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I'm the author of TFA. The fourth item you mentioned (targeting the wrong audience) is important, but I would add that sometimes you need to target different audiences with different content that has nothing to do with attracting users or converting customers. For instance, I've seen companies big and small writing posts that target developers or experts in some field (who you may need to hire in a few months' time). There may also be utility in writing posts that target the competition -- I've seen companies that have blogged about taking legal action against someone or filing for IP, which could be signals to other companies to watch out (or we'll come after you) or don't bother trying to compete (because you'll have to engineer around our IP).

In terms of your point about calls to action, I feel that insightful posts aren't just "nice," if they are truly informative or useful to the reader the CTA should be obvious -- this is the kind of company I want to find out more about, or I am going to follow the company/author on twitter. But that also ties into your first point -- make sure readers can take that action on their own by linking to the main site/Twitter feed/etc.
Honest question, how do you query encrypted data? And how do you process them (summarize, group, categorize, etc.)?
I think people generally just have a really hard time understanding the value of a non physical good.

The product I work on has this very problem. We have saved thousands of people's lives with the application we made. Seriously, we get an email every single day where someone explains how they lost 50 or more pounds using the product we make and it took them from being pre-diabetic with high blood pressure to normal insulin levels with normal blood pressure. They have full energy again and are living a wonderful life now. This does feel pretty good when we hear these types of things, however we are a startup and we have investors that want to see a return. If the user does mention money, they always say how happy they are that they would easily pay 99 cents, maybe even all the way to 5 dollars for the app now that they know how good it is. Thats not a good sign for us. We made something that saved their life (maybe forever, maybe they will gain the weight back over months time period) and they value it at the same price as value meal at McDonalds that has a short term (maybe 20 minutes of enjoyment) and has the reverse effect on their life. I don't think the users measure the value the same way because our application is not a physical good. It is assumed by people that apps, software, or websites are little worthless toys that should be free (I don't know how computers came along and all of sudden people didn't want to pay for anything, though I did fall in this trap until I got my degree and worked in the field). I know my mother has this problem as well, the only apps she has ever bought for her iPad is when I bought her a iTunes gift card for her birthday. She loves the apps she paid for more then free ones. Especially, Words with Friends for example, but she has a hard time rationalizing how it is worth ~4 dollars yet has entertained her at least 20 minutes everyday day for the last year, and she hated the advertisements in the free one!
Let's asking him about the paradox that if the LHC destroys the world, how can he come back to prevent it?
Right, often they are simply used to indicate when a line of questioning is stressing out the subject and to continue on that line.
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Regarding (3) and (4), do you believe it likely that nutritional science is wrong in their broad strokes, e.g. that a diet comprised of cheetos and bacon is good for you, while a diet comprised of green vegetables, rice and legumes is bad for you?

Nutritional science occasionally gets small details wrong, lard fries vs trans fat fries. They are spot on for most things, e.g. spinach vs fries.
Traffic spikes heavily in the evenings, when people are watching TV. You're still right, but the point isn't necessarily that we're currently scaled out, but that I think we could with this setup.

We've since added several app servers, and done some heavy load testing. I should probably do a follow-up with some new results.
Since this post sounds like pubic beta/self marketing, You should provide a couple of ready accounts for users to try this out.. i dont want to give up my email just to see the innards for your brain spill!
I am also in Cape Town! Groetnis...
Your comment keeps getting up/down-voted like crazy, which seems to indicate that there is a strong and opinionated divide on the topic of proper work ethic.

It would be a lot more interesting if people actually stated their arguments, though.
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Kenyan here, from Nairobi. Most of my more geeky friends are HN lurkers.
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As you yourself said, it ain't gonna happen anyway. Therefore, this thread isn't "spoiling" anything that would have happened otherwise. At least try to be consistent, instead of trying to silence everyone who doesn't share your opinion of an author you obviously idolize.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998819
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2083997
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2688984
(includes bonus downvote threat against any who disagree)
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That's exactly what I did, so... one data point at least.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't sign up for any ethos and I don't like policing other people's "innocent coffee breaks" either.

If we're now shunning people for not maximizing productivity, you can count me out.
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I'd love it if Daring Fireball translated any of Apples more disingenuous press releases in a similarly cynical way.

Everything that Gruber produces has the ulterior motive of colouring Apple good / competitors bad. I find it all extremely boring.
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This is partially true.

At one point I was trying to figure out how much I would enjoy Chrome, and one test I do with my applications is to have tcpdump in the background running while I run them. Whenever I went to any site, internal, external, or whatever, Chrome phones home to specific google sites. I think the published reason has to do with faster DNS lookups, but when I looked the sites up, they seemed attached to ad-related services. I searched around and could not find any setting to disable this feature. No, "Preferences > Under the Hood > Privacy" has nothing for disabling this feature. I think this phoning home was still there for Incognito mode, but time has left my memory fuzzy on that detail; Incognito mode is useless if you want to actually use cookies to maintain some session anyway, and why should I tell google about what accounts I hold across the net?

For the wiseguy who picks up on that last comment, my preference is Firefox with NoScript, AdBlock, and a disinclination for downloading sex.exe, so no, the common tracking systems do not know much about me. However, my ISP is quite familiar with my habits.

Someone recommended to me Chromium, claiming that it was stripped of this nonsense. So I tried that. Chromium did not phone home in my tests. It also lacked a few nice features that Chrome had, as if it were at least a version behind; I cannot remember what they were, only that at that point, I was sick of the hassle and ditched both pieces of software.

If you are concerned about apps phoning home, just run tcpdump/wireshark/whatever and watch. The extra paranoid will route their connections through a box with these tools.

My tests were within two months ago, so I feel the claim is pretty relevant.
I remember when we first started doing windows builds. I had a guy called Herman (I think? I knew him by that name anyway) handle the builds. I didn't always have easy access to a windows machine and it was a pain getting mingw/cygwin going with all the appropriate libraries installed in the correct places.

Though I am no longer really associated with the project, I am curious what the bug is/was. If you like, fire off an email to me off-site and send a link to the report or fill me in. You can find my e-mail in my profile.
Having lived in both Cape Town and Joburg (presently), I've noticed an interesting difference between the city cultures. People in Cape Town seem to start up creative and popular but small businesses, whereas people in Joburg seem to leverage off the huge business network here to create more 'serious', traditional businesses that tend to be more profitable but less 'cool' or popular.

Furthermore, in Cape Town it was rare for me to actually meet people interested in doing a startup whereas in Joburg EVERYBODY wants to know what you do, who your contacts are, if you're keen to get in on something, etc. I'm actually a bit overwhelmed here by opportunities compared to Cape Town.
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welcome to HN. i personally think "worthless" might be just a bit rude but the H does stand for hacker, so naturally the audience would be interested in the technology you employ to keep their data safe.
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You are very much welcome. People like you are the reason that I stuck with it for as long as I did.
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How is this CSRF? This is just phishing, CSRF is something completely different.
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Kampala, Uganda. I'll admit I'm surprised by the geographic diversity. Maybe some traffic analytics would be interesting to compare.
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It's called humor. It may not be appropriate on HN, but neither is bitching about it every time the source is you-know-who.

Also, there are no innocuous statements in press releases. And certainly not in this one.
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I wasn't suggesting that, but perhaps it comes across confusing.

When it comes to cultural differences, I compare neighbours. The Eastern block also spent about half a century being isolated from the rest of Europe, so they have developed stronger cultural differences that are weakening again now.
I still don't understand. How does running a current through an electrode produce an attractive force to a finger? The finger isn't going to have positively charged particles in it.
Automattic's ToS and PP are licensed under CC. You can use them as a starting point.
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

While you certainly can save money editing your own ToS and PP, be aware that this is a time consuming process. I've worked on ours (It's not yet done, but when it is it will be released under the same license as Automattic's)

Be sure to read Antone Johnson's answers about ToS and PP on Quora:

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http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-a-specialist-to-write-a-T...

FINALLY, MAKE SURE YOU GET A REAL LAWYER TO REVIEW WHATEVER YOU DRAFT BEFORE YOU USE IT. Ask them the price to draft one for you for scratch, then use that to negotiate a better price to just review the one you already wrote. You might want to use version control with Automattic's ToS and PP, so that they can see what you've changed.

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Yeah even after 400+ days on HN. I fail to understand why Designers are not just respectable :|
I don't see any reference that this is a Google project, but interesting nonetheless.
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Same here :) I'd expected to see more iHubbers and Nailabs folks here, though.
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For that reason we did not use email double opt-in.

You can use test@testing.com or whatever.

In case you are wondering why not just a login to use? because sign-up process is important part of the whole experience. When I ask for feedback, I would like feedback about it as "whole" not just part.

Maybe I think it's an important part because I am a designer. But I am all ears if you have a stronger reason.
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What does your site offer over Mint (which is free)?
SparkleShare doesn't require any special server side parts: just git-core, which may be easy or hard to set up depending on your sysadmin skills.
I'm in São José dos Campos and would go to a meetup either in Campinas or in São Paulo (apart from SJC, of course).
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With MoonScript you even have CoffeeScript there.

http://moonscript.org/
you should have disclosed that you are one of the creators of this competitor.
While reading this, it's good to keep another article of Joel Spolsky in mind: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FiveWorlds.html

Some of the author's "updates" to the test rules probably depend on which of these worlds you live in.
I'd recommend a Ducati Monster 620 Dark, circa 2004 - 2006. It offers an incredibly wide torque curve so traffic isn't a chore, very low center of gravity saddle, relatively upright riding position, naked bike for more interest at lower speeds, and a very easy but engaging ride. All this in a package that won't "eat your soul", but instead offers classic beautiful Italian machine lines. Price is right too.

That said, I now ride an MV Agusta F4 Brutale, which seems to offer sport bike performance without the soul eating. There's never, ever, an urge to ride wheelies downtown to show off your uber Ninja neon green decals.
Any idea if this works with more than one finger at a time?
From FAQ: (though it's about automation, but goes same for overall vision)

Why don't you automate it? Like Mint.com etc?
That's not our purpose. When you consciously recall where
you spent money and document it. It has a different effect.
That's the aim of the app.

Expanding on it: While building Accountant, I had one thin in mind. Why look at what you did after a month? Why not look at it on-the-go? The only way I could think of was to consciously put the data.

Example: End up spending 1000 bucks on DVD rentals and then regret.
Or know when you're spending the 500th buck and stop. Just a lame example but presents the use case.
There is no default, they make you choose during setup. Location is the same.
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You might want to look at this bit:
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It tries to copy the Dropbox conflict behaviour.
This is not Google's project from what I see.

Also its just another version of electric fence which existed ever since I started debugging code. Correct me if I am wrong.
Sadly, Microsoft's Internet Explorer still maintains a strong lead. IE10 seems to be quite solid, but it will be available only for Windows 7 and 8 (and not before mid-2012).
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The presentation (http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/downloads/detail?...) has a Google logo, and 1 of the 2 names (Konstantin Serebryany) has a linkedin profile with Google in his current work (http://ru.linkedin.com/in/serebryany).
"Remembering that I’ll live forever is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in face of endless time, leaving only what is truly important." --The immortal Steve Mobs

We shouldn't need death as a pretty bad excuse to seize the day.
This is a really cool platform for all those wanting to measure competition in SEO and empower themselves.
Do non EU countries qualify for (Rest of) Europe ;)
http://blog.1024cores.net/2011/11/addresssanitizer-etc.html

He works at Google's Moscow office:

http://blog.1024cores.net/2011/08/relacy-race-detector-24-an...
Despite loving Firefox I see this as a good thing. Firefox has always been the hobbyist/technical person's browser. Chrome is a slick experience aimed at the end-user.

Personally, I'll be using Firefox with its fantastic tweakability and addons, but anything which causes there to be multiple major browsers is good, because it means people have more incentive to create standards and stick to them.
I think this comment on that subreddit reflect my opinion of the 'darknetplan':

What I think you have here is a group of kids with a very very basic entry level knowledge of networking let along WAN routing and network topologies. Maybe some of them have loaded ddwrt or tomato onto a wrt54g and thought they were a ccie, but it looks like a lot of 'hey woman this is a good idea to stick it to comcast and verizon!' and not a whole lot of actual engineering or planning.
You should read what I said more carefully.

I said it is worrying that the app has got this far and you do not know more about it. Your post sounded like you know little about the technical side of the application. This might not be the case and if is I apologise. I feel if there is a start up with 2 people. Both should have a good idea of what the site is built on and what technology stack you are using. You don't need to be a developer to know this stuff.

I said your app is worthless because of your FAQ. You effectively say you have access to all data I put in and if I have any sensitive data don't bother. I feel my financial data is sensitive so why bother? This is the key question.

It is how you come across in your FAQ which greatly devalues your application.
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I'd hope Google knew how to track users efficiently without third-party help.
It seems like it is ^_^.

Sometimes I get quite funny responses :-D
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> Designers are not just respectable

That would be "Designers living in vaccum."

You need to decide if you are a designer or a co-founder, and if you are owning the product or merely contributing to it. Because designers shouldn't be making public comments on product privacy policies.
> Most of the people who want to learn OpenGL, actually want to learn 3d graphics programming.

What 3D engines would you recommend? I've looked at OpenInventor and Coin3d briefly but I'm interested in solid modelling as well, rather than 'just' visualisation. I'm guessing there's no such thing as an well documented and easy to use open source equivalent of the Parasolid or ACIS kernels? :-)
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Yeah, but key logging?
What could you possibly do with that data?

Besides, the BPF driver in every BSD system is probably open-source and could be reviewed for intent if in doubt. It's not easy, not everybody can do it, but it is possible.

However, you cannot do that for CarrierIQ. Even if such logs aren't getting sent, you don't know that they haven't installed some kind of mechanism to trigger such an upload on demand.
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... thanks; the down-vote just lets me know I'm on track.

I've learnt that on HN, when commenting on Gruber posts - negative laws of scoring generally apply :)
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I find this really hard to believe. Factual statement, not trolling.
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"Good investigative work by Grant “chpwn” Paul. iOS includes a Carrier IQ daemon, but it doesn’t seem to log any particularly sensitive information. Nothing like a keylogger or reading SMS messages. He’s documenting his research on Twitter as he goes." [1]

It's unnecessary to do a 180 (or 360, if he should end up in the same place) because this article isn't about iOS vs. Android or closed vs. open. This is about some company being disingenuous as to what their software does and cowering behind a misleading press release.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/12/01/carrier-iq-ios
Updated my original comment so it cannot be read as your technical knowledge influences the value of your application.
The Chromium Project is using ASAN:

http://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/addresssanitizer
Here's a thread full of you vehemently defending/rationalizing police state -like behaviour: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2802917

Now you're defending/rationalizing whatever disgusting bullshit Carrier IQ is up to.

What's wrong with you?

Just like we didn't have absolute proof that Aaron's indictment was politically motivated, we can't be absolutely sure that Carrier IQ is a company full of shit and devoid of morals.

But it's blindingly obvious that both are very, very likely.

In case you're just blissfully unaware of how full of shit the world actually is, here's a report on your justice system fraudulently, systematically signing away people's homes: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-courts...
Nope, countries like Switzerland, Norway, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey certainly don't qualify... </sarcasm>
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Probably better described as appropriations by the federal government for 'homeland security', which is mostly DHS, but also several other Departments and agencies.
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