skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, but I don't think this subthread is important enough to litigate. If he wants to chime in and say "I absolutely am not saying CISPA is part of a scheme that will increase the powers of rightsholders", I'll apologize for mischaracterizing him.
I've been reading up about Akregator, and it seems to be direly under-staffed in terms of developer oomph. There was blag post a few years ago about porting it to Akondai: http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=137 but it is still using Metakit.

Maybe this is the wake up call to get Akregator back up to snuff, though. I might look at the code to see if theres anything I can do, at least.
Tangent: How on earth do product blogs not have a link to their product page? Nowhere is there a link to feedly.com in their header or sidebar, I have to manually edit the URL. Ridiculous.
I have had my say on the broker model http://startupnorth.ca/2012/09/26/brokers-smokers-and-midnig...

Which is different than pay to pitch. Pay to pitch is broken for investment. It works for PR and attention, I.e., Demo.com, but I hate it to get investor attention. The closest I've seen is incubator DemoDays, but the interests are in closer alignment.
:) It works for me, but it seems to be really slow right now.
feels really slow, is it because of the traffic surge?
"I work a lot because I like it, but also because we're not in the black yet. "

Did you address this issue with her? Maybe she doesn't feel the same urgency for profitability. If profitability is a big concern for you, communicate that
Please do a few minutes research before blindly dismissing the MSR.
From your 626 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 12,220 items

Since September 5, 2010 you have read a total of 300,000+ items
We've also been working on a Google Reader replacement for the last two years: http://intigi.com. With Intigi, you can import your RSS feeds from Reader (via OPML) and then filter the feeds by your preferred keywords and social signals (e.g., shares via Twitter).

Intigi is a paid service, primarily targeted at marketers, but we do have a number of startups and founders using the product for content discovery and sharing. You can quickly share content you find to social media, a WordPress site, or to an RSS feed (e.g., to connect with IFTTT).

I'm one of the cofounders and happy to answer any questions about the service and would love any feedback, if you decide to give it a test spin. Please email me at mjfern(at)intigi.com.
It works reliably on simple shared host. The developer rolls out automatic updates as well. PHP is a perfectly fine solution for this purpose.
Some of the test cases in the OP made me think, "Man, they've perfectly simulated Houston's road design". Then I was rather impressed.
You guys should rotate a guy/girl image on the front page and a/b test. :-)
Yes, many times. She says she gets it, and says all the right things, but nothing really changes. It's almost as if her income was being subsidized. That or she's happy being broke.
Here is a frequency response graph for a pair of HD800s which are sennheiser's top of the line head phones

http://cdn.head-fi.org/4/43/43663901_HD800graph.jpeg
>Also, if you look at the rise of processed foods along with obesity, diabetes, and other health problems that have increased over the past century it's clear that there are some serious problems, and they haven't been explained conclusively by this or that macro-nutrient trend.

>So given the state of the evidence, a vague evolutionary assertion that whole foods are generally healthier than a distilled diet of completely isolated nutrients is not granola flag-waving woowoo nonsense, it's a perfectly reasonable belief based on imperfect evidence.

Isn't it possible that this is more indicative of the rise in an imbalanced diet? Processed foods may have lead the majority of people into having an imbalanced diet, but if they were instead eating a perfectly balanced diet of processed materials like this man is doing, isn't it possible there wouldn't be the whole diabetes, obesity, etc. health crisis?

To put it bluntly, is there actually evidence that a balanced processed diet is any worse than a balanced whole foods diet?

If not, I think professionals should attempt to recreate this type of experiment to find out, obviously safely on animals first. The whole principal of science is that you don't hold onto preconceived opinions when testing theories. Holding onto a "processed foods are bad, because look what's been happening" POV is very unscientific and harmful.
This optimisation is about removing everything except nutrients from food.

Thus he removes taste, texture, price, familiarity, ethical sourcing, halal-ness or kosher-ness, everything except the nutrient.

We know it's a premature optimisation because we already have liquid feeds, and use is restricted to a few niche communities. (Cancer patients; anorexics being force fed; dieters; body builders.) There's nothing stopping you walking into a shop and buying high quality liquid feed today. Very few people do it because it's a lousy way of getting nutrients. People like eating food.

Perhaps I just misunderstand what you mean about optimisation?

The rest of this post is just me ranting, and isn't directed at you, but HN threads about food drive me mental and I need to get this out and my "save to draft" plugin broke (and I haven't fixed it yet) so here it is.

I just have no idea why anyone thinks this guy is doing anything new or exciting.

Some people seem to think that creating a liquid food is neat. It's kind of neat, but he's clearly an idiot and his product is a ham-fisted attempt to recreate something that already exists.

Some people seem to think that living on liquid, and removing the need to eat, is neat. Well, I have a lot more sympathy for that view point because it's about their opinions and feelings and etc. If that's what they want then good on 'em. I'd gently suggest that if they want to try it they're probably better off buying something created in clean labs with known properties, rather than some guy's weird glop.
Regulatory is a huge problem. IIRC Sorensen was estimating offhand that the first (modern) prototype/unit would take one or two billion.
I would like more powerful filtering options and better recommendations. For example, Hacker News feed is impossible to follow as RSS on reader as it has too high volume (for me at least). I would be content with ~40 daily recommendations.

Google reader had decent random recommendations before the G+ update. I believe that a good recommendation system can guess relevant items for given user, but that was not what google reader has been doing for some time now.
I think you're taking the "opposite" in my initial post more literally than I intended. My point was that if the law seeks to violate certain rights to privacy we believe we have, the law being struck down is not the final solution. The final solution if the rights to privacy we believe we have successfully being codified into law to prevent that bad parts from being practical options in the future. I did not mean to imply that each term in CISPA be logically negated and passed into law.
25% of calories are wasted digesting protein, <5% for everything else.
I can assure you (as someone who has designed part of a rocket) that Elon Musk did nothing even close to designing a rocket. That paragraph describes a school project for a propulsion class, not a rocket design. Good on him for doing what he's doing, but he's not doing it alone.
Except that they're fictional and any time he runs into a bind something falls out of the plot hole to save him. It's not a very good way to reflect on how someone would deal with that situation in real life.
I'm stunned. I was depending on this service to document my life and what I know. I simply can't fathom that they are going to shut it off. If this happens I'm going to move everything I have on google off of it. I put too much trust in them for them to pull this crap. This is an evil move. It exudes evil. It damages my productivity and steals my time. Ughhhh.
It's just you. Once you're used to them they're just as easy to read as "normal" conditionals, if not easier.
For some reason, I've always felt the need to have a founder when starting a new venture, but regardless of what happens here, I do think that's the way I'll proceed next time.
It's a curious statement about our society where the idea that the fuel for the human body could be simple. "Basic nutrients and calories"

It's all produced by self replicating lifeforms we've only begun to comprehend, right?
He's 6'3 190. He's lost a health amount of weight since starting the diet and has maintained the 190 level for a while.
If you like the idea of this then you will also like this one. It goes a bit further, still on my todo list for interesting fun projects.

http://smarterware.org/6172/hilary-mason-how-to-replace-your...

Hillary Mason

Substitute yourself by some small scripts
Document classification

Just stumbled upon a YouTube clip of one of the best Ignite presentations I've seen, by Hilary
Mason, a computer scientist at Bit.ly. Mason wrote a series of scripts that auto-respond to email
with particular content, and auto-nag folks she's emailed but hasn't gotten a response from yet. Hit
the play button to hear more. She says once the code's fit for sharing she'll put it up on GitHub.
Cannot wait.

http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/ignitenyc-the-video/
Trust me. They'll live. 60/70 hrs a week plus heated debates is not healthy. You need to slow down.
Google is one of those companies that make me feel like a wuss for being their customer. Okay, in this case one could (convincingly) argue that advertisers are the real customers of Google Reader, but I would have gladly just paid for the service. Apple is another such company for me, and I dumped considerable amounts of money into them, and they similarly just let me know with every single action that I'm not their kind of customer.

So the question becomes not "why is everyone using them?" or even "why are they doing things like this?", it starts with people like me who got to ask themselves honestly "why do I keep relying on these guys?".

Gmail is my main email account and it makes me deeply uncomfortable. I love OS X, despite its ever-increasing flaws, and that makes me feel like a hostage experiencing Stockholm syndrome. Facebook is the only thing in this category I actually stopped caring about on my own, but if I'm being honest that's more my friends' fault for re-enacting soap opera scripts online and offline, and less because Facebook is a data-grabbing virus that screws its users over at every turn (which it is).

My only face-saving answer to that conundrum is those products offer me some things that others don't, they have features that large companies are better positioned to deliver on. However, that's not a permanent state of things, as the complex features of yesterday become increasingly more feasible for smaller developers to tackle tomorrow. Maybe it's a good thing that Google and others are finally straight-up bent on filtering nerds like me out of their customer base, maybe that's the kick needed to overcome inertia and complacency.
I'm working a community to helping startups find good help building out financial projections, revenue and cost drivers, market positioning, etc all things that are needed for raising funding. Building out models correctly can be a huge time suck for a startup without someone with financial background on the fouding team.

http://www.startupfinancials.com
Settle down, Beavis.

http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/

"Nikesh oversees all revenue and customer operations" - revenue, and more.

Two SVPs are listed for specifically for engineering, both Indian.

Android and Chrome, obviously. And there is no bio given for Salar Kamangar, Youtube, which sounded as thought it could have been an Indian name but obviously wasn't.

That's quite a high proportion of Indian people in senior positions, don't you think?

Beyond that, you're getting very upset by minor lack of precision in a tweet, of all things.

-Benedict Evans
Dwarf Fortress can also bring my 1 year old quad core computer to a crawl.

I also seem to remember that once he left debugging symbols in a build and people managed to use it to determine that all path-finding is done twice for some reason.

Not the person I think that could help EA with performance problems :p
Why is it gross?
I reported a fairly minor privacy related leak and was curious how long you guys typically take to respond?
Anything on Amazon with Bitcoin. No transaction fee.
> AFAIK English is not a pro-drop language, which means that the construct should be ungrammatical.

Not exactly. English is indeed considered not pro-drop, but that doesn't mean that dropping a pronoun is always ungrammatical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-drop_language#English
F^&@ D^&@ IT! ^%&( ()&@& @&!^$&!!!!!

Of ALL the things they would shut-down, they have to kill Reader!?? Nooooooooooooo!! Aaargggghhhh....

Oh well, guess it's back to RSSOwl[1]. Maybe this will even motivate me to get involved in hacking on RSSOwl a bit and help those guys out.

This will probably also serve as the impetus for me to start adding some Reader like features to Neddick[2]. That was always sort of in the back of my mind, so why not go ahead and jump on it?

[1]: http://rssowl.org/

[2]: https://github.com/Fogbeam/Neddick
Exactly that.

My worst fear: Just couldn't find any service yet that provides this search capability in your very private hand-selected little back-catalog of the internet back to 2007 and earlier. Including sites that are no longer available in the wild. Nobody else will be able to provide that without access to the Google Reader Servers.

Hope this current uproar gets enough traction to find a solution to save this searchable and indexed archive of the internet/blogosphere somewhere accessible for everyone.
Ok, now fixed (there was a problem on Firefox). Thanks for your feedback :D
Based on his love of Chomsky, I'm pretty sure Swartz hated the Madisonian vision of America.
I don't doubt that those who are familiar with his work won't hesitate in taking out the credit card and thwacking it at the screen.

Do you know if it would hurt those sales in any way if he inserts a short bio for those who don't?
Yeah it didn't make much sense to me either. More I was just saying that obviously people can go well below these "minimums" with limited ill effects.
Well that sucks. One of my most used/visited apps/sites. Maybe Yahoo should build a reader. Could be a good fit for them.
Sorry about that! Here's a couple screenshots for you. http://imgur.com/a/BRNnE

I'll be sure to let you know when we have alternate sign up options too.
actually it is still available until June 1st.
sad it will be gone.
I think gmail will be next to go - I think the last gmail redesign made the product less usable on purpose; they must be paying a lot for storage cost on abandoned accounts, old emails etc; nowadays they get more transient user info from other sources ...
Aaron Swartz's Girlfriend Accuses MIT Of Dragging Its Feet
Here is the TEDx talk given by the founders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...

They talk about minimizing waste and using nuclear waste to power the reactors, but the article doesn't mention it at all.

http://transatomicpower.com/products.php
I like the quotes on the left :)

Favorite: "I got my friend laid with this web site." - Nobody, ever
The beauty of this aspect of google reader though is that they have archived every feed that anyone has read in the past 5+ years, and there's actually an API to retrieve that data as RSS/Atom.
From Nassim Taleb[1]

"""

The Japanese Nuclear Commission had the following goals set in 2003: " The mean value of acute fatality risk by radiation exposure resultant from an accident of a nuclear installation to individuals of the public, who live in the vicinity of the site boundary of the nuclear installation, should not exceed the probability of about 1x10^6 per year (that is , at least 1 per million years)".

That policy was designed only 8 years ago. Their one in a million-year accident almost occurred about 8 year later (I am not even sure if it is at best a near miss). We are clearly in the Fourth Quadrant there.

"""
--

Me:

Human beings are not capable of estimating the risks from Nuclear power plant operation. Take from that what you will.

[1]http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm
Agreed on most points. And to be honest, if you're a real customer of Google (we use them for our business) you are treated worse than the "free service" (where you aren't the customer, you're the product). Our work accounts have a fraction of the functionality of our free accounts and the idea that this is somehow doing us a favor ("we only give you the very most stable of our services") is rather unconvincing.
Unless he has almost no physical activity those calories are lower than recommended for weight loss. Also, when on a diet with calories as low as this your body's protein requirements increase, as they also do with higher physical activity. 50g is much lower than recommended.
Fascinating. The discussion as well. Surprised at how few comments there were about the culture of eating.

Part of the reason Soylent makes sense is that we are already eating 'food-like substances' (to paraphrase Michael Pollen) much of the time.
He is just doing it in a controlled instrumental way.

When I go to the datacenter (5 miles from the Lincoln tunnel in the godforsaken New Jersey Meadowlands). I generally pack the same food. kefir, beef jerky and an almond cranberry mix. Purely functional food so I can stay there and concentrate. Is it balanced and nutritional? probably not really.

I am American and the soylent thing feels very American to me. Which is not a bad thing. I love food and good eating but when I compare my relationship with food and eating with my wife's it is totally different. I was raised on frozen stringbeans with a sauce made of canned mushroom soup next to pot roast cooked to medium well...

My wife is Korean and food is totally different - more like what I would associate with someone from Italy or the south of France, etc. Ingredients and process. Her kimchi or the way she cooks rice (6 kinds of grains) - the innumerable side dishes all complementing one another, table grilled meat. Friends, wine. Strong coffee afterwards.

I could not imagine life without that - even though much of the preparation is time consuming. When she roasts seaweed over an open fire it takes hours. My boys seem to eat it in minutes...

Homemade dumplings involves the whole family and flour all over the place and a few hours of work to make about a gross of dumplings...

All of that is not something I would like to replace.

However - how often do you have a meal like that? 10 - 20 times a year.

What happens the rest of the time? There is an element of drudgery to daily eating. I use a hand grinder and a moka stovetop pot for my coffee. A pain in the ass - but I am addicted to the result.

Maybe a routine where you ate soylent for the instrumental times and had festive meals when desired (or when you really craved something).
Google Reader Over and Out (from the creator of NetNewsWire)
Show HN: Should I keep building this collaborative storytelling game?
"[Phil Schiller] shared data on the iPhone’s popularity and said Apple’s own research shows that four times as many iPhone users switched from Android than to Android during the fourth quarter"

–Today's issue of the Wall Street Journal
http://bringgooglereaderback.com/
Business is primarily a social thing

== Very true.
RIP Google Reader – I’d have paid for you
“WHEN IN THE HISTORY OF THIS RESTAURANT HAS ANYONE EATEN FROM THE BOTTOM OF THESE PLATES?"

While not quite the same, I'm reminded of Jobs' comment regarding a furniture maker who made sure the backs of the furniture were finished
I'm just happy to see press that isn't negative or dismissive. Here is a little more comprehensive Times article from earlier this week that gives a nod to the MSR if you're interested. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/science/in-search-of-energ...
Notice red background.
theoldreader seems to have died on my feed import to the best I can tell, anyone seen anything similar? It says it is still working in the background, but no update past the first 3 it imported...
Some angel groups have extensive pitch training and coaching programs attached to them and there I can see some justification for pitch charges but only if those charges are deducted from a successful raise. If the company does not raise funds, obviously the coaching failed and it would be wrong to charge anything.

Unfortunately in most cases in Canada there is no coaching or training of any kind - just a fee that taxes already cash-strapped entrepreneurs.
Second that. Feedemon has been my default client for years. Totally upset with Google's doing here.
Any reason the add-on for Firefox is 4.2 MB? It would by and far be the largest extension I've encountered.

edit: looks like there is a v0.1.2 coming which is much smaller 404.3 KB https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/netflix-rate/...
This is what billionares do for fun?
It's just an Apple Passbook clone, as you'd expect from Samsung.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/27/4035064/samsung-wallet-app...
The article certainly doesn't state anything new. Fail safes such as the "freeze plug" or the ship to order model or the lack of pressurization are not new. On the flip side though, at least we're seeing this resurgence (in public interest) in nuclear technology whether it be MSRs or other Generation IV+ reactors. Maybe having private companies make significant progress on a tight budget is what it takes to drive further funding from large governmental bodies, just as in the Space industry.
There are a ton of obvious fixes and small improvements, but do you find the overall concept to be something you could come back to?

And yes, it's realllly slow right now. It wasn't like that when I stopped messing with it 2 years ago.
"She says she gets it, and says all the right things, but nothing really changes."

If you have no reason to believe the situation is going to change going forward, then now's the time to cut the losses and move on. Find someone else or forge along by yourself.
Steve Yegge's effective emacs is definitely worth a read. It helped me get used to emacs without contracting RSI :) FWIW, I'm bilingual - I use Vim to write code and emacs to write in English.
Testing a homemade jetpack [video]
We've been working on something at Skim.Me (http://skim.me) for almost two years now as a replacement for Reader and/or iGoogle. We're still figuring it out but would love anyone looking for a replacement to signup for the next release.
Sorry, I was unclear; I meant use G+ instead of RSS feeds.
Having read that and two college rejection letters, I'd say they went as far as they could in an email that was ostensibly a reply-to-all.
Zaranga brings dynamic pricing to vacation rental market
He says it contains all the nutrients the body needs. That is a big claim.
> What do you guys recommend for replacement?

That's the hard part. Reader integrates nicely with Android's Listen (podcast app), and the reader app, and there's plenty of standalone clients that sync with Google.

That's my most-used Google app. By far. Colossal disappointment.
I really like the concept and layout. So, to answer your question, I'd definitely encourage you to keep building it. Two minor points of technical feedback: (1) Why did you feature a typo "you're (sic)" on the front page? Maybe I'm missing a subtle joke, but it seemed like a mistake; (2) When I click the "more" link below some of the writing snippets on the front page, I'm getting a blank white div. Also, the welcome lightbox pops up every time I go back to the home page.

Hope it doesn't seem like I'm being too critical. Just took the time to give a little feedback because I'm a big fan of the idea.
Sounds like a possible WebKit bug, then, to be honest...
Windows Phone application please