skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering that kindle customers do not own the books they buy, Amazon's kindle will be Free as free first dose of cocaine.
Awesome question, i guess so i can stay "hip" and "with it" its also kindof expected for developers.
Ha,ha this great(only 3 bytes) is even smaller than my: 1 line CSS Grid Framework http://www.vcarrer.com/2009/06/1-line-css-grid-framework.htm...
People can still read on the iPad with the Kindle app.
Time travel would be spiffy, but how easy is it to contact the Buzz engineers now?

If you've ever dealt with Google "technical support" (even if you're a customer who shovels them buckets of cash each week) you'll find that it's nearly impossible to reach an actual human being who can help you.

Convoluted as it is, getting a blog post ranked top in Hacker News seems the easiest (only?) way to get a genuine Google issue addressed. I hope they address this one AND create an actual means of contacting the people who are supposed to be running the place.
I don't see any mention of Buzz in any of my Gmail accounts settings pages. Please tell me I would've had to consciously enable Buzz in order to have the option to turn it off. Please tell me Google is not automatically making my Google account a Buzz account too.
I think your site has great potential if it gets an API!
"...at a range of hundreds of kilometers (miles)."
This post is so thin on real content that it seems like a FUD. I'm not saying it is, but almost feels like crying wolf.

I will reserve my opinion till some details are made available and not just take the word of hixie who is after all an involved and hence non-neutral party.
Presaged in the book _Vacuum Flowers_
http://amzn.com/0441858767
What Does "Support" Mean?
Amen.

A close family member has spent the past decade going to sometimes extreme measures to avoid an abusive ex-spouse.

Google has potentially pre-emptively revealed their contact information; and not through their own choices and/or lack of action (on zero notice, spending perhaps hours wandering through a plenitude of scattered and poorly documented Buzz settings and behaviors -- please!). No: Any email contact who uses Gmail is now a potential point of exposure for them.

ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE.

Stupidity can aid and abet evil, Google. If you are not purposefully evil, you are aiding and abetting it.

My trust is gone. It's not coming back.

If you want any measure of damage control, you will determine who was actually responsible for this. And everyone in a position of responsibility for this product who did not understand or chose not to heed these concerns. And you will terminate them. Anything less, and we can do no more than expect similar bad decisions -- from those same people -- in the future.
Because the original was labeled as an "Amusing Comment Thread"; Gruber (and others) explains what's going on.
Medical billing and coding specialist
Not at the moment. I'm putting a webpage together to post a bunch of projects ATM, I'll get back to you. My contact info is in my profile.
According to friends at Goldman, it's quite easy to be a career middle manager at Goldman in IT. There are many people there for 20+ years, the only job they've ever had.

I've been told that McKinsey has an "up or out" culture (get promoted or leave).
That's brilliant! The inline bit looks clever! Gotta look into it.
The $5 Guerrilla User Test
Obligatory link to http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1078-it-doesnt-have-to-be-all...

We’ve repeated this story so many times that it’s
starting to wear a little thin, but here it goes
again: Basecamp was created wit 10 hours/week of
programming time and as a 3rd or 4th project alongside
paying customers for the designers over the course
of about 6 months.
In other words, we didn’t drop everything we had
to create Basecamp, and you don’t have to either.
How many MacBook Airs did this "story" cost?

Sorry, it was too easy.
For marketing to be really effective it needs specialist knowledge of both field and geographic location. There are countless examples of marketing failures where people simply assume that what works in country A will work just as well in country B. I wouldn't trust a marketing firm halfway round the world to know what works and what doesn't in my home market.
have you checked out the freelancers union in NY? They offer cheaper insurance and other benefits.
There was a pretty fascinating talk at TED by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist who experienced a massive stroke ("my stroke of insight"). On the one hand she observed her own neurological functions shut down with clinical curiosity, and on the other she had a very strong impression of losing her sense of self and being completely connected with the world.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke...
Ask HN: Are you sure your password is not stolen?
I am looking to start a product around password storage.

Have few questions to better understand is there a real demand for such product. Thank you in advance.

1. Do you feel safe entering login/password to bank or your critical resources (facebook, twitter etc)?

2. Are you concerned that malware could steal password, even anti-virus is installed?

3. Do you use any password storage software 1password (Mac), Roboform ?

4. Will you buy a service that will _guarnatee_ your login/password is not stolen or compromised? How much would you pay?

5. Could you share any additional features that you are missing in current products.
No, they wouldn't. I'm saying this as somebody who built a product around identifying your 'inner circle' from your email patterns[1]. The part I spent the most time on was figuring out how to protect people's privacy, and these scenarios were painfully obvious even to me.

Plenty of people at Google have to have thought this through, but decided the benefits to adoption of the current process outweigh the privacy problems that will happen to some people. That's pretty evil in my book...

[1] http://web.mailana.com/demoday/
The Agile Testing Quadrants
Discovering the Agile Testing Quadrants was close to an epiphany to me.
They helped me to think much clearer about the different concepts, disciplines and fields of software testing.
Oops - that's a very good point. I completely forgot to add a homepage. So far it's only been friends & followers using it, so nobody's complained - that's next on the list!

Basically, Speckle is a multi-checkbox to-do list. A picture is worth a thousand words, so for now: http://j.mp/ciLCkO
If all aspects of participation were opt in -- as they should be -- the problem could have been avoided. (It would help if the implications of participation were laid out up front, clearly, as well.)

And "opt in" is hardly a new concept.

This was totally preventable, through a well-worn paradigm of customer engagement.

Google has no excuse for this. They were greedy, and they screwed their customers, big time.
Isn't this the same as saying that you shouldn't program in Haskell, Erlang, Lisp or Prolog without also being able to program in assembler? And isn't that then the same as saying that you should be able to design circuits with NAND gates? And doesn't it go on to say that you should understand how diffusion processes are used to make integrated circuits?

Actually, I'm with you, but the question is: where do you stop, and why? Personally I've build a CPU from an FPGA, and before that I designed a CPU from NAND gates. Even so, I wouldn't insist that my applications programmers know how to do that. C is useful, assembler also, but I wouldn't insist on it, and even those who only know C++ or Python are still productive programmers.
I don't want to change privacy settings, I just don't want buzz. Where is the "cancel" button? Google should be smart enough to not do opt-out.
It's so Microsoft to be always on the wrong side...
Paying Down Our Technical Debt
Actually, a friend and I were having a big discussion about Buzz, using Buzz. And, to my surprise, a few Buzz devs jumped into the conversation: http://www.google.com/buzz/tmgrone/brHidEYC3jh/I-wish-Google...
Im going to try one more time and then I'm giving up on trying to explain this. I am not saying that everyone will make hand made goods. I am not saying we will have less machine made goods. I am simply saying that machine made goods are complementary goods of hand made goods. When the complementary product of hand made goods' price becomes cheap/commodity the hand made goods demand grows. This is the same reason Open Source software is good for business in the long run. Check out this article. Joel explains complementary goods http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
That they acknowledged as a mistake, and rectified early on. When you first turned on Buzz, there would have been an option for whether or not you wanted to have your contacts displayed, however I guess it wasn't easy to find. Shortly after releasing Buzz, they made it a lot more obvious (I guess due to user complaints):

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/millions-of-buzz-users... (item # 1)

They are certainly responsive to these issues, however the fact is their approach to privacy was confusing from the start, which is a recipe for disaster.
And who says Microsoft doesn't innovate anymore?
Heh, I think we mostly agree. My real concern is that I'm not sure school bus wifi really does much to save kids from brain-rotting.
Being older cuts both ways.

Deliberately unlearn stuff about tech. Don't let your additional preconceptions slow you down. What was impossible yesterday is commonplace today.

On the other hand, take advantage of the fact that you know more about business, people & life than you did 10 years ago. Those lessons are timeless for a reason (e.g. How to Win Friends & Influence People).
4chan, moot, and TED
This article is so true. People seem to think money and materialistic things will make them happier. In reality, it's the exact opposite. The best things in life aren't things at all.
What other types of guerrilla testing have people tried before? This sounds like a fairly witty idea for gathering user interaction information, but I wonder if it's actually functional.
OP is actually saying that he wants to be able to follow someone, but have them hidden from his list. His example is his son; he doesn't want to block his son, he wants to have their Google connection but not create a public list of all his nearest and dearest, with all the included information that Google provides.
Just because something is widely accepted does not make it true.
Yeah, units schmunitz, who really cares. It's Friday, there are lasers in the air, and everything.
But it's so much easier to redefine HTML5 to compliment Flash than it is for Flash to compliment a complete HTML5 spec.
On the one hand, that's bullshit... then on the other hand, I'm thinking of all of the YouTube commenters that I'd like to see disappear, even in the repressive Soviet usage of the word. I don't suppose it would be used to weed out simpering idiots though...
You flat out reversed his point. His whole point was that Coulter doesn't have an ideology she just makes up whatever she thinks people want to hear. It's funny how someone's obvious dislike for those who they disagree with can just shut off the "logical thinking" part of the brain.
Thank you. Although it is there I'd consider where they put that link as intentionally hiding it.
Kinda. I have a journal. I use it to share links, photos, ideas and random thoughts with my friends (and other likeminded people).
When I set my one gmail account up it did not prompt me, all my contacts were added. However, I went to look at another account I have and it did not add the contacts from that. Not sure if it is a timing issue, as I set my first account up within 12 hours of them releasing Buzz and waited till yesterday after hearing all the complaints to see what it looked like in my other account and if I maybe missed something the first time. I think they may have either fixed the issue or are working on fixing it.
According to a Reddit comment, the name in red is the person who occupied the office the longest.

Here is a (incomplete) list of background info:

Jon Bentley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bentley

Brian Kernighan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan

Rob Pike - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

Dennis Ritchie - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

Lorinda Cherry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry

Stuart Feldman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Feldman

Alfred Aho - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Aho

Dave Ditzel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta

Dave Presotto - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vismon

John Reppy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_(programming_language) (Unsure if this is the same person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reppy)

Andrew Koenig - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Koenig

Bjarne Stroustrup - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup

Ken Thompson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson

Gerald Holzmann - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_J._Holzmann

Tom Cargill - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule

Bart Locanthi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_N._Locanthi

Robert Morris - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer) (rtm's father)
And then all your privacy concerns quickly disappeared!
Cold chance in hell this will pass in the U.S.

I'd actually like to see it formally proposed in some fashion, just to see which congressmen would advocate it... and then observe them promptly voted home the following election season.
and for $10, nathan myrvolhd can user a laser to track and detect a mosquito, distinguish those carrying malaria from those who aren't, and then shoot down the ones carrying malaria.... nice http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/using-lasers-to-zap....
I would be the first to cheer if I thought some actual progress were being made with research, but this seems misleading. Fragile X syndrome is not autism, and autism is poorly defined to start with.
Rampant Plagiarism
Real leads to trust, productivity, and passion at Recruitment Genius
As an Amazon Prime user, I really hope this happens.

Free Kindle -> eBay/Craigslist -> cheaper iPad
It feels like I'm seeing more calls for this crap lately, from in power / high status type people. That worries me somewhat. What's driving this? Are they afraid of loss of control, or does it just seem like an "easier" fix than things that might actually work (like user education and proper type safety)?
To hell with web standards
Preventing and causes of Winter Weight Gain..
Or there's http://equationater.com/
Me too. I just logged into my gmail account (which I don't use) and got a buzz page. I deliberately did not click the huge "Okay" button but instead the tiny "Nah", but then there was still a buzz tab and I had to click the very not obvious link at the bottom to turn it off.
The best part is the Unix room, which still exists. It's a great slice of history, and they still do active Plan 9 development there.
This deserves an Internet Death Penalty I think.
Most clueless (but still good people, like the woman in the story above) didn't even leave a comment at all on RWW, probably just left the site completely baffled.
I showed him the comment and he gave a longer response that I don't remember entirely. But basically it has more to do with the original cloned software.
1. reasonably
2. no
3. yes, 1 password
4. guarantee? as in if it is stolen or compromised, you pay X amount? if yes, how much i would pay would be based on how much you pay out as really, you are just selling insurance.
Cringley had a similar article few days ago: http://www.cringely.com/2010/02/the-cringely-2010-not-in-sil...
No. I don't have a blog because my perfectionism keeps me from even starting to write. I feel like if what I write isn't extraordinary, I have no business putting it out there at all.
Prime really does pay for itself. I ordered enough on Amazon before getting prime that it was a no brainer. Amazon is also very generous about letting you share your prime subscription with family members.

I already read quite a few books on my iPhone(Kindle app, and Stanza) so I would probably end up paying for a Kindle in book purchases over the life of the device. Seems like a win-win.
I think the parent comment was referring to sharing items in Google Reader, which was public or only to friends (which were generated from the people I had listed Google Talk, initially for me)

The parent comment missed the fact that before you were sharing links, here you are sharing the list of people you email frequently or chat with, which is an entirely different proposition and was handled poorly in a misguided attempt to imitate your twitter "following" list.

Except for that oversight on the list of people you are following, the Google sharing model for items you share is much more advanced than Twitter or Facebook, and makes it easy to share things with a particular group of people.
Google Buzz: 5 Tips for Power Users
Expose Your Inner World in Reflective Essay Writing
Reflective essay writing is a very interesting and fascinating kind of essay as here you can reveal your personal thoughts and points.
You mean they sell it as freeware
Wow. I am so disappointed.
Actually, I believe that Bozo the Clown is a fellow alum of my alma mater.
Sam Walton. While he started Walmart when he was 44, he had made headway by the time he was 36. His book "Made in America" is a must read.
Education 2.0 - Digital Learners
Evan Williams was in his 20's for Blogger (~31 when it sold), and 30's for Twitter.
Yes! Yes. This is spot-on, I hadn't thought of it that way either, but in fact a couple of my clients have said exactly this. I just didn't get it before.

One of them previously had a computer tech that actually did berate them for not knowing computer basics. Another one constantly refers to herself as "stupid" (or, "I feel so stupid") for not understanding how to use the computer.
"Can we log into face book? This is crazy I want to get all my info off and be done with this. I recently moved from MN to SC Myrtle Beach and facebook was a great way to keep in touch with family and friends but this is getting to be to difficult."

This one is sad : (
Yeah, I'd like to read that, too.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place..."

-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in 2009.
Veoh Bankrupt, what did Viddler do differently? — Robert Sandie
It's a money making scheme. We've used to only have a single operator that is 50% owned by the government.

We've finally gotten another operator, but... We're not really holding our breath for cheaper Internet just yet. Maybe... Who knows?
HTML5 without canvas needs something like, er, Flash!
Why don't we just ask Carly Fleischmann?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4311223&page=1
I've found that writing about something forces you to investigate all the possible ideas and nuances around the topic in a way that you may otherwise not do. It's a great way to really understand something. It's trained me to think more logically. That's part of the reason I blog.Plus, it's what got me my current job.
It has a RESTful API. It's just not published anywhere yet :-)
You must be the exception and congratulations on that. But surely we could all do without another junior-level-liberal-know-it-all-cause-I-keep-up-with-reddit/hn who will chime in on Google Buzz, Apple IPad, that dude who neglected his Markdown project, why Flash is dead, why Flash is not dead, why I switched to Django, why some language is the new hotness* , and beginner JQuery tips for good measure.

* for this week
Words You Can't Say in Business Development
"And you will terminate them. Anything less, and we can do no more than expect similar bad decisions -- from those same people -- in the future."

I'm not looking to defend Google's choices about Buzz. But I take exception to the idea of firing people who make bad decisions without due consideration for how those decisions came about.

It flies in the face of a mantra at HN: Fail early and often. It goes against the idea that you learn by making mistakes.

If a company fires people for making a poor decision out of ignorance, then they have just lost someone with valuable experience about a potentially troublesome choice. Now that company has to go get someone who (most likely) has not fucked up in that way. (I bet most places do not hire people who got fired from another job for fucking up.)

Who is more likely to make that same or a similar mistake in the future? The person who already fucked up and learned something, or the new person without that experience?

Some people screw up because they are innately incompetent in some field. Let them go; they will not get any better.

Others screw up because they are doing something new, or acting with incomplete or wrong information. In that case, the problem may not be the person but the situation.

Fix the conditions, don't just find a scapegoat.
I was visiting my brother in December in London. He had 24Mbps connection from Virgin. It was saturated to death during peak times. His major problem seemed to be the upstream.

He upgraded to 50Mbps/1.5Mbps upstream and his problems went away.
If you have concerns over privacy, move your data somewhere that doesn't obviously look into your private data for the purposes of advertising.

Stay anonymous. Use your ISP's email. Use accounts you pay for and can hold accountable for transgressions like this.

You give your data freely to google without understanding the terms of that transaction and they will use those rights in some way you arn't happy with.

She should cancel all of her google accounts and move somewhere that gives more favorable terms of service and is directly accountable to her.
I liked it well enough to think "this is what Google should have put up instead of that bada-boom splash screen". Thanks for the timely write-up.

Problem with these things is not quite knowing what you're getting into - as witnessed by the yelps of surprise/outrage going around. Then having to spend time digging up obscure settings and tweaking lists. Then still not knowing if all the peepholes are plugged ...
These early tests are always declared to work FSVO "working".

Note it fired a "test laser" and instruments on the missile indicated the laser had a "hit". So they didn't actually disable/destroy the missile - basically it was a computer controlled Lazer Tag setup.

Mission accomplished = more funding.
What I didn't like about it was that by default it let everyone in my addressbook know many of my other clients. In fact, if you're a freelancer for anything, and you want to know most of the other freelancers that your client has contacted, just click his Buzz profile. There's a profile checkbox for this but for some reason Google left that on by default!

And let's say you had a bad client one day who wouldn't pay and you wanted to not deal with him. Well guess what -- he now has contact access to many of your other clients through the default settings in Buzz.

Heck, I was even seeing profiles out there where I could get access to someone's doctor.

I also dislike that when Buzz has a message and says (1) beside it, so does my Inbox too. I think the two should be distinctive. I ended up having to make a rule to trash anything going to my inbox beginning with "Buzz:".
I like Greader. I like to comment to my notes, but I must share first then I can make comments. Why do you let me share first? why? sharing is not the nature of web!
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