skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking for an alternative to skim headlines please give Skim.Me (http://skim.me) a try. We're a startup releasing another version soon to help you keep up at a glance.
Hey - thought you might be interested in knowing there are lots of people at a total loss over on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1a8ygk/official_...

Might be worth a post or two
I did this with a DELETE SQL WHERE clause, trying to isolate a set of records, instead selecting all records, in an effort to test a production installation, at 3am (YES) and had to buy 3 db admins lunch the following day because they came in to restore multiple customer tables. The DELETE's were triggered across numerous tables and platforms (AS400 and SQL Server). The walk of shame to tell my director was not my most shining moment. I'd like to go back in time and slap myself just moments before. Running commands on live production data. Silly programmer.
Show me anyplace in any of his blog posts where he says anything like "You need to try this!".

He does invite people who would like to try it to contact him. That's far from a hard sell. He also says things like "At this point I think scepticism is completely reasonable."
God doesn't like sports -- homo. Indians are plenty homo.

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and young ravens what they cry for.i

10*He takes no delight in the strength of horses,

no pleasure in the runner’s stride.j

11Rather the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him,

those who put their hope in his mercy.

III

12Glorify the LORD, Jerusalem;

Zion, offer praise to your God,

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I botched that quote -- thought it said God liked meditating on the law. :-) Oh well.

Radio talking about fracking.
God says...

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his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these
men shall dine with me at noon.

43:17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into
Joseph's house.

43:18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's
house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our
sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion
against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they
communed with him at the door of the house, 43:20 And said, O sir, we
came indeed down at the first time to buy food: 43:21 And it came to
pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold,
every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full
weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

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Radio was talking of politician ethics and gifts. meh. I'm not a politician.
Reminds me of Thomas Keller's famous clock in the kitchen, with the words "Sense of Urgency" printed below. It hangs in the kitchens of all his restaurants.

I try to remember it when I start to lose that sense of urgency, and it works well.
Have you washed dishes for a living?
This is a textbook example of a garden path sentence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence.

Another example is "The horse raced past the barn fell"
When I was looking for an RSS reader on my iPad the vast majority synced only with Google Reader. It was either that, or use their account and be fed news instead of telling them exactly which feeds I want to read.
I can already make things. I'm shit @ coding.
You can be a better blogger
User Growth Manager Extraordinaire — FiveStars
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You will be responsible for understanding and owning the overall company’s member growth objectives and will actively collaborate with engineering, marketing, sales, and ops to achieve these goals. You will dive in and understand how channels like SMS, email, and product can be used to get in the hearts and minds of our members and encourage them to use their FiveStars cards more frequently and at more stores.

Who you'll work for:
VP Marketing Chris Luo -- Global Head of SMB Marketing at Facebook, Head of Acquisition Marketing at Google. You'll be learning directly from the best.

Responsibilities:

• Identify the key metrics that the company should be monitoring for member growth and engagement and regularly report to senior management insights on the drivers of member growth

• Understand how SMS, email, and product features engage our members and recommend tactics for improvement

• Design and implement new SMS and email campaigns and multivariate tests to drive member activity, engagement, and store visits

• Propose, spec, and manage product changes that will encourage virality and user engagement

• Evaluate and recommend how SEO can be used to drive member acquisition

• Spearhead thinking about business discovery and member engagement can be built into a FiveStars mobile app

Requirements:

• BA/BS degree with strong academic background or equivalent experience; technical background highly valued

• Strong problem solving and quantitative analytical skills

• Highly results-focused with a passion for exceeding measurable targets

• Microsoft Excel guru; Microsoft Access, SQL, html/CSS, and statistical modeling expertise highly valued

• 3-5 years of total experience with track record of increasing responsibility

• 2+ years of relevant experience in user acquisition, engagement, and growth for fast-growing web or mobile company highly preferred

• Experience with email marketing, multivariate testing, and SEO highly preferred

jobs@fivestars.com or http://www.fivestars.com/jobs/
I also heard that they can see in the dark thus you can cut the light when you leave them in the office.

On the other hand, I've seen it in the movies that they can disappear... I assume that's what they do before someone can actually try to run their code.
That's really cool! I have worked along the lines of making a wiki-style profile for everyone (http://wikisapien.com/) but the whole dating angle gives this site a neat hook that should attract good users.
I Want The Mutt Of Feed Readers
But he said he does eat out occasionally.
What I learned from reading the Nth variation of this story:

People love hearing about what a bad situation you were in before and how it leads to your success because you are more desperate than everyone else.
As worried as I am that UPS will stop doing research on logistics.
I wont miss their web app. I hated using it since the Google+ launch. What I will miss is the ubiquitous integration with RSS apps.
RIP: Google Reader Meets Its Inevitable End
Ask HN: How do startups apply for credit cards?
Do the founders personally guarantee the company?
PHP and MySQL aren't that bad (and support for them is pretty much guaranteed on every web host).

However, the fact that it supports PHP 4.2 and MySQL 3.23 makes me wonder how old the code base is! Makes me think it's using so many obsolete PHP methods, the deprecated MySQL extension, and is all procedural code (which almost always seems to be spaghetti code with PHP).
A very nice thing about Google Reader is that is real time, because it receives pubsubhubbub pushes. Are any of the alternatives mentioned here capable of that?
And what have people found is the best card to get for early-stage (pre-series A) startups?
Show HN: My side project about side projects
Looking for CSS/HTML/Twitter Bootstrap programmer
Part-time gig in San Francisco, love someone local, who gets basics of UI/UX to modify current mockups in CSS/HTML/ Twitter Bootstrap
And that site is down......
Sadly most of the services fill a different niche. Feedly and so on are all magazines but not what I consider real RSS readers. I've read though this Thread, the Reddit threads and through some "Reader Alternatives" articles. The only things similar seem to be The Old Reader and Newsblur.
Beta = Shut down any day.
This resonates particularly well with me. I've worked at 3 places in my life. The first was a summer camp, where I was often a dish washer.

Being exposed to the skills of maintaining precision, order, and process under extreme stress is a massively valuable skill that you can cary through life. I'm just glad I learned it when the highest stakes were the lunch backup delaying dinner from being cooked - and not managing millions of dollars of investor's money.

(Ironically my only place of employment between my company and that summer camp was at Microsoft, about 5 minutes away from the Red Robin mentioned in the post)
"say" is cool.

cat /usr/share/dict/words | perl -mList::Utilhuffle -e 'print shuffle(<STDIN>);' | head -n 5 | say -r 150
Seemed like this would eventually happen since Google stopped updating Reader (and its APIs) a few years ago

I've also been working on a similar news reader app called BlogRoll: http://blogrollapp.com

It can import your Google Reader feeds and has a tiled layout (which may not be everybody's cup of tea), but it works well for photo-focused sites like food and fashion blogs, and it handles other news sites and blogs quite well too.

Here's a screenshot of it: http://bit.ly/Yc1P9C
Using Mysql as Nosql
I would love to see how he does lifting some weight on this diet vs. just sitting in front of a computer.
Would anyone be interested in a podcast of code being read with professional/semi-professional voice talent, possibly with more in-dept technical review?

Also, would anyone be interested in dramatic reading of potentially horrible/hilariously bad code?

I think either could be fun, but maybe that's just me.
Wondering this too. I'd like to import my folders and starred items to another reader. Anyone a reader that can do this?
I concur with this sentiment. It is good enough to pay for in my point of view. Google simply made the choice of wanting to monetize on their current user group. It makes me wonder if they'll open source it so that others can self-host it.
What's odd is they didn't just use nbd + ram disks + RAID. Building a whole key-value store around it makes it a lot less general purpose, and there are perfectly good key-value stores that run off RAM...
Microsoft just won three SxSWi interactive awards one of which is open source?
As far as I checked, today is 2013...
$2 Million for ‘Veronica Mars’ Breaks Kickstarter Records
> GAE in October?

AppEngine's deprecation policy:

7.2 Deprecation Policy.

Google will announce if we intend to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to this API or Service. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate that Service without these changes until the later of: (i) one year after the announcement or (ii) April 20, 2015, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):

# required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or

# doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden.

[0] https://developers.google.com/appengine/terms scroll down to 7.2
I have never gotten the appeal of Google Reader. I've been using Netvibes for several years and have yet to find anything better. You'll be glad you did.

netvibes.com
Get it...

http://www.cloudflare.com/plans
An Unusual Heavy-Metal Love Story
bastards. they never seem to realize how much they damage our trust with these actions. it effects all of their future products. I don't trust them anymore.

anyway feedly has a replacement coming soon:

http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

> We have been working on a project called Normandy which is a feedly clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. When Google Reader shuts down, feedly will seamlessly transition to the Normandy back end. So if you are a Google Reader user and using feedly, you are covered: the transition will be seamless.

> If you are a Google Reader, give feedly a try before July 1st, and you will be able to migrate seamlesly
I won't bitch about this decision, because after all I got more than my money's worth. I do wonder if the change doesn't weaken the whole Google "Suite" though. Google (until quite recently anyway) seems to be focusing a great deal on G+. The vast majority of my G+ posts come from Reader; I doubt I'll be posting to G+ in future. I know G+ can live without me, but as far as I can tell the only value in G+ comes from its integration with the rest of the "Suite". If Facebook or Amazon had been in this situation, instead of killing Reader, they would have focused it more and more on feeding, promoting, and otherwise bolstering their other services, probably to the detriment of actually reading RSS. Probably to the point where some, but not all users would have become disgusted and quit using Reader anyway. Google doesn't do that sort of thing, which I guess is to its credit.
A Note on Nerdfighters
I am the say way. And I feel that my heavy use of Gmail and Google Reader meant that I was more likely to use other Google products when needed, ie Docs, Calendar. Without Reader, I don't feel like a Google user, just a Gmail user.
I love me a man with dishpan hands!
That and they make you read them in huge squares instead of lists. One thing Google might do is automatically download all Google Reader users' data using https://www.google.com/takeout/ and allowing those apps to access the data. I think I'm seeing Gmail go too for G+. Maybe not GCal because of GGlass but right now most of what's free from Google I'm seeing it gone in 3 years.
That's why most VCs get away with it. :-/
Yeah, I came here to say the same thing. For all the people running some Unix variant with local mail, the Python script seems pointless, versus just calling mail.
The End of FeedDemon
"Veronica Mars" Kickstarter hits $2 million goal on first day
If you wrote an S-Expression syntax on top of Agda (or Haskell), you gain all of Lisps anti-boilerplatitude for free. There's of course also Template Haskell.

As it is, the static typing helps to avoid some boilerplate, too, indepedent of macros. In some sense, static typing removes, among other things, boilerplate tests.
A year in review, my thirtieth.
IMO The actual way to word it (to be correct with the author's intent would be to say something like this:

Poor people hoard items because they cannot afford the risk of buying a replacement. Living simply is a virtue given to the wealthy; when necessary they have the income, knowledge, or time available to meet a given task. The poor have only their physical inventory and cannot rely on other sources.
This diet already exists.
It is called by many names: elemental diet, space diet, astronaut diet.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1410941/pdf/gut0...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental_diet

Some hospitals may serve this to very ill patients.
It has been the subject of much study. It is customized based on the needs of an individual.
Most can't stand the taste. It generally works well in the short term, although I am not aware of any long term studies that have been done.

I too am interested in this. Have they determined that animals live longer or shorter lives on this diet? It could be rather easy to determine this: considering the relatively short life span of earthworms or fruit flies.

Anyone who is interested in this topic: email me at:
nickelnerve@gmail.com
After looking through the comments I'm surprised there's no speculation on the promising startup that PG reached out to the YC partners about. Any ideas?
Google "bioavailability"
From that study, about 20% of vegetarians who go back to eating flesh do so for perceived health reasons.

After 12 years of no health issues, and with a low general reason to believe that vegetarianism causes health issues, I'd be slow to attribute the reversal to the thing the person thinks worked.

(I would also expect more potential hazards from something new, untried, and untested, but I've signed up because I like the idea and am willing to risk it. Fortune favors the bold.)
* "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the
tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit
recorded in the superproject's gitlink).

I'd love to know more about this. Can a submodule track a branch now? Or are they just saying there is some preliminary work done in that direction?
I blame ruby for being a great way to go for people that don't know a single thing about programming.
Sounds like somebody should send out the signal to Archive Team and Jason Scott.
You can't put out blanket statements like that. Google is a huge company with many different divisions. You may as well just impose a ban on Google on not even use Google search. It's like saying "Don't use AWS because Amazon is a commerce site".

Also App Engine is a paid for product. When you decide to charge for a product things become 'real' because you can't just shut down a product people good money for and rely on for business. Of course in theory anything could be shut down but the likelihood greatly decreases once you start charging users.
My first job was as a dishwasher too, learned the same things from a dishwasher-turned-cook there. And to work hard. No one else was going to clean those dishes, and they had to be cleaned. Right now.

Restaurant's signature was french onion soup, so we had these little crockware pots coated in melted cheese that Every Single Customer had to order. Ugh. Lots of scrubbing in very hot water.

Dave was the cook's name, he was a drummer in a band in Athens Ga (drove up from Atlanta for every show) at the time when indie bands from there were the thing. He set my musical tastes on a track they never recovered from.

It felt good to start buying records with money from my own job. It really did.
I'm porting a game I wrote in 1981 for the HP 41CV calculator to Android.
Ya, spent 10 years in the restaurant industry. Started as dishwasher, then busboy, salad cook, etc, then waiter, bartender, doing deliveries, and finally manager. Here's the lessons I took with me to coding:

You can't pass the problem to later. Steak is not cooked right? Wrong salad dressing? Let's have a meeting tomorrow and talk about it. No. Gotta address it RIGHT NOW.

When you get in the weeds, meaning you're overwhelmed, you gotta stop doing what's not 100% required and hustle, hustle, hustle. Don't talk to people, just do your job super fast.

Last rule: you have to be prepared for the day: gotta have the food ready by the time the front door opens. You can't say at 12:03 that there's no iced tea. Everything has to be prepared ahead of time. If you've not prepared everything as well as possible, you're gonna be screwed. Even small things like rolling silverware in napkins will kill you if you have a party of 15 ready to sit down clogging up the front lobby and you can't sit then down because you're out of freaking silverware.

So: prepare well, resolve problems as they arise, and hustle when you're overwhelmed.

Last rule: don't whine. If 19 years old Becky can do it, you can too.
Interesting, is this new in code? There is a significant market for editorial review (in contradistinction to peer review), especially after translation (e.g.: a Japanese or French scientist will pay a translator and then an English-speaking, technically competent editor to comprehensively edit the translation).
I know that, in the Java world, you guys probably don't really understand this fact, but 3x slower is not only bad, it's so bad as to be completely unworkable in the real world.

Source: I was a Google engineer for 5 years.
Each microphone is sampling a single point in space over time. It's an incredibly simple signal.

The problem in reproducing it exactly resolves to the problems of materials engineering and efficient coupling of your transducer to the air.

Meanwhile, your brain is doing an amazing job of extracting information from two point signals separated by the width of your skull. There's information that comes from the way that the shape of your ears distorts waves coming from different directions; timing information between the two ears; tilt information from kinesthetics and eyes. All that is handled by systems with a hundred million years or more of evolution in the Earth's biosphere, plus learned updates from your measly few years of life.

And 16 bits per sample, 44.1KHz sampling rate, will suffice to record it all as well as your ears can hear in any sort of normal environment. (A few more bits will suffice if you intend to capture both jet engines and soft breezes in the same recording.)
Looking through the git repo, it appears NewsBlur does.
Although some of the points aren't really related to HTML5 but these are annoyance that we all can agree on, should go away.
Host your own Python RSS reader
The Old Reader actually looks really good. If only it had an Android app...
I do certainly hate this mentality on HN where every single time someone posts some new interesting webapp then someone comes to try to rain on the other person's parade.

This is simply not ok and goes totally against HN's mentality IMHO.

This "article" from 13 march 2013 is clearly an "answer" to the very recent new text editor for writers / proofreaders (where people can collaboratively work on the same text) that made it to the frontpage.

Please please please do not upvote this "article".

This is just a "contrarian" entry by a frustrated person trying to surf on the success of the recent new text editor for writers.

And by all means: please do try to enhance the tools we have and create new great webapps and do not pay attention to the frustrated contrarians.
A lot of google reader replacements seem to be overwhelmed today.
Code search never made sense I think. You could argue stackoverflow / github were the replacements.
I especially like the animated favicon.
Announcing the Netflix Cloud Prize
In my world, plates are stacked on top of each other prior to use.

Cleaning both sides is a good idea.
While I'm not a fan of that particular name, something in that spirit would be great.
When I lose my sense of urgency, my mind unlocks and I can see the forest for the trees and solve big problems.
Show HN: BlogRoll - Yet another replacement for Google Reader
I've been working on this in my spare time for the past few months, and in light of the news about Google Reader shutting down, I thought I'd announce this today:

BlogRoll is meant to be an improved version of Google Reader with a tiled interface (which may not be everybody's cup of tea), but it works well for photo-focused sites like food and fashion blogs, and it handles other news sites and blogs quite well, similar to a newspaper-style layout

As for people switching over from Google Reader, it can also automatically import your existing feeds (click the "Import from Google Reader" button on the first screen after signing up)

Any feedback or suggestions? I appreciate it and will continue to work on improving this!
Nice to know that there's still at least one other Google Listen user in the world. I'm a huge podcast consumer, I like listening to old podcasts which have fallen off the RSS feed, and I still haven't found anything better.

I honestly don't know what I'm going to do now. As far as I'm aware, nobody besides Google has been archiving RSS history for the past few years. It's a massive pain to dig for old podcast episodes any other way, as full feeds are extremely rare.
I give them props for being honest about the value of cold contacts. Almost anyone who wants to make it as an enterprise service company has to do this.
This is a really interesting model. It seems that if Jeremy gets some traction with this there is a very obvious follow-up product which provides these artifacts as a service. Of course, between here and there is all the stuff he's going to learn doing it "manually" first.

I could see this being a inflection point for him (or someone who runs with this idea) in a few years. Good luck!
When has a dishwasher ever talked to a diner?
Famous users and petitions protest shutdown of Google Reader
Maybe it's to get experience running a business. Probably also a good opportunity for networking.
Joining in on the disapproval of Google's move here, as I use it constantly all day everyday! Here's to hoping this public cry might change Google's decision to axe it...