skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a startup perspective, Pebble is an example of how to ruin an opportunity to build a community around a product offer. The communication around the SDK to prospective developers that backed the project has been absolutely abysmal. The absence of transparency to those that backed it and neglect of promises during financing period (Especially concerning "Update 4" in its Kickstarter page) are what other investors should study to learn about that.
Can we not submit mobile links?

http://www.vice.com/read/spains-robin-hood-prefers
Brown dwarf binary star discovered 6.5 light years from Earth
This means that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++ compiler that understands C++ 2003.
Anarchistic rather than hierarchical Plan 9 grid architecture.
Yeah, if you're lucky enough to never have to teach, pass quals, take classes of your own, etc. In reality, research takes up less than 30% of your average day.
Yeah, I've seen those links before, but I don't see how this article applies, this is not an excerpt with a link to the "real article" it's basically a tutorial.
That description also describes HTTP, SPDY, and a bunch of other protocols. Relatively speaking, RSS never achieved the kind of popularity. Back in about 1993, there were more Gopher sites than HTTP sites.
Even the manual is open-source https://github.com/alphagov/government-service-design-manual.

I suggested a comment on Saturday afternoon by Twitter, it was passed on via an @ mention, and I was told it would be updated Monday. This is government IT, but not as we know it.
Thanks. I didn't even consider most of those.
Clickable link: http://www.brombone.com/
Neo4j's Cypher: Tutorials and Commentary
It's not classical DRM, it's content can only be read on the site. So someone would have to pay money---for how long?---to maintain access. A bit like Carpathia's problems with the Feds and Megaupload.

Going beyond that would be difficult and expensive. Certainly jmanga.com's licenses don't allow them to publish the content in other ways that would be accessible and yet limited and then there's practical matters, e.g. Amazon wouldn't likely play ball.

And then we come to the original problem I cited: there's no money to speak of to fund such difficult litigation. We're probably talking 8 figures minimum with all the expert witnesses needed, new case law to be forged, the foreign company angle, etc.
Updated my comment with what is presumably the real article.
May be ignorance on my part. But I don't feel like they are expanding human knowledge. I guess, I really don't understand what they do.
Congrats and best of luck. You got me laughing real hard on the 4 users part.

Advice:
Your site could benefit from some visuals, like a screen shot/ demo.
Hey, I'm going to be in the same position soon. :)

I haven't launched yet, and while I feel that there's a large audience for the service I plan to provide, I feel like the majority of my potential users are content with what they have right now.

Either way, great job. I'm not sure if I could be so optimistic. Besides talking to potential users, have you tried advertising/promotions/etc?

Edit:

As justhw said, a demo or two and screen shot wouldn't be a terrible idea.

And while this may not make a great difference, add a favicon and change the title.

The title is currently set to "A headless browser as a service built on PhantomJS - BromBone"

So, in my sea of tabs, all I see is "A head" which isn't as helpful when trying to find the tab as "BromBone."
Good luck man :)
This probably won't help. Google projects are typically built to run on their very specific infrastructure. It's unlikely that an open sourced version would be viable outside of Google. It's always possible though.

Maybe they could release a version that would run on AppEngine and customers could just pay for their own or something.
Based on the title this is what I was expecting to read. RSS doesn't steal much/any of Facebook's market but its usage among the niche crowd that uses G+ is significantly higher.
Sure - nikhil@lawdingo.com
> It looks like C++ is getting some traction

That's some LOL-worthy understatement right there.
Wow, what a genius. Lending money from banks and not paying it back. I think nobody ever had this wicked master mind plan.
What's his point again? That stealing is OK when you want to promote your crazy, utopian socialist world view?
Infographics on SEO for 2013
Tool not get rid of all dust, only dust tool can get to.
Perks such as massage, car wash, or yoga classes are peanuts. How much it costs to wash a car? 10 dollars a month? It is like saying company provides chair and free toilet paper in a bathroom.
>As the OP, I agree it's sad that decentralized standards haven't "won" in the way they were expected to 10 years ago;

I don't know what most people expected, but it seems like there were at least some people complaining about the direction the web (or internet as they it called back then) was going even in 1997:

http://www.arachnoid.com/freezone/

The root of the problem is commercialisation, and a lot of people are to blame for that, including the creator of the site you are currently using.
I once read 'If you build it, they won't come'. I think this is the case for most people. Getting people to your website or service is the hard part, not the development. We're all in the same boat here. For a product such as yours, I can imagine going to events, posting on relevant forums etc... would be your best bet at getting more users. Best of luck with your product, what you currently have looks promising.
Guy Kawasaki: Top Mistakes of Entrepreneurs
Your argument was raised and given a historical context in an interesting article that was posted here a week ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5353315
NewsBlur was a kludge when it worked and let you add more than 12 feeds. And Feedly was prepared for Google announcing the Reader shutdown. NewsBlur could be a strong contender for the next exodus when Reader finally goes dark, but it has a long way to go.

The rest are a bit weird, mobile-only, or don't know what they're going to do when the Reader API they depend on shuts down.

Personally, I like Feedly's UX. It's like an evolution of Reader. It's much smoother, and has a magazine view for feeds where it makes sense.
Here's my simple use case: I use GReader to timeshift info, just like my DVR. I'm not sure i can even tell you when my favorite TV shows air live--they just show up on the DVR. Same with RSS and GR. I might go a couple of weeks without reading X blog, etc but it's there when I'm ready.
"his latest project: the creation of a completely autonomous town"

In twenty years, his town will have an organized government that he won't like, and some of the people in the town will be giving "tasks" to others. And at that point he still won't understand that some people like the regularity and (perceived) safety that "the man" provides.
Oh I thought it was some random tweeter closing his account. That would be news.
Wish you the best of luck. Btw, is it possible to submit html + JavaScripts to your service, not only the site URL?
Especially with the C++ change, GCC seems to be on the verge of crashing in under its own weight. I have the feeling that clang or something else, something simpler, will eventually prevail.
Yahoo Work-at-Home Edict Squanders Benefits: Cutting Research
Same here... I read all my news through Reeder on the iPad. I won't be taking action until I find out what services they plan to add to replace Google Reader.
As I was scrolling down, and saw the "Related Posts" heading, I assumed that the actual content part of the page was at an end and the remainder was just footer material, links, etc.

If the author wishes to make this point more obvious, he shoudn't be effectively burying it in a footnote.
How big is the Universe?
Are you really just going to defame a company based on nothing but the granularity of Chrome's extension permissions? That's not just irresponsible but downright malicious.

Any extension that interacts with webpages needs that permission. Even if it's just to add a button. Before you go accusing them of selling information about your web browsing, you could at least check if they collect that information in the first place. Which is easy, since a network inspector is built-in to Chrome, and Chrome extensions are just ZIP files you can open up to read the code inside.

Hint: They don't. The plugin inserts a share image into the page, and the image is embedded in the plugin, not hosted on Feedly's server. It creates no network requests at all, so there's no involuntary information passing happening.
Been using Feedly over a year now! Most recommended!!! You won't need/want any other tool.
This is addressed in the second to last diagram, "the world looks different to you now". Once you've specialized so much, you can lose sight of the bigger picture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9formation_professionnell...
I don't see how borrowing (stealing?) 500K euro from many institutions is going to do anything other than get himself some publicity and then trial followed by jail time.

Capitalism has a lot of problems, but I don't see how anarchists offer better practical solutions. I lump libertarians (of which I once considered myself) into the same group.
BromBone - A Headless Browser -as-a-service
> spent the rest on Crisi, a free newspaper

Apple computers are expensive.

It's funny how people who benefit from a capitalist system have the luxury of condemning it. Meanwhile many people in the world who are starving and homeless would trade places with this guy in a heartbeat.
If he talks about "considering it" it doesn't sound like an clear YES.

But to put this aside - this risk is up to you - i believe the experience to get out of something stagnant and even move to a new place is worth the experience alone. Speaking for myself, i take every worthy experience i can get to push my horizon further and further.

I can only assume, if you do a good job and gain the necessary skills that you currently lack of, there is no reason he shouldn't consider you.
He's probably talking about FOSS projects where C++ is still very uncool.
Just moved to Amsterdam from East London, sorry fella otherwise I'd have gladly offered you some accom.
Sure it's a comparison between two industries, but I don't see why the observations don't translate. The young associates working for VCs don't rest on their laurels just because they have fat paychecks coming in. Indeed, they work incredibly hard to keep the gravy train from stopping. Why should it be different in engineering? Just because an engineer makes a lot doesn't mean he doesn't have tremendous incentive to create something of value, because ultimately if he doesn't those paychecks stop coming. Indeed, big paychecks and golden handcuffs are actually an incredibly effective way to get smart people to put in tremendous effort. It's a model that the Valley fully believes in and buys into, because that's the model VC firms use.
Failing to repay a loan is not theft. Generally the loan contract will provide for what will happen if the money is repaid and what will happen if the money is not repaid, and it is entirely up to the borrower to determine which happens.
Google's Brad Abrams: "We're stil in the horse & buggy era of the cloud" [video]
Fixlicense - Convert software license headers to GPL
>The kinds of surveillance the article talks about are inherent in the structure of the internet

You're not talking about the internet, you're talking about Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. The internet allows you to share your public key with your friend in person and from then on connect directly to their computer and communicate securely. People can tell who you're communicating with but not what you're saying, and if you use an anonymizing service they can't even tell who you're communicating with. Distributed is good for privacy.

The problem is the centralization. The fact that you get your email from the same company you do your web searching with and the same company that hosts your blog means that they have access to all that information about you. If it was all different companies -- or no companies at all, because you host your own email or blog from your house -- then that wouldn't happen.
Great. Here comes the next interview question. "Tell me about a time when you did something hard?"
This is probably not very important but What is the expected workflow when someone visiting your site at http://www.brombone.com/ clicks sign up and clicks cancel in the following screen? I just get an error.
Why I Stopped Writing for Free
The "One of the biggest hurdles to Linux adoption..." paragraph is just not true anymore. Steam for Linux is a good example of how things have changed.

It's more like Netflix is one of the few services that many people wish to use where they strangely enough have chosen to ignore Linux.
I have my own domain for email, IM, and my personal website. It allows me to move from one provider to another without having to update my address everywhere. Even if Google doesn't shut down Gmail, something better could come along, and I don't want my email to be tied to Gmail forever.
Clang and LLVM are written in C++...
Same thing happened to me, posted twice to HN with no up votes then I got my first sign up and I was super excited. From that point there really should be no turning back.
That just makes the potential privacy violation undetectable, though. Doesn't remove it in any way.
Wow, makes me proud to live in England.
This is the way forward. Employees in most cases dont care whether they are given Windows or Linux as an OS.
You're focusing on the specifics too much. This is actually very akin to a startup. How can you convey what you do in a clear and concise sentence without muddying it with details. My point in the original reply is that conveying the idea of a vacuum cleaner even with the harsh restrictions set, can still be done without sounding like a robot or caveman.
I agree there is a ton of overlap. Much like there is overlap between mp3, tracks, and song. My iPod has 1000 songs/tracks/mp3s is all correct. But saying someone is a good font designer is as silly as calling a musician a good mp3 writer.
Plus requests and BeautifulSoup lines of code.
I think a fallback solution is never wrong but to be honest, the comfort of a management-free provider is nice to have too. As Google Apps for Business user, i have all i need now.
Even for my private needs, GMail is enough for me. And as JT123 says, it's unlikely that they jump off that ship in the foreseeable future.
What happens in 6 months if you don't get the bump? Worst case you've improved your experience, got more runs on the board and can apply for another job, closer to the one you want.

I don't know your personal circumstances, but I would personally take the chance, if the new startup job is something you will honestly love doing for 6 months (or more), and you're ok with re-locating across the country for a period of your life. As I said, I'd do it, but I'm not you.
"As of this time no releases of GCC 4.8 have yet been made" (http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/).
I'm getting an application error. :(
Yahoo! Pipes solves that problem ;)
> There will always be developers who will be willing to do this either because it's challenging or because they need to put food on the table.

Of course, but that's bullshit, and they're being immoral. Evoking romantic images of providing for your beloved family is misplaced here. No programmer is left with the choice of either working for evil scumbags or starving.
Waiting for apple's iwatch
Obviously I didn't test that. Why would someone cancel?

It supposed to take you back to the home page.
Oh, just pointing out that quite eminent historical personages had different opinions on the merits of judicial review, and that similar views still exist today, although they're in a minority. I think people are inclined to assume that The Way Things Are is much the same as How They're Supposed To Be, when in fact the country might have developed quite differently very easily, despite having started from the same constitutional beginning.
Pfff. 13 users are much more than my pet project (http://www.DNSDigger.com) has. It is a couple of years old but i recently started with paid accounts and API-access.
That isn't possible yet, but it is something I want to support.
I read it as both. And, frankly, having been a graduate student, they can take all of the encouragement they can get while they're working on their PhD.
Well "clustering" is a little loosely used here, ANTS isnt really mathematical cluster computation software at all, but it goes beyond the 'distributed os' of the basic Plan 9 design. It boils down to making multiple machines work together to create a good environment for the user that uses all of the resources of all the connected machines in a way where the user doesn't need to worry about which machine is which.
Good luck to you. Not getting a single upvote for new stories on HN seems to be the norm, at least for me, so I wouldn't worry about that very much.

What you should focus on right now is whether or not the users you have actually use and like the app. If they do, then you've created something that people like and you should focus on growth. If they are not really using it after registration, then you should focus on improving the product until the usage rate goes up to acceptable levels.
I tried newsbeuter once before. I prefer CLI programs for most things, but enough feeds I follow depend on pictures (ok, maybe just xkcd) that it wasn't worth it.

You can hook it up to urlview to open links or the original article (as long you're running it locally, not in a remote screen), however - that was a nice touch.
Even a billion-dollar business is simply a distraction to Google

I think they are exaggerating a bit there. Sure, million-dollar businesses are a distraction for Google, but billion dollar ones? Pretty sure they actually like them. It's besides the point of the article, because Google Reader probably wasn't even anywhere near of generating millions in advertising, but still.
I find it odd that the hacker community likes to completely disregard non-technical people[1]. It's situations exactly like this where it would bring a huge amount of value to have someone dedicated to marketing/community outreach and evangelism for the product.

Even though it's a technical project, explained well and with patience even the most non-technical person could wrap their head around it and develop a plan to get it to market.

Being both a dev and a marketer, I've found there are two, entirely separate brainstorming mindsets: product design and development, and product marketing and execution. It is incredibly taxing and inefficient to frequently switch between these two mindsets, which is why I believe most developed companies evolve into having two distinct departments: product development and product marketing. I'm working on my own startup now in RoR doing exactly this (i.e. trying to switch between the two roles frequently) with much frustration. Luckily I have a great business partner that is entirely focused on strategy that can knock some sense into me when I become too bogged down in the development/coding thought pattern.

Going to a business school with essentially zero CS majors, I personally know a dozen people that would be interested in jumping in on a project like this, not even for the lucrative rewards of success but the experience of working on such a project and jumping into the tech world.

Just some thoughts...

[1]: Most recent example I've stumbled upon: "No marketers/MBAs/designers/unicorns/whatever." Source: http://hackerho.us/
$642k is considered gigantic now? That's not that much bigger than my mortgage...
It's a question of scale. When a company has services with more than 400 million users, a stagnant half a million is not that great.
Too late, the extension has permission, a future update could change what it does.
Not theft, but entering into a loan contract with no intention of paying it back may be fraud.
My point is that it's not even remotely practical to convince enough of the population to "value privacy" so much that these things won't be built or to even remotely hinder them. The population of earth is just too large. "HN readers" aren't some magic special bunch that cannot be replaced.

> This mercenary mentality is not some unchangeable part of human nature

No, it's just basic game theory. The more people that refuse to sign up for these "unethical" things, the higher the reward for those that do. And those rewards are very small compared to the pressures involved.

So even if you succeed in convincing a ton of hackers to join your cause, you've done what? Raised the salary from $250K to $750K a year for the people that do defect? That's nice, but the actual effect on privacy is zero.
However, assuming he didn't reveal his plan to avoid repayment, it is fraud.
Or you could just use customer.io or klaviyo
The most productive FOSS communities in terms of loc and number-of-projects (KDE and Mozilla) produce primarily C++ code.
I found this very inspiring.
I know how hard this can be. I've been doing startup stuff for 7 years. And it's still awfully painful. I'd encourage teaching to find an audience.

I've been blogging and blogging and blogging. I ended up giving that up at one point. I thought I had more important things to do. I thought it wasn't growing enough. But that was foolish.

The biggest thing that's changed a lot of things for me in the last year is simply sticking to a schedule of writing once per week. It all eventually adds up. It eventually opens up new doors.

It doesn't happen over night either. But the audience that finds you tends to stick with you. And tends to help market all the new projects.

What about creating BromBone.com was hard that you figured out? Any hosting problems that you solved? Any bugs in PhantomJS? Anything you can open source? Did you learn anything about what kind of mailing list post gets more traffic than others? Learn anything about making collecting signups easier?

I continue to collect tons and tons of ideas as I go through life that I feel were hard and I figured out or were interesting. A bunch of people just pass on when I write about them. Meh. But then every now and then, something spreads like crazy. An open source project here. A motivating post here. And years later you find, a lot of awesome stuff has built up. People following you. People wanting to see your next project and spread it.

Doing what we're doing is a career. It isn't a lottery. It isn't going to happen in one launch. It's something that we should expect to get better and better at. Forever.

> If you launch and no one notices, launch again. We launched 3 times.
- Brian Chesky, Founder of AirBnB
https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/312438036929576962
http://archive.org/details/EbenMoglen-WhyFreedomOfThoughtReq...

https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-18-archive....
He may well have committed fraud in what he told the banks though.
I believe pro football is a full time job hence occupies more than one day a week.
SlySoft.com Accepts BitCoin
Sure, use free web services but don’t depend on them
Actually... I mean the n-gage. The Neo-Geo was an older system. Just a similar name >_< (both have "n" and a hyphen in it...)