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by matlin 7y ago
I totally agree. And I'm currently building a tool to gather all of your data into one database and let developers create a way to interface with it. It solves the problem that you're describing but could also greatly simplify dev
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by matlin 7y ago
wow that's impressive. I did a CCPA request and got 2.2MB (466KB zipped) of data from the last year which included listening history, playlists, and search history.
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by matlin 7y ago
I'm curious how much data this involves per user. This is clearly a massive undertaking when you're talking about ~250 million users but I bet it would be easy to provide the same info if all the data was local on a device and eac
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by matlin 7y ago
I am building something that fits this need ( https://www.aspen.cloud/owners ). It lets you pull together all of your personal data into on database and build apps on top of it! Let me know if you want to contribute, have fee
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by matlin 7y ago
That's the plan! We are building it in a way that you also means you don't have to decide to do just self-host or pay for the service. You could use both and have one as the failover. I.e. primarily use the hosted version but if
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by matlin 7y ago
> I see the PCC model work for applications where neither the consumer and the business want to store sensitive data because the security overhead is too high. I agree. I think apps that have both a basic and premium version can really t
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by matlin 7y ago
I'm trying to create EXACTLY this with my latest project ( https://www.aspen.cloud ) and it is challenging to find the right balance between ease of use and decentralization. The path we're taking is a service that you c
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by matlin 7y ago
I feel the exact same way and am currently trying to solve this by decoupling the application from the storage. So the "experts" control the business logic and UI, while I, the user, store the data. It's similar to what Fireb
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by matlin 7y ago
We've been building something to solve this exact problem. We started looking at how much we could derive from email notifications but parsing unstructured emails is very error-prone and typically incomplete so we decided to lean on ex
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Ask HN: How much are spending on Firebase per user?
1 points by matlin 7y ago|0 comments
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by matlin 7y ago
That's definitely true for the big companies with freemium services but I'm optimistic that the services that you pay for or the ones that want to spend less on engineering may find it simpler and aligned with their users to just
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by matlin 7y ago
This is spot on for the types of email that are actionable notifications and is absolutely an unmet need that a company like Superhuman could fix if they choose to integrate with third party platforms. The unfortunate part is that there are
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Ask HN: Is it too late to reverse the data fragmentation in the cloud and web?
1 points by matlin 7y ago|0 comments
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by matlin 7y ago
This seems a lot like an eventually-consistent database. I think you could accomplish something similar with something like CouchDB or Firebase that provide conflict resolution between local and server state automatically. I'm wonderin
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by matlin 7y ago
Erlang VM is actually design around full CPU utilization. It will typically spin up a thread for each core and schedule processes (Erlang not system) across them. It's actually because it's designed to not share memory that it exc
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by matlin 8y ago
Do you think any apps currently meet all of your needs / what ways are you able to accomplish this form of communication with existing services?
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Ask HN: What features would a perfect messaging platform have?
2 points by matlin 8y ago|3 comments
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by matlin 8y ago
I've actually been working on this exact idea combined with a few other features. The main finding so far is that adding a simple contact list to your email that blocks all messages from senders not in your contacts has some far reachi
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by matlin 8y ago
This is awesome and important work! I hope that this project can move independently of Elm's development once it gets enough interest though.
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by matlin 9y ago
I understand that you are angry about the Cambridge Analytica revelations, I am too. But I am not spreading misinformation, I am participating in a discussion. I have repeatedly try to communicate that I am not talking about targeted advert
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by matlin 9y ago
> The Google real-time bidding spec outlines pretty clearly what data Google will share with third parties This is exactly my point is it is clear you are consenting and have control and can opt out here: https://adssettings.g
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by matlin 9y ago
Obviously but you're missing the main focus which is privacy and responsibility of holding personal data. It's not about whether Facebook is more or less trustworthy than Google--I think we should be very wary of both. All I'
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by matlin 9y ago
There definitely is... That's the whole point of Facebook's Senate hearing. If it stays within company and can't be used by directly by third parties for their own agendas like influencing elections. I 100% think that we shou
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by matlin 9y ago
The difference is that Google doesn't share that information with other firms. Having centralized information for a user is important to many (you can always spread it across multiple emails and accounts) but I think violation of priva
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by matlin 9y ago
I hope they scrap it for a better model. Shared memory + locks is not the only way to handle concurrency and can be difficult to reason about. I don't quite understand what problem it's solving that message passing doesn't a
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by matlin 9y ago
Amazon is getting a growing percentage of direct product searches but Google still processes the majority of consumer searches, be it at a diminishing rate.
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by matlin 9y ago
Thank you for your work! Is this an indicator that Google is interested in or using Elixir internally or is it just a response to growing requests from the community?
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by matlin 9y ago
This hardly covers any functional patterns that javascript is capable of. You can compose functions, avoid stack overflows in tail call recursion, use immutable values, etc. I've seen articles on pattern matching with Typescript or tra
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by matlin 10y ago
This team is honestly moving and building user requested features faster than any other team I have seen.