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If you use Google Chrome, there is a official Save to Google Drive extension which appears to do the same thing as Google Saves, and more, minus the Material layout.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-google-dri...
Might be US-only; I was on a VPN, got 404, turned it off, got the site.
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That's a fair question. I think there is a widely held consensus among most techy people on a set of values/ideas that were instrumental to the birth anf growth of the internet, and which are a core part of what makes it one of the most amazing human inventions ever.

Openness and accessibility are among the most important internet values. Companies that create closed gardens violate these values. Many people believe that this erosion of openness for the sake of short-term profits (2-3 years) will lead to a weaker and all around worse internet in the long run (5-20 years).

The community center people are seduced by the ease of creating a FB site without paying any cash, while likely not realizing that it's harming their community by excluding people.

Of course, being too dogmatic about values is never good. But I would argue this is a case where it's good to stand up for accessibility.
> I am also very frustrated by transit advocates who don't seem to realize just how bad the bus experience is and just how strongly that shapes public attitudes about public transit.

This times 1000x.

It's common in the Midwest for many people to have never once used any public transit in their entire lives. So it's very easy for our public transit groups to pretend that BRT is "like Light Rail" hoping it will improve the public response to BRT.

Instead, it just dampens enthusiasm for real transit. People ride BRT and are underwhelmed. Since they've been told BRT is "just like Light Rail", they decide that Light Rail must suck too.

Which is how you get metro areas of 600k+ people which, despite having a dozen or more bus lines, still manage to have no useful public transit of any kind.
Major rewrite and redesign takes time even for the world largest software company, in the past 8 years or so both MSFT IE and Firefox has gone through major rewrites in their js engine, rendering engines and UI. Chrome on its part forked webkit so that they can make changes and add feature faster, which was not possible before.

Making browsing and maintaining your own rendering engine is not easy which is why we don't have a lot of competition in the this market.
Should Google only work on things that it could guarantee to run for at least a few years no matter how it is performing?
Thank you for the questions!

Sharklet developed a micron sized pattern for use on catheters, and has licensed the pattern to Cook Medical. But the transaction was completed a few years ago (2013) and nothing has come to market. There is no clear evidence why this is, but we do know they are using pressure stamping to texture the catheters, a process that is still expensive and time intensive. Their patent didn't cover manufacturing, just the texture pattern. Inaddition to our lower cost manufacturing, we can texture at the nano-scale. Bacteria tends to be 1-3 micron's in size, any surface bigger then them and they can rest and attach. Because Sharklet/Cook use a micron-scale pattern some bacteria can still adhere, you still get a deep reduction in bacteria adhesion but it's not better then what we can observe at the nano-scale.

The CDC, and hospitals, are primarily turning to better processes. Ensuring that central line catheters are routinely cleaned, no clots are forming, little things like that. Try and identify any clots early to give maximum time to get a new catheter. Conduct additional testing to look for infections and treat as early as possible. Those are all things that hospitals can easily do and have been doing quiet well, it's just not enough.
Catheters are incredibly price sensitive, they are treated like a commodity and no one wants to pay any extra then they have too. Adding and additional few pennies to the overall cost would have hurt us a few years ago. But the Affordable Care Act is our friend, ANY infection that a patient can connect to a hospital (whether it's the hospitals fault or not) has to be treated and paid for by the hospital. All of a sudden a few extra pennies now can save a hospital tens of thousands later. Our financial story won't depend on an out-price cost comparison, but a reduction of later hospital expenses (not sure the correct finance term for that).
I went through the startups, but its really hard to make a decision from the description. I would suggest that the startups fill answers to the YC application form so there is more data and background to ask further questions.
What makes you think it's a one-way street? I fully expect that the early part of my "retirement" may well look like taking an individual contributor role in software again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

How do I make a link in a question?

You can't. This is to prevent people from submitting a link with their comments in a privileged position at the top of the page. If you want to submit a link with comments, just submit it, then add a regular comment.
No. They're free to pull the plug on whatever. I will just make all future decisions knowing that this will probably happen. i.e. I won't rely on anything Google releases unless I know it makes them money.
Out of curiosity, but what's your gold standard for companies that sustain services over time? Or is your suspicion scoped to free services, of which Google has dropped a number of well-liked but non-revenue-generating services?

For their most popular products...I've found them to be pretty stable...little apps I've created using their Javascript mapping still function even though I knew so little about JS back then. I keep forgetting that I have a Google Voice number, and it still works fine even though it's been years since I've last used it on a regular basis.

Of course I think of Amazon being the most stable of platforms, but those are dev focused, with APIs that they've dogfooded too much to just drop. OTOH, they've cut a few public-facing conveniences, such as Send-to-Kindle integration from third parties (or, that's what I'm assuming, given the roundabout way that is now needed to import O'Reilly ebooks).
Upvoting because this link is cheaper than the Amazon link.
I just don't need ANOTHER place to save stuff.
Oh, so dang was able to do that because he's a moderator?
Google can do what they like -- but at this point, without such a guarantee, their history shows that it would be unwise to take the time to integrate their side projects into one's life or workflow.
Cities really, truly, have historically predominantly invented, produced and designed those things (including designing and paying for the factories seemingly in the country).

Not many medicine schools, pharma corps, research labs, car manufactures, tech companies, tv and movie studios, etc operating out of rural Idaho, or South Dakota, or Alabama, or what have you...
The cottage industry devoted to writing blog posts about how hard it is to be a woman in tech and all the sexism and hardship all women face along the way seems to be doing their part to continue to intimidate and discourage women from learning to code.

As long as there is a market for that kind of rhetoric and enough eyeballs show up to generate the ad impressions, blog posts will be written about it. If shit on a stick was what everybody wanted to read about, we'd be up to our ears on whether blue or purple shit was the hotness this fall. The transparency of it and that people seem to find it confusing is the funniest thing of all.
That's its location.

The question was whether there's a network "showing what's important to the middle states".

(Which I interpret as "important related to their views on laws, life, politics, ethics, etc", not as "related to regional news").
Seems neat. Interface style could use some improvements by pro designers. That's intuitive guess rather than professional advice. I like that you mostly copied Facebooks model without getting close enough for a lawsuit. Makes it easy to understand. You've attracted an interesting crowd including what looks like hookers lol. The people in the feed mostly look young on my end so I can't tell if it's long-term or a temporary fad to them. Facebook used explosive growth followed by lock-in and acquiring competition to avoid that risk. noije in upper-right is cute idea but maybe bad since it's not intuitive: many are unwilling to Google what they expect to be an indicator of not signed in or their username.

Those are first impressions. There's potential here. The one concern I have not addressed by the site is if this is venture funded. I'm guessing "Apply HN" means it's intended to be but that would be a negative for me. Anything long-term, esp security/privacy related, shouldn't be trusted if it's venture funded as their model is selling out to firms that tend to unravel good quality, service, or security startups created. Short-term, create interest, experiment, and make a lot of money? There's still potential there.
> a new secure payment system where authentication/authorizations are done on the customer’s device

How does this differ from Apple Pay/Android Pay, which is already making headway in this space?
> This is really a shocking dereliction of duty on the part of teachers and guidance counselors.

Playing devil's advocate for a second, what if the teachers and guidance counselors still believe it to be true? They're likely from a previous generation or two, where simply having a college degree opened up most doors.

Then again, what if having a college degree really is still better than not? You don't have to spend $300K on undergrad to get a degree- and I think that is what we should be pounding into kids' heads. That's great that you want to go to a private school for undergrad and two more years to get your masters so you can be a teacher, but paying 5-10% on $300-400K and topping out at $65K/year is a shitty economic deal. Go in-state and work while you study. Search for the grants, so many random grants go relatively unclaimed.

It's like buying a car- when you focus on the prospect of a low monthly payment and not the fact you're paying for 95 years, it's easy to hide how much money you're flushing down the toilet.

EDIT:
I took on about $50K in school loans and worked a minimum 20 hours a week through uni. I worked as a motorcycle mechanic, farm hand on a dairy farm, tech support for the college, hardware testing for a lab, and all kinds of contract development work. Sometimes in the same week.

Some days it sucked, most of the time it was tolerable, and it was often pretty fun. I also learned something about my own intestinal fortitude that school never would've taught me.
Thank you for that. I clicked on the submitted link, I got a flash of a splash page that just disappeared because I happened to inadverdently click after the page load. And then a completely empty page that tells me that I have no saves. And literally nothing else to tell me what Google product I've tripped on...a link to the extension that said, "Hey, looks like you need some saves. Install our Chrome extension!"

I'm guessing this is must be a soft launch.
> I've already appealed for help to some very smart people I know and might have to do so again.

Without knowing anything about this industry, technology or these founders, this phrase alone gives me enough confidence in their ability to execute on this or anything else they commit to.
Hey delicious is still around, not great, but around. In fact if you poke around in their UI (I think it was going to export) you can get redirected to one of the old UIs from before it got sold and web2.0y.
HR is a profession where you're allowed to believe that someone with a math or robotics degree isn't a good fit for a programming job because there's not enough of that Computer Stuff in their background.

It's part of a very curious corporate phenomenon - above a certain level of power you're defined as competent by reason of your department and job title, irrespective of your actual ability.

You can be breathtakingly clueless, to the point of creating very negative consequences for the company that employs you, but you will never be held responsible for it.
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Being able to express and understand complex concepts is the difference between "smart" and "dumb", educated and uneducated.

An average 4 year old in extreme poverty or public care has 10M words directed at him. A 4 year old with professional parents hears 50M. That's a key differentiator that drives future potential.

Many people lack sophisticated literacy for a variety of reasons. When Honda opened a factory in Alabama, they changed written assembly instructions into pictograms due to the poor literacy level. In aviation, documentation is written in "simplified technical English" to assist non-native English speakers.
I'm in the US and am 404'd.
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I originally tried to start a startup related to recruiting. I interviewed 40 recruiters. I could not find any specific pattern, so I moved on to other things.
That's true for most free services without ads. These comments always have this sentiment that Google does something wrong, which is simply nonsense IMO.
Apply HN: MalleableByte - Ensure quality web traffic
MalleableByte is developing an automated web service to help growth hacking site owners eliminate spam traffic with predictive machine learning.

Value Proposition: Help site owners understand human visitors not spam.

Website & Video: http://malleablebyte.org

Why are we doing this?
We encountered this problem ourselves and wanted to solve these 3 main pain points:
1) Manually updating block filters/firewalls regularly is painful and unproductive.
2) Spam and bots messes up the analytics and analysis.
3) Spam and bot traffic is often indicative of potential security issues.

How are we doing this?
1) Quarantine web traffic with automated filtering.
2) Apply machine learning and prediction to manage constantly evolving thread.

Who is it useful for?
Growth hacking site owners or webmasters.

How are we measuring our results?
1) Reduce overall bounce rate.
2) Increase visitor page views per session.
3) Increase visitor average session duration.
I find it interesting that your first question is about why the founders are the right ones to build this and the second is about how it's different than existing solutions.

Usually the idea gets discussed, than the team and competition. I think it is telling that the top comment on this post doesn't need to validate the idea and demand. That alone should count for considering in the YC Fellowship.
It's hardly unique to Trump. Politicians have labored to eloquently say as little as possible since the Assyrians.
The people who Fox News caters to the most are suburbanites. Most people way out here are lukewarm on Fox News. They're just... different. They agree with some things that I imagine would be popular in big coastal cities, but disagree with other things that might surprise you, so.
It certainly seems likely to break many of the private-but-not-elite schools as more students choose state schools. Many seem to cost just as much, if not more, then the ivies.
Everything I learned from past years frustration with google products is that their product survival time is getting shorter and shorter. From Greader's 8 year life span to Glass'SIDS, if we plot the product survival curve maybe we can get a not so nice prediction here.
You're right, the fda's open API is a great new tool that they're building as well as the Maude database. But it's very limited in collection and accessibility of clinical data. For example, 510ks are redacted and require manual requests for full information each time. The problem with Med journals is their exclusivity in publishing research and often times doctors only read certain journals, leaving out smaller, lesser known research. I've experienced this as a pharma rep with first to market clinical data that was ignored because we weren't in a certain journal.
To overcome the trouble with late and in-frequent submission of data like adverse events from manufacturers, we want to position an access point for our data capture software at the point of surgery/device usage where we combine device id with patient id for tracking. At this point, adverse events or device failure is detected at the point of hospital intervention.

Looking at the data that triggers purchase, there's actually a huge shift occurring. More hospitals are moving to committee based decisions rather than submitting to physician preferences. As prices for devices skyrocket in conjoncution with the known relationship of physician and vendors, hospitals are looking to base purchasing decisions across clinical evidence, financial data, and comparative analysis. So we think these trends are favor our thinking and strategies initially.
The alternative to C for systems programming in the '70s was not Modula-2 or anything like it, the only realistic alternative for most production systems was writing your kernel code in assembly. C allowed the industry to finally stop defaulting to assembly for systems programming. That was a very good thing, regardless of how old and inappropriate C might be for such purposes nowadays. The comment you were responding to reads to me like someone providing historical context, not an expression of an ideal.
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Sure, except this subthread starts out with a response from me to which you're objecting saying:

'If the only requirement is "an arrow that randomly points left or right when you tap the screen" - I suspect _anybody_ who reads HN could whip up a provably-correct solution in under 30 mins just using html and javascript.'

In the context of the proposal to do this in HTML/Javascript, I've been explicitly discussing a obviously oversimplified single requirement - not the "likely" requirements for the TSA project about which we can only make assumptions, since we've not seen them.

Sorry if we've been talking at cross purposes here.
If you don't mind, was refinancing a good move for you? What rate were you able to get it down to?

We're at 6.8% right now.
Apply HN: Edtrics -Intelligent Education
Students and teachers around the world are all left missing the largest part of the educational equation. A standard for betterment. The edtrics educational platform is aiming to change the way students and teachers, set their benchmarks, develop individual optimal learning/teaching strategies, change student learning from a linear learning cycle (step A, B, C...ect) to a quadratic learning cycle(step A, BC, CDE, EFGHI...ect).

We set out to do this to help three main groups, students, teachers, and parents.

Students have always just been given various workloads based on the combination of classes. The question we are answering is how do we increase the intellectual workload without increasing stress. We are doing this by using our application to pinpoint, “golden habits.” Every student learns differently, we are helping to shed some light on what is highly successful on an individual student basis. Then prompting replication across an array of factors. We are also hoping to profile students learning strategies into groups to suggest teachers with similar teaching strategies. We are not just looking at the “big picture analytics”, we are analysing from micro to macro.

Teachers have a ridiculously stressful job at times, when students aren’t improving, learning, or maintaining focus. We hope to remove the grey area with insight analytics to teaching strategies and overall learning outcomes. A platform to teach the teachers. We hope to connect a vast network of educational professionals and give new and old teachers alike different strategy insights that worked in other related fields.

Students learn better, Teachers are more effective educators, and parents know what's happening every step of the way.

I’ve left quite a bit out but my name is Josh. I’m the CTO and am building the platform solo, I’d love to get some cool tech questions, although I won't be outlining our black box algo, everything else is fair game, cheers.
Thanks for explaining what Jam does. Could you please talk a little bit about user engagement (how often does a typical user use Jam) ? Also how do you (or plan to) generate revenue ?

The potential travel related feature you describe seems more widely applicable than just for students. Perhaps it may be better to focus on other features for the student user base first before expanding (if students are the current focus for your product). ?
Good evening...

I have a couple of general statements and questions.

1.) Good job on getting this far and congrats on making it to the first page. This is the first 'apply HN' that I've seen! :)

2.) You have a neat idea, so I did some research. I found an Indiegogo campaign backed up by a few Reddit posts, some HN posts, etc. How did your project (the semantic search engine) go? It sounds similar to this pitch - does the technology for this project stem from that project? What have you learned?

3.) How do you pronounce Brodlist? Is it broad list? Or maybe Bro D. List?
Back when I was in HS (1990) our VoTech program taught me the equivalent of an AA in electronics. That program was scrapped; what a shame.
The words "auras" and "energies" here have nothing to do with pseudo-babble, new age-ism or whatever.

It's just a quite standard poetic / descriptive use of the word, in fact the term "aura" is used in its most common literal meaning -- those photographs of "the most photographed barn in the world" maintain its myth and it's allure. That's what he means with "auras" there.

>And it occurs to me: that situation was self-selected for those people. See, some folks are not really capable of the perception effort required to really look at something. To experience it fully. But they can buy a camera.

The idea behind the passage what that those "some folks" are increasing, or even the majority.

It's not about there not still being other people who can appreciate the things they see.
Politics at every level is nowhere close to being a solved problem.

Most business training still seems to rely on parables and cool stories, larded with huge doses of Standard Business Vocabulary to make it convincing (win, compete, achieve, aspire, excel, lead, inspire, and on and on.)

If people really knew what they were doing there would be a lot less noise and a lot more quiet wise action.
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I'm from Northwest Pennsylvania, and everyone there would also say "different."

I know, because in high school I became friends with a highly educated family who moved into town after having lived all over the world, and made an effort to match their more intelligent sounding speech (which included, among other things, adding -ly to adverbs.)

My mom still occasionally teases me that I say "eye-ther" instead of "eee-ther" (for "either.")
Almost 700,000 gallons of water go untapped over Niagara Falls every second. There's no point in pumping water back up until you've harnessed that first.
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The pricing structure is missing a couple of middle tiers and overall the service lacks useful features. For instance: I could buy a $5/mo droplet in Digital Ocean, one click install node, even use my own domain and manage deployments/restarts almost as easy. For that money I get 1TB transfer and 20GB ssd and many more features (b/c I basically get a VPS where I can do whatever). It takes me 10 min to setup the server and zero minutes to deploy each new version (I use deploybot so every git push is really a deployment).

Some things are not clear:

"Dynamic realtime scaling" Forever? Unlimited? Say 1MM concurrent API calls for $15/mo?

URLs change after each deployment? Do I need to update endpoints on all clients?