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I had just about given up on a slightly similar idea I had been working on briefly called http://www.TinyCourt.com. Much more downmarket than yours, using mechanical turk to provide verdicts on petty squabbles with family, friends, co-workers, etc., almost more as an entertainment product than actual arbitration. The enthusiasm for this idea in the comments makes me think I might have been about to give up too early.
OS, IDE, GIT and Command Line as major branches make this way more daunting than it really is.
Well then! Live & learn. Glad you commented. Thanks!
This is a great concept and looks like a classic disruptive innovation play. With the kinds of (large) contracts that I help with, it won't be an option yet, but I look forward to seeing something like this becoming a far more compelling option than the current arbitration offerings.
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Why would this not be a good thing?
There are so many bookmark services...Something that I'd like to see is a bookmark based in a goal or objective. Something like, I'm learning Lua and I want to save a bunch of links that I won't need afterwards when my goal was accomplished.
I believe not. The disk cache is shared, too.
That was an April fools joke.
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Because this is how a lot (most?) people work. They read about something interesting today, buy the book, send it to their Kindle and then forget about it. When they get to actually read a book they enjoy they might start looking for more titles from the same author/genre and at $2 you won't think too much about buying 2-3 at once.
Yeah I forgot about GS and their $500m... I suppose its not really surprising then
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I would love to have his karma. I screwed up with my first post and despite my best efforts I haven't moved up. Maybe if I show kindness to the new yahoo browser my karma will improve?
Not that new, and with that much funding they received. They're just being lazy.
Is there a way to save all the stuff you on your clipboard offline? I am looking for something like this, but in a local software kind of way, not a webapp. These new startups' survivability are very unpredictable and I don't want to lose all my info if the site goes bust. It's the top thing that's stopping me from committing myself to your site.
* Checks calendar * hang on, it's not April 1st! I do have to say, after having a brief romance with Yahoo! in my teens, I'm looking forward to them doing something like this. As a web developer, if this becomes popular, and causes problems for me, there will be hell to pay.

Come to think of it, I'll probably just ignore it if it causes me any issues.

You've been warned Yahoo!
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> of the RAM based block cache

what? cgroups provides resource limits.
Many Postgres features and packages can be enabled / disabled via configure, and the engine built, if you want a "leaner" deploy.

All RDBMS engines have a variety of features that are not necessary in all deployments.
> With ebook readers on your computer, tablet, phone, and dedicated (and cheap) ereaders I don't see how anyone could say that books are getting harder to read.

I expressed myself badly. The act of reading has never been so easy I agree.

What I meant was when was the last time you finished a book? Or just got something meaningful out of a book? How about when you bought a book and never even started it?

The problem being there's an oversupply of excellent books all just a download away but never enough time to read them.

This is a problem we should be solving.
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I agree. Completely.
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A) I once read that only about 17% of the books people buy actually get read. People seem to get some satisfaction out of "owning" the info even without consuming it.

B) When I was homeschooling my sons I frequently bought actual (dead tree) books for a dollar or so off the clearance tables. It was cheap enough that I was willing to gamble on their usefulness. Some panned out. Some didn't. Enough panned out for me to feel it was still well worth it.
He certainly whines very impressively and profanely. The comedy is in his article having contributed about as much value as any given content aggregator, it's little more than a big bitch fest.
One thing I've learned about the app ecosystem is that when your app gets attention and becomes popular, the copycats come out in full force - relentlessly, shamelessly, and often fraudulently.

My organization doesn't develop mobile apps, but we provide APIs that power many of the top apps in the "News" categories on the various app stores. We've seen apps that are solely designed to just consume our API reach #1 in categories a few times. And we love to see that.

But, when an app gets popular as described above...? Copycats come out in full force, stealing API keys, decompiling apps for data and info, and other completely nefarious techniques with zero innovation. And they release exact copies of competing applications.

No doubt about it, while "controlled", the app stores are still a wild-wild-west.
I can't think of a comment with any substance cause I'm about to go to sleep, but I'll check back in the morning.

This is something I would like to share with the ~150 journalists I manage if it's any good.

Nice to see you guys here on hacker news!

Goodnight! (from the United Kingdom)
Clearly, there is nothing different nor is it any better or worse.
Great talk. Favorite quote so far: "The thing that we've noticed is that the longer you spend at a big company, the worse of an entrepreneur you are."
Link doesnt work. To build something that is called "chrome killer" you need to first put up a functioning website in place guys. Someone needs to be fired.
Native Windows XP for all three browsers mentioned (which I have to pull up all too frequently during dev myself, unfortunately).
Interesting, trying to download it, results in it trying to load up a Google Chrome extension...

Edit: Looks like it exists as a plugin for Firefox and Chrome, based on my testing with Opera...

Edit2:

Chrome Extension

Firefox Extension

Safari Extension
Technically, it's a Special Administrative Region of the PRC, and not a sovereign state, but I don't know if can be legally referred to as a "State".
Touché.

"Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal"
It's not a "Killer". The title is the worst kind of link bait. It doesn't replace Chrome in any shape or form. There's nothing Yahoo! has said to justify this title. Horrid submission to HN.
Fortunately Google's Panda has dramatically slowed down the growth for sites like Ranker. Google applies an extremely heavy penalty for using content from sites like Freebase and Wikipedia. If those penalties didn't exist, there's little question Ranker would be a top 1k site.

Other lame content theft sites like Mahalo have been practically put out of their misery.
Fair enough, nevertheless the motivation just doesn't ring true to me. Apple doesn't cripple things to protect revenue streams. They cripple things to maintain control.
FYI, and I said this to Ken as well - I kind of think your reliance on a bookmarklet is a pretty big downer. Personally, I really, really don't like bookmarklets in general, but even moreso because I don't use a bookmark bar. I didn't use Instapaper, for example, until I found a good Instapaper extension for my browser. As it is, it really doesn't do a lot for me that just grabbing a bookmark doesn't, because I have to go out of my way to do it.
I actually don't think they do; they're directly measured by quantcast. If you go to

http://www.quantcast.com/ranker.com

and select page views, week, and global they still peak at 4mm. Which is nothing to laugh at.
Since when did he create an operting system? Linux is a kernel.
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Clipboard is more than just a bookmarking service. You can clip and save individual parts of the web pages including text, pictures, videos, flash applications and even bookmark. You can also create public or private clip collections for interesting topics using hashtags. For example, clipboard.com/tag/jquery lists all public clips tagged as #jquery. clipboard.com/Mati/jquery lists all public clips by user Mati tagged as #jquery.
I would have said that in his profession, openly airing your views without self-censoring is probably a qualification.

To put it another way, discouraging geeks from ranting about what they think, can seriously damage the quality of your codebase.
We actually do have a chrome and firefox extension. You can find them at http://clipboard.com/tools

That said, we haven't put the chrome extension in the webstore yet because we haven't yet opened up the service for public signup. As soon as we do it'll be in the chrome store.
Quite profound. Companies seem to thrive on sould crunching. My own experience leads me to believe so.

But would the inverse also hold true? Is unemployment a fuel to entrepreneurship? The longer you are unemployed or under employed leads to one just going for it?
Would not any online schema update in a more complicated cases (not just simply adding or removing columns) require interesting gymnastics or downtime in MongoDB too? The application needs to support both the old and new (and possible an intermediate) schemas during the online upgrade.

PostgreSQL supports transactional schema modifications. fast adding and removing of columns, and lockless index creation. So in simple cases upgrading the schema is trivial. For complicated cases it can be a mess, but my guess is that that applies to any database.
That seems like needless hyperbole, if not a poor attempt at snark. There's plenty of content in there.
Are you using the Yahoo! Browser?
Ah, I didn't see the invitation-only bit.
The video on axis.yahoo.com says it's a plugin for "your favourite browser" and shows the icons for Chrome, IE, FF, and Safari. So, it doesn't seem to be a separate browser.

Also, the Axis logo looks nearly identical to Adobe's, apart from the colour.
Brought to you by a patent troll that thinks it invented the concept of a news feed, and is suing every web publisher that displays new information in a list.

Who can possibly take this company seriously anymore?
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GSV Capital is doing something similar - http://gsvcap.com/about/

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Same here. I'll buy two or three <$3 apps and not think about it. >$6 and I start thinking about my budget, and slow down. Same issue with Steam sales. The advantage of the AppStore is the payment integration and instant install, it works really well for the impulse, "I need a nifty new tool" type of personality.
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Here is a better article detailing what Yahoo Axis is.

http://techland.time.com/2012/05/23/yahoos-axis-visual-searc...
< humor explain=verbose >

The parent post said that Linus' writing was extremely terse and "to the point" and what would happen if Linux wrote the userspace.

The joke was that Unix's typical user interface, the shell, isn't exactly overflowing with unecessary verbose "fluff"
If you're good at adapting to your environment you don't need to waste so much time trying to adapt your environment to you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-9w3dlcmyk
Shape of the logo reminds me of Adobe.
We currently don't have the functionality for users to download and store their clips locally but it's a fair request and we will consider it for our upcoming product roadmap. Thanks for requesting.
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If you dress any action up with enough fancy technical terms, you can easily confuse the non-technical into thinking what you are doing must be pretty advanced and thus worthy of some sort of protection.
Thank you for the kind words. My email is shalenATclipboardDOTcom if you want to discuss further.
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and on top of that, the last thing you want to do for many actual spam lists is to click their per-address unique tracking tag which tells them that your address is valid.

If you've already started communicating with them I guess it's probably reasonable to consider it 'blown' anyway, but I'm always extremely dubious of opt-out/unsub links for that reason.
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I can understand where you are coming from here. I agree with the how the banks would react, having worked in the industry in the past and now dealing with them from an outsider's view.

However, it is not right to just keep accepting that the banks will always have their way, so we just throw our hands in the air and give up. It is time this old school industry was disrupted and I can see this beginning to happen with start-ups that challenge traditional banking. (such as TransferWize and Pygg)

If the banks refuse these new types of products that have been suggested in this post, then other disruptive partners could join together to tackle the industry. In saying this, there are some banks willing to challenge traditional methods, such as HSBC, who outsource most of their IT development to create the best products for their clients. In this regard, in Australia at least, they are considered a threat by the local big four banks. All in all it won't be easy as Jon pointed out, but nothing worth doing ever is.

I am not passionate about finance so this project is not for me, but I wish you all the best Brent and hope to see changes in the industry in the future from potential disruptor's like yourself.
"Yahoo says ... is contemplating putting Axis on other mobile platforms such as Android."?!

I can understand not supporting Linux at launch (but not forever). I can't understand only targeting iOS and then publicly saying you're not even planning on doing Android. Just that you're "contemplating" it.
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So, there are two main points made in this essay.

The smaller, more confused point OP makes that actually applies to everybody: Everybody feels like they're not up to par, that they just need X more ($, followers, social proof) and then they'll be happy. I don't really know if we can just change a systemic, individual view like our evolutionary 'inadequacy' (never having enough) so easily, it's so deeply ingrained into our physiology. We've had a lot of people and a few religions/philosophies attempt that.

The more clear point is a better version of one that HN has seen for a few weeks now, that we've gone astray from our roots of playing with things and creating fantastic technologies. Worse, we use our time to make apps that distract people instead of helping them.

I wasn't around, but from what I've been told the 'good old days', when the music was better, kids respected their elders, and in this example, the hackers had heart and never really existed.

However, what OP says about our current world really feels true. I'm in college and it really feels like there's pressure to make something shiny, maybe SoLoMo, maybe Open Graph, but something that in the end isn't profoundly useful. A good example is Dan Shipper, with wheremyfriends.be. It was a little app that shows you where you friends are, geographically. Mashable called him "Future Zuckerberg". I understand that example may be a bit extreme, but really, more and more of my friends are pushed to making things like this.

This is sad. The HN community is likely a contributing factor, because in the aggregate we all like shiny things like yc valuations, spaceX costs and AWS stats. For a group of people who pride themselves on liking "real" things that make a difference, we're quite bad at it.

I don't know. It's intrinsically hard to measure unsexy things like starvation in Africa or access to clean water around the world. Maybe their lack of visibility makes them unsexy. Maybe now we have better tools to do important things, and they're not as visible. Does anyone have an answer to how we might solve this?
Well the least they could do is try to resolve the situation with the human that has entrusted their stuff to them.
I think they just have normal offices in the UK.

Otherwise, dress like a courier.
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Make time.

I finish a few books per month. My parents manage to read a couple books per week (and managed it when I was a good deal younger and they were both working 40+ hour weeks).

Read on the bus. Read on the can. Read before going to bed. There's plenty of time for reading, even if you've got an otherwise busy and active life.
Yahoo Axis is Not A Browser, for Desktop
This article is not intended to be funny.

Your reply is funny though. Very.
We're just talking about syntactic sugar here. You could still roll your own string class but without operator or initializer support.
So it's a new toolbar? Just what decade is Yahoo! living in?

Edit: What strikes me is how this is being billed: "A Chrome killer" and even the demo and ad spot use the phrasing "new browser": however this is not a browser. It may be a /browsing experience/ perhaps but it certainly doesn't stand to compete with Chrome mano-a-mano. Clearly the true target is search. But even then: has the world been waiting breathlessly to return to the days of toolbars?
One of the reasons that Y Combinator do not do follow on rounds because, it looks bad if they don't invest in every single one of their investment in the next round.

I'm sure there are probably others but ^ is alone is a very good reason not to participate in follow on rounds.

However, some of the YC partners are also angels and have made some investments in some of the YC companies in follow on rounds e.g. Priceonomics[1] & Crowdtilt[2]

There are others YC companies which the partners have also made investments in, I'm just highlighting two of them.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/04/priceonomics-seed-round/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/17/kickstarter-for-groups-and-...
> You have to remember that when chrome was released it was clearly an attempt at a firefox killer

Really? I thought it was a (successful) attempt at building a good browser that addressed the needs of a wide variety of users. I didn't realize it was out to kill anything. That just seems barbaric.
From the looks of it, you're in for a few more years of waiting. This thing is a plugin, not a browser.
Still hasn't. It's a horrid browser add on. I dare you to install it and look at the list of popular searches without retching.
I bought it around January of 2011, when I knew I was going to move forward with the concept. It seems kind of tacky to share the amount, but it cost about 5-10x less than what most people guess, as the previous owner was extremely reasonable.
How can they expect to compete? Of the people who actually use yahoo products are they tech savvy enough to care about browsers? I imagine (maybe incorrectly) that yahoo users are mostly former employees and "normals" who use whatever their kids install on their computer
I fear this is too late for Yahoo. I don't think the "Google Killer" is going to be some incremental change in how search is done. It's far too late for that. It would have to be Earth-shattering, and I didn't feel anything shaking when I watched the demo video.
The advertisement is a bit of an overkill. I wish there was more text on the main page to tell me exactly what it is. The advertisement showed me a dude punching websites.
If it was that easy to get additional income, they would have done it. They probably have a bunch of MBA types with fancy spreadsheets that came up with the pricing strategy not mention Amazon's pricing 5x to 10x additional sales over the long term is probably not realistic.
Good point. There are friendlier (better?) ways to discuss flaws.
Oh god, I love seeing Maddox beat this drum.

Calling out HuffPo was awesome too.
Maybe they can use Yahoo! Axis to screen future CEO qualifications...
The actual Internet-Draft: http://tack.io/draft.html

Unlike Ars, this has the information you need. Each server that implements this TACK draft has a TACK key at any given time, as well as their usual TLS key. Conforming clients get sorta-ssh-like key security:

"3.2. Pin life cycle

A TACK client maintains a store of pins for verifying TLS connections. Pins associate a hostname and a TACK key. When a client sees a new hostname and TACK key combination, an inactive pin is created. Every subsequent time the client sees the same pin, the pin is "activated" for a period equal to the timespan between the first time the pin was seen and the most recent time, up to a maximum period of 30 days."
Typically these repeat spammers are individuals who manage some community email list (think apartment association or university student org) and don't know how to do anything but add people and copy/paste into the to field. For these people it works great.
It may well be that, but that doesn't make it okay. They shouldn't be building an email database by scraping, which is almost certainly what happened.

In a vaguely related note: I recently had a situation with an organisation that kept bulk emailing a plug for its conference and would ignore requests to eliminate all addresses using[mydomain].com from their database (they were sending email to aliases as well as actual mailboxes).
Brooke, thank you very much. It's nice to hear some encouragement.

I work inside the system. I try to push for change, but there is only so much I can do before I start to upset people. My coworkers laugh at me every time I talk about unseating this vendor.
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Every action has repercussions beyond the parties directly involved. If Oracle wins on API copyrightability, that precedent would destroy vast swaths of the software industry, not just Android. Curtailing innovation at the expense of thousands of developers' livelihoods is not remotely the same as selling products that kill their users, but is certainly unethical enough to invoke the discussion of socially responsible investing.
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"well managed company"

Nah, that was a giveaway it was irony wasn't it?
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Thus, Oracle screwed itself as a result of having charged full speed with tomahawk swinging wildly in the air.

This puts me in mind of when you were telling me that some people get addicted to litigation to the point of losing interest in product development.
It's a bit tricky, though, because typically it's people who are not skilled in the art who must decide whether it would have been obvious to someone skilled in the art. Of course, if it goes to trial they can have expert witness testimony and attempt to build a clearer understanding of its (non-)obviousness, but ultimately the question doesn't get decided by a panel of experts skilled in the art.