skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kippt designer here. You're right, we use tiles to offer better views for images/videos/other media, but I, and many of our users (like researchers) save lot of text based material, so it's definitely something we want to support.

We already have the "classic" list view [1], and I have plans to improve it in the future, specially if you're doing text based research.

[1]: https://d17f28g3dsa4vh.cloudfront.net/img/press/list-view.jp...
I guess a big thing that I have to wonder here is how many folks stopped using Reader (or became less engaged) after they swapped many of the built in sharing features out for G+ integration...

Many of the people in my social circle that were big Google Reader users stopped using it because it was much more difficult to share articles that we'd browse while at work.
Having to support many different textbooks across different students is a recipe for chaos. Especially when the topic is something like calculus which can have such radically different treatments.
Employment at a good-ish startup is a good investment in your skill set. Yes, ideally you will make a lot of money on an IPO or acquisition, but even if not you will develop expertise and broaden your network. Just throwing a few thousand at something you can only watch from afar won't get you that.
Elon Musk TED Talk
5 things you need to know about venture capital in Brazil
one flaw on the estimates: it assume 100% of the uses leave the popunder running.

anyone have any data on the effectiveness of popunders? this is one area i never have to deal with (thankfully)
IBM was in no position to buy Microsoft in the early 1990s. That was just when they were in financial trouble from the downturn in the mainframe business. Lou Gerstner took them out of that hole by laying off a lot of people.

And, of course, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Steve Ballmer collectively owned a much larger chunk of Microsoft in the early 1990s than they do today. It would've been quite difficult to force through a hostile acquisition.
It's how they're written, but not how they work. In reality, that type of claim is not enforceable.

It is a good signal that they will attempt to prove infringement on your outside work though, and you can't ever guarantee a win in that kind of court case; the case-law is too messy and depends heavily on unproveables like 'intent' and 'reasonability'.
How well a work relationship works is up to you, not them. I've learned that people just want to be heard, appreciated and respected. Always look to do those three with everybody. Sure, you will not like everyone. And some will even make you question humanity itself. But have to always remember that people have issues that you may not know. Those issues might be the ones that make them act like that.

One example I like to use is from a programmer is used to know a long time ago. He was bullied in school. I mean, really bullied. As a result, he would always be mean to people. Not because he wanted. No. Just due to the fact that he was protecting what little self esteem he had left. I was able to work around that by telling him my own experiences with bullying. He never told me much, but he saw me as a non-threat, and was friendly.
$1 million during the dot-com bubble was essentially a signing bonus.
Yes, and my point is twofold:

1. It dominated its niche because it was a legitimately good product, not just because it was free. There have been many free alternatives for a long time, even before Reader. For example if every Mac user actually used the built in RSS readers that ship with OS X they would have eclipsed the Reader userbase.

2. The fact that it is a small niche (and more importantly isn't really growing) probably better explains the "lack" of alternatives.

The fact of the matter is that when Apple finally kills off the Mac Pro there actually won't be (lega) alternatives, unlike the current situation with RSS where there are plenty of alternatives (its just that Google's was way better). This is my whole point: Google won on quality, decided it wasn't worth it for them, and then exited. Had they priced it from the beginning (either through ads or freemium or whatever), they would have still won in my opinion, and then still killed it. Reader winning and going away has nothing to do with free in my mind: there is just no universe where Google would continue supporting an RSS product because RSS is not a big enough market.

I guess my point is that Google would have "killed the space" no matter what, not because they made it free.
The Wikipedia article on Pick[1] has some good background info. This stuff is pretty "old school" but is still in use in places.

Funny thing... I did an A.S. in Computer Programming back in the early 90's and the community college I attended had a Prime mainframe in the IT department, and ran Pick databases. I did some "work study" stuff with the IT manager there, but never really had a chance to get deeply into the Pick stuff. I was always curious about it though, so seeing this story (and this comment) brings back memories...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system
There is a regression in JSON and UTF8 encoding, sometimes manifested as `invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII` or as non-escaped utf8 characters in JSON output.

If this causes problems and you want a quick fix, this gist does the job.

https://gist.github.com/sandstrom/5199891
Freenode - Bye bye PDPC (Freenode's parent organization)
Thanks for the thorough calculations, it'll definitely help us moving forward. Also, glad you mentioned Hue bulbs, we were focusing on Bluetooth as our main differentiation factor but we have to cover the basic as well i.e. good lighting.
Trick question. I really wouldn't want to work for someone, period :P
are you new to HN ? the last few days listed 10+ alternatives. Google allowed you to export your feeds that could be imported to any one of the alternatives offered. So whats the issue ?
We reached out through personal network. The writer is interested in our story.
Show HN: Migrating from Posterous to Tumblr and keeping your old post urls alive
I recently migrated from Posterous to Tumblr, and one of the things that bothered me was that, while I own the domain name (andrewoneverything.com) and could simply transfer it from Posterous to Tumblr, individual posts get different urls, which breaks old links and also messes up your Google page rank.

Fortunately, I found out that you can sort of create "301" redirections on Tumbler, that preserve links to your original post urls, and also inform the search engines of the new urls.

Just go to your blog, click on customize, click on "Add a page". In the window that opens, in the top drop-down, change "Standard Layout" to "Redirect", and then simply fill out your old post url in the "Page URL" text input, and fill out the new post url in the "Redirect to" text input, and finally click "Create Page".

Obviously, this gets a bit tedious if you have a large number of posts you want to redirect. In that case, maybe you just redirect your most popular posts.

Hopefully this helps a few people.
VCs are startups too
If your app is thread-safe and mostly I/O bound, try the puma[1] 2.0 beta releases. You can cluster processes like Unicorn, but also run multiple request threads in each process for maximum concurrency. Don't forget `config.threadsafe!` to remove Rack::Lock and fixup class loading.

[1] http://puma.io/
Immunize End Users From Patent Trolls
Hopefully some folks have heard of Boundless now, we make free e-textbooks out of open-source / public domain content and are now used by students at half of all universities.

We have a program to help educators quickly get up to speed using our content with minimal effort

https://www.boundless.com/educators/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5400573
More details at https://plus.google.com/104326727082310562426/posts/CMW4Gst6...

EDIT: Static copy at http://planet.freenode.net/
Simple QML vs EFL comparison
Ha, sorry, I just went for it. :-)
According to the wise oracles of twitter, it was a seizure.

This very well could turn out to be bullshit, but it's all I could find so far.
What's The iWatch Worth To Apple? A Lot More Than You May Think
Same here, it was him who committed my first Django patch. He also came across as an incredibly nice person, with very thoughtful and kind comments. I've also read some of his ORM code and that was some of the nicest Python I've ever read.

Unfortunately I've never had a chance to meet him, and I haven't really been following the happenings in Django-world for a long time now, but I still felt really saddened seeing the news. Condolences to friends and family.
Show HN: Gazette - Your favorite RSS feeds in a weekly ebook.
"they had nothing to back that up."

You mean that they received an insufficiently broad (or overlapping) range of presentation submissions?
They should fix Google drive before launching an api... I don't understand why google didn't fix it yet. It's a big issue, bigger than the google reader thing... People use Google drive for their business (and some pay, like me), not google reader. WTF Google ! We are waiting so long !
The law is federal. The extent of a state's ability to supersede federal law is an ongoing discussion in the courts.
Nobody is forcing you to stay at the conference?
Implementing MongoDB-like Query expression object evaluation
you'd be impressed by the amount of snake oil sold in the ad world.

for the latest ones, see the 'solutions' for viewability (i.e. another way to try to not pay publishers for displayed ads). they are all a joke that work on less than 1% of the cases you see in the wild. Yet, no mention of that is made.

When you see "proprietary", "patented", assume "BS".

now, answering your question, this is pretty much a mix of auto/manual monitoring. So with very little effectiveness. And/OR the publishers in question serve the page with Script tags, so they have access to the referrer of the original content page.
Companies that focus on the thing that makes them money eventually start losing money. You have to focus on the next thing to make you money, not the current one. I'm willing to cut google some slack here though, with the self-driving cars and google glass. Innovation at google isn't dead, it's just not in web app form anymore.
Looking forward to you moving forward.
The analogy was in reference to pg's investment in Coinbase while holding no Bitcoins themselves.

If Bitcoin succeeds, would you rather have owned the coins... or the banks and exchanges that constantly take a percentage of the flow?
Vim heresy
I'm the creator of the Meet CopThis intro app. AMA!

Kidding. Thanks for the votes, downloads and words of encouragement. It is greatly appreciated.

Ed

Edit: I guess AMA if you want to. :)
Great post, Garry.

I believe you can export from Posterous to Blogger as well.
Reader didn't have a documented API, and the differences between it and this only begin there. Move on.
Me too, those are great for learning alone.
I'm banned from the USA
It never really made sense to have a charity on top of an IRC network anyway, I claim.

Kudos to the volunteers who keep that place running so smoothly.
So at the same time she accuses them of making sexual jokes.
https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313417655879102464

She is making her OWN sexual jokes, while STILL at PyCon.
https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425

-coughhypocritecough-

Jokes are only okay when woman do them! Teehee~
Sorry. Got lost on me :-)
And it's a WPF one too.
> because the price is going up too fast to ever be paid back, and if it ever stops going up, people will be dumping it too fast for an interest rate

Is it implausible that these two forces would reach a relatively stable equilibrium, like stocks?
You would be kicked from any sane conference for the picture taking alone. Thats a big no-no without explicit permission.
sweet! hook a brother up
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Bye bye PDPC
Wow, switching to mouseover instead of click is an amazing idea. Going to play around with it and ship an update soon.

Spacebar scrolls the page by default so might run into some conflicts there.
I can only speak for myself, but the way I go about bookmarks is:

- Image-based bookmarks: Pinterest

- Everything else: Opera bookmarks (inline search beyond compare)

One of the main allures of using an image-based bookmark site like Pinterest is that link rot won't matter, since I will always have the images I intended to bookmark.

As they say like Sesame Street: "One of these things is not like the other." The two types of bookmark don't really mesh that well.
Role reversal isn't effective in these kinds of discussions.
Today, Bitcoin FED 43 homeless people
All right, so I have a slight bone to pick with Marco. This is actually a fairly well-written article and I'm glad that people are engaging with it elsewhere in the comments, but I'm just a bit confused that he's choosing to write it now, and about Google Reader than about, say, Reading List. Remember? That product that Apple released for free and that was a direct competitor to Instapaper? Or iCloud, that product that Apple released for free and that was a direct competitor to Dropbox? Or Ping, that product that Apple released for free and then shitcanned after not enough people used it?

Marco's response to Reading List (and its integration into not only OS X but iOS) wasn't "this is predatory pricing! Regulate!" but instead "this might be good for my product" [1].

So, I don't really know. I didn't use Reader, but I understand that people are upset that it's getting cancelled. That does suck. Of course, this is apparently what everyone deserves for daring to use a free product? But actually it's okay because we'll all be better off because of the great RSS reader renaissance that is upon us? Oh god I can't keep this straight any more. Go find a new RSS reader. RSS appears to have weathered the predation of Facebook, Twitter, and G+ admirably so far; I doubt that its days are numbered.

[1] http://www.marco.org/2011/06/06/safari-reader-and-instapaper
> At least this gives us a chance too to invest in the next Dropbox and Airbnb.

And the next Webvan, Pets.com, Kozmo, Flooz, eToys, Boo, etc etc etc, saying nothing of the huge number of failures we don't even know about.
But not if you wore an expensive suit while doing it.
Formal definitions of security depend on the security goals of the system. Bitcoin may utilize secure hash functions, secure signature systems, and secure ciphers -- but Bitcoin is not a hash function, a signature system, or a cipher. The security goals of Bitcoin are: (1) it should be hard to counterfeit the currency and (2) it should be hard to double-spend the currency. The meaning of the word "hard" is what matters here: formally, "hard" is captured by complexity theory, and means that no polynomial time algorithm exists for the problem e.g. for (1), there should be no polynomial time algorithm that can counterfeit the currency.

If you want an example of this approach to digital cash security (scroll down to the bottom of page 15 and see Definition 3):

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.46.4...
We went user controlled because we wanted people to be able to guide their own experience. We watched a bunch of people use the app and noticed people went a very different speeds.

It turned out that we show so little at a time that people went through the deck in two ways: very slowly or very quickly. We couldn't have allowed both to do that with an auto-play or video function.
You don't have to leave the party, just walk to another area. I agree it's not ideal but sometimes that's what needs to be done. I agree partygoer's shouldn't be assholes (or cunts).
MIT Professor talks about his battles with depression
Using Cast.js to create animated grid-layouts
There is a pitfall with the approach of update loop using variable time steps. Depending on the game type this can matter quite a great deal. Essentially it is analogous to an iterated solution of the three body problem. 50 tiny steps produces a different result to 10 big steps.

There was a Google contraption editing game(a Google IO demo?) that suffered from this approach quite badly. It was a set-up-and-go game which should perform deterministically, but was influenced by variations in frame-rate.

The easiest approach to fixing this is simply quantised time.

var now = Date.now();
while(gameAge < now) {
update();
gameAge+=stepDuration;
}
render();
//with usual caveats of resyncing if now-gameAge is too large

The much harder (but possibly ideal) approach is to not even have such a time step at all and move in variable increments calculated at the point of interaction between entities. An example of this would be a snooker simulation which moves in steps when the balls make contact. Balls slowing, rolling and curving become calculus problems. Produces a very nice result but your brain explodes.
Why I'm Not Applying to 37signals (But Why You Should)
We'll write exporters the way Posterous did. Ideally we would work out some way where exporters wouldn't be necessary, e.g. the data appears in some perfect for elsewhere, intact, with the same URL.
What in the world is going on with MonoDevelop?
The MonoDevelop front page (http://monodevelop.com) advertises 3.0. The download page advertises 4.0, but its release notes direct you back to the homepage.
When you actually download 4.0, you get something called Xamarin Studio which acts like MonoDevelop with a mobile development flavor.
To top it all off, it auto-updated and the add-ins repository just gives me 404 errors now.
Perch: http://grabaperch.com/blog/archive/posterous-import-for-perc...
A mobile device review, 10 years ago
Nothing into that link says anything about shutting down Reader to drive people to Google+.

It does have a former employee saying Google+ is more of a focus for Google than Reader, but that isn't remotely the same and everyone knew that for quite a while.
Security Analysis - 1940 Edition.

Re-reading it for the one millionth time. Always learn something new from it.
Same here, I've gotten it stipulated that only things related to the business were to be their property. Nobody's complained.
Oh Business Card, How I Love and I Hate Thee
When I went through it I tapped as fast as if I'm playing a video game, although not because I'm a fast reader, more because there are so few words on the screen. I don't think there's a good way to solve this, or that you need to.
I hope this doesn't come across as dismissive - but that's kind of the deal you get when investing tiny amounts (relatively) with early-stage startups. You're basically investing in the team (and their assumed honor) in the hopes of a big exit in the future. Or, more idealistically, in the hopes of being part of the Next Big Thing.

If you're looking for dividends (ie profit return) or management oversight - as an investor - you're going to either invest more and get your own terms or stick to the public markets.
Bitcoin and its users have no duty to any existing "economy", and certainly don't amount to one themselves. If one's holdings of bitcoin appreciate with respect to some other commodity, eventually the wealth effect will make investment and other spending in that second commodity attractive. No one is in any sense stuck in a "bitcoin economy".

If I'm misunderstanding, please clarify.
US Trade Office Calls ACTA Back From the Dead and Canada Complies
Well then. I'm sold. Thanks Garry.
Yeah. They were sitting a few feet from me. I caught a whiff of the smoke and my first thought was "are you freaking kidding me?" I don't care what you do in your own home, but toking up in a crowded room at a tech conference is just jackassery.
Crowdsourcing The Travelling Salesman
> "I think this argument is disorganized. It reads as if he's arguing for free in favor of paid (which I don't really agree with), but I think he's actually arguing for open in favor of closed (which I do agree with)."

That was my thought. He opened by talking about Free, because Reader closing and Mailbox being acquired stirred up a lot of the usual anti-Free-Service backlash. And he discusses free, I think, just to underline that it does work.

But I think he went into the weeds (and clearly lost much of the readership there) in discussing why. Which is strange, as I don't think even the anti-Free crowd takes issue with whether Free works and they certainly seem to all understand that it does work.

And, ultimately, the "why" part is irrelevant to where he winds up, which is simply that open protocols should be preferred to proprietary ones.
In 1995, Quicken, Money, and Managing Your Money already had the ability to dial-up to banks, retrieve your balances, and even move money around.

In 1995, there was already airline reservation capability on CompuServe, AOL, and the like. I don't remember if you could actually buy the tickets, or if you had to call in your credit card number. But that's just a detail. The thing that really disintermediated the travel agent is the ability to search through the listings.

I think the people you talked to simply had a vested interest in the existing way of doing things. They were in the banking and the travel industries. The tech industry, by contrast, already had other ideas.
Walking away from something so pervasive is isolating.
I'm using HighCharts specifically because of their support for IE6/7 (using VML). http://www.highcharts.com/documentation/compatibility
Conferences are generally laid back environments. Of course sexist exclusionary shit that assumes conference goers are male is wrong, but making a totally non-sexist joke to your mate in a talk? Fuck that shit.
Can control theory make software better?
Yes, there will always be people that invest time/effort into figuring out how to exploit a system when there's money involved! I am sure there are still many exploits, it's just a matter of being more clever than the individual(s) that designed the system, and being willing to take the risk of indictment in case your scheme is discovered.
I've used and enjoyed Puma before. If you want you can run this app on Puma https://github.com/codetriage/codetriage

I've even run this app on JRuby on Puma on Heroku (worked well). Currently my interests are in Unicorn config and settings on MRI though.
I'm not the OP, but I don't think he was necessarily talking about the Google Reader API (rather just the service). If you're getting hung up on documented/undocumented APIs, pick any one of the deprecated examples from this list (http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-s...) and substitute it in for Google Reader.
Thank you for the TruckNuts example! I was just about to post how ugly namespaces in PHP are, and I didn't know that you could alias like that
Reversing the genders doesn't really work because they come from an unequal footing in the first place. Of course, if you reversed all of history and they were female dominated events with a long history of intimidating an harassing males, perhaps the test would stand up.

That said, this woman's behaviour is a massive overreaction and exceptionally irresponsible, and has led to something horrible happening. If I were here I'd be doing everything I can to make it right.
It is, however, empowered to figure out how to interpret ambiguous legislation. And when more than one interpretation is possible, I don't really think it is such a bad idea to choose the more sensible option. I don't believe they've "throw[n] out" any part of the law here. Rather, they have chosen the interpretation they found more reasonable and consistent with the Constitutional prerogative of promoting the progress of science and useful arts.
At least the guy didn't wear a Rails T-shirt...