skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The methodology used in this study raises some questions (which were exacerbated by the poor interpretation on the part of the writer) and makes me quite hesitant. First, the link between leisure time and "eliteness" is incredibly weak: free time is a product of a myriad things, and tends to be quite volatile. Moreover, the piece explicitly states that the two groups were destines for largely divergent career paths. Two people who do two different but related jobs likely still spend time in very different ways. For whatever reason, this person seems infatuated with conflating correlation and causation. Frankly, I just don't see how one can draw any conclusion between something as nebulous as free time and something as specific as musical ability. The author doesn't even attempt to prove me wrong.

Second, the author proceeds to extrapolates these results and asserts that everyone ought to adhere to this method of practice. Why? Is there any evidence whatsoever that sugests this is universal, or at the very least common to a few fields? All that is given is this research that is pertinent only to music students. It seems as though laborious, high-stress situations might be preferable to a casual but "deliberate" schedule in a lot of instances. Entrepreneurship and Academics are two domains that come to mind...

This piece is just a very poor interpretation and extrapolation of very specific correlative data. I don't buy these conclusions.
I can't wait for this debacle to stop being news.

Google cancelled a product. It let you read websites quickly. There are other ways to do it. Moving on...
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> In real history, this is like telling kids that Nintendo used to make Japanese playing cards.

Not really, Nintendo cards weren't used by most countries on earth minus China and didn't revolutionized gaming world widely the way google did with organizing knowledge.
An article full of nonsense. Discontinuing Google Reader IS NOT sending a message to enterprises that they should not use Google product for the long term.
The requests themselves are spam. In the last couple of months I was seeing an increasing frequency in "lisaxxxhotone wants to chat with you" requests.

I always ignore them..but it's a very annoying problem. You can simply ask for user confirmation, you're bothering me about something I really don't want to deal with.
I think google has been killing reader for awhile now. Me, and several people in my social circle had been using reader heavily for a while, to the point where it was like crack to me. But Once G+ came along and they killed the social bit of reader, they pretty much killed reader itself, we all stopped using it, and now they just have to swing the final axe...
I do believe this, but how did these elite develop this capacity? For me it is a juggling act right now. I am working full-time, in addition to side projects that I hope will take off. If I were to graph it, it would probably looks something like this, ▁▁▃▂███, in terms of hours/effort, in the years timescale. You start off small, working your 8-4 job, realize you need to develop this capability to work on side project, there is an uptick in hours/effort till you can transition to your next gig. Then it tappers off as you make the transition. I hope it will looks something like this in a couple years ▁▁▃▂███▃▂▂▂▂. Where you are in life also make a massive difference. If you have the wherewithal to just transition, and weather the storm, then you are probably much better off.

I like to race sailboats. It is amazing how mistakes/achievements can snowball quickly. Your goal is to get the snow ball going to the right direction ;)
If Google is shutting down reader, are they going to remove RSS feeds from Blogger? What about Feedburner?

I think Google's better move would have been cut a few features and 'Plus-ify' Reader - kinda like they have been doing with their other products. They would have evolved an important user base, shown commitment to the RSS standard, and kept a number of important apps using their api's.

Aren't they after all supposed to be championing the open web?

I don't think this is intentional, but it now hard to argue againsT people saying that they intentionally waited till they killed the RSS readers market and then shut down their product.
People should use OTR anyway. That way not even Google can see your messages.
You're totally right :) these prototype boxes don't make financial sense with the model you accurately described. These were the first generation of swapboxes, the ones currently in production have quite a few more compartments. We'll have a bigger update at demo day that should answer your questions, thanks for looking out though!
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I've found this to be untrue in my experience filtering spam. Being a hard ass drops a lot of legitimate email, and a lot of spammers follow the RFCs beautifully now.
Legit-ness should be sorted out WAY before references are checked.
Could you clarify the question? Are you asking "What does deliberate practice look like for coders?" or "What would improvement look like for a coder?" or "How could practice lead to improvement?" or something else?
There is at least an immutable maps implementation here, http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/persistent-hash-map

Not too sure about the others though.
It's still plausible if you want to SWAT somebody locally. Just be in the general area of the same city and report shots fired.

I have no clue about the level of precision in cell tower geolocation, so I'm not sure how close you would need to be (which obviously ties to how likely it is to get caught).
Do you prefer "they're stupid and dangerous" answer?
Because it's either this or that.
I thought I would never have a chance to do this, but ironically:

http://xkcd.com/1108/
Freemium is best for software firms with accounting departments, not developers, and not users. 99% of people writing software do not work for Valve or Google. If you are writing quality software, charge for it and people will pay for it. If you're porting another butt scratching tip calculator with twitter integration, then perhaps freemium is just the 5th buzzword you need to get that billion dollar eval.
That's exactly my situation. I set it up, used it for about a week a long time ago, and never logged into it again.

I think the coolest feature of it was its massive database of RSS feeds. I liked being able to flip through tons of categories and add them. However, it wasn't enough to keep me coming back, and that's probably why Google is discontinuing it.

I wish there was some way to export all those feeds, though.
> Nintendo used to make Japanese playing cards.

Well, they also made love hotels and a (taxi) cab business. Without making any predictions of my own, I agree it'll be pretty interesting to see what a company like Google will become down the road.
This is still in Alpha, we are working on making the experience smoother.

Make sure you are running 0.1.27

As for the black screen, currently a known issue that seems to occur before caching is done.
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So, what's going to happen, exactly?

"Influencers" who liked Google Reader, now jilted, are going to use their magic influence beam to halt the growth of Android, to erode the dominance of Google in search, and prevent the regulatory approval of self-driving cars?

Google has quite a few heavy responsibilities on their hands. They have to manage growth and competition in hugely complex, emerging fields.

The lesson they learned correctly was that focus is essential. RSS is dead. A handful of nerds enjoy it, it solves a handful of problems, but it's not a hot technology around which you can build a business on the scale that will move needles for Google.

So they cut it and they're not even going to notice it in the rearview mirror.

In an amusing, if anecdotal, aside – Gina Trapani, an OG nerd influencer if ever there was one, tweeted that she'd checked out of Google Reader long ago.

https://twitter.com/ginatrapani/status/312451705692385280
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this library. I might take a stab at it this weekend myself, if I have some free time ;)
> "But in the interest of helping anyone who may ever face a patent troll on these topics..."

Precisely the point of his blog post.
Sorry, but your statement needs more to back it up, because the opposing viewpoint has an easy logical justification. Why should companies transfer their core infrastructure onto Google's products if they know Google might decide one day to discontinue them?

I know lots of companies rely on and pay for GMail, I'm sure it won't be discontinued anytime soon, but I'm also sure this event puts thoughts in the back of many people's minds about that eventuality.
I'll look into clarifying this.

We have plans to have a single, GUI installer, but only have so much man power.

Again, still in Alpha. The project is only about 1 month old.
I like it. Nice work.
This was probably the best point made against running, but still...

Our professional emergency response people should be capable of hustling/running over to the people that need their help while maintaining their composure and ability to think.

It is true that exertion causes a sympathetic response, but hustling/running over to someone doesn't produce such a significant sympathetic response where people can't think straight. I know that it's inherently a stressful situation, but our professionals should be able to handle that, and the additional stress of hustling/running over is negligible.
How many people can read hex if only you, me, and dead people can read hex?
As for compatibility, I firmly stand behind supporting all Raspberry Pis, though it probably works best with 512 atm
A totally crap HN headline: the referenced article refers transitively to "The Catholic Church in America". More than a small difference. Even the Economist headline fails to identify the subject America — north, south, or both.

At least the The Economist has an article; Patheos has a less then a gloss. Check out the article in The Economist. Ignore the other feeble one.

Too bad I can't figure out how to diss this HN post. Reference the article directly, or at least offer a reference to a decent commentary thereon.

There's more than one "Catholic Church", kumarksi. Please try to discriminate somewhere below the planetary level in such matters.

You just wasted my time.
The fact that they have market dominance on another market is immaterial here, they didn't need it to keep Google Reader free. Lots of companies have free online services subsidized by their endeavors, without being dominant. You're posting in one of them right now, for example.
While I think there is lots of medicine that is wasteful, if your plan is to tell Americans "it is illegal to pay more than $X for procedure Y" it is a complete non-starter.
No, I'm not missing the point. This thread is about a DRM laden comic that is no longer available to those who _paid_ for it because the company went out of business.

I paid nothing for Hulu. They are more than welcome to delete anything and everything.

Or do you somehow imagine that those who give you something for FREE are required to do so indefinitely in the future?
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jholman: could you imagine Google doing the same thing for email? ("We will have to institute very tight limits of emails per day being sent from external domains.")
I can only judge on what I've seen personally and what I've heard from industry leaders and both line up.

Wherever I'm living I go around to schools and groups looking for kids to teach programming to. They all have computers of some sort (mostly iPhones and some tablets), but don't know how in the world they can develop on them. The only way to write native apps for iOS is to buy an apple laptop, get a developer license and learn an advanced programming language. That's beyond the reach of most kids.

Now suppose that new websites popped up using my library and all the kid needed was a device with a modern browser and optionally a bluetooth keyboard? They could learn JavaScript and write webapps. There is huge demand for new programmers in our economy and most kids only see electronics as consumption devices.

Speaking of, my Chromebook just arrived via UPS, now for some fun!
I'm not a music guru by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't think musical ability is completely measurable. Well, yes the technical ability to read and play the notes and apply the other notation is measurable. And teachers can do that well. But I think the elite players go beyond that with their technique and, where appropriate, emotion.
Simply amazing, exactly what I was looking for thank you very much
Well, I'd start with "don't do side projects." Remember, these are full-time students. They've put aside all other pursuits to dedicate themselves to learning to play the violin. They work hard at practicing violin and relax when they're not practicing violin.
The best leaders, the best organizations, the ones that create excellence, are those that are as good at saying no as they are at saying yes.

Google doesn't say "No." They say "Yes... yes... yes... no! Just kidding! Psych!"

I can't tie my personal or corporate strategy to that.
You know it's legitimate because it SAYS it's 100% legal right in the title!
http://rasplex.com/about/faq.html
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This is almost like saying "A Replacement for Gravity".

The benefit having something so simple and singular in function with no dependencies is that there's so little to break. While I appreciate the need for having something with more capability, calling it a "replacement" is a bit facetious.

I wish them success and call it an airplane. I'll stick to my hang glider.
To give this some context, Brent Simmons (the create of NetNewsWire) was discussed by The Economist in a 2004 article.

http://www.economist.com/node/2476892
"Microsoft new about it but didn’t care because it had data that showed that feature was just minimally used."

What?
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Historically, when someone died and was going to be buried at sea, they'd be sewn into a sailcloth "coffin", the last stitch of which would be through the nasal septum, just to make sure.
If it isn't Google search or Gmail, I'm not making any decisions that depend on it. It's that simple. And frankly, I'm likely moving my email off it as soon as I get some spare bandwidth to find something I like enough. (I really like webmail.)
We do get to choose how to spend our money, and rich Americans who accrue millions or billions of dollars of personal wealth especially do.

No. Capital is power[0]. Not just power to choose, but power to shape the choices of others (through marketing, propaganda, laws, etc.). Not power for the greater good, but power merely for its own sake -- because those in power fear losing their power. So they tend to use the power (capital, money) they have in order to consolidate and amplify their power base, which includes reforming the choices of others (meaning you and me) to their own advantage. In this way society is "creordered" to serve and benefit those at the top of the power pyramid.

0. http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/capital-as-power/
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Project selection is pretty key to making this work. Your day job should teach you something new and give you opportunities for deliberate practice. If it doesn't, you're wasting 8 hours of your day. Worse, you're tiring yourself out for those 8 hours so that you can't effectively practice in your side projects.

A coworker of mine described it as the "monkeybars" approach to career development: you hold onto the last skill you developed and use that as leverage to get you a position that will stretch you and teach you new skills. You're never starting from scratch - you can always provide value to your employer - but at the same time you're continually stretching your capabilities.
Not a lawyer, but I'd say yes.
Thanks again to Matt Cutts for the detailed explanation!

Original post was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5378697
> By the way, ants.9gridchan.org is actually more interesting than all this patent bullshit.

But the patent bullshit is why your software is worthless. It can't be used because someone claims ownership of the very concept it's built on.
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Sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper, or Johnny Salt, or what have you;

Turn a small camping grill to HIGH for a few minutes to get really freaking hot;

Throw it on with a pat of butter on top with the lid closed; flip it once and put more butter on top. Light char on the outside, purple in the middle.

Ingest with a fine potable from North Coast Brewery or whatever blended scotch is at hand.
-= Dean Martin’s Steak Recipe =-

Martin Steaks:

2 prime usda new york strip steaks
2 oz bourbon, chilled

Preheat a heavy frying pan and sprinkle bottom lightly with table salt. Grill over medium-high heat about 6 minutes on each side.

Pour chilled bourbon in chilled shot glass and serve meat and bourbon on a TV tray.

-= Frank Sinatra’s Steak Recipe =-

Sinatra Steaks:

Call for Deano.
Tell him to make you a fu*kin’ steak.
Drink his bourbon.
not 65536?
I guess they're doing everything they can to get everyone to Google+. If they can't bait you, they force you. They want their own Facebook. Probably Blogger will also be phased out as soon as they afford to.

But I don't think the future will belong neither to Google+ nor Facebook. I'm looking forward to a descentralized, user centric platform, that anyone can run on its raspberry pi box at home, that allows you to manage your data however you please.
I never even got to try it! I've been waiting in line for a week.
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This is just plain bad advice.
There is no other known means of solving the problem of funding long-term innovation. This was one of the major lessons of the 20th century.
In response to your comments, I have updated the download page, and will change the installer.

http://rasplex.com/get-started/download.html
Is that the Comcast Sports South logo being used for CSS?

CSS -> http://www.csssports.com/
They also edited their comment to make it glaringly, unmistakably obvious. When I commented, the their/there mistake was the only typo.
wait... your saying that because they are discontinuing a product?

I'm not suggesting that google is/isn't evil these days, but I would suggest that there is absolutely no moral aspect to discontinuing a feed reader.
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After GoogleReader being shut down, what are the chances the same faith will happend to GMail?

If one rightfuly believe that Google is all about profits, then GMail should be shut down long time ago. Their ads on GMail barely work because most people focus on reading emails and working and it must cost pretty fortune to run everyones 10GB of up to date, instantly searchable email archive.
Thanks for all the tips guys - I went for a blend of approaches and it paid off - My wife rated it the 2nd best steak of her life - a triumph !

I found this useful:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/oct/...
They have been doing this since at least the beginning of March. And the blocking is also done in a way that causes the user to not be notified, basically by replying in the wrong direction.

http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2013-March/001610...
Here is Tim Ferriss' steak recipe reviewed in Bon Appetit.

http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2012/...
Great, you lose one minor annoyance, and the rest of us deal with the fallout of a broken Internet. Sounds like a great tradeoff to me.

What is it with modern times, where people are willing to sacrifice fundamental things, like applications that adhere to standard protocols, to gain some minute level of relief from something that's just "annoying"?
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Yes, but hey once the Ninth Circuit throws it out Google and others might be able to plausibly claim[1] they are no longer bound by the gag orders. If it does get by the Ninth circuit then it will go to the Supreme court. Sadly the Supreme Court has been a bit to pro-government to my tastes lately.

[1] Google claims their headquarters are in California, they also move all disputes into California, and so they could claim for the purposes of this statute they are a California company, even though their Incorporation papers are in Delaware I believe. Not a lawyer so can't advise but it is my best guess as to how they would position it.
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Excuse me you all, but the real motive of Google Reader cancellation is that you don't see add when you are reading RSS feeds.

That's why Ad Blocker isn't in Google Play anymore.
This part is a big WTF: "After the telecom challenged the NSL, the Justice Department took its own extraordinary measure and sued the company, arguing in court documents that the company was violating the law by challenging its authority."
I get a maximum of one spam mail/month. The rest is all filtered by google. False positives happen but weirdly enough the only thing I repeatedly see there are plus.google.com notifications…
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If the 9th circuit upheld, then it would be binding in the 9th circuit, but persuasive in the other circuits if challenged on those grounds elsewhere.
It takes experiences like this to realize one of the advantages of Puppet's architecture, namely that you can bootstrap it by installing one of two system packages (the server or the client). The agent and the master are just processes, whereas in Chef you have to set up MongoDB and a bunch of other network services just to get started, which ends up making your configuration management system Yet Another Precious Service With Lots Of Moving Parts.
Hi Ryan, have you seen the recently announced support packages for the Google Cloud offerings? It's a multi-tiered approach, from Bronze (free, online) to Silver (premium, with email support) to Gold (premium, with 24x7 phone support), all the way to Platinum (premium, with a dedicated technical account team). Announcement here:

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-cloud-pla...

Sign up here: https://cloud.google.com/support/packages

Basically, it's a way of agreeing with what I think is your point. Support does matter, and Google is taking it very seriously.

Would love to hear your thoughts once you've tried one of those support packages!
Surely YMMV, but so I only observed two problems: Daily wikipedia articles when delivered via IPv6 (IPv4 worked) and StackExchange while on the west coast due to one of these nice hurricanes.
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Every time I come across one of these heavyweight, dependency-encrusted "replacements" for basic Unix tools, I'm reminded of L33tStart[0], a fictional, satirical init(1) replacement I wrote about on Reddit -- a sort of parody of systemd.

Every day, in a bizarre manifestation of Poe's Law, L33tStart seems less and less a parody.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/14ay0r/hacker_k...
Parts of this post are premised the "influencer" marketing model, but there is at least some research indicating that it might not be as powerful as generally assumed. For example:

* http://misc.si.umich.edu/media/papers/wsdm333w-bakshy.pdf

* http://www.digitaltonto.com/wp-content/uploads/WattsandDoddi...

"Grouped: How small groups of friends are the key to influence on the social web," the book by Paul Adams @ Facebook (http://www.amazon.com/Grouped-groups-friends-influence-socia...), talks a bit about this.

Anecdotally, I've also seen quite a bit of evidence first hand that suggests the impact of influencers is not clear-cut.
Companies don't run their infrastructure off Google Reader! How can you compare this to gmail? Google makes money off gmail (Companies pay for Google apps) - not Google Reader...