skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

1) It attracts interesting people to contact me and offer work/projects/partnerships.

2) I like having a written history of the evolution of my business.

3) There are people interested in checking in on what I'm up to every once in a while that don't use social networks.
It's a funny situation, in the sense that Microsoft did exactly the same thing on the ECMAScript 4 standard on which Actionscript 3 is based and managed instead to stall the evolution of the ES standard...

http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/08/ru-roh-adobe-screwe...
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As opposed to.... where?
Ask HN: Great tech entrepreneurs who saw success in their mid 30s?
There seems to be no end to the stories of entrepreneurs in their 20s becoming an over night success in the tech industry. While these stories are very inspiring, time has pushed me into my mid-30s and the stories have less relevance to me. I'd be very interested to hear from those who screamed F-T-W and finally followed their entrepreneurial spirit in their mid-30s.

Anyone care to share their thoughts?
so what word would you use for the feelings you might have towards someone that rapes your kid sister? "i really hate ..."?

it's silly (for anyone other than adolescents) to use such extreme words for such commonplace things.
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Google buzz trickery
I love Lua. Wish there was a shorter syntax for anonymous functions, though. (function(x) return x*x end)

Also, Lisp macros would be nice (didn't look at metalua)
I would love the opportunity to work on a project of this nature. I'm a graphic designer, illustrator, artist currently working at an apparel company designing t-shirts. My hours give me a lot of free time to work on personal or profit projects, but I haven't really had much luck landing solid side gigs, just random little stuff for friends and family. Craigslist is often saturated with out of work artists trying to scrape a few bucks together, and often people will give require a sample'project' to see what you can do, but I don't care to work for free when one could just as easily check out my online portfolio { http://lucasalbrecht.com } and see what I'm capable of. Anyway, just chiming in, check out my work and let me know if you're interested. Cheers
I think it does. HN may be the wrong target audience but I think the article meets someones intellectual curiosity...you just really need to want to see it!

The piece also deals with an important point...if you have your own startup and you are moving into an office - just ensure you don't get one with an elevator.

Given your username I think you would appreciate this random piece but I take on board your point and I won't post these types of articles in the future.
iPhone OS software? Maybe. Mac OS X software? Don’t think so.

Apple’s Mac consumer software is ridiculously easy to pirate. You can download iWork from Apple’s servers and find out the serial with five seconds of light googling. iLife and Mac OS X don’t even have a serial or any other kind of copy protection. (They might be harder to pirate, though, since you have to get the DMGs.)

And now get this: The $29 Snow Leopard update is license wise nothing more than an update for owners of Leopard and Leopard only. But the disc will install Snow Leopard even if you don’t have Leopard. It would be trivial to test (the could even let you install to an empty hard drive – just let the user insert the Leopard disc once to test whether she has it) but they don’t do it.

Software is maybe three percent of their revenue. Why overly protect it if pirates will find a way (or just not buy)? They don’t care much about protecting their Mac software from piracy because they make their money with Macs, not Mac OS X.

That might change with the iPhone, though. Don’t expect this Mac policy to carry over.
I'm not an alpha programmer and the journey to learn Clojure has not been easy, but after reading article's like this one I'm starting to "get it".
You're talking about the Speed Control Deactivation Switch fire problem?

It's just not in the same class as "uncontrolled acceleration". Can you name anyone who's been killed by the Ford issue?

As an engineer, I also put these two problems in completely different classes. Ford's is a "corrosion happens" one, Toyota's is entirely different and their handling of it is subpar at best.
The author seems like a competent internet user. I wonder though what happens to the intersection of people with her privacy needs and the people who don't know how to login to facebook?
On what grounds do you think she could file a lawsuit and have an expectation of it going anywhere? GMail is a free service for most users. You could choose not to use or it just turn off Buzz. You don't go around suing people just because you can't figure out how to set preferences. It's not like they're acting in bad faith by deliberately making it difficult to disable.
I don't think Tim O'Reilly really made it big until he was a bit older: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O%27Reilly
Uh huh. And if you say you love pizza, does your significant other get jealous?
This is not the only time that the music business has played this game, more specifically the RIAA. From 1997-2004 I worked a lot in the world of Hip Hop on a regional scale. I did security for clubs and artist and I was a DJ. Before file sharing exploded, the mixtape was the way that people would get exposed to underground hip hop artist, the most popular being 50 Cent but also many others.

So what the industry would do is to send free music to DJ's from both the worlds of mixtapes and radio. They would beg and plead for you to feature their artist on the mixtape. This is coming from both the A&R's that worked directly for the labels and third parties whose whole job was to find popular mixtape DJ's and give them music. They were hired by record companies as well. So anyway, after you released a mixtape, you would give it to a store at a consignment price. In other words, you would give them a box of CD's and they would sell them a set price depending on how popular you were. Then you come back and split the money, of course bigger DJ's would work out a different deal.

So everyone in the industry is aware of this fact and they play along with the so called "street" rules. But the RIAA would come down and bust these stores for selling bootlegs. These are items that would be cosigned by record labels with artist even hosting the tapes but they would still bust the shops anyway. Legally, there was no paperwork so in the eyes of the law they were bootlegged and if it was the police that came down hard, I would have less of a problem. But it would be the RIAA, basically the record companies would backdoor the DJ's and the mom and pop stores.

This is why I am glad that the music business has taken such a big hit. The people are crooks and as far as I am concerned, they is what they deserve.
In addition to dangrossman's comments, I have friends and family that are geographically distant. Blogs, and social networking in general (Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz), help maintain a sense of emotional closeness.
So we don't know anything about the content of their objection, but we're going to call Adobe assholes anyway? Maybe it's the W3C blocking the release of objections, who knows. This article is woefully thin on actual information, don't jump to any conclusions just yet.
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It was ridiculously arrogant to just force-configure a network on users like that. Thinking of dumping my Gmail account.
Hmmm, who's "greed and incompetence" forced the dismantling of AT&T?

Could it be the Federal Government, which forced the 1984 consent agreement and the breakup, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that pushed the process all the further?

Jerry Pournelle was fond of saying something to the effect of "We have the best telephone system in the world, but we can fix that."
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I did appreciate it - as I say, a diverting read - but I agree that HN is the wrong audience. At least, until you tie it in with hacking or startups or investigations or something with some bite.

I occasionally post things like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1113300

It usually gets a comment or two such as can be found there saying that it more correctly belongs on reddit, say. My reply there sums up my attitude as to why I think it is interesting.

But I have found here on HN that if you don't make those observations explicitly, if you don't start to do some analysis that leads from the original, then people will dismiss it as "Diverting, but content-free and not appropriate."

So, can you actually apply it to this audience? Are there lessons to learn (apart from the obvious "Don't get office space that requires an elevator) ??

Just my $0.02.
1. Pan's labyrinth

2. Good Will Hunting

3. Little Miss Sunshine
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How do universities and startups not matter? They're incubators of knowledge and wealth creation. And regarding multinationals, most of the biggest multinationals are either Japanese, American or European. Places like China and Indonesia do a lot of the manufacturing for them, but most of the wealth still flows back to the countries where the knowledge for that technology is developed. Most of Apple's wealth is concentrated in the U.S because that's where Apple's knowledge creators are based. Same with Nokia or Toyota or any company. The world isn't totally flat despite what Tom Friedman thinks. Pockets of innovation will always exist. I think India is a better example of a developing power with a strong innovation base than China is.
Yes.

1) I'm interested in the field of Computer Science (CS) and I like to write articles about various things I encounter and learn in this field. I'm also interested in other fields, but since I studied CS and work in this field, it's the one in which I'm "up to the mark". Well, that doesn't mean that I won't be writing articles about topics from other fields.

2) I love it when interesting discussions start around the subject an article of mine is addressing. For me, this point is one of the most rewarding things I get from blogging, since you can learn quite a lot of new things thanks to it.

3) I love to write tutorials, with the hope that somebody can benefit from them (hopefully in a good way :) I'm always happy when I read a comment from a user, whom a tutorial has helped in some way.

4) Since I read quite a lot of articles online, I use my blog also to post linkings to such interesting articles. I think the one or the other linking is appreciated by the few readers I have :)

5) It helps me to improve my language skills, since I decided to write the articles in English rather than in German. IMHO it's a good exercise.
>Google added Buzz to my account automatically and automatically added people form my contact list.

To the best of my knowledge they prompt you and ask you who you want to follow. This was the case for me. They don't automatically follow - unless you click the OK button.

Turning off buzz is literally one click away at the bottom of the screen. I know because I used it.
It is not the responsibility of the US federal government to guarantee employment. They are being treated as they should.
If they treat C++ like C with a new standard library, they are doing it wrong.
Will people leave Facebook for Buzz? Fat chance
"On a Pentium 133, it requires about 20 seconds to play every game and generate every HTML page!"
This really demonstrates the difference between intelligence and wisdom. Whomever wrote this thing in their 20% time was likely really smart but really unwise. :-(
I think the point most people are missing is that the data Google shared was already public. Reader has its own privacy and sharing policies, and as far as I can tell Buzz respects these. Even if this person successfully polices Buzz, the reader feed is still out there, public and waiting to be found.

Reader privacy settings can be changed at https://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my#friends-manager-p...
Not for me. They just said "The following people have been added automatically..." At least, I did not manually add anyone and I had a bunch of people added.
Yes.

1) Blogging is like going to the gym except for writing: if I stopped, I'd end up an overworked, pudgy Japanese salaryman with no writing ability in English.

2) Blogging makes people say nice things about my ideas and that has always given me the warm fuzzies.

3) My decision to start a business 3.5 years ago was heavily influenced by accounts of success I had read from other people, and I wanted to leave similar encouragement.

4) My blog (or rather, a half-dozen handpicked articles from it) makes a far better case for hiring me than my resume or publicly available source code does.
Dismantle the military empire, and you've got money for medical care.

You've also got, unfortunately, a ton of people that go out of work. Noone will get rid of military programs if it shuts down jobs in their district.
>It does seem like something they could pay a web guy a few bucks to diagnose and fix, though.

If they knew it would only be a few bucks from "a web guy" they would likely be able to fix it themselves.

I think it's seldom (never?) I'd actually want to go this route [partial payments along a project helps reduce how much I have at risk], but if I were considering such... rather than a blank page, perhaps a display that said something like "A database error occurred. Please contact developer of this site." That might help the site owner read the subtext ("Payment is way past due.") and not make visitors wonder, "Why isn't my Google working on your site today?"
Lolz..I click the"okay" and discovered all this. Thanks for liking the post.
Certainly recent comments by Adobe's CTO see a future with HTML5 http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/02/open_access_to_...

Although Apple's policy is beginning to worry them, it reads more like a HTML5 is a complementary technology rather than a competitor.
FWIW, I'm working on something similar in Lua, which uses libevent for high performance on Unix but also has a pure Lua (based on LuaSocket.select) backend for portability. I haven't tested it on Windows yet, but I don't expect any issues with running it there, and I'm planning on supporting it as a platform (for developing convenience, not performance).

It's reasonably complete, but its development is being driven by another project (a distributed filesystem of sorts), and it's still changing too much. I hope to have it released in a month or two, but I'm also in the process of buying a house, and that's keeping me plenty busy.

If you're interested, learning Lua should would be pretty straightforward. It sounds like you're already proficient in Javascript, and they have quite a bit in common.
Obligatory:

Bolero - Maurice Ravel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw
You appear to be using the cross-domain XHR stuff that's only really supported by very recent browsers. Since you're hosting your own proxy for the script anyway you'd be better off having the proxy convert the XML in to JSON and serving it up using JSON-P so it works reliably cross-domain.

Your plugin hard-codes the HTML that's used to display the buzzes. While that's convenient, it's also inflexible. I would suggest splitting the logic up in to two parts - one that gets the recent buzzes and turns them in to JavaScript data structures, and one that takes those data structures and formats them as HTML. That way people who want to do their own processing / formatting of the Buzz data can still use the first half of your plugin.
Yes.

In my opinion, having a blog is as much about learning as it is about sharing information with other people. There's just something about putting your thoughts into words that helps you crystalize certain ideas that float around in your head.

For instance, if you read most of Paul Graham's essays, you'll notice that they probably serve more to teach him than to actually share things.

Plus, having people read your thoughts serves as a good way to gauge whether you're on the right track or not. If there's something wrong with your idea, believe me someone will let you know. This is why I sometimes submit articles to HN: to get an idea if what I'm writing is of any interest to hackers.
Yup. It's my business.
She set up a shared G-reader feed for her trusted contacts to read. Buzz auto-added her untrusted contacts.

The shared feed included sensitive info (like where she lives) and now that secret info is available to her violent and abusive ex-spouse (and all his friends.
Well, first of all, whether it's free or not is pretty much irrelevant. This is a business for Google - they're taking people's personal information and using it to make billions of dollars in advertising. I don't think it would be hard to convince a jury that they have a duty to make a reasonable effort to protect the information that has been entrusted to their care.
Ahh, very nice. I've been wanting more customisability from Google Charts for a while. It was between SVG charts and Google Charts and I think Google won.

Side note: How many times has Google made a reference to XKCD? Haha
You can turn Buzz off on the bottom of your gmail page and privacy settings can be found at https://www.google.com/accounts/ though I still found it awkward and unintuitive really.
Voted this up because I don't recall saying 'yes' to Buzz, yet somehow I'm following people I never wanted to follow, and people are following me who are completely unfamiliar to me. And apparently I've shared some items I "shared" only due to an errant mouse-click many moons ago.
Yes.

I've been running it since 2002, and every job I've had since then has come about as a result of connections made through blog related activity. It's an incredibly powerful professional tool.
i'm not sure how i can make it more clear, but fwiw i don't say i love pizza. if i did, then what i posted earlier wouldn't make much sense, would it?

oh, hang on. here we go. maybe this will make things clearer: saying "love" and "hate" is really stupid and i hate it and you suck.

presumably that connects?
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I want the same with chess. Please.
Don’t be such a scientist
The article is very thin on the particulars, but my guess is that they're reading the draft on Scribd and a well-known plugin keeps crashing. You can't approve something if you can't read it IMHO!
convince a jury

But this would be a civil case, right? There is only a Jury if its a criminal case.

EDIT: I stand corrected.
Except for the book: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/faq-book.html

Which "is 500% larger than the C++ FAQ Lite." Invaluable.
I don't see how HTML5 makes authoring tools (commercial or not) redundant. Do you expect people that are relying on visual authoring software to migrate to writing HTML5/JS/CSS in a text editor "just because"?
Turns out having a blog was the most google-friendly way to host my about me page.
If I were the Icelandic government I'd take a look at how much revenue attracting investigative journalists to the country would be likely to raise, and then move on to the next topic of the day.
Yes: http://alquerubim.blogspot.com/ (in Portuguese).

1) To practice writing;
2) To develop stray ideas that keep floating around in my head inconclusively;
3) To reminisce about 8 bit hardware and software.
I don't know about publicly on the internet, but their offices are almost plastered with XKCD comics. There are lots of them on the walls in common areas.
I agree with your 3 groups, but if you read my post history you'll see that I'm firmly in the 3rd camp. Anything related to building and growing a tech startup gets my full attention here.

As I stated in my first post on this thread, this article seems to not contain anything of value to a person building and growing an entrepreneurial startup. If I had to bet, it was the anti-anti-intellectual crowd doing the rejecting here, on the assumption that I don't like knowledge.
I am pretty sure you are mistaken. This is the prompt everyone got when they went to buzz for the first time:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/goog...

This is also shown in the Google buzz demo video.

Responsibility lies on you when you decide not to edit the follow users and check privacy setting when its right in front of you the first time. The only way forward is to click OK, thats what you did like everyone else who is complaining and going ra ra about privacy.
Wow! Thanks for the great feedback. I am sorry for the Facebook Connect issue, I'm in parallel working on a mobile version and the authentication kinks need to get worked out. I appreciate all the time you spent into doing what you did and writing it out. I was beginning to think I wouldn't get any feedback.

I will definitely be changing some of this stuff as you pointed out some things I didn't think of such as the membership options being presumptuous. I agree.
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When you have HN readers complaining about this issue, then we can be fairly certain that the average user of Google's products will have a very difficult time finding their way to the "privacy features" controls, and in effect Google has already made these privacy decisions for them.
Duncan Bannantyne (a well known entrepeneuer in the UK) was 30 when he started his first business.
i think pg might fall into this category. i checked wikipedia and he was around 33 when viaweb sold to Yahoo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham
This is the point. Her messages were private until Google enabled buzz without asking, automatically followed people and let them follow her, and shared her Google Reader stuff.

It did the same to my account, I didn't even realize it until I read the article.
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1. Moon
2. Planer of the apes ( original )
3.... ah too many to list !
3+ ) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Also the boy in the stripped pijamas is pretty good !
It's not a matter of creating or destroying jobs. It's a matter of productivity. During the past 200 hundred years, employment rates have stayed more or less the same (compared to the revolutionary improvements in standards of living we have accomplished). What has gone up is our producitvity. Sometimes improved productivity creates jobs (through new business) and sometimes it destroys them (people become redundant) but for society overall it's a net win.
I was sort of on the edge about renewing my Prime subscription AND about getting a Kindle, but if they gave me a free Kindle I'd be back on Prime (and ordering from Amazon again) in a second.
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yes, but it's not the kind of thing anyone would read regularly (almost all traffic is from search). it's a simple way (i can "post" by sending myself an email) for me to keep a note of interesting links and to publish technical fixes so that they appear in google searches for others.
Look, people aren't making this stuff up. I'm not sure of the circumstances yet (maybe just the first batch?), but there are a lot of people who were automatically added to Buzz without a prompt.
> - I kept trying to click the buttons embedded into the help tips, but they're roll-over only.

Yes. This bugged me. They looked like such beautiful buttons. I was kind of disappointed when clicking them had no effect.