skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it is just because my eyes are worse than yours, my monitor has more pixels per inch or I keep my face farther away from the monitor than you do, but when I set a minimum font size, I want to set it to a value large enough to break some sites. (By "break" I mean the text runs off the right side of the screen or overflows into other elements.) But then there is no way to work around the breakage without tediously going back into preferences or about:config, lowering the minimum font size, then raising it again when I am done with the problematic site.

In other words, the reason I do not set a minimum font size is that Firefox treats the minimum font size as a hard limit to be observed even when the user explicitly asks to reduce the size of the text (which, again, I would need to do whenever the site does not render sanely at my preferred font size).

So I find myself increasing the size of the text many, many times a day. At least recent versions of Firefox allow me to add to the navigation toolbar a "[-|+]" widget that lets me increment or decrement the size with one click. Also, Firefox often remembers the text size for the next time I visit the same site.

Hope that answers your question.

I seem to recall a few sites' breaking (becoming difficult to navigate or fathom) if the text size is even slightly larger than the default size set by the site, so I am curious as to why you do not have that problem. (I seem to recall Amazon or Ebay being one such site.)
I'm in a large urban area too. One where 85% of the kids in the school on my block failed the state math and english exams. (50% got the lowest score possible) The prison model isn't working for them.
My app made X on Android and 5-10X on iOS

Of the data points that in your circle you see, you mean? I've seen anecdotes recently of publishers making much more on the Android market. That's the thing about anecdotes.

The most recent stats are that they are closing very fast.
our interest in having as many people as possible moderately well-educated rather than just having a few who are outstandingly well-educated

I am compelled to note that our existing socioeconomic, and thus educational, systems operate pretty much the other way around: the revealed judgment of capitalism is that it's better to have a small elite of outstandingly well-educated rich people who can confidently exploit the mob of mostly ignorant masses.
(1) that kid is not overweight and (2) it's actually OK from a medical perspective for a child to be a little overweight, as children grow in bursts, have a much better metabolism and their day is filled with plenty of exercise.

And in fact, if a kid doesn't have some meat on their bones, that's a reason for concern.
So how exactly is the author wrong? The first education law in the US, the Ye Olde Deluder Satan Act of 1647, makes it explicitly clear that the purpose of school is to prevent kids from turning to the devil, which is what the author said. The fact that universities also come from a religious tradition is irrelevant.
Consider the use case of an authentication token. I would use a watch for unlocking a phone, password manager, or laptop.

However, Bluetooth and a monochrome LCD would get the job done just fine.
I recently spent days writing AngularJS app and I came to same conclusion that I should have split the app into modules.
Even though the style of grouping together Controllers and Services works well, it still won't be easy to maintain when the size of app grows big.
It's the tail wagging the dog, really. Every now and again, Gmail wants me to join Google Plus while giving them:
- My real name
- My age (WHY THE FCUK REALLY?)
- My location

Why? So that they can broadcast all of this information on a Google Plus page. What a bunch of fools.

Google: I have no love for you. I like how Gmail and Google search work^. But no love or loyalty for you as a company. I will drop you as soon as someone better (or a workable out-of-the-box privately hosted solution) comes along.

^And you are pushing your luck with the new Gmail compose UI.
Good question. Not to be a pessimist, but in most scenarios I have found partnerships to under perform initial expectations. Part of that can be mitigated with the things I outline in the post. But I think more than anything finding that one key predictor of success is important. For Viximo it was sites that had high DAU/MAU ratio. We'd rather take a company with 1/10 of the total audience, a crappier experience, and worse business terms but a high DAU/MAU ratio. It made a huge difference.

But that key predictor is different for every business. Finding it can be tough. But once you find it you increase partnership success chances by a lot.
Its incredible how we think popularity means correct. The "best" logo via this methodology is very similar to the current one. Yahoo has this "old" and "cookiecutter" image that's bad enough. This just makes it worse. I can't imagine real designers thinking these designs and this popularity contest mentality is remotely good. Seems like something a ma and pa company would do because they didn't know better.

Also, try a color other than purple. No one likes purple.
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Maybe it is just for games, but that's the segment I pay the most attention to. I'd love to be proven wrong through experience, so maybe I'll throw some Android apps out there.
If you look at the price it's in rupees, so 5000 rupees is just 74 USD. The author bought a $5 version of TAOCP. The lack of quality isn't surprising.

(Unless Rs. isn't Rupee, but Google thinks it is)
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Yeah it's just an empty shell for a project that never took off. Wishware at this point.
My God, get a grip.

Go outside.
Ask HN: How is it going with Shareware/Desktop apps these days?
Hi all,

There were some discussions 3-4 years ago. I'm interested to hear any success or fail stories from fellow HNers - how are you doing with shareware desktop stuff these days?

Thanks!
Just to offer a counter-anecdote, I created a federal corporation in Canada, did the process to get a DUNS number using the free option (which everyone warns against, but I was in no big rush), and had the number the next day, and then the fully validated Apple developer corporate account. Was the most painless, brilliant process I could imagine.
It sucks. They make cheap [x] so that more people can afford to buy [x] for a lot of values of [x], and sometimes the cheap version just doesn't live up to what you want.
To complement this I would suggest anyone to starting looking into BDD based testing frameworks.
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Fancy giving me a hand? https://github.com/majek/lua-channels/issues/1
These issues are also examined at great length in a fictional context in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
That's my whole beef with the "underwater" thing. They seemed to think that house was worth the price they signed up to pay when they did it. Now those houses are not worth as much. Too bad, so sad. I think I should get congress to bail me out on buying a new car. It certainly is not worth as much as it was when I purchased it.
so now you can really tell that Mayer's running the show
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Put another way, if you drew a Venn diagram of "stuff that would be useful for adulthood" and "stuff most kids would study until they were at least adequately skilled entirely of their own volition", the circles would barely overlap.

I think the second statement applies perfectly well to most adults. Our whole system is based on having people maximally specialize into their element of greatest comparative advantage, to the exclusion of most of what we regard as maturity, wisdom, and humanity.
I completely agree, as someone who grew up in East Europe and is now in the US. The contrast between my childhood and what I see here is huge. And before someone counters that I come from an uncivilized place let me say what I saw 4 years ago while living in Amsterdam. Kids who were in 3rd or 4th grade would bike to school alone, crossing streets with traffic and so on.
I used the Eastern Economy Edition version of CLRS2 in a course I was taking. I never found a difference other than page numbering (which was accurately reflected in the index and table of contents), so I think you're okay on that one. :-)
If anyone else wanted to know what a flat spin looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qvg...
A lot of people are saying that your view of home schooling is wrong, that they of course don't protect their children in a bubble like you say.

My personal experience with friends that where home school would agree with your view. They where all home schooled to 'protect' them from undesirable beliefs and ideas. The parents (of the kids I know) would also disagree with you. No one wants to think that they are over protective and hurting their children by protecting them.

I wouldn't say all home schooled kids are like that, but I wouldn't say that none of them are either.
Ask HN: Is 1080px Wide Too Small for a Web Browser?
I use a Mac, and an app called Divvy to manage window layouts. The main way I use my laptop screen is in a 4 column layout where the left-most column is a utility of some sort, and the right 3 columns are my main content. Sometimes this is a terminal and text editor respectively, but often it is my Twitter client and Chrome.

This means that my web browser is constantly 1081px wide, and this is my question: is it now unreasonable for me to expect the web to 'work' at that size?

With that width, I'm under the threshold at which Bootstrap starts scaling down content, so most Bootstrap sites display incorrectly, often so badly that I can't view them at all. But also many other 'responsive' sites just fail to display in a useful way at all.

I remember the days of designing the web for 1024x768 as it was the lowest reasonable common denominator I can remember (thankfully I missed the 800x600 days!). Has the web grown up to 1280 as a standard width now, and if so, is that a good idea? The main reason I don't use my browser at full width is that it wastes so much space on so many sites.

What do designers typically target now? And do you think the rise of frameworks that do responsiveness automatically is bad for design because people don't know how to use them correctly?
Do you have access to a university library? One thing about Knuth -- he gets cited a lot, so I figure I'll absorb some of the choicest parts without having to go to the source. I have to admire your ambition to just charge through it.
Seems like a landgrab to have any product on the market before Apple's rumored iWatch to avoid any controversy of who was in the market first, regardless of how limited and silly v1 is.
I tried to verify if NFL players are "often from lower-income backgrounds".

I found some data for basketball:
"...most NBA players come from relatively advantaged social origins and African Americans from disadvantaged social origins have lower odds of being in the NBA than African American and white players from relatively advantaged origins"

http://irs.sagepub.com/content/47/1/43

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/6777581/importance-athlet...
This principle is being used to generate power in Souther Spain. The system is described as a Concentrated Solar Thermal Power plus Molten Salt Storage (CSP+)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemasolar
At least pebble looks good.
> Of all the companies that our applicants had on their resumes, I classified the following as elite: Amazon, Apple, Evernote, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Oracle, any Y Combinator startup, Yelp, and Zynga.

I'm not sure an "elite" filter is a great filter, but it's not surprising that it is used. What is surprising is that the OP considers "any Y Combinator startup" to be an "elite" company.

More than 500 companies have passed through Y Combinator and I doubt that most of them would be instantly recognizable as Y Combinator companies on a resume unless Y Combinator was mentioned. Grouping all former employees of Y Combinator startups into an "elite" category seems like it requires an unnecessarily big leap of faith on the part of the prospective employer.
The problem today is that if you already own devices that speak ANT+, you're not likely to be replacing them in the near future as they are generally quite expensive (eg PowerTap). The only bicycle power meter that speaks BT LE is the Stages power meter and that just started shipping. In this interim time period it would be awesome to support both as there is a pretty large installed base of ANT+ hardware in the exercise / fitness demo.
Forgot to add:

For much of MIT's core curriculum there is a "neutral" baseline, the calculus, the AP BC sequence in the 1st term, and what's beyond that in the 2nd term, and calculus based mechanics and E&M. In the case of 1st term calculus, that's been well established for decades (AP wasn't offered in my high school, and the 1st term of the calculus I the fall of 1979 covered the current BC topics).
Samsung Note 3 unveiled, does not disappoint
I actually quite like Apple products, specifically Macbook Pros and iPads, so that's just miscommunication.
> you need apple hardware and software

It's worse than that, I'm afraid. You need the absolute latest of both.

My perfectly fine Macbook from 2008 should be more than adequate for developing iOS apps. It's a core2 duo with 2GB of RAM. I mean, these aren't exactly the days of Pentium 60 vs. XT 8088.

Yet the max OS I can upgrade to is Lion. And that's with going through Snow Leopard first. And who knows how much longer Xcode will work on Lion.
>Humans are kind of silly that they will always choose that which is familiar over that which is not, no matter how stupid or silly the familiar is.

through the human (and well before the human) evolution the ones who prefer unfamiliar (to try to eat, to touch, to waddle in, to make friends with, ...) have statistically been leaving lesser number of descendants than ones who prefer familiar, and thus we're here - the result of that statistical process

> because people also don't like thinking.

instinctive or very well learned/automated behaviour (i.e. familiar situation/stimuli, trained response) is much cheaper for the brain energy-wise, thus it will be preferred by selection until the situation changes to where thinking presents better price/performance ratio. And then new cycle of bottom-line optimization of pushing newly thought out behaviour in that new situation down to the level of well trained/instinctive response and back to square 1.
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I was homeschooled (in Texas) and although my family was amazingly open-minded and intellectual, the vast vast majority of homeschool families we met were hyper-Christians who were homeschooling for religious reasons. Many of them were young-Earth creationist.
Do you have any other examples of sizing up a potential partner before reaching out to them? If certain metrics are confidential, it seems like it's not as straightforward.
I just switched to clavid. As @elektronaut pointed out they do support delegation, and their two-factor authentication supports a big list of OTP standards (so it's compatible with the Google Authenticator): http://www.clavid.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view...
I feel compelled to respond as I have been involved with a teachers' union to some extent, albeit as an outsider, and have also studied education.

leadership of the teachers' unions are very, very change adverse [sic]. They are first and foremost a union and trade organization that exists to protect jobs and the status quo. Anything that threatens that status quo is usually immediately dismissed.

Teachers' unions, like any organization or interest group, are at once agents of change and agents of conservativism. Which side of the line they fall on fully depends on the issue at hand and the will of their members. It is interesting to note that unlike organizations with typical top-down mandates for decision making (governments, corporations), teachers' unions like many other unions tend to vote referendum-style on current issues in a democratic way. Such votes are sourced from teachers who actually have the practical in-the-field experience within current era systems, not the "Why don't you do it my way? [but I have little to no experience with the issue at hand, except for my own kids Alice & Bob]" general public.

the idea that teachers should be evaluated based on student outcomes is like kryptonite to union leadership.

You understand that the primary purpose of a union as with many commercially engaged interest groups is to collectively bargain, though they also perform other functions such as information sharing and legal defense. The notion of constantly evaluating teachers based upon student outcomes is clearly difficult to justify to such a group, because it is basically targeting removing the capacity for teachers to collectively bargain. The assumption behind this assertion is that large scale, standardized, test-based assessments are a valid and useful way to validate teacher performance, which itself is based upon the assumption that they are useful to validate student performance. These assertions are certainly being questioned (some would say demolished) in today's pedagogical research literature.

a strange aversion to letting anyone other than state-certified teachers do any teaching

As well as a venue for basic learning, schools are significantly a tool of the state for communicating normalized perspectives on the nation, the environment, and other areas. As such, most states have some restrictions on replacements for these organs by private parties. Some of these are based on valid concerns (children locked at home exposed to weird perspectives), some are probably not (eg. learning from people from non-pedagogical backgrounds). This is the state's resistance, not teachers' resistance.

I can't imagine that most teachers or teachers' unions would support the notion that parents (who in any sane case clearly teach far more to their children than schools ever can!) should neglect to teach their own kids in favour of the state.
It's not black and white. There are situations where investing in your old code base is throwing good money after bad and there are situations where the old code base can be better. You need to make educated decisions not blindly follow rules.

Refactoring can be a problem because you're always working towards some local minima. It's a little bit like the decision to renovate an old house vs. raze it and build a new one or buy an old car/boat and repair it.

There's a good discussion of various factors here:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6268/when-is-...
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I haven't seen her channel, but she speaks of 'building a brand'. She's obviously either making a living or attempting to make a living off her content.

It's not an over-reaction at all on her part. If you spent thousands of hours building a business and then destroyed all your efforts, you'd be pretty pissed too. And it's not enough to just have backups of the content. She had a following. It's way more time consuming to create a following than to create the content.
Just the last feature, the previous ones were completed and deployed. The department shifted focus which left us with a small window to finish up the project and we weren't able to get all the features done in that time frame. Had the department shift not happened, we could have finished within about 2-3 months.

I actually think we should have deployed without re-implement every existing feature, but enough to make it work for most use cases (with an option for users to switch between old and new), but there was concern that we'd drive up support costs during our pivot and they wanted to avoid the distraction.

So the project wasn't a failure, but a department-wide pivot put restrictions on the project and made it less attractive to finish.
Regarding the exercises, I think it's pretty reasonable to do everything up to difficulty 25/M25 (even HM25 if you have the background), plus one or 2 between 30-40 per section. If you do that, you'll make progress at a reasonable pace and probably get about as much as you practically can out of it.
There is a direct connection between people who want to disable JavaScript (and even know what it is) and people who know what plugins are.

They are the same people.
Unfortunately, I think many Android app developers either don't know or care about "API abuse". When my Android phone is sitting "idle" with the display off, adb logcat still shows tons of debug logging from apps doing more work than they should. I like the freedom that Android gives developers, but, as you suggest, I think iOS provides a better user experience.

I can think of many ways Google could fix some of this bad behavior by throttling apps running in the background.
There's no indication on the watch itself when it's fully charged, and the battery indicator only appears when the watch has like ~4 hours of battery remaining. Thus it's hard to get a read on just how long the watch needs to charge for -- I usually plug it in overnight once I see the low battery indicator, then wear it for another week or so before the low battery icon shows up again.

As for things to do with the Pebble during the shower: use it to control your music!
You can't say that living in civilized society doesn't require [the ability to sit down and shut up] at times.

...is a far cry from 'as your chief response to most of life.'
I thought this amazing infographic on homeschooling would be beneficial to the conversation.

--> http://www.topmastersineducation.com/homeschooled/

Fyi. Sites like brillant.org and khanacademy have been instrumental in our homeschooling success.
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I think society is fucked up too. That doesn't mean tech isn't also fucked up. No one is asking you to take sole responsibility for the gender gap etc. Just pay attention to the times when, by doing exactly the same things everyone around you is doing, you are perpetuating the fucked up system.
The public school system in Utah provides language-immersion programs where students are taught regular subjects (math, geography, etc) in a foreign language for half the day. The elementary school nearest me offers Mandarin Chinese.

The system still may be prison-like and focused on standardized testing, but learning a foreign language at a young age is a nice benefit I'll be considering for my kids.

For reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/us/language-programs-flowe...
Can't remember exact resource right now, but I've been researching sleep deprivation and related topics for a chapter in my book and apparently every hour of sleep deprivation reduces your cognitive performance by roughly 25%.

I found that rather fascinating.
I think this only solves a few of their alcohol related problems.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500290_162-6975132.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Police...
This article wasn't written by Yahoo!, and to my knowledge the company who did this study was not commissioned to do so by Yahoo!. So it's not Yahoo! overthinking anything (yet), it's a company showing off what service(s) they offer.
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K1JT has collected some interesting data regarding the propagation from WWV and WWVH: http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/HFTOA_1.pdf