skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. I know that any transactions in forked chains that have been orphaned are included as transaction if it hasn't been double spent on the other chain.

But what happens to the mining reward, I don't know. Anyone?
http://tt-rss.org/
Two things. It crashed Safari on iOS (latest build). The headline and tag line should be swapped.
Backend Engineer & Development Lead
I'd be genuinely interested in reading a paper on what impact these methodologies have on software development. Does anybody know of any research on this topic?
One more for the list of killed Google services:

Code Search, Google Search API (twice), Google Video, Wave, Buzz, Google Labs, Google Desktop, Google Notebook, Google Sets, Google Squared, Google Catalogs, Google Answers, Audio Ads, Google Base, Browser Sync, City Tours, Click-to-Call, Google Dashboard Widgets, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Google Mashup Editor, Google Directory, GOOG-411, Joga Bonito, Aardvark, Lively, Music Trends, Ride Finder, Google Shared Stuff, Sidewiki, FastFlip, Google Translate API, Writely, Google Health, PowerMeter, Google University Search, U.S. Government Search, Slide products (Disco, Pool Party, Video Inbox, Photovine, Slideshow, SuperPoke! Pets), Google Pack, Image Labeller and Google Dictionary.

Friends don't let friends rely on free web services.
Google Reader.

https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-r...
That one include digital videos, which they say includes cable and spot TV (I assume based on the article that this mean streaming sites and sport commentators?). Thus We are now trailing far far away from ads on a website which is the primary purpose of ad-block. TV and by extension video is basically never PPC or PPI based for their advertisement model.

For better statistics, lets pick advertising companies that only offer banner and text ads (like ad-word), or which has clear way to separate them. We also want the number of sites that use each type of model and not the total revenue for the ad company. I am not the least surprised that video streaming, sport channels, and news papers has a much larger revenue source for ad companies than say all other type of websites combined. Feel free to point to statistics that proves this wrong.
> Sure I get, but I think it just dilutes the meaning of the term "real-time" to use it in a soft context.

Soft realtime isn't a new thing. Chat has always been soft realtime.
slowders they're called.
> To me, the beauty of Google Reader (and iOS apps like Reeder) is the ability to sift through a lot of incoming information and DEAL with it, e.g. send it to Pocket, Pinboard, Evernote, etc.

Exactly. I skim over 90% of my feed marking as read after glancing at it (for high-volume feeds e.g. "planets" the title is enough to know whether I want to read it or not), read 9% of the incoming content directly in the reader, and send the 1% left either to my browser or to a "read later" service for deferred reading later on. My incoming queue gets handled at once, a few times a day.

Shoving all that into a "read later"? Not going to work.
Financially speaking this is your baby, but it sounds like you never set out what the ownership / responsibility split would be from the beginning. This is your biggest problem, and is what is causing you to resent the arrangement, not necessarily the person. I'm not sure if your startup is making money yet (you mention salary) but I'm guessing it's 50/50 all the way.

Someone here has suggested talking to a lawyer, but that's a big step for friends especially as this is the start.

Another suggested getting in a third party. This is a good start, and you should offer some small equity in the process. Firstly that allows you to renegotiate your share, secondly, it changes the power balance, and thirdly (and perhaps more strategically so keep this as the ace hand) you can plant the seed of walking. This last point is very important because it communicates that you are prepared to take a project that you appear to have built, elsewhere, and that they will end up having to do everything if they want to continue as competitor.
Ha - yeah I wouldn't be surprised. We haven't looked to make it mobile friendly yet, but it is on the list. Thanks for checking it out!
Granted, they put that vague line in there on the first page, but really all of the meat that made the taxi companies look like greedy corporatists protecting their turf was on the first page.

I still think that slanting articles - whether it's to get ad views or whether it's to express the bias of the reporter/publication is highly unethical and should be called out wherever possible.
Well if that's the case then they won't be excepting bitcoin. There's just no getting around that.

That's why I'm saying there should be some overview mechanism to alert of these blockchain partitions. In general you can be sure the transaction is safe fairly quickly. If the network is obviously partitioned (as it was in this - so much so it was basically manually fixed) you'd be a fool to accept transactions until it's back to normal.

The problem in this case is that someone handed over $1000 in cash while the network was partitioned without sense checking it. The bigger issue is that there doesn't seem to be a mechanism in place to help them do the checking. Really there should have been big red "bitcoin is not safe to use right now" flags going up.

Personally I think that the place bitcoin could really win would be something like micro donations for content (instead of paywalls / ads). Read an article you like, click a button at the bottom to send over a small amount of money. That feels like the sort of use case it's really well suited for. Payments that can take a while / fail in very exceptional circumstances.
This is easier when you don't have a significant other :)
Using for paying bills, easier that way.
Had a similar idea a while back. Allow people to sign up, create a profile, etc. Then have matchmakers. People browsing profiles and matching people up. If they start dating, you get rep for being a good matchmaker.
> I think that there is some abuse of the term real-time these days:

From your link:

<quote>

Soft

The usefulness of a result degrades after its deadline, thereby degrading the system's quality of service.

<quote>

A lot of web applications are soft realtime. Chat, Stock updates, news updates...hell twitter and fb updates are soft realtime
There are people saying that this shouldn't happen again, etc. but it will. Perhaps not in this exact form, but in some form.

And, this was an accident. As we know, there are many people with the ill-intent and incentive to look for or create exploits 24/7. Saying this won't happen again is like saying "Ok, this is the LAST FireFox patch you'll ever need. Really. We've thought of everything."

This is a game of cat and mouse, similar to one I've involuntarily had to play with fraudsters in my business over the years, and we've all been involved with via viruses, software patches, etc.

I am not sure why we continue to have such supreme confidence that we have discovered something even approaching bulletproof here, when history has taught us that we should believe anything but. It's partly the developer mindset, I suppose. We all tend to believe we've thought of every path and that our code is bug free, until someone encounters a bug that is.

We need to abandon that overly optimistic mindset and look for solutions that accomodate the inevitability of this happening again, whether they be process, technical, or both.

This might include the notion of a central registry on the network, which can help to resolve/identify potential forks, etc. While I know the notion of decentralization is sacrosanct in the BTC community, it is really a fallacy that there is not centralization now. The "core team" is actually playing that role, albeit manually, and what this issue shows is that it may well be a necessary role. I am not talking about doing away with the P2P nodes or controlling them centrally, just acknowledging that pure P2P has strong merits, but also introduces vulnerabilities.

This incident was containable and manageable. In the future (and especially at scale), it may well be infeasible for such manual intervention to clean up the mess. Rather than all convince ourselves that we have now thought of everything, we need to assure ourselves that we haven't and never will, then use our collective brainpower to build in the kinds of safeguards and redundancies that will help avert catastrophe when the inevitable happens.
Can someone explain how IFTTT could be a Reader alternative? I'd imagine that would take a lot of recipes. Also, IFTTT limits server requests.
How Come IFTTT can be a full alternative. It should be used with other software (e.g. IFTTT + Pocket).
He's right. Constantly redressing entropy keeps your mind free for the big picture once it's time to make hay.
Nell - computer that reads the Web
Same thought, same time!
I too would bankrupt myself over a firefly kickstarter.
The following also aren't on the list:
http://goodnoows.com/
http://rsslounge.aditu.de/
For my information, why do you think the headline and tag should be swapped around? Have I committed some kind of tag line faux pas?
feedly is nice - they promise seamless integration with GReader
http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

The Androind App is a slightly over the top, but the desktop version is great.
Crap, after years of avoiding RSS, yesterday I found a blog that I wanted to follow.

I signed up for Google Reader...

Sorry, folks - I may have caused the shut-down.
I think your last paragraph shows that you do, in fact, have an idea of how people manage to spend so much money!
The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access
i don't see windows phone listed on the web site.

Is there a win8 version (win store, not desktop).

tks
HN covered this here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373807
Missing: Firefox

Offtopic: how to start a poll? I thought it had a high karma limit, but my karma is higher than the TS' and my account is also much older. Or does it require a certain avg?
Yes, express is very simple, and easy to learn and write. It's also the most popular web framework for node.js.

It's less like rails/django and more like sinatra/flask.
Thank you for supporting Meego!
http://feedspot.com/
Home page, not website.
Yarssr - Yet Another RSS Reader

http://yarssr.sourceforge.net/

Simple, to the point, nice UI.
Where They Make China’s Cheap Android Smartphones
> Yet, this is our chance. This is our chance to actually build a company. We have to take it. Another chance may never present itself.

Bah! Two weeks or bust? This is a very short-sited viewpoint: think long term! Slow down and think about what another 3 or 6 months of runway would do for your company and product.

You have skills people want. Do some consulting and give yourself a longer runway. If you truly believe you've got a good product and business on your hands, then find a way to keep it going even if it's on the side while you do a consulting gig. (I know split-focus for a few months is not ideal, but "two weeks or bust" seems like a poor alternative.)
Women are women. Why separate ?
on the contrary, having good efficiency leaves headroom for applying a passive electronic filter, effectively flattening the frequency response.
From the Google Reader author: dreams, discernment, and Google Reader
An Interview with Doug Hellmann
Brute-Forcing Scripts in Google Chrome
My biggest fear is that Community will get cancelled and that their fans will turn to Kickstarter in order to get Dan Harmon back on board to get their six seasons and a movie.
The "open source" posturing is very annoying. They're just doing it for the PR.

Even considering the subset of Android that is "open source" the development process is closed and we just get code drops after product releases. It's like Apple used to do when they were playing the game with Darwin. They're doing a lot of work to avoid and purge LGPL and GPL code so they can work this way. It's not even free to use for vendors, you need to pay licensing fees to get a useful system out of it and sign contracts subjecting you to Google's whims.
The bigger issue is that we are relying more and more to few centralized services on the Web, which doesn't really interop well with each other and does not respect continuity in terms of data or API.

Take a look at Twitter API 1.1 changes, etc. There are more examples of this. At least Google Reader support export subscription list using OPML format.
Firefox Mobile has adblock. I'd recommend nightly
I so miss the convenience stores with actual edible food. In NZ they generally just have a pie warmer :(
The best RSS clients that I've found (Reeder for iOS and Pulse for Android) both use Google Reader as a backend to keep the feed list in sync. I don't really want a whole ecosystem, any social features, a fancy web site, etc. All I really want from an alternative is for it to provide an API for keeping feed lists in sync and for the many Google Reader clients currently available to support it.
The "Hi there ..." box is only displayed in the demo.

After you register you start with a completely empty panel which you can then fill with your own blocks.

Sorry for the confusion, I'll try to make it more clear :-)
Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thompson
Facebook Timeline Privacy Compromised
Per the @reederapp Twitter feed, "Dont worry, Reeder wont die with Google Reader."

http://twitter.com/reederapp/status/311995748482945025
Great idea and a cause close to my heart (I ride a Kawasaki Versys 650 - http://www.learnerapproved.com/bikes/584).

My only gripe was that it's not clear what country this is for, and of course every country has different learner legal laws. I was only able to conclude it was Australia after reading about the founders.

I'd love to see this expanded to other countries, especially for EU countries with the new 4 tier motorcycle licensing (so glad I passed before they brought that in)
http://reederapp.com
You are assuming that "tongs" is not a euphemism for something else. Hell, if you have a dirty enough mind you could substitute "Ninja 1000" for something else also.

If you follow my suggestion, then the cook will seem more than a little sex-crazed.
GCC guys have been on a tear getting the support built in, but it's nice to see Microsoft is slowly catching up as well.
Is WWDC sold out yet?
Task.li turns emails into shared task lists for you
How to set up the ultimate PHP dev machine
> It seems like this perhaps guy created a better version than Nestle on account of it actually tasting good and not needing a dozen cups a day [...]

Just speculating here, but the limiting factor for Nestle might be to get the same stuff that he is using into a product that you can deliver as a ready-made "just add water" mixture. He specifically wrote that he has to make it fresh every day, so that could be the difference.
How Clojure Babies Are Made: Compiling and Running a Java Program
feedspot doesn't seem to support tags.
Is there a comparison chart showing how these services relate to greader features to help people decide where to migrate based on their needs?
Yes. For the 0.7 chain, it's as if the 0.8 chain never happened. All transactions and all mining in that part of the chain is irrelevant now.
The ultimate Google Reader alternatives list
Claws RSSysl

http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=rssyl
Interesting that apparently the data generated by Reader was not valuable enough for Google. +1 are sufficient for Google to understand people's interests? Seems to me information junkies could have been an important source of information.

But then the SEO spammers probably also just created Google Reader profiles with fake reading lists?

How is the situation on G+, is it easy for SEO spammers to game it or is it harder, for example because of the real name policy?
Startup Satire - the 5 major startup stereotypes. Recognise anyone?
Don’t worry that your job is pointless
Hmm, that is a very suspicious comment history.
Hm, I understand your comment but I'm going to push back on it.

Two years ago I was a Research Technician working for a neuroscience lab in Boston. I was paid 32k a year (USD), paid 700/month in rent (with three roommates), 150/month heating during the winter (each roomate!), various utilities etc etc.

In Boston, the "Living Wage" is considered around $12/hour [1]. I made $15/hr, technically less because I worked longer than 40 hour weeks.

Despite that, I still managed to hit my employer's 401k yearly match ($1600), a good chunk of my personal IRA (around $3000) and saved $7000 to an emergency account. I had calculated that 7k gave me around 5-8 month runway should things go pear-shaped, or if I wanted to start something on my own. If you add that up, I saved or invested nearly 36% of my yearly salary.

To be fair, I was single and young. Kids, mortgages, etc add a lot to your burden. But still, you'd be surprised how much money you can save when you just sit down and eliminate silly things sucking down your money.

[1] http://livingwage.mit.edu/places/2502507000
Yes. I probably peaked on typing speed (at something like 40 or so wpm corrected) long ago when I actually took a typing class using manual typewriters.

(And for me, these days, TypeMatrix is the way to go.)
I should have said: I also hate the people who think travel _inherently_ makes them more interesting and virtuous.

Almost everyone with enough money (including me) travels. Some people learn a lot. Most of them don't learn shit.

The ones who think traveling experience makes them inherently superior tend overwhelmingly to be in that sheltered, didn't-learn-shit category.
GitHub was unavailable due to what appeared to be another DDoS attack
It doesn't work without Google Reader's service. How is it an alternative?
Ask HN: With Google Reader gone, what are you using as an RSS reader
The news earlier today of Google Reader's imminent shutdown has left a lot of us looking for a new feed reader. What are you using right now or planning to switch to once the lights go out for good?
>Android sits somewhere between "gift to hackers" and "Windows XP".

It is hard to take you seriously.

Let's be clear that the malware problem on Android aren't apps exploiting any weakness in the platform itself beyond the simplicity of pushing apps onto the market. They aren't exploiting that devices are running Gingerbread or anything like that.

These are apps doing exactly what they are allowed to do by the system -- after advertising their intentions and doing exactly what they declared that they could do -- but they are malicious because the things they are doing aren't in the best interest of the user.

e.g. an ostensible puzzle app that actually sends contact information to a third party (after declaring and getting permissions for contacts and internet access), or that sends pay SMS' to Nigerian sex operators, again after declaring and getting permissions for contacts and internet access.

When anti-virus vendors and please-pay-attention-to-us tiny security upstarts talk about malware, that occupies 99.9% of the space (if not 100%). It is a trust and validity issue with Google and the Play Store that requires much better vetting and culpability of developers, and vetting of applications (not in the "don't do anything that overlaps us" manner of Apple, but simply to validate the scope of functionality, fitness for advertised purpose, and lack of clear trademark and copyright infringement that is so prolific on the Play store).

That has nothing to do with the platform and everything to do with one store.
It would help to clarify if we're comparing RSS readers (clients / desk / mobile) or aggregators (web / self hosted)
The Windows Live Mail app has a feed reader. I wonder how hard it would really be to add the functionality to the web-app version of outlook.com.
performance, bandwidth, less distraction, security
> Consumers had been crying out for this, claiming that they no longer wanted to speak to a real person or pay the premium for doing so.

Was that only an assumption?
newsbeuter
http://www.newsbeuter.org/
Looking for Something Useful to Do With Your Time? Don't Try This
APPYnotebook LMS Open Sourced
Thanks a lot. We'll consider changing our test.
“if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary”

Awesome quote.
Interesting writeup James, thanks for sharing. The point about talking to salespeople being "part of the fun" is interesting - it's counter-intuitive to my engineer's mind, but I can see how the sales process is actually part of the value they are paying for.
Veronica Mars already has a fan base. So hindsight isn't required. Fans are supporting this because they love it just as much as geeks love Star Wars.
* lowendbox.com (be prepared for "fun", you get what you pay for)
* my new favourite digitalocean.com

* EC2

No referral links here, but I am on Gittip :P
When you hit somebody else's server, use their bandwidth and download their stuff I'd say its only fair that they at least get total control over how it displays and behaves by default in a browser. You're totally free to not hit that server if the presentation of the content offends you, or alternatively use a RSS reader or similar.

I'm not arguing against a semantic web, but I will argue in favour of people being able to present and serve their content in any way they see fit. One page JS web app? Fine. 100% Flash microsite? Fine. Crazy Chrome only WebGL/NativeClient art experiment? Fine. Streamlined standards compliant site conveying great semantic value? Also fine. We need all of these. People can vote with their feet and we achieve progress. Like humanity the beauty of the web is the freedom and variety it offers.
Shame about C99 support. I'm afraid to even ask about C11.
Yet again, another DDoS attack. This is getting ridiculous, someone has a serious vendetta against Github to keep trying to bring it down.
I will indeed! Also a helpful reminder for me to try out Superfeedr as part of the backend :D
Since I wrote that article I've found one or two papers about the subject, one of them was one that I heard about in .Net Rocks, it compared code reviews with unit testing, but I can't find it :S
While I was searching I found this one from NCSU and Microsoft: "On the Effectiveness of Unit Test Automation at Microsoft": http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/Unit_testing...
It's not about TDD although they mention it in the paper. I'll try to find that one about code reviews and post it here as well
While seeing none YC job adds on here doesn't full me with glee, I admire the language agnostic approach you've taken to hiring.
I am trying to register to NewsBlur but I encounter an error every single time after submitting the registration form. You should have a look at it as this is the perfect time to grab new users.
Whatever else he's running, adding PHP to it increases the risk.
They address some of the problems in their new blog post.

http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/45337829605/unexpected-day...
I'm sure you didn't mean that statement to sound like all women are interchangeable.

Well,that's exactly what I'm asking. When people who talk about women in tech, they use the phrase broadly. But you don't often see black women founders standing up in solidarity.

I am curious: 1) is it because there are very few founders, 2) they aren't as vocal, 3) or b/c we, the listeners don't pay attention?
From reading the post, it sounds to me as if people trading wine weren't necessarily crying out for an automatic process, but were in fact looking to cut out the middleman.

But because the market was so insular, once you cut out the middleman it turned out you probably knew the person you were buying from anyway, at which point you became far more willing to engage with them directly.
No mention of Newsbeuter "The Mutt of RSS readers". Feeds and podcasts all managed in your terminal: http://www.newsbeuter.org