skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a startup opportunity for an identity verification service whereby you do the ID verification once and then each service that wants to use it gets charged a smaller amount?

Example: consumer goes to idverificationsite.com, registers there for free- they ask out of wallet questions to verify identity, potentially do a minimal background check too.

You then use this login with Yelp, AirBnB, Getaround, etc.

Yelp, Getaround, Airbnb pay idverificationsite.com some small amount per verified person. Removes some of the friction of ID verification/spreads cost around.

Sidenote: the BBB is the worst offender of these protection rackets - http://feefighters.com/blog/bbb-accreditation/

Also - I've just decided to start posting reviews to Google rather than Yelp, they lost me as a product after reading this thread.
If this is at all feasible, it sounds like a potentially great way for NASA to essentially re-fund itself.
"The customer is the product." - Don Draper :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVa15C0xHSo
While that does make it feel a bit more secure, that would be a huge hassel for anyone that wants to go stealth at first.

Chrome Web Store has an option for testing where you can whitelist authorised people by Google ID. It may not address the whole issue, but it helps.
We've seen this result before, from Wikipedia: http://thedartmouth.com/2007/10/22/news/wiki

They found that there were two patterns of content contribution: people who wrote one review and people who wrote lots. For people who wrote one review, anonymous contributions were higher quality than signed, and those single reviews were higher quality than people who contributed multiple reviews.

Chances are good your most valuable reviews are coming from the long tail and your least accurate reviews are coming from people who are posting lots, but potentially with sockpuppet accounts. Tossing out your most accurate reviews in an attempt to suppress the latter seems counterproductive.
I wonder if there is any need for software engineers down there to support the scientific teams?

I'm not a sys admin but I wouldn't mind doing a tour just for the experience.
Large companies have processes and procedures - if you are not comfortable with that (and thats certainly fine from my perspective) then just back away - its no big deal.

Me - I will never ever work for a company with an HR department - I can get along with a "personnel dept" and if you think that is just a name thing and not something fundamental when it comes to a business and its relationship with the employees then you have something yet to learn.
Why don't you call it the bankruptcy rule? It's similar to: Equity in a limited liability company can never turn negative, since you can just let the company go bust.
I generally defend Yelp against a lot of mis-informed opinions but this is pretty bad. It's clear Yelp is hiding a lot of legit reviews. There's a decent case Yelp should be erroring on the side of showing not hiding. At a minimum, Yelp clearly needs to improve its algorithms. As the OP describes, a bad experience with a service provider could easily lead to a 1 star review from a first time reviewer. And these are very helpful reviews.
google maps was an acquired product. It was modified to work in the browser.
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Interesting cloud offering from ATT ... taking a shot at dethroning Terremark?
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> Why would they find it creepy? You wouldn't need to say your using credit history. It would be as simple as asking the user a question "Please validate your a real person by answering these few questions".
As far as the user is concerned it's just a few questions and answers.

If the questions were about my credit history then this is a deal breaker.

There is no way a site like yelp can get me to authenticate by answering questions about my credit history and I suspect that the vast majority of people would agree.

Now, facebook credentials, that's a different story.
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Pricing looks pretty solid too. Be interesting to see an EC2 vs Rackspace vs ATT on this pricing model
Older Android versions don't support SVG (used to render the axes), but it should work in Ice Cream Sandwich.
Google docs are meant to be edited on drive.google.com

But if you drag MSWord docs into your local google drive folder, it will upload and sync to all your devices.
I use Yelp mostly for its metadata, such as restaurants' '$/$$/$$$' price categories, or a quick, easy-to-read menu sampling. I give the reviews approximately zero weight at this point in Yelp's evolution.
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From his Twitter account: "We've got hundreds of orders waiting to be filled and I'm not sure what else to do. Does anyone know of a way to contact support?"

Google's automated support system strikes again.
I ordered one to replace my aging Galaxy S Captivate. At this point I'd settle for a phone that is simply 100% functional out of the box.
It is bad if they are launching a product from 2008, or launching a product that conceivably could have been done in 2008. If they were doing a dropbox clone they're four years behind, but as an above commenter mentioned, they aren't. I actually think this is a really good opportunity for Google to achieve their social ambitions. Rather than try to fight Facebook on their home turf Google can try to coalesce gmail/google plus/google docs/google drive into a kind of operating system replacement and build their social network around it, like a giant collaborative computing system. Time will tell though, superficially it looks like a lame google docs relaunch.
I'm not sure if anybody mention this but GDrive actually does not download documents to your local machine. It just adds a json document pointing to file to edit.

So what is point of GDrive?
This is spot on. There was a certain irony to the outcry over employers demanding Facebook logins when the victims had already volunteered all of their information over to another company, Facebook.

On the other hand, these bills are disastrous and need to be beaten and destroyed with fire. The politicians behind them need to be evicted in November.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I was unable to find the sushi reviews here... Is Yelp changing the reviews as we read them?
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people screw up "x cubed" and "cubic x" so often....
Any idea of the latency for HTTP requests? I wonder if it could be nice for storing and serving static resources.
> You would let someone observe you taking a shit in return for a free roll of tissue paper? This is wrong.

Holy slippery slope, Batman! There are plenty of reasonable arguments against Facebook, Gmail, etc etc. You went straight past all of them into tinfoil-hat territory without a second glance.

Arguments about surveillance cameras, free toilet paper, and other nonsense have absolutely no place in discussions about privacy on the web. None.
I'm not sure I can agree with that. Negative reviews are almost always far more helpful than positive reviews. Review sites should be careful about referencing positive reviews. The gold standard is Consumers Reports which is much more balanced than the average interent review site (where everything gets 4 stars) and thus much more helpful.
Now I'm curious. Do you have a screenshot? (I don't have Drive yet)

EDIT: never mind, I can see them in the graphic on the announcement blog post. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OmO4AEPzKVE/T5bIDxKcD6I/AAAAAAAAJH...
Would be cool if I could receive faxes through Google Voice and saved them to my Google Drive. No more fax machines.
The title is incorrect: OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) by default can only run signed apps. All appstore apps are signed apps, as are anyone who gets a free signing cert from Apple.

There is a setting to "only install Appstore Apps" but it is not the default.
I've been doing this on high traffic PHP sites for years. It makes mytop very informative and easy to understand, and I even occasionally use them for cheapo memcache caching instructions (built into db layer) when it's not worth precaching or coming up with a more sophisticated scheme. Highly recommended.

One difference though: I prepend the comment instead of appending it.
Google Drive Launched: Install your own free Google Drive.
HelloFax engineer here... we also can take any incoming faxes you get and put them right in Google Drive.
1 TB on Google Drive = $50/mo

1 TB on Amazon S3 = $125/mo (down to $55/mo for 5,000 TB)

Being based on S3, Dropbox is going to have a tough time competing on price.
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Yes - you should submit a CV and talk to them via phone interview: what's the worst that can happen? They don't like you? If so, then you would've found out in 6-12 months anyways.

And maybe they do like you, and want you - now. For more than you're making, or doing something more interesting. Why not take them up on the chance?
How is this different from Google Docs?
Even using your figures, it's quite within reach.
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What do you think of the naming? At first I thought it was an API for the self-driving cars...
Hello Fax is the YC product I rave about most often to people. Fanatically, too. I can't describe how much I hate printing, signing, scanning/faxing documents. Now I just use you guys. Thanks.
BoxCryptor: http://www.boxcryptor.com/

Provides a pain-free encrypted layer on top of free cloud storage services like DropBox. BoxCryptor encrypts individual files, then stores the encrypted files in DropBox. If your DropBox account is compromised the adversary will only get useless encrypted files. Uses EncFS. Has clients for Windows and Mac. The Android and iOS clients are amazing.

To me, the most surprising thing about BoxCryptor is that it's easier to use than DropBox--not an easy feat.
Yelp is the poster child of the disingenuous Internet problem.

In a nutshell the problem is that people who are not verifiable by "the service" provide information or data which is essential to the operation of the "the service." Further the beneficiaries of the service (customers) are not paying for the service, and the people who can be harmed or benefit from the service (establishments) have every motivation to game the system to increase business and little downside.

So your business which has modestly thin margins to begin with, grows slowly, and the more popular it gets the more it tries to get gamed and the more margins are squeezed if you're paying people to filter those reviews.

There aren't really any 'good' answers. But there are other examples of businesses like this that have done well. The ones that do well however use the 'review' portal to push more customers to the 'value' area where higher rates of returns are to be had.

I hope someone writes up Yelp, Ripoffreport, TripAdvisor, Expedia, and AngiesList up for a Harvard Business Review group study. There have been a lot of experiments in this space taking different tacks and it would be interesting to compare their effectiveness.
The disingenuous article confused you. Only appstore apps need be sandboxed. Non-appstore apps can be signed ( a free process ) and have no restrictions on what they do.

Both signed and AppStore apps are runnable by default.
Gee - I wonder why. The tax and regulation burden is inflating faster than anyone can keep up with. The idiots in Sacramento show no signs of stopping either.
I think AT&T is just a SoftLayer reseller.
I think you got an "old pricing plan," which does not include Google Drive:

http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

I'm in the same boat, having had an 80GB plan for $20/yr for some time now.
I'm assuming people have suggested this to you, but in case they haven't, I've heard of people getting a lot of traction by contacting (and having their citizen friends contact) their senator/congressperson.
I was at one of the other companies at GrowLab and I repeatedly warned them against using copyrighted music. The Ecquire boys go their own path.
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There is a slider. Signed OR Appstore apps are installable by default. Signing is free and takes about 2 hours, tops, to setup.

There aren't restrictions on what signed apps can do.
I dig this, a lot. Anyone know if there's a Django equivalent yet? If not, I know what I'll be doing with at least one evening this week...
Wow. http://www.drively.com/css/homepage.css

They didn't even bother to remove 4sq comments. I'm speechless.
Windows 8 and Skydrive has a similar concept built into it called contracts. Developers can integrate their app to work with Windows 8's UI. For example you can search your Flikr or Facebook directly in the OS in the same way that you search the file system.

Here's a video demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hesj1I_wsqI#t=12m00s

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/archive/2012/03/23/act...
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Good point. As storage gets cheaper, more people will be induced to store mass media in the cloud, which tends to be a lot more duplicated than personal media like photographs and videos. And that's going to be a big win for the provider with the best ability to dedupe.
My apologies.

I never intended anyone to take the Discovery Institute paper as anything more than just a casual study of the subject (by a biased party). I certainly did not want to present it as academically rigorous on any level or as an unbiased look at the subject.

I thought that I had made this clear in my original post by using the word "study" rather than "research" or "peer-reviewed study". I really meant for it to be taken as more of a narrative account than an actual research paper. Unfortunately, it is now far too late for me to amend my original post to make this more clear.

In my defense, I typed up my post in a blaze of coffee-fueled self-righteous indignation. Mistakes tend to happen a lot when you shoot from the hip like that.
there is no such thing as unlimited storage. I'd be wary of anything that tries to fool me with the unlimited wording. GoDaddy's hosting packages are unlimited but after 200k inodes, it's not really that unlimited, is it?
they acquired the data because of the browser trick; that's why decided to get into doing that. look it up.
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The HN post is misleadingly titled. If an app is signed, weather appstore published or no, it can run by default. Signing is free, takes a couple hours to sign up for, and has no restrictions on what your app does.
I don't need help finding a book, and I don't appreciate your condescension.
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The motivation of the question may be opinion based, but the actual question is technical in nature. "Is there a way to find out which framework and components are used in an iOS app?" has a factual answer.

For example, you can certainly learn a few things by looking at what is in the distributed app package.
Only in the hyperventilating startup bubble world can tracking people around a shopping mall with wifi be cooler than tracking your position anywhere on earth with satellites that were put there by huge rockets.
Substitution. What materials you use to build something is a function of their property's and their costs. AKA, you can use timber frame or steel to build a house which one you chose depends on their costs not just their inherent property's because either one will meet the same basic needs (strength, durability, toxicity, etc.)

Also, economy's are complex enough that there are a wide range of cost/benefit trade-offs going on. Electrically silver is a better conductor than copper which is better than Aluminum. While silver costs to much to be used for most wiring copper and aluminum tend to trade off based on weight strength issues. So, high tension power wires tend to use aluminum due to it's physical property's outweighing electrical issues after costs are taken into consideration.

Again this is just the size of the market in nominal value. AKA if the price drops to 1/2 and you sell 2.1 times as much the total market increased even if everyone's margins where squeezed.
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Looks like the file cap is actually 4MiB, based on my testing. Still way too small.
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Remember, everyone, if you aren't paying for it, you might be the product. In this case, a Yelp user is the product that Yelp sells to businesses by featuring 5-star reviews and burying the 1-star review.

Featuring the 1-stars and burying the 5-stars would also be quite the incentive for a business to pay Yelp, but it would be cynical to assume they are doing that, too.
They already allow you to click through to the reviews they have filtered out. How about having two average ratings, one for only "filtered in" reviews and one for all reviews?
Not to mention I have absolutely no idea what they do, and I'm not going to sit through a video to figure it out.
The price of cloud storage in the long run is $0, and we're approaching that point very quickly. UX, not storage space, is going to win.
What if Facebook isn’t so special after all?
They may also get your 1Password username, since it's your e-mail address. Then all they have to do is download 1Password, try your master password combination with various e-mails you may have typed (signing up for a website, etc.) and suddenly, it's much, much, much worse.
Seems to download all your Google Contacts.
Quality is low, almost unreadable.
You're OK with targeted advertising, but you're probably not OK with any number of other things Facebook and others may one day do with your personal information. Or if _you_ are, I think many, many people are not. They use Facebook because it's a great product that all their friends use.

If privacy is a new currency, you certainly don't get to set the exchange rate.
Google actually used to do verification on people with Knol; you'd type in a credit card number and it would look up your name on the CC and match it against the name in your profile. I think that functionality got retired.

It would be nice if this service was available more globally.
Looks like ye olde blog is a bit slammed at the moment, apologies. (If only my university CS program taught me how to be a Wordpress sysadmin!)
All of these acronyms are starting to make my head spin, and in turn apathy is definitely creeping in. I was all about doing my part to stop SOPA/PIPA - migrating domain names away, shutting down my website on blackout day (those 6 visitors really missed it I'm sure). Now it's just kind of like... what do I do?
Just a head up: looks like the promotional subscription they are offering ends Oct 20th. Not sure if it "renews" oct 20th or we get put on their standard free plan http://www.hellofax.com/content/pricing

Plan: Google Drive

Price: $0.00 per month

Fax pages per month: 50

Ends: October 20th

Cancel subscription
I think you should look for instance where people use tools in a way that their creator did not intend.

I wrote a blog post about this actually: http://makingideasreal.eu/post/3701390062/how-to-discover-or...
They should take an Fail Fast approach, why not make several test flights at 10000 and look for problems. 400 Million for the first flight seems really expensive.
Sorry to contact you this way, you have no email address in profile:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3882489 is misleadingly titled.

"Mac OS X 10.8 restricted to App Store, signed apps by default"

Says an App has to be released via the Appstore and signed to be installable under the default settings. This is not true. An app needs to be Signed OR in the Appstore to be installable by default.

Can you please edit your post title to include the word OR or a "/" between the two mechanisms?
You can have some degree of peace of mind by using your own domain (it's very easy to set up in gmail). This way, if google ever decides to f*ck you, at least you can set up your own mail server (better than having your life ruined, depending on how important your email address is for you) and move on.
Silliness. The universe is fine-tuned for life because if it wasn't we wouldn't be here asking that question.
Until they switch backends, or negotiate with Amazon. While google has the buying power and made investment in running cheap, reliable datacenters, DropBox has so far made its investment in good software and user acquisition.

Dropbox has a number of ways out of this, and they've got a healthy user base and plenty of access to VC dollars to fix this.
Silly people and their illusions of 'privacy'.

If you want privacy, stay off the internet. It's not yours.
Most of these "insanely great looking" apps are done Objective-C and Cocoa Touch. It's really easy (even before iOS5) to pull it off. iOS5 of course makes it super easy with the use of UIAppearance.

Cocoa Touch has everything built in to pull this off. I'm working on an app right where the ui is "completely custom". I say it like that because I'm using all the default Cocoa Touch stuff, just "skinned" as you will.

Just because it's looks good doesn't mean it's an HTML5/JS app.

Get out of the mindset that Objective-C and Cocoa can't do this kind of stuff. With ObjC you can do pretty much anything your mind can imagine (within the hardware limits of the iPhone or iPad).

If you're curious about how to implement the stuff look up UIAppearance, and google stuff like "how to implement a custom UITabBar"
The help page for "Google Storage Plans"[1] is muddled. It now states that a base Gmail account provides 10GB of space, full stop. Unless they're rounding up from the old up-ticking 7+GB, this seems to be a policy change. But a little further down on the very same page: "If you've reached or exceeded the 7 GB free storage limit, all new incoming emails will hard bounce."

It also states "When you run out of free storage space, Google offers a way to purchase storage space shared across Google Drive and Picasa Web Albums (which includes photos uploaded to Blogger)."

But further down: "If you run out of free storage for Google Drive or Picasa you can purchase additional storage that is shared across these products. When you purchase a Google storage plan your Gmail storage limit will increase to 25 GB." This implies that a purchase of any storage plan includes not only the storage with that plan, but also an extra 25GB for Gmail.

I'm hoping that's the way it works, and that this policy extends individually to legacy Apps for Domains accounts, whose free users currently have to be upgraded en masse to paid accounts to get any additional storage.

[1] http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
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"Your Google Drive is not ready yet" :(
The HN post is mis-titled. You can still download and run signed apps under the default 10.8 configuration.
I wish this existed few weeks ago. It would be awesome if there's something similar to this but with JavaScript/jQuery translations to ClojureScript/Google Closure. In my opinion, that's the hardest part after getting the basics.
What you are seeing are hours and hours of developers and designers crafting custom iOS interfaces, typically in Obj-C and Cocoa Touch. There are some 3rd party libraries that streamline this process, these are products of the aforementioned hours of work.

Almost no successful iOS apps stick to only using the default UI controls in the iOS SDK. The sexy UIs are part total custom development and part modified out-of-the-box UI controls.

The "sexyness" of the app has little to do with using native Obj-C, HTML5, or some combo (Phonegap) and all to do with the craft and creativity put into the design.
It's sometimes cheaper manufacturing in US then in China now
Ok, this is much more compelling than Google Drive alone.
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