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What you're saying is that you think Dropbox values acquisitions by collecting media stories and measuring their sentiments. Have you ever been involved in an acquisition? The ones I've been a party to involved proctological levels of due diligence. The idea that Techcruch coverage even occurred to anyone involved after the first or second meeting is comically naive.
If Python's documentation is a "problem", then IMO the devs should continue doing problematic things. What in particular do you find lacking about the documentation? I've never heard this complaint before.
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This website looks way too good for a programming language! Stunning!
Automatic -- for a piece of hardware that could potentially brick your machine. As in preventing it from displaying anything.
Good luck!

My advice would be, start something that will make you accountable to other people.
I am a dreamer too and I am not a competitive type of guy. I just don't care if I lose something. But I was very committed to be good at soccer, only because it is a collective sport, so I would try to help my team win because of my friends that played with me, not because I wanted to win.
Using your real name is actually a great first step. Now, make this promise to everyone you care about! Family, friends, everyone! Don't use the mind (escapist) trick to convince yourself that you will surprise everyone with your great project! Don't go on stealth mode. Promise you will achieve your goal and make yourself accountable for it!

Oh! And forget all about this "this is my last chance", "my 20ies are gone" and yada yada yada. As in glasner comment "It's not your last chance; it's your next chance." This is equivalent to me saying "OMG Mozart wrote a symponhy by the age of 8, I am already 33 and don't even know how to play an instrument! I am SUCH a loser!!" It is BS. I just can't use other people achievements as my parameter of success (neither the kind of achievement, much less the age of it).

Good luck!
Isn't this just printing out a cache?
Banks are closed on Tuesday too (they extended the bank holiday).
You sound depressed, and I think you should be talking to people about getting help.

Your career will be fine no matter what you do. Please take your health seriously.
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I respect you putting yourself out there and wish you well on your journey.

I run CPAP.com and work with several other businesses.

If you find yourself stuck on strategy or business operations stuff, please feel free to give me a skype (johnnywgoodman) or email (in profile).
Good luck Stefan! Don't think like every is going bad or this is your last chance. 30 is not a old age, you have still many years to live, many years to succeed. Keep on trying, buddy.

Other than that, you don't have to be the best programmer ever to build something, just try to do your best and start creating something small and build on it.
Possibly you're thinking of The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21611.The_Forever_War)?
Cool. Any plans to add an RSS feed? Your blog is really interesting, so I'd like to subscribe, but I probably won't remember to come back and check it manually.
If you had the ability to pick the top 46, why did you fund 84 in the first place?

(Not doubting, honestly curious.)
Check out this thread, there are lots of great advice in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5378462

30? pffff ;)
Look, conspiracy theories always pop up and there is nothing you can do about them. The question is, why do they pop up here on HN? I don't think there are too many conspiracy theorists among the HN crowd. Since they do pop up, is it not reasonable to ask if anyone is doing anything that might somehow encourage said theories to arise in a crowd not usually inclined to make them?

Obviously, TC coverage did not affect the valuation, and, as shown again and again, had little to do with the success of the company. I haven't seen any other theories, but this particular one has actually instigated a discussion here. It is possible that the fault lies with the HN crowd. But it is also possible that some things, and in particular tech media coverage, do not appear to be quite clean. This kind of thing opens the door to various sorts of theories even among the most reasonable of people, especially if they're not intimately familiar with the parties involved.
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I don't really see how car can be seen as exemplary labor saving invention. Steam engine, electric engine, radio communication, computer, internet sure, but car?

It's just a technology that allows you to build artificial horse that drinks stuff you can mine from underground and shits in the air you breathe instead of on the street you walk on. It surely saves some labor, but it turns so much on its head by increasing mobility and allowing for actions that were previously impossible that this labor saving part is pretty minor and is easily offset by paradigm change that car brought by.
The fundamental statement of this article is wrong. General use of the term "wealthy" in our society includes investment bankers. By the definition in this article, they should only be considered "rich", because they increase the amount of money they have, but other people provide the wealth.

The definition therefore doesn't match common vernacular, leading to a number of incorrect conclusions. This is merely a game of alternate vocabulary, not analysis of reality.
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No one of this sorting feature are available for now.

There is no plugins interface at this point, just for storage backend.

It's more like a javascript training project for me. But I will continue to improve it for sure. I think great javascript devs will cry about the code but contribution/cleaning are welcome.
That would be a fine argument if the majority of computer users actually understood what tracking is being performed and how it is performed. Most computer users have no idea how they are tracked, nor do they understand how they can be tracked.

People generally do not know how their computers work, and companies take advantage of that ignorance when they track people. Most people do not understand that they are trading privacy for access to websites and web apps.

"At this point kids growing up are used to the idea of a world [without] secrets"

Nonsense. Kids just have a different idea about what should be kept secret. There are still plenty of in-the-closet gay teenagers whose friends understand that they are being trusted with a secret. Plenty of kids have odd habits they do not want to tell their friends about. Teenagers still keep secrets from their parents -- that is basically an invariant. There are many college students who work hard to keep their Facebook profiles "clean" in an attempt to present the best image possible to potential future employers.

What has changed is the meaning of keeping things secret. A 15 year old in-the-closet gay teenager most likely has no idea that "deleting" a "private" message sent over Facebook does not actually delete the message from Facebook's servers. That same teenager probably has no idea that his public "friends" list is sufficient to determine that he is gay with high probability. That is the problem society faces right now: people want to keep things secret, but it is very difficult to actually do so.

I think that eventually society will adapt and people will learn how to keep secrets in an age of widespread surveillance. It is inevitable: eventually there will be so many incidents of embarrassing secrets being revealed by these various companies that people will start to use technologies to hamper the tracking.
What about the bond holders though? If the banks go under they lose their money as well, it seems to reason they should be taking a hit as well, not just the depositors.
https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2011/10/17/m...

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There's no reason it couldn't be. Within the US there are public figures available stating which banks have been the best and which have been the worst in the last few years.

There is nothing to stop customers banking on this basis. They still don't, perhaps largely because the government insures up to $1xx,xxx in deposits (I forget the number) so a lot of people are covered no matter what happens to their bank.
It would look better if it only had one top menu bar with search box integrated in it instead of two menu bars with a search box between them.
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Good luck. Less procrastination, less reading of "useful" news, less reinventing the wheels. More concentration on result.
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Rant Ahead....

I'm waiting for the person to pipe up saying they are going to outsource their development to Vietnam after reading this article. Stuff will happen, the hype will be replaced with reality and there will be lots of work cleaning up the mess.

I have worked on two rails projects that were done by two different teams over there. Both were so bad that the only real answer was to rewrite from scratch.

Are there good developers over there...yes. Those developers will be the exception like they are everywhere in the world.....and won't be the $10 an hour guys. A good educational system helps, but at the end of the day even if you are really good at solving academic problems (which a lot of engineers worldwide are not), unless those skills are combined with discipline such as TDD, the ability to interface with a client and understand the domain....... a lot can break down.

I have no doubt that what the author saw at this one school was true. But what if you went to one of the best elementary, high schools and colleges in the US.....which happened to be clustered in the same area....and then said that the US system is awesome after having visited a really advanced magnet school and the Stanford computer science department....both on guided tours by the administration where they are going to put their best foot forward and only show the gifted classes.

After all, the quality of the Stanford CS courses must be representative of all American schools such as ITT Tech and your run of the mill 2 years party schools.
What's the other option?

In the USA, taking 7+% of everyone's savings on short notice would initiate a civil war. Can't imagine how another alternative would be worse.
Yeah, you try to say no to MS while having a multi billion contract with them.
There's more time than life, buddy. Get up yourself and start trying everything so you find your path.
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Then they aren't gamers.

Gamers require precision in their controls first of all, and they also require that their fingers don't cover half the screen while playing. There are no good fighting games on tablets / smartphones. There are no platformers. The FPS experience absolutely blows in comparison to anything else.

No one buys a Smartphone / Tablet to game. No one goes out and seeks the iPad for the perfect "Angry Birds" experience. No one picks the Galaxy Note 2 to get a leg up in "Draw Something".

As I stated before, yes, Tablets / Smartphones eat a bit into the Nintendo handheld market. But so did dumb Cell phones in the past with Bejeweled. Indeed: Bejeweled was a paid app with 75 million purchases and 150+ million downloads... its success far exceeds even Angry Birds of today.

But go back to the early 2000s, and lets see you argue that the cell phones should be included in the market share of "handheld consoles". They are a different market. People don't buy Tablets or Smartphones to "game". Tablets and Smartphones are useful devices yes, but they satisfy a different market.

No gamer worth his salt will be satisfied with poor touchscreen controls with an internal compass and accelerometer. The fact that the Wii / DS managed to get a few dozen million "temporary fans" who were wow'd by that sort of thing is interesting... but that is not the market that will support the gaming industry in the long term.
I'm sure people across the EU are paying close attention, especially with many financial pundits holding a view that Cyprus is just a guinea pig.

If the people there roll over without too much fuss, stealing directly from deposit holders will become the template for future banking bail-outs.

Bondholders and shareholders of Spanish and Italian banks could then avoid losses on their bad investments by pointing to Cyprus as a shining example of things done right.
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aren't they charging 10$ to check for you whether your number is in the database, not 10$ for full database acess?
Buyer beware. I bought the PSD and the font is Gotham Bold. Gotham isn't on iOS and doesn't have an interactive/UI licence so it's not even an option to buy it.

The developer's response: use Helvetica.
First, who are you accountable to? Saying "HN" is too easy. Find someone who will keep you on track with this. A close friend/significant other is a good start. Second, what's your plan? I didn't see one. You need to have some objective metric you will be accountable to.

Finally, be careful what definition of success you accept. Dont pin your self-esteem on this new change. You don't want that kind of pressure. HN is replete with self-congratulatory blog posts and Super Important Business Talk that is sometimes more posturing than reality. Change because you want to (it sounds like you do), and work on yourself as hard as you do this endeavor. Even if you crash and burn, you will come out far, far ahead.

You damage yourself when you couple your self-worth with your accomplishments. It's a natural tendency in high-achievers, but that doesn't make it a great idea.

P.S. don't be hard on yourself for being a late bloomer. Just work your ass off at something that you like.
The thing is, it's well within people's rights to use their time as they see fit, and that is going to include behaviors I don't agree with or I feel are destructive. This is what it means to live in a free society. I can't throw someone in jail because they fell for some VC bullshit. It's just insane.

Let's put aside the fact that it'd be hard to establish a set of behaviors of similar severity on which to jail people (and build consensus on, because it's not right to jail people on one person's opinion); if society put up such a low bar for jailing people we'd have more jailed than free people. There are behaviors that society has deemed destructive and you can be jailed for; taking a low salary does not appear in this list.

With these areas you are frankly not going to get traction talking the way you do. There's lots of injustice out there, there has been with every political and economic system created to date or what's likely to come in the future. When you are outnumbered like this the best approach I can think of is to live well, be an example to others, and be frank about your opinions to those who will listen. (It's an overused example but as I write this I'm starting to think of the example of Gandhi here.) Talk of guns, beating people up, jailing them for what is in many cases just innocent/naive people doing what society expects of them, does not strike me as constructive.

Edit: To be clear I'm not saying that drastic political change (i.e. through legislation) doesn't sometimes have to happen. I'm saying you need pick your battles wisely. Jailing people for accepting a sub-$100k offer does not make sense.
You just said what you don't have, but what about what you actually have ? I know tons of people hitting 60 (like my father) that don't even think in open a business. Never. Ever. At poor countries like mine (Brazil), thinking about opening a business is almost crazy. People drop school and go work for government or big companies. You my dear, have the desire. The guts to come here and expose yourself, you are educated and is based on a evolved country. You don't have the fucking idea about how much you already have! Stop complaining and go do your job, create your own very first small business. Start with something small, like $1000 income, but for God sake, start it today ! Don't let small things, like temporary defeat, go into your way.
Adding the second line was a good edit, kudos on that.
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I really loved the pics, i just drooled with the colors and the shininess of the place. Everything is so new.
Lots of people on HN seem to buy into the logic you're using: that it doesn't matter if arguments are correct so long as they point in the general direction of rightness. Who cares if Techcrunch had anything to do with Mailbox? If a facially nonsensical conspiracy theory about Techcrunch's involvement with Mailbox helps shine a light on how bad Techcrunch is, it's all for the better.

That is not true. Incorrect arguments are bad. Nonsensical incorrect arguments are harmful. They make it that much easier for partisans on the other side to refute valid arguments against Techcrunch. They turn real issues into tribal conflicts so we can't discuss them for real anymore. They shine klieg lights onto one publication while others manage to profit from bad behavior without any scrutiny.
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Try to surround yourself with others, spend time with people either online or face-to-face. Start one or two other physical activities to help you get your mind off things.

Then, start with a really small bite-size idea, something that seems so trivial and implement it and get it done. Then slowly start building on that tiny idea and keep adding to it. This will help you show progress, will allow you to focus and get a feeling of accomplishment. Over time, which by the way,you have the rest of your life, you can build on that and figure out what you really want to do.

Hang in there.
Bisecting the code is a pain in the ass. Until back-in-time debugging is more of a standard, another alternative is simply to log a lot of stuff and include a bug reporting tool in whatever software you ship that will attach the log to the bug report.
"I don't have too much time left. My 20ies are gone. "

There's no question that many of Steve Jobs' greatest innovations and ideas came late in his life. Many great people are late bloomers, and its by selection bias that you think most people achieve greatness at early age.

You should have an email address or something else so that we could reach out to you directly :)
That is largely a result of the efforts of governments and media companies. Encryption is not the default for email because of the efforts of the US government. People who run anonymity systems are routinely harassed by the government (try running a Tor exit not or an anonymous remailer -- you had better be ready for early-morning paramilitary raids). Peer to peer filesharing was effectivelly killed by the RIAA and MPAA. The world was forced to move to centralized, insecure systems because the more secure alternatives were all shut down before they could become entrenched.
I don't think it's that 2005. For example, it has RWD, which is wonderful.
Finally! I really hope their docs improve because right now, they are horrendous.
Retention vs sign ups. Interesting.

Are we talking LinkedIn style link-bait and endless 'notification' emails?

Or Dropbox/Mailbox style gamification to get more free by being 'part of the club'?
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Good luck man. It takes a lot of guts to put yourself out there like that.

(by the way, you live in one of the best countries in the world, that's gotta provide an added boost)
Small niche market ? It's easy to find, you just have to look inside yourself and your own problems. Like wanting to start a small business and not knowing how. So your next niche market is: "Employees who wants to start a business". Now go on and create your solution or product not to solve the problem entirely, but to reduce the pain. Step by Step.
My solution is overly simplistic, but one of the reasons I like services such as viewtext.org is faster and more private browsing.
> I need to break out of my own little word (unfortunately, besides being a loser, I'm also a loner).

Visit NY for a week or two: https://secure.iqres0822.com/iqreservations/asp/IQHome.asp

We can save you from yourself.

Look at http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/690958main_p1237a1.jpg -- every dot in that image is a galaxy. Each galaxy has over 100 billion stars. Do whatever the heck you want in this world. It'll work out.
Indeed - its a nice symbiotic relationship enabled by trade and market pricing signals.

Why would market pricing fail in the case of letters when it seems to work so well (as you notes) for package delivery, food production and technology?
Great post! Welcome to HN!
I'm sure a few people agree with what he said, because people tend to get swayed by forceful statements (eg. this is how Fox gets its viewership).
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480514

(The idea behind the config above is to propose TLS 1.2 ciphersuites, which aren't susceptible to BEAST, and leave RC4 as a fallback for older TLS implementations. But TLS 1.2 support in browsers is still problematic.)

Also, ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 is still decrypt-then-verify CBC mode, isn't it? GCM should be listed first.
Sorry for the late reply. Open the console or open any meteor app in a mobile browser.

Seems a 'dirty' way to achieve real-time. Surely there's a more intelligent/efficient method to be found?
> I don't have too much time left. My 20ies are gone.

Little over-dramatic there buddy. You're still incredibly young. You're very likely only about one third of the way through life.

That kind of over-dramatic, unrealistic thinking is not constructive.
I can relay to this. I'm like you, starting things but can't persist. I grow tired and frustrated easily from mundane works such as make a pretty landing page, beef up our application's UI etc. Anything that requires 40+ hours of working is like a sea of burden to me.

However I had the great opportunity of having an awesome co-founder. He seems to be picking up where I left and finishes them off beautifully. Server side coding? check. Server side UI remake? check. Landing page details? check. I grew very interested in the fact that facing the same amount and type of work, why can he persist and why not me?

I think I had the answer this morning after quite of few months of introspection. The difference between me and him is that I look at how things were supposed to be, while he looks at how things could be. Let me make an example.

Remember the old story that half a glass of water can be both viewed as still a half remaining or a half missing, generating different moods? Well my tiny story is a twist to it. Say you were to fill a bigger glass with a tiny ink converter. Let's say it will take about 2hrs of mind-numbing work. After one hour with half a glass, I would look at the task and say, oh my, still a half to go. How grueling can this be? Then I'd feel frustrated and give up. Just like what I did to many of the tasks I started but never finished. My co-founder, I suspect, will look at the remaining work and say, oh my, only one more hour to go then I'll have this wonderful filled glass of water! That's why he stays up and working and never seems to have burn outs. I guess positive emotions never gives you burn outs. It is persisting under negative emotions gets you burn outs.

So I'm guessing the key is to catch yourself thinking in a bad way that is generating negative emotions, then turn the thinking in a better way that generates positive emotions.

I just realized this this morning. There should be a few points that I'm missing but I think I'll figure more out in the coming days/weeks. Meanwhile I am logging my thoughts and see if I can turn my emotions around and if that makes a (at least) personal difference. Hope it is useful for you.
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