skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is brilliant, I'm switching over to this right now.
Funny enough, Google reader has just died a quick death since I discovered HN a month ago, but maybe I'll start using RSS again with News Blur.

Obviously this is beginning stages, but i think the typography and sizing of UI can still be refined and reduced substantially.

The intro page is the weakest for me. The calligraphic doodle below google reader feels alien. RSS reading is all about streamlining your reading. I'd dull down the colours of the UI to the max (think the new itunes monotone scheme) in order to maximise the individuality of the fed content (which is the USP of your product).

You only need The Google Reader Sign Up and the How it works shown for the beginning. The New Improvements feed is not what a first time viewer needs to see when they put thier virgin eyes on your product.

Seriously impressed!
I do to. There's nothing to it.
Yes, that whitespace is intentional. I know, it's a bit disconcerting because nobodyd oes it that way. I may fill it with dashboard style analytics and graphs. But that's a ways away for now.

The focus is on the sites. The logo only shows up when you first go to newsblur.com. That's also intentional. Why do you need to see the logo as you're reading your sites?

As for why I went open-source, I figure that the good will that comes from being open-source will help me obtain my #1 top priority: meeting future co-founders. NewsBlur is my public resume. Making it profitable is priority #2. Well, it can easily be profitable if folks are buying premium accounts and not bothering to host everything on their own servers. Seems to be working out pretty well, so far.
here is the free version:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/e11pz/learn_pyt...
You might want to make that more explicit - I assumed that it was links to other peoples tweets to back up your claims.

Great book by the way.
I think the more compelling reason for "queries must be fast or slow, never 'both, depending'" is that it prevents engineers from accidentally using code originally built for reporting purposes (which might well have no latency requirements, or very relaxed ones) and putting it in a widget which gets slapped on people's home pages. You'd notice on your local, test, or staging instance "Hmm, my home page is taking 10 seconds to load -- that's bad" prior to pushing it live and, whoopsie, there's now 50 million people hitting a very scarily expensive query all at once.
This. Especially in a field where, if the questions are to be taken at face value then the results can be incredibly socially important.
Firesheep only requires that you sniff unencrypted traffic but this requires that you make DNS requests resolve to an address of your choice. The latter is much harder to do. You either need to control the wireless router or break the DNS server some way.
Review my one-night project: I Made the TSA Feel My Resistance
I totally met this guy on a cruise with my family two years ago. Had no idea who he was. He was a very cool guy.
> And even if there are valid reasons for invalid markup, there is no reason to have DOCTYPE of the actuall standard if you are not going to follow it.

Sure there is. They want browsers to render the page with the latest standards support, even if they have a few trivial violations of that standard.
> I would dislike being on the front page twice a week.

Obviously, feel free to not answer this, but why? I only ask because from my perspective, knowing that others find what I do valuable is a powerful motivator. Every time I hit the front page, I get a little smile on my face, and another productivity boost...

And also, all it takes is one person to miss this post, and it's not gonna happen. Your posts are like free karma: pretty much everyone's gonna end up voting up something with (kalzumeus.com) on the end.

Hm. Maybe that's something for pg to think about?
An organization, say like the EFF, should coordinate mass "opt-out" travel at peak travel times.

A little "gridlock" might highlight the absurdity of the situation.
I got the idea from Paul Ford, also known as @ftrain. He wrote a substantial piece of work entirely on the F train, which makes me think he lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and commutes to somewhere along 6th Ave in Manhattan.

I take the A train because it's closest to my apartment, but also because of Ella Fitzgerald singing "Take the A train." Now, if you're form NYC, you'll know that the A train is an express train, so when I see the C train, which is a local train, I'll take it to squeeze 5 more minutes out of my commute. The other benefit is that when folks see both the A and the C pull into the station, they all run to the express train, leaving me a greater chance for a free seat on the local train.
VRgameGUN: Dude invents motion tracking augmented reality gun controller
What's with the disagreements? His argument is against the claim that "'simple' is unilaterally better for your business." He's entirely correct. At some point, you'll have to go out and get new customers if you want continued growth. Public companies - the commerce variety he mentions specially - are implicitly required by shareholders to show such growth if they are to remain relevant. And so, you'll have to find ways to make that happen. Upselling seems to be one such source.
And, for God's sakes, turn off Apache KeepAlive. It kills more blogs than cancer.
The first few chapters of his Lectures on Physics are suprisingly readable as popular science. Later on it gets more hard-science-y.
Getting alcohol out of your life might be as simple as keeping it out of your life.

Try avoidance. Don't stock any alcohol in the house at all. No one is allowed to bring it into the house. Resist the urge to make a run to the store when you get home.

When it's sitting there it's easy to start drinking it impulsively. If you can avoid the cycle for a while (months) you won't miss it.

No matter what that voice in your head says you are not allowed to bring alcohol into your house. Not even for for special occasions. Not after you've been good for a while.

If you see yourself about to take alcohol into your house remind yourself that it's not harmless. If it does make it over the threshold then immediately pour it down the drain. Consider it a small price to pay.
I use google reader as well. Some of my favorite feeds are:
SmashingMagazine,
Lifehacker,
Mixergy,
Engadget,
xkcd
Patent database up and running for free online
In particular, I’m starting to devote my free cycles at lunch into thinking
about scalable content generation strategies for organic SEO, which is the
form of marketing that I’ve had the best results with in the past.

For situations where organic SEO is not really an option (or for which I lack imagination), what other strategies would you recommend to get an app from 10 uniques/day to a hundred or so? I’d especially be interested in your opinion on how to attract visitors to a site like delicious/reddit/digg.

Thanks!
This is an article that all non-designers should bookmark and re-read monthly. Typography is one of those things that separates real designers from i-know-how-to-use-photoshop people.
A little of both perhaps -- Americans like the simplicity their overlords provide. Except for some of the wackos at the fringes, it's all really political theater. Candidates say what they have to say to appeal to their "base" while they go about the business of making the lives of their own special interests easier. The honest/sincere ones just get beaten into submission.

I remember a story about how Ted Kennedy basically went ballistic over some issue in a committee meeting, but when he was finished, and the attention diverted, he gave a sly wink to his Republican counterpart.
Wait! How the hell do you code in the A train? Actually this is worthy of a blog post - "How to code during the NYC subway commute". But seriously, I am curious what you do when there is no place to sit or when u r tired (its easy to fall asleep in trains)or what kind of laptop you use!
Does PayPal use MySQL?
http://www.quora.com/What-should-you-do-if-your-business-goa...
Ha, did you expect to get any more than get counseling ...or choose a different hobby (working out, playing sports), which is probably what your counselor will probably tell you when he agrees that you aren't an alcoholic.

The sad truth of it all is that this is and has always been the way of the American hard-working male (this is my opinion, derived from being and working with said males).

You really have three choices (at least these are the ones I see to answer my alcohol problem):

1) Work less and suffer the innumerable consequences.

2) Move somewhere (read out of the U.S.) where working the hardest isn't the only metric of success and thus work less with fewer consequences.

3) Smoke anyway, which is what I do when I can ...considerably better than alcohol (do your research before you flame to all those passionate rule following types)
Walkthrough: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Most Rubyists (I have no numbers for this, just a general sense of the community, I could be totally wrong, all generalizations are false, etc) use Nginx nowadays, so it'd be more like LNPR.
Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861613

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1863959
forget court, write airlines and tell the why you now fly less. they have more power here.
CNN: Final nail in coffin for Net neutrality?
It's OK for anyone to do anything they want with standards, you can ignore them or follow them at your pleasure.

Whether or not you decide to ignore standards - there may or may not be consequences. And if there are consequences, you still might have perfectly valid reasons for accepting those risks.

For a long time, arguably even till now, Microsoft didn't pay enough attention to web standards. They made a business decision for whatever reasons which is their perogative. One of the consequences is that they've lost a lot of browser market share. Whether that matters to them or not I don't know.

I suspect that Google balanced the benefits and harms of strict adherence to HTML and CSS standards and found that, for that page at least, it would be much worse to be anal about standards and the impact to the user, if they didn't meet the standards, would be pretty much nil.

Makes sense to me.
So you haven't seen or had the new pat-downs then?
They're tantamount to a strip search. They lift, they separate.

The choice for airline passengers in the US is now: be photographed nude, or have the TSA jostle your luggage. Reasonableness has been left at the door.

Raising data tracking concerns is a false dichotomy; I can hate and distrust the expansion of both.
He's done well.
Ask HN: What time do you work? When are you most productive?
Day job: 10-4 although sometimes I roll in at 7.
Startup mode: 5-Whenever I am tired.
Most productive: 6pm-7pm.
If you're going for just a meme site it's fairly awesome. Simple, pretty, gets the point across.

If you're trying to actively promote a stand against those machines, more information would be a great addition. An about page that goes over what's happening, and a section that links to other places talking about it. Perhaps adding the ability for people to share their experiences directly on the page instead of just tweeting.

It's cute and pretty, but I think it lacks substance.
Right, but our craft is so new, everyone disagrees about what the 'right way' is, and how to get there.
Adding the amp; would mean terabytes of data transfer to
fix something that works just fine in all browsers.

If thats the case even more can be saved by optimizing the current version. Don't be blinded by the fact that it is Google: the code clearly shows that it is this way because nobody cares, not because it was thought out very throughly.
Point in case:

<input autocomplete="off" maxlength=2048 name=q class="lst" title="Google Search"
value="" size=57 style="background:#fff;border:1px solid #ccc;border-bottom-
color:#999;border-right-color:#999;color:#000;font:18px arial,sans-serif
bold;height:25px;margin:0;padding:5px 8px 0 6px;vertical-align:top">

Could be just:

<input autocomplete=off maxlength=2048 name=q class=lst title="Google Search"
size=57 style="background:#fff;border:1px solid;border-color:#ccc #999 #999
#ccc;font:18px arial,sans-serif bold;height:25px;margin:0;padding:5px 8px 0 6px;">

Even more, it could be just

<input autocomplete=off maxlength=2048 name=q class=lst title="Google Search"
size=57>

because there is already .lst in CSS section, why not to specify attributes there?
It's hard to express how angry this makes me feel.

They've just supposedly slashed public spending which will result in the loss of thousands of public sector jobs - mainly in the less affluent north - and now they're planning to invest some of the 'savings' made from that action into the already over-invested south. Taking from the poor to give to the wealthy.

There are cities in the UK other than London. Birmingham and Manchester for instance.

I am seething.
Yep, Felten is a pretty legendary electronic freedom fighter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Felten

I must admit to being shocked at this sudden outbreak of common sense.
However:

"Sharp will, for the time being, serve as a one-man office. There are no immediate plans, he said, to bring other employees to D."
Cyber Command Now Fully Operational
It doesn't matter if it's actually dangerous. All you need is a CNN headline to whip people into a frenzy: "Could Airport Body Scanners Give You [Cancer|AIDS|Herpes|Athletes Foot]?"
This is pretty freaking awesome. Having access to an easy patent search is huge for would-be inventors and probably quite a bit of startups. Removing the searching fees and making the data public is a great step towards fixing that fairly broken system.
That is actually for a very old version. You can run the current version using the SWAT tool. Open"LMD.stw". Run "Lizards->Storyteller Lizard". The download link is here: http://www.storytron.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=1428
The endpoint of this line of development is exemplified in Bruce Sterling's novel Distraction. A politician, annoyed by criticism, commissions a spider which crawls the net, and when it finds a sufficiently annoying and influtential critic of the pol, posts their name and details to a hitlist on teh website of a nutjob organization. Their name gets removed after they've been asassinated.
why?

Because HN is a community I am happy to be one little (if slightly verbose) member of, rather than a marketing channel for me. I'm a guest here, so I try to keep my footprint small and confined to where I'm pretty sure that I add value.
nice, perhaps youSQL, uSQL, SqlME, a name is really important for a project to take off.
and to be fair, you do need more at bats.

Finding a job takes work - even if you're the perfect match and do a perfect job of presenting your skills, it's not guaranteed that a potential employer make the right decision.
Spreedly + Paypal.
4Loot.com: Searches earn Facebook credits
Ask HN: Who do you trust when it comes to sharing your ideas?
When you come up with that idea that YOU think is great, do you take a deep breath and keep the secret in? Or do you have a few people to share it with? Who are the people that you can trust with your ideas?
The beads represented years of productivity. How many 80 year olds do you know that are not retired from their life's work? Not many.
Gotcha. Makes perfect sense. It's why I don't submit my own posts: if it's valuable to someone else, they can submit it, but I don't want to presume that it's automatically useful.
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I have to imagine that Google.com is the most bandwidth optimized page EVER.

Big picture, the W3C spec is not what matters here. What matters is making the same HTML document render exactly across different browsers. So maybe they could drop <html><head> according to W3C, but does that break the document in other browsers?

My guess is that Google doesn't care about the W3C spec in this specific regard. What matters is delivering the smallest document possible that can be rendered by as many browsers as possible.

*Grammar edit.
Not yesterday, it wasn't.
I am unclear on how 80*12 dollars is profitable, altho, I guess if you only worked on this 70 mins a day for a year, I guess that comes out to 4 dollars an hour, but you must have worked on this on the weekends as well...

I guess you are only factoring the cost of servers, not your own time.
My grandfather continued to breed horses until he was 87. He didn't make a decision to stop, he simply had a stroke and has been restricted to a wheelchair.

Now he's 94 and he avidly reads books in English, German and Danish. He's trying to learn about the internet, but hasn't really gotten down the concept of "surfing the web".

Yes, you can be productive past your 80s. I plan to be, but I also have six decades until I'm there.
If you have a ton of ideas and they're all, for the most part, general, vague, novel, and abstract, practice prototyping. Make it really dirty, don't over-think it, and keep a closed-mind while in the beginning stages of a project; IOW, don't pre-optimize your project by recursively worrying about other edge cases, write for a single case and get something on the screen.

Given your background, I'd scratch all these "big picture" or "overly ambitious" ideas and return to a domain you're more confident in, pick something (axiom, rule, theorem, etc.) specific, and see if you can express or simulate an example of the "thing" in action.
I've been through Cleveland Hopkins Intl' and San Jose Intl' in the last days and there were "opt-out lanes" in which no body scanners were used and you went through the normal metal detectors. No pat down either. Nobody told you into which lane you have to go, so there was absolutely no pressure.
Seed it with your friends, act as sockpuppets for a while, and engage with whatever community latches on. It's funny, you guys envy my ability to spin up thousands of pages and sell stuff, and I envy the whole viral loop dynamic.

Also, everybody who is not in walled garden, and most of those who are, can and should have an organic SEO strategy. It's insanely powerful, and has very attractive characteristics for startups in that it rewards technical savvy, close interaction with your community, and agility in execution, and does not necessarily require a whole lot of money to do.
Really good TED talk from the founder of SENS, Aubrey de Grey:
http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...
>Did you notice that the distinction between parties (gay marriage, abortion, government size) doesn't ever get addressed even though control has been switching between parties regularly?

Healthcare?
Ironically I use skype at home (very painlessly) for most of my calls since AT&T's coverage for my cell is way, way worse.
YMMV of course.
I'd enjoy reading more good articles by experienced practitioners about ideas for combinations of fonts, colours, etc. Many of us rely on graphic design skills for building company web sites and on-line services, but don't have time to study the subject as deeply as a specialist and aren't naturally artistic geniuses.

However, I agree with the parent post: I don't think this particular article is very good at all. The colours and text shadows distort the presentation. Worse, many of the later images are textbook examples of why you don't normally mix lots of fonts together on the same page. I think the author is trying to do too much with wide variations in fonts, while ignoring related tools like whitespace that might do the job better.
I've found Everyday System's "Glass Ceiling" to be extremely helpful.

"So here's the system. For the rest of your life, without exception, you have a 2 drink a day maximum -- the glass ceiling. Period. No saving up, use it or lose it. No refills. No pouring yourself "mixed" drinks. DMV definition of a drink."

http://www.everydaysystems.com/glassceiling/

My SO knows I'm doing this, and her gentle reminders are the extra help I need.
iTab or iTop?

Impressive!
I have a 15" MacBook Pro. It's the width of my legs.

The hardest part about coding on the A train is when dancers/singers come on. I love watching performance theatre, especially on a train. I just stop coding, put the lid down, and enjoy the show. And if you know the A train, you know this happens once a week.

Otherwise, I am just so in love with coding NewsBlur that I can focus. I talk to myself a little (quietly), drawing in the air with my finger, and am just a little NYC crazy that nobody questions me.

I get a seat 19/20 times. (That's once per two weeks that I have no place to sit). I bring a small book, just in case, so that I at least have something to do on the train.

I've missed my stop a few times. It happens, but it gives me an extra 5 minutes to work, so I don't sweat it.

Hmm, coding on the subway as a blog post. Brilliant! Ok, next week it is.
To the best of my knowledge, the best answer is "nobody knows". There are some vaguely similar things in the precedents, especially when it comes to protocols that require you to use a particular patent to talk to a given device, and IIRC there is some verbiage in some places that distinguishes copying around for simple transmission reasons rather than delivery to an end user (though I can't imagine how to stretch that to cover this case), but in this particular case, nobody knows.

In fact if you spend much time thinking about this it isn't at all hard to come up with a lot of scenarios that law doesn't have an answer for, in theory or in practice.
!important CSS Declarations: How and When to Use Them
Well I have this weekend free, I guess I have a project to attempt!!

Very Impressive....
Sometimes it's the reddit effect, or similar. However "slashdotted" should remain understandable to anyone.
It will be interesting to see if Pharo merges in this work, but.. regardless, this is an excellent development and I look forwards to playing with it.
Notice how he slid his hand around to hit the power/lock button as he was running the app, yet the table didn't reflect that (it wasn't locked). Seems suspicious.
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(I write most of NewsBlur on the A train, 35 minutes each way from Brooklyn to midtown)

Maybe its just me, but, there's something nice about working on a train. There's no wifi (at least, on trains run by the MTA) and the train sounds make for nice white noise.

I used to have a ride on the LIRR from Nassau into Penn for an internship. I'd bring my laptop with me and get a good hour's worth of coding, per direction. At least, when I got a seat.
FYI: YQL supports JSONP callbacks, so check it out if you come across something that doesn't support JSONP, or doesn't even have an API. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
If I need to get around a XSS limitation, I prefer JSON proxies on the server. I have a server-side handler forward its parameters to the remote request and echo the remote resource's response (with validation) as the proxy's response.
addendum: My mistake, there appear to be some Pharo oriented files in the release already. Happy days.
I usually share the idea with my wife, my best friends, and former co-workers that are friends. It is better to get feedback early.
Started long before 07. Customer Service as a policy disappeared when Smith took over from Schultz in 2000. Under Schultz, baristas had a lot of power and tools to solve customer complaints immediately and effectively. As soon as Smith took over (within the week), the barista was officially constrained.