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Well by technical I mean the engineering fields also. I assume there are people in the less technology focuses engineering fields such as civil and mechanical engineering.

But social problems are a different breed. It would be remarkable if India could do what China is doing infrastructure wise at least. My knowledge is limited and I am still an outsider looking in at both countries.

Edit: The link you provided mentioned corruption as a big problem in India. Engineers cant solve that problem.
I did mention this during the talk, but missed writing about it.
Will add it in my next edit! :)
If Mike Tyson says he wants to box with you, that's a compliment (either that or he just really doesn't like you). Actually agreeing to do it, that's where the death wish comes in.
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Pricing risk is difficult, but that shouldn't hold you back. It's an estimate, just like the estimate of effort to mitigate. Precision re: potential liability is less important than awareness that the debt exists.
The official number is definitely way cheaper than it should be. If it werent, the government would not need to prohibit currency exchanges because the income/outcome of dollars would be balanced.

Credit card dollars are a huge opportunity, thats why its becoming the N1 concern for the government.
"... and not enough time on growth and distribution." Look at the numbers posted, and even if they cut back heavily on their expenses, the subscription revenue was not where it needed to be.
That's the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface), available at http://aws.amazon.com/cli/ .
I do not hold an MBA, but have a few friends that do and this seems like an inaccurate generalization. My understanding is that MBA's can have varied focus areas, with a varying curriculum. For example, MBA's can be focused on: Finance, Marketing, Management, etc, and yes, Entrepreneurship.
Here, "float_values.txt" could just be a pile of comma-separated numbers, suitable for editing by non-programmers.

It's a cute hack.
In my experience, XFCE has been prettier (for me at least, using the Xubuntu theme).
See http://www.bittorrent.com/sync/technology under "Peer Discovery"
Tptacek, whistle blowers level security should not be a use case for this extension , and should be advertised as part of it.

But decreasing the amount of dragnet surveillance by some extent sounds like a good thing to me. For example, many people wouldn't like the government to know mundane stuff about them, like having an abortion.This could help.

* BTW haven't moxie written about an asynchronous diffie hellman key exchange ? it could at least give PFS to this , so the private key would be much less useful ?
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My sentiments exactly. I was expecting an explanation why/what exactly LiveNinja is better.
I went from the Galaxy Nexus to the Samsung S4, and I wouldn't do it again if given the chance.

The unremoveable bloatware and need-to-root for certain features is beyond frustrating. It's like that Dell laptop you got back in the early 2000's, except you need to reinstall the OS to run it normally.
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Literally nothing. Which is sad.

The point of these things was most likely a marketing strategy, and one that will likely be effective. I bought it. Not because of the jeans. Not because of the vintage storage space. Because it's a good product.

I wouldn't have bought it if there wasn't a decent presentation of the functionality. And that is there.
Great analysis. This is mainly why I didn't donate to Dark Mail even though I fully supported Mailpile and Lavabits legal defense.

What about Silent Circles involvement in Dark Mail? They came under criticism for not being open-source in the past year.

Sure they have Phil Zimmermann but I'm curious if he is already too much focused on his own business to not fully be able to contribute to Dark Mail. Compared to say some new eager hackers willing to focus on this full-time. Do both Ladar/Phil have the focus/ability to create an entirely new OSS email protocol?
Has anyone else not heard back yet?
You can sign the app within the zip, true. The advantage of using a dmg is to control the presentation, which seems like a strong desire for this particular product. Downloading a file named "latest.zip" that had an unsigned binary in it was by far the worst part of the excellently designed experience of installing the software.

Apparently the iTunes link thing is a bug https://twitter.com/jschloss/status/397783949746769921
There were recent touch responsiveness benchmarks that show that even the iPhone 4 outshines the latest Android models.

http://bgr.com/2013/09/20/iphone-android-touch-screen-respon...

I'm a very happy owner of a 2013 Nexus 7, but I have to say I think this is perceptible. It's not showstopping or even disorienting, but it does translate in performance critical tasks like web browsing and gaming being slightly less satisfying. With an iPhone, scrolling feels like you're manipulating a piece of paper under your finger; Chrome on my Nexus 7 doesn't quite achieve that illusion.

Then again, the OS itself feels way more nimble than iOS: things like text-to-speech, app installs and multi-tasking are way more satisfying on Android.
Amazon Glacier seems applicable at this point: around $1000/mo to archive the entire Everpix collection, then work out (cheap) pricing for people to retrieve their photos. Just a thought, pursuant to not losing everything outright.
Does anyone use the Debian default desktop? I always figure it to be a distro whose users prefer to customize. I personally tend to set it up with the netinst image, with no GUI, then install a WM and set up ~/.xsession manually..
You don't need just a great idea, you need to set a finance strategy that can follow this idea. A VC or others investors, does not mean that you will survive. Keep an eye open and do a balance forecast. It seems basic, but it is always forgotten.
no wonder, it's ruby developer, what can be worse? I'll tell ya - php developer :)
I've just bought the app just to try it out. It works as advertised. But I was even more interested in security.

When you install the Mac application, it will ask for your computer's password. This password is then stored, as I understand, on your phone.

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Quote:

When Knock connects to your Mac, it sends your password over that signal using both Bluetooth's built-in encryption and our own proprietary, 1024-bit RSA encryption.

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I think for many users, this is secure enough. This will probably not do if you are more interesting than an average joe.

What I don't like is that 'proprietary' remark. It almost sounds like they wrote their own crypto implementation of RSA 1024. Again: probably safe enough for home use.

I searched on knock unlock in the IOS app store and found it immediately.

It seems that the Knock application also records usage.

Furthermore, I seem to have troubles with sleep, if the computer does not wake from sleep with this app, I'm not sure if I think it's useful.
Expect some coming very soon. Any requests?
He makes a good point about all of those issues. It is already all kind of there in Firefox in one form or another.

Especially about the RSS feed feature, everyone cried a river when Google stupidly got rid of it's reader; here ya go, manage your feeds in the browser. Bam, done! It was right there in front of us all along.

Side note; interestingly enough HN does not have an RSS feed. Just saying.
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Do you use full disk encryption? A lot people don't and it's easy to get your data when you got logged in as another user.
Totally agree. We are constantly iterating on that and will continue to do so.

Thanks for the feedback - really appreciate it!
When accused of getting the facts wrong, this journalist responded by attacking the impartiality of the accuser. A person who didn't know the meaning of the word "fact" might find that insightful.
I agree that venture capitalists passing on great businesses because they're "lifestyle ventures" or whatever the politically correct phrasing is is an issue, but that doesn't seem to be the case here? EverPix wasn't trying to become a $B business, yeah, but they were still rapidly outspending their income streams, which is only sustainable if you're an extreme edge case (or receiving the massive, massive influx of buzz and users like, say, SnapChat.)

Everpix's raw product seems to be great in the same way "free puppies for everyone" is great. Their monthly variable costs outpaced their revenues, and their market positioning left them amidst a sea of giants who offered similar services for free.

I think neither venture capital nor crowdfunding should (or can) be a panacea for a bad business model.
My argument is this: "This is also a PGP application that most people can benefit from immediately (compared to using Hotmail), and one that can be used by even the most targeted users if their environment is set up correctly once the extension is out."

Scramble performed encryption on the server, then my argument is false. But the design of Scramble's protocol is such that the security of the application depends only on securing the client code, which I argue can be done, for those who set up their environment correctly.
It's different when everything is integrated , drive much much more usage, which is the whole point.
This project looks really, really promising, thanks for working on it!

How robust/scalable in your opinion the backend is at this stage? I'm just trying to set my expectations properly when checking it out.

Thanks,
Sasha
When you go down the VC path, they expect hypergrowth; certain doors are opened and others are closed. Personally, next time around I minimize dependence on funding.
I've stored a lot of images on Everpix that I actually may not have on other physical media here anymore. Can you confirm that you're going to allow exporting of data? Otherwise I'd set out now and write an export-script that downloads all my data, I'd rather not invest that time though.
At least they didn't call themselves Foreverpix.
Haha, I started with talking about the standard buffers and have completely missed using them!
Thanks for reminding this!
thank goodness you don't have to!

sheesh… it's just a cool, simple video introducing a product. way to tear it apart.
People are forgetting Firefox's roots. Mozilla's original browser included an XMPP IM client, IRC client, email client, and (oh yeah) browser. It was a slow bloated mess. The whole point of Firefox was to be a lean single-purpose app and let add-ons fill other needs on a case-by-case basis. People like the author of this article are basically asking Firefox to coalesce back into what it was split off from in the first place.
I think the logical conclusion of this is going to have to be a weekly coffee event, sort of some sort of show or media format, where you podcast a video of the highlights of the week.

If you just opened up 'the coffee door' semi-persistently, I'm sure you'd meet a lot of people.
Sounds like something ideal for a StackExchange site.
Our per-user income was above our per-user costs. But we hadn't yet reached the economies of scale where fixed costs were covered.
Gnome 3 is awful IMO. It's not NEARLY as bad as Unity, but I still prefer Xfce myself too.
The N5 is thicker than the galaxy s4, which has a removable battery and sdcard slot. It's likely more a decision driven by part count and assembly costs. I don't understand why the market doesn't demand this either. It was certainly a major driver of my phone choice.
This seems like it would be an immensely useful tool for government. In many regulations/rules scenarios, there are multiple agencies or offices (spread widely across the bureaucracy) vying for impact on a the in-progress document and the person or entity initially in control often loses ownership due to political, bureaucratic, funding or other reasons.

A product like this would significantly improve this process and provide the kind of historical record needed create transparency in lawmaking. Just a thought.
Originally I wrote it with a p. Since there's no way to verify the ids of anyone involved in bitcoin, there's no safeguard against anyone who has the resources to dominate it using brute force (let alone subverting the algorithms).

(I see that bitcoin is another sacred cow.)
The transparency in this article is something we can learn from. It's sad to see a service like Everpix go as they were making money. But if you look at the other numbers, they just staffed up too quickly. Salaries, personnel and payrolling costs of together $3.7 million in two years is just way to much compared to the money they were making.

What I'm curious about is that the cost per user (storing photos) is what killed them, or a burn-rate simply to high for what they're doing.

But then again it's easy to look at this as an outsider and try to point out their flaws. I'm hoping to learn more about how they monitored specific business metrics to test their business model.
I'm sorry, but the post strikes me more as a rant-y whine from a company that isn't competition in a field that is alive and well..

How is Google's service a copy of your product?

Several live support sites have come and gone, way before you even started your private beta, and some are still around ( e.g. http://www.liveperson.com/experts being one that comes to mind).

There are a multitude sites that offer live instructions that thrive ( e.g. http://livemocha.com )

What makes LiveNinja so unique (except a very nice design)?

Edit: links clickable
Shai Agassi's Feb 2009 TED talk: "A new ecosystem for electric cars"
Part of the problem is that an MBA can be a lot of different things even within a schools. I, for one, am working on learning how to solve problems that startups face, problems that can't be solved by code.

I'm not saying that hiring an MBA would have been a magic fix for Everpix, but when looking at the business as a whole, the product looked great (despite its lack of support for non-JPEG formats, but that's more of a personal nitpick) and there was engineering talent to continue building the product. However, the part of the article I quoted above indicates that the team lacked the business talent to successfully find a market for the product (or to identify that there wasn't a market and pivot while they still had cash left).
At first I would do something what is not related to software development. I would try out something completely new. Maybe creating a new food brand for a niche market.
Touch-ID to unlock would be fun.
I see. So, if I set up an intricate browser clean-room environment, and I assume that the Javascript verification system you come up with actually works, I can get some of the benefit of simply installing GPG and using POP mail.
The GS4 is available in a Google edition without the Samsung junkware...
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http://www.picturelife.com seems the most similar.
The website is so well done. I love the UX.
The only way I would consider using this service is if Google started advertising paid support of their own products on it.
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Existing and new customers will continue to have access to the Standard flavor class Cloud Servers - the price will continue at the current prices you pay today for the Standard class. At a point in the future we will stop offering the Standard flavor class for new accounts, but have not finalized on a date for that yet.

Today, the Performance flavors are available in IAD only (additional regions coming soon). The Standard flavors continue to be available in all regions (IAD, ORD, DFW, SYD, HKG)

See also: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/11/05/racks... for a good review.
A service that enables domain experts to give video advice to paying users is not an idea you're going to be the only one who's ever thought about. So it's a bit iffy to claim that someone copied your start-up. Unless you're talking about specific methods of defining or solving problems in your execution of the concept, which doesn't seem to me to have been the case here. I could be wrong, naturally.
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It would have been a great article if they had mentioned 2 or 3 concrete things they have learned. Lets wait for an update...
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(not op)

It's half and half for me. On the one hand it look awesome and many thing became easier to do. Like finding a route.

On the other hand it feels a bit like an Apple product to me. The old maps was more intuitive, now it's as if they want me to do things exactly the way they planned it and every other way is wrong.
If you're a user who signed up because of the new tagline:

> Your photo mess, solved.

I'd be pissed right now. Not solved, the company's out of business. This is why I won't sign up for another web service that isn't open source again. I'll gladly pay for hosting, but core technology must be libre.
some schoolmates were working on http://coffeeon.me/ not sure if it's a full-fledged thing yet though
My feeling too, when you have an internet business, why would you waste so much money in the location...
I mainly mean Windows, but it is not the only non POSIX system around.

I am using Git on Windows on a current project and it is still far from what Mercurial was offering on my previous project in terms of usability and resilience to infrastructure issues.
There are also plenty of employably good people as well.

I've worked directly (as in, same team, interact with them day-in-day-out) with at least half a dozen people who have founded their own companies. Some of them ran these businesses for 5-10 years; a couple even exited for fuck-you money. They are back working at Google, because Google is doing things they can't accomplish working on their own. Oftentimes they make great employees in leadership roles, because they know what it takes to ship product and do it well, and they're well-versed in taking responsibility for their own actions.
While these are almost certainly true, #1 seems like it would be a complaint of the subjects mentioned in #2.

"Everyone is awesome."

"Many of the engineers are arrogant."
In the end when I read "Combatting Fake Progress" it sound so real. It seems that so many companies are trapped in real bondages and they just seems to be running without any kind of plans.
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Out of curiosity, how would the security applications know that it was being run on a VM? Why would they care? That suggests they believe no one has a legitimate reason to run Windows in a VM.
It was a 'this day in history' — not only was it one year ago, it was any photo taken on that day. Which was even more awesome. I have 15 year old photos in my library. It was really cool to slowly relive long-passed vacations and trips that way. Very sad to see them go.
It works both ways.

In the initial stages of a product lifetime, you shouldn't focus on code quality. Releasing a crappy product beats waiting until it is well polished before releasing it, every single time.

But you should absolutely work on replacing, refining or polishing the crappy parts that turn out to be actually successful, or you'll end up in a dead end where you can't make your product evolve anymore without breaking everything. Or you'll get hit by the 'unlikely to be exploitable and difficult to fix' security flaws.

Crappy alpha code is good. Crappy legacy code, not so much.
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i may be completely biased because i have long hair & a (sweet) beard, but …

i'm finding it odd that there are people who feel like commenting on the appearance of the gentleman (actor/friend/founder/dude) in the video in a negative way. who cares how a guy in a video is dressed to demonstrate a product? and then even if you don't associate with the type of grooming or style of dress, that's totally cool, but to start throwing around gross oversimplifications like 'hipster'?

stop being so fucking superficial.
I have to disagree. I'm not sure that is the "holy grail"...i think its not even possible with common browser runtimes.
Dear HN.

Please stop making a big deal about how you don't like hipster beards.

It really makes HN look like pretentious douchebags instead of intelligent thinkers.

It makes HN people look like the have no understanding of marketing.

If you're going to criticize the marketing, do it from a metrics perspective, rather than being exactly what you're claiming to hate by telling people to stop being hipsters - arrogant.

Let people be who they are. Measure them by their output and their product, and the effectiveness of their decisions. Not on whether or not they conform to your taste/style.

I get it - if you have design critiques, it makes sense to share those. If you have marketing critiques, it makes sense to share those (like: "If you market this to hipsters, you will not get the hipster-hating crowd to buy"). If you have a personal soap box of despise for another person's tastes, please do not bring it here.
holy shit. this is awesome.
Why would you link to them?
Here is my YC application. No interview
sounds exactly like zenfolio, flickr etc. They all supposer set and forget and they all do duplicate detection. If they didn't and everpix had a real value proposition they might still be going.
The anti-education bias of HN simply fascinates me.
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> One big question is why they didn’t just get a CA to make them their own.

Isn't this because if they did, they could be detected by any user? And the CA could lose their CA status in browsers for improperly issuing a certificate?
I cannot help but wonder if this is why my startup Pivotal (http://pivotal.ws) got a rejection letter from YC last night.
How can HTML5 compete with Native?
When visiting Google Helpouts, I imidiately understood its purpose... unlike going to the LiveNinja website. Watch a video? Aint nobody got time for that.
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I think, in hindsight, that Agassi had the right idea -- but building out the network of chargers and battery changers was putting the cart before the horse.

Musk acquired users first. Then he made it scale.
I think there have been a lot of lessons learned and tech transfer from earlier lunar and Mars missions. Chandrayaan-1 involved a lot of experts from NASA and ESA, for example, because both agencies had instruments on board. (I'm acquainted with one of these payload specialists.)

Some of the willingness to do that tech transfer is basically boosting India as a counterweight to China's space ambitions.

Also, remember that Chandrayaan-1 failed early. It's a steep learning curve.
Kindle has a better screen than the iPad Air?
We assume that the server is compromised, so the extension wouldn't interpret just any JS from the server, whether or not it was delivered by HTTPS. Our idea is to require a committee to review and sign the code, and the extension would only execute code signed by the committee in consensus. This is just as secure as shipping all of the program logic in the extension, except in the case where all the signing committee member keys get compromised, which is unlikely.

My point in the previous comment was that dragnet surveillance wouldn't work at all unless the client's code was compromised, but there isn't a good way for the NSA to compromise ALL OR MOST of the clients' code without it being detected by those users who use the extension. Remember the TorMail episode where malicious javascript was injected in the response? If some users had a Firefox extension that checked to make sure that all the JS code was signed by a committee, then they would have raised the flag and alerted everyone not to use TorMail.