skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They already announced they are two months away from releasing buzz for Google Apps.

Edit: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/02/google-buzz-com...
Same thing happened to me.
How to use Google for Hacking
That's a great point. One thing that I did not explore in the article is what the implications are for product marketing and adoption. By launching Buzz with preliminary connections already baked in, Google is really boosting the chances for uptake.

I agree that people can learn to use the tools, but can we design go-to-market strategies that do not depend on software continuing to guess who wants to talk to who, about what?
My tiny hosting company Varialhosting offers POP and Imap. I did a quick search and there are tons of providers that offer Imap.
Is anonymity required for free speech?

I ask this in order to start an honest discussion. Reading the comments, there seems to be an immediate, and in my opinion unwarranted, jump from authentication of identity directly to censorship. Cutting through the article's FUD bullshit, censorship is not what Mundie is proposing. He's proposing a connection between internet presence and identity, as a means of combating cybercrime.

While his proposal conceivably enables censorship activities, I am wary of slippery-slope arguments in general, and in this case the proposal has nothing to do with the legality of censorship in whatever jurisdiction it's present it. In areas where censorship is more common than the US it might make it easier. But, in the US at least, I personally don't see lack of anonymity as necessarily being the first step on an irresistible march towards a soviet dictatorship.

I'm rather on the fence about the specific issue of anonymity being a principle aspect of freedom of speech.
c) http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/s/SNAFUprinciple.html

Generally speaking, it is difficult for useful information to flow in organizations. Most of the time, this lack of circulation is not remarkable, but this looks like a big deal to me, the sort of thing that gives PR people nightmares. I would wager that at least one Buzz engineer raised this concern weeks if not months ago but was ignored or pressured into backing down.
Behind Veoh's shutdown -- founder blames Universal Music lawsuit
Keyword affinity for news.ycombinator.com:

hacker news: 1700.0x,
whois: 25.0x,
google analytics: 19.0x,
google voice: 14.0x,
tiger woods: 7.4x,
avatar: 7.4x,
brittany murphy: 4.6x,
amazon: 1.9x

So Google thinks Hacker News readers 4.6x more likely than the average internet user to search for "brittany murphy"?

I wonder how accurate this stuff is. It'd interesting if pg (or anyone else with a site large enough to show up) could confirm/deny the accuracy of the results...
At least, but the code in a terminal window, with a another window showing a bit torrent client or something.
No, the shortedn traders would either wise up quick and change strategy or get fired.
I was hoping for a FreeBSD daemon tshirt, but "Got Root" would work, too.
She's making deals and writing binary.
Yes. I should have said "pop sci-fi" but you are correct.

I'd imagine, because of the problems with atmospherics, before we see ground-level lasers we'll see shorter-range UAV-to-ground weapons. Perhaps satellites first. Silent invisible death from the sky.
The most important versions of the HTML standard have merely codified the state of browsers at the time. The other W3C standards remain partially (or incorrectly) unimplemented so they're effectively not standards anyway.

The innovation on the web has always begun with the code -- and always with proprietary solutions. The best of these solutions are eventually implemented by everyone and that becomes the standard. Netscape added images, tables, and plugins. IE added events on all DOM elements, xmlHttpRequest, and so on. Different browsers are now beginning to implement "HTML5" features. When all the browsers reach some level of common usefulness then W3C or WHATWG will fit their standard around what's in common usage and call it HTML5.

Having big committees make big plans has never worked for the web.
How is spam on zoho mail?
The choice between privacy goes something like this on the internet these days. Be apart of the internet and give up all hope of privacy, or don't participate and be a Luddite. This choice is not acceptable or practical for any future.

Google grossly underestimated how important privacy has become to average user in last year or two. Unfortunately this could have been the killer feature that Buzz could leverage over Facebook and Twitter because they do such a horrible job at it. In fact Facebook's take on privacy has become down right scary. Privacy controls for Buzz could have been it's differentiator. Instead it's turned into the killer mistake threatening to bury Buzz before it even got out of the gate.

But, everyone screws up, everyone makes mistakes, it's all about how fast they fix it. So get some pizza, jolt, and strong coffee it should be a long weekend Google Buzz Engineers.
Why Silicon Valley might stumble coming out of recession
That's great for you (if it's money you're after), but it does make the start-up fairly uninteresting to someone who's interested in systems level development (and not just glueing together a product based on work others have done).

Generally, top scientists/engineers are not motivated by money, which means given an offer from a typical ("glue a product together") start-up and Google they'd choose Google, unless they're looking for the "start-up experience".

If you want top technical talent (who will always be able to find fulfilling and challenging work at the whatever the current Google-like company is, e.g. SGI in early 90s, Netscape in mid 90s, etc), you have to give them top technical challenges (which is how these companies have themselves been able to compete for talent when they were start-ups).
I was in San Diego SfN 2007, where Sebastian Seung talked about the brain as a device maximizing reward globally.

In any case, manually segmented data from my lab already went to Sebastian's lab. They are testing their convolutional networks on it--I hope they get them to work.
The only program one needs in Windows is putty, so to be able to connect to a REAL computer.
prediction markets
I believe there's at least one website review service that is build on top of Mechanical Turk, if that helps any.
Startups: Why PR is not evil
Would you have believed in 1999 that Patriot Act, etc. would come to pass in the U.S.?

I'm sure they'll roll out the analog to the underwear bomber in time (long before hell freezes over).
Prolific computer hacker gets 13 years in prison
I have an account on GMX.com as a backup account.

So far so good - minimal spam (well none so far) has reached my inbox and they are always adding in features like Facebook integration.
Pleasure Principles
Zimbra may be a good option, particularly now that its not controlled by Yahoo anymore.
For the record, Japan has universal, socialized healthcare:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_system_in_Japan

So does Korea:

http://www.slideshare.net/manhattanresearch/south-koreas-hea...

And so does Taiwan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Taiwan

Any other innovative Asian economies you'd like to compare?
that's the point of what the op is suggesting - that you grant internal teams full autonomy
pretty standard telegraph fare, the only reason to read this is to find out how they manage to link the story to paedophiles
Kevin Rose on why Google needs Buzz
They're not mistakes -- it's strategy. Google simply has the same strategy as Facebook for the same reasons.
Awesome! I coach a local HS program in Pittsburgh and run some middle school Ultimate as well. Might have played you guys at some point, used to play for Penn State.
PrtScr - for screenshots is something I recently discovered. It's a neat little app.
The Google Exposure
Rackspace email hosting is $1/10 GB mailbox/mo for IMAP/POP

Cheers
Some of what VCs and earlier stage investors do is the same, but some is very different. For example, two of the biggest things we do are help people come up with and modify their ideas, and teach them how to raise money from VCs. Whereas VCs expect you already to have decided what you're working on, and by definition don't need to teach you how to convince VCs. But VCs can do stuff like help you hire senior executives or (should you be so lucky) arrange IPOs, which we know nothing about.

We spend our time mostly on early problems like the initial idea, the relationship between the cofounders, how to launch, who to get as your initial users, how to convince later stage investors to give you more money, and (for startups that want to) early stage acquisitions. VCs focus on how to take a promising little company and turn it into a big company, including growing revenues, growing the organization, and big acquisitions or IPOs.

Roughly speaking, the earliest stage of investors focus on helping the aircraft get off the runway, and VCs focus on helping it get to 35,000 feet.

It's harder to generalize about angels. Some invest $10k and some invest almost as much as VCs. Some are very active and others are completely hands off.
That's a great point, although it still speaks to my (snarky) comment that the only 'standards' that matter are the ones that get implemented, accessibility included.
How is it strategy when they're reverting their mistakes? Unless ofcourse screwing over a handful of people for 3 days of press buzz is considered strategy.
Rather than the big companies taking the risk of funding many "pads" most of which will fail they let other people put their money at risk and only end up buying the proven winners. How much money would they have had to throw at failed "pads" before getting Aardvark? If the answer is more than $50 million then they got a good deal.
I have about 8 friends that use my Prime account. Only caveat is they all have to trust each other not to use someone else's stored CC info :P
I think the Gmail UI is excellent and I love it, but I'm starting to have privacy concerns.
The author seems to contradict himself, first stating that Michael Eisner was an investor in Joost, and then going on to tell us that the problem is that media VC's don't exist because all the outstanding media CEO's don't invest in startups. If anybody personifies a media CEO it's Michael Eisner.
I have friends who have been diagnosed (i.e. not self-described), and Asperger's really runs the entire gamut. You have the slightly awkward people who prefer to be alone, and then you have full-blown inability to fit into any social situation. It sounds like your case is somewhat mild - but I do think for more extreme cases it can be "suffering".

Note: I too dislike the amount of self-diagnosis that goes on with things like this. Asperger's and autism are real conditions that real people suffer from - diagnosing yourself just because you're antisocial and afraid adversely affects how seriously people view these conditions.
FTP is dead and unsecure.

Is SFTP bad? I have problems with WinSCP using SCP all the time I don't have with the same app using SFTP.

Example, if you're wondering: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/scp-...
I'm currently using sup (http://sup.rubyforge.org/), which has labels and threads like Gmail, but is Free as in Freedom, runs on ncurses and, ironically, has a much better search mechanism, which was the main reason I switched from Gmail. There is also notmuch (http://notmuchmail.org/), which is still alpha, but aims to be faster and more scriptable than Sup.
AitchEye.com Travel
Google Apps Premium, unless you're Iranian/Chinese. Then use Hushmail etc
LinkedIn is my default resume. If a company/person I'm submitting to pooh-poo's my Google Doc with accomplishments and links to YouTube etc. plus my LinkedIn profile and wants a paper hard copy it's a pretty good indicator the fit/structure probably isn't right for me.

This is a guideline though, not a hard-line determinant.

If the company DOES seem like a good fit and still wanted a paper resume, I just copy/paste my LinkedIn data there.

And, if you want to network with a generally older 'gray hair' crowd, they may not be on Twitter (but probably Facebook) and think Foursquare is a playground kids' game but most likely will respond to your requests on LinkedIn.
The more things change the more they stay the same.

The standards process is basically designed for this kind of hold up.
Why is VMWare and Beyond Compare listed as shareware? VMWare Player is free, but not Workstation. And I doubt Server is either (haven't looked). Beyond Compare is great, but it costs $30.
No, I have my account with 4 other people at 3 different addresses, it works just fine. Keep in mind all of these people are in the same city, though...

[edit] Note for other post: you don't have to share actual accounts - you can invite people to share prime membership; they will use their own account to do their own shopping but still get the same perks.
I buy books to put them on my shelf so that other people can see how smart I am. Only half joking - my bookshelf does start a lot of conversations, and I often lend out books to friends. It's going to be a long time before I'm going to plunk down cash for electronic-only versions of books. I do however often choose technical books that come with a PDF version free over other books on the same subject (e.g., Manning Publications)
There's a lot of good illustrators featured on http://www.drawn.ca
With Google Apps they usually let the administrator turn on and off features, I bet they do the same with Buzz.
For the ﬁrst time ever, Barbie® asked the world to help her select her next career.

Actually, Barbie® asked the internet. And it chose a computer career, which is about as surprising as moot winning the Time 100 poll.

(Edit: See the original Reddit thread for the call to action as well as various vote stuffing attempts. Apparently, this poll was more resistant than the Time one. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aobsa/vote_for_... )
Bill Gates on the iPad - and his envy of the iPhone
So, article is titled "Seven Words You Can't Say in Business Development", and the first word you can't use is "You", used in exactly the same context they used it in the title of their own article.

I hope this is just their own sense of irony.
I wonder how much these problems are problems of information. The reason printers are crap is that most people buy them based on 1) price, and 2) listed features. As a result, manufacturers optimize for these. If people understood that most of the listed features would never work, the paper would constantly jam, the drivers would never be updated, toner/ink would be expensive, installing the printer would require adding lots of stupid software to windows, they would probably pick a more expensive printer with less features that actually works.
HTML5 is a debatable chicken-and-egg; one could argue that the standard came first even though a few parts were implemented by browsers prior. And what about XML? SVG? Most of the examples you give are early innovations made by browsers because the standards committees were weak back then. I kind of feel like you need both (standard + code) for an effective solution on the web. One inevitably has to come before the other, but I don't think it's always code.
Run your own mailserver. If you don't trust Google with your data, there's nobody else I would trust. There are plenty of open-source webmail apps if that matters to you.
Not quite. I peeked at the Buzz thing, and saw that it has me auto-following people whom I've never corresponded in any fashion. How exactly does one "willingly include" Google in a relationship one never had?
The problem is that the real world differs so markedly from the standard that really they're just an "in theory..." reference, or a "hey that will be cool in 5 years if it gets built" reference.

HTML5 features are a wonderful example. If I'm targeting the iPhone, the new location API is a goldmine, but otherwise it's meaningless (for now) because 50%+ of my audience (IE/Opera) doesn't support it. I know I need to build in a good fallback anyway, but the point is that the standard only matters insomuch as it's actually implemented.

One look at the different local storage/web storage implementations bears this out.

I don't really care if W3C argues itself into oblivion if the browsers leapfrog them and implement something useful (see: canvas/iecanvas).

If the browsers are outrunning the standards by a significant margin, rendering the standards irrelevant, then the process is broken.

</rant>
I prefer FreeOTFE to TrueCrypt because it can use LUKS partitions (which are used by Linux).
Nothing. Django provides no HTML for you out of the box (excepting the admin's own HTML, and some of the auto generated HTML for forms).
What is it that you don't like about smart pointers? Surely the small performance consequences of using something boost::shared_ptr are outweighed by the exception/leak safety that it provides 99% of the time.

You cannot use valgrind to "make sure your program doesn't leak memory." You can only use valgrind to find SOME memory leaks. Particularly for a long-running process (e.g. a daemon), there could be a memory leak that doesn't show up in valgrind unless you run it for 3 weeks. Or what if the daemon only leaks memory on Thursdays, but you test your program under valgrind on Mondays?

I'm not saying that valgrind isn't useful -- it is. But it is NOT a good idea to rely solely on valgrind to find your memory leaks. A much better idea would be to use other techniques (e.g. smart pointers) to avoid memory leaks in the first place, and then to use valgrind on top of that.
I don't see myself doing this.
Assuming you are ultimately comparing 'shared/managed' email hosting vs self-managed/self-hosted then Spam (well, filtering spam) is the biggest issue you have to resolve.

Try turning off spam checking on any email address that's been around the net a few years.

The upside of GMail (and other shared-services) is that you are benefiting from their collective wisdom of incoming spam landscape - they see the bigger picture from everyone's accounts in aggregate... which is why their spam filters are so much more effective than bayesian filtering -- which is the only tool you have if you 'go it alone' on email

With an email address that dates back to 1994 and listed all over Usenet before we knew it would be indexed by DejaNews/Google, I need the spam protection and so I'll always go shared-hosted (Gmail for now).
I must be getting old or sth, but I can't find a screenshot or a test login on the site.
GridMove.

I spend most of my time in a tiling window manager in linux and I'd go insane without some half-decent tiling support. GridMove isn't perfect, but its enough to keep me happy when I use Windows outside of gaming (where I obviously don't need tiling) or running Visual Studio (which I run in full screen, so also don't need tiling).
Good related talk from Future Ruby

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/che-synthetic-biology
Mapping time, ctime, asctime and mktime
I find it to work pretty well, as long as I keep it trained by moving stuff that gets past it into the Junk folder. You can fine-tune lots of its settings (change thresholds, etc.) in the control panel.
I've used FastMail for about 8 years now. It's an extremely solid service. They just do one thing and that's email. No spam issues.
We have an announcement to make about that in about 2-3 months. Stay tuned ;)
Good info, however CacheFly plans seem to top out at 1,200 GB/month (unless you want to pay overages), this seems really low.

That's because if you want more than 1200GB it's not unreasonable to have a tailor-made quote. (e.g. with geographical weighted pricing)
It's a bit unfair to say that Twitter is bad at privacy. Twitter is public by its very nature. Google Buzz seems to be the same. Don't want to participate? Turn it off.

I would also disagree that Facebook's take on privacy is "downright scary," given the range of privacy settings you can choose. It's not some half-assed implementation on their part. Perhaps you take issue with the default settings?

No one set of privacy options will work for everyone for any of these tools. And when you choose to use one, you're responsible for what you say and do with it. So maybe the real issue is that Google decided to enable Buzz automatically. It was a choice they made, and I don't think it was necessarily the wrong one.

The only thing the Google Buzz Engineers should be working on this weekend is removing the huge lag for posts showing up in the feed.
Cool! I don't know how long it would have taken me to find Sup, but it looks awesome. I love hacker news.
I play pickup on the weekends when the weather is nice, and sometimes not so nice if I'm feeling brave.
Related question, does anyone know of a mail webapp that allows you to have a unified inbox with multiple IMAP accounts? In other words, something like Thunderbird or Outlook Express but web-ified.

I started doing a custom fork of RoundCube to do just this a few months back but never finished it...does anyone know of anything off-the-shelf that will do this?
But since he's basing his lack-of-superior-tools position on what is most likely correlation and not causation, there's a good chance that there isn't actually a lack of superior tools that necessitate these scammer products existing. Usually, this exact complaint amounts to an inability to properly interpret, at least on Linux, the output from free and top, and similar tools on other operating systems. If there is a correlation between memory usage and crashing (and not just "needing" to reboot because you're overreacting from spending too much time looking at your computer's stats and not enough time working), it most likely has to do with a buggy program with a memory leak.

Here's some stereotypical examples, for linux:

http://expert.mandriva.com/question/72043

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/browse_thr...

Next thing you know, these types will find an OS that doesn't efficiently use memory, and they'll wonder why they have so much of this fast memory that isn't being used to start program faster or something.

So while it may be that scam programs and most products are complete and utter crap, we only have ourselves to blame for buying them and supporting the industries that kick us around. You want a chair in 6 weeks, don't buy a chair from a place that takes longer. But you're facing an uphill battle because everyone else continues to support these shitty providers -- people complained about Windows for years and yet no one switched. The Tragedy of the Commons applies to economic and market choice, too.
The OP doesn't mean "to hell with web standards", he means "to hell with web standards bodies like the W3C".

I think it's a shame the title is incorrect and/or flamebait as the points are otherwise valid/interesting
When I saw the headset on the doll, I immediately jumped to thinking it was some kind of "tech support Barbie", i.e. a demeaning job, not requiring a degree, barely above janitor at most IT firms, often staffed by people who found out they couldn't hack it in higher education.
He's basically saying that Google needs the real time info that sites like Twitter produce, but that they don't want to rely on a third party like Twitter (which they probably would have bought if they could).

He notes how Google gives Twitter a prominent space in its search results, and how that it not something they've done often in the past, and probably want to change in the future.