skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for linking this. I just sent it to a few Project Managers friends. Along with:
"I find myself reading this while waiting for a build to QA. This is the time I have to write code. When the meetings are done. Meetings are important, but this is worthy of a read if you can schedule it in. Also, I'd be happy to discuss this over coffee."
This sounds a lot like stage management.

That problem you just heard about? The audience is going to see it too if you don't fix it. Right. Now. And it's not going to get fixed unless you do it yourself or have someone else capable do it - you are in control, and if you don't make something happen, it doesn't happen. And while you're managing crises, you still have to fly the airplane - the performance crashes without your voice guiding it along.

You have to think through plans, make sure they will work and nothing will get in the way, and then execute them quickly and correctly, or you and the people you're responsible for are detracting from the quality of other people's hard work. Sure, you can get it right next time, but this is live. There is no editing. If you screw up, you screw up, everyone knows it, and you've blown the suspension of disbelief. But there isn't time to get flustered or argue over blame, because another cue is rapidly approaching. And sometimes, things that are nobody's fault will arise, and you'll have to work around those too. (Actor injured? Call 911, get them out the rear loading dock, and keep calling the show. Or know when to stop it. Building power outage? Get out there and get control of the audience, get some flashlights, and lead a safe evacuation.)

I don't think there's any exercise in high school with more real-world significance than that.
You'll want the TL;DR because this is needlessly wordy: Use Newsbeuter, using the -i option to import your OPML file.

(Go to www.google.com/takeout to download your Reader subscriptions in OPML format.)
I use Google Reader for one very simple reason - I'm already signed into Google. It's on my phone, it's on all my computers . I don't want to have to use yet another bloody website just to manage something as simple as an RSS feed. I like Reader because it as simple, it worked and it was everywhere I needed it. The fact that it's retiring just because people are not using it is a misconception - I've managed to get a fairly large number of people using Google Reader, none of which had ANY idea it existed before. As a few others have said in the thread, the "declined usage" is no fault of the product itself but through absolutely no promotion of it from Google.
Oh wow. I did cold-calling a lifetime ago. Wound up getting a place that dealt with bull sperm in my stack of 'service-orientated' companies. I must have spent an hour trying to explain what an ERP was. Nice guy though.
I found bazqux.com which has the keyboard shortucts i wanted as well
Quite literally: https://www.google.com/#q=well+make+it+up+on+volume
Awesome idea and love the design! Although, I think you should of posted this earlier in the day. :)
I guess you are not a native speaker? (Neither am I.)

It started off as a joke, then it became a lame joke, and now it is just an idiom.

According to the Economist style guide, in writing, you can either use fresh expressions, or expressions that have been so worn out that they are just part of the language now and no longer register. Avoid using expressions that are over-used, but not to the point of becoming idiomatic, yet. Those will annoy your readers.
Damn it! I was working on a replacement which will concentrate on the "catching up" part. Guess I missed a golden opportunity for publicity. Ah well.
Well, the plates are stacked, so a dirty bottom plate can make another plate top dirty. Not sure the logic behind that.
Let me know if we can be of any " other " help.
You misspelled "free".
AFAIK, Cloudflare does not cache HTML files, full stop.
The problem is that reading their website it seems like it does not support multiple users? If I am going to self-host, I'd rather do it in a way that can support my family and friends.
Just because a side effect isn't the main intent of the function doesn't actually stop the side effect from happening.
The real winner here might be Prismatic. They already do awesome machine learning based discovery. If they'd add an RSS reader (not just RSS feeds into their discovery machine) they'll get every one of millions of users moving off Google Reader.

Due Disclosure: Though I have no official connection to Prismatic, founder Bradford Cross is a friend and I am biased to Prismatic. It is awesome. Try it at http://getprismatic.com/
Ask HN: What is the best alternative to Google reader?
I would like to know which services are as a good as google reader.. what do you think guys.. any suggestion?
Already on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369778
It's a memory bomb, not a fork bomb.
Indeed. I felt a bit cheated by the end that the only appearance of this "sex-crazed" side was: "He sexually harassed waitresses using a long pair of tongs to increase his range. After drinks in the parking lot, he drove them around on his Ninja 1000."

Then I thought about it some more and decided to give the writer the benefit of the doubt - he stresses the sex-crazed aspect of the cook to paint a clearer image of the type of person, even though it doesn't really come up in the story. Starting the article with that fact planted in my head even before the first paragraph probably made a big difference to my reading of it.
> Now if you really want to screw over your machine, the classic bash fork bomb is `:(){ :|:& };:`

Actually, you're wrong. At least on a mac (IIRC) it caps the process number so fork bombs just fill the console with errors. I'm sure you can get around it but that kind of defeats its simplicity.

EDIT: I mean, don't get me wrong, it still really bogs your computer down, but you can still kill the parent bash process in a few seconds.
Linus was my kind of atheist -- industry, not academia. Industry picks C and not C++. I don't mind C++, though, but I like industry. I like Microsoft. Apple is not my people.

I glanced at Go, the language. Didn't bother to pay attention. Not really interested. I think they got arrogant. ADA is a case study in bloated language, so I'm told. They're really fucking-up C++, aren't they. Just stop! More is not better!

I've thought about my operating system and scaling. Everyone zombie-walks to the mindset of scaling worries. Scaling works both ways. Small enough and one name space. Small enough and 16-bit pointers -- hyperlinear. (I'm just saying it's neat. Mine is 64-bit pointers, however.)

I think of my OS like a C64 ROM that's 139,000 lines of code instead of 20,000.

I've lamented that if I had my chance it would grow and get fugly and need to be killed. There is something noble about not living forever.

----

God says...

your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.

19:11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters
of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house
of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be
officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the
good.

20:1 It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and
the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came
against Jehoshaphat to battle.

20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh
a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria;
and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.

20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and
proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

----

In a small project, you should use shorter variable names.

Global variables are the right choice in an 1,000 line application program, of course! Don't be silly and snobby.

----

Pope's not my job.

No birth control might mean famine.

Birth rates are falling. The world is under God's plan.

God says...

they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto
the rulers, 16:20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These
men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, 16:21 And teach
customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe,
being Romans.

16:22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the
magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.

16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them
into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: 16:24 Who,
having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and
made their feet fast in the stocks.

16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto
God: and the prisoners heard them.
That's more than me.. without iGoogle and Reader, I don't see much use in them for search now.
What is the state of the business? Profitable, barely profitable, zombie or nothing?
This might be a different tack, but what if you take Mr. Taleb's "nature" to be human nature [1]? People don't tend to eat poison mushrooms as a rule.

In that case, his rule would be a good one. If you drift in to a new area of human endevour, the people who follow you out there are taking a risk until the area is well-traveled

[1] In the Aristotelian sense: human nature is the proportionate sum of all human activity. We mostly eat, drink, sleep, walk, talk, etc. so that makes up the bulk of our nature. Cannibalism and incest are acted out much, much less often, so that is a much, much smaller part of our nature, though it is tucked in there.
The "Fat Head" movie is good response to the "Super Size Me". It proves that eating at McDonald's isn't as bad as one might think and it also presents a lot of other interesting stuff.
A successful Bitcoin double spend – USD 10000
Dan Pallotta's TED Talk regarding social non-profits...
I find it interesting. My memory, having followed and ridden a couple of SF/LA AIDS Rides, are the giant blowup between SF AIDS Foundation and the LA Gay & Lesbian Center in the early 2000s. Most of it was around the increasingly costly advertising materials and overhead Pallotta Team Works brought to the endeavor. Around 2002/3, the groups split with Pallotta over the costs.
welcome to 60% of HN :(
That should be 24% × N ^ -0.81. The double asterisk I was using for exponentiation got eaten.
Yes, yes, yes. It contains this chunk of text that is perfectly applicable to coding:

If you let your mise-en-place [your working area, your setup] run down, get dirty and disorganized, you'll quickly find yourself spinning in place and calling for backup. I worked with a chef who used to step behind the line to a dirty cook's station in the middle of the rush to explain why the offending cook was falling behind. He'd press his palm down on the cutting board, which was littered with peppercorns, spattered sauce, bits of parsley, breadcrumbs, and the usual flotsam and jetsam that accumulates quickly on a station if not constantly wiped away with a moist side-towel. "You see this?" he'd inquire, raising his palm so that the cook could see the bits of dirt and scraps sticking to his chef's palm, "That's what the inside of your head looks like now. Work clean!"

Any time I catch myself trying to rush through some piece of tricky coding, Bourdain's chef steps behind me and says, "Work clean!"
I find it interesting. My memory, having followed and ridden a couple of SF/LA AIDS Rides, are the giant blowup between SF AIDS Foundation and the LA Gay & Lesbian Center in the early 2000s. Most of it was around the increasingly costly advertising materials and overhead Pallotta Team Works brought to the endeavor. Around 2002/3, the groups split with Pallotta over the costs.
TFA does not have a link to the Kickstarter project page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-m...

Currently at $2,335,670 with 37,676 backers and 29 days to go.

There are some really creative and interesting rewards for higher contributions. Personalized video message from the cast, personalized video message from Kristen Bell (much more expensive, obviously!), voicemail recordings, name a character after someone, have a local theatre rented out for a private showing possibly before the screenings, after-party tickets, be an extra, or even have a speaking role.

I presume that ultimate reward means this movie is outside the purview of SAG-AFTRA, as any speaking roles in SAG productions absolutely, positively must be performed by SAG guild members. This is going to be an official Warner Brothers product, and I wasn't aware WB was not fully in bed with SAG-AFTRA.

EDIT: What's up with Bell? She doesn't seem to understand the concept of Capital Letters aNd WHerE thEy bELONG In A Sentence. Or she's just being coy.
The Sennheisers drop off significantly above 5kHz, the graphene ones don't.
I used to use Google Listen, but at some point started using BeyondPod and recently - within the last couple of weeks - went to the paid version of BeyondPod. It works great.
I really must defer to Taleb on this, I'll simply say he means natural in a more specific way than "all substances that exist in nature," and something more like, "the culture and patterns mankind has successfully practiced in relationship to nature for thousands of years with proven success."
Wow, some of the rewards people snatched up are incredible for a Kickstarter campaign. $10,000 for a speaking role? $1,000 to be an extra? I'm surprised people made that kind of purchase decision so quickly. This could be a whole new era of movie funding (not that Kickstarter hasn't already changed things significantly).
You ever misplace something and have to retrace your steps to find it? Dwarves are pretty dumb so they have to do that all the time.
Behind the scenes of Fresh Web Explorer
I wonder what would happen if everybody who wants Google to continue Reader would start clicking on the Ads in Reader on a daily basis.
Oh wait, which ads...
Why China Can’t Make Its Own Mobile OS
Not as portable, but in addition to that I try to coach myself to always use `rmtrash`: http://www.nightproductions.net/cli.htm
No, it's not just him. Yoda conditions are hard to read, because they don't follow the natural language. You don't say "If 5 dollars is more than what I have...", instead you say "If I have less than 5 dollars ...".
Alternatives: http://www.nextbigwhat.com/alternatives-to-google-reader-297...
Awesome. Me too! I still remember one day after the breakfast shift, scrubbing the cruft off of some of the fryer baskets. The manager, after watching me quizzically for a while, said, "You don't have to get them that clean." I said, "Well, I'm gonna," and went on scraping.

I've learned to be more tactical about my high standards, but when pressed to cut quality, my default answer is still a polite GFY.
DDG has their own crawler, but its difficult to take on a giant gorilla like Google in one shot.

I think over time DDG will do just fine.
This is incredible -- a huge demonstration of what Kickstarter can do, and an eye-opener about how movies are made or not made.

Imagine, the writer, cast, and crew all ready and eager to make the movie, missing only a $2-10 million check. Meanwhile, there are fans collectively willing to pay that much just to see it made instead of not made (plus some fan goodies).

In a brilliant stroke of efficiency (in the market sense), Kickstarter provides a way for people to make something happen that wouldn't otherwise happen for lack of $N, by providing $N. I don't believe people are in it for the perks in a case like this; I think they will pay purely to influence the decision of whether the thing ever exists. And sometimes, a movie is just missing a check. Saying it's "now or never" probably helps people feel they are contributing to the decision node of whether the movie gets to exist.

Of course, many ingredients of this particular case are important, including the low technical risk -- given that the original writer, cast, and crew are on board -- and low market risk, certainly from the point of view of a fan (vs. Warner Bros. apparently), compared to, say, some random movie that's not tied to a successful TV show.

All in all, I'm very excited about the future of funding content creation with crowds as patrons. (Disclaimer: I'm not an expert; feel free to tell me if I'm hopelessly naive.)
When I was a teenager I worked in a kitchen. A few times. Worst. Thing. Ever. 20 hour day, 4 hours of sleep, then a day off (regular work). Then another shift, sometimes. Back breaking. Absolutely worst. Still wonder how people do that. Shudder. Had recurring nightmares for the next 20 years about being drafted again.
Two HUNDRED requests? How is this acceptable for a website that's so frequently accessed via mobile. With latency ~30ms you're wasting 6s before you even download anything!
It's kind of screwed up how poor people end up paying more for the same things than rich people do (for consumables, mainly -- rich people stores tend to price-discriminate for capital goods) -- when I lived in the TL, the local "corner sto" would charge 2x what Safeway 15 blocks away charged for the same item, and 3-4x what Costco or Amazon would charge.

(and of course rich people get given free stuff all the time, whereas places catering to poor people lock up the toilet paper)
I strongly disagree with this. Much of the world's code is not on GitHub or StackOverflow. This is a much underserved market in my opinion.
NewsBlur is pretty good. I've used it for a while. I also write my own feed reader: Rssminer. It's not as full-fledged as NewsBlur, but is a much lighter alternative. It's support login with google and import google reader's subscription list.

http://rssminer.net/demo

I hope HN finds it useful too. It's also fully open-source too: https://github.com/shenfeng
There's no reason why Automattic shouldn't use Drupal if it's the right tool for a particular job. Drupal projects have used Wordpress in the past, Microsoft use Linux servers etc etc.
who wants to back a kickstarter for the tv version of harry potter, game of thrones style. the way it was really meant to be!
Google Reader: Vote with your omnibox
I just changed my search engine for chrome to Bing. I'd be happy to take other suggestions. It is really the only vote that I get when it comes to google.

It will stay bing until they offer me a way to pay for reader. If reader actually goes away I'll try to figure out how to port off of gmail. What a mess.
"For being a good writer, you certainly need to start reading a lot: here is a selection of texts to make the most out the writer in you.".

Really? Not "To be a good writer"? I laughed, assuming it's ironically clunky wording. The "you certainly" gives it a certain je ne sais quoi too, not to mention the missing "of".

As for the rest of the page, and the comments in this thread, I feel something may be going on that I don't understand.
Wow. That's a lot of angst. I feel it too. Years of saving useful links on reader which was really easy to search.
Looking for feedback on this children's book I'm working on
Crashed my machine running linux Mint. I couldn't Google it, so I had to try it. I don't know what I expected.

Can someone explain how it works?
There's some coworkers of mine like that. They report to someone remotely, or they're responsible for a team that is entirely remote from them. Your metrics for success have to be a lot more thought out, and there's always frequent interaction between you and your manager. It's not for everyone, but generally the people that are on these remote teams aren't new hires, but rather experienced people that have proven their ability to execute over time. They're normally on the teams investigating organizational pain points and doing strategic initiatives.

I'd like to think "pretty far" but it definitely depends on the organization. For freelancing, you might have to put in a bit of face time, but nothing's stopping you from charging very high rates and doing part of the work remotely.
Their implementation was lacking, but the concept was sound. Someone could get this right, particularly if it was marketed as a learning tool.
I checked out ghostery for a little while but I decided to stick with NoScript and RequestPolicy. Check out NS+RP
And you're a huge fan of Ruby on Rails right...?
I think it's a nice move by Google. They should ax all products that they are not actively developing like Voice.
This is great. Beyond side projects, I'd love to see some "behind the side project"-type stuff. Your post here is a perfect example.
> If you see someone on the street dressed like a middle-class person (say, in clean jeans and a striped shirt), how do you know whether they’re lower middle class or upper middle class?

Nonsense! You don't know anything about someone's economic class based on their appearance.
> I also hate the people who think travel makes them more interesting and virtuous

You can think that but you're wrong. Travel opens the mind a hell of a lot. (And no it's not travel if you are in the same country)

What is pretentious BS is if you "spend a month in an Indian monastery, or building schools in Africa"

These are total rubbish, OK sure you'll learn some stuff, it's still travel but Africans earn a dollar or two a day, you've just added $12-$24 to their economy, nice work.

Travel the world and have fun. Don't do the tourist BS like going to monasteries, these are wanabee travel collectors interests. Go to night club, ride a bike, do what you do at home and learn the real stuff.

OK sure you do have to do the tourist stuff, how else do you get to experience a crazy Tut-tut or a packed out bus. But remember it's the journey not the destination.

And lastly not everybody can afford to travel, and that's sad. But just because it's sad there no point trying to pretend travel doesn't make people better. It's like access to school, yes it makes people better, yes not everyone can afford it, but don't just write it off. Work out ways to change this.
The really interesting product/service would be a datastore and RSS consumer like GR API is.

I think a lot of competitors spend time working on the UI and miss the power that is behind it.

(I would include Google in this list, even if they didn't have the front end UI the Atom API would still be a useful thing.)

I wonder if building something on elasticsearch would work.
Gmail for Apps still can't auto-add people to your chat list, even though the option is there.
"I'm surprised people made that kind of purchase decision so quickly."

Is it really surprising? Wouldn't you pay 10K for a speaking role in Star Wars? I imagine there are many people who would pony up for the opportunity to have a speaking role in a movie (regardless of the movie), and certainly most hardcore fans of Veronica Mars would want a chance to be part of the movie.
How far along does your idea have to be before applying to YC?
nice idea, will work on it.
Is Newton evidence of that? If I recall rightly, he had a pretty hard life as a kid.

Learning how to work hard and get things done is definitely an experience every young person needs, and a high-school summer washing dishes will hurt nobody.

I've seen plenty of people with talent and ambition but lacking the requisite execution skills. And I've seen people with much less talent make great progress because of their hard work.
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VM was one of those smart shows that died an early death, kindof like Arrested Development or Firefly. For the longest time fans of movies and TV have been able to buy DVDs, tickets to cons, posters, action figures, etc., but all of that is a proxy for what fans really want to buy: MORE CONTENT. Glad to see this working.
This has to happen
The classics remain classic. Still wonder same about "The Mythical Man-Month"
So true...
It's even more impressive when you consider that this is effectively U.S. only, as they will not ship anything (apart from a digital copy of the script) to overseas backers.
Choice of using one of the many languages Qt supports instead of Java for officially supported development.
Stealing Books for the Poor in China