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Well, just customize Readable (http://readable.tastefulwords.com/?setup) to your heart's content. Then, get in touch, and send me the custom options you used.

If the theme is awesome, I'll add it to Readable's selection of themes (http://readable.tastefulwords.com/?setup#explain-style-theme...). Did you try those out, by the way?

If you know CSS, you can also heavily customize Readable via the "More CSS" option.
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"Demographers predict that by 2030, average life expectancy will have climbed past 80"

In most European (and a couple of Asian) countries, average life expectancy is already above 80.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Ask HN: What do you read?
I've recently gotten back into reading and I'm curious to hear what HN recommends.

I'm also working on a small side project that helps connect tech/startuppeople/nerds with books they'll love, and getting a gauge of what HN reads would be rather awesome.

What do you consider "essential reading" in the following categories:

Sci Fi
Fantasy
Classics
Contemporary
No offense, but this article doesn't say anything insightful or novel about aging other than rehashing what is relatively obvious.

I find myself saying this quite a few times too. But sometimes I wonder, is it because of such articles that these things are relatively obvious?
Mmm... I wonder why you don't write that masterpiece of content about this topic for all our benefit instead of simply shitting all over :)
Wouldn't be the best way to answer to something you feel not useful at all?
Or what you would write would be so totally not useful to be worst than the infamous "How to serve a glass of water" EHow post?
I could understand if we're not supposed to be giving our launch coordinates to China, but something like an interial navigation system has plenty of uses.

This seems silly overbearing and not likely to effect much change as how China commits espionage is through spies in places like Sandia, not collaborating on science projects. The only difference between our spies and theirs is that ours haven't gotten caught so far.
What ever became of the erlang branch?

https://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/tree/erlang

I never really understood what the main driver behind that was. Are there still plans to release that?
Good opportunity for a Czech website to set up a Slovak news subsite? It need not cost too much just to filter Slovak news to one site.
I would like to know how to find the great engineers. So far have hired fantastic engineers in the former soviet union and in the Philippines, but have not had one good experience in India.

I believe that there are some phenomenally good engineers and a very large number of terrible engineers. So as a foreigner trying to hire, without travelling there it's very difficult. The great people simply don't respond to job ads, and unless you are Google, are not interested in applying. Plus the great people earn $2,000 per month and higher. The large number of very average people earn $300-500 per month. So that's why I haven't found any great people, but I think if you have connections or a good recruiting team in India it's possible to find these people.
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I believe the future of old people will be old people rejuvenating to a younger biological age, preferably when we're in our prime.
a pesudonym is somewhat unprofessional. I mean, certainly, if you are good enough, nobody cares, but for technical stuff? it's probably in your interest to publish cool stuff under your real name.

Now, at least for me, the times I embarrass myself I am talking about personal stuff or about politics. Using a pseudonym for that sort of thing is completely reasonable. I think "would I want this on my long-form resume?" is a good question to ask before posting something under your real name.

Generally, I think, technical mistakes are forgiven, especially if you admit or point out your mistake. There isn't much danger, I think, to coding using your real name.
There's nothing wrong with spending a couple years writing glue code.

Nor is there anything wrong with spending a couple years using an operating system before building your own.

There are plenty of libraries to write that haven't been written yet, yes, DB abstraction layers have been done to death, but I'm sure there's still a better way to make CSS sprites, or platforms for which ANY library is not readily available.

In my opinion, "If I have seen further, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants".
Make a new thread and get people to answer for you instead of searching yourself through the 6 billion threads that have already been made on this topic. Then use the time you saved to get some work done.
Our company (EDIT: not related in any form to readable or readability) does nonrss based crawling (blogs, news, message boards), so we spent quite some time on automatically identifying article, author and date and comments in articles.

If someone is interested in creating something similar to readability (e.g with us doing the article extraction for you) or does a need a website article extraction, you can contact me t.britz@trendiction.com.

PS. We have so many other ideas on our own and that's the reason we are not doing it ourselves.
HB Gary... Sony... Fox/X-Factor... others/more to come...

Prediction: Web security products/services will be the hot ticket for the rest of 2011-2012.
A Couchapp has features that are trivial in couchdb (replication, map-reduce) but require more setup in traditional server side code. The target market will be applications that value these tradeoffs.

If you decide you need something else, I don't see the problem with having some parts of the application served by couchdb and some served by node. Put it behind varnish, cdn the static content, add a queueing system or whatever...

I think a couchapp is a decent way to prototype something out and if it goes viral you're going to be rewriting everything anyway no matter what system you use.
If I am the only person who has access to the app, it will get me off the street and into a spot faster.

If everyone has access to the app, then nothing will change.

Think about it. How quickly are open spots snatched up in downtown San Francisco at peak hours right now? There's not much room for improvement there.

The problem is simply that there is more demand than supply of on-street parking, and people are willing to wait 30+ minutes to "win" a spot.

A much more effective solution is to just raise the price of on-street parking.

Philadelphia did this in 2009 [1]. I don't know if they've done any studies to evaluate the impact, but my own personal observation was that it opened up just enough spots during peak hours to eliminate the need to "cruise" for parking almost entirely.

[1] http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Phila-Meter-Parkin...
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The above chart series is why I consider getting the highest education possible a categorical imperative. As much as we snark about the English grad student barista - the barista is doing better than the high school dropout who hasn't worked for years because his industry is as flaccid as a used balloon, and he has no other serious skills.
I'm not sure creds to reddit are necessary unless the original disclosure was made there..
That argument can be applied to anything anyone pays for ... if they want to start charging for milk you should just get your own cow and learn how to milk it yourself!

If Slovakians are willing to pay for news then they'll pay otherwise they won't, just like every other commodity.
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Could be an opportunity for Czechs.

However, it is not necessary. Not all news sites are putting up the paywall and even those that are, they are not doing it for wire news (SME and Pravda are doing it for opinion pages, occasional "premium articles" and discussion boards).

SME tried it in the past and it was a failure, that did them more damage than improvements; this time they tried to cooperate among publishers and do it at the same time, but they still do not have critical mass. Most people that didn't drink the cool-aid expect it to fail again.
I find the idea of trends with logos quite silly. A good logo (and brand) should outlast short-lived trends.
I assume they mean, if you brick the phone, the warranty is void. If you reflash your phone but then the hardware breaks, the warranty is still valid.
Agreed. Sales data is meaningless without price. I'm assuming that was discussed in a prior blog, but I'm too lazy to search through them all to find it.
Would've been nice if you mentioned that your company has nothing to do with Readable, as there is a chance someone reading might get that impression -- especially for the short time that your reply is the first reply.
Yes! As a novice programmer, this is exactly the stuff that has driven me away from programming time and again. Glue code is usually very time consuming (since I'm not familiar with whatever framework/legacy system I'm gluing to), and yields very little in terms of learning experience. I can't say I know how to become a great programmer, but I sure know one way not to.
Great points, I'm very intelligent and fairly well educated (informally) but have absolutely no use for the University system.

I did exactly that, out of high school into a warehouse job, then tech support, then software engineering, when I look at the cost of student loans, lost work, lost investment opportunities, I put the cost of my BA somewhere around $400,000.
Try some article with grey key or teraz.sme.sk
You should expect that you have the opportunity, between now and 2061, to meaningfully contribute to the development of rejuvenation biotechnology that will be able to repair the biological causes of aging - to prevent frailty and increased mortality in the old, and reverse those problems where they already exist.

There are plenty of projects to support now:

http://www.fightaging.org/take-action/

And more will arise in the years ahead.
No the US dollar is the legal pyramid scheme and the point is that nothing can compete with that part of the dollar.

That is, any "money" is both a medium of exchange and a store of value. It's OK to compete with the dollar as a medium of exchange but if you compete as a store of value, then you've wandered into some heavily guarded turf...
People get pwned, dbs get dumped, and sites get defaced e'eryday. This is nothing new.
Sorry, didn't think about that. Edited it. thanks
That's not the foreseeable future, though. We don't even have any lines of research that could plausibly lead to that end AFAIK. Greatly prolonging youth (i.e. slowing age-related damage rather than actually reversing it) seems likely to come much earlier, and even that is a ways off.
I think the concept of a highly enabled, connected, and active senior class has a lot more impact than people are considering. The points made about a society that financially cannot retire are powerful because it forces us to adapt a much longer view on our career objectives (which is always healthy).
Congratulations―especially on releasing your game; having a quick look on your blog, I've seen you go into detail how difficult it has been―something we can all relate to. The first of many releases, I'd hope. I'll at least download the game later today (from the Spanish Marketplace, if they have it).

You don't specify anywhere on the post what Tug Of Four is about―at the very least, a missed opportunity for a quick sales pitch.
Actually I think there is a far greater bubble in many other investments than VC.

US government bonds and paper currency for example.

The US government pays 3.6% interest only for 10 year bonds and the government has huge debt, increasing each year.

However I don't plan to invest the majority my money in start ups or VC funds for a few reasons:
1. It's extremely low cost to start up an Internet company and the barrier to entry is not money it's expertise
2. There are safer opportunities in real estate with 25% returns
3. I don't have access to the right networks to find the next twitter/ Facebook/ drop box etc.
4. The valuations are way too high (for my liking)

I would much prefer to invest in start ups as it's more fun, but for me it's too difficult to find a good business to invest in.
Sorry, I can't answer you per se. But I have to explain something.

I don't read fiction anymore except for one particular author. I used to (and lots of it when I was young!) but for some reason that I still haven't figured out why I stopped getting anything from fiction. I just did and I really don't miss any of it.

I do read non-fiction.

I have a few topics ongoing at a time that I explore. The topics might last for months or years until I eventually branch into something else, often semi-related. The books describing these real world things or explaining new views or ideas or angles are, to me, so endlessly fascinating that I find myself totally immersed in these subjects that I haven't even considered borrowing or buying fiction anytime soon.

I just sometimes wonder if I'm the only one like this.
But conversion rates are easily measurable. in theory it's possible to offer a results based service: improved conversion rate for a fee or profit sharing.usually businesses go for this sort of arrangement because it's low risk investment.

I bet there are some services like this , but i'm not sure it's a service fit for a small company: it just seems like a lot of work and takes a lot of time and traffic to do it right.

And it's mostly not about graphic design , but interaction design and content.
Right now it's the same IP as news.ycombinator.com. Nothing preventing that from changing, of course, but it's currently not acting malicious.
Thank you for the clarification, I was unaware of the details you just mentioned.

Talking of algorithms, does Readable use something like the Knuth and Plass line break algo used by LaTeX? A Javascript implementation was mentioned a while ago on HN[1].

Good luck with Readable, anything that helps reduce clutter (in any part of life) is a great gift. Thanks for sharing!

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974963
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What's really interesting is how much they split test and experiment with their interface. I doubt that Yahoo and Bing to it to the same degree?
Why not index size(key)?

Then lookup the n-th largest key and then pull the values?

eg.
SELECT value from key_value_pairs order by size(key) LIMIT N
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The site appears to be down hard :(.

What types of projects are you talking about releasing every week? I can't imagine that they're terrible complex, are they?
This reminds me too much of the colourlovers "trends" that tend to be more representative either of little-changing, long-term trends or whatever sampling bias they might have at any given moment.
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Good point. I did a whois but not an nslookup. The problem is as you say, though. A man-in-the-middle attack is possible in the future.
The other interactions do, though, eg. the results changing as you drag the map.
I just need to say - it's pretty cool to see Sanjay Ghemawat hanging out on HN.
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That's not what the wording of the linked article indicates. Do you know more information on this that supports your interpretation?

Because your interpretation would prevent anyone from NASA attending, for example, the American Geophysical Union conferences, which is ridiculous.
Perhaps to the uninitiated, but I think any reasonably-informed person can keep up with at least the latest headline-grabbing advances in medicine. A highly generalized technological vector, one could say, is not too difficult to glean from the day-to-day news, but the distance between now and the realization of any sort of major advance is always difficult to determine.
Somewhat related, Don's site: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/
This is over three years old: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039

All references: http://searchyc.com/hackerne.ws
The biggest BarCamp in North America
Thought you'd be curious to guess where the biggest BarCamp in North America took place yesterday. At least I've heard it's the biggest. 1200 registrations, maybe ~1000 in attendance.

Direct link to sessions: http://sessions.minnestar.org/

Also, forgive me for pimping EventBurn (our product), but here is a summary of tweets about it: http://www.eventburn.com/minnestar?date=2011-05-07

I couldn't find another overview of the event I thought was comprehensive.
It's not recommended for code, but it's one of the few understandable licenses that includes "non commercial" clauses. I've got clients that want to put out code under "creative commons non commercial" because they don't want the code they paid for being used by commercial competitors, but they're fine with people using it non-commercially.

Almost all of the 'open source'-type licenses out there concern themselves solely with distribution, not with use. When people find the CC non-commercial, it makes sense to them. Perhaps there needs to be a good 'open source' license created that also includes some use restrictions for these types of cases?
But the targets are usually not so prominent. As higher profile attacks occur, people in related companies will start to worry if they're next, and start a spending frenzy to try and prevent it (it is, of course, doubtful any product they buy will do any good).
You're very welcome.

No; Readable doesn't use anything like the Knuth and Plass algorithm.

But I did thoroughly check out the JS implementation you mentioned; and Readable will probably use a part of the Knuth algorithm in the future -- as I am planning to support hanging quotation marks, hyphenation, as well as better (typographic) justification.
The article succumbs to the fallacy of predicting the future from current trends. To give you an example, here are some things that didnt exist 50 years ago that were life and culture changing. Personal computers, the internet, cell phones, most of the interstate, networking, cable, computer games, CDs, personal electronics, google, twitter, medical imaging, nearly all heart surgery, gene sequencing, financial oligopolies, media domination, civil rights, gender equality, terrorism, airport searches. Missing predictions: AI, flying cars, nuclear power too cheap to meter, fusion power, colonies on the moon and mars and of course, flying cars.

My point is that 50 years from now is going to be way different from what we imagine.
Thought you'd be curious to guess where the biggest BarCamp in North America took place yesterday. At least I've heard it's the biggest. 1200 registrations, maybe ~1000 in attendance.

Direct link to sessions: http://sessions.minnestar.org/

Also, forgive me for pimping EventBurn (our product), but here is a summary of tweets about it: http://www.eventburn.com/minnestar?date=2011-05-07

I couldn't find another overview of the event I thought was comprehensive.
HN could easily redirect to news.ycombinator.com when the HTTP Host header is set to something else.
a pesudonym is somewhat unprofessional

Thanks, I think this is what is swaying me more towards just putting things under my own name.
Git gives you granular control of every aspect of itself. When you REALLY need it, it works out. Insane history rewrites make the full team have to propperly sync. Rebase is an amazing tool for getting your repo up-to-date and not making someone else when looking through history have to worry about mix-matching commits to see exactly how one branch turned out. Its personal prefernece. In the end of the day, git will not let you cover your tracks.

Anecdote:

I fucked up some commits. I put in wrong conmiter names and so on, omitted some data in some of my commits. With git I could clone my repo, experiment with rewriting commits to fix conmiter names, and then merge it to everything. Yes history is changed, but end of the day this is not about hiding shit. This is about keeping the repo information useful and simple. If you want to blame shit on people, there are external systems which will ensure that people will get blamed for their own shit. VCS is not for that, VCS is to version your code, be able to un-fuck yourself up, and figure out why someone did something and how they did it exactly at some point in time. Nowhere in the is "blame people for mistakes" seen.

I've seen people not want to get blamed or use VCS. They used a word document to version their source. Yes. And I assure you it took people lots of time to realize wtf is going on.
I say it's at least 2 years too late. China has taken the Military and Industrial tech it needed to get up to speed and is now innovating without us.
It's pretty easy to embed Perl in another language. Check out perl4caml ...

http://git.annexia.org/?p=perl4caml.git;a=summary
I'm not sure but Microsoft has a reference license of some type you probably could copy. The license restricts any modification of the code to internal use and is based upon the original source.

If you can't find anything else, this could be a good starting poing?
Now that we've spent a trillion dollars killing one man in Afghanistan, it's time to shift our focus on creating a cold war with China to make sure the coffers of the military-industrial complex stay full.
I never thought about dissociating from the business but I see the reasoning behind it. The 'free mind space' versus sad burnout is really a good image.

Thanks,
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You assume a lot. What makes you think novel programmers don't get taught (either by teachers, professors, a book, or an online tutorial) the basics? A teaching institution that teaches their students how to use frameworks so as to put buzzwords on their CVs instead of the core concepts is an incredibly poor one.

I certainly agree that, for want of a better term, the NIH syndrome is the best way to learn to program―you don't learn to run before you walk, neither do you learn the structure of sentences before you learn to spell.

> I wrote a PHP social network. [...] How would a newbie do that nowadays? They'd install cakePHP or Django or Rails, getting them a DBA layer, templating, MVC all written for them.

They would? They could. At the same time, however, I wouldn't say it's that bad. Do you understand how your kernel handles networking for you? Memory management? There are a lot of abstractions that make programming simpler; complex is rarely better. Getting tangled up in all the small details hinders much more than it helps.

Frameworks, eh. It wasn't long ago that all programming was done in assembly language...
Often when pairing we'd commit with messages like "WIP: 1" "WIP: 2" etc. push pull switch machines (remote pairing) get checkpoints in there. Then before pushing to the main branch we'd roll all that up into one commit with a very helpful message. Boom solves a great workflow problem.
I would specify that I only read science fiction, and occasionally fiction that most would classify as "classics". Beyond that, I don't read any fiction.

Exploring one particular topic with a series of books sounds rather interesting to be honest. I think on HN in particular it wouldn't surprise me to find that most people are reading more non-fiction than fiction.

Can you give an example of a topic and some related books that you enjoyed?
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