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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by danneu »

GVRV wrote: post #371
larrybolt wrote: post #336

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I love how OneTab works, and it was something I used very frequently. But one day, not sure why exactly my chrome profile folder (osx mac) got corrupted. I cannot give technical details about it really, but not a single one of the chrome addons I had worked any longer. And I tried to recover the tab sessions but was unsuccessful. If there is a feature OneTab is missing, it's to sync your tabs/sessions to a certain lo…

It provides an export as a text file on the 'One Tab' page in the right hand corner. I wrote a small Python script to parse this text file and upload all my tabs to Pinboard.

Good idea. Here's my Clojure script: https://github.com/danneu/onetab-to-pinboard

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rdl »

anonymousDan wrote: post #576
rdl wrote: post #569

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SGX is pretty reasonable IFF you believe in the Intel PKI. I have been looking at how to do cheap ($20-50 slow USB connected (essentially smartcard), $500-1000 PCIe) HSMs. If you do shared-computation with a host (with or without SGX/TXT), you can get pretty decent performance with quite modest HSM hardware. Those provide NSA-type protection -- in that attacking a single instance isn't guaranteed, and takes time, so…

The k of n split across multiple locations idea is interesting. I agree that if you're paranoid about the NSA it probably doesn't make too much sense to have faith in the Intel PKI. When you say pretty decent performance for your HSM, do you mean less than 10 % for real world apps? I'm currently assuming a threat model where an attacker doesn't have physical access however, and looking more into how to use hardware t…

ARM or possibly Atom in a box, so pretty decent performance. The pain of the HSM is the physical packaging, and my ultimate goal is to make that reusable and let users select their own components and do their own final assembly and certification.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by Flenser »

cweiss wrote: post #536
Flenser wrote: post #486

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This functionality is build into chrome. Just right click the tab strip and the bottom option is "Bookmark all Tabs" or use the CTRL+SHIFT+D shortcut. Then they are just saved as tabs in a folder which has the benefit that they show up in address bar searches and are backed up via chrome sync.

I'd love a "Bookmark selected tabs" kind of function that lets me quickly click on a dozen or so relevant tabs. Usually, I'll have 20+ tabs open with 5-10 on a given subject, so "Bookmark All" captures a lot of useless tabs. Better yet, a "Bookmark similar subject" plugin would be awesome - Leverage Google's search to automatically figure out tabs that are about the same thing and bookmark them by subject. Ignoring p…

Usually I find tabs I want are next to each other, or easy to drag together. If there are a log of tabs in the window that I don't want then I use the Tab Split Extension[1] to put them in another window, or I just edit the bookmarks once I've created them.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-split/imjbfepo...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by rgbrgb »

icebraining wrote: post #514
rgbrgb wrote: post #19

stop-the-data-orgy.com: A service that makes it easy (2 clicks) to migrate my email storage from gmail/googleapps to to s3/dropbox.

CloudHQ (not affiliated, never used it) makes it seem pretty easy[1]. Not two clicks, but that's mostly due to authentication. [1] http://www.slideshare.net/cloudHQ/backup-gmail-to-dropbox

Thanks but that just does backup. I have a domain I use with google apps. I'd like to move that to a non-ad-driven email server that doesn't mine/sell my data and preferably that I can own.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by gopi »

gfodor wrote: post #304

- Browser plugin that lets you have private group conversations around other peoples' posts. Pure evil, I won't do it due to pesky ethics. (Think "people gossiping about how ugly someone is in their selfie behind their back" as primary use case.) UX would be injecting thread inline on major sites, first would obv be Facebook. - Better wedding planning software - Tool to go through LinkedIn "Who You Might Know" recomm…

Your first idea was done before and FB shut it down http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/miss-being-able-to-comment-... http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/03/facebook-threatens-to-sue-t...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by josephjrobison »

lukeholder wrote: post #430
josephjrobison wrote: post #400

Uber for delivery via drones. Kind of reaching, and I know it's not practical yet, but the general concept is cool. I wouldn't be surprised if Uber did it themselves first since they have a knack for trying weird delivery stuff like ice cream or flowers or whatever. You would open your Uberish app, punch in the weight of what you need delivered and where to deliver it to, it would give you an estimate, and come to yo…

so http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8037720011 ?

I was thinking more of sending stuff peer to peer than purchasing something from Amazon! Or a system to help small businesses to do so.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by fs-bb »

raldi wrote: post #44

A way for employees to push back against their coworkers when they email too much crap to too wide an audience. In other words, I wish my Inbox had a little voting widget next to each message: +------------------------------------+ | 4,376 people received this message | | | | [Cool, it was ] [It was a waste] | | [important and] [of my time to ] | | [worthy of our] [ read this ] | | [ time ] [ message ] | | | +-------…

Here's a version of that that we did using our Django app. You create a new email with a unique ID and get a link to vote that you can put somewhere like your email footer. We've posted some of the code here: https://github.com/FlowStacks/email-voting and the email voter is here: https://flowstacks.com/emailvoter/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by notduncansmith »

uptown wrote: post #217
hooande wrote: post #72

A solution for the "too many tabs open" problem. Need a way to save my history in an organized and interactive manner, with a nice looking UI. Sort of like the old WebMynd ( http://webmynd.com ). I find that most of my tabs are open as a form of reminder. If I close it, I'll forget it and might as well not have seen it. Same if I hide it away in some kind of bookmarking app. I think it would be best to apply a UI lay…

If you use Chrome, check out OneTab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...

I started using OneTab after I saw this comment last Sunday. Just wanted to come back and thank you for bringing this to my attention :) It's added a lot of value for me.
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