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> The first is the obvious, you-see-it, you-want-it, you-know everyone-and-his-cousin-will-want-it-too something, like the original iPod

The original iPod sales looked like this [1]. Tell me if you think if it falls into your first category. For the first 3-4 years, very little movement. It is interesting to me that a large number of people feel iPod was a smash hit right out of the gate.

[1] https://geekwhisperin.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/total-ipod...
Possibly. At the same time, Mailbox supports iCloud and gMail. They say SlideMail is different in that it is not for power users. So non-power-users that have their own email server or don't use gMail/iCloud?

Maybe people that don't want Dropbox to have access to your email, which is fair. In which case, push privacy as a differentiator. But that isn't nearly as sexy or mass-market as personalization; I think many average users have gotten used to their online information being own by someone else.
I think that's just the natural consequence of knowing a language. I can do the same with a JS and a linter. I don't think that necessarily speaks to the bug-free nature of JS!
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This is a ridiculous argument. Having people of races different than your own next to you doesn't harm you. However, people smoking next to you force you to inhale cancerous smoke and bear its foul smell.
Do you fail to see the difference?
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I fail to see what Objective-C has to do with any of this.
> I would have never predicted someone who speaks positively of The Red Pill works in the subset of technology that made him aware of Hacker News, and all that does is make me rethink what I thought was a typical level of intelligence to work in this field.

There was an influx of TheRedPill users a few hundred (300? 500?) days ago. Most of them ended up getting shaddowbanned within a week or so. A few stuck around. There's also a bunch of people with similar views but who have never visited that subreddit.

It is a bit disturbing.
Not that I disagree with you, or that I don't like your comment; however, I'd like to point out that the "lean startup" methodology was invented just a few years ago, based on many things that have been in existence for far longer, and that fighting a big tobacco company isn't necessary a "startup".
It's just one part of a larger educational campaign. The goal is to not let there be a time when people "forget", or more accurately choose to ignore, the health risks.

The warnings on the packaging are mostly targeted at non-smokers who might become smokers. If they decide to buy some cigarettes, they can't avoid being reminded of the long-term effects. If they buy them regardless, every time they pull out a cigarette they're reminded of what might happen should they develop a full addiction.

After a decade or two of lowered rates of new smokers, the population achieves a sort of critical mass of non-smokers that change the public attitude toward smoking. At this point banning smoking in public places, or increasing tobacco taxes, become politically tolerable.
As far as I can tell, this is not a particularly interesting finding.

Basically, if an application tries to load a library and it isn't there, you can create the library and it will load it.

On Windows, this may be a vulnerability because the program will look in the application directory and current directory for the library, which may not be secured locations.

On Linux, and I believe OSX too, the program will only look in system-specified locations (/lib, /usr/lib, etc) which should be secured at the same or higher level than the applications themselves. If you have access there, you can just overwrite the executable.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/08/59235...

The paper points out that security software may inspect the binary or its signature. However, such security software must also inspect the libraries; otherwise, one could simply modify a library (e.g. libc) to accomplish the same task with less effort. If the security software is going to inspect the libraries anyways, it can check whether any unauthorized libraries are being loaded.
Speaking as one of those people, it's not just the financial obligations. In fact I think the financial obligations are a relatively small part of it; it just means a higher burn rate, which isn't a tremendous problem in the scope of these things.

The much bigger problems are the conflict of time spent on family vs the startup, and/or in many cases the desire to have a stable environment for the family.

The time can be managed for people who have a lot of energy and are equally passionate about their startup and families. I've seen it work out... but I've also seen it tear others to pieces when they didn't get the balance just right.

I'm not suggesting that burn rates and starting on small amounts of capital aren't important, just that it's a small problem relative to the time commitments.
Black people do not pollute the air I breathe (unless they're smokers). If you get your nicotine fix without dumping crap in the air then I couldn't care less about it.
1) >implying the mindset on HN hasn't always been "push things and break shit who cares"

2) /r/programming and other software development subreddits are actually closer to slashdot's ideologies (excepting /r/webdev where performance is an overrated thing)

The good news is that HN seems to be slowly going back to a more old school mindset. At least you can criticize javascript.framework.of.the.day.js without being showered in downvotes, as opposed to a year ago.
The common view is more that any liberal democracy is considered "the West". It doesn't have much to do with location.
Yeah, he was Normandy IIRC, but I assume many descended from him, but as I said, I hated that class.
It's interesting for a number of reasons, not least of which is it shows how the popular press gets science badly wrong, packaging it as a "just so" story that seems to a) explain everything and b) leave very few loose ends.

Concern that the natural cycles were taking us toward a new ice age was quite common in the 60's and '70's, and reasonably justified. We didn't know that people would be still burning coal in forty years time, much less such vast quantities, because nuclear was still a politically viable option despite various hysterical claims against it. And we had even less clue then as to how the climate system would respond to any perturbation than we do today, and we have relatively little clue today.

But a huge number of people think "the science is settled" with regard to climate change because the popular press tells them so. With regard to the existence of anthropogentic climate change that's reasonably correct, but with regard to the consequences it's complete nonsense, and this article from the '50's suggests why that is so: because popular accounts just don't convey the messy uncertainty of the real science. They pull a coherent thread out and make it sound as if we understand far more than we actually do.

This is not to say we shouldn't be building new nuclear capacity, and ignoring all the "green" groups who are protesting solar, wind, geothermal and biomass development (search for "environmentalists against $X" where $X is any industrial-scale green power and you'll see what I mean). We should be doing all those things, and we should be shifting taxes from income to carbon emissions. But we should remember that the science is a lot messier than it gets portrayed in Harpers and the like, and we shouldn't be so afraid of Denialists as to want to avoid acknowledging that.
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That is a ridiculous analogy, since "being near black people" does not cause the health effects that smoking does.

It's not about "tolerance", it's about not forcing others to inhale the same carcinogens as you because they do not want to get lung cancer. "Your freedom ends where my nose begins."
This reminds me of the sprites I made in QuickBasic with 2-digit color codes. Very cool!
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Note that this root expires at beginning of 2017 anyway.
When do you think that the low-end devices in question will actually be the beneficiaries of the smarter GC?
Getting: Error establishing a database connection

Article is already in web.archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20150320100539/http://www.linuxvo...
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Authenticity is one of the possible criteria to judge an edition or a recording, and certainly very valuable, but not the only one.

Just one example stares at you from the Wohltemperiertes Klavier itself: physical evolution of the capabilities of musical instruments. This work itself was in part a demonstration of a new tuning theory. It would have been impossible to play in all these keys just a few years earlier.

So the question can also be framed as a kind of exegesis: Bach might have wanted the Wohltemperiertes Klavier to sound in an entirely different way given a different context.

And while propagation error is certainly a risk with lesser known composers, in the case of Bach, don't be too afraid of it. At all.
Not much it seems. :)
> NZ and Australia share a European colonial heritage and are culturally aligned with other countries of "the West."

The same goes for pretty much all of Latin America. Remember, the majority of South Americans are white and steeped in European culture. In my experience it's only Americans that don't consider them part of the west -- often trying to ignore that they have followed every similar development processes and have very similar culture.
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I find it ironic seeing all those Google developer guidelines on how to be responsible with leaving Services running, but they leave their own crap running 24/7 while you don't even need to run the app.

http://pastebin.com/AdUsUaG6

Not to mention their last Google Play Services update that gets forced to all users automatically is causing wakelocks wanting to update the system, which wrecks havoc on custom ROMs : http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/91021/

Google Android, thank you, not anymore.
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It turns out storing hashed combinations is barely any stronger than plaintext.

The attacker just has to be successful against one of the combinations (eg characters 1+2+3), which doesn't offer enough combinations to make it a sufficient slow guess even if the password is randomly-chosen; for real user-chosen passwords it falls very quickly. Once the attacker has that it's trivial to leverage to guess other combinations (eg 1+2+4) repeatedly until you have the whole password.

If you have to implement a n-of-m password system, you can't do one-way hashing, so you have to fall back to keeping it encrypted in the database, and keeping the encryption keys separate and more strongly protected (eg in an HSM).

(But yes: n-of-m is generally a bad idea for usability as well as of very doubtful security benefit.)
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Is it just me or is it odd that Sidekiq is in there when it has a corporate side to it?
> I do find that Europe and North America are more like each other than either is like Latin America.

"Latin America" is very big area and it overlaps with North America. In my experience the most European-like country in the Americas is by far Argentina.
I've been both a founder and an early employee. As an early employee, I always received a salary, and knew I could leave any time I felt like it. My level of risk was low, and I was perfectly happy with my equity knowing I had a nice upside without much downside at all.

As a founder, I haven't paid myself in months, and have commitments to my customers such that I 100% can't just shut things down and leave to do something else without killing a lot of relationships and getting a terrible reputation.

Of course, I can only speak to my own experience, but I'm satisfied with my amount of equity in both situations.
There's absolutely no reason to go on that kind of rant. We all know that. What the parent post was referring to was only the inflation due to the cost of living in developer hubs like SF.
This isn't a sob story. I'm just saying that, in general, "having experiences" is not the same as doing something worthwhile. So if the best one can do to capitalize on a mistake is to say "I learned not to make a mistake after I've already made it," then you've done the very least you could do.
My takeaway is that flash, by itself, doubles your vulnerability and acrobat triples it. Obviously these results alone aren't statistically significant but flash and acrobat have been dire sources of vulnerabilities for over a decade (and bear in mind that safari renders pdf natively).
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Didn't it only start during that fundraising drive a year or two ago? Or is it older than that?
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I got a call from 949.486.6422, some not easily traceable VOIP, I'm guessing. "Microsoft" detecting viruses on my computer, called to help me remove them. I played along, nkt doing the steps but just saying I was to see where this was going, and they had me open the event viewer -> logs, show warning and errors and then delete them, telling me those were viruses. The connection. Broke up, but I'm wondering what their end game was.

Anyone had this happen to them or heard of this? Were they going to charge me for "virus" removal?
If that's what people want then they already have it with Ustream, Livestream, Bambuser, Qik, etc, etc.

I think Meerkat is riding some kind of SXSW hype machine but I don't see it lasting. Look up Justin.tv.
Australia and New Zealand are very much part of the West, because that label is far more about cultural and political alignment, rather than geography. New Zealand and Australia are just as 'European' as Canada or the USA.
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I have been seeing my links never surface to the front page eventhough it has enoughf points, it makes no sense even thought it doesn't containe any controversial content? This is my lates submissions
http://imgur.com/tWjIPSP and this is the front page. You can clearly see that my link has more upvotes but never makes it to the front page http://imgur.com/SgI97bA. This is unfair
> the majority of South Americans are white and steeped in European culture

This varies greatly between countries in South America, and often within regions of countries. Argentina is an example of a country where what you say is true, but it's somewhat unusual for the region, having killed or displaced most of the indigenous population, somewhat like happened in the United States. Many South American countries are a much a more complex mixture of ethnic and cultural descent. Often the upper classes are more white and more culturally European, while the lower classes are more indigenous and less culturally European. Many countries have active cultural and political conflicts between the these segments; for example Bolivia fairly recently elected its first non-white President (Evo Morales) after years of the minority white-European population forming the ruling class.
Brazil has reduced smoking by 35% since 2000 using mandatory scary pictures in the packaging, restrictions on advertisement, restrictions on public smoking and mandatory minimal prices.

Whether packaging alone works, who knows. The combination of those policies is highly effective.
I know. I was really disappointed but not surprised, last year when I wanted to buy a Mikrotik RouterOS license from a Mikrotik-authorized dealer I waited for days only to be told they will manually review my order so I should scan the physical card, attach an ID and the name on the card must march the name on the ID

On another instance, when I requested a withdrawal from one of the popular freelancing sites you've definitely heard of, I was told that I will have take of photo of myself holding my ID on one hand, and a given statement written on an A4 sheet on the other. This was something I found ridiculous and demeaning but I had to do as I had close to $2,000 for work done.

So it's not like some of us are excited about the situation but there isn't much me as an individual can do. thanks
I was just looking into a fake lawn for my next house, but you don't recoup the cost for 7 years. The builder has been putting in smaller lawns in the front, so we'll likely put a small one back and be smart about watering it (not in the middle of the day, properly position sprinklers etc.). Or we'll xeriscape it
hi there. this concept has already been developed at : http://spot-on.sf.net and is also deployed in http://goldbug.sf.net
I agree, the bug is mostly a worst-case complexity scenario, but it seems to help with the other slightly more complex examples like the lock as well, by separating the keyhole from the rest of the shape:

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The smartest people I know who do personally work on AI think the scaremongering coming from people who don't work on AI is lunacy.

-- Marc Andreessen

Given that a significant portion of what marca himself says and advocates these days is, if not "lunacy", definitely from somewhere very deep in loose cannon territory -- and given the naked over-generalizations embedded in the statement itself (which, when you break it down, is basically a strawman argument) -- I'm just not sure what value he's adding to the discussion, here.
Having the possibility of open sourcing your project in mind when writing it, is a bit like having unit tests. It forces you to think about how easy it would be for others to reuse or deploy.

An example from my organization: Two big projects, one OSed and one private. The private one has configuration values hard-coded (passwords, ldap url's etc.), a setup that is impossible to run ("it works on my machine") and the deployment is a secret that no one really knows (not prepared for someone being hit by a bus).

The OSed project, while not perfect, has separated these concerns and always had re-usability an easy-setup in mind. We can't just push some code that works, the thought of it being public makes us put more pride in what we write, so the QA is good. Of course, there is some overhead in all this, but it wins in the long-term.
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It is worth noting that Fedora, OpenSuse, and Ubuntu all support Secure Boot. However this would limit true "indie" distro's and OSs who likely couldn't get a signing key.

I will say the whole way Secure Boot was done (essentially only having a single signing authority: Microsoft) was highly flawed from the get go. There was some talk about allowing the free software foundation to sign keys, what happened to that?
How "easy" is it to create a service like meerkat?

What are the minimum requirements regarding hardware setup, cost overhead, web app setup?
I read this earlier in the day, and I've been thinking about it a lot since. In many ways, my story mirrors the one in the blog post. However, I've been fortunate enough to make my living at it. I too started by encountering a lot of "internet marketing" gurus.

I was lucky enough to find one idea that let me make a fair amount of money, relatively easily. Back in the day, Google SEO was shockingly easy. Looking back, I probably could have made many times the amount of money that I did with SEO.

All things come to an end, and eventually SEO became much harder. Fortunately, by the time that happened, I had learned enough to be able to pivot my business.

I've ended up building a business that I'm proud of. I get emails all the time from people thanking me for the free services I provide.

The OP talks about a lot of marketing techniques that have worked very well for him in the past. I think what he may have missed is this: A marketing technique is not a business. A business is a set of activities that create a sustainable competitive advantage. A product is not a business, a marketing technique is not a business, any skill, no matter how well developed, is not a business. A business is a system -- a combination of activities that hopefully support and reinforce one another.

I'm always looking for new ways to add stability and strength to my business. In fact, I get pretty "terrified" at any hint of weakness. Sadly, there are lots of hints of weakness. But, I've managed to do this for ten years. Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to continue for many more.
Judging by the first example, I'd guess it's probably creating an NSBezierPath and then letting OSX actually do the rasterisation later.
Thanks for the input! I'm a cofounder at Echo. From our experience, one tricky part of Android dev is the garbage collection. For the end users, garbage collection sometimes creates noticeable lag. That's one of the worst experience we want to avoid. So for Echo, it's almost always worth the tradeoff to reuse objects and avoid unnecessary new object creation, which means less garbage collection. But like you said, the middle-age objects could pose some problems in the future. Judging from the past trend, garbage collection will always be one rocky part of the Android land, which was quite a lesson for us when moving from the ios arc world :)
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> > Women are not actually being singled out, they are now equal with men.

> Gender pay gap? Just one example.

What's that got to do with whether women are more or less harassed on the internet than men are?

I can cut a little slack because the portion you quoted didn't explicitly say that, but we're in a thread about harassment on the internet... you were either too hasty or disingenuous.
I admit I could have explained why.

I'll go into it later, but for the most part I consider the cloud a really bad idea. I also regard most cloud companies as "buzzword-enabled" so as to attract investors.

My gripe with scrum and agile is not so much with the methodologies, but with companies that think they have a methodology when in reality they have a bureaucracy.