skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Rare Move, Apple Goes on the Defensive Against Samsung
That response is far from "superb"! If I'm reading the scale right, there's a 30+dB difference between 200Hz and 20kHz. The article explains how a "flat" frequency response is the ideal target, then claims that a graph that is anything but flat is "superb"?
Python 3 is not new, and it's not Perl 6.
I believe the "loyal userbase" would be large enough to sustain a startup. But sadly that is not enough for google anymore.
Youth is a form of wealth
Are there any alternative sources of archival RSS feeds like those that Google Reader (unofficially) provides?
Add to this- websites unnecessarily sticking table headers, navigation menus, sidebars (gmail!).
NOOOOO!

It is my most accessed browser URL.

It is the primary method I peruse new stuff on the web.

It is the only RSS app that can handle my volume of RSS subscriptions (all others choke and sputter once the feed total is greater than a couple hundred).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371725

Discussion already started.Look for alternatives in the comment section.
You bet! It's OAuth-based import, so when you create your account it's just a click away. Couldn't be easier.

EDIT: And OPML is the other option when you signup. It's an easy import process, since it's really quite important to get that part right.
I was wondering why while there is "dog food" there's no "people food". Only reason I came up with that if they got anything wrong and person who would eat only "people food" had anything wrong with his health he would sue the company for millions.
I really like Fever. It imports and exports OPML, so it was easy move from NetNewsWire to Fever and back to other feed apps and backups. The Fever's mobile view works very nicely. Easy to install and it automatically updates itself.
A second spring of cleaning
They should shut down Google search as well while there at it, and redirect it to Google+.
`println` inserts a space between its arguments. I was showing we could define one that inserts a newline instead.
You can get all your Gmail data over standard IMAP. If you don't take advantage that to make personal backups, you are a fool.
Ongoing discussion -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371725
I really need a good alternative.
A bit of topic, but is it really required to have _that_ much tracking scripts on your site?

Ghostery is showing up 14 blocked trackers, which is a way too much I think.
Actually, this is an example of where the halting problem can be trivially solved through static analysis.

Finding all of the programs that are isomorphic to this one when given certain input, now... that's the problem.
Netvibes is another alternative (it has a widget and reader view).
What about the huge cost of keeping a fleet of planes modern? It must be difficult to run an airline, with petrol prices varying and customers expecting rock-bottom fares.

One thing that interests me is the idea that battery and capacitor technology will improve enough that kerosene powered planes will become obsolete.
Pretty irritated at the way Google takes moderately successful services that can't possibly cost them all that much to keep running and puts them down the memory hole, to foster the happy illusion that everything that everything that Google does turns to gold.

I'm sure there's more engagement with Reader than Plus, with its millions of users who don't really use it (many of whom aren't even really aware that they are signed up for it).
It's a great day to be NewsBlur -- good luck with converting the new traffic!
For a news aggregator that adapts to your interests, try niflet.com. I'll add any decent feeds people want.
Performance is part of the Chrome brand and supporting 2.3 would only serve to weaken that brand. It would also require a monumental engineering effort.
I spend more actual time in Reader than any other Google application including Gmail. This bites.

I'm open to alternatives, but I haven't seen any I could really latch on to.
While I am an avid Google Reader user, I think this is good news. Their product has stagnated over the past few years, yet few competitors emerged. Hopefully this creates a void that a better service or set of services can fill.
I believe the "Close Doors" button on lifts/elevators is based on this principle.
What CalDAV server do you use?
I'm very disappointed by this. I use Reader to manage all my RSS feeds. I check Reeder on my phone more than I use any other app.

It just goes to show, if you're using Google software that has no advertising and isn't used to sell advertising, it could end any day, and it probably will some day.

I'll be purchasing a Feedafever license, which also happens to work with Reeder. http://www.feedafever.com/
If ChromeOS and Android merge, then a comparable is - Ubuntu! They would both have a mobile/desktop linux distro.
Netflix website gets Facebook integration
I often run stuff in ram, the improvements are dramatic.
My latest deed was dumping/restoring 20GB of RRDs; doing it in tmpfs was FAST.
For running programs stuff can be kept in sync with the likes of anything-sync-daemon. SQL can get trickier, but it can be done.
There is a whole app ecosystem built around Google Reader. This is going to be ugly.

I actually it daily but only through apps like Reeder.
Is there a limit on how many emails you can send through this?

Edit: I should add that I use Google Scripts to automate a lot of responses to frequent support emails I get. These are really well categorized so that if the program doesn't understand what the user wants, it goes to another folder where I personally review it. Works great so far but working with Python I may be able to build something more powerful.
MIT allows us to create email lists.
Git 1.8.2 released
I was kind of always expecting this ... I'm always afraid the same thing will happen to Voice.
Keep Google Reader
Agreed, and agreed.
First word came out of my mouth looking at this in Google Reader of course is, FUCK!
I would gladly pay for Google Reader. It is my most visited website. This is so sad.
And Twitter is horridly slow on its website. That's what we're trying to avoid
I've been working on a replacement for a year now. It's open to the public. Get it while it's hot

http://1kpl.us/
Why are there so many persons saying it's better to build something specific and be creative than to learn to code? That we should learn to code as a mean for something? I enjoyed coding that AVL tree class last week, just for the sake of it. I like solving Project Euler's problems and bash my head for hours on really complex problems.

I don't have to aim for something bigger to enjoy coding and I don't understand why so many people claim the opposite. When it gets to the trivial parts of a project, I just get bored and never finish them.
I'm a huge fan of Netvibes - been using it for several years now. It has a single feed based view like most other RSS readers, but in my opinion the newspaper view is where it shines. I can quickly skim several dozen feeds with the scroll of a mouse - it's great if you're the kind of person who likes to take in a lot of info at once.
I've been trying to remember what NewsBlur was called for the past 25 minutes. Thanks for posting this!

That said, I lament the lack of a desktop app. I've been using Reeder for OS X, and I'd really like to have some sort of desktop app instead of relying on my iPhone or a website. Have you considered talking to existing app makers (e.g. Reeder) to see if they might want to switch over to using your service as their backend?
Is there a RSS reader which incorporates some ML learning algorithms to determine which articles I'd probably like, basing on what others (ones having similar taste) click? That was only thing that would make me abandon Google Reader if it weren't closing anyway.
Live Bookmarks
A: "Be manufactured inexpensively en masse"

Seriously though, graphene is super cool. Did anyone else notice that the "wave guide" looks suspiciously similar to a barrel type piece of Lego?
what the fuck google? seriously, I'm really pissed with this.
Good news for you then!

I used to use GR every day, then on a whim I switched the free newsblur version. To be perfectly honest, it doesn't offer me a lot more than GR did, but after hitting the 60 feed limit a couple of times I've now gone paid and I'm happy to support a service that does exactly what I want it to do. It would have been nice if it imported by saved(or linked or started or whatever they were called in the end) stories from GR though.

One peeve though, I have no idea how to manage my feeds. Is there any easy way to move them round through drag-and-drop? It appears I have to move them manually one by one, but I have a lot of feeds and I'd rather not do that!
I use NetNewsWire (an iOS app) every day, and it interfaces with Google Reader very nicely. Very sad that Google has made this decision - I will have to look into the alternatives. Hopefully they are even better! :)

Edit/Update: I'm probably part of the problem. I never click ads - maybe they just had too many freeloaders like me? :) Weirdly, I also never block ads. I just don't click them.
I hate saying this, as it sounds like I'm just bitter, but this really could be enough to finally leverage me off of google. Reader is by far my most used app of theirs. Plus is garbage in comparison.
You are not allowed to make arguments that are directly rebutted by the facts. There were drafts of CISPA that were published in which the assets protected by the bill (which defines attacks in terms of the familiar C.I.A. triad) included "IP", which would have included things like the source code to operating system drivers. But the bill that got voted on included a series of amendments, all published, that neutered that language because of exactly that concern.

CISPA is simply not about the interests of rightsholders.
spin up more servers brother!
Google Elbows Into the Cloud in Seattle Expansion
This is very sad. :-( That's like 3 hours of my day every day.
Another view of the ticketing process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
This guy is getting a boat load of attention for doing something mildly interesting at best. He's using whey protein, olive oil, and some kind of starch. That's food. Nothing more, nothing less. You can't just suck down CHON and call it good, or all we'd have to do is breathe.
I would like something similar that can be used for any VPS. So if I get a box from Linode or Rackspace, for example (or even a real server), is there an easy way to have ngnix+passenger+git+backups etc setup and configured in a secure way without having to manually do it all myself?
It is often asked of startup founders 'what if Google starts doing what you do?', a valid question. Perhaps it is worth contemplating products too small for Google to concern themselves with, ones they might abandon, that would still be an attractive opportunity for the rest of us.

I've been rooting for you and recall enjoying the blog posts about its making - I've always figured that "RSS is dead" and there is no longer money in clients (people used to pay for desktop readers!)..

Except that Google would kill Reader eventually and somebody will soak that userbase of nerds right up. And NewsBlur is clearly the top choice and will hopefully occupy similar mindshare as Reader did for us until now. Congrats, well played. :)

I wonder what the next one along these lines will be as now would be a great time to start building it.
If it was an issue of ad views all they'd have to do is add an ad bar at the top ala gmail.
True, but that's not too bad.

The real pain comes when your email address is no longer valid. You have to hunt down everyone you've ever communicated with to give them a new one. A lot of older, and more casual, contacts will be unable to reach you.
I'd really love to be able to play with this before I drop $30 on it. It's not an unsubstantial amount of money to drop on a self-hosted webapp.
Good motivation for cleaning out all those feeds I never read anymore...
Literally my favorite thing on the internet. Revolutionized how I consume information. I found out about this via Google Reader!

Google has fallen very far.
What kind of clothes did he wear? Shopping for clothes is a major pita, so he must have always bought the same thing, readily available everywhere?

Also, aren't new clothes full of all sorts of chemical? Better to have washed clothes... (Personally I sometimes get skin reactions from wearing unwashed new clothes).
Your website appears to be overloaded with traffic. You must be a happy man.
I use Fever full time. It's great, apart from the lack of native apps. That's the only thing that makes me resent it sometime. Their claims are true, too, it really does help cut back the noise and stops you reading the same story over and over. It's kind of nice to know that I own it, too, so nobody can just take it away.
Release notes: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/plain/Documentation/...
>The web would be a much more interesting place if we could hook up >arbitrary peripherals. It's holding back the entire world from developing >better computer interfaces.

Im enginering something, that was a spinoff of this thougths.. i 've go an answer balancing the good parts of the web with the good parts of the app platforms.. plus some concepts of biological cells..

it may be a party for google, apple samsung and the like.. but we technological people are back to the nighmare that were the 90's.. with multiple platforms.. and thats the only reason browsers became popular..
even when we were loosing so much..

here we are into the nightmare again.. have to create things for multiple platforms :(
Well done, it affects me a lot, it was one of two services I'm totally dependant from Google. The second one is Gmail, if I wasn't so lazy I would try to do something about it too, I'm not confortable with my mails stored at Google / in the US anymore.
that is so sad.
Ugh. I was living in fear of this happening for the past 3 years.

I will never trust Google again.

Apparently the only Google service I don't have a good alternative for is Google Books (for search; kindle, torrented bookwarez, and scribd works fine for the raw PDFs)
This is a sad news, one of my favourite RSS reader is closing. Google Reader is likely the site I browse the most, and I always have one tab open on it. Also, my phone sync with RSS with it.

I guess it's time to start searching for a new RSS reader. Too bad that I already did it a while ago, and every time I went back to Google Reader.

The biggest problem for me with other feed reader is that they try to add too many features to the simple format that RSS is. No, I don't care about "hot news", and I don't care about "suggested stories", I just want to read the feed I've added to it. My brain is good enough to skim through that list by just reading the title.

And most other reader lack integration with a mobile platform (Android/iOS/WP). Yes, sometimes they have a mobile client, but usually not nearly good enough as 3rd party clients.

Hopefully they'll change their mind, but I doubt it. Time to force myself. Sigh.
Perhaps the "decline in usage" had something to do with the thoughtless redesign they implemented.
I don't know, Voice can act as a competitor to Microsoft's Skype. With no visible competing product from Microsoft, Apple or Facebook and no perceived competition from something like Newsblur Google thinks they can kick their Reader users in the junk with impunity.
The article makes a reasonable point, that hoarding can be motivated by rational frugality. I think it is a little unfair in its criticism of the original article, whose target audience is really people with many options (i.e. they have money).

I would say I have personally seen people who have an irrational tendency to hoard as a means to reduce risk. I have a neighbor with a house packed to the gills with accumulations over the decades. If she would clear it out, she could be renting a room for $800-$1000 a month. She could really use the money, too. Instead, she is being held hostage by ~$2000 of junk in disorganized piles, that would take 50 weekends of yard sales to make a dent.
No. In my mind, the best possible thing to happen would be a law specifically preventing any American government agency from requiring any company to hand over such information without due process. Sadly, you would think this was already clear enough from the constitution, but there are already enough loop holes that it happens anyway. Another good thing would be for American internet companies to voluntarily adopt and adhere to privacy policies along the same lines.
A quick google suggests that ensure is marketed as a high calorie product designed to help you gain weight. Is there another version of it that's nutritionally complete and low calorie like Soylent (supposedly) is that I'm missing?
This is the worst news I've read all day.
I second that! Thanks, Meteor team, for including transforms! Now it's time to refactor some code... :)
Its far from perfect. For the hover overlays I search first by title and then once the hover appears I search again with the year and title (Netflix doesn't give the year until the hover appears). This increases the accuracy but there are still problems, for example Netflix uses "The Office (U.S.)" which does not match IMDB's title.
I think this will work just fine temporarily, and should be looked into for widespread distribution during emergency situations like famines. But doctors first recommended the amazing powdered baby formula in the 50's and 60's and then switched their recommendations back to mothers' milk for most of the population in the 90s. Of course we should continue to experiment and understand nutrition, and powders, potions, and pills can supplement a diet, but I don't think it's anywhere near or ever will be a complete substitute for real food. Real food being healthy, whole foods.
Well, this is truly the apocalypse. To me, Google Reader IS the internet.....(It's how I got to this Hacker News post). Not pleased at all.
You can export your Google Reader data -- all your starred items are stored in a json file.
I've been using NewsBlur for a few weeks now (I met Sam a couple weekends ago) and I think it's fantastic. Highly recommended.
If that was a problem, they should've offered paid subscriptions. I refuse to see ads, but I'll happily pay for the privilege.

I find the Google Reader web interface to be dreadful and ugly, so I never go there except to manage my RSS feeds. Third party devs have created newsreader apps so much better than Google did, it's not even funny.
Just want to repeat here my tweets: Maybe GoLang will be retired in August? AngularJS in September? GAE in October? "Backed by Google" is a joke now. I just can't trust Google anymore. Google Reader was important part of my day - source of information. Google apps are too UNSTABLE to use.
It's open source and you get paid anyway?
Is it the biggest though? I get the impression many people use a desktop app for RSS feeds (I certainly do).

Would be interesting to see a marketshare breakdown.
And the karma limit is intended to ensure that the people who take this quite expected action have good taste.
"over the years usage has declined"

That's because there was almost ZERO innovation done on this product. Very few (mostly visual) improvements, and very few new features. The latest posts on Google Reader blog are from 2011 http://googlereader.blogspot.com/
These seems to be the most short sighted bit - they had the techarati 1% visiting a Google social media property multiple times a day and yet they neutered it (rather than integrating properly) to work more on Google+.
So I didn't import the first time I created the account - how do I re-import?! :)
I'd love that kind of comparison that also includes if there is any desktop (linux hopefully) app support too. I've been using google reader and liferea to keep my rss feeds synced between devices and to avoid re-reading things i already saw.
This idea would probably be better when given to children who are just getting over formula or breastmilk, albeit with proper modifications are they grow. Babies do just fine on a liquid diet with breastmilk essentially just containing the necessary nutrients. Assuming they kept this liquid-nutrition diet (adjustingly accordingly), it sounds more viable.

However, a grown man whose body is used to solid foods probably won't be able to adapt so easily, similar to what happens to long-time vegetarians who go back to eating meat again.

I'm a little confused as to why people are so quick to turn this down. Even if nutrition interaction is complex, there's probably still a solution to make this work (different drinks at different times, etc).
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Any geek who relies on a domain name that belongs to someone else for their give-out-to-people, permanent email address needs to have his or her membership card revoked. Even if it's a domain that's owned by Google. Get a domain name.
I got all excited when I saw your comment and went and checked out the latest RubyMine video on YouTube, because having something like Firebug for Ruby would be awesome. But it looks just like what gdb gives you when being driven by a graphical frontend like DDD or Emacs. Actually it looks a lot less powerful than DDD. What am I missing?
It's particularly silly since anyone that researched dhh for a few minutes would know his very-public stance on Groupon. I can't imagine that they could say or do anything to get him to work there.
There is no cure for MS, so if the video does make that claim, it's pretty ridiculous.

It's the equivalent of saying you could cure cancer with diet.
Mixed emotions.

I remember at the end of college and right after (I graduated in 2008), many of my close friends were on GReader and we would share and communicate directly through it about interesting things we were reading. It was an awesome way to interact, and nothing has replaced it for my group and me. Google's implicit (although I could be reading their intentions incorrectly) strategy of trying to route that interaction through GPlus did not work for us. Too much overhead and it never materialized. Now we just use email, which is fine. So on the whole it's a type of social interaction that has simply gone. It's a shame, because I think that Google could have done something with this. But they are just one company and the number of innovative things they're doing is really impressive.

Maybe this will clear the way for a competitor that replaces the social interaction component and innovates on it. I'd be a user for sure.
This is my most used Google service after the search and mail (it's probably on par with Youtube). Shame to see it go! I can't see how it was hurting them so much with users declining. Surely the more time staring at the Google website header the better?
Sad, sad news. I get (I think) 300 items/day on my Google Reader and I always get to "inbox zero" - a bit of OCD maybe. It is my most visited URL ever and I've used it every day, several times a day, since 2006. Of course I would even pay a fair amount of money for it, given the time I've spent on it, but Google's not interested. I am currently trying The Old Reader and while the interface is nice (well... generic Bootstrap, which is pleasant, and better than newsblur) it's really slow with my amount of feeds. Sigh...
The entire premise of this blog entry is: "Go out on the street and look, and I bet you’ll see that the richer people are carrying less." Well some guys did that very thing and published is in a book http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Thomas-Stanley/d... where they found that to be not true at all. Millionaire's don't buy the shiny new toy when the one from three years ago. Rather then wasting a grand on a new macbook air they would spend $30 for a new battery. They buy used cars too.
I literally said "Awwww, whaaaat?".

http://tt-rss.org as a replacement seems the winner for me so far.