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I've dealt with skimlinks for some time in the affiliate programs I manage. In general, they have been always forthright and above-board, so imho the brouhaha about this is overblown (at least in regards to them).

The ones who do deserve a bit of ire is Pinterest. While they do indeed have the right to do it without notifying you, I would say that the prudent thing to do would be to notify users. Doing it this way is more indicative of a "ask forgiveness instead of permission" philosophy, which can cause far more problems in the long run and calls their trustworthiness into question.
> If you haven't been spending time thinking about marketing and getting users as part of the process of building your product, then you've already lost.

How is this so? Care to elaborate upon this a bit?
Yep, I plan on having a mix of free and paid content.
If the only valid point he has is that passive investments are a good thing, it's not a great personal finance book. You could learn a similar amount by looking up "investment" in a good dictionary.
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I've used keycastr in the past (OS X) for showing the keys I'm pressing. It's a little distracting though.

I've found that with sufficient narration, I don't need it.
This is not a good article. The panelists discuss problems that Google has already solved - pedestrians, literal interpretations of traffic laws, etc.
The example was to show how you could do it, not necessarily that it was needed for that case. However, you might be surprised how many developers aren't familiar with that example regex.
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After reading Feyman's account, I believe that no amount of visualization nor compelling case making would have made any difference.

1 in 100,000 means launching the shuttle 3 times a day for nearly 100 years and experiencing only one failure. If the logical side of their brain is that far out to lunch, why would you think that the problem was simply an insufficient appeal to logic?
What are the names of those above Boisjoly who ignored him and made the call to launch? Good to know the names of the heroes in this story, but good also to know the names of the villains.
> Damn. That chair just cost us five grand I remember thinking.

The chair was still only 99 bucks - what cost you only measly 5k was a lesson in "swimming with sharks" and why you do not frakk around in business matters and why a lot of things in business (sadly) work and run the way they do...

And chances are he understood the situation and was nothing but an opportunist and took advantage of it, so you woke those sleeping dogs - but your lesson should be: make sure such things cannot happen, make sure everyone knows and understands the terms and get things IN WRITING.
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The Foursquare app says that is wants the ability to access your address book and you gave it permission to do this by installing it.

You then press the "find my friends" button and are surprised by the fact that it sends information about your friends to Foursquare?

The only valid complaint you could have is if they stored the information on their server permanently but based on this conversation they don't which is the best procedure.

The second you click "find my friends" you've opted into this. How the hell do you think they are finding out who your friends are? Magic?

There is a fine line between annoying the user and doing things without their permission and in this scenario Foursquare is better than the majority of other applications out there.
Thanks - a few responses:

1. For that/which:

http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker/LwtaThat_Versus...

I should note that some of these "rules" are bogus (a point made by Williams) and are regularly broken by great writers. Williams argues that writers should feel free to break them, but that they should just be aware of them and the possibility that they will be judged by others not aware of these rule's dubious status.

2. I would agree with you it would be impractical if someone were going to mechanically just apply all the "hits" and treat them as changes to be made---but that's not what it is for. The idea is that the writer would be reviewing the hits and making judgement calls in each case. For example, in the serial comma case, a smart writer would see that "oh, this is fine" and continue. So I think of the high false positive rate as a plus, esp. for the kind of writing this is most useful for (i.e., stuff you're going to publish & need to proofread/edit the heck out of).

I definitely agree that more linguistic knowledge would be awesome (and my Mathematica version had some of this).
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Wrong. We should limit the number of attack vectors as much as possible. Flash has a horrific security track record. Firefox and Chrome are pretty solid.
I keep track of it in my head as well. However I would love a better system to keep track of my tailored cover letters and resumes. In my last job search I had several versions of the same resume going depending on the type of job I was applying for. I also would tailor my cover letter for every application.
Certainly not unbiased, but there's very little in his criticism I've read that doesn't seem accurate. Regardless of who is making the criticism, Reed seems to have some pretty good points of criticism, and I've never heard/read good rebuttals to his points, other than "well, he's biased!"
I agree - Kiyosaki is full of hot-air generalizations that will just as easily put you into huge financial headaches (e.g. huge investment losses, tax penalties, shot credit) as build wealth.

You can't underestimate the gullibility of the masses when a book starts getting some good initial publicity - the wave becomes its own animal with everyone repeating all of the good things previously said of the book, no matter how right or wrong. Sad to say, I bought and read the book a few years under the same guidance.

Product being up-sold like a time share? Superlative claims like a male enhancement product? Partnering with Donald Trump's hair? Check, check and check.
and when that becomes an html5 ad in the future, it will do the same or worse
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Isn't there something about email not being strong evidence in a trial because it is way too easy to fake? At least in Euroland, a lot of things still run on fax for that very reason.
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Like almost every software engineer, I get paid far less than a few million dollars. And like almost every software engineer (the bachelors, anyway) I get paid far more than I "need". But according to many HN articles, if I were to accept a job without negotiating my pay upward as much as is reasonable, I would be a sucker.

TBH, if I heard a CEO of a for-profit didn't try to get a higher pay package, I'd be wondering about this CEO's business skill.
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Sorry, by "your" I meant the company's.
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"Effective" masking of links is relative. To some members of the HN community saying that it is impossible to mask the links is the only empirically correct statement. But my aunt and her pinned collection of knitting crap isn't going to break out an HTTP sniffer to see what is going on behind the scenes, the masking of overt monetization so users continue to labor under the delusion that they aren't being marketed to could be all that is needed to be "effective".

Camouflage doesn't render a soldier invisible but that doesn't mean it's not effective.
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Most economists say that every good is non-satiable, except money, which people only want for the purpose of consuming goods.

In reality, the reverse is often true. You can have too much pizza (though it can be fun to try). You can't have too much in your bank account (or investment portfolio).
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According to the TypedJS annotation for the function they are. The function definition says that obj.valid has to be a boolean, so any other type of falsy input (0, undefined, null, etc) should never be provided as an argument here.
>TBH, if I heard a CEO of a for-profit didn't try to get a higher pay package, I'd be wondering about this CEO's business skill.

That's because you, like all people, suck at thinking rationally.

:D
i found it a really sound book. I took away several points, it should change peoples perspective about what money is, or can be.
I good credit rating should be a side effect of good financial practices. The modern day idea seems to be that you should pay to borrow as much as you can afford so that you can qualify to pay to borrow even more money down the road. With good financial practices, your credit rating should be fine, or if things are going so well for you that you dont need to borrow institutionally, your credit rating is irrelevant anyway.
That said, credit is a good financial instrument if used properly.

The best take away was his definition of wealth.... when your income from your assetts pay for your lifestyle.....simple as that. thats wealthy.
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Tribler might be helped by its veneer of respectability - its funded by P2P Next (http://www.p2p-next.org/) as part of an EU wide program to create P2P distribution channels.
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Unfortunately, only a tiny percentage of the book is dedicated to addressing these legitimate avenues for investment.

The rest of the book succeeds only in massacring the concepts. Insider trading? Illegal. Real-estate lowballing? The only guarantee is a bad reputation.

It wasn't hard to find lucrative investments in the late 90s. I can't help but wonder what happened to his real estate empire when the bubble burst, if it even existed.

There are many books that do justice to explaining those seven items you've mentioned. Rich Dad is definitely not one of them.
The 'point' of the book is that this contradicts general beliefs of society. For example, that hard work is what gets one rich. Going from poor to rich does require hard work, but which work you choose to do matters far more than how hard you work at it.

If you read HN then you already understand the premise of the book. But for society writ large "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" was a wakeup call to reexamine core values and life choices.
Are you referring to this book http://www.flipkart.com/books/8184043708?_l=rNOfRA_2s1pRNn46... ??
The best way to make money? Sell advice/a book on how to make money. It seems to me that some of these investment opportunities are limited(real estate bargains, etc) so why would you tell the world to leverage them and remove competitive advantage?

It seems to me that if you have to buy infomercial time to sell advice, it isnt very good advice, or it isnt going to work. The Rich Dad, Poor Dad books seem to me like a Don Lapre pitch wrapped in a slightly nicer presentation.
familiar interface for whom?
> The premise of the book is solid; invest in assets that make money for you without you having to be there.

Sounds like a recipe to hand your money over to scamsters. Esp as it was proven out by "Income generating real estate" in the past decade.
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"Maybe he wrote the book for Europeans? We don't have a credit rating. Just if you fuck up you get blacklisted and don't receive any credit."

Yes we do, at least some of us (I don't know about each and every Member State). It's not accessible to most people, since it's locked away behind credit rating bureau's models, but rest assured that there are many places that track e.g. how often you've not paid you phone bill on time.

I much prefer the US approach, at least it's out in the open that it exists, and you have a legal right to access your data.
fwiw, when faced with a similar problem i've used graph databases (these days i guess neo4j, but at the time i used datalog). you either find errors loading the database, or via queries that parallel the rule-like approach used here. it's not as cool as this, but you end up with something quite similar to what is described (a way to find errors "declaratively") without needing to implement a new language.

also, i wonder if life would have been easier if the implementation had used prolog? not only is it famously nice for supporting dsls (don't ask me how - i've never done it, but you can imagine that parsing is pretty easy, since you get backtracking "for free"), but it might provide much of the scaffolding needed to evaluate queries.
I guess this is also a problem of different goals, according compensation and what you have to pay in case you were wrong... those guys having to push things through and make it happen in time, under budget get paid for just that - and not for having prevented a disaster. Just like bank managers make fat profits from taking on huge risks and then don't have to pay for it when it explodes in their face and nothing happens there; no person is responsible. It just happened.

(Another problem probably is communication between engineers and (project) managers - you can not be blatantly un-subtle enough... if the worst case is complete data loss then you paint them that picture in no subtle terms; if the worst case is catastrophic equipment failure, explosions, launching pad annihilated and several lives including the millions spent training them lost, then that's what you tell them and document in very direct terms.)
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Another website: http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html

Kiyosaki added a note about fictionalizing, which caused a stir.
The headline is probably true in the statistical sense. The sample size is undoubtedly small and economic data are often tainted by the efficiency effect--the 'experiment' is uncontrolled and actors might already be choosing the results that are best for them, dramatically reducing the apparent statistical effects of their decisions. Finally, CEO pay is often negotiated before performance becomes apparent, and for something like CEO I'd imagine it's really hard to tell how well they'll do in advance, even if you're trying to pick the best people for the job. It's not like there's a CEO aptitude test, it's not like the skills picked up being CEO of Pepsi are necessarily transferable to being CEO of Apple Computer (for example).

The headline might also be true in the economic sense. I'm not especially qualified to judge this.

The article, however, is quoting the apparently private data of one obscure financial research firm. So I'm filing it under Not News.

(I also just noticed that they call Warren Buffet 'underpaid'. The guy earned fifty billion dollars being CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Calling him 'underpaid' seems like a bit of a technicality.)
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Visualization is not as such about logic, its about interpretation and communication.

So the problem was more about insufficient appeal to emotion than to logic. Whether that would have been possible in the case of Challenger is another question, obviously retrospective analysis is always easier.

But in my mind there is no doubt that visualization are able to change peoples opinions and understanding. I have seen that first hand on some projects.
Alternative links for PC and Mac:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/File-Sharing/Tribler.s...

http://download.cnet.com/Tribler/3000-2196_4-75329551.html
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Maybe not you personally, but think of the NOW scandal going on right now. Information about people's mobile contact info is valuable to a number of organizations in ways not immediately apparent.
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Care to elaborate? Don't think I understand you point.
Ask HN: How do you work with web designers?
As a web developer, I'm looking for the perfect workflow to collaborate with web designers.

I've tried setting them up with source control (git) so that they can collaborate on my project directly, but it ends up by wasting a lot of time for me (for e.g they have windows and I develop on Mac and Linux, so it takes a lot of time to get the project running on Windows as well).

How do you do that then? Do you take the time to make your project, dependencies etc working on Windows? Do you have a staging server where designers can ftp files to? Anything else?
It has 1-5 million downloads and 50% one-star ratings. Intentional or not, it's certainly confusing people.
yep - and I agree about the dubiousness (see my comment above).
One can only wonder how many Apps would have to be purged in order to live up to this promise. Now imagine how many non-game apps would be under the same campaign; their entire App industry would collapse.
I find it disappointing that Adobe has complete control over the Flash/mobile-media market in this regard. Flash is great in all, but leaving up the choice to Adobe seems counter-intuitive, especially when the browser will most likely be widely used.
Can't wait for Adobe's HTML5 authoring tools to come out with their HTML5 acquisitions.

Until then, HTML5 is still becoming more performant when building immersive environments in it, which Flash already kind of does in mobile. Guess we'll have a few years of toughing it out until then.
Flash is the new Internet Explorer. I remember a point in time when it was painful to use browsers other than IE, because so many developers took the easy way out and only supported IE (and their managers didn't know/care). Those days are of course over (well, mostly at least).

Flash is, or at least used to be, the easy way out. People used it because it was easier than HTML5. Hence, when a company asks for a quote on an interactive site they often went for the Flash-version because it was cheaper (and not fully knowing the drawbacks).

Apple forced a change in the market. All of the sudden, these people who ordered the new project in Flash realized that they couldn't view the content on their shiny new toy.

You might argue the ability of using Flash as an option. I see the fact that both Apple (and now Google) have actively taken a stance against Flash as something good for the society as a whole. It's a step towards better, and more open standards.

This isn't to say that Flash is completely useless. Not too long ago, it wasn't even possible to do interactive things with HTML. At that point, Flash was the only option. Luckily, those days are over.
may be slight offtopic, but this kind of news touches me. It shouldnt since NASA is a government agency and we all know how bureaucratic it can get, but for some reason NASA always stand to me as a well behave agency with strong morale. This is an exception from all other government entities. But this news proves my feeling were wrong.
You just charge per seat. People large enough, if they have to pay more, should get two seats. Skinny people still have to have 1 whole seat.
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For more background on the engineer-manager disconnect that led to the Challenger disaster, it's worth reading about Richard Feynman's famous appendix to the Rogers report (even Wikipedia's summary is a fascinating read):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Role_o...
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What Jung meant by extroversion is not what's commonly known as extroversion today.

Today, what most people mean by an "extrovert" is someone who's very outgoing and social, while an "introvert" is typically seen as a shy loner.

But for Jung, who coined these terms, an extroverted person was one interested mostly in the world outside of himself, while an introvert was interested primarily on what was going on inside himself.

Jung would have seen no contradiction in introvert who was very gregarious and outgoing, if he was mostly interested in his inner world (since it would be the latter quality that made him an introvert).

Likewise, Jung would have seen no contradiction in extrovert who was very solitary and shy, if he was mostly interested in the world around him (since it would be the latter quality that made him an extrovert).

Now, as for whether this is a "myth" or not is a matter of opinion and debate. Psychology is far from a settled discipline, where all participants agree on the "great truths" like "the law of gravity" or "the laws of thermodynamics". There aren't any such things in psychology, since there are in fact many different psychologies, with radically different explanatory frameworks. What is a myth to one psychologist might well be established dogma to another.
I am surprised at all the negativity here.

Working at a startup is obviously very different from working in a corporate environment. You have to thrive on risk and be so passionate about new technologies that you can't help but learn all that stuff and chomp at the bit to use it.

I can't imagine working at Microsoft and NOT having learned HTTP, Razor, MVC 3, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, Facebook Connect, Twitter API, SQL at this point. It is stunning how much a single person can get done these days thanks to all the cool technologies that have come along in the last few years. If that guy is truly dying to join a startup, why doesn't he have his own side project yet?

I think Calbucci is just trying to find people with true passion. I would definitely worry that this person moves on to a job with more $$$ if the startup isn't a huge success right out of the gate. After all, financial motivations are keeping him at his current job right now.

The founder probably took a 100% paycut to get it started. I don't think it's too much to ask for someone to take a financial risk to come onboard; especially when it's before launch, which means their cash flow is probably close to $0. Obviously, these kinds of decisions are not for everyone. But, when you're truly passionate, it's not really a choice at all.
What? Watching the Top Paid section for a new game, spec'ing it out, and shipping it to a contractor for a weekend, then selling it for $1.00 less than the original qualifies as creativity now?
> _why's unholy showed it's trivial to compile Ruby into Python (in many cases). It shouldn't be too hard (famous last words) to make a Ruby VM with PyPy.

Basic structures like if, else, while etc. is easy. The hard part is the object model (including constant lookup) and long jumps (exceptions, next/break). Let's not forget the big core library which you need to implement if you want it to be usable at all…

(Related: I started working on a Ruby version in JavaScript: https://github.com/judofyr/rubyscript)
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The flash format is open source now. It happened a few years ago.

Anyone can build their own flash player, even for mobile.

What folks are commenting on is Adobes not releasing an official player for the mobile. Desktop isn't going anywhere because it plays AIR/Flex apps which also have been open sourced.
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