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I think this is without question analogous to Stripe. As pg said, the reason Stripe was able to succeed is that no one else was willing to do it: it was too obviously hard. The mountain that would need to be climbed was apparent from the start.

I think this one is similar. Aggregating all of these events for all of these niches from all of these websites is just both so obviously needed and so obviously difficult that no one has wo/man'd up to do it (at least as far as we know).

I have lamented on this one since at least 2007 when Yahoo bought that startup that was trying to do exactly this (can't remember the name).

One day it will happen and the world will be quite a bit better. Obviously :)

Pull requests for blog posts sounds amazing, at least theoretically :)

That's really tight. I'm very excited about the idea of everything becoming dynamic and code-oriented. Going into Photoshop feels like entering the dark ages these days vs. change-on-the-fly already-in-the-browser CSS3.

NO WAY! Artist - Song.mp3 !!! My entire collection is set up like this :)

This brings back so many good memories I can hardly believe it. It brings a very small but very real tear to my eye.

This would be like waking up one day and realizing audiogalaxy was still there. Soulseek was my favorite music transfer program for a couple years there in the early 2000's and then I forgot all about it. I always loved the community aspect of it.

It reminds me of the very very old EFNet IRC days when I was briefly in one of the first MP3 kr3wz lol. #snes #warez5 stand up!

Today is a good day, today is a very fine day.

how does someone send fiat? are you using stripe? i signed up but couldn't tell without setting up 2 accounts :)

looks good overall.. i think as an MVP it's impressive

LOVE THIS! I have wanted this for so long! It's such a breath of fresh air to have a native app like this!

We are.

This looks totally amazing. Thank you for doing this and also for documenting it so well! I had to spend a lot of extra time with other Vagrant/WP integration concepts just because a lot of them were very poorly documented. Cheers!

I totally agree with you and would like to point out some of the work being done (and the major govt obstacles faced) by people like Earthship inventor Michael Reynolds in Taos, New Mexico.

In the same way that big business has no interest in being disrupted, it seems that governments have a similar weight and a similar self-preservation interest.

Regardless, this is the good fight worth fighting.

To take your $5 and raise you 5 more, this can be down scaled even further to the level of the individual or family unit. Here in the heart of Los Angeles (Venice/Fairfax), we have created a sort of permaculture oasis with 25+ fruit trees and various semi-professional/DIY systems of self-sustenance. This is work that is A) inherently rewarding B) able to inspire others and C) is a living, breathing example of the world we want to live in, and is significantly easier than most would think, especially if you learn slowly over 5+ years.

I highly recommend the documentary on Michael Reynolds. His work is far ahead of its time and shows that there are existing lifestyle repos ready to be forked and branched and then merged back into a continuously integrated updating best-way-to-live OS. The doc is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVX2wdDH19Y

Perhaps the answer lies in tagging. Rather than a hierarchical categorization, everything is just tagged and thus searchable. That way you don't have to keep trying to fit everything into preexisting categories... Seems to be the direction most other things are heading as well.

FOMO for 2013!

Care to elaborate why this is THE issue? I don't quite see how that follows from the above. OTOH My gut says you may be right but I'm not convinced. Want to try?

The original intention of Paypal, once it pivoted from Blackberry payments to online banking, was hardly trivial. Their goal was to be something akin to Bitcoin before Bitcoin.

As they scaled, regulatory realities set in... but to trivialize Elon like that is foolish imo.

"best minds" needs many air-quotes attached.

There's an omnibar FF plugin that I install immediately on every FF installation.

When you combine this with Backblaze/Crashplan as they suggest multiple times, you theoretically get the best of both worlds...

Negativity is easier than sending FOIA requests. QED.

If it's so easy, we can do it ourselves. And then show it off to HN and rally pg's network ;)

No need to be depressed yet--though I do understand your sentiments.

Can anyone provide links for information about FOIAs... I know I know I should RTFM and Google it--but if someone has some knowledge about this already, I'd really appreciate it.

I'm interested in the possibility of working to set this up. This seems like a very very good idea. Nothing would be more glaring to me personally than to receive a letter back from the government saying I can't know what they have on me. I think many people would feel similarly.

But I think it will only work if it really is as easy as filling out a form or a fairly easy PDF/etc.

If so, perhaps something as simple as a nice domain and a pretty WP theme with some well-written copy could turn this idea to reality...

Any other takers?

link for lazy-like-me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_review_in_the_United_S...

If you jailbreak, there's f.lux which greatly helps and there's another tweak which makes the lowest brightness even lower. It's a great combo and changed the game for night-reading on the iPad for me.

This is worth watching so I will break etiquette to bring more attention to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vcB7uCqdFk

Jesse Schell at DICE. No Google-fu required. I just know that talk inside and out.

I completely agree with this. This is essential for us night owls who consider 2AM today! I think the easiest way to fix this would be to give the ability to set the te when the day begins. For me, it's not 12 midnight, it's 10AM.

yes I love that the art of dada/surrealism has now just bled into everyday reality--more and more, faster and faster! it's like my dream come true :) :)

Even just the complete mainstream-ization of meme culture is doing such a wonderful service of warping the minds of humanity!

may the lulz continue ad infinitum!!!

I don't think it's delusional at all. It is long known that if you can indoctrinate children at an early age (bonus points if you make it fun) that their beliefs will often have been shaped without them knowing it.

For instance, framing Iran as bad guys without giving it much thought--it just seems "self-evident" somehow...

I like the idea of the ranch in Hawaii. I agree with you--my experiences traveling when I have couchsurfed or volunteered have been orders of magnitude more memorable than when I stayed in a hotel.

What's your plan re: ranch?? Sounds like a fun project to build.

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but being a big fan of Starbucks who would like to be a moral/ethical person, can you explain why you are not a customer of Starbucks or provide a link or two? Would be much appreciated thanks.

this is exactly how i feel about khan academy. a lot of how and no why.