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> Some things of this nature are illegal, socially unacceptable, or simply result in constant harassment by the authorities regardless of their legality. It is unreasonable, I think, to expect every homosexual man in Iran to wear his pink triangle on his sleeve.

No. In fact, if those homosexual men in Iran want not to be oppressed they have to do something about it. Shoot a local police officer or religious leader or something. (Only sort of joking - who would order or carry out their death if they were caught?)

> Considering that we live in a country in which young people are assaulted by police officers for standing around in public in New York City, I can hardly imagine what would happen to an American who proudly announce to strangers that he or she really enjoys using opium, is occasionally attracted to people who haven't yet turned 18, or believes that the government should be overthrown.

Everyone enjoys opium, that's the point. People younger than 18 are very attractive, that's why we have so many laws against taking advantage of them. And the government should be overthrown if it harms the people.

> If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe the problem isn't you.

No, but if you live in fear because of it, it is.

You're confusing what I'm offering, practical life advice, with me saying I think it's better this way. Realize what the world is like and, if getting caught scares you too much, don't do things you can't get caught doing.
Ask HN: Facebook developers who miss the old platform forum/wiki?
I know facebook now directs all developers to ask their questions at facebook.stackoverflow.com, but I for one miss the old community of the Facebook forum. It was my primary place to figure out what is happening in the platform, know when something's broken and discuss things beyond programming such as monetization and policies. I believe the stackoverflow section just doesn't fit the purpose as the platform is constantly moving and questions become obsolete very soon. Plus it would be nice to have a wiki with best practices that developers can update.

So I started to post some quickstart recipes that will hopefull make it easier for newbies to get started at http://www.fbdevhub.com/ I am wondering if anyone wants to contribute to the wiki or forum. I plan to post more recipes when i get the time.
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I agree. I use delicious on a daily basis. The problem it solves is there.

The main problem is the fact that they are doing a crappy job at releasing. I don't think they planned this very well.
"Selling ice cubes to eskimos" is a cliche for a reason.
What happens if you use a nonstandard Unicode character, something from the one of the private use areas? Will screen readers ignore it?
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I'm all over your point but strictly only in theory.

These logos are for the most part gobsmackingly awful. I'm genuinely surprised that there's no Comic Sans among them. Robogenerating words with free fonts you dug up on some website is not the same thing as a 'Design Service'.

http://stylate.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/burntfood_smal...

http://stylate.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/usante_small.p...

REALLY? Those are worth more than a cold cup of coffee?

I thought it sounded like a great idea from the link title, and I'd have no issue with the price if there was any actual value in the value-add.
You're overthinking it. First of all, fit is kind and much easier to understanding. Second, how often are you putting together complex colour profiles? There are a few combos that work great for pretty much anyone:

- Casual: Dark blue jeans, nearly any colour shirt, brown leather shoes
- Charcoal slacks, black leather shoes, nearly any colour shirt
- Khaki chinos, light blue shirt, brown shoes

>"Grey flannel trousers are the shit" - Umm... ok. Why?
Because epicviking thinks so. I happen to like them too, they've got a great texture and they go with almost anything. You can wear black or brown shoes with them and any colour dress shirt pretty much.

>"One madras element per fit." - What's a madras element? Google didn't turn up anything useful.
Madras is like a big plaid pattern.

>"Don’t be overly matchy. “Close enough” is more charming and better looking than fabric shade OCD." - So don't wear colors of similar shade, then?
Try to avoid it yeah.

>"Blue shirt + yellow tie is pretty classic, but disastrous if done wrong. A deeper,darker yellow more akin to goldenrod and a lighter blue is the ticket here." - Is there an official matrix of acceptable color combinations available somewhere?
Nope but if you're in a bind you can always google "what colour tie goes with a ____ shirt" and get some input.

If you want advice specific to yourself I'd post a picture of yourself on malefashionadvice, people there are very helpful (although you have to be okay with getting criticized, don't take it personally)
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It's also an ugly hack to get around the fact that making production graphics for every single icon in every single size/color you may need introduces some serious friction to the development process.
That article needs to come with a huge "YMMV" disclaimer.

I can still save my bookmarks via the bookmarklet. I can still view my bookmarks at http://delicious.com/sciurus. The transition hasn't impacted me at all.
It's working for me...
Agreed. I had my fair share of problems with Delicious these days. The linked article is very relevant. But I wish it was better, not gone.
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Can't buy it from the Portuguese iTunes store. Why?
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links:

http://www.fbdevhub.com/wiki

http://www.fbdevhub.com
I agree with that. Thanks for clarifying.
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No. But I would venture that I wouldn't necessarily choose to measure the success of a blog by its upvotes on HN. Especially when, as it was when I first commented, that the majority of comments were about the writing style and were negative.
What is the difference between the Playbook and the Kindle Fire, except $300 and a camera and 8 GB of flash?
Phase 1 trials are for safety, not efficacy -- they don't care if the participants are infected with HIV, because they only want to make sure that the vaccine doesn't hurt them.
My trick for handling email is to only answer the previous day's email unless an incoming email is urgent (ie. requires an immediate response). That way when you start your day you'll know how many emails you'll have to answer; AND once you answer those emails you are done for the day. Otherwise, you'll get stuck using email as IM with all those folks replying instantly from their Blackberries and iPhones.
I'm glad I moved all my bookmarks to diigo months ago. But it's still sad to see a great service killed like this.
It's up. It was just serving up an ad (blocked by AdBlock Plus for me) on first access to the home page. The way to cure that (for years now) is just to reload the page, which will go past the ad to the New York Times home page.
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one thing I'd like to scream from the rooftops about Web fonts in IE, though: IE respects the TrueType/OpenType embedding level, but at least some other browsers (last I checked) don't. if your Web fonts are set to an embedding level below "installable", IE will refuse to embed them and use the default font instead. double-check to make sure your font embeds properly in IE 9 before pushing to production.

edit to add: to check, open up the developer tools with F12, go to the console, refresh your page, and make sure you're free of errors like this:

"CSS3114: @font-face failed OpenType embedding permission check. Permission must be Installable.
iconic_stroke.otf"

(this error taken from the link in the OP, the icons on which completely fail to render properly in IE 9.)
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a) I'm not a b-school guy, so it's legit significant equity.
b) Understood on the competitive space front
c) Repeatedly, repeatedly had those conversations with him. He NEVER said he wasn't going to start, and I continuously had him reaffirm that.
d) I was somewhat pot-committed at the point that the red flags really started popping up...
A family member tried it on an original Droid, and it was a miserable failure for her. I was a bit mystified, comparing this experience with the positive comments I'd read. Might be her voice in particular; I turned on the "personalized tuning" setting, but it did no good.
For most consumers, the Fire is more functional: It is a portal to content they want and it runs apps available everywhere.
Not everyone needs to be vaccinated for the phenomenon of 'herd immunity' to kick in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
Might want to update thread's title in lieu of RIM's response: "strictly fiction".
>it is kind of enjoyable watching them crash and burn

I always temper that emotion with the knowledge that many are going to lose their jobs because of two incompetent CEOs.
I am still amazed a company known for e-mail / communications and loved for their keyboards decided to copy the "piece of glass" crowd. It just seems like the play would have been something more akin to the Psion Series 5 instead of the iPhone / iPad. Concentrating on communications (evolution from e-mail) and collaboration would have been a better play and more in their abilities.
I haven't been following this as closely as others (primarily because I was never a heavy delicious user), but was there a lot of pressure on AVOS to push out the new version as quickly as possible? I find it hard to believe that a company would try to relaunch a product without transferring a good amount of the historical data that makes it so useful.

They should have taken their time and gotten it right. You only get one chance to make a first impression.
Putting the claim in the present tense, phrasing it as fait accompli, then appending a stylistically-incompatible disclaimer is about as shameless as baiting headlines go.
English locales only for now. See http://www.quora.com/Anne-K.-Halsall/Quora-for-iPhone/Announ...
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Homemade iPhone b5 built from glass and aluminum is most gorgeous design yet
It depends on a lot of factors -- how many people will catch the disease, assuming no one is vaccinated, per infected individual is the primary one). I think most livestock diseases are aerosols (foot and mouth disease, etc.), and so are a lot of human diseases, but thankfully not AIDS.

The problem is the standard models of herd immunity depend on some simplifying assumptions which may be true in livestock, but are not true in humans -- specifically, that it's a homogenous population with equal chance of giving any other individual the disease, and that vaccines will be distributed fairly randomly as well.

If you have backwater villages which never get vaccinated, and are highly interconnected, you can end up with persistent reservoirs of disease, even if it's only 1% of your overall population. Then, you can have periodic epidemics when an individual from that area travels to an unvaccinated area elsewhere (because compliance rates on vaccination go down once the disease is "cured" in a population).

(I know about this from drinking with some of the UN/WHO vaccination people in Afghanistan)
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I'm sorry, but the combination of the domain name with a Flash-only site/page I find a bit ironic. First step: Trust our Flash!
Undergrad, and I didn't go to a prestigious school.
Neat.

Except there have been dozens of randomized, controlled studies that show circumcision significantly reduces risk of infection.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673607...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061213174708.ht...

http://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Abstract/2000/10200/Male_...
Why do Facebook and all these companies make the elimination of your privacy with a new feature opt-out, rather than opt-in? If they are really building that new feature to help the user, it should be opt-in and the user should have the option to choose it. But when they are making everything opt-out by default, they are clearly doing to help themselves.

If your feature is actually that helpful, then make it opt-in and promote the benefits to the user. If they "buy" it, they will use it. If they don't buy it, then you're doing something wrong anyway.

Companies, please stop eliminating my privacy by default when I use your service or product.
If by "provocative" you mean "so painfully stupid and offensive as to make you weep for humanity," then sure, I guess.
Thing is, is everyone needs a phone. You make a good cost/value phone, get it in stores, and som people browsing for their next phone will buy it

Tablets are a different sort of purchase, and its looking like there will be at least two markets - a low-end, powerful enough to use any HD movies/music/other content you want, and a high-end as laptop replacement. The cost for the low-end device is going to asymptote towards zero, quickly. So that looks like primarily a market for content providers. The high-end device, Apple seems to own the mindshare on, so far

The hardware is disappearing, so its build a software/content platform or die. Who could have predicted in 2006 that the major computing platforms of 2012 would be run by Apple, Google and Amazon?
Just in case someone wants one of your names but doesn't know of your site, it would be a great idea to have some quick info (link and price) under the 'get info' section of domain registrars like godaddy (since thats where the majority of people will be looking).
Which Linux distributions are going to use it?
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Personally, I'd take Hacker News comments over all of the above!
They should make sure to grab the twitter user name too, that's an important part of branding. I noticed that some of the twitter user names for the brands are free - how long will that last?
Yeah, you're not missing much. The site is obviously a placeholder thrown up to generate leads. They've got some big names already though, hopefully it will expand the Hackers for Charity project significantly over time.
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Here is a good blog about NLTK: http://streamhacker.com/

The blogger is also the author of the book "Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook"
Where does it work? Doesn't work for me in Gnome 2.32.1 on Ubuntu 11.04
It might make a nice down payment for a house if that is something that interests you. Paying off debt is a great suggestion assuming you have some.
Not less selective, less judgemental.
Honestly, it seems rather childish to have published something designed to bash another, with little more than a nod in the direction of your own responsibility for the situation.

Perhaps in the future you should consider projects that you can work on yourself without being too dependent on others.
Indeed. Though I tend to lean towards building my products in a way that they need as close to zero support as possible.

That's actually tougher than it sounds, since it means picking a market full of people who are smart enough to not need much hand holding, then building your thing to be self explanatory enough that even the dumbest of those people won't be sending you emails every week.

It also means building on top of the most boring technology stack you can find, to avoid any whisper of doubt that you might need to touch the server for any reason during the times you'd rather be focusing your attention elsewhere (such as when you're off the map in Honduras, a full day's dugout ride from electricity.)
Simple rule I've discovered: When I find myself just mindlessly screwing around on the internet (manically surfing between reddit/hn/slashdot, for instance), I'll stop and go do something productive. Whether that's wash some dishes, brush my teeth, do a few Khan Academy math problems, fold some laundry, any activity which requires direct focus.

For me, it really helps me from spiraling into "holy crap, it's been an hour and I haven't done anything" mode.
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If Samsung is serious about becoming "world’s top smartphone manufacturer by volume" then this is something they would have done anyway.

They may have been disappointed by google but it was never in the plan to "rely on google" for anything. Samsung relies on Samsung and it seems like they're quietly taking over the world.

Look at whats in the ipad and half the android phones out there hardware-wise. Its closer to the truth to say that everyone relies on Samsung.

I've been thinking recently that the lawyers are like their respective company's spoiled children. The adults quietly conduct their interrelated business while their kids loudly and publicly squabble over trivial matters and trade small beans back and forth.
1. Open sourcing is a fine idea, if there is demand for it. There are a million forum apps out there, though-- be honest-- do people REALLY love yours?

2. Are there any/many companies making money doing this? I'd go narrower and perhaps aim at Support Forums (something companies pay money for).

3. Worth a shot. I think you need a design/marketeer/evangelist more than you need another dev. Keep it 1-developer simple until you nail a narrow use case that has users/customers excited to keep coming back. Who on your team loves distribution problems? SEO? SEM? Bizdev? Blogging and tweeting?

4. Almost impossible. Very few people want someone else's (failed) codebase.

In general, the current market you're attacking (a place for entrepreneurs to discuss) seems like a pretty crappy one. Can you name 5 high-margin companies that are positioned directly at the same audience? Pre-startup people are a penny-pinching bunch. Hard to charge them money, and few advertisers want access to that audience unless you've got pretty amazing scale/brand.

Whatever you do, have a marketing plan. 99.9% of businesses hit the "wow, our sales aren't growing fast enough" wall. Don't count on word-of-mouth-- be happily surprised by it if it happens. If you're going to go with the pure-engineer team, try to think of a business that either solves a REALLY ACUTE pain or can capitalize on existing channels (app stores, SEO, Adwords, etc).
I live across the water from Seattle and take a ferry to work. The ferry ride is an hour long (each way). I've spent a lot of time working on personal projects but for the past few months I've been doing contract work. This is about 2 hours per day or 10 hours per week and the money I earn really adds up. And it's a lot more lucrative than the personal projects I've worked on in the past.

I don't typically get burned out as the work is really a lot different than my day job. Same programming language, completely different problem spaces, though. It works for me because my contracting client isn't in a huge hurry to have stuff done (deadline is like... "before Christmas").

The ferries have wi-fi now but it's terrible so I have to make sure I have everything I need on my laptop (basically a complete instance of the web-based software).
You're describing a weird place where you want to display a semantic document (the html) using some non-semantic style rules (css, specifically :before and :after) and not others (@font-face) and then interpret the result as a whole semantically.

If you want to browser-set font colors, you're going to have a hard time when they match CSS set background colors.
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I missed that article, can you link it? Thanks
Wait... Are these posts/comments in chronological order or reverse?
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> >Because your crotch-fruit are so special that perverts would see them online and have to have them, specifically.
> Besides being unnecessarily rude,

If calling your hypothetical children crotch fruit is rude you've got another lesson coming to you in the outside world, Susan. The point is that your little bundles of joy aren't everyone else's, and the world is full of them. For an attacker they're fungible.

> you're arguing that since everyone is vulnerable to an opportunistic thief, you are not entitled to protecting yourself from a thief that specifically targets you.

No. I'm not arguing entitlement. I'm saying you're paranoid, as in need to take medicine, for fixating on such non-issues. It's like stranger-danger and everything else our media has scared us with. A non-problem.

> Since you're just like everyone else, you're not entitled to take reasonable precautions to protect your family.

I sure am. Try threatening me and you'll end up with a four-pound steel bar upside the head. But that's protection, not the net-nanny fixation on it.

> There are PLENTY of situations where complete candor will get you fired or worse.

Yup. And none of them involve pretty girls and comic books.

> Proclaiming you're gay in the U.S. Military during DADT.

Being fired from an organization that went on to murder over a million people during that time seems like a benefit, not a loss...

> Holding unpopular religious faiths or marrying someone of the 'wrong' race or sex.

Yeah, and these usually aren't secret, even without the internet. If you were in an interracial marriage in the US south (or select other places) you'd want to keep a gun in the house and shoot anyone you see carrying an oversize cross onto your lawn.

> Perhaps you had an abusive ex-partner that you're concerned about.

You know, detectives were tracking people before the net. It's almost as easy but requires more phone calls. If you're worried about danger, protect yourself from danger. Don't uselessly cower.

> If my privacy is so worthless, then why do companies like Google and Facebook go to such extreme measures to collect, retain, hide, and protect 'their' data about you?

Their marketing value is unrelated to your privacy value. And your false privacy - that sense of security you get by curating cookies or hiding which preschool your kids go to, is useless.
As one of the post's commenter pointed out, Steve Souders has a detailed overview of the problems with @font-face: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/10/13/font-face-and-pe...
Chronological. Ahh, we'll add timestamps for the next one!
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You don't need a financial advisor. Pay off any credit card or other high interest debt (and don't run up more).

Put the rest in a Vanguard Total Stock Market index fund, and setup automatic payment of $100 from your savings account to add to the lump.
Sorry. Not Huffington Post, don't know why I could swear it was.

http://www.snowtechnologiesconsulting.com/facebook-users-bew...

EDIT: Because the author mentions HuffPo.