skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many Alex's work at PlayHaven? Because both of those things are clearly visible in the photo she posted. According to LinkedIn, it's a company of 11-50 people and it took me one minute to find their profiles.
Jesse Noller tweeted that he was receiving anonymous threats and e-mails regarding the PyCon drama. Regardless of which way you lean on the matter, this might be a good cause to remind him that people do appreciate his work, no matter how bad the trolls want to punish him.
It is ridiculous that people judge whether you should or should not be angry/happy/sad etc. with your situation. It is impossible to judge correctly, all people need different things to be happy. Assuming that money is the universal measure of happiness is usually wrong. That is probably why you sound happier than the guy in the OP.
s/what do want him to do/what do you think would be moral for him to do/

A trivial modification that should be inferred. Are you a native english speaker?

Regardless, what non-charity hobbies do you think it would be moral for rich people to have? How much would Bezos hypothetically have to give to charities before this operation stopped being "immoral" in your book? Is there an amount?

You really are trying to tell rich people how they should spend their money, even if you think yourself a libertarian. The cognitive dissonance here is astounding.
Marc Andreessen and others almost voted off HP Board of Directors
They're not dropping CalDav, they're just going to start screening its access: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19gOLSlkTzHi-zub3BkMv7Ot0JML...
I'm going to miss reader as much as anyone but it just seems like a buch of spoiled brats with a sense of entitlement whining at this point. Reader was provided as a free service. Google is shutting it down and giving everyone enough time to find an alternate service and access their OPML data via takeout. While some things may be lost forever via their article caching, Google doesn't owe anything to the Reader user base.
I disagree with this assessment, both on first examination are quite simple. Magnetic memory is as you described, the other stores charge on the plate of a capacitor. We have two effects, one quasi-magnitostatic the other quasi-electrostatic.

Now if we dig down into the details both look seemingly impossible. For hard drives we have read heads that must sweep so close to the spinning platter that they use the wing ground effect to float just over the surface. We no longer can read data with the write coil (not enough gain) so instead we use spin polarization sensors that pass currents of electrons with only one intrinsic spin and then measure the effect the magnetic field of the platter had on the spin of the electrons in the current.

In the case of solid state memory, we are able to pattern silicon wafers with a minimum feature size of 22nm and falling. A single chip is a seemingly miraculous network of chemically deposited thin films and optically patterned cutouts all at a size that beats the detraction limit of light. The mask (imagine an overhead projector's transparency) can not be shaped the same as the intended end-shape pattern of silicon due to very small scale refraction but never fear! We have figured out how to calculate what our mask must look like to beat the diffraction limit. Its all amazing stuff.
I don't see how dropping one product == become untrustworthy.

This is like if you went to the supermarket every day to buy milk, flour, sugar, beans, and lettuce. And then the supermarket realises that it is uneconomical for them to provide lettuce, so they drop it, but they do start selling eggs. And you look at those eggs and say 'Yeah, Right. I'm not going to buy those. I remember what happened to the lettuce.'
> Brother, where did I try to tell him how to spend his money?

> I am merely stating that from my point of view what Bezos is doing isn't right

What. The. Fuck.

You are clearly beyond rational discussion.
But that is exactly the point you were making: that it would somehow be reasonable to "feel threatened" when 2 gay guys are having a sexual conversation within hearing range of you. You in fact agree with everyone else that this is not a threatening situation. Given that, what does this have to do with the incident at Pycon? Your argument is heteronormative at best because it also assumes that only straight men could every be offended by gay sexual conversation.
I use Tornado for standard CRUD apps. Why not Django or Flask? Because I have a boilerplate Tornado repo sitting there for the majority of CRUD apps. Use what ever you're most productive in as a developer and nothing else matters.

Productivity matter all the more so if you're the sole developer on a time sensitive project.
No homophobia is involved.

Males are the perpetrators of most of the sexual assault in the world, so in trying to create a scenario that would make you identify with the victim, I used a male perp. You could also try imagining yourself in prison, or in the hands of dirty cops. But those are rare experiences, whereas everybody has gotten caught in the rain, so I started with that.
I canceled my SendGrid in response. http://cl.ly/image/412O0S0Y003y I can't really consider developing for a company whose own evangelist might get me fired one day for something similarly trivial.
I'm a salaried employee. I do "systems" work currently (basically integration and middleware plumbing on embedded systems), which is an area for which there isn't a lot of freelance opportunity. But I've worked in other areas professionally and expect to work in other areas in the future. I certainly wouldn't rule out freelancing.
Who is nowadays starting Ruby on Rails?
I understand your point and know that from your point of view it looks scammy. But its not. My interest here is to point out what I think is a good product to use. People are always asking me what tools should they use, and when the chance pops up to point to one I take it. My only interest is to help other business people discover good tools like this one.

I don't have any financial interest in the company. I actually turned down an offer to work with them due to closing another client. Such circumstances gave me the opportunity to talk with one of the founders (the OP). The impression that he left in me is that they are a good place to do business with. That impression also comes from me only hearing good things about them from their customers.

I am a member in a private group of startups founders where we discuss business development and help each other. I'd like for you to drop by our next meeting (online) so that you can get to know me. My hope is that you realize that my focus is to help others grow their businesses, and not scam people out of money. If you are interested, then send me an email. I will make sure to send you the invitation to the group.
Keep and Reader are built for different groups of users. Reader was a niche product used by a small (but vocal) subset of all Google users. Keep is a product built for everyone.
Is there a plan for iOS sdk, or perhaps you know of someone working on one that is active?
What’s Wrong With Using Sex In Tech Conference Presentations? (2010)
My understanding is that there are saved stories and meta data that you can't export from google reader (mostly based on comments on this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5371725 because I don't use Google Reader and never have). Is my supposition incorrect?
> How hard is it to import an OPML into any of the other feed services that already exist on the web, or those popping up everyday. Do we really need to keep regurgitating this story?

I think you have missed previous discussions about the irreplaceable parts of Google Reader. Hints: going back in time for articles that are not present in the current feed, autotranslation of posts.
I really enjoyed Raymond Hettinger's keynote and his classful development in Python session. Intermediate and advanced Python programmers should watch these as soon as they are up!
I'm another Intigi cofounder. Great point on the freemium approach.

The reason we haven't pulled the trigger on this to date is twofold. First, we're a bootstrapped startup and we've been cautious about our burn rate (e.g., scaling infrastructure before we've achieved product/market fit and a sustainable revenue model). Second, for some time our product wasn't fully self-service. We were concerned about the support issues that would come with a significant growth in our user base, especially free users, potentially outside our target market.

We've now progressed beyond these two issues, and will launch a freemium model soon, with 1 or 2 interests and cached results that are updated once or twice per day.

I'd appreciate any other feedback, and happy to answer questions by email at mjfern@intigi.com.
Interestingly, if you want to know whether something you own is sapphire glass, you can usually conduct a simple experiment:

Drop some water onto the glass face, and jostle the item around a bit. If the water stays put in a semi-uniform droplet, regardless of the motion and angle, it's probably sapphire.
If at this point Google reinstates Reader, I can tell you they will win many hearts and goodwill. I don't remember a product being brought back from grave and if they were to do it, they will be viewed as a genuinely considerate company (IMO).
Negotiating for salary is useless for a business major who cannot get a job. You are also vastly overestimating their average intellectual capabilities with respect to options vesting rules.

CS graduates have it very good right now, much, much better than business majors.
Google Keep is now live - http://goo.gl/hKjra
So how does that help me if I want to sync iCal with Google Calendar?

Addendum: The way I read that form, they will only consider whitelisting apps if the developers ask for it. As a user, I'm still screwed.
most sensible response I have read on this entire issue
Google Reader had an easy and clear migration path to export your data.

It's not just about the data: it's about the habits and familiarity surrounding the process of using the data.

In RSS, I've been using NetNewsWire for years, even though it's basically abandon-ware and has really fallen behind. Why do I keep using it? Because it works okay, and when I've tried to switch—most recently to DevonTHINK PRO—I've gone back to NetNewsWire.

I'd happily pay for a new version or for a better OS X desktop-only RSS app, but I'm a very small market.
It's the loss of historical feed data that bothers me most. Sure, I can export the links to the feeds I have subscribed to, but that's the data I could have reconstructed myself.
Well, since technology projects keep naming themselves after Native American tribes and register the websites, IT might be a tad insensitive.
Well, the issue is not closing one service but how they just closed one widely used product and are keeping Google+ around, which sends less traffic around the web.

Apart from that, it's about Google's departure from "we do what's best for users" to "we will keep only a few things around and kill others even if you use them daily".

Personally, I never used Reader that much. Instead, I went for Feedly which used Reader as back end and Feedly is going to transition smoothly, so I am not affected. And even if they allow exporting, how long is it before they start killing other features/apps that I use? That's my(and others') concern here.

Re:Microsoft, they are the favorite scapegoat for tech press. Apple, Google and everyone else is becoming next MS. ;)
James and co. are bustin ass! How often do we see these guys working past midnight to help hackers at hackathons. I initially fell in love with the simplicity of the Firebase backend last summer. But Parse was ahead of the game with their iOS SDK and our apps have been running with them since.

James: not to copy Parse but I suggest a lot of sample code to get the n00bs up and running fast with your backend. Once you firebase, you'll never go back.
https://drive.google.com/keep/

It's under the Drive umbrella.
There will definitely be a second exodus. People such as myself are waiting to see what "wins out" over the next few months. I'm still adding feeds to my Reader account.
I'm so sad weev is in prison now, and can't troll here.
From observing reenactments of early American life, I think an 18th century agricultural technology is self-sustaining and directly bootstrappable, except for the problem of mining and working iron. So my guess is not much longer than 300 years.
Photographer's copyright suit lists his subject as defendant
It's "something".
RSS reader on the side I dont get the idea of Google Keep. It does not seem the notes are saved to Google Drive. Can I access them offline? Are they sync'd with my phone?
Please, at least give some comment when you're downvoting. What I said was subjective but I didn't expect it to cause this much negativity.
There are other webmail providers, search engines and social networks too. What's your point?
I'm contracting specifically so that I can allocate time flexibly in order to found my own company.

You're essentially scorning me for taking my own path towards what you did.

Baffling hypocrisy.
Yes. And in fact, you're the first person in these comments to mention the subject at all.
>>I may just have forgotten them, though (2005 was a long time ago).

Yeah, good point :-)

There was Bloglines. It is still there, only difference being - it's a ghost town now.

There used to be FeedDemon's own sync and now FeedDemon is jumping into the pyre with Reader.

It's been long and I am out of example. Maybe others will bring some.

But thing in this way - "because when the company launched Google Reader in 2005, its free price tag undercut and then virtually destroyed the market for competitive products."[1]

Thing this way - what about an startup that wants to enter hosted mail(web mail too) and they won't because of GMail. The same can be said about IM(for personal use; not those dev chat apps), Forum(Groups?), blah. And Google has good reason to kill them too.

[1]http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/03/19/this-is-what-pisses-me...
Google served a giant turd sandwich to a bunch of journalists by closing Reader. Now Google is eating the shit it created. Google is going to continue eating shit until they grovel.

Unfortunately for Google, no one is responsible for closing Reader, thus no one will step up to the plate and fix this PR disaster.

There is a clear path to fix this mess, and I guarantee no one at Google has the humility to fix the problem.
I'm still using reader because I don't care for feedly working as an extension to my browser and the news blur interface doesn't appeal to me. I'm waiting to see if something else pops up that offers the syncing feature of reader with a decent web app.
Where's Guido's keynote?
People that want reader are not using +. It's awesome! And any way I can increase ROI on my Adwords I support. If google can suggest my brand more often to the proper peeps based off data collected that means greater sales for me. Know the user!
I'm pretty sure sipgate supports free 800 calls
I said this,

>That doesn't mean that every woman here absolutely requires a man who can buy her a diamond, but the majority do.

right after talking about the US--meaning I was discussing women here in the US, where it is demonstrably true that the majority of women demand diamonds.
Open Source HTML5 multiplayer server
There's not much to do on there. I see image memes that aren't interesting. I scroll down to find a "What's hot" box with some boring thing from the NRA. Why does Google think I want to see anything from the NRA?

The rest is news and updates I already saw on Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds. This is with a few carefully curated circles. I culled a few people out for flooding me with uninteresting things, but G+ hasn't removed their posts from the stream. The rest are people who either don't post at all or don't post often.
I assure you, I'm not missing the point - I understand very well the point you're trying to make, except you've decided to make it in an incredibly offensive, homophobic way.

You've committed the same injustice against homosexuals with your comment as women frequently suffer in our field (and beyond): the reinforcement of tired stereotypes and insensitive association.

In what world is is okay to so casually draw a line between homosexuals and rape? You can make your point about how men do not suffer the constant fear of assault, but you are not free to drag gays into this in a slanderous, offensive, and deeply harmful manner. People have been battling the image of the sexual deviant/predator for decades - your free-association is the sort of casual, unintentional prejudice that would be more forgivable if you weren't so defensive of it.

Let me make this clear once more: your point that men do not experience the same fear of assault as women stands, you did not need a fictional story to go along with it. More importantly, your "defense" of women came at great expense to another marginalized demographic, needlessly, thoughtlessly, and IMO repugnantly.

Making your point on the back of somebody else is not okay.
I love the concept of Persona and hopes it catches on. One question I can't seem to find the answer to, though.

Users are allowed to have multiple emails tied to one Persona account. If they login to my site with one email I will see that email address and can bind their account data to it. If they sign in with their other email address, will I be able to identify them as the same person?
Anyone wanting to learn about what could come after what comes after should read up on transparent spinel specifically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_ceramics
My impression of google from age ~15 was of a company who had balanced profitability with genuine altruistic intent. They had so many products, tools, services, libraries... everything and pretty much all of it was free and freely available.

It hasn't really changed that much, but jesus, my perception has. Charging for Google Maps was a warning sign, though it only really applied to companies, fair game. Wave was flippant, it came and went too fast to understand the gesture. Google Notes always needed some love and attention it was never going to get.

But Google Reader? It was/is uniquely useful. Widely supported, widely loved, widely used (as far as I can tell). It was the kind of thing that made me feel Google had your best interests at heart, I can't imagine it made them much money.

Just to clarify, I'm not upset about Google Reader, far from it http://theoldreader.com/ looks entirely capable of picking up the slack. It's just upsetting to see a company that I really thought was different is just a company with margins and directives and the rest. I guess I'm an idiot.
It's just hard to tell what's going to stick around, and what's going to disappear. Microsoft gave you a disk, and they support a crazy amount of backwards compatibility even on the newest os. I think apple has been fairly clear, old stuff won't run on new machines. Google, just kind of turns stuff off. wave had a manager. buzz had a manager. the finance api had a manager.

I get it, they need to get rid of old stuff. It just feels like a new way of doing that. People stick to windows because stuff keeps working, even if MS would rather it dies. People avoid OSX, because stuff stops working with new versions of the OS. There's nothing wrong with people abandoning google forever over little things.

Frankly, I'd be super sad if i had to leave gmail, i've used it for almost 9 years, and i really love it. But, will gmail be around in 5 years? 10? For almost a decade, i was utterly convinced gmail would live forever. I'm not so sure now. What happens when google wants us to all move to NewSocialNowWaveBuzzPlus thing, and puts gmail on life support to encourage that? Is it likely? no, of course not. Is it within the realm of possibility? Yes.
In the Navy we called the preferred action in this post a "informal complaint," in which you took it upon yourself to confront the issue and devise a solution amongst yourselves. If that action did not resolve the issue, you then commenced to file a "formal complaint," where it was wide spread knowledge that something, usually much more disciplinary, would be done about the issue. The knowledge that a formal complaint would bring about unwanted consequences is often enough deterrence to such actions, however in the case that one may get a little too comfortable, or cross the line, at least they could rely on that "brotherhood" (whether it be a female or a male), that their comrade would remind them of their boundaries instead of immediately throwing them under the big yellow bus.
We also have to trust them to shed dead weight or they will turn into a bloated whale that is never able to produce anything of quality. They gave plenty of warning time and have made it very easy to easily export our data.
The real genius of Steve Jobs
> No problem with Jay Leno.

No problem with Jay Leno... but you think his hobby is immoral? You have a very disturbed definition of "no problem".
This is seriously cool and great to see coming out of Australia.

I know there have been attempts to clone several other species in recent years, what are the most common issues with attempting to do this? I suspect not having a sufficient DNA sample, so how was one obtained for this case? Are the DNS repositories out there for extinct animals or those nearing extinction just so that one day we can bring them back? If not, i think this wouldn't be a terrible idea...
First of all, its OK to feel a bit overwhelmed. Life is not so simple to deal with. We have many pressures to handle.

I want you to know that by posting this you have taken control of your life. That is the first step towards feeling better about yourself.

I want you to put off any immediate plan you may have. Don't make any quick decisions. Let time pass for a bit. With your new found control, go and do something positive for yourself. Get in touch with a family member or a friend. Let them know how you feel. Have them listen and ease some of the pain away.

I also want you to go and buy a plant. Any type of plant. Buy the one you like. Pick the one you think is coolest. Then take it home. Give it a name. I personally have one plant which is named (don't laugh) Chunky. She has grown into a very beautiful and strong plant. Water your plant every day at the same time. Take care of it. What if you forget to water it and it dies? Don't worry. You can start over again. The wonderful thing about life is that we can start over again as many times as we want. If your plant dies, then go buy another one. And so on until you have a plant as good looking as Chunky. I will be honest, Chunky is not the first plant I took care of. The first seven died because I would forget to water them, or because I put them in the wrong type of pot. But you will do better than me. I know so.

If you want to talk with someone, just send me an email. I like to listen to other programmers.

Above all, take care. I wish you inner peace.
I was not, no.
Pull’ Customers, Don’t ‘Push’ Messages
Vertu → Nokia
I think it's pretty clear that "crucify" in the context of online discussion means "excoriate in discussion", not track down and nail to a physical cross. :)
Can I instead be in
4) whatever [0]

As a user of Google Reader since too long ago to remember, I'm annoyed that I have to find an alternative but it also shouldn't be sparking a discussion about high-level, long-term Google strategy.

[0]: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/17/google-reader/