skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there was an iOS and windows version, I can probably get my wife to test it daily :)
Wait, so are these 3 costs not summed? I didn't do all the math from funding to net income, so I might have missed something.
> I ran iOS 7 on my iPhone 5 for months and got better battery life running the same apps

I doubt most apps take advantage of the M7 yet. So if you run them on a 5S, they are going to be using battery, and the built-in logic is going to be using battery.
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... plus the parcel.
That's the point. If you have to "setup the environment correctly" you should implement a native client. GPG is secure because it transfers data...not code. That's actually the webs biggest problem...you can't trust code given to you by some stranger. If you transfer data you can verify that it hasn't been modified in transit. Its really impossible to verify that code given to you performs the way that you think it will.
We are looking at 9.95, 19.95 and 35.95 a month based on storage levels and other benefits.

The 'other' benefits is something that sets us apart, with our service you get to choose some photos each month and we will mail 3x5 copies to you (or you can have them sent to someone else like parents or grandparents), monthly merchandising deals like 75% off a photo book or calendar.
Scale goes both ways. Costs can be reduced very easily these days.
>>There is no way to ever prove or disprove whether any encryption was ever happening at all, and whether it was or not makes little difference.

I get that Lavabit was fundamentally flawed, but I don't know about this part. Lavabit saying they can't read your email seems analogous to any website that requires a password saying they can't read your password, because it is hashed. That's an important and reasonable claim, right? It means at the very least all the passwords/emails can't be download in bulk and read immediately.

You don't know for sure what hashing methods are being used on any given site, but to say it doesn't matter at all.... is kind of like saying the operators should just leave all of your passwords in plaintext in the database because they could intercept them at log in anyway.
When I signed up for liveninja using facebook, it gave me the facebook access confirmation fullscreen, so the OK was way in the bottom right. I almost missed it.

In case that is helpful.
Price. That's in market based economy, of cause.
Nice, small release. Fauxton is interesting. Getting ready for the 2.0 release with all the Cloudant goodies.
This is a good observation. You're probably right. Routine and habit and the actual experience of those routines and habits do have intrinsic value in the way you go about executing them :)
I found it interesting that the "use cases" in the G. Helpouts video were exactly the same as the ones in the LiveNinja promo video[1] which was posted 1y ago: guitar, yoga, and fashion ~= makeup.

I guess there might be some idea-copying going on...

[1] http://vimeo.com/37270865
Do you think they were better off by having their own servers ? (Honest question we use AWS and Rackspace, and we feel the pain of Monthly bills as well).
Here's a controversial position: This is not going to be popular amongst iOS devs (I am an iOS dev) but the best thing for iOS as a platform is for Apple to appropriate this.

With the M7 coprocessor, iOS would be able to register a callback for a given "gesture," like two knocks. Then the phone could implement such functionality while staying in standby! Combined with a facility for securely determining proximity, you could use such a facility to securely unlock everything.
I've encountered a team issue that's sort of opposite of "greed".

It's not about "my code", it's about "your code". I often found team members that's reluctant in taking responsibility to fix the problem. When they found an issue in the code base they didn't write, they find the person who originally wrote it to fix the issue rather than tackle it themselves.
There's that, but there also the lazyness angle. Why go with a complicated, detectable technical solution when you can send out a NSL and have someone else do the heavy lifting for you? I strongly suspect Lavabit's reaction wasn't in any way expected.
I guess he's never heard of portable usb chargers? I have one the size of a small candy bar that charges my iPhone from 0 to 100% in less than an hour.
the patterns created by this apparatus are not as dependent on the character of the wave as the shape of the slab of metal.
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What kind of FTE makes $2000 a day, what?
No. A couple minutes with zillow.com or trulia.com will show you lots available for well under $10,000. Sure, they won't exactly be in premium locations, but with some work you can find some that are desirable & decent. I've seen some under $2000 just outside Atlanta, rural half-acre lots close to rivers & lakes.
What do you mean by "The only way this could work is based on network participants, and that's highly subjective." ?
What is sustainable about a home that you can't cook in?
I always ask on question to every business, and nonprofit.
How much were, are the founders of the company making per year? It's usually a lie. I've also noticed when young
entrepreneurs are given a large amount of money; they don't
quite realize that it's probally all the big money they will ever see. I know I didn't. I made a lot of money in my twenties, thinking it would always be this easy. Sometimes,
the availability of money is just because you were at the
right place at the right time; people underplay luck--especially people in their twenties, or rich kids. Rich
kids have their parents to fall back on. Poor kids will never have that safety net. I don't know
anything about this company, but their situation is not
unique--it's the norm, that's why I cringed reading the
article and looking at the pictures. I've seen it too many
times before.
How can you have formal education in Entrepreneurship? It's pretty much on job type of learning. Not trying to be snarky but I'm genuinely curious.
There's more technical info in my post at http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/build-3d-streaming-applic...
but everyone here is hung up on the concern over being able to build a >$100M revenue subscription business in photos in this age of free photo tools

Dropbox is a billion dollar company doing exactly that. I'm willing to bet that photos/videos are what exceed quotas and create paid accounts.
> As mentioned in the writeup, there's a beautiful way you can protect even non-power-users. Because the extension downloads and verifies the webapp HTML, CSS and JS every time it runs, the web app is constantly being validated.

Imagine the following. An Attacker manages to hijack your server. They fingerprint[1] the browsers of each user and only send malicious JS to certain users that dont use your extension. No one will ever know, that they have been compromised.

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf
While it's true that organized crime grew up during the bootlegging era, organized crime was on the upswing in the 1960's and 1970's, at a time long after prohibition had ended and before the modern drug war had started. Clearly, the fuel to feed organized crime existed without prohibition. Given that fact, it's hard to say that those organizations wouldn't have grown bigger and more sophisticated during that period anyway (just like corporations did, for reasons that had nothing to do with prohibition).
We're writing the clustered portion of it right now. That won't be available until December, but we'll have performance benchmarks on a variety of configurations.

The single node performance at this point for writes is tens of thousands of points per second if batched, and for reads we haven't optimized yet. Queries that only have to go through a few hundred thousand points should return in < 1s. Of course, those numbers will be highly variable depending on if you're writing a series with 1 column or 30 columns. We'll be adding things to make that better.

For now we're focused on creating a developer friendly API and building out clustering.
Yes. Sometimes mobile homes are a good idea.
The app could be TAB (as in open a bar tab)
Badumm-cha!
Perhaps I'm cynical but when I see this title I read:

"I'm creating publicity for my startup by mentioning Google and hoping this gets picked up by HN, reddit, etc"

The mantra on HN and elsewhere by now is firmly that "execution matters". Also, not that many things are really "new". They're just a new take on an existing idea or simply better execution. There were a bunch of video sites before Youtube took off.

So I mean no disrespect to the author or his startup. In fact, I think he knows he's doing exactly this: simply raising his startup's profile. I applaud his efforts (both in that and his startup).

I will say though that you never get far by saying why other companies or their products are bad. Speaking generally I mean, not specific to the author or his post at this point. You really need to sell your own product or service on its positives not on other's negatives.

So when I see a post that basically says "X is doing the same thing but doing it worse" the cynic in me just sees another startup that will be on the trash heap of history in another 1-2 years tops.
Yes, I agree; the fact that it's unclear if it's possible is what makes it the holy grail, it's unclear if the holy grail actually exists, but lots of people really want it. :)
Your argument doesn't make sense. If Apple can go from long-turnaround for nearly all of their built-to-order sales (i.e. assembled in China) to long-turnaround for only 50% of their built-to-order sales (i.e. assembled in US), how is that not a win?
The target audience for posts like these is more often than not...(wait for it)...the person who wrote the post.

When a big company enters your space and becomes a competitor, the first reaction of many if not most founders is to worry. These types of posts are an effort on the part of founders to convince themselves that the larger competitor has an inferior offering and won't be able to compete effectively.

Incidentally, I think LiveNinja's biggest challenge is the same as Google's: its offering is way too broad. The fundamental purpose of these services is to aggregate "expertise" and market it to consumers on behalf of the providers of that "expertise."

To do that effectively, vertical focus is crucial. This is especially true if you're a startup, but it will also apply to Google unless Google leverages search and YouTube to promote relevant Helpouts providers.
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Something like that idea has actually already been the inspiration for at least one startup: MetaMed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMed, http://nymag.com/health/bestdoctors/2013/metamed-personalize...) does meta-level analysis of the medical literature to determine which treatments seem effective for rare conditions, taking into account the sample size, statistical methodology, funding sources, etc. of each study.

Of course, medicine might be unique as a domain in which individuals are willing to pay vast sums of money to obtain slightly more trustworthy research conclusions, and the profit motive has obvious conflicts with "benefit to humanity" (if someone pays you to research a treatment for their disease, do you post the findings when done? Or hold them privately for the next person with the same problem?). But maybe there are other domains in which the market could support a (non-billionaire's) project for better-validated research.
Did the author just write an essay saying "you're doing it wrong" over and over without saying why? I was reading for the why and got nothing.

I think that would've been infinitely more valuable as a post.
It was at the top of page one at one point in time; along with another interesting article (that was killed) about a new operating system that looked promising, I'd say someone with an agenda has been flagging perfectly relevant articles today. Perhaps it was branksy. Or mobile app developers who don't like the idea of their users disconnecting because then they can't track their every move. Or web app developers who can't conceive of an app that doesn't involve a web server.
Google might have copied from many startups, but this one was the fastest to paint itself as the anti-Google. Light article, but smart move.
Don't go overboard though. The whole world doesn't play out with a hindsight bias, and just asking yourself in the morning "why is this important" wont necessarily actually improve your choices. I have seen some incredible successes coming from very unexpected places, places where had somebody asked themselves "is this likely a giant waste of time" the answer would have been yes.

At the end of the day, if your startup is going to succeed then you are going to have to do something amazing. If you are spending all your time stifling your own instincts to follow somebody else's playbook, you probably are in trouble anyways.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Dropbox use AWS? (Or at least did until recently.) The two services' pricing (on a per GB basis) is within the same ballpark.
Why would he provide fodder to Google Helpouts product managers?

He is already 'selling' his product, by writing a blog, by making sure it showed up on HN and pointing out that his product is more mature and Google tried to 'get inspiration' from his product (by creating accounts on his website and probably browsing through features etc).

He has drawn enough attention so that potential users might now try it out for themselves and compare between his product and Google Helpouts.. He doesn't have to list out the features one-by-one that they have found through 2 years of being a live/running product that they believe are strong differentiators.
In any case, it wouldn't be the features that will lead to growth of such products. It would be the momentum they generate and mass they can gather that will feed itself and further increase adoption. Making it harder for any late comers to make any significant dent.

Also, he is probably leaving enough tantalizing info out of public, to possibly draw Google to the table for a possible acquihire. You can sense from the tone of his blog that he is neither being too harshly critical (that they copied his product) nor too solicitous of Google's products/services/prowess. Just setting the right amount of tone.
I've worked in a lot of situations with C/C++ code and non-programmers, and that simply wouldn't work. Non-programmers will break your build with such a mechanism. If they are capable of editing comma-separated lists of numbers in a text editor without breaking it, they are capable of editing a C file with a float[][] declaration at the top.

It would cause a problem after about 2 days, and then you would end up replacing this in 5 minutes with a 5 line Python script that does a minimal amount of error checking (or a higher level tool to generate the data, e.g. a game logic editor).

EDIT: A cute hack is one that lets you take a shortcut and saves you time. This is one that saves a tiny amount of typing (or writing 5 lines of Python), in exchange for wasting time with broken builds.
Combine Mate with Compiz (you have to grab it from Sid though as there is not a maintainer anymore).

Flipping between windows should be a mindless gesture and that's what that a config of the above allows.
Wait, explain? Why should VC's fund something they don't think will make enough money? That seems to be a sense of entitlement - clearly, paid users were not enough to support this product on its own (which by all accounts, is a shame).
Yeah, s3cmd is for interacting with s3.

aws-cli lets you interact with 23 different AWS services (it's really awesome).
If when browsing on my phone I come across your website, and it doesn't work on there (i.e. it is completely unusable), I'm not going to come back and view it when I'm at my desk.

(This site seems to work ok on my iPhone 4 though)
I think the point is that while it does matter in some ways, it doesn't matter for security issues Lavabit claimed it addressed.

Think of a site that says your password is secure. When you call them on it, they say "well, we do store your passwords in plaintext, but we use SSL to transfer them."
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It appears to be built with Go. https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb
We are not talking about crypto done in browser extensions. We're talking about a project that knows about extensions, knows how to package their project as an extension, but refuses to do so, because that would cost them users, who generally don't want to install extensions.
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I've just been made redundant
That could happen. The API is already there, in JSON over HTTP. One could gut all the UI logic and run it in a node program, or rewrite the client.
The floorplans appear to indicate a stovetop, among other things.
We're here. http://eversnapapp.com
This just sends five bucks — it isn't tied to a specific drinking establishment or brewery, or even to beer. Totally not the same.
The problem often comes with data. If the service collects user data (and most services do), it is often a real problem when it shuts down. Suddenly none of the links work, the data is gone, and any reputation or network built up is also hard to retrieve.

If the service was offering a discrete operation on local files (by analogy with a desktop app or a restaurant), then it wouldn't be a great problem if it shuts down, you just find another.

However, going back to this service - someone using this help service to help others might build up a stellar reputation over 10 years, only to have the plug pulled on all their posts, and all the content disappearing or at best losing all its links in when Google decides to move on to Google++ and retires it.
There is quite a market for them, don't knock it. Buy a cheap lot somewhere, pour a slab, wheel the tiny house into place, nice starter home for a young'un in one weekend flat.
I congratulate the article's author for moving his product in a brave manner. I can also understand the feeling of the author however there are some things he should review. The name he has chosen is limited to this forum and an amount of tech guys, Google could have bought him but not with that name. On the other hand having Hangouts working this idea was only a matter of time before putting the user needs on the table.
That would be a very high fill rate (5 days a week) for such high prices.
Verifying the code on your system is something that can be easily done and easily verified the next time you use it. Its your system after all.

I salute what you are trying to do, but you have to understand that the Js browser method, as it stands today, is a dead end.
Somebody has to say it, as a sacrifice for the HN crowd I take the role of the DB:

It is unbelievable how many people that read "HN" - obviously considering themselves beeing "Hackers" - are not able to understand the basic requirements of a real hacker (TM) note taking app:

- it has to be open source - you do not want to hand over your personal notes to some unknown company and their decision making process, maybe they will just disappear or not support their product anymore.

- it has to have an open and good documented data format - you do not want your notes to disappear in an undocumented binary blob.

- if there is any way to sync data with other instances / machines, the sync server of course has to be open sourced and available for usage on your own server.

- of course some more functional things like versioning via git and it has to be lightning fast.

This is for the "cool hackers" that are STILL using services like dropbox, evernote or onenote. Learn it: these services are for uneducated people who did not understand anything. Please do not hurt the eyes of HN readers with advertising these anti-privacy services here, thanks!
How could you not understand the time saved? It says right below that don't reinvent the wheel every time you make a new app. It's pretty clearly a programming library to implement user login and management instead of writing your own. Time saved is clearly development time. I don't think you even read the text, just skimmed the titles, but then it certainly isn't strange you don't understand anything about the product.
You have to remember that just by being a person who read Hacker News you are not a regular person. I really don't mean to be harsh, but it doesn't much matter what you prefer or that you find this trend of running things in the browser problematic. What matters is what normal people do. People who don't even know what a "client" in computer lingo means.

Those are the majority, and if we want them to use Free and Open systems (which is my whole point here), then we have to create those systems in a way normal people will start switching from the closed systems and over to the open ones. And that is only going to happen if the open systems are easier to use and more accessible than the closed ones.

I am aware of the fact that Facebook uses XMPP (I mention it in the post). Still, extremely few people use it through a client. They use it through fb.com.
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The thing that stood out most as missing to me is a shower. Sure, I suppose you could do that at a gym, but still - having at least a shower is a pretty big quality-of-living improvement (or lack thereof).
That's already happened w/ the crypto.getRandomNumber function, which openpgp.js uses/
This is a really cool idea. It would be awesome if the walls were also modular enough that you can take the glass doored walls off the original structure and put them on the new pieces you purchase.
Good post. For some reason people have trouble matching their understanding with their emotions. People who get rejected understand that their life isn't over, but they still feel like it is. Reducto ad absurdum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum) arguments like this often help to bring your emotions up to speed with your understanding.
Quite frankly, I don't care. They as executives are trusted to handle every dollar, every share. They are the stewards leading their company, making the decisions, creating the profit or loss. When they succeed, they take the praise and the reward. When they fail... it's too hard for them to manage everyone? What?

The buck stops there. It must stop there. It is THEIR PROBLEM to control the misbehavior of those who they entrust with their capital, not OUR problem.

Those that Executives entrust with their assets are the Executive's responsibility.

As a citizen, I don't get to say "Your accountant is immoral, fire him". I don't get to have a say in the ethics of private sector employees. I don't get to speak to who an executive entrusts with capital. I'm not responsible for their actions by design.

So with that isolation of the private sector comes the responsibility of the private sector to handle it's own shit.

Buck stops with the executive. I imagine the richest people alive, if they can "solve" the problem of <1ms trades cross-Atlantic, they can "solve" the problem of unethical behavior.

What I think: they don't want to solve it. Why would they, unless we forced them?

If they don't have control over their assets and those that manage it, why do they get the profit from what they do not control and do not risk? Either they accept responsibility for their assets and those that manage it... or the public should get the credit and profit from an asset the public is forced to manage and protect.
Yes. This will happen. Most browsers on the Internet today can't even install extensions.