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There are some interesting parallels to the Windows Phone UI here. As I understand it (and I don't own a Windows Phone), Microsoft's intent was to provide a UX that is more social and tied to user tasks rather than apps. Facebook Home looks like they use a similar underlying concept, with a stronger focus on social interactions rather than user tasks. Apps are still there, but are not the main focus.

I rarely use the Facebook app on my phone, so I'm not their target audience. However, I've seen a fair number of teens and young adults absorbed in the Facebook app on their Android phones (yup, Android, more than iPhones, because they're cheaper). So it will really be interesting to see if that audience takes to Facebook Home too.
I rather doubt that the particular people that threw fits about this issue are allowing sites such as Facebook to collect "tremendous amounts of information" about them.
Yes I agree. Did you notice the clock widget even updates to the correct time in the "Get notifications where you need them" section?
Frankly I think that it is nonsense and an attempt to sound like you are saying something cleverer than you are. What would be meaningfully different in what he had said if he used the word move?
I’ve heard that this was a concern when Graph Search was being developed, and that the query they used in testing to find people with crappy profile pics was “people who like Insane Clown Posse”.
Actually chat heads works on stock Android! Not sure the exact wizardry that went into implementing it, but it's very impressive to use.
Now you don't have to fumble with any buttons, there's something interesting on your home screen all the time so it's more tempting to take a quick look. I don't have a smart phone so I don't know if the home thing really changes anything.
It's pretty, but I left with no idea what exactly the product is.
Setting up Balanced Payments in Rails
Okay. I'm clear on the "real" price in the chart.

But still, gold has never dipped below its 1918 low on that chart. Twice it shot up as a hedge against paper inflation, but it never went below where it started.

Isn't that a terrific store of value? I'm talking about a time frame of centuries here. Not just a few years during a bubble.

And before you counter that we're currently in a low inflation period - we're not. If the CPI was measured using the same metrics that the government used itself in the early 80's, inflation would be running at 9% annually.
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I think you kinda have to put the pieces together. On one part it says:

"By the time the FDA said it realized the Chinese honey was tainted, Smuckers had sold 12,040 cases of individually packed honey to Ritz-Carlton Hotels and Sara Lee said it may have been used in a half-million loaves of bread that were on store shelves.

Eventually, some honey packers became worried about what they were pumping into the plastic bears and jars they were selling. They began using in-house or private labs to test for honey diluted with inexpensive high fructose corn syrup or 13 other illegal sweeteners or for the presence of illegal antibiotics. But even the most sophisticated of these tests would not pinpoint the geographic source of the honey."

And then in several other parts of the article it mentions the tainted Chinese honey that has the pollen footprint removed.

It doesn't come out explicitly to say "Chinese honey is tainted and diluted with artificial sweeteners." Because Chinese honey as pointed out in many parts of the article is run through ultra-filtration techniques to eliminate the only foolproof way of eliminating origin, which is the pollen footprint.

So, it could very well be that some of the honey with sweeteners comes from other places, and not from China. But there seems to be a strong link between Chinese practices and the tainted honey, as the article seems to allude to.
You should speed up the rate a bit when going to mars, and just tell the user that the velocity is higher now. It takes up too much of our time, to be honest.
The source reveals that the video mast is actually an animated gif (or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as). The stutter in the beginning kind of gives it away, but still quite impressive they included such a long edit and got it to load relatively fast (coming from reddit where uncompressed gifs run amok).
Isn't that the point though? What you don't want is exactly what facebook is trying to offer: A different home screen experience. How is having too many experiencial options a bad thing? Is curation the problem? Is the default home screen app so good it should not be touched?
Even in healthy atheletes theres always the risk of heart attack of even sudden cardiac arrest which is the most common reason of death in young athletes.

Doing excessive amounts of sports stops being healthy at some point but overall its still alot better than todo nothing of course.
There was a guy on HN a c ouple of weeks ago that had a sudden cardiac arrest in the gym while running on the treadmill and he is 22 years old. He just survived because he was incredibly lucky.

Those cases are extremely rare of course, just saying that working out is not without risks, especially in pro athletes. Its never a bad idea to go see a cardiologist if you work out alot.
Anybody know the correct about:config tweaks required to try this in Firefox 20? Or is FF 21 required?
Here in Quebec the gas cost about 1.35$/L (which is about 5.10$/gallon) and the electricity cost 5.41 cents/kWh (for the first 30 kWh and then it's 7.78 cents).
However I think the EV Incentive is only 8000$.
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Create a good linked-in profile, populate it with buzzwords. Even if you came along some tool or technology briefly. Recruiters do buzzword search and then contact person.

Don't mention about "limited experience, but fast learner" or "emotional hurts". Present yourself as a happy person wherever you are, and say that you're happy and not really looking for job but maybe opened to new opportunities and growth potentials.

I getting pestered with offers for local and relocations from recruiters who found me on linkedin.

Corps that are ok with remote workers are spoiled by cheap mediocre indian workers and are not interested with expensive but good-hearted remote north american workers.
The one who do - would hire you for very specific skill or experience (I worked for 6 years remotely like that).

Advice for the time being: do fun project (or even launch a little online service or business or product) using language/framework/technology that you'd want to learn. Add it to your resume.

Be found.
Ask HN:  How should you actually do objects in Javascript?
Are there any really good articles or examples about the best way(s) to create and use objects in Javascript?
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This is great, I read the book months ago on github, and have been wanting to throw some cash at you. I highly recommend it!!!
Saying that other companies collect more information doesn't make it right in this situation, as the people most opposed to anonymized data collection likely do not use those services or have them set up in such a way as to obscure as much of their personal information as possible.
GAE had to become self-sustaining and now it's less of a risk for its customers. Google wants GCE to compete with AWS so pricing will be have to be competitive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense "How AdSense works

(1) The webmaster inserts the AdSense JavaScript code into a webpage."

So this is the webmaster modifying his own page. It's not Google injecting Javascript into someone else's page like CMA Communications or Comcast is said to be doing.
Facebook Flails For Mobile Relevancy
I can envision all kinds of useful tools an editor might offer; I've implemented a few of them. What I can't imagine is how any number of fancy editor features would ever add up to significantly higher productivity, given that every programmer I have ever met spends an order of magnitude more time reading, thinking, and discussing than actually editing code.
When has Google shut down a paid service that was popular and under heavy development like GCE and GAE?

They may have, I admit, but I can't think of any. The point is raising the standard Google Reader/Google Buzz/etc. free examples isn't really apropos.
From a Bayesian perspective, you should have had a high prior that lifting weights will cause an in increase your longevity because of several plausible mechanisms, and this study should slightly increase your posterior probability for that causation. Limiting your understanding of the causations of things only to those things which have had interventionist studies performed on them will have a very deleterious effect on your life, with high probability. No one has performed an interventionist study on basically anything in macroeconomics, politics, relationships, English literature, history or just about anything else, so I hope that you apply the same understanding to all of those fields as you do to the field of health and simply throw your hands up in the air when asked if "cheating causes divorces" or "yelling racial epithets causes a lack of re-election."

And please don't After Edit me, I find it patronizing.
I want a graph that keeps an order on the edges, e.g., (A, B, C) being nodes, the graph {(A,B), (A,C), (A,C)} differs from the graph {(A,C), (A,B), (A,C)}. In other words, the outgoing edges are a list, not a set. Where can I find discussion of how to do that efficiently?
Yeah I think this is much nicer than an Apple product page.
Don't forget all the "Like if you hate cancer, ignore if you love Hitler" pictures.

Then again, marketing doesn't really work when you show the reality of the product. The Wii probably wouldn't have sold as well if the ads showed people slouched on the couch in their underwear rather than fit, active people with Big White Smiles.
I was interested until I heard they'll be putting ads on my lock screen.
I'm skeptical that some of what winds up on the FB home screen won't include some form of advertising.
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This takes what Windows Phone did with People hub and applies it to the whole phone instead of restricting it to an area of the phone. Of course people hub brought over people from twitter, linkedin, etc. as well so is much more comprehensive than this.
Mac, iOS and RubyMotion Testing on Travis CI
Ask HN: Writing a contract?
Hi guys,

I will be starting contract work very soon and need to know the basics of contract law.

Does anyone know of any good resources for learning this stuff? Preferably Canadian resources if possible.
"With this phone, I'm forced into an environment where I feel like I need to be social all the time"

I think this was probably a user story for them and definitely one of their biggest motivations, unfortunately lol.
Is anyone here aware of a "chat heads" like chat UI for desktop computing? Seems like there is nothing about the idea that makes it only a good design on mobile platforms.
By the way, you will probably want to apply [B] to that rewrite rule. In order for mod_rewrite to do its thing, it has to URL-decode the path, which means that you will get decoded data in the $1 capture. In some cases, the resulting URL (after mod_rewrite) may end up being corrupted -- for example if there's a URL-encoded slash or question mark. The [B] flag tells mod_rewrite to URL-encode backreferences. The process is not guaranteed to end up with the same URL, but with [B] it is at least a bit safer.
It's well known in weight-lifting circles that CrossFit is rife with problems. Intense strength training does not correlate with increased injury; bad form and instruction correlates with increased injury.
If Facebook is ranking content such that that's all you see your feed, then Facebook as a whole would be less appealing anyway, let alone Home.

I'm guessing there's more to your feed than babies and food and that othe content is ranked higher due to your aversion of then.
I couldn't help but detect a certain level of bourgeois elitism in the article, which in some part is why the rift is large as they claim, but in a larger sense, is why the rift is as large as they claim.

That may seem a bit confusing to read, but when you look at the typical tech-rich set, there is no inherent need to fit in with the crowd, simply for the sake of fitting-in. "The art scene" for the most part is exactly just that. Speaking as someone quite interested in art history, I can attest to the fact that the "high art" world is very much a relic from old times - when children were raised to watch their status and life was a giant popularity contest. Now that's not to say that the tech-set are impervious to elitist behavior, but tech elitism is based more heavily on talent, intelligence, and creativity. So in a way, it's a kind of elitism that is forced on the culture itself, in a pursuit for the most "innovative" way to do something. Where the art crowd admires "witty" quasi-intellectual banter, the tech-set are more likely to be interested in something, more demonstrably cool or unique to their interests. This obviously poses a dilemma for art dealers from that standpoint - how do you interest someone in something they have no interest in. It is a dilemma that art dealers face, not just with "nerds" but with anyone, really. But convincing the average Joe to be interested in your activity because "it's what the cool kids do" is a lot easier than convincing someone who may not necessarily care much for sitting at the cool kids' table.

So in a sense, the tech crowd doesn't buy into high art because it's a group that generally doesn't have any particular need to fit-in for fitting in sake, but in a larger sense, the elitism in the high art world is reliant more on popularity and everyone reading the same books and speaking the same language, which is complete anathema to a group whose principles are based more on "cool shit" than club membership.

But then again, these are just my generalizations :)
I find that for a lot of people documentation has replaced experience. I watched a performance a week or two ago, and a guy in front of me took photos and videos for 20 minutes straight then abruptly got distracted and walked away. It struck me as precisely the symptom of working to externalize your life so much that you forget to actually experience it.

Thinking in terms of narcissism, distraction, oversharing, externalization, etc, I've realized how scary and absurd the Google Glass marketing is. It's been marketed as something that will let us come back to reality and genuine interpersonal relationships, when it's only going to indulge our tendency towards sharing and distraction even more. I think that in order to market Google Glass effectively they had to make the absurd claim that even easier access to the internet will cure our anxious attachment to it.
Well you could try making some attractive new friends.
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I guess it's a good time to post pictures of my junk to Facebook, then?
I am somehow against people expecting me to write syntactical code at job interviews. I prefer to write pseudo code, explain my thought process. Being a guy who deals with various languages throughout the day makes it hard to code everything right when someone looking over my shoulder as I tend to google now and then to get right functions/methods of achieving something. Thats just me I guess.
How long before the app starts showing ads on your home screen?
We might. But what does this actually get us? It helps clear Heroku's name, but it doesn't help our customers at all. I'd prefer to spend our time and energy making customer's lives better.

Given the choice between continuing the theoretical debate over routing algorithms vs working on real customer problems (like the H12 visibility problem mentioned elsewhere in this thread), I much prefer the latter.
You, apparently, aren't getting a whole facebook feed full of baby photos. It gets old fast. People really embrace this whole "circle of life" motif.
Criticism regarding association, while valid, is largely irrelevant.

You need to understand that a clinical trial on this matter is nearly impossible.

1) Imagine the cost of holding a clinical trial over 20 years.

2) Imagine the difficulty of trying to get people to adhere to a workout routine for 20 years!

3) Given what we already know, it's probably unethical to tell a control group not to exercise or build significant muscle strength.

4) Finally, even if you work out all the issues above, imagine trying to get funding for a hugely expensive study trying to answer the question of whether strength training lowers these risks when it's already widely regarded as healthy.

The researchers are very aware of the limitations, so they went to great lengths to exclude the most likely confounding variables.

> there are also confounding factors like genetics and selection bias

To be more accurate, these are potential confounding variables. It's very possible that the association would hold up if we could adjust for these variables, too.

Causation here is not proven, that's true, but taken together with everything else we know, it does strengthen the case. E.g. we can independently explain the mechanism whereby the heart is strengthened by resistance training. I'm not an expert in either cancer or heart disease, but I would love to hear whether we can explain the mechanism of action already.
I'm just glad the "I want magical stuff for free" kind of customer isn't restricted to any particular service or product.
Well, it wouldn't be very professional for them to just come right out and say, "Say goodbye to the days of checking your Twitter feed separately by no longer using Twitter!"
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> "Christianity is based on the life and teachings of Jesus"
> It may be possible for modern Christians to claim this while sounding reasonable (because it seems this way, listening to the words), but the statement falls apart when we try to verify.

Christianity is based on the life and teachings of Jesus, and the belief he's the messiah from the canonical gospels (Old Testament). The religion was founded to gather his followers.

So, yes, you can say Christianity is based on that.

> Specifically, I've met and had in depth discussions with many Christians (including priests and lay people) from different schools. None of them could tell me what the teaching of Jesus is. Some were able to tell me words that they had learned, like "love" or "truth" or "law", but upon my questions made through those terms (e.g. What is love?), no one among them could answer with substance.

Jesus preachings weren't in a philosophical level, so you'll never get an answer from a Christian about the nature of love ("What is love?"). For this you want Plato.

In his parables [1], though, he left messages about the importance of loving and forgiving, among others. These teachings just aren't synthesized.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parables_of_Jesus

> (...) but it's because he told people the truth about religions that he was killed by the religious people in those times.

He neither preached in favor or against religions, so it's untrue to say he was killed for that. Jesus was crucified for political reasons, for Rome couldn't let a gentile gather a following. That was standard practice during the Roman Empire, to publicly kill local/tribal leaders.

> That's how I know that education/propagation of Abrahamic texts is quite antithetical to the life activities of Jesus himself, and their inclusion in a religion precludes the coexistence of the true teaching of a saint such as Jesus.

The fact Abrahamism is incorporated is an historical accident - these were the gospels of the people who funded Christianity. For instance, the talion law from Exodus ("eye for an eye...") is later discussed by Jesus in a different perspective ("whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also").

So, yes, it can be conflicting for religions that postulate following whatever is written - or worse, the parts they want you to follow, since the gospels have been manipulated endlessly. But the fact they were part of the foundation of Christianity isn't necessarily bad, because it's part of their history.
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Maybe my original comment is over-reaction. But, I hate scripting dependencies for straight-forward reading content.

My primary concern is security. Second, privacy (I disable tracking devices).

I also don't like what I often find to be pointless design, but that I guess is a matter of opinion.

Anyway... I was running Noscript, and I saw an unscrollable page with a bit of text and a background color. Turned off stylesheets and, voilà, content.
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That's a really interesting point. I wonder where the permissions are covered in the preinstalled case. Some fine print somewhere I'm sure.
These worries are true for anything you install on Android. This is just another app, just presente differently.
Does a picture of someone's feet on a beach with a comment that "it doesn't get any better than this!" qualify as worse?
Finally! I have advantage for having a lot of friends who are filmmakers and photographers! Heh.
Instead of bothering with grammar, unique personal takes on subject matter, and other complicated things, teachers can just teach students how to spew out Markov Chain incomprehensible crap peppered with high vocabulary.
$93/month seems a bit outrageous. What do they offer that makes it worth this much?
Looks like it sends each command to run on a server - I'm curious why not execute it in the browser? (There are a few solutions for that?)
Did Facebook just jump the shark?
As Peter Norvig argued, design patterns are bug reports against your programming language.

Does anybody know what the actual quote is? I love this.
I work with a lot of languages too. And, this has been something which I have thought a bit about. There are jobs where polyglot skills play a big part (e.g. software consultancy), but there are also jobs which require someone to just go out and crank code. In those cases, I don't think it's wrong for someone to expect syntactical correctness.
Most people I've talked to who've gotten into vim have gone through the exact opposite flow:

1. Tried vim in college, only ever used insert mode + <esc>:wq
2. Discovered Textmate or similar and loved it; only used vim for the occasional remote editing
3. Tried to get into vim on the advice of friends, but always ended up reverting to using it like notepad in insert mode because it was easier than looking up the command they needed.
4. Went whole-hog into vim one day, turning off arrow keys, and immersing themselves in it. After a few days, they were as productive as they were in textedit, and after a few weeks they had drunk the kook-aid and were more productive than previous editors.

So, while I don't condone badgering a guy to learn this way so much that he writes an angry post, I would argue that going all-in on Vim is the best way to learn it for most people I've talked to (myself included).
Facebook's fight to keep its start-up edge
how can they afford that to happen?
62% of people now using their personal phones on the job
Facebook already knew this, that's one of the reasons why AT&T and HTC are included in this project, for HTC first device they will install it as system app which will avoid this problem.

Collaborating with HTC and AT&T allows them to install 'Home' as system app in future devices, this will allow their app to add 'layers' on top of any app. This can only be done if device is rooted or app is installed as system app.
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Just unfriend them. Life's too short.
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