skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't seem to consistently note which options you host yourself vs which are hosted elsewhere. E.g. I see Fever has a note that it is self-hosted, but tt-rss does not have a similar note.

Nice long list though. I guess it's almost July, I need to get on this.
That's not necessarily true for either company. Remember when 37signals sold Sortfolio to focus more on core products? Sortfolio made over $200K in profit in a years time[1]. And Google made no attempt to monetize Reader at all so they can't say it was only about profitability.

Companies make strategic decisions all the time even at the expense of profit when warranted.

[1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3172-sortfolio-going-once-goi...
People are people. If it's been done before, it will be done again.
Yup, google has an engineering team dedicated to exactly that:

http://www.dataliberation.org/
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I like your implementation. The demos in TFA all seem like pretty bad UX to me.
What's wrong with anti-islam comments? We don't tolerate things like power balance bracelets or homeopathic medicine. I don't see why it's somehow "bad" to be intolerant of religious fairy tales as well.
What really annoys me is when a game that might potentially interest me chooses to go the pay2win way.

For instance, tribes:ascend. I wanted to get into it but forums were full of people saying each time they released a paid upgrade the balance went FUBAR.

What annoys me the most is there's no way to do it "the old way" and pay a bigger sum of money once and get the full game without having to upgrade for every single new weapon. That's where you realize that the microtransaction model is a scam, because if you want to buy all the upgrades at once it would cost you several hundreds of dollars.

I wish they'd go back to the older model of freeware demo + one time buy full game. I remember buying Doom that way.
Precisely correct -- the real issue is that Google _didn't_ kill Reader in this manner. They subsidized its existence with their other products, undermining the support of other feed readers on the market, until they decided not to.
Gamecam - simple on-and-go device to stick to the poll or wall and have it wirelessly broadcasting game over the internet (possibly via nearby tethered laptop connection).
Not talking about NFL or NHL games, but more about kids and parents sports.
Tons of parents cannot attend their kids games and feel guilty about it. Buying "remote" access to game like that would be well appreciated.
Well, the article at least acknowledges how questionable this application of the term is.

"Whether or not this really is a legged robot (or a quadruped) is perhaps debatable: these are wheel-legs, more commonly known as whegs."

I was certainly expecting/hoping for something more like Boston Dynamics cheetah [0].

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPanW0QWhA
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Remember the episode on DS9 when the Ferengi travelled through time into the 1950s? They were even disgusted by those primitive humans destroying their own planet with radiation (their gadgets didn't work anymore because of this).
Answer: evolution. The ones who tried this don't exist any more.

Amazon is an outlier.

If another company did this, but it's stock price didn't keep rising, corporate "raiders" will replace the board and get money back as dividends.

Sorry if my point isn't clear. I'm typing this in a hurry.
My favorite bit of this history is that the first Lisp interpreter was written in Lisp.

(hmmm, maybe it would be a bit spammy if I recursed this statement several more times.)
I'm a bit confused about this as well. Was the expectation that they'd launch a paid version of an email distro, send a few tweets, and BOOM! they'd have a multimillion-dollar business? I understand that at their scale a few users paying a one-time $25 fee isn't going to register, but why launch a product as an experiment?

Customers are going to become less and less open to trying products from a company that uses them as guinea pigs to test out product-market fit.
Apparently the old wives tale of getting a sexually transmitted disease of a toilet seat was due to doctors not being able to figure out how a young girl would wind up with the same sexually transmitted disease as her father. I mean, the father is an upstanding member of society, and a respectable church going pillar of the local community (yadda yadda), so he can't have sexually touched her, it must be from something like a toilet seat.

Denial can be a powerful thing.
On causes.com, the online activism site he founded, perhaps?
Because there's no money in it?

Either you compete with them by lowering your prices to match (in which case you're almost making no profit, and probably a loss), or everyone ignores you and buys from Amazon.
I guess it'd be similar to other paraphilia (how do you pluralise that?).

I could see it being recidivist though, as it's an innate drive.
I don't know man ... seeing it zip across the carpet totally gave me an, "OMG that spider is coming to get me!" vibe.
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No, it was incorrect. It was supposed to log 10% of the messages, instead it logged 90%.
You're saying that just about all sexual relations between children and adults (and/or their parents) is OK and fine? Do you have any sources for that?!
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Determinants (a) are helpful if you want to invert matrices, (b) are easy to calculate for 2x2 and 3x3 matrices, (c) nicely generalise to the infinite-dimensional case were you take appropriate generalisations of sums and the totally antisymmetric tensor occurring in the definition of the determinant (d) are widely used in theoretical physics and hence should at least be included in first year undergrad classes on linear algebra in physics and maths.
I like the little plane. Looks really nice :)
I agree, and the way I've been using shortcutfoo is, when I get a new command in my fingers that I think I'll really use, I immediately stop drilling on the website, hop over to vim and actually use it a few times. That's been a good combination for me.
Maybe every transistor is a leg!
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Except DISTRIBUTING is not the only thing punished, but HAVING it too, and that is where it gets really, really silly.

I think Falkinvinge wrote a article about that...
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A religious person acting like a hypocrite about their religion. This is common in all religions, and doesn't really add anything.
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I've preordered one as well and am also interested in this combined with the rift. Thinking of getting a Muse headband and curious how those three could work together. I feel very fortunate to be alive, with some extra money, in this day and age.
Only 6 millimeters in size each, the motors output 1.5
watts of power at 40,000 RPM, driving the individual whegs
through 16:1 planetary gearheads.

Huh. What's their max operating temp? How long can they run at 100% before overheating?
Has anyone on HN actually used Breeze? Lots of comments, haven't seen one from a real user. How does a real user feel?
I think Breeze was just an experiment for 37 Signals, which might explain the unusual pricing strategy of a one off payment.

I'd bet they always intended to refund all users if they didn't meet a critical mass. If they had charged a subscription, then it would have been less simple than just giving each user their ten dollars back.

Can't say I'm against it. It's certainly an interesting way of testing an idea, and backing out if it doesn't gain enough traction. I guess everyone is happy.
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Let's be clear, they are well-off because of the success of the show, but the money that funds the show is not theirs. It is well-funded by the BBC, i.e. the taxpayers, precisely because it is so popular.

To the best of my knowledge, when it comes to their personal funds, they mostly buy cars. Which is fitting- whether or not they are jerks, they are definitely all car enthusiasts.
I'm not interested in an argument over this, since it's off topic to the OP. My original comment's purpose was to point out the inaccuracies in the comment I replied to. Otherwise, this article [1] is a good read.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/17/m...
>>Quit focusing on what solutions you'd need to learn in order to get to the next level. Instead focus on what problems pay the most. Never, ever market yourself in terms of the tools you use. Market yourself in terms of the problems you solve.

This sounds great, but will it work in the current job market? If I have large experience say in Rails and want to join a company working on interesting problems, but they use Django. What are my chances to sell myself to them?
But in March 2010, a federal judge in Michigan ruled that Thomas Kirschner, facing charges of receiving child pornography, would not have to give up his password. That's "protecting his invocation of his Fifth Amendment privilege against compelled self-incrimination," the court ruled (PDF).

from the article, it looks like a judge in 2010 agrees

edit: edited for formatting
Thanks for this. I've noticed I'm a very status driven individual and consequently I find the journey to be often a hard thing to appreciate. I also know I'm always extremely discontented by what I have and I question whether I will ever find that holy grail of success I'm looking for where I will stop worrying about all of this and just accept I made it.

I think the only answer is to force myself to focus more on my journey. Try to enjoy the highs and lows as they come. My friend has rather good philosophy on this where he defines his personal success by the action he takes and not by the amount of money he makes or some other external measurement he doesn't have total control over.

Plus I'll be updating the blog very soon!
The determinant is just the thing that satisfies those properties. It's a label we apply to a function that follows certain laws. You might be curious where those laws come from, or why we want those laws to be satisfied, but that's a different question.

You're looking for a deeper meaning than exists. Mathematical objects are labels applied to entities that satisfy a certain set of properties.
That's sort of tangential to my point. There are reasons we might not want phased array radar systems picking up every move we make in the privacy of our own homes, independent of home automation applications, which is I presume what the post I was responding to was getting at. My point is that those desires of ours are irrelevant when it comes to whether or not the applications we don't want come to pass, because at some point there's going to be a financial incentive for someone to do it anyway.
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It's a great technique for buttons, even without the nice design. I've wondered for years why this is not more common. Having a "submit" button change state is such better UI than those horrid messages warning you not to click twice—I still run into that from time to time.
They were a little choppy on my iPad mini.
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Having said that, I'd be slightly sceptical the next time they launch a product. Are they just testing the water and is that too going to be discontinued in a few months time?
> The thing is that nuclear isn't really good at this. Nuclear plants don't have much in the way of a throttle - they're just "on" or "complete shut-down and it will take substantial measures to start it up again".

Nuclear can certainly be designed to ramp power output up or down in response to demand. After all there are many applications of nuclear technology in fields that require rapid and immediate changes in power output.

Nuclear power generation plants are not typically designed to do this, but it's not because nuclear can't, it's because nuclear doesn't have to. The plants are built by the utility companies to act as baseload power generation and can normally afford to take hours to change power output if they wish. But if utility plants wanted a nuke plant that would change power output quicker, that could be arranged as well.
Age of consent is one thing, but "the idea that people under 18 are somehow not ready for marriage" certainly IS old. Just FYI, the median age for a bride on her first wedding was somewhere around 22-23 in the Middle Ages.
I think "tolerate" is the interesting word. Tolerance != respect.

Surely, it's better to "respect" religion, and how can I do that if I cannot challenge it?
And then, should a non-defendable religion be tolerated?
Mad social conservatives (or I would call them social sociopats) are using religion as a medium of legislating their morality on the rest of us, AND people who are religious do not visibly protest against that, AND social sociopats use the sheer numbers of people who "believe in something" as if they were all agreeing with sociopats on the basis of believing.

If only people stopped being "a bit religious" social sociopats will lose a lot of turf and become a lot less scary. And currently they are very scary.
You should reread the post. The author lays out a couple of interesting properties and derives the function that satisfies them. It turns out that this function is the usual determinant. Then he shows some examples of applying this new intuition.
The post doesn't mean why aren't there more ecommerce giants, but rather why don't more big companies aggressively reinvest their income into growth and to enter new markets rather than hoard cash just to satisfy stockholders.
Back to Work by Merlin Mann. It's about 80% absurd conversation and then bam! he sneak attacks you by dropping a bomb shell nugget of wisdom.

Nerdist by Chris Hardwick. Intimate interviews with people I'd never otherwise ever hear about, along with a few people I do know about.

Accidental Tech Podcast by Marco Arment, John Siracusa and one or two other people.

The Talk Show by John Gruber.

Marco and Gruber frequently annoy me, but they do have valuable insights (albeit some that are terribly skewed)
Sounds like they may not have had a high enough viral coefficient as they would have wanted. So they felt like it was not worth investing more in product development or marketing.

Definitely impressed that they had the discipline to shut it down in 4 months.
Love this idea. However 94% accuracy is not good enough. You need to be able to trust your action will lead to the desired result. 94% is like Siri getting your whole text message right, but getting the recipient wrong.
I get the concept of a two-minute read, but this article strikes me as lacking any substance whatsoever.
Amazon makes so little money relative to the size of their enterprise that Matt Yglesias has described them as a charity run by Wall Street.
Very cool. I would recommend resizing your badges to match the size used by most other services on Github. See how the Kiwi badge is much larger than my other badges: https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit/
So the obvious solution is to let it continue to limp along then?

Google did the right thing. They didn't want to invest anymore into it. They shut it down. They gave everyone on the planet TONS of notice. They provided the data.

Now we have fun things like Feedly to take its place.
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37signals recommended functioning alternative services, not just data export.
Ok, then I misunderstood your comment :)
I didn't like the rollover Q/A. The tiles were absolutely huge, but then again I'm on a 2560x1600 monitor. Also the image at the top takes up most of my screen and is kinda creepy. Looks more reasonable on my phone however.
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That comment "Nobody is challenging Amazon in e-commerce. Nobody." is highly inaccurate. Every major company already does deal in e-commerce. Amazon may do it best, but it doesn't mean they are not being challenged. Many companies are doing pretty well in e-commerce. Their expansion into grocery home delivery has been snail paced at best. It is like raving about Google Fiber when it will not be available for most of the country for a very long time.
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This is true, but the third world economy is not the one that tends to revolt. Tiananmen was driven by students. And that demographic has been effectively pacified by the fantastic urban growth China has experienced over the last two decades.
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There are more companies like Amazon, but they don't exist online. Amazon is Walmart, Costco, CVS, and Target. (You could also compare them to Home Depot, Meijer, Kroger, etc.)

There are two traditional paths to success in business--high volume/low margin or low volume/high margin (Timex vs. Rolex). Walmart is the classic high volume/low margin company. They started as a five-and-dime. Over the years they used their growing market power to add more product lines until they became a one-stop shop for everything. Amazon has followed Walmart's playbook almost from the beginning. While other early competitors were passionate about books, Amazon was passionate about warehouses and operations. The same thing happened when Amazon moved into music, electronics, and everything else. They could operate faster and cheaper than the other guys.

There are two reasons why there isn't another Amazon in the online world. First, geography meant that Walmart, Target, and Costco didn't directly compete in every place from the very start. They had time to develop and fortify an operational base and then expand. Companies like buy.com had to immediately challenge amazon in order to survive. Second, technology companies don't generally focus on the low margin/high volume path. Online companies are generally populated by folks from the tech industry who look to Microsoft and Apple as their models for operating a company.
Didn't they used to have global nodes info? What happened to that site?
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Riot is now part of Tencent, which has a market cap of about $90B.

http://allthingsd.com/20110204/chinas-tencent-buys-riot-game...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=0700.HK
I see no compelling argument here.
Peninsula, Palo Alto, North Bay, and East Bay, I'd imagine.
Note the former technique will display the output in the minibuffer, the latter will display it in the repl.
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To be fair, they were the ones that took the gamble of a one-off payment rather than a subscription, so should really have stuck to their guns and supported it. At least longer than 4 months.
I'm not an advocate of either style, but I can say that it is pretty hard to change your mechanical habits.

Very frequently when people stop and focus on how they stand, sit, or move (via martial arts, tai chi, qigong, whatever) they notice that they have built up certain habits which are not really helpful. Slouching, for example, feels relaxing but it's pretty taxing on your lower back... you just don't notice that until later on. Correcting these habits is a pain in the ass... even people who allocate many, many hours can take a long time (years) before they change their natural stance or form. Quick fixes like shoe inserts can even be counter productive as humans are pretty good at adjusting their previous habit to the new circumstance.

Because of this, I'm a bit skeptical that changing or removing your footwear 'forces' you to do something right. If you have bad form while running with supportive shoes, I'm pretty confident you'll be able to maintain that bad form while running shoeless.
Are you attending WWDC by any chance, then I could show you what I have so far and you can say what you need :)
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I haven't tried many of the services on this list, but I would recommend Feedly. It can be a bit slow, and the fact that it requires a browser extension is a bit off-putting, but those things are being improved I believe.

They seem to be willing to listen to their users (in particular all of the ex-Google Reader users) and are improving the service very quickly, trying to cater for everyone's seemingly different needs.

The Android app is great as well, and is a much more visual reading experience than Google Reader was (but it doesn't have to be- it seems to be very highly configurable).

The fact that it's free is a bit worrying, but in a survey they sent out last month they asked if user's would be willing to pay a small fee for it- so this might be where it heads in the future (I'd hope so, anyway).