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Ask HN: What do you use to track non-dev tasks/stories?
We're big fans + users of Pivotal Tracker for managing development related tasks (stories).

We're now considering what we should use for non-tech tasks - especially for non-developers in our small startup (CEO, product development, etc).

We want to track current tasks and have an icebox to put future tasks an ideas.

We have Basecamp but use that more for collaboration rather than task tracking - the interface doesn't seem set up to do similar to Pivotal Track - which works really well for us.

What are other startups using? Thanks!
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Here's my junk mail folder:
http://i.imgur.com/2IwpW.png
No because the reward is small compared to starting a startup. You might be lucky at Google and get a huge bonus, but it is not the same as having a cut of the money generated by your product.
Mapreduce & Hadoop Algorithms in Academic Papers (updated)
I think there's more jargon in that paper than participles. My experience with scientists trying to do philosophy is that they are either saying total bullshit, or saying something that's already been said dressed up with fancy science jargon.
I daresay the point of the comment is its comedic timing (which is brilliant) rather than its veracity (which is dubious)
Server is free. http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ -- Mac vmware fusion still costs, though.
You don't need anonymity to speak freely. You might need anonymity to protect yourself from loss of freedom, property, or life.

For example, in the 1770s some people wrote pamphlets criticizing a man named George, publishing them under pseudonyms to protect their lives. Others signed a declaration of independence with their given names, risking death. To each his own.

Such risks may not be an imminent danger where you live right now. Nevertheless, Craig Mundie's proposal will make it far easier for armed men to track down people who disagree with them. That is, of course, the whole point of the proposal.
“It’s interesting that the founders left Google, spent 2.5 years building something, then get acquired by their former company for $50 million. What is going wrong at Google that is costing them this kind of ‘innovation premium’?”
- David Lifson, Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million

Perhaps it's simply because Google doesn't give $50 million dollar bonuses, and never will?
kartme posted a good post about changes they made with usability testing. they mentioned uservoice which is on turk if I remember, they mentioned doing a followup post explaining more about what the did during testing.

http://kartme.com/blog/8-usability-lessons-learned-members
Doesn't sound like a consumer application. Given that your profile mentions 80legs, I think you're in the B2B space.
buzz was internally available at Google for a few months before launch, so yes there was testing.
And this is news how?
Iceland Looks to Create Information Haven
That's not what he's saying; he's saying the product of his company is not suitable for those with very high privacy requirements. Similarity, many commercial operating systems are not suitable for those with very high security requirements. But hell, he's a witch, so let's burn him! But seriously, this sort of a mob mentality is just as embarrassing as the mob mentality seen on the far right in the US. Whether you're a global warming denier or a privacy alarmist, you're still thinking irrationally.

Don't mistake my position; my only contention here is that Schimdt's quote is taken out of context. It is poor evidence of Google's stance on privacy. Let's use strong evidence like the mishandling of Buzz to make our case against Google.
Some related FeedbackArmy-related posts, including some reviews:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=785489

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=376956

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373900
Personally, I say that it's difficult enough to choose a name that fits just one language. But to make it fit multiple languages? I hypothesize that the difficulty in naming will increase exponentially based on how many languages you're considering.
It is their ability to decrypt that scares me. Most of the users were under the impression that Hushmail did not save their keys.
Artificial Sweeteners: Outwitting the Wisdom of the Body
Mikogo - screen, keyboard and mouse sharing - super for remote support

HarddiskOgg - record music playing from soundcard (eg from grooveshark, youtube) into a file format of choice.

WiFi Hopper - shareware - very accurate overview of wifi points in the area. It shows points that don't appear in other programs.

Spyware Doctor - the most powerful spyware remover

Startup Manager - disable unneeded processes carefully

MediaCoder / ColorPic / GTalk
Google vs. Apple - Preludes to a Clash of the Tech Titans
OK, that's great. I want a pony. I'm not going to get it, though, so it's not really even worth talking about.

You can't censor the Internet. You can make posting to the Internet anonymously illegal, but you can't enforce that. You could make crypto illegal, but you can't enforce that either (steganography). Saying that you want to end blog anonymity is like saying you want to end water flowing downhill. You can say it all you want, but it ain't gonna happen.
If you can get over that it's made by Microsoft, Windows Security Essentials is free and IMO better than AVG. I also saw somewhere that it outperforms it but I don't recall the source.
I work for a large company that does this. Granted it's all consulting, but promotion into the upper reaches depends on creating a successful nitch which is effectively an autonomous business. It’s not uncommon for someone to internally develop a piece of software, “sell” it to a government and then get a support contract. Pay is also directly linked to how successful their mini businesses are. However, they decided to mostly stick with consulting and don’t sell products directly to customers.
Considering the overall poor performance of the hedge-fund managers compensated in this fashion, isn't this a model not to follow?
...which is why their spam filters are so much more effective than bayesian filtering -- which is the only tool you have if you 'go it alone' on email

This is not true at all. Of the top of my head, I can think of three different distributed message hashing services (Razor, Pyzor, and DCC) that function similar to a shared Bayesian filter, not to mention all the various IP and URI blacklists that collect and share data about bad actors. I've actually done mail server installs where I've turned off the local bayes filters to improve results because they were getting confused by low volumes.

SpamAssassin comes with just about every Linux distribution and is used by major ISPs, so you're not "going it alone," you're leveraging what a huge percentage of the internet population is already using.

It's not without effort (maybe 15-30 minutes/week of tweaking when something slips through), but my personal email setup gives me as good or better results than my infrequently-used Gmail account.
Working from your own home business
HTML 5 Web SQL Database
VMware Server (formerly GSX) is actually free as well.
Create a Grunge Snowboard Poster for the Winter Olympics - Photoshop Tutorial
Ha. Using the tool for google.com doesnt work.

Facebook is getting 320 Billion page views a month worldwide...
AFAIK, indexed search was part of Vista as well. Incredibly slow compared to locate on Linux though. I haven't tried locate32 myself.
Green Thumb: A Free Social Media Icon Set
The conditions you laid out are hypothetical. Yes, if we ignore the anonymity requirement for all free speech, and it was strictly identity only with no other requirements, it would less directly associated with censorship. But this hypothetical is begging the question... If everything were sweetness and light, we wouldn't have problems with a stricter license for access proposal either because there would be no fear of retribution, and no one would have a reason to speak out. But there is, and they do...

So practically, even your proposal is broken. There is a requirement. You must identify yourself. So how do you do that? Well, you have to supply the proper "papers" -- and what authority will guarantee those? Oops, you've just handed the keys over again...

And the best part? It does nothing to stop criminals, who would have no problem breaking the law again, to just fake the papers and get an id to use a conduit for... whatever. It just institutes another level of control, another mental and practical barrier, to cross for normal people who wish to speak their mind.
How To Work From Home - Your Guide For Home Business
So, in other words, Django provides some HTML for you out of the box.
I want it now. I want it cheap. It should also make toast. What do you mean quality will suffer!?
What are the advantages of this over converting the specification into a CFG and then using a parser-generator?
WoW by the look of all these comments made by us techies, Zuckerberg's comments "Public Is the New “Social Norm,” is so wrong!

http://mashable.com/2010/01/10/facebook-founder-on-privacy/#...
I admit to overreacting and I sincerely apologize for it. Upon further review (and skipping the first paragraph), he makes a good point.

But I do stand by my general point that he fell too easily into the insufferable trap of school egotism. I've made it a policy to pretty much just ignore anybody from the moment they start a sentence with "When I went to <insert specific school>...". It could be a top-10 school, or it could be some Tier-3 school. Unless the point is hyper-specific to that school, the school is really immaterial to the point.

Coincidentally when a school is named in a sentence like that it's almost always a top-10 US school. This is a common phenomenon for these schools.

I did some quick spot checking just to make sure I wasn't suffering from some kind of confirmation bias...

According to Google the phrase "What I was at <insert school>" occurs with the following frequencies:

School - Google Returns - US News Ranking

Harvard - 2,280,000 - 1

Columbia - 1,300,000 - 8

Yale - 976,000 - 3

Stanford - 962,000 - 4

Princeton - 651,000 - 1

MIT - 607,000 - 4

Duke - 553,000 - 10

Brown - 485,000 - 16

Cornell - 418,000 - 15

Compare to Tier-3 schools with large student populations

KSU - 91,300

Biola - 56,800

DePaul - 45,200

UVA - 45,600

Some of the schools barely register at all, even reasonably notable ones. I even tried a couple versions of their names to get more results...

George Mason University - Which has the largest student population in the state, and is #1 on USNews's list of Up-and-coming National Universities has the #1 public policy school in the nation, and several other top-10 and top-20 schools and programs (Economics, Political Economics, Law and Economics) etc.

GMU - 3

George Mason - 4

Old Dominion University - one of only 101 public universities with a Carnegie/Doctoral Research-Extensive distinction, large student population

ODU - 10

Old Dominion - 1

Kettering University (formerly GMI) - Ranked consistently as one of the best Engineering Schools in the U.S.

Kettering - 7

GMI - 7
The government can subpoena your own server in your own house just as easily as they can subpoena Google's servers.

So who are you hiding from? If it's the government, then you must use strong cryptography no matter where you host your email, and you must ensure that everyone you communicate with is as paranoid as you. (I would encrypt all my email, but nobody else I talk too will. So it doesn't work.) If it's advertisers you want to avoid, just run your own server and stop worrying so much. People have been doing it for years.

(Although, I run my own mailserver and am inundated with spam. Thousands of messages a day. So you aren't really avoiding advertisements, you are just avoiding advertisements for stuff you might actually want :)
What's naive is to think that Mark Zuckerberg would pay $50 million for something unless he actually wanted it that much.
yep, that's exactly what i think too. Google needs real time search and the best way to do that is to have the data on their lightning machines.

If it's not on their lightning machines, then the content owner (twitter, facebook, etc) is the king and google has to wait until that content owner makes the data available to google's bots.

I imagine google talked to facebook and twitter, but google is getting a lot of push back from content owners because content owners don't want to let google put servers in their data centers or have quicker access to the data than can be gotten through polling for updates.

And why would they? They all work on advertising meaning they are all competitors. It's the same thing with newspapers, except in this case, the content owners actually have some power to say no to Google, because twitter and facebook users don't go through google first to get there. Google is a gateway for the newspapers, but twitter and facebook are themselves gateways.

Google wants everyone in the world to start their browsers on a page controlled by google.
I know the feeling but I recommend letting it go. I've seen some vile comments there, but most get down-voted into oblivion.
I notice that you are a design professional and have written lengthy articles on interface design. The point of this article is that buying a handful of beers will improve your product design immensely, when compared to doing nothing at all. It is an amateur move that probably looks useless from a professional standpoint, but like 24-grit sandpaper, makes a rough job look more polished.
There are other options available. What almost certainly happened here is that Google was so concerned with getting the features right that they pushed it out without asking "What could go wrong?"

A lot of startups do that and most of the time they're fine because they can learn as their user base grows. But Google made a strategic decision to bind Buzz to Gmail and that is what caused the problem.

The lesson is that a lot of people are thoughtless when building technology but once you get to the size of Google you can no longer afford to be as lax as everyone else.
Mexican 'meteorite' was falling Russian satellite
Should We Clone Neanderthals?
A wild off-balance swing and a stumbling miss, I agree.

Of course, real-life business casual isn't going to work ("Hey, its J.Crew Barbie!") but they could have gone for:

- An edgy all-black mod look ala The Matrix.

- Slim-fitting jeans, and fitted t-shirt with 8-bit graphics motif; accessorized with a super-slick looking laptop running Gentoo.

- A cute Unix hippy look, with BSD or Linux t-shirt, and a bus analyzer/logic analyzer as the accessory.
Looks like the 10k deductible plan for health alone through Freelancers is still $196/mo... better, but still seems a bit high, considering I've never been hospitalized.
Agree that (b) is almost certain.

Google had the decision to jump-start their social network in a big way at a cost of annoying maybe 1 in 100 gmail users who are conscious about this sort of thing. Seems like an obvious decision to a for-profit company.

It raises questions in my mind about what data I am providing to Google and what unforeseen ways they may decide to use that data at some future point.
I don't know about keyword affinity, but traffic stats are very accurate based on ~15 sites I tested (ranging from small to large).
Preferences > Appearance > Fonts > Details. Set hinting to none. Enjoy text that looks more or less like OS X.
Machine learning made statistics cool.
Are those binary semaphores, or are you just happy to see me?

I wonder what this implies for "tail-end recursion" o_ô
If we're going to have real-time search, I'd rather it's from Buzz than Twitter if only for the fact that it's not limited to 140 characters and doesn't have to use URL shorteners, you can include pics/maps/videos/etc, and it's easy to see comments made about a post.

Twitter's 140 char limit was cute at first, and it sounds great in concept ("deep thoughts in few words!"), but in practice it's starting to get on my nerves.
Obfuscated opt-out is pretty much the definition of 'evil'.
If I understand this properly, it means that if you want to use Google Buzz, your Gmail address becomes public and you can't hide it.

Whereas on twitter, people can't find out your e-mail address. That's quite important because the whole point of twitter is to offer this semi-public presence without being bombarded by email spam.
I write a lot, but I don't blog. The people I write for don't use RSS feeds or routinely scan a large number of sites, and I'm not prolific enough on any one topic to give anyone incentive to follow my blog, since I don't have any friends that share more than one or two of my interests.

When I write about food and recipes, I send an email to three or four people I know will be interested. When I write about a backpacking or travel destination, it's an email to a different handful of people. When I write about exercise, I put it on a private blog where I record my food, exercise, and weight every day. When I write about software, I usually throw it away, though I often find an opportunity to recycle the thoughts and language in a discussion online or in person. When I write about a book, I share what I've learned by talking to a friend who would be interested. Et cetera.

I've thought about putting everything on a blog and just sending links to people when there's an entry they'd be interested in, but writing a blog that has no consistent readership and constantly bugging people to read it just feels pathetic for some reason.
- An edgy all-black mod look ala The Matrix.

haha, hopefully you're not referring to Trinity in that. Though I'd love to see Ken decked out like Neo when they stormed the building, guns and all.
hedge funds have gotten away with poor performance due to naivety and poor due diligence from investors. hedge funds managers are just following their incentives, it's up to investors to shape the right incentive
I recently wrote this up after switching back to Windows from OS X--it's mostly a bunch of apps that mimic Mac functionality (Expose, etc), but also some useful generic utilities linked:

http://www.matthewwegner.com/switching-back-to-windows/
Any recommendations for open-source webmail?
Disabling Google Buzz: How to purge your profile
What's up with the disable right-click script?
Some professional tools are downright ugly. Pretty is more important in the consumer space.

To tell the truth, in some cases, if you make it too pretty, the customer may suspect he's being sold consumer-grade crap ...

(I didn't downvote you, btw.)
Please Kev, next time you reach this point of inspiration just take a few minutes to write your thoughts out. Your delivery adds too little to your thesis too make up for the bother of listening to you deliver it.
Well, that was sort of the point of my original comment. The test will work if bar-people represent your target customer base. This won't be the case for B2B products and may not be the case for some Consumer products.
Interesting that the motivation seems to be privacy concerns. I could care less about privacy but I'm getting tired of gmail's underperformance (your results may vary). Gmail speed has become Intolerably slow over the past 6 months. I love everything else about it though and wish there was a paid alternative with the same Interface. And no it isn't premium. I had that and it was no better. I think I'm on a bad cluster or something and google support has been horrendous.

I love 90% of googles products so don't assume this is flame / bashing.
Nothing at all. Personal opinion, blah blah, etc.
SFTP is a file transfer protocol over SSH, so it is plenty secure. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol
Google makes money by shoving ads in your face, or charging you for their service to shove ads in others' faces. Their power in this field is their expertise in exploiting the information that people so freely hand over to them.

They make no money protecting ones' privacy. If you can work your privacy into their business model, you'll have gained something. Good luck with that, though.
Until you have kids... most people who have kids think that your opinions aren't really valid.

I don't intend for that to sound mean. Sure, you can have your opinions, but there is so much that goes into raising a kid that you just can't know beforehand that you can't make an informed opinion. So, knowing if you have kids sets the level of expectations.

I think that it's fair to say that you can describe 'principles', but talking about putting those into practice is where people (such as myself), get touchy. This is especially true when you criticize someone else's choices.

Another way of putting it is this: In theory, there is no difference between theory in practice. In practice, there is.
God schmod, I want my monkey man!
OT: Is there a literary term for the situation where something's greatest strength is also that thing's greatest weakness? Like an Achilles heel, except the Achilles heel isn't also a strength.

It applies here, because the 140 char limit is what helped twitter take off, but it could also be twitter's greatest weakness.
Balsamiq Mockups looks great. Thanks for that!
Satellites just aren't big enough or powerful enough or reliable enough to be effective platforms.... and we'd need /a lot/ of satellites.

Think space mirrors!
Why repelled?
From the Buzz of Modular Innovation to Success in Redesign
No, if you use Picasa, people who have access to your history can find your gmail address.
I've been using Thymer, it's pretty good for me, and it should scale pretty well to a team environment. With that being said, the free trail should give you enough time to see how it works for your team, plus as I recall the pricing is pretty reasonable.
Oh. I meant VMWare Workstation. (upading the post now.) And Beyond Compare is shareware, isn't it?
postfix + squrrelmail

there's also this - http://lmgtfy.com/?q=open-source+webmail
I think online job sites suck and there has to be a better way. Linkedin is doing a better job, but it doesn't seem to have cracked the puzzle just yet. The job postings on HN are a great example, need to figure a way to transfer the networking/community aspect along with the up/down review aspect for jobs and job seekers. Anyone else interested in discussing the idea further, msg me at pjharrin [at] gmail . c0m
He didn't want to reinforce gender stereotypes?
Yes, I first give the author the same slack in assuming he _meant_ your alternative title.

However, the lack of any substance whatsoever to the argument makes me pull back on that slack.

Just what points are valid and interesting?
If the founding team wants a fair price, they need the option to sell to a non-Google company. I don't think Google would be happy selling its internal projects to Microsoft.
http://squirrelmail.org/ is out there. Can't personally recommend, since I've used gmail exclusively since I got an invite, and desktop mail apps (plus hotmail) before that. My college used squirrelmail before they switched to http://www.horde.org/webmail/.
> OT: Is there a literary term for the situation where something's greatest strength is also that thing's greatest weakness?

A couple of Google searches (ha!) didn't return anything, but it feels like there should be (I'm expecting an ancient greek word).

I'd definitely also like to know.
http://fastmail.fm is my poison of choice.
Thank you, I've been looking for that all day. When they work out their privacy issues maybe I'll turn it back on, but for now I'm good.
Open Angel Forum will destroy all chapters of Keiretsu Forum in the next 12 months. We are coming to EVERY city they are in and shutting them down one by one.

We shut down Boulder and we will have Los Angeles shut down shortly.

We are replacing them with a better model for angels and entrepreneurs.... and worse for the owner of the forum (i.e. me and their founder). I heard the founder of Keiretsu forum was taking home $1m in profits personally from the Forum... all on the backs of $6k presentation fees they pulled out of startups.

We are OAF
We are legion
We will not stop
Or Rush