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Code is not written in stone. Let us know what you're needs are and we'll see what we can do.

We are still developing the product and we have been thinking about making it optional.

Hit me with an email if you want to tell me more about what you need and how we could accommodate what you do - Holger@Uninkd.com
I agree. What's stopping someone from just reading my article on Uninkd.com versus subscribing on a device?

If the subscription also allowed a user to view the articles online, I'd be fine with that.
"You really seem to just want to argue about nothing."

No, I want to argue (constructively, I hope) about things people say that I disagree with, in the hopes that at least one of us learns something.

"Your position is a strawman."

This is nonsensical. I'll assume you meant "You are arguing with a strawman." I'm not sure that's the case, but feel free to clarify any of your above arguments if you think I misinterpreted something.

'The original poster I replied to was literally saying "can't use haskell cause academic norealworld". That is lazy and unintellectual.'

On reviewing the thread, I understand you to be speaking of part 3 of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6109593

What was literally said was, "I don't know what mature means, but they are not used by high-profile applications", where "they" referred to "3. Mature libraries for web development: frameworks, templating languages, ORMs" from the parent comment. Is that right?

I would say that "can't use haskell cause academic nonrealworld" is a substantial mischaracterization of that, and the parent point is something I would agree with - so far as I am aware we have not seen the haskell web frameworks exposed to tremendous real-world load.

"I wasn't talking to you, so constantly trying to re-frame my statements as though they were directed at you is not productive."

You were replying to me, so I'm confused who you were talking to. If you simply mean you weren't talking about me, I'm not sure I agree, as you seemed to be speaking in broad terms about those who might hold views I think are at least reasonable. I didn't so much think you were calling me out specifically.

Generally, this comment seems disingenuous at best, and I may not reply if you follow up, unless you raise the level of discourse - your earlier comments were better.
Your question intrigued me. You are literally correct, but as it turns out the position since 1849 has been held by a physicist (at least, if we include one 10-year term of someone specializing in what Wikipedia called a "fluid mechanics" specialty "physics"), so as an imprecise conversational term it's not entirely wrong. I was unable to turn up the original source of the quote in Google, but odds are quite good it was written prior to 2009 (and almost certainly post-1979, as the timeline theoretically works for that but it would be amazing prescient in that time :) ), in which case the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge was Stephen Hawking.
This is like the 3rd time this story has appeared on HN... it's all very droll.
Well, IIRC Ink came about due to the need to quickly build out sites like that (you'll notice SAPO is involved in a bunch of other services like that), and things dovetailed together when the site was revised recently.
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I really like theoldreader because it was a zero-overhead switch from Google Reader (and I liked things about Google Reader that were changed in other alternatives that I briefly looked at).

However, I switched to bazqux.com a few weeks ago. It has all the same Reader features I love, but also shows comments, which is a great feature addition. Oh, and it feels lightning fast.
They charge $9/year and will probably never get overloaded since they have the worst site name ever (from a marketing standpoint).
Nope, not a skin. It's a very different beast in terms of grid layouts, for instance.
No, I think the rest of civilization should be warped around preserving "bar culture" and our best minds should be eternally in a cat and mouse game of straw maker vs underground organic chemist.

(Note I was kidding)

Going out drinking is no longer a sane activity. So don't.
As it is now... no.

We think it's too much of a barrier if people have to sign in to read a single article.

There won't be a single place where people can find all of your articles though. They will only be visible through people who share them.

Enabling people to easily share and let their friends read a single article gives your magazine a chance to spread.
Have you read your own privacy policy?
Please do, and feel free to file issues on Github: https://github.com/sapo/Ink
>Re-purposing the logo
>recycle an existing logo
No-one is re-purposing the logo. You are going out of your way to make it seem as if they have literally stolen your logo, when in reality, they have a similar design that is not a copy.
Hipsters and Hashtags
No, that's not (always) true. My ISP's traffic goes directly from their network to Google.

According to the article Comcast are trying to charge Google for letting Comcast's customers watch youtube, which is a weird and evil way to do business. I think it basically boils down to Comcast being a really shitty ISP and you (unfortunately) not having much choice.

The irony here is that Comcast is a 10x larger company than Shaw, so perhaps it's just a case of Comcast throwing their weight around and basically resorting to extortion.
Looks neat. A few questions:

1) I'm not clear about how the web functionality works. The demo suggests that all articles will be available online. Are those freely available, or are they only free if people share the links?

2) Can I charge a subscription that effectively lasts forever (i.e. more like a one-time fee for readers)?

3) Do subscribers have access to all previous content?

4) Is this only for US citizens? I'm in the UK.

(edit: added q4)
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A great idea, but I personally think it is good to have these contributions visible to anyone who is viewing my profile- demonstrating that I'm someone whom one would like to work with.
This isn't Reddit, we can have a civil conversation about this if you want to...
Accompanying PBS NewsHour report: Exploring the Psychology of Wealth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVlh4e8yP3o
Punishment for filing false DMCA takedown notice would either require:
1) An civil action for damages by the harmed party, or
2) A criminal prosecution for perjury.

I'm guessing that the vast majority of people harmed by false DMCA takedown notices either do nothing or, if they act at all, file a counternotice with the content host and leave it at that.

The problem may not be the absence of available sanctions, but the fact that people don't seek to apply the available sanctions.
Not to get off topic but I have a much harder time focusing on a single task/project. The motivation is there but I'm all over the place. There's so much to learn and I seem to start a new project every other day, but they just never get finished because I end up stumbling on a new thing that I want to learn/make.
I can only argue this with anecdotal evidence (albeit it lots of anecdotal evidence), but I've always found Google employees to be incredibly loyal to the company / Google brand.

Google hires the most talented and ambitious people they can. These people make awesome things for Google. But talented and ambitious people can't sit still for long, no matter how good the food is or how many massages they get.

In the valley, turnover is high. That's the way it works. People working at (as the article mentions) ExxonMobil are probably there for life -- whereas I know very few 20-somethings in the valley that stay in the same job for more than a few years. The rest of the world has promotions; our equivalent tends to be switching companies for a better/more interesting/higher paying job.
I just tried it on a Galaxy Nexus (4.65 inch display) and it's still extremely awkward, unless there's some way of doing this I'm not thinking of.
It strikes a note of insanity: someone makes something, and another tries to bully them. There can't be a goal in mind, since there doesn't seem to be any pay-off.
Fez was a hugely fun game, with layers of secrets and depth. And now we'll likely not see another... Because of what? The game guy's a jerk? We're surrounded by jerks that do nothing, and we tolerate them.
I wonder if this is just an extension of GIFT [1], but instead of general online abuse, it's now aimed at the people building that entertainment infrastructure.

[1] http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
Just don't use Tor as an exit node with OVH.
Design for habits
You sound like you have a Narcissistic parent, you sound like me no too far in time, this is a phase, don't do something stupid.

Read this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_parent check this subreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/ and call a help line or talk to some stranger in a park.

Please talk to someone, get help with a shrink.
Probably works for only a % of the population. I'm a guy with small hands, smaller than some women. I can't hold the phone steady, and much of the screen I couldn't possibly pinch without my palm hitting the screen.

It's like Lebron James telling you your doing it wrong when you shoot a jump shot or layup instead of dunking.
Can you believe I saw an advertisement today for a car wash!? I DON'T EVEN OWN A CAR! Why don't you remind me again that I'm poor?

/sarcasm
So if a bunch of Justin Bieber fans join HN and start voting - in the 1000's - every article about their idol, that's cool?
This is basically why I'm confused with the "defensive" patent phrase. It seems to completely ignore the whole purpose of patents in the first place. Either we get rid of software patents wholesale, or we accept the consequences of software patents are this.

Lets say a company develops a 5% increase in efficiency for an engine. They patent it, a competitor reverse engineers it and releases a product. Fundamentally this is the same protected thing that happens with software right now. How a "defensive patent wielding tech company" should behave here makes zero sense. Not asserting patent in this case, even if the 5% increase here say was to just not burn as lean or whatever (lets assume this is obvious but not often in use for this thought experiment), they were the first to market and seemingly have a patent right to a temporary monopoly.

I really think patents are overblown in the tech community, note I don't mean they aren't a problem for things like a small company. Their impact is very real and substantial. However my personal feelings for them aside on their ethical and societal impact, I don't see how companies should react any differently with our current patent structure.
Choosing the Right Web Development Course For You
If the employer is in California, and if you are making less than 88K a year, what they are doing may be illegal (IANAL) http://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/11170.html
I welcome the intent which I understand is to provide another point of view on css frameworks. Honestly like others, I am a little overwhelmed with multitude of css frameworks. I think the point was to have a framework to provide aggregation and organization of multiple tools you used previously.

For me Bootstrap, Zurb are currently only really interesting in a sense I would use them in projects. For a while I used Skeleton, I think it lost pace a little and I get same benefits with Zurb.

Again, I welcome your vision of organized front-end, would appreciate a page that would outline differences and specific benefits.
What's stopping people from doing it online, is that there is no one place where people can browse and read all of your issues and articles. There is no "directory" for your magazine.

The reason we are not implementing a signup when reading articles, is that it would make it impossible for your magazine to be shared. People want to share what they read and they often have friends who are interested in the same things. Those friends are all potential subscribers and it would be a big barrier for them if they had to subscribe in the app before they could read a single article.
I have no problem with a time machine inventor choosing to keep the design to themselves. I also have no problem with him/her releasing the design for free, or even licensing the technology contractually. I have a problem with the government, funded partially by money I earned but have no control over, protecting any sort of intellectual property.
Sounds like adding a 'publish articles online?' control might be worth it!
Like the other guy said, IE7 isn't that rare in Portugal. it's a sensible baseline for SAPO, which, incidentally, runs the biggest web portal in PT (I work there).

And yes, corporate governance regarding browsers does weigh in heavily in mass-market sites here, so we have to make sure the layouts don't break - Ink enables delivering a predictable, working layout that degrades gracefully down to IE7 for that reason.
And you can phone the numbers at any time, 24 hours per day!
I've been using iWork for iCloud in beta for about a month now. It works pretty well.
Puritanism, pure and simple.

Note you can kill all the people you want in a plain ole traffic accident with practically no punishment compared to using any other weapon... as long as you're not drunk. Heck they don't even municipal cite people for killing bicyclists around here, sometimes. Needless to say I don't ride on the roads or let my kids ride on the roads, that would be pretty dumb to do, given the prevailing conditions.
Call 604.872.3311 or 1.800.SUICIDE or go to http://youthinbc.com/about-us/contact-us/ for online chat.
Unless you know low-level programming, you're not really a programmer -- at least not one that won't commit a whole host of errors and mistakes. Know your hardware, know your assembly, know your C, and know your higher level languages and frameworks. Being ignorant to the base layers is sloppy, mate.
Which, incidentally, don't require you to use jQuery. Just sayin'. (it's agnostic).
Why hide it completely? What about exposing your interface by convention like in Python? Never heard anyone suffering from inability to make methods and fields private in Python.
- how many cups contain a drug (i.e. 0,1%; 99.9% are drug free)?

- is the problem big enough for bars to care about?

- do cup producers increase their rev/profit with this cup?
I tend to bounce back and forth between "Impostor syndrome" and "Dunning–Kruger effect". I guess that makes me about average?
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> Joel Spolsky wrote a great article[1] in 2005 that basically says using a massively high level language like Python or Java as the core of a CS curriculum is damaging because the languages aren't "hard" enough.

There's certainly a value in getting closer to the machine (as C does), OTOH, there's a value in not having a lot of boilerplate cruft between you and the algorithm, which makes something like Python valuable. Really, I think a CS program that exclusively uses any one language is probably robbing students of valuable insight that comes from the different perspectives that working through different languages (particularly, languages from different design paradigms) provides.
Because it's a hack in Python.

Edit: Why not make all variables global? Why not just use convention to label a globally scoped variable as "global" or as "local"? You can make it work as a convention. Now apply that to the whole language and to all the developers ever use it.
> I can do a two-finger double tap on Maps to zoom out

And now I know about that! It's still awkward, but slightly less awkward than one-handed pinching.
The list of ALL nodes, including ENTRY and MIDDLE are also public.
We're based in Seattle. I don't think there's much to be done, except leave.
You've just made one of our design leads very happy - we're very proud of that page.
That reminds me of another Economist article about GPS jamming from 2011:

http://www.economist.com/node/18304246

That article was inspired by a trucker who drove by Newark Airport every day, disrupting GPS service there.
Aaah, today I learned. I understand.
Is this figure for Go 1.0 or 1.1? The latter is said to have a much-improved parallel GC.
http://golang.org/doc/go1.1#performance
Phil Fish also told one of the YouTube personalities to go kill himself. I think he's part of the problem.
I don't know what the fuss is about with java and python.

It was really beneficial in school to work on large java projects where we were exposed to eclipse, svn, log4j, junit, jdbc, etc. It was unbelievably useful going into my job. On the other hand, we used C when we were studying something low-level like thread communication or operating systems. C/C++ absolutely has its place in the college cs curriculum as do java and python.
"receivers cost £2,000 per vessel"

Hmm, yes kind of like how a new GPS costs $5K, because the first .mil model did cost that much. Or all computers currently cost millions of dollars because the first ones did.
I was the front man for a HL2 mod called Dystopia. We never made it big, but we did have a decent sized, vocal and opinionated playerbase. I'd done my best to promote a positive community and for the most part all the feedback we received was fairly civil. I'm not trying to say that my experience was anything like what Fish and the guy from Treyarch have had to deal with.

With those caveats out of the way; when I did have to deal with abusive feedback, I focused on two things:

1) I could easily separate my real life person from the "Fuzzy" persona I cultivated on the internet.

2) If our little game had prompted someone to get so worked up that they were going to rape and kill my kittens because we were making changes to a weapon, then we'd done something right.

I'd been a hardcore, vocal gamer before I had to deal with hardcore vocal gamers. I wasn't abusive, but I had felt that passion from both sides. I didn't like, tolerate or condone people who were abusive, but I tried to understand where the passion was coming from.
If everyone's wondering how Ink is different from Bootstrap, the answer is: mainly in how Ink builds layouts. Instead of the column span philosophy, Ink uses percentage based blocks. That alone is a big difference.
Aren't like half of MBA's engineers to begin with?
I'm not sure. I'll agree that it can be irritating, but I think sometimes people actually do need to evangelize their latest $WHATEVER in order to help motivate themselves and stay focused. Whether or not this is a sign of un/healthy activity could also be an interesting debate.
French is my mother tongue, and I think it sounds alright. It's everyday speech though, not something you'd write in a press statement.
This 100%. It pangs me to see people call themselves .NET programmers or iOS programmers. You're either a general programmer or you're a class act. I know about 20 languages at this point and they all serve me well. You can bet you're going to need to know the hardware as well as assembly translation when you're not designing a stupid social app. Or well, don't learn assembly and continue to be mystified by the lldb debugger assembly dump in XCode, "that's just low level tundra tuft, lemme just close that and add some print statements..".sigh
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Might be nice to show references for the statistics you list - especially considering you stand to gain clients and profits for providing the services you're offering.
Well, we're not actually selling, but rather giving it away :)

Seriously now, it's been in internal use for a good while because it solved problems that Bootstrap didn't address (like the particular grid flavour and some corner cases in responsive layouts), and the best way gather feedback and improve it is, of course, making it public.
It is definitely not a skin. I can tell you we started for scratch. I'm on the Dev team.
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Hi Adrian

Thanks for the questions :-).

1. Seems like there's a bit of confusion on the web-functionality. There will be no "main directory" for your magazine, so people won't be able to browse all the content of your magazine, that they'd otherwise have to pay for through the app.

In the app, you can share an article on Facebook or Twitter. More specifically, you'll be sharing a link to an online version of the article. So people can read THAT specific article, but there is no easy way for them to read the other articles in that issue.

2. All newsstand magazines must have a subscription. This can be a free subscription though, that does not necessarily provide access to any content. You can sell single issues as well, if that would be interesting.

3. That is the plan, yes. Let me know if that's a deal-breaker and how you would like to have it instead.

4. We need to transfer the revenues to a bank and we are using Stripe for that. As far as I know, Stripe requires you to have a US bank.

Do you have an online magazine already?
I tested it but I would like to know alternatives because it requires PHP and my project is under Ruby.
Two thoughts -

1. Unfortunately, you are choosing to work somewhere where your work is "kept secret". In other companies, this might not be the case. You should consider this and how it may or may not affect your future job opportunities.

2. Is it possible to take chunks of your code and "scrub" them so they are not revealing anything proprietary by sharing? (still need permission of course) I do this on the business/prototyping side a lot, not sure if it transfers to the development side.
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Yup, I actually organize rides where I get friends and friends of friends to tag along, and it ends up being a natural way to make new friends and so called "network".

Hiking works great too, and there are lots of great hiking routes along the purissima hills in the SF Peninsula.
The framework is glorious, the underlying user-base code can still be utter horse shit. Any programmer that doesn't know assembly is worth his weight in basic.
Charlie Brooker did an episode of Black Mirror[0] based on the premises that everyone records every waking moment of their life.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)
I studied Computer Science at USC and was a student in 2 of Professor Redekopp's classes. Suffice to say that he was a top notch educator and the favorite professor of most students in the Engineering school.

At USC, at least while I was there, 101 and 102 (the class from which these slides are linked) were taught in C++. The Algorithms class used prolog, and the majority of the remaining core CS classes were in Java. All in all, I'm very grateful for the diverse foundation we were provided, it has helped me immensely in my career as a developer.