skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'll go one step further then and point out that Google is the creator of PubSubHubbub (http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/). My point is that I don't think Google hates users aggregating content and having it pushed to them rather than browsing for it.
Ive been going through Khan's Linear algebra vids after having Lee's problem - I'd highly recommend them for this use case. I'm hoping the same goes for the Khan's diff eq vids!
Would be nice to have the iPhone as a Magic trackpad :)
"`problems`" in scary quotes. :)
For the record, the original poster's native language is French (and he even makes some English grammar mistakes if you pay attention, so I doubt that he learned English so long ago that using it is entirely simple for him).
I don't disagree but in fairness it was created by 3 people one of which worked at SixApart
The amount of resources at our disposal is not fixed, nor are the number of jobs.

I don't compete with the Chinese for a job, I create my own. Also, Americans don't compete with Chinese for jobs, 1 individual person competes with 7 billion other people for jobs.

China v. America is just a way to convince people that jingoistic nationalist policies are a good idea.
"Infrequent binge drinkers earn a premium over abstainers and frequent bingers"
The iron lady
Thats why you hire a good photographer and claim huge lines from places where your readers aren't in order to claim people are lining up for something that you could download off the internet.
because the browser is supposed to provide the button.

Why do you think I’m worried? I don’t want to have to clutter my site with a button to an XML feed that nobody understands. I want the browser auto-discovery to do the right thing and present the right interface to make RSS worthwhile.

Turning the key in a car shouldn’t present you a diagram on how to connect the battery. Browsers shouldn’t sit there dumbfounded when presented a piece of RSS.
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I personally liked that detail so much that I thought it merited its own post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060166
The proximity to US market means many of the "best and brightest" workers + companies end up migrating south of the border, resulting in an overall lackluster tech environment when compared to any of the major US cities.

If you look at many SF and NYC startups, as well as Facebook, Yahoo, and Google's rosters, you will find many Canadian tech entrepreneurs - maybe even moreso than within Canada itself :)

There was also historically issues with Canadian startups getting foreign investment / selling to a foreign company, although that situation is now changing.

For general info about the Canadian startup scene check out http://www.startupnorth.ca/
RSS is not dying! One of the traditional applications for RSS (a browser-based RSS feed-reader) is becoming obsoleted because most browsers aren't particularly good at managing feeds.

I can understand why the benefits of RSS aren't more widely understood by the general public; the technology makes use of an abbreviation (an abbreviation that isn't actually much more comprehensible when its spelt out).

RSS is a service, used by applications to make content portable. It's not a final solution, it's a tool that can be integrated into a number of different applications. It's quite likely that many of the applications it could be used for haven't been created yet.

A slightly ridiculous article.
...Did you read the article? It discusses that rule and how it is not a complete description of the actual use of the character.
Like this? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchpad/id297623931?mt=8
Thanks for the info. Before posting my comment I did some quick Googling and couldn't find much about the history of PubSubHubbub. I did want to be sure that I wasn't wrong about Google's involvement. Using the word "creator" with respect to Google itself was probably a little strong.
How much time does it take you to sort through it all? That's the tradeoff you make with aggegators vs. rss. Personally, I'm also subscribed to a few hundred feeds on Google Reader, and I usually go through them first by deleting everything older than a day, and then sorting by "magic". But that has major limitations: I lose occasional posts and older, but still interesting, content, and magic just skews the sort towards what I've read before (maybe through keywords?), and I lose out on new and interesting content.

RSS - you have high volume and high breadth, but it takes a long time to look through it and find the things that are interesting.

Aggregators - the "most interesting" posts are right there on the front page, but it has a very narrow focus and is filtered or skewed by the community.

I think what we're really looking for is the most interesting content that is customized for us, but it's a big problem to tackle. Newsblur (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869136) was an interesting idea; not sure where that's gone since November's post.
As a counterpoint, I'd like to say that it makes a lot of sense to retain some level of control of servers you are renting. You want to avoid your cloud becoming a botnet cloud (what would that be, a virus cloud? O.o).

If you have your own admins keeping things up to date and polished, it removes (1) some grief from the customer and (2) allows you to rest more comfortably knowing your admin (theoretically) knows what he's doing.

The author points out that for conventional electric devices, there is no input from the electric company. True. But, if one puts in an industrial facility, the electric company starts caring, because the loads can not be simply ignored (c.f. inductive/reactive loads). That has analogies to the cloud.

There are decided advantages for the customer to have full control, there are decided advantages for the vendor to have full control.
Thx, I will try it out! Looks neat
The talk hasn't taken place yet, so I assume he posted it so people who are interested can attend.
RSS aggregators are used by the elite few. When websites start deciding to use Twitter and Facebook instead of RSS because it’s faster and gives them better features, and regular users understand it better, then there will be complaints.
The reason you can't board by window seat first is that most people aren't traveling alone but with friends and family who are sitting next to them.

Try telling mom and dad that since he wanted the window little Johnnie has to get on first and they can follow ten minutes later.
How are other <link> elements not specially treated?

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ycombinator.com/news.css">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico">

Also, this will make a good reading: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.3

"Although LINK has no content, it conveys relationship information that may be rendered by user agents in a variety of ways (e.g., a tool-bar with a drop-down menu of links)."
Yep:

$ grep fork /usr/include/asm/unistd_64.h
#define __NR_fork	57
__SYSCALL(__NR_fork, stub_fork)
#define __NR_vfork	58
__SYSCALL(__NR_vfork, stub_vfork)

$ strace -f ruby -e 'syscall 57' 2>&1 | egrep 'fork|clone'
fork(Process 4138 attached (waiting for parent)

$ strace -f ruby -e 'fork' 2>&1 | egrep 'fork|clone'
execve("/home/andrew/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2010.02/bin/ruby", ["ruby", "-e", "fork"], [/* 47 vars */]) = 0
clone(Process 4145 attached
There's a thread on StackOverflow about the safety of SuperGenPass:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/554224/is-the-bookmarklet...

I thought the criticisms by "Mike" were pretty convincing, although I'm not an expert in software security or cryptography.

Starting with the source of a simpler JavaScript password generator:

http://www.angel.net/~nic/passwdlet.domain.html

I did a little noodling around and found it's perfectly practical to use even several thousand iterations of a newer hash algorithm (SHA2-256) to produce passwords, rather than a few dozen iterations of an obsolete one. That should address some of the cryptographic concerns. It's also perfectly possible for the script to accept the master password through a JavaScript popup rather than from a text box inserted into the current page. That should address concerns about a "malicious webmaster" type attack.

So some of the most important criticisms of SuperGenPass (which is undeniably very slick and pleasant to use) are at least addressable.
Absolutely. Strang makes it seem really easy, perfect lecturer.

The lectures are available on iTunes University too.

You may find his style slow though, I used to watch his lectures at about 1.5x speed using Quicktime (opt+ff). You can use vlc too on Windows.
very helpful

thank you very much.
many users use webkit and write a program that evaluates, stores the content effectively building a personal rss.

moreover.com has many precompiled rss feeds for various subjects.
The intention is noble, but the implementation is horribly broken.

I agree with Rosie that the current system of paywalls is horribly broken. (I spent 10 years in academia, so I have some idea about the system). The example cited (the "arsenic life" paper) happens all the time: you hear about some exciting new discovery, only to find that the paper is locked behind a paywall. This is NOT how it should be!

With the Internet, there is no reason for most (any?) of these pay journals to exist in their current form. The research is typically funded by the government (like the NASA "arsenic life" research), so why should its findings be closed?

We (in the CS/EE field) should be taking the lead here and getting rid of ACM and IEEE journals. After many years as a member, I cancelled my ACM and IEEE memberships because it was clear that these organizations existed solely to support themselves.

There are some courageous authors out there who will put up copies of their papers for public access. I even know of one author who put up a PDF of a book that he published. We need more such authors!
Isn't this copyright violation?

Who gives a crap? there are plenty of laws on the books that you should be honored to violate.

Rip. Rar. Host. Upload. Seed. Knowledge wants to be free.
That's one reason I've always thought bookmarklets were better for sharing, not the least of which is because you don't need to wait/hope the website operator adds support for the sharing site you are using.
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Why bother reading the book when the blog is either flawed (as this post is) or dishonest (as the one from yesterday is)?

If the blog is junk science, it's unlikely that the book is better.
I don't think so, actually. I'd be hard put to make that comment's point any more elegantly.

In person, the right response to the original sentence would be a polite cough, followed by a brief but significant silence, followed by a slight but detectable face-saving change of subject. We can't do those things on the web, but in this case "um... what?" is an artful alternative.
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A key part of this is that you should start with the MVP[1]. Get the (minimal) features together that make your app work and release it.

Then follow a user-centred design (UCD) process by testing it on real people! Iterate early. I'd be more than happy to discuss what I mean here if anyone requires clarification. Most people end up following a UCD process without realising it, and it tends to be the way that the most successful products (physical and digital) tend to be created.

[1] MVP: Minimum Viable Product http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
Curious why none of the comments, nor the original article, mentions Internet Explorer. They've continued to add new features in this area ever since IE7. The icon is hidden now in IE9 (as are most of the icons... less browser chrome is fashionable) but I believe they still consider this a first-class feature.

They are still the world's most popular browser... and presumably their users are less technical, so presumably it's usage is less than what Mozilla reports, but it remains.
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Facto is a great app... Very original idea!
Because Android users are smarter?

Oh, sarcasm. That's original.
sometimes i leave myself something that keeps my brain working on a solution.i find that a different ream sometimes lets my defense down and the answer to enter
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And then there are Americans who agree with your point of substance - yet still don't think HNN is the right place to flame about nationalism.
I'm curious if Google will rate-limit you if your site gets popular.

How frequently do you check each site?

Tried to read your FAQ, but it requires login. Also the 'contact us' page requires login.

Minor nitpick - fix the spelling of "your're".
MailChimp launched in 2001. It is a little late in the game to call them a start-up.

http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/mailchimp
"Perhaps it's worth noting that my kids generally prefer prepackaged foods over our cooking. So maybe it's a cyclical thing, in some subset of each generation. But I'm hoping that teaching them to cook will change that."

Trust me, as they each grow older, they will appreciate your cooking more and more. I myself was a hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese kid growing up, but going home to my parents to eat Mom's cooking is priceless now.
i find this an interesting idea.nothing succeeds like success
helpful!
Thank you very much!
Title: "Ideas are Worthless"
Content: "Yes, ideas are important."
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Your analogy doesn't work for me. A car is built to run when you turn it on. That is basic functionality. The reverse analogy to a browser would be "making an HTTP request shouldn't present you a diagram on how to do DNS resolution," and the browser doesn't.
Just downloaded it. Nice work! My only constructive criticism would be to make the text a little bigger in some areas.
> Sure, once I've found some new source of content it's nice to put its RSS feed into a reader

This is why most linkblogs are now twitter feeds. Even Andy Baio’s is still a subset of what he twitters.

My problem in RSS feeds is importance, some sort of metric of popularity would be good. A lot of times I’ll remove a feed for curatorial purposes to have that site drop some major project that goes viral, and I then find out several weeks later.

The entire concept of RSS is somewhat flawed for what happens in the real world. 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.
Because he knows that unless he's really talented at language, he's better off expressing his thoughts in his native language, then paying a professional to translate them?

I've spoken German fluently for over twenty years and translate it professionally to the tune of a million words a year - thus I'm no slouch with the German language - yet if I were to build a site for my services in Germany, you can damn well bet I'd pay a translator to produce the German.
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I am seeing buggy behavior on Ubuntu- the File drop down isn't droppping down. It also won't import my version 1 db, telling me that must be done from Windows.

I will probably stick with KeePassX- there isn't anything wrong with it and none of the Keepass version 2 features seem look like game changers.
sorry i have to disagree abit.without a great idea there is nothing to build a business around, in my opinion a good entrepreneur is a great manager of people and can creates system that allow them to be better at what they do
Quite the opposite. I've never worked in another place where it was more inviting to be outside.
> Mozilla outright refuse to listen (33 bloody votes!)

Wow, 33 votes. They're really ignoring the masses on that one.
you don't have to be a student or pay the university to use the library.
If there was really enough demand for RSS, it wouldn't die.
The only reason I'm messing with it is because Nintendo DS XL has partnered with FB to let me upload my photos to FB. I don't have a stinking SDHC card reader and I need to take my photos out of this device.
Wikipedia is amazing, but deletionism policy is bad.

BTW, anyone wants to make a service, which hosts base content from wikipedia, but allows to fork and merge articles a la git? By default you see main article (if it exists), but if you want to see alternative opinions - they are just several clicks away.
"Action precedes motivation."

Ludum Dare ( http://www.ludumdare.com ) is a great way to free yourself from some procrastination chains for a weekend. I typically start with a menu screen if I haven't gotten into the mood, since it's easy, it should be necessary, and it lets me digest my planned game some before I start on the main bits.
". I’m currently on the $15 shared database, which accounts for probably 99% of my costs so far (the rest being marginal costs for S3 [likely a few cents])."

Why not on the FREE plan?
The reason I think the iPad is a neater idea is that we already have an iPhone-sized trackpad/input device for the Mac. It's called the trackpad. :)
Yes you are right, it is certainly easier to snoop on customers as an IaaS vendor if you keep full root access and file system visibility. I'd say that constitutes 'lazy policing' and not needed and that is certainly our experience :-)

Botnets etc. rely on free hijacked capacity not computing resources bought on an industrial scale on commercial terms. The cloud is no more prone for use as a botnet or other problematic activity than dedicated hardware. Although often touted, I've yet to hear a compelling case for IaaS clouds being any more susceptible to such use than VPS, shared hosting etc. etc.

Likewise, such activity becomes very obvious very quickly and it isn't access inside a customer's cloud server that allows you to spot such activity.

As I say, there are not real reasons not to give customers full control of their cloud servers any more than they have full control of their dedicated servers. In fact, the flexibility of the cloud makes policing it more easy than dedicated hardware without snooping inside customer servers or restricting their ability to control their computing.

In terms of administration, customers can choose to use their own in-house admins or that of a third party and many of our customers do. The point is they done have a choice, with other clouds they have one choice, the cloud vendor as the admin. That's overly restrictive and it isn't surprising why you get such concerns raised over security and control in the cloud.

Thanks for the great feedback by the way.

Best wishes,

Patrick
CEO
CloudSigma
Well put; what I believe in is that user agents should do their absolute best to make the most sense of what information is available to it in the context of the UI paradigm of the user agent. i.e. there is not enough screen space on phones for every website to fit an RSS icon; the browser should do the best thing that befits its UI and help minimise the efforts of the user to get the information they want. RSS can massively help with that.

Imagine for example that on the Chrome home page, where sites you visit often appear, Chrome also was following the RSS of these sites in the background, and listing new news items for those sites on the home page, all without you having to do anything.

There is infinite possibility here for browser vendors to make browsing quicker, easier and more intelligent and RSS is a key part of that. The browser vendors are not interested in exploring this avenue and as such everybody is stuck doing the same stupid routine every single day. This is dumb! Our computers should be smarter than this!
Google Reader displays a comment link, which I always click and then click through to the article if the link is still alive from there. That's a problem with a bad RSS reader, not RSS, or HN, who would actually be at fault here.
If Mozilla is getting rid of it and if Chrome doesn't have it, than that's just proof enough that big companies are conspiring against RSS. My fingers crossed for the Adblocker.
I question the comment's usefulness to this discussion, not the elegance with which it was made (although I think I disagree on that as well).

The comment, to me, is a distraction. Not purposeful I'm sure, but it's had that effect. The fact that the community would vote it up to the point where it might be the first comment someone reads when seeing this thread is disappointing.
I'm already over the 5MB free limit.
I believe that early on most of the OCaml community was French-speaking.

Personally, I found that aspect of the article borderline offensive. Oh, people shouldn't speak their native language because... speak English dammit! Oh, and don't release software on Dec 25th. (News flash: the majority of the world population does not celebrate Christmas.)
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When ramps come into season, I would suggest replacing your baby spinach greens with a lightly sauteed chiffonade of ramp greens, undressed.
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RSS is dying only if Bloggers don't support it anymore. But I can't see that.
I do not wish to be a troll but most of the information in that post is plain wrong. For one fork() is indeed a system call. If you want a good understanding of the true essence of POSIX (UNIX API) I recommend reading: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment.
Could not agree more. The litmus test I've been trying to use is "does it feel like I forgot something" — if yes, it's probably a good stab at an MVP. Once it gets into the hands of users, the things I felt that I forgot or otherwise omitted from the initial iteration will either make their way back in, or get discarded entirely, depending on user feedback.
This might not be the answer but you can put it in Dropbox, encrypted http://wp.me/p1rVu-ae
Well, there are options out there now. If you want an unattached smartphone, a Nexus S with CyanogenMod will get you a great smartphone with a modern OS and no googly attachments.

OTOH, if you're distrustful of Google's ad model, you can get a blackberry and sign up for a hosted BES, which will give you all the benefits corp users have for like $10/month.
You have obviously never been to Harvard, where in fact you do.

(You can also work at Harvard and get a library card as a perk. I often contemplate this fact.)

The good news is that MIT has a much more awesome library and you can, in fact, turn up in person at MIT as a civilian and read copies of Nature. Of course, you have to make the time to do that. The parking is tricky, so you'd best ride the train.

Even in the Boston area I have yet to find a neighborhood library with a Nature subscription.

If, in fact, you know where I can legally get access to, say, the Nature and Science journals without either paying hundreds of dollars a year or physically traveling to the local college library please, please paste the instructions here.
The second "key" is a developer's proficiency with design. I am a developer and I know little to nothing about design. This is a major distraction since I spend a disproportionate amount of time getting a barely passable design. Would anyone recommend a good design resource for developers? Books/links/blogs all work. I try to read stuff like Smashing Magazine and Core77 but I mostly feel out of depth there.
CPAN can also self-update. So, why is Rubygems bad and CPAN presumably okay?
Disagree. With the move towards electronic articles, one needs a login to access the computers at the library or to read the articles.

Sorry. :(
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just trying to evaluate this idea. It is basically a website for showing off your new or expensive stuffs. People love to show their friends what they just bought especially the ladies. A photo of what you want to show would be uploaded and people can comment and review it. I have other ideas on how to make it work but this is the MVP.

HN members please advice on what you think of the idea and any suggestions.