skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea what this comment is even trying to articulate. You suggest two kinds of "cyber attacks", one which cause power plants to malfunction and the other that attacks online banking. I am not sure what you think this distinction demonstrates about online security.

On the one hand, the attacks on power plants that you allude to are possible. Utilities have been networked and electronically controlled since the 1970s. Nobody builds networks on telephony or X.25 anymore; it's all IP. IP connectivity to insanely sensitive systems leaks routinely; moreover, application-level data sharing between Internet-connected systems and supposedly air-gapped backend systems is extremely common.

On the other hand, the "less serious" attacks you allude to are very very bad. Google and Hotmail aren't national utilities. But they are attacked by state actors because dissident organizations use them to communicate. For that matter, the Internet backbone is a collection of computers sharing information using a decades-old routing protocol for which policy is controlled by regular expressions.

Finally, if you run a startup and happen to say something I disagree with, such as "I think CISPA is a power grab by the content industry", I could today very easily push you off the Internet with a trivial DDoS attack. The people who extorted online casinos with DDoS botnets were not rocket surgeons. When I attack you for disagreeing me online, and you call your ISP, guess what you're going to hear? "You're on your own". It is always very weird for me to see people on Hacker News, a hub for online startup news, downplaying the severity of DOS attacks. I've spent a decent chunk of my career in DOS mitigation and it is not remotely a solved problem.
I'm seriously digging Feedly right now. Took 12 seconds to get into it and everything just makes sense. I wish I had found this ages ago.

No need to backup your feeds, it uses your google account for now.
Thats funny... I found this post on google reader.
But the thing is that Google+ is wholly different experience. It's not about quickly consuming large amounts of information.
Search, maps, reader what other Google services do geeks use daily? Strange decision!
I think this tells a more nuanced story than just "clicks aren't worth it."

Search advertising has been very lucrative for a lot of people, this was especially true when there were few contested keywords and the cost to land on a page was low by comparison.

However, if you look at Google's results over time, they grew spectacularly as they added advertisers and their price per placement was growing. Then the growth of advertisers slowed because there are only so many of them in the world, and in their latest results you can see that the price per click has stabilized (and declined slightly) as well. Both of those point to a maturing of the search advertising market.

My guess, and it's only a guess, is that Google's revenue from search ads has peaked. (Peak Ads anyone :-)) and going forward the dynamics of that market will be a lot more subtle. More complex advertising packages will be created that increase the total number of pages where ads are shown but do so in a way that spreads cost around (like discounting a front page add if enough "page 3" ads are bought at the top of that page).
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A quick search turned up http://spiderable.meteor.com/ and a couple of blog links, and none of those have any content either. This seems like an afterthought to the people behind Meteor, and I wouldn't describe them as having an obvious goal of avoiding damage to the Web.
I'm looking at FaF but not seeing how this works with Reeder?
CISPA does not require any company to hand over any information to the USG without due process!
really, how is one's reading habits not useful data for google? you're sitting on a pile of gold. it's a billion times more valuable than the useless google plus desert!
Did you read it in google reader?
It's not the system's fault that people don't understand nor care about stuff like CISPA.

Actually, it is. The "system" (or, more accurately, the emergent collective behaviors of well-moneyed groups acting in their self interest) tells the masses what to care about, and thanks to being brought up by the "system", they eat it up. Thanks to the direction of the "system", we still have political debates about the age of the Earth, evolution, and other emotionally loaded issues that have no actual bearing on matters that have a substantial impact on the future of the planet.
I think at that point, content creators being aggregated by Google--who are already have a fairly stressful relationship with Google--might accumulate too much ammunition to use against them (as then Google would be directly profiting from aggregating and redistributing content from third-parties in a modified presentation).
Official Google Reader Blog: Powering Down Google Reader
I've been happy with FeedDemon Lite on the Windows desktop for ages. Sad to see I'm losing my sync with Google Reader, but at it'll still serve it's purpose.
I reacted in a same way when Google Notebook shutted down. WTF GOOGLE?!
What is your Android widget like? The large Android widget ( i think it's 3x3?) is the only way I use Google Reader now, and I use it a lot. I hate that this is happening. Does your widget look like Reader's?
excellent! thanks for the tip
Google Reader to shut down with other services as part 'spring cleaning'
No OPML?
It's doubtful the average user wants to run their own server. I'm certainly capable of running my own, but it's more than worth the $24/yr not to.
Try Tiny Tiny RSS. It's pretty light, just a list of folders/feeds on a left pane and the items on the right. I've switched from GReader a few months ago and it's working pretty well.

I don't know if there are any 3rd party clients, though. I know it has a mobile UI, but it's web, not native.
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Because MS, like most autoimmune diseases, is known to go into spontaneous remission even in people without a special diet.
How are you supposed to use RSS with G+? Wouldn't that be a mess?
I do hope this is a blessing in disguise!

Google killed with their free Reader the biggest part of the market around RSS. Switching off Reader opens up this market which should be still large enough for a few indies to find their niche. Maybe even reinvigorating RSS while doing so.
Thank you, Google+
> There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience.

Google Reader seems like one of the most direct bits of attention-grabbing competition to Google Plus.

I suspect they already have a long-term plan in place to sunset Blogger in favor of Plus as well.
> What would stop Google from killing your gmail or docs when they don't see it as valuable anymore?

Unfortunately, nothing. However Google makes it really easy to export this data.
theoldreader.com looks like a good alternative
If that was a problem, they should've offered paid subscriptions.

Yeah, but they don't want us as customers, they want to sell us as Soylent Green out the back door.

With this news, the only remaining things I'll use Google for are search, GMail, and some libraries like Guice & Guava.
I (and it seems a lot of others) will be sad to see reader go.

I presume this death announcement doesn't meet the criteria for a HN black banner though.
Dude. He's just some guy that built up some (not very useful but fun) shit, and is very cautious (explicitly!) about what it will do. He will even do an experiment, even if it's a very limited one. Give him a break, FFS. It's not like he's claiming his newly-developed pee cures cancer, or something.

Incidentally, all you have shown in this thread is some bullshit about "processed foods" and "mitochondria", plus some TEDx talk "based on personal narrative" that shows all signs of being made by a fucking crank, about how your mitochondrial bullshit will, in fact, cure cancer. Well, not really. Just multiple sclerosis. (... are you fucking kidding me...? To think I had upvoted you at first... )
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Sad to see it go. At least I have 3 months to make my own, should make for a good weekend(s) project.
Off Topic: Looks like he's using tmux in the terminal, but does anyone know how he made the bottom panels look so awesome?
"Why use custom packages in the first place when thousands of Node packages are already out there? Isn’t this going against the spirit of open-source? ... The reason a lot of packages are Meteor-only is simply that they only make sense in the context of Meteor."

Most of the browserify modules are in NPM (see https://npmjs.org/package/buffer-browserify for an example) so the meteor justification is far from satisfactory.
Wow, very surprising. One of the few Google apps I access several times per day.

Edit: I think there's a 50/50 chance this decision gets reversed.

Edit: looks like http://feedly.com is going to get my vote for now.
Your examples are terser which many programmers would prefer.

> Doing it more generally would require the author of the initial function to come up with multiple different names for it, which sounds unlikely.

Unlikely for now, but could become more likely in the future.
Thanks, I looked into it some times ago. Liked it, but didn't bother to switch since Google Reader was working so nicely for me.

I know it has a mobile app for android, but it always seemed sub-par to gReader or Press for me.
Just imported my feeds into http://theoldreader.com and it seems to work ok. Just keep in mind that importing takes a while - I saw only the first entry for a minute or two, then others started joining in.
I would think that this + some sort of bulky whole grain would be a better solution since it would still provide er...colonic stimulation. Which isn't just important for pooping- the short chain fatty acids are important for colonic cell metabolism. Something like oats could be made easily in a crock pot.
Indeed. I regularly use it via the Press app on Android, and visit the actual site only to manage the subscriptions.

The service itself at that level is comparatively straightforward. Hopefully someone (twentyfivesquares?) will step up and offer a replacement. I'd be willing to pay.
He'll probably have it but I believe vitamin B12 can last for 5 years, so there may be others.
2^32 = 4294967296

2^64 = 18446744073709551616
This is not a performance improvement, its an arquitectural change that has to be accounted for when using Unicorn. Unicorn is NOT for slow requests, as their own documentation explains. (http://unicorn.bogomips.org/)

On Kaya.gs to handle 3rd party requests I built a queue, which has the advantages of being able to be light on environment and have a small footprint.

The title is enticing as well, as this has nothing to do with Heroku.
Don't remove one of the best RSS readers out there! Apps and ecosystems are built around this tool.
If you want a light and simple reader with a similar UI, try Tiny Tiny RSS. It's self-hosted, so it won't stop working when it's no longer "profitable", and it has all the basic features (folders, keyboard navigation, etc) without clutter.
I've been really happy with it since I switched from GReader, a few months ago.

http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki
A few months ago, I had the realization that on most days I only ate because I HAD TO. I find it extremely frustrating having to spend lots of time thinking about what to eat e.v.e.r.y.d.a.y.

On average, I might like only 20-40% of what I eat. Mainly because good/tasty food is expensive, hard to find, and/or prone to change in taste due to various elements. I really believe if there was balanced nutritious drink out there that gives me what my body needs, tastes ok, and costs relatively cheap, I would be one happy customer.

I'm keeping my eye on news like these from now on.
I wonder if it's just a Google Reader issue or RSS are fading out. I'm not a huge RSS user but I would be very concerned by RSS decline, it was one of the rare inter-operation standard that was very positive, easy, clean, and helped a lot programmers to put things together.
http://www.google.com/takeout
Never heard of TamperMonkey before. It looks like you can replicate it there but it's not straightforward. I'd rather use his extension.
Because his optimization is at the expense of all other considerations. He even admits to being pleasantly surprised that his glop tastes good. That means he'd have consumed it even if it didn't — taste is secondary to convenience.

He's taking what we currently believe to be true about the human body's nutritional requirements, dumping that into a blender all chemistry-set-style (it even has oligosaccharides!), and calling it good, because he thinks eating like a human takes too much time and effort.

Maybe it will work out for him. I'm certainly interested to see what happens. But if what happens turns out to be some previously unknown (because everyone else has been busy eating at least some actual food) analogue of scurvy or something, I'm not going to be the least bit surprised. I'll probably even have nontrivial schadenfreude.

Simply, we do not know enough about nutrition at this point to be making this kind of optimization. It's therefore premature.

(Edited)
ok Pocket, it's time for you guys to add rss reading support
It's taking like forever to import from reader.
Is there software that connects over IMAP and archives all your mail into one file? Not an email client.
Feedly depends on Google Reader for now, IIRC.

edit: They're fixing it! http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
Google Reader is irreplaceable, it is not only about reading RSS. That is the easy part. It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds in an organized way (it is difficult to rebuilt that from crawling and web scraping). If you add a blog now you can read articles that are not present in the current feed.

Google Reader is the core of my information diet. Not twitter. Thousands of blogs starred, liked, and commented. An interesting feature that you couldn't replace is automatic translation: reading a russian blog asmit was written in english. Once I shared one of its articles and one friend asked me if I knew russian or if it was a joke my share! Because obviously the share was in the original language.

Google is evil. While I can understand a business decision, there are ways to hand it over to other companies or organizations.

I share some of my previous criticism:

- Extraction of Main Text Content Using the Google Reader NoAPI: http://blog.databigbang.com/extraction-of-main-text-content/

-Google Search NoAPI: http://blog.databigbang.com/google-search-no-api/

- The Data Portability Fact Sheet: http://blog.databigbang.com/the-data-portability-fact-sheet/

- Reverse Engineering and the Cloud: http://blog.nektra.com/main/2012/06/01/reverse-engineering-a...
I'm going to move all my feeds over to FriendFeed.
Chrome's auto-updating has broken flash for me several times. The auto-update arrow icon seems to turn from green to red to brown (?), and once it's past green, flash stops working, more or less forcing me to restart it.

It's pretty much the equivalent of forcing a reboot of an OS like Android.
That's correct, but it's not carried over from day to day. Every morning a new job, every evening a new house.
Only capitalized due to auto-capitalization.
" now would be a great time to start building it."

Now is too late. The right time to have started building it was 2-6 months ago. Now is the time to market an existing solution.

Citing the great gretzky quote, the "puck" is already here.
If the spammer does not want his personal information revealed, he probably shouldn't be emailing it to people he doesn't know.
Unless you mean 'native app made by Fever', Reeder and Sunstroke [2] are good iOS apps with Fever support.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/reeder/id325502379

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sunstroke/id488564806
At least this one is funny. pg is really overestimating the HN brand and the obviousness of the joke if he really thinks that t-shirt was a "pretty bold assertion of brand power" (which is the point ju6ernaut was making when he asked, "would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation" (emphasis mine)).

I've been here a long time and that shirt wouldn't make me look twice (if I hadn't happened to have seen it on HN that day). That's not a very good inside joke.
G+ is already a mess, so wouldn't make much of a difference.
Newsblur had under 2,000 users in the last day. So the usage of Google Reader isn't as significant as you think.
Their website is down now.
It's true, Fever is an Account type for Reeder.

http://shawnblanc.net/2012/06/review-reeder-3-for-iphone/
Why don't they just fucking ask me to pay for it? God damnit.
Obligatory White House petition: http://wh.gov/oRoJ
My impression is that the internet's elite click almost no ads, so Google as a profit-seeking entity doesn't necessarily care too much about what they do or think in aggregate, as long as they don't get upset enough to be heard by people who actually make up their revenue streams.
Seeing the boom in alternatives, someone should start making a feedburner competitor.
Archivemail will do exactly that:

http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/
They will take the soylent from his cold, dead hands! :-)
I have been using Twitter/Flipboard+Instapaper for a while now as a replacement for traditional RSS readers. I do use Tweetbot but most twitter clients do have "Read Later" applications integrated.
Google will retire Google Reader on July 1
Caveat: Still early[1], less featured than Google/RSS Reader. But also more.

[1] http://memamsa.com/start/gr
I use Reader's "star" functionality to keep track of stuff that I want to refer back to later. And, AFAICT, you can't easily export your star history. You can export your subscriptions, but not the stars.

The only approach that I've seen to exporting stars is to use the fact that Reader will create a feed of just your starred items. Then you can view that feed in some other reader and manually mark each one there (ugh).

Edit: Oh, and the read/not read history is, AFAICT, also not exportable. And I do use this as well.
Don't remove it!
I don't understand why everyone on this thread is making it seem like this impossible. I feed my dog the same food and portion every single day. He is lean, muscular, and full of energy all day. We're both mammals, how different could it be?
Wait, Google is a business?
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whoa. big move. can we somehow petition against this? and maybe even move this off as an alternative open source, driven by community? Whack some ads on Google Reader and you might make money out of it Google... but don't remove this.
This is going to be a problem. Reader is fairly important to me.

I'm dropping Google a note and offering to pay a subscription if they continue services. Probably won't make a dent, but worth a try.
Time to stick to Akregator.
IIRC it's been years since that's been possible, recent attempts seem to all fake a software update/reset via host computer connection. I'm not saying the iPhone is anywhere impossible to break into (I'm sure, like all OSs, there are vulnerabilities that allow access exposed to the user that have not been found yet), but because the apps are sandboxed, hackers need to break into software and then out of the sandbox (probably into kernely memory, again, but possibly just into privileged system access to the file system). The iPhone is certainly far more secure than most desktops because of this, and I suspect that because of Apple's control over it, the chance of your iPhone getting accessed without your permission is miniscule.

However, I am no mobile developer, so take this with a grain of salt.
>The guy who invented the spreadsheet didn't have to absorb all available accounting literature first, and Elon Musk didn't spend 30 years in the Apollo program before being allowed to send his own rocket to space.

Both of your examples are poor.

Dan Bricklin had earned a B.S in computer science from MIT and was studying for an MBA at Harvard when he wrote a software program that was useful for businesses. He had a very good background for the product that he created.

Elon Musk was able to send his rocket into space after he hired a team of smart engineers to build it for him. His engineers benefited from the knowledge gained from NASA research that cost (when adjusted for inflation) hundreds of billions of dollars.
Exactly this. I don't want to lose the best part of Flipboard. Then I won't even open Flipboard probably and will consume news way less.
I'm considering buying Feedafever as well only because of Reeder integration. I think this just shows that any service can and most likely will just shut down, and we have to be ready to move to the next best alternative. Reeder is a great app and I enjoy using it because it's elegant. I recommend it and after seeing Newsblur mentioned here I wonder if Reeder can integrate with Newsblur (Newsblur is down so I'm assuming it doesn't already have a good mobile interface).
http://theoldreader.com/
Could you confirm this?
Derp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371169.
My friend did this...

rm * -i

The system response was "-i not found" or something like that.
If you're text only already, check out newsbeuter.
I used to use Google Reader. Feed count rose and rose to the point I stopped using it. For many many months I'm checking only LWN and HN sites manually for CS/IT-related stuff - I don't feel like I lost anything. So cannot really complain about losing Google Reader now, but I think that this decease decision is strange.

I may reevaluate feed idea when I see intelligent reader that will show me early the most interesting stories from my subscriptions and will do it with a style. Reading must be a pleasure, not pain. Typographically web is a horrible place, there is so much that can and should be improved. Feeds should be your better (i.e. correctly) looking versions of the texts you can find on the web.

Google Reader Plus extension improved a bit comfort of using GR, thanks to multi-column view for instance, but it wasn't enough to keep me using GR.
A citation would be nice.
What's an archival RSS feed?
The way I see it you have until their next spring cleaning to figure out what they'll axe and make/market it. A couple of months is neither here nor there.

I mean-- err, yes, totally too late! Don't worry about it.
Author Lee Child has written a series of fictional novels which feature Jack Reacher, a former Major in the United States Army Military Police Corps.

Since leaving the Army, Reacher has been a drifter. He wanders throughout the U.S. because he was accustomed to being told where to go, when to go and what to do for every day of his life from military childhood to military adulthood. He also felt he never got to know his own country, having spent much of his youth living overseas on military bases and at West Point. He usually travels by hitchhiking or bus. As a drifter, the only possessions he carries are money, a foldable toothbrush and, after 9/11, an expired passport and an ATM debit card.

He wears his clothing for 2–3 days before discarding it, usually purchasing new clothing cheaply from chain outlets. He has no steady income and lives on savings in his bank account and part-time jobs. Since he has no fixed address, Reacher often eats in diners and other inexpensive restaurants.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_reacher

One of the novels in the series was recently made into a movie starring Tom Cruise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher_(film)

I would highly recommend reading the novels to discover how a man can live lightly and travel across the country on very little.
Seems like the Chrome App can access:

* Your data on all websites
* Your tabs and browsing activity

I'm not very comfortable with that. It also seems very unnecessary for an RSS reader.