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Fully agree with you on the clunkiness of Google Groups. Thing is, most other mailing list web interfaces are even worse; not only are they lacking a threaded discussion view like we enjoy here on HN, they often only show one message at a time. And then there's web forum software like vBulletin. Don't even get me started...the pagination...the horror.

It's awful! And I agree with the other commenters that it used to be better. Usenet was better. A threaded mail client is better. HN is better. Reddit is better!

This got me thinking: why don't folks just deploy a reddit instance? It's open source, it's easy to hack, it works. I went ahead and did it myself. As a test, I wrote a little gateway program to import all the postings from that famous old Usenet dump [1], the one Google was so excited to preserve for us in clunky old Google Groups.

This Usenet-in-reddit experiment is surprisingly readable. Some of the formatting tricks and conventions from 30 years ago carried over without needing conversion. However, some things still need cleaning up before this is ready to be shown to the world.

If you're interested in helping out, it's a fun little project. Drop me a line!

[1] http://www.salon.com/2002/01/08/saving_usenet/
As someone who often appreciates the comments as much or more than the content - yes! I often come across articles in places other than Reddit or HN and wish I could do a "reverse lookup" to see where it might have been submitted just so I can read the comments.
This might exist but Googling for it has been a wasteland.

I follow many social media feeds that are other companies in my industry - some partners, some competitors.

I want a script or app or service to dig through their social media history (pics, posts, etc) and send me what's been most engaging.

That's it. Can probably be done in iMacros, just haven't found the time... Could be a small SAAS though.
On Windows, there's also Process Explorer[1], which can show you all your processes' threads, file handles, etc. (plus all the stuff you can see in Task Manager like memory and CPU usage). And it can search for which process has a particular file open. Very useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Explorer
Maybe I'm dumb. What does this thing do exactly? It doesn't seem like the post actually says.
Excellent point! I actually wasn't even thinking about religion. I was thinking more broad (e.g. Dowries), but you're absolutely right there are tons of explicit processes as well.
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The cable is the least likely part to be the source of the problem. The data lines are inside a shield, and in USB they are balanced (“D+” and “D-”). Both of these act to prevent radiation of the signals.

If a keyboard radiates it is likely to be either from the unshielded, unbalanced matrix wires going to the keyswitches, or leakage from the controller going onto the outside of the shield. (I think the latter could be reduced by using (more/bigger) decoupling capacitors, i.e. shorting out the RF.)

Coiling a wire does not generally make it a more effective antenna; it may or may not make it less effective depending on the circumstances. (The reason some antennas are coiled is to get the same length of conductor into a smaller space.)
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The word "process" is used in the article, and in this thread, with many different meanings.

Humanistic Psychology defines process similar to how the author describes 'culture'. [1]

Take ceramics, for example. "Process" is working wet clay on a wheel with one's hands. It extends to the atmosphere of the studio – the mood that the artist creates in their environment (what music do they listen to, what is the lighting like?).

Humanistic Psychology posits the most beautiful products will emerge out of situations in which the artist is fully immersed in their process. The process itself is the goal, the products are 'by-products' whose quality is determined by the level of joy and concentration the artist brings to the process.

Tribal dynamics, also mentioned here and in the article fit into this model as well. According to Phil Jackson, NBA coach with eleven championship rings, a beautiful system (or process) is the key to success. [2][3] In the case of the Bulls and Lakers, this consisted not only of the triangle offense, a system that promoted a pure style of basketball playing which involves the entire team, eschewing traditional 'plays', but also extended to the way the team practiced, meditated together, had fun together. In this sense, process and culture become the same thing.

1: The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, Maslow. http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Farther_Reaches_of_H...

2: Eleven Rings, Phil Jackson http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eleven-rings-phil-jackson/11...

3: Tribal Leadership, Logan, King, Fischer-Wright http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061251321/ref=as_li_qf_sp_...
They are both extremely difficult to accomplish with current technology. The issue with Mars is that it has no magnetosphere [1], and as such, all habitats will have to be underground and/or shielded with very thick layers of lead, dirt and water.

Man made colonies will have the same problem, in addition to requiring space manufacturing and assembly at a level that is currently impossible.

If SpaceX brings the cost of space flight down to its basic energy costs, we will have solved one problem. The other problem is the power generation required to conduct space manufacturing at a large scale. Solar, although consistent, is low in power density and thus requires large amounts of surface area that is very difficult to maintain in space.

Until we crack compact, high yield fusion, I doubt we will make much progress in realizing our space-faring dreams. This was also the opinion of the late Robert Bussard, inventor of the Bussard ramjet and the polywell fusor.

1. http://www.space.com/24731-mars-radiation-curiosity-rover.ht...
It appears there is a lack of short-stay housing supply. AirBnB facilitates that market.

AirBnB undercuts existing hotels by sidestepping required regulations. There isn't a lack of short-stay supply; AirBnB just works more cheaply because it has fewer expenses.

The added wealth from leaner short-stay operations should make up for the temporary displacement.

The point of the parent comment is that that wealth is not kept in the town, but siphoned off somewhere else.
If Amazon, Yahoo, and the small SaaS provider are in the same boat security-wise, then you have the incentive to get the root problems fixed. Google's approach takes away that incentive from the large providers.

I don't think it is just a question of pretending. It is a question of making sure that everyone is in the same boat security-wise so that the root problems in fact get addressed.

What Google does is make Amazon more secure and the small SaaS provider less so. And it makes sure that the big providers have less incentive to fix the underlying concerns.
> I don't know about you, but I consider myself an above-average tech consumer and I value simplicity and if companies can manage to keep my TV functional for the next 5-7 years with all of my services, then it is money well spent.

The problem with "smart TV" is that it's inherently a conflict of interest. It would be great if Samsung sold a TV with SamsungOS on it and if I don't like it or they stop supporting it I could easily replace it with Android or Ubuntu, but they don't sell that. Because they want to spam your TV with ads and force you to buy a new one on their schedule.

It's obvious why they want to sell it that way. It's not obvious why anyone should want to buy it that way.
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This reminds me of Dave Taylor's "Pinky Processor." [1] Crack dot com has been shut down for years, so I couldn't find a better source, but the idea was to have single bit processors and they could be linked in a "Pinky Farm" to work in parallel. Every instruction would be this type of branching instruction and it could handle calculations by performing table look ups. 15+ years ago people had even written assemblers and emulators to demonstrate the theory. Shortly after publishing his paper, Dave Taylor went to work for Transmeta on the Crusoe processor and any research into Pinky processors faded out of existence.

[1] http://tech-beta.slashdot.org/story/98/06/06/136239/pinky-pr...
I left my very first job because I, too, ended up bored and learning almost nothing. But I do remember that I was too scared to bring it up, because I thought there existed a possibility that the (very small) company might preemptively let me go, which would have screwed me up quite a bit. The most logical thing to do, in my mind, was to not let anyone know what I was thinking until I had signed a new offer letter and was handing in my two weeks' notice. Sort of like the prisoner's dilemma.

Was I wrong? (I hope I was wrong.) My manager was a great guy, and definitely not unreasonable. But at least from my perspective at the time, the stakes were so high. Was this just some stupid fear that doesn't actually reflect what happens in real life?
A platform for building websites with data you already have (or will create/update) and want to make public.

There are already a specialized niche for this: blogs. Blog platforms just take your data (posts) and display in a nice time-aware format.

But there are not alternatives for pages built with not temporal articles, tree-structured data, hierarchical content, lists of things etc.
I get what you're saying about the state explosion problem, but the article specifically calls out the idea of proving a lack of negative behaviors. It seems to me it might be quite useful to be able to prove, for example, that a program never reads memory at random, or that it never exceeds the bounds of any allocated buffer.

That's a different problem scale than "prove the whole thing works as specified".
Ah, you might have been thinking of techniques basic on SAT and ATPG solving. What makes software different is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry-Howard_Correspondence

Basically, checking a proof of correctness for software is equivalent to type checking (for a very fancy type system).
Nothing detailed about the first stage yet. They certainly have telemetry showing it hovered for a while but that is all the public has seen. During the launch they mentioned having video of the first stage retrofire but we haven't seen it.

Lack of news of recovery makes me think they lost the stage in rough seas. I think we would have heard if it was recovered.
And when they give you their feedback, listen. They may only tell you once.
"You have to assume that much of the narrative and compensation that you’re about offer will become known by the team. I understand why people share this confidential information, but I wish they wouldn’t."

Aww, poor managers? If only their workers would respect the lack of transparency fundamental to maintaining employees in similar functions at grossly different compensation levels...
I'm sure they were just ASCII text files or something else whose structure should be equally obvious from looking at the code.

+--------+-------+
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... etc.
Sorry late on the reply. I didn't mix it up. I was commenting that in my past recent experience, upgrading resulted in a slower system. I was just warning others not to do that. I'm not upgrading to 14.04 because I don't want a longer boot.
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As an engineer, it's usually more rational to take extra salary over equivalently-valued equity. The median equity grant at a startup ends up being worth zero.

That doesn't contradict equity aligning incentives more between the startup and the employee. The reason it's more rational to take salary is because you get paid even if the startup tanks; if you're a startup founder and your primary goal is to prevent the startup from tanking, you want your people to take equity as much as possible so they have every incentive not to let it fail.

The original question was about signaling, and here's the problem with wanting to do a startup and yet get paid mostly in salary: it exists in a bit of a no-man's-land as far as risk tolerance goes, where you still face significant risk of being out of a job and yet don't get the upside of startup success. If you really want stability and a paycheck, why not go work for Google? They're not going anywhere any time soon. The only time I would recommend taking a startup job paid primarily in salary is if you're mostly in it for the learning experience, so that you can see how things are done in a small company and yet financially insulate yourself from things going poorly.
The Chromium team didn't choose how big to make the lifeboat. They have the one they have. If they've got to choose between putting Amazon in it or you, then, as a user, I'm glad they chose rationally.
And don't forget the all-important

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... while you're at it.
I agree with this approach... New clients really don't know how good Vendor A is over Vendor B. They may "Like" you but that doesn't mean they are going to marry you if they can't bring in their project within budget.

I'm flexible on rate based on a "fixed scope", any out of scope hours are billed at my "standard" rate. This puts the burden of "scope creep" on the side of the client.

I like to give me clients an incentive to work with me and to take the project seriously. If they get it cheap. They'll abuse you, if they feel like your rates are too high they will either move on or work with you and be very inflexible with any push back on other issues.

The rate negotiation is just the beginning of the relationship. If you're going to set the tone with inflexibility, that's what your going to get down the road, if you need some work from them.
I don't find it hurtful.
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Definitely agree that prompt revocation shouldn't be as hard as these apologetics-for-Chrome imply, and this hasn't festered as an unsolved problem for so long.
It's a great tool, we use it all the time on our team. It's the easiest way I've found to share a full demonstration of the API all in one go, with documentation. Couldn't live without it now!
What about Google Moderator?
https://www.google.com/moderator/
1. O3 is way better.

2. GCC is not even the best optimizing compiler out there. Intel's C compiler puts GCC to shame for some tasks.
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Hey HN,

AdTemple is an advertising platform that lets you create adverts using Mustache templates. Simple, unimaginative and hopefully useful.

AdTemple started because I liked the idea and thought I could build a MVP very quickly. Unfortunately things always take longer than intended and motivation dies as FUD kicks in. I struggle with anxiety like many developers and finishing a project becomes increasingly hard.

I have reached the point where the extra potential motivation gained from seeking customers/feedback has outweighed my fears of showing my product publicly. I have always been fully aware of finding customers before building a product and I guess this is my belated effort at doing so.

I would love to hear your thoughts on both my company idea and the execution of my sales page. I am eager to learn and welcome any and all feedback. My plan now is to look for critique followed by some paid advertising to see if I can hopefully engage some customers.

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Might try that out thanks
I'd be tempted to just write a quick and dirty interpreter for the BASIC dialect in question. I could almost certainly do that more quickly than I could port that code to C.
Do you think you are the person that gets to be the final arbiter on whether the OP is or is not forming a startup? Do you think HN front page is a good start to scaling...?

Why do you think you are qualified to pass judgement or even question whether his intention is to build a solid business? Can you even define a 'solid business'?

Are startups solid in any definition? Surely once a business idea has scaled/matured into something solid is no longer a startup?

Are personal projects and startups now mutually exclusive? That must be news to Martha Stewart, the boys at innocent Smoothies (sold to Coca Cola) and the entire forum of Mumsnet.

Not to mention these guys - http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/224357

You might not like his proposal but you don't get to label it a non-startup when it actually fits every technical definition of the criteria.

Oh, and by the looks of this thread his potential customer base might be polarised but the idea is pretty validated. People are putting down money and defending the brand.

Sounds like he has a business to me...
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I love this idea. I rely too much on custom file naming conventions, and I always end up ditching applications for managing file metadata (for example Calibre for ebooks or several others for photos and music) because using `find` covers most of the use cases and organizing the metadata takes much time.
The concept of a counter offer involving "a significant raise" makes me uncomfortable.

From the employee side, it means "we were willing to pay you substantially more money for the same work, but we didn't because we could get away with it".

It leads to thoughts of "what else would they willingly give me but only if I drag it out of them?" and "why am I having to be in opposition to them? We're supposed to be a team fighting this problem for the company's interest, the company isn't supposed to be fighting us as well. Deciding to limit resources to the team is one thing, but this?" and "if all it took was three phonecalls to get a significant pay rise, why didn't my manager do that sooner? What were they doing if not looking out for their team?" as well as "now I resent the previous X years and feel underpaid and screwed over for them".
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Both articles seem to tackle the problem merely from the perspective of middleclass suburbans who want a "cozy" fireplace. An open fireplace is more of a decoration than a effective way of warming your house. Warming spaces with wood still a very viable alternative and can be cheaper than electricity if you have proper a stove in your house and a reliable and cheap source of wood.

It's not a viable solution in a city but definitely among the better ways to stay warm if you live on the countryside.
Find out why they are asking this question, find out what they really want - 8 out of 10 times for me, it is just them asking because it would be dumb not to ask. Explain your rates, be open and honest about them. If they feel like your rates are too high for them then be willing to negotiate.

Yes! And just like anything else, be prepared for these kinds of questions and have a suggestion that can be accepted by both parties and count as a win. Like having your rates 10% inflated up front, but then giving 10% discount for paying early etc. They want to pay less, and you want to rely on the money coming. Also you can assuage their fears from the other side by proposing intermediate milestones.
Thanks for suggesting DLNA! (Stuff like this is why I keep coming back to HN)

I spent the afternoon trying various different approaches with my Sony Blu-Ray player that has DLNA support. It appears to only want to play files, not live streams. That said, I haven't exhausted all options yet and will have more tools to test with at the office. And from a video engineering perspective, RTSP/RTMP or even HLS as native formats would be way easier.
I'm also wondering how many of those pipeline deals are from accelerator-backed start-ups and how many of those don't realize bootstrapping is an option for some. It just seems like lately, if you have an idea, you make a landing page (gotta validate that idea) then apply to an accelerator, ship a buggy MVP w/ little test coverage, then hope for VC funding. There are a lot of things that could and should be improved upon within the start-up ecosystem.
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Definitely!

So far gathered thoughts on this, documented some business and sustainability plans (some awesome ideas here), and planning a medium-term timeline to actually work on.

But this is very complex to handle on my own, and only in my spare time!
I started on a similar idea in 2006, but wasn't good enough to execute it at the time.

My original idea was that you do it ahead of time. It would have general ideas of how long it takes to complete an activity and would essentially provide you a list of maps relative to your hotel. Then, you'd have that information beforehand on your smartphone so that you could avoid roaming charges (which is an issue for international travel.)

The revenue model was funneling to travel sites and possibly travel agents who could provide more customized itineraries.

But now, with OpenStreetMap, you could have an app on the phone. On top of it, it could use the GPS to figure out where you were and put together a slide show for your friends. You could rate when you were there and provide more feedback later if you wanted -- just a simple thumbs up/thumbs down.

I've resigned myself to never getting around to it -- If I'm to found a company, it's going to be in the b2b arena instead.
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Most modern smartphones do not hace physical keyboard, and my Kindle has spoiled me to think that anything less than a month is not “long battery life”.
It's very easy to learn about doing some interesting things.

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/pseudo/

there are ec2 images ready and working, it works as a xen dom0, there's a new firewall (npf) in development that's interesting, etc.

For a time some kind of planetary alignment made it the fastest ruby platform according to a few benchmarks.

build.sh makes it very very easy to cross-compile for arm/mips if you're building an rpi appliance (for example).
A tool for storing/sharing information inside private communities.

Enough of the forum/blog/posts/email solutions! How can a community of people, oriented to a subject or location, keep organized data about things it cares about?
Yea you got a point. However, I think you should pay a small fee, let's say 10 euros for the help. I used to live in the netherlands and it happened to me many times that I didnt understand contracts, bills, etc and I got tired to ask friends/coworkers to help me with that. I would pay a small fee to have an external part to do it. I think it would work better targetting high skilled expats in European cities with lot of them where the native language is not English like Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin.
If you have a HDD (and maybe with SSD, not sure), the drive won't read/write to any bad sectors you might have. If that's the case, then a software solution won't completely wipe your drive. You'd most likely have to take the drive apart and apply a strong magnet on each of the platters. Or, as previously suggested, "FIRE!".
Unfortunately, the non-smart choices pretty much leave you with tv's that have a real lack of connectivity since they appear to be the 'lower end' now.