skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want the plugin that bad...build it. Regarding the threads, that just sounds like it would add confusion. How do you respond to a specific email/reply in one of your threads? Also, to me, the problem in email doesn't lie in the emails you receive on a regular basis from the same people. It's all the other emails.
It's spelt paid subscription, not "payed".
Would Dropbox be a viable way to propagate an aggregated feed across devices ?

(Just thinking out loud)
This is exactly what I've been thinking. The conversation about "RSS readers" is really about several different components that are integrated in to a comprehensive product:

* A backend for managing subscriptions, read/unread status, tagging, etc

* A web UI for reading your feed from anywhere

* A native-client (iOS, Android, OS X, etc) for accessing your feed from your devices

Users of the Google Reader web UI need the full stack, and there are already alternatives, but there are many native-client users who don't need the full stack. They only need the backend.

If someone were to roll a Google Reader API compatible feed subscription and sync service, I think they could recoup their investment pretty easily.

UPDATE: It looks like Feedly has "Normandy" waiting in the wings, but I'm not sure how access and fees will shake out for third-party developers. I'd really like to stick to my existing native-client (Reeder), so here's hoping that they make it reasonable and everyone gets on-board.

http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
Nitpick, title implies people are funding malaria.
Pluto may have 10 more undiscovered moons -- that's a problem
Do four tests - TDDers doing TDD, TDDers doing non-TDD, non-TDDers doing TDD and non-TDDers doing non-TDD. From this you can get a better idea of whether it's the method or the coder's skill affecting the results. Clearly if TDD is better the TDDers will do better than the non-TDDers when both doing TDD because they've more experience. Comparing the non-TDDers in TDD vs non-TDD will show you if the method alone is enough, or if other factors have affected it (e.g. learning curve of the new method, ability of programmers who chose that method). The TDDers doing non-TDD helps contribute to the question of are they just better programmers (i.e. do they do comparatively well in non-TDD / are they worse that those TDDers doing TDD).

Doing other tests with entirely randomly chosen programmers ensuring they're trained up in these techniques would be another way - though as you point out the training would have to ensure they got the techniques they were being tested against / you'd need to avoid bias of people having spent the last few weeks exclusively in an exclusively TDD environment due to the training.
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server side issues right now, working on a fix
(Disclaimer: I have no idea about Google's code base) Why don't they opensource Google reader? Sure someone could build a small nice business out of hosting it. It's no loss for them, and gathers lots of goodwill in the nerd community.
I'm pretty much obligated to mention KDE's akregator: http://kde.org/applications/internet/akregator/ which is still the only thing I use at home. It's a desktop client though so it doesn't sync to mobile or anything like that.
It also means there are more chances for individuals to have the wherewithal to step in and correct the deficiencies they perceive in their life and the lives of those around them.
Errr! Hehe. Thanks a lot. Changed it almost everywhere. Except for the last perk, can't change that one because it's claimed already.
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The next sentence is: "...it will be a downloadable email app for desktop and mobile."
I submitted the exact same a day ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5365083
But what about my deep-seated need to feel like I'm fundamentally better than investment bankers?
There were patches for older kernels: http://www.linuxdna.com/

But I doubt that it's really worth it. As I said the real advantage was numeric stuff. I doubt that the Kernel will show any real improvement.
I wholeheartedly believe you can save lives (including babies) with javascript. http://hackingmedicine.mit.edu/ The way healthcare professionals use computers is slowing down r & d and ultimately costing lives. I worked at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center last summer. They claim that they are the leader in healthcare IT. Yet my job was to copy clinical data from one computer system to another by hand. They had a developer doing manual data entry at a Harvard teaching hospital! Today, healthcare needs programmers as much as they need doctors (maybe not in the same quantities).
That's fine if you only use github solely for its git service. If you use issues or gists or handling others' pull requests, you are SOL if github is down. (technically you can clone all of your gists but its a painstaking process)
Another science news that will be disconfirmed in 1-2 days?
Keep it for the goodwill. I can't imagine it's a huge hassle to keep it going.. nobody is asking for them to continuously update and evolve the product.
The whole point of Node/npm/Express (as a popular module) is its modularity. Node is not just about JS on the server, it reflects a paradigm shift -- a movement away from too much abstraction and magic back to lean and simple systems. And it's unbelievable fast.

Sorry to say but such frameworks and ideas are from the last decade (Rails was the main reason why I switched to Node).
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You are missing the point. Being Italian I know exactly what problems OP is facing because are problems that almost any Italian sector has. People do not want to move on.

Coming to the specific problem OP has. The wanted to work on fine wines, not WalMart wines. If the best wine in the world, would be sold at WalMart(or any other super market) even at the same price and in the same conditions it would lose immediately value because all the research, experimentation, and everything is lost, and that is a huge part of the experience that you taste with the wine.

A practical example: you know how to make the best cake in the world, but it takes a lot of time and it's hard so you can do it only once a year, but you love it, it's your favourite cake so when you make and eat it you love it and you wish you could do more. If WalMart started to sell the same cake you would buy it once or twice but it would not be the same and you probably would end doing once a year as you always did. This is the same problem of OP, people wanted the service, used once or twice and then went back to the old habits.
It also means that some people (like Gates), that greatly succeed in a capitalist society, who has never been personally affected by Malaria (that I know of), can allocate money, awareness, and research towards a solution.
For some, the concern stems from this line of thought: "This is my one life, and after its gone I'll never get it back. I need to make the best of it."

So then we imagine what the best life could be. We don't even have to try hard to imagine the best life - examples of people who had a better life are constantly made apparent. Whether a life more noble, more enriched, more fun, more profound, or any other adjective, it doesn't matter because we see them all.

Then we see that elements of our life are not notable and we regret that others may have done something better than ourselves. And then we feel guilty, sad, upset, or angry that our ONE CHANCE, our life, isn't what it ought to be in order to be the best.

So, we trudge on making the best moves we know how. Its sometimes a bit of relief to see articles like this which, for a few minutes, give a sense of relief that maybe we don't have to cram every ounce of our lives with greatness... I don't buy it though.

This is my one chance, and I'll be damned if I waste my most functional hours of the day on something that doesn't matter.
To those who forgot, the web as we know it was also pretty much invented at CERN [1] so anyone who is against "science for science's sake" is indeed missing a major point.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web#1...
We explictly scoped only web based readers...
With big science news like this, it's always best to go to the source[0] to avoid sensationalism. Of note, is the following statement which isn't getting repeated much in the mainstream news sources:

"It remains an open question, however, whether this is the Higgs boson of the Standard Model of particle physics, or possibly the lightest of several bosons predicted in some theories that go beyond the Standard Model. Finding the answer to this question will take time."

I find this to be a pretty important distinguishing factor. Not only will it take a while before they really do know, but it may not, in fact, be the Higgs so many have been searching for to fit into the Standard Model.

Many news sources are already claiming that the "god particle" has been found.

[0] - http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2013/03/new-results-...
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Good for them :)
This article reads like it was written by a third grader.
I wonder. If this adds one more trust factor to the standard model, does that mean it'll hold forever? Maybe? There must be some level on which we can baseline our understanding of the universe. Maybe this is it? maybe [1]?

[1] http://news.discovery.com/space/we-might-not-live-in-a-holog...
Not really a reader since I can't add my own subscriptions... merely and agregator!
Part of me is rather skeptical that the giant mound of assumptions about hardware, software, and physics backing this discovery is correct. However, I have a lot more faith in them then I do in most human endeavors and I fundamentally don't understand what's going on. Which I find to be an odd feeling.
Hey Joshka, thanks for the feedback!

> Have you considered another email address rather than mail@task.li perhaps task@task.li so it's really easy to autofill

That's actually a great idea. I've just added task@task.li next to mail@task.li, so both work now

> Why Bcc rather than Cc?

Both work, you can even use To if you want to send a task list to yourself

> What do the collaborators see

The collaborators do get your original email, and then the follow up email that you get as well.

> How secure is this?

As secure as email.
Well, as we wrote, we explictly target web based readers only!
Deleting till we fix it.
Physicists just saying "we found it!" and re-re-re-checking existing data for hmmm... last year i suppose. And processing LHC (which already stopped) data will take a lot more time. They found "evidence" (five standard deviations) - but it's slightly more than detection threshold - and because of that they still unsure.
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No Love for Lua and LuaJit.
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I've read that Google reader is deeply integrated with Google Search so that's probably the reason.

Here's the link: http://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/chris-wetherll-google-reader/
I'm glad you want that way with the joke rather than a take on the popularised media term, "god particle".
I would support ISO 8601, but I'm not waiting for the year 3141!
Agree. Brilliant first season.

But it seemed to me some idiot somewhere who worked on the second season saw it had a strong female lead and thought that meant she should be a dick and wrote the later seasons like that.

It amazes me how Hollywood just doesn't get strong female characters.
"supports developing apps in Javascript/CSS" and "literally everything is Javascript/CSS" are very different things.
Node is excellent from an architectural point of view, but I can't get over JavaScript. I really think web developers have Stockholm syndrome with this language.
Well, your position on privacy is good and all and I appreciate it. But what does it do? I know the test counts my emails, contacts and all, but what does it do to make it more efficient?

I follow the "inbox zero" dogma, and as such my inbox was void of any email as I took the test. Yet, it claims it'll make it 50% more efficient. What does it mean? Will I have 50% fewer email in my zero-email inbox? Or is "inbox" a term for "all my emails"? Hence, is 50% more efficient 50% fewer email? 50% fewer disk size? I'm lost.

It's great to be so talkative about the respect of privacy and such, but at least be as talkative when it comes to what your product does. And if you're merely crying to create buzz, well it wasn't clear at first sight and I'm not sure I'll ever come back on this page later. I'm not hooked 'cause I don't know what it does better.
was your startup profitable operationally (Operating Revenue - Operating Expenses)?
It seems like the value of a human life should be greater (than solving male baldness) in financial terms in addition to humanist terms over the long time period. Wouldn't it make more sense for Gates to make a capitalist argument for why investing in malaria research should be more profitable than investing in male baldness?
No, this one is actual science, this time it's not from some dubious guy with a philosophical agenda.

"Finding" the Higgs is a prolonged statistical process involving tons of data that need to be crunched and the experiment itself also needs to run for a long time in order to yield this data. Physicists have been talking about a strong signal indicating the existence of the Higgs for quite a while now, so its existence has not really in question for some time. The problem with continuous and statistical analyses then becomes: when do you actually announce you found the damn thing? That's why it has been announced several times (and probably will be a few times more).

But it's real.

It would have been surprising, but way more exciting, if the Higgs didn't exist.
I thought "sex-crazed" was just assumed when dealing with people who've spent any length of time in the food industry. [1] So when he said "sex-crazed", I expected he was somehow a notable outlier from the norm. But the characterization was on the tame side.

[1] It's hardly unique in that; pretty much any high-stress industry with a young workforce is equally notorious for the same behavior. (entertainment jobs, military jobs, etc.)
Yeah, all those computers running medical devices, the algorithms behind genome sequencing, the software running on the Mars Rover - all advertising!

I'm all for self-deprecation, but that's just insulting to people who use computers for good.
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Do you find linking unit tests to functional requirements useful? I've also been toying with visual traceability (requirementweaver.com) and it seems to have a lot of potential to speed up the traditionally slow 'quality process'
/usr/games/worms is the best shell ever.
Radio waves were described by their co-discoverer in 1888 as "an interesting laboratory experiment" with "no useful purpose" whatsoever. - Wikipedia entry for Higgs boson
Show HN: grep through an entire mongo database
Helper functions for the mongodb shell

1. db.grep() -Search through all fields in all collections in a database for a value. By default it searches only indexed fields. To include non-indexed fields, specify the second parameter as true.

2. db.collection.fields() -list all keys in a collection -by default, it only checks 10100 documents to get an exhaustive list, if you document varies across the collection, do: db.collection.fields(true)

To use, copy and paste the contents of mongohelper.js into your mongo shell.
or:
load("/path/to/mongohelper.js");

available here:
https://github.com/blowhacker/mongohelper/blob/master/mongohelper.js
drunkenfly beat me to it. Thanks. :) As far as I know we revoke our own access when the test is complete (although that doesn't come with an automatic notification. When you get the email with your results, you're welcome to check, and if it isn't revoked, please let me know: foundersATgetremark.com.
Oh nice, I didn't know about Sandy yet!

But I thing it goes in a different direction: Sandy tried to be your personal assistant if I get it right, we rather try to help you and your collaborators to keep the oversight of tasks when email is the lowest common denominator.
Put them in front of a PC with internet connection tell them to create something, see how do they do, try to direct them but not to help them step by step.

I never did it, but this is how I would do it and how I would like people would do with me. If I need help I ask, but otherway I think trying is the best way to learn.
When they say video, they mean sites like YouTube etc -- spot TV is so negligible as to be pretty much a non-factor. As you can see from the 2012 report (http://www.iab.net/media/file/IAB_Internet_Advertising_Reven...) video is < 5% of overall spend and is not rolled up with display. The number you should be looking at is Banners + Rich Media, which is what most publishers use.
What no fibers and structure?

Problems with the digestion system, teeth and gums will occur that way. So, even if it was healthy, it would lack fibers and structure that cleanup our digestion system and make our jaw, teeth and gums stronger.

Chewing your food thoroughly also exercises your teeth and stimulates the vitality of the socket and gums which hold the teeth in the jaw. We know that activity that causes muscles to stimulate the bone protects against bone loss and one loss and decalcification is one of the many ways which teeth become lose in their sockets and contribute to plaque and bacteria getting under the gum line, which is a primary
reason for tooth loss.
You just hit the nail on the head.

I work in ed-tech and while a school contract is no where near the size of a business contract, we regularly hear from school administrators how much of their day they get back.
Your skepticism is exactly what science is all about!

I find it to be a wonderful feeling.

I've loved watching the tête à tête between the 24-hour news and this extremely important science community. More than once, extraordinary claims have been made and completely overblown by the media. Meanwhile, these talented scientists have remained levelheaded, critical, and extremely careful in their announcements. Watching the FTL[0] discussions, for example, was just so much fun. It actually gave me more faith in humanity to see so many people fact checking each other and challenging each other to prove something in civilized ways.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anom...
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This is clearly the case with me, yes, since one can't really avoid JS.
That still tells me absolutely nothing about the product!!!
The argument (as I see it) against choosing something like Backbone in order to avoid framework "conventions" is that you inevitably end up inventing your own conventions to fill in the gaps.

Fine if you're a one-man team (although still arguably only in the short-term), but if not, all you've done is shifted the "conventions" problem onto your co-workers, only now they have to learn yours, rather than the (hopefully) well documented and worked-out conventions of the framework you tried to avoid to begin with.

(I'm currently using Backbone by the way, but very conscious that it could be a short-sighted approach - basically I'm keeping a keen eye on Ember)!
We're here to stay ;-) Would you mind to share the other services that come to your mind but didn't make it in the long run? I'd be very interested, because I don't know any
Gates has never been personally affected by male baldness either (that I know of). I wonder if he'd make the comparison if he was one of the millions of sufferers of m.b. We need to find a cure, now.
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Cool project, but the syntax highlighting they are using makes it really difficult to read: http://cl.ly/image/0W2m1x1g2u29
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As someone who has the goal of "making enough money so I can give back", I've realized that doing something NOW is important for a couple reasons:

1) I could die tomorrow and 2) Habits form, and if I plan on giving services/time/money at a latter point in my life, I might as well start now and get used to it (even if the amount is small).
It's "RSS.GD" not "RSS.gb".
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Random House Rescinds Controversial E-Book Contract After Online Outrage
Never happen. At best, Google could spin the service off in to a separate company, but as Google exists today the product makes no sense. The income from a paid Google Reader service wouldn't register a blip on Google's financials, but would detract from their focus.
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Happy Pi Day!

I have a friend we nicknamed Pi. His "hobby" at school used to be memorizing the digits after the decimal point in Pi. I remember at some point in time he could recite a few thousand. Never got the point though.
My biggest gripe with RSSOwl was that it was that it had some performance issues, especially if you had a lot of feeds. And using Google Reader eliminated the need to synchronize my list of feeds between multiple RSSOwl instance (like, say, my personal laptop and my company laptop).

But the first issue may be mitigated by hardware improvements since the last time I was using RSSOwl regularly, and I have some ideas around the second issue.
Posthumous? Time is relative, after all.
EA lied about SimCity's online requirement
No mention of Bloglines? They're still around (and halfway decent).

http://www.bloglines.com/
Sure, but the beneficiary is a company, and publicly held at that. You're alluding that the inverse is true, that not sharing exploits with a company who's sole purpose is to accumulate money somehow makes you a bad guy. It doesn't. That's like saying I should code for free in order to be a good guy.
The Intel compiler tends to have an edge when you write rampantly inefficient code to begin with. If you structure your code reasonably, the only reliable performance difference I have seen is that the Intel compiler takes longer to compile and produces much larger binaries (4x is typical). The run-time performance is rarely significant. Also remember the "run slow on AMD" feature, which implies that two code paths are often generated.
Chicken feet and cow intestines taste great. I'm not Chinese. My favorite dish when visiting Beijing a few years back was spicy duck intestines. Looked like noodles.
I think if all programmers disappeared the world actually might shut down.

Just think of all the places in the global infrastructure that require software to work: financial trading, military, flight control, all modern business accounting and financial reporting, medical systems, etc.
With 'recommendation' you mean tasting? Otherwise i don't see a necessity for a physical process.
It's not "capitalism", it's humanity. Governments do not magically make perfectly rational allocations of funds either. For instance, see http://www.csulb.edu/~acarter3/pdfs/carter-nguyen-BMCPublicH... for a staggeringly complete overview of the government cancer money allocation, including measurement by multiple different possible metrics. (My compliments to the chefs on that paper.)
Is this down or something? Tried playing through VLC and even directly from the site - both not working.
Very cool. I'll definitely check NewsBlur out. Hopefully it rocks so much that it makes me forget about Reader altogether.
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I believe you are right! You've probably read about the Bee Venom in a "nano-particle" that kills HIV right?

Let's assume that the structure of Apples, Bananas etc. serves a specific purpose. (Like everything else in Nature) Effectively to transport nutrients within nano-structures more effectively to their destination, than isolated consumption.