skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you blindly run code you find on the Internet without understanding what it does, you deserve all you get.
I want a google reader replacement but this requires me to install something instead of just working.
Not disputing your point, but they do link to their products (e.g. iOS app store link) in the body of the post.
Sign the Keep Google Reader Petition
I am creating new content every week. I am also going to be creating content at a rate faster than one per week, to combat this exact complaint.

So see ya in 4 months?
Screenshot of web app after texting in the todos you see in the SMS screenshot http://i.imgur.com/df7MSQK.png
I just saw half my twitter timeline panicking about this. Is there so much people using it? What happened to desktop feed readers?

Newsbeuter is serving me well, as usual, for years.
thanks -- my email address is nvrgrls@gmail
Twitter readies standalone music app
I wonder if Google has accounted for the effect of people who have been burned by coming to rely on a product that was yanked becoming reluctant to use Google products in the future?
I also have heard carriers generally do not allow it (i.e. software makers pushing updates without the carriers permission). I have heard the reason is basically support costs. If they have not had time to test and vet your update against all the models running on their network, and you brick a phone (or a million), those customers are calling the carriers and they are probably pissed. They wouldn't know how to contact Google even if the thought of doing so wasn't so laughable.
They should call it SimCity Lemmings :)
I think that the base of Google Code Search users that would be willing to pay for a replacement is probably dwarfed by the amount of users willing to pay for a Google Reader replacement.
This article is vague on the specifics, but it looks from their website like they're talking about an MSR using a conventional uranium fuel cycle, rather than going the Thorium route like lots of other MSR enthusiasts seem to want to... I wonder why they went that route? Seems like if you're going to go to the effort of developing a new reactor design from scratch, there's not really any reason to leave half of the potential benefits on the table (proliferation resistance, fuel abundance, etc.).
Right. Human physiology is incredibly resilient. Populations around the world have subsisted on the most amazing limited diets with fair success.

Fast food won't kill you. At least not right away. This stuff won't kill you. At least not right away. The alarmists are as wrong as the op.
http://netnewswireapp.com is wonderful for the Mac users out there that aren't tied to an HTML solution.

Pretty sure you can sync with your Google Reader account and then delete it from the app, and it'll remember your subscriptions. Just deleted mine and it works fine.
The reviews are very well done but I'd still like to see more info/demo/screenshots before logging in with Facebook though.
"When all hell is breaking loose, organize yourself first" - My favorite point in this story.
You're the one who made the 10ms claim, not me. If indeed it is faster than you claimed, then maybe it would be ok. Still probably not worth engineering time for a problem of this magnitude.
This is accurate. Being poor is expensive (paradoxically?) in a lot of ways. One of them is the amount of attention that you have to give to stupid details, and the amount of stuff you end up lugging around. It clutters your life to be poor.

That NYT article was just douche-tastic. As someone who genuinely detests consumerism, I can't tolerate that whole "I'm rich and enlightened so I've given up stuff" braggadocio. That is consumerism. Only an idiot wouldn't see that. (Of course, there are genuine minimalists out there and I have no problem with that.)

I also hate the people who think travel makes them more interesting and virtuous. Most people, most cases? No, not at all. You might become more interesting if you spend a month in an Indian monastery, or building schools in Africa. However, going to clubs and getting drunk doesn't count. You can do that here. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's recreation, not automatically a promotion of the spirit.
Protip: when people like that say "RSS is dead", what they mean is "unfashionable".
The Joseph V Stalin Award for Outstanding Work Advancing Authoritarianism. Has a certain ring to it, don't you think?
Liferea is a great RSS app. It's Free software too.
http://lzone.de/liferea/
You'd think Taleb would have an immediate intuitive sense of how "once in a million year" accidents fit our narrative biases, but the slow-motion devastation of large areas of the US and the deaths of tens of thousands of people attributable to inhaled fossil fuel pollution don't.
Yeah, the guy's testing on himself. We'll see in a year.
Love. This is the experience every young person needs, in order to grow up useful.
What apps is this the case for? Our Google work stuff is identical to personal Google stuff as far as I can see.
Gueynet regularly cites his own and others' peer-reviewed, published research via his blog and twitter account. He also reviews research results, which is valuable to nonspecialists trying to gain context in a new field. My intent in posting his blog was as a convenient reference to the larger body of work that he authors and cites.

Let me expound on that: with a few exceptions, most scholarly papers on diet, metabolism, gut function and disorders, metabolic syndrome, etc. are difficult to digest in isolation. Interpreting and critically reviewing new results often requires a large amount of domain knowledge and context by way of other research results.
Or perhaps: Aquatic therapy and exercise while not swimming in several someone else's urine.
> Myth #1: “Meteor doesn’t have data security”

Agreed; this is now a myth because it was based on the pre-0.5 implementation state.

> Myth #2: “Meteor is bad for SEO”

I'm pretty skeptical about PhantomJS, but I guess it could work. I tried using it on my Meteor site, and PhantomJS failed because I use the HTML5 audio feature ("new Audio()") and apparently PhantomJS doesn't implement it. Which parts of HTML5 can we use on a Meteor site if we want it to also be spiderable?

> Myth #3: “Meteor doesn’t support third-party packages”

I want and need to use NPM packages, and this is the largest downside of Meteor for me at the moment. When people say this, they're talking about NPM packages, and I think it's disingenuous to point to Atmosphere as a disproof.

> Myth #4: “Meteor is a walled garden”

Again, I think this is a problem that actually exists and should be owned. If, as you suggest, the solution is "we're going to support NPM packages later and the developers just haven't got around to doing the work yet", then phrase it that way instead of saying that the complaint represents a myth.

> Myth #5: “Meteor is only for prototyping”

This complaint seems approximately correct, and your rebuttal doesn't even disagree with it; you just say "yes, that's because it's only a year old". That means it's not a myth.

Sorry to write a griping reply. I love Meteor and want to continue to use it for new apps. Your argument style of taking the strongest criticisms of a project and declaring them to all be a set of misconceptions strikes me as arrogant and unproductive, though. (In every case other than "Myth #1".)
A group of people exists that uses "hacker" for people coming up with creative solutions to problems, and "cracker" for any sort of malicious breaking of security, etc. But I fear that ship has sailed.

Then again, Hacker News isn't about new ways to break into boxen, so...
Humans aren't very good at recognizing and classifying the risks from any other form of energy, either.
They still get a lot of data exhaust.

They could compete with a solid mobile app / desktop app and monetize that. Lots of ways to leverage it against Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. All those services are building freaking news aggregators, and Google is killing theirs which is maybe the best and most useful?

It seems really lame and evil.
Search for: google reader api site:stackoverflow.com
So you're saying that if you are a high profile figure who happened to step on someone's tail, you should run an open wifi network to make it exponentially easier for your enemies to convince the world that you download child porn?

You say you run an open wifi network, so anybody could have downloaded that porn using your wifi? You're a high profile figure and you expect us to believe that? Yeah, right.

We can spin scenarios all day. At the end of the day, I still think that an ordinary person with an ordinary ISP is better off securing their wifi; the likelihood of WPA security being broken is much smaller than the likelihood of someone using your open wifi to do something that your ISP won't like (or worse). Even a high profile figure is, IMO, better off securing their wifi than running an open network for every nutjob who has a fixation on them to use.
Coming from a similar background. I am that guy who thinks about my start-up 24x7, more than my other 2 founders. I've also worked along my cofounder at my last company where not all went well so some of those feelings carry over(and I have to be mindful of it!). Also, I've realized that I also have crazy downtimes or crashes that are bigger than them. In those times, I appreciate the stability and the calm in the other founders. So I'd challenge you to make a list of positive characteristics in your partner that aren't necessarily in you.

Honestly I think a lot of your issues might be with not being in the same room. I know one of our founders' recently spent a week away and it was pretty evident that things were getting uncomfortable.

We didn't have much resistance. If anything, this is good because doing a start-up is scary enough and doing these calls helps build confidence and reduce self-doubt. And you are not constantly second guessing about what other partners' feel about the other because those feelings are expected to be shared on a regular basis in a constructive manner.

On one of our very first calls, I was called out for being overtly negative. Of course that made me even more defensive in the moment. But that evening I took a step back, realized I was kind of at fault(even if my concerns were genuine) and wrote a plan and shared with the team to get me to a point where my attitude doesn't come in the way of airing genuine concerns.
:).

Thanks Matt. I admire the effort you put forward leading the Wordpress Foundation and Automattic, but I felt like this was so surprising for exactly that reason.

Keep making great software amigo.
opensource it!
You really should get off Gmail. At the very least, use a domain and google apps for your domain, to keep the option of fleeing later.

Even for search, there are really only a few companies crawling now -- Google, Bing/MS, and Blekko. I'm going to try Bing for a month (I tried in the past, and it wasn't great, but was close) and Blekko for another month, but I'm pretty sure I don't care about any other Google services.
the world is near the end
Some might say that's the way to keep your money, when you have 2bn.

Others might say that's the way to keep friends, when you have 2bn.
can I register to theoldreader if I don't have a facebook/google account?
Setuptools-Distribute merge announcement
More like let's see how much longer Google Apps will last in the enterprise. I am NOT a big MS fan, but Windows & Office is still a major factor for businesses and a big part of the Apps allure was that it was interoperable with existing Windows/Office deployments.

As enterprises using Apps upgrade and find that they no longer sync with any of their brand new software, people are going to be very upset - particularly those with egg on their face who sold their company on Google Apps (like yours truly)
> Poor people don’t have clutter because they’re too dumb to see the virtue of living simply; they have it to reduce risk.

I wish English had better grammatical structure. I had to re-parse that sentence 5 times.

> Poor people have clutter not because they're too dumb to see the virtue of living simply; they have it to reduce risk.

FTFY.

EDIT: I parsed it wrong. Fixed.
While it doesn't cost Google much to keep Google Reader going, it does sacrifice ad revenue that would be gained if people visited the website(s).

I know there is an ad service for the feeds but as far as I am aware they aren't very profitable.
I know Shaun has a great reputation, and I've played his games, but this is exactly how I feel. Wish I could play with it a little bit before I press that "Buy" button.
And host it.
I guess it is. The name Normandy is hilarious.
They could have turned it into a payed service, with so many active users. What would be the arguments against such a move?
Taking off work to do this, is absolutely great and i recommend it for everyone as long as you can. But whether something like cooking is a PITA, is mostly up to you and what you make out of it.

in 2008 I've took a seven month unpaid leave from my job to travel through central america and the caribbean. I never felt buying, cooking or eating was wasted time. Quite the contrary. Some of the most memorable moments of my whole journey came with those. Being it, cooking with people from all around the world in hostels, learning how to open a coconut and make a spoon out of the shell with a machete (yes, pretty touristy), or getting invited by a local family and let the kids show me how their favorite dish is done.

And I wasn't an avid chef before. I barely cooked by myself back home. Now i love it. Every step of the process. Its like programing – with real time compilation.

Yes, it is really time consuming. When I had other things to do, i just didn't spend that much time on it. I actually never had three meals a day (and i don't have now either).

I understand the statement and I find the idea of a having a food replacement in some cases very interesting. Its not anything new after all. But in my opinion, his motivation is questionable. Honestly, this Soylent-Shake thing remembers me of employers trying to squeeze everything out of their workers for sheer productivity. But, to each his own. If that guy is happy with his choice, he should continue doing it. If people blindly follow his way, its not his fault – they'd follow someone/something else. (As long as he is not starting a big campaign, saying that his way of life is the only right one)
IOS developers: looking for feedback on startup
Recently, we launched a new service for iOS developers to make sending push notifications easier, and we're looking for people who'd like to try it out and help us out with feedback.

If you're an iOS developer, get in touch and I'll set you up with a free account.

The site is pushlayer.com and I'd love any and all feedback.
I'll bet you anything the catalyst behind this is in some way related to G+, the introduction of which has led to a steady removal of features from Reader.

This news is really rubbing me the wrong way; I've been a long-time Google customer, even a 'Google hipster' as my friends would say. I'm an early-adopter that often beta tests. I was the only one at work with GMail when it was released, and was always out of invites that first year. Same for GVoice (which I've had since GrandCentral), GWave, Apps for personal domains, and Chrome (where I've posted many bug reports that were accepted).

I've been with Reader since the year it came out, though I never used any other RSS reader -- I'd tried several, but they all sucked; Reader was just a breath of fresh air, "cloud" based before that was even a buzzword, and I've introduced many a friend to its wonderful utility. My favorite feature was the _'note in reader'_ bookmarklet, which they killed in favor of crappy G+, but now they're going to outright kill the entire product?

My only hope, if they don't grant a stay of execution, will be that they open-source the code such as they did with Wave. At least then I'll have some hope of retaining my most-used web app of all time.

From your 117 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 398 items, clicked 189 items, starred 7 items, and emailed 0 items.

Since October 26, 2010 you have read a total of 20,685 items.

(I think 10/2010 is when I was finally able to transition my normal GMail account to a GAFYD account, thus why the metrics stop there)

Needless to say, I use this app 10x more than any other, including email (edit: ok I might be exaggerating).

Also, it looks like the Google Operating System (unofficial blog) recognized the distress signals back in December with "Google Reader, 'Constantly on the Chopping Block'"[1].

Where's my pitchfork...

1. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-reader-const...
Suggest HN: ContactHub, find your friends on new websites
Every time you try a new social app or website (let's say Vine, or Backspaces) you need to find out which of your friends are already there.

In order to find them you're currently offered the option to "connect" with Facebook, Twitter etc. That's nice, but it's still a few clicks per website, and for each you'll need to visit another page and maybe enter your credentials.

ContactHub would be a trusted central service to which you give access to all of your contacts, for all of your different accounts, once and for all.

Then other services would offer the option to import your contacts directly from ContactHub instead of connecting to each service individually. You could of course decide to not share the contacts from some of those services.

Thoughts? Is this worth making?
I also vouch for Fever. Someone on HN recommended Fever to me when Bloglines initially bit the dust a couple years ago and it meets every need I've wanted from an RSS reader and more. The genius of it's design is that Fever gets more useful the more RSS feeds you subscribe to, which initially seems counter-intuitive, but is brilliant.
Just signed up. I assume this is to help combat the "Filter Bubble" phenomenon that is common nowadays?

It definitely felt freeing to pare things down to about 40 people.
I've always gone with the classic:
rm -rf /

However, sometimes that's protected so i switch:

Lazy version:
rm -rf /*

Long version:
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

But I do like your brute force random disk wipe method. I'll try that on the next vm that's gotta go.
We think RSS is far from dead. We've built a free reader that lets you put your feeds into a magazine style, highly visual page: Kuratur.com

This isn't a traditional email-inbox-style feed reader. It's like Flipboard for your feeds, on the web.

In beta - feedback warmly welcomed.

Also, very interested in talking to RSS fanatics.
I thought that was self-evident. Unfashionable is the first step in a trend that ends with "dead and abandoned".

As an aside: I implore you not to say things like "protip" here. It comes off as immature and condescending if not outright hostile. I realize it's a quick and snappy way to get upvotes from like-minded users but it's really that kind of phrase which prompts people to complain about redditization or 4chanization when they refer to the declining post quality of HN.
He seems to be very conscious that this is in effect an experiment, that might be risky as well. E.g. from his site (
http://robrhinehart.com/):

"I am reticent to provide exact brand names and instructions because I am not fully convinced of the diet's safety for a physiology different than mine. What if I missed something that's essential for someone of a different race or age group"

But he is interested in actually gathering more data, even if not exactly formally enough for a proper study:

"So…I'll just ship you some of my batch. If you are willing to consume exclusively soylent, and get a CBC, chem panel, and lipid blood test before and after the week and share your results with me it's on the house. Bonus points for getting a psych evaluation before and after. The brain is an organ. I can ship it worldwide but it would be nice if you were in San Francisco so we can meet in person."

Further down on his blog, he has also posted PDF's of his bloodwork.

While he certainly does not have sufficient evidence of general safety and effect, he is aware of that and seems to be actively interested in learning about any flaws in what he's done so far.

> The burdon of evidence should be even greater when it's a non-natural source, as Nassim Taleb argues in Antifragile

This, to me, is ridiculous. A vast range of dangerous poisons are readily avaiable in nature.

I used to pick a lot of mushrooms, and can safely identify perhaps a dozen types common where I grew up. But every year there are people who die agonizing deaths from consuming various nasty toxins because they didn't pay close enough attention to what they picked. And the safety of most mushrooms is unknown - we simply don't have data, and the effects can take a long time to show.

In some cases, popular mushrooms are known to be toxic, such as false morels that contains gyromitrin. They are seemingly safe after boiling. Except there is still gyromitrin in the mushroom, just in small enough quantities that you're ok as long as you don't ingest too much. It's typical to recommend no more than one meal per season, as the poison is stored. But many mushrooms contains compounds we don't know the effect of, and where it is perfectly possible that no effect would be noticeable for a very long time - properly cooked false morels for example, might have no effect on you for years, until you get a bit careless with the cooking (a common way for people to get poisoned by false morels is to stand over the pot while boiling it...)

Nature has an abundant supply of horribly nasty toxic substances that might pass for food for a while.

This is before getting into what "natural" even means.

Everything has to prove its harmlessness. It's just that some things we have a lot of existing data for that at least demonstrates a certain level of safety.

But in the absence of data, I'm no more going to be willing to chew on some random "natural" substance than I'd be willing to ingest some random synthetic substance.
Honestly, I think this is a brilliant idea for a few reasons, but the most significant can probably be explained by this real-life comparison:

Consider two scenarios. a) You go out to a party, by yourself, with the sole intention of meeting someone you can take home, or ask on a date. or b) your friends think you need a girlfriend or boyfriend, and drag you out to a party and try to get you to meet people and facilitate it that.

Scenario (a) is a relatively uncommon occurrence with, what I assume to be, a lower success rate than (b). Unfortunately, all successful dating sites thus far are almost perfectly analogous to (a).

The differences between the two situations are pretty big because of the countless nuances that make people just generally seem more sociable when they're being social compared to when they're sort of trying to be social.

In a sense, this introduces the concept of a good wingman into the online dating scene.

Beyond that, I think by having other people manage your profile, you're taking away some of the stigma associated with dating profiles. Among them that they can become very self-important, uncomfortably personal, and come with a certain level of expectation of being honest. By making everything second-hand, you have to be more realistic in your evaluations of people's profiles.

Moreover, I think it dampens the 'desperation' factor. I think this is also a lesson we can gain from the analogy in my second paragraph.
Look at the URLs for a submission (found via its "discuss" link on the post listing page) and for a non-post comment. They are identical in format; only the ID value varies.

For this to work, they must share the same set of ID values.
Wrap inserts in a transaction for faster performance
Please stop linking to Extremetech. It forcibly redirects some browsers to a broken mobile site.
Thankfully this will mean that the trend of news reader apps that consume Google feeds instead of the actual sources will end. Some of the current ones will die off, but maybe a few of the better will convert.