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I've never bought into whats so bad about a naked body. We all have one.

From what I understand people get scared/agitated about nuditity because it makes humans seem more a part of nature, savage, and wild. People want to think of humanity as on a pedestal above "beasts". Still, this is a very strange aspect of our society
They don't have to justify it.

That's the danger of mandatory locked-down app curation.
Chrome is already listed as 17+, presumably for this very reason.

What was the 500px app's rating?
Great! I was just thinking about learning Ruby so this will be helpful when I wanna to check out real Ruby code.
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"His statistical analysis showed that, paradoxically, founders maximized the value of their equity stakes by giving up the CEO position and board control"

I don't see the paradox of an actual academic study, with statistics and some attempt at a methodology, producing the opposite results of a small amount of cherry-picked anecdotal evidence.
I know this isn't what you mean, but taken to the extreme, this is simply an argument against research.

I think that what you mean is that people with an agenda will point to a study with, say, a positive but insignificant effect, and say "well there is a positive effect" when they should actually say "there was no effect". In that case, I agree, but there's simply no avoiding that except through better education and more thoughtful phrasing in articles.
Nathan and Amy: this is awesome. By letting us “listen in” on your dialogue the lessons in here feel genuine. Great work.

To add a little fuel to the fire, I’ll make a few comments:

> Amy: "I’ve never seen anyone do successful presales for a software product, for the record."

I guess it depends on the definition of “successful” – Jason Cohen had 40 pre-sales before he started building WPEngine: http://blog.asmartbear.com/stop-customer-interviews.html

> Amy: "I don’t know ANYONE… ANYONE… who outsourced their product and made a success out of it."

Again, it depends on your definition of “success” but I personally think Rob Walling is pretty successful, and he outsources almost all of his development: http://www.softwarebyrob.com
>But cities do compete - London, NY, Boston, SF all are fairly viable competitors For attracting the best of global talent.

It's not so much the city as the jobs a person can get. If you get offered a job in Boston or London, the odds are you're not moving to New York no matter how much you like it. Cities do compete a little bit (you get an offer in Boston and London), but overall it's almost exclusively where you can get a job.
Exactly. NSFW content (and a hell of a lot worse) is instantly accessible via any of the Reddit apps. Why not pull those too?
Apple's response has always been: if you want content on iOS that we don't allow, make a web app. The App store is not a public place; Apple only puts things there that they like.
That kind of slide involves subtly easing off the holes of the clarinet, leaving partial openings. It's a skill I practiced, but never really mastered. I could slide a few notes, but it was never make it that smooth, nor could I slide that many without easing off too quickly and making the slide "jump".
This is exactly why I use my phone in airplane mode.
I'm not saying you need to leave Windows 7, I don't care what you use. Use what you're happy with. I was just trying to help out the guy who had trouble with Unity.
> I actually like old and ancient. That means all bugs have been fixed already.

By that logic everyone would still be using Cobol or Fortran for new development. Moreover neither Rails, Django, or Grails are brand spanking new anymore. Those projects are mature. If you don't want to stray too far away from the jvm comfort zone, Grails is actually built on top of Spring and Hibernate and it's still maintained by the Spring team.
Here is my take on the problem between managers and other employees:

1) Money.

2) Control.

The first is obvious. Managers tend to make more than others. From the point of view of an engineer, the manager is doing an easier job that requires much less training. Thus, they should, if anything, earn less, not more.

On the second topic, many managers seem to come from the view "I am boss. You do as I say." Rather than the view of "My job is to make your life easier. How can I help?" The former view will naturally create a lot of friction.

The other problem with control comes back, once again, to background. Managers that were previously engineers generally get a pass. But it seems that in some cases you have managers making technical decisions without the required technical background. Unsurprisingly, the people who do have the technical background, and get paid less on top, will have an issue with this.

I suspect that these are the true problems in the room, but ones that nobody wants to address.
I recently launched an App for the iPhone for the first time ever. And the approval process can be ridiculous.

In my case, my meditation app allowed the user to optionally measure their heart rate while meditating with a heart rate monitor.

When I submitted for the App Store, I had to wait a week to find out I'd been rejected because they didn't have a heart rate monitor to test my app. It works without it.

And never mind there are literally hundreds of apps which also incorporate the Bluetooth LE heart rate monitors. Apple wanted me to send them one, so I ended up overnighting them one, only to have them take another week to let me know they'd taken a look at my app, then approved it.

I agree, this marketplace approval thing sucks.
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Alien Blue is also listed as 17+.

Was 500px's app?
nope, think it probably has something to do with a data register, loading maybe? If not then no idea, I don't go that low-level, c and some x86 is a low level as I care to get.
Flagged for lack of evidence/context.
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I'd like to read some warnings and recommendations targeted at an older, more mature individual who's continued researching her interest after undergraduate but has yet to begin, though plans on, applying for a doctorate.

I remember dating one and meeting many young graduate students in humanities who when asked "What are you working on?" didn't have anything terribly specific in mind. I'd made the decision not to apply after undergraduate because I specifically didn't have a good idea of what I wanted to work on (disclosure: I'm in philosophy!). Now, a few years later, my independent research has come to grips with a real subject and problem and feel much more confident about applying, but now I'm told that I shouldn't disclose how decided I am in the work that I want to do, that I should present my intentions as a little ambiguous and up in the air still. Huh!?
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Our team has a startup idea but we are having trouble recruiting a programmer on our college campus. Our problem is simple, we don't know what to look for in a GREAT programmer!!?!?

Do you guys have any advice, experience, knowledge of how to recruit a technical co-founder?

Thanks,
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Funnily enough, Apple had their own snafu with app store searches for lewd words showing up kid's apps like Disney's apps: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/11/15/dirty-wor...
Have a look at pyykkis' implementation of TodoMVC using Bacon.js, Transparency and Backbone Models. I think he accomplishes just that.

https://github.com/pyykkis/todomvc/blob/bacon-transparency-r...
My pleasure, thanks for using it!
This isn't an awful decision just because Apple pulled it, it's an awful decision because Apple was finally starting to get a better PR stance from not hell banning apps for trivial bullshit on a large, public scale.

It is an awful decision though, rules being applied inconsistently across the board again.
I hope the App Store reviewers look over the Safari app. You can do the same thing, but there's no default safe search!! Scandalous!
You seem to gloss over micro transactions, and pricing.

0.99$ is the standard app price, but its not the only price. Square Enix puts out premium priced games, and I've bought Indy games in the 2 to 5 dollar range.

Why exclude microtransactions? That's simply the nature of the market. People don't experience mobile games in large blocks of time, so why should they pay for them in the same way? I don't think every game needs to be a slot machine, but something closer to telltale games walking dead makes a lot more sense. Especially on mobile.
> Which in the case of clinical trials and papers in general is 99.9% of people, including myself.

There are some books and websites that help, but it'd be great if there were more.

Ben Goldacre - Bad Science

Michael Harris - Medical Statistics Made Easy

Richard Smith - The Trouble With Medical Journals
While I agree that it's a hard problem, I'm not sure I'd agree that it's a hard problem to notice. It's such a common problem for anyone dealing with a relational database that I (and pretty much every engineer I work with) would recognize that sort of a problem immediately, in the same way that I always have app-level threading concerns in the back of my head when I'm working in a language like Java. I just take those sorts of things as a given, and my experience working with other engineers is that anyone else who's had to deal much with SQL has had to think about it as well. You develop a sense of when you need to worry about race conditions and when you don't.

Pretty much every ORM solution has some mechanism for dealing with this sort of a problem, as well. For example, the ORM we've built internally uses optimistic locking in most cases, which at least simplifies the problem space that our engineers have to worry about (i.e. they only have to worry about conflicts that can happen due to updates to two different rows, but any conflicts due to an update to the same row are automatically detected).

I'm also firmly in the "having multiple applications writing to the same database is sheer madness" camp, due to these (and other problems).

Again, I'm not saying that these things aren't annoying to think about, just that I think lots of people are used to thinking about them at this point, and it's a pretty well-understood and often well-communicated problem space with a set of known solution patterns, many of which are well-supported by ORM frameworks.
I'm pretty sure it's a combination of:

1. The view that the naked human body can be sexually appealing / a temptation, so it must be hidden to prevent temptation.

2. People not wanting to view the bodies of 'ugly' naked people.

3. Feeling a sense of vulnerability while naked.
I'm sure they can just resubmit with an M-17 rating.
One factor that you are forgetting about is demographics. Compare http://populationpyramid.net/United+Kingdom/1980/ with http://populationpyramid.net/United+Kingdom/2010/ and you will see that the fraction of under-20's has shrunk by about a third or so between 1980 and 2010. There was population growth, but that does not compensate for that:

- Chances are that the population of that neighborhood has shrunk because the average household size has gone down.

- Generalizing, 30 year olds with kids live in new neighborhoods, not in quaint rural towns where only the really well-to-do can afford housing.
This is beyond ridiculous. And I know that what Apple is doing doesn't breach any laws, but imo it should be illegal in the same way that MS bundling IE breached anti-trust laws.

Personally I'm going to try Android when it comes time to replace my iPhone.
.. or I'll be arrested for not supervising them every minute they're outside.

See, I think a lot of parents share concerns like this (I have two myself but they're not quite at the right age) yet I don't think the actual laws have changed (?) so I wonder how fair it is.

I think a key part of the problem, if it's one, is that it's so easy to keep children entertained in the house nowadays and it's therefore easier to do that than let them "risk" being outdoors.

As a geek, if I hadn't had lots of friends, I could have easily stayed in the house playing on my computer all day in the 90s, but most of my friends didn't have such pursuits so had to go outside to alleviate their boredom. And.. all kids have become geeks now (in a sense we may have understood it in the early/mid 90s). Even the popular kid can stay glued to their cellphone or computer on Facebook or playing games for hours every evening without it seeming odd in 2013.

And if they can do that and stay safe in their own homes.. it must be tempting to many parents to let them do that.
Not on articles.
I can't quite remember and can't be bothered to look in the spec, but MIDI has multi-byte integer values for use in some cases, and control messages such as pitch bend use this. Could be as little as 2 bytes, but more than 1.
Gizmodo sez they stole educause creds from an MIT admin with a "browser exploit":

http://gizmodo.com/5978039/hackers-incoherently-deface-entir...
> Which is why when determining the safety and efficacy of a drug you should never look at the published studies

OK....what do you look at then ?
Was pretty painless for us to move from hudson to jenkins. I would recommend it.
More info here: http://www.badscience.net/2013/01/alltrials-campaign-launche...

"Overall, about half of all clinical trials have never been published, and we know that trials with negative results about a treatment are much more likely to be brushed under the carpet."

Bonus: By having all trials public, researchers won't waste time researching something that has already been researched (replication aside).
Yeah, I guess what I really mean is that I can understand the want or need for curation of this kind of content.

I can also understand that the curation can be done for good (let's not release this cause we screwed up and so the results are pointless and people might get the wrong idea) and for evil (as MBCook[0] said, "let's only release the one study out of 5 that proves the point which makes us the most money").

I typed the parent comment out quickly, and to be honest I'm still digesting my thoughts when it comes to this (I feel that for the most part digestion of these topics is a life constant).

[0]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5099379
An interesting use of midi data can be seen with the Fretlight Guitar: http://www.fretlight.com (disclaimer, I work for them). Midi data is tagged so that it can light up the guitar fretboard to teach you how to play. Any Guitar Pro 6 tab can light up the Fretlight.
> Is it unfair to point out that discrimination is evident if the proportion of women speakers at the conference is not equal to the proportion of female experts in the field?

It's not unfair to point that out; it's merely wrong to "point that out".

Any number of contingencies could yield a distribution of speakers at a conference whose sex ratio doesn't neatly align with the corresponding ratio in the population of experts, however that's defined. The existence of such a distribution of speakers is not in itself evidence of discrimination on the basis of sex.

Discrimination on the basis of sex is, however, present in any situation in which the sex of applicants was in any way considered as a criteria of their admission to the conference. This is the definition of discrimination.

In other words, by considering individuals' sexes at all, one is actively engaging in sex-based discrimination. It's absurd to suggest this as the remedy to a situation that isn't necessarily the result of discrimination.

The only way to ensure that no discrimination takes place is to stop looking at the sex ratio of conference attendees in the first place, as it's no more relevant than distribution of shoe sizes among attendees.
The author seems have a juxtapose way of living his life as he mentioned letting go of all structure and do things spontaneously but his life seems to be dependent on his 3 lists : to do, to watch and latest lists
> Do you want all your neighbors and potential employers to know you've filed for bankruptcy? And would you want to give them completely open access to all court filings in your name?

Yes. Isn't this supposed to be public information? Corporations know more about us from our credit rating and other private DBs than this information.
This is one of the best answers here. As a technical manager I go to meetings so my team doesn't have to. I answer the emails and questions so my team doesn't have to. The code I work on is to support my team and keep the little stuff off their plate and to make their job easier. I prioritize work based on what they're currently working on so they aren't moving from one part of the code base unnecessarily while still managing the external team priorities. I act as a coach/recruiter to hire the best team possible and give them the tools they need to succeed.

TL;DR; I prevent interruptions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092589
I can think of one such example: Celebration, FL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida

It's an entire town designed by Disney, built in the 1990s.
Wow, that's exactly the opposite of my experience. Random middle American towns are a vast, bland expanse of strip malls, big box chain stores, suburban tract housing, and family dining restaurants.

The towns that aren't like that are the exception.
Had me confused for a bit. Keeping it at the bottom is trivial. Just put it last in the html markup - right before </body>.

What you meant to say seems to be "at the bottom of the screen", which prompts more questions than answers.

Then again, maybe I'm misunderstanding your intentions entirely, since you state that your naïve solution was to use position:absolute. But then in the next paragraph, you talk about position:fixed. Was the absolute-part a typo?
"Over-representation" is also pretty vague and the leap to anything like "common" is completely unjustified. A paper co-authored by Hare (referenced below) cites a prevalence of 1.2% for "potential psychopathy" (couldn't find a number for strong psychopathy). So if 2% of C-level execs were exhibited potential psychopathy, then psychopathy would be way over-represented, but still quite uncommon.

http://www.hare.org/references/NeumannandHareJCCP2008.pdf

Just for completeness, another study found the prevalence even lower, at 6%.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252709...
Accelerated GPU drivers have existed for linux for ages. I was playing Counter Strike and Quake on linux in 2000 or so. I speak mostly about nvidia cards as I've only owned those. Maybe others can chime in about ATI/AMD but even those have had accelerated support for a good long while. The nvidia driver quality is on par or better with the windows one: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1M... & http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidi...
http://www.acoustics.org/press/155th/chen.htm

If you go to a 6th grade band class, to where the clarinet nd sax players are not adept at embouchure, choosing reeds and assembling the instruments, you hear all knds of interesting inadvertent things. Single reeds are fantastically flexible instruments. A few months ago i noticed for the first time how similar the tones of Dolphy's bass clarinet and Coltrane's soprano sax are on the 1961 recordings.

If anybody's interested, how to play quarter tone music on sax (pg 25 in the pdf:

http://davidvaldez.blogspot.com/2012/09/quarter-tones-by-don...
> If this information was truly no cost, it will likely become subject to abuse.

Right now only the people that are professionals and have the means to abuse you have access. The people that aren't likely to pay for access most likely have less means to abuse you.
At this stage in your career, money is less important than a brand name on your resume, more interesting work, and a diversity of experience. Do side work to get paid?
Around 2 years ago there was a beautiful education app on Github built with rails. I heard they got acquired by google and, all of a sudden, all sources are gone.

Does anyone remember what was the name of that app?
Didn't you know? This just the walled garden protecting you from viruses! Without the walled garden you might have picked up an STD from that nude photo! </sarcasm>

[ Someone should post a bunch of sensationalist pieces about how Safari allows you to view nude photos, all of them insinuating / claiming that Apple supports the porn industry. If Apple wants to take some ultra-conservative view, let's hold their feet to the fire on it. If no app is allowed to possibly show a nude body, let's apply that to all Apps. ]
You forget "The joys of having a Forever Project"! Currently on the HN front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5096009
> XML config is clunky and heavy and although was a good choice at the time for Spring, has not aged well.

You don't need to use XML its just an option now. Annotations work well.
I'm sure this will help some people - and I agree about not allowing an email program to interrupt you. But the "inbox zero" movement seems to appeal mostly to those who use impoverished MUAs like Gmail. I use Mutt and usually keep 2000-5000 emails in my inbox. Works for me.
There's a few people in the comment section talking about how doing their PhD as a mature student worked far better for them and left them with their soul only lightly crushed, so you might be able to ask for some advice over there.
I'm pretty confident in Yehuda and Tom's ability to figure things out. It's a very difficult problem to solve, as evidenced by the slow pace of progress, but I think it is a solvable one.
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I want to move there for the summer and do an internship at a startup. Not limited to CS necessarily, either. I'm just looking for companies to reach out to. Thanks!
PACER content relating to divorces, custody etc are no interest to me, but would be to a lawyer working in that field.

Divorces typically cost thousands of whatever currency you're in, and are a long drawn out painful process even where there is no animosity between the parties.

Making the raw materials that lawyers need to work with free as in beer as well as free as in speech will reduce the barriers to entry, bringing down costs and times, and letting people get on with their lives.
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My 2 cents: This is a horrible interview question. It tests arcane knowledge that takes about 15 seconds of googling, kind of like the varchar2 question in this blog post: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html .

It doesn't really tell you if the interviewee can code, and it probably doesn't tell you much about how they think. Developers should be asked to write code and design systems, whether large scale services or libraries.
Is this really a problem crying out for a solution? The justification felt a bit forced to me. My only experience is integrating with Mixpanel from Scala. I wrote the following in an evening:

https://gist.github.com/4598180.git

Seriously, it wasn't a big deal. Maybe I'm spoiled by using Scala/Play -- the web client is asynchronous so the analytics calls aren't blocking the controller.

I'm far more annoyed that I get very little useful analysis from my analytics. That is, to me, a much more interesting and useful problem to solve.
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A quick look shows any number 500px browsing apps still on the store. But they're all rated 12+ or 17+.

Which makes me wonder if 500px didn't mark their app accordingly? Or perhaps they used to, but then switched it to a lower rating thinking their 'safe search' toggle was sufficient?
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FWIW, Bacon.js implements switching with flatMap and flatMapLatest

Helpful diagrams: https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js/wiki
Has your friend registered the company already?
If its a corporation then your personal assets are safe and hence can take the risk of going even up till the point of lawsuit.

Warning: I am not a lawyer.