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Wow dude, props for referring to people who crack your software as 'customers' and going through the trouble of protecting them. Most companies don't even realize that things like this can actually hurt their image.
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I'm surprised it hasn't been made automatic.
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Ask HN: Bootstrappers, what do you do during down time?
I wish things were always busy. By busy I mean, I'm getting inbound leads, I'm having conversations via email or phone, I'm selling, I'm quoting, I'm fixing stuff on the product.

Then it goes from crazy busy to suddenly quiet.

I just don't know what to do with the down time. I get super uneasy and anxious. I try to do some content marketing but I make so little progress, it's hard to see any result very quickly, so I switch to optimizing the web or landing page and then get see how my PPC campaigns are doing and then reading HN or listening to podcast on bootstrapping etc. I feel inefficient and spread thin.

I feel terrible when things are quiet. I have an urge to start cranking out updates and new features on the product but I stop myself, as I only decided to create features that enough paying users request.

I have a terrible habit of playing counterstrike and checking HN and reddit obsessively until I get a phone call or an email and then I have to do some work. I'm on the computer almost 15 hours a day. Basically, I have no life except on weekends I go out with friends but I'm always ready to answer email or live chat on my phone. Some days I just wait around and end up playing games all day.

When I was developing the product it wasn't like this. Nose down, cranking out code, testing, but I'm doing much much less of that now and trying to meet my personal sales target, marketing (based on what little I know), fixing websites, talking to people.

If you are boostrapping your biz full time what are you doing when you are not talking with leads or busy? Is there anything else I should be doing? Am I going about this the wrong way? Really would love your inputs, especially if you are unemployed and you rely on your bootstrap business.
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> trust to internet services are very low

What could you do that doesn't require "trusting" the internet? This may be the key to any project you might consider. You may want to look for ideas from the time periods when Internet was not trusted in US and Western World (pre-2000).

I will guess anything related to e-commerce or whatever requires direct money exchange between the user and internet will be out. That leaves you with information products or ideas that enable deal initiation online but facilitating transactions offline. The business model most likely will be based on advertising and sponsorships.

How is the understanding of English for people using Internet in Uzbekistan and/or younger generation who is most likely to use Internet in near future? If not, you may consider information products in the relevant language other than English.

What type of things and activities people are addicted to in your country? Could you make some of those things or activities more accessible through Internet to addicted people?

* News

* Reviews of Products & Services

* Event Listings

* Digital version of popular 'offline' games

* Gambling, horse racing info, etc.

Similarly, you could look at some of the B2B activities that require low or no "trust".
OK, so there are benefits to the job beyond salary. You can't mix and match - oh I'll have the conditions of job A, with the pay of job B.
I second that. Craiglist is very easy to build and useful for a local market and new market.

Yelp for your country may be another good idea. Though it does take some time for people to get used to it.

You can also try other location-based application. As a local market, a lot of the SV companies do not have a strong hold there yet so copying the companies that are location-focused is your best bet.
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Umm I think that was a more general comment. And the reason that makes up the later part of the answer sounds very general and applies to the GP's question.
Yes, they are making systems secure against their owners. Decrypting binaries just before executing means writable memory pages that becomes executable. For my security, I would like that only a couple of "blessed JIT VM" (io.js, jre) were allowed to perform this kind of change to memory pages.
Depends on the price of developer's time and their expertise. Seems like higher level D3: http://d3js.org.
We don't need to shut down universities. Just, enough aspiring professors need to find something else that pays more how they'd like. Then, there will be more demand and better conditions for those left.
You have the similar problems if you build your own resizeable arrays in C, unless you resort to an extra level of indirection (e.g. an array of pointers, or pointers to array chunks).

std::vector has a series of gotchas, but any generic resizeable array which has similar performance will have similar gotchas; std::vector wasn't made that way just for giggles.
if you can install an app from google play store's website to your android phone then why can't apple provide the same feature?
Adding s-exp notation to a random programming language does not make it a Lisp...
the point is that a service like rapidshare doesn't cost the user any money (and instead, get ads). Running a torrent server is expensive, and require dedicated hardware too. You can't really seed from the webhost after all.
"The way we deal with it is that when two startups are working on related stuff, we don't talk to one about what the other's doing."

This seems easier to do with two startups in the same batch than with a new startup and an existing YC partner, although I suppose they could use the same approach.
Come one, don't be naive... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668275

The whole point of web standards is to create a - you know - "standard" basis everybody can build upon. If your webapp doesn't work on a given recent browser (firefox latest is both recent and decent), you're doing it wrong.

And Google has been doing it wrong for years (since 2011 for Gmail). Not only is it wrong in the sense that it's poorly developed, but it's also wrong in any other sense of the word (evil, bad,...).

We're talking about a company that develops a web browser and that, in 2015, serves barely usable version of their services when the UA doesn't match its own.

Edit (for the sake of completeness): if you don't spoof the UA of firefox mobile, you can't use gmail except for painfully reading e-mails.
It's a normal checkbox in the gui "Enable SSH" / "Enable telnet", so I would suppose it is.

But further tinkering revealed it seems to be a quite-close approximation of IOS, but not the same IOS you'd get on the "older brethen" boxes.

It's about 95% the same, with differences in small details - the format of the output, the behavior on "more" prompt, the look of that prompt, the way the certs are stored, etc.

Nonetheless should be close enough to be usable in a geek home environment.

I got the software here, looks like it allows to download w/o logging in: https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=28301...

Since the box I had ran a rather old version, I had to do the intermediate steps as described in http://serverfault.com/questions/622724/error-illegal-softwa...

One caveat I noticed is the ssh seems to not work when connecting from Ubuntu 14.04, works fine from OS X. When I have time, I'll debug it further. (I very rarely do any changes on it, the CLI was more an unexpected bonus I wanted to check out rather than a real need).
Briefly: someone hung a sheet with the following written on it, near the woman's home:

"Benedetta Arese Lucini is a whore. She's available at [her address]. For [local politician] it's free"

The name is included because she authorized the journalist who wrote the article to do so.
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Agreed, just did this as well. eHealthInsurance was awesome but I just ran through the same at HealthSherpa and it is an impressively smooth and minimal site. Such a nice change from usual health insurance sites. Granted eHealthInsurance I have used for a few years and it was easy as well. I like that more sites are making it simple and clear.

What we also need is payment through these sites because once you are signed up, paying through Aetna / Blue Cross and others is a inception like web ring from the 90s and not consumer ready, they have been company focused for too long and reliant on mail/phone. The plan I had at Aetna a year ago, had no lie, 7 clicks to get to the payment system. It was all POST ing so you could not go direct. A few pages on others took 30-45 seconds to load. I feel like all insurance companies sites feel like they can waste everyone's time because you have to do it.
std::random_device is part of C++11, and VC's implementation guarantees that it's crypto-secure.
Here's what's scary: both could be right. Each interprets and constructs meaning from various gestures, actions, words, etc., through their own lens, especially retrospectively.

For example, guy and girl go out to dinner, have a great time, have a couple of glasses of wine. Girl goes back to guy's apartment; they are both light-headed, and end up having sex. Months later, after a breakup, the girl legitimately believes she was taken advantage of ('The asshole was using me all along; he plied me with wine and raped me'), while the guy legitimately believes that what happened was 100% consensual. It is obvious why after a tough break-up the girl may (choose to?) think this way. Also, she IS on some level right: the guy DID want to have sex with her, and the dinner and wine weren't a completely innocent gesture. But guess what: this is what relationships are like, and these situations are virtually impossible to avoid. Every relationship I've been in has had similar 'open to interpretation' moments.

Anyway, this is one reason why relationships today are sometimes an absolute hell; we live in a culture that encourages us to treat everything as means rather than end, including people, and at the same time we are obsessed with ourselves--obsessed with protecting our beautiful, world-deserving self, and are terrified that we might be being used, or that we might be using or accused of using others.
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"Given that Apple rendered MAC addresses useless for tracking users in iOS 8"

How does that work?
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BTW, another place to ask this that's a bit more focused on bootstrapping is: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/

One thing I do is hang out on the forums where people congregate, giving out some help. This generates good will, some links to my product, via a signature link and nothing more, since I want to be kind of subtle about it. It is also a good way to tune in to what problems people are facing.
It wasn't prohibited - this was 2002, and they were only just getting up to speed with this internet thing. It wasn't exactly work that could have easily been plagiarised - 20,000 word research paper on Minkowski, Kaluza-Klein, etc.

I had no revenge, I just ended up with a worse than hoped for degree, a deeper distrust of authority, and utter contempt for university "education", which would be better described as "conformation".
I'm working at integrating my product with it (prob influxdb if it can handle the load). I'm worried its going to be one of those products that ends up everywhere then i won't look quite as magical. It really is that good.
What can you offer to the companies in foreign country that they can't get from locals?

As an American, you may be a desirable English Teacher/Trainer in non-English speaking countries. China, Korea, Japan seems to hire a lot of fresh graduates for English teaching.

Some foreign companies may need a foreign face to impress their foreign clients in meetings or even local communities in promotion materials. You could potentially be that face for such companies. You could also be part of sales, marketing, project management team with focus on US/Foreign clients for Foreign/US companies. I am not sure how easy/difficult would be to get into such roles without any experience.

Easiest bet most probably be teaching English in Asia or Eastern European country.
If you start typing at least it definitely does have the series autocomplete from influxdb.
I spent a couple of months on a mountain at temps down to -20C and high winds with no heating without getting cold by wearing a down suit like this

http://www.rockrun.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9...

but I can't see it catching on. People like their comforts.
I don't understand this sentence: "One caveat to the randomness is that in order to preserve chronological ordering if a client creates multiple push IDs in the same millisecond, we just ‘increment’ the random bits by one."
In 2002 at Durham (UK), it wasn't prohibited at all. They'd only just started using anti-plagiarism software. It also wasn't really a very plagarisable piece of work - big research paper on supersymmetry.

Finally, the publication date on my website was several days after I handed it in - so I assume you, like they, believe I have a secret time machine?
They're very much related to the point I was addressing, namely "What does it cost to add a new type in a language like Java". You're going to have type annotations in your signature no matter what, but adding a new type is relatively expensive.
I do a couple no-caffeine weeks every couple of months to detox, withdrawal symptoms occur each time during the first 2 days or so (headaches, feeling very tired etc). It gets better soon afterwards.
You wouldn't use the same design techniques for these that you would for traditional construction. You probably could make a bridge to take light traffic (hell, these were being built well before rebar was invented), but it wouldn't look familiar.

If you did want to go that way, though, I'd look at one robot to set up a rebar mesh, another to climb up that scaffold to form a mold around the mesh, then a third to compact a concrete pour between the two.
Nope. No such policy. They made it policy after I left.
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Can you provide some info about the way piracy hurt sales - like - when a crack appears for new version, suddenly sales plummet until new version is out?
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It wasn't against any regulation in 2002 - but I suppose you think I deserved this because... What, I should have known that in the future it'd be against the rules? Cool logic man. Report yourself for punishment, being called Dan might be against the rules one day.
nice! moving there from bootstrapers.io (community doesn't seem very active anymore).
Haha, I got just as angry as you did, but the sentiment as you expressed is not correct. It would be more like HealthIrish, HealthPolish, HealthCatalan, etc. Having said that, the misuse of Sherpa, specially in the US, really, really really bugs me. Really really really. A lot of my friends are Sherpas, and when someone on TV misuses 'Sherpa' I just..want..to...throw things at the tv. Sigh. We gotta wait for the Sherpa-in-Chief. We got Prabal Gurung, now we need Ang Dorje Sherpa to start designing cloths.
A bit OT, but is it at all possible to browse pinterest.com from an iPad? All I get is a full-screen non-dismissible overlay forcing me to install their app. Any ways around this?
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How cool would it be to automate ecological construction in similar ways? Straw bales, straw clay, lime render layer, maybe even compressed earth bricks?

Make that open hardware, and you have a real winner for society at wide.
Well, you could always just size up one of those heated blankets, and attach it to the wall. Maybe even combine it with a more efficient fuel source like Natural Gas, and heat water that flows through the system instead of a coil. Sounds much more efficient, especially if you have multiple people in your household. Imagine a system like that...
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Good catch. It's a pain to decrypt the branding of gas types, they differ from retailer to retailer plus nasty tricks like this. Once you get it right and go to the cashier - "Perhaps chocolate bar? coke? hot dog?" Just let me pay goddammit! Even buying gas is frustrating in Poland!
Yes.

Causing a TLB-Split requires ring 0, too.
Its a concept that they've proven can work by building a prototype. I imagine the logical next step would be to extend the concept by building a second prototype that would do something better than this concept. As you can see they've limited themselves to building axis-symmetric structures to ensure the robot can drive unimpeded. A large proportion of existing buildings have rectangular shapes which these robots would also struggle to build. Its an experiment!
We changed the url to that from http://blog.pinterest.com/post/110786995184/install-the-best... because it is more informative.
This was 2002. They didn't understand that people could have their own websites - they kept on going "but we did not set this up for you, there is no other way to have a website". Not in terms of regulations, but ignorance and an unwillingness to listen to a mere peasant, uh, undergraduate.
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I'm sorry, wait... they hacked it through the scroll-bars? You can't make this shit up.
I think the purpose of this program is to provide the ESA with independence from the Russian and American space programs, so with this in mind the IXV and its follow-on projects are going to be very interesting.

Did anyone else notice how fast the Vega liftoff was? I think thats probably one of the fastest, smoothest takeoffs of any launch platform I've seen lately .. certainly impressive.
"The IoT can't happen fast enough. I want my electric blanket to talk to my HVAC system to know when to turn each other on or off. And my HVAC to interact with my flight schedule or my phone's GPS to turn up/down the temperature and know when to turn on so it's still toasty when I get home."

I have these things right now (well, not the flight schedule thing since that happens so little that I prefer manual control) with a few hundred $ worth of home automation gear and a regular PC as the control center. Anyone with a bit of hacker mindset can build such a thing, really.
This is typical for functional languages:

1) build a functional language with lots of features but having a really weird ML-style syntax (because 'succinct' and "you don't need those braces")

2) create a try[lang name].com website

3) ?

4) Profit!

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I heard it in the late 80's/early 90's, referring to Unix-based developers who could write a kernel module, device driver, user space daemon, user app - in fact I think I remember it referring to OSI and POSIX at first (i.e. can develop anywhere on the POSIX/OSI stack). I think its risen to popularity in the Facebook-era, but it certainly existed as a phrase and a concept in the 80's/90's.
do-not-agree. my example - after breaking up with girls, smoking pot make me come to terms with it rather quickly, gaining different perspective (ie that necessary step back that you don't have when deep in it). I see too many people dwelling in the past long gone, strong negative reactions when meeting previous lover etc (if one really moves on, meeting an ex is a "meh" experience no matter what happened... how many times did you see the opposite?).
Curing grief, and I mean really curing for good, instead of being depressed has a net positive effect for me. If this thing would be completely legal, I wouldn't be destroying my lungs by smoking it, but apply some nasal spray, eye drops or similar with no side effects.
The idea was to randomize the mac sent out when scanning for wifi networks. The feature appears to be crippled, though.
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The first type theories by Russell and Church were invented decades before practical computers allowed for programming languages high-level enough to even speak of their being typed or untyped. Type theory is primarily a constructive/computational foundation for mathematics, and secondarily a way of statically proving that programs will not exhibit undefined behavior.
They said "+a large portion of the uploaded code is copyrighted by the University of"
I am assuming that they gave a framework, or something similar to use. That code was included in the repository. It sounds like DMCA us the right course of action.
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I think bicycles are less safe than cars even per trip, because in a bicycle-car collision the bicyclist always fares worse.

The point was to illustrate that it's not some uncontrollable law of nature that more energy / power yields less safety.
One of the early prototypes of the Pi was built around a microcontroller that bit-banged video output. It was a lot closer to the ultra-low-level experience that you describe. He decided it was just too alien an experience and too limited compared to a modern desktop PC - there's no way it could ever run a web browser, for example.

A fundamental problem with the "modern C64" ideal is that the software stack is much deeper these days, especially in the browser.

The nearest thing to your hardware-orientated version of simplicity would be something like this: http://hackaday.io/project/3877-layerone-demoscene-board which outputs raw VGA from a PIC24.
arc4random (under a different name as the name is misleading) will be standardised, and Linux now has a random() syscall that is a necessary building block, so it doesnt fail.

In the meantime, use arc4random on openbsd and netbsd 7 and read from /dev/urandom on all other platforms (FreeBSD is in process of fixing arc4random, currently still uses rc4 and may have problems with state being same in multiple threads; I guess OSX is the same version).

Android does have arc4random, although it can fall back to weaker random sources if it does not manage to open /dev/urandom https://code.google.com/p/android-source-browsing/source/bro...
Indoor fires are a massive, massive health risk. They are a major cause of death in many countries where open fires are still the main heat source for cooking. Even closed fireplaces are an environmental hazard, but more for the surroundings. (I have a closed fireplace myself, got it installed about a year ago, I'm not some tree hugger - but the facts are clear on this one).

The smothering of the fire is even worse. Try smothering a closed fireplace and watch the glass of the doors turn black in a few hours. That's all stuff that would have gone into the room, and into the lungs of those in there, had there not been a door in the fireplace; and even with a door, there is still hazardous material that makes it into the room.
Yes, however I'm not aware of any virtual machine (including emulators) for x86 that isn't trivially detected.
I've sent the software download link in the other comment - so far the history shows quite regular software updates for this box. But I share your concern and can not say much about this box besides what I can infer from the software publish history.

+1 on the OpenWRT. Building a custom package that allows you to get a $20 specialised networked appliance is a breeze. That platform absolutely rocks.