skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is a bit dated. Comparative linguistics has shown very convincingly that pretty much all languages have a similar set of complex features.

Even languages without a heritage, which are invented within two generations have complex features comparable to established languages. There are many good examples in Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct."

Similar to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis I think "broken mindsets," and "poison," are exaggerations with little basis.

tl;dr It's really not that depressing. There are different ways of doing the same thing.
For about a year (I think, whenever Google Reader shut down), I just stopped using them. I relied on sites like Hacker News to get updates (along with Twitter).

I found recently, though, that it was not giving me all the things I thought were relevant to me (especially in the .NET world, where I work).

So, recently, I started using The Old Reader[0]. It's nice and clean, and unobtrusive. It's not slick, but that doesn't matter to me in this area. If there was a nice CLI reader (like Mutt) for RSS, I'd probably use that. I'm thinking that'd be a nice weekend project.

[0]https://theoldreader.com/
Me too. My favourite were the Oberon variants, specially System 3 release with its gadgets.

The proof you could have an workstation OS written in a GC enabled systems programming language.

I cherish Microsoft for its work in Windows, it is the only mainstream OS that can save us from UNIX monoculture.

Yes, UNIX has a bunch of nice ideas, but that is all.
Yes, Inoreader[0]. It's the one that was closest in functionality to Google Reader when it shut down. It's simple and cuts out the bullcrap. Though I've found I've been relying on RSS less these days, just because there are fewer sources I've cared to read from.

[0] https://www.inoreader.com/
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> I thought that Apple sold iPhones at a wholesale discount to retailers, so shouldn't they be able to make a profit at even lower prices? Competition doesn't appear to have brought prices down to marginal cost here.

I think Apple restricts the price their products can be sold at. If you sell at lower prices then you won't sell them anymore. Often agreements like this restrict the advertised price which is why you see things where you must add it to your cart to see the price [1].

[1] http://www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/cell-phones/iphone-phone...
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For the record, you cannot redownload old messages in iMessage; if you use iCloud Backup, a civilian could fetch messages from there, but if not, they're out of luck.
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How much should you pay yourself as the business owner?
Yes, I've been using Liferea [http://lzone.de/liferea/] since 2004. Seeing the rise and fall of Google Reader while meanwhile Liferea steadily progressed from 0.4 to 1.11 I think says a lot about the value of both desktop software and open source. I can still read interesting articles that I "flagged" 10 years ago!
Yes, digg reader (web version even on iPhone and iPad). Pretty happy with it. My google usage was cut in half.
Push notification click-through rates
Feedbin + ReadKit (OSX) + Press (Android) + Reeder (iOS)
Yes, Liferea
My iPhone 4 is still on iOS 6.1.3; I only had to upgrade to the 4 when my 3g stopped working after some OS updates. I learned my lesson there and didn't bother to move up to iOS 7 for my current phone; I'll probably get a new one soon just because my phone is now ~4 years old and starting to slow down on its own anyways.
This is an amazing recruiting tool for YC and is a page out of JOEL SPOLSKY's book:

"So if the top 1 percent never apply for jobs (aka get startup funding), how can you recruit them? My theory is that the best way is to find them before they realize there is a job market (aka startup funding)--back when they're still in college."[0]

[0] http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/column-guest.html
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Looks like a very nice feature - but would be great if they provided some actual benchmarks showing when vectorization is faster than not. For example, if you're bound by memory bandwidth, no amount of extra compute is going to help you.
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I tried a bunch of them and Inoreader came the closest to filling the gaping hole in my heart left by Google Reader.
VMWare is valued at over $40B currently. They could scoop up Docker for a couple % of their market cap. I'm not saying that will happen, but it really wouldn't surprise me. There have been a ton of lofty acquisitions in this space.
In America, if you discuss why a candidate was rejected and your reasoning can be interpreted as one of the many reasons that have been deemed illegal, you open up your company to being sued for discrimination. Given that your company will likely have many reviewers discussing many, many candidates, the only way to be sure no one ever slips up and gets sued is to have a blanket policy of never discussing why a candidate was rejected. Not with the candidate. Not even with people inside your company but outside of that candidate's hiring process. I have never discussed hiring process with a company that did not have this policy.
I wish for an alternate reality were Apple still has the success it enjoys, but with Mac OS X based on BeOS.

UNIX had a few nice ideas, but so did other OS, there is hardly a reason to have it in a pedestal.
Yes. Liferea. I've been using it pretty much since the Death of Usenet.
I use Reeder too, backed by Fever. With what happened to Google Reader, the fact that Fever is self-hosted and can never go away is a big advantage for me.
How would you distinguish seizure of property with the false justification of probable cause, from legitimate seizure of evidence with legitimate probable cause?

I assume you are not advocating that police cannot collect evidence until after a crime is proven in court.
It's a psychological thing.

If a company hasn't even tried to get revenue, then the sky's the limit. But as soon as it does it gets actual numbers, and those numbers are usually not as big as anyone's wildest dreams. Sometimes they're downright depressing, and they lead to that hard and unglamorous slog of optimizing business model and pricing strategy and such.

In big companies this often manifests in the form of the project cancelled right before (or right after) it goes to market. A project that's still pie-in-the-sky tends to excite the sales and business folks, but once it gets closer to go-to-market you start getting real numbers. A lot of times this leads to cold feet, the project loses favor, and sometimes gets cancelled right before it ships.

Reality is never as much fun as dreams.

The counter-argument though is that rapid growth in the beginning is necessary to have any chance of getting really big.

I've got an effort out there right now that's growing but has a revenue model in place. I know for a fact that if I take the revenue model away it will grow faster, and I've been having a huge debate with myself on this. The revenue isn't huge and the growth is slow-- do I trade that small amount of revenue for larger growth on the promise that I can get more revenue later? It's a tough question.
I've actually really gotten into keeping track of my youtube subscriptions and the only real reliable way I found was to use rss. Because of privacy concerns I've never really used an online rss reader but I have tried a few of the offline clients. I definitely recommend people check out http://quiterss.org/ if they're looking for a new offline rss reader.
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> Because they are still so frustratingly limited, Siri and Google Now are simply not yet ready to exist.

In fairness, Google Now's pitch is a lot more about location-awareness than it is about speech recognition, innit?
AFAIK Qt is much more than a GUI framework, and even modular these days, so you could leave out the GUI parts if you want. So you can use all kinds of Qt libs for different things, probably even for building a web server.

Whether you WANT to write a web app in C++ is an entirely different matter, of course.
Without the context of total healthcare spend in America focusing on hospital administration costs is like rating charities based on their overhead.

Lower does not equal better, administration and management are necessary parts of such a complex system and reducing admin overhead could increase overall costs. To put it in perspective we spend about 17% of our economy on healthcare so the actual overhead costs for healthcare is closer to 8.5% which seems pretty reasonable.
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LOL. The massive and obvious enterprise value is in having a standard way to deploy and interface isolated Linux applications along with their dependencies, along with a convenient hub for distributing and exchanging them.

No, its not the first time any technologies with _some_ these types of capabilities have been available, but it is the first time this powerful combination of those capabilities have come together in a way that has so much momentum.
Show HN: A non-profit certification organization for Bitcoin professionals
It is proven that the binary FP accumulates errors slower than any other bigger base when the longer scientific calculations are involved.

But when you want to represent something like money, there's by definition an error as soon as you want to store 0.01 as the binary FP, and the same error doesn't happen in decimal FP.
Yes. Newsblur (after GReader).
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Isn't that the whole point of an obscure catchword? To avoid the computer intercepting normal conversation?
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The batches are the secret sauce. (Well, not that secret.) Doing YC without the batches would be a very impressive feat to pull off. It would turn the piston driven machine they have now into the equivalent of a turbine.
Seamonkey's integrated news reader.
there is a solid reason to ask: amazing engagement http://andrewchen.co/2014/09/16/new-data-on-push-notificatio...

But you can do it wrong. Too many pushes for one. Or asking too abruptly.
Despite the massive downvoting I will not delete the comment.

I have nothing to be shame of. I am not offending anyone. I am expressing an opinion (in a specific style) that I consider to add value and possibly help someone out there.
It would certainly have helped me sometime ago when "adjusting" my career path and choosing a computer language to learn.

Don't take life so seriously that the world offends you.
I didn't use a RSS reader before Google Reader shutdown, and it was actually cries over the event that made me feel like I was missing out on something. Now I'm a happy user of Newsblur and can indeed concur that I was missing out. One man's tragedy is another mans fortune I guess :)
Ask HN: Running multiple DBA (Doing Business As) under one parent company?
I have my own company (S-Corp in the US) that I use for enterprise consulting. I have a SAAS business in mind but that is totally unrelated to my consulting stuff.

Question: if I do the SAAS business, can i use my existing company as parent company and just do "Doing Business As" (DBA) with the new company ? I just want to avoid the hassles of incorporating yet again. I have an accountant who told me it is ok in my state but wanted to hear your "opinions" on what you guys think if you are already doing something like this ?

So I know the answer is technically yes but what are pros and cons of doing this ? Anything you can share will be nice
Yes. Feedly.
I'm not sure if you are joking around or not... but http://www.newsbeuter.org/

http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/i_want_the_mutt_of_feed_reader...
All that stuff is on the AT&T bill. Any customer service rep can pull that up in a second if they know some account info.
Lots of music startups have to deal with headaches around old world music industry types. How did you deal with that?
From the article : “The question I always asked was how does someone end up in that situation?” her best friend said. “And the answer — from having witnessed it — is, gradually.”

Just like every privacy issue, every human rights abuse, abuse of power etc - when things happen gradually, most people don't notice, and when they notice, it is too late.
Newsblur FTW
Sure, but that's just an artifact of the crude capabilities of current speech recognition. A sufficiently advanced speech recognition engine wouldn't need you to insert a stopword to know that you're talking to it. It would just... know.
I agree 50/50 split is best, I agree with most of this [1] article (recently posted on HN) about founder equity.

I also agree that choosing non-profit will most likely help our cause, it would take the company in a different direction. This is something we'd prefer to discuss with smarter folks (hence the desire to delay some of these decisions).

[1] <http://www.gravitycomputing.co.nz/joels-totally-fair-method-...
i hope blake masters will take notes.
Between Tesla and Uber the auto industry is quickly reorganising, becoming more efficient and cutting out the middle man, aka dealerships and taxi companies.

It's only a matter of time before drivers are cut out of the equation as well with riders ordering a cab and getting picked up by a self driving Tesla.
>> And so now we have 70's era tech instead of 90's.

That being said, I would really like to know if Minix tech is better than Linux.

I have heard the whole microkernel/monolithic kernel debate. But to this day, Linus admits that monolithic is a better design choice. And on the other hand, HURD is a microkernel which suffers from development and I have heard RMS saying somewhere that choosing microkernel was a bad decision.
I use Bazqux, which is absolutely superb:

* Rock-solid, I haven't seen an outage

* Impressively fast (Reeder updates from it much faster than it ever did with Google Reader: I can get all my feeds in one Tube stop's worth of wifi)

* Has good features like filtering (goodbye "latest podcast" spam) and highlighting (only see certain posts from high-volume feeds

* Great keyboard UI on the web.

Can't recommend it enough. I understand it also has an interesting tech stack behind it too.
Is a home tech company still a viable idea?
I've thought about starting a home-based tech company that deals with individual home owners and SOHO types as well as smaller businesses. Is this still a viable business model in 2014 and beyond.

I'm referring to home network setups, malware removal, OS installs, etc. Is this viable anymore what with the cloud all the rage?
which audio codec are you using?
well, perhaps you know something I don't know. If you've gotten consistent 10+% returns since 2005 without taking on huge risk, then more power to you. In any system, there are going to be outliers, perhaps you are one of them.
Yes, Thunderbird through its builtin RSS and newsgroup support (via Gmane).
'Windows 7 is so backwards compatible that you can still run software from 1993'

or alternately

'Windows 7 is so full of old outdated code that you can still run software from 1993.'
Fair enough, I was mistaken. Security is hard, but no one should get a pass playing games like this when it comes to security.

A civilian could still associate another key (device) to the account if they're dedicated with the password or a password reset (not as stealthy) assuming 2FA is disabled. And Apple could surely do it stealthily since they own the system.

They have the capability, and it's too kind to his statement by calling it a half-truth in that respect because it's really a lie when he says "[Apple doesn't] have the capability."
We just issued a press release today to announce the Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) - our first certification. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12165371.htm

We have spent about a year working on the organization and we are really happy with how far it has come. We have a lot more work ahead but we think the CBP is a great start.

Please feel free to post any comments, concerns and questions. I will answer them all to the best of my abilities.
I agree and know it works. I am just so used to being asked that I've developed modal window scars.
Yes, Bazqux.

https://bazqux.com

I've tried all the results of the diaspora of Google Reader and Bazqux is by far the best solution for pure RSS reading. It has a lightning fast super-clean web UI, updates very quickly, has a completely clean interface, and costs $9/year. Well worth it.

They offer a free trial if you want to try it out. I think it lasts 14 days.

Also it works with all the various RSS reader mobile apps; Press, Greader, Reeder, and Mr. Reader.

It does have a terrible name, though.

(Note: I don't get anything for this admittedly glowing endorsement. I'm just a satisfied customer.)
Yes, digg.com/reader
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Yes, Thunderbird. Offline access and having it together with my mail work for me.
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Ask HN: How do you use Hacker News on the go?
Do you use the mobile site or an app?

Android or iOS?
Yes, ReadKit on OS X and Reeder on iOS, syncing with Feed Wrangler.
> I cherish Microsoft for its work in Windows, it is the only mainstream OS that can save us from UNIX monoculture.

lol
I'll be watching these answers with interest. I used Vienna for a long time, then switched to Google Reader by way of Gruml. Hard to believe it's been over a year, but I pretty much stopped using RSS the day Reader died. (My Firefox session still has a HN tab with the "Google Reader is dead" story.) I've mainly been reading Ars Technica and Hacker News ever since, occasionally slumming it on Daring Fireball when I get bored.
Yes, rss2email (http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/).
Is it just me or is the "Launch America" banner completely ridiculous? Of course NASA is government agency and the subject is highly political, but still...
NewsBlur is awesome, it's supported by a number of frontends (including Reeder) and has a very capable web app and a nice Android app. I've also used the iOS app from time to time, and new features on all of these are still rolling in from time to time.

The dev is responsive on Twitter (just today we debugged some issues) and the entire thing (including both iOS and Android apps!) is open source, so if they decide to discontinue it you could stand up your own local copy.

Hopefully all the premium members make it a little less likely that that'll happen.
Feedly + Reeder (iOS) + Reeder (OS X)

Gets the job done.
On the other hand: If your smallest unit of money is cents (or perhaps tenth of cents), you better use large integers to store the amount of money instead of base 10 floating point numbers.
When I open to the home screen on my phone, I should be able to just say “Instagram” and have that app open.

Is it me, or is the benefit of that extremely small? I can move my finger and tap the 'Instagram' icon quicker than I can say "Instagram". Never mind that the app itself is highly visual, so there's no point launching it without already looking at the screen and holding the phone to your hand.

When I’m inputting my home address in a web browser (on mobile or desktop), I should be able to tap the “State” dropdown and just say “California” and it have it select that option for me.

Or it should just already know your home address. That's why I don't think Google Now should be included in this criticism - the idea of it is to preempt any need for you to issue voice commands, because it's already presented you with the information you need.

On iOS, when I get a notification that covers the top of the screen, I should be able to just say “ignore” and have the notification instantly disappear.

I really don't think voice is a great interface at all, because it involves invading other people's personal space. I don't want to be sat on the train with people saying "Instagram","Facebook", "ignore", "ignore" all around me. I don't see what's so bad about the current interfaces, nor do I see anything in this post that is particularly new or insightful.
This is a modified iOS you install, so it doesn't "require" a jailbroken device.
> Anyway if you prefer lisp (to use an asdf package for example) maybe it's better sbcl with ffi.

You can't easily embed SBCL inside a C program, can you?

Gambit and Bigloo are also full-featured Scheme variants that compile to C and are therefore easy to embed in a C program.
Very cool. Maybe a talk about bootstrapping as well in the TBA slots? There are many entrepreneurship paths.
My own invention, because I wanted to live in my browser tabs and not learn a new UI: http://github.com/akkartik/spew. Unfortunately I haven't found the fortitude to deal with mozilla's review process.
Yes, feedly since google reader died. I follow almost 100 different feeds with varying degrees of attention (categorized accordingly)
True. But sometimes corporations would prefer to innovate at the cost of lives, or safety, or even honesty.

I'm not suggesting that this applies to Uber or not, as clearly people find value in it and also find value in regulation for taxis in general, only that I don't believe it's axiomatic that regulation and innovation are necessarily mutually opposed.
This is fantastic. I started reading Operating Systems Design and Implementation just a couple of days ago. I can see Minix being my secondary OS as I start to tinker with it especially on microprocessors.
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I also use Bazqux, and endorse every point bonaldi made. It also works pretty smoothly on iOS with Feeddler.

Despite shifting a lot of article tracking to Twitter, I still find RSS to be a better way to track and consume long form content. Also, the signal to noise ratio of the average RSS feed is much better than that of the average Twitter feed for people whose article's I'd like to read.
Okay? Noted? I'm not sure how much there is to respond to here.
Feedly. I find it has some obnoxious bugs, but I'm too lazy to investigate alternatives.

I get news from Twitter first, though. Feedly is something I check later in the day, or not even once a day.
i use mobile site on android. The best mobile site in my opinion is http://hn.premii.com. There also is http://ihackernews.com but it lacks some features of HN.
> That being said, I would really like to know if Minix tech is better than Linux.

No, it isn't.

> But to this day, Linus admits that monolithic is a better design choice.

Well, that depends. Linus is somewhat invested in the monolithic side of things. If you see the world through a real-time lens and you think of computers as things that simply never get switched off until they are physically end-of-lifed, if reliability and latency are more important than raw throughput, if you want to be able to upgrade your OS without a reboot and so on then microkernels start to make a lot more sense.

In the traditional sense, minix is more of a 'small unix' than a micro kernel, the kernel supports all kinds of primitives that you'd not see in other micro kernels.

See:

http://wiki.minix3.org/en/DevelopersGuide/KernelApi

(For instance, the 'device io' calls are not what I'd expect in a true micro kernel, messaging primitives are not present).

HURD is committeeware. L4, QnX and a bunch of closed source industrial systems are real, battle tested microkernels that I would put opposite UNIX/Linux/BSD for comparison, not minix, to me that always was a 'toy' operating system, which just like plan9 never really outgrew the lab.