skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can cure cancer with diet, along with generally healthy living. "Cure" perhaps isn't the best word though, because bad diet (combined with other things like stress, lack of exercise, etc.) is frequently the cause of cancer in the first place.

EDIT: I didn't mean to say that changing to a healthy diet/lifestyle after being diagnosed will magically cure you (if that's why I'm being downvoted) but I believe it certainly can in some cases. If it's for lack of references, well, when it comes to cancer, you can find a study to support just about any view you want.
Lifestyle and income are so often intertwined. He's carrying his laptop because it's his livelihood. He's working out of a coffee shop because he can't afford an office. Etc.
Reeder, my favorite iOS and Mac news app, that includes support for Fever (http://feedafever.com/), a news aggregation and evaluation service I’ve always wanted to try. If you are looking to leave Google Reader, this may be the combination you’re looking for.
Reeder on the iPhone syncs with Fever, but neither the Mac nor iPad versions of Reeder do.

Sunstroke (https://goneeast.com/sunstroke/) is a better Fever-specific client for the iPhone, I think... but it doesn't have either an iPad or a Mac version. On the Mac you can use Fever's web interface but on the iPad you're pretty much out of luck, as there are no native clients and trying to use the web interface there is crazy-making. (Actually, the web interface is a little crazy-making in any web browser. It's just a lot crazy-making on the iPad.)
Its not as lucrative as you would think. When Google Code Search shut down I launched code search http://searchco.de and while it got some attention it was nowhere near as much as you would expect.

That said I do think that going after markets abandoned by the big guys is an excellent way to go. Usually they abandon it because its not a billion dollar business and isn't worth their time.

I believe now that you need to start attacking their market-share before they close the product down and use the closure as a marketing opportunity.
Show HN: To-Do List via SMS
We built this over the weekend to solve a huge pain point of ours: Keeping track of todos from wherever we are. You can add todos via SMS or the web app[^1] . Being able to add via SMS was vital for us because we are often times not at our computer but think of something important that needs to get done. No todo app we have tried allowed us to do this.

Before hacking this together, our fragmented process looked something like this:

- At our desk - paper / pen
- Mobile and receive an email prompting a new todo - send email to ourselves
- Mobile and think of a new todo - send text to ourselves

By the end of the day we would have todos and thoughts all over the place. What we wanted was to aggregate all of these todos / thoughts into one place, no matter when or where you think of a new item. We searched and couldn't find something that allowed us to do this, so we built it for ourselves. We've been using it for a few days and like it so far. Wanted to share it with the community and see if this is something that you guys would use as well.

Looking forward to any and all feedback. Thanks!

[^1]: We're planning on offering a mobile (iOS) app and integration with Alfred, bash, email, and possibly a simple API for hacking your own methods together.
Thanks for making this, it is way better than Google Reader!
I for one welcome this change as an opportunity for growth. Google has not put any effort into reader for some time now. Maybe some innovative company will get the google reader user base and build something great.

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OTOH I do feel sad that reader is gone as it has been a part of my daily life for many years now. Some say that RSS is dead but I cannot find any alternative to feeds I've collected.
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I think I can trust Apple to eventually get their maps right and to the point of Google (or close). I'm not sure Samsung would ever get there. When it comes to software I am yet to see any Samsung product which did not suck.
We built this over the weekend to solve a huge pain point of ours: Keeping track of todos from wherever we are. You can add todos via SMS or the web app[^1] . Being able to add via SMS was vital for us because we are often times not at our computer but think of something important that needs to get done. No todo app we have tried allowed us to do this.

Before hacking this together, our fragmented process looked something like this:

- At our desk - paper / pen
- Mobile and receive an email prompting a new todo - send email to ourselves
- Mobile and think of a new todo - send text to ourselves

By the end of the day we would have todos and thoughts all over the place. What we wanted was to aggregate all of these todos / thoughts into one place, no matter when or where you think of a new item. We searched and couldn't find something that allowed us to do this, so we built it for ourselves. We've been using it for a few days and like it so far. Wanted to share it with the community and see if this is something that you guys would use as well.

Looking forward to any and all feedback. Thanks!

[^1]: We're planning on offering a mobile (iOS) app and integration with Alfred, bash, email, and possibly a simple API for hacking your own methods together.
This is such a sad news for lots of specialized website (including Google blogs!!!). For sure they will see some trafic impact. BTW, Google+ is too much time consuming per unit of information read, so I will never replace Reader by Plus.
Ouch, what font rendering is that?
Wow. So the problem was that their messaging wasn't right? Seriously? Not that their sales people are clearly dialing for dollars from some boiler room using scraped lists? Not that they're hiring people who don't know someone who ANYONE working at a CMS related company should know? Not that they're lazy and sleazy and weak?
Does NewsBlur support authenticated ATOM feeds? Also, does it support 'deep' Craigslist queries?

I tried to add this feed, for example:
http://denver.craigslist.org/search/cto?maxAsk=28000&min...

without success, but it could be your server getting hammered.
I had heard of Elastic Beanstalk but not OpsWorks. Thank you for mentioning that.

I haven't tried it, but Cloud66 is another provider in this middle ground (they don't host, but provide you the devops tools to do so on amazon, digital ocean, etc.).
> It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds in an organized way

Yes, exactly. Google Reader is literally the only way to find past episodes of some podcasts - the files are still up, but after a site redesign nothing else links to them.
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I'd note that Readertron (readertron.com) was built by a guy who was frustrated when Google nerfed the sharing among friends feature.

MIght want to give it a shot.
Definitely interesting the trend that Google is following, first with iGoogle and now Reader.

With backstitch (http://backstit.ch) we get questioned a lot why Google is no longer supporting these types of services (and if this means there is no opportunity there since they aren't worried about it anymore). We honestly feel like there is a lot of surface left uncovered when it comes to personalized/streamlined content and it just doesn't seem to be part of Google's refocusing (this has been seen with the shutting down of a lot of their lab projects as well).
You can let someone go without letting go of them.
I've met all kinds of ages while traveling. 18-72 mostly in their 20s yes but that is because of the amount of responsibilities. Most of the older people I have met learned how to delegate responsibilities and obligations or get rid of them.
i was especially interested in the history function of Google Reader. i could look up old items even if they were not starred, it was enough if they passed through Google Reader.

And there is no option to save this data. Or is there?
"wasn't informed"?!?!?! Umm... this is a hiring fail. You shouldn't have to be informed about the dominant player in your market.
Lessons for the week: It's not yours unless it's 1) On your machine [a], and 2) DRM free.

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[a] As long as your machine remains "yours", i.e. free of the same restrictions.
I Resent My Cofounder
I've written and deleted this post more than once, and I've worked very hard to not be judgmental and make invalid assumptions, but today I just couldn't stop writing, and I think it's finally time to sit on the therapy couch that is HN.

I've been working with my co-founder for a number of years. We're great friends, and we have a lot in common. We both have passion for what we do and for our road ahead. I don't think I'd be where I am today without her, but at the same time, I'm starting to see we're not the same people we used to be.

I put in around 60-70 hours/week on our startup. She puts in maybe 60-70% of that.

I obsess over it 24/7. She seems content to let me do that.

When we have new ideas, they are always mine. There are many times I've thought about holding them back in order to build them on my own. That alone tells me I need to do something about it.

I have to constantly pull, nag, and guilt my cf into putting in more time and effort, and it's wearing me down. I don't like being a bitch. At our current pace it will take years of this pace in order to achieve our goals. I don't have years to drag someone along, and my family is already tired of watching it happen.

My gut says I need to increase my salary and reduce hers, cutting back equity at the same time. Maybe even find someone else to bring on that can contribute equal to the cuts I make. But I'm worried that it would damage our relationship to a point of no coming back.

I feel like this startup is my best chance for making it, and I absolutely refuse to let it go in order to move on. So the question is, do I just deal with the resentment and be grateful for what I have, make some sort of monetary change, or fire them all together and rebuild the team?

Surely this resentment will boil into something even more negative, and I want to act before it gets to that point.
Flat response isn't really the target for headphones. At least not a flat response in the manor these measurements are being taken.

Headphone drivers are very close to your ears which causes frequency dependent effects. Also there are issues with how the sounds bounces around your ears / ear canal / head in general (google Head Related Transfer Function for more).

A 10db drop between about 1khz and 20khz is 'about right' for a flat response during use. Additionally roll off on the low end is also expected in a measurement like this for in-ear headphones, a large amount of gain will be added once these are sealed in your ears.
I'd urge everyone to give Readertron (readertron.com) a try. It was built by programmer (and good friend of mine) who was frustrated when Google nerfed the ability to share among friends within Google Reader. It's a work in progress, but at least you can share articles among friends again.

He's also very responsive to requests for features.
Looks like: https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline

See also:

https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline and *-powerline for shells, etc.
Uh oh. Not good for someone with over a thousand RSS feeds from various updates-once-a-year products or sites.
any real alternatives suggestion? I don't care for fancy magazine like interface or anything, I just want to be able to quickly scan for news, click on one that I am interested in, and mark everything else as read. also, fast.
You missed the beginning of the sentence: "the next one" = "it", not Google reader
I may have gotten a little ahead of myself with the spark plugs. They're necessarily very high voltage (north of 10k volts), so they come to mind easily, but I'm sure the current and spark duration are quite low.

Still, just the lights will easily outweigh a consumer-grade cellular modem.
Since IFTTT can consume any RSS feed, you can just use any client that lets you export your starred articles as one, such as Tiny Tiny RSS.

I have a similar use case, where I want to automatically download chosen podcasts. I just created a "download" label, got an RSS feed link from my client and put it on a podcasting app. Now I just need to label the episodes I want to listen to on Tiny and they'll be automatically downloaded to my phone.
Stars are, in fact, exportable. The "Google Takeout" zip archive for Reader includes a file called starred.json, containing a list of your starred items in a JSON format that, as far as I know, nothing else reads. If whatever reader you switch to can import marked items, you can probably work up a script to convert Google's format to whatever the new reader uses.
Petition: Keep Google Reader Running
What other syndication mechanism works, is cross platform, portable, provides rich media, and is open?
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What happened to you Google :(
What conesus is doing is very cool. But I'm still using NetNewsWire on OS X because it's a desktop RSS reader and it's good enough.

Conesus: Have you considered running a Kickstarter for a desktop version of NewsBlur, in order to gauge interest? I'd definitely contribute.
> I started wondering why something as simple and important as food was still so inefficient

It's inefficient because it's important. The production and consumption of food is one of the most ritualized aspects of humanity, and most cultures define themselves in no small part by their culinary traditions.

To humans, food is far, far more than simply the output of some nutritional optimization technique.
That lifestyle blows. It takes living from a position of privilege to think that it's somehow a wonderful opportunity.
market research and marketing is highly automated these days.

this is the world you are helping to build.
There is OPML import ability on the same modal that offers GR import.
I've been using "RSS Feed Reader" Google plugin, which was the first thing I came across. This thread is a nice place for seeing other options.

If an API or service is really valuable, Google shutting their version down shouldn't be too bad. Other people can try to make some money offering a replacement.
NetNewsWire on OS X is nice, but I really need a) syncing between 3 different computers, and b) an iPhone client (and ideally an iPad client too, but not strictly required). Reeder + Google Reader has satisfied this until now.
Wow. I mostly use Reeder on my phone, but it hadn't even crossed my mind that the iPad and OS X versions possibly wouldn't have Fever support.

The author should really make that a priority, he has 2,5 months to make it happen.
I'm really glad you like it, and thanks so much for your feedback! Much appreciated!
Sample size of one, but Google Reader accounted for 6,168 of my 7,698 RSS subscribers yesterday (according to the probably-also-on-the-chopping-block FeedBurner).
I just Fever (http://www.feedafever.com/). You host it yourself, and it does the job perfectly.
Wait.. so they have a service that in your words is so good it is irreplaceable.. and taking it away makes them evil?

That's pretty strong!
Don't learn how to code;

Learn how to make and sell things ...
> We already tried going full-APL but it only proved that it wasn't a good idea.

When you say full-APL do you mean in one leap? Then I agree it's not a good idea, but how about going to APL in stages? First introduce just some operators (e.g. × ∧ ∨ ∈ ≥ ≤ ≠ → ⇒ only), then introduce more gradually until all APL operators are in use? Then keep on introducing other symbols from Unicode not in APL.
I use reeder for Mac and ipad that is connected to my google reader account. Need to find an alternative now.
And Colombus believed, till his death, that he had reached India. He never realized this was another continent altogether.
Feedly posted this to their blog today:

http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

Transitioning from Google Reader to feedly

Google Reader
Posted on March 14, 2013 by @feedly

Google announced today that they will be shutting down Google Reader. This is something we have been expecting from some time: We have been working on a project called Normandy which is a clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. When Google Reader shuts down, feedly will seamlessly transition to the Normandie back end. So if you are a Google Reader user and using feedly, you are covered.
I used to live in NYC, and even there I was able to keep down my COL. I was lucky enough to grow up there but I found an apartment for pretty cheap in outer brooklyn. I didn't go out to clubs much, or eat out much either. I hung out mostly in cheap bars or dinner/house parties with friends.

Right now I am in South America, I am using couchsurfing.com and using hostels. I have an apartment right now which cut down costs a lot but still hang out with the local couchsurfing community. I cook nearly all the time so food is pretty cheap. I am lucky that I can program and work remotely but I have friends who do data entry work, translation, english tutoring. I have friends who volunteer in hostels for free room and board or use http://www.helpx.net/

As for traveling, mostly by bus, or budget airlines(which are as expensive as buses). And I do not move often.

Hanging out with couchsurfers has really kept my daily COL. I personally hate most tourist traps and by hanging out with couchsurfers usually you get amazing local cultural experiences for either free or cheap. IE My host in Venezuela took me to his girlfriend's niece's baptism party where I sang, drank, and danced with 70 year old venezuelan women.

I find I am happiest not going on a guided eco tour, or going to the top of some tall thing(building or mountain), but sharing thoughts and experiences with different/local people.
I was in the same situation as you, and when it's not voluntary, it's not very much fun. My dream now is to settle down in a home and live there for 5+ years.
Apologies for going meta, but - Only on Hacker News will you see a "simpler" explanation involve the mention of Bose-Einstein condensate.
Totally second that. Google reader is my main activity on the ferry. I'm used to it and don't want to find something else.
CISPA allows exactly that to happen! Any "Cyber security provider" can collect and share information (on a voluntary, opt-in basis) under the act. Moreover, the largest repository of threat information --- netflow traces, botnet identification, &c --- is housed inside the USG, which is prevented from sharing that information. That's the other problem CISPA solves.

Did you read the bill? I'm not asking in an accusatory way; I'm wondering where you got your information from, so I can read it too.
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The RIAA/MPAA/News Corp/Disney/etc. own the means of communication to the masses. This is changing with the Internet, which is why they are so opposed to Internet-friendly legislation.
http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki
He even added "/snark" to show it was a facetious comment referring to the whole 'servers are required to do the heavy calculations!' argument made to justify the DRM.
One of the most lucid, entertaining and CORRECT analyses of the VC industry I have ever read.
For some of the bigger ones the extension could try to keep some dummy scripts that match the api properly. e.g. make it look like GA started but not actually send them anything at all. Though that sounds like a cat and mouse game.
Customized freetype for excessive eye bleeding.
Are you kidding?

It's not about your body suddenly running out of a nutrient five years down the line. It's about your body starting to repair and build structures that need to last for years while missing key ingredients.

As a random example, people can develop osteoporosis after years of drinking diet soda.
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Former Reader PM here, no longer at Google. Having fought many times to keep Reader alive, it's worth considering whether a large enough outcry would lead them to reconsider.

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I've come to the conclusion that mainstreaming a technology results in the technology conforming to the mainstream, rather than the mainstream adopting the interests of the early adopters of the technology.
I don't understand all your questions but here's some.

The fuel is used as coolant since it's a better coolant than the oxidizer for a range of reasons. One of them is that hot oxygen is very corrosive. Also, because of that a small oxygen leak from the coolant passage to the chamber tends to grow larger with catastrophic consequences. With kerosene the problem is coking.

Yes it's more complicated to design a regenerative cooled engine, but existing materials can't take the heat. Some maneuvering thrusters are heat sink designs. Some engines are ablative, with things like evaporating carbon taking the energy.

Yes it only needs one engine for landing vs nine for fully laden takeoff.
Major code smell for me as well, but I've seen some rather big projects do them, so I always file it under "tabs vs. spaces".
As mentioned, there are too many "unknown unknowns" to say for sure. So I'll refer to an anecdote:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animals-and-us/201106/wh...

In her early 30's, Staci's health started going downhill. After twelve years of strict vegetarianism, she began to suffer from anemia and chronic fatigue syndrome, and she experienced stomach pains for two hours after every meal. "I was completely debilitated," she tells me. "Then I changed the way I ate."

The point here is not to bash vegetarianism, but to point out that it took her 12 years to develop health issues. And that's with vegetarianism, that is often considered a very healthy way to eat. So I would expect more potential hazards from something new, untried and untested.
i don't have the greatest understanding of how speakers work, so correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't an increase in energy efficiency (making the speakers easier to drive) mean that for the same volume level on a source, the graphene speaker be louder?
i sometimes find that at lowest level my headphones can be a bit to loud in some quiet environments, so graphene headphones would be even worse
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No, you just need to execute this on a terminal:

echo "Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault" > ~/.Xresources

And check the output of:

xrdb -query | grep Xft
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Could you please define "highly processed foods"?
That has very little to do with how much stuff they carry.
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Seamless Transitioning from Google Reader to feedly
Oh god. I have around 800 starred items dating back to 2008 in greader. Fuck me.
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No, you can't. This is quack science.