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I think PocketCasts is pretty awesome. So far Overcast isn't doing that much more for me than PocketCasts.
It is super easy to overwrite breakpoints in the variables, or just make your own. Especially if you use Less to define your grids and not HTML, you can just reference whatever you want, like:

@media (min-widht: @eriks-custom-width); {}

That syntax is off but you get the gist.
Surely if you're designing a 2-factor authentication system, a compromised password is the exact case you're designing for, not an edge case.
I still believe that a lot of people are missing a strategic move from Apple here. IBM is probably the largest player in Healthcare IT. Apple has recently made a large push into collecting Healthcare data and I strongly believe that if wearables are to take off, collecting/monitoring health info will be a huge part of it. I think this partnership is about Apple taking that new healthcare data and make it easy to share with hospitals. Health care is this GIANT market that seems to be often ignored from an IT/startup area, I worked at a mobile healthcare startup for a while and if Apple can use IBM to force their way into that market it could be a HUGE win.
Easily the best user on-boarding experience of any podcast app I've used.

I was afraid I was going to have to manually subscribe to all my feeds again, but they were imported smoothly. Creating an account couldn't have been easier either.

I also really like that there is a "Delete Account" option front and center, letting me know I won't have to jump through hoops to get rid of my account.
The Bootstrap 3 grid comes with a lot of what I like to call 'premade classes' - like .col-md-1 or .col-xs-1 . These are used to control the grid alignment at different sizes. Some people like them, some hate them.

I personally dislike them because CSS classes should specify what an element is rather than what it will look like. e.x. if HN were to change from tables to CSS they would use .topbar { background: #ff6600; } instead of .orange { background: #ff6600; } That said, I made a CSS framework [0] that does things differently so I am somewhat biased.

[0] https://github.com/owenversteeg/min
Like an article about a reporter? That seems mostly to be about the famous people the reporter knows?

How exactly does that help you survive?
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I wonder how much of the 16% jump in Time Warner's stock is the willingness of Time Warner to sell CNN.
Are the IO/task runtime tests you've seen available to look at somewhere?
Have you tried Authy? How does Duo Mobile compare to that?
Well at least the US ended their dispute with El Salvador as the Article points out in it's post script. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/business/international/el-...
The less mixin version of making the columns can be any value as it does some math to take it to a percent. So a 6 is a 50%, so if you want a 7.5, it will just change that to a % and then your 4.5 will fit right in. You can do this with almost every Less value bootstrap looks for. Really slick.
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Awesome. I've been hoping Amazon would do this, since Google or any of their competitors were too shortsighted to do this for books, even though it was their only chance to disrupt Amazon and actually take some market share in ebooks from them. But once again, Amazon is the one innovating and disrupting itself, even as an almost monopoly.

This should be great for people who want to read a lot of books, and could even encourage people who only read say 1 book per year, to read a lot more.
A) I wasn't saying that there was front running in the scenario, just that the exploitability of front running by deliberately trying to trigger it was probably a deterrent.

Not convinced about that statement about average market participants, also define average market participant and explain where the HFT's profits come from if not other participants.

How do you disallow it?

My initial suggestion was to slow down cancellations so that they take substantially longer than a new trade does to pass through the system. My perception is that it might reduce the visible liquidity/availability but not the real liquidity as much of the visible liquidity disappears when someone tries to trade against it.

Another suggestion would be to move to a single exchange
I don't see "big publishers" either, but I own many of the books listed there (just after a preliminary glance), and I paid as high as 9 - 10 dollars for many of them (and quite a few of the 1.99 - 4.99 books were quite good). I think this service would fit me rather well.
I think this analysis may not be correct, as the author forgets about one thing IBM has and Apple needs to compete with Google - Watson.
I don't think anyone except a few fringe anarcho-libertarian types really expects masses of people to start a violent uprising solely because of government and corporate spying.

What's really dangerous about ubiquitous spying is that it enables other abuses and forms of corruption that were previously impossible or cost-prohibitive. It's these abuses, which seem virtually inevitable in a privacy-less world, which will likely incite public anger and resistance.
> it reinforces the idea that you ought to be so awesome that bullies leave you alone — which will never happen.

Anecdata: bullies don't leave you alone because you're awesome, they leave you alone because their bullying doesn't work on you (because you're resilient to personal attacks, or you pretend to not care until they exhaust the possibilities and leave you alone etc.) or backfires on them somehow.
It'll definitely be interesting to watch. The article you linked talks about the effects of Spotify on making a living as a musician. Spotify economics are, as you've pointed out, much tougher for authors than for songwriters. Books take a lot longer to create than songs. Also, people listen to the same songs hundreds (sometimes even thousands) of times before getting sick of them. People generally read books once. Maybe a few times, over the course of their entire lives, if they really love the book. You don't get the frequency effect that you do with music consumption. So a fractional royalty, multiplied by a lot of individual readers, each of whom reads the book once, is probably the best outcome for any given book in this case.

If this model takes hold, the thing that may need to change is the book itself. The economics of subscription suggest a shift in incentives away from the years-long creation of 300+ page tomes, and toward serialization or shorter forms. It behooves me, as an author, to have 10 or 20 "books" (or serialized installments) floating around the system each year, casting a wider net, than to bet the farm on one book a year.
> The real reason why we don't expect programmers to have any kind of portfolio or other online footprint is a cultural one more than anything else.

I'm not sure I agree with that. Two follow up points:

1. I think an online portfolio is a great idea: I've hired a number of designers, too, and their portfolio is the first thing I've looked for.

The difference is a designer portfolio can include their professional work, whereas a programmer is limited to their open source contributions. I wouldn't judge a designer on their personal projects: "Hey, designer, I want to see your work, but only the stuff you've done on weekends and in the evening." It doesn't do them justice, and I'm basing my hiring decision on a subset of the work. In the same way, requiring open source contributions to gain entrance to the interview process is limiting.

2. If the programming culture required an online portfolio, that is essentially requiring programmers to have a second, unpaid, part-time job. I do not think you can generate enough great code in a few days to get noticed.

I do agree that some sort of portfolio would be handy: I just don't think an open source only portfolio is the way to do it.
Your comment is not factual. It's a cynical opinion.

Does Marco hope that this will make you feel good about him and his app? That seems likely. Does he also want to support independent developers? That seems likely too.

Not everything can be simply boiled down to 'persuasive tactics'.
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Given the rarity of non-bone fossilization, that is a beautiful fossil.
I think Google cares more about privacy than most companies.

Everyone (including Google[0]) agrees that they made privacy mistakes with Google Buzz. And I think that they've worked hard to improve privacy in their products since then. That's why Google+ has used circles from the beginning: the Google+ experience emphasizes choosing the right people to share you content with (as opposed to the standard "share with the public" or "share with all my friends" which was standard at the time). At the time when Google+ launched, it had one of the strongest sets of privacy settings on the market[1]. Other competitors have since beefed up their privacy settings to match Google.

Regarding the "Real Names" policy, I think that their goal there was to make it a community of Real People, instead of a completely anonymous community of people using cryptic usernames. And I think that they thought that people would be more likely to make connections if people saw each other's real names instead of some username they came up with. When they realized that some people only go by a username and that most of their friends don't even know their real name, they started allowing people to add their nickname to their profile so that they could be findable with both their real name and their username. I think that these decisions were good ones and I like the community that now exists because of those policies.

I agree that "Real Names" has privacy concerns, but before the policy change yesterday, Google+ had been saying that you didn't have to use your actual name if you were concerned about your privacy - you could just use any name that resembled an real name (i.e., John Smith). I agree that this is a bit wonky, but I think it was one of those hard tradeoffs. I think without such a policy, growth on Google+ would have been a lot slower, and the community would look very different.

[0]: http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2010/02/new-buzz-start-up-exper...

[1]: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/privacy-isnt-dead-j...
If you like Pure you might like my framework Min. It's way smaller than Pure and v2 (released in a couple of days from now) will have full compatibility with Bootstrap. https://github.com/owenversteeg/min
Let's take a balanced view from each side:

pro-3d / anti-flat: details made possible by volume add to the icon's rich design, making its personality stand out, while flat icons results in boring, uniform design in comparison.

pro-flat / anti-3d: the apparent uniformity makes even slight nuances readily apparent and efficient to parse, making each icon stand out against other flat icons, while 3d icons are full of complex and distracting artifacts.

Bottom line: don't mix both, as the result is that 3d crushes flat with its rich details while flat makes 3d look needlessly busy and noisy. Consistency is key to reducing cognitive friction.
It looks awfully blurry in Firefox on Linux.
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I don't imagine this is new territory in terms of licensing for music, but may be for books.

Look at iTunes Match - you pay a monthly fee, what Apple does on the backend is likely royalty payments per song (there may be negotiation with labels as to iTunes match rates).
There are many more glyphs than there are codepoints -- a font contains a ton of information that would be needed to reproduce a script that is not present in unicode tables.
I don't think that this would be legal in the UK unless on upwards changes the labels changed a reasonable[0] time before the prices. Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and probably some other laws would probably cover it.

[0] A small shop could probably do it much quicker than a large supermarket which might have to allow for people being in there for an hour.
You say my comment is not factual, only then you describe his motivations being precisely what I described (rather than "ballsy and classy"). Not sure if you're being ironic or just shockingly naive.

The facts, gress, are persuasive techniques, not Marco's intentions which neither of us can measure. I made this abundantly clear in my OP, however the desperate, sad dogpile of waylaid Arment defenders ("OMG! HE SAID THAT ARMENT IS LITERALY COMCAST!") made that a little too difficult for some of you to read.

There is nothing dishonest in my edits. I have clarified my point (which has remained exactly the same, regardless of your comprehension issues) without providing yet another post for Arment cheerleaders to pummel down in their confusion about what is being discussed. Hacker News is not conducive to conversations when a side (even when "a side" is as bizarre and perplexing as "refutes basic persuasion techniques") is passionate, as evidenced by the fact that the same boorish people feel some perverse need to arrow up/arrow down through an entire already-transparent conversation, force-multiplying their input. It is HN's greatest weakness.
The flaw is "Thanks - we've texted your 2FA code to +44 7700 900 171."

That's primarily to tell the user which phone to check - which isn't a bad thing.

They should probably fix it by saying "we've texted your 2FA code to the phone number ending 171" - or similar.
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You rock! ASCIIcasts were my favorite part of (and main way of consuming) Railscasts. :)
> a world where everyone carries around a cheap hardware authentication module

There are moves towards such a future with U2F / UAF (Fido) and Yubikeys (a U2F version is meant to be released this year). I know it won't roll out exactly as planned, but I'm still excited by the tech.
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Are you claiming your comment is factual or not?

I'm stating an opinion. Not facts. You seem to claim some kind of higher authority, and I'm calling you out for that.

[edit: I see that rather than replying, you have dishonestly edited your comment to distort your position and make this followup look out of place. I guess this is not a conversation.]
That's a very interesting point of view, but it doesn't quite mesh with my view of the world. I think it makes perfect sense for modules much smaller than "packages big enough to be submitted to a package manager" to have small, well-defined APIs. I'm not sure why thoughtfully limiting APIs would be a good thing at the package level but a bad thing at the module level.
Min is an extremely small CSS framework (995 bytes) that has compatibility with Bootstrap but unlike Bootstrap isn't prescriptive in how you do things. It's easy to port sites to Min, and when you do the loading times will shock you. https://github.com/owenversteeg/min (Disclosure: I'm the author)
Nice. They should give an option to choose what to share. For example, I don't want to share network info.
> Basically, "if you think anything in this app is wrong, you are incorrect, and should go elsewhere"

To be honest, that isn't a terrible approach to take with this sort of app. Sure, there'll be some problems that he'll want to fix, but it's the sort of thing where people have differing personal preferences, and you're never going to please everyone.

EDIT: Also, I think I remember him talking before about how he implemented things due to user demand on Instapaper that ultimately didn't really fit, and which he regretted. Was on a podcast, unfortunately, so no link.
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Also Nick Sullivan from CloudFlare is talking about Red October (which is built in Go): http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34654
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Good luck with the kickstarter campaign, for sure one of the more worthwhile game projects I've seen in a while! :) (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1107526107/ninja-pizza-...)
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Will this compete with Safari Books Online (https://www.safaribooksonline.com/)?
I think because it's the simplest way to represent conflict. There are many types of conflict, but punching someone in the face is an obvious one.

Economic, emotional, verbal conflict, for example, are hard to represent. The outcome may not be immediate, and the result may not be obvious.

Now combat is immediate. I shoot. If it bleeds, that means I hit it. If it falls down, it is dead. If it's not dead, shoot it again.
I believe that in the early days, one or two people had their whole account shut down and went around complaining that it was because of Google+'s name policy when really it was because of something completely unrelated (distributing illegal content from their account, I think). The rumours spread from their, making it seem like it was happening to a lot of people, when it really never happened at all.
Yes, HFTs profit from other participants because they are selling a service: liquidity.

There have ALWAYS been sellers of liquidity. Due to automation human sellers have been replaced by computers that cost far far less. So the cost of liquidity has gone down DRAMATICALLY. Spreads used to be a quarter (or higher). Now they are a penny. That's a 25x reduction!

Here's the chief executive of Vanguard (the world's largest mutual fund company) talking about how HFTs have lowered trading costs for their clients:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101615521

If you slow down cancellations or otherwise try to slow information flow to HFTs you will simply raise their risk which will force them to raise the price they charge for selling liquidity by increasing spreads.

Stop thinking of HFTers as parasites and think of them as service providers and you'll have a clearer picture of reality.
It really depends ...

How much do people read? Nobody's too sure, but it looks like an extremely long tail distribution -- not just a matter of 80% of the books being read by 20% of the readers, but of 80% being read by maybe 5-10% of the readers.

The $9.99/mo price point will work fine for the major publishers if the readers end up on average reading $9.99 of retail-value ebooks per month, but not too much more, and if AMZN's accounting back-end pays them pro-rata for loans. It's like an all-you-can-eat restaurant buffet; some people will pig out, but most people don't fill themselves to the point of nausea, and it all averages out in the end.

However, I suspect it's no coincidence that this is surfacing at the same time that AMZN are renegotiating their ebook pricing contracts with the big five (starting with the current dust-up with Hachette). It's another form of leverage: Amazon can offer it as a tasty extra -- in effect, a commercial library access channel -- for compliant publishers, but can also threaten to withhold access to the new channel if they won't play ball over discount structures.
I was responding to your post: Yes, and the researchers aren't even considering the possibility that these women sound incompetent when talking to men, because they actually, comparatively, are. The researchers were investigating how much of the perceived competence difference was real and how much was a difference in perception only. So they controlled for actual differences, and found a large difference in the way equally-competent men and women are perceived.
On the other side of that, it kind of makes more sense (to me) to buy music and rent (subscribe to) books because music is usually listened to repeatedly while books are usually read once and then not again (or at least not for a long time after the first time).
Authy is much more complicated to setup compared to Duo. In my TFA app experiments quite a few people had problems with the setup process (failing to complete it in several cases). They were pretty technical people too, which says a lot about Authy's usability...
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Up until last fall, a hacker could social engineer their way into an AT&T account.

OP's Twitter account is only as secure at his cell phone service account.
Icon sets suck. They aim for system-wide consistency, but can never achieve it, because there are N+1 icons to be replaced. They focus too much on any given design pattern (flat, round squares, dark, etc.), and forget the basics: icons should represent the program, they should be memorable. The only sensible use case for an icon set I can think of is a graphic designer who wants to practice.
There's a playable demo at http://www.indiedb.com/games/ninja-pizza-girl/downloads/ninj...

Works perfectly on Ubuntu (via Wine). Quite a fun little game :-)
First thought I had when I saw the gameplay was 2D Mirror's Edge.
It looks like Devonshire is the investment arm of Fidelity. Interesting to see some traditional finance guys making investments in the space.
Ya, I'm sure there will be tricky regulatory issues here both in the UK and elsewhere. I'm just pointing it out as I find it interesting.
Looks like it. I see Scribd as the company most affected by this.
When I were in the US, I found that teenage driving was the scariest thing in the world.

Man, you're crazy to let kids drive, might as well put loaded guns in their hands... oh, wait!
PocketCasts has those weird popup windows that feel very cross-platform.
A few weeks ago Jon Evans of TechCrunch said this:

"Despite my techie contempt for their business practices, I really do want traditional publishers to survive, because their employees — unlike, I suspect, Amazon’s — tend to genuinely love books in the same way that I do, and because good editors are worth their weight in gold. But it’s hard to see how they can thrive fighting like this. In the long run their only real hope is to disrupt the Kindle ecosystem with a paid subscription model — a “Beats for books,” if you will.

I’m not sure how successful that will be. Books are not like songs. But it’s hard to see where else their future lies. Never mind the current Amazon vs. Hachette skirmish; that’s just a sideshow. Book publishers essentially conceded their long war with Amazon before it ever began, without even knowing what they were doing." [1]

Looks like he was spot on, and it looks like Amazon won the whole war.

EDIT: It looks like he predicted this almost a year ago in another article:

"With luck we’re entering a world in which readers have access to any and every book for a flat fee; authors get paid depending on how much they’re actually read; publishers remain a vital but decreasingly visible part of the process; physical books are still available via online print-on-demand and niche physical stores; and zillions of CC-licensed books are freely available to readers in the poor world who can’t yet afford books or subscription services. Call me Pollyanna, but it seems to me that that’s a win for absolutely everyone." [2]

And I have to agree, this looks like a big win for everyone.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/14/the-only-tragedy-of-this-wa...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/07/its-almost-time-to-throw-ou...
Funnily enough, I live in DC, in the city, and I'm part of the car-free urban demographic I described, as are many of my friends and coworkers, and I could see a lot of us making pretty heavy use of this kind of service... and comparing myself/my peer group to, e.g., Gaithersburg or Loudoun County, was exactly what I had in mind with my comment, where I think the former is much more likely to be successful.

Totally agreed, though, that the focus shouldn't just be on NYC and SF, and that the DC metro area and the Bay are demographically similar.
It seems that you can search which books are going to be available through it, at last as of this moment

http://www.amazon.com/s?url=node%3D9578129011&field-keywords...

Selection seems extremely paltry, though.