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Yes - the article argues autodidacts become "students," and must accept that a student can't autodidact. Or they fail.

This is not some strawman I want to knock down. From the article:

"...there is more to being a good student than being good at learning. One of the responsibilities of a good student is to seek out excellent teachers. In the Wikipedia article on Autodidacticism, I find this paragraph:

"Autodidactism is only one facet of learning, and is usually complemented by learning in formal and informal spaces: from classrooms to other social settings. Many autodidacts seek instruction and guidance from experts, friends, teachers, parents, siblings, and community."

He misses the second sentence of his Wikipedia quote. He argues that you must sometimes become the student.

Any excellent student knows he must eventually teach from his corpus of knowledge to cement what he knows, and pit it against new, hungry students.

Even I - the autodidact - knew to communicate what I learned, test it in the "field of battle," wherever I could find that.

For me, it was all before I reached "higher education." So by the time I had professors, classmates, and TA's, I had already developed a highly effective method of autodidactism.
I remember reading Posterous is using skimlink's competitor Viglink http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309403

The real question is WHY would companies let Posterous or Pinterest become affiliates at all? Where are the incremental sales? It makes sense for businesses to encourage USERS to become affiliates and promote their products, but allowing user-gen site to monetize their users' links does not encourage their users to link and promote products more.
As an iOS developer, I've been surprised all along that the SDK gives you full access to the address book without asking for permission (like Core Location and the Apple Push Notification Service). I've always thought that would one day change, and I suspect that posts like this and the one about Path will make that happen.
Thanks for your reply, if you can even read this.

While it's unclear to me whether it's ever off-topic to point out problematic slurs (would you think similarly if the OP had written "they got rid of a faggot..."?), I guess this exchange signals a mutual agreement between myself and the modal HN user about whether we want to interact.
I wrote a MobileSubstrate (jailbreak only, sorry!) tweak to block the use of ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople, the most common method of stealing contacts in this manner.

It's rough around the edges, but check it out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3564968

It should be available in the BigBoss repository as "Address Book Privacy" sometime tomorrow.
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He filed their incorporation papers for them. Assuming he continued to do various legal things for them (they presumably didn't get an actual lawyer later) wouldn't he be effectively their counsel?

There are a lot of unknowns here, but I'm curious if you hire an employee who has passed the bar in your state, and they perform legal work, does that make them effectively your lawyer?
In a smaller company, couldn't it be against your boss's interest?
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I'll admit I only really superficially followed this through HN, and it seems you're more informed than I am - but my point was this was handled FAR better than AirBnB's debacle.
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Although it's a cheesy title, check out the "Letters That Produced Miraculous Results" chapter in Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People". It will give you some great ideas about how to get a response from the initial email you send.
Such a blatant and fundamental failure to be transparent in regards to user privacy should make everyone doubt Path's ability to function as a private social network. Whether this incident is a reflection of their technical incompetence or a lack of actually caring about their user's privacy (as their Values would otherwise have you believe) the expectation that their product can live up to its purported goal is misplaced.

This is pretty basic stuff.
Can someone add "[video]" to the title?
Ask: Can Apple continue the walled garden approach with device proliferation?
Apple's value is in supplying their customers with every smart device they need, and integrating them all. Right now, most people use just 1 or 2 devices, so Apple can manage building/marketing all of them. What happens when the average user interacts with 10 smart devices a day? 50? It seems that Apple will rapidly lose people from the garden as they fail to support the entire gadget experience.
I think the issue here is that stocks belong to the employee as soon as they vest, whereas RSUs don't come into existence until the IPO, at which point they're immediately sold. Since the employee never owns them prior to selling, they count as a short-term capital gain.
I think you can teach a manager with a track record of bad tradeoffs. The first step is showing that manager that their track record isn't as good as they may think it is. And that's hard to do in a single incident, so consistent feedback over time, as Eric suggests, has a chance to help enlighten.

If the past track record is bad, and one opportunity to enlighten is pursued and they "don't get it", that's ok. Either another chance will come up in the future, or it won't. If it doesn't, there isn't really a problem.

I believe that thinking like this is helpful by giving license to "demand fixes for things that aren't yours to fix". Specifically, why stop in the example at fixing the bad code? That's what some organizations, perhaps more than half, would view as sufficient.
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When you make money off someone, it's generally seen as bad form to be secretive about it.
I think it should be ‘What happens when you accidentally swear at your users and properly apologize afterwards.’ It's only the latter that softens and makes swearing look fun—IMO even for (most) young techy people.
> I wonder if zeroing in on one idea to iron out all the kinks (like the language usage issue you brought up) would yield better results.

Definitely this, the best measure could only really be taken by engaging (or appearing to engage) with the market. I think you might be selling yourself short otherwise.
Have interacted with both authors, however briefly. These are both smart guys operating outside of the typical CS fields who have figured out how to apply cutting edge computational techniques to their specialties and deliver meaningful insight. Really looking forward to reading the book.
No, not all gendered words are sexist, but gendered insults and slurs are.

I'm sorry if that was not clear from my original comment.
Exactly, the (current) browser is not an app and hence cannot be updated independently.
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That seems reasonable. My problem is with the party that wants to abolish the estate tax and cut capital gains taxes.
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I can think of a couple of ways that might (!) work to hide affiliate links:

1. Add a click handler to your anchor tags that redirects to an affiliate-linked version of the href.
2. Modify the url on mousedown (since it happens before click.) I think someone told me this doesn't actually work, but I don't remember for sure.
What the hell, I definitely don't want some random app I installed getting access to my contacts, phone numbers, private notes and more.

FARK.
I'm certain the amount of profit after taxes affects the wages a company is willing to pay. Do you really think they are completely independent?
I sat next to Eric Ries for months and worked with him personally. He knows about everything he talks about in that video and it's completely accurate. And the process worked.

Don't be a dick.
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Great, now I'll have to stop using this tool. Rapportive is great, but who knows how long before I'll have to opt out of LinkedIn putting my photo next to ads or something crazy like that. Not that a company would ever do something so audacious...but never know.
I agree completely, thought I was the only one who saw it much like you. Eric Ries deserves credit. He knows his stuff, he worked his way up, he has a lot of great advice we can learn from but lets not just let him ride on his past successes here. This cannot be his best work. Unfortunately this does end up sounding like it came from some stereotypical higher-up that's totally detached from reality. The 5 why's? How about we save the cute names for it and call it what it is: wrapping up common sense in a cute name and selling it as innovative.

Besides that I don't like how he oversimplifies the root cause of these problems he's talking about. He's pretty much saying that all problems in your company can be traced to people. It's a person that is always the problem according to this video. That's not so. The problem can be people or it can be ridiculous processes like going through "the 5 why's" or it can be anything else in the world including a random act of god. Hopefully Ries bounces back with something better. Hopefully he hasn't peaked like the business school version of a pop star who's 15 minutes are up.
I pay state income tax on my paycheck, and then I take that money and buy a new computer and have to pay state sales tax too!

And where I live, I pay state income tax, buy a car and buy sales tax, and then every year after that I pay property tax on the value of the car. It's a triple tax!

I'm not really sure why capital gains is such a problem. And truthfully a lot of capital gains (maybe even most?) are not doubled taxed. If you buy stock with after-income-tax money, then yes you pay that tax twice. But if the capital gain is derived from equity compensation a lot of times you don't pay income tax so it is only a single tax. That is what the Buffett rule is all about (and this article as well).
I don't think they should hide it but I still see no reason to disclose that. I sort of understand your position but I don't understand how not disclosing something that doesn't affect users is disingenuous.
I agree in general but IE6 was out for five years before IE7 came out, so it may not be the best example.

Of course, that was because they disbanded the browser team after crushing Netscape.
Worse is an interesting choice of words .... if a bunch of companies get shamed into respecting people's privacy then that's great, and if it gets the ball rolling and triggers the wrath of app stores ... that's even better.
You don't need to do any of this or need root access, i've had 3 android phones (hero, desire, galaxy SII) and I've never had to do any of this. Just plug it in and select USB tethering and it is recognised by ubuntu as an ethernet adapter.
If it's common sense why do so many companies fail at identifying and addressing root causes? If making it a process with a name that's rigidly followed isn't the solution, what is?

It's not a complicated process that requires certification. It's simple enough to be described completely in three minutes.

I'd also love to see an example of a problem you've encountered that is actually pure technology, since virtually all modern technology is created and maintained by humans. I've run into lots of crazy hardware and software problems, but pretty much all of them had a human involved here or there that could help make things better.
yes it will..

> There will be the same 6-week release cycle for new versions, Pinchai says.

http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-th...

but i would ask will they be automatic or manual?
In the comments he wrote:

Our lawyer was concerned about the possibility of prior claims against technology and the company. As we were relatively young he asked for a copy of correspondence that might fall into that category. So it wasn’t that he went through every email in our in our inbox. We prescreened and the email from Bill was one we included in the package which we forwarded.
I like how programmers target other programmers at different levels (and also that the more advanced you get, the more able you are to target less skilled programmers). Not sure that's fully correct, and lots of details to disagree with, but I appreciate this point of view.

An overall objection: though it does both, it focuses on coding solutions rather than understanding problems. While there's a case for defining a programmer as "someone who programs", to me, understanding the problem (aka asking the right question) is the difficult bit (see Douglas Adams).
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I had the same feeling when I saw this. R is a great tool for statistics, very useful when you need to do in-depth statistical analysis (analysis of variance, etc.). It doesn't strike me as a good choice for a hacker's book - which makes me think about their reasons to use this word, hacker. Maybe they are just trying to benefit from the buzz that it generates these days?
trivially? please, more detail. Also: own is a loaded term. Please, more detail. Getting access to the sdcard is not the same as owning.
Curiously, this comment thread distinctly shows the two groups of people currently on HN - preconventional & postconventional.
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Very true although I suspect the larger issue was they pretty casually decided to try "him out for the junk drawer job in the startup — CEO."
You might want to check out Errbit, which is a free and open source alternative that can be set up in minutes. https://github.com/errbit/errbit
I love the idea.

Early exits are not necessarily a positive (or negative) sign.
Surprise! Likewise, Instagram uploads your contact list to their servers (phone numbers, names, emails) to help find friends (confirmed with mitmproxy as well). At least you have to click "Find from my contact list" first.

This practice is super-common. The last ordeal around this was a year or so ago with Kik, but then everyone stopped caring. At least Instagram is over https.
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This is false, they do not send a recorded record of your movements to apple, however they do send GPS+WLAN BBSID correlation data back to apple,[1] they claim the processed is anonymized, but there are very powerful deanonymization techniques that can be applied to large data sets. [2][3][4]

I live in almost the middle of nowhere, i guarantee nothing like google maps, etc has ever passed this way to map my WIFI point's BSSID onto a physical location, yet the week a member of my family got an iphone, plugging the BSSID into a location api gives the exact location of my house...

[1]http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/apple-iphone-tracking...

[2]http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf

[3]http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak09.pdf

[4]http://www.iseclab.org/papers/sonda-TR.pdf
It could definitely piss off users who have their own affiliate links [someone upthread said the service they're using won't remove existing affiliate links, btw.] That's a small number of users to be sure, but they may be important users: consider people who run taste-making blogs that make money via affiliate links. If a number of popular blogs like this realized their affiliate links were being removed, and complained about it, it could make for some pretty bad PR for pinterest, and it would be well-targeted bad PR, since that's exactly the community pinterest appeals to.

I think leaving this undisclosed would be a bad idea, as the rumor mill could start up, and spread misinformation about what's happening with affiliate links. It would also be a good opportunity to get feedback on policy.
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I liked the F2F feature. Curious how it works in practice.

FYI, https://pair.io/ is in the same space. Since it is based on SSHing into a machine, you can work collaboratively in your text editor of choice with your own .dotfiles
Really surprised that no one has a problem with this.

How would we feel if PG turned every Apple, Amazon, or other ecommerce link into an affiliate link, with our name pinned to it? Horrible decision on their part, and I think it's going to bite them in the ass when the average user gets wind of it.
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Only three things are certain in life: death, taxes and lawyers behaving like aholes.
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Same with HeyZap.
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The average "Pinterest User" has no idea what an affiliate link is.
Surprise! Apple doesn't give a shit that this is happening. If they didn't want developers to have the data, they wouldn't have made the API public. Apple even touts this as a feature in their public-facing developer site!

Quote from https://developer.apple.com/technologies/ios/data-management...

"iOS apps even have access to a device’s global data such as contacts in the Address Book, and photos in the Photo Library"

This is in no way a failure of the App Review process. This is a failure in the way Apple expects user data to be treated. Lots of developers do this. The only way to stop this is a change in Apple policy, end of story.
there is a rumor that initial delays had to do with (what would seem to be a very cautious) aversion re: sopa/pipa issues over the screencasts. i say that "there is a rumor" because the only extent i know about it is as a rumor from someone who didn't have the clearest picture so i won't vouch for it - especially b/c it remains unclear to me exactly what the fear is rooted in.
I'm a core contributor to Errbit, which is exactly this :) - https://github.com/errbit/errbit

We run it at our organization to monitor 11 applications. One of the major benefits was LDAP authentication, and a custom issue tracker integration.
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That's true for the most part. But if you want to leverage certain SPDY features like SPDY server push, then your app must be SPDY aware. Likewise, if you want to undo normal HTTP optimizations like hostname sharding which are damaging for SPDY, your app should be SPDY aware. Check out http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-best-practices for other recommendations.
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Today Morning, I opened up the facebook ! On my Wall's right hand side was 'Sponsored' link and 'Sponsored Pages' - around 4-5 Sponsored links. Fine not a problem!!

Then I clicked on Friend's photo to comment on it - WOW another 'Sponsored Stories'.. below the Photo Comments they have put sponsored stories.

What next?? I assume they will promote 'Sponsored Friend' !! Get life Facebook.
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I think 5k is cheap. And lesson learned here is don't bring ppl on unless they bring a valuable skill set to the team. Because when people hear "startups" they don't see creating something good, they see a lottery ticket hoping to be on bandwagon of the next facebook IPO.
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So I have read the responses and it seems that there are a few schools of thought here and I just want to make sure that I understand the possible solutions.

Per user Steko is this the ultimate solution to the problem -

(0) we get your permission (is this in the ULA, the in app screen? The privacy page of the app?)

(1) we check for your contacts in our database (hashing your contacts). The method of hashing yet to be determined or what info to hash and match if anything other than the email address or maybe the phone number.

(2) we let you know if any matches are found.

(3) we throw away all your data afterwords.

My question is - do you go through steps 1,2,3 each time that you boot up the application or click the add connections button. Compare the hash, report on the matches and dump the rest? Rinse and repeat?

Is the issue more the keeping the address book for later matching, or the passing it in the clear part?

If you were going to have an opt-in or disclosure what would you want it to say?
This confused the hell out of me when I came from MatLab to Ruby. I thought the semicolon was working like in MatLab to just suppress output. It wasn't... Many bugs ensued!

Having now watched the video, if someone had told me that '_' in irb was equivalent to 'ans' in MatLab, I would have been very happy.
It seems like almost no one here takes issue with this... Would it be cool if Google inserted affiliate codes in it's search results (those that apply)? Slippery slope perhaps? Is it really that different?
Thanks. I should have scrolled down to the comments before posting.
I found this illustration on his blog easier to follow: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/07/coarse-grai...
I would think the affiliate programs would be the ones who would have an issue. No affiliate link to adding one costs them profits they wouldn't otherwise have to give away.

What's Pinterest going to do if this option doesn't exist, remove the links? No.. they could change the display algorithm to display links with their affiliate code more often, but that may mess with quality of content and click-rates..
By only taxing publicly traded equity, it seems like they'd also hit small retail investors pretty hard too, while only serving to retard valuable new IPOs even more.
I find it shocking that "technical/instructive/informative" books are disallowed. I can't begin to fathom a reasonable explanation for that.

To be more helpful, a mathy algorithms text, like CLR (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme...) might slip through the censors and be a good option--depending on whether your friend is comfortably enough with thinking about code abstractly.