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Can we please have a rule against posting paywall links? I know we can find a cached version or search on Google or whatever, but it's still frustrating!

I am not asking for a work-around to access WSJ articles. I'm asking HN to consider blocking domains that force users to pay money to access their content.

I have wanted to use Mixpanel for a while. But your product is very very expensive for a Startup. When we're trying to be frugal, there's no way we can justify spending $150 per month on collecting data on just 5,000 users (where 98% of them will be free-users). Your product becomes interesting to a Startup only if they won't have to worry about paying for analytics till they're really successful. That means many millions of data-points. Not 25,000 or even 500,000.

The only Startups that can afford your service at this point are the ones that have only paying users.

Surely WF's needs with YUI-fork (or any other similar library) will be limited enough that they'll need to hire just one or two developers. I don't see how they'll need to spend hundreds (or even tens) of millions of dollars to build a solid library. I don't think even Yahoo has spent that much on YUI in total.

IFTTT is at a great spot to bring simple programming & logic to non-programmers who just want to customize how they interact with technology just a little bit. Looks like Yahoo Pipes missed a big opportunity there.

However, the IFTTT homepage and WTF page are still too complicated for a casual visitor. The WTF page throws all these terms like Channels, Triggers, Actions, Ingredients, Recipes, etc instead of focusing on telling the visitor what they can do with IFTTT. The name (If This Then That) is amazing for explaining what IFTTT is. But, beyond that, they seem to be making things look more complicated than they need to be.

I've been using Dropbox with EncFS, and I feel foolish about not thinking of the fact that Dropbox has ongoing access to the encrypted files.

Would you recommend something other than Dropbox + EncFS as the best compromise for a file-sync solution that has reasonable security, a non-buggy client, supports block-level sync, is reasonably priced and "just works"? BitTorrent Sync + EncFS?

Thank you!

Can we please have a rule against posting paywall links? I know we can find a cached version or search on Google or whatever, but it's still frustrating! We're not talking about work-arounds.

Imagine what our reaction will be if someone posts a link to their own blog which doesn't allow visitor to read the content without paying $1. Even if they have a work-around like you can inspect element and hide the paywall popup.

Definitely appreciate this a lot. I am sure he gets it reviewed by a few people who are closer to the metal.

This is a great way for him to be on top of all the technology that goes in his extremely technical company. Moreover, him understanding the details from the engineers, then writing a blog post about it, and then getting it reviewed by the engineers ensures that the blog post will be understandable for the customers, who are likely to be at (or slightly below) his level of understanding of this technology, not the engineers who actually implemented the thing.

This may be a good place to ask this: Does anyone have experience using Flurry Analytics and Google Mobile App Analytics in production? We're comparing the two, and would love to get opinion from people, who have used them in production, about the not-so-obvious pros and cons.

I tried that (sent them an email), and got an automatic reply that they delete all emails sent in non-work hours. :)

I'll send them an email again tomorrow.

The SSL certificate of website of the Italian Consulate General in San Francisco for the online visa appointments has been expired for almost a month. If you had to apply for visa appointment, would you do so anyway?