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Right, I understand now. I read too fast, my apologies.
Still that link is misleading because it made me feel I was going to have more information on _that_ extension in particular, not a generic page talking about permissions in general.

Now I'm wondering if the android market isn't clearer in show that king of information. Lesson learned, I'll check more carefully next time.

Thanks for correcting me.
I don't understand. I took the time to write this post because it's something that is important to me as a person in the tech community.

It's obviously something that impacts many people in this line of work, otherwise this community would not have such strong opinions about it.

Does Hacker News suppress other topics or just gender bias?

This is so hurtful.
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It's become an office joke to have everyone endorse this one guy for MS Office.

He hates it.
I would really love to know if anyone without training besides reading instructions has ever successfully recovered from a spin (or any unusual attitude) in a real airplane!

The first time I spun an airplane it was by accident (OK, all of them were!): my instructor let it happen so I could learn and for the first few seconds it was like "what the fuck did I just do and how do I get out of it?" Even though I "logically" knew we were in a spin, the disorientation of G-forces, the screaming from the stall warning, and rapidly rising engine RPM made my lizard brain very slow to react. Never been happier to hear "I've got the airplane" coming from the right seat :-)

OTOH, after that first time, "unusual attitude" training became fun. Amazing what a tiny bit of experience does to the brain.
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To turn the plane 180 degrees, wouldn't it be easier to use the compass than try to find a reference point on the ground?
Plenty of skydivers and base jumpers travel (with gear) to go jumping. The TSA might look at you funny* but there is certainly nothing illegal about carrying on a chute.

* Of course everything is always at the discretion of the TSA agent, they can prevent you from getting on a plane because they don't like the shirt you are wearing.
Please, don't be a dick.
That would have a 99.99% chance of killing the pilot, unless they happen to be flying a T-6 Texan (turboprop USAF trainer) or something, in which case the Martin-Baker ejection seat would help. It would be very difficult to put an unconscious pilot hooked into a tandem parachute.
What's the danger level on this? Will it chop off your fingers?
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A pie chart is best when you're trying to convey a minimal amount of information, such extremely inexact proportions–like "roughly a third" or "about half"–, within an extremely small dataset, capping at around ten items.
On solitude.
As stated below, I miss read. I'll have another look then.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will try it out and maybe find other services I can compare this one with.

My experience with programming/product launching is also so junior/non-existent that I doubt anyone on HN would be interested in hearing about it. So the only other reason I might post (at this time at least) is if I were selling something (and I'm not). I was just being honest about what I feel I can contribute to HN at this time. Which is very little, hence why I stick to merely commenting.
From the submitted blog post:

"Either:

"The post is being flagged en masse by our fellow HackerNews community members."

That is the most likely reason the submission dropped rapidly from the main page to a lower page. People who participate here regularly use flagging power to keep the submissions with thoughtful, interesting comment threads that are essentially on-topic higher than submissions with arguing, repetitive comment threads that aren't as close to the core topics of Hacker News. That, and luck of the draw as to which time of the day the blog post was submitted (meaning which HN participants happened to see it) is explanation enough for why the submission sank.

The moral of the story? Submit something next time that is closer to the core topics of HN, and write it very carefully to maximize the probability of thoughtful, interesting comments. Especially make sure that you have a new take on one of the recurrent issues, or are bringing up an issue that is fresh and rarely discussed here. Good luck.
> You definitely make some great points. I do, however, wonder why you consider business skills a positive quality, but being a sex toy a negative quality? Neither is inherently good or inherently bad.
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> I expect it is because the woman is viewed as a sex toy without getting to choose to be one? However, the stereotype about a man's wallet seems to play into the same idea. A man who looks wealthy is going to be assumed to be a smart businessman, even if he wishes to not be seen that way.

But society does not see businessmen in the same light as sex toys. At all.

The problem is that we've been living in a patriarcal society for a long, long while. Sending the message "women are sex toys" also means "women are sex toys, nothing more - they are here for your enjoyment". It's a message that they are not in a position of power, contrary to the businessman. They are not equal.

> I have actually done this and found it to be a fun and positive experience. Nothing creepy or uncomfortable about it. I guess I am, perhaps, too ugly to have experienced what you are talking about?

It's a bit difficult to explain. Imagine suddenly that somebody sees you as just a piece of meat, ready to be consumed and thrown out afterward. This is not a pleasant feeling. And congrats for challenging yourself!
Maybe HN is becoming more negative. Or maybe, just maybe, HN users weren't in the mood for holier-than-thou moralistic berating about how evil the tech industry is for focusing on the bottom line of innovation and profits rather than trying to bend reality to fit some postmodern wet dream of inherent equality in STEM-skills based aptitudes between genders.

In other words, Larry Summers was probably right. Then again, he was fired shortly afterwards for daring to express disagreement with one of the popular ideologies of our era.
I always prefer digital receipts if available. Macys, Apple etc. do this already and I am a very happy customer. Want your receipt in email ? Here you go. All done. Now if only I could integrate them with my freelance/contracting expense accounts!!
That's quite true. The consumer currently faces three choices:

(1) Dangerous insecure apps-can-trash-my-machine desktop OSes with complicated or confusing install / uninstall semantics and "OS rot" due to installs/uninstalls actually modifying things outside the app.

(2) Jailed devices, where you control very little outside the app world and someone else has root.

(3) The cloud, where you don't control anything.
This is NOT America ..
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/5887377/Fir...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8242164/Dow...

$ 25.00 can be considered a rather high fee for those sort of returns [I think].
HN is (trying) to stay focused on technology and startup related posts, not cultural posts like these.
I played around with both after reading this article, and while you're right that there's a big resemblance, that sketchfab is very fast, and supports lots of formats, verold seems a fair bit more sophisticated in what you can do: the material editing in verold seems to support many more types of materials, and as best as I could tell, verold allows multiple uploaded meshes to be positioned within a single model, whereas sketchfab is limited to a single mesh upload.

Both are fundamentally rather limited though, more like "model tweakers" than real editors, as you can't create new shapes / meshes in them or edit the geometry of existing meshes.
Afraid of Steam much?
anyone have an open source command line tool to do this? call me paranoid (and probably dumb) but I really dont want to enter this into another website
It's funny the first thing I thought in my mind was "right rudder, more right rudder!". That's the first big difference I remembered. The plane reacts to torque with incredible quickness. Then you realize that the air is not the calm environment you imagined and is actually a sea of air with "waves" coming from any direction. I'd say x-plane comes the closest to simulating this rapidly changing environment. You really have to be on your toes.
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Well. Sometimes they lend in foreign currency because they get a better rate that way. There have also been occasions when they have lent in other currencies because they have felt that the Crown is undervalued.

(Personally I favor MMR over MMT. They use mostly the same framework and ideas, but MMT seems to do quite a bit a hand waving when it comes inefficiences that arise due to the job guarantee they favor.)
What the hell kind of airplane are you flying where you add power to recover from a stall? Unless you're flying something with a very high thrust to weight ratio, you should nose down to break the stall, then add power afterwards.
I can't see how that's the case. The author indicates that it takes students a good amount of times to do turns correctly, which means: not losing (much, if any) altitude, not overshooting / undershooting the desired compass heading, using the correct angle of bank that's both comfortable and not risking stall, all while keeping a look outside for other airplanes(assuming you're not relying on instruments).

Landing incorporating all of that to set up and execute the pattern, as well as keeping the airplane at a certain airspeed(too fast and you'll land too far down the runway, too slow and you'll stall & crash) and staying aligned with the runway to make sure you actually land on it.

FYI, I'm a private pilot with nearly 200 hours.
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There are a surprising number of typos in this paper.
Paying this forward: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amit-agarwal/3196386402/
I try not to view it as a community. Cynicism helps.
I think that's a very good point. When I was growing up in Norway, the 'others' were always far away. We were all so similar, in so many ways, it was very difficult to pit us against each other.

After 30-40 years of immigration, we're now much more heterogeneous and the solidarity and feeling of community is almost gone.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that 'it must never happen again'. It's almost funny how violently people here cling to this understanding of WWII while at the same time seeming to accept all the 'this is who you should hate today' that the media here is peddling now.

A previously open and trusting society, experiencing real cultural clashes, mixed with misunderstandings and fear. This is unfortunately the perfect scenario for some real dark forces to appear, and I think it's not very long until it really goes off the rails here.
>I doubt the booth would have hit my radar at all if they'd included male models too.

I'm sorry but this was not at all clear from what you had written. Or any of the tweets you quoted. I tried to be pretty careful, thoughtful, and understanding but apparently I failed badly. After all this discussion I have no idea what your objection actually is. Sorry for wasting everyone's time, I wish there was something I could actually take away from this but I just feel defeated by this whole conversation.
> Just working alone and from time to time a face2face meeting won't establish a relationship

I disagree with that. We had the first real in-person meetup about half a year after I joined the company. Up to that point, I knew everyone else pretty much only through text chat (Google Hangouts didn't exist yet).

But when I met everyone in person, it felt like we already knew each other quite well. It may not always be the case that your online and real-life personalities are aligned enough to get to know a person via chat, but in this case it definitely was.
The Dwarf Fortress community is an incredible anomaly. It is donation-ware, yet, Tarn brings in enough money to live on (albeit, not comfortably) and to pay his brother for some help. Aside from perhaps Richard Stallman, are there any other software developers that can lay the claim that they've lived off a tip jar?

Revenue growth is slow, but not bad considering he attempted to live off of donations at the start of the financial crisis. There is still organic growth however, and as larger milestones are reached I am genuinely curious to see how the community responds, especially once the global economy is out of the current creep its in now:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhPaW9RBi5v4dGF...

It's like watching the rise of Banksy. The game is now featured in MoMA. He's had a 6-page article in the New York Times magazine. Every AAA game studio I've walked into at least deeply respects Dwarf Fortress and Bay 12, even if they don't play the game. If he ever gets to finish it (2030 perhaps), it makes you wonder where it will end up in the zeitgeist.
Usually the individuals are not employees pr. Se, unless the company in question has a local legal presence in the country of the employee. Instead they are hired on a simple business contract containing similar terms as a standard employement contract. The employee then sends invoices for their salary. In theory this makes them contractors, but in practice they are employees.

The employee will however most often have a few extra things to take care of themselves, compared to being "employed by the books". For example to report local taxes, pension arrangements, health insurance etc. The company isn't usually involved in that, but might pay for it indirectly through a salary that's adjusted for these aspects.

In some countries, local laws require the employee / contractor to have a company (sole proprietor kind). In others, the contracts can be made directly between the business and the individual.
I can see the connection, but there are "emergency landing" courses that people can take at nearby airports that specifically teach non-pilots how to land an airplane safely if they are ever flying and an emergency happens to the pilot.
I can tell you we're trustworthy, but I hear where you're coming from. :)

With that said, you can use Metasploit for this too - we just wanted to make a really easy checker for those that wanted a quick OK/NO GO and didn't want to deal with setting Metasploit up.

Metasploit docs here: https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2013/...
When victory is not certain. Google could risk losing complete access to X country's content if X's court system rules against Google. Not every country cares as much about Freedom of Speech as the USA, and aging court justices are unlikely to understand the nuances of technology.

Google isn't a charity, time to start remembering that.
Parallax websites are actually easy, because images are divided into many sprites/layers, so there's many palettes to work with.

I've got a pretty large collection of PNGs to test quantisation on and 68% of them end up converted in great quality, 89% are within acceptable range. It's about double of what you can get with Fireworks.

And for images that can't absolutely fit in 256-colors there's a hack for lossy true-color PNGs that can reduce size by 20-40%: https://github.com/pornel/mediancut-posterizer
While I do agree with you that Iceland is pretty cool, the fact that pornography is illegal doesn't sit well with me. Plus Icelandair has been nothing but unhelpful to me.
No, I assume it's intended to protect the privacy of children.

Seriously, go read it (http://www.coppa.org/coppa.htm). You're getting your jimmies rustled under the pretense that COPPA has anything to do with protecting children from the "evils" of the Internet.
as an aside, I wonder if there's some Steve Jobs vernacular style guide lying around at Apple, or if it's just from personal interaction that much of what Cook says (and others perhaps) sounds so much like him.

Sure, I may be reading too much into 'really great', but I can't stop reading this stuff in Jobs voice.
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That reminds me of a wonderful thing Garrison Keillor once said (about his Norwegians in Minnesota): "We Lutherans are an optimistic people – our glass is half empty and we're grateful for it."
> Does Hacker News suppress other topics or just gender bias?

Hacker News does not suppress this topic. But this topic has been very well covered, so the bar for what constitutes a novel contribution is fairly high.

There are also a lot of "Your rights online" stories on Hacker News. A lot of these get flagged into oblivion as well. This isn't because we don't care about our rights, but that the topic is sufficiently well-covered that it takes an exceptional story to actually bring something new to the conversation instead of just flaring up old arguments.

It isn't that we don't think the topic your blog post is important. It is. But just because a topic is important doesn't mean every article on that topic will be widely upvoted. In general, it's actually harder to rank with an "important" topic because you have a lot of competition and there is only so much space for stories.

So, please don't take it personally or interpret this as people suppressing the topic. It's just Hacker News trying to keep the signal-to-noise ratio high. We don't have very good organizational tools here, so we kind of have to resort to blunt weapons that can look overly harsh when you're on the receiving end.
It depends on the turn. With training you can do gentle turns (std rate, 15° bank) with the artificial horizon, turn coordinator, and watching the compass. When doing standard rate turns I watch the nose on the horizon, the turn coordinator, the compass, and the vertical airspeed indicator.

Once you get into 45° and 60° banks the forces are disorienting and it's far easier to look out the window at the ground and the real horizon.

Training or not, it's far easier to look out the window to make turns. You can see if the horizon is starting to move.
If you sit there and watch the compass you can easily enter a stall or a dive without realizing it. Especially since your turns are not going to be coordinated (you won't be using the rudder effectively so the forces on your head will not be what you're used to).
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You are as welcome as anyone else.

I don't think anyone hit the "instaban" button nor did I see anyone advocate you go away. You put yourself out there and this is how the community reacted -- don't take it personally.

Take your passion and keep fighting for what you believe in. So long as your actions align with your values, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks, says, or does.

:)
So would you say the root problem is our puritan shame of sex, as I suggested earlier? If a sexual person was held in the same regard as a business person, wouldn't that be something to strive towards, not shy away from?

"It's a bit difficult to explain. Imagine suddenly that somebody sees you as just a piece of meat, ready to be consumed and thrown out afterward. This is not a pleasant feeling."

See, I wish people would value me for my body in that way. It is the constant having to prove myself with my mind, instead, that made me think of the original comparison. Without being able to fully understand what you are feeling, it seems like it could be the same thing in many ways – ultimately rejecting what you have and seeking what you don't have.
I am curious, is there someone with experience with Racket and Clojure? What are the advantages of Racket over Clojure?
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I don't know you either but I can tell you're intelligent enough to give the benefit of the doubt to, so I'm only halfassedly getting into this debate...either that, or it's Friday :)

I'm not steeped deep in the startup world, personally, but I get enough exposure through friends and through HN to know what you're talking about and don't blame you for being jaded. I just thought -- and was probably a bit picky about it -- that your cynicism went a slight step farther than it needed to.

OK, let's assume a lot of startups are cynically using "world changing" as a way to attract hype and/or mask the fact that they are shallow-minded professionals. Let's look at startups that are changing the world: Facebook, for example. I'm sure eyes roll every time Mark Zuckerberg talks about FB's world-changing effects...but in FB's case, the problem is that, perhaps, not enough of its developers realize they are changing the world, and that is a problem if the change is negative.

I don't disagree with you that some/many/most of digital startups may have delusions of grandeur. But I'd suffer 99 of such fools (assuming that most of them fizzle out) for every 1 person who really does believe that software can change the world, and then sets about to do so. And similarly, I hope that more non-software people who want to change the world continue to take seriously the effects/potential of software (and other logistics), and not just it as some technical operating detail they have to put up with.