skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly unrelated: Why don't more sites allow hiding of ads for a small fee? Over the last year I've probably donated a lot more money to sites than all advertising revenue I would have generated were I not using AdBlock.

What I would like to see is a kind of browser extension that automatically donates a (very) small amount to every site I visit per page view. In return, the site would not show me any ads. Safety would be a concern though.

Of course this would not be good for Google at all, so they might want to block such an extension too...
It's amazing the types of advances that are still posible in material sciences. Not sure that I'm skeptical, I tend to trust that Lockheed would not come up with a press release unless they were fairly sure about the technology.

I wonder if there are a bunch of advances such as this that are developed but not commercialised?
sails business case rev2.pptx ?
How I got my links out of Google Reader
The point against AdBlock is that it will block ads from website you like and that make most, if not all, their moneys from ads revenue.

You enjoy "free" content from someone and you block the only way they make enough money to stay alive and keep giving you this "free" content.
what about 81st B'day? :)
http://www.google.com/doodles/volodymyr-dakhnos-81st-birthda...
AdBlock is the first extension I install in a fresh browser. I never click on ads anyway, so PPC ads are wasted on me. Unless they're large and intrusive, I don't tend to look at them either (banner blindness), so showing them to me doesn't help advertisers anyway.

I feel that usually ads ruin the experience for me far more than it would be justified by the $0.003 the site earns, so I can't say I feel bad.

A perfect situation for me would be to be able to pay those sites the amount they earn by showing me ads, without me seing them. I'd add a site to a list in AdBlock or some other extension; the site wouldn't show me the ads and ruin my experience, getting the $0.003 (automatically) from me, not the advertiser. Too bad such nanopayments (well, formally millipayments) are far from being simple.
I'm not sure if I support this move or not, because I do want developers to get paid, and mobile ads don't bother me that much, especially since if I'm using a free app or game I'm usually with Wi-fi and 3G data turned off. I do use Adblock on the desktop Chrome, though.

What bothers me though is that broad policy of Google there. According to that policy I think we can assume any app that uses root access could fall under it, and also any tethering app as well, which could be seen as "interfering with the network operator".

In most cases it, they're probably not enforcing these rules, but it still gives them enough room to selectively enforce it whenever they want.
I wonder why nobody found a way to completely automate the dish-washing process? Is it really that hard? Couldn't you have dish-type-customized trays and a "monster machine" you could load them into and get them out clean and dried? (This is one of the jobs I've really like to be made to disappear, viscerally, no matter how many people depend on this type of job. I've worked as a dishwasher myself but even as a young boy I realized I'm not gonna stand doing it, so I used all my cunning and reality-distorting abilities to get out of it to a better position in less than 3 days).
Internships are available.
where did TLO get the money to enable himself to waste his life away like this?
It intrigues me that he said he would poop a lot less.

Most of the mass in poop is actually dead bacteria living off of the food that you can't process (and whose waste we reabsorb at times). We know from studies that the intestinal flora varies quickly depending on what you eat. I also know that my mood swings depending on what I eat.

So his account of mood change (he said he felt very energetic) is very plausible.

It looks to me that he reduced the numbers of intestinal bacteria by a dramatic amount with his diet. I wonder what potential side effects (good or bad) this could have.

Scientist studying the intestine here? Something to look into I guess. :)
How do you think credit card transactions work? The auth code you get back from a "valid" cc transaction doesn't represent a transfer of money. That might not happen for another 24 hours.
http://www.google.com/doodles/ramon-gomez-cornets-115th-birt...
http://www.google.com/doodles/ryunosuke-akutagawas-121st-bir...
http://www.google.com/doodles/victor-brecherets-119th-birthd...
http://www.google.com/doodles/arthur-schopenhauer-225th-birt...
http://www.google.com/doodles/edward-goreys-88th-birthday
http://www.google.com/doodles/nasir-al-din-al-tusis-812th-bi...
http://www.google.com/doodles/nicolaus-copernicus-540th-birt...
http://www.google.com/doodles/anne-cath-vestlys-93rd-birthda...
etc, etc, etc... :)
I have seen companies tried, and worked for a strategic consulting firm at one time who was heavily reliant on RSS feeds for sending information (we were basicly human parsers on very topic-specific items). And they used NewsGator. I get the impression NewGator is not doing that well, and the "I will pay good money" sector you suggest exists does not; very few people are willing to pay for good interface, despite a strong use case. I say the same about movies and television. There is a self-serving expectation of free, and few buck this trend unless they really need it and the pay-for services are not worth it, or do just enough. Maybe others can tell me their experiences.

I am definitely someone affected by this, and continue to look into better RSS management every year or so for this reason. It appears building my own solution is by far the best approach, and that is true for a whole bunch of software anyway. Oh well.
Bollocks. People have been differentiating between cracking and hacking since basic passwords were put on mainframes for accountancy reasons. Predates software protection by a decade or two.
Internships for front-end devs in SF?
Hey HN,

I usually don't do this, but I reach out to you asking for help. I'm a front-end dev -- I write vanilla JavaScript, Backbone, jQuery, as well as CSS3 and semantic HTML (some HTML5). I'm also comfortable with LESS and CoffeeScript. I was recently hired by a SF-based tech company (around 70 employees; $10+ million raised) for a 6-month internship (would become full-time if I chose), and decided to leave because I didn't feel it was the right product for me to be working on right now.

Anyway, I'm having a really hard time finding any internships. Start dates don't matter, I'm in SF right now but low on cash because I expected to stay in the job. Heck, the company that hired me didn't even list internships, I just asked the recruiter because he kept bothering me on LinkedIn.

So I come to you HN, to ask if any of you would have leads for me. I'm looking for a position that I can grow into and feel comfortable asking questions when I'm stuck. My email address is on my profile if you'd like to contact me privately, and I can send my GitHub profile along with other sample work and a resume.
Because in the ads world more users is equals to more money.

A small fee for hiding ads will not generate a small revenue stream but, at the same time, decrease the value of your adspace.

And selling a consistent and growing userbase is easier that keeping a consistent and growing revenue from ads-free subscriptions.
I'll shoot you an email. :)
Opsview Releases All-New SME Monitoring Product
Not quite, it got MySQL support.
"but works hard for a living to make his both ends meet."

I know it's harsh of me to say "It sure doesn't look like a person working hard to make ends meet, if he's just spamming/spraying and praying". But then again I have a hard time justifying obvious spam at all.

Sure, a lot of people can interpret marketing mail and reach out e-mails as spam - but this is not one of those times.
> Hey and is sleeping is also waste of time ?

Sleeping is a waste of time.
I used to have a news (rss feed) reader on my blackberry, which was great.

Now I switched to Android, I've been using Google Reader so I can sync it online too.

So now this sucks, what's the alternative?
Ask HN: Please review my iOS app: Junaroo
Agitated User Behavior data miner (jQuery Plugin)
Wow! That proxy-bug means that the author of every app is able to read all of my network traffic! Its really amazing what kind of glaring security holes Android devices have. And how little media attention is spent on it. Is it still so, that on Samsung devices every app has full memory access? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931944)
Mitochondria are pretty important (as is most of the junk in our cells for that matter). I'd be less wary of the use of mitochondria in popular science - it's shorthand for talking about the energy metabolism pathway, and doesn't indicate one way or another whether we're looking in the right spot for the causes for particular diseases / syndromes.

On a tangential note, I haven't read it, but http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21792218 might be an interesting review on CFS. Also, I assume you are referring to Sarah Myhill rather than her daughter.
I have been working on a river of news style RSS/ATOM/RiverJs client in the past few months (GPL3 license).

The project site is here http://rivers.silverkeytech.com and you get the app here http://goo.gl/kShgp.

The app is a bit young but it is maturing rapidly. I deploy a new version every two weeks or so. The next update is due in a few days.
`yes` is an excellent tool for simulating CPU load:

CORES=4
for i in {1..$CORES}; do yes > /dev/null &; done
Are you going to be able to keep up with the thousands of such FB-linked sites you need to opt-out from in the future? I'm a private person too, so I don't use FB.
this is a boring article about an overworked dishwasher with no life lessons to gain and using 'sex' as a cheap title catch. skip it.
I'm not sure I see your contact information on your profile. Not really sure how HN works. I think if you've added an email address anyone can see it.
Thanks for the insight. Some quick (wikipedia) research would seem to indicate that osmotic pressure (27atm for seawater) is independent of membrane construction, at least under ideal conditions. Supporting the membrane during operation would seem to be a huge challenge, especially as they indicate that it has a tendency to tear during handling.

This article claims a 100x reduction in required pressure for the graphene membranes, while the Science article claims that state-of-the-art plants are already operating at 2x the theoretical minimum. These links would seem to support the claims of the Science article, that RO plants currently run at about 54atm (i.e 2x the theoretical minimum):
[1] http://www.lenntech.com/processes/desalination/reverse-osmos...
[2] http://www.remco.com/ro_quest.htm

I do hope that I'm missing something here though, and that fresh water for all is around the corner. I think it would go a long way towards improving the lives of many millions of people.
Ex-army probably.
I agree. Sorry but I won't allow anyone to manage my contacts. This should be optional.
I created a poll to keep track of the best alternative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373538
To ones interested in how much AdBlock actually impacts ad performances, this is an interesting report.

http://clarityray.com/Content/ClarityRay_AdBlockReport.pdf

Almost a year old though. Anyone has newer data?
Well, not quite. Their (unofficial) motto is "don't be evil", which is not the same as "do good". Besides, it's only so because of the opinion that --in the long run-- being (perceived) as a good company is better than being a short-term greedy one.

You could debate whether removing Adblock constitutes an evil act, but at the end of the day _someone_ has to pay for those shiny new services and gadgets.
Ask HN: help test Google reader alternative
I've been building https://feedreader.co and need volunteers to help test it. Things you can do:
1. Visit https://feedreader.co/arpith/labels/read so I can see what happens when more than four people use the site.
2. Email me (arpith@) a subscription list so I can set you up with a page which looks like https://feedreader.co/arpith
3. Take a look at the api (https://feedreader.co/api) and give me feedback. The bookmarklet (https://feedreader.co/bookmarklet/js) I'm currently working on is an example of how the api can be used.

If you'd just like to be notified when sign ups are possible please email me (arpith@)
There are various reasons that someone might be short of funds. That said I totally agree with you, I've lived pretty scrappily (Saved thousands on minimum wage salary). These days I'm saving like crazy to get a reasonable reserve built up. My goal is to have a similar reserve to yours or higher. That way if I need to look for work I can afford to do it in a relaxed manner. Nothing cripples a negotiation like desperation (for me at least).
Chrome 25 on windows 7.
I just tried again from scratch, without going through the google oAuth page, and its worked this way. No idea what went wrong the first time around.
They patched the Exynos bug: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3883238/samsung-exynos-sec...
Not a huge thing, but your HTML isn't valid - for example, there's Google analytics stuff after the closing </html> tag.

That kind of thing is never going to help

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsearchco.de%2...
HTTP is decentralised
On the other hand, most ads are pay-per-click and some of us never click ads, so there's no real difference for the site. That said, I don't use Adblock either.
Is the profile that's edited by those who have your permission to see you visible to others who don't have your permission to see you?
>consider turning off ad block on the pages that you enjoy

I never understood that logic. If you don't enjoy a website then you shouldn't visit it. That way you will only visit websites that you do enjoy, so you have no reason to use ad block.

If you're browsing websites that you've never visited before then you shouldn't be using ad block at all until you've decided if you enjoy it or not. If you do then you should make a list of each website you visit with ad block enabled and send each of them compensation for the costs they made for your free entertainment.
Prizes from competitions.
Baby formula is too expensive, you would need to eat a half week worth every day!
Oh jeez, it's so hard to read through this when the favicon continuously "blink"/change. Had to go full-screen mode to even read it through..
Interesting. The article sounds like only a few devices have been patched.
The giant "historical" answer is new, though. And really worth discussing I think.
As a network engineer who spends his days routing packets around the internets I find this hilarious.

What if every intersection were to function as a sort of router with each road leading from it as a link? Then distribute routes between intersections and calculate shortest path using the Dijkstra algorithm(OSPF). They could even implement congestion control by having clogged intersections stop advertising routes periodically.

Have a problem with cops, fire trucks and ambulances not getting through? Put them in a different QOS queue that prioritizes them.

This is a solved problem in so many ways. They could literally buy these algorithms from people with decades of experience working on this class of problems.
Twitter expected to launch music discovery app, Twitter Music
Google Unveils a New Technology - the Talking Shoes
I already have a Prismatic account. Can I merge my Google Reader account with my existing Prismatic account? I tried to do this but it doesn't look like it's possible.
Let's say he is right. Maybe, right? Am I the only one who likes to eat? Eating actually gives me a break from other things.
Google can do (1) because they crawl the entire web constantly. That's not going to be a trivial feature to add for anyone else. (2) is also probably a side effect of crawling pretty much everything before you ask for it.
I understand your point but in my case I don't like Ads and the propouse of the ads itself - they hack you brain and make you to buy things you problably don't need and you are not aware that even exists. Like everybody that surfs the internet nowadays, I have the "Brain-Ad-Filter" but that don't means that some Ads can be really annoying sometimes.

Not having AdBlock installed means that you are OK with the Ads and Ads Companies because you are not opting out.

The only downside is that the content creator is not receiving a little amount of money for my visit. That's right. And it's a pitty. But, most of the time, I would not pay parsonally most of the pages I visit with my money, and the fact that the creator of the content gets paid by a Ad company thanks to an arrangement that have done is something I don't care. If you really like the content of a page and you want to reward the author, send him some real moeny, or a beer (I have done it and it's awesome!).
I'm building an alternative (https://feedreader.co) and would like volunteers to test it. The focus is on reading (https://feedreader.co/arpith/labels/read should give you an idea) so it's much simpler than newsblur, etc, but the front end is built using a feed sync API (https://feedreader.co/api) which I think will be useful.
Probably yes was just waiting for the write buffer to clear so it could write again while bash was busy asking the system for more memory which was busy swapping everything to make room.
>The thing about blogspam is that it often generates confusion.

How do you reckon that this is blogspam? That's not just a general term you can toss at any post that you find lacking. It has a specific meaning.
Haha, I love this reply. It's how ingenious people (engineers) think, patching and ducktape will solve all your problems! :-D
Man Utd vs Reading Live Stream 16/3/2013
If you're interested, send me a resume and a portfolio. alex [at] bluebox [dot] com
> How so? By rootless-ly changing proxy using an exploit that was patched in 4.2.2

I'm not certain I buy this explnation. AdAway (a alternative FOSS adblocker) was also kicked out of the store for a violation of section 4.4 and they do nothing like use a proxy exploit. They simply let you customize your .hosts file and explicitly require root.
Another problem is that the Linux kernel is and has been mediocre in lots of little ways that Windows is not.
That was the main reason I waited to get chrome in the first place.
Albert Einstein would have been 134 today, on Pi day. Here is a tribute..
We have created a site that aims to remember those people who changed the world. Whenever there is a key date in history - birthday/death/event - we create an inspiring tribute page to try and inspire someone just how these important people inspired us.

Here is our tribute to Albert Einstein - http://getinspired365.com/20130314
Clickable - http://getinspired365.com/20130314
I have to agree.. there are people that go for years on Mountain Dew and Top Ramen... I don't think the shake is any worse.. and probably could be as cost effective, and far better.

I, personally love food way too much for this to work for me... I've been working on my diet, and getting to a point where some of my Metabolic Syndrom issues are now getting better (can feel my feet again)... most of that has been from a pretty high fiber, low carb intake. Almost no processed sugars or rich starches (bread/pasta/rice/potatoes). I do have a savory crepe a couple times a week (essentially a low-carb sandwich wrap. I also eat lots of greens, and have been eating 2-3 pieces of fruit a day. It's hard enough not binging out on pasta, let alone only eating a couple times a week.
Yes, I'm using net/http.
I say it "Depends"
Is your 5 years experience in the same field ?If yes which country you want to work after your MS ?
Yes your work experience counts.
Many use MS as jump start to work in better country,company so its worth an investment depending on what you want to do with it after you complete your MS.
Actually, lawyers lose the money they got paid to prove/disprove that someone else invented it first.

And no, you don't "have to patent to to avoid someone else patenting your stuff bit later". You can just publish it, which then counts as prior art.
I've just been trying to use feedly, but it's leaving a lot to be desired.

I don't want to have to search in order to add a site. I have the URL in my clipboard, I want to just add it to a particular group. The organise function (which on my vertical screen requires hover and if I click instead it closes it) seems to be designed around assuming that you don't have many groups or feeds in your groups. For example, I was trying to add a particular feed url to a particular group. It wouldn't let me because it was already in another group, but I couldn't see which group it was in (and why shouldn't I have a feed in more than one group?).

Also, what's with the huge featured thing? I don't care about what's 'featured', what I want is a timeline of full articles from my groups, without extra nonsense up at the top and without having to move between sites. I don't care about the feed it's from, what I care about is new content. I moved to reader from bloglines precisely because reader would let me have that and bloglines wouldn't, if feedly won't either then I simply can't use it.
I discovered IFTTT today and would love to have a use case, I find the tech amazing.

But this might be a bit ineffective. I subscribe to a good amount of feeds, and on a good amount of items I don't read much more than the title... I don't need to be charging up my phone with a bunch of articles I wouldn't read through instapaper.

On a side note: the article mentions reblogging reblogged posts or whatever... is there some sort of loop detection for IFTTT?
Historically speaking, I don't think that man ate too much of a variety over the course of a given day, maybe weeks... And the guy mentions he does eat a couple times a week. I couldn't do it... but without high yield GM crops, we couldn't even feed 1/2 of the world's population, anything that stretches that isn't a bad thing...
Neil deGrasse Tyson: We Live in a Cosmic Shooting Gallery
Clickable http://keepermovies.com
You Have One Job – Eliminate my Fear
For what it's worth, I saved my first $10k back when I was making $34k/yr. It took about two years of living cheap (in Portland, which is around the average in terms of cost of living for the US).

Doing this was my absolute number one priority from the moment I landed my first job after university. As it should be for everybody.

Once you have that stack in place, you can think about moving off of "college student scrounge mode" and into a world where you might consider owning a new-ish car, television, moving to non-shared housing or an area without crazy hobos camping on your doorstep, etc.
Out of interest, why do you hate AdBlock?
According to the ToS at https://developers.google.com/feed/terms:

Google will announce if we intend to discontinue
or make backwards incompatible changes to this
API or Service. We will use commercially
reasonable efforts to continue to operate the
Google Feed API without these changes until
April 20, 2015, unless (as Google determines in
its reasonable good faith judgment):

* required by law or third party relationship
(including if there is a change in applicable
law or relationship), or
* doing so could create a security risk or
substantial economic or material technical
burden.

This Deprecation Policy doesn't apply to
versions, features, and functionality labeled
as "experimental."

Of course, who knows what "commercially reasonable efforts" really mean.
I use it daily. A lot. Since they're shutting it down, couldn't they release the code as opensource so we can build our own greader servers? Or is that insane from the technical point of view?
Thank you for sharing your project. I haven't gone through all your website but there is one thing that bugs me.: the duration in seconds. Try to format it. I don't need to do the math to convert the time in minutes or hours, that's what computers are for.