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Show HN: EmailDigest.me take control of your email notifications
I put this up a couple of weeks ago as WeeklyDigest.me[1] and had a bunch of people "sign up" and give me suggestions on how to make it useful. Hopefully, it is!

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811970
When people are forced into an unfavorable situation that they feel needs to be gotten out of, they generally try very hard to do that.

This makes it different because the government's kind of been like "We're just going to pretend to have money and not worry about it". Now, they are realizing that they actually have to deal with it. That's what I'm hoping for at least.
I like the site idea, and was about to pull the trigger but your payment processing scared me away.

I can't tell if you use https, and the Stripe processing page is just an email landing page......Get that up with Paypal or the like and you will have at least one more customer.

Good luck with the launch.
Judging by http://www.ie6countdown.com/ IE6 is pretty popular in some parts of the world.
Harald, by David Friedman. (There are a number of notable David Friedmans. This is the anarcho-capitalist-son-of-Milton-Friedman one.)

Harald is quite good, IMO, but there isn't a lot of overt economics so it may not be what you're looking for.
It is persistent until you delete it. What more could you ask for?
I just worked on a 300K project for a company that makes 6mil/day (yes, you read that right) to redo a single page on their website (albeit a functional page). IE6 was a requirement.

A client with that kind of money dictates what is and is not supported and you don't just get to "not know how to do it".

2% of the U.S. may use IE6... but 99% of the executives in this company used it.

Not to mention that if an IE6 hack took 2 days you got of eeeaaasy... seriously. It only took 2 days? You got of easy.

Yeah, it sucks. But there are cases where learning how to IE6 or otherwise can be quite lucrative- and a condition for doing business.
Yes, it's an extremely naive first-order model. It assumes a series of independent "fair coin toss" events and gives the probability of at least one success using the given values.

Really, business success is not a random event, although there are many random factors which influence it. What this is doing is taking the "success rate" (which is whatever you want to make it be) and assuming that it works as a forward-looking probability.

In reality, the growth rate is likely to be higher for many people due to learning and the relatedness of successive ventures. There are also likely to be limiting factors which scale more rapidly than experience increases the probability of success - you're not likely to ever reach 83%.

But keeping in mind that it is a generalized approximation, the conclusion of the first-order model is still good.

* Start early, there are no ideal conditions.

* Evaluate often, if you don't do anything that can fail then you are likely over-invested in the single attempt.
Move on github: https://github.com/rsms/move

A pretty slick EC2 deployment system written with Move: https://github.com/rsms/ec2-webapp
Not exactly-- awesomium can be used for both headless rendering and embedded GUI rendering. It outputs to a BGRA 32-bit pixel-buffer; it's the embedder's job to display it in their respective UI framework.
Well, in college, I lived on one meal a day for some time. Meeting Street Café sandwiches at 3pm for the win.. : )

I was a pure math major. Getting a math degree from any major university (applied or pure) guarantees that almost nobody will wonder if you're intelligent.

Past that, applied math -> finance seems to have been the most lucrative path for people in the '90s. I'm not sure what the current situation is.
I guess so, to the extent that laying off cops and teachers is "creative"
Thanks! Working on it. :)
I think TD Bank is in your area. They are open on sunday!
Steelcase makes motorized desks. Joel Spolsky uses them at Fog Creek. His article on them is here (with links to steelcase)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/06/06.html
It's oversimplification. Getting in and out of a war isn't as easy as stopping pizza night on Fridays. And the mechanism of raising tax rates isn't similar to asking for and getting a raise from Father's boss.
That may be, but Amazon has ridiculous options for turning off emails. For example, if you're a member of Amazon Student or Amazon Moms (which includes a limited version of Prime), you can't opt-out of emails about Student or Moms without actually dropping the service.
Really? WWW ethics, anyone?
They've got a boat, a business plan, and an important problem. What have you got?
Seriously, fuck this guy. AirBNB simply facilitates finding people. AirBNB doesn't owe these people a single cent. In fact these AirBNB "victims" should apologize for their self-centered whining. Don't want any risk? Then don't let anyone into your house, dumbass. Don't blame random companies just because you're a fucking idiot.
> True, but there are real families that incease their income by robbing better off families

If you consider taxation theft, then yes.
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How far you are from the caltrain station? I have to commute to Menlo Park every day ;)
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I don't think that I was boasting. However, if it being seen as boasting leads to more companies allowing one-click unsubscribes, then I see it as a good thing.

I generally don't just mark messages as spam because I don't want them in my inbox - that's what archiving mail is for (things which I don't need to see but might want to look at in the future). Spam is for when I don't want to receive messages and I can't find a way to get myself taken off of the mailing list after reading through one of the messages.
I'm not an economist, I can't answer any of your questions. I can tell you though that there's some historical data available (both at home, dating back to the great depression) and abroad (japan's lost decade) to base these types of decision on. My guess is that they spend in increments until they feel/observe that they have it right. Maybe they don't do a great job, but modern history seems litered with the impact of spending paralysis.

Also, I just don't believe that a company investing money into some financial vehicle is more effective at creating growth than government spending. That's just taking it too far for me. Spending often needs to be directed, in a manner the private sector just can't do.
Don't you dare start putting reality in the way of my geek fantasy!

You've got a point, and throwing mutt at your typical office worker might not go far. Then again, my (very technophobic) father was dealing with mainframe-based "business productivity tools" in the 1980s. Including some (by current standards) very, very clunky email tools.

I'd throw the problem at Apple. I think you'd find that they'd figure out a way to sort out when it made sense for someone to forward an entire thread to someone and handle it that way. Probably, these days, within a Web interface, though possibly through a mail client / app.
I see their HTML5 investment as a hedge against the Flash Backlash they've seen recently
It doesn't really - I saw it on an iPad.
This is easily fixed.

Option a is a bad, but easy one -- go check out http://blog.stevepoland.com/100-web-start-up-business-ideas/ and do one. My opinion is that most of those ideas pretty much suck, though.

Option b: pick a non-technology related hobby (for instance, I like sailing). Go find some forums related to the hobby, and say "I'm a university student and a software developer, and I want to make some software. What do you guys need? What would make your life better? What bugs you about any hobby related software you buy?"

Read 40-200 pages of responses. Pick one that seems dead-simple to implement. Do it.
They didn't say it was unsolicited or unwanted. They just said if they could not unsubscribe in one or two clicks they'd mark it as spam, regardless if it was spam.

Why the down vote?
Sure, but Gevent monkey patches the stdlib and lets the programmer write code in a synchronous fashion which actually gets executed asynchronously. That, IMHO is a big win since it's easy to get stuck in the callback hell in Tornado. I have used Tornado in production and it's an awesome library/framework/server but things do get complicated when the app becomes complex.
For the majority of websites it's not so much a Black Art as something anyone who designed websites more than 5 years ago should manage competently (assuming there aren't unreasonable requirements such as pixel perfection or reproducing every hover effect). The comparison is more finding someone that knows how to program Python instead of copy/pasting PHP scripts.
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Run ntp and join www.pool.ntp.org. NTP is one of those critical infrastructure components that everyone always forgets about. A stable longterm stratum II server is always a welcomed addition. Pool.ntp.org has really made it easier to keep your machines clock accurate. Debian and Ubuntu's ntp packages point to pool servers by default now. I think a lot of other distros do the same.

Run a tor middleman node. You won't have any of the legal worries you have about exit nodes. Im not a lawyer but its really unclear what the legal ramifications are for running an exit node anyway:)
My comment was just to point out that loopholes exist for every income level, not just the rich. I agree that a simpler tax scheme like the "fair tax" or a flat tax with the first $(poverty level annually adjusted for inflation) tax free would be wholly better.
They didn't say it was illegal or that they didn't want it. That's my point.

Why the down vote?
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Thanks for the feedback! I'll be adding SSL just as soon as I get through all of the orders this post has generated :). The payment is secure even without SSL server-side because Stripe uses a JavaScript form to process the payments which means that your credit card information never touches my server.
I have worked productively with quite a number of different toolchains. Among them
were full-blown IDEs that worked great (VS+VisualAssistX and Eclipse for C++, XCode for Obj-C), there were IDEs that worked less than great (VisualDSP, Matlab) and several combinations of dynamic languages and Emacs or Vim.

I feel that some languages/environments benefit more from IDE support than others. But in the end, whatever works well for you is a good tool. Bad tools however drain the life out of me and leave a hollow shell of a coding monkey. I hate working with inadequate software.

In general though, the text editing capabilities of Emacs and Vim blow anything else out of the water and make a huge difference to my productivity and enjoyment. IDEs often lack that (but there are usually plugins like ViEmu or VsVim that can make up for it). Another great thing to have is good autocompletion, which Vim in particular is not that good at (again, plugins can help). Lastly, refactoring tools are a nice time-saver, even though a comparatively rarely used one. This is where IDEs usually have an edge.

Taken as a whole though, my enjoyment usually peaks when I feel powerful. With Emacs or Vim, you sometimes feel like a code surgeon, slicing and dicing code as if by magic. THAT, is cool. It is an experience that IDEs have a hard time to make up for. Also, the customizability of Emacs an Vim allows you to discover new stuff whenever you want, which is a great thing that avoid becoming bored of your tools. So in the end I guess I concur with the author in that I prefer simple tools to those slick IDEs.
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You really needed to spend $5 and 5 people's time for that feedback? Anyone not involved with the project could have given you the same information.
But that doesn't necessarily make them spam. And that's the point. You are marking something as spam that is not spam and that makes you a bad actor.
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They believe law and economics i.e. human action is a field of logic.

They don't say you can not model the economy, they do say whatever correlations occur in your models can not invalidate logical necessities.
What do you want from the banking relationship? Its really hard to answer without knowing what you want. How frequent do you expect to interact with your bank?
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No, a 747 actually provides a useful, reliable service for the average American, and the owner of it (excl. Air Force 1) doesn't threaten violence if you don't help pay for it. Stick with the car theme. Maybe the government is a stretched Hummer that needs a year's worth of income to get it out of the shop. OK, maybe Halliburton will accept half a year's income to fix it.
Why wipe its disk for tor and not porn? Tor requires a neglible amount of disk?
I'm the main Awesomium developer-- the 1.6 branch is based off a stable revision from April 2010.

We've recently updated to the latest Chromium trunk and will be launching an experimental, public build of our 1.7 branch soon. (Would have happened sooner but we've been focusing more on getting the library stable rather than absorbing new features.)

By the way, we do participate in the development of Chromium (albeit, rather covertly in IRC), I personally have been a long-time lurker of the mailing-list since the first month it opened. :-)

Regarding WebKit's (or, more specifically, WebCore's) LGPL license-- we've sought legal counsel on this and believe we've satisfied the conditions. We are, nonetheless, planning to package up WebKit into a separate dynamic library in the near future.
When I saw the story, I thought, "I wonder if Patri knows about this?" Then I clicked on "About Us" and immediately recognized Max and Dario from The Seasteading Institute. These guys are the real deal.
Oh, just because it hasn't happened yet, we should pretend it isn't possible? You remember the flash crash. That took out the market for a day. People waved their hands and said it was an innocent mistake. Nothing changed.

When scads of people were writing CDO's and swaps and other clearly garbage papers in 2007, they probably used your logic to justify their recklessness, and here we are.
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I was saying that they might have keys to locks that have _not_ been changed (ie office, car, mail, etc).
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Who cares? EJ deserves a smack to the head for trying to blame a random company for her whining.
So I recently had a comment downvoted in this thread about bitcoin's legal/regulatory environment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817899

I posted a link to a law review article and the link was downvoted. It does not make a lot of sense why...
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is it just me or is this completely flawed as a response to armin's article?

- Armin: "you can't replace the 'bad' bits of WSGI for asynchronous apps without using some python extension like greenlet"

- to which this article replies: "Armin is wrong, i've replaced WSGI! PS: if you're an asynchronous server you have to use greenlet!"

see 'known limitations'

basically, in trying to challenge armin he's proved him right. and he does this without a hint of irony?!
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Indeed-- there's a lot of demand for this kind of component in .NET (especially considering the limitations of the built in WebBrowser class).

Our .NET wrapper is open-source and up on GitHub: https://github.com/khrona/AwesomiumSharp

Btw, AwesomiumSharp has recently been re-written and now includes a drop-in WebControl component for WPF that you can hook up to your application with XAML. We're about to stage a major re-launch of the wrapper + new 1.6.2 SDK release in a couple days.
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Maybe you should call that 'Math homework cheating'.
Hacking like a hacker on a Mac using iTerm2, tmux, emacs, irssi (and more).
huh - with flash disabled on my desktop I just see 'install flash'. it must be UA sniffing
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the only benefit is not using start_response() before returning your data.
I don't know much about either piece of software. But what made you decide to buy sizeup instead of moom? http://manytricks.com/moom/
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I don't. I was merely stating a fact that families have means to increase income taking from the rich just like the government does. That's not to say theft and taxation aren't in the same ballpark. If the IRS demanded 80% of your income without a change to the tax code, what would you call it?
What unique properties of a cryptocurrency are negated by a functional exchange?

One of the problems with ever realizing a "true free market" in bitcoin trading is the time spent waiting for block confirmations. There are barriers to entry in that you can not just transfer your coins to an exchange and sell instantly. Because of this a lot of people who trade bitcoins keep a certain amount in their exchange accounts.
"The rich" pay a larger percentage of federal taxes than they did 20, 30, or 50 years ago. Moreover, we can't tax "the rich" enough to close the gap in our budgets and liabilities. We need to stop spending like sailors on shore leave first, then we need to simplify the tax system, then we need to make sure we're actually running at a surplus so we can pay down the debt. Everyone one of those steps will require hard choices and sacrifices by more people than just "the rich", there's no free lunch in balancing the federal budget.
Sounds great! Not something I would use (I don't get enough emails for it to be worth it), but still like a useful service for people who do, or who set up a filter to catch low-priority emails (mailing lists and whatnot) so that they don't have to comb through each of them.

However, some questions and feedback:

- You don't have an example of what the digest looks like - what does it reduce messages into? I thought that one of the things in the sidebar might have been a link to a page with more details, but nope.

- Why only gmail? Shouldn't it work with any service that allows forwarding of messages? Or do other email providers have their own verification step that you haven't added support for yet?
I'm wondering how people address one of the scenarios raised in the post, specifically this:

"It’s safest to keep private branches local. If you do need to push one, maybe to synchronize your work and home computers, tell your teammates that the branch you pushed is private so they don’t base work off of it.

You should never merge a private branch directly into a public branch with a vanilla merge. First, clean up your branch with tools like reset, rebase, squash merges, and commit amending."

I'm wonder how people address cleaning a private branch that has been pushed (when your goal is to get its changes into master cleanly). Rebasing the private branch is pretty much out of the picture since it has been pushed (unless you don't care about pushing it again). I can see some ways of doing this:

1) You could do a diff patch and apply it master, then commit.

2) You could checkout your private feature branch, do a git reset to master in such a way that your index is still from the private, then commit it. Ex:

currently on private branch
git reset --soft master

Now all the changes from the private branch are changes to be committed on master. This is easy, but it puts everything in one commit.

If you wanted to do a few commits for different, but stable points, but you already pushed the private branch and can't rebase it, you could instead do "git reset --soft" on successive points in the private branch commit chain, committing to master as you go.

If you wanted to reorder commits from the private branch, I guess you could rebase the private branch (which means you can't push again since you pushed it already), then do the tactic from the last paragraph, then ditch the private branch cause it's no longer pushable.

Does anyone have better ways of putting changes to master for private branches that have already been pushed?
The New York Times original had more sections and more detail: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/28/us/charting-th...
Only a tiny fraction of the federal budget goes to cops or teachers.
The transaction fee only helps get it into the first block sooner. It does nothing for the X confirmations after the first.
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Hey, main developer of Awesomium here-- allow me to answer your question:

Awesomium 1.6 was designed from the ground up with the following goals in mind:

* Must render to a 32-bit BGRA pixel-buffer (most common image format)

* Must be absolutely windowless (to allow use in any context, 3D or otherwise)

* Must emulate Chrome's sandbox architecture (for security and crash isolation)

* Must support platform-agnostic input

* Must support Flash plugins on all platforms

* Must be flexible and easy to configure

* Must maintain a simple, easy-to-use API

Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is largely intended to be used by "embedding chromium browser windows" in your application. That's a key difference-- you're embedding a window inside of your application versus the more versatile pixel-buffer that our RenderBuffer class provides. This makes it nearly impossible to use inside a 3D graphics context or in other situations where embedding a native window handle is not feasible.

Additionally, CEF has a single-process architecture which means it does not scale as effectively nor isolate crashes in the manner that Awesomium or Chrome does (the Flash plugin can crash on a web-page in Awesomium-- as is liable to happen-- and your application will continue to run as normal).

I personally have been working on embedding WebKit, Mozilla Gecko, and similar technologies for nearly five years now so I've got a pretty good deal of experience on how to do it right. If you need any help, feel free to drop me at line at support@awesomium.com
well, that's not quite all. if you're writing middleware you sometimes have to write a some (mostly reusable) extra code to pass as the start_response() to other wsgi callables. (to access the headers and/or munge anything sent by .write() -- or disallow .write() entirely).
Wow. Tinfoil hat moralist much?

Economics is not a morality play. Your "currency" isn't worth squat without someone to accept it as a medium of exchange.

Don't forget that gold was at times an inflationary currency that also happened to have the nasty side effect of destroying populations located in areas with good mines. Like, I dunno, most of what is now Mexico, for instance.
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