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Ask HN: Review my startup, NewsQast - local news, weather, traffic, and more
NewsQast is a local news, weather, traffic, and more aggregation service meant to provide a broader news experience across all media markets sourced to the consumer via multiple channels.

Some Background:
NewsQast started as just a mobile app concept that would replace the need to have 4 or 5 different news apps on my phone by aggregating the news into one app. Then based on initial feedback from a few people, it was recommended that this could be valuable across multiple channels, thus I am expanding to provide news information via the web, mobile apps, and Twitter feeds.

I have completed a beta version of the website to give the public a glimpse of the NewsQast concept. I am working on the mobile app and Twitter integration as we speak.

Request:
I would like to ask the Hacker News community to provide me feedback on the concept and usefulness of the service. I am not a designer so I know the web design could use more graphical work, but I would like more validation and feedback on the concept and approach before getting too far down the line.

URL: http://www.newsqast.net/

Thanks for the feedback.
I get depressed regarding income taxes, especially for low-income people (i.e., the nannies). Did you know that on a proportional basis, in nearly every country with "progressive" income taxes, the working poor pay the most tithes to the government than they ever have? If you compare the institution of income taxes in "democracies" in the early 20th century to now, the poor have shouldered most of the burden, proportional to income. Kind of flips the whole bleeding heart mechanism for "redistribution of wealth" thing on its head, IMO.

Anyway, I don't want to turn this into a political discussion but that was the reason behind my comment.
"This might be a bit low because the tracking for DNT is by IP address."

Tracking people using DNT? This is quite ironic.
Do you have any idea how much stuff we've written in Elisp?

It's. Not. Worth. It.

You people don't even listen when we try to explain that lexical scope is unnecessary and potentially even a bad idea.

Threads? Come on. :\
Appreciate the insight! Makes the organizations like Dreamit Ventures and the university business incubators even more important in my eyes. We've got the developer talent, but more lacking in the xp of 'how startups work'.
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> "My colors look wrong" will not, and cannot, be--

Believe me, I would agree with you had I not been troubleshooting the issue for the last 4 years, but it did fix it.

It is entirely possible the guy ended up changing more than just the cable and didn't mention it.

This experience reminds me a lot of the Google Ops Team talk at Google I/O this year where they gave stats on things that caused outages and kept punctuating the point that things you think are impossible, will happen at-scale.

"HDMI is a digital signal, it either works or doesn't, degraded analog signal artifacts are impossible!"

Apparently not =/
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Yep, seen the "sparkles" issue as well a handful of times and was corrected with a new cable.
Here's a real life scenario:

1) Develop a project in a rush

2) Becomes successful

3) Boss/Client decides to launch it in 2/5/10/22/34/82 countries

4) Project becomes one big hack

One simple Unicode test and 10 minutes of initial thinking would've saved all this trouble.
Hint: sender first name is inside the sender's email address, not the name that appears in the email client.
Audioholics took on this issue with a bunch of bench testing back in 2008: http://www.audioholics.com/education/cables/long-hdmi-cable-...

BTW, even though the site was using equipment from Monster, don't take that as an indication that they're in Monster's pocket: http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/monster-cable-... (there are any number of articles ripping on Monster on both audioholics.com and avrant.com)
!! and !$ are alright, but I really dislike !blah, which is blindly executing the latest command starting with blah, whatever it is. The author of the article should remove this "tip", it is bad advice, or at least make a note that the !blah:p is highly preferable.
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I've never bought Amazon's because Monoprice's are about half that ($3.50). Monoprice's cables seem to be of great quality too - they're noticeably better than some of the $20 cables my parents have paid for at retailers.
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Here's what the article is saying - HDMI is like the internet, or digital TV; not like radio.

If your internet connection is working, HN looks the same with a good connection or a bad connection. If your internet connection is down, you get nothing. 0.01% of the time, you might get a garbled page from a bad connection, but it's not a common problem.

But people think that the cables are like radio antennas, and a better cable = better quality picture.

Digital stuff is actually far more annoying to fix. If your TV is black (not fuzzy, like it would be with a bad analog connection), you don't really know if it's the cable, the port, the video card, or something else.
This doesn't strike me as a legitimate difference (even just semantically). It doesn't matter if it's amended to existing legislation or passed as new law; both are the same from the perspective of "legislating the Internet."
For a low traffic site that is updated a couple of times a month, how about static pages with some scripting on the client machine? I use

text files -> bash script calls markdown and adds header/footer -> another bash script generates indexes -> lftp syncs
Do you understand digital vs. analog? If yes, then in fact you do agree with the message of the article: a non-defective cable transmits a digital signal just as correctly as any other non-defective cable. Your experience just indicates that slightly more expensive cables are less likely to be defective.

I wish HDMI equipment would display a counter of digital errors. For all non-defective cables, this counter should be 0 all the time.
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Palace of Versailles, the most important royal palaces in France
http://100tou.blogspot.com/2011/09/palace-of-versailles-most-important.html
Thanks for this comment. Humans certainly are predisposed to equality, but it might better be termed as "reciprocity".

You may have read a very famous book by Jared Diamond called "Guns, Germs and Steel" which won the '98 Pulitzer in nonfiction. A lot of these conversations about wealth and equality (and why they are not equal among different sets of society, or among countries) are addressed in the book. This is definitely a life-changing read worth looking into.

Because you might be really (really) busy, I also recommend a short article that sumarizes a lot of the themes in an interesting way: http://www.umass.edu/preferen/gintis/SocJusticeRes.pdf
Cheers - Jamison
I just started to do new projects with D7 (was playing with D7 since its release, but only now got new commercial project at hands).

While everybody complains about bloat, you can turn off most of it. But new developer features just awesome!

For example, I had hard time incorporating CDN into D6 heavy loaded project. Now it is easy since D7 support different backends for storing files (via wrapping PHP streams)! You no longer need to rewrite URLs to point to correct CDN location. Same goes to private/public files. Now managing what to allow user to download and what should go through access control much easier.

New DB abstraction functions. While they are nowhere close to full blown ORMs, but they provide enough abstraction and most important - your modules can plug into process of executing SQL queries! (it was possible in D6, but in D6 you had to work with raw text, which was very annoying and prone to errors).

As for bloat... They moved a lot of often used modules in core. Fields in core - idk. I can imaging projects which do not need CCK, but from my practice - every single commercial project required CCK. So for me personally Fields in core make perfect sense.

So. Even if there are a lot of bugs still open - it is fine. D7 is really good product which helps with building scalable and hackable (in good sense) projects.
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Dries keeps going on about something Koolaid related... not sure what he's talking about, but it sounds tasty!

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> You people don't even

I'm not "you people", I'm not affiliated with Guile in any way. However, you are wrecking your brains over something without being fully informed. It is not and never has been intended to _rewrite_ anywthing written in Elisp. Thats why Elisp itself has been to a large part already rewritten in Guile, and it is planned to gut emacs and replace the current C-Elisp engine with the new Guile-Elisp engine. Whether this will or will not work out as intended is a completely different story. But the fact remains that Elisp, in the grand scheme of things, is an isolated island, and as such does not fit into the overall design goals of GNU stated over 20 yrs ago, so there are people working on this. Even Google sponsored two GSoC projects for two years to rewrite Elisp in Scheme.

See:

* http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/01/07/a-brief-history-of-g...

* http://wingolog.org/archives/2010/04/02/recent-developments-...

* http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/08/30/the-gnu-extension-la...
kernel.org has been down now for three or four days now. Seems there is more to this hack than we've been told. For awhile kernel.org just didn't respond to requests, then they put up this maintenance page:

http://kernel.org/
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No, it is the same thing. Data is encoded into a static image format only in order to be transported by mms. The difference being that my system and hp's system packaged up a static route through the site so a large amount of ondemand processing was not necessary. It appears this is being done entirely dynamically per request which is an improvement but my experience tells me is not scalable.
It seems to me that this is what the article is saying, actually. Really cheap cables may very well be faulty, but $10 cables are just as good as a $90 set.
What about the following sentence?

"At no point do we or should we say, `Now that we have defined an abstract group, let's assume they exist'. Either we can demonstrate they exist by constructing some, or the theory becomes vacuous."

Doesn't that imply constructivism?
I've worked alot on binary search trees. Note that balancing a tree is only good when you will seek only one leaf in each request. If you may seek from zero to n leaves in one request, the fact the tree is balanced is absolutely not particularly a good thing.
In this case, here is my theory:

A binary tree is good when the probability of a node to cut its set into a sought set and a not-sought set is the highest on average. And here is a draft of mine of such a binary tree but I don't know in fact if it is right :p

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_//fsweet-snippet/k-me...
+1 for Monoprice. Their prices are great, they have a large selection of cable types and lengths, and they are speedy.

With Amazon's convenience and large selection, it's hard for these niche shopping sites to gain any mindshare on me anymore. When I'm looking for something esoteric I usually check Amazon first and then possibly google product prices to make sure the price isn't substantially cheaper somewhere else. For me to switch away from Amazon at any place that hasn't been "grandfathered" in my mind like Zappos and Monoprice, you'd have to do it via price first, and then keep me with some sort of convenience or other hook.
Does GNU Emacs have standardized (out-of-the-box) parser generating facilities, or every package still has to hack their own?
> you might get a garbled page from a bad connection

But if you do, it isn't because the internet is bad and needs to be replaced (the cable in the analogy), it's because either the server or the client interpreted the signal incorrectly, and tried to display the page as correctly as possible, but failed.
I am aware of that :) When developing OS it might make sense to have two machines. (unless you can run in a VM, which I think many could)

But, not everyone at MS works with windows, which is why I was a little surprised about the statement that everyone had more than one machine.
Same here. And I probably stay with synergy as it is multiplatform that microsoft thing has some extra functionality. See this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2983052
Question for the people reading this:

I thought this was interesting, and the upvotes show that others here on HN agree. But this item is now ranked below 850 and falling - clearly it's being flagged.

I don't much like StackOverflow, MathOverflow and similar - I much prefer the style of HN. If I provided an alternative to HN that overcomes this problem, would you be interested?
Failing fast doesn't mean much if you don't have a definition of failure to work off of so you can iterate. How exactly does one define these kinds of failures?
Great articles. I'm just starting to get into the hang of vi. I'm giving vi-mode in bash a go (with "set -o vi") but there doesn't seem to be any indication of when I'm in command/insert mode. Is there any way to see this?
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Yep, crashed on my iPad2 as well.
There's a primitive data structure called the syntax table that assists in writing fast parsers, but it is nothing like lex or yacc.
I'm not sure if Eliezer (who participates here) has seen either of the links below before.

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

I post these links to HN from time to time, because they are from top-notch authors on heritability research and join issue directly with a very common misconception about what heritability figures show about human behavioral traits. Simply put, whatever the numerical figure is for heritability of this or that human behavioral trait says NOTHING about how malleable (changeable or controllable by environment) the trait is. Let me be clear: all human behavioral characteristics are heritable, with heritabilities above the theoretical minimum of 0 and always strictly less than the theoretical maximum of 1. But no matter what the calculated heritability is of a specific trait, we know NOTHING about how subject that trait is to change under the influence of carefully planned environmental interventions. That is a separate line of investigation, not logically or factually related at all to the heritability calculated by the usual methodologies in studies of correlations of traits among closely related and less closely related individuals. The references provide more details.

From the article: "When I ask myself this question, I think my actual political views would change primarily with my beliefs about how likely government interventions are in practice to do more harm than good. I think my libertarianism rests chiefly on the empirical proposition—a factual belief which is either false or true, depending on how the universe actually works—that 90% of the time you have a bright idea like 'offer government mortgage guarantees so that more people can own houses,' someone will somehow manage to screw it up, or there’ll be side effects you didn’t think about, and most of the time you’ll end up doing more harm than good, and the next time won’t be much different from the last time." Similarly, my views on politics and economics are heavily influenced by real-world experience, particularly the real-world experience of living in Taiwan, and visiting Hong Kong and China, in the early 1980s when those three culturally similar areas lived under very different government policies. Government policies make a difference. Actuality trumps theory in political science and economics.
Could you expand on "lexical scope is unnecessary and potentially even a bad idea"? I'm really curious given that fact that almost all the languages I use support lexical and not dynamic scope.
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A sociopath - or someone with Antisocial Personality Disorder - is someone who is clinically diagnosed as unable to feel empathy.

I think you're confusing this personality with someone who's classed as an alpha-type.

You do not need to be unable to relate to people on a human level to be able to rule.

It does seem to be a male-oriented model, where females act more like glue, facilitating relationships [..]

Why?

You should remember that women and men can equally be equally be classified as antisocial. If this classification is the main indicator of leadership potential, then women would have been just as likely to lead.

--

If your model is correct, and people who can be classified as antisocial really did rule the pre-historic world - why aren't we all 'sociopathic' now?
I think the main problem I have with this is that it's not internally consistent. He talks about the evolution of a complex system by incremental improvements, but apparently maintains the libertarian instinct of "This is broken, throw it out." instead of "This is broken, how do we improve it?". There are an enormous number of governance models that have never been seriously tried on a large scale. There is no fundamental reason to believe that the libertarian value of "shut it all down" is going to produce better results than any of the other possible models.
Are you in a position to set better deadlines? If you know you can work X hours per day, try to schedule around that, rather than assuming you can suddenly work X + 2 hours per day.
Actually, studies have shown the opposite, talking to a passenger is less dangerous than driving alone. A passenger is part of your shared environment and reacts to road conditions. They also keeps you awake and alert.

"Your freedom to swing your fist ends when it comes into contact with my nose." I think this trite phrase applies here. You're not just risking yourself, the risk to others is very high and demonstrable.
To the rescue, an add-in called XY Labeler, custom labels:

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The article he's responding to is at http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/09/06/michael-shermer/liber...
I haven't tried with the latest version of Mono but, with the previous version, some useful and common libraries (e.g., FParsec) weren't fully supported. I've heard that F# support has improved in the latest version, but that it's still not complete.

I haven't tested it myself because I got tired of working around Mono issues, and just wrote a little script that sends .fsx scripts to my windows machine, runs them there, and returns the output on my linux machine. I can see why you wouldn't want to do that in a production environment, though.
I'd also like to say that digital signals should work or not work, however, when someones map doesn’t match the actual terrain, it’s usually not the terrain that’s wrong.

Could it be related to how the cable affects the transmitting or receiving circuitry? (Electrical impedance mismatch or crosstalk comes to mind.)
Why should people turn it on - when most people just don't care?

That's the same problem we have in the EU right now. The correct way to deal with cookies would be for people to enable or disable them in their browser, according to their personal preferences. Instead, the EU forces their cookie legislation on everybody, because most people are too lazy to fix their preferences.
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Reminds me of this:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
I wonder why this seems to happen in some open-source projects and not in others?
yeah, his short stories are mind blowing. I really liked Distress, too.
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Must be a better way!
Concurrency problems and formatting errors make this list very hard to use IMO. At the moment, the formatting is completely broken.

I have made a password-protected Google Doc spreadsheet. I think it's a better choice than Writeboard since it supports multiple users and there's no risk of breaking somebody else's entry.

Here's the link:

http://thinfi.com/7ir -- Password is the same

Let me know if you think this is a good idea or not.
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Hum, I think you're missing some detail too. When agent forwarding is active, root can use that listening socket to authenticate evil connections while you're logged into that machine. I'm actually surprised OpenSSH doesn't yet print a large warning when you go to connect and forwarding is enabled.

All Mallory must do is rifle through your known_hosts (or bash_history if hashing is enabled), wait for you to connect, then su to your account, fix up the environment, and SSH to some boxes of yours, and update your authorized_keys there to let him connect while you're offline, or starting up a quick background netcat and disconnecting.

This requires no magic tools, and syslog/lastlog on the remote machine won't show much of interest, especially if you're like me and rely on logging in multiple times "quickshot" to remote hosts, except for remote host names the lastlog is basically unreadable already.
Do you have to make an invite so complex?
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I should clarify that I ask this during an initial phone screening. (Having HR personnel ask the question never seems to work because they don't know how to evaluate the response, which can vary and still be correct.)

What I'm looking for is mention of the fact that Java is fully object-oriented and, these days, primarily used on the server side. (Though some mention of the history of -- and problems with -- applets is good too.) For JavaScript, some mention of AJAX, jQuery, Node.js, etc., are all helpful.

Essentially I want to know if the person truly understands the pros and cons of each and when to use each, as opposed to just having a shallow understanding that "they're different languages". I'm still shocked at how many Web developers can't offer more than the the latter.