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So, are you gonna pay $50/m for this, to make them profitable?

Assuming they've taken, say, $500k, to get that back from 200 writers they'd need to make $2.5k from each of the current writers. Even doubling the number of writers, that's still $1.25k - 25 months at $50/m.

So actually, to recoup the investment from writers in any reasonable time they'd need to charge more like $100-200/m. I doubt many of their 200 writers would stay in those circumstances. Would you?

Other than charging the writers, I don't see what business model svbtle can support, other than advertising, which would also jar with the way the site is designed, and also with the ambitions of many star bloggers, who typically want to eventually have the option to put their own discreet ads à la DaringFireball on their blog...
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Sugar-free diet: Looking at what we love most to fix our biggest problems
1. We'll be using a third party to do Gmail integration (context.io) and won't store any information beyond what is necessary. My email is below if you have any specific concerns.

2. It is on the cards, should be there by mid February.

3. An API is also on the cards, should be there by mid February.

You can reach out to me at cheenu@clinchpad.com if you want to discuss further, especially about plans for Gmail integration! We have some neat ideas.
An interesting concept I hadn't thought of: how desirable is it from an aging Facebook user to start off with a clean slate? Given the amount of people I now know in my age group complaining that no one on their Facebook feeds is relevant to their lives post-university, I'd imagine it's quite high. I know my Facebook feed has acquired quite a bit of cruft over the years.
This article seems to make the same argument that Google has been making from the beginning, that they can change their existing login scheme on all of their products to "Google+" and that makes everyone who continues to use those products a "Google+ user". Perhaps it's not so much moving the goalposts, as no one imagined a major player like Google would set their goalposts at foosball scale.
Teenage boys boast about their sexual exploits (with photos, on the internet, because it's 2012). Teenage girls are incredibly cruel to one another.

Media reports it because it fits an existing narrative about "technology and culture."

Back when I was in high school, it didn't take pictures on the internet to ruin a girl's reputation. All it took was some boasting followed by a lot of gossip. It sounds like the "technology" aspect of this is that the standards of evidence have gone up for a boy to defend his boast.
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Brian Marick's recent book FP for the OO Programmer (https://leanpub.com/fp-oo) has a phenomenal set of integrated exercises. I think they're valuable even for an experienced developer in thinking through problems in new ways.

I think writing great exercises that teach and integrate with the text is really hard and many authors/publishers don't have the time or incentive to do so.
I work on Kiln, not Trello, and I don't feel comfortable ripping numbers off their dashboard and posting them onto HN. Simple as that. For all I know, they plan on announcing those numbers themselves soon, and I don't want to get in their way.
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As a shameless self promotion, for those who can't make it into svbtle and want a nicely designed (IMO) and simple blog, try http://throwww.com
> The future of journalism

I can't help but laugh at this. All Svbtle does is slap a pretty, unified design on the articles of people that have interesting stuff to say. It's very good at doing that and I appreciate it for doing that.

Like Curtis intended, when you see the Svbtle design you can expect something interesting. Most of the articles I've read on it were indeed interesting. However, these articles would also exist without Svbtle, they just wouldn't look the same.

Svbtle's got a good thing going, but future of journalism? Please.
Facebook needs to get involved in policing this sort of thing. They're not a neutral medium here--they make a lot of money selling 13-18 year old eyeballs to advertisers, and given the unique nature of the demographic (below the age of majority) I think they bear a certain responsibility in how these kids abuse their service.
> Quality is always debatable though.

Agreed, I tried to address this with 'at least attempts.' I feel that my last post is not up to the standards of the rest of them, but that's also because I judged it across different lines than normal.

I actually liked that post: what are you unsure about? It felt very straightforward to me.
https://twitter.com/dirkk/status/255941043189583872

What I meant with that - post your solution not locally but somewhere useful (Stackoverflow?). You'll do yourself a favor and others can benefit from that.
And there were plenty of us who gladly paid $599 for the launch PS3 with the bigger hard drive that also included PS2 backward compatibility...
A thousand years ago, angry aggressive teenagers beat each other up with sticks. Today, they join gangs and shoot each other. But that doesn't mean the increased destructive power yielded technology doesn't make the problem more worrisome than it was before.
I can echo what he's saying about the Aria. It's not that big of a deal to me. For the most part it's accurate and the tradeoff for wireless syncing is pretty awesome.

My biggest problem is losing the Fitbit trackers themselves. I've lost two and just got the One which I almost lost playing ultimate frisbee this weekend. That's $300 lost. I like the Fitbit ecosystem enough to get the One and it's great so far.
I would certainly not. I like Svbtle, but not that much. Then again, there are few SaaS things I'd be paying $50/month for at this point.

One of the things dcurtis promised was data portability, and if I had to pay $50/month to be on Svbtle, I'd probably exercise that option.

I have no idea what the business model is either.
Do you mean that they don't use Facebook whatsoever, or that they use Instagram primarily?
You seem to think I have accused Google of something, when in fact I was responding to a Fast Company article.

>Google's Plus feature is an extension of existing Google services with social aspects. It has always been Google, and G+'s information is indeed provided to a staggering number of users.

I don't believe this. Please read this blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-pr...

Then tell me based on the features listed whether Google+ was being portrayed as "an extension of existing Google services with social aspects" or a social network similar to Facebook:

-a way to organize your friends

-video chat

-photo uploads

-location based tagging of posts

-messaging

I'm sorry, but this is basically Facebook circa 2011 with improvements. I don't see a single mention of other google services.
They have the same amount of RAM if you're comparing the American S3 and I'm assuming you are since you're implying the model of S3 in your mind is dual core (American S3 is dual core).

Also, the N4 had an extra 48 lines of pixels that are used for the navigation bar, so effective screen real estate is the same on both devices.
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Sounds like a well spent youth. I think any one of the many explosive devices I made with my cousins 30 years ago would probably provoke a SWAT team response these days. Things like a 3/4" BIP flying pipe bomb launched with a D engine, an acetylene/oxygen filled kids punching balloon airlifted by helium balloons connected to 10 feet of slow-burn fireworks fuse, balsa model rockets with their cones hollowed out and filled with black powder, etc. Good memories.
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I think it's probably just to support their offices and employees located in Chelsea. They probably had to have some agreement with the city to have an open network if they wanted to put up antennas for their own use, or maybe they just figured--being the do-no-evil company that they are--that if they were canvassing the area with their own wifi that they might as well have a parallel network open to the public as a public-relations stunt.
Here's some sort of confirmation from a "Valve Official" http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/8/3850952/valve-meeting-with-h...
I'm not gonna argue that repeating something is going to aid memorization, but in my experience, the best way to learn a programming language is to read a book and then actually use it. If you forget things you can always look them up, but re-reading the book 2 more times is useless.
Lessig: Online Artists Share Work—Tyrants Would Prefer They Share a Cell
But where is the evidence that creating a homogeneous, groupthink (I know the article said no groupthink, but come on) culture is actually better?
He scrapes from Google right? Google doesn't like automated queries so it makes sense.
It gives hope to current content producers that their copyrights are more likely to be extended (or at least not reduced), which would clearly encourage them. It's still a bad idea IMHO, but the incentives are clear.
Planbox : A powerful yet easy to use Agile Project Management tool
I've been pushing for trello over the much slower, less intuitive sprint.ly.

the main hangup is the lack of a daily digest report. anyone have a solution?
I suspect it takes a degree of willfulness not to see the distinction between a rumor campaign and an explicit photography.
The PRWire article [1] is somewhat vague on that point, but it does clearly claim that Xi3 received funding from Valve, and that Valve would have a unit at their CES booth as well. [2]

[1] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/xi3-and-valve-to-unv...

[2] Does Valve often have a booth CES?
Whoops, you are correct. s/Dalton/Dustin
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Hooray!! Thank you so much for telling me about this.
Photos on the internet tend to have a long life. I think it is the permanence of these photos and videos that make it worse. In the old days you could just go to college and leave your high school life behind. Now Google is forever.
Sorry, I don't think this is a 100% correct logic, but may be the grow in LinkedIn shows some information that is not gathered at Indeed and the reverse is also true.

LinkedIn shows that more people were adding the Clojure skill, it can be a new skill within people who was working on a company for long and it doesn't appear on Indeed. At the same time Indeed captures recruiting alternatives but when the job was published (not on alternative and important channels like presenting an acquaintance)
I heard with hip hop you cannot easily use your typical C php plugins?
Ask HN: Why github repos don't have a share button?
Yes I'm too lazy to copy and share the link on my social networks. Why do not they just put this feature there?
There is a lot of stuff going on at Facebook to deal with this sort of thing [1]. They definitely don't have a passive approach to bullying, but you have to realize that the scale of use makes it a difficult problem to approach.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/safety
This is great! ACH is such a pain to deal with. This solves a real problem I have right now. I'm using Stripe for payments, but I want an easy way for me to send money via ACH. This looks like the ticket.
The Magician's Con: Renewing FISA and the NDAA Under Cover of the Fiscal Cliff
You should have a look at some of the preliminary work being looked at for exploration of Europa, http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_s... is one starting point though there is plenty if you browse the googles
Teenage boys boast about their sexual exploits (with photos, on the internet, because it's 2012). Teenage girls are incredibly cruel to one another.

Exactly; and this is not news, it's been going on for as long as there have been people.

The article doesn't even talk about the real lesson here: be careful who you trust. If you can't trust someone not to secretly record you having sex and then posting the video on Facebook, then you shouldn't be having sex with them. The lesson has always been the same, and there have always been people who don't learn it until it's too late.

Edit: I should make clear that I am not trying to exonerate the teenage boys; quite the contrary. To allow someone to make an explicit video of you without your knowledge and post it on Facebook is naive; but to make and post the video is malicious and cruel. The girls need to be reminded of the lesson; but the boys need to be shamed and punished.
I have been known to use sudo when it is not appropriate to use the f-word ;)
Triv.io donates URL index to Common Crawl
Let us please not turn HN into reddit.
Would add additionally that since

"1,000,000th sign up" != "First 1,000,000 Users"

Title should have been "1,000,000th sign up"
What exactly should facebook police? Morality? Ethics? What if some group of friends always ragged on each other and got tripped up in this policing?

I don't necessarily agree that Facebook should be the responsible party. That really should fall under society and parents/children. A company isn't going to be able to enforce politeness or dissuade bullies from bullying. This is another aspect of the human condition. And if it is one we as a society of humans want to change, we need to do that. Facebook isn't the responsible party here in my humble opinion.
I think there is quite a bit of animosity and maybe even jealousy in the HN circle regarding Svbtle because of the apparently pretentious manner that Dustin Curtis launched and promoted it. However, it seems what he did is working out for him in the long run. Svbtle has also adjusted its message significantly since the launch to be more friendly.

Personally I would like to learn more about how Dustin used the situation to his advantage, even leading to funding.
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For what it's worth, I like the look of your blog with the Skeleton default --- and it really isn't much different from a design perspective than what Subtle gives you.

Your decision to segment your blog onto two URLs is interesting. Won't this degrade your personal blog since you only put short, and by your admission, lower quality posts on it?

In the past, I've gotten paid by IBM to write articles for their developerWorks blog. Long form. High quality stuff. I always felt like they paid me for the privilege of hosting my writings on a website they control, that they make money from...as opposed to me writing something that lives on my personal blog forever, hopefully giving my blog/"personal brand" (yuck, but not sure what else to call it) the traffic.
itd be great to preview multiple fonts simultaniously
At school, she was hoping that it wouldn't be too big of a deal, but even the principal knew about the video. He brought her to his office and called her mom.

"I couldn't even look at my mother because I felt hurt and I also felt that I disrespected her," she says. "I didn't want kids in the school to look at my mother and be like, 'Wow, she raised nothing.' "

A big amplifying factor in these examples seems to be a society and an upbringing that cannot to deal with sexuality in a pragmatic manner, and instead prefers a "everybody's doing it, but nobody is talking about it publicly" approach.

If someone posts intimate pictures or videos of somebody else without their knowledge, it should be the poster that is shamed and that people disrespect for it -- after all he has violated an expectation of privacy and intimacy. Instead it is the victim that is made to feel bad for "being promiscuous".
Do you think it's implausible that having nude photographs distributed to one's entire school is far more traumatizing than gossip?
People meet up in person for payments like Craigslist. You tweet @mytngy with your price and item description to create the post.
Multiple font panes will be supported in the next version.
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Your Business is Not Your Baby
From this I learned that a corporation, in US, is "capable of riding in his or her own seat" :)
Anyone who heard the audio of this piece found out that the boy interviewed toward the end is a special kind of bad. Technology amplifies but this kid definitely has a problem.
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And majordomo is 1992.
You must've missed this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4996236
I am so happy to see someone make an effort to do more than tell a story of how their girlfriends cousins dog said something and so obviously facebook/college/everything is totally over. Anecdotes are for color, data is for predictions and analysis.
You could allow people to download a tag for offline use. Would be more data to store though.
I'm closer to your way.

First, pick up a shit-ton of books. Or o'reilly safari. Use it to quickly scan for good tools, in combination with GitHub.

Then, index the book. That is, read the most relevant chapters lightly, but read the source code closely. Make sure all the source makes sense. If it does, you're in great shape. If not, either the author is poor or you've gotta page-in back references.

Then, start hacking together code. Page-fault on the book (and others like it, including example source).
Oh if I make it at home the cost is variable, between 50p and £3, generally in the middle. £2.40 is the cost of a sandwich deal in the grim North.
OP was confusingly worded. Curtis complained about AA's design, and the designer was fired.
I like this site -- it reminds me of gist.io.

I'd recommend creating some way of chaining posts, either linked-list style (to simulate a blog) or tree-style (to simulate conversations, ala Branch).
At least we now know he has a wife.
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Is it mandatory to format all PHP code as poorly as possible?
Very nice.
Gmail integration is a must.
Also support for several pipelines would be interesting too...
ITT: You neglect to read the two blog posts about the topic you're debating and cast a blanket statement about a guy who was just trying to help the brand and didn't understand the internal conflicts going on at the company. The designer was fired for sharing internal information relevant to the initial blog post he made (letting him know there were competent designers in-house, but not much they could do about typical politics), not because Dustin said their design team sucked.
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Didn't finish my sentence, if this isn't a poorly thought out and clumsy attempt at caricature/satire/parody, I don't know what is.

To have the right to free speech, we also have the responsibility to learn how to use it.

It's easy to be tounge in cheek biased/degrading towards others and say it is a joke.
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Is this just a united statues problem, or in other countries of the world is it not ok for women to have sex? I want to blame religion, but I doubt that's the entire reason ...
It was my understanding it's easy to run a terminal command from vim.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'willfullness,' Thomas. My point is that this is the modern incarnation of an extremely old set of teenage behaviors.

The teenage girl who becomes subject of a rumor campaign has always been devastated by it.
Does Apple make their development tools available for Windows developers to bother with iOS?
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I would have thought that a trip down to the Southern Ocean under the same guise as the whaling fleet. Killing on the name of science.
"a trick to make one more introspective and aware of one's own life"

Meditating is one of the most introspective activities, but might not make the best film. If people make a 1 second film for themselves then I think this could have a really positive impact.

If instead people make films for others then this might not be very positive because you are living out entertainment for someone else.
Should We Tax People for Being Annoying?
Pretty Design Isn't Always Effective Design
> A big amplifying factor in these examples seems to be a society and an upbringing that cannot to deal with sexuality in a pragmatic manner

Interesting to see if society can adapt
Most consoles sell at a loss, that is the price for a profit, including the cost of windows (while steambox will be linux), and at a manufacturing scale that is probably 1/500th or less of what Valve will be contracting.

Not to mention that may very well not be "the" steambox, as apparently Valve has said they will have multiple prototypes from multiple manufacturers.
Bit like asking if it's more traumatizing to loose a foot or the whole leg isn't it?
BASH and using the command line creating files and folders on the command line then launching the desktop to give them something tangible, what ever you you do in the text world can have an effect in the graphics world, my son is six and we use scratch, normally he just wants to draw pictures when he's working with it, but in order to get to scratch he has a few small tasks before he can access the gui like create a work folder etc... to access the desktop "startx".
I recall starting with a full court press for him to program, but had to ease up he's 6, 10min explanation allow him to implement the task explained and continue with your fun, at this rate he won't hate it, but will have working knowledge and concepts before we put him in a camp age 8 hopefully.

Funny thing is that he's constantly asking when can we get on the RaspberryPi again.

So the no pressure method is working for him.

1.My apologies for the rant on HN
2.I'm on mobile
3.And this topic hits home
Picking apart a terrible CES Article (Samsung beats Apple with a super-smart TV)
To post your item, tweet @mytngy with your price, item description, photo and location.

Example: @mytngy $15 pair of Bruinswick 7.5 womens bowling shoes, lightly worn.
This is usually how I learn also. I find it works extremely effectively if instead of working on your own standalone project, you contribute to another project that already has best practices. That way, you can read through the source code and learn some of the conventions that are used in that language.
My argument revolves around two points:

Of all robberies, murders and rapes only a tiny minority is committed by people feeling deep internal motivation to do so. Most are done by stupid people in a bad situation. Maniacs are pretty rare. Stupid people are a plenty. And they don't dream the life of violence. They have it all right already, some from the birth.

Talking about this tiny minority, I don't see how our yakyaking about following our dreams can affect them. Those people are deeply ill and should see a doctor. I don't see why we should take them into account when talking about how a sane majority of people should live.
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My personal opinion:

I'm really sorry, but your blog just doesn't look minimal and clean, and the type you're using for max woolf's blog thingy (I assume it's courier) just does not work at all (the apostrophe looks terrible, way too thick somehow). Also the blue is much too strong IMO.

It's the small things most dev's don't see, that svbtle really really gets right.

While I also dislike their elitism, I still appreciate the design work.

PS: The "Read More" button on the right is broken (if you click it, some margin or padding is lost ... It's the small things that matter...)