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'friend ships' between teachers, students banned by new Missouri law
If you are a teacher, and want to be friendly with your students, that's fine. Just don't be their friends, especially not on a social networking service. That type of "friending" is now banned by a new Missouri law that goes into effect on August 28.<p>Read more: http://www.newtechie.com/2011/07/social-networking-friendships-between.html
His recommendations felt like a nice summary[1] of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People[2], mentioned by pg on Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas[3]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/review/R1IGJOWWDLP3RS/ref=cm_cr_dp_per...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/14...

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html#f8n
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"EJ's Law". Perfect.
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This is nice. I've stuck with Lion's default setting in order to see if I liked it more eventually and I do, except when I use another computer and try to scroll the same way.

This at least addresses the issue for the other Mac in my home that is stuck on Snow Leopard.
I said that there was no risk of sovereign default. Our tax revenue exceeds the cost of our debt service by a factor of more than 10. Do you anticipate that our blended interest rate will increase by a factor of 10 in the near future?

We would certainly run a great risk of downgrade (but not of default) if we raise the debt ceiling without making any significant effort to lower our deficit going forward. This seems to be the plan of our politicians, however.
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Dude, you NEVER have to go through HR. Use Google, and track down a manager working on something interesting. Most interesting projects will have a web presence of some kind. Those that don't usually aren't interesting (or are buried deep in Google or Apple).

If you can't get the manager's contact details, then you call HR, and ask for their details.

If that doesn't work, find a company that might have some interesting projects. Contact their IT department (get the number of HR if you must), and ask about what projects you might be able to join. Note, many interesting projects are not in IT, but in other departments; but IT will have some idea where those projects are. If you are good at number crunching, tell them that. You can try other tricks, like if the manager says they are too busy, you can ask if they have someone else who can take the call. You can also find out if the company has a programmer's mailing list - maybe IT could help you there?

You will get rejections, but it's better to get 20 rejections and an offer in a week than no rejections and no offers.
You meant "bistec", which means a thin cut of beef. I don't know how international that word is, though --it is used in Mexico, but I don't where else. In Argentina they have another word derived from the English word "beef": "bife", which I think means steak. I also don't know how international "bife" is, in Mexico it definitely only occurs in Argentinian restaurants.
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Carr's phony sentimentality is exactly what ej didn't do. She wrote measured, balanced prose, which was very convincing for me.
I disagree. I think of it as just networking. Very little of my VC interaction has been in their offices, but more out at events, parties, and lunches. They are just normal people, who often have a pretty good external perspective on things.

And just because I'm meeting with them doesn't mean I'm talking about my idea. Sometimes other companies and bouncing ideas around. Sometimes about technology. Sometimes about where is best to drink.
I think a lot of people have been saying they are responsible.
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The personal effects (which she seemed the most upset about losing) were locked away in a closet, which the thieves/renters smashed a hole in to get to.
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+1

At best, a bounty program gives me the incentive to look more closely at a particular website / application. But I've submitted plenty of vulnerability reports to companies that don't have bounty programs.

What this bounty really means: if you like finding and responsibly reporting security vulnerabilities, you now have one more reason to spend time doing so on Facebook.
Had the AirBnB been able to hush the victim by offering her a juicy paycheck, it would have been a textbook example of crisis management. That the arrangement didn't work out and the lady chose to divulge the details of the deal gone sour, the co-founders are being labelled cold blooded for offering the deal in the first place. I think it's just plain bad luck that AirBnB could not come up with a compensation package good enough to muffle the victim.
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So what do you guys think? Can there be some kind of “idea bank” that seeds a brilliant idea to talented executors that then take that idea and turn it into a brilliant company?

For now, let’s codename it iCombinator or ideaCombinator.
Years ago there was a lot of buzz about MHD (Magnetohydrodynamics) but I guess it's still just science fiction but it sounds like it would help a lot with reducing turbulence.
You dismissed the idea of a conflict by quoting half the disclosure. All I said was he has a vested interest as is obvious from his disclosure. You are the one going on about conspiracies.
Link: http://www.newtechie.com/2011/07/social-networking-friendshi...
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Show HN: The OpenStack Fund: Companies that support an open cloud
This fund is a collection of companies that have pledged support to the OpenStack project. Based on the Teehan + Lax UX Fund.

Each company's position in the fund is based on: launched products based on OpenStack, future product roadmap, and partipation in the OpenStack community.

Historical market capitalization is based on the closest 10-Q filing with the SEC.

The fund is not doing well due to the US debt ceiling crisis and earnings season. What does it look like on Monday after Congress makes a move?
Are you kidding me, or just trolling? I live in San Francisco. There are tons of people who live _and_ work in San Francisco.

From AirBnB's page: "Airbnb HQ is located in the heart of San Francisco, CA."
You have no idea what happened on whatever call you're thinking of. You have no idea what's been offered to the victim. You have no idea, basically, period. But you're OK passing judgement on them. Good to know.

What's the win to a comment like this? Even if you're eventually shown to be right --- and that's still an if --- why go out on the limb at all?
What about all of the great things that AirBnB has done for people? Think of the savings travellers have experienced, the revenue people have been able to get for empty apartments. On the scale of it, nearly all of AirBnB's users benefit from the experience.

So while the founders have made millions and millions of dollars, society in general has also greatly benefited from the service. That's how most industries work; the people who use the service win, as does the company. Value is added.

Its horrible that this person's house got ransacked, and maybe the founders handled it poorly, but on the whole they have created a great service that makes "the world a better or more interesting place".
"WHY on EARTH is everyone siding with this person?"

I've been wondering the same thing. I read through her initial blog post. She talks about renting out her place through Craigslist on multiple occasions (without any problems). This is extremely risky and I wonder if her place was vandalized through craigslist, would people be calling for them to pay for her house?

When the "Craiglist killer" was in the news, I would be curious to see if the responses here on HN were similar (that Craigslist is to blame for the murders).

If I hired a developer from HN and they ended up stealing my source code/IP, should I blame Paul Graham?

Emotions play a lot into it. Her entire post plays into our emotions and gets people to feel sorry for her. Politicians and marketers use this same technique, and I don't like it.

At the very end, she does admit that it is her fault. But not without a few passive-aggressive jabs about the assumption that because she had paid a service fee that somehow Airbnb had pre-screened the applicant. I'm not sure why anyone would make this assumption.

I think because the criminals are not here, and people need someone to blame, airbnb is the next best thing (having the deepest pockets in the situation helps too).

Everyone just needs to take a step back, look at the situation, and take out emotions for a second...they often cloud judgement.
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Haha.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Rate says "Rate of speed (velocity), in physics"

and then https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Rate_of_speed redirects to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Velocity
I basically agree: the article loses a lot of credibility making Heroic Age / Iron Age comparisons, and I think you & others are right to call them out. But I do think there are things that are uniquely worrying about the present moment. IBM has a lot of skeletons in its closet, but for many years one of its biggest clients (perhaps the biggest -- does anyone know?) was the US government, which made IBM at least minimally responsive to public needs. IBM was paid very handsomly by government clients to keep the US in the lead in science and technology, and that meant that a lot of people at IBM had the necessary leisure and latitude to think about some serious problems, some of whom went on to win the Turing prize and invent things like relational databases.

I don't think these people were smarter or more virtuous than us. (The comparison is specious on many levels, but bear with me.) I simply think that things were set up in such a way that it was possible for them to follow their natural creative and intellectual impulses and in so doing gain a measure of social respectability and pride that we all basically crave.

I think the startup world is different. The shoestring budget and (even more critically) the highly compressed timeframe in which startups operate create powerful incentives to take up easy problems that could be monetized quickly. I'm struck by how much of the advice that is offered to young people here amounts to something like, "stop thinking so god damn much and build a business." That seems so toxic! It creates an atmosphere of scorn toward big ideas and impatience with moral and intellectual reflection, with lasting consequences on the life-choices people make. I suspect a lot of young men and women internalize this ideology and develop a real sense of shame about being thoughtful or conscientious.

I'm not suggesting we all apply for a job at Big Blue. There are a great many wonderful things about the present moment, chief among them the enormously expanded access to creative computational tools and its concomitant, the wonderful increase in the geographical/cultural spread of creative work with technology. But there are also some very worrying trends, and I think we ought to confront them.
If your skills are as you describe then move to the bay area and look for a job out here.

There are a lot of hackers out here who could help you out. Heck, even I have a couch (in Mountain View) that you can crash on for a few weeks. Email me.
at least tell a weed joke.
Did I say it would? Having blood relatives financially invested in an industry you are commenting on is the actual definition of vested interest. OP conve iently ignored that part. I simply pointed out the fact.
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I would add an additional area of fail: interpersonal questions.

There is a question up there to the effect of What does it feel like to be ugly? (or unloved, I think) One of the highest voted answers is from Yishan Wong, and his advice includes waiting until the Singularity arrives so that the asker can transplant into a more attractive body. And this answer was highly lauded!

(IMO, the preponderance of his responses on the site has gone a long way in creating a sterile culture of mechanical answers.)
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I have been playing with Scroll Reverser for the last couple of weeks. I think I will give it a pass since scrolling down a page is a lot more common than scrolling up the page, and in vanilla Snow Leopard, to scroll down I flex my finger on my scroll wheel, which is an easier movement to repeat over and over again than extending my finger.

I sometimes use a friend's iPad, but it is easier for me to keep alert enough to remember the difference between the way the iPad scrolls and the way vanilla Snow Leopard scrolls than to give up the ease of flexing rather than extending as described in the previous paragraph. The trade-off might go the other way if I was using the MacBook's TrackPad rather than an external mouse with a scroll wheel.

ADDED. In other words, if you use an external mouse with a scroll wheel instead of an Apple TrackPad, it is more likely than not that you do not want Scroll Reverser.
I'd also add that Boulder, CO's demand for developers is insatiable. Plenty of startups (and more established) tech companies here that are dying for more help.
Will this help me write more or better code, or release more often?
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I think this is mostly people getting what they paid for. I'm sure lots of people who bought Androids said "oh, well, it's just like an iPhone and everyone has those" but what they were actually thinking was "damn this is so much cheaper".

You get what you pay for. Case in point: spring for a Nexus. No problems.
lol thanks for that...m sure bill knows that this is mostly due to that retard steve ballmer who hasnt written a line of code in his life!
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Exactly, which is why the article spends most of its time discussing how location can be determined through other means, such as Google Images, to find photos with similar geographic features to narrow possible locations.
You are right that users can see scores for their own comments, but I it doesn't show the number of up and down votes (like slashdot, reddit, etc. do). The parent said he wasn't sure which among multiple recent comments was downvoted. It can also be a mystery if a user isn't constantly watching karma as it changes.
Just what I was about to say. That's what turned me against Airbnb personally.
and they are. like, you know, a pub is responsible when you slip on the wet floor there and break a leg.

some people would say that you should have eyes and be careful, but would we listen to them, or sue the pub that forgot to put 'caution wet floor' sign?
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, we also know for sure that investors in the company leaned on publications like TechCrunch to stop reporting the story. Their ludicrous wail of protest: AIRBNB IS RUN BY NICE GUYS! IT’S NOT FAIR TO CALL THEM OUT WHEN THEY SCREW UP!

How does that lose you? By all accounts that is pretty much what has occurred: AirBNB staff have contacted both EJ and TechCrunch asking them to go easy on the coverage. No one denies that, right?
> nuclear sub crews who protect their launch enablers with bicycle locks.

I can't see anything about bicycle locks on that website. Do you have another link? (Very interesting, by the way.)
Ask HN: Coolest iPhone App UI/UX's? Post Your Favorite
My favorite (and their website for that matter):

http://awesome.taskrabbit.com/017e0

Twitter, Robotcat Apps (Outside Weather App), TeaApp, and despite their situation, AirBnB, all come to mind. Any others?
clickable http://awesome.taskrabbit.com/017e0

(email is just for new macbook air contest, you can download the app w/o it, just don't enter your email if you don't want to try to win)
Ask HN: Suggest features for a Virtual University Project
If we are creating a virtual university like wikiversity.org, where teachers and learners come together to teach and study at their own pace. What should be the unique features that will motivate you to join and participate either as a teacher or as a learner.
Ideas are cheap. Execution is the hard part.

Startups take devotion; and you don't get devotion with a bunch of random people collaborating on the web. Quirky could create some tiny gadgets that fill tiny needs, but this will never create a disruptive technology.
where i grew up, the phrase is 'a sack of hammers'. how widespread is 'bag of hammers'? this is the first time i've ever heard it.
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FWIW I love my Captivate (Samsung Galaxy phone) and I paid less than $50. I wish they were better about updating the Android version, but I wouldn't say the Nexus is the only Android worth having.
Have you considered moving to the bay area?

People will lick your balls for your fizzbuzz awesomeness. Can you write tests? doesn't matter, you write python!
I think you fail to look at the general reaction from the other side, all you have to look at is Robert Scoble's reaction to the women, calling her "crazy", "batshit crazy", "drama queen" and just about every other proponent and investor placing the blame on this women for renting out her property and keeping her stuff in the place where she lives, but this is exactly the point of airbnb. So which is it, don't rent out the space where you live, or only rent out a space that you use as only as investment.
Direct link to scoble reaction:
https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/eT6Zar6W...

The responses in this thread is exactly what Carr is talking about. The women is trying to be vilified when she was the victim. Maybe airbnb is not the villain here either, but she certainly isn't and Airbnb's handling of the situation was less than honorable.
Exactly this. Some guy said a thing doesn't count as journalism.
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Get your remaining funds and start a saas website using any of the Python web frameworks available. Just spend some time finding which problem to actually address, and require your users to pay you on a monthly subscription (strictly no freemium).

If this goes well you have a project that can at least help you pay the bills at the moment. If not this would go better on your portfolio than being able to do FizzBuzz.

Again, ask money from day one.
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Cool visuals (colors and high contrast) plus instant feedback. Kinda like khan academy. Also a specific subject focus would be great.
For me the real meat is how the situation is handled after Bill G's email. Lots of hot potato going on. :)
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This all seems pretty blown out of proportion. EJ rented her house to a stranger. That stranger trashed the house and robbed her. The listing service botched their PR badly and only got around to doing the right thing after some missteps. This was all pretty inevitable and unfortunate.

How is this not the story of every corporate disaster? How are we switching from "a firm is a way to turn very smart people into a very dumb organization" to "these people are soulless"?
Yeah, 40% sounds obscene. "I bought a/an Android" totals over 150k google results, but "I returned my Android" gets under 8k.

This is * extremely* rough (as google's count for results can be utter BS), but it looks more like 5% than 40%. Not good, but nothing like 40%.
Bill actually mentioned this in in another interview (can't find that now, I think it was around the time of his retirement from MSFT - it could have been at an internal event).

He basically said something like - I don't know why people think that the email is something weird or unique. This is my job and I do it all the time.

My personal take - I actually blame Bill for this. The real cause of the situation is how things had been allowed to drift to this stage over several years and Windows versions. I'd put the responsibility on Bill, as CSA and ex-CEO, to have stopped this, rather than send flame mail one late night. Also, if you see the follow-up email threads, none of the VPs or GMs were empowered to make end to end changes either
i think the problem is not you using plain words, but for you mentioning the hell.

i think in ancient times, mentioning Hell, Helheim, trolls was also only for brave men, and Germanic grandmothers were against it
Interestingly, Eastern Europe was much more open to Jews at the time. Poland actually invited them to live there.
Not everything is about releasing more often.
Ha, yes looking at my text search example again, it is totally illogical.
Ridiculous idea. Hope it won't spread. And how do they want to check it? Most of the people have the privacy settings on and forcing teachers to open fb page for a background check is just stupid.
Is it such a bad idea to disclose what was offered?

Unfortunately the statements so far have not been "human" enough. When they said their lawyers couldn't let them say any more than X, it's bound to incite one's suspicion that they're trying to shy away from some moral inclinations which their lawyers may have warned them not to indulge in.

Even though the specifics of the offer cannot be disclosed, why not put out a reassuring statement like "We're committed to putting a smile back on her face again"? Not being specific / tangible in their PR will definitely be a lot more tolerable then.

And if they can be a little more specific and relevant, how about some PR saying they're offering counselling or therapy of some sort - I'm sure its one of the things that was offered - and I'm sure it would be make for great brand building if it was part of their current communication.

Also, if AirBnB had been more open in this way, they could have avoided the embarrassment of being contradicted by the victim herself. You know who the people would trust more at this stage.

In short, a little less heartless corporate, a little more Zappos, please.

AirBnB could have actually had an upside in the whole thing if they handled in a better, probably more upfront, manner.

Sure, there's a danger of people abusing or taking advantage of the system at a later date but that cannot stand in the way of dousing what is clearly a PR fire in the house of a promising company.

Disclosure: I am biased towards neither AirBnb nor the victim. I have sympathy for the woman but I am open to the possibility that she is not being cooperative.