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Facebook does not care about user privacy. They have gone on record saying this multiple times (and then quickly recanted it). They do not care about user privacy because it goes against everything that Facebook needs in order to grow.

For example, if you tag a photo with a friend's name, all of that friend's friends can see this photo, even if you restrict who can see your photos. You cannot change this, which means you have now lost control of your own privacy. I do not want strangers seeing my photos, but I can't prevent this unless I stop tagging photos, which is what I have done.

More importantly, I'm moving away from Facebook because they don't give a fuck about privacy.
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BTW, a great source of information about Quicksilver is Merlin Mann's 43 Folders blog: http://www.43folders.com/topics/quicksilver.
Before the contract is due for delivery, it is sold and the next contract further out is bought. It is trivial.
Please clarify whether this is base pay or total compensation.
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Thats on my list of things to do; however, for now you can do this:

http://www.tubalr.com/just/Band+of+Horses
http://www.tubalr.com/similar/Fleet+Foxes

Also, a simple API I threw together:
http://www.tubalr.com/just/Band+of+Horses.json
http://www.tubalr.com/similar/Fleet+Foxes.json

Thanks for the feedback!
Nice to see that someone actually writes in the title that it's a pdf file.

THANK YOU.

I don't care that if members here want to give me - for speaking my opinion.
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One gentleman created a poll several months back; he had a google doc where people punched in similar kinds of information. Analytics were promised. I cannot find the link - does anyone remember this, or know what happened?

Edit: here is the link. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2763932

My best suggestion is glassdoor.com for this kind of information. And that resource is not limited to HN participants.
This is a lovely idea I can see myself using it!
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net or gross? and what about specify state? USA is not the same as France or India
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base pay + bonuses + current value of stock options

pretty much anything minus benefits
Actually i think HN has just taken down the article on its merits, i.e. that it has none.

What remains a mystery is why this was upvoted in the first place.
Another task on my todo list! Currently the only keyboard control is 'space' to pause :)
$30 was obviously a bubble. But how can this article not even mention that in March, bitcoins had only just surpassed $1, and thus they are now trading at about 3x that? To pick the peak of a bubble as a reference and not even mention that even after the crash, bitcoin has still probably outperformed every other asset in the world YTD, is disingenuous.

Not to mention the price is irrelevant to the success of the technology. What about the economy? Is there more bitcoin economic activity now? My bet would be yes, since Silk Road has done nothing but grow, and it is the most useful bitcoin business.
BTW, this is how CIA employee profile on LinkedIn looks like:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ijhijj-jijijijji/40/a56/1a2
Common opinion between Russians is that anyone who accumulated a lot of wealth in early 90s and managed to stay alive was in mafia or had very close ties with it - either a criminal or a state one. The reason is simple. If you start legitimately and your business is successful, you would be approached eventually by power people offering protection in exchange for sharing profits and/or company share. No exceptions. You earn - you share. The choice between the criminals and corrupted officials was yours though.
And yet I still have relatives who think this is better than the scary terrorist alternative. "She shouldn't have disobeyed the cop."

I don't think Al Qaeda could have dreamed 9/11 would have succeeded so well: freedoms draining to protect us from the terrorists, economy swirling to fight wars with the terrorists, and international impact dwindling as we bark at anything that moves (especially if there is a cloth on its head).
This sort of poll is better conducted anonymously. I'm happy to discuss this stuff anonymously but don't want people I know Googling my name some time in the future.

Also interesting to know would be how much people augment their day-job salary income with side-work (consulting or micro-businesses).
That's obviously not what I was saying. I was saying you need to demonstrate some level of competency in the field. A college degree is one way. Working at an economics-related organization is another. Having some sort of mathematical rigor or scientific evidence which demonstrates that you understand the field, but merely disagree, is yet another.

This is the reason why academic publications have background and/or related work sections. You must demonstrate that you know about all the related efforts in the field, and be able to explain how yours is better or at least unique. You don't get to just write:

"Hi, I wrote a program to evolve a brain. Here is why I like it. It's cool cause it's like a neuron [link to wikipedia article on neurons]. If more programs were like neurons really are, everything would be easy and we'd have thinking machines. Okay, now that I've demonstrated that I'm right, please publish this."

All of that may be true, but I am not going to pay any attention to you because:

A) I have no idea who you are, so you do not get the benefit of the doubt.

B) You have provided no credentials, so there is no proxy institution to vouch for your competency.

C) There is no indication that you are aware of any other research in evolutionary neural networks. You cited no papers, formulated no theorems, presented no comparative evidence.

This kind of writing is intellectually lazy. You will not solve real, challenging problems by sitting around in a big mental masturbation circle jerk with other uninformed people. The odds are infinitesimally small that you will randomly be born into the world and just through your day-to-day life come up with a solution to a problem that generations of geniuses have yet to properly solve. If you want to actually make progress, then first understand the work that's been done in the field and find a way to improve upon it.
what is "benefits"?
The question is how likely Yuri's private fund is to stay that way.
things like Ethanol in the US driving up the price of corn

You can't really drive up the price of an individual crop. If the price of one crop goes up, they all go up. There is only so much land, so if one crop looks to be more profitable, farmers will shift their growing plan to include more of that crop, leading to shortages of the other crops.

Given this article, if true, means that ethanol may have play little to no role in the commodity price increases. I remember at the time it was really only the mainstream media that jumped on ethanol. In the farming communities, investors were thought to be the source of the price increases even then.
From the numbers people seem to put in their gross income.

I would find it interestin to see how much is taken away by the goverment for different salaries and locations.

In Germany, the government takes away roughly 50% of your income.
Absolutely, it does require discipline. As a matter of fact I force myself not to devote more than 10 minutes to email & news, and I'm helped there by not wanting to waste my early rise for that.

I also force myself to plan exactly which task I'm going to work on in the morning the day before, that helps me A LOT in becoming productive as fast as possible.
Concurrency

property of systems in which several computational processes are executing at the same time, and potentially interacting with each other

Parallelism

computation in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously, operating on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently (i.e. "in parallel")

http://www.slideshare.net/nivertech/migrationtomulticore
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Show HN: A very easy way to send webpages to friends.
A few months ago, I created YourPane. I use it daily since, and I find it indispensable, since it allows you to send a webpage to friends with three clicks. It hasn't seen much usage, though, so I wanted to present it to you in hopes of getting some feedback about what to improve/change.

The address is www.yourpane.com (clickable in comments). Basically, you install the bookmarklet, add one or two contacts and then just click the bookmarklet when you want to send them a page. YourPane will email them the url and they can either visit it from the email or see it embedded in their pane.

Any feedback appreciated!
Okay, that article can easily be ad-content disguised as a legitimate objective article. The fact that only a single security company is quoted leaves it highly suspect.
antirez is not new to this. he created one of the first Digg/Reddit inspired news site in Italy back in 2005 or 2006. I beleive that was originally built in PHP/MySql and recently ported to Redis as the main database. The entire project was aquired by one of the largest italian internet companies around 2006 or 2007 and it's now hosted at http://oknotizie.virgilio.com

As far as I know, that project was never made open source.
You can find other early projects from antirez here http://merzia.com/
At least on reddit, if Marak Squires posts anything at all, drama follows (justified or not). Maybe it's for the best that it can't be posted here.
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Clickable: http://www.yourpane.com
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The governments don't need to do it. This is exactly why futures contracts exist. So that bakers who know they need wheat in six months can know today what the wheat will cost them and can price the bread with that assurance.

But maybe your point is that by doing this they would avoid the transient price spike due to the indexes rolling over in the near months. Which might make sense, but that phenomenon was noticed by traders anyway and you would expect it to be smoothed out because of that.
Another thing is that if this skill is called on too often it becomes a primary strength which is not where u want to be. Corporations are places which mould you to seem deep without necessaiting actuall deep thought.
I love how mature these api mashups are becoming. Formal deployment process and maintainable code. Well done!
It's not that different for some situations in the US. When you add federal, state, county and township personal & business taxes for me (self-employed), it comes out to around 40% of my income... and once I spend any of it, the sales tax is 7% here.
Personally, I think Hacker News has a great design and a poor community. I guess these things are just a matter of taste.
Show HN: MoveGroove - High Performance Music (StartupWeekend Hamilton))
We're a small group competing at a local StartupWeekend (http://startupweekend.org) and were hoping to get feedback on our app idea.

We're very close on a working prototype for android, using accelerometer data to determine music that would match a user's intensity level.

Most of us are hackers, working away at code and design/copy is admittedly a weak point. We're also working on our market validation at the moment.

Our website is at http://movegroove.github.com.

Any and all feedback is appreciated! Thanks for your time.
The dashboard is not the most important thing in the entire automotive industry.

Car companies are focusing on design. They are spending billions on it.

Regarding the Ferrari 458, it can show the current speed as a number while showing the map at the same time.
Is it really idiomatic to use intrinsic truth values (eg, using "if x" instead of "if x != 0")?

Here are my arguments against it:

- "Explicit is better than implicit."

- If there's need for a table as reference for what is intrinsically true and what is intrinsically false, then it's clearly not "elegant" enough for people to just understand from looking at the code.

- Conventions vary across languages. You're basically forcing anyone who looks at your code who's not used tons of Python (and who would otherwise completely understand the code) to look up that table.
Hmm, randomizing the videos every search would add a little freshness. Thanks for the idea, and I'm glad your digging my app!
A bunch of excellent points about basic economics.

I would add, regarding this part:

"The economy finds a way to efficiently use resources until constraints are hit."

... that "efficiently" is only true to the extent that resources are scarce. For resources that are not scarce, as was the case with oil until relatively recently, and as is the case with nat gas now in the U.S., the market optimizes for volume much more than efficiency. Hence the reason we're sucking the stuff out of the ground as fast as we possibly can.
Figure out how to log only what you want. Don't let your choice of an inflexible logging system affect your external API.

What do you get? Well many things, but specific to your inquiries: using GET tells the client of your API that the request is cache-able (for better performance -- a browser won't cache POSTs), and it tells that client that it's safe to call without unintended consequences. A search engine spider should be safe to just hit every uri via GET that it finds, because those are supposed to be read-only.
Just to give some context about the genesis of LN, here are some tweets by Salvatore:

dudes the time for YC to be replaced by something
open and not privately owned has come, and I want
to help in some way
http://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/124256931970949120

I mean not YC the company, but the news site: news.ycombinator.com
http://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/124257007988510721

First step, I want to code some Redis based fast
replacement of the code base. Guess what?
Not written in Arc ;)
http://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/124257497946140673

Second, let's make the code base open source.
Finally I'll get a linode instance for the first year,
and put it into some domain.
http://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/124257713659191296

p.s. I know that Reddit is open source, but I want to
write a Redis clone so that it can make a good
use case at least ;)
http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Note: site will not be mine, once I put it
online + github I want to create a "core team"
from different companies / countries.
http://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/124259611896315905

if you wonder about why "lamer" news, one of the
things I like less of HN is how they turned the
"hacker" term into almost a joke...
http://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/124264048555606016

@rbucker: @antirez that makes much more sense.
And I agree with that. News dot yc is a conflict
of interest. Sort of.
http://twitter.com/#!/rbucker/status/124263894058414080

@rbucker exactly what I think... for instance YC
funded companies job postings are special news that
are "sticky" or alike.
http://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/124263563782144000

@dvirsky lamernews has a meaning actually, it is
like Cusano philosophy "I know that I don't know".
Makes sense IMHO in the hacker culture.
http://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/124265164546650114
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Good to know, I wasn't aware of both of these features. Thanks!
Adding Weather and Traffic to Trip Directions - a Google Maps mock-up
There are a few currents working against startups in Japan:

- Smart, ambitious people tend to join large, prestigious corporations, or government agencies

- Up until a few years ago, forming a company was very expensive (3 million yen minimum)

- Seniority is a powerful force in the Japanese workplace, which I suspect prevents young college grads from introducing the latest technologies in their companies.

- Japan has struggled to transition to a post-industrial economy, and IT is still dominated by hardware companies.
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Well before PalmOS, Apple spent ~100 million dollars developing the Newton which also ended up having most of the major applications of a modern smartphone, including - with the appropriate PCMCIA cards installed in the slot(s) or external devices attached to the serial port - both phone service and location-based services.

The first Palm product was a software program that ran on the Newton; the first PalmOS devices were far less capable than Newton. So if you're just going by the feature set, I think Apple wins this one.
I did something similar, but, well, different ;) congrats on shipping, mine got stuck in the 'almost finished' stage.
Pretty cool and simple. How do you get the "similiar Artist" feature?

Also, that is a pretty great font for your logo. For anyone else interested he uses "Pacifico": http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/pacifico
Who ever said OSX was impenetrable? Anyone with a clue said there wasn't much being written to target it. I want the few minutes back that I spent reading this.
Even in SF it doesn't always cost 2k+ for a 1 bedroom.
The increase in value to Facetime would not compensate for the loss in value of iOS with it no longer being an iOS exclusive. Facetime is a free service used by Apple to sell Apple devices. It is not an end to itself.
Srsly: I think you are on the cusp of something huge Aaron, and I wish you a ton of luck, but for pete's sake: Move the company out of state already.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, you can fight city hall but is that really where you want to spend your company's energy and time?

Turn your company into something so successful that CA offers you a tax break to move back here.
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I tried to deactivate my account and accidentaly deleted my own app/page that had me listed as admin. Does any of you know of any way I can get it back ? It's an emergency.
Location is huge. I live in Michigan and make considerably less than friends that live elsewhere. My rent is also almost 1000 dollars cheaper per month.
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Thanks, glad ya like it. As far as how the similar search works, heres how I do it. First I hit last.fm and grab the top 20 similar artist, then I simply hit YouTube's API and grab the top video for each artist and throw all the videos into one playlist.
1. This article is four years old, it was published in 2007. Have things changed since then?

2. The graph is unreadable and clicking to get a larger image goes through a cycle of pages that don't have larger images but take a long time to load.
Depends on where you live. I paid $1200 for a studio apt. in A2, and it can go even higher the closer to downtown you live.
It's nice to see someone who actually remembers Palm.
It's amazing how many people simply forget all about Palm altogether yet it was the thing to have in the 1996-2004 era.
I always thought this a great idea worth pursuing, especially if you are 'sailing' down the prevailing winds/jetstream, i.e. from North America to Europe it is practically a free ride.

It can be a lot more problematic 'beating upwind' the other way, especially as there is not much sunshine in northern Europe due to its considerable latitude.

This craft may be heavier than air but it still has considerable wind resistance.

Also, the dangerous static electricity buildup has to be considered seriously and solved.
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Agreed - location is a good indicator. I make good money for my area, but cost of living is highest in the country and salaries are higher in other areas.
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No matter what anyone says and the patents involved, no judge in this world will ever ban Android in US or (almost) anywhere else in the world. There are too many manufacturers involved, too many users having phones with the OS, and too many resources spent on this. It's simply too big.
Steve Jobs knew that, and giving how a great PR person he was, this might have been just an attempt to put Google's Android in a bad light (which, in the eyes of the non-technical people, he succeeded).

Also, no matter what anyone says (brudgers, this is for you), without Apple, we wouldn't have the world full of touch-screen phones we have now. Yes, it is "only" a step forward, but remember, there were already touch-screen phones on the market. And their impact was ZERO. It is apple who built a real user-friendly OS, and conceived hardware that would make the device easy to use. And being honest with ourselves, every other mobile OS after that got it's inspiration from the iPhone OS.

Android will be the largest player (in numbers) in the mobile space for a long while because it's simply accessible to everyone. It's Microsoft vs Apple all over again. I sided with Android the day the G1 launched, I never looked back, and I'm not sorry at all. But I will never forget the first iPhone, which started an avalanche.
This sort of poll teeters on the edge of meaninglessness: you're only considering income and location.

Experience and type of work matter, as does actual ability - and good luck polling on that. Company size is also a factor (actual ability seems to affect pay less as the company gets larger, in my experience).
It's clean and simple and maybe useful but the only problem I see is it replaying the same popular songs over and over. I put in Mumford and Sons and Little Lion Man was in the playlist several times over just because it's one of their most popular songs and there are variations and what not. If you could put in some kind of function that doesn't show videos more than once or twice that'd be handy.
Certainly, Page will be buoyed by the results of Schmidt's tenure. The pressure on Jobs to improve the situation is certainly greater than the pressure on Page, at least in that respect.

My comment about Google and there other products is that they don't do anything exceedingly well over the competition outside of search. It's not that their products aren't done well, they just don't differentiate the company. Maps, as you point out, is a fine product -- but there are other map products that are just as good. Gmail vs. other web-based mail? Android vs. iOS? While fine products, they don't put Google head-and-shoulders above the market.

By comparison, nearly every product offered by Apple is considered best-in-class. The iPod. The iPhone. The iPad. The iMac desktops & laptops.

To be sure, achieving was Apple has achieved is no small matter, even for the bright minds at Google. And, it's not to say that if they don't reach that point, Page's tenure as CEO amounts to failure. But, I believe the expectations are for Google to achieve some of that best-in-class dominance, because of their position in search.
Shirky's cognitive surplus comes to mind. In the context of #OWS, a lot of the youth are complaining that they don't have jobs. But then I remember that my generation wasn't raised to find a job - we were raised to "do what we loved". And after a while in the real world, we found that there weren't very many opportunities to actually do what we loved, and we're a bit upset about it.*

The step FORWARD is to try to create an environment where ANYONE can create ANY kind of wealth they want. Companies like Etsy and Skillshare (both NYC babies!) are propelling us to this world. It's a world where we have projects instead of jobs. A place where you don't ask a man what he DOES for a living; instead, you ask him what he's WORKING on.

Sounds nice, huh? And the wrong answer, obviously, is to "solve" it by making things more inefficient. Then we'll just stay in a world where jobs, you know, suck.

*the royal we, of course. I'm a programmer, and I have a job, and I love it. yeeee :)