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This article has challenged your idea of confidentiality? Is there anything in the article you had not thought of already? To me it seems one of those opinion pieces of common sense stuff and it always puzzles me as to how they manage to get so many votes, although I suppose it probably is because they are good marketers.

I liked the discussion here tho, as always.
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You might consider using a http://friendda.org/ instead. It's not likely you'd actually try to sue one of your beta testers anyway; it's more of a social gesture than anything, a friendly request to your community asking that they not talk too much about Fight Club.
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4chan is just a message board. A forum if you will. Unless you're saying that the administrators had a hand in this, then '4chan' isn't behind it.

That's like saying that 'Hacker News' is behind something just because a bunch of Hacker News users used a thread to coordinate some sort of attack. 'Hacker News' isn't behind anything unless pg/ycombinator/etc somehow had a hand in it.

4chan is nothing but a medium for information shared between people. And to try and group the entire 4chan userbase under the term '4chan' is an effort in futility. There is a very wide and varied group of people that frequent 4chan. Keep in mind that many people visit 4chan without ever visiting /b/ or /r9k/.
Almost every online service I've seen has a "pricing" tab along the top. The prices don't need to be on the main page, but they should be easily discoverable. It seems suspicious to me when it's not there. My 2c.
A portable camera/audio system transmits what the wearer is seeing and hearing to an online audience in real-time. The wearer would be a "remote virtual tourist" and would respond to directions from the online viewers and would walk around allowing the online viewers to travel to places virtually.
>It seems sorta sad if that's what the Jewish community uses as an 'Are you a Jew?' litmus test.

Sad? It's survival. (And yes, it is sad that antisemitism exists.)
The root of the problem is that we shouldn't be thinking in miles per gallon - we should be thinking in gallons per mile.

The follow-up problem is that average person think miles per gallon is linear (as they would phrase it, "the difference between 1MPG and 2MPG is the same as the difference between 60MPG and 61MPG") because they don't know any better, whereas it's really an inverse/reciprocal relationship.

I wrote a more though explanation of this - http://www.daniellanger.com/blog/2009/08/miles-per-gallon-vs... - the last time MPG came up in discussion, when there was some minor outrage over the Volt claiming 230MPG.
I'm thinking that the point is 'everyone should.'
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A realistic yet inexpensive robot hand that can curl its fingers in response to a remote wearer (wearing a glove). Would enable physical handshakes over the internet. And probably other things as well, people being as creative as they are...
You said you wouldn't repeat yourself yet you can't seem to help it, eh?

Let's say I choose to believe in the Great Pumpkin. I mean I really believe in him. I've got the wall stickers, posters, the book of the great pumpkin -- everything. Now -- aside from your predilection for belittling people who don't live up to your intellectual expectations, do you think it's right for you to take over my FaceBook account and start a long diatribe about how the Great Pumpkin sucks?

Don't you see how that's worse than just being an asshole? You're taking over somebody's persona on the net and making them trash their own value system.

That's not civil conversation. That's not even mocking people you think are stupid. It's a whole other level of nastiness altogether.
"Posted: August 22nd, 2005"

Edit: Ok, now the title is edited.
Good idea.
Although I would like to see some examples of the books, and testimonials before parting with any of my money.

Good luck
Ben...
Speculation of what exactly? You're telling me a sentence like this would cause legitimate speculation:

"Supposedly there is no proof that PG is a cold blooded killer but there are no facts to prove otherwise."

Most of that article was stretched assumption & hyperbole, at best.

The only shady thing in all of this is that site forces a pop-up.
Your post just made my point perfectly. Your experience has allowed you to do your job better. That's the point. O'Reilly is a book publisher and a pundit whose pulling together bloggers to have a Government 2.0 conference which he thinks will somehow solve the problem because, imho, he has no idea how to actually solve the problem. I mean, this is a guy who lists coining Web 2.0 as one of his accomplishments in life

On the other hand someone who actually does this sort of thing for a living and has experience would realize what the problems are and be able to address them appropriately.
every once in a while they do get someone in their crosshairs that does deserve it, though.
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Why not link to the original article at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_tim_oreilly_aims_to... ?
I don't like mashable anymore...IMHO its becoming nothing more than a big advertisement for twitter.
> Tell me, would you honestly discern a comment from pg the same as you would for some other unknown user?

I don't look at the user name.

Of course, if you're going to argue that ad hominem is a virtue....
Right, and that's why no one was interested in buying the company.

Investors own the company, not the employees--even if they are founders.
I think "It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be" (http://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-How-Good-Want/dp/0714843377) is a good self-improvement book for lots of different people, entrepreneurs included.
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I think that the point is that believing in the Great Pumpkin that hard is inherently absurd, and if you're going to carry on shaping your life around your belief in it, you should understand that some other people will think it's absurd, and steel yourself for some ridicule.

I think breaking into people's stuff to mock them is being a pretty big asshole, but I don't think it's worse than being an asshole.
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What's happening with the codebase for TipJoy?
Not just Facebook. 4Chan hack Christian’s social network, email, Paypal accounts
I setup a filter to block the word "twitter" from Mashable in my RSS reader months ago.
You can find Postbanken in at least Germany and Switzerland. By the way, as far as I know the German Postbank is treated like any other bank and not subsidised. Deutsche Bank recently bought a large chunk of Postbank from Deutsche Post.
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"do you think it's right for you to take over my FaceBook account and start a long diatribe about how the Great Pumpkin sucks?"

I can't believe I'm hearing this. Yes? Of course? I mean, I don't condone people hacking FB accounts, of course. But why do you think a belief as ridiculous as that deserves any protection whatsoever?

I'm not really singling out Christianity, either. If someone hacked a known homophobe's Facebook account and posted photoshopped pictures of them sucking cock, or got into a racist's account and started talking about their black girlfriend, I'd applaud, and couldn't give a damn about "making them trash their own value system".

And the funny thing is, if the opposite occurred and, say, a right wing nutcase hacked my FB account and could say whatever they wanted - they couldn't really do any damage, because my entire self-image isn't founded on maintaining some ridiculous social façade. It would be an embarrassing security lapse, possibly provoke some mild teasing from friends and family, and life would go on.

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UPDATE: Man, I am a really bad debater. I'm coming across pro-vandalism and anti-peaceful-tolerance here. Despite my views on religion that's not what I wanted to say; my argumentative position is drifting towards the extreme to oppose Mr. Markham. If I were a better debater, I'd be able to resist that - we're well into "devil's advocate" territory for me by now.

I do not condone these attacks. I wanted to make the point that I don't consider these attacks to be particularly hurtful or serious, and that anyone who is seriously upset "when somebody takes their identity and has them say things they never would" should lighten up.

I got a little too far into "asshole mode" above too. I won't change it now but actually, I wouldn't support defacement of this Great Pumpkin believer's page. Why? Because my whole actable complaint against religion is that it's intolerant. I strongly oppose religious superstition, of course, but that's not a legitimate reason to take action against them. Simply being stupid is not evil, in and of itself. Intolerance, however, is the actable offence and that's what legitimises attacks upon religion. Now if the Followers of the Great Pumpkin had a political agenda against other segments of the worlds' population, that would be a casus belli.

I would like to say, though, that if you hold beliefs that seem to make you a favourite "lulz target" then you should probably re-examine them.
I know Gopal (and Raj). This is an old, old story, but I get a kick out of it every time I hear it.
Don't these 2 arguments contradict each other?

Let's get to the real issue here: you seem to be under the impression that airing a variety of viewpoints is somehow problematic.
Nice idea firstly, there's no question of the growing importance of Chinese language and culture especially.

In regards to your intial question, like others have mentioned, a team requires a variety of skills. I am too an economics grad. and whilst I can write some code, I think we can excel in business related issues like marketing for example.

With my current startup, I am working on business development issues like partnerships as well as finance, marketing etc. )In addition to writing code and designing the user interface.)
Luckily Christianity is a choice. Take over a Muslim's account and post raunchy items on it and that person might end up dead.
Interesting. By the way, I have never handled a check in my whole life. But I live in Europe.
If journalism is what gets practiced in leading newspapers, then being sourced entirely anonymously is now standard practice. As for commentary and prediction, ok, if your definition of journalism doesn't allow for that, we can call this something else. Whatever the genre, this piece has some merit. Give me a reason to believe that your hate-on for TC isn't simply knee-jerk. (I'm not a huge fan of TC, mostly because I find the material boring. But the hardcore anti-TC mentality is puzzling to me. Unless it's like the hipsters who in 1990 were huge Nirvana fans until too many people started liking them, whereupon Nirvana sucked and were sell-outs.)
I'd love to see pg's input on this
Interestingly public companies should be able to deal with long-term horizons much better than private companies. In theory a share's worth is equal to all future dividends discounted to the present day.
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The premise is flawed. We start with: Let's say your goal is to reduce gasoline consumption.

And then we start talking about fuel efficiency. IIRC, though, it's pretty well established in the economics literature that increasing fuel efficiency doesn't reduce gas consumption much, if at all. Increased fuel efficiency means lower effective gas prices, which people respond to by driving more.

The net effect is about the same level of fuel consumption, with more cars on the road (i.e. more traffic and more accidents).

If you want to reduce gas consumption, you have to increase the price. Good ways of doing this include taxing it, increasing demand for other stuff made from petroleum, or reducing supply.
Yes, mocking people on the internet and making dirty jokes is certainly the pinnacle of human depravity. The KKK? Neo Nazi's? No, the most wretched people are giggling undergrads, sitting in dorms, trying to gross each other out.

And quoting Star Wars?
- Go outside.
- Walk to the library.
- Read a book.

Repeat until you stop day dreaming about owning a light saber or riding shotgun with Han Solo.
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where is it more interesting (in terms of meeting people,learning every day opportunities) Forget about whether those learnings can be used today or later.

Where would I meet interesting people and get to learn every single day, and even at the coffee station? where is it better? at work? at school? - is the question I would ask myself.
Comparing this to voting, most people vote because they want to be seen in a good light by their friends and family (and some vote because they don't understand probability). Perhaps some sort of similar social pressure could have been employed with TipJoy.
I'd like another checkbox, which says "I'd like to know what the hell this is supposed to be before I start giving out my e-mail address to god knows who."

If you're going to provide a signup form, then _tell me what it is I'm signing up for._
Will 4Chan someday evolve into Vinge's 'Friends of Privacy', filling the net with lies to create doubt about all the revelations available online? (Personal info chaff, of a sort.)

('Friends of Privacy' is a anonymous mass group in Vinge's Rainbow's End.)
Ivan & Abby, are you both heading west? I'll miss having another startup here in Arlington.
I feel like I was tricked into reading an Oprah magazine article.
I removed mashable from my rss reader a couple months ago. Endless inane articles about twitter. Like a junkie rambling on about the wonders of his new found drug.
we should be thinking in gallons per mile

The average person is pretty bad at dealing with fractions, too. Are they going to get the difference between 0.05 gpm and 0.04 gpm? Seems pretty small, it's just 0.01!
I'm assuming this is something we've all considered around here and my advice is to be very careful. This has been common (if not standard procedure as claimed below) for PR firms for a few years now, but it won't be common for much longer.

In July, Lifestyle Lift (cosmetic surgery outfit) got slapped with a $300,000 fine by the state of New York for having employees leave false-positive reviews online. The FTC has labeled this "astroturfing" and has made public announcements that they are very interested in the ease with which this practice is accomplished on large scales with new media and how that relates to their role regarding consumer protection.

I'm the online marketing guy at an integrated marketing firm in Kansas City, and last week I warned a client off of false reviews in favor of more legitimate marketing efforts (compelling link-bait, usability investments, article marketing, PPC, etc...) just last week. I cited this case during that conversation.

It's exciting to be in marketing, and the media industry in general, right now because all the rules are being re-written. It also means that you'd better stay up to date on the environment you're operating in. I'm not qualified to offer legal advice, but it seems to me that having an employee leave disingenuous reviews online isn't a far jump from having a PR firm under contract do it for you.
I am going to have a hard time not making one of these.

I surmise the dot is always moving in a tiny circle around a central point. The instantaneous brightness combined with the phase of the dot gives it a local map of reflectivity. This is combined with synthetic inertia and sometimes external forces (a gravity like preference in some demos) to produce the movement.

The circle rate is quite high. It looks like at least 4 times the frame rate of the youtube video, maybe much more. I suppose that means some sort of coil arrangement for mirror aiming.
I liked the story. I remembered my grandfather (a very successful engineer) once told me I should take acting classes or something that would force me to address an audience and communicate something in a way the audience would understand. He then explained to me that engineers are usually not taught how to communicate things effectively, and how this can make a big difference in trying to accomplish your objectives in life.
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Valid - gallons/100mi would probably be a more user-friendly measure.

Another interesting argument, although I can't find a source offhand, was to force manufacturers to display a gallons/10,000mi - on the basis that since the average American drives something like 10Kmi per year, this would convey much more concretely the longer-term difference between fuel consumption.
Hi Emson,

To view the books just click "My Books" and then click the magnifying glass icon for any book you want to "look inside" of. Also, each account gets 5 freebies so you can download the stock or customized version of any of those as well.

I agree testimonials are a must. We also want to get VIDEOS of teachers and parents working one-on-one with the students and their cooked up books.

Cheers.
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Your comment is childish, unnecessary and is liable to start flame wars.
This reminds me of a business case study done during my undergrad days. I don't remember the finer details of the study, but I remember the lesson. The case study was basically a company that had screwed up royally. We were not given much of any hints as to what needed to be done. Most people, including myself, went about creating huge forecasts for trying to solve a problem that really couldn't be solved. We were all wrong. The lesson of the case study was this: Sometimes the only answer is to admit that something has gone wrong, stay calm, severe ties to the project, understand what went wrong, and go about things with what you have left. This is one of the most important things I learned in business school.
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Will you be working on something similar to tipjoy or will you be working on unrelated stuff ? (I understand almost everybody commenting below assumes that you got 'snapped up' at firesale prices but they're going on the assumption that tipjoy is what they want you for, not your general knowledge of the art).
Yes, that's the lesson everyone should take from these kinds of incidents. We all know not to do it, yet it's so easy to use the same password on multiple sites. Use this as a lesson to learn from.
This may also be an issue with Chrome. I'll look into it. Thanks for letting us know!
What environment are you doing this in ?
For those who haven't heard the story the details were pulled from a Christian dating site db.singles.org which had a query parameter injection vulnerability.

The vulnerability allowed you to navigate to a person's profile by entering the user id and skipping authentication.

Once you got there the change password form had the passwords in plain text. Someone wrote a scraper and now the entire database is on Mediafire and contains thousands of email/password combinations.
How about posting items that insinuate someone is a child molester. Or that they're gay. Or a terrorist. All of these could endanger their lives, even in a western country.

Religion and ignorance, in all their forms, are a curse upon mankind and should be mercilessly eradicated.
I'm not sure if that's new, but I see the link only in the footer. That's an important page and belongs as one of the main top navigation pages.
A good point, and I can't understand why you're being modded down for it.

But that said, it's generally understood when someone says "4chan did it", it's shorthand for "dickhead Anons on 4chan's /b/ did it."
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Sorry, but this is contrived. One can speak clearly without resorting to a formula.

The story contradicts itself. The author describes at length the process he had to go through to decode this supposedly clear communication. The one person without a vested interest in the formula (his wife) just found it puzzling and annoying. Besides, it's obvious how to communicate the information "I've been in an accident, but I'm ok" straightforwardly.

I kept hoping that the story would turn out to be a clever parody of the father's pet theory by an impudent son. That, as anyone who has been mercilessly imitated by offspring knows, is what children are made for. But no such luck.

It reminds me of a book I read years ago by a psychologist who used to insist that people (including his children) speak in active tenses so as to take responsibility for things. Instead of saying, "The milk got spilled," one should say, "I spilled the milk," and so on. He knew he had gone too far when his 8-year-old came in soaking wet one day and said "Sorry Dad. I guess I rained all over myself."

This kind of thing appeals to technical people who like algorithms for things and want algorithms for human interaction. But that's a category error. Engineers who really want to get better at communication would get further by paying more attention to their audience (and themselves).
This is why I like SuperGenPass (http://supergenpass.com/).
"... is the HR department."

Among the many reasons that I avoid corporate IT. Some of the smell tests are nattering on and on about responsibilities like attending meetings, preparing reports. It's like telling a doctor to scrub before surgery.
Best presentation advice I've heard: put your conclusions first. People zone out after five minutes if they're not interested. Tell people up front what you want them to take away from the talk. Then, even if they fall asleep, they'll know what you did - just not how you did it.

This is in an academic setting, by the way, and that advice was given from the chair of my department to someone in my research group who was prepping for an interview talk at a government lab.
That's not what I meant. I meant, I am on the fence... here is an article (and comments) with the opposite viewpoint.
My contribution voting makes as much difference as it should: 1 person = 1 vote.

By your logic, I guess I shouldn't worry about my carbon footprint.
"I would like to say, though, that if you hold beliefs that seem to make you a favourite "lulz target" then you should probably re-examine them"

The only way to not be a target is to believe in "nothing". He who stands for nothing will fall for anything. That's not a good way to live.
Speculation on why the original deal fell through, for example? It's fair to say that speculation has already started, as the original article shows. I presume it has no basis (the fair presumption at this stage), which is why I think it's best for Facebook to just put the facts out there.

Your example is flawed as there is circumstantial evidence here to start speculating from. People aren't making up random ideas, they're filling in gaps. It's not right, but that's what happens when only part of the story is known.
if it happened to someone close to me, it would still be simultaneously awful and hilarious.
You have a typo in the title: it's "Cilk" not "Clik".
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"Sorry Dad. I rained all over myself."

That's a breakdown in the kid's/family's communication. It is simple to say, "I walked in the rain." It conveys the exact same piece of information--I'm wet because it was raining outside, and I was outside without something to keep the rain off of me. There are numerous other ways to say the same thing without sounding backwards.