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Way back in the olden days, I built a lovely reader (inventively called Reader) at Earthlink.

The key feature to Reader was that it did not have unread counts at all. You could flip through the articles and it would keep keep track of where you were. If you left for more than half an hour, the rest of the articles were marked as read.

It was very liberating to not feel like you were ever trying to keep up with your feeds.

These days, Fever App seems the way to go... http://feedafever.com/
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The 'trends' tab in Google Reader is useful to check on that: it gives you both how many items a feed published and how many you clicked on for the last 30 days. This can be useful to confirm the ratios.

Most of my feeds publish only two or three times a week, some even less, but with high signal to noise ratio; that's where RSS really shines, since checking them manually would kill a huge amount of time.
I think the difference is that the author defines "designer" as someone who excels in some "designer-like" quadrant of the intelligences. Which is a load of self-entitled bs.

A designer is someone who designs—it's defined by action, not beliefs about competency. If you design things implemented in HTML/CSS and you don't have any proficiency at all in those technologies then you're very liable to be a worse designer than someone who does. The argument of how often that is true is what's important here and it's never actually discussed in the article.
I think something like this may be good as a supplement to an online streaming service. Since the users who will take advantage of such a thing will generally be more advanced than the average viewer, I think this would best fit as a premium service (perhaps strip the advertising). Pay a certain amount each month and you can download the episode for later viewing.

This is the kind of stuff broadcasters should start experimenting with now. Stop looking for a permanent solution and try things out. Why do you think fast food chains have test markets for new products?
Ask HN: How do you hack out of your last failure?
I discovered HN a few months back probably in the most difficult phase of my life - professional failure, losing dad, in the country of my dreams where sadly nothing was going right for me. And reading HN has been therapeutic to say the least! My interaction with the community is primarily passive - I hardly comment on anything. But just reading the posts and comments - it gives me back makes me think, that its not only me. I've become aware that I do too much stupid shit that are tangential to the main project (just for the fun of it) - I was overdoing it to the point of not completing anything and trying to make everything perfect. I'm trying to change all that - but over the past year, I've stopped communicating with my old real world (brilliant & never-failing) friends - just to avoid embarrassment. I now seek new groups (online) who would never judge me (doesn't this emphasize the terribly important use case for a pseudonym feature? lulz :D) ... Its difficult to keep smiling and all happy when Murphy's law takes control of your life. So how do you hack out of your last failure?
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Props to Trent and all, but Kraftwerk was doing all this and more in the 1970s. They're the original Mensch-Maschine.
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I'm just going to do software development. It's what I love. But I've always done it for a big company and I'm tired of that. I'm in the process of figuring out how I can work for myself - some software product I can sell maybe. I started learning Android development this week with the thought that I might find a little success there as a starting place. The details are fuzzy, but as the article pointed out, sometimes you just need to start.
I think you should pretty it up with Twitter's Bootstrap:

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

You should probably publish the newsletters as pages too so it generates content + you have an archive for people to look at.
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It's funny that he says he doesn't need the productivity loss of keeping up with RSS because anything important will show up in his Twitter feed.
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Khan Academy - Probability part 7 and 8 also explains it with pictures

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/probability--part-8
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The "Non Designer's Design Book" is pretty good. It was suggested to me on this forum some time ago, and I got a lot out of it, even though it's still a struggle to really internalize it

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321534042/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=de...;

(And, yes, I have an affiliate link there. That's why I got a high karma score here, so I could start raking in the millions with affiliate links to books...)
I've been following the housing bust.

In 2009, I remember reading a resignation later by a guy who made his "F* you money" betting for a housing collapse. He blasted the big banks, ivy leaguers, and old boys network.

I bought complex derivatives (SRS, SKF) but lost betting against the market.

I read http://calculatedriskblog.com for a while and educated myself about the macro factors in the markets.

Through "calculated risk", I learned of Jim the Realtor http://www.bubbleinfo.com/ who videos (vacant) casualties of the housing collapse. Seeing it made it real for me.

Over time, I've realized that the further from reality that decisions are being made, the more likely we are to make destructive decisions.

When soldiers kill people with drone aircraft in video game-like conditions, it removes the reality from something that would be extremely traumatizing when done with bare hands.

In our wonderfully complex world, we sow complexity, and reap disaster. Im not sure what the answer is, but there is something terribly wrong when destruction is more profitable than creation.
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This is a familiar story to at least a few Hacker News readers. You're not alone.

Rule 1: Get all compensation and consideration in writing. Even if you think the people on the "other side of the table" are trustworthy, you could face an entirely different set of people when the contract actually matters.

When did you sign over the IP? The absolute latest time to get your compensation (including what happens to your equity if you leave or get fired) locked down is when you assign the IP. If you've never signed over the IP, this is good news but you must talk to an attorney right now.

Rule 2: If you have any documentation, the court system is your friend. If there's a substantial amount of money involved, and it sounds like there was in the context of the acquisition, an attorney will take your case on contingency. Trust me: this is more common than you think.

You absolutely must get at least a settlement out of this. Being beaten down at a previous job makes it hard to keep on an even keel, emotionally speaking, at the next one. Even if the money means absolutely nothing to you, you must fight.

There are good startups and good founders out there. You just fell in with one of the bad ones. The good founders will set fair contracts (not just golden-road promises) in advance. Talk is cheap. It's easy to make someone "feel like" a real co-founder but it's hard to actually show that the person is one.
Thank you. Will work on the design.
Haven't launched yet, will add the archives after launch.
http://www.truecrypt.org/

"TrueCrypt 7.1 ( September 1, 2011 )"
Fever looks great: rerank high volume feeds by correlation to other feeds I like, mark some feeds like bug reports/commits as read all

... but I cringed so hard when the demo said to set all the files to 777. It's a php app you run on your own webserver and according to the documentation updates itself automatically.
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i didn't realise mercury was still being actively developed, but they had a new release out last april and a bunch of papers this year http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/

looking at the release notes i saw a mention of non-deterministic scopes, started poking around, and it looks like they are investigating automatic parallellism - http://subs.emis.de/LIPIcs/volltexte/2011/3182/pdf/25_.pdf
And they're a lifesaver when handling a couple of large suitcases! I can't believe how many cities and places neglect to soften the edges for bicycles, travelers, or people carrying stuff. The train stations that have plenty of stairs and no ramp to go around are especially annoying.
Going on information diet
Is StumbleUpon More Important Than Facebook?
My RSS reader only refreshes every hour (and there's no easily accessible refresh button or way to force that), and I stick to feeds that get max 1 or 2 updates a day. Problem solved.

Don't blame the technology, blame the way you use it. Of course, subscribing to a high-traffic feed isn't much more effective than just keeping a tab open and refreshing every few seconds. You still have to cut throught the noise. But that's not the point, imo. Rss is great for tracking these obscure blogs that get one or two very well-though updates a week, or even less.
Sorry if I've not understood correctly, but what is the benefit of this over, say, Capistrano? I'm a little confused.
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I'd guess Assange meant that the download link he was providing was "time limited".

I don't know how you'd time limit the password itself. It isn't as if I could send you an encrypted file, with a key that will only decrypt that file for that day.

Even if Assange had made absolutely sure to destroy any copy he had of the file which used that key (which would have been a Good Idea), he could not guarantee that some router on the internet didn't store a copy of the entire download session.

Regardless of how the blame is distributed, the decision to publish such a sensitive password in such a public manner still stands out to me as the most boneheaded single action in the entire saga.
How many singularities are near and how will they disrupt human history?
True, that does detract from it
I get github as the second.
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That sounds suspiciously like you have 1 year to either get a new loan or live with zero rent which is not that bad of a deal IMO. Because, your underwater on your mortgage it's free rent, otherwise you should be able to either get a new loan or sell within a year.
You can say that about every Reddit IAmA.
I've been taking a different approach. I started poring over books on people like Dieter Rams, reading about other design oriented fields like fashion,advertising (Ogilvy's book is amazing) architecture, etc. It's been hugely helpful and just fun in it's own right.
Exercising options in a company with no market to sell those shares is a recipe for bankruptcy. Exercising an option is a taxable event, regardless of whether you sell the result shares to receive cash. If you try to anticipate an exit by exercising options early to minimize tax, you might find yourself with a hefty tax bill and no way to pay it should that exit not actually materialize.

When dealing with stock options the best advice is, IMO, always to exercise and immediate sell enough of the stock to cover the result tax hit.
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Sounds to me like you are in contact with your 'being'. That's rather good actually. The way I've come to think of it, when people get too anxious they start to make violence on themselves - and think they should be something they are not. But changing oneself based on rejecting what one is doesn't work.
Reading things like this always brings me back to the Fermi Paradox [1]. There are lots of stars in our galaxy. Our observation of many nearby planetary systems and our understanding of the chemistry of life suggests life should be relatively common but we've seen no evidence of it.

While life (on Earth) is at times incredibly resilient it's also really fragile. A supernova such as this must essentially sterilize space for light years around it and it bathes its neighbourhood in gamma radiation. Did this kill off some nascent civilization? Supernovas seem to be relatively rare (compared to the number of stars) but think: over billions of years what are the odds that such a thing--or something equally as deadly such as an asteroid or comet impact--won't happen?

Space in incomprehensibly vast. The energy required to travel to even the nearest star systems seems... prohibitive.

I'm inclined to think that there are also simply too many of us on this planet, a problem that we'll either correct or will be corrected for us as resources start to run out in the next century or two [2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
How is 2% of $40 million zero?
Some bacteria can hibernate for millions of years in spore form. There was some speculation that the "Curse of the Pharaos" was caused by pathogenic bacteria or fungus-produced toxins, so yes, anyone opening that crypt should better be careful.
Ask HN: Copy & Undercut. Should I do this?
Call me pessimistic.

Every viable web startup idea that I can think of has already been done by other startups who have been there many years before. Many of these startups' products look very polished and usable, that I can't begin to think of how to make a substantially better product that would encourage people to jump ship onto my product.

For example, one of my ideas is a repository hosting service. But why the hell would anyone use my service when there's already GitHub/Assembla/BitBucket?

I'm thinking of just copying other startups but charge less as a possible strategy.
Is this a good idea?
Which one of Ogilvy's books you meant (or recommend): Confessions of an Advertising Man (2004) or Ogilvy on Advertising (1985)?
tl;dr - Oh noes, GitHub attempts to make it easy for newbs, and so I can't be smart and do things normally, despite them putting up no barriers to that!
The government doesn't decide what religion is a religion. It decides what religions are permitted government benefits that include tax-free recognition (if they believe you're a true non-profit agency this isn't hard, furthermore why claim to be a religion to get this status than simply form a non-profit).

Furthermore Buddhism and Confucianism are recognized as religions in the US for census and other purposes, yet both don't worship deities. Confucianism is a life-philosophy based around the teachings of Confucius and Buddhism is a life-philosophy based around the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.
Agreed, The Non Designer's Design Book has been the most helpful for me. When you've learned the basics of UX design, you can probably improve your overall UX design best by learning the basic skills of visual design.
Why are you asking? Google has announced that they will terminate a few services but I didn´t see anything related to the Goole Apps Marketplace. Have you got any information?
I've gone between 10 and 30 days without eating several times before. It really is good for you if you are relatively healthy to start with.

The first two days are key; You will go crazy if you are unprepared. Remedies for the craziness are drinking lemon water (freshly squeezed lemon in water, possibly with some sweetener but you'll need much less if it is unsweetened), and doing 5-10 minutes of exercise every time you feel the need to eat. Another option is to start when you've lost appetite due to some illness or mild depression - that makes the first two days pass easily.

And then something magical happens - you stop caring about food. For a long time. The smells don't matter, the sight doesn't matter. (Although if you force yourself to eat, it will stat mattering again in a few hours).

A few days or weeks later, you will feel hunger - and realize it is the first time ever you have felt hunger -- everything you felt before you _thought_ was hunger, was just plain appetite. hunger feels different, and it also cannot be suppressed by reading an interesting article or playing a video game.

There are also health benefits, but I highly recommend it just for the psychological experience.
Rebuttal: http://mises.org/daily/5598/Have-Anthropologists-Overturned-...
1st, after a couple years work, non-founder, was mid-tens.

2nd, after a year and a half, non-founder, was "could have bought a house and put kids through college if I wasn't young and stupid"-money.

3rd, founder, zero. Sucked up the money from 2nd, in fact; it was negative.

4th, employee, four years; would have been six figures had I bought my options when I quit (but even after that, I'd still recommend being wary of buying your options when you leave). But: you gotta put the four years you worked there in the divisor, too.

5th is current company, and I'm a founder.
The issue with RSS is that you can't put advertisements in it else it'd lose all value. So RSS is not a good thing for sites such as Ars.

In the end you're going to have 3-10 RSS feeds to read max and they're exactly the same ones as the 3-10 sites you were going o read, except you can easily see headlines.
Instead of putting 200 RSS feeds, which is clearly just as dumb as reading 200 sites (in fact its still easier to read 200 RSS than 200 sites)

And that's that.
If investors hold $40m in preference, it's 0. But I'd be interested in the other two ways?
Explain to him that you weren't seeking an answer so much as validation.
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"I'm pretty sure that there's no way to do this without effectively just releasing pristine copies that somebody will cut the ads out of within 5 minutes of them being posted."

The scene will probably just ignore the bittorrent copies. Over-the-air digital is already a pristine copy at a much higher bitrate so would be the preferred source.
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Let's step back a little and consider whether it makes sense to blame a document format for our problems.
You don't think blindly telling people to move their ssh private key, if it already exists, might lead to newbs breaking their computers? Certainly it would have broken mine if I had done it.
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Overall I found the blog entry to be lacking any real reasoning why one shouldn't switch or vice-versa. It just feels like a blantant "I want to be on Hacker News" post.
Are there any pain points in these services which you are currently experiencing? If so, focus on those and that's how to differentiate.

I don't think competing on price will help you a lot:
1. People use a certain tool because they like it and they are willing to pay for it. A couple of dollar less, won't convince them to use your tool.
2. Too low prices tools makes people think there is something wrong with it.
3. You won't survice when you don't charge enough.

There is always a market for another tool. As long as you solve a problem, you'll attract users.
Chop off the bits that are sticking out with a razor.
...because of one guy, who may have been lying through his teeth in an attempt to impress the other people at dinner?

I'm not trying to defend this guy, certainly it's a big problem if he did what he said, but you can't fix something when you paint the whole fucking thing with a brush you picked up looking at one of the uglier parts.
Jekyll etc static site generators are harmful to free open source movement
"Ogilvy on Advertising" is his most famous book
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They already are in place, the only thing that will work is having all content that is published being approved first. Good luck with that.
Is this was a record company deal, they'd have advanced you some goodwill and charged you for it. You'd be lucky to get out with $0, instead of owing them money for having worked there :)
Interesting - the mode bit is kind of in the lines of contract programming, only the type system is good enough so that the compiler can check them for you.

I feel like there's much ground to explore in the realm of stronger guarantees. In plain old C, there is absolutely no way to guarantee that a function will not do anything obnoxious and just return a result. That is largely true for most "mainstream" languages, which are all more or less inspired by C and its predecessors (ALGOL). In fact, in Javascript it goes so far that you can't trust the object prototypes because any of them can be changed.

True, common sense and coding conventions dictate that you simply shouldn't write things prone to be impossible to debug and break random pieces of code in an unrelated part of the project. That is not the problem, though - getting bugs because you've forgotten a side effect somewhere is quite a common occurrence. And besides - how much do you trust external libraries not to do the same (obviously not an issue when it has a large open source community, but that is not always the case)?

Now, on the other end of the spectrum we have things like the monads in Haskell, which are basically computations/side effects in a box. We have contract programming to guarantee the structure of the data. Pure functions that you simply know that you can call in whatever order and however many times you want and the result will always be the same, with nothing breaking behind the curtains.

It would be interesting to take these ideas of managing effects and having a stronger type system back to a C-style language and seeing how they work out. At the very least I'd certainly be happy to never dereference another null pointer ever again, for instance, or calling a writing function and knowing that it can't delete my data (placing your own guarantees is kind of moot when a function can access all of the standard library in the background). In a sense, it's like how you don't have to worry about a function leaking memory or memmoving into your own stuff in a garbage collected language that doesn't expose memory management.
This kind of uncertainty (will the government suddenly decide that my product is unworthy?) and lack of protection (copycat products will instantly abound) seems like it greatly discourages foreign investment in China. But...do they need it? China seems content for the moment to simply copy everything else the world does and create a China-only version of it. They have a large enough population that they don't really need anyone else.

Every time I think about what a great, untapped market China is, I'm reminded of what they did to World of Warcraft when it entered there:

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-07-29/20090729175936714...
A bit annoying that that Ruby was not a choice when voting.

My advice, when asked, is to learn Java and one scripting language (Python or Ruby). That just about covers the bases.

For my work, I use Java, Ruby, Common Lisp, and Clojure. I also spend time learning Haskell and Scala, but don't write much code in them.
> I remember reading a resignation later by a guy [...]

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/10/17/17194/andrew-lahd...

A very good read. Andrew Lahde bet against the "too big to fail" financial institutions. He was an outsider. And he only closed his operations because he considered those institutions wouldn't be able to pay back [further] bets.
Offering different levels of service for different amounts of money is a valid competition tactic. There are plenty of people who would forego bells and whistles to pay less for a service.

Of course, that depends on the features and service and price, but that's all up to you.

It's not unethical at all. It's how capitalism works.