Motorola Announces the New Moto X - <AUTHOR> http://www.anandtech.com/show/8491/the-new-moto-x-intial-impressions-and-hands-on

<comment><USER2> That sucks, the Moto X was the only high-end Android of a reasonable size.

So what's left for someone who wants an Android with good specs, not too big, and not tainted by manufacturer poop?

<comment><USER3> God, yes. I chose the Moto X earlier this year exactly because of its screen size. At 4.7 inches, it's still a little too large for my tastes. I think 4 inches is ideal. But 5.2 is way too big, and I won't be upgrading to the Gen 2 Moto X.

I think those of us with human-sized hands have to take a step down to mid- range phones to get a decent sized phone, even if we're willing to spend the money for high-end specs. I was really hoping Motorola would corner the reasonably-sized market, but I guess they're just jumping on the phablet train with everybody else.

<comment><USER4> count me on as well.

i endured with my nexus one until last year (4yrs!) because no flag ship phone could be used with one hand.

i finally gave up for a moto x and i can barely press the top left corner without moving my hold.

<comment><USER5> I find this comment confusing. Do you hold the phone in your palm?

I use my fingers to support my Nexus 5 and have no trouble reaching any of the corners.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Sigh, another disposable phone with the planned obsolesce due to kick in at around 700 charges.

You'd think if they bothered to let you have a dozen designer backplates they might got the extra mile and let you change the battery.

<comment><USER7> I just read the iFixIt article on changing a Moto X (current model) battery. It requires 25 steps and 5 specialty tools such as a spudger, a T3 torx screwdriver, micro sim extractor, etc. You have to heat the back to weaken the adhesive. It's hard to imagine a service center doing all this manual work at a fee low enough to make it worthwhile.

I'd like a phone where you can pop out the battery in 2 seconds, like a typical point-and-shoot camera can. For that matter, I want a memory slot as per a camera. I can live with an extra couple of mm of thickness and have a less-sexy handset in exchange for vastly expanded longevity and capacity. Am I in such a tiny minority?

<comment><USER8> Buy mid range phones from Aliexpress or similar. My latest phone was about $250 - a Kingzone K1 -, and is an octa-core MTK based phone (so per core performance is not stellar, but more than good enough unless you're doing heavy 3D stuff), 2GB RAM, 16GB flash, SD card slot, 5.5" 1080p IPS display.

Pretty much all of these phones are thin (7mm or so for my current one), decent to great build quality (my current one has a metal back plate), and easily replaceable battery. Most of them also have dual SIM slots.

There are some things to look out for, like bad sellers and models with poor GPS (MTK phones are notorious for that - my current model works great).

The increased risks and increased hassle if having to deal with returns is more than compensated for by the prices. I'm pretty much expecting to replace my phone up to once a year on average at that price. In practice, my 3 last phones have all been good quality and I've had few problems (GPS being the only issue...)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> I broke my nexus 5 AND my old nexus 4 in the span of 4 days while traveling in Hong Kong. I am seriously considering getting this when I return to the US later this month.

The only thing that bothers me now is that the nexus 5 is already a little big, and this is even bigger (4.95" vs 5.2"). Unfortunately my hands don't grow as fast as phones anymore.

I wonder if this is something I can get use to though, since everyone in Asia is using giant phones, and I did feel the nexus 4 a little small for the 4 days I was using it again.

</comment><comment><USER10> Is Google still planning to release a new Nexus phone later this year?

</comment><comment><USER11> I'm an existing Moto X user. I guess I'm in the minority here. I like it in _spite_ of its small size, not because of it.

The bigger screen on the new model is a good thing, IMO. I can still one-hand most everything and the only thing I need to reach the top left corner for can usually be accomplished with a swipe from the left. Better resolution, more screen real estate, still manageable size. What's not to love?

(If you've got small hands, I feel for ya, but just buy something else. Don't hate on Moto for appealing to the larger market preference.)

<comment><USER12> _If you 've got small hands, I feel for ya, but just buy something else._

You mean... _normal_ hands? I have fairly average-sized hands (as determined by the highly scientific method of having compared hand sizes with many friends over the years), and the Nexus 4 with its 4.7" screen is uncomfortably large. I can reach the top left corner with my right thumb, but I always feel like I'm going to drop the phone when I do it.

<comment><USER11> You chopped off my next sentence which was the point of my post.

Anyway, I just did a run around the office and with a sample of 12, I'm tentatively concluding that I have average-size adult male hands. The way I hold my MotoX, I can hit the top left if I have to. (Again--I wonder how often people actually have to, assuming they know to left swipe for the most common use case.)

Investigating more--without realizing it until now, the way I hold the phone I actually adjust my grip on it to hit the far _bottom_ left. I even adjust my grip slightly for the back button. It's still a one handed thing. You train yourself, withing limits, to adjust as needed. (I'm left-handed. Perhaps I should start complaining that no one designs a UI for us.) It's still very usuable and it's not a big sacrifice _if you appreciate a bigger screen,_ like most people apparently do. If people didn't like bigger screens, manufacturers wouldn't be steadily bumping sizes up. I assume the market (i.e., actual sales) will correct the error when they go too big.

<comment><USER12> Your next sentence wasn't particularly useful, as there _aren 't_ any other choices. If I want what I consider a reasonably-sized phone (~4.2"), I have to settle for something with crap specs.

I use a few apps that poorly implement the top-left button such that left- swiping doesn't do anything. Sigh.

Yeah, just playing with mine, and noting how I readjust my grip to do various things. I just always feel like I'm about to drop my phone when I have to do that.

And I just realized: I've _never_ dropped and broken the screen on a phone until I got my Nexus 4 (which I've broken 3 times). My Nexus One and Nexus S lived happily break-free (well, ok, my S broke because someone [accidentally] violently elbowed it out of my hand, but that's hardly due to the size of the phone).

We'll see if the market "fixes" this. I'm skeptical, as phones have been larger than my preference for at least 2 years now, and they're still growing.

<comment><USER11> As I alluded to in my first post, if the trend of "bigger is better" doesn't work for you or your hands, I feel for ya. I really do. These are devices we use constantly so it is good to invest time to find something that works well for you. (I'm preaching to the choir here, I'm sure.)

Small flagship phones might be hard to find (although the Moto X was never top-of-the-line in specs either), but they are quality options out there, admittedly more in the 4.7-inch range than 4.2. The just-announced Galaxy Alpha might be one to look at. As is the new Sony Z3 Compact. Probably others too, but I haven't followed the market super-closely. Good luck!

<comment><USER12> Thanks for the well-wishes. The Z3 Compact ("compact"? really?) is 4.6", but I'm expecting if I want a phone with reasonable specs, I'm going to be stuck with something like that. Oof.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> I'm glad to see the bump up to 1080p. I know some people don't care of think it matters, but I would just love this to be standard. It would make things a lot easier on Developers to have only a few different resolutions to worry about.

<comment><USER14> Shame that some are already moving to a new resolution - 1440p - isn't it? And next year, some will adopt 4k in smartphones. Why would they do that, it doesn't matter. What matters is that they will.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> Great, another 5.2 inch phone like everyone else.

<comment><USER16> the Xperia Z3 Compact looks like a nice option for a hand sized phone: [http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/3/6097817/the- xperia-z3-compa...](http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/3/6097817/the- xperia-z3-compact-is-sonys-true-new-flagship-phone) And no, I don't work for Sony.

<comment><USER12> I find it ridiculous that 4.6" is considered "compact". I clicked the link hoping for something around 4".

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> Not sure I can keep hold of something that big to be honest without dropping it and smashing it.

I think a 4.5 - 4.7 is about my limit.

<comment><USER18> Observing the sameish discussions over the years, that size limit preference you are talking about seems to be steadily rising.

I'd hypothesize that if you analyzed tweets and comments about screen sizes, the ideal screen size per year would look something like this:

2011: 4.0 inch

2012: 4.3 inch

2013: 4.5 inch

2014: 4.8 inch

2015: 5.0 inch (projected)

2016: (median size for high end phones in 2015)

Eventually we'll get to something that is the most practical in use. I think 4.7 inch is pretty good, but of course I'm biased towards my current phone, and I'll probably update my preference with my next phone.

<comment><USER3> I have a Moto X at 4.7 inches and it's a little too big for comfort. It's usable, and you do get used to the size, but I can't reach the top of the screen from every hand position. The HTC Incredible 4G I used to have, at 4 inches, remains my ideal screen size. Unfortunately, that means I have to compromise on performance, since there are now no reasonably-sized high end phones.

<comment><USER18> > I can't reach the top of the screen from every hand position.

Well, I think that is not a self-evident bad thing. As a result of Android and Windows Phone design guidelines, by far the most interactions happen on the bottom half of the screen. I think that as long as you can reach the notification bar, there's a pretty good argument to be made that the additional screen estate is more beneficial.

Furthermore, just because you're used to it on your current phone should not necessarily imply that you _need_ it on your next. That is a line of reasoning I'm also seeing a lot, but that just sounds like people being conservative to me. It's a fine preference to have, but such a slightly different way of using a new phone may not always be a bad thing either.

I'm not arguing that bigger screens are better, but I don't think that there are clear objective constraints to screen size. You could even wonder why people think one-handed usability is important at all.

<comment><USER4> wrong.

the top left corner is very high on usage. on newer android without the menu button, the top right is very high too.

now, android added lots of unsatisfactory work arounds for the very fact that almost everyone can't reach those corners. such as sliding from the left to simulate the top left corner touch. or even the failed fire phone with screen tilt to do the same.

it's all lame work arounds for the problem. the real solution is smaller screen sizes.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> Even bigger phone, just great.

Edit: there are 7 comments now, and _all_ complained about the bigger size. That means something, doesn't it?

<comment><USER20> It probably means they're iPhone owners, and that they swear they won't get the bigger of the two iPhone 6 models. That is, until they discover that they can, in fact, adapt to a slightly larger phone, as everyone in Asia has already realized.

I thought allegory's comment that 4.5-4.7" is the limit was particularly funny. Was that limit chosen specifically so that the smaller of the iPhone 6 models won't break that limit, but pretty much all high-end android phones do? I don't know, but it's awfully convenient.

<comment><USER21> Instead of bending everything to fit your wished narrative so you can be dismissive why don't you actually read the comments or ask them?

Many of them, like myself, use "last years" flagships that were in the 4.7" range (e.g. I have an HTC M7) and don't want the screen size bump.

But I guess "lol iSheep" is easier and makes you feel superior.</comment></comment></comment>


Show HN: Pino – Open source web app for membership management - <AUTHOR> https://pinomembers.com <comment><USER2> I feel like this needs a bit more polish before you start telling users it is ready. I see double menus, random logouts, and a bare bones feature set. Basically just a list of users with ability to send emails?

</comment><comment><USER3> Wouldn't be more appropriate to describe this as a drupal plugin / extension?

Also, why would a extension / plugin cost monthly for CRUD type application? What kind of support do you provide?

<comment><AUTHOR> The term that Drupal uses for these "full website" packages are "distributions": [https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/distributions](https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/distributions)

The monthly cost is mainly for support, hosting and email delivery. The support includes security updates for server and Drupal libraries, customer support via email and helping with import / export of member data (of course, due to GDPR and sensitive contact information, a processing agreement has to be signed and agreed upon)

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Is there a repository (like an awesome-* list) of open-source self-hosted appliance apps like this? I'm sure there's an awesome-drupal list, but I'm thinking more like a list that might also include this and Discord.

Edit: I meant Discourse. and I also answered my own question: [https://github.com/unicodeveloper/awesome-opensource- apps](https://github.com/unicodeveloper/awesome-opensource-apps)

<comment><USER5> +1, a repository with proper indexing would be nice, but also a place where people can request such applications or find contributors.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> Does the demo reset? Clicking around trying stuff resulted in the landing page showing not found?

Worth disabling the [https://demo.pinomembers.com/admin/structure/member/settings](https://demo.pinomembers.com/admin/structure/member/settings) page for the demo perhaps?

<comment><AUTHOR> Yes, the site should reset every 15 minutes, please try again soon.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> Not to be confused with the relatively well-known JavaScript logging library called Pino.

<comment><USER8> It always baffles me when people don't do their research before releasing a project / product. A few months ago there was a guy releasing his own language called Flux...

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> In what format are the users stored? Is it just another custom database schema?

It's kind of pointless when it can't be integrated with bunch of other infrastructures that support common protocols like LDAP.

</comment><comment><USER10> 1\. anything similar in python?

2\. what is so special, about yet another membership management solution?

<comment><AUTHOR> 1\. There is at least Tendenci: [https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci](https://github.com/tendenci/tendenci)

2\. It's open source and Drupal 8-based, meaning it's easy to extend with current selection of Drupal modules and PHP libraries

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> > Pino is an open source web app built on Drupal

 _closes tab_

I do love me a hint of scandal, but the whole "thou shalt not BDSM in your spare time" thing is a major turnoff.

<comment><USER12> Can you provide more context about whatever you're talking about?

<comment><USER13> They are referring to this.

[https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/drupal-larry-garfield- gor.htm...](https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/drupal-larry-garfield-gor.html)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> > managing our associations' members with a spreadsheet program just wasn't > suitable and we needed something better and easier

ok... what about not reinventing the wheel and using something like LDAP[0] and one of its many, many UIs? How is this different from all the other solutions?

[0]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_P...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol)

<comment><USER9> I have been using OpenLDAP to manage users for like 10 years but what GUI/web based tool do you suggest for managing its data?

The only non complicated solution looks to be PHPLdapAdmin which I use but it is pretty much abandoned and a fork is keeping it alive.

<comment><USER14> Here's a new one (that I haven't personally used): [https://github.com/kakwa/ldapcherry](https://github.com/kakwa/ldapcherry)

<comment><USER9> You said many many UI but that one looks to be very basic which anyone can build in a day.

I really find it hard to manage LDAP without a intuitive clean UI and wonder why there aren't much demand for it.

<comment><USER15> Not really in a day.

You could probably hack something in day, hardcoding things like schemas, fields, and things like that.

But having something that is reusable requires more work than a day.

Just as an example, even handling ssl/tls is far from trivial (plain ssl vs startls, with certificate validation or not, with a custom CA or not), it took me easily a few days to understand the options python-ldap provides, expose the options in a clear manner in the config file, deal with errors to provide meaningful logs and properly test everything.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> This site can't be reached: demo.pinomembers.com unexpectedly closed the connection.

</comment><comment><USER16> Is the domain name a play on GoMembers?

<comment><AUTHOR> Hah, actually not, never heard of GoMembers before. I of course wanted to have as short url as possible, but "pino" with all common TLDs were taken. So putting "members" to the end seemed to make sense to me.

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> User / pass doesn't work.

<comment><AUTHOR> Heh, someone decided to be funny and changed it. It should be fixed, please try again.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> looks like bulma css</comment>


Ask HN: How are game remasters made? - <AUTHOR> Do the devs need to rewrite the game? Or is the source code there and waiting to be compiled again with newly made graphics?<p>Obviously the answer is partly "it depends", but interested to hear some facts. <comment><USER2> Usually, porting it to an improved version of the engine.

When the game is in development the engine is branched and changes happen to accommodate the new game, if you are good about keeping the engine separate from the game then the branch is just to keep things stable, but you'll always have to customise it a little.

Your engine team keep working on the engine for new games, graphics improve, optimisations for new hardware, lighting, etc;etc;etc;

What you need to do is go through all the old content and ensure it has higher resolution bitmaps for all textures, and then port it to the new engine. It sounds simple, but it's really not.

P.S: I work for ubisoft but I have never been involved with a game remaster, so this is just my perception of how it would be done.</comment>


Shai Agassi's Feb 2009 TED talk: "A new ecosystem for electric cars" - <AUTHOR> http://www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html

<comment><AUTHOR> "Better Place" went on to lose almost $1bn

<comment><USER2> 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.</comment></comment>


Ask HN:social print studio makes $40 million profit per year? - <AUTHOR>

I have a friend who personally knows the founder of http://socialprintstudio.com/, a website where you can get all your fb, instagram, pinterest pics printed on nice paper.
He claims that they make $40 million profit/year.  I took a look at the company and feel like this claim is totally preposterous. Last year facebook had about $53 million in profit (I know it's a different industry but that is A LOT of profit.)
This company is bootstrapped and has 10 employees.  They make all their sales online yet their shop ranks in the top hundreds of thousands of websites on the internet which is not very high for their purported profits.
I don't believe they ship internationally, yet the country from which the 2nd greatest amount of visits come from is India (they SF based), which is 1/3 of the traffic from america where the most visits come from.
He says they outsource all the printing to China.
Doing the math, and let's say they have a 20% profit margin, that means they make $200 million/yr in revenue.  Assuming the average purchase is $20, that means they sell 10 million goods a year, or roughly 30,000 goods/day.
Is there any possibility that this claim is true?  I put together a top 50,000 website a few months ago and I get about 23k uniques/day.  There's no way this company sells 30,000 goods/day based on their much lower web traffic. <comment><USER2> Even if your friend's numbers are off by an order of magnitude it is an interesting thought experiment to try to reverse engineer the business.

According to SPS' FAQ customers receive product within "4 to 10 business days." Let us assume the partner in China ships directly to the end customer. SPS has one shipping price for all orders - $6 - which seems cheap for international so for simplicity let's assume SPS makes no profit on shipping.

Their cheapest products -- Mini Squares and Prints -- are both $15 for a set of 48. Each is roughly the equivalent of 4 sheets of 8.5" x 11". If the cost per sheet of glossy thick 8.5" x 11" cardstock is about $0.05 and the cost to print, cut, package and prep for shipping is $0.05 then the cost to print an order is ~ $0.50.

Let's use $10M for their annual revenue. If their average order is $25 (including $6 for shipping) that's 400,000 orders.

$25 (gross revenue) - $6 (shipping) - $0.50 (printing & prep) = $18.50.

x 400k orders = $7.4 million

Let's say each employee costs $100k/year. They have 10 employees, so now SPS is left with $6.4 million.

Their next highest costs might be: marketing, office space, servers, employee computers and professional services e.g. attorney. Add to that other costs of doing business like chargebacks and returns, and call it another $1 million in annual expenses.

Even if I am now overestimating actual profit by an order of magnitude, the founders or investors of SPS are still doing well. This in a market I would have bet was oversaturated. But most startups competing in this space probably do not think to run their supply chain and distribution from China. Not to mention the other areas of the business that SPS appears to be executing nicely on.

</comment><comment><USER3> Take it from the founder himself:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6039053](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6039053)

(I believe he's the founder)

<comment><USER4> Well... that wouldn't make them $40m annually.

<comment><USER5> Nope. By his numbers ("growing six-figure monthly revenues"), they would max at $12m in _revenue_ annually. Profits will be substantially lower.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> No there is no way they make $40 M/yr profit with 10 employees.

That would make them more successful than Craig's List which remarkably manages to earn $3.3 M (Revenue) per employee per year.</comment>


Move Over Instapaper And Pocket: DotDotDot Adds Notes, Tags And Comments - <AUTHOR> http://www.cultofmac.com/221894/move-over-instapaper-and-pocket-dotdotdot-adds-notes-tags-and-comments-opinion/

<comment><USER2> ...and you present this with a site that doesn't let me zoom in on an iPad, or change the font size? A site that eats into my precious screen real estate with ads, borders, useless menus and useless two-column layout that I can't control? That forces silly pagination?

Call me back when you start thinking about _my_ reading comfort, like Instapaper does.

<comment><USER3> Are you talking about cultofmac.com?

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I converted to Pocket from Instapaper myself. There is a reason I like Pocket though, it's simple, I don't need to think about notes, tags, comments and social crap. It's a 'read it later' service, if I really wanted to have notes, tags etc then I would just use Evernote directly which has those features. With quotes like "It's not polished" and "frankly it's pretty confusing to use" why would I even consider it?

<comment><USER5> Maybe because you have ebooks and webtexts finally in one place? And Evernote actually has no social reading features. It´s an early version and not a 50 million users product.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> 2 things I don't need and 1 that Pocket already provides...all from a site that sucks on mobile...

Can't say I'm all that impressed.

Pocket has been Wonderful so far.

</comment><comment><USER7> No Android, no sale.</comment>


The VC Firms Most Exposed To Web 2.0 - <AUTHOR> http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/the-20-vc-firms-most-exposed-to-web-20

<comment><USER2> I can't believe they expect us to click through 21 pages. Can someone just copy and paste the list here?

<comment><USER3> I'm redownloading our entire SVN repository, so I have some time to kill. Here you go:

The venture capital industry is getting hammered by the stock market collapse. IPOs are choked off, and the M&A market is sick, too. Worse, advertising dollars are shrinking just as a whole generation of Web 2.0 companies expecting to live on "advertising" need to start generating revenue.

So VCs were idiots to dump all that money into flaky Web 2.0 companies, right?

Actually, no--because, believe it or not, they didn't really put that much money into them.

We've ranked the 20 VC firms most exposed to "Web 2.0" startups, according to data from the VC Experts Key Investment Trends database. (We defined "Web 2.0" as advertising-supported startups founded after Google's IPO). After scanning this list, you'll see that even the VC firms that plunked the most money down on the RockYous and Metacafes actually bet very little on the era.

The bottom line: Web 2.0 won't be a disaster, because investors just didn't invest that much in it. Why didn't they? Because Web 2.0 companies just didn't require much capital.

The top 20 Web 2.0 VC firms combined only invested about $726 million in the sector. Compare that to the recent $2 billion loss a single investment bank sustained in a single quarter (Goldman Sachs). Also compare it to some Web 1.0 companies like WebVan and Exodus, which incinerated billions all by themselves.

Here are the 20 VCs most exposed to Web 2.0.

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#20: Highland Capital Partners LLC

Total Amount: $21 million

Deals: 5

Portfolio Companies:

Going, Inc. (fka: HeyLetsGo, Inc.)

Metacafe, Inc.

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#19: Polaris Venture Partners

Total Amount: $23 million

Deals: 7

Portfolio Companies:

ChipIn, Inc.

JibJab Media, Inc.

Modelinia, Inc.

Plinky, Inc.

V Kernel Corporation

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#18: U.S. Venture Partners

Total Amount: $23 million

Deals: 10

Portfolio Companies:

Insider Guides, Inc.

myYearbook.com

Piczo, Inc.

Winster, Inc.

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#17: Oak Investment Partners

Total Amount: $23 million

Deals: 3

Portfolio Companies:

Rearden Commerce (fka: Talaris Corporation)

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#16: Greylock Partners

Total Amount: $23 million

Deals: 9

Portfolio Companies:

Red Bend Software, Inc. (fka: Emony, Ltd.)

Social Gaming Network, Inc.

WildTangent, Inc.

Cape Clear Software, Inc.

Apptio, Inc.

Facebook, Inc. (aka: facebook.com)

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#15: Redpoint Ventures

Total Amount: $24 million

Deals: 10

Portfolio Companies:

Buzznet, Inc.

Sparkplay Media

Gaia Interactive, Inc.

Vuze, Inc. (fka: Azureus, Inc.)

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#14: Mission Ventures

Total Amount: $24 million

Deals: 9

Portfolio Companies:

Slacker, Inc.

vMix Media, Inc.

#13: Union Square Ventures

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Total Amount: $25 million

Deals: 10

Portfolio Companies:

Zynga Game Network, Inc.

Twitter, Inc.

Meetup, Inc. (aka: Meetup.com)

Tumblr, Inc.

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#12: Spark Capital

Total Amount: $25 million

Deals: 8

Portfolio Companies:

Biosocia, Inc.

Buzzwire, Inc.

Tumblr, Inc.

Next New Networks, Inc.

Twitter, Inc.

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#11: New Enterprise Associates

Total Amount: $25 million

Deals: 5

Portfolio Companies:

Clearspring Technologies, Inc.

Play Hard Sports, Inc.

TidalTV, Inc.

Vuze, Inc. (fka: Azureus, Inc.)

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#10: Mohr Davidow Ventures

Total Amount: $26 million

Deals: 5

Portfolio Companies:

Fliptrack, Inc.

hi5 Networks, Inc.

Mantara, Inc.

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#9: DAG Ventures

Total Amount: $31 million

Deals: 11

Portfolio Companies:

ManiaTV Network, Inc.

Gaia Interactive, Inc.

Friendster, Inc.

MEVIO, Inc. (fka: PodShow, Inc.)

One True Media, Inc.

Pelago, Inc.

Metacafe, Inc.

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#8: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Total Amount: $35 million

Deals: 10

Portfolio Companies:

One True Media, Inc.

Pelago, Inc.

Friendster, Inc.

MEVIO, Inc. (fka: PodShow, Inc.)

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#7: Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Total Amount: $38 million

Deals: 22

Portfolio Companies:

abazab, Inc

aniBoom.com

Doppelganger, Inc. (fka: Evil Twin Studios, Inc.)

EatLime, Inc. (fka: YouSwap)

Eventful, Inc. (fka: EVDB, Inc.)

Kyte.tv, Inc. (aka: decentral.tv Corporation)

Nile Guide, Inc., The

Panraven, Inc.

Redux, Inc.

Yardbarker, Inc.

Brickfish.com

Meetup, Inc. (aka: Meetup.com)

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#6: JKB Capital

Total Amount: $44 million

Deals: 7

Portfolio Companies:

Novarra, Inc. (fka: InfoSpeed)

vMix Media, Inc.

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#5: Accel Partners

Total Amount: $56 million

Deals: 10

Portfolio Companies:

Raptr (fka: GXAl, Inc.)

RayV Technologies

SportsBLOGS, Inc.

UBIK.com, Inc.

Facebook, Inc. (aka: facebook.com)

Cape Clear Software, Inc.

Metacafe, Inc.

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#4: Benchmark Capital

Total Amount: $57 million

Deals: 18

Portfolio Companies:

FriendFeed, Inc.

New Relic, Inc.

Polyvore, Inc.

Next New Networks, Inc.

ManiaTV Network, Inc.

Gaia Interactive, Inc. (DBA: Gaia Online)

Friendster, Inc.

Metacafe, Inc.

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#3: Sequoia Capital

Total Amount: $62 million

Deals: 17

Portfolio Companies:

Challenge Online Games, Inc.

ImageShack Corporation

Sugar Publishing, Inc.

TokBox, Inc.

Widgetbox, Inc. (aka: PostApp, Inc.)

RockYou.com (fka: netPickle, Inc.)

MEVIO, Inc. (fka: PodShow, Inc.)

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#2: Ignition Partners

Total Amount: $65 million

Deals: 7

Portfolio Companies:

Blowtorch Entertainment Corporation

Melodeo, Inc.

Apptio, Inc.

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#1: DCM

Total Amount: $76 million

Deals: 11

Portfolio Companies:

eCast, Inc.

Outspark, Inc. (aka: Outspark.com)

PlayFirst, Inc.

Brickfish.com

RockYou.com (fka: netPickle, Inc.)

<comment><USER2> Interesting. The firms high up on the list are as a rule also the most admired in the Valley. Esp. Sequoia, Benchmark, and Accel. So to the extent this list is accurate, Web 2.0 actually seems to be a good bet. I'd be much more worried if the top firms were all investing in methane plants or Chinese shopping centers.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Is this the same thing as "The 20 VC Firms with the most Money Invested in Internet Companies"?</comment>


Docker Hub Two-Factor Authentication - <AUTHOR> https://www.docker.com/blog/designing-docker-hub-2fa/ <comment><USER2> I really wish places like Docker Hub and package managers (pip, npm, apt, etc) would articulate the edges of their security boundaries better.

Like, can I expect that every docker image I pull has been audited for at least obvious and intentional backdoors? What about if I update a trusted image, and some time down the line the original posters account is breached? Has the code had an in-depth audit that at-least indicates that it's /somewhat/ resilient to being poked with a sharp stick?

2Factor at least improves security, but my security model must still rely on the Dockerfile maintainer not getting breached - I've never met any of the maintaners, and cannot independently verify their operational security at all.

I know there's at least some foil covering my hair right now, but the security of these kinds of services means anyone who's using them is effectively building a whole bunch of infrastructure right on top of a handful of houses of cards.

If anyone has any solutions that would solve this, I'd be interested in hearing and maybe implementing them. I've long thought of some sort of centralized community driven independent code-review/pentest notes to at least provide some level of assurance, but I don't think there'd be enough interest to hit critical mass, and the project would just die out.

<comment><USER3> If this is your threat model, fork the repo with the Dockerfile and build it yourself.

<comment><USER2> That doesn't solve anything. I use countless docker images. My PII/other data of value is also stored on a bunch of hosts who I have no oversight or control over, I'm sure at least some of those rely on random fragments of code sourced from repos.

It'll only be a matter of time before there's a huge breach as a result of tainted software ending up in a popular docker build, github repo, or packaged into a mainstream Linux distro repo _.

_ I have no idea if distros inspect package source, last time I googled it, I couldn't find any indication either way.

<comment><USER3> > I use countless docker images

Which is why you need to build your own if this is the threat model.

> My PII/other data of value is also stored on a bunch of hosts who I have no > oversight or control over,

Correct, this is why companies perform security assessments of vendors before granting access to sensitive data, and have contracts in place that help hold the vendors accountable.

> I have no idea if distros inspect package source, last time I googled it, I > couldn't find any indication either way.

It would depend on the distro and maintainer of course, but I'd expect they do to some degree as their personal and professional reputations depend on it.

<comment><USER2> > Which is why you need to build your own if this is the threat model.

I am an individual, I cannot review every container I have control over, and version pinning might lead to unpatched publicly disclosed vulns. I could code review a few, but there's no way I could cover everything I run on my own. Add in $random_distro_packages and $random_git_clones and the ratio of review to functional use would be 10:1.

> Correct, this is why companies perform security assessments of vendors > before granting access to sensitive data, and have contracts in place that > help hold the vendors accountable.

I am an individual, I have virtually no control over which companies hold my data. Security in most medium to large organisations leaves a lot to be desired. I highly doubt project teams in large companies that don't care about security evaluate docker containers for security. I have no control over it, and laws in most/all countries to enforce professional negligence are toothless.

> It would depend on the distro and maintainer of course, but I'd expect they > do to some degree as their personal and professional reputations depend on > it.

That's awfully optimistic of you. Their reputation depends more on them delivering quality, functional releases in a timely manner. Larger distributions probably have some level of security audit but I don't know what level that is, and haven't seen any public details which indicate it, either.

<comment><USER4> well it seems you answered your own question.

There is a reason why security conscious software houses vendor (and vet some of ) their dependencies, despite being pain in the ass.

Some individuals have good opsec, most don't. And no repo for any language i know of does security audits on all it's contents. they might do for targeted libs like crypto or similar, or run some automated software that might find some edge cases, but I wouldn't put too much trust in general.

Generally speaking your safety lies in using popular libs, on the theory that if something bad happens there is higher chance of somebody noticing.

But situation is not good from security perspective.

Of course in proprietary world in my experience situation is even worse.

That said, Docker files are usually simple, and I have no difficulty in inspecting the ones I care for. I do however always clone their repos, so i can simply diff the differences, so keeping up with updates is not that big of a deal.

Of course you still have to trust upstream so ...

<comment><USER2> Not really, it's a bandaid that solves the immediate problem _for me_ but not even for my data. Even then it's not so much about 'my data' but more about herd immunity.

It'll only be so long until a major resource is poisoned that has severe outcomes for many organisations across the globe. Until that happens, status quo, I guess.

The current process of reviewing everything you use isn't maintainable, but outsourcing the reviewing is equally bad. My original post was _intending_ to ask for suggestions that solve the issue on a more widespread approach, but I guess either nobody understood me or nobody is interested.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Now I'm waiting for FIDO U2F key support. Also waiting on Cloudflare on doing it as well!

<comment><USER6> Same here. The only 2FA method I trust is FIDO U2F. If only sites would let me federate my authentication so I have one place to manage my tokens instead of having to manage them on each site.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> Can folks just build their own internal repo from scratch? Like use a docker file to build a base image?

<comment><USER8> Yes. You can say "FROM scratch" at the top of your Dockerfile to build an image from nothing (it's actually a no-op). You can also set up a docker registry using open source software not distributed as a docker image. There are several variants but the one I've had my eye on is Nexus OSS[1]. It can manage lots of things, not just Docker.

[1]: [https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository- oss](https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss)

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> I really like the mockups in this post. It's so rare that you see discussion of authentication UI/UX.

Speaking of, are there any UI/UX design resources (books, tutorials, blog posts, etc.) on for modern authentication flows (2FA, OAuth, etc.)?

I've been searching for a while and can't seem to find anything substantial. All the design discussion I can find is around protocols/handshakes/security, but nothing about UI/UX best practices and possibilities.

<comment><USER10> We did mockups for the whole ux for webauthn before implementation, to get the concept right:

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/webauthn- support/126454?u=falco](https://meta.discourse.org/t/webauthn- support/126454?u=falco)

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> I abandoned Docker Hub when the stopped allowing you to manually setup automated builds, but instead required that you link your GitHub account that gave them too many privileges. There really isn't a need for Docker Hub since they are many alternatives, including GitLab.

</comment><comment><USER12> TOTP is vulnerable to phishing.

U2F is not.

</comment><comment><USER3> This has nothing about designing the solution. Very misleading title.

<comment><USER13> Agreed, it's basically a feature announcement combined with a little bit of user-side how to.</comment></comment>


Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A - <AUTHOR> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/snowden-used-low-cost-tool-to-best-nsa.html <comment><USER2> To quote Julian Assange: "The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms (an increase in cognitive "secrecy tax") and consequent system-wide cognitive decline resulting in decreased ability to hold onto power as the environment demands adaption. Hence in a world where leaking is easy, secretive or unjust systems are nonlinearly hit relative to open, just systems. Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance."

<comment><USER3> Didnt wikileaks require staffers to sign an NDA?

[http://www.geek.com/news/wikileaks-hypocritical- confidential...](http://www.geek.com/news/wikileaks-hypocritical- confidentiality-agreement-1377913/)

<comment><USER4> Needing privacy/confidentiality doesn't mean you are necessarily evil...yet. It's almost certainly a sign that one is trying to concentrate power or keep it to oneself.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Gosh I love this statement from Snowden:

 _" Through his lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, Mr. Snowden did not specifically address the government's theory of how he obtained the files, saying in a statement: "It's ironic that officials are giving classified information to journalists in an effort to discredit me for giving classified information to journalists. The difference is that I did so to inform the public about the government's actions, and they're doing so to misinform the public about mine.""_

It's pretty on point. I'm going to believe he wrote it himself, as it's just the right amount of factual, snarky prose that I'd expect from a sysadmin!

</comment><comment><USER6> Contrary to the current HN title, the article points out:

 _Evidence presented during Private Manning's court-martial for his role as the source for large archives of military and diplomatic files given to WikiLeaks revealed that he had used a program called "wget" to download the batches of files. That program automates the retrieval of large numbers of files, but it is considered less powerful than the tool Mr. Snowden used._

So the tool wasn't wget. curl, perhaps?

<comment><USER7> Having done this type of work before for a legitimate purpose, it is almost certainly a python or perl script with a nice library in front of it that makes it easy to follow links.

wget is too brittle, not extensible enough, and not as maintainable as a nice python script.

<comment><USER8> Wget is also single threading which is a slow strategy to download pages.

<comment><USER9> that's what xargs -n _x_ is for

<comment><USER8> Can you elaborate?

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> [I can imagine some bureaucrat somewhere is saying]

 _Woah!_

 _You mean he could just automatically download without even using a browser?? And he didn 't need an expensive tool to do it? On a normal computer? People like that are dangerous, maybe we should be licensing that kind of knowledge..._

<comment><USER11> > maybe we should be licensing that kind of knowledge...

Or regulate it until it's illegal.

<comment><USER12> I'm sure Stephen Heymann and his ilk are working on a theory of how wget, curl, and some spiders are "burglarious tools."

<comment><USER13> In the Bradley Manning case, the prosecution laid a computer fraud charge on top of the espionage and other charges, based on Manning's use of wget.† They argued that, although Manning was authorized to access the files he disclosed, the fact that he used wget to download them constituted computer fraud, since he was not authorized to have wget on his computer.

†[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30...](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30/the- free-web-program-that-got-bradley-manning-convicted-of-computer-fraud/)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> The most newsworthy aspect of this post is that the NSA didn't compartmentalize their information. This spidering should have been impossible at the network level, even as an admin.

<comment><USER15> I used to work on software purchased by the DoD, and the amount of access control, logging, auditing, and other related security features required to fulfill the requirements was astounding.

I totally agree with you that the apparent openness of the intelligence networks information systems is the most newsworthy aspect of this. I don't think that journalists are really knowledgeable at all about intelligence community is supposed to handle compartmentalization. They think the NSA handles things just like they do at their paper.

(The sad part is that apparently, the journos are right.)

The problem of these loopholes allowing classified information to leak was exposed with Bradley Manning. Yet, even in that case, I didn't hear any calls from the press or public to see head further up the chain roll.

But, that should have been enough to highlight the holes in our networks. Apparently it wasn't, and exactly the same thing has happened again.

I want to see heads roll right up the chain for this lack of duty with respect to protecting our national secrets.

By the way, none of the above is intended to imply that I think what the NSA has been doing is legitimate. I am glad that Snowden came public with this information. However, how do we know that other, more critical secrets haven't been sold directly the the Chinese or North Koreans? We only found out about the Snowden leaks because he made them public.

<comment><USER16> It's worth noting that there was a _lot_ of noise about too much siloing in the intelligence community resulting in allowing 9/11\. Arguably, this kind of openness is a consequence of that.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> _Agency officials insist that if Mr. Snowden had been working from N.S.A. headquarters at Fort Meade, Md., which was equipped with monitors designed to detect when a huge volume of data was being accessed and downloaded, he almost certainly would have been caught._

This, to me, is the most laughable and amazing part of the article. How did they think they had any security at all if this was the case?

"He would have been caught, if he had done it right in front of us!"

<comment><USER18> They just want to point out that the majority of NSA employees and contractors can't leak documents the same way Snowden did.

<comment><USER19> Actually, he is _claiming_ they cannot do this. How, exactly, would we verify this claim? I'm sure he would have made the _claim_ that Snowden could not have done something like this before Snowden did it.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> The title is wrong. FTA, Bradley Manning used "wget" and Snowden a site scraper (maybe httrack?).

What's striking is how easy it was for him to get access to all these documents. It probably means that most of things we hear in the news is already old news for other big government / criminal organizations.

</comment><comment> vezzy-fnord The media appears to be fascinated with wget for some reason. Perhaps it's the allure of command-line utilities in a society where such interfaces are seen by the vast majority of people as arcane, or stigmatized as ones used by computer criminals.

The Post did an article on Manning and wget back in July 2013: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30...](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/07/30/the- free-web-program-that-got-bradley-manning-convicted-of-computer-fraud/)

</comment><comment><USER21> What an annoying website. I can't pinchzoom. When I double tab, it (after a pause) changes font size. JavaScript is becoming the new Flash, an enabler of annoying user experience.

<comment><USER22> An amazing new level of awful. Double-tap cycles between three font sizes. The useless hovering nav-bar won't go away. There's some JavaScript trying to make page down do the right thing despite said nav-bar.

Look, NYT: I want to read some text, you want to put some ads next to it. There has to be some solution that is less bad for both of us.

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> Everytime media got wrong understanding of technical details, I always wonder aren't they supposed to check the fact and ask someone? it's like hearing my mom talk about tech.

<comment><USER24> Most technical articles that I have some background understanding of are so wrong. It makes me wonder why I should trust all the articles on subjects that I don't know anything about.

<comment><USER25> That's called the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray- ge...](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-gell-mann- amnesia-effect/)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> Seems like the NYT is trying to create a dangerous, terrorist aura around tools that access the internet through any means but an 'standard' browser.

And by referring to whatever it is as a "low-cost tool", they're probably just making up facts. It's far more likely that Snowden used one of the many _no- cost_ tools that are used every day by people who work with and on computers.

This article is pretty much a no-op other than creating a dangerous mystique around people who access the internet through obscure tools that don't have an icon on the Mac or Windows stock desktop.

<comment><USER27> It's not the NYT trying to do that, it's the government. (The nyt may be enabling though, yeah, welcome to US journalism).

In Pvt. Manning's trial, the governments' case was that Manning's wget use was a CFAA violation. Manning was convicted of a CFAA violation.

And yeah, at the Manning trial, the government lawyers repeatedly explicitly brought up the fact that wget was an unusual tool that doesn't have an icon on the desktop, trying to make it seem sinister.

And yeah, it is frightening.

(I sat in on several days of the trial as an observer).

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> Manning used wget, Snowdon used a basic web crawler, headline is wrong.

</comment><comment><USER29> I have an obvious question if NS cannot secure systems from an outside contractor what indicates that it can full fill its duty to secure US computer systems outside its own offices?

Seems to me we be better at hiring Google for such an office rather than NSA, we might even get better ethics as a side benefit

</comment><comment><USER27> At Manning's trial, the government alleged that used of wget for scraping was a CFAA violation. Manning was convicted of the CFAA violation.

[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/manning-verdict-and- ha...](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/manning-verdict-and-hacker- madness-prosecution-strategy)

</comment><comment><USER30> "Once you are inside the assumption is that you are supposed to be there"

Almost the exact same words used by Al Pacino in the movie The Recruit, where Colin Farrel plays an agent who steals information from the CIA.

</comment><comment><USER31> Keep a copy of this article so next time your website gets defaced you can serve it as an excuse : "but even the NSA can't protect its stuff" :o

</comment><comment><USER32> Pretty good article detailing the leak.

Goes to show that many corporate security is so focused on keeping outsiders out and leave a wide gaping hole for insiders.

</comment><comment><USER33> maybe nutch?</comment>


Show HN: Klart – Capture Anything (Pocket for Screenshots) - <AUTHOR> https://klart.co <comment><USER2> Why will I need this? (What problem do you solve?))

I use Pocket to read things later, and offline. I use screenshots to convey a visual point of view, and it's usually ephemeral. I don't keep them.

The only other images I store are camera photos, but I have Google Photos for that, and I pay $1.99 for 100GB of storage (2/5 of your pricing).

Happy to hear what your thoughts are.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi! Thanks for your feedback :)

I also use Pocket for saving things to read later. What I needed was a way to save visuals of a website. Not just references but images (since they might change design etc later).

Primarily I made and use it to save designs, copywriting, etc that I like for inspiration.

<comment><USER2> IC, I use Trello for that. But thanks for sharing :) Always love swedish startups w/ their beautiful design.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> I don't see any reason why would somebody pay for it. There are free addons to upload screenshots directly on imgur already.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi! Yes there are some addons like that available. However, I target developers/designers and tailor all features for them :)

<comment><USER4> What sort of features do you have for developers?

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi! 1\. Capture actual screenshot (since design may change)

2\. Save source (for getting back quickly)

3\. High resolution screenshots so you can see all details

I'm also planning on:

1\. Showing colors and more from the screenshots :)

2\. Smart categorizing

But still keep it simple and clean :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> In case you are not aware of this already: [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bumba%20Klart](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bumba%20Klart)

<comment><USER6> Klart in Swedish means "clear", "finished/done" or "of course" depending on what context it is used in.

E.g: Klart jag ska = Of course I will

Considering this application is built by Swedish developers, I'm guessing its name originates from the Swedish language.

<comment><AUTHOR> That's correct :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> I take a lot of screenshots for work doing competitive analysis with Chrome Extension Screenshot Minus, which are saved to Dropbox.

Now, what problem do I actually have that I have sought out a solution for but couldn't find? The abilty to automatically search these screenshots' _content_. eg. I know I took a screen of a certain site and want to find it quickly, without estimating when it was captured and previewing images around that date and hope to find it.

Accomplish this by either OCR on the images and index the content to make is searchable or save the HTML of the page with the image and index that.

I've looked into OneNote, Evernote and although they have some OCR it's meant for taking pictures of documents and doesn't kill my pain.

Put that in a Chrome extension and service I would gladly pay for that since it solves a real pain that costs me time and had too much friction.

<comment><USER8> Saving the HTML or the stripped content with the image wouldn't be much of a problem to make right? Why OCR when the screenshot is of a website?

<comment><USER7> I sometimes screenshot an entire w full page, sometimes just a portion with a manual crop with Screenshot Minus extemsion. I only want to index the part I capture and search the content within.

<comment><USER8> Ah that is indeed more complex... Can't you tie some services together that do that? If you are the only user it can't be expensive. If no-one already did that? Would actually be interesting to try. There are OCR cloud services ; just no clue how solid they are ; anyone tried here?

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> if you have firefox it's pretty easy to take a screenshot of the fullpage by opening the console and typing something along the lines `screenshot --fullpage`

if you have OSX and dropbox, you can sync your screenshots automatically to dropbox as you take them.

my point of view: this is a sweet plugin if it came for free. I have no incentive to pay for it, unless I'm a very lazy person.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi! Thank you for your feedback!

Sure you can take screenshots today and organize them yourself. But the organization bothered me and this is why I decided to make Klart :). It was just to much hassle (for me).

<comment><USER9> Hey drikerf, that's nice that your taking the time to answer comments here. I'll try to make a more constructive comment: I think the pricing is too aggressive, people might like the idea but will not jump before being able to try it. I would change the monetization to mimic Pocket/Dropbox. Everything is free but if you want to add functionalities you gotta pay.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi!

My current model is motivated by being able to provide a really good service for the people who are paying. I'm afraid the quality could suffer if I go for a freemium model. Anyway, I appreciate your honesty and will consider it :).

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> > We'll keep your data safe and accessible for you anywhere, anytime.

I would like the option to backup the data, I don't want it to only live in the cloud. Is there an option for me?

I pay for Pinboard already, could your service serve as that + more?

Sen gillar jag er design, svenskt ren och minimal! But you should fix the page size, 1.6 MB, you don't really need bootstrap for that minimal page, do you? ;)

<comment><AUTHOR> Cool! I don't want to lock anyone in or make them uncomfortable. I'll definitely add a way to download your data smoothly :)

About Pinboard. Some people use Klart as a visual bookmarking app, since it keeps to source of the screenshot. Did you have any specific features in mind :)?

Bootstrap - It's so convenient though, isn't it? I'll be looking into optimizing later :)

<comment><USER10> Ok, I didn't realize it was screenshots only. But is it limited to the browser (since it's a browser plugin)? If so, you should be able to save the url with the screenshot?

Just a tip for a useful feature.

<comment><AUTHOR> The URL of where the screenshot was taken is saved, so you can always go back to where it was taken. This way, some people use Klart as a visual bookmarking app :).

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Props for a landing page that quickly describes what the thing does. However it seems to me that Gyazo does the same plus snapshotting of windows/applications, easy sharing, Slack-integration, single sign-on, etc. As it is, I'd have a hard time justifying picking this instead.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi! Thanks for your feedback! Gyazo looks like a great app.

With Klart I'm targeting makers/developers/designers that want to capture and organize inspiration mostly. I'm not trying to be the go-to solution for all kinds of screenshots but are instead focusing on this group (including myself). This also means all features are tailored for this group :).

<comment><USER11> Do you have any features planned to differentiate it for that niche? I'm asking because all the people I know who use Gyazo are precisely makers/developers/designers. I know that it's sometimes possible to carve out a business despite competition by having a simpler product focused for a specific niche and communicating using that demographic's language - I just wonder if that's realistic here. The Gyazo-users I know seem to use most of its features - e.g. a designer would both use it to share inspiration with other designers or capturing and sharing a small gif of a part of an application to easily showcase a bug to a developer.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks again for your feedback :)

Making Klart was pretty much "scratching my own itch". I do think many tools out there for this task has too many features for my taste. I'm adding features for color extraction and organization soon but will always keep it very simple and clean.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Yet Another App. What about Pinterest? And it's free.. I would rather pay for something that would help me organize pinterest, like changing descriptions of several pins in one go, etc.

Take this is as a constructive criticism from a designer.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thank you!

What differentiates Klart from Pinterest is that it saves a screenshot of the website, so that when it changes, you still have your screenshot :). I'm also going to add features to make life easier for developers/designers.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> What does this do that you can't do with [http://puush.me/](http://puush.me/) or ShareX?

The only difference is this is limited to the browser.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi! Thanks for your feedback!

I know there exists apps with similar functionality. Klart is made to help myself and other makers/developers/designers to capture and organize design, copywriting and marketing inspiration. I'm tailoring features for this group and trying to make it as simple and easy to use as possible, with great functionality :).

You can read more about the background here: [https://klart.co/about](https://klart.co/about)

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> Smart to monetize from the beginning vs disappearing later

<comment><AUTHOR> Thank you! I'm trying to find a viable business model from the beginning :)

<comment><USER14> Before I saw the pricing, I thought I wouldn't use this because it'll disappear. I don't need it but if I did, I'd be confident. You may want to do yearly pricing.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks! I'll look into that :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> Can't you use Google Save to do something similar? What are the benefits on top of that?

<comment><AUTHOR> That's correct, Google save provides similar features. Klart is targeted towards makers/developers/designers and the features will be tailored for them (and me :)) such as color extraction, organizing etc.

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> I don't understand why all the screen capturing software has a way to capture video instead of a static image, but they don't offer to option to convert to a .gif.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi! You cannot capture videos with Klart. It's only for static images. For GIF I use and recommend recordit.co :)

<comment><USER17> Anyone know of a recordit.co where I can store the file locally? (one that doesn't produce 3Gb for a 30second film).

Upload and then download is not an option for security reasons.

<comment><USER18> Quicktime allows window recording. Camtasia 2 as well. The list probably goes on and on so just google it.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> Sorry not feeling it

<comment><USER20> Shameless plug: why not something like this: [https://github.com/grafie/acceptum/tree/master/firefox/dist](https://github.com/grafie/acceptum/tree/master/firefox/dist)

Save screen-shots to the desktop with the option of encrypting them...

Oh, and it's also free...(Linux + Firefox 35+)</comment></comment>


MetaDedi – Dedicated comparison table - <AUTHOR> https://en.metadedi.net/ <comment><AUTHOR> Introducing metaDedi - Dedicated comparison table

\- Data is pulled every 10 minutes

\- No Ad's or Tracking

\- No Affiliates

\- Notifications

Let me know if you got suggestions</comment>


There's a Huge New Corporate Corruption Scandal. Here's Why Everyone Should Care - <AUTHOR> http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/unaoil-bribery-scandal-corruption_us_56fa2b06e4b014d3fe2408b9 <comment><USER2> An incredibly irritating click-bait headline. Why can't they say what corporation has done corruption where? They could provide the essentials with fewer words.

<comment><USER3> I agree that the headline is irritating, but your solution isn't the right one. The firm is obscure, so the name doesn't belong in the headline. It's also not really industry- or country-specific, so they can't mention that.

The interesting parts are the corporate corruption and its mechanisms, the government corruption that causes, and the political instability that flows from that. That in turn affects the world. But given the HuffPo's audience, my guess is that "corporate corruption" is the hottest topic; it's certainly the most obvious and most clearly illegal bit. So click-bait style aside, it's not a bad headline.

<comment><USER4> There is an easy and obvious way to vastly improve this headline without making it any longer. Delete the second sentence. Done. This removes no information, while eliminating the shady click-bait tactics.

<comment><USER3> I think that line is a gesture toward the complicated geopolitical implications of bribery of this kind and scale. The goal is to personalize it, so that people will realize its relationship to them. Often, business news is seen as irrelevant to individual lives, but this article attempts to tie it back.

That's not to say that the headline couldn't be improved. Just that from the headline writer's point of view, there is utility in the second sentence.

<comment><USER4> I'm pretty sure the goal is to play with people's psychology to get them to click. If the goal was to show the relationship to the reader, there are much better ways to do it.

That last bit seems tautological to me. Of course there's utility in the second sentence from the headline writer's point of view, otherwise they wouldn't have put it there. The issue with "clickbait" is that the headline writer's utility diverges from the reader's utility.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Headline aside, I thought it was an excellent story. The company, Unaoil, is the least important point I took away from the article. I can't believe the fundamental connection between corruption and radicalization isn't reported on or discussed more frequently. It seems like the rise in extremists groups is blamed on the 'vacuum' left by an invasion or an overthrown government. When describing the gradual sympathy for the Taliban by "moderate, normal people" in Afghanistan: >"At the top of the list of reasons cited by prisoners for joining the Taliban was not ethnic bias, or disrespect of Islam, or concern that U.S. forces might stay in their country...At the top of the list was the perception that the Afghan government was irrevocably corrupt."

<comment><USER6> My biggest Takeaway from Heinlein's Starship Troopers was that a stable society has to be very good at subverting the energies of ambitious people into prosocial activities. And the only way to do that is to make sure prosocial activities are the best way for ambitious people to get what they want. Otherwise, marginalized but ambitious people will conspire to overthrow the social order that spurned them.

This seems like a similar moral.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> Oh surprise.

Corruption at the highest levels of corporations and government.

Forgive my cynicism but after a full lifetime of this nonsense and many years of reading about it through history studies, I just can't feel any other way.

<comment><USER8> But but but, they made a subsidiary marketing firm to externalize the shady deals so that the separate firm could be closed at will and plausible deniability granted under the sociopath license of limited liability corporations.

IF they do this, they do Deathsquad work the same way under Xe or other subcontractors. "We didn't know they'd use such tactics to brutally suppress the uprising, we thought they'd use McDonalds fries"

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> Corruption is the only way things work in big business and governments. After all its people that interact there and people go after their own interests.

Just because we have invented different names for it like lobbying, doesn't make processes less corrupt.

<comment><USER10> Please explain why you think lobbying = corruption. Lobbyists can certainly be corrupt, but there is nothing inherent to lobbying that equates to corruption.

<comment><USER11> I think lobbying equals corruption because although the definition of lobby is _" the act of attempting to influence decisions made by officials in a government, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies."_ the reality is to do this for special interest groups, and to use whatever means necessary.

I get that to look at lobbying in a pedantic way there is no way it could be corrupt. And of course, there are white knight lobbyists who are trying to ofset the damage done by lobbyists whose clients are seeking change to increase profits.

But on the whole (in the USA) lobbying stinks of legitimised corruption.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Looks like this is the same story as [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388542](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388542).</comment>


Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin successfully re-launched and landed its rocket - <AUTHOR> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/01/23/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-successfully-re-launched-and-landed-its-rocket-before-spacex/ <comment><USER2> Very impressive, but it doesn't compare to what SpaceX is trying to do. SpaceX is bringing a much larger first stage back from an apogee of approx 140 km alt.</comment>


5 Lessons Learned About Enterprise Collaboration - <AUTHOR> http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/news/?p=85

<comment><USER2> Hi! As a Community Manager, I can attest to the reality of how important my job is to the infrastructure. If I don't add the human element and go the extra miles to reach people, our sites don't get traffic, our sales don't grow, and ultimately our business climate suffers.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> If you have been involved in an ECM deployment, then I would very interested in hearing from you. I will be presenting on this topic at the IASA ITARC E-Summit on March 11 on Collaboration and would like to hear your concerns, issues, and success stories in order to refine my presentation and to make it more relevant.</comment>


Build a Pi Zero W pocket projector - <AUTHOR> https://www.mickmake.com/post/build-a-pi-zero-w-pocket-projector-project <comment><USER2> Very cool little project. The adapter board that got designed to make this is pretty neat. For $99 (Projector) and $10 for the Pi and the Adapter board ($4) (and shipping to your part of the world) you can get a programmable projector. I'm thinking of building one that I can hang on the network to do "headless" displays with.

<comment><USER3> It's definitely a neat project, but worth mentioning that there are sub-$100 projectors running Android (so it can be headless and programmable) that also have a better native resolution than the TI DLP component used here, and video inputs (so you can use it as a regular projector, too).

<comment><USER4> There's also quite a difference between programming for Android and programming for a Pi. To your point, there are a lot of cheaper projectors out there that make the particular projector used in the linked post unnecessary. But straight Android isn't going to be the same thing, especially if you can't (or don't) root the device.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Is power now universally measured in mA?

<comment><USER6> What other unit of measurement would you propose for expressing the values in the link?

<comment><USER7> If it's power then it should be Watts or milliwatts, but the way the article is written doesn't seem to suggest Mick ignores the difference between power and current; he clearly knows that. I'd rather like to see power banks advertising their current capabilities in A/h than thousands of mA/h. 20000 mA/h is becoming as ridiculous as would be monitors expressing their screen sizes in attoparsecs;)</comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: After PRISM will you use social networks differently? - <AUTHOR>

Are you going to: reduce your posts, change your type of publications? Less personal informations?<p>You don't care  and nothing is going to change... <comment><USER2> In general I already assumed that all my data was being captured, either by my country's spying or USA. PRISM is hardly surprising, in terms of the data that is (probably) collected.

What I may consider is switching from Dropbox to some other solution, as I prefer my actual files to be more private. Email has never been secure so no change there really (using Google Apps at the moment).

On actual social networks I am reasonably careful with what I share already, not so much concerned about NSA & friends but rather sharing stupid things may get you in trouble with future employers etc. Things that could get you fired are better left off public/Semi-public networks (complaining about bosses etc).

On a side note: I am happy the potentially dangerous individuals are using FB etc. It enables effective monitoring of such individuals. One example is Swedish citizens going to fight in Syria, for the rebels and for Islam (jihad). Some of these have a Facebook group where they post photos, status updates and friends of theirs(?)/supporters comment. That is pretty much free surveillance, and a good thing.

</comment><comment><USER3> I switched smartphones, from iPhone to the BlackBerry Z10 which has built in encryption. A friend was teasing me that drug users use BlackBerry (for said reason), but according to the US government we're all guilty until proven innocent anyway.

I also got the hell off of all Google products and Skype.

Has the switch been a hassle? Somewhat, but I'm unable to ignore the fact my communications are being read, recorded and stored to be later used against me.</comment>


ICANN Files Legal Action in Germany to Preserve WHOIS Data - <AUTHOR> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-05-25-en <comment><USER2> I respect ICANN for the most part but the publicity of WHOIS data is seriously awful. On one of my new domains, I made the mistake of forgetting to turn on WHOIS privacy. A couple days later I finally realized that I'd forgotten, after wondering why I was suddenly getting so many spam calls and emails. Two years later, I still occasionally get the spam... Every time I'm woken up by a robocall telling me about a $10000 business loan I die a little inside.

<comment><USER3> Sadly ICANN isn't the only one that this is a problem with. Try registering on an gov small business sites, all that information is scrapped non stop. Because it's for contracting reasons you can't put in _fluff_ either. It's a really messed up system.

<comment><USER4> the problem is not really having public data. it is that spammers are still largely unpunished!

<comment><USER5> No, public data IS a problem. I'd rather not have my home address on the Internet for anyone to see. I'd rather not mix my Internet and IRL identities. If I was living in the land of the free, and I had no whois protection, swatting me would be so easy.

<comment><USER4> again the problem is that swatting is easy.

or should I be able to swat you easily and without consequences if I happen to know a public tidbit about you, for example where you live?

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> The idea of having to post my full name, phone number and address publicly on the Internet is absurd. It is dangerous and doesn't actually serve any purpose (especially when WhoisGuard exists). But, like many things related to ICANN (think domain parking), it is just another way to squeeze money out of us. I have no doubt that the people selling "WHOIS anonymization" have a lot of pull in the ICANN. The GDPR is a great excuse for this. We need more registars and registries to start resisting - they can't sue everyone.

<comment><USER7> For me, wanting presentation in internet and yet wanting to be anonymous is absurd. People have legitimate needs to contact domain owner, spam/scam issues for example. Most importantly though, that is old, working model and nobody forced into this. To me those "I want change" types remind people, who move into new neighbourhood and then complain about things that have been always there. Instead destroying, there should be more building: don't change working thing, make new and better (with blackjack, if I are allowed Futurama reference :) )

<comment><USER8> Regarding the first part of your comment; there are perfectly legit reasons you might not want your full contact details published on a database accessible to the wider public. Just think of political dissidents in other countries or people at risk of being doxxed for various reasons or simply not wanting that information to be public at all.

Regarding the second part, it's not viable to "make new and better". There is new and maybe better but nobody is using it. The ICANN has a quasi-monopoly on governing the DNS registration rules on the internet. It's like saying that if we don't like Facebook we should switch to Diaspora. As much as I'd like to, Diaspora doesn't have the network of Facebook or the reach which is an immediate nogo for a lot of people. Not recognizing that is simply ignoring the reality of many people's lives.

<comment><USER7> Thanks for your levelheaded comment! Sadly, I can't discuss more, because this is clearly emotional topic, if I look into other comments. Most posters here are young developers, so personal approach is more geared towards privacy. If you are system administrator, maybe old UNIX greybeard, then you have different set of problems, communication and open community is then more important.

I can't point out, why, but I feel that RFC2468 [0] is somewhat relevant here (as sentiment, not personal experience).

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[0] [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468)

<comment><USER9> I'm old and I care about privacy. Being able to contact a domain owner has nothing to do with public listings of their physical addresses.

An email address is more than enough for an abuse contact.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> WHOIS data is worthless nowadays. A lot of people host content on Wordpress, Github, Medium, etc. where the WHOIS data doesn't tell who is actually responsible, and the shady sites are using services to hide the true WHOIS data anyways.

Edit: There seems to be a misconception (or a lack of reading comprehension). Hiding is not shady, but shady sites hide WHOIS information always. So it's eventually useless for the one thing it should do: give information about the owner in case of unlawful content.

<comment><USER11> It's not shady to not want your home address published to every visitor to your website.

<comment><USER12> All birds lay eggs, but not all animals that lay eggs are birds.

All shady sites use WHOIS privacy, but not everyone who uses WHOIS privacy is shady.

<comment><USER13> Actually i have found just as many shady sites use fictitious whois data as those whose registrars provide whois privacy. It is of little use either way.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> The registrars already ruined any transparency, that WHOIS was supposed to offer by offering "WHOIS protection" services.

So those who couldn't afford WHOIS privacy addons, now get them for free. All good in my book.

</comment><comment><USER15> It's a hard balance.

On the one hand public resources (like domain names - or plots of land) have traditionally always been publicly recorded.

But spammers have made that unpleasant.

Does the GDPR apply to records documenting the owner of a house in England? It's not really all that different with domain names.

<comment><USER16> > On the one hand public resources (like domain names - or plots of land) have > traditionally always been publicly recorded.

That is bullshit. Land has been publicly recorded because land is expensive. Recording the actual owner publicly makes it much more difficult for a bad actor to sell you land he does not actually own.

A domain is like 15 bucks a year. You can't register a domain name of someone else's brand, if that brand actually cares.

Publicly recording domain names is like publicly recording who has bought milk at the supermarket.

<comment><USER17> Milk is fungible and replenished daily. Domain names, generally, are not.

And many domain names have changed hands for more than the costs of a house. PrivateJet.com $30 million. CarInsurance.com $50 million.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> Personally I think this data should be private. There should be some type of pass through so that A domain name owner doesn't have to worry about their personal information being connected with the domain. We know it's possible because of the proxy services, that should just become standard.

<comment><USER19> Should be at least on request only so you have to have a valid reason to request it so spammers can't get it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> 2things. 1, Spam that contains my Whois data is very much more concerning, especially if it looks like a legitimate service I may already be using. 2, if a company collects my Whois data, and justifies monetising it to me or you, especially under the guise of 'its for my/your security', and I am not financially compensated for it, or I am unaware of it, or unable to change the terms and conditions of access/usage of it, then I consider it stolen.

</comment><comment><USER21> And I don't want my home address, phone number, email, name or the name of my company on there.

<comment><USER17> I can understand not wanting to publicise personal details but why not the name of the company? The purpose of a company is to act as a proxy, financially and legally, for its directors and domain registration seems like the perfect use-case.

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> ICANN are desperate for this to keep the copyrighters and DMCA people happy. They had years for this and did nothing. We absolutely need to diversify from ICANN.

</comment><comment><USER23> Imho whois private data should have one mandatory field: holder/owner. It details who controls the domain, be it a individual, an association, a company, and so on. There is no need for phone numbers of emails there (unless the controller wants to add that).

This is how it works with .fi domains and I find it perfect. You can still get enough data that should you really wish you can contact the owner but you can't really automize it.

</comment><comment><USER24> > If EPAG's actions stand, those with legitimate purposes, including security- > related purposes, law enforcement, intellectual property rights holders, and > other legitimate users of that information may no longer be able to access > full WHOIS records.

Aren't most registrations private now? Such as "1&1 Internet, Inc.", "Whois Privacy Corp., and "Whoisguard".

<comment><USER15> > Aren't most registrations private now?

It's similar to how you can buy a house via a corporation, or trust. There is still a public record of the owner, but finding the person behind that takes more effort.

The GDPR takes that much further. Are we going to have totally anonymous ownership of land next?

</comment></comment><comment><USER25> I think there is a simple solution, make the VHOIS data private and the hosting would have to provide this 1 a form that would allow you to send an email to the domain owner without revealing the email 2 a form for requesting name and phone number but with restrictions, if you request the data you must have an account so measures to prevent abuse would be implemented, you must have a reason and domain owner should have the option not to allow the information to be made available.

Since there are already services to protect your identity why not make them default by law, what is ICANN losing by this? or is pressure from the companies that want to sell the "private mode" ?

</comment><comment><USER26> If the official purpose is to be able to reach out to people the domain belongs to, it is a stupid design.

I have a car. When police wants to know who the car belongs to they ask the registrar for the match between the number and my name.

I live in France and only French police can check that. If US police need this info, they will contact the French police.

I have a .fr domain. It should be managed by a French entity, which would hold my contact data and reveal them to the autorities.

ICANN would like to have this authority everywhere in the world, no surprise that prior put bogus data.

<comment><USER27> I have contacted domain owners by WHOIS information many times for a number of reasons such as looking to purchase a domain with nothing on it. It seems to me to be important public information, not something I should have to go to the local police for.

<comment><USER26> Would you expect the same for your car, phone or house?

I do not want someone to have access to my contact information just because he wants to buy my car, house, or domain.

<comment><USER27> Honestly I think if people had similar access for car, people would drive a lot more politely. For house, I have your address by your physical existence and can write you a letter.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> For anyone who this might help, Namesilo is a registrar that gives everyone whois protection by default, at no extra cost. That's especially great since they're already pretty much the lowest cost registrar around. I feel like in a way they're the Let's Encrypt of the registrar world.

Their website looks like it's from the 90s, and I don't really like it, but I like everything else about them.

</comment><comment><USER29> This makes me wonder when we'll see a viable alternative to ICANN and the current DNS system for domains in general. Maybe the answer is to remove control from companies and similar organisations and set up a more decentralised system that requires simply running a Let's Encrypt style process to register and maintain a domain name.

Do that, and consign this whole system to the dustbin of history.

<comment><USER30> Something like this already exists, see the OpenNIC project. [https://www.opennic.org/](https://www.opennic.org/)

</comment></comment><comment><USER31> I do not really understand what they may need except for login and password in order to sell me a domain name.

Would be really cool if I could buy a domain without providing all my real life details. That is really disturbing.

</comment><comment><USER32> Looking at this release, it looks like they are simply requiring Namesilo to keep _collecting_ the data. I see no mention of it being required for a public WHOIS.</comment>


UC Davis chancellor apologizes for Internet scrubbing controversy - <AUTHOR> http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-davis-chancellor-apologizes-20160420-story.html <comment><USER2> They should have added that to the 30k each peaceful pepper-sprayed student received...

Of particular interest to me is the fate of the cop that sprayed them... I was thrilled he was fired.

John Pike was subsequently fired, despite a recommendation that he face disciplinary action but be kept on the job. As of August 2014, Alex Lee was no longer listed in a state salary-database as working at UC Davis.[5]

In October 2013, a judge ruled that Lt. John Pike, the lead pepper sprayer, would be paid $38,000 in worker's compensation benefits, to compensate for his psychological pain and suffering. Apart from the worker's compensation award, he retained his retirement credits. The three dozen student protestors, meanwhile, were collectively awarded US$1 million by UC Davis in a settlement from a federal lawsuit, with each pepper-sprayed student receiving $30,000 individually.[6]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper- spray_incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper-spray_incident)

He lost a job that pays 6 figures for being a terrible human being. [http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state- pay/arti...](http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state- pay/article2642161.html#StatePay&search-d=1&search-n=20&search- name=john%20a%20pike&search-p=0&search-s=name&search-year=2011&top-year=2015)

</comment><comment><USER3> If she's really sorry, she'll return the $175,000.

</comment><comment><USER4> Too little, too late.

</comment><comment><USER5> what about stepping down?</comment>


Arduino Based Kegerator - <AUTHOR> http://www.andrewparisio.com/2013/04/arduino-based-kegerator-keezer-build.html

<comment><USER2> nice one! I am currently working on a similar project with raspberry pi. From previous experience with beer. I recommend using flow sensors with integrated liquid sensor. Foam can be a big factor for some beers.</comment>


Bitcoin Creator Revealed? Satoshi Nakamoto's True Identity Unmasked - <AUTHOR> http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bitcoin-creator-revealed-satoshi-nakamotos-true-identity-unmasked-1474316

<comment><USER2> What's the point in looking for Satoshi? He has no longer control over Bitcoin, and he certainly won't give an interview.

</comment><comment><USER3> Why does Satoshi, whoever he is, remain anonymous? What could he gain from that?

</comment><comment><USER4> Again?</comment>


In a World with the New Warriors Arena, No One Will Ever Lose Money Again - <AUTHOR> https://hmmdaily.com/2019/03/29/in-a-world-with-the-new-warriors-arena-no-one-will-ever-lose-money-again/ <comment><USER2> How soon people forget about the similar hype preceding the opening of Levi's Stadium.</comment>


Tesla 404 - <AUTHOR> http://www.teslamotors.com/404.html

<comment><USER2> Am I missing something here? Looks like a normal 404 page to me and I'm using Chrome. So if anything impressive visually via Javascript or CSS3 were to occur, it would have.

<comment><USER3> I think it's just the image of the cleverly re-purposed interstate _404_ sign. I wonder if they did that for other status codes (like 503), too.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Looks really bad on my portrait monitor</comment>


Prince: the internet's completely over - <AUTHOR> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7874307/Prince-the-internets-completely-over.html

<comment><USER2> > His new album is his 27th release and may be distributed via Warner Brothers > in the US – but there will be no downloads available in the world.

No legal downloads.

</comment><comment><USER3> The guy who declared wars with every website, even if there was no music but just photoshopped photos of him. Can't wait when he decides to fight /b/</comment>


Google Replaces Tele Atlas with Street View Data in US - <AUTHOR> http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/10/12/google-replaces-tele-atlas-data-in-us-with-google-data/

<comment><USER2> Good article showing improved google maps data. Also linked articles tell of google improving responses to "Report a problem" are often resolved within one day, rather than six to eight months with tele atlas service.

I just reported a map error to google and let's see how long it takes.

<comment><USER3> Me too. Been flailing away at TeleAtlas for 10 months now with no results. Just last week I got my County GIS Dept to directly contact a live body at TeleAtlas.

We'll see how fast Google's turnaround is!

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Good, the new data is new enough I can actually find my house now.</comment>


The Algebra of Data, and the Calculus of Mutation - <AUTHOR> http://blog.lab49.com/archives/3011

<comment><USER2> Beautiful. I suppose the function signatures would be:

      peek : int * int^3   -> int
      pos  : int * int^3   -> 3*int^2
      poke : int * 3*int^2 -> int^3

The functions would behave like this:

      peek 2 (98,76,54) = 76
      pos 2 (98,76,54)  = (98,_,54)
      poke 77 (98,_,54) = (98,77,54)

You could chain them like this:

      poke 99 (pos 1 (98,76,54)) = (99,76,54)
      poke 77 (pos 2 (98,76,54)) = (98,77,54)
      poke 55 (pos 3 (98,76,54)) = (98,76,55)</comment>


"site:paypal-gifts.com Here's Your Gift Card" - <AUTHOR> https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apaypal-gifts.com+Here%27s+your+Gift+Card#q=site:paypal-gifts.com+Here%27s+your+Gift+Card&filter=0 <comment><AUTHOR> Results are archived at [https://archive.fo/a5EzF](https://archive.fo/a5EzF) in case they get removed. Someone at Paypal forgot to set the robots.txt. As of now, [https://paypal-gifts.com/robots.txt](https://paypal- gifts.com/robots.txt) just redirects, and I can't find any valid robots.txt for that domain.</comment>


Ask HN: where do you share and discuss ideas (just for the heck of it)? - <AUTHOR>

As most people here I presume, even though I don't necessarily do anything of it, I have ideas about stuff to build. I like to think about them as some kind of exercise, to think about different scenarios, how one could monetize it, the basic architecture, etc.
I'm wondering if you have a place (online or offline) where you usually discuss these ideas (the kind where most probably nothing will happen but which are still interesting to kick around), or a group of hacker friends you exchange emails with...
Personally, I discuss that with one of my friends by email. But I'm thinking I could find a bigger group for more discussion.
As an example, the release of Tipjoy's API (http://tipjoy.com/APIcontest/) sounds like something to spend some time just thinking about what could be done, even if we don't get to the implementation. <comment><USER2> I "pitch" ideas to everyone and anyone who will listen, specially if I know they're entrepreneurs, I will flood them with feedback and can spend the night visualizing ways they can improve their business, etc.

It's good sometimes, but it mostly overwhelms people. I am also known to express dismay whenever a friend tells me he will take/keep a full time job. A few days ago I was at a party when I ran into an old gym buddy. I knew he was a pharmaceuticals post graduate then and I wanted to kick back and forth a few ideas someone else raised to be about starting a medical software business. My friend said he was working full time at his university and he wasn't interested in losing that lazy but paying academic gig. It really ruined my night and I kept trying to talk him out of it.

Sometimes people will come to me with ideas and I will take them and run with them. The next day I would have been exhausted all possibilities and now I have several pages of business analysis in my notebook. Only problem is, people usually "have" ideas but they're not convinced of them. It than falls on you whether to put the 4 weeks of coding necessary to launch the service and start marketing it and make $, along side your other projects in the little time you have. It's a judgment call you have to make, and I always choose to ignore it and just apply the lessons I "learned" to my own projects.

Ideas are cheap, just make sure you're not telling them to an _executioner_ if you're not yourself a taker. You will waste his time and put him in a moral dilemma when he finds out you're the one dragging his feet.

<comment><AUTHOR> Rather than "where do you pitch your ideas", my question is more about just discussing them informally. Discussions that could start by "wouldn't it be nice if...?", "I was playing around with this API and thought...".

Like a book club for just discussing ideas :)

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> What about creating a mailing list dedicated to discussing ideas ?</comment>


Clozure Common Lisp in the Mac App Store - <AUTHOR> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clozure-cl/id489900618?mt=12

<comment><USER2> Since this is completely relevant I don't feel terrible at all about pimping my essay about the Bridge between Emacs, Clozure CL, and the Apple Foundation Framework.

<http://msnyder.info/posts/2012/05/icloud-reminders-orgmode/>

<comment><USER3> Thanks for writing this fairly exhaustive walk through. No need to feel terrible.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Can we please get some variety in the word "Closure"? This is kind of getting out of hand:

Closure (the construct)

Closure (Google's thing)

Clojure (lisp dialect)

ClojureScript (converts Clojure to JS)

Clozure CL (another lisp dialect)

Every single time I say one of these out loud, I have to explain myself. Ugh.

<comment><USER5> ClojureScript convertes a subset of clojure to google closure javascript which then gets compiled.

<comment><USER6> Is "Google Closure JavaScript" really a thing? I thought Closure operated on normal JavaScript.

<comment><USER4> Google Closure is a JavaScript library and compiler: <https://developers.google.com/closure/> && <https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler>

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> ClozureCL has been on the App store for a while now. I first downloaded it when I came across this comment on HN a year ago - <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3688043>

</comment><comment><USER8> Is it conceivable that one could ever play old school Abuse on a modern OS X machine?

<http://abuse.zoy.org/>

<comment><USER9> I'm not sure if it counts as "old school" for your tastes, but you can totally install Abuse with homebrew, apparently:

[https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew- games/commits/master/ab...](https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew- games/commits/master/abuse.rb)</comment></comment>