skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a slideshow about design, it sure isn't very pleasing to the eye: sticky notes, inconsistent formatting and image sizes, verbosity. The tips aren't exactly creme-de-la-creme either. You'd learn more from just looking at the Apple website (which actually looks good) or reading Spiekermann's Stop Stealing Sheep. OP would do much better at self promotion if he actually provided good tips and decent slides, instead of the heavy self-advertisement. Keep it lean.
This might be a good deal if you're working in India.
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Hardly a mistake only made by grandmas.
Privacy Policy for Facebook.com, Summarized by Privacy Parrot
So, you do care. You just don't want to check it as often. Put it in a circle for things you care about but don't want to check as often.
Sorry, let me clarify a bit. 1% if we stay on once the startup receives funding, and salary will be negotiated then. Otherwise, if we decide to leave once we receive funding, we will get $20.00/hour for the work we had put in prior to funding.
We don't even disagree, because this isn't my point.

My point is: only bad dev shops are going to pull credit reports.

Good dev shops realize that from 2007 through today, including every one of the "RIP Good Times" months, it has been a nonstop hot- lead- flying- through- the- air battle for the best talent, and no place that truly wants the best talent is going to single themselves out by asking to pull credit reports to help make a decision about a hire.

Therefore: if you are asked for authorization for a credit report, your prospective employer is tacitly telling you: "we are second rate, don't work here". If you're second rate too and not particularly ambitious, sure, forgive them for their need to pull a credit report ("it's just another invasive thing"), and go work for a second-rate firm.

Edit:

I asked Twitter, and someone said they believe Apple and Google both ask for credit reports --- which is sad, but hard for me to rebut.
Assuming if this would've been reported had it happened before, all it means is 'iPhones have one in 70 million chance of combusting.'
Yes, that's exactly what circles are for.
"(By the way, you don't really need a plugin to do this. Have a look right here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/permission....
then look at the URL in the window that you end up in at facebook.com -- the one prompting you for permissions. Just edit the URL to reflect the permissions that you want to give the app.)"

That's literally what this plugin does. It's actually kind of hard to do it without a plugin though; way harder than it should be:

For some reason, Chrome doesn't let you edit the URL for this kind of popup and so you have to copy it and paste it into a new window. Then, when you "allow" it, the javascript that would trigger the original page to reload doesn't work, since the page didn't popup your new window.

You can refresh the original window now, and depending on how the app is programmed, it may or may not have you logged in. If not, you can click the facebook connect button again, and this time hit "Deny". If the programmer was lazy, they won't notice that you Denied, and since you've already granted some permissions, you might get logged in.

Anyway, the plugin works better. I wrote it because I used to do this stuff.
I find that in general, any fixed-position elements in a page are distracting. The Web news article has long been styled after actual news articles. So when the page stops acting anything like a real paper page (more than just animated ads, I'm talking about big pictures and nav bars that follow you all over the page), I have a lot of trouble reading. The NY Post is particularly bad.
Unfortunately this is in California.
Ask PG: Could you make HN gravity gentler for "Review My Start-up" posts?
I had posted a Review My Start-up type of post about 2 hours ago. It never made it; it has sunk and gone. I was looking forward for peer review of my idea.
I don't think that's off topic at all. Few years ago (ok there was no HN in that day) this [1] wouldn't happen either.

[1] http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2011/11/locked-in-la...
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Oddly enough I never really used any of these while studying CS. Now that I'm in bioinformatics, some of the stuff is commonly used, particularly Bayes' theorem and information theory.
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Right. As soon as you touch their machine you are responsible for everything that subsequently goes wrong. But, they are not necessarily being jerks, they truly have no idea how the thing works.
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So you're working for free, and if they get funding at all (a process that can take months) you get to choose between 1% equity or $20/hour.

That's even worse...
Although not in a browser, I've found Emacs' Evil mode to be very good. It even has sane buffer management. I've been using it for the past month or so.
That was kind of the point of that post... it's likely (although we'll probably never know) that the phone would have done the same thing if it was in airplane mode, or even off (since off is rarely really off unless the battery is removed).
I've kind of lived this for the past couple of months. I haven't spent the time as well as I'd hoped due to some family and other issues. Picking something to focus on was my hardest part. Lots of interesting startups, technology, and stuff to read. I'm now doing what my gut told me originally - building iOS apps for a niche I'm interested in.

So if it were me, I'd spend the $1000 on a Mac of some sort (if you don't already have one), take the Stanford iOS Programming class on iTunes, and maybe pick up a book or two on iOS programming / app business. Worst-case, at the end of the 3 months you'll have a skill that's getting to be in more demand every month and an app or two in the store as proof.
I would prefer to see the Cook-Levin theorem in place of the pumping lemma.
Do you have an example of mathematics that could be made more accessible but hasn't been?
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Like to make my own mold, online. So many things suggest themselves!
I'm in the same boat as you. My computer at work is a Mac, and I was unable to use the HTML Validator plugin. The solution is to go to the plugin's forums - http://www.htmlpedia.org/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=11&sid=e9.... One of the guys there has been really good in taking the origin plugin and compiling it for other operating systems.
This is also a problem with intra-page links to named anchors - usually browsers scroll the page so that the anchor is at the top of the window, but this does not happen if the anchor is near the bottom of the page. Very confusing.
The feature I miss the most from CM the notification pane power widget

yeah, that seems to be the most commonly asked-for feature from users of my rom. from what i've seen in other projects, integrating it can lead to bugs, so i've avoided merging it. also, from what i've seen in screenshots, android 4 seems to have some of that functionality integrated into the pull-down notification window.
Which problems?
Most other disciplines don't try to force their jargon onto other fields though. Math often does.

Also, I'd generally say that almost all jargon is bad. A quote that's frequently attributed to Einstein says that "If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not have adequately understood it". Math and science in general should take this to heart, because I feel that many people have forgotten this or never really understood it in the first place.
UPDATE: http://www.itworld.com/software/228393/free-software-activis...
Cutting their own throats
Not only is Modesto 90 miles away which would be pretty damn awful as a daily commute, but it's also not the nicest spot to live in. If you're getting paid a Silicon Valley salary, you can easily afford Bay Area housing. You could find spots like Modesto, Fremont or Oakland that are much cheaper… but there's a reason they're cheaper. For the most part, they're pretty crappy places to live.

I say this having lived in Oakland for a year, and trust me when I say that it's a huge shithole. Insane crime, crappy acomodations, and a very depressing atmosphere. I got mugged at gunpoint there once, too.
Why wiretapping by government is such a concern?

My concern is about government needlessly restricting freedom of people (long lines in airports, unreasonable restrictions of what can be taken on board, interrogations, arrests, shutting down information resources, etc).

Wiretapping by itself does not restrict freedom of people.

Government can be totalitarian without wiretapping.

Total wiretapping can be not totalitarian at all.
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Does it? If you can scroll further with the keyboard than the scrollbar can indicate, that would also make the scrollbar inaccurate. Perhaps instead we could add an indicator to the scrollbar (ala Chrome's text search indicators) that shows where the content actually ends.
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Interesting. I am a recent emacs convert, so I hadn't seen it used to run applications rather than as just a text editor. For this particular application I think an OSX app is a better solution, but I'm still intrigued by this approach. Anyone know of other examples?
Pjax: ajax with real permalinks, page titles, and a working back button
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If FB served up that page with a hash of the expected permissions and then submitted the page with that hash, then this plugin would be rendered useless.

I'm surprised for something like this (ie: permissions / security related), they don't do that already. The dialog is SSL, but if it was a man in the middle attack that added/removed permissions at will, then it kind of defeats the security of that dialog entirely.
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Damaged lithium batteries catch fire whether the device is on or not.

The original reason why the "no electronics during takeoff or landing" regulation was adopted reaches back to the assumption that you can cause an airliner's nav system to go out of whack with radio signals emitted from consumer electronics.

As far as I know this argument has turned out to be pure FUD. However, once a law or regulation is in effect, it is unlikely to ever be rolled back again - this is probably the reason why they simply switched out the rationalization for it to something else: they now say that electronic devices could turn into deadly shrapnel during takeoff and landing.

Like so many "security" and "safety" related things today, the fact that they make you switch off your iPod but don't actually force you to pack it away safely requires a certain amount of cognitive dissonance of all parties involved.
My major concern is that there's talk about using supercapacitors in portable devices, and notably in cars. The concern being that capacitors are specifically designed to discharge quickly, to the point that a shorted (IE purposefully connecting two terminals) capacitor quickly explodes.

The concern being that should we start filling the floors of hybrid vehicles with these, that we are essentially deploying fast moving bombs on our streets, roads and highways, and all we're going to rely on is faith that someone isn't going to put a switched connection between two terminals and wait till they're parked outside a police station, abortion clinic or elementary school and just flip the switch.
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That's fair. I don't think that it's right to say that you can't make any assumptions, but you should have code that is prepared to handle failure cases. Facebook users can revoke permissions (or revoke access wholesale) without going through your app, so you have to be prepared to handle failures. The question is how to handle them in a way that doesn't leave the user dissatisfied with your product.

Here's the next question, though - if it's as simple as checking the authed permissions and forcing a re-auth if permissions you wanted weren't granted, what value does this extension provide? It's effectively the same as clicking the "Don't Allow" button.

(This conversation has been very productive, though; it's made me think more about the "ask permission when needed" flow, rather than the "ask up front" model we currently use. The former effectively sidesteps the issue by never presuming that the permission is present.)
Bunnie Huang's great blog has a post with some nice informative anecdotes about Lithum Ion thermal runaway.
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=220
I gotta admit I'm confused why these things are popular on hacker news. I've written several "growl" notification tools, usually I just re-write it on top of whatever ui toolkit the project is using rather than try to use a library. It takes less than 20 minutes to write one sufficient for whatever your use case is, and it works exactly how you need it to.

Not saying this or any other implementation is bad and you shouldn't use it, but why does hacker news get so excited every time one of these shows up?
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I'm currently building a website that will request more permissions than average (which may incentivize some users to use this extension), but as a result, if my database isn't filled with the information that's expected, they won't be granted access to the functionality of the site.

Thoughts? A bit stubborn, but my website hinges on the permissions I'm requesting.
It would have meant fatty in Slovenian.
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My problem with this type of article is that while it says design is important, it still propagates a false dichotomy between code and design (or form and function).

The takeaway shouldn't be that you need to find a designer co-founder that cares about design, it should be that YOU, as a technical founder, need to care (and learn) about design.

Developers who launch their startup need to learn about running a business even though that's not their main domain of expertise. So why couldn't they learn about good design as well?
Questions like this are exactly why Quora has gotten so popular
This is fantastic. Sad that so many feel we need it, but great to have.
Android: Tap to print and mail photos?
I'm thinking about developing an app/service that lets you choose photos from your phone and have them mailed to you. It seems like there is no simple snapfish type service for Android.

I'm also wondering, are there any issues with using a photo printing service to print large quantities of photos that aren't for my own consumption? Shouldn't be a problem, right?

Thoughts? Critiques?
There are actually a fair few people who practice spoken Latin for pleasure. As for the pronunciation divide, that's a quirk we inherited from German.
Django and Flask aim to solve different types of problem.
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Would be trivial to move to hard links, but for all the reasons outlined below symlinks seem to make the most sense right now. Agreed that if you delete the base file, all the symlinks break is not optimal. Would appreciate help, fork it, and make it better.
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Maybe I'm just getting old but I find any fixed elements on a scrolling page distracting. My brain expects the whole page to move when scrolling yet my eyes are drawn to this bit that is stuck in place.

Also these fixed elements tend to be horizontal bars across the top or bottom of the page, reducing my reading area. That also sucks, especially since all laptop manufacturers decided we all should have super-widescreen displays.

EDIT: Apologies, I didn't see steve-howard's post which essentially says the same thing.
Factually incorrect article.

>First, let’s have a primer on how Facebook makes money: The company gets you to willingly enter all kinds of demographic and behavioral information into a massive database. Advertisers, big brands and Facebook’s sales team call it “data.” You call it your profile, your likes, your checkins, your comments and everything else you do on the site. Facebook then sells that data — in an aggregated, anonymized form, of course — to brands and advertising agencies so they know how, when, where and to whom to market their wares.

Data is not "sold". Data only leaves Facebook's servers when you ask for it. Facebook makes money by targeting ads on facebook.com. This is constantly misstated and it frustrates the hell out of me.

EDIT: I tweeted at the author and she made the language much less ambiguous. Journalism points to Jolie O'Dell.
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I think we've found the crux of the problem here.
And most apps crash and burn when you do so, for obvious reasons.
This seems like a piddling thing that belongs no where in the realm of the browser. This seems to be just about hitting page down. Which 99% of users don't do. They swipe, mouse wheel, my mom even clicks and drags the scroll bar. And for the 1% of you that this drives insane make a plugin that adds something like this to all your pages. As for anchor links you could easily add extra padding dynamically.

body{ padding-bottom:1200px; }
/* rolls eyes */
Profitability is ALWAYS the biggest, most important piece!
There's really not much meat to the topic, after all - lithium battery explodes... this is pretty much an everyday occurrence everywhere, about as newsworthy as "car crash on freeway" and "pen explodes in pocket". Spectacular and scary, sure, but this is a topic that is neither surprising nor particularly alarming to a bunch of gadget geeks.

Is it really any surprise that the bulk of the discussion is applying to meatier, more interesting/controversial tangents?

In any case, my OP is not really meant to be a lightning rod for Yet Another TSA Bash(tm), but rather just an exasperated, cynical quip.
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Then it sounds to me like the legal battleground here is the word 'sold.'
Slightly tangential, but it seems to be popular to assume that fanboyism is universally a bad thing. Which makes sense intuitively, but here's the thing: I _like_ fanboys.

When I meet a fanboy of something I don't tend to use or like, I make a point to talk to them as much as possible. It starts off rocky - after all, I'm coming from a completely different perspective, and to me, everything they're saying is obviously idiotic. But I persist. I try to get them to convince me however they can, that they are right. And very frequently, I learn a whole of new _something_, if I'm not introduced to an entire new way of doing and/or thinking about things. Worst case is I hone my debating skills. Best case, my life significantly improves.

Not that fanboyism is always, or even usually, a good thing. In most cases, it's politest (and easiest!) to stop the argument before it gets to the point of calling into question the other person's expectations (and I find myself doing that alot, especially with relatively nontechnical folk). But for me - I _want_ my expectations to be called into question. And nobody forces me to refine - and trash - my own ideas as well as the most hard-headed of fanboys.
Exploding phones worry me...I really don't want that happening to me. LOL
Sigh. All this climate doubting stuff is ridiculous
Is anyone surprised its tanking?
You should be receiving salary from the start AND equity regardless of their funding status on a regular vesting schedule. Pre-funded equity should be a bit higher. Also if this is prelaunch, you should be getting a lot more. Practically cofounder status at that point except for the salary component. Sounds like a bad offer in my personal opinion.
I enjoyed going through those tutorials, and I think I know more about Ruby now! What's the time scale on further tutorials? The platform (including the ability to deploy apps quickly and easily) is great! I'd be particularly interested in the node.js tutorials that are tantalisingly listed on your site.
Thanks. Should FB have to justify their pre-IPO valuation(s) or should that be the responsibility of the investment firms and individual investors who have set it?
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Nice problem to have :)
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I clicked through. You know it's "car crash on freeway". I didn't! One or two posts stabbed at clarifying --- if you could see them through the conspiracy fever stuff and the "derp derp held the wrong way derp" comments.

Anyways, I'm not trying to bag on you. My problem is with the whole site.
You mean like this?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lbe.security.lite

I agree; I much prefer whitelisting as I go (which is why I still use Firefox + NoScript + RequestPolicy).
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Your comment really had me scratching my head because both of your formulas looked identical. http://i.imgur.com/6YsQM.png

Turns out this is because OS X has hidden scrollbars and I had no indication I had to scroll right on your calculations.
Safari in iOS handles this nicely. You can scroll below the bottom of the page and the default grey background _behind_ the page becomes visible. Desktop browsers could also do this.
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Features for the most part.

My issue is (looking for work in Aus) that a lot of US startups are very public, blog posts, small bits of code (eg Github with its bot), and the people seem much more public. It's a lot easier to see inside of the places and see which would be great to work for.

It seems I can't find much on any places in Aus except for passing mentions in articles.
We need to create communities where loud-mouthed, snarky individuals do not feel welcome. As it is, they're on a great majority of the Internet.

It gets very tiring.
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A more recent example I've come across are n-dimensional spaces. I realized that most people have problems to make sense of the concept behind that because they've been stuck in thinking mathematically.

I think of points in an n-dimensional space as objects holding n different types of information, which is a practical approach, and has lit a candle for some other people I explained it to this way as well.

For example, images are often stored as 4 dimensional structures, with the dimensions representing height, width, depth and color value. Every point in that structure is a pixel of the image. You can easily expand this to any number of dimensions, and it still makes sense - you're just adding information (eg, add a fifth dimension for time, and you've got yourself a sequence of images - a simple video).

My beef with the way math is often approached is that on the one hand, it's asserted that math is the universal solution to all problems - including practical ones - but on the other hand, more often than not math is removed so far from reality that it's nearly impossible to make any practical use of it.
Why do you claim logic is a superset of math? My understanding of Gödel's incompleteness theorems is they show you can't reduce arithmetic to a consistent & complete logic.
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All I can say is to watch Louis CK's rant about how everything is amazing and nobody's happy. I fly several times a year and I honestly enjoy it. People who complain about their flying experience need thicker skin and more problems in their lives.
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