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I guess it's a holdover from when I used Linux more often, but for most applications it seems sensible to just let the WM manage tabs. I guess there are a couple of situations when that approach is worse, though:

- Tabs need to communicate with each other, or with a "host" application. In-process communication might be simpler than inter-process.

- Some people have WMs that don't provide an acceptable tabbing interface, and you want your application to have an acceptable interface everywhere. In this case I guess I'd suggest distributing a separate tabbing program along with your app, but that kind of separation of responsibility has definitely gone out of fashion.
Shouldn't this calculation include time cost? Clearly that's where the value lies. Do you pay yourself $0 per hour? Of course not.
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Typically with these services they have a central location that they have you ship things to and then the service will go deliver it to the right box. This is how Bufferbox does it and I assume how these guys are as well.
Can you clarify how LastPass breaks? I installed LastPass and it seems to work for me with browser.tabs.remote=true.
>Now seriously, Who is a Nelson Mandela today and do you support him/her?

it is great to have a Mandela like champion of your cause. Yet what about uncountable people (or animals) - victims of violence and injustice ( or they may be even not considered to have any rights for justice thus even "injustice" can't be claimed ). Sirian war is still going on. Women's rights in muslim world still an issue to say the least. Hungry and ill children around the world. Tibetans still set themselves on fire (latest one - 2 days ago). Gestation crates, dog fights, eutanasia of multi-millions annually and all the other things we do to animals.... A lot of causes needing their Mandela.
I'm sure Knuth will be glad to know any customer can purchase TAoCP from Pearson/InformIT in any electronic format that he wants so long as it is PDF.

Additionally, Pearson/InformIT have chosen to enhance the layout of each page by discreetly reminding the reader of their full name.
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Still not following. For Loadtest:

D: -- [121.7 +/- 1.5] -- [166.9 +/- 1.5] -- [171.1 +/- 3.3] -- [167.9 +/- 1.3]

C: -- [106.1 +/- 0.8] -- [122.4 +/- 0.4] -- [95.2 +/- 1.3] -- [74.7 +/- 0.4]

E: -- [104.1 +/- 2.2] -- [124.2 +/- 5.9] -- [117.6 +/- 4.6 -- [117.7 +/- 3.2]

G: ---- [90.9 +/- 11] -- [100.1 +/- 0.1] -- [99.3 +/- 0.2] -- [98.8 +/- 0.3]

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I certainly appreciate the boldness of your personal commitment. You should add that to the site somehow.
This is literally our #2 most requested feature. We so want to build this.

If we do get pulled from the App Store, it will still be on your phone, so as long as you don't delete it you'll be fine.
Maybe the real question is: is Facebook worth 500% of bitcoin?
I wouldn't call Mandela a champion of peace, but of freedom.
My feeling is that your proposal makes no economic sense. What's the market? How big is that market compared to the external market? People pay to have their articles published. The price ranges between $100 and $1,500. As a reward, people get prestige and career advancement.

Others journals a free to publish, but the readers pay an access fee.

In any case, in most cases the publication fee is much smaller than the time and effort needed to write a paper.

So a pittance fee - even $100 for all error corrections per paper - isn't enough to change that overall market. You need to have serious money to make a difference.

If someone has evidence which, say, shows rabbits and velociraptors co-existed, then it's more cost effective to publish that paper in its own right. I can't figure out why another publication/error correction system would be more effective.

Consider also that many research fields are very small. The next person to understand the paper well enough to correct it might not come around for 10 years. Market-based solutions don't work well on long timescales like that.
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I don't think you can.

In H1b, you can only work for your current employer and for the position they have done the visa for. I think you can form a LLC or do a side project without any serious legal issue, but you can't make a living out of it nor hold a real position inside it. So, it can be challenging in a lot of ways indeed to raise money or just make money. You can do an E-2 visa though if you got some money to invest inside your company. It might mean to go out the U.S and apply in your home country however.

Tell me more about your story, what's your background?
Yeah, when I lived in the UK I often used major chain's delivery services (Tesco, Sainsburys, Ocado, etc) when I couldn't get to a store. Safeway has a pretty good delivery service in the US for next day grocery deliveries (pretty much as good as in the UK - apart from the website, which is pretty terrible).

Though, one of the perks of living in the Bay Area is Instacart. Instacart is 100x better than the UK delivery services since they offer same day delivery that generally arrives within 2 hours (and then there's Postmates if you need things within 1 hour). They also have a subscription model like Amazon Prime Fresh where if you pay $99 a year you get free delivery for orders over $35 which is super useful.
We've been using fresh in Seattle for a couple years. They've always had free delivery with a minimum order (it's crept up to about $100). The big "secret" is that they will deliver many prime-eligible amazon.com items. So it's pretty easy to hit the minimum if you throw in a couple of books or a hard drive.
I've used it and the first time I immediately saw benefit. Key awesome features include: intuitive design, really easy to share, and it's definitely something that could compete against a lot of photo apps out there that don't make it NATURAL to share and curate your photos.

Android soon?
The only conclusion is that Bitcoin generates more value than Facebook for it's users ;-)

To be honest I don't think you can compare a company and a market. I don't even know how you can estimate what is a "reasonable" price for a bitcoin ; since it's a finite resource it seems normal that the price would go up when more participants enter the system but I don't know of how much.
Now you're just being lazy :) The articles above are simply the first that popped up. Look around a bit and I'm sure you can find the same stories on sites that better suit your particular political bent.

If you're intent on nitpicking, then I think the likely answer to your question is that the CIA openly runs a large and mature weaponized drone program using vehicles that are outfitted by the CIA but owned (in a procurement sense) by the USAF, with the weapon triggers actually pulled (per law) by USAF service members.

If the CIA wanted to keep this program secret then they're doing a shitty job. For example, look up the things that Lean Panetta has said about his program over the last few years.
So then why are you surprised?
This isn't a normal thing in North America and seems like you are a fan of the service, so the funding is justified. Maybe it's an obvious concept but it's not developed here.
Thank you so much for the kind words. We're working on way better automatic photo beautifiers (scene/face detection + automatic cropping).
Training to failure increases sarcoplasmic hypertrophy (makes muscles bigger by storing more sarcoplasm, but doesn't increase strength since sarcoplasm is a liquid that doesn't contract (read: impart strength)).

If you're at the low end of your BMI range, training to failure helps you get gains to look less like a labor camp inmate.

Training not-to-failure increases myofibrillar hypertrophy which is more strength related (increases muscle fibers, which actually contract and control strength).

Now, training to-failure isn't 100% sarcoplasmic. You will get stronger training to failure, just not as fast as training not-to-failure. But, training not-to-failure won't fill out the arm holes of your t-shirts.

A good starter plan to look solid: two months of to-failure, then back off and do two months of almost-to-failure (within 2-3 reps of failure, but never failing), then finish up with two months of never more than half way to failure.

Training to-failure gives your muscles a more "puffy" look (because they are filled with the liquid sarcoplasm—the key ingredient in sarcasm). Training not-to-failure makes muscles more dense giving you the appearance of being more cut.

More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy

Or you can say to hell with weight training and just become a gymnast.
Interesting I have not seen any mention of InBloom - since they are both a standard API for School, and unlike Clever, an open standard. And they already interoperate with SIF.
Wow, really beautifully done. Simple, elegant, useful, and fun.
" … hosted on my own vps … "

Might want to think through whether that really counts as "your own". Who's got hypervisor access to the hardware? Any keys or passphrases that ever hit the disk or memory on someone else's hardware should (at least at some levels of paranoia) be considered "possibly compromised".

(I store "sensitive stuff" on AWS/DigitalOcean/other-vps-providers, but only if it's first encrypted locally and the key/passphrase never gets used/stored on the vps. EncFS works pretty well dealing with that for me... I do, though, "trust" 1Passwords datafile encryption enough to take advantage of the iOS/MacOSX sync features they've implemented over Dropbox. That's possibly not achoice I'd make i I thought I were a target of someone like the NSA.)
> leading the peaceful transition of his nation

This point deserves more expounding, which I'm not qualified to write. Apartheid was brutal, and the victims suddenly became the majority in a democracy. It's the sort of situation where you'd expect an eternal cycle of vengeance. But there wasn't one. There was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and probably other things, and then there was peace. There are few achievements in history to which this can be compared.
Houston doesn't currently handle that natively, but it just so happens I wrote a script that handles migrating (or at least downloading) for you recently. See https://github.com/AlexeyMK/meteor-download
I think you're making a lot of assumptions about who their target demographic is. Maybe it's not the guy who has time to run to the store in the afternoon, but the mom I know using Amazon Prime because taking two kids to the store is a huge time-consuming pain. My company also used AmPrime to order snacks rather than using our exclusively skilled staff to run errands.

It might not be right for everyone, but for those who have lots of money and little time it's a great service.
You made a well designed front page. The colours are nicely fitting and the logo is great it associated with some kind of food immediately (made me think of spring rolls or something like that)! Just wanted to say that after a day of repeatedly stumbling upon extremely annoying hip, identical, scroll-untill-you-die sites, yours made me smile a little. And now I'm hungry.
Thanks! Yeah, it's always tough. FWIW, Drew Houston is pretty cool too.
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Well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr
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Couple of additions:

1 - plain username/password

If you have an API call for logging the user in with a username & password which only your app should use, and you're (very) paranoid about someone else using that call, consider using a client SSL certificate.

Securing the request via a client SSL certificate will prevent the replication of that request by another app unless they go to the lengths required to actually disassemble your app.

2 - token generation

In the OAuth implementation for the system I'm currently working on, we decided to simply encrypt the ID of the row (plus a salt) for that access token, rather than generating a random string.

This has two benefits:

- it is extremely fast to look up the access token in the database, since we're using the primary key, rather than searching for a string

- no possibility of collisions

If this is a flawed approach, please let me know. We're using AES & are encrypting "AccessToken" + ID, so replay attacks from other encrypted data aren't possible.
South Korea is afraid of sudden/violent collapse of the NK regime for such reasons, but South Koreans are overall in favor of eventual peaceful reunification (though I think enthusiasm for reunification is fading somewhat over time, as those with personal connections to people in NK die)....
That's part of the point. A single man -- even one who has engaged in violence -- can create peace in a situation where revenge is natural. In fact I wonder if his past willingness to use violence when he thought it justified is what gave him the credibility to say "it's not justified now" at the critical moment.
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Congratulations on the launch! The app looks beautiful and the fact that it automatically does all of this for you is pretty cool. Anyway, I was wondering, are you guys funded at all? You seem to have a pretty big team. Just curious!
Although I can't speak from experience, I think building something useful and collaborating with others on projects might help you the same, if not more, than a certificate.
Let me explain a little better -- I completely get how to handle token based / API key authentication over REST. That's pretty straightforward... but in order for the client to get the API Key, they have to sign up, log in, potentially activate the token, or at least visit a page that gives them the token, and then they can use that token for subsequent API transactions.

My question revolves around how one secures the username/password authentication over REST for those initial phases.

I've been just handling traditional logins in the old client/server, non-REST model, and then, on login, setting a cookie with the token, that I then use to authenticate the other application interactions.

For username/password over REST, is SSL good enough? I don't know, and I've never wanted to guess and be wrong. I've looked it up a couple of times, but advice on the subject ranges broadly between "don't ever do that" and "sure, it's fine."
Thank you, all credit goes to our amazing team: http://www.hey.co/about
Pixter (http://pixter.in/), if you mainly deal with images.

I, too, would like an app like the one you're talking about. Maybe something that plugs into Dropbox.
Whether it lasts is another story—but their meteoric growth is definitely worth studying.
Here's an interesting example of where time to market really matters. I've had Memoir since upgrading to iOS7, and I'm pretty happy with it. So it feels like you're late to the party by several months. Bit of a bummer since it sounds like you put a lot of effort in.

Conversely, when Memoir came out, they couldn't handle their anticipated scale, but they got their foot in the door. Seems to be a good case for "just shipping it".
Thank you! We did raise a seed round from some investors. It was $2M and from a bunch of people: https://angel.co/hey
Except it is you who is projecting his value system over who you are responding to. Nobody implied 'violence' was wrong in this context, violence is at many times necessary and was so in mandela's case, he had to do what he had to do to achieve progress, and when it wasn't necessary he did, but when it was he did as well.

We cannot allow people to only paint him as peaceful completely simply because non-violent struggle is not what brought about long-term peace. Both did.
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Yeah, on further research, I think I'll just get a super-automatic litter box. It's not just when they're older; it's when they're at a vet, in transit, etc.
Note you've just described inline caching [1]. A big research topic in the 90s, I'm sure this is pretty much a non-issue these days.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_caching
It doesn't matter to Amazon one bit. Amazon is probably going to open stores in various locations anyways which would make them have to collect taxes in those states.

The difference is that now sites like Newegg, which are completely online, will have to start charging and reporting taxes to states that mandate it. It's also a big deal that an individual state can regulate interstate commerce.
This is sort of off-topic, but I think it's still HN relevant and might be helpful.

The WOT (web-of-trust) plugin rates your site as untrustworthy. But the rating shows some crazy IP-based russian spam site from a year ago. I'm new to WOT so I don't understand--is this rating due to too-broad-a-wildcard in the system, or due to previous use of the site owner, or something else? (I'm hoping someone more familiar with WOT jumps in and explains what's going on here.)

In any case I rated it trustworthy on WOT so hopefully that percolates through the system eventually.
Bitcoin will not change the entire financial world, and I am saying this as someone who owns some and tried using it as an actual currency.

- Waiting 1-2 hours for a transaction is unacceptable. Don't tell me about oddballs like Namecheap that sells products that are free to copy and can be revoked at any time.

- Getting money in and out is a hassle and doesn't seem to get better. Who is to say next week the US doesn't ban exchanges from allowing you to cash in or out? It already happened to Mtgox.

- When I tried to get people to pay with Bitcoins, they were all turned off by how slow it is to get money in and to perform a transaction.

Another crypto-currency might solve these problems, but it won't be Bitcoin. I doubt many of the speculators today have ever tried buying and selling things with it and use it only to get rich.
That's cool. I use Memoir too, and it's a great app. I think you'll find that Heyday does things a little differently and is good for other use cases, like traveling or keeping a journal.
Rest in peace Mr. Mandela, most of us can't imagine devoting ourselves to a cause for 27 years, for others. Your startup was freedom for all, no technology can compare.
Is Paul going to put the black bar up on Hacker News?
This comment converted me to download the app. I'd strongly suggest making this more clear in your product's description! :)
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Thank you so much for the lovely compliment :)
Well, this isn't in my area, but I'd be all over it. First off, I live in a city center, and I'm single. I walk to the grocery store and carry everything I buy, so I typically go twice a week and spend about $50 each time. It takes about 45min to walk to the store, shop, walk back, and unload groceries.

If this is $300/yr, that means I have to decide between going to the store myself, or paying $2.88 for amazon to deliver my groceries every few days. $2.88 to avoid putting on pants, interrupting my workflow, walking to and from the store, and waiting in line. That seems like a deal I'd take.

Then again, when I go to the grocery store, I usually walk to the bakery, market, etc. Plus, being forced to leave the house, wear pants, and interact with human beings has some advantages. Sometimes I get too comfortable being at home, and the fear of starvation is good motivation to get fresh air.
The whole website looks far from professional and well funded...
I don't consider being on my phone to really be an archive. People change phones, etc. Looks awesome but I wouldn't seriously use it if I couldn't export the data--in whatever degraded form--to a standard format. Frankly some sort of PDF export would be fine.
You could make such a list for Volkswagen, Boeing, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, or any successful company. Business evolves, and product lines are a part of that.
That makes sense. It doesn't scale terribly well because as you get more than maybe an hour from the central location by car/truck you can't expand further.

It also doesn't solve the problem of needing to have the customer fill out the form which scares tons of them away. It's either got to be signed in front of one of the company's employees, or notarized. Neither of which makes it easy for a company to grow.

It also means that you're still fairly tied down. Yeah a metro area is much larger than a single zip code, but it's definitely not a nationwide rollout in any kind of reasonable timeframe.
That's a rather inaccurate way to describe it!
I actually just wrote a bit about that :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6858572

> is SSL good enough

In my opinion, no.

It will protect the password from potential MITM attack (assuming the user hasn't accepted a bad SSL certificate & you are checking that the cert is valid).

However, if someone MITMs your app for the purpose of reverse engineering, they will very easily see that the username/password API call is available & there will be nothing tangibly stopping them from using it.

By using a client SSL certificate in addition to the normal server-side SSL for 'restricted endpoints', other apps will not be able to replicate the request & it will also not be visible even in MITM attacks where the certificate is trusted.

If the private key for your client SSL certificate is leaked/found/reverse engineered/disassembled though, that protection is gone. Assuming it is actually compiled into your binary though, this is not trivial.
If you're male, and particularly if you're a single male, you should check out Chart 5 which is the actual cost curve by age as calculated by Society for Actuaries in 2013. Before ACA you would pay based on cost...

Based on the data in that report, females consume ~33% more health care than males from age 20 - 65. But under ACA men and women pay the same amount (men subsidize women). That seems mighty chivalrous. More specifically, it's a very significant financial penalty for single men, and doubly so for men who marry men.

If you sum up health care costs for men versus women Age 0 - 64 (See Chart 28: Group PPO/POS data for calendar year 2010) you get $252k per man versus $309k per woman. I'm not sure I quite understand the justification why every man should be paying an extra $28,500 (on average) so that every woman can pay $28,500 less (on average) for their health care?

Interesting to consider... Given the demographics of most startups (young single men) and how ACA has a double sucker punch against being young and male... male dominated startups who want to offer insurance will be paying a hell of a lot more -- around 50% more to insure a team of 25 year old single men under ACA's pricing regime.
This would be more attractive if Amazon Fresh weren't completely unreliable--it's often out of stock of the products I want. I must throw my recipie plan in the trash on a regular basis. Whole Foods or PCC it is most definitely not.
I got the biggest smile on my face when I saw pictures I had already taken get pulled into your app right after launching for the first time. It was so easy to add a note to pictures I had already taken. Immediate engagement win.

By the way, your sign-up introduction flow is awesome. I love how all the permissions I granted (location, photos) had context as to why I gave them. That's a huge deal, since most apps just ask for what they need on immediate startup and I always get really annoyed. More apps should emulate this design!

Awesome work!
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Oh, it could be much worse. The first website of SpaceX was, IMO, with questionable design.
Or put another way: when they open their mouth just assume they are lying or at best stretching the truth for their special definition of the word.