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An Analysis of Epub3: "Website in a box," and why that's bad
That's the problem - nobody wants to hit up friends and family members. I think Angel.co does a better job than profounder.
Do I receive the $1,000 if I refer myself to your job listing page and get hired? I'm definitely qualified based on your requirements.

On that note, are you willing to relocate a good candidate? I'd love to apply but I'm located in Florida.
So did your mom.
I was going to say that Gopher would have probably morphed and evolved into something not too dissimilar to the web we have today -- it had the hyperlink idea down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

I remember a few graphical BBS systems that also had some of the conceptual underpinnings of the web today in terms of graphical interfaces.

But I agree, We would have probably ended up with something pretty much like we have today.
It would be cool if DropBox exposed some sort of file stream API that would let you manipulate file data as it's sent to the server. This could be used for encryption and possibly other activities as well (automatic downsampling of MP3s to save space on your DropBox, or just generic compression on the file stream; conversion of certain OS-specific file formats to something more genericly readable if you have a multi-OS environment using the same DropBox).
I've been playing with the job market and I agree with some of the posters below, anything under 50k, even for someone with no experience, is a no-go. With a bit of hard work and some cold calling, it's easy to make far more than that freelancing.
No, if you're cheating then you're loosing. Relationships are based on trust, and if trust disappears then so will your relationship.
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Agreed. I AES-encrypt information that's actually private on my Dropbox. But Dropbox is providing a service grounded in simplicity. Sorry, that's the product angle. And exchanging this key without Dropbox intermediating would be much more complex than what Dropbox does now.

Also, the web interface, sharing, public folders, perhaps iPhone and Android apps (you have the question of how to get the key TO the device), would not be possible with such a system, at least not anything approaching usability.

And the added complexity is not beneficial for the average case. For the exceptions, Dropbox works great with TrueCrypt or OpenSSL or GPG or whatnot encryption.
Common nutmeg is more dangerous than most "hard" drugs...and we give it to children!

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This is the single most annoying thing I find web devs doing on a regular basis. Please use labels, web devs. It applies not only to checkboxes but any type of input. It's a free, easy usability improvement. It even makes it easier to style the text with CSS since it's wrapped in a specific tag!
I'm guessing he only says he's a libertarian on forums under an username.
Oh, I'm just trying to visualise a bubble whose skin is made of filters.

It doesn't make sense, all the air would leak out.
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There is some crazy stuff going on here. Awesome examples and really opened up my mind on taking advantage of what CoffeeScript allows.
> Agreed. I AES-encrypt information that's actually private on my Dropbox. But Dropbox is providing a service grounded in simplicity. Sorry, that's the product angle. And exchanging this key without Dropbox intermediating would be much more complex than what Dropbox does now.

A bit more complex, but not much more complex. See Firefox Sync's setup screen for a great execution of strong secret shared over weak password. We've known about EKE for close to 20 years.

> Also, the web interface

Yes, agreed. I'm not convinced it's worth it though.

> sharing, public folders

Yeah, these are a little more complicated. I wonder if some sort of shared secret system could work out here.

> perhaps iPhone and Android apps (you have the question of how to get the key TO the device)

Again, see Firefox Sync.
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It's interesting how so many people will balk at taking an illegal drug because they "don't want to risk brain damage", and yet will think nothing of driving or riding in a car and risking both brain damage and death nearly every day.

Mountain climbing, rock climbing, skydiving, scuba diving, and even just walking across the street all risk serious bodily injury, brain injury, and death. Yet most people won't freak out if you choose to engage in one of these activities.

But if you dare to swallow a pill every now and then, you're treated as a reckless, immoral madman.
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FYI: Cops haven't needed a warrant to access your electronic data for 10 years as of this fall.

There's no judicial oversight, and they do it 60,000+ times a year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act
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"Don't argue about things that don't matter with the people that matter". Powerful words there.
No, you're not. But in this case, the parent has a point. Or at least half a point. And you get the other half.

In most countries, governments largely pander to the middle and lower classes, because that's where the votes are. As a result, the election cycles usually involve large government outlays leading up to elections. The media also tends to pander to the middle/lower class.

In the United States, governments largely pander to the top 1% of incomes because

a. the billionaire class has figured out how to craft a message to the middle/lower classes where they think they're being screwed by the government, and the proper response is to reduce the size of government.

b. the government keeps growing, but their focus is entirely on making the tax system more regressive.

c. the billionaire class has more control over the government, and ensures that more dollars go to them, and less to the middle lower class.

d. the media does the exact same thing as the government.

e. because the government is actually screwing the middle class, we can go back to (a) and repeat the cycle.

If you doubt what I'm saying, you really need to read the writings of the most important member of the Austrian school of economics... Grover Norquist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Thanks for sharing this. As an iOS developer considering moving to Android I found the recount of your Android experience interesting.
What about NSLs?

Those aren't warrants. Presumably you comply with those, too, so please stop using the "W-word". Those are signed by judges, you are necessarily under US law complying with the ones that aren't, too.
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I thought the image used by Eli Parser was easy to visualise. See:

http://arnoskatas.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/beware-online-...
Thought this might interest those of you who, like me, are messing around with ePub files on their readers. The article goes on a few tangents but the core is a good read.

Building a cross-reader ePub today is faintly reminiscent of building a cross-browser website in the early 2000's. Sounds like the complexity added by ePub3 will only make it worse.

Not to mention that when I'm reading a book, I want it to be a book--otherwise I'd go read a website!
> If you use the default repo on Lucid (as suggested by the author), you will end up with a very old version of Nginx that doesn't even natively support wsgi.

Nginx+Gunicorn combination uses HTTP, so WSGI support is not needed in that case.
The great thing about HN is that it provides an opportunity to do the opposite.
I'd also recommend you to read Eduardo Galeano, his book "Open veins of Latin America", although written in the 70's, is an eye opener to understand why the region is in its current state.
I agree that corruption here in Argentina is everywhere. But not all the money has gone to the elites. Most of that money that was stolen to people went to North American companies.
Thanks, I was afraid that very few got the message. It's been one of the more powerful quotes I've come upon in my life. So many of us, virtually all of us at times, try to get ourselves so wrapped up in whatever it is that keeps us distracted, but, as the quote communicates, the deeper issues at some point or another enter into everyone's mind, even those who try the hardest to proverbally 'stay drunk.'

At some point the seriousness of this life hits us all. I've had the best luck when I've faced it head on. When I can be not merely self critical but act on that criticism. When I confront my own ignorance and nothingness then I'm far less likely to squander my time/life and for more likely to remember to respect and revere others and their rights and claims to the chaos, confusion and wonder that is this life.
If you doubt what I'm saying, you really need to read the writings of the most important member of the Austrian school of economics... Grover Norquist:

while remembering that Mr. Norquist is one of the more zealous servants of the billionaire class.
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for you who don't have flash and don't feel like clicking to download, you can download an xml format file from http://metated.petarmaric.com/metalinks/TED-talks-grouped-by...

then we can script to extract the xml file get the ted videos, like:

wget -c -O "1984/Nicholas Negroponte in 1984 makes 5 predictions.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/4837/talk/230
wget -c -O "1990/Frank Gehry as a young rebel.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/4047/talk/231
wget -c -O "1998/Aimee Mullins on running.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/5996/talk/443

...

wget -c -O "2011/Wadah Khanfar - A historic moment in the Arab world.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/11071/talk/1084
wget -c -O "2011/Wael Ghonim - Inside the Egyptian revolution.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/11086/talk/1086
The market share of Facebook's identity system is troubling to many folks, not the least of which is Google.

OpenID has proven to be too damn complicated. Mortals can't understand it.

Mozilla's Account Manager seems like an awesome solution: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/04/account-manager-coming-to-f...

It seems to me that Google, with it's popular browser and web services, is ideally positioned to popularize an account manager protocol. And with the heated competition with Facebook, they've got just the right motivations.
The thing that amuses me is the more Facebook attempts to become the monolithic center of identity online, the more people I know have multiple accounts or simply stop using it altogether. Of late I keep hearing of people setting up 'throw away' Facebook accounts for services that require it. A single identity is fundamentally at odds with the way people work, the more this is pushed, the more people will shy away or hack around it and in the process the more damage Facebook will do to it's much-vaunted social graph.
I was in the audience at the time. It was awful.

I'm glad comedians are trying to reclaim the term "retard" but I had no context for it and it just seemed inappropriate.
Also of course, the fact that we're in the 4th or 5th year of the Little Depression, and national income is still down from its peak.
Does anyone know of a way to keep synching all the TED videos as and when they are uploaded? My goal is to maintain a local copy on my machine so that I can view them whenever I like. Any downloaders that can do the job?
Wouldn't EKE require the other computer you're syncing to to be online? I'm not a security guy, but seems like the best encryption you could do with just a password is a password-based encryption scheme, which isn't that great security-wise, not sure if the benefits are worth it.

My desktop is down right now (power supply burned out, ouch) so I think I actually use the web interface more than Dropbox itself, since I only have one computer... And encryption in Javascript is a pain, since you open yourself to man-in-the-middle attacks and such.

I don't know about shared secrets for sharing and such, but I haven't heard of anything even applicable beyond a few academic papers. Beyond, you know, using a different key for every file and then you can email the key to share it. But that doesn't let you revoke access from one person (I've seen papers on how to do that though) and that's also a waste of entropy. I think this is actually a nice area for research (well, maybe it's being done and I'm not aware; again, not a security guy).

Personally, I don't trust closed-source systems with my encryption code, client-side or server-side or not. I'm ok with Firefox Sync, I'm sure someone would notice if it had side channel leaks, but if you want Dropbox to ask for the encryption key, how do you know what it does?

Anyway, I think we're just entering the era where we understand encryption in consumer products.
Indeed. Users rarely ask for what they need, but they do ask for what they think they need. The challenge lies in translating what they asked for into the actual problem they had and then solving THAT.
Yeah.

When I built delicious there were literally hundreds of competitors, many starting as literal clones. Because they didn't understand the reasoning, they couldn't make the same decisions that I could.
What are NSLs?

Luckily, I don't do the legal at Dropbox :)
I'm sorry you've been downvoted, but I actually upvoted you (for seeming to have a grasp of what you were talking about and adding to the conversation).
"Argentina increased in prosperity and prominence between 1880 and 1929 and emerged as one of the ten richest countries in the world, benefiting from an agricultural export-led economy as well as British and French investment. Driven by immigration and decreasing mortality the Argentine population grew fivefold and the economy 15-fold."

Sure, if you consider the top upper class as the whole country.
The people never saw that kind of wealth and prosperity in those days. Field workers lived in the most absolute poverty while the owners of those fields lived in luxury and traveling abroad for vacations. North of Argentina still remains one of the poorest regions in Latin America, as it was those days. Sure, we were exporting goods everywhere. Not much was being invested on improving the well being of workers everywhere. At least, not until Peron grew to power.
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Poll: How many Facebook accounts do you have?
There appears to be plenty of anecdotes going around implying that most people have more than one Facebook account, but Facebook's own statistics seem to indicate that most of its users are active.

As more and more companies rely on Facebook for identity and single sign on, understanding the true reach of Facebook and how many users you're losing by only supporting Facebook connect, becomes important.

How many Facebook accounts do you have?
0 - I don't have a Facebook account
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Tragically, I can only upvote you once. That's an awesomely insightful joke.
Obvious, yes. But I'm still amazed at how many people still don't use label tags. It's incredibly frustrating to not be able to click on a label, and I run into forms everyday that have this issue. What's even more frustrating is that there is such a simple solution. The only explanation is that people aren't aware of the existence of the label tag. So posts like this one are a good method to 'increase awareness'.
In order to be instant, it would have to download all images, scripts and stylesheets too - wouldn't that screw up everyone's web stats?
> Wouldn't EKE require the other computer you're syncing to to be online?

It would, yes. With Firefox Sync you have two choices, either exchange keys or type in the key. I carry the key around in my wallet, so I don't think that's a big deal.

> And encryption in Javascript is a pain, since you open yourself to man-in-the-middle attacks and such.

SSL helps a lot here. I think uTorrent 3's remote web-accessible UI stuff does something like this, actually. edit: yeah, it generates a key on the client so the server never has access and uses SRP [1] to authenticate and exchange the key [2].

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Secure_Remote...
[2] http://www.utorrent.com/legal/web-beta-privacy
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Why not start simple? I would really like to see wireless mesh networks replace Comcast and co for last-mile connections. The backbone works fine, and there is plenty of competition among Tier 1 ISPs. It's the last-mile providers which are often abusive local monopolies (or duopolies).

That would solve a real, current problem and save consumers money, instead of trying to preempt the highly speculative possibility that our government would want to shut down the internet.

Also, just local wireless mesh has plenty of technical challenges. As other posters have noted, significant challenges stem from both sparsely populated areas (link distance) and densely populated ones (interference, spectrum limitations). There has been significant research into overcoming these limitations--see, for example, MIT's RoofNet and UIUC's CuWIN.

One project I think is especially interesting is Phil Levis' research at Stanford, studying full-duplex wireless. For the first time, they have nodes that can receive and transmit on the same channel at the same time. This (almost) doubles max throughput, but more importantly, it solves a lot of difficult interference problems (particularly the "hidden node" problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_node_problem).

There's also a hard, unsolved software problem: how to route traffic effectively on a large mesh of unreliable, low-throughput routers. No existing routing protocol that I know of (RIP, OSPF, BGP, etc) is well-suited for this.

I would love to see a startup built around last-mile wireless. They could, for example, use commodity PicoStations along with high-gain antennas. The hard part would be nailing the business model and the software. Both are fascinating problems.
Indeed. Having been pretty heavily involved in 2 "filters" (digg as an insider, yc as a well-ranked participant) - the fundamental problem is that the filters trend towards complete control of the charismatic individual behind the site, while presenting a facade of "user democracy." Creeping moderation in the service of reducing spam is the essential mechanism. Eventually the only effective spam left is "suck up to the person in charge."
The problem isn't so much governments or corporations per se, but unaccountable concentrations of wealth and power.

The more concentrated that wealth and power becomes, and the more unaccountable the possessors of it become, the more open to abuse it becomes, without significant consequence to the abusers.

Most libertarians might be against such an unchecked concentration of wealth and power in the form of governments; some few might also object to it in the form of corporations; but which of them are against its concentration in the hands of private individuals?

Yet private individuals can abuse their wealth and power just as easily as can governments or corporations. As long as that wealth and power is not concentrated in the hands of too few individuals, it could be argued that they'd compete with one another and provide a check on one another's power.

But, to my knowledge, nothing in the libertarian ideology would preclude or oppose any individual or small group of individuals hoarding the overwhelming majority of wealth and power for themselves. In fact, such concentration of wealth and power would likely be a direct result of the implementation of libertarianism.

This is why laissez-faire economic aspects of libertarianism must be opposed.
Umm, pretty much awesome I'd say.
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Here's the design document:
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/prerende...

The browser does download subresources, including images, scripts, and stylesheets. The new page visibility API is intended to help folks keep accurate web stats:

http://w3c-test.org/webperf/specs/PageVisibility/
i can't help but feel that ted is all about the elite talking down to the rest of us.
I find the tone of this article very strange. It starts off as a very positive "Hey, Android's worth doing". But by the end, you feel like he's being driven mad due to the added frustrations. :)
tl;dr Wayne Sutton confuses lack of interest in conducting srs bzns as racial prejudice/racism when it probably has more to do with age and quality of idea. Also what exactly do said children bring to the table? If the young man there had a prototype already in the works built by himself, that would be something.

Honestly, I never understood the idea of pitching startups at events like these to garner funding or co-founders, with no actual code/product/etc no matter the age, skill, or race of the individual. Always seemed a little quixotic and irrationally exuberant. pg and co seem to not mind however, as they seem to have gotten pitches (and accepted them) for non-existent startups. Wasn't Reddit at 0 when it was pitched and accepted into original YC?

Then again, there's a quote of pg somewhere saying nearly everyone has a product/some code at least now when pitching to YC.
another really cool product of google that serves to make us more dependent on them...
We get good at stuff by spending a lot of time and attention and hard work on it.

We like doing stuff we're good at. We don't like doing stuff we're bad at.
hey i remember my 300 baud atari modem good times! - the web would have happened one way or another!
I don't like the idea of the browser visiting pages before I've told it to.
They're offering a feature that people will like but nothing prevents me from going elsewhere. I don't see how this increases my dependence on them. Relying on them to control all of my email access, storage, etc? Yes, that makes me dependent on them. Pages loading faster? Meh.

And besides, this is a Chrome browser feature. Google would extend Bing the same curtosey, and even if not, Bing could make an extension or do the same with IE9, etc, etc.
hard to believe that in this day and age, browsers aren't standardized to the extent say cars or televisions are...then we would not have these problems.
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It's not rendering it (I would image at least), I don't see this as a security concern, do you?
Sorry, I don't subscribe to the intrinsic value theory.
MDMA is much more potentially dangerous than those other drugs, especially in an acute way. The "safety factor" (ratio between dangerous dose to useful dose) is huge for THC, LSD, mushrooms, DMT, K, etc., and much smaller for MDMA, Meth, K, opiates, coke.

There are a few (DOB?) which have safety factors around 2-4x, which is really unsafe.

erowid.org is probably a much better source of info on this topic than hacker news, though.
There's a form I recall using multiple times that has labels for everything but a single checkbox: the box which, it so happens, defaults to "yes" for the installation of a piece of bloatware. I'm fairly sure it's in the Java installer. The practice disgusts me.
When I evaluate a portfolio attached to a resume this one of the first things I check for of there is a form in the portfolio. If the developer hasn't done it that is a big strike right there.

I was on a site the other day, I can't remember where but it was "Fortune 500" level stuff and they didn't have checkbox labels. It amazes me how much this gets missed.
I see this as annoying when I'm reviewing my server logs.
Actually, it is rendering it, in a hidden tab. As far as the site will know, you visited. Last login times get updated, web stats record hits, stuff gets marked as read, etc.