I was thinking there'd be a scary monster that would pop out along the way

Weird. I like how hacker news is all text and read it daily.

But I could see my eyes getting bored after a while on tldr. I much prefer this layout http://www.rawsignal.com/

Optimized for fast consumption or just dicking around.

Like this?

http://news.rawsignal.com/default.aspx?mode=1

It is done for each category. I wish the up would do it for all categories at once, because I don't always have time

I wish google would let me crawl blogger pages for my index. I don't think that is fair that google can index the web, but has created a walled garden for the content they host.

Basically, if you start indexing the web, and some sites are hosted in blogger, google will block your crawler if I remember correctly

What are you talking about? The only aspect of Blogger that is robot restricted are the search pages (as they should be).

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/robots.txt

Talking about this

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

There other ways of blocking crawlers other than robots.txt

Where are you getting that? It doesn't match what I'm seeing. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/robots.txt

Googled for "blogspot", picked first random domain I saw, "weliveyoung.blogspot.com", fetched "weliveyoung.blogspot.com/robots.txt" with curl, got a redirect to "weliveyoung.blogspot.co.uk/robots.txt", fetched that, voila.

Perhaps there is a user setting that controls it.

Looks like you can use whatever you want. The one I linked to is the default.

https://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...

What culture is ads?

I'm not entirely sure, I don't work there and don't know all that many people that do. I think that core ads is like search, a heavily data-driven, scientific, Stanford-based culture.

Dude. This is pretty cool. The stats on the front page are interesting. 104 playing users already

Actually, I'm nearing 500 premium users. That's the number of premium users using NewsBlur in the past 24 hours. In fact, all of those stats are aggregate for the past 24 hours.

It's the kind of transparency that I think goes hand-in-hand with being open-source. Why bother hiding it? I'm constantly watching those stats, so maybe other folks may also be interested. It also helps to know when there's a ton of activity, in case the site feels slow. Although it's been a long time that having a huge spike in traffic has made the site slow. Check that average load time graph. Notice how even though the number of feeds loaded has spiked in the past 3 hours, the average load time has actually gone down. Stats, for those who care, are endlessly fascinating.

Reminds me of the drudge report.

I made this: http://tech.rawsignal.com

Maybe we can share tips on algos?

not sure about the others, but Groupon opened offices in SV . . .

They now have a pretty small Palo Alto office (<100 people) and over 3,000 in Chicago. I don't actually think it's that relevant as they started and got huge (Google wanted to buy them for $6Bn huge) without the presence in SV

working on it. Need a good domain name though.

http://jobs.rawsignal.com

I'd be interested to know which firm, and to see the post mortem about why they went out of business first.