skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google shouldn't bear responsibility for indexing something sensitive, as the sensitive information should not be reachable via any link anywhere, let alone on the public Internet. It's about as sane as expecting the government to clean up after one's own mistakes, and just as damaging to the concept of personal or corporate responsibility.
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It is if it means you're working on a second-class idea rather than thinking for another 10 minutes to come up with a first-class one.
There probably wouldn't be much utility in doing this to some random stranger, but it could be useful if you were trying to blackmail or embarrass someone.

For instance, say that you're a senator and you've made some enemies. If these enemies could log in to your account, they could reveal some "suspicious charges" from an escort or pornography service, or perhaps they'd notice some large expenditures on airfare and travel when you were supposedly just off for a weekend hike (Mark Sanborn). All of these things are bad.

That's a prominent example, but the same could be done to anyone you wanted some leverage against, be it a teacher, supervisor, or anyone else. Yes, it'd be ideal if people didn't do things that destroy their careers and/or families in the first place, but often times that's not how people work.
I'm thinking they would need to get quite complex - eg. what happens if someone posts to your 'wall' - who controls the visibility of that? Simply moving to a different site might be a more convenient solution for most people. Especially if these 'all-in-one' programs become more popular.
The situation is even worse with lambda calculus. Lambda calculus should have been named function theory, but that term was already used by an interesting part of analysis, that should have been named complex analysis.
At the risk of self-promotion, a while back I did a presentation on naming schemes for network devices, which have slightly different requirements than servers:

http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog31/abstracts.php?pt=NjExJ...
I put together a quick wordpress plugin:

http://bitbucket.org/errant/wp-notifo

Just chuck the php file into a plugins/notifo folder then activate it.
Do you know what was the name of this project which lets you, with a firefox extension, post your facebook messages using PGP or something similar ? I can't find it again, still there was some buzz about that some months ago..

edit : this software was aimed at creating short life messages. After some time the data was deleted from the net.. It was using some P2P technology
Personality flaws aside, would you choose to hire someone if you knew they were going to move on in 12-24 months or is it an automatic no?
This seems to be a function of rising living standards, so that the population is never tougher than they need to be. If we assume that toughness is a desirable attribute, is there a way to toughen people up, even if they don't "need it".
It might be a useful heuristic for companies anywhere remotely in this space to use during early alpha/beta periods though. There aren't that many legitimate cases where you're going to be sending 14-to-19-digit numbers in HTML, so at least during the early phases, flag them and make sure they're not CC#s that somehow got there.
In IDN that's xn--eyjafjallajkull-jtb, quite the server name.
One-line css classes is horrible, even if you don't have scanning tools at your disposal. It makes it harder to work with your CSS and know what is going on.

I prefer this style, indent the last brace:

http://stopdesign.com/css/base.css

With decent commenting and closing bracket indented, CSS is real easy to browse and understand which section of your page / site you are working on.

The only other option I'd consider is Google's recommendation for defining one attribute, and piling on a ton of selectors that require that attribute. It's totally difficult to maintain but at the same time it makes your site load slightly faster if you have time to spare. Wish there was a program to do convert CSS coding styles automatically...

Also, blueprint.css style of doing CSS where you append a bunch of classes to each HTML element makes me want to stab my eye with a pencil.

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pud is a very smart guy, and I actually think the blippy concept could be successful; I just don't like the implementation.

I was thinking of doing a "sharing your amazon purchases" startup (as a way to give people advice about their own purchases; e.g. if you buy a printer, a laptop, etc., have a single place you can go to with info on your purchases -- stuff like where to get toner, owners manuals, repair services, etc.). Someone mentioned blippy, and I met him in person a few times at Founder Institute.
That's one of the classic (Gibbon, I think) explanations for the fall of the Roman Empire: as their living standards rose, they got softer until a bunch of lower-living-standards barbarians could overrun them. Not sure of a solution, though. (It's probably also worth noting that that hypothesis isn't as popular among modern historians.)
I think the vast majority of people of any age will never have a hand in anything because they are incapable of doing anything other than follow the crowd and trot out a bunch of stereotypes. You just confirmed this believe for me.
I have no experience, but I believe Kawa Scheme was the first Lisp to demonstrate the ability to run on Android.
I love this slide: Typical Dropbox User (Hears about Dropbox from a friend blog, etc. and tries it -> "I didn't realize I needed this" -> "it actually works" -> Unexpectedly happy ->tell friends)
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I sure hope Drew is not on the Durant trajectory.

Great entrepreneurs like him should live on to grow up into great businessmen.
It's a test of loading yahoo.com, not a blank page.
I'm totally confused. I never even knew that this was an issue, and I agree with the author that that is a terrible solution. If you really have so much CSS that you can't easily figure out what selectors you have, you should probably be breaking it up into multiple files. It's also helpful to use something like sass for slightly better organized and more concise styling.

I've been guilty of this in the past too, but we really shouldn't be throwing up the modern conventions of source code organization for CSS
propaganda that glorifies the soldier's cause and dehumanizes the enemy

that pretty much sums it up, generally in combat both side have some grand mission (liberate Iraqi people, repel the Great Satan). I doing so both sides propaganda strives to dehumanize the opponent. The problem is many times this work all too well and the end result is a nation frothing at the mouth with blood lust and a leader that is all to willing to quench it with genocide. History, is full of examples of such happenings.
A nice dream, and parts of it may be possible. I especially like the comments about no cars, working and living locally.

I can't fully agree with home schooling - we need to improve our education system so everyone at least has the opportunity to learn. With home schooling some kids whose parents do it right would get a good education, but others wouldn't. BTW, my son in law home schooled our young grandkids for a few years: a lot of effort!
Thank you, at least now I've learnt something from this silly drama thread :)
A truly great hacker will have enough facility with abstraction and clarity that his code will be understandable by others, including himself 6 months later.

He'll program in such a way that he can debug the hard bugs.
While I agree with you, don't you think it's a little screwy to change your writing practice for the benefit of your tools? You should be able to write any way you want, your tools work for you.
Err, vs. Lisp/s-expression syntax.

Most of the post-70s children of Algol have adopted "C syntax" as I refer to it, although I'll agree this language is some distance from that, e.g. it doesn't suffer from "cancer of the semicolon". But it is strongly C/C++ influenced at the very least.
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That's it - there's definitely a phenomenon of earnestly linking to Wikipedia while belittling it at the same time.
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yes, but there is a derivative to think about here. How long before that gap is $1B with Apple on the other side. That is the real news here: the delta not the so much the position.
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Oh, I see what you mean now. Calling everything that is not S-expression a C syntax is pretty far-fetched though =)
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You're asking me to justify reading books that are recommended by someone I admire? Seems like such a trollish request! But I've liked some of your comments, so I'll try to answer straightforwardly.

I often read books for information, ideas of how to approach problems, and also for inspiration/motivation/reassurance/encouragement. That's what I hope to get.

Now, Drew is a very clear thinker, eg in his YC application., but obviously reading books that he's found valuable is not going to suddenly make me as clear as him - but it might help [I actually deleted that from my original comment because it seemed sort of irrelevant to the question].

Now, for these specific books, I've liked Steve Blank's blog, but if Drew has followed or used that book somewhat, that would be a significant recommendation. I have some doubts, because it seems to be a fact-driven approach, and sometimes the facts can't be ascertained - eg customers can't want something they can't imagine; you have to build it first and show it. (eg The Innovator's Dilemma). Drew mentions this in people weren't actively looking for what we were making and 'I didn't realize I needed this' (#27,28). I also think that being too focused on specific questions can close your mind off from serendipity. But that's just my opinion.

I have to say that what Drew has done is just so cool: a new technology-based product that is revolutionary. The slides also have some of that magical sheen of founder folklore. Although my last software business supports me financially, the technology wasn't revolutionary and it didn't start a revolution in usage. I hope my present one will be closer to it (that would be awesome!). I do have a bit of a "fan" attitude to Drew's success; perhaps that's why you're requesting justification.
This sounds a lot like the semi-popular college game 1000 Blank White Cards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Blank_White_Cards)
Is there video or audio of the presentation? It's easier to grasp attitudes than just seeing the slides (good though they are).
In theory, at least, I wouldn't need them for I proof the program is correct ;-)
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There was a bunch of discussion of this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287110
http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510
Microsoft has 90% desktop market share and 90% office market share. Where does Apple have a monopoly where they can drive the market? A mistake or two and they will have a problem. Look at Nokia or Motorola.
Here's Drew's original submission referenced in the presentation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
There is such a proper mechanism: robots.txt. Whenever I put all my users' credit card numbers on a public web server I make sure the URL is properly protected by robots.txt. If I want to be absolutely sure everything is safe I use CSS to make the numbers invisible on top of that! ;-)
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I'm intrigued why shares haven't suffered.

http://bit.ly/ce29LA
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My Favorite Quote: "Search is a way to harvest a market, not create it."
I like one-line CSS. Probably because I am a fan of easy and accessible webdesign. My biggest CSS file has maybe 80 selectors, about two pages.

It boils down to "do it as you like it". Linked post does some childish flaming against editors that do not have that kind of "collapsed" view which I find a far fetched and insulting.
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And Linux, the hacker's OS.
What's the incantation for a symbols list in vim?
Thanks for the in-depth response.
Let me first state that it was not my intention to attack your language.

I didn't download or try the language to answer my questions (or read the rest of documentation) because I was just giving my opinion on the introductory guide, not on the language itself! In other words: I'm not saying your language sucks. I haven't formed an opinion on it yet.

Regarding bignums, for my programming languages I've settled on imath ( http://spinning-yarns.org/michael/sw/imath/ ). It has a BSD compatible license, it's ANSI C, it's very fast and it has both bignum and bigdecimal support. It's also memory efficient for small numbers.

I'm happy to report that I'm working on hobby projects and my own startup all the time. Having a blast. Next time, please don't assume I'm a sarcastic jerk.
I would've bought it for $99, but I didn't seem to have access to that deal. I hope I know sooner if it comes around again.

The reason is that I have an aunt who's really interested in genealogy. Genetically tracing her heritage back to Lucy seems like an awesome Christmas present; and quite a bit of the health-related stuff should be applicable to me too, if she shared all the data.
I tried to quit last year and then my wife started an argument with me, rationalizing that people would think she's single if I quit. I'm still on Facebook, it's still completely useless, and and I still want to quit. However I need some ammo if I'm going to approach this subject with her again.
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I'm surprised I'm the first to mention this here, am I really the only one that feels this way?

I don't want to know what diseases I could have. I'm happy living my life by the day and planning for a future that I'd love to have. I'd hate to discover I'm susceptible to x, y, and z; and that if I were to have a kid it would likely have a, b, c....

I'd rather jus live and let live. No need to worry about stuff that may not come to pass, and no need to brood about something even if it is, in the end, inevitable.
I have a recollection of hearing about a "breakthrough" in the health insurance world when some company figured out that there was a substantial correlation between grocery items purchased and health issues. I'm very weak on the details (I think the context of my learning about this was a presentation of a "brilliant executive" who will now share blah blah blah-- oh, by the way, she figured out how to do this for insurance companies). My google-fu is weak, but here is a link that at least makes my fuzzy recollection a little plausible.

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/70072_loyal11.asp

This is a pretty serious outcome IMHO.

Edit: HBR article
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/d/5/7d50c016-6e60-4...
Last time I used Blueprint, it was with SASS & Compass, which lets you mix in the blueprint.css rules in the CSS, keeping the HTML clean and semantic instead of a stupid version of tables with all the "span-4" nonsense.
When you scan, you're looking for the id or class, not its attributes. I'm a huge fan of one-line and have been doing for 5 years. It's just faster for me.
Also, in Textmate (and most modern editors) you have access to code folding. Cmd-opt-0. All of those classes become the equivalent of one liners for scanning.
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As noted in the blog post comments, using a CSS compressor for production will tighten everything down for deployment and you get to keep a nice, easy to read file for development by multiple people using different editors in a manner they choose.
People aren't using it because the main big libraries aren't available yet.

The libraries becoming available is going to take a little while... work is being done to make pygtk available.

Numpy is a big library widely used - when this arrives then others will follow (I'd give it two years or so).
Not really. Pinch & Zoom is a very basic gesture that any multitouch screen devices need. Then Apple came & just destroyed the game...
Apple is seriously screwed when it's iPod/Phone/Pad/Moneygrabber2020 becomes uncool. Apple isn't even playing a popularity game, they're playing a coolness game, which is infinitely more dangerous. They'll eventually find themselves as the Fonzie on water skis looking at a shark tank.

Microsoft has never been cool, which makes it perfect for corporate business where coolness is treated like an itch in a private place. Until Apple is able to sell itself to big business it is riding a knife-edge trying to stay cool with the college students that change every single year.
Right. And the whole point of the article is that using any modern editor, you can easily scan to find an id or class without resorting to one-liners, which do make the attributes harder to read/write/debug/diff.
To your point is the Beverly Dennis v. Metromail case. A company had a bad idea for outsourcing some of the tasks they performed with the data they had.

It's covered here http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ftc-info_mktpl.htm (buried deep in the page)
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Let her create a fake husband account.
I spend half my coding time on my netbook when I'm away from my desk, and another half in front of my Workstation with 7k x 2k resolution monitor space.

I'm certainly less distracted when I'm in front of my netbook. And, I'm certainly less likely to start noodling around on the internet looking for videos, etc...

I also can run Win 7 Ultimate on the Netbook without any problems whatsover. And, by purchasing an extra 6 cell battery the my Aspire One, I have enough battery life to last me from Barcelona to San Francisco on a single charge. It's a beautiful thing.

I know the iPad is a beautiful piece of hardware, but when people mention having a computer that they can just have lying around and turn on to surf the web... I already have that. And, it cost me $250.
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Sounds really cool. I wish I could find a group to play this with. Any takers in NYC?

In other news, all these numbered rules made me think of Rule #34. I lost.
The debugging argument is a joke - who doesn't have some sort of soft wrap option on their editor? what about people who don't write one-line css but tab nested classes (such as the writer of the article)?
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Is the original screencast available anywhere? Would love to see that.

Dropbox has shown that if you build something that solves a big problem well, you can overcome even a seemingly high barrier to entry (installing client software).
Of course, it's just the pile of adjectives that eventually started to sound a little aggressive, but no offense taken.

Also, I understand very well what you want to know as a language designer yourself, the difficulty resides in making the homepage friendly for beginners too! Let me know when we can do expertise-detection of the audience in the browser =)

Thanks for the feedback anyway, we're always looking for ways to improve the docs, it's just that one has only 24h a day, as I'm sure you're well aware (especially with a startup on your hands.)

IMath sounds awesome, someone suggested it earlier I think but we were worried about performance. I'll definitely give it a shot.

I'd love to hear more about your programming language and the design choices you made, where can I get more information?

EDIT: I'm sorry that you felt like I considered you a sarcastic jerk. It really wasn't my intention :/ it's just hard to tell the good people apart, you know? Again, apologies if I sounded harsh.
I am not associating. Many of these are contacts from my school, college, internships. No all of them are on lickedin or such websites. It seems FB is ubiquitous....

You have a point though. Some of them ARE stupid.
For those of you who missed yesterday's thread: The Last Answer

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What I was thinking about was someone using say POP and a client like Thunderbird. The POP traffic by default is clear-text, so when you send your password to the server, it's in the clear unless you're either tunneling your traffic or going to a secure port to your ISPs mail server.
Typically, you would use something like Exuberant Ctags to generate a taglist file, which you then tell vim about using "set tags" (this process can, of course, be automated using an autocmd). Have a look through ":help tags" for all the amusing ways you can search and jump to tags in vim. Also, consider installing the taglist plugin for vim, which will get you a nice list of all the tags in a buffer.

Unfortunately, Exuberant Ctags doesn't grok CSS by default. The necessary modification is quite simple, and you can find it here: http://scie.nti.st/2006/12/22/how-to-add-css-support-to-ctag....
This was on HN less than a year ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=595419
I think you've failed to capture he essence of the incident. Try this:

http://jballer.tumblr.com/post/540967372/gizmodos-trade-secr...
Not sure this counts, but I quit Gmail over privacy concerns. My mail and my web site are currently hosted on a remote virtual machine on which I am root. But this is not enough. I eventually plan to use a real personal server, one that will be locked behind my walls.

Of course, I won't ever use Facebook.
Hmm, I may have replied to the wrong comment, or misread it. I only meant to say that the device wasn't stolen from Apple campus, not that it couldn't have been stolen at the bar.
Here's an HN discussion from a month ago on the general topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1217845

A Scheme running on top of Dalvik or on the "bare metal" (if that's allowed) strikes me as probably the best bet for now.