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Overcast's settings page encourages you to try Marco's competitors if you don't like his app, right above the export option. Ballsy and classy. (http://i.imgur.com/xO09x8d.png)

It's a shame his two tentpole features (Smart Speed, Voice Boost) are locked behind the paywall, though. I'd have liked to try them out before dropping a sawbuck. Not sure if that's part of Apple's "no time-limited demos" policy, a business decision, or both.

edit: apparently I should have tried the effects menu before posting; they are apparently available for 5 minutes at a time without paying. (I say apparently because I already unlocked the app and can't easily verify the replies below.)
Yikes, what a jerk.

Really, there's nothing immoral about speaking to recruiters when you're employed. It's within your rights to know what's out there, and what your current worth is.

That said, I'm not a lawyer, but if you lose your job over this (and I don't think a reasonable employer should fire you over it), it wouldn't hurt to speak with one. The recruiter would have a hard time explaining his motives for pitching you to your current employer, other than incompetence or maliciousness.
It's worth remembering that Time Warner is much smaller than it used to be – it has sold off or spun off AOL, Warner Music, Warner Books, TWC, and even Time Inc. in the past few yesrs.

Even then, the size and scope of a combined Fox / Time Warner in the movie/TV market alone would be ludicrous. Even if Fox sold off CNN as they're proposing, they'd own two of the six major movie studios, the Fox broadcast network, HBO, many of the top-rated cable channels (Fox News, FX, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network / Adult Swim), and plenty of other stuff, and that's just in the U.S.

And of course, Murdoch also still controls the nominally-separate (newspapers-only) "new" News Corp, which is said to be stalking the Tribune group (Chicago Tribune, LA Times, etc.): http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/business-news/the-biz-blo...
Thanks for your feedback.

Regarding reading, I find there's simply too much to read to just leave it to chance what to read. I want to strike a balance between reading the best stuff on the fundamentals while at the same time keeping up with recent trends. Whenever I start following too many blogs or check in too frequently to link aggregators such as HN, I find that my reading becomes too shallow and my attention span just gets ruined. What I want to do is find the best fundamental stuff that is still relevant, and keep reading stuff that is slightly above my current skill level. At the same time I want to read the most recent trends that are more than just indulgance in buzzwords or every single new framework or whatever.

I also need to find a way to strike a balance between reading and coding. Maybe doing the exercises in the books is a good thing. But I also want to try it in side projects like you said. I just don't want to get stuck in side projects with needless detail that doesn't really move me forward as a programmer.
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The entire state is covered because the coops made a deal with the state and each other decades ago.

The communication co-ops have a responsibility to one group: Their co-op members. If they bitch, that's a really bad thing because then the state will start to scrutinize, and if that happens, their funding gets put in jeopardy.

The end result of that relationship is that it's in the best interests of the co-ops to keep their members extremely content. If you turn back time to the mid 90s, you will see that a lot of the state was offered DSL in a pretty timely manner despite being sparsely populated. Our communication services have always been at least a step or two ahead of the curve and priced pretty competitively even in places where there is literally no competition.

This isn't a result of the Bakken either. This has been an ongoing thing that has existed since the co-ops have been established. The system ends up working really well, and the irony is that in competitive areas, the service is generally worse and more expensive because the small co-ops don't have the cash to lay down the 9 figures of infrastructure it'd take to wire up all of Fargo.
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I have a pretty good decision/tree random forest library for go:

https://github.com/ryanbressler/CloudForest
I really love the no-nonsense FAQ: https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq

I wish everyone would write such clear and concise FAQ. I especially love the answer to question 'Why is the app free?'

I loved the Instapaper app and will definitely buy this app. The current podcasts app on iOS platform are terrible. The only app I am able to tolerate is 'Downcast'.
Be sure to check the FAQ[1] and the Privacy Policy[2], which clearly explain the design of the app, the reason for the data that's collected as well as how the data will be used. I'll be buying the full license right away just to reward the good behavior. Thanks Marco!

[1] https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq
[2] https://overcast.fm/privacy
Hey, who know what happening with Ryan Bates? Is he alive?
Time Warner Cable was spun off from Time Warner in 2009. What happens with one does not affect the other in any way.
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Does your current employer know you want to leave?

How valuable are you to your employer? Is it possible to negotiate better terms (higher salary, better insurance, ...)? Some employers may go this route if they see a high-value employee in danger of being poached.
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This is the last I heard. http://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1ysbdb/any_news_about...
I thought the VoD services were implemented by having a bunch of HD channels reserved as VoD stations. Then when you order something, the system tells your cable box to change to X channel, where the VoD stream plays. So it's not actually using the same system as your internet service.

I could be totally wrong on this, though.
I dunno, if those features work as advertised, they seem like a pretty huge innovation. Definitely worth the money.
It would be interesting if part of this were working on more enterprise integration features; for example, self-hosted iCloud sync for enterprise applications (while still respecting the user/corporation divide that they enforce on the device).
love the conversational style of the documentation!
Show HN: Web Inspector – An extension for Chrome to easily inspect the Web
I created this extension because many people (mainly designers) asked me before if they could get the font family used on a certain website, or if it was possible to get the URL for a background image, among others. Usually to solve this problem I would use the developer tools provided by the browser and give them the information they needed. The problem is that I couldn't tell them how to get this information because the developer tools are not intuitive for regular users, so I had to keep doing it all the time.

Since I was curious to know how Chrome extensions work I decided to create Web Inspector and now I'm curious to know what people think of it. Give it a try if you have time please. If you are a developer and you are curious about the implementation, on the extension page you will also find a URL for the Github project.

Thank you for your time ;)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-inspector/enibedkmbpadhfofcgjcphipflcbpelf?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
Interesting behavior when you do an in-page search for a language.
still, it can happen and you get 'unexpected' runtime bug...
Fair enough speed isn't really the criteria. In the Ebay example Ebay know what price they showed the customer on the product page when they went to the checkout and should fulfil it if they can (provided the transaction is completed in reasonable time - a couple of minutes in the book buying world). This is maybe an illustration of the problem with the analogy rather than being a useful insight into the trading system.
They are good but I think according to the apple design philosophy the icons are supposed to be in the shape of squares right?
Congress did grant the FCC explicit authority to regulate. It was the Telecom Act. What the FCC has to decide on its own is what part of the Telecom Act to use in enforcing. This is not a Congressional issue. And the Court made that very clear. The FCC currently has everything it needs.

edit: I think that the bill you are referring to is Leahy's which would only give political support and not really give it new authority.
Do have a Javascript or a cookie blocker installed? You need to (at least temporarily) allow Javascript from montagebook.com and google-analytics.com plus session cookies from montagebook.com.
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I like them..
They might just get used if OS X goes flat..
Did you actually install them? I don't have a mac at work to try them out on, but when I downloaded the zip file it contained large crisp pngs. Maybe they just look fuzzy in the web page preview?
ttip is an undemocratic attack on civil rights.
Devised by big corps for big corps.
A destorted result of profit thinking whith forseeable devastating inpact on citizens and environment.
There is a simple logic here ...FOR...PROFIT...ONLY...

THE FUTURE
I imagine them super rich counting there money on the smoking remains of what once WAS our beautifull plannet.
PROBABLY BEING DUMB ArSE HAPPY FOR HAVING MADE SUCH A HUGE PROFIT.

ACTION: STOP THIS BUNCH OF IMBECILE F. UPS BY ANY MEANS
SIMPLY BY EXPOSURE (de gucht is a criminal)
I can't believe nobody posted the obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/808/
At first glance, it doesn't look like it currently supports video podcasts. This is a bummer. Hopefully shows up in future versions or IAP
I may be in the minority, but these feel really boring and dull to me. I think there is a way to have a "flat" icon while still providing some depth to them.

I've also seen dozens and dozens of flat icon sets for Android that basically have this same exact look. Just go to XDA or the Play Store and search "flat icons", I'm sure you'll find a bunch that have a mix of these designs.
I don't know if you are from USA or not but 4.99 is a very reasonable price to pay. I spend that much money for apps where I have no clue if it will be worth it.

Considering this app is by Marco, I would say that go ahead and buy it. It's highly unlikely that it won't work as advertised.
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I'm not too worried about losing my job. I told my employer I was planning on leaving, then changed my mind. I'm part of the hiring committee for my current employer. So I was surprised when I saw my own resume sent out by my boss. I was able to piece together the timeline when my boss told me when the recruiter sent my resume to him.
I had the good (?) fortune to come into OS X at the end of the 10.3 days (in fact, my Powerbook didn't come with an OS install so I put Debian on it for a week until Tiger was released), so I suppose I missed this phase. When I got Tiger on, Terminal was more than sufficient, and iTerm felt immature and impractical for daily use.

I never understood why so many people used it, but reading this, it makes a lot of sense now.
how hard is to add numbers?
I would add a negative margin to the content, or create another layer of container with negative margin after .container > .row > .column
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No. You see stars, I see my password. "hunter2". See?
You can try them out in the effects tab for 5 minutes at a time without paying.
If you want IDE based debugging for sourcemaps, please see http://github.com/sdbg/sdbg which is a sourcemap (super dev mode / draft compile) based eclipse plugin, for making java debugger speak chrome debugging protocol.

The project needs more users to try it out, report reproducible issues, and drive its development.
You can test the 2 features for 5 minutes at a time in the free app.
You can produce shitty UX in any language. Also, IBM isn't exactly starting from scratch here; they've been developing iOS apps and frameworks for several years.
Thanks for releasing these. I am changing over now! Hoping my dock and icons flow better.

Here is my new dock: http://imgur.com/2vEM5Yv

Why the down vote?
I can't remember entirely what I was trying to do, because it was over a year ago since I've touched it, but I remember stepping through Lanterna and seeing code that instantiates objects just before they appear on screen which meant it was over writing existing objects managed by Spring... (I think)

I know that Lanterna is still being actively worked on though, so maybe I'll give it another shot.

I see the spelling error on the: "Panel.Orientation.HORISONTAL" enum still exists though.
I've never seen the tab bar put in the navigation bar before, and I really dig it. I'm actually in the process of designing an education app that plays audio, and have been debating how to avoid a hamburger/basement menu or gestures since the main audience for the app is older, and assumably less tech savvy. Putting the tab bar on top is a clever, and in hindsight incredibly obvious, compromise, since it provides for a now playing status bar on the bottom of the screen without hiding menu options. Nice.
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Are you arguing the benefits of a stagnant economy? I don't understand how that could be a good thing. The economy needs to at least match growth of the population, or else that means you have unemployment or lower wages. But if that's what you want just to stick it to the billionaires...
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That information might not be as easily a a ailable to people with visual impairment.
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You're obviously new on the job so I'll just tell you what your incompetent trainers should have taught you:

No human being not under the employ of Comcast know what Comcast is doing "in the major metros". People who use Comcast only know of their little neck of the woods, so when you go out to do your astroturfing campaign you need to make sure that you appear to be a real human being by talking about a specific location which you personally have experience with.
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The UI is amazing I really love it. Congratz
Marketing work will often overlap with general engineering work.

Landing pages for example require integration with existing software or it's own eco-system.

Former is a headache because you will have random engineers getting into your repository and deployment process. Most of the time it will be done at the last second and I can guarantee you will be forced to by pass 'standards' and push out whatever crazy shit they want to launch.

Latter will mean you will be wasting time/$ on doing the same thing twice (unless you want to use existing devops to cut a chunk of infrastructure for them, does marketing needs their own devops too? what is the cut off here?).
Is Cringly the only person that writes negative posts about IBM or is that the only thing he writes?
I told my employer I was planning on leaving, then changed my mind. Both my employer and I are happy with my work. I was seeing what else is out there. This definitely feels like malicious intent.
FDA 510(K) approval for medical devices takes 3-7 years and tens of millions of dollars for all but the extreme cases (i.e. artificial heart or the new bionic eye).

If you're making stuff like pacemakers that keep people alive while implanted in their body, the vast majority of that cost will be unavoidable if you don't want to risk killing a bunch of people (which is, you know, a thing worth paying for).
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I don't think that makes the case for allowing it any stronger.

What I do wonder is if these market reactions are so automatic and predictable whether there is a way to game them (I'm sure people already do this). It is probably a deterrent to front running on a large scale.
Google Project Zero has it's Project #1: secure their bug tracker.
That doesn't work as well over SSH sessions though, which is where pasting into vim really starts showing its limitations. Vim's normal inefficient behaviour plus a link with latency is an unfortunate circumstance.
I think that the analogy works pretty well, surprisingly. I see no functional difference between changing the price in near real time as a reaction to another order on another exchange as I do "Hey, let's wait til midnight", which might equally screw the guy trying to put his order in at 11:59:59.

That said, I'm not an expert in the field, and I've just pieced this information from other posts. I have no strong opinion on the matter, but after throwaway's explanation (and all the subsequent discussion), my uninformed position agrees with his; that this article is exaggerative, and not indicative of anything being 'rigged'.

Moving fast, at least in my opinion, isn't cheating.

If they were raising the price on Ebay in response to the same customer's buy offer on Ebay, I would consider that unseemly, but not even necessarily unfair, as it only assumes that the buyer is willing to pay the newly raised price, and has approximately as much risk of losing the sale as making it.
Since Apple has partnered with IBM, its once arch-enemy, I wonder if Google will partner with...Oracle, to enter in enterprise. Wouldn't that be funny.

But I'm actually hoping that doesn't happen, and Google has other avenues they can use to enter enterprise more forcefully anyway.
Why not place a bunch of solar panels in the desert or, indeed, on roofs, instead of covering highways with glass? This makes no sense at all.
Ok, the live levels display is adorable. And it displays even when you go back to the list. I am delighted, dammit.
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> The EU itself is a backdoor for treaties like TTIP and CETA. Without it, such treaties would have to go through the democratic processes of sovereign nations, which, although far from perfect, are most certainly more transparent and democratic than the EU. (At least, that was the case until the EU started including blatantly corrupt nations.)

Uhm... no? If there was no EU, we'd now have a lot of bilateral agreements between the US and single European states, with each individual agreement consisting of 90% what the US policy makers want and 10% what the country's policy makers want.

The only reason that this takes so long is because the EU is actually large enough to put up some resistance. Every individual country, including my native Germany, would have been steamrollered by the US.

Just look at the bilateral treaties that EUropean countries have with the US. They are always really lopsided, like that one where the UK extradites its own citizens to the US, but the US doesn't reciprocate.
Glad to see this is out, it looks nice. If you look at Federico's review/interview [1] you can find clips of the voice enhancer and gap shortener, they sound quite good. I know a few people who will probably jump on this.

I fight with the Podcasts app (and podcasts in iTunes) on a weekly basis. I would love to replace it with something by a developer with a good track record like Marco, but I do about 80% of my podcast listening on my Mac and I don't think the annoyance factor is high enough for me to switch to using only my iPhone yet.

At the end of Federico's interview Marco says he's considering an iPad or maybe Mac app in the future, I can only hope.

[1] http://www.macstories.net/reviews/overcast-review/
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There are quick little clips in the MacStories.net review:

http://www.macstories.net/reviews/overcast-review/
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What really got me was the desperation in the "voice" of the questions, slowly being won over by a calm father figure. I've never had to parse CSV in the browser, but now I feel like I should. Powerful stuff!

I'm also a big fan of libraries where the library name is also the API (ie Papa Parse -> Papa.parse()). It just fills me with glee.
You can use http://aboutbrowser.com to share not just your browser, but it's capabilities & css support too.
What are your thoughts on automating and scaling the process that's been described? We want to build it into www.knowmyrankings.com in the next few weeks.

-Mike @ SutroReasearch
This idea has been refuted on so many levels on so many sites it is distressing to see it posted again and again.
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I've been looking forward to this and was planning on a day one purchase, so I'm pleasantly surprised to learn that there's even more here than I expected. Things like Smart Speed and Voice Boost are features I haven't seen anywhere else, and if they work as advertised, are major innovations.

They're also bred of listening to a lot of podcasts. Marco seems like he's scratching his own itch with these features, which is always great.
Just bought the app.

Smooth.

That's the only word I can use to describe the experience. Creating an account and adding my favorite podcast was accomplished in less than a minute. It is unbelievably polished for version 1. A must buy if you enjoy podcasts.
Mac isn't bad in the historic flat design department either: https://twitter.com/JonyIveParody/status/486510620276441088/...
I don't see how this proves the market is rigged. What I do see is:
1) One market participant is being less than clever by trying to buy, in one order, 80% of the offered quantity, and
2) Another market participant realizes this, and reacts accordingly.

The post is written as if the world should freeze once the client sends an order. He was 'stolen' shares. Really?
QuickMVP Tool – Landing Page + Google Ads = Validation
I came across this QuickMVP tool (www.quickmvp.com) to test demand for a potential start-up. It's a nice landing page creator + Google AdWords to test whether people will actually sign-up for something or pay for it. It's a pretty new product and there are some bugs to work out / features to add but overall it's a great lean experiment.

As for Auto-Power (www.autopower.co) - it's like Automatic but with a different business model; the driver doesn't pay for the device/app.
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That Four Square demo is quite amazing, I'm looking forward to give a try in near future.
> Finding ways to lock those enterprise clients, with their huge budgets, into the Apple ecosystem for 10+ years is nicer still.

No, it's not.

And if there's anyone at Apple thinking that (I'd bet there isn't), they'd be guilty of idiotic medium-term thinking. Locking a customer into Apple for 10+ years means tying Apple to that customer for just as long. Gather up enough of them and they'll be deadweight holding Apple back whenever they most need to change.

These are exactly the chains that prevent Microsoft from doing anything other than continuing to steer the "good ship Windows" right into that iceberg. If Apple really is voluntarily putting them on... then they really have lost their way.
The biggest problem I've had with bootstrap is that it is so large. There is so much overhead. My company is working on a project and it would have taken a ton of work to port to bootstrap.

For lightweight grids that support dynamically sized containers, masonry was great. But there a ton of issues with keeping the content centered when the container changes size.

We dealt with this by using inline-blocked elements with tex-align: center, then appending invisible elements to maintain an apparent left-oriented grid: https://github.com/hangify/Central
Don't think it's a browser issue. The text just doesn't contrast enough with the diagonal shadows in the lower left of the bg image.