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Can anyone comment how this compares to context.io? (which also appeared on HN)

http://context.io

It seems to me that the analogy "Twilio for email" works better when applied to context.io, which aims to give a uniform API to all mailbox operations.
Agree whole-heartedly. Entreporn at its most annoying levels.
Buzzword soup yes, but it's oversalted (once again).

I fail to see any advantage in having my front door "keys" stored in the "cloud".
so people will just have to bookmark IP addresses if it comes down to it? and then someone will come up with an alternative to DNS that will help people remember these IP addressees... and then we'll have that new updated infrastructure for DNS we all wanted anyway?

it seems to be attacking everything but ISPs, so as long as the sites still have internet access, people will find a way around it.
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the building not so. the marketing and pr needed to reach that goal on the other hand is a little more work :)
Good point. Although I think there a big difference between building 1 and building 20. A service that earns $1000 will probably not run by it self.
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Read the article again. Then read your comments. You're just being polemic and you're belittling the issue at stake.
Maybe they tell themselves, "If they have to offer money for something they're doing, maybe it isn't such a great thing thing after all."?

Especially if you're asking the same people, of which 50% agreed initially.
People are smartest when they're old, but they're also the most risk-averse when they're old.

60 year olds today are generally uninterested in creating the future. Their main concern is with their own health I find. The more active 60 year olds also seem to love playing with real estate, buying/selling/renovating.

It's very hard to get them to invest in some future technology which will change the world.
I've pretty much refused playing on public servers now (on the PC of course), and just stuck to a serious semi-roleplaying community focused on shooters, because of exactly this.
It amuses me that an article about punctuation and typographic conventions completely ignores the standard of using typographer’s quotes instead of inch marks. “This,” instead of "this." Same goes for apostrophes versus foot marks.

As a graphic design student myself, I am quite snobbish about using perfect typography. This includes proper quotation marks, as well as following the rule of putting periods and commas within quotes. (I also follow the rules religiously when it comes to en-dashes versus em-dashes and hyphens, and when to uses spaces around them. I also make sure to only use a single space after period.)
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I mean when you authorize someone through twitter, you can ask for read permissions or for read and write permissions. Right now you're asking for read and write, which always makes me suspicious - "will this application post something on my behalf?" :(
So apropos this was submitted by "gruseom."

I don't seem to recall CatCF being that dark, but, it's been a while, and I was rather young when I read it... Maybe it reads differently in the light of adulthood.
That is an impressive fact, but not really relevant IMO. There are many more possible files than particles in the universe. A hash does not uniquely identify a file from all other possible files. This follows from the definition of a hash function.
So put your money where you mouth is and pay me to work on robotics and space travel.

Offer any 25 year old this choice:

a) You can be paid $100k/year and work on space travel.

b) You can go found a photosharing startup and I'll fund it.

The far majority will choose (a).

But guess what? No one is funding space travel, and when they do fund space travel, the 25-year-olds they hire are generally just sexy female secretaries who fetch them coffee.

Offer a 25 year old a challenging job in the space travel field and he will take it. The jobs aren't there. No one with money gives a fuck about space travel aside from Richard Branson who won't hire me because I don't have 30 years of experience being a rocket scientist.

Why is it so hard to become an apprentice to a rocket scientist? Why are there so few jobs in this field, and so many in sharing photos and affiliate marketing?
Both the question and the answer are all kinds of silly. You can't start a project with the end goal of making $1000 a month, or you will surely fail. Instead, you've gotta motivated to solve a problem you've identified and then you need to execute on it.

Coding isn't everything either. You may be a fine developer, but you're forgetting about design, marketing, customer support, dealing with crisis when your project does good, dealing when depression when it doesn't…

Don't make a plan to get to $1000. Rather, build something cool, and when $1000 does or does not show up at the door, be thankful and learn from the experience. And try again. Iterate.
Disclaimer: I don't have a citation for this, I just remember it mentioned a few times, so I may very well be wrong.
Another developer here - I found the post honest and refreshing. Will soon apply for a job at Svpply.
Yes, that dress does make you look fat. And you are getting fatter anyways so why worry about which dress to get? Besides, people are more likely to notice the wrinkles around your eyes or your sagging boobs than they will an extra ten pounds. Oh now they'll definitely notice all that running mascara... it makes your face look awful.
Investors are smart. If they do bring up this post, I imagine it'll be in the context of a "so how much have you learned about being a CEO in the past year?" question.
The biggest benefit is that you can track how many people clicked on a link. That way users know which share links were popular. And for URL shortening sites themselves they get even better analytics where they get in real time all the popular shared links.
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I'd like to hear a more full rebuke of the written response from ATT:
http://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/files/2011/05/10-May...

Verizon's response basically states that they don't want more competition:
http://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/files/2011/05/verizo...
Doh! Sorry, jff. You're right, I haven't seen Fight Club, only Faculty Club, but the resemblance is uncanny....
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Just add the + at the end to see stats: http://bit.ly/dfMsd+
Yeah but all of that could be done from a phone if the house was locked with an RFID tag (and they are cheap enough that you can hand them out more or less like candy, since they are about that price).

As for not locking the door, that is definitely a problem (as is, as I have also done, unlocking the door and leaving the keys in it) but I have never really been in doubt that I locked the door, even if I hadn't.
Hm, but phones still break a fair amount more often than keys...
There have been other attempts to make a currency with computers. However, bitcoin looks to have solved them. No central bank, dont just give them out for free, don't flood the market, Open Source, "Open Source", protect from dubble spending, and have really easy to work with API's.

This is why I am behind the project. I totaly agree that any startup is going to be a big risk, but so far bitcoin seems to be taking off. Here is the bitcoin whitepaper which will show you how it works.
http://myrelay.net/files/bitcoin.pdf

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http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0509/technology-psilocybin...

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Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily.

Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to mind.

Many of these projects can be kept on "life-support" and still bring in a healthy profit if set up correctly.

Please don't down-vote because it's porn - it's a legal and legitimate space
I'm very skeptical of all those marketing centered developments as well, but throwing entertainment in that same bucket is nonsense.

Entertainment is an end in itself. Marketing is a means to an end without (much) intrinsic value. These two things are as far apart as two economic activities can ever be.
What a PhD does is "invention". The term "innovation" refers to bringing already invented things to the market.
"The first 3 years of any startup is very hard. After 3 years you just get used to it".
The resolution here seems obvious to me: when you find yourself in a bike shed conversation, go with the standard. If, however, one option or the other is preferable for some practical reason, choose that option.
Yes, but Tarsnap (as far as I know) only dedupes your data i.e., if I upload the same file twice it will be stored once. This is easy, because two identical files encrypted by the same key (i.e., mine) are still identical.

Dropbox dedupes across users, if Alice and Bob both upload foo.txt with identical contents (but encrypted with their own keys) the encrypted result will not be identical even though the files are. Right now Dropbox does dedupe in this situation, which obviously required unencrypted access to both files.
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Irony: posted by someone who doesn't know when to use "then" and when to use "than".
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I haven't used sorcery, but I have just finished quite a large rails project in which I decided on Devise right at the start. It was great in the beginning, but as soon as I needed custom behavior, it became more of a liability than a help. Doing simple things like changing a redirect on sign up or sign in, and a few other customizations were chores, some of which required overriding core devise classes, and I am still not really happy with the fixes.

If I were doing an app with standard model authentication, a Forum for example, I would use devise again in a heart-beat, but for any other project where I expect to have any slightly customized behavior at all, Ill be rolling my own.

Devise is brilliant if you want something straight-forward, but it is big, complicated (internally), and not very flexible.
Where does the money actually come from? Other adult businesses advertising on your site?
I have trouble seeing how Qi is interesting except for sequent calculus and that in and of itself has disturbing practical implications. I'd personally like to see an example of a practical programming problem which is more easily implemented and integrated in Qi than in, say, Racket.

Also, Lambda the Ultimate is a weblog for functional programming, not Lisp specifically.
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Why waste time writing a compiler when you can leverage much of the work already done to optimize .NET?

If the clients don't have it, make your installer download it and be done with it.
Apparently you are getting downvoted, but I think this is some of the better advice in the thread. Breaking out of a stale routine and establishing new life patterns is a great way to also establish new thought patterns. It won't necessarily cure depression on its own, but it can help a lot.
You're right that a global database, partially about us and our relationships (including a social network), is the future. Many are working on it, including me. And Facebook has some seed data for that, but that's the extent of it.

We'll remember Facebook in ten years the way we remember MySpace now: We don't. Facebook changes nothing.
I'd say that in this case I'd give more credibility to someone who follows logical punctuation, as long as they followed it consistently. I prefer it both logically and aesthetically, and, perhaps because of this bias, would wonder if someone following the "periods and commas inside the quotes" rule is just mindlessly following a rule.

Language evolves over time, and in my opinion logical punctuation has become common enough to be a credible choice. Most people these days take the "do not end sentences with a preposition" rule with a grain of salt, and I think that the MLA method of quoting is headed in a similar direction.
I have many products that make more than $1000 a month. Tip - use the app stores to cut away the pain of having to market to users through vague means. App stores are a godsend if you are a good developer but bad marketer.
Hello, if you care about size, the best way is to just use Redis Hashes, that internally store fields and values into a binary very compact representation.
what I contend is the pervasive cognitive dissonance in the 'geek' community (of which, to be clear, I am part) that somehow they should have the right to download whatever they want because there is at the moment no effective way for creators to enforce their will on what happens to their creations.

For now, I hope we could reserve IP for Internet Protocol only.

I think the problem is that there are any rights involved at all. To be precise, I think nobody should have a right to download whatever they want but I also think that nobody should have a right to control copying either! They both seem ill-wrong, somehow.

I don't think we can possibly formulate our world based on rights. Going to the extreme, everyone has the theoretical right to not become killed and yet lots of people end up killed all the time by individuals, institutions and nations of much varying moral capacity and the world still goes around. So rights seem to be philosophical ideals: lots of should-nots and ought-not-to's but the actuality often doesn't reflect the rights at all. More so, often worst things happen when we try to be the judges of these rights ourselves.

I feel that there's no such thing as intellectual property. I don't know why exactly but I just know things are going terribly wrong with it. One indicator is the copying vs. stealing argument: we have lots of collective experience about the latter while the former has never been considered a major problem until the last few decades.

We have only recently built a commercial mechanism that allows certain individuals in a minority to make huge amounts of money by the music and movies they create, and keeps the rest a.k.a. the majority out of the picture, except for paying for that all. This is a new thing alltogether and concerns only a fraction of the whole population so it's funny to see the "problem" having grown out of proportions.

Imagine you've made up a song in the morning and you sing it aloud when you go outdoors gardening. Somebody walks by the street, hears the song, learns it and starts singing it along the street. All neighbours learn the song from him and soon the whole block is singing that song. Somebody will grab their guitar and go to the town marketplace to sing that song to everyone else, and he receives some money from it when people drop coins into his hat.

Is that a collateral wrongdoing going on there or just something that happens and nobody can't control? Major criminal activity or people having fun? Was the song writer deprived of lost sales or potential income by this ruthless copying? What if he never wanted any money? How could the other people know that? How could the song writer protect his intellectual property: by never singing his songs? What if he writes his songs out of love for music instead? Can we assume he did? What if he didn't care about it at first but becomes greedy and wants money from all his neighbours the next day, does he have a right to ask that money?

Who knows. Nobody knows.

The whole intellectual property thing is far from a clear-cut case and I consider it an open question at worst and a non-issue at best.
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Another idea that will fail based off the user interface. Keys are too slow. Opening the door with your phone is even slower. I prefer to carry a second faster key than have this in my pocket and then click slide, start the app, wait for it to connect, then open the door.
The scheme tzs came up with provides questionable security, which was also pointed out by other commenters. It offers no protection against hiding the fact that you are in posession of a known file.

For instance, say you are a whistleblower and you have a stash of documents nobody should know you have. Your opponent, having a copy of those documents, can produce an identical encrypted file. What's more, Dropbox obviously already has a mechanism to look up digests so checking wheter the document is stored with Dropbox or not is probably a matter of milliseconds.

Also, as someone pointed out, deriving the key from the cleartext is probably a very Bad Idea.

The only workable approach I can think of is to encrypt and decrypt data on the client. Any scenario where encryption takes place on the server is suspect.
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My personal workaround for this is to use Dropbox to store encrypted filesystem images that I can mount on my machine. This severely limits the usefulness and performance of the service, but has turned out to work reasonably well.
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> These alternative platforms for software development are actually eroding Microsoft's market share.

where is the data about that ?
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Or it was simply a typo.
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"I do not want to be read to from that book, why did you bring it?"

There is always a better rewrite.
I would not take business advice from anyone attributing all of Apple's success to their image and none to their products.
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Rules are useful limitations until you fully understand the subject, then you can break them.

By following your "myths" you will avoid writing bad English, when you know what you are doing you can selectively break them for a desired effect.
Affiliate deals with content sites - which are more than just advertising because they tend to have insane revenue sharing deals for the lifetime of the lead - often 50% split of membership fees for the life of the subscription.

So from just a single user signing up for a $30/month subscription, you would make over $180/year.

My partner enjoys a healthy secondary income (way way above the monthly figure mentioned in the original question) from such activity.

If you do big-data analysis and/or curation of content you can probably sell this to other sites too as many in this space are cash rich and tech-ability poor.
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Down in England title caps like that went out around the 1950s. Compare say the UK Guardian with the New York Times and there is a huge readability difference. US print newspaper design is very retro, like the UK was in the nineteenth and early 20th century.
Is it hard to write a story or make a film that people will watch? Same thing, just a bit different. "Everyone" seems to know the answer, but the truth is nobody knows. Because everyone would do it then.
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Would you care to elaborate on which app stores. I can see how people can make money developing mobile apps, but is it possible to get a decent revenue from say Chrome Webstore.
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You are missing that this is not necessarily aimed at regular home owners. Imagine offices, rented accommodation or as a secondary lock for homes. Being able to offer and revoke keys over the air is huge.

This isn't disruptive to household locks, but to the high ticket price door entry systems.
And already exists in the Java client: http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/
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Mac app store, android app store. Windows App store is coming soon, but till then, locations like download.com
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But then why mobile? Why is it not just a web based app if it's meant to manage a large number of locks? Mobile is not a convenient interface, apart from things that need to be mobile.
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What other devices would be an appropriate replacement for a key other than a mobile phone? (or do you mean a mobile web app?)

eg: using keyfobs = a) regularly lost, b) regularly forgotten, c) small expense every time you give to people, d) never get them back.
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I've been wanting to build a niche video/picture site for a while (to deal with all the CDN/scaling issues involved myself), and I've also been looking for a project I can use this Programming Collective Intelligence book on.

Adult seems to be a good next project for me. The only initial unknown I can think of would be where content would come from unless it's user-supplied. Any other links/info/thoughts?
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The article doesn't mention Xbox or its more enterprise solutions at all instead focusing more on Apple.
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Well Skype is built on Linux and Postgres, so they might have to look at that stuff. Will be interesting if they try to do a Hotmail and rebuild it in Windows...
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