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gobengo

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https://twitter.com/bengo https://github.com/gobengo https://linkedin.com/in/benjamingoering

Founder: Permanent.Company https://permanent.company/ https://permanent.cloud/ @PermanentCPU

Permanent.Cloud is the personal cloud platform. We're building out https://Permanent.Cloud/Apps to be the best place to discover and collaborate on free cloud web apps and the open source projects behind them.

Now, you can also "Install" all of them, making Permanent.Cloud the easiest place for team leads to quickly spin up a WordPress blog, Discourse forum, Mattermost team chat, GitLab, JIRA, Cloud Bitcoin miner, etc. (any Docker container) with the click of a button.

We bill a fair fee each month based on usage, which you can easily put a cap on.

Buzzwords: TypeScript, koa, PostgreSQL, universal React, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform

Looking to grow team and sustainability.

Also interested in what open source apps you and your startup are loving these days. e.g. GitLab w/ CI and Auto Devops is really making my life easy. Jenkins is always a winner too. What open source tools are you using every day? Which tools and apps should be in the 'starter pack' that every team can install on day one with one click?

ben@permanent.company

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gobengo··on Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
I noticed this in myself but never knew the name for it! Thanks
gobengo··on The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos
In the past there have been legislative efforts specifically to separate international policiing from domestic policing in the US.

The purpose of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act "is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States."

gobengo··on Image-Match: Open-source scalable reverse image search
The LSH wikipedia page is a fun read and relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing

Here's a real-world use case http://blog.livefyre.com/architecting-sidenotes/

gobengo··on Introducing the Keybase filesystem
Me too! bengoering at gmail
gobengo··on On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture
Maybe instead of version control tech they should call it a Merkle Tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
gobengo··on Show HN: CommuteKit: 120+ Digital Tools for a More Positive Commute
I thought this said "CommuneKit". That would have been more interesting. :)

srsly though just read a book on your commute (if you don't drive) instead of these newsy emails that have the same content you'll read on twitter later ayway. In this day and age the commute can be the only time of day where you're forced to take some time to sit still.

gobengo··on Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app
Only 2M...?
gobengo··on Why doesn't someone start a company to democratize tax loopholes?
I think it's also the case that a good amount of the 'loopholes' apply to income that most Americans don't have, e.g. capital gains, capital loss harvesting, etc.
gobengo··on Open-Source Retreat 2016 grantees
I met Chris last week at the W3C Social WG F2F and he was awesome. +1 the congrats! And link to one of his projects: http://mediagoblin.org/
gobengo··on Lists
Lists aka Collections aka Containers. There are so many manifestations of this pattern on the web that we really ought to try to standardize how one can create them, and read and write resources that are members of them.

W3C, MIT Decentralized Information Group, Web Annotation Protocol, Oracle, and IBM (amongst others) are working on it. http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/REC-ldp-20150226/

gobengo··on Strategies for reclaiming our personal privacy online
I watched some talks from this conference on YouTube last week. Recommend others do the same. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3bvPCw5QCLJKt879iw40...
gobengo··on I worked in a video store for 25 yrs – what I learned as the industry died
This exists in my neighborhood (Mission SF). Faye's Video & Espresso Bar... http://www.yelp.com/biz/fayes-video-and-espresso-bar-san-fra...
gobengo··on How Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist came to question its beliefs
I'm from Topeka, Kansas. My older sister went to Topeka West with Megan Phelps-Roper. I went to elementary school with her younger brothers (cousins?) Tim and Isaiah.

I can only attest to the latter but all the kids were good people. They just happened to be dragged out to the corners on the weekend to picket. I never really understood the signs they held anyway.

gobengo··on The Opposite of a Bloom Filter (2012)
I can't hate on this guy for sharing a real-world situation and what he designed.

Though I was expecting something exotic that can help with set membership problems, but instead of being log n in size it would be exponential... which would be comically useless (...or is there a use?)

gobengo··on San Francisco could lead on open-source voting
s/better/open-source

:P

gobengo··on PG: “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy”
If {YC,CEOs} are like unions, then the corollary to OP is interesting

"{YC,CEOs} have potential energy that could be released by startups."

gobengo··on Show HN: Toc Messenger – A distributed messaging app that syncs across devices
Dude. Nice.

Is this the most advanced GUI Telehash Client?

gobengo··on SlideMail 2.0 – An open experiment to create a better email client
What's 'open' about it?
gobengo··on Telegram Now Seeing 12B Daily Messages, Up from 1B in February
How many are from bots?
gobengo··on Morphdom – fast and lightweight DOM diffing/patching (without the virtual part)
This sounds very similar to http://google.github.io/incremental-dom/#about (esp skipping the virtual part).

Can anyone point out any notable differences?

gobengo··on Webmaker for Android
They're stored in a heroku app: https://webmaker-api.herokuapp.com/users/717/projects/628/

Which is open source https://github.com/mozilla/api.webmaker.org

gobengo··on Tutte-Coxeter Graph
Some may argue it do improve someones life as pure mathematical elegance, even if not 'applied' to the 'real' world.
gobengo··on “It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
Reading this right now and I think it's 6, not 9. But yes.
gobengo··on Children's Acquisition of False Memories in Virtual Reality (2009) [pdf]
elaborate on your theory. What do you mean by 'historical guilt'?
gobengo··on China to Set Up ‘Security Offices’ Inside Internet Companies
First thing I looked for was whether someone had shared this link yet. :)
gobengo··on GNU social and GNU FM
If you like this, you may also like

* http://indiewebcamp.com/ There are biweekly meetups in SF and other cities https://indiewebcamp.com/Homebrew_Website_Club

* W3C Social WG - https://www.w3.org/Social/WG

gobengo··on GNU social and GNU FM
A federated social web implementation
gobengo··on Genius API
APIs can shut down, bummer. But it's more of a bummer to never use them in the first place.

It'd be rad if you could integrate with Genius' API in such a way that if they ever shut it down, or you want to switch to another annotation service for any reason, you would only have to point to another annotation provider instead of rewriting all the syntax/semantics of the integration.

Sound cool? Get involved with:

* W3C Web Annotation WG: http://www.w3.org/annotation/

* OpenAnnotation Ontology: http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/

* W3C Social WG and Vocabulary: http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-activitystreams-vocabulary-2015...

gobengo··on Using Protobuf instead of JSON to communicate with a front end
+1 to "Did this in a real product and fully regret it"
gobengo··on Kubernetes: The Future of Deployment
It's most likely that even the "CM"s from both providers are actually Virtual Machines running on a hypervisor running on bare metal. You just can't tell and don't need to care (for most workloads).
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