skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably this downloads new executable code (or bytecode) rather than data. I could put up a shell app which does the same thing to download exploits after a while. This is why Apple has the "don't download code" rule (and why they had a "no interpreters" rule).

So maybe it's OK in the ToS right now, but I can understand why it shouldn't be OK, especially on a platform with so many local exploits (like Samsung's world-writable /dev/mem equivalent, etc).

EDIT: Actually they're just grabbing a new APK, which is weirder in a way since they are literally duplicating the Play Store mechanism but avoiding the good things that the Play Store tries to do for customers (static analysis for security risks, etc). Why wouldn't they just notify the user that a new version is available from Play? Bizarre choice.
That got me to create an account and an extremely vague idea of what you can do with it. I really didn't understand the syntax of most of what it had me type in. I should probably try it again, but use it for real, and then look for some more real information. It does finish up with a link to gitreal.codeschool.com so that will probably be the next place to go.
Thank you. This sounds really useful. I'd suggest adding something along these lines to the project!
Nope. You're falling into a different one.
I love my N900! It's on my shelf as a backup phone. Ours aren't all that uncommon in terms of Maemo users' stories, as I understand it.
My experience with doctors is very negative. Maybe it's because we are (Poland) somewhat behind 1st world.
Most doctors assumed everything is ok because I was doing well when it comes to money (I was lucky to find a profession I was very good at despite disorganized lifestyle and putting not so many hours into it) and treated me like someone who makes stuff up. I tried psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists. I even suspected something might be wrong with hormones so did all the tests/check-ups.
No doctor even suggested I might try diet change/drugs/supplements for my problems.
From what I read it's different in US and other countries where it's easier to find a doctor who try to help you. It was hopeless undertaking here and I wasted too many years trying (most doctors here don't even believe something like adult ADHD/ADD exists let alont other "made up" problems which according to many "comes from bad upgringing and lack of discipline").
Today a year ago Bassel was imprisoned in Syria. See the link for events today calling for his release.
Now if you were to acquire 49% of Mailbox, I might believe that. But you must understand our doubts -- it feels like every single time a giant company acquires a useful little startup, the users eventually (and often sooner than later) get burned by it.

I'm open to your Mailbox acquisition being the exception to this trend, but I hope you understand my healthy skepticism.
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Of course, they're not going to tell you the specific details until you've correctly answered the security questions anyways. A phisher would use this to their advantage:

"Hi, I'm calling about some suspicious transactions on
your account which I'm fairly sure aren't authorized, but
I need to confirm with you just to make sure."

"Can you tell me what those are?"

"Sorry, I can't reveal specifics unless I can confirm I'm
talking to the authorized account holder. [Ask security
questions.] Thank you. Did you make a transfer of $500 to
Pharma Laboratories in Albania?"

"No."

"That's what I thought, we'll go ahead and cancel the
transfer. Your account will remain unaffected. Thank you
for your time."

The only defense against this (other than initiating the call yourself) is to casually give obviously wrong answers, and see if the rep accepts them blindly. If your first pet's name was Buddy and you say Ninja, a real rep shouldn't accept that. That should work until a really sophisticated operation tries to do a live man-in-the-middle attack.
I have no idea where in the world this actually works. ie. why on earth any employee in the old firm would want to or be allowed to talk about former employees to anybody ("officially").
And I'm not from the litigious US even...
What a silly and pointless article.
I do agree that a reference call can be very valuable, but up to 15 minute calls? When you call a reference you are essentially making someone do a favor for someone else, which is fine because the candidate asked for that favor. But I also think it's proper to keep it short and simple so you don't impose too much. It's your job to vet the candidate, not theirs. I used to use a high-level senior VP above me as a reference, and 15 minutes of his time was worth a lot - probably on the order of 50 dollars based on his compensation.

>If possible, find people who have worked with the candidate that the candidate did not suggest you talk to.

NO. This is beyond imposing, it is dangerous and unethical. People talk, gossip travels, and some companies consider employees leaving a very sensitive manner. If I found out a future employer did this to me I would consider retracting my application, even if I had already accepted an offer.
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This is reassuring/relieving.
I can't believe there isn't tab completion.
Gmail could easily be a Reader. Email is a mechanism which drops content into your inbox. It obviously requires someone's pushing it.

RSS on the other hand is a protocol which facilitates the dropping of the content into a reader. So an email client by its very nature a RSS reader (several email clients provide this feature, or at least they used to).

The question is not whether G+ could be an alternate. The question is whether we are looking at the world where the RSS would become the backbone of services like Lexus Nexus which is used by media specialist and/or people with resource ($$) ... or would RSS remain a pipe which is available for average Joe to easily "get" the information however and whenever they wish.
what's going to happen to orchestra? i actually use it all the time, almost as much as mailbox -- is this going over to dropbox or will it be gasp deadpooled?
I felt the same way. What's dying down is the service NOT the RSS itself. There are still plenty of alterative to choose from. I use Feedly mainly now though honestly I don't use Feedly as much as before.
Funny how when unsustainable startups threaten old line industries - newspapers, taxis, hotels, music - with free or rock bottom pricing it's innovation. But when internet companies do this to one another it's the end of the world (literally described as "the apocalypse").

How about we be consistent and say to the developers of paid RSS aggregators -- who built their products on free content in the first place -- that if they don't like innovation or hopeful investments driving prices to zero, they are in the wrong business. Somehow I think if Google had offered any one of them a ton of money to buy their reader and make it free they'd have jumped at the chance. Instead Google built an excellent offering of their own and people are whining.
The "largest habitat on Earth" is chemosynthetic, and in 2013 we're just starting to acknowledge and understand it.
Just my testimonial for the book The Now Habit.

I found it on the library shelf at work. Was skeptical but interested. Borrowed it. Loved it. Told people. Endured their jokes about how long I would take to finish reading it, if ever.

Started using some of its exercises and remedies. Ran out of renewals. Returned it to work. Wanted a hardcover but couldn't find one. Bought it from the Kindle store instead.

Just finished reading it. Am beginning to read it again so I can apply the bits that I haven't yet.

One more thing, given this book you should consider to avoid losing your focus by spending endless time with additional productivity literature, but for my part I use a couple of simple things with it: Mark Forster "Final Version" lists (http://markforster.squarespace.com) and Pomodoro Technique (http://www.pomodorotechnique.com). Final Version leads me to select the task for which I feel the most resistance and tension as the task that I will address (not necessarily complete!) next. The Pomodoro Technique helps me to do what The Now Habit calls "persistent starting": get started, and no matter how many times I get into a slump or come back from a break, just get started again.
any word on if orchestra will still be worked on / going to dropbox?
They sell themselves really quick.
At Google, a Place to Work and Play
FWIW, an acquaintance of mine worked on one of the early RSS readers (Bloglines, I think). He mentioned that they had run some analytics on their users and found that the typical user would join, add a bunch of feeds, then slowly add more feeds over time until they had a ton of feeds and then would either delete a bunch of feeds or quit using the reader entirely.

I found that kind of funny. They were clearly deriving value from the reader, or they wouldn't've joined or kept adding feeds in the first place; but if they were feeling burdened or oppressed by their reader, why didn't they just stop adding feeds? Or if they had to keep finding new feeds, prune back the old feeds a bit. Why load up on feeds until you need to do a burst of spring cleaning or quit entirely?
One need not be a hacker to get a SWAT team to storm the house of a citizen in the U.S. http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Towns-to-pay-3-5M-in-dea...
Talent acquired and squandered. Google has no decent mail app on iOS.
Maybe the intent was just to draw attention to his product? You liked the Reader? Now, that it is going to be killed, tell us what you liked about it so we can add these features to G+. And by the way, look how awesome we are, we care about your needs, you can already start using G+, don't wait until we add features from the Reader, because this will never happen.
Pointless Save Google Reader Petition Passes 100,000 signatures
compromised bi-coin private key ~= lost cash.

If you look into it the only thing bit coins have going for them is pseudo anonymity. You can't use them for vending machines as you can revoke transactions in the short them and nobody want's to wait 20 minutes for there soda with the same problem showing up on any fast transaction. You also have no protection vs a lost wallet.
But you try to keep your private keys private, and give your credit card info to every business you pay.
The same way they tax transactions in foreign currencies: you self-report taxes. If you don't report all your taxes, and you get caught, then you pay all of those taxes, plus interest (above market-rate interest), plus penalties, and they send you on an all-expenses paid vacation to a federal detention center for a few months or years.

Also, substantially failing to report your income effectively means that your tax year never closes, which means that the IRS has effectively until the end of time to pursue you for unreported income. (Whereas normally there is a 3-6 year statute of limitations for the IRS to audit you.)
If the system has a state where the hardware reliably doesn't self-destruct, then that state can be replicated. From there probing can handle extracting the information needed and presumably some sort of interpreting of the information would be required to make it workable. Now I think this process has to be possible for any system (a reliable deterministic state has to be able to be replicated unless I am really missing something) but there a lot of ways to make replicating this process very difficult and unlikely to the point where I can't imagine anyone actually doing it, but it still is theoretically possible for someone to break it.
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Maybe not what you're asking for, but I don't. I don't have any issues with clicking "Mark all as read" for news sites that push several items a day.
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I used it somewhat this way but also subscribed to some big prolific sites that I don't happen to visit that often and then once in awhile, in Reader, I'd glance at the newest 50 items in their list. I didn't have a problem ignoring > 50% of the feeds in my list but still keeping them in my list.

I'd read the feeds I most care about and once in awhile visit the ones I less cared about.

I loved Bloglines and only reluctantly switched to Reader. Like you I mostly used it as a way to check less prolific blogs including blogs by friends and family.
The specific thing about HIV is that it's an STD. You can still give it to other people, so it's not 100% safe to continue life as you had before. If you're having sex, it can't be unprotected, even with your significant other. If you're bleeding, you still need to cover the wound as absolutely fast as possible so other people don't get one of the terrors of our lifetime.

You're not cured, you're just protected. Cured would mean there was no chance of you sharing HIV with someone else afterward. The terror of HIV suggests, to me, a different term to use.
agree with this, really wish i could try it without having to sign in/signup
It's like this-

Concurrency is the root of all code construction, at a more meta- level than writing code. Layering it in with libraries is feasible, but you've already imposed some structure from the code, then you're adding on top of that structure an underlying structure, and that's... well... that's something Go avoided doing.
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Submitter is a spam account by Ziff Davis (geek.com / extremetech.com / pcmag.com / etc), one of many they use to spam HN.
Pixelapse and LayerVault are two startups trying to tackle version control for images.

I haven't used either, but I've heard of them.
No. To 'steal' [1] a credit card, all you need is the information you get if you check the credit card in a legitimate transaction. ( Credit cards unfortunately predate public key crypto.) So a stolen credit card is actually similar to a compromised public key.

[1] actually copy
It worked. It was minimal. I could click RSS on a site and subscribe. It was part of Google which I'm always working in. I stopped using the site, but I'd scroll through the widget on my Android phone every day.

I don't need "features," I just need to consume my feed without thought.
You need a River of News aggregator: http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/riverOfNews

Which is possibly one of the reasons Google Reader was so successful, it sort of looked like it had categories and stuff and satisfied people who thought that was important, but it was really river-of-news at its heart.
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Reader costs too much money, charge a farking subscription. I will pay $5 / month to have access. Not everything needs to be free
Weirdly enough, none of the readers I tested can replicate that. Qbix (list-view takes too much space, not available in "show all") and The Old Reader (no equal indent blog name -> post title in all view, shows no text snippets in list view) come closest.

Especially TOR looks like a great replacement but it's still pretty overloaded.

> There are 25746 users in the import queue ahead of you.

And it has no "Export" as of right now.

edit: Formatting
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There's probably a lesson in ensuring that high-value items show up, and "noisy" feeds have lower visibility, or similar work to make it feel like the user is not obligated to read everything (i.e., make it feel like work).

Even a "hide feeds with no posts" would help (I don't know if bloglines has that).
Can Twitter give me a full list of only headlines that link directly to the article? Not in any of the current clients.

Ok, I could write a new client that does that, and be limited by Twitter's API, to be cut off at any point.

And even if I had an information dense client I wrote for myself, does every website automatically post every article of theirs, headline only to Twitter, and refrain from any other postings or comments? Can't force them to do that.

Twitter is not a good replacement for a lot of the RSS use cases.
So, do I get to jump the queue now?
We use Heroku a ton with many of our clients because its quicker, cheaper, and easier to get something setup that is "good enough" for most projects. Informing our clients of the pros and cons is part of the job. Most agree that the pro's out weight the cons initially and we tend to agree. We also use it for many of our own projects and have been happy for a while and will continue to use it.

That said I haven't been happy with the way things are going with Heroku and plan on looking at alternatives.

First it was the Heroku toolbelt that wants to install its own git and foreman, tried the standalone and it just fails before installing. Seriously don't understand this decision, I get that its easier for a new person to get started and that they are moving away from ruby only.

The fact that cedar still doesn't support websockets, we gave up having a seamless varnish cache and nginx in front of our machines in hopes of more options. We got more languages but still limited to basic web technologies.

Support is good but can be super shotty, we've had times where our scheduled tasks fail with cryptic error messages. Simple things like a Rake task that has been running for months just starts failing. We send them the trace and then we hear back "that shouldn't happen" then nothing else. Who knows when it will fail again or why.

I'll probably continue to use Heroku Postgres, its been the best part of Heroku for quite sometime and only continues to get better.

I think its time to look into chef/puppet/vagrant and ec2 or maybe dotcloud. Not to mention I don't want to be stuck with Heroku when Salesforce gets sick of them.
It would also be nice to be able to filter out videos in Picasa. Why do I want to be seeing those mixed in with my photos?
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I received an email from Vanguard regarding $20 for taking a survey. It seemed phishy as the domain that it was sent from wasn't @vanguard.com (or similar) and the enticement of a monetary award.

I contacted Vanguard regarding this and forwarded them the email. The representative thought it was a phishing attempt as well. I was later contacted by Vanguard and they told me it was legitimate. I was even able to contact the person that wrote the email through a Vanguard number.
You're assuming there was a Google Reader staff.
On the contrary, that's right in line with what I've seen as entry level salaries for college grads (not Stanford grads) in the Bay Area.
I actually thought deployment was a very challenging, nightmarish thing to do. Heroku, and EngineYard are charging me an arm and a leg - of course it must be hard as hell, right?

But I took the afternoon to learn how to actually deploy, and the next day, I cancelled my EngineYard account. It's not trivial, but on a scale of 1-10, it's a 3 or 4.

And even if you can't afford the time/energy to learn it (ie if you're a startup and just need to launch), you can easily do "poor man's" deployment just by sshing, "git pull", "bundle exec unicorn restart" (or something like that). Deploying an app on production is almost the same as deploying on your development machine. Why give Heroku your money when you can do it yourself?
How long till we see Dropbox go public?
Anything...except the inventor's own prior disclosures about the invention made within a period of time immediately prior to the patent application (I think up to a year before the patent filing but I'm not sure.)
Did they search his home with permission, or does a spoofed phone call alone give the police the right to perform a search?
Yes. This is the irreplaceable, unique value of Google Reader. Even if other services start archiving feed history now, only Google has the data from years ago.

And I'm not terribly optimistic about them releasing all the historical information they have in one huge download, which would be the appropriate way to preserve it.
They have to a lot to prove; Dropbox's patchy security record is now coupled with Mailbox's completely unproven security.
Vine making the case for business use
Clawed drone grabs prey on the fly just like an eagle
Thanks. I thought this was the case, but Chicken claiming that it compiled into portable C files rang a bell! In principal, my app doesn't need much more than a couple of local databases (files with S expressions in..) so I don't think extensive system library support would be much advantage.

I have built Gambit from source on both OS X and my Debian VM - no problems using them, but I haven't done anything remotely advanced yet.
Google Reader was one of the most popular RSS readers, either directly or through its API.
Good luck man! Sounds like a fun project
The biggest problem with Exchange Active Sync is that to implement it you have to pay a licensing fee to Microsoft. For a lot of smaller developers that simply isn't an option, especially for something they are giving away for free or for a very low price.

Also, EAS is proprietary, whereas IMAP is open. Outlook.com should simply add IMAP support.
Not true. When I bookmark a page I'm never asked what format I want the bookmark in, or which page I'm trying to bookmark.

Click a browser's feed icon and you'd better be prepared to choose between RSS and Atom, all content or top content, and full feed vs summaries.
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Waking up to the world around you
That's exactly what I came here to ask. I hated Mailbox, but love Orchestra and use Orchestra daily. I hope they keep it around, but I have an odd feeling that they won't.
Just wondering about the obvious "competitor" to your service, twitter users putting their bitcoin address on their user page, saving the fee your service charges.

What benefits does your service offer over someone doing this?
Sparrow did try some Dropbox integration (and it worked pretty reasonably), so I suspect Dropbox wants to really nail that this time around.
What a joke. I was specucalting that Google killed reader to promote G+. That's now obvious.

On other words, they shut down an open product to promote the closest of all social web platforms.
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One of the biggest impacts are on those of us who use multiple devices to read feeds, Google Reader synchronized the read/unread status of all the elements so if you saw something on your phone you wouldn't see it again on your desktop (unless you starred it which is like +1 but just for yourself).
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I think a lot of folks who argue "you should learn how to be a DevOp" are working on a single product that's always in active development. And they tend to see the problem through that lens. (maybe I'm wrong about about the OP, but that's my sense)

If you're a consultant or work on multiple projects, the equation changes significantly. What if you're building a web app for university, for example, with a fixed budget, and once it's feature complete, it goes into "maintenance mode" with very few updates for the next couple years?

Do you want to continually be in charge of DevOps for something that isn't actively being developed for several years, having to ramp back up when issue arises every three months? Is that the best value for the client organization? Or would you rather outsource that? I'd usually choose the latter, and in my experience, it's been a better value for clients.
a.k.a Why our app crashes from an hour on hacker news.
</sarcasm>

P.S. It was back up ~5 min after I posted this.
Eh, depends on what you mean by "user", which in Googlespeak, is pretty ambiguous. I mean... I know I have stuff in Reader, but I never managed to use it seriously when I switched to it after Newshutch died. Do I count as a user? How many people are like me?
What's going to happen to Orchestra? (The same company is behind Mailbox)
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Just don't take your luck for granted... it's about that time that it's stripped out from you.
DualShot for iOS, but um... before Samsung