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I just love armchair experts.

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.

And if you actually were a little more creative you would see that Facebook doesn't have to bundle everything into the website. It can have separate brands like Instagram and grow into new markets that way. And with its sheer user base and content it would be able to decimate smaller competitors.
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The B-52 is still a heavily used part of the US heavy bomber fleet and current plans are to keep it in service until 2040 and perhaps beyond (which is longer than the B-1b is planned to be in service).
Unfortunately you won't be able to spread the word on HN or other social media sources until you have some revenue. If you're offering me free SMS - of course I'm going to use it, and I might not be likely to pay for your business features.

Solution: create this product and market it right to businesses. Once you have a nice clientele, feel free to show it off to the world.
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Should also point that the overall "Chinese Miracle" was partly fueled by vast migrations of poorer workers from inland areas to the coast to work. They typically have to leave their children/family in their villages, and get to see them once a year at Chinese New Year. This in no way makes the Chinese athletic development system 'right', and I don't mean to trivialize the family's blight, but I think it's important to have -some- context.
>1. An extension to the vCard format to represent relationships (maybe this already exists? can you embed RDF triplets in vCard?)

There is FOAF ("friend-of-a-friend", based on RDF). At the moment, this is mostly provided by websites (such as identi.ca), but could also be transferred via E-Mail.

There might be some way to embed FOAF into vCard, but why should be care? E-Mail allows for more than one attachment ...
I created https://uncrackablepassword.com/ to generate passwords online that I don't need to remember.
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> Software: Don't install shit you don't trust. Don't trust shit you can't verify.

There is no way to verify all the software you use, not even for "hackers", not even if you have the source.
A pity about their clueless home page. Please tell me what you're going to give me in exchange for my email address.

I understand the importance to a business of reaping the email address up-front. But there needs to be a clear quid pro quo. For all I can tell from the home page, I'm signing up for Amway, and the next message I get will be from one of my dear cousins trying to shame me into buying some overpriced soap.

So can anyone here tell me what Branch is about?
> and the message size is likely to get prohibitively large if you're encrypting to a lot of people

Do you have any evidence of this strange claim?

Encrypting a message to lots of recipients in an efficient way has been solved for email (via OpenPGP / GPG) a long time ago.

It is a positive side effect of the hybrid algorithms which combine symmetric with asymmetric algorithms, originally introduced to reduce computation time for classic (single-recipient) asymmetric cryptography.
What about Campfire then?
We all know the quote that adding extra developers to a late project make it even later. So if you have a market-imposed deadline you've got to get the number of developers correct from the beginning of the project. Hard to do without that much estimation.
It's conventional to sign letters even though it's also conventional to put one's name and address on the top of e letter, especially business letters, and on the envelope.

It's also conventional to use people's names when talking to them even both speaker and subject know who they are.
Hate this update from them. I think what have they done was a EPIC Fail in their part.
Two basic truths:

1) An ownership society, one where the workers direct their own production as if they own the business, increases a sense of responsibility.

2) if you tell people what to do, most will do not much more than the minimum they think is necessary.
Yeah, it doesn't feel native. It looks like something from a Google GUI framework.
Exactly we have open source social network already. Nobody cares about Diaspora.

Because at the end of the day user experience is order of magnitudes more important than some arbitrary geek obsession with being open. Which isn't important for most people since they are used to having their personal information owned by third parties e.g. banks, employers, insurance companies, government.
'Forced' is relative, but in http://youtu.be/qij0QULBBdk, the kids do not look like they feel privileged.
Nah. I see the words "Plans and Pricing" and "30 day trial" on their landing page.
Totally agree and also note that handling things on an individual basis is a net win for everyone and the company culture.
"I am also not super-confident about two-factor auth. I noticed that with Google Apps the verification SMS messages can be read using the web interface for my telco provider. A web interface that is protected by nothing more than an email address and password with the same weak security questions."

While google DOES have an SMS seconds factor, I highly recommend use their Google Authenticator app [1] instead, which generates the code directly on your phone, sans network communication.

[1] support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1066447
Isn't a trial supposed to be public anyway?

Sure, most trials are only de facto public since most of the public cannot access trials and only court decisions get published. If Apple really wanted to avoid to disclose these 'secrets', it could have filed a respective motion AFAIK.
How does a country that bans guns entirely give athletes access to them?
If you enable FileVault2 FDE a guest account gets created automatically with only access to a web browser, which also works as a honeypot.
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Is anything necessary? It's easy to define away the necessity of anything, even living. The point of manned space exploration is ultimately about colonization. The point is for people to go, to do, to live. And you can't get that with robots no matter how hard you try.

We can no doubt learn the secrets of the Universe through robots, and we very much should do so. But there is more to the Universe than just studying it. We should touch it. Play in it. Live in it.
Google Authenticator is available for iOS, Android and BlackBerry, and there are compatible third-party implementations for Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile, J2ME, PalmOS and webOS. Just search for OATH - it's the open algorithm that Google Authenticator implements.
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Instapaper 4.2.4 removes 'print' feature
According to the changelog for Instapaper 4.2.4, the rarely-used print feature got removed.

I had actually no idea about this feature, so maybe it was rarely used because of the GUI design? In addition, the lack of AirPrint support with existing printers might be a factor too. Printing via Instapaper on the Web remains of course still possible.

Have you had any use for the print feature in Instapaper?
They seem to be doing exactly what I'm trying to do. I think they lack a feature or two, but it could be on their roadmap. Thanks for telling me about this. I don't know if I should feel happy or sad. :|
Indian democracy is anything but working well. Until the IOC forced the IOA (Indian Olympic Association) to fire him, the IOA's president was doing his job while imprisoned for embezzling an enormous amount of money during the construction process for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, held in New Delhi. Now that Kalmadi has been released due to "insufficient evidence", he's been reappointed as the president of the IOA.

India might be a democracy in name, but rule of law is very poorly enforced.
I spent a year with a friend trying to figure this problem out. We created a real-time Craigslist, allowing communications over SMS, XMPP, email and voice, and hooking up buyer and sellers to talk to each other based on best match of keyword, price, location. We only allowed a handful of friends to use the service for our own testing.

The only real options we came up with were:

- charge sellers enough to compensate for all of the SMS traffic

- only allow SMS on paid accounts (still doesn't solve the problem of being charged for all incoming SMS, whether you respond to the SMS or not)

- find investors

The route we took was to convert it to a product targeted at businesses.
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I like your method of:
- Separate, secret accounts for signups
- Random strings (i.e. passwords) as answers for security questions

I've always used a pseudo-password (i.e. it's a standard response of mine that isin't related to the question) for security questions given how weak they are.
Thanks for the tip! I've signed up to both.
I have redundant backups. Everything's gets backed up locally with Time Machine very regularly. Then nightly (or more, depending on volume) it gets shipped off to Backblaze.

It gives me quick responses if I need to restore something, but if my house blows up, I'm only $100 and a FedEx visit away from having everything back.
I just did a comparison. A 16 GB upgrade with lenovo is $1,060 for DDR3 pc3 12800. With apple 16gb is 200 on the retina. Granted its soldered on. While I see your point, a priced out lenovo from the manufacturer to equal the specs i have right now is clost to 2.8k
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You could check out bulletin.branch.com for some context.

This serves as a demo of what they are trying to do. http://branch.com/b/obvious-and-branch-partner-up
Yes, but it's not the only model for success.

The point is that national tallies can be thrown out by the internal medal-granting dynamics of sports.

If weightlifting still gave individual medals for the snatch and the clean & jerk as well as the total, it'd be even more noticeable.
Erm, care to point out a few of the things in the article that are false? I could find none.
The article does not try to explain what India is, but why India doesn't win as many medals in the Olympics as are expected from a nation this big. And it's does a pretty decent job of that IMO.
G+ meets almost all of your criteria, only thing it's missing is the ability to toggle discussions public or private after the fact, but you can at least control that aspect when creating the conversation.
Exactly. That's how competition is born. Sure you shouldn't be able to copy a product to a point where it's very easy to confuse the 2, but anything besides that should be allowed. "Similar" products are how markets are built. Competition by default means that one company's product is more similar than different to another company's product, in a given market for a certain type of product. And the differences are just "competitive advantages".
There certainly is some 95/5 rule, or probably a 999/1 rule. But you need to apply the 999/1 rule to the people actually interested in going for the gold. I.e., in the US that might be 0.001 x 25% whereas in India it might be closer to 0.001 x 5%.

My issue with theories like corruption/red tape/etc is that India is not unique in this regard. India is pretty bad with corruption, but Jamaica is too. Yet Jamaica tends to perform pretty well - running is popular there. You can find plenty of corrupt and poor countries that outperform India, particularly if you adjust for population.

China is a special case since the government basically forces people to shoot for Olympic gold in marginal sports (e.g., discus, javelin) and trains them from early ages to do so. They also use eugenics to breed top athletes (Yao Ming is one famous result of this), and similar things.
What games reveal skills you have always had, as opposed to unlocking better powers? I would be really annoyed by players-guide-only abilities.
Please, no. Just no.
I had a client of mine in UK who wanted to send out a crazy 100,000 SMS everyday for marketing to opt-in subscribers. Of course, due to low margins he could not afford a web based SMS service. The successful solution I provided him was using Kannel to set up a SMS server which used to operate around 120 3G modems to send out those many messages in around an hour. Now of course, this method has flaws of its own in the sense that it requires your SMS server to be connected to the internet 24x7 something which can be hard but you could use some local datacenters to do that for you. In India, typically web based SMS services cost around 0.1 cent for a single message so most developers use that but if you are targeting a global audience then the choice can be really difficult.
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Better, but per capita computation punishes larger countries because, in many sports, the number of competitors a country can send is independent of population.

For example, if China were to split in four, the four parts would almost certainly win more medals in table tennis than China does now.

Similarly, 'US West' would play 'US East' in the basketball final, but the USA will get at most one medal.
Maybe it would help Facebook's stock.
Yes, that the impression I have as well, corruption being pretty much woven into the fabric of life.
Google will also call your home phone number and audibly speak a code to you if desired.

(Incidentally, you can backup and restore /data/data/com.google.android.apps.authenticator2/databases/databases via adb pull/adb push and you don't have to do the "painful" restore. It's slightly less secure, but I keep a copy on my SD card.)
CSS 3D transforms are hardware accelerated on iOS, so yes they will look great. Chances are the parent poster isn't getting H/W acceleration, possibly due to driver issues etc.
Same on my laptop, which doesn't have a discrete video card.
Banks are open. My bank has all my information and is responsible for it, sure. But if I want to take my money somewhere else, there's nothing the bank can do about it. I can still transfer money to anyone I like via check, ACH, or credit. Banks are open. Facebook is not.

Government is somewhat closed, but it also has an army and isn't going anywhere soon. Facebook is not trustworthy as a single source of truth.
I think it's a bit hyperbolic to call it half the web. Only a small handful of sites cap password lengths. They might happen to be sites you use, but it's not nearly as common a practice as you seem to think.
That's an idea that does get thrown around fairly explicitly now and then: https://www.google.com/search?q=singularity+%22rapture+for+n...
But not necessarily your market.
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As a developer I like that I can use the API now instead of just reading about it. Chrome rolls out updates very smoothly and rapidly, who cares if the initial support of a very new standard is not perfect? It sure beats the support that FireFox, IE and Safari have (none).
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Of course that's the point. Just as you don't care what design firm did the packaging for your iphone, the target audience for this site doesn't care where he got his template.

It only cheapens it for you, in that you know it didn't take him as long as it could have.
No you're quite right, that's backwards.
They trick your carrier into redirecting your messages
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We love Tropo for our SMS notifications at NodePing. They're pretty inexpensive US and international and are complete free for development.
Another option would be to use the common email-to-SMS gateways for sending SMS... I'm not sure if you can receive replies that way or not.
Yeah, I had the same idea (give or take) except I couldn't figure out how to make money on it. If that's not your goal, then the idea makes for an excellent open source project.

Also, you might want to have a look at http://dialog.gs - a beautifully designed flop that is. Guy was using the same position as you - small, portable, disruptive, fits between the chat and the email, etc. It appeared to have flopped because he couldn't get people on it, which is something to think about.
Mr. Forstall said he invented a patent for double-tapping on Web pages because as he had been using a prototype of the iPhone to surf the web, he realized he was spending a lot of time pinching and zooming the page to fit text perfectly on the screen.

"I realized I have this incredibly powerful device, why can't it figure out the right size for me?" he said. So, he challenged his team to make the software automatically size the text into the center of the screen when he double-tapped around a webpage."

This is why we're in such a sad state with regard to software patents. This guy genuinely believes that he "invented" something. And that it should be patentable.

Of course, anybody who has actually built anything knows that what he actually did was "decide how something should work". You do this dozens of times when putting out a new product, and it's not in any way a big deal. Certainly not something you should call "inventing", and absolutely not something that you should consider patenting.

It's just one of thousands of design decisions you make. It's just sad to watch people who don't understand that making things worse for everybody.
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G+ is surely the closest thing to what I envision. Yet, I am not convinced.

I once tried 'chatting' with my girlfriend on google+ using a private channel. The fear of some error happening, and our messages being accidentally shown to public was too much, and we switched back to chat. Google+ us social and public. Not technically. But that is what they are trying to be, and advertising to be.
Be careful of the uncanny valley between "too slow" and "chit-chat".

There's room in the world for "chit-chat": an online conversation that happens in real-time and consists of rapid exchanges of short sentences and sentence fragments. Google Chat, AIM, et cetera are fine for that.

And there's successful media that involve exchanges of whole paragraphs, but not in real time. This is email, Stack Overflow, HN, et cetera.

But, in my experience, there's not a lot of in-between. My own native medium is the paragraph. If I'm lucky I can, with effort, condense something insightful into a sentence. But often, in an IRC or AIM-style live chat, by the time I've finished typing that sentence the conversation has moved on. It just takes too long to compose.

The antidote for that is to stick to short fragments, follow the rhythm of the conversation, don't say anything too tricky or controversial that will require a lot of exposition and framing, and defer longer-form discussion to a different medium, like the blog post or the email. In other words: If the medium is dynamic, "chit-chat" is the natural result.

Most people just aren't good-enough typists or writers to conduct a rapid-fire real-time textual exchange of substantive sentences and paragraphs. If people could watch me compose HN posts in real-time I'd never post here again. It would be infuriating to watch me and even more infuriating to be watched: I type things that are clumsy or flat-out wrong, then I read them in horror, then I delete them. Welcome to writing. That's how it works, for most people.

None of this is meant to discourage you from trying to build a hosted service for private-to-semi-public, limited-participation, limited-time threaded discussion. It's a thing I've wanted myself and have thought about building. But don't get so caught up in the glamour of real-time that you simply reinvent GChat or Skype or AIM. You may have a shiny new asynchronous real-time hammer, but it still isn't the right tool for driving a screw.
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That's all wonderful, really; but it's not exactly practical for everyone to do for themselves.
My Chromebook can't cope with this site, does anyone have a link to the printable version (or a pastebin)?
Not gmail - because I don't have one.
A random string of characters in a wallet doesn't have a lot of value. Of course, don't write down what that string is for, and make sure you have another copy at home. If you are really concerned, leave off the first character of your password and remember that.

The truth is that 2-factor authentication is the real solution. But one has to make do with imperfect solutions
Just curious, where does the business part come into play? How do you plan on making money?
I'd prefer a standards-based approach.

Define an open standard for a message; a photo-share; tagging; etc etc. Include stuff that clients and servers MUST do, or MUST NOT do. Write a nice server, and host it. Write a nice client (Browser extensions? Website?)

Now you have an open ecosystem that is as flexible as people want it to be. There's a reason that all discussion sites end up being a worse implementation of Usenet.
This is far better than either of the sample emails in the article, but I would cut out the second stanza - communication to managers about management shouldn't really be global.
Where did you find the people who are working on these posted projects, and how did you get them to post?

I think generally, etsy works because they can sell small runs of handmade things at a premium to cover costs (not the only reason). I'm not sure what the costs are to get small runs of circuit boards made, but it may push up prices of small runs of electronics to be much higher than what we're use to paying--and people generally don't think of electronics as being 'handmade' to justify paying the high premium. It's not a show stopper, but it's something I'd watch out for.

That said, it might work for addons for already made platforms like raspberry pi, arduino, etc. I think it's worth a shot to try it out. Keep us posted of your progress.
But the point is that if everyone pays workers less there is no market for anything non-essential you can make.

Why not?
You should be happy. It means your idea is somewhat validated in that someone else is willing to put money and effort into making conversation better on the internet ;)

*disclaimer: I work at Branch, and we are indeed focusing on many of the problems you raised in your original post. If you look at the @branch twitter account you'll see many more examples of branches that you'd be interested in reading.
Sounds like a Reddit you'd have to pay to post on.
From a glance the game looks remarkably like a Myst sequel (not that it's a bad thing by any measure).
I'd hardly say people routinely bypass Google's two factor authentication (using the smartphone application), which is what I'm suggesting here.

I'm aware of one incident (the Cloudflare hack), but that seemed to be more a vulnerability in the password reset functionality than the authentication mechanism.

SMS verification is less than ideal, though.
Maybe we should define "invention" in terms of "design decision". An invention should be something that requires no fewer than three hundred design decisions to create.
The thing about will and spirit is wrong.

The athletes there are really putting up with the best they have and can manage with the facilities, training and their other priorities in life.
If you label the passwords you're probably doing it wrong. If someone pulls out a piece of paper that says "QWhXnLv0qzi1h1m" out of my wallet, how are they going to use it?

If you're worried about someone stealing it, just shift the password over, so it's now "mQWhXnLv0qzi1h1 > 1" on paper.
The way Y Combinator makes money. If I understand correctly, they invest in the companies they sponsor.
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Can anyone provide some context on this matter? What happened wednesday and where?