skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of all this security stuff around Buzz comes down to users having incorrect assumptions/knowledge about how applications and software handle privacy. It seems like a poor choice to make an assumption that any given application (including one from Google) is going to be able to know what level of privacy you expect by default.

Not to say that Google is blameless in this situation, as they could have done a lot more to educate potential Buzz users on privacy. However, it seems a common thread with the complains about Buzz and privacy start with someone making an incorrect assumption about how Google applications were handling their comments, shared feeds, friends, etc.
No, but you're asking the wrong question. The right question WRT to free speech is whether there is any free speech which requires anonymity -- and the answer to that is obviously yes. Martyrdom should not be required to speak against those in power.

But, even that is beside the point. An internet id implies authentication to use the internet. Identification is a _secondary_ purpose of a driver's license -- the primary purpose is to control who can and cannot operate a motor vehicle. That's the problem. Not anonymity,

If you can't be authenticated, you can't speak on the internet -- that is precisely what he's proposing (you can consume but not contribute). It's very small step from that to controlling speech. And it's not even about anonymity -- If you can't get on, no one is going to hear you complain. And guess who holds the keys?

And furthermore, cert authorities for the things that need them already exist. So, he is obviously pushing censorship, whether he's too stupid to realize it (it's a microsoft talking head, after all) or not.
It's worth noting that Windows 7 obsoletes a bunch of those utilities:

TrueCrypt - Bitlocker comes with it
Locate32 - Indexed search is now built-in
Launchy - Start menu now defaults to search
DUMeter - Part of the Task Manager
Taskbar Shuffle - Finally possible directly in windows
Sorry dude, not looking for validation. Just looking for stories of people not in their twenties, and becoming a success.
Wow. XML Notepad is just what I had been looking for.

Windows apps I can't live without in order of importance:

1. StrokeIt

2. HotChime (disclaimer: I wrote it)

3. EmEditor (text-ed of choice)

4. Popular stuff: Thunderbird, Pidgin, Chrome, FF

5. ChimeNote (disclaimer: I wrote it)

6. FileZilla

7. MySQL Front v2.5 (all other versions suck)

8. UltraVNC

9. PuTTy

10. Paint Shop Pro / Paint.NET (either works)
That's a brilliant rumour.
I just bought one but I wouldn't mind getting another one for free since I'm a prime subscriber. Then my wife and I wouldn't have to fight over the one we have.

This would be a good move by Amazon. The only way they are going to keep the iPad as the 2nd place e-reader is to either give away the kindle or at least drop the price to $99. Then when they release their color touch screen kindle they could charge $199 while still giving away the older model.
Oh? http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/6c49...
Agreed. I like how JWZ put it:

http://jwz.livejournal.com/147024.html?thread=760144#t760144

What's a "de facto standard?" It's what we call a standard.
What's a de jure standard?" It's what we call a wish.
Agreed. This is one of the areas of business where the MBA graduates of this century can and should really focus on: restructuring the modern corporation to allow for proper incentives and encourage innovation. Companies these days are more internally communist, with top-down centralized command. See http://www.salaminder.com/2010/02/large-corporations-inheren...
Only You Can Prevent git Merge Commits
That was a mistaken understanding. Reader has always published to the world unless you specified otherwise.
> I went to Costa Rica with three other friends. At the end of the trip each of us had about 1GB of photos. [...] The entire process was cumbersome and took about an hour.

This means that each person "uploaded" 1GB of data and "downloaded" 3GB of data. In total, 16 GB of data was transferred. Doing this manually via USB drive is about an order of magnitude faster than over your average broadband Internet connection. It's not clear to me that Divvyshot has solved the problem here.

> I never ended up getting that group photo - even though low resolution copies of it tantalize me on Facebook.

I was surprised to realize several years ago that one of Facebook's greatest contributions to my life was that it completely solved the photo sharing problem and had done it so well that I didn't even notice. Now I get everyone's photos from every event, I get notified when they're uploaded, and it seems like everyone I know can use it without problems. Sure, I wish it supported higher resolutions, but the medium-res images are good enough for 95% of people. If they would just allow slightly higher resolutions, then it would be perfect for almost all of my needs.
For a bookreader, I think having an electronic paper display that Kindle has is pretty crucial.
I'm not sure they have any. Their marketing and communication tend to be pretty minimalist. I happen to like it that way.

You can always get a free guest account to try it out. Or if you ask nicely enough, one of us who have accounts might be able to post a screenshot. ;)
Thanks, LNUM looks like it'll do just what I wanted.
Google has announced their intention to bring Buzz to Google Apps. The nice thing is that as a Google Apps administrator, you can pick and choose which features/products are available to your users (ie, you). So even if they do make Buzz available to Google Apps Gmail, you don't have to enable it.

Of course, you can just turn it off in regular ol' Gmail as well.
So does Pandora.. that is my point
I learned C++ before I learned C. I've been writing C++ for about 12 years now. I was writing production code during Alexandrescu's Modern C++ era.

Great C++ looks like code written in Meyer's and Sutter's books.

I suggested TCPL because C++ is one huge mishmash of features. TCPL teaches you the basics of function calls, loops, conditionals, memory management, pointers, etc. The Meyers & Sutter books help you write great classes and code that is exception safe, and generic, etc.

All of the other books about C++ I just can't recommend for learning.
"Inferring privacy preferences for new software, based on prior actions in old software, is a recipe for failure."

What I find so very strange, is that this isn't obvious by now. What happened here?

Nobody at Google thought of this?

Someone thought of this but was too scared to mention this?

Someone did mention it but was overruled?

I really can't decide which one of those is worst.
Honestly, all that really tells me is that the 'off' button isn't as intuitive as it should have been.

I mean, they opted-in how many millions of people? It isn't surprising that some percentage want it off, or that they consider gmail a tool for JUST email, or they don't want all that in the way.

I personally was wary of it, but I really do like how easy the implementation is, and already see comparable traffic in Buzz to what I do on my Facebook -- only I have less clicks to get to it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1120863
Just wanted to give a shoutout to Tuffmail: http://www.tuffmail.com/ . Their spam protection is excellent, and very configurable. They also have the fastest IMAP servers I've had the pleasure of using.

Their web interface isn't anything special, but at least it's proper IMAP so you can use whichever desktop client you like.
> Is anonymity required for free speech?

Yes. This is why for example voting is anonymous in the US, so your employer or local corrupt official or whoever can't force you to vote a certain way.

> censorship is not what Mundie is proposing. He's proposing a connection between internet presence and identity, as a means of combating cybercrime.

Online there's not much difference between "doing" and "saying", and some kinds of online crime are about "saying" (ie, things like kiddie porn).

> While his proposal conceivably enables censorship activities

The only way it can possibly work is by enabling censorship (not proactive censorship, but reprisals for saying the wrong things).

> I personally don't see lack of anonymity as necessarily being the first step on an irresistible march towards a soviet dictatorship.

That's quite a jump, from censorship to dictatorship.

What permits bad rulers is that the people who know either don't care or don't matter. Censorship acts to reduce the number of people who know. Proper institutions can make it easier to reach individuals who both matter and care. If a large enough number of people know and care strongly enough, then together they can matter.

If there's a culture of removing bad rulers immediately, the ability to censor probably isn't a big deal. If there isn't, censorship can make it significantly harder (but not impossible) to remove the bad rulers once they've had time to get entrenched.
I can't vouch for it, but it already exists: http://www.lavabit.com/
Excellent. I'll have to look into what you're doing and see if there's anything I can bring to the table, but either way, it is indeed awesome to see that my idea isn't completely without merit!
>Recklessness and lack of foresight doesn't make you inhuman.

If anything, I'd say it makes you human.
I'd say another Kindle - You'd likely give it away or sell it and Amazon would get another ebook customer.
Is Google Apps premium guaranteed to actually protect you from the aforementioned privacy concerns? It's still on Google's servers.
The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study
Do you buy cheap stuff, IKEA or similar? It's really a different market if you do.
Please do, I'm curious.
Sure, if the site is compromised than nothing you could know. But this is kind of unlikely in case of major players like banks.

Zero knowledge web app - is nice theoretical approach but I don't see a way it will be adopted anytime soon.

As to mine claims, I will post application when it will be ready, and we could discuss attacks against of it. It will be quite different from clipperz etc.
Yes. Because I decided that I don't have to be "a blogger." To elucidate: I like the idea of having readers and having an audience, but the standard format of most blogs frustrated me. I realized that what I want is to put up good writing and good content. Most blogs stick to a targeted audience in the hope of garnering recurring readership, and will try to do this whether or not they have anything worthwhile to say. I don't want to be an "expert," and have no interest in doing "regular updates" or "news." That makes blogging a chore.

But I can make a very comprehensive, "perennial" blog post on some topic. And rather than setting out to stick to the one topic, I can just let it get filtered by other sites. The resulting site essentially describes all my best work.
Here's my rationale: I've worked on projects that were 1 million lines of code and took a minute or longer to link because of the overuse of templates.
Some of it's sampling bias. The stuff from your day that is still around was better. You've forgotten the cheap crap that fell apart long since.
OK here's one that I was thinking of. A hardware compatibility website that lists replacement products, specifically outdated ones that were replaced by newer versions. Some context, about a month ago I was trying to replace a broken garage door opener for a sear's garage door. Well, the Sears line is no longer available and now it is Craftsman. I asked an employee if the new craftsman opener it would be functional, but it was ultimately left up to a crapshoot on if it would work or not. Something like this would be useful for me.
FTA: "Bars are wonderful at segmenting by demographic. Match the bar you’re going to with the user population you want to target. Different bars will produce slightly different results but the variation is not huge."
Fair enough for Iranian/Chinese users perhaps but I thought Hushmail was no longer secure - ever since they handed over user data in response to a subpoena.
Effective leadership in competition
How are they reverting their mistakes? A few tweaks to help people opt-out? That doesn't change much. You can't monetize privacy.
1. Notepad++ (though I'm almost 100% Emacs at this point)
2. Filezilla
3. imo.im client (because I need Skype for work, but the latest client does Bad Things with MS Office 2007)
4. Cygwin
5. PowerShell
6. Paint.NET
7. Wireshark
8. SysInternals Process Explorer
9. Reflector
Don't worry, I've heard a rumor that her next profession is a web designer.
Ok, too much fluff and too much text. Anyone want to do a geeky 2 paragraph summary of the information contained in this article.

What are people doing and how? How might someone do whatever it is that is being done? Is there anything valuable or interesting here?
Tell HN: Need To Talk To Some College Students Re: Customer Development
Starting to work on something that's specifically for the college market. It's also .edu email restricted (similar to how facebook was at first). I wanted to run some of the thoughts by current college students on HN. Stanford/Berkeley/SJSU and any other sf bay area schools would be a huge plus, since that's the geo that I'd most likely launch at first. You can drop me an email at j@jasonlbaptiste.com if you can take a few minutes to give your thoughts/answer some questions. Thank you!
You have a valid point that there are instances of free speech that do effectively require anonymity.

The point of an actual driver's license is first to certify, and second to identify. However, if you give Mundie the benefit of the doubt, he was just using the wrong metaphor and didn't mean that some people wouldn't get the keys to the castle. Would an "internet license" that demonstrates your identity but has no entrance requirements and no way of being denied or revoked be as directly correlated with censorship?
Male college students also victims of violence at girlfriends' hands
You sound happy to be ignorant.
I continue to be amazed that big companies don't do this. The first big tech company to figure out how to successfully do mini-startups within the company (with slightly less risk and slightly less reward for the engineers involved) will sweep all before it until their competitors figure out the trick.
Microsoft's Police State Vision? Exec Calls for Internet "Driver's Licenses"
So you want programmers to talk to people in real life. Interesting.
Fermionic entanglement that survives a black hole
I experienced the same effectiveness (95%-99%) of getting the "guy/gal reading the newspaper" to volunteer for the study first hand. Although, this was more focused in cafe environments.

Our team was trying to get beta users signed up for a location-based iphone app in the Boston/Cambridge area and most people reading newspapers in coffee shops or cafes are frequently willing participants. I even noticed that 7/10 times these people will engage with you in conversation regarding feedback/UX improvements etc.

In parallel with Rodyancy's experience, some of the user feedback was arbitrary (one guy started comparing our application to time/space continuum theories...etc) but nonetheless, I would advocate approaching the newspaper guy/gal as they are already on the knowledge quest and usually are more open-minded.

Oh, and avoid the book/textbook readers. These people are either really engaged in novel (imagine tapping on someone's shoulder during a movie) or are stressed-out students.
I have a HP 4100 laser printer at home for just the reasons you mentioned. Unlike consumer-oriented printers, it's marketed to IT managers who have to internalize all the pain associated with such purchases. These buyers ask the right questions.

I'd love to see hardware manufacturers offer SLAs on driver availability. "Support for all MSFT non-EOL publicly available OSes through 12/2013" or something similar. The actual quality of the drivers would be much harder to quantify.

The information asymmetry problem is really hard to solve for the "it just works" meta-feature. Could someone build a site that features it-just-works products in various categories? How could one crowd-source this information? When I tell people to buy a five year-old printer off eBay because it's the most reliable thing out there, they think I'm nuts.
Emacs.NET (2010)
I'd use a $200 Kindle over a free iPad.
On the Complexity of Envy-Free Cake Cutting
The average and median age of a company founder at the time when he/she started the business is 40:

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/ResearchAndPolicy/TheS...
This process has been going on for how many years, and now they want to declare Canvas out-of-scope? It seems like the time for such complaints is long past.
Am I the only one who's pretty much always under-whelmed by Scott Adams blog posts?

I feel like if this had been written by a nobody, it would never have gotten any attention here.
demand media for example gets unsavvy people to produce economically useful content.

if 99 percent of people are poor, the price of constrained things such as real estate,food,energy will still drop to floor as the rich 1 percent can't consume a significant enough chunk of it

that's also a risen for the currnet economic crisis, people assumed that even though the median wage hasn't increased for 30 years, house prices should keep going up anyway,
>In what universe do you have to wait 2 months for furniture?

In the universe where your interior designer picks out specific fabrics and designs from niche, high-quality manufacturers.
Methods to Rediscover Missing Web Pages from the Web Infrastructure
How does one change the paste in ClipX to Win+V like the author suggested? I can only change it to Ctrl/Alt/Shift+V.
http://www.lavabit.com/

They (claim to) use some sort of encryption scheme such that they do not have access to the data on their own servers. I don't know enough about crypto to verify, but if your concern for moving away from Google is privacy and/or security, it's probably worth at least a cursory glance.
Physics and Five Problems in the Philosophy of Mind
There's nothing wrong with handing over data in response to a subpoena. They're legally required to do so. The problem is with providers who hand over data without a subpoena.
I've been using http://www.zenbe.com/mail for the past 3 months. Shareflow looks interesting.
Thanks, that's good to know. I know someone once mentioned using Mechanical Turk and that those sometimes ended up being their most loyal users, but I cannot recall the context. Has anyone used these services and what results did you see?
Brain surgery boosts spirituality
The cmd builtin 'start' will do much of that, but not for globs.

Under cygwin, I'd do this for an equivalent to what you describe as 'open':

#!/bin/bash
for f; do
cygstart "$f"
done

cygstart is much the same as cmd start, except it understands Cygwin paths.
I coach at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver
It's rare that I use Windows these days, but Crimson Editor, AVG, Malwarebytes, Digsby, Launchy, TinyGrab, PuTTy, WinSCP, Winamp Classic, VLC.... then there's a lot of everyday, non-windows specific (not that everything in the previous list is) stuff that I use, like git, Skype, FF, Photoshop & Illustrator, etc.
Clarification on Adobe Blocking from Larry Masinter
It's my default resume too - i send it anywhere i'd otherwise write up context on professional history. And the need for a separate service that does that is absolutely clear.

But the real question is whether linked-in does the best possible job at this or if some other new, hypothetical service could do better? In the same way that myspace was once my default social presence, but now facebook is exclusively.
Not just like with libraries. Library books are free.

As an avid library goer, I'm tempted by the Kindle, but I don't actually want one. I get 95% of my books from the library, so for people like me, a Kindle is just a way to spend money more easily and more often.
I'm using fastmail for 5 years now. It's good, but not that great. My two problems are:

1. Spam false positives. I get order confirmations or mail list subscriptions sent to spam folder occasionally.

2. Search is really bad. by default it only searches subjects, and I think only in the current folder.

Thinking about moving to gmail, provided those guys sort out privacy issues.
My Mods/Adds
1) JEdit and VIM
10) Slickrun (floating command prompt)
11) Fiddler2
12) Visual VM
13) 7-zip instead of WinRar from the original article
Gmail supports this.. you just create each one as a google account, have them forward to the one you like best, and then set it up to let you send mail as each of the other accounts...

I have about 50 google accounts and use my regular gmail this way...
Here's a site of product reviews that have a focus on quality and no emphasis on newness, i.e. things that just work.
http://kk.org/cooltools/
The command "git" itself is not exactly international-friendly.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git

We must simply assume that Linus was trying to annoy as many people as possible.
Twitter network comparison: “Winter Olympics” vs. "Valentine's Day"
Agree (although I accidentally down-modded you). There are many ways to measure quality, and timeliness of availability is certainly one. For a kid in a dorm room who just wants a particle board bookshelf, waiting two months would be absurd. However, I wanted some nice oak bookshelves for my office, and I wouldn't mind waiting a couple of months if they were otherwise what I desired.
The IETF does a nice job with a much more open process.
Yeah, I don't know a bar frequented by people interested in the Semantic Web or web-crawling.
Announcing SGI Cyclone cloud computing
I'm not sure why I got down voted for this. How can you expect a provider to perform their core mission well if they can't even get the basics right?
I bought a dining set from a furniture company in Canada through a retailer here in the Bay Area. It took 2 weeks to get delivered, then I had to return one item and get a replacement, which also took about 2 weeks.
The problem with the Gilette model is, Amazon is also losing money on the razor blades, it seems: http://www.publishersweekly.com/index.asp?layout=talkBackCom...

I guess their strategy must be more like Microsoft's: establish market power early and milk it for the big bux0rz later.
Whether You Present First or Last, Have a Plan
Isn't Google a good example of this with 20% time?
are you some kind of friendfeed fanboy

it's a fair and legitimate point that it's easier for already famous people to get their company acquired than it is for a nobody

it's naive to thinks it all about remarkable products, or even luck, politics comes into it
Snagit v9
(photo editing, screen capturing)

Tableau
(hands down the best analytics tool for web traffic)

Balsamiq Mockups
(great wireframe software, just like paper/pencil!)
That does not parse the way you think it does; the fixity of =<< is greater than $. You would need the shell-style parens if you insist on application instead of composition :)

Prelude> :info $
($) :: (a -> b) -> a -> b	-- Defined in GHC.Base
infixr 0 $
Prelude> :info =<<
(=<<) :: (Monad m) => (a -> m b) -> m a -> m b
-- Defined in Control.Monad
infixr 1 =<<
Prelude> :info .
(.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c	-- Defined in GHC.Base
infixr 9 .

Incidentally, the parens in my example are actually unnecessary. Function application is about 10, and (.) is 9.
Here's my list of how to make a Windows machine more hospitable for a focus-follows-mouse Linux user:

http://www.welton.it/articles/windows_for_linux_users
Tagged Tanakh
Link to his specific ranking and description. Very disturbing...

http://www.geekosystem.com/power-grid/10+Sexiest+Programmers...