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autotravison Google Plans New, Smarter Messaging App

"Google is building a new mobile-messaging service that taps its artificial intelligence know-how and so-called chatbot technology to try to catch up with rivals..."

Or they could, you know, fix notifications in Android's Hangouts app.

autotravison Solu: the Finnish pocket computer that wants to take over the world

"Partially made out of wood" cool

"It's all stored in the cloud" :(

"You pay a fixed fee every single month..." D:

autotravison Encryption might be the reason why we haven't heard from aliens

> Is there currently human technology that does anything similar to this?

Steganography. Not "background", in the sense that images are generally considered useful, but it is hiding information in a place that a casual onlooker would not think to look.

> Encryption is applied on the data layers not to hide that something is being transmitted, but what is being transmitted.

That's exactly why this encryption would be strong. Initially, no one thinks to look for signals that don't look like signals.

autotravison Ask HN: Why are most web designers have very simple and boring websites?

Depending on what you mean by boring it could be

1. "The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot" or "A skilled or knowledgeable person often fails to use their skills for the benefit of their family and people close to them."[0]

2. Minimalism is strongly represented in tech design right now, and could be considered boring.

[0] http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/the+shoemaker's...

autotravison Ask HN: Any open-source webapp RSS reader?

I'm not sure about feedly's reading experience. But I liked miniflux[0] when I used it. It's likely not as fancy as feedly.

0. https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux

autotravison Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2015)

  Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
  Remote: Yes (required)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, Linux
  Résumé/CV: http://treddell.com/travisreddell-resume.pdf
  Email: travisred@me.com

I'm a PHP web developer with past Python experience. I'm looking for a place to work that is serious about their business goal. In return, I'll work hard to help them reach that goal.

autotravison Ask HN: How and where do you store private file you want to keep forever?

Blockchain! But seriously, I'd do a rewritable optical media, a flash drive, and a spinning drive. I'd do checksums on existing data any time you write to it to ensure nothing has been lost. I'd also do some sort of versioning at each write and actually keep a full copy of the data before the write. That last part could get unwieldy if your data grows over a lot time.

And I would double each storage media and keep one set off site.

This is all a little much for anything less than a "I NEVER can lose this data" requirement.

autotravison Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/

autotravison Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)

Hi, I'm Travis Reddell. I am a web developer with experience working with fully remote teams.

  Location: Phoenix, AZ
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: PHP, Python, CakePHP, Django, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  Résumé/CV: http://treddell.com/travisreddell-resume-201506.pdf
  Email: refer to resume

autotravison Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2015)

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Django, PostgreSQL, PHP, MySQL, Nginx, Linux, and anything I need/want to learn

Résumé/CV: http://treddell.com, http://treddell.com/travisreddell-resume.pdf

Email: travis@treddell.com

I specialize in CakePHP and Django web development, but I'm always interested in branching out. I have a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. I like having a challenging side-project going at all times, currently http://redreader.co.

autotravison .co TLD appears to be down

I was wondering why New Relic kept saying my .co had DNS errors...

autotravison Ask HN: What services and software do you pay for?

Business:

* New Relic

* Rackspace VPS, CDN

* CrashPlan

* Amazon S3

Personal:

* Sublime

* Digital Ocean VPS

* Experimental VPS's from Cloud Shards, BlueVM, etc (whoever is cheap at the time I'm looking)

* Hulu Plus

* Amazon Prime

autotravison How to come up with a product idea

The problem with pains and solving them is that if you know how to solve them, then you do so and they're no longer pains. This happens quite often and we likely forget that they were pains to begin with and thus don't value the solution as a potentially commercial product. If you don't know how to solve them, then you have no product either.

I guess the real advice would be to pay attention to the pains you have solved.

autotravison Ask HN: Best current Linux-compatible laptop?

I have the E6400 and it works like a dream once you install the broadcom driver (which is easily done with "Install Additional Drivers in Ubuntu).

autotravison Mobile? Who Are We Kidding?

My employer has a policy that I can't use my personal machine for work :( so I have to wrangle with two and the moving of them about.

autotravison An Open Letter to HN from EFF, Demand Progress, and Cory Doctorow

I feel like the more we talk about it, the more everyone becomes desensitized to the U.S. surveillance problem. Then we get the public at large just rolling their eyes and saying "Oh, another paranoid lunatic wants to take over the government".

I want to do more than just like stuff on facebook... hopefully this will present something more tangible. I signed up for the "Add a banner to your site" list. I can tell ~15k visitors about this over the next month at least.

autotravison How to lose and recover your blog in 30 minutes

because `./build.py; rsync -r site/ site.com:~/site/` is easy?

autotravison Ask HN: How do you back up your data?

Previous backup method: 1. Back up working dir (~1.5 GB) daily with rsync to Raspberry Pi. 2. Back up encrypted archives of photos/videos monthly to mega.co.nz and external drive, and back up new photos/videos during month with #1 above.

New back up method: 1. Back up everything with Deja Dup to $25/year, 50GB VPS daily - I don't have a lot of data. 2. Back up everything with Deja Dup to external drive monthly (maybe going to weekly).

Edit: All photos are resized monthly with a script to create a ~100KB copy that lives on my laptop and phone. I can see all photos I've ever taken on my phone, but still have the full-res copy backed up.

autotravison Ask HN: How old is your computer that you use regularly?

> running WindowsXP with 4Mb of RAM

huh?

autotravison Ask HN: Gmail Outage - how do you deal with it. Do you backup?

Exactly. Backing up my gmail with my Pi was the first thing I wrote about here: http://magnatecha.com/things-i-do-with-my-raspberry-pi/

I can do a quick check/search with mutt from the the Pi.

autotravison Is HN's SSL cert invalid for anyone else?

nope: http://reddino.org/s/20131017063042.png

autotravison Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes

> The article says they are living off the map, which they certainly aren't.

No, it doesn't.

'“It’s basically impossible for you and I to decide, as of tomorrow, I’m going to remain off the radar and to survive for a month or 12 months,” says Gunter Ollmann, the CTO of security firm IOActive'

autotravison Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?

[Other] miniflux - http://miniflux.net/

autotravison Ask HN: Developer laptop under $500

Actually, this looks interesting (IdeaPad U410): http://outlet.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_us/...

9 hr battery life, supposedly. And if it takes after thinkpads, then it supports a native GNU/Linux pretty well.

autotravison Ask HN: Developer laptop under $500

"My budget is $500" + "need to be lightweight, long battery life, slim"

good luck with that.

Chromebook or http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Proper... are my suggestions.

autotravison Why I Silence Calls Even When I'm Free

Yeah, because this guy will sit by and use an iphone for two years while watching the new versions come out...

autotravison Why I Silence Calls Even When I'm Free

“I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.”

talk about wasteful...

autotravison P2P, Encrypted Email Protocol

But setting up a mail server is more difficult than firing up a piece of P2P software.

autotravison Show HN: InstantSEOReport, a free SEO tool built and launched in 1 night

"Great. This domain name is as perfect as perfect can be! - 80%"

Why 80% if it's perfect?