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The petition will not help.

Google already killed reader in their hearths when they made the g+ update. Instead of neglecting it for years to come they did the right thing and let it go for good.
Interesting.

But PBSALTPH.

Product blogs should always link to product homes.
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Thanks for your work. I signed up in December, thinking I'd check it out, and ended up liking it so much that I made the switch from Reader the same day (premium too).

I think that's a testament to how functional your app is. The iPhone app, while not up with Reeder (the iPhone app), is still very solid.

I look forward to the redesign too. The beta site looks great!
Dammit, I should be looking for an alternative rss reader
The "take a quick tour" link doesn't do anything. Do you have some screen shots to share? I can't sign up at the moment (no fb), looking forward to this coming out of beta so I can sign up and test it out. My current to do list is evernote and I'm not happy with evernote in general and looking for a way out.
Copy is hilarious!
If you truly don't understand why many are opposed to it, you should read the EFF FAQ page.

It doesn't matter what the objectives are, or whether or not the intention is to protect rights holders. It matters what the law actually allows as written. That's what we take issue with.

And yes, I have read the entire thing.
Is there any reason to think that "separately" is the preferred way? As for not knowing the components of a healthy diet, that objection applies equally to taking in food the normal way, so I really don't see the relevance. If we don't know enough to build a proper slurry that contains everything, then we don't know enough to build a proper normal diet that contains everything.
I know a guy who's family net worth is $2+ billion. When he goes to the movies, he brings pre-popped popcorn in ziploc bags and shares with his friends.
Google Reader shutting down July 1
It seems like a disingenuous explanation - they effectively decided to kill it years ago when they stopped staffing a team, then they just can wait a few years until it's really stale to formally shut it down.
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http://feedly.com is the product home
How do your last two paragraphs follow from the first three? How does having large companies share threat data help your small startup mitigate a DDoS?

There is an actual problem with online security attacks right now, and hysteria over any USG intervention with the Internet at all is helping perpetuate it.

This sounds an awful lot like, "We must do something. This is something, therefore we must do this."
Tried it out, not really feeling it. Not loading Instapaper and Google Reader articles. I can't find the option to delete my account, which is pretty annoying. How do I delete my account again? Thanks.
Author Warren Ellis on twitter:
"Google shuts down Google Reader, probably the most effective tool I have."

https://twitter.com/warrenellis/status/311992329181478912
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its old school publishers who often have very little idea what they are doing and have sclerotic development processes 9 week sprints! in one case.

One site I worked on did not manage to sort out a redirect of its .net version of its domain and its over 2 Years since a flagged this as a high priority problem.
That doesn't sound so bad. /dev/random is slow, you have plenty of time to catch it. It probably won't even reach the first partition. urandom on the other hand...
Evented I/O sounds miraculous!
TODO lists? Right! Scattered all over my code are comments TODO, just the way you spelled it! Why? When coding I think of some point, usually small, don't want to forget it but don't want to interrupt the flow otherwise so just put in a TODO and continue on. With my favorite text editor (KEdit) the TODOs are super easy to find later.

"Three developers"? That's you! To do the work of three developers, you just need to do it yourself, and, and assuming you have the technical 'skills', that is, have read and worked with enough of the documentation of whatever you are using, classes, TCP/IP, SQL, HTML, CSS, programming languages, system management, which as founder you should know, your time to do the development might be only twice as long as the three developers would take since you would have less time in management. In either salary or equity, hiring the developers is expensive.

"A designer"? Unless you are seeking some super gorgeous, artistic site or app, just borrow 'design' ideas from examples of the work of others and do the design yourself.

"Business major"? I've been in business and been an MBA prof -- I'm missing why a startup needs a business major! Once you are live or about ready to go live, you may need some or all of a bookkeeper, accountant, payroll service, lawyer, business insurance agent, maybe a few more -- Chinese carryout for lunches.
I wrote a really long winded reply from my mobile app but the app crashed. So here's a TL;DR version

1. Never dwell on number of hrs or ideas as measure of commitment.

2. She probably resents you too. Fear of vulnerability causes an absence of trust which results in reduced commitment.

3. Call it quits and build a new team where you're happy with the work ethic of your team
Useless but fun: encoding video as pure CSS background gradients
You know what you call a product you don't put much effort into for some time and which is still in daily use by happy users?

Working.

/mutter.
That's what's stupid. Outlier users like this are the least likely to be attracted to standard consumption vectors like ads (IYSWIM), but the avenues of investigation they pursue instead are likely a very good guide to where the median consumer in a given market will move later.

A fanatic motorcyclist (for example) is going to scour all sorts of obscure information sources that non-fanatics will not have the patience or time for. But that pattern of scouring will point towards the factors which do move the mass of consumers some time later. Heavy users of Reader were supplying Google with a lot of high-quality data, and if the product had been given the same attention as something like GMail that information would be worth proportionally more.
Google should open source it. Seriously. Donate the code base to the open source community, and let someone run with it.

With some luck it'd attract enough developers to keep the project alive. Or maybe somebody would figure out a way to monetize the effort. Either option, it'd be much better than just let the service die.

It's not unprecedented. Google did exactly this with Google Wave.

Sadly, I don't think this will ever happen. This project is too small to justify the resources needed to clean up the code and solve any dependencies. And, differently than Chromium / Android / Google Wave, Google Reader is not a platform / protocol / OS. It's just yet-another pet project for a company that - sooner or later - has to justify its investment to Wall Street.

This isn't the first, and certainly won't be the last, product that Google creates just to later destroy it, when it discover it has no business or economic justification.

Keep this in mind when developing for Mirror API, or anything else that is not core for the company.
Gmail supports mail from your own domain through apps for business (which used to have a free tier) or through using gmail as a POP/IMAP/SMTP client.
I've started a Slant comparison page for Google Reader replacements, hopefully we can crowd source a good, feature-by-feature comparison of the replacement apps to help decide. http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-alternative-to-googl...
As in how long people are staying on each page, which A/B options are converting better, where your users are coming from, what time of day you get the most traffic...
You're right, I've thought about this a lot. I work a lot because I like it, but also because we're not in the black yet. If we were, I'd probably relax at least a bit, but I've already experienced a time when the clock ran out and the money dried up. I'm doing everything in my power to prevent it this time.

I do like your idea about getting an independent party, but we're not in the same region so our mutual acquaintances are few. I need to think on that a bit.

Edit: Curious, was there any resistance when this was implemented with your team? How did the conversation go?
The article is pretty thin, and starts out by stating that no-one doubts the ability of nuclear power to supply our energy needs more or less indefinitely (I'd copy and paste the exact sentence but I can't — argh). This is a bad start.

MSR does look like a technology worth revisiting, but this article is a puff piece.
U.S. plans to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances
We need to focus
sign the petition

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Ask_Google_to_keep_Google_R...
Google is betting on Google+ being the future platform for general content publishing and consumption, so RSS in general, and Google Reader in particular, are effectively competitors of Google+. I wouldn't be surprised if Blogger was shutdown (or subsumed by Google+) 5 years from now.
Objective-C is a language that has object-oriented features, but unlike Java, doesn't force you to use them. You just gave an example of a project where you didn't use an OO design pattern nor OO features beyond a superficial level (An NSMutableString object doesn't count). You used a more event-driven design pattern, which was more appropriate to the problem you solved.
I have been thinking about this for sometime now and think there is a startup idea there. If someone can promise to give you a email address on their domain, but with the caveat that it will never be revoked come what may, I think lot of people will be willing to use the mail. Bonus, if company promises to hand over the data/email address to your descendants after your death.

Of course, somehow, spam needs to be tackled.
Some people are geniuses (or close enough). Other people? Not so much.

This guy pretty much falls into the not so much category.

He forgot to include iron!

Did Musk forget to include $ROCKETRY_COMPONENT?

I'm glad that there are people willing to do interesting new stuff. I'm glad that some of these people are happy to experiment on themselves. I'm even glad if some of these people turn out to be idiots.

I get a bit unhappy when someone who doesn't appear to know what they're talking about (and who has demonstrated their ignorance) goes on to say that they've got some answer that other people should be listening to. When these people say "It worked for me! You need to try this!" all sorts of bells start ringing.

Asking people not to push their uninformed experimental pseudo-science is not the same as asking very clever people to not be clever in other fields.
I think newsblur supports some kind of training after looking at it today; not sure how effective it is.
> I am confused why threads aren't getting more attention on this topic.

I think it's because of the "threads are hard" meme. I think the Ruby community is growing beyond that, but it's not a fast process.
Sorry to hear about that. If you get a chance please shoot an email to team@backstit.ch and we can take a look at fixing the issues you are experiencing or help you with your account further.
People have said repeatedly that RSS is dead, and that's apparently true, but I've been wondering for a few years now what has replaced it? It's not like social networks provide the same kind of service, really.

So is getting updates from people and projects you care about really such a niche thing? Have I missed some other huge channel that supersedes RSS? Or are we about to actually lose something profound here?

Kudos to Newsblur, which I never heard of before today. I'd like to sign up for a paying membership, but it seems like this is exactly what everyone else is doing, so servers are dead...
It's unclear to me if they're also discontinuing the Google Feed API: https://developers.google.com/feed/

This is quite valuable because it includes historical data, including stuff that's dropped off the currently available RSS feeds (many sites only list recent posts in their feeds).
Awesome example.
Lot of information posted on this comment, that's why I love HN.
holy cow....can't believe this is going away. I love reader.

real reason they are shutting it down...they want all that sharing/interaction in Google+...which i hate.
Import my tags and folders and you're good.

The RSS feed isn't the problem - it's the hundreds of hours I've put into curating content.
But if [he gets some] analogue of scurvy or something, I... will probably even have nontrivial schadenfreude.

That is the most conservative thing I've heard in at least a year, and I live in the Midwest. With a mindset so diametrically opposed to that of the hacker, how can you stomach HN?
I'm a solo founder and I love it. I don't have the issues you have, but I do often feel the pressure to take on a co-founder just to check that box.

Way back, I founded a startup with a co-founder, and it didn't work out because our commitment levels were different. Company failed for that and other reasons.

But my current startup that is launching this week (PlayPozz) has an outsourced technical team of about ten people. They work hard and are very experienced, and I haven't felt handicapped at all. I guess the drawback is that you have to pay them from day one so you need funding.

I'm not against having a co-founder, but I personally wouldn't settle for anyone who wasn't a near-perfect match.

I say go solo for a while.
The bill is clearly not about rightsholders, so it is intellectually dishonest to suggest that there is a legitimate concern about power grabs by rightsholders in it. "I watch C-SPAN religiously and they're always talking about IP rights" is not a substitute for reading the bill.
You can export most of your data (and certainly the list of feeds you follow) http://www.dataliberation.org/google/reader
Demo didn't work for me...but that's pretty interesting. Useless indeed, though.
I am afraid of what I am going to do with all this spare time I will regain once this is gone.

This was the home page of "My" internet.
We're not yet funded. I basically funded our business with my savings and a little client work. We're looking for a seed round on top of all this, with me doing most of the hunting.
Well, I could link you to a bunch of studies that say otherwise, but then you would tell me all the reasons that those studies are bogus, and then show me a bunch of studies that show there is no connection (probably sponsored by those peddling chemotherapy et al.), so I guess we'll just avoid the rathole and stay convinced of our own opinions :)
ISPs propagate flow-based snapshots of attacks to populate filters and redirect traffic to scrubbing centers, but they do so discreetly in part because of concerns about how well their data --- which is used exclusively to generate filters --- has been anonymized.
>iPhones still require cables to be updated

This simply isn't true.
Oh, well, I've name-dropped it a few times already, but TTRSS stories every item in its database. I've used it to run some numbers on them.
It's simple enough to put a resistor on the headphones, which usually has a tendency to change the sound (mostly increasing bass).
I feel exactly the same way: what the hell is replacing RSS feeds? I hate keeping up with "live" feeds like twitter.
No localization, I'm not too interested in USA news.
Thanks for taking the time to reply, twice even.

Can't say I haven't thought about #3, but I'm concerned about our customers and what I'd leave behind. I really love our business.
Thanks! The last time I checked was when they turned my google-account-with-an-apps-domain-email-address into an actual google apps account, and I had to move my Reader data.
We've both read the law! We can actually have an interesting discussion! Even if we both know we're not going to convince each other.

What does the law as written allow to have happen that you object to?
Thanks! Was trying to remember this one.
I've heard of Cloud66. Is it any good?
Poll Technica: Where should we go when Google Reader is put out to pasture?
MSR reactors replace such delicate systems with rugged ones: gravity, heat, and the most basic chemical properties of their materials.

So they replace the ultimate fail-safe version with a now ultimately ultimate fail-safe version? Not to mention that of course Fukushima was built to withstand these losses. Oops, that didn't work? How come? It was all so fail-safe and rugged.
not to be confused with http://www.feedly.com/ which does not work :)
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Spy Agencies to Get Access to U.S. Bank Transactions Database
Looking at this blog, I started to say myself, "Wow, the Subtle network is getting worse and worse contributors," and then I realized that this blog just _looks_ a lot like a Subtle blog. Then I wiped my forehead, mostly because I expect not to read things that actually have to tell me that the the the thing that makes Unix difference from MS-DOS (uh, what?) is "the terminal".
Have you clicked on one of the demo video links ? Which browser are you using (I'll try to fix it :D ) Thanks for the feedback :D
Yes, but the New York Times employs top-notch webdevs.

See http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/ and http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/

So they have the skills, but maybe it's for other reasons they don't follow those practices.
> The necessity of a caloric deficit is not opinion though, it's cold hard scientifically proven fact.

It is not that simple. If you have a calorie deficit but aren't getting enough nutrients you will get cravings but won't be able to sustain your diet. If you're addicted to sugar you will get cravings/constant hunger and won't be able to sustain your diet.

Focusing on calories ignores all of the other things (nutrients, insulin, blood sugar, motivation) that need to happen for a diet to be successful.
I think we (American English speakers) tend to drop pronouns in informal writing more than in speech. At least, thinking about how I'd say things, I might elide the pronoun almoooost to the point of dropping it, but it still "feels" like it's there, even if it didn't come out very much.

But "was thinking the other day, why don't we..." sounds fine to me in an email. wouldn't say it out loud, though...
I am aware of that, but I've listened to cheap earphones, I've listened to the newer low-mid-range Apple earphones, I've listened to $70-range earphones, and I've listened to mid-range ($100-200) studio headphones and mid-range ($700-1500/pr) studio monitors, and there's no way that a response curve largely matching $10 earphones (or even $70 earphones) can be described as "superb".

That said, I'm complaining about the article, not the research. By all means, Berkeley researchers, please continue developing graphene earphones!
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I thought all beef was aged. I have heard the taste is unpalatable at best if it's not aged at all. I'm really curious.
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Bit by HN formatting.

$ echo $[2**63/-1]
Floating point exception

Bash crashes out entirely because it doesn't check the operands are safe. See also http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/12/31/idiv-dos/
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The sentence you quote is referring to the confusion about the bill, not the bill itself. Again, the OP didn't claim that CISPA was about IP.
If they can't raise enough money for a large installation, why can they not build a small one? Is it financially/regulatory prohibitive?
Yes, by Stack* I was referring to StackExchange's sites.
The problem with a pod system is weight and complexity. Generally speaking, you'd need to create at least two pressure vessels (main cabin, and cockpit), which would have to be joined by a hermetically sealed passage.

Between the inner pod, and the outer skin, you'd need to make sure that doors would work in almost any condition. Sure, you can blow the bolts holding the tail on and use parachutes to make the pod descend, though without the pilots since they're in a separate pressure vessel. But what if there's a fire when the plane is on the ground? Parachutes won't work in that situation, and neither would ejection rockets (unless you want to crush the passenger's spines by launching a multi-ton pod high enough for parachutes to deploy).

The main problem facing airlines is simple. How to pack in as many people as possible onto a flight in order to cover it's costs (airport fees, fuel, food, wages, etc.). More people who can cover the flight's costs means more profit for the airline, or lower costs for the passengers.

The real question with the Pod idea is this. Either way people have to board through a door and go to their seats, so that remains the same. But consider this, would people have to board a pod immediately at the gate, or would they wait in a lounge until the plane arrives? Because if they board the pod immediately, it may save time, but passengers will be sitting in cramped seats, with only airline food, and the limited toilet facilities available for possibly HOURS (if the plane is delayed or the flight cancelled in the end. Since these passengers are not physically ON the plane, the passengers' rights would be questionable in these situations.

Technically you could also fill out a pod and have it wait in a holding area on the airport tarmac while the plane arrives, freeing up gates for other airlines. But this impacts the airport retail system (restaurants & stores), which all pay rent to airports. If you eliminate passengers waiting in gates, you eliminate the need for retail. You eliminate retail, you make it that airports would increase fees for airline operations at the airport. And in the end, it would impact ticket prices negatively.
> And you can use this to cleanly write curried functions (often predicates) with their arguments flipped

But unicode in code is terser. Instead of `elem`, we could use ∈ [U+2208].

To flip parameters, we could use the bidi-mirrored glyph, i.e. ∋ [U+220B, the bidi-mirror of U+2208]. In fact we could even make it a feature of the language grammar to automatically detect whether a mirrored glyph is being used, and perform the transformation.

We could even automatically detect and transform canonically equivalent graphemes using the non-spacing version of `not`, e.g. ∉ [U+2209, canonically equivalent to U+2208,U+0338], and ∌ [U+220C, mirror of U+2209 and equiv to U+220B,U+0338].
Bring Back Google Reader
By Nathan Bashaw
Seriously, I just recently switched to puma and enabled config.threadsafe! and that was that. Now I/O calls like HTTP requests don't block the server, but are still synchronous. I didn't even need to switch to jruby.
Within the limits of confidentiality and business ethics, can you explain what the issues are in a situation like this? I agree with other readers above that Reader is probably a poor source of ad clicks and thus direct revenue, but it seems like it would offer invaluable forward intelligence for Google (just as searches for 'influenza' and 'flu' have proved to be excellent leading epidemiological indicators). ISTM that the value proposition for Google was in mining the behavior of Reader users to identify what would be interesting/ popular/ important a week or a month from now, and would help to optimize the value of keyword searches etc in adwords.
I got fat, unattractive, and out of shape by overeating. Food is a visceral experience that it's not healthy for me to be too attached to, and I'm more than willing to sacrifice it in return for more of all the others. I'm already alternating between small meals and protein shakes (plus fiber) to dull my carb cravings and lose weight.
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For those looking for a desktop app, the Opera browser has a nice integrated RSS reader and is cross-platform.
Agreed. I moved to Fever ages ago, never looked back. Works great on my iPhone too.

Combined with Instapaper, I have feel like I have achieved the perfect reading workflow.