a dedicated host, and if you want to do Sarbanes Oxley or HIPAA compliance you will need your server to be in a certified data center.

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Oh those good memories of the TI-83, my first and only foray into the world of assembler programming, trying to cram a complex algorithm in 6 registers, the good times!
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As far as anyone knows, synaesthesia is a fundamental property of how some people's brains are wired, where the interconnections between two areas of sensory cortex are abnormally strong. Thus, when one area is activated (by perceiving a letter, for example), the activation spreads to the other area (for perceiving a colour). It's something that would develop very early on (probably in utero, and surely by soon after birth).

In adults, you might theoretically be able to induce permanent synaesthesia by repeated Tetanic stimulation of the two areas of cortex simultaneously. This may induce a strengthening of the connections between the two areas via Hebbian learning.

On the other hand, this might destroy your ability to perceive both letters and colour, or cause other brain damage. There would be no guarantee that the results would be of any use to you at all (remember that synaesthesics grow up experiencing the world this way). And that's assuming you could even identify the appropriate areas. Needless to say, no surgeon would do this.

Sorry, LSD is still your best bet. :)
You should post that one separately.
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That's nice but then again I would expect browser to take care of it. Opera and its notes are just about ideal. You get text, url and datetime. Plus it has a keyboard shortcut, they can organized in folders and searched
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I completely agree that there seems to be far too much noise on HN.

That's actually the reason why I haven't bothered checking this website for months, but got curious and decided to come back today to see if things have changed.

The thing that I find most noisy are the "ASK HN" posts. I wish there was a way to filter these out, so I only get news.

C'est la vie
yep.

And even if the folks who registered it are 'legit', if they let the domain lapse who knows where it will end up and it's not as though you'll get a warning the next time you point your browser to that address.
Honestly, I think these folks have a better idea of what the intent of the Constitution was than many of the justices on the Supreme Court.

Sorry to say that, but "good source of legal advice" is by definition one that works in court, not one with high moral ground.
If they are not an asshole "please don't touch my screen" is all you need to say.
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A famous synesthete was the late great Richard Feynman. I think he had written it in one of his books that he felt unconfortable with that feeling, and didn't talk much about it.
You're attacking a symptom.
I just pointed at your screen, did I leave a mark ?
The fact is though, even YC insists on its applicants to move to where ever YC is located.

There is a big advantage in working together when you are face to face. A purely virtual idea you might get off the ground when you are spread out, but even then the feeling of 'working together' when you really are together is a different one.

Maybe it's just because I'm old or maybe it is because my experiences with collaborating remotely are a mixed bag (currently working with people in Panama).

It should not theoretically be necessary but I do find there is a huge difference in practice.
Just think about it. What would happen if a site started charging only black people? Or only asians? And now think about how race-based discrimination is any different from gender-based discrimination. Our society has rules that you can't break, not even for maximalizing profits.
She said she realized that up to this point she'd been subconsciously applying the "pet" template to our son, since that roughly matched his capabilities for the past few months

Wait, where did guys meet your wives? Where do you meet someone who is aware of their templating of things in casual conversation?
"Journalism" isn't going to be saved by data mining or algorithms or nice design. It is not going to be saved by "hyperlocal" reporting. It is not going to be saved by per-user customizable topical filters. It is not going to be saved by search systems and RSS feeds for your neighborhood. It is not going to be saved by content federation. It is not going to be saved by mashups. It is not going to be saved by APIs. It is not going to be saved by putting everything behind a paywall.

You want to make money off journalism? Useful content funded by advertising is the one and only answer. If you can't make money from that, you're either not producing useful content, or you're carrying too much unrelated overhead in your company. In either case, find the place where you're not doing as well as you need to, and improve it.

Despite the popular opinion currently prevailing, the current situation in journalism is not some radical, never-before-seen catastrophe. It's good old common-sense economics at work: if you're not producing things people want, or if you're spending too much money to do it, you lose and someone else will take your place.

Find some people advertisers care about. Find out what those people care about. Give them high-quality stories about it, and don't hire any more people or spend any more money than you absolutely have to. Do these things, and you will win.
Damn, now I want to take my pants off and smear my hands across your screen.

Honestly, if you started getting up and walking away every time I came to your cube, I'd be there 3 times a day and half of the other people in the office would be in on it and find it hilarious and you'd probably end up in the cupboard crying and hand in your notice.

Seriously just say "please don't touch my screen" instead of this hilarious behaviour.
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