skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason why this bothers me is that there is no longer any EXPLICIT confirmation that I want to post something. Not sure who said it but I read it in a TechCrunch article, "Just hit play in Spotify and it will share with your friends".

No, any sharing I do HAS to REQUIRE an EXPLICIT action on my part. I have to be in full control. Visiting a web site does not mean that I believe it will be interesting to my friends NOR do I want that information shared with people on Facebook.

A like button that shares, much like the Google+ 1+ button is perfectly fine, I have to hover over it, and choose my circles to share with, and then share. It is not automatic once I visit the site.

I don't want articles automatically being linked just because I visited a page, or clicked play in Spotify, or put the toilet seat up.

It is not just privacy concerns, it is the image I try to convey while using social media sites where it is common place to be friends with your boss and or co-workers. I don't need them knowing I like the Bloodhound Gang or that I read articles about atheism in the NYT but have never read a single article about religion.

Eventually all this collected data will be used against me. What if I do a simple Google search for cancer and I end up reading an article about it, that is now shared publicly, my insurance company a few years later gets a claim for cancer they claim it was a pre-existing condition and deny me coverage.

These are all scenarios going through my head. I am all for the interconnected web, and making it easier for me to introduce my friends to new content across it, however it has to be done on my terms, it has to require explicit authorisation and must never do something automatically without my consent. If I like the content enough I am extremely likely to copy and paste the URL into my social networking sites, I don't mind that extra step. Create a bookmarklet that fills in some of the forms ahead of time for me (I have a reddit bookmarklet that fills out title, URL and the sub-reddit to post in (personal one for me to share links with friends)). I am more than happy to continue using the platform, but this frictionless sharing scares the crap out of me, and will see me closing my account sooner rather than later if it continues down the path that it looks to be going down.
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This really comes down to Winer's tin foil hat obscuring what's actually happening and writing the story to reflect his lack of facts. For these "reading a story" posts to get to your timeline, you have to opt-in by installing the app and giving it permission to do that. If you're dumb enough to do that and get offended, maybe you should close your Facebook account.
True, but I knew about the lifestyle when I picked radiology, and it is a very hard residency to get. There are others with a similar lifestyle, like Dermatology, Ophthalmology, and Radiation Oncology. Guess what? They are the hardest residencies to get into when you finish medical school.

I should make clear why I'm replying in this thread. The world needs good doctors, and I want bright and ambitious readers of this site to know that there is a potential upside.
I love how they mention employing the locals even after noting that about half are illiterate and presumably even less have a college or even high school education.
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Should your site's TOS be subject to counter-offers by users?
I agree. All I wanted to point out was the difficulty in using their stack if you are a small firm or an innovator.
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If you don't want to share anything, then don't use the app. Nothing is automatically sharing unless you tell it to. Nothing can magically share the fact that you read a Techcrunch article unless you install a "Techcrunch Reader" app or something, in which case it would have to ask your permission to share that information. If you didn't like it, you can remove that permission. For example, here's the relevant permission from the Washington post app:

Add app activity to your timeline
Washington Post Social Reader may publish your app activity to your timeline.

If you don't want the app to automatically publish something, then just x out that permission.
"Old-fashioned engineering vs. TDD" is misleading. The difference is that Norvig knew in advance how to solve the problem - constraint propagation - while Jeffries presumably did not.

Suppose Norvig had used TDD while writing his solver. He would have used constraint propagation and come up with a good solution that way too. Similarly, any other technique would have yielded just as poor a result for Jeffries. Knowing things in advance is not a technique. Norvig made this point in Coders At Work:

I think test-driven design is great. I do that a lot more than I used to do. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

The important question is: how can you benefit from existing techniques (like constraint propagation) that reduce your hard problem to an easy one if you don't know about them to begin with? It is a genuine conundrum. Norvig gives a very non-technical answer in Coders At Work: general education and intuition. To that list I suppose one could add: asking around. What you don't know about, other people may.
+1. I'd look into a coworking space. There are plenty of other web startups looking for space too.

Email me if you want any help finding a spot. kevin [at] ignighter [dawt] com
Ask PG: HN about to turn 5?
I note that PG's HN account [0] is 1810 days old, and the submission with ID 1 ditto[1]. 1810 is very nearly exactly 5 years - so is HN about to turn 5?
I just tried it and browsed to TechCrunch.

wow.
So you are not able to view the following link:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/148199_...

Just for reference the picture should be this:

http://imgur.com/UYs6H

Oh ... the way I uploaded that to imgur? Using that URL above, so clearly that is wide open to the world.
Definitely. Here's the script:

http://markerdmann.com/blog/2011/09/24/image-scraping-exampl...

Just let me know if there's anything I need to clarify.
Ask HN: Where have all my buttons gone?
I have been absent from HN for quite some time now and on my return it kind of beats me that all the upvote and downvote buttons for posts and comments have all disappeared.Is this peculiar to me, maybe because I have not been active on the site or is it sitewide?
[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
Hmm weird. I took the error out. Try reloading the page.
You can always remove Z later, but for the initial authentication I think you do have to grant all the permissions it asks for.
"Make a million dollar business in 2 days" doesn't make any sense at all, in any context - it's immaterial whether you are a businessman or an entrepreneur.

I read the article, and there is some good, but generic and basic advice there. It's like exercise daily, eat healthy, only for entrepreneurs.

And the headline is overtly exaggerating, just like whole 4 hour whatever series.

> The funnny thing is that you say that you don't like overnight succes but you write for TechCrunch.

And his writing for techcrunch matters how?

And everyone would like to be a overnight millionaire, but it happens rarel, and a blog post from a self help group isn't going to make it happen. The title is objectionable, incorrect, link bait.

The authors are entitled to their opinions, so is OP, you and I. If the checklist approach works for you, keep following them.
Hey, congratulations. I'm also in St. Louis so I joined your meetup group.
I think we should just add this to the pile of "why the advertising supported model is one of the more dangerous systems in technology".
Love the concept, but the Friend Wall and Follower Growth panels have no data for me. Same with the To/From @Username panels.

I can send you a screenshot if you want.
If you are interested in tech, Ann Arbor is really the place to be in Michigan. Lots of startups and also a great university.

Some areas of Detroit are OK, but if you don't know your way around, it can get real bad real fast. I know at least three people that got robbed at gunpoint in the last couple of months.
The amount of stuff that is starting to require Facebook Connect or access to Facebook is what worries me. Most of them ask for every single permission under the world and only ask me once.

For example, Spotify, it is practically neutered unless you connect it to Facebook, but as soon as it is connected to Facebook it can send data to Facebook as me.

There was an app not too long ago that required Facebook to login, it too asked for those permissions. Now it can without my permission start sharing content based upon actions in the webapp. I am not okay with that.
Not working here, but the design looks great! :-) http://tweetboard.me/#!/folke
Not at all, they now even give you a link to download the image. You can share this publicly. Or just right click and choose "Copy Image URL". I viewed source and it's a standard container div setup, nothing obfuscated about it. The image URLs are all right there.
It's a nice ISA but has some painful aspects. 8-bit registers aren't big enough for many purposes. Shift instructions are one bit position at a time. Explicit stack pointer manipulation isn't atomic.

The best thing about AVR is avr-gcc.
I know this is off-topic, but I figured I'd take the opportunity to ask:

As a medical student who aspires to enter radiology and ultimately own imaging centers, like you, what advice can you offer that'd help me and other HN-med students position ourselves to be appealing candidates for a radiology residency?
I totally understand your concern about sharing things that might hurt you in the future. Anyway, I guess the Washington Post Reader wasn't designed for a lot of people like you, so there's nothing lost from not installing the app. But I have lots of friends who do love sharing all the articles they read, so to each his own.

I sympathize with people's concern about apps requesting more permissions than they need to do their job, but here, "sharing articles I've read" is a core part of what the product is.

So if you don't install the app, and I do, what's the problem?
We operate under the assumption that users will not do what they don't want to do, as long as we make it explicit what might happen. And if they make a mistake, they can always go change their settings.

This breaks down with the deluge of snippets of information, voluminous and arcane privacy settings, and the increasingly complex and cluttered UI. It's simply impossible for a normal user to keep up with.

Frankly, it's this assumption that makes Facebook untrustworthy. Perhaps you should assume that your users value their privacy. Asking for forgiveness rather than permission works for startups, but facebook is not a startup any more. Facebook has the users. They should start acting like they want to keep them.
It seems that certain versions of OpenSSH do print out the command and parameters so I've updated the blog post to include a work-around
Do you think this Medicare law is useful for protecting consumers?
Ask HN: What API to the physical world do you wish existed?
Inspired by the recent post on the startup that turns your emails into physical letters, I was wondering what other opportunities exist like this. What service do you wish you could initiate online (through an API or otherwise) that would have a real-world outcome?
The long hours and over working is more a factor of a hospital trying to save money than having anything to do with supposed 'price controls' being purposefully set up by doctors. The price comes mostly as a factor of the extremely expensive education (both in cost and time) that is necessary. If you want talented people in any field, especially one with such a laboring path of entry, you have to pay them well.
Ah thanks, haven't heard of warrants before and initial googling didn't help. Found it now: http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/stock-option-warr...
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I think it has to re-ask you for new permissions, it doesn't get any permissions 'grandfathered' in. But yeah, the fact that many apps ask for too-many permissions is a pain :/ Means I always have to go back and remove the permissions I don't want, and hope I don't forget.
Are we talking about silicon specs? Or the actual laptop hardware?

This might be picking nits, but I can't think of any other company making a laptop with an aluminum unibody.
Some webapps require using Facebook to login to even create an account on their site.

Now you can say that then they shouldn't use said site, but soon this is going to become more and more common, what then?
I don't know how much TDD matters here. I read 2 articles, and it looks like he doesn't really know how to write a sudoku solver. Unless he was going to invest some time in learning constraint propagation and backtracking, writing or not writing tests would have ended up in the same state.
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Now not loading anything. As a standard precaution, after the previous error I revoked twitter access, now it's not asking for access again, so probably it's just not going to work.

Edit: Down-votes? Really? And it's not just this comment, it's the grandchild as well, so it's not simply the fat-finger syndrome on a tiny mobile device.

<fx: shakes head> I really don't understand some people. I'm trying to explain a failure mode people. I did this, now it doesn't work. Why do you think it should be downvoted?
Google is providing a service to the owner of the website, that helps them track their content.

Google isn't using it to post to a users wall/feed so that advertisers have more keywords to advertise to.
Meta-comment: how is it possible that 2 reasonable, informative comments from roentgen are being downvoted?
I read this and (like most readers I suspect) smiled and enjoyed the satire, although I have to disagree with the statement "Drink more coffee" - in my day it should have been "drink more Mountain Dew".

However the article did bring up two unpleasant memories.

1. The suicide of Fes-Mike Moore: http://tech.mit.edu/V113/N2/moore.02n.html http://tech.mit.edu/V113/N3/martinez.03o.html -- I was living in the dorm room that was directly three floors below his - the Campus Police misread the leading "5" in his room number for a "2" and they came to my room on the night he jumped. I didn't know Fes-Mike personally but I remember seeing him on his roller blades as he came down the central stairwell. He always had a smile for everyone.

2. Carrying a fellow student downstairs who was experiencing severe (what we suspected was) stress-induced ulcer pain to a waiting ambulance.

I can laugh at thess kinds of submissions and my experience at MIT certainly made me stronger (in fact nothing in my professional life has been as hard as MIT, and I say this as someone who has almost been killed on the job more than once), but an elite education isn't something worth dying over. If you are at the breaking point, please take a step back and try to enjoy life a little. A "C" (heck, even an "F") isn't the end of the world.
I'd suggest looking for companies funded by Chicago-based incubators (there are a few, right?) or working from co-working spaces. Go through that list one by one and check each company out.

The above has an extra perk: companies who meet the above criteria are probably smaller/newer, and thus more willing to take interns on.
Reading this article was very very painful... and honestly, everyone here is hitting the nail on the head - they are just exposing how much info they are collecting about people. Facebook is the next Experian/TransUnion/Equifax. In the past (I worked in corp. security and investigations) you had to go to ChoicePoint and have law enforcement-like credentials to get a good background profile and picture of someone else. As more and more of this info is aggregated by Facebook, investigators will go to them for a much richer profile that could have ever hoped for.

Onion really has a great parody of this: http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
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Well, that may be the way it works after F8 2011, but there's got to be a good chance it will have changed to remove this little bit of 'friction' by F8 2012...
Nice work Justin! I heard you mention this project on your last podcast and was looking forward to seeing it. I know there are a bunch of tools out there to better manage twitter, but this is the easiest at-a-glance view without any setup that I've found.
Justin mentioned the logo is by Scott Jackon (http://www.iamscotty.com/blog/) when he talked about this on techzing - I really like it.

The design is a bit too much like GeckoBoard I think and it's currently not pulling in any tweets, but I assume this will be fixed soon.
This functionality is already available by requesting the "offline_access" permission when adding an app. Until now facebook asked developers to cautiously make use of the permission, now it's actively promoting it. By making it the default behavior there is going to be a lot more content than it is today that is posted automatically, thus raising the chances of unhappy accidents. The user dialogs will become transparent to users over time, as they always do.
First of all, when I go to spotify and "log in with facebook". The site sends me to a facebook page asking me to "log in to spotify" with my facebook. On this page, it specifically says "This app will not add activity to your Timeline." In other words, the basic spotify login with facebook isn't social. If you "Connect" your spotify account to facebook, it pops up a permission dialog asking you for various types of access. This is the social portion. Don't do this if you are concerned.

The second part of the application is the social part. Again, if you don't trust an application you can always go to your app settings page on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications), select the application you are worried about and deny specific items that you don't want the app to have access to.

If you "x" out too many things, you might cripple the application, but that's the way it works.
How is this news? crap reblog from weeks ago?
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Upvote if you spent at least a couple seconds trying to unhighlight the Feynman text.
Is it retroactive to apps that you've installed previously? For example, I signed in with my Facebook account on 3rd party site X and accepted the permissions, and at the time it didn't auto-publish to my feed (or "ticker" or whatever), but now suddenly it will be publishing automatically without my explicit say-so?
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There definitely is a beauty pageant aspect to the startup/incubator culture. And TechCrunch is largely to blame. They've keep cheering on anyone who gets a well-oiled slide desk ready, puts some make-up on, and panders to VC's. Meanwhile they completely miss out actual technology news, and don't report true innovation.
Sure. I'm running out the door, but I'll take a look this evening and post an update here.
> And if they make a mistake, they can always go change their settings.

That is a really bizarre response. If a user makes a "mistake" and unwittingly publishes something embarrassing or damaging to their feed because Facebook made that transaction possible, the damage is done.
Looking at where we have come from and where we are moving towards...

There are already webapps that require logins using Facebook connect and provide no alternate means for me to login (I've started creating many a fake Facebook account) and require a whole laundry list of permissions. It won't be too hard to in the future see that people are going to gloss over what permissions they are giving away so that they can get to their free article from the NYT or the Post.

This slow erosion is exactly what I am worried about. That is how the United States is slowly losing all forms of civil liberties and are slowly becoming a police state.

Naked scanners at airports didn't just suddenly happen, it was a long process with some fear thrown in from some stupid jackass with an underwear bomb. DHS used fear to allow them to patrol 150 miles inland from the United States border. The patriot act keeps getting renewed and the only reason it passed was because of 9/11.

No, saying "but it's okay right now, it won't do anything automatically unless you give it permission" doesn't help. Soon it will be "What do you have to hide? Permissions? The web is open..."
You'd think that, because I myself use a Mac, but I'm more interested in the people over the hardware and pick based on that. :)
A bit different. I think every person should have their own API. Something standardized. This would be all their data and different methods/permissions to access it. Furthermore you should be able to host/move this data where ever you like. Any service can have read and/or write access to your API depending on your preferences.
If the flagging is intentional, I agree. But it is also ridiculously easy to accidentally flag an article in a mobile browser on a touchscreen device. I have to wonder how many illegitimate flags come in that way.
Here is a copy of the field labels on the 'register' page:

Username (4-13 chars.)
Password (7+ chars.)
Repeat Password
Email
I don't want to first opt-in to something and LATER have to deny it those permissions. I want to deny it those permissions and only give it some permissions to start with.

How much damage would it be possible to do in the 3 - 4 minutes it will take me to go back to Facebook, go to my account settings, look at my app settings, find the app in the huge list, and then start removing permissions I don't want to grant it?

After that I have to go through the effort to find the post content in my timeline, one by one delete the items and hope that my friends have not yet seen the content (and it being posted to the ticker makes that unlikely...)
The Lua team at PUC-Rio still use RCS. They have a "closed development/open source" model, and they only need to coordinate patches between 3 or 4 people who all work at the same university, so it's probably not as crazy as it sounds.
It's a problem because you guys keep trying to push us closer to sharing being opt OUT.
Yes, this is a great idea. 'Passive' like buttons. There's no need (from my POV) for them to be active.
My boyfriend and I live in a studio, large enough for the both of our "startup lifestyles", and we pay less than that in a safe neighborhood in Manhattan, close to a subway line that can take us practically anywhere in the city. This isn't a particularly rare gem, you just have to know where to look.
I'm curious, was there any user testing done? It seems odd to me that someone would actually want something shared automatically that they simply read. I understand wanting to make user interfaces more streamlined, but reading something and sharing something with your friends are distinctly different activities.
Clickable WORKING version! http://tweetboard.me/#!/ladygaga
If you ask advice from too many other people, then you no longer are yourself
Oh, so Facebook already sent their minions to HN?
That was fast!
Lately the negative stories are gaining a bit of a momentum. Very much like that development.
I agree with the other people who replied to you, this was completely uncalled for.

Whoever flagged the post probably should have their HN account nuked.