skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two, although I will never, ever call them 'blogs' because the word sounds like something smelly and disgusting that clogs up the pipes in your house and must be removed by an experienced professional.

http://journal.dedasys.com - to talk about the occasional tech related thing I've done that other people might find interesting. I don't write much, because I don't think I really do all that much that is worthy of communicating to the world at large.

http://padovachronicles.welton.it - for the occasional anecdote about life in Italy.
Thanks.

Product is not about insurance, product is exactly about the fact that password is not stolen.

When it is stolen you will know it right away without any probability factor it will be 100% fact.
Maybe this is just me, but I couldn't get the site to work. Check my profile for the email address I used to sign up.

First try, Firefox 3.6 on Snow Leopard:
- Opened iPhoto and dragged a photo in, progress bar filled, but no picture appear, and no indication of success was given. Check file info and realized it was a NEF.
- Repeated process with a JPG. Progress bar filled, but same results.

Next try, Safari 4.0.4:
- Clicked upload button
- Selected two files
- Progress bar filled, but no pictures appeared, and no indication of success was given.

Now when I visit the home page, it says I have two events, but neither of them are clickable because they have no pictures.

Beautiful site though, I was really impressed by the GUI (if only it worked...).
I think you raise a very good question.

I hadn't explicitly considered it before, as I was writing from my feelings on what a Web developer should know. Let me try to define my cut off.

It's not where the abstraction stops, because TCP/IP/SSL aren't part of the average Web framework (maybe some provide their own server, but I'm not aware of any), but it definitely includes everything the abstraction for framework does.

Is it abstraction + 1 level? Maybe.

I have a feeling different languages and areas have different cut-off points -- Web dev differs from Erlang dev.

For the Web, I think the cut-off point is TCP/IP because it is so central to the way the whole thing works, but is not too technical to be hard for the average developer to understand. As far as SSL/TLS is concerned, I provide a specific example of when an understanding of SSL is needed.

There are reasons go deeper (http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/10/a_engineers... talks about Ethernet frames and payload sizes), but I think an understanding of TCP/IP and the encapsulation they implement will allow a knowledgeable Web developer to understand the technical details.

I don't think there's any place to stop, necessarily, and I think these discussions are useful because they help to shape what we define as important knowledge. So, while I may not have a concrete answer to your question, I think we have a good starting point at which to draw the line.
Using another gmail account, I tried to discover what is being exposed via Buzz about my primary gmail account. Other than have one follow the other, I couldn't see anything that wasn't already exposed through my Google Profile. I don't use Google Reader for anything besides RSS, and even so, I don't refer to it any more (I use FriendFeed for RSS).

There must be particular kinds or sets of data that are exposed by Buzz, and I must not have contributed anything to those corpi. Some particular things that don't seem to have been made public via Buzz: my gmail contact list; any of my email, sent or received; Google Groups postings; any Google Chat conversations; nothing about or from my Google Wave account; Google Reader subscribed feeds.
Several of them (Thompson, Pike, Presotto, Weinberger, Feldman) are already working for Google. The list could be longer - those are just the ones I know about.
I do have a blog, but I rarely update it. Occasionally I get the urge to blog again, post regularly for a few weeks, then lose interest and stop posting for up to a year. This has been going on for awhile now.
One last, really minor thing:

When I create a new event, and click "Untitled Event" to edit it, it would be really nice if it auto-selected the text for me. As is I had to click, then double-click, so it's three click for a one click operation.
Good luck with the first amendment in the US. Not to mention getting 200 or so other countries to enforce it. The WTO or WIPO might like to help out, but it's not going to happen with the US a non-starter.
This is basically EXACTLY how I feel. I sometimes think about starting a blog, to showcase things I've worked on, or interesting things I've read about, or new things I've learned, but I often think that it wouldn't be original enough to warrant doing. The thing is, you don't know until you try...
Mark Pilgrim makes a good point that I wonder about (http://twitter.com/diveintomark/status/9013587732): why are there member-only lists at all? That is, HTML is an open standard. I had no idea there were secret holds. Was this a known part of the process? Is it done often? Are there any precedents?
Yes. Because I am better than you.
And how do you intend to find out if it is stolen or not? Besides, if you want me to give you my banking passwords, telling me 'hey there, I'm pretty sure your passwords won't be stolen, but if they are we'll let you know' aint really comforting.

Rather than giving you my passwords and waiting anxiously for that fateful email saying 'Your passwords have been compromised', wouldn't I be better off just not giving them to you?

Also, how do you guarantee that they won't be compromised? If you have really cracked this, then I think you're sitting on a fairly big pot of money.
Review: Nexus One and Android 2.1
I have a T400s. Highly recommend! T410s seems to have some cosmetic but nice updates: http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=349&utm_source=fe...

Upd: I don't care much about battery life, it works fine for me. It comes in stock with 6-cell battery which doesn't stick out of the body unlike in previous models. It is very quiet -- previously I've been constantly annoyed by R61 being too noisy. And new T400s has 5400 rpm drive which makes it even less noisy. Overall it is a great laptop, can't think of any disadvantages.
>If someone makes a public comment that is illegible [1] or incomprehensible, then I have a pretty good clue about that persons inability to write.

That's simply not true. I've worked with doctors who write emails in "lol this is for u" format, and by merit, they obviously know how to write.
On the one hand, I can envision actual engineers saying, "D'oh, we should have thought of that!" And at the same time, I have a hard time imagining that if even I was aware of a lot of furor about Facebook turning on new features that remove previously assumed privacy, the people at Google whose professional interests revolve around these features weren't also aware of that furor.

The only real conclusion I can draw is that they just didn't care. Sort of "We're Google, we have vast amounts of data, and we'll do whatever the hell we please with it, and if you have a problem, talk to the hand." I've been given the Google hand to talk to before (most people using AdSense have) and this is really getting to be a problem.

And yeah, I'm a freelancer, and yeah, I sometimes use Gmail, and yeah, it's not really a Good Thing for business if my customers can see each other. I'm not in danger of being raped by any of them, mind you, but this just doesn't seem to fall under the aegis of "don't be evil".
I'm also having a hard time understanding the issue here. Is any private data (besides social relationship data) being 'published' that wasn't available before via a simple Google search?
There are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the universe
That's "haven": "a place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary"
Totally preventable and entirely foreshadowed by Facebook's failures to think about the same damn issues.
The problem is that Buzz automatically adds email contacts as followers, and then publically displays who all of your other followers/ees are. So, if you were sharing items in Reader with a small group, once Buzz went live, you were also sharing them with everyone who was automatically added, and they could see who else you were sharing them with. Completely unacceptable.

Integration with Android and Picasa make things even worse:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-10451428-256.html

Plus, you can easily inadvertently expose other people's private email addresses because of their incredibly stupid ui:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/11/reply-google-buzz-exposing-...
that is, prerendered and not actually generated in real time like they want you to think--it's less impressive than a second year animation student's demo reel

The blog post you link to doesn't seem to make that claim. It talks about how they were unable to purchase it because the company only wants to work with big companies and it's not a prepackaged library you can just work with.
How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
Andy Rubin, he founded Danger after working at Apple, Magic (an apple spin-off) and WebTV.
News issues
Israeli warplanes bomb southern Gaza
winter sports
Financial Times - BBC News - Sify - Indian Express
About the Dockers ad and brand.India Proposes February Dates for Pakistan Talks, Times Says.Reggie Bush Prop Odds.Space shuttle readied for launch.
Amazon Prime is a great service on its face. If you buy from Amazon regularly, it pays for itself, if not in dollars than in convenience.

I've been on the fence about readers for a while now. I'm a programmer, but I have a degree in American literature. Most of the books I own were written over a century ago. Unfortunately, these books simply don't come in a Kindle edition often enough to justify the purchase of the reader. But if Amazon gave me the reader, it probably would lead me to buy more new titles and magazine subscriptions. And, of course, eventually the titles I want will be available in Kindle editions.

I guess the real question is how many additional sales would Amazon gain from someone like me + my likelihood of upgrading to the next version of the Kindle vs. the production cost of the Kindle. I bet the math makes sense over the long haul. It's not that different a calculus than I use when I buy Amazon Prime every year.
Having thought about it some more, Google is in deep and immediate trouble. They need to act swiftly (in days) and decisively to get on top of this before public perception gets out of hand.

Simply put, Google can NOT afford to have public opinion turn against their opt-out model. Their whole vision depends on opt-out.

But think about what a week or two of stories like this will do. Opt-out will become synonymous with evil. Then how dows Google Book's stance to authors look? How do all their other auto-data collection techniques look?

Google depends on opt-out to their very core, down to robots.txt.

They can't afford public opinion to turn against that, and it's going to if they don't move fast.
SMIT's Solar Ivy in the running for a Pepsi Refresh grant
Great. I just need them to send me 2 or 3 so we don't all fight over it.
Honestly, this can't possibly be appropriate for Hacker News, but I had to upvote it because I was so very delighted. Completely irrelevant to anyone who doesn't read modern comics, though.
Yep.

1) Blogging helps build my personal brand,

2) gives me control over the first things people are seeing about me when they search my name, and

3) gives me platform to improve my writing / coding / design / SEO / and marketing skills.

I write about startups, marketing, and Boston entrepreneurship at:

http://socialstrategist.com
News issues 
Israeli warplanes bomb southern Gaza
winter sports
Financial Times - BBC News - Sify - Indian Express
About the Dockers ad and brand.India Proposes February Dates for Pakistan Talks, Times Says.Reggie Bush Prop Odds.Space shuttle readied for launch.
Please suggest a double click wrapper for jar in Linux.
I have developed a java desktop application (jar file) and have used JSmooth for wrapping it for windows platform. I want to know how can I make it launch on double click on Linux platform.
I honestly doubt this will have much effect. The entire point of the WHATWG was to counter this sort of stuff. HTML5 development will continue in WHATWG, the pressure on the W3C goes up, up up, and in a while they'll just copy the WHATWG spec again, change the color and everything will be fine.
"not being raped" can't exist. It is just too tempting for men to rape you without your explicit consent.
Would it be considered "cruel and unusual punishment" to inflict brain surgery upon habitual violent criminals?

Almost sounds like something from the Soviet era, or earlier.
I'm just curious: was I the only one annoyed by the author's tone and style? I agree with the sentiment behind the article, but the tone makes it come across as extremely partisan. I like reading news without someone shoving their opinion down my throat, even if I agree with said opinion.
‘War of Internet Addiction’ Wins Hearts and Minds (in China)
Joking of course. Blogging is good for the internet. And your career.
Why isn't Eric Schmidt following anyone on Google Buzz?
Yes. I have a personal blog that is 1) for me to remember all the things that I have done and 2) to share with friends and family and anyone else who might benefit from what I have learned.

Also, this reminds me of a post from Paul Buchheit's blog awhile back: "By sharing more of our own thoughts and lives with the world, we contribute to the global pool of "how to live", and over time we also get contributions back from the world. Think of it as "open source living"."

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/11/open-as-in-water-fl...
If you look at many of the comments on this thread, they point to the very interesting fact that many of the entrepreneurs became 'over night success[es]', in their 30s, though they may have started the company in their 20s.

Don't let that discourage you BigTuna. Remember that the media needs an angle, and 'middle-aged' or 'mid-thirties' succeess doesn't have the ring of teens and 20s, or 80s for that matter.

It isn't the age that brought the success (though it may have brought some noteriety). It is more likely the ability to do a few things.
1) look at the world with fresh eyes to discover new opportunities
2) accept the risk of actually doing something with your discoveries. I suspect what is being risked is different for each person.

I'm sure there are more reasons, but those two jumped to mind.
A lot of books that are out of copyright are available online for free in open formats that are readable on the Kindle. Project Gutenberg is full of classics that you can (and I do) read on the Kindle.
Eeee-yikes. I have a number of current clients in good standing, and one "bad" client from a while back that would just love this.

I've been migrating away from Google lately; the prospect of this just hurried me right along.
This is really well-considered.
Harry Potter and the gains from trade
This is a theory, by definition it is "widely accepted" until falsified or until a "better" theory is proposed.
Aspera triples speed of uploads/downloads for iPhone
The season started in November.
It sure might be that I simply do not have the desired one installed but that site is a pain to read: http://i.imgur.com/oULpj.png

Light thin grey serif font on white background.
Has the US economy underperformed because of R&D spending/schooling?
Why do they even propose this? Do they have any arguments in their favor? We should never let this kind of thing happen to the internet.
Isn't it reasonable to expect privacy by default? Should't you be able to hold even a free service accountable for such a transgression? Google's 'if you have nothing to hide...' attitude should not be tolerated.
You should read Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones. She describes exercises to help get over these feelings, and gives you permission to suck. Or rather, convinces you to give yourself that permission.
Silicon Valley in Danger of Losing Competitive Edge
Ugh, just misanthropy. Not even amusing misanthropy imo.

When you step into anywhere public, which includes a lift you have to tolerate people, some of them do things you don't like. Sorry about that but that's what society is partly about, tolerance...
How buzz exposes private email addresses in replies
Entirely agree. You and I know how Google works, but most people think they either configure their servers manually or that they supervise them all in real time. It's like those stories of a dead person receiving a computer-generated bill or debtor's letter - there's no malice intended, but it makes everyone feel bad and damages the reputation of the organization involved.
Several, but my main blog is my technical/professional journal. http://www.codedevl.com

I update it when I feel there is something to say, not out of a need to keep it current for activity's sake.

I write for two reasons:
Firstly, to get my ideas from my head into written form for personal reflection upon either a concept, experience or reaction to piece of relevant content. Secondly as a means of sharing my own experience(s) with others who might be looking for a different perspective based on someone else's background.
I have also found that my technical blog has gained me several acquaintances, a few good friends, and considerable work. While my CV is rather lengthy due to my fifteen years in the industry, I have found that my blog posts offer far better insight into my thinking processes. As such, my best and brightest works situations transpired from those companies which found me via my writings.
They switched to that when there were complaints. Lucky people like the poster of this blog entry got to be google's guinea pigs so they could figure out that they should have that screen.
We're not talking about the relationship between her and Google, but the one between her and her ex-husband, into which google has unwittingly interposed itself.
The key to becoming a successful athlete is using less of your brain
unfortunately I can't share details at the moment.

But one thing i could share - we won't require your passwords, it is just totally wrong from security perspective :)
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Google Buzz: Much Ado about Something
Yeah this article seems to confuse the W3C and HTML5. The former has, if anything, held back the latter. This is just one more example.
Here's an interesting case of an HN headline being less editorial and linkbaity than the original. Well done, sir!
Tweets by Time of Day & Day of Week
Seeding space with earth brand life(tm)
Awesome, I'll look forward to that.

One thing I've been thinking about is how to reliably compute metrics around video when you publish in many different places (e.g. iTunes, your site, embeds, etc.). Any insight you've got on that would be invaluable.
Maybe Monad in Java
I call BS on this. It has no usage what so ever.

You can't test for success you can only monitor it.
Do E-Readers Cause Eye Strain?
Using Lasers to Zap Mosquitoes
The post starts so beautifully... and then the JVM shows up.
No, he's complained publicly about the very existence of these secret lists before. They links you can't follow are there to drive home the point that youcant follow them.
But isn't it his son who decides what to share and with whom? (Or him through his son's account settings.) His son can block location information, or limit it to groups he controls, for example.
It is completely irrelevant! I use HN as a personal datastore for random 'neat' things on the web - saw this and hit to HN without thinking (note to self: is this smart?).

On topic: I was pretty shocked to discover that Y The Last Man was not all done by Vaughn! Or at least not born exclusively from his brain. And Ellis too! I thought Spider Jerusalem was an original! Ack!
Why are companies in such a rush to act big?
Yes. I've found that pretending people are listening helps keep me focused on moving forward on projects. And sometimes people really are listening, and that helps even more.

My most successful blog, though, is my house blog (http://big-old-house.blogspot.com) - although I suppose that's my most ambitious project to date, too...
i love this post, not so much for what they said- none of it too terribly surprising- but for what commenter #3 (Mike Cane) had to say:

Really, I feel like banging my head against a wall by leaving this Comment,
but dammit, Veoh going under makes me mad. You were better than YouTube.
I recommended the hell out of you … and then you stabbed us all in the back.
You revamped at one point and took away crucial ease of discovery options
(like WTF did you take away recently uploaded by length as an option?), you
kept changing the damned player software, and your support staff in forums
ignored all the complaints about the revamp. You guys shot yourselves in
the head and only now do you wind up at the inevitable end. Had you frikkin
LISTENED over a year ago, you might have escaped this fate. Using the lawsuit
as an excuse is utter BS. This is YOUR failure. This pisses me off to no end
because Veoh deserved to thrive. Next time, LISTEN to your fanatical users,
goddammit. Learn at least THAT much.
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I'm amused that news.arc automatically capitalized the first letter of this post. (It also makes lots of iPhone/iPad stories look kind of weird.)
I was also quite upset over a similar situation but now google seems to have made it easier to "block" people who follow you. As mentioned in this article

http://lifehacker.com/5470104/google-updates-explains-buzz-p...

Now there is a block link again anyone following you (once you unfollow them).
Don’t you see? This helps to make the statement quite a bit more specific.

Hundreds of kilometers can be anything between 200 km and 1999 km. Hundreds of miles can be anything between 322 km and 3217 km. The overlap comes out to anything between 322 km and 1999 km! Much more exact than saying just hundreds of kilometers or hundreds of miles :)
She willingly included Google in that relationship by making him a contact and giving Google information that they had a relationship.

You can't give away information and expect it not to be acted upon. Corporations are not bound by anything except for the law and the contract they form with you. If it's within their rights, they can and will act upon it.
Being an HN reader doesn't make someone immune to being wrong. At some point, the user has to take responsibility. Every complaint I've read that discusses this has mentioned not using Google Profiles to modify privacy settings previously. Either that, or it wasn't mentioned at all.

So, I go back to what I was saying: did anyone using the privacy settings available have their privacy setting explicitly overridden, or was is just people not using the privacy settings available, and then getting run over when they realized what they had allowed opened?

Edit: I get downvoted for asking questions. Apparently, not following the torch-bearers blindly is frowned on.
Just remember that stories of entrepreneurs making it big in their 20s is news because it is uncommon. If it was normal, you wouldn't hear about it. No one writes a news story about the sun rising everyday.

People starting successful businesses later on in their career doesn't make the news because it is probably more common.

Also, there is no such thing as overnight success despite what these stories may have you believe. When I have read or listened to interviews from entrepreneurs, it is quite common that the "overnight success" was 10 years in the making.

This is from Mixergy's latest interview with Seth Godin:

"I started more than 100 businesses before I had one that really worked. I was three weeks away from bankruptcy for six years in a row. I went window shopping in restaurants. I launched a video tape with fish swimming back and forth for people who couldn’t have an aquarium. I had a business selling light bulbs door-to-door to raise money for marching bands. There’s a really long list of failures."