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It's also frustrating for users that have js disabled in their browsers, that can't comment on a blog post! At least notify the user before hand! Plus the labels on the comment form are after the input fields - and the fields are inline, which makes the form hard to comprehend!
hype can pay

they have domain expertise and unique perspectives, plus they are media darlings

a savvy businessman should scoop these kids up
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Any chance it's up so that we can see how it was edited?
As I understand there is a secondary confidence score. Sometimes there just aren't any good results to show.
I intend to retain my independence on the Internet! None of this "cloud" stuff for me! I will have nothing to do with Facebook, and their identity monopoly. I would much rather just start my own blog:

https://en.wordpress.com/signup/

My WordPress.com site can always be transferred to a host of my choosing (especially if I register a similar domain name) (and not at giant GoDaddy).

I simply will not post on sites that require Facebook, or Blogger, or Yahoo! accounts to log in. Period.

Except for banking (which I try to avoid online) and really special logins, I simply use one very-hard-to-crack password for everything, like "bluefrogsridelogsatsunset". People argue about how hard it is to crack passwords, and what kinds of passwords are secure, but I'm pretty sure that no one (except perhaps the government) can really crack a password such as the one above. This solution is good enough for me!
I don't know what this way of expressing my ideas assumes. If you have something to say about these ideas - you're welcome.
The word was 'retarded'. Sarah never said 'retard'.
It wasn't subtle.

"There are days where I just want to pull the plug on the whole thing because I'm sick of 12 year olds (or people with comparable communication skills) trying to convince me they've been wronged and I should give them their 3 dollars back.

...I shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. It is a loud, obnoxious baby though."
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Why are advertisers paying $9 to $20 CPM to AOL when they generally pay a tiny fraction of that to advertise across most web sites and on Google?
unfortunately his premise is false..

The reason why search does not do this is that you can put anything in the search query box..
The post reminded me of a time where we had a form that exhibited odd behaviour. When selecting a check box by clicking the label - the page would change. It turned out that the id of the navigation link matched the check box that was referred from the label!
Because hackers are usually curious people, with many interests; chances are they study some economics and found that this kind of 'protectionism' doesn't make much sense.

But yes, you're right, it's quite an assumption. On a parallel (OT) note, I have no idea whether there is a political bias amongst geeks. I've read some pool from NSF a few years ago and it was quite impressive how scientists tend to be left wing/liberal, why engineers tend to be right wing/conservative. So politically speaking there's probably two kinds of geeks but how about two kind of hackers?
Argh, this reminds me of my frustration with the university library. Students were 'hoarding' books that I wanted in other sections of the library so that they could effectively bypass 1 hour or 3 day lending limits (short/long term borrowing). While a nice hack to get what you want, it's depriving others from using the resources in the meantime. There was even up to three very helpful librarians try to even find one book over three days. I'm even paranoid that it was stupidity that someone decided to mix Economics among Medicine books.

At least it's known who has the book in this case.
Why is this so surprising?

It's because people understand what can go wrong and how it goes wrong in all of the activities you listed above. However I'll wager that many illegal drug users don't know what goes on at all and have no clue what can go wrong. Even when they do, I think it's pretty smart to acknowledge that brain chemistry is far more complicated than car crashes, and it's harder to figure out the unexpected / long term effects of one than the other.
indirectly, yeah (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/60024/). It's not up yet (despite all my testing/preparation the WiFi didn't really work so it was a little rough) - not sure if it will go up, I guess we'll known before TED 2012 :)`
Ah, so Jerry Lettvin died.

I took a couple of courses from him as an undergrad. He was quite a character. Here's a Jerry quote for you: "The brain is not a computer. The brain is a gland." I don't even know if he believed that, but he loved to stir controversy -- and announcing this at the MIT AI Lab c. 1982 certainly accomplished that!

I would say "RIP", but he probably already has his lab set up and is hard at work, wherever he is :-)
>Based on the typical news about South America (or Mexico), just landing on that continent will get you kidnapped, abused by the police, robbed, mugged, cheated, etc.

That's like saying, "Based on the typical news about Miami (or Anchorage), you will get eaten by polar bears and die of hypothermia".

Mexico is not South America, and it's nowhere close to Argentina. The distance between Juarez and BA is about the same as the distance between London and Seoul. Seriously.
Worlds apart.

You can't generalize South America. It's bloody ginormous, and has far more cultural diversity than North America. It's far from homogenous. There are some places in South America that are dangerous. Most aren't. Similarly, you don't judge San Francisco by Detroit.

I've travelled through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. Buenos Aires is basically Paris or Madrid, but a little run down and depressing (much better night life, though). Bolivia is mostly alpine desert in the south and jungle in the north, and almost all poor. Peru ranges from modern metropolis (Lima) to shacks on a beach (Mancora), to mountains, jungles, etc. Ecuador is the only place I ever felt unsafe, and only in parts of Quito and Guayaquil. The worst places for crime and personal safety were apparently Venezuela and parts of Brazil.

Anyways, the point is you're trying to shoehorn an entire continent with dozens of countries and hundreds of cultures into a single mental schema, and that's just a dumb thing to do. It would be like saying "Asian culture" and thinking you could fit China, North Korea, Japan, Thailand, and India in one label.
I have one, and I use groups to keep business and personal posts separated. I also have a "limited profile" group for people I only sort-of know (surprised more people don't do this).
I am not sure. It might be true for developers, but most people don't care that much. They just want to sign in, fast.
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Exactly. Remember some kid back a few years ago that was always getting coverage on TC for being 15 and some sort of tech god or something? What exactly did he do to warrant all this attention other than connections and knowing people in insular, navel gazing little ol Silicon Valley? I recall he later went on to start a startup called Teens In Tech which apparently was just a Wordpress:MU install for other rad techy teens. Not sure how that panned out, but the last I heard of him was some fiasco involving MacBook for posts scandal or something when he became a writer for TC.

Age IMO should not matter when it comes to the tech or startup world. A meritocracy has been the norm for awhile now, regardless of age. I think these two young kids ought to be applauded for their work so far (hell, I had no clue what a startup was when I was 11, much less had a captive audience to pitch one to) and be encouraged in their endeavors with guidance and mentoring. They seem really driven and have great potential to succeed in whatever they aim for in life. The barriers to entry on the high perilous seas of online and mobile startups are lower than ever and with the right encouragement, they can go far in realizing their dreams. Good luck to them.
Should this total include ones we've bought in bulk?
"As more and more companies rely on Facebook for identity and single sign on, understanding the true reach of Facebook and how many users you're losing by only supporting Facebook connect, becomes important."

It sounds like poor understanding of a core marketing aspect there: Knowing the demographics. Unless you are trying to rely on Facebook Connect with the HN audience though?
I first thought that this was something only implemented in Chrome for Google, but I then saw that this is somehow a HTML feature that they will also add to Google Search.

I don't like if Google uses its own browser to give their sites features, that could not be implemented without - website's features should only be made from source code on the server. In my opinion.

This is core innovation from Google - but I see the problem with incorrect website visitors. It think Chrome when prefetching the pages, should send some information with the request that the request is a prefetch.
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I've got roughly the same use patterns as you, and if it weren't for the one or two regular events that I attend that are organized on Facebook, I'd probably delete my account. And yes, it is a dreadful time sink. That's why after the first flush I scaled back to around once a month.
What were some of the esoteric books? (It may be an unfair question. I doubt I remember enough to answer it myself.)
A good chunk of the TED talks never make it to the site.
Ok, so it's not just me. I'm really curious why.
1 personal (rarely used), 1 fake for random staff on internets and whole bunch i created along the way on projects/gigs/jobs
I wonder if technology could be made to offer the opposite effect. Once Google leans my habits well enough, it could show me the most popular hits for a certain query, that I'd never be usually shown. I could find out for example that Java is an island and a kind of coffee.
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I dunno, lots of the talks are stellar in person too... People practice a lot before they are allowed to go on.
> I simply use one very-hard-to-crack password for everything, like "bluefrogsridelogsatsunset".

I suggest using the master password to manage other passwords (Browser might have a password manager, Keypass or other tons password managers). Sony, Newegg, Facebook and some other companies can see passwords in plain text which could be used in conjunction with your email or similar contact methods to infiltrate your account.
Market research. Contact IT firms in your area and network/develop some rapport with senior people. Invite them to lunch (at your expense obviously) and ask them what their biggest recruitment headache is. After you've implemented the feedback you get, ask them if they'd be willing to take part in a closed beta/pilot project.

Everyone I know has a low opinion of IT recruiters, largely because they don't listen. Be the person that cares about their needs will be refreshingly different.
Can you really, practically, avoid the "filter bubble"?
Can it be made easy to hack one's way out of being subject to the pandering algorithms of the googles and facebooks of the worlds?

I'd much like the capacity to be able to substantively distort, hack or otherwise bypass the "filter bubble"
Why start Yet Another Job Board? What differentiates it from the many others?
Well of course this is just theoretical, it would be true only if an employee worked and was effective 100% of the time, which is almost never the case. Employees have segments of good high energy work and other segments of rest, and this might have been the latter. In fact I think this doodle made some employees work more motivated after playing with it, specially in the IT world.
That's not very surprising since they are "minorities", implying that there aren't as many of them.
This is a symptom of the strongly autonomous teams that Google uses.

Autonomous teams are great in that allow the team to control their own destiny. However, they don't make for a great cross-product experience.

The alternative is the Microsoft way - where all products are supposed to work together and support each other. The problem there is that Microsoft is very, very slow to ship stuff as everything needs to be synchronized.

Facebook has it easy - they only have one product. Apple has this problem occasionally, but doesn't have the breadth of product Google has.

(I'd note that many people think Google should become more startup like. In effect, that is asking for more chaotic product development - no startup co-ordinates feature releases across as many products as Google has to)
I don't know if it is obvious. I've been starting to use label tags for textboxes and didn't realise that value= wasn't good enough. Instead I had a label and a value= attribute that had a bit more information to help users... guess I'll move that to the label now.
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It's called a hotlink. Web owners have issues with people hotlinking certain content; typically images, css and js though.
Brain damage from any of the activities I listed above (including car crashes) could manifest itself in any number of ways. And it's impossible to tell ahead of time what the long-term effects of such brain damage will be.

I'm not really sure that knowledge of what can go wrong explains much about the different attitudes society at large has towards drug users vs people who engage in other risky activities (including simply riding in a car).

Most people know that if you ride in a car you could get in to a car accident and you could be maimed or killed or wind up a vegetable. How does knowing these potential effects explain the differing attitudes towards car drivers vs drug users?
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I don't think the web is Yahoo Mail to many people.

I think this might be a prelude to an attack on Facebook.
That is more friendly for web owners. Control over bandwidth.

Google's prefetching is instant search list with the most likely result being automatically be loaded in the background before the user clicks on it.

Web owner nightmare: Having a common irrelevant keyword that means most of the world downloads the content without viewing the page.
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Very true, although I think in person we're less sensitive to "um"'s and "ah"'s than we are when watching video due to the expectations set by professionally produced TV and movies.
Does it count as an account if the only reason I created it is to keep others from creating one in my name? Mine just says "I don't use FB. Email me, instead."

If you can't be bothered to reach me outside of FB, then you don't care enough about either the subject matter or me.
I too find it strange. He says it was worth his time porting to Android but never says how long it took. I have this game on iOS and it came out quite a while ago.

What we really need to know is (profit)/(development time). And you'd have to match this on Android (or maybe surpass it given his frustration). Even if this took a reasonable time to port, it might be possible that had he worked on his next iOS game, he would have made even more money for his time.
I tried converting to epub and it lost all the code formatting.
I think it should, yeah. Because it is probably filled with sh*t about you that your friends have posted. Like pictures in which you where tagged.
It got me until I realized they mean "echo chamber".
It's a bubble whose membrane is a filter. Like, for example, a biological cell.
Just use whatever contact they have on the website.

Dear <company> website team,

I am a security consultant for <my new company I made 10 seconds ago>.

While casually visiting your site, I recently found a severe security bug that not only leaks private information, but has the potential to alter a user's reservations.

Please contact me as soon as possible so I can let your technical team know about the problem (no charge, of course).

Thanks,

Me
Security Consultant, <new company>
<phone #>

Might as well try to get some business out of it ;-)
Here's a whole collection of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQyWoBXb2M

On a related note, I'm always amused by Youtube video descriptions breathlessly claiming "NO COPY RIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENEDED".
It would put you right to sleep.
Not if it's optical filters, innit?
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Honestly, this was pretty all over the place and seems more like a stream of consciousness than any sort of proper comparison between the two markets. Sounds like he's been getting annoyed by support requests lately and decided to write a rant ("comparison") about his Android market experience.
From wikipedia's page on patents: "The term patent usually refers to an exclusive right granted to anyone who invents any new, useful, and non-obvious process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, and claims that right in a formal patent application"

From what I underestand, the ideas themselves aren't patentable under this definition but the process or the invention that implements the idea is. (The idea of rolling on something isn't patentable but the shape of the wheel that makes that idea work would) In that sense software patents bend the rules.
An arrogant rejection that seems misplaced.

He talks about a problem that most people don't have, and then goes on to state nerds turn a nose up at "security vulnerabilities".

At the core, it's a problem that most people do in fact have, it just is not presented to them in a fashion that is easy to digest, or even tasty enough to consider ordering from a menu. The typical computer user doesn't think about what happens to their password in transit, they enter it, hit enter and say a short prayer that they didn't typo so they can get where they want to go, and get on with life.

If the openID marketing initiative focused MORE on the "stop remembering passwords" a little harder than they had, maybe it'd still be relevant outside of tech circles.

And furthermore, building on the "solution [...] to a problem that most people don't really have"

Didn't Facebook essentially go about solving that "problem" themselves, albeit packaged up in a nice wrapper with your friends and social profile as the adhesive tape?
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We wouldn't have had the IETF, and I think that would have made it a messier and less sophisticated affair.
I don't use a "generic" password to register at companies; they tend to require credit card transactions, etc.

I actually do use KeePass for several things, and I think it really is more secure than my "simple solution." Plus it keeps my data in a nifty portable "*.kdb" file. But it's just a bit clumsier to utilize. I don't use the Firefox password manager, which updates often; who knows what might happen when it does? KeePass is available at:

http://keepass.info/
"Hi there, I was retyping a link to my invoice and screwed up a digit. It took to someone else's page, which seems odd. For example, my link was <link> and I accidentally typed <other link>. Not sure if this is a problem or anything, so I just wanted to bring it to your attention. I'm not sure if this is the right place to email, so please let me know that you get this."

When you make strong statements, other people often have a tendency to react strongly and defensively. I assume that the person at the other end is both competent and concerned - give them all benefits of the doubt.

If you find that isn't the case, then, and only then, you can email them and use the word "security" and talk about going public after n weeks, etc.

(I am not a lawyer.)
I have 200+ accounts, from when I was first learning how to program and was automating some tedious mutlplayer strategies in a text-based facebook MMO game. Was a fun way to learn!

The game was called Warbook, and I believe the creator is on HN (hi TJ!), and doing some YC gaming company.
It is again FB's TOS to have 0 accounts now? Wow. :-P
so now if I'm even on the same page as a link to a malicious script I'm fucked. If this is implemented I will never start up chrome again.
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The killer feature of http://eloquentjavascript.net/ is the console, where you can run and modify the examples, and do the exercises. Do you plan an interactive HTML version?
I used to have one, then I deleted it.
The "safety factor"... is huge for THC, LSD, mushrooms, DMT, K, etc., and much smaller for MDMA, Meth, K, opiates, coke.

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Not only that, it's easy for them to enforce that.
When I recently tried to create an account (from Germany) Facebook required me to enter a mobile phone number. It wouldn't let me create an account without. So you effectively you need a mobile phone number for every account.
Correct! That's not the point I was making.
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Disagree. After startup weekend. I started mentoring the Marci and helped setup her site and launchrock page.
Sure. My point isn't that +1 should be all things social for Google, rather why isn't there +1 button on YouTube or in Reader? If it were there, people would use it. And if there are buttons there that aren't being used, such as 'like' and 'share', get rid of them. If they all get used, great.

It just seems like a great way to create a more unified social experience for users to leverage the thing that's working - +1.
if you are doing this shit at 11 you don't need a "life lesson", you are already ahead of the pack no matter the outcome.
One elegant solution mentioned at a DNSSEC talk was to simply include your crsf token in the header of all get/post requests and have the server reject anything without said token. Assuming you'd be using some js library to do your ajax, you could make that modification in there so that you'd transparently use it without needing to modify any existing code. Only the urls that send html will not need the crsf header token.
Just use prepaid SIM cards to verify as many accounts you like.
umm nope. this project, if i remember right, was headed by someone from finland who had written papers on the topic [ analysing money flows as networks] and had a UI that worked on the browser ... canvas, I'm thinking.. I came across it in HN comments, read it ,bookmarked it, I think, then my
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Apologies, I inferred that since this piece was written on blackweb20.com , you were saying the reason the two youngsters weren't getting attention was due to their racial background instead of age.
The most surprising fact was that Android is 80% of iOS revenue - that's a LOT better than I would have expected and had previously thought about the android market.
Agreed, however I think the problem lies with most tutorials out there which don't follow this logic and newbie devs just follow this path without thinking about it.