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Startup != company.

Have you worked in a startup environment?

In any early stage startup, you need to be ready to roll out your sleeves and ready to do anything awesome in the interest of your team.

This might be getting new leads, contracts, deals or whatever. This is how all great companies started.

This should be the attitude.

And please don't say - I'll only do this and not that. I will never hire you or work alongside such minds.

Its the role of founders and early team to nurture the project and processes.

Startups are very low on budget and can't spend $$ for sales or MBA heroes. Today developers can write a great blog article and attract customers in your niche.

Note: We are all full-stack developers and completely bootstrapped. We have failed and learnt things the hard way so far. Once things are setup we have plans to invest/hire dedicated staff. We believe in training and making them align with our vision.

I think you might have never worked in a startup, so you don't get the idea and feel of it. :)
The Slow Web - A Manifesto
That's not true. If you only have a secret clearance then you're not supposed to read top secret material anywhere (unless you're "need to know") - home nor at work nor on the moon.
+1 (Or if I could get MDN's JS docs offline and in-browser (not Dash)).
Most likely a result of the flaws of the Mercator projection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Mathematic...).
Bill to Expand U.S. Database to Verify Hires
Actually, Emacs 24 was quite an important release that improved many things. For example, it introduced an integrated package control and lexical binding.
I can tell this is getting serious by the increasing number of articles mentioning "Obama" or "Bush" in the headlines. Now is the time for the blame game to begin!

I've said it before, and it bears repeating: this is a systemic problem. The system is set up so that it is so secret there can be no public oversight. There's no feedback loop. The most you could ask from any president is simply to air it all out in the open and let the public begin a debate. This is something that no president has done so far. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting on it to happen, either.

I'm willing to cut Bush a tiny amount of slack for historical reasons. The US has traditionally temporarily restricted liberties and trampled on parts of the constitution when it was under attack. Therefore, looking at 9-11, there's no reason not to expect the pattern to continue.

The problem here is the word "temporary". 9-11 wasn't just a terrible tragedy that opened a huge war effort that lasted several years and ended. It was used to create permanent changes in the way the entire system worked. In that area -- making it all permanent -- I completely blame Bush and the Congress, neither of which could have fucked things up this much by themselves.

Obama walked into a mess, but he seemed to know he was walking into a mess. Why he didn't actually fix anything is anybody's guess. I'm not buying that he couldn't do it. I just don't know.

I don't want to put the paranoid hat on, but I would note that members of various military agencies have been known to thoroughly "research" Congresspeople and executive branch staff in order to know how to pitch them on various issues. I firmly believe the NSA did not do this, but with all of the revelations lately, it's not beyond the realm of possibility. Can you imagine how persuasive and argument you could make to a Senator, or even a President, if you had all their emails, chat logs, cell phone records, and so forth? Like I said, I don't think it happened. But it could happen, and that's freaking scary.
If you'll accept an app focused purely on podcasts (since a lot of people used Reader for podcasts too):
http://player.fm

I submitted it to StartHQ.
Sorry, I didn't realize they were separate documents.
Microsoft Ventures Launches, Unifies BizSpark, Bing and Accelerators
Mercedes G 63 AMG 6x6
Mercedes has introduced this six-wheeled beast to haunt your dreams.
A reasonable number of bigger startups have come from Europe, though some later move to the US once they get particularly big and/or acquired. Some examples that come to mind: Skype, Spotify, Unity, Mojang, Opera.
DoD has been blocking The Guardian for some time now. This is not in response to the NSA leaks.
Only if you retain the concept of having to buy things.

Removing currency would be a very slow process but once you get past the behaviour and economic issues presented I think this lines up with hacker values quite nicely. Everyone would have the ability to create because they want to not because they need to.
You certainly can 'consume' classified information without the required clearance. Every reader of the Guardian supports this. Soldiers that have not been read on, soldiers that do not possess a clearance, can be guilty of a security violation yet they've never had access to a classified system.

What this proposes is that every system with classified information on it is to be classified to the level of the information it contains. Because the system was not approved for housing classified information, the system is subject to destruction. Because the DoD does not own the Guardian's systems, they have to assert their authority over the systems they do own: theirs and those of their soldiers.

Do you not see a difference between the soldier that breaches the NDA by disclosing information and the soldier that has been exposed to the information in the public domain?
wut? Have you ever been to europe?
This is like not expecting the sun to come up.
A significant number of HN users will eschew privacy and even basic human rights (as you so rightly point out) for convenience and the next shiny object.

Take Google for example. We know they are selling out their users, and yet every time they introduce a service, the story gets voted up and readers ooh and ahh. These services harvest the user's personal communications and information for the NSA.

Google hasn't stopped selling out its users. They are doing it now, but there are people reading this comment who will ignore it until it becomes too late.

The truth sucks, doesn't it.
Is that not how many businesses and government purchase enterprise licenses of Microsoft software?

In addition to this it seems to be common to purchase one license with hardware and a second license for the same software (but potentially a different edition) from a dealer.
In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again?
> and I'm not entirely sure if those key-ID's are sufficiently unique and/or secure

They aren't: http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-new...
Liferea is also what I'm using for the time being, but I think he's only listing cloud based Reader alternatives.

I've noticed an interesting side effect from using a desktop based aggregator that doesn't sync with a smartphone; while before I'd obsessively comb through new items throughout the day, sometimes even impacting conversations, now I read everything in one fell swoop when I turn on my personal laptop at the end of the day. No more pulling the phone out at awkward places and times, the productivity benefits, at least for me, are immense.

One could argue that it's down to discipline, but if you actually have a mechanism that enforces this behavior it makes things immensely easier.
Oh I totally agree with you. However I can vote for my MP, and I know who it is. I don't think anybody in the UK has any idea who represents them in Europe.

The problem with concentrating power is that you have fewer representatives representing more people, which breaks democracy outright. We should be looking to localise power where we can, give people responsibility and a say in their lot.

Europe should be a framework and an enabler, not a system for centralising as much power as possible. Do we really want a federal Europe? Absolute power corrupts.
You can't think of even one? I can give you several. I'm speaking primarily of the iOS market, specifically ipad versions since this is what I'm most familiar with, but many of these exist or will exist on Android as well.

XCom, in a direct port from the PC version, was just released.

Final Fantasy Tactics, III (ironically enough, ported from the original DS code), IV, and other FF titles. Spectral Souls, ported over from the Playstation portable, and Warhammer Quest, in a new version, are also present for your tactical RPG needs.

Knights of the Old Republic was recently released with all the content from the PC version, but a revised control scheme.

Board and card game conversions have been quite popular lately with things such as Stone Age, Agricola, Ticket to Ride, Elder Sign: Omens, Magic etc.

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes- a game originally released on the DS

Phoenix Wright, also from the DS.

Minecraft PE

Waking Mars

Plants vs. Zombies

King of Dragon Pass - the unusual and very interesting kingdom management, RPG, interactive fiction, really-doesn't-fit-in-any-categories game.

Battle Academy and Battle of the Bulge: two PC quality turn-based wargames. In the case of Battle Academy, this is a direct port from the PC version.

I'm really just scratching the surface with the games I've played recently. There's tons more. The amount of iOS quality games is rapidly approaching equality with the DS market if it hasn't already surpassed it.
You should decide if you want to make a serious run at being an option for true production-quality deployment, or if this is a fun project. If it's just a fun project, you may want to consider not worrying about replication/redundancy; it's tricky, quirky, and if you haven't been considering it from day one, likely to require a near-complete rewrite, which may be an awful lot of work for a fun project. Of course, if you are going to be serious, it is a must.

I am completely neutral on which direction you go; my point here is just that if you are just having some fun, you may find replication will turn out to be, well, potentially rather unfun. Educational as can be, though. It's a far, far more subtle problem than initially meets the eye.
Similarly Spanish is in the top 25, but Portuguese (given in the comments section) is considered not weird at all.
From reading it, it sounds like it's for both. GeoCities wasn't just about quirky fun, there was some actually decent websites.

GeoCities wasn't about things being super friendly, it had a learning curve there. You had to sit down and read up on HTML and write it up and iterate on your failures, and maybe people don't want that anymore but at least someone is offering another way.
Fair. I guess my statement was way too generalized, but was meant to be reflective about a slower shift over time. There's still nails around today but also many other moving parts & sometimes it feels like the approach hasn't fully adapted.
This doesn't explain situations like Brown's mother being charged. That's clearly just being vindictive and showing other would-be journalists how far the state will go if you out them.
Yes, I live in Italy, where they do the Milan fashion week stuff. Not something that interests me at all, but Milan & Paris are pretty hard to beat for fashion.
Seems like the trial period should be dictated by the developer.
Nice - I just signed up for an invite. This will be great if the invitation comes before Google shuts down reader - otherwise I doubt I'll be able to import my old stuff.

With Newsblur, which has otherwise been OK, I was only able to import 20 or so starred items.
Court Rules Hobby Lobby Can Be Considered a Religious 'Person'
Why do you think that is? I would have thought it's primarily because of the economic benefits that Ireland got after joining?
Incredibly surprising it may be, but even a couple months back people actually expected Blackberry to be doing well.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/will-blackberry-rise-from-a...

http://www.berryreview.com/2013/06/26/blackberry-first-quart...

Of course, this isn't really that suprising. There are actually people who believe Nokia will recover. Seriously - Nokia will recover. I can't even imagine how anybody can start to believe that. (Cue people commenting below how Nokia will recover, and you will understand how people think Blackberry can recover too.)
- Air pollution causes acid rain.

- Nobody likes "smog alert" days in large cities (LA, NYC, Toronto, etc). Everyone agrees that breathing in smog is bad.

- Burning coal releases radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere.

- Air pollution causes ocean acidification. This has the potential to wipe out entire species / aquatic ecosystems.

- Ocean dead zones are bad. Stop producing

- Significant amounts of methane come from 'cow farts.' Farming livestock for food makes less sense than farming plants. It takes more farmland to support livestock (e.g. something like 1000 lbs plants to produce 100 lbs of meat). [Not to mention all of the freshwater issues with irrigating all of the extra land used to feed the livestock.]

- Deforestation of topic rain forests in Indonesia need to stop because they are destroying Orangutan habitat, causing a possible extinction (except for those in captivity / zoos).

- Deforestation of the Amazon to make way for farmland / livestock grazing area needs to stop. It contributes a signification portion of the oxygen that we breath to the atmosphere.
Why make a petition that allows it for Tesla, and not one that allows the same thing for every constructor ?
I've seen this, but it was a poor choice of words. One thing that I also want to add is the ALL CAPS on the SQL keywords, the code adds readability.
That's right, it's still Bush's fault. We're in Obama's 2nd term, this is getting old.

This article doesn't make any claims about anything being Bush's fault.

As far as I can tell, this article is reporting new information about Bush's actions during his presidency. It's being reported now because this information wasn't previously available. And it's only available now because Snowden leaked it.
Care and feeding for startup nerds
You might not have noticed, but the US government doesn't really follow the laws they make. Those are for citizens.
This Congress?

If they do anything, it will be to enact legislation to make what's going on appear more legal, in a chorus of harumphs.
Ok, I understand your bias then. But even Italy has some tech startups.
An open letter to Apple about motion sickness triggers in OS X 10.9 and iOS 7
the main reason i am not buying or using it is because he doesn't work off the Userecho page he set up, which in my opinion should be his priority. He adds stuff that he feels is good, but ignores real user's needs. http://sublimetext.userecho.com/

all the feature requests are simply mothballed for years, including some that are showstoppers for me.
I upvote this. Validating the idea should come before anything else. By validating isn't talking to friends and waiting to hear "nice idea": you need to research more than that, users, markets, competition, etc.
But if you're not European you're not going to get health coverage in Europe. To be honest, health coverage isn't a major concern for 20-something hackers who sit in front of computers all day.

I'd also spend a good bit of time studying the tax code of any country I start a business in. Some countries, like Australia, tax capital gains at the same rate as income, which is bad news for anyone who put sweat and tears into a startup for years. You'll get punished when you take a nice exit.
I am in the same issue. Some readers that I used can't handle thousands of feeds, tags, etc.

Is Digg Reader the best replacement? Is there an independent review?
Erlang R15B01, What You Need For Building Some Riak and Shredding Code
Don't be depressed. Angry? Sure. But not depressed.

We're living in the last decades/centuries of a doomed empire. Our leaders have shot themselves in the ass and are now too stupid and stubborn to admit it or figure it out on their own. The system they have created will not work. It will lean toward tyranny, and corruption, and there will be a long, boring, dull fizzle as it all grinds down.

But trade is still good. Technology rocks. Robots should dramatically change the lives of every first-world human, as will auto-drive cars. There's a long way to fall, and I don't see any huge explosions. (Although I would recommend a good backup power supply)

It's the last days of Rome. Sure, the barbarians are at the gates, the government is hosed, and in places the people are rioting. But out in the country, on a farm, away from the spotlight, it's possible to lead a quiet and successful life with a family.

The question is whether you want to make a difference or lead that quiet life. I'm not sure you can have both.
The legalistic bickering in this thread is like a debate among frogs as to the constitutionality of their being placed in to a pot of boiling water.
The author does a great job of calling potential users to action. One of the cool things about the old myspace.com was the ability to customize a profile, it gave users a way to express themselves. I'm sure people made money off of "theme makers" and other web tools that otherwise would not have gained popularity. NeoCities could be the catalyst for a new wave of sites that aim to make it easier for users to personalize their website on NeoCities. Sometimes all it takes to revitalize an idea is to present in a slightly different way.
You also swear to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. You further face UCMJ action for following unlawful orders. When the soldier is not qualified to know the difference between a lawful and unlawful order, they default to obeying the orders of senior commissioned officers. Thus the directive from the senior most command. The soldier has no choice but to obey a lawful order and this is meant to clarify the lawfulness. This is making the access of certain unclassified, public systems unlawful according to UCMJ. We are in a position to reject this notion and speak out against it. The soldiers are not. We have an obligation here. I do not believe our obligation is to remind soldiers of the contract.
Here is one more to be added: http://bealector.com/

It was made by me and juliogreff, by the way. Still there are a lot of things yet to be implemented and improved, but we are up to it.
Ah, but all of those are traditional! /s
Without taking a stance on this particular case, it is worth noting that a court room during a trial is a very unusual place with regard to 'free speech'. An abolutist view of free speech rights would render a courtroom uncontrollable and so there are rules and procedures that are very specific to the circumstances of a trial. A similar observation could be made with respect to legislative assemblies, for example.

In both circumstances, participants must follow the speaking rules or be subject to penalties of various sorts (contempt of court, censure, etc).

Attempting to utilize 1st amendment rights in order to bypass those procedures seems like the wrong approach. A more logical avenue might be appeal based on the 6th Amendment right to a fair trial and/or due process arguments.
Entrepreneurs, not investors, kill startups
Why exactly do you think the NSA would confirm or deny to the US Army whether or not any of the released documents are actual classified information?
…and have it look reasonable…

And boring. I guess that's the point he's trying to make, a place for experimentation.
Human immunity to 'viral fossil' explains our vulnerability to HIV (2007)
Has anyone heard of Google Sites? http://sites.google.com/
You can even be looking at having your fat exit taxed twice if you are a citizen of another country
Yeah, no, Geocities might have had 0.01% worthwhile content but it was a vast wasteland of garbage.

The reason being that's what a platform like Geocities enables; garbage. It empowers people who are willing to put in basically no effort to make a static page with no scripting. That's not a recipe for amazing content, that's a recipe for bottom barrel content.

Really, any platform that enables everybody to contribute anything they want is going to sink to the lowest common denominator. The platform needs a built in way to highlight the best of it to have any worth whatsoever. Most Twitter feeds are unreadable garbage, the reason the platform is a success though is that it has built in ways to find, discover and follow the very best it has to offer.

It's also got a very narrow use case that happens to coincide very well with the skills of comedians and comedy writers. Geocities' narrow use case only coincides with the skills and talents of artists, and they already have Deviantart and their own gallery websites. There's no compelling reason for them to use Geocities/Neocities as their platform.

Best of luck but I'm skeptical this is going to ultimately be worthwhile.
This is no different than a mafia good smashing out your teeth with a baseball bat because your nose hurt his fist. What's going on in this case is totally clear and the government doesn't care that it's illegal. By using all these nonsense "laws" to do what they would do regardless, they're just throwing salt in the wound.
London, Paris, Milan, Tokyo and New York make up the biggies for fashion hubs. London has a higher tech startup density than Paris and Milan, with slightly larger numbers of VCs, so combined with it's travel links it makes it an excellent place for a fashion startup.
University - Was It Really Worth It?
In England the health system is free to everyone, the private health insurance buys you very little.
I wanted to Cancel Netflix for using SilverLight, but I was too busy canceling Time Warner and AT&T for being evil overpriced monopolies.

Now that Netflix has gone to HTML5 things are better. I'm renting the content so I don't really care if they want DRM or not. To me, it's only unacceptable when buying video.
"...why they don't extract the mitochondria from one of the fathers cells..."

I am not a biologist either, but...

As far as I know, the difficulty lies in removing the faulty mitochondria while keeping the health nucleus in-place and undamaged. Its easier to remove the nucleus from the egg.

Mitochondria removal has been done with fertilised monkey eggs and unfertilised human aggs [1][2]. The monkey eggs were implanted and produced apparently healthy animals. I guess the ethical problem with trying this with human embryos is the risk of unforseen effects.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/dna-swap-technology-almost-ready-...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19710649
I prefer this list as it summarizes all in one page
I used to love geocities growing up. Making fake billing error sites and spamming them out was a hobby of teenage me, and most importantly geocities taught me that you can view the source! to any website. I remember when I first learned about viewing the source to a website, I was so pumped to go through some actual working code and then recreate it in geocities. When I was twelve I figured out how to email forms to myself, which would have been much harder to execute without geocities.
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FTA:

> Are there any places left on earth that actually do respect basic civil liberties?

I would really like to know the answer.
And it's fabulous, I switched from Sublime Text 2 last week and have no interest in Sublime Text 3 anymore. I was disturbed that Sublime Text 2 had several irritating bugs that I encountered most days and yet all dev was going into the next version that would require a new license. Also I am a sucker for OS X native feel and ST2 clearly had effort put in there, but still fell short.
Back in the day it felt like most GeoCities sites were made with FrontPage or Dreamweaver. Do they even exist any more? Would those kind of static sites be acceptable on today's web?