skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startup idea: Password sharing site?
Working with clients, subcontracting, considering backup support options--in most cases there are at least two parties who really need the possibility of full access to a site/app/server. E.g.: the client should always be able to get to their stuff if needed, even if they don't know what they're doing; the consultant/developer needs access; if the consultant/developer is unavailable, some backup person should be able to get full access in case of emergency. Often this state of affairs persists for months and the need for access may be intermittent.

It's very hard to manage all this well. If you've experienced it, you know just what I mean.

So what about a service where you can store all your login credentials on a per-project basis and grant users access to a project generally or on a time-restricted basis?

Key features:
* Users IDed with client certs.
* All crypt done on the client--server never sees your passwords ever.
* All access logged, and access by your "backup support" (e.g.) could trigger an alert to other project users.
* Optional daemon account to whom you can grant access. Runs every day and attempts logging-in (ssh, ftp, http basic at first, later app-specific support) to everything in the account. Alerts everyone if a credential no longer works.

Worth paying for? Stupid idea? Been done already? I value your feedback.
The Confidence Game, What makes us trust someone?
I'd like to suggest Common Lisp as a language that did a much better job of piling a ton of features into one language.

http://abhishek.geek.nz/docs/features-of-common-lisp

One simple example: Common Lisp is multi-paradigm, but has a soft spot for functional programming. So Common Lisp's Object System (CLOS), is implemented around generic functions and multiple dispatch. And generic functions are just as first class as any other function (I think, can anyone confirm this?).

Another example: supporting type declarations as hints to the compiler, but not mandating their use. This greatly reduces the "cognitive load" of this feature until you really need it.
Huh? It costs $2.40 a day to run Django on that? Is that not a bit...expensive?
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If you're talking about coding, then yes I agree.
For the early stage companies that YC usually invests in, I do believe participating in YC can improve their chances of success by at least 6% or 10% or whatever. If your company is already off the ground, with non-founder employees, etc, then maybe not.

Just the confidence inspired by being accepted to YC, and the smallish amount of money that allows you to quit your job is a huge benefit, to say nothing of the knowledge gained and networking opportunities.

Of course, as she points out, this can never be proved, but that doesn't make it not true.
What I was trying to say was that maybe if you are not a great programmer well rounded in the programming pantheon, it will be more of a revelation to you. As a perl/php/java guy it took a while for closures to sink in for me, that it's more niftiness involved than just a callback function. If one already knows how to use an anonymous class it's no biggie I admit, but if you don't it is :).
Hi, I'm your typical lazy web surfer with the attention span of a squirrel on speed. I want to see screenshots or some other visual example of the product before I signup for a trial, which I could not find on the first few pages I clicked so I left.

Always post at least one screenshot.
Wait until the book turns into an action movie in the last few hundred pages.
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You remember those big 'ol 12" laserdiscs that Phillips used to make? Hospitals still use 'em for archiving scans.
In general, I think navigation trumps everything. Assuming the user knows they're navigating, they're expressing intent to leave whatever they're currently in. Any roadblocks will be an annoyance.
Good information, we'll try that.
password escrow:

http://nsit.uchicago.edu/services/safecomputing/passwords/es...
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"My machine is a MacBook Pro 2ghz with 2 gigs of RAM (I can’t have more because it’s one of the early models). The application uses constantly around 4% of CPU and 20 megs"
If I have a choice around 2-3. If we are crunching at work, anywhere from 2AM - 8AM.

I honestly find that I focus the best in the mornings because everyone else is asleep and I don't have as many distractions.
I generally stay up until about midnight; despite being a bit of a night owl I still find that I get tired quickly unless I grab some caffeine.

One hacker I know, however, doesn't fit this list at all; he has a ~24-36 hour day (the second derivative of the length of his day is limited to about an hour, however). This means he might be sleeping in the middle of the day for everyone else.
I'm a 10PM sleeper - the morning is a really under-appreciated hacking time. I've found, generally, that 12AM and later hacking sessions both aren't sustainable and aren't as productive as they seem at first glance. Plus, I'm usually so excited in the morning to get working that I have no trouble getting up (around 5am - 7 hours sleep) to start hacking.

Personally, when I was doing the 4AM hacking sessions, I was working on a million problems at once and trying to build rome in a day. Since switching to regular hours, I've learned to appreciate progress, small steps, and sustainable delivery, and have launched 3 side projects somewhat successfully (and higher quality).
I have worked until 11:35 PM for the last 20+ years--but it suits me and I enjoy my time awake while my family sleeps. I have always been nocturnal and most productive after dark. Most night's I'm in bed between 4-5 AM. I usually tell people I live on Hawaiian time. I'm in Connecticut.
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There were various Macs through the years, including a SE/30, PowerMac 6100 and a Duo with Dock. The last one I remember was a 20th Anniversary, but that's so easily recognizable there may have been one after that I'm missing.

IIRC, in one of the DVD commentaries they talked about the Macs and noted that none of them were paid for by Apple, that's just what they used (or something to that effect). Sort of like his Superman promotions.
> perhaps with the only light being the glow of the monitor

No way, bad idea, eye strain.
Just submitted a comment in the Venture Hacks feedback suggesting an article or series of articles breaking these down into layman's terms.

It's nice to have the documents; it'd be even nicer to have a decent handle on the implications of their use.
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No. 800,000 visitors * 2.5 page views = 2,000,000 page views. Not 2 millions dollars. At $1 CPM that would convert to a measely 2000 dollars.
4am is a good quiet and calm time - no distracting noise, no noises, moving cars, speaking people...
I'd need a "none of the above" option. I'm not so much a night-owl as an "I don't sleep on a fixed schedule" guy. Often that means I'm awake all night, but not predictably.
I consider myself to have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome), though whether it should qualify as a "syndrome" is debatable. I don't need more sleep than the average person, I just need it later in the 24-hour cycle. I wouldn't be surprised if many/most hackers are the same way.
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Well, we essentially have the same capital markets that we had in the 30s, frozen in time by securities laws. I just wonder how it might be easier and cheaper to raise capital today if there were the possibility for innovation.
I can't go along with your simile on this one. You sound just as emotionally invested in this issue, but from a very negative, dark perspective. I hope you find happiness elsewhere.
Sadly, those wanting my privacy don't. See you have a life and they don't.
The first XHTML change is 12 seconds in - and the title screen lasts 5 seconds.
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I too am a 10PM bed timer, only recently though, it forces me to use the time before bed more productively.

Before I would waste time browsing news.yc, digg, watching videos and reading blogs/news.

Now I try to catch up on blogs whenever I have the chance and place more attention of developing stuff.
It varies a lot for me. When I'm in an exercising phase, it's arond 1 am. Right now, it's 5-6 am.
My sleep schedule drifts forward gradually. Right now, I go to bed around 6pm and wake up around 2am. Tomorrow, it'll probably be an hour later. A couple weeks from now, I'll be going to bed at 6am.

I do find that I'm much more productive when I'm awake during the night. It's probably because there aren't any interruptions and I couldn't run an errand if I wanted to.
How does this girl have a job?
Don't know how you all pull those 4am nights. I used to be able to, then I got a real job that I go into the office for.

But even though we start at 10am, I am in bed by latest at 11pm, wake up at 6:25am every day (yah even weekends), and do all my catching up (blogs, email, etc) twice a day, once in the morning with all my extra time, and once at night sometime after dinner. (Ok and a little bit during lunch hours at work)
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What's the deal with a Porche? I can buy 4 cars for the price of a Porche.

Sort of a silly argument isn't it.
This is horrible. It's just an overexplanation of the exuberance unleashed by computers and the internet.

The author observes the habits of modern-day college students and assigns a deep meaning to them. Whenever he notices some superficial similarity between two activities (hey, having lots of low-commitment sexual partners is just like moving quickly from one webpage to another!) he points it out. Whenever he can quote some literary figure saying something roughly similar to what he's been writing about, he does. It reads like deliberate Stuff White People Like bait.
This immediately made sense to me - when you steal something, you make it your own.
When I tell people that I wake up usually around 3-4 in the morning, they think that it's from my alarm clock. It often is but at least 1/5 of the time it's because, like you said, I'm just pumped about doing something I'm excited about. "Gotta get that proposal together" or "I need to finish the code on the shopping cart module"...
Managing a community is harder than people imagine. I think a lot of people dream about making sites like this, but they quickly find the complexity isn't technical, but social, and they find it daunting and bail.
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I also think I am in that category. I think it also relates to physical activity (or lack thereof).

So I go overboard on exercise and it helps partially correct that.
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Same here. I do that all the time. Though sometime its kind of very tiring the next day.
That's an interesting way of putting it
considering the parent's post about breads such as dark rye (pumpernickel): These breads are dark enough to start that there is

1) less gradation between untoasted and burnt than say, white or wheat bread, so the same "delta dark" would results in burnt toast.

2) the toast can (if the original bread is dry and/or dense enough) become unpalatably hard during the toasting process even before turning dark enough to be considered burnt.
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Does the 10/120 rule apply to this as well?
I agree that navigation is generally paramount, but some considerations:

I don't think that silently discarding the data is the best option. Depeding on the flow of the site, it is possible that notifying them that data will be lost is an option, but also a hinderance to their navigation. Based on that, something to explore would be saving the data to be repopulated when/if they return to the form. Obviously that can be a lot more complex than it sounds, so it would take some planning to make it fluid.
That's nothing about Django, it's just having an instance running. At 10¢ an hour it adds to $2.40 a day.
I have the ratio / ass / 0 rule, where if a rule involves a ratio plucked out of someone's ass then I have zero interest in it.
Yeah, that is my coding practice. I'm not too good at sustaining other work until 4am.
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Is 3.30 AM now!
Is the data in the text box to be validated only when leaving the box, or during typing (I'm not assuming browser or native application here)?

As qhoxie mentioned, not simply discarding but warning the user or saving a cache if the text box contains more than a simple few characters.

When/if the user returns to the page/panel/dialog, scope is immediately brought back to the "unfinished" box and validation can continue.
The reason

decltype(x) func(int x);

Is not used is that it uses x before its defined. Hence the new function declaration syntax, where the return type is delayed until after the parameter list.

I actually agree that typeof is more natural, and I would prefer that keyword. But one of the committee's goals is to not have new language feature names clash with old conventions. Hence, the hashtable-based associative containers will be called unordered_, and not hash_.
I try to end at 2:30...but almost always I end at 3:30
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/copy-great-designers-steal

Another article I remember reading a while ago to elaborate on this.

Many people think smart designers spend endless hours just going through iteration after iteration of seeing what's good or bad. While iteration exists a lot in design, doing something entirely from scratch is like trying to write a program entirely in a native language, without any frameworks or libraries, and without any open source references to look at.

Design isn't as high of a competitive advantage (or really intellectual property) as it's made out to be. It's like trying to say an idea is more important than the execution, it's not. If you feel bad after "stealing" a design and improving it, just remember the famous quote by Bill Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley:

Gates: Every car has a steering wheel, but nobody can call it their own.

Of course he was referring to the mouse, the UI, and much of the OS that Microsoft ripped straight from Apple (who in turn ripped it from various R&D groups at larger companies), whose own motto was "Good artists copy, great artists steal." Microsoft played Apple at their own game.
I bet you're on your lunch break now ;-)
The "XP" in Windows XP stands for "experience". Still, XP was not fun the day it launched and it's not fun now. Vista is not fun to use either.

And Microsoft's name... Well... They did have some fine products in the 80s.
Change the tagline to "Simple wiki hosting. IT Department Optional" or something. Either way, put what it is before the "punchline".
I work a day job and hack work at night, plus i have a young child, so on a normal day i work for an hour or so when I first get home from work, then dinner/fam time till 9, then skype team meetings and solo work till 12. Then bed. Then up at 5:45 am. This has been a bit rigorous but we are getting it done.
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For the very interested the course website is http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute.... It has the videos, lecture notes, problems sets and solutions. I missed the link on Peteris' review.
I have a 30-36 hour long day, and the only way I was able to rein it in and get to where I could sleep normally (I have a sucky non-programming related job that demands I be conscious from M-F 9-5) was to completely change my diet to a more hunter-gatherer style diet and start exercising after work.

On the plus side, i am now the strongest person at my workplace, which amuses me greatly. (Two guys will work together to pick up a 50" TV, I'll pick it up by myself just to freak them out, lol.)
How would you like to be in charge of Google's interface? Join WebMynd (YC Winter 08)
Google hasn't really changed in 10 years and we want to mix things up a little... make that a lot! The WebMynd founders believe that personalized search is the next revolution and we are going to do it right on Google's home turf.

WebMynd helps people find their personally-relevant information wherever it is online and wherever they are. It is a browser extension that saves and indexes all the pages you visit online so that it can present back results from your history, as well as your favourite tools such as Delicious, right on Google. We sometimes think of it as a DVR for the web.

WebMynd currently handles up to 100K search per day. Whenever our users do a Google search we have the opportunity to present them with relevant results from their WebMynd history and Delicious. We want to aggregate other search tools in the future and customize the Google interface to make it even better. We are also developing a widget for site-owner so they can customize their site using WebMynd technology.

You will match many of the following characteristics:

* Experience developing and promoting widgets or browser extensions on Internet Explorer or Firefox
* Deep experience with Javascript development including UI libraries
* A good degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Maths
* High standard of personal ethics and a genuine concern for privacy and security
* Always wanted to found a startup or have previously founded one
* Motivated to work for founders' equity rather than a large salary
* You learn new skills fast and apply them immediately to get things done
* Languages: Javascript including UI libraries, C++, COM

Please send details of your skills, experience and background to: founders@webmynd.com.
10 years already.....
(who in turn ripped it from various R&D groups at larger companies),

Much of Mac influence was from Xerox PARC and the Alto. Fascinating history and a lesson that Xerox had it all and could have done so much more. PARC had so much innovation, GUI, OOP, Ethernet, and so much more.
Oh, the link is in the 1st post of the review series! Didn't feel like including it in every post. Perhaps I should.
Not enough options! I stay up till 8am, sometimes 10am. Other days 1pm! I live around the clock :) Best schedule for a hacker.
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I'm asleep right now!
Poll: What's your current sticking point?
Finding an idea
Finding a cofounder
Crafting a pitch
Writing a business plan
Learning a needed technical skill
Learning a needed non-technical skill
Creating a prototype
Motivation / Life choices / Location
Forming an advisory board
Forming a board of directors
Getting seed funding
Finding users
Marketing/PR
Legal issues
Getting angel funding
Monetization
Hiring employees
Iterating / refactoring / adding features
Raising venture capital
Thanks! Are you thinking of releasing the Delaware Incorporation documents that you give each company too? I think it will be a great resource.
I have thought a lot about this, mainly because of my hoarding mentality that I am trying to purge. Think about the great successes in startups -- they seem to come from people sharing and building off of other each others ideas. Take one person away from the early teams of any major tech company and the odds of success drop to nil. Hate to admit it, but this line of thinking lends some credence to the 'single founder fail' conclusion of YC that I disagree with.
Seriously, morning is the new night. Most hackers I know stay up late, so they're in the office. When I need to concentrate without distractions, I just go in in the morning.
Ditto. Though not "not on a fixed schedule" as much as "random bouts of insomnia."
I assume no one is voting this up because people don't want politics on the front page, but I think the fact that Google is allegedly rigging the Olympics for China is significant.
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My gut reaction is that there should be a non-technical solution, rather than a 'password sharing site'.

The concept of 'password' and 'sharing' goes pretty much against what people 'should' be doing with passwords.

I'm not familiar with any systems which don't allow more than one 'super-user' account, so I'm wondering why you wouldn't just have more than one 'super-user'.
One account for you (as the main responsible party), and one 'super-user' account to be used in emergency situations only, which can be provided to the site/app/server owner.

Would that not solve the problem you are attempting to address?
Coding at night is often better for building large pieces of code because there's no interruption.

Where I work you can watch the SVN commit messages in the dev channel coming by until about 5:00 AM several times a week. I'm on the dev team and do this myself about every other week.

This doesn't mean we're a bad company whipping every last bit of productivity out of people. It just means that sometimes you're on a roll, you're in the zone and you have to keep going. We get that. It's fine. Just don't show up at the office the next day.

Talented developers often are slightly anarchic, neurotic and just a wee bit obsessive. Even the most straight-laced "I only work 9-to-5" developers sometimes make a 4:00 AM commit because "I couldn't sleep and just figured out how we could re-use the token substitution in the webservices interface variables by mapping them to the corresponding domain entity attributes and applying the usual validation rules to them!"

Yeah, we're a model of sanity where I work :)

Generally speaking, as a developer you can start work between 8:00 and 12:00, but if you're just starting here the start time is 8:00 to 10:00 because you need supervision, education and time in pair-programming.
It pains me to admit this, but Mahalo is doing well by any quantitative measurement.
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This is an interesting look on it... didn't know it was actually a classified disorder. While my sleep cycle is pretty mixed, for the most part I can't sleep during the normal phases of the 24 period. Further, I don't have an exercise problem... I just do it whenever I feel up to it. My sleep cycle started to change rapidly when I worked the graveyard shift for my first professional job... did that for about 3-4 years, which really messed me up sleep-wise.

The one thing I love about night-hacking is the serious lack of distractions. It assists me greatly in concentrating... at least in my neck of the woods there is less distractions.
Google Desktop Search (GDS) is a better alternative IMO. I don't use GDS in my Windows, however using GDS in my Ubuntu seems a lot easier compared to the default desktop search. The only downside: it doesn't integrate well with GNOME.
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