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I wouldn't be so sure. If it becomes feasible to work remotely all the time, I would love to live in a smaller city or the countryside, and I'd be more free to live close to my family and friends. Right now, we move cross country and away from any friends or family we have, just for a new job. Rinse and repeat after 10 years. It can lead to a lonely existence, but for a highly specialized work force it's very necessary today.
OP: Hi guys, I'll do my best to reply to all comments posted here a bit later.

As it is now we're barely handling the flood of reviews. :) It's a good thing and very exciting but we had to scale up the number of heroku instances the second time in a row. So please bear with all the errors for a while, we're working on some issues esp. screenshot generation as it is not coping with the load.

Wow! We didn't expect an instant success like this. Thank you all for your contributions.
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100k per day is just over 1 q/s, which shouldn't concern any scale engineer. If you take that two or three orders of magnitude higher it starts to become something the scale engineer pays attention to, otherwise, I don't see the concern with that low qps.

I get that it's cloud based, with all the elastic benefits that affords, but if I look at this from a VC perspective we have two use cases:

- the customers with their own private data that wouldn't trust two guys in a "garage" in Potrero Hill.
- the customers that want a no engineering solution to providing a no-engineering solution to making a section of their website searchable. This seems pretty much covered by Google's search offerings in this area. Complete with a scale out story beyond the wildest dreams of a startup. It also has the huge benefit of a relevance engine that is best in class.

Clearly, if you have customers, I am wrong!
Bank "security" = forced < 8 digit alphanumeric code that can be overridden on the phone if someone knows my birthday. I know because I hacked into my own bank account anonymously and was able to transfer funds. Best I can do is refresh my password regularly and hope nobody finds out my birthday :P (there's more to it than that, but that's the gist of it)

I also have found that carrying around cash is a lot more secure than using my debit card. My debit card has been copied, and money stolen from my account, 5 times. To date I have never had my wallet physically taken from me nor lost any money that way. Cash is compatible with every system I interface with in-person and it carries no service charge. This seems backwards to me. Banks really need to get with the program.
Great point. Easiest solution would be to just separate the Apple ID password and the Device password.
I don't think webOS is going to get a second chance for similar reasons that BeOS never got a second chance. Even if it has a lot of great ideas, apps, whatever, the groups who should be interested in webOS are using Android.

Look at China, there are some mobile phone companies in China that could take webOS and make it really awesome and sell to millions of customers, but they are busy building Android phones and are working on building Tizen. Mozilla could have taken webOS and built on that, but instead they are doing their own OS.

HP itself doesn't even seem to care about webOS, so it's hard to convince anyone else to do so either. It seems like webOS, Meego, bada, and all these other OS's are going to end up in the footnotes of the smartphone revolution similar to the many desktop PC os's that never quite took off.
Ideally it would be a yubikey or something not attached to your phone anyway.
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Would this be to monetize HN or a HN like website?
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This is one of those times when the answer is simply "no" (before anyone mentions that stupid "law" like it's the first time anyone has seen it).

The most you could do I think is skin Android to look and act like WebOS.

There is significant technical work in getting it to work on hardware. It's simply not going to go anywhere until you can get manufacturer and/or carrier buy-in and what's the upside of this over, say, Android or even Windows Phone 8?

Google, Apple and Microsoft can put, have put and are putting significant cloud infrastructure behind their mobile OSs. That's not something easily replicated with another OS and I have little faith that HP can deliver equivalent infrastructure.

The fact of the matter is that WebOS failed on Palm. HP screwed up whatever chance they had by some corporate schism showing that they just weren't that interested (particularly once Hurd was ousted).

I remember seeing the same thing after BeOS failed. Let it go. It's over.
win8 x64 didn't go down for me at that time..

Wonder what the difference is? I don't sync among devices, but for the people that it did crash for do you sync among devices? Maybe that has something to do with it?
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On my HP Touchpad I prefer WebOS over Android. The reason I use Android is the quality of the apps, not the OS.

* Cards - Application switching is fast and easy. While in card view you can see the current state of running applications. Card stacking is pretty cool too.

* Clean UI - The WebOS UI is very clean an uncluttered. I find it pleasing to look at and it's easy to use.

* System-wide Mute - When I go to a meeting or other environment I need a full system-wide mute. On Android I'll turn down the sound only to have an annoying notification sound go off in a meeting because notification volume is still at 100%.

* "Home button" - switches to card view and shows the application launcher. This means that a single button works for 1) closing apps, 2) switching apps, 3) launching apps.

So in short, I hope WebOS does make a comeback, though they may want to look into adding some type of Android compatibility layer to make it easy to port apps over as that's the biggest downfall of the platform.
I agree, most of the ideas listed either already exist in some shape, or have no market at all. One issue is not just identifying problems one has, but identifying problems a large group of people have AND that they're willing to pay money for the solution.

The secret behind a great idea is actually the hours of research that go with it. You need to research the market very thoroughly, your costs and such and then suddenly it's an idea that's viable. Of course then comes the execution. But a an idea is not just good because it sounds good.

I think this table is missing some important columns. Consider adding these:
- market size (in $)
- time and cost for acquiring a customer
- margin per customer ($ range)
That service already exists, look it up on Google.
And suddenly I'm on Reddit.
For good or for bad, terrorists have, by and large, ignored targets on the Internet.

Hactivists exist, obviously, but your brand-name terrorists like Al Qaeda have not used the Internet as an attack vector.

Yet.
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Yes of course, Rick is trying to say that regardless of technology it feels like a big library where you can find whatever it is you're looking for.

At the core I'm for piracy, hell I was raised a pirate and I will forever be a pirate. I'd much rather donate my money to indie-artists and software projects.
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> But after three days, certainly these students had also been given their fair share of harsh sounds, and at that point it's not crazy to think that they were just "playing the game."

"In actuality, there was no opponent and the participants were told they won about half the trials.)"

I.e. no one received harsh sounds.
If I'm driving and I get stuck in traffic, I'm going to be pissed during the duration of that encounter and if it somehow affects any plans I have. Similarly, if I am having a couple of bad rounds in a game (or even if I'm doing well but my team isn't), I'm going to be pissed during the duration of that game. I will probably still be bothered by it if it somehow manages to manifest itself into my overall self-worth, just as if traffic made me feel bad for being late for something.

If you are constantly beating yourself up over gameplay the same way you're beating yourself up over traffic (i.e. things you can only control so much), you're going to be more aggressive. But at that point, it is an entirely different issue.
Precisely. I'm not sure how you could design an experiment to do so but you'd need further proof that these tests do correlate with 'aggression' (however you choose to define THAT). It wouldn't be hard to come up with alternative explanations of what those tests measured.

So they've just proved a correlation between video games and two specific tests of... something...
"What many PC gamers today consider to be one of the most burnt out genres was at that time new, fresh and completely unknown to most gamers."

Is this true? Are RTS games considered played out by the general gaming public?
I'd agree, but disagree.

There are people asking that question, it just doesn't get press. Because the reality is quite likely that there are solid business reasons for some access and the real problem is piss-poor security on that access [1].

So you either report on computer security details or alarmist disaster scenarios [2]. And one of those lines of reporting will sell more copies than the other.

[1] If there was no business value in access, they wouldn't have paid to install data lines. I'd imagine remote administration, monitoring and centralized reporting are quite useful, particularly when observing large swaths of the grid.

[2] Which means, yes, people tend to get caught up in infeasible scenarios like hackers causing nuclear meltdowns. But the unlikelihood of those types of catastrophes does not mean that there are no catastrophes that can be caused by compromised infrastructure control machines.
Then I am sorry to have wasted your time. I cannot really afford to merely suffer through what my condition causes and alleviating symptoms without treating underlying problems is known to kill people like me. That no doubt biases my assumption that an individual would prefer to solve the underlying problem, especially if it isn't a significant burden to do so.
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>The folding in CodeMirror v3 is on par with or even more powerful than ACE's.

I agree that CodeMirrors general infrastructure for folding is more powerful than ACE's. But CodeMirror still lacks fold buttons on the gutter.

> If you mean the vertical rulers, they're not built into CM, but you can add one with a few lines of custom code.

True, but still when i use jsbin or cssdeck i wish they were built into CM:)

> multiple selections Should be coming to CM soon!

That's very good!

Also i forgot to mention that one of CodeMirrors advantages is a better name:)
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Indeed probability is only useful when there is uncertainty. When there is certainty, probability is nonsensical.

While I think YC may be quite adept at choosing only people over 6'2", people in general are not very good at knowing if they are over 6'2" in entrepreneurial talent. We know people are very bad at judging their own competence, and generally vastly over-estimate it. There is no tape measure for entrepreneurial competence. Unfortunately, I'm not sure anyone, even the YC partner group, is able to reliably measure future success, though I'm sure you are much better than most investors.

Further, an enormous amount of luck is involved, as demonstrated by the large number of one-hit-wonder entrepreneurs, the vast range in outcome for similarly talented people, as well as the large number of impressive entrepreneurs who never really succeed.

So I do think it makes sense to apply probability to your chance of success, no matter who you are. Very talented entrepreneurs still have a high chance of failure, and there is also a good chance that someone is not as talented as they and others think they are. We all know people of both types.
My mom borrowing my book is qualitatively different than a public institution set up for the mass renting of media. The law makes that distinction all the time; for example, the CRA prohibits discrimination in a restaurant, but not at my potluck.

Back during the 90s, video rental stores would have to pay a higher price (around $100 IIRC) for a copy of a movie they were licensed to rent. If you believe that media should be licensable, then it follows naturally that more permissive licenses should cost more.

The main reason that libraries are morally acceptable, by the way, is that they are viewed as institutions of learning and betterment that service students, the unemployed, and the less fortunate. If libraries were focused on entertainment instead, they would not be so highly regarded and their copyright issues would come to the fore.
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Seattle? Best bet is probably to head on over to the Kangaroo and Kiwi in Ballard - http://kangarooandkiwi.com/

Remember, always blow on the pie! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzs70o9u9NQ)
1) OSX 10.8.x, latest Chrome (omw right now, can't check)

4) How about a save-by-default stance? is versioning and rollback hard to implement on your stack? (those two characteristics should be used together IMO) Alternatively I'd just implement a message that asks whether to save, forget changes or cancel.
I really hate studies like this. Their methodology was absolutely terrible, and absolutely does not support the conclusions they drew.

What they have shown is that exposure to violent fiction results in the production of more violent fiction, and nothing else. The researchers, like so many others, made the fundamental mistake of conflating fiction and reality. Fiction, however, is not reality. And naming violent acts to be incuded in a fictional story is not equivalent in any significant way with actual violence.
Good to know, thanks. Crawling certainly is easier, made especially so using tools like JSoup/BeautifulSoup, but areas like gist extraction, learned removal of navigational elements, the benefits of a truly massive IDF for terms, phrase extraction, date extraction etc all seem beyond the realm of a startup. I have written these pieces and know it can be a real time sync.

I'm curious about your drag/drop ranking tool. Does this create a static or query dependent ranking boost? In my experience, the former is easy, but not very effective, the latter is much more difficult because of stemming, synonyms, partial match etc.

I had to look up IMNSHO :)
What about reversing the order? Make it so you can't submit your site for review until you've reviewed another. Obviously quality may suffer, as people will just type garbage for the sake of getting theirs submitted, but with volume that can be fixed via other means down the road.

I'll also second the n-for-1 suggestion.
The answer is no. It's kind of sad since WebOS had by far the most awesome OSS community. As a dedicated frontend developer, I'm rooting for a phone ecosystem using the browser stack for apps but B2G is my current hope and I don't give it great odds for success. I'll probably use/make apps for it but it's a tough sell for others.
Just requested and posted my first reviews. This is super-awesome, and I expect I'll be using it a lot. Thank you.

Scrolling down, I did also forget to leave a star rating. Maybe that can be clearer?
Note that this doesn't solve a problem that providers have right now.

For people with serious medical conditions that need to communicate that to EMS, we have physical medalert bracelets that can tell healthcare providers that you have diabetes or epelipsy. That technology works even if your provider doesn't have power or reliable internet.

Most patient provider interactions don't require history transmission because you're at a scheduled office visit or your in emergency care at a facility that is part of your giant local health network. In those cases, providers can look up your name (that they can get from your wallet even if you're not conscious) in their database and find all they need. They don't have to worry about synchronizing data with arbitrary providers and trying to remap their ontologies or deal with lossy translations.

The number of cases where providers need fine grained history information for people that they've never treated before and they need it right NOW and can't afford to wait is...very small relative to the volume of patients treated. I mean, if you've been shot in the chest, the ER is going to focus on keeping you from bleeding to death rather than poring through a history to note that you're allergic to ragweed pollen, have slightly elevated blood pressure and fractured your tibia 8 years ago.
The problem is that you have no hints about what is correct or not because presumably a one way hash is being used, so even if you get the first 29 words right, you don't know that.

Assuming the cracker just uses a wordlist containing 200,000 terms and unsophisticated brute force, this thing could crack a 3 word password in a day and a 4 word password in 800 years[1]. It would certainly be an interesting project, but I honestly think this is a safe approach for now.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28200000**4+%2F+63+bil...
Surely there are much better ways to discuss the advantages of ORM over SQL than a bug report on github.
I was going to offer the idea of patent troll insurance, but someone's already on it: http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20121023/NEWS07/121...

Assuming that abstract ideas are usually intersected by earlier abstract ideas (since they're so broad), perhaps the insurance company could lease the patent hordes of large companies, to deny trolls' claims. That could reduce the cost of the insurance.
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I wish there were some "best practices in systems administration" for different services, ranging from simple (just set up imap/dovecot) through complex (gmail-scale), per service.

There's been pretty good focus on how to do http, dns, and some database services, but not as much recently on smtp, imap, etc.
CodeMirror and Ace both have a long history of sane competition, and copied many of the ideas from one another. So much, in fact, that whenever I find myself in front of an Ace editor, I open up the DevTools and change the CSS to make the cursor 1 pixel wide. They have pretty much the same cursor display system!

A great difference, in my opinion, is the syntax highlighting systems. Ace's is more rule-based (as in, regex matches and regions), while CodeMirror's is more programmatic, which helps its JS mode show local variables in a different color.

There are also differences in the data structures used internally, afaik. Marijn can probably talk more about that.

On a different note, CodeMirror is being seriously considered independently in WebKit's and Firefox' DevTools, built-in. You may soon use it every day without even knowing!
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Ask HN: Why is Dropbox still so horrible at support?
My dropbox hasnt been functioning for over 2 weeks. My account is showing that Im using over 300% of my allotted storage, but I have checked every folder, and there is no way Im hitting my quota. I sent dropbox an email detailing the problem, and I received this back

Dropbox Support, Nov 24 12:08 am (PST):
Hi,

Thank you for your support request. Recently, we have been receiving a high volume of support requests and haven't been able to get back to you within a reasonable amount of time.

The volume of inquiries we receive on a daily basis prevents us from responding to all requests. Although requests from Pro and Teams users will be given priority assistance, we will do our best to get back to other inquiries when possible. If you are not a Pro or Teams user and you're looking to resolve your issue before we can respond, you may want to check out:

https://www.dropbox.com/help/

If you need to restore a large number of files and are unable to do so, please visit the following instructions to help us speed up the restoration for you:

http://db.tt/2QPImJ3g

If you are still experiencing problems, please reply to this message. We will try our best to get back to you, however we cannot guarantee a response. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
The Dropbox Support Team

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What I dont understand is how has a company like Dropbox, who raised 250M dollars, still unable to handle support inquiries?

And since when has this become an acceptable response "We will try our best to get back to you, however we cannot guarantee a response. We're very sorry for the inconvenience."
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So a William Gibson dystopian nightmare. That's... nice to know.
Its almost as like google has distributed clusters all over the world and that these problems may only affect part of that cluster.

These "OMG GOOGLE IS DOWN" is the geek equivalant of "THE INTERNET IS DOWN" when Jane Officeworker can't get to msn.com.
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I'm sure it's not there for usability reasons.

That is no excuse for not providing basic TFA for users who know how important it is, however miserable the user experience may be.
The ugly () are now gone. :)
I have also followed up with dropbox support with two separate emails since the 24th, and have yet to hear anything back
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By selling 8 small ad units along the top/side of the site, for $5k-$10k/each per month. They would sell out easily. Maybe give away one to a lucky startup each month.

I've often thought that it'd be awesome if HN had ads like this, and all the money was donated to the EFF or something. No one would mind and it would give them a huge new source of funding.

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Incidentally, it's occurred to me that this could be a successful startup idea. A startup could facilitate other companies "donating" ad space to worthy causes. The startup takes a small cut for selling/serving the ads. The donor just picks an ad unit style and drops in Javascript.
Just to be clear, there are two problems with the mortgage interest deduction. First, it's regressive; by the numbers, the people who benefit most from the deduction are those least in need of a benefit from the government. Second, regardless of your income level, the mortgage interest deduction artificially increases the desirability of residential real estate, which drives up the prices, which acts as a shadow tax on home ownership.

The first problem you could address by capping the benefit somehow. The latter you cannot.
Oops, my formatting got messed up. This was supposed to be one point:

'Was good enough, without obvious flaws, that it eliminates
the anguishing 'which HD TV do I buy?' decision.'

Specifically I was thinking of MP3 players before the iPod, or my parents' own HD TV purchasing decision.

The 'separate part of the house' point was to counter the common cry of 'just use a computer monitor', which is the current solution.
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I'm not sure why this is surprising to anyone - it fits together perfectly well with the general concept of priming. Experiencing a higher level of an emotion over a period of time from any source may very well lead to these same results.

I would expect these results for any consistent sustained exposure to any interactive activity, not just agression related.

The next experiment should substitute video gaming with say, sustained OKC or LinkedIn activity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)