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Many people are going to tell you university is a waste of time but I couldn't disagree more. I hated school, but the two most valuable lessons I've ever learned were at university. They were time management and organization.

Let me ask you a counter question, what do you really want to do? If your answer is I want to be an entrepreneur, stop. What do you want to do? What do you want to make, what do you want to change, what do you want to explore?

Starting a successful startup is like playing one game of chess against 1000 of the best chess masters to ever live. You are doing more than just creating something, you're managing it. The things that do not matter are: people doing the same thing as you and having the greatest idea.

Things to consider: what am i trying to accomplish, who will use it, who will fund it, who will build it, who will maintain it, who will support it, who will talk about it, how do I market it, where will it be located, how dedicated to success am I, can I take advice and what will I do when I want to give up (and you will want to give up at one point or another).

These are all questions you have to answer, however, answering them is not enough. You need to have a plan to discover the best solution. There is a key difference. A solution implies trial and error until something is how you want it, even when its functional, being willing to invest in making it better over time. There is never just one answer.

So figure out what interests you, write a list and start checking things off. My #1 recommendation is to go and copy the questions from the YC application to startup school. Paste them in a text editor of choice and start answering them. Then, find smart young lady from the student writing center who is willing to tear it apart and rewrite it WITH you. Be flexible but fight for your words to produce the best document possible. You will understand more about your business idea than anyone when you're finished. Then go find your programmers and make it happen.
Does not work on a Thinkpad T410 on Arch Linux.

With Chrome I can see the marble but it doesn't move, with Firefox 4 nightly I can't even see the marble.
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At the end of the day, I got to pick up cool employee schwag to show off to friends that I'd just joined one of the coolest places to work for. That's my story so far. Oh and if you're interested, we're hiring! :)

This made me feel.., strange.
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> If the filter were genuinely indicative of that, that would be great. However, my guess is that working there is quite different from doing makework puzzles for no pay (I hope, at least!).

The puzzles are in the links provided, why didn't you just go read them?
Some of the controls doesn't seem to work well on mobile. Like the sliders and the modal dialog.
Google Reader filters out entries from feeds I've added to it? Really? Is there any evidence anywhere to back this up?
Because I have more interesting puzzles to work on: my own projects, many of which are available on the internet for potential clients or employers to look at should they wish to hire me.
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Why don’t journalists link to primary sources?
I wouldn't say it was incredibly technically difficult, the worst parts were probably reverse engineering the somewhat funky custom encoding that the botmaster was using for the C&C communication, and then writing the custom router software to allow us to rewrite live tcp flows (we used click: http://read.cs.ucla.edu/click/click).

We first started experimenting with the storm botnet about six months before doing this experiment. Once we realized what their architecture allowed us to do (MITM on the botnet's C&C), it probably only took a month or two to put together the infrastructure needed to conduct the experiment. Scaling to more nodes would have been relatively trivial, as the VMs running the Storm nodes were completely unmodified and we could have easily brought more online behind our flow-modifying router if necessary.

A colleague of mine did come up with one idea called "botnet judo" (paper here: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~voelker/pubs/judo-ndss10.pdf) whereby we run spamming bots within a contained environment that "seems" to have SMTP connectivity but actually just sinkholes all the spam, and then we developed highly effective and specific regular expressions from each bot's spam corpus.
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> and we are certain he is no lobbyist

Are we?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319473
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~$150 billion at its current scarcity-based valuation, you mean.
eh, it's not that hard. For some of us, it's actually easier. I've never had a difficult time finding technical positions, but retail jobs? As a young person, I tried and was rejected. Front-line tech support is appropriate in the same career stage as a retail job. The minimum skills required are not that different[1], however, as far as I can tell, if you are willing to learn, tech support offers a better upward path than retail, so it does make long-term sense to choose level 1 tech support over retail.

[1] The minimum level for both jobs, as far as I can tell, consists primarily of explaining simple things and dealing with angry people. If you want to climb the ladder in tech support, obviously, you need to go somewhat beyond that, but you won't get fired if you can do those two things.
Did they sponsor you on a Kinesis keyboard, or did you brought that from home?
That's an interesting question. Interacting with people in an unsolicited manner is very hard from a legal/ethical standpoint, so using a method like this to "reach out" wouldn't fly.

On the other hand, user education about the profit motive is certainly something that could bear fruit, and so the first step to educating them is figuring out what the numbers look like in the first place :). That's what we're up to, and trying to find ways to keep spam from being profitable is something we took a look at in our upcoming paper at this May's IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
Yes, this reads an awful lot like an optimistic (and naive) kindergartner's first day at school. Interesting look inside nonetheless.. I enjoyed it. But, indeed, I too felt kinda odd after reading all of it.
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This seems too much of a coincidence.

We released a dropbox-like product to sync and the back-end is on EBS. Yesterday we saw two times when a device got filled to 7GB and as it got closer it became slower and slower and slower. We did not have any instrumentation/monitoring in place and we were immediately suspect it was something on our end.

We (wrongly?) assumed reliability and (decent) performance from AWS.
Tech journalism has a hard on for Twitter and it's not so surprising why. Twitter is all about self promoters. I see people using reddit all the time...I have never seen Twitter in the wild.
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One HNer (https://github.com/stefanobernardi) built a very useful service around the same idea: http://savemyinbox.com/
For Google Reader's case, it tends to display more to the top of its home page of the kind of news you click the most (not really _filter_ per se, just make them harder to find). For Facebook, it hides your friend's updates if you don't click on them after a while. Lookup Eli Pariser's TED Talk somewhere from the web (the talk is actually _removed_ from TED's website, which shows the power of Google's & Facebook's corporate muscles in doing censorship).
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Hey callumjones, one of my pet projects is http://savemyinbox.com , still haven't really launched it yet but already quite a few folks are using it. I wanted to implement redis and resque before launching it as now it's not really scalable.
Let me know if you want to work on it together.
Very good point. When the Spanish raided the Americas and took all the gold home, all they succeeded in achieving was massive inflation. History has an important lessons here.
great article. it's refreshing hearing from someone who feel secure about their life.
I must be missing something, but [1] says "A whole-body exposure to 5 or more gray of high-energy radiation at one time usually leads to death within 14 days."

I see values of up to 460 Gy/h on this map, what time unit does [1] talk about that 5 is deadly but 460 is normal?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_%28unit%29#Effect_on_the_b...
One thing I've always wondered about with companies that provide free food is are you considered an outcast or thought of not being a team player if you bring your own food or don't eat with the team?

Sometimes I'm on a very specific diet, and I do like getting out of the office from time to time, so I'd hate to feel like an outcast for not eating with everyone everyday.
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"Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars. At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest."

http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html
Ask HN: How do you measure bookmarking rates?
I often wonder what methods do people use to measure/track bookmark rates effectively.

We use a combination of awstats + raw logs (hits on favicon) - this seems to have been working reasonably well for us.

How about you? Do share.
``Sorry, this experiment only works in Chrome.'' -- feels like 1990's all over again.

Of course it's not that bad -- it uses cutting-edge features and those may find their way into competing browsers in a few months. So there is progress :-)
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If I truly believed in a startup, then how about try joining it and making a real killing when it flips. ;)
I just use oh-my-zsh (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh) to quickly enable half these things.

➜ civ5replays git:(master) ✗

Looks like that now, the X means uncommited changes. civ5replays being the folder, the rest being... the rest!
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The portable oxygen device can be considered as an equipment that helps you to remain fit by inhaling. You can compare this device similar to the oxygen cylinder and this can be considered as the portable version of the oxygen cylinder.
I think tumblr has a huge security hole
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/DavidParizh.shtml
I've also read about the phantom cosmonauts before. These stories send a chill down my spine.

There are rumors that Vladimir Ilyushin, son of the airplane designer Ilyushin, was actually the first person to survive a space flight, but something went wrong in the landing (some say he landed in China which caused a political controversy). Some even go as far as saying that Yuri Gagarin knew of this and was killed because he knew too much. Go and figure.

The truth will probably never be uncovered. If the soviets had archives of what really happened, they might be lost and/or destroyed.

Wikipedia is pretty good starting point if you want to read about this. Put David Bowie's "Space Oddity" on the background with repeat.
We were using passenger with apache if i remember correctly. It's a few years ago and i was more on the developer side rather than sysadmin side of things back then.

Its probably worth taking another look? For my ruby applications at the moment i use nginx+unicorn, which works really great.
They were throwing this when opening a tumblr blog. A twitter search reveals some people have seen this message too.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/

Yes. Awarded a year later, which may be the detail I was remembering.
Are you using a private fork of zshkit, or staying pretty close to mattfoster's master branch?

I used to pull in mattfoster's stuff, but I got complacent and fell out of it.
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Building a new reddit is easy - building a community, and scaling to support 1.1 billion views a month is not.
This will not help you if half of your disks go down, as happened to Reddit.
Master-McNeil named PayPal as well as the TrackPad
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OK, I'm reasonably sure now that Wikipedia speaks about Gy/s.

That means that 5 Gy/s are 18000 Gy/h.

450 Gy/h equals 0.125 Gy/s.
Have you sent them an email about this?
They've got their Twitter / Facebook / oAuth secret keys in there. Doesn't that mean everyone who sees this can act as Tumblr post to those services on behalf of users?

I hope they've changed them.
Now that is a keyword and ad-stuffed page.

The tips are very bad, too:

* tip 5-6,10 are dangerously wrong (see http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=find&apropo... - newlines will ruin your day, use -print0 | xargs -0)

* tip 10 gets this wrong when using awk, too

* tip 4-6 won't work if you don't escape the asterisks

* tip 1 is about the shell (but at least it's correct)

* you can drop the -print from tip 3-6,10

* the first form of tip 7 should be written as "find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -cmin 15"

* tip 8-9 resp. 7 (second part) only make sense if your find does not support -print0 or -ls resp. -maxdepth. All reasonably find implementations do support these.
There have been plenty of bugs in Safari which couldn't be reproduced in Chrome, and vice versa.

Also, many mobile platforms have web browsers based on WebKit. Numerous differences can be observed between how these browsers render web pages. See PPK's "The Great WebKit Comparison Table" [0].

[0] http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit.html
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I sure hope they realize they just broadcasted the pass for the "tumblr3" database user, as well as their Twitter, Facebook, Recaptcha and other secret keys.
Mistyped tag leads to exposure of Tumblr DB passwords and API keys
Tumblr pushed a changeset to production (in /var/www/apps/tumblr/config/config.php) that lead to every page starting with i?php instead of <?php. Underneath was the includes of all scripts, ranging from the database passwords, to how database servers are taken out of production (commenting out of strings in arrays) to how new postids are assigned (there's a central webservice), to how sharding is done (if $userid > 30000 then else if $userid > 60000 then etc.) to all the API credentials used by tumblr scripts:

Amazon S3

Google Maps

Heywatch (Video Encoding)

Authorize.net (Credit Card processing)

Vimeo

Clickatell (Mass SMS sending)

Facebook

Recaptcha

Twitter

Some interesting URLs defined later: /coco /kirbabble /collegehumor /newsweek /frederator /sharks_vs_cats /choose_world_cup_flag /nyfw/streams (new york fashion week) /add_haiti_ribbon /pay/:amount/:key/:nipple_direction/:nipple_offset/address /valentine/send/:id /help_beta
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Its not HUGE.
Well, at least they're using strong passwords. Fat lot of good it's doing them, though.
There was a similar "gaping" hole 2 years back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164422
Better email them.
Wow, I did not know that. Worse than Greece at 144%!
I didn't know Slicehost was bootstrapped or even that it sold to Rackspace! Definitely going to watch this one.
Ask HN: What features do you need for an ads website
Hello,
I am planning to develop a free ads website, and I was wondering what features do you need or what features are existing classifieds websites missing?

I know there's a lot of competition on this niche but I am planning to launch few websites in different Europe countries (UK, Spain, Italy, etc).

I have the website format already and I want it to be easy to use and with useful content. Ads will be added with no registration required, and all ads will be manually approved, so no medicine, work at home, crappy ads will be listed.

Thanks.
I know it's easy to criticize, but far out Tumbler, you guys really have to get your act together - the downtime and general laggy-ness is at least understandable, but there is no excuse for absolute newbie foul-ups like this.

Although, on the plus side, having a site that mashes up tumbler as a content provider certainly has given us plenty of opportunity to fine tune and improve our caching strategy.
Likewise - this reminded me a lot of bubble 1.0. Time will tell, I suppose, but it does all feel very "me too"...
Works fine on my iPad with iOS 4.3 (Just lock screen rotation).
New's flash: Journalist lie... err distort.
Works on a Motorola Xoom, but the marble appears to roll uphill, not down.
How about Connected: http://connectedhq.com/ - CRM that is mostly based on data you already have on Gmail/LinkedIn/etc.

They are still quite new, but I'm confident they're (mostly) taking the right way.
Note: for context, look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2341715 (al3x.net: "Not a waste"), which was a reply to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337745 ("Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life").
I totally disagree. Bad designers don't devalue the profession, they show the real value of good designers. Anyone who has hired a bad designer will immediately see the difference a good designer makes.
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Of course, it's "Mr Turner" -- what self-respecting teacher goes by their first name or a silly nickname? ;)

Seriously, I love these kinds of pitches, though I personally am so over-extended I can't do much beyond offer hit & run advice.

I don't know what other technical contacts you're making, but my biggest suggestion is not to wait. There's a huge amount of work you can do without being "the technical one" yourself, and the great thing about this work is that it gradually leads you into a better understanding of the technical side yourself -- which you'll need to do at some point, if you want to be centrally involved in a tech business. You don't have to write code, necessarily, but you have to learn a lot about the tech side.

All that really means is "details" -- take the best of your ideas, and start breaking it down all the way into separate pages, separate bits of data ("so we're letting teachers enter assignments here... that needs a name, description, due date -- er, wait, some teachers will have sets of assignments to do in sequence with no specific due date -- and what about extra credit assignments?" etc.); how to enter data, organize it, show it to the users who need to see it (and how to organize them). And so on. What do you do when the user "does it wrong"? Will you handle different time zones, languages, etc.? This is where the important work is; you have to add in solutions to problems, then remove most of your ideas and strip it down to what's most essential & useful & easy to build.

This process is much more difficult than the original brainstorming, but also more rewarding -- your project becomes so much closer to "real".
Most likely the reason is simple: Journalists[1] are not digital natives. They don't understand or "get" the web. The tools they use don't understand very much beyond print and make linking cumbersome.

[1] and obviously here I'm using a very broad brush -- Ben Goldacre is a good example of a young doctor / writer who really gets the web and there are quite a few others.
It actually can't be rotation, otherwise the magnetic moment of charged particles comes out wrong by a factor two.

From the mathematicians point of view spin arises naturally when you study how to represent the symmetries of special relativity. Quantum mechanics taught us that a physical state is represented by something called the "wave function". Different observers (e.g. one moving relatively to the other with constant speed) see different "wave functions" representing the same state.

Studying all mathematically consistent possibilities of how to calculate what one observer sees if you know what the other sees leads to the possibility of particles with spin.
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Clearly jacquesm still reads HN. Why not just comment here instead of putting the comments on a separate site? :)
The article gives the answer: because quite often it would just be embarrasing for the "journalist". So many stories get blown up/made bigger then they actually are, to get more clicks/readers for the story.
Thanks, I really didn't know where to email them (nor I'm sober enough right now to do that, IMHO)
The post explicitly notes that the query, as presented, is not necessarily secure and is merely meant to give the reader the gist of what's going on.

However, in Correlated's case, it's not really an issue, because SQL injection is only a problem when $poll_id is a user input. But this particular query is only run by a user-inaccessible script.
Very cool. Do you have an api? I'd love to push my tasks in mindwallet into this. See my show HN post from yesterday here:

[url]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2340758[/url]

I'd love to get two way syncing going and dropbox saves is a perfect bonus.

I guess if I integrate with the drop box API I could just start dumping files to the user's drop box and they'd start showing up in your app?
Mirrored to http://codepad.org/UP3FxRNv

Just in case.

edit: oh man. Check out what Google has on this[1]

edit: in readable form on github gist[2]

[1] - http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#sclient=psy&hl=en&...

[2] - https://gist.github.com/29c5c5970d1f3313abd1
Wow. Very nice!
That's the point of the group, though, really -- they have close relationships with a good set of schools, and can be involved enough to see actual pain points that are amenable to technological solutions, talk through ideas with teachers, find the teachers who give reliable/insightful feedback, find administrators who can give insights into what expenses would be easy to get sign-off for & what wouldn't, etc..

Soliciting ideas from the target market directly isn't as useful -- you get a lot of ideas of what people think would be neat, but often the ideas are seriously flawed (ideas for flashier solutions that in practice are less efficient/practical/flexible than the old method... ideas for things that would be better but would not fit easily into any budget... etc.).

I've gotten lots of ideas from teachers directly for my (education-targeting) site, but most of them aren't actually very valuable - things that are either obvious (and already on my to-do list) or far too specific to their particular needs, or ideas that seem good at 3000 feet up, but explode when you look into actual implementation details.
ahem, you are mistaken that Kevin has no tech skills..his degree area of concentration was CS in fact..
We saw this from facebook few years ago. Now with tumblr. Is there something at core of php that makes this inevitable? I ask this as a concerned php dev(and not out of snark).
If it is going to take 4 years to generate minimal income, then it's a hobby for now :) Look for ways to increase income. 1. charge more. Try it. Charge 4 euro/m, see what happens. 2. expand your market. more niches or more countries. Good luck!
I guess instead of commenting on a whole heap of stuff all the time he now focuses on one issue and goes a lot more in depth. Probably makes it easier to segregate the day without wasting to much time reading and engaging on to much on HN.
I think PHP has so many gotchas, so many ways to trip up even seasoned developers, that it's inevitable to miss something.