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1.Emacs follow-mode (stackoverflow.com)
221 points by cpr on July 23, 2011 | 50 comments
2.Sony's Captcha. View source to see why they don't "get" security (sony.com)
211 points by bluesmoon on July 23, 2011 | 82 comments
3.The Little Manual of API Design (troll.no)
207 points by trucious on July 23, 2011 | 16 comments
4.Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? (serverfault.com)
195 points by splattne on July 23, 2011 | 48 comments
5.What Happened to the Future? (foundersfund.com)
182 points by clay on July 23, 2011 | 110 comments
6.Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
181 points by riskish on July 23, 2011 | 156 comments
7.Intellectual Ventures on This American Life (npr.org)
178 points by jacobjulius on July 23, 2011 | 52 comments
8.Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers (zdnet.com)
174 points by dotBen on July 23, 2011 | 111 comments
9.NASA finds water reservoir equivalent to 140 trillion times the world's oceans (nasa.gov)
143 points by tomeast on July 23, 2011 | 85 comments
10.Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery (digitizor.com)
141 points by dkd903 on July 23, 2011 | 43 comments
11.The Acceleration of Addictiveness vs Willpower, Productivity, and Flow (tantek.com)
128 points by revorad on July 23, 2011 | 29 comments
12.How I Dealt with Student Plagiarism (spinellis.gr)
112 points by reinhardt on July 23, 2011 | 36 comments
13.Advice to young programmers (chestergrant.posterous.com)
111 points by chegra84 on July 23, 2011 | 63 comments
14.When Patents Attack (thisamericanlife.org)
109 points by riordan on July 23, 2011 | 14 comments
15.Don't Let Congress Order Internet Companies to Spy on You (eff.org)
105 points by zoowar on July 23, 2011 | 17 comments
16.Google +1 tracks mouse movements? (stackoverflow.com)
97 points by Gullanian on July 23, 2011 | 26 comments
17.Why you should quit your technology job and get a Ph.D. in the humanities (chronicle.com)
82 points by drewda on July 23, 2011 | 49 comments
18.Introducing ClojureScript (clojure.com)
81 points by abp on July 23, 2011 | 16 comments
19.If you're not famous, joining Twitter is painful (dbasch.posterous.com)
90 points by diego on July 23, 2011 | 75 comments
20.Khan Academy exercise framework (github.com/khan)
77 points by neovive on July 23, 2011 | 18 comments

Definitely seems less like a auditor (I believe asking for some of that is flat out illegal) and more like a hacker posing as a auditor, trying to get passwords/creditcard #'s.
22.Panos Ipeirotis: A tale about parking (behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
74 points by timf on July 23, 2011 | 39 comments
23.NoSQL is a Premature Optimization (smoothspan.wordpress.com)
71 points by timf on July 23, 2011 | 58 comments
24.Functional Programming Doesn't Work (and what to do about it) (dadgum.com)
71 points by ColinWright on July 23, 2011 | 54 comments
25.Giant body of water found in space, black hole claims it was just hydrating (engadget.com)
69 points by bond on July 23, 2011 | 27 comments
26.Show HN: Enter a message, delivery at a random time up to 6 months from now (futuremessage.me)
66 points by yid on July 23, 2011 | 52 comments

Lose your ego. Develop a genuine interest in other people. If you aren't interested in anyone else, then what reason do they have to care about you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_win_friends_and_influenc...

28.Fast JSON parser for iOS (nextive.com)
61 points by cstejerean on July 23, 2011 | 11 comments
29.Oracle removes former Sun CEO's blog (digitizor.com)
54 points by dctoedt on July 23, 2011 | 10 comments

Cutts, Google still doesn't understand the problem here.

Let's say I decide I have to break up with my live-in girlfriend, for good and sufficient reason. Perhaps she banged my three best friends, perhaps she literally killed my dog with an axe. Doesn't matter - I have my reasons. I break up with her. I still have to give her back her stuff from my apartment. If I don't do so, I'm committing a separate offense of my own. I lose the moral high ground.

Maybe something has to be worked out - maybe a friend of hers has to come over and get it, maybe I put her shit in boxes out on the porch. Whatever. I still have to give her back her stuff. The courts agree, public opinion agrees, the police agree. Whatever she did, no matter how egregious the violation, my swiping her stuff is FUCKING FROWNED UPON and is not justified by whatever harm she did to me.

Google demonstrates no knowledge of this legal and social norm. That's what is pissing people off. Implement a system to let people download their data from closed accounts and you can delete accounts with no explanation all day long.

Stealing people's data - regardless of what they did to you - is something that most people consider to be evil. Nobody cares about whether the guy did anything wrong or not. He's seizing the moral high ground from you because you, also, have committed a wrong.


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