skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We are always under surveillance - my neighbours know I stay up late watching crap tv, the bookshop assistant knows I browse the comics section but don't buy, and a hundred people each day see me do weird or normal things.

But none of this data is kept around forever, centralized, searchable and subpoena-able.

Sure, in a sense, we've always been smearing our private data everywhere. But what you describe is tiny pieces of data distributed over many human agents with imperfect memories, especially with respect to the irrelevant details on the actions of the many people they encounter every day.

This article is talking about databases, the largest of them owned by a handful of gigantic corporations. And even the smaller ones are just as easily accessible to the state. Hence, surveillance state.

It doesn't matter that it's too much data, either. Storage is cheap, it'll just stay there waiting until someone needs to query it. And analysis and machine-learning algorithms are only getting better, to make these queries increasingly more specific, accurate and informative.
"We build for facebook, rackspace, and IBM"is rather marketable, especially with larger/corporate customers which are the bread and butter of the big name vendors.
Not really. Unexpected inflation hurts. Central banks don't hide the fact that they target positive inflation figures. If you stuff your money in a mattress, you will lose PP. Not if you put it in practically ANY investment vehicle, throughout history. Though, I get your point.

Nobody guarantees the value of your dollar earned over any period of time, nor that it won't diminish in value with the production of more dollars.
I've just finished reading The Lean Startup. There is so much in there that is relevant to this if you haven't already read it I highly recommend you check it out. Especially the sections on engines of growth and metrics.
Since the scam took place in the high roller room and the player was not Australian (read: most likely ethnic Chinese from somewhere in SE Asia), I'd wager baccarat.
I'm not the op, but I dislike the font and the colorful background (header).
You have a very lenient advisor.
At this point, probably... But on Tuesday it may change. It may be the usual cycle of: some event brings new bitcoin buyers; BTC goes up; media and people who want to ride the wave join in; if it happens too fast people will get nervous, sell at current high and cause another dip. Not sure how many people in Cyprus are interested in bitcoin, but after their transfers are possible again, I wouldn't touch BTC for a couple of days just in case. </speculation>
Yeah, except you don't need to take the reasoning to the extreme. Physical property redistribution happens in countries all around the world all the time. Why do you think the founders of the US decided only property owners could vote?

I don't think of the government taking people's savings out of a bank and the government taking people's land as very different. It's a small and easy step to take from one to the other, and it's a step that has been taken many, many times before.

As to your last paragraph; it is foolish to assume social changes or governmental behaviors are more or less likely because of technological advances.
That's a pretty whiny feature request. I read the first few dozen comments, and I don't really know what exactly was being requested.

It's clear to me that the right approach is an extension specific to your preferred RSS reader. I understand that some browsers have an RSS reader built it, but that still doesn't make it a core feature that's going to be used by a big portion of their users.
The end of system administration: "What would you say you do here?"
Reading, Writing and Video Games
Singapore.
Germany is the last fucking place I would put my money.
Income tax around the 50-55% bracket.
Good luck.
So, after this flaming endorsement I just had to install mailbox.app. I gave it a whirl and... well, it's nice.

But can you give an example of the parts that you deem "unclone-able"?

That seems a pretty wild claim. It's not made of pixie dust. And I'm frankly a little underwhelmed. It's certainly nice, but (to me) not nearly as earth shattering as you make it sound.

I'll give you that assembling a team to maintain such a standard (and extend it) is non-trivial. But do you seriously think iOS top-talent wouldn't jump when dropbox puts, say, one million dollars per nose on the table?

Get a team of five and have them dedicate their life to making the best mail-client ever. That'll be $5 million dollars, not $100MM.

This whole prospective is of course a little surreal. But so is paying a hundred million dollars for a mobile mail client...
The bug was opened in 2010. It was changed to WontFix days after Google gave the Google Reader announcement. An unlikely coincidence.
It is, again, a matter of a point of view.) In theory, no one benefits when, say, Russian criminals or politicians (which is actually just an alias) park stolen money there. Money should work (flow) which means - getting invested. If they just stolen, evacuated from the original country and parked in a bank which cannot even invest them properly - no one benefits, except bankers and criminals.

There is also nothing special in that EU elites want to break the scheme - why should they care about Russians laundering money? They would prefer their own schemes.)

So, nothing to see here. Parking money abroad is a risky enterprise, so, just take some loses and diversify better next time.)))
7 percent x web scale is not a small figure

Not sure if they still do this, but Mozilla used to give new hires a little toy and say, "This is your million users; try not to abuse them too much." That concept is built-in to the culture there. Why take up space and memory for the 93% of users who don't use that feature, when an add-on can do just as good a job for the 7%?
When are they going to kill Gmail?
Makes sense to me. Lightened up the background a bit- any better? https://github.com/ejfox/happybirthdaytributary/commit/dc189...
The Google Wave grave reminds me of what a weird non-product that was. Has anyone done a good post-mortem/retrospective on that? Always seemed ahead of its time on a lot of levels, especially technically (one of the few times I've ever seen a single tab crash all of Chrome).
Basic Threading in Go
When it's no longer profitable, like (almost) every other business on Earth.
10% of the $34.6 billions Russians have parked in Cyprus is a lot of money.

http://www.businessinsider.com/cyprus-bailout-russian-angle-...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-21/russia-cyprus-money...
I'm not convinced that it needs to be a part of Chrome however. Honestly, it sounds like a great use case for a Chrome extension.
I have a similar perspective on this issue. I would like to discuss this further. If you are interested please email me. My contact is in my profile. Same invitation is open to anyone else who has the same perspective.
I actually read RSS feeds --- using the Currents application (which is supported by Google and under active development; it's getting updates) on my Android Nexus 10 tablet.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and....

So for those people who claim that Google doesn't care at all about RSS, Currents is certainly a counter-example.

And by the way, Google is a big enough company that to claim that a corporation as a whole as an opinion about any subject or any protocol is a little silly. Take for example, "IBM Loves Lotus Notes; therefore IBM must hate SMTP." Absurd. There is a part of IBM that make a lot of money off of Lotus Notes, yes. There are also lots of IBM engineers and former IBM engineers who hated it with a hot blazing passion. I'm aware of one IBM division which supplied its engineers with a Lotus Notes-free e-mail address because it was necessary for them to do their jobs. Specifically, interact with the open source community with a mail product that wouldn't destroy whitespace in patches....
Thanks for posting this. His comment immediately reminded me of this and I was about to try to find this exact page.
Well, I've been out for more than 7 years, but I think my adviser was pretty patient. I'm lucky that my current research boss is cool about what I do.
I'm happy for them but I just don't like their interface. Anyone knows if Feeddler has plans to keep going? I like that app.
I'm not seeing a direct connection between UI simplicity and server capability. I can serve a hideously complex UI with a very minimal demand on the server. Demand on the server is much more about actual traffic, not the UI being rendered in the browser.
It's theft, plain and simple.

The Cypriot people are not being asked if they want to sacrifice their savings - it is being taken from them by force!
> indignant mob bitching at us

Any chance that every month or so a moderator makes a bad decision and the mob calls it out correctly? When did HN become about mods -vs- unwashed masses? Surely this could be solved in some way making all sides happy... (old title in parens, majority voting on title, etc.)
Maybe Larry Page should write a public statement entitled "Thoughts on RSS".
I'm Cypriot, and today I've seen 6.75% of my family's savings disappear.
If you have a shitty product, it doesn't matter if you hang out with Arrington, Kevin Rose, Paul Graham. your product will still suck. Yet if you build a great product with real users/customers everyone will flock towards you.
You might consider some simplification of your web page... there was a cool automatic "tutorial" JS app posted here a few days ago... and maybe security as a selling point. I'd like to throw suspicious pages at it and see what happens if anything... big market for that and you can charge a lot more than you are if you make it remotely "cyber" related. Feel free to talk to me/pm if you want some pointers on the security side of the house.
Admittedly it's light gray link on a white background...but if you click on "white noise" it will take you to the sound!
They still own FeedBurner, too, (until they shut it down).
Outside of an electromagnetic pulse or similar disaster, I'm not worried at all about that outcome. The Wayback Machine archives almost everything publicly available. When you put stuff in the cloud — which includes tweets on Twitter, photos on Facebook, and emails on Gmail — you'll never lose it to a hard drive crash.

When I have fears of losing data, I have to ask myself: is that data really important to begin with? Or is it junk, digital detritus? I've simplified by selling, giving away or throwing out a lot of my physical possessions, and it feels great to do so. Recently I'm beginning to feel the same way about digital possessions. It is better to reduce.

Unless you have some specific business case for extrapolating from your over-a-year-old logs, what do you need them for? Do you just want them because you could make a neat graph or something? Why not let it go?

Your possessions start to own you. Extra data that could get you or other people in trouble, can similarly be a liability.
As advanced as we think we are a species, tribalism still reigns over much of our behavior.
But the banks aren't going bankrupt.

If you have 100k EUR in a bank account in Cyprus today, you're going to get 93.250k EUR on Tuesday. If instead the bank went bankrupt you'd have 100k EUR in your bank account on Tuesday too thanks to the deposit insurance. You'd be better off if the bank actually went bankrupt!

The typical pro-bailout argument at this point is that if Cyprus lets the banks go bankrupt the deposit insurance scheme (in other words, the government) won't be able to make everyone whole. That argument is a tacit admission that bank accounts really are unsecured.
Shut Up And Take My Money
Having great ideas and failing to get any traction is something me and I would be many people are familiar with. Of course we mostly hear about the successes.
One view is that if you have Euros, the safest place for them is Germany, because if the single currency does break up over a weekend, at least your Euros will be converted into Deutsch Marks.
He does not say that it's a coincidence. He says that the event has probably brought back this issue, and that they have closed it to avoid false hope (since it should have been closed a long time ago according to the last post).
A rather well-known video of a guitarist mimicking the coin sounds with harmonics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFEepARd81g&t=0m25s
This came up on reddit a few days ago. The consensus was that there is dynamic library that is present on the ARM chromebooks which is used by netflix(and hence can not be used on regular x86 machines).

That said, it may be possible to reverse engineer it.
+1 for MythBusters. This would be fantastic for them.
Could this possibly be the person referenced in the story?[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-swenson/18/589/b52]
Has anyone tried contacting him to see if the story is real (and if so, if they ever figured out what caused it?)
Wrong. The banks loan out money that is deposited to people seeking loans. These Russians are helping Cyprus. There is no such thing as parking money (with the exception of stuffing your mattress with usd)

The people who save (Russians, Cyprus locals) should not be punished.
Well, I haven't used RSS in years. I just follow bloggers & websites' on twitter. My twitter feed spits out all the news articles into a passive stream of noise without interrupting me (like an email would do), so it's pretty similar to RSS for me.
I used it and it was amazing. My utility replaced it with something called SmartHub, which is almost as good. You just can't embed it anywhere. I always like using the iGoogle thing with my power widget on there. Could always tell when I didn't shut down the computer.
"Do no evil" is not the same as "Do every possible good thing forever."
Wait a second. So I lend you a thousand dollars, for a nice interest rate.

Then you go bankrupt or just disappear.

And in this dire situation I should not be allowed to collect $1 from a thousand random citizens to compensate my loss?

What an absurd concept.

</sarcasm>
As I noted recently, Google Currents is an Android application which uses RSS. And it is a product which has been getting updates, and is available at the Play Store here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

So if people think Google is getting out of the RSS business, here's a counter-example. Personally, this is how I browse my favorite news/blog sites each morning, looking for interesting content (which can be easily shared via G+ or other any other link sharing service; unlike iOS, it's easy for any Android application, including Google Currents, to share content with other Android applications, whether it be G+, or Evernote, or Digg, etc.)
Iceland lost 50%, but they put their corrupt bankers and government ministers on trial. Cyprus lost 10% and they still have the exact same cancer.
I agree that in this case a change was called for. I usually do not complain about misspellings, but sometimes a misspelling completely changes the meaning. Personally, I have no problem with mods changing titles as long as they do it in order to avoid confusion.
I think this is brilliant. This could change the way I work. Great work, thanks!
i think some people may not get that the header itself is a tributary math example ... link it up? ;)

theres a difference between creating pixel perfect polished marketing sites and showcasing an evolving prototyping tool
I was wondering why no one was tackling the issue of posting to multiple social networks, and instead all we saw were services that clone posts from one network to the next, services that usually get shut down from the networks. So I made my own a while back that can post to Twitter, Facebook, G+, etc in customized ways depending if I have a URL or not, automatically shortening it, etc. Otherwise I would give yours a try.
Yeah, you're right, the tone is unhelpful.

My point is that there's nothing you can do with your money to ensure that it always has value, regardless of the magnitude of the crisis. There's always some risk. You can store your money in insured bank accounts, but we can see how well that's working out in Cyprus. You can store cash under your mattress, but high inflation will destroy its real value. You can buy gold and hoard it in your home, but there's no guarantee gold will be worth much, or that you'll even be allowed to keep it (see Executive Order 6102). You can buy land and if the state fails and thugs with bigger guns decide they want it more you're screwed. There's nothing you can do to eliminate all risk, and we're seeing now that risks we though were minimal (failures of deposit insurance schemes in the western world) aren't so minimal after all.
I'm sure that TechCrunch are aware of the irony of blogging about the problems with breathless hype?

The only other richer example I think of is when Gartner published their "Hype Curve" book.

Anyhow, given the payoff matrix for hype, most people are always going to try playing the hype card. If your product doesn't "cash the cheque", who cares? So long as you got some paying customers out of the publicity, it's a winning move. The costs of hype (wasted attention, money diverted from other businesses) are externalities to the hype-user.
It could just be me, but the page loaded very slowly and was laggy while scrolling. A lot of graphics going on.
Every era has its pyramids; this is far from the first or worst severe misallocation of human effort and resources.

It absolutely is happening, however. So if some tiny fraction of this current era's chosen realize their good fortune and power, they could truly change the world.
The No UI Debate Is Rubbish
I'm totally fine with debugging on browser, with live edits, I don't see a need for sublime text inspector.
It's theft from your family, plain and simple.

You still have a chance to stop this outrage, as it must pass your parliament, and then other Eurozone parliaments too.

Good luck.
That's better, but I would probably still extend the solid-color background to the top of the page, so the background doesn't clash with the text at all.
It seems like you have never been in Cyprus.) There is nowhere to loan billions. The population is small, businesses are tiny.

And of course there are no "people who save". It is mostly enterprises trying to hide money from taxes and corrupted officials, who cannot show unearned "wealth" at home.

People would benefit when the money would be invested at home (well, in Russia it is a suicide), or perhaps, in an agriculture in a highly populated developing countries where lots of people just need a job to support their families.
"For a better user experience, we have migrated your feeds to a custom Google+ profile. We hope you will enjoy connecting with friends, family, and advertisers while reading news brought to you by Cuke(R)!"
The interface is kinda hard to use. When I click on a picture and it expands it, how do I close the picture??

Also the "No pictures found" thing is kinda misleading since it just takes a few seconds for the pictures to load

edit: Sorry, I do think this is good...just got thrown off initially cause the interface is kinda clunky.
Good luck to the OP! This seems like a potentially useful service. Having said that, on to the constructive criticism.

It's not clear on what kind of service it's trying to be, and thus what problem it should try to solve.

If it's for running a product's suite of automated tests, then it's going to be competing with Tddium and CircleCI. I can't imagine choosing it over one of those for my company's continuous integration, because it only runs PhantomJS tests and we also have tests that don't require a browser.

If it's for making a crawler-friendly version of a single-page app, that sounds really involved to get working, and requires you to insert this new service into the loop of your interaction with Googlebot. It also makes me wonder if Google will decide this is cloaking and ban your site for doing this.

Also, each of the plan names should be clickable. Right now it looks like I'm going to get the $199/mo plan when I click on Sign Up (and when I click on that I get taken to some other domain, and I'm on a Sign In form rather than a Sign Up form). Also, typo in "absolutly".
Or to hovertext with "Submitted title: 'blah blah blah'"
By writing the extension this person has clearly added way more than 70 dollars of value to st
I don't understand how someone decided the Eurozone was a good idea. It really is probably the biggest economic disaster in modern history.
So you're saying we should expect this to change very soon?
>You still have a chance to stop this outrage, as it must pass your parliament, and then other Eurozone parliaments too.

Citation needed? My understanding was that this was already in motion, and is going into effect before the banks open on Tuesday.
Build your tolerance for risk
There should be a default build of all browsers with "the most privacy settings possible" and allow people to install that.
Nice sympathy piece full of heartstring-tugging stories of rural Americana. But...

Want to send a letter to Talkeetna, Alaska, from New York? It will cost you fifty dollars by UPS.

That's because it's thousands of miles away and freaking in the middle of NOWHERE. Why, rationally, should it cost the same as sending a letter across town?
I used to withhold face-palm reactions to opinions that differed from my own on the premise that all views deserve to be heard, but there is so much ridiculous opposition in the world now, that it's become burdensome.

Even reading this trash article was in just about all respects, a horrible waste of time.
Laws are mutable. Durable things must be invariant under human law.

The Riemann Hypothesis has not been proven; Congress cannot legislate its truth or lack thereof.
This looks rather nifty, anyone know if there's anything comparable for Emacs?
I mainly meant the iOS app, and the per-story view -- there is a lot of whitespace. The iOS app doesn't seem to actually accept the more condensed view as a global default, either, and only sometimes accepts it when I set it within a given rss feed.

I also dislike the Chrome extension (vs. pure web-only).

OTOH, it is really pretty, so I'm thinking of using it for recreational use anyway. It's just not an ideal research replacement for google reader yet.
That's an unfair criticism. If you look upthread, a commenter points out[1] that the CNN page for this article includes at least 10 third-party tracking scripts. Most people are unaware that tracking is going on at this scale, how it works, or what they can do about it.

Watch this video[2] of a bunch of people who don't know what a browser is. That's most people. Do you think they understand how internet tracking works? Hardly. You and I, as techies, can perhaps make an informed decision, but most people can't and if you step outside the bubble you'll see that.

It's never okay to blame the users for hidden privacy consequences.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387380

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
I am not well versed in Plan9, but it looks to me like this can be significantly more important than we think now. Personal Clustering might very well be the PC of the future, especially with the proliferation of many small personal devices and in the path to a more ubiquitous computing environment. I also think that this could very well be just the opening to a more decentralised/democratised internet. Finding out how the intersection of the crypto/cyberpunk movement and personal clustering and open access could emerge is a very interesting concept and I would be glad to contribute or even be a simple observer in this. If someone has similar thoughts/ideas, do not hesitate to shoot me an email. I will reach out to the OP too.
Going out of your way to kill technologies that compete with your proprietary social network qualifies as evil in my book.
Do you have to constantly change your web page scraper to maintain G+ support, since it has no API?