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The downvotes I'm getting seem to indicate others agree I'm off the mark here. Perhaps I was too inflammatory, perhaps people just don't understand my analogy. Let me try again without the hyperbole. :-)

My point is, DropBox advertise proudly on their website that they use military grade encryption to protect their users' data. However, it has now been independently shown now that the keys to this data are in DropBox's direct possession and are in routine, daily use, decrypting one person's data so another can access it (this is what happens when deduping allows you to download something you never actually uploaded yourself).

To me, this implies that their claims of "military grade security" may be unjustified and just yet another example of security theater in the cloud.

Without knowing the exact architecture of their system it's hard to say for sure, of course. But think about what the encryption they claim to use is probably supposed to accomplish. Then think about whether it actually does that if a large proportion of DropBox's servers and employees have access to the decryption keys.

[edit: Amazon store data on S3, so it is in fact important that they encrypt it (even with relatively relaxed key management) as they have no direct control over the infrastructure. I still don't think this meets the bar of "military grade security", but I guess that's marketing for you.]
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And younger than C, C++, Perl, Fortran, Cobol, ...
It sounds like your professors suffer from the same problem that many math professors do. Namely lecturing to an imagined audience that is conversant with intellectual debates that the actual audience is entirely ignorant of.

In the case of math professors this results in lectures where the professor gives detailed proofs despite knowing that nobody in the class followed it, you can't dare test it, and the whole class wondered what the point was. Yet the proofs are rigorous and address points that it took mathematicians decades to figure out.

In the case of your CS profs, in the 1980s I imagine that they were coming out of an era where many computer languages did not support recursion at all because doing so was too inefficient. And therefore they focused very much on exactly how you could implement them, and what the efficiency was.
You are supposed to be able to edit the animation once you go through the movie, but I wasn't able to confirm it on my Chromium 7.
From the article:

"Gold lies on the streets and you just need to dig it up with ideas. Ideas are like the shovel," he says.
The author gives four reasons for why people check in. He didn't mention the reason I would like to use a checking-in service (I'm not sure if there is a popular one like this yet). I'd like to check in at a bar or a club (I often go alone) and have the service match me with another checked-in person (or people) to hang out with. Instead of using the service to hang out with people I already know, I'd like a service to help me meet new people.

Seems like a check-in service could be a nice way to lower the barrier of introducing oneself to a stranger. It's so easy to talk to strangers online, it would be nice to bring that to the meat world.
My main problems with HN of late are twofold:

1) It seems to be becoming a blog aggregator for the X, Y and Z 'celebrities' of HN. If I wanted to read all of their blog posts, I'd subscribe to their RSS feeds. Do we really need EVERY one of their (sometimes good, sometimes mediocre) posts showing up in the top 5?

2) There seems to be fewer practical posts aimed directly at helping start-ups (which is what I loved about HN when I joined). If I look at the top 10 right now, not one of the posts gives me any practical advice on building a web business.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but unlike many here, I do feel it's about the quality of the posts, not the comments (though the two are not separate). Certainly, as the community grows, it is difficult to maintain the focused niche that HN once had.

EDIT: Just to expand on that last point. I used to feel like I was 'hanging out' with other people who were serious about building a meaningful web start-up/business. As of late, my personal perception is of an increasing number of frivolous side projects ("I built a 3D teapot in 30 seconds!") and 'cool/interesting' psycho-babble. To sum up, it's becoming less of a professional resource for me.
I don't use OS X, but I thought I'd share a few bits of information. Also this page demonstrates why native local software is so great - no redundancy (exposing a dictionary to all apps), low memory footprint etc.

- In 10.6 Snow Leopard, hold Space to zoom in on a window in Exposé.

- Not a hint exactly, but there exists at least one unnecessary dissatisfaction people have of Finder. In real life, you cut text and paste it in a scrapbook, but you don't cut an object like a folder with scissors in order to move it. You usually use a hand or two. Therefore the inability to "move" an object using "cut" (Cmd+X) is the correct behavior. Secondly it prevents you from accidentally pasting a file elsewhere, then needing to remember if you meant to do that, or undo. Adding visibility in some way is not enough, and you can still move by dragging the object to the desktop or wherever else.

Note: Edited for spacing.
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If you're looking for something more challenging and a change a scenery, perhaps what you should do is bank a significant portion of your income for the next year or so and start the process of creating your own startup or finding partners to build a new startup. That's certainly a challenge.

Note: I'm currently looking for a technical co-founder, it's not easy to find someone with great skills willing to work for equity
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They actually did get some inside scoop and prior to this link on HN I hadn't heard about it - so just because you contributed to it and it's not news to you, doesn't mean it's not news to us.
Try writing a program that does complex things with trees (directory structures, for example) without using recursion.
Make a sockpuppet account.
They recommended a platform rather than an alternative browser. Flock was initially built on Firefox and it later switched to Chrome.
What do you think of a grammar checker that uses human computation in the style of the ESP Game?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398
My dissatisfaction stems from the shift from articles about science and tech to articles about entrepreneurship.

Edit: and rampant, childish downmodding.
I think that all the meta discussions on here about the quality of HN have become a big part of what HN is. HN is a place for hackers to discuss anything that interests them; so of course that's going to include the discussion about their own community and how to make it better.

I think you're right that we have to accept the change in communities' interests over time, but don't forget that one of these interests hackers have is to improve their own community.
If the bottom two people were people that the company didn't want to lose, sounds like management wasn't doing their job.

If they were people you wanted to lose, good job!
In my experience, that is almost never the case, except when you're faking margin by using padding.

In that case, use margin.
I think github is where the action is - HN these days seems more about navel gazing, posturing, karma chasing and down-vote wank-fests... and the result is uniformity.

In contrast, the people who want to get-shit-done are changing the world on github.

I do a technicolor yawn every time I see a post that talks about M$, Oracle or Java.. as if those topics have any kind of future.

Likewise I cant comment on Node.js or Ill get down-voted cause some asshole knows only the bad parts of javascript. [ I can say this with perspective, as I was that asshole 4 years ago :]

PG, stop being so nice and enforce your single minded vision on HN before it dies.
Actually, this is an example of a "mean" comment.

I think it was fine to say the guy's comment was "dripping with snark" (a specific criticism), but not that it was "shitty," and not that he was "telling the rest of us what to do."

I would call those bits "mean" because the amount of insult they add is disproportionate to the amount of content they have. In other words, it would have been worthwile (IMHO) to find a better way to say the same thing.

Now, the whole point is that who am I to say what's mean? And I agree, hence the proposal I made to allow people to "vote" on what's mean, and have a threshhold. I mean hell, different communities find different things to be unacceptable "mean," and that's fine.

"Mean" for a girl scout meeting and "mean" for the LKML are pretty different; I think HN should probably be somewhere in between.

And the point is, if HN becomes like the LKML, we're gonna enjoy it a lot less; that's why we want to limit meanness, not because we're big softies.
You have a point. On our IRC server, we have discussions every few months about the state of the server. We've linked and de-linked with many people over the years. We always discuss whether or not it was for the better or not. Following our gut reaction on these matters has always seemed to work out for the best.
Ask HN:  Has your startup succeeded without doing SWOT analysis?
A MBA friend of mine said the we must do SWOT analysis before doing a startup.
I was recently came across a list of the salaries of everyone employed by my university, including students. It was an interesting read. I seems I make just about the average for graduate research assistants in science/engineering, though I'm still trying to extract the data to make nice plots.

More interesting was to see the relative salaries of professors and administrators. Some professors are clearly able to demand much higher than average salaries, but nothing like head sports coaches...
In the comments attached to that post the creator of ShopSavvy pointed out that it is a local shopping app, that by design needs to know your location - that's kind of the point of the app.

The reply was that he'd prefer to have options about the degree of accuracy given to the app.

While I can see that argument, at the current point in time I think ShopSavvy is doing the correct thing by it's users (ie, simplifying things, and removing unnecessary options)
"Facebook says that all my friends and contacts are of equal importance to me. They know this isn’t true, but there is no way for me to distinguish between friends I am truly close with or contacts that I met at a conference and felt obliged to accept on Facebook."

Facebook tackles this problem with EdgeRank algorithm that controls the updates that appear in Newsfeeds. EdgeRank takes into consideration the people you interact with the most on Facebook. And I guess, a person interacts a lot with close friends only.
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We need to remember "you are not your salary". Comments like "an insulting $60,000" or "only $100,000" makes me shake my head. Your salary is not something you have to brag about.Your worth is not determined by your salary. A developer can create millions of dollars in value. Think how much value DHH created with Rails or Linus with Git and Linux. Or Damien with CouchDB. Remember Steve Jobs salary is $1 a year.

Our goal as hackers is to create value, millions of dollars worth of value. This salary talk makes us look like programmers not hackers.
So, I'm most certain that I'm being given the shaft by my employer.

A coworker recently quit, because he felt underpaid (his previous job paid him over 10% more). Negotiations with HR got him nowhere, so he left.

The coworker and I had identical jobs, and we did them in the same capacity, with very similar skill levels. When he left, he disclosed everything to me. Despite being underpaid, he was still being paid significantly higher than I am (almost 25% more).

Of course, I'm no longer happy with my pay, but don't really know what to do about it. I don't have the flexibility to just leave town, and I'm in a town that just isn't hiring developers right now ("metro"=200k). I've applied to places far away, but just without much luck. I thought if I got an offer, I'd have some arguing room. But I don't; I don't have anything. Besides, if my employer doesn't budge, I'm not prepared to take the leap. I can't leave town because my wife is in school here, now.

I started at a lower pay rate, because they hired me without a college degree. I've been working for them for three years now, and have been moving up in pay, but I started so low that it hasn't amounted to much.

I think a huge part of my problem is that I don't have a college degree. I think that I've obviously shown that I'm capable of doing the job, regardless, though. How much should the degree really matter? I've seriously been considering applying to a lower tier school (I mean low tier state school, not U of Phoenix, etc.) for a degree completion program, just so I can pad my resume up some. I don't know if that hurts more than it helps, though. I did already finish up the handful of courses I needed for the A.S. from the local community college.
They collect a lot of personal information and considering Marc Andreessen is on the board of Facebook I won't trust a browser that has questionable practises like Facebook.
Regardless there are addons which do what RockMelt does. The UI also is off, even if someone doesn't realise it. It is behind in updates so not good for security reasons.
I think there's something to the premise of the article, although it's depressing.

It suggests that communities don't grow together. They just gather a new set of people in one place. Then the knowledge that's easy to disseminate, and of interest to all, is distributed pretty quickly. And thereafter there's not much to talk about. New information that's good for the forum is disseminated, but only at the rate it is acquired, which is pretty slow.

Are there other directions, other ways to grow?

- More specialized forums, different types of contributors and different topics? (The Reddit way.)

- Or, maybe the problem is that more structured data is needed to stimulate deeper information exchange. Should there be common resources, like TheFunded's database of investors, or point by point evaluations of programming frameworks? (The Wikipedia way.)
ah missed the "active" part ;) I quoted that from memory on my phone--not an apples to apples comparison but makes me wonder. I'm interested in what portion of 4sq's users are 'active', so I'll see if I can do some digging and find out.
When communities get bored, they turn on themselves (and turn meta). Some of the best flurries of interest on HN have arisen from innovation inside or surrounding the platform. It would seem that the better hack is to create more positives (and shift the community's attention to generative extensions of the platform) rather than to simply focus on mitigation and removal of negatives (such as deterring mediocre comments).

Almost all of the focus has been on filtering (true to Shirky's "publish, then filter" mantra), but perhaps equal or greater time should be spent extending the platform and enabling the community to create stronger signal. Karma is always the default attempt, but karmic schemes invariably reach a point where the negatives equal the positives. As the community shifts in personality, the currency of karma changes (500 points earned a few years ago is not the same as 500 points earned in the last few months). It's a different currency now, perhaps even a devalued currency.

An incentive for quality might be something closer to the highlighting of outstanding comments--the Best of Reddit approach--handed out not in a democratic way, but by a selected group of users who represent the kind of community we want. Karma goes private and perhaps is used only as a way of identifying future candidates for handing out highlighted contributions. This recognition is a kind of currency that could be better controlled and perhaps would be more valued.
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Thanks, I'll be talking to the recruiter about an offer. Part of the problem is that when I was asked about it, I was basing the salary off of what someone in South Louisiana would make as a junior developer. At the time, I did not have any knowledge of what the salary of someone similar in the Bay Area would be.

I was told that the recruiting company (TekSystems) would be paying me. However, I will ask the recruiter for further clarification.

The job is a contract job and located at the Cupertino campus. So far, I have not had an interview with Apple and have only completed an assessment for the recruiting company. The recruiter has been the middle-man between anyone at Apple and I so far.

When I asked if relocation assistance would be provided, I was given an answer of no. Any suggestions as to negotiating a way to get assistance?
You can still get XCode 3 for free, and I believe you can also download the command line version of gcc for free from Apple. Also, there has been no indication that Apple is going to stop shipping the developer CD with every new Mac.
I hear good things about Techstars Boulder and not much enthusiasm for their other franchises
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Facebook's lawyers have dismissed the emails as "fake". If they're not fake Zuckerberg is about to become a lot poorer.
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I understood the phrase to mean that Sony hopes that this action will intimidate researchers out of investigating Sony's products in the future. And therefore, the author hopes that researchers go ahead and do it any ways.

If they get slapped with onerous litigation, settling is a minor setback for the researcher compared to the Sony's major loss in having an exploit released into the wild.

So, JM2C, but I don't see it as a dig, but rather a call to arms, asking the community to pick up the weapons of the fallen.
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"... In my opinion, a low UID filter on slashdot would be far more effective than the mod/meta-mod/complain about mods and meta-mods response this system created. ..."

/. 2774/4UID user here, seniority doesn't necessarily correlate with quality as high performance users are a subset of early adopters just as they are with later adopters.
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The site: http://vepler.com/access.php?c=yc

I had submitted my startup into the YCombinator summer program, but did not make the cut. However, I do not want that to be the end of the story.

The site is similar to other sites such as Chatterous or Facebook's new messaging platform, but provides a structure and functionality that is optimal for many niches (such as people looking to collect feedback or online gamers). This is sort of what you would get if you combined Meebo, Facebook's new messaging system, Chatterous, and Google Voice's texting.

(Before reading the rest of this post, it would be best to visit the site)

The challenge with this startup is getting things worked out with the phone companies or sms aggregators to be able to send the text messages. Companies such as Yahoo and AOL have been providing free texting for a while, so I know that it is economically feasible. Getting that connection is the primary thing holding me back from fully launching the site. I do not have access to a large scale texting system (short codes) so I am restricted to keeping the site in a closed beta (Hence the long url. The link will only work for the first few hundred people). Since I am using a text messaging system not built for high volume messaging, the site's messaging is not as scalable/stable as it needs to be for a full-scale launch (The site itself is scalable, just not the SMS API since it is not using short codes).

I am primarily looking for feedback on what my next move should be (who I should talk to, how I should present it, etc). I am an individual founder (I built Vepler on my own), but I am open to taking on a partner if they can advance the process of getting access to short code messaging; Short codes are expensive enough that I cannot afford them on my own. I am finishing up my undergrad in applied mathematics and statistics soon and have some good jobs lined up. However, Vepler is my first choice for what I want to do.
I've never gotten reliable results from compete, whenever I look at the results for a website for which I know the real statistics they are always completely wrong...

For example, one of the website I manage has 10 times more unique visitors than compete reports. Another website has been growing in the past few months but is shown as declining in the past few months on compete.. So I don't know what they are measuring but as far as I'm concerned it's about as efficient as using a random number generator to determine the number of page views of a website..
And 'Centrata' (in its original incarnation). And a bunch of others in the same era: Popular Power, Applied Metacomputing, Parabon Computation, Distributed Science/ProcessTree, and DataSynapse ("get paid in Flooz!").

And kids today think they know what a bubble is!
I agree there.

For those of us for whom Java never was "alive" (not choosing to program in it), is it safe to ignore this new language? I would be interested in it more if they wouldn't pitch it as Java Killer.
You're building stuff as a programmer and your company is doing good at selling it for $200K+expenses+profit+taxes.
I know it's really out of the question because of the amount of additional load it would create, but in some ways I'd like to have a more personalised home page. If I could just configure it with a:

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that would probably give me a 70% better home page.
He may very well turn out to be a rich felon. What I hate about felony convictions is that they get you lumped into the "felon" category with people who have committed much worse crimes. In this case it seems the dude was busted for possession of shrooms. Why categorize him the same way as we would with other felons such as murderers or rapists. On the other hand, it's everyone who has an interest in tearing him down who are calling him a felon (media and Facebook.) Let's see if people will be calling him a felon when he's 100+ million richer. He's a great investor! Maybe he can invest in my startup.
Linus Torvalds said in 2001 he didn't use a bug tracker for the Linux kernel so I'm not sure if I should be worried.

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From your comment, it looks like you think your primary goal is to find enough funds to get a short code. Couldn't you charge users a small subscription fee, either on a monthly or per-message basis, in order to get enough money to pay for a short code?
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