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OP here. This is my full-time startup.

I am having a hard time validating the idea so I decided to post it here and take a little embarrassment in the hopes of getting feedback. Excuse the domain name and the eye soar design.

Are there any other decision tables you need? I am willing to make a decision table for anyone (will take me a few days) in the hopes of getting feedback as well.
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the cost of switching with content aggregators is so low, and there is a network effect in the switch, so I would never write digg off. just thinking about it, I would probably give whatever they build next a chance
Why bother with this system when there are plenty of public (not that it matters for FB) profiles admitting the owner is using some sort of illegal drug?
Rust is the most promising up-and-coming programming language, in my opinion.

Finally a programming language with decent syntax that does RAII, and understands the need to restrict garbage collection!

Thanks!
Yeah, that point significantly underestimates the cost of cleaning up once your systems have been penetrated. By the time you notice that one system has been compromised, there is no guarantee that every system at your company is not compromised, particularly if so little effort is put into a robust security architecture. I've seen companies that took the attitude the author does and ended up paying for it down the road.

Systems get compromised, it happens. Organizations with weak security architectures can become so compromised that cleanup becomes a nightmare because it is difficult to isolate the threat(s) without serious disruption in services. A strong security architecture is not so much to ensure breaches never happen but to limit the amount of damage likely to occur when breaches do happen.

And yes, this happens even to organizations that think they have nothing worth hacking.
Possibly failure to properly notify will result in some sort of legislative slap on the wrist, but not for failing to prevent it. That isn't their responsibility.
> I love angry rants from people that think every window manager has to act like Windows.

Wrong. They're from people who think every window manager should act consistently. This is decades of UI design and expected behavior being flushed down the toilet by a company for which NIH is religious dogma.

That Windows behaves the correct, expected way is an indictment on OS X, not its growing base of increasingly frustrated power users.
My advisor owns a company that was funded almost entirely by SBIR's for the first several years of its existence. Sales (of a very expensive physics simulation package) have picked up recently, though.
I think that line is more for contractors than full-timers. Less red tape to let you go.

Which sounds snarky, but I mean it seriously.
In silicon valley we dislike the term "delusional."

It's our "reality distortion field" :-P
It's been clear in my mind for some time now that Facebook is desperately doing anything possible to stay plugged into our internet lives. Their attempted take-over of email, which will probably lead to some success, only reinforces this. I think they see the writing on the wall -- that newer services will take over older ones -- and are doing anything they can to stay top dog.

What we need is an abstraction layer on top of social networks. No matter what their TOS, they do not own my friends or my conversations with my friends. I have no qualms at all about having some other service handle my friendships and conversations in a way I deem appropriate.

We need to pry Facebook's greasy hands from our throats before it's too late. At one point they were cute. Then they were pleasantly time-wasting. Now they're crossing over the line firmly into evil territory.
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When I say "no one would listen" I mean the long and tiresome discussions. I saw people just repeating themselves, without taking on board what other people were saying. I never saw these discussions end well. There was no consensus - the discussions eventually died out without any progress.

I think there might be some Stockholm Syndrome there. The volunteers in the PHP bug tracker are dicks! Or were, it's been 3 years so things may have changed. And I'm not talking about responses to trolls, I mean to ordinary users.

I mean they disregard the feelings of the other people in the community, not their code. I'm not really talking about how dysfunctional the coding practices were, I mean the actual community dynamics. It felt a lot like trolls feeding trolls.
What are Mozilla's plans for integrating rust into Firefox? Is this a mostly theoretical constraint or is there a plan to have this implemented?
FB chat messages don't have to be saved either.
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It is significantly harder to implement, especially if you think about what happens with existing functions, especially internal ones.
Yes, There is disk caching for NSURLConnection by default, but in my experience it does not cache it across app restarts, so each time the app starts again all the images have to be fetched all over again... SDWebImage gives the persistent disk caching I want.

If I'm misunderstanding what's happening please let me know...
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Might be time to hook up something like Emacs' "M-x spook" to FB.
Great article. Rajiv made it easy to understand the conceptual framework. The lesson is: always strive to be robust. Test your failure points deliberately. Applicable to more than just server scaling.
Surprised this isn't on the front page. It even has a lead Kickstarter developer behind it.
Let's take it a step further: every item that you purchase with a credit card is recorded. It wouldn't surprise me if some retail stores use CCTV systems capable of facial recognition to identify cash purchases, too...

It's time to create an underground data haven in Kinakuta--the Crypt.
If I log in and click the Messages button I can see all my messages. To do that they have to be on their server. There isn't an off-the-record button I missed is there?
The buyer is New York technology development firm Betaworks, which is attempting to revive a news-sharing site that was outmaneuvered by Facebook Inc. FB -0.52% and Twitter Inc.

"outmaneuvered by Facebook and Twitter"? No. Digg's wounds were all self-inflicted. Between the "power users" and efforts to monetize the site it took on the look and feel of one of those fake news sites created to snare Googlers.
I have done both hardware and software engineering, and I see no difference.

It is difficult to put into words, but I would say that the heart of engineering is the discipline of understanding how and why something is useful, as distinguished from feelings or hopes about its utility.

An MFA in software is pretty much the opposite of engineering. Engineering is not a matter of taste or opinion, it is about creating such hard sparkling truths that opinion would be superfluous.
Mozilla is using rust for a new prototype engine called servo: https://github.com/mozilla/servo
What's a good indicator of successful growth for a website?
We just launched a new site, www.kickthelist.com, and have a few users signed up. We were wondering what we should aim for in terms of the number of users at the end of the month. Usually for other successful start ups, how many users do they get by the end of their first month?
Well, there is Vim and there is the Vi-editing style. My understanding was we were talking about the latter. In such case, I admit I couldn't think of a proficient Vi-clone user switching to any other editing model.
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Not only is rust a pretty awesome language, the Rust devs are amazingly helpful on the IRC channel.
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Firefox implements this. You type ' and then the anchor text.
Amazon has a great story to tell the DOJ:we've not reduced our prices, we're working on offering better service: prime service is expensive, and we're building costly warehouses and bought a robotics company, and investing in pack-stasions.
They both work absolutely fine. I tend to use d/<regex>, but the dv/<regex> example highlights the sublanguage and composition a bit more :)
Somewhat related, apparently if you want to shutdown someone's paypal account and suspend their funds (and yours as well, be warned) just send them some money with the reason "drug money".

Apparently people have sent their friends money, rent, etc. and did that as a joke, boom, it's a nightmare.
how would that have ended up better than the outcome described here?
Rust is being used to implement an experimental new browser engine with a focus on concurrency in order to better take advantage of highly-parallel and power-limited hardware. It's known as Servo,[1] and it's still strictly in research mode; there are no concrete plans to integrate anything into Firefox as of yet. Even if there were, Rust itself won't be at 1.0 until sometime next year, and it would be quite a while beyond that before Servo had any semblance of feature parity with Gecko.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/servo
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The Reddit discussion linked to this video of an engine using Elastic Surface Nets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc1ztktWxJs
I applaud his courage, but leaving a job for $115.73 per week seems a bit risky. Maybe if this concept was combined with something like Kickstarter it would be more effective. E.g. you create an open-source project and pledge to continue development on it as long as your Gittip payments stay above a certain threshold.
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Are you unaware that digg was a startup and that employees were given options / equity as compensation? It doesn't bother you that someone in particular got a return on that (supposedly equal) equity while regular employees didn't? Charactering expecting your employer to fairly pay out equity in the event of an acquisition as, "backing up a Brinks truck" is stupid. What part of expecting your employer to treat the boss' equity and the employees' equity equally, where one only earns if the other does, is "entitlement"?

I don't work for employers to become a better person; maybe you do. I work for them for my salary plus the options we negotiated.

And frankly, it would appear that the leadership at digg was crippling, not the employees.
NSURLCache does disk caching in iOS 5 and up, but only for http (no https) requests. Use SDURLCache if you want more options there.
Personally, I wish we could do a complete debugging of such problems, and see which options are available to fix them properly. Note the word "complete".
Not to detract from your point, which was similar to my intro to Unix, but I've always preferred 'man -k' to apropos, because it means remembering only one command plus it is slightly less typing.
What eholk said. Also, it's partly for the Chrome/Rust divide of web browsers -- Rust is designed for the "below-the-bonnet", "plumbing" parts.
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Agreed 100%. GitHub's wiki UI (example: http://cl.ly/2T2718220P1Y3h0M330r) would be a great place to take inspiration from, since that's almost exactly what you're talking about.
Apparently implicitly lying to your viewers and directing them to a site that benefits you without mentioning that is ethical to you. In contrast, I view it as unethical.

Ethical: check out this cool site I built.

Unethical: here's a cool site I found.

Admittedly, this is pretty small potatoes, but it's still sleazy.
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> EVERY single thing you type online is viewed by the NSAs terrorbots.

Evidence? Did you program these NSA bots or something?

> Anyone that thinks anything is private online is fooling themselves.

No, they just don't know any better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy If you want your messages to be heard by limited parties, make it so. "My friends are too stupid to know how to use any form of encryption" is not an excuse, and might cause you to pause and consider whether you want to share anything important with such friends in the first place.
I agree- perhaps a dimming highlight would be a bit nicer (background dims, except for a box around the selected link). Otherwise, great work.
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Read the declaration of independence. The bug is explain (suffering while evils are sufferable) and the debug procedure as well (altering or abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed)
By the looks of it, Parse is still downloading the image as the table view scrolls (that would be only reasonable). The behavior of not displaying until the table stops moving would appear to be a shortcoming of Parse not executing its operation using NSRunLoopCommonModes. AFNetworking gets this right.
Does anyone know a site where all of the scary things (civil rights and privacy violations) that are going on have been aggregated? I sometimes get people asking why I’m not on Facebook. It would be nice to have a place to point people to about why because it’s quite difficult to explain normally.
When everyone's a sexual predator, no one is.
This is an incredible way to lead by example and help entrepreneurs get the push to really make their ideas thrive. Well done!

Hopefully Canadian entrepreneurs will take advantage of it, seeing as this seems to be exactly what we're missing here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212010)
The article submitted to HN is new. But in it he quoted a 2007 article.
The slogan of his blog speaks for itself ...
As someone who used Digg and Reddit from their infancy I have been able to observe when and how Digg fell from #1. I don't think they failed because they were having delusions of grandeur.

The 1st mistake that Digg made was the introduction of power users. As a power user your stories were artificially boosted to the front page. After this happened, I noticed a huge decline in quality where the front page became mostly populated by articles from cracked and huffingtonpost. This quote from another user summed up the situation.

In version 3 around 100 diggers ran 80% of the front page – to get on the front page you had to cover Kevin getting a blow job from Stallman, or get a power user to submit your story. At that point Digg was not a democracy at all, but a curated list by paid Digg pros who shilled for hire. If you were a nice guy, or a tech publisher, you had power digger friends who would submit your stuff for you for free.

Then there is the 2nd mistake that everyone knows about. Digg 4.0, the last mistake that finally made Reddit bigger than Digg. Large domains Engadget and Mashable flooded the front page with their auto-submitted stories. It was then that Kevin Rose betrayed the power users for large publishers, just as he had betrayed the regular users for power users many years ago.

If Digg had not done any of this, there would have been a very good chance that they would still have been the largest aggregator today.
I am curious what you think of Eben Moglen's "Freedom Box" project?

http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
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It's a satire piece.
Can you please point me to some of links or HN article please.
Now I'm pretty sure that my account was (temporarily) disabled for this reason when I posted a politically biased link about the refused Iranians at Apple stores.
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OK say you bought it. It is yours. What do you do tomorrow and this week to turn Digg around and have it do something interesting?
Contingency Plan. All that comes to mind when I read this. Very nice writing and summarises the world it seems.
No maybe about it. Digg lost their market by messing with their product. It's an interesting case, because you can make a direct comparison with reddit: two nearly identical products serving the same market started at the same time. Digg tried to grow too fast and failed, reddit grew at its natural pace and succeeded.
If this privacy-invading-data-miners are using computers and mathematics they’ll surely find better and better ways of filtering the false positives. But before it even comes to that they’ll probably just scare people into submission by making examples of people who create false positives--probably by treating them as true positives.
It would seem that programming languages play a big part in determining the level of structural complexity produced in a piece of software. Lisp, for example, is structurally simple while being functionally complex.
It seems like the correct approach is for Facebook to do only what's legally required of it, and nothing more. That would allow society to have a transparent debate about what, exactly, should be required, leaving FB policy out of it.

As I understand it, FB is currently only required to respond to appropriately specific subpoenas and warrants. If the cops want more, they should petition for laws to require that and we can all argue about it like responsible citizens. And we could equally demand more protection.

But this thing where sometimes FB voluntarily sends law enforcement bits of information and sometimes they don't based on poorly defined criteria is just creepy. And why does FB even want this responsibility? Isn't the simplest, most obvious model to say no by default?
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AT&T cops to saving SMS messages, not just "pen trace" (sender/recipient data), for up to 72 hours. For "delivery purposes" only. Though the release I read doesn't specify to whom.

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Yes. On one hand there are quite strong laws about privacy for phone companies and second I pay them. By contrast, I would not pay FB even if I had an account. Their entire business model is, that they are selling private data. ( Technically it is unfortunately neither for FB nor for telcos a problem to eavesdrop.)
I have to say (and this is Persona in general, not your site) the password dialogue freaks me out. I click BrowserID on your site, it opens a popup and it asks me to enter my email address, I enter one of them, and then it suddenly expects me to enter a password. Which password? My email password? On a site that isn't my email provider? Or another password? Or an existing password? Or... huh?

I think Persona really needs to sort that out, it's completely non obvious.
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There are three problems with this I can see straight off the bat:

- The noise itself may be interpreted as incriminating. If someone wants to make trouble for you, they can, based on the noise. Yes, you have plausible deniability, but this costs time and money.

- Fuzzing signals is tricky. If someone's snooping for unspecified suspicious behavior, noise may cloud things. If they're looking for specific data to tie you to people, places, times, events, etc., there are very powerful tools to cut through the things you're not interested to just the stuff that's relevant. Methods of masking printer identification marks suffer a similar problem.

- Even if you're generating pure random white noise, under a regime compelling decryption on request, you've now got to make the case that noise is in fact noise, and not very securely encrypted data. Again at a cost of time/money in the face of someone who wants to make trouble for you.
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Yeah -- it's definitely a "pro tip" that you should cut down the CTE as much as possible. But a smart query planner can actually fold the CTE efficiently into the larger query plan and migrate where conditions up into the CTE and perform a union.

This is why CTEs are better than temporary tables, for example.
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I got confused by this as well. What's happening is that the email address he used already has a Persona account.

If your email address isn't known to Persona it will ask you to create a password, which is cool. Otherwise, it will just bring up a password box with your email address just above it.

I must have used BrowserID once when it was launched, because what the OP got happened to me and I was just as confused. It might not be a problem in the future when it's more well known, but it would be nice for it to have an indication that they want your Persona password, and not your email password.
That's what checks and balances are all about.

In a fair system, there's no one custodian. It's not perfect, but it's reasonably workable. There are some prerequisites, however.
Ideally Facebook would use public-key encryption for chats and allow each user to individually save the history with their own passphrase they input encrypting it client-side.

But hey, auto-saving history without prompting you is worth it, right? (Also figuring out what to advertise to a user.)
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Why has no one replaced speakerphones yet?
To the budding entrepreneurs of Hacker News, I issue a challenge: develop a technology to replace speakerphones. There is nothing like being on the receiving end of a speakerphone and straining to understand what the guy in the back of the room is trying to say.

I can't say how this should work - that's up to you to work out. One solution might entail everyone synchronizing their smart phones. Another solution might involve a receiver and a room full of bluetooth headsets.

Perhaps I am thinking too narrowly about the problem, and some brand new mode of teleconferencing will render speakerphones obsolete. Regardless, thanks for your consideration! I look forward to never having to talk to a speakerphone again.
I was replying to this "R&D costs are 1/100th of total cost, with marketing taking the lion's share" which I do believe is inaccurate.
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