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ajitk··on Show HN: BrowserBox – Remote Browser
Thanks for the feedback! A cobrowsing demo app should be live in a few weeks. :)
ajitk··on Show HN: BrowserBox – Remote Browser
Ajit from BrowserBox team here.

The core premise of BrowserBox and Mighty is similar - virtualize and run browsers on the server. Mighty is desktop app meant for end users. BrowserBox's API is for developers who can integrate it into apps or build custom apps using the platform. In the long run, one can potentially build a Mighty like app using BBX APIs. It is still early days and looking for active feedback from the community to see where it can go.

ajitk··on Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes
This is refreshingly fast! Definitely going to try typesense in my projects.
ajitk··on Risky South Pole mission: retrieve sick scientists from research station
The article states, "The operation was carried out under local anesthesia." Without one, pain will make any hand movement near to impossible!
ajitk··on Silicon Valley tech firms exacerbating income inequality, World Bank warns
It is worth repeating: http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html
ajitk··on LodePNG: All-in-one PNG image decoder and encoder for C and C++
The linked homepage states that the latest update was in 2012: "Revamped interface with more consistent names, rewrote some parts, bugfixes.".
ajitk··on Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack
I love it too. Drag-n-drop and collapsing them makes managing tabs so much easier. Its hard to navigate tabs in a browser without it!
ajitk··on Uber sign-ups soar by 850 percent as cab drivers protest
Streisand effect works on its own!
ajitk··on No Girls Allowed
Don't ads create false memories[1] and consequently our behavior?

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/ads-implant-false-...

ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
Using Sieve it is possible to monitor any kind of webpage. It should be possible to monitor websites that require you to log in to check updates too.
ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
At its core, the essential work is to detect changes important to the user. Adding summarization techniques to further weed out the noise would be a very important improvement.
ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
Liked this suggestion. Unfortunately the domain names getsiv.com and sivapp.com are taken.

Edit: siv.io could be nice.

ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
Thats an excellent suggestion. We do have plans to modularize the browser component to offer browser as a web service.
ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
It is not possible select content using iframes due to client-side security restrictions imposed by the browser.
ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
Thanks for your kind words. The stack is a mix of both. Browser runs on the server and sends updates to the client via websocket. Then it is painted on the client. On the client-side a part of noVNC js library is used to capture input and is sent to the browser running on the server.
ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
Ah IE5! It has been a very long wait. :) We are hard at work to launch Sieve. Optimistically we should be ready in a couple of months.
ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
Thanks for the great feedback. :)

Getting started would certainly be much simple when using screenshot or page HTML for comparison. Sieve could do that too! More work needs to be done to make startup faster.

On the other hand having filtered text provides multiple advantages. The filtering becomes accurate. It can be used to compute rules to take conditional actions. Notifications delivery via email and SMS would make more sense as well.

Running a browser on server enables another cool function. User could record macro and run the macro when text satisfied a pre-condition.

Edit: typo

ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
Thanks. I like sifter. Going to check if it is available.
ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
Glad that you liked the concept. Wasn't aware of the unfortunate name collision. I am open to suggestions. Thanks!
ajitk··on Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
Hello HN! I am excited to show Sieve. Its in alpha state and under active development.

Would appreciate your feedback. Checkout Visual Selector used to let user filter content from a webpage.

ajitk··on Light Table 0.4 released
This is awesome! I haven't used an IDE for a long time now but LT has shown enough to convince me to use one.
ajitk··on Yahoo shuts down six products
Not pertinent to the discussion, but why does some of the links use http://google.com/url?q= prefix for redirecting URLs? Any advantage of doing so instead of directly linking to the posts?
ajitk··on Pithy.js - An internal DSL for generating HTML in JavaScript
I prefer https://github.com/jed/domo to create DOM elements in browser. Its output is a real DOM element whereas in pithy.js, its string.
ajitk··on Standups are Not Poisonous
> This puts less emphasis on "looking useful" as individuals and more on championing tasks to see their completion.

This is a very good approach. Separating task and people is key to getting things done. When things are getting tough for an individual, the team can rally behind.

ajitk··on Scientists Inject Human Brain Cells Into Mice, Make Them Smarter
Aren't they sentient? They are able to perceive and feel things.
ajitk··on Contest: Hack my bitcoins and keep them
I was expecting a twist in the plot. :)
ajitk··on Tata Introduces Flatpack Nano House: 215 Square Feet For $720
The attribution text (partially visible) suggests the source to be CarAdvice.com. Interestingly, the image on attributed caradvice.com article has same image as the one in the linked article. CarAdvice in turn seems to have taken image from another blog[1] (as linked in the article) and added the attribution.

[1]http://blog.miragestudio7.com/affordable-mass-housing-in-ind...

ajitk··on VPN access being disabled in China
VPN and SSH[1] have been means of evasion. But there have been anecdotal evidence of "unstable" VPN[2] and SSH connections before.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/13/china-crack...

ajitk··on Rendering templates obsolete
I like it. Saw a similar approach in Firebug's domplate. dom-o looks cleaner.

I really like the pitch to "Reduce the number of moving parts" at the cost of small learning curve.

ajitk··on How and why we switched to Amazon EC2
I too have found quite a few usable offers from lowendbox.com (LEB) and lowendtalk.com (LET). Searching the websites bring up quite a few attractive deals.

However it may be tricky to pick a good host. It is usually a good idea to look for past experiences before signing up. The community is active and helps make that decision: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/5136/best-leb-host-q3-2...

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