skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been an active user of Google Reader since it went live, and I also have a Google profile. When I enabled Buzz, the only users added to my Buzz network were those already in my GReader shared network. Then I added a few others to Buzz. No problems here; no sense of an invasion of privacy whatsoever.

The rub is that I have no idea what results look like for those who don't use GReader or GProfile.
1. while money flowing back to companies is important , job creation and unemployment are important components of economic power in my view.
2. There are several dozen Chinese companies that will eventually join the exclusive 500 club. That could happen within the next 10 years or even less. Currently, 15 Chinese companies are already in that club, including several telecom operators, four banks and State Grid, China Life, BaoSteel, and SAIC, the Shanghai based auto maker. They are all state-run.
3.The company who scales up a technology usually wins most of the money , not the inventor(Google didn't invent contextual advertising, just did it better and at bigger scale).And if the startup is in one country , and the big company in another as usually happens in israel ,most of the gains do not come to the inventing nation.
4. Chinese companies can buy startups if they want.Chinese companies recently surpassed Germany's to become the world's No 2 in terms of acquisitions, having spent $21.8 billion on such moves. I think there's less into software companies and more into other stuff.
Two blogs:

Technical blog where I mostly just write about my own projects and experiments. The blog exists so I can publicize my work and other people can find it and use it. It's also a way for people (including potential clients/employers) to find out more about me. Maybe most importantly, writing about my work motivates me to finish it, and forces me to make it understandable and useable: http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/

And a personal journal, just for keeping in touch with my extended circle of friends and family: http://mbrubeck.livejournal.com/
Ask HN: An HN idea exchange? 
I bet lots of us have a ton of ideas that we think are pretty good but don't have the time to build and develop.

If you've got some good ideas that you don't mind giving away, post them here. If you see an idea you would like to build, it would be cool if you mentioned it in the thread; that way like-minded people who might otherwise not meet have a chance to work with each other.
Yet interestingly enough only 30% of people make it past level 10 and keep on playing the game according to Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime. (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98245-Only-30-Perc...). Also related to this is the issue that WoW seems to have peaked in its growth.

So even Blizzard has a lot to learn in this regard.
I'll get started with a couple of ideas of my own:

1. A site where a developer can do some basic domain modeling, select a database type, programming language and framework, and the site will generate a compressed file (zip or tar) that contains the wired up site with all the basic CRUD forms. Premium options could include authentication being built in to the apps, or reporting suites, or all sorts of extra features.

2. A better way to find breaking news that actually has significance. The big news sites have decided that celebrity divorces are equally as important as earthquakes that cause massive casualties, so following breaking news through them has become an enormous waste of time. Find a way to determine if breaking news is actually news by way of real-time search through things like twitter. Make it configurable so that users can specify what sort of news categories they're interested in (finance, world news, US news, politics, etc).
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Highlight of the article for me:

"* Computers suck at intent. Inferring privacy preferences for new software, based on prior actions in old software, is a recipe for failure, and a PR nightmare.
* People assume computers are great at intent. We publish things to much wider contexts than we intend, and don't notice or care until new products and features make incorrect inferences based on that."

I think that best describes the problem. General privacy policies might make sense, and in truth, might be correct. Indeed, Buzz might be following the policies set, but at the same time, it makes the first mistake. Couple that with peoples assumption of the status quo and really not working to understand what they use, makes for a volatile mix.

In the end, this is probably the most important thing of all:

"Inferring privacy preferences for new software, based on prior actions in old software, is a recipe for failure."
As I will have cause to say again: Life is not a mathematics problem. There is a world of difference between that which is theoretically possible, that which is practical, that which is routine, and that which is obvious. And the tendency to assume that these things are all the same is a huge problem in tech product design, especially social software design.

Cryptographers have a principle: security-through-obscurity is no security at all. And in the world of cryptography, that's a good principle. [1] But, alas, in the world of people who are being stalked, that principle is useless -- or, rather, it is isomorphic to in the long run you are doomed. Security-through-obscurity, and its undependable, amorphous cousins like social engineering, are all that you get, assuming that you physically exist, that you can't afford to live in an armed compound, and that you can't afford (or have no legal power) to get your stalker put in a secure prison for life.

Don't force your users to give up all the pragmatic social tools that they know best, that they've developed for themselves -- their knowledge of the natures, personalities, and social norms of the people around them -- and make them live inside a math-class story problem. Such a move can literally kill them. And they won't appreciate it even if it doesn't.

---

[1] Because cryptographers study a class of problems in which this assumption makes sense and maps well to the real-world situation.
Greed can make you stupid, just like any other kind of lust.
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Is number two solved by BNO news?
Mainly just for fun. I don't expect that my blog will ever be read by any significant number of people, and neither do I try to make any money out of it with ads. Writing down your ideas helps to clarify them sometimes.
Aspergers has to be the most self-diagnosed disorder in history. Everyone who is a bit socially awkward is convinced they suffer from it.

I don't have much of a point... Just find it interesting how often folks in these articles are always 'self-described'.
Not only a good way to test cheaply, but a good way to network! Win-win.
"The person who does get to cherry-pick scenarios -- to steer the course of his or her life in situationally-appropriate ways -- is the customer."

As has been pointed out here on HN, we are not the customer. The customer is the ad buyer. We are merely the sheep, here to be regularly shorn by serving ads to us and analyzing our data and networks.

As has also been pointed out here on HN, Google doesn't treat their customers (ad buyers) very well. Given that, how well would you expect them to treat the sheep?
Can anyone tell me how I can (1) get off buzz, (2) not forward anytthing from me to anyone using buzz, (3) not have buzz appear in my gmail window? I've never opted in to buzz, don't want it, and don't want anything to do with it. There doesn't appear to be any obvious setting where I can get out of it.
It appears they may have foreseen the outcome and acted deliberately, if this thread at http://www.google.com/buzz/tmgrone/brHidEYC3jh/I-wish-Google... is any indication. In particular, see Brett Lider's response that includes this excerpt:

'Similar to Facebook being willing to "piss its users off" when it feels the need to make a big change in its service for the long-term good, I see Buzz in Gmail as a relative big change that requires more than one day to adjust to. We've all been on the side of changes in services that we didn't like and either got used to or actually loved in the long run. We think Buzz is one of them. A lot of us here have also been designers on a service that we knew needed to change but was afraid to because of internal momentum or fear of short-term user reactions.'

edit: I think the quote stands on its own. They may be horrified, but the action was rooted in a kind of arrogance we often ascribe to inhuman activity, where the impact on other humans wasn't considered thoughtfully or was deliberately ignored.
Yes. I keep technical notes in the cloud.
It looks like it may be; is there a way for an ordinary citizen to get alerts via Twitter or email?
http://www.lavabit.com

They (claim to) use some sort of asymmetric encryption scheme such that they literally do not have access to the data on their own servers. I'd love to have a crypto expert explain to me if it's legit.
This was their first interaction with Buzz. There was no opportunity to set any privacy settings.

They are both Reader users, and did have limited sharing enabled there, but under what logic should those permissions ever extend to a completely new, different service with wholly different privacy concerns?
Where did you spend your childhood? (just curious)
The default position of any social network when it comes to sharing personal information should not to, Period.

All "sharing" should be based on opt-in actions and not left to being opt-out. I've fully aware that many networks including the biggies like Facebook don't follow this mantra, but personal privacy laws (such as those that exist in Canada) should exist to enforce this fact.
> In both cases, they clicked "No thanks, take me to my inbox" instead of the button to "Check out Buzz", and in both cases, Buzz was enabled anyways

That's exactly what happened to me. I'm really pissed off with Google now. If they are going to throw this sort of crap at me, I will have to reconsider whether I want gmail and reader accounts.
If you read the articles I posted, you'll find that they talk about that point. The comments also discuss it extensively.

The problem with that argument is that while you're almost certainly right, there are a lot of reasons that people get stuck in one place -- poverty, houses they can't sell, sick family, etc. -- and it's fundamentally unrealistic to expect everyone to move to find a job at a data center. Few work forces are as mobile as a 20-something programmer with no kids.

Also, given that the cost of living is quite a bit higher in New Jersey than Lenoir, North Carolina, one has to carefully examine the risk/reward of the decision to move. Maybe it would work out, but for a lot of these people I suspect they'd be no better off than working at WalMart in Lenoir.
Say I compromised a website that was storing passwords in the clear. There should be no way whatsoever for you to know I've done this, or even that I've -used- this password. What, if any advantage would you have over a password manager storing single-use passwords? A very good web implementation of this, with client-side encryption so that the service has no access to your actual passwords, is clipperz.com. Do you believe you can offer me something better? As someone who spends a lot of time studying security, I think you've made some extraordinary claims..
At the bottom-center of your Gmail page, there is a link to "turn off buzz".
"Amazon is also very generous about letting you share your prime subscription with family members."

Yes. I invented three step-brothers with whom I share my membership. Effective cost is $20/household/year.
If you are certain that this was absolutely predictable, you are implying either:

a) The Google Buzz people are so stupid that they couldn't have predicted this absolutely predictable thing (no one else did that I know of until it bit them) or

b) they knew this would happen and chose to allow it to happen in the bad times hoping the love they'd get from those who like it would be greater than the pain experienced by those to whom it happened.

If either (a) or (b) is true, can we trust Google with our private information? Either they are too dumb to keep it out of the wrong hands or they don't care about individuals' privacy.
As of about an hour or so ago, it still wasn't fixed. Clicking "No, thanks" on the first Buzz popup screen means nothing - Buzz still gets enabled, still auto-populates a big list of followers and followees, and still makes that list public.
All this stuff already existed - this is just a post rebranding it as a single project
I hate that attitude so much. I hate that man.

We are all criminals in today's world. He understands that. He just doesn't care. He's a part of the elite that can afford lawyers and protection.

In my wildest dreams he is sued under the DMCA for making a backup copy of one of his kid's dvds.

HATE
Microsoft will make a fine DMV.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=798009

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=848186

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1120629
First, open the "Buzz" label in GMail. Click on your list of followers and block all of them. Click on "connected sites" and remove any connections.

Now edit your Google profile (if you have one) and remove any information that you don't want public (including "display my full name"): http://www.google.com/profiles/me/editprofile?edit=b

Finally, go to the footer of the GMail site and click "turn off Buzz."
The Telegraph is sometimes colloquially known as the Torygraph. It is indeed decidedly opinionated, in both the opinion it publishes, and the news stories it chooses to cover and the space it gives over to them. It's particularly anti-EU, for example.

But then, news publications have to use some algorithm for story placement, so there's always some kind of bias. A po-faced "objective" newspaper that pretends to no bias at all can be the most insidious.
Yes.

1.) Mostly to complain about things, and to do a little writing. Well, almost entirely to complain about things.

2.) Unexpectedly, it's become a minor obsession. If I don't post something once a week, I feel like I'm letting my readers (both of them) down.
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What are the benefits? Why couldn't they just have a lightbox appear that says, "Yay! We've invented google buzz, here's a list of people we gathered from your frequent contacts in gmail. Click the check boxes by the people you want to include in your inner circle, or click here to disable Google Buzz."
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MSDN Library is now online for free. Going straight to the source is the fastest and correct way. If you are programming under Windows most of the coding will be necessarily Windows related, so you need MSDN documentation. The MSDN examples cover a practical matters and you will get down to results very quickly. Personally read and tried to use more than 10 C++ books but the practice shows most of them are of little value when you have a specific real world problem to solve - in that case MSDN can help you go straight to the problem and solve it. In the process you learn how to code. MSDN examples are well documented too. With recent revival of C++ in VC 2010 I have seen the MSDN documentation updtated and enhanced.
Thanks - your post today was actually what made me think about posting this :D
Thanks for advice, but just thought that I can get some quick reply, as hacker community is available here. Even if somebody would have suggested name of software to wrap jar file for Linux, that would have been enough, because I couldn't find it in Google search. Anyways if nobody answers I will of course ask same question on other programming forums.
You mean why it didn't right?

If so, reason is that the first character of this post is actually a pi symbol. (c-c c-v -> editor)
Seriously. I know two people who are real "Aspies" and they put all of the self-diagnosed jerks to shame. You don't know awkward until you've hung out with the real deal.
I agree. I think a lot of self-diagnosed "Aspies" are really just people who are afraid to get out of their comfort zone and like the idea of having something legitimate-sounding to blame.

If I was an actual Asperger's sufferer I would be a lot angrier at fairly normal people pretending they have it and wearing it like a badge of honour. I doubt the real deal is a lot of fun.
"Web Standards" are whatever my target audience's browsers all support.
A better report of what Craig Mundie proposed is at http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2010/01/30/drivers-l... .

Disclaimer- I work for MSFT but I really no nothing more than what is in these articles
And the ghosts of beloved wives, children and colleagues DON'T come to visit and warn him. No one loves him and no one ever will. He loves only his money, with which he will be buried. He thinks Scrooge was just weak.
It's mostly for me, to chronicle my experiences for later reference. I find that you start to see patterns over time, and these can be critical in putting yourself on the right course.

Also, it improves my writing skills.

Plus, it's kind of cathartic. Starting a company is very stressful and not very rewarding in the early stages. Writing about it helps me to blow off a little bit of steam.

Finally, what I'm writing might be interesting/useful/comedic to others.
Stuff like this leads me to believe there is a pretty good business out there for a paid-by-the-user service. Google's real customers are advertisers not you.
Yes. Originally I had lofty ideas about writing interesting articles, but now I mainly just use it as a dumping ground for solutions to annoying technical problems to help other people who might be dealing with the same issues, or to remind myself how I solved a problem if I run into it again.
it's common knowledge that many juries have ruled in favor of plaintiffs and defendants in lots of civil cases. No one needs to cite anything for this.
One of the hopes is that people with Asperger's will now be eligible for more care, as there is a belief among some mental health professionals that this population is underserved. By grouping these people with people that experience the more severe Autism, the seriousness of the condition should be made clearer. There was an interesting discussion about this on NPR. Many MHP's have considered Asperger's and Autism to be along a spectrum for years (and it is taught this way in some psych programs.)

However, the DSM is still a broken and kludgy diagnostic tool.
Everyone has a vested interest in every standard they participate in :-).
another one in http://kotka.de/projects/clojure/parser.html, also using the same nomenclature as in Parsec. Very nice but the sources are unreachable.

I wrote clarsec because I was in hurry and the "kotka"'s sources weren't available.
That's the whole point of web standards. To document this `whatever` minus the extra features offered by some browsers plus the features the IE team were too incompetent to write.
Its great to see someone else is thinking about this.
We actually started building a Badge repository service last year. - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=795952 (KaBadge.com)

We have since also built a rule engine to allow sites to create badges and award them based on specific combinations of events. (You won't find it on KaBadge, we have been playing a new domain, expect a post Monday asking for a review!)

The biggest reason we created the rule engine was because people felt that the best area to create value. People commented about why would a site want to share their badges when they did all the hard to work figure out how to award them.

I'm excited to see others noticing the growing trend and benefit of achievement engines. There are problems to solve, but the trick is finding the ones that will make money :)
You're asking for a Hacker News version of this:

http://www.halfbakery.com/

http://www.halfbakery.com/category/Computer
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I understand your dislike of egotism around schools. This is certainly an issue that requires education on "not being a jerk". That being said, this author used it in a relevant context - because he was attendig Stanford, he could go directly to Steve Blank for advice. You can't do this in the real world without paying his consulting rates. This isn't egotism, it's simply a perk of attending Stanford.
I think they should add Aspergers by Proxy to the DSM-V, for all the clueless psychologists out there who are unable to understand anything logical, and think any kid who isn't within their idea of "normal" has Aspergers.

In all seriousness, part of where the problem comes in is that psychologists deviate from the "core" differential diagnosis between Aspergers and High Functioning Autism.

I think they should keep Aspergers in the DSM-V for persons who have social difficulties, eg. "Difficulty understanding others emotions" - and get rid of all the Autistic Spectrum symptoms that confuse the diagnosis.

I am an EEG tech experienced with Quantitative EEG (qEEG) technology - According to my professor, the part of the brain that plays a role in Aspergers is the posterior temporal lobe, primarily on the right. That is difficulty understanding others emotions.
plus the features the IE team were too incompetent to write.

And that right there is the reason his standards may and probably do differ from them.
Inexpensive, professional, cartoony style, but he is incredibly versatile.

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"My son’s real first and last name, with a number of additional, probably location based infos just one click away."
Facebook is exactly the same, and yet nobody is complaining that they've forced real names public.

As for his problem here, he can just hide his following list, which is now a one-click option when he first joins Buzz. That's if his son even has a profile, which until he joins Buzz, he won't have.
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The three experiences founder Sam Odio described in this interview really shows how valuable Divvyshot is:

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2901-NY-Business-Strategi...
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I run into this problem as an English speaker. My university makes its directory accessible via the finger protocol, so I talk about fingering people all the time. Worst named command ever.

Of course, being a college student, I find the whole thing hilarious.
A similar but a bit less abstract post from Seth Godin: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/02/the-brand-th...
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> So what the industry would do is to send free music to DJ's from both the worlds of mixtapes and radio. They would beg and plead for you to feature their artist on the mixtape.

After the first time, why didn't folks wise up and say "not without a contract allowing us to create and sell compilations"?

They'd probably ask for royalties and then you'd insist on the standard breakage allowance against said royalties plus the other standard terms that they demand from content producers.
How do you establish yourself from other established players in the market like Blue Nile? The site looks nice, but it also looks like most of the other jewelry sites out there so it makes it tough for me to think I'd use this over someone I've used before and is a known quantity.
I thought it had changed lowercase π to capital Π... but I see now that it was just a trick of the font. (HN appears in Verdana on my computer, and Verdana's lowercase pi looks like most typefaces' capital Pi.)
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Gemvara is now the world's largest selection of gemstone jewelry and every piece on the site can be customized (change the metals, change the stones/accent stones, accessory metals)