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This is not a startup, and there's no business here. Its a "scratching an itch" weekend project. I'm a link junkie, and like to save big collections of stuff - be it travel info for an upcoming trip, funny gifs, or whatehaveyou. There's no social, and no discovery.

I just wanted a super simple, very flexible, lightweight link index. I also wanted to play around with Bootstrap and JQuery.

Originally, I built LinkThing on the Twitter API. It used twitter Oauth, and did some neat stuff, like index links in your tweets. But - I don't feel like figuring out how to comply with the new API guidelines, so I've backed it all out, and have built a standalone user account system, and there you go.

LinkThing is missing several things:
1. Don't lose your password. The password reset thing referenced in the "join" form doesn't actually exist yet.
2. Links that you add aren't currently editable; but that's almost there. Note: You can delete them.
3. There's some real low-hanging fruit missing, like a bookmarklet, that I'll get too shortly as well.

Anyhow, I posted a note about this in another thread some time ago, and wanted to share an update. As noted, this is a weekend warrior / fun project, so don't hold back - I haven't quit my day job for this. Its been fun to develop, and I've actually ended up being a pretty devoted user of it, at home and at work, and it would be cool if some other people found it useful too.

I wrote a brief into blurb here that will give you some flavor:

http://linkthing.co/doc_getting_started.php

Feedback/comments/complaints are appreciated. Please note:
- To join, you just need a username and a password, email address is not required.
- You can delete all of your data and erase any record that you ever joined LinkThing via the "Delete Account Data" link that you'll find under your username dropdown once you've signed in.
Or just: chrome://chrome/settings/content > Plug-ins > Click to play.
I lost interested in everything for.. a while, right around when I was diagnosed with depression. After eventually getting on the right brain medicine, I found my desire to work on the things I enjoy came back with a vengeance.
Now I just need to make sure it doesn't happen again :)
One of the main reasons I hear people advocating MongoDB is it's ease of horizontal scaling, via replication and auto sharding. I wonder how many projects have such large data sets that they really require sharding of their data?

I understand having another node or two for fail over but I reckon with the spec of the largest offerings from AWS or Linode most people will never need to worry about this and can manage everything on one Postgres or MySQL db. Why complicate things before you have to.
This is not a startup, and there's no business here. Its a "scratching an itch" weekend project. I'm a link junkie, and like to save big collections of stuff - be it travel info for an upcoming trip, funny gifs, or whatehaveyou. There's no social, and no discovery.

I just wanted a super simple, very flexible, lightweight link index. I also wanted to play around with Bootstrap and JQuery.

Originally, I built LinkThing on the Twitter API. It used twitter Oauth, and did some neat stuff, like index links in your tweets. But - I don't feel like figuring out how to comply with the new API guidelines, so I've backed it all out, and have built a standalone user account system, and there you go.

LinkThing is missing several things:
1. Don't lose your password. The password reset thing referenced in the "join" form doesn't actually exist yet.
2. Links that you add aren't currently editable; but that's almost there. Note: You can delete them.
3. There's some real low-hanging fruit missing, like a bookmarklet, that I'll get too shortly as well.

Anyhow, I posted a note about this in another thread some time ago, and wanted to share an update. As noted, this is a weekend warrior / fun project, so don't hold back - I haven't quit my day job for this. Its been fun to develop, and I've actually ended up being a pretty devoted user of it, at home and at work, and it would be cool if some other people found it useful too.

I wrote a brief into blurb here that will give you some flavor:

http://linkthing.co/doc_getting_started.php

Feedback/comments/complaints are appreciated. Please note:
- To join, you just need a username and a password, email address is not required.
- You can delete all of your data and erase any record that you ever joined LinkThing via the "Delete Account Data" link that you'll find under your username dropdown once you've signed in.
Probably never watched Chinese TV...
Google for Entrepreneurs, Startup Businesses and Communities to Benefit
Slightly unrelated rant:

Perhaps the title can use the disclaimer [Chrome Only].

Am I the only one that thinks Chrome took IE's place in the new "Best Works in IE" flashback from the early 2000s?

I use Opera and while it's disappointing that support is lacking I do understand that it's a fringe platform at this point.

But is it too much to request submitters of articles like this one to specify which narrow set of browsers they support? I feel like a fool after clicking through and expecting to see the cool effect or whatever and it does not work in my browser most times without even an error message. If you link to a web page without specifying the browsers it supports, it should work in most modern browsers, just Chrome doesn't cut it. At the very least the web page should have the decency show a JS alert saying the web site does/may not support your browser. Who am I kidding, maybe I should just switch to Chrome because web devs are too cool to do that.
Every analysis I've seen does compare geographical differences, and finds that that's not a major factor. If that was a big factor then you would expect that either 1) the US northeast is a hotspot of cheap high-speed internet, or 2) there are no regional providers and the national providers are required to have the same coverage for all their customers. This is not the case.

Why doesn't NYC have 100 MBit to the home, when Singapore (population 5 million) does, and can get it for US$50/month?

Looking now, Cablevision serves the New York tri-state area. Their fastest rate is $45/month for "50 Mbps for downloads and up to 8 Mbps for uploads." Comcast has a much larger range. They offer 50 Mbit for $115/month and 100 MBit for $200/month.

Telia is a Swedish ISP. They offer 100Mbit for $50/month and 100/100 for $60. That's for the cities. So we see that a Swedish ISP can provide higher bandwidth, for cheaper, than two of the ISPs in the biggest metro area in the US.

I then pulled up Telia's numbers for the town of Skurup, population 10,000 in the Swedish countryside. They are limited to 30Mbit, also for about $50/month.

The south of Sweden is densely packed, for Sweden, with 290 people/sq mi in the county. The country is 54/sq. mil. That's about the same density as Pennsylvania. Is it possible to get 100 megabit to your home in Pittsburgh? For under $100/month? Likely not. Why not, when it is possible in mid-sized Swedish cities?
>If you don't handle the error (e.g. by forgetting), the compiler will show an error because you declared err, but didn't use it.

But if I make a mistake like I mentioned previously, I could very well use err, thus not getting a compiler warning, and still also use foo, which is a whoknowswhat. It should be an Either, not two seperate return values.

>Making these specifics a criteria for decency is nothing but arrogance.

Having opinions is not arrogance. You should consider that when someone shares their opinion, they are not declaring that everyone everywhere must acknowledge it as a universal truth.
This is trash. A repackaging of a lot of free OFL type that's already out there, but new and improved with restricted licensing, JS dependency, and relying on Adobe.
Romney's Agency is ran by a Preacher Selling Dildos
> Why are MongoDB advocates in such a bad mood?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Redesigning for Readability - a Retrospective
Good advice. How have you been identifying and marketing yourself to the clients paying with "House Money"?
> How would Larry Paige or Drew Houston have done research to conclude that they are "better/luckier than everyone else who's approached this"?

In a negative sense, mostly. If it's absolutely a good idea that you know you have the solution for and it doesn't require a ridiculous amount of capital to execute and said execution is fairly straightforward and a sizeable market exists and etc, etc then the only possible conclusion is that you are legitimately close enough to the first one to solve the problem that you can go ahead. But odds are against this being the case so you should assume that it's not and then figure it out from there rather than assume that it is the case and you have an easy business ahead of you. Anything else would just be a bad investment of your time and resources.
Oracle Releases Java EE Framework ADF for Free Develop and Deploy
I've pretty much turned around and walked straight out of shops that were excessively open-floorplan.
You're right. As mey pointed out via the docs, @@identity is for the current session, but may return unexpected results if a trigger fires as part of the statement(s) or if you are using replication. It's almost never what you actually wanted whereas scope_identity() is. Come to think of it, perhaps the vendor I mentioned was using ident_current('tablename') which returns the last identity generated for the specified table name regardless of session and scope; this would explain the resulting behavior of the app.
CB Insights on the iPad
Do you mean the browser plug-in? How does it work if you're on the go with only a mobile OS available?
Hopefully, yes. Go download the latest Chrome Canary to play with the current implementation - it's already pretty cool.
Postgres Demystified
Are you using python 3.2? Pygame has ( or had) issues with it.
If you want a less intrusive way to comment inline, check out my Chrome extension that I made a few days ago:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jlobffbeljmbmdplah...

It lets you reply to a comment without leaving the comments page. Does not interfere with your home page.

#shamelessplug
> The Internet has been around for fifteen years

WWW has been around for 20 years. But it's only recently that people have always on cable modems and active content.

> without educating themselves about their dangers first.

HN is full of stories of well funded, international businesses, with considerable sums of cash at risk, who do stupid insecure things. If they can't get it right why should Joe Sixpack be expected to do any better?

Email inboxes are full of hoaxes about supposed dangers - most of them are garbage.

I'm interested to see what kind of help there is for people who want to learn how to protect themselves on the Internet.

(http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Internet-Fraud.shtml)

That site has comprehensive information. It's lousy. Look how much stuff people have to wade through.
So, in other words, Android will bring us all the downsides of a monopoly without many of its benefits?

Look, Windows was/is a strong monopoly, and yet it ceded most of the hardware decisions to manufacturers, who also add all sorts of bloatware to the OS and mess with the UI, provide their own more "friendly" skins, etc.

Plus ca change.
Too bad this is what hit the top slot. They also announced the release of the open source code and its monospace variant. I'm using it in elementary OS and it looks fantastic in Sublime Text and terminal.
My issue with it is that TCP is already a stream based protocol on top of a frame based protocol.

This is a frame based protocol on a stream based protocol on a frame based protocol. Now if you want a stream based protocol you would need to add another layer on top of that. Madness.
At the risk of sounding contrarian, this isn't a web page -- it's a Chrome plugin. By its very nature, there's only one browser it's supposed to work for.

I generally agree with the sentiment, that people should be writing cross-browser code, but this is more akin to complaining that your iPhone app doesn't work on my Android.
On my timeline, I'm seeing the messages that friends added as they accepted my friend invite. Have those always been publicly visible?
Does anybody except for musicians use Myspace still? Regardless of the answer, I'm still not sure why artists would continue using myspace in the first place.
Cool New Myspace Design
The only ways I see to stop this is by either leaving the EU or making the EU parliament more powerful. The EU Commission is hellbent on controlling the people.
Agreed! Done.
With Smartphone Deals, Patents Become a New Asset Class
Mind Reader Reveals Gift
You missed a word there, it was 'taunting'.

It has nothing to do with fear per se, it has to do with risk. When you taunt some one, or some thing, you invoke an anger response in them. The thing is, you don't know what they are capable of when they are angry. So that is the risk.

I've reported dozens of Nigerian scammers in my day. Yahoo [1] used to have an email address for reporting them if they were using a Yahoo email account. I've also replied to them with a carbon copy to the FBI 419 abuse email address. I am even polite about it. It doesn't escalate the emotion.

Most scammers simply ignore you once you've reported them, occasionally they will swear at you and then ignore you. But it ends there.

[1] http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index;_ylt=AgcN27QhFLqwMA_Cfh52Fxl5...

[2] http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/fraud
I still prefer HN enhancement suite : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojd...

which shows read vs unread comments, displaying in another color unread comments, fixing the design and menus, making comments threads collapsable, etc.
Hmm. I think I misread things. I thought the author was saying that 2.7.x is a problem because 2.7.x are bug fixes-only. I now see I could have read that as there will be no features added, starting with 2.7.
Myspace previews design concept video. I'll believe this interface in a browser when I see it.

That said, it's a nice concept.
No one is giving Facebook a free pass. We currently have no evidence whatsoever of a bug. On the other hand, we do know that wall posts could not be commented on pre-2009. Informal conversations were carried out with quick exchanges of wall posts. The whole conversation could be viewed with the "wall-to-wall" link. We used Facebook in a different way back then, and the conversations reflect that. If you have email notifications confirming that a private message is now public then please let us know. So far every person to check their records has found that there was no bug, they merely forgot how Facebook used to be.

According to one Facebook employee, private messages are stored on an entirely different system (MYSQL vs HBase). This seems perfectly reasonable, and precludes the possibility of a bad SQL query leaking private messages. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567009

Screenshot of old Facebook: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4566962
> Is it really so hard to imagine that somebody, somewhere fudged a query and accidentally ran [pseudo-SQL] "UPDATE posts SET type='status' WHERE type='private-message' AND date = 'x' TO 'y'"?

Yes, it is hard to imagine, since they run on entirely different backends, one being mysql, one being hbase. See: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4567009
No kidding. Gonna take me some time to grok this one. My immediate reaction from only the video is that it looks beautiful but far more complicated than FB or G+ or something. Still, remarkable transformation.
My ATT plan doesn't cost any different based on where I live. I guess my comcast plan might, but as far as I can tell, I saw the same deals when I lived in Michigan as I do now in Washington.
Yeah, "suck my divck" was a dead giveaway. Not something that a female is likely to say.
"If people in the U.S. aren’t suspicious of...Nigerians in general"

HN is a placed for reasoned argument, not stereotypes. Not <all> Nigerians are scammers.
New Myspace, Too late even if its great
"content creators to stop treating users like push button monkeys"

Good luck with that approach.

An alternative approach is to show users how they are being treated like push-button monkeys. All it takes is some users who are not willing to tolerate it who demand better treatment; then other users see they are not having to deal with the same crap and they demand the same treatment. And then, like magic, web developers change their tune, almost like... push-button monkeys.

It's truly magical.
Funded startups and Ad agencies are often looking for freelancers and a cold email can go a long way.
They have already. I regularly get properly phrased phishing emails from "PayPal". A few times I even got some from the banks that I use. I'm not sure if it was a coincidence or not, but the only thing that gave it away was the phishy URL.
Nothing to lose I guess. Looks to have some interesting ideas.
First thought: Ruh-roh, someone caught a bit of the Metro square-spam fever.

Second thought: ... Okay, I might be a little bit excited to see how this plays out.

(Particularly like the searching ideas.)
The preview looks great. I just don't understand why anyone would come back to something they've already moved on from to do things they're already doing elsewhere.

That said, I genuinely wish them the best of luck! :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam

One of the most common early internet scams was about money from a deposed Nigerian prince, and a fairly large percentage of these scammers are in Nigeria (as well as the US, UK, Netherlands, and Spain.) The name "Nigerian scam" became a generic term to refer to this type of scam, particularly in pop culture.
The poor spelling probably increases the conversion rate from people who make the first reply. The nigerian prince and poor-spelling spammers are dead giveaways to a spam. If you filter out people who know about these cliches, you increase the likelihood that the responder will give you money.
I wonder what they do when the problem is IE. ;)
Social networking completely rethought in 2012 design language. I like it.
My apologies for my previous comments. I was completely forgetting about the teachers that are selling stuff. I justifiably feel quite stupid now.

I fully agree that there are teachers on this site ripping off copyrighted materials and making a profit from doing so. They can and should be sued, and they will likely have no protection from their school districts nor unions.

I am tempted to find out who this person making $1M and find the dinosaur drawings in the dinosaur lesson plan, and then find who paid the illustrator to draw these things and let them know they are someone is making $1M on their back.

You have successfully reversed my opinion on this company 180 degrees.
It's an extension not a website. It used to be that you could only do something like this for Firefox. Now you can do it for both Chrome and Firefox, but Chrome seems to be more popular with HN developers.
I'm actually pretty impressed with this both in their direction and design. Focusing on the creative producers was what they should have done in the first place.
great idea and works brilliant!
It's all about focusing on the creative producers, Facebook still isn't the best place for those types, it's good because that's where fans are but it's not really the best tool.
SUPER SLOW.

Sorry, had to remove it as it made loading way too slow.
There's also an article about this on Tom's Hardware: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567042
Iran blocks Gmail, secure Google searches
What Microsoft would like 2012 design language to be, at least.
Just watched the video [1] in entirety.

One point, you can tell this is a total work in progress/concept, and that the UI is also most likely staged at this point.

(I make this observation based on the fact that every post had "12 Connects", "3 Comments" and "2 Shares". Surely if you put this much effort into production of a video you would change these numbers?)

Anyway, features which I picked up from the video...

- Photo Sharing/Uploading

- Heavy Emphasis on Music

- Insights/Stats for presumably Bands

- Radio

- Some weird feature called "affinity" that matches your online identity to Justin Timberlake?

In the final shot, It also looked like Instagram filters were applied to every profile picture?

As expected, MySpace is clearly placing a heavy emphasis on a community driven around bands and music. But, I just fail to see how they are going to get a strong user base, just considering most/all bands are content and happy with Facebook and integration with the vast supply of Band Related apps...

[1] https://new.myspace.com/play
Didn't know about this - the comment collapsing alone is worth it. Thank you to whomever made this!
What kind of market are you looking for?
I think if you look at the HN crowd, probably the things we want are pretty big (infrastructure & functionality wise) because if it's small we would have already created it.

But if you ask 'normal people', you'll probably get dozens of ideas. The problem with normal people is they often don't know what they want until you tell them.
>>I'm interested to see what kind of help there is for people who want to learn how to protect themselves on the Internet.

What kind of help is there for people who want to learn to protect themselves in real life? Does the fact that there is no comprehensive resource somehow remove one's burden to learn anyway?
Do Users Ever Learn? Sometimes, yes.
Great idea, I assume with Chrome's new incognito browsing, this won't be picked up on seenbefore or am I wrong?
Well it doesn't prevent me from middle clicking... and I can click on one and middle-click the others, so I've the best of both worlds.
Yeah, that was the line that stood out to me:
"If possible, work with clients who are somewhat removed from the money they're paying you."

Going after that type of client often means the work itself isn't as interesting, but it's great advice when you are getting the momentum (and savings account) going.
Reasons Big Brands Lose Big Business
I believe that was the point -- Apple has "decent" and "Retina-quality display" covered, and that may be somewhat lacking (in the GP's opinion) elsewhere, while the lack of upgradability on the Apple side is an incentive to switch. Get all three requirements covered in a single machine, though...
You'll only have trouble with unbillable hours if you, well, bill by the hour.
Get notified when a periodic task doesn't run
Nice redesign indeed, and kudos to Myspace to pull something like this out from almost nowhere.
My only concern is with horizontal scrolling; for this kind of content it feel more a gimmick than a feature to me.
I am actually curious and almost excited to see this come to life. But one mistake they are making IMO... Sticking with the MySpace branding.
Just like the article says, there is no actual evidence of this yet.

Even a screenshot of a wall post, and another screenshot of the same message (in the messages folder) would be a start, but this is all just conjecture.
How would you know that responsibility is needed without proper education about the dangers?
Yep, they are deploying nationwide. The one I saw recently was a prototype that had wifi and social integration, etc.