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I'm not sure I understand your point. You seem to be thinking that people answering questions deserve to be paid - as if they're being forced into answering at all. Experts on EE are answering questions for the same reason users on SO are.

> Please explain how "EE treast those answering questions really well"

If you're a top contributor to EE, you get flown to really nice places and are treated like a VIP by EE. Not everyone reaches this level, but those who do get a really nice perk, in addition to the benefits of answering questions in general.
How exactly is putting a little scanner inside a button going to be meaningfully better?

From the review:
"When [moving] between the 5s and the 5/5c, I immediately miss Touch ID."
Inattentional blindness
Ask HN: Tips for or mistakes to avoid when posting to Show HN
Hello All!
I am a complete amateur that has been heads down writing a webapp for the last 9 months or so. I probably only have a month's equivalent of a real developers output (but I've learned a ton). The app may be nothing to write home about (it's basically just a note taking application) but I have implemented a couple uncommon features for that domain that I am hoping will be well-received.

Having said that, I am gearing up to do a Show HN in the next month or two. I read hackernews and the comments pretty regularly (I especially pay attention to the comments for the Ask HNs and Show HNs).

One thing that I have noticed is that there are a number of sins you do not want to make with your app when doing a Show HN or you will likely have the discussion/comments centered on those things alone.

So I ask of you, what are your biggest pet peeves or cardinal sins of apps posted to Show HN?

Sins I've seen or mentioned in the comments below:

* No demo and/or no screenshots

* Forcing people to sign-up for a trial or login for a trial

* Unclear message about what the app actually is

* Unclear message about why I would use said app

* Untested across the latest browsers (e.g. works on newest chrome but not on Firefox)

* Bad typography choices and/or hard to read text

* over-reliance on boostrap for style (I am currently guilty of this one)

* the web app breaks on mobile device

* spelling/grammar mistakes

* site goes down from number of hits

* no link to the actual website

Yours?

Edit: adding some of the good sins from the comments
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You need to learn (and understand!) javascript before hate it...
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I hope their business model is going to be something like BYOD (bring your own device) and "pay us a few bucks a month to protect your privacy". Or, alternatively, buy your phone/OS from us, we'll support it and provide security updates for the next nn months/until the next major release or until End of Life for the device.
The big takeaway from this for me is the checkboxes.

Otherwise, this is basically how I work.
My aunt - who died slowly and painfully, wasting away from the cervical cancer that was eating away at her body - might disagree with you were she still here.
Who would not desire that?
Or if you are left-handed. I like the looks I get, but writing left-handed just isn't fun. Everything, from the way English is written to how notebooks are constructed, is designed around writing right-handed.
Mystery in the Sky: A Legendary Photo Slowly Gives Up Its Secrets
What are some libraries that exist in R/Matlab that you wish existed in Python?
Cryptstagram: steganography + glitch image filters
How can they block custom ROM's? Let me count the ways!

-signed bootloader

-encrypted bootloader

-e-fuse

-not disclosing drivers

-legal threats for implementing proprietary drivers/ software
Out of curiosity, my company is "green" and getting them to buy non-recycled notebooks is like getting them to give me six months of vacation. Anybody know of high quality recycled notebooks, all the ones I've used are very "meh".
Google does everything in a very orchestrated campaign. Bash Adwords or Search here and you will see "them" show up to defend it.

But unless Google already transferred $x billions to Calico's bank account, I have to laugh at the 20-30+ year investment agenda and that somehow Google will be in for the long run--unlike other companies. This will be shut down the minute Adwords growth slows down...and they're running out of places to put them due to over-saturation and "free" traffic to sites is disappearing at an alarming rate already.

Google, Page, Brin should've put $500 mil each and then pledged regular contributions.

Or maybe this is Brin's divorce package: Calico will buy 123andMe for a lot of money ;-)
You have no idea what you are even saying. Have you even thought about what "everyone living forever" means? Probably not.
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Cool. Thanks for the clarification. Language design is something that I'm increasingly taking an interest in.
I wish they would have elaborated on to why not to return the total counts. Does anyone have any ideas why this is a bad idea? I thought it would be useful for the consumer so that they can account for pagination?
I was referring to the act of turning the lights off...the big empty. No doubt some things that precede and result in death are nasty, but those aren't death.

For example, if death was embraced and voluntary euthanasia was allowed, people could just opt-out as the nastiness started (I'm not suggesting we do that, though).

Anyway, the point is that we shouldn't fear the ending. It's the things that precede it that we should rightfully fear and combat. In other words, focus less on extending life (after a point) and more on decreasing the ratio of painful-years/lifespan.
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Well, sure, it may be that a competitor engaged in some highly negative marketting against them, and I can see how that would be annoying if you were them.

But are you really surprised that their strategy made the public mad? If someone clicks on a google result, that looks like it's going to give them an answer to their question -- only to find that they have to pay to get the answer (whether that's true or whether you've tricked them into thinking that) -- are you truly surprised they would consider that mistreatment? you think it was only a competitor that convinced people to consider that mistreatment?

There's a reason that Google requires that the content shown google -- which ends up in the google results summary/excerpts -- is the same content shown to the public. Because people get really mad and feel mistreated when it's not.

If the content was 'really' there just hidden to make someone think it was paywalled -- maybe that helps you technically get around Google's rules (that's between you and Google), but it obviously won't make people any less mad about it (to the extent it works anyway).
Yes, that happens all the time. But in that case, there was already a judgment about someone and then I got to know them and then realized that what was said about them was either gossip, or the person changed.

The thing about EE is that it is not gossip. People hate EE and they don't hate it because someone told them to hate it--they already had come to that conclusion on their own. I always hated EE and when I talked to other people about it, I found out they also held the same opinion, many times a fierce hatred of it. There was no campaign to build the hate; the hate was already there, all discovered independently by frustrated coders looking for an answer.

Maybe the evil intentions of EE were not real. But there are moments when I am coding when I want to tear all of my hair out. That emotion is real and won't be forgotten.
Why would you think we want something completely new?
Watch Bernanke's comments here live at 2:30 EDT:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Fed-Chair-Briefs-on-Economic-Ou...
It's amazing how many people on the web aren't interested in making their lives easier.
They can always fall back on statutory protections. They can also do OS detection and boot units that smell fishy.
If the person that has the expertise doesn't want to answer the question for free ... then the free market will deem access to that knowledge more valuable, and his consulting fees will increase. Everything is an ebb and flow. When the "value" of some knowledge goes down due to what some might call oversupply, the value of other knowledge will go up because it is not shared freely; those who need that knowledge or service will then be willing to pay a premium for it since they could not find it elsewhere.

You're right that some things that were great ways to make a living are starting to become less-so. The answer is to simply to not try to make a living at that thing that is undervalued by the market. If enough providers of that service leave the supply pool, then the value will increase and compel the supply to return.

The market doesn't have an obligation to support journalists ... if no one wants to pay them because they can get information on twitter, reddit, and facebook ... well, that's how it is :)
You can, but you have to write in that weird lefty trying to be a righty technique like President Obama does.

http://centerforplainlanguage.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10...
The main problem is health insurance. Contra your claims, I have never seen insurance on the private market cost less than employer provided group health insurance. Usually, individual insurance is anywhere from 25% to 50% more expensive (at least as far as I've seen), and that's if you're in good health. If you have pre-existing conditions, all bets are off. Even if insurance providers have to provide coverage (thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), they're still free to charge you an arm and a leg.

If you're young, in relatively good health and have reasonable earnings, a high deductible health plan coupled with a health savings account might actually be more attractive than what you receive from the average employer.

In my experience, a high-deductible health care plan coupled with a health savings account is what you get from the average employer. All of my employers have at least offered the option of a high-deductible health care plan, and for a couple, it was the only option for new employees. At that point, the usual group vs. individual dynamics apply. A high-deductible group health care plan through a corporate employer will be cheaper than an individual high-deductible health care plan.
Do many people's minds really work like that? You are struck by a great idea out of the blue, and then you lose it minutes later?

If I think of something important, I will generally remember it for a long time. It's only things like errands ("What did I need again...? Oh yes, butter") that I tend to forget.
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I don't plan to use most of these features, but I upgraded purely because Trello has become an integral part of how I work and I want to see it stick around.
Self driving cars would be good for old folks.
There is Experts Exchange, the company, and then there's experts-exchange.com. The majority of folks complaining have had a bad experience with the latter, while you are defending the former.

A reasonable person should be able to separate the two, and so it's nice to hear more about the people behind the website. But that doesn't make the user experience on the website any better than it is on StackOverflow, and it is unlikely to change the fact that most folks memory of experts-exchange.com before StackOverflow existed is one of disappointment and deception, which is why it was so effective for Jeff and Joel to rally users around the notion of being the anti-experts-exchange. (I think they themselves made a distinction between the site and the people behind it at least once, and talked about having a conversation with an experts exchange employee or two. And it's worth remembering that that was only one of the few ways they desscribed their vision: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/04/introducing-stackov...)

So if you want to humanize your friends, keep writing about them, and I'm sure you'll get readers. It sounds like an interesting story. But it seems mistaken to expect that alone to counteract people's impression of the site itself. If you want to hear people say nicer things about experts-exchange, either listen to the folks who are happily using it and ignore the hate, or genuinely listen to complaints, find a way to make more people happy.
Yeah, nobody would let anything important rely on an application written in C. Like apache or nginx. Or postgresql. Or your whole operating system. That would be crazy.
"Can a lefty safely use a modern fountain pen?"

The Lamy Safari is pretty Social Democratic. A few of my students actually buy them.

I prefer Uniball Signo 0.7mm myself, can be bought in most high street stationary shops in the UK.
In general, I always felt a bit nervous about money being involved - additional importance, security issues, etc. A certain seriousness, a complication distracting from the actual technical issue.

But specifically, I couldn't log back into my account to mark the answer as correct. The help people gave me a new password a couple of times, but they didn't work. I eventually realized it was hopeless, and gave up. Later, I tried again to find the question and reward the person (this time paying out of my own pocket), but couldn't find it after intensive searching, many keywords etc. It seems that my question and the answers had been lost.

I feel that the initial problem was to do with money being involved - additional security around logging in, because mistakes with money are so serious. Maybe combined with teething troubles. It was very very strange and bizarre.

In contrast, I haven't had such problems with StackOverflow (or reddit or HN etc), so other purchases online.

I still feel bad about this, after 10 years. :(
Notes are supposed to be short. If you're writing so much that it would actually make sense to use a fountain pen, you're better off typing it.

And what is this "major signal" that it sends to others? That you're out of touch? That your pens cost more money? That you're pretentious?
Discussed regularly:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=hnrankings.inf...
Hrm. Scanning the comments here, this is not a joke. Weird. To me, wouldn't larger board uploads be a good enough up-sell to pay 5 bucks for? This sticker/background thing just seems strange.
Besides the fact that some of these stickers are in fact useful for "serious work" (like "big red exclamation sign"), "serious work" isn't Trello's only target audience. And it's not like they took away the labels.
Maybe if they released this 4 years ago, people would use it and BlackBerry would still be relevant in the messenger space.

Waiting so long means they have severly diminished marketshare for hardware, and thusly, nothing to convince people to hop back on the BBM boat with.

Employees of BB-centric companies may be happy, though.
Changing the way people around the world think about death is pretty significant, though. It's going to rewrite important aspects of many cultures. Edit: I mean "make people think differently" is underselling it.
it will be shut down when management decides it no longer has a chance of being successful. if it is successful, it will not be shut down.

stop getting emotionally attached to google products. they aren't your children.
Could you recommend a particular fountain pen?
"Their crime was ranking highly in Google, while Google said what they were doing was OK."

There's the letter of the law and there's the spirit of the law. EE may have been compliant with the letter of Google's law at the time, but if you'd asked Google and Google users specifically they would've told you it was sleazy/not ok.

Google eventually understood the sleaziness and changed their policy to address this specifically. End users also understood the sleaziness and went elsewhere.
I dunno, I recently bought a fountain pen and have been using it everywhere. It's just nicer and easier to write with. Short notes, long notes, journals, books, whatever.
There are many issues for which I agree with you, that the trickle-down is a legitimately good process. But this, no. The concentration of power even more than currently is enough that I would rather forego it than encourage it just for that group of controlling interests.

I would rather no one have it than institute a system of even more perpetual control. We have already signed most of our existence over to the rich and the only equalization is that they die, too. It isn't cutting my nose off to spite my face to not want to live 70-80 years under the continually-strengthening ownership of those who will live to 200. (And, similarly, me living to 200 so I can work all those years for those who'll live 400 doesn't strike me as particularly awesome either.)
It's great all these companies are competing to make their JS engines faster and faster with each new release. Its creating exciting possibilities for the web!

I do wish there was a bit more aggressive a push to get older users to update their browsers as well though.
Other submissions of the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374404 (cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6379512 (forbes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6383244 (archinect.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6384794 (cnet.com)

Not much discussion.
You keep saying that they weren't really worthy of scorn, and yet they were fairly scorned industry wide BEFORE stackoverflow came into existed. So, yeah, obviously they did things that people disliked. I never saw a "kill EE" campaign. Yes, SO wanted to "not be EE," because everyone hated EE. I don't think a lot of people decided to hate EE because SO said to, they hated EE because of EE's practices. Did EE change their practices? Perhaps, but it was too soo, too late. And I never found out, because I blocked them as soon as I could.
I just pinged one of the founders and told him to reply, so hopefully he'll come and answer your question!
Are you sure you need to do an FFT?

Are you sure there is not a network friendly FFT algorithm?

I used to think very differently about computing before I read Google's MR, BigTable, and GFS papers. After joining Google and working on problems like this, I can assure you that FFTs can indeed scale quite nicely.

note that infiniband isn't a high speed interconnect. it's a cheap commodity interconnect- in fact, per port, it can be cheaper than 10GB. but lots of effort has been put into making the MPI libraries work efficiently over it, compared to 10GBe, so codes run more effficiently (as you observed).

DFT seems like the next thing that's going to not need supercomputers. I see some nice new algorithms coming on line designed for Amazon cloud infrastructure.
> What kind of monster are you that you don't think thats a laudable goal?

I think there are many compelling ethical and philosophical arguments one can make against wanting everyone to live forever.

We shouldn't confuse live extension with living forever. Oddly enough, David Attenborough is in the news today for suggesting population control is a huge and growing problem[1]. You could argue that research into extending human life when we are looking at significant problems with population overcrowding and competition for resources in the near future is putting the horse before the cart.

I am not sure which side of the fence I fall on. Medical research can allow people with previously incurable conditions to live full lives. This is a laudable goal. But that's not what you said - you're talking about living forever. Is that so laudable? I would certainly not call someone who thought that was a truly awful idea 'a monster'. Indeed, there's lots of speculative fiction based around how awful it would actually be to live forever (or even a very long time).

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10316271/Sir-D...
They are doing an AMA right now (as of 14 minutes ago)

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mnnc6/we_are_steve_cy...
You bring up a very important point in that the only defenders of EE seem to be current or former EE employees. Has anyone, anywhere seen someone defend EE who is not a current or former employee of EE?
> Pretty print by default is one of those small things but makes your API that much easier to use. It makes it easy for customers who are debugging to easily read data and pleasant to use.

A pretty print option should be available, but the extra whitespace adds to the content size, which is obviously a bad thing when you have any real volume. As the primary consumer of a production API is not a person, pretty print should not be the default.

> Do not return total counts or loop through entire databases to get the large count.

The data that is available to consumers of an API should be based on actual use cases, and there is often a reasonable need for a consumer to have a total count. If there are performance implications associated with generating this, which won't always be the case, it's better to address those than leave the consumers of the API without the data they need.
Annoying, yes.

Deliberately designed to be annoying? Yes.

Worthy of scorn? I think so.
Canadians and US Short Code owners get all of the cool toys (for now, at least). I have been waiting for Twilio MMS for at least a year, but it looks like I have to wait a bit longer (or get into the beta).
Corporal punishment is still legal (and used) in 19 US States. Something like 250,000 kids a year are legally beaten by educators.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-adams/223190-kids-lega...
http://www.ecosystemlife.com/products/detail/architect/

I use the plain-page version, but this might work with the 'bullet journal' technique. Unless the boxes are too small...
There's a connector between Hadoop and the Gluster network file systems [1], giving a unified view of a large, distributed, POSIX compatible filesystem, which can be served up through Samba. We vastly prefer it to NFS, which we find to be far more flaky, slower, and when NFS fails it fails in really really painful ways. (Though looking again, I'm not sure if you meant NFS or NAS...)

[1] http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Hadoop
My first reaction was just like everyone else's. I thought this is a joke. "After just about every chat app minus WhatsApp have added stickers, plus the recent inclusion of them in Path, now a productivity app?"

But it actually make a lot of sense. I think if you're already a Trello users, you're not the target market for this. Trello can be used in small families, among friends to help arrange things. Read: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3546-how-we-the-kims-use-base...

And this strikes right at the heart of it. It makes Trello less of a scary productivity app, and more of an everyday helper and organizer.
Yikes, that's a little harsh. I don't really care about any of the products they've shut down, it was just a tongue-in-cheek observation that I find curious. I use Google search, calendar & gmail. If they shut those down, I'd be sad. Otherwise I don't really care much.
He said he wanted to send a photo to his Mac, not all his other devices, Apple and whoever else has acces to Apple's servers. AirDrop would have seemed like the logical solution.
Notebooks rarely need to be this organized. If I switched to the Bullet Journal system, I'd spend more time setting up pages and copying notes than I did getting actual work done.
I find I like to load up Axelay in an emulator and play a few levels. It has an amazing balance of playability and difficulty once you get how it works and is a very relaxing game to play through.

Strangely, I also love playing a few levels of Elevator Action. Something about jumping around and plugging bad guys from that little side arm is very satisfying.