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> Looks like the webkit prefix tags are creating the new IE6.

This bothers me. Webkit isn't some ancient browser that is has remained stagnant for years until google/apple decided to do something about it. Nobody spends hours debugging their perfect layouts in webkit. Webkit isn't holding the entire web back. It's just a poor comparison.

I browse mobile web in mostly firefox mobile, and I don't think I've ever seen a mobile site broken on FF but working on Chrome.

In fact at least Google has taken some steps to recitfy it, and they've stated they're putting experimental CSS properties behind developer flags. If we're talking about the fact that old people don't update old browsers then Microsoft is one to talk with IE7, IE8, IE9, and IE10.
Agreed. This is what Crossfit did for me, believe it or not. A group of well-adjusted, healthy people united by shared misery (sacrifice) who meet every day of the week for an hour or so.

They're some of my best friends.

It doesn't need to be Crossfit; it can be a user group, LAN gaming, cooking classes, rotary, biking, climbing, MAKER fair stuff, etc.

Just get out there and talk and share.
> That query means nothing.

That query means developers by and large don't care and just cargo-cult through.

> The prefixed one is there for backwards compatibility.

Backwards compatibility with what, fucking Chrome 6? How many of these sites have been tested for backwards compatibility in Chrome 6? I'd bet it's somewhere around "none whatsoever".
"We follow the same worn-out, well-trodden, clichéd paths of those who came before us, over and over again, claiming to be the next best thing, when in reality we’re just the latest in a series of cookie-cutter gimmicks and frauds hoping to be validated by soulless marketplaces and rich white geriatrics like those bright-eyed, pimple-pocked stars that came before us."

Besides being a horrible, run on sentence, this is exactly how web design works.

People build the same thing over and over because that's what people BUY. If nobody bought any Toyota Camry's, then we wouldn't have millions of cars that all look the same and do the same thing. It's the same thing with web design. The people are who doing the really cool cutting edge design work are outliers - not the stuff you see a lot of in the mainstream sites who get the awards and visibility.

It's like Henry Rollins said about punk rock being dead. Actually punk is very much alive and kicking, but you won't see it on MTV, or on the music charts, or on the radio. You have to really dig to find real punk rock anymore. You can't go to the local "hipster" bar to see the local band imitating Green Day's pop-punk sound. No, you have to go to Chicago, in some dungy, hole-in-the-wall bar, and sit in the mosh pit with skinheads who haven't showered for a week, and the band comes on and belts out an hour of angry, non-conformist anthems and just oozes with anger and disenchantment. He said a lot better than I did, but you get the idea.

So yeah, good design isn't dead, you just have to did a little to find the good stuff.
I agree for general articles, but for an article that has regional specificity, I'll look up the article in the local language and use an online translator.
The mobile web is just a disaster all around. I remember when I got my iPhone in '08, the browsing experience was amazing. Most sites were still relatively simple, and whatever highly non-standard tricks Safari played to do things like text reflow worked great on that small 3.5" screen. Half a decade later, I'm profusely disappointed with Chrome's browsing experience on my Nexus 5's massive 5" screen. Even on HN, I can't read the titles on the main page without scrolling sideways at any zoom factor where I can still make out the text. Reddit is better than most, but it still renders the "233 Comments" link text in miniscule text that's impossible to hit without zooming in. Advanced web technologies and CSS layout has turned the mobile web into a sea of too-small text, too-wide columns, pop-overs that are too easy to fat-finger, etc. /rant
They would have nothing without him.

The trouble is, that probably isn't true. They might have had nothing without him before, but now they have 16 people left without him, and presumably by now some of those other people are technical as well.

So, his relative importance may already have been reduced from "indispensable" to "valuable technical leader", and his personal negotiating position is getting weaker all the time as the business grows. He may have to give up something of value now to consolidate his position for the long term, but if he's been suckered already then consolidation may be the best course of action that is still available to him. Of course even a somewhat reduced but secured stake in the business may still work out very lucrative if the company is successful at its new scale and funding. The real question is how much influence he has left to give up as little as possible while securing the rest.
Good call, doing that now.
They also took advantage of rolling-shutter sensors running at conventional frame rates to get a "murky" audio signal.
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I find it insane that the US created this monster of a health insurance system, forcing people to purchase their health insurance through their employer.

So far, this looks a major PITA for employees, because (correct me if I got this wrong) a new job with a new insurance policy meant that all (chronic) diseases you may have had in the past would not be covered by your new policy.

Now this time there is also a problem that affects the insurance companies - they might not profit from the cured liver (a cured client is a cheaper client), but they'll have to pay for the cure.

Seriously: NOBODY wants to switch insurance every five years. Why not get rid of this stupid requirement and allow people to shop for health insurance on a free market? Your health and your insurance is nobody's business, especially not your employer's.
Perl is much faster than Ruby, and has a far, far better debugger. Also, CPAN libraries tend to be quite stable; you usually don't need hacks like Bundler to isolate incompatible libraries.
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You need to understand that software developers aren't like factory workers. The difference between a factory worker putting in 1500 hours of work in a year and 3000 hours of work in a year is maybe that 2x more widgets get made or something. It's easy to just get another shift of workers to come in and get the same total widgets made, no big deal. But software development isn't manufacturing, it's a creative, even artistic venture. Making software is like making a movie. The difference between working 1500 hours in a year and 3000 might be the difference between making "Sharknado" and "Citizen Kane", meaning, the difference between making an incredibly compelling product that has a huge social and economic impact or just some throwaway crap that will fade in relevance quickly over time.

Making great software tends to require extremely talented developers who are extremely engaged in their work. And that tends often to result in devs working long hours as a natural consequence, though that's often not strictly necessary to produce good results (despite what I said above, though it is often strongly correlated). Regardless of how many hours are put in, when there's a collision between the passion and engagement in the work from the individual on the one hand and the rewards, recognition, and guidance coming from management and the rest of the company the result can easily be burnout. Burnout can happen even if you're only working 20 hours a week, it's not about some trivial reaction due to overwork. It's about traumatic interpersonal experiences. It's about being engaged strongly and passionately and either being overused or misused.

Alternately, think about it in relationship terms. A passionate dev has fallen head over heels in love with the project their working on. So much so that they dedicate a lot of their life to it. If they don't see that love reciprocated, or if that love is used in service of an abusive or dysfunctional relationship then it will cause the individual significant emotional trauma and heartbreak which is manifested in the form of "burnout".

Again, burnout isn't necessarily overwork, it's the equivalent of heartache and emotional trauma in business relationships.
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> And there are some just wonderful establishments everyone will love, just like Shawshank Redemption.

Interestingly Shawshank was panned by critics on release, and was a "cult classic" / slow burner that took a while to get to the status of universally loved.

One of the problems of reviews is that so few of them just give me the mechanics.
I am tired of seeing these takedowns of the same things with no broader structural critique. It has become a piece of groupthink now to decry the flowery language in acquisition announcements, flat design, whimsical/pointless products, greed, etc. But no examination of why things are this way, or what might change them. Disappointing.
> Because of a quirk in the design of most cameras’ sensors, the researchers were able to infer information about high-frequency vibrations even from video recorded at a standard 60 frames per second.
This graphical schedule visualization is often called Marey's Trains.

https://mbostock.github.io/protovis/ex/caltrain.html

Another project that uses Marey's Trains is an interactive exploration of the MBTA system.

http://mbtaviz.github.io/
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It's "common sense" in many cultures that the opposite is true.

More importantly, the positive benefits of regular sex have been made evident by virtually every study ever done on the matter.
That doesn't make sense. You have at least one obvious card, which is that the board wants you to continue working for the company. If they didn't, instead of trying to claw back some of your equity, they'd claw back most of it by firing you.
typeform is awesome!
> A good textbook is actually quite a bit more efficient than Coursera or edX-style lecture videos.

I'm not sure they are really alternatives -- most Coursera and EdX courses I've seen have accompanying textbooks or or other assigned readings as part of the syllabus; very few are lecture-only though some list some or all of the readings as optional rather than required (particularly the case with non-free textbooks, though not all courses with non-free textbooks have the readings as optional.)

Most Coursera and EdX courses seem to be structured like college classes, but with the function of classroom lecture and discussion sections replaced with online video and instant-feedback miniquizzes, and the readings still present as readings. Sure, it'll be less valuable for learning if you just do the lecture and projects, just like it would be in a traditional college class if you did that and skipped the readings.
Thanks , for simple pages i use http://dotepub.com/ , and then i read them while commuting .
Yeah, those are all legitimate problems with Gmail, and valid reasons to switch... but not to your ISP's email system, which (for most people) has the same problems and is probably much worse.
Don't be fooled by the huge apparent "supply". That's like counting up all the five-paragraph essays and unsold screenplays in the world and concluding that we have an oversupply of great writing.

What we have is a huge slush pile, 98% of which will prove worthless in the end except as a practice exercise for its creators. (Which is valuable, of course, just not valuable to the customers.) Because the bottleneck is the market. That's where the culling happens.

Like the majority of screenplays, most products are dead on arrival because they can't be effectively marketed. That is in part because the marketplace is crowded, but again: Don't mistake the stacks and stacks of App Store offerings for a saturated market. It's just a market choked with weeds.

One of the things the world needs is better software markets. The fact that you can't hear people screaming about their terrible software, or see and count the money that they would potentially pay for better software, is a sign of the market's ineffectiveness.
That sounds like an excellent indie documentary. If you have the stomach for it you could Kickstart it.

Or at least a series of blog posts about how the free market for hotels is broken.
because (correct me if I got this wrong) a new job with a
new insurance policy meant that all (chronic) diseases you
may have had in the past would not be covered by your new
policy.

You did get this wrong. By law Insurance companies cannot refuse you coverage for preexisting conditions if you previously had coverage. Just switching plans couldn't lose you that coverage.

Also the US does not force people to purchase their health insurance through their employer. You are free to get it elsewhere but usually getting it through your employer works out to be a better deal.
Nice try...
> So what is responsible for this miraculous change?

The realisation that if I don't change course I'm going to either have a complete breakdown or throw myself off a bridge.

> Simply working fewer hours?

Unfortunately no life isn't that simple though working fewer hours does have a side effect which is it frees up time to do things you enjoy doing, in my case Cycling.

Getting out everyday on my bike in the sun (or rain, it is England after all), eating right and getting some quality sleep have all had a marked effect on both my mood and energy levels.

The irony is last week I got more done than I would have in two weeks a month ago working half the hours.

I'll take 4 hours wide awake and well rested over 12 exhausted and stressed.

I'm not entirely there yet but I'm mentally stronger than I have been in a long time.
Phaxio co-founder here. Thanks for the write up, Pete! Really great to see the product we've been bootstrapping for 3 years on the front page of HN. We're devoted to making developer faxing as easy as possible. If you have any comments or questions about the service, feel free to contact me directly at josh at phaxio dot com.
When apps describe themselves as "beautiful" and "elegant," it rubs me the wrong way. Those are subjective things that I decide, not the developer(s). It's like a mother telling everyone how handsome her son is. If he's handsome, people will probably know it already.
I know, but I still wonder about level of soundproof/mechanical vibration and the level of mic and camera sensor isolation VS level of optical vibration. In addition sound can travel many different paths since it is mechanical vibration, and traveling through sound proof glass is not the only path. Anw cool project.
I think this will be a good help for visually challenged people. I wish to see if this goes in that direction.
Beauty is subjective. Though, I wouldn't consider this elegant as it feels more styleless than stylish.
I'll let you into a secret: four hours of concentrated, high-quality thinking a day is about the limit of what the rest of us can do as well. I don't know whether that's a human universal, but if there are exceptions, they are exceptional indeed. A programmer working eight hours a day is at best doing four hours of high-quality concentrated work and four hours of random crap like attending meetings, checking e-mail and reading HN.

In other words, don't worry about your future in the industry. You're doing fine.
Do you have thoughts as to why things are this way? I'd genuinely love to discuss them (and it sounds like you would too).
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OP here.
IMHO, it is a social experiment for that I want to use this app as a mean to see how you could hack a very basic dating system.
For instance, will you have more matches if you look right/left on your main picture? Should you wear red/green shirt? etc

I will write about it later when I'll have some results. Please feel free to try it as well and contribute :).
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I think that employer based health insurance is the real problem of the US system. It sets up all incentives the wrong way.
WTF would you post an article that is behind a paywall?
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Would you like to continue here after taking legal route, I may not.
I think the downvotes were triggered by this:

>I'm sorry you apparently picked a career you don't get real enjoyment from

Enjoying something for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, is definitely still "real enjoyment."
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Well, browsing to a hotel's website, prepared to purchase a reservation is virtually the same as walking into a business, is it not? People don't physically go to a hotel to reserve a room, so the hotel's website could be considered a place of business, practically speaking.
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If you decide to immigrate with a B1, you generally have to return home first and apply for an immigrant visa, unless you fall into a category whereby you can immediately file for an Adjustment of Status (which is almost certain to cause red flags to go up at USCIS).

There are certain visa classes that are considered "dual-intent"[1], meaning that you can have the intent to immigrate while obtaining a formally non-immigrant visa. One such visa is the K-1 fiance(e) visa, which allows one to enter the United States for the purpose of marrying one's US Citizen fiance(e) within 90 days and subsequently applying for an Adjustment of Status (i.e. green card). The B class is not one of these, so you need to overcome the immigration / CBP officer's presumption that you intent to immigrate[2].

OP: Note that you are free to reapply for the visa; make sure you read the instructions on the form and fulfill the evidence requirements as much as possible.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_intent

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_visa#Requirement_to_overcome_...
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You've got some good talking points, but it could be stronger:

"I agree we need more stock available to give new hires."

"It seems like you guys are giving up 10% of your total options which sounds fair to me. I'd like to contribute 10% of my options too. So that gives us a 9% options pool. If it makes more sense to have 12% options then maybe the two of you could each contribute 5.5 points."

You could also ask for a salary bump to compensate for the reduced equity.
Doesn't make it less obnoxious. (to me)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_a_nice_day#.22Have_a_Nice_...
> did your spouse cheating on you have anything to do with you working that much for the last 4 years?

Probably, I worked so hard to build a future for us both that I ended up neglecting her far too much, I think if you don't get the emotional support you deserve off your other half sometimes you'll be tempted to look for it elsewhere, I can forgive her for that but I don't want to be in a relationship with someone who cheats, she could have at any point told me that's how she was feeling and I would have listened, mistakes both sides.

> How did the relationship even last that long?

We loved each other and I was working for our future plus despite the hours I tried to make time for her.

> I'm wondering how other people's relationships look from the inside.

I'm wondering that as well, the reality is that when you work 9am - 7pm 7 days a week there is not much time or energy to do anything else.

I've learnt my lesson but it came at a high price however the price would be wasted if I didn't learn.
I'm not saying that bringing a lawyer at this point is a good (or bad) decision, I have no idea. But can they really fire him? If OP is in an EU country and they've setup an office there, aren't they under the jurisdiction of said country for employment purposes?

If so, it might not be so easy. I don't know labor law across the EU, but here our labor courts don't like companies who fire people for exercising their rights.
>278 employees.
That's a lot of people, I imagined they were way less.
If they want to get past the English side they can get a good start by translating all the anime and music related pages, what good are three million or more articles in english when a good number are about individual songs or anime characters?
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"26% of them see themselves as spiritual"

Can someone reconcile this for me? Wouldn't "spiritual" imply something along the lines of spirits/supernatural?
Another thing I noticed when looking through my comments, this service bills itself as 'your personal assistant who never sleeps'. If they are US based, I don't see how unless they have people working a night shift.
I wonder if they really thought through the consequences of this then? They got another $250 million in funding recently, so money isn't a problem. Probably the money prompted this program, in fact.

As you said, they could get things under control by forbidding back-to-back free rides in the same car, assuming the terms are flexible. That would be more in the spirit of the offer, and nobody could really complain about that.
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I was kind of hoping for an article that did an actual analysis of why the pill was priced at $1,000. R&D, Regulatory Risk, Cost of manufacture that sort of thing.

I was disappointed.
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B is the tourist / work visa class, and not every country is on the visa waiver program.
OMG that is sick. I don't mean "sick good". That is "sick bad".

yeah, it's cool. kudos to the MIT group.

The rest of us should prepare to have every single word we've ever expected to be private recorded from cars videotaping the chip bags on our counters from outside.

Yeah, I know it's easier to get the audio from windows by bouncing light off them, but that doesn't make my case now, does it?

:-)

Any static stationary video you upload is now subject to analysis for background audio that was never intended to be made public.
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You're regurgitating a common narrative about online witch hunts. While I agree that they're unethical, that's clearly not what's happening here. The comments that have superseded yours in this thread echo that sentiment. The other commenters and I agree that if an organization creates a public policy, people should be able to criticize the group on the basis of that policy. It's as simple as that.
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Assessing whether or not an "off" device is truly "off" isn't trivial. That's a big part of my point.

I do suspect that running a camera would generate sufficient power draw that you'd tend to notice, though hibernating and taking periodic snapshots might be much harder to detect.

For the casual user, distinguishing a down-disabled device from one that's got a slight charge trickling through it, especially if it happens to be connected to a charger, is going to be easy to get wrong.
"An error" can also mean an error in judgement or an error in business.
> There isn’t any social contract to reply, or even any way to jump to the site. It simply is.

That's neither Stupid Brilliant or Stupid Stupid. That's just handicapping yourself for no reason other than faux-superiority.
Looks like saying the specific day is now preffered: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=yesterday.monday.tuesd...

I searched some other rough synonyms of yesterday, but this had the strongest match.
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