skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to choose which mobile app to use, I don't want to be tied down. Reeder, the RSS client I use, supports several Read Later services, several blogging platforms, tons of social networks, bookmarking sites, and Evernote. That's why it's so invaluable to me, and there is no other RSS client that's nearly as versatile. That's why I just want a new backend to replace GR, and since Reeder already supports Fever on iPhone, that'll probably be it for me.

Also, I still use a desktop mail client (OS X Mail), because it integrates well with my OS and it's scriptable. I like having local copies of my mail and attachments, and it's automatically backed up. The mail is also stored on IMAP servers so I can access it on other devices. I have over 100K emails, going back to 1994. There's no way that I'm going to rely solely on one web based service like GMail for that.
8 Steps to a Startup That Can Transform the World
Looks like Newsblur is getting hammered. Which of course bodes well for them in the long run.
I don't use AdBlock for this reason. However, I do use Ghostery and Flashblock.
I migrated to https://feedhq.org - its highly readable on both desktop and mobile and its open source: https://github.com/feedhq/feedhq
I've not seen the film, but I would assume it is using the idea of a future "dumb" humanity to satirize current "dumb" humanity.

The fact that lots of people currently believe exactly this theory about societal decline due to the lower classes breeding too much just underlines this.
You make a great point. The Arab world (and, to a lesser degree, the Byzantine Empire) preserved and continued Western progress. For a long time, Baghdad and Beijing (and, quite possibly, Alexandria) were centers of the civilized world.

By the Enlightenment, the great ideas were coming from all over-- American Indian civilizations, pirate ship organizations, the Arab world, and (later) the East. The (mostly American?) idea that the bulk of progress came from a bunch of bigoted Puritans is pure credit-taking. They played a role, but a small one compared to Parisian salons.

In fact, the Pilgrims had the opportunity to "live in religious freedom" in the Netherlands and left because it was too liberal.
The logical next step is to hook up the bridesmaids with the best men who created the profiles for the happy couple.
Why is it that Microsoft seems to lag so far behind? Don't they have lots of funds and competent programmers to take the lead? Or is it simply not a priority?
I would go so far as to say that people who worry about the dangers of unfriendly superoptimizer intelligences need to look at the massively distributed unfriendly superoptimizer running on the abstracted meatware of human relationships and conveniently labeled "capitalism".
What!? Recolonisation? What a stupid thing to say. That's like solving someone's money problem by giving them cheap credits they can never return. Or solving thirst by drinking sea water. Colonisation leads to conflict, which leads to Decolonisation, which returns them back where they started only they wasted both just time and sometimes people's lives.

Want to help them? Look at their native populace and find outliers (people that have least amount of malaria), then analyze what these people do that reduces their contact with malaria, and spread those methods to other people. If those methods are successful spread them, if not go back to start of paragraph. Rinse, repeat.
Application Architecture - ignore at your own risk
I am interested in Google Reader replacements, but that site has zero information for me before asking me for my email and to sign up..

Hmmmm
Google's Android chief Andy Rubin to step aside
There are two separate questions here.

The first question, "is the Higgs mechanism how elementary particles get their mass?" is now essentially answered. Whether or not the Higgs boson is a single particle or part of a hierarchy of related bosons is almost irrelevant to the answer of this question.

The second question is "is there new physics at the TeV scale?" If there is, then there are additional bosons related to the Higgs in some models like supersymmetry. However, it is not required that there be additional bosons or that that they be easily measured. Other new particles might be more accessible. On the other hand, there might not be any new physics at LHC energies at all. This question is what will take time to answer.
Very cool, but where is the content in the demo coming from? The first thing I clicked on was some anti-Pope Francis screed. If it's a crowdsourced demo that's one thing, but probably not the friendliest thing to hand-pick.
Recently, when hearing about Gates's health initiatives along with the US discussions about tax rates, I thought that if the government had taken significantly more of Bill Gates's wealth through taxes, they probably would not have globally reduced diseases like malaria with those few billions of dollars as much as Bill Gates will with his own allocation. Not saying that's an argument against any higher tax rates, etc, but it's an interesting thought.
Leechcraft http://leechcraft.org/
And he ate more than soylent.
Their assumptions are validated by everything else working and showing up as expected

Still, I have a similar feeling, that there may be some hidden 'tuning' to make things match, or some assumptions or values that have been erroneously determined or set.
Except that you can't save your game...

Still, it's a useful mod for people who have unstable connections. You can also mod the UI to link a rarely button used button to "Sync", so that you save at will.
That could be it. Still, the server is down, and Cloudflare is showing that it can't really do anything. Even if reasonable, it's pretty bad publicity for Cloudflare (at the very least, definitely not good).
Why I DON’T Care About Statistical Significance
In hindsight, I suppose it's not surprising that an industry that prefers expensive, unreliable corks over cheap, reliable screw tops might eschew technology. If only it were that easy to figure out ahead of time.
You can make an educated guess, usually very easily. Not necessarily the clothes, but definitely the shoes, accessories (especially bags, watches, and jewelry), tattoos, and teeth, hair, and skin. Richer people spend more on accessories (and repair their shoes!) and taking care of their bodies, because they can. And it shows.
Farewell Google Reader – The “Free Problem”
Support is crucial. You may not hear about toolchain bugs often but I see them every day working on binutils/LLVM/Clang. If you run up against one, it isn't fun.
Not sure, but Yandex is actively going to non-russian users lately (they had launch in Turkey, they're doing http://www.yandex.com/), so I'm sure they'll release it some time soon.
I don't have JoC 2e yet, but I've read several other Manning books (including the first edition of JoC) on my e-ink Kindle and they looked good. You lose a little formatting and sometimes particularly wide tables or code samples get screwed up, but that's the nature of reflowed text and multiple target devices.
And breast cancer gets more funding than pancreatic cancer even though pancreatic cancer kills about everyone who gets it because, you know, the boobies.

As far as malaria is concerned, DDT turns out to be real effective at killing mosquitoes, the major problem in the developing world of LOTS of infectious diseases. But those of us in the developed world got more concerned with the eagles and stuff and essentially go out of our way to keep DDT from being used even though it's use in the developing world would literally save tens of thousands of human lives. The governments of the developed world did that, not capitalism.

It's a grey world out there and while it's much easier to get clicks with "male baldness gets more funding than malaria so capitalism doesn't work", it's not really very helpful in actually fixing things.
How much would you need?
I know it might sound evil.

But the market still does not reflect what people want?

Most people don't have malaria, they don't care about malaria, and they will only care if it affects them.

It is not that capitalism is evil regarding that, but why a person living in Japan for example will care if someone half planet away that have zero interaction with him will die?

Now suppose that farmers that make your food are plagued with some disease... This would make your food expensive, and this would make you want to heal them, so they make your food cheap again.

What happens today, is that the news about the world are faster than the economic interactions, you feel pity for people in blasted places, but you don't need them, most people don't need them, so most people won't care for them. Now tell me, if someone had asked for donations to do more research on the cancer that killed Steve Jobs, I am sure lots of people would help, not because they like Steve Jobs or because it is noble to do so, but because they like what he did.

Face it, even collectivist humans are still thinking about themselves, humans either think about themselves only (the ultimate individualism) or about their immediate community.

Few people care about a person with no genetic relation to you, that live half planet away, and have no economic interaction with you, either as buyer or seller.
A buried quote worth repeating on Pi Day: * this day I ran 3.14 miles non-stop. This is an irrational improvement
I haven't tried it. It does look like a great service. One thing, however, that I don't think it provides is auto-scaling (i.e. provisioning additional servers or removing servers when they are (not) needed). If they were able to provide that, I think it would rule out a need for Heroku completely.
Almost all of the processes around creating code in a team environment are almost as important as the actual code, assuming they are competent at coding. Teaching them the value of well organized source control and good commit notes goes a long way. Having them understand the importance of documentation is also a good value to instill and finally the importance of keeping a ticket system up to date. These are the things that become more important in a business environment that are usually glossed over in an education environment. The process of creating software is almost as important as the actual creation of the software. Developing these skills early will stem a lot of bad habit from developing.
Hey guys, I wrote Sails.js. The controllers are just sets of Express middleware. The reason I did it this way is that I wanted a conventional abstraction (MVC) without the burden of a new API.

The only real "magic" here is how Sails handles Socket.io requests using the same controllers. Sails generates req/res objects for socket requests and allows you to handle WebSocket requests in the same code base as the rest of your app. If you need to do more custom stuff, you can still directly access Socket.io through sails.io, and each request object that came from a socket request contains req.socket, which gets you access to the socket which sent the message.
Kiln Harmony Internals: the Basics
ISO 8601 all the way!
I'd love to have a Pi day but it just isn't possible.
I think you have to have a good balance here. I've found following a huge method or function rather complicated, but at the same time I think I find trying to track down complicated abstractions even more complicated. If you've ever stared at a new codebase trying to track down a bug, you know the joy of grepping and following chains of methods trying to get to the part that actually matters. This may not make it technically less readable but I'd say it makes it significantly less, uh, understandable?

Really, it boils down to how easy the code is to understand and maintain. Group code into logical groups. Don't break it up if the only benefit is following some arbitrary rule stating your functions should be no more than x lines long.
Active Markdown: an experiment
5 years of trying to program has resulted in nothing. I can't. I want to but I can't. I've wasted enough time trying to learn. Not everyone can be a programmer (although programmers disagree).

"How do you respond to a specific email/reply in one of your threads?"

You just reply to it, it still has a subject. It's just that in your inbox all the emails (regardless of subject) are grouped under the sender you're communicating with.

Here's what your inbox would look like:

========== INBOX ==========

Chris Norstrom >> Re: What would the inbox look like (from Chris Norstrom) 3/12/2013

<< What would the inbox look like (from you) 3/11/2013

>> Lets meet on Sunday (from Chris Norstrom) 3/10/2013

<< Re: Good to see you again (from you) 3/9/2013

>> Re: Good to see you again (from Chris Norstrom) 3/8/2013

<< Good to see you again (from you) 3/7/2013

Dave Weinhardt >> Re: bla bla bla this is an email subject (from Dave Weinhardt) 3/6/02013

Amy Pohlerofsky << Mario Party gathering Friday, don't invite Tom. (from You) 3/5/2013
Using Facades to Decouple API Integrations
Your interpretation of renaissance history remains revisionist. England was perfectly able to compete with Spain, etc. particularly following the Spanish Armada. Note that Spain had been crumbling from within for a long time. Only at that point could the English settle in the Americas. Further, the English were every bit as interested in raping the Americas for gold as the Spaniards and Italians ...

I have studied Virginia history at length, and the first colonists to Virginia were interested in very little apart from establishing a base so as to extract precious metals from the continent. Only when this proved impossible, and poor Englishmen realized how much opportunity the New World offered, did goals begin to change.

I omit discussion of the Pilgrims because your original thesis was specifically about elites, claiming that their competition (specifically, when strongly divided) spurred innovation more than anything else, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a time in history where an oppressed people were not fleeing. It's an error to say that this was a novelty of the Protestant Reformation.

Sea trade was in itself interesting. Yes, Europeans had been sailing for some time, but apart from the Vikings, nobody had sailed across great expanses the way the Europeans did in the age of discovery. Improvements in navigation and cartography enabled the new travels.

In any case, what you seemed to interpret as a cage match between European rulers, divided by religion, was actually the rise of nationalism. As power was consolidated so as to combat the Arabs in Europe, which along with the Crusades broke the stranglehold the Arabs had on trade, the Europeans could dream of greater endeavors.
Right, and generally elites, when they compete with each other, prefer to do it in a way so that the bad is externalized to the outside and, while people might lose in-elite status, they don't fall out of it. They don't want that risk.

It takes an intractable cleavage in the elite to get real competition and a chance at progress.
VC: So how do you feel about this company going forward once we give you another round of capital?

Owner: I believe this is a lot harder than I originally anticipated, and have learned a lot about the industry that invalidates some of the original assumptions. Continuing down the same road isn't a good option, but I'm thinking there are some other opportunities that we've identified which would be more profitable to pursue. Given that you have paid for this education and research, would you be interested in continuing to support us during a change in direction?
My main point was about commercial compiler vendors.
That doesn't sound specific at all to me, but rather extremely vague and open to whatever interpretations might suit... What "culture and patterns" have we "successfully practised" "in relationship to nature for thousands of years"?

Diets vary crazily much, even within small geographical areas. Things like lactose intolerance is something we only "recently" started seeing on the wane, and it is wildly dependent on your heritage. I'm Scandiavian, and growing up I didn't even know there were people who had problems with dairy, as it was a total non-issue. I used to drink about a litre a day of milk on average growing up.... It was first as an adult I realised there are large parts of the world where people pretty much don't drink milk.

At the same time, I also consumed vast quantities of Scandinavian salted licquorice candy. Except most of if is ammonium chloride based. I doubt that would fit very well into the idea of something "natural", but it is an integral part of Scandinavian culture.

As is fish dissolved in caustic soda an integral part of Norwegian culture, and something we have "successfully practiced" for a very long time.

And processing such as hanging/drying, burying (until half rotted in some cases) and salting various types of food have been an essential part of human culture for a very long time.

And, yes, picking mushrooms and facing the risk of poison have been integral to our culture for a very long time as well, even though many of the most poisonous mushrooms keep claiming deaths up to this day.

Many of the traditional "natural" foods I grew up with are significantly less healthy than a modern heavily processed microwave meal, or the protein powder I use to supplement for my weight lifting.
Science is pretty boring to most people, who aren't interested in science per se but only want news bites for use in casual conversation. Media distorts scientific claims in order to appeal to a wider audience and make more money.

God Particle Found! News at eleventy eleven!eleventy!
You can have neither though. For much of the world, it's 14/3/2013 today.
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The market does excel at giving people what they want. That's not a feature. It's a bug.

"If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." - Henry Ford (possibly apocryphal, but probably true)

Markets pander. They do not elevate. I do not want what I want. I want things that are so much better than what I want that I have not imagined them yet.

Think about when you see a movie or read a book. Isn't it boring if someone's already told you the plot? You want to be surprised, and you're usually disappointed if things turned out the way you expected them to.

Of course, markets do have virtues. They excel at solving multi-dimensional resource allocation problems in the short term, and they excel at taking new things and delivering them to customers. Big science bureaucracies and such are good at discovering and inventing, but they suck at shipping. The "pirates of Silicon Valley" invented little, but they shipped.
For the people running their own OwnCloud setup: https://github.com/owncloud/apps/tree/master/news
Also I would like to note that prostate cancer exist in the same amounts as breast cancer, and has much less research funding...

And there are some nasty politics related to that, including prostate cancer researchers being labelled "misogynists" or "patriarchalists" just because they called our that breast cancer has more funding.
"Because of that, I'm having trouble persuading myself that Go is much more expressive than competitors" Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. While one programmer might say beautiful code is expressiveness (ex. performing a one liner quick sort), that is not what most Go developers I know see as beauty. Beautiful Go in my opinion is code that (in increasing importance):

1. runs fast
2. uses little memory
3. is easily made (or is) concurrent / parallel
4. is transparent (the intuitive run time complexity of operations is apparent, no hidden O(n..) operations, etc)
5. is easy to maintain

If this code happens to be more verbose than say Java, so be it, it is still beautiful. On an anecdotal note, most large C++, Java and node.js projects I have ported to Go have ended up being fewer LOC in Go.
Well, I took a look at the Sendgrid api page, and decided whether to use their built in API or their web API over JSON, and since I had used cURL quite a few times, it seemed a simpler task to implement it myself.

I then took a look at the analytics and the database makeup and a break down of tasks which I needed to accomplish were as thus (I was told by my manager to make product_name work with Sendgrid - that's it):

- Connect to the database

- Query recently added "leads"

- Grab lead email information and funnel_id

- Grab template and cache it (multiple emails can use the same template, and there are standard templates, making a query for every single template would make database IO a real issue)

- Build up the emails in to an Array, complete with template reference and replaced [TAGS] (full name, etc) required by each individual email

- Actually initialize cURL, create the multi_curl_init objects and loop through, check each request for the {success} JSON object returned by Sendgrid and reschedule / show an error in our logs for that email funnel

- Clean up after ourselves, rinse and repeat 10 minutes later for the next lot of leads.

- debug

In all honesty, the only way I knew the length of time required was breaking down an estimate for each individual task and then adding them all up and doubling it. It was an "intuitive guess".
Hi nadaviv, if you don't want to expose those endpoints via GET, you don't have to. Those are set up that way in development so it's much easier to get started. You have full control over your routing table and access control policies.
We are talking about research not charity.
This is one of the most interesting "Why my startup failed" type post I've ever read. You brought up real insights and didn't fall into the "I'm just gonna generically rehash 4 Steps to Epiphany and Lean Startup to look smart" trap. Thank you for taking the time to write it up, really excellent read.
Only thing worse than people talking about Idiocracy are people who bring up XKCD
Real-time dashboard for mobile devices
I want to focus this project mainly to startups. You know, we want to check number of visits, signups, sales, etc, several times per day/hour. We have to sign in to each service each time and it can be very strange to do that on mobile phone. With Reltrek dashboard, you can have all this data together in one single app and you can check it everywhere and everytime. What do you think about this idea? Would it be valuable for you?
> Most people don't have malaria, they don't care about malaria, and they will only care if it affects them.

The real answer is "most people with disposable income don't have malaria"

From Wikipedia: The World Health Organization has estimated that in 2010, there were 219 million documented cases of malaria

(That would represent nearly the entire adult population of the US)
I actually like Javascript. Aside from all the little warts, the only real problem I see is garbage collection and how easy it is to leak memory. OO does take a little more work, and it'd be nice if modules/dependencies were baked in, but IMO JS passes the Larry Wall test: Easy things are easy, and hard things are possible.
Semaphor meant that downvotes are destroying a community like on Reddit, and there is no need to call anyone a douche.

(I'm just clarifying by the way, I don't agree or disagree that downvotes are destroying communities; I don't know if it's true.)
I can't find what you mean by block validation inheriting OpenSSL's quirks. Could you explain what you mean? A quick google search suggests that Bitcoin uses OpenSSL only by passing it messages and fixed-size ECDSA keys for validation.

The BDB problem is not mysterious like you suggest, and the whole thing could've been converted from a fork to a DoS by changing a 'return false' to an 'assert'.
Can you explain more about what you mean by "value"?
I agree. Version control (let alone DVCS), bug trackers, and other sort of organizational skills aren't taught at school. You might know if them if you did something in your personal time, or you had some friends that introduced it to you during a project. However, that's more of the exception than the rule.