skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I say, Aaeaarrghhhhhhhhh! This was ( I speak in the past tense, even though death does not happen until July 1st ) one of the few reliable guideposts about the internet.

Google reader,of the RSS readers, you were the best, reliable, unencumbered by partisanship, unflavored by ideology. You were the best. Too bad, I must say goodbye, too bad I must go to newsbeuter or some other webreader, too bad you must die.

Truly I hate google, I hate what Google has become, I love the web, I love what the web was supposed to be. I love RSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS and I will mourn you when you are gone.
You're right. The phrase "Cured MS through diet" alone could be a true statement. But to be a true statement it needs to be tested by science. And this doctor isn't doing any real science.

In general when someone says "I cured this chronic, uncurable, disease through diet" I need to read what they say very carefully. At best it's an overblown claim and they actually mean "this food has a strong evidence base to help you manage your illness and reduce relapse". At worst it's evil people cynically cashing in by selling nonsense to desperate dying people.
let me be the first to say http://nooooooooooooooo.com/
The entire article has some great lessons to be learned. Worth a second read.
From what I read from you elsewhere in these comments, though, subscribing to an RSS feed in Prismatic does not (currently) mean you will see 100% of the content in them - correct?

... If you are indeed changing it to include 100% of the feeds of my choosing, that's great to hear.

What I ALWAYS want + 'a little extra I might like' is something I can appreciate.
Google might drop anything now, groups , appengine, whatever , You just cant trust their Saas anymore.
I can see the desire to be able to execute non-GET commands via the browser's address bar. Another way Sails could accomplish that would be to accept "?method=PUT|POST|DELETE" to mimic the desired HTTP method.
Thanks but I don't want an APP. I use 14+ different browsers a day. I touch other machines as well. Any machine I'm on, even if it's not mine, I want to access my feeds. I have ZERO interest in an app. Thank you.
I had a similar formative experience as a dishwasher.

However, the old man who ran the restaurant really liked you to scrub the carbon off the bottom of the pots and pans. To this day I have no idea why.
Apple's Schiller blasts Android, Samsung on Galaxy's eve
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Right on all counts. On the upside, we're smarter than an RSS reader for high-volume feeds currently, and sort things based on how much we think you'll like them (based on topics, social information, and more) rather than just by time. Support for the 100%-of-feed use case is in the works, stay tuned.
I believe it does - I use Cloudflare with my blog and every file, including *.html files, appears to be served by them.
SEO via TOOTOO and Manta--lean pipe and Joint / szyms22szyms.com
I don't know how to say this without sounding like a dick, so apologies in advance.

For fuck's sake, people - it's 2013. Get with the CoffeeScript program already.
Your right. It's more likely just a tag for the messages or an encrypted command and not a file format.

But maybe my hunch for select google lookups and "next word or some other base rules" is a good indication.

Actually the numbers are always 6 digits just enough for a hex code color number. Maybe this is a lot more complicated than it looks. And some don't have this at all. So it must have a "default" color value if the number is a hex color code at all.
Joss is going to be busy directing big budget sci-fi/fantasy/awesome movies for a while.

With low budget Shakespeare/awesome movies mixed in between,

e.g. his just-released Much Ado About Nothing, briefly reviewed here (and the trailer's embedded):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/03/08/173808228/joss...

(Firefly fans: Nathan Fillion is in this one.

As is Clark Gregg (aka Agent Coulson from The Avengers) and other actors from other Whedon projects).
For an alternative check out niflet.com. It adapts to your interests. It's written in Go, such that it can handle a ton of traffic on a cheap box.
I think in the future (maybe 5 years from now), writing programs for Android will become like making money with AdSense now: unless you are very large (like Facebook), or have a PR department (like NYTimes), expect letters like you now get from AdSense:
"It has come to our attention that <... blah blah ..>
As a result, we have disabled your application in Google Play store and removed it from devices where it has been installed"
And poof- all your work is gone!
Replace <...bah blah...> with "copyright", "inappropriate user generated content", "not fitting our 'business model'", "inducing users to install it", etc.
Sorry for your bad experience. The import adds both your subscriptions as well as topic feeds we think you'll be interested in based on your GR activity, so it's not going to be exactly the same content. You can remove them if you like by going from 'interests' in the home or profile header.

We currently process delete account requests manually -- if you use the feedback tool within the app or email us at feedback@getprismatic.com we'll be happy to take care of it for you. Adding this as an option directly within the app is in the works as well.
I'm here with Alan Noble who runs engineering at Google Australia and ran the Google Reader project until 18 months ago. They looked at open sourcing it but it was too much effort to do so because it's tied to closely to Google infrastructure. Basically it's been culled due to long term declining use.
That would be my goal. Yes :)
CoffeeScript isn't for everyone. I've used it, and I really prefer JavaScript. While there's some nice things about it, I personally find it to be incredibly unreadable. (Sure, you can write a mix of JS and CS, but that just seems wrong.)

(That being said, I love LESS and can't imagine writing pure CSS, so I do understand how you feel.)
Vast market share with a far behind #2 competitor? There may be other reasons, but this one is definitely #1 by far. If you really want to ask a question like this, better ask why do they prefer Direct3D over OpenGL, or why aren't they making the games cross-platform. But in most cases, the answer should be the same. Windows is "big enough" and they don't need the other platforms (at least so far - things might change in the next few years).
Thanks Kale! I did wish to post earlier but gotta fix some last minute bugs that popped up.
Happy Pi Day!
there's always the amd-version of those here -> https://github.com/amdjs
Fat-fingered downvote, apologies.
Also, Happy Birthday Einstein!
I was the same way and I actually preferred to be on dish, because I could get something done (and at night, I could blast music)! I eventually got pretty fast at it and was appreciated for not doing a crappy job.
I'm not sure how portability would be in favor of Java for game development. The number of gaming platforms Unity will run C# on is awesome: http://unity3d.com/unity/multiplatform/ . What can I use to get Java running on the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U? As for personal taste, I'd argue C# has a better gaming ecosystem (SlimDX, XNA, MonoGame, the list goes on) and is generally more nicely designed. Interop between C++ and C# is also head and shoulders above most of the other interop options -- the full proper mixed mode debugging straight out of the box is a godsend, and the performance is top notch.

C++ might be an old workhorse for AAA titles needing the best of performance out of the platforms they're targeting (a very specific case), but aside from the loss of productivity, there's plenty of places C++ won't reach: Not everyone has native client, and writing your game as an ActiveX component is easily going to scare people off.
How real is the rise of Africa?
Direct 3D + windows only sdks + windows only 3d engines + proper graphic card drivers + huge userbase + 3d tools running exclusively on windows + easier binary distribution + not have 50 distribs to maintain + etc ... that's quite easy why , until Linux becomes game developper friendly , linux is dead as a gaming plateform...
I would imagine it could start by eliminating bionic, which seeems designed primarily to keep hardware OEMs happy that everything is under a weak (BSD style) license.
ChromiumOS uses a standard Linux libc (probably glibc) and is more compatible with commonly available userland software and the newest ARM hardware and ABIs.

The Chromium build system is also more suited to building an OS than a Java application.
I'll assume that Dalvik stays, and that the Android API is supported.

The Android window manager is pretty powerful (actually underutilized on phone form factors, as it supports movable frames and overlap, though that is not apparent from using it. Chrome has it's own window manager, as well as it's own desktop UI.

One question might be what direction Google TV goes in, possible with a more exclusive partner arangement. Does it make sense to build Google TV apps on Android, or should it move to more of a web model using Chrome? (This isn't neccessarily assuming that Google TV survives as it's own product line).

I haven't seen what information has been publically released about Google Glass development, but it's UI could be accomplished equally with Android or Chrome underneath, and eventually it makes sense for them to be webapps.

Another possibility, seemingly out there, would be for Android to move towards a WebOS/FirefoxOS model where core applications are built using HTML and interfacing with exposed libraries, but Android apps would still be first class citizens.
I'm suspicious of this. I thought I read somewhere that the force required for reverse osmosis is mostly due to osmotic pressure, and a more permeable membrane won't change that at all. It just reduces friction. Here's a cite: http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/08/desalinization-is-thi...
" A state-of-the-art facility is now within a factor of two of the theoretical energy minimum,".
I have not seen the movie yet. Seems like a good watch. In this video I like part at 2:56 where a lady comforts the other saying "There, there. That's not true. Google+ has fans and it's quite nice." in reaction to Hilter's comment — "If Google+ was shut down today no one would care."
There are services out there that will absorb transaction risks for you. One example is https://bitpay.com/
I wonder if Google has plans to yank AdBlock from the Chrome Web Store also. It must cause some bean counters some serious stress seeing the #1 Chrome extension being completely antithetical to their business.
Epic optical illusion (or "glitch in the matrix") redux
#bitcoin, I think. That or #bitcoin-dev.
Could be an oversight. I think "manage my contacts" is a default permission requested when not explicitely setting the scope in OAuth...
There are JVMs and native compilers available from countless vendors for almost any type of thing with a processor and enough memory?
Aaron Swartz’s lawyer accuses prosecutor of misconduct
tl;dr:

AdBlock Plus “interferes with or accesses another service or product in an unauthorized manner,” which Google says is a violation of section 4.4 of the Developer Distribution Agreement so it has been removed from Google Play.
I like the idea. What happened? Social graph was not as pervasive as now.. I think this idea has a chance... Act quick before FB makes it a feature into their website...
Linkedin has similar feature with their endorsement from coworkers..
no why, you can always develop and install any android apps you want. what you mean is access to the play store. there is a difference.
Well sure, I forgot about Unity, which is indeed a great platform to build on.
Maybe my mind is too low-level for CoffeeScript... I prefer seeing var and being verbose.
6 Tips on Developing Games for Mobile from Zynga's Richard Rabbat
@bradfordcross: Since you've been asking what you can do to make Prismatic better...

I want a weekly heads-up on all important news items in a particular domain. So I can make sure I'm staying on top of it.

I like to browse Prismatic daily because of the mix of recommendations relevant to my space, and fun pieces. When I skip reading Prismatic for a few days, I feel like I might have missed important news.

So essentially, I want a really heavily filtered Prismatic for a few particularly crucial topics of interest to me, that I can review weekly.
Ah, the routine of not being evil.
The movie is fantastic, though it is in no way funny. Highly recommended.
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Verbatim doesn't even fully disable word corrections. There is no way at all to search for punctuation characters. Try it yourself, type in ((((())))) or something and look at all zero results.
And both get translated into native code by V8 at runtime.
vin = the source of coins that are being spent, plus some auxiliary data. The source consists of a (txid, vout) pair, where vout is an output index. If the client comes across an identical pair as a source in multiple transactions, all but the first will be rejected as invalid.
This is the scary thing about obesity. Bariatric patients skew reality. People weighing over 500 pounds are obese; people over 250 pounds are now just overweight. The perfectly healthy "curvy" is now applied to people who are not just curvy, but very overweight, and sometimes in the obese range of overweight.

I am wrong to call him chunky. (Although I do wonder if he's a thin-fat person, with all the fat around internal organs. But this is just noodling, and has nothing to do with anything he's said.)

And I strongly agree about your BMI comment. I should have been a bit more careful - BMI is only useful as a guide that a person may be overweight. (If that person doesn't do any kind of exercise.)
Why it needs an access to "manage my contacts"?

Compared to early crazy years of Facebook apps, there has recently been a pleasant trend of apps asking just a minimum needed access rights and gradually asking for more if it needs. Now that all major platforms (Facebook, Google, Twitter, iOS) offer a pretty good way to display access rights - I think Facebook's way of showing them is the most clear of the pack - access right management seems a natural part of the application signup flow and not a chore.
> Also, doing games development in C# doesn't make sense to me ...

Why not? Not everyone is doing the next Crysis.

> I mean, if you value productivity over runtime efficiency and want something that runs on top of a VM, might as well get something out of it, like portability.

Why don't people learn about compiler design? languages != implementation

Are you aware that Mono also compiles to native code or that .NET on Windows Phone 8 is also compiled to native code?

Having said that, given the prevalence of Windows on the games industry, many studios have migrated their C++/MFC tooling to C#/Windows Forms/WPF, even AAA studios.
Because of the volume of reports we have settled on a scan every new item quickly, categorize it into severity and then respond. As you say it is a minor privacy issue so it looks like it went into a lower-pri area. I will make sure you hear back soon.
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"Internet freedom and consumer choice". I have always considered guys at Adblock, as a bunch of hypocrites. So consumer choice would be to use services funded by advertising, and suppress it.
For the oauth login it requires the following permissions:
View basic information about your account, Manage your data in Google Reader, View your email address
Manage your contacts, View and manage your Google Contacts, Perform these operations when I'm not using the application

Why would it want access to view AND MANAGE my contacts? This seems a bit odd.
Google is not an "open" company, no matter how many times they put that word in their press releases and ads. They are optimizing for revenue. They never allowed YouTube download add-ons in Chrome Web Store either. Removing AdBlock shouldn't be much of a surprise.

PS: More reason to stick to Firefox, especially since installing non-Chrome Web Store add-ons requires jumping through hoops[1] and even if you do so they won't auto-update AFAIK.

EDIT: I'm sorry. You're right. I got confused about what was removed from where. Apparently I'm not alone in this confusion because as of this edit the top comment for this thread starts with the sentence "the thing about blogspam is that it often generates confusion" and continues with an explanation of the situation[2]. Again, I apologize for my half-baked comment.

[1] http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=e...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373795
Luckily Firefox has kept up and the two browsers are pretty similar. I use both, and will drop Chrome in a heart beat if they did remove it from the app store.
> It is not that simple. If you have a calorie deficit but aren't getting enough nutrients you will get cravings but won't be able to sustain your diet.

That makes no sense. In that case, you aren't on a caloric deficit. If you aren't able to achieve a caloric deficit, then you are not on a caloric deficit.
Productivity loss with C++ is over-rated. The Pro C++ game programmers (esp Renderer and Physics programmers) are as productive.

For example, Forth is more productive than say, perl to me; But perl is more productive for sys admins.

To top it off, many indie games are written in C++, 0ad is a good example.
https://twitter.com/Rice18501444

Probably the same type of bot if it helps anyone get ideas.

Gosh this is really such a freaky thing. I just can't imagine this being only for blackhat SEO. It must be something else for so many bots to be posting 6 digits and random text. It can have so many ways of filtering all that information though, and without having much clues it's hard to find what is what.

I thought looking at the smaller ones might make more sense
but haven't gotten any luck. However one thing I did notice is that when you google parts of the messages you can sometimes see that they are injected into other websites as well.

If you consider that some of these may reference messages not on the same date this gets even more complicated to decode, so unless anyone else has something more to go on I don't really know what to say.

Edit: Actually if you look at it here from the stream from the article: https://twitter.com/search?q=unglue

It's clearly blackhat SEO for "most" of the message with just some extra words mixed in between as they are found on the page that it links from. As far as the ".xxx" or 6 digits those are still up to question though.
A lot of industry domains prefer developing on Windows. I find this culture even in places like embedded programming world.

Want to develop for a TI processor/controller or a Analog devices one? Or anything for that matter? Its a certain that the Linux/Mac tool support is no where closer to Windows. Yes you can argue that you can bypass all that roll out your tool chain and use it. The argument works for a hobbyist set up. If you are doing serious work, which has some form of revenue or business impact at work then its pointless to be solving meta problems when the actual problem is on standby.

Its all about tooling support. If your largest customers are corporate ones. They will inevitably use Windows due to ease of administration and support for tools like Microsoft office. And since most of your customer are using Windows the vendors will always provide a degree of better support for Windows.

Windows wins.
I see this a lot here and in other places. I can't speak for the article's author, but not everyone is in the USA where software developers are payed 100k+.

I get paid 33k (EUR) a year. After taxes that is about 1500 a month. After bills and food, I have about 400. If I save every penny, in 2-3 years I have 1 year of living expenses.

Yay for me, except I'm in the top 10% earners in my country and earn about 3 times the national average (and 5 times pre tax minimum wage). Even in software development salaries are usually in the 20-25k range pre tax.

(Portugal if anyone is interested, but even when I was in the UK or Netherlands, there wasn't that much of a difference)
I would be _so_ interested in something like this.
came from a big company, escaped to start-up world but also a marketer. take offense that marketers are the problem here. coders aren't the only ones who get the life blood sucked out of them by too much management. good marketers love to work with good coders and relish in creativity and risk-taking.
Feedly: smooth alternative to Google Reader
If you, like me, were stunned by today's morning news that my favorite rss google reader is about to be closed, here's a smooth alternative that I've found quickly.
http://www.feedly.com/
Quality features:
- Can be installed as Chrome app
- Mobile version
- Google reader sync
Overall, the transition from Google Reader to Feedly was very quick and smooth.
I think microsoft had excellent timing with its 'scroogled' ads. (http://www.scroogled.com/).

I've already switched by browser's default search to http://duckduckgo.com, and honestly haven't noticed a difference, although alot of my searches are already on more domain-specific sites like stackoverflow.com so I bypass generic search engine.

Now, it could be time to switch back to firefox from chrome, esp. if google decides to scroogle AdBlock Plus from the Chrome Web Store too.
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Thanks. No worries there :) I am not into bashing other people's hard work, but sometimes you just know it's not fit for you (case in point, mine).

I got confused the first tie with those jumping bubbles after the import as well. So I just went straight and clicked "Get Started". Anyway, I'm just saying it's not for me, but everyone, please try it first to see for yourself :) It has a neat UI and all.
Well it happened, with a simple decision to switch from BerkeleyDB to LevelDB. Luckily no-one malicious discovered it first, and it got fuzz'ed out.
Are you sure about your examples?

I think you're confusing "xbox live arcade" with "xbox live." You don't have to create games with XNA to get them on xbox live. I specifically remember C++ code in Indie Game: The Movie (for Super Meat Boy). And I'd bet money that Jonathan Blow, the creator of Braid, prefers C++ over C#.

This isn't to say C# isn't a viable option on consoles. I believe FEZ is all C#...that game is incredible, from an art design standpoint at least. It did have visible garbage collection pauses though.
They're not quite similar as there isn't an ad blocking equivalent on other mobile platforms, but it exists on other browsers. Also in this case there is the app developer revenue to consider. Anyway you can still side-load on both platforms.
I don't think that solves the underlying problem of side effect-ful/dangerous GET requests that may be easily exploited via CSRF attacks. You really don't want to expose POST/PUT/DELETE actions via GET.
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I hate AdBlock and I wish people would use it more carefully. But even I think this is a bad idea for Google.

They appear to be saying that ad-blockers "interfere with [...] in an unauthorized manner the devices, servers, networks, or other properties or services of any third party"

Which is baffling, because I as the operator of my web browser is the person who gives authorisation for code (including ad code) to run on my browser on my machine.

I can think of a bunch of stuff that interferes with stuff - readability is an example. Why is it not okay to block ads, but is okay to drop CSS and reformat a page?

I fully understand why people run ad-blockers. I don't use ad blockers, so I know just how awful many ads are.
The inventor of what? The letter had nothing to do with RoR.