skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all just your opinion and IMO it's totally wrong. I programmed Perl for over a decade and I don't reach for it for anything anymore. The main thing it was good at was regex and regexes are just a poor way to do most things. Even perl6 was moving to grammars.
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Chief Architect of Google+ requests clarification on Google Reader
Uh, recursion doesn't have to be the basis of computation. It certainly can be, but it's not how you have to think of stuff. Iterative algorithms are perfectly cromulent.
Subscribing to an RSS feed is exactly as difficult as bookmarking a site: if I use the browser's own ability, it is a click near the URL then a click on the "Bookmark page" button (or menu) respectively a click on the "Subscribe" button; if I use a web based aggregator, it gets very difficult as I have to click on the so-called bookmarklet in my bookmark bar.

The first part may only be true in old Firefox and Opera.
off-topic

Dianabol is really not the way it goes today ;)
I broadly agree, but claims of impossibility face a burden of proof; and you can see iPads as cheap crude approximations to sealed systems, and they're effective enough that AFAIK most developers needn't worry about pirating. And I'm not sure but I get the impression that successive models of iDevices tend to take longer to find a jailbreak for.
It is the ecosystem that Apple sells, not the hardware. People buy Apple because they know the handset will be supported for a specific period of time, that every developer wants to sell on iOS and works hard to be there, and that they can walk into an Apple store and get support any day they want.

For the hacker, most of these things are irrelevant, but for Joe-Schmo who wants to put minimal effort forward when managing their digital life, the iPhone is the pinnacle of abstraction.

Apple makes money because they sell the promise of a long, comfortable relationship and they fulfill it time and again. Even with Samsung, will I be able to update my s4 beyond Jellybean? The answer is a firm "maybe", but I know 100% that my iPhone will get updates for years.

That's why Apple makes money, because they sell peace of mind.
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I think there is no innovation because :

- RSS is a thing from the past. It has no "new and shiny" aspect.

- RSS is less used than email, so people are focusing on improving emails, not RSS.

- Reader was great, and did everything geeks want. Why try to improve something perfect?

- + "it is Google, Google will never kill it, because Google guys are geeks too, like us" myth.
>If I'm misinterpreting dscrd's argument please help me out. I interpreted his critique to markets as they won't work because they represent the will of the people, and sometimes the will of the people is wrong (because they're irrational)? He seemed to accept that argument and wanted to push it forward..

Yes, that was pretty much my critique: people are often irrational. I think you mispresented that critique by taking it to absurdity. Continuum or slippery slope fallacy?
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For perspective, this is an absurdly short sequence.
Ask HN: What's the replacement for RSS?
I've seen mentioned several times that RSS is obviated technology, but I have yet to read about what it's been replaced with. What is it?
I'm an even worse procrastinator and what is helping me the most is Beeminder: You define a goal and pay exponentially increasing sums of money if you fail.

For it to work you need to dislike losing money, be honest about your goal progress and rerail if you derail (although they now have an automatic rerailing feature). Getting some pleasure from the goal progress and statistics is important too.

I'd start with something like "study 1 pomodoro/day of $course" and slowly increase it. Maybe also add a time requirement ("by 2 pm").

The fact that I have to rely on something like Beeminder to get things done can be a little hard to accept. I'm essentially the same procrastinator, I'm just forced now to do things.
I have yet to find a way to fundamentally change myself but if there is, then a structured life surely is a better starting point than being depressed because you've procrastinated your life to shambles.
I also have some hope that the habits formed with Beeminder will have some deeper self-discipline changes in the long run.

Apart from the slightly mentioned Pomodoro Technique, Anki also helps me.
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In fact, I suspect it's the "RSS Subscription Extension" published by Google which disturbingly no longer seems to be available for download [1]. Click on a feed in a regular Chrome install and you're looking at unstyled XML.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-e...
I disagree. Bookmarking is something people understand better because they've done that for centuries. Even the word makes more sense 'book marking'. "Subscribing" on the other end is what people used to do when they paid to get magazine delivered to their places...
No shit Sherlock.

If it's lossy there's no way around it: data is already lost, wether you rip it or just listen to it.
I have a very similar disposition to the person you are replying to. At 20, I ditched college because I was unable to deal with school work. Considering the state I was in then, this was one of the best decisions of my life.

I was pretty lucky to be able to get a good job thanks to my computer skills, one that was more immediate; very little long-term objectives (tech support), and managed to get enough impressive stuff to put on my resumé to more than catch up to those who did graduate college.

Unfortunately, as I move up in the field (towards sysadmin), more long term objectives tend to crop up more and more in my professional life, whether I want it or not, and I am not any better at dealing with them than I was before.

Unless the person you're responding to is content not to moving up professionally, I fear that he will have to tackle his lack of mental discipline one way or another...
When was Google ever an open source company? Search, Gmail, Buzz, G+, .... what is it they do do open source?
Fair enough, I use Lavasoft because its free version is incredibly well featured and it routinely outperforms MSE in AV tests.

I'm just confused by all of the mad-love for MSE. It's good, but I never thought it was the best myself, and I've not seen any objective reasoning for calling it the best.
Unfortunately, the pressure for a referendum is not primarily driven by economic issues. Its driven by tabloid prejudice, and single-issue parties like UKIP who want to get a share of power.
Hey thanks for the link I'll check it out. Im Little apprehensive about the weed environment. I never frequent CS. But Ill check it out anyways Dank je wel !
And it is not free money even if you didn't pay the taxes. Who knew 2 years ago that bitcoin would be trading now at almost $50 a pop? There has always been huge risk with buying bitcoins, since it is so new technology.
yep I was pissed i'll give you that and no this is not the way the majority of SaaS services work. Take for example github and heroku
Any time you're in the position of moving money from one person to another with credit cards, you're in extreme risk. Your service becomes the perfect fraud target, because an attacker can essentially use your service to withdraw cash from stolen credit card numbers (set up two accounts, "tip" one from the other, repeat).

Once the owner of the CC realizes that its been stolen, the CC company will issue a chargeback. If the money has already been withdrawn by the attacker, you lose. Chargebacks can happen three or four months from the date of the charge, so there's no way to effectively "hold" the charge for that long before allowing users to withdraw their money.

BTC, on the other hand, is an irrevocable transaction.
frio is not op
I have found that MagSafe 2 doesn't hold quite as well when the computer isn't on a flat hard surface (such as ones lap). The MagSafe 2 plug is shallower than the original MagSafe, meaning it doesn't go as far (about half) into the computer as the original connector did, making it more prone to pop out.

Does anyone else have this 'issue'?
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There are plenty of alternative readers http://blog.superfeedr.com/state-of-readers/
what good is it going to do to sort JSON? You need something like http://stedolan.github.com/jq/
Quicktime required for the demo video? Seriously? Sorry, I don't have quicktime installed on this computer, and the days of me installing local applications/plugins to watch video online are over.
IMHO, it's not the technology that's the problem - RSS is excellent for what it does. Or at least, for what it's used for. The disconnect happens at the worst place - subscribing. Browsers don't really support it (see Chrome's feed button removal, and now you have to get an add-on from the Chrome store to reinstate that functionality), few outside of geeky/nerdy circles even know about RSS, and that's why everyone thinks they have to replace RSS with something else.

See also the circular "E-mail needs to be fixed" non-problem.
Using two Node.js applications to mimic CloudApp on OSX
Then use Python for both. Everyone's happy.

Python's nice syntax also makes pawk nicer to read than awk or perl, to my eyes.
Yep. I've had Lloyds phone me and tell me my own goddamned password over the phone. Which means, apart from anything else, that they store them plaintext.

Phishing for this kind of info is stupidly easy though, and while call-centres quite definitely do condition people to be phished, there's not much that can be done when people are so willing to be fast and loose with their personal information.

Go tweet/facebook the following, and prepare to be astounded by how naïve most are:

"Want to know your porn star name? Just take your first pet's name, your first school's name, and your mother's maiden name! Mine's Muffy Grove Schlitz!"
Regarding usabili.ca, the domain you're using... If you're "three geeks in Tehran", you really shouldn't be using a Canadian domain. Unless you're Canadians, or are incorporated within Canada.

Just saying.
i think numbers in some cases are necessary. but can be optional.
>If iOS is beating Android, why can't Windows Server be considered beating Linux by the same metric?

If you're going to talk about iOS vs Android, you should look at what Gruber says about iOS:

> The same company that runs the best and most popular app store (including the most successful handheld gaming platform), and whose media entertainment ecosystem has, by far, the best reach worldwide. The same company whose platform disproportionately dominates usage statistics.

He says iOS has the best and most popular source for third party software, an opinion supported by all of the iOS-first or iOS-only software that is out there (Vine is a recent example). The iTunes music, movie and TV stores reach many more people than any other store [1][2], giving iOS more of the market for these things by default. The disproportionate usage share suggests iOS is a more valuable target for apps, reinforcing the favorable position of Apple's App Store, and for advertising. Google makes more advertising money from iOS than Android [3].

As Gruber argues, it sure seems like iOS is winning in every metric except the number of devices being sold that use it.

[1] http://www.macstories.net/stories/mapping-the-entertainment-...

[2] http://www.macstories.net/news/mapping-the-entertainment-eco...

[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/29/google-earn...
Twitter.

I'm not kidding. I don't understand why this is overlooked so much.
There certainly is a future for human-computer interaction. It'll be interesting to see where it leads...
Nice idea.

It's going to be amusing if the value of Bitcoin skyrockets, and people look back at how much the Bitcoin tips they never claimed would be worth...
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With under 4kb js and 2kb css I guess it is pretty far from being a bloat.
Honestly I think this is the most spot-on answer. While I can try to adopt these new habits, they will only work in situations where I try them. What about with relationships? I got adderrall to deal with school, but I've since nicknamed it my "being social" drug, because the effects are so far reaching beyond just schoolwork or motivating myself. It turned my life around, and I've since been convinced my issue is chemical and beyond my control. It magically fixed everything, even things I wasn't expecting. I will investigate this further.
Great post Daniel.

Food for thought: I also took money for my first ($10s of millions), and while I did OK I'm no philanthropist. (Odds are high that the bits you are reading traveled through equipment that my company built.)

It might be: Because of taking money the first time that we appreciate the ability of dialing back the burn to zero and building from scratch. Investors are rarely worth it.
I got called about suspicious activity on my card and the woman asked for the last 4 of my SSN to verify my identity. I asked "how do I verify your identity" and she told me to hang up and call the phone number printed on my credit card.
can rss feeds be added to Google+ ?
Sure, if you don't want to have jQuery as a dependency intro.js is probably the winner.

However, do note that Foundation's javascript plugins also work with Zepto[1][2] which weighs in at under 10k gzipped.

[1] http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/javascript.html

[2] http://zeptojs.com/
This is crazy. This couldn't possibly work. Feel free to prove me wrong by sending your Bitcoins to @ebbv.
Yes, Github only removes access to your repositories. And some from my list allow a downgrade if enough projects are archived, not deleted, so they are still available. Still, it's not too common yet.

Heroku is different because they don't charge you to host code with them; they charge for number of dynos which only makes your app faster or slower. However, I don't think you can downgrade a large production database to free and keep it, or downgrade all of the add-ons to free.
not sure, i didn't check all of them

also facebook is 90% of oauth
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I love this as an idea to bring older games into new light, and tying it into MAME is a fantastic idea to get a broad spread of both games and users. Plus, a large amount of coins popped into arcades was to beat that elusive high score, and this just makes that more relevant.

For extremely popular games, I could see adding rankings based on region or perhaps other breakdowns, if you kept a user profile.
Probably startups that don't want to outsource their design and user experience to a giant corporation that genuinely does not care about their users on an individual basis.

The idea-refining sounds invaluable, it really seems unfair to burden that with outsourced ui/ux.
Everyone in the supply chain (manufacturer --> wholesaler --> retailer) specializes in their own area.

It's mentioned in the guide that wholesalers are often terrible at SEO and website design.

Hence the room in the market for niche retailers who dominate their own long tail keyword terms (SEO), offer a great sales experience (well designed site) who can identify products that are possible to resell profitably.
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Actually, I believe Netflix does allow you to do this.
I write for Chicken Scheme inside vim and tmux with some minor plumbing to send my selections/buffers to evaluate in another tmux pane that contains my repl.

This is basically the same thing you do for every other language when using vim/tmux.

Feel free to replace vim/tmux with $EDITOR/$TERMINALMUXER of your choice here, outside of emacs, which kinda does this already as long as you don't care about updating your repl buffer at the same time as you are editing code (say, whatever code you send doesn't return immediately because it's doing something time-consuming). vim+conque has this same issue as emacs, making $EDITOR/$TERMINALMUXER the only alternative if you want to use the repl to hack/dispatch big jobs.
If you downgrade your github account you don't get to keep the extra repos above the level you downgrade to.

Heroku offers metered billing and a free account. So does MailChimp. You weren't using either.
>These notions lend people to conclude that what is currently happening with Apple might not be sustainable. Gruber has been consistently wrong the last few months (in fact he is always as he predicts little but Apple growth) with regards to the decrease in share price and failure to develop new market share.

Apple wasn't priced as a growth stock, though. If a non-tech company had their kind of growth, the P/E of the stock would be well above 50. Apple, at their highest profit growth, had a P/E of 18. That's basically a normal P/E.

Is Apple's growth going to slow? Sure, that's inevitable. But Apple wasn't priced to grow to begin with.
Well, that's a problem of discoverability - it seems that browsers try to hide that icon e.g. Firefox removed it and you need extension for chrome to show it.
The trend is that iOS's market share is growing, albeit not as fast as Android's has been.

As an aside, if you want a smartphone that is not humongous, your options are:

1) A low- to mid-range Android device,

or 2) Any iPhone

When was the last time a high-end Android or Windows Phone device was released with a 4" or smaller screen?
I'm not sure where you're based (and I'd guess it makes a difference), but in the UK going contracting is incredibly easy once you make the decision.

Save up a couple of months salary if you can, make your CV all shiny, and send it out to every job board you can find, with your phone number, email and location at the top. At the same time, send a friendly email and your CV to everyone you've worked with, saying "Hey I'm available for contracts doing X, Y or Z. If you hear about anything, please let me know".

There's no need to quit your job early, you're just going to be leaving like you would for another permanent role.

When someone says they've got a contract for you, sign up for Parasol or a similar umbrella company so paperwork is at a minimum, and away you go!

I'm not hugely experienced at contracting, but since I started doing it a few years ago, another couple of friends have gone down the same route and it's worked out well for them too.

If you're good, learn quickly, and you're honest about what you can do, contracting is a great route for a few years of experience across a range of projects.

After the first couple of contracts, if you're happy with how it's going, then get yourself setup with your own limited company which means you'll end up with more paperwork, but more money in your pocket.
Right? So he wanted to cancel completely.

To stop using the service entirely is to cancel. He wanted to stop using the service entirely so therefore he wanted to cancel completely.
> It would have been better for the Internet if Reader had never been at all.

If not for the Google Reader, I wouldn't use RSS at all.
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It's un-American.
Sure, https://xplr.com/ we're seed funded, early stage, early customers.
Move Over GIMP, Here Comes Krita
> Would Netflix allow you to cancel right now and return in two months with all your preferences and viewing history intact?

Yes. And my phone company would let me keep the same number if I did that.
Slick invoicing app for freelancers and there's a free for life plan
"If the world ends, I move to Vienna. Everything happens 10 years later there." Karl Kraus
I'm getting tired of this. If you want to stick your head in the sand and ignore the data, then fine. Try and ignore this: 50% of all Android devices have unpatched vulnerabilities for which exploits exist.

https://blog.duosecurity.com/2012/09/early-results-from-x-ra...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feed-icon.svg

It's the de-facto standard.
I an OP. I can assure you that this happened. You can call them and ask if these calls are standard. They will confirm.
Ask HN: What staging/digital asset management solutions do you use?
I work as a graphic designer at an agency, and we produce a lot of JPGs, GIFs, microsites and flash files that need to be reviewed by clients before we can package them up and get them sent off. Currently, we use a very simple PERL-based staging site where we can upload files (including zipped versions that get extracted upon upload), but it doesn't do a very good job of managing/versioning the huge number of files we upload.

What solutions do you use for staging and showing proofs to clients? Any suggestions?
The Reddit one is fun. They work on a freemium model- the basic service is free but you can pay for some fun additional functions. For example, you can "roll" to give a semi-random tip.

My favorite extra function is that you can use "internets" to tip bitcents.

"+5 internets verify" will send 0.05 BC to the recipient. Cracks me up.
I'm not going to say he isn't pro-Apple, but he does at least attempt to find the nuance in the story. I was merely saying I don't dismiss him out of hand as some do.

Regarding the trend, I concur and I somewhat covered the excellence of most of the handsets now in the market certainly means a much more competitive marketplace.

I don't necessarily think Apple have stopped growing (their last quarter would seem to refute that[1]) but it wouldn't be a surprise if they are peaking.

[1]:http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/01/23Apple-Reports-Reco...
QtWebKit 2.3.0 has been released
You could potentially build a commercial version of this on the same technology, if you wanted to keep the core of it lean. I know several people that would pay money to have this plus analytics about user progress and drop outs, user feedback etc.
Also, the Chrome extension is taking some liberties to "personalize suggestions": https://getsatisfaction.com/feedly/topics/chrome_app_permiss...
GCC 4.8 comes with a built-in address sanitizer that prints nice stack traces for most memory-related errors.

Basically you just add "-fsanitize=address" and link appropriately:

gcc -pthread -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g -fsanitize=address badass.c -lasan -ldl

./a.out
==22420== ERROR: AddressSanitizer crashed on address 0x0000200000703c18 at pc 0x401947
READ of size 1 at 0x0000200000703c18; shadow: 0x0000100000381e0c; mem: 0x0000000001c0f065 thread: 0x787d4720
#0 0x401947 main use-after-free.c:5
#1 0x7ff87792cc4d __libc_start_main ??:0
#2 0x401839 _start ??:0
0x0000000001c0f065 is located 5 bytes inside of 80-byte region [0x0000000001c0f060,0x0000000001c0f0b0)
freed by thread 0x787d4720 here:
#0 0x404b9b free asan_rtl.cc:1203
#1 0x40191b main use-after-free.c:5
#2 0x7ff87792cc4d __libc_start_main ??:0
#3 0x401839 _start ??:0
previously allocated by thread 0x787d4720 here:
#0 0x405c27 malloc asan_rtl.cc:1196
#1 0x401910 main use-after-free.c:3
#2 0x7ff87792cc4d __libc_start_main ??:0
#3 0x401839 _start ??:0

See the changelog [1] as well as the library [2] itself. Of course, the OP's project is certainly cool too.

[1]: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html

[2]: https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSani...
> BTW you know why there's so much red tape with french bank? bankers are legally responsible if you launder money using their services and if they didn't ask you basic questions designed to flag such cases.

To do anything in France requires a lot of red tape. To join a gym or go on a fun run you need a certificate from your doctor, which they charge you 70 euros.

As to your other sentiments, after the last 6 months living in Paris I have never seen anyone beaten up or attacked, even though I often stay out late in Chatelet and other seedy areas.
I'm not entirely sure if it's still classified as dropshipping.

But I've been told that some postal services (e.g. NZ Post) are able to provide dropshipping like logistics for you.

e.g. You manufacture your product in China. The postal service will then manage logistics for you from factory to your customers.