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LibreOffice Draw is a good free solution.

- nvALT (or Notational Velocity)

- Google Docs

From the article: "Thankfully, one of Google's most popular productivity apps is not turning into a whitespace-infused nightmare hellscape (like say, Google Inbox). The layout is mostly the same as the existing Gmail.com, and, just like today, there are three information density settings to choose from. The new Gmail really does seem fine on the whitespace front."

Great to know!

Hi there! We've just launched Morning Reader 3, a simple, stress-free way to keep up with technology and blockchain news. Would love to hear your feedback! Thanks.

The energy here is wasted because Bitcoin does almost nothing of value.

You can also argue that mining gold is a waste of resources because gold does almost nothing of value.

Yes, there are other uses for Bitcoin. They are miniscule in comparison to its use as an investment product.

What about gold? Aren't its uses minuscule in comparision to its speculative investment value?

The point is: The market decides. One can argue that Bitcoin characteristics (encrypted, pseudo-anonymous, open source, decentralized, global, scalable, deflationary, stateless, etc.) justify its speculative price.

Reminds me of the Sequoia "RIP: Good Times" and all the "tech bubble warning" articles in 2008.

Secrets is a good alternative (Mac + iOS only): https://outercorner.com/secrets-mac/

Details on how Secrets store data: https://outercorner.com/2016/08/01/storage_format.html

If someone sends real leaks to Wikileaks and they don't publish, then the leakers can use alternative channels to distribute the leaks (for example, sending directly to journalists), and then accuse Wikileaks of not publishing. Has anyone already accused Wikileaks of not publishing real leaks?

Yup. We are using embedded tweets to display news. We may add a fallback solution to display the tweets content in the future.

Hi there,

Nweets is a new way to keep up with technology news. Nweets curates the tweets that best illustrate what's new in technology right now. Tweets are ranked by trending factor, sorted by company, topic and publisher. A few examples of what you can follow:

Apple — http://nweets.co/companies/apple

Google — http://nweets.co/companies/google

Tesla — http://nweets.co/companies/tesla

Uber – http://nweets.co/companies/uber

Facebook – http://nweets.co/companies/facebook

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Transportation – http://nweets.co/topics/transportation

Drones – http://nweets.co/topics/drones

Startups – http://nweets.co/topics/startups

Gadgets – http://nweets.co/topics/gadgets

Robotics – http://nweets.co/topics/robotics

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TechCrunch – http://nweets.co/publications/techcrunch

Recode – http://nweets.co/publications/recode

The Verge – http://nweets.co/publications/verge

9to5Mac – http://nweets.co/publications/9to5mac

Wired – http://nweets.co/publications/wired

Happy reading!

Pay daily instead of monthly. This way it is harder to "blow all their money" and not being able to afford food. Or a hybrid approach: 50% of the monthly income upfront and the other 50% distributed daily.

Hi there! Multi is a unique way to get your favorite sites on your Chrome new tab. Enter a list of your favorite sites, and with each new tab Multi will open a random site from your list. It works great with community sites like Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News, Designer News, or any other sites you visit frequently.

We're thinking about doing at least daily digests – with the top x stories of the last 24 hours – for each topic, via email and/or RSS. Thanks for your suggestion!

Not sure yet, but we may do something in that direction in the future.

The quality of the curation, at least for my taste and at least at this moment, is exceptional. Maybe the best algorithmic curation I've seen.

Glad you liked it, thanks!

There are many algorithmically curated news feeds; why add another? Is it because you believe your algorithm is a leap forward? Elsewhere you say it's mostly the same one used by HN.

There are many attempts at "personalized news". Also some niche "community curated" news (influenced by HN and Reddit). And some mostly algorithmic, like the new Digg and Techmeme. We fit on this third group, and are just experimenting to see what we can come up with quality wise.

It could be "popularity" or "trending factor" instead. Basically the same way stories are ranked on HN (http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574), but instead of upvotes it uses our popularity score system.

Glad you liked it! Thanks!

We already have mechanisms like weighting, whitelisting, blacklisting, etc. in place. We generally trust a good quality source (site domain) to produce good quality content, but there are exceptions. Since our popularity scoring algorithm relies heavily on social signals, it trusts the crowd to reward good content, and ultimately good content will rank higher.

Thanks for your suggestion! We'll add more topics in the future.

Where and how do you get your news? How do you order them?

We get the news via data feeds like RSS and social networks. The ranking algorithm is similar to the HN one (http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574), but instead of upvotes it uses our popularity score system.

And why only 30 in each category?

In the future we may add mechanisms to let users browse more links, like a 'Show more' button below the links list, or an Archive section.

Other than that, nice design. Bookmarked, will see. Btw, I guess comments would be nice.

Thanks!

We're considering that. Would you prefer a daily digest with the top x stories, or a stream of hourly posts?

We decided to start with just a few topics that we are relatively familar with to get a sense of the quality of the curation. We plan to expand to broader and more mainstream topics in the future.

The algorithm is still a work in progress. We are constantly tweaking it to make it more autonomous and better at selecting stories. Thanks!

1. Got it. We'll set a background color in the body.

2. I agree. We will think about ways to handle it. As a last resort we may blacklist those kind of publishers.

3. Sign in is only needed to favorite stories (using the little bookmark icon below each line). I agree that it is not clear what the sign in is for, we will fix that.

4. Yup, we will increase the contrast a little.

Thanks for the feedaback!

The stories are curated and ranked by an algorithm. We give it a list of publishers, and it does most the work, however sometimes a little human moderation is still needed for more clean, on-topic results. The newest and most popular stories appear at the top, like on Hacker News (we use a similar ranking algorithm). To measure the popularity of the stories, the algorithm uses social signals.

Does YC own aprox. 5-7% of the $30B marketcap? Or is there dilution?

Big respect. Hope all goes well and that your country finds peace soon.

https://www.orankl.com/

Just a few ideas: Let artists sell mp3's (or other formats), and give them a large percentage / Let artists sell merchandising / Let fans pay to became VIP members of an artist to get special stuff / Let artists promote concerts to followers (and maybe sell tickets) / Allow donations directly to artists.

HFT is an exploitation technique to extract value from the market. It drives away capital formation and investor participation, and is bad for everybody except the HFT traders themselves. All non-HFT traders are affected negatively.