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What's the overlap of users who (a) have trouble with login forms and (b) leave their email open all the time (whether browser or dedicated app)? This relies on a very high level of comfort with email and context switching.

This could potentially introduce an increase in spam if users are now instructed to click on links in emails blindly as long as they match a site that they're familiar with.

Leaving one app/tab for another seems like bad UX to me. This doesn't seem any better than the OAuth dance, even if it uses a much more seemingly familiar mechanism.
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I used to want to be a hacker. What I want to be hasn't changed much, but now there's no word for it. It's demotivating. I don't know how demotivating. Maybe I would never have become a hacker₁₉₉₀ even if the word hadn't changed, maybe I still will.

It's not just me: I want other people to strive for a thing that no longer has a name.

I don't feel like I'm adequately articulating myself here. Perhaps it shouldn't matter that we're missing a word. But I feel like it does anyway.
> ...But you shouldn't be bound by arbitrary rules. Algebra is important, but if you find "x" by doing something other than some arbitrary thing where you subtract both sides, etc., you shouldn't get an F in the class.

In middle school at least this kind of thing was allowed as long as we could show why what we did worked. The idea being that we would have to understand what we did in order to know either when it would work or when it would fail so that we could apply it correctly. If we could do that we weren't given full credit for anything because the homework/tests were meant to check that we understood how to get the correct answer (other than copying from the nerds like me).
I recommend Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach to those interested in calculus. It treats dx as a term from the start, and matches my (and I suspect most people's) intuition of the subject much better than epsilon-delta. And it is actually completely rigorous, not hand-waving infinitesimals.
My personal anecdote-backed theory is that the lack of proper math teaching (and yes, a little bit of old school drilling) lays the foundation of more advanced "school maths" subjects being perceived as hard: If you struggle with in-your-head multiplication, then the FOIL mnemonic for binomial multiplication is going to be hard, which makes algebra hard. If you can read the language of maths, you can see patterns and understand things in the same way you can when you can read an article.

This continues to spill over until it becomes a negative selector, driving a preference for liberal arts type subjects over science and engineering, not by the positive virtues of the former, but by the perceived (and, probably at this point, real) difficulty of the latter - and further augmented by the fallacy that any college education is better than none.

We're happy to drill reading in schools, but loath to drill even the simplest maths. Only the most abject failures are allowed to go through school without being able to read a newspaper article at a reasonable speed and give a summary, but if someone breaks down having to do 12 * 9 in his head, it's fine, he's just not very "sciency".

Rant over.
I stopped reading the moment I encountered 'I say this as a writer and social scientist...'
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I joined your site a short while ago and was quite surprised at your "pen name" policy, but surprised in a positive way. I also think that anything that helps take away some of the anonymity of interacting on online forums will lead to an overall increase in posting quality and less flaming/trolling.
Nope, actually, I didn't even get a downvote for that comment -- I noticed the site slowed down not long after posting it, so I looked at the thread with another browser, it was fast as ever and my comment didn't show up = slow+hellbanned. The comment was still at 1 though, no downvote. Not even one. Plus, the account is still at 12 karma: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=hopefully

The comment in question, the "Heh.", is gone -- and so is the comment it was a response to, something about Chomsky being about politics, not science, even more flamebaity than my "heh."

Not that it matters. It's their site: they can do what they want, I can try to get around it until I get bored of that. No hard feelings, but also not a whole lot respect.

> "have you moderated a forum before and dealt with abusive trolls who keep coming back?"

Have you ever been censored for disagreeing? Did that make you a.) more or b.) less of a pain in the ass? But actually, I just make a new account when I want to speak my mind on something, more often than not it's offering a correction or a link. So yeah, I keep coming back. And why not.

You can't just define anyone who gets banned as troll, spammer, or otherwise malicious. That's not what those words mean.
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Very interesting idea! Although I'm not sure that it would actually make it easier for users that don't do tabbed navigation (mom) to log from a second/public computer.

So, if elegant for power users, and 'not easier' for mom-users, should we implement it?
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So from Reddit nonsense to 4chan. A natural progression I suppsoe.
I started programming when I was 9, mostly taught myself to convert between hex, binary and decimal at about 13. I say mostly out of fairness: high school did spend a day or two on it one year. Needless to say I dropped out in 9th grade; I learned things that would be applicable in the real world better out of school than in. I was making 45K/yr, starting salary, by my mid twenties.

Despite that, I'm going to college currently for my degree. I just got an "A" in intermediate algebra, though it was an up hill battle the whole way. The struggle, aside from it being a 6 week summer class, was trying to convince myself that I wasn't wasting my time; that I would learn something applicable to life outside that or the next three requisite classes. Something, that is, besides helping my kids with their math homework.

I've come to the firm conclusion that college math exists purely to perpetuate itself, like a virus in our education system; The only job it prepares someone for is to teach the damn class!
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On the other hand calculus is also used in machine learning...

Plus optimisation via calculus is sometimes a better choice then other cs specific methods.
Mental blind spot? You're making stuff up, it's called strawman -- and then you accuse me of having a blind spot for your strawman? And that's not snarky? Irony duly noted and appreciated.

But you're right, it's for example this passive-aggressive condescension by people who don't even know what they're talking about, but want to give their 2 cents anyway, I don't play very nice with.
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It made me sad once until I thought about it. It doesn't matter that "hacker" has been hijacked so long as there are still hackers around. If you keep your own definition consistent, and you don't stray too far from "the classical versions"[1], you see who are the hackers you might want to care about and who aren't. So when the media makes it synonymous with "cracker", whatever, you know better. When a rockstar ninja who only knows one language for one general task calls themselves a "hacker", you know better. When a hacker you already know about mentions some other people or their work, you might want to go check them out to see what you're missing and if they're another hacker. If you want to claim the term's former social signaling status, well, better get back to making neat hacks and sharing them with people whose respect and admiration you want.

[1] The main three authors of essays that I typically think of as classical sources on the term "hacker" are esr: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

rms: http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

and, of course, pg: http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
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Ironically, you never see headlines like "Anti-nuke protesters boycott the power grid" or "Anti-nuke protesters build world's largest solar power plant."

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I'd be interested to see if downvotes were only allowed along with a comment explaining the downvote.

I'd just like to see how that played out.
If you are a cable subscriber, you are both NBC's customer (that gives them subscription fees via your cable company) and NBC's product (eyeballs sold to advertisers). As NBC's customer, you are already receiving the Olympics.

If you are not a cable subscriber (i.e. over-the-air broadcast receiver), you are NBC's product only, and not their customer.
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Downvoting should take care of these issues.
You need Algebra even for "trade" school. According to http://www.njatc.org/training/apprenticeship/index.aspx, you need "One Year of High School Algebra" to become an electrician. I think the same is true for other trades.
Social expectation is a big part of how a technological society functions. Trains run on time, garbage cans are airtight and emit no odors, and the streets have no trash on them in Stuttgart because people expect things to be that way. If we let innumeracy be acceptable in the US, the quality of our workforce will decline.
They could be assuming that most web developers are using a framework which comes with its own development server.
Yes, click-through rate. If an unusually large percentage of users click on a result instead of engaging with the calculator then the calculator probably shouldn't be there.
To recap: I said "heh" in response to an all out attack on Chomsky's character and motivations, I don't get notified of having done anything wrong, but instead I get slow- and hellbanned. And I'm being impolite? Hellbanning isn't some kind of cowardly BS, saying "heh" is the real horror here.

mind = boggled.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say that universally. There are different communities in the comments at each site and in some cases there is a healthy relationship between the different sites:

* This is what HN thinks, what does reddit think
* LoL @ reddit, what do you think HN?

...when the communities are healthy, each has an interesting perspective to add.
I must add one here: "But it's not <x>'s fault."

I hear this one a lot if I mention to someone that I've installed Office on a Windows machine so that I can open a document (it's not LibreOffice's fault that it can't open a DOCX file perfectly) or installing Photoshop to open a PSD (it's not Gimp's fault it breaks some of the layout).

And they're right, it isn't their fault. If MS/Adobe/whoever opened up their file formats, the world would be a better place - but hey, they haven't. Until they do - or until somebody improves the support (this is the point where the other annoying phrase comes in: "Why don't you contribute to the project?") - I have work to do so I'll use the tool that works best.
Part of it (ironically I know) is quality. McDonalds is really obsessive about french fry quality, and their fries suffer dramatically after about 7 minutes. By the time they would get to your house/apt, they'd be dead. Pizza and chinese food is much more resilient.

In high school, the McD I worked at sold food to one of the local school cafeterias, so we had to cook over 200 burgers and fries all at once. By the time we were done, the oldest burgers were about 5 minutes old, same with the fries. After delivery, the food was a good 30 minutes old. Made me shudder, but the stuff was insanely popular at the school. I guess the cafeteria couldn't cook their way out of a paper bag.
First things that come to my mind are privacy problems. This autocomplete would make it really easy to find out whether a person uses the service. (dating sites, porn sites, torrent sites, political sites,....). Additionally if the ologin happend only via the mail address, you could collect email addresses very easily from many websites.

Anyway, I like the idea of questioning the current way of user authentication!
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It doesn't seem much of an issue to me. If you can program web pages, surely you can do this.
Failing to understand that an in-camera DPI of 240 doesn't correlated to a print DPI of 240 is not "innumeracy". It's frankly the logical and intuitive thing to assume.
Is this satire?

Maybe the Olympics aren't that interesting to you, but I -- and, trust me, millions of other people -- find them enthralling. It's raw sport and spectacle, and a wonderful event. The best part about the Olympics, for me, is that it unites disparate sports fanatics. I'm a basketball fan, and most of my friends are either runners or swimmers, and its wonderful to be united with them under the same grand event.
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My problem with said person wasn't that he didn't understand the technical meaning of "dpi" (not understanding it is perfectly forgivable to a nontechnical person), but that he flat out refused to follow my attempt of explaining that it is simply number of pixels divided by number of inches. Now, if that person was unknown to me, I would assume that he is being rude, but in this case I knew him well enough to conclude that his wilful ignorance was due to "fear of math" (he never learned basic fractions in school, and moreover he had a big enough ego to consider such knowledge unnecessary, which put him in a state of denial).
This is completely shocking to me. Is it really allowed not to be able to do 12 * 9 in your head after completing school? I am serious. (Since this is not the case in South Korea.)
>CA is 973M as zipped csv. CA is a bit over 10% of the US population, so the whole data set will be about 10gb. You can fit that on one of the cheaper linodes pretty easily.

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which I think it is exactly how I would expect it to work: If I ask a question, I expect the system to guess what I really want to know and give me an answer.

But a calculator should work like a calculator.
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You are right about the passion, I've always had trouble finding my passion. Interestingly or not so, the most persistent passion has been writing, so that has been something I've been trying to work more on.

Thanks for your feed back.
I don't think upvoting-on-agreement problem can be fixed technically. It's a cultural problem, and it should be fixed by internalizing the better model (see below), and then spreading it loudly enough and discouraging the default human reaction ("upvoting those who think like me"), because it ruins the signal-to-noise ratio in most of online communities.

The best rule on whether to upvote I've seen is this:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/FAQ#What_are_the_moderation_r...

"Please do not vote comments up or down based mainly on whether you agree with them, unless the comment consists of a proposal and you wish to register your opinion regarding the proposal.

"Instead, vote on comments to the degree to which they improve the accuracy of your map. For example, a comment that you agree with that says nothing new should be voted down or left alone. A comment you initially disagree with that causes you to update some in favor of the author's opinion should be voted up."
Does non-maths higher education have a place?

Non-technical degrees are now worthless in the job market because everyone has one. So their purpose, showing the best/brightest candidates, is now gone - so why bother doing a non-maths based degree?

If companies simply stopped demanding all those eng-lit, art-history and business degrees for every position starting in the mail room those people could all skip college, skip being $100K in debt and leave a lot of higher education funding for science, engineering and even medicine.
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Do you believe that writers and social scientists have nothing to add to this discussion? Not everyone is a scientist, not everyone is a mathematician, not everyone is an expert in education.

Equally, not everyone's opinion is equally valid, but they too may have something to add. In particular, find people with full and meaningful lives who have not done algebra, and that will show that it's not essential.

Showing them that their lives would be better with a working knowledge of algebra would be a challenge worth considering.
That account hasn't been hellbanned. If it were, ALL of the comments for that account would be invisible, and would only show up if someone turned on "showdead" in their profile page. The site slows down all the time. Once again, that doesn't automatically mean hellban.

Most likely the system just lost that part of the thread. On a big site like this, performance is usually more important than data integrity, so the odd loss of comments is considered acceptable.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounds like you want sort of a universal standard for technical excellence. Similar to (topical!) Olympic athletes; participating in the Olympics is pretty much an affirmation that you're one of the best athletes alive, no matter the sport.
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In Korea ~50% of the population has one of the three most popular surnames (Park, Lee or Kim). There are only about 250 surnames in use ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name ). In the U.S. a bit less than 3% of the population has one of the three most popular surnames (Smith, Johnson or Williams) and there are over ten thousand names in common use ( http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames/dist.a... ). So yes, your sarcasm aside, American names are an order of magnitude more distinctive.
What's different about this and Beijing 4 years ago? All those feeds were available then.
Seriously, web devs don't use the built in sharing because it doesn't include database support. If you're going to configure the crap out of your server setup, why even have a crippled one?

As another poster suggests, use MAMP or OS X Server.

I don't know anyone who uses the basic web sharing.
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Why do I keep hearing Puerto Rico? No this will happen in South East Asia :-p
I don't really use YouTube so I can't say, but is there anything preventing you from keeping separate accounts on Gmail and YouTube, something that makes it less convenient than if these websites were run independently of one another?
I'm holding my breath for "stopwatch".
"App Store has remained a high quality experience"

Show me a dev that thinks that App store is a high quality experience and I will show you an Apple fan boy! :-)

"Her real problem is a lack of decent web developer"

She is a WRITER. Her business process should not require a web developer and I hope that Apple does not operate on a basis that people have pocket web devs, just in case they convolute the process whereby you need native expertise to unravel.

(that comment aside, Holly does employ a web dev, and it clearly did not help her)

While pitchforks may not be necessary, the inquisition and the transparency of the process are absolutely necessary.
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"But there’s no evidence that being able to prove (x² + y²)² = (x² - y²)² + (2xy)² leads to more credible political opinions or social analysis"

Nothing else leads to that either. Political opinions and social analysis have zilch value in understanding the Universe we live in. Math does.
For social purposes you usually don't need the kind of anonymity that would fool a government agency, or a private investigator, or even the Googlebot. You need plausible deniability and relative obscurity.

When someone goes looking for the most embarrassing thing you ever wrote, they often find it. But we treat them the way we'd treat someone who hired a private detective: If they don't have a good reason, we conclude that they're creepy and rude.