skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a paid NewsBlur subscription but rarely use it. There is an iOS app but it isn't comparable with Reeder and offline support in particular is missing. An API exist in theory but isn't used by other apps and services. The web GUI of Newsblur itself isn't performant and user-friendly IMHO, it reminds me of an old-style Windows GUI …

I'm going with Feedbin (https://feedbin.me/) and the iPhone version of Reeder (http://reederapp.com/iphone/) for the moment. Feedbin's web GUI is very simple but there's hope for progress. And the Reeder developer announced that he plans to add Feedbin support to the iPad and OS X versions of Reeder (http://reederapp.com/reader/). As a backend for syncing feeds with Reeder on the iPhone, Feedbin has been working well for me so far.

(BTW, Feedbin has no official trial but you can use it for three days without getting charged on your credit card.)
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Generally, I use it where I could duplicate an entire data type with additional knowledge of the possible types. So for example, "AST that has been type-specialized and therefore contains no polymorphic type variables" would be a different type from "raw AST" or "type-generalized AST".

I actually did write the code that way the first time around. However, it ended up being a huge duplication of effort for a tiny amount of increased safety from type-checking. Literally, if I'm willing to move the checks of certain type-system-checkable properties to runtime this way, I can write 1/3 the actual lines of code.

The ideal would be to have data structures that are polymorphic over proofs of their properties, allowing the type-system to consider "unchecked AST", "generalized AST" and "specialized AST" as the instantiation of the same basic "AST" data type over three different proofs (or lack of proofs).
Configuring OS X and iOS for elders
Patents are, by definition, public.

That's actually the telling sign of the dysfunctional patent system. Companies want to use patents to prevent everybody else from doing something similar, and in this case, even from just talking about it (which is obviously ridiculous).

Patents used to be a framework for sharing technological progress without giving up ownership, i.e. make it easier for everybody else to build on other's progress - that's long gone.
Of course it's not "completely and utterly crazy."

Not every app needs to deal with the enormous complexities implied by "full unicode support", and given the huge cost of that, there's a real place for a minimalist approach. If all I do with unicode is input strings from the user, store them in a database, and then later spit them out, I don't need to be able to do Turkish case-conversion, and I may not want to pay the cost of making it possible.

Certainly tools and APIs help for those cases where an app needs to do the sort of complicated text-processing that warrants "full" unicode support, but it's not at all clear that the proper place for such support is in the base language libraries. It's quite reasonable for the language implementors to say "if you want to do X, we'll support that, but if you want to do Y and Z, please use external library L."
Trolls getting trolled. Why is this not hilarious?
Catapulting the UK into the future
One more thing - while I cannot promise that it will be there, one of us will try to bring a Occulus Rift for demonstration so if you attend there's a good chance you can try it :)
Obviously the person downvoting you is a Knuth fan ;)
I humbly disagree.

The reason i'm using JSON is for the fact that's it's fast to parse, compact, and lightweight, compared to XML. Now the reason for needing the xpath/xslt/xsd version of json is not principaly because it's a serialization format, but because it's a serialization format used in almost any modern web API.
Experience shows that using JSON for web APIs is a good choice. Saying "you should've used XML" may have been relevant 5 years ago, but i think it's time to assume the fact that JSON is now so much used, that it needs the same kind of tools that xml has had almost from the start.
CSS Tube Map
Many of my top commands are 1- or 2-letter aliases. g for git, v for vim, and so forth.

I had to change the command slightly to work with zsh -- instead of 'history' I did 'history 1' to get the full (10k entries for me) history instead of the most recent 16.
Also reported six days ago, although with comparatively little discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5703219
Have a look at some of the things built on Minecraft (we're talking all the way up to fully functional CPUs, here) and then tell me that it's both passive and non-creative.
> primary text editor

> Visual Studio
On that note, another commenter mentions a KSR book that has a city moving around a latitude to keep a certain place relative to the Sun.

Also seen in cstross' "Saturn's Children" (possibly a direct nod to KSR in his case, since that entire novel was a deliberate pastiche from start to finish?)
Yes, i also thought of protocol buffer right after sending that comment. Although i wonder : is there any way you could automatically generate a full service/model layer for, let's say angularjs or objective-c, based solely on protocol buffer "standard" ?
Would not have put Sublime in front of Vi/Vim but there we go, it is a truly excellent text editor despite the qualms about it not being programmable.
> 3) More women in the workforce leads to fewer domestically prepared meals.

This is unfortunately true, as in it will take probably another 20 to 30 years for the majority of Western men to realize that they can cook, too, and that cooking is not only a "woman's job". Coming from a family where both my parents worked full-time jobs and where my dad was actually cooking tastier meals than my mum it surprised me when I grew up and saw that in other families the husband wouldn't approach the kitchen even if he would be starving to death.

Otherwise I cannot really understand why a majority of people have starting seeing cooking a healthy meal as a "waste of time". This is something so ingrained in our well-being, I'd say is almost quintessential to who we are as a species, that it baffles me when I see so many people relying only on pre-processed food that comes packaged in cardboard boxes.
hi, during summer i'm going to give a talk at a digital media conference here in austria http://summit.werbeplanung.at/2013/franz-enzenhofer/, the tagline "fire your linkbuilding agency, especially if you are in a competitive vertical" i'm not going into full detail here as it's mostly still in my head, but the argument will go something like this (oh, and as an additional restriction, i won't use any hollow terms like algo-update, pinguin, panda, caffeine, magic unicorn, mayday, ... as these terms kill all and any serious discussion)

1. for SEO success you need links
2. but not a fixed amount, but growth over time
3. paying a linkbuilding agency enables link growth over time
4. as long as you pay
5. if you stop paying, link growth will stop
5a. probably your links will decline
6. in the meantime you haven't developed any assets
(know-how, connections, brand-recognition, internal
ressources (people)) that enables natural or do-it-
yourself link growth
7. you depleted your ressources (money) for external quick-fixes
8. you are dependent on your external agency
9. this is not a healthy business relationship, but something else
10. called addiction

solution:
a. if you are a customer / addict: go cold turkey,
start from scratch (link-building wise)
b. if you are a link-building agency: change-or-die

feedback welcome
Stay funny! Your blunt comical honesty would bring me back. Just keep posting and you'll get your users...btw how's the traffic spike?
these companies may not be startups, but they provide a useful info: what large tech companies are paying for.
What's is government's revenues? Isn't GDP we should worry about or that's what you have in mind?
I know what you were saying, I was going off topic, because as an Italian and a food enthusiast, I'm tired of hearing pizza being described as junk food. That's all. :)
And when the clients pay their employees are the ones who ultimately pay the tax; it's a coherent but meaningless analogy.
This is similar in spirit to weusethat.com (itself modeled after usesthis.com), which I really liked but they stopped updating the content mid-past-december. Hopefully leanstack continues.
I'm not disputing that this information may be useful. I'm just saying it's poorly labeled to look more attractive to certain types of visitors.

Replacing "startups" in the title with "(technology) companies" would be more accurate, but probably reduce traffic.
I fail to understand why the US even has quota on desirable migrant workers with a solid job offer.

One the one hand the US still does this "we're an immigrant nation" dog and pony show with shit like the green card lottery, on the other hand, if you're educated, qualified and have the guarantee of a full-time well paid job, it's harder to get into the US than most European countries.
The font is completely unreadable on win/chrome (for example, 'e' has the horizontal line missing at default font size).
> I don't think that works too well. There's a large factor on satiety which is how hungry, or even happy, you feel at the moment.

But surely there is such a thing as food that is more filling and food that is less so, and how hungry you are (or how happy) will lead to deviations from that baseline, but it won't cause that baseline to magically disappear, I would think?
Why Google will crush Nielsen
Thank you for the reply. I don't believe I took the quote out of context, as I wrote what Friedman said, almost verbatim without commentary. The monetary base is the stuff consumers touch because -- literally -- if you're touching it, then it is monetary base (cash, etc).

> there is no fractional reserve banking in Bitcoins (or at least I'm not clear how you'd build fractional reserve banking on top of Bitcoins).

Fractional reserve banking with bitcoins works exactly the same as it does with anything else (modern USD, USD 110 years ago [gold-backed], etc.)

Friedman explicitly says, keep the amount of currency constant, and use fractional reserve to increase the amount of monetary supply, as needed for expansion. We can do exactly this with bitcoin. Do you disagree?
My looks. I have been told that red bull induced beer bellies are all the rage nowadays.
This is a weird old article. Yes, fashion models are getting through on a higher percentage rate than programmers, but there's significantly fewer. Even then, that's weirdly sloppy statistical faff to sell a point.
Does that mean that TV shows targeted to children can't have advertising? Goodbye kids TV (not all of it is bad).

Plenty of kids' TV is decent stuff, but almost all of it is still obnoxiously commercial. I remember thinking so as a child (the tendency of plastic toys to break into shitty little useless pieces probably helped make me an anti-capitalist, down the line).

So I see very little wrong with just outright banning advertising to children and shifting the creative effort over into "whole family" genres that don't just make up a new way to babysit your kids without paying a babysitter.
It's not a real koan unless it ends with "... and he hit the student with a stick; with this, he was enlightened."
Have you read the Thirteenth Amendment which abolished slavery? Not only are prisoners comparable to slaves, they are slaves.

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction"
Excellent question - they wouldn't. But firing up the printing presses would cause inflation. This is bad news when Japan is not self-sufficient for energy or for some food production.
don't know what to choose.

i'm making something like a transition from vim to sublime, so right now i use both equally.

but it seems to me that using vim on the server in a screen or tmux session is the right thing to do ( no need to leave into bash whatsoever ), while it's extremely pleasant to edit source files over sftp.

so i think i'll choose to use this combination ...
Ancient discovery set to rewrite Australian history
Which Swedish newspaper? It would help if you added a link.
Because it's a human being treated inhumanely?
> The whole point with many meals a day is not waiting to have a giant munchie to eat, because when you do so you'll look for high-fat, high-sugar food

When I eat more meals a day and then suddenly have a longer gap than I'm used to, I find it easy to do that.

When I systematically east 1-2 meals a day, I adapt to that pattern in 2-3 days, and then have no problems eating a diet where getting sufficient fat is actually hard, and where I often find I have to add some "easy" carbs to meet my calorie requirements because the sheer volume of food I am due to eat for my lunch makes it an annoying chore.

Part of the reason I don't like the "many small meals" approach is because I then quickly adapt to getting hungry many times a day, and the chance of getting hungry at a time I can't eat makes it very easy to snack on unhealthy foods.

> You stopping having hunger pangs in the mornings after some days is your body adapting to your schedule.

Exactly. With no need for many meals a day.

> Still, eating something in between is important to avoid wild sugar peaks and helps improving cognition performance if your job is intellectual.

Not my experience at all. I get the "wild sugar peaks" when I eat irregularly and/or when I consume lots of easily digested sugars. But since I don't get hungry very often while do intermittent fasting, I have no problems eating a lot of my fat and protein first, at which point I don't generally want much sugar, and my diet ends up being foods that are digested fairly slowly. I do get a bit tired shortly after lunch, but I quickly get more energy again and conversely my mornings are generally far more alert than they used to be with lots of small meals.
"The coins raise many important questions: How did 1000-year-old coins end up on a remote beach on an island off the northern coast of Australia?"
Until you try watching an episode as an adult and realize it was complete and utter shlock.

That's not to say good kids' stuff doesn't exist, but I see nothing wrong with just murdering the whole model of Media-Driven Consumption, from food to toys to fashion, in its sleep. With a knife.

It's bad, and society should feel bad for allowing it.
> Not every app needs to deal with the enormous complexities implied by "full unicode support", and given the huge cost of that, there's a real place for a minimalist approach.

Not sure what point you're trying to make, I never said all applications had to make full use of all possible Unicode APIs, I said the language must expose them. Because if it doesn't, those who should use them will never become aware of them let alone use them.

> If all I do with unicode is input strings from the user, store them in a database, and then later spit them out, I don't need to be able to do Turkish case-conversion, and I may not want to pay the cost of making it possible.

So?

> It's quite reasonable for the language implementors to say "if you want to add numbers, we'll support that, but if you want to subtract or divide them, please use external library L."

Really?

Then again, considering Go's embedded contempt for non-US locales (see: datetime patterns) I'm not even sure why we're having this discussion, and since it's obvious they don't care for a non-US world it make sense that they wouldn't care for processing text.

And at the end of the day, you agree that Go has no provision for unicode handling, you just think it's all fine and dandy.
And Sublime Text 3 the successor of Sublime Text 2.
I disagree. We often don't know what the consequences could be of solving abstract problems by enthusiasts. Whole avenues of science were opened this way.
Indeed it is. Colonizing the surface of Europa would be madness without serious shielding. What's the dose under a 200m thick ice sheet though?
Turning car tyres into shoes at Ethiopian factory
This is a prime example of a concept called "marketing debt." Your link building efforts didn't match the risk profile for your business and you got burned. For a better explanation, http://joshuaziering.com/why-marketing-debt-is-expensive/
I guess acme goes to "other gui"
Situations like that are very sad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
I would like to go incredibly. Unfortunately, I'll be flying back home a tad bit too late. I'm happy to know now though, that this exists. Just a big thank you for that, for making it exist =)
It's really sickening how things play out.

I have a friend who was jailed for counterfeiting. He weed from someone and received counterfeit bills as change. Next day, he bought a pizza with the change. After he got home, he realized the money looked weird.

He tried to do the right thing and called the pizza place and told him that he thinks he received counterfeit bills as change from somewhere and told them that he was going to bring them some new money.

When he arrived he was jailed. He refused to give up his friend and ended up jailed for a while.

Thankfully, his attorney was able to work some magic after his initial sentencing and get him switched to house arrest at a significantly reduced sentence.

It just seems weird to me that unintentional possession of something can get you into so much trouble.

What happens if I end up with a counterfeit bill from somewhere and a cop decides to search me? Does he notice? If so, then what? What if I honestly don't know where it came from?
Exactly. It would be great if we can see which languages and other server side technologies they use.
Linkwheel? Did I tell him to interlink any of his web properties? It's a pyramid structure that have always worked for me, and of course I do vary a lot more factors that I have listed here. I am, however, really curious on your definition of a linkwheel.
When you shift from customer development to company-building. In other words, when you stop searching for, and instead start scaling, a business model. See also: http://steveblank.com/2012/03/05/search-versus-execute/
Editors like joe and pico don't fit anywhere. They are neither CLI or GUI based. And no one in their right mind ever chooses to use a line-oriented editor as their primary editor. Even serial programmers don't do that.
I also use SciTE. It's extremely lightweight and easy to use.
How to send iOS and Android notifications from your Rails backend
I wrote this comment with the assumption that we all understand the security implications of what's going on, which is why I probably did a poor job of making my point.

However, I think that relying on a single easy-to-compromise security token as a single point of failure for your app's security is terrible practice.

A secure user authentication system is usually built by having a users database that contains [user_id, nonce, password_key = pbkdf2(password, nonce)]. When logging the user in, you should store this information in a cookie: [user_id, login_timestamp, authentication_token = hmac-sha256(nonce, login_timestamp, password_key)]. Then, on every subsequent request, you would verify that the authentication_token matches what you'd expect based on the login_timestamp and user_id that the client has provided. (Substitute this for any equivalent-security scheme and crypto primitives.)

Now, if you have such a scheme in place, a secret token would provide no additional security. You really shouldn't be storing session information in cookies, but if you must, you can use a key derived from the nonce to sign the cookie, removing the need for an app-global secret. But really, don't do that, you should use a server side datastore for session information (like shopping carts, etc.).

If you do not have such a scheme in place, you app is much more vulnerable to attack. Something based on one global secret token (which by default is checked in to your source code) opens up many more attack vectors that might compromise the security of your app.
So that people who ship alternative icon packs (e.g. font-awesome) no longer have to hack around[1] the bootstrap style?

[1]: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/buil...
How about the google apps route as an alternative to freemium?

1. Give it away for free for a long period to build a user base, get feedback and iterate.

2. After a while, switch to paid only for all new users. The old users continue for free so no-one has a right to get annoyed.

Seems a pretty good option to me.
SciTE - the Scintilla Text editor.

very lightweight yet super-flexible!
> focus on real-world problem, that real people have.

Because the world would be a much better place today if we hadn’t bothered about quantum mechanics, special and general relativity or even advanced mathematics to handle these topics. Sure, this sort of thing won’t solve the problems of this specific time period, but it might well be relevant to a future generation’s problems.
I hoped for it to be more "for programmers", like this one:

http://gdr.geekhood.net/gdrwpl/metnum.php

For me formulas written in pseudocode are much easier to understand than classic mathematical notation.

For example I've learned bayesian classification, chi-square, etc. from Practical Common Lisp (http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-a-spam-filter.html) after failing to understand how to apply formulas from Wikipedia. It was easier for me to learn Lisp than to decipher abstract declarative mathematical notation (admittedly I get a brain freeze whenever I see ∑, even though I know what it means. I prefer `for(…) acc += …`).
I came in here just to say this.

I'm sorry but on what planet is eBay a startup?
Well, not quite sure about that.

The only time I edit a text file outside my IDE is when I connect directly to a server, and in that case I use vi.

That seems ridiculous to chose Vi as my primary text editor, when 99.9% of my text editing is done in Intellij.

Well I abstained in this case, however where do you draw the limit ? If there was a poll about "What is your primary IDE" would Vim or Emacs not be listed because they are "just text editor" ?
While unrelated to the topic of discrimination, I just wanted to take this chance and say that Ellen Ullman writes beautifully -- I recognised her signature style before seeing the author's name at the bottom.

Here is another beautiful excerpt from a book of her's that I'm sure everyone can relate to http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/26/close-to-t...
One of the biggest points of the article was that Mercury has abundant available energy from the sun - just stick up some solar panels, or the thermal gradients are perfect for running turbines - large enough to supply a lot of power, but not so large that engineering becomes hard. While there are some energy sources available underwater, it would seem to be much more difficult to exploit them.
Solving the Balanced Brackets task using Perl 6
Unfortunately, it's harder than it sounds: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/latency-the-sine-qua-n...
Eclipse 'merely' includes several text editors and is primarily used for editing text.
Fonts are about different representations of the same symbols. Monospace/bold/sans are different symbols in mathematics.
You can think of this article as a single case study, nothing really enough to build a theory. Freemium works statistically better than paid, as you can see presented at the recent Google I/O 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ3wgPP7PWY
All Angel Investor Money May Not Be Equal
I'm not a parent yet, but I suppose I'd be more afraid they end up blowing 50k on a toaster in their adulthood because I didn't teach them the value of money early on. A $50 mistake when you're a kid is nowhere near as much of a problem as a 50k mistake when you're 30.