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Productivity isn't just about programmers/writers block, it's also about ways to approach things. And there just wanting it bad enough isn't enough. Gymnasts do need to train the right way, i.e. train productively. Only part of it is about the gymnastics itself. It's not intuitively obvious to every practitioner.

You might know every algorithm, API and tool you need for a job, but there's still some value in knowing good ways to utilize all that. Just running along with the will to power? If you failed, you didn't want it enough?
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How it is more secure than dropbox?
I live in a metro area, and businesses here absolutely depend on the overnight delivery service provided by the USPS to get things done in a timely fashion.
It wasn't really their content. And now, though they are claiming exclusivity, it's not really in the interest of their beloved users to claim it as theirs.

And no, people don't appear to be legally free to use other sites as well as Craigslist with the same content they've created.
Is broadcast technology really that obsolete? In cases of natural disaster you can bet home internet connections will go down given the large points of failure (including the miles upon miles of underground cable). Broadcast radio and TV can reach an unlimited number of people (i.e. are not bandwidth constrained in any way) within a certain range of a tower.

It still makes a lot of sense to me.
Craigslist is not asserting copyright, rather it is asserting that it is the exclusive licensee of the poster's copyright and wants to go after e.g. Padmapper on behalf of the poster.
The specific issue is the government massively changed the way they needed to fund their pension plan and they don't have the money to do so. But, if Ford where to suddenly need to work under that system they would also fail.
Delivering within the city?
The USPS haven't received tax money for several decades.
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Banning probably would be another PR no-no, as it might bring their recent "legal" stunt to public attention. One thing is to write something in the fine print at the bottom of the form on your website to help your lawyers get out of the place that they cornered themselves into. Another is persecuting your users for not obeying something so obviously stupid that most people would consider it a typo.
Before you develop an opinion on this, you'd want to know that the bill the USPS is defaulting on is a prepayment for future health costs, which the USPS is required to account for idiosyncratically. The USPS has structural financial issues, but is not on the immediate brink of collapse.
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Right. Because China and France would never do that. One of the primary purposes of French Intelligence is industrial espionage. Before you make ignorant statements about the NSA how about getting some facts?

Also, if those 'human beings' are trying to blow up Americans, then I don't care about their rights. I have a right for my kid to not get killed while traveling on the subway. I have a right to not have bombs blowing up while out at a nightclub. Is the NSA perfect? Of course not, but it's a dangerous imperfect world. When people stop blowing shit up in the name of their deity, then I'll gladly revise my opinion of the relevance for the NSA.

Where's your outrage over Syrian and Iranian Intelligence and their tactics? How about North Korean intelligence and their wholesale kidnapping of hundreds of Japanese citizens? How about the Chinese and their operations in the US? It's a popular sport to pick on the US from the safety of an armchair, but it's quite another to address the reasons the NSA and CIA do what they do. I'm not defending all of the actions of those agencies, but I will certainly defend their mission and goals.

The fact that you can even safely criticize the NSA and feel secure that you won't be arrested is a testament to the freedoms the NSA helps preserve. Spend ten minutes in China and start posting messages about their MSS and see how long your comment stays up (and how long before you get a visit from a local Public Security Bureau officer.)
Links?

For a "huge fiasco" there's a distinct lack of coverage (that didn't occur in the last week as a direct result of the discovery in this case) to be found via Google.
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USPS, to put it simply, sucks. Nobody I know uses them, and when I have to ship something via USPS, I use their more expensive options - things do tend to get lost a lot, unlike UPS and Fedex for example, which have been pretty exemplary as of late.

I hope the Congress does nothing - but then again, I'm one of those who think bailing out the banks was a mistake...
I did read it. And I even read the other articles he linked to.
You know the one titled _Average Americans don't need assault weapons_

Just to clarify: I don't think Schneier is linking to that article. It looks like it is inserted automagically by CNN's publishing platform in the middle of the articles (I assume to try and increase page views and ad impressions.)
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I recommend Jonathan Franzen's postal service essay in _How To Be Alone_ for some perspective on how important the postal service actually is. There are a number of business processes that actually touch normal people's lives that depend on postal mail.
So does this mean if a company/publisher is using a 3rd party developer and if there are ads that broke these new rules - who would take the hit/blame? Company/publisher or third party developer that represents the publisher in the marketplace?
Honestly, how much time can including a <noscript> tag can take?

Simple as:

<noscript>Digg is awesome with javascript turned on.</noscript>

on top of their other markup. That's it. Twenty seconds tops.
I'd advise you to try our AppBrain Ad Detector also mentioned in one of my other comments on this post. It shows you for all apps which common libraries are included in them.
And as a bonus for developers we aggregate the stats anonymously such that you can see which libraries are legitimate and not on the "android library statistics" page on AppBrain.
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I'm a 16-year-old and that is also the definition I know.

Partly because of the ridiculously out-of-date "Computing Studies" Intermediate 2 Scottish Qualifications course I did at school, but it's mostly because I had the privilege of growing up with Windows 3.1, DOS, and QBASIC, as well as an old book from a used book store for beginners about "Programming Microcoputers".

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The postal service is what it is because at one point in time, it was deemed something that was worth providing to everyone, everywhere as part of being in the same country. Even if that was not always economically sensible, the idea is that there are other benefits to society.

The debate, therefore, is really about that: is that still the situation? If not, then just cut it loose - privatize the sector, and do not require anyone to deliver to places like Lonerock, Oregon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonerock,_Oregon ). If so, the debate becomes how to best provide those services to minimize losses.

However, that debate is clearly a political one, which would mean that it's probably not a suitable article for this site (comes from cnn.com, too, to boot).
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This is very important to note. This was done during the Bush administration in an attempt to hobble the USPS.
All semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines are functionally identical.

I take your point. However, the cartridges fired by those guns may differ significantly in their effect, and the media persists in calling the killer's AR-15 a "high-powered assault rifle". This is demonstrably false. If anything, it's a "low-powered assault rifle".

The AR-15's 5.56mm NATO ammunition [1] is designed to be light and portable, and to injure rather than kill. Compare that to, say, the AK-47 and it's 7.62x39 ammunition [2]. The energy of the AR-15 ammo is about 1300J, while that of the AK's is 1500J or more.

The media is causing a certain degree of the fear here. I see three possible reasons:

A. They've got a specific agenda

B. They expect that sensationalism will get them better ratings

C. They're lazy. "High-powered assault rifle" is a hackneyed phrase that just springs to mind, and they don't care enough about accuracy to check it. (of course, the reason it's hackneyed is itself the media's overuse)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.56x45mm_NATO

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62x39mm﻿
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I was commenting on the link offered as evidence, which was fixated on the word widely. Any company that uses firstname.lastname@company.com is intentionally making emails available.
Is the essay online?
You're right. That's where the exclusive vs. non-exclusive copyright license comes into play. I also wonder what this will do to the rentals market. For instance, local realty company lists all their properties on their website and posts them on Craigslist to increase traction. Craigslist now sends the realty company a takedown notice, for the realtor's website listing, since they copied the listing onto CL. Depending on the level of enforcement CL pursues, this could have the effect of cooling professional usage of CL--especially by organizations that have to run things by legal first.
> If they lose money, Congress will bail them out with our tax dollars.

You do realize the vast majority of these losses are due to the 2006 act mandating that USPS pre-funds 75 years of retirement benefits over 10 years? The one passed by congress?

Bail out? Congress dumped most of the shit USPS is currently in on the organization.

Not saying they don't have a number of issues, and some of your suggestions are interesting (I'm surprised they are not already implemented really), but USPS's budget crisis is complete bullshit manufactured under the Bush administration.
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Microsoft has been making decisions like that for decades now, they're still here.
> Convincing children and parents that science is safe is a priority for health and safety executive chairwoman Judith Hackitt.

What bullshit.

Lord forbid the precious little snowflakes burn their finger on the bunsen burner or make a stink bomb. However there are no problems signing them up for contact sports so they go around with concussions, broken limbs and torn ligaments.
This is fantastic - I just sent a prospect a proposal to execute. I had thought about EchoSign but I just didn't want to deal with what looked to be an enterprise-y solution. I just emailed HelloSign support asking if it was possible to copy and paste a link to a document that needs signing so that I can paste that link into my Basecamp messages to my prospects. For now I prepare my Basecamp message and prepare the document for signature and ensure I post the BC message a few seconds ahead of sending the proposal via HelloSign.
From 2 articles that appeared on HN a while ago, that tested Facebook advertising campaigns.
That's what a few people on here have been implying. And personally I think that's quite likely. Seems like the stock markets have caught on to this as well: $FB is down again ... By Zuckerberg's law it should drop all the way to $10.5
They can through algorithms, which is something that is painfully lacking on most social media sites (including HN).

Give users the ability to dislike something strongly enough that anyone who voted it up is excluded from all vote counts/rankings/recommendations as provided to that user for some period of time. While this leads to a filtered world, that is exactly what users expect from sites like these.

Reddit is essentially falling apart for many users (while catering to a new audience) -- in /r/all as well as individual subreddits that see a constant cycle of abandonment as people try to ontologically solve the problem -- as it is increasingly dominated by teenagers.

If I could strongly express a disinterest in every fictitious Facebook picture / iPhone message conversation, and that served as a quality indicator of people whose opinions I don't respect, that would be beautiful.
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Agreed. It works with sites like snip.it because no one post is more important than the other, but in Digg's case, you want people landing on the page and knowing right away what they should be looking at.
I don't know the exact range, I think it may be county or multi-county wide, but the general gist is that I can drop something in a mailbox here at 9am and it will be in your hands tomorrow at noon.
You're right, I got my wording mixed up. Still doesn't change the argument though, if they're the only licensee of the content.
You're hung up on the flow of data, rather than my point which is having the connectivity in the first place. Pure data costs really are trivial - plans with different caps are simply a way of segmenting customers.

I'm also not understanding the difference between "wanting to pay for a group plan that's only big enough to avoid saturation" and "paying too much for data we're not using over multiple devices". They seem to be two different ways of referring to the same thing.

Does cellular data service become fairly priced for everyone else if I -single handedly- drop my service?
I wasn't saying that. I was saying that since you were implying that you don't use cellular data, just drop the plan and move wholly to wifi. It was a solution to your stated problem.

I also said that of course that wasn't the case - which was why I then talked about connectivity rather then simple ones and zeroes.

Is wireless data priced correctly? How long is a piece of string?
Indeed.

blauwbilgorgel gave some good reasons why this prospect seems ridiculous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4322197.

Like outlook.com, the best thing Digg has going for it is that people really want an alternative to the incumbent who sits on most of the market, which in this case is reddit.
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Count me in the USPS lovers. I'm from Canada, and the mail service there is horrible compared to south of the border.
I've simply given up and stopped having a mailing address. If people want to reach me they can reach me by text, email, voicemail, facebook, twitter, linkedin, myfitness, google talk, youtube, tribalwar, etc.
edit: said elsewhere. “The Postal Reform Act”. end of story.
Downvoted: simply saying "there's another page that has something interesting; go read it" isn't adding anything. At least summarize, or point us to something there that you think is salient.
I can't speak for the reliability of jailbreak tethering methods, but I only use Bluetooth for Personal Hotspot on my iPhone and it works flawlessly with no connection issues at all (though I do have tethering as a legitimate part of my plan).
It's not even out properly yet and these articles are already starting to pop out?

In its current state definitely not. If they can build even better algorithms and communities than Reddit, maybe. But that's a huge if. And they've got nothing right now.

I do like its design though, which is very different from Reddit, and that means it might serve a different market.
They are serving completely different purposes. Why would they be competing?
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Is digg trying to make a run on reddit? I finally saw the new digg, it felt more like prismatic/other news sites to me.

I associate reddit more with close discussion communities, as broader-versions of forums.
Further, let's imagine there were 2 "good guys" in that theater with guns. Good Guy #1 shoots at the lone "bad guy". Good Guy #2, with heightened adrenaline and compromised senses, thinks GG #1 is another bad guy and shoots at them. GG #1, if they weren't hit, now is being shot at by someone else.

Now add more good guys with guns to this scenario.

There's no way the whole thing would've worked out better with more armed people.
That's actually not true, as far as I know. If they can't get an actual emotional reaction out of you there's no way you're passing.
Top in what regard? I understand that they were startups "TechCrunch missed out on," but this looks just like a list, not a ranking.
I'm not even using it right now. And if Facebook made it easier to delete the account, I would've done it by now, but I can't be bothered to look for tutorials on how to delete your Facebook account right now.
I prefer the term: Productivity Trap... and I have seen friends fall in to it. They will read and talk about new "exciting" GTD systems, and better ways to organize themselves.

I've seen them switch from: 'Things' to 'Evernote' to 'Omnifocus' to 'Trello' in the span of two or three months.

I'm all for being a more productive and organized person, but with all the time they spent migrating their tasks/projects to different task management systems, they could have just completed everything on their lists and more.
It's called 'politics'.
Because a rushed product is imperfect?

Digg at its highest peak was a grossly imperfect product. If project success depended upon trivia like type="text/javascript", the internet world would be a very different place.
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The postal service must act like they care. They have to treat their customers well.

My post offices care and treat me very well (see my other post). Certainly part of it is that I treat them with respect as well.

Automate it. I can put my package on a scale and enter a couple addresses into a form and pay without ever talking to a person. The machine would cost less than $3,000 and work forever, yet they pay someone $25/hr to stand behind the counter and be LESS productive than that little machine. For that person's salary for a month, you could put one of these little kiosks in a grocery store. Put one in EVERY grocery store.

They have those right now at many USPS locations:https://www.usps.com/business/expanded-access.htm (and Click-and-Ship works like). Heavier packages (even those processed through the kiosk) do need to be handed over to a USPS employee for anti-terrorism reasons (just stating the fact, not expressing agreement with the policy).

Let me schedule your delivery. You need my signature? Okay, I'll be home at 6pm. I work too. Please come at 6pm. Have a part time shift that works 2 hours in the evenings instead of Saturday and you will make 100 Million customers happier. Better yet, deliver on only Mondays and Thursdays for 14 hours. Two shifts of seven. Save time. There's no mail that can't wait a day or two.

This is a great idea, but would be impractical for locations outside of cities.
They are both link aggregators. Although, the new Digg looks more like Pinterest or even canv.as than Reddit.
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Sort of?

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I love how "simple" and useful it is. Great job!
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At this point, yes I would. I bet anyone who has hundreds of pictures up would too (so a lot of the female user base). Some people wouldn't mind but I could see some being annoyed but paying it anyway. I think it could lead to people not joining and would probably be the beginning of the end for the company. I mean it would still take in a lot of money for the foreseeable future but would ultimately fail.

If Facebook were to charge when they were smaller, it would have stopped growth and allowed a competitor to take most of their user base. I would not have paid anything when I first started using the service.
A few NSA reps should hang around HN

Please don't give them any ideas. I mean, I imagine they monitor this site already anyway, but why encourage them?

What would be really cool, would be if pg could determine if an incoming request was from the NSA, and redirect any such requests to youporn.com or something.

Now sure how you'd detect the NSA requests though. I doubt they publish which netblocks they snoop from, and I doubt their browser UA string says "NSABrowser 1.0 (Mozilla 4.0/Compatible)" or anything.
Not if you have to have a FB account to login. They need other options fast.
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Get out of here with your facts. We're here to whine about "entitlements" and "sustainability" and vent whatever other stories we can concoct about how the government can't do anything right, how turning over all government functions to for-profit corporations will fix everything, and how the USPS is evidence of the truth of these assertions. Communist.
Everybody I know uses Flat Rate Priority. I participate in unregulated board game auctions on a forum (geeky, I know), and out of the last 50 packages sent from average boring people across the US, I don't think a single one came UPS. They're all Flat Rate Priority, defaulting into Parcel Post for larger packages.

Bailing out the private and wealthy isn't comparable to bailing out a public service that wouldn't even need to be bailed out if Congress hadn't instituted pension funding standards on it that are harsher than the standards they impose on banks doing the same thing.
Is it possible for jwz to be a bigger asshole? We should have a poll. Who's a bigger asshole?

* Linus Torvalds
* Daniel J. Bernstein
* Theo de Raadt
* Jamie Zawinski
Okay, I'll bite. Why is this voted up so much?
there's no reason to keep sinking public money to prop up an organization that can't even turn a profit

Their operations are profitable, the financial problems are due to an unreasonable funding policy forced on them by Congress.
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But is the NSA EEE'ing the Hacker community, or is it the other way around?
Ford also has to fund retirement benefits in advance. Because taxpayers are 100% on the hook for a USPS failure, and not for a Ford failure, the rules are tighter for USPS, which is appropriate. See: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/CNBC/Sections/News_And_Analysis/...
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Craigslist could:

- kill Padmapper instantly by building a map function to view their listings.

- elect not to build a map feature because they think it's trivial and they believe no one cares. So Padmapper should languish.

- buy Padmapper for a little bit of money and have Eric help make their product better.

- hire Eric to make their product better.

- invest a little money into Padmapper as a hedge and hope it does well.

- charge Padmapper a data access fee

These are all totally reasonable options.

Instead, Craig turned to the lawyers and sued Padmapper for using Google's listings and decided that all CL posts are now their exclusive property. If CL really didn't want this data out in the wild, they'd prevent Google from indexing their site.

This is not only a dick thing to do, it's an especially dick thing to do if you sit on the board of The Sunlight Foundation and the advisory board of Wikimedia.

Craig Newmark is a lazy monopolist at this point. All profit taking, no innovation.