skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What has me puzzled is why they didn't try and sell their usebase, I'd be willing to make a modest offer. But now that they've gone off really pissed off their customers the value of that asset just dropped like a rock.
Coincidentaly, I was thinking of debugging and asked the following question 2 min ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5382299

Request folks to answer that as well.
I wasn't going to upgrade to S4, but now that I read this rant, makes me want to go and get one.

Every week some columnist gets on a soapbox and drones about how they are offended. Just read a good blog post about it: http://falkenblog.blogspot.fr/2013/03/taking-offense-is-not-...

"Curiously, a former definition of impoliteness has become a new focal point for all sorts of political and psychological offense. I remember Miss Manners noting that politeness has two, related, sides: not giving or taking unintentional offense. That's clearly old school. There seems to be a public bounty for perceiving slights, and lots of columnists are full-time commentators noting the latest injustice to their tribe. There's a website called MicroAggressions documenting slights felt by people who don't appreciate the guy who opened or failed to open the door for them. Interestingly, the more they talk about things, the more people get upset by people getting upset ad infinitum."
Recently took a CPR class in Seattle. Not for any particular reason, just because it seemed like a handy skill to pick up for two hours time invested. I learned a few interesting bits of trivia.

--Seattle has the highest survival rate for heart stop events in the world at 56%. That's because of pioneering advances in EMT training, broad availability of AEDs, high percentage of people trained, etc.

--When I asked for a point of comparison, he said Detroit was 4%.

--AEDs don't actually bring you back to consciousness. They just make CPR more effective. (much more!)

--Bad CPR is much better than no CPR. So much so that high end AEDs will actually teach you CPR with voice prompts, since it's better than sitting there. Some 911 operators will coach you through it as well. Even if your CPR is rusty, it's worth trying.

--Modern CPR (for adults) no longer includes rescue breaths. Mouth-to-mouth was too much of a turnoff, and chest compressions alone are very effective given the response times of ambulances.

--And most importantly - $40 and two hours can save a life! You can set yourself up here: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/CPRAndECC/CPR_UCM_001118_SubHo...
What I'm disagree with, is the idea that there must be some overarching Google Unimind for this to have been a conscious strategy, and thus that angle is implausible-to-laughable.

I assert it's rather more plausible that such plans were under-way and closing Reader was a step to clear the way for a Google+ solution. Because nothing near a unimind would have been required to coordinate it and because the entire migration is more inevitable than not.

Is it possible the Google+ team is sincere in wanting to help people and capture feedback? Sure.

But that's rather orthogonal to the question of whether this statement and the timing of all this is primarily motivated by PR strategy.
Solid use of animated gifs to get the point across.
Awesome Basecamp alternative w/ Dropbox style sync
File API + node.js filesystem shim + node-git. It's been a weekend project somewhere on my todo list for a year, and it'd work just fine as a impl, and requires naught but working some glue into the cracks between these already made pieces.

That said, support away, would love to see Tim get this initiative kickstarted & see what solid work he kicks out.
Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron
How do they not innovate?
They make the best ssd on the market(840 pro) -their regular 840's are the first commercial ssds to use tlc nand - and some of the best display panels in the business. Apple uses displays made by samsung, and processors made by samsung, as well as ram made by samsung in their phones.
Want to be clear, though, that Google Ventures tries to keep pretty separate from Google. Also, the better GV's portfolio companies do, the better GV does. My impression is that the design team actually cares.
One of Larry Page's earliest papers is about dedup. Google itself has published papers on email deduplication.
The market rate for a person with your skillset
(which is only likely to include a commission or profit-share if you're expected to take responsibility for getting clients to spend more, or they can't afford to promise market rate)

The fact the firm might bill a client a large multiple of that for your time is irrelevant: they take on the risks and responsibilities associated with winning the business and overheads and probably add value to your time with some combination of reputation, proprietary data/software/methodology, other team members, training and support etc.
Hi Eduardo,

I'm a UX Designer with www.cognitivedigital.com

I'm interested in your project, but I'd like to know more about it to see if we'd make a good fit. Please contact me through the form on the site or just send an email to jahedmomand@gmail.com, let's get the ball rolling

PS: eu morava no Brasil pra dois anos, em Florianopolis, falo Portugues, though I doubt that will be necessary :)
It might seem like common sense for the paramedic to rush. But in practice, rushing doesn't save lives.

Rule #1 in any first-responder situation is to keep the rescuer safe. There are tons and tons of examples where rushing led to mistakes that killed the rescuer AND the patient.

So don't be upset! Moving with caution is not an OSHA rule - it is best practice learned over decades of hard-earned experience.
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Also happy to answer any questions you have :)
I'd say most of the time the higher level the language the easier it would be to debug. For example, I can open a file, write to it and close it in three lines of ruby. Doing this properly in C would take at least 8 lines. Less code is one way of making software easier to debug.
Hey, that's your opinion and I can't call it wrong! Although I strongly feel like Google Reader was by far the most used service they are going to axe. I was pretty upset when Google Notebook was axed, but I just moved my data elsewhere. I don't really expect much with deprecation after that incident because while the service was deprecated, the lack of support/updates just left me never wanting to use it anymore.

If that is the tipping point for you, then by all means show support for alternatives. I know I do a terrible job at ensuring Google isn't the only player in the game.
Hi, we never wanted to insinuate that BufferBox wasn't around, they are alive and well and we've spoken with them. However, we're not sure what Google's plans are and we know this solution is necessary in the US right now, so I think there is room for multiple players in this space. BufferBox also doesn't exist in the US.
Just to start things off, I've had some experience debugging in Ruby, and have found Pry to be a decent tool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pry_%28software%29
A demo isn't obvious on the page. Try this:

http://www.goodboydigital.com/runpixierun/
Well, that sounds dysfunctional.
Any company with hundreds of employees doing hundreds of millions in revenue is a "giant company".
When working in this way, how do you run the code? I imagine anything involving a backend would be tough, but would it be possible to run purely client side code when offline?
Didn't mean that to be negative.
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Sorry, should have made it more clear -- all of their billing is hourly (although they'd probably be much better off switching to daily or weekly).

In your $10 million of value example, what would you say is a reasonable percentage of that to charge? It would be a bit more difficult to measure, but I think this firm could probably bill on a value-added basis as well.
Might want to add some code comments so that it's easy to tell the intention of each method. Personal experience: when you write a little bit of a pydoc for your code it can highlight code smells. e.g.: If the docstring is too long then maybe you are doing too much in one method.
+1 for price controls in medicine
Synchronization, I use 5 computers (some with 2 OSs), 2 tablets and a phone for a great quantity of feeds with different frequency of weekly/monthly posts. I do not care how I read these posts but I care to sync them in all these device.
Bash actually supports /dev/tcp/HOSTNAME/PORT for this kind of thing. Ironically, that's disabled in the Debian bash package.
The odd thing to me is that he phrased it as "many Google products", which sounds as if he's thinking about leaving the Google+ product.
Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?
It is possible to block the installation of Chrome extensions through group policy.

http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3

You can whitelist and blacklist extensions, whitelist sources, force install extensions and block them by type only.

It shouldn't be hard to prevent all extensions from running.
Wide-ranging policies like this actually damage security as users will do anything to access the functionality that they want.

Plus they will make users hate you.
Thanks so much for saying this! This is exactly how feel ourselves. :)

Danny of http://beeminder.com
I didn't notice at first, but based on the number of obvious typos in the parent, I'm pretty certain it was intentional.
No way! This will be socialism!
SharePoint dev here. I fully realize that SharePoint is not the greatest platform out there on a number of counts; but I can't really see this as being anything close to an alternative to SharePoint. It would definitely serve as a HUGE upgrade to its native Wiki functionality, however.
How do Firefox extension fare?
No, Google said Sparrow would remain available but not be updated.
It's fairly common knowledge that Reader had zero support inside Google, and hasn't had any support in several years.
People who deal with emergencies professionally, and especially their non-expert political bosses and their lawyers, spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about panicked reactions by the general public, a phenomenon that is almost entirely fictional.

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/emergency_response/common_misconcep... (escape panic is rare; disaster shock is rare and short lived; public reaction to disasters is adaptive but might overwhelm unprepared public agencies expecting to be in control)
It is now illegal to marry your clone.
as an alternative to relatively complex chef/puppet solutions there is also http://ansible.cc/ - language agnostic and push based over ssh, so no need to install stacks and run resource-wasting clients on the server.
It does seem like an odd oversight that Chrome allows you to block plugins per site but not extensions. If you click the green lock in your address bar now, you can see the option to block all plugins. It stops java and flash, but allows extensions like adblock, etc to keep running on the page.
It's not a dichotomy. It's risk aversion. When we share/publicize our work and ideas, we have control over what people see/hear. When it comes to references, we do not have control. One bad reference (from a spiteful co-worker, a bad manager, or anything else we're trying to leave behind us) can ruin a job opportunity, or even a career.
> "Subscribing" on the other end is what people used to do [...] to get magazine delivered to their places.

Which is what RSS does! It gets the next issues of the "magazine" delivered to your place.
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Embrace, extend an extinguish applies even more to Google's killing support for CalDAV in favor of it's own protocol now that pretty much everyone is using Google Calendar.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Only where Microsoft at least still cared about keeping it's (corporate) customers happy (and therefor providing some long term certainty), the only customers Google cares about are advertisers. They will ruthlessly kill off whatever doesn't suit them.

Being the product in Google's universe will suck worse than being the reluctant consumer in Microsoft's universe.
Thanks abailin for plugging my startup! Guys this solution is really cool, and I love the "spotlighting" animation. When it comes to flexibility you definitely cannot compete with implementing a simple library like this. Nevertheless, for ease of installation and for a bunch more amazing features I highly recommend you check out http://tutorialize.me. Fully hosted, asynchronous, installed in minutes, full markup (mustache.js) and CSS editing, Cross browser support, and a sweet dashboard with tutorial analytics. PEACE!
> Chrome extensions are worse than just "accessing all your data", since they actually inject code into running web apps en masse. At least with Windows, they'd have to patch a particular binary (and it's non-trivial to so).

There's no need to patch binaries -- you can hook just about everything you want. Whether you want to intercept networking, file IO, or just about anything else, it's trivial with tools like Easyhook. A binary running under your account has complete control of everything happening under your account, in essence, and exercising that control is never hard.
I'm in the same position (IT security at a large corp), with the difference that we're a Google customer. Our email and collaboration suite is Gmail/Drive/Talk/Hangouts. This means we are now recommending Chrome as the default browser on all corporate machines. Keeping Chrome locked down has been a challenge for us and not a week goes by where we don't find that someone has or is planning to attempt to bypass our restrictions by installing Chrome extensions or using web apps that integrate with Google Apps by means of giving them your Google username and password.

Google makes it extremely hard for an enterprise security team to set reasonable restrictions. Our support response from Google is usually "we don't support locking that down" or "we don't have a way to let people access feature X without also allowing feature Y". Make no mistake, Google Apps for Enterprise exists in name only.
I don't get it, what is supposed to be "new and shiny" about "here is an RSS feed, it will provide dated articles of content to consume from a web source, browse at your leisure". It does its job. It is the only thing on the Internet that does that job. It is the definition of a perfect product... because it just works.

And email is in the same class. Rich text formatted letters between individuals. I don't see how you want to "improve" that either, because it does its job right.

I do agree Reader did the job and therefor didn't have room to improve. Then again, I don't like all the social parts of feeds, I just want my content in a time ordered list of chunks that I can consume at my leisure. RSS does that just fine.
I know a couple guys that will be rather unhappy about the choice of moniker. http://www.getchronos.com/
A better way to browse Instagram.
I just read over the features offered by Mailbox, and I don't see anything that I'm not already getting from using Gmail with the Boomerang plugin. Can anyone who is using Mailbox explain its unique benefits?
np, submitted there
Google Reader To Retire.How To Backup Google Reader.
> you had a digital cash system in which the money was redeemable for CPU time in a secure outsourcing system ... It is of course possible that such a system could not be securely realized for technical reasons

I don't see how it could be possible to design a system were useful CPU work done for others was turned into tokens, as one could simply create a whole bunch of fake work. The fundamental question is who is the counterparty to the tokens? If it's the entity selling CPU time, then you're dealing with a gift card system that doesn't scale to a real currency. If it's not, then you're no longer describing the payment system but have switched to describing an application of it.

> What is the formal definition of computing power here

Clearly it's just the ability to calculate SHA2 preimages. If you want something better, you've got to come up with that formality and an implementation to show that it is practical.

I'm having a hard time responding because it seems like you want to postulate systems with these nice-sounding properties, but it seems apparent to me that you'd never be able to connect them with proofs to make a system. You simply won't be able to build proofs of work for something as simplistic as "number of gates evaluated" (and if you're talking about 'gates' in MPC, you're really just talking about eg group operations).

> If the attacker can only scale their computation by some polynomial in the parameters of the system, the attacker can only enter some polynomial number of parties

What you're describing here is Bitcoin. You've just been spoiled with attackers usually needing exponential resources. As I said, your formalities are misleading you - crypto algorithms may work this way, but not everything does! An algorithm cannot discern good guys from bad guys, meaning they're both on equal footing and the best we can do is have a power balance.
In essence yes, higher level languages are easier to debug. However, higher level languages are a double edged sword in some cases with regards to debugging...

Let's take Clojure for example. That's a high level language by anyone's standards, and the code can be made easy to reason about. However, due to being built on top of the JVM means that when dealing with bugs a knowledge of the JVM (and Java if you're using Java libraries) is beneficial. Now that the high level view doesn't tell you the full picture, you're making the search for the bug quite a bit more involved, as not only do you need to understand the bug at the level which its occurring, you need to fix it at a level abstracted away from the one where the bug can be seen.

But by and large, yes, high level languages tend to be easier to debug due to smaller code bases.
These guys do this often. If they're running around they will eventually slip, and who knows what equipment they'll damage on the way down. Now he can't help and the problem is much worse than if it took him an extra 10 seconds to get over there.

If you infrequently enter a situation which has a low chance of hurting you, you are probably fine. But if you frequently enter those situations then it's just a matter of time before it happens to you.
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I think the relevant term is "exigent circumstances".

The 4th amendment only covers "unreasonable" search and seizures. Anything "reasonable" is still OK.
medicare for everybody!
"Whether it’s your Dropbox or your Mailbox, we want to find ways to simplify your life." Great tagline! Synergies are even present at the brand level. :)
Hi, would someone be kind enough to explain why exactly the article and subsequent comments are limited to Chrome?

Doesn't the very same problem exist with Firefox extensions / add-ons?
After a quick online search, it seems that this problem is far from being a Chrome thing...
[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9152578/Mozilla_confi...
[2] http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/020309antonopoul...
If I were the enterprising lawless sort, and bitcoin vending machines did let me double-spend, that's precisely what I would do.
Already done: http://www.replacereader.com/
I don't think RSS has been replaced, or is being replaced. All you need is a good good parser.
I suspect any real competitor in the rss space will provide an instant import via the zip of bookmarks / feeds / etc soon anyway.

I'm just worried about an Android app that can fill Readers roll. I use it for reading webcomics since I can swipe left or right to move through my subscriptions, which is much more efficient than any other means to browse them on mobile.
I've seen it in action, and it can schedule down to the milisecond across machines.
This is precisely what we work on at Pixelapse (http://www.pixelapse.com). We handle the entire process from versioning your work to receiving feedback from clients.

Happy to answer any questions you have.
Commenting so that when the research is done, I can tease you about how you won't be privileged enough to die.
Pretty awesome. Is there anything similar to this?
Why pick on Chrome? How does this differ from extensions offered by Firefox or Internet Explorer? They all allow essentially similar behavior. Eventually it comes down to whether you trust the extension.

If I'm running AdBlock it needs to be able to modify the HTML of any page and occasionally update its lists using the Internet. But AdBlock Extra Evil Edition might also be paid by someone to not block their ads or to leave beacons in place.

A form filling application could potentially push evil information into a form and submit it before I could do anything. Or it may work the way I expect and only fill in data that I want to be filled. How do you allow the good stuff without also allowing the bad stuff?
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Security is about business enabling. We're here to help the business work efficiently, not to get in the way. Feature X might work nicer than Feature Y, but Feature X presents an unacceptable risk to the business. Users are going to demand Feature X even still. It's security's job to present these risks and it's up to the business to accept them or not.

Policy is what you're talking about, and solid enforcement. If you don't have a way to ensure people are adhering to the policy, you're in a world of hurt because yes, they will do whatever they can to get the features they want.
Just like libraries, fire, police, roads, government buildings and the army :)
On Windows, Chrome also deliberately circumvents the normal system security model, installing in the unprotected user directory rather than as a real application in order to allow its background updates.

It also installs (silently, without permission, and for reasons unspecified) a Firefox plug-in, and it reinstalls/reactivates that plug-in even if the user has explicitly chosen to disable it.

It amazes me that Google seem to get such a free ride with Chrome. A lot of the things it does are either indistinguishable from a lot of the things that malware does or leaving itself wide open to compromise if malware gets onto a system by some other mechanism.
http://chronoss.sourceforge.net/ has been around longer than they have.
Judging from recent Chrome commits (an experimental editing mode, integrating the Ace editor into the dev tools, etc) I'd say that it will be.
for me, one of the most important aspects are vendor lock-in. Maybe it's irrational, but I don't like to depend on a single vendor, however good it might be.

I use Linode and AWS, and used Rackspace and probably half a dozen smaller VPS providers in the past. Most of them I ditched, some I still use occasionally, some I might use more in future.

With all of these providers I know I can switch away from in a moment's notice (if the need arises).

If PaaS became standard / compatible across vendors, I would definitely consider Heroku, Engine Yard or whoever else in this space. Until then, I'd rather have this sense of freedom, even if irrational.
So HN today is about Dropbox, Mailbox, Swapbox, and Bufferbox. Is box the new -ly?
On the internet? Yes, always.
Is that why the US has four times as many MRI machines per person?

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2011-en/04/...

And has no queues for MRI scans, where France has a 32-day mean waiting period?

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/09/canadian-medicine-is-sic...

http://sante.lefigaro.fr/actualite/2011/05/10/10863-irm-dela...