skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first saw this I couldn't understand why it was needed. I mean who wants a $500 mouse?

After thinking about it though it starts to make sense to me. Of course no one in their right mind would buy an iPad to use Remote Conductor, but those of us with iPads can take advantage of the "Launch Mode". I'm sold.
Are you clicking through the "All x versions" link? There are often pdf versions that are mistakenly out in the open (i.e. on some random university web server).
How is “persuaded me that I was wrong” anything other than an explicit admission of the other person’s correctness?
The reader I use, newsbeuter, always shows two links: the article link, and the discussions link.

http://www.newsbeuter.org

You might also be interested in trying these alternate HN feeds:

http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

http://feeds.feedburner.com/HackerNewsFullFeed
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A good short hair cut has the right proportions and includes all the basic elements of balance, line and movement.
You can take his concern seriously, RSS autodiscovery in FF is working fine on his page. And that's the feature the author would like to keep in the future.
The thing annoying me about this (sensationalist) article is just that… nobody wants to use their web browser for RSS: they want to browse with it.

It also cites the lack of a reader in Chrome as a sign of RSS' impending doom, while ignoring the fact Google also run a (really good) RSS service for free called Google Reader, which is much more intuitively named than RSS and whose name is easier to understand than the RSS icon.
By the article's logic, one could also predict the imminent death of word processing, IM, (both of which Google also freely offer) and 99% of other programs, all due to the fact they don't have buttons on Firefox's already over-cluttered toolbar.
I would add CSS compilers like CleverCSS, SASS et al and CSS3 in the same timesaver category as grids. They make prototyping and iterating much faster with small and large projects.

Btw. Here's a nice CSS reset & typography to go with 960.gs and other grid systems http://borderleft.com/labs/
I don't understand people who upvote comments like this.

"Yes, please encourage more comments saying "I don't understand X". Not understanding things is praiseworthy and deserves upvotes. So is an attitude of being dismissive and superior based on said not understanding".
For each acceptable one posted he will "donate $100 to Khan Academy up to $5000"
Well the reason is that it shows up in google when searching for my name and I'd rather not have my e-mail widely available like that, especially for spammers. Thanks for the tip I'll ask the admins!
Intelligentsia in the main floor of the Monadnock Bldg. is one of the few things I genuinely miss about working downtown. I hated the commute, but be damned if that isn't some of the finest coffee I've had.

A crowd of us would walk there from CBOT to get it every morning (passing no less than three Starbucks' and a now-defunct Lavazza); it would have been very bad if they had been in the same building as me. ;)
What's the current competition? In other words, is there another site doing something similar?
Users shouldn't need to know what RSS is to use it just as they don't need to know what HTTP is to read a website or what SMTP is to send email.

The interface to using RSS has always been flawed, that is where the problem is.
I don't believe the author meant "free as in speech" software when he was using the term. It seems he didn't consider the existing terms at all, really.
I wonder if http://threewords.me/ influenced this one? That was my first thought when I saw Kyle's tweet about Facto (nice name/url btw).
Most of the time you can copy the site's URL into Google Reader and it will try to find the proper RSS feed. It works for blogs hosted on Blogger and Wordpress, at least; not sure how it does it.
Presently i can't find anyone doing with the same idea..
Reading Mark's HN post the other day definitely helped get me pumped to build something.
Oh cool, missed that. Now I don't mind having paid $10 for it.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg002...

Does anyone know if the concurrency and lexbind features are still planned to be part of Emacs 24?
A good starting resource here: http://boagworld.com/design/when-developers-design/
Seth's talk is really good.
Hmm, I indented it, before I submitted it, but maybe that's not supported, or Sublime Text doesn't indent by four spaces.

Regardless, thanks for the tip.
"It would be a lot better to create some XML encapsulation of what the front page of the NYT does in terms of curatorial importance."

RSS would be a critical tool for anyone trying to solve that problem.

A lot of the complaints here are that RSS isn't what RSS isn't. OK, that's great, but those are more "entrepreneurial opportunities" than problems with RSS. Toss out RSS (and I assume by extension Atom and all similar friends) and those opportunities recede, they recede a lot, they don't get better. It is what it is and it has always been designed from day one to be a foundational infrastructure on top of which to build more things, not the Final Answer To All Problems.
I love Perl, and I'm a Perl god. But CPAN is a plague unto it. If any piece of software should be called a ghetto, CPAN is it.
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I couldn't either. I'd be interested in helping you develop this idea further if you're interested in a technical co-founder.

You can find my contact info on my site ryanleland.com
I'd be interested to know the number of people using Google Reader as their primary tool to read stuff from the web.
I'm sure the numbers would skew heavily towards the tech/geek crowd. But I have no idea how popular it is.
I know where you're coming from, but I'd rather say that Wikipedia articles have editors, not authors.

The articles are in a constant flux of change, and I don't know if anyone deserves more attribution than others for contributing to an article.

Knoll might be a more relevant example, but I haven't really checked it out in a while. (Who has, really.)
How can there be demand if nobody is making it easy to use?
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TO VIEW THIS TALK YOU MUST ATTEND THE LIVE TALK

Microsoft still doesn't understand what the internet is for.
I prefer to go each day to a list of curated aggregators like HN or what the people I follow on Twitter or saying

But aggregators can publish RSS streams too. How is following someone on Twitter different from subscribing to his RSS feed?

I would agree that a site like HN isn't very attractive to read via RSS. When the ranking is dynamically determined by readers' interest, you lose something by freezing the list in the form of an RSS stream. But for a curated site like Slashdot, what difference does it make if the link stream comes in the form of RSS or as tweets?

Incidentally, I wouldn't call HN a curated site. Slashdot has editors/curators; HN doesn't.
"so called "peer review", to be honest, is a broken system..."

To misquote Churchill:

Peer review is the worst system for scientific publishing... except for all the others.
If you have good technical skills, the Montreal market is going to explode in 2011. Two new incubators (Real and Year One Labs) will be providing seed money - successful companies will have trouble hiring.

Salaries aren't as high as NYC or SV, although the cost of living is also much lower.
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It's been a while since I used Firefox's RSS button. I see it offers more options than I remember (like subscribing with a web-based reader). And it looks like the plan is to eliminate any standard in-browser indication of the presence of an RSS feed, something I didn't really catch from the blog post's talk about a "button on the toolbar."

That does seem pretty inconvenient. Many of the posts at bugzilla argue that the most important feature of the button is the fact that it indicates, in a standard way, that feeds were detected. And I agree.

On the other hand, since it's Firefox, there will probably be several feed-finder extensions available before 4.0 is final.
Neither are junk science. People's junk science detectors and the competition to be the first to declare that something is "fatally flawed" are going off excessively quickly. (See also the rush to be the first that some show or something has 'jumped the shark'.) If there's junk science afoot it's unfortunately in the "mainstream".
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Evolution is key: Survival of the fittest, and RVM is the fittest in my experience.
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That seems like a pretty good website; I'd never heard of it.

So "it's" vs. "its" is yet another johnny-come-lately arbitrary rule without historical basis. Yay, one less thing to get annoyed by.
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Note that the Newton's soul really does live on in the iPad, according to this article.

Long live the Newton!
Where will 3-D cameras like Kinect lead?
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No.

There are two things you need to measure, ability and determination, the first you can test for the second can only really be shown by a track record.

Ability is very task specific, so what you test for will need to depend on what sort of potential you're looking for. For example for programming a number of studies have shown one of the strongest indicator of being able to program is the ability to form a consistent mental model of how something works (which you can test for without someone having programming experience).
I fortunately have not been in a position to attend a large number of presentations. Of the ones I have attended, the best have been by well-prepared speakers who use a whiteboard and no slides. The diagrams tend to be crude but hand-drawing on a whiteboard hardly ever outraces the ability of the audience to follow along; with slides the opposite is often the case (for me anyway).
This is something I've thought about frequently. I would like to find a non-profit who would take donations and apply them towards finding and paying very good experts on any number of subjects, help them design and record their lectures, collect supplemental materials (required reading materials, exercise questions, tests, etc), and post it online for free (public domain?).

Khan is great but he cannot teach everything. Programming, history, literature, graphic design, etc. all deserve similar treatment.
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Hm, this also negates what I thought was Gary Taubes's most interesting point -- why is it that obese people eventually maintain their weight rather than keep gaining. But if the maintenance need increases with body weight, there is no need to postulate any interesting regulation mechanism: just eating a constant amount of food would do it.
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A data point: I have actually tried this. As a student at No Name State, I often found myself travelling to nearby Prestigious Research University for books and journals which weren't in circulation at NNS. PRU only had reciprocity agreements with other PRUs, so I couldn't ILL materials or check them out in person with my NNS card. Indeed, without a PRU ID I couldn't even enter the library except at certain designated hours, for reasons that had no discernible relation to crowding or public safety.

PRU did offer a private membership, but its annual circulation fee was in the hundreds of dollars. It was 2008, and one of the richest universities in the country wanted to charge a student--who was already enrolled in NNS down the street, hardly any kind of flight risk--the equivalent of 20 hours of labor for the privilege of reading books.

Now PRU has one of the worst academic cultures I've ever experienced or heard of, and I would be glad to learn that the state of public access to academic libraries is not so dire in general. It remains, though, that it is not always so trivially easy to do academic work at university libraries, even if you're already in "the academy".
I like cpanm[1] quite a lot. Have you tried it as an alternative installer for modules? (I'm no Perl god, but I still maintain a healthy chunk of Perl code I wrote for sysadmin things a few years ago. I find that cpanm does exactly what I need it to, without the overhead of CPAN.)

[1] https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus
so, me not understanding stupid people who line up to buy a stupid phone: not praiseworthy.

you not understanding my comment or those who up-vote it: praiseworthy. Please explain :)
So run NoScript. Run in private mode. Block their cookies. Block their address in your hosts file. You can use wget, curl, or any other cookieless downloading tools, none of which will expose you reading The Times to Facebook. RSS doesn't even prevent against this; it can be behind a login, it can require cookies or not serve up info, and it can send info to Facebook denoting you viewed article X. All of which is determined by the server it's running on, not the format of data it serves up.

Browsers are unnecessary for RSS or tracking, and it's a very poor match for browsing behaviors anyway.
<EDIT> Huh, guess that must have been a typo, as the date at the top says Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Colour me embarrassed. </EDIT>

Ahh... FTA:

> Students who are taking EE380 for credit and cannot attend the class live may view (and comment upon) another talk by the same speaker given in EE380 on Feb 13, 2008.

The talk took place almost two years ago, so it's a shame that Microsoft think that any information about Kinect is still under wraps, especially when you consider that it has several open source libraries and drivers now (iirc).
If I copy the URL of your site/blog into my RSS reader's Add Subscription dialog, I don't know of any RSS readers that wouldn't scrape your site for the link tags I assume you put in and discover the feed for me.
Huge problem. It affects more than just medicine. Negative results are not collected or disseminated in many fields. They never show the "messy kitchen." Succinct lists of failed paths would be more useful than a lot of positive results that get published.
I should have specified the model... I have a 13.3" 2.0GHz MacBook5,1. There is some variation within the 5,1 MacBooks; here's a quote from the discussion attached to that linked article (perhaps you have a 15" MacBook 5,1?)

As far as the 15" MacBook5,1 models go – The three models released in October 2008, OWC supports to 6GB of RAM:

MacBook Pro 15″ 2.4GHz
MacBook Pro 15″ 2.53GHz model w/ExpressCard Slot (Late 2008)
MacBook Pro 15″ 2.8GHz model w/ExpressCard Slot (Late 2008)

The two models released March of 2009, OWC and Apple support up to 8GB of memory.
MacBook Pro 15″ 2.66GHz (All)
MacBook Pro 15″ 2.93GHz (All)
It wouldn't die if enough people were convinced like the author that it shouldn't die.
That doesn't counter his point at all. The difference between "obesity" and "maintaining weight" is still implausibly thin; what Gary was talking about in the first place was the delta in the top two lines, not the net total. He mentions that more obese people eventually do reach an energy balance, which obviously happens because they income and outflow eventually balance, which is a sign that he understands that. (Sixth paragraph, starts with "First, obese people tend to be weight stable for long periods of their life".) You didn't disprove his argument, you just reiterated bits of it, only with less comprehension and a math simulation disconnected from what actually happens (your simulation lacks the relative stability that people reach and simulates the clearly false scenario in which people become fatter without bound). ("relative stability" - there is a long-term weight gain over pretty much everybody's life but when people become obese they can do so much more rapidly than ~1lb/year)

(Personally I'd break it down to the individual meals since that's where satiety occurs and now we're talking about a delta of 3 or 4 calories. It's an absurd argument. Nothing is that precise without a feedback loop. And if a feedback loop is involved, the idea that the feedback loop is what is broken is hardly that odd an idea.)

I'm seeing a lot more people declare that Taubes is wrong or obviously a crank that there are people actually demonstrating a comprehension of his points, which I tend to consider a prerequisite for an actually-effective "debunking". Maybe he's wrong, but it's not because of people arguing against points he's not even making while blatently missing the ones he is.
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I have a few ideas that I think are potentially very good ones (i.e. currently uncommon, lucrative in the right market, socially engaging, etc.) but lack the time and money to really get any further than basic planning and peer discussion.

Or I'll start and then my wife gets angry that I spend so much time in front of the computer outside of my day-job (also in front of a computer), and I end up having to leave it half-done or less. This has happened a couple of times - sorry, if you were one of the users. It's on my list and I will get another release out.

I would like to see these ideas done up while still retaining some limited say in their implementation and management, but again the lack of capital makes actual hiring impossible.

The question is, should I just give up on these and release them into the wild and hope for the best? Should I take a stand, find some (so far unavailable) financing and hire a couple of people to work with me on them (and leave the day job and hope I can still pay my rent)? Should I leverage (or develop - same risk as above though) a crowd-sourced development system (GitHub, etc.) and find a way to equitably split any income with contributors? Should I move to a more tech-centric area with more educated investors? Find a risk-taking dev and start hitting the incubators (although my wife will probably not like that idea)?

I am open to all suggestions at this point. I would prefer to be a part of whatever develops, but I also have a strong desire to see at least a few of these actually happen no matter what.

None of them are small ideas (from a man-hours perspective), but I think a pair of good web devs and a designer could probably bang each of them out in 3 to 6 weeks. Except the one which is probably a good 4 to 6 months.

Thanks in advance, HN!
From the user flow, RSS doesn't make much sense. Clicking an RSS button shows you the same thing you just looked at, except without the site design and only partial content (Safari). Currently, in Chrome, I just see a dense block of text.

RSS is an amazing tool, but maybe we just haven't found the right UI for it yet. Exposing it in the browser doesn't work very well and treating RSS as an Inbox (like Google Reader) where every item needs to be marked as read is too overwhelming. Personally, I think a social approach to RSS that puts content and personal preferences at the fore-front would solve a lot of this.
sounds like svpply.com
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Honestly I have no idea what kind of business it would make. It may take off, it may not.

IMO though I wouldn't be inclined to use it. First, if I buy something nice, new, or expensive and I want my friends to know about it, I will either put it on Facebook or tell them over the phone or in person. I know everyone I friend on Facebook personally, I have met all of them in person and talk to them at least once a month on average in some setting either via Facebook, email, in person, or on the phone. With that in mind though, of the over 500+ friends I have there, I would only share a purchase with maybe 20-30 of them at most depending on the purchase. I have lists setup on Facebook for all my friends, broken down into groups such as College, Work, Family, etc... From there when I post things to my wall I direct those posts only to those lists, meaning that others can't see the post. So I can control who sees what and knows what about things I do at a very granular level. Even though the average person probably doesn't have this level of granularity setup on Facebook, the thought process behind sharing is probably the same to some extent.

As for competition, I think there are several avenues you may not have considered. First, social shopping sites are starting to popup everywhere. Fancy (http://www.thefancy.com) is one that I can think of off the top of my head. There is also a site that lets women, and I think men, rate each others clothing choice.

Now, I will say that the concept of social shopping is powerful and if you can tap into the market with something unique and powerful you may have your hands on something. I for one know that I usually look to friends when deciding on a major purchase. If you could somehow incorporate a deals functionality, maybe like a Groupon into it, where if you can convince a bunch of friends to buy something you work out a discount with the store, that could potentially take off.
Here is the link re: Robert's comment from Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Is-Google-investing-in-Google-Reader-an...
As a result there are features missing that you might find in other implementations, e.g. standard Lua has IO but cannot create directories. But getting halfway there on all platforms is better than all the way on one platform and making you work out how to fix it to run on yours.
Most really secure VPNs I've used have use a SecurID[1] token and PIN, instead of a static password.

[1] http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1156
I think Dave Winer, basically inventor of RSS, would disagree.
Why should I have to do all that if RSS already exists? There's no reason to accept letting this working technology die.

I agree that browsers are unnecessary for RSS though.
"not sure how it does it."

The same way that some browsers do it. There is a meta-tag in the page, which describes which feed formats are available, and where to find them.
another service was criticized on HN for hiding prices like this. the founder commented back that it increased his conversion rate. so despite being annoying, probably optimal.
Information without action is merely trivia. Let's hope that information is put to good use, and used for good.
If you live in California (or ar visiting), all UC libraries are publicly available, and typically have guest login access, which allows you to access the online resources. You can access the journals there, with no affiliation with any university.

You'll have to actually physically walk into the libraries, which some campuses make it harder than necessary (mostly due to bad parking planning, see UCSC), but campuses like Berkeley are very easy to walk onto.
NearlyFreeSpeech has a current posting for a FreeBSD admin: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/work

Seems they always have such a posting, so I don't know if it's just not a current page or they have high turnover of admins.

That said, I'd also be interested in seeing other remote UNIX admin job postings.
RSS is strictly linear, largely chronological.

The NYT front page, while changing day-to-day still has a layout that embodies importance. There needs to be some sort of semantic interpretation of how important something is other than h1’s. How do we replicate the 144pt super-important headings while removing presentation from content?

The web was built for rationalist minds and papers, and the separation of html elements furthers this goal, yet hampers any sort of human-ness of communication.

RSS is great for a blog, but bad for newspapers. Check out NYT’s RSS feed. Every article ticks in at an equal level of importance and requires the viewer’s mental acuity to discern what’s #1. Not so with their web-front or printed sheet.

Syndication, while essential, needs to be extended.