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I've just got out of work, where a 50-year old was shouting, literally shouting, at me about spaces in the office parking lot, for twenty minutes, because I had the tenacity to suggest he parked two minutes walk away like me. (The landlord changed the rules over parking last week, and people now have to park a bit further away or pay a few pence.)

"I don't know how they can take spaces away from us, I need to park near the office, people like me fought for things like car parking spaces, I bet you've never seen a strike, you're so spoiled and privileged and you've got no life experience, but damn it, I won't let this rest, it's our right to park where we want..."

And people think we have entitlement issues? I have to say, though, I'm twenty-six next month, and I never thought I'd ever have anyone rant about "young people like you" at me again. Flattering, huh?
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> People dramatically overestimate how interesting and/or valuable they are.

Regardless of how "uninteresting" or "worthless" my interests, browsing habits, purchases, etc. are, they point is that they are mine and I never gave my consent.
It's probably more of a Gmail issue than a mobile issue.
D'oh! Yes, I meant CHAR_BIT. Thanks for the correction.
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On HN, "we" are not all US citizens, thanks.
Why don't cell towers do this?
I can't imagine a 91% tax at any level. That's just plain robbery.
I agree. I think safeguards need to be put in place. I think it's OK for a computer algorithm to use historical information to provide relevant ads and filter out all the rest. Ideally, no one else would have any access to that data. It's more work, but I think it's worth the effort (there's way too much junk advertising out there).
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US Trademark application drags after 7 months and $1700
We applied for US trademark for our domain name(non generic term) through a trade mark agent in our city. Initially we were told it would cost around $1500. But we already spent more than that and the process not finished yet.

Everytime they send an invoice for various reasons it feels like we made a mistake by get into this.
I was wondering if this is the case usually and how we can get it over with?
Roboto vs Helvetica Neue: Can you distinguish the new Android typeface?
It might be easier to use Esperanto as an "intermediate form" for this, since it's easier to split words into their roots and grammatical components.
I might agree to let companies sell my data if they told me which data they were selling, to whom, and asked me nicely first instead of just doing it.
There's nothing funny aboot that joke.
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While there is nothing inherently wrong with making a profit from data about users, there is quite a bit wrong with the way it's being done on Facebook, and much of the rest of the web/mobile for that matter.

For one thing, services fail to properly inform their users of what they're doing. It's quite common for ordinary users to either not know that their data is being collected and used in those ways, or the extent of the data which is being collected (e.g. Location, Phone Identifiers, and sites visited across the web).

For another, opting out is generally designed to be quite difficult. Unless you're vigilant enough to know which hosts to block (among other things) it's almost impossible to keep your browsing history out of the hands of the hands of third parties (especially with all the different ways browsers can store information, see, http://samy.pl/evercookie/). This is the case even if you do not sign up for or use a service like Facebook.

Also, as someone noted below, there is an issue with the simple fact of the data's existence, since from that point on it is out of my control, and can be used by anyone who can get their hands on it, in any way, which may well be harmful to me.
Liquid Fare tells you where the party's at
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You can find graphic artists at very reasonable rates on elance.com (be sure to check their ratings)
I would advise however that you also consider working with a UX designer who has experience with the design of navigation/workflows and who understands usability best practices. Having a well designed and usable (intuitive) product will make your product stand-out and will make users more likely to enjoy the experience and return for more. This is especially true when it comes to social apps. I would also advise that you make it easy and enticing for your users to leave feedback. This feedback will be the key to understanding and identifying their needs. Then you can consider how to best meet those needs (if possible with the help of a UX professional).
Here is some great advice from a successful start-up founder:
http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue/the-10-mistakes-ive-made...
I agree that Facebook and other social networks have a right to make money through their business model. As the article puts it, if they didn't make money, they wouldn't exist and that would be a loss for many people.

However, there's nothing that says Facebook has the right to become a $100B company through extreme invasion of privacy and other distasteful tactics (whatever they may be - I sure don't know what fully goes on over there). Send me some targeted advertising if you have to, but I will protest against you if you make new "share-with-others-additional-information-about-yourself" features a confusing opt-out hassle.

Just recently my wife shared a photo album via Picasa and Google+, and she couldn't figure out how to restrict who could access the album, though it was very simply prior to Picasa's integration into Google Photos. Do you think Google+ engineers couldn't keep the same Picasa privacy functionality as before or is it because they want to force people to share more than they're comfortable with?

No one is saying that social networks shouldn't make money through advertising and most people are probably okay with some personal data being used for targeted advertising. But given past invasive practices and privacy concerns, there are definitely valid concerns with regards to the extent to which social networks are commoditizing/selling users' personal information in an effort to maximize profits. Furthermore, who knows what happens to sold personal information down the line?

Simple question: If changing social networks was as simple as changing your online shopping preferences, do you think Facebook could get away with what it does? Facebook can obviously take advantage of the fact that its users cannot easily leave to appropriate user data that other sites could not.
Why not go out and raise investment capital?
> I am glad to be rid of the Motley Crues of the world.

LOL... Motley Crue are my favorite band. Guess we're not going to align to closely on the music preference thing. :-)

That said, some of the stuff billed as "metal" by the very early 1990's (Steelheart, Nelson, etc.) was either just plain bad music, or - at best - decent pop music, but definitely not metal. Metal went back underground after the grunge/alt revolution, and that serves me fine. If you dig deep, there was a lot of great metal music made during the 90's... you just didn't (mostly) hear it on the radio or hear anybody else talking about it... which is the way things should be, as far as I can tell.

Anyway, the fact that I was, and remain, a metal-head is probably one major way in which I never fit the typical Gen-X mold. Not sure what that means, but, hey... whatever.

Now, about that party...
My challenge back to Google:

The setup:

* A certain person named Prasand is in my Google contacts, along with his phone number.

* Prasand has recently sent email to me.

* Prasand is a reasonably common name in a certain English-speaking country of well over a billion people.

* A common phrase when calling someone is to say "Hi this is <name>" or "Hey this is <name>"

* Usually this comes near the beginning of the call.

* Prasand probably also has a Google account, and Google probably associates his phone number with his account, and thus can look up interesting things about him, such as his name and various words he is likely to use, by using caller ID when he calls into a Google voice number.

* Google knows my first name. Let's call me Natch.

* Speech recognition can be made more accurate if large quantities of data are available with which to build models of how language is used in context.

* Large data sets are available on the internets. Something tells me Google may even have access to large quantities of data already.

* Google even has the capability, if it wants to, to build user-specific language models.

Google, here is your challenge:

Hire an engineering director for your Google Voice team who can manage to figure out how to do the correct transcription of the following five words at the beginning of a phone call: "Hi Natch, this is Prasand."

Hint 1: you should fire whoever did the one you have right now.

Hint 2: less AI, more common sense.
I've looked at H, H-Nueue, and Roboto at large sizes in FontBook, and frankly, I can't see an important difference. Sure, I can see the differences when I look for them, but they are pretty minor.
> It got me wondering if it might be possible to compete with a similar app by just illustrating how much less bandwidth your app uses. Except for Sprint and people on grandfathered plans, people pay per GB for bandwidth on their mobile devices. If you can show your app uses 10% of the bandwidth of another would that make an impact on the typical buyer?

Sadly, I doubt the typical user cares that much. Unless the bandwidth difference were significant... (in MB, not %).
Certainly it's artificial to restrict oneself to primitive concepts, unless of course you don't know about eigenvalues yet or forgot it all. :) And it is an exercise from the earliest chapter, so we're supposed to stay in simple-land.

Did you look at my solution (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3129023)? There's no higher-level theory in it. Is it brute force? Not sure. At least it doesn't require solving any element-wise equations.
Redacted :( Different type of humor I guess.
This is addressing the wrong problem, at least in my view. I don't really care about what Facebook does with the data I consciously give them. And ads are just an side-effect.

My main problem is that they actively try to get their hands on data I don't want to give them. Like, my constantly actualized GPS coordinates, or my browsing history. And that they store it. And process it. And store me into some kind of box.

Oh, and it candidly considers that Facebook, or any other person to whom it sells the data, won't do anything nasty with it. Just serving ads might be okay. But ultimately, they could do much more.

Do you want to know who the gay people are around you ? We could sell you that list !
Do you want to know who votes for your opponent ? We could sell you that list !
And so on.

The day Facebook, or Google, or anyone with a comparable database actually decides to do something evil, it will look ugly. Will they ? Don't know. Don't want to find out.

As a side note, I might pay for Facebook. Or I might have paid. Now, they will just get my money and sell my data anyway, so why bother ?
If they are willing to fight to the end, couldn't it take years (assuming you don't run out of money halfway/lose)? Would winning still help you any in that case?
The Internet’s capacity to disseminate information has been described by this Court as “one of the great innovations of the information age” whose “use should be facilitated rather than discouraged”. Hyperlinks, in particular, are an indispensable part of its operation...The Internet cannot, in short, provide access to information without hyperlinks.

It's nice to see some common sense in the ruling
Sorry, I would have been more clear if I said "subpixel density".
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No doubt. AiC were pretty good though, IMO. I liked them a lot more than the other bands that one usually associates with that era: Pearl Jam, STP, Soundgarden, Silver Chair, etc. In fact, you just inspired me to put on some AiC to rock out too right now. :-)
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not - does it really flash if it needs the light? That seems…awful.
Worst case scenario, all the websites I visit sell my data and it ends up (either directly purchased or through mergers/cooperations between data owners) into a single DB, which then sells this data to anyone interested. This can include anyone from secret service, to targeted advertisers to the PI my ex-wife hired to gather information to use against me in a lawsuit. Away goes my privacy.
Wikipedia's secret is that it manages to make the average contribution very slightly positive on average, then makes up the rest in volume. When everything is cumulative like that, the fact that the sum total of Wikipedia contributions do indeed contain a lot of crap doesn't matter, since "good - bad" still comes out quite positive.

It's a delicate balance, though.
Google's Roboto is a Helvetica rip-off
My word - taught or not taught it's a nice piece of function - I do wish that people wouldn't nitpick so much
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A typical "evil" example is health insurance companies who may be interested in your participation in health-related facebook groups.

A good rule of thumb is to just assume that anything you post could be made available to any company.
I can see how your 'life stage' at the time of different historical events might have some binding effect on different cohorts of the population. However I think this effect is so crowded out by the infinite number of other factors at play, socio-economic class, race, place of upbringing, parenting, genetics and so on, that it is effectively unmeasurable and therefore meaningless.

The major effect it has is as a self-fulfilling prophecy: if "Generation $CHAR"ers do have stuff in common, its because they've been told that they have, over and over again for their entire lives.

As I said in my other comment, the need to group ourselves in this way is a necessary social instinct. However much we have internalised neoliberal doctrine since the cold war, we are profoundly not just a country full of separate individuals, as this debate shows. You cannot have a country full of individuals, just as you cannot have a tribe full of individuals. We have to identify with each other or we will not survive. At the same time, we have to distinguish between each other or we will not prosper.

I am going to stop this rant here, because I am not an anthropologist, and I realise that I am in danger of looking like I am pretending to be one.
I think I'm a Gen Xer and I thought the line "he thinks the world owes him a giant-sized Snicker Bar" is probably the most bs statement someone can make. My belief is this whole generation thing is not as telling as how you were raised.

Economically, the Bush years weren't the worst. It has kept going into Obama and he hasn't done himself any favors by not attacking the problem. The energy on health care was a waste (no real input cost reduction) and the jobs bill has some pain in the butt flaws (yes, I read both - still wondering about some of the rule making).

Look back at Nixon/Ford/Carter for some truly epic problems with government (particularly the Presidency and I mean economically not the scandal). Wage and price controls are very scary. Mostly we are more inline with 1920-30s and we don't have WWII to pull us out and change the landscape.

We need to deal with the problems and unpaid liabilities that have accumulated by the Baby Boomers era. We also got to stop people from thinking a home is an investment. It isn't. In these times, its an anchor around your neck. ND has 15,000 open jobs in the oil fields alone. If your mobile, these are high paying and many are not physical labor. Heck, the McDonald's is paying $15/hour.
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26 only feels old until you get into your 30's. I'm 35 and feel old when talking to people in their 20's, but otherwise I still feel like I'm a kid (with a little more common sense).

I'm assuming that it will be similar when I'm in my 40's as well, thinking those 30-year-olds don't know nothin'.
When I visit any page with a Like button I'm on their network? When they fill in a dummy profile for me before I sign up I'm on their network?
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Absolutely. A class-action lawsuit against a mobile analytics company I own a chunk of was thrown out of court recently for exactly that - failure by the plaintiffs to establish actual injury or harm.

If there's no injury, there's no standing, and therefore there's no case.
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You say you want to re-enter the working world. The real question is do you want to change who you are to match the needs of the working world?

Different advise for the different answers...
From the Hacker News guidelines:

"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

From the Hacker News welcome message:

"Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

Also from the Guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. . . . If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Damn right, I don't understand why people are going all up in arms for privacy on the Internet, this is _Internet_, you know, the place where everything is public.

If you want to show your life on the Internet, you have to expect some people taking interest in it, whatever the intention.

What I can't understand is how we are all upset about Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and our privacy when we have NEVER given a damn about how credit card companies profile their client.

And credit card companies are so much worse because they first sell you credit card (via flat fee or interest rates) and then profile you and use that information to sell you even more stuff.
Once consequence of them not being able to sell my data is that these "services" wouldn't exist.

And surprisingly, seeing what they are and are not capable of, I don't have a problem with that.
In the case of mobile phones, if they were in fact experiments they must have considered every experiment a failure, as virtually none of what you saw in the Japanese domestic market informed the design of overseas products. Yet they continued with the same basic design principles year after year. Look some of them up if you like, and you will see what I mean.

They don't see themselves missing out on any opportunity, because they are already certain that their domestic market is fundamentally quite different than every other market in the world, and must be treated as such. This is something fully within the sphere of consensus for them. They aren't behaving like rational actors, but rather like normal humans whose cultural attitudes prevent them from even examining many of their beliefs. Bring it up and you will likely be treated to an expert display of confabulation and rationalization. You can do this with any people on Earth depending on the topic, but the Japanese happened to have picked an unfortunate one.

This is why people think Japanese are xenophobic. They're not, not really. Not any more than most other cultures. But they do tend to think they are very different from everyone else in the world, for better and for worse. This essay is itself a good example, being more nihonjinron navel-gazing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron
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Looks pretty cool, but small town newspapers seem like they would make for really tough clients. Even for something that theoretically will generate revenue for them.
The most ridiculous thing about this is the people who believe in things like "Generation X".

1. Take a twenty-year cross-section of all people in the US
2. Make overly-broad, stereotypical generalizations about it with some pseudo-statistics to back it up.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
F# has been around for well over 5 years, although the last 5 years have seen many new features to it.
Softbank CEO says Steve Jobs worked on Apple until the end
This comment demonstrates everything that has come to exhaust me about Hacker News.

There are myriad things to praise about this community, to be certain, but the only place with a bigger stick up its collective ass is Wikipedia.
Short version: lulzsec and blackmail/public embarrassment.

Intruders count as the "wrong hands". A future buyer/board/CEO with fewer ethical scruples than the current managers of a given data set may count as the wrong hands, or allow it to fall into other wrong hands.
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Sauvignon Blanc is perhaps now the most popular white grape type. Being a very productive variety it can produce large quantities of wine for modest effort but the result is rather flavourless and unremarkable and shows no sign of the gooseberry and flowering currant character that is the bedrock of its reputation.
We Can All Become Job Creators
Not only that but prof. Ng (ml class) actually suggests putting it on a resume.
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Someone asked me what day Thanksgiving falls on in 2012; I just realized I could type "thanksgiving date 2012" and get the answer.
We are all facing this problem. I agree with Steve that it is like finding a spouse. I saw a list of co-founder sites on Quora and posted to them but I'm not pleased with the responses. I'd love to talk you! I have an MVP, users, integration partners and the beginnings of convos with investors. Totally looking for a co-founder. Let me know if you'd like to chat.
The page don't work on a iPad... Fail.
Sorry to hear this, must be very hard after 9 months of hard work. If they are the sole providers of this data, a great business may be to compete head-to-head if you can start becoming a provider of this data. That may be good use of your time (not that the legal action isn't).
having taken the 224W, 229, and 246 courses, I will say that they provide a good introduction to a lot of the data mining algorithms (with 224w emphasizing graph-based algorithms, 246 emphasizing things like decision trees and association rules, and 229 emphasizing regression and SVMs).

however, the main issue for me is bridging the gap between completing those courses and actually being able to apply the skills learned to real-world problems. i hoped to do that with my internship this past summer, but it proved to be more difficult than i thought, particularly without having much guidance from anyone with similar specializations.

how much value does a certificate like this signal then? i feel like there's not much it shows beyond commitment and a focused interest, since it seems to me that the true test of anyone in data mining comes in the form of projects, not classes.
I wonder what people slamming Foxconn think of the fact that all US military helmets are made by prison slave labour in the US.
That's a law I can [Like].