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> Very personalised information wouldn't work.

I have a built and working version of something not far off what the OP describes, only for myself (haven't had time to open source it or add a config interface) but that uses snippets of my own voice (for reminders) as well as Twilio's text-to-speech API to generate these messages (partially due to its providence as an alarm - TTS + avconv + e-mail would work for those who didn't want that).

I've had to custom build the generators (templated text + scraping code using utilities) for each data source, but it's not much of a chore and indeed a one-time task. I write these by hand mainly because I think it's valuable to have audible cues (provided by the surrounding template) when hearing particular information and code + template makes conciseness easy, too (cf. IFTTT).

I've thought in passing about the fact that people might appreciate its use, but I've felt inclined towards open source rather than subscription, at least in part because I haven't necessarily the time to make it configurable for the non-technical.

I suppose throwing humans into the mix, as you suggest, would help with that. :)
Where would the farmers get capital then? I think it's misinformed to claim that bankers are less important than farmers. There are clearly huge issues in the world of finance, but banking does serve an important and legitimate function.
Not enough for an epiphany, but enough to try until understanding occurs. Not bad for <5 minutes!
This is really damn cool. It just comes too late for me. I have adapted to shared tmux sessions -- that allow me to work with shiver the dirty emacs users.
> The gas chambers were not much more efficient, but the murderers didn't have to look their victims in the eyes. They were not forced to recognize them as Humans.

But couldn't they still hear them scream, and had to clean up the corpses? I am German and I have never understood why they used Cyclon B. Maybe I just suck at understanding chemical weapons, but it took up to 20 minutes to kill a room full of people, is that even faster then letting them suffocate?

Not safe for sanity, but source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B#Use_on_humans
Yes, indeed. I was referring to the practice of meditation as a good basis for testing the worth of Buddhism.
PS: just checked out trycelery, too. Looks very cool! Since I've never run a site with preordering before, I'm not sure which features I'll need or not, but I plan to revisit your service when I get to that point in development.
This article is vapid.

"It's almost as if Google wants to end the document-centric open web as we have known it."

Actually, if this happened, Google's $40B+ in revenue would approach zero.

On Reader: Every week there's a new Reader replacement that pops up. I think in a year or two, Google Reader being shutdown will be seen as a positive thing for RSS.

"Apple will switch its default search engine to Bing....The web is a forest, and Google is burning it."

Maybe Apple will do this. It's possible though very unlikely considering Google's ability to monetize search and Microsoft investors' disappointment at losses in the Live division, but that's still not a move that immediately destroys Google.

Again, this article is completely vapid.
For all the discussion of "cool" and whatever, utility certainly seems key.

We can talk about the Segway's coolness all we want, but it's ultimately not that important. Why did the Segway never become more than a niche product? Because it's pretty much useless! It fills a mostly-unwanted niche between walking and bicycles. Most people can walk. Bicycles are cheap. Given how little it does, I can't fathom how one would have looked at a pre-production Segway and thought, wow, I bet these will sell like hotcakes.

Glass is more of a platform than a product right now. The question of what it's for is still mostly unanswered. Find the killer app for it, and all the questions of creepiness or uncoolness will melt away. Fail to find anything useful to do with it, and the lack of coolness will just become an excuse for the fanboys to use.
I can't imagine they would build their own search engine from scratch. Something that is a front end to existing search services seems far more likely. You are in a much better position than most of us to know if they have been attempting such negotiations…

You should be careful what you say at this point; there will be posts on the apple rumour blogs before you know what is happening ;)
I've got some systems in play for myself too :) There's definitely something in this noospheric vicinity that people want.
It's hard explaining your rationale to risk-averse people but ultimately each person lives their own life. I just quit a great job to do my own thing but I have no regrets. This will be my third time trying to strike out on my own and I hope this one is successful. But if it's not I will just get back up, dust myself off, and try again. Because it's what I love to do. No one likes to fail, but to me, the risk taking is addictive. What greater way to achieve something in life then through creation?
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I agree, it was not a one-man show. It was a party-dictatorship. Even their own propaganda used the term Diktatur des Proletariats.

We could argue about the precise definition of the term dictatorship---a non-productive discussion. (You'd win based on original meaning in Latin, I'd do well by current usage.) Otherwise, I guess we agree.
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Quick answer: They didnt, instead they destroyed the product and the founders left (along with the rest of the talent attached to the product) in 2008
Different, yes, not "completely different extremes". It's fruitless to try to place communism, stalinism, fascism and nazism on any kind of scale of political ideologies that makes sense in the decidedly more moderate political climate of today. Their uniting feature of crushing totalitarianism completely overshadows the comparatively minor differences in political ideology.

The Soviet Union had the victors privilege of writing the history, and they wrote it in a way that pitted pure and good communism against singularly evil nazism and fascism - completely ignoring the point that the they had been allies just a few years earlier, and that Mussolini started out as a socialist.
You could always just dual license. ;)
It's kind of weird that they, in general, picked HUGE projects like Python and Ubuntu, rather than dinky projects where an additional coder or two could make a big impact.

My general guideline is "work on what you use" or "work on what annoys you", ie:

Find a typo or inaccuracy in a man page? See about fixing it.

Need an extra feature in a program you use? Add it and see if the maintainer wants it.

Have a new/novel use for a tool? Blog about and promote it.

Don't set out with the goal of "I'm going to contribute to X" - contribute to a lot of things and see where you're useful.
The criteria here is opaque, and doesn't necessarily make sense. If you're talking about "open source project to use due to ease of use", Ubuntu might be in the top ten. Maybe. But if you're talking about an open source project to contribute to because the "community is huge, international, and diverse", and "the project offers a wealth of online documentation to help new contributors get started", that sounds like Debian, which is what Ubuntu (and countless other) distributions are based on. On top of that, if you don't like the default desktop, not only is it easy to change for you, but the Debian developers are much more likely to listen to your input on the defaults. What's more, if you find something wrong in Debian, in any part, you can get the source and fix it. Can't say the same about Ubuntu with it's binary-only drivers.
There's an xkcd for that:

http://xkcd.com/984/
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Patti would talk dirty to me. And so would Lorna. And they're hot. That, and the fact that I know and love these people, might be the reason I was over-optimistic about the price point.
How is this different from an impolite MIT license?

Edit: also, for the interested, there is a free e-book from O'Reilly explaining the major free software licenses http://oreilly.com/openbook/osfreesoft/book/index.html
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Or make contributions to something you use that is small and self contained.

All the examples here seem way too big to get started with IMO. Take "Ubuntu", it covers so much! You're better off fixing bugs upstream in the individual projects that interest you than rushing headlong into the Ubuntu bureaucracy-fest.

Dunno about Drupal or LO. The latter did have a lot of publicized cleaning up done recently. Might be better nowadays? Still a massive codebase though.

Python seems like the "easiest" contender - it compiles without many dependencies in a few minutes on a fast machine, and has good docs - but the article already hints that there's not much low-hanging fruit left.
This sounds like a more care-free way to do the same thing as http://unlicense.org

Personally I'd choose unlicense instead of WTFPL.
Yep. And while I was composing this reply saying the community could help consolidating the problems and stuff, I realized it already exist, it's called StackExchange.
Thanks for this, did not know that could be done.
In seriousness, I'll just leave this here:

http://www.chrisnovoa.com/os-x-lion-ds_store-disabling/
Yep, it's a variation of "at least they made the trains run on time," which itself is another fallacy.
Is (3) a real problem? After Linus' strongly-worded[1] email, I assumed kernel backward compatibility was fairly robust. Isn't it?

[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
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Sorry, but you are the one who missed the point. The Nazi killing machine was hideously efficient. Nobody is contesting that. The article concerns, and debunks, an oft-repeated claim that the Nazi state as a whole was, violence aside, a ruthlessly efficient apparatus.
Be careful what you consider "easy" or a "laughably good deal". Like all ideas of this nature, the hardest part is coing to be getting users. And at $2 per [listen/day?], you've made that challenge significantly more difficult.

Also, have a look at http://anten.na which aggregates and organizes short news and other MP3 genres.
I think I should. I think I should do this with my craziest friends and see what comes of it. Maybe word of mouth will get us the requisite numbers to make some money. Maybe we'll just at least have what we wanted for ourselves. Why not, right? It's like zero overhead. Thanks for your encouragement.
I think the title is a bit misleading. Perhaps "a quick explanation of one common feature of functional languages in five minutes" would be more appropriate?
Hackers care too much about licenses...
My dad is the complete opposite. He is of the group that believes you can only get your true worth by owning your own business. He preached this my whole life growing up.

And it is kind of funny -- as he worked his whole life for the government (military and civilian) -- but after he retired he started investing in real estate (great timing -- around 2008). He's making more money now than ever in his life (he doesn't flip, just rents), is enjoying life more, and it's nice to see one of his lifetime philosophies validated (at least for him).
Assuming this is true, does the 1.1 billion in cash tell us that this is purely about the property and not in any way about the team, or is that over-reading / misreading the tea leaves?
How is this becoming public information so quickly? Is this being leaked? It seems like it's not beneficial for this to become public knowledge for anyone except Tumblr if they are trying to start a bidding war.
I'd recommend watching the #yahoo! feed on Tumblr in order to watch the Tumblr community's reaction, and see the inevitable hilarity.

(Not providing a link due to high probability of NSFW content. Search for #yahoo! on Tumblr.)
Mirror, as it's currently down for me http://www.facegroup.com.nyud.net/how-stuff-spreads-1-gangna...
I tend to think that politeness and tact are value added concepts, especially in discourse.

Being terse is a good idea sometimes, but I'm not sure those times are as frequent as it actually occurs.
Blame Apple. The Finder does that when creating .zip archives.
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Actually, reds, black and browns are not too far apart in practice. (The Germans were called National _Socialists_ after all.)
Could they hear them scream? Depends on the gas chamber in question. In Majdanek, the gas chamber had a viewing port for the operators. In Auschwitz, it was an underground bunker.

Did they have to clean up the corpses? Nope, that's what the Sonderkommando were for. Jewish prisoners who cleaned up the corpses and operated the crematoriums.

Why they used Zyklon B - god only knows, but they didn't use just Zyklon B. They also used carbon monoxide and car exhaust gas quite frequently (mainly on the eastern front and early on in the war)
Interesting side-note: The word DAU means something completely different in German.

* DAU: dumbest assumable user / Dümmster anzunehmender User
Looks like nice idea. is it supposed to be a sunset of hacker mews?
If the Holocaust was efficient there would not have been the unneeded cruelty, suffering and abuse. Just the termination of lives.

While it was industrialized it was far from efficient.
Yahoo employees can't keep secrets and are always leaking things to AllThingsD (a sister company to WSJ).
For a thought experiment, think what you could do at much higher price point (e.g. 100$ a day), and who might pay for that. Then scale down from there.
^^ Full Ack!
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>video by an actual artist

PSY is a joke from the beginning, as is LMFAO et al. Harlem Shake was originally just a song which got somehow mixed up with a crazy dance and that went viral.
Sort of like https://www.innocentive.com ?
I just moved to Singapore a few months ago and have just gone through the (very efficient) motions of registering a business. I am still toiling away at the day job, but send me an email if you are interested in further discussion. My address is in my profile.
They've started a petition... http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-yahoo-from-buying-tu...
OMWFL

Obey my will forever license. Copying or creating derivative works shall irrevocably enslave you to my will forever.
It's a bad license for two reasons: One, it does not cover the case where it's not possible to place stuff in the public domain (CC0 does). Two, it's alienating some users unnecessarily. Licenses are practical, there's no reason to invent a new term for concepts that already have well-known identifiers. Put your jokes outside the license section.
This may be nitpicking, but it seems rather restrictive to force renaming of the license in the case of its modification. That is not very "do what the fuck you want to" ...
I agree, hence "...right now" ;)
Yahoo is leakier than most - Kara Fisher seems to know anything that happens there
I for one would move completely from Texas. Texas has this pro-business attitude that makes it bad for employees - little protection legally from being screwed over. Low wages and poor health care systems. Oil and Chemical industry heavily favored (West, Tx anyone?)

There is more to life than work. Like being able to live.
Any recommended guides to getting a Django/RoR development environment set up with Docker? How does networking work with Docker? Currently I'm using Vagrant, the guest VM is sharing /Vagrant to the host (how does this work with Docker?), and the host has made Vagrant projects available over my LAN for my Macbook/Windows machines with IDEs. I also get the feeling Docker is meant to be complementary with VMs and not exclusive.

Also does it make sense using Chef/Puppet with Docker?
Speer was hardly a disinterested commentator on this, and I seem to remember his book has more than a few problems, and isn't Keegan's book rather general in its scope?

My current source is the relatively new economic history of Nazi Germany, The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze (http://www.amazon.com/The-Wages-Destruction-Breaking-Economy...). It's very good, and shows how economics were vitally important from beginning to end.

E.g. part of the motivation in invading the Soviet Union was to address the crippling loss of productivity in their "Greater Western European Co-Prosperity Sphere" from the end of British coal imports. They needed to get enough food to the miners of the Lowlands etc., and the scheme was to starve the USSR cities and redirect the agricultural surplus east. Of course it didn't work out, but they did have a plan that wasn't entirely irrational.
In Leeds, First Bus do give real-time info. Wonder why it's different here...
the main difference is that this essentially places the work in the public domain, where the MIT license means it's freely available, but the copyright is still the creator's. Also, thou have to retain the MIT license and distribute it with all subsequent works.
Does this work with all bus services in the UK? I can't find a list of which are supported.
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Probably even some UV lamps would have been helpful in many ways.
That is an old stock market adage. I wonder how many would translate well:

"Pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered"

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

"End trades that show a loss as soon as possible"

"Markets are NEVER wrong-- opinions often are."

"It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked."

"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought."

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

"Operations for profit should be based not on optimism but on arithmetic"

"Nobody ever went broke taking profits."

etc.
Link to copy (HN doesn't like ! in links): http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/yahoo!
This is a horrible idea. Truth is most students need college as graduating from HS doesn't leave them in the same place it did years ago. 80% of nyc public school students entering the cuny system need remedial classes http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03/07/officials-most-nyc-hi....

CUNY schools aren't even competitive nationally so to say that this many students need remedial classes at that level says a hell of a lot about high school education, atleast that in NYC.

HS graduates today need to go to college to make up for where their HS's lacked.
Thoughts on why this was an all-cash deal as opposed to similar comps (Instagram, YouTube) which were cash/stock mix?
See, that's entirely too sad for me.

( SaaS => sadness as a service )
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Thanks for the thought - good call.

All I'd worry about is proper distribution of tasks to alleviate privacy concerns.

Also, I'm not in the US, but shrug to that. ;)
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I just spent a few months hacking a web application handled by the Chicken Scheme runtime.
Just posting a link to the project page.
In the unlikely event you find anything useful there, please feel free to use it :)
http://mathieu-desrochers.github.io/Scheme-Experimentations/
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In the UK I enjoyed the Hacker News meet-ups in London and occasionally Cambridge. Having moved to Singapore in late 2012 and noticing some of our HN users around here, too, I thought we might want to set up a meet up, too.

Depending on how many people want to come, I can readily provide space in Tiong Bahru for a few people. Please comment for ideas.
Maybe they don't have faith in Yahoo's future?
This struck me when I was watching a talk about some web company talking about their scaling issues with their erlang stack. You could have replaced erlang with django or rails and it would have made zero difference. People are essentially making the very same mistakes the first startup I worked at 6 years ago doing php was doing.

That being said, I really like Erlang, and I can think of a few problem domains where Erlang would indeed be a really good fit. But serving HTML in my opinion is so trivial that all the fancy stuff that Erlang offers matters little in that regard.
I would have thought my dad would have had a negative response too. But instead he shared that he felt like decades of being a VP at a big company earned him little, and he should have started something when he was 30 too.

Dads are unpredictable.
Hey Jonah, I can clear this up.

The api server was one of the very first things written, back when Mixpanel was a fun side project for some college kids, well before YC. We picked erlang because it sounded cool.

It was actually pretty stable, but the only piece of erlang in our stack. Replacing it was one of those important but nonurgent things that are hard to prioritize.

We want interns to have meaningful work, though, and "important + nonurgent" is just about the ideal thing for an intern to work on. They get to work on something interesting, but there's plenty of time for review and refactoring.
To be blunt, the name is horrible and LGPL, BSD, MIT, and CC have been around long enough for folks (and not unimportantly in a lot of situations: corporate lawyers) to understand what they mean. It also doesn't look like a particularly good license if a bad actor gets me in front of a judge because they used my code and failed miserably.
I wonder how this will pan out for Tumblr with Marissa Meyer at the helm. If we look at Flick (bought by yahoo in 2005), it hasn't seen much innovation or new features in the last 8 years and has been mostly coasting. I wonder if this will be the case for Tumblr under Marissa's leadership.
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I was actually thinking about this.

Basically, do a thing like this for egotistical investors and bankers--how many do you think would pay large amounts of money just to enjoy having somebody read them the closing bell and after-market action on their stocks?

Shit, you could put together a basic portfolio tracker and script generator, and then just farm it out to spare VA talent.

Anybody interested in doing this?
Another reason I didn't put a link even with a caveat is because link parsers don't like exclamation marks. But it looks like the non-exclamation mark feed today wasn't as bad as yesterday, so proceed at your own risk.
Did the flame war algo catch this one? If so, well done.
Is BSD not a good license, then? Legally it seems hardly different than this license (not necessarily zero, but hardly worth getting excited about), just more legalistically phrased.
Not really. I mean, yes, more than the average person, but that's because code licensing helps make the world go 'round, and means we don't have to reinvent the wheel every time we want to do something.

It's mostly because modern copyright law really doesn't want knowledge to be shared easily, or until the author has had a good, long profit run. Or until Disney has a good long profit run with the author's work.
Of course it's hard to discuss what's happening inside of China, but this article makes it seem that the Chinese are efficient because they need organs: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/xinjiang-procedure_61...

It's the only source for large-scale organ harvest I have found except of course Falun Gong, which I still don't know what to make of.