skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a company where about 1/3 of our revenue is from ads... it's pay per view, not pay per click for most.. some direct-sold campaigns which tend to do better than the ad networks.. most well targeted. I personally don't like them, and would love to see a 2-ads per page limit.. (including services ads)...
To add on to the spirit of your comment, this could be the first of many major films funded through Kickstarter.

In this case, the intellectual rights are already owned by Warner Brothers. In the next film, perhaps Joss Whedon wants to create a new sci fi movie with Nathan Fillion in a universe that hasn't yet been purchased by a major studio. (Replace director/actor with your choice).

Hopefully this will be yet-another-alternative for non-Hollywood American entertainment to be produced.
I agree but, as you sayd, is a minority.

Most people that say are not influenced by ads actually are even if they don't even notice.

And I'm confident that most of the people that are using adblock are not in that minority.

If you are not influenced by ADS because advertisement has no effect on you so much that you don't even notice why bother blocking them out ?
I have a really common name - it was taken in all permutations of domains for years. So I jumped on it when the .eu domain names came out, and I've happily used that for a long time now. See what you can find in a more "obscure" TLD.
Reeder for iOS / OSX, won't die with Google Reader
The logo on the front page makes me feel old ...
I sincerely wish you the best with your endeavor. I respect that even though you're backed in a corner financially you are still going hard. Just remember your wife and kids along the way :)
The novel aspect here is that his experimental methodology looks promising; not that he has some magic silver bullet.
Dude forgot http://skimfeed.com. Guess it's not 3.0 enough. Recommendation engine kicks in around 5 clicks, go easy on her.
I see you're a machine 'learnist'. If you feel like building your own 'intelligent' reader based on unsupervised learning, you can try https://xplr.com/developers/ (PM me for beta access).

We're playing a bit with news as demo, see https://xplr.com/products/illuminate/browser/

I believe there's room for more innovation, beyond the 'classic' RSS reader, without compromising on user control.

This is the reason why I'm mentioning the API above here (I'm a co-founder) as I am personally unhappy with the existing readers, though Prismatic is good (though too messy for my taste and usage).
haha, true!
There are also a lot of smart and thoughtful coders who are self-taught, however. It depends on your approach, your mental toolkit, and how much self-discipline you have to recognize that what you are doing is crap and how to learn more.
That seems like a backward step.
My Mac app, CloudPull, will do exactly that. It will also back up Google Reader, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, and Google Drive. http://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/cloudpull/
How do you change a repository description on GitHub?
Log driven programming is a real productivity booster : programming
The code that actually determines whether a block is valid is not a small amout of code at all though - that's the entire problem! Whether a block is valid or not depends on subtle behavioural details of huge third-party libraries. The current issue resulted from a quirk of BDB and the developers still haven't managed to fully figure out when exactly it does cause a block to be treated as invalid. We also already knew that block validation inherits some of OpenSSL's quirks which aren't compatible with other, more spec-compliant crypto libraries. It's entirely likely that other code outside of the Bitcoin client also affects which blocks are valid.
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The one edge case I typically run into with IT systems is when the chairman of the board, who is not the CEO, wishes to have an office at the company. Where do you put him on the Org Chart? Every other person I can assign a manager that ultimately flows up to the CEO - but the politics of hierarchy between the CEO (who answers to the board) - and the chairman (who most certainly does not answer to the CEO) are tricky.
That so many people can't find out how to change the description is a sign of very bad UX. It still remains the same in 2013, about 2 years since the question was originally asked.

Personally, my answer is becoming one of my top voted answers, and I am embarrassed!
You claim it is hard to do. However it accidentally happened recently. So it can't be that hard.

After all, if all "security experts" are so good, why didn't they catch the recent fork?
New locations Google maps 
Does anybody know if Google (maps) has a programme to acquire world locations not currently covered and how does it work (can an user "advice" on acquiring certain location's images? Any link or info?

Thx
This is a great opportunity to get a few testers/users, if you'd like to continue developing it.

I do however understand that this can be quite overwhelming - so I'd recommend you'd only take in people manually (ie. no automatic signup - that'll probably be quite the load..)
I guess it's natural for successful people to be treated like sages, but I've commonly had the same feeling the OP expressed - you have to wade through people's 'wisdom'. Sometimes they are just out of touch.
"Most people that say are not influenced by ads actually are even if they don't even notice.

And I'm confident that most of the people that are using adblock are not in that minority."

Is it not then their choice whether to view advertising? If they know it's likely to affect them, even just in terms of subconscious brand awareness, and don't want that to happen?

"If you are not influenced by ADS because advertisement has no effect on you so much that you don't even notice why bother blocking them out ?"

Popups, popunders, animations, annoying noises, things that get in the way, try to grab your attention.... All sorts of horrible annoyances. Also unintended consequences - I had genuine trouble finding a download button on a website a little while ago because they'd used a bright, perky-looking graphic that hit my mental ad filter. I really couldn't see it for a couple of minutes.
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FWIW I found that helpful as the old discussion made some interesting points that are not made invalid by the passing of a few years.
I think my issues with this are that it's cool, but there's no example of security, and the tests are pretty much missing... I tend to look for either tests, or samples for how things get done, and without any security/authentication bits, I don't know what I would use something like this for.
"Low-tech"? Email is the best way to read RSS! Email has all the features of high-end RSS headers:

* Remember your read messages, even across clients
* Star and read for later
* Cross-platform
* Configurable archiving
* Keyword filtering
* Search past articles
* Organize feeds into folders using configurable rules
* Social! (Use the "forward" button.)

What's not to like about email?
Actually, one of the reasons I'm so bullish about Bitcoin in the long run is the experience and maturity of most members of the main dev team. Yes, it's only about 6 core devs now, but that will grow as bitcoins market cap increases (presumably). The recent block chain split (a Bitcoin emergency if there ever was one) was handled so quickly and decisively by the core devs that the price remained relatively stable. That's pretty amazing.
One of the comments on his blog remarks about him being a one man experiment to discover new vitamins. He acknowledges that this is likely. :-P
That sounds like a pretty good reason not to make those globals.

We did it when we realized 100% of our modules had those three dependencies. Haven't found a drawback yet.
If someone did a big enough version of the attack on one of the smaller exchanges or payment providers there'd be plenty of end users hurting, trust me - with a big enough attack they're not going to be able to swallow the losses or pay back customer funds, and there's no FDIC insurance for Bitcoin deposits.
Why I will always love RSS.
River style news http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=dave
this can easily be automated.

No it can't.

The only way is to have a source saying "Bitcoin is OK, accept transactions" or "Bitcoin is not OK, no transactions". However this source now will be the target for no end of attacks (both hacking and legal), since it literally allows you to turn off the bitcoin economy. The bitcoin industry/community seems incapable of writing secure software. So I wouldn't put much faith in them doing anything well.
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Yes. But without ads and with my privacy intact, totally.
When did you lower the number of enabled feeds to 12?
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> Does anybody know if Google (maps) has a programme to acquire world locations not currently covered ...

An example would help (and I'm not clear on what you're asking). If you type in geographical coordinates, then everywhere is covered -- all you need to do is acquire the desired location's geographical coordinates.
The Google Reader Shutdown: Good & Bad, Plus alternatives
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They don't have a doodle celebrating Pi Day either. You'd think they would've done one or the other!
In sales we call this objection handling. List every possible objection the other party will put up and prepare answers for them.

Once prepared, ask the other party what objections they actually have and keep asking for more until they have no more.

Then respond to each one, plus any "elephants in the room" they didn't mention. That usually sorts out the "fear" issue. You'll know soon enough if there are any other ones they haven't shared with you.

Same approach helps for getting teams around you together - it builds trust and fosters transparency.
This is our first rails website to make into the wild. Tell us what you think!

Cofounders - me and acanby
maybe because people used google reader ... i'm sure there wil be a lot more people interested in your project , a good rss reader is just an invaluable tool for my organisation and some exec may be willing to pay good money for a perfect google reader clone.
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Technically, you can change your mind for the duration of the kickstarter. So you reserve the spot and if you get cold feet after a few days you can change the $10.000 pledge into $10 or so.
There is also no mention of Tiny Tiny RSS or RSS Lounge, which are both good RSS readers that you can self-host pretty easily (FOSS webapps).

Pretty surprising.
Similarly, who are customers that are neglected by the big players?

In my industry merchant accounts are very difficult to come by. We are considered high risk. Even with a year of processing records showing 1 chargeback out of >3k transactions I can't get access to a merchant with decent rates(currently paying 3.7%). All the big players turn us away. There's gold to be mined off the beaten path.
Ah, but just for the iPhone client, which is the only one I don't use (as I have an Android phone).
Agreed. Posting those two comments was a mistake.
Do you offer anything to people who won't connect to Facebook or whatever?
Yes, I said that in my previous post.

And we'll go back to having a greater proportion of hobbyist sites. People doing it for the love of it rather than the money. That's fine.

I think advertising is a terribly crude way to make money from a website, as well as being cultural and aesthetic pollution. I think we'll look back on this period when websites were ad-funded with embarrassment.

Of course, I can't think of a better idea.

But if the use of ad-blockers increases then many many sites will go pop (the really good ones - the ones that people are actually actively willing to pay for - will survive of course) until some clever sausage eventually thinks of a better idea. And that will be great. Good old free market at work.
It's Android client based http://goo.gl/kShgp so it has no server limitation and it is actively being developed https://github.com/dodyg/AndroidRivers

I am helping out Cartulary as well https://github.com/daveajones/cartulary that will provide S3 based RSS aggregation functionality.
Not at all, rather it is the key that makes decentralization possible.

The reason bitcoin can be decentralized is that ultimate authority comes, not from a central server, but from a consensus among the community of bitcoin processors and miners. The cryptography just enforces the consensus. In other words, ANYONE could write their own blockchain... even one that showed everyone else in the world giving all their money that person. It's just that no one would pay any attention to that blockchain... we'd all be working off the consensus view.

This is also why bitcoin is resistant to being controlled by "the authorities", but not immune to it. If someone controlled over 50% of the compute power that's doing mining and processing payments, they could change the system and "fix" the numbers. The fact that it is decentralized is a defense against this because (hopefully) no one entity controls a significant portion of the compute power.
Also, if there's advertising then it's not free.
US Attorney accused of deliberately withholding evidence (Aaron Swartz trial)
With icc you usually use libstdc++ (mac/linux) or the MSVC C++ libraries (windows).
I'm not the OP but I have some stuff I want. I really like the service but don't use it that much because there isn't an Android app. Is that in the works?

As far as the website goes, the home page feels way to cluttered and it's not always clear what the elements do. For example, the purpose of the bar on the right isn't immediately obvious, and interaction with it isn't very intuitive - it looks like it scrolls vertically because of the cut off suggestion at the bottom but actually slides horizontally using buttons.

When it comes to discovering new topics I think a more interactive and transparent method than the suggestions box would be useful. I would love to have a graph/web of topics clustered around my interests that I could browse. I would also like to search for topics and see how they fit into the graph and related searches.
When he realized that the traffic would be too much, and money would probably pour: https://twitter.com/NewsBlur/status/312025565815255040
Google Reader shutting down at least gives me a new hobby project to hack on. There are a few decent alternatives in this list, but nothing I'm particularly enthusiastic about.
Most professional website that base their income on ad selling will not rely on a Pay Per Click affiliate model, but will have an "Ad Sale Departement" that will sell most advertisment by a cost per Impression model (CPM, Flat Rate).

By professional websites I mean website that will have a team of people working on it that are depending on the ad revenue.

You are correct in saying that those kind of website are a extremly small subset compared to the many small website with a couple of google adsense banners, but are probably the website you read,consume and block the most.
Usability tip: I would not have the Hi there box in the main panel. Maybe have it as a popup? Keep the main area clear.

Else, the first thing people try to do is find a way to close/remove/delete it so they can get started, which leads to the down arrow on it, which doesn't work to delete it. And now they're stuck wondering how to delete it...then they close the window without even tasting something they may have enjoyed.
Please, make sure you tell me (@julien51 or @superfeedr) about it!
Let's get the facts straight on the vp8 codec MPEG LA license
I've only ever clicked on an ad by accident, mostly on mobile devices.
The Data Liberation Front at Google
I'd suggest keeping in mind that TodoMVC hides how well the different frameworks perform with more complex (nested / inter-dependent) models though.
> I as the operator of my web browser is the person who gives authorisation for code (including ad code) to run on my browser on my machine

There are actually two people who give authorisation for code to run on your browser: You and the code's copyright holder. Most web sites will say, "we authorise you to run our main content as long as you also run the ads". Running AdBlock means that you are running code in a way which is not authorised by the web page copyright holder.
I switched to RSSowl quite a while ago and didn't find myself longing back to Google Reader once. It does everything I'd want, it's just not that pretty of an application.
Theoretically, I think the only energy spent is on the resistance inside the membrane.

Maintaining vessel pressure is not work and hence, not energy spent (in the same way as lifting a heavy weight and putting it down again does not do work)

Practically, maintaining pressure will take energy, but that may be recoverable (that first link talks about a Energy Recovery Device that helps with that)

So, I guess the article is wrong about the '99% less pressure needed' claim and is theoretically right about the '99% less energy' claim. I also guess that, in practice, that 99% will be a lot lower.

Corrections welcome.
For ebay-equivalent the window probably isn't large enough - we're talking hours, and this was a rare occurrence.

Someone selling digital goods could well be vulnerable though.
Fishwrap - reinventing the online feed reader
Fishwrap is the online feed reader that acts like it's 2013. You give us $9.99/month and we'll give you the feed reader you always wished that Google Reader would evolve into. Sign up now you'll be first in line when we launch July.
Ask HN: Any black women founders out there? What's your story?
Today I've read my nth article about gender bias in silicon valley and just realized they've all. been. about. white. women.

...Maybe an Asian or Jewish woman thrown in once in a while.

Is it b/c there just aren't many? I would love to hear stories from black women founders, as well as their opinion of the coverage on this issue.
Thank you, will contact you shortly :)
What happened to bitcoins 'mined' on the 0.8 chain in the meantime? Did people lose their currency?
What's the difference between direct-sold ads and spam?
Though, GPUs are meant for highly specialized number-crunching, they doesn't have direct access to system memory. One also gets additional latency transferring data between RAM and GPU memory.

Also, GPU is a temporary technology. Wait for some time, and see CPUs getting more GPU like.
My N4 out of contract from google wasn't that much more than say an S3 on contract... My last three phones have been off contract with cheap all you can use reseller services... the lower month to month makes up for the price difference in 4-6 months
It's worse than that. On iOS Google have just shut down exchange support (for new users), which was how I was syncing calendars up until now. If they pull caldav support as well, there will be no syncing mechanism available to iOS users, unless I'm missing something.
Do you want a personalized RSS reader plus more? NOOWIT (http://www.noowit.com) enters private beta in a few days!
I love to make my own web apps. I made my own system for cloud bookmarks, sharing, notes, contact, news feed, etc. I prefer making it because then I can tweak it and modify it the way I want without having to wait on some company. But I dislike coding, I hate syntax errors, or debugging code for an hour because of a dumb mistake. I could never be a full time coder. But I still love making things.
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Discussions about how to save time on eating and cooking -- essentially the ultimate life hacking -- always make me think about early man and his lifestyle that must have consisted mostly of hunting trips that may well have taken up days at a time, and then returning home with the prey and enjoying every bit of the reward. I wonder if they ever contemplated on how they could minimise all this time they spent on keeping themselves alive to make room for .. ehm, what else was there to do anyway?
$ sails generate model User
$ git diff
You can take a look at how Daniel Tenner (swombat) does it for some inspiration.

His MO is just at the edge of what's an OK way of doing this sort of thing (IMHO ;)
And there's another electronic currency system coming online now that should handle instant transactions well: ripple.com Its a new incarnation of a relatively old idea, but the good thing about the new ripple is that transactions are (and should continue to be) nearly instant. And it is very, very easy to trade bitcoin for ripple using the ripple system, and should get even easier. So I imagine a future where value is stored in btc, and spent using ripple (in any of the supported currencies).
If you have archeological pieces, even being the owner you can't destroy them.
Dear Google, I'm ready to pay a monthly subscription fee for Google Reader.
Dear Google, I'm ready to pay a monthly subscription fee for Google Reader. How much do you want?
Because that is what googles mission is? To index all the worlds information and make it universually useful?

Yes. But failure to do that to someones satisfaction doesn't make them evil.

Or if it does... well I've failed at so many things I must belong to the axis of evil.
Most of the direct campaigns are actually well targeted to our users. Products/Services that are useful, and likely to be used by those using our site.

I don't have a problem with targeted/useful ads... Hell, lots the posts in HN could be considered advertorials, just the same, I appreciate knowing about more... Where my problem is, I don't like highly intrusive ads, or far too many ads.
Looks like parent's desired opportunities crystallised when he finally was able to settle down and escape forced minimalism and job jumping.

He didn't like it (for good reasons he explained) and it's like you are telling him "cancer opened your eyes to the importance of human relationships so it was an opportunity, see ?".
It is - but how long do people wait before sending goods on ebay? If you're sending them a couple of hours later you check to make sure it's ok before you send. Ebay is a case where bitcoin works well because you can afford to wait before sending the goods. Realtime processing is where bitcoin really isn't safe.

Is there a mechanism that alerts of these forks in the blockchain? In this case it seems that something as simple as a single machine watching a 0.7 miner and 0.8 miner would have been enough to alert everyone of the issue before it went as far as it did.
That doesn't make any difference at all to SEO (and in some cases can improve performance - or at least having it after the body tag does).
Google Reader Alternatives
Already happening: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/coinlab-bringing-bitcoin-to-wall-...

They are working with some major Wall St insurers to insure and store large quantities of btc.
In this case, we're talking about the games industry, and with Unity, you can target platforms/consoles that Java doesn't get to.

That, and I haven't worked on a Java project yet, that didn't really annoy me.
Ask HN: Best way to read HN after Google reader gone?
How do you read HN now that Google reader will be gone soon?
We convert a few big-ish blogs to audio using a professional reader if you're into audiobooks or podcasts. Skip Google Reader listen instead.

http://castify.co/
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Here are two other related links :

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/03/14/the-ultimate-google-reader-...

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-57574201-233/google-rea...
The email field is private and not shown to the public. Generally people add their contact information in the About field.
In The Sims that effect sometimes happens because time in that game is so much faster. It's like "The ride for work will arrive in one hour." -> Well I'll just make my Sim eat breakfasts. Suddenly, The Sim arrives at the kitchen after crossing the house to get there and two hours passe.
I'm going to remove Google Play from my smartphone :)
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