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Regarding your blog entry, I don't think it's instructive to compare the way adults respond to an extremely blunt spoken person to your child being bullied. Stallman's an adult who doesn't pull punches -- he described Steve Jobs as "evil" right after his death. Is it bullying for him to get counterpunched, or just robust dialogue? I vote door number two.

As for your kid being bullied, you need to be all over that issue as a parent. No kid should have to endure it as the price for attending school.
One of the greatest parts about Reader is that you don't need a mouse at all. Try using the keyboard shortcuts. (Hit Shift-? for a helpful overview)
KEEPING IN MIND that I generally hate people who whine every time every thing changes,

as someone who is fairly invested in Google Reader, it pains me that this has been a UI step backwards.

It's lot less usable; defaulting every link to black, like the rest of the interface, makes scanning for links really painful, and there's still a good 130px of useless interface chrome that is taking up space for no good reason.

Blargh! Looks like I'm going to be loading some custom stylesheets very soon.
Yes. And when a malicious packet is discovered that compromises the RTOS on the chip, and the vendor patches it, this cost raising ideological kludge will leave you devices vulnerable forever.

(I say this, knowing full well that I suffer from the closed nature of this device. The DreamPlug uses this, and the access point version of the firmware only supports 8 devices. That doesn't go very far with the usual complement of mobile devices people carry. I am powerless to patch it and will have to add a dedicated access point to work around it, but paying to freeze this particular deficient version of code is ridiculous.)
press the f key.
try perhaps sendto?
Perhaps you are correct, but why worry about what others think of you? Find your people, enjoy life and make stuff.
More bars than Dublin...I agree, the waste of space is annoying. I can't even think of the last time I wanted to search my RSS feeds and it's taking up a chunk of space.

On a 13inch Macbook add the Mac App bar, Chrome (tabs + search-url + bookmarks toolbar) a third of the readable area is covered with "bars".
Thanks, I've removed all my recent posts. Is there any way of removing all posts and all profile data?
Yep, there's a few people who have requested non-Facebook login. We're working on it :)

If you'd like you can upvote that feature request here: http://niroka.uservoice.com/forums/136707-general
I'm strangely addicted to my mouse. Must be all the years of gaming. The range of movement is minuscule compared to using the keyboard.
While I like SendGrid, there are a few things I'd like to note:

* It's extremely expensive compared to handling your own email. If you count dollars, what they deliver isn't really worth the cost (expontentially so if you already have your own dedicated sysadmin, which you will want to have anyway). Our app currently sends out around 800,000 notification emails per month, or about $600/mo.

* It's been a rocky road. It's been quite buggy for us. I think I had two support tickets within an hour of starting to use it, then another 3-4 tickets open within a week. Things like their email activity and graphs page not working (badly optimized and overloaded, basically); JSON mangling in their API output; and thousands of emails being stuck in their mail server for several hours before being delivered. Everything has been resolved, however, so right now it's fine.

* There are some stupid weaknesses. For example, it's not possible to turn off their built-in spam and bounce handling. If a recipient accidentally marks an email as spam (it happens more than you think), SendGrid will simply stop sending email to that user. Similarly, if a recipient's mailbox goes full or has a temporary failure, SendGrid will often hard bounce, and stop sending emails. You can set the expiry times for bounces, but you can't turn them off.

Pretty much the only feature that is worth paying for is their stats; they have nice APIs to get stats about deliveries, reads and clicks. So while we are ditching SendGrid for our notification emails, we will continue to use them for newsletters.
damn wasn't this just on HN this morning?

now it's on Techcrunch? woahhhhhhh

GJ guys
Agreed. Warren Wilkinson had an idea for a simple Lisp wrapper to SDL for this purpose (http://formlis.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/teaching-children-pr...). But it needs to be something even simpler, "Logo easy." HTML5 Canvas is actually a good system for this IMO.
"The guy is just delusional and trying to get financing to make it work because it probably doesn't work at all."

This has been my litmus test for years for the free/excess energy folks. One of the things that has always been true is that if you have energy, even in small amounts, which is 'free' you can sell that energy for 'money'. In developed countries this is trivial, run the power meter backwards at your house/business, less so at less developed countries although I was at a talk by the guy who built a windmill generator in Africa and he charged batteries for a fee with it.

So you work at a 'real' job for a while and use your savings to build energy machines, you start ganging them together and you sell their energy, once they are making enough money to pay your bills plus a bit of working capital you start building them full time. Once they provide enough funding for V2 you start working on that.

If its real there is no requirement to raise money, if its a scam, well the money is the point.

The area where this gets a bit weirder is with the actual fusion guys. They want to raise money to do basic research with the promise of offering you a piece of the action if they succeed. This isn't exactly a scam, but its definitely very speculative. The focus fusion guys come under this umbrella. They have math that says it works, but they don't know how to build the gear yet, hence the speculation.
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I wish people would include sample size when talking about conversion rate lift. Otherwise for all we know the measured lift is noise and isn't repeatable. Doubling conversions from 4 to 8 out of 100 visitors means much less than 400 to 800 from 10000 visitors.

That said, it makes a lot of sense that a marketing video helps people learn more about your product, get more excited, and feel more comfortable taking the desired action.
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Good smartcard in general cannot be copied and it will not work without the user's pin code. It can also lock itself if the pin code is entered wrong too many times. But most importantly, the keys/certificates inside the smartcard can be revoked remotely if the smartcard is lost. So even if the wrongful holder of the key has somehow got hold of the pin code, he cannot use the key for long.

Nothing is perfect of course. The risk/threat is very similar to someone stealing your phone and has somehow gotten to know your master password to your password management software. However, password management does not really solve neither the usability or the security problems of usernames and passwords ... although a good piece of software can certainly help.
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i'll throw down a few off the top of my head: foursquare, 10gen, etsy, a cool one called makerbot, stackoverflow, etc, etc., etc. ...but there are lots of little guys you probably haven't heard of yet popping out of columbia/nyu or the great design schools like pratt/etc. or coming out of the larger companies around here. it's actually an exciting time to be in the city...

listen, i love the valley. ...i just want people to know that my nyc is a creative and fun one. ...and you can live a happy/rich/fascinating existence here without touching a line of fintech code.
Hans Rosling was right: UK consumption falling since 2001
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That was "free software". This is Free Software.
>Without any conceivable metrics, the value of your content is completely qualitative and in this rap game, subjective analysis is never enough. (...) attention span metrics, unique views, location of viewership, real-time recurring data AND metrics around how video triggers call to action.

I was sold right here. Qualitative analysis has its place, but when subjective opinions clash with one another, you need some sort of hard numbers to back your claims. And information such as attention span metrics, unique views, location of viewership, real-time recurring data etc will definitely help in constructing a more complete picture of your customer base and customer behavior. How we should interpret the data is another matter altogether, but it is satisfying that such tools are available for use.

The real time analytics in videos are also really sexy.
Stallman didn't focus on Steve Jobs' ideas, so one can hardly be blamed for holding him to his own standards.
Really nice article, thx for sharing. Did you do any testing on the length of the video? I would be interested if you found an ideal length that effected conversions.
What makes you think I'm from the US?
Suggestion: if the instructor can also bring in another knowledgeable person, they can receive real-time email/chat questions, and try to answer them, or aggregate them in a meaningful way so that the instructor can address them.

I don't know how well this suggestion will work in the general case because it requires two people who are capable of teaching the course, but it may help. Particularly if the person fielding real-time questions starts seeing trends.

Also, if you can't do that, maybe you could set up chats with 6 (or so) students each, who could try to answer each other's questions.
Well, that's a bit of a false dichotomy. Disliking prejudice doesn't mean I don't wish RMS was a better spokesperson.

But I wasn't really taking about the people who take him less seriously, but those who use that as an argument in a discussion. The former is a flaw (from which I suffer too), but the latter is much worse.
Maybe there are e-ink devices that support Javascript on web sites? That would probably be among the most low-powered options.

The Kindle supposedly supports apps that could probably also be used, but I think the SDK is still not open to everbody :-(
In Google Reader, you HAVE TO +1 to share it with your circles. Really?
Isn't this a step backwards? This change doesn't make sense to me at all, seems less semantic.
> He is an extremist, though. […]

I have discovered lately that it is very easy to have "extreme" opinions. Such opinions only have to be irrevocably incompatible with what we think is mainstream.

For instance, if I say that private banks should stop creating money and give that power back to the people (or at least to the states who represent them), I can easily have reactions like "Banks don't create money." (that's false, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap for a taste of the actual shenanigans), "Printing money is BAAD (hyperinflation and all)" (yes, for the rich), "But that would destroy the whole system!" (how sad, but that was kind of the point. Plus, I think a peaceful transition is totally possible.)

Back to Stalman's ideas. I think they're seen as "extreme" because they happen to be incompatible to the way we do things right now. But, come to think of it, why any single piece of software should not be free? Why any single piece of knowledge or culture should not be open to access? Those are not scarce to begin with. Excluding any one from any abundant resource whatsoever is simply ludicrous.

Yet, proprietary software is ubiquitous, and given how the world currently runs, it would be difficult to do away with it. So we have no choice: for all software to be free, we have to fix a thing or two in our Lovely Global Economy. Which would be extreme.
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Man, I was hoping that they'd show interesting things in continent vs. continent population dynamics. Like how Christopher Columbus & his diseases pretty much decimated the Americas' population.
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Your writing was a much bigger deal than ViaWeb.
Yup, you're right -- I was just talking about deallocation, but more than that matters in a mainstream, side-effecty language, as you point out.
Just trying to teach them that somewhere, down under all that runtime, there's a bunch of hardware which deals with the world 32 bits at a time, and that in the end all these magical "objects" really cook down to a bunch of memory addresses... yeow.

That's what I loved about being in computer engineering. You'll sit there and fill in charts of the cache, perform Tomasulo scheduling by hand, and by god at the end you'll have a pretty decent idea of how the machine does things. Not to say that CS students can't or don't learn the same thing, just that the ones I knew tended not to.
I wish you the best, whatever it is you are, so constructive feedback follows:

Voxatron is too humble. I just went to the page. I had my browser window pretty big... taking up most of a 21" monitor.

Here's what I could tell about Voxatron:

1. It's called voxatron

2. It's "pay what you want".

3. It supports charity

4. It is DRM free

5. The people behind voxatron thought a sorta mincraftish image would communicate something significant to me.

6. It seems like it can run on a Mac.

I think these are all, clearly, features you wanted to communicate, and you succeeded in doing so very well.

However, I then hit my back button because, in the time it took me to grasp on that, I realized I had no clue what Voxatron was.... and I have spent too much time trying to figure things like that out in the past on other sites such that I've gotten the impression that if I don't get it right away, I likely never will. (Seriously, I can't tell you how many times I've followed links from google, gotten to a corporate site, spent 5-10 minutes there, unable to make heads or tails-- when I got there because, according to the query I crafted for google, google thinks this company is selling what I wanted to buy RIGHT THEN. The barrier is much lower for links on HN.)

Is it a game? Is it a voice transcoder? Is it an auto tuner? Is it for musicians? Is it for kids playing around with digital signal processing?

Give me a one line description of what voxatron is or does, without too much hyperbole, and put it front and center, maybe right under or replacing the word "voxatron" where it is now on the page. And if there IS Such a line, and I completely missed it, then I think your page layout is too busy and it caused me to overlook it.

You got my 11 seconds, but didn't get me very far down the funnel to conversion.

Again, with all respect, and hopes that this is helpful-
I'm not following you; in what sense is that crowdsourcing? I assume that the "future content" will be developed by the original developers, possibly using the revenue from this deal.
He helped take his company, Equinix, public.
Ritchie and McCarthy listed before Jobs in mini-tribute
First of all, this article was about standing up against people bullying Stallman for personal quirks. Is that what you stand against? You think it's bad for him to be a bit weird? Or did you just read the headline, and not the article?

Also, standing against a person isn't terribly productive, unless you think that person can do no good or have no good ideas. Do you disagree with everything that Stallman says? Will Stallman saying something make you automatically disagree with a position, even if you agreed with it before?

No? Then you don't stand against Stallman. You might disagree with some of his tactics. You might stand against free software. But I'm not sure why you would state this as "standing against Stallman," as if he, personally, is an affront to you.
In that case he should stop paying attention to Kottke too, problem solved.
My issue was mainly with this line:
"But if you're not willing to sacrifice everything, then why are you even here?"

I feel like this mentality is being bred in the startup culture solely for the benefit of companies with very little thought given to the potential impact it can have on someone's life. Working 40 hours a week you probably have ~30-35% of your life free to do with as you please (after sleep, work, commute, etc.). I'll let you do the math from there when you work 60-80 hours. We don't get enough sleep. We don't get enough vacation time. We don't have enough time to recover.

I feel that humans need balance in their lives. Balance will provide fresh perspective and allow you to continue being good at what you do. You have to "stop and smell the roses" as they say. I also feel like today's society is out of balance.

I feel like 40 hours is the most anyone should ever have to work. I feel like even that is too much. Unfortunately it's necessary in today's society. Mostly because a lot of what we develop and create doesn't actually allow us to work less. Usually it just makes a couple dudes rich.
Why dont diets work?
I also stand up for Stallman but not when the temperature is above 72 fahrenheit. I find standing quite difficult.
Regarding the cost of learning to program: That's thanks to free-as-in-beer software, which is quite different from the FSF's free-as-in-speech software. (Though it is true that free-as-in-speech software also tends not to cost anything, since it's basically unsalable.)

And the culture of sharing exists outside of Stallman's highly restrictive copyleft bubble. Ordinary open-source software falls short of Stallman's demands, but it actually grants the user more freedom than GPL software does.
How adorable, another self-hating bleeding heart. Isn't it funny how the one place that is truly meritocratic (software engineering/computer science) is the one field and industry that's actually progressing rapidly?

If we let delusional Marxists like Violet get involved, you can look forward to the superior level of 'progress' being made in 'equal opportunity' fields like government and academia. And by progress I mean vomit-inducing utter failure, inefficiency, and degeneracy. But hey, at least we will all be 'equally' miserable and stagnant, and we all know that 'equality' takes priority over everything else. Even when the so-called inequality stems from pseudo-scientific premises devoid of any evidence such as 'racial equality' or even 'gender equality.'
On that particular landing page we did not; however, we've since done some testing on our site, and found you're really best to stay under 2 minutes. 60-90 seconds is optimal.

Attention span metrics really help with measuring your particular audience though - as it heavily depends on the message you're sending.
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Apple reportedly questioning future of Mac Pro
Actually I believe they hired a CEO to do that.
What if you disagree with the post that you want to share? You still have to +1 it so that you can get at the option to share with your circles? Seems like these these two functions should be separated. Am I wrong?
I'm impressed by how clean this functionality is. Definitely less annoyed by the waste of space now!
could just as well be titled "Why I won't date any person who works 80+ hours per week."

No need to single out entrepreneurs other than the fact some of them might be a little bit less socially acclimated than people from other high work hour field like medicine, law, and banking.

Personally, I seriously doubt I would date anyone who worked a lot of hours a week, with the hours I work and study it would be hellish to coordinate time together.

This is why you see people who are workaholic paired with partners who are just the opposite. With two workaholics it's going to be tough to simply coordinate time together. If one person in the relationship has more give in their schedule it's going to make things a lot easier.
There are a decent number of startup and tech people on HN from China these days, so I'm not sure I can say anything anyone else can't. If you have any specific questions or are passing through Beijing feel free to get in touch though -- contact info is in profile and it's always good to meet HN people out here. :)
Yeah, I am quite annoyed by that as well. What's the point?
Words and expressions often have more than one meaning. This is the case.

See Gratis versus Libre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
"Don't bother. Whatever you're working on, we've already patented it."
Same here, I looked around the page, identified the same things as you. Then gave up trying to figure it out what it actually is and instead thought that maybe the HN conversation might tell me.

Someone below says it's an indie game. Maybe I'll take a look later.
That was my exact reaction -- barely usable on my 1280x800 screen. Until there's a better user style out there, this css makes the theme much better for me, by hiding the search bar and the feed toolbar:

#top-bar { display: none; }
#viewer-header { display: none; }
Perhaps you are not aware that the vast majority of open source software does qualify as Free Software by the FSF's definition. Certainly BSD-licensed software does.
Are you familiar with the Humble Indie Bundle? This is like that. It's an indie game released for pay what you want to support charity.
In a selfish sort of way, I hope this discussion doesn’t end up being completely dominated by the question of whether the “Humble Bundle” offers are going downhill or whether their web page is well enough designed.

I’d like to see Voxatron succeed, not only because it’s the most interesting indie game I’ve played for a long time, but also because I’ve admired Lexaloffle for years, since I became dangerously obsessed with his beautiful game Zen Puzzle Garden, and I like to think that quiet inventiveness and careful dedication deserve the occasional reward.

I heard on Saturday that a paper I wrote with Lexaloffle’s Joseph White (and Martyn Amos) has been accepted for publication. We prove that Zen Puzzle Garden is NP-complete. It’s based on a post I made years ago to the old ZPG BBS. Joseph immediately understood the proof, and suggested a significant improvement.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipl.2011.10.016
http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2104v1
Honest question: do you really don't know what the humble bundle is, or are you just playing devil's advocate?
And you've gotten your point across nicely. But that's not the conversation here. It's whether it can catch up to the Valley anytime soon, a different question entirely than whether there are cool little companies scattered around. Here in San Francisco, you end up inside a tech company if you so much as sneeze. Twitter is moving across the street from my apartment. When I walk to get a sandwich I pass by several world-class tech companies and a dozen startups. New York isn't even in the same league. Maybe someday it will be... I hope so!
That's an interesting concept. It would be helpful to see that other people are having the same issues in a given class. I wonder how successful an automated system would be based on key words. Something like a twitter stream for a live feed, but more concentrated to focus on recurring questions.
I'm a Systems' Engineering student, almost finished my career. I'm working full time already, and my job involves programming and design as well, but I want to learn more and improve my skills. I have some time to hack on the side, but not so much, since I'm trying to wrap up everything related to my career at the moment.
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