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I'd be curious to read what people on HN think of one particular aspect of the story: she's not planning on using her old Gmail address anymore, which made me think of the longevity of one's email address and what one can do to keep control of it.

In particular, I'm thinking that backups of all your "cloud" data mostly takes care of the fear of losing it like written in the OP. However, to not lose your email address itself, you have to have your own domain, but is that really sufficient? In the end, you mostly lease it rather than owning it, so can it just be assumed that a .com address won't be messed with (as long as there aren't any trademark issue)? (as opposed to, say, a .ly)

Do you use your own domain for email? Do you think that email addresses have some inherent risks that make them potentially disposable after 5-10 years?

A bigger question is how could anyone (that is: people who have currently no idea what a domain really is and how to get one) take control of their addresses in a similar way?

As far as I'm concerned, I haven't used my own domain yet for emails but my alumni association gives me a lifelong forwarding address. I haven't been super strict with using it everywhere though, so it's a bit all over the place. The truth is too that my Gmail address is much easier to type and give away than either my alumni one or my own domain…
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We can push buttons, we can touch screens, but the future will be the ability to tell computers what we want them to do with our voice.

I hope this future will come in my lifetime as much as the next guy, though so far every time I try speech-to-text and the likes of speech-command software I use it optimistically for the first few days, then give it up.

Context aware software with speech recognition might be about to change all of that. And maybe it's going to take another garage startup (think Apple) to make it all fall into place.

But 8 hours of work seems like too small an effort if you're wanting to compete with Siri.

Essentially all they have is a glorified search engine that accepts speech instead of text and gives you a summary of one of the results. This isn't Siri, or anything close.
They may be doing it wrong from a psychology perspective, but seem to be doing fine from a business perspective.
>I can only imagine how bad it would be if people could choose to post anonymously.

You don't have to imagine the past very hard. Was it really that bad just a few years ago?
Yes, that's what I said. But on the other hand, the BTC market is still very poor. Besides domains and hosting, what other virtual goods are there to buy?
Heh, he spent the evening at my house working on and fretting about this presentation. While my dog watched:

http://yfrog.com/hsokxkwj
Where are any links on intellectual property being human right?

Patents aren't "in software". Patents are written by lawyers, for lawyers, and are obviously a property of kinds (can be sold without being a service).
We're mostly anonymous here, and it seems to work fine. Social mores are determined by the group. For some people on facebook, the makeup of their social circle means the posting of hateful content is ok. Others would never dream of it, due to the backlash they'd receive. The same is true anywhere. HN is far more like 4chan than facebook as far as anonymity is concerned, yet the level of discourse couldn't be more different.

Again, norms are determined by the group, just as they are in real life. There are some things I'd feel comfortable saying to a group of friends that I would never say to a stranger, and others that I could say to a group of strangers but never dream of saying to my friends. In this sense, moot is absolutely right.
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I launched OpenPhoto on Kickstarter as a project with full intentions on building a company around it (I left my job to pursue it).

It's an open source project so that helps in terms of getting accepted into Kickstarter. Their terms state that projects are basically fixed in term and scope.

What I promised on Kickstarter was a photo management/sharing platform that allows you to use your Dropbox or S3 accounts for storage. I'm nearly finished with that.

The next phase is to offer a hosted version of the software (a la Wordpress) via a for profit company. The source is and will always remain open.

http://theopenphotoproject.org

https://github.com/openphoto/frontend
Using a search engine would give you numerous examples (c.f. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+security+hole )

Actually asking for examples sounds like a trolling attempt to me.
Thank you for the advice about the investors, though myself i was thinking about small donations as the amount of cash we think we need is not that much.
I thought it'd be the new paradigm, but closed my bitcoin blog when I saw how terrible the client was and couldn't see it improving that much. Just waiting on bitcoin 2.0 from lessons learned.
I'm learning Haskell right now. It's the most recent language I've decided to pick up since R back in 2006. Despite dabbling in Lisp about a decade ago, and the functional flavoring of R, it's been a pretty difficult ride. However, it's definitely teaching me to think about writing programs in a very different way.

I can attest to the painfulness of the IO monad. I still haven't gotten it fully. The error messages are also fairly cryptic. The first program I wrote was about 15 lines and it took me about 4 hours of time. But it worked flawlessly and efficiently. The difficulties notwithstanding, this is probably the most fun I've had learning a language ever.
No, it seems like he's been hellbanned. All his comments since 4 days ago are dead.
You can find the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbPASJiAfu4
I agree, except I think there are places for voice, and places for touch. Things that would take multiple steps to accomplish, e.g. "remind me to take out the trash when I get home," is an awesome application for voice, but for choosing from a menu of a bunch of items, I want to just select the item.

My wife got a 4S, and from the few days we've been playing with it, we agree that it's sort of still in the uncanny valley of AI. It's too hard to tell what's going to work and what's not, esp. for the technically lay.

It's amazing, though, for Apple to have opened everyone's eyes (ears?) once again wrt to what direction the near future will take.
Thank you for letting me know of your success with Kickstarter. Good luck with OpenPhoto.
Of course I'm serious.

How does the service know that you're in possession of the key unless you give it some kind of input about the key that's unique to the key and to the current time?

Lets say you've got a 'fob' which is plugged into a USB port. Application sends the fob a challenge, fob responds. Application validates the response and proceeds. Perhaps the key uses 2.4mhz wireless, perhaps it uses bluetooh (a protocoled 2.4mhz wireless solution :-). The benefit is that these things can only occur when you're key is present. No key, no transaction.

We don't worry about Nigerians stealing our cars, but we should consider what they might do with our self-driving cars if we don't have some durable way to say we're in the car right now.

I appreciate that you prefer having something like this on your smart phone, but such a solution fails for the larger internet population. And while SMS works for 'dumb' phones you cannot have it validate on every send, every post, every tweet, every page view.

You may not share my urgency on this as a threat but I invite you to start to watch more closely. In the Atlantic article a Google representative said "Thousands per day" this is big business for folks. I was talking with a senior executive at Wells Fargo who mentioned hundreds of millions of dollars 'lost' every year. This is a growing problem, its getting more expensive, and like some digital herpes my expectation is that it is going to pop out suddenly in boils of financial putritude dripping pain, financial suffering, and expense for everyone involved. With luck we'll fix it before then but most folks who are getting burned are more interested in covering it up rather than addressing it sadly.

I think it would be wonderful to have a possible solution prototyped and demonstrable for people in pain. Your passwords will be compromised, and if you do anything financial online you will have money vanish and you will experience arguing with a bank as to why they should give it back to you and take the loss. This isn't a 1 in 10, or 3 out of 5 type statistic, I'm pretty confident that every single person who has an online account which can tranfer funds (whether its an iTunes account or a checking account) will experience this. 100%.
Do you ever stop and wonder why it is that your ideology so closely aligns exactly with everything that the big corps and banks want? You want deregulation just like the big polluters do, you want lower taxes just like the richest want, you want to remove any policing of business activities, guess who doesn't want business activities to be policed? The fantasy that the banking meltdown was caused by Fannie or some laws passed 30 years ago don't even pass the smell test. For some reason you can't imagine that it had anything to do with the banking deregulation passed in 2000. Somehow anything that might benefit the lower and middle class is a threat but we must keep the most powerful on the dole.

By the way you are distancing yourself from "conservatives" I'm guessing you are one of the self-proclaimed libertarians. But as far as the practical economical results it's the same crap, policies that end up making the powerful even more powerful than they are now.

I'm not assuming that you are evil, and I don't have some simplistic view of the world that you are attributing to me. But there are people that are taking advantage of the rest of us and we should be fighting it. We all live in a world flooded by propaganda coming at us from all sides so I always try to give people some leeway when arguing politics, and I try to stay informed on opinions opposed to mine. It is hard to break free from pre-concieved notions.

The liberal vs conservative (or libertarian) debate on economics has been about whether the bigger villain are big corps or big government. But I think what the new realization dawning on millions of people, especially those that thought Obama would fight against the plutocrats, is that they are both part of the same corrupt and broken system. You want to break apart big government, fine, but why don't you also want to break up the big banks and other monopolies?
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The term "patent trolling" is generally reserved for companies who have no intention of bringing a product to market. Keep in mind that Microsoft has a competing product in the market, and spends millions of dollars on R&D.

Patents are a way of protecting a legitimate R&D effort. Imagine the disincentive with regard to R&D if a company had no protection from a competitor simply taking their idea once they came to market.

The key is to protect patents from abuse, while still providing a means to protect legitimate effort in innovation for a reasonable period of time.
hah, and to think, I just sent an email to pnathan asking about editing his comment out of politeness to the other party. Weird.

Apologies pnathan!
4chan doesn't dissallow tripcodes anywhere.
edit: they apparently do that in /soc/. Oh well.

I wouldn't say that the discussion there is that terrible (of course if you don't go to /b/, the "everything goes" board). Yes, for example for technology, /g/ board is unreadable, full of mindless hatred and the same type of discussions over and over (absolutely incomparable with Hacker News). The same for /v/. /int/ is just a shoutbox for racism and stereotypes. Really, the more popular boards are terrible. Poole sometimes seems to like it, trumping it as "raw uncensored opinion", but it's mostly just dumb.

However, I also visit /co/ board for cartoons and comics, and it is one of the best places to talk about these.
Have you taken a look at the estimates of how many years worth of coal, oil & natural gas we have left? In the 70's they said we had 20-30 years of oil left. They were right: we've basically run out of $10-20 oil, although Saudi Arabia still has some of that. But $100 oil? We've got enough of that to last this century, at least. Heck, the Canadian oil sands alone could probably power the world for most of this century.

And we'll run out of oil before we run out of shale gas or coal -- we've probably got multiple centuries of that, at peak prices.
You could sell Obama O's and Cap'n McCain's...

http://www.airbnb.com/obamaos

If they don't invest, they don't have to be accredited.
This point (anti-point?) is often made, but I'm not sure it actually means anything. After all, you could have said the same about AOL at the time when the few forward thinking among us were saying "Hey, there's more to the internet than this walled-garden stuff."

On paper AOL looked great (at the time), but they'd made a grave conceptual error in their product design that eventually became apparent to all. Perhaps we're in the same early stage with regard to identity?
The most meaningful distinction to make here is that a startup exchanges equity for investment capital, while a project simply accepts advance payment for some good or service it intends to produce.
Nice. A reason for parents to have an excuse to tranquilize their kids.

Let the kids go outside and play, spend time with them. They don't need these drugs.

We will soon have generations of zombies if this craziness is allowed to continue.
Using a currency as a means of payment is its main purpose. Using it to store value is also important, but secondary. Obviously some people where using it as an investment (which is kind of a store of value), but probably not the same people.

Anyway, a currency that people buy to use in particular markets is possibly a way that money got started in the first place. People traded for a currency to use in a (physical) market and then traded that into different stuff that day. Eventually, as things stabilized they might have been happy holding some money.

If bitcoin became commonly used as a way of transacting, but not of storing value or denominating prices it could still be a good enough starting point.
Is there some difference between this and what Danah Boyd et al. were saying 8 years ago regarding "Faceted Identity"?

http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/danah/thesis/
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Actually they do disallow tripcodes on /soc/, which is hilarious.

Doubly funny though, is how people there still use the name field, and rarely troll with it. The honor system largely works.
This is exactly why we launched IgnitionDeck. We were thinking of raising money via traditional methods, but crowd funding, when it works, is so much more appealing. Of course, it's not as easy as it sounds, as consumers are just as picky, if not more so, than investors.
There's two problems here: one, that Zuckerberg is joining a project, which by itself usually delays it. Two, he's probably rusty.
How would it get flagged as a black-market goods?
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AH,good, someone in his own mind here. OP is pure wind, 4chan is full of shit, Google, FB, etc will never want this kind of content. I was on Usenet long time ago, you have some idle guys who would spend a lot of time turning all discussions into shit, allowing pure anon is giving them all latitude to do so.
"I thought I loved Mustache a year ago, but over time I’ve learned just how revolutionary separating templates from views is toward maintainability and collaboration."

Wow, it makes me wonder what you were doing before?

I'm more a fan of http://www.handlebarsjs.com/. It has a few handy features that are missing from Mustache.
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For the record, they got his Twitter handle wrong in the info slide - it's not @moot69, it's just @moot
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HAML is good, but abandons HTML too much, which is why we created Hamlet. I just yesterday released a client-side version: https://github.com/gregwebs/hamlet.js

I did mustache style variable interpolation (but you can stick whatever js you want in it) because it was easy to implement. I just realized that this style doesn't allow the insertion of javascript loops, but it would be compatible with mustache and make for a much better implementation - you also wouldn't need to close your mustache loop just like you don't need to close your tag.
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You missed the Google Search API :-) deprecated twice:

- http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/08/well-earned-retiremen...

- http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2010/11/fall-houseke...
Calling Rails a "huge, steaming mess" could hardly be considered objective. Rails has a well organized module and class structure, and solves many common problems. It's a large framework, and when frameworks get large, they take a lot to learn.
The problem I see with this solution is that it would require a plugin to be installed on your browser in order for the browser to have access to the fob. This alone is enough to discourage a lot of people from using it.

Also, you wouldn't be able to log into a public terminal.
There was recently a survey on the State of Haskell in 2011 [1]. As many people here seem to be echoing, OCaml was the main possible "replacement language". Also included in the survey are ratings of various aspects of Hackage and also Haskell libraries in general.

It was a really interesting read. I made a follow-up post [2] that analyzed the free-form responses to the last question, "What do you think is Haskell's most glaring weakness / blind spot / problem?".

Number one by far was libraries (spread across: quality + quantity, library documentation, Hackage, cabal). There are a lot of people working on this though, and progress is being made.

The runners up were 'Tools', and 'Barrier To Entry'.

I think Haskell, at the very least, is a fantastic way to learn some different ways of thinking and good habits. The (little so far) coding in it I've done has been very enjoyable for me, but I don't expect everyone to feel the same way.

It has a very warm community, and a fair bit of momentum. As time goes on I predict (and hope) it will become more viable for a greater number of people to use.

[1] - http://blog.johantibell.com/2011/08/results-from-state-of-ha...

[2] - http://nickknowlson.com/blog/2011/09/12/haskell-survey-categ...
As someone who, until recently, worked at a local news TV station, it was downright embarrassing the vocal minority of people who are actively spewing their hate. We even had a few people who regularly would write in to race-bait black reporters and slam people in general. And you're right, it's under their real name, and they're very proud.
Yeah. I'm kinda afraid of the picky people myself. Kinda even threw a joke suggestion to sparky that I'll whip up some malicious code and sell it in the black market to do the funding.
A character assassination attempt surely!
I think moot's observation is less psychological and more sociological. If he's right, then Facebook and G+ are unsuited to their goal of becoming the hub for social interaction on the Internet, and they'll inevitably burn out when their networks become too large and dense for users to sustain a single identity.
In all seriousness, they probably should have called it something other than Iris. I'm not a fan of Android these days (since my Galaxy S died on me at a really bad time), but this name will (most likely) fuel the fire of Android being a total rip of iPhone.

Of course, I might just be reading too far into the name thing. Their humor is pretty obvious.
FWIW, GWT's UiBinder takes a similar, absolutely-no-logic approach to templates. No iteration even:

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideUiBinde...

Takes awhile to get used to, but it's nice to have all your logic in the controller, once you're used to it.

Plus being only-static HTML, ui.xml files are amenable to code-generation, e.g. making interfaces for the views (which ends up similar to your controller view classes). Java, XML, and build-time code generation are terribly un-hip, I know, but personally something I've grown to like (I have an open source framework, gwtmpv.org based around these ideas).

As far as most-pure templating language, I think that goes to the appropriately named "pure", which lacks any notion of it's own special characters in the markup:

http://beebole.com/pure/

I haven't used it, so am not entirely sure how well it ends up working in a real-world apps/templates, but it initially seems pretty slick.
Not particularly. If anything, it's a case study in how the older / more popular an online public community gets, the worse the average content quality gets.

Also, pretty sure there hasn't been forced anonymous in years.
Oh. I didn't know that. I don't visit /soc/ at all.
Real money. Sell bitcoins to people who are buying them in order to purchase drugs.

There's nothing inherently linking the two transactions of "X bitcoins transferred from wallet #1 to wallet #2" and "Y USD transferred from Bob to Joe" - with sufficient care and redirection, you can make it very difficult to track down exactly where the bitcoins are being traded for real money.
Ahhh, thanks for the link!

"It took me four hours to pick my AOL screenname."

Same here. And I've been using it ever since. I'm not sure what, if anything, that says about me. But yeah, it's the name I've chosen to associate with.
Like others here I used BlueHost for a couple of years. But for the last few years I have used HostMonster, which is owed by the same folks a BlueHost. Basically companies provide competitive features at first, but don't seriously upgrade what they provide over time. So I liked the feature set provided by the newer HostMonster better that that of BlueHost. Unfortunately HostMonster hasn't upgraded their Ruby on Rails support in a couple of years and so I now have an account with Site5 for RoR, but Site5 doesn't have the sort of reliable up time that HostMonster has.
I was giving a good example.
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You're right, there's more left. But as it gets harder to extract, prices will rise. We're already reduced to blowing up mountaintops in Virginia to get coal, or melting the soil of Alberta to get tar. The energy return on investment (EROI) of those sources is much lower than the old Saudi oil.

Optimistically, those sources might help ease a transition. We'd still have energy to power things, and the higher prices would encourage switching.

But there are still dangers. We only have a limited amount of carbon we can still afford to put in the atmosphere. And it will be difficult to run all of our current activities and invest in new energy sources and do so as the price of energy rises.

The question remains: if we switch, what are we switching to?We're currently using energy that was stored for us over millions of years. It's highly concentrated. Renewables must make do with incoming solar energy.

Maybe people will warm to nuclear, but that has its own issues.
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