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The points are pretty well-worn; I think he is making fun of advice to writers. Do you really think he thinks keeping a dream journal is a good idea?
A little bit of googling makes it seem like auth tokens are not sent it plaintext over HTTPS but are authenticated using challenge response – http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=47952 The WWW site may differ.
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Arg, I would love to work on Boot to Gecko.
The first two sentences.
A single, unqualified anecdote out of a few million Galaxy Tab and millions of iPads sold, how damming. The ideas that this is a significant, widespread problem yet hinges on a single, solitary scrap of "evidence" are almost completely incompatible.

Also, like I related above, I'm a normal with regard to clothes and food, not a fashionista or a chef yet I have no problem distinguishing between any number of all but identical products.

Stop grasping.
The big one for me was, when flash crashes in Chrome, only 1 tab is affected. In Firefox the whole browser crashes. And no, disabling flash and avoiding it is not an option, not with online video and music playing through flash. One day when flash is gone this won't be a problem but we haven't reached that day yet.

My usage is now 99% Chrome, 1% Firefox (for testing purposes), and keep in mind I was one of those die-hard Firefox fans. I bought my Firefox t-shirt from the Mozilla store, installed it on school computers, supported it from the beginning and everything. Now I'm all Chrome and so is my whole family.

Looking back, the 3 main reasons why I loved Firefox was that was open source, which was emotionally appealing, its call-to-action was to end the tyranny of Internet Explorer, it was standards compliant, and it had extensions. Chrome now does those very same things, some much better than Firefox, and is catching up to the amount of useful extensions. And it looks and behaves better.

I will say this, Firefox has one thing that I really love over Chrome. When you set Firefox and Chrome to remember your last tabs open and load them on each startup, Firefox doesn't load all 80 tabs immediately I open it. Instead it only loads the currently selected tab and leaves the others unloaded, thus speading things up and preventing a system slowdown. Chrome on the other hand loads all 80 tabs at once, so I have to wait 15 seconds before the browser becomes responsive again.
I also received the reset email and my password for dropbox was a random string generated by lastpass so I'm fairly confident that it wasn't leaked elsewhere. I wouldn't be alarmed if you got the email.
FWIW, I use Dropbox with multiple accounts and did not receive a "reset your password" email.
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Because Jobs has a fragile ego, like a little child, and wanted to get back at Google. And its all in motion now.

The rest of them are just dragged into this war. But they will fight. They will do bussiness. They are profit chasers off course.

Apple on the other hand, their legal strategy is not rational. They picked a fight they couldnt win, they shouldnt win, and even if they would, we would change the rules on them; because in the end we all want some choices when buying products.

Does anyone truly expect Apple to launch a full scale legal war against of all its competitors, and not get burned in the proccess?

I honestly dont care. From Samsung to Google, to Microsoft. There are no saints. But these days im rooting for Apple downfall. Just because i get so tired of all the Apple apologists.

I know they are victims, but at a certain point the whole Stockholm syndrome gets kind of old.
This is quite interesting. Since it's more money than the Nobel, it seems like it has a shot at becoming more prestigious.
I believe you can buy a phone elsewhere and maintain your plan too. It's the contract renewal that happens when you get a subsidized phone that will remove your unlimited data.
I believe the implication is that they are stored hashed and salted.
Its a poster designed for PR purposes, of course it is designed to convey certain facts and hide others. A couple of other things I noticed:

- the 'before' shows more in the iphone-like category and less in the other category of phones than the 'after'. Also the iphone-like cateogy has heaps of phones compared to other categories. This plays with your sense of weighting and importance because automatically you assume that you can compare numbers of phones on this chart, which you can't (mostly because iphone-like pre-iphone devices are all prototypes, whilst others are just a fraction of produced phones.)

- many of the 'before' phones in the iphone-like category are '2006', probably after Samsung would have known what apple is producing.
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In the near future, I see YC companies PageLever & Crowdbooster on that list.
Ad guy here:

So this guy is probably talking about affiliate marketing.

My best guess:

1. He has access to lots of CPA (cost per action) offers from various CPA networks. Example: "We'll pay you $3 for every person who fills out this info request form about our product."

As an affiliate marketer, he's always hunting for offers where the payout seems high or the offer seems attractive, basically an arbitrage mismatch.

2. He has found some gaming offers that he thinks pay out pretty well and convert nicely. Good landing pages, good product, etc.

3. He buys ads on these womens gaming sites late at night because they are click happy and the impressions cost less due to it being night time. This sends people to the gaming site where they convert at a profitable rate.

Affiliate stuff is all about arbitrage.
Ah, that must be it. Apparently somehow I had Chrome defaulted to 110%.
Wow, Facebook required for sign up. Did they really throw away all of their user accounts?
Why is the grandparent comment "dead"? It is an honest and constructive post that contributes to the discussion. Moderating him out of the conversation sends a certain sort of message, and I don't think it's a good one.

And to you, api, this is a very tactful response. I'd like to see more respectful posts like this between lovenothate and you, lmm, and some others in this thread. But it appears that's not welcome on HN?
That has happened to me before, exactly the same tone although I had the sensation of running in a desert before awaking on the floor.

From your mention of the bathroom floor, I can only assume you were urinating while standing, which is a very common trigger for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasovagal_response. For more specific definition see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micturition_syncope

Not a big deal really, but as always might want to get it checked out to rule out more serious conditions.
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Exactly. My id here is my first name and initial. Correlating my username here with my full name, which is unique worldwide, is easy.

My Reddit id on the other hand does not directly tie to my name, and that's just how I like it.

It's still fairly easy to find - I don't care if people who really want to figure it out, as I don't write anything I can't stand for. If I wanted true anonymity I'd take a lot of extra precautions.

I just care that my Reddit comments don't show up on the first few pages of a Google search for my name, as it lets me not think as much about my "professional image".

Putting it on Facebook is something I'd never let happen.

There's a huge difference between being possible to find what I've written if you really care about it vs. it being showed in the face of my family, for example.

And this is without being part of any controversial sub-reddits. There are plenty of sub-reddits or individual threads that are offensive enough or controversial enough that I'd imagine they'd die pretty quickly if people were forced connect their Reddit identities to anything that might be directly matched to their names.
The email they sent was unfortunate. It's from no-reply@dropboxmail.com. I presumed it was a phishing attempt.
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So, does this mean that I can use my existing IP hard phones and control them via plivo cloud?
>because those sports require a combination of physical ability and problem solving

I don't understand. Are you saying popular sports like soccer don't require problem solving?
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I beg you NOT to buy until P/E is at an average rate!! its better NOT to make money, than to lose some!
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Thanks guys. It was neat to see what parts of the design (and the video) were reused from prior projects.
Stock price aside, I am not sure how facebook is cool to me. It is a complete blank.

Google is doing exciting and important things like building self-driving AI, google glasses, google fiber and android. However, I don't really consider Google + by itself, "cool".
A lot of the entire adtech world is based on the idea that these giant brands are spending more and more on online ads, and spending it rather indiscriminately. So if you can make a product that's JUUUUST good enough to get into use at some of the big ad agencies and to get onto the media planning budgets of massive brands, you're golden.

In the DR (direct response) world, also affiliate marketing and so forth, the advertisers are only buying ads in so far as they generate sales/signups/whatever. More and more brands are jumping on the "our ads have to actually produce results" bandwagon, but most of the brand advertising you see out on the web is not held accountable in ways you'd expect.
Yes definitely.. We have quite a few customers already doing this.
We're building a comprehensive phone system for our business, and it's entirely built on top of plivo. It rocks!
I really don't know why this is newsworthy. The only reasons anyone bought Facebook shares were:-

The bigger fool theory i.e. I can unload these for a profit to an even bigger fool.

Blind greed and/or blind stupidity.
The law provides a way to offer accounts to under-13s. They don't have to close the account, they just choose to close it instead of complying with the added burden that would be required.
Likewise. It's the kind of email I always delete.
Facetious and I'm sure you'll get all sorts of downvotes, but the biases of commentary groups is worth knowing.
It wasn't nonsensical at all, you just completely missed its point.

There was noting ambiguous about the antecedent.
I took a course from him a couple of years ago and was very impressed. Hard working, smart guy.
First time I've seen a front page article blasted by 100% of the comments. Finally, complete agreement in the comment section! I'm wondering how it got to the front page too.
I think this sums it all up, "The stock, down 6.2 percent at $21.71, still trades at more than 40 times forward earnings, versus Google Inc's 15."
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>> we're not our mind

Okay, what does this mean?
It should have been a red-flag to everyone when Facebook was trading at (if I recall correctly) over 100x earnings at one point. I mean sure it has a lot of potential and what not, but even for goliath that is Facebook, the valuation was pretty unreasonable.
I've been reading your book for a week now Sau Sheong Chang, I can't stop! It's a fascinating read! I'll let you know when I'm done, thanks for writing this!
> The big one for me was, when flash crashes in Chrome, only 1 tab is affected. In firefox the whole browser crashes.

Firefox has run Flash in a separate process for a long time now (2 years, I think?) - so a Flash crash only brings down Flash, not the browser or even the tab for that matter (the rest of the web page will still run).
You're hosting your blog on Tumblr and the Facebook ad had your address on it, you can't really have input on the allocation of ad clicks if you don't have the server logs to show it.
who says so?
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Teach them just how far they can get on their own with their idea before they even need to consider a tech co-founder or outsourcing.

There is naming, branding, research, competitor analysis, writing copy, storyboarding (if it's an app) wireframes, mock-ups, drawing up contact lists, talking to potential customers - which is an extremely important point.

They need to also show willing to learn even some basic technical skills else they just sound lazy. This doesn't have to include development, there's lots of other computer based tasks that need doing.

Their project needs to be at a point where a decent tech person would say "hey this is pretty interesting, the next big step you're struggling on is something I'd find really easy to implement"

A non-technical co-founder has to have the hustle to build a foundation to even get a tech person interested in talking about it, never mind contributing.

I'd suggest teaching them that if they say "I have X number of people committed to buying this - if only I could build it" is far more compelling to a developer than "I have an idea in my head but I've not acted on it yet"
Lots of comments but no upvotes? Karma still at 1point? Common folks, show InstaHero some more love!! I like the sales letter. Will comment some more later but right now I gotta go!
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Not being able to use my personal method for making unique passwords totally killed creating an account for me as well.
Agreed. Excessively unfortunate that they didn't send it from @dropbox.com, as I'd never heard of dropboxmail.com.
Crash imminent.
Before my wife and I got married, we had a very intense year-long running argument about this exact topic. She told me I could do anything I wanted to do; I told her that was bullshit. I think this argument may have delayed our marriage significantly. :)

Since then, I've noticed that naively optimistic views are relatively common among people who accomplish interesting things. It's almost as if naive optimism is a semi-necessary precursor to remarkable achievement.

"You can do anything" is nonsense. It's a crutch. But many people use this crutch to get to really cool places, and I can't help but respect their accomplishments in the end.
Thanks for that information, that is extremely informative.

But what does this limitation mean for the security of Cryptosphere for its defined use cases? from the article: "If you want to store banned books or political pamphlets without attracting the attention of an oppressive government, or store pirated copies of music or movies without attracting the attention of copyright holders, then the confirmation-of-a-file attack is potentially a critical problem."

Doesn't this mean this system is DOA for its intended purposes?
I have a facebook account but I have "deactivated" it (not deleted). I cannot use the new digg. The facebook popup shows up and then immediately disappears. This is frustrating.
Thanks for recommending my eBook! I wrote it specifically to give non-designers an overview of my design process, in the same spirit as Ryan Singer's screencast.

But of course, just like with everything else you get better by actually doing, not just reading about it. Still, I think reading case studies like this can at least show you good design is a logical and iterative process, and anybody can master it with some hard work.
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Thanks for the great input. I Agree on some points and disagree on some other.

Security is something you have to be aware. The easiest way is to just setup the server with https so that the communication is secure. This seems to be the recommended approach for client server communication that Google them self suggested during the Google I/O app security session.

We currently don't use Switchboard for anything where you can manipulate the behavior of the app. Remember, the code that gets executed is still in your control when you build and sign the binary.

We focus a lot on streamlining the development process. We're only two people cranking out code all day.
For this reason we want to have one version out there that we're able to maintain. We test the app that it runs on as many devices as possible and crashes as little as possible. The problem with providing old versions is that users then also have support request about old versions. At this point we're getting about 400 emails a day. When a user has an old version, we send him an auto reply to update to the latest before we deal with the problem. Otherwise it's not getting manageable.

I think Internet access is by now default for close to every app. You can always justify it in the app description with Ads, even if you never show a single ad in the app. Another option is to track crashes.
Here the same again as before, if a user does not like that the app needs internet access, he should just download a different one.
The reason here is that you will not be able to improve your app ongoing if you can't measure what happens.

Linking the analytics together with tests or stage roll outs back to an automated configuration tool is super cool. But again, we're 2 people and we have a pretty good overview of what we're running and what to look at.
But I agree that this becomes very powerful when your team size gets bigger and not every engineer is keeping track of all business metrics.
I don't know if it's cool to you, but it's been amazing for me. My family is from Bangladesh, I grew up in DC, went to college in Atlanta and grad school in Chicago. I have family in Australia, Canada, and Germany. Facebook lets me see the cute pictures my aunt posts of my baby cousins in Australia, and easily share Romney gaffes with my college friends in Atlanta.

It's way cooler for me than, say, a self-driving car (I live in the city and have no need for one).
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Rule #1 (more or less) of Politics: Blame the foreigner. They're trying to steal from us.
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I went to a funeral via Skype this passed weekend, wasn't to bad, and I felt I could easily be a lot more honest with how I felt by being by myself.
The only issue is that a lot of programs (mobile apps, especially) seem to interact directly with the Dropbox API, which leaves no possible interface for a secondary authentication. Google gets around this by having app-specific passwords that you can generate and de-authenticate at will; it'll be interesting to see how Dropbox handles it.
I hope Dropbox uses google's authenticator. It supports multiple accounts and won't clutter up my phone.

http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/

Their "Such as" example makes it seem they only decided to use 2-factor but haven't chosen an implementation yet.
That's a characteristic of applications that run in a web browser and has nothing to do with SAAS architecture.
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Conventional knowledge says the top of the screen should be eye-level. Just google monitor ergonomics.
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I think this man's signal to noise ratio for playing high stakes poker could be a sizable advantage. It would be very interesting to see him play.

Making good reads is mainly an input problem. There's so much to pay attention to that it interferes with noticing the important things. Tuning into emotions and mannerisms while also tuning out of visual noise could give this man exceptional situational awareness that's also free of his conscious mind's biases.
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That's a curious position to have on a website focused on entrepreneurship.

Pretty much every YC company risks money (vasts quantities for some) in the hope of making money.
"Next time I want to play an Ubisoft game I'm just going to pirate it."

Another good reason to pirate Ubisoft's games is that none of them work when Uplay is down. Uplay is down a lot more often than never.
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It's newsworthy because (I suspect) many of us think we're watching the pop of a bubble.

At least, that's what I'm thinking.
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Firefox doesn't seem able to connect to a specific open profile and make a new window, if you run Firefox without --no-remote, it always opens a new window for the oldest instance, which makes keeping multiple profiles open a pain. If you close your browsing profile while your have your email profile still open, now the Firefox icon will open windows in your email profile.

If you make an icon for your various profiles that uses '--no-remote', you can only open one window with that icon. To open more you'll have to find the running instance.

I generally prefer Firefox so if I've missed something I'd love to know, but I searched high and low for a solution and in the end I gave up and swapped to Chrome. Now I have launchers for Facebook, etc. that behave exactly as you would expect. You click the Facebook icon and you get a Facebook window, running the Facebook profile.
You can buy one at full retail price through Verizon and keep unlimited, but there's no point in that when you could buy used off eBay/Craigslist and save relative to the $650 off-contract price.
Well the things you describe as good about Facebook could be replaced with say email or Google Plus and you would still get to do all those things.

Google are doing a lot of things that can't be replaced with competing services.

What would you replace self-driving AI, google glasses and google fiber with?

I think Google are in a different league altogether than Facebook which is just a glorified noticeboard.
I don't remember the source on this but I believe that will only be true for 3G access plans. To use it with a 4G device, you'll need to upgrade your data plan and that means that you'll need to agree to the new terms.
The fundamental issue with the "magazine layout" is that it is completely pointless in a digital world. The reason why magazines are laid out the way they are is because there's a limit on space, so everything has to be crammed in wherever it'll fit. When you've got a website though, there are no such restrictions, so the focus should be on presenting content in the most orderly manner.
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It's way cooler for me than, say, a self-driving car (I live in the city and have no need for one).

To be fair, a self-driving taxi may revolutionize urban life by making short taxi trips FAR less expensive and at least moderately more convenient. If self-driving cars become commonplace, city life should also be safer for pedestrians and cyclists.