skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm excited about the potential here. Moore's law etc allows geocities-style websites to be maintained for significantly less cost than it did a decade ago. I hope the next generation has as much fun learning HTML as I did.

Something else has changed besides the technology costs, though. I'm old enough to have used geocities, but not old enough to know or remember if it was truly "anonymous" and "uncensored." Was it? Regardless I wonder if Neocities will have a harder time maintaining those qualities in today's world.
This. It is a huge pain to raise money at the lower levels in Europe. That I know of, something like a convertible note does not exist, or at least hardly anyone would offer one. The process can also be much longer, even if you find someone interested in making an investment. The pattern for new European startups seems to be, get as far as you can without taking money and then find a way to get to the US to raise.
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I jumped over to Feedbin when Reeder announced support for it (I am another Reeder die-hard). My experience has been somewhat mixed. I am excited about the server change but I am a bit annoyed that there wasn't a notification about it (I had to go to the blog/twitter to find out why I couldn't get feeds to refresh).

The update to load starred articles from Google Reader excited me quite a bit. It sounds like the business is sustainable and I'm hopeful for its future.
What happened to making a website for yourself, or to show to friends? What's so wrong with making a bad website rather than none?
What's in it for Google?

There's always been a reasonable argument that it benefits Google to have a diverse mobile device ecosystem, in which open standards compliant browsers and apps that can access Google services are a baseline feature. Their nightmare scenario was a world of locked down mobile device platforms with browsers hard wired into proprietary web portals and services that cut them out of the loop.

TV is a different medium though. It's useless as a web browser platform and Google app style services have never worked will on them either. The control interface is just too clumsy. So as a general web and services access platform it's not that attractive.

What TV is good at is video presentation and games. Google's never going to make any money on games, either on mobile or on a TV platform. They do have youtube though, so that's really the only viable route they have towards revenue on the TV.

The problem is, nobody making an Android based TV device has any incentive to include a youtube service on it except Google. If Samsung say produced an Android based TV device, what's in it for them to support a Youtube app? Better to strike a revenue sharing deal with Netflix, Hulu, HBO, etc. They could revenue share with Youtube, but then Google is only getting a slice of the revenue, instead of the whole lot from Google's own TV device.

Google is already getting squeezed out of their own Android ecosystem by companies like Samsung and Amazon rolling their own default apps and services for their devices. On an open Android platform on the TV, that effect would be considerably magnified.
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If you have to say they will support HTML5 but only on xyz browsers or OS'es then it's like a gas station saying they support Regular but only for Ford and General Motors cars. The reason I can say that is any _other_ site that claims HTML5, works fine on my Chrome browser on Ubuntu.
There are lots of people doing startups in London but fundraising is still much harder than in SV
Good list, it appears Bulletin (http://bulletin.io) is not on the list. Would love to hear feedback regarding it.
> "but if your plan is absolutely dependant on VC, maybe something is wrong."

This seems wrongheaded and a bit presumptuous. There are no shortage of startups with no realistic business plan - there are also startups with a business model that requires substantial initial capital.

Silicon Valley is built on high-risk, high-reward, high-capital companies - there's a reason why "lifestyle business" (lower-risk, lower-reward, lower-capital) is a dirty word there.

It seems like you're swinging the pendulum all the way to the other end where we start making fun of people who take VC money.

I've been part of companies that are fully owned and never took VC money to get off the ground. They do reasonably well, but they are also pretty strictly limited to ideas with very low capital requirements.
I wouldn't mind so much if it was just the reader app that was going away. But Google kept a cache of every article in the Reader indefinitely. Right now, the only existing copy of a lot of old blogs is stuck in that cache, and it's going to be deleted. That bugs me.

You can help save this data actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5958119
There's a closely related issue which is much more concrete: ocean acidification.

While you can argue that the effects of CO2 on global temperature are hard to understand and model correctly, CO2 leading to ocean acidification is straight forward high school chemistry (not that most of us did that great in high school chemistry). As the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere goes up, so must the concentration of CO2 in the oceans. As the concentration of CO2 goes up in the oceans, the oceans become more acidic. You can calculate the exact increase using a couple of formulas from high school chemistry. No computer models or anything.
Also, http://lector.io
Thinking back, it's very possible that Geocities is a key reason I am a developer today.
The problem is HURD isn't positioned as a part time product, it's positioned as a replacement to Linux, which is inferior technically, just has more hands on deck right now.
I'm not so scornful of the many many many other OS projects out there because they don't generally act like they are better than all that exists and going to naturally supplant it if they can just find the right microkernel...
Also very few "side projectS" have been going on for like 25 years... So again my personal side projects are hard to compare to an organization's quarter century effort.

Direction I'd prefer? Working on modern hardware and taking full advantage of it! Was that not clear? That's the whole point. They spend all their time on on designing and redesigning archetecture and their software is now getting less relevant on real hardware. Mostly only makes sense now to run as a VM. Which is probably not what they want for the OS that is supposed to replace Linux....
I don't get the logic of trying to do something difficult (starting a business) while intentionally choosing to do things which make it even harder (starting in small countries in Europe which don't have a domestic market, without decent VC, and in a hellishly expensive city to boot (London).)

If I were, say, Czech, I'd seriously consider doing stuff in the Czech Republic for a while, if I could bootstrap, then raise capital globally (maybe with a small office in the US if that helped). But I sure wouldn't go from the US as a USAian to Europe to start something unless it was inherently a European-local business.
Absolutely. I've been trying to buy KMS license for MS Project for 10 users on a Terminal Server farm with 100 KMS licensed Office Professional users. It's been a month-long nightmare already. I've bought two cars within 2 hours each.
There are rights that differ for foreigners, but the basic rights are the same for everybody. It's not like you can kill a foreigner without consequences, or steal from him, right? Secrecy of correspondence is in constitutions of many european countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence (funny how even USSR had had it since 1936 - what the state do with its constitution is another matter it seems). Certainly not all countries are listed, cause Poland isn't there, and it also have this law.

And it's considered basic right, so why shouldn't foreigners have it?

The more I learn about USA the stranger it seems. Guns are legal cause freedom, even at cost of lives, and secrecy of correspondence is just nice-to-have? Why do you need the guns, if you don't use them to defend your privacy?
It's pretty clear at this point that any appearance of "rule of law" in the US is just an illusion. One instance of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, pissing off the wrong person and that illusion will be blown away for you and possibly your family.
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Agreed! The changes to transaction management seem pretty solid too. I've found transactions to be pretty somewhat unpredictable at times in the past, so I'm encouraged by these changes.
ArchiveTeam needs OPMLs and feed URLs to grab cached data from Google Reader
StartHQ is primarily a business web app directory, so unfortunately we couldn't include Player. Does look good though.
I don't see why this is a problem. If the client wants a flat design with drop-shadows, than that's what he or she wants. Does that mean it won't be "flat"? Well, probably yeah. Should the client care? Nope. Was the objective (letting you know what he wants) accomplished? Yeah.

Whether the client should dictate this kind of stuff is a subject for another discussion.
ArchiveTeam has saved cached Reader feed data for 37.3M feeds so far, and even though this seems like a lot, it still doesn't include many of the feeds people are subscribed to. Hence the request for OPMLs/subscriptions.xml files.

If you're interested in being able to read old posts in some future feed reading software, or just like having the data preserved, you can upload your OPMLs and ArchiveTeam will make its best effort to grab the feeds.

More details: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Reader

7TB+ of compressed feed text: http://archive.org/details/archiveteam_greader

Also, if anyone has billions of URLs that I can query, I could use them to infer feed URLs and save an incredible amount of stuff. See email in profile if you do.
Difference is there are no 50 state laws requiring independent dealers to sell your wares.
Android 4.3 Available To Test For Adventurous Galaxy S4 Owners
Thanks.

For anyone interested, it looks like HDCP has been broken on pure crypto grounds [1]. As much as I agree that this type of DRM is fundamentally not possible, I'm still kind of surprised that their was a direct attack on the crypto.

[1] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/pubs/hdcppaper.ps
Doesn't look like it's publicly available though.
Ironically, the "customization" of Myspace's wacky profiles with animated backgrounds and autoplaying music is what led people to the more streamlined Facebook, and we know what happened after that.

My theory is that design is cyclical. We had GeoCities/MySpace, then Facebook/Twitter, and now we're back to Instagram/Snapchat for expressing creativity.
> The science behind it seems complex and because it relies so heavily on modeling

The thing is that you don't require complex modeling to get global warming. Energy comes to the earth from the sun. Energy's radiated out to space as infrared. Carbon dioxide blocks infrared and so increases the temperature.

As with everything, you can construct more accurate and more complicated models, but it's a myth that global warming only shows up as a consequence of the complexity. People had to start studying climate change for some reason, right? They did back of the envelope calculations first and then brought in the complicated models to try to quantify exactly the amount of climate change and what its effects would be.

Don't get me wrong, climate change has two big things working against it: the effects will not be observed directly for decades, and there's a lot of money from oil and gas which is fighting any attempts to take action. The former means that the evidence is based on modeling and the latter does everything it can to cast doubt on the models.
Which of these support full screen? I tried digg reader and yoleoreader but neither supports it.
Upvote for a great idea whose time has come around again. The people who used to try their hand at making their own website on geocities moved on to sites with less control like MySpace and then FaceBook, but something was lost along the way - the amateur spark that made the early web fun. Basic HTML and CSS is really quite simple and it'd be better if more people learned to use it. I know social sites add a different dimension to online sharing, but they also come with the illusion of privacy, intrusive adverts, online games, lame jokes, encouragement to comment on the meme of the day etc.

Static html is a great choice because it dramatically cuts the requirements, and because the vast majority of homemade websites don't need to be dynamic, very rarely change, and even a beginner can open a basic html file and start editing.

One little thing I think they could add are some visual controls for editing the look of your site on the fly - for example they could have a simple control panel to change basic attributes of the page like background colour, fonts, text sizes etc. and show you the CSS code that does it. That could write to the CSS as their current online-CMS type files do so that it could be edited later. Integrate that with webfonts and you could delivery some really beautiful styling tweaks without people even having to learn CSS and start to teach people to write simple web markup with online tutorials.
This is a solved problem, including the problem that you're haven't anticipated, which is the helpful "autosave" of drafts.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Edit_with_Emacs

I'm sure something similar exists for vi, sublime, etc., but emacs (of course) has great gpg support (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG).

This moves the burden to your local machine, which, while not guaranteeing privacy, helps reduce the amount of data that you're just handing to the bastards.
Yes. Although sadly I think we live in a world where you might get more effect by promoting the financial angle. I think the simplest argument anyone can make is that if you can do X or produce Y while consuming less energy than your competition, you'll come out ahead. If the entire world focused on this as a primary basis for long term competitive strategy, I think a ton of environmental issues would fall in line.

Either way, you're absolutely right. From a marketing standpoint, global warming is such a bad angle from which to promote environmental action.
You can use a lot of that same logic to justify any elitism.

If anybody can come to this restaurant, it won't be a great restaurant, so we have to exclude those people.

How many future web designers cut their teeth making terrible Geocities websites? Just because something is terrible doesn't mean you didn't learn something.

The forest would be pretty quiet if only the best birds sang.
I'll point out that any device connected to a military Information System is subject to monitor and interception for the expressed purpose of penetration testing, personnel misconduct, network operations and defense, COMSEC, etc.

Do you believe your laptop is a device connected to Google Information Systems when you access GMail?

Soldiers must use their AKO/DKO portal for college coursework, medical appointments, webmail, annual certification and training, and so on. Any system can access AKO/DKO, which includes a personal laptop. Soldiers staying in barracks often have high speed internet access they pay for themselves but they could go to an internet cafe and browse the web.

Is it a civilian channel if a soldier buys a Macbook and reads a Guardian article at Starbucks? If there is a random barracks inspection, which the soldier is subject to, and the Guardian material is found in browsing history and/or cache, the soldier has committed a security violation. S/he will be subject to the same UCMJ action as a soldier that knowingly copied classified information from a classified system and transferred it to their personal computer.
What's considered an alternative? Anything that can display RSS?
I think it's fairly self explanatory, but the about page would have been a better submission:

http://devdocs.io/about
If anyone is interested, I've posted my comparison notes for some of the feed readers I've tried, here https://gist.github.com/cheeaun/5882100
It has now been added: https://starthq.com/apps/bulletin
> So you instead confirm that leak by blocking the website

No, you confirm that you have a standing policy of blocking any content that purports to be classified, regardless of actual content.

> - The documents are already in the public. Just saying, "they are now de-classified," doesn't give more information, other than an explicit confirmation that they were real. But this doesn't matter because:

Stating they are declassified still leaves them with the burden of cross checking any document found on their unclassified networks to figure out whether or not it is allowed to be there. It substantially eases the job of containing the genuinely classified information to keep the amount of "possibly classified, needs investigation" content down.

> There are so many things implicitly confirming that the documents are real that it doesn't make sense to deny them officially anymore.

The point is not to deny that they are real (how would the Army know?), but to prevent "contaminating" an unclassified network in a way that makes discerning real security problems harder.
Journey to the open data jungle with OpenRefine, CartoDB, Leaflet and Javascript
Playing around with data is not an easy task. There’s no secret formula for successfully finding your way through a bunch of pdf, csv, excel, APIs or whatever else you might have to deal with. There’s not even a single tool that could help you through the whole process, on the contrary, you’ll have to spend some time learning and trying out different techniques.

In this series of articles we will take a look at a couple of really mind-blowing tools. We will use google contacts process them with OpenRefine, then we will geolocate each contact using google map web service API. After that we will import it into CartoDB to expose it as a web service API, and finally, with some Javascript magic we will use leaflet to browse our contacts on a map.
Thanks for this comprehensive response (I didn't expect any less from HN ;)

I understood the part about O18 ending up less in the glaciers but I couldn't really grasp that if the water is in glaciers it isn't in the sea. I also thought it would be impossible to get rid of influence of the temperature (gradient with depth, latitude, ocean currents, ...) but it's probably not impossible, just difficult.

Also for anybody who doesn't click in the "loooooong" version has 6 volumes...
gpg handles this natively.

http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN111

"multiparty encryption" is what you're looking for.
Military intelligence?
The soldiers have zero right to use the Internet at all on work hours.

The government could as easily have said "just focus on .mil and .gov sites when you're using government computers for government work".

The military already frequently bans stuff like YouTube when dipshits keep clogging up the network watching Bieber while other people are trying to do work, or things like Reddit.
Here's another to add: http://www.feedlier.com
It's a simple, clean way to aggregate feed stories.

I'd appreciate any feedback on the site as well, it is a work in progress!
As a designer (an imposer of order), this was surprisingly inspiring! In 2004, the trend was towards order and now feel (Ok, hoping?) the pendulum might be swinging a bit more towards chaotic freedom.
I don't mind if he does say he didn't know, as long as he puts it right
I agree. I do have a Sublime Text 2 license, but I miss modeful editing, ex, etc. I had used vintage mode for a while, but as usual with such emulations, you quickly run into annoyances.

The only thing that I found really attractive in Sublime Text 2 is Goto Anything. ctrlp.vim brings some of its advantages to vim.
It's plausible that BlackBerry may hang on to the 3rd place spot in the smartphone market. Their new phones are fairly solid, and it's plausible that many of their old users would upgrade (the question is how many exactly, versus how many jumped ship permanently). Further, expectations were so low that even a small profit (as forecast) would have been great news.

It was possible for the Z10/Q10 to be a reasonably successful product that kept BlackBerry afloat. That looks a lot more unlikely now, but it's not an option that should've been dismissed as a kneejerk reaction just because "LOL BlackBerry".
Your analogy is terrible. The people coming to the restaurant don't make the food at the restaurant. If they did, that WOULD be a terrible restaurant.

Your second argument in favor of Geocities is that future brilliant web designers may use it? Ok they might, but if Geocities didn't exist they'd use something else. And I'd argue they'd learn faster and better habits by learning with some other tool.
I'm interested if this issue is an outlier or more common. If the motion sickness is more common and you can somehow communicate its prevalence to apple then I could see some change happening.

My initial reaction is that the problem may be very user specific (outlier). Full screen transitions are all over the place in windows/andriod/osx/ios. It may not be worth the ui/ux change for apple to fix it. They would have to add some complexity to settings which is something they tend to avoid.
I can't get past the first paragraph of this article. Anyone who kicks off their argument with three sentences of continuous name-dropping is not worth listening to.
Then we asap need to invent replicators.

Because I work in fine job I need several people to support my lifestyle, so easiest is to find short term solution, burning something to return heat.

Meat should go back to premium status, grass fed cattle that eats and shits on same field, in that way no need to grow huge fields of corn that needs to be sprayed with poison and fed with manufactured manure.

Hemp for paper and fiber, absorbs your CO2 in huge amounts and needs no pesticide, can be used as to feed livestock in moderate amount of farms, worked well some time ago for farmers, until was forcibly taken out.

There is plenty of solutions that would be wonderful, but are you ready to go from your luxurious lifestyle to dry toilet and washing yourself once a week?

Sometimes I think it has nothing to do with our advancement in technology but loss of respect to each other.
But it was a vast wasteland of garbage.
You seem to think we've reached the pinnacle of what code editors can do.
I don't think we have, at all.

Imagine APIs that let your editor of choice deeply integrate with LLVM or Web Inspector. We're getting there, but we still have a long way to go.
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I really enjoy working with Django, but in many ways, it seems to be staying pretty vanilla while other technologies head in more experimental directions. Does Django have a bright future in a world that's moving heavily client side, or will it be relegated to a relatively bland corner of the web world?
Encryption would be helpful but if the government compels your email provider to hand over your stored emails or just email headers they can still get a lot of information about you

Exactly, this the line that the government has currently been using, that they only store "metadata" about communications and not the messages themselves, so encryption would no real difference.
Saying it's a result of a flaw in the Mercator projection is like saying zero being undefined is a flaw of the logarithm scale: it's not a flaw, it's a property.

If the projection doesn't work for your usecase, don't use it.
Took about 2 minutes before the animation actually started, but clever effect.