skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple and Facebook Flash Forward to Computer Memory of the Future
Look at the commenters history. They only ever post on stories that are negative towards Google, and only ever post comments defending Google and often use generic attacks like 'blogspam'.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=yanw%20blog...

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=yanw+FUD...
It is foregone conclusion that G+ will add the subscriptions in some manner?

Agree Reader exit still creates a nice niche for others to fill since even if G+ is the goal not all folks will go G+ if there are more focused alternatives.
I'm not a person whose opinion on the subject matter should matter to anyone, so I'm not commenting because of a vested interest in this argument. I'm commenting because I think you're misapplying the principles of the scientific method, which makes your criticism unfair.

> You place a burden of evidence on him...

It isn't saidajigumi placing the burden of proof on him, it's the scientific method. Everything we know about nutrition tells us that we don't understand it enough to pull something like this off. It would be a breakthrough if it turned out we can, but the null hypothesis is that it won't work, so that's what our position should be.

If our default position is that this doesn't work, and the guy is really relying on his mix for most of his sustenance, that means we think he's going to experience adverse health effects because of his diet. Perhaps we have no evidence to suggest they'll be adverse enough to qualify his diet as "poisonous", but the assumption isn't completely baseless, as you've asserted.

Again, I have no idea who's right and who's wrong, but the two claims are certainly not equally likely.
Ill check it out tonight
His diet probably wasn't the cause for his illness, but as far as I understand, he refused ordinary medical procedures (surgery) that had a good track record against his particular type of cancer, in favour of observing a special diet. The diet didn't help and the cancer progressed to the point where surgery was no longer an efficient treatment.
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> And what would you estimate is the time loss of that 0.5 seconds multiplied by 5x per day translates to in a year?

I don't even have to estimate. It's less than 16 minutes in a year. I spend more time washing dishes every day.

The word "con" being used for convention is so widely used (PyCon, ComicCon, GenCon) that it's almost approaching "con is short for convict"-level popularity.
But things like pathfinding and game mechanics are / should be amongst the first things they make for a game like this, even before deciding and developing a visual style / graphics and sound and the like. So rushing on developing / polishing pathfinding doesn't make sense to me.
Most desktop and webbased feed readers I tried over the years are too much resources hungry for my main laptop (eeepc 1000he, atomN280). I am tempted to try RSS lounge on my Pi, it seems to be a pretty good google reader replacement (I only looked at the screenshots so far).
As soon as RSS disappeared from Mountain Lion, Google copied the idea: time to sue again.
probably they will probably make stamps to stamp their names on posters :D
If they want to make money from it, charge for it.

I would gladly pay $40/month to access Google Reader.
It was a mobile operating system. That seems pretty similar to me.
If Android didn't have side-loading, the capability of having third-party app stores, and access to the shell (to the point of being able to run a terminal), I would likely not be using it. The more PC-like it is, the more usable it is to me, in the medium / longer term, as devices in tablet form factor replace mobile PC use cases.
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Just post another one. There are no comment caps :)
It does look exciting, but I can't trust a framework that promotes saving data on a GET request.
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I did some studies, where I tried a few mvc frameworks for nodeJs, such as: locomotive, compound, etc. From what I remember, locomotiveJs was very appealing but I failed to understand it, while compound worked find for me, as a beginner. There were a few others, but I had to use coffescript - that I really don't want, don't really need, don't really care about, I just wanted to learn a nodejs mvc framework and not a new language!

In the end of the day, I just realized ExpressJs is fine, but I just stopped nodeJs and start working with Laravel!
Google: What is going on with the search results?
This is affecting me similarly to the announcement of Yahoo killing Delicious. Both Delicious and Google reader became for me definitions of their services. As a result of this all alternatives do not feel right (Even if they're technically more full featured).

I have swapped Delicious with Diigo (After shopping around many alternatives). I really hope the process of replacing Google reader isn't as long or as painful as that was.

The ending of Delicious and Google Reader is the end of an era of my use of the Internet. I wonder if it's a function of my age that I now see that as a sad and worrying development rather than an opportunity to be grasped.
Learner approved for what country? The rules here in the UK are horribly complicated and sadly a lot of the suggestions do not apply.
TDD, BDD, and the tea tasting lady
New Google Android Head
Researchers resurrect and improve CRIME attack against SSL
There's a whole accelerator of startups for under-represented demographics, including women and minorities: http://www.newmeaccelerator.com/
If I wanted to host Tiny Tiny RSS what's a good place to buy some hosting from to run it?
You can download python's offline documentation (full) from : http://docs.python.org/2.7/download.html

This ebook : "A Byte of Python" is really good : http://swaroopch.com/notes/python/
and is free to download.
what are the best features in googlereader you can't find on other platforms?
Oh really? As a non-Node.js guy, I would love to see some others. Can you show me some examples please?

Thanks!
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The header is blocking half the page, and the dropdown menus don't show what you can select (manufacturer, type, cc, etc.). Otherwise it's nicely done.

I'm not sure whether most of these are good learners. Especially the entire armada of barely road-legal enduros ;) Many bikes seem to be expensive classics (often with shocking handling, miserable brakes), or stuff for the really dedicated (e.g. the Dnepr, a SU/Ukrainian make that no longer exists, which will teach you more about motorcycle mechanics than you ever wanted to know).

So idk about the selection... are you targeting a specific part of the world?
Two lines to remove your Facebook applications.
"I don't expect for-profit companies to support things that has no value (to them) other than harming their revenue stream."

If users can't block ads they hate through AdBlock on Chrome, they may switch to a different browser or OS. That's not good for browser/OS creator... In addition, people who use AdBlock probably click on ads mostly by mistake (as do I and lots of my tech-aware frinds). Hence there is almost no revenue in showing those ads anyway.

I agree with you that if an organization sees something they control as working against them they will usually try to kill it. I disagree that AdBlock is actually working against their revenue stream... at least I don't see any evidence in this whole thread, mostly speculation.

What worries me more is hypocrisy on the part of Google. They frequently claim that users come first, when in fact Google's profits come first. Why all the drama about users then? :)
To stop people from upvoting me: I'm in the tabs camp. There, I've said it.
moretoitsurely do you reside in Bath Road top floor? Greetings from 2EE51.
What Makes *Your* Web Service Sustainable?
I would have thought that Google would keep Reader running. Not because there would be a strong business case, but because pissing of both bloggers for fucking with their channels (who in aggregate is a huge influencer) and information omnivores (many of who love to share opinions of companies and products with their social circle) is a huge PR hit to take for saving peanuts. They couldn't have done worse by buying full-page attack ads against themselves in NYT.

I went to Newsblur last year, because I like to support the little sites when they're filling my need, but Reader was the Google product I used most by a mile, I'll miss it. I accept that Google doesn't make things for me anymore, I'll look elsewhere for exciting products.
It was returned, and an OKPay rep confirmed it (with not much gratitude, in my opinion): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152348.80
Xi Jinping becomes Chinese president
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I don't really want a reader, I want a service that syncs state accross readers, and aggregates my feeds into one feed for easy downloads by devices.

Google reader was perfect for that, and it was only on occasion that I used their web interface. Most of the time I was on my iPad/iPhone/Android (using Reeder/Byline/Flipboard and the official android client)
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Ask HN: Are there any coders that don't type fast?
Non-hackers are sometimes impressed with my typing speed. When I was in high school, I had to take a typing class. I intentionally scheduled it at as my final class of the day so I could finish all the assignments fast and leave school early.

My typing skills come from having to learn to type in the dark in the middle of the night when I was a kid. I had to sneak my computer use late at night because I had school the next day and was supposed to be sleeping. That experience is probably common for many nerds. I also got the original Microsoft Natural Keyboard when that was released ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Natural_keyboard ). That also improved my typing.

Are there any coders in this world that don't type fast?
Fixed. Thanks for the tip and sorry for the annoyance. That was coming straight from the Jekyll boilerplate I used: Foundation (https://github.com/Wiredcraft/foundation).
Google Reader is probably the only place that even has an archive of many defunct blogs. Are they going to archive them somewhere or just throw that trove of web history away?
At least in Google Reader one can email articles, and it auto-suggests email addresses of your contacts. So Google Reader already has access to your Google Contacts.

Perhaps The Old Reader just does the same?
Data Dog is pretty fantastic really. We love it at devo.ps.
As a bit of background, in most states of Australia you can only ride restricted motorbikes (commonly referred to as LAMS bikes) when on your learner or provisional license. As motorcycle riders, we wanted to help people find out what bikes were out there.

We plan on growing the site into a place where all riders can discuss the pros and cons of each Learner Approved motorbike.

Lots of places we're looking improve on this, (ie the initial page load). We'd love to hear any other thoughts you have!
Petition : Google: Keep Google Reader Running
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https://twitter.com/HackThePlanet/status/311233642447925249
The article hints that it's the recommendation system that is hard and use a lot of resources.

Funny as it is exactly the part of the product I didn't care about.
Google Petitioned By Fans Of Google Reader To Reconsider Shutdown
Testing Dyson hand dryers by punching and kicking them
“Seven minutes of terror”: The secret story of the Mars rover landing
GeekyConf: Explore, Learn & Enjoy
I was looking forward for BitCoins to be hacked. This tells me it's not secure enough yet.
I've never actually seen the show but there's obviously a strong cult following for it.

The Kickstarter article is well written and there are some very interesting pledge rewards on the table.

"You will get a speaking role in the movie. Here’s the scene — Veronica is eating with the man in her life. Things have gotten tense between them. You are the waiter/waitress. You approach the table, and you say, “Your check, sir.” We guarantee you will be on camera as you say the line. Unless you go all hammy and ruin the scene and we have to cut you out, but that would be a sad day for all of us. Just say the line. Don’t over-think it. You’re a waiter."
Yep definitely more info required here isn't there :)

This targets the Australian market, and more specifically the state of New South Wales.

Some of the bikes may be expensive (or not worth learning on), but this list is provided by the Roads authority (RMS) as to what you can ride, not necessarily what you should ride.

Thanks for the feedback!
Sorry, I misinterpreted you. I thought you wanted gamification for developers themselves.
Yes, because its full of Google MONEY! Its about the libraries...
Australia mate ;)

"have an engine capacity up to and including 660ml and do not exceed a power to weight ratio of 150 kilowatts per tonne." - rta.nsw.gov.au
It's a move that makes sense sure.

But it irks me that a service I've been using for however long just one day decides to cut my quota by 80%.

It doesn't exactly spur me to start paying.
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That's true, but you'll have to recommend something as an alternative instead, since there is only a finite amount of RSS services; I say that as an RSS power user.

Beggars can't be choosers. :)
He is not getting screwed, this guy is the one who made the double spend, he basically spent $10k and then when he realised the problem and tried to spend the $10k again, he did so successfully. He then made a post about it and informed the company (OKPAY) so that the problem could be resolved.

Essentially a whitehat response to the problem. The reason you wont get screwed in this way when you sue bitcoin is because of people like him that operate int he community.
If they remove it from Chrome as well,then I am jumping back to Firefox.
Awesome, wish it was around a month or two ago when I was getting my bike! Never knew there were so many different bikes I could ride on my L plates...
The text wasn't displaying properly (Firefox), and my email address scrolled off the side of the textbox you asked me to enter it into, with no way for me to make sure I'd typed the second half correctly...
Filtering by make and model doesn't really help me find a bike. I would de-emphasize or even remove those dropdowns. A think a pricing filter would be useful.

Labels for the dropdowns should be added, is someone new to motorcycles even going to realize that the first dropdown has motorcycle makes?
I don't know what you mean by customize, but the extent of customization only extends to grouping feeds in folders and choosing how and in which order to display them.

So I wouldn't call it customizable.
++

Reeder supports FeedAFever mentioned in the article, so I think I'm going to try that.
It's OK because publishers have found a way around the masses doing this. "Native" advertising, a.k.a. sponsored content. Publishers wanna eat and it's a great way around ad blocking.
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If by professional websites you mean a few specific publishing websites which google has an CPM agreement with, then yes, those are a extremely small subset. News sites particularly are one large subgroup of that set.

But not all Professional websites is news sites. Nor is every professional website using the CPM model just because they got a team of people which are depending on the ad revenue. They commonly use the other form of compensation model which one can read in the above Wikipedia link.

CPM model is an rare/antique model outside publishing (news) sites. While looking around for statistics, I can't even find anyone that mention CPM alongside with PPC and PPS. PPC looks to be the dominant model, with PPS taking almost everything else. (https://strategyplanone.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/pay-per-cli...)
Prizes from competitions and team salary
Node.js packages are usually small and self-contained. Without typing/APIs Node relies heavily on documentation, so packages which are not well-documented will fall into oblivion quickly. Who'd write a OSS library which nobody can use?

My personal favorite, interactive docs!

http://coffeescript.org/

I like these ones because of the straightforwardness:

http://socket.io/

http://jade-lang.com/

http://mongoosejs.com/

And many more:

http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/

http://meteor.com/

http://derbyjs.com/

http://compoundjs.com/

http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/

Almost all packages without a website have a README (npm spits out warnings if missing README):

https://npmjs.org/package/request

https://npmjs.org/package/browserify

https://npmjs.org/package/formidable

https://npmjs.org/package/forever
FUCK YOU Google
Here come the first SimCity mods and hacks
Yep. No excuse for delaying security updates by anything other than a bare minimum. There's other ways to spare your servers if that's the real problem.
http://www.feedly.com/ perfectly works right now. With four clicks you find all your feed groups again you had in Google Reader and the User Interface is even nicer...

I think the most important feature for any alternative is the import of the Google Reader's feeds and structure including all tags!
"It is - but how long do people wait before sending goods on ebay?"

Sometimes only minutes after payment.

"If you're sending them a couple of hours later you check to make sure it's ok before you send."

And if the fork lasts longer than a couple of hours?
Reader actually archives feeds, so there are a lot of defunct pages in Reader that Search can't find.
Thanks for the tip mate. We intended to have some slick images scrolling in the header. But agree, it may be too much yellow-negative-space. Slimming it down right now.
Where to next after Reader?
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it will be hard to beat google reader in terms of multiple platform support. I dearly love my android google reader app that lets me load items, view them offline, sync them when i get back online.

i'm really very sad right now.
FEEDLY has done a great job:
- with 4 clicks you find ALL feeds with
- ALL feed groups / folders
- ALL tags are imported
- you even have the complete HISTORY of all feeds again
- it is SYNCHED REALTIME with your Google Reader account: if you "like" a post in feedly, you instantly also have a "star" in Google Reader.

Any alternative discussed here should have this import and SYNC feature, otherwise it is useless.

http://www.feedly.com/
Couldn't agree more. On a different topic, I've been toying with various JS MVC frameworks, but a lot of them tries to do their "magic" without actually explaining why the magic is necessary. These so called "conventions" at times hide way too many things, it actually makes it frustrating to understand. In the end, my choice came back to Backbone, which is the minimalistic framework.

Having said that, I'm trying to pick up NodeJS soon, what frameworks would you recommend to start off with? Express?
There are such machines. It's basically a really really large dishwasher with conveyer belt. Still, loading and unloading is a full time job.
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'Carmakers manipulate emissions tests'
I think it's important to stress that this is totally incorrect -- the substantial majority of display advertising is still being paid on a CPM rather than CPC basis.

Look at this data, for example: http://www.adexchanger.com/online-advertising/iab-2011-onlin...

"Performance pricing" (CPC and CPA) was 65% of all online ad spend in 2011, but if you remove search from that, it goes down to 20%. CPM (per-impression) pricing is around 33% of all online ad spend.

Block ads if you want, but you should be aware you are depriving publishers of revenue if you do so.
Sweet. I figured there were programs for under-represented. I was wondering why there wasn't as much coverage on blogs, twitter, editorials, etc. I bet you will see 20-25 stories come through your feed about the struggles of women founders today. I doubt any of them will be about black women. Full Disclsoure: I'm not a black woman.
Appreciate the feedback! We're working to add the field labels now so stay tuned.

With regard to price, its a tough one. We purposefully left it out initially because it's subjective. If we use RRP - should a 2000MY Suzuki 650F be filtered because a brand new (2013) one is outside your price bracket? Obviously there are going to be differences, but we're thinking hard for a way to include this. I agree it would be a big helper!
Recreating my perfect web dev environment using a Parallels VM and CentOS
Please get some more sharing integrations into the app. I want Buffer integration. Also I would love to have Pocket integration for reading something later.
How To Move From Google Reader to Bloglovin
As much as I used Reader (every day, multiple times a day), it was obvious that Google didn't care, because it is broken as hell sometimes. I just never found a suitable alternative. Now I have to.
Avoiding GET requests is not a fool proof way to mitigate CSRF. If your website has just one XSS vulnerability an attacker can send POST requests. It's much better to use some kind of token that is always sent with your forms.
That's cute, you correcting him.

Sorry, that was a terrible pun.
The downside of Google's product strategy of throwing things against a wall is becoming clear. This post is from 3 days ago:

http://winsource.com/2013/03/11/caldav-and-carddav-support-f...

So even as Microsoft is working to implement support for Google calendar syncing, Google pulls the rug out. This also leaves iOS users with no Google calendar syncing mechanism.

If Google is open, they have a strange way of showing it.
I posted this awhile go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5345474

Feel free to contact me after looking at my site and assessing if you think I can contribute.
I've heard about a Google protocol(project?programme?) to acquire new locations' sat images as users can just ask Google to acquire a certain locations that are currently not displayed on google maps. But I cannot find anything about it..
In particular I'm interested in a certain location in the south of Rwanda that in not (fully) covered at the moment by Google maps, I'm assessing different possibilities to get it.
But how much were these services really offering? It is one thing to attempt to charge for a superior service, but for the most basic of services? That's a whole different story.

IMHO, feed reading should be integrated into the browser as a tab, not in the hands of commercial interests. But that's an aside.
I haven't tested any of them, but Netvibes has a nice Google Reader like interface you can activate instead of the widgets.
I'll probably stay with them if they refresh the feeds often enough.
Offer HN: I will be your CFO for less than a full-time CFO would cost
Hi HN,

I offer the following to you / your start up:

I work for you as an (interims) CFO (6-12 months). My input would be in particular: drawing up financial plans (liquidity plans), setting up a nice financial controlling structure, consulting in all financial matters.

Set up:
You can put me on your website as your official CFO (such providing potential investors a bit of security when it comes to finances). Besides my financial consultation, I will be available on a need basis. Of course I will come to your meetings etc. Otherwise I will work from my office.

You decide to pay me a flat fee per month of 1.000 - 2.500 Euro (depending on work load) or in equity.

Your start up should be in Europe. Other regions might work, but the distance might be too long since I work here in Europe. However, we can talk about everything.

My credentials: I:
- founded 5 companies so far(most from scratch to finish, with one exit to a blue chip co.);
- am supporting start ups since 1998;
- have an UoL/LSE Degree in Accounting & Finance;
- have technical know how;

Please check my profile for the email address.
Love to hear from you.