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In regards to IE9: please please please make this easier to install. Currently this is what I need to do to upgrade to IE8:

Log in as Administrator -> Install an update to the machine (Why?)

Reboot the machine (Why?)

Log back in as Administrator again -> Install IE

Reboot the machine again (Why?)

Log in as the user that users the machine. Launch IE: "Hello would you like to participate in BLAH BLAH BLAH?. (Why are you asking me this? I just want to go to youtube and watch a video!)

[Yes] [No]

Compare this to Chrome, or Firefox or Opera.

Log in as Administrator -> click on executable -> Next Next Next -> Launch Chrome -> Go to youtube -> Done.

There are things that would make my life a lot easier too, but this is very small picture stuff (but I think it reflects a bigger problem.). These tools may already exist, but I don't know about them...which is a failure on the part of microsoft:

I want a tool that will automatically audit my MS office license keys for me. Scan my network, tell me who has what keys.

An asset management tool in general would be nice. Scan my network, give me back a list of all of my machines, What user is currently logged into that machine, and what its IP address is. Yes, this is already possible using a few other tools, but it would be nice to have it all in one place (again, if this exists already, please tell me).

Other things that would be great:

Give me a centralized repository of windows ISOs and Office installs. You can get these things, yes, but it involves jumping through a bunch of hoops. Just give me microsoft.com/downloads and present me with copies of your OS, and office. I'm not saying give away product keys (obviously), just media.

Btw, what you guys did in Russia this week was really really cool. I actually had a lengthy conversation with a friend of mine about how awesome of you that was. In all honesty, you guys are doing a lot of really really amazing things right now. I am still in disbelief at how I could just email some very nice woman at Microsoft Research, ask her for a peppermill, and have one show up at my door a few days later. That kind of stuff warms my heart. So does making the N-GRAM data from bing available to students for free. That type of stuff is awesome, and that is the type of stuff that makes me want to support you guys. Keep that up.

Thanks,
Ryan
"rapid advances in Chrome's 2D graphics performance"

I'd assume it's the 2D graphics performance.
Thanks for writing this detailed postmortem!

The entire story, though, can really be distilled into one idea: expectation settings.

You always want to under-promise and over-deliver, but it sounds like, in multiple domains, the Newstilt team did just the opposite. They promised a lot to their writers, to their investors, to each other. This happened in both obvious and subtle ways.

What's the problem with the wrong expectation settings?

Where to begin... First of all, it is human nature to raise expectations. You're afraid investors won't invest, developers won't work for you, journalists won't contribute to your site, your co-founder won't carry on: so you raise expectations.

The critical dynamic that screws everything up, though, IMHO, is that inflated expectations attract the wrong types of people. That's the killer.

Paul provided many examples of this. Over-promising to journalists attracted the wrong types of journalists; over-promising to users attracted the wrong types of users; over-promising to potential employees attracted the wrong hire.

If there's one lesson to takeaway from Paul's story it's: under-promise and over-deliver.

Start simply. Don't worry about being too simple. Just be honest, so you attract the right people at the right time.
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Can anyone provide any more solid details? This article seems to be a lot of hyperbole ("totally destroys") with little fact.

The error message provides a small tidbit of information about how ASP.NET decrypts messages. With enough of these error messages it is possible to decrypt the message in its entirety.

What message? The cookie itself?
What Kinds of Jobs Exist At Startups for Non-Technical People?
Of course, with Posterous, you can't track your metrics at all, unless you use Google Analytics. Any JS embedding, including tracking snippets are not supported.
Not if him and Colbert keep the satire in the rally
This is the source for the article http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/unleashing-gpu-acceleration... where you can see that the 60x increase is in two specific 2D canvas demos.
I was actually about to use Posterous, but the campaign brought my attention to Tumblr, which previously I thought was just a tumble-log, not a blog with complete features.

After checking out Tumblr, it was not clear to me that Posterous was the better product and there were some issues with DDOS attacks at the same time. Also I saw two other people I knew using Tumblr as well.

If Posterous really became the clear-cut best blogging platform someday, I could always switch over with the switch tool, so the decision to use Tumblr for now was an easy one.
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As far as I can tell, this seems to allow you to decrypt the data within cookies. However, what would be stored within these cookies aside from a session ID? Some insight into what's actually stored in the cookie would be good, as this seems very overblown.
Thank you.

This is the most succinct and (IMO) valid criticism of the long-hours apologias. It's not just a question of no additional productivity, but one of actual damage.

My own role[1] doubly exposes me to these risks. As I might actually handle hardware, the increased risk of "industrial" injury one exposure, and, of course, being on call is the other.

Even with the knowledge and acceptance of such studies, there's the difficult task of self-discipline. The temptation to stay just a little longer, to get one last thing working, is strong on its own, but, combined with peer pressure, is nearly irresistible. This is why it's so important that founders, managers, or anyone with a voice of authority, make[3] this an explicit part of the culture.

[1] System administration, which, for a startup at an early enough stage means anything from facilities/rack'n'stack/cabling[2] to fixing bugs.

[2] Protip: never, ever crimp your own ethernet patch cables. If they're under 20 feet, they're under $3 online (my preferred vendor is pchcables.com, due to their broad color selection). Between the cable, modular connectors (you know there are different ones for solid and stranded, right?), anti-snag boots, and amortized cost of a crimper, you might not even be saving money if labor were free. Over 20 feet, terminate both ends with a female punch-down connector (patch panel or keystone jack in a box). Never having to troubleshoot intermitted network issues: priceless.

[3] subjunctive
The issue is you shouldn't build (or ship) code like this with such major security holes, you build security at the start, it should be an integral part of the application. You can't just dick out some insecure application then add in security, it doesn't work.
Me too, but to be fair I was five years old and wouldn't have understood most of those big words.
Leave Posterous in the dust?...please.

Posterous is still superior in my opinion, regardless of users or traffic. It's the simplest, most intuitive platform I've used to date. Their source editor is sweet too. If I need to add some links, or change the entire template, I can, very easily... seems like it's user and hacker focused. No clutter, and they give complete control.

I'm not saying Tumblr does not have these traits, frankly, last time I used Tumblr was years ago, but no reason to write an article that assumes there is some kind of "finish line."

"pompous, arrogant, and unnecessarily slagged on their competition" Come on dude! Are they supposed to do it any different? Their "Import/Switch to" campaign was very creative, aggressive, and got a lot of new sign ups. I took notes, instead of complain...
I wonder if the novelty of free food ever wears off.
this site looks really sweet. thanks for the tip.
Why vertical farms are a crock.
Don't forget the ridiculous prompting for phishing/search engine/etc after that.

Just let me use the damn browser.
Technically you change the cookie encryption method to 3DES in the server's config file to work around it. But, I would try to "gently" persuade anyway.
Yes, please: more constructive posts on HN and less argument for sport.

I can't speak for anyone else but I come to HN to be informed and inspired. There's so much potential here that is lost on pointless debates.

Aren't we all in the same boat here, trying to reach a distant goal?
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Yes, it has a C&C component. Symantec and others published a very thorough analysis of it near when Stuxnet was first discovered.

Why do you think that it will have a short lifetime? Just because a patch is available, doesn't mean that it's been applied.
It's a "padding oracle" attack, see tptacek's comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687547
Use it like you normally do. Google's definitely looking at user data - why wouldn't they? - so just keep doing what you're doing and it'll get better.
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Hi All My start up is http://venturesocially.com, It’s a site to help Startup Founders who are looking for VC publish their pitches.

As an avid HN reader and a follower of all things tech/startup I decided after reading 37 Signals latest book to stop dreaming and actually finish a startup. I have tried in the past but I have always given up too early, so this I promised myself that I wouldn’t give in and would get it finished. So here it is, a beta version of my application, please be gentle many hours of my life were spent hacking away at this site after hours!

The founder logs in, creates a pitch, adds some video and then publishes it. They can send it directly to people or they can make it public to the whole world. Once someone sees a venture they can then bid on it, right now we do not offer anything but notification. The legal work still needs to be carried our separately Please let me know your views and opinions, very eager to understand and make this site better!

Thanks VS
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If you're totally green, but, lurk on HackerNews dreaming about learning to hack so to one day hack what are the best resources?
See http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/unleashing-gpu-acceleration...

The 60x increase is in two of the demos from the "IE9 Platform Preview Test Drive 2D canvas demos" found here - http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
I try to get 9 (I heard that's healthy, or something...) but average around 7-8. Sleeping feels so good, but so does working. What a lovely zero sum game.
There are a few reasons why this is worse: first, they are launching to media attention and a rabid community. BCC sucked at launch, but no one saw it, so yay. (And by sucked, I mean looked ugly, not "Anyone can delete all your documents at will.") Diaspora has thousands of end users already. Some seeds have 200+. They are launched. Not prealpha. Launched.

Their entire reason for existing is "Facebook but private". At the moment, they are delivering on that like ROT13Snap delivers on secure backup. And due to a programming bug, ROT13 was applied twice, and indexes are on in Apache. It is a cluster flop.
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[9.30 AM PST, 09/17/2010] - I've got a ton of feedback, and I'm working my way through responses, so please hang in there. :) I'll try and follow-up in the next 24 hours to th rest of the comments in here. Thanks much for understanding!
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including the case of Facebook.

...which is Diaspora's claim to existence.
I really miss Billionaires for Bush. Clever satire beats name calling any day.
This is the whitepaper: http://usenix.org/events/woot10/tech/full_papers/Rizzo.pdf
What were these kids thinking, starting some ambitious software project from scratch without much of a clue how to do it? This is unheard of on the internet!
Your link makes my point for me.

"As noted, some economists have argued that relatively large wage gains at the top end of the wage distribution drove the increase in average wages, while median wages grew little if at all. I have shown that, in fact, median wages increased appreciably since 1975—by 28 percent—once benefits were included"

When he says that median wages increased, he is including the insane amount healthcare costs have risen. He is counting what employers pay for health insurance as compensation for workers. This makes sense on some level, but it also makes it clear that the take home money of average workers has stagnated while it has sky rocketed for the super rich. The fact that employers are paying more for healthcare (and we are paying more for it too) is not a sign that things have improved for average workers, in fact it's a sign of the opposite.
Thanks! There are a number of things I'm thinking of doing, and I've made a number of steps, but steps in research and talking about all of it don't leave me feeling like I've made much progress. I think I need a plan, but to have a plan, I need a direction. My plan has been to get a direction, but that plan is not being executed quickly enough. I know sometimes it just takes time to be inspired, but I'm burning out in the process.
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I do the same thing as the parent does. I have the 50gb account on db, have a bunch of code/docs/other things, and use like 15%.

highly recommend using dropbox as your root.
Microsoft didn't "build security in at the start", nor did Apple, nor did Twitter, nor (I suspect) did Facebook or YouTube. It's a pre-alpha of an open source project. Of course there will be problems.
That is depressingly likely. However, the user who made the post that started it all had been a redditer for over a year and posts on a number of topics, so if your theory is correct they were fairly subtle about it.
Good point. We'll wait for the security experts to build this.

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Still waiting.........................
Not sure Facebook was an exemplary choice.
It's nice to see Browser Wars 3.0 having benefits for the whole community.
Dont blame Microsoft for the crapware. The manufacturers get paid a boatload to install it. One manufacturer I know was paid 9 figures for the front page on the default browser.
Their product is released to end users, because the first thing every early adopter is doing with their shiny new host-you-own federated social network is sending out invites.
50Gb. 25Gb is enough for all the things I really care about, and 15Gb of that is my music collection!

I recommend Dropbox every chance I get, since I really think it's an amazing service. You pay 10$ a month for never having to worry about the backup problem every again (not to mention the fact that my laptop and other desktop are always synced). Well worth the money, IMO.
So, it's a VMS heritage ;-)
Earlier HN thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482630
Will do, Ryan.

I'm working on getting a wiki off the ground with Startup Square. If and when it launches, you'll see it here.
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True. I am constantly astonished at how fast online communities can come together for the common good.

I can be a bit oversensitive with anything that smells like astroturfing, I suppose, even when it is for events/organizations/people/causes I like.
Indeed. I respect John Stewart's style of humour, but Steven Colbert seems to belong to that particularly useless form of political discourse in which instead of addressing what your opponents actually believe, you instead (a) accuse them of believing something that they don't believe and (b) then make fun of them (or in less light-hearted contexts, call them evil) for believing that thing.
I think this is a great idea, but the result is very noisy. For example, my site, Tagxedo (http://www.tagxedo.com) was started just 5 months ago but I saw links from blog articles that date back to 2007. The link is there (side bar) but it is really not very useful.

Perhaps this is a good starting point for your business (or a just a tool or service), but if there is someway to weight the pages of the pages or links, etc, it would be much more interesting. In other words I (and presumably many others) only want to know the significant links.

Also is the maximum number of links limited to 999? If this is so because of CPU/bandwidth reason then this service is not very useful for most except the very-early-stage startups.

The ability to track competition is a wonderful value proposition.
As far as I can consider, there are two possible alternatives to this (that is, releasing their flawed code). They could have either released flawless code, or they could have released no code at all. I understand OPs concern, but considering the alternatives I don't really get the tone of the article.
Great point. Our events and venues are pretty much booked for the rest of the fall, but having H&F picnics seems like a crazy good idea.
I would be willing to bet that most of Colbert's and Stewart's staff have an average Reddit age of over a year :)
This exploit has remarkably little applicability to the vast majority of ASP.NET applications. These guys are grossly overblowing this to try to get attention.
Any tips on getting inquiries on linked-in?
"the developers are I assume starting their fall school term."
Two of the Diaspora team graduated in May, and the other two have taken a leave of absence from NYU to continue to focus on the project.
See: http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/08/26/overdue-update.html
God forbid a grass roots collection of people mobilize to advocate for causes they believe in (if they're from the "wrong part" of the country). What could be more unAmerican than that? We obviously need to come up with sexually derogatory names to mock these people.
Even most casual developers can afford $200 for a Windows license to run on VMWare. Contrast that with testing Mac software in VMWare with a Linux or Windows host -- we can't legally do it because it's against Apple's license.
The trouble is that they were so ambitious but lacked any experience from which to chart those ambitions. They're just a bunch of young twenty-somethings just getting out of school. They haven't built any large-scale real-world security-hardened software yet.

Thank God that our industry isn't lousy with ambitious but inexperienced twenty-somethings. If we let them run amok, we'd get crapware like MS-DOS and computers like the Apple II.
As rendering will get much faster, I guess we can consider JS will much faster too, at least when using canvas with JS, which I believe it's the most important bottleneck right now.
Do you have the username of the post that started it all? I'd search but, you know, their search feature....

Now the idea is starting to bug me and I'd like to look into it a bit.
Good luck. I just spent the last year trying to get a startup going where the marketplace didn't really know that it needed my product. It proved an uphill battle from start to finish.

My initial thought is that going after any and all sport leagues is way too wide of a market for you to be able to really reach any of the key decision makers. Perhaps find local sport leagues with people you like and chose one of those and go after that market?
the best comment is the empty one ;)

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No, at a traditional corporation the author draws a fixed salary no matter how big the pie gets.
Then someone who's perhaps a bit too clever for his own good can introduce a new script into the build process so it makes some changes after the file is generated.
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I grabbed a 50gb Dropbox account and put everything in there, so my "home" is actually /home/username/Dropbox and includes:
* Documents
* Music
* Photos
* Work

Makes working between two computers a piece of cake and provides 100% backup with versioning. Best $99/year I spend.
Why Diaspora's "Open Core" licensing arrangement is so egregious
Yep, 1979 vs 1970 for Unix ;-)
Kevin Rose isn't CEO any more
We need a content filter.

This article, the blog post on Manhattan tipping the host/hostess for priority seating, the guy who did the driving traffic experiments on the highway, and the guy who built his own computer out of ICs and was an English major, IIRC. Just to name a few...
So if you knew someone who never washed their hands after using the restroom, would you let them in your home? Out and about socially with you?

In my opinion, anti-vaccine people should be tossed out of everyone's homes, circles of friends, and businesses. This is for people who them OR their children aren't properly vaccinated. Even IF autism or any of the plethora of things were caused by vaccines, the diseases themselves which are prevented by them are much worse, all causing death or maiming.

Vaccinations aren't 100% effective, usually more like 70-85% effective. This means EVERYONE needs to be vaccinated for the disease to not continue to find hosts to pass along to.

We should safeguard the people who are willing to get stuck by ostracizing those who are foolish enough to not vaccinate.
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In my neck of the woods I think the problem is a lack of software managers, not a lack of talented developers -- maybe things are different in Silicon Valley.

Somebody who could do very well in an organization that manages tasks, deadlines, architectures and conflicts well could be an NNPP or a ZNPP in an organization that doesn't.
Not exactly apples to oranges, because that doesn't make the community argument invalid. It's the fun of exploring content on Tumblr that made it possible to grow a network of erotic photoblogs (and not only erotic, check all the 'f*yeahsomething' categories, all kind of lols and such). I didn't bother to check if Posterous' TOS somehow block such content, but still if it was there, currently it's not so easy to find and follow as on Tumblr.
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Not really, in fact that article was exactly what I was thinking of, reading it it'd be easy to get the impression they were talking about production software after the first sentence. Bugs are fixable and I haven't found any serious design or protocol mistakes, nor seen anyone else point any out. Given that, I'd say they're doing pretty damn well.
Could be worse - could be Daniel Eran Dilger.
What more more mature option were you thinking of?
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Nice. Some enlargeable screenshots on the main page would be cool.
I disagree. The one thing that keeps his discourse credible is that he does not have an agenda. The minute he asks tens of thousands of people to show up at a rally, then stands in from of them to ask them to "restore sanity", he has an agenda.
To be fair, OWA 2010 is fully functional in all modern browsers not just IE. So they are progressing.
I would like to tell Microsoft to stop being so risk averse. Stop relying so heavily on market research. Stop acquiring talent with proven track records and stifling them with your rubric.

If you want to survive the next 20 years, you're going to have to innovate. But innovation comes with significant risks, and at the earliest sign of failure or possible failure, you pull out instead of pivot, adapt or wait.

Stop worrying about marketshare. Start worrying that your products are not considered thought leaders; your flagship products are (until several innovations recently, like IE9 and 7) considered buggy, not secure and it's your fault. You've let the competition paint you into that corner.

Stop playing catch up. Start innovating.