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I totally agree with being social at college, and being really friendly and helpful to everyone, but doing good in your studies is pretty much a guaranteed way to become good at grinding your way through things that are perhaps very boring. They are both equally important and unless you are working, you should be able to find time for both activities. Studying with classmates is also a good way to do both.

EDIT: I don't know what I replied to this comment and not your main comment about socializing at school, but w/e
Yep. A lot of android builds have it baked in, and I assume the facebook apps for android/ios have this functionality.
I'd never heard this, but it's a great idea.. if you want to change your focus from near to far, a mirror will get you double the distance. Brilliant.
Given Ponzi schemes tend to end in prosecution,(this is probably a forlorn hope) could we eventually see prosecutions for this sort of behaviour? Or maybe as a next best investors slowly beginning to realise that these odd price spikes keep ending with a few investment banks winning and all else losing?
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Second. If you wear contacts, dryness is a killer. Hydration is critical; I keep a glass of ice water at my desk at all times. (This also forces you to take brief breaks for the bathroom, which are good for both your eyes and your spine.)
I can confirm that the "security check" thing is related to having a fake name, or perhaps an empty profile. Both of those apply to my primary account and I'm prompted to enter a phone number every time I log in.

It doesn't seem to be required, I've always just dismissed those "security" prompts by clicking the FB logo in the top left, which forwards me to the homepage just fine.

The chances of facebook getting my mobile number are about the same as my chances of flying to the moon by willpower alone.
Thanks. This is embarrassing but I can't make out any difference in mes2...I'm looking at the buttons (assume that's where the tweaks are). Is there a change in aspect ratio of the buttons?
It might depend on the college, and how it feeds into the industry you wind up in.

Mine was a Large Cow College -- the U of MD -- whose CS department seemed to feed into the Washington, DC government and defense contractor businesses. When I relocated to Silicon Valley, all of my contacts were useless.

Well, there was the Arpanet; I'd been exchanging email with some Atari enthusiasts at Stanford for a while, and wound up going to dinner and users group meetings with them a few times.

But Silly Valley was (and probably still is) a terrible place for a geek to try to learn to be social. I'll probably do a blog post about that some day.
Unless that money is tied up in assets that are thought to be safe like land or commodities.
Our user metrics are in terms of monthly and daily active users. More than 800 million people logged in last month with more than 500 million logging in on a single day.
I am wondering if someone is prescient enough to write a " Facebook is dead " essay.

After a group perfects Gentry's work[1].. someone will gear up a homomorphic scheme combined with a generative personal cloud[2].

The " personal " in PC was most important when C stood for computer. Next, it will be most important when C stands for cloud.

[1] - http://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/

[2] - http://futureoftheinternet.org
I don't see any reason to distinguish them.

A free market means a free market. When one monolithic organization with access to controlling capital makes its goal not to preserve the freedom of the market, but to extract value from the rest of the market for itself and its shareholders, that's not a market. That's a centrally planned economy.

The bankers have turned Communist oligarchs in all but name.
But if you don't waterboard your kids and beat them, how will they learn to function in the real world?
Your specific comment about "$" may be false. Waldorf schools in urban areas are indeed $15k+/year/kid, but there are Waldorf schools in rural areas that charge far less for tuition. Not having kids myself but knowing parents of kids who go to Waldorf schools, your second statement seems more accurate: from what they say the parents are very involved in the schooling - in fact the Waldorf methodology is insistent on it.
Well, it is illegal with Onions, but the prices of those tend to be even more volatile than the ones that people speculate in.
Hey guys, thanks a lot for the information. I also got an email regarding this startup and the comments about the landing page were the same - and quite frankly I agree.

Ironically, in the time between posting this and the first post, I was doing some brainstorming and I thought about adding a brief video tutorial clip and some testimonials. He just threw it together as his background is NOT design, but I will get him to change a few things. Thanks again for your help! Maybe Europe would be good to try..
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E-gads man, this is terrible.

This reminds me of when you first watch the Matrix. If you're young, you spend a while thinking "But it could all just be a simulation!" Until you finally realize that yes, it could all just be a simulation, but it doesn't matter. You grasp the really cool part of the concept -- we all live on computers -- and forget that details and practical implications -- simulated people living in a simulation and real people living in reality aren't really different. So it doesn't matter.

Likewise, this author has realized the great revelation that strikes everybody who looks around: jobs are going away! There are no more buggy-whip manufacturers, chimney sweeps, blacksmiths, coopers, automobile welders, and so on. In fact, it's only getting worse! Technology accumulates on itself. Pretty soon we'll be able to make anything!

Okay fine, but here's the details that are very important to remember: economies don't run on jobs, they run on the creation and distribution of scarcities. Being able to build your own B-1 bomber in your basement isn't going to make everybody's job go away. Jobs are not about building tangible things. They are about providing something people want. Yes, you might only need a few chefs for each cuisine worldwide in order to manufacture food, but eating is about much more than simply consuming things that have been manufactured. So while the eating experience may evolve, there's no guarantees one way or the other about how chefs fit into the picture. We simply don't know.

I could go on, but you get the gist: those things that involve simple, robotic, manufacturing of goods will commodotize. But that doesn't matter. Making movies cost a millionth as much as it did 100 years ago; it's mostly free. But we still make and distribute movies even though the manufacturing cost is negligible.

Visit a retirement community for rich people. They have most every physical need they could want -- food, goods, services. Yet the economy flourishes. There are social events, artistic events, clubs, contests, etc. People without any physical needs still create and distribute things that are scarce. The economy isn't going anywhere.

Worse yet, the author takes his limited understanding of the world, extrapolates it, then calls for a war on efficiency! Good grief, it's so lame it's almost trolling.

People ask me what I worry about most? It's that we never leave this planet. It's that the millions of people like this who want to war on efficiency, capitalism, science, and technology, finally win. We stagnate. The Great Fizzle.
I remember more than a few all-nighters, back in my college days, on big papers due the next day. Nevermind that I'd neglected to start them earlier; the problem at hand was coming up with a thesis that was provocative enough to be engaging on two fronts. First, it had to engage me in order to keep me writing. Second, the product of my writing had to engage my professor in order to stand out from the pack. Being "deep" was an easy trick to accomplish both degrees of engagement.

I didn't have a conscious method at the time, but when I look back at my madness, I see a few oft-used patterns. The first was to pick a statement in a text -- preferably one held as common knowledge about the subject -- and disagree with it. Another technique was to take that same statement, and graft on some out-of-left-field, tangential implication from it (my college pal Mary Jane was great at helping me with this kind of thinking). Yet another trick was to take two authors or arguments believed to be in opposition to one another, and claim that both were more closely aligned than commonly assumed. There were endless variations on all of these methods, but all of them shared the same logical scaffolding outlined in this article.

All of them were problematic.

You see, when you start with the explicit goal of "being deep" or "making a provocative argument," you run a huge risk of bullshitting for bullshit's sake. And if you're a great speaker, or a deft wordsmith, your bullshit will sound clear and striking enough to convince anyone who hears it. Even yourself. Soon enough, you become the sort of person who can start with pretty much any claim, no matter how superficially absurd, and then bend sources, and arguments, and logic, and everything shy of thermodynamics, to prove it out. This is intellectually lazy, because the entire point of writing a paper, or proposing a theory, or researching a topic, is to do the up-front legwork of hypothesis-test-refinement. Deliberate provocation skips the "test" portion of that pattern, opting instead for style over substance. It predetermines a conclusion, then makes the conclusion so shiny and pretty that everyone assumes a great deal of thought went into reaching it.

All of this is, of course, tangential to the author's point. It's also based on personal experience -- though I have been around enough wise-ass buddies in my day to know that I'm not the only world class bullshitter ever to hammer out a college paper. But my point is that I find the idea of setting out to be "deep" a bit troublesome. Deep thinking is fantastic. But "deep" presentation is easy to achieve without deep thinking, and it passes muster 99% of the time. It's like Frodo's ring: very powerful, very easy to slip on, and very hard to take off.
An interesting description, but how does it contradict with things I said earlier in the thread?

More specifically: that he might not care about wealth as something one buys with money.
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"It suggests that Apple, which has pledged to be true to Jobs' vision, may try to derail Android in court."

Apple has pledged to be true to Jobs' vision? Really? Because I think we just saw a better-sourced article state that Jobs himself said "Don't ask, 'What would Steve do?'".

In fact, if anything, my big wish for Apple now is that they start cooperating with Google. If FaceTime and iMessage were available on Android, and Google Voice native on iPhone (other than Sprint), they could turn the carriers into dumb pipes. It's time.
In the Python world I drink the words of Armin Ronacher, Ian Bicking and George Brandl. They created some of the biggest slices in the ecosystem pie, and I raise my hat before their productivity and quality of their work.

As to what sites to follow, planet.python.org may be your best bet. Depends on what you want to achieve (I enjoy general software engineering blogs a lot more.)

The greatest python projects IMO come from Pocoo. Study their stuff and you'll be a guru in no time.
I'm not sure that's such a huge sin -- technically I think FB says that you cannot have more than 1 account/actual person; I'd imagine when this `feature` was baked in the engineers didn't imagine that anyone would maintain an account that 1) they would keep hidden from friends _and_ 2) add their phone numbers to.

At the very least, the friend could have blocked the set of people he didn't want to know about his preferences from the "gay" account: otherwise what stopped a simple search by name from showing both accounts?
iPhones have the same coating as well. Maybe the "grime" this person noticed on the cleaning pad was the coating!
Certainly not trying to be rude, but what is the value of the site? What does it provide beyond HN?

Love that it's open source, though. I'll definitely be taking a look at it.
It isn't always true that subsidizing something increases its demand and thus its price. So it must be argued that this would be so in this particular instance.

By increasing higher education spending, while limiting the number of people who get in, we could create a system of free higher education. Such people, being released from the present system of debt burden when they graduate, might contribute more to economic growth. It might not work out that way but it could. I have no data either way except to say that in the U.S. the so called greatest generation mostly had free higher education.

Of course increasing higher education funding and spending it unwisely wouldn't be of much benefit.
An older Ubuntu could be more pleasurable, like 10.10, then you can use the classic gnome UI.
Here in the UK I've seen price of bread double, and the price of pasta triple over the last couple of years. It has never dropped. It is like this everywhere.

Perhaps it isn't in america, where you guys have even more ridiculous agricultural subsidies than we do in the EU.

The people responsible for this shit don't ever look at the prices of things at retail anyway.
> Given that any recursive function can be written using a while loop with O(1) memory bounds

I think that's only true if the function makes only one recursive call, like computing the Fibonacci numbers. If the function calls itself recursively twice, it may end up using a lot of memory, e.g. the Ackermann function.
I don't know who Mr. Greenspan is (Aaron not Alan :) ), but this letter starts up being respectful, mostly factual, and well written (I say starts up because I haven't read the responses through, and it starts being less so midway).

I also understand his frustration with government regulation (my first attempt at a startup was stillborn due to regulation).

Some of his complaints aren't on the same level as his main points (complaining about having to make it to a meeting in person won't win any sympathy from me).
But wait, education is pretty much free already. You can watch all of Stanford's lectures online. You just don't get a piece of paper saying you've been to Stanford. But that certification does not seem relevant to your point.
I don't have data for the wheat alone, but the index did tumble:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=AMEX%3AGSG

There's a lot wrong with this story. I'm amazed that most people here are just eating it up. Compare to the reaction to science news: if an article claims that X causes Y but the data only shows a correlation but not causation, people will always point it out. Why not be a little more critical here too?

For instance, how do we know the commodity index prices caused an increase in the price of the actual commodities, or if something else caused the price increase and the commodity index price was merely reflecting it?

Other things the article gets wrong or doesn't explain:

* the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index is just an index (and it's not even owned by GS anymore, it's owned by S&P). It's not a fund. There are funds that track it, but just
creating an index doesn't do much to the market.

* he says that bankers started making financial products out of food products in the early 1990s, only to contradict (and correct) himself later but without explaining that contradiction.

* "the bankers had figured out how to extract profit from the commodities market without taking on any of the risks they themselves had introduced by flooding that same market with long orders". This is exactly what every mutual fund manager does, whether it's stocks or commodities. There's nothing new here. The fund manager will only flood the market with orders to the extent that his clients are putting money into the fund.

* "By the time the normal buying season began, drought had hit Australia, floods had inundated northern Europe, and a vogue for biofuels had enticed U.S. farmers to grow less wheat and more corn". How in the world does that support the claim in the title? Droughts and floods decrease the supply, prices go up.

I'll stop here, but there's more data about this in the Economist:

http://www.economist.com/node/16432870?subjectid=2512631&...
Yes. At the very least we need schools which acknowledge and don't work at cross purposes with autodidacticism.
Does it surprise you how many of us are surprised? Even pg?

We don't know how bad it's gotten. If you really think it's reprehensible, it's well past time you (and other insiders, not to single you out) spoke up.
This is mostly the fault of insufficient Chrome addon API afaik. In Firefox/Pentadactyl the addon automatically hijacks all the keypresses and only by pressing CTRL-Z can you fall back into direct mode and feed keypress events to Javascript.
At first, it didn't recommend anything, but after I made yet another account and added that as friend it recommended 50+ people I had no relationship to, AND one friend that I know of. There's nothing linking me to that person except the phone number I used, so it seems to work somewhat, however, I know for sure there are at least 50 people with my phone number on facebook, why didn't it recommend any of those other people?
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The problem with this is that if you can dumb down or break down the process of building robotic arms so that unintelligent people can do it, so can those same robots! This is the point that some people seem to miss is that we're in completely uncharted waters here. The old rules of "more jobs will be created" just don't apply.
Considering joining just because it is a much smaller community, and I will have a disproportionately larger impact than I do at hacker news. I am more likely to be able to influence it to be more like the site I want it to be than I am able to influence hacker news. I imagine most hn folk who join lamer news at first will do it for that reason.

I don't think many will actually be giving up hacker news in joining lamer news, tho.
Looks like an interesting concept to hack on. But somehow I get the nagging feeling it's suffering from the whole "everyone needs to code their own CMS at some point in their career".

Maybe the new saying will be "Every competent web dev has coded a news site at some point"?

PS: I joined, my internet OCD demands it.
If that is the problem, how can the USA as a country change that?
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If you are truly concerned about harm to users, did you try reporting this to facebook.com/security or facebook.com/whitehat? FWIW, I've alerted some people.

Your post is unclear on one point. Did you see this screen BEFORE confirming via SMS that you were in possession of the mobile number you entered? If it was after confirmation, that's a very different thing.
If you want to seem deep attempt to learn to speak E-Prime fluently, you'll have to use a lot more vocabulary to get your point access.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
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First easy test I posted was a link to a domain that gets blocked here (legit content). While it's just a tech demo site, I hope it will turn into an experiment for new ideas, particularly with the right balance between Y-combinator startups and their competitors (blocked submissions on HN).
I think I've found another troublesome method that Facebook is using to suggest new friends.

A few years ago, I created a Google profile with a vanity URL [1] and a Facebook account with the same Gmail address. I never linked those two accounts, used third-party apps or imported contacts into Facebook. I recently created a Google+ profile and publicly circled some users when I suddenly noticed that those circled users started showing up in my Facebook account as "suggested friends". Those users don't follow me on Google+, aren't linked to any of my Facebook friends and they don't know my Gmail address.

I can't think of any other method used by Facebook to recommend those friends, except by crawling my Google+ circles. It's as easy as extracting my Google+ username from my Gmail address and scanning my circles at profiles.google.com/username.

I can't reproduce this with different accounts as vanity URLs aren't available for new Google accounts.

Could anyone with confirm this with their own Google profiles?

Do you think Facebook should be authorized to "scrap" contacts from other social networks, to extend build their own social graph about their users, without possible opt-out and no disclosure?

[1] http://www.labnol.org/internet/vanity-url-for-google-profile...
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http://www.rumint.org/gregconti/ has done a bunch of work on the ramifications of " A little data leaks here, a little there " .. you might enjoy.
Oh I see! Could be helpful. I'll try to add to the community, too :)
App looks nicely done, but I would never use it. I live close to several surf spots and I surf every day that it's good. Like others have said here it's not in my interest to tell others when it's good. My ideal surf session is when the surf is good and there's nobody else out but me. In fact I go out of my way to surf when it's not crowded e.g. early morning on weekends, mid-morning on weekdays etc.

This isn't me being narrow-minded, it's simply a matter of waves being a limited resource. Sharing waves is fine for beginners surfing inside and heading directly towards shore. But when you're out back surfing green waves there's not that many waves to go around. It doesn't take many people to paddle out before your wave-count drops and you have to start competing for waves. It's just a lot less fun.

As regards knowing when the surf is good, I know by looking at weather forecast. When I first moved here I put in the time checking the forecast and checking what the actual waves are like for that swell, wind, period etc. I know what any of my regular spots will be like just by looking at the weather charts for the day. I don't need an app to tell me. Anyone who surfs a spot regularly will similarly be able to tell what it's like from checking the charts.

I think the market for this kind of app is really just beginning and occasional surfers. They will certainly be consumers for the app but they will probably not be much use in providing data for the app.

Just naming surf-spots on the internet is a sensitive subject so putting almost-live photo updates of spots will be even more so. Don't expect regular surfers to provide this information.
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That simple search by name would not show his account with the gay persona - so they thought they were safe. His phone # was probably not listed publicly either.

You work at Facebook, don't you?
I was browsing through real estate in SF the other day and saw a few mansions. I like clicking through the pictures and seeing what that kind of lifestyle would look like. At a price tag at 20mil and amazing views you'd think you'd be happy there but then I looked up the monthly payments for a 30 year loan and they would be 80,000 month. I was shocked and baffled at how someone could be ok spending that much money a month on a house. Who can afford this? You think of the common stereotypes but really who could do this. Someone list some names and what they did beside the mainstream people.
It's there, but it's not a very big change - perhaps best chalked up to my obsessiveness to white-space..;-)

Anyway, 2nd's my vote. Good luck!