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Not saying this guy isn't a quack, but I have seen studies (or articles about studies, at least) by reputable universities on low calorie diets that suggest they increase your lifespan.

I can't recall the details, but if you're interested, start googling - it's a legitimate field of study with some surprising outcomes (to a layman like me, at least).
Is there any way to demo / use this without FB? (I understand why you want to connect to FB though)
No matter what you think of this guy or his product, you have to give him props for being his own guinea pig.

I, for one, hope that he proves everyone wrong, and a year from now, I'm mixing up my own Soylent, because though I do love a good meal, I'm a busy person, and I often find myself eating simply to sate hunger. If I could replace that footlong sub with a glass of soylent, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I believe that nuclear power is much safer and less destructive to the environment than mining and burning coal(for example).

But when Tokyo Power sought to build the nuclear plant at Ōkuma I guarantee you they didn't tell people, "this will totally kill fewer people than a coal plant would". They promised absolute safety. The Japanese nuclear regulatory agency didn't promise fewer deaths than the equivalent coal plant. They promised 1 death every million years.

Nuclear power makes huge promises and when it fails to live up to them it tries to change the standard by which it's judged.
You probably meant that as a joke, but such an award exists. It is called Lenin Award. Let us see some people who got that award.

1. Indira Gandhi - The only PM of India. She got elected by malpractice and when the Court ruled against her she declared emergency in the country suspending democracy and putting all her opponents in jail.

Now that is just one name I am familiar with because I am from India but you can research on other recipients and draw the conclusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_Peace_Prize
This is my concern too. I was under the impression that iCal also used CalDAV to sync. Why shut it down?
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Thank you, I had the same issue
feedly is loading forever.
Do you get the sense that Taleb disagrees with that first sentence? I do.
> Poor people have less clutter

What? This is about poor people having MORE clutter, not less.
For OS X users that use Apple Mail it supports RSS Feeds.

Not sure about Outlook 2012 for Mac though...
I think he's actually saying: "Poor people actually do indeed have a lot of clutter. Not because they don't see how they could live simply and how that would improve their outlook -- but because they have to have the clutter (the junk they've accumulated) because they might need that junk in the future, and the risk of throwing anything away is too great."
Completely - "when all around you are losing theirs"

I always used to say every university student should tend bat or tables for a month - it teaches you more about customer service than a year of once a week customer meetings.
Here's another good Google Reader alternative. https://feedbin.me.

It's a new reader with a similar experience to NetNewsWire. It costs $2/month but there is a free 3 day trial. I created Feedbin because I was looking for an alternative to Google Reader that's simpler than what's already out there. No social junk, no ads, no content discovery. Just an RSS reader.
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Looks like Matt had a change of heart. Good for him. Now we need a few comment edits here to give the guy a break.
On the podcasting side, I began http://player.fm to manage podcasts in the cloud. Since then, Google has dropped support for its official Android app, Listen, and now Reader, which many people used for podcasts.

It works from the browser, including mobile browsers, and native apps are coming. There's also an OPML importer, though currently experimental, and subscriptions can be consumed as OPML, RSS, etc.
It runs on nuclear waste http://transatomicpower.com/products.php
This definitely is the first time I've been disappointed by a web service shutting down.

I've been looking through alternatives. I'd like it to look like this, http://wp.me/aseR-cr , be web-based, have keyboard navigation, and not much else.

Is there a web-based newsbeuter?
Given that he is asking for feedback from others who decide to try it, and on his blog warns that he is not sure how it might work for others, and is offering to provide samples to people who agree to have blood work done before and after trying it for a week, he seems acutely aware that while he thinks it contains all he needs, he does not yet have sufficient evidence to be sure.

He's not written a scientific paper - don't assume that every single word he has written is meant to be interpreted in the strictest way possible.

By all means be sceptical, but while he might very well be wrong, at least he appears to be earnestly looking to identify and correct any flaws which already puts him far above a lot of charlatans selling risky diets.
The first thing I did before reading the post was look for a link to home, but was enraged when I found none. Still can't believe why sites do this.
So? When have you ever seen them actually use that to push theirn legislative agenda? Tech companies are far more active in using their status to push politics (e.g. SOPA protest).
That's great, but won't it be creepy to get messages from a dating website you never signed up to? Or is the person whose profile you're editing asked to give permission before the profile goes public?
No.But you should already have a google account since you used google reader I suppose.
Respectfully, I know that. And I know you mean well but the purpose of my post was exploring motives why I didn't yet. I know it's not fashionable to conduct oneself around here as anything but infallibly well-informed and doing all the things exactly right, but I wanted to offer a perspective of someone who sometimes exhibits imperfections in regard to the products he uses and the tradeoffs that may play a role in selecting certain kinds of products despite the downsides.
I'll be honest, I never even tried Google Reader. An RSS reader is such a simple app, I didn't think that it would anything special.
This doesn't make sense: He starts by saying he sent a message to YC partners and then got this response:

"I feel like we could be doing more to help YC companies. We're in awe of what you've built over there at the Y"

What is "over there at the Y" supposed to mean? He said he sent the message TO the YC people.
I saw NewsBlur when it first popped up on HN but never gave it thought since I thought Reader served my needs well enough. Amazing how that inertia melts away when the floor vanishes.

Now I just have to wait for its servers to stop melting.
To me Reader is the 2nd most used google Service. A Great Lost to me.
It's definitely slow right now.Just wait a few minutes.
Within a day of launching, it has now exceeded its goal of $2M.
I love this concept. Your app seriously needs a few things though.

1) You have to be able to message people on a dating site, none of this coming soon button.
2) You have to be able to have some rudimentary search/filter. People want to find people of the gender they are interested in, location, etc.

You've probably thought of both of these already but a dating site really has to have both of those.
Here are some hand-picked, noteworthy alternatives: http://blog.feedity.com/2013/03/14/google-reader-alternative...
This might be useful when I go to RM one of my own goddamned directories and get asked, "override rrblahblah for blahblah" a thousand times.

But of course it is't; I'll just continue using sudo.
Google doc here:

https://docs.google.com/a/hedrington.com/document/d/1QshvPcS...
LOL! There's always Google Spreadsheets...

=ImportFeed("http://news.google.com/?output=atom)
To clarify to anyone not fammilar with rm, running `rm /` is such a stupid thing to do, that rm has a special case where if won't let you delete "/". To override this behavior, you need the flag "--no-preserve-root".
meh, everyone and their father has written their own RSS aggregator in ruby. I guess we can expect to see more RSS readers in the future.
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te... might be a better link to show how Ada performance compares to C: ranging from twice as fast to three times as slow, with a median in favor of C. It's true that it's pretty close. I don't know if those numbers are representative of how performance works out in the real world; any insights from your experience?

Golang, it's true, is in the 3×–10× ballpark.

https://github.com/languages/Ada shows Ada as the #52 most popular language on GitHub. The #10 most popular is Objective-C at 3%. Using R:

summary(lm(log(c(25, 13, 8,8,8, 7, 6, 4, 4, 3)) ~ log(1:10)))

I derive that the Nth most popular language on Github is used in 24% * N -0.81 of projects, with an R² of 0.93. This suggests that Ada should be in use on about 0.98% of projects on Github, which makes me wonder why https://github.com/languages/Ada/updated?page=10 can only find 200 Ada projects that have been updated in the last nine months. (JS, the #1 language, has 200 projects updated in the last 22 minutes.)
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It's a nice reader really, but i don't want to have to install an extension just because.
same. is there any alternative for us?
Bought it a few years ago... and I wouldn't recommend it. It was created in a pre-iPad/iPhone era and it's not comfortable to use from anywhere else than a PC.
I think it's insane. When they announced they were ditching ActiveSync because it's proprietary they were selling us on CalDAV support because it's a "standard". That kind of made sense and it was moving the world towards a better place. Now they're saying they don't like CalDAV either, so just use the Google Calendar API. I don't see how this is any different from the proprietariness of ActiveSync.

Sigh, I'm not really sure I trust Google to do the right thing anymore.
Is there functionality for importing docx? I use this feature all the time in Google Drive, and I think it definitely gives it an edge over Draft (although I love the idea!)
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Hey—you’re using Google Analytics there. Aren’t you worried that will be shut down?
Hah, it's the dating version of GetSatisfaction!
Google: Reader usage is going down, lets axe it.

Every alternative reader website / service: Fuck me thats a lot of traffic.
I think his point is the continual failure of humans to estimate risks involving complex phenomenon, not specifically about the appropriateness of nuclear power.

Taleb seems to greatly respect empirical evidence as opposed to models and theories. If you presented him with the evidence that fossil fuel power plants kill thousands per year versus the deaths caused by nuclear power, I imagine it would go a long way towards convincing him that nuclear power was better.
Scrubbing? I really have to wonder.

I worked in restaurants as a high-school student 40 years ago, and at that time the dishwashers (human) put the plates into racks and shoved them into dishwashers (appliances). Manual intervention for tableware was limited to transfer to the racks at one end of the appliance, and from that the other.
Show HN: Switch to XMPP (Jabber)
I have to say, an rss reader that depends on numpy and scipy is pretty intriguing.
With the demise of Messenger impending, I thought that this would be a great time and opportunity to try and push an open chat alternative to people still using WLM. I'd rather not go from one closed protocol to another, especially since 3rd party client support for Skype is worse and the official client leaves a lot to be desired.

XMPP/Jabber is nice, but even many of my tech-savvy friends haven't ever even heard of it and trying to explain the decentralized concept can be a bit difficult. Because of reasons like these, I decided to whip up a quick tutorial/advertisement site about XMPP.

Any suggestions, criticisms and comments about the contents, design (which is not my strong suit - I think that bathroom tile background needs to go) and anything else would be welcome. I'm not sure how to promote this, but I think that posting it to reddit would be a start.
Love the idea! One suggestion is to add a footer, even if it's just a copyright. Like Marissa Meyer said for Google, it gives the site more of a punctuated end.
Actually, the MPAA have shoved their legislative agenda down the throats of moviegoers for many, many years now. Why do you think there are still people who make the mistake of calling copyright violations "theft" even after billions of bytes have been wasted on that semantic debate? Because a constant stream of propaganda has been devoted to drawing that connection in all of our minds.
> I will never trust Google again.

What other free hosted service provider deserves your "trust" that it will never, ever go away, and which provides facilities for exporting all your data in a nice way (a feature which will likely be accessible long into the future)?

I'm just as irritated as you are, but given that they've provided notice and good backup/takeout options, I don't see a betrayal of trust anywhere.
Wow, thanks for the judgement, and for quoting selectively to imply actual malice on my part.

So I'm "conservative" and have "a mindset diametrically opposed to that of a hacker" because I think someone is more likely than not to get shit wrong in trying to replace the human diet, evolved over aeons, with something he makes in his blender?

I'm all for challenging convention, disruption, experimentation, growth, and such. More than a little revolution, more than merely now and then, is more than just a good thing, in my book. Frankly, I think there are more human institutions that are moribund at best — and more likely actively harmful to the human condition — and desperately in need of replacement than not.

IMO, diet — or at least a healthy diet, where one eats actual food — is not among those things. It seems pretty clear to me that eating plants, and to a lesser extent, things that eat plants, or things that eat things that eat plants... is what our bodies have evolved to do, and correlates very strongly with health and longevity. It's equally clear that eating processed things correlates incredibly highly with all kinds of malady and morbidity.

Now, along comes someone who thinks he knows better than that. I wish him luck. I really, honestly do. I just don't have high hopes for his experiment. And, yes, while I probably will have some schadenfreudey, "Well, you probably should have seen that coming" if he gets it wrong badly enough to suffer some harm, I most certainly don't actually wish that upon him.

We see on practically a weekly basis some new and exciting way in which our understanding of human nutrition has been wrong all along. "Soylent Dude" is basing his recipe on that understanding, which has been demonstrated over and over and over again to be incomplete, misguided, based on faulty information — and even deliberate misinformation — and just plain wrong.

Given all that, please tell me how he's not likely to be missing something, getting something wrong, and potentially doing serious harm to himself, because I just don't see it.
I never used google reader, but I wrote my own tool to merge the feeds I care about into one megafeed: https://code.google.com/p/msrss/

That way, I don't have to depend on any web services.
when i read about greader shutting down I instantly thought "good day for Samuel"
WTF is this bullshit... I love Google Reader.
This is another reminder that if Google does a service for free, there is likely a business to be had in making a paid version, simply for the inevitable moment that they kill the free service. Think paid Google+, paid GMail, paid search engine maybe? You get the idea.
As a former dishwasher and line cook at the local steak house when I was growing up, I relate almost exactly what this guy said. I was 15 and sucked at washing dishes. We had this one guy, Snoopy was his nickname. Dude was so fast at washing dishes I wanted to be exactly like him. But it was how he attacked it that stuck with me. Organize what you can, soak the stuff with caked on crap, wash what needs washing first (plates for cooks, silverware and cups for waitresses, biscuit pans, then baking pans), sling plates around like a madman, get soaked to the bone, and never let your feet stop dancing. And exactly like this guy, I too can sort silverware with each hand independently (I have to admit I'm pretty awesome at this). Speed, speed, speed was what Snoopy drove into me. To this day I do the same things as a developer/devops person at work. Organize, prioritize, speed, speed, speed...iterate.
Am I worried? No, I think there's about a 0% chance they'd do that.
The loss of Reader doesn't matter much to me a most others. It's the fact that Reader synced all my RSS feeds to whichever application that was/is the flavour of the month. It's that ability to have a repository of your feeds available in an instance. That's the product people need. Google should try to build that functionality into Gmail or something.

Also, fuck any RSS feed reading service that charges monthly. I'll pay for an app, but I'm not paying a monthly subscription fee to read freely available content.
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We sprayed the worst of the gunk off with a pressure nozzle after the plates (or whatever) was in the rack. Problem dishes (that we noticed came out of the dishwasher dirty) were set aside.
Are you sure your resentment is really frustration at her and not frustration at the state of the business? Your lack of salary or funding? Or how difficult you are finding it to reach customers?

It sounds like she is putting in the equivalent of a fulltime job. So while its easy to transfer your frustrations onto her ("these problems would be solved if you put in 70 hours like me"), you might want to be careful you aren't giving in to wishful thinking. Certainly, if you are putting in 70 hours and that isn't solving these issues asking her to do the same is not necessarily the right approach.

You need to be able to think clearly about why you are feeling what you are feeling, and look outside yourself to figure out if the demands you are putting on yourself and other people are really reasonable.
Instead of wasting your time creating petitions to keep Google Reader open, I suggest you make a petition to make Google Reader open source. Google is going to close Reader either way so at least we'd haven a self hosted good alternative.

Every alternative I've seen so far in this hole topic(yes, all of them, I've tested all of them) is either poorly designed, bad UX, weird browser problems or trying too hard to be more then a RSS reader. Guess I'll just have to spend 2 days and build my own. Oh, well :)
If you haven't already used it, check out http://getprismatic.com/. It replaced Google Reader for me. (It also replaced HN for the most part).
It got them a lot of press. Think about for a minute.
Feynman's double-slit experiment brought to life
Love. This is the experience every young person needs, in order to grow up useful.

Isaac Newton is evidence that you're mistaken. If young person with talent and ambition were to mistakenly believe you, the most common outcome is that they'd become shadows of their former potential a few years later.
This is very good news indeed -- life will be easier for lots of Python-based projects, with the distribute changes merged into setuptools!
Excellent idea - we had a co-worker at my old job that had his OK Cupid profile in github. We all made pull requests and tried to make it far more appealing. It was fun, but I can also see how this could work as a site.
> It implies saving that password on the hard drive, yes. However, any interested attacker, once gaining access to my account, can just as easily install a keylogger and simply wait for me to log in to this site the next time.

Yes, but that is much more work, over a longer period of time, compared to browsing your cookie jar.

By the way, this entire conversation is predicated on a misconception -- Chrome does, in fact, give one plenty of warning about deleting personal information:

http://i.imgur.com/Du84Y4O.png
Why is Google killing Google Reader? former Google Reader PM, answers
This is where a 3rd party helps. It is easy for her to argue that you are getting caught up in emotion and it is hard for you to deliver judgement without some emotion.
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I'm on this. I'm not even going to read any comments pertaining. All my life I prayed for this day.
Also, I've realized that I also have crazy downtimes or crashes that are bigger than them. In those times, I appreciate the stability and the calm in the other founders. So I'd challenge you to make a list of positive characteristics in your partner that aren't necessarily in you.

I could not agree more with this. As someone who functions at 100% or nothing, it is unbelievably helpful to have someone who is more stable. When I am going there is no stopping, pretty much everything is put aside whether it be eating, sleeping, exercise, seeing friends or anything else. But when all that stuff that I put aside finally catches up to me and I need some time to recharge, I am so glad to have people around me who are stable and able to keep things going. I think having people who bring both enthusiasm and stability is really important. When crunch time comes it's great to have people willing to lay it all out there to get what needs to be done regardless of what that entails, but at the same time having people who you know will be steady and reliable is really important because a company without consistency is normally destined to fail.
I liked this story a lot, but I had a slightly different experience. I started washing dishes in a bakery over the summer, at age 12. Somewhere in the summer of my 16th or 17th year, I think the boss finally realized that I was simply better at other things, after years of what must have been charity on his part to keep me on. He could bang out a full sink of dishes in about three minutes. For me it took closer to 30, so while we generally never quite ran out, there was never an opportunity for me to do anything else. I just couldn't leave them dirty, not even a little bit. I found the concept of not doing a 100% job to be repulsive for some reason. I sometimes still do, and it does cause problems when I should have just stopped at 90% (or more like 30% with the dishes) -- perfectionism definitely has some drawbacks.

I did much better as a cashier.
I didn't use Google Reader because it was free, I used it because it was 1) good and 2) the back-end to essentially every other RSS-based service I used. So they're not competing with "free", they're competing with everything.

I learned this lesson when I made the mistake of Google Voice (which was free for some aspects).
With the rise of things like Twitter and Facebook as primary news/link sources, I doubt that most people 18 and under even know what RSS is.
Hi HN, my co-founder and I have been working on a Google Reader clone in the last few weeks, we're not quite ready to launch, but would love to get feedback as soon as we've opened up our beta:

http://beta.newsmaven.co

We promise to have all the basics of Google Reader covered, including importing your feed data (or as much as possible through the API).

Of course, if you're looking for something to move to immediately, NewsBlur is an awesome product :)
I long ago switched to the Hacker News 100 feed: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...
That doesn't matter, the post is talking about what was happening in 2004 and it was indeed a mess.
I can't speak for the parent, but an issue in this vein that most recently affected me is the months it took google to allow GApps customers to create a google+ account with their apps login.
Why is Google killing Google Reader?