skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're constantly getting content that you're not interested in, then you should unsubscribe from that feed.

There have been many attempts at trying to figure out what you'll like. They either try to recommend stuff that they think you'll like ("Oh, you like computers? Check out this cat at a computer that 2308234 people have reshared!" Ugh.) or filter out the stuff they think you won't like. That's not how I (or the majority of people that I have talked to about RSS) use RSS though! We want every single update, no matter how unpopular they were.

As for length, it's trivial to see a giant wall of text and either click next or mark as unread to return to it later. I've tried Google Reader's "magic" sorting, among other ways of sorting articles, but I always end up on "oldest first" or "newest first", depending on the content.
KickassTorrents Blocks Proxies in Advertising and Search Engine Dispute
America the great, yea right
HTML5 Android Toast replication on GitHub
I concur that duckduckgo has still room for improvement in the local search area. It has already improved since I switched but I still find myself having trouble finding some local relevant results.

To me this is still an improvement over google always directing me to a localized version of their search and forcing me to tricks to get the global google web search.

And if ddg fails short, I can bang to another search engine or use the address bar to try my search elsewhere.
Do you have any plans to develop iPad/iPhone/etc. readers yourself, or just have them use your API?
Better yet, don't - they're talking a load of self-serving bullshit. Scalia and the other justices who wrote dissenting opinions in that case were quite happy to overrule Congress a day earlier and declare that the Voting Rights Act no longer necessary. Their interest in restricting the reach of the Supreme Court only applies to overturning laws they don't like.
I had a similar issue. I thought the compass wasn't anything special, I thought it was just another resource, maybe I could trade it for other things or something. I literally bought the compass as the last thing, I had my hut up to 10, a spear, armor, and a water bottle, and was thinking the game had a great beginning but a really boring ending where you just spam wood and huts and get leather for collectible items. Perhaps changing it from a compass to a map would help, I was thinking the compass represented metal, I think a map would more clearly indicate exploration. Or maybe the builder should remark that a compass/map would be useful to find more resources.
If it were me, nothing. Users should back up. If the admins back up too, well, that is a bonus.
I'm not a Sublime user yet, but I've always been interested in it's interface. I'm trying to figure out if it's a replacement for a text editor like VIM or a heavier IDE like IntelliJ?
Off topic: please make your site responsive. I really wanted to read your blog from my phone but the current layout makes it impossible.

Anyway, thanks for that article, very informative.
> chars are guaranteed to be 1 byte

No they are not, assuming a byte as defined in ISO/IEC 80000-13 (8 bits, the most common accepted definition). In fact other types are defined in terms of the size of char, and sizeof(char) is always 1 by definition. These are not 8 bit bytes though. Some machines don't have byte addressing, for example DSPs. CHAR_BIT will tell you how many bits are in a char.
I didn't mean to point fingers at people, I mean, really, I blame a lot of people for a lot of things, and myself for most of them as well -- but I still found it frustrating at first, and then really telling.

People think walking out of it ends the discussion and the thought process -- but it simply means I am thinking about you instead of with you, and you get to hear it from others instead of directly. Some things are too big to end at the sensibilities of any person on this planet. Since I know for a fact that the people at the top are deluded and could really use some saving from themselves -- without knowing any of them, simply because power and wealth as ends in and of themselves are black holes, and only the mediocre pursue them -- there is simply nothing left to tip toe around, just a lot to discuss.

And the initial condescension reminded me of this quote, the bit about privilege:

I've heard quite a lot of people that talk about post-privacy, and they talk about it in terms of feeling like, you know, it's too late, we're done for, there's just no possibility for privacy left anymore and we just have to get used to it. And this is a pretty fascinating thing, because it seems to me that you never hear a feminist say that we're post-consent because there is rape. And why is that? The reason is that it's bullshit.

We can't have a post-privacy world until we're post-privilege. So when we cave in our autonomy, then we can sort of say, "well, okay, we don't need privacy anymore, in fact we don't have privacy anymore, and I'm okay with that." Realistically though people are not comfortable with that. Because, if you only look at it from a position of privilege, like, say, white man on a stage, then yeah, maybe post-privacy works out okay for those people. But if you have ever not been, or if you are currently not, a white man with a passport from one of the five good nations in the world, it might not really work out well for you, and in fact it might be designed specifically such that it will continue to not work out well for you, because the structures themselves produce these inequalities.

So when you hear someone talk about post-privacy, I think it's really important to engage them about their own privilege in the system and what it is they are actually arguing for.

-- Jacob Appelbaum ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3h46EbqhPo&t=7m46s )

Maybe outrage isn't helpful, as a constant emotional state that is, but let's say "if you're not discussing this seriously, you're not paying attention", neither to today nor to history.
I know, it's bad on mobiles, I'll have to change the whole theme :/ I have started to grow tired of the old one, I want to get a cleaner one. I'll try to make some time for that, thanks for reading, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
That's good advice - and something I know I need to do more of. I guess I'm scared I'll become "well-rounded" to a fault.

Does that worry you?
My sentiment exactly. I cringed at the thought of an argument based entirely on that. The last part, however

> George Bush famously proclaimed: “You’re either with us, or against us”. He asked foreigners the world over to choose. The wholesale spying on “foreigners” says how we chose made little difference at all..

redeemed the views to me.
Would be cool if you could submit an automated test and your bounty was automatically awarded as soon as the test passes.
Zed made a really good intro to C. I was surprised. My only issue with it was he introduced readers to bstring instead of something UTF, but still better than vanilla chars. I wouldn't even know an UTF library for C with permissive license and lightweight on top of my head. C coding is all about memory management and data structures layout.
But we are not grading an English essay are we? The content of the article was quite good for a "normal" non-tech person.
RunAsDate - Run a program with the specified date/time
It is usually more about perceived speed and feels than actual speed. And giving the user a quicker feel is a user experience improvement.

But feeling quick to display results is worthless if you have to make 5 queries to find your results, if you actually find it, and in my experience google rarely offers what I'm looking for in the first few searches.

It was not that way until they removed some and modified others search operators from their engine.
> This ideal is all but gone.

Doesn't slavery demonstrate that this ideal never even existed in the first place?
Is the letter you wrote to your users [0] the first time they are hearing this, or is your customer base broadly aware already of the issues you're facing.

I ask because if this letter is the first time you are telling your customers their free accounts are going away, it could feel very much like you're holding them hostage. The letter only gives 14 days for customers to pony up some money or their pictures get hidden, and 30 days until they're deleted.

I know it's not a huge amount of money that you're asking, but it is sudden and can rub customers the wrong way.

If you don't have it, it might be useful for you to offer a "download all your images & data" option, as a sign of good faith with your customers. Maybe after 30 days you can archive the photos into cold storage (something cheap, maybe Amazon Glacier), offer a way for users to get their data back, and then permanently delete it further into the future.

[0] http://picturepush.com/gopro
Tomorrow’s Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time
What would be some real use cases for this (except for the fun part of it) ?
Would it be possible to use this to render the current state of a canvas to the console? That's something I'd find very useful for debugging.

Edit 1: Looks like they build the memes exactly that way. It still needs to convert the canvas to a data: url first, however, which might be a bit slow?

Edit 2: Looks like there might be a better, but non-standard and non-portable way of achieving that in WebKit browsers: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/12/Canvas-driven-backgrou...
maybe if you build urls to images that are hard to parse with the eye as text only
Your utopia would have a single point of failure. What if the one government gets corrupted? We could not even draw comparisons.
I can actually see myself enjoying this, for example outputting some cat pictures to soothe the pain of debugging.

Is there an overview of all the memes? I feel like I could update my internet knowledge a lot through this.

Edit: I put up a version that logs all the included memes at http://fractality.neocities.org/memes.html
There's something i don't get with this debate around "is this quantum or classical" : i thought quantum computing meant breaking NP complexity. So, in order to determine if it "is" quantum computing, one would suppose that any big dataset would easily show the difference in computing time...

Now, if i understood correctly, the problem is that the algorithms compared (aka annealing) are of statistical nature, so we're not actually comparing "fully" NP complete algorithms, and so the expected difference is not as a big as between an O(n) and an O(x^n)) algorithm.

Could someone here confirm if this is correct ?
It was a lot of things. "Stabbing-me-in-the-back" was one of them, but "unexpected" it was not.

The first time I saw that "You're not coming back disclaimer", I knew: "Oh boy, they're not gonna throw me a parade when I get in space, nor generate another level... I'm just gonna get back in a dark room and start again. All this for...this!?"

"TVTropes Will Ruin Your Life"
I disagree. I get far away from any RSS reader trying to put "intelligence" into my feed reading. There are indeed curated communities for that (choose your own poison, obviously, HN is one of those). But no amount of machine learning will agree with me (without counting the silo effect which the more you read the same thing, the more you get of the same instead of allowing you to bump into new stuff).
No, I meant exactly what I wrote.
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love the idea, would be cool if this can be extended like :

- play with youtube api in 5 minutes
- learn how to integrate Facebook/twitter oauth in minutes
- create a flask/monogodb API in 20 seconds

etc ..
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I don't have experience with ad-based to paid, but going from beta and free with 100k users to paid in a market with a lot of competitors has been interesting, in a good way.

I think though it depends who is going to be your customer. If they are businesses, many of them prefer to pay as it's normal to them and they can expect certain things when they pay for something.

Once the first bit of paid revenue came in I forgot about all my fears of alienating the customer base and driving them to competitors. Users that expect things to be free tend to be fickle anyways.

For consumers, I don't know, but more of them pay than you'd think.
Looks like it: `console.image(canvas.toDataURL());`
Yes to both! Apps for other devices are certainly coming, and they'll make use of the same API we've published.
I just wanted to highlight how bizarre this discussion has become in general (nothing against you, it seems to be a common theme):

“““
I'm unhappy with Scala's compatibility guarantees,
therefore I'll pick a language which

a) does not provide any binary compatibility guarantees
at all,
b) has no tool to figure out whether incompatible
changes have actually happened,
c) lacks any sort of guidance to figure out if library
A is compatible with library B short of downloading
and executing them together,
d) provides no clean way to cross-compile libraries
against multiple versions.

But hey, let's bash Scala for caring about these issues
and deride them for shipping actual, working
solutions addressing those issues.
”””

Scala guarantees:

- Source compatibility between major versions
- Source and binary compatibility (both backward and
forward) for all minor and update releases of that
major version

People will have a hard time to find another modern language which gives them these guarantees.

Hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance FTW, I guess.
We spent quite a bit of time implementing the features needed to make this step possible. We wanted to do this before the 1st of july and this is the first time they hear about it, but they have 15 days to actually get everything off and we have a button for that. So they are not hostages; they just cannot upload new images. I will try to word this more clearly.
This hack is simultaneously beautiful and horrifying.

So now, I had to find a solution where only the whitelisted
properties are used but in the it was fairly simple.

I used the padding, line-height and font-size properties. I
set the padding on the left and right to half the width and
the top and bottom to the half the height of the image. I
then set the font-size to 1px to ensure it doesn't distort
the width. Since padding on an inline element has no effect
on it's dimensions, I used the line-height to manually set
the height and that displayed the images.

Maybe this could be useful if you're doing some stuff drawing onto a canvas off-screen and you want to blit some intermediate buffer into your console?

console.image("data:image/png;base64,...");
I switched to DDG recently, have noticed no lag, enjoy the !g and !yt shortcuts (one less thing I have to set my browser up to do), and I really like how it puts Wikipedia at the top. But that's not why I switched: I don't want my web search queries to change my Suggested YouTube Videos. I noticed this recently with Google (since I'm always signed in). Sometimes a search is just a search, though, and it's almost like Google's slowly erasing that memory from reality.
An Elegant jQuery Character Counter Plugin
Or if you're doing some sort of multi-stage manipulation of a <canvas>, you could log out intermediate states.

It's a stretch, I know.
I feel slightly stuck at some point, because it's too hard to get large quantities or iron to build new things, and fur is worth nothing...
Agree but Unicode is a rather complicated diversion. In a lot of circumstances it's not really required as well. It's definitely a reading on subject.

Also, bstr stops a lot of simple tasks looking impossible and therefore motivates people.

Further to that, if you consider Java, Python, C# etc, you're using massive libraries at a very high abstraction level and it is considered normal. There isn't anything built into C like that.
Thanks! I recently read a lot about him, must be because of his famous MicroConf presentations.
PNL o Programación Neurolingüística: ¿Herramienta Para Hacer Multinivel?
Great suggestions, I read both already. Indeed, very high-level.
There are some businesses, but most are consumers. The businesses (photographers mostly) already all have premium accounts as they want to upload high res pictures to show to clients.
While I like the list view, I'm missing one thing:

Would it be possible to add the title of the blog an item is from in lighter text?
Thanks for the tips! Blue Ocean Strategy sounds very interesting.
This sounds perfect, thanks for the suggestion :)
Downloaded: How Napster Conquered the World, How the World Conquered Napster
Snowden's credibility is irrelevant. The credibility of the documents he revealed is the only thing that matters. Those documents are credible because the US government has treated them as classified, implicitly admitting that they are accurate. If snowden was proven to be the greatest liar in the history of humanity it would make those documents no less credible.

Also, any association with china, russia or ecuador is irrelevant. Again, it's about what the US government is doing, and those countries have no bearing on those actions. Sure, they probably do the exact same spying on their own citizens, but even that is only tangentially relevant.
Yeah we've discussed that today actually. It'll either be that, or the blog's favicon - not sure which but it's definitely needed.
How can there be "mutual agreements" on blackmail and coercion? That's just throwing feel good words out there.

> "I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with it"

This is in context about the Iraq war, but the point remains:

[..] But then we ought to just be honest and say, "Look, we're a bunch of Nazis." So fine, let's just drop all the discussion, we save a lot of trees, we can throw out the newspapers and most of the scholarly literature, and just come out, state it straight, and tell the truth: we'll do whatever we want because we think we're gonna gain by it. And incidently, it's not American citizens who'll gain. They don't gain by this. It's narrow sectors of domestic power that the administration is serving with quite unusual dedication. -- Noam Chomsky (Talk titled "Why Iraq?" at Harvard University, November 4, 2002)

Which kinda goes hand in hand with this, in response to the comments saying "oh well, everybody does it":

Of course it's extremely easy to say, the heck with it. I'm just going to adapt myself to the structures of power and authority and do the best I can within them. Sure, you can do that. But that's not acting like a decent person. You can walk down the street and be hungry. You see a kid eating an ice cream cone and you notice there's no cop around and you can take the ice cream cone from him because you're bigger and walk away. You can do that. Probably there are people who do. We call them "pathological." On the other hand, if they do it within existing social structures we call them "normal." But it's just as pathological. It's just the pathology of the general society. -- Noam Chomsky
Just to clarify, it's like a quantum ASIC?
Like this? http://consoleimagememe.neocities.org/
Sharing 30 songs online cost this college student $675,000
License-Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records on Drivers
Why so black and white? US vs the rest? I don't care about what government says or does something, I care about what people do to each other, because in the end we are all people. It is not ok for a group of people to take it upon themselves to hurts everybody's privacy like has been done now. We'd have to stop whoever is doing this.
I'd argue that there are several countries that are more free than the United States in both terms of social issues and economics that make better role models.

This might all be 'news' to the tech community - but Libertarian circles have been talking about this trend towards totalitarianism since what, the 70s? It might feel like it all started after 9/11, but this framework has been building up for decades. In fact, it's the natural trajectory to unopposed empire.

The only thing I hope is that foreign nations accept us liberty loving Americans into their arms when the expatriation wave begins and are able to distinguish us from the assholes. It's coming - just look at the uptick in expatriation: www.nestmann.com/expatriation-statistics There's even publications dedicated to this like www.sovereignman.com and www.escapefromamerica.com/about
That's a great list, never head of any of the 3 books. Thanks you a lot for taking the time to write, I appreciate it a lot!
Pretty much just knowyourmeme.com, most memes are completely stupid but a few are quite funny in the right context/when they originally happened.

Image macros though are also fascinating, they seemed to have branched out to the general public over the last year or so.
What would your profile look like? I'm a little confused. At first glance, does this add any features past what 4chan has already done? It's 100% anonymous and you get real answers (though I think we've got different definitions of 'real'). I think if you can make 4chan "a nice place to visit" with your friends' photo/text updates with the same all-data-expiring-soon policy, you've got a niche.

I'm also reminded by CupidWithFriends, though that's a slightly different concept.
Welcome to the world outside of the US, there is such a thing as 'human rights' already you know. You can keep your bill of 'rights' where it is, thanks.
Stop making all these readers please.
I have never heard of picturepush, but I will share my reaction. Your letter is straightforward and to the point, and I would appreciate that as a user. My only issue would be the timeframe.

Pictures are really important to people, and many people don't know what to do with all of their digital images. 15 and 30 days sounds like plenty of time to you, but that is no time at all to people who haven't been thinking about doing something different with their pictures. That is especially true when you think about the people who won't get this message right away.

I second the idea of putting your data in cheap storage for as long as you can. A respectful timeframe, if you can make it happen, seems like about 6 months. Getting some revenue initially might make that more feasible. I wonder if you might offer an incentive for people to pay up quickly? For example, anyone who pays for 1 year of service before the 15 days are up gets a discount of x%?

Anyways, I do appreciate the straightforward tone of your letter, and I hope the transition goes well for you and your users.
This interview was not about Ruby. I don't know why Matz always starts his computing/programming journey from 1993 ? Its as if nothing existed before that magical year.

<rant>
This is hard to read, at least in firefox. Why the hell can't the author keep the font consistent throughout the article?(interview).

Its ok to print a picture or a two. But 5+ images, why ?
</rant>
FF22 on Win7 doesn't like your font at all, blog post is very hard, same in the app. @yoleoreader had the same problem and changed to a different font I think (maybe only for some users like me?), much better now.
Interactive Audiovisual Experience with the Leap Controller (HN Kansai)
First question i always have - what's the feed refresh frequency? For me (a journalist who needs keeps very close tabs on hundreds of sites), the only feed reader so far that's been of acceptable speed is Newsblur (i believe the refresh rate is 5 minutes), and I'd happily pay more for faster.
Why do you hate reading?
Original article: http://cironline.org/reports/license-plate-readers-let-polic...

Maine, New Jersey, and Virginia have limited the use of ALPRs, and New Hampshire has banned them outright, according to http://www.infowars.com/automated-license-plate-readers-thre...
Keyboard shortcuts would probably make the game too easy. But I agree, any game that keeps me going for hours has to be great!
If An Investment Banker Could Design