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I have had private chats using G+ posts and I attest that they never turned public. Once you make a post, you can't change it's visibility. You can only delete it, or lock it down - comments or reshares.

Though I think gPlus + Wave would be the ideal such environment for me.
That's what the Mac App Store is starting to do, but unfortunately, it's "completely sandboxed in the store" or "not in the store". I'd like a model that started completely sandboxed but let me choose if I want to let it out of the sandbox in certain, well-monitored cases.
Worse dumb mistake I've ever made was to accidentally send a test email to several thousand live customers instead of the test accounts. That was a sinking feeling.

But creating a bug that loses your company half a billion dollars in thirty minutes and bankrupts them, must be stomach-churning.
I see you don't understand the network effects of banking. Many people can't switch banks because of commitments like home, car and personal loans which in the majority of cases don't seamlessly transition to their new bank. It is such a big issue that many countries e.g. Australia, UK have actively put in place policies specifically to address it.

And my point still stands that the overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with their most private data being in the hands of third parties. And Facebook has long reached that point where people can trust it for managing their semi-private data.
When I'm in my office, I can hear somebody coming so it is rare that I'm caught completely by surprise. For something like this to work, I'd want at least a 3 second delay and notification before the camera turned on. That might help some.
But what if your phone gets stolen?

Google 2 factor authentication needs 3 things: your Google username, your password, and the token number generated by the authentication application. Stealing your phone gets one of those things.

Or, what if my iCloud gets hacked and my iPhone is remotely erased, can I still access my Gmail and Facebook enough to remove my phone from them?

You get 10 single-use codes to print out for this situation. You can revoke these code and generate new ones whenever and as often as you like.

Your concerns were all similar to what I had. Another was that I have programs that need programatic access to my Google account and I don't want to rewrite them to use 2-factor authentication. That is solved by generating a revokable application specific password.

I found that turning it on and trying it out answered a lot of concerns I had.
Implied but not stated: better be sure you limit your service by geographic area --or-- that you have really reliable location data for the users. My 2 AM is someone else's prime texting time. :-)
Something similar that comes to mind is TaskPaper (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper/) [Mac Only] that does things very similar to Workflowly. Minimal, short-cut driven, supports tags with powerful search capabilities.

That, along with Dropbox to save the .taskpaper files, and you are good to go. It even has a iPhone app (Haven't used that yet).
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Could you add some simple formatting (markdown)?
I suspect that either he's misremembering and he has used the password elsewhere (and it was compromised there -- easy to happen over so many years of use), or it wasn't very strong to begin with and it got guessed after a handful of attempts.

This may not be the case. Computers are very fast at checking passwords, and if Apple doesn't deliberately slow the login process for all authentication scenarios it is easy to check a lot of passwords in parallel.
The 3D animations weren't 3D at all, for me. They were both exactly the same as fade.
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now someone just needs to make wussscript, for us less brave and bold individuals.
The problem with this hypothesis is that you never hear anyone in the startup community talk about their patents and how much they are worth. Not on HN, not in the media, not on Techcrunch. You never see an "Ask HN" about how to file a patent, or license a patent, or litigate a patent. And I don't recall ever hearing a VC talk up the awesomeness of patents, or encourage a startup to waste even 0.1% of its time filing for patents instead of doing something more valuable.
One way to monetize this can be letting companies recruit for those kids beforehand. Companies pay you monthly, yearly or whatever which you can invest back in those kids and once they are something, they may get a job.
Mr. Forstall also told the court that his team consisted of 1,000 people who directly reported to him.

This smells like utter bullshit. This isn't a shipyard, but designers and engineers - and they're all direct reports?
My definition of an ad: Ad is a piece of information trying to convince people to spend money. Ads usually do this by lying (sometimes implicitly, subconsciously - i.e. beautiful women in deodorant ads create an association in the viewers mind between beauty and this particular deodorant).

A piece of information whose primary purpose is to inform, is not an ad (even though it looks like it). This includes, for example, most concert "ads" - a notification about an upcoming Parov Stelar concert informs his fans (= people who already want to go to such a concert) where they can fullfil their desires. It does not create new desire, e.g. by lying that there will be metal music played as well.
Google + 2 step authentication

Did you mean 2 factor authentication?

Google + 2 step authentication + Yubikey

Is there any reason why you can't do this? It seems like it would work? (I've never used Yubikey so I might be missing something)
The nut to crack isn't writing the software. That's (in comparison) trivial, it's been done over and over again.

The nut to crack is to allow a user to transfer the network effects he currently has on Facebook to a new network.
"So Facebook must make money from the members it has rather than simply by adding new ones."

The test will be if they can charge for membership. People find phone service worth paying for. People find internet service worth paying for. Some people even pay for TV.

Would 50% of current users pay for Fbook?
It's not a pie chart but just a progress indicator? An actual pie chart could have an arbitrary amount of slices in arbitrary angles.

This might be useful for slow file uploads, but eventually animated favicons will be abused and subsequently disabled in later browser versions. See "window.status".
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I'm going to be visiting the Bay Area for a few days, and I want to get all the geek tourism I can. I'm planning on visiting the Computer History Museum, The Tech Museum, the Intel Museum, and (with luck) the Google store. What else would you recommend?
Initially, I just threw a post on /r/arduino asking people if they thought it was a good idea, then had a signup form for people to start seeding projects before the site was built.

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It looks like this is already in Firefox, too, at least in nightly builds (compatible? Haven't looked at it that closely, but I hope so).

Now if only Safari will follow suit with a compatible implementation...
Can't agree with this more. There needs to be more indie in tindie. The only problem is time and getting stuff built as fast as possible. But great comment and there definitely be more soul coming to the site.
FB is slowly becoming background noise, a part of our infrastructure that everybody has come to depend on, but that noone is really hyped about. Kind-a like Google Search.
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This seems like a great opportunity for America - send some scouts to India to find poor young children that show athletic talent, tell their parents (or adopt them if they're orphans) that they can be American citizens if they let them go to America for athletic training. Give them American citizenship by the time they turn 16 (the age required for Olympic participation), and we'll be able to easily raise our Olympic medal count. It's a win-win situation - the US increases its medal count and the children get a vastly better life than their parents.
I thought I'd just leave this here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfQ8rKGTVlg#t=25m03s
That's what Apple's shooting for with the App Store's sandboxing requirements, but I'm sure the typical HNer will continue to have a few programs that need to operate outside the limited entitlements that the App Store allows. Still, it'll be better to have a single digit count of those on your computer instead of anything being able to erase your home folder without asking.
This has "confused" written all over it. There are too many axes to this: there is the education part, the charity part and the business part. Pick one and think it through.

Also, I think your take on education is misguided, at best. The successful people you describe are not entirely unschooled, or uneducated, as the popular confounding goes. You are underestimating the amount of resources they have at their disposal, both knowledge and material.

But instead of getting bogged down by arm-chair philosophizing on education and child-rearing (how did that work out for Rousseau?) I suggest you grab one kid off the street and teach him or her first. If your objective is to educate, put your pupils first, that's what teachers do. Start with one and "iterate like hell".
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> Did you ever think that maybe those investors aren't looking for a short term return and don't care about the stock price day to day. You know the type of investors we actually need more of.

That kind of intelligent investor was probably unlikely to buy in on a clearly overhyped IPO, in fairness.
While the article is true, it misses the point that the games and sports that India does excel in, do not feature in the Olympics. Cricket, kabadi, kho kho, chess etc.

I am really surprised that GB did not make an effort to have T20 Cricket in Olympics, as that format is much more amenable to Olympics and arguably, more popular with today's spectators.

Another point that is missed is the Indian diet. A large portion of the population is vegetarian ( and not all kinds of meat are eaten ). And Indians are foodies that like to eat spicy, oily food etc.
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What is the best open alternative currently usable? Do you have a URL?

Obviously the problem of porting the data is 100% up to Facebook to allow, which I strongly doubt it will ever do (what is its commercial interest in allowing that?)
Nobody cares about diaspora because it is poorly executed and the front pages look like a business pitch. Also, my guess would be that whatever kicks facebook off it's perch will not be a copy of facebook. It will be something that at first glance looks nothing like facebook, but happens to encompass the same functionality as a side effect of a different business.
If you want to raise kids to make them into successful people so you can invest in them, why not also have some fun? Make babies! Get laid, get pregos, raise them then you will be a major stock-holder in their success.
You keep talking about products and features and tech stacks. Can you try to express this idea in terms of people?

If you can fill in the sentence "James would rather be at his son's baseball game, but he can't, because he needed to get an answer about X from Cindy, but he couldn't, because of Y" and you solve Y and get James an answer then there is probably space for a business here.
Is Diaspora even finished?
Fifty percent? Is there even a precedent where more than a few percent of users switched from free to paid?
Despite the in-vogue arguments that come with sparse evidence to support that a vegetarian diet can indeed match the athletic predisposition and performance of a non-vegetarian one, I find it highly suspect that regions of the world ( including India ) which have had to rely exclusively on plant protein for hundreds of generations would yield the same athleticism predisposition rates as regions that haven't had such a constraint.

Consistently high preponderance in vegetarianism (in India) has to share some of the blame for a lack luster interest in athleticism and athletic activities.

There is simply no other very large land mass that has a cultural history of very high (and almost exclusive) dependence on plant protein.

This does not even begin to tell the tale of the deleterious effects of a diet entirely devoid of testosterone-laden red meat.
You obviously know more about this than I do, so it's likely that you're right and I'm wrong. But: To me, it seems unlikely that encrypting a message to thousands of recipients (a fairly normal use case for FB) isn't going to massively increase the message size. It sounds like you're going to have to include encrypted key data for each of those recipients, and while I can believe there might be surprisingly efficient ways of doing that, I have a hard time believing it's not going to lead to extremely large status update messages.
For this particular feature; there are plenty that Chrome doesn't support fully (IndexedDB) or at all (CSS calc) that those other browsers have had for quite a long time.
Morozov (the post's author) has also written a book called The Net Delusion that provides a good background on the less-friendly parts of the Internet. I recommend it for those just entering the IT/Internet-based business world.
easy enough to sniff their local time with javascript though
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> What is the best open alternative currently usable? Do you have a URL?

The much derided Diaspora (sign up at http://diasp.org) works perfectly well for Facebook's core functionality, and is fairly pleasant to use.
There is still this belief that Cricket matches run for days. There is an newer format called t20 , which lasts only 3hours. Many tennis games take more time than that!
Why is that half-done? What should it have done instead?

Maybe you have some USB camera you want to plug in when some site makes such request.
No.

Writing your password / passphrase down allows you to chose a good, strong password. You do not give anything that links that password to a particular service.

Most people will only need to refer to the written password for a week or so, and then they will remember it.

You put the piece of paper in the wallet because you want people to treat it like a 50 dollar bill. People leave bits of paper anywhere, but they don't leave 50 dollar bills everywhere.

Not writing down the password? Yeah, we see how well that works. (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=most+popular+passwords)

It is baffling to me that authenticating to computers, software, and services is still so weirdly broken. Especially since there is now billions of dollars involved in it.
The author's gripe seems to be that the hiding of dotfiles was unintended, ergo dotfiles are Bad. Whether they were intended is irrelevant; their wide usage vindicates the practice. After all, traction = value. The problem of program state/configuration/metadata storage is adequately met by dotfiles.

There are, no doubt, numerous unintended behaviors of programs. Most of these are simply ignored and certainly not leveraged the way the dot behavior is.

People don't go out of their way to abuse an unintended system behavior; they simply leverage all capabilities of a system ("intended" or not) to meet their needs. Had dotfiles not gained traction, some other solution would have been designed (or "engineered") to meet the needs of program state/configuration/metadata storage.

[Tangent: All of this reminds me of grammar freaks that harp on "correct" usage, completely oblivious to the fact that grammar changes, and "correct" is merely a lightweight pointer to the current norm.]
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I agree. I think there was deliberate focus on the victim based on everything they accomplished.
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I understand. But, I'm just a learner trying to find a pet project that I could be excited about. This was it, but knowing that there are money-backed teams somewhere in the states working on this is discouraging. I was hoping to use this opportunity to work hard and learn async web programming, say node.js/socket.io or maybe meteor.

If I would have been an entrepreneur, I would have hit you guys head-on with a better implementation. ;) :P

Anyway, all the best guys. I did shoot you a mail, and am also waiting for an invite at the least, if possible. :)
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>about:	Engineer at Engine Yard Founder of localhostr.com

wget http://localhostr.com

..
..
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="hero-container">
<div id="header">
<ul class="unstyled pull-right" id="top-nav">
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That sure looks like bootstrap to me.

While I understand that you said the bootstrap header cheapens the whole thing, I think that criticism is very "inside baseball", and in the wider market no one cares.

(Personally, I like the bootstrap header and I think anything that speeds up time-to-market should be applauded.)
I think there //is// a need for training people in the computer skills. In particular (1) system administration and (2) web development. These two skills happen to to be precisely the kind of things you need to learn hands on, and not in a formal education setting (University).

I have put some thoughts into starting a similar program (think hacker space, but with daily lectures and access to a big bookcase of technical literature). Email me if you would like to discuss.

Do you think you can get funding from the city or government to run this? I have some ideas for how such a peer-to-peer educational system could fund itself in the long run, but to get things started you would need some cash.
I think what we need is to find a way to have a non-profit organization run a social networking site, perhaps run by something like a cross between Debian and Wikipedia groups.

Of course, the real problem with that would be paying for it. Hardware and bandwidth isn't free and it seems like most people are unwilling to pay anything for social networking.
No need to panic; this event happend a few days ago, August 1. And no one's certain, but it seems just as likely this is a bug in NTP as it is a deliberate attempt to crash unpatched Linux servers. The way ntpd manages the leap second flag is pretty complex and error prone.

Link to thread view of NTP list discussion: http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2012-August/thread....
I'm not so sure. I think the vast majority would prefer Hu Jintao over Mao Zedong.
You still could have sold at above $42 on opening day :)
iOS isn't a controlled ecosystem?
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I get a lot of value from Facebook and I would be willing to pay a nominal subscription fee.

However:

• As a customer, my demands are much greater than as a user. I feel more entitled to make demands and get real attention than for a free service. Customer service becomes more important when money is involved.

• I would expect absolute control over my own data. No advertising. No selling aggregate data to advertisers. If I quit the side, my data needs to be gone completely, without a trace.

• If my friends started quitting the service in droves, due to fees, I might no longer consider it worth the money and would probably leave or wind down my involvement as well.
"For a couple of years I've been fascinated with the idea that as intelligent people many of us are drawn to activities and consumption that makes us look more intelligent, whether or not we actually learn anything of value from them or not."

This is a very interesting thought. I suppose to some extent that effect is due to there being fewer checks of your ability once you reach a high level of competence in something, simply because there are fewer people who have the ability to do that.

One way to mitigate that could be to learn entirely new things that you don't think you have an 'aptitude' for. When you start something really new to you, and later begin to publish stuff made with those new skills, there's a huge number of people who will analyse your work critically.
Encrypt the harddisk, and backup regularly when at home.

I imagine you have to be at home some point in the day right?

For the very important data, put it in a safe.
India is an impoverished nation. More than 55% of people are severely malnourished. To top it, the militant brahmanic Hindutva of North India advocates vegetarianism - which equates to further lack of proteins. And the caste system that looks down upon manual labor and subsequent sedentary lifestyle for last 3000 years have made Indians a weak race. To top it corruption and lack of self drive.
> I cannot detect mouse support, except on the assumption of no touch support.

Bad assumption, you can have a desktop with a touch screen monitor, or a tablet with a bluetooth mouse.

> But to check for touch support, all you have to do is test for the existence of ontouchstarted on the window object.

Firefox uses the same codebase for desktop and mobile, so you'll get false positives on laptops and desktops.

It's silly the hoops we jump through to get to 75% certainty on a feature.
James could buy a mobile? And then go the baseball game and participate in the discussion from his mobile, maybe even use the touchscreen to draw diagrams on the virtual whiteboard.

If he was using GChat, him loggin off would have put an end to the conversation.

If he was using GMail, they were probably just sending each other big mails, like what was conclusively decided after today's meeting, and that could wait.
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> Had all those investors realized that Facebook was a one trick pony they might not have lost 40% of their money (and counting...).

No, I am sorry but this is wrong. You didnt need to realize it was a "one trick pony". All you had to do is read their P/E at the IPO. This should scare you away.

The major issue here was that users and investors both forgot that stock market doesnt care how big of a celebrity you are (as a stock). Math and basic accounting rules thats what counts. Besides you had many smart guys comin up on a TV explaining how wrong this investment is.

Edit: upvoted because it was a good comment.
Exactly, that's why I was so curious.