skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be a heavy Google Reader user and I'm actually happy they are shutting it down. This will force innovation in this field by removing the biggest player in the market.
I've worked in RoR, but calling me a huge fan would be a stretch. I have a number of substantial issues with it.

Maybe it's just what I've happened to see, but my impression is th I certainly had to do a lot more upgradingat the PHP platform security issues were more frequent and more substantial than RoR has been. I certainly had to do a lot more upgrading. Maybe it's different these days.

But the major difference I've seen up close is that RoR makes it much easier for average programmers to be productive while still coding securely. If I'm going to be running J. Random Hacker's code on a personal server, I'm going to worry less with Rails.

All that said, I'd also be reluctant to install a Rails app. Just less reluctant than PHP.
I would be willing to pay. I wish they'd tried to gauge user willingness to pay even as an experiment.
> Its maths functions are much faster than the native ones on all platforms.

If this includes OS X, I would love to see a source.
This is absolutely true and I agree, but you also totally missed the point of the post, and this criticism is totally off-base.

OP wrote this post as a demonstration of how to get a native ios app prototype up and running quickly using tools like app design vault and stackmob, not in order to make any comments about airbnb or to actually try to make a full business out of this clone. The basic Airbnb interface/data structure was simply used as an example framework for the author to show off the tools and workflow.

I do think that an adjustment to the title would help to clear up the confusion around this -- this is not the only post in this thread making a similar criticism.
>Low carb diets do not cause muscle wasting - at least if one continues to exercise.

Which you can't do because your muscles have no glycogen stores.
Go to: Developer Tools (F12) -> Settings (bottom right gear)

Then there is a setting to disable cache. Although I have heard reports that it doesn't completely work, but that might have been fixed by now.
So looking at the AWS plugin, this means that I can spin up a puppet-configured machine that is very similar to my dev environment, other than (1) no filesystem sharing and (2) I don't control the network. That's fairly snazzy, in terms of controlling dev and prod in the same manner.
I had a professor once who invested in the stock market a lot. He invested a lot in Apple, but he always looked dismayed. When we asked him about it, he replied: "the market can remain irrational longer than I can stay solvent." So while, I believe that the market is ultimately rational, there are delays which can make it appear irrational.
It still continues to work and be used though, so GP's question is relevant. I think it can still work without it, but I'd be surprised if it's superior to all of the other free alternatives in the absence of Reader.
Definitely happy about this, especially since AWS is one of the providers.
Great read. The last advice - to sell one common product over and over again, each time increasing the price and optimizing the selling process - sounds great and quite fun if you sell something you're interested in. I think it's a great way to learn the "magic" of marketing before starting a "real" business, without risking too much.
It could be like saying: "hey, I just built a clone of McDonalds; I made a burger with fries."

Why troll? This is obviously a developer tutorial meant to show off a platform. I just can't believe you actually think the author claimed to clone AirBnB's whole business in this article.
I used to use Newsbeuter. The deal breaker for me was the inability to hook it up to a daemon on an external server. I wound up replacing it with rss2email instead. Now I read both my email and my news in mutt! :)
The Startup Game Show
I wouldn't expect most "handshake deals" with a friend/spouse to require that level of formality - unless money is changing hands.
2600's Off The Hook http://www.2600.com/offthehook/

and I enjoy Off The Wall too. http://www.2600.com/offthewall/

(these are more Radio shows than Podcasts)
Using Coffeescript Source Maps In Rails and Chrome
Indeed. This demonstrates Google is committed to delivering audiences to advertisers rather than letting users control their devices. Never give root to your users...
While that's not entirely implausible, if we start structuring societies around that idea, then the state could justify any action to a scary extent. You know, for the greater good, we know better, yadda yadda.
Sweden's Tictail is now powering 10,000 online stores, after only 10 months
It's a feature.

A market that decides what I want is the dream of every communist dictator.

Sometimes invention is the mother of necessity. That doesn't mean it's a bug. It means there are innovative and resourceful people who realize what people want before they ask for it. Capitalism gives those people a better chance to succeed than any other economic system.

It also has room for the guy trying to treat baldness.

P.S. Is there evidence that Henry Ford actually said that? Because he definitely didn't invent the automobile; Karl Benz did.
> If this adds one more trust factor to the standard model, does that mean it'll hold forever?

Do you mean the Standard Model? Well, to answer, look at the history of scientific theories -- every scientific theory ever put forth has eventually been proven either flat wrong or been shown to be an approximation, without exception.

The Standard Model more or less includes General Relativity, and General Relativity conflicts with quantum theories, so there's already a basis for further work. That work is being addressed by (among other things) string / superstring / M theories, unfortunately without any experimental testable predictions yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory
I absolutely am not saying CISPA is part of a scheme that will increase the powers of "rightsholders." I don't see that in there. I was referring to the "spying" claim of the parent post of my first response.

My concern is with limiting of my right to civil suit against a corporation, and my fear that the bartering of these rights for information bypasses legal constraints on information collecting by government and law enforcement.
Can you list some of those? I've always wanted to implement a "Save State" driver for Windows, but since I use Linux now, it's nice to know such things already exist.
Developer Auction raises $2.7M for exactly what you’d think
They're supposed to be self contained. Top up water is collected from rain fall. No water is supposed to leave the building.
That Time Indiana Almost Made Pi Equal to 3.2 And Other True Stories About Pi
Is writing a framework the only thing developers get recognition/respect for?
It seems that primary way to get recognition or respect in the developer community is to write a framework.<p>It feels like if I don't write a framework that becomes widely used, nobody will really care about me or what I have to say.
Good find patrikr: http://imnosy.com is a little different then that service. More of a bookmarking engine.
Caveat: http://shauninman.com/archive/2013/03/14/fire
The problem was related to attachements, I think in your particular case it was an image in your email signature.
How would a pool operator lose? They would pay out on the 0.8 branch, in bitcoins. Do pool operators pay in real-world currency like USD?
Coding is completely different from typesetting, otherwise we wouldn't all be using monospace fonts.

Beauty's more subjective than readability, but most of the time a beautiful, elegant, recursive structure takes more time to figure out than your ho-hum for loop, in my experience at least.
The Nobel Committee will only give out the Prize to three or less people at once ( http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/commit... , heading "From Nomination to Ceremony ). So will one be given out at all?
A Few More Thoughts on Soylent
How do the clients recover when they encounter a block they cannot process and crash? Do they skip it and move on?
Did I misunderstand something? What's the downvote for?
I have always use the Firefox Addon Sage https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sage/
Un plan fácil de implementar para empezar tu negocio en Interenet
You know, I always thought Reeder would make for a good email app.
It seems, then, that we need to figure out how to create more rich people in sub-Saharan Africa. Capitalism isn't the problem. It is the best long-term solution to problems like these.
Nah, reducing the price and bringing it back up is not necessary.

It’s anti-competitive if Google Reader on its own wasn’t profitable and Google nevertheless kept it alive (funding it with money from elsewhere in the company), thus killing competitors.
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This seems completely sound. Is it implicitly understood that all investors get the same terms? I assume that if there is an agreement to invest $100k at $5M cap, then the startup can't go take another $100k at a $4M cap, without giving that same deal to the first investor.
LOL. I know this is a joke, but I'm actually a ruby dev myself diving into Go. I find it to complement Ruby extremely well. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.
>What we know now and are learning is that there are possibly thousands of other interactions and nutrients needed for diet that are more subtle.

And the evidence to support this claim is what exactly? People keep acting like nutrition is magic and involves lots of pixie dust. It is not. We have a very thorough understanding down to the exact chemical reactions occurring. Anything he is missing that would cause damage only seen after 50+ years is also causing that same damage to millions of other people as we speak.
Brb while I go make an Unofficial YC Handshake Deal Protocol app.
After the Python at Netflix post, http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/03/python-at-netflix.html, I was expecting some Python repos on GitHub. It seems that all the open source projects they have use Java mainly. https://github.com/Netflix
Ceylon M5 released
Ceylon M5 and Ceylon IDE M5 are now available.
I've also found lambdas less life-changing than I'd hoped. In a lot of languages I use short single-expression closures all over the place, but C++11's lambda syntax is too verbose for that to work well. The difference between "o -> o.bar" (in C#) and "[](FooObject *o) { return o.bar; }" may seem somewhat superficial, but it greatly cuts down on how often the lambda is the natural and clean way to do something.

OTOH, having local functions with upvalues was a benefit of lambdas I hadn't even originally considered, but that I've found myself delighting in.
Thanks for the update!

Yeah, we see some mails running a bit slow at the moment. That should improve soon. We are still fine tuning our architecture.
It looks like that compresses/decompresses the data in one blocking step, unless I'm missing something. It doesn't handle if (say) the last bit of input ends in the middle of a byte. Does it pad up every compression step output, or do it just assume the whole data set will be resident in memory at once?

heatshrink can suspend and resume, working in small increments. That's particularly important in embedded and hard real-time systems -- they typically can't block for long. Microcontrollers rarely have enough memory to store all the compressed and decompressed data at once.

Most of the work went into co-routining LZSS in little memory, not LZSS itself. LZSS is pretty simple.

I did run across that while doing research for my embedded project and forgot to mention it. (It was one I skipped due to blocking for too long. It's a good implementation otherwise.) I added it to the article.
There is little worth seeing between South Carolina and the northeast besides DC and the Shenandoah Valley. New York may be hugely different than Charleston but there are few interesting differences between all the suburban areas in between.
Thanks, glad you like it! We're currently using http://www.mailgun.com/, but we also want to test the alternatives.
It's all about the speed for us. If anyone has made experiences or could point us to a review, that'd be really great
How to Make Impossible Wallpaper: A tale of forbidden symmetries.
Frameworks are less interesting than usable applications.
I don't use a client-side reader because one of my use cases is subscribing to a lot of feeds that have dozens of updates a day. Most of those feeds typically only show the last N items, where N is significantly less than the number of posts in a day.

If I close my laptop for the weekend, that means I lose most of those entries in my reader.
99% Invisible

http://99percentinvisible.org
https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/99-invisible/id394775318

Roman Mars has a real sexy voice and the idea about "listening to architectural" is cool!
The physicist involved are also skeptical of their own experiments. That's why they independently build two experiments, ATLAS and CMS, that measure the decay product of the collisions (in addition, they are also a number of other more specialized detectors).

The design of these detectors are rather different, and they are build by different team, yet are are giving consistent results.

So of course they are common assumptions, but they did do their homework to try to mitigate this.
That's only a concern when continuing your behavior results in a decrease of revenue. EA has been acting like this for a long time. If driving off these kinds of customers was going to create future pain for them, it would have by now.
It's also entirely possible that if baldness was cured, he'd have more hair, which would give him more confidence, which would in turn affect everything in his life including his earning potential, which he may then donate to curing malaria in much greater amounts.

At least if I was selling Rogaine, that's how I might spin it.
How the world has changed: St. Peter's Square in 2005 and 2013
Agreed with the "most" sentiment. But it is worthwhile for anything where a misunderstanding is possible and the consequences of a misunderstanding would be meaningful (to you).
Yes, clearly the capabilities of technology shouldn't inform people's philosophies. They should continue to receive their views via mass media social pressure instead.
AMD is also talking about 'GPU technology' afaik.

Game devs head for it too, so that they don't have to manage a shader language.

It is inevitable. This will happen.
So my observation is shared. But you think that it fairly representative of the actual population, rather than what holds our attention in this entrepreneurship culture.

Well, your experience with male founders is not typical with where I live (Richmond). But I do agree that they are much more represented in the media.
Mandatory http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.ht...
Please, no. I'm using the the Google Reader API, and it is crappy, at best.

One of my biggest kvetches is that while I can rename feeds in the browser, the API exposes no way to get the name I give the feed, or to set it.
Did you read the article?

The title may be a bit misleading, but having read the article, it's obvious this is about how easy the tools they suggest make building (scaffolding?) an AirBnB app, not how easy it is to build an AirBnB business.
A handshake is generally not taken to be a legally binding contract in itself. An email might be. So it might be worth making it clear in the emails that you don't intend them to be legally binding.
You should probably clarify that this is not intended a legal contract and violations will be dealt with socially (if that is indeed what you intend).
No one ever insinuated that Google is completely open with Android. That would be a ridiculous claim. However, I think it's hard to argue that the ecosystem is more closed off than iOS or Windows Phone.

Until Firefox OS and Ubuntu for Android get a foothold, your argument is just not very compelling.
> To me it is clear that we are dealing with a Higgs boson, though we still have a long way to go to know what kind of Higgs boson it is

Rephrased:

> We're going to milk this for research funding until the end of time.
There are cases where that would make sense, e.g. if the second investor was some famous domain expert. That said, it doesn't happen often.

The more common case is where the cap rises for later investors. Later investors gripe about that when it happens, but it's justifiable. The earlier investors took more risk. Plus the company actually is more valuable on account of their investment; a company that has raised $1m is at least $1m more valuable than when they started raising money.
So I've wondered this for a while. Contracts are of course important, but if the only way you can trust the other party is through a contract and don't feel secure without one, can you really be sure that you won't get screwed over because of a hole in the contract? Seems to be that in reality a contract is only as good as the word of the person behind it, and if you wouldn't simply take them on their word, you might reconsider doing business with them altogether.

This protocol highlights that you don't need 50 pages of documentation to agree on something and I like it because of that.
It is what it is. A great demonstration of developer productivity. And the stack mob API is free.
Absolutely. I've sworn off the Football Manager series after the debacle that was FM2013. They've abandoned the current edition of their game in a buggy and unfinished state, and now they won't be getting any more of money in the future.
Online Textbook Publishing Platform?
The iterative version's magic can be explained by Tail Recursion Elimination. Python creator Guido's post on why he left it out of Python might be an interesting read: http://neopythonic.blogspot.in/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimin...
>this isn't necessarily the Higgs which fits into the Standard Model

We know that the standard model is "wrong" -- it breaks down at high enough energies. But it's valid at lower energies; it works for the stuff we can actually observe. And it requires a Higgs field to make sense.

If they discover a particle that fills this role, that's discovering "the" Higgs. It doesn't matter if it turns out that the Higgs sector is more complicated; the fundamental prediction of the standard model has been vindicated. Even though everyone kind of expected this, its still a big deal!

So if a pop science article says that the Higgs has been discovered, they're not really being sensationalist in their wording. Working physicists would say the same thing.

(They might be a bit off in pointing to this particular announcement as the discovery, of course! The bbc seems to have the most sober coverage of this sort of thing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21785205)
Cartoon - New TSA Rules
I was just thinking about using the "bump" feature a lot of smartphones have for step 3. The bump would have a message pop up on their screen, to which they would reply yes or no and completing step 4.
Yes, it is that easy.

Don't date people that don't have prudent attitudes toward personal finances. God forbid you end up sharing a bank account one day...
This is great! Curious to see how many HackerNews folks are registered at Developer Auction.
Good point.

I guess I'm partly missing the point of the competition, and missed the fact that the entry could be anything(?) and does not have to do with something directly Netflix-related (either customer facing or operations).
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html
Oh I like this a lot. That adds a lot of clarity around what can be a very tumultuous time for a young company. I've personally been burned by the "We would like to come in but we don't want to lead." line. I treat such statements as polite "no thank you"s now.
"who cares about something as mundane as that? I want to do magic."
I like how the word "magic" keeps poping up on each Lisp-related article I read. And the article don't even talk about macros!
If by "of the Decade," you mean 2010-2020, then you've still got another 7 years to be proven right/wrong.
A DigitalOcian.com provider already in the works by johnbender[1].

[1] https://github.com/johnbender/vagrant-digitalocean
I would say,

1. something with a trigger like Bump,

2. which then pops up an Etherpad-style collaboratively-edited text field,

3. with MMO trade-dialog style 3-phase mutual-assent commit,

4. that leads to a copy being saved on both your phones, to a public-but-anonymous URL both parties can cite, and also forwarded to any other parties which either of you please--for example, your lawyers.
Sell More than Just Information
It was a joke..
People not doing something any more is not necessarily "progress". People who enjoy their job, or for whom that job is the only thing to keep them from hitting bottom, do not have an 'amazing potential' that will improve their lives to use elsewhere.

We think all the time about how to automate things, but rarely or never about how to make places for other people at the feast. When it comes to distribution of surpluses, we get all vague about "progress." Why are we are so specific and concrete and active on one side, and so vague on the other?

When something is automated, we are not allocating the excess production to letting people spend time with their kids (or whatever those people want to do with it). We are cutting positions, hiring temps without benefits, hiring cheaper contractors from elsewhere... and keeping the change.

Because the little people are not defined as really part of the company, but as supplies and tools for the company's operations. From interview to layoff, they are at best a necessary evil, held at arms' length. The only people who are really part of the company are the powerful ones, who allocate the increases to themselves because they had the vision and the capital and they are the only ones who deserve it. And assuming a just world, those who are excluded and may have trouble finding new jobs deserve what they're getting as well.

Good leadership is leadership of humans, and incorporates concern for the humans being led. Just having lots of capital and using it in any way that gives you profit is not leadership, it is merely ownership.

It's not bad to be wealthy, nor is it bad to grow the pie. The problem is that interests are so profoundly misaligned that "progress" means allocating a higher and higher proportion of all surpluses to a ruthless subset of the wealthy. If we wanted more progress, we'd work on aligning interests better.
> I've not heard one person say they are happy about the state of the game.

People rarely take the time to communicate "X is OK." That information is of no use to the person communicating. They're happy with the status quo and don't want any change. So there's little incentive to go out of your way to say that.

Often the only time people will chime in to say "I like X" is when it appears that X may be about to change.

This is a generalization, of course. People do sometimes go out of their way to give praise. This can be out of altruism ("I want others to know how awesome X is" or "I want the people who made X to get more business because they're awesome"). Others enjoy the process of critiquing. Some when confronted with negative feedback feel it's important to do justice by providing an alternate viewpoint.
This would make tests so much easier!
Also, it is strange that they fund driverless cars but close Google Reader! why not contract a small team of interns to keep the site running?
What? How is this not a legal contract? All the elements are there.
@sideproject Actually you can use Sails (https://github.com/balderdashy/sails) with whichever front-end framework you like. It's architected to serve a nice clean RESTful API and leave the front-end up to you.
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