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I love Firefox but I have hard time seeing in what universe Chrome is more bloated or slower than Firefox. Firefox is about on par with IE for start up speed at this point, I believe.
stopthecyborgs? Looks like more microsoft astroturfing. The backlash is growing in microsoft's dreams only.
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Seriously, she's beautiful, and you should do what she says.
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Are there any sites around now like a modern fuckedcompany? The current startup world is definitely missing one of those. I guess we can look forward to that new HBO comedy, Silicon Valley from Mike Judge.
It's good to see there's some sense left in the world.
This feature request asks for two things to be native in chromium:

1. have an indicator in the browser interface that an rss feed is available for the current page.

2. have a preview of rss feeds rather than unstyled xml. It is just a matter of adding style for some xml files the way shiira[1] first did or the way safari[2], opera[3] or firefox do.

It is clear to me that the second is nice for the user even if the chromium developpers do not intend to implement a full rss reader as it just consists in making some common web documents readable directly in the browser, it is far more logical for a web browser to display rss than to display pdf... The first point is said to distract the user and clutter the interface so I can understand why it should be an extension (firefox voluntarily suppressed this indicator a few years ago).

[1]: http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/reviews/large/shi...
[2]: http://media.arstechnica.com/images/tiger/safari-rss-big.jpg
[3]: http://www.problogdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/wind...
I agree with you. I wasn't saying twitter is the exact same thing. Just vaguely related (as you said.. pubsub). Even without the character limit Twitter's functionality is a subset of what you can do with RSS.
It's a good point. I wonder why fuckedcompany hasn't been re-created.
Not OP, but curious. Please elaborate? Does Google not like if it is used as a SMTP service, by startups?

Also, any suggestions for mail providers?
If you aren't paying anything for the product and there doesn't seem to be a business model for it, why would you assume it won't go away at some point?
If you reach the conclusion that young engineers are not motivated enough because they are too well paid, it only means one thing: the problems you are putting them to work on are so mind-numbinggly boring that $ is the only way to keep them motivated! Unfortunately this is probably the case for most "hot web-startups": the problem being solved is so uninteresting that people only get the illusion that they are doing something interesting via loops of "intellectual masturbation" (like "nah, this would be too simple and booring... let's write a web-app in Haskell and use some fancy unstable NoSQL") or via the hope of becoming unimaginably rich.

...pick a really interesting problem to solve and it will not matter at all how much (or how little!) the developers are paid!
>Do you realize that without it your ass would still be driving to Best Buy to pay for an overpriced TV?

What? Since when does the USPS deliver TVs?

>You'd have to pay $20 to mail your brother his PS2 that he forgot while visiting you.

Going by the original PS2 dimensions (apparently 12"x7"x3") their respective rate calculators show that the price for shipping with about the same delivery time was ~$12 for the post office and ~$13 for UPS (from Atlanta to LA).
Let me just subscribe to this RSS feed using....
> They are clueless and don't know java is a programming language for lamers.

The claim "java is a programming language for lamers" is only true if portability isn't important. Portability is important. Android's reliance on Java proves that.

If you had simply said that Java is a sucky, crippled language, I would have agreed.
What they don't like are spammers and this is going to trip their spam blocking mechanisms pretty quickly.

Best way I've found is to use your own mailserver or alternatively to use something like Sendgrid.
I suspect thats part of authors point. The Internet is not just the protocol, its what's built on it. So differentiating between google and Facebook vs the net is pointless.

We can slice and dice definitions as much as we like, but the fact remains that the usable, daily net is a panopticon.
Funny thing is - this is likely just a test run.

BCG wrote the scenario up back in September 2011:
Back to Mesopotamia?
The Looming Threat of Debt Restructuring
http://www.scribd.com/doc/130778664/BCG-Back-to-Mesopotamia

It describes exactly the case for one-time haircuts across all citizens, neatly laid out per country. The money needed to turn those deficits around needs to come from somewhere, just printing it does not work. Certain finance bloggers are already going apeshit about this.

And for those of you in the US, snickering at the European victims - it lists the US as well, with the need for a 26% haircut to balance its books.

Sleep well.
They admitted it was a publicity stunt: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/03/10/seattle-bar...
This. A million times this. I was surprised by the effect that going to ONE meetup group had on me. I was more motivated, intrigued, and I was even able to make a few valuable connections. If you go to a few AND you can already program, you should seriously find work in no time.
yep, you're not gonna hear a Ferrari driving pharmaceutical chemist commenting/bragging about it... or about how his colleagues are so demotivated because they are paid too much, like "well-fed animals instead of race horses" :) ...most likely because he would actually have so much interesting work to do that he doesn't have the time. I think most programmers are so starved of interesting problems to solve that they end up doing all sorts of mental-masturbation maneuvers, like what I'm doing right now.
Yes, slugs would have been a much clearer value to have reported.
You could avoid the risks associated with holding BTC by putting it in your mattress. Generally people say that this is a stupid idea, but it's doing 7-11% better than leaving it in a bank today.
If it was clear that ST2 can make your team happier, then I would expect you to gain political capital for the purchase and not lose it!
Freedom to work
$8 I hope that's for two people. $8 is obscene for an overpriced coffee.
You should not be doing analysis (OLAP) on your main transactional database (OLTP). Moving from transaction-processing system (TPS) to analysis is done through a process call ETL (Extract, Transform, Load.) You will want to transform your data into facts and dimensions -- this is going from a relational model to a multidemensional model (using a star schema.)
just posted this in the other thread (the economist one):

BCG Study, September 2011:
Back to Mesopotamia?
The Looming Threat of Debt Restructuring
http://www.scribd.com/doc/130778664/BCG-Back-to-Mesopotamia

The concepts and numbers are already there, Cyprus is a small test bed for this.
People fear what they do not know or understand. Mansanto's businesses practices may be at times unethical, but is there any fault in genetically breeding superior crops and profiting from it? If there is one area of research that thrives on patent protection, this is it.
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i am surprised. rssident looks really simple and promising on my smartphone as a mobile page! can you give any background!? when did you start!?

i like the one big feed directly on the start page. i like the the simple layout in my mobile browser.

i don't need fancy sharing features. all i need is a simple webapp that shows me a condensed view of my subscriptions and opml import.

if these things work there is also no need for a specialized android or mobile app, i think.

(oh, mobile sign up didn't work somehow for me, maybe you check the code...)
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Cypher-Desktop application for protection your online messaging.
As a practicing software developer who works on web applications daily, I did not get hooked after reading your site.

If you want to acquire me as a user you should post some instructional tutorials and videos on how I can use your service and why I would benefit from it.

New relic is doing a great job of marketing this way, with their IRC channel, reps contacting you to ask how things are going in a non-pushy way, and they're also giving out cool t-shirts (obviously an expense, but I think you could do it for someone who buys a $99 account?)
When my eyes follow the raindrops it's impossible to see the Chinese characters. I have really to force myself to stare at one spot to see the characters. Interesting phenomena.
The argument of inevitability is the argument of a fatalist.

Yeah, so what if the incentives increase on the other side?

That's what hard work is made of. No one said this is easy. Far from it, it's hard.

And if its inevitable, so note that the success of the government to pass CISPA and its variants was considered by some to be inevitable.

And hackers have generally been at the forefront of keeping the net safe.

It's only after the government started going after them, and SV built a narrative of - interesting challenges-talent-fair,just but outsized rewards, that the equation shifted.
How solid is the startup?
Why kanji instead of mirrored katakana?
"The web" has a specific meaning, and IRC and Usenet are not generally considered part of it.

RSS is -- the essential concept was even included in the initial vision for the web:

>With help from Robert Cailliau, [Berners-Lee] published a more formal proposal (on 12 November 1990) to build a "Hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" (one word, also "W3") as a "web" of "hypertext documents" to be viewed by "browsers" using a client–server architecture.[4] This proposal estimated that a read-only web would be developed within three months and that it would take six months to achieve "the creation of new links and new material by readers, [so that] authorship becomes universal" as well as "the automatic notification of a reader when new material of interest to him/her has become available."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_web)
Show HN: My first django website: full-length youtube movies
Hi,

I have created: http://keepermovies.com/ Website which searches throught twitter, reddit and youtube to find full-length youtube movies. New movies are being added every hour. This is my first python/django website. Please give me your feedback :)

Best, Wiktor
My take on procrastination
It is in a country where a programmer makes $450/month.
What does this day and age have to do with it? Things still need to get from one place to another. It is still a laudable goal to have the cost of that process be socialized; that aspect has not changed. Yes, many things have gone digital, but that does not change the underlying nature of the mail, nor does it invalidate the way we should be thinking about it as a society.
I am torn. On the one hand, running a startup is a very stressful experience even when things go relatively well. And they almost never do, so it's usually plain hell. It's great to have somewhere to turn to even if it's just to vent. On the other hand, I can't help but think that self-pity is getting a bit out of hand in our community lately. Startups aren't a sickness (unlike alcoholism for example). Starting one is a choice we are all making fully aware that failure is the expected outcome. Rather than writing and upvoting stories about how bad we have it, maybe we should be seeking a different outlook that embraces the fact that those "terrible" events are just part of our job. Much like patients dying is a part of doctor's job (which you have to admit is a lot worse than your startup dying).
Because people should be able to send things through the mail affordably regardless of where they live. That is a value that we used to hold as a country. Admittedly, that was back when at least a few of us actually viewed ourselves cohesively and cared about people other than ourselves.
check out: http://dev.newsblur.com - new design just around the corner.
On this subject I happened to experience something funny. Maybe one year ago I installed a chrome extension (from the official chrome store) to provide an RSS icon directly in the URL bar in order to subscribe to RSS streams. So far so good, then I don't know when, maybe months later I noticed I had some random popups with ads, it was very strange since I use adblock, I tried to find where these ads were coming from, with no luck. Then a day, I used the chrome inspector to analyze a web page and I observed something strange, on every pages I visited an external javascript was loaded, long story short, turned out the chrome extension was a kind of spyware loading a javascript on every pages I visited and sometimes rising a popup. Maybe it took me more time to find it because I only use chrome mainly for testing, my main browser being Firefox, but this is the kind of experience who removed the little confidence I had on the chrome store, and extensions in general, I'm very careful now on what extensions I install particularly extensions needing to be loaded on every pages I visit.
I can't get behind beating people up or putting them in jail. Maybe a scolding and/or a sternly worded letter. Or, if people are taken in by the hype, maybe even on a place like hacker news, raise awareness of your objections in the form of a comment.
actually, as much as i love Feedly - it's pretty hard to find the preference to switch that off.
Netflix works (apparently) natively on my TV. That's why I use it: it's just far too convenient to ignore.
What, exactly, is your point? Are you actually using anecdotal evidence to try to state generally that people don't need the mail? I certainly hope not, because I thought the level of discourse was at least a little bit higher here than that kind of absurdity. If not, it seems like you're just telling a story with no real purpose.
I've had a lot of ideas like that also, but be warned - the Plan 9 landscape is absolutely littered with speculative, half-baked amateur ideas that go absolutely nowhere. I know this because I was part of one when I first got involved in Plan 9. As a result of that, I have tried to make the Advanced Namespace Tools something that usefully expands the capabilities of Plan 9, but the gap between the current reality of "nobody uses plan 9" and the blue-sky possibilities is huge. For right now, it's probably best to think smaller and keep that bigger picture in the back of the mind. That's my conclusion from practical experience. I do like the ideas, but reality is a hard place for ideas.
And when that GMO crop pollinates adjacent non GMO crops, Monsanto can sue the adjacent farmer(s) for "stealing" Monsanto's GMO.

This is an inherent flaw, and has already occurred.

Sort of like the fox guarding the hen house.
Oculus Rift breaks another promise
oh how i hate me for trusting them. Again, oculus VR suddenly finds out they can't deliver what the sold. No game included, nothing. Just another promise of working hard on something, what a joke.

Oh, and it is end of march! Promised was delivery in november, beginning of decemeber maybe. bastards, i really want them to give as much bad press they could possibly get,

THIS IS ONE BIG RIP-OFF!
Maybe the submitter's original title should be kept in a small font or a tooltip or something, for both completeness and transparency.
And why in high holy hell do you give a shit?
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I think this was a far better summary of the opposition to Google Glass:

http://gawker.com/5990395/if-you-wear-googles-new-glasses-yo...

"If You Wear Google’s New Glasses You Are An Asshole"
Ask HN: Privacy Concerns re: ga.js (Google Analytics)
Hi all,

Something that has bothered me for several years is he proliferation of websites that use Google Analytics. Clearly, it's an exceptionally useful tool. But is seems to me that it could be a vector for a serious breach of privacy. Let me explain: every time you log into GMail or another Google service, Google presumably logs your IP. Likewise, whenever using a site with Google Analytics (my estimate is that at least 50% of the web's most popular websites use it, if not more), Google also takes down your IP and the website visited. It seems to me that it would be trivial for Google to assemble a rather complete web history for most people with a google account (let alone history for an arbitrary IP) in this manner. Perhaps this is old news and certainly there are other more grave violations of privacy on the net and via other mediums. But I have never heard the this particular tact discussed and would love to hear others thoughts on the issue. I wish I had an established blog, in which case I would link to a post about this matter. But this seems like a decent stand-in.

A short addendum: I suppose it would be possible to mitigate the effcts by blocking Google Analytics at the hosts level/by blocking JS, though either could have undesirable effects at some level.

Another addendum: one thing that makes this so troubling is that it potentially works across devices as well (mobile devices, desktops, etc.)
Interesting. I am a car nut but have never heard of this keypad thing under the door handle of cars, so i went to google it and found it to be mostly (only) present on US models. I am from europe and have never seen it here, but maybe it never came to my attention.

Even with modern systems i think that there are alot of security issues. Keyless Entry Systems for example in theory allow you to drive off in a car without having the key present (atleast thats true for many VW models). You can basically open, start and drive off if the owner is nearby.
Does anyone know how complex is it to crack those wireless key things ?
Also, if you're in San Francisco and ever want to grab a coffee and just chat with someone going down the same tough road, I'm happy to meet up. No pretenses, no bullshit, just real talk. You can also hit me up on IRC/Twitter: @dpg
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Doesn't the car lock you out after too many failed attempts?

If they don't, these keyless entry pads have just set back car security by about about 15 years.
>And when that GMO crop pollinates adjacent non GMO crops, Monsanto can sue the adjacent farmer(s) for "stealing" Monsanto's GMO.
>This an inherent flaw, and has already occurred.

Pretty sure this is not true. Care to site.

Only case I heard of was that was dodgy was a farmer who had seed contamination from trucks driving by which is totally different to what you are implying.
CollegeRides.com needs developers
CollegeRides.com is looking for a new team of developers.

CollegeRides.com was moments away from launch when the developer stripped the code, and tried to do it solo...The site had incredible momentum and was even published in various articles (you can look it up) I know the value of a developer and I look at them as a partner. I do not intend to manage/create any negative working conditions….because I let you set these conditions. I understand the breath of all of your talents, and feel I can let you use them for something extraordinary. As of now, CollegeRides.com has the following, media attention, and potential to grow into something incredible. The stage is set, I just need the cast.

You can visit Facebook.com/CollegeRides to see the momentum we still have. Sadly, we will have to start from scratch....but we can make it happen!
The closest that I am aware of is TechCrunch's deadpool tag (http://techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/).
Your joking right?
Except that makes no sense in terms of Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. The only extending had nothing to do with RSS as a standard, it was keeping archives of feeds around for nearly forever. Everyone loved that feature and the UI, at least more than many of the competing feed readers, so they used it. That's exactly how you want things to compete in a market.

Which brings me to the next point: what market are you even talking about? There were never any profits in the RSS reader market. The only real market was one of interest by users, which Google Reader pretty legitimately competed in and still retained a large number of users (even if by "it's good enough to not bother switching").

There are still a ton of feed readers still around and still free (it's just consuming XML, after all). The ones that people are jumping to are the ones that have worked on their usability and are offering to take money to guarantee the feature that google didn't: storing feed history.
I took the liberty do de-obfuscate the code : http://jsfiddle.net/tburette/w6npr/5/
Similarly, in Australia, I've only seen it once, and it was on a (from what I was told) special edition F-150 won in a contest in the US, that was converted to right hand drive.

Seems to be a security vulnerability all by itself, to me. I'm not sure I see the appeal.
Congratulations Scott! Really cool project. Love the idea of interactive models within a book.

Can you give us some thoughts on how you went about promoting the project? Are you guys very active in the SystemsWiki and were able to leverage that community?
If you're interested becoming afraid around your cars, some of my security friends at the University of Washington have been busting up cars for research: http://www.autosec.org/faq.html

This paper is particularly in depth and interesting: http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf

Of course, their exploits are a bit more complex and involve various side channels and hardware vulnerabilities, while the keypad issue can be executed by someone just typing in numbers with their fingers.
Like we're supposed to know what "ImageBam" is?
here it is at 324 bytes, since your going to end up with scrollbars no matter what, you might as well not worry about document size

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edit... and at 319

<canvas id=q style=margin:-10><script>for(q.width=q.height=b=3000,m=Math.random,p=[],i=0;i<256;p[i++]=1);setInterval('9Style="rgba(0,0,0,.05)"9Rect(0,0,b,b)9Style="#0F0";p.map(function(v,i){9Text(String.fromCharCode(3e4+m()*33),i*10,v);p[i]=v>758+m()*1e4?0:v+10})'.split(9).join(';q.getContext("2d").fill'),33)</script>
But for some who dearly counted on those savings to pay rent or medicine, to be taken without their consent or knowledge, it is theft, plain and simple. No matter what opinionated armchair economists like you have to say.
It's pretty simple - the symbols don't move. Their brightness changes. So if you move your view - you jump across many symbols and obviously can't "follow" anything.
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Theres alot of new tech i am really excited about. Next generation smartphones & tablets, things like Leap Motion/Kinect/MYO, cheap and tiny computers etc.

But Glass isnt really one of them... I cant shake the feeling it will end up in the same strange spot as bluetooth headsets and it just has alot of potential issues with privacy, usability (voice only?) and general appearance.
Sounds like it doesn't only let you try again, it actually only checks if last [password length] numbers match the password (that's why he can compress it into one long number)
This is incredible. I was particularly happy when I noticed Chrome filepaths for Mac, Linux, and Windows - some of the more powerful Sublime plugins (looking at you, LiveReload and that really powerful Markdown plugin) were developed by Mac guys who didn't bother porting them to Windows.

Not that I'm angry at the aforementioned Mac guys (it's not like they're getting paid to make me free stuff) but it's nice to see someone go the extra mile.
marketers dream right there. retention strategy a/b 101 week