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Best online HTML editor?
My dad wants a small website and learn some HTML/CSS (which is cool I think for somebody who is almost 60). He needs my help sometimes.

To make it a bit easier the best would be a online editor to which me and my dad can login and edit the html. Any suggestions?
Ubiquitous Self-Documentation and The Abolishment of Privacy
You have no privacy anymore in public.
> Uber has all the power, so they are going to do nothing about what this small group of driver's demands. Life goes on.

Sure. But I wish exploited workers (I'm not sure this is the case here, but for the sake of argument) could use their meager power to beat the living shit out of the CEO. Maybe even give him a good wedgie. I think that a society that turns a blind eye to exploitation, should also turn a blind eye to the odd board member getting a good shellacking now and then from some able-bodied employees. Life would go on just the same.

> Unfortunately in this economy drivers are pretty close to commodity labor.

So are women. There sure are plenty of them around.

> If you don't want to be treated like commodity labor its best to not be commodity labor.

Yes, if you can. If not, your next best course of action is to work for actual human beings rather than douchebags. Actually, I think this is sound advice for everyone.
No. Read my reply to "eru".
What a bunch of crap. It's great that young engineers are making so much money right now, because that's just money that the VCs would otherwise be making. And what can I say, I'm a partisan--I think that's a perfectly fine thing. Indeed, it's worthwhile to take a page out the the VC playbook here. Clearly, the VCs have figured out that you don't need to keep young, ambitious people "hungry" for them to work their asses off. Look at who the VCs hire--people exiting from bulge bracket NYC banks. Look at what they pay these people. Every time I hear complaints about skyrocketing SV engineer salaries, I go over to WSO and remind myself: nope, still not ridiculous yet: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/salary/venture-capital-compen... (note that VP is not a particularly senior person in most financial firms--usually 6-8 years out of college assuming the person didn't go back for an MBA).
It didn't. Origin was built by a different team within EA after Rupture was laid off. I was the engineering manager at EA for the Rupture team.
Also it adds a button to the bottom right of every web page. I immediately uninstalled when I learned this.

Newsblur has no such shenanigans and is developed by a HNer.
Exactly - how do they know which product their users were using before signing up for Feedly?
Why stick with dying app that will never see a new feature and which may make your data inaccessible at any time? I exported my data and will never see it again. Anything else and I might have tried to log in one day and suddenly hit the deadline. The odds of me ever entering hundreds of sites into any app of Google's again are also far lower now.
depending on what target you're looking at, yes, for now. firefox has nothing on mobile right now - it's chrome/safari on mobile by a longshot, and mobile is the hot growth area. But yeah, point taken.
Why should there be any need to explain what Ph.D. is to your own Ph.D. students?
May be, they should not be doing Ph.D. in the first place if they don't know what it is that they are doing.
Ph.D. is the new BS and that's that...most of the thesis coming out of schools are worthless (literally).
There is an inflation (big time) in academia. You would know it if you interviewed any Ph.D student on a technical topic.
I feel like this article is one big false equivalence. I'm not really sure what the takeaway point is either. Is this representing the P.O.V of the employers, or is this someone who wishes the best talent would break-out and build spectacular products on their own? Because, I suspect it's the former. There's a big draw for young talented engineers to start their own thing, be their own boss -- that's why there are perks for settling at a bigger corporation. For a young, brilliant, mathematician who in school dreamt of winning awards for solving the unsolvable... well, they're probably not gonna be too excited about selling coupons, ads, or whatever else it is your company does. That's why there are perks. /rant.
Hahaha, there's a hilarious typo in the article. ".. one of the leaders of the LulzSac hacker movement.." It feels oddly appropriate.
No, it's a stack machine. See http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#3
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It's because people don't read.
Maybe a great number of them are people like me who haven't actively used google reader in years but are willing to give rss readers another go after reading about them non stop for the last few days.

Just a speculation.
If the company maintained every niche product with N thousand fans, even paying ones, it’d become the very bungling bureaucracy we love to hate.

This is a bold assertion with no evidence or argument behind it.
But if you look at ebooks on amazon it's getting lot more common to have serials. Shorter books, cheaper price, fast turnaround. My favorite is Wool, which has done 8 books in last 20 months and is excellent.
Has Google ever sold any product off?

Could they, even? They don't build isolated products the same way that many other software companies do. Everything they build is built on their own infrastructure, not some commodity stack. Even if they released the source code to Reader for free, would it do anyone any good without the full suite of BigTable/Chubby/GFS/Googlebot/etc. services that I'm sure it is tightly integrated into?
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Think it came from here: http://www.alessioatzeni.com/blog/css3-loading-animation-loo...
How is AdBlock supposed to block ads on webpages in your tabs without access to them?
Google is upgrading their backend

where does the linked blog post state that?
The 46 Places to Go in 2013 by NY Times
People have control over their individual online use cases and should assume more personal responsibility for managing their online profile. It is voluntary to join the LE email spam network, FB/G privacy invasion operations, disqus commenting, etc.

It's a shame that these social networks that were intended to enable friend and family (biz in LE case) have devolved into open public access to your personal interactions. As they further infringe on the original use cases more people will leave them for alternative solutions.
"The problem is that the young engineers earning that much become well-fed farm animals at the very moment in their lives when they should be running like wild horses."

Thats probably the most rational thing to do since the chances of making it big with a startup are minimal while the chance to ruin your health/life are huge.
The stack is an abstraction used in the C API. If you look at the actual bytecode generated, it's all register-based.
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Yeah, there are at least 24 million subscribers. Not sure how many are currently active but the number seems to have gone up in the last few years. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-...
Was very excited to try Newsblur.

It's not free, for those wondering, and free accounts are temporarily suspended.

Oh well. Time to move on.
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Every time I use google reader now is tainted by sadness. Also it is useful to be able to compare side by side.
I'll admit, I fell for the title. I read it because I was intrigued to find out how an independent author would have gotten $0 for having sold > 1 book.

When I got to the "$12,000" I immediately felt tricked. Sure, it is in one sense pocket-change for a "bestseller", but it's not "nothing".
unfortunately, the average user is convinced that one has no problem if one has nothing to hide. i don't foresee the average user deciding to jump ship without a strong push.
failure to get your PhD after 4-8 years of work is a pretty big risk to take (it generally means you will never get your PhD), particularly since you generally have much more freedom to pursue "risky" approaches to research after you have the degree, and even more so after you have tenure.
Yes, they say it costs about $75,000 to buy yourself on to the best seller lists.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732386430457831...
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Since I like the searching, reading and organizing experience I have in the email clients I use, I decided to give Blogtrottr a shot: it sends you the contents of your RSS feeds by email, you can decided whether to get an email for each post or a daily digest (there are optiones, too). Looks pretty good so far.
They let you import your google reader data.
Lua IS a register based machine. The white paper done by the Lua authors is the reason most of the industry has moved to register based machines. (Apple SquirrelFish for Safari was the first to read it and implement it and everybody followed suit to compete.)
http://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf

Lua has true multiple return value support. The overall usefulness of tuples in light of this feature is not clear.

Lua has first class support for functions and actually supports functional programming unlike Python which cripples many techniques and where Javascript has broken lexical scoping. Lua uses metamethod programming to allow you to build functionality like classes; Javascript has prototype inheritance which is different than Python's classical inheritance. Each is just different; not necessarily more or less structured.

Also, never confuse simple for being primitive. Lua IS incredibly simple and elegant. But all the simple things in the language work together elegantly to allow for amazingly sophisticated things.
I have this vague idea of an open, minimal social network that is little more than the internet:

- If you want to just read, use an RSS reader and subscribe to ... stuff.

- If you want to participate, get a personal page via someone like Wordpress that serves RSS, or run your own via your choice of technology if you want.

- If you want to build relationships between RSS serving participants, use the missing RSS feature that allows client RSS readers and site RSS readers (another missing piece) to piece together inter-site RSS conversations and relationships.

- Mix in some personal privacy and control, and you're done.

EDIT: add missing word.
Silicon Valley has a weird relationship to capitalism. They sometimes like to pretend to themselves that work isn't about money, and the laws of supply and demand shouldn't apply to labor.

You should work for us because, it's, like, really great! You should want to work 55 hours a week because you really want to! The fact that you're creating stockholder wealth is merely incidental.

Every company in the valley seems to pay "market wages" and then complain that there's simply not enough talent out there. It shouldn't be about the money for them. They should want to work here, because it's so great!

People should be paid what's "fair" and should want to work as much as is practical. Some kid out of college should be paid what's fair for them as a person - it's like a moral issue - not according to the value they create for the company, which can be enormous even if it's just a kid of school. And we need rock stars, not warm bodies, even if the gain to the company from hiring each non-rock star is still enormous.

I am familiar with several SV firms that would make like $400,000 per year per new hire, but insist on paying "market wages" based on experience, and then complain it's impossible to find enough people to hire. You think if we were on wall street a firm would hesitate to double someone's salary if the firm thought they could make double that by hiring them? No one in SV wants to compete on pay. Everyone wants to convince themselves that they've created the greatest place on earth to work, and that everyone should work there because it's so great. The fact that they create wealth for the stockholders is a benign coincidence.

If SV ran the retail industry, everyone with the same job titles would make pretty much the same amount of money working at either Saks Fifth Avenue or Old Navy. What if Saks wanted to hire someone away from Old Navy? They would try to convince them that Saks is really great!! Not because Saks could see that it could gain more from the person working for them than at Old Navy than Old Navy would and can therefore pay them more. That's economic efficiency. But it seems kind of crass, doesn't it? You should want to work for us! Because it's so great, and we'll give you a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of the equity.

What if I went around telling employers I wanted a strict 40 hour work week? How suddenly would they forget about that hiring shortage? Wanting to work less shows you don't care. You should want to work here. Not because by you working here it creates more wealth for us than we're going to pay you. You think that multiple still doesn't apply if someone is working 13% less hours!? But someone who wants to work less doesn't care, and you should want to work and want to work here as much as possible.

I get six dozen recruiter emails a week. All of them sound exactly the same - you should work here because it's so great! None of them want to compete on fundamentals - pay me more and give me more vacation time. How distasteful! As a result I am completely indifferent between all of them. Everyone likes to pretend it's not about money and there is no price curve for labor. It's weird.
But what cause do you join by signing up for Feedly? I understand that even people that did not use Google Reader may be upset that the company drops a service that is based on an open standard, but I can't see why such people would react by subscribing to some other RSS reader.
"I don't know about you "

I'm in the fortunate situation where people in my social circle still prefer phone and email to facebook and twitter :)

"announcements like wedding, birth etc"

I don't know about your social circles, but in mine those announcements demand in-person discussion or phone calls. Even email feel crass for announcing a birth.

"Also, not sure if you noticed but Facebook messaging provides a "return receipt" feature"

I've never used facebook messaging heh.
Facebook in flames.

Google Reader's demise is really strong proof that Larry Page is obsessed with Google Plus to the point of depravity. There are alternatives, but that doesn't distract from the point: _Google_, one of the bright centers of the Internet, is behaving with abject incompetence.

Google just made a huge mistake. It made that mistake because of a huger mistake in trying to compete with Facebook.

People don't like Facebook. The technically illiterate might allow it into their lives, but they have no loyalty to it.

However, Facebook is the center of mass for people's online selves. App.net _is_ just a Twitter competitor with longer strings.

And in a certain sense it only makes sense that the center of this social media nonsense gets shut down.

There'll be a new Facebook soon. Hopefully a better one.
I don't think he's worried abotu the ads.
He's just saying he's getting away with most of Facebook features without having to tell them his exact name and personal information.
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That was my other guess.
... well, in some sense it's the same thing, isn't it?

Facebook's IPO is either symptom of or driving this whole mess.
Yes, the numbers for the WiiU in January and February were pretty low. But, I think that it does make sense for a new console with practically no games available to sell less than a mature console with a catalogue of hundreds of games. As I said in my previous comment, I think it is still too early to know if the WiiU will be successful or not.

Also, it seems like the numbers you mention are for North America only, were the XBox 360 has been most successful. If you look at the global numbers, the WiiU still sold less than the XBox 360 but no so bad as it looks when looking only at North America:

XBox 360 January + February: about 850 thousand units http://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_yoy.php?reg=Global&star...

WiiU January + February: about 400 thousand units http://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_yoy.php?reg=Global&star...
You're both right. It has a stack that it uses for callframes and local variables, but the opcodes have operands to directly reference variables on it by index. In other words, it treats all of the stack for a given callframe as a set of registers.
Many if not most HN users create software and internet infrastructure. Collectively, we have so much power.

Yet much of what we make (directly or indirectly) is what the surveillance state is built on. It relies on us to build it, make it work, and keep it running.

If we care at all about privacy, we should think carefully about the privacy impact of what we make, and try to make a positive difference (or at least do no harm).
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You are right about most user being in the searching mode. The fact is, Google Reader kept many people hooked. So none of the searching will yield any good result for many people (because they are so heavily used to of GR).

I am not getting good vibes out of Feedly even though it is getting unusually large number of mentions.
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Uh. I don't see the relation. You can run your own IRC server.
You're thinking of steganography [1], hiding the existence of information in an image (or other medium).

I'm aware of at least one case where Russian spies were known to have actually passed messages this way: "they embedded coded texts in ordinary-looking images posted on the Internet," according to the NYT [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

[2] http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects...
I am surprised how no one here references space research. Tons of money and talent spent on astronaut diets and space diet optimization in general. However, regarding the evolution of space diets, soylent type foods from tubes are a thing of a past! Today we send best organic products for people in orbit to eat and enjoy.
Show HN: My 5-year basement Plan 9 project
Liferea is worse than useless for me, it's downright dangerous: I procrastinate enough as it is, I don't want an RSS reader than I can only use when I'm at my computer and most probably should be working! RSS readers go on the tablet or phone to check in my spare time.
Privacy is not a binary function, it's shades of gray.
Think about who benefits from the CEO living an ascetic lifestyle and that then being a "cap" on everyone below them. I read this whole thing as an appeal to young founders to screw themselves over.
Yeah agreed but what's the most likely outcome. You rewriting your urls or you fixing your network / kicking the offending user ? You're not only impacting browsing experience but also all the scripts that are trying to connect to the domain like your google drive sync agent.
> So are women. There sure are plenty of them around.

Conflation FTW.

> If not, your next best course of action is to work for actual human beings rather than douchebags.

So, you are implying that businesses should not fire under-performers if they are not able to get another job because that makes their management "douchebags"? That's patently ridiculous.
I instantly uninstalled it after I saw that as well. Shame, I liked feedly the most out of the alternatives.
I am sticking with it because there is a rush on every other service. At the same time I am also looking. If you are on Firefox (I'm not as of yet) than the closest you can come to GR experience is installing the Brief add-on. However, your feeds would be on local storage though you'd be using a browser interface.
What I actually said is it's okay to send an email if it's CAN-SPAM compliant and the sender complies with a quick, "no thanks."
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I'm trying to make Plan 9 easier and more fun for home hobby users to explore. Plan 9 is amazing and I think the possibilities created by the clean and consistent design are exciting. Advanced Namespace Tools try to make Plan 9 easy to jump into, and also have a more reliable architecture when used as a grid.

One way to describe my software is as a Grateful Dead inspired approach to home clustering. Maybe it's even "outsider software art" or some ridiculous term like that.

Anyway, it has no web/facebook/ecommerce anything aspect to it, so it may not match the prevailing concerns here, but I tried to make it easy to use by providing preinstalled virtual machines to play with. Use them on a private network because they have default passwords and listen for cpu service. The "ANTS farm" subsite (http://antfarm.9gridchan.org/tutorial) has the VM/tutorial style documentation and walkthroughs.

I'd be interested in any feedback.
You can turn that button off in preferences, it's really easy.
A PhD is about learning to conduct research — whether or not you actually discover anything meaningful during the PhD is largely consequential.
Hmm. They could still have used a wireless methodology. Somewhere there is a room with a lot of monitors for those cameras, where the security personnel watch the tables. That room is probably not exactly hardened to TEMPEST standards.
Google isn't deprecating Reader, they're eliminating it.

Perhaps it is unfair to Google. However, there is just a rising level of distrust about the kind of company that Google is, or is becoming.

Arguably that trust has underpinned much of their efforts.

For me, too many good things happen through the medium of blogging and RSS, and Google provided a decent gateway to that. Now they've signaled that they don't want to be a part of that.

I don't entirely distrust Google now, but I trust them less.
If this many Reader users converted in so short of time, then it is amazing that Google could't find a way to monetize the service or at least keep it revenue-neutral, or even have it be a useful loss-leader
> The majority of the browser usage is with three pieces of software: IE (Microsoft), Chrome (Google), Safari (Apple). None of these players really have a huge stake in 'openness'.

Sure they do; all of the browsers support the same standards in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. The few remaining points of contention between browsers, like HTML5 video formats, are relatively trivial and not significant with respect to the services that are starting to act like walled gardens.

The problems come from the applications and services that use the web itself as a platform, and attempt to "embrace, extend, and exterminate" open protocols, like RSS and OpenID, in order to lock users into relying on proprietary APIs instead of open standards.

As the previous commenter pointed out, the threats today come from Google, Facebook, and Twitter, not from the traditional desktop software vendors. (Only Chrome is really concerning here, since they're attempting to use Chrome as a way of shoehorning users into Google services, much in the same way that Microsoft leveraged their OS dominance in the '90s to boost their desktop applications, especially IE.)
Does using Chrome or Chromium somehow serve Google and its nefarious goals?
"creating products that consumers use and then killing those same products a few years later"

You're right, but this is a product that ran for eight years. It was free, showed all signs of being killed for several years now, and can be migrated to another service. I think Google's brand can survive dropping a few products like this after 8 years if they're not going anywhere...assuming of course they continue to innovate elsewhere.