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Just a quick note on Don't make me think - go to your bookstore and flip through it. There is about two paragraphs worth of an actual material in the book, the rest is a filler. Think - a moderately insightful blog post stretched into a book... it is one of few books that I regret paying for.
That would muddy the core message of 'buck up and keep at it' and turn it into a "take that" at YC, which does not seem to be intended. Being anonymous makes sense here, I think. (I actually clicked through to see if it needed to be flagged because it could be a "take that" and it's not.)
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I really don't think you can adjust away the teenage propensity to lie on these sorts of things. If there's one thing students in the US are taught effectively, it's how to game multiple choice tests. Throwing in trick questions isn't going to do much, especially for your AP-track students.
It's a show of thanks for taking the trouble to give a solid answer backed by facts. Just as bad memes are publicly swatted down, good work (even small) should be praised to set an example for others.
The internet is not a truck, you can't just dump a crap ton of movies on it and expect no consequences, you'll clog up the tubes!
It's like a box you can drop stuff in
They don't really need permission to scrape public Facebook profiles now do they? The first version of Facebook (Facemash) used pictures and names scraped from a private Harvard directory - hacked by Zuckerberg . Facebook is just getting a taste of their own medicine.
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Couldn't most of this be figured out from public records (or crunchbase)? Without terms or valuations the quality of this "leak" is greatly diminished.
Beyond the question of the iPad, I have to object to promoting a blanket attitude that web developers should shy away from pushing out progressive web technologies just because they aren't yet tried and tested and may not work perfectly on every device.

Although the web's evolution is lightly governed by a slow moving standards consortium, it's really the hackers that push the cutting edge to become new standards that any browser needs to stay relevant. If the developer community shies away from pushing new technologies out of fear and inconvenience, the pace of progress slows. I don't want that to happen.

I applaud the bigger players taking steps toward progress even when it's an investment with not much visible payoff at this point. (cf. HTML5 support on Youtube)

Just remember to know your audience, but don't be afraid to nudge them if they're missing out on something in a legacy browser. Use progressive degradation but don't have too much remorse if there's no legacy alternative and you have a saavy audience.

We're talking about websites, not missile guidance systems. Take risks. In an open system things aren't perfect, but if we stop, things stop moving.
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The files are hosted on AWS S3 (despite the fact that their domain is "cdn.lts.cr", they're not using CloudFront), so assuming a cost of $0.14/GB (too lazy to calculate it including S3's various pricing ranges that come into play when more data is being stored), and completely ignoring facts such as cost of hosting the site, and the time factor of creating and managing the site...

Also assuming that all free users use all of their 200mb, and all pro users use all of their 10gb...

They need a free-to-pro conversation rate of 0.37% to break even on the S3 costs, i.e. one pro account for every 271 free accounts.

Alternatively assuming that all users will use 50% of their 200mb or 10gb, then that's a conversation rate of 0.17%, or one pro account for every 593 free accounts.

My guess is that, if we ignore people who try it out and then decide not to use the service, chances are that, of the people who stick around (i.e. the people who will actually store more than one test file), quite a decent number will move to the pro account. So yeah, I can see how they are making a profit, seems like it could turn into a nice (and really easy maintenance) little cash cow.

On a seperate topic, would be amazing if someone created an open source version of this as a front-end for S3 - though I'm far too lazy to do it myself.

edit: I see the creators are reading this thread, so here's a direct query. Any chance you'd create an account for maybe a few dollars a month (less than pro) that you provide no storage for, and that gets hooked up to an S3 (or S3+CloudFront) account of the user's chosing?
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If actual facts are that rare in software engineering, then that's one hell of a "code smell". It really wasn't hard to get.
And the others of us in the same situation greatly appreciate it.
A famous one is "Google is the new Microsoft". Unfortunately people forget many of the bad things (including anti-competitive crimes!) MS did in the past.
What could we add to change your mind?
I am not sure Android sandboxes that well. (I dont have much knowhow of android sdk btw). But from the applications that are available on the android market - I know that people android apps can do more harm than on iOS, they have more power in android (for example, there are anti-virus apps on android! task killers!, apps can access your photos without you knowing it and upload them somewhere, app launchers, integrate with dialer, etc)
Drop box solves the collaboration problems with any program. We used balsamiq mockups and were incredibly pleased with it. The sharing and collaboration was a bit difficult, but DropBox solved that problem completely.
Bingo. YC is changing how the valley works, for the better, and should be recognized as doing so.

Additionally, running a (venture backed) company already puts enough scrutiny on me as a person and I'm in no hurry to increase that :)
Google v. Bing silver linings FTW.
email me at peldi@balsamiq.com, I'll see what I can do about getting you early access to myBalsamiq... ;)

Re: pricing, here's what we're thinking: http://www.balsamiq.com/buy?p=myb
If only someone had thought of that before, eh?
You could call that advice old and curmudgeonly, I suppose. You could also call it lightweight and agile, and still be right. That's the power of marketing!

(Seriously though, I think this is a good approach, and thank you for putting it so clearly.)
Ok. I think this might be trouble mainly because of touchpad. We need to see for more comments from those who use more of touchpad than mouse. Anybody?
Reading a large codebase
I have been learning python from a couple of books and now I want to make a step up to reading code. However, when I encounter a big application like django, I cant seem to make much sense of the code.
My question is what does one do when one encounters a large codebase and wants to make sense of it?
Congratulations. :-)
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At least, I would appreciate an option to turn-off this feature on application level. How about that?
How was the word "app" used 1650-1700?

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=app%2C+applicatio...

Maybe Jobs didn't invent it after all?!
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Umm..13 people found it insightful/interesting? I don't know..
> This is also why we have many more softwares available now.

Assuming English isn't your first language, that would be phrased "much more software"; software is always singular.
It was a problem with both previous versions and it still is a problem. It is so glaringly horrible that I have to assume they are severely restricted by some cross platform plan or dependencies given that jqtouch was able to get the transitions to look quite nice with simple clean css.

See this page (on an iOS device) for comparison.

http://jqtouch.com/preview/demos/main/#animations

As much as I want to like jquerymobile, it just pales in comparison to jqtouch on iOS.
I can think of plenty of comments that were /actually/ insightful, though. This feels like, "oh, wow, you know how to use science! +1". sad.
Now see? That's the kind of response that I love.
Come on. The opaque process still sucks no matter what anyone says (that's because is down to a single person's interpretation). And related to the DMCA notices http://blog.wolfire.com/2011/02/Counterfeit-Lugaru-on-Apple-...
Agreed it's a form of entrepreneurship, and nothing wrong with using leverage for profit. All good stuff! I just find that calling it a startup is like calling a fish a shark. I mean, you could call a fish a shark, but it really isn't one, despite some similarities (live in water, fins, swim around.) And if the word fish meant the same as the word shark, there's no point having those as two distinct words. A distinction without a difference is existentially pointless.
Antivirus apps don't do anything. Task Killers don't kill tasks anymore. Yes, apps can access your SD card, I don't see that as a disadvantage and I don't see the risk in optional, opt-in home replacments.
Well, obviously everyone can't download at full speed at once and expect any kind of performance from the shared network, so some kind of sharing arrangement is needed. The usual method is to price the scarce resource somehow. The spectre of usage-based billing was already motivating third-party ISPs to investigate building their own routing infrastructure. Seems like the market will sort it out, no?
I had the same thoughts initially and initially I started making my mockups for this project on pen and paper. I quickly ran into two problems though:

1) My client is in CA and I'm in NYC - the only way to get them my pen and paper mockups is to scan each individually and e-mail them.

2) My clients had a lot of feedback on the designs and over a couple of hours, we went through a dozen different versions of the mockup. Doing this with someone far away is far more difficult than using an app that lets you drag and rearrange elements on the fly.

I still agree with your process if everyone is located in the same area but for remote works, I don't think it's a viable option.
Anyone else see this as a royal pain in the ass? Malware developers and spammers are going to jump all over this one.
I personally think we've got lucky to have JS for client-side scripting. Despite all the efforts from Sun and MS.
Cheers indeed!

P.S. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b76VWp-voIk
Having finally had the chance to attend last night's talk with Peter and Max Levchin, I can say I was thoroughly impressed (by both of them). I believe he (well, both of them, honestly) has a genuine desire to help improve the world on multiple levels so frankly, even if any of his tactics seem a bit unorthodox, so what.
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A few personal thoughts:

- Allow a custom CNAME for files hosted so that they can be shared on a pro user's own domain (you're already CNAMEing to S3, is it possible for you to add additional CNAMEs onto that for users? I'm not sure.)

- Publicly viewable directory listing for a crate? When I saw the name that's how I assumed it would work straight away, that after creating a crate I can link someone to it and they can see and view all the files in it. Realised this is actually possible before I submitted this comment, but have kept it in here to make the point that it could perhaps be a bit clear. Waiting for a user to mouseover the crate name to discover this feature helps keep the site looking clean, but perhaps isn't the best usability feature (at least for new users).

- No ability to change username (nice but not necessary) or email (necessary) in the settings page

- https://

edit: p.s. I realised that in neither of my comments did I remember to mention - nice work, a really nice minimalistic product!
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> Is bcrypt not the best possible security, or reasonably close to it?

Reasonably close to it, yes, but scrypt is better. scrypt makes the KDF expensive not just in time, but in memory as well.

http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html

"We estimate that on modern (2009) hardware, if 5 seconds are spent computing a derived key, the cost of a hardware brute-force attack against scrypt is roughly 4000 times greater than the cost of a similar attack against bcrypt (to find the same password), and 20000 times greater than a similar attack against PBKDF2."
I'd be happy to help you for free. My email is in my HN profile.
Disclosure: I'm a contributor to jqm.

The most important differences I see in the mobile frameworks available now:

1. As mentioned in one of the other comments the device support is much more comprehensive. Symbian and BB 5 devices are being sold in large quantities every day and the project's goal to support them is an important one.

2. Jqm uses augmented semantic markup for layout, whereas sencha (afaik) uses templates from within Javascript.

3. The jquery community produces a lot of interest, a lot of contributions, and is generally very vibrant. I'm spending most of my time trying to keep up with the pull request back log (apologies to all those still waiting) which is an enormous asset to any oss project.

Hope that helps answer your question.
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They're rejecting the team, which could mean two good people who don't fit well together.
i'd be interested in talking to you, can you e-mail me? it's on my profile
http://webkit.org/blog/386/3d-transforms/

Try those examples on Chrome or Android (or probably anything else, but the CSS attributes are all -webkit prefixed so comparing against FF would be silly).

Chrome is just now rolling out GPU acceleration so they might actually work on some platforms but previously they (meaning Chrome and Android) were using a rendering engine called Skia and were dropping out a bunch of the perspective matrix therefore making it strictly affine and preventing any true depth effects.
http://www.theincubator.com/ is located on Davis St in Evanston (adjacent to Northwestern University's campus).

Do you have an idea of what are looking to develop? Feel free to share as HN is trustworthy (no one is going to steal your idea).

Also, what do you bring to the table? I'm assuming you have access to capital or something along those lines.
Why are PC laptop touchpads so terrible?
Specifically, why are they all only two buttons? 'PC' mice have always handily beaten Apple mice by cramming as many buttons, scroll wheels, and thumb switches as possible onto the things. Why doesn't this happen at all on laptops?
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Yea, had the AGPL existed in 1998 it might have been different, but it didn't exist back then, so....
Why not n<=26? :D
Billing by total bytes transferred over the month has got to be the worst way to get a "sharing arrangement". Given the prices for exceeding the limit (a couple dollars per GB), we can sort of rule this out as just an idea to help avoid congestion.

The issue, AFAIK, with the market "sorting things out", is that there are few companies that have gotten government permission to build out end networks. I'd guess it's near impossible for a new company to get access to actually lay out copper everywhere.
I agree completely. Javascript is just a bad language(1), and HTML and CSS are fundamentally unsuited for the kinds of apps that we're using them for. After years of effort we've managed to get to the point where they sort of work, but it could have been much better.

(1) Yes, I know the cool things you can do with closures. Python and Ruby do them too, without the insane misfeatures like default global scope and bizarre implicit type conversions.
I think this SO thread might be useful to you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/215076/whats-the-best-way...
But it's not a scarce resource. When you get more clients you have more money and can build more interwebs.
I owe aristus a response after pledging to read it to my kids. Result: my 9 year old daughter loved it and wants more.
I was introduced to http://min.us and have been hooked.
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No, really- 18 quintillion is a huge number.

92 billion years is a long time to imagine. Let's say we won't have a use for these addresses after the sun dies in approximately 5 billion years, so we're going to try to use them all up by giving every person 1,000 /64 blocks.

Wolfram Alpha gives the surface area of earth as 5e18 square centimeters. 2^64 is approximately 1.8e19. With a single /64 block you could put two nanobots in every square centimeter on earth. That's not really practical over the oceans, but whatever.

With 1000 /64 blocks, you could cover the earth with nanobots that take up only 0.05mm^2 of space each.

Pixels on the average computer display take up 0.055mm^2.

You could address a display that covered the surface of the entire earth with just 1000 /64 blocks, and you could make one of these display for every person born until our sun dies.

It's an astoundingly huge number.
planning to use airbnb to find places with good internet. Switch off work days and sightseeing days. That's the plan anyhow.
I recognize that there can be a lot of government hoops to jump through that can legitimately make it expensive to do business with them, but I don't see why the government had to outsource that to begin with.

I say that because I remember it taking me only a few minutes to go from knowing nothing whatsoever about them to making my own.
the issue is one of priorities and it is clear to me that supporting python 2.3, or remaining batteries-included, or backward compatible, or whatever other excuse you can come up with is more important than having modern password security. perhaps if it seemed remotely likely that a patch that met most but perhaps not all of your requirements would have a chance of being accepted someone would do it. as it stands it seems to be futile given the unrealistic requirements.
You should also add Flash/Actionscript to the skill list.
They just don't want to get sued. Simple as that.
Maybe I should write a book, title it "Lightweight Agile Engineering By A Not So Old, But Still Quite Curmudgeonly, Hotshot Full-Stack Developer, Ninja Rockstar"

In addition to the chapters "Spreadsheets Are Pretty Much Always Better Than Writing Code" and "Love Thy Whiteboard", there could be chapters titled "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Command Line", "Visual Debuggers Are For People Who Can't Read", "Big Oh-My-God It's Not That Hard", and "Seriously Guys, Someone Already Did That Way Better".
They multiplied it then. Now we have multiple trashbins.
How is this any different from dropbox or tons of other file hosting sites out there?
Hell, I remember what life was like before iPhones!
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Great article!
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Personally I wouldn't require this whatever possible, even in that case, but that is a different topic altogether so...
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The weird one to me is the recurring claim that there's no incentive for companies to invest, as if it's just a given that there's all sorts of greedy companies out there somehow coming up with free bandwidth they aren't paying anything for to anyone. Can someone point me to this free bandwidth? I'd like to get in on this action.
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He talks about interactive video - what does it mean for video to be interactive?
To me what's most interesting -- and something you touched on briefly in your article -- is that it seems this concept could be a powerful way to tie in Ajax and lazy loading (like Facebook does where parts of the page are loaded after the main DOM, to enhance perceived loading speed) in addition to being a better way to structure your regular procedural top-to-bottom page load, including providing a crawlable alternative/mobile view of highly dynamic content.
Will take a lot to get me to make the switch from Dropbox. I also use Cloud app (http://getcloudapp.com) and like it.
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Actually, in a way, they have better internet in Canada then we do down here in the US. Most people here have one or at most two monopolists they can turn to for broadband. At least in Canada the government has tried to add some competition.
If this was Reddit, we'd see a long chain of comments continuing this trend.

Before smartphones

Before phones

Before electricity

etc.

I enjoyed your comment, but I'm just warning everybody else that don't have to feel the need to comment on it.
Shameless self promotion: there is also my http://tempalias.com which doesn't require you to create an account, or even just visiting the site more than once (there is a bookmarklet).

Also, the full site is open source (node.js), so you can run your own at your own domain
If you think of it like this, you'll poison yourself. Maybe reframe it as "Declined the opportunity to invest in this team at this time."

(See also: college, job offers, consulting engagements, and -- took me decades to learn this -- dating.)
My sole issue with CloudApp is that linked files are embedded on a page. I freaking hate that.
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Minus is more than photos? Honest question. I knew it was a crazy nice photo sharing app but other file types?
Great work, however it's far short of the quality of Sencha Touch.

I have to wonder what the point of mimicking native UI is.

I've just started learning Obj-C and iPhone dev and getting ones head around basic UI functionality is at most 2-3 days worth of playing around. Is is really worth sacrificing native performance and consistency for such marginal gain?
I don't remember what life was like before Reddit.
You're right, this is why we have "Good Samaritan" laws to protect people who are trying to help people in an emergency.

That said, it's definitely not a bad idea to keep your CPR training up to date. Mine was renewed last December.
I agree with you 100%.

That said, I do think it's worth noting that the pleasant fiction of "it was the idea, not us" is patently false for YC.

A healthier (and more accurate) way to think of it would be to say that they're rejecting their perception of the team, rather than the team itself.
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