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I am so embarrassed. I had fixed it on the other WP theme, but then switched themes to F2. Thanks, it's fixed now!
Because a reader asked a question specifically about Chrome. The article begins, "I'm a big fan of Google Chrome and I love using extensions. However, I've noticed that a lot of them request permissions to access all of my data on every site. Why is this?".
> Ideally... the 9th circuit [upholds], then ... a different circuit to come out the other way so ... the Supreme Court needs to resolve the circuit split.

I think that is the likely outcome, but I think an ideal one would be one where more than one circuit court affirm this standpoint, and the others follow suit. Wouldn't it then no longer need to go to the Supreme Court?
Looks fun! Wonder if I can get my company to sponsor me...
Has the DOJ learned from the Aaron Swartz case?
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I was genuinely asking for someone in the community to explain what makes the app unique. I wish that whoever down voted this would have explained his reasoning.
Here's my theory: the blocks of time the elite players spend is non-negotiable, because it's their "top idea in the mind."[0]

In the past when I've worked with friends on side projects, the conversation would sometimes go like this.

Me: "Hey, let's try and meet like three evenings a week for two hours to work on this. Let's start tomorrow?"
Them: "Yeah -- wait, I have to meet a friend for dinner tomorrow. Can you do the day after?"
Me: "Sure."

[two days later]

Me: "Hey, we're still meeting up tonight, right?"
Them: "Crap, I have to work late. Let's meet on Saturday and just bang out some work all afternoon."

We're fucked. We're fucked before we've even started. If every "dinner with a friend" or "I have to work late" is going to sideline you, then how the hell are you supposed to do anything? Even if we do work for six hours on Saturday instead of three two-hour sessions during the week, it's just not the same. We'll have no cadence or rhythm and feel stressed and probably a lot like the people in the OP's study.

A few years ago I recognized this anti-pattern and so I don't really take on new projects or goals unless I'm literally willing to prioritize everything but the bare essentials (ie. family) above it. PG's "Top of Your Mind" describes what 'mental prioritization' looks like, and I think this study points describes what 'schedule prioritization' looks like.

I realize that my own conclusions are my projections completely based on own anecdotes, and I'm sure many people on HN won't hesitate to point out the logical fallacies for why that's dumb. But look back in your life and think about the times you've consistently said, "Sorry, I can't make it, I have to do X first." Did you eventually reach a level of achievement with X? I'm guessing you probably did.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
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And just like that, people imported 100k unique RSS feeds into Skimr. In a day
I think you missed something critical in ebeister's comment. It wasn't "how can I do it?" It was "how can I do it within this severely limiting constraint?"

You might argue that a few hours a month isn't much time for working email, but it is when Google will reduce it to 0 for you. In a hierarchy of needs, food is far more important than email, and despite this very few of us try to completely manage our own farm.

Getting an email server up and running is trivial, just like planting a few crops in the garden is. It's the reliability and maintenance that is the hard part.
I have done more than send money to the EFF, I applied to be an attorney for the EFF and when that did not pan out I contacted them to volunteer my legal services pro-bono. I don't see eye to eye with the EFF on all issues, but when they sued AT&T in 2006 I saw the potential ACLU of technology.
So you think there are no other email providers, just like there are no other RSS readers?
Self driving cars are like Microsoft Hailstorm. It's all bombast for now and then somebody clever will steal their lunch.
And it is a deviation from their Google core.
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I wish I could upvote you more than once for this.
Which scares me. If the basic stuff can be done without git, but not the more advanced stuff, and beginners start to not learn git, they'll be hopeless when they need to do some sort of more advanced operation.
'nice' command (Unix)
I decided I like this guy a lot by the projects he has under his belt. Always nice to see a prolific open source contributor getting financial support out in the open like this. And this project seems like something I could use in the future.
It's shenanigans like this that got me to stop buying music. If they focused their efforts at finding great artists, spending money on PR, and delighting consumers, we would not have this issue.
Lying in a coffing in a fancy suit is a sign of maturity too.

Why is that kind of maturity good these days? For whom?
My father was a welder/pipefitter. He made it very clear that I needed to go to college and I wasn't supposed to follow him into the construction trades.

"If I ever see you with a welding rod in your hand, I will break your arm".
The point is that the 'influencers' will be aware of alternatives and are vocal about it. If you use a service of google's because there is another service of gooogle's that you use a lot - the tie is a lot looser, and when people are suggested alternatives it becomes a lot easier for them to move away.

While looking for a google reader alternative I ended up finding out about owncloud and now I use that to manage and sync my calendars and contacts across my devices, I also moved my domain email to zoho and infact the only service I am tied into of googles now is the android play store.

I used google apps for ages and had a free account before it got paid only (except that way of getting a 1 user apps account through some other google service) and I did that because it was so easy, and i reccomended it to anyone getting a domain.

That probably won't be the case any more.

So, I was in search of a new rss reader, and I had no intention of completely moving out of the google ecosystem, but I ended up finding a system that works better for me, and when people come to me (who come to me because 'i know tech' or whatever), and ask me what they should set up there new domain with, they will get a completely new answer.

This is just a personal story and i'm sure its not relevant to everyone but my point is that this move, and others, is damaging their brand and when you introduce people to RSS who have no idea what it is, and then you show them google reader and they love the fact they dont even need to make an account because they already have gmail, they love it. That is gone

Maybe my point is better illustrated by this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5383495
I'm reading PG's essays. He says you should make it because you want it, you're the target audience. The nos you get from funding and other people is a poor indicator of if an idea is good. Go for it.
On Google Reader's Demise
Hypercritical - it ended but worth liatening to the archive...
On absolute terms I'd think so, considering how many more kids have access to technology today. But if you compare the percentage of kids who get into technology's guts, out of all kids with access to it, I think that number has been decreasing. In other words, our market may be expanding but our conversion rate is in free fall.
Since when was having skill a prerequisite to being in IT? I have interviewed, and sadly worked with, way too many people who had no clue how to do their job.
Ha. Good one. And eminently practical advice, too.
Creators tell us that around 30% of their traffic comes organically from Kickstarter. There are some people browsing on Kickstarter -- but it's not really set up to help them browse. We just want to make it easier :)
Currently there is little identity authentication on campaign websites. They ask for your name and address before you pay with something like paypal, but there is no means of verification.
We wrote a small C program that serves as a scheduling daemon with Redis; we have a keyspace in Redis that can be used to schedule millisecond-granular periodic or one-shot tasks with a flexible "Chronic"-like specification syntax.

Please open source this. Projects like these are some of the most valuable ones. It's a generalized solution to a very common problem. In fact, what you've described is one of the most elegant designs for this type of problem. It enables any program to schedule other programs just by using a standard Redis interface, for example. Almost every programming language already has a Redis library, meaning it's effectively zero additional work to use your system. Something like your project is sorely needed.

If you want help with documentation, I'm happy to offer it.

Seems like it's all downside and not much upside; it's an unambitious little C project that would mostly give people an opportunity to write blog posts about my C programming style. :)

So was Unix, originally. Those who would deride elegant design due to the choice of language are both short-sighted and mean, and aren't worth worrying about. I know how hard that can be to deal with -- people's negativity tends to bother me a lot, too -- but the world needs more production-grade solutions to real problems. It sounds like your solution has been in use for some time now, and has proven itself effective in the field.
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My C is terrible, probably far worse than you perceive yours to be.

I'm sorry you feel that way. I hope you change your mind, advancing years or no.

I'm with Sillysaurus, this is a great solution to a common problem.

Pawn off the code onto me and I'll publish it under my name if you're that worried about getting bad publicity. :P
I think the whole sysadmin/devops thing is an inescapable problem to some degree.

If it's something that nobody on your team can tackle you can easily end up with completely disparate development environments (with devs running different ruby versions, app servers, even databases!) when there's no well documented system for setting up environments.

Heroku makes it dead simple to deploy and add services, but if your team can't manage to do that for local development anyway, things can end up in a really bad state.
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That's because for 99% of javascript written today in the Real World you still need not know a single thing about those things.

You simply can't cater for every ability level in a single course.
This looks neat.

Say I was starting a small dev consultancy, and what I wanted to figure out was, "what lawyer should I use to review the master agreements I get from each new client?"

Could I use Lawdingo to cheaply audition a bunch of different lawyers for contract reviews? In that situation, my long-term goal would be to find 1-2 lawyers I could consistently use every time I had new paper to review. I might want to compare the markups I get from different lawyers on the same contract.

I'm not asking for me (now that we're part of a public company we apparently have faucets that shoot lawyers out of them) but this is a question I've gotten from lots of friends trying to figure out how to do contract review correctly, instead of just hoping they aren't getting screwed.
Please read the EFF's press release closely. Specifically

In today's ruling, the court held that the gag order provisions of the statute violate the First Amendment and that the review procedures violate separation of powers. Because those provisions were not separable from the rest of the statute, the court declared the entire statute unconstitutional.

There is are two separate issues, overstepping of executive authority and free speech, all aspects of NSL are being declared. Not just the gag section. Now there is a 90 day window for appeal, and I would expect the DoJ to appeal.
What civil liberties have been eroded?
I actually feel very good about my C code; C is my native language. I just feel very bad about the Internet. :)
Step #1 for how to get into the tech scene is read a boatload of nontechnical articles?
I am also curious about the open source CLR world. It appears to be tainted by some weird "commercialism" which I find obvious yet difficult to explain.

By the way, Mono has a C# interpreter and parser (Mono.CSharp, Mono.Cecil) which do (did?) not have a counterpart in .Net, so in that sense at least Mono diverges from .Net, rather than being behind.
ok ok ok ok but I'm going to do it pseudonymously :).
DNA data storage: 100 million hours of HD video in every cup
I'm really not surprised, Formspring was around when I was in high school and to be honest I stopped using it after day 3 because it got boring and there was nothing too interesting about it.
AEDs are smart enough not to shock unless they detect VF. This is important because defibrillating a normally beating heart could actually cause VF. Would-be rescuers may not always be trained well enough to tell the difference between cardiac arrest and something else, such as a seizure or fainting.

But to your specific question: If a patient is in cardiac arrest but not in VF, then this means his heart has completely stopped. Forcing defibrillation won't likely improve the situation, but nor can it make it much worse.
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SEC needs more lawyers -- three weeks waiting time to speak to a lawyer is far too long.
Two thumbs up to the EFF on this one! I just hope it holds up at the Supreme Court level and we can start restoring the checks and balances of our republic.
blogger and feedburner are next. They want you to move to spooky G+ ...
> Third, and lastly, Google is sending a strong signal to the market that it will have no mercy of killing whatever product it doesn’t think it’s going well.

They have been doing that for years. I'm not sure if anything but Search and Gmail are safe from the axe. They'll probably not end-of-life Maps or G+, but almost anything else should probably be treated as a beta that can be removed at will.
I agree.

It's really unclear what's going on, actually.

We don't know exactly what the FSF is seeing, nor if they did fair tests, nor if they're reporting fairly (though I tend to assume so, tentatively).

We don't know if Google did something deliberately, nor who did it. We don't know how it relates to Per's mailling list message, if at all. If there was action, we don't know if it's an experiment, or a bug, or who it affects, or how often.

More generally, it doesn't seem like this is an urgent issue that requires panicking. The world can get along fine for a month without people being able to invite gmail users. But, on the other hand, if the worst case is true, that Google has started blocking invites from ALL other domains, ALL the time, then I think the FSF's political position is sound.

So far, though, this really isn't like Reader.
> First, Google says that it “gets” social, but you can’t “get” social if you don’t get the concept of an influencer. By killing a product that was beloved and heavily used by most influencers, you start to alienate those folks.

If op is right about Google Reader users, then the same thing is happening with OS X users. A part of the reason for OS X's success was adoption by influencers. Samsung, Android, and others have made a lot of inroads on influencer groups.
Adam Savage of the Mythbusters once gave a talk on problem solving and how he went about acquiring the skills he has :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhAt-7i36G8

While the talk was about a different industry, the lessons are still applicable to tech and pretty much most other fields.
Love it. The god Chronos has been around longer than time itself...
Wouldn't this just be considered premeditated intent to violate the NSL gag orders?
Is this really the official FormSpring blog, with only two entries?
Firefox user here, I was able to backspace just fine. If your somewhere other than top it takes two of them, one to go to top and the next worked just fine.

Now the dzone links requiring registration can take a hike
Simcity rejected building an offline mode because it didn't fit their "vision"
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How would you expect it to handle high and low volume blogs together "meaningfully"? I guess I'm not really sure what the problem is: it's pretty easy to put all your high volume stuff into a single category so you can mark everything read at once, if that is the issue.
Frankly, after I received some spamming bot services to contact me, I do not think that the Google solutions is that bad. You can request to be white listed if you are a legit site. This increases the quality of gmail's user service and still let other legit player to access gmail's users. As a gmail user, I think what they did was good and if somebody has a better idea... please... I am waiting =)
It seems as though you may need to be a corporatist to raise a war chest comparable to the corporatists. It seems like the logical/natural steady state of elections with deregulated campaign finance...
From the people I know who aren't in the tech industry who used reader intensively: a writer (for research), community website business owner (for providing content and keeping up), marketing business owner (for keeping track of industry developments).

I used it throughout the day and run all my CPD and almost all my non social media based marketing through it.

Currently looking at Feedly and I have 6 posts in my Saved in 1 screen shot instead of 17 with Reader. Working my way through the alternatives and on hour 8 so far. Grrrr.

It isn't niche in the same way as GMail isn't, or Apps.
My initial thought was 'is this solving a real problem', but then I checked it out and have ended up backing a project. Definitely a cool service to help promote product based Kickstarters.
Reading this guy's blog reminded me very much of personal experiences of people suffering a significantly damaging eating disorder (ED) such as anorexia -

ED sufferers also report euphoria, and a keen focus on key metrics such as weight loss and exercise allows them to ignore negative health effects.

I would suggest this guy's experience is textbook typical of very low calorie diets (VLCD). That doesn't mean it will be healthy in the long-term - according to wikipedia, he might expect gallstones.
you can't be serious, it's the beginnings of something good, but it has all kinds of problems, it fails to load email often (reporting "something has gone wrong.."), it routinely doesn't clear the red read indicator, it's laggy and sluggish. I am sure Google will make it kickass in the fullness of time, but for now, that's not what gmail/iOS is.
Yes, it's linked at the top of http://www.formspring.me/formspring with the message "Important Formspring News"
He extended the PATRIOT act, is potentially skirting the fifth amendment, and is trying to seriously infringe the second amendment.

Edit: If you disagree with my assertions, you can make your own informed opinion based on this data: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/su...
> By trying to be all things, they will become none.

I just agree 100% they are an advertising company ,that's all they will ever be. The rest is bull. And i'm not going to use any of their vaporware anymore. But it's a great wake up call against all this Saas bull* , i guess journalists had a taste of what the implications of cloud computing are.
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If you're interested in helping out, join #reader on freenode or send pull requests! :)
We `reset` the blog a few months ago. That’s why there are only a couple of posts.
I love the idea of loss-leaders aimed at a specific, influential segment of the entire market. I'd never really thought of services like that.

I'm curious what uses there are for this specific type of loss-leader (as in not the Dropbox freemium type). Ethics aside, for instance, Google could have tried to steer conversation among an influential group toward certain topics, by more aggressively suggesting certain Google blogs to follow, or specific stories relevant to Google.

I'm also very curious what other such loss-leading services exist. One example is this forum. It advertises to potential founders with the small banner ad at the upper-left-hand corner of the screen. It also provides an ecosystem for the discussions about and (indirect) promotions of organizations or ideas YC invests in (like Watsi, or job postings).

The other example I can think of is "high-brow" political magazines like The National Review. Often, parties dedicated time and money on promoting ideas there, even though it's a very small segment of the entire market of voters.

Has anyone here designed a service or product with this specific aim in mind? How did you use it to further some broader agenda?
The real tragedy is the free pass the press gives him, if Bush had pulled this, the drone hits, fast and furious, and more, we would have at least had the press on our side.

I can, but don't have to accept, members of his own party turning a blind eye, I will never accept a press which has.
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I think I meant DSL.

But, a graph of a novel is not a novel.

We are story telling chimps who have created a tool in our image - a tool to tell stories to other chimps, but based on rigid symbols and calculations.

Or maybe it's just late
> So, following the apocryphal advice, we imagined the future, and built it. A refreshing pre-order store for sellers and shoppers alike.

Isn't Kickstarter always trying to get people to stop referring to them as preorders? You are supposed to back a project, and you are supposed to get a reward if its successful; but they are NOT preorders.

That's where people keep getting in trouble. They "preorder" something off Kickstarter and then complain when the project fails.
I'm in the business of building things that have never been done before, so I value economic freedom and good governance and my estimate of the lesser of two evils goes the other way.

But it's sad that we get no civil liberties either way (unless people like Rand Paul get their way).
Very surprising the company didn't end up acquired by a major player, I remember it was all the rage in 2010. Good luck in your future endeavours Ade and team.
> That whole 'embrace, extend, extinguish, extinguish' thing
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Formsprint raised $14 Million? I'd like to see that business plan.
"So what you are paying for, is not extortion."
I think we are all just going to learn the tough lesson of how little we matter.
Frankly, I think you are deliberately misinterpreting the spirit of the suggestion. Your interpretation reduces the original point to absurdity: "do something for no reward."
I wrote a post on why this is a really bad idea: http://www.recursiverobot.com/post/45447666701/facebook-upda...