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Thanks HN: Readable is doing very very well
Thanks to being featured on HN, 3 days ago, Readable has been making the rounds.

It's still being posted to Twitter and Facebook; and people seem to be very happy with it -- the number of active users has more than doubled, and the number of article conversions per day has almost tripled.
I've also heard lots of great ideas for improvements -- especially on HN, but also privately via email conversations.

So stay tuned.
Lots of cool stuff to come.

Read on! :)

P.S. Would anyone be interested in a post detailing traffic as a result of being written about in LifeHacker VS the HN front-page?

P.P.S. I'm honestly not trying to draw even more traffic this way. I really really wanted to thank the community -- a lot.
Someone did: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3958630/what-are-importan...
Yeah, that kind of threw me off when I saw it. Title should be changed.
Seems to be up again, but if not:
http://www.jeffreytalajic.com.nyud.net/2011/05/11/google-is-...
I'm also a non-female parent who works from home. I have to agree that it's not possible to look after an 18 month old and work at the same time.

Your experience up till now might be deceptive. I actually did look after our younger boy from time to time during work hours when he was younger, but only during the relatively easy period between when he finished breast feeding and when he was able to start running around. After 18 months, they are definitely more toddlers than babies, and they demand your attention (constantly and immediately).

On the days when my wife is working, we have a combination of nursery and a carer who comes to our home. If you can afford it, having your child at home is fantastic, you can see what they are up to and they are always pleased to see you when you take a break. My experience is that both are really good for the kids for different reasons. Nursery gets them socialising with other children, and having a nanny at home gives extra one-to-one attention that really helps them. The nanny who comes to us does all the creative activities which you aspire to provide as a parent, because she's experienced and has games etc that I wouldn't have thought of, and also because she's not worrying about the practicalities of life at the same time.

If you are going to have child care at home, especially if your work ever involves talking to customers on the phone, then you absolutely have to arrange a separate space to be your office away from where children are playing. Ideally it needs to be far enough away that you can carry on a conversation even if there's a screaming temper tantrum going on in the next room!
Clickable: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
And I've said this before, but I'd love to see votes for [dis]agreement, even if votes for contribution/karma may be better hidden.
Yes. They probably can make quite some money by patenting that tech and licensing the components to car makers.
> P.S. Would anyone be interested in a post detailing traffic as a result of being written about in LifeHacker VS the HN front-page?

Do you really think we will say no?
There's surprisingly few pointers here related to actual graphics programming, that is, the math that's involved, physics you need to know, color programming fundamentals (gamma, colorspaces, etc.), hardware support and GPU programming, etc.
Oh and one more thing: I'm honestly not trying to draw even more traffic this way. I really really wanted to thank the community -- a lot.

The clickable link is here just because some of you think it's bad form to post about an app, without a clickable link.
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I just enabled Super Cache for WordPress so it should be working now. Sorry about that :)
I imagine that's a joke.
if you run the business (any business) and want to rather think about making more money, then users privacy or just simple put "not being evil", then print yourself out this ruling: the highlighted sentence that something is not told to public because if they would know they would have stop utilizing said company services is amazing precedence and can get you out of pretty much any client's lawsuit when they claim you have mislead or did not tell them something!!
this country is rolling back into wild wild west.
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'schadenfreude' and 'entrepreneur' respectively. English uses a large number of words taken from other languages. Rendezvous for example.
Not really. But I want(ed) to see if there is genuine interest in something like that.

I'd hate to write/post uninteresting stuff.
Some people think that your usual language affects how you can thnik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir%E2%80%93Whorf_hypothesis; not sure if I'd agree that strongly) - so possibly you wouldn't be able to miss expressiveness you're not familiar with (simlar to pg's idea of Blub programming language).

Wish I knew more about linguistics - but I think missing tenses or grammatic logical structures are more interesting than missing vocab - like for example some languages have a tense for describing things you only know about second-hand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferential_mood

(missed the bit I was meant to be replying to sorry...)
>"Google has enormous data centers, and capable teams, lots of loyal Gmail users, there's nothing that would benefit Google by buying Skype. Those reasons also hold for Microsoft."

Data centers and capable employees are not reasons one way or the other (unless the company suffers from NIH syndrome); they are simply facts. Loyal users are, on the other hand, a consideration - but there are fundamental differences between Google's customers and Microsoft's particularly in regards to Microsoft's B2B orientation versus Google's ad revenue based model.

While peer to peer is problematic for Google's core revenue stream which requires consumers to frequently access Google's servers, peer to peer is perfectly consistent with Microsoft's core business wherein customers' contact with Microsoft's data centers is relatively infrequent and intermittent - e.g. Microsoft's revenue model works if a customer only contact with Microsoft servers is once a month on patch Tuesday.

In the long run, Microsoft can certainly screw the pooch on the deal. However, the purchase leaves no doubt that Microsoft sees telephony as far more than mobile. One could argue that they have made Google Voice a distant second in the space, e.g. very limited geographic availability for user accounts.
It's about time - been waiting to get accepted to the private testing for months
That's really an enforcement problem, not a legislative problem.

Even so, I think the answer is clear: it depends on whether you store data that permits you to infer privacy-intruding things about the user. If you store a cookie that just encodes preferences and you store no persistent data about the cookie on your side, you should be fine. It's the making a relationship between client local state and your customer profiles that's key.
Specifically, MICROSOFT has three technologies that could, theoretically, provide a Star Trek like experience in your home:

1. Voice recognition

Anyone with Visual Studio knows how easy it is to use MICROSOFT's voice recognition framework. They’ve had it for years, and it keeps getting better.

2. MICROSOFT HOME NETWORKING and UPNP

Since the days of MSHOME, Microsoft has been hard at work getting your fridge, phone, and computer to talk to each other -- with zero configuration! Did we say phone? We meant tricorder.

3. Search (Bing)

MICROSOFT's Bing takes you beyond information retrieval. As a Decision Engine, it's just what Jean-Luc needs when deciding whether to enter Cardassian space or not.

Seriously: The fundamental technologies to “talk to your [handheld device] and display search results on a television” have been around for years and years now, but it’s not really a compelling use-case and furthermore takes real vision and commitment to deliver this as part of a really usable experience, something that has not really been Google or Microsoft's strong suit.
So? The end result can't be "patent gets transferred to Telstra", since Telstra didn't apply for a patent in the first place. If Telstra is shown to have "invented" one-click first then the patent will be nullified and the invention enters the public domain, right?
There’s just the small matter of Google being almost incapable of delivering, you know, experiences.
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Given the resemblance to Newspeak, and the also rather humorous state of their error page, you're probably right.

Although from a government that seriously thought they could sell off all the forests without anyone getting annoyed, I am unwilling to assume anything.
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I don't really think it's a good answer. To me that comment is the difference between Quora, which aims to be an opinion-based Q&A, and StackOverflow/StackExchange which aim for facts. I know his question was opinion based, but is there a need for that comment. He could very well be a happy and healthy family man who learns new languages as a hobby. And, anyway, who cares? Just answer the question with your thoughts if you have them.
Not a joke, a typo - it's "Spin v.s. Trust" - http://twitter.com/alphagov/status/68322599503011840

(@alphagov turned round an answer to my question in less than a minute!)
I interpreted that as describing their response to the first raising of a complaint, not a limit on the measures ultimately available to them.
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What has that to do with anything? Why assume a stereotypical cave-dwelling nerd because he is interested on different programming languges?
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Agreed (at least to the first part). The same argument has been made about the new web font technologies.

http://hackademix.net/2010/03/24/why-noscript-blocks-web-fon...

"It really worries me that the FreeType font library is now being made to accept untrusted content from the web. The library probably wasn’t written under the assumption that it would be fed much more than local fonts from trusted vendors who are already installing arbitrary executable on a computer, and it’s already had a handful of vulnerabilities found in it shortly after it first saw use in Firefox."
This should come as no surprise to anyone, really.

10 years ago we had similar issues with 2d graphics. For example, rendering huge fonts could cause the X display server to crash: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/9313

With WebGL, the attack surface is many times larger. I'm sure we'll see plenty of exploits leveraging vulnerabilities in the display subsystem.
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The company in California produces software components. It is not involved in any financial transmissions whatsoever. That is my point.
My tinfoil hat theory is that Google is attempting to be the router for all of humanity's computation and communication.
it might be some swfsheet (http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2948) type of software. Having that sprite (what a design!!!), you can animate it with jquery easily...
I think stifles competition is more concerning than stifling innovation per se.
what you mean by "knowing it"? I am sure your mobile operator does not have a separate human to sit down all day long and go through your data. Just because they store it, doesnt mean they access and digest through it all the time, something I would call "knowing".
FBI does to the contrary.

the real question is, best put in Kim Jon Schmitt: if there is something you want to hide from FBI or telecom company, maybe you shouldnt be do it at first place? :)
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Indeed, as others have posted, I don't see this as realistic. I'm a non-female, but I work from home. My wife doesn't work (at a paying job, at last) and stays home to take care of our 8 month old. Even now, her free time is best measured in minutes, rather than hours. I can't imagine that she's going to have more free time for a long while, which she says is certainly the case (my first, her 3rd).
It seems to be one of the most recommended one's on HN. http://searchyc.com/namecheap
I disagree. Not everyone is in it for the money and that's sometimes the difference between a decent code monkey and an outstanding developer.
Maybe a troll with bad taste perhaps?
I get your point. However, this isn't a fix, it is, according to the article, a volunerability that allows "remote execution of malicious code". People who know WebGL better than I do would probably know more about what specific exploits it facilitates.
That was kinda what I meant here. The good of the one (Individual) and the many (the gov and everyone's security)
I'm a male with an 18 month old. I've found it next to impossible to work from home with child around. I felt guilty not giving my daughter the attention she wanted but also felt guilty not being able to focus on work. A good compromise (IMHO) would be to adjust your working time to perhaps 4-5 hours during the day (around nap time) then another 4-5 hours after baby goes to bed.

I would highly recommend checking out a co-working space if available. They give you a separate place to work free of distractions and are much cheaper than renting an office. Good luck!
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The poor Linux Skype UI is looking better now as it might not even exist in the future.
Apple is saying: you may not innovate on our ridiculously innovative platform. We will hold the tantalizing promise of this star trek device just beyond your reach.
politics are more important than sound ideas
that are good for the business

The problem in big corporations is that there's lots of voices and lots of opinions floating around. You can't really distinguish signal from noise unless you have some kind of hierarchy.

Google cannot be different in that regard. They can't work with a flat organization in which Joe Sixpack has the same credibility as an early employee -- they are too big for that.

The only way such a corporation can improve (over the rest) is to build that hierarchy based on better metrics than the rest, to avoid situations in which big responsibilities fall on complete morons that can kiss ass. Such a corporation would also need to maintain the number of layers to a minimum.

Politics in big corporations are inevitable, which isn't necessarily bad, it's just a different environment than in a startup.
I think what you might be looking for is something similar to http://itsyourparliament.eu/ created by the same guys i believe?
Thanks for the suggestions and critical feedback. This was the first release that I wanted to get on the app store/market as quickly as possible, so it has not been perfected yet.

I am aware it doesn't have the best design/UI right now, but that will soon be corrected in the next release - at least most of your suggestions anyways.
It's no longer possible to indicate assent by upvoting an existing comment - an undesirable side-effect of hiding karma on comments. As a result, I have to comment:

Would anyone be interested in a post detailing traffic
as a result of being written about in LifeHacker VS the
HN front-page

Hell Yeah!
Nope, it's not about that. Skype can, if you're not running behind a NAT, make you a supernode, and in that case you will be routing calls between NAT'ed hosts "on your dime". Basically, it may be that you contribute your bandwidth to calls that have nothing to do with you. Presumably this isn't the case in the "cloud based" service, where the some server would act as a gateway between NAT'ed hosts.
This is a good time to think about what you want the future of your app to look like. If seed money will get you there, think about how much you'll need.

I would respond with "Sure, I'm interested, what are you thinking?" anyway, but make sure you've thought about what will be enticing to you.
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There's a book for that: http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-w...
"not want your attention at all"

Apart from buying stuff for them, of course. Spoken as the father of one 12 year old.
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Yeah, but "ability to pay a court-ordered settlement" correlates pretty highly with having some cash reserves.
...There is a grow­ing con­sen­sus about Vim users that Pathogen is the best way to man­age scripts. The idea behind pathogen is a fan­tas­tic one (to be hon­est, all of Tim Pope’s scripts are well-thought out and exe­cuted; pathogen being no exception)...

You can get past the "Javascript required" message by disabling CSS (e.g. Web Developer Toolbar extension).
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Earlier this month, arts & crafts chain Michaels Stores disclosed that crooks had tampered with some point-of-sale devices at store registers in the Chicago area in a scheme to steal credit and debit card numbers and associated PINs. But new information on the investigation shows that many Michaels stores across the country have discovered compromised payment terminals.
Not arguing with his main points, but updating submodules for pathogen is easier than he says.

To update submodules do (in the "main dir" of the git repo):

git submodule foreach git pull
HN Android Game Developers: Using IntelliJ IDEA 10 with libGDX
If you're into Android game development, you may have heard of the libGDX game framework. The instructions for using libGDX with IntelliJ IDEA 10 were nonexistent, so I put together some (verbose) steps. Enjoy!
It baffles me how underdeveloped the git-submodule command is. I've never enjoyed that aspect of Vim bundle management, and this looks like a refreshing alternative.

Is submodule-based package management gone for good? I'm going to wait and see.

One thing is clear: the author understands the current Vim ecosystem and knows exactly what pain points still exist. He doesn't diminish how great Pathogen is but has come up with a way to make package management seamless, and for that reason, I'm going to give this a try.
In what way would you make this API writable? Basically its a collection/interface to two major databases containing legislative data from the European union.
"this is the dumbest piece of shit"... I've read in a long time!
All the p2p FUD is just that. In TV like Skype the data path is still p2p. only call setup is server based.
If childcare costs over half your salary (totally believe it, that's why my wife had to give up work), then even part-time work is going to break-even for you. So really you only need to get 4hrs work done each day (assuming same hourly rate - although, as a freelancer, you should be changing much more).

I have 2 kids^: the 18mo still sleeps for 2-3hours in the middle of the day and even the 3.5yo will have a 1hour nap/quiet time most days. Assuming you've got that routine, perhaps your husband would like some quality time with the child for an hour after work? And that still leaves all the evenings and weekends totally free.

^ disclosure: male, married father-of-two, employed

Edit: formatting
Yes it does, because in addition to your own traffic, your line also has to support the traffic made by other people - with torrents, this means uploading to other people what you've been downloading.

I don't know exactly how much bandwidth Skype uses, but it has been the most reliable way of doing video-chats for me, even on the slow Internet connection I'm using.
I think the root of the difference is indeed competition on iOS, and lack thereof on Android. The lack of any decent SEO app on the Android Market is the primary reason I made SEMTab in the first place. I think that is the biggest reason it is selling better there - it's easy to stand out when all the other apps on Android are total crap.
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Google Goggles[1] is one I'd add to his list of three.

Image recognition might not be very Star Trek-ish, but I think it has more potential than speech recognition. Google seem to feel the same way, because they plug it pretty heavily in the Nexus S promo[2].

Jean-Luc Picard, for example, appears to favour speech recognition as an input method only when there's little background noise. In the heat of battle, he barks orders at his crew, who interpret his commands and input them on touch screens.

The same is true of speech recognition today -- it's handy at times (e.g. when driving), but its use cases are limited to rare moments of solitude, not in the busy offices, bustling homes, and daily commutes that fill much of our lives.

[1]: http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUXulxE5o0
I was excited to use this for better quality geocoding, as the Google Maps geocoder doesn't seem to know of everything in Google Places, but it seems that is forbidden by TOS -- it's still developed around the idea that you request the place list and forward it to the user right then and there, never storing it.

If you're curious about what sort of thing you can't find through the Maps geocoding API by name, try searching for "madison square garden." It's an iconic venue for NY, and yet, just not available. In Google Places, however, it comes right up.
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There is something very similar in Israel: http://www.gov.il/firstgov/english

('long' address, but http://gov.il is in Hebrew)
Exactly! Revolution not evolution.

But in terms of branding, this error page is for when the entire prototype fails. It is not part of the prototype, and therefore doesn't adhere to Gov branding. It's more branded with the team's informal whimsy, and it obviously wouldn't appear in a live site.
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Before talking _any_ numbers whatsoever, you should have a face-to-face. Make sure both the product vision and the path to monetization are clear to both of you (or, at least you generally agree on direction). Once you've cleared all the other possible issues (e.g. how to incorporate), only then should numbers be discussed.
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I've been a stay-at-home dad for about 5 years now and can relate. My oldest son (14 months at the time) was always getting sick at his daycare and he twice got so sick he ended up in the ER. After that we decided one of us was staying home. Best decision we ever made. I know later in life I will look back at these years as the "glory years" because of all the memories and time spent together.

When I'm not on daddy duty I develop and support two web apps on the side. The only real work I've been able to consistently get in is during nap time (usually 2 hours per day after lunch), a 6-hour chunk on an odd Saturday or Sunday, and at night when they are sleeping. I can also fire off an email here and there throughout the day, but for the most part the "business" comes second to family responsiblities. When I'm with the kids I try not to let the business take up too many brain cycles so I can be fully "present".
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In the short run private entities may do horrible things, it takes time for information to travel through the system. But if we're comparing private to government - government definitely takes the cake on environmental destruction and causing human misery.
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He was working in highly conceptual R&D, he could have worked there for decades and never had anything reach the public in any recognisable form, let alone make a MacWorld keynote.

If you want public recognition it's not a great area to work in regardless of the company.