skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For more stories from the kitchen, perseverance, entrepreneurship and debauchery, I highly recommend Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential.

http://www.amazon.ca/Kitchen-Confidential-Anthony-Bourdain/d...
Linkbait in its maximum expression... plus "Get our free", is-this-a-link?-game, "Social buttons", "Get our free", "Follow us in timewastter"... now those are some lousy web design trends.
It has a lot of non-USA sites. Just upvote the stuff you like.
Where have I heard this before? Oh that is right! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus

Anyway, world hunger right now is not a problem of there not being enough food, it is a problem of food distribution. There is enough arable land in the Democratic Republic of Congo to feed all of Africa, but wars, greed, and other things stop it from happening.
If anyone wants the direct export link instead of using takeout, this still works:

https://www.google.com/reader/subscriptions/export?hl=en
yeah? if he's like most rich kids i've known he probably does it because it's more fun to flout the rules at the theater than to buy their popcorn.

NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR DRINK.

lots of rich kids i knew in college dealt drugs. think about that one for a minute. same exact (rule-flouting) behavior as poor folk - but is it because they were poor? or frugal? was it because they didn't want to spend their own money on their own drugs, or because they enjoyed flouting the rules to get free weed/coke/x/whatever?
It emulates the browser on the server side in order to generate the HTML tags then send the HTML tags back to the browser. Overly complicated. Why can't Meteor generate the HTML tags like DerbyJS or Yahoo Mojito???

Look elsewhere if you want an SEO friendly JS framework.
True general artificial intelligence would be capable of actually solving problems. Which means it could write code, engineer things, maybe even improve itself, etc. Most machine learning is limited to mindlessly exploring a search space which makes it good mostly at pattern recognition. But they are pretty terrible at solving difficult problems or writing code and things like that. Including special purpose algorithms.

We have the learning part down (somewhat), but the intelligence part not so much.
Nah, the point is that he doesn't bring any new knowledge to the table. Even if we assume that most people are lazy idiots, one can hardly think that no one has yet collected the available scientific knowledge about nutrition and tried to produce a replacement drink from that. Because that's what he does. No one says it's not possible, but when he says he read extensive about the subject he's either lying or ignoring the fact, that there is almost not certainty about what the body needs in which quantity, with great effort, because no reputable source claims otherwise.
I just meant that it's reasonable to make the tradeoff to trust a vendor like Apple/Google/etc. with whom you have fundamental philosophical differences now, if their product is better than the alternatives. What's not OK is to have no possible way to switch.

Changing an email address or phone # is probably enough of a lock-in to be "impossible". Changing the service provider you use otherwise to provide your phone/email/etc., probably a pain, but possible.

Facebook doesn't support indirection (which is why it's crazy that businesses promote fb.com/site urls), but as you've pointed out, it doesn't actually provide a useful service, so if it goes away, no big loss.
This affects me in a huge way. I spend at least a couple of hours in Reader every day. I'd even be ok if they found a way to integrate Reader into Google+ in a more than just a superficial way and somehow and made it super social. They seem to be hellbent on making Google+ work.. so here's a perfect way to make me spend more time there! Make Google Authorship work with Greader then allow me to follow specific authors and get only their RSS feeds (instead of blanket following whole websites). Use G+ as a commenting system behind my RSS subscriptions, giving Disqus a run for its money. Ugh so many possibilities... :(
Thanks for this, had a good laugh reading it! Cooking is my other passion right next to programming and I've worked in kitchens quite a bit, an occasional plunger but mostly a chef, on-and-off since I was 14 (don't ask...). Haven't been back to chef-ing in about 5 years, but I miss it quite a lot for various reasons.

It's taught me stuff about handling stress I don't think I could have learnt anywhere else, and making a bad situation fun is definitely a good place to start.

I think the tech world lacks this sort of attitude drastically ; I also notice that a lot of people in our sector simply can't handle stress and high workloads very well. That might be part of the reason I did pretty well when I went back to programming.

The problem with most jobs requiring a higher level of education (very generally speaking) is that they separate the maker of the product (or at least the person who delivers it) from the client. What it means is that there's rarely any direct feedback either way. Because of the shift in knowledge, you could deliver a sh*t product that your client will love, and vice-versa.

In most cases, this wouldn't happen in a kitchen. You most likely wouldn't even be able to get through the first day without communication. Your work would be meaningless without feedback from your clients and your team (good and bad), chances are you wouldn't even have a job any longer.

I'm not saying this doesn't apply to tech jobs, but there seems to be a certain latency in and "transformation" of the feedback that's passed around. It basically misses that social and professional rawness which I often miss :)
| 'lose money on each customer, but make it up on volume.'

I think that you meant something else. Nobody "makes it up in volume." ;)
[ETA: original title was "YOU'RE AN ANIMAL" (linkedin.com)]

I was really fucking hoping to see a LinkedIn profile for somebody's dog or something.
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Out of curiosity: have you also seen a decline in users? I'm interested to know whether Google has seen a decline due to a general loss of interest in feed readers, or whether they are losing users to competitors, such as yours.
props for registering the domain.
I think it's supposed to be superb for a raw, unoptimized sample speaker. Implying that with some tweaking it will perform extremely well.
Link the (peer-reviewed) articles, rather than guessing peoples responses to the hypothetical articles.
2 more for search, Yandex is growing fast and getting really good, and DuckDuckGo of course. I've been using Yandex a lot lately. Their products are getting more available in English, in fact they have webmail with a built-in RSS reader that resembles google reader.
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to be fair... your 'improved' situation seems like what most people are advocating when they say you should have less stuff. you share living arrangements and don't own any expensive stuff.

your previous position seems pretty extreme... no furniture at all, barely any clothes, only extra socks... just a laptop.
We're here to make $$$, not to be trendy. There's plenty of good reasons to use PHP, especially if commercial viability is a primary goal.
There's just too many alternatives and the market is crowded. Even with paying customers, they're focusing on other things..so they won't update the site for a while. If they bring it back, by the time they do, a better alternative wins and they go back into shutting it down. The gif is ok.
I have no idea what that acronym is. Please de-obfuscate.
Yet another example why I never built a service or app relying on any Google product, service or API.
Shows oscilliscope-like output from a microphone... woah. In other parts of the video he steps through a dsl that controls the LED, and it shows the code and controls the arduino as he scrolls through with his mouse. Check out 3:27, 3:57, 4:55, and 6:47.
Did she suspend democracy? Or make it abundantly clear that such thing doesn't exist..
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As a stand-alone product, Google Reader could easily have justified continued investment and headcount.

The problem is that internally you're competing for resources against products with (a) tons of users (Gmail), (b) tons of revenue (AdWords), (c) high strategic priority (Android, Google+).

To justify staffing a smaller product, you have to argue that it has the potential to be as big as the other products, and that the marginal impact of an engineer is higher on an under-staffed product.
DDG is essentially passthrough to Google/Bing/Blekko, though, so you're still somewhat exposed to the risk of those companies being crazy. Although I guess 3 is enough that DDG should be able to survive even if 1-2 go crazy or die.

It's perhaps somewhat nationalist, but Russian companies are slightly above Chinese companies on my list of "would I want my traffic going through their infrastructure", from a privacy/information security standpoint. I don't think this is irrational. (The US is far from ideal either, but has stronger laws, although is more likely to be "interested". The ideal would be a Canadian or European search provider run in some kind of hostproof model.)
What I find especially odd is that they have built their API-compatible replacement for a Google property on another Google property.

Although App Engine is unlikely to see a shutdown in the way Reader has/will be, they're still at the whims of a company whose primary business isn't a development/app platform.
Tried it in the past on android but was facing some issues with Greek text, tested it again now and the problem persists.
we built a whole site several years ago round this concept - www.datemymate.co.nz (bit outdated now, but you get it)
My prediction from 2011: https://twitter.com/csabacsoma/status/68371971913687040

With NaCl, HTML5 audio and so on you can just obsolete Android after a while...
I think they get messages like this all the time, which is why they think it is funny. So, satire for this specific example, but suggests an increasing level of annoyance from the Y partners when they actually get these messages.
Well, yes, if you put 'Sex-Crazed' in the title of your blog entry I will read it. I won't feel great about it, but I'll read it.
I wish there was a bare-bones version.. I'm using the android app right now and had several moments where I just paused not knowing what to do.. it's a very "swipe-happy" UI. I guess I'll get used to it eventually.
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To be successful in dishwashing at a restaurant, one must be organized, aggressive and proactive.
It's bugged me when I've seen people say that Twitter replaces RSS. In my eyes, RSS is for feeds where you actually care about each item and the decision whether or not to read it. Twitter is catered towards dipping in and out, with items constantly slipping through the net.
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My son is learning to speak at the moment but can only use 'me' and 'them' as pronouns.

So everything is 'me going to have drink' or 'them going to the park'.

Right now I am in a constant pattern of repeating every sentence swapping 'me' for 'I' or 'them' for 'they'.

Then..this morning.. 'I ate my cereal without spilling anything Daddy!'. It's the little victories that make you smile.
It is par for the course that not everybody puts in an exactly equal amount of time. Have you agreed upfront that you both were going to work exactly the same hours? Have you agreed on a specific number of hours? 70% of 60 to 70 hours is still pretty good, it's not like she's doing nothing.

I've been in your situation and it took me a while to realize that not everybody is like me. It could very well be that you spend a lot of time but achieve little and that they spend relatively little time but achieve lots.

Step back for a bit and try to objectively judge not the hours you put in but the amount of output you generate and whether or not this is more or less than what you agreed upon at the outset.

What you definitely need to do is to establish what exactly it is that you're expecting of each other.
But that wouldn't be up to me, that would be up the feed publishers to use G+ instead of RSS. :)
You are still missing my main point: publishing is more than ebook conversion or maybe a bit of layout. Significantly more - and your painting of 'typewriter users' as being technically helpless, even if correct, does not bleed through to the other aspects of publishing. Please curb your prejudice.

Novelists, however, are definitely more likely to be helpless typewriter users than the authorship of O'Reilly's publications, however.

Yes, I agree - 0.1% is more likely than 0.0%, given that pretty much no-one uses typewriters these days, except perhaps the archaic stereotypical 'novelist' in your head. Take your accusations of pedantry elsewhere if you're going to make an argument based on an effectively non-existent demographic.

Edit: a significant part of what a publisher does, which you may not realise, it editing. Technical authors aren't better than any others when it comes to writing well (and the stereotype is that they're worse). Good editing has turned many a pig's ear into a silk purse.
Google reader isn't exactly a mission critical service but it gives this cheesy ad from Microsoft more credence...

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

The lesson here is that services can and do go away.

If you can't accept that use products you install locally instead.

I'll probably get buried for saying this but Google is well within its right to cut the cord on any service it offers.
You can't beat a good hard graft. Massive self esteem ensues after you SMASHED it @ work.
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She put it on hold, but promised to bring it back at a later date. :P
working out of the weeds is great because there is a two-sided battle being waged in your own mind the ENTIRE time

the side that says "this is an impossible situation" and the side that says "you've done this a thousand times before, keep going."
Check out Frontpage, its an RSS reader that lets you browse all your feeds right from your lock screen. No inputting passwords or fumbling through multiple apps.

We've been working on it for the past few months.

http://www.frontpageapp.com
It's longer for the simple case, declaring and calling a function once is also always longer than simply inline the code.

Nesting rules allow you to turn

.foo p {
}
.foo p a {
}
.foo p div {
}

into

.foo {
p {
a {
}
div {
}
}
}

Less duplicate code and more obvious hierarchy.

'&' context reference allows you to turn this.

.widget a.button { ... }
.widget a.button:hover { ... }
.widget a.button:active, .widget a.button:focus { ... }

Into

.widget a.button {
...
&:hover { ... }
&:focus, &:active { ... }
}

Again, less duplication, less code to read/change. More obvious hierarchy.

@includes is like writing function. Which is very useful when you have to write browser-specific style. You can define `round-border` mixin once.

@mixin round-border($radius) {
border-radius: $radius;
-moz-border-radius: $radius;
-webkit-border-radius: $radius;
}

.dialog {
@include round-border(10px);
}

.color-picker {
@include round-border(5px);
}

.button {
@include round-border(3px);
...
}

Is that less clear or harder to maintain than CSS version?
This is looking like the best straight up switch out for reader. Imports are currently limited, and adding a sub takes a while. I'm sure it will settle down in a couple of days.

Message when clicking "import":
Hey! Because of the huge load we started seeing from lots of concurrent feed import operations, we had to limit the number of imports active at any given time. It looks like right now there are no available slots left, so you might want to visit this page some time later. Meanwhile, feel free to subscribe to feeds manually.
Please accept our apologies for this inconvenience.
Considering how much effectiveness an internal campaign (RNCH) had at changing things (none), I think this would be a waste of time.
I don't think you can't really establish a correlation between animal and human diet, and how a specific "balanced" diet might affect them. The difference in diet and life span are two important factors that might affect any study.
By the way, credit for this site goes to Nathan Bashaw (@nbashaw). Just wanted to give him some props.
If it were me, I'd develop in something like Xamarin/mono (http://xamarin.com) and if a convergence does happen, you'd imagine Xamarin would likely figure out a way to allow your apps to run on the new platform.
a wider world where hardly anyone else had ever washed dishes for a living

There's around half a million restaurants in the US, and turnover of kitchen staff is high, so I don't understand how he concludes this. Maybe he's talking about his social circle, but there's no shortage of people out there working hard at shit jobs. I can't say I care for this style of humblebrag.
Can the readme file please include information about what this software does and what its goals are? I realize many in this community have probably been following the project, and I vaguely recall seeing it here before, but with all the projects that appear on this web site it's really hard to remember what each one does.
Ask HN: Can you give code for bunyad.org?
I am looking for some help to build Bunyad (http://bunyad.org), an open source project aiming at organizing informal physical learning spaces around the world. Its a platform for brick and mortar Khan Academies, assuming there are people in the community willing to teach voluntarily. More information on why is available here: http://bunyad.org/more.html

I've made some mockups/ screens here: http://invis.io/D2CR9A9F. If this interests you, please send me an email at adnank@bunyad.org, feedback would be great too.

The Github repo is: https://github.com/Bunyad.
It might have been in the decline before that point, but I did stop using it because of the redesign hurting my eyes and being less of a pleasure to interact with. It's really a shame because it was a service a lot of people enjoyed. There was no need to force one look on every user.

I can't imagine the likely demographic profile of Google Reader users was worthless to a company that sells targeted ads as well.
Author > you because he did a shitty job for one summer.
Will blogger stop supporting RSS?
It's their way of saying that they were trying to work on new social ventures such as Google+ that are a new venue for some of these uses.
I'll have to stop by and say hello.

I believe the correct expression is "grab coffee".
Don't worry, I've got your back; I'll do it for you, dougk16.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=turmeric+cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=piperlongumine+canc...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=bromelain+cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=frankincense+cancer
Actually, the above rephrasing is wrong and completely changes the meaning. The original author wasn't saying poor people have less clutter he was saying they have more, but for a reason. Maybe this wording is clearer:

The reason poor people have clutter isn't because they're too dumb to see the virtue of living simply, they have it to reduce risk.
Wait... where is this post saying what's going on with Andy Rubin? Let me understand: you have a guy that leads one of the most adopted projects coming out of Google and then you announce a new person to lead that project without mentioning anything about the former? That should be an awesome feeling for everyone at G...
Basically every Reader-alternative site is getting its servers slammed tonight. This makes me wonder about Reader's "declining usage."
Google Voice was gmail-only for a long time.

Google Plus was as well.

Currently, I am waiting for Google Now's gmail integration to get on apps already: http://support.google.com/nexus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

Those are just services that have/are affected/ing me; I'm certain there are plenty of other examples.
You could go back even before Gattaca. In the beginning of one of Heinlein's earliest works (and one of my all time favourites), "Double Star" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Star], he discusses using latex fake fingerprints to frame someone.

Book was written, I believe, in the early '50s.
Saw it on their Twitter, didn't take long for it to die as well.
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Sounds like the unwritten correlate of that is that you can't measure what you don't build, and without the measurements you don't get to build. I wonder what magic econometric fairy dust grants a project high strategic priority.
I don't know what signing this will really do - but I don't think it'll hurt.
What's the preferred way to get in touch? I just attempted to sign up but am not ready to pay a monthly fee (but am looking to add push notifications to a project in the near term).
I had some screenshots within the repo for convenience but removed them in v0.1.2
I'm still waiting for the Add-On store to review this version which is why it's not the one displayed currently.
Thanks for the comment. It's good to know that others have been in my place.

I'm pondering your thoughts before replying fully, but I did want to say that I had the same thoughts on output, so I've been measuring it for the past several months. Subjective I'm sure, but I'm shipping 5-10x more code, judging by our repo, and on top of that I'm managing the bizdev side 100%.

When I say it like that, it actually sound like our business is one-sided, but it isn't. Maybe I should find some way to measure value qualitatively.
If only you had been there to warn pets.com.
Given the success of the Veronica Mars Kickstarter here, Google's next move should be obvious. :-)
If you're looking for an alternative to skim headlines please give Skim.Me (http://skim.me) a try (what a great name ha). We're a startup releasing another version soon to help you keep up at a glance.
Send me an email: ryan -at- pushlayer.com and I'll set you up. Thanks!
It is not just an rss aggregator, it is the UI the keyboard shortcuts, the network of sharing, the discovery, autotranslation, market dominance (allowing for nearly any RSS client to keep everything in sync), and tons of more things.

"Who needs gmail - There is a Mail gem"
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I once discovered that apparently

rm bob*

has completely different behavior from

rm bob *

The above line of code successfully fixed a bug I'd been trying to find for weeks in source code in the same directory. When I rewrote it from scratch, the bug was gone.
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Hard work builds character.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Work harder, and faster.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Don't sweat details that don't matter.

It doesn't matter how hard you work if you aren't getting the work done. You don't get points for trying.

Practising ambidextrous cutlery sorting increases proficiency at ambidextrous cutlery sorting ( http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1991/01/19 ).

So many common TLDRs of this story template.
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Link me to some peer-reviewed studies that show that cancer can be cured with only dietary changes.
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