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Your idea of personal computer is something with a keyboard or the device physical form. I interpret it as something much more related to function - a device that holds and processes data locally, with locally installed applications and that you have to manage yourself, dealing with files that can be processed by different applications. This has been what a personal computer is since their invention. A "post-PC" device (and I see it as mostly a marketing term, but a useful way to refer to these devices nevertheless) is something that won't make you manage your files, that has a simple way to install/remove applications and that is tied to always-available remote storage and services. A Chromebook is much more post-PC-ish than an iPad, but that's another discussion.
Do you really believe the correct solution for these problems is to essentially make every financial startup a DBA of HUGE_BANK_X? That's one of the main reasons we don't see any innovation in the banking space where things are desperately underdeveloped.

A benevolent banking startup could do a lot of things to really help consumers, and they could do them EASILY with what we have in place now. They could implement reasonable and sustainable fee structures and they could set account transactions up such that fees are avoided instead of maximized. Big banking wants to keep things right where they are, of course; if they could possibly get a fee out of you based on your account's activity, they are going to do everything possible to make sure that things execute in such a way that that activity occurs: arbitrary holds and delays on checks, manipulation of transaction post orders, intentionally confusing account summaries ("account balance" and "available balance", and sometimes worse), nickel-and-dimed on fees for normal usage ("0.50 analysis fee", "5.00 new card fee", "5.00 maintenance fee", and soon, "5.00 debit card fee"), and many, many other things all collude to create a horrible experience for the end user.

"Front banks" like WePay, Braintree, or others, can't really do much about these processes and have to forward the BS received from the big banks on to their customers. You can create a pretty frontend, like BankSimple, but the reality is that you can't really make much of a change when you're subject to all of the same problems that your end users are already struggling to deal with every day.
These little privacy leaks are not important on their own. A little data leaks here, a little there.

What is concerning is that we can guarantee private investigators and professional identity fraudsters are well on top of all these little loopholes. And combined, I'd say Facebook is probably pissing data out.

Some sweet law enforcement potential here - slap in a request to Facebook on a drug-dealing suspect, find a list of everyone with his number in their phone. Repeat until !exists($drugNetwork).
Shifts on the job side take time. This isn't the first time that technology has removed jobs, but what is novel about this time around is the speed at which those jobs were removed. Instead of it taking a generation for a technology shift to happen, it takes years. That speed is what displaces many people, especially those that have not grown up in the information age.
"honey"? Really?

He only proves you wrong. The fact that is for B2B doesn't change a damn thing, false and dangerous information is false and dangerous information, and in fact EVEN MORE SO, since it is addressed to "small companies which probably have 0 IT professionals and old software".
http://www.facebook.com/gettingstarted.php?step=friend_reque...

That's the URL that I'm still being directed to - I haven't actually clicked 'Next' yet.
Popularity is a factor, but, among the 20 or so top languages it's hard to find one that's not "popular enough".
Yes, but I have the nagging feeling that it should say "PUT is defined as being idempotent, so it's the responsibility of the programmer to implement it that way." Some frameworks may implement it this way, which is good, but it's something to test for if we want to assume idempotence.
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Hm, well I guess there's always one exception :)
Ask HN: Tell me something that's spread around on a couple of (cocky) websites
Something that needs a centralized solution.
Aside from what others have suggested, I went to a college called Simon's Rock which accepts mostly high school sophomores. I don't have a single close friend who didn't get into college without a high school diploma.

And before you ask, our admissions are close to 100%, and our academics are some of the best in the country.
How much did it cost you?
I think by "education" you mean "schooling". The conflation of these two concepts causes all kinds of mischief.
They appear to have resolved this issue in a timely fashion. I can no longer find a request for phone number during the sign up process or once logged in to find friends.
It takes a lot of time for a surfer to build up knowledge of a surf spot and what conditions make it work. There are more than enough spots that are common knowledge, but there are a few that are best ignored.
We've received quite a lot of criticism for publishing spot locations on Surftourist. Shortly we'll be launching a feature for marking spots as secret spots. I expect something like that would be useful for shaharsol's app too.
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Well, some have updated to IE 8.
Could you explain how "massive boosts to education funding" would solve this problem? I'm sure you could boost the number of degrees held by this method, but why do you believe you would create more "masters of capital"?

Also, you do realize that if you subsidize something more, you are likely to increase demand for it and raise prices further, right?
I tried it, FB gave me no recommendations, but maybe no one has me in their address book.
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Headline is a little sensational. I'm not big fan of FB but this is just an artefact of the recommendation algos they're using.

Any contributor to HN shouldn't be surprised that a web app is using every possible bit of personal information it has to influence recommendation.

Someone mentioned a similar issue with Twitter recently (they signed up a with a new email but using a machine they had used previously and it recommended based on an existing cookie or something).

If you submit personal information - the recipient is likely to use it in many ways that make you uncomfortable - either immediately or at some point in the future.

Just because you feel secure with the current management team you donate personal data to doesn't mean your relationship with the next one will be so cosy. Nobody deletes data any more.

I guess at some point in the future identity online will be a lot more formal (Google+) and we'll be able to explicitly set the context (circle) we expose to services.
Waldorf schools are based on some crazy-nutty voodoo philosophy.

They also, more or less coincidentally, work really, really well.
This article is wrong because clearly videogames exist and are filling the world with highly trained, shock-proof, gun wielding children who will stop at nothing to get what they want and who think they can just press the reset button if anything goes wrong.
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Good for you. I tried several hours of Murawarri aboriginal chants and was ready to start with the Miappe ones... ;-)
you seem to confuse being able to explain why something happens with whether or not it is a security breach. that this is an artefact of the recommendation algorithms does not change the importance of the information leaked.

and the argument "you should not be surprised companies fuck you over" simply gives away moral ground without a fight.

i really can't understand posts like yours. is the chance to appear world-weary and knowledgeable really worth selling your soul for?
Last year here on HN, Nathaniel said this:

"The ridiculously huge mistake I think Chargify made here was something I thought was just a given these days: they should've unilaterally grandfathered all of their existing clients, and quietly given the grandfathered plan to anyone who was already integrating but not yet launched as well." (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781104)

It's one thing to trash your competitor publically. It's another to then do the exact same thing you were complaining about one year later.

This isn't about the numbers - $30 is jack squat. This is about principles. With this decision, Spreedly shows that they can say one thing and then do the exact opposite. And that's troubling.
On the account I just created, that URL just redirects to the home page (where it wants me to import contacts from email, etc.).
Apparently it's managed to destroy even the minimal level of talent needed to construct a readable PNG.
Shouldn't this just be: 'Researchers exploit Skype to gain IP address information'.
The post doesn't discuss efficiency as productivity (ie, quantity of output per hour of labor), which could be called "curse of machinery", but rather, increases in the efficiency of distribution which results in a "winner takes all" economy.
This might be completely trivial, but can someone explain to me how one Python idiom is not to mix tabs and spaces, and another is to align arguments over several lines when needed like this:

def __init__(self, first, second, third,
fourth, fifth, sixth):

I see similar examples elsewhere, and I don't see how you can achieve the alignment without mixing in spaces - at least in some cases. I, too, prefer to align arguments, but it looks bad in places like GitHub and Pastebin, when my Sublime Tex-written code gets uploaded.

Am I missing something here? The two just seem mutually exclusive in most cases (where the alignment position's required spaces % 4 != 0. Is the indentation done with just spaces then?
We had no idea that bankers literally, directly made people starve to death, which is what happens in the real world when you double the price of bread for a month to make a buck.

The fact that the bankers among us can't see anything odd about this, let alone shocking and disturbing, is still more food for thought for those of us who care to live through the winter.
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> the fallacy that destroying things stimulates the economy (yes, some people actually believe this)

"Cash for clunkers": did it work?
It's common to use POST for creation and PUT for updates. PUT, as GET, should be idempotent.
Well by education i mean to educate yourself within the current school system.

Not that there is anything wrong with that, just that it will most likely not be what makes your knowledge unique.

But yeah I see that all sorts of confusion can arise.
It's basically the same thing, except it's easier to make mistakes.
I deleted my facebook account in March 2010. In November, six months later, the only evidence of my account was that my facebook information was loaded onto my friends telephone. He had my profile photo, plus some random tidbits of information automatically grabbed from facebook by his phone.
Not sure what to suggest - I just hope someone else is able to replicate it or I'll look like an arse. I was on a UK IP, without erasing cookies between logging out of my old FB and creating a new one.
> Modern farmers are as productive as 10,000 peasants.

I realize you're exaggerating, but it seems like the real number is more like 10x, and cannot be much more than 120x: http://www.ofac.org/issues/faqs.php

> On average, one average farmer feeds over 120 people today compared to 1900 when one farmer fed about 12 people.
One friend of mine runs a Tumblr on design, gets over 15,000 pageviews a month. He says that he gets 3 to 10 followers/likes who are spam a day. He blocks all of them to avoid linking his site to websites with plenty of ads or porn. It seems something is going on, it needs to be sorted out immediately.
Suggestion: while waiting for the beans to boil, why not put a simple short Web page together with information aimed at College students? Stress the generic (problem solving, attention to detail, big picture planning, importance of getting and listening to feedback from customers &c) and link these to skill set needed.

Shows commitment to the Youth, Values, Caring &c and takes seconds to point to if/when the e-mails arrive.
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Old software? That can't be right, since the page expects everyone to have the latest version and all updates from MS.
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This is a great point - their choice may very well have been between raising prices and shutting down.
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Software in airplanes is a huge help! Also if is not properly thought or has bugs it can kill you too. One of the problems right now is over reliance in the capacity of the plane to detect and combat properly ANY failure or emergency.
I'm in the US. Regardless, I believe you, there could be any number of variables that the sign up process depends on
I'm not particularly sure about this, but why would revealing the people who have stored YOUR phone number to YOU be such a big deal?

I'm assuming phone number verification checks that you own the number via SMS; so it just acts as a reverse-stalker (I'd be worried about people I _don't_ know having my phone number saved).
That's ad hominem, and a pretty funny one at that.
I was able to duplicate, but took a little bit different process. Sign up, add your mobile, confirm it, then log out and back in.

The result was definitely people who had done what the author said but it was also interspersed with friends of friends, muddying the waters a bit.
1. Some people don't realize what information Facebook is collecting, and some of those people would object if they did know.
2. Some people don't realize the way Facebook is using the information they collect, and some of those people would object if they did know.

Should it disturb us that those statements are true for millions of people? Or do we not care?

It will be interesting if we get to where Facebook is required to send a pamphlet to your house explaining how they use the information they collect about you, who they sell it to, etc. Log on to freesocialnetworkreport.com to see what information the Big 3 social networks have stored about you! See your social network score, etc.

On a different note, I do hope they harvest all the numbers for pizza places I have stored on my phone and find a way to help me get cheaper pizza.
http://www.facebook.com/find-friends/browser/

Try that page - it shows me most of the same people at the top, and then tails off into their friends.
er, yeah... that one's a bit more difficult to explain :/
You are here looking for "Super People". Young 20 something, learning and working hard in large scale problems. Great. They might make it big, and that's what we are looking for.

But don't confuse this with education. They'll educate themselves, and they'll pick the things/fields that they need and learn them better than you can do in a college. They'll figure out, they have super minds.

But you don't have lots of Super People. Fine. Make use of the ones you have, attract them from others countries, and build an environment that can generate them. That's all.

Now the guy making $100K/month selling his iPhone app, is probably in need of someone to do something for him. And he can afford to pay him generously. Home cleaning, food cooking, Home repair, Real Estate. He pays generously. So the other person benefits from this pay increase.

Unemployment problems solved. Yes, there will be a guy making $200K/month, and other one struggling to make $3K/month. However, the poor guy is already at benefit. He has access to an intelligent car, phone, Internet services, TV... that wouldn't be accessible without that super mind.
Maybe it should be illegal.
I'm glad you've managed to recreate. As mine was a new, friendless account my list was purely people with me in their phonebook.
It's not nearly as open as what you'd expect in other countries. The hacker community is really inward looking like Japan as a whole. You could check out, ON Lab. Hiro Maeda runs it and is a cool guy educated in the states.

http://onlab.jp/
Efficiency kills jobs. But what people want is not jobs: they want revenue, then something giving them a sense of self-worth. The latter can be provided by better means than through artificially wasteful jobs.

Moreover, as he notices, the balance of power is between the owners of the means of productions, and "normal people" who can decide to riot. This balance can be altered by changing people's willingness to riot, and/or by making their riotous actions more efficient.

Don't forget that value is created through the enjoyment of useful things: if you produce useful stuff, but for some reason nobody enjoys them, you have not created any wealth. So if you produce stuff to be enjoyed by the plebe, this plebe have as much power on it as you do, although they have a harder time organizing and exploiting their share of power.

I'd like to insist on the legitimacy of people's ability to revolt, or at least on why it's no less legitimate than shareholders' "property rights". Our social definition of property rights is arbitrary; according to "natural law", you're only the owner of what you can defend, by force if necessary. If your ownership is defended by the state's police, i.e. by the people, it is ultimately the people's property, and you have rights on it only because the people decided to grant you these rights.
That doesn't seem to automatically solve all problems. For example, imagine I sell my land in exchange for 1000 apples. I eat apples for a couple of months, then they run out and I starve to death. Whoever bought my land still has the land, but nothing is left of whatever he paid it with.

Yes, I might have worked those months, powered by apples. But what if I was sick, or played farmville instead?
I'd argue you gain in development time and lose in debugging time, so yes the net is 0.

But, in all seriousness, set up lint and write unit tests are my pieces of advice.
I think he means you have easier access to means of productions. Which means you can produce and distribute, while in the past it's hard/almost impossible. A good example is a guy that made a cover for the iPad. This wouldn't be possible if the means of production are not accessible.
Can you do anything to rule out it was the pre-existing cookies? It could be that Facebook doesn't mind people creating new profiles, as long as they know about it.
I deleted my facebook account ~6 years ago, but before I completely deleted it I changed my name to "DLC Text".

About a year ago I started getting emails from facebook recruiters, and guess what my name was resolving to in their system? Yep, that's right -- "DLC Text".

For 6 years they have kept my information even though it was deleted.
Yes, indentation is done just with spaces. Tabs are not used. Typically you set your text editor to have the tab key print 4 spaces.
for what definition of "work"?

increase economic activity: yes
make society wealthier: no
make used cars more expensive for poor people: yes
increase jobs in the auto industry: no
pull auto industry profits from the future forward: yes
create new long auto industry term profits: no
Wow, that translation is really crappy. "The cooperation takes place by" is a dead giveaway that it was translated from German by somebody who'd never heard that you should reword things a little in English. I used to churn out this kind of text, back when I'd just started translation.

"Coding" is also a mistranslation, fwiw; should be "encoding". I like the number mismatch in that same sentence - data "is" transferred but "are" secured. For computer applications you normally go with data as a mass noun (always singular, like water or corn), but you definitely should be consistent with your choice.

Ugh. This whole thing is causing me bad proofreading flashbacks. I'm leaving.
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It's not true that long-only funds destabilize the market. Those funds invest only in long positions, but in the futures market a long position always has a short counterpart. It's like stock options: in order to buy a call option you need someone to sell it to you. That seller will be short on the stock.

The author of the article doesn't seem to understand that.
He says:

> The managers of this new product would acquire and hold long positions, and nothing but long positions, on a range of commodities futures. They would not hedge their futures with the actual sale or purchase of real wheat (like a bona-fide hedger), nor would they cover their positions by buying low and selling high

But that is irrelevant since there were other market participants selling the futures. The author also fails to understand that rolling a contract implies covering your position at contract expiration and then buying another contract.
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This. I could easily see Microsoft Research existing primarily as a vehicle for patent licensing. I don't know if it would be self-funding but it would certainly offset the research costs. Almost seems like a business method patent idea: using a research department for the sole purpose of preventing competitors from implementing certain ideas. It would be a creative use for billions of dollars of cash that could only be matched by similarly sized companies.
There's definately a market for recieving timely surf reports. But don't expect surfers to post the reports.

As a surfer already at the beach, it's not in your best interest to tell everyone its pumping. You might call your best mate to tell him to get his arse out of bed. But everyone else you'll be gladly informing some time in the future, about the epic uncrowded session you had.

Instead, think of who benefits telling people when there is surf happening right now. The nearest food shop/cafe would do more trade when the surf is on. Local surf shops too. They might post reports.

They're are also likely to splice the report with their own advertising...
It is fairly easy for one person to live off of $20 of food a week. I say this as someone who has done it in a major east coast city, without ever clipping coupons, buying in bulk or buying on sale.

You can feed yourself for less than 1 hour of minimum wage a day. At no point in history has food been this cheap.

edit: Just in case this becomes a thift-fight, my $20 is relatively high as I was eating +2500 calories a day (running and bicycling a lot). And most of the time I'd be under $15, but the remainder would be spent on treats.
I think, what 0x12 is trying to say, that highly-leveraged investments are a great way to launder money: i.e. you may have only 10% in "clean" money, leveraged 10:1 to cover over 90% of "dirty" money.

I don't think this is the case with DST.
This is just a usual case of envy.

I'll take DST money any day. Hell, I'll give 10% of my company to Yuri Milner, any day, even without the investment (this is not a legally binding promise).
This is interesting.

I signed up with a new email address. Put in my phone number. I _do not_ have this phone number on my primary account. Now on my dummy account, I get a long list of friend suggestions, most of them from my primary account, and some unknown.

My dummy account and primary account are not linked in any way. All cookies cleared. So how did my dummy account suggest so many friends from my primary account? It didn't before I entered my phone number in my dummy account. Some of the friend suggestions live in other countries, and I doubt they would have my US phone number.
any opinion from Patrick or any other HNers in JP? The article seems plausible but is the opposite of what I'd have expected