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No, I was always cautious in what I posted on Facebook. I've had much worse personal privacy invasion from editing Wikipedia (on which editors who were part of a cabal of point-of-view pushers looked up my personal contact information and gave me harassing phone calls in the middle of the night) than I have ever had from anything I've ever posted on Facebook. On Facebook, I am among friends. On Wikipedia, I am among the mob.
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I think the term is an ablative and/or autologous bone marrow transplant. My father had this performed to treat type ii non hodgkins lymphoma. Essentially, if there is no donor, you can draw a patient's own bone marrow, attempt to treat it so that it has no cancerous cells, culture the hopefully cleansed bone marrow, kill all the patient's bone marrow in their body via high doses of chemo and/or radiation, then reimplant the patient's own cultured and hopefully safe bone marrow. While the patient has no bone marrow they will be completely dependent on donor blood. What these antiseptic descriptions mask is "killing a patient's bone marrow" is roughly equal to poisoning that person just a tiny bit shy of killing him or her.
I agree. But those are not our only choices.

The ironic thing about Python is that it actually does have an open-brace. It's the colon. The compiler can tell that this:

def foo():
baz()

is syntactically incorrect. And if you tab the second line, auto-indent can do the Right Thing. The screw case is this:

def foo():
if baz:
bar()
bing()
boff()

If you auto-indent the last line, it will quietly change the semantics of your program. That's bad.

I always end my blocks with a PASS statement (or a return), i.e.:

def foo():
if baz:
bar()
bing()
pass
boff()
return

If you do this, then auto-indent will always do the Right Thing. This is particularly beneficial if you want to take a big block of code and wrap in an an outer block. I can add two lines to the above code:

def foo():
while snoz: <--
if baz:
bar()
bing()
pass
boff()
pass <--
return

Then I can just auto-indent the whole thing and be confident that the result will be correct.

Contrast this with the traditional method where you have to manually re-indent your code. If you accidentally select the wrong region to re-indent you can change the semantics of the code in a way that loses the information about what the semantics should have been. The only way to recover from this is to manually reconstruct the correct semantics. It may not happen very often, but when it does it's a colossal PITA. (Entering those examples was a colossal PITA too.)
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Since I'm still gay, I'm not allowed to help, no matter how many times you ask. I get why they do this and I shouldn't let it bother me, but emotionally it feels the same as if they just said, "Please become a donor, nohomo." edit: Of course I still wish the very best for Amit.
This is, of course, an attitude that is going to "deftly" shoot down any new fact or analysis brought into the discussion.

Your starting point was that they were collecting† data that could jeopardize national security††. You clearly based that argument on the idea that their own recruiter mentioned "10s of gigabytes a day".

Now, in true message board geek fashion, you're going to steadily move the goalposts. What? They're not collecting messages? Well then they're processing messages! They shouldn't be doing that either!

The problem with this tactic --- make a spectacularly unsupported assertion and then back off it in a series of non-concession-concessions --- is that you cease to be credible. Is this what you really think? Or will you re-harden your position if e.g. it becomes clear that they're not even seeing the keycodes of the keypresses, but rather using an API that could conceivably allow them to get them.

† Your word.

†† Ibid.
This article seems to bury the main point:

we're currently getting about 30M hits a month on our API

If you're getting a million API requests a day, you can probably handle that load with a single machine. Indeed, it looks like they are using just one load balancer machine, one app server, and one db server. I'm not sure why the load balancer is even necessary. It's cool to hear this story, readers should just keep in mind that this is not really a "web scale" deployment.
If you’re using a lot of restaurants, it’s a chore to coordinate them. If you’re just using one caterer, it gets boring pretty fast. We let people get the best of both worlds: lots of variety, but simple to use.
Temporary citizenship? Is this some idiom I'm not familiar with?
Why does the ZeroCater website not list what cities they are available in?
I've thought about something similar, but for a different reason. I'd like to be able to omit the parenthesis on multiline, chained statements, like this:

$ 'class'
.addClass 'babies'
.removeClass 'kids'
I feel it'll be hard enough convincing someone to lay with a wide gauge needle in either arm for 6 hours, so if they're cool with that, then I'd be keen to have them on board regardless of their other personality traits.

So while I wasn't fond of the delivery, he's demonstrating that technical barriers, most of which are artificial, are possibly getting in the way of altruistic intentions.

For example, if a person sits down to sign up, then needs to go away from the computer to obtain various amounts of private information, there is a good chance that they won't return right away and possibly not at all.
For lay-people to know about and be comfortable using it, yes, I think it has to be a part of a large service.

There are ways to share secrets with a small number of friends online, but even among technical people, very few people do it. I can see that it's possible to create a service around, say, PGP encrypted messages, and I can even see abstracting out the technical details of it. (That is, not forcing the users to think about keys, instead saying "Tell us who you want to be allowed to know the secret" and making and distributing public-private keys on the fly.) But I think even that level of conceptual overhead is more than lay-people are willing to deal with.
So that when they get a number of applicants they need but won't process or match due to policies straight out of 1991, someone maybe possibly finally gets a clue.

Of course, as a white male I'm about as boring ethnically as they come, so I realize my potential for making an impact is quite low.
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So I understand that prices are falling now, while there is excess surplus. But the was I see it, down the line, after manufactures stop supplying or get wiped out, PC's will only become prohibitively expensive, and perhaps some of the comments from this earlier HN post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3295603) may hold some truth.
Aren't you and 'ennovates' the same person? Why are you talking to yourself?

I am saying this because I remember you had a blog called ennovates.com where you used to plagiarize blogs and now you are doing the same thing in your new website.
I don't know if it is related but they seem to have been consistently open and inviting to outsiders. I grew up within walking distance to campus back in the 70s and 80s. Two of my older brothers used to "sneak" computer time on a teletype system they had. I found out later just about anyone could show up and someone was around willing to show how to use it. They often have engineering weekends where high school kids can come through and explore projects other students are working on - more than an open house, less than a course. My oldest son visits regularly and just sent in his application yesterday.
I found a very interesting point in your article.

"Passion is a word that is thrown around far too often when wanting to describe how devoted we are to something."

I googled it. Surprise: http://www.google.com/search?q=Passion+is+a+word+that+is+thr...
>> Apple now ships more iPads than all the PCs Dell sells

Wow. I did not know that.
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> Much of the reason for the secondary contact information is to ensure that if you are a match they have multiple ways to find you.

None of which helps if you would have been a match but instead dropped out of their signup process.
No. Tried that. Now trying the other way. These threads are dragging HN down, and I've decided to be noisier about it.

My feeling is that the same name recognition influence that gets most of my comments modded up 100-200% more than they're actually worth is going to get my -4 comments read even though they're light grey. We'll see!
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My contention is that they wouldn't have had the switching power supply if not for Jobs' design aesthetic. They would have just used whatever was standard at the time, making the machine bigger and noisier.
>>C does allow low level access to memory, while this is powerful it also adds complexity.

This low-level interaction with memory is pervasive in OpenGL's design. These features are so intrinsic to how OpenGL works that no wrapper can completely abstract them away.
It's true; you could use syntax highlighting or IDE features to make things more obvious. You could also turn on syntax highlighting in Whitespace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...

This is, of course, significantly more ridiculous than an IDE helping you out with your CoffeeScript, so don't take my teasing too seriously ;)
This is a huge problems -- been to a couple NYC amit events (thanks, New Work City!) -- and did my best to inform people. Same with donating blood.
Getting even further off-topic, the p7z utility can create archives compatible withe the normal .zip format (WinZip and friends can still uncompress them) that are a fraction of the size of what most zip utilities will produce. :-)
So are you looking to capitalize on your GIS chops? Maybe building location-based apps that are genuinely useful...

Or are you trying to figure out how to generate advertising dollars on webby stuff?

If it's advertising, I can't help you (I make it a point to never have any ads on any of my sites) -- but if it's GIS, I may.

Maybe.
What does HTML5 have to do with Cloud Backup? Does it use localStorage or something? ;)
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Doesn't this amount to crime as per the US laws? So, does it mean a criminal case can be file against him?
Yep, this is exactly where my guilt comes in. What am I doing to help any of those millions of starving children? Very little.

So many people have told me throughout my life that I need to just ignore it, and you can't save the world. I can't help but think that's just their way of trying to invalidate any guilt of their own, even if they're right that it's not possible to help everyone everywhere.

Though that's why I invest on Kiva, because I can help make an impact in a "starving" part of the world helping to build up economies so the people can take care of themselves, rather than solely relying on financial donations.
I was under the impression that that was the definition of a "work for hire" situation (IANAL either).
I chose Postmark over Sendgrid because Postmark supports bounce callbacks for any volume, but for the same feature from Sendgrid we would have to pay $80/month, and we didn't need to send even a small fraction of the emails that that plan includes. You should compare prices based on your expected volume, not on some hypothetical maximum.

Something else to keep in mind is that some of these services reviewed are explicitly not intended to be used for bulk mail marketing campaigns but only for individual user targeted emails such as order confirmations.
You're implying the difference is intent. I'm saying, their intent isn't known. Their own statement is that they don't want the raw characters, just the stats.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of pieces of code strewn throughout your system that get access to similar bits of sensitive data. For instance, every BSD system has a BPF device and driver that exists solely to tap your network traffic. Luckily, nobody sells a BPF-for-Android product.

I'm not saying that this is a clinching argument. I'm simply making a point that is germane to the discussion. Distilled, it is: "just because a piece of systems code deals with your private information does not make a violation of your privacy; sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't".
I'd like an explanation of the service that doesn't require signing up.
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No privacy policy or terms of use, and you expect me to send you my data?
Is DRY as important in syntax? I thought the main point of DRY is to avoid writing the same code over and over (code duplication is bug duplication, etc). Are you sure those reasons still apply here, or are we being overly dogmatic in our application of this principle?

(though obviously no one likes pointless repetition or obnoxious syntax.)
Also, every time I buy something at a store, I have to give them my addresses.

At which point you can simply say "no, I don't want to" and they'll still settle for your money.
A dutch auction can't work for some of the other reasons I mentioned. The terms in a venture capital transaction are as critical in making fund returns as the valuation, and a formal auction can only optimize one variable at a time. The terms are too complex for the average $1000 investor, really. You'd end up with investors getting burned.
Yes, wear protective gear. Always

Go outside and have a good look at the surface of the road. Remember when you were a kid, how much it hurt if you were running and fell and skinned your knees? Now imagine running flat out and diving face first onto the road - feel the asphalt tearing your legs and arms

Now imagine the same thing, but this time you're travelling at 30mph

The difference between having large amounts of your skin literally ripped away and replaced with deeply embedded rocks and dirt (and quite possibly several weeks in hospital) and just getting up again and continuing on your way? Boots, helmet, gloves and leathers
I've never heard any concerns about Facebook ignoring your settings and leaking your content (that was just meant for your friends or a certain group) with the whole world.

That's the end-result of "having insensible privacy defaults, and having confusing privacy controls." It happened when they changed their privacy model, and things that were private-only became public by default. But, normally, it's not that Facebook ignores your settings, but, rather, people assumed things were more private than they actually are. See people's recent reaction to the real-time updates of what your friends are doing on Facebook - many of the people I am friends with where aghast at this, because I don't think they realized all of that stuff was already public.

Basically, I think the privacy-model on Facebook is complicated, but I think it's an inherent complexity. It's not complex because Facebook is inept, it's complex because the problem of determining who in your large social network should know what is actually a complicated question. That privacy model is too complicated for people to grapple with every time they share something on Facebook, so they don't grapple with it. I don't want to grapple with it, either. Hence, I only share things on Facebook I'm comfortable sharing with the world. My Facebook page - wall, photos, info, comments - are all public. Then I have a very simple decision to make: am I okay saying this to everyone? If not, I don't say it. Hence, I don't say much on Facebook.

The internet is an inherently public place. Facebook puts a megaphone on the internet.

Would you also say that you shouldn't have data on Gmail that you're not comfortable sharing with the whole world?

In general, yes, although even I have difficulty with that one. But email is just plain text (unless you encrypt it, and very few people do) bouncing around the ether. It's out there, and you have little control over it. Banking is different, as the information is only shared between you and your bank. Not so with email, which always has at least one other party involved.
I deleted my Facebook account about 3 months ago

Security was one of the big issues for me. My brothers account had been hacked, and the hackers managed to get some cash out of some of his friends.

But I digress, and this off topic, but I don't miss FB at all. I still maintain genuine relationships outside of FB and find I have more time for proper conversations with people via Skype and email. FB to me was crack, I hated to love it. Now I love to hate it.

Does anybody out their maintain genuine relationships through FB? (Serious Question) Why are we using it? Is it an addiction?
It gets even worse when you start to think that this information is probably also used to achieve a political ends to a means. By that I mean, those in charge of classifying things, know who has what classification, and should they play favorites or the opposite therof for anyone in their bureaucracy, information will lay hidden to all, just to keep it away from a few, solely for personal gain.
The problem with this is that for a lot of people, these points are invalid.

The screen isn't higher resolution, it's just physically larger (which, for people with small hands, is a negative). 4G isn't available everywhere, and it can be a pretty substantial battery drain (though better in recent devices). NFC has very few uses so far, other than communicating with other NFC Android phones.

I assume that 'mobile hangouts' refers to Google+? Few people I know actually use this feature (or Google+ in general, though perhaps your circles differ). Especially the 'typical users' I know of don't care. The Galaxy Nexus on ICS is certainly a MUCH faster phone than previous Android devices, but I've never seen a review saying it's any faster than the iPhone.

'Better memory' is ambiguous. Larger? Faster?

And cutting-edge OS - well, iOS 5 has a lot of cutting-edge features, such as Siri. There are few features in ICS that the average person would want.

Now don't get me wrong - you made your own informed choices. For the majority of non-geeks I know, however, none of these choices would factor in. It all comes down to what's supported (accessory vendors), what's got the apps (iOS), and what other people are using (iPhones).

In other words: you aren't any more representative than I am. Granted, the parent's 'nobody would prefer…' is definitely incorrect, but I feel pretty confident saying that the majority of people either don't care what phone they have, or prefer iPhones.
A Ninja 650r is not a Ninja like a ZX-R. It has the Ninja name in the US, but it is not a supersport bike; it's a sport tourer. It's a parallel twin, and is actually less aggressive to ride than the Suzuki SV650 - it doesn't even have clip-on handlebars. It has an upright seating position, not crouched over. At 70bhp it's got lower power than most of the detuned 600cc inline-4 standards.

Personally, I don't like dual-purpose bikes. I think they're too tall, and I never have need nor desire to go off-road in the least; for me, sport-touring is optimal. I think dual-purpose bikes are a bit like urban 4x4s: most never go off-road, and when they do, they're not actually very good at it. But of course this is a personal preference.
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So shouldn't this mean chipmakers should be adapting their business model?

Also, incredible that Apple is selling more iPads than Dell is selling full PCs.
If the goal is to reduce the risk of HIV (due to imperfect testing), if they're willing to ask offensive questions and discriminate, at least for blood, it is probably statistically valid to filter based on income/credit score, race, and zip code. I can only imagine how much uproar this would cause.
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randall: You really felt the need to repost this old article again?

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2861821
I totally agree, price is only one factor and that features offered will be a major factor making in the decision of which provider to choose.

That said, we send 10s of million emails a month (not bulk or marketing campaigns) so the price is going to be pretty big factor.
Quick style comment on blog - I'd update the "Check out our website at: ZeroCater.com" on the top right (which I missed the first time I looked) to 18 - 24pt font min or a banner / button for easier finding.

Also, come to San Diego please :)
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well you can put fake info about yourself but doesn't mean your friends will put fake info in for you. Also, I'm sure marketers have a special category for people who lie about their age and name and have products ready to sell to that group. There is no escape. ;p
Ah, so by "if this were not so" he meant "if they weren't protected"? I read it as "if they didn't have to be protected", which is why I was confused.
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Probably irrelevant, but how did they obtain that TLD?
Interesting. I like "unlimited" and I like "free". But it seems far too good to be true. Testing now.
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A coworker and friend of mine was riding his motorcycle to work one morning and got run over by a schoolbus. He died instantly.

It kind of ruined the term "if you get hit by a bus" for everyone at the office.
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> Being white, I would not have a potential match at all?

You would be unlikely to, but it's not impossible. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) tissue type Amit needs is just much, much more predominant among fellow South Asians.

You probably can't help Amit directly, but you can help someone else in a similar situation.
True, let's say re, math, array ?
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"other top schools included Brigham Young University, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Purdue, Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Michigan"

Where is Stanford in this list? It seems like they're counting startups that come out of university-sponsored research instead of startups that come from university people.
Correction: you _deactivated_ your account. Facebook keeps your data.
Cannot upload large files ??? I have some MKVs I would like to backup and it's not letting me upload (8gb file)
"nearly nobody"? I might even say "nobody".
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that Steve Jobs was adopted as opposed to aborted...
Some progress has been made, in the UK now the (blood) ban only effects men who've had sex with men in the past 12 months, which is better.
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