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Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by Semaphor » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 8:56 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #63

dsrguru wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know a lot of this post-PRISM fear of the US government is to be expected and is certainly popular on HN, but comments that single out the US like this really make little sense to me. The governments of Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all share tech-related intel with the United States and, potentially if not presumably, have similarly intrusive methods of surveillance. China goes so far as to ban socia…

The USA has taken possession of .com domains and raided physical premises based on copyright. This need have nothing to do with the NSA and still be a perfectly valid and reasonable suggestion. I think it's reasonable that any site that has user generated content should consider not being hosted on US soil or using a .tld that is under US control.

In general I'd say Germany has quite some problems with UGC hosted here as well.

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by ingrownpsyche » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 8:56 PM UTC

shahar2k wrote: post #54

Is this kind of platform possible with WebRTC? (where the files are hosted on the users' computers instead of requiring your own servers?)

I assumed this was using WebRTC. Is it not?

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by pmelendez » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 8:57 PM UTC

I find very interesting how a lot of people is sharing their resume, suddenly all the HN traffic (potential employers included) are reading random resumes.

I don't know if that would be effective at all but it is very interesting.

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 8:58 PM UTC

spindritf wrote: post #45

> Announcement: Because of the high traffic we are seeing right now, the radio might take a long time to load or not work at all. Hacker News killed the radio star. Very cool idea. With a little faster chat (there's currently quite a delay between saying something and seeing it displayed) I can see it catching on. Hang out, share files, listen to the music together.

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Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by hfantods » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 9:00 PM UTC

gmjoe wrote: post #12

There's always something kind of magical about real-time sites -- like the Internet is a little less lonely, and there are real people out there. Very cool!

Exactly my feeling. Couldn't really articulate it.

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by zz1 » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 9:05 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #60

dsrguru wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know a lot of this post-PRISM fear of the US government is to be expected and is certainly popular on HN, but comments that single out the US like this really make little sense to me. The governments of Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all share tech-related intel with the United States and, potentially if not presumably, have similarly intrusive methods of surveillance. China goes so far as to ban socia…

I suggested it due to DMCA takedown notices, not NSA-related concerns.

Kind of related (in fact OT): Any news about the torrent? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226373

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by toomuchtodo » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 9:18 PM UTC

zz1 wrote: post #76

toomuchtodo wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suggested it due to DMCA takedown notices, not NSA-related concerns.

Kind of related (in fact OT): Any news about the torrent? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226373

Uploaded ~100GB of it to S3, wasn't thinking enough to check torrent size limits. S3 limits torrents to 5GB objects. Want me to provide personal info for you to get in touch with me? I can mail you a SATA drive with the archive on it.

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 9:38 PM UTC

desouzt wrote: post #52

It never ceases to amaze me how immature people can be when unleashed with this type of product!

To be fair, it's a 4chan project.

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by vxNsr » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 9:40 PM UTC

This is basically IRC with file sharing... and everyone is ignoring the filesharing part because it's full of porn. So basically you created a html5 IRC clone, very cool.

Just wondering: What are your plans for this? And Does this have any IRC-like commands?

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by hex12648430 » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 9:41 PM UTC

vxNsr wrote: post #79

This is basically IRC with file sharing... and everyone is ignoring the filesharing part because it's full of porn. So basically you created a html5 IRC clone, very cool. Just wondering: What are your plans for this? And Does this have any IRC-like commands?

>and everyone is ignoring the filesharing part because it's full of porn. It's much better in smaller rooms.