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How to make your own drop box: Open source PHP app ownCloud on private PaaS
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This is why Larry talks it up, not because he's much concerned about users being held 'hostage', but rather he wants an easy way to leech users from facebook into Google+

Why can't it be both? And even if it isn't, that's not hypocrisy.

'video' is relegated to the last menu option under 'more'.

When you search for something, "Video" is the third option in the sidebar, which happens to be significantly more visible than the menu.

Another often touted soundbite is that Google is all about being truthful,

Where, and by whom? I think that's just a strawman.
Now you don't need an idea to apply, perhaps there is.
Is it reasonable to consider them separately from Allstate?
HyperDex adds bindings for Node.js
Even if you count Opera and Linux, it's still less to support than all the Android variants; both software and hardware.

I could be wrong, but don't Chrome, Firefox, and even Opera now auto-update as well?
What the Startup-Internet Era Has Taught Us About Building a Sustainable Bus.
I doubt Google stopped studying the smartphone market when their first attempt failed. Producing Android and working with hardware manufacturers and application developers has given them a lot of knowledge they didn't have before.
We connect to Gmail using their XOauth IMAP implementation, which we hope will become more standard in the future, but for now other services we are mainly using native IMAP connection, so you will have to give us your username/password (we are working on making this as secure as possible).We are also planning to offer exchange support, but this is very much work in progress.

Text message support will be native using twilio, and we are also planning native mobile apps to perhaps integrate more deeply with push notifications etc.

As for emails, we are able to read all of the email content including headers, and as a user you will have the ability to trigger actions based on any sort of regular expression as well.
USA basically borrows "for free", also.

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/in...

Shorter term rates are close to zero.
Borrow 10 bucks and pay back $10.02 a year later.
Thank you. The rules you can set within the platform give you a lot more power, firstly you are able to hook into web services i.e Twilio and push messages that fit a certain criteria straight to your phone. You'll also be able to trigger auto responders based on the behaviour of your inbox i.e if the volume of your inbox dramatically increases you'll be able to set a responder that lets senders know you are being swamped.

Again these are specific uses of the platform, having the ability to analyse your mail and act on it regardless of clients/device opens up a lot of options for really putting your inbox to work.
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Python from scratch has been deffered
The 2CV is the modern-day transformer. It just took us a couple of years (and also a full set of tools and a whole lot of talent) to find out.
People telling you to follow the instructions are not questioning your intelligence. They're telling you to you know, follow the instructions. Because they work.

If you don't want to do that, you now have the option not to.
Destroy your computers, after you like and retweet my blog post!

It's the extremist version of the Alt-F4 prank.
Learning from others' mistakes is very hackerly.
Yes, the host would toss drop/reject them anyway. However, having the firewall allows you to find the valid number in all_numbers / something + something (where "something" is as in the grandparent) by first using the firewall to find the correct interval ([0, something[, [something, 2 * something[, ...) and then bruteforcing only those sequence numbers.
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I'm not really sure why everybody here is so bearish on FB.

Sure, its an unproven company with a high P/E ratio, but so are most tech startups when they go IPO.

I think Zuckerberg has shown that he knows how to innovate, grow the company, and even make painful changes that eventually lead to more growth and profit.

There is at least a decent chance that FB will refine their business model and turn into a large, stable technology company with good returns.

Is this some kind of HN Schadenfreude?
what's LDN?
Google becomes hardware company with $12.5B Motorola buy
Couldn't agree with this more. Once a bunch of people start using your Android app you will get buried under support issues. The company I wrote some apps for will email me all the time saying X device on Y.Z version of Android doesn't work... Most of the time it's just a dead end. Unless I get one of those phones in my hands to test it or if it is spitting out an error code that I know how to fix then there is no easy way to debug the problem. It's frustrating as a developer because I WANT to provide the best experience in my mobile apps but that is a very hard to do as the Android platform seems to be in a constant state of flux with countless new devices hitting stores all the time.
Public Schools and National Security
The norm in US is average 15% which could be considered high in other countries. I have lived in 3 countries including US. The only sense I could make out of it is the fact that labor is considered premium in the US (not talking about cost here since that is debatable in 2012).
I personally do not mind tipping well (read 20-25%) but I find it disturbing that a waiter gives me attitude, shitty service, forgets to bring straw for the drink and then expects a tip since it is the norm. My wife and I have a joke. Every time a waiter screws up, we deduct 1% from the norm. Every time a waiter does something extra (like being nice, on time, no order screw-ups), we add 1% to the norm.
I think so - at least for now. Heck, I'd imagine that's a significant reason that Allstate ended up acquiring them. In any event, the pricing structures are different so it still makes sense to compare them separately.
I'd love to hear from the HN community reasons that make this one a good system, and hope to not generate too much of a religious war.
You seem to be saying something, but I can never figure out just what it is.
Google Finally Closes Its $12.5 Billion Takeover of Motorola Mobility
That's news to me.

For their last quarter (NY Times): "Zynga said its net loss was $85.4 million, or 12 cents a share, in the most recent three months."

Groupon has lost a lot of money the last four quarters. Their latest quarter could best be described as break-even, and negative with option expenses.

Reuters: "Groupon reported first-quarter pro-forma net income, which excludes option expenses, of 2 cents per share, versus a net loss of 41 cents a share, a year earlier."

No doubt the right direction. However, a company that's break even, with $2.x billion in annual sales, is not worth $8 billion. It's a lot better than the $20x billion they were formerly worth of course.
Fantastic! We are following some of the lean principles in order to help validate our idea before we head too far down the development path (great post here - http://theagileplanner.com/blog/building-agile-planner/buffe...). The feedback we've had has been great so far, but we really want to find out if there is any specific functionality that is best focused on.

Getting feedback from HN is vital in helping us shape the beta.
Do you mean the Department of Homeland Security?
Uh you think?

How well do you think American society and institutions were doing during the hay day of not-for-profit education versus how well do you think it's doing now? Does your criteria include providing for all citizens and having a robust public debate?

It seems more likely to me that the marketizing measures of today have done a lot to break the community building aspect of higher education but that for-profit education hardly promises anything better. Suuure, blame the government for the scams that constitute for-profit institutions now but without the student loan scheme, they wouldn't exist at all.
That's an interesting system. Do you think that having a 15% base is normal/right?
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To that end, you guys may want to try creating some evergreen content pages that are accessible to the search engines. Right now there's only 3 pages (other than your blog) which can be reached by a crawler: home, about, & contact.

Mint.com does a great job with this, if you need inspiration.
It has no bearing whatsoever what previous games in the series were.

Previous WarCraft games before WoW were playable alone or on LAN or what have you. WoW changed that.

Similarly, Diablo 3 has been designed from the start to be online only. You may disagree with this design decision, and that's fine (I also don't think the RMAH is worth it), but it's part of the design of the game.
25. times. sales.

Say that a few times slowly. It's a lot more fun to go to vegas.
So are they orbital debris now, or what?
London (sorry for shorthand!) - we are currently on one of the accelerators in the google campus.
That sounds great.

I'm sure if I can't think of ways that Twitter and Tumblr can make outsized profits from their massive respective user bases, then I'm not being creative either. Oh snap, some of the best business minds are already on the problem and they can't figure it out either.

The same holds true for Pinterest, they're stuck in the same monetization box, and they're not going to suddenly show massive profitability either. It's blatantly obvious that platform will never monetize to the scale of their traffic.
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Actually, nuclear power plants are designed to withstand failure. Typically there are multiple backup plans to safeguard against failure of any one system. One comment I sometimes hear is, "They had to pump seawater in to cool things down? That's crazy! They should have had a backup plan." It turns out that nuclear plants are intentionally built near bodies of water because external cooling is a backup, should the primary cooling systems fail.

Nothing, however, is designed to withstand systematic catastrophic failure of all of your backup plans.
So... You haven't actually made anything besides the marketing page?
From the people who've read the French that's not the only thing that was broken.

GitHub is littered with people who came up with crazy solutions rather than fixing the problem in the existing. Hacking is not limited to just software.
Yep, I have. And I'm sure Pinterest can build a couple hundred million dollar business around it. And that's a fine business, it's just not going to be a juggernaut.
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I would classify Morgan Stanley as a whale, not a shark. Can't find the article right now, but I read yesterday about big client of one of the underwriters saying he went through with the purchase of the IPO but dumped shares early and went short. These are the smart guys.
Agreeing with patio11's point at this same reply level, as the school system is currently structured, it is only incidentally about providing education to children. The system is mostly about guaranteeing employment to a privileged group of providers, as an economist of education (one of the founders of the study of economics of education) recognized: "The education system is a formalised, bureaucratic organisational structure and, like any bureaucratic organisational structure, it strives for maximum autonomy from external pressures as its cardinal principle of survival. While ostensibly devoted to the education of children, teachers, school administrators and local education officers must nevertheless regard parents acting on behalf of children as a force to be kept at bay because parental pressures in effect threaten the autonomy of the educational system. . . . I would hold that the stupefying conservatism of the educational system and its utter disdain of non-professional opinion is such that nothing less than a radical shake-up of the financing mechanism will do much to promote parental power." -- Mark Blaug, "Education Vouchers--It All Depends on What You Mean," in Economics of Privatization, J. Le Grand & R. Robinson, ed. (1985)
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I was with you right up to the "if"

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-coverin...
How is there a decent chance of that? Have they refined anything in the past and grown beyond a simple "get users, show ads" model?
An interesting book I read a while ago on health myths had a very good debunking of that urban legend:
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To me, as Byers suggests, we need to embrace _un_-certainty

This was a good article, if a bit lengthy. We need to create model-makers and thinkers. Instead at times it looks more like we are indoctrinating kids in how to have the social traits and attitudes of the elite than how to think for themselves.
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The fragmentation is fairly significant, given that 85% of current Android devices are still running 2.2-2.3.x versions of the Android OS--both of which are now 2 years old.[1]

Four months ago, we were experimenting with a combination of PhoneGap and mobile website versions of an app, and that was an unholy nightmare of bugs--not because of the version of Android, but because of the custom UI that phone manufacturers added on top of the stock OS.

We got three different Android devices (running 2.2, 2.3, and 4.1), and debugging for presentation, rendering, and behavioral issues was pretty painful. Two bugs that I can recall off the top of my head are:

* the "HTC Duplicate Input Bug", where the browser inserted a second <input> or <textarea> element on top of the original element in the DOM when you apply focus to a text input element and bring up the soft keyboard

* issues with heavy caching and cookie management that resulted in failed logins (depending on the user's device) and unpredictable rollout of new versions of CSS and JS

The problem with Android fragmentation is not necessarily that it's spread across the number of devices and versions; it's that the phone manufacturers have incentives to continue using legacy versions of the software (2.2-2.3x) because they have already invested time and resources into building their proprietary UI on top of them.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...
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Introducing "Mozilla Webmaker:" helping the world make the web
All very true and good points from both of you all - we're currently working through a site redesign, and this'll be a big part of it.
Even 30(C or F, I'm guessing C) is dealable. Being inside shade helps a lot, especially one conducting heat mostly into the ground (someone with a better physics background can tell me I'm wrong on that though).
There are absolutely no gameplay similarities between WoW and Warcraft, so don't compare the two. Literally the only thing common between those two games is the IP.

I do disagree with their online-only design decision and that is why I am voicing my disagreement. I don't see what point you are trying to make.
Depends. If the service is good, I am fine with 15% base. But I am not fine if I get bad service.
An HTML5 softsynth. Words cannot describe the joy I'm getting out of learning this is possible. My world is forever changed.

And it sounds very moog-like too
We have developed an alpha of the basic platform with a few rules that we wanted to use ourselves (therefore not strictly following lean), the idea here is to use feedback from HN to shape where we go from here, are there any features that you'd specifically like to see? is this something that appeals to you? the more feedback the better.
So does Java, for instance.
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Killing a Stackless bug
Mozilla accelerates search navigation with blekko | blekko
What does Stylo do? I can make UI looking boxes and text but see no way to export or otherwise use what is created.
Password protection is a good issue. Obviously its not as simple as a native web application where we can just hash the users password so never actually store it in plain text.

For Gmail users we can use XOauth, which helps, but for other services we will have to store login details somewhere. We are currently working on a way of encrypting the passwords that are stored in case of security breaches, but its definitely not an easy task at the moment (our private alpha is just using Gmail users).

Edited: wrong response :)
An "insane amount of money" - care to be a lot more specific? That's about as vague and unsubstantiated as you could get.

1) The assumption is that the affiliate link model and market will scale to the size of Pinterest's eventual traffic maximums, that's a big assumption.

2) The assumption is that Amazon will want to allow Pinterest to suck profit out the door at that scale, instead of Amazon competing with Pinterest in one form or another instead, just like they're now competing with Groupon / Living Social (despite an investment in LS).

3) Amazon has a very long history of directly competing with companies that touch their platform.

That's an extraordinarily shaky business model to say the least.
Can I use tray.io to send email messages into a CRM? :O
This is very true, thanks for reminding us... Privacy is obviously a huge issue, if we are going to be accessing your emails, so you're right we do need to make it a bit more obvious that the service is completely secure.

We would never store any of your emails on our servers, we would only store your oauth token/secret (with Gmail) or your login details (if using another provider).. The rules engine would be a black box where the email simply goes in one side and actions are triggered out the other side so to speak...
I find your story to be very interesting. It used to be the case that it is easier to find talents in Java/.NET but that doesn't seem the case these days.

Why Django not Rails since Rails seem to be more popular?

I found it hard to believe that you can switch 55k LoC of Spring MVC + JAX-RS to Django with resulted of 8k. Because from what I've learned over the year, the amount of code requires to write Spring MVC + JAX-RS is very minimum and very close to Rails (my experience is more with Rails) at the very least from the Controller point of view. My personal like of the paradigm is to re-use the code between Spring MVC and JAX-RS. Love it so much.

That is of course if you discount everything else: imports, comments, parentheses, configurations. What about the actual logic?

We typically use JS heavy on the front end and less on JSF/JSP.

But you're right, YMMV. Projects have different requirements and skillset/experience. We typically don't have technical bugs but more of requirement bugs: someone forgot to handle the case of X,Y,Z and as such, it requires about a day or less to plug the issues.
An important point to add is that a number of users have had their accounts hacked. The current theory is that hackers are joining public games, gathering some info on the players there, and then spoofing their credentials to the server.

So while (and if) public multiplayer games aren't safe to play, this really is an online-only singleplayer game.
I sure hope so. TextMate bundles seem the logical choice since Rubyists seem to love TM, and I do, too. That said, I'd switch IDEs if the library was good enough. I actively acknowledge I am taking advantage of Xcode's CodeSense when it comes to some of Apple's asininely long enums (UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator for instance).
It sounds like the senior guys didn't take her complaints very seriously because she had been in a relationship with the guy. It was only when another woman complained about the same guy that they got rid of him.

It also sounds like the firm is controlled by men who tend to favor men for promotions and compensation.

Ultimately I think lawsuits like this are what will move the industry forward. It forces complacent old powerful men to take young women seriously.

Hopefully she gets paid for her trouble and KPCB significantly improves their environment for women.
Yep - that's a great example of how Tray would be used. Is there a particular CRM / Service you'd like to see integrated? You would be able to forward the whole email or specific parts of an email (ie attachments) as the rule dictates.
I disagree. Testing is STILL much easier for web development, the android emulators are no replacement for the real thing. Yeah, if you want to give me the top 7 Android phones then yes, development becomes easier (I'm sorry but still no where near as "easy" as it is in the world of web development). We normally will test Win/OSX and the latest FF+Chrome and then IE7/IE8/IE9/Soon-IE10. This in total means testing 6 different combos (No IE on OS X and only test FF/Chrome in one OS). I might throw the site in safari just to double check but since it runs on webkit I usually can trust that if it works in Chrome it will work in Safari.

At the end of the day we have to much less checking in web development than we do in mobile because while browsers are different that are more alike than they are different. That cannot be said for Android/iOS, they differ down to their very core and most cross-platform attempts fall hopelessly short of a usable app.
Not just a softsynth: there's a very basic multi-tracker in there as well!
I'm more deeply concerned about the fact that Emacs is something which, roughly speaking, I can control. Emacs is a community project. Your project appears to be commercial in nature, regardless of whether or not it's open source. Your project will also be a dictatorship by dint of the fact that it belongs to you.

Why should I trust you to provide the most fundamental tool in my work?
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At the moment, you can export selected elements by copying them and pasting their CSS into a text editor (Chrome dev).
Testing hard algorithms
I love the idea but I think it could go even further in terms of rules. If it could do a bit more I'd pay.

I'd love for it to put attachments into Dropbox (maybe sort by sender or file type).

If the message is under a certain amount of characters then text it to me by Twilio and I'll reply.

If I don't read a message from my boss after a certain amount of time call me.
Isn't that Google's model? It's worked out pretty well for them.
"Lean" is being used to justify increasing amounts of inanity. Please consider how you might be using up public goodwill to look at new startups by wasting people's time with nothing.
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Spheres of Chaos... Mmmm. http://www.spheresofchaos.com/
Even if brogrammers existed, they wouldn't be reading legal briefs about sexual harassment cases in VC firms.
The author does not seem to understand how stock market works, at all, actually. At this point, Facebook couldn't care less what the share price is - they sold them, the made off with the money, it's all secondary market now - and the share price now does not concern Facebook, they don't stand to profit from it anymore (unless some employees would like to sell their stock, etc etc, but they can worry about that later).
Those knobs are really hard to control with the mouse. Can anyone find a resource that explains what each control changes?