skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a facebook account for a good while, was lazy enough to have used it to authenticate to this very site. I was always somewhat troubled by the way the site privacy system morphed overtime, but it served a great utility for me especially in my social event management, so I let sleeping dogs lie.

As I investigated it more (admittedly since social graph announcement and other developments of late ) I decided to remove my account.

My decision was based in part due the fact that I have friends and colleagues who do not enjoy the relative safety both political, and social, that I enjoy as an educated white American citizen of heterosexual persuasion. In a sense I feel that it is irresponsible of me to possibly "out" a friend by accident just because it is a non issue for me.

I find the statements attributed to Zuckerberg profoundly distressing and ignorant of the world we live in, you don't have to go far to find people who maintain different identities so they can merely survive. it is a lack of intellectual integrity on his part.
There's also the issue that some browsers (Firefox, I'm looking at you) do their best to scare users about self-signed certificates, which means that you need to pay for a cert.

Firefox is absolutely in the right, here. Self-signed certificates are worthless; if you'd like a free certificate, use StartCom or CACert.

It also breaks the shared-hosting model: your entire HTTP stream is encrypted, which means that key negotiation occurs before the server has your HOST header.

This is only true for older servers; modern TLS implementations support name-based certificate negotiation.
Matz has cited a number of inspirations, including Perl, Python, Lisp, Smalltalk, Self (I think), and CLU.

He's also referred to Ruby as "Matz Lisp."
I'm sorry, but this logic is like saying that after you've paid for and beaten the hooker, well, you pretty much have to kill her, because otherwise she'll probably turn you in to the police...
Oldest industry known to man, it could clearly benefit from being slapped on the butt with the modernity stick.
Merge this with Android, to enable highly optimized games and data-intensive applications that run on all Android platforms. Heck, have the OS implemented with this.
Better idea would be to inform people somehow that they are running insecure wireless. I'm sure the vast majority of people have no idea there doing so and these days probably getting their internet leached by neighbours.
Actual headline: Google changes Nexus One plans, will stop selling handsets online.

Not the same, at all.
Either I skimmed that article very poorly or you have some inside information on this... I may be slightly paranoid but I am always skeptical about stuff like this. I could imagine a lot of useful pieces of information that could be gleaned, like a geocoded map of where people are ACTUALLY using google and for what... I don't really know, it just gives me a little bit of a funny feeling
I've been using quickbooksonline and their automatic bank transaction downloads are fantastic. Makes reconciling easy. You'll need to compete against them and be better.
Get a good agent. They can be very valuable.
Read the whole post. Danah Boyd always writes very insightfully about social networks and their real-world users and implications. She delivers again here.
What about security? Do they have a layer enforcing the sorts of constraints that javascript is currently restricted by?
God help us, here comes 4chan 2
Is there any information about how the native plugins installation process will look like for the end user?
Looks like these guys are doing the hard work to really make web fonts work, including dealing with foundries and all the vagaries of browsers, font formats, etc.

And the prices seem eminently reasonable.

(From an old electronic type afficionado, the first employee at the first typeset-quality laser printer start-up, in 1980 (Imagen, a Stanford/Knuth TeX project spin-off). We did fairly well until the LaserWriter appeared in 1984 and blew us away. ;-)
There is major competition in this space and I think the market is saturated. The reluctance you have to using any of the existing solutions is the same reluctance anyone else will have to using yours.
Why Digg.com Has Started To Lose Traffic
An insight on why digg has had a tremendous drop in popularity.
That should be the only one listed. What sort of minimalist needs seven principles?
Anyone has a link to a NPAPI/Pepper interface in another language than C++?
So does that mean you aren't charging from the start? I'd hate to be collecting money and not have some sort of entity for the company set up.
Can I make the obvious point that there are significant cultural and even personal variations in these things.

Exhibit A: If I lean back and cross my arms while you are talking to me, this generally means "you have said something so interesting I need to sit back, give you space to finish your point, and think carefully about you said". Not, as the dude implies, I don't like you and I feel uncomfortable.
Digg will fall down soon.
In fact, each and every one of us has billions of microorganisms hanging out on our skin and inside our bodies. Many of them are our friends, helping us digest things we can't otherwise digest and warding off infections.
I've always thought handling legal documents and doing taxes for a startup would be difficult.

I assume most don't actually keep a lawyer on hand, but what about accountants for taxes in small 10-person companies?

Do you need one or is it possible to do it yourself? Does H&R Block handle that sort of stuff?
I wish they would have started with LLVM or some other bytecode rather than x86 but this is a huge step towards having other languages in the browser.
They also hint that the Native Clients could eventually work in IE/Firefox. But they will rely on open-source contributions to port NPAPI/Pepper to those browsers..

https://groups.google.com/group/native-client-discuss/browse...

"A subset of our current functionality works in Firefox,
for example (though it's currently missing some important parts, like
3D)"
Have there been studies that've shown this proof?
They will never do this because of a couple reasons:

1) Ads. They need to be able to log your hits so they can charge advertisers money.

2) Security. Not logging visits means they wouldn't be able to trace back suspicious activity, etc. If you somehow managed to hack them through their private web search page, there wouldn't be any traces of you.

There aren't many good reasons for this anyway. It wouldn't make your searches anonymous to anyone but Google. Your ISP would still have a complete record of everything you've done. And since Google doesn't really see themselves as someone you need to be protected from, what is the point?
- GoDaddy - not a fan. They're not an 'above board' company, seems like lots of shady stuff going on, and navigating their control panels is atrocious.

- ThePlanet - I had a good experience with a dedicated server from them. Good pricing, good control panel, good notifications on the one downtime incident I had.

- ServerBeach/Peer1 - Also had a good experience with ServerBeach. Good pricing on dedicated server. I didn't like their control panel at the time I signed up, but they've recently changed it, but I moved to cloud hosting, so didn't stick with them.

- Rackspace Cloud - I had some initial issues which I brought to the attention of their GM. He was great. Amazing service, and I've been VERY impressed with the performance of their lower tier cloud. Their documentation I thought was VERY well done.

- Linode - I've got a cloud server with Linode, I'm happy with the performance, but had to move up to a larger size then I was expecting. Their service is clear and easy to use. Upgrading/downgrading is a snap. Prices are very good.

I would say go cloud if you're into that kind of thing. Linode or RackSpace, I'm having trouble deciding which route I'm going to stick with myself.
CribQ - http://sfbay.cribq.com/

There are other cities it handles (choose the drop down) but it defaults to sfbay (for me) and remembers your subdomain. Anyway, its a cool google map, craiglist, route, list planner mashup a friend made.

There'a an iPhone app for it too.
Installing Ada on Arch Linux
Thanks for the reference
4chan Founder ‘Moot’ Raises $625K For Stealth Startup Canvas Networks
Thats exactly what my startup is doing: http://www.appfolio.com
Google's Native Client is the most exciting thing to happen to the web in a long time. IMVU has always talked about porting our client to the web, but the existing technologies just aren't good enough: Unity3D doesn't support software rendering, Flash is too slow, JavaScript is too slow... Native Client would let us continue to use our SSE-optimized rendering code, securely, without requiring a download.

A colleague was playing around with the NaCl SDK and he said the example app is Quake. Within a day or so, he had an in-browser demo running 9 instances of Quake, with sound, all at the same time.

All this noise about HTML 5 and video codecs? With Native Client, the web app could include whatever codec it wanted.

Ever notice that a simple 2D game such as Farmville runs at 15 frames per second, even on a machine that can play Crysis or Supreme Commander? With Native Client, we'll start to see these types of truly rich experiences on the web.

I'm sorry, Flash, but the web is changing without you...

Edit: I see there is a lot of concern about security. NaCl uses x86 segment restrictions to build a sandbox for untrusted x86 code. Google ran a contest to try to poke holes in it: http://code.google.com/contests/nativeclient-security/
The San Francisco Artists' Soapbox Derby, 1975
A film of the fascinating profiles and pictures of the artists, their cars, and the race. via ptorrone.
Silent resentment is something that can produce tangible negative teamwork effects because it is silent and resentment.

Have you talked to your manager or someone who you feel understands how to tactfully deal with people? Sometimes people have no clue how they act around people (however, never ever criticize someone in public - always in private - and always sandwich it (Toastmasters technique) - praise/criticism/another positive thing. Never criticize the person - point out their behavior 'I'd like to tell you..when you come over to my desk and ask me questions when I am working, I don't like that - I find it difficult to work with interruptions - it's not just you - it's everyone. When I have my headphones on, can you send me an IM?'

Here are some possible techniques to try:

Stand-up meetings. Goal is to keep the meeting short. These are clever in that if you have to stand up the meeting will conclude faster - as people get weary of talking on their feet. If they don't get weary, suggest a walking meeting and just keep on increasing the pace (to wear them out)

The walk-back technique. Assuming your teammate has to physically walk to your desk to interrupt you, every time they interrupt you - get up, walk them back to their own desk. This shifts the power - even if he continues the conversation - he or she is not interrupting you in your space - you are 'interrupting' them.

If they are long-winded in a meeting - try the 3 strikes interruption technique. Very effective. When they pause for a breath or don't pause for a breath - ask them 3 rapid-fire closed-ended questions 'Can that use X? Or maybe Z. Will that be able to be done in Z time?' (not that - just an example - context is important)

In these meetings where the fifth comes in late, have a timer - each person can only speak for the duration of the timer.

This one may or not work. If you would prefer that they contact you via IM, IM them when you want to talk to them.

Always be polite when interrupted. State 'I am working on debugging bug XYZ. I'd like to get back to you later'. And use the walk-back technique if you are truly busy. Do not go to the bathroom - unless you want to have the ad-hoc meeting in the bathroom.

If you state the reason why you don't want to be interrupted sometimes they catch on. 'I'd like to talk to you later. I'm busy conferencing with Joe on feature Z.'

If these techniques don't work, you need to ensure the person is made aware of their problem by higher management. Similar to how kids will be more likely to listen to another authority figure than their parents.
Is this their way of conceding that nobody is really serious about making rich graphical apps in JavaScript?

Also, Google sure throws a lot of spaghetti on the wall to see if something will stick, don't they? From this to Chrome OS to their JavaScript stuff to Android to Go and on and on.
Yeah I gotta say, from my point of view, coming from the games industry, this development seems pretty awesome.
Guess what. They support LLVM too! http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/data/site/pnacl.pdf
Well, I'll borrow your phrase: They're charging people to see ads. They can have it one way or the other, but not both. It's the same reason I can't abide advertisments at the movie theater. The value that the Times creates is a little like free food in Vegas. The food may be wholesome and nutritious, but there's an alterior motive, and charging standard rates for it would yield less money for the casino in the long run. Also, that the paywall kicks in only for the most devoted readers really turns me off.

As far as non-profit journalism, I'm all for it. I would absolutely donate to a news outfit I felt was fighting the good fight. NP-journalism is forward-thinking. My only concern is that journalists' integrity not be compromised by their patron's agenda. But I suppose it couldn't be any worse than the current situation, right?

Assurance contract-like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract) group funding of journalism is another interesting idea.

Free-agency, decentralization, online markets for stories, and ads are my view of journalism's most likely future.
how did you get these with the exact searches per month?
Projekktor – HTML5 VideoTV & Video Player
Projekktor is a JS wrapper for the new HTML5 video and audio elements. It solves cross browser and compatibility issues, adds some eye candy to the native players and provides usefull non standard features. This HTML5 player is easy integration to any site, just include one JS file and use standard video or audio tags thats all.
It took 6 paragraphs to get to the word JavaScript. JavaScript is here to stay and its adoption for server apps is on the rise and will be used in some cases where yesterday ruby or python would have been used. That's it in a nutshell. No sense in trying to tack on superlatives like "most important".

JavaScript is here to stay because Netscape threw it in the browser and somehow the browser wars didn't screw it up enough to make it problematic as cross-browser html & css. So its the only game in town for web browsers and once you get used to its warts, it does the job.
Ask HN: I need to store lots of citations
Here is my train of thought so far...

Storing normalized citations
Pros: easy to search through with fine granularity;
Cons: Difficult to maintain schema; difficult to enter semantic information

Storing citation “blobs” (ex. MLA formatted strings)
Pros: easy to enter (simple copy+paste); easy to store
Cons: difficult to search through with granularity

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Any pointers or ideas?
You don't think there is even a slight possibility that the phone belonged to somebody else, like, say, the person who actually lost it? Do you really think it was unreasonable for Gizmodo to ask Apple to simply state--not prove, merely state--that it belonged to them and that the person who left it in the bar didn't "lose" it on purpose? I think it is more than reasonable to ask. Especially, it's silly to speculate when when Apple was willing to confirm it.
Nexus One is almost identical to HTC Desire (differs in RAM amount, dual-mic on N1 and different firmware). Both are GSM/UMTS phones.

HTC Incredible is CDMA (Verizon) phone.
Why Digg.com Has Started To Lose Traffic
It looks cool, but can anyone explain to me what exactly is 'Open' about this?
The alternative is why in the first place, for three full years, they recorded wifi traffic? Who coded this function? What does the function do with the data? Where do they store that information? For how long do they keep it? Where did they do this, worldwide?

When their car is stopped at a traffic light for a minute, does it stop recording wifi traffic? I'm hoping it's illegal in the US to wiretap a phone, so how does this compare?
I've been a very happy http://Gandi.net customer for a while now (registrar and VPS host). Decent performance and service, their web site interface is great and I love having a prepaid account.
Unsubsidized Nexus One from Google = 600 EUR.

Unsubsidized HTC Desire from local brick and mortar store = 400 EUR.

So I guess that the opinion 'Google drastically overpriced the phone.' is still valid.
Is there some principle that states that the value of a social network is the square of the user base? Some networks have a business model predicated on keeping their head count limited.
What makes this so great is how many people will take it seriously and angrily comment about this absurdity. Zed Shaw is the only person I know of that will troll by writing extensive amounts of code. It's rather incredible.
You didn't say what you're hosting. So...

- If compatible with your app, Heroku. Eliminates entire categories of tedium and stress.

Otherwise:

- Shared: I give a big "meh" to shared hosting in general, but if you must, then try DreamHost. (BTW, my impression is that you'll get locked to a server that doesn't get upgraded for years, but if you cared that much about performance, you probably wouldn't be on shared hosting.)

- Virtual: Linode or Slicehost (or Rackspace cloud, which is essentially Slicehost). They all seem to "just work", and feature smart responsive people.

- Dedicated: I've had good experiences with Softlayer. Very flexible system and responsive support. I don't do anything with dedicated nowadays, though.

For the registrar, I like Dynadot. Simple, fast, cheap, works.

Do consider an independent DNS provider as well (e.g., dnsmadeeasy).
I believe there isn't an install process. But you could always fire up a nightly to test ;)

My guess is this won't see mainstream distribution until they've removed the x86 instruction dependency. I think the shipping version will use LLVM bytecode rather than x86 machine code. (this has been hinted at, too.)
> If you really wanted to determine 'most important', think about what software you'd be left with if all software and dependencies written in a language was taken away.

That's one definition of "important". However, now that we have the OS's and webservers -- and are building _on_ them, what's the most important? Your point is like saying nuts and bolts are most important, for if you take them away the car will fall apart ;-)
"I believe that apprentices could start practicing medicine and law much earlier in their careers and learn the facts they need along the way."

As a medical student that just today finished his first year, I take a little offense to that ;) Namely, there are already fields for exactly what you describe: nurse practitioners, and to a lesser extent, physician assistants. They are taught general patterns of a small set of diseases, and can only diagnose that small set of diseases that specifically follow the course (i.e., pattern) that they were taught.

After a year of schooling, I am nowhere near ready to practice internal medicine or family medicine, let alone specialty fields. I can spot your garden variety shingles, ear infection, etc., but anything more requires experience - and knowledge - that I do not yet possess (even after a year of grueling studying!).
Eben Moglen: "Freedom in The Cloud" (vid)
Comcast Creates World's First "Social Remote" With Xfinity iPad App
> Also, Google sure throws a lot of spaghetti on the wall to see if something will stick, don't they? From this to Chrome OS to their JavaScript stuff to Android to Go and on and on.

You make it sound like they aren't related :)
Google admits collecting Wi-Fi data with street view cars
Do you have evidence that HTTPS results in user retention problems for gmail? I have heard that it may for search. These are two very different use cases. I can recall users and articles in years past asking for https to be default for gmail. Yes, us geeks knew its been an option for a while. My original post was simply pointing that the decision should be made based on what users want...not as an excuse so the media or Google can publish inflammatory digs in their issues with China.
Seriously, it's like anything related to Steve Jobs counts as news.
Why not just get married?
Regarding #2, his second link: "Top 5 Reasons To Incorporate in Delaware": http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/top-5-reasons-to-inco...

IANAL, but that all sounds like good advice to me. He adds that you shouldn't consider DE to be the default choice, but here's another take from a corporate attorney that was posted on HN:

http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup_002.html

My takeaway from this is to avoid being tempted to skip deep and prolonged consideration of Step #2.
I don't think Zuckerberg--or the idea of transparency--is as naive or ignorant as you point it. It may ultimately be a bad idea but for deeper reasons than "they never thought of people with unusual lifestyles who may be oppressed because of them".

Here's the argument: people keep secrets because people keep secrets. Those of us who have different sexual orientations and make other non-traditional lifestyle choices keep it secret because it's socially taboo, but it's socially taboo only because we continue keeping it secret. We'd be better off if that was broken down, but you don't want to be the first one coming out of the closet. Thanks to game theory we're all worse off. That's why you need to change the game. 20 years ago you'd be shocked to find that your uncle was in a gay polyamorous relationship. The idea is to build a world where you won't care because you'll know two dozen gay people and two dozen polyamorous people.
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While I don't like the direction Facebook has been going in regarding privacy, I am one of the folks of the position that it is not wise to put stuff on the Internet you don't want being made public.

The whole problem is that Facebook takes your Internet visibility out of your hands, and puts it in the hands of your "friends." Meaning, people who don't realize that you might not want photos of underage drinking or that summer camp in Pakistan posted in public and tagged with your name.
The open is probably just a part of the branding. The platform supports multiple payment gateways so in that regard it's an "open" gateway. You're not tying yourself to one gateway, just an api.
Not if you wrote clear supporting documentation appropriate for an audience that will not be familiar with your particular conceptualization. This in itself is a real art.
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Perhaps they will. webOS just release their PDK to allow this. http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&v...

Google can't let Palm get the upper hand, can they? ;)
How about Server Name Indication?
I like this comment. When I was younger, I used to think a whole lot more about all the different ways that things could be. As I got older, I very slowly realized just how immovable most of the rest of society is. Gradually, I came to accept the way people are as "reality", which I found necessary to do in order to make a living and have friends. But I think in some ways I had a much larger perspective when I was younger.
I really don't think there's that much integration going on at Google. Maybe eventually but for now, from the outside, it really feels like they're trying to go into many somewhat unrelated directions and hoping some interesting paths reveal themselves and if they converge then so much the better.
Apple Rejects Wi-Fi Sync App for iPhone