skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe some of these examples sound preposterous to you, but they’re what the rest of America does every day. Looking for candidates who have visited that hard place in themselves at one point in their life isn’t some Marxist fantasy of mine. It’s how capitalism works best.

I'm pretty much spewing morsels at my screen now, screaming for the sheer irony of this statement.

MARXIST FANTASY!? Bull ever-loving mother-fucking shit! Yes, this is capitalism, but not "how capitalism works best", this is Capitalism, Red in Tooth and Claw, solely because the author values the bloodshed and tears more than the actual creation of wealth in today's startups.

I could take a criticism of the frivolity of some of today's businesses, or some other attempt to persuade that the boom cycle is reaching its end and the "fake" businesses that don't really produce enough value to justify their own existence will have to die.

But this is just blood-fetish! He says in his own words: engineers' salaries are worth every penny in value created!

Startups, like professional football, are best done by the most desperate people on the planet.

Then get out of Silicon Valley and take this Fight Club crap to Gaza Strip, one of the most desperate regions on the planet.

Or just shove your head in this instead: http://www.culturecongress.eu/english/theme/theme_cyberiad/b...
Until your favorite blogs realize that RSS is just a money sink and shut down their feeds, which is exactly what Google is subtly prophesying and no one seems to get.
thanks! wanted to get it out there and see if it worked. On a day like today it's pretty useful.

looked at adopting/forking the reddit codebase, seemed a little hard to skin/customize and wanted to see what I could do as an MVP.

Thinking about how to do v2.0. Any ideas about ways for investors to share/crowdsource news and analysis, discover great content and creators and get them to rise to the top, disrupt low-quality investing message boards, would love to hear them!
I wish it worked in IE. By that I mean I wish it worked without a browser extension.
We're not planning on selling ads based on the contents of your conversations, if that's what you mean (or the direction).
"You would. But that doesn't mean that everyone would."

Sure, but those things only need to be built once.
Is it possible to have emacs controls in this?

That is one of the only things preventing me from using it.
They don't close your account, they just deny the name change IIRC. And judging by the states of some of the names on my list, you don't have much to worry about.
From idea to science: Knowing when you’ve got a good idea
Rapid elimination of blood phobia
Maybe,but then the manufacturers also get money for including additional software(like Norton or McAfee) so in the end the difference between the laptop with Windows and without it might be nill. And Microsoft actually makes Windows cheaper if a manufacturer includes Office Trial edition, as a kind of advertisement.
Not mentioned in the article, but I did tweet this very point (https://twitter.com/mahemoff/status/312387676630298624).

Why they tend not to do it is is likely because of infrastructure, privacy and security concerns, regulations (EU privacy laws come to mind). And furthermore, they'd need to find a good home for it, or risk further backlash. So there are risks in terms of legal, regulation, and resources. A company like Google can't just transfer SSH keys to the highest bidder on eBay.

All that said, I think in this case, there might be a more compelling reason to make the effort than normal. There's clearly a lot of passionate users, many of them influencers, and it's relatively simple to transfer people's OPML with some extra history data. I can see it's far from trivial though.
500,000+ potential reach without having to scream over social media noise doesn't seem like a money sink to me.
What's the differentiator to HipChat? https://www.hipchat.com/compare
Now, you 're attacking the messenger and sidestepping the issue. The kinds of surveillance the article talks about are inherent in the structure of the internet, hardly anything to do with hollywood lockdowns.
What the hell has happened to flixster.com?
I went to check out times for a movie today - Burt Wonderstone. I always liked the way I could find local listings and see Rotten Tomatoes scores on Flixster.

They now require you to link a G+ or Facebook account to even get in the front door.

Then, they bait and switch you with a requirement to have an Ultra Violet (whatever the hell that is) account.

Fuck you and goodbye Flixster!
Those permission requests are because of an annoying floating "Share widget" that the Feedly extension adds (semi transparent widget near bottom right of every page you go to that you can click to share the page on FB and such).

Fortunately the 'feature' can be disabled.
Script kiddies have been doing it since at least the 90's.
NYC Tech Boom: Not Just Mini Silicon Valley East
What time would you be coming to Mountain View?
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4767401
10 Conversion Mistakes Being Made by Apple
Technology for the World
You can. This is another sophisticated way to cheat. People are using their smartphones to count cards for them which will get them kicked out.
This answer the question about how do they make money. I think there is a lot of buyers for the information they grab with this.

I stick with newsbeuter. No web-based readers for me.
Google Glass would already be banned on the gaming floor of most casinos, because they tend to ban all photography.
There's another aspect to that.. if you're tired of what a company is doing, you can opt out and stop using their services. If enough people do this, they'll change their behavior or simply be no more. We saw that in how Godaddy finally came around against SOPA.

When we talk about government, the only way to opt-out is to physically leave and then that can only take you so far.. because even then, you might fall under other countries' jurisdictions no matter where you live. :(
No one mentioned it in the thread so far. I am working in academia, and RSS is a lifesaver for us, to keep track of new academic papers. I am following around 50 journals, everyone of which publishes a few articles daily, at least. That makes around 1k papers/month. There's no way for us to check every journal website every morning. Twitter or Facebook are totally unsuitable for this.
My second constraint is that during my day, I use 2 different computers, a phone and an iPad to check on my RSS feed, depending on where I am and what I do. Reader was providing a flawless solution for the sync. There will be another one soon, that's ok. But according to my twitter stream, many, many people in academia are pissed off about this decision. I posted my feelings here http://wp.me/p1eIvd-d2
I didn't downvote you, because I think your heart is in the right place. But this statement:

"...Well, this kind of thing was nearly impossible before our government created the Internet..."

really does betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the technologies that were around before the internet. The government really has had this power for quite a while. In fact, the only difference now... is that people give the government pictures of themselves to match faces to the phone conversations. And, of course, continuous position data... as opposed to the sort of discrete position data you could get in the 70's and 80's.
As far as I can tell Feedly has no OPML export feature, so if it eventually goes away it's a dead end for users.

(Please prove me wrong, but I searched the site and also installed the extension to try and find one.)
> Then 7 republican states secede from the US and shortly thereafter they wage war.

Uhh. Those states may be Republican now, but none of them went for Lincoln: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elec...

> Then the republican Lincoln wins and a period of slave liberation and movement towards equal rights on a federal level begins.

Right, but during the 20th century there was a pole shift in US political parties. To oversimplify a bit: FDR made the Dems the party of economic liberalism and Lyndon Johnson made them the party of civil rights (on which Johnson famously stated: "We've lost the South for a generation").
So what happens if the inventor decides to publish the invention in a manner that implies that it's free for others to use without any license or royalty, but then, a year later, decides to file for a patent?

Would the use of the invention by others invalidate the patent application? Would the patent be granted, but unenforceable due to the prior public release of the invention being construed as estoppel that creates a general license to the invention? Or would the inventor, armed with a new patent, be able to tell everyone already using the invention that they now have to pay a license fee to continue using it?
On the other hand, waiting maximizes the amount of time I can continue to be productive while you more eager people test out the alternatives for me.

If I had more time, I'd definitely try a bunch of things. But for now I'm glad that there are a bunch of eager types out there testing the alternatives and posting here.
> "management that treats people as a commodity is a bunch of douchebags that, in a more just and virtuous society, would have some or most of their teeth knocked out."

Well then I'm happy that in this society there is jail for people with your proclivities.
Man Makes A Run For It Out Courtroom After Pleading GuiltyCaught On Tape] 
A Columbus man makes a guilty plea in court and then runs for a taste of freedom. The man admitted to five counts of robbery, then sprinted out of the courtroom
Totally agree, and it's a great idea to invest this time in other stuff to learn more and get other things done.

Even if you do those things that benefit your company however, in theory at least you should have reported back that your task is finished, and you'd usually be assigned with what's next on the priority list... So still the temptation is always there.
Global Internet Porn Habits interactive map: top 10 search terms by country
This might sound crazy to you, but many blogs are primarily about broadcasting information, rather than showing ads. From that perspective, having a feed is a no-brainer.
~50% - I'm in "big data" right now, partly because I get to worry about the algorithmic complexity of things all the time. As the scale of a task goes up and the feasibility of just throwing more machines at it decreases, you can suddenly justify spending a lot of programmer time on interesting things.
Designing A Better Mobile Checkout Process
Much better search

The ability to view multiple conversations at the same time

Better support for pasting and copying code

Hopefully much better reliability (we use Erlang and do proper OTP release upgrades)

We're pretty fanatical about fixing bugs.
Those were all technologies that were "known" to be "evil". But to get that point, there were probably scientific advancements made that were pretty benign, in isolation. And those advancements were probably used to develop other technologies that were "known" to be "good". The people working on those earlier advancements had no way (necessarily) of knowing what would be derived from their work. The same is true of technological advancements advancements today. The people who first started working on the internet probably had no idea (for the most part) of the privacy issues that have arisen. Ditto for satellites, GPS. . .
It's a frontend for Google Reader right now. I think most are assuming the option will appear when they switch over to their own API after Reader goes dark.

However, you should vote on the suggestion just in case: https://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions/sugge...
Clickable:

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
They said "plus or minus 4000" copies, not that they sold 4000 copies. This caught me by surprise at first, too, until I re-parsed the sentence.

Now, upon reading it a third time, I'm not so sure. It is certainly confusingly worded.
you have freedom after you receive tenure, but virtually no freedom before that.

during your phd and postdoc, and certainly while you're tenure-track, you want to be pursuing projects that will nearly guarantee you publications at top-tier conferences / journals. so you don't want to be too risky, lest you go a few years without any good publications.
Actually only the release candidate of GNU GCC 4.8 is released. The final release is expected in about a week or so: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-03/msg00127.html
Reducing risk of discovery (related to software demos) before NDA is in place
RSS feeds can be monetized. For example, Daring Fireball [1] sells weekly 'sponsored posts' on the RSS feed, in addition to selling ads on the site.

[1] http://daringfireball.net
Ah, right, thank you. I hadn't realised they weren't importing, just accessing.

I'm not a feedly user so I don't mind but thanks for the link to the suggestion, good to see it's being considered.
If a man bursts into the room armed to the teeth, points pistols at us and yells that the problem in society today is too many guns, it's okay to attack that messenger and point out that he is part of the problem.

Yes for brevity I skipped a couple of steps in my argument that I knew/assumed most folks on HN wouldn't need spelling out >> surveillance can be beaten by various forms of anonymizing technology >> such technology requires control of your technology environment, hardware & software >> big media companies such as the one printing the article (albeit one by a respected security researcher whose articles I read - via Google Reader - le sigh) are among those entities most aggressive in restricting access, by you and I, to control over our technology choices. [Updated to correct imprecise language]

So... the messenger - or at least the part I criticized, CNN - is not a neutral party in this story and as such it's perfectly legitimate to question their role and interests in the message.

Clearer?
There will always be developers who will be willing to do this either because it's challenging or because they need to put food on the table. You can't win that fight. The people who take those jobs also have the potential to become whistle-blowers and throw 6 months+ of internal emails to $POPULAR_TORRENT_SITE showing all kinds of interesting dialog and/or corruption.

Concentrate on getting laws passed or technology made to stop or avoid the tools of "Big Brother" and educating the general public on what's going on with the internet and BigCorp/government. What I would like to see is a browser extension or app that makes PGP easy for the masses so they can encrypt emails, messages, etc. Open source of course. We don't need any secret backdoors.
Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
There are many stories on HN about great product launches that get money from tons of people on the first day. If we hear about slow launches, the store comes years later, after the product is a success. I'm writing this so that we'll have another perspective. I'm ten days into a slow, frustrating launch, but I am hopeful and excited.

Thirteen users have signedup for my hosted PhantomJS web service (BromBone.com). That's a lie. Four of those 13 accounts are test accounts I created. Why I am so excited about these nine accounts? I have nine people who have decided to take my service for a test drive! The great thing about that is that nine is only one less than ten. Ten doubled is 20. Find another 20 and I'm up 40. That's almost half way to 100, then 200, 300, and 400. Soon I'll have a 1000.

That may be a little optimistic. I've read so much about gathering interest before launch and talking to customers. But it din't go as smoothly as I would hope. Posts to mailing lists take me longer to craft than I would like. The discussion is positive and generates some traffic. But honestly it is a trickle compared to what I need. I posted twice to HN, but no one clicked the upvote button.

Why then am I so positive? I got two sigups overnight. And I hadn't done any new marketing the day before. My traffic is tiny. But every time I do a little piece of marketing, I see a spike. The spike goes away, but it leaves behind a residual traffic increase. Additionally, the nine users I have are actually playing around with the service. They're using something I crated! I think if I keep my efforts going, traffic and users will increase.

If anyone else out there is excited about getting just a handful of signups, you're not alone. I'm sure we won't all make it big, but I think there's reason to be excited. Just because my "launch" didn't bring in a flood of users doesn't mean that I can't grow the trickle into a stream, and then a river. Or maybe this is denial. Time will tell.
NSA Patent: Method for geolocating logical network addresses
That CNN page itself have a lot of trackers. My adblock filters saved me from these ones: http://i.imgur.com/NGbiIaV.png
HN and Facebook are enough for me.

Do your favorite researchers post comments at Facebook regarding their latest papers?
http://weebly.com is quite good.
RockThePost Pivots to Equity-Based Crowdfunding for Startups
People can be spied even with an anonymizing network. The reason why this is possible is the open and distributed architecture of the internet itself.
Of course! This seems to be the most recommended substitute, my question is why? Is it really that much better than the rest?
Sure, but part of the reason why they're defunct is that Google Reader killed them. Which doesn't address this point but does the larger conversation.
"Plus or minus" is most likely used here to mean "more or less" or "approximately".
The more talented people work on privacy-invading technology, the more powerful, pervasive, and smoothly-running the surveillance state will be.

Most of us have the choice to deny the surveillance state our own talent. We can work at more privacy-respecting firms and on more privacy-respecting projects. We can try to educate people about privacy, and advocate for positive change. We can even actively work to counter the surveillance aparatus by building crypto, stego, mesh-network and other privacy and anonymity enhancing technologies. Most of us probably don't have the luxury of doing this latter as our day job, but certainly as a side project -- if we care enough and want to make a difference.
A good lower limit. Not everyone has the time or inclination to take immediate action. I'm a heavy user of Google Reader and I haven't yet taken an action. I probably won't for at least a few weeks.

What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users.
Congrats on the start. Post it here again on Monday 9-10 am eastern time.
Ideally near the silicon roundabout. But, I am flexible
I sure hope it serves Google's long term goals. Lest we forget, apparently Reader did not serve those goals, and got killed for it.

They don't have to be nefarious, they just have to want to use you to sell ads.
Oh well, this release page has been up for months! Please consider changing the title to "GCC 4.8 upcoming changes" or something like that. I got confused that 4.8 was released today!

Like already pointed out, 4.8 is not yet released!
Can you say in one sentence what it is that you built that doesn't already exist, and why it is important?
Other sites built with IIS & MVC - http://stackoverflow.com/a/12006474/10941

monster.com,
break.com,
ancestry.com,
wildtangent.com,
kbb.com,
redbox.com ,
nordstrom.com ,
townhall.com,
tunein.com,
g4tv.com

Don't blame the framework, blame the developers.
What about "Los Angeles, November 2019"?
I think the "Google Reader users" claim is because they know how many new users imported their data from Google Reader.
I'm an author who wrote an Amazon "bestseller" -- it was the #1 Culture book in the store for six months, and the #1 Technology book for about one month. (http://amzn.to/infodiet)

I sold more than 4,000 books (closer to about 15,000), but have basically made a relatively comparable amount of money from royalties from the book.

That said, if you're writing a book looking to profit from the sales of the book, you're doing it wrong. I easily pull in six figures for speaking fees that result from having written a book. I wasn't getting those offers before having written the book.

Maybe fiction is a bit different. But you can always find a way.
Free accounts are only sort-of suspended. Once you’re registered, you can get back in without going straight to the payment page.

See https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/free_accountis_n..., for example.
> the start-up world's programmers--all of them--are sharpening knives.

This is an astute observation—that is what we're all doing. But we've become so comfortable creating and sharpening knives that no one has dared make the cut. We're sharpening knives, sure, but that's all we're doing.

There are big things out there waiting to be built. An integrated social system that actually works, and fits within people's lives in a natural way that Facebook and twitter simply don't. There's room to bring in all of our connected experiences in the same way a great chef creates a seven course meal. Artfully. Human. I don't personally believe software has seen the magnum opus of which it is capable, yet.

I loved this article because it's so right. We're all so spoiled that we haven't been able to build the Great Wonder of the Internet. We're just making stones in a disorganized fashion. I have this feeling of desperation that I can barely explain, but I think that like most people who can just see a glimmer of the wonders we could be building, I am too comfortable where I am to act on it and create something truly grand.

Sharpening knives, creating better knives, sorting our knives, admiring our collection of knives. Someday they'll be used for the great art that is bound to come, because it's possible, and like countless cultures before us, we feel compelled to complete what we know is possible.
Trying things out might teach you the sort of things you do and don't like in a reader. If all you've ever used is Google Reader then you might discover new preferences by being exposed to other solutions.

You still have to switch soon, so you might as well put in a little extra time. At least, that's my thinking on it right now.
Here's one I've been struggling with lately: Parallel coordinates representations of smooth hypersurfaces. I'm not aware of extensive reseach of the parallel coordinates geometry prior to 50 years ago.

http://www.cs.usc.edu/assets/004/83248.pdf
> RSS is just a money sink

You guys are missing the most obvious point and the big boys have already figured it out. Subscribe to Engadget, Gizmodo, etc.

What you'll get is an excerpt of the story with a "click this link to read the rest".

After I click, I'm on their site. I want to read/post comments? I'm on their site.

RSS is free advertising for content providers and a way to get more eyeballs. Google is foolish for putting all of their eggs in the social basket.
Facebook is like a sand castle compared to the great pyramid to come. We need to start building that.
> As long as there's pressure to build systems, they will find people to build them.

Right. But you could find people easily or with great difficulty. Imagine a whole generation of "ethical" hackers who refuse to become pawns in the industrial military complex and/or surveillance sectors. Who will build the police state then?

My point is that "the system" depends heavily on the humans and the best way to fight the system is not to work for the system. Just don't join //them// and (A) you will sleep better at night and (B) you will be helping the world.

The argument "someone was going to do it if I don't" doesn't hold any water. Just stick to what you believe is right and don't worry about the others.