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testing12341234··on Follow This Rule — If You Want To Be Popular (1922)
Also, these are two articles hand picked from one year from all sources that printed news that year. That's a very small sample size to extrapolate from.
testing12341234··on Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs?
When I interviewed for my current position, I was very upfront with the interviewers that I was not interested in any kind of management position that takes me away from coding. I let them know that if they were looking for an engineer to groom for management that they needed to look elsewhere. Coding is my passion, and I don't want anything that takes my main focus away from that. Now I'm the technical lead for multiple projects, where I do about 75% coding vs 25% other stuff, and I'm very happy at this level.
testing12341234··on Google Disabled map API access for Volkswagen website
The exact message is:

"Google has disabled use of the Maps API for this application. This site is not authorized to use the Google Maps client id provided. If you are the owner of this application, you can learn more about registering URLs here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/gu...

It's probably a case where the dev API key was pushed live instead of the correct key for vw.com

testing12341234··on xCharts - A D3-Based Library For Building Custom Charts and Graphs
daeken mentioned this yesterday, but you're still spamming the same exact text with only the name of the library changed.
testing12341234··on They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again.
I'm probably going to get downvoted to hell about this but... I can not stand Arrington's whinging (even though I certainly deserve what I get for clicking on the linkbait title).
testing12341234··on A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz”
Boss: I need you to write me a program to print the numbers from 1 to 100

Me: Really? Is that really a business requirement? Any other requirements you need done?

Boss: Yes, it's your number 1 priority. No, just 1 to 100

Me: <a few minutes later> Done. Give it a review and I'll push it live.

Boss: <a few minutes later> No! I said 1 to 100 and everything divisible by 3 should be replaced by "FIZZ". Why didn't you do that?

Me: I'm pretty sure you didn't ask for that, but I'll do it right now. Any other requirements than FIZZ?

Boss: Thanks for taking care of this. There aren't any other requirements.

Me: <a few minutes later> Done. Give it a review and I'll push it live.

Boss: <a few minutes later> Seriously! Why didn't you put the BUZZ in there?

Me: What BUZZ are you talking about? You only asked for FIZZ.

Me: Wait a second, are you having me program FIZZBUZZ for you? What the heck!

Boss: Yes! Somebody on the internet asked how a non-programmer like myself would solve FIZZBUZZ!

Me: Sigh...

testing12341234··on GoDaddy forbids account deletion
According to GoDaddy's Privacy Policy[0], they will delete your information if you are in the EU.

"Go Daddy complies with the EU Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union. Users in the European Union consent to the transfer to and processing of their personal information in the United States. We will respond to your request for access to modify or delete your information within thirty (30) days."

Also Namecheap's Privacy Policy looks like some boilerplate that has been copied from another source. The text for the section you identified is the exact same as GoDaddy's, and many others[1].

[0] - http://www.godaddy.com/agreements/ShowDoc.aspx?pageid=privac...

[1] - https://www.google.com/search?q=placed+in+deactivated+status...

testing12341234··on What Petraeus and Broadwell could have used instead of Gmail
Finally a use for RFC 1149

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

testing12341234··on Show HN: a5.gg — Using HTML5 localstorage as a quick note taking app
I noticed that you've added Google Analytics code to the page. Is this included because it is now a world-facing site, or do you use analytics on your internal projects for personal metrics?
testing12341234··on The Old MacDonald Hackathon
Is it local?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2LBICPEK6w

testing12341234··on OLinuXino, a good alternative to the Raspberry Pi?
Interestingly enough, it appears they also have an A13[0] board for sale. It's a bit pricier at 45 euros.

[0] https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A13/A13-OLinuXino/

testing12341234··on Show HN: hackathon for introverts
You may be conflating shyness, social intelligence and introversion. Just for clarity, here are some definitions which I don't assume everyone knows.

Shyness "is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness experienced when a person is in proximity to, approaching, or being approached by other people, especially in new situations or with unfamiliar people"[0]

Social Intelligence "describes the exclusively human capacity to effectively navigate and negotiate complex social relationships and environments"[1]

Introversion is "the state of or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own mental life".[2]

When I was younger, I was told that all of these things were the same , and I was very confused. While I felt more connected to my inner world than the outer world, I had no problem dealing with situations (such as parties, events, etc) where I met a large number of people. I wouldn't actively seek these types of encounters out, but would navigate them (often with compliments) when they came up. However, afterwords I would feel physically and mentally exhausted. Only later in life did I learn a more nuanced view about introversion/extroversion that dealt with which situations one finds more or less rewarding.

I personally find small teams, often just me, highly rewarding and engaging. Afterwards I feel mentally recharged, and can continue such encounters for very long amounts of time. Conversely, I find that large groups are very draining, and I have to take more time to recharge.

I would generally rank in the middle-lower levels in shyness. I don't actively seek out encounters with strangers, but I do not feel a high level of apprehension or awkwardness. For social IQ, I'd rate myself as average. I can talk someone's ear off, understand empathy, and social situations do not generally throw me off balance. However, for introversion I'm near the top. Given any particular situation, I would prefer to be alone or in small groups, even to point of possible negative social/group consequences (which I generally understand and accept as the cost of the trade-off).

So while I agree with you that some introverts are pigeon-holing themselves, there are people, like myself, who value their introversion and do not feel that it is a limitation.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyness [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_IQ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introversion

Edit: Typos

testing12341234··on Show HN: hackathon for introverts
Love the idea. Any chance of getting information on the next event? The "next event" listed was apparently for 3am this morning (which I would have been up for).
testing12341234··on French Government Seeks To Charge Google 1 Billion Euros in Taxes
Eric Shmidt is the "Executive Chairman", but this was sourced from a French newspaper, so it is likely a translation issue between French and English.
testing12341234··on Show HN: Hush, an "incognito mode for Facebook"
Possibly some astroturfing to get this pushed to the front page.

Edit: Which has apparently worked.

testing12341234··on Popular sites with Apache server-status enabled (leaking internal details)
I believe the consensus was that it was not a big deal for www.php.net to have the server status page up. The original link for that news item was http://php.net/server-status. However, not all sites are like php.net which is used mainly for documentation (it would appear). That said, a status page leaking IPs or sessions (PHPSESSIONID) for a private forum, government agency, etc, could be a different story.

Edited: Typo

testing12341234··on Why I Two-Space
For those who want a more nuanced view, including cited sources and research, head over to http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324
testing12341234··on Why the closed distribution model of Windows 8 must be changed
or the iPhone/iPad and the Apple Store
testing12341234··on Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
Completely agree. I've turned down many offers to move in to management positions over the years. People start giving me weird looks until I explain to them that coding is my passion, and I want to do it until the day I die. Any position that takes me away from coding is pretty much an automatic no.
testing12341234··on Ripping OAuth tokens or other secrets out of TweetDeck, Twitter.app & other apps
If you go directly to the domain, http://timetobleed.com/, then you can see an image of the post, along with a nice message to Rack Space.
testing12341234··on Scaling node.js to 100k concurrent connections
250k concurrent connections on "... a $0.12/hr rackspace 2GB cloud server." vs 2M concurrent connections on a 24 core server with 96GB of memory.
testing12341234··on Elon Musk Wants to Put Man on Mars in '12 to 15 Years'
I would suggest that there is some hindsight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight) creeping in to your statement. Using your example of the new world, explorers had to at least deal with ocean voyages, new diseases, and possibly dangerous flora and fauna. All of these dangers were unknown until they were known. In the same vein, the dangers of a "vastly different atmosphere" were unknown, but are now know via experiments in deep sea diving, not to mention going to the moon. Death via exploration in a new environment (ocean, deep earth, space, etc) is certainly not a new risk. Looking back from this point in time in history, it is easy to suggest that those risks were minimal.
testing12341234··on Craigslist reportedly removes listings from search engines
If you take a look at a page like http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/eng/3189881249.html

You can see that they added a <meta name="robots" content="NOARCHIVE,NOFOLLOW"> tag. So Google will index it and show it, but it won't cache the full text. This change means that companies like 3taps can no longer get the full text from the Google cache, while still allowing search results to show in searches.

testing12341234··on Google crackdown catches innocent devs in the crossfire
Having actually played these games (particularly Cyber Knights which is an absolutely brilliant CyberPunk/ShadowRun tribute), I support these developers. I was highly skeptical when I first played the Star Traders game because the website wasn't the greatest, but after having played the games, I went and downloaded all their other stuff as well. I can see how it would be easy to dismiss them, but the algorithm is just wrong in this case.
testing12341234··on Re: Craig Newmark - Principled Jerk
Ad Hominem attack follows:

It is amusing to hear someone say "It’s kind of nice to see a site without tweet this, share this, connect to facebook, etc all over the place." when that same person has LinksAlpha, Google+, Twitter, and Facebook links above and below every post.

testing12341234··on 'Don't forget to use your semicolons' - Douglas Crockford
So Douglas Crockford didn't read how it was the Google Closure minifier that added the commas and that it was a bug in Opera's JavaScript parser. So in Douglas' opinion Google Closure team are "idiot web developers".
testing12341234··on Ask HN: Leasing servers w/AWS Direct Connect?
http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/

"Complete the AWS Direct Connect interest form indicating your choices. If you don’t already have infrastructure at your selected AWS Direct Connect location, you may optionally indicate on the form that you would like to be contacted by an AWS Direct Connect Solution Provider."

The key point here is "If you don’t already have infrastructure" and "contacted by an AWS Direct Connect Solution Provider". Now it's true that some of these companies may not want to work with someone who is only going to be hosting a server or two. In my experience, when dealing with these larger companies, you can get a referral to a reseller/affiliate if they can't (or won't) help you directly.

testing12341234··on PHP: the quiet powerhouse
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...

9600+ generally concise words on many, but not all, of the issues with PHP. As a summary, PHP isn't "out of fashion" as much as people are tired of continuously being misled and abused by their language of choice.

testing12341234··on How to Solve the World Overpopulation Problem
That was good for a few laughs. Some of my favourite parts are:

"Having kids is a natural born right for people. The government cannot come in and force people to stop having kids to solve the population problem." - China's One Child Policy

"Too many people in this world means there are too many hands holding on to money. "

"Overpopulation creates a mess of unhappy citizens."

"Loans are killing the value of the dollar."

"This means that people who take out loans are doing a disservice to society."

"Having kids is one of life’s greatest joys. It’s a shame to see that this joy is being abused by so many people. Having too many kids is a sheer sign of greed."

"It’s not up to the government to solve this problem, but us. We have to make better choices when it comes to having kids and taking out loans."

testing12341234··on [dead]
Note the that text from this 12/29/2011 politicstoday.biz link is the the same text from the snopes link from 2009.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/occidental.asp

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