skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain to me why no one is doing a direct, pixel for pixel clone of Google Reader? I mean, the thing is popular enough that any startup would die for its traffic. Not to mention its users absolutely love it. As Paul Bucheit said, it's better to have a small number of users who love your product than a large number that like it. And well, Greader has a large number of users who love it (bordering on fanatical about it). So why not do a blatant clone as a f* you to Google for nuking a product that its users are absolutely devoted to.
SOS for RSS
Distinctly underwhelmed is right.

"The government knows a bunch of stuff about you that you choose to publicly disclose! Panic!"
The Elevator Deal Protocol
I think this place has lost a great deal of respect from the people that made it successful in the first place.
I know I'm totally guilty editorializing the subject line, and worse,
adding an unnecessary submission when a comment in the other thread
might do, but having a sense of humor makes life more enjoyable.

I'll never have any first-hand experience dealing with investors, yet
from all the horror stories I've read, the "Elevator Deal Protocol" is
how I've always envisioned it. The "Handshake Deal Protocol" seems like
a vast improvement.
> And it's been audited by more than two audit firms now, so I expect it must be somewhat realistic.

Nitpick: we can't see the actual financials because they are "Commercial-in-Confidence".

When you bring in an outside firm to audit something, if it's not a report regulated by law (eg the annual report of a public company) you can instruct them to use any assumptions or constraints that you wish.

An audit will only point out if your formulae are incorrectly formed (invalid), not whether they are at all realistic.

For example, NBN's internal funding plan might say something like:

"We assume 100% takeup in 2 years".

And the auditor's job isn't to say "2 years to 100%? That seems unlikely".

It's actually to say, "given 100% in 2 years, our calculation is X, and your calculation is also X, therefore the audit passes".
I am really surprised in all these Google Reader threads I have not seen mention of the free, self-hosted and perfectly simple RSSLounge. I been using it for three years now and even donated.

Development has stalled on this one though but the developer has a new RSS project with more social stuff. It is called Selfoss and is at http://selfoss.aditu.de/ .
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If you're in Perth: http://www.morningstartup.com/

I've only been able to get to one, but it's already given me useful feedback and I met some great people.
Gigabot 3D Printing: This is Huge
I know it really isn't relevant to the vulnerability, but it bugs the crap out of me to see somebody running commands as root when they don't need to... Does this bother anyone else?
Petition to save Google Reader
While not quite pixel to pixel oldreader seems to be quite close, they want to be close to the older UI which makes it even better in my eyes. They are sort of keeling over with the new load, but have scheduled an import, will see how it goes. Unfortunaately as of now they only import the subscriptions not he stars.

Not sure how they plan to support the service.
I participate in a weekly (online) startup founders meeting. Everyone there talks about business and networks. If you want, you can drop by and talk to industry people. You might get a job out of it. Who knows...

If you are interested, just shoot me an email.
The pay is actually pretty great in Australia (living costs are also high though).

I think another problem is that there's no one with the -exact- skillset they're after. Why take a chance on a local person that would take a couple of weeks to get up to speed when a foreigner has the exact skillset you're after. Not that I'm against foreign visas, but they do let industry off the hook on the whole training thing to a degree.
Thanks! I got a reply.
Actually, this post is from 2011 as well:
http://www.raptitude.com/2011/05/procrastination-is-not-lazi...
Samsung's processors are not powerful enough for LTE, at least that has been the reasoning in the past. I'm guessing the new lower power Octa cant push LTE, and being that LTE is still pretty much a US thing we get different SoC.
Here is the original posting w/ comments from 2011:
http://www.raptitude.com/2011/05/procrastination-is-not-lazi...
A lot of the VC funds that have launched in the past few years are actually seeded by government funds. Not a model that lends itself to genuine risk taking.

Just imagine the headlines:

TEN MILLION WASTED ON PHONE APPS

I live in Perth. Fellow ex-UWA folks of my acquaintance have the same complaint as me, which is as follows:

Perth has buckets and buckets of capital. This town is stupidly flush with cash. And Perth's taste for risk is much higher than the rest of country. You can raise tens of millions of dollars for high-risk, high-reward ventures in a relatively short time.

But there's a catch: this only applies if your proposal is to take some geologists and a drilling crew for mineral exploration.

The lifecycle for startups is ostensibly quite similar, but ... no dosh. The local investors don't really want to know about it.

edit:

That said, I wonder if Australia's intelligentsia will ever get over fetishising whatever industry and country which happens to be in the news a lot. I remember endless song and dance about Japanese cars. Now it's Silicon Valley.

Eventually it will be, I dunno, rockets and jetpacks. From Montenegro.

Meanwhile Australia is one of only 3 countries left with AAA rating and is the only country in the world that has had a growing economy for umpteen years. You can go a long way with sensible, basic policy settings.
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Mashup artist Nick Bertke gets banned from USA
She clearly means Paul Graham, who can come over and take the garbage out ANY TIME HE'S READY THANK YOU.
There are laws surrounding what is and is not a valid agreement. This website claims to somehow set a "standard" that would define when "if and only if" an agreement had occurred, but they do not have the right to just unilaterally do that. Even when dealing with people themselves, unless they can demonstrate that the other person had seen this website and known its contents ahead of time (and that thereby the contents of this website were to be taken as part of the overall oral agreement), the fact that they publish this website doesn't change what is or is not an agreement.
The DMCA is the only thing that provides the safe harbor to prevent this claim.

Is this really true? Is there case law pre-DMCA that showed that website owners or ISPs were being forced to pay large judgments for copyright infringement even when they showed that the infringer had violated their terms of use?

I understand that without the DMCA, the claim could still be made, and that it might cost a website owner or ISP quite a bit of money to defend it in court. But that's more a sign of how broken our court system is than anything else; the way to fix that is to raise the penalty for frivolous lawsuits. "Loser pays" would be one way to do that.
More HIV 'cured': first a baby, now 14 adults
Completely agree on point 3; fear of success is a big issue when it comes to side projects and the like, or in another form, fear of what the future/task looks like once the project is underway. There's also an aspect of enjoying the planning stage more than the execution stage, which is common in "analysis paralysis" type procrastination situations.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned ADD/ADHD yet; continually starting and not following through is a classic behaviour, though procrastination is a slightly different beastie, I can see a relationship here. In that case I would characterise it less as procrastination for your, or the OP's, reasons; and more procrastination because the brain cannot grab on and commit to the task, so it goes and does something (ten things) different instead.
Static Vs Dynamic Libraries
Researchers Prove Personalized Regenerative Medicine Concept
Specifically: https://squareup.com/register/hardware/shop
Safari 6 greatly improved the remote web inspection capabilities for iOS6.
> I want to write down what I’m going to do the next day, and actually do it. [...] I will do anything but the 5 to 10 items I thought would be smart ones to do.

This fits me like a suit. I have actively begun not making lists because it is a guaranteed way to prevent the listed items from being completed.
AUS image = mining. USA image = tech innovation.

Many Australians talented developer and computer engineers have been flocking to USA for mainly two reasons:

1. They are rewarded more in USA, both socially and financially. Who doesn't want to be in the middle of global innovation among other great people?

2. It is much more prestigious and hard to resist. Many US-based companies have been actively recruiting Australians, for example Amazon.com.

This leave Australia with limited local talents and therefore comes up with need to employ overseas eng-IT professionals. Note that 457 are neither cheap nor simple to lodge and employ. We are currently at a phase where it is necessary to keep feeding our demand of technical professionals to keep the growth of Australia tech industry.
A confirmed security vulnerability in 30 web sites
There are a lot of blogs/digital magazines in there. Care to elaborate on that? Plus I notice a strong interest in the fashion industry. Comments?
Ask HN: Visionary Media Startup Seeks CTO
The startup is looking for an ambitious person that doesn't think music startups are very interesting.

http://duvo1.jottit.com/cto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJDn0jRnUQ

some british satire on what was wrong with the PS4 launch.
Straitjackets
That too.

It's just how banks work. If you keep a lot of money in your account, the bank earns a return on investing your money. If you only keep a little in the bank, then they have to charge you fees to make money off you. If you can't even pay the fees at all, they just won't give you an account.

There are non-profit credit unions, but those usually require a certain type of employment, in which case you probably don't have these problems either.
"Why can't Samsung release one penta-band UMTS version of each GSM phone?"

Presumably lack of demand.

"slowing down 3rd party ROM development particularly for the U.S. versions"

Not Samsung's problem.

"Carrier ROMs are bloated, non-standard android environments, and lag behind the latest version."

And there's a distinct class of devices that run stock Android. And in all likelihood this class will continue to be outsold by an order of magnitude by this device and its non-standard carrier ROM that lags behind the latest version.

"That situation is unacceptable"

To a tiny minority.
I think you are building a narrative to suit your own argument. Industry (telstra, optus, iinet, etc) NEVER planned a nationwide network of fiber (even before NBN was announced) let alone a Fiber-to-the-Home solution.

Australia has 20 million people spread across one of the largest countries in the world, there is not enough market (i.e critical mass) for private firms to build this kind of infrastructure, it is called market failure, it is EXACTLY when government should intervene.

>I'm still not convinced. How is ability of users being able to send each other high-resolution images, HD video etc. going to be worth $50bn+ to economy?

Why was electricity so important just to spread nighttime lighting!? Why'd we even bother!? You don't know that all we will use data for is HD video/image.

Also I think you underestimate how much caching occurs, speeding up local network with speed up "the internet" as ISPs cache a lot.
Nitpick: labour isn't a homogenous, fungible good.

People who are good at trades are not 1-to-1 exchangeable with people who are good at STEM subjects.
I think the implications of your second topic are more profound than you are considering. By creating these online sock puppets and fictitious lives to back them up, the government is essentially injecting fake government agents into our lives which could go deeper than any of us would normally imagine. For instance, to be taken seriously on a message board such as ours, you might need a github page. You might also need a meetup profile. And you'd need a linkedin that's believable. To make these happen you might also need some real-world interaction, so it's possibly tied in with undercover agents in the real world, such as those infiltrating occupy wallstreet or other groups/organizations/companies we don't know about.
The Surprising Numbers Behind Apps
Then what about Karl max? I think there is no google doodle for him till now. And also I told because they don't have any doodle yesterday. so they can put one.
Procrastination seems exaggerated and over-analysed to me. I essentially believe our actions reflect our true desires and if a person spends 3 hours on HN when they "should" be working on their projects, then there's a disconnect between who they think they are and who they actually are.
Achilles Heel of OAuth or Why Facebook Adds #_=_
Why jump out of the frying pan into the fire? At StartHQ (https://starthq.com) we are trying to build a directory of high quality business web apps from smaller companies such as the ones run by many of us here. Perhaps there's something there that fits your requirements?
Using Inline ASM in Rust
Reminds me of the great scifi short story Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson, which examines how perpetual copyright would negatively impact music (there are only so many novel melodies that are pleasant to listen to): http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm
Writing this quickly because I'm about to run out the door, so please excuse the incomplete answer.

In brief, aside from simply recognizing it intellectually (which alone helped me a lot,) I'd start by literally following the advice I wrote above and remove the phrase from your vocabulary. i.e. Don't say things like "I really have to get caught up this weekend." It's a hopelessly imprecise statement that, if you're like me, primarily just engenders stress and shame. Instead use active language re: precise tasks. e.g. "I'm going to fix my bike and go to the store this afternoon."

Fiore does talk a lot about similar language issues in the Now Habit. For example, he stresses the importance of saying things like "I choose to work on this report now" versus "I have to work on this report now."

His argument is that the latter promotes a victimhood mentality leading to resentment and then procrastination.

He also points out that it's simply untrue. If you're going to be precise, there's very little you have to do - there are simply things you choose to do because either you enjoy them, or because you prefer the consequences of having done them versus not having done them.

Hope that helps!
Dance the flip-flop
Weekly Rewind – NIST NVD, Hacker Game, Teaching Kids Infosec & More…
"Okay, I see how that might be useful."
What my grandfather taught me about happiness
Tasmania is used for a testcase because it is a great 'micro-version' of Australia. So potential issues that arise can be dealt with at a scale of 500,000 rather than 20,000,000.

> Burnie in the middle of Tasmania going to encourage the creation of technology startups when its users are going to be technologically uneducated in the first place? What will most likely happen is all that bandwidth (paid by taxpayers) will most likely be used for Torrenting music, warez, movies and porn.

I'll paraphrase your words: Poor/socio-economically disadvantaged people don't deserve nice things, because they are too poor to understand them. Politicians are short sighted for ignoring the rich middle class.

You're view point is exactly WHY the NBN should be rolled out.
There's a huge difference between IT and software engineering, and using IT as the umbrella term is really doing us a disservice.
There's Baikal Server[1], which is a pretty neat project that allows you to host and manage several CalDAV and CardDAV accounts on a server. Have been running it for nearly two months with absolutely no issue.

Nobody's pulling the rug out from under me. Except me.

[1]: http://baikal-server.com/
> But I installed the update a short while ago and I haven't seen it yet

I have the same issue, also only on Intel graphics, but it would only manifest itself after a sleep/wake cycle. So try that. I'll try installing this update too, I hope it fixes it.
> What's the point of replacing copper if the weakest link of the network remains.

Typical selfish attitude.

What clearly you don't understand is that for a large percentage of the population the weakest link IS the copper network. They don't connect at 24Mbps. I personally know people who connect as low as 1Mbps. So what good is a faster international link to them ?

And there are huge benefits internally if everyone has a super fast connection especially for anything that involves face to face communication e.g. those in remote, rural areas.
What kind of product launch is that?
How is your statement related to your question?
Marketing, making the sales happen, etc. They wouldn't exist if they didn't do something useful.

It's like asking why affiliate marketing exists. It does and it's huge.
I feel like I've finally been diagnosed, "neurotic procrastinators perceive every mistake they make as being a flaw in them."

Great article, and I'll be sure to read the New Habit.
Damn, the S4 packs a lot of really cool stuff, as someone who had finally lost the desire to upgrade phones, it made me pause (though really, my Galaxy Nexus with CM10.1 is faster than I need it to be). But this was just WOW-level embarrassing. And TouchWiz is still ugly, especially given how nice stock Android 4.2.2 and even Sense 5 is.
I hacked something. Now what?
Perhaps your are confusing stress with a sense of urgency?
Dropshipping = Chargeback risk that you can't control.
The hard thing is going to be to continue to start on monday after the weekend when I've forgotten all of this. :(
"... for the price we want to pay" isn't accurate.

I have an advert out at the moment for PHP dev in Melbourne that clearly states we want to pay top dollar.

I'm still only getting applications from web developers who happen to know enough PHP to make them dangerous.

Of the applicants, only four are reasonably interesting.

Three of them are here on 457s.
Why should they? It's not what they know. People who have big wins in tech startups generally don't invest in mining ventures for the same reason.
As mentioned in Serial Experiments Lain, an anime really worth checking out.
The iPhone and Google Reader hegemony
Because I have the primeval Australian political instinct:

Somebody has lots of money, they bloody well ought give me some!

:D
They revealed the controller -- you know, the way you actually interact with the thing. They revealed some games, and some gameplay footage. They disclosed the specs of the hardware.

I fail to see why it mattered even a little bit if we saw what exciting variety of plastic block the console itself looks like. For the most part, it's meant to stay out of sight!
"far easier" only because there's a huge infrastructure in the package manager that has been built over several years. And it does not always work, even though these days it most often does.
I'm not the OP but I was in the show and was able to use them after it finished. Yes its a nice phone but in comparison with other phones out there (HTC One, Xperia Z, even the iPhone 5) the S4 looks cheap. Its the product of "lets see what we can stuff in there, the more the better".

The testing conditions weren't ideal but half of the features (translation, scrolling without touch, etc...) are still half-baked, or they definitely look like they are. And Touchwiz as UI seems really bad now that stock Android has become so appealing in design.

So yeah, its a really powerful phone with good potential ideas but the package, looked as a whole, looks cheap.
I don't say this lightly but you really are an idiot.

The idea that innovation can only come from certain areas is completely baseless. The idea that people in countries towns like Burnie have no use for NBN other than music, warez, porn is offensive. And your concept of wealth "trickling down" has been shown time and time again to never happen.

And the NBN is being rolled out everywhere so not sure where you get this ridiculous vote buying concept from.
> You can go a long way with sensible, basic policy settings.

A pity then that Australia's federal and state government policies (negative gearing, first home buyers grants, interest only mortgages for investors etc. etc.) have done so much to pump up the real estate market into such a huge speculative bubble than will do untold damage when it finally pops.

It's insane what Australians are expected to pay for basic housing in one of the world's most lightly populated countries/continents. Here's an example picked at random: http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-north+melbou.... 3 bedroom terrace house (i.e., no windows in side walls) in North Melbourne, 1 bathroom, no parking, all yours for a mere $775k at 6.5% mortgage rates.
The NBN will probably make little difference to startups. Not that the NBN isn't a good thing for Australia, but most Australian startups are likely targeting a global market, which Australia is only a tiny portion of.
I tried Vienna today -- downloaded, installed, then tapped OK on the "Google Sync" option…

…an hour later, the application still was "not responding", though the little red number circle on the dock icon continued to climb. About a half hour later with the application still in a "not responding" state, I force quit and then proceeded to delete it.