skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but with a caveat.
Google closing reader wasn't RSS' tombstone, for sure.
Rss is stronger than ever and, as pointed out in the article, it's still widely used by small and big players on the Web.
Unfortunately Google Reader was the gateway into the RSS realm for those folks who just wanted a quick way to keep track of their news.
For those folks, who aren't certainly programmer nor can appreciate the subtleties of RSS' survival, RSS is definitively dead.
Those folks are the vast majority of Web users. I think we may say that the most popular front-end usage of RSS has died when Google closed reader.

I don't agree with the void-to-be-filled theory, because that void has been quickly filled already by Twitter, Facebook and other self-sufficing, closed and mind numbing services that have nothing to do with the fluid open nature of RSS. Many many users have quickly shifted to that mindset and they won't be back. Do you think those millions of BuzzFeed reader can give a crap about RSS?

So yeah, you can archive google reader closing shop in the "google's unforgivable mistake" directory.

Source: I'm a web editor (not for English speaking websites as you may have understood) since 2006. I've seen the shift all happen under my eyes. It's sort of disgusting.
It looks more like a manic episode. He really needs help or this whole thing could end very badly :(
I have a side project that aggregates news for a sports team I follow. Over time I've been collecting RSS feeds from different sources on the internet related to this team.

I went back and validated whether the feeds were alive or not and about half of them are now defunct. The sites that removed them seem to have moved on to the main social networks as seen in the various chicklets in the page that accompany the articles.

I wonder if they no longer value RSS or if its getting killed in site redesigns? My suspicion is that not enough people use RSS to warrant providing that functionality. There seem to be too many steps for users to use RSS while it is easier to get that content by using something more "standard" like Facebook or Twitter.
Are you assuming that an x86 core is more powerful than an ARM core? That may be true historically, but only because ARM implementations were optimized for watts and x86 for compute. I think AMD is talking about optimizing ARM for compute as aggressively as x86, and that should (theoretically) make it slightly faster than x86, because the ARM design is more, having learned the lessons of CISC and RISC and all that.
My very first thought whenever I want to read more about a website/blog, subscribe to the RSS.

I see less and less the RSS button though, so I have to play with the URL /feed or /rss to get the feed. Too bad.
I think Rakesh is having a manic episode with possible psychotic delusions. He needs help immediately.
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i still dont understand why they killed Reader. all they had to do was say, "hey guys, would you pay $3-$5/month to keep it". people would have thrown money at them.
Really?

My (UK based, vaguely remembered) understanding is at least two of those companies in list 1 went bust in the last five years, and that over the past twenty or more years an awful lot of effort has been spent squeezing inefficiencies out of the supply chain (the auto industry is the poster boy for JIT manufacturing, for pushing debt fueled capital expenditure into your own supply chain etc)

Manufacturing scares me as the incumbent software providers (SAP etc) are huge beasts, well embedded and actually good at writing software.

My preference would be to find industries where the main software provider was actually Excel, or just pen and paper.
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tmux (and screen) don't even let you search the history for non-ASCII characters :-(

That said, the git and shell mentions in the article made things look worse than they are – e.g. in Xubuntu I didn't have to do anything special to at least display the characters, though in the wrong order: http://bildr.no/view/dFN0elo4

Emacs has had bidi support since 24.1, works great, and most importantly, those of us who get totally confused by it can turn it off (I still haven't gotten the hang of movement commands suddenly going the opposite direction, very confusing when RTL and LTR scripts are in the same file).
Ask HN: How do you market to your friends and family.
Lately something is bothering me about marketing. The idea to sell something to the people is very different than selling them to your closest groups-family, friends, colleagues.

That is one of the easiest way to begin. But the approach of targeting the right side of the brain-emotions, seems rather absurd to me. And neither will talking about the specs can move or interest them, you will most of the time try to defend urself. It may be my inhibitions but think of this way. How can you influence your closest group, which take you lightly or with ease.

More specifically, if I create an amplifier(or a cloud storage app, anything), with great specs, great sound, great design, cheap cost. I will be talking to them in terms of specs(and all the time defending myself, for eg, from Bose or Libratone) and not in an Apple-ish way. If you understand what i mean. how will you do it, if you are in my position.
> Then Google thought they could abandon the technology and assumed everyone would gravitate to their social networks instead.

This is probably the most baffling of all the pathetic attempts I've seen to shoehorn a nefarious motive into the closing of Reader. If the contention is that shutting down Reader would force people to social networks, WHY would Google expect people to go to Google+ instead of the social network with multiple times the usage (Facebook)? I've never seen a piece of data that indicated that Google+ was doing any better than a distant second to Facebook (depending on how you count YouTube), and it does even worse on referral traffic (which is more relevant when you're talking about a replacement for Reader). This is probably the funniest tinfoil hat I've ever seen; Google shut down Reader so that people would be forced to use Facebook more.
What makes an image popular?
The ISPs in question explicitly aren't tier 1 providers.

Free is tier 2, and they are very much behaving like the ISPs the article is talking about, just not with Level 3.
I can name two. First, list comprehensions. In PHP, what you might write as this:

$image_urls = [];
foreach ($images as $image) {
$image_urls[] = 'illos/' . $image['url'];
}

can just be this in Python:

image_urls = ['illos/' + x['url'] for x in images]

And, closures in Python -- and to be fair, just about any language that isn't PHP -- close over variables in the scope they're defined automatically, without having to use PHP's strange "use ($a, $b, $c)" construct. Yes, that's a small thing, but PHP's way is a little bonkers.
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Why and how we put our Terms of Service on GitHub.
I think that would have been ideal, but I get the feeling that the response _still_ would have been: "Google killed Reader by charging, no one will use it now! How dare they charge for taking advantage of an open format! What happened to 'don't be evil?!?!?' "
Show HN: TweetBot-like Image Interaction with UIDynamics
Pretty. I like all of Images.
I still feel that React encourages a style of development that pushes small snippets of HTML rather than full-page templates.

I work with Django currently. For dynamic content, in order to avoid repetition, we use includes and template inheritance. So that goes in the direction of small snippets rather than full-page templates. Do you not have to do anything similar with your angular templates?
If by their own you mean one of numerous other cable companies that they purchased then yes. There used to be a plethora of small cable companies in the UK. Now there is only Virgin.

The widespread availability of high quality ADSL does seem to do a good job of keeping them honest though. I've been a pretty satisfied customer of them for many years now.
Your comparison of FRP is fairly accurate, but let me reply to a couple of points:

> for example, you might want to filter events when a game is paused. The code would just look roughly like this:

In Glitch/YinYang this is:

on Tick:
if !Paused: fire game.Step

Basically, the entire program is lifted over time, whereas in FRP, only values are. But the effect is very similar.

> thinking about FRP programs as dataflow networks with explicit propagation and so on. While you can think of FRP like this, I personally find this neither natural nor helpful—it also doesn't really get into the "functional" spirit of FRP, which originally came out of the Haskell community.

Propagation is implicit, not explicit, I think. Conal's original Fran work has a very data flowy feel to it, as "composed" functional code does in general. The only place where the syntax becomes more procedural again is in the less pure push-based FRP systems (like FrTime, Flapjax).

> Instead, I prefer thinking about FRP as just programming with time-varying values largely as normal values, and keeping the actual implementation details under the ambient level of abstraction as much as possible.

I had this goal with my own FRP work also, but to get there I came up with something very different. Basically, think of Glitch as being something like "time-varying code" vs. FRP's time-varying values.

> [1]: It's possible to come up with very elegant semantics for FRP systems that let you not worry about the particular details of how time is implemented or how time changes. It makes your code "resolution independent" over time—it's like using vector graphics instead of raster graphics.

Even vector graphics must be rasterized at some point. For most programming tasks, a notion of event-time (with everything staying the same in between as in Glitch) is quite useful. There aren't that many tasks that require continuous time abstractions (e.g. animations can be chopped up into 15 millisecond chunks).
Regarding page scrolling, I'm usually good with Space and shift-Space.
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Tridge also happily uses an earlier version of OpenTX called er9x I believe. I've worked with him on a bit of the firmware you're talking about here, but it's not the same stuff. The most impressive thing about the SiK firmware you're talking about is the stupid range you can get from them on a good day; line of sight can be tens of kilometers (say 40+), and could potentially be used to communicate with satellites, all while using a max of 5W transmit power at 900MHz. There's plenty of more info on both the CanberraUAV and 3D Robotics blogs from him and others about both these topics. The following talk as LCA was about such satellites, and there was some talk about using these radios for these open source satellites.
I never understood the issue with Google Reader, as I always used native clients to receive RSS updates.

Every time one uses a "web app" is giving control over to third parties.
Perhaps they perceived it as competition to Google Plus.
The approach reminds me of React in terms of keeping entire state aside from the DOM.

Of course it is much older than React, but you can see it performs very well and is suited for things other than HTML elements.
I like the idea of React.js and immutable data. But i'm not a fan of the lisp syntax, am i missing something?
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If that were the reason for shutting down Reader, they probably would have done better by merging it into Google+.
CPU seems to be the issue, but somehow Wordpress and the like (most CMS systems) seem to hit it while all PHP code I write runs perfectly fine.
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The more straightforward explanation, is that it would drive people to use Google Search, which RSS effectively bypasses.
Probably, never got around to try it though.
4 Ruby vulnerability reports. 2 high, 2 medium. Most recent: CVE-2014-2322.
acmlm is well noted for this, as well as speedrunning various games (mostly Dr. Mario and A Link to the Past). Google his name for more info or watch his stream (usually late at night US time) - www.twitch.tv/acmlm
Project Management that focusses on Ideas instead of Tasks
Psychedelic Information Theory
Why should you write Tests for Ruby on Rails code?
The war on drugs has been a $1 trillion failure, Soros says
Low fitness levels in otherwise healthy adults linked to poor memory
Could be testing the waters for that. Could also be prep work for a contingency plan if US startup visas don't happen.
Xerox aesthetic quality image search demonstration
I'm rather shocked you don't see the flaw in every one of your examples. The owner is the person to whom the gains of short supply are accruing. There's no app to sell your reservation to someone else, scalping tickets is illegal or banned by the ticket vendor, etc etc.

The short supply is due to a market failure; the city underprices the parking spots it owns relative to demand, increasing congestion and making it impossible to find a spot. This is to the point that people are theoretically willing to pay 20 dollars (or whatever Monkeypark will charge) in order to get an underpriced parking spot. It makes no sense to distribute foregone gains from underpriced city land to random squatting motorists, instead of just raising pricing and having that benefit accrue to the owner of the land (the city). It's the same concept behind not allowing people to sublet my rent-controlled apartment for market rates; the price distortion issue isn't with the sublet policy, it's with the rent control in the first place.
Maybe, but not having to synchronize your feeds between different devices and platforms is a good incentive to give up that control.
I wouldn't bet on anyone beating Intel. They are a freaking behemoth. They have pretty much all the best engineers, and if they don't, they have the funds to hire them. If anyone gets close to actually threatening them, they have the means to ramp up their game.
Also, the Ruby docs site[1] currently has the message listed on the site's action bar with a link to NIST site. Here's a screenshot of the Ruby docs site [2].

[1] http://ruby-doc.org/

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/zr197pz9l9n6w9a/Screen%20Shot%2020...
The jargon file, which is what that RFC references, provides no evidence for its claim that "foo" in conjunction with "bar" has generally been traced to FUBAR. It's a plausible-sounding claim, because of pronunciation, but that's by no means definitive. In addition, it freely admits that "foo" predates FUBAR.

The entry on "foobar" (as opposed to "foo") also stresses that "foobar" does not generally reference FUBAR:

> Hackers do not generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense.

And once again, it suggests that "foobar" may have been spread among early engineers partly because of FUBAR, but it provides no evidence for this suggestion aside from its apparent plausibility.

So yeah, ok, it's plausible that the popularity of "foobar" was boosted by the acronym FUBAR. But regardless of the truth of that, the meaning of "foobar" has nothing to do with the meaning of FUBAR. It's a metasyntactic variable, and that's it.
[citation needed]

No, seriously. "foobar" does not mean FUBAR. The linked article here is quite literally the only time I have ever seen "foobar" used in place of FUBAR, and the Jargon file also stresses that "foobar" is not generally used to mean FUBAR.
While I agree that the original source code for the game is probably long gone, I think we can settle for having a disassembled version of it. As you pointed out, the game was most likely in handwritten assembly, so the assembly output probably isn't much different. The most useful part would have been the comments, which it turns out there were some very dedicated people that went through the entire disassembly and annotated the source code like this one by doppleganger http://www.romhacking.net/documents/344/ and this one where movax tried to make the assembly more natural http://www.romhacking.net/documents/635/

There are several really cool things you can find on here about older games including a detailed explaination of the minus one world http://www.romhacking.net/documents/343/ where doppelganger covers exactly why the game does what it does.
What does Dia stand for?
Ask HN: Any suggestions on how to manage my mobile phone video clips?
No, not at all. I cite non-academic sources (light table, Bret Victor) all the time in my research, however keep in mind: you are writing for your readers, and you understand their mindset. Writing for an ICFP crowd would be a bit different than writing for a hackernews crowd, so you would compare against more academic work (especially since the program committee are academics) and not so much industry projects.

A 12 page paper can never really be "complete," so optimize for the intended readership.
If you stay with your current job and do not go to university, here are some concrete ideas for things that you might want to try, which I would recommend based on what you wrote:

* Learn C. I have heard good things about _Learn C The Hard Way_, which is free, though I have never used it myself. Since you want to know more "CS," work through _Introduction to Algorithms_, a pretty standard (second-semester) university text, in C (NOT a language than manages memory for you!).

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms

* Work through _The Elements of Computing Systems_ (aka "From NAND to Tetris"). The book is fun, and it introduces many topics that are more advanced than CRUD.

http://www.nand2tetris.org/

I have many other ideas, but I decided to stop here in order to emphasize those above. :)
I... guess this is the obvious next step. All we need now is "one click purchasing" for twitter, where you can just send a single tweet, and then lie back and have the product delivered straight to your doorstep. That's the next step from here, and I'm sure Amazon is working on it.
This dance video series will seriously make your day.  
Try watching this without smiling!
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Pass looks good! The only thing missing for me is a way to use it on iPhone/Android. I currently use KeePassX and it works pretty well with Dropbox sync.
> I think we need more fragmentation. We've defragmented enough already.

Are you fk kidding?! We aren't at even 10% of "defragmenting" the world's conceptual space... When we'll be close to 99.9%, then tell me it's "enough already". And when it comes to programming languages, we're reinventing the wheel over and over and over and over again because we don't have a small number (I'd call less than 5 a "small enough number") or dominant programming languages and VMs so we can just port features from one to another.

Same for all other aspects of computer science and engineering. Everything new takes aaaaaages to implement because we can't freaking standardize on a small number of languages and protocols.

> have vibrant scientific communities, that you can only understand if you speak the respective language

If you've ever worked on any half-serious scientific project anywhere in the world, you'll know that if you can't speak and read/write English fluently (the read/write part is more importantly than the speaking part in science), you're not part of any real scientific community but just of a pseudo-nationalistic group playing as if they are doing science.

Technology and science need standardization and homogeneity when it comes to langauges and communication, like at least 50% more language/protocols standardization and homogeneity than we have now, just so we can have more diversity of ideas.

If everyone spends 50% of their mental energy translating from one language/standard/protocol to another, whether programming language or natural language or whatever, you will have less diversity and less innovation because event if it may seem fun, any kind of "translation" type of activity is a huuuuuge drain that brings benefits to nobody.

And in software, we already spend 90% of our brainpower in translation-type-activities and reinventing wheels all day long, so I'd take anything that brings me less fragmentation in all aspects of my life at all costs, and do everything I can to impose even forcefully less fragmentation in all aspects of existence in general.
A nice effort, but it is jarring to see a simple word misspelled (twice) in the Arabic text in the headline image, a result of which is that instead of 'Print' the text says 'Follow' (specifically: instead of "Ittba'", with a hard 't' sound, which means 'Print', the text says "Itba'", with a soft 't' sound, which means 'Follow'; these two different 't' sounds are represented by two different letters in the Arabic language).

This type of oversight makes the work instantly less relatable (and credible) to Arabs.
From a Buddhist perspective: In what country do you not have death of loved ones, old age, sickness? In what country do you not have attachments, fear or sadness? Technology can make us more comfortable, but not "solve" life for us. Some people have more comfort in life than others, animals are even worse off than poor people, and gods in heavens are more comfortable than Bill Gates, yet all of them will face death and sickness in this life (including the gods in buddhism). The only escape is Nirvana.

From a secular perspective: There are lots of ways to look at this. We could see everyone as being on a spectrum. Your happiness levels depend on your position on the spectrum relative to your peers. Poor people in the US have cars, yet they are extremely unhappy and suffering. The same amount of wealth in India would make you middle class and much happier. So clearly the happiness is not a function only of money but also of perception. People were in general just as happy or sad 3000 years ago as they are today, what has technology achieved then? If technology was making the world more equal, I would support the proposition that development is a net positive, as everyone would have the chance to grow spiritually rather than spend a human birth just surviving, but that's not the case. Technology divides more than it equalizes. There is no "point" to technology, it will happen. There's no use fighting it, there's no use supporting it over everything else. Technological progress is a fact of life. There is a point to equality, it allows everyone to achieve their potential and maybe reduce actual suffering on the planet.
Very sorry for the trouble on this, the blame goes squarely on me for this - those emails should never have gone out. YC had nothing to do with this, and it was completely our fault in using this private list for marketing purposes.

There is really no excuse other than poor judgement and rushed decisions. I apologize and we will make an effort to be much more careful about this in the future.
Bikes get stolen quite a lot in SF, and the cops don't really make any effort to find them again. Also, the bike lanes are mostly really taxi lanes.
PgUp/PgDown is useful in some instances, though I'm in OSX rarely enough that I forget what exactly they are when I'm not there.

Terror and repressed memories are like that, you know.
Cmd-Up will also generally bring you to the top of a page.
Thanks.

> I don’t expect Mezzo to be the next big thing, but ideas from it will most probably make their way into upcoming type-safe systems languages.

I guess that's also one difference between Rust and us. Being researchers, we don't have the manpower to turn this into a working, industrial project, so we're hoping that the ideas percolate. Rust, in contrast, it trying to become the next big thing, maybe at the expense of having theoretical soundness results and papers in 10pt LaTeX :).
I think some pretty impressive mental gymnastics are required to see web search replacing even a tiny portion of the functionality of RSS, particularly when compared to other "feeds" like FB, G+, Twitter, Instagram, etc.