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I agree that cost is not the main factor here, because the real battle is being fought in the free tier of all these services anyway.

However I'm not sure iCloud wins on convenience unless you live entirely inside an Apple ecosystem (and even if you do, do you want more lockin than you have already?).

For me convenience is about universality: which ever company gives me the best experience across every platform is the one that wins. iCloud fails because Apple has a fundamental conflict of interest in making your experience better on iOS vs everything else. Of course, they also can employ anticompetitive measures to ensure that all other services are worse on iOS so I guess it sort of evens out. Google has some similar issues but I think they have a much broader interest in making their service universal than Apple does. Mainly, I don't really trust Google to get the quality up to par ... so many of their services seem to get 95% of the way there and never get the final bugs ironed out because they are "good enough". But we'll see.
"in the world but not of the world" "You gave me these Father. They do not belong to the world."
While the app itself is fantastic, it's limited in scope and this functionality is already offered by Twitter, Facebook, or any other social network with status updates...still a good piece of software, but I can't see it catching on when you can do the same thing with just a simple Facebook or Twitter update where all your friends who are already in those social networks will see it...good follow-through, but the concept definitely needs work.
They really are really amazing people.
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That has more to do with getting respect from your employers and having the feeling you're doing something valuable.

It's not merely compliments.
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In addition I'd say that the interpreter is broken and
should be fixed to be faster. "with" is not deprecated.
FWIW, apparently Rails Machine's CEO thinks some of Pastie's users are not-so-great: https://twitter.com/bradleyktaylor/status/194937146153508864
Your entirely predictable defense of your husband notwithstanding; I don't mean to diminish Thomas's contributions to the Javascript community at large nor the quality of the work he does. I hope I made that point entirely clear in my original post (and if I hadn't, I hope I am doing so now). I call it how I see it; and I see no need to repeat myself as to why I believe what I posted. Attempting to call my argument fallacious with absolutely no justification other than correcting one minor (and somewhat irrelevant given that self-marketing is important regardless of one's current occupation) incongruity is little more than an attempt to drag me into a 2-on-1 battle royal in which I refuse to participate.
This being Hacker News, I expected some post or details (even if not terribly in-depth) about the development of your app, service and / or company.
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I don't think it's about retaining ownership, necessarily. With all of the services, your data remains yours.

But reading the full paragraphs, it seems to me that DropBox's TOS say they won't use the user's data for things like advertisements.

Google's TOS makes it pretty clear that uploading to Google Drive gives them a license to use and publish the data any way they want, as long as it's stored in Google Drive.
Why the down vote for pointing out their guidance?
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So if someone follows me, and I don't follow them back, I become their leader? /me unfollows everyone

on a serious note: Leaders? too cool for school?
Is Amazon a tyrant or a saint?
Saint:

* Inventing IaaS APIs

* Tirelessly innovating new APIs for resources like DynamoDB

* Pioneering resource-based hourly pricing

* Consistent API design

* A huge number of services

Tyrant:

* EBS sucks and they can't seem to ever fix it

* Beanstalk is a terrible excuse for a PaaS

* Completely locked into the AWS ecosystem

* Every new service you try locks you down even more

* Servers can and do go down without notice

* Can't run AWS on premise

How do you feel about AWS? Best thing since sliced bread? Best of all evils? If there was something better, you'd move in a heart beat?
Jare, we will be doing this in the short term. Just wanted to post the link up and get some initial feedback on the concept.
The scenario you just detailed is rather contrived and is possible in any software deployment scenario.

Why the downvotes? As the other comment points out this is a really stupid security bit to nitpick as all of the alternatives are equally vulnerable in an equally contrivable scenario manner. One way or another privileges have to be granted. They can be granted in one place or another and have largely similar if not identical implications at the very least in terms of the net effect that can be had.
Google does use S3 for some things.

Is it possible they are using S3 for this?

Perhaps Amazon gives Google a better deal per GB than they give Dropbox.

I've sometimes wondered how Dropbox is not a violation of the Amazon TOS that pertain to "resale" of AWS services. If anyone can explain that I would be grateful.
I'm wondering why the founders and any other employees can't just be hired away from "their" startup, with a large signing bonus, and no change to the equity structure of their prior company (but, effectively no employees)? Non-competes might prevent this, but I was under the impression that they're not terribly enforceable in California.

Any lawyers out there to clarify?
This looks very promising. I've created my own lightweight system for automatic schema alterations and I can't imagine going back to working without it.

This could pretty much be a drop-in replacement for what I've done. Nice.
> paying customers that do not attract DoS attacks

A little off topic, but I've always felt a slightly uneasy about the concept of "attracting" DDoS attacks. Sure, if you knowingly piss off a bunch of script kiddies, you're attracting attacks. But it seems that nowadays, any site that hosts user-generated content is at risk of being attacked for any random reason. And yet, a lot of people talk about "customers who attract attacks" as if those customers are to blame. It almost sounds like blaming women who wear certain types of clothes for attracting sex crime.

Of course, the fact that you didn't do anything to provoke an attack might be irrelevant when your upstream faces a choice between cutting you loose and eating hundreds of thousands of dollars. People need to do what they need to do to protect their networks. Nonetheless, I'm curious what you guys think about the concept of "attracting attacks". If you blame the victim even a little bit, does that affect your judgment about what should be done in the case of an attack?
I've been working on a similar idea and think this is pretty fertile space. We have calendaring for scheduling our days, but not so much for our social lives and free time. What's needed there is kind of an anti-calendar. The trick with any technical solution isn't the tech.. It's making it into enough of a game or engagement that people will use it consistently enough to make the network valuable to everyone. Good luck with that!
>In any case, a lot of those features frankly aren't all that beneficial anyway

You're clearly not on the edge of new experimental features or you wouldn't be making such a claim.
Thanks Martin - great feedback. We can't wait to explore ways to integrate with UpOut in the near future.
You are right. I realize I contradicted myself. I guess what I mean is that Bootstrap lowers the barrier for good web design substantially and shares some of Twitter's best known methods. Similarly I wish a big app development company would share some of their experiences and maybe provide some insight on the best way to customize and modify the existing Apple UI elements. For example, I can modify the existing design by using several subviews or imageviews or drawing layers but I don't know which is the best way in terms of performance or if other companies do this.
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Speaking of Harvard case studies, there is one already (with the YC application in the appendix):
http://hbr.org/product/dropbox-it-just-works/an/811065-PDF-E...
A similar app I know is Found http://getfoundapp.com/
What is Amazon supposed to do about the lock-in? Not innovate? Give their code to their competitors?

Also, I don't think you can blame them for hardware failures.
This needs to be more than just updates from friends. Facebook does that well enough. Simply organizing a certain type of update into a stream isn't a sufficient reason for people to use the app unless everyone else already is.

Here's what might work though: aggregate and map local, context-aware events: local as in things that are happening nearby, and context-aware as in things that suit my interests. Why not consume data from Songkick for example - like displaying concerts and music events. Or figure out a way to generate data from bars and nightclubs. Maybe mashup something from Yelp? Make it easy, fun, and intuitive to browse this type of information - with data from your friends mixed and layered in.

That way, there's a reason to use this thing without the luxury of having friends who are users (which, frankly, will be everyone).

I've been thinking a lot about this stuff myself - I'd be happy to toss back ideas outside of HN. My address is in my profile.
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We believe that facebook and twitter are inadequate social calendars, and that we can do a lot better. We of course support cross-posting to twitter and facebook already (eg. http://doingtonig.ht/p/jiv), but hope to do a lot more in the future. Sign up and stick around with us.
Aww shucks, thanks for the compliments!
Since you asked for feedback I am going to give you feedback. It will be honest and not meant to be disparaging. While I'm not sure I would use it that much since I can achieve the same thing using Twitter/Facebook, one thing is certain... I will never use it if it is iOS only. Not all iOS and Android people hate each other. We hang out together and do stuff... tonight even. :) If the app is iOS only and there is no actual website (for non iOS people) to perform the same tasks as the app, then I feel even the iOS crowd may have a hard time buying in to it since it forces them to neglect part of their social circle. In real life, social networks are platform agnostic. Just my 2 cents.
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This is a motivational post, especially to those that are:

1. Starting the entrepreneurial path for the first time

or

2. Struggling with their own startup or project and need a pick-me-up

So my startup is called SayHi, and we make the SayHi Translate App for iOS. We've had a crazy week. Friday Lifehacker featured us and bumped us into the Top 200 paid apps. We were number 2 in Business.

We went on sale last night to $0.99 to drum up more momentum, and Lifehacker featured us again today as the App Deal of the Day, and simultaneously Gizmodo featured us as the App of the Day.

Currently we're around #60 top overall paid for iPhone.

Keep in mind a few things.

I don't have a Stanford degree (nor do I have any degree, nor do my cofounders).
I didn't come from money.
I started this startup in 2009... and after a long start, things have really finally begun picking up (a few months ago).

You can do it. Startups are really freaking hard, but it's definitely possible. Happy to answer any questions you may have, and give any advice I can to those in need.

I wouldn't have gotten anywhere without a supportive tech community... and while I still can't say where I'm going, I know that I have plenty to give back.

Will reply here, or you can email lee (at) sayhitranslate (dot) com
Well, there's Portable Firefox for that use case...

There are some benefits to installing critical apps like web browsers outside of the user's home directory. If a virus compromises the user account, it still can't touch the web browser's executable.
Thanks for the suggestion. We're already working on curating some top events for a bunch of populous cities. I'll shoot you an e-mail and perhaps we can talk further.

Edit: you may want to also take a look at our "nearby" events. While the list may admittedly be a little dry if you're outside of a high-populous area, it's a cool feature.
No one is saying that the day a feature is released that it will be widely adopted. CSS animations, for example, can be incorporated in sites, and as performance improves, etc it will become more widely used. Some "features" are simply performance improvements (e.g. GPU acceleration, better JS JIT, WebGL improvements; Chrome added software WebGL support on the last update).

Developers will be able to clean up their CSS more often (e.g. -webkit-border-radius, -moz-border-radius => border-radius). Sure, somethings will be only for developers at first but after a burn-in and Chrome/Firefox adoption, certain features and techniques will become mainstream. IE users will get the more "generic" page. Not a lot can be done about that.

Finally, let me add that it reduces testing for developers because now you only have to test on one version of Firefox. FF 3.6 is under %3 market share, and it was retired today.

As for the not freezing, that's a different unrelated issue. I've been running the Firefox and Chrome nightly's for a year and I'm pretty happy with both.
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This is definitely motivational! I literally just posted my first project to HN (www.intertechtion.com). While I posted to Facebook a few hours ago and not had many subscriptions, I am optimistic for HN!

P.S. I'm a first-year university student so this is pretty new experience to me!
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I don't believe that this is just an oversight because "people say you shouldn't use `with`". It simply cannot be optimized in the way that normal property accessors are. If you look at old IE perf, they're actually pretty close (both really slow).
Uh, he's not talking about all of Pastie's users, he's stating that Pastie has some bad users who use it maliciously and threaten the provider.
The issue with dropping UDP is that DNS uses UDP in most implementations. Unless you have no need for DNS on your network, you might want UDP packets to be not dropped completely.
Sorry, worded that wrong. Fixed.
Completely agree. We're iterating as quickly as we can on iOS to get to product-market fit before we expand to other platforms.
I'm assuming it's in their best interest. If they plan on ChromeOS getting big, having GDrive built in will be a big plus.
Not true at the moment that the Samsung Galaxy S3 is the best seller at Amazon Germany.

What is amazing to me is that not a single Windows phone is anywhere in the list! Could someone point out what I've missed?

What's different about German vs. American taste in smartphone operating systems?
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Is this going to reduce the brain drain of engineers heading to America for a healthier startup environment?
Stars is great! Our company wouldn't be the same without it. The three most star-getters each week get to designate a $100, $50, and $25 donation to charity -- a great reward!
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I understood the original comment about EC2 as a mitigation strategy so the hosting company's infrastructure doesn't receive the brunt of the DDoS gigabits (EC2 will) and it can still service all their other clients. In that case, even if the DDoS'd site will still be flooded and unavailable, its hosting plan doesn't need to be canceled outright. I suppose they could just skip EC2 and null-terminate the DNS until the DDoS stops, but I don't know if this has further implications.

In any case, thank you for a very informative post.
Why does Google/Facebook pay the investor anything at all? If they have no interest in the assets, then they also have the option of just sending over a big envelope of job offers to the founders and having the founders distribute it to the team. The investor's position is pretty weak. Everyone knows it, and the Google's and Facebook's are just reminding the founders what is true.
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I was torn about what to call them. I actually tweeted a request for suggestions: https://twitter.com/sferik/status/193015186045681665

I got some interesting replies but ended up going with "leaders" based on the logic that if someone follows you, you are their leader. Simple and easy to remember.

That said, I'm still open to other suggestions.
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I'm not sure if this is for me as a freelancer, or for me as someone wanting to hire a freelancer.

From the sonar bubble, it seems as it's a marketplace for me to hawk my wares as a freelancer, and for potential clients to find me. The tagline seems like it's for me as a freelancer to find clients. Who's your customer?

Finding leads actually isn't the biggest pain I have as a freelancer - it's keeping the deal flow constant. I'm just a one-man shop, so I have to take time away from billable hours to switch into sales mode and get more gigs lined up.

Help me with that pain and I'll gladly pony up cash.
You couldn't be more wrong. I make my living building web sites and embedded browser-accessible user interfaces, and several of the projects I'm working on right now use state-of-the-art features with HTML5, CSS3, mobile devices and all that jazz.

And I stand by my previous comment despite that.
That's like saying that "Car crashes, in most cases, are not fatal" is weasel words at work, when in fact it's simply a fact. Car crashes are not fatal, in most cases. And in JS, a line break indicates the end of a statement, in most cases. It's in the spec for ASI.
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I've been able to install both Firefox Aurora and Nightly on my windows restricted account. Haven't tried the regular Firefox, but I'm assuming it's the same, because I installed Aurora and Nightly around version 9.
The ground stations don't transmit to your device. WAAS still needs the satellite signals to work and so won't help indoor reception problems.
Congrats! Getting your first project out there is always really exciting. Even if it's hardly used... knowing you made something is an incredible feeling.
> I’ve been fascinated with acqui-hires for years now. The first one in recent history I know about was Parakey, acquired by Google in 2007

I thought Facebook?
Timesharing is an idea from the 1960's that has been re-imagined by Amazon as they enforced service-oriented architecture on all their enterprise systems in a Draconian manner.

On balance, Amazon is a saint. Despite its faults it has dramatically solved development, deployment and scalability problems faced by thousands and thousands of startups.

How many startups could get going if they needed to spend $50 K on colocation, servers and bandwidth? That's what happened back in the Dot-Com boom.
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Dudefella is Gabe's WoW character, actually.

But yeah, that's where my mind went first, too.
I understand what you're saying, I really do. I just think we would do better as an industry -- in the sense of producing more real world projects that benefit real world users sooner -- if instead of everyone having an anatomical measurement contest about version numbers, we slowed down the pace of releases but tried to standardise the useful new features within a release cycle or two. There is no advantage to anyone in having essentially the same feature available in, say, Gecko and Webkit, but subtly different syntax so all the CSS has to be written twice. There is no advantage to anyone in having HTML5 video, but Google being unable to make up its mind about whether H.264 is the de facto standard because it's better than everything else or the spawn of Satan because of the patent concerns. And so on...
No one seems to be talking about the individual file size limits? I couldn't find if there were limit on individual file sizes. I have huge ISO files which have been an issue with other online storage services in the past.

Any ideas?
Yes, it was Facebook.
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Yeah, let me join in here calling bullshit on this.

If you need to put a service in place to remind you how "awesome" you are, you simply lack confidence. No service in the whole wide world will give you confidence - it can only, temporarily, simulate what it would be like if you had confidence. Ergo - the minute you stop having a service remind you how "awesome" you are, you will go back to wondering. If you need a service to tell your employees that they are "awesome", you are inconsiderate and emotionally dead.

Real confidence is produced through the direct exchange of appreciation between two actual humans who care about each other.

I'm rarely this scathing, but this is garbage. It's cargo cult. It's pathetic.

It also sure doesn't help that that advertisement for the project reads like those dime-a-dozen "I want to sell you something you don't need" sites. Complete with meaningless stock pictures and cliparts.

> We think people need to feel genuinely included and that's what's missing from many work environments.

Yes, I think the word they have missed in their own text is "genuine". Because this is not genuine, this is automatized, no matter how many humans you throw into the mix at any point. There is no line of genuine appreciation going from one human (the person appreciating the work) to another (the person doing the work).

To paraphrase that greenpeace saying about "can't eat money" - When the whole world is social networked and all human interaction has been successfully automatized, people may finally realize that no technology will ever convince that one part in your brain that just frigging knows whether something is genuinely human or not. Because it knows. And that's why you will always wonder until you can fully appreciate the real thing.

> [...]a real person will call your team to tell them they are valued and appreciated

"Hey, I'm calling you to tell you that the person heading your team paid a service to make sure that a human calls you to inform you that they value and appreciate your work but not in a way where they would invest their own time and emotions into it, but let me not actually put it like that and instead make it tee-hee-silly because we both know that this is somewhat strange - yeah, I know, weird, hm?"

"Only in America", I guess?