skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually the final step for me.

I've been an avid Google fan since the early days. I use all the Google services, I use Chrome religiously, I convince family/friends to switch to Chrome from IE, and I've always been convinced Google is the one we're supposed to look up to for how things should be done.

Yeah they've made mistakes, and G+ is a clusterfuck of brilliant talent thrown down a horrible path of closed socialness and realname ridiculousness... but overall I always thought they were still on the right side of "Don't Be Evil".

I'm totally convinced this quiet attack on RSS is a not-so-subtle attempt to push people into G+, and even though I casually use G+ (about the same as I casually use FB or Twitter), G+ is NOT a replacement for RSS, and it's not how I want to keep track of all the sites I read. I don't want to "like" them or add them to my social networks. I just want to read their shit. Simple.

RSS doesn't care if you're logged in. RSS doesn't care if you use your real name. RSS doesn't care if you're accessing it from work, home, or anonymously via an internet cafe. And that's exactly how it should be.

Throw in the Picasaweb crap they're doing now too, FORCING you to use G+ Photos (which is a horrible horrible experience), and I'm done.

I've just installed Firefox on all my home computers and my phone, for the first time since Chrome came out, and will be looking for a new RSS aggregator.
NaCl and Dart were not created in the open. Both were secret projects within Google before their alpha versions were released; Dart was in development for at least 2 years before it was announced to the world. By that time there was no way a third party could have an affect on any of the fundamentals.

Also, for the record, PNaCl doesn't have a spec. It only has a reference implementation.
>>>Bill marvels at the way the neighborhood sleaze has been systematically cleaned up, thanks to massive redevelopment among Sunset Boulevard.

Yes. Now Bill can marvel at the Corporate Playpen it's become, just like New York's Times Square.

Really, is that a future real people want?
By your logic, the extent to which we protect American ideals and freedoms is a function of what other actors do. Worse, it is the most egregiously abhorrent actors who would drive our direction most.

The problem with this thinking is that it has brought us exactly to where we are today. It is a very slippery slope that can literally destroy the fabric of this country. There is no end to what can be justified under the pretext of security and we have already given up too many freedoms in the name of "security". I will omit the famous Ben Franklin quote regarding freedom and security, but it certainly comes to mind.

Those who would argue that it is necessary to curtail freedoms and rights in exchange for protection, must acknowledge that what they presume to protect would be a wholly different America, and they must be well with this new America. To make that argument would be honest and a simple matter of opinion, but to suggest that we can continue on this course without fundamentally altering this nation is nothing more than illusion.
"Can use use a vacuum cleaner to clean a cat?" ... Yes, but I've found that the cat might not like it. I'd also recommend using the upholstery tool and whatever you do, don't allow the cats tail (or any other part) to come into contact with the rotating brushes. For a moderately dirty cat, the vacuum's suction should be enough. If you have a really dirty cat, or a lot of cats to clean at once, try an automatic car wash instead (just make sure it's the kind where the doors close before the wash starts, otherwise too many escape).
A brief history of narcoanalysis
Rather than hacking the video feed, its far more likely remote access to the feed was given to a second accomplice by the casino insider (who later was sacked). This second accomplice then signalled to the gambler by some other method (either physical or electronic).
There's a bit more detail here:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/crown-casino-hi-t...
The iPhone * was the device to end all pub arguments. Important Things (i.e. pointless trivia) were suddenly all available in your pocket, whenever you wanted

Incidentally, this has also led to much much harder pub quiz questions - previously "who won the world cup in 1956" or whatever became University Challenge-style "Which team, whose mascot's species rhymes with the month of their founding, became embroiled in scandal in 1967 when their manager at the time was caught with a prostitute on Dartmoor..." -- i.e. questions designed to be ungoogleable (a verb people would never have predicted in 1988.)

* now all smartphones, I guess.
That actually makes a lot of sense.
The fact that e-mail has become so cumbersome is drawing several people into the field of trying to make some sense out of it; SquareOne seems to have a pretty good system, from what I have seen. it will be interesting to see what comes of this merger.
Rescue breaths with CPR are also the standard for drowning victims, still. I believe it's still being taught as the standard for diving medicine, even volunteer/buddy rescues.
I don't think Microsoft needs help making a mail application.
Four months experiment with moodle for online training
I guess you could redefine people who want that as not "real" people, eh?
How about:

"Every software company expands until it has implemented half of Emacs."

Sort of a product-centric version of Greenspun's rule.
>Google started their proprietary NaCl and Dart projects because they claimed you couldn't make JavaScript any faster than it currently is

I don't remember them saying that. I remember them saying that JS has insurmountable performance problems, but that's very different from saying that JS is as fast as it can get.

As for asm.js, it's another approach to the same problem. An insurmountable problem for a VM usually means that there's a limit to how well the VM can reason about arbitrary code. The clever thing about asm.js is that it gets around that by just restricting the language rather than inventing a new one. The clever thing about Dart is that you would rather write in it than kill yourself.

And yes, of course asm.js is meant to be written by compiling via emscripten, but that means trading far more dynamicness for speed than you would with Dart.
Reminds me of Connie Willis' line in Bellwether: Just because people are experiencing things doesn't mean they have any insight into them.
Okay. TANSTAAFL. Regardless, in my experience, apps like Jabiru tended to drain the battery noticeably faster while at the same time being less resistant to outages when interrupted briefly (elevator, subway, etc.).
In this case it doesn't matter, because the vast majority of my friends don't know what RSS is, don't care, don't use it, and don't care about Google Reader.

The few that cared posted their angry rants, and noone cared. Noone commented. It's a complete non-issue.

And even if you accept the premise of the article, that the ones who care about Google Reader are influencers, what exactly does that mean in practice? Google doesn't have very many services that regular people use. There's search, and you'll never get people to stop using that. There's gmail, and you'll never get people to stop using that. There's Google+, and you'll never get people to use that, because they've got Facebook, and it's only nerds on G+ anyway.

I get the abstract point of the article, that if you upset influential people, they'll badmouth your product, and the Microsoft Word example made a lot of sense, because it stopped people from buying the latest version of it and sticking with what they had.

But that scenario doesn't apply here. Those of you who are upset about this, exactly which Google services will you stop promoting to your friends, and which alternatives will you suggest?
Tourists and outsiders love Corporate Times Square. Native New Yorkers loathe it.
The trailing dot (.) at the end of the domain name denotes the root nameservers. There are 13 such servers in the world.

$ dig ns .

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> ns .
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38974
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;. IN NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
. 21088 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 21088 IN NS m.root-servers.net.

;; Query time: 51 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Mar 16 19:32:57 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 228

This is very helpful in DNS propagation and pointing the appropriate authoritative zone for all the TLDs.
Wow, this is something I wished for since the creation of RSS.

Somehow, the RSS design failed to provide features that were already there in NNTP, like differential updates and message/reply (post/comment) threading...
The thing about practice is that it takes practice. Here are the issues you raised:

- Focus on code coverage

- Testing nothing

- Spagetti code from doing TDD

- IOC + UI/Cucumber takes long to write and run

I would have to say I agree, there is a better way to do this. My guess from your last statement is that you are relatively new to software. Don't mistake your teams poor practices for the practices not working. Try to promote better practices.

Tell your team code coverage only informs you on what isn't being tested. It doesn't help with quality.

Tests, like code, should be deleted if they don't do anything. Strictly adhere to YAGNI,

If TDD is producing spagetti code, you are doing something very wrong in your tests. The tests should be short and focused, just like your code base. Those tests are hard to write on a messy code base, which forces you to refactor, which leads to clean code. Maybe read up on the SOLID principles and other code quality practices to see what you are missing. Refactoring techniques can be very helpful too. This takes years to get good at.

Cucumber is over used. Read about the testing triangle (http://jonkruger.com/blog/2010/02/08/the-automated-testing-t...). My guess is that your team is focusing on the top levels. Those tests provide little long term value, fail without good explanations and can be complicated to write and maintain.
Crown is poorly run with incompetent staff, not surprised and not sympathetic.
A crowdsourced guide to not blowing your first term sheet
>The client doesn't even know I'm doing it in Dart. I'm shipping the minified js file which works on all modern browsers because the Dart team set out to bring jQuery up to a higher level.

I would feel very uncomfortable about that unless it's the sort of client that doesn't really have the tech background to assume you're writing it in JS in the first place. I think if someone is paying to have software written for them, they have a right to have some control over what language it's written in and what libraries it uses. After all, if they need to hire someone else to maintain it or add to it later on, they're going to have a far easier time finding a JS developer to do that than a Dart developer (at least for now).

And, of course, you have the right to charge twice as much to do it in JS if it's going to take you twice as long.
Friction from Process
ابراج اليوم- ابراج يوم الاحد 2013/3/17 حظك ليوم الاحد 2013/3/17
Ask HN: Knowledge of website type and automatic extraction
Hi there. We're wanting some advice on where to start for a mini project. We need to detect some particular types of sites (for example ecommerce) and try to extract specific data from these - product name, photo, price etc. If anyone has any knowledge of this I would love to chat with them.
You don't need updates from 10 to 20 websites. Find one or two good aggregators. HN and Facebook are enough for me.
A distributed Internet based on open protocols is grandiose now??? Are we that far down the rabbit hole?
Day 75:  UI Functions
At least for now, this is my replacement for Google Reader. I've set up Emacs Gnus, subscribed to the half-dozen or so blogs that I care about, and now I read in the comfort Emacs.
CIA job post on RubyInside
I often think of things the opposite way. As I grew up I always thought everything had only worked the way it did since the time I was born, and then I'm surprised to find out that it was working that way for 10+ years before that.
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RSS is a broken standard so I would be happy if you were right.
It's always worth reminding everyone of this:

Haber process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

>>>Fertilizer generated from ammonia produced by the Haber process is estimated to be responsible for sustaining one-third of the Earth's population

I think I first read about that here at HN and it still sticks in my mind.
Is there any evidence that what Google pays is the market rate? I.e. if they cut ties, would Mozilla be able to get about the same amount for default search engine position from Microsoft?

Now that Yahoo is powered by Bing, there are only really two big multinational commercial search engines. Both of them are owned by companies that also offer browsers to compete with Firefox. If neither of them paid, Firefox would still have to include a default search engine. I hope Mozilla can keep going, but honestly it does seem rather dependent on Google's good will.
Start-Up Tips no. 6-10
>>>The future is weird.

Now she's learned the lesson. Instead of buying you a CD next time, she'll just give you a list of music you might enjoy to stream.

Wow, the future gets even weirder.
I don't get where this sentiment comes from. Ever. They are a publicly traded multi-billion dollar company. Even if they hold onto their startup-esque purism for a decade after their founding, they of course fall from grace into the profit motive pitfall because that is how the investor driven market capitalism system works. Never put blind faith in a corporate entity, because they all transition from consumer-driven-product-with-creative-vision to maximize-stockholder-returns-and-short-term-profit. It is how you do business in the big leagues. Google just had the lucky case of having a slow transition, probably due to good decisions in the early years.

I get that HN has this startup culture where creative people come up with "cool things" to sell, and are product oriented rather than profit oriented (though a lot of them seem to love the idea of selling the business off to a big business like Google, walking away with the pocket change, and watching it flounder into obscurity under corporate oversight...) but big business isn't run by people who have product vision, they have profit vision, and these companies are the amalgam of hundreds of managers and overseers that don't have collective vision and can thus only drive it towards what they can all agree on - making higher returns. It happens to the best of them.
The extent of the consequences 50 years from now and our ability to deal with said consequences are rather unknown.
If by "crime" you mean "against the law", then yes, cheating is a crime, but it depends on the jurisdiction. Depending on how silly and/or archaic the laws in the jurisdiction are, just intercepting the surveillance signal might be a crime.

>The casino may ban me (and I might forfeit the earnings for the day) but they can't charge me with a crime

Counting cards has apparently been explicitly ruled not to be cheating in Canada, and while casinos generally call it that, it is not actually illegal. Other forms of cheating are, however. For example, in Nevada, cheating is a felony.
As I've gotten older, I'm struggling with my productivity because I get more tired from being in that intense "grind" mode. If I am real focused for several days,I hit a wall and then I'll need more time to recover. Forcing it doesn't seem to help as fatigue gets worse.

A big part of it is the physical feeling of working at the computer, it starts to hurt after a few intense days, which adds stress.

It's been making me mad as i would like to get more done, but I have to rest.

I never know how to apply advice like that of the original poster. It seems to be, to excel be smart and work diligently. How is this helpful to anyone?
>>>I find it interesting that as recent as 25 years ago they were still suggesting that we would used advanced technology to print off a newspaper instead of read it off a screen.

Twenty-five years ago, most screens were crap. And we're talking about reading here, which is done in a lean back manner.
This also seems true of most successful "startups" which rarely blow up overnight but build incrementally over years (e.g. Skype, Pinterest, Google, Facebook, GitHub, FeedBurner.. vs Cuil, Color, and other "next big thing" flash in a pans)
Team share passwords, type less and improve password security at the same time
>Are they actually visiting 10 or 20 websites a day manually?

Some do. My brother, for example, has several dozen political or gun-related blogs that he reads religiously. He doesn't even keep a bookmark list--he just remembers all of them, and visits them one by one when it's time for reading, keeping track of which posts are new. I showed him Google Reader and suggested it would streamline things greatly, but he just grunted it off and said he liked doing things the way he liked doing things.
Yeah that's a good idea also. Thanks for your vote.
DEFCAD - "Pirate Bay" of 3d printing
Huawei 3G/4G USB sticks put users' security at risk
Teenager built web design blog reaching 650k uniques/month (in 1yr)
Every "web developer" should read the first three chapters of the Cricket book. The profound ignorance (that many web developers have) of DNS is inexcusable:

http://www.amazon.com/DNS-BIND-5th-Cricket-Liu/dp/0596100574
My Caturday Saturday Precious Babies
Everyone has forgotten Nolan Bushnell's Petster?

Hackers Get Cat Of Their Own
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-08-14/entertainment/...

There's not even a Wikipedia entry for it. Shame.
I guess I just never had any of Google's decisions really effect me in a negative matter until G+ came out and they started ruining products I use on a daily basis (such as Picasaweb, Reader, etc)... so I didn't think about it, or bother re-analysing Google to decide if they'd finally transitioned into a big-evil-company type entity... which they have now (to me).
I don't see how the way in which something is developed before its first release has any bearing on whether its current development is community-driven. Everything was designed in secret at some point: within the head of whoever was thinking about it, before they decided to start talking about it.
I tried this a while back and totally forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!

To run it, use the r2e command and you can follow the guide here:http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/getting-started-with-r...

I think I will try this and set up some filters to move the feed emails out of my inbox for later viewing.
Hah this is pretty cool! Here's mine (http://ExpressionFace.com/1e1yo16). Only gripe is that it's not a .gif!
CLI RSS: RSS with Newsbeuter
<pedant type="confused">emphatic?</pedant>
Fun read, well-written. I can relate to this somewhat. I recently proofread a paper discussing new applications for hermite polynomials (for english mistakes), and I was blown away by the years of study it would take me to even begin to understand what was going on with my amateur math skills. I guess it can be similar to what a non-programmer feels like when looking at code.
There was lots of protest to the Iraq war. Not as much as people pretend now, but still a lot.

Protest to the Afghanistan war, on the other hand, was extremely rare.
I think a lot of it also has to do with HOW you practice, so much that doing it in chunks just happens to be the result.

In other words, the focus on improving certain specific things which are better to do in chunks. Those that just repeat can do it in small bursts. Your technique of learning determines if your practice will be chunky or not, not the other way around.
RSS readers on Linux
I agree with you, but this client really doesn't care, only that it is done quickly and it works. They're pretty happy and are lining up more work for me. I'd say the greatest experience I had with it besides real types, code completion and intellisense, is that it ran first time on iPad (Safari, Chrome, FF), Mac and Windows FF and Chrome. I had a slight problem with IE9 and 10, but nothing too hard to fix. The client had paid someone to do it in ActionScript/Flash but the project had to be cancelled when Flash on mobile was mostly deprecated. I didn't look at the ActionScript code, but later found out there is a lib for that (haven't tried it and won't unless I have to someday) http://www.dartflash.com/
You can cd to /home/user or /home/user/ as well. The dot's in DNS are equivalent to the slashes in your Unix file system.

/ is root

. is root

I'm shocked that many people on HN don't seem to understand this.
To Entrepreneurs, projects are not tasks
maybe in some professions, then it's a professional tool and not a "for everyone's" usage. There are several options out there aside from Google Reader, especially if you're willing to pay.
Not only that, in Ocean's Eleven they don't just place bets, they break into a vault, so the only similarity with the film seems to be that a camera feed was involved.
This is a great observation. Google could have turned all this frustration into energy for Google+, but they didn't.
Situation isn't much better here in Portugal, but it is slightly better. Why not jump over the ocean?

Average for a developer is around 1000-1200 EUR/month. If you are good and have a good track record 1500-2000 EUR. It isn't much after taxes, but compared to 500 USD/month should allow you to pay for your living expenses if you are frugal and make a dent on your debt.
I actually really like this. Great work
Check Email Away a from Your Desk to Stay Productive at Work
I suspect this as well, which is why I deleted my G+ account in protest the other day. It was remarkably easy to do, both practically (just click a couple buttons) and sentimentally (in ~2 years there has rarely been any activity from any of my contacts, and I follow most of them on Twitter anyway). I've heard people hem and haw over deleting their Facebook account; G+ offers no such difficulty.
United States GSA Problem. Maybe.
"monitor your bank accounts" seems to be the solution to this enormously vague problem.
Backbone.js Templates Without Logic or Interpolation
The practice is called dumping [1] and most countries have laws to prohibit it

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
You say 'pre-order with guaranteed delivery,' but doesn't that mean in cases where the creator underestimated project difficulty and the product is never finished, backers will be asking you for their money back? How are you going to deal with that?
Bookmarks. I personally have multi row toolbar and Tree Style Tab on Firefox. I really see no need for RSS (and yes I tried it[1])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5383772
Mentionless: Read other's Twitter timeline without mentions
I disabled it on my blog a long time ago because I want people to actually come to my website to read my posts. See the "related" posts and the "comments" section etc...

I guess it's even more obvious if you have ads on the website.