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The point of most captchas is to stop someone from writing a program that abuses your system. If you're not doing that, what exactly are you "verifying"?
Do you mean something like this? http://www.ruf.dk/

It hasn't caught on. And I don't see the advantages that might be there outweighing the disadvantages.
I'm not sure I'd consider calculus to be a basic math question, except in the context of uses where you have a real need for this level of randomness.
Think of it as a figure of speech. I don't believe the current path taken by those companies is sustainable if they come up against well-considered competition.

Also, please don't read too much into my not investing in this particular case. For one thing, I'm not in the US, and for me trading US stocks directly and in a tax-efficient way would require jumping through hoops that just aren't worth the hassle.
Serves to get a feel of how the Internet was at the time:

"(Yahoo) lists over 55,000 sites and receives (snip) 250,000 users"

It also serves as an example to enterpreneurs:

"Not wishing to sell Yahoo to the various corporations that expressed interest they found venture capital, took a leave from Stanford, and went for the brass ring. They now devote their full time to Yahoo as the traffic continues to increase."

Indeed, Tattam's work was more revolutionary than the people at the time expected.
Depends on where you live. A hilly area can kick your ass a lot harder than a treadmill, but my current neighborhood is flat and it compares pretty evenly to a treadmill run.
The primary reason we don't die from malaria is none of the above: it is mosquito abatement via intentional habitat destruction and copious use of effective pesticides. Large portions of the US used to be malaria country: not a spe mof it is now, and if there was a malaria outbreak in a US suburb we would wring our hands about the consequences for about five minutes and then dump enough chemicals on that subdivision to save an African country.

Ditto Europe, by the way.
If your program is free (as usually with open source), you have a lot of 'customers', which all feel they are entitled to support.

Pulling the information you need from users to fix a problem can be quite some work.

This decreases the time available for development. That's all. Hence "DoS".

I don't see any belittling in that.
First off, I wouldn't try to deal with a problem that you don't have. Right now you have an app that is 50% ready and it seems that you are putting a lot of effort into something that is far less important than your primary issue - that is, finishing your app.

Also, in the hunt to figure out one problem, you have discovered another problem. How can you rely on freelancers for this particular part of your application? You can continue that line of thinking to - what do I do if something breaks in this process that my freelance developer setup and I can't get anyone to fix it right away? You might just be screwed at that point.

So, you are better off learning this stuff yourself, not bothering with it, or getting someone with full devotion to the project who can do this stuff for you.

For right now, work on that 50%. ;)
Thanks, that is definitely less awkward. I just shipped your suggestion to the site.
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I hate articles like this. Not because they don't highlight what a steaming pile the actual fitness and training industry is, but because they're way too slow. Proper training articles have existed for a long time, in easily reachable spots. For all the stupidity at BodyBuilding.com, their forums biggest stickies are those about the 'Starting Strength' workouts - the ones where you deadlift, squat, and bench. T-Nation, another big one, has never advocated anything else for a starting athlete.

I just hate when someone posts something like this and goes 'Everything You Know Is A Lie!" No, it's not. I just happen to have read this shit eight years ago, and that was late already.
Browsers should just not have auto-printing. How much time is saved by not having to press CTRL+P? Likewise, how much time is wasted because of unintentional print dialogs (like this one) and how much time is wasted in developing and maintaining such a feature?

I say cut it, nobody is going to miss it.
Wow! Nice idea. You could even skip the retractable when the rails fits in between your wheels.
I think Motorola's problem is quality control, and perhaps releasing too early.

I had a Droid 2 that had all sorts of problems (I've been complaining about it on HN for a few months). Finally the camera stopped focusing, and I took it to Verizon. They gave me a brand new unit on warranty (which I was impressed with, it took two minutes for the Vz guy to suggest that. Or maybe they have a lot of problems with these?).

This phone is so much better than the one I had before. The problems I had with my original Droid - home screen weirdness, four different camera problems, locking up on the unlock screen, etc. are not present in this phone. I don't know if it's new firmware, or that the hardware on my old one was bad, or a combination.

So you might just have a flaky individual tablet. That wouldn't really be excusable, of course... Motorola needs to step up their game if they are going to challenge Apple.
> don't eat boxed foods or foods that went through multiple stages of processing

What's wrong with cheese, or butter? Or sauerkraut and pickles? All processed food. Also, powdered mashed potatoes and puffed rice are just conveniently preserved starch. They're perfectly healthy.

The "processed food" and "mostly plants" stuff is just marketing psychology that taps into SWPLs' inner hippie. The real diet rules aren't mystical:

* Avoid sugar, especially fructose

* Avoid vegetable oils

* Don't be afraid of saturated fat

* Prefer rice and potatoes to wheat/rye/etc

* If you're fat, try cutting out starch, but don't worry about it if you're not fat.
I can see why cutting a car in half never caught on...
+1 on all of these replies. Another good thing about mockups - they become more important when there is a need for a reliable QA process.
Ideas vs. execution outside of a startup hub
Heheh. I like to think of it as me passing along all the suckering pretty girls do to all of us. I'm just the messenger. (that sounds dirtier than I intended)
Dumbest CAPTCHA ever.

It's a math problem - which computers are great at - in highly readable text; which they're pretty good at. I expect someone talented could break it in an automated fashion in a day or less.

I don't know why they don't just throw up an fairly large image of a bunch of animals, then say "Click the cutest kitten" or something that's purely subjective, and relies on human recognition abilities rather than computational ones. Maybe two of those in succession in case a computer gets lucky? Using the same method recaptcha does. Show two images, one with a known heat-map of clicks showing where people think the kitten is, to test them, and another one for them to develop the map on the new picture for future tests.
If the math problem were squiggly and hand-drawn (i.e., as if on a chalkboard), we might have a more effective CAPTCHA.
as little time as possible with normal people since both things are utterly boring

I hate to break it to you man, but we're all normal people around here.
How comfortable would a person who only spoke English be in getting around these areas?
having done crossfit and workouts similar to the ones planned in the article, i disagree.

crossfit does make use of some of the principles outlined in the article, yes. but you could say that about almost any workout scheme, including 20lb weights balancing on a bosu ball. there are bound to be some similarities.

crossfit is frenetic, with exercises that vary daily. this routine is advocating a more static set of consistent core exercises.

crossfit mixes up the styles of exercises pretty frequently -- some are strength, some are endurance, some are timed, etc.. again, this routine is more about slow, steady, consistent improvements on a single set of exercises.

crossfit is a single workout track that gets everyone "fit", while this routine is pointing out that you need to approach the exercises differently based on your personal goals.

etc etc.
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Because of that, you see this strange effect where enterprise trends seem to happen about 5 years later in .net then they do in other communities.

I think this is a different issue. And this I think is true, but actually by design. It's funny because when I consulted I ran into the opposite problem. I'd go into shops and the devs wanted to do some cutting edge stuff. I usually came in and convinced them that this was a bad idea. :-)

The reason for this was pretty simple -- usually the stuff they wanted to use wasn't ready, and didn't match the culture of enterprise shops. For example I remember NHibernate picking up steam and lots of shops wanting to use it, but there were a lot of holes in it still.

And DVCS is another great example. In enterprises there is very little advantage of Git over SVN. SVN's offline support has been great for years now. I can add/revert without touching the network. And in the enterprise you don't have a model of "anyone pull down a branch". You want a very controlled version of the code around. Yet, again, a lot of .NET devs want to use Mercurial and my recommendation, in most cases, is that its not a good idea.

BUT source control is a great example where .NET devs have clearly not towed the line, given that I rarely see a shop using TFS. Everyone uses SVN or Mercurial. Just as no one used Source Safe in the past. If .NET devs just followed MS blindly we'd see all of these .NET devs using TFS and waiting for MS to make it better. Hasn't happened.
Every time there's an article on exercise or diet, there's a pileon of people promoting their own beliefs, with no apparent sign that they read the original link.

How do you address the fact that your point is actively contradicted by the article? Did you even know your point is actively contradicted by the article? I'm not even saying that proves you're wrong; what bothers me is that you just ran off to post your own stuff with no apparent engagement of the topic. That's not a recipe for learning anything.
"Libya Traffic Divided by Worldwide Traffic and Normalized"

Maybe Google search volume just skyrocketed elsewhere on the planet? ;)
Yes. But not to any significant degree that will cause a change as a species.
What would be wrong with steamed/blanched broccoli smothered in Velveeta? That's perfectly healthy.
Correct. For those that don't agree see the Incompleteness Theorem. It was once thought (by Hilbert no less) that computers would one day be able to derive all mathematical truths for us. Alas, G\:{o}del came along and ruined all of those grand plans by proving such an endeavor was in possible. He also showed the limits of human reason. Computers may or may not be "dumber" than humans, but we know that they can't be "smarter."
Aaaaand HN has officially become Reddit.
I have a stupid question here. When you have a large memory machine, why can't you serve 1M clients on 1 ip without IP aliases?

I asked this question because if one uses 17 instances to handle 1M connections, for each instance is around 50k. I am more interested in knowing the possibility and performance for one machine to handle 1M connections.
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I thought having a proper continuous deployment helps with development?

I want to shorten my learning curve and honestly I have my hands full.

Other people created startups by hiring freelancers to do their coding, so your argument about being exposed to the risks of not being able to fix the very thing that the hires created also applies to them.

I am quite sure they were not stopped by that.

I do acknowledge that risk you are talking about hence I am also requesting for documentation and a proper handover.

Basically, I would like someone to
a) implement the setup for me once
b) show it to me how it is done
c) undo everything and let me do it once.

If not possible to do all a, b, c), i dont mind hiring someone to at least do a) and b).

Thank you for your reply.
Ask HN: Reddit tips?
Hi guys,

I thought I would start trying to submit some of these hn-books reviews over on reddit, but I haven't had much luck over there.

I've been a member for a long time, but it seems like whenever I submit anything it tanks, so I really haven't visited that much. (Among other reasons)

So does anybody have any tips on how to get a favorable result over there? Should I ask somebody who is already well-known in the community to submit for me? Should I visit more often and make more friends? Is there a certain time of day that's best to submit? Are there certain kinds of material that just never do that well over there? What's the deal with this sub-reddit stuff? Looks like there are like ten thousand little tiny rooms over there now. Do I have to know all of them, and aren't I stuck submitting only to one at a time or something?

Any help is appreciated.
Relatedly: Is X going... check if someone is going to sxsw
http://www.isxgoing.com/

Other cool SxSw data:
http://www.isxgoing.com/report
Just saw you launched this in a night from conception. Great job and good luck. Please, keep us posted on numbers (visits and $)!
According to the article, ISPs all over the country are rolling out a block sporadically. Around an hour ago, they weren't opening for me (Airtel, Noida, India). Now typepad is.
I forgot to mention one thing - some of the pictures were a little small, and so a potentially pretty girl was ignored by me because I wasn't sure. Not sure if there's a way to fix that, you might have to get creative with fetching alternate pictures for people.
Developer only event at SXSW (code puzzle gets harder with more tweets)
Along with the ability to type in my own text, I'd like to be able to select from a list of Sheen witticisms from his recent TV and radio interviews. These shouldn't be difficult to throw into a drop down list.

Also maybe dynamically scale up the font size based on how many characters are entered. Font seems on the small side for the short phrases I entered.
Which project did you choose?
i agree. it's probably the most per transaction you can get out of this meme.
Advice: Use Amazon S3 for hosting your files. It would come out to about a nickel a month. You'd have more people downloading and less people going through the painful process of those download site cartels.
I suppose that traffic is under very close scrutiny by foreign intelligence services. It likely belongs to the regime, or close privileged persons that are not kicked off for some reason.
I've seen harder (limits of converging sequences, etc), but wolfram alpha made them harder for humans than for automated scripts.

My captcha was to find the least zero of this polynomial:
http://random.irb.hr/latexrender/pictures/c46ad0f30d7575c609...

and all I had to do was to OCR the formula:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x^3+%2B+3x^2-4x+-12+%3D...
Agreed.

Allow a lot of customization and freedom, but don't allow them to break the basic contract of civility and the neighborliness of not having sound play on a page, or a ton of animated garbage that slows everything down and no organization whatsoever.

I mean, we don't let the average driver design roads or cars, so why would we let them completely rewrite a webpage? If they're actually good at it, they should be able to express that talent though, in some fashion.

If you don't give people an outlet for something they'll find or make one! But it's a fine balance. And finding it takes talent too.
Just a note from a design nerd: it's a Le Corbusier LC3 chair. They're terribly comfortable.
"Love argued that her rantings were merely an expression of opinion and that Simorangkir could not prove how they damaged her."

Ridiculous! Well, I guess Nir Rosen is another person who quickly found out that tweeting (if you're well-known) is not at all like gossiping at a party. He tried to use the above argument but quickly lost his job, due to outrageous comments about the Lara Logan incident in Egypt.
I want to make sure a person votes only once. But if they want to game the system fine as long as they are willing to submit a captcha

For another website, I used to store the IP address and do checks but for a simple system that seem to be overkill.

All of the websites have no user accounts.

Is there another way to do this? Where you want some voting to happen but with no user accounts. And you want it to be dirt simple.
Ask HN: What would you prefer in your outsourcing firm?
development/design skill ?
communication skill?
marketing skill?

i would like to know what you want to see as inherent skill in your outsourcing team?
Ditto, I enjoyed reading your last three posts.
Thanks for sharing.
I mostly exercise with a barbell, including snatch and clean & jerk. It's ridiculous to claim a barbell workout will give you much aerobic endurance. I also do cycling and I assure you barbell fitness does not much carry over. It's very different metabolic pathways. I've also found the carry-over from weights to sub 400m sprint speed to be pretty weak. Come on. Barbells are not magic.
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I take your point fully,

and I don't disagree that there are things that the iPad ultimately does do things BETTER,

I just see would like to see more innovative uses (such as garageband) but I guess thats just a case of patience.
Have you used one of the 'iPad killers'? That is not competition. It's a joke. You can't even buy any of them, except for Samsung's Galaxy Tab.

Have you played with them before coming to these conclusions? Jumping to conclusions without actual experience & trusting the media is a fool's errand.

I've played with them all, some being not-quite-release models. I'd have to largely agree that they are jokes.

The Xoom comes closest to being an iPad competitor, but I'd still much rather have an iPad. However, I think that there's a sizable segment of the market who would prefer a Xoom over that of an iPad, and maybe that's good enough for Motorola. Apple is still at what? single digit percentages with the Mac? They seem happy enough.
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Stay positive. Two years from now your launch story will be gold: you'll have proven you can endure a challenge.

The app looks great. It's got great utility. Hang in there, just a minor glitch today.
Thanks for the tips!

At the moment I am focusing on getting the features right and it gets annoying for me to test every feature in IE (I use a mac) - Maybe I should check out some cross-browser UI testing tools.
Assuming you are targeting the correct market for your work (which other commenters have addressed), then you need to let basic supply/demand gauge your pricing.

So the question to ask yourself is this: do you have enough work? If you have more work than you want, raise your prices until you have less work. If you have less than you want, consider lowering your prices. If you are already taking less than you feel you should, then focus directly on who you are targeting and how you are approaching them.
Anyone have any sites with nice dinner recipes?
Looking for a variety of meat dishes.

Would be nice to find a site with some high quality recipes that isn't crap-laden with ads, etc.

Any suggestions ?
hey this is pretty entertaining.
I would certainly agree that there is room in the market for both specialist and generic devices, if that's what you're arguing.

I just think the generic device probably doesn't make much sense unless there are several things a customer would use it for but not simultaneously, and those things do collectively make use of the bells and whistles to justify the relatively high hardware cost. I'm not sure how many people that really applies to today, and market forces can be a harsh critic.
C1M is the new C10K.

C10K is not even close to being a real problem any more. I expect my phone can handle 10K connections.

Making a million outbound connections, on the other hand, requires a little more care. Mostly because you need 16+ IPs. I ended up writing a small tool in C with libevent to make 1M http connections: http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...
It's all in the title, it has to be short, interesting and to the point - of course the content has to have value too.

Just look at the top submissions to get an idea of what catches the most attention.
This is a relevant research paper I found interesting: "Several differences exist between healthy perfectionists and the dysfunctional perfectionists..."

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/NRCGT/reports/rm99140/rm99140.pd...
Haha. Good idea. I could scrape together their turn ons and turn offs too :) Maybe v2
> we felt it was the best way to convey the most information without crowding the screen with excessive copy

The problem is that there are too many bullet points and not enough spacing between them.

Also there being two columns of bullets its easy to lose track of which bullet its about (left or right side).
Monetize?
Maybe include a page of Charlie's best/worst films and some other great movies about crazy people. It won't make millions, but it might cover your bandwidth costs. Amazon referrals for Sheen classics like Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Men at Work and Major League, and movies about insanity like Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now (w/ poppa Sheen).
http://commonthree.com
Nice work! I like it a lot.
Network and system admins.
It also means running out of breath from doing too much.

Curiously, in my karate dojo, we are taught to learn to fight whilst being winded - as in, having the wind knocked out of you.
Port numbers are 2byte values. To track a connection as an IP:port number combination(the way your typical OS does it) you need multiple IPs to give you enough port numbers.
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Downvotes are fine, but please give me the courtesy of explaining your disagreement, rather than just whacking me over the head.
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It's a full on delusional platitude to discount dealings with brutal or dictatorial countries.

You seem to imply there should be consideration in who we deal with based on the political conditions which is actually not even feasible at this point. Libya just happens to be the topic of the day so it's easy to look at the .ly and say "Well that's what you get."

I type this on a keyboard made in Thailand, My monitors are made in China, as is my Cisco desk phone and Droid X. So is my coffee mug.

Surprisingly, my coffee cup by International Paper is Made in the USA. That's the only thing on my desk
No

This can be automated with https://github.com/mathgladiator/tutor

I'd have to spend some time working on adding OCR support, but overall totally doable,
Well, that sure made me feel all fuzzy and warm inside. Whenever I had to design anything, it looked like utter crap in the worst case and like something "obviously designed by a programmer" at best. Not because I'm lazy, but because I just don't have talent for it. I tried. The best results I ever got was my Flash game, Particlz. That one often got criticized for "substandard graphics".

Now I'm thankful that I'm doing a job that doesn't require user interface design. But in the future, if I need to work on something that need a nicely designed user interface and there's a designer available, you bet I'll try to leave it to him. You know why? Because I'll spend 2 hours on something and get worse results than he'll get in 15 minutes.

Bottom line: I suck at design. I don't need to you to come and tell me I'm just being lazy.
Perhaps there is a need for a SxSW sex chart, ala http://sexchart.org/
Don't you need the rights to those photos?