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An innovator, especially someone with as much power as Zuckerberg, should ideally be taking risks and challenging norms.

I'm not saying I want all my personal data out in the open nor do I approve of all of Facebook's recent moves. It just seems mistakes along the way is an obvious outcome of the fast iteration/hacking mindset that HNers supposedly understand.
Yep. Jump back 100 years, and you're in the breakdown of the British empire.

You're off by several decades and two world wars. The British Empire was in full bloom in 1911, and there was little unrest in any of its colonies, never mind at home.
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But Amit could pay some criminal organization for that service right now; the abduction itself is illegal either way.

Allowing for cash incentives would serve to reduce the quantity of unfulfilled demand from which black markets -- and the criminal organizations which supply them -- emerge.

At the very least, such incentives would mean far more people listed in donor registries, the dearth of which is the very problem Amit is running into.

http://reason.com/archives/2011/11/11/the-case-for-legal-org...
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Hi HN community, I was wondering if anyone had any resources they'd like to share in terms of web design/ UX training.

I have been taking classes on teamtreehouse.com as well as some lynda.com classes and also frequently visit dribbble.com.

Any tips, resources, blogs and videos would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
I feel absolutely helpless. I hate this situation. I don't know anyone who qualifies, and I certainly don't. The idea that Amit may not find a donor furiously irritates me. What's worse, none of my Facebook and Twitter followers have relayed the message further the several times I've posted about it.

Then there's the swab kit sign up form. Oh my, what a pain. And then the guilt sets in where I begin to think 'Why am I ignoring the thousands of other people that likely need bone marrow too?'

I can't be alone in this thinking. But what can I do next? I certainly can't sit idle and watch this guy die.
This is Hacker News so use your imagination.

Imagine if you were a start-up, and you could tell any investor, "I have a $1 billion guarantee from the Federal Reserve".

Are you saying that that would have NO VALUE, even if you never used it?

Now imagine every other startup you compete against has this guarantee and you don't. What are your chances now?

The dollar in your pocket has no value when someone else can be loaned $1T at any moment.
Maybe the grandparent was stupid to mention "untrusted" websites. When you visit hundreds of websites per day, but stick to one browser, it's obvious that the responsibility for not breaking client security lies in the browser (and its platform), not the websites.
zero out of two - the PC isn't dead, and there are plenty of angry nerds.
He was a Phd student at CMU then a Professor first before Google.

Source: I was there and doing research for him when all this happened.
Thanks, good to know, that it's fixed.
Wisdio is called 'Polish Quora'. But I don't think it is the right comparison
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Get started with the quick questionnaire at http://marrow.org/Join/Join_Now/Join_Now.aspx and they'll mail the kit to you within a few weeks.
You're dodging the question of whether it is a lie, which is unsurprising. I say again: Facebook lied.

Yeah, but lying to people isn't a crime. Defrauding them is, but lies and fraud are quite different things.
Well I think in the end its the same in any case. If you use actors or stm in the end you will have to know if it runs distributed or not. I think nobody clames that every Erlang programm makes for a good distributet system.

STM or Actors can both be useful as concurrency and distributed programmes but non is a silver bullet in either or both of them.
I find Haml easy to parse visually and prefer it to HTML and ERb (except for pages that are mostly static content—Haml sucks for those). The only reason I don't use it in the Rails Tutorial is that it's not quite standard enough. Neither was Sass, though, until Rails 3.1 added it by default, and the next edition of the book (due out soon) uses Sass throughout. Will Haml chart the same course? Stay tuned.

N.B. It's Haml and Sass, not HAML and SASS.
Last I checked, the GPL didn't seem to grant the right to actually use anything.
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After a ton of successful meetings with some of the biggest VC’s and Angel Investors in Los Angeles, all who love the business model without exception, the feedback has been consistent, “Get yourself a technical cofounder and we will invest!”

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Along similar lines, the theme tune to Inspector Morse includes the repeated word "TTORSE"[1] - the initial M (--) is inadvertently split into two Ts (-), possibly because the different rhythm sounded better to the composer.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuRIciN8B0
Awesome to see how this project has grown since the days of DavisWiki.org.
There's a flip side to this as well: as a voter, I don't know what information my elected leaders have when making decisions.

In theory, with a small amount of secrecy needed to make diplomacy and security function, this makes sense. The problem is that it's not actually working in practice. There are so many un-elected people who have jobs for life and also the ability to classify broad swaths of information that the incentives are all set to increasing amounts of classified data. There's no correction mechanism. In theory, you'd have Congressmen aggressively using their oversight powers to correct the system. In practice, elected officials are mostly in for life (or as long as they choose) and are easily manipulated by the system. In fact, they don't want anything to do with making tough decisions. The more things are secret, the less they have to worry with those nagging voters giving their opinions about things. I read about intelligence oversight committees being told they don't have clearance to see things and it just blows my mind: our entire system of using force rests on civilian oversight. Thousands have died because civilians have made mistakes with information they've be given -- and that's the way it is supposed to work. Somehow we've forgotten all about this critical principle.

As an example, I'll pick a topic where you guys can all call me fuzzy-headed: UFOs. I pick this topic because of its ludicrous nature. Heaven help me if I were to pick something that was diplomatically sensitive and start hammering on it. I've been studying sightings and evidence as a hobby for many years, and based on credible eye-witness testimony I'm comfortably convinced that the United States government knows a lot more about intermittent atmospheric phenomenon than they are letting on. Why? I don't know. Why not a little more openness? I don't know. What part of this information is being used by my elected officials to make decisions? Again, I don't know.

This leaves the door open for all kinds of crazy speculation. It's an insane way for a democracy to treat its citizens. Yet this is just par for the course. All I did was pick a way-out example. Laugh off my UFO example if you wish, but for every thing like that there is a thousand other things that drive public policy -- and you and I will never know about them. Taken to this level, it is a very unstable way to maintain consent of the governed.

Not only does it make it impossible for an elected official to take advice, it makes it impossible for voters to make reasoned and educated judgments about the actions of officials. Secrecy corrupts everything it touches. That's why it must be aggressively minimized.
Come on, the organization made an average of 2 mistakes per year. How many other decisions did they get right? Thousands.
If your concern is going public then you have successfully grown a business to a gigantic and reasonably stable level and have beat all the odds. You have therefore picked the correct country.

While Sarbanes-Oxely does pose a financial burden on companies which is still too high (typically $1M to $3M/year), it does provide a level of protection for employees of those companies, bond holders and mutual funds which hold most of America's retirement money.

Paperwork and hoops for going public are handled by accountants and attorneys.

Sarbanes effectively removed corporate governance issues which cause huge problems (like having a captured board or having the audit firm also being paid for consulting etc.

The citations you cited are written by The National Venture Capital Association who lobbies against Sarbanes because it affects their returns. In fact, 69% of NCVA dues go to lobbying.

"We estimate that 69% of your dues will be used for lobbying and is not deductible because of recent changes in federal tax law." http://www.nvca.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...

The second article you cite has the following quote:
"Despite the many chilling headlines and reported cases where companies have cited SOX as the reason to shelve plans for an IPO, the evidence to date that SOX is sufficient cause for companies to stay private has been largely anecdotal or limited in scale."

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All that said, SOX is too expensive and the D&O insurance should be reduced to increase public company valuations and IPO valuations. It does represent an unintended burden on shareholders, CEOs, Bond Holders etc. but SOX is overall positive in the sense that it minimizes fraud and reduces risk for all stakeholders including non management employees.
A single server not breaking a sweat means that this can be handled by a middling VPS that is breaking a sweat, and that load only lasts a few hours. That means that it's stupidly cheap for Google to provide for a few hours of load like this, and the ability to absorb a huge spike on a cheapo plan is supposed to be one of the main points of cloud hosting.

Lots of people make cool stuff without dotting all the i's. That doesn't look bad on them - it just means they're doing the hard stuff and skipping the grungy parts of a project until it seems necessary.
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Me too, all of the above. How did you get over it?
Just to play up the intrigue, perhaps you don't know of the information or clearances being mentioned. ;) "...a person who didn't previously know they even existed."
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We've thought about this a lot. There were some unique factors at play in Davis. One big one that we've really tried to fix with localwiki is that you had to be a pretty technical person to contribute to the project. Davis is, second to Cambridge, the most educated city in the US.

So making the most -absurdly- usable software possible was a huge priority. If you look around, there's really no easy to use open-source wiki software, so we had to do a -lot- of gruntwork. We wanted to, at the very least, remove the technically-savvy barrier.

And the standard for online collaboration hsa also risen quite a bit, but open-source wiki software hasn't kept up. Back when DavisWiki started, the very -idea- of web based collaboration was foreign. Nowdays, my mom uses Google Docs!
I'd recommend a 125cc for learning basic roadcraft too, particularly if you aren't riding in the US. But the US is highly car-oriented, with a lot of big wide roads and impatient people driving automatics. It's not necessarily easy to go safely from A to B on a bike that has a hard time exceeding 55mph and takes its time getting there. So I think a starting out on a bigger bike makes sense in the US. Not that it's less dangerous than it used to be; rather, that the alternative, annoying the drivers behind and around you, is even worse.

I rode a 125cc scooter for over a year before I got a 125cc geared bike, and rode that for about 6 months before I got an ER6f (the same thing as the Ninja 650r), and my current scooter is an SH300. There are lots of things you learn about on a smaller bike, particularly in the city: observations, road positioning, hazards. Pedestrians, cyclists and cars emerging from gaps in traffic without warning. Truckers stopping to let a pretty girl cross the road while you're going down the inside bus lane, and of course you can neither see over nor through a truck. In the city, you learn to be acutely suspicious of gaps forming and avoid riding close to stopped cars, whether parked or not.

But many of these things are either specific to big city navigation and filtering, or you would learn in a car in any case. In a typical American city, you don't have the kind of filtering you see in London, much less somewhere like Taipei, and you can take for granted that the guy considering getting a bike can drive and probably has for many years.

Furthermore, there's a whole other level of learning that only happens when you're on a big bike. A 125cc geared bike is so incredibly light - it's almost like a bicycle - that you have no worries about dropping it when stopping using poor technique - braking with the front while turning, for example. And it has so little torque you'll never notice a cold rear tire slipping out on an aggressive corner, because outside of gravel on the road or wet manhole covers, it'll never happen. Not to say it can't be fun. I had plenty of launch practice: hi-rev clutch-slipping to clutchless shifting, eking out every scrap of acceleration I could. But it's not long before the stuff you're learning isn't transferable to a big bike.

So I think it depends on how much road experience you have, where you're riding, and what kind of riding you plan on doing (cities favour smaller bikes). A modern 250 or 500 probably would make a better beginner's bike. But 500cc bikes are pretty rare these days, and while 250cc are just on the edge of enough power, I don't think you'd want to have one for more than a few months, unless you're using it as an alternative to a scooter in the city.
Are your father's cab driver peers also working 12-16 hour schedules?
I upvoted you because I think this is a conversation that should be as civil as possible. My original tone was probably a bit too sarcastic.

On the subject of "doing it right" - every software engineer or maybe most passionate software engineers, have an ability to look at a spec or a piece of code and see how it is "done right". I certainly have my conception, my agenda, of what the right way to code and good software engineering is.

The thing is that this comes after fifty years of efforts to "do it right" failing in the sense that we don't have a single language we're satisfied with, we don't have a single operating system people unambiguously call good etc. The edifice of modern computing seems to lack a sound foundation.

The grizzled software engineer often knows this as a fact without caring about why and indeed the why is obscure.

Oddly enough, I think can illustrate my explanation for "why" by noting the common complain that programmers are "constantly reinventing the wheel". Now, if we look at the automotive engineers who build cars, we will note they too are "constantly reinventing the wheel" (literally now). Yet no one complains that the automotive engineer must create a new wheel for a new car with different mechanical properties than the old car which had the old wheel. Here we can see problem and the solution ("reinventing the wheel") does not seem intuitively to we-humans as a problematic state of affairs.

Looked at this way, initial criticism of a software engineer "reinventing the wheel" is a bit ridiculous. It seem logic that an engineer needs to change the components whenever they are putting together a different system for a different purpose. Moreover, the variety of distinct circumstances a software system needs to be engineered for is vast - it faces far more meaningful-context-changes than a car. In this perspective, it is absurd to expect the

Yet, this intuitively, with our human intuition, just doesn't seem right. I would claim that the intuition we have involve a natural conflating of something like "the idea of a wheel" with "the software implement of a wheel". A software implementation of a wheel or anything is more nebulous than a physical wheel but it is still not "the idea of a wheel". But as we "naturally" conflate these two item is easy for us to believe that we only need to think up the concept of an entity and we will have captured the thing. And this natural conflation of the ideas is perhaps where things go wrong... Where we get off expecting "general purpose operating system" to satisfy the gazillion purposes assigned to it, etc.
Thanks for this.
Double thanks for the fact I can subscribe to that page via RSS (the links at the bottom of the page).
Guy says one thing, and you hold him accountable for 7 years.
Facebook should start by sharing its secrets with us. That might make us more comfortable in sharing ours with it. At the very least, it'd reduce the hypocrisy inherent in its stance on openness and sharing.
The article spoke distinctly of security clearances that you don't even know exist. You probably didn't have those.
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Users of Facebook will, of course, be able to sue the company and cite the FTC findings as corroborating evidence.
You also can't really get through college with just an iPad. Apparently students are trying, and grousing when they realize that the kinds of software your classes demand that you run doesn't run on the iPad. I'm guessing that the world of academic software will blink second.
Seems a little late for that, unfortunately.
Amazingly, if you have thousands of entrepreneurs, some of them will go to other countries. I'm sure there's also some examples of South Korean entrepreneurs coming to the US and starting businesses here. I've worked with some guys who came from Taiwan and started multi-billion-dollar US ecommerce businesses.

Are either of those necessarily trends? Not unless you can come up with some numbers to support the anecdotes, which this story doesn't seem to have. We don't know if entrepreneurs are leaving at a greater rate than before, or even if there's a net loss (lots of people come to the US and end up starting small businesses.) If it's in the story, I missed it.
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But that makes no sense, it is whitespace, and it has semantic significance (hence being significant). Whitespace was not significant in older versions of Fortran, and that allowed you to write

DO30I=10,100

which was interpreted as

DO 30 I = 10, 100

An amusing bug I saw in Expert C Programming mentioned how somebody once typed e dot instead of a comma, and

DO 30 I = 10. 100

ended up interpreted as a simple real assignment:

DO30I = 10.1
However, it's still a privacy concern. Anyone from an estranged ex-lover to a private investigator could get information like home address, vacation times, etc.

Only if you put information on Facebook that you're not comfortable sharing with the whole world.
The contract wouldn't be enforceable.
It's what I'm hoping for. Obviously I've built a commercial offering around the process, but I'd honestly love to see others take a stab at it. It'll help keep us honest and benefit all. That's a big reason I wanted to share this with everyone.
which several decades previous that was the case for microcomputers...

While now it is a given concept that there will be a consumer level device, but sooner or later a new generation of home-based hackers will work up some new ways to be productive within these walled gardens, those will be exploited into apps and companies will be doing business on them - and then it will have started all over again.

I wouldn't consider it an end but part of a progression.
Nothing special - got employed, needed to feed the family. Started to plan on the next action :)
I've had cases where I suspected the judge prolonged the costly trial simply to indulgent their whimsy. Oh, how fancy! You can pull up their deleted files and internet records? ENTERTAIN ME MORE!

Tee-hee.
Is it illegal for the person selling as well? It probably isn't worth going to jail for selling your marrow.
This isn't necessary. It's an environment variable Xcode adds while running the executable, not something that is compiled into the application. Furthermore it only works in the simulator, not on the device itself, so end users wouldn't run into problems with it anyway.
Spinning off research as a business is somewhat different than entrepreneurial students starting their own ventures. At the very least, it sounds like the University gets to hold on to the IP.

Besides, it's #1 (by whatever metric) out of just 9 schools examined.
Top Secret SCI ("secret compartmentalized information") isn't one clearance: each SCI has a codeword, and you get cleared individually for each one. That's probably what Ellsberg means by about to receive "15 or 20 special clearances", and what throwaway is referring to. It's not uncommon for TS-cleared individuals to be additionally cleared on at least one TS-SCI thing. Obviously codeword-classified information can vary in interestingness.
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I know there is a lot of debate about it, but as far as I understand it GPL is still regarded as including an implied patent grant. Fwiw:

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/GPLv2_and_patents
Any examples? Doesn't have to be HTML.
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Then don't tell them through Facebook.

If you don't mind Facebook knowing what you said, you can send a private message.

That may not be a solution that people like, but it's what I do, and I think it's what we will all end up doing eventually.
> But Amit could pay some criminal organization for that service right now

If he could, why hasn't he then? In the link you pasted, why did so many people die awaiting transplants if was able to be obtained illegally right now? Surely they didn't want to die.

I'm not sure I want to live in a world where the economically oppressed are pressured financially to give up body parts to the wealthy in order to survive. Just my 2 cents.
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I've seen the stats on this before but I can't find the page. Anyone have it? Thanks!
There are only 5 resources needed to become a great designer.

The first is taste. - Develop what your style, brand, voice is. The best way to be the best is to learn from the best. Consume voraciously look at more to develop yourself.

awwwawards.com
pinterest.com
thefancy.com
cssremix.com
styleboost.com

The second is practice, practice, practice, practice. First try to just to imitate and copy when you get better you can start breaking the rules and really become "great".
I don't know why so many people are cavalier about this.
Proper capitalization is part of proper spelling [...]

My favorite example of this behavior is when copywriters, graphic designers, etc. are inconsistent regarding the capitalization of the name of their own organization. I can't count all the times I couldn't figure out how best to bookmark an organization's website because the copywriters, etc. referred to it as Organization, ORGANIZATION, OrganiZation, and Organi Zation.
They themselves use the phrase "raw data" to describe what they collect (as "metrics"). Metrics are not comprised of raw data, but of measurements, so unless they're being hinky with word choice, a plain reading of their own materials would suggest that they do indeed receive user content.