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"Oh man, I have to make a snarky response, but first I have to Google for that XKCD comic that totally makes my point for me..."

Not only can I see myself in that vividly, I was thinking there should be an easier way to filter XKCD comics by (life) situations. And I've found http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Comics_by... that's close to what I was looking for.

I especially like the real-time broadcasting feature that I needed awhile back, but couldn't find it anywhere.

If anybody knows any other product with such a feature, I'd be glad if they shared it here.

Here's the cached version, since the original seems to be missing for some reason: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9tXSzhj...

I was thinking a fingerprint scanner is exactly what's missing on these devices (what I've seen so far, Coin, Echo & Wallaby), but this is also an interesting solution with iCache.

Too bad about what happened to it. (Actually just found out about iCache and what exactly happened and while I'm sad, I can't say I'm surprised.)

Did the girl leak the information? Like mentioning his name/twitter handle or something like that?

It's just a nice showcase of the emerging technologies, kind of like these guys did it (even better IMHO) months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keHXjidUmC0 

And Batman's reaction to this news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzZx8WLKQE

I know posting this here may be "preaching to the choir", but it was still interesting read.

Do you have hackers.txt on your website(s)?

If you upload a .zip file (don't know about the other formats) to Google Docs, it can access its content.

There are probably other services/tools, because technically, there's nothing stopping you from unzipping files in the cloud, or in web based software. It's just the matter of uploading something and then downloading the content after it's been unzipped on the remote server. So it's just more expensive in terms of network traffic.

The availability of the tools that do that, other than Google Docs, is another thing. Honestly wouldn't know, don't recall ever needing it before.

Yeah, it's not rocket science, obviously. It's computer science. :P

The way I see it, email is the simplest and cheapest way. Although I wouldn't like average Joe to casually login to their email account on public machines.

But then, chances are the email provider will have 2-way authentication, so it would be a bit more work to get to the account every time on a new, public machine, but I guess that wouldn't be that often and would be preferred to the current way of doing the same thing.

SMS creates cost which some sites couldn't bear and the app route creates greater cost of implementation (to be a true replacement - or should I say truly disruptive ;) - it would have to be cross-platform, IMHO).

Ok, if there's a concern about still having to use some password for the email account, maybe the right way to go would be to build apps for all platforms. It would be like the Google's two-way authentication, only simpler? Am I missing something? I'm missing something crucial, aren't I? ;)

Considering the price of an SMS (which also differs from place to place), why does the temporary password have to arrive by SMS? Why not by email, since user's already online, obviously?

But given the novelty of this approach (although I'm pretty sure I read about it somewhere already, I don't know of any real-world implementation), it should definitely be used alongside optional passwords, for those who want that. At least until the rest of the web catches on...

I'm a Firefox user so I couldn't try it and went on to read the comments instead, especially since the linked website didn't explain anything.

It may be interesting to you that I didn't really understand what this is doing until I read the following comment from citricsquid (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656462): "Yeah, I save lots and it's always the ones that I don't save that I want after the fact, heh :("

So, this extension allows to search through all the stuff user clicked on from HN? That's great!

If that's true, I'd change the title to this: "Share, rediscover and keep track of everything you find on HN" and also do a better job of describing what it's doing on the website.

P.S. Does it also search the content on all those pages linked from HN?

Thank you @001sky for explaining and @jpxxx for confirming. :)

I just updated iceweasel/aurora (version string conveniently showing it's age is just below 3 days: 17.0~a2+20120928042009-1) and this tells me it's 25 days old.

I'm also on Linux (obviously) and it really seems strange Linux isn't even registering at all.

This is my UA string: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 Iceweasel/17.0a2

What do you mean by "pithatician"? Really, absolutely no results searching the web or trying to translate it. O_o

Actually a nice digest of what's been happening with regards to Tesla in the most recent times, for those who weren't following.

It doesn't say anywhere (or I'm missing it) whether he wanted to sell the book or give it for free.

But they don't choose whether a book in their store will be DRMed or not. The authors do (see http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/amazon-quietly-lets-publish...).

So, knowing this now, is GPL still a problem for Amazon? Free Kindle books are distributed through the same infrastructure.

INAL and I'm wondering, why can't Amazon redistribute it under the GPL?

Does GPL permit that anyone redistributes it or does GPL permit that Amazon does it the way they would like to do it?

What exactly is stopping Amazon from distributing GPLed content?

But what's the life expectancy of smartphones and the likes? I wonder if flash storage in them could die so quickly - even before such a device itself would become obsolete.

If it's correct that at least Palm's webOS and Maemo dare to swap on flash storages, we shall see soon...

Older Palm Treos (up to Treo 600 if I'm not mistaken) had everything in RAM and I remember upgrading to a newer, supposedly better Treo - and everything but the lag was...

What I'd like to know is why this is a bad idea...

I actually thought about that before. I mean, if you're really serious about a project, do you really need some jury that, as you say, may just distract you? If you're really serious you'll find a way. BTW, same goes for that talent reality shows: if you really have talent and really want to sing for example, it's pretty sad that you waited until a show appeared. If it's really something you always wanted to do, how come you weren't actually doing it seriously?

But I applied for different reasons. Not only was I awaken from my no-idea-where-I'm-going state but I benefited also from various people coming to workshops to talk about different business subjects and how to write a business plan for investors. Some of this stuff was very beneficial to me at this point.

Now I know I will continue pursuing my plan no matter what happens on this contest (although the prize would be nice to get me started on my plan so I have something more than an idea to show to the investors).

Definitely. That's pretty reassuring story. Encouraging me even more to act differently from now on. Thanks.

And good luck with the realization of your idea!

Thanks for your input. Actually, reading http://www.userscape.com/blog/index.php/site/comments/starti... made me decide to start blogging again, and to blog mainly about my project, even before I startup.

Thanks. That makes a lot of sense. And I knew about that fear but didn't know I still have it. Apparently jury and friends are only the first step towards getting rid of it.

Not completely objective, no. Some I think would try really hard but I wouldn't expect them to be completely objective. I will definitely choose carefully the ones who I believe can give me the most objective opinion. And I said friends but these wouldn't necessarily have to be the closest friends, even mere acquaintances could suffice.

Can you suggest to whom I should then give my plan for an objective opinion, prior to talking with investors? Would giving it to someone who isn't a 'friend' guarantee a non-biased opinion? I'm not so sure. I'm thinking even complete strangers could have a biased opinion. That just depends from a person to person. I was thus hoping I could be able to choose the right people from the ones I know. And let me assure you, I'm not looking for somebody to tell me how good my plan is. Thank you for you input.

Yea, from a talk with a local business angel I found out the business plan intended for investors does not have to be as detailed as I would think it should. For example, you don't really have to write how you'd solve a problem, just acknowledge you know it exists and you know how to deal with it. I have to be honest and say I was a bit surprised and somewhat relieved with that realization.

Thanks for your input. I know one should expose a business plan for feedback from others and I was about to do that, mainly to friends who I trust could give me as objective opinion as possible. It's just that I never thought of releasing it to the whole public, nor have I heard anyone do that before but then again, I don't have any experience with that kind of stuff, so it might as well be an ordinary thing.