skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of the original call was to get a change of address (for sending forms). I probably should have clarified that but it seems like a pretty generic request.

No need to believe me about the "truthfulness of the claims". Just call Vanguard yourself and ask if they handle cases this way. They will confirm.

You ask about security responsibility. I absolutely agree with you that customers have to take on a lot of it (Vanguard is not responsible for creating a 20 char password on your behalf).

I do think, though, that you have to draw the line before training your users to accept phishing attempts. That is what is happening here.

My biggest reason for pitchforking Vanguard here is that, for many people, they hold more assets than commercial Banks. Their security protocols should have HIGHER standards.
Not all country-level TLDs are administered in the same way. According to Wikipedia, there are no restrictions on .in domains, and .it domains are only available to EU residents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.it

CIRA, who manage .ca domains, have stricter rules. They can be found here: http://www.cira.ca/why-ca/ca-101/who-can-register-a-ca/
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Wall of text from sources I have subscribed. When I press 'f' it embiggens that text to cover the whole screen. j/k for navigation. If he had spent a couple of minutes on Google Reader he'd know.
They did in November 2011. $5 million round: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/orchestra
I think I have stated clearly that I personally do not take credit for these ideas. I believe that Doug McIlroy expressed everything important related to pipes, hubs, and everything else. I believe that IBM's patent in this case is indefensible completely regardless of any work that I have personally done - but that my personal interests in this area called my attention to this patent.

As I hope I made clear, I think the idea of "we can mux the readers and the writers" is not anything that should be patented, and neither is the details of implementing this idea.
I don't think this page explains well the use cases for this. It alludes to kids programming, but then switches over to explaining how things are sandboxed, why the developer is experienced, etc.

My question is what is the net benefit of having this? What does it enable us to do? Why should I back it?
"No traffic" is relative; I'd say it easily had somewhere around 50-100k users. This might seem like a lot, but it's sadly peanuts for Google.
Agreed, it is hard to explain RSS and this is one of the goals of this button: completely hide them away from the subscribers...
Not long ago, my site's search traffic jumped by about 120%, I hadn't posted anything new or done much SEO type stuff so I assumed it was because of a Google algorithm change.

As a site, we've never done link building or any type of black hat tricks to grow our site, and it seems like Google is rewarding that. So personally I applaud any effort that rewards quality content over SEO tricks.
Google can be damn stupid sometimes. They shutdown Google Reader which is used daily by every journalist on the planet. This resulted in a ton of bad press which was completely foreseeable. Now they have some chieftain try to change the conversation into "Tell me what you loved about Reader", under the guise that they will use your comment to help make better products. As if Google has no data on how people use Google Reader.

What is funny is how many lemmings are falling into his trap.
What happens when Dropbox is acquired?
This question has sparked some very interesting conversations w/ candidates for me lately.

"Explain to me your understanding of the devops movement and the value and relevance to our industry and specifically what has this meant for you over the last couple years."
That's one way to jump the queue...
They're just distributing the APK, and having you install it manually, from the looks of it.
Amy Ziari, Pasta founder here. There are plenty of great agencies out there. The best list I know of is O'Dwyers. For example, its list of top tech PR agencies: http://www.odwyerpr.com/pr_firm_rankings/hightech.htm
"Top" is based on annual billings vs. quality, so the list is something you'd want to supplement with recommendations and research. Still, it's a healthy starting point.
Moving and renaming files on GitHub
The cache. Opening up any feed and going back in years. And it works with broken sites too! Even if the content of the original site is gone, you can easily read it. Nothing can replace this feature...

Does Newsblur or any other RSS reader have this?
There are so many options once Dropbox can theoritcally be accessed through an inbox interface...

Mailbox could be a first step to competing with Messages/gChat. Instead of rolling out their own email, Dropbox can be another type of account Mailbox works with to send pictures, videos, files over data rather than texting or emailing. An odd feature to roll out without acquiring a popular product, but making Dropbox the goto rather than the link attached to something else.
They say "food grade" but don't specify further. The pumps are peristaltic[1] though so the only part that touches alcohol is the tubing so it is simple to swap out for another material.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristaltic_pump
Exactly. When I was 20 I'd happily spend my weekend building PCs or compiling Linux kernels. In general, my time/money ratio was skewed heavily towards time.

Now I'm in my 30s and have a demanding career it's very much the other way. Spare time is rare and incredibly precious.
Yeah I've noticed a few hidden ones, perhaps I need to make a script and go back to check the ones I thought didn't have one. niflet.com looks great, I like the minimalism.
Another great read on this topic: http://books.google.com/books/about/Your_Own_Worst_Enemy.htm...

I read it about a decade ago and it changed my life. I still struggle, I always will, but understanding the factors that contribute to procrastination and developing healthy coping/management methods has been infinitely helpful.
Look for "Trends" under "All Items".
Can someone explain me, why Google shutting down their reader is such a big deal? I use Thunderbird as my RSS reader, and after two days of everyone panicking I feel like I missed something about RSS/Google Reader.
RSS aggregation is simple to replace, but feed browsing history and the search might be impossible to replace.
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Whenever a food-related "robot" is mentioned I imagine a robot with arms. That's what I'd really like to see.
Hey hey, if you'd like to drop us a line at help.codeschool.com, we can look into the problem a bit more. I'm in the process of getting ubuntu desktop tossed up to test, but didn't want to keep you waiting.

Thanks!
I don't know about "very clever", but if you look at Dropbox as moving towards an iCloud-like service where its more than just data, it make sense. But it sounds a lot like a talent acquisition that comes with a nice mail app that probably has some similar technical challenges to the things Dropbox already does well. Seems like a good way to kickstart a Dropbox email platform.
Are there any exploitation available reg. WHY they are closing it down?
Either the users being loud about it are a minority (it that case ok close it, deal with it etc.) OR they are not, and in that case I'm wondering:

When did Google lose its sense for the needs of users on the internet?

and

What is the problem google as an enterprise is having with the service staying alive... as at the same time g+ currently simply can not replace g-reader for its users.

Strange.
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As opposed to a funding round, this approach is advantageous:

Financially --

- Cash out the existing (presumably closely-held) equity
holders with 100% of deal proceeds.

"Existentially" --

Reduce execution risk by getting the team access to:

- Existing battle-tested deployment infrastructure (& devops)

- Existing pool of engineers that can be assigned to the project, and who are familiar with the infrastructure

- HR, facilities, logistics, support, etc...
All I can gather from Google's recent moves is:
"useful != profitable"... and Google's more interested in profit than utility now.
Same here. I use NetNewsWire which attempts to use Reader to sync, and does a somewhat poor job of it. Won't be a big deal, in any case. I had no idea so many people used Reader like this.
You assume that these actions were coordinated, and that all individuals in Google know about, and act on, a single vision.
man, I wish you guys were looking for a front-end developer! :D
I'm no advocate of paramilitary policing, but if the police get a call from your house saying there's a criminal with a gun shooting people, what alternative is there to them showing up with guns drawn?

Even in the UK, where most of the police don't have guns, they still send armed response teams to deal with armed criminals.
RSS packs a van for leaving as Google is killing Reader
> G+ can't be google reader for two reasons

Don't be fooled, though, the fact that he is asking about Google Reader does not mean they intent to implement a feeds reader within G+. They most likely believe RSS is an old technology that should be phased out, so I don't think this is happening.
Amiato (YC W12) Launches To Bring Big Data A/B Testing With SQL To All
Is the site loading slow for you? Seems to be chugging along fine on my side
Dropbox is not getting acquired at this point ($5B+ val), they will go public.
Dart + Web Sockets + Postgres + Code Mirror = SQL auto complete
I thought it was straight-forward: he wants to understand what it was about Reader that users liked, so he can work on incorporating them into Google+. Since he does not have the power to save Reader, he's telling people this is not the venue to complain about its shutdown.
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Hey guys. We at Qbix are thinking about building something like Google Reader, that's universal, works on your phone, etc. We've been building a next-gen framework that can handle all that stuff, including subscriptions, notifications, etc. and this seems like the perfect project to apply it to.

Let's take all this enthusiasm about Google Reader and not just save it, but make it into a community project that we can host online.

If you are developer who is proficient with PHP and Node.js, reach out to me if you might be interested in joining the project -- you can find my email at http://qbix.com/about
I think he is alluding to programming on an iPad and other locked down devices. It needs to happen in the browser as lower level access isn't an option.
I understand so little of what was offensive about this that I can only conclude that I make outlandish social gaffes every day. And I've never heard of "tow-headed".
Can you insert "tee" into a running pipeline? Can you insert an additional writer to a running "tee" process? I think not. Like you I imagine there's an old way to do these things, but I think that "tee" is not quite it. Maybe you could write or find something similar to "tee" that forks or joins upon receiving certain signals.
Facebook nags Android users with updates outside of Play Store
Obama wants research to wean vehicles off oil
Developers and designers don't necessarily know what their users like.
I like heroku, I like metal more.

But don't use chef... seriously... It is poorly tested, and lets you do way too many stupid things. Same with puppet.

Check out salt stack

http://docs.saltstack.com/
I most definitely have had this occur, and Vanguard is hardly the only offender. Basically, every single financial institution that I have dealt with has done this. Prior to leaving HSBC when their checking rates plummeted, I had a lengthy discussion with one of their reps about the issue.

The solution? I never answer the questions. I ask for their name and a number/extension that I can call back from. I then either confirm that it matches the ones I know, or call their mainline and request to be transferred.
The main thing it allows is developing offline en environments like chromebooks (like the new Pixel). I worked on Cloud9IDE for a year and it was a great experience as long as you were online with a fast connection. With this library, html5 apps will finally be able to do the full developer lifecycle. They can clone from github to the browser's local file storage when online, work offline using an editor like ace or codemirror, and then when they are online again, they can push their changes back to github. I'll implement branching, merging, diffing, and as many other awesome common tasks from git as possible.

I've wanted this for years and I'm super excited to finally be able to create it when this kickstarter finishes!
I'd incorporate it into a mobile game for phones or tablets if it's less annoying to users than alternative. The alternative solutions I've seen for android at least want too much info or annoy users by persisting to ask them if they want to use it (albeit that could also be due to the developer). An open solution with a non invasive license would be great for us indie developers
The main problem it solves is to allow offline development in sandboxed environments like ChromeBooks and Windows RT devices (or even iPads if you had a BT keyboard).
Well, Dropbox itself is competing "on a level playing field with huge corporations". See: competition from Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, and so on. All companies with comparatively huge amounts of resources.
SendGrid introduces SendGrid Labs & its free application load testing service
tee can do barriers and reduces? Wow!
Firefox hasn't removed the feed button. But it is not on the toolbar by default, like it used to be. You have to customize the toolbar and add it. Chrome I think never had a feed button by default. But there are a number of feed extensions for chrome that you can get (there was one made by Google also).
We've reached out to Facebook for clarification on its new policy, and also to Google to ask if it's aware a Play Store app is updating itself through alternate channels. Google's terms of service do not allow apps "that cause users to unknowingly download or install applications from sources outside of Google Play." The important question is whether Google feels Facebook is being clear enough that this is not a Play Store download.
- http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/15/4107376/facebook-android-a...

It would amuse me if Google were to drop Facebook from the play store over this.
I think this and HPV count as contagious carcinogens, rather than contagious cancers.
There's great value in the startup weekends, but they're mostly for brand new ideas.

Agree about organic matching, but think most people are in full time jobs or freelancers needing payment, so it's very difficult to pitch to everyone - especially if you want non-tech people onboard i.e. one of my ideas requires someone with events management/promotion experience, another would benefit from someone in estate agency.

I think it's always going to be a hard process, and may involve quite a bit of collaboration as well as the initial cofounders. And perhaps even a change of cofoudners as people's situations change later down the line.
Yeah, I apologize. Ghostery[0] appears to be breaking the page.

[0] http://ghostery.com
If you look at their foray into photos and the way they talk about their service now, Dropbox is becoming a lifestyle brand focused on your personal data.

Meanwhile, the mobile e-mail client that the Mailbox team built is so cool that it convinced about a million people to let Mailbox store a full copy of their e-mail archive ... in 10 weeks.

That kind of strategic value means it's smart for them to swoop the product and team up RIGHT NOW, even if they had to pay a premium to do it.
There is a difference between showing up with bullet-proof vests and handguns, and showing up with full body armor, assault rifles, and grenades. It is a matter of mitigating the risk of innocent people being killed by the police.
Thanks! I've been enjoying Mailbox and am looking forward to seeing where y'all take it.
You're totally right. Google should absolutely never, ever ask for input from users.
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This is the evolution of "embrace, extend, and extinguish," a successful tactic used by Microsoft for many years.[1]

I'm calling it "embrace, give away, and extinguish."

(For most non-techies, RSS is now history.)

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

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Edit: added "(For most non-techies..."
I'm with you on this one and it has bothered me tremendously for years, but this is hardly limited to Vanguard, I know for a fact that many, many other institutions do this and will immediately ask for your secret password, or divulge too much information if I wasn't actually the intended recipient.

Thanks for bringing more attention to this. Personally, I think it is a fairly big deal and a responsibility that Vanguard should shoulder more of. They aren't providing free checking, or free email, or anything of that nature. They are taking money (pretty good money) for a financial service. Their web presence has improved by leaps and bounds and I'm surprised that this hasn't changed.
To me, the article boils down to an argument that says "You should learn how to be a DevOp. It's not that bad." I don't think that's a trivial thing to pick up. I think it's important to develop some of these skills but I wouldn't describe it as easy.

I think the key argument for Heroku is that it enables you to delay (sometimes indefinitely) learning the skills required to deploy a production application and managing it. In some cases, such as security, it can be a real bear to keep up with the latest developments in addition to managing the application itself.

Ultimately, I view Heroku as similar to an ORM. With an ORM, it will get you most of the way most of the time, but there's some instances where it starts to make sense to dig into the raw SQL below it and get the performance you want.
Interesting skydiving analogy. The overall advice maps pretty closely to general guidelines for going into the literal sport.

1. Cut personal costs to a minimum.

Skydiving is an expensive sport. You can and will spend thousands just to get the lowest level USPA license. Plan to make cuts so you can plan to jump regularly. Being too cheap or having an irregular jump schedule is not good for you, especially when starting out.

2. Do not take funding.

In a few cases, a drop zone might let you clean bathrooms and pack parachutes in exchange for student jumps. However, taking out loans isn't worth it in the long run.

3. Connect with mentors and peers and listen to them.

Skydivers are full of opinions some of which are well-intentioned. However, the wise student will listen to their skydiving instructor and take advice from non-instructors ( or "peers" in general) with a very big grain of salt. This includes advice from the Internet.

4. Don't tie yourself to one idea.

It's smart to have a plan but you have to make sure you have a plan B or C both in freefall and while flying a parachute. The situation on any given skydive can turn on a dime and you have to be ready to react without panicking.

5. Don't make plans or set deadlines.

The tag line for that is a bit deceiving with respect to what the advice here actually says. You DO want to plan your skydive. The bit about "not looking back" once you commit I can buy. Once you're out of the plane, it's obviously too late to change your mind and go back in.
I don't think it's important that just any app is "skirting the store" (plenty do that already, it's not an issue). What is interesting is that Facebook is doing it.

Auto Updates are part of the Android store already, so this doesn't even offer new functionality. However, it does offer Facebook a couple interesting options.

1) They could force users to update, possibly to versions with more permissions. The keyword here is force, which the Play store won't do.

2) They could update devices that don't use the Play or Amazon store, if the application was somehow on the phone (from the carrier or manufacturer, perhaps). I think this is most likely.

3) They could remove most permissions from the Facebook app on the store, only to have the app request them after requiring an update.
These are all wonderful suggestions, but personal experience in the US and dealing primarily with candidates from medium to large companies is that reference checks get referred to HR, and the policy is to confirm dates of employment and positions only. Too much litigation risk in the US to say much more.
Google Reader was a great RSS reader without being hobbled by social. How is he gonna add that to Google+?
Slight aside...

Every time someone here responds when their name is mentioned, I think of this scene from "Annie Hall":

Alvy Singer: [the man behind him in line is talking loudly] What I wouldn't give for a large sock with horse manure in it!

Alvy Singer: [to audience] Whaddya do when you get stuck in a movie line with a guy like this behind you?

Man in Theatre Line: Wait a minute, why can't I give my opinion? It's a free country!

Alvy Singer: He can give it... do you have to give it so loud? I mean, aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that? And the funny part of it is, Marshall
McLuhan, you don't know anything about Marshall McLuhan!

Man in Theatre Line: Oh, really? Well, it just so happens I teach a class at Columbia called "TV, Media and Culture." So I think my insights into Mr. McLuhan, well, have a great deal of validity!

Alvy Singer: Oh, do ya? Well, that's funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here, so, so, yeah, just let me...

[pulls McLuhan out from behind a nearby poster]

Alvy Singer: come over here for a second... tell him!

Marshall McLuhan: I heard what you were saying! You know nothing of my work! You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing!

Alvy Singer: Boy, if life were only like this!

(Sometimes it is here at Hacker News.)
The Verge adds zero value to the sources they plagiarized. I mean summarized.
I suppose physical meetups alongside would provide some source of sustainable income. How much do they charge?
Bizagogo do this quite successfully in London. Could be worth collaborating with them.
My problem with the countless thousands of people who are taking this opportunity to gloat using that argument is that they basically are assuming their conclusion, since their argument goes something like this: "Paid services are less likely to shut down. Google Reader was not paid, therefore Reader was not less likely to shut down. Google Reader shut down, providing more evidence for this claim. We-told-you-so!"

But where does the original claim get its support? Are paid services less likely to shut down? We read on HN all the time about post-mortems of, yes, paid services. If we don't know that, then it's just a misleading post hoc argument (and in the counterfactual universe where Reader was a paid service, all the naysayers are now chorusing 'It's a Google service! You can't trust Google! We-told-you-so!').
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They don't accept lower case - if you have capslock on you'll still be logged in. I don't think they accept all special characters either.