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I wish a real competitor would have emerged earlier, honestly, if only to get the Google Reader team to do something interesting. The truth is that Reader has been the de facto standard, but ugly, clunky, and with a somewhat random and randomly expanding feature set.

I've tried everything else in the vain hope that it'd be better, but nothing ever is.

To me, this seems like the worst time to try to compete. Google's entering a user-focused phase, with changes that are largely better for most people. Are the obstinate change-hating refugees really the user base you want?

how do you rope up all the hardcore google reader users into one place, and get them to share with one another.

This doesn't make any sense to me. Even hardcore google reader users have, I imagine, very different interests. Why would you assume they automatically make up some sort of community?

G+ seems like a much better platform to make communities on top of, since you can easily direct your content.

Also, it seems like Google+ is becoming a platform. If Reader becomes an RSS wielding inteface for that, I imagine they'll release public APIs on top of which it would be easy to make an alternative UI.
Table on estimated cost of hardware to crack a password in 1 year from scrypt paper: http://i.imgur.com/sAOwS.png

I personally use a scheme similar to yours, but with PBKDF2.
Also, I'm no crypto expert.
aMember does everything but number 3, but there are a ton of download tracker plugins out there. Between the two, you should be able to accomplish everything you need.

Drop me a line at adam.barber1 [at] gmail [dot] com if you have questions.
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After the iPhone 4S, Android just feels wrong
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What software do you use to monitor your servers and the services running on them? I'm looking for Nagios competitors that are better and easier to set up. Right now, I've got a few Perl scripts that send emails if the disk gets full or if my site isn't returning the expected content, but it's not ideal.
For people that have done this with success: how many times of closing an app do you consider a "few" times? Wouldn't you need to repeat this enough to make the result statistically significant--or is it more like a rule of thumb?
The in-depth security means you design your system so that it doesn't fall apart if only one of the pieces fall.

As for your comment on the PRNG, it's actually not a very good design. You would rather use a cipher in stream mode which is indeed fed from a hash, because the cipher will have a better and more predictable behaviour over time.

I however don't understand why people were repeating bcrypt as a mantra on your git pull.
By which you mean they have charismatic leaders with nonsensical ideas?
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As someone who worked for Shaw during the transition from Rogers to Shaw in 2001, I can fully attest to the hatred people have for that company. A full year after the switch over customers would open their tech support call with bitching about Rogers.

Whatever people want to say about Netflix at least they didn't try that "negative option billing" crap.
The "Certification Path" goes to Google Internet Authority, issued by Equifax.
Kahneman and Tversky are legends in psychology, but they didn't change the fundamental way we view ourselves. The notion of humans as super rational utility maximisers was entirely an economic model, and it was that they attacked. It was well known (for over twenty years before their seminal 1974 science paper) that humans were poor at probability and utility judgments.

What they did do, was force the economic profession to face up (somewhat) to these issues, and their contribution to loss aversion and prospect theory more generally, is a significant advance.

That being said, their dual process models are about as predictive as those of Freud (which is to say, not at all). its currently a really active phase of research, so I suppose I can thank them for making it easier for me to get funding.

They also did not invent priming, though they made heavy use of it. Likewise framing effects were well known before them, going back at least to Asch 1951 study of conformity in judgements of line length.

To summate, Kahneman is an amazing scientist, but this reporter does not appear to know much about what he is talking about.
Who rightfully owns the money is determined not by the programming of the vending machine but by the conventional social arrangements of society.
no offense taken. I guess you can call me a fan boy. but that doesn't mean i'm wrong.

Android = crappy poor man's iOS
Windows = crappy poor man's Mac

"Besides, some of the stuff that Android has been doing for years is now showing up in iOS, so it can't all be bad."

what? like multitasking, copy/paste, widgets? if you want to be technical, iOS is a derivative of MAC OS X/NextStep, and MAC OS X/NextStep had multitasking, copy/paste and widgets years/decades before Android.
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so the `initial` value can functionally replicate this. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/initial

You just apply that to each property you want to reset. You might think that applying it to EVERY property is a nightmare but in many cases you wouldnt need to. Disqus, for example, operates in your own CSS so it can look native to the page. They only have to override a few properties to assure their layout is good.

So yeah, while `inherit:none` would be awesome, I think `prop: initial` gets us most of the way there.

Also related: https://github.com/premasagar/cleanslate
It's actually enabled by default on Android 4.0. It's optional only in Honeycomb.
Wouldn't a Version Control system (think Github) serve you better?

You have files on the cloud and get version control for free.

Unless of course all your stuff is huge binaries and you don't care about versioning.
This post actually is more telling about the absurdity of working at Amazon than the post he took down.
> feeling like I had to pass through all four levels of Ninja Warrior and climb to the top of Mount Midoriyama, just to be allowed to launch frickin’ VNC in a GUI or load the backup program I use on all the other machines on my network…

If he was doing remote administration via VNC, he was probably doing it wrong.

Also:

> I know quite well what I’m doing, but not to the level that is apparently required to keep a simple LAMP machine running.

Wat?
The tech industry has gone over the financials. The consumer sentiment comes from the fact that they see it a lot, and therefore it must be making lots of money. I'm not sure that these two things compare very directly....
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Hi PG: I applied an incomplet form the day of the deadline and was waiting for the late apply to completed since we were getting things together that week. Right now we have everything to finalize the form and I try to follow the late apply form and it says it's no longer editable.

Is this an issue or we should apply again thru the account of another of the founders?
Thanks! Very good examples.

I can see how monkey patching could be useful in mocking or something similar. I've never really used a language that supports it though.

I'm not entirely sure what Eclipse's code generation has to do with testing, but given the other examples I'll assume I'm being stupid again ;) I'm actually working with a lot of EMF generation stuff at the minute which can be quite painful.
It definitely makes a lot of sense. Just try speaking with someone about politics or religion. Even if you conclusively prove that the other persons views are not based in fact or reason they will refuse to acknowledge you are right and then usually get mad and stop talking to you. Humans are most certainly not 'rational beings'. Our thinking is constantly biased by our formative experiences and our environment.
probably because the form factor hadn't changed.
So, to save 2 weeks we take another month of the students time away from activities that might have been teaching the student different things than the school is willing to teach? Sounds like an unfair trade-off. School is not the only place of learning and cutting down the large breaks removes possibilities of doing something else just as educational and often times more fulfilling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_broom

In short, you use it to heat one side if the debris, causing it to ablate, resulting in thrust that knocks it out of orbit.
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The reality is this, if the issues that arise while updating your server are not worth the advantages, don't build your own servers! There are so many hosting providers that deal with all these issues for us. If you have the types of problems this writer has just stop booting up your own servers. The OS you use is irrelevant. You have these issues with any OS.
That's the thing though, it is the only dip in their data. I am really curious how other recession periods didn't have the dip.
> I don't think that all cops are dicks

I think the vast majority are, and I used to be one so I've known more than a few.
Having lived a previous life as a blackhat, ID thief, and credit card scammer I could write a book (and may someday) about hacks I came up with. Here are a few:

I sold fake IDs at college. The real IDs were plastic cards and had multi-spectrum holograms, something you can't easily fake. Combining methods I found on the internet with my own discoveries I created simulated holograms using clear spray paint, lamination pouches, Pearlex pigment powder, Alps thermal printer, and a bad ass laminator. They were good enough to pass most bouncers in-state and was told that one passed a cop.

Our college IDs could be used at campus stores, vending machines, etc. The mag stripe just had your school ID encoded on it. If you had a mag stripe encoder (like me) and knew someone's ID you could encode it onto your own ID (or a fake one you printed yourself, like I did). The problem was finding school ID numbers.

To communicate with students there was a set of folders outside the main office of each department. Each student had their own folder, sorted in alphabetical order. This was also where you got your grades at the end of the quarter. I realized that your grades had your full student ID number listed (which was also your SSN!). All I had to do was go through the folders and find grades other students hadn't picked up yet to get their ID numbers.

Luckily the school stopped printing full numbers on student correspondence not long after that.
For a guy (Jobs) who stood on the shoulders of a lot of people, I find this quote of an obvious rant indicative of some serious misunderstandings. BTW, he didn't steal the mouse from Xerox, he stole it from SRI down the street...
I've always understood it to be "Ramen profitable" as opposed to, say, fancy-steak-and-a-five-star-hotel profitable. e.g. barely profitable (or in this case, sustainable, argues the OP).
I disagree about the slider. That is not a good solution; using it strains hand, and causes trouble especially for elderly people. Also it does not give a clue what is the range.
The amount of RSS readers that support google reader is crazy. I use Feedly on the laptop and Reeder on iOS, they both support sharing with a couple dozen different services, have amazing interfaces, and feedly has great discovery tools for finding new blogs. I don't see the point of switching since I haven't logged into reader.google.com in ages (the last time was to export a couple folders and send it to some friends).
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It's a huge improvement and I'm very excited for it. One issue I have with it, though, is that I was hoping they'd make the virtual buttons appear "on demand" somehow, so you can take advantage of the "full" screen in all situations. But even better, they should've done something like in Meego Harmatan, where you go "back" or to the home page by sliding the screen to the side.

That could create an issue in games perhaps, if not done right, but they could've probably found a way to do it right. Matias himself says gestures are better than buttons, so he should've tried to get rid of those buttons completely, too. Then you could enjoy the full screen in all situations, and you could use the full "HD" resolution. Oh well, maybe they can implement it for Android 5.0 (right, Matias? - if you're reading this).
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Curiosity? The potential that it could help you? If it's easy enough to try, as in effortless and risk-free, you might well be tempted to give it a shot.
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What you're describing is a coworking facility, which as you guessed was inspired by so many people working at coffee shops.

I believe they avoid the health inspections by simply giving away the coffee and pastries, employing a Keurig machine, or locating in a hip area near good coffee shops, which is often the case. If you provide an ergonomic desk and chair in a quiet room with great internet, then coffee and pastries are less important.
Here's the thing. Apple took the desktop metaphors and input technology from PARC. But it then made its own interface. The Xerox PARC machines don't look like a Macintosh. I don't think you can compare that to what Google did with Android.

Android basically stole the iPhone interface in its entirety. Right down to the screen resolution and icon placement (bottom of the screen on each app).

In fact, to put an even finer point on it, Google scrapped its version of Android (see here: http://techcrunch.com/2007/12/17/android-prototype-lets-hope...) and went to work on a full on copy of the iPhone.

I'm glad Android's out there to provide competition. But there's no doubt Android's theft of the iPhone interface is more brazen than any other example I can think of.
Agreed, a hybrid of absolute numbers of startup people and density is probably the most appropriate.
Of course, Cars 2 is the low point in Pixar's streak but overall still able to capture an audience not to mention tons of toys sold. I understand Lasseter's point and given his fixation over the concept I'll just accept the fact it is a big deal to him personally just as I accept Jobs' enthusiasm about getting Beatles in the iTMS.
I would have added an alternate plan---suggesting investment in pitchforks and torches as financial fallback.
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right, but wouldn't low numbers to begin with indicate problems beyond just the website? What's the metric then? If the site is generating 100k a year and you bump conversions by 10% is that success? If the site is only generating 10k per year, then does conversion need to go up 50% to be considered successful?
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Looks pretty useless on its own, but combined with another climbing technology it might be quite useful if the robot is to be stationary for prolonged periods.
More on UK visa: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/uk-beats-the-us-to-a-tec...
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Video games. That's how they hooked us in my limited high school computer science classes.
What if you can't remember why you decided to adopt "If you can't remember why onions are in there, take 'em out" as one of your personal guiding maxims?
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Even if those investors invested at $11-12b valuation, with a 1x preference they stand to almost double their money in 1 year. Not too shabby.
This made me chuckle after just reading a rant about someone leaving Linux and going back to Windows because of all the secret handshakes and tribal knowledge required.
Could just be a timing issue. Recessions are measured on quarterly performance, this is annual. So you could have two quarters of negative growth in a row (a recession) and still have overall positive growth for the year.

Also, wages/employment are sticky because of the friction in changing them... companies will generally change comp slower than the change in sales (in both directions.)
Interesting: HN's duplicated post detection seems to be disabled (this was posted only 9 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101618)
Then how would you browse?
Whatever. Jeff might be super smart, but apparently he is not smart enough to instill some happiness in the people he works with.

I cannot help it, but I have little respect for people who do this, especially if they are super smart.
This just popped up on ars, and it provides a plausible explanation for something that had been bugging me. Why patent-a-geddon?

I mean seriously, Patents, and patent battles, have happened for decades and they have generally all followed the same pattern, A sues B, B countersues A, one or more trials get to the point where folks can see how they are going to go, and then that determines the settlement. Apple->Xerox, Kodak/HP, IBM/Memorex, Intel/AMD, SGI/Sun, SGI/Microsoft, Microsoft/Sun, Etc etc.

But with Apple suing HTC and all of the other Android makers, to the point of injunctions and pulling products off shelves and disrupting commerce, have gone past the 'ok how much to settle?' phase. They have become vindictive.

And that, for me at least, was confusing. Since generally its just business and once you've normalized the business aspects of things you can proceed. So why continue this war?

According to Ars, in the upcoming biography, Steve felt so intensely personally affronted by Android that he would only be satisfied if Android ceased to exist. Given his conviction, and war chest, that would explain a lot about the durability (or longevity) of the current patent litigation.
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This is the A7 mentioned yesterday. The article is worth a peek if only for the two contrasted CPU instruction diagrams showing the difference in complexity and the graph of performance versus power for the two chips.

It all makes sense when you see those.
It was certainly playful and fun and seriously one of a kind in the laptop category to this day.

But, Ive kinda let his design overwhelm the product and the design was a lot less timeless comparing to his similarly themed first gen iMac.

I consider it an evolution of the pretty ugly eMate (though of course much better), and it was created at a time Ive still was maturing as an industrial designer working closely with Jobs.
This is why I ditched red-hat based distros about 7 years ago.
I completely disagree with this, simply because there is already a fantastic and large hub in London. There's hundreds of startups here already and proximity to VCs, in one of the world's best cities. It makes a lot more sense to build on something that's already strong, and make it stronger.

I think one of the smartest things this Government has done is to recognise that and ignore calls from people outside London to create something elsewhere. But yes, London is frigging expensive. That said, you can live close to, but outside London and it's no more expensive than the other places you mention.
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Yea, I am with you. But, like the point I made in the article. What is feedly going to do with the share button? Or, reeder for that matter.

I really think there is a space for someone to do a Google Reader like API, and publicly support it. Google Reader has yet to release an officially support API.

If they were to start as a drop in replacement they could be huge.
Playing the numbers game.
The orbit you are in is directly dependent on your velocity. So if your orbit is similar to another objects, you'll be going at a similar velocity as well.

Put another way, if you are in the same orbit as another object, your velocity must be the same.

This illustrates itself in space docking procedures. If two objects are in the same orbit, one thrusting towards another in the direction of the orbit puts the first at a higher orbit and it'll rise with respect to second object. The converse holds true; thrust against the orbit and you'll fall with respect to the other object.

Thus, to dock, you have both crafts at slightly different orbits and the lower orbit will slowly gain on the higher orbit. In this way, one can control how fast the approach is. This will be how the satellite approaches debris most likely.
I guess my question is about "how does that propagate?" I have no physics background, so maybe the answer is obvious, but I have trouble intuiting how, in my thought experiment, the experimenter and the subject have any shared state.
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"And perhaps this is why we look so wistfully at entrepreneurs. They seem to exude the raw passion that experience has taught us to modulate, the vivid emotion that we've learned to suppress, the intense energy that we learn must be channeled, the unreasonable audacity that has been replaced by sensible objectives. We cheer for them because they represent our youthful hopes, our idealism, our ambitions and our dreams. And when these entrepreneurs defy the extraordinary odds, and succeed, we rejoice, for at the moment we can sense, if only fleetingly, the exceptional untapped potential within each of us. We rejoice, and wonder: what if?"

So essentially what the writer is saying (in this paragraph) is that people like
entrepreneurs for the same reason monster and invader movies
were big at various times (50's because of the soviet threat as
only one example) or with any movie genre or Tv. Say, Kung Fu
because we all would like to just chop down the bully.

But how healthy is it for those who are
influenced by the infatuation?

Sure it's great for people in the
peanut gallery to read about entrepreneurs, and those who make
money from the entire ecosystem. But is it realistic for
young people who chase a dream thinking they will be the next
big thing and then pass up a more secure opportunity?
(Maybe the job market is bad today but it might
not be 2 years from now.)

I spent years taking karate lessons.
One day I broke my hand in a sparring match and
dropped out. Having more time to study, my grades improved.
The grade increase allowed me to get into an Ivy League college.
Might I just add, I am not your typical fan boy for Apple. Quite the opposite actually. I am a Microsoft geek at heart, learnt basic when I was 13 and loved them since. They can do minimal wrong in my eyes (except for windows ME).

I appreciate Apple in a completely different way, I think how they have created their following in nothing short of amazing. The spot a market potential and they make it work, really well.

The iPod worked really well but it was really the iPhone that did it for them, they brought Apple to the absolute masses. I am still not 100% sure if the iTunes store was a fluke, I don't think it was on the first iPhone. If it was planned in it's entirety then hats off to Steve.

Look at the market share now, Microsoft should be scared. I don't think Microsoft has ramped up it's game much either, Ballmer is a bit of a joke so I'm going to find it hard to take him seriously but I think I will always be Microsoft at heart.
Right, Google Reader won't ever be for the masses. That is exactly why another company can swoop in. Google is a company for the 90%, but 10% is still big enough to make a successful company.
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From what I've read, from the beginning Zuckerberg has been pretty clear in his desire to make everything everyone does public and on facebook. So this seems consistent with his vision.