skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Poor people don’t have clutter because they’re too dumb to see the virtue of living simply; they have it to reduce risk."

Close but not quite. In my case at least it's true that when I was poor I accumulated stuff largely out of fear of scarcity, but the various "perfectly good" bits of junk I accumulated didn't actually reduce my risk in any way. If you replaced "to reduce risk" with "because they unconsciously and mistakenly believe it will reduce risk" you'd be close to the truth.

And while it would be harsh to call people still living in the grip of that illusion "dumb" on account of it, it is in fact an illusion.
Without iGoogle, and Google Reader.. honestly, I don't have much use for Google over say DuckDuckGo. I signed into the Android/Google echosystem.. mainly for iGoogle, and Reader.. with both going away, I'm pretty close to out.
Simtower definitely seemed to simulate individuals and had a population cap of 15-20k. Its path finding was drastically simpler though.

Every floor (110 floors max) was essentially a single zone that could be crossed instantaneously so each person needed a path only from floor A to floor B. There were strict limits as well about how many transfers were allowed per path and how many total stairs, escalates, and elevators were build able.

Sim City 4 allowed many millions of "people" on networks of significant complexity. The SimTower simulation was simple, satisfying, and relatively bug free. It also wasn't complex enough to continue to be satisfying for 10+ years the way SC4 has been.
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I just tried signing up but I received an error message. Congrats on all the interest :)
It's the exact opposite - his father was a furniture maker, and made sure to craft the 'hidden' parts of his work just as well as the visible ones, a lesson he carried on to Apple.
This is a good way to start. Send me an email if you want to chat - http://andrewcantino.com
He is capable of this.
Its a full on web dev framework in JS with a focus on DRY

There are better explanations elsewhere.
I wasn't much of a Google Reader user, but it certainly does feel like this retirement might undermine some of their "trust the cloud" efforts. In the old days products getting killed only meant that no more updates are coming.
Hey Martin, not sure what you are talking about.
The headline refers to an advice by Jason Fried on writing attitude.
No offense, but please stay relaxed.
Not even sure about which web app you are talking...
Out of curiosity, what domain name should people choose, one based on their full name? If so, what happens when it has been already taken?
Does anyone know of an extraction tool to pull down all your starred items (in addition to feeds) into some semi-structured format -- even just a big, single HTML file?

I've got YEARS of starred items "saved" in Reader. I use it everyday to stay abreast of news (1000+ items / day). Between Google Reader and iGoogle... Google has deprecated most of the tools I use on a regular basis. This makes me seriously question using Gmail and Apps for Business.

EDIT: Just RTFM'd. Looks like Google TakeOut will let me export most of the stuff I care about. Still, this sucks. I'll probably just keep using it and hope (like iGoogle) the deprecation date gets pushed back. Otherwise... productivity boon due to lack of RSS feeds.

Also.... Feedburner users should see the writing on the wall!
My friends and I would play similar game in DOS and it was how much you could mess up their machine but in reversible fashion.

Every so often I'd come to my machine and just have a blinking cursor on a blank screen and have to figure out how to get back to a working machine.
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My partners and I took our seed funds that we put up on our own into a bank account. We signed up for a saving account, checking and got a credit card at the same time. It's based solely off of the founders for a bootstrapped firm.
I did the same for a short while. Mom loved it.
Meteor is a javascript stack of technologies for building web apps that are reactive.

What is a reactive app? Basically, for a web application, this means the client maintains a connection to the server, allowing the server to push data to the client whenever the data changes on the server. No browser reload. No need to submit. It looks more like a fat client app than a traditional web application, because there is full two-way communication between the client and server whenever needed.

Meteor then takes this concept and marries it with a simple client-side key/value store. This makes it seem fast, as a client application can make changes to its local data store and refresh the web page very quickly, updating the server asynchronously. If the server rejects the change (due to security reasons, or any other reason), the client then restores the local data copy to its original state.

The Meteor application framework is built around a "single page application" framework. This means that all of the HTML and Javascript for the entire application are downloaded to the client on the first web page load. When you go from one "page" to another "page", the page doesn't reload; instead Javascript is used to re-render the replace the HTML on the page.

All of this gives Meteor-based web applications a feel that I find to be more similar to that found in IOS/Android native applications. Data still comes from the web, but the rest is handled in JS on the client. I have found that web applications built this way feel faster and more responsive, and behave more like what I expect from traditional apps (i.e. non-web-apps).
Flipboard will save your Google Reader feeds
Wow, didn't consider this until your post. Losing Listen would be a big hit.

Can anyone confirm that the Android Listen app will cease to function (i.e. refresh your existing feeds) once Google Reader is shut down? Am pretty sure that it relies solely on Google Reader's "Listen Subscriptions" tag for refreshing your podcast feeds, so that's definitely another gap that needs filling.
One not mentioned yet is http://selfoss.aditu.de/

It is an open source self hosted rss reader with a responsive skin. I'll be migrating tonight nad since it is open source I can contribute when I run into issues!
Not to be (too) dismissive, but anyone can work a crap job for a summer in college. Have a shit full time job after college (hypothetically: file clerk at a nursing agency in in emeryville) -- that teaches you a different level of life lessons & desperation.
Rob is also a YC alum.
He has dropped noticeable weight.
disclosure: I work at Flipboard.
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I haven't used Fever personally, but I do know the popular Reeder RSS client for Mac and iOS has Fever support.
No, he says it has all of the ones we know about. He emphasizes the fact that there stands to be a lot of learning to do and bugs to work out.
Would you be interested in a Google Calendar API to CalDAV translator program or service?
Inside the 1%
I have. I call it a shit job because it's very hard for not much pay. It's also repetitive and reactive, so once you've achieved competence, there isn't really anywhere you can go with it; it's up (to a better job in the kitchen) or out. I moved up to cooking, but I don't feel the same nostalgia as this writer for being a dishwasher. Of the various manual labor jobs I've done, I preferred construction work because it provides a sense of progress and offers more opportunities for skills development and variety as well as teamwork. YMMV.
I think you've done a better job at describing this than I could. I got out of a 3 year relationship 5 months ago and rebounded pretty hard, so I tried lots of online dating sites. I always found it slightly awkward when I was filling out my own profile. It's a lot of effort when the whole thing could benefit from being simpler and faster. On top of that, some of the girls I met were telling me they didn't actually sign up. Their girlfriends were forcing them to create accounts on okcupid.
My impression is that everyone is dialing back their excitement over those results. They were based on rats, they failed to hold up for primates and almost certainly will shorten lifespan for humans.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=calorie-res...
"Images used for text" - Ok, what am I missing here? I see fewer and fewer sites using image text every day. And the linked example (weesociety.com) appears to use images only for photos. SVG logo? Is that a problem? Even SVG for the SM icons.

"...but most people do not use iPads to visit websites"
Hmmm.
I use it quite a bit...I've been using it as my personal journal (setting the default post setting to be shown to "Only Me") and it's still the page I see when checking other friends' activity
Really? I'm back and forth on this, and the unlocking usually comes after periods of urgency even if I've moved on to something else. But "urgency" definitely is different than "panic" or "frantic".
Ungrammaticality changes over time. For a new grad emailing her boss, douchy pro-dropping in English is ungrammatical. Eventually, it sinks in as an acquired taste, and becomes grammatical.

Hey, is it ungrammatical to call a woman Douchy?
Well.. was going to sign in with my google account, but they seem to want "manage my contacts" permission.
It's the third line.

> Product blogs should always link to product homes
I think your project is quite nice, but I'm an extremely private person, and don't wish to be found by random folks I went to high school with or be stalked by ex-es. So, some way to not be listed in any searchable directory would be a must. The only simple way I can see this being feasible would be to only allow "un-listed" people to find the others. If two people are both "un-listed," I'm not sure how that would work. Perhaps they would have to exchange private keys in person?
Hah! That was me at McDonald's. One night everyone else was waiting impatiently in the dining room at 1:00 AM as I was furiously scrubbing pots sparkly clean. The team lead came over, observed my technique for a few minutes, sighed, and said "Most people just knock the worst of it off. We want to go home."

They wouldn't let guys be cashiers, though, so it was making burgers and cleaning pots for a whole summer.
I can use another RSS Reader (and probably won't like it nearly as much as Google Reader), but I worry that the Google Reader audience is so big, and that so many will likely not bother finding another worthy RSS aggregator, that some blogs who get most of their traffic from GR users will throw in the towel when their readership declines.
The rules describe how people speak in large numbers. So these examples are grammatical.
Thanks! Looking forward to the update!
Hallelujah, AppCache support. This is a game-changer.
Pushing their agenda: "You wouldn't download a car"?

Not covering other agendas: basically any news agency ever that only covers one side of a story (e.g. anti-gun-control news stations only reporting positive gun news, pro-gun-control stations only reporting negative gun news, no news stations reporting on anything outside the viewer-driving manufactured hot button issues). Another example, though this is an isolated case, there was a station in Nevada during the 2008 campaign season that only showed the polling numbers of their selected candidates, even though another candidate was polling higher than some of the ones they listed.
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I highly doubt that the performance bottleneck has anything to do with serving cacheable static files. When a user asks you which of their feeds have been updated in the last 60 seconds, that's not the kind of request you can just offload to a CDN.
That would be "Google let its Android head go". Maybe the title edit was by a Brit who prefers "their" (plural) over "its" (singular) for companies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_di...
The actual contest is buried in a PDF file:
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1. Best example application mash-up

Code that pulls together all the services, along with tutorial documentation that explains how it works and how to extend it.

2. Best new monkey
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Autonomous code that helps operate the platform, often clients of Edda's historical state database.

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3. Best contribution to code quality

Tests, fixes, improvements to robustness and antifragility, new code testing tools. Since this may be aggregated across many pull requests for test cases and bugs, they should be listed and documented in the Submission.

4. Best new feature

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The missing link, the one thing no one thought of doing, that makes a big difference to a project.

5. Best contribution to operational tools, availability and manageability

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Integration with existing monitoring and alerting tools, and/or completely new tools and automation that enhances availability.

6. Best portability enhancement

Portability across languages, operating systems, data stores, between cloud and datacenter, and across various cloud APIs which increase the applicable scope of NetflixOSS. Converting fixed interfaces into pluggable patterns.

7. Best contribution to performance improvements

New performance testing tools, results of performance tests and performance oriented bugs. Since this may be aggregated across many pull requests, they should be listed and documented in the Submission.

8. Best datastore integration
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Improved support for SQL and NoSQL databases, client library interfaces and operational automation.

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9. Best usability enhancement

Improvements to existing user interfaces, better icons and tutorials, and new tools that make NetflixOSS easier to use, deploy and diagnose.

10. Judges choice award

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An award given by the Judges to the best Submission that doesn't fit in a single category, perhaps straddling several or inventing a new category.
I think that's the point -- a passive journal/log of your life and connections (I default all posts to be "Only Me" and share what I want as appropriate to further cement in my mind this idea of a personal journal that's backed up in the cloud.)

It's in this perspective that I don't think you're asking the right questions -- would you consistently read and curate old journals or photo albums? You may every now and then, but the point is that they're there for later reflection...
Why there is no competitive Japanese e-sports scene
T-Mobile tethering blocked in Chrome
The change makes it easier to update submodules to their upstreams:

https://github.com/git/git/commit/06b1abb5bd38b3cb1972907b05...
He is lately experimenting with nootropics? Choline, which is the de facto number number one nootropic, is an essential nutritient, and essential for your brain to function. this could explain his train of thoughts :) Also he mentions soylent from a book made from lentins and soy which contain lectins. soy contains also pythoestrogen, not good for your prostate. i'm pretty sure his omega6 amount is also too high, and there is some oxidation as he uses olive oil.
the ratio of the nutrients is wrong as its based on the FDA, and is different for different ethnic groups. its very naive of him to think that his soylent is toxic free, as his ingredients are highly processed nutritients, adding new toxins to this mix. No details about monitoring his blood, so i supose he only checked the bare minimum, also not relevant after such a short time. also i think some nutritient are not ment to be consumed together because they bind to each other and create new chemical compounds, which are probably toxic. I think he should read a few more books.
Why this post has 4 points? When I open the page, I see nothing...
http://lenta.yandex.com
I thought of this exact situation just last night when subscribing to a feed.

Firefox sent me to a google page which offered me an option to add it to either iGoogle or Reader. I recalled that iGoogle is being shut-down and thought it was strange that it was still offered as a prominent option. I guess now it makes sense.

I seems strange to me though that Reader will be shut down before iGoogle, which is slated for November 1, 2013.
Until NewsBlur is back, check out niflet.com. It can handle 1 million visits hourly. It has 4000 feeds (so far) and adapts to your interests.
This is just a delayed press release, reader was killed 2 years ago with the release of google+ that removed the amazing social/sharing features that made it special.
Standards FTW - Apple HDMI, VGA, Ethernet Adapters with Surface Pro
Show HN: Dark theme for Hacker News
Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness
The thing about this entry, though, is that it tells you how he had to change in order to succeed at that job. Which is a job, by the way, that I failed at, for exactly the reason he was failing. I just didn't have the mentorship he did. Or maybe I did, but I didn't listen. I don't know, it's been a long time.
I never found Google Code Search useful. What I wanted to be able to do was to search for code expressions with Google -- to be able, for instance, to search for the words "C++" or "call-next-method", exactly as I type them, punctuation and casing and all. No synonyms, no "corrections", no singular/plural conversions, no punctuation-stripping. Google never provided a way to search for exactly what I asked it to search for. Still the main thing missing from google search.
Sorry, it's currently running on a single EC2 instance so it may be slow due to today's flood of traffic, though I'm working on scaling it up
Learn thoroughly how to read type signatures, compiler warning/errors, GHCi ouput. The 4th thing on my Learn to Read list for other languages is bytecode/Core/assembler but that's not easy

My first languages were APL and C, I learned them the same way, by learning how sets of language features were used together vs. ruby or clojure where you learn how a feature works in isolation ("oh, that's a block, that's destructuring a vector etc"). I put postit notes on all the code snippets i didn't understand in RWH and stared at them until i understood what every token was doing there. So if you're going along saying, I 90% understand, 82%, 79%, go back.

If it helps, there's a lot more resources and places to ask questions, ask for refactorings, I'm going to pimp my list

http://isthishaskell.blogspot.com/2013/02/tips-on-learning.h...

(If you ask same question on reddit or beginners mailing list, you'll get dozens of answers)
How much will you pay for Google Reader per month?
I use offlineimap on one machine to sync my Google accounts via IMAP (one "master" directory with one directory under that for each account). I then tar up that "master" directory, bzip2 it, and move it to another folder for safekeeping.
protip: always put -i first.

I avert the problem by having rm run interactively by default:

alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'

http://aniggler.tumblr.com/post/44530262158/the-first-thing-...
Pope Francis, the pontiff of firsts
rm -i is your friend
That's my understanding. Basically... these tools give you more fine-grained control at the expense of configuration & maintenance burdens. Classic PAAS tradeoffs.
I actually know someone who did this, hahahaha.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/tell-google-not-di...
He's not building a human though. He's building food. Modern rocketry has been around for about a century, and food has been with us since the beginning. I don't see why it would be that complex. Like pg said, the top comment for every new product posted on HN is always something dismissive that doesn't really add to the discussion, and this thread is no exception.
It's Qt and not QT.
He is "dead wrong" about fruits and vegetables. The phytonutrients in fresh food are the building blocks of our cellular infrastructure and immune systems. There are at least 30 detailed medical studies about how taking fruit and vegetable concentrate increases all sorts of markers of health, from lower stress hormones, to increased cell performance, to reduced damage to DNA, to less days of missed work (2 different studies: one on law students, one on special forces soldiers). There isn't anything else that's ever been clinically proven to reduce damage to DNA except for fruits and vegetables (specifically JuicePlus concentrate) but the finding should generalize to fruits and vegetables. Source: http://corsonwellness.com (See 30+ medical studies, videos, etc) The most researched food supplement is just simple fruit and vegetables juiced down and concentrated. This guy might be on to something with macronutrients, but it's not a recipe for good health, which requires micro-nutrients. All 10,000 different plant nutrients found in an Apple, not just one like Vitamin C.

Maybe if you add the two together, that would be a balanced diet.
That's a silly idea. What would be motivation to do this?

Android APIs are not bad at all.
Kickstarter's JS doesn't work with Ghostery
...on the other hand their site almost completely works even without JS at all. (Which surprised me, at least given current trends.)
A Lament for Google Reader
Any particular reason why you've been repeatedly targeted by such individuals? Some of them could be related and if targeted might cease abusing your code.
It's an irrelevant question -- when you work on the scale that Google does and have the data that they can analyze, it's easy to make the business case that it is either a good business product or not worth the time.

It's easy to make a survey and petition and whatnot, but power users are always the minority (the long tail) and do not drive a business alone. Especially one where the engineers supporting any product are paid six-figures a piece and the product is not directly monetized (i.e. you're not paying for it, you're not hosting the data, etc.)
I made Sideshow because:

1) I always wanted to start a daily digest/newsletter of some kind and I'm super passionate about side projects.

2) I wanted to learn more about JavaScript, Node.js and Redis.

And there it is. It's built with ~300 lines of code of Node.js + Express + Redis, has an admin area to manage links (I called it 'Backstage'[1]) and MailChimp API integration for automated newsletter sending (both daily and weekly).

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/rkwiMAm.png

My learning resources:

- JavaScript: http://javascriptissexy.com/how-to-learn-javascript-properly... (I'm on week 3-4)

- Node.js: http://www.nodebeginner.org/

- Express (and Redis): http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2012/06/node-express-to...

P.S: Notice that there weren't any sexy AJAX stuff on the site. It's because I haven't learned one of those front-end MVC framework yet (Backbone/Angular/Ember), which should be my priority this week.
Elon Musk on Entrepreneurism
Weird. I find they get literal code searches correct very very frequently.
Make that a lot of us need a good alternative. Google Reader is my most used app behind iTerm and Vim.
or just whatever the guy feels like doing, in fact
Cool. I have a side project to submit, but I don't meet the criteria yet... (My app is not quite working yet =)

I've bookmarked to come back in a week or so and submit it when it's in a usable state.
Been running Fever exclusively for last 3 months when I heard whispers of Google Reader heading for the chopping block. I don't "get" the 'kindle/sparks/etc' lingo it uses, but as a basic Reader replacement AND self-hosted option, i love it. It has keyboard shortcuts and nearly all the other features you'd want.
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Apparently the blog is the product home page. www.feedly.com redirects to the blog. Why would I click to install a firefox extension without ever seeing what it looks like and or what features it provides?

EDIT:

Mozilla Addons page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedly/
Posthumous accolades are nice, but you know what is nicer? Justice. Push to fix the injustice system that made him kill himself.
I developed http://imnosy.com to notify you when bookmarks/pages you add are updated. Google Reader used to provide this kind of functionality, so I thought I would mention it here myself.