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"Do we ever record any personally identifiable information? No. Do we ever sell or distribute this data to outside parties? No. Can any of this data ever be used maliciously? No."

The answer may be no for now (that you know of). You can't guarantee that it will stay that way forever. Given Pincus' general shadiness to make a buck, I can totally see a slow quarter or two driving a decision to "update" the privacy policy to sell data to 3rd parties.

Similarly, it's not a big programmatic change to start tracking PII as well as cross-referencing to existing information. So while you may not have any ill intentions, I doubt you can speak for all of Zynga's actions over time.

I would emphasize the "over time" component since it tends not to be taken into account by most people which is a big reason why we are being bombarded by SOPA-like legislation. (Didn't win this one? No problem, we've got ACTA, etc. And should ACTA fail, I'm sure there's something else over the horizon)
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Very interesting connection between Parkinson's Law and one's energy levels. Based on my own experience, I'd have to agree. I dislike having to come into the office after 5-6 hours of sleep just to show my face, spending the rest of the day working at a snail pace while phasing out every 10 minutes.

I wish our work culture would allow us to come in late when we had something prevent us from getting adequate sleep.
I've had one blog post of mine and one link to another's post make the front page so far. I was surprised how few upvotes (if they are in a short period of time) it takes to make the front page though, and I don't doubt some people do this (or dummy accounts).

I think it is a bit of a crap shoot whether or not a good story on the /new page will get traction though. It requires a bit of luck and timing for the right people to be reading /new at that time and take interest and read it

On the other hand I see a lot of things making the FP that seem to be mostly title bait. I wonder if some people simply upvote some things just to save it for late basically voting on the title only.

I wonder how an experiment with randomly displaying an item from the /new page at the top of the front page would work. Reddit does this and while I'm certainly not advocating becoming more like reddit, I can see the value of it.
I consider myself a business founder, yet I have an M.S. in computer science. Much of it really depends on the skills you choose to develop during your career. For me, I leveraged volunteer time with non-profits to fill in holes (including marketing, accounting, fundraising, and relationship building) which were difficult to develop in a technical role.

This is also the reason why my co-founder has the role of CTO. I let him take the lead on the technical side and support whenever I'm not working on the business side. The current system is very supportive of generalists with a strong technical background. Just my observations...
Yes, we maximize for users who spend over $10k. These users even have names. They're called "whales" in industry parlance. Why wouldn't you want more of them in your game? This is a business afterall.

I thought that term sounded familiar.

http://www.worldfreepoker.com/poker-glossary.html#W

"Whale: A poor player with a lot of money to lose."

I don't want to be creating products for addicts. But what if these users are just rich people who have tons of money to spend off the cuff?

Sure, just like at casinos.

You're right, in a way; there are people with more money than brains who are happy to blow a good chunk of it gambling and are really no worse off for it because they're rich. But, realistically, you and I both know that's never the whole story.
Oh, the "advancing technology will allow non-technical people to create software and make programmers obsolete" argument.
Same rant as Steve Jobs claimed why Flash should die years ago.

I got lot of downvots on HN previously by saying HTML5 was the exact same shit as Flash, what's better is that there is no way to block canvas animation ads yet.
>how can we make money in a non-destructive, ethical manner

I have an answer, provide people with tools that make their lives better. Does the service you're providing actually make people's lives better. And I don't mean does it make their lives more entertaining. There's no objective way to measure this, so it comes down to a VALUE judgement. YOUR value judgement. And it's not about making money, it's about making products, services and tools, for people. For people, like you, me and your mom, and my mom.

Also you said 'These users even have names. They're called "whales"'. No that's not their names, their names are bob, joan, mike, susan blah blah blah even if you don't have those names in the data, they exist. seriously, its easy to forget when you abstract them away, but there are actual humans at the end of each one of those clicks.
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Even if they did, I'm not so sure it would be that big of a deal (to most users anyways). I mean, Facebook has all of that data and more, and they definitely sell it to 3rd parties. Hell, you can learn anything you want about a person using their Graph API.

So even though I don't believe in it (I deactivated FB for this reason), I'm not sure how much financial benefit you can gain from <UserID> <StrawberryFarmID> TSV files which most of this data is anyways.
This is the genius of Zuckerberg. He had a clear idea as to what was important and what was not.

Or rather when something was good enough.

Of course if your building a probe for outerspace you cant do this but Mark knows exactly what he can punt on and what needs to be done.

The absolutely most necessary skill in a CEO.
How about if you replace "appeasing a few geeks" with "adhering to the privacy laws in most countries Facebook is active in"?
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It's easy to tell which mail servers are using SSL by looking at your mail server logs. He probably only cares that most of the mail servers talking to him use SSL (which is also true for every mail server I have administered).
I read this question as an insult. How could they not know they are better at their job after 17 years of doing it?

This is just my personal opinion but the true judge of a teacher's effectiveness is how much their students learned, and even that can only be used as a measure if the students were willing to learn in the first place.

Relying on some national standard to judge teachers hasn't seemed to help any country in history to have better teachers. I'd wager to guess that periods in history where education unilaterally improved are more due to the motivation of those being educated than anything else.
Am I the only one who finds this highly annoying? It seems almost every news site is now starting to serve some advanced layout, especially when they detect an iPad, involving this kind of horizontal scrolling. Invariably it's longer to load, breaks half the time, and breaks the back button.
>as long as people want to learn science or do research

Maybe this will create a large demand for amateur level/mass producable/cheap lab equipment and that would eventually lead to a situation like PC vs Server where even top notch servers are ~ comodity hardware on steroids. This would lower the barrier for innovation significantly.
The title seems like bait. I think far more often (perhaps not as true in the valley, I don't really know) that business founders are the ones who's value is overemphasized. It's so bad that I regularly see "idea" people trying to justify majority (if not total) ownership while bringing almost nothing (often not even business sense) to the table.

I completely agree with balance, but the truth is that in the majority of businesses the preferred approach is to make the "do-ers" employees. The fact that the pendulum has swung the other way a bit seems ok to me if only to highlight the fact that motivated engineers can start and manage very successful businesses without the typical "business" guys.

However, just like I feel that organizations that only value people in business and sales roles for executive positions and partnerships are crippling themselves by their own arrogance and limited vision, I also can see how a bunch of CS grads playing business in their spare time while hacking with the rest of it, may also be limiting their organizations in a similar way. The goal should simply be to find valuable talented people that can fill all of your organizations needs and then treat them like you actually value their contribution to the business. You know, by letting them own a piece of that value.
A lot of hackers view "content" as raw grist for their business mills, measured in gigabytes and intrinsically "free". Not surprisingly, many of us that have worked in industries that produce this "content" and know how much work it takes to produce are less glibly generous about piracy.

I'd vote for both as evil because I also don't see much social benefit in hooking people into clickfarming their way through mindless reward loops. But pirate sites are the lowest because by abusing internet freedoms they give censors the ammunition they need to lobby for tools that will inevitably be abused to restrict more important freedoms.
I'm not implying that there's any conspiracy. Some facts I do know:
1. I know for a fact many people do this and it ends up being successful.
2. I have tried this in the past and it worked.
3. I have been observing /new and several really interesting projects just go ignored because of bad timing, or lack of promotion, or whatever.

So it's not just the question of whether it's interesting or controversial. It requires more than that, and that's what I'm trying to learn.

Anyway, what I am curious about is not whether this type of thing happens or not (because it does happen, quite often, unlike you think).

What I am curious about is: are there any couter-examples? Has anyone just put their stuff on HN without telling their friends to upvote and it got traction? I am specifically asking this question to those who have made the front page. My projects have made the front page in the past a couple of times, but I still don't know the answer because most of the times I tweeted or emailed my friends to check it out after posting on HN.

I'm wondering if a completely isolated person can come along and make it on HN.
I don't think the change the author writes about will come. He thinks the barriers to development will be eased through better and easier to use tools, and he's right about that. But even today, we have Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Xcode, but to produce anything REALLY good, you have to go deeper than what you see, and it will always be like that. The reason is because entire bar for quality shifts up when everybody gets better tools; the game changes and evolves. For example, today it isn't impressive enough to be static, we want the power to build databases and interactivity. And when we achieve that, we'll want to link them up to APIs and libraries without having know how. And even with these magical tools, a hacker could still outproduce a non-technical by X factor, because they have access to tools AND depth of knowledge as well.

That said, I think the distinction between technical and business founder is paid too much attention. In the context of entrepreneurship, programming is a skill, a means to an end. That end is a product/business that makes money.
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It does have advantages from code-organisation, but not from all-out performance.

One of the complexities of this is ensuring that a selector doesn't return a handle as being read/writable when another thread is still executing a previous trigger.
I'm not an accountant, but if I'm reading this correctly, Zuckerberg received 120 million shares at 6 cents each in 2005. A section 83(b) election requires him to purchase those shares first, which would have cost ~$7 million. Additionally, if the options' market value was higher than purchase price, he'd have to pay taxes on the difference.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Just to confirm, you just posted your post here and didn't tell your friends to come read it, right?

Also, would be nice if you could share around how many upvotes there were, and how quickly it happened. Thanks :)
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That's how I have slept for several years now. It is not a topic I have studied in any depth, but it seems reasonable to think that your body is able to regulate its sleep needs. According to my parents, I still maintain the same basic sleeping schedule that I had when I was a baby.
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It's not a flaw so much as having too broad a scope. It is certainly the case that a sizeable subset of people here hold such views, which are in turn upheld by upvotes. When called out they should respond, not fail to appear.
Yep. I think the body knows best and it's best not to interrupt your REM cycles with a blaring alarm clock. Of course, that can be tough to do if you have meetings to get to in the morning, but if you have a flexible schedule, I highly recommend it.
"makes a handful of employees rich by ripping off thousands of artists, musicians and filmmakers" also applies to the companies that the file-lockers were threatening.

Legal isn't always right, and its dual.
I don't think you understood the parent's points...
First, the main point was that programmers were evaluated by their peers and managers, i.e. the people who they work with, not bureaucrats.

Second, judging a programmer solely (in an atomic fashion) by their code is the exact same thing as judging a teacher solely by test scores. How do you know the code was not written at 2am the night of a release to stop vital information from being deleted every time a user submits a form.

On the flipside how do you know that the elegant code wasn't the combination of effort and discussion of several coders all considered to be in the top n% of some mailing list.

I think my point is really that we all tend to rush to judgement of professions outside of our own, when in reality we share the same human problems that are incredibly hard to formalize and hence provide a systematic solution for.
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I second this, I think we could do with a lot less of the semantic quibbling. If the grandparent had a legitimate beef with understanding the intent he could have simply asked for clarification. Obviously the intent was understood and this was completely superfluous.
> I don't see how it makes much difference. Removing the link from the site means that nobody will discover the photo.

Tell that to MySpace.

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The problem with this is simple: money is power. Those that have it are deeply invested in keeping it that way. Any other social currency is DOA until that changes somehow.
This is exactly what I've been doing for about three months now. I quit my 9-to-5 to work on a then side-project full-time. Being outside the structure of a corporate work-environment, I started doing this and it's been the most productive time of my life to date.

When I'm always fully rested and have 10-ish hour blocks of uninterrupted time to work, I get way more done. The only problem is my sleep cycle doesn't always line up with the celestial day. My guess is that's due to two things: 1) artificial light, and 2) I'm fairly sedentary while working and I don't workout, so I tire more slowly than I would if I was doing something more active. So, I've found I settle into 24-30 hour cycle, which results in some ridiculous sleep/wake times.

Thankfully, I have the freedom to do this and it works great for me. If you can swing it, I suggest trying it for a month or so.
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I feel like KA frees up some of the time constraints of traditional educators so that they can spend more time doing the motivation and the possible uses of a subject matter.

I'm no teacher but if I was I'd much rather spend my time getting kids excited about stuff and then point them to the resources they need to get going. I'd also have more time to answer questions so the kids wouldn't get as frustrated or stuck.
Looks like trolling from where I'm standing, so I'll bite.

Why should someone have consideration for other people when doing something that no reasonable person should find offensive?

Some people find it offensive that you (or perhaps your sister, wife, mother) leave the house with their head uncovered (unless of course that is what they happen to do). Should all of western society cater to this, because some people feel they should?

As for insisting on performing other bodily functions it is because a) for those things it is a legitimate public health issue and b) babies are not controlled like an adults bowels. For that matter neither are babies bowels and it's perfectly normal to change your baby say in a public park (though one would hope you don't regularly post that to facebook).

Honestly this whole thing is overblown, and as unimportant as topless sunbathing, or nudity on television. In fact I'd go so far as to suggest this sounds like a bit of an American problem.

But as far as my opinion on the subject of breastfeeding goes, I'll just say this. As a man, the only opinion I or any other man really needs to have about this is that we don't need to have an opinion about it. Move along, nothing to see here.
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>but I'm not sure of the practical application of this - i.e., I'm less impressed with 1k of code when my CPU meter gets into the red zone - and stays there.

There was a time when algorithms for decoding an audio file put your CPU in the red, yet we found many applications for them :)
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No conspiracy. Just an original article.

Here it is:
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Really?

There are privacy laws somewhere that cover the case of "you published a photo, and sometime later changed your mind and decided you didn't want it publicly available any more."?

I'm not only not-at-all surprised at this, but I'm somewhat amazed that anybody even thinks it's a thing worth commenting about. You upload a photo to a website and make it public (or allow the defaults to make it public) - it's now out of your control. Changing your mind later is _exactly_ the situation the phrase "close the stable door after the horse has bolted" was coined for - and the used of stables and horses in that idiom shows at a minimum how old the type of problem is.

I love hating on Facebook as much as the next privacy-concerned-geek, but I find it hard to feel any sympathy for people who are calling this a problem - any more than I'd feel sympathy for people who want to unscramble their eggs.
Fair enough, that part was a little hyperbolic. What I meant to say is that these people may not be aware of how much they spend overall, because it's in such small increments. I can't prove it, but I think if Zynga would offer their games for a monthly fee, even the players that regularly spend more than that amount would quit, or not subscribe in the first place. Somehow some people are much more comfortable spending $1 twenty times than $10 once.
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I'm curious about the "knack" vs "background" comparisons between business guys and engineers.

Assuming they one has a "knack" for both coding and business, in which direction is it easier to cross over? Is it easier for a MBA to crack the codebase (with no prior experience) or for a CS guy to run the business (with no prior experience)?
The more I read through it, the closer I moved to this conclusion as well.
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Jesus christ people, it all basically boils down to respecting the people around you. If you can't handle the consequences of breeding, you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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I believe that people can make judgement calls about what do to with their free time. I don't think what I do (which is to perform analysis) is any different than what the same analysts at Blizzard do when they make Starcraft or World of WarCraft. Or the people that performed analysis at Nintendo when the first Duck Hunt came out.

I have friends who play Starcraft II a couple hours a day. I've known people who will skip work and play 8 hours a day. I've seen a 60 minute story on someone who was addicted to World of Warcraft. This is a chronic problem of the industry as a whole, but its not a reason to stop making games because the majority of users can have fun responsibly.
Or the profit everyone else was making went down. Apple could make a dollar of profit on $50 billion sales and if everyone else was losing money, that'd still be 100% profit share. Still wouldn't be good for an Apple investor. As much as market share is a poor metric, profit share has similar problems.
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There are 2 types of stock awards that are typical: Stock Options and Restricted Stock.

Restricted Stock is something that 83(b) can help with the tax implications. Stock Options are handled differently and are always taxed at the income tax rate.

If Zuckerberg received Options, then there's nothing he can do with an 83(b) election to get lower taxes.

This stuff is tricky, even for the professionals in this space, and I am certainly not the person to get this advice!
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