skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Reader co-creator Chris Wetherell:
“When they replaced sharing with +1 on Google Reader, it was clear that this day was going to come,” he said. Wetherell, 43, is amazed that Reader has lasted this long. Even before the project saw the light of the day, Google executives were unsure about the service and it was through sheer perseverance that it squeaked out into the market. At one point, the management team threatened to cancel the project even before it saw the light of the day, if there was a delay. http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/chris-wetherll-google-reader/

That's like Walmart moving into your small town, pricing its items so low that no local retailer can compete, watching all the local stores shut down, and when only Walmart is left they say "Not enough money to be made here, we're shutting down".
I also think that there are two clear options: Cyprus gets a bailout under ECB terms or Cyprus doesn't get a bailout and faces insolvency. It seems that the government decided that the first option is preferable to the second one.

The second option would almost certainly lead to civil unrest, because it would probably mean that teachers, doctors and other public employees (also pensioners) wouldn't get payed next month. Of course, the first option might also lead to civil unrest ...
Cypriot banks finance themselves through deposits, not bonds. Less than 0.3% of Laiki's and 2.5% of Cypriot banks' €70 billion in assets are funded by bonds. Further, those bonds were issued under English law. The depositors are governed by local law.

Government insurance means nothing when the government is broke (relative to the size of its banks). Nicosia does not have the €30 billion to reimburse accounts covered by the country’s deposit guarantee scheme. No bail-out means depositors being wiped out.
After Cyprus Bank Bailout, Depositors Race to Withdraw Their Cash
Given the young age of bitcoin then I would still suggest that buying and holding is still speculation. Good luck to you. Keep in mind though that the scale of your savings compared to others. What if Bill Gates wanted to sink some of his savings into Bitcoin? It would be a market moving event. What happens when he wants to exit?

Buying a few properties over your life at this point in time - presumably via credit is a risky proposition. People need roofs over their heads but they need food more. For an interesting perspective on property during a currency event - read Gonzalo Lira's description on Chile

http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/hyperinflation-pa...
Sure, lots of existing ML algorithms have efficient big-data implementations. But for new algorithm development, my (admittedly limited) experience is that the Matlab-prototyping stage usually comes well before the implement-at-scale stage. You're right that modern tools effectively abstract out a lot of the difficulty of implementing at scale, but IMHO it's still generally not the first thing you'd want to do.
I have similar desires to qisine (though younger and a bit better with pointers), and realise that I need a market myself, but can't find anything that I can do that people would be willing to pay for, or not find an already existing alternative.
The problem is you don't know ahead of time which classes will archive their material for later study, and which will expire and disappear. I'd be able to better prioritize if I knew that. As it is, too many interesting courses happen at the same time and I have to choose arbitrarily which course to try and follow in real time.
Actually there's a third option: wire all your savings immediately to London.
Always a kind heart :)
Debugging is debugging
Hmm, a majority of passfree's account's submissions (20/25) appear to be for websecurify.com. Combined with the dismissal of Burp as "java madness," seems like a socketpuppet on behalf of the company.
Taxing those who are saving rather than the ones who are earning more. Call it a case of misaligned incentives. And what about the long term implication on the banking system? How far it will limit the effect of central bank to control inflation now since people will think twice before putting money in bank account?

Would love to see some macroeconomics views on this.
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I'm surprised that OP is so surprised.

I'd suspect that the vast majority of users never click on the top nav bar, have tuned it out completely ("banner blindness"), and will not even notice it's absence.

The banner bar also can get confusing when it has a menu item duplicating an 'inner' menu item but working somewhat different. I've at times had _two_ 'settings sprockets' icons on my page, one on the top navbar and one somewhere else, and leading to different pages. Also compare doing a google search and then clicking 'News' on the banner bar, vs clicking 'News' from the 'More' options in the menu below the searchbox (this second 'News' used to be avail without drilling down into 'More', which was either more or less confusing depending on which 'News' option you "really" wanted).
I do think that more mention should be made if Google Talkeout in all this, if only because I want access to my data when the _next_ Google product is closed and I'd rather encourage Google to offer more open data like this.
Every one of them is either about it or a link to the site itself.
Meaning of life for a while
Keep up the good work!

I recently started working on a bytecoded javascript interpreter for the same reason - fun. I've found the biggest criticism people have for me is "why are you doing this?" You can definitely draw a line between the typical responses: either "oh, that's cool!" and "that's stupid". It's been interesting.
Closest thing you can do is grab the JSON of the data as the browser downloads it. The cached content that shows up on a feed's pane is transferred in bulk via JSON, so it should make a decent archive.

Just need a way to do it automatically...
I suspect google, like many of us, is either designing 'mobile first', or at least prioritizing mobile highly enough that they will never design a fundamental interaction that requires 'hover' to work.
Thanks!

Looking forward to your Show HN, then :)
Sorry, I wanted to add that I agree with several others that the secondary nav is flawed, but couldn't really decide which comment to reply to. Most of the reasons to why it isn't very good have already been stated, but I agree my specific comment was bad because it didn't add anything new or helpful, other than "someone else doesn't like it."
More facts from Red Cross: http://www.hcredcross.org/pdffiles/Donut%20story.pdf
Good one :) There was a similar article on TNW earlier in the week for example.
I meant expensive for somebody who is new to the topic and just wants to play with it. Its an inertia thing.
Everyone (including Google) wants their own proprietary tech to be what's used, but no one (including Apple) wants to work with the constraints of other people's lousy properietary tech. If Apple owned Flash, they wouldn't have wanted to move away from it, and if Google didn't own Google+ they would probably be pushing RSS as an open alternative.
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We want to actually teach people how to do stuff, instead of giving people something they can toss around in message board and twitter arguments; we also want to track (in a macro sense) how people do with them, and to be able to tell people when we add more challenges (I'm working on 42-48 next week).
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Nobody really depended on Wave yet, it was pulled off very early, so not a fair comparison.

> honest(y) transparency

I think they are being very transparent about it, gave the users plenty of time to migrate to another service, being very clear about their timelines.

> a question of trust

With that I agree with you, though, what is the option? Because if a giant as google is pulling a service out, who should you trust with it? smaller companies? While they might be more interested in keeping the service up, they are more susceptible to other thing that may cut the life of the product short.

What is the other option? Self hosting, that's a whole other discussion, it might be the solution, but it's far from perfect.

> Why should anyone trust Google ever again?

What can you trust 100%? Even google, facebook, twitter might go broke in some years, giants have fallen before, but one might argue that it's still the safe bet.
$299/year seems pretty affordable, I was expecting to see something that cost thousands from the way you were talking. I know zilch about Appsec, but this appeals to the part of me that's good at breaking things.
I think both experiments are consistent with the idea of thinking of the different Google properties as individual apps, and with Chrome apps becoming first-class apps.

Thus on ChromeOS you would access gmail through the menu of applications (not by going to google.com and clicking on the mail link on top). If I click on the Gmail "app" on ChromeOS it's confusing if the top navbar appears, because then there are two ways to launch other apps.

The second experiment seems to be experimenting with exposing non-ChromeOS people to this notion (i.e. get everyone used to the app menu, so that it feels natural when they get ChromeOS).

It would be possible to do this by e.g. hiding the navbar only on ChromeOS; my guess is the idea is to have a consistent experience across all browsers. If you're stuck inside IE on Windows the app menu is embedded into the google page. If you're on the "brave new world" of ChromeOS the app menu is native. But if the navbar isn't there on ChromeOS, then it can't be there on IE.
It's interesting, we used to have to bring people back to do our exploration, but in some ways thanks to high-quality video that need is less and less.

If you think of society as a single entity then the notion of 'bringing people back' doesn't have as much meaning as it used to. We don't need martian resources (other than the space) and anything else is a souvenir. People had to go and come back from the Americas because of the lack of video (no other way to see it) and because we wanted something the Americas had (gold, wood, coal, cotton etc).

We went to the Moon a few times, but it didn't have very much of anything we needed. Also you can pull up a video of what it's like to walk or drive on the moon anytime you want.

While I agree the full return trip is a higher, more noble goal I just don't see the same forces at work that will require regular back and forth trips.
Thanks, I appreciate this.

In your estimate, what percentage of Reader users have, or will, donate to the Internet Archive to perform this archival task?

At what percentage level would it be wrong to call Reader users "entitled", given that the IA folks were hurting for disk space while these complainers chose to ignore its pleas?
In this case, the blog should be where the readers have migrated - G+, FB, Twitter, etc. If they were on the limit, it is probably because they couldn't capture an audience big enough anyway.

I'm concerned about the standard. Because having all information circulating through walled gardens is bad. My opinion is that the root cause is not that not enough people used GReader (you didn't wrote that, but others did), but rather that Google had no (good enough) revenue model with RSS.

If a sustainable and easy to use pay model finally emerges, then open standards would keep those different sources syndicated. Because syndication is not something people will give up soon, at the opposite.
I didn't use the Google Reader web client. I'm not even sad to see it go, I think the UI is really bad. Yet, I use the Google Reader service all day, through RSS clients on several platforms (none of which made by Google). I use the Google Reader service to store my subscriptions and allow for syncing of my read items, starred items, etc. That's what I'll need to find a replacement for: a RSS service that interfaces with all the RSS clients that I know and love.
Well, of course. The question is "did you make more money with that than if you hadn't grandfathered?"
I had it on my Mercury Cougar back in the 90's. The main use for it was so I could lock my keys in the car if I didn't want to bother with taking them with me (such as at the beach -- hard to swim with your keys in your pocket).
Yup, still this is a move against RSS from one of the biggest Internet company. Such a company sets trends and moves markets. So it matters.
Second this. Or allowing owners to denote certain menu items as vegan/vegetarian/gluten-free, etc. So people with dietary restrictions can quickly scan the menu. Looks great though!
The intrinsic value of gold is also 0.

The intrinsic value of EVERYTHING is 0. Things only have value because people want them, not because they have some intrinsic value.
What exactly is your point? If we see market prices as reasonably efficient, the current Euro price shows that the typical "Stupid Eurocrats idiotic mismanagement of the flawed Euro project will lead to European collapse in 2 weeks" simply doesn't have a base in reality.

Individual (small) countries may fail, the system will be fine, and misinformed doomsayers will - as always - end up making fools of themselves.
If you are worried about radiation, a solar minimum is probably the worst time to send someone. Cosmic rays are more prevalent during solar minimums, and shielding against solar flares is non-negotiable anyway.

The "safe limits" have already been exceeded by people on the ISS.

If NASA has decided that we can't send people into space if there is a 3% chance of them getting cancer at some point later in their lives, then NASA has decided that they aren't going to send anyone to Mars, and it's time for us to find someone else who will.
Relying on everybody else being rational is irrational.
I'm a geek, and I increasingly think of Google as Big Brother.
+1 I'm working through these now and they're the most fun thing I've done with a computer for a long time.
Yeah, I have to kind of agree here... Just because someone is considered a "hacker" doesn't mean he or she can't use someone else's product instead of building their own. Not everyone has time to build their own RSS parser and reading interface.

It's kind of like taking away a mechanic's car--they'd still be annoyed you took it away. Just because someone can build something (and maybe not quite to the extent of an entire multi-billion company's skill and attention), doesn't mean they should waste time doing so. If you think you can do better, go for it, but in most cases it's better to use what's out there.
Broad generalizations, harsh judgements about people with nothing to back them up, wise guy pretensions, a professor talking the cynical tough talk. I prefer Maddox but he didn't write about Google Reader. He does write about getting banned from Apple Stores.
@bobx11 - you weren't hellbanned, @jacobian was. But no one can reply to a comment from a hellbanned user, so the custom is to reply to a parent comment in the hope that the hellbanned user may see it.

If you had been hellbanned yourself, then you would see your own comments, but other users wouldn't see them unless they enabled "showdead" in their HN settings. And non-logged-in visitors would never see them. So viewing an HN page you've commented on from an incognito window is a good way to check that.
Neil Patel on being a successful online entrepreneur
Is not drinking an unspoken taboo?
It can be done but it isn't pretty.

My first resort when someone deletes their blog or whatever thing that was meaningful to me that I foolishly failed to mirror, is to go to archive.org and see if they have a good mirror. If they don't but they do have enough that you can find out the RSS URL, you can get google reader's archive of the feed like so: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/17484/archive-exp...

What you get back is just raw XML.

EDIT: for example, here are the last 100 posts from Mark Pilgrim's blog: http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://diveintomark.o... ... in this particular case archive.org has a good copy though so this isn't necessary as a last resort.
Well, first, I think you're reading too much into my use of the word "evil". But by your absolutist definition there's no reasonable way Google can violate this ethic they've imposed on themselves.

Any company of sufficient size will be "evil", in that they will act in an anti-competitive, anti-user, or anti-interoperability way if it benefits their stock price. There is no other consideration. I'm sure everyone can think of things Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook have done that they would consider "evil" by that definition.

Building a fiber network with the primary goal of gathering data on what users do online (perhaps after clicking on a Google search result from the Google Chrome browser), and being able without any trouble whatsoever to tie that back to an individual is, if not "evil", at least fairly creepy. And there are plenty of other benefits to controlling user access literally from the desktop to the Internet backbone.

Google is not unique in this. Every large software company is trying to wall off users so they can control their access. Google, however, enjoys enormous goodwill with some people as a result of their motto and innovator status.
I guess that boils it down to one option :)
Given differing aptitudes for solving different problems, the comparison might be moot. However let's say an individual is equally competent in both areas, and let's play the devil's advocate for a minute.

No matter how successful you are at creating utopia, there are many more people that have an interest in engineering the failure of both you and your creation, and each one of them is a human that is potentially as capable as yourself, if not more so. They will collectively outlive you, their efforts will be relentless, and the knowledge that they gain in undoing your work will also be passed down to future generations.

With that in mind, the relative worthiness of efforts might not fall hard to the side of solving political problems right at this instant.
So many posts, I cannot read them all however, great post and great answer by Ed.
Good luck with everything.

=)
A lot, not all, but a lot of those people popped up after Bush 41 said that we were going back to the moon and to Mars. NASA heard it was a JFK mission, going to be completed regardless of cost, and told their project managers to put as many things into the mission critical path so they would get funded. When they returned to Congress with a 30-year $450 Billion plan, it was funded with 0 dollars.

To be fair, we don't know what 3/8 g will to do someone after a year. For all that it's important, though, it's comical that we haven't put some spinning Skylab space stations up to find out.
THIS! A thousand times this!

By the time it hits facebook and twitter, it's already old news. I have hundreds of feeds subscribed in Reader so I can find it before everybody else.
I think that was an example of very concise and constructive criticism.

Sometimes just about everything is wrong with a given design, and saying so is the best way to express this.

In this case, it's pretty obvious that the nav buttons are uselessly large, the empty padding on either end is wasteful and annoying, the location mid-way down the page isn't practical, the color makes it blend in with the page's background, the drop down submenus make it awkward to find and get to the information being sought, the submenus are cluttered, and so forth.

The location is poor. The appearance is poor. The usability is poor. Using "horrible in almost every way" to describe it is very accurate and precise. It's just not the kind of thing that works after some minor tweaks; it all needs to be thrown away and redone using a different approach.
Doesn't much matter to me. I'm addicted to the DuckDuckGo bang syntax anyway...
>A native method for binding methods has existed for a long time and is called just that:

Well, bind is a relatively recent addition. It wasn't added to IE until IE9, and it wasn't added to Safari until March 2012. In any case, I think that

f = (data) -> obj.doSomething data

is far more readable than

f = obj.doSomething.bind obj

Edit: it's also worth mentioning that in Chrome and FireFox, at least, the latter version of f is an order of magnitude slower than the former (http://jsperf.com/native-vs-non-native-bind)

But yes, wrapping functions is usually (but not always) silly.
The Slow Death of the Driver's License
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The medical equipment company I used to work for had a price for its gear that included a starting discount of 5% for any sale, to make the customer feel like they're getting a good deal.
Well yes, I do see your point. It's a vicious circle, one that I think would be very very hard to break.
People generally hate most airlines for a variety of reasons. Baggage fees have certainly contributed, but it's hard to pick out any single thing.
I Rented a Tesla Model S for $25/hr From Getaround. This Was My Experience.
Damn, if this had a decent resolution (at least 1080p), I would buy one on the spot! Come one, even the Helix, which is 11", is 1080p! I really hope they will come up with a high-res version of this T431 at some point this year, as I really like the design (I've always been a big fan of Lenovo laptops, best machines I've ever owned).
The license is asking you to pay to use the working code. It doesn't say anything about ideas.
ST2 has vintage mode (modal). It's not perfect, but it's something.
Guys, it's pretty obvious edw519 is talking about his grandfathers emigrating to a brand new nation and leaving the old one behind forever. Lots of world travel was incredibly expensive.
Agreed. I generally dislike most suggestions as they tend to pick the wrong reasons for suggesting them. I'd rather find my own content via the blogs I subscribe to, and following the articles that I like to their sources and going from there.
I like that answer. \O/

Also sent an e-mail.
I'd love to see a mobile game for couples that is asynchronous and collaborative.
Heres mine with a pretty basic bash script that creates symlinks. https://github.com/chucklarge/dotfiles