skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.[1]

I do research in programming languages, but until yesterday, I never posted much about my research area.

I use my blog to post on topics related to courses I teach. (Mostly advanced compilers and static analysis.)

I also post on new ideas from others that I don't have time to do original research in, but that I find useful or interesting.

I'm also using my blog to recruit students for our Ph.D. program. It worked pretty well for that this year.

[1] http://matt.might.net/articles/
A Haskell DSL for Parsing Binary Files
Kindle and Prime are both things I already kinda want, but haven't pulled the trigger on. I'd go for this in an instant.
Sometimes I wonder :)

For me it's about community. Physicists, Biologists, Medical Doctors all have professional journals. But for programmers and tech entrepreneurs there are the blogs. I think we all have to realize that blogs, and places like HN, are the conscience of the tech movement and I personally feel there's a duty in saying something if it's not being said elsewhere.

Look for example at Anthropomorphic Global Warming. Whether you believe in it or not you have to admit some of the stuff that's come out recently should never have been allowed to happen. Stuff like alternative opinions (see Richard Lindzen of MIT for example) being kept out of the science journals. The reason that sort of thing happens in a community is because rational scientists don't stand up to their community and say "This is wrong. I don't agree with this guy but we should hear him out". The fact that many in the climatology community didn't do that has set back our understanding of the phenomenon by years if not decades

To me blogging is a way to stand up to my community when I feel mistakes are being made or the community is going down the wrong path. That's why I do it.
Sounds great. I can help if you want help. Is your project hosted somewhere?
My summary may not have indicated that, but that's correct, the idea would be that we're providing the service (and charging) achievement/badge providers. Their users will get benefits, but we wouldn't market this to end users, or charge them for it.

Hope that helps clarify some.
I'm thoroughly convinced that the switch from a regulated monopoly to a set of "normal" companies destroyed the basis that allowed Bell Labs to do its thing.

And it destroyed the scale: after the 1984 consent degree, AT&T was a much smaller company and the RBOCs set up their own quasi-parallel Bellcore, but that did little or no basic research as I recall.

Factor in that one of the prior anti-trust agreements required AT&T to license at a reasonable rate all the output of Bell Labs (e.g. the transistor). And that they used its output among other things to justify their business model.

Look, the 1984 consent agreement may or may not have been a good thing, but we can't pretend it didn't come without some serious costs, and everyone at the time who I respected said that Bell Labs would be one of those. I was an early 20s callow youth at the time, but I agreed as well.
I'm somewhat amused to find out that Bjarne Stroustrup and Ken Thompson worked next door to each other after reading the interview with Thompson in Coders at Work.
Meet the guys behind Pocket God (2.1 million downloads and counting)
How many services do you sign up for without knowing anything about them?
How OAuth beat Chip and Pin
I think there are bigger worries than emails that start as above. For example, are passwords encrypted, are contact details being passed to marketing agencies etc
Only if it can be used to add a layer to spam filters that cut this sort of message.
As opposed to not found.
You don't get to cherry-pick the scenarios. If you're going to play the cost-benefit game you have to enumerate them all, or at least all of the common ones.

(Here's just one of the many alternative scenarios: For every technically-sophisticated stalker who is unmasked by this change, I'll bet there are several technically-unsophisticated stalkers who didn't used to know how to stalk someone through Google, but who now do.)

Anyway, you can do all the sociological research you want, but that still doesn't make it right to manipulate someone else's personal toolset without their consent. You still have to ask.
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. Unless you're a Google customer, apparently, in which case the company will change the nature of its existing tools, without fair warning, to suit its own benefit.
Am curious what the main websites/services are that issue user badges on some semblance of meritocracy?

StackOverflow.com is one obvious one where the awards have some weight (at least with some developers), but where else?
I think they are planning on updating their tools to output HTML5, check out this video

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/10/sneak_peek_ai_fl_dw_can...
They may distinguish between religion and spirituality.
I think it's a good idea but all the social sites that matter surely have, or will create their own (for example foursquare).
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Some extra data from my hometown:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/graphic/2010-02/52176728...

Attendance has been falling since 2001. No visible correlation to economic conditions.
YES (http://capitalgeedesign.wordpress.com).
Because, similar to a journal, it keeps me living right. It helps me live each day "worth blogging about".
-Garrett Gee
How does it appear that they are playing politics, rather than (say) that Larry Masinter (representing Adobe) is playing politics by claiming that canvas etc. are out of scope for the WG?

Other participants in the email discussion linked by the parent have said that these things have already been determined to be in scope for the WG. Larry Masinter says otherwise. I have no inside information or expertise and do not propose to try to resolve that dispute :-), but the claims being made by (it seems) everyone other than Larry Masinter seem plausible prima facie.
1. 2046 by Wong Kar Wai (Cantonese film)
2. In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai (Cantonese film)
3. Baraka by Ron Fricke (No story, no language, just photography)
The shareholders were entirely happy with the existing setup prior to 1984 ... wasn't AT&T about or the most widely held stock at the time? You can't invoke their putative behavior afterwords to justify the breakup.
Upon signing in to Gmail, I was directed to some sort of Buzz landing page / prompt. I deliberately chose 'no / continue what I was doing'. (I wasn't aware of any problem, so I didn't make a point of memorizing the presentation.)

Upon proceeding in to Gmail, I found that I was participating in Buzz, with IIRC 14 follows.

My more general reaction to this situation, including a similar, serious security implication for a close family member, I'll comment on elsewhere in this thread.

Briefly: You fucked up bigtime, Google. The people truly responsible for this need to be terminated.
How about a tool that's broader than just emails: something that puts the BBB out of business.
Indeed, the proposed terms are extremely strict and I would not expect more than a dozen companies a year to pass them.

It is hard to imagine a scenario where it could be used other than an already successful company from abroad willing to relocate to the US by pitching their already viable product to US VCs (by coming here on a tourist visa).

http://startupvisa.com/modified-eb5-visa/
That's an interesting question, but I'm not necessarily concerned with that.

For instance, a foursquare-like service would offer badges based not on merit but on how many times you've visited a certain location or how many checkins you perform in a night. That service could use our badges API to award these badges, and not have to write/maintain that portion themselves.
Yes -- two of them, one of which I chiefly write and one of which I contribute to. The former is about books (which I like reading) and writing (which I like doing), and it's at http://jseliger.com . Now I'm one of the perhaps ill-advised souls in English grad school, so some of the material on it might eventually make it into papers. Occasionally I find other interesting book people too, which is an added bonus.

The other blog, Grant Writing Confidential (http://blog.seliger.com), is about my family's business, and it serves a couple of purposes: 1) it signals to clients that we actually know what we're talking about, 2) it brings in search engine traffic we'd other wise not get, and c) we get a chance to write about our work, which virtually no one else understands.

So in both cases, I write for a mixture of business and pleasure.
There was a time when I use to keep a handwritten journal of daily work "stuff" I did on programming, sysadmin & management. I think I got the idea from Clifford Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" and I found it to be very useful "logging" system of my past activities :)

Anyway as you can imagine it was hard to keep this up and eventually fell by the wayside. However I have found blogging to be a handy subset of this and the fact it can be useful to others inspires me to keep at it.
Regardless of this being light on the details it's the responsibility of the web community to keep this potential issue in the spotlight until Adobe decides they need to respond and clarify their intentions.
The Swedish and git pull, or 'I fingered myself 5 min. ago'
Blogging has done one thing well to me and that's the reason I blog regularly. It helped shape my thinking well. Often when you have an idea it can be vague - formless. Writing it down gives it a good shape and setting it in stone. It's also not a magazine where every fucking thing is edited, you have the will to write whatever you want, however you want.

To summarise, discover your communicative personality and help set your ideas in stone.
"It sucks that Google gets to be the judge and jury in these cases..."
It isn't since there are DMCA coutnernotices.
That's true. Initially we may pitch to a few established organizations that do their own badges (foursquare, stack overflow) to see if they'd have any interest in such a service, but I'm imagining that early customers will be new social sites or services.
I'm just pleased there's a Harvey Mudd College. Does Kirk know about this?
Anyone used Mozart/Oz for anything?

This chapter is fascinating. Or rather has me fascinated with Oz. However, I see that Mozart was last updated in 2008.
Microsoft And Partners Are About To Add A Big Fat Social Layer To Outlook
I'm not sure this is entirely right. I have a public profile on Google, but it didn't announce the people that I converse with on a regular basis before Buzz (at least as far as I know).

I turned off Buzz because I don't see a value in it for me, but before that I had to search to figure out how to make it so that my contacts were not made public. I was a little irate because it represented a significant portion of my client list which is more than a little bit frustrating.
"What a blogger writes just doesn't matter"

Actually, the fact that people take the time to write long, detailed posts about various programming topics matters a lot. At least it does to me, and I think I can pretty safely make the assumption that it matters to a few other newbie programmers too.

Unlike technical documentation, which answers the "what?" and "how?" questions, I find that blog writers (the good ones) often answer the "why?" question implicit in the information I'm trying to find, in addition to the other two. This is invaluable when I'm trying to understand what's going on, or when I don't know what questions I should be asking.
Also gave us Frisbeetarianism-The philosophy that when you die, your soul goes up on a roof and gets stuck
> 4) What a blogger writes just doesn't matter.

If that was true, you wouldn't have quoted Jeff Atwood.
His autobiography is a really good read. Very interesting.
I have a personal blog [1] and am the editor and a regular contributor to a public policy blog [2].

I blog because: I love to write; I enjoy and learn a lot from the dialogue that blogging enables; I think regular writing exposed to the scrutiny of others makes me a better writer; I love to read what other people have written and want to contribute my share; I like knowing that something I wrote was valuable to someone else; I'm a bit narcissistic; it's a very effective method of structured procrastination [3]; and it has led to a few employment opportunities.

[1] http://quandyfactory.com

[2] http://raisethehammer.org

[3] http://quandyfactory.com/blog/1/
Regardless of the legitimacy of these claims, it makes me very weary of putting any content on third-party sites at least unless they offer a reliable way to sync it. I don't understand people who put the results of their hard work (blogs, photos, code) on some online service without thinking about backups. (I have my code hosted on Google code, but if I couldn't svnsync the repository to my local machine I don't think I would.)
Google toolbar, maybe?
Saying that Ann Coulter is a neo-con is like saying Bozo the Clown is an acclaimed stage performer. While her message is conservative themed, her tactic isn't to espouse conservatism, but rather to get people to read her column.

The same's to be said for Arrington. It's a problem that all journalism has: the facts and what's popular usually don't mix.
Thanks. I see.

I do also think though that the previous setup provided security by obscurity (it was hard to stalk, but it was also hard to notice being stalked), whereas the new setup is open about that fact.

Relying on your stalker not to be technically-sophisticated seems risky.

I agree on the point of not changing existing tools, though arguably, this was a change for the better (now you see that you are being stalked and how to stop it), albeit one which could have done even better (by turning all of the existing features off, then implementing buzz and then giving people the chance to opt-in again).
Let me be the first person to thank you. I rely on blogs like yours daily.
Perhaps local students in their final year of an animation qualification that are looking for portfolio fillers - you can often check out their work on the college website. Perhaps not a quick way to get what you're after though.
Is Xobni about to be acquired?
Related to this: Writing about something I'm not 100% familiar with forces me to learn more about it both breadth- and depth-wise. When learning a new topic, it is extremely helpful to write up a tutorial describing "how to" do this new thing. If forces you to understand before codifying an attempt to help others understand.
Marc Benioff was in his mid 30s when he founded Salesforce, after a pretty successful career at Oracle.

The guy who founded Android (can't recall his name) was as well, but he already had founded some companies.
agree.

first the "founders" should go and read "how to start silicon valley" post by PG. most of india cannot be that. well, lots of places in US and other countries can't be silicon valley. so just a bunch of folks who think they are doing the greatest favor to entrepreneurs in india by offering 50k. if these entrepreneurs are the kind ycombinator finds, then it will probably be one month's paycheck of one of the founders. so a 21 yr old can take up a cushy job on campus that will help him raise money in 2 months and do things on his own.

so the question remains, who are these guys, what have they done, and how can they help beyond the "gift".

my guess is none of them have ever founded a startup or worked in one. it is interesting that social search for any of the mentioned names isn't bringing up anything that indicates that they are VC material.
There's finally something better about Bing -- awesome photos overlaid in maps
Looking for a co-founder for planergize.com
I am a bit disappointed, I had hoped the post would compare the strategies used in all these cases...

Just saying because I haven't touched machine learning in the last 7 years and think maybe it is time to catch up a bit.
OS wide... for what OS? You're really making us work here.
Probably. It linked up an old Blogger account of mine that I haven't used in years. It could have been embarrassing since it was exposed to all my GMail contacts who might have enabled Buzz including people I barely know, work collages, etc. The Blogger account has a bunch of stupid stuff on it that was only intended to be viewed by friends. I'm quite sure someone could have found it by cyber stalking me but to have it shoved in their faces is entirely different. Of course I'm not even sure what other people on Buzz could see. There's no clear distinction between public & private information.
Microsoft's chief research officer wants web licenses to end bloggers' anonymity
Reed Hastings founded Netflix at age 37, Peter Thiel co-founded Paypal at age 31, Reid Hoffman founded LinkedIn at age 35.
Artillery Games Need a different platform
I certainly don't mean DRM. I'm asking for clarity of license, not some daft enforcement "solution" that prevents users from listening to their own music. And no, I'm not asking for a universal format for all music.
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More like hoping they lock in to their platform and feel a need to stick with it after having invested in several eBooks.
You didn't actually look at the image you posted did you. It says quite clearly that google autofollowed people. The only button that is there is an "OK". I just clicked on buzz for the first time and I got this: http://imgur.com/ji5lx

There were already messages there. They were almost all about how to turn off buzz.
Well, kinda. The researchers supposedly found that one particular sort of brain damage sometimes makes people more "spiritual" in some sense. Brain damage can be causally linked to all sorts of things, including some things that occur naturally and are generally reckoned good things -- e.g., I think sometimes someone whose brain is damaged will develop musical talents they didn't have before -- so I think it would be premature to conclude that "spirituality" in general is the result of a malfunctioning brain.

(The idea of a link between "spirituality" and brain failure is quite old. For instance, it's been known for a long time that temporal lobe epilepsy is associated with some sorts of religious experience.)
The drag a drop doesnt work in IE7, also more description of the purpose of this would be good. For example why use this instead of a google docs spreadsheet that I can share with a group?
Not trying to be combative, but so what if they are?

My last (and widely viral) blog post was about me reacting to a blog post, but that didn't change the fact that many people found it interesting enough to forward on to their friends, post to Reddit, etc. I've learned so much from the reactions to my 3 short blog posts that I don't think I'll ever be "too busy" or "too inexperienced" to blog again in my life.
i wonder how many comments on this page have been and will be written and then deleted as their author decided that they knew better
Learning HPC
If someone wanted to learn HPC, what advice would you give them? For instance, what language would you advise they learn? What books or journals should they read? How should they build a test/ dev environment on the cheap?<p>Any thoughts on High Performance Computing by O'Reilly?
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565923126
I'm big into the Ultimate (Frisbee) community and while we typically do not play with a Wham-O brand disc anymore, we do owe a lot to this man's effort to bring Frisbees into the mainstream. Thanks for everything.
I started blogging this year as a way to overcome procrastination. The blog software I wrote forces me to post once a week or else it finks on me.

http://milesforrest.com
Ripple: Ruby client library for Riak
Yes. Because:

1. People have told me that they've found it useful. Even if I don't post very often, I won't take it down.

2. I get to improve my English and communication skills. Writing forces you to express yourself clearly and succinctly, while leaving out irrelevant details.

3. I often use it as a platform for publishing a lot of original content, and I'm looking for peer review. I often get useful comments.

4. It's almost effortless for me. Most of my blog posts start off as email replies to people seeking explanations to certain things.

5. It's an online identity I have full control over. When someone searches for me, my blog is what I want them to see. Not my Facebook or Twitter profile, which can tend to get clogged up with garbage from friends.
Blogging for me means reaching an audience easily. I'm from Italy but I've known a lot of awesome people in the world through blogging.

I'm also practicing English a lot, and I'm improving my writings skills every day.

It's also an opportunity for me to learn new things and compare them with like minded people.

I write mainly in 2 blogs, http://oscardelben.com, and http://www.freestylemind.com/
Scala language mind map
I blog for three reasons

1. To hone my writing skills

2. To put a solution to a problem in the public or make some knowledge public as often when I'm researching some problem, it is in blogs that I find solutions. This is my way of giving back

3. I'm interested in adsense optimizations and my blog provides an opportunity to test out my hunches.

My blog is at http://www.manu-j.com/blog/
The engineers are human. I'm sure they're as horrified as you suggest.

Companies are not human, certainly not by default. The vector sum of the effort of many humans is inhuman by default. [1] (Phrases like "mob mentality", "team spirit", and "groupthink" didn't get invented for nothing.) It takes hard work to give a company a human face -- hard work by management, by PR, by customer support, by HR. Some companies are much better at such work than others.

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[1] This is, of course, a perennial topic here on HN: It's easier to run a human company when the company has fewer people. That's one of a startup's advantages.

Of course, a company that is too small runs the risk of being too human: Humans, for example, are prone to emotional roller-coastering, can become fixated on the trees instead of seeing the forest, and need at least some sleep every day. A team's inherent "inhumanity" can help smooth out misfeatures like this.
The (false) assumption is that a person has inherent privacy both on the internets and in the carbon based world. A very quick look at your local property appraisers office or clerk of courts should show you that the individual must be vigilant in protecting this right.

I don't trust google anymore than I trust any individual I don't know. I am using their service, and I know that they can give up all me emails, on purpose or by accident, and I have to be aware of what I send over that service. Clearly google has done a foolish thing here, but based on the above, not one that should have been unexpected.

Such is the state of modern life. You can always shut it off.
Since the parent of this comment was voted up...

Maybe there are different acceptable ways to exist and there is no 'correct brain'. This one adaptation allows for a different skill-set than some other adaptation.
The argument is not so much that you were auto followed (which only happens when you click the buzz tab on gmail) but that you didn't get a chance to do anything about it.

Clearly you have option to edit your followers list and change privacy setting (which was the complain I was referring to). If you choose not to do anything about that and ignore the prompt and go ahead click OK. Should you not take some responsibility for it? I am not denying that google auto following is not in bad form I am just pointing out that changing/editing it is extremely easy and right in front of you.

As for turning off buzz. It is at the bottom of your gmail window. One click away, but not obvious.
Yes. http://noveltheory.com/tictac/ObXbOXXOX.htm
I was gratified to note that this submitted article was on the top of my Google News feed. It's a good discussion of the trade-offs between Google Buzz and other social networking possibilities.