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Would be interested to know what software people use for peer reviews?

I wasn't aware of Fox Sports' pivot to video until I tried to go read some Ken Rosenthal articles while killing time at the airport last week. Now everything is repurposed content from their shows. While I understand the move I don't think I'll be visiting their site anymore.

OT: I think it is a bit of a jump to equate subscribing to paying a ransom.

I learned this lesson as well. Step-by-step is a training session. For a demo start with the end (show the wow") and then dig down if they ask questions.

I had no idea Leanpub changed their pricing. I haven't earned $100 from any of my books on there (and roughly half have all proceeds going to the EFF) so I'm going to be checking this out as well.

Like others I do not feel as if I understand the question and feel as if the question could have been phrased better by a better writer.

Do I think writing is important? Yes. I automatically disqualify a job candidate if their writing is poor.

Do I think writing skills have gone down? Yes. However this did not happen recently. I noticed it in 1997-1998 as my younger brother's generation starting to spend more time using instant messaging on the computer than they were doing their homework.

Do my views represent society at large? I am afraid they do not. I am continually flabbergasted by the comments that I see on YouTube and on news websites. In my opinion either schools are failing us or society is. Either way it has become clear that people are rewarded in the communities they deem important by being confrontational and derogatory without formulating and conveying a proper argument.

Fishing in general but fly-fishing specifically is this for me. A midday walk to somewhere with a view I also find to be helpful for rebooting the brain.

I still struggle with this. Anything for me that needs creativity or critical thinking (programming and writing mostly) really suffers with the interruptions.

You can get around the blackouts usually by using a VPN service (like Private Internet Access) when you originally load up the stream.

Wow. I missed that. I still preferred their coverage to MLB Network's (even still feels kind of low budget to me in comparison).

Can't believe they are letting Jayson Stark go as well.

I'm also a cord cutter but the only thing I miss is ESPN. Seems like more and more of the college football games I want to see are on ESPN rather than broadcast channels and Sunday Night Baseball and Baseball Tonight are institutions for me. However with MLB.tv (my favorite team isn't local), Amazon, and Netflix (streaming and DVD) I have more than enough content to watch and can't justify the full price of cable just for ESPN. Might not even be worth $15 for me but I would definitely spend five or ten a month for streaming ESPN.

I still remember the day that happened to us. It was a Friday and not only did we lose data but our phones were VoIP so no clients could get through to use either.

I spent much of the day troubleshooting with their support before I figured out to ask them to tell me what five static IPs they have listed for us in their system. Turns out they changed with no notification and even their internal people didn't know. Spent more time trying to get our old IP addresses back as some of our vendors had IP restrictions and some of our partners accessed one of our internal servers. That turned out to "not be possible" so spent Monday filling out forms to update to the new IPs everywhere else.

I think I still have one of their senior VPs cell phone numbers in my phone from the late calls that night including a couple while I was having a party at my house.

Some industries have incredibly long sales cycles and you will use up all of your savings and then some getting your first customers.

If I were to do it again I would focus on the creating a solution to the smallest subset of the problem I am solving and trying to sell that. Program that one feature and do not start on the next feature until you have a paying customer for the first one.

I believe it was linked to on Slashdot.

I was wondering if someone was going to make the comparison to movies as movies are almost entirely crewed by contractors.

The difference might be that the contractors in the film and TV industry are all union.

I think of the Indian subcontinent differently than the rest of Asia.

Correct. Top of thread first mentioned looking at cities outside of Asia...though I guess technically Mumbai is in Asia.

Maybe Lagos? Lots of people. Wealth. Corruption. Cyber-criminals.

Mumbai could be another dark horse.

That was one of my biggest annoyances with OSX. Thank you for posting this.

Try Finviz.

I definitely recommend watching the videos. If you are interested I did take notes and you can download them here:

https://leanpub.com/how_to_start_a_startup

Off topic but Halt and Catch Fire season three was my favorite yet. There is some drama that the characters mostly bring on themselves (Can and Joe) but after watching some episodes of the show Suits (Scandal has the same issue) the drama in Halt and Catch Fire is barely noticeable.

Having not went through YC (yet!) I'm curious as to how much the Startup School MOOC will mirror the core process?

I imagine YC is more like going from 0.5 to 1--focusing on one or two things such as product or marketing--rather than the 0 to 1 where everything is covered like was done in Sam's How to Start a Startup course at Stanford?

I'm also not a fan of opinion pieces but I do like analysis (I really enjoy the Economist because they seem to do a better job providing context and analyzing the consequences of news events than most news sources.)

I tend fall more on the liberal side (I like to call myself a liberal libertarian) and I am also not a fan of Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post. I don't consider them news organizations though. However I do consider Fox News a news organization and think they can do better. I expect a conservative slant but sometimes their home page resembles a supermarket tabloid too much for my tastes.

For me I have given up on American news media pretty much entirely and use BBC News 30x more than CNN.

For me the distinction is that news organizations do original reporting while blogs usually do not.

I noticed that as well as I had copied the questions to work on outside of my browser. I seem to remember they had those questions previously (at least the runway question) so maybe they were just accidentally left off at first.

I up-voted you because I didn't think you deserved to be down-voted and because I believe that there is a problem with including blog articles in news results because I think it waters down the word as few blogs do original reporting. Rather they just add spin.

(I also don't think there is "liberal news" or conservative news. Rather there are different interpretations of facts. And because those generate so many arguments I think an interesting browser plugin would be one where readers could engage in a Lincoln-Douglas debate about questions raised by news.)

I miss Wine Library TV.

I thought Crush It was a good book for when it was released but didn't enjoy Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook as much. That felt like a couple of pages of content that was forced into book form.

I would recommend Getting Real by 37 Signals over either of those books though.

I'm going to repost from the last thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12892473):

StartOpz (http://www.startopz.com):

Workday-lite (really lite) for small businesses. Individual components such as time-off tracking and expense reports all have sites on there dedicated to them individually that seem to do well. This covers all of them and could use somebody who has time to dedicate to (content) marketing.

I have no doubt you are right about the people who rate online (you definitely see it in restaurant ratings and comment sections) but when I rate movies on Netflix I very, very rarely ever rate something a 1 or a 5. I would imagine that 2/3 of what I rate has been a three (so average content for me) and that it takes something special to go up or down from there.

Just curious if I am an outlier with how I do my ratings.