skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lot more individual than the aggregate study results generally indicate. I'm a cranker, not a spinner, and I used to do 250 miles/week -- that included a "century Sunday" -- with little fatigue (no more than I was looking for, certainly). Most of the folks with me would be turning at about 150% of my rate at any given point. I tried the 90 cadence, and it just didn't work for me; I'd get pooped over a piddling 20-miler, and never really improved in endurance.
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That may sound stupid but all these google, dropbox and now backify services are so useless to me. Why? I sadly don't have the internet connection to upload 100+gig on these servers. So, I can use dropbox for text files.. but the second I have to backup bigger stuff I really need to be cautious into not moving that into dropbox.
He always gets in line for the iPhone. He did it for the 3GS as well: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=725868
Am I the only one that thinks the tutorials are a bit weird.
For example: their QuickSort implementation looks pretty much "sub-optimal"". ( They allocate new arrays in each recursive call )
Another example: Shortest-Path search. A-Star is not mentioned.
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> Steve Jobs didn't make it new, he just made it white.

He made it accessible and usable for non-geeks.

It is interesting with some geeks and HCI-design: It is not that they consciously don't like or value good HCI - it is more like it is invisible for them. They don't realize that it even exists! So they think Apple products becomes successful because they are white and have rounded corners (something that should surely be easy for the competition to copy), and they think the users love their products only because of the brand (which is really a circular argument, for how did Apple end up with a brand that people love?)
Another timeline HN guy checking in here! I built http://www.timetoast.com a couple of years ago and I love seeing new timeline apps pop up. Good luck guys, they both look great :)
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It looks a bit suspicious. There's no way they can cover their costs with these prices. Either prices will go up or the business will go down.
I've just signed up and received my confirmation email along with my email and the PASSWORD that I defined.
WARNING: These guys use plaintext passwords!!

It's not difficult to send a confirmation email that contains your password without having to store your password in plaintext anywhere.

Now, I don't know whether they store passwords in plaintext, but it's unfair to make such accusations based on the content of a registration confirmation email.

Edit: I received the login info email after I clicked the activation link in a previous email, this means the password must have been stored in a database until I clicked the activation link.

Again, there could be a less-than-ideal explanation for this, so we don't know 100% (I was hoping to see a "forgot password" link somewhere to test this with), but this does raise suspicions.
Usually, when you receive your password after signup that does not necessarily mean it is stored in plaintext, because password can be kept in memory through the process.

It is warning sign though, agreed.
No, it's a proxy indicator. A 50-year-old can be hot if she takes care of herself (TV is full of people like this these days, hell the streets are too). Just as they have stopped caring about their appearances, they have stopped caring about customer service. If you doubt this, just try flying United long-haul.
Doesn't necessarily mean they store plain text passwords. Still a bad sign, but they could simply be sending you the email with your password before they hash it.
I received the login info email after I clicked the activation link in a previous email, this means the password must have been stored in a database until I clicked the activation link.

Sorry, should of added that previously.
But they can access your password, stored in plaintext http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110634
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No. X1, X121e, X201.

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/make/Lenovo/laptops
I most definitely agree with this. Though our company has approached it a little differently than you, the combination of Require.js and Backbone.js (with Zepto.js too) has allowed us to make totally flexible HTML5 apps that are easy to test and maintain and once optimised (using r.js that comes with Require.js), we have something very nippy too.

I think it's a great combination! And after finishing three commercial projects with it we have yet to run into any brick walls... Unlike with many other JS MVC frameworks, which in my opinion, try to do too much for you.
I almost agree I actually think it takes three years to build an entrepreneur. My thoughts in more detail here: http://swombat.com/2011/10/14/three-years-business (not going to repost it in full, since it's quite lengthy).
I suffer at times from being too polite. Thanks for starting the drilling.
Absolutely. Certified means we've got an agreement in place with the manufacturer to test specific models.

For everything else, we're started Ubuntu Friendly: http://friendly.ubuntu.com
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That's what Ubuntu Friendly (http://friendly.ubuntu.com) does.
WARNING: DON'T SIGN UP.

I signed up, and as makethetick pointed out, they sent me the plaintext password via email. I decided to close my account but first thought I should change the password. The change password form just spits error alerts showing the underlying html code.

I can't trust these guys with ANYTHING.
> I don't care whether something is defective by design, or defective by lack of design: I care that it's defective, period.

Interesting. As an engineer, I very much care about causes. Especially systematic ones. They allow me to better reason about the kinds of problems my system is likely to have, and to proactively mitigate them.

I believe that sudoman's tl;dr is something like "If Domino's executives ate at Domino's, the pizza would taste better", which is to say that (as for most iOS APIs), Apple's own software almost certainly uses different APIs than what they force developer apps to use.

Even if you don't find comments like that interesting, I do. Your comment however (and the other replies to sudoman) miss the point entirely, and instead of discussing why the Domino's executives don't eat Domino's pizza, you spend your time arguing the importance of executives.
I received the login info email after I clicked the activation link in a previous email, this means the password must have been stored in a database until I clicked the activation link

That's not a good sign. The best case scenario I can think of is that the email body is generated at registration and sent out once the activation link is clicked. After this the template is deleted. But it'd be far easier just to store your password in plaintext and go from there.

Like you, I'm suspicious.
I tend to think that if the information I'm backing up is sensitive it should either be backed up only to services I run or should be encrypted before it gets sent to any 3rd party service. I wouldn't trust any "we can't see your data or know your credentials" assurance from a relatively unknown (or most known) 3rd parties.
Reading this made me think of this:
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Fitch is being clever for another reason as well. By being first to downgrade these major banks, they can do it with relatively minor consequences, since there are still 2 out of 3 ratings agencies that haven't downgraded yet.

SOP for funds with credit quality requirements measured by the ratings agencies is typically that at least 2 out of the 3 agencies must agree on the rating.

If one of the three downgrades, no changes have to be made to the fund composition, but if a second downgrades it could set off a huge wave of selling and rebalancing as funds adjust their portfolio credit quality.

It's the second agency to downgrade these banks that will really throw a monkey wrench into the financial system. Fitch may be reading the writing on the wall (Euro crisis + US political gridlock) and betting that downgrades will be inevitable, so may as well get the jump on the other two agencies.
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So, I go on the "Support" section to send them a message..:

Hi, two things:

1- The key <enter> should submit forms. (It didn't work in the signup form, the login form and some dialog box popping in).

2- You sent me my password by e-mail.. which means you've got it in cleartext in the database. How can you then say it's secure..?

And, I get an infinite loop of javascript alert with "parsing error" and a bunch of html in it.

Seriously, not really professional. I mean, I can understand for other kinds of apps; but this is backup and highly confidential information.. this shouldn't happens. A little bit like you can judge a whole building based on the bathroom, a website with flaws everywhere talks a lot about the quality of the backend.
The problem they're going to face is that not enough people are going to need over 512GB of online storage space to want to pay.

Only the most dedicated of digitisers are going to ever exceed 512GB, that's hundreds of movies, tens of thousands of albums and the average user is never even going to approach it.
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"Unix sockets are faster, but fall over at high load (important)"

Any idea why using Unix sockets would cause failures under load?
I think it was freakonomics that said it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert...which is pretty much 3 years full time. Could this be a universal law?
Is it me or this guys don't seem that legit? I'm not talking about the plaintext password. let's say that doesn't matter (in an utipic world), but the desing of the site isn't at all "professional". My advice, don't sign up! Use Dropbox or Ubuntu One. Want more? Pay for it. That means is a product that's worth it.
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With a little digging it appears they're reselling LiveDrive. http://www.livedrive.com/ForResellers
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My one year old loves looking a pictures on the iPad. But she is really just as fascinated with flicking the home screens back and forth and seeing what happens when she presses the different little pictures.
No, it's not difficult, it's just extremely insecure.

Email should always be treated as an insecure channel, so sending passwords over it is just bad security practice.

The system should only hang onto the password for as long as it takes to hash it.
This is a reseller account of LiveDrive - http://www.livedrive.com/ForResellers/Pricing

I looked into the exact same thing to resell to my customers (non techie, average users interested in digital preservation)

Easy for me to tell based on the "briefcase".

The reseller costs like $60 a month and has "unlimited users, unlimited space" - so you decide if it is sustainable.

White label (which I assume they are doing) is $1100/year.

I considered doing this for $5/month, the break even is very low.
> If we were talking about free software, users would have control of their data; not some distant programmers

Example Gnome3, which is free software, even a officially sanctioned GNU project. Overnight, a few key people decide to abandon the traditional desktop metaphor, against the will of a majority of their users and to the detriment of the whole linux desktop. The users hated it and are still hating it, but nobody has the ressources to modify it. Nobody has even the ressources to keep Gnome2 alive, let alone fork Gnome3.

Yes, in theory users could make only those changes they want, but only in theory. In practice, if a significantly influential player says that Gnome2 is gone, Gnome2 is gone. Even if iOS was free software, if Apple decided to make a change, they would be still big enough to force a majority of users to accept their way.
It's all maths and some basic rules. And you don't have to be an economist or investment banker to do the maths for yourself.

Any (technical) founder that can't do the maths, or any (business) founder that doesn't "have a feeling" about this things deserves to be victim of investors.

The main issue here is that founders are often victims of unfounded optimism and trust in their enterprise, so they think only about best-case scenario ("I don't care about ratched, I'll make those 2M$ next year for sure"), and are thus an easy prey.

All being said, the article is still valuable both as a remainder of what to look at, and as a good promotion of authors book on the same subject.
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Great comment, and I wish you well. Getting up that early each morning shows real determination, and frankly it's not something I ever thought of. I’ve been trying to do evenings for years now, but there is always too many distractions so I think you are onto something.
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> I am up every morning at 4am to go for a run before I put in 3 hours of coding before leaving for my day job.

That is a great tip. I am struggling with coding in the evenings and on busy weekends. My day job is less demanding coding wise, but by the evening I don't have the energy to code more.
That's the romantic view.

World improvement? While much of the hacker projects were financed by the military - especially the defense advanced research projects agency. The software from MIT found its way into missile guiding systems, battle management systems, logistics for the military and a lot more. Much of the show was paid for by the military. ARPA was renamed to DARPA to make sure the money receivers understand that 'defense' was not optional.

With Lisp for example, the Common Lisp standard was paid for the military to be able to have a common language for the military AI software. Most of the early manufactured Lisp Machines went directly into the SDI project, the rest then to the Strategic Computing project. TI got money to manufacture their own machines with an MIT license of the software. For example the 'compact Lisp Machine' got a new chip financed by the military - to be used in planes, guided missiles, etc.
It's not only a glamorous job, it's a very well-paid job in comparison to the average OL ("office lady"). In fact, the average stewardess annual salary is higher than the average (male) salaryman's.

So I doubt that the average stewardess is the type that is desperate to get married by 25 (which would likely imply marrying a guy who makes less than her!), though you have a point in that when they do get married they'll most likely retire.
I think they have recognized the power Netflix has, but the withdrawl of Starz was overplaying their hand. That's going to push Netflix down the road of commissioning more shows themselves earlier than they need to. It's also going to encourage other, new content providers to enter the market.

The fact that some of Netflix shows failed isn't really relevant - the fact they commssioned them at all is the thing that should have content providers worried.
I used to have LiveDrive probably 6 months ago (Whom they are reselling from), but I found the Mac client quite buggy. Breifcase didn't work and backups took ages, far longer than they should have done. I will give them credit for fantastic support and no questions asked refund, which was pretty awesome. They might have fixed the issues now, I hope they have, but still I would go directly to LiveDrive rather than a reseller, particularly since the site appears to have been thrown together. Someone probably thought they could make some quick money. I only hope when they shut down, LiveDrive are considerate enought to migrate everyones accounts.

Currently quite happily using BackBlaze for my personal computers, and working on an open source backup tool for servers </shameless>
AFAIK Virgin is no less unionized than BA.
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Not amateurs taking over - a new set of professionals, doing shows cheaper and quicker.

The production values might not be as good, and there will be a heap of terrible content produced, but there will be some hits.
>deserves to be victim of investors.

No, no one "deserves" to be taken advantage of. Where does this ridiculous "blame the victims" nonsense come from?
yeah, my brain works really well after the run because it's full of fresh blood and oxygen. Seriously mate, 20 minutes of work in the morning after a run is better than 2 hours of work in the evening when I'm tired ... no exaggeration.

I hate running and exercise in general, but I promised myself I would do anything to get my company going, and anything includes things I dont want to do, so I force myself :)

Bonus points: Since I started running 6 or so months ago I have lost 28kg!
Think you meant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29 .. at appx 40 hours per week, that's more like 5 years.. which is same as a PhD, black-belt etc.
Just to follow up on this: I had a caching thing on os x chrome, and thus my problem (unrelated software) was fixed within an hour of posting.

I'm buying a t-shirt to say thanks.
>Ritchie's contributions to our industry affect what I do on a daily basis from the OS level up. Jobs' contributions? Not so much.

Yes, but Jobs work affect non-geek's life in the same way. Not everybody is a programmer. Sure C was the a big milestone but you cannot say that I iPhone didn't revolutionize the smart phone market and put it into those people's hands who would never have bought such a thing otherwise.
I don't use tabs in any browser, never have, never will. Open preferences, and turn off tabs -- easy. I don't see the need for tabs when the OS provides it's own tabs for all the windows I have regardless of whether it's a web page or not. Tabs within tabs, no thanks.
Wonderful comment. This is one reason I always laughed at the argument "yea, but... we have all the source code!". Great, so the solution is we pay to maintain it? How is this free again?
I'll chime in with the others in saying that the morning thing is a great idea. I've been trying to do evening coding for a while but end up just not having the energy. I put in my best hours of the day at work and coming home to work by myself on a project often just doesn't pan out. Switching this around, I can put in time for myself first then head into work and keep going for the remainder of the work day.
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Cd are cheaper for people to buy(and cheaper to give away).
And of course it's left there for ages to come, never to see the light of day, ever again.
I don't think this applies to starting companies. You're probably already some sort of expert in the field you're starting up in (otherwise you've really got the deck stacked against you). Sure, there's some overhead in learning how to do all the other things, admin, hiring, selling etc., but it's not something you become an expert in.
An "online knitting machine".

The user sends in a knitting pattern; the website generates a cost; the user decides to pay (or not); payment is taken; the thing is made and dispatched.

Advanced mode: have a screen for users to design stuff which then gets knitted.
> However those iFanboys polluted all true tech discussions, by bringing such constructs to tech discussions like 'I love my ' , 'I browse the internet with my ...', 'Non-iphone users stink, or are poor etc', to further enlarge the status-widget.

Don't forget one of the worst forms of iPollution: "Sent from my iFoo". Why should people reading your messages care?
Well, no, you're not an expert in the field of running businesses - and that's the expertise we're talking about.

Running a, say, engineering business, is a very different skill set than being an engineer that works in an engineering business. Many people are experts at the latter and totally clueless at the former.
Nobody is "blaming the victims". They are founders, CTOs, CEOs that are leading the business and should know at least basic rules of what they are doing. There is nothing illegal in investors trying to do their own business, and nobody is "taking advantage of" our poor startup CEO/owner/founder.

If you want successful business it is not enough to be "good at creating products" and completely ignorant on basic business issues.

If I rephrase this instead "If business is led by people that can't comprehend basic rules of economy or do simple maths, that company can't possibly bring anything of value either to their customers or other stakeholders, and thus deserves to fail" would you still disagree.

And it is good that unsuccessful business fails.
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Congrats man! What are you working on?
> (...) are the ones that care least about their job: they're at the top and they don't need to do a good job to stay there.

I don't know exactly how Japanese airlines work, but the system you describe (seniority) is pretty much standard in Japanese big corps, even without unions.

While that leads to extremely sad things inside the corporations (shudder), customer service doesn't usually suffer due to it. The high school kids working at my local convenience store displays a higher and more consistent level of service than the average stewardess in a North American airline.
What a legend and a decent guy too!

How many other "celebrities" would keep in touch with a student they met in a queue a year ago? Legend.
The Kindle version is of the 1998 edition and is available in the US only; which is more than a bit rubbish.
It seems like a small, cheap one might be a useful way to get a quick view of a 'hostile' environment; be that military, or some sort of dangerous physical environment.