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Add to Chrome:

- Access your data on all websites

- Access your tabs and browsing activity

Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?
Do you expect tons of leg room, with good-quality posh seats, driver not using a cellphone, no radio playing (unless desired), etc?
Couldn't agree with you more. Was saying this in a similar way bit ago here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2901756. IN that thread I was thinking they should buy WebOS and create their own i type device, but that was sometime ago and they invested a ton in the Wii U.

Overall the market has moved to mobile they unfortunately didn't it.

Guess they still could embrace it by making apps for Android and iDevices, ones that turn those devices into Wii U tablets and Wii remotes. Ha ha though your kid using your iPhone as a Wii remote, better have a durable case!
> We're being trolled by robomartin, which is not normally acceptable behavior on HN.

Missed your breakfast this morning?

Relax bro.
Too late for most people.
> A browser that runs code at native speed is an operating system, fullstop.

You could give some people a stroke with that statement. They probably would mind that a supposedly sandboxed browser is fully controlling the hardware.
And this is why shoe computers are banned in casinos!

Google Glass will make this hack so simple, the casino's will have to ban them from being anywhere close to a roulette table to reduce team cheating possibilities.
I absolutely loathe videos. There went 15 minutes of my life to get a short message: be minimalistic in processes and code. Not that it isn't a good message, but hardly worth more than the ten seconds needed to scan it in text.
Zero percent. On the other hand, for as much as 50% of the problems I solve, it needs understanding the nature of the problem and its solution in terms of the classical algorithms, which then are by definition already available somewhere at least as pseudo-code.
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I agree. I think the original article is mostly right and very insightful. But what I've discovered over the last few years is that sometimes maximising productivity requires knowing when to take a break from the problem. A lot of time I'll spend an hour trying to work on something, hit an obstacle, try to push on it a bit, realise that it's hard, then just take a break from it until I have better inspiration on how to deal with it. Then a week or month later, once the idea for a solution has crystalised, then I can do a big push and get it done.

Also, just walking around thinking is the most productive time of my day.
Congratulations on being well-positioned and ready to handle the onslaught when Google announced that they were axing Reader. You clearly were "where the puck will be" :)
I think Rackspace is using openresty.

http://openresty.org/
You forgot to add. Use chrome without logging in to Google. But then, why bother?
Ask HN: replacements for blogger service?
I point my blog on blogger to blog.MYDOMAN.COM and I was interested in available drop in (or at least easy) replacements.

I thought of using a Wordpress host for just my blog, but the few I checked don't let you register with a sub-domain.

I also looked into running Apache Roller (blog server) on my same server that runs my main domain (a web app written in Clojure + Compojure) but it si not clear how easy it is to import the Atom data exported from blogger.

Any suggestions?
I was actually quite opposed to the Iraq war (on time/money grounds, not pacifism) but I was quite definitely in the minority. Then again, Georgia Tech is a pretty conservative place as far as universities go, especially within the engineering departments. I think the political tone was closer to the mainstream, though, than what is the case at other universities.
I thought Lua used a register based VM.
I think that this is one of the big reasons that privacy-focused named-data networking will become popular. Another reason is that that model fits better with most internet usage today where data is disseminated from a source to a number of users.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking

Of course, surveillance can be built into those types of systems as well, but I think that the right engineering approach building in features like encryption and anonymity, especially combined if possible with mesh networks, could be a big advantage for privacy.

Also see http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan
And while using Disconnect and Ghostery you still got tracked by IP address, your installed fonts, screen resolution, installed plugins, while your internet activity was stored by your internet provider.
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No, he's saying everyone else expected him to make more than that because traditionally authors don't speak publicly on the amount of money they make and the number of books sold.
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Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt... :)
Google is one of the few companies that can afford to not only "go where the puck is going" but indeed, influence where the puck is heading the in first place.

I think the reader and podcast stuff have far more to do with focusing on G+ as a "vision", to bolster shareholder view of "google needs to mature and produce a vision for the future", etc.

Someone will come up with a killer audio indexing, google will buy them, then suddenly 'get' in to audio, but they'll also have wasted a lot of time in terms of their own infrastructure surrounding audio/podcasts/etc, when in reality, it's comparatively few resources for them to be spending in the first place.
Don't understand why more people are not just sticking with Google Reader until it closes instead of switching now.
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Just about every other extension does that, too, I've noticed. Is this maybe the finest granularity Chrome's API offers?
As long as you don't trip any of the automated checks to see if you are using a fake name or get manually flagged as using a fake name. The automated stuff is pretty stupid at the moment thankfully, but it's not something you can do if you care about not getting your account closed.
> "Intercepting them [the surveillance signals] is simple as going down to a local Radio Shack," he told ABC.

Hunh? At my workplace the surveillance room, as in most casinos, is segregated from the rest of the building by a separate entrance. Surveillance staff are not permitted to socialize with other staff and can't work in any job in the casino other than surveillance. The room has restricted swipe access via thick steel double-doors aka a "man trap" with poured concrete blocks and reinforced metal plates in the walls, of course Pelco PTZ cameras covering the outside of the doors.

The camera system isn't accessible anywhere other than possibly in the ceiling of the gaming floor which would be pretty obvious having someone trying to splice in to a cable. Everything else goes to the surveillance room not to the server room other than maybe the corporate LAN and intrusion detection server but still that's a restricted access locked room but to get to that door there are several other steel doors you need to swipe through, not even the big boss has access to some of them, but I do ;)

Our surveillance manager was telling me he trained in Las Vegas at some guy's house who teaches surveillance techniques to people in the industry. This guy has a multi camera setup in his home and tables too. He cheats at cards while on camera then shows it to the trainees but even he can't see himself cheating on camera even though he did it himself and knew he was on camera.

Although I should add most times cheating especially Blackjack is from collusion between player and dealer. There is a reason why staff and patrons don't mingle or why staff can't use public washrooms when on-shift.

Now I wait for the men in black to come knocking at my door I've said too much!
Also, why does it need to be a Chrome extension? What happened to non-extension web sites?
Is this something that all Chrome extensions ask for or only some?

I tried to install AdBlock Plus in Chromium and it asked the same question...
I've never once in my life met a person that sincerely thinks that each and every inhabitant of a country is evil when their leaders are.

By the way, "Iranians are evil" does not count, as it generally implies "most Iranians are evil", which, if you count it as a democracy (it is to some extent) and consider the elected leaders to be evil (a reasonable claim from a particular perspective), would be true.
Also no ability to use the RSS reader website without installing an app or extension? What??

No thanks Feedly, I'll pass.
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Sooooooooo let me get this straight.

Nintendo is disappointing us because they're not leaving the TV set and going into mobile, and Apple is disappointing us daily because they're not leaving the mobile space and going into the living rooms with a TV set.

Sound about right?
Hm, that's unfortunately to hear. Ruby 1.8 implemented green threads by using stack copying. It was discovered that this resulted in significant performance hits: http://timetobleed.com/fixing-threads-in-ruby-18-a-2-10x-per...
What a load of crap! We've been setting up our ec2 slices with puppet for a while, and we literally saved tens of IT hours after moving most of our new client projects to heroku. The one constant thing about maintaining configurations is the never ending change. Versions change, requirements change, etc. Not to mantion it's really not easy to properly configure all the services to play together, with monitoring, restarts, and all.
Unless you know "classical algorithms" and their typical performance characteristics, you are bound to waste time tweaking and may even rediscover a few complexity theorems, reductions and even complexity classes all on your own.

Oh you could just know the basics and classical algorithms and able to do a smell test of algorithmic performance.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. Good that there are laws against it (kind of to be expected - if there weren't natural selection would result big corporations doing it all the time).
I believe most users are currently in a "searching" phase, and have joined more than one alternative, so this sudden growth might be misleadding. That said, for now, Feedly is my favorite alternative, so good luck.
Rackspace use hundreds of open source projects.

Luvit.io is specifically being used in our Host Monitoring Agent, which is open source and you can find here:

https://github.com/racker/virgo

This is used to collect all kinds of host metrics (CPU, disk, ram, custom scripts, mysql, etc) for the Cloud Monitoring Product.
Here's a bit of nonsense logic for you:

The social craze was clear with Groupon's blunders and Facebook's IPO. That there is a crash coming should have been--and was--clear then.

Ever since then it's only gotten clearer that there's a crash coming, even if those that say "It's soon" were repeatedly proven wrong.

In other words, it is asymptotically becoming "sooner" the more and more it's being proven that "soon" isn't actually that "soon."

(This is, of course, the nature of predicting events that throw up so many signals.)

---

What I mean to say, actually, is that you're asking a pointless question. The signals that indicate "Crash imminent!" have long been fired.

When I say it's "very, very close," did you think I mean it's within a year, or within days?

From a certain way of looking at it, it's at the moment of _least_ certainty how 'soon' an event will occur that the event becomes very, very likely to occur. Because that's when we're the _most_ certain that it's inevitable, but the least certain how it will happen!

---

The answer you probably wanted: Google Reader's collapse makes it devastatingly clear to the tech world that there's a giant gaping opportunity to displace social media. All of it. App.net thinks too small, and the start-up world's programmers--all of them--are sharpening knives.

So... will Wednesday work for you?
I think it speaks volumes to how positive peer pressure, in more ways than one, can force people to shape up.

So the key takeaway is the positive peer influence, not so much Japan and its whatever-ness.

There's a certain dream about playing hard, working hard, and getting swept along with it. Smalltalk included.
I'm not associated with feedly or their user but I'm guessing they need those permissions for getting the rss feed url from the web page and for detecting the current active tab. Probably to display an appropriate icon.

It does sound scary but it's really hard to do anything without those permissions.
Well, it works like this. First republican Abe makes clear he wants to free the slaves, then wins the presidential nomination position in the republican party. Then he gets elected by the republican american people to be president as a republican. Then 7 republican states secede from the US and shortly thereafter they wage war. Then the republican Lincoln wins and a period of slave liberation and movement towards equal rights on a federal level begins.

Also, according to wikipedia: "The republican party [..] founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854".

Now I'm no republican, as a north european you'll find me to be more of the social/liberal kind (yeah.. those two can be together), but I think the republican party has a pretty swell history.
Actually, the talk is the 3 videos in that playlist, not just the initial one. For instance, he gets into "knowledge debt", using Clojure and Neo4j as examples.

I suppose potentially interested people will want to skim until they find something they're interested in; it starts out slow. Sorry you didn't find it worth your time, though I found it worthwhile.
If you rely on Google Reader for your daily workflow, figuring out which service or application is a suitable alternative after Reader closes is too late. Unless you're hoping for a 180 from Google, which there's no evidence to support right now, waiting just cuts the amount of time you can use to test the alternatives while still having access to Google Reader as a fallback.
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The website novelrank.com seems to have a decent handle on how book sales on Amazon translate into sales rank. And according to them, the current best-selling Kindle book has some 1500 sales this month.

http://www.novelrank.com/asin/B00BLTOXEI
Indeed, it is to do with the granularity of the Chrome extension permissions.

More info & discussion can be found at the item posted a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381944
Because people have come to rely on it. And no one is suggesting that they run it for free - they could easily charge a few bucks per year, cover their administrative overhead, and keep their foot in this space, while a) not losing money, and b) not losing trust from people who may want to adopt other google tech in the future.

I've still got gmail as an email which I use a lot, but would be extremely hesitant to ever trust them with anything else (I've also got other email I manage on my own). When the sands shift in a few years and gmail doesn't make sense for them any more, they may easily just shut it down, or severely limit it.

Google Business stuff? Would not use it. Google Checkout? I use it, and their tools have not developed at all in the past few years. Google Voice? They have to be losing money on the phone numbers, and I will not be surprised one bit if they shut it off in the next couple years. And people will whine/complain about that too, but the writing's been on the wall for a while - don't trust businesses that you don't pay money to (and don't trust a business to be around just because you pay them either, but it's a start).
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because i don't need this in the back of my mind

my feed reader needs to be as invisible to me as possible, i just want to read the content
I have two questions regarding this:

1) In the age of the smart phones, could one not develop an app to do this calculation for you? It might be tricky to film the wheel, but I'm sure that can be done stealthily somehow.

2) Would this work on online roulette games who claim to simulate the real-world physics of a roulette table?
Presumably, when you tell people you're doing research in math they imagine you're multiplying long numbers all day.
You have an opportunity to do interesting experiments with your pricing model.
Interestingly, I consider that a fair equilibrium. Not something to despair over. I think it would be worse if the director of the CIA could keep privacy but not random individual. That power does not affect ability to avoid lack of privacy means things are becoming more balanced.
About 1/4th I'd say, another 1/3rd is thinking about architectural decisions (or restructuring bits that are broken) and the rest is mundane work including meetings. I work on infrastructure stuff
If 500k users switched in 48h, 3 months before the shut down, how many users the Reader actually has? It seems it must be a lot.
"Misleading" in the sense that only a fraction of those may become loyal Feedly users, sure.

But it seems like a pretty good estimate of the number of active and aggrieved Google Reader users out there.
I don't know about you but I have many family members who have practically given up on using email for important announcements like wedding, birth etc. People use Facebook for such communication needs because it is lot more convenient than email.

Also, not sure if you noticed but Facebook messaging provides a "return receipt" feature by default. So you know if and when your message (email) is picked up. Try doing that with the free email accounts like gmail, hotmail etc.
But that doesn't apply to you, right?
The "back in my days" speech has been old since recorded history. But I think you'll find as you get older that your "my days" occurred in particularly brilliant times. At least, that's what history would suggest.
No, it's more like IE, Chrome, Firefox.
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there's really no reason, i just haven't done it.
I'm going to work on that right now.
Same here. That jwz piece really left an impression on me, so whenever I run into an article, like the TC one here, with some founder/VC/"serial entrepreneur" talking about culture or work ethic or some crap like that, I really have no choice but to assume that this guy is just some scrub trying to lure me under a desk.
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I don't have any info on intentional tracking but Macs surely do leak a lot of data. If you install Little Snitch you will have a better feeling of what is being sent over the network. These are the rules that I have regarding apple:

* aosnotifyd: aosnotify.me.com
* AppleIDAuthAgent: identity.apple.com
* apsd: push.apple.com
* assistand: apple.com
* helpd: apple.com
* imagent: apple.com
* IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent.xpc: apple.com
* ntpd: time.euro.apple.com
* SoftwareUpdateAgent: sw.apple.com
storeagent: apple.com
* SyncServer: configuration.apple.com
* ubd: configuration.apple.com
* XProtectUpdater: configuration.apple.com

The mac is able to change your timezone depending on your location. I don't think it would be too hard for Apple to build a precise profile of my location and movements if they wanted to.
What's so wrong with failure?
Would you mind elaborating why you think App.net thinks too small, and where the market disruption is indicated by how Google Reader collapsed?

Understand that I primarily stare at a shell most of the day, so I'm not completely savvy on newer startups. Google Reader shutting down just made me check out newsbeuter sooner rather than later :). App.net just seems like a Twitter competitor with longer strings; what do you see?
"any such dead-end, non-revenue-producing product that’s retained is holding others back, and prevents the company from moving forward and making true innovations instead of incremental improvements."

WTF?

I can just imagine the shareholders meetings... "We've had to put the self-driving car project on hold - Google Reader is just eating up too many resources, and dammit, we just can't afford to innovate with all the hundreds of engineers continually improving Google Reader with new features and functionality. And Maps? Forget ever seeing new functionality there - all our brainpower is trapped up in Reader (and Google Voice, and Wave, and...)".

I don't buy it for a second. What 'true innovations' have they been held back from by having Reader and similar services around?
Do you think all of the 500k were actual Google Reader users? It's possible a portion are jumping on the hivemind's bandwagon. Not discrediting the cause, just saying that some people like to join causes for the sake of joining causes.
I won't spell it out here because the fun is in working out these problems, at least it is for me. I'll shove you in the right direction though.

Betting on a single number is foolish. The mathematical probability of hitting any single number is only 2.7%. In other words, the house absolutely loves you.

Dozens and Columns are better, 32.4%. Still, the house advantage is huge.

Even/Odd or Red/Black get you up to 48.6%. Hey, that's a deal, right?

Well, no. The problem with all of these calculations you'll find around the internet is that they are equivalent to picking a random number (or 12 or whatever) out of 38. The problem is that this is NOT how the roulette works.

The roulette has a spinning wheel with numbers separated by fences. The ball spins as well. Along the path of the ball there are also little bumpers that can alter the path of the ball.

Yes, in the long term it is just like picking random numbers. However, if you look at what makes you win or loose at the "micro" level it is a little simpler.

If you bet on a single number the ball only has to move one slot for you to loose. As it lands on the number field the ball has a bunch of excess energy. The surfaces are hard and it bounces around with great efficiency. It can go over one or more number fences very easily.

In fact, if you study every single common bet, single numbers, rows, columns, dozens, color, even/odd, etc. they all share one trait: If the ball jumps over just ONE fence you loose.

If you've played roulette enough you'll eventually run into this stereotype: Big guy. Smells and looks like money. Shows up with piles of cash, gold watch and gold chain around his neck. And starts to place piles of cash on numbers he is pulling out of his anal orifice. Most of the time these guys loose a ton of money. Why? The "one fence" problem.

OK, I think that sets it up. Actually, it is probably beyond obvious at this point. Take a look at a roulette wheel and think about how you should bet to solve the problem that makes every single common bet nearly worthless.

The genius of the roulette is in the wheel.
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doesn't matter. not everyone is willing to break a law or risk a lawsuit.
Bitcointip on Reddit - very interesting idea
roughly 50% of my current duties involve parsing and transforming an AST. As well as performing static analysis.

All of it is to support web developers by giving them tools to handle html and css well. But this is not the usual case for my career much of it has been exactly what you describe instead.

I'm just glad that I knew enough of this stuff to be able to tackle these problems when there was a need to.
The point is, facebook is tracking your location via IP address. They are most definitely not interested in knowing your real name, so your fake name is as good as anything else. They are dumping relevant Ads on you based first of all on where exactly you're located at. They'd then attempt to dump relevant Ads based on how you (the fake or real name) interacts with the facebook site. They are watching your eyeballs and you can't escape the moment you make a single move.