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Seriously, the ability to "step through" a program is HUGELY helpful for learning what programming does. I remember learning the beginnings of programming in Visual Basic for Applications inside Excel 2003. The best feature was the ability to "walk through" the program, with a yellow line highlighting the current code being executed and a window that showed all the variables and their outputs in a highly readable format. Those two things really helped me as a kid learn what programming looked like.
We made this a few years ago - it's a bit janky http://www.instabam.com, it's a bit of a experiment of trying to make the iPhone app into a web app.

If you want a free app to find Instagram pics nearby or on Google maps try Instabam
https://itunes.apple.com/md/app/instabam!-explore-instagram/...

It was my first ever spare time app and was a lot of fun, it was doing quite well until Apple changed the App Store design, we lost 100 downloads a day instantly after that
I believe industry is full of people solving really hard problems with little financial reward or internal recognition and zero public recognition. I've worked with such people and I've been one myself.

It is definitely frustrating to read about the SV "rockstar" programmer mindset and realize that all of the companies complaining about so called lack of talent are restricting their hiring interests to a very specific mold which seems to focus on age, educational pedigree, geography and some ill-defined social sense that allows certain individuals to be considered "rockstars" or geniuses for accomplishments which in many other environments would be considered average.
What makes you think Google has any intention of replacing RSS? They're the new Microsoft.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.
I think he's talking about stowing his money there, not himself. Corrupt, oppressive, authoritative regimes are more likely to screw their own people than valued foreign investors. Theoretically.
Easy. Just run Linux in a virtual machine and then you can follow the directions of the present article to run Netflix in Linux.
Are you on the Greek or Turkey side? A good friend of mine is from the north and I am waiting for him to wake up and get his take on things.
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You can change this to:

1 ad per week on a RSS feed
vs
1 ad per week on an entire website

and the answer would still turn out to be Ad Supported Websites. RSS users are an insanely small group compared to overall users on the web. So yeah, Google probably just decided that supporting RSS just isn't worth their money/time regardless of how it compares to its other services.
This is why I tried creating my own simple "text editor" within my experimenta live IDE, so that I would not be limited by anyone's API or closed source and could create something more unusual.

Is it a better approach? It's really hard to say, and definitely not obvious. I had to re-create a lot of existing functionality just so that I could more easily modify it. And clearly I cannot compete with the advanced functionality of a dedicated modern text editor.

So far it hasn't led to me anything beyond what one could've probably achieved by hooking things up to an existing API, as demonstrated by this project (perhaps aside from live editing on a type-a-character level rather than on-save level), but I'm keeping my eyes open. Perhaps I'll get lucky and come up with something that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. That was my motivation.
I made the calculation of "forever" via internet-time-units. It was longer than a year. According to Wikipedia, it was... 2004.

But seriously, you're right that the challenge is in actually designing a good UX for yourself. You've got four months to mimic Reader if that's what you want to do. I'd suggest XSLT, since RSS actually predates JSON, it's so old. That doesn't allow for any potential mistakes by RSS creators, though, which might be hairy. /shrug
At least this is still up and running.
http://www.google.com/campaigns/gonegoogle/demos.html
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I don't see how Glass is even close to DOA. Modern smartphones and tablets are the descendants of product lines with long histories and experienced user bases. Outside of research projects and limited use systems, Glass has little to go on, and a very limited number of understanding potential users. Google is slowly drumming up interest and openly experimenting with its use in public. Google wants early adopters who are thrilled with an expensive, potentially life altering product.
Can anyone explain what this is? I see a mostly empty page with two vertical scroll bars and the texts "No Photos..." and "Click on the map or use the search". No map and no indication what I can search for.
I've always thought Segway's failure was simply because it created more problems than it solved.

It was expensive, large, you had to find somewhere to park it, you had to remember to charge it, it came with an aura of snobbishness (at that price tag, not entirely undeserved).

And it solved... what? In suburban America it doesn't go fast or far enough to get you anywhere in reasonable time. In urban America the distances people walk aren't worth all of the above compromises.

The Segway makes no sense to the suburbanite whose main mode of transportation involved their garage door opener. The Segway also makes no sense to the urbanite who can walk 100 feet to the closest grocery store.

It was a marvelously cool technology looking to solve a problem very few people actually had.
> they are discontinuing work in their Dragonfly web inspector

Can i get a source on this?
You have to share your location, then it shows you Instagram photos taken in your area as little Instagram icons on the map, and the photos in a scroll view on the right.
You're probably missing Google Video.
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$70 isn't a lot of money. Is it an hour of your time? Maybe two? If people don't want to pay that's fine, use one of the great open source editors. Saying you don't have the money doesn't make it ok to violate the license. rms works hard to give you emacs for free. The Sublime guys are trying to earn a living.
math research would be much more relevant if they talked to engineers (and hopefully are listened to).

In college a I was told "quantum mechanics = linear algebra" then I hear "electrical engineering = linear algebra".

They were right.

The PhD is a little different. It becomes so specialized... your papers are geared towards only a handful of experts. Literally you and a few other people are the only in the world who understand it. I thought mathematicians had a lot more common ground, but they don't.
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There used to be adsense for RSS. Google discontinued it sometime last year I think.
Is this LG Nexus 5?
Is this just speculation? or is there an actual source behind this?
They tried it before with the Latin Monetary Union. It collapsed for a few reasons, mostly due to the fact that it was a gold and silver standard. I suppose the people who created the Euro thought that the problems with the LMU would be avoided with fiat currency.
What makes you think future confiscations won't be by citizenship, regardless of the nationality of the bank?
It is both a very nice start, and there is definitely lots of room for improvement.

I'm working in this very area too.

One other thing I can add is that, IMO, it's very valuable to be able to easily execute a subset of the entire program (the tool should do everything it can to make the process easy, you just supply the necessary inputs).
Isn't that a question of semantics? Sure, when the government does this, it is called a tax. However, this was a surprise tax levied on unaware people, leaving them with no chance to plan or prepare themselves, by people who they didn't vote for (from how I understand it).

To me, it doesn't seem too far off the mark to call it theft.
If Germany is not safe enough for your money, nowhere in the Eurozone will be. Recent history shown that German banks are safer than USA or UK ones.

As a small saver, if I was a Cypriot, I would move all my remaining (i.e. not-yet-stolen) money to Germany ASAP.
This presupposes that one can own information in the first place.

The "terms" are that I download shit for free.
And hasn't RSS use been declining anyway? Not much of a threat.
It might suffer from version-1-ness, and it might be version 3 or 7 from Apple or whoever that takes off. It might simply be too early. I'm pretty sure a lot of the enthusiasm that's around now is going to lead to disappointment when what people are dreaming about isn't supported by available technology.

The other factor is that the primary concerns are precisely in google's tonedeaf spots- design and privacy. Google as a company isn't very well equipped to deal with either of those issues.
Resistance is futile - but I applaud the effort.
Great app :)
We hacked something similar a few months ago at the Facebook hackathon. It's based on node.js. Feel free to fork. https://github.com/timurbazhirov/instaheat
Re Pricing - I'd be interested in being able to buy a number of "credits" for this service instead of paying a recurring monthly fee. Something like $20 for 500 requests that I can then use anytime over the next 12 months.

Your service looks interesting but also something I'm likely to use a lot for a few days then possibly not at all for a while so I'd be reluctant to pay a monthly fee for it. A "credit pack" or pay-per-use ability would be a great alternative
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Are you certain that they are specifically trying to eliminate it? It seems as though they are merely abandoning it within their product line and within the company as a whole.

Accusations of an attempt to extinguish the RSS format probably can't be considered until they kill Feedburner, which constitutes a massive portion of the web and all RSS trafic.
Wave is one of those things that some future product will play off of and be massively successful, and we'll all point back at Wave as the forgotten root.
I too have starred this issue.
To me the word "tax" includes some expectation that the funds be used (however imperfectly) for the public good. But the bailout-and-austerity regimen seems to be about protecting financial institutions at common people's expense. For example, it wasn't the Greek people being bailed out, but rather the banks who lent to Greece. Yet we don't hear about that, we hear about irresponsible Greek bus drivers and the like. (As a side point, such fanning of nationalistic flames has served its diversionary purpose well in this case, but is really playing with fire.)

It seems to me the bottom line is clearly: are the bondholders of insolvent institutions expected to take a hit as well? If the answer is no, as it mostly has been throughout this crisis, that's "heads I win tails you lose" — rotten both morally and from a market point of view. The bondholders in this latest case are not touched at all, according to http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/03/17/cyprus-stability-levy-a....

(You make a good point that this surprise tax isn't the worst way they could do it, but that's what makes it so puzzling politically. The way they're doing it is so naked, so brazen, that it's bound to cause a larger backlash. Everyone can understand someone reaching into their bank account and taking a fistful; that's political poison. Why didn't they find a worse way (if need be) to do it, cloak it in complexity, and exempt the poorest citizens to mitigate criticism? Something along those lines would be standard political practice, and it's puzzling why they didn't do it in this case. Is it simply that Cyprus doesn't matter? Edit: I now see that the Economist is asking the same question.)
The only way any of that means anything individually identifying is if the two organizations(CNN and your ISP) share data.
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> Want to send a letter to Talkeetna, Alaska, from New York? It will cost you fifty dollars by UPS.

It's explicitly illegal for companies to compete with first class mail. This is why you see such prices.
Yep its great. I am on similar boat for http://hirehub.me/ , trying to gain traction and get some feedback. Which is so important to improve the product.

Congratulation you made it to first page of HN which would be enough to gain traction to get useful feedback on your product.
A great post. Almost everything we do is broken in some way or another, but I am sure mostly it is better than before, and you writing this way means you want things to be better in the future.

Mingling with experts, or people who are simply better than us is underrated. Most of us would easily go for another job that pays more than the current one, and not only in terms of money. (I, for one, am going for a non programming job that I consider better)
At least in the case of RSS, seems it was more like,

Embrace, unembrace.
I am a gadget geek just like any nerds out there. I like the concept of Google Glass but the practical application scares the shit out of me. Google Glass in its current form is every advertisers/data-miners perfect wet dream.

I can see myself smacking someone for taking videos/pictures of me without my consent, by holding a camera right in my face. Google Glass almost legitimizes that kind of behavior. "Oh I can record our conversation because the camera is inside the glass and look its shiny."

Like the video of this guy holding a camera to random people's face:
http://www.slashgeek.net/2013/02/26/google-glass-privacy/

NOT OK!
Does anyone know who pkasting@chromium.org is?
Insofar as a lot of sites publish their entire feed to Twitter, composing a huge list of publications could replicate Reader to an extent.

I've considered doing it as a stopgap, but it's just too laborious for sets of feeds numbering over 100, and will be inconsistent because some feeds will undoubtedly lack Twitter accounts.
So, can we agree that it is unreasonable to assume that developing and open sourcing a Package Addon for a popular ShareWare tool should obligate an an author to purchase a license for the software his work is targeting?
The past 72 hours: Google Reader shutting down, Chrome's RSS extension removed from everyone's browser and the Chrome store, and "implement RSS natively" issue is now set to "wontfix". Way to be evil, Google.

Also posted as a tweet, because fuck being evil: https://twitter.com/martindale/status/313148391624417280
"Not going out of your way to support technologies you aren't interested in" is not the same as "Going out of your way to kill technologies that compete with your proprietary social network".
> This presupposes that one can own information in the first place.

I think the case for owning original digital creations is far stronger than say the case for owning patches of dirt that were here before you were born and will still be here after you're dead. If I make a song or write some software, I'm creating something of my own in the very purest sense. Something that didn't exist before me, something wholly attributable to me. Why shouldn't I be able to own it?
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I'm eager to hear any feedback about OrganicJS, the micro-framework I built for JS+HTML+SVG components based apps, which I've also been using to implement reusable components for D3 along with a few things that I couldn't do with D3 alone.

Demo:
http://idibidiart.github.com/organicjs/

Each widget is derived from the same building HTML/SVG/JS blocks yet each shows different properties and behavior

Features Overview:
https://github.com/idibidiart/organicjs/blob/master/README.md

Repo:
https://github.com/idibidiart/organicjs

One of the ideas is the support for borrowing of data/behavior of one component by another component in non-hardwired manner without use of events. Another idea is the building of "widgets" (collection of components) from reusable, nestable HTML+SVG fragments, as an alternative to the way it is done in D3 (although the framework can still be used in the D3 way without the reusable widget markup.)
It is a concerted effort to kill ways to access data without seeing ads. They are killing RSS and forbiding Ad Block em Google Play.

Go Firefox, Go!
the ones offering the terms are not the ones creating the content
It is camouflaged stealing. When senior bond holders of banks who are foreign banks are protected at the expense of ordinary people(s) deposits. The money is lent to Cyprus so that the Senior Bond holders of the banks don't lose any money.
As a non-US citizen I see this as progress - at least we have similar rights now.
Do you mean "the old Reader" or The Old Reader (http://theoldreader.com/)?
I'm actually sort of surprised by the negative sentiment here. A project with government backing and legal cover will get done, regardless. This is hardly a case where you need some 4-sigma genius (which I am not) to conceive of some major breakthrough.

But creating something like Narus must require all sorts of interesting research and engineering. I wrote a packet analyzer for a single protocol and was just barely able to parse at 1Gbps speed, off a loopback device. Actually getting it deployed at much lower speeds was rather difficult.

Doing the same at 10Gbps, multiprotocol, actually doing neat stuff to the data? Unless their boxes have incredibly expensive hardware inside, they must have done some pretty neat hardware and software designs.

The way to fight this type of surveillance isn't convincing people to avoid working on such projects. That's hopelessly naive or incredibly optimistic. Change the rules of the game: Either make it illegal and enforce or spread proper privacy software like cryptography.
Had Google actually even "embraced" RSS? I would say no. Reader isn't one of their core products and never was.
The following is something from your post I would like to write somewhere and read again and again, any maybe quote if I get to writing on similar topics.

<i>Passively creating a product won't cut the mustard anymore. It used to be that you could design something cool and tell your friends, and they'd tell theirs and so on. Then bigger companies got wind of this and started exploiting it with "Social Media contests" and the like. Now, if you try and tell your friends about something, they'll ignore it or worse, see you as a corporate shill.

In the days of the Altair, it was possible to wow audiences by making a game. Every new game has to live up to the greats of it's genera (hard) or create a new one (harder). And yet, books have been around for millennia and great ones still come out. I think it's safe to say that it's absolutely possible to come up with good material, perhaps even easier now that one can study the greats.</i>

You are spot-on with (not) trying to make your friends your first audience, I have been that way with my blog, and it just annoyed some of them.
That is assuming the code is well scrutinized and how they manage contributions.
Have you thought of building on top of a library like CodeMirror (which Light Table is built on)?'

edit: ST2 -> Light Table
I think your missing the point that was being made. There are different rights for democrats, they have it so easy. /s
For the record, I not only paid my $70, but I lost political capital with my manager for forcing her to purchase seats for all the other engineers on our team who saw how much happier I was because of it. I do not advocate abusing the considerable latitude that Jon Skinner has gifted us. But I do believe that he meant to be as generous as possible with the plausible ambiguity of the word "evaluation" as he uses in his license terms. the response to the FAQ seems to confirm that.
That's right, and I hope that's where both Tributary and programming in general are headed. However, saying that they "make the same mistake" seems odd. Progress can happen incrementally, and sometimes you have to see what works and what not. It's almost as if you have to prototype your idea and see real results immediately, very similar to the goals of learnable programming.
That's really awesome to hear. At what point did you start worrying about referrals? Was there a point in time when that naturally started to grow as more users, used it? Or was it something that didn't change unless you were focused on it?
Where on earth did you read that ST2 is build on CodeMirror?
It depends a lot on definitions. Protecting and backing up your data against hardware failure is a big part of what I want this software to do, but it is not a drop in replacement for mathematical/scientific cluster computing solutions at all. It is more about backing up static data, providing multiple working environments at once, and allowing data to flow between machines in arbitrarily complex ways.

I think this software is very interesting and does have real world uses, but it would need work to turn it into a math/science tool, and in general Plan 9 has a much smaller ecosystem built around these things. There are Plan 9 supercomputing projects like XCPU and if that is compatible with your wife's work it might be relevant to use XCPU top layer on top of ANTS architecture, - but I've never used XCPU personally.

I would say my software at the moment is better suited to hobby and exploration at the moment, but if you were interested in the possibilities, it could have an application in this field.
> One other thing I can add is that, IMO, it's very valuable to be able to easily execute a subset of the entire program

Sounds sort of like Bracha's stance.

I think we should just focus on making the feedback better over an entire program execution. And we could make defining unit tests easy, which would provide the context needed to test smaller parts of the program.
Peter Kasting is the founding member of the Chrome team at Google.
So are you ditching your ISP since you get spam?

About two years ago I had to send a iPod Touch from Portland, OR to Akron. I stopped by Fedex and they wanted 11 bucks to ship it. USPS was a block away and they did it for under 3 bucks. And it arrived in two days.

Blame the people that sent you unwanted shit.
Your impression is pretty accurate. Professional schools like business, social work, education or law do a weird mix of vocational courses and cross-disciplinary/applied work. The post you're responding to sounds more like behavioural eceonomics than sociology to me (it's the ultimatum game or a similar one) but you could do very similar research in psychology or in anthropology doing cross cultural comparisions of how people play this game. It has been and is being done.

I'm not familiar with accounting research but my impression is that there's quite a lot of overlap with some areas of microeconomics. After all, accounting is either about modelling and prediction or about accurate reporting and analysis if it's not to be book keeping.

Sometimes the cross-disciplinary/applied thing just means that garbage is published by people who aren't familiar with research in another field that covered the same ground decades before. The worst though is when something is researched, disproved and they keep on teaching it in these professional schools for reasons of ideology or politics. Stuff like Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences is still taught in Ed schools and researchers like Linda Gottfredson have to deal with witch hunts because they do work worthy of a real psychology department while in an Ed school. The perils of doing work on on intelligence in a political faculty.
I'm probably in the minority here, but I've actually never used a single one of those services.
We say Microsoft "created" Windows, even though it's obviously engineers working for Microsoft that created Windows. Artists working for media companies, or film-makers working for studios are in functionally the same position.